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March 16, 2021 by dereknewmanstille
Alien Found Family
A review of Julie Czerneda's Changing Vision (Penguin Random House, 2016)
Julie Czerneda's Changing Vision is a tale of found families across space. Esen is the past of her species, the final member of her Web. This could leave her isolated and alone in a massive universe, but, instead, she finds a human companion, Paul, who bridges the species divide and proves that friendships can be incredibly powerful.
Czerneda focuses her space opera on the ability of people to create family even out of the completely alien and challenges ideas of family that are limited to biological or legal relations. This is a friendship that not only survives the species divide, but survives war, intrigue, lies, and torture.
Changing Vision is a tale of diplomacy in the face of warring species that deny the sentience of each other, espionage, xenophobia, and space battle, but it's quintessence is the power of cross-species friendships as ways to create family and a sense of home for an alien shapeshifter who at times feels like she has neither as the last member of her species.
To find out more about Changing Vision, go to https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/332604/changing-vision-by-julie-e-czerneda/9780756411954
To discover more about Julie Czerneda, go to https://www.czerneda.com
Review by Derek Newman-Stille, MA, PhD ABD (They/Them)
Tagged alien, alienation, found family, friendship, Julie Czerneda, reviews, Science Fiction, space opera, war
July 5, 2019 by dereknewmanstille
A review of Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu is a fever dream on paper, vivid and fantastical, and full of nightmares, which is perfect for a pandemic narrative. It is a surreal story, but it comments on issues of relevance to the real world. Set in a world where a pandemic has affected men more than women, Lai's narrative explores the power struggles of a population that fears its own erasure, but is also willing to take others along with them as their population dwindles. The Tiger Flu has been brought into the world because of cloning technology which allows extinct animals to be revitalized, primarily for consumptive purposes. It has spread quickly and decimated large parts of the population, leaving people in desperation for resources, for a sense of belonging, for a belief in something that will allow them to last and make an impact on the world.
The Tiger Flu is a necessary critique on capitalism's consumptive force and its rendering of everything into resources to be exploited. Even the religion of the people in Lai's book is based around capitalism, with the population literally worshipping an industrialist and the two constructed satallites that orbit the planet – Chang and Eng (named after the famous conjoined twins from the Freak Shows of the early 1800s). The two satellites represent opposing corporate forces, but also become spaces for downloading the consciousness of individuals from the population. Despite representing opposing companies, the name of the two satellites suggests a conjoined nature, pointing out that underlying these two opposing forces is still one system – in this case capitalist exploitation.
Even people become resources to be exploited in this world and a small group of people who have created a community living off of the land are seen as consumable resources to be captured and used by the factories they once escaped from. Lai illustrates the dangerous over-consumptive quality of capitalist systems and that every resource, including people in that capitalist system become grist for the mill. In fact, she literally names this community of people living off the land Grist Sisters.
Fearing destruction, people try to hold onto power by creating factions and borders, arming themselves out of fear of others. Lai illustrates the way that people who are accustomed to power fear its loss and make war with each other as a means of externalizing their fear. Her corporate communities arm themselves, ignoring the needs of citizens (like access to food and safety) in their own private war to hold onto a past power structure that can no longer sustain itself.
Yet Lai also opens up other questions of production beyond capitalism, exploring notions of alternative reproduction. Lai explores queer potentials in a world whose men are dying faster than women. She queers reproduction by having women in the Grist tribes give birth through parthenogenesis (reproduction from an ovum without fertilization by sperm). The Grist sisters give birth by "doubling", creating duplicates of themselves and birthing groups of identical sisters.
As much as it is an apocalyptic viral narrative, The Tiger Flu is also a narrative captured in the middle. It isn't an outbreak narrative as many apocalyptic virus stories tend to be, and, as much as it is concerned with the future, it is also about characters uncovering their own past, seeking out the stories about how things came to be the way they are and about the character's' own histories. It is a book ultimately about complicating narrative and history because while the two primary characters Kirilow and Kora seek their own pasts, they also encounter other narratives about the past, intersecting and often complicating their own. Characters use memory scales that they plug directly into their brains to gain access to knowledge and constantly find snippets of their world's history, but these histories conflict with the stories that they have formed their lives around. While corporate characters are trying to hold onto a power they fear losing and their own role in history, characters like Kirilow and Kora are dismantling that history for themselves, seeing different truths that reveal the pettiness of the corporate leaders they have worshipped.
To discover more about The Tiger Flu, go to https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Tiger-Flu
To find out more about Larissa Lai, visit https://www.larissalai.com
Tagged apocalypse, capitalism, exploitation, flu, Larissa Lai, LGBTQ2, memory, pandemic, plague, production, queer, reproduction, reviews, Science Fiction, sick lit, war
A War Across the Glass
A review of Patrick Bollivar's "Operation: Looking Glass" in Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland Edited by Colleen Anderson (Exile 2018)
It turns out Wonderland isn't all it's cracked up to be. Patrick Bollivar's "Operation: Looking Glass" explores a group of people who are in a battle with Wonderland to get their sister back. The Wonderland that Bollivar envisions is one that is at war with the human world and at war with itself. It is suffused with an aether, an air that transforms people and animals who cross through the looking glass into this strange world.
Bollivar imagines the potential for Wonderland to have a contagious effect but unites this contagious transformation with a specific location – Wonderland. The contagious effect varies, but it changes people's personalities and ideologies and it changes animals into hybridized figures with human and animal characteristics. This Wonderland has been at war with itself, conflicted both in terms of its inherent contradictions but also literally engaged in battle.
Bollivar creates a steampunkesque diving story, but this particular group of adventurers are diving into another world… though one that they need as much protection from as they would at the bottom of the ocean.
Like many of the authors in Alice Unbound, Bollivar unites aspects of Lewis Carroll's life with the world that he created when he wrote Wonderland, and this particular tale involves the Liddell children, who served as inspirations for Carroll's writing. The characters in Bollivar's tale call Carroll's Alice in Wonderland a propagandist text, ignoring the real horrors of Wonderland.
This is a highly exciting steampunk story that provides a contrast between the rational world and the world of dangerous whimsy that lay on the other side of a simple sheet of glass.
To find out more about Alice Unbound, visit Exile's website at http://www.exileeditions.com/shop/alice-unbound-beyond-wonderland/
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Anderson, contagion, exile, geography, mirror, Patrick Bollivar, reviews, SteamPunk, war, whymsy, Wonderland
Valuing Care
A review of Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law's The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound (Laksa Media Group, 2017)
As a society, we undervalue care and undervalue care workers. We tend to assume that people who do care work are doing it because they like helping people and we assume that the job is compensation enough. Even in the home, we de-value family members who provide care, viewing their care work as something that doesn't need compensation. Care work is consistently treated as though it is not real labour and isn't valued or compensated for.
Part of this lack of value for care work stems from patriarchal beliefs that position care work as a feminine labour and therefore de-value it the same way that patriarchy de-values anything viewed as feminine.
Care work has been in need to reimagining for some time. It has needed a fundamental disruption of social assumptions and a re-evaluating of the meaning of this labour. Using the medium of speculative fiction, a genre devoted to asking questions, Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law's The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound brings together stories that critically interrogate the way that we imagine care and care-giving. These stories take a broad exploration of what care can mean, looking at parental care, long term care homes, social responsibilities for care, foster care, maternal care, elder care, medical care by doctors and nurses, the care relationships of pets, and even the care roles of insectile species' (since care isn't just a human trait). These stories examine complexities of care that are critical to this culture moment such as what is the value of care?, what difference does quality care make?, what is quality of life?, is care the role of home or the state?, what are the gendered dynamics of care-giving?, why do we de-value care-givers?, how much responsibility should parents have in the care of their children?, and what is the role of robotics in care? These are all critical questions that are in need of complex and creative answers and The Sum of Us invites readers to think critically about them. It doesn't introduce easy answers about care-giving, but instead invites readers to explore often contrary ideas about care, asking readers to come up with their own critical questions and creative answers to the meaning of care.
These are tales of robots, aliens, insects, future wars, supervillains, nanites, other worlds, plagues, and mutants, but at their core, these are all tales about what caring means, and these are real, human questions. They may be explored through the lens of the alien, but they are fundamentally about human values and what care means to us. Sometimes the only way to get us to ask critical questions about the way that we value (or de-value) caring labour is to project our modes of care onto another, onto the future, onto another society, onto the inhuman so that we ask ourselves "if this makes us upset when we see an alien doing it, what does it mean that we are doing the same thing?"
To read some of the reviews of individual stories in this collection, see my review of:
Claire Humphrey's "Number One Draft Pick"
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2017/07/25/skating-on-the-thin-ice-of-sports-masculinity/
Juliet Marillier's "The Gatekeeper"
https://disabledembodiment.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/the-reaper-cat/
Edward Willett's "The Mother's Keeper"
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2017/07/08/insectile-intimacies/
Sandra Kasturi's "The Beautiful Gears of Dying"
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2017/07/06/exposing-the-caregiver-within-the-human-suit/
A.M. Dellamonica's "Bottleneck"
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2017/06/10/caregiving-at-war/
Caroline M. Yoachim's "Dreams as Fragile as Glass"
https://disabledembodiment.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/breakable/
Kate Story's "Am I Not A Proud Outlier"
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2017/07/28/what-is-means-to-be-an-outsider/
To find out more about The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, visit http://laksamedia.com/the-sum-of-us-an-anthology-for-a-cause-2/
Tagged aliens, caregiving, cost of health care, disability, doctors, elder care, foster care, gender, health care, insects, literature for social change, Long Term Care homes, Lucas K Law, mutation, nanites, nurses, nursing homes, parental care, plague, quality of life, reviews, robots, service animals, Speculative Fiction, supervillains, Susan Forest, war
Caregiving at War
A review of A.M. Dellamonica's "Bottleneck" in The Sum of Us edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (Laksa Media Group, 2017).By Derek Newman-Stille
Caregiving is about trust. It is about placing your trust in another person. A.M. Dellamonica's "Bottleneck", part of the collection The Sum of Us (a collection about caregivers), opens up unexpected possibilities for giving care. Rather than focusing on ideas of care in hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutions like many of the stories do, Dellamonica's tale focuses on caregiving for children and the complexities of child care in war.
"Bottleneck" explores ideas of soldiers as care givers, examining an Earth at war and it is a war fuelled by alien intervention (its own sort of misplaced paternalism). The protagonist, Ruthless, is a solider who has been asked bring a general's children to him across hostile territory. The general placed the responsibility for the care of his children in this soldier's hands. Even though she is considered a ruthless soldier (which influenced her name), she also has experience with care, having looked after her younger brother when they were growing up. She knows the burden of care that is placed on older siblings and she brings her knowledge and experience into her care for these two young people.
But, Ruthless comes across a man who claims that he has important information for the soldiers and she has to trust him to be around the children even though he has signs of being an enemy combatant. When she is forced to leave one of the children in his care, she ends up extending the trust inherent in a care position to a person who she wouldn't trust in any other scenario.
Dellamonica brings attention to the complexities of care during a war, the dangers and unlikely alliances that come from the protection of children.
To find more about A.M. Dellamonica, visit http://alyxdellamonica.com
To find out more about The Sum of Us, visit http://laksamedia.com/the-sum-of-us-an-anthology-for-a-cause-2
Tagged A.M.Dellamonica, caregiving, childcare, reviews, soldier, trust, unlikely friends, war
May 17, 2017 by dereknewmanstille
A review of Phil Dwyer's "Invasion" in Cli Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change (Exile Editions, 2017)
Phil Dwyer's "Invasion" explores a Canada who is preparing for American invasion in a world of scarcity where Canada's natural resources are desired. Dwyer looks at an economy reduced to essential products, just what is needed to survive in a world where having resources means being under threat.
"Invasion" examines a world where resource scarcity and nationalism are interlinked and borders are patrolled and violated in the name of resource protection and exploitation. Dwyer examines Canada as a space that is rich in resources, but has few military defences, eclipsed by the military-industrial complex to the south. In this world, Canada even shut down their hospitals to ensure that no one would invade because they might see Canada's medical system as exploitable: "Hospitals were closing all over the world – in Europe and the US people were dying by the hundreds. We had to show solidarity with them. Stand shoulder to shoulder, making the same sacrifice and suffering the same consequences. If we hadn't can you imagine the backlash?"
Dwyer examines Canadian vulnerability in the event of a world where water is scarce and where people are willing to kill for resources.
To discover more about Cli Fi, visit Exile at http://www.exileeditions.com
Tagged borders, Exile Editions, invasion, medical care, nationalism, Phil Dwyer, resource scarcity, reviews, war, war between Canada and the US
Planets Contaminated
A review of Crystal Yates' "Earthsong" (Overmorrow Media)
"Earthsong" is an incredibly beautiful and chilling fantasy graphic narrative. Crystal Yates plays with light and images of fabric to create a comic that, while dealing with serious issues, also feels like a warm blanket wrapped around the reader.
Crystal Yates' "Earthsong" is an interplanetary fantasy where the planets themselves take on life and consciousness. Some of these planetary spirits interact with their creations, their children, but most have been content to sleep. Many of them have slept right through a crisis that has been happening throughout space and on their own surfaces. A contamination has leaked onto the surface of planets that attaches itself to various of the planet's sentient children and, if unchecked, will destroy the lifeforce of the planet itself.
The planets got together to deal with what was occurring and decided that the best way to solve the issue of contamination is to remove contaminated people from their planet and place them on a new planet and the planet who named herself Earthsong has become a host for all of this misplaced travellers. These planet children end up on Earthsong without their memories, dropped into a complex battle they know nothing about.
Yates explores ideas of quarantine, contamination, the loss of selfhood, and the desire to learn about oneself in "Earthsong", creating a narrative about planetary contamination that isn't about pollution but reminds us of the fragility of our place on our planet nonetheless.
To find out more about Earthsong and read some of the online comic, visit http://www.earthsongsaga.com
Tagged comics, contagion, Crystal Yates, fantasy, graphic novels, Magic, memory loss, planets, pollution, war
A review of Joanne Findon's When Night Eats The Moon (Red Deer Press, 1999)By Derek Newman-Stille
Time travel is ultimately about responsibility – responsibility to the timeline, to the past, the present, and the future. Perhaps this is why it works so well for a Young Adult novel. In When Night Eats The Moon, Joanne Findon's narrator, Holly, begins her voyage through time by idealising the past. She sees the past as an idealised place, separate from the issues of modernity and she wants to escape her personal circumstances (the tension between her parents and the shroud of secrets they have woven around her life) to find a reality that resonates with her desires. She has to cope with the clashing of fantasy and reality and the uncertain barrier between them. Rather than her fantasies being eclipsed by reality as occurs in so many coming-of-age narratives, Holly's reality is expanded by the incorporation of the fantastic into her life and her fantasies are augmented by the infusion of the need for thinking about the real world impact of imagining.
Holly is placed on the edge of family secrets and forbidden knowledge beyond her understanding. Holly discovers a group of vessels filled with time that are able to transport her to the ancient past, letting her meet the builders of Stonehenge. During her voyage, she meets Evaken, a boy who has also discovered forbidden secrets in a Magician's Apprentice narrative where he takes on magic for which he doesn't yet have the wisdom to understand. This collision of times and secrets produces a space of healing, an integration of separate narratives, of stories divided by space and time. Holly is able to gain perspective on her own life when she encounters the violent collision of people in the past and is able to bring a perspective from the future to people in the past who need new tales to give them context on their complex world.
Believing that she is powerless to change the world, Holly learns that she has the power to change the world. She has to come to terms with the responsibilities, challenges, and complexities of realising that she has meaning in her world and that her choices can alter the world.
Tagged archaeology, coming of age, family, history, Joanne Findon, peace, responsibility, reviews, secrecy, Teen Fiction, time-travel, war, Young Adult
October 29, 2015 by dereknewmanstille
Learning How Not To Be A Hero
Learning How Not to Be A HeroA review of Edward Willett's "Falcon's Egg" (Bundoran Press, 2015)
Lorn had always wanted to be a hero, always looked up to those revolutionary leaders he saw pushing boundaries and changing society, but when Lorn sees his "changed" government behaving in the same way as the previous regime, he is forced to question the ideals of change. Lorn tries to uncover secrets that the government is keeping from the populace and he has to take leave from his job in government policing in order to figure out what the government has become and what they are now capable of.
As Lorn has aged, his heroes have become more humanized and he begins to see the weaknesses in the social construction of heroism. He is forced to face the reality that the idealisms of youth have become the cynicisms of age.
In "Falcon's Egg" Edward Willett takes on the notion of heroism itself, exploring the casualties of war and the results of battle on the psychology of the protagonist who has endured the traumas of war. "Falcon's Egg" is a text of revolution, a war narrative with a bit of frontier ideologies since it is set on an alien world that is in conflict with the more technologically developed centrist planets. However, unlike most exploration, war, revolution, and adventure narratives who uncritically cast the hero as a figure who is above trauma, Willett's narrative explores the toll that heroism takes on the mind of the hero as well as the toll that it takes on human lives and society. Lorn, through his trauma, is forced to re-assess what it means to be a hero and acknowledge the harm that he and others who saw themselves as heroes have done in enforcing their ideals. At the beginning of "Falcon's Egg", Lorn, like many soldiers, begins his story trying to convince himself that he had to do every horrible thing he had done to make the world a better place, and, when told by a psychiatrist that he had PTSD, ignored what he was told and saw PTSD as a "disease of lesser people". But, when he experiences increasing flashbacks and scenes of horror, he realizes that he needs to shift his perception of himself and his role in society. The toll of human lives becomes too much for him and his own horror at how casually he can now commit murder opens a doorway to a room full of unanswered and unsettling questions for him. Lorn realizes that his dream of running away to space, away from home and his family has always, fundamentally, been a desire to run away from himself.
Willett creates a coming of age narrative that is not limited to a youth. He portrays Lorn as a man, like most others, who is perpetually going through coming of ages, understanding himself in new ways as his viewpoints change with experience. Lorn experiences an awakening to his own ignorance and self denial that lets him finally come to find himself and find meaning in his life beyond the fairy tale narratives of the hero that are portrayed by his society. Willett creates a character who is learning how not to be a hero, but, rather, learning to be a human being.
You can find out more about Edward Willett's work at http://www.edwardwillett.com
You can discover more about Falcoln's Egg and other Bundoran Press books at bundoranpress.com
Tagged adventure narratives, aging, Bundoran Press, critique of heroism, Edward Willett, heroism, reviews, revolution, Science Fiction, space exploration, war
Doomed to Change
A review of A.M. Dellamonica's "The Color of Paradox" at tor.com.
Like the past, the future has a way of getting into you and this is certainly true for Jules Wills. Knowing the end of the world was in sight, Jules and other time travellers were bounced off of that horrifying future and sent into the past. The only problem is that the brief glimpse of their future stained them, changed them bodily and mentally. Jules is stained by the future he glimpsed when in the Timepress and sees the horrible burning of that future, the smell of rotted flesh, and the strange, unnatural colours of the future every time he sleeps. Even his personality has changed and he has shifted from a non-violent person to someone who dreams of inflicting horrors on others. He feels that he has been infected with the violence that he saw at the end of the world. His body has been irreparably changed by the process of time travel and feels as though it is fundamentally damaged.
A.M. Dellamonica's "The Color of Paradox" explores notions of inevitability and the desire to change the future during a time (around World War II), when the world seems attached to an inescapable doom. Dellamonica explores the idea of time travel as an attempt to undo some of the horrors that war could inflict on humanity and shapes the idea of survival of the war as itself a form of miracle (one that this story suggests is achieved through time travellers changing the outcome). She explores the damage that war does to bodies and minds and though the PTSD and bodily damage done to her characters is a result of time travel, it mirrors the effects of war and the trauma done to those soldiers who are told that their actions are necessary for 'saving the world'.
Dellamonica puts her characters into a situation where they have the choice of either ignoring orders to save one innocent child who they are sent to kill or allow that child's life to cause the future that eventually dooms everyone. She puts her characters in that classic philosophical question of whether they would kill one innocent child to save millions or allow the child to live and doom the huge amounts of others… and she carries her readers along for this moral ride, questioning how we would cope with this situation and react under similar circumstances.
You can access this story for free at http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/06/the-color-of-paradox-am-dellamonica
Explore A.M. Dellamonica's website at http://alyxdellamonica.com
Tagged A.M.Dellamonica, apocalypse, psychological damage, time-travel, war, WWII

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Zuma link: Gupta brothers house, properties raided in Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Published: Mar 07, 2018, 04:01 AM(IST)
Last month the South African police had said they had obtained an arrest warrant for absconding businessman Ajay Gupta. Photograph:( ANI )
Income Tax officials on Tuesday raided the offices and properties of businessman Ajay Gupta and his brothers in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur.
The Gupta brothers believed to have close links to ex-South African President Jacob Zuma have been under scanner for several controversial deals in the country.
The Gupta family owns a range of business interests in South Africa, including computing, mining, air travel, energy, technology, and media.
Last month the South African police had said they had obtained an arrest warrant for absconding businessman Ajay Gupta.
The South African police had raided the house plush suburb of Saxonwold in Johannesburg in connection with the Vrede farm investigation.
The Vrede farm investigation relates to the Estina dairy farm near Vrede, in the Free State, a project which was originally meant to help poor black farmers but from which the Gupta family are alleged to have pocketed millions of dollars.
The family denies the allegations.
They are known friends of 75-year-old President Zuma - and his son, daughter and one of the president's wives worked for the family's firms, media reports had said.
South Africa's ethics watchdog, the Public Protector, published a damning report in October 2016, finding that the state-owned electricity monopoly had awarded a massive coal order to a then-Gupta linked business at well above market prices
The report also alleged that former mining minister Zwane travelled to Switzerland with the Guptas to help them "seal the deal" to buy a coal mine.
The Gupta family has reportedly been mentioned 232 times in the report "State of Capture" because of its influence in South Africa.


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Quora reveals data breach that may have impacted 100 million users
Paul Sawers@psawers
Quora: A hacking question on the Q&A website
Question-and-answer behemoth Quora has announced a major security breach that may have impacted as many as 100 million users.
The San Francisco-based company, which has raised more than $220 million in funding since its inception in 2009, said "some user data" was compromised following "unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party," according to a blog post by Quora cofounder and CEO Adam D'Angelo.
A separate email was sent to affected Quora users informing them of the breach.
D'Angelo, who served as chief technology officer (CTO) at Facebook before starting Quora, said the breach was spotted on Friday (November 30) and may have compromised a host of personal details, including names, email addresses, data imported from other third-party sites, and encrypted passwords. The breach may also include content and related data, such as questions posted, comments made, downvotes, direct messages, and more. Any questions and answers that were posted anonymously will not be part of the breach.
Quora's last big funding arrived via an $85 million series D round in April, 2017, at which point the platform claimed 190 million visitors. By the following year, Quora claimed 300 million monthly visitors. It is worth noting here that all of those users don't necessarily have an account with Quora — it is possible to read the answers to some questions when searching through Google.
Quora has not revealed how many active accounts it hosts, though 100 million users doesn't sound like it would be too far short of its entire user base. But in a separate FAQ section around this breach, the company said:
Not all Quora users are affected, and some were impacted more than others. We are notifying those affected of the incident, and will provide updates as they are available.
A day rarely goes by without some form of data breach hitting the headlines, but a breach on this scale highlights the role big technology companies play as gatekeepers of our personal information. Facebook recently reported a data breach that affected 50 million accounts, while Google shuttered Google+ for consumers after an audit revealed a potential exploit — though there is no evidence any data was compromised on that occasion.
As for Quora, the company confirmed to VentureBeat that it adhered to the proper protocol from a European standpoint — the recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations require all companies to report such data breaches to the appropriate European authorities within 72 hours, and failure to do so can result in massive fines.
Quora said it has logged out all users who may have been affected, and it has also invalidated passwords for those who used a password to log in to Quora.
"We believe we've identified the root cause and taken steps to address the issue, although our investigation is ongoing and we'll continue to make security improvements," D'Angelo added. "We will continue to work both internally and with our outside experts to gain a full understanding of what happened and take any further action as needed."
Meanwhile, here is the full email sent out to affected Quora users today:
We are writing to let you know that we recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third party. We are very sorry for any concern or inconvenience this may cause. We are working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future.
On Friday we discovered that some user data was compromised by a third party who gained unauthorized access to our systems. We're still investigating the precise causes and in addition to the work being conducted by our internal security teams, we have retained a leading digital forensics and security firm to assist us. We have also notified law enforcement officials.
While the investigation is still ongoing, we have already taken steps to contain the incident, and our efforts to protect our users and prevent this type of incident from happening in the future are our top priority as a company.
What information was involved
The following information of yours may have been compromised:
Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account settings, personalization data
Public actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotes
Data imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated)
Questions and answers that were written anonymously are not affected by this breach as we do not store the identities of people who post anonymous content.
While our investigation continues, we're taking additional steps to improve our security:
We're in the process of notifying users whose data has been compromised.
Out of an abundance of caution, we are logging out all Quora users who may have been affected, and, if they use a password as their authentication method, we are invalidating their passwords.
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Obama and the mad proliferators
By James Lewis
So you thought Iran was the most frightening nuclear madhouse? With North Korea playing catch-up?
You forgot Syria. Its hidden nuke reactor was bombed by Israel in 2007. But nobody knows what else they have.
You forgot Libya. Qaddafi got scared by Dubya and gave up nukes in 2003. But it's a big country, and they could be hiding stuff.
And today we have Myanmar, which used to be called Burma. It follows the Burmese Way to Socialism, which means that Obama has to be nice to them. They are officially the Wretched of the Earth, even the tyrants who have driven that country into the grounds while living in luxury. But they're building nukes anyway.
Even Wikipedia admits that
"The Burmese Way to Socialism combined Soviet-style nationalization and central planning with the governmental implementation of superstitious beliefs. Criticism was scathing, such as an article published in a February 1974 issue of Newsweek magazine describing the Burmese Way to Socialism as 'an amalgam of Buddhist and Marxist illogic'."
But that's so Eighties. This year a Newsweek cover headlined that "We're all Socialists now." So Burma has to be cool -- regardless of how many of its own people it starves.
Still, the latest news is that Burma is following the North Korean Way to Socialism, which means starving hundreds of thousands of your own people and blackmailing the West by going all out for WMD's. And then selling your know-how to the other criminocracies.
Writes the Global Post,
"North Korean engineers, who specialize in building tunnels and underground bunkers, have led a massive construction project in Naypyidaw, the regime's remote capital. This network of 800-odd tunnels, exposed by Burma expert Bertil Lintner, is quite like the subterranean facilities in which North Korea's defense department has built up a fledgling nuke program away from satellites' prying cameras. Just this month, the North Korean military defiantly launched a fresh round of test missiles into the sea.
"Waves of Burmese military officers have also studied nuclear science in Russia, which has already sold MIG-29 fighter jets to the regime.
"But perhaps most worrisome is the Burma-bound North Korean freighter bearing an unknown shipment of military supplies that nearly reached its destination. It reversed course -- for weather reasons, according to North Korea -- after U.S. Navy vessels trailed it for miles. The ship's contents remain unclear but, according to the Associated Press, one South Korean analyst cited satellite images that suggested it was equipment for a nuclear program."
North Korea is sending its military engineers to Syria, Iran, and Libya. Only Pakistan is a bigger nuclear proliferator, and they are selling to the Saudis and other Arabs.
Who's going to stop Myanmar from exporting nuclear weapons to Osama Bin Laden? The Sudan? The Taliban? Somalia's mad jihadis? Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard?
Mathematically, the spread of nuke tech has to expand geometrically. You start with one (say, Pakistan). Then you get two (North Korea and Iran). Then four, eight, and so on. It's like HIV: Each nukophiliac spreads the virus to as many others as possible. If the number of rogues doubles every five years we will see 64 countries making nukie in 20 years. That's half of all the madcap regimes in the UN. All of them will be immune to pressure. If you think the Swine Flu is scary, just wait till the Nuke Plague.
Now the Left loudly called for George W Bush to be lynched to from the nearest tree when the US got tough with Saddam Hussein. W was abused every single day for six years for being nasty to Saddam -- even though he managed to tamp down the nuclear wildfire a little bit, at a high cost in American lives and treasure. OK, W was wrong about Saddam's nuclear weapons. Frankly, I don't care. The CIA is always wrong about nuke programs abroad. Always, always, always. CIA failures are a lot more predictable than global warming. Still, if you're putting out a wildfire you have to take the chance of dumping too much retardant rather than too little. The alternative is to hang back and let the fire take over.
But the Left has convinced itself that we only have to worry about Evil American carbon dioxide, warming things up by 2 degrees by 2100. Everything else is a distraction from Ecodoom. Obama's official Science Advisor says he actually believes that pack of lies.
So W's way of trying to stop real Armageddon is now officially out of the question. That means Obama only has one string left on his fiddle, the one marked "Nice."
This sets all the mullahs giggling. Even the ones who hate A'jad are all in favor of Iranian nukes, as long as they can be the ones to pull the trigger. What's the down side?
If Tehran gets nukes Obama will have to be very nice. If Iran is just within inches of getting them, Obama will still have to be very nice. The only mistake they can make is to stop. It's only if they don't go for nukes that they lose their biggest bargaining chip. Persians understand bargaining. Don't expect them to back down without having the daylights scared out of them. It will never happen.
So all the incentives are now on the side of a mad rush to nukes for every rogue nation in the world. Down in Caracas Hugo Chavez is getting jealous, because he constantly needs to prop up his hungry ego. Raul Castro can't let that upstart Chavez get nukes before he does. The Sandinistas feel the same way. Robert Mugabe would really, really love a couple of nukes for his next birthday.
OK, Professor Obama! Question!
You got elected. You were going to stop the seas from rising, give free health care to all and not raise taxes.
That's the easy part.
Now we're waiting. What's your answer to Burma and A'jad? This is reality now.
Time is running out. The bad guys are getting closer and closer every day. A'jad will get his nuclear bomb in a year, maybe two. So Obama will be in charge in the White House when Tehran explodes the Big One.
The atomic clock is ticking. If you expect Israel to take care of the Iranian threat, they can carry off one strike.
After that, hell breaks out in the Gulf, and the US Navy carries the only Big Stick at the center of the world's oil supply. Iran's Bushehr reactor is 50 miles from Saudi Arabia, well within range of the radioactive cloud if the reactor gets hit. All the Gulf States plus Saudi plus Iraq are in easy reach of Iranian missiles.
Ahmadinejad doesn't even need long-range missiles to hit Israel. In Gaza last year, Hamas rockets hit close to Israel's sole nuclear reactor at Dimona. Hamas now has a fresh supply of rockets from Iran. Dimona is now vulnerable.
So is Bushehr. And those are just the regular reactors, not even the heavy water plants, the uranium mines, the Russian and North Korean engineers, the plutonium refining plants, the missile bases.
I'm hunkering down for the Big Boom because Obama is a fraud and a fake, and he's so mentally stuck that he'll never admit he was wrong. The United States has just made itself helpless against mortal danger by electing a fool for president. But the US is the only country in the world with the power to stop Armageddon. Everybody is either apathetic -- like Europe -- or actively malevolent -- like China and Russia.
If we don't make the first move, somebody else will. And when Obama's got the Iran problem solved, he'll have to deal with Myanmar and its ilk. Nukes are the great equalizer for rogues with inferiority complexes. That describes more than half the members of the UN. Proliferation is cheap and getting cheaper.
We can't monitor every single mountain cave in the world. So we have to make it very, very costly and painful for rogues to go for nuke. But that was the Bush policy that every demagogue rails against today.
So the only question is how loud the Bang is going to have to be before we wake up and find somebody with the guts to do the job.
I'd pick Hillary before Obama.


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Editor's column: Even more stars in the mid-Hudson Valley
Yep, you can certainly see the stars in the mid-Hudson Valley!
Editor's column: Even more stars in the mid-Hudson Valley Yep, you can certainly see the stars in the mid-Hudson Valley! Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://pojonews.co/2eepvNN
Stuart Shinske, Poughkeepsie Journal Published 5:57 p.m. ET Oct. 8, 2016 | Updated 7:09 p.m. ET Oct. 8, 2016
Stuart Shinske, executive editor/director of content and audience development.(Photo: Journal Staff)
Stars in the sky. And the famous ones, too.
Last week's column about celebrities with links to the region jolted my email in-box and Facebook page in a good way, with many folks offering suggestions for others to mention, stories about meeting some of them, fun anecdotes and more.
And yes, there indeed are plenty more. So, here's another batch of Mid-Hudson Valley Celebrity Connections, in no particular order. There are simply too many to name here, so you'll see more columns with more mentions down the line. Thanks to all for reaching out!
Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is a former Millbrook and Millerton resident. He now lives in Sherman, Connecticut, just over the state border from Pawling. He operates Daryl's House, a music venue and restaurant, in Pawling.
Michael Lang, the driving force behind the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held in August 1969, lives in the Town of Woodstock. Lang also staged Woodstock '94 in Saugerties and Woodstock '99 in Rome, N.Y.
Paul Green, founder of the School of Rock and the inspiration for the Jack Black character in the film, "School of Rock," lives in Woodstock.
Robert De Cormier, 94, who served as folk group Peter, Paul and Mary's music director for 17 years, grew up in Poughkeepsie, according to The New York Times.
Staatsburg resident Ogden Mills and his wife, Ruth Livingston Mills, were booked to travel on Titanic's second planned ocean crossing, returning to Europe after its maiden voyage, to New York City. That second trip never happened; Titanic sank on its first and only trip.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz, famous for her portraits and elite magazine work, has owned property in Rhinebeck.
John Gatins, who grew up in Poughquag, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013 for writing the story for "Flight," the film that starred Denzel Washington.
Actresses Meryl Streep and Lisa Kudrow and former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy attended Vassar College in the Town of Poughkeepsie. Streep and Kudrow are graduates.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Photo: Gannett News Service, Jaques Lowe)
Vocalist Tony Lindsay, who performed for years with Carlos Santana, is from Kingston.
Late-night television host Jimmy Fallon grew up in Saugerties and launched his comedy career in Poughkeepsie.
Carolyn Adams, who was married to the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, had children with him and is known as "Mountain Girl," one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, is from Hyde Park.
Actor Robert De Niro owns property in Gardiner in Ulster County.
Rock musician Ted Nugent has owned property in the Town of North East.
Retired Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, the inspiration for the TV series "Law & Order," lives in East Fishkill. His father, Henry Morgenthau, who owned the farm before him, was Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury secretary.
Katie Couric, actress Mary Tyler Moore ("The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show") and the late actress Natasha Richardson formerly lived in the Town of Washington. Richardson is buried there. Actor Liam Neeson, who still lives there, was her husband. Couric was a regular at the Millbrook Diner.
Katie Couric (Photo: Andy Kropa)
David McCallum, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Ducky on the TV show NCIS, lived in Stanfordville on Creamery Road in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
Musician Todd Rundgren lived and recorded in the Woodstock area for many years and named an album, "The Hermit of Mink Hollow," after the street, Mink Hollow Road, he lived on.
Ric Ocasek of The Cars lives in Millbrook with his wife, model Paulina Porizkova.
Famed broadcast journalists Edward R. Murrow and Lowell Thomas lived in Pawling.
Digger Phelps, the famed Notre Dame basketball coach who later was an ESPN commentator, graduated from Beacon High School. A Beacon street is named after him.
NBA veteran and former N.Y. Knick Amare Stoudemire bought property in Hyde Park in 2014.
Former Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach and current ESPN college basketball analyst Digger Phelps. (Photo: Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Former New York Knicks center Amar'e Stoudemire. (Photo: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
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This A&E documentary uncovers hidden facts and reveals possible explanations for the controversial ape-like legend known as Bigfoot.
Listen to experts who have researched the beast the American Indians called "Sasquatch" and who have found new perspectives on this centuries-old mystery.
With all of the supposed sightings of this creature and of the commercialization of keeping the mystery alive, it is hard to tell what is fact and what is fiction.
This documentary, narrated by Leonard Nimoy, sets out to find the truth through the use of archival footage, eyewitness videotape, and computer analysis, which has made it possible to learn more about this legend than ever before.
Yes they do exist. Anyone who doesn't believe in UFO,s, the Sasquatch, and that there is life on other planets is a fool. These topics are always covered up by the government because the same people that are denying their existence, are the same people that would freak out if the were to ever learn the truth. Because they are weak individuals.
they are real. my uncle is a private detective and saw one with his own eyes up close. what they are he said is the question.
Can't stand all the background music!!! Really off putting! There's no need!
I wish you none believers had been on that mountainside with me when I was in the Air Force when something huge started breaking trees and sounding like a bulldozer going through the woods. Happened at a nuclear missile site, 3 am, in december. whatever it was was trying to scare us away. I thought at the time it was a bear or something. Until years later I realized bears are not nocturnal and are hibernating in Dec.
"congratulations, I think you saw a squatch!"
Perhaps they are the unwanted offspring of Rosie O'Donnell and Danny DeVito...the unholiest of unions.
another possibility, or theory that has yet to be explored is the fallen angel theory. Some believe that the days of Noah, when the angels corrupted the race of mankind and giants were on the earth, resulting in the flood, and also afterwards as history and biblical records show accounts of, all the way into King David's era; What if the Bigfoot are possibly a type of inter-dimensional creature, genetically made by alien/fallen angle technology, and they wander into our dimension from time to time? I love theorizing. wish I was a scientists and all I had to do was study and explore mysterious theories.
I believe that Bigfoot are inter-dimensional creatures who come through into our dimension, just as I believe UFO's and aliens are. I also believe that Bigfoot may possibly be guardians who guard the dimensional doorways that appear sometimes and they try to make sure people don't wander into their dimension. Could be wrong, but it explains why we never have managed to capture one, find one's grave or body, and why they seem to appear and disappear so suddenly from time to time in the same remote locations. As far as skeptics go, many sightings are hoaxes, but a percentage of sightings are made by reputable people, Native Elders, Teddy Roosevelt, as well as numerous witnesses and the sightings can't be explained. And, as Jacques Valle said about aliens and UFO's, where are they when we don't see them?
You hoax guys are funny.
Sure MAYBE Patterson's film was a hoax (I do not think so) but how do you hoax 50+ years of footprints across a wide area with similarities that would fool the world's most prestigious fingerprint experts (Jimmy Chilcutt, for example, google is your friend)? The answer is, you don't, you can't and it counts as valid evidence that something created them.
The other side of the coin ,the one hoaxers support, suggest that there was at least a country wide conspiracy, of over 50+ years, to plant footprints of such high quality (with similar characteristics that exclude known species) that modern science can't ascribe them to any known living mammal. All have the same cross cut dermal ridge patterns that are similar to humans as well as apes, but not an exact match to either.
As for "Patty" being a guy in a suit... look up 'gastrocnemius muscle' and then watch the film. After that, look up the type of fake fur that was available in 1967 (not the flexible kind available today) and get back to me.
The coolest thing I think about the Patterson film is that the experts who digitized the film and examined it, said the because you could see muscle movement in the arm and legs and buttocks of the creature makes them believe the creature was real. The type of suits they have even in Hollywood today would not have allowed for any muscle tone, let alone movement. Plus, primate experts say the fact the creature turned her whole upper body to look towards him, as opposed to just turning her head, also casts favor in the creature being real. I think it's really cool.
another cool thing is the areas of the creature's body where the fur/hair was wearing thin, primate specialists say these areas are consistent with primates and many other fur bearing creatures. and they are not manufactured in to the design of monkey suits one can rent. I want to believe! I want to believe!
how ridiculous.. if you havn't seen an elephant how would you know its a more fantastic creature than something that nobody has ever seen anywhere.
Bigfoot is just mumbo jumbo hoax..like aliens from outerspace and moon landings and moslim terrorists doing 911.. get real.
why is it so hard to belive for some people !?
if u never seen an elephant and somebody told u about one, u would never believe it , an elephant is a way more fantastic creature then big foot !!
to yavanna i saw the one you were talking about and that one was kind of freaky, espically when the rocks were tossed back at the cabin. My question is why they didn't stay there , since they seemed to have some form of proof showing up. Perhaps they could have obtained permission condidering what happened and they are supposed to be scientist and being a scientist you shouldn't go running every time something goes bump in the night. I guiess the only reason i watched this one because of memories of lenoard nimoy doing a series back during the 1970's, lenoard nimoy did a series i think it was called mysteries of the unexplained. this one was very similiar some of the same footage as i recall on the one about big foot. I just think he has the right voice for it.
Truth: Might the person who claimed to be in the Bigfoot "suit" be a liar? It's a convenient fact that this "came out" after Patterson's death.
Hugh you have to be kidding.. bigfoot still exists lolololol. Then so does the tooth fairy and easter bunny, give us a break..what next you will tell us that terrorists brought down the twin towers and not the us govt. far out.
one look at that footage and you can see it is an ape suit..probably the one used in abbott and costello movies..and the walk looked exactly like a human because ummmm it was a human.. let me guess you believe in the moon landing too right? no need to answer of course you do.
You lose all credibility when you start to say EVERYTHING is fake. You truthers are real id**ts.
infomonger,the Patterson film has NEVER been proven fake,several men have came forward claiming to be a part of the hoax aka the man in the suit but the most famous,Bob H changes his story with every re-telling and has pretty much been labeled an attention seeker. Patterson film has withstood microscopic digitial scrutiny and still most who take the time to scientifically investigate the film come away with the same opinion..no way could that have been a suit..just not possible in that time. These creatures exist but I do fear they are fast becoming extinct. Hopefully,we can get proof before they vanish altogether.
BigFoot for sale to highest bidder.
correction: patterson was the cameraman and never admitted it, however his accomplice (man in suit) confessed shortly after patterson died and wrote about it in his book.
Rheves: patterson admitted on his deathbed that it was a hoax and that the bigfoot was really a man in a costume. do your research before saying other people are wrong.
The documentary Yavanna is talking about is on MonsterQuest. It's on YouTube. I think it's called "Bigfoot Attack".
The patterson film has not been proven to be a hoax. I saw a whole documentary about a scientist trying to re create the walk of the bigfoot and its impossible to do within the human gate of stride.
Yavanna: do you recall the name of the TV show?
Not the best. Somewhat outdated. It still uses the Patterson film which has since been shown to be faked.
Ah! The good old Bigfoot days!
Have lived close to and around Bigfoot areas, in British Columbia Canada. Know the areas well, of Bigfoot sightings, Harrison Hot Springs, Yale, Agassiz, the Pitt river, Pitt lake area, There is also a true Pitt lake legend about a lost gold mine in the mountains, that would make a good Doc.
Supposed to be worth untold millions, lot of people died trying to find it.
An interesting story, "Google lost gold mine of Pitt lake."
I`ve seen much better docs than this, not on TDF though. One was on TV recently I think. It was about a very remote cabin in Canada. A team of scientists camped there for a couple of days. They also put down a nail board near the door to the cabin. (The cabin was getting repeatedly smashed to bits when unoccupied) The nail board later showed traces of blood and hair and the foot print was huge.
I remember one of the things that was discussed was why no serious effort is ever put into BF and one of the conclusions was that it would destroy the logging industry. A comparison was made to an area in the US (I think it was Oregon) where certain rare birds were found and whole swathes of forest were declared off limits to loggers to protect the nests. So if the BFs do exist, obviously it would follow that huge areas would probably be declared of scientific interest and the $$$ loss would be massive. Not to mention the loss of jobs.
This means ManBearPig can be real...I've heard he's paid by the oil companies to start forest fires. Evil b*******.
Wasn't the mountain gorilla regarded as a hoax by mainstream science until a cadaver was finally produced in the early 1900s?


With a final push by generous donors, Eastern Mennonite School reached its move-in goal for funding the renovation of the former MennoMedia building to provide a permanent home for its elementary program today.
Although the permitting process for the building took longer than anticipated, director of business affairs Mike Stoltzfus is pleased with the progress in recent weeks. "The contractors and subs are working together to keep things on track, and we are slated to gain our occupancy permit in late fall 2019," he says.
As construction continues, a parent group is turning its sights toward raising funds for a covered bridge called for in the campaign plan. The bridge will connect the campus's upper and lower buildings and provide a safe drop-off and pick-up spot for elementary students. It will also provide a covered outdoor learning and play space for the children.
The $60,000 "Build a Bridge" initiative, which launches in early April, invites families, individuals, and businesses to purchase brick pavers with names or comments inscribed in honor of students or teachers.


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Review: Gloria Bell
Written by: Alice Johnson Boher & Sebastián Lelio
Starring: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera, Caren Pistorius, Brad Garrett
Rating: [4.5/5]
Getting into a relationship with someone requires vulnerability for true connection to happen. With that vulnerability, one can leave themselves to be emotionally harmed in the process of finding someone to spend the rest of their lives with. Even as veterans of the dating world that pain will still hurt no matter how many times one gets divorced or goes through a breakup. This beautifully made film examines this idea and the execution results in an exceptional story.
Middle-aged divorcee Gloria Bell (Julianne Moore) spends her nights in Los Angeles going to clubs and dancing the night away to have some fun. She has two adult children who are at very different points in their lives. One night while at the club, she meets Arnold (John Turturro) and the two strike up a relationship right away. Gloria feels the attachment and the feelings of being in a thriving relationship again. However, Arnold, also a divorcee and a father of two, carries his previous baggage with him and it ultimately starts to interfere with his relationship with Gloria.
When one generally thinks about romance films, the ones that usually come to mind center around with younger people. It makes sense because the audience gets to envision themselves as being the ones to end up with the person in the film they find an attraction to. It also does not help that women in Hollywood have up to the age of 25 to play a young woman falling in love before they have to take on motherly roles. This film takes a look at the joys and troubles of dating when reaching middle-aged status. With the divorce rates where they are now, it would be no surprise that anyone around the age of 40 looking to date would bump into plenty of divorcees. With it comes the baggage of a previous life and a relationship that at some point had enough love for them to be promised to each other forever. That causes the wedge between Gloria and Arnold, as one has made peace with their previous life and the latter has plenty of work to do.
This production becomes the second American remake of a foreign-language film starring Julianne Moore in 2019 with Gloria Bell being far superior to After the Wedding. Moore remains such a lively actor who has delivered some of the finest performance ever on the silver screen and this film, it's obvious that she enjoyed this role. At the time of this review, I have not seen the original Chilean film Gloria put together by the same director that inspired this American remake, but Moore brings so much wonder and beauty to this role. She portrays a woman fighting some insecurity but has the willingness to be vulnerable enough for love to enter her life once again. Every time she sings in the car to her favorite songs, it reminds the audience of the simple joys she finds in life. This may be my favorite performance by Moore, which becomes a bold statement considering her filmography. The character of Gloria becomes so easy to root for and contributes to what makes this film such a pleasant viewing experience.
I adore the cinematography in the film as it shows Los Angeles as a place filled with hope. As the poster and many of the best images from the film indicate, purple makes its way all throughout the film. A color made from a mixture of the passion that exudes from the color red and the melancholy of the color blue. Passion informs all of Gloria's actions, but heartbreak always lingers around the corner. The soundtrack also has some great selections that show that these characters are from a different era and their music have a separate meaning to them than most 21st century songs. The audience enters into the mind of someone trying to blend their sensibilities into a new dating world. She tries to be modern by using her phone but ends up meeting Arnold at a club, a location that no longer serves as a meeting place for relationships.
The relationship between Gloria and Arnold easily becomes the best aspect of the film. The ebbs and flows truly show each character's integrity and intentions. When the path to success for their relationship has some roadblocks, the way they each react to it demonstrates their defining traits. Moore and Turturro play so well together in this film, where the passion they feel for each other becomes palpable and the fights they have feel incredibly real.
Gloria Bell results in such a wonderful viewing experience that provides a wonderful showcase for one of the best actors working today. It has a beautiful central message and all the mayhem Gloria encounters throughout the runtime feels earned. Love has never been simple and it does not necessarily get any easier as we get older in life. There are just different challenges and baggage that might get in the way. In the end, heartbreak does not have an expiration date but all we can do is continue to live, continue to love, and continue to dance.
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A full day of prayer and reflection is planned for Yom Kippur. Temple Israel does not require tickets for High Holiday services and all are welcome to attend. Childcare provided 10-2. Children's service 11 AM.
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Toyota has released a new car model that's sure to appeal to the most important things that Filipinos value about automobiles: practicality, value for money, and reliability. We present to you the Toyota Wigo!
Last week, Toyota released a new car model that's sure to appeal to the most important things that Filipinos value about automobiles: practicality, value for money, and reliability. We present to you the Toyota Wigo!
Developed by Daihatsu, a company that's also owned by Toyota, the new Wigo is a small car with big dreams. It's Toyota's entry in the competitive market for ultra-compact cars currently populated by cars like the Chevy Spark, Hyundai Eon, Kia Picanto, and the current king of the sub-compact hatchback, the Mitsubishi Mirage.
For first-time car buyers, the Wigo has all the characteristics you're looking for. Truth be told, it's the perfect car for you—below are our reasons!
Sure, the Wigo is quite the diminutive car, and not the car that those with penile compensation issues will like. But if you want a city car that will make you feel like you ain't going to die with a single bump from another vehicle, the Wigo suffices. Measuring at just 3,600 millimeters long, 1,620 millimeters high, and 1,520 millimeters wide, it's even smaller than the Mirage. And you know what that means: It's easier to park in tight spaces!
Toyota's goal is to sell at least 500 units of the car model per month. That's a modest, realistic figure simply because the Wigo's entry price won't take your breath away at just P450,000 (1.0E MT). At such a low price point, you're surely going to have a hard time thinking of whether to buy a second-hand unit or a completely brand-spankin' new model for roughly the same price.
Price is always a big issue, and the Wigo might just have hit the sweet spot between practicality and desirability.
The midrange 1.0G MT costs P499,000 and the top-of-the-line 1.0G AT goes for P534,000.
The Toyota Wigo won't set any speed records, and it doesn't intend to. With a 1.0-liter, 3-cylinder, 12-valve, fuel-injected gas engine that produces 65 horsepower and 85Nm at 3,600rpm, the Wigo is tuned just right for a no-frills daily driver who's more fond of just cruisin' than dartin'. As expected with an engine that small, fuel economy will be high, and is estimated to be at 12 to 14 kilometers per liter—just the way we like it especially with gas prices on the rise again.
We commend not just the headroom and the legroom the car provides but also the roominess of the trunk area. It's a small car but it can surprisingly haul a lot of stuff. It's also less dorky-looking than most cars of its type.
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Imagine this. Malays are the majority race. They are affluent, form the government and make all national decisions. It's time for the general elections and members of the ruling Workers Action Party in Chai Chee-Commonwealth need to find a Chinese minority candidate to complete their team. Enter respected educator Catherine Seah, their answer to securing the "Chinese vote".
Teater Ekamatra rounds up its calendar with Alfian Sa'at's wickedly satirical Geng Rebut Cabinet, set in an unnamed country that is unmistakably Singapore. It's a play that grabs one's attention from the start and is buoyed by great acting and a compelling premise. There are luminous performances all round. Farah Ong is edgy sophistication as ambitious lawyer Maisarah Hamdan, Dalifah Shahril oozes makcik charm as bubbly grassroots leader Zainab Halim and Khairudin Samsudin proves a complete hoot as goofy, malapropism-spouting incumbent minister Roslan Jantan. Director Mohd Fared Jainal directs with crispness and coaxes the humour to giddy heights: a filmed election campaign song and group karaoke number bring the house down.
While Alfian makes cogent points about the election process, one rather wishes that his script had been a little more focused. It spurts out in all directions, seeking to check off every complaint that has been made against the ruling political party. Gerrymandering, insincere community visits, unsuitable candidates, trashing the opposition - you name it, you have it. Unlike his critically lauded Cooling Off Day which embraced the diversity of voter's individual voices in the run-up to the 2011 General Elections, Geng Rebut Cabinet feels like an extended personal rant by the playwright, with characters making sweeping generalisations and impassioned speeches about racial politics.
There is also a sense of a monolithic "Malay" view as opposed to the "Chinese" view and this ignores the considerable diversity and dissent that may exist even within the Malay community. I would have liked to see a little more nuance in the characterisation but we are offered only slight hints of individual stories: the closeted lesbian, the hardworking but overlooked civil servant, the clueless army boy turned politician. I would have liked to hear about the voices of the Indians or other races in this version of the world; indeed, there is more to Singapore than a dichotomy between the Chinese and the Malays.
The other issue with the script is that it feels a little lopsided. The first half is almost entirely expository, focused on introducing each of the five characters and the general set-up of this parallel world run by Malays. This results in the salient issues being crammed into the second half of the play without having a chance to fully unravel. Almost without warning, we find ourselves at an election rally with Catherine earnestly advocating the advancement of the Chinese community or in a classroom where Roslan is casting aspersions on Catherine's hidden agenda and finding ways to keep her in check.
The novelty of Geng Rebut Cabinet ultimately lies in its premise and one cannot deny the way in which issues that tend to be overlooked in everyday life are thrown into sharp relief when seen from the other side of the fence. Remarks about there being one token Chinese fighter pilot every ten years and the proliferation of Malay SAP schools remind us of the casual alienation felt on a daily basis by members of the Malay community. The manner of the message may occasionally be a little unsubtle but it offers us a sobering perspective. And in this year of extreme emotions and national fervour, perspective is perhaps exactly what we need to progress as a nation.


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Roku Surpasses 56.4 Million Active Accounts
Roku reports an increase of 1.3 million active accounts from the last quarter, ending Q3 with 56.4 million users. And while the company's net revenue grew 51% year-over-year to $680 million, that still falls short of where investors had projected it to be.
Roku blames the supply chain shortage for the slow growth, citing that U.S. TV sales fell significantly in Q3. Roku's Q3 increase of 1.3 million active accounts is down from Q2's 1.5 million, showing the slowing trend thanks to less device and TV consumerism.
However, top Roku executives believe the overall increase in streaming adoption will be enough to ensure Roku's bright future ahead. That along with its recent push for new Originals and acquired content.
"While the pandemic has had different impacts on different parts of our business, the secular shift to streaming remains intact," CEO Anthony Wood and CFO Steve Louden wrote in the shareholder letter.


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The Rogers House is an historic house located at 136 Spring Road in Huntington, New York, which was built in 1820 in the Greek Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

See also
 John Rogers House (Huntington, New York), located at 627 Half Hollow Road in Dix Hills, which was also added to the National Register of Historic Places on the same date.

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The Rogers House (Huntington Patch)

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Houses in Suffolk County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York
Houses completed in 1820

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Rosebud, llamado Ciudadano Burns en España y El oso de Burns en Hispanoamérica, es un capítulo perteneciente a la quinta temporada de la serie animada Los Simpson, emitido originalmente el 21 de octubre de 1993. El episodio fue escrito por John Swartzwelder y dirigido por Wes Archer.

Sinopsis

Todo comienza cuando Smithers encuentra al Sr. Burns teniendo una pesadilla en la cual constantemente menciona el nombre "Bobo". Aunque al principio Burns simula que no se trata de nada importante, luego le cuenta a Smithers la historia de su amado y perdido osito de peluche.

Cuando era niño, Burns vivía con sus padres y tenía un osito de peluche llamado Bobo. Sin embargo, un día, un multimillonario había venido a lleváselo, y el niño Burns había dejado caer su osito a la nieve. Luego de ese suceso, no lo había vuelto a ver. El osito, por su parte, había permanecido en la nieve hasta la primavera, cuando había sido lavado y dejado que la corriente de un río lo arrastrase hacia Nueva York. Allí, había sido recogido por Charles Lindbergh, piloto del avión "El Espíritu de San Luis", quien lo había llevado consigo a través del océano Atlántico. Una vez en París, Lindbergh lanzó el osito por una ventanilla, cayendo en manos del joven Adolf Hitler. En 1945, en su búnker en Berlín, Hitler insulta al oso por haberlo hecho perder la guerra y lo arroja lejos de su vista.

En la siguiente escena, Bobo, de alguna forma, aparece en un submarino que recorría el Polo Norte que había ido hacia allí a buscar hielo. Ya en el presente, una bolsa de hielo, que contenía al osito, es enviada al Badulaque de Apu, en donde Bart la compra por recomendación de Apu, alegándole que le traería suerte. Cuando abre la bolsa, encuentra a Bobo, deteriorado, y se lo da a Maggie para que juegue con él.

Mientras tanto, los preparativos para el cumpleaños de Burns están en marcha y, después de una actuación de Los Ramones, Homer es elegido para entretener a los invitados a la fiesta con un número de comedia; Sin embargo, Burns encuentra ofensiva la rutina de Homer y furiosamente ordena a sus guardias de seguridad, parecidos a antidisturbios, disolver a los invitados.

Luego de terminar la fiesta, Burns descubre que Maggie tiene el oso, por lo que hace muchísimas cosas para recuperarlo, incluyendo irrumpir en todos los canales de TV y cortar los suministros de cerveza a Springfield, para que Homer le devolviese a su peluche. Sin embargo, a Maggie le encantaba el oso, y su padre no es capaz de quitárselo para entregárselo a Burns, aunque su jefe le había prometido una gran suma de dinero. Entonces Burns trató de recuperar a su oso entrando a la casa de los Simpsons a escondidas, pero sus intentos no tuvieron éxito.

En ese momento toda la ciudad se volvió loca y entraron a la fuerza a la casa de los Simpsons para conseguir el oso, pero al ver la cara de tristeza de Maggie, sintieron lástima y decidieron devolvérselo, después Burns se dio por vencido y decidió dejar que Maggie se quedara con Bobo. Finalmente, Maggie, al ver cuánto quería Burns a su oso, siente lástima por él y se lo da. Burns se pone feliz, aunque su buen humor no dura demasiado.

Todo termina con Burns durmiendo con Bobo y preguntándose qué será lo que le depara el futuro. Al final se muestra un escenario futurista, en donde la tierra se ha convertido en el Planeta de los Simios, con clones de Homer como esclavos y en donde Burns, con cuerpo de robot y Smithers, como un perro robot, vuelven a encontrar a Bobo, diciéndole que no lo volverá a dejar como lo dice cada cien años.

Producción
"Rosebud" fue escrito por John Swartzwelder y fue el primer episodio para ser producido y dirigido por David Mirkin. Mirkin disfrutó tanto trabajando en el episodio que pasó "una enorme cantidad de tiempo en la post-producción" experimentando con diversos elementos del episodio. En un principio, la historia de Bobo incluye varias escenas más oscuras, como una donde el oso estaba involucrado en el asesinato de John F. Kennedy. Las escenas fueron cortadas porque los escritores sintieron que eran de mal gusto. El final del episodio duraba originalmente más tiempo, pero dos segmentos fueron cortados. La primera escena transcurría en Washington D.C., destruida por la invasión de las tropas canadienses, donde encuentran a Bobo. El segundo mostraba todo el planeta invadido por secoyas gigantes y búhos.

David Silverman describe el episodio como "uno de las más difíciles" para dirigir. Las estrellas invitadas fueron los Ramones "grandes admiradores de los Simpsons" y sus personajes fueron diseñados por Wes Archer.

Referencias culturales
 El argumento del capítulo es una parodia a la película Ciudadano Kane.
 La última escena del episodio es una referencia a El planeta de los simios.
 En el capítulo se muestra al hermano del Sr. Burns, el comediante George Burns.
 Durante la fiesta de cumpleaños de Burns la banda Ramones toca Happy birthday en versión punk. Terminan insultando a Burns, por lo cual él ordena a Smithers mandar a matar a los Rolling Stones creyendo que eran ellos los que tocaron en la fiesta.
 En la primera escena del episodio se muestra a los guardias del Sr. Burns cantando y marchando como lo hacían los guardias de la Bruja Mala del Oeste en la película El mago de Oz de 1939.
 Cuando Maggie coloca al oso detrás del acuario, Lisa está meditando y Bart golpea la lámpara con un balón, se puede escuchar de fondo la canción new age Shepherd Moons de Enya. La versión del capítulo fue editada para encajar con la escena y se omite el piano de fondo de la versión original.

Recepción
En el ranking de la revista Entertainment Weekly, publicado en 2003, en el cual se incluían los mejores 25 episodios de la serie, Rosebud fue situado segundo. Por su parte, Vanity Fair nombró a Rosebud el episodio más divertido de Los Simpson en una lista publicada en 2007.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Rosebud en TheSimpsons.com. (en inglés)
 Rosebud en TV.com. (en inglés)
 Rosebud en The Simpsons Archive. (en inglés)
 Rosebud en Los Simpsons Online (en español)

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We are just like this gumball machine, and only God knows the solution to this human problem. You see, we have a great need for something to fill us completely. We need something with substance—that won't lose flavor—to fill up the empty spaces within us.
We have empty spaces within us as a product of our separation from God because of sin. Before we can celebrate the cross and resurrection next week, we must first understand that without Jesus, we could never live eternally in the presence of our Father!
Our sin is what separates us from God, but Jesus bridged the gap with His sacrificial love. During the Easter season, we celebrate the greatest display of love, but the cross only increases in its beauty when we realize the great need we have for a Savior.
Just like a gumball machine, we fill our lives with a variety of colorful things. We play sports, pursue a dream career, date or get married, invest in friendships, and get an education. All of these things we fill our time with are good things, but after a time we will find that they cannot fill us as completely as we want them to. When we aim to find all of our affirmation, guidance, confidence, or attention from these earthly things, we soak up all the good flavor and end up with some stale gum that is not satisfying. Just like these examples, we can turn to good things but still end up feeling empty.
We have a great need for a great Savior. As broken people, we need a Healer. Where we are weak, we need the Almighty. When we cannot see the future, we need an Alpha and Omega.
Next week, we will celebrate that we don't have to live a life with empty space in our hearts. Jesus has demonstrated his love for us, a people in need of a Savior, so that we may have relationship with Him. What a gift that we get to celebrate all year long!


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Science|It Started Digital Wheels Turning
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It Started Digital Wheels Turning
By JOHN MARKOFF NOV. 7, 2011
Punch cards for the never-completed Babbage Analytical Engine, and Charles Babbage, the "father of computing," who kept refining his design. Credit Left: Science Museum Archive/Science & Society Picture Library
Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer — but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor lightning speed.
Indeed, if they succeed, their machine will have only a tiny fraction of the computing power of today's microprocessors. It will rely not on software and silicon but on metal gears and a primitive version of the quaint old I.B.M. punch card.
What it may do, though, is answer a question that has tantalized historians for decades: Did an eccentric mathematician named Charles Babbage conceive of the first programmable computer in the 1830s, a hundred years before the idea was put forth in its modern form by Alan Turing?
The machine on the drawing boards at the Science Museum in London is the Babbage Analytical Engine, a room-size mechanical behemoth that its inventor envisioned but never built.
The project follows the successful effort by a group at the museum to replicate a far less complicated Babbage invention: the Difference Engine No. 2, a calculating machine composed of roughly 8,000 mechanical components assembled with a watchmaker's precision. That project was completed in 1991.
The new effort — led by John Graham-Cumming, a programmer, and Doron Swade, a former curator at the museum — has already digitized Babbage's surviving blueprints for the Analytical Engine. But the challenges of building it are daunting.
In the case of the Difference Engine, a complete set of plans existed. The Analytical Engine, by contrast, was a work in progress, as Babbage continually refined his thinking in a series of blueprints. Thus, the hope is to "crowd-source" the analysis of what should be built; plans will be posted online next year, and the public will be invited to offer suggestions.
"There is no single set of plans that design a single machine." said Tim Robinson, a docent at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. "It was constantly in a state of flux."
The project is significant in part because there has been a heated debate over whether — given time and resources — Babbage would have been able to build the machine he foresaw.
The idea was proposed last year by Mr. Graham-Cumming, who suggested a three-step project in which a decision would first be made on which blueprint to focus on, then a three-dimensional computer simulation would be created, and finally the machine would be built.
"I hope that future generations of scientists will stand before the completed Analytical Engine, think of Babbage and be inspired to work on their own 100-year leaps," he wrote.
Babbage, who lived from 1791 to 1871, is rightfully known as the "father of computing." But it would be left to a fellow scientist, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, to fully appreciate that his inventions were more than just tools for automatically tabulating logarithms and trigonometric functions.
Lovelace — daughter of the poet Lord Byron — recognized that the Analytical Engine could be a more generalized media machine, capable of making music and manipulating symbols. And 113 years before John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence," she considered — and then rejected — the notion that computers might exhibit creativity or even thought.
While Babbage was driven by the desire to automate tabular data for military and related applications, Lovelace wrote a lengthy commentary on the design that would prove deeply influential when it was rediscovered in the middle of the 20th century.
Lovelace is known as the first programmer, because she designed a program for the unbuilt machine. The algorithm appears in a series of notes written by Lovelace after a friend of Babbage asked her to translate an Italian professor's write-up of a lecture Babbage had given at the University of Turin.
The Lovelace notes are remarkable both for her algorithm for calculating the sequence known as Bernoulli numbers and for what would become known as the "Lovelace objection." In passing, she commented that the Babbage computer would not originate anything, but rather could do only what it had been instructed. The implication was that machines would not be creative, and thus not intelligent.
The consensus of computer historians is that while Babbage was clearly the first to conceive of the flexible machine that foreshadowed the modern computer, his work was forgotten and was then conceptually recreated by Turing a century later.
In 1936, Turing wrote "On Computable Numbers," in which he reformulated and advanced ideas first put forward by Kurt Gödel in 1931, positing the existence of what would be called "Turing machines" — an abstract computing device that was intended as an aid to exploring the limitations of what could be computed — and demonstrating that such devices could in principle perform any mathematical computation that was represented as an algorithm.
"The pioneers of electronic computing reinvented the fundamental principles largely in ignorance of the details of Babbage's work," said Dr. Swade, the former museum curator. "They knew of him, there was a continuity of influence, but his drawings were not the DNA of modern computing."
He argues that Turing was a "bridging" figure between Babbage and Lovelace and the modern world of electronic computers.
A Turing biographer, Andrew Hodges, doubts that his subject had seen the Lovelace notes when he wrote "On Computable Numbers."
"It's most unlikely that Babbage/Lovelace had any influence on Turing in 1936," Dr. Hodges, an Oxford mathematician, wrote in an e-mail. "Motivation, means, language, results were all completely different."
By 1950, however, Turing clearly had come in contact with Lovelace's work: He responded to her objection to the notion of computers' thinking in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Indeed, a small element of mystery surrounds the question of when Turing did actually come in contact with Babbage's plans.
Dr. Hodges acknowledges that no clear point in time is evident, but notes that by 1945 the Analytical Engine had come to prominence.
"Anecdotally, it has been said that Babbage's name came up in discussions at Bletchley Park after the success of the Colossus in 1944," Dr. Hodges wrote, in a reference to the machines developed in England during World War II to break German codes.
Moreover, although Lovelace is now renowned as the first programmer, her more significant contribution was in being the first to comprehend the significance of programmable computers. Her notes, which were signed only with her initials because at the time women were not thought to be authors, gave the reader a clear sense of the broader potential of modern computing.
It was not until the 1970s that the idea of computers as "dynamic" media machines took hold in the work of computer scientists like Alan Kay.
The leaders of the new project argue that the first conceptual leap was Lovelace's. "The real intellectual triumph of Lovelace is overlooked by most people," Mr. Graham-Cumming said.
As she put it, "It would be a mistake to suppose that because its results are given in the notation of a more restricted science, its processes are therefore restricted to those of that science."
A version of this article appears in print on November 8, 2011, on Page D1 of the New York edition with the headline: It Started Digital Wheels Turning. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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SALT LAKE CITY A strong market demand for used cars will continue this year and into next, spurring a leasing comeback and leading to higher new-car sales in 2012. That is the prediction of Jerry Seiner, a high-profile dealer here with multi-brand stores at three metro locations. Those facilities have stepped up their used-car operations to offset the industry's new-car sales drought of the last two
Steve Finlay | Oct 01, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — A strong market demand for used cars will continue this year and into next, spurring a leasing comeback and leading to higher new-car sales in 2012.
That is the "good-news" prediction of Jerry Seiner, a high-profile dealer here with multi-brand stores at three metro locations.
Those facilities have stepped up their used-car operations to offset the industry's new-car sales drought of the last two years.
"We're darn well focusing on used, the way things are going," Seiner tells Ward's, citing high values for auto makers' certified pre-owned program vehicles in particular and "good used cars" in general.
The so-called "Great Recession" has caused many consumers, who typically buy new cars under better circumstances, to cut back on spending.
"They are downsizing their expenses, which leads to many of them buying quality used cars," Seiner says.
The new- and used-car markets play off each other, he notes. "When new-car sales drop, it's because used-car prices are down and so trade-ins become harder."
Conversely, strong used-car prices of late could spur consumers to do trade ins for new vehicles.
Seiner gives his stores "a C-minus" for their efforts at selling used cars. "We want to get that up to a B-plus."
The better grade will come from stepping up used-car marketing, especially on the Internet, as well as turning inventory more often, he says.
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