Big cats are my favorite subject to draw. They're elegant and powerful, and their body has a simple, yet beautiful rhythm. Today, I'd like to show you how to draw a tiger—from the "skeleton" and muscles to the fur, details, and stripes. I will lead you step by step, so that you can follow me at your own pace without getting lost.
We'll start with a sketch, a set of guide lines that will become a base for the final lines. The sketch should be drawn in a way that allows you to discard it later—with very light lines, with an erasable tool, or on a separate layer.
Draw a circle. It doesn't need to be perfect or drawn with a continuous line, so don't worry if it turns out wobbly. This will be the widest part of the chest.
Draw a curve coming from this circle, connected to another, smaller circle. This will be the hips.
Connect the big circle with another, smaller circle in the front. This circle should have two "arms". This area will become the arm and shoulder.
Draw a line on top of the "shoulder". This will be the shoulder blade.
We have all the guide lines we need to build the torso! Add some curves to finish it.
It's very important to define the distance to the ground before we start drawing the legs. It should be slightly longer than the height of the torso.
Draw one foreleg and one hind leg—both quite symbolic and simple, just to know where they are.
…. and another pair of legs.
Time for the head. Cats don't have very long necks, so place the circular "head" right in front of the shoulders.
Does your sketch look like a tiger already? Great! If there's something not right in it, take a moment to fix it. It's very important to get the proportions right; if you get them wrong, even the finest details won't make the whole tiger look right. So take a good look at your "skeleton" and fix anything that needs to be fixed.
Outline the shoulder blade gently.
Connect the shoulder to the arm.
Add some muscles to the torso.
Add the wrists and ankles.
Sketch the paws in a blocky way. Think of them as hooves for the moment!
Connect the wrists with the arms.
Connect the ankle with the hip with one big curve.
Finish the outline of the thigh.
Add some lines to make the limbs more accurate.
Draw circles along the tail to plan its width. It should get progressively narrower towards the tip.
Let's add some toes to these "hooves"! Draw blocky middle toes attached to each foot. The front ones should be slightly tapered.
Add the other pair of toes on the sides.
Add a rounded tip to each toe.
Add a "thumb" to the visible inner side of the right foreleg, and a bony landmark to the ankle.
Add the tip of the thumb.
Divide the circle-head into halves, horizontally and vertically.
Give the face a slightly triangular look by "cutting" the sides of the circle.
Place a circle (the muzzle) in the lower half of the circle.
Divide it into halves as well.
Draw the eyebrow line right over the horizontal middle line.
Connect it to the lower horizontal line, creating the nose.
Create the forehead by connecting the muzzle with the top of the head.
Make some space for the ears.
Go back to the muzzle. Divide its lower half into halves again.
Use these guide lines to sketch the nose and the mouth.
Add the details around the eyes.
Accentuate the bones around the face. Make them rounded for a typical tiger look.
Sketch the fur around the face.
Make some space for the whiskers.
Draw the corners of the mouth.
Add some additional guide lines we'll need later.
We're done with the guide lines, finally! You can now switch to a more final tool, or simply press harder for more visible lines.
Darken the eyes and give them some eyelashes.
Draw the details around the eyes.
Draw the whole shape of the face.
Draw the hindquarters and the torso.
Before you draw the stripes, it's better to sketch them lightly first to see how they all work together. First, sketch the pattern on the head.
If the sketch looks good, darken it.
Do the same with the rest of the body. Try to accentuate the 3D form of it with curved lines.
Finally, give strong, dark outline to the tiger to make the drawing pop.
Optionally, you can shade the tiger in a simple way to make it more 3D.


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The NHL's Guardian Project is a misstep
Look upon the Edmonton Oiler, ye mighty, and despair!
The National Hockey League's All-Star Weekend has come and gone, generally creating a positive buzz for professional hockey in North America.
The All-Star Fantasy Draft, where captains Eric Staal and Nicklas Lidstrom selected their superstar teams schoolyard style, was a huge success, averaging 600,000 viewers in the United States.
Unfortunately, the lingering product from the gala event in Raleigh N.C. is the Guardian Project, the NHL's misguided attempt at drawing in today's youth.
The Guardian Project is a marketing campaign where legendary comic book creator Stan Lee designs super heroes based off the names of all 30 NHL franchises.
Sounds good in theory, but in practice the idea plays out like a super villain's hare-brained scheme. Stan Lee + comic books + hockey teams + ???? = world domination.
In other words, it's not very well thought out.
The NHL Guardians are problematic from their very conception. First, Stan Lee simply doesn't have as much cultural cache as he once did. After all, he hasn't had a monthly title since Ravage 2009 in the early 1990s. You know, when the Guardian Project's target demographic was still years away from being born.
Second, the characters themselves are lame. Witness Chris Sims of ComicsAlliance epic takedown: The Ten Most Insane Characters From Stan Lee's 'NHL Guardians'.
Many of the characters seem to be based on a brief skimming of each franchise's Wikipedia page. Important details like the military heritage of the Chicago Blackhawks and Toronto Maple Leafs aren't touched on at all.
Most importantly, the NHL's marketing department is once again playing away from the game's strengths.
Hockey is one of North America's oldest sports, with the NHL's Original Six predating any National Basketball Association franchise, only a handful of National Football League teams and most Major League Baseball clubs.
It's a disgrace that the Montreal Canadiens, a franchise that is over 100 years old and a cornerstone of Quebecois society, is being represented by the likes of this:
But campaigns like Project Guardians relies on trendy thinking that makes the NHL seem newer than the Arena Football League or other shaky niche sports.
Seriously – the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League predate the Tampa Bay Lightning by five years. The Charlotte Rage were created and folded before the Carolina Hurricanes moved from Hartford, Conn. The list goes on and on.
Commissioner Gary Bettman and the rest of the powers that be at the NHL have to learn that if they really want to make inroads in the Sun Belt, they need to educate and inform their new fanbase about the rich history and tradition of the game, not disregard it.
Otherwise, the NHL comes off as just the latest in a long line of failed sporting enterprises.
That's why innovations like the All-Star Fantasy Draft and the Winter Classic have been so successful: because they are reminiscent of the history and tradition of hockey.
It's also why the NHL's Guardians Project was a dreadful misfire: it glosses over one of the most appealing aspects of hockey.
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8Apr/100
Major League Baseball needs to adjust its clocks
Derek Jeter taking a break between swings.
Although I'm just 26-years-old there are times when I feel old and curmudgeonly. Recently, my complaints have been directed at Major League Baseball's handling of "event" games, whether they are the World Series, the World Baseball Classic, the All-Star Game or Opening Day.
All of these rather significant baseball games start way too late, they're filled with time-consuming theatrics and the play itself seems to move at an incredibly slow pace. It makes me feel like an old crank shaking his walking cane at those damn kids who won't get off my lawn.
However, NorthJersey.com reported Thursday morning that at least two MLB umpires - Joe West and Angel Hernandez – agree with me.
The two officials are members of the crew that have been calling the opening series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
"They're the two clubs that don't try to pick up the pace," said West in the article. He is the chief of the umpiring crew and was behind home plate on Sunday. "They're two of the best teams in baseball. Why are they playing the slowest?"
"It's pathetic and embarrassing. They take too long to play."
Amen, Joe West. Amen.
Hernandez refused three requests for timeouts during Tuesday night's game. New York's Derek Jeter, Marcus Thames and Boston's David Ortiz were all denied a pause from the 'action'.
Despite West and Hernandez's efforts to quicken their glacial pace, the Yankees and Red Sox first two games clocked in at 3 hours and 46 minutes and 3 hours and 48 minutes.
Maybe baseball players don't have to work the next morning, but most people do. How is baseball supposed to cultivate a new audience of young fans when any responsible parent would be sending their kids to bed hours before these games lumber to an end? How are the paying customers expected to sit through nearly four hours of slow play?
Commissioner Bud Selig must find a way to curb these seemingly interminable games. Broadcasters must be haemorrhaging viewers with these lengthy match-ups and in the long run it's going to shrink baseball's market share.
Selig should move the time of the game up. Both games in the New York-Boston series were slated to start at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. How about moving the opening pitch up to 7 p.m.? At least that way the game will end on the same day, barring extra innings.
That's another thing – when I say "opening pitch", I do mean the first throw of the game. Not a fly over by the Air Force, the unfurling of a gigantic flag in the outfield or a performance by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. If you must have all that pageantry, start it at 6 p.m. with the game itself beginning an hour later.
I know that this would effectively cut the West Coast off, but does Selig really want to be developing Yankee and Red Sox fans in California? Shouldn't they be cheering for the five teams they already have?
Also, the most important part of any sporting event is the final result, and the Pacific Time Zone won't be robbed of that. A Californian baseball fan who gets off work at 5 p.m. would only be missing the first half of the game.
Major League Baseball is famous for being slow to adapt to change, but enforcing a more reasonable time frame for their games is a pressing concern that Bud Selig should address sooner rather than later. After all, the clock is ticking.
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Wooly: The True Story Of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature
The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth. "Paced like a thriller…Woolly reanimates history and breathes new life into the narrative of nature" (NPR).
With his "unparalleled" (Booklist, starred review) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating and true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University. A group of scientists work to make fantasy reality by splicing DNA from frozen woolly mammoth into the DNA of a modern elephant. Will they be able to turn the hybrid cells into a functional embryo and potentially bring the extinct creatures to our modern world?
Along with this team of brilliant scientists, a millionaire plans to build the world's first Pleistocene Park and populate a huge tract of the Siberian tundra with ancient herbivores as a hedge against an environmental ticking time bomb that is hidden deep within the permafrost. More than a story of genetics, this is a thriller illuminating the real-life race against global warming, of the incredible power of modern technology, of the brave fossil hunters who battle polar bears and extreme weather conditions, and the ethical quandary of cloning extinct animals. This "rollercoaster quest for the past and future" (Christian Science Monitor) asks us if we can right the wrongs of our ancestors who hunted the woolly mammoth to extinction and at what cost?


U.S.|No Charges Filed on Harsh Tactics Used by the C.I.A.
No Charges Filed on Harsh Tactics Used by the C.I.A.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday that no one would be prosecuted for the deaths of a prisoner in Afghanistan in 2002 and another in Iraq in 2003, eliminating the last possibility that any criminal charges will be brought as a result of the brutal interrogations carried out by the C.I.A.
Mr. Holder had already ruled out any charges related to the use of waterboarding and other methods that most human rights experts consider to be torture. His announcement closes a contentious three-year investigation by the Justice Department and brings to an end years of dispute over whether line intelligence or military personnel or their superiors would be held accountable for the abuse of prisoners in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The closing of the two cases means that the Obama administration's limited effort to scrutinize the counterterrorism programs carried out under President George W. Bush has come to an end. Without elaborating, Mr. Holder suggested that the end of the criminal investigation should not be seen as a moral exoneration of those involved in the prisoners' treatment and deaths.
The Justice Department did not say publicly which cases had been under investigation. But officials had previously confirmed the identities of the prisoners: Gul Rahman, suspected of being a militant, who died in 2002 after being shackled to a concrete wall in near-freezing temperatures at a secret C.I.A. prison in Afghanistan known as the Salt Pit; and Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in C.I.A. custody in 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where his corpse was photographed packed in ice and wrapped in plastic.
Mr. Holder's announcement might remove a possible target for Republicans during the presidential campaign. But the decision will disappoint liberals who supported President Obama when he ran in 2008 and denounced what he called torture and abuse of prisoners under his predecessor.
She said her group's own investigation of the deaths of prisoners showed that initial inquiries were bungled by military and intelligence officers in charge of prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. She said Mr. Holder, whose statement referred to consideration of "statutes of limitations and jurisdictional provisions," should have been more explicit in explaining exactly why charges could not be brought.
While no one has been prosecuted for the harsh interrogations, a former C.I.A. officer who helped hunt members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and later spoke publicly about waterboarding, John C. Kiriakou, is awaiting trial on criminal charges that he disclosed to journalists the identity of other C.I.A. officers who participated in the interrogations.
Mr. Holder's decision in 2009 to open a new investigation into the C.I.A. interrogations was sharply criticized by some former intelligence officials and Republicans in Congress. The harsh interrogation methods, including the near-drowning of waterboarding, had been authorized in Justice Department legal opinions, and the deaths in custody had been previously reviewed by prosecutors during Mr. Bush's presidency.
But after reviewing secret documents describing the treatment of prisoners, most of whom had been held in secret C.I.A. prisons overseas, Mr. Holder directed John Durham, the organized-crime prosecutor already looking into the C.I.A. destruction of video recordings of waterboarding, to broaden his inquiry.
Mr. Holder said interrogators would not be charged if they had acted strictly in accordance with the department's legal advice, though the legal opinions involved were later withdrawn. The review focused more narrowly on cases in which interrogators exceeded legal guidelines, including instances of prisoners waterboarded more often than permitted and of one prisoner who was threatened with an electric drill.
In November 2010, the Justice Department said there would be no charges in the destruction of the videotapes of C.I.A. interrogations. In June 2011, Mr. Holder said that of more than 100 prisoners whose treatment had been reviewed, only the final two cases remained under investigation.
The moral and political debate over responsibility for the abuse and death of prisoners is unlikely to be ended by Mr. Holder's announcement. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has long called for a "truth commission" to look into interrogation and other matters, offering immunity from prosecution in return for candid testimony. But Mr. Obama never supported the idea, and with prosecution all but ruled out, it seems unlikely to gain new momentum.


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Fujairah (UAE): Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta will spearhead the Indian challenge in the Fujairah International chess tournament that gets underway here on Tuesday. Currently ranked fourth in the country, Gupta is playing his first tournament after the Chess Olympiad where he bagged the silver medal on the fourth board playing for Team India.
Mr. Abdullah Al Barkat, Chairman of Fujairah Chess club welcomes Mr. Geoffrey Borg, Chief Executive Officer of 'Global Chess', the Marketing Arm of World Chess Federation who visited the UAE Chess Federation recently. They discussed about the rules and regulations of the Fujairah International Chess Championship. Also present were His Excellency Sheikh Saud Al Mualla, President of the UAE Chess Federation, Mr Mehdi and Mr. Tunaiji.
The Indian has escalated himself to 2667 ELO rating points and the expectations are high despite the presence of a very strong field here. Gupta is not the lone Indian hopeful in the 50500 USD prize money tournament as multiple times national champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda have it in them to make the best on their day. For the records, this will be amongst the strongest ever tournament in Asia with presence of over 20 players above 2600 rating in the fray.


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US seeking cooperation with Turkey on 'common priorities'
Published by Hurriyet on Tue, 10/26/2021 - 08:00
The State Department said on Oct. 25 it is seeking to work with Turkey on issues of mutual interest following a row that began after the U.S. joined with nine other countries to call for the release of Turkish businessman Osman Kavala.
"The Biden administration seeks cooperation with Turkey on common priorities, and as with any NATO ally, we will continue to engage in dialogue to address any disagreement," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.
"We believe the best way forward is through cooperation on issues of mutual interest, and we know that we have many issues of mutual interest with Turkey," he added.
Kavala faced charges over the 2013 Gezi Park protests, a small number of demonstrations in Istanbul that later transformed into nationwide protests which left eight protesters and a police officer dead. He was acquitted of all charges in February 2020. An appeals court, however, overturned the verdict in January.
Kavala is also accused of involvement in the 2016 defeated coup orchestrated by the FETÖ in Turkey. He was remanded into custody on charges of spying in March.
The U.S. joined with nine other countries in demanding Kavala's release on Oct. 18, claiming the ongoing case has cast a shadow over democracy and the rule of law in Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he ordered the Foreign Ministry to designate the ambassadors persona non grata in response, prompting several embassies and the U.S. to issue another statement on Monday in which they said they maintain "compliance with Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."
The ambassadors took a step back from slander against the Turkish judiciary and Turkey with the new statement, said Erdoğan.
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Q: How can I make a CSS wraparound drop shadow? Or is there a good way? With the least duct tape? I would like a rectangular DIV to have a dropshadow around it on all four sides.
Now I might be able to get something like I want by using a container div and have one drop shadow with positive and one with negative values; I haven't seen what I could push. And because this is being done in boilerplate code, I could have a series of nested DIV's with different border colors, the old pre-CSS way. Some way I might be able to make four dropshadows for four DIV's. See, for instance, "CSS shadows on 3 sides."
However, all the solutions I have seen, or seen evidence of in searching, smell like duct tape. Are drop shadows strongly enough designed for 2 sides that 4 sides cannot be gracefully implemented without duct tape?
I'll use duct tape if I have to, but I'd rather find out if there's a good way to do it before choosing among brands of duct tape.

A: You're looking to have more of an overhead, hover shadow?
.shadow {
    -webkit-box-shadow:0 0 10px rgb(0,0,0);
    -moz-box-shadow:0 0 10px rgb(0,0,0);
    box-shadow:0 0 10px rgb(0,0,0);
}

You can use it with inset too, makes a really nice 3d look to the edges.

A: You can just add the optional spread value (the 10px) to your syntax. Like this:
.dropshadow {
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.5);
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.5);
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.5);
}

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Grafh - Pray Ft. Conway the Machine [Official Audio]
Grafh Announces New Project 'Oracle III'
'Oracle III' Features Collaborations With Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Bun B, Hopsin, Rittz, KXNG Crooked & Production From Pete Rock, Harry Fraud, Green Lantern & DJ Shay
While he will be appearing on a track on Royce's 5'9''s upcoming album The Allegory, Grafh is back with more of that gutter New York rap, as he releases the second-single, "Pray" ft. Conway The Machine from his forthcoming project Oracle III; which will be released on 3-6-20.
"The Oracle series that DJ Green Lantern & I created together are some of my fans favorite bodies of work from me. We really created Part 3 and made it a trilogy because of popular demand" Grafh asserted to HipHopDx. "This is a hip hop project strictly for those who care about the purity of the culture. The features are all true MCs. The production is straight up hip hop. Over here, bars still matter!"
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Vietnam. In a small corner of the world, one of the most bloody wars to be fought occurred in this small country in Southeast Asia. Traditionally framed as a war of small skirmishes, long patrols, and guerilla ambushes, there is a lot more that happened such as full-scale offensives and pitched battles.The US and its allies have all the advantages of mobility and firepower. The ubiquitous Huey helicopter has become a symbol the war itself as it carries troops into battle and unloads fire on the enemy. Heavily armed flotillas sail up the windy Mekong Delta, heavy tanks and M113 'tracks' bash their way through the jungle searching for enemy strongpoints, and resolute 'grunts' hold firebases against fierce enemy assaults… Meanwhile, the Nationalists have all the advantages of the home team. They fight as guerillas, choosing the time and place of major operations or surprise attacks and appearing from nowhere to ambush enemy hunting them. When the time is right, they even commit their tanks, armoured personnel carriers, and seasoned troops into the fray to achieve total victory.
'Nam! is a one-stop shop for all of your Vietnam battles on the tabletop. It includes a complete rules set, missions, and a comprehensive list of American, South Vietnamese, North Vietnamese, and ANZAC forces to play. 'Nam! includes a whole new set of rules based on the successful Team Yankee system. This gives you a streamlined set of rules and missions so you should be getting into the jungle a lot faster than ever before. There are also updated missions as well, keeping all of the flavour of the old Vietnam missions and streamlining the mission rules for fast-paced and exciting games.If you're a seasoned Vietnam gamer, you'll find all of your forces are here in the book as well as some new ones, such as the USMC and elite North Vietnamese sappers.
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Originally published Friday, January 12, 2018 at 06:02a.m.
A 15-year-old boy was rescued Thursday morning, Jan. 11, from Capitol Butte in Sedona after spending the night trapped on a ledge, said Dwight D'Evelyn, spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.
The previous day, at about 9 a.m., the teen left home alone, wearing only a small pack with minimal water and food, leggings, shorts, a hooded sweater, baseball cap and running shoes.
He planned to hike to the top of Capitol Butte, a long time goal, D'Evelyn said, but once there, he became disoriented and could not find the route back down. At approximately 12:30 p.m., the teen called 911 for help, but his phone's battery ran out shortly after making contact with a call taker.
When he called 911, his GPS coordinates were identified and he was told to remain stationary and allow rescue personnel to come to him, D'Evelyn said..
At approximately 2:30 p.m. the Verde Search and Rescue team was deployed in the area of Vultee Arch Road nearest to the teen's last known coordinates. The Yavapai County Search and Rescue Team (YCSRT) was also called out. Due to weather, a Department of Public Safety Ranger helicopter was unable to respond and assist in search efforts.
An hour into the search, the boy was located. Ground rescuers began an attempt to reach the teen around 7 p.m., but after three hours, the ground teams were unable to get safely to the teen.
The weather had cleared, and the DPS Ranger overflew the boy's position, reporting that he was inaccessible by air or ground due to darkness.
The helicopter lowered a backpack to the teen containing necessary supplies to survive the night including warm clothing, hand warmers, water and a radio.
A YCSO Forest Patrol Deputy remained on scene throughout the night to maintain radio communications along with a visual observation of the teen until he could be rescued in the morning at first light.
Thursday morning, the helicopter returned and lowered a YCSRT crew member to the boy on a cable, then lifted them both off the mountain.
The teen was re-united with his family, apparently unharmed, D'Evelyn said.


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Hawks Fans Shouldn't Care About Non-Hockey Lovers
By Evan F. Moore
This week, ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith got on the wrong side of Blackhawks fans everywhere with the following comments.
"Excuse me ... it wasn't 21 games. It was really an 8-game streak. There are three ties. I'm sorry, that doesn't count.
"I'm not into the tie business. This isn't soccer. OK?
"And and and and and and the hockey stuff, I'm sorry, I'm not buying it.
"Not only that: If you go to the overtime you get a point. If you win the game, you get a couple of points. I'm sorry, you want a cookie? Last time I checked, when you take to the ice, it's to actually win. It's not to tie. So I don't get all of this stuff. Hockey's clearly all about points, because if you go to overtime 20 times you get 20 points. I don't understand that. You either win or you lose in sports.
"When the Stanley Cup champion is crowned, is it because of a tie? No, it's because of a win."
That was Smith's take on the Blackhawks record-setting streak.
Those words infuriated Blackhawk fans. So much so that some of them went to social media to voice their displeasure with Smith for being dismissive about their beloved hockey club.
Hockey fans are a special breed -- especially Blackhawks fans. The team's fan base has been begging to get out the shadow of the Chicago Bulls for years. Now the team is getting the attention that nobody has ever seen when it comes to hockey. The Blackhawks have been the lead story on ESPN's SportsCenter for the past two weeks along with the Miami Heat, who are on a win streak of their own. Both sides have even sent friendly tweets each other's way.
I don't understand why the words of someone who clearly knows very little about hockey could infuriate such a passionate fan base that has so much going on right now. As soon as the team loses, all of this attention will disappear. Even Wayne Gretzky knows the streak is good for the growth of the sport.
Is Smith to blame? Probably. As someone who is a career sportswriter, a lot more facts than fiction should be expected from him. Look at what he said. A quick Wikipedia search could have helped him out.
Is ESPN to blame is any way? Yes. They put Smith out there knowing that he knows little about hockey. The segment was clearly scripted. One would hope forward-thinking sports fans can see what was going on there. It's what these people do: generate debate. Did Blackhawks fans think that everyone was going to say something positive about the team? Not everyone cares about hockey. That's the truth.
If ESPN's resident hockey expert Barry Melrose was dismissive of the Blackhawks win streak, that would be a bigger story.; simply because Melrose is a hockey savant. Why get bent out of shape about someone who admits to having a minimal amount of hockey knowledge?
Blackhawks fans, enjoy what is going on now. Take everything that's going on with a grain of salt because none of it is going to matter if the team comes up short in the Stanley Cup Finals.
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All about socks — Local business owner starts sock collection program
By Kevin LynchStaff Writer
Dec 8, 2019 at 12:01 AM Dec 10, 2019 at 10:27 AM
BERLIN — One cold November morning, as Zedrick Clark was pulling his socks on during his morning ritual of getting dressed to go to work at Nature's Blessings, the Berlin business owner decided he wanted to do something to ensure that everyone gets to enjoy the simple pleasure of pulling on a pair of socks.
"Last year it hit me that one of my favorite feelings in the world is putting on a fresh, clean pair of socks," Clark said. "It was getting cold in November, and there are countless people out there who don't get to know that experience. Socks and underwear are things that aren't often covered in food banks and things like that. They provide food and toiletries, but rarely do they have socks and underwear that is in need so much."
He decided rather than just thinking about it, he decided to do something, and that's when he came up with Warm Their Soles sock collection program.
"I can make a difference," Clark said. "I put out the call to people here locally to collect socks for the homeless."
He worked with the Tuscarawas Friends of the Homeless last year and donated 1,000 pairs of socks.
"I called them this year to tell them we wanted to do this again, and they told me another organization saw what we did last year and they donated 2,000 pairs of socks," the owner of Nature's Blessings in Berlin said. "They asked us if we could support Wooster, which to me was awesome, because it showed how people really play team around here.
"Their resources were taken care of, so they sent us to a place that wasn't," he continued. "I called the Wooster Salvation Army and they were grateful that we chose them."
Clark said that the generosity of the human spirit is not unique to Holmes County.
"In my experience, the people in Upper Arlington are very giving, the people in Parma or Cincinnati are like that," Clark said. "There is so much generosity in the world, but these days we tend to focus on division. I love that we got to work with New Philly and now we're working with Wooster. What connects both of these communities is people in need."
Clark said he hopes that next year someone comes along in Wooster and donates twice as many socks as Nature's Blessings does this year.
"We're spreading seeds like Johnny Appleseed," he said. "I also found out that there are similar organizations doing similar things. I encourage anyone who wants to put a collection box in their store to call me and I'll get them a sign and wrap a box for them."
German Village and a local law office collected socks for them last year.
"Right now, we're the main collection point, but we're definitely looking for others out there," Clark said. "If you have a business that would like to make a financial donation that we can buy socks with or if they want to do a sock drive throughout their company, they can call me for some tips." Clark can be reached at 330-473-7824. He is also looking for corporate sponsors.
The Hanes Co. does a major sock and underwear donation every year.
Clark said he has always had a soft spot in his heart for the homeless, which has led to his promoting this Warm Their Soles socks collection program.
"About six years ago, I started doing a leadership training program in Columbus, and we did a different community service project with every training," Clark said. "I started doing these team trainings where I got involved with a group called Community Development for All People in Columbus, and I got so much joy giving back, especially to the homeless.
"There's a special place in my heart for them, because after leaving college, I moved to Columbus and made friends with a lot of homeless people," he continued. "When I'd see a homeless person, I would ask them if they'd like a cup of coffee and we'd go have a cup of coffee. I realized how a lot of those people had seemingly normal lives and they were just one or two breakdowns from ending up on the street. It created a real place of respect for people who don't have a house to go home to."
He said he has been receiving nice warm socks as well as socks for kids. Socks can be for children, adults, women, men, but the more warm socks the better, Clark said.
"It's not just about the Christmas season," Clark added. "We hope that collecting through this month and into the new year will help people understand that others need the basics throughout the year, not just during the holidays."
— Reporter Kevin Lynch can be reached at 330-674-5676 or klynch@the-daily-record.com.


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Don't get me wrong; I'm very happy that these two games in particular were made, and the contributions of the backers were clearly rewarded. I just can't help but wonder if these games would've been better, at least from a game immersiveness point of view, if they had been funded in a more traditional manner, or if the reward levels that inserted backer content into the game did not exist. It's not that the backer-created content isn't well disguised, but it exists and it nags at me that maybe this stuff is skippable, or maybe it's better than what the developers intended because it got extra attention.
I haven't checked in on Shadorun Returns: Dragonfall. I'm pretty sure it is free of backer contributions and that might make it a more immersive game. Intrepid modders have already created mods that remove backer created content in Pillars of Eternity, so I am not the only one who might be bothered by it. Surely, these are not the only crowdfunded games with backer-created content, and they won't be the last. My hope is that future crowdfunded games will recognize that allowing just anyone with a fat enough wallet to insert themselves into their game is incongruous with creating an organic and believable world.


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Hey everyone! Well, another [GAAD](http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/) has come and gone and I couldn't be more excited and stoked to be one of three event hosts for such an empowering and enlightening day in the Web, Software, and Mobile community.

GAAD in Detroit was hosted at [Grand Circus](http://www.grandcircus.co/) located downtown in the heart of Detroit. It was a joint Meetup between [Refresh Detroit](http://refreshdetroit.org/) and [Metro Detroit WordPress](http://www.meetup.com/metro-detroit-wordpress-meetup/) and the turn out was great. We had around 42 people attend the event. I don't know the stats for other venues around the world, but wow, 42 people is great.

# Shenanigans

Al Puzzuoli, resident IT technologist for MSU's Resource Center for Person's with Disabilities led a workshop on using a screen reader (NVDA) to navigate the Web. Al is very knowledgable in his field of study and I think he is a closet comedian as well, he had everyone cracking up with quirky jokes the whole night.

# Volunteers

I was in charge of gathering volunteers for the event to help with screen readers and when all was said and done, I scooped up 5 people; Katherine Fox, Scott Williams, Matt Isner, Ian Kelly, Harris Schneiderman, and Brian Mills. I also designed and printed stickers for the event. It was great to have so many people who love a11y there to help out.

Matt Isner, Ian Kelly, and Harris Schneiderman hail from a company called Deque from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Deque is a Website accessibility company, Ann Arbor being one of their office locations. Very excited to have those guys out with their experience in NVDA, JAWS, and OSX VO. They also brought swag from Deque; t-shirts, stickers, and info sheets.

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Юрий Анатольевич Шелыгин (род. 29 апреля 1951 года, пос. Довбыш, Житомирская область) — российский врач-колопроктолог, изобретатель, профессор, президент Ассоциации колопроктологов России, президент Европейского общества колопроктологов, директор Государственного научного центра колопроктологии им. А. Н. Рыжих Минздрава России, главный колопроктолог Минздрава России, главный колопроктолог Департамента здравоохранения города Москвы.

Заслуженный врач РФ, Лауреат Премии Правительства РФ в области науки и техники.

Член-корреспондент РАН (2016), академик РАН (2019).

Биография
Родился в семье кадрового офицера ВС СССР Анатолия Андреевича Шелыгина. В 1968 году, после окончания средней школы, поступает на 1-й Лечебный факультет 1-го Московского медицинского института им. И. М. Сеченова. Хирургией стал интересоваться, попав в студенческий кружок на кафедре факультетской хирургии, возглавляемой академиком АМН СССР, профессором М. И. Кузиным.

По окончании ММИ им. И. М. Сеченова с 1974 по 1976 год проходил обучение в клинической ординатуре на курсе проктологии Центрального Ордена Ленина института усовершенствования врачей МЗ СССР. 1 сентября 1976 года перешёл в Государственный научный центр колопроктологии в должности младшего научного сотрудника.

В 1982 году в Онкологическом научном центре АМН СССР защитил кандидатскую диссертацию на тему «Некоторые вопросы медицинской реабилитации больных с одноствольной колостомой».

В 1990 году в Московском научно-исследовательском онкологическом институте им. П. А. Герцена защитил докторскую диссертацию на тему «Хирургическое лечение распространённых форм рака прямой кишки».

В 1995 году назначен заведующим отделением общей лапароскопии и колопроктологии ГНЦК им. А. Н. Рыжих.

С 1997 года — профессор ГНЦК им. А. Н. Рыжих.

В 2000 году становится заместителем директора ГНЦК им. А. Н. Рыжих и заместителем главного редактора журнала «Колопроктология».

С 2006 года член Правления Ассоциации эндоскопических хирургов и член Правления Международной ассоциации университетских колоректальных хирургов.

С 2007 года, наряду с должностью заместителя директора, возглавляет отделение онкопроктологии.

С 2011 по 2021 год директор ГНЦК им. А. Н. Рыжих.

С 2021 года — научный руководитель ГНЦК им. А. Н. Рыжих.

Научная деятельность
В активе Юрия Шелыгина более 190 печатных работ, в том числе 9 монографий. Под его руководством было защищено 3 докторские и 16 кандидатских диссертаций.

Имеет более 20 патентов на изобретения.

Является главным редактором журнала «Колопроктология», членом редколлегии российских журналов «Онкохирургия», «Онкопроктология», «Анналы хирургии», « Хирургия им. Н. Н. Пирогова».

Наиболее известные публикации:
 «Рак прямой кишки» (1987)
 «Клиническая оперативная колопроктология» (1994),
 «Геморрой» (2002)
 «Избранные лекции по эндовидеохирургии» (2004)
 «Хирургия рака прямой кишки» (2005)
 «Основы колопроктологии» (2006)
 «Атлас онкологических операций» (2007)
 «Онкология. Национальное руководство» (2008)
 «Клиническая хирургия. Национальное руководство» (2008)
 «Рак анального канала» (2011)
 Справочник по колопроктологии (2012)

Награды
 Премия Правительства РФ в области науки и техники (в 2003 году, за разработку современной стратегии хирургической реабилитации больных раком прямой кишки)
 Медаль «В память 850-летия Москвы»

Интересные факты
Юрий Шелыгин является одним из основоположников российской транспросветной хирургии.

Участвовал в уникальной операции Зите, разделённой сиамской близняшке, у которой через три года после операции разделения отказали почки и началось общее заражение крови. Случай осложнялся тем, что после операции разделения брюшная полость пациентки была сильно изменена. Операция прошла успешно.

Ссылки
 Его статьи в РИНЦ

Примечания

Действительные члены РАН
Лауреаты премии Правительства РФ в области науки и техники
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We're lucky enough to have the support of a host of great companies – and couldn't be more grateful. If you want to find out more about how your company can help us with our vital work to protect Asia's endangered elephants, please contact us here.
Animal Friends was founded in 1998 with the sole aim of providing pet insurance as a means to help support animal welfare charities both in the UK and around the world. Elephant Family is hugely grateful for the funding received to support our work.
Bellerby & Co. are creators of stunning terrestrial and celestial globes, hand crafted at their North London studio. Specialist craftsmen carry out the work by hand; ensuring each globe is truly one of a kind. Merging traditional globe making techniques with modern technology, each globe is a piece of art in it's own right, offering an inspirational and education experience that will last generations. For every globe sold, a generous percentage is donated to Elephant Family as well as charitable donations from exhibitions and special events.
For over a decade Cadogan Tate has been steadfastly enabling Elephant Family's plans and adventures. Their logistical support has been instrumental to the success of each of our campaigns which have raised millions for Asia's endangered elephants.
Chantecaille, the preeminent luxury company renowned for serious skincare and beautifying cosmetics, has always been committed to raising awareness for important environmental concerns.
"Cause-metics" Collections are an integral part of the brand and a way to give back to the bountiful nature that serves as its muse. Elephant Family is thrilled to be part of Chantecaille's philanthropic generosity in 2019 with three limited-edition, collectible Lip Veil lipsticks.
Charriol is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches and jewellery founded in 1983 by French entrepreneur, Philippe Charriol. Today, this Geneva-based international luxury brand specialises in watches, jewelry, leather goods, writing instruments, travelware, eye wear and fragrances. A percentage of sales from their 'Elephants Forever' range supports Elephant Family's work.
Chateau Cos D'Estournel has been producing wines of beauty, refinement and excellence from the estate since its very first days in 1791. Over the centuries Cos D'Estournel has forged a singular identity around the qualities of its outstanding terroir in the Saint-Estephe Appellation, exalted by the passion and mastery of a devoted team.
Cos D'Estournel is an Elephant Family event partner.
Established in 2003, Elephant Hill is a family owned vineyard and winery located within a stones' throw of the Pacific Ocean on the idyllic Te Awanga coast in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Elephant Hill believes that great wines are hand-made wines where meticulous attention to detail will result in the highest quality wine. A percentage of sales is donated to Elephant Family.
Trunks for Trunks - swimming trunks for endangered elephants! Love Brand & Co. is the British luxury swimwear sensation for men and boys launched in 2011. Each product generates awareness and funds to addresses specific issues. A percentage of Love Brand's gross profits goes to support Elephant Family.
Opihr Oriental Spiced Gin is a unique style of London Dry Gin using exotic botanicals of herbs & spices sourced from the ancient spice route. Traditionally merchants would travel thousands of miles along the route, trading exotic spices and botanicals from ancient lands. Opihr are Elephant Family event partners.
For nearly two hundred years, the Oriental Club has been an iconic Central London focal point for those who have lived, worked or travelled in the East. Today the Club continues its tradition of providing a welcoming, comfortable home-from-home and community for its Members in the centre of London with a vibrant social calendar and a wide range of societies cater for the many interests of its men and women members.
Founded in 2011, Paddle8 brings the tradition-bound auction world into the 21st century. Offering a seamless online process, Paddle8 makes collecting and selling art online an easy, efficient and enjoyable experience. Paddle8 features specialist-curated auctions, non-profit auctions, private and buy-now sales in the categories of Contemporary Art, Prints and Multiples, Photographs, Street Art and Collectibles. Paddle8 is especially proud to partner with more than 350 nonprofit organizations worldwide to present their benefit auctions to a global community of 500,000 collectors, helping each organization expand its fundraising results.
The lovely people at 10 International have supported Elephant Family since 2008 and we're big fans of their delicious Pink Elephant wines – best enjoyed alongside spicy Indian and Thai dishes. Every bottle of the Pink Elephant Rosé sold includes a donation to Elephant Family and you can currently find the wine on-board all Emirates flights and in venues across the world.
Born out of a passion for chocolate, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild's chocolates & patisserie boutique has taken its inspiration from some of the most indulgent chocolatiers across the globe. The concept was born when Ben Elliot was approached by Sir Evelyn to work alongside him and help bring his childhood dream of having a chocolate brand to life. More than just a shop, it is a real-life fantasy for chocolate and patisserie lovers - with a percentage of sales of all elephant-shaped chocolates donated to Elephant Family.


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Does Lyrica Actually Help With Opiate Withdrawal?
The Problem Of Opiate Addiction
How Opiates Work
Withdrawal Symptoms
How Can Lyrica Support Withdrawal?
Other Withdrawal Management Tools
Lyrica is a prescription medication that is typically used to treat nerve pain, but it has also been applied to help with opiate withdrawal. There has been some uncertainty as to whether or not pregabalin (Lyrica) is effective for this, but many individuals have claimed to find relief through its use.
For example, a study published in 2018 by the trade journal Addictive Disorders and Their Treatments involved a four-week study with 50 participants. Researchers found that pregabalin was not significantly more effective than placebos for opiate withdrawal treatment.
There have, however, been many reported individual cases where Lyrica and other similar drugs have substantially helped with withdrawal symptoms.
The opiate crisis is a problem that has intensified in recent years. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the misuse of prescription opiates affects over 2 million Americans every year and over 15 million people around the world.
Most experts feel that opiate abuse is still on the rise. In 2016, over 20,000 deaths were caused by prescription opiate overdose in the United States alone.
Drug overdose has become the leading cause of death in America for adults under the age of 50. Opiates accounted for over 50 percent of these overdoses.
Opiates work by targeting the nervous system to produce feelings of pleasure and pain reduction. Because opiates produce a euphoric feeling, they quickly become a target for abuse.
Extended opiate use changes the chemistry of the brain, which begins to build up a drug tolerance. This tolerance means that a user needs more and more of the drug over time to feel the same effects as before. This tolerance makes an overdose more likely, as it becomes harder for the user to know what a proper dosage is.
Opiates are also commonly mixed with other drugs and/or alcohol, further increasing the likelihood of overdose.
According to Healthline, opiates work by attaching themselves to receptors present in the brain, intestinal tract, and spinal cord. They are also produced by the brain naturally to decrease pain and regulate the brain.
That is why extended use of opiates can alter brain chemistry and cause dependence, resulting in withdrawal when the drug is no longer being taken.
Prolonged opiate use can alter the way nerve receptors work in the brain, and these receptors will develop a reliance on the extra opiates being introduced into the system over long periods of time. If you feel physically ill shortly after you stop taking a prescription painkiller, it is likely that your body has developed a physical dependence on it.
The symptoms of opiate withdrawal can range from mild to severe, depending on the level of dependence. Some symptoms may present about 24 hours after last use of an opiate if a physical dependence is present.
Yawning often
Later symptoms of withdrawal are more serious:
Abdominal cramping
Dilated pupils
Most of the worst symptoms clear up after 72 hours, but many people relapse before that point due to the discomfort. Medical detox, where opiate withdrawal is supported with medications and therapy, results in much fewer instances of relapse.
Generally, it is not recommended to stop taking opiates suddenly, or cold turkey. Consult with a medical professional. You may be prescribed a replacement medication, like buprenorphine or Suboxone, or withdrawal symptoms may be treated on an as-needed basis.
Cold-turkey detox attempts are highly likely to lead to relapse without professional medical help.
While opiate withdrawal is difficult to deal with, many treatments have been developed to ease the symptoms.
A clinical trial that started in 2014 tested the efficacy of several different drugs for this matter, including pregabalin (Lyrica).
While Lyrica is primarily used as a treatment for seizures and nerve pain conditions, such as fibromyalgia and neuropathy, it has been used to treat opiate withdrawal symptoms on an off-label basis. Some individuals found that the severe symptoms of opiate withdrawal, such as insomnia, anxiety, nausea, and hyperalgesia (heightened sensitivity to pain), could be dramatically reduced with the help of Lyrica.
Seizures are another possibility when it comes to opiate withdrawal, which makes Lyrica a seemingly ideal treatment to prevent them.
There are many different opiates out there, each with some unique properties that could lessen or increase the efficacy of Lyrica. These include:
There is not a lot of information currently that can say with certainty which opiates may respond better or worse to Lyrica. Individual cases should be examined to see what route is most effective for managing withdrawal symptoms.
If you have developed a dependency on opiates, it is important to speak to a medical professional about managing and dealing with the withdrawal and detox phase, as it can be hazardous to your health to go through this process alone.
You should not attempt to use Lyrica to treat opiate withdrawal on your own. Medical supervision is needed.
There are many other ways to manage opiate withdrawal symptoms besides Lyrica. The World Health Organization has laid out clinical guidelines for the management of opiate withdrawal.
Mild withdrawal symptoms may be lessened by taking vitamin B and C supplements. Drink lots of fluid to replace any fluid lost due to excessive sweating, a common symptom of withdrawal.
For moderate and severe opiate withdrawal symptoms, a tapering technique is usually employed using a particular medication. As mentioned, Suboxone is often used.
Since withdrawal symptoms and cravings are controlled, the person can focus on therapy. Once the individual is stable in recovery, the supervising physician may slowly wean them off the medication.
Clonidine, an adrenergic agonist, is sometimes used to combat withdrawal symptoms. It may help to lessen certain symptoms.
Abdominal cramps
It is important to consider all the options available to you if you believe you have developed an opiate dependence and need help with withdrawal symptoms. The best course of action is to reach out to a professional and do your own research, working together to find the best route for your detox journey.
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Fatima: The Horror of Sin and the Mercy of God
On Oct. 13, 1917, more than 70,000 people gathered in a small rural community about 110 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal. Reports that the Blessed Mother had promised a miracle on this day brought them to the Cova da Iria. It had rained throughout the night. The ground was muddy; the people, drenched. As the clock passed the predicted noon hour and nothing happened, skeptics jeered at the simple faith of the thousands waiting for the miracle.
At the moment the sun reached its highest point in the sky, the Blessed Mother appeared to the three shepherd children, Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco. She had been appearing to them once a month since the 13th of May, 1917. On the 13th of July, she had predicted a miracle. Now, three months later, she came to fulfill her promise. The children alone saw Mary. When she turned her hands toward the sky, the sun burst through the dark clouds, bathing the landscape in a rainbow of color. Then, without warning, the sun began to zigzag toward the earth. Three times it approached, threatening to crush everyone in sight before it receded.
The crowd panicked. Some people screamed, fearing the imminent end of the world. Some wept for their sins. Others knelt in prayer. Ten minutes later, when the event ended, the muddy ground was dry and the rain-soaked clothes of the spectators as well. People as far away as 11 miles from the Cova da Iria witnessed "the miracle of the sun."
Among the countless believers and unbelievers was Avelino de Almeida, a reporter from O Século, Portugal's most influential and anti-clerical newspaper. Almeida had been covering the story of the Fatima apparitions, mocking and debunking them. After witnessing the event of the sun first hand, he wrote: "Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as they stood bare-headed, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws — the sun 'danced' according to the typical expression of the people."
Mary predicted this miracle and it happened. She also made other predictions at Fatima. At the time of her apparitions, most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States and the Middle East were fighting in World War I. This "Great War" cost Europe more than 37 million lives. On July 13, 1917, Our Lady not only predicted its imminent end, but also another war even more terrible.
Our Lady said that, if people did not amend their lives, there would be another war. This was in 1917 and Benedict XV was the pope. However, Mary said that the new war would begin during the reign of Pius XI. There was no Pius XI until five years later.
Our Lady even provided a sign that the war would come if people persisted in their sins. She said, "When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, you know that this is the great sign that God gives you that he is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and of persecution of the Church and the Holy Father." And, so it happened.
On the night of Jan. 25, 1938, people from Canada to Bermuda, from Austria to Scotland witnessed a strange light in the sky. So impressive was the unusual light that fire engines were called out in London, France, and Switzerland to extinguish nonexistent fires. In Canada, short-wave radio transmissions were blocked for almost 12 hours. Less than two months after this stunning display of the Aurora Borealis, Hitler invaded Austria and World War II began.
To the three simple shepherds of Fatima, unschooled in geopolitics, Our Lady also spoke about the rise of communism in Russia. On July 13, 1917, she said that Russia would spread its errors throughout the world and cause much suffering by abandoning the Christian faith. Four months later, the October 1917 Russian Revolution imposed the world's first atheistic communist regime and Mary's prophecy began to be fulfilled. The spread of communism made the 20th century a veritable hemorrhage of blood. Nations were annihilated and millions of people were imprisoned, tortured and executed for their faith.
The message of Fatima, strengthened and authenticated by fulfillment of its prophecies in history, remains as needed today as it was when Lucia and her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco heard it from the lips of Our Lady. In an age when humankind continues its rebellion against the will of God, Mary repeats for each of us the first words of Jesus in his public ministry. She brings to us Christ's call to conversion. "The kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent and believe the gospel" (Mk 1:15).
At a time when civilization is torn asunder by terrorism, persecution, violence and war, when families are broken and life itself no longer seen as a sacred gift, when Christians are being martyred, Mary promises that God will grant peace if we return to him in prayer and reparation. She pleads with us to return to God who desires to show us mercy and forgiveness. Like her prophecies of war and suffering for sin, even the vision of hell that she showed the three frightened children on July 13, 1917 was an act of mercy. Knowing what sin is and realizing where it brings us should turn us from evil to good.
Mary came to earth at Fatima to bring all of us to heaven. This is the role which her divine Son himself gave her. On the cross when he said to John the Beloved, "Behold your mother," and, to Mary, "Behold your son," Jesus gave his own mother to be our mother. He has made Mary's Immaculate Heart, pierced open by sorrow, our refuge. And, it is to her Immaculate Heart that we turn for protection from evil.
At Fatima, Our Lady asked us to find in her heart the door to Christ. To avert wars and punishments for sin, she asked for consecration to her Immaculate Heart. By consecrating ourselves to her, we realize the will of Christ who gave Mary to be our Mother. In giving Mary this most special role in the economy of salvation, Christ "did not diminish but affirmed anew the role which is his alone as the Savior of the world. [Mary is] the splendor which in no way dims the light of Christ…the Immaculate One, through whom there shines the fullness of grace" (Pope St. John Paul II, Act of Entrustment to Mary, Oct. 8, 2000).
One hundred years ago, Our Lady of Fatima showed us the mercy of God in face of the horror of sin. As we celebrate the centenary of these apparitions, I ask you to join with me in the consecration of our diocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
As your Bishop, I will personally make this consecration on May 13, 2017, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. On the same weekend of May 13-14, at all the Masses, our priests will repeat with you this consecration.
May Our Lady lead us by her example, her maternal concern and her constant intercession to a deeper and deeper union with Christ our Savior.


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Film News Roundup: Kevin Hart Tapped for CinemaCon Star of the Year Award
In today's film news roundup, Kevin Hart, Mike Medavoy and "Princess of the Row" are receiving honors and Atom Tickets expands.
Kevin Hart will receive this year's CinemaCon International Star of the Year award at the convention's awards show on Thursday at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev.
"With his films continuously earning the top spot at the box office, Kevin Hart has brought some of the most entertaining comedic films to audiences around the world and continues to prove that he is one of the most dynamic and agile actors today," said Mitch Neuhauser, managing director of CinemaCon.
"Princess of the Row" topped "Windows on the World" for audience award at the Method Fest, based on tallies of votes taken as the audience exited screenings of premieres.
"Princess of the Row" also won the festival's breakout acting award for Edi Gathegi's work as a homeless father.
See full article on Variety
Princess of the Row (2019)
Windows on the World (2019)
Chained for Life (2018)
Stockholm (2018)
Albanian Gangster (2018)
Confessional (2019)
Sofia (2018)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
Kevin Hart (I)
Mike Medavoy
Edi Gathegi
Geraldine Page
Jess Weixler (I)
Adam Pearson (IV)
Aaron Schimberg
John Rezaj
Robert Mailer Anderson
Zack Anderson (I)
Michael D. Olmos
Allison Tolman
Haskell Wexler
Frank Yablans
Phil Stern (II)


A mill that has been targeted by thieves and vandals is being demolished.
York Mill in Rishton is being flattened by owners EW Cartons. The York Street site was previously a packing business but was targeted by vandals and metal thieves while it stood empty.
The building, constructed in the 90s, has been stripped of metal since it closed and has been a magnet for anti-social behaviour in the area.
Under the plans the four outer walls will be retained but the building itself will be flattened.
Demolition at the site has now begun and ward councillor Ken Moss said residents were in favour of getting rid of the eyesore site.
He said: "The only main concern people seem to have is if there was a housing development there what the effect on the local infrastructure would be in terms of schools and traffic."
Alison Whalley, of EW Cartons, said the work was due to be completed over the next three to four weeks.


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Attack on Democracy: CAA and NCR expose the hypocrisy of Modi and the BJP Government
January 13, 2020 by Pramila Venkateswaran Leave a Comment
The BJP and Narendra Modi have been feeding the message to the Indian public that Modi is the "God" saving the persecuted Hindus in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Since December 19, 2019, Twitter feeds have been filled with responses to Citizenship Amendment Act protests, some calling CAA a lease on life for Hindu and other minorities in Pakistan, while others decrying it as a giant paw trampling India's secular democratic constitution. The Modi government's cunning launch of CAA with the National Citizenship Registry needs to be seen within the larger picture of heartless right wing governments wielding heartless policies that deny justice to minorities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as promote policies that don't mitigate climate change and global warming.
Why is the CAA undemocratic? The BJP government argues that CAA secures India from Islamists. In selecting who is the "good' foreigner and who is not, the BJP is creating a false dichotomy, and selectively eliminating citizens on account of their religion. Is it any wonder that Muslim citizens feel targeted and unsafe? Moreover, the lack of serious accountability by Modi after the Gujarat pogrom has deeply scarred not just Muslims as it has left many Indians questioning the policies of the Modi government that is driven by its Hindutva ideology equating Hindu and India. One need not watch videos of the protests to know that Muslims are bracing under the crosshairs of right wing groups. The echoes of Nazi Germany's "Aryan nation" are loud and clear in the current context.
A common theme of all the heartless right wing leaders: Elimination. The Modi government's National Citizenship Registry came at the heels of the CAA. These together with the speeches made by different BJP politicians spread a climate of fear. Upon seeing anti-CAA protests, Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs, came on mainstream radio and announced that drones will surveil every protest site. After the protest at Aligarh Muslim University, Modi said the videos clearly show who the protesters are, since they were wearing Muslim caps. These statements instigate fear and retaliation which result in protests, police brutality and loss of life. Witness the police brutality against students and professors at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia University. As Mukul Kesavan writes, "The Delhi police made an example of Jamia as a warning to India's Muslims. When that didn't go according to plan, the same police travelled several miles across the city to help make an example of a university that the BJP sees as the institutional incarnation of the secularism that might yet thwart its dreams of a Hindu nation".
The Assam Accord signed in 1966 and amended in 1971 after the Bangladesh war, states that the refugees, both Hindu and Muslim, from the war who came into Assam between 1966 and 1971 should go back to Bangladesh. The Modi government extended the cut-off date to 2014 in order to increase its vote bank. According to the Assam Accord, a sizable number who were illegal Hindu who did not go back to Bangladesh after 1971 (since they did not feel secure in Bangladesh) would be considered illegal. Since the BJP ideology equates Hindu with Hindu nation, they devised CAA to provide a point of entry for these Hindus. Obviously, the Modi government could not have a policy for just Assam; so when CAA was applied to the whole country it showed the BJP government's hypocrisy. The National Citizenship Registry and CAA together expose major flaws:
India became a secular republic after 1947. The British mandate of partition based on religious separation of India into India and Pakistan resulted in tremendous bloodshed. The current CAA is following this old historic British thinking and is creating fear among Muslims about their security.
How can a secular democracy declare selective rescue of the persecuted and not include Muslims? This pits Muslims against other groups.
If the BJP bleeding hearts feel for the persecuted minorities in Muslim countries, why aren't they including persecuted Muslims across the world to come into the country and claim citizenship? Why is the BJP engaging in a double speak where they are welcoming persecuted Hindus and at the same time saying the country cannot carry a large influx of migrants?
Both CAA and NCR show BJP's brand of "cultural nationalism." As Sadanand Menon writes, "Its cunning agenda is to evacuate all ideas of political rights from the idea of a nation state and transplant in its place ideas of cultural rights."
We can find some reprieve in the protest marches across the country. Although Amit Shah is insisting that CAA and National Citizenship Registry are not related, we know that both these policies worked contiguously in Assam to "select" the Muslims who immigrated there post 1971 and put them in detention centers since they could not prove that they are Indian citizens. People are highly alert that this template will be used for the rest of India. Hindus who are in the detention centers will obviously hope for the CAA to rescue them, so they can go back to their lives. This selectivity clearly shows the chaos created by the Modi government as a result of its harmful ideology. Not only is it undermining the values of Hinduism but it is showing the worst kind of human rights abuses that can happen when ideology and country are equated.
(Photo Credit: Anushree Fadnavis / Reuters / The Wire)
Filed Under: General Tagged With: CAA, India, NRC, Pramila Venkateswaran
India strips millions of women in Assam of their citizenship. Call it femicide
July 30, 2018 by Dan Moshenberg 445 Comments
The documents these women presented were deemed invalid.
What's it called when, with one sweep of a pen or publication of a report, millions of people `lose' their citizenship. Today, India dropped over four million people living in the resource-rich state of Assam, in northeast India, from the citizenship lists. Poof. Gone. Four million. In one state. And, to no one's surprise, the majority of the four million are women. Even if women weren't overrepresented in the rollcall of the suddenly disappeared, the impact on women, individually and collectively, is particularly deep and vicious, and is particular to policy formation in patriarchal states and societies.
Today, the Indian government published the final draft of the National Register of Citizens, NRC, for Assam. Assam has been experiencing a considerable population growth over the last decade. About two-thirds of the state is Hindu, and one third is Muslim. For over seventy years, Indigenous Assamese, in particular the Bodo, and Bengali Muslims have opposed each other, often violently.
Those dropped from today's citizenship lists are largely, almost exclusively, Bengali Muslims. Many view this as part of the national government's saffron policies, turning secular multicultural India into Hindu India. Whatever the reasons, the NRC predictably targets, and eliminates, Bengali Muslim women. Shorbhanu Nessa's story is typical of many Bengali Muslim women in Assam … and typical of many women across India and beyond.
Shorbhanu Nessa married before she was 18. She is surrounded by nevers that result in her elimination from the NRC: never went to school, never owned property, never had a bank account, never thought she needed to. She is the mother of five adult children. As far as Shorbhanu Nessa knew, being married to her husband was sufficient. Not any longer.
Shorbhanu Nessa's son, Hussain Ahmad Madani, explains, "Because she never voted in her maiden home, she had no way to prove now that she was her father's daughter. Her father's legacy data is there, but she has no document to establish her linkage to him. There is no school certificate which would have mentioned his name. Her family settled in this char (a sand bar by a river in Assamese) when she was one-and-a-half years old after their char (Majarlega Char) was swallowed by the Brahmaputra. She was married off to my father in this same char. Though her father passed away, everyone in the neighbourhood knew whose daughter she was; trouble began when documentary evidence was sought by the NRC authorities to prove who her father was."
Everyone knew, but this particular category of everyone doesn't count.
Many of those who were dropped from the rolls are women. Almost all of them are Muslim. Most, if not all, are married. As of yet, there's not an exact gender breakdown of the disappeared, but the stories are everywhere, repeating one another.
No matter how one cuts it, the design for the data collection for the NCR predictably attacked Muslim individuals and communities, who, for various reasons, would not have the documentary evidence to prove what everyone in the neighborhood knew and had known for years, decades and generations. What is it called when millions of people are stripped of their citizenship? Genocide.
But there's something else here. The NRC structures specifically targeted Bengali Muslim women of Shorbhanu Nessa's generation. In 1988, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18. Bengali Muslim women, like Shorbhanu Nessa, were `encouraged' to marry before they turned 18. Thus, they never voted using their birth, or maiden, names, and so now they can't prove they are, and were, who they are, and were, precisely because they were dutiful daughters. None of this is surprising. It's part of publicly and widely known culture in Assam, and it's equally part of the NRC plan. The way the data was collected meant Bengali Muslim women would be disappeared, in large numbers, and that was perfectly fine with both Assamese officials and those in the national government. What's it called when millions of women are disappeared in a single day? Femicide. In this world, citizenship is life. In one fell swoop, India created the single largest stateless population ever, and at the heart of that effort is the nation-State assault on women.
(Photo Credit: The Wire / Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty)
Filed Under: General Tagged With: Assam, citizenship, Dan Moshenberg, femicide, Haunts, India, NRC


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The bugs are taking over the fruits and leaves and running riot over the paper. This piece was tightly painted over a period of time. These early repetitive pieces were my meditations on mid-life changes.
Painting info: The Bugs Have It. Watercolor. 30"X 22". 2001. $400.