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Mama keeps forgetting things these days, for instance… calling the electrician, ordering vegetables, getting clothes ironed, and today trimming my nails! There is always something in her 'Oh, I forgot!' list, which appears on top of the 'I'll do it tomorrow' list. She picks me and I am carried to the bedroom. She gives me some medicine, sweet round bits, puts me to bed and switches off the lights (she's one hopeful mother!), but I have other plans!
12.30 am: (I will start my next day from this hour, sunrise and sunset do not make any difference to me, grin!) Mama is pleading me to go to sleep, but as I said the day has just begun for me and I've decided its playtime!
1.15 am: I am a bit sleepy now, so I start being cranky. Mama, who is trying to keep her eyes open with tremendous effort, takes me in her lap and starts singing my favourite lullaby – I love this routine! Suddenly a loud noise is heard and I open my eyes wide, I see mama is also disturbed, she utters to my dad (who is fast asleep by now) 'I don't know when he will start keeping the phone on silent mode before sleeping' and secretly prays for the phone not to ring anymore. I am feeling sleepy now.
3.00 am: I open my eyes and move my head to the left, I see mama sleeping. Her hair is all messed up and ever inviting to be pulled. I am unable to contain myself and I get up, I slowly crawl up to her and take up the black locks in my hands and pull them with all my might. Oh! She didn't wake up, has she become immune to this! I will use another hand to scratch her face, she forgot to trim my nails remember, so let me make full use of it! Bingo! She's awake, but not actually sitting up, I need to use another weapon, ok so the bramhastra, bhaaaaaa bhaaaaa bhaaaaa! She's sitting and wide awake now – crying my lungs out always works! It's playtime again!
4.00 am: I guess I have played enough, now I need some rest, so I cry out again and immediately I am taken into mama's lap and again the same lullaby and then patted down to sleep. My mama has some energy, well… not more than me!
5.30 am: What's this loud noise, I merely slept, that's not fair! I see mama getting out of bed, but I ignore and doze off.
6.00 am: I hear few noises; dad is also awake and getting ready, oh I remember he has to leave for work early today. How can I miss on saying bye bye, so I drop the idea of sleeping anymore and sit up immediately. Dad takes me in his arms for the morning hugs and kisses!
7.00 am: After waving dad goodbye, mama and me retire back to our room. I am fed, changed and again the lights are put off (I told you she's a hopeful mother!). But this time she is going to get lucky as I am also feeling sleepy.
9.00 am: It's the doorbell! My beauty sleep disturbed again! This time I decide to protest! I hail out loudly and mama awakens (this always-always works!). She starts to pacify me, doorbell repeats (I think she didn't hear it for the first time). I cry out even louder, poor soul, she is stuck up totally!
Finally, she takes me in her arms and moves towards the door, and so begins another day of my life with mama!
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haha.. it's my routine also.
I really enjoyed this bolg. it is similar for all mommies. plz write more blog like this.
Wow that's a good weekend start ☺I triped over my daily routine again while reading..
good to read this one. simply and cutely defined motherhood.
wonderfully scripted .. every little detail !!
every word of the story is true..
how can we share our experiences and thoughts of heart?????
Brought the reality in front of eyes. So b beautifully narrated..
lovely. Enjoy reading this blog.
nice blog. keep writing. wishing all happy motherhood..
Hi, Riva metha you can try nail cutter which is like scissor very useful for babies below 1 year and you can cut the nail while the kid sleeps.
very true but upto 2 months. now I have made schedule fotlr my baby so he sleeps in night.
wow .. so wonderfully written .. keep writing . so lovely to read this.. u have really wonderful writing skills, continue to write more. I have become an ardent fan of u r s.
loved it completely Noopur! thanks for sharing! keep writing!


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Rio Light Rail Transit System, Rio de Janeiro
Catenary-free light rail transit system
Municipality of Rio de Janeiro
Start of Service
VLT Carioca Consortium
A model of the light rail vehicle to be operated on the Rio de Janeiro LRT system on display in Cinelandia, Rio de Janeiro. Image courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz.
Alstom Citadis trams will be used on the Rio LRT (VLT Carioca) system. Image courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz.
Interiors of the Citadis tram designed for the Rio LRT. Image courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz.
Ongoing construction of the Rio de Janeiro LRT system near Santos Dumont Airport. Image courtesy of Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz.
The Rio Light Rail (also known as VLT Carioca) connects the port region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the city's financial centre and the Santos Dumont Airport. Services on the new 28km-long light rail system began in June 2016.
Comprising Invepar (24.4%), CCR (24.4%), OTP – Odebrecht TransPort (24.4%), Riopar Participações (24.4%), Benito Roggio Transportation (2%) and RATP's Brazil Operations, the VLT Carioca Consortium was awarded the contract for the development of the light rail system through a public-private partnership (PPP).
Salvador Metro, Bahia, Brazil
Salvador Metro is an under-construction metro system in the city of Salvador in Bahia state, Brazil.
Construction on the $450m catenary-free six-lane tramway began in the second half of 2013 and was completed on time for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. The total capacity of the tramway will reach 285,000 passengers a day, once all lines are fully operational.
Rio light rail project background
Construction of the light rail is part of the Porto Maravilha (Marvelous Port) project, which aims to transform the neighbourhoods by revitalising an area of five million square metres. New roads, tunnels and expressways are planned to be built as part of the project.
Pedro Ernesto Street in downtown Rio and an old tunnel at the foot of Morro da Providencia was reurbanised by the tramway.
The VLT Carioca consortium was created in May 2013 and a 25-year concession agreement to establish a PPP with the municipality of Rio de Janeiro was signed in June 2013. The consortium is responsible for the construction of the LRT system, acquisition of rolling stock and associated systems, and operation and maintenance of the system for 25 years.
Rio Light Rail Route and station details
The light rail system connects downtown Rio and the Port Region through six lines and 42 stations. It has stops at important areas, including Novo Rio bus terminal, Santos Dumont local airport, Central do Brasil and Leopoldina train stations and Barcas ferry terminal, which aims to reduce the flow of buses and ease traffic congestion.
Line 1 links Cordeiro de Graça and Praça Mauá with Cidade do Samba 2 and Praça Santo Cristo, whereas line 2 runs from Central to Cidade do Samba 2. Lines 3 and 4 connect Central with Santos Dumont Airport and Cinelandia respectively.
"Lines 3 and 4 will connect Central with Santos Dumont Airport and Cinelandia respectively."
Line 5 originates at Media Village and passes through the Baron of Mauá, São Diogo, and Nabuco de Freitas before terminating at Central, while line 6 connects Media Village with Cidade do Samba 2.
Construction of the catenary-free tramway in Rio De Janerio
Works on the two tunnels to be used by the trams were completed by mid-2013, while the actual construction on the LRT system began in the second half of the year.
Tracks of 15km arrived in August 2014 from Belgium, while the remaining were delivered later. Approximately 400m of track was installed on General Luiz Mendes de Morais Street in Santo Christo district in March 2015.
The Rio LRT system is served by 32 Alstom Citadel tram cars, which are 3.81m-high, 44m-long and 2.65m-wide and have a capacity of 415 people each. Four of the 32 cars are manufactured in France and the remaining 28 are manufactured in Taubate, Brazil. The vehicles run at an average speed of 17km/h.
The catenary-free trams receive electricity from an underground aesthetic power supply (APS) system installed at the stops. An energised third rail is installed at the stations for this purpose. The solution creates no impact on the local landscape and avoids visual pollution.
"The solution will create no impact on the local landscape and avoids visual pollution."
Financing of the Rio LRT
The Rio LRT project received $245m funding under the Brazilian Federal Government's Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), while the remaining is financed through the PPP.
Benefits of VLT Carioca
The VLT Carioca integrates the transportation system by connecting Rio de Janeiro Metro, the metropolitan train system, ferries, cable car, BRT network and the city bus network, providing reliable and sustainable transport alternative for the users of the Santos Dumont Airport.

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Anyway, the rules are pretty similar to other contests. This is round 108 so please know that ALL rounds will count EQUALLY toward the final standings, and NO rounds will be omitted from the final total.
2. Porfle Popnecker: "Lunger Loogie"
3. Conqueror of Parodies: "Relaxation"
4. Rex Ungericht: "My Head (Is In The Game)"
6. Below Average Dave: "Cruella"
7. Blaydeman: "Can't Sleep On That"
Kool & the Gang is one of my favorite bands from their era of music, so I was so excited to vote for this round and read all these entries... and you guys did not disappoint ;D It was really hard to judge this one. Honestly everyone did a fantastic job, it was rough to narrow it down.
In my first post of the newly-prettified inthe00s.com, here are the scores.
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TCOP gets extra karmal.... guess where?
Karamel that you will be hungry for in another hour!
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Woo woo, feels good to take 1St place! Thanks guys!
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While Maddow led all of cable in total viewership, Fox News beat MSNBC in cable news primetime.
MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show was once again the top-rated program in all of cable Wednesday night, a position the progressive-leaning news show has largely occupied these past couple of months. Fox News, however, led cable news across the board in total day and primetime viewership as the president engages in a full-court press to rally support for the border wall.
According to Nielsen, Fox News averaged a robust 2.918 total viewers and 535,000 in the key 25-54 demographic during the primetime 8 PM to 11 PM hours. MSNBC nabbed a demo audience of 497,000 and 2.762 million viewers overall. CNN attracted a total viewership of 1.464 million and 435,000 in the demo.
In the total "sales" day (6 AM – 2 AM), Fox drew 1.860 million viewers overall and 361,000 in the 25-54 metric. CNN captured 279,000 demo viewers and a total audience of 993,000. MSNBC averaged 1.616 million total viewers and 270,000 in the demographic.
Maddow finished first overall in both the demographic (635,000) and total viewership (3.415 million). Maddow's 9 PM competitor, Fox News' Hannity, took third place in total viewers (3.036 million) and the key demo (541,000).
Fox's Tucker Carlson Tonight was the runner-up in both the 25-54 category (573,000) and overall viewership (3.078 million). FNC's The Five took fourth in the demo (512,000) and total viewers (2.833 million).
The most-watched program on CNN was Anderson Cooper 360, which drew a total audience of 1.575 million and 448,000 in the key demo.


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Q: Influence of DTOs number to GWT application performance Can the number of DTOs affect the performance of GWT applications?
My question comes from following issue. Lets assume that I have to transfer 3 different objects but all with only one String field. Should I create and use 3 different DTOs with meaningful names or one generic (sth like StringDTO).
Thank you for your help.

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I always prefer to go with the code that is easier to read, maintain and extend, unless there is a very significant performance issue that may require a different approach.

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On Skill Dev, Entrepreneurship CM asks Opp, 'If you have an Idea, Please Share It'
Muhammad Raafi
11:01 am May 30, 2016
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
CM Ms Mehbooba Mufti
Chief Minister Ms Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that her government has asked corporate houses already working in Kashmir to engage Kashmir youth and train them.
Ms Mufti was responding to many supplementaries during Question Hour of the current 2016-17 J&K Budget Session.
Asserting that lawmakers in the house should not blame each other, Ms Mufti said, "today, it is our responsibility as we are occupying the treasury benches. But, we have to put our collective efforts to ensure employment for our youth."
In response to a question whether PDP-BJP government was thinking about launching Rehbar-e-Khel Scheme for Physical Education Trained youth, the CM said, "we are involving Private Education Sector. I have told some schools to engage our sports champions and this way we will ensure that youth are engaged and get employment."
She added that every one can't get government job. "We have schemes like Udaan but what my government has tried is to get the companies to J&K and get our youth trained here so that we are able to use their expertise in state itself," the CM said. "Otherwise, the youth who would be trained under Udaan were employed outside J&K."
The CM added that under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), her government has involved "big" Corporate Houses which will adopt one Polytechnic each under CSR to "enhance the value" of the colleges. "30 such institutions have been identified," she said.
"In this century, we still demand to get backward status for our areas," she told the house, "but we need to move ahead."
Lauding the civil administrative officials for their work, CM Mehbooba said, pointing towards 'Official Gallery', "you trust them, they will do wonders. I have told my officials to spend two days in fields to bet the work done. "Otherwise, you are aware how governance is done in J&K," she told the Opposition members.
Seeking cooperation and support from Opposition lawmakers to make various initiatives taken up by her government viz-a-viz entrepreneurship and skill development, CM Ms Mehbooba said, "we are not doing any project exclusively in our areas (constituencies), the steps taken are for whole J&K." "If you have any idea which can ensure employment for our youth, please share it," she asked the Opposition, "or if we have started any project in your respective constituencies, please ensure that is implemented. I am with you; my officials are present 24*7."
"I can't do it single handedly," she said, "unemployment is an issue which surpasses the party divide."
Maintaining that J&K has huge tourism potential, she said, "the sector is getting boost and we are getting trainers to teach our youth in landscape areas; and train them as tourist guides."
Earlier, the government in a written reply informed the state legislature that six companies engaged in implementing various projects across the state have 2609 people on its rolls. Of them 2061 are locals. These include Sarvonik BCC Co having 658 employees including 588 locals; Gammon India Ltd having 50 its 56 employees as locals; Navyuga Engineering Company jhas757 employees of its 928 employees as local residents; HCC Ltd has 67 employees of whom 48 are locals; and HCC Ltd Rail Link project has 398 employees with 221 as locals and AFCONS having 502 employees, 397 are locals.
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The human body consists of five sheaths, namely Physical frame, Energy (Pranic) frame, Mental frame, Intellectual frame and Spiritual frame. In order to maintain a balance at all levels, efforts are required to be taken on at the physical level. Faulty postures and uneven distribution of body weight during standing and walking, lead to imbalance. Similarly, blockage and leakage from different nodes in the body, disturbs the balance in the energy frame. Intense likes and dislikes disturb the mental frame. Intellectual frame is disturbed due to ignorance and the spiritual frame is disturbed by not surrendering all our actions and ourselves to the Almighty.
It is possible to correct the physical imbalance by manipulating the nodes in the legs, hip, back and neck. The techniques explained here give immense relief to the patients suffering from any pain. Before giving acupressure treatment, these balances have to be checked and corrected for effectiveness.
The few thousand steps that we walk in a day produce jerks (on one side) and create pain, if there is a slight difference in the length of the two legs (lop-sidedness). Majority of people who have one-side pain in any part of the body have reported immediate relief with this balancing technique.
1. Ask the person to lie down face-up on a mat in a relaxed way and to stretch the hands backwards with palms facing upwards.
2. Massage the solar plexus on the chest (the middle point where the rib cage ends) and loosen the legs. Bring the hands down to normal position.
3. With a ball point pen mark the topmost point on the projecting ankle bones on both legs while viewing from the top, carefully avoiding a parallax error. Make a plus mark by drawing two lines perpendicular to each other on the point.
4. Now join the legs and observe whether the two centers match. If they don't, then there is an imbalance which has to be corrected.
5. The formula for manipulation is Long Out and Short In (LOSI).
6. Take the short leg, flex it at the knee and push it gently towards the opposite shoulder. Now holding the knee with one hand gently push at the ankle joint towards inside of the body slowly and steadily enquiring for pain at every step. Now re-check to see if the centers match. If it is still shorter, make one more attempt. Short leg by convention is the one in which the mark is extending inside, with respect to the other, from the sole.
7. If you want to correct the long leg push it away from the body following exactly the same procedure as explained in step 6.
8. The thumb rule is to always correct the short leg. If pain is prominent on one side, take the other leg and correct it accordingly.
1. Ask the person to lie on his left lateral position and fold the right leg over the left to block the energy. Press the centre of the right buttock with the thumb for few seconds and release. Press and release five to ten times. For overweight people, the point can be reached by applying pressure with elbows.
2. Repeat the same procedure on the right side after turning 180 degrees.
1. Ask the person to lie down on the stomach and lift the head, neck and upper back to form a slight arch.
2. Locate the two dimples on the lower back near the hips.
4. Now massage the dimples clockwise and anti-clockwise with the thumbs and push the thumbs toward and upward the spine. Repeat the massage 3-4 times and then unblock the energy flow and allow the person to sit up.
1. Locate the two mid points at the back corresponding to the centre of the triangular dimple on both sides of the neck.
2. Ask the person to inhale, apply pressure on these points with thumbs and centre of the front triangular portion with index finger. Release pressure as the person exhales.
3. Repeat about five to six times.
Warning: Should be tried only under expert guidance.
A certain amount of skill is required to do this effectively.
1. Ask the person to lie down on the back and relax the body with some relaxation techniques.
2. Take a soft cloth long enough and twist it like a rope. Slide the cloth under the neck and hold the neck with the cloth such that you support the neck but do not lift away from ground.
3. Hold the cloth and massage the neck muscles without rubbing, by moving the hands up and down alternatively.
4. Tie the cloth around the head and holding the tied-end give slight traction to the neck until a slight movement is observed in the toe. Hold it for a few seconds and release gently.
5. Repeat three times and give a good massage with the cloth.
1. Ask the person to lie down on the back and apply relaxation techniques.
2. Use index finger, middle finger and ring finger to apply gentle pressure at the end of the rib cage.
3. Use the other thumb also to press these three fingers. With constant pressure slide these three fingers down by two to three inches and apply pressure slightly upward at the end.
In this balancing technique, thumbs are used to give a light pressure at the end of the abdomen. This pressure has to be applied from one end of the abdomen to the other end upwards for a few seconds, say about three seconds. The hardness of the abdomen will be removed immediately.


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Empress Celene struggles to navigate the dangerous political climate of her powerful nation, Orlais. Her cousin, The Grandduke Gaspard, seeks to undermine her power at every turn and treasonous whispers can be heard among the nobles who hide behind the veneer of the Orlesian Court. Orlais's peace with the wild neighboring nation of Ferelden balances dangerously on the edge of a knife, but not all Orlesian's desire peace. At the same time, the winds of revolution and civil unrest stemming from the nation's population of elves threaten not only Celene's seat of power, but the bond between her elven handmaiden and secret lover, Briala.
Dragon Age: The Masked Empire is one of the best tie-in novels I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Sometimes when you are reading one of these tie-in novels, there is a clear dissonance evident in the writer's tone of voice and treatment of the material that suggests the book was merely written for a paycheck. While I have no qualms with writers trying to get paid for their work, the lack of passion for the source material damages the quality of the final product and ultimately the enjoyment of the reader. A quick Google search of the author, Patrick Weekes, reveals that he has had a key role in developing some of my favorite video game franchises of all time and is actually a writer for the developers behind the Dragon Age video game franchise, Bioware. I wish all franchises across media could take this approach with their tie-in novels because the author's intimacy with the source material is apparent.
For those of you who are unaware, Dragon Age is a popular roleplaying video game set in a fantasy setting populated by complex characters who dwell in moral grey areas rather than the tried and true heroes versus villains archetypes. There are three main entries within the game series: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. This book is set right before the events of the third game, Dragon Age: Inquisition.
If you've played any of the video games(especially Inquisition), you will obviously get the most out of this book. However, I think this book is well-written enough that casual fiction fans might get a kick out of reading it. This book is part political thriller, part action, fantasy adventure, and part romance. Its really got it all.
While someone who has never played any of the games might not get some of the character or location references, Weekes does a great job at explaining the most important parts of the Orlesian political system and cultural norms. This is not just a book for Dragon Age fans, its a damn good book for fans of the fantasy genre and fiction. I sincerely believe that this book could convert people who were previously uninterested in the video games into future Dragon Age fans. The spot on writing, fully realized, tumultuous world and memorable characters customarily found in a Bioware game can now be found in book form. Its really quite an accomplishment when a book makes you long to return to that world in video game form.
Lastly, I would like to champion the author's treatment of his characters and their relationships. While I am not a member of the homosexual community, as a Latino male I empathize with the underrepresentation in storytelling. However, I also hate it when diversity is forced into our media just to check off the boxes and give the appearance of diversity, rather than to add to the complexity and nuances of a story. Bioware has always been known for tackling heady subjects and they excel at exploring diversity of all types in their worlds.
In the hands of a lesser writer, Empress Celene and Briala's sexual relationship could have read like the salacious, fantasies of a juvenile. Instead, what you get is a touching story about human love, both the good and the bad. Their relationship is the emotional core and through line of their journey. It didn't matter that they were both women or that it was an interracial relationship because at the end of the day it was just a story about love and that is a story that most anyone can understand. So if the lack of gay or interracial relationships in literature saddens you or makes you feel more alone, just know that you can find that here and that it's treated with respect.


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Movie Review: It's Kind of a Funny Story
By Russ Davis 9 years ago
This movie aims for a few laughs, it gets just that—a few laughs but only a few.
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
It shouldn't be a surprise, one could suppose, there's hardly anything hilarious about mental institutions. Still, with a title such as It's Kind of a Funny Story, one should expect something opposite from the horrifying scenes of unkempt rooms, psycho art class students and unhappy, griping nurses shown in films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted.
To be fair, It's Kind of a Funny Story does, for the most part, steer clear of that. You can watch it and keep your lunch down.
While other mental ward films may endeavor for drama and horror, this one sets its sights for heart and humor.
On the first count, Funny Story completely nails it: If you're looking for a film that pulls at your heartstrings, this film is what you are looking for, but the jokes and one-liners used throughout the film often miss their target.
Funny Story opens up with protagonist Craig (Keir Gilchrist, TV's United States of Tara), a 16-year-old New Yorker enrolled in a school for gifted teens, seeing himself take the plunge off a bridge. Realizing he's facing tough issues, Craig checks himself into a local hospital early one Sunday morning to seek help.
The doctor he sees recommends him to the mental patient ward, where meets Bobby (Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover), a fellow mental patient, who feels protective of Craig right from the start.
He also meets Noelle (Emma Roberts, Valentine's Day), a girl his age with visible scars on her cheek and wrists. Craig and Noelle take a shine to each other, and, at her invite, he spends an evening hanging with her in the mental ward—as best a date can be while committed.
Throughout the film, his underlying issues flesh out: His father (comedian Jim Gaffigan) works too much to care about the family, while his mother (Lauren Graham, TV's Gilmore Girls) is, in Craig's words, "very fragile."
In addition, Craig's only male friend, Aaron (Thomas Mann), is an overachiever who makes him jealous and treats him badly, while Aaron's girlfriend, Nia (Zoe Kravitz), is the object of Craig's affection who never returns the feelings.
A major stressor at that moment is Craig's summer school application—for a program that he secretly does not want to get into, but is aiming for anyway so he can impress those around him.
Despite holding a flame for Nia, Craig slowly begins to build a relationship with Noelle. This courtship does a fine job of illustrating the film's paradox: It's delightful, but hardly hilarious.
At one point, their institutional romance takes them to a patients' music workshop, where they are two of several patients playing a relatively riveting rendition of the Queen-David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure."
Craig, tapped to sing lead vocals, sees himself disappear into a fantasy world where he and Noelle—rocking a guitar—duet together. This scene is, in a word, cute, and will bring a smile to your face, but can't necessarily be deemed laugh-out-loud.
This trend is further blazed by the behavior of their fellow patients: Craig's roommate, an Egyptian named Muqtada (Bernard White), refuses to come out of bed until Craig coaxes him. He also has frequent encounters with Solomon, an alleged "former Jewish acid head" who wears a yarmulke and complains constantly of his sensitive hearing.
With these patients, it's difficult to tell whether to snicker at them or feel sorry for them. The best you can do is to try and do both.
It's Kind of a Funny Story takes a skillful look at teenage depression, and, on an emotional level, it will be hard for someone to leave this movie feeling less than moved.
Still, while the film makes the heart grow fonder, it also makes the laughing muscles grow bored. So, even with all of its compassion, It's Kind of a Funny Story is, well, only kind of funny.
I give it: three stars
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I don't collect or buy a lot of toys any more – I mostly have what I want – but I have developed a fondness for the sci-fi guns from Edison Giocattoli of Italy, and Sanchis of Spain. Which is unfortunate because they tend to be pricey. But I juat bought this ZX-271 off eBay for a very reasonable price and am super thrilled with it. Like some of the otherguns in the TH3 line, it fires soft bullets propelled by air. Surprising range too, considering it's just spring activated. This particular model has a (manual) rotating barrel in front that holds four shots. But what I really love is all the detail work that goes into the guns. Easily as good, or better, than prop guns from films and TV.


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Listen: Pfizer Court, FBI, Pfizer discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"We keep hearing from the media. This misleading of the PFIZER COURT DOSSIER TO SPY ON CANDIDATES. Joe Nor worry no big deal. It was some low level guys. It wasn't institutional nothing needs to change. Now this isn't Horton. Why because the media loves gas lighting? Yeah cool nothing to worry about right. They love gas lighting. And they're doing it for a reason. Nothing is by coincidence folks. Nothing let's get to the words. I about twenty-one words matter and then why this is all coming out now this media guests letting that own wishes a few low level. Fbi guys it's not a coincidence. I promise I hear was the ruling by the actual Pfizer Court. Judge in what he said. So you have his actual words handy and to go from the John. Solomon piece quote and just twenty-one words Pfizer Judge Bob Oseberg provided the first judicial declaration that the FBI had in fact misled the court committed processors quote. There is thus little doubt that the government breached its duty of candidate the court with respect to those applications folks. This is already been ruled on that. Pfizer court was clearly misled by government. Investigators in an effort to spy on Donald Trump. I know you know that. But it's important. You have the words at your fingertips ready to go because I want you to believe that it was low level wide because the modern left that used to be used to be concerned with civil liberties has been largely. Not all this is important. I'll bring this up in a second with guards. This Wall Street Journal article largely but not all hijacked by police daters follow me here. I know this is. I don't want this to become. I've seen a reemergence of this narrative just in the last few months silly narrative the FBI spied on trump. They clearly misled the court. We know that because the dossier they use fake. But don't worry it was low level guys. We should keep the process. Why why is that? Narrative emerge despite the fact that the Pfizer judge debunked the whole narrator. He saying this isn't process of this is big because the left has been hijacked by people who love the weaponization of the intelligence community. They've seen the success of doing it with the trump collusion hoax. They want to keep this going everybody tracking me now. Why is this perfectly time? These narratives because by March fifteen a lot of these Pfizer and spying Patriot Act provision. Which I've been discussing on the show. Roving wiretaps business records. Provisions are up for Renewal. People like Mike Lee and Rand Paul and freedomworks and other organizations have been bravely fighting against us because the Pfizer court to total scam and a joke and should be thrown out completely but they're up against sadly some Rhino Republicans aren't real constitutionalists and a bunch of leftist Democrats. Who Care about civil liberties remember. Acl You want us. Who now. I don't know what the ACL's position vision this but some civil liberties they used to care about that no more. They are all in on the police state now and they. WanNa desperately make sure Joe that all of these provisions are renewed with almost no changes at all so the Democrats can do it again. All of this stuff is time. None of this coincidence. Look at this Wall Street Journal piece about these visor provisions and these Patriot Act provision up for renewal the editorial board so it's like a headline cleaning up the a mess. Now you may say the Democrats have the majority in the house. What is stopping them from putting a hold on any reforms and just realizing all these Pfizer Patriot. Act Stuff Joe. Well notice before I said not all of the Democrat. Party's been hijacked a lot of it ask but thankfully there are some honest. Progressives may not agree with them but at least a principal and Arado they stand for there are some progressives who are saying in the house. You know what I said. I wasn't into this government spying thing years ago when it was the Republicans on. I'm not into it now when we did it. Either nine shocker. Some of them still have principles. You don't believe me. Check out this snippet from the peace despite these revelations talking about the Bosbach resolution revelations that the Pfizer court was was abused by the DOJ and others house. Democrats initially planned the reauthorization of all this stuff. That contain negligible reforms her but a revolt by progressives against nearly any surveillance force the Democrat leaders to seek gop votes thus the chance for some modest reform. I'm not here celebrating. These radical far left. This would like nothing more than to see your tax money your health care and your education all fall into their hands so they can destroy it. I'm simply here to give you the facts. The facts are that some progressives thankfully have stuck to their guns on civil liberties and our saying this FIS aspiring thing in such a good thing and the Democrats are saying. We don't have enough votes to make this thing. Go through to keep our police. They dreams up and fresh fresh clean. Smell a nice like new linens bringing it needs some gop votes to and a lot of these Republicans. Say No. We're not reauthorized in this thing clean. You're gonNA fix some stuff. Some of the proposals eight agenda. I think a week defies a court just has to go. I'm sorry the whole Pfizer Court. I don't believe in any of this patriot. Act Nonsense. Get a warrant. If it's a foreigner who is not in in the United States. It doesn't matter anyway get rid of it. Get a warrant. It's not hard. But some of the provisions in the Attorney General Bill Bar or any future attorney. General has to be notified about future spying campaigns in cases that may involve a political candidate. All non. Folks. It doesn't matter you think if. Loretta Lynch was notified about this Eric holder would mattered. System FIS court joke but I don't want to sell them short it again. At least some progressives have stuck by their guns on them. Okay I want to get to this hidden votes piece of politico because it's important. I'm talking about it for a couple of days but it matters and I wanna tell you why this may be related to the Wuhan virus and some serious trouble ahead for the trump team. Not The scare. Anybody just stuff is happening. We need to know.."
Pfizer Court, FBI, Pfizer discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
Pfizer Court FBI Pfizer Wall Street Journal JOE GOP Donald Trump Horton Solomon Attorney Wuhan Eric Holder United States Loretta Lynch Bob Oseberg Mike Lee Principal
We keep hearing from the media. This misleading of the PFIZER COURT DOSSIER TO SPY ON CANDIDATES. Joe Nor worry no big deal. It was some low level guys. It wasn't institutional nothing needs to change. Now this isn't Horton. Why because the media loves gas lighting? Yeah cool nothing to worry about right. They love gas lighting. And they're doing it for a reason. Nothing is by coincidence folks. Nothing let's get to the words. I about twenty-one words matter and then why this is all coming out now this media guests letting that own wishes a few low level. Fbi guys it's not a coincidence. I promise I hear was the ruling by the actual Pfizer Court. Judge in what he said. So you have his actual words handy and to go from the John. Solomon piece quote and just twenty-one words Pfizer Judge Bob Oseberg provided the first judicial declaration that the FBI had in fact misled the court committed processors quote. There is thus little doubt that the government breached its duty of candidate the court with respect to those applications folks. This is already been ruled on that. Pfizer court was clearly misled by government. Investigators in an effort to spy on Donald Trump. I know you know that. But it's important. You have the words at your fingertips ready to go because I want you to believe that it was low level wide because the modern left that used to be used to be concerned with civil liberties has been largely. Not all this is important. I'll bring this up in a second with guards. This Wall Street Journal article largely but not all hijacked by police daters follow me here. I know this is. I don't want this to become. I've seen a reemergence of this narrative just in the last few months silly narrative the FBI spied on trump. They clearly misled the court. We know that because the dossier they use fake. But don't worry it was low level guys. We should keep the process. Why why is that? Narrative emerge despite the fact that the Pfizer judge debunked the whole narrator. He saying this isn't process of this is big because the left has been hijacked by people who love the weaponization of the intelligence community. They've seen the success of doing it with the trump collusion hoax. They want to keep this going everybody tracking me now. Why is this perfectly time? These narratives because by March fifteen a lot of these Pfizer and spying Patriot Act provision. Which I've been discussing on the show. Roving wiretaps business records. Provisions are up for Renewal. People like Mike Lee and Rand Paul and freedomworks and other organizations have been bravely fighting against us because the Pfizer court to total scam and a joke and should be thrown out completely but they're up against sadly some Rhino Republicans aren't real constitutionalists and a bunch of leftist Democrats. Who Care about civil liberties remember. Acl You want us. Who now. I don't know what the ACL's position vision this but some civil liberties they used to care about that no more. They are all in on the police state now and they. WanNa desperately make sure Joe that all of these provisions are renewed with almost no changes at all so the Democrats can do it again. All of this stuff is time. None of this coincidence. Look at this Wall Street Journal piece about these visor provisions and these Patriot Act provision up for renewal the editorial board so it's like a headline cleaning up the a mess. Now you may say the Democrats have the majority in the house. What is stopping them from putting a hold on any reforms and just realizing all these Pfizer Patriot. Act Stuff Joe. Well notice before I said not all of the Democrat. Party's been hijacked a lot of it ask but thankfully there are some honest. Progressives may not agree with them but at least a principal and Arado they stand for there are some progressives who are saying in the house. You know what I said. I wasn't into this government spying thing years ago when it was the Republicans on. I'm not into it now when we did it. Either nine shocker. Some of them still have principles. You don't believe me. Check out this snippet from the peace despite these revelations talking about the Bosbach resolution revelations that the Pfizer court was was abused by the DOJ and others house. Democrats initially planned the reauthorization of all this stuff. That contain negligible reforms her but a revolt by progressives against nearly any surveillance force the Democrat leaders to seek gop votes thus the chance for some modest reform. I'm not here celebrating. These radical far left. This would like nothing more than to see your tax money your health care and your education all fall into their hands so they can destroy it. I'm simply here to give you the facts. The facts are that some progressives thankfully have stuck to their guns on civil liberties and our saying this FIS aspiring thing in such a good thing and the Democrats are saying. We don't have enough votes to make this thing. Go through to keep our police. They dreams up and fresh fresh clean. Smell a nice like new linens bringing it needs some gop votes to and a lot of these Republicans. Say No. We're not reauthorized in this thing clean. You're gonNA fix some stuff. Some of the proposals eight agenda. I think a week defies a court just has to go. I'm sorry the whole Pfizer Court. I don't believe in any of this patriot. Act Nonsense. Get a warrant. If it's a foreigner who is not in in the United States. It doesn't matter anyway get rid of it. Get a warrant. It's not hard. But some of the provisions in the Attorney General Bill Bar or any future attorney. General has to be notified about future spying campaigns in cases that may involve a political candidate. All non. Folks. It doesn't matter you think if. Loretta Lynch was notified about this Eric holder would mattered. System FIS court joke but I don't want to sell them short it again. At least some progressives have stuck by their guns on them. Okay I want to get to this hidden votes piece of politico because it's important. I'm talking about it for a couple of days but it matters and I wanna tell you why this may be related to the Wuhan virus and some serious trouble ahead for the trump team. Not The scare. Anybody just stuff is happening. We need to know..


Lina G. Choueiri, Professor of English Language.
MS (Georgetown University); BA (Université Saint-Joseph).
Within the study of grammar in the Generative approach, Lina's research interests follow three lines of inquiry: (1) the application of formal grammars to the study of human language, (2) the comparative syntax of Semitic languages, and (3) the status of the syntactic component of the grammar with respect to the other components (i.e. phonological and semantic). The empirical domain of her research revolves around the notion of 'displacement' and the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents in constructions like questions and relative clauses. Some of her recent publications include articles in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, and the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. The Syntax of Arabic, which is co-authored with Joseph Aoun and Elabbas Benmamoun, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She had been an Assistant Professor in the English Department, at AUB, and a member of CELRT since Fall 2000.


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In Awesome Glory, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll offers readers a deep dive into the mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus. Starting from the conviction that the liturgy is meant to be for Christians an immediate and effective contact with the Resurrection, this profound book draws out the riches of each celebration from the Paschal Triduum through Pentecost. Abbot Jeremy focuses particularly on the Scripture texts of Mass, but also on important rituals like the washing of feet, the lucernarium, and the baptism of catechumens.
Loaded with new insights and approaches, this book will be a welcome resource for homilists, pastors, liturgy directors, catechists, faith formation leaders, scholars, and any Christian adult who wants to better understand, teach, and live the startlingly good news of Christ's Resurrection.


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An Amazing Wholesale Market For Idli
You must have visited vegetable markets, fish markets, fruit markets, flower markets, and various other kinds of markets. But, what about visiting an IDLI Market?
By Pradeep Chamaria
Idli Market, Photo Credits: Youtube
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INDIA. Erode, Tamil Nadu: You must have visited vegetable markets, fish markets, fruit markets, flower markets, and various other kinds of markets. But, what about visiting an IDLI Market?
Yes, an idli market. Let's talk about it a little…
This is in Erode district near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Almost 20000 idlis are cooked and sold here daily and the count goes up to a hundred thousand on festival and political rally days. Hot idlis with sambhar & varieties of chutneys are served here at almost throwaway prices – 2 plain idlis cost Rs.3.50 (about 0.04 Euros) and with sambhar & chutney, they cost Rs.6.50 (about 0.08 Euros).
What is an idli
Idli, one of the best-known humble food items eaten daily by millions, is an integral part of most south Indian homes. Star of the breakfast table, idli is also relished all over India with sambhar and tangy coconut chutney. Other condiments, mostly chutneys like kaara chutney (onion-based), and non-vegetarian spicy fish curries are also common.
Idli in a Tray, Photo Credits: Pinterest
Idli is a complete meal in itself; it is rich in carbohydrates and protein, sugar-free and gluten-free. A soft puff of rice, idli is a healthy treat as it contains no fats, saturated fats or cholesterol, and has great nutritional content. Only 39 calories per piece of about 30 gm, it provides 40 kcal of energy per serving.
Making of Idli
Idli is made by steaming a lightly salted batter consisting of fermented black lentils (a de-husked bean) and polished parboiled rice that gives it a distinct and somewhat sour taste (just like the taste of a sourdough bread). At various times soybean, green gram and chick pea are also used in place of black gram to add nutritional value.
Idli making Moulds, Photo Credits: Amazon
The fermented batter is put in greased special perforated idli moulds/pans of an idli tray and steamed for 8 -10 minutes to give it fluffiness. The perforation in molds allows the idlis to be cooked evenly. Traditionally, idlis were steamed in banana leaves instead of moulds. In modern times, microwave and automatic electric idli steamers with convenient non-stick coating are also in use. With present-day fusion innovations, fusion recipes of Idlis have also come up, such as idli Manchurian, idli fry, chilly idli, stuffed idli, and a lot of other combinations.
An amazing business endeavour
You don't have to be a multimillionaire to start an idli-making business. Most of the eateries in Erode district started with a small investment, and by using homely skills learned from ladies of older generations at home. Credit for the spread of the soft and fluffy idli goes to women entrepreneurs from Erode district in Tamil Nadu, a district that earlier was famous for its traditionally weaved cotton cloth, innovative food culture, and the entrepreneurial spirit of its residents.
Idli market – source of income for women
When jobs in the traditionally weaved cotton cloth industry declined due to lessening demands because of synthetic cloths, enterprising women of Karungalpalayam, a small place in Erode District started selling idlis, and soon many more followed, developing the area into a sought-after market.
Traditional idli making came in handy for a number of females in Tamil Nadu. "I grew up watching my mother cook them for breakfast every day," recalls Eswari Thangavel of M/S Praveen Idlis, who learned how to make idlis from her mother, and now is a big name in the idli making industry.
Ms. Chellammal took over Idli making business after there was a decline in her husband's salary income some forty years back. Chellammal decided to join in by making and selling idli to contribute towards the household income. Idli was not a common breakfast for people in rural areas in those days.
With the sale of idlis picking up, other women in the family also started idli business. Most of these eateries have women staff taking care of day-to-day activities. Men in the family assist women in the eateries by getting the necessary groceries and looking after the deliveries.
The eateries even supply in bulk for marriages & other family functions. Because of their healthy characteristics, idlis are also recommended by doctors in south India for patients and convalescents, and the hospitals in the area are also big buyers.
Other regular customers also speak highly of these idlis, "When we buy from these shops, we are sure that we will get idlis of very good quality, at reasonable rates and on time," said a happy customer, who places orders regularly.
Business during the pandemic
In normal times, the caterers and customers used to come to Karungalapalayam to collect their orders. With the pandemic hampering movement, and also as there are no meetings and weddings during the lockdown, the demand from locals did come down for a short time. But, since a lot of NGOs and other organisations are feeding needy and poor people during lockdowns, the demand has in fact increased and these women entrepreneurs are confidently doing business and supplying hundreds of idlis every day.
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Each verse of this hymn refers to Christ by various Old Testament titles, thus exemplifying Christ as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. In addition to its anticipation of Christ's birth, the hymn can also be interpreted to refer to the Second Coming.
"O Come, O Come, Immanuel" is set to the tune VENI EMMANUEL, adapted by Thomas Helmore. This haunting and pleading tune beautifully supports the words of longing found in the text, with the hopeful change into the refrain..


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I can't breathe!
With the weight of them on my neck,
and it won't leave..
Too many dreams to be ignored,
but this place makes me invisible.
These gates seem so invincible,
but after being freed from this captivity,
you say I might not even remember them.
Why can't I escape my reality?
Why am I willing to accept a fairytale ending,
in a world where I could very much be a casualty.
Actually,
you promised to serve & protect,
but instead you batter me.
So, the only pictures in my gallery,
are of the protests against police brutality.
These images don't rattle me,
because I've become accustom to being BLACK!
My skin tone has defined me since I was a child,
you said a change was gone come,
but I guess its gone be awhile.
Does my Black Life Matter?
Because I'm a part of the mass incarceration,
that incarcerated the black community.
Being afraid of law enforcement ain't nothing new to me.
We were never given the history that should be grooming me.
I'm talking about the virus that was killing us before the pandemic,
you can try to hide it,
but it has already been decided by a sentence..
"I CAN'T BREATHE!!"
THE SCIENCE OF HATIN'!
It's easy to tell someone to rise above the "hate", when you're not the one that's being constantly ridiculed & criticized by people that hold no value to your heart.
When the term "Hatin'" or "Hater" was created, that was an accurate terminology for our culture. Instead of congratulating the next person's success, we would rather pick a part their accomplishments. This has been going on since the beginning of time, so that leads me to believe that it could be a generational disease of some sort. Not quite a virus or a physical sickness, but a mental disorder.
What would make a person despise someone else's success?? Let's take it a step further & pinpoint some of the more "petty" scenarios, like how individuals are targeted for their difference in swag. Swagger is a personal opinion or "like", the same as style. Some things appeal to others more then the next, but exposure dictates popularity in some occasions.
Beyond that, I'm forced to believe that all "haters" are born, (not made) because people are born with certain DNA traits that give them identity. I was personally raised to be competitive, but a part of who I am deep down is a competitor. Even after learning the moral campus of "good sportsmanship", I'm still a soar loser in private. This could be the same way that haters are wired, to understand but still not reframe themselves from indulging. The world has given the term (Haters) a bad stigma, because no one who's successful should be hatin' or even focused on anyone else's standings in life.
My question for my readers is simple.. Should we learn to live with HATE?? We're all wondering does it continue to grow in a person's heart or is it something that's controllable. I'm not the type to judge, but I am the type to point out "bs" when I see it. Success isn't something that's given to us who grew from the dirt, so I'm led to think that the struggle has humbled us. Giving us a way to accept our wins as well as our loses! I wish everyone that goes hard for their dreams all the success that they can handle, even if my way of thinking is foreign.
Hate or Hatin' isn't something that should be used as a tool of leverage, because the core idea of it is hurtful to the intended target. In this present day, it can be seen as a form of bullying. People are designed to be who they are, and no matter how different that may be, we should still learn to accept one another. Please STOP THE HATE!!!
RAP PIONEERS
In the early 90's Marion "Suge" Knight achieved extreme success with his West Coast movement of gangsta rappers, forming "Death Row Records" around a number of multi talented entrepreneurs. Suge Knight was a force to be reckoned with, because his underworld moves were backed by an unlimited cash flow that created a source of power. Rappers like Snoop Dogg & Tupac sent Death Row's sales through the roof, and with millions of albums sold they didn't seem to be slowing down. Even after losing super producer Dr Dre, their numbers continually increased!! And with Suge's new found stardom came an unfortunate amount of violence. However, his mastermind musical lineup changed the game, so Death Row Records will always go down in history as one of Hip Hop's most influential labels!!
How can we talk about success within the rap game without bringing up "Master P's" industry changing distribution deal with Universal Records. Percy Miller came into the rap world with a plan for "No Limits Records", and through all the turmoil & adversity that life threw at him, he still managed to take his movement to the top!! Southern rappers have always been seen as the underdogs, because the culture & sound of Hip Hop was being molded by the East & West Coast rappers. Master P was determined to put No Limit on the map, and his persistent push got him ahead of the game. Can anyone really argue that Percy's ambitious album releases didn't change the game?? It seemed as if he was dropping projects weekly, because his No Limit camp was clogging up the charts with hits!! While behind the scenes many of No Limit's artists were struggling to cut their street ties, and rapper "C-Murder" was the main one. No Limit became a household name, releasing movies, signing athletes to their sports management company, and buying lavish mansions in the suburban parts of New Orleans. We have acknowledge P as being a power mogul in the industry!!
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IT was an intellectual bestseller of its day, the book every smart Glaswegian wanted on his or her shelf.
The Emotions of the Will, by Alexander Bain, pioneer of psychology and professor at Aberdeen University, might not set the heather afire today.
But for Victorian Scots, the book was cutting-edge thinking, a utilitarian guide to understanding right and wrong.
It is not clear if Alexander Thompson ever read the tome but he certainly signed it out of Glasgow's then still new Mitchell public library. And he never signed it back in again.
For this – in an age that was perhaps not quite as enlightened as old Professor Bain might have liked – Thomson was jailed for nine months.
So this man – he was "shabby-looking", according to the Glasgow Evening Citizen – came to be locked up in Perth General Prison. And here his image, along with other inmates, was captured for posterity.
This was Scotland's original rogues gallery, a sepia snapshot of the nation's troubled and troubling sons and daughters.
In the years before DNA or fingerprinting, Victorian authorities had what they thought was a surefire, pioneering means of identifying criminals: photographs.
And so in the very early years of the 1880s they set about taking hundreds of mugshots of inmates. Now, for the first time since, one of the very few surviving albums of criminals is being dusted down and exhibited in Aberdeen, for the city's Granite Noir crime-writing festival.
Thompson is not the only book thief to do hard time for his crime (he admitted he had previous and was caught when a librarian recognised his writing as he tried to sign out another volume of Bain's work).
Pictured too was Jane Paul. She was given even longer for stealing even more edifying and morally righteous work, the Free Church Hymnal, in Dundee. True, Paul, had previous having also lifted some poems by Robert Burns.
Punishments for shoplifting were harsh – and the pictures demonstrated that women, including mothers, were regularly locked up.
One was Margaret Robertson, 35. She got nine months for stealing 18 bottles of porter from Strathbungo. The Evening Citizen reported her lawyer saying she had been on good behaviour since getting out of jail a decade before. "She had been leading a somewhat better life, and got married and had now one child," the paper said. "On hearing the verdict, the prisoner burst into tears".
Sentences did not seem fair, with wealthy offenders treated more leniently.
James Nicol Fleming, a director of the City of Glasgow Bank, only got eight months for "complicity in the notorious bank frauds of 1878". This despite being found guilty of "falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition, as also fabrication and falsification". He was described in court reports as looking ill. His mugshot, of a bearded well-dressed man, is one of those to be shown.
Ringleaders were treated more harshly. Helen Duffy was given six months. She was one of a number of women of ill-repute charged with assaulting and robbing Archibald Duncan, a Glasgow-based chief mate. He was attacked in the house of one Margaret McConnell. Duffy was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, "that she might have an opportunity of reflecting", said The Scotsman.
Criminal Portraits – Nineteenth Century Mugshots, Aberdeen Lemon Tree February 22-24.


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Biden suggests opponents of child sex changes are racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic: "They're all connected"
President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday that anyone who criticizes child sex change surgeries is responsible for "racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia [and] transphobia" — all of which are "connected."
Biden insisted we have to "protect" transgender children by giving them the "care they need" (i.e. sex changes) "so they know they are loved."
"Folks, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia — they are all connected."
Biden made the comments while signing a GOP-backed bill to enshrine gay marriage and interracial marriage into law.
Anyone who criticizes surgeons who perform transgender surgeries is responsible for racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, etc. because it's all "connected," says Biden. pic.twitter.com/2pFXRu4Mp4
Another speech Biden gave in 2013 in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month may further illuminate the "connection" he was getting at.
From New York Magazine, MAY 22, 2013, "Biden Praises Jews, Goes Too Far, Accidentally Thrills Anti-Semites":
Joe Biden spoke last night in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month. […]
Biden's remarks were not anti-Semitic. They were very, very philo-Semitic. The thrust of his largely unscripted monologue is that Jews have contributed enormously to the United States. That's obviously a standard spiel for praising any ethnic group, but Biden took care to emphasize that Jews have not just contributed their share to the United States, but far more:
The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you, and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you …
You make up 11 percent of the seats in the United States Congress. You make up one-third of all Nobel laureates …
I think you, as usual, underestimate the impact of Jewish heritage. I really mean that. I think you vastly underestimate the impact you've had on the development of this nation.
… "The embrace of immigration" is part of that, as is the involvement of Jews in social justice movements.
"You can't talk about the civil rights movement in this country without talking about Jewish freedom riders and Jack Greenberg," he said, telling a story about seeing a group of Jewish activists at a segregated movie theater in Delaware. "You can't talk about the women's movement without talking about Betty Friedan" …
"I believe what affects the movements in America, what affects our attitudes in America are as much the culture and the arts as anything else," he said. That's why he spoke out on gay marriage "apparently a little ahead of time."
"It wasn't anything we legislatively did. It was 'Will and Grace,' it was the social media. Literally. That's what changed peoples' attitudes. That's why I was so certain that the vast majority of people would embrace and rapidly embrace" gay marriage, Biden said.
"Think behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it's in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is immense. And, I might add, it is all to the good."
"Biden's intentions here are obviously as friendly as can be, but the execution is awkward," commented NY Mag's Jonathan Chait at the time. "The main problem here is that gay rights, unlike black civil rights, are politically controversial at the moment."
Now that attitudes on gay marriage have changed, the goal post has shifted to normalizing child sex changes and transgenderism.
Biden's transgender Assistant Health Secretary Admiral Rachel Levine said earlier this year that the White House is working to "empower" kids to get puberty blockers and sex change surgeries.
Biden Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: We need to "empower" kids to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery. pic.twitter.com/CRPRaFYtzK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2022
Attorney General Merrick Garland has threatened to hold states "accountable" if they ban child sex change surgeries and Biden has used his bully pulpit to declare it "morally wrong" to ban the macabre procedures.
Joe Biden says "it's wrong" for states to ban sex reassignment surgery and puberty blockers for kids. pic.twitter.com/INu6ncxHQ3
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2022
If you oppose these child sex change surgeries and think children should not be given cross-sex hormones and dangerous puberty blockers, then according to Joe Biden you are a racist, homophobic, transphobic anti-Semite.
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The IHS Track and Field season kicked off earlier this month with a series of practices before hosting an intra-squad showcase to give the coaches an idea of the strongest competitors. Last week, the group was able to compete for the first time this year due to chilly weather conditions.
The meet took place in Labette County and the varsity girls had a strong showing, getting second place overall. Elysia Kunkler was a standout performer for the Fillies, snatching three first place finishes in high hurdles, one-hundred meter dash, and long jump. Kassy Shelby was also able to get a first place medal in the two-hundred meter dash.
The boys varsity squad did not have the same success, placing eighth overall. Freshman runner Jack Adams snatched a third place finish in the 3200M race, having the best day out of all the Mustang runners.
The following meet took place at Paola where neither squads were able to crack the top five, with the girls finishing sixth and boys finishing 11th. Despite the less-than-stellar team finish, Elysia Kunkler was able to break a school long jump record that stood strong since 1977. She jumped 16 foot 11 ½ inches, which broke Jolene Riley's previous record of 16 foot 11 inches flat.
The next varsity meet will take place in Anderson County on April 17th.
–1st in the long jump with a jump of 16'11 ½ ".
–1st in the 100m dash with a time of 12.94.
–3rd in the high hurdles with a time of 16.41.
–5th in the 1600 with a time of 5:54.85.
–6th in the 800 with a time of 2:40.43.
–6th with a time of 55.48.
–8th with a time of 4:38.97.
–7th in the 1600m run with a time of 5:07.81.
–8th in the 3200m run with a time of 11:03.57.
–8th in the 300 hurdles with a time of 44.46.
–7th with a time of 3:45.68.
–6th with a time of 9:15.47.
FIRST in the HIGH HURDLES with a time of 15.9.
FIRST in the 100M DASH with a time of 13.0.
FIRST in the LONG JUMP with a jump of 15'9".
THIRD in the 300M HURDLES with a time of 51.8.
FIRST in the 200M DASH with a time of 28.3.
SECOND in the HIGH HURDLES with a time of 17.0.
FOURTH in the 300M HURDLES with a time of 53.7.
FOURTH in the 1600M RUN with a time of 6:08.0.
THIRD place with a time of 4:46.3.
THIRD in the 3200M RUN with a time of 11:09.0.
THIRD with a time of 9:46.
SIXTH in the 300M HURDLES with a time of 46.0.


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Contra Tiempo brings themes of social justice to dance
By Trent Johnson tsjohnson@mrt.com
Published 6:16 am CST, Thursday, February 4, 2016
The work of Los Angeles based dance company Contra Tiempo use the art to represent themes of love, lust and social justice. They will bring those themes to their Texas debut in Midland on Saturday.
"I think all artists in their own ways are trying to engage with the world," founder and choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez said in Los Angeles over the phone. "This is the way we're specifically tackling our engagement. We want to the art being affecting society in a enlightening way."
The Contra Tiempo visit is presented by the Midland African American Roots Historical Cultural Arts Council and Midland College with a performance of "Agua-Furiosa" at the Bowie Fine Arts Auditorium. Today at noon, Contra Tiempo hosts a free workshop and interactive performance open to the public in the Allison Fine Arts Building Wagner and Brown Auditorium with a complimentary light lunch served at 11:30 a.m. They held a master class at the Midland Festival Ballet on Wednesday.
"The workshops will be fun and highly physical, but we also focus on team building and other activities to help us get to know each other," Alvarez said. "We do dances that are urban, street forms done in social situations and forms that are meant for the concert stage. We try to bring all of it together in those classes."
Alvarez founded the company 10 years ago, after finishing up her master's degree at UCLA. Spawned from her thesis work, the idea grew out of the desire to do dance laced with subtext pertaining to social justice coupled with Latin and African roots, she said. While studying to be a choreographer, she learned there not enough troupes offered this kind of art.
"I realized as a dancer that there weren't many companies that represented the things I enjoyed dancing, such as these social styles," Alvarez said. 'Out of creating work, I decided that this was something I found that I really loved. I definitely strive to create the kind of work that I enjoy."
With seven dancers, a stage vocalist, and a few behind the scenes members, the group is close knit, as they travel across the country performing select pieces. The current work, "Agua-Furiosa" is a personal performance dealing with the struggle of educating a child on how people connect with others, and the environment.
"I think all dance companies have one goal or another, but I think it's good for us to see the various types of dances tell a story," Robbyne Hocker Fuller of the Roots Council said. "All dances tell a story. All of the dances that we've brought in tell a story. We have so many diverse people in the United States, and there's something in this performance for everyone. Midland seems to love and enjoy dance and all the different forms of art."
Alvarez described 'Agua Furiosa' as coming from a personal place of raising a dhild amid an air of racial and environmental injustice.
The performance took a year to complete, and includes numerous theatrics as it serves as a counter story to Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
"It's an exploration of these characters," Alvarez said. "In the show, there's a ton of influences from different places. Crossovers will be prevalent in the work, the use of improvisation is also prevalent. There are a lot of forms and modality to how we dance, and that comes from where we come from."
With so much of their subject matter tackling ideals of people struggling in social realms, a great deal of Contra Tiempo's inspiration comes from conversations with real people experiencing hardships.
"I'm excited about the dialogue and conversations that will be very different from Los Angeles," Alvarez said. "Every place has it's different experiences and different perspectives. The piece will grow as we tour, because we learn from the realities that are different. I plan to do a lot of listening and to connect meaningfully with all the people who see and experience the piece."


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Subterranean L.A.: The Urban Oil Fields
Acres of ancient oil deposits played a fundamental role in the rapid growth of Los Angeles
Cheryl Preston | July 16, 2013 | 5 min read
Union 76 Refinery at Night, about 1950, Will Connell. Gelatin silver print, 18 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 1/4 in. Lent by Stephen White, Collection II. Artwork © Will Connell
The best-known legends surrounding the early days of the City of Angels involve water and Hollywood, with both intersecting dramatically in the film Chinatown. However, as the exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 reveals through a collection of luminous photographs and historical notes, the oil industry was one of the major engines of innovation that played a fundamental though perhaps overlooked role in the rapid growth of Los Angeles.
As a native of Southern California, this realization intrigued me. I suppose I've always been aware of the presence of the oil business in L.A., but only out of the corner of my eye. The skeletal derricks and stalwart pumpjacks on hillsides and city streets—ordinarily bizarre sights—blend into the scenery of everyday life here, becoming so familiar they're often ignored.
The fact is that since the 1890s the city has been literally and figuratively built upon acres of ancient oil deposits deep beneath its shifting surface. The first successful L.A. oil well was drilled in 1892 by Edward Doheny, who tapped the Los Angeles City Oil Field on the site of a present-day swimming pool center in Echo Park, setting off an oil and population boom.
Oil wells in Los Angeles, 1905. Photo: born1945 on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Echo Park Pool at Glendale Blvd. and 2nd Street, site of the first L.A. oil well, drilled by Edward Doheny in 1892. Photo: Center for Land Use Interpretation, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Since then, the financial resources generated by the petroleum industry in Southern California, through corporations such as Union Oil, Getty Oil, and Atlantic Richfield, have fueled the growth of our car culture along with the automobile, aerospace, and other industries entwined with L.A.'s identity.
Today the oil fields of Los Angeles continue to produce the bubbling crude with extraction equipment that informs L.A.'s built environment. A surprising number of oil derricks are hidden in plain sight, designed and architecturally camouflaged with windowless façades of office buildings, like movie sets on busy boulevards.
Built in 1968, the disguised tower owned by Plains Exploration & Production (PXP) on Pico Blvd. near Genesee extracts crude from wells in the Beverly Hills Oil Field. Photo: waltarrrr on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Oil Fields Everywhere
The patchwork of oil and natural gas deposits in California covers a vast area reaching from Southern California to Central California, but Los Angeles is home to the most urban oil fields in the United States, according to the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). More than 3,700 derricks extract oil from about 55 active oil fields in the Los Angeles area alone. If you look closely while traveling around town, you'll notice telltale methane vents on curbs and the incognito buildings that house pumps in neighborhoods and even in shopping centers. The more obvious oil wells sit in backyards, like those on Signal Hill and various hillsides.
To the west, the Sawtelle Oil Fields stretch beneath the Veterans Administration land with 18 operating wells near the 405 Freeway. Moving east, the Beverly Hills Oil Field covers an area in West Los Angeles near Pico and Olympic Boulevards that includes the Venoco Flower Tower and other sites. For years, the nearby backlot of Fox Studios was home to a drilling island until it was abandoned in 1990.
Venoco Flower Tower at Beverly Hills High School, a drilling tower servicing 19 oil wells beneath the adjacent neighborhood. EricF2000 on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
The Rancho Park Golf Course and the Hillcrest Country Club, whose members once received royalties from oil revenue, have hosted pumps onsite that draw from the Cheviot Hills Oil Field.
A drilling site on the fairway at the Hillcrest Country Club. Photo: Center for Land Use Interpretation, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
To the east, the Salt Lake Oil Field lies underground near Cedars Sinai Hospital and the Beverly Center shopping mall.
This drilling island at the Beverly Center on La Cienega Blvd. was once the site of a children's amusement park before the shopping center opened in 1982. Photo: Center for Land Use Interpretation, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
It extends to the prehistoric La Brea Tar Pits, which still ooze tar (actually, asphalt) on the park's walkways and grassy areas, but no oil. In close proximity to the tar pits, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was designed and built with consideration of the gaseous goo, the perfect preservative for bones of ancient saber-toothed tigers and other extinct creatures.
The La Brea Tar Pits near LACMA and the Page Museum on Wilshire Blvd. Travis S. on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
First discovered in the 1890s by dairy farmer Arthur F. Gilmore while digging for water, the Salt Lake Oil Field became the source of the Gilmore fortune as derricks studded the family farmland near Fairfax and Third Street. By 1910, Gilmore stated prophetically, "Someday you will own a horseless carriage. Our gasoline will run it." By the 1930s, the wells were gradually replaced by the Farmer's Market, Gilmore Field and Stadium (no longer there), and the Pan Pacific Auditorium (no longer there), and then later by CBS Television City and The Grove shopping complex.
A Gilmore gas station in early 20th-century California. Photo courtesy of A.F. Gilmore Company
Further east, the Las Cienegas Oil Field reaches from La Brea Avenue to downtown. But the largest remaining oil-producing reservoir in Los Angeles is the fabled Inglewood Oil Field beneath Baldwin Hills to the south. First discovered in 1924, it traverses a nettled stretch of acreage in the hills above Culver City and Inglewood on the way to and from LAX. This desolate area is home to several oil company operations and has served as an atmospheric location for the films L.A. Confidential, There Will Be Blood, Beverly Hills Cop 2, and Armageddon, as well as for various television series.
Aerial view of the Inglewood Oil Fields in Baldwin Hills above Culver City. City of Culver City
While L.A. oil wells are still productive and profitable, many of the original sites have been depleted over time and abandoned. Most of the wells of early Los Angeles that drew from the Los Angeles City Oil Field, beneath City Hall and Staples Center, have since been exhausted. When that happens, costly clean-up and remediation must take place before redevelopment of the land can occur.
Former drilling site owned by McAlmond Oil Company near downtown Los Angeles. Phillip McAlmond, an independent oilman, operated ten wells here.
Other problems have accompanied the bounty of oil, too. In 1985, a fiery methane gas explosion at a shopping complex across the street from the Farmer's Market prompted the capping of wells. In 2003, lawsuits were brought against Venoco, Inc., with claims of increased cancer rates related to the drilling island at Beverly Hills High School, but were later dismissed. For projects such as the Westside subway extension, methane and hydrogen sulfide gases from petroleum reservoirs have required special tunneling techniques and planning. More recently, residents of Baldwin Hills near the hilltop oil fields protested fracking (hydraulic fracturing) by PXP, reaching a regulation agreement in 2011, even as oil companies continue to seek new ways to mine the cache of oil and natural gas found in Southern California.
There's much more to the big story of Los Angeles oil—not least including questions about environmental damage and alternative energy. But regardless of the contemporary issues swirling around fossil-fuel production, for L.A., petroleum was a force that propelled a young city into its future.
Closing July 21, Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 showcases Los Angeles's complex urban landscape and diverse architectural innovations.
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Cheryl Preston
I'm a freelance writer/editor in the Communications Department. Previously, I was a writer/editor in the Education Department of the Getty Museum.
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Don Jack	on July 16, 2013 at 3:44 pm
This is a real eye opener. Very good.
alec	on December 12, 2013 at 5:00 pm
how much oil does LA consume alone a year?
Cheryl Preston	on December 18, 2013 at 10:27 am
Hi Alec,
Thanks for your question. There are numerous sources for consumption statistics. One might be the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which estimated the U.S. consumed 6.87 billion barrels (18.83 million barrels per day) in 2011. It may also provide statistics by state and county. You might get more specific stats for Los Angeles in other city and county records. I hope you find the information you're looking for.
J. Gluckman	on July 10, 2017 at 6:28 pm
Do tell us the meaning of "nettled stretch." Is that a new kind of irritable yoga?
Sharon brooKs	on November 17, 2017 at 4:29 am
Thank you! I was trying to answer my 11 yo son's question about the strange building at pico and genessee when we found your article. Is there a public online catalog of these structures? I remember parts of the story behind some. Can't decide whether I can face more knowledge about the health and environmental issues, not when I live n the midst of it. Is there a local impact on seismicity?
Anyway, good article!
Jack Jason	on August 9, 2018 at 2:40 pm
I live in the neighborhood of Beverly Grove, between the Beverly Center and The Grove. There are two tar pools (asphalt?) coming up out of the ground at the corner of West Third Street and South Flores. Which department of the City of LA do I call about this? I wonder if it's a methane hazard?
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