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Introducing the Foundation Programme Awardees
The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to announce the awardees of the Foundation Programme, a collaborative pilot programme offered in partnership with Cúirt International Literature Festival Dublin that aims to break down access barriers for emerging writers from ethnic minority backgrounds as they launch their careers.
The six writers selected for participation are Nora Corcoran, Mahito Indi Henderson, Maryam Madani, Rafael Mendes, Charlotte Rea-Patel and Sylvia Wohlfarth.
These writers will receive a range of supports including access to writing courses and bespoke workshops which aim to demystify the publishing industry, culminating in a live performance of their work. They will also be mentored by Sharmilla Beezmohun, a London-based novelist, editor and co-founder of Speaking Volumes.
Participants for Foundation were selected from the writers featured in Breaking Ground Ireland, a landmark publication by Cúirt International Festival of Literature and National University of Ireland Galway showcasing over 90 writers and illustrators from ethnic minority backgrounds, including Irish Traveller writers, from the island of Ireland. Breaking Ground Ireland was created in collaboration with Speaking Volumes, a UK-based literature organisation which specialises in getting underrepresented voices heard. It is a continuation of their existing Breaking Ground series, which since its inception has supported the careers of hundreds of British writers and illustrators of colour.
Nora Corcoran is 54 years old, a mature third level honours degree student and an aspiring writer, whose passion is for writing children's stories which are inspired by her own Irish Traveller background.
The Irish Traveller, (Mincéir) community are an ethnic minority with their own secret language called Cant, whose ancestors can be traced back to the 12th century in Ireland.
A nomadic tribe, with traditions, and a culture and heritage so different from the settled population. Nora hopes to capture the beauty of this rich culture and heritage in the pages of Her books. Nora also writes poetry and prose.
Mahito Indi Henderson is a Dublin-based writer and actor. His work has been published in The Moth, The Echo, The Disposable Stories, The Foundationalist and North by Northwestern. In 2021, he was a finalist for The Iowa Review Awards, and was longlisted for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 Fish Short Story Prizes. Mahito is currently the coordinator of Skein Press' Play It Forward Fellowships, a development programme aiming to make the literary industry a more equitable place for marginalised and underrepresented communities across Ireland. Photo courtesy of Bloom Artist Management.
Maryam Madani is a writer, freelance journalist, singer and disability activist. Her writing reflects her multi-layered experience as a physically disabled Indian-Irish woman, voicing the struggles of the disabled peoples' movement and ways of understanding disability which are absent from mainstream narratives. She has a BA in English Studies from Trinity College Dublin, and an MA in Journalism from TUD. She is a member of Webspinners, a creative writing group for disabled people, and sings and works for the multicultural Discovery Gospel Choir. She is the Founder/Chairperson of Disability Power Ireland, a grassroots DPO hosting Ireland's first Disability Pride and Power Festival.
Rafael Mendes is a writer and translator from Brazil. He's currently completing a MPhil in Comparative Literature at Trinity College. His work has appeared in Writing Home: The New Irish Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019), Cyphers, Icarus, LITRO Magazine, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, Bealtaine, Flare, and elsewhere. He has received bursaries from the Irish Writers Centre and Poetry Ireland. He was selected as a 2022 UpLift: Young Leaders of Colour in Literature Initiative. His work is part of UCD's Irish Poetry Reading Archive.
Charlotte Rea-Patel is a writer of Irish-Gujarati heritage based in County Derry. She has been writing for almost ten years, but it wasn't until she joined the Burnavon Writers' Group in 2017 that she began looking at her work more seriously. Charlotte writes poetry and YA fiction. She was awarded funding from the Arts Council Northern Ireland's Minority Ethnic Artists Mentoring and Residency Programme to assist in developing her YA fantasy novel with the intention of publication. In 2019, she won a bursary place for the John Hewitt Summer School and has read her work at International Women's Day, the John Hewitt Festival (with Women aloud) and Ireland Poetry Day.
A grandmother, Sylvia Wohlfarth is an English teacher working with Syrian refugees. She has an MA in Social Anthropology and is a trained intercultural dialogue facilitator. She writes poetry, short stories and creative nonfiction themed mostly on social injustice, racism and life in general. Born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and Irish mother, she wishes to finish writing their biography and the personal relationships between Ireland and Nigeria dating back to the early Irish missionaries. She has published essays and poems in, among others, Our Human Family Weekly.
London-based Sharmilla Beezmohun has worked in publishing since 1994. In 2010 she co-founded Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions with Sarah Sanders. In 2021, she edited Not Quite Right for Us, an anthology celebrating ten years of Speaking Volumes. In 2010 Sharmilla's first novel was published in translation in Spain; other writing has been published in various journals and translated into Finnish. Sharmilla is a Trustee the George Padmore Institute, an archive housing unique collections from pioneering Black British political and cultural organisations of the last seventy years. In 2019 she became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
You can find further information on our other programmes and upcoming deadlines over on our Opportunities Page.
Opportunities & Competitions: June 2022
Danielle McLaughlin announced as the mentor for the IWC/WCLF Young Writer Delegate Programme 2022


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Ед (Едвард) Теодор Гин (27. август 1906 - 26. јул 1984), такође познат као и Кољач из Плејнфилда, је био амерички серијски убица. Убиства почињени у околини његовог родног града Плејнфилда, Висконсин, су прикупили широку пажњу након што су власти откриле да је Гин, откопавао лешеве и правио трофеје од њихових костију и коже.

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Рођен је у држави Висконсин. Отац, Џорџ, био је насилни, незапослени алкохоличар, а мајка, Аугуста, фанатични протестант. Његова мајка је презирала њиховог оца али се није растајала због строгих религијских уверења. Џорџ је поседовао локалну продавницу неколико година, али је продао тај бизнис и купили су фарму у Плејнфилду, која им је убрзо постала стални дом. Није имао пријатеље, излазио је из куће само да би отишао у школу.

Други ученици су га злостављали у школи, првенствено због муцања. Упркос томе, био је добар ученик, посебно успешан у читању.

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Гин је признао убиство Мери Хоган, која се водила као нестала од 1954. године, њена глава је пронађена у Едвардовој кући. Касније је негирао да се сећа детаља њене смрти.

Јутра 16. новембра 1957 пријављен је нестанак Бернис Ворден. Истог дана нађено је декапитулисано тело на Гиновом имању. Убрзо је ухапшен.

Када је испитиван, Гин је истражитељима рекао да је између 1947. и 1952. направио чак 40 посета локалним гробљима за ексхумацију недавно покопаних тела. Касније је од лешева превио одело.

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Спољашње везе

Рођени 1906.
Умрли 1984.
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Authorities have been on a manhunt for Younes Abouyaaqoub since last week's deadly attack.
Spanish police on Monday shot and killed the man who drove a rented van into crowds on Barcelona's famous Las Ramblas boulevard last week, an attack that killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens more.
Authorities confirmed on Twitter that the suspect they shot during an operation west of Barcelona was 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub, who had been the subject of an extensive international manhunt since Thursday's attack.
Abouyaaqoub appeared to be wearing an explosive vest during the confrontation, so police called in a bomb squad and used a robot to check on the body. Upon closer inspection, the explosives turned out to be fake.
Police also announced on Monday that Abouyaaqoub is believed to have stolen a vehicle and killed its driver while making his getaway after carrying out the attack on Las Ramblas.
The motorist's murder brings the total death toll in Spain's series of terror attacks last week to 15, including a woman killed in a separate van assault in the town of Cambrils. Police shot dead five suspects in the immediate aftermath of the Cambrils attack.
Authorities believe that the attack in Cambrils, the car-ramming on Las Ramblas and a house explosion in the Spanish coastal town of Alcanar were all perpetrated by members of the same extremist cell. One figure in the group, an imam named Abdelbaki Essati, died in the house explosion when gas canisters that the cell was planning to use in an attack detonated.
Catalan police chief Josep Lluis Trapero announced over the weekend that the terror cell is suspected to have contained 12 people, all of whom have now either been killed or apprehended. Many involved in the cell, including Abouyaaqoub and Essati, lived or worked in the town of Ripoll to the north of Barcelona.
Apart from Essati, who was 45 years old, the majority of people involved in the cell were in their 20s. The group also included four sets of brothers, including Younes Abouyaaoub's younger brother Houssaine, who was killed in the attack in Cambrils.
The car-ramming attacks in Spain, for which the self-described Islamic State has claimed responsibility, are the deadliest in the country since the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 192 people.
Last week's killings also mark the latest use of vehicles in extremist attacks, a method that has become become increasingly prevalent in Europe in recent years with the encouragement of terror groups. Such attacks have killed over 100 people in major cities across Europe since 2015.
The attack on Las Ramblas targeted one of Spain's most popular tourist hubs, which was reflected in the numerous nationalities of the victims. Among the dead were visitors from the United States, Australia and Canada. The youngest victim was 3 years old.


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Mr. Brian Zolet joined The Gow School faculty with a wealth of experience after working at the Malcolm Gordon School for two years until its closure in 1990, Rockland Country Day School (1990-1998), and The Kildonan School (1998-2014). Mr. Zolet lives in Warner Dorm with his wife, Reconstructive Language teacher Urszula Zolet. They have one grown daughter, and two younger children.
Mr. Zolet enjoys biking, music, history, sports, hiking, movies, and "anything that makes him laugh and smile, as well as anything he can do to make others laugh and smile." He feels blessed to have the opportunity to raise two of his kids in the Gow community and to live the Gow way!
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Mr. Joel Bailey grew up in East Aurora, NY and attended St. John Fisher where he earned a degree in Spanish with a Psychology minor in 2014. While attending St. John Fisher, Mr. Bailey studied abroad in Granada, Spain his junior year, and Buenos Aries, Argentina his senior year. After graduating from college Mr. Bailey joined The Gow School as the modified basketball assistant coach. For the past two years Mr. Bailey worked in Madrid, Spain as a 1st and 2nd grade English teacher.
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Stem cell therapies provide an alternative to pain relievers and total joint replacement for those suffering from osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis plagues millions of older adults throughout the world. It is the most common type of degenerative joint disease. Commonly referred to as "OA", osteoarthritis is an inevitability for many people. It occurs as the rubber-like cartilage that protects the ends of human bones gradually breaks down. It eventually leads to a situation where bones rub against one another as little, if any, cartilage remains. OA can occur in any of the body's joints. However, it is more common in the hips, knees, spine and hands.
OA sounds like a particularly gruesome condition with painful bone-on-bone contact yet hope is available. Patients currently use physical therapy, pain relievers, cortisone injections and even surgery. Scientists have recently pinpointed stem cells as a possible catalyst for OA healing.
Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Center physicians made waves five years ago when they launched regenerative stem cell therapy. This is a form of treatment for OA as well as related joint maladies. It makes use of the patient's stem cells to remedy damaged tissues, minimize pain and hasten the healing process. Stem cells are taken from the patient's body with a needle. These stem cells are derived from abdominal fat and/or the hip's bone marrow. They are then placed in a centrifuge and spun in a rapid manner to generate a concentrate. This process isolates the stem cells. These cells are injected right back into the patient's compromised joint minutes later. This reapplication of stem cells catalyzes the healing process.
The use of stem cells takes about an hour and a half. The best part is it involves minimal comfort and produces few side effects for the vast majority of patients. The stem cells are taken from the patient himself in order to decrease the odds of rejection. This method of treatment has proven quite effective, helping patients enjoy a substantial improvement in joint health in as little as one month.
The medical community is quickly determining stem cells enhance the healing process better than other treatments. The predecessor was platelet-rich plasma for the treatment of OA and joint damage. This method debuted nearly a decade ago. Stem cell therapy launched in 2012 and has proven incredibly effective. Stem cells are highly specialized cells that can replicate themselves and potentially differentiate into different cell types for varying functions within the body.
Though there are numerous different stem cell types, those that help promote ligament, tendon and cartilage healing are referred to as mesenchymal stem cells. The human body has a substantial amount of these cells available to repair damaged tissues. Though there is minimal evidence that adding a concentration of such cells can replace joint cartilage that has been lost, they serve as important signaling cells that promote the transmission of proteins like cytokines. These are molecular harbingers that mitigate cartilage degeneration and control pain.
Advancements in stem cells might eventually make it the optimal means of repair for cartilage cells. Such cells are damaged due to everyday wear and tear, sports participation, obesity, and genetics. As of now, stem cells have proven quite effective in reducing the stiffness and pain tied to OA. It is an excellent alternative to total joint replacement surgery and pain relievers.
(NewsTarget) Mitochondria are the small powerhouse organelles that control the energy output for each of the trillions of cells that function synergistically within the human body. Every cell houses dozens to hundreds of mitochondria, depending on the particular function and energy requirement of the component organ. More than 85% of the oxygen contained in every breath is consumed by these tiny energy producers, so it is easy to understand how low mitochondrial function typically seen with aging can lead to low energy levels and ultimately cellular death. Cutting edge research published in the Journal of Nucleic Acids and Metabolism furnishes details to explain that the naturally occurring antioxidant alpha lipoic acid can significantly reduce mitochondrial decay and boost energy levels to improve longevity parameters in aging humans.
Since the early 1970`s, scientists have proposed and validated the `mitochondrial theory of aging` that demonstrates how a lifetime of accumulated damage to mitochondrial DNA leads to increased free radical stress and to lowered cellular energy production and chronic disease. Researchers examined aging mice that were broken into two groups: one supplemented with alpha lipoic acid in their drinking water and the other served as a control group for a period of 30 days. Both groups were tested for metabolic functions relating to glucose metabolism, energy production and antioxidant status.
Authors of the study found that the alpha lipoic acid supplemented group experienced mitochondrial biogenesis, a process that rejuvenates and replaces damaged and aging mitochondria. Prior bodies of research postulated that mitochondrial regeneration and genesis were not possible and cell death was always the final result of mitochondrial dysfunction. Through a very intricate metabolic process, lipoic acid supplementation was found to improve body composition, glucose tolerance, and energy expenditure in the aged mice.
Researchers noted this was the first time a natural compound was able to effectively revitalize mitochondria in aging cells, and they concluded that alpha lipoic acid supplementation "increases lean mass loss possibly by suppressing protein synthesis in the skeletal muscle by down-regulating the mTOR signaling pathway. Thus, lipoic acid may be a promising supplement for treatment of obesity and/or insulin resistance in older patients."
Subsequently, research conducted by Dr. Bruce Ames found that combining the bioactive `R` isomer of lipoic acid and acetyl-l-carnitine decreases oxidative damage, which leads to mitochondrial decay, and that this may help prevent degenerative diseases of aging including cancer, cognitive decline (dementia) and diabetes while restoring the vital energy needed to live an active lifestyle. Nutrition experts recommend supplementing with `R` alpha-lipoic acid (100 to 300 mg daily) and acetyl-l-carnitine (1000 mg daily) to restore energy levels lost to mitochondrial decline.
A new study indicates that yoga may be as effective for back pain as physical therapy.
The yoga protocol utilized in the study was developed by researchers at Boston Medical Center, with additional input from yoga instructors, doctors, and physical therapists. The study included 320 participants with moderate to severe back pain, all of whom received one of three approaches over a three-month time span: weekly yoga classes, 15 physical therapy visits, and clinical education surrounding ways to cope with back pain.
The findings, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, are directly in line with new guidelines for treating back pain from the American College of Physicians. concluded that yoga was as effective as physical therapy, and both groups were 20% less likely to use pain medication than those patients solely receiving education.
Dr. Robert Saper of Boston Medical Center, one of the report's authors, states: "Yoga was as effective as physical therapy for reducing pain intensity. Perhaps most importantly, reducing pain medication use." At the outset of the study, 70% of the patients were taking a form of pain medication; at the end of three months, the percentage of yoga and physical therapy participants still taking pain medication dropped to 50%.
This entry was posted in Chronic Pain and tagged chronic pain, exercise, yoga on June 26, 2017 by Sarenka Smith.
The hallmarks of cellular aging are a reduction in pluripotent stem cells, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and cell death. These are most often caused by chronic inflammation and increased adiposity from fatty infiltrate. It's a vicious cycle that perpetuates itself. Sarcopenia, Greek for "poverty of flesh," is both a contributor and a direct result of aging.
The process of muscle loss begins for most people in their 30s and 40s, with a loss of up to 8% per decade until the age of 70 years, after which the loss increases to 15% per decade.1 Many aging adults also suffer from insulin resistance, hormonal imbalance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, hypertension, heart disease, and increased adiposity, all of which can be attributed to sarcopenia as a root cause.
Causes of sarcopenia are varied and plentiful, but deconditioning and lack of proper strength training exercise is at the core. In my experience, most people who exercise lean towards aerobic activities like running, biking, and walking, none of which build lean skeletal muscle mass effectively or efficiently. Other factors that influence sarcopenia include poor food choices that are low in quality protein and the physiologic anorexia of aging. Muscle wasting is further perpetuated by declines in hormonal output and increases in inflammation. Social isolation, loneliness and depression can also play a role.
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Pole buildings are a simply designed modern structure often used for barns. A 28-by 40-foot barn can be used for many different farming purposes, including storing equipment and penning animals for shelter against harsh weather. Pole barns can be constructed within a week and are less expensive than alternative types of barn structures.
Pole barns are less expensive than traditionally built barns.
Compile a materials list and draw a schematic picture complete with dimensions of the planned 28-by-40-foot barn. Visit the local zoning authority and show them the plan. They will point out any permits required and also help with questions regarding materials and construction methods.
Prepare the ground where the building will be constructed. Clear away debris and level the ground where the 28-by-40-foot building will be constructed with an excavator. To help minimize any drainage problems in the future, slope the ground along each side of the planned barn away.
Position the batter boards and tie the string lines to represent exactly where the sides of the pole barn will be built. A perfect rectangle is required when setting the placement of the string lines. Measure the distance from the front, right corner to the rear, left corner. Measure the distance from the front, left corner to the right, rear corner. These two measurements must be the same. Correct any discrepancies.
Measure along the string line and spray a mark on the ground every 8 feet on the 40-foot length sides of the barn. Measure along the string line and spray a mark on the ground every 7 feet on the 28-foot length sides of the barn. These markings will indicate where the holes must be dug for the poles. Take down the string line from the batter boards.
Use an auger to dig each hole for the poles 5-feet deep and 24-inches in diameter.
Pour an 8-inch concrete footing at the base of each hole. Allow sufficient time for the concrete to dry. Tie the string lines back in place.
Position the poles in each hole. Use a carpenters level to ensure each pole is perfectly level vertically and barely touches the string line. Fill each hole with gravel 3 feet. Check the vertical levelness and the pole proximity to the string line again. Fill the remaining portion of each hole with dirt. Make sure to compact with a rock bar after each additional 6 inches of dirt is distributed. Fasten 2-by-8-inch boards between poles for additional support in preparation for building the top of the barn.
Use a laser level to mark the poles at the front of the building at the desired height for the beams. Use the same process for marking the second, third, and rear set of poles, but measure down 8- , 16- and 24 -inches down from the markings on the front poles, respectively. This will establish the necessary preparation for a linear sloping roof.
Position each beam on top of the poles around the perimeter of the 28-by-40-foot barn. Fasten each beam to each pole with metal plate and galvanized bolts. Use a ships augur to drill pilot holes for each galvanized bolt.
Fasten each truss on top of the beams with metal connector plates and nails. Measure, cut and fasten 2-by-6-inch boards between the trusses to create rafters. Measure, cut and fasten 2-by-6-inch boards between the poles on the two sides and rear side of the barn. The trusses and newly fastened boards will be used to attach the roofing and siding sheet metal.
Secure the sheet metal to the roof and three sides of the 28-by 40-foot barn with washer-head screws. Each screw may need to be gently tapped into place with a hammer before it can be drilled into the metal.


Fox News' Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen is leaving the news network. "James Rosen is exiting the company at the end of the year," a Fox News spokesperson confirmed to TV Newser.
Rosen, 49, has been with Fox News since 1999, 3 years after the channel launched.
As the network's Chief Washington Correspondent, he often reported for Special Report, but was seen throughout FNC's programming day, most recently just yesterday.
Rosen made international headlines after reports surfaced that the Obama administration spied on the reporter. In 2009, the Justice Department obtained Rosen's telephone records in a bid to track down leakers. "The case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, the government adviser, and James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, bears striking similarities to a sweeping leaks investigation disclosed last week in which federal investigators obtained records over two months of more than 20 telephone lines assigned to the Associated Press," reported The Washington Post.
Not only did the Obama administration snoop on Rosen, but also fought to keep the search warrant for the reporter's private e-mail account secret on the grounds that they might need to monitor the account for a long period of time.
Rosen, nor Fox News, have yet to announce where the veteran reporter will work next.


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Tensions rose and anger boiled in the Oval Office where Donald Trump verbally boxed out with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on Monday, but Mike Pence didn't seem to notice as he sat cool and silent in the corner and appeared to catch up on some shut-eye.
Twitter users had a field day making fun of the Vice President's very awkward and catatonic behavior where he remained tight-lipped, stared at the floor, and briefly closed his eyes during the heated confrontation.
'How Mike Pence could fall asleep during the heated meeting with Trump, Pelosi and Schumer is beyond me. No stamina!!' Chairman of the Democratic Coalition Jon Cooper tweeted.
'VP Pence is me at every family dinner,' Twitter user Steven Buccini joked.
'Mike Pence powered down to save electricity,' one Twitter user said on Pence's shut-eye.
Even when he was awake, Pence was noticeably silent and bored in the discussion.
'Funny how Pence was in that meeting, but you wouldn't notice. He was like an embarrassed little kid dressed as a Christmas tree, in a 2nd grade holiday play, with no lines,' a Twitter user said.
'Mike Pence looks exactly like our Elf on the Shelf during this discussion,' one Twitter user said.
Another Twitter user made Pence into a comic giving a thought bubble saying 'This rug is the first thing I'm getting rid of' as he stares at the ground, contemplating Trump's impeachment.
Others joked that he was praying to be taken away from the heated argument over the government shut down and border security.
'Mike Pence's thoughts: "Dear sweet, white Jesus, take me home,"' on Twitter user wrote.
'"If you stay really still and close your eyes they can't see you." Mike Pence,' another Twitter user wrote.
The Daily Show joked that Pence wasn't sleeping, he was simply stoned, sharing a picture of Pence in a high haze.
Others captioned the photo 'Pence contemplating homosexuality', poking fun at the Vice President's opposition to gay marriage.
Some joked that he looked blissfully at peace like Yoda of Star Wars as he closed his eyes during the argument.
Others compared his still and silent nature to a Madame Tussaud's wax figure.
'Why did they even put Pence in that room? He might as well be a houseplant,' one Twitter user noted.
Some social media users found his stiff silence in the corner all too familiar, joking that it felt like being in a friend's house while they start arguing with their parents.
Some joked that he was a typical dad, falling asleep within five minutes of a conversation.
So sad to our government and country being destroyed every day.
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For what it's worth. You should have drafted proven and consistent players. Paired eventually with suspended running back Ezekiel Elliott, the Cowboys have formidable talents ready to produce behind the vaunted offensive line. What follows is fact: On Friday evening, while speaking against the backdrop of a giant American flag, the chief executive of a nation whose constitution protects its citizens speech from governmental interference leveraged the weight of his office to advocate financial retribution against a group of citizens as punishment for their expressing an opinion that he found distasteful.
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Dan Snyder, who had joined his players in arms at FedEx Field on Sunday night, was in an especially divisive market and was particularly dismissive of the kneeling. We've enjoyed many good philanthropic relationships with Minnesota nonprofits over the years, and this is another example of our support.".
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Sometimes we get so bogged down by history and preconceived notions. Flag, who do you associate it with? was bang on. I not saying Lavezzi is racist. After a few teething problems, Graham became a mainstay on the NFL scene as a punter and, after becoming an NFC champion, made history in 2009 when he became the first Australian to feature in a Super Bowl, which his side, the Cardinals, lost 27 23 to the Steelers.
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In 2002 he was the first to describe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players. Kamara likes to see things; that's how he learns. He wrote an impassioned statement for the Detroit Free Press about the link between football and concussions, and the NFL questionable handling of head injuries.
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"Right after practice, me and one to three other [players] would go to somebody's house [to get high]," Britton recalls. Had a big day Sunday, making some impressive catches, including one when he outmuscled cornerback Tre Roberson on the right side of the end zone for a touchdown..
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The Bears, by contrast, were one of five NFL teams not to score 30 points in a single game last season. Ham, in his first season as a fullback, made the roster as a versatile fourth back in the room. Have to make it so there is no drop off for anyone who comes in.
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That a reasonable opinion to hold considering the Vikings went 3 8 in their final 11 games last season and still have plenty of roster questions. As you can expect, Sunday didn't bring many.. "I have the utmost respect for the men and women who fight for our freedom.
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And in 2006, former NFL rushing leader Ricky Williams spent the '06 season with the Toronto Argonauts after being suspended by the NFL following a fourth positive drug test.. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick has received a lot of public scorn for refusing to stand for the national anthem, but in a sign of support, his 7 jersey has become the NFL's top seller.
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Carolina and Arizona rank 1 2 in NFL in scoring, wins, point differential and touchdowns. America is not perfect, but it is way better than some of the countries that immigrants come from. RB LATAVIUS MURRAY ranks 6th in NFL with 18 rush TDs since 2015.
Carr was stung by going after Bortles, Johnny Manziel (No. "It really needs to be the right combination of what the other team has, and what you feel like we can do defensively.". You may be dismissive of the very idea that the backlash to the national anthem protests, sparked by the 49ers Colin Kaepernick, has played a role in the NFL TV ratings, which have dropped by about 12 percent year over year.
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As ePluribus Media recently reported, since the replacement of long-time Voting Rights Section Chief Joseph D. Rich by John K. Tanner (promoted by former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights R. Alexander Acosta) there has been an exodus of unprecedented proportions of experienced voting rights personnel from DoJ's Civil Rights Division. TPM Muckraker's Paul Kiel has referred to this exodus as a purge, and it has stretched from the top to the bottom of the Voting Section's ranks. Acosta has been implicated in the plummeting number of voting rights cases filed to protect the rights of African-Americans. Since then, he has received three interim appointments from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida prior to being confirmed by the Senate. Tanner, however, remains Voting Section chief.
[...] of the five persons in section leadership at the beginning of 2005 (the chief and four deputy chiefs), only one deputy chief remains in the section today.
The most striking feature of the exodus has been the hue of the professional staff members who have left and the hue and political affiliations of the individuals who have replaced them. Since mid-2004, when political appointees began the purge by forcing career staff to downgrade the performance appraisals of employees who did not toe the Bush line, knowledgeable sources tell ePluribus Media, nine of 13 African-American professional staff members (attorneys and analysts) have left __ eight of them on Tanner's watch __ while only one African-American professional staff member has been hired. The Section, which has already come under fire for filing only two lawsuits on behalf of African-American voters during the Bush years (one of which was prepared under the Clinton administration) and filing the first reverse discrimination suit against African-Americans ever filed by the Federal Government under the Voting Rights Act, which had been passed specifically to protect African-American voting rights, does not seem to be any more attuned to the needs of its own African-American staff members than it is to the rights of African-American voters.
Sources have reported that two Equal Employment Opportunity claims are currently pending in the Voting Section alleging racially discriminatory treatment and/or hiring practices against African-Americans by Tanner and Acting Section 5 Deputy Chief Yvette Rivera. Rivera was Tanner's choice to succeed 28-year veteran voting rights lawyer Robert Berman as deputy chief of the Voting Section's Section 5 unit after Berman was involuntarily transferred from the Voting Section to what Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has called a "dead-end job" in a training section after Berman's recommendation to stop implementation of a Georgia photo ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was overruled by Tanner. Indeed, four highly experienced African-American Section 5 analysts, including the Section 5 supervisor, representing approximately 100 years of Section 5 enforcement experience, have left since Rivera became acting deputy chief, one accusing the Section of having become a "plantation" in an email sent to the entire Voting Section upon her departure, former employees report. These same sources report that the Section 5 supervisor departed rather than comply with Rivera's directive to downgrade the performance appraisals of other African-American analysts as well as the lone analyst who opposed preclearance of the Georgia photo ID law (this analyst, as well as Berman, another attorney, and Geographer Toby Moore, who also opposed preclearance of the Georgia law, were subsequently forced from the Section). Not one of the four analysts hired since Rivera's arrival has been African-American. Black staff report receiving disparate treatment on routine issues, and a former non-black minority staffer stated that Rivera has "problems with color."
The Justice Department is missing a key component in its mission to protect civil rights __ diversity. [...] The criminal section within the Civil Rights Division has not hired a single black attorney to replace those who have left. Not one. [...] Out of fifty attorneys in the Criminal Section - only two are black, the same number the criminal section had in 1978, even though the size of the staff has more than doubled.
Richard Ugelow, formerly of the Division's Employment Litigation Section and now a law professor at American University, told Baskin that when he was with the Justice Department, "we would sue employers for having numbers like that." House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has promised an investigation into the lack of diversity in the Civil Rights Division.
[... ] by 2001 __ the year that the new round of redistricting submissions began __ approximately 40% of Section staff was assigned to this work, including a Deputy Section Chief, Robert Berman, who oversaw the Section 5 work; 26 civil rights analysts (including 8 supervisory or senior analysts) responsible for reviewing, gathering facts, and making recommendations on over 4,000 Section 5 submissions received every year; and over six attorneys who spent their full-time reviewing the work of the analysts. Since then, and especially since the transfer of Deputy Chief Berman from the Section in late 2005 [after Tanner's arrival], this staff dropped by almost two-thirds. There are now only ten civil rights analysts (none of whom hold supervisory jobs and only three of whom are senior) and two full-time attorney reviewers.
These analyst positions, formerly held by staffers with over 30 years of experience enforcing Section 5, are now routinely filled through a federal career internship program by twenty-somethings straight out of college who have no civil rights experience __ when they are filled at all, former employees report. As Rich noted in his testimony, "It is difficult to understand how this Administration expects to fulfill its Section 5 responsibilities __ especially the coming redistricting cycle __ with such a reduced staff." Toby Moore told ePluribus Media, "The quality of the work being done has really suffered because of the poor managers that the Bush Administration put in place and then tolerated because they tell the political appointees what they want to hear."
The attorney staff has been similarly dismantled. At least 17 attorneys, nearly half the staff, have departed just since Tanner's elevation to the section chief position in April of 2005, representing over 150 years of civil rights experience, employees who left the Section report. Many of their replacements have been members of the Republican National Lawyers Association or the ultra-conservative Federalist Society. This turnaround in the composition of the Section's staff has coincided with a shift, noted by McClatchy, from traditional voting rights enforcement to litigation aimed at suppressing the minority vote.
The politicization of the civil rights division and especially the Voting Section has really damaged day-to-day management. Even if you remove the politicization of the decision making you still have internal problems that need to be addressed by [Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights] Wan Kim and others in the Justice Department. Someone needs to take responsibility, hopefully it will be Wan Kim, and investigate the problems and make the management accountable for the mistakes they have made. The people are still suffering and a lot of analysts are working under difficult circumstances.


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India has to battle terrorism on its own. Adversaries will be hostile and friends won't help.
Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times
The Mamallapuram summit between India and China cannot obscure the fact that the power behind Pakistan is China. Nor can the summit hype cloak the strengthening axis between a muscular communist power and a terrorism-exporting Islamist neighbour, with both the revanchist partners staking claims to different Indian territories.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that "the time has come to fight a decisive battle against terrorism and against all those who promote terrorism". However, there appears little prospect of such a concerted and decisive international fight. States bankrolling or rearing terrorists continue to go scot-free.
Nothing illustrates this reality better than Pakistan, which has systematically weaponised terrorism without incurring tangible international costs. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is unlikely to move Pakistan from its "grey" to "black" list, even though Islamabad has admittedly failed to meet most FATF parameters against terrorist financing.
Action is unlikely for several reasons. A Chinese national has become the FATF president. Decisions are based on consensus. Pakistan's principal patron, China, will seek — along with Turkey, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia — to block any move to blacklist Pakistan. At the recent annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, China, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey emerged as an anti-India quad.
The key impediment to Pakistan's blacklisting, however, is India's own strategic partner, the United States. The battle against international terrorism cannot be won unless the nexus between terrorist groups and Pakistan's military is severed. A good place to start would have been to make the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout for Pakistan contingent on concrete counter-terrorism action. However, US President Donald Trump's attempt to finalise a Pakistan-backed Faustian bargain with the Afghan Taliban allowed that leverage to slip away. Pakistan secured the bailout without any action.
The US is against FATF blacklisting because such action would upend the IMF-supported programme in Pakistan. Pakistani terrorism impinges directly on Indian security but not on US homeland security. US willingness to put up with Pakistan's sub-regionally confined use of terrorism as an instrument of State policy parallels Washington's acceptance of Pakistan's sub-regionally confined nuclear arsenal, including ignoring covert Chinese nuclear and missile transfers, and tolerating Pakistan's nuclear warmongering.
Trump himself has underscored the limits of Indo-US counter-terrorism cooperation. On two consecutive days at the UNGA, Trump referred to Iranian terrorism when asked specifically about Pakistan's emergence as the global hub of terrorism. Instead, Trump drew a perverse equivalence between terrorism-transmitting Pakistan and its victim India. According to the White House, Trump privately "encouraged Prime Minister Modi to improve relations with Pakistan".
Modi rightly warned against the politicisation of international counter-terrorism mechanisms. The US-led war on terror has failed largely because it has become a tool of geopolitics. The US, for example, recently imposed terrorism-related sanctions on Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and allied individuals. But it has never slapped such sanctions on the leading terrorism-exporting force — Pakistan's military — or on any of its generals or intelligence officers.
The bottom line for India is that no friend, including the US, will assist it to end Pakistan's terrorism. This is India's battle to fight and win. Seeking US assistance only reinforces Washington's claim to be a stakeholder in the India-Pakistan relationship.
Imran Khan's public declaration of a jihad against India and his threat of nuclear Armageddon only highlight India's challenge in countering a militant neighbour that not only employs nuclear terror to shield its export of terrorism but also misuses a religion to lend sanctity to its actions. Debt-ridden and dysfunctional Pakistan cannot afford an overt war with India that it cannot win. Yet, without India imposing sufficient costs on it, Pakistan will not stop nurturing terrorists as a force multiplier in its low-intensity asymmetric war, whose ultimate goal supposedly is Ghazwa-e-Hind, or the holy conquest of India.
The Indian Air Force chief, Rakesh Bhadauria, has said that Balakot exemplified a new political resolve to "punish perpetrators of terrorism", underscoring "a major shift in the government's way of handling terrorist attacks". However, Balakot, like the earlier surgical strike, has done little to change Pakistan's behaviour. The reason is that these strikes targeted only the enemy's non-uniformed soldiers — the easily-sacrificed terrorist proxies. Deterrence will work if India implements a multipronged strategy to impose calibrated but gradually escalating costs on Pakistan's military masters.
The Wuhan summit was followed by a stepped-up Chinese military build-up along the Himalayas, including live-fire combat drills, and an enlargement of China's strategic footprint in Pakistan. As its colonial outpost, Pakistan has become the springboard for China's regional ambitions. Mamallapuram cannot change this reality.
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist.


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Slow Play in Golf: It's a Game of Precision But Should Never Be Slow
End slow play in golf
The game of golf rewards precision, but a growing problem in the game is the rise of slow play in golf. "Slow play" refers to the scenario where too much space on the course has opened up between one group and the group following them.
Clubs have different rules regarding slow play, but often the difference allowed is one hole. Any more and you're guilty of slow play.
Some clubs penalize; others do not. Regardless of your club's rules, the important thing is that out of courtesy to other golfers, and for your own enjoyment of this great game, you keep up the pace.
It's important to know that taking your time in golf doesn't help you play better, in fact a faster golfer is more likely to execute a perfect golf swing.
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Where the problem lies
The problem is especially common among amateur golfers. When I'm golfing, I concentrate 100% on my swing. There's that perfect moment as you lift the club for a swing that you know is going to connect – and that satisfying thwack! as you hit the ball towards wherever it's destined to go. But, standing there, trying to perfect your swing on the course isn't going to work nor is it the best sportsmanship.
Instead, it's best to work on your swing when you're not on the course. Go to the driving range and put in the time. After a while, decisively making that perfect swing will come naturally to you.
It's like weightlifting – someone who wants perfect form on the bench press will start with just the bar.
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I can't speak enough about the satisfaction that comes with developing your own style – a swing that comes so naturally to you, you don't have to spend time "eyeing the ball" for that perfect shot. There's a craftsman-like appeal to that – I am very comfortable with a golf club in my hand: that's how I make my shots quickly and get on with the game.
One way to learn how to play quickly is to look at the pros. PGA Tour rules dictate that each player has 40 seconds to make a shot, except in certain circumstances where that number goes up to 60 seconds.
Watch their swing – most importantly, watch their confidence in their swing. They make it happen, and they make it happen quickly.
"Rob Peers, pro golfer", may not be in my list of achievements (yet!), but from years of watching the Tour I understand something of the mindset of a pro.
It's all about confidence – fast play is great, not just because it shows consideration for others on the course, but because it comes from within. You know exactly what you're doing, so you don't have to take time. Instead of worrying about the logistics, just make your swing – if you're good enough, it will be a hole in one. If you're not, work on your swing later. Just don't stress about it as you are playing!
Like to take it slow? Consider playing alone. Go early on an off day, when not many people are on the course.
Even if you're a fast golfer, golfing alone can be a special treat. You're removed from all the daily concerns of life; it's just you, your ball, and the green.
That sublime level of focus is seldom found in a busy life. The experience the solo golfer has is something like meditation – but even better, because he has the whole green to himself.
One of the best parts of golf are the amazing courses all over the world; while I love fast play, I acknowledge some of them are best enjoyed slowly.
Fast golf is for you
There's the mental approach I take to golf that keeps me playing fast.
Slow play in golf is no fun for anyone!
As a passionate player, I have a dedicated philosophy about fast golf. But don't worry too much about the specifics – just have fun and remember, keep it moving.
This post was written by our guest writer Rob Peers. Rob is a financial and business consultant who lives in Calgary, Canada.
Rob loves sharing his knowledge of golf and loves playing the sport even more.
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Washington State to face Utah in Salt Lake City for regular season finale
Dec. 13, 2020 Updated Sun., Dec. 13, 2020 at 9:52 p.m.
Washington State Cougars wide receiver Renard Bell (9) runs the ball during the first half of a college football game on Saturday, September 28, 2019, at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Associated Press)
Washington State was 90 minutes shy of hosting a football game at Martin Stadium on Saturday. Now the Cougars won't have another opportunity to play meaningful snaps in Pullman until the 2021 season.
The Pac-12 Conference announced pairings for the seventh and final week of the 2020 regular season, pitting Washington State against Utah next Saturday in Salt Lake City. The Cougars (1-2) and Utes (2-2) will kick off at 10:30 a.m. PT on FS1.
If COVID-19 issues don't sideline Washington (3-1) for a second consecutive week, the Huskies move on to play USC (5-0) in the Pac-12 championship game on Friday in Los Angeles (5 p.m., Fox).
The rest of the Pac-12's week seven pairings are as follows: Stanford (3-2) at UCLA (3-3), 5 p.m., ESPN2; Oregon (3-2) at Colorado (4-1), 6 p.m., FS1; Arizona State (1-2) at Oregon State (2-4), 7:30 p.m., ESPN; Arizona (0-5) at California (1-3), TBD.
Because of COVID-19, the Cougars have played just three of their six scheduled games this season and only one at home, on Nov. 14 against Oregon. With as many as nine players in COVID-19 protocol, WSU had two games canceled earlier this season – at Stanford and on the road against Washington – and Saturday's game was called off after Cougar players had already taken the field for warmups when it was learned a California player has tested positive for COVID-19.
The Utes have endured their own COVID-19 setbacks this season. Utah's first two games, at home against Arizona and at UCLA, were canceled because the Utes had a number of positive tests within their program.
Kyle Whittingham's team lost its next two games to the teams meeting in Friday's Pac-12 championship game, but Utah has won its past two, beating Oregon State 30-24 and Colorado 38-21, ending the Buffaloes' Pac-12 title hopes.
The Cougars hold a 9-8 advantage in the all-time series against the Utes and had won four consecutive games before suffering a 38-13 blowout loss at Rice- Eccles Stadium in 2019 – the final game of Tracy Claeys' tenure as WSU's defensive coordinator.
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Keeping Your Computer Free from Virus Attacks!
The last few years have seen a rather large increase in virus attacks. You may be aware of this fact and have taken steps to inform yourself to recognize these attacks. If so, then great as you won't be as vulnerable as your typical "uneducated" user might be. If not, then educating yourself now can be imperative to the safety of your computer and it's data.
Computer viruses can be very expensive to resolve. Not only can the repair time be extensive, so can the damages. A major loss in your data should be expected. And in today's world, living without a computer is akin to living without a limb, it just does not work. By staying abreast of the signs to look for, you will be staying one step ahead of a virus attack on your computer.
As an IT company, we want to help educate all technology users of the dangers computer virus' can have on a system, which is why we put together some tips and advice on preventing a computer virus.
Rules To Avoid Computer Virus Attacks!
So to begin with, here is what you could call the first line of defense in keeping your computer clean of viruses.
Ultimately, YOU are the first line of defense in keeping your computer clean of viruses.
Anti-Virus Software or Anti-Helpful Software?
If you know your computer is already being protected than you will know those pop-ups saying the computer is infected is a lie.
"Your computer is at risk and has been infected; download this software now to fix it".
The next time you are browsing the web and suddenly receive pop ups displaying some sort of Antivirus Dashboard that starts "scanning" for infected files or prompts you to download Antivirus Software, you now know this is a fake scan. Also keep in mind, these pages would not have access to your computer, so how would they even know if your computer is infected or not!?
If you think your computer might be infected or you downloaded something that may have been malicious, immediately stop using the computer and turn it off. If this happens you should contact a reliable IT service to take a look and clean any viruses that may be running loose on your PC.


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1980's Flashback Cinema
80's Flashback: Romancing the Stone
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Joan Wilder: You're the best time I've ever had.
Jack Colton: I've never been anybody's best time.
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Romance novelist fish-out-of-waters through the Columbian wilds as she attempts to ransom her sister from smalltime schemesters by delivering the map to a jewel called El Corazon, meets Indiana Jungle Jones and winds up afoul of not only the schemesters but a faction of the Colombian army — all hell bent on taking the jewel for themselves.
Those Were Italian!
Few movies sew those nostalgic oats quite like Romancing the Stone. The movie implanted one of my earliest moviegoing memories that didn't involve Star Wars. Robert Zemeckis' 1984 adventurer wasn't my very first theatrical live action film experience, it often feels like it. An early moment in the film indirectly reminds me what it was like to be six years old and staring up at the big screen in wonder.
Jack grows tired of Kathleen Turner's romance novelist hobbling around the South American jungle. He takes his machete and chops the heels off her shoes.
Joan Wilder: Those were Italian.
Jack Colton: Now they're practical.
What did I know about women's shoes? Not a thing. I probably wore velcro Kangaroos with the little pockets to the theater. Still, 6yo me marked that down as hilarious. I remember using that "Those were Italian!" line in many different circumstances. I might accidentally break something and exclaim "Those were Italian!" like a catch-all expletive. You get the picture. I never succeeded in making "Those were Italian!" my own personal catchphrase, but the scene itself acts as a time capsule. I'm instantly granted the gift a piece of me as I was in 1984.
Nostalgia's a wonderful thing in moderation. We can never go home again, but cinematic moments like these, the ones we latch onto for whatever reason, grant us a fleeting reprieve from the bustle of adulthood.
After reading Kathleen Turner's nuclear interview by David Marchese of Vulture, my wife and I began winding through Turner's filmography. I started with a first-time viewing of The War of the Roses (1988) and then returned to the beginning of the Douglas/Turner/DeVito era with a Romancing the Stone refresher.
Over the years, Stone has become comfort food for this 80's soul. Unfortunately it seems that younger viewers don't appreciate the simplicity of Stone's form and function. My observations come purely from casual browsing of Letterboxd.com, so please don't @ me with demographic studies that show most women aged 18-25 rate Romancing the Stone four stars or higher (unless of course those demographic studies support my remedial investigation).
Turner just goes for it. In every film. That was never more apparent than in The War of the Roses where she gives an absolutely savage performance. I've always felt that Romancing the Stone was a Michael Douglas movie — the charmer, the expat vigilante treasure hunter. I had it all wrong. Turner's romance novelist makes the journey from a fainting woman of words to an action hero. Without Turner's commitment to both sides of Joan Wilder, the scripted character could have remained nothing more than a distressed damsel. She made more of the character than was on the page.
Misplaced Treasure of Classic Cinema
While Romancing the Stone proffers a style of entertainment rooted in the trends of the 1980's, it also recalls screwball films and swashbuckling action/adventurers of the 1930's. Michael Douglas' Jack Colton character might be a less studious Indiana Jones, but he's, at heart, an amalgamation of many matinee idols. Gary Cooper or Johnny Weissmuller without the patina of glossy perfection. And it's hardly a stretch to imagine Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn as Jack Colton and Joan Wilder slashing through a soundstage populated by ferns and palms and verbal barbs.
Take Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story and just add jungle.
The Grant/Hepburn substitution feels natural. Robert Zemeckis directed Romancing the Stone with the pretense of propping up the charisma of his stars as the main attraction, a decidedly old school filmmaking methodology. Stone sells the pretense of action and stuntwork, but the focus remains small and the danger never feels entirely real (owing to the cartoonish pursuit by the hyperbolic DeVito) and his megalomaniacal-ish cousin Ira (Zack Norman). Though the stunts occur in regular beats, none of them take the form of a centerpiece — except perhaps the escape from Juan's compound. Even that, however, stands out as a result of the comedic talents of the great character actor Alfonso Arau.
It's entirely understandable hen someone says that Romancing the Stone didn't live up to their expectations. Stone retains its status as a certified 80s classic. As a result viewers' expectations likely skew bigger and broader. Raiders of the Lost Ark, the standard-bearer for 1980's adventure cinema, casts a long shadow over other similar films of the era.
Character and Spectacle, Take 2
Best known for the Back to the Future films, Robert Zemeckis makes character-driven narratives within the modern iteration of the Hollywood dream machine. At its most basic component, behind the flash and spectacle of a time-traveling DeLorean, Back to the Future, like Romancing the Stone, is high concept narrative buoyed by the establishment and development of character.
I'll forgive first-time viewers that didn't have their expectations met, but I'll also suggest they go back for a second ride once their initial disappointment has evaporated. Focus on the interplay between Douglas and Turner. Focus on how their screwball banter and evolves beyond the idol worship of shadowy matinee man of action and romance. Consider how Romancing the Stone and Douglas then undermine the notion of the soft-focus man meat that inhabits Joan Wilder's romance novels.
If all else fails, just give it another chance to appreciate Hollywood's discovery of Kathleen Turner, superstar. She's the real gem here, not the costume jewelry macguffin Joan and Jack rescue from a cave.
On the next episode of 80's Flashback, I'll exorcise some demons and discuss my disappointment with The Jewel of the Nile.
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H. affabilis (Provancher, 1877)
H. albicollaris (Cresson, 1872)
H. alboanalis (Uchida, 1952)
H. barberi (Townes, 1962)
H. bellosus (Curtis, 1837)
H. besseianus (Seyrig, 1926)
H. bohemani (Holmgren, 1856)
H. byrsinus (Townes, 1962)
H. centricolor (Aubert, 1964)
H. confector (Gravenhorst, 1829)
H. coxator (Tschek, 1871)
H. egregius (Kokujev, 1909)
H. femoralis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
H. fugitivoides Schwarz, 2007
H. fugitivus (Gravenhorst, 1829)
H. heliophilus (Tschek, 1871)
H. imitator (Provancher, 1877)
H. linnae (Townes, 1962)
H. magrettii (Kriechbaumer, 1893)
H. melanocephalus (Gravenhorst, 1829)
H. murarius (Borner, 1782)
H. notatus (Provancher, 1874)
H. nubecula (Townes, 1962)
H. odoriferator (Dufour & Perris, 1840)
H. ohgushii (Momoi, 1963)
H. pini (Momoi, 1973)
H. quadriguttatus (Gravenhorst, 1829)
H. savioi Uchida, 1940
H. scorteus (Momoi, 1968)
H. sugiharai Uchida, 1936
H. sumiyona Uchida, 1956
H. tamahonis (Uchida, 1931)
H. zoesmairi (Dalla Torre, 1902)


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