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Director Essentials: Tim Burton
Today's entry in the ongoing Director Essentials series focuses on the career of Tim Burton, who clearly died sometime around the turn of the century and was replaced by a soulless hack Tim Burton imitator. Pile your hair up on your head, crank the Danny Elfman dark carnival and misunderstand with me.
1. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) - Remember when Tim Burton didn't have to fake fun? This is a great first movie, filled with all kinds of visual invention, energy, stylistic tricks and little calling cards while still servicing the already-defined comic persona of another performer. A live action cartoon that's a great road movie and one of the best comedies of the 1980s. Tim Burton could almost only go down from here.
2. Batman (1989) - And go down he did. There's a lot that's good about Burton's first foray into big-budget movie making -- the production design and art direction are great, and there's a sense of weight and darkness to much of the film -- but it has dated horribly, and its flaws outweigh its strengths with every passing year. It's a landmark for comic book movies, and we might not have the current glut of superhero movies without it (for which Burton should be equally praised and blamed), but looking at it in 2011, one can already see the kinds of problems that would come up in Burton's movies 20 years later.
3. Edward Scissorhands (1990) - After getting swallowed up by the Hollywood machine, Burton came back with his most offbeat and personal movie (still to date). It's good, not great, but there's a large group of people who really, really love it. They're not all correct.
4. Batman Returns (1992) - This is much more of a Tim Burton movie than his first Batman (it might be more of a Tim Burton movie than a Batman movie), which is why it belongs on this list. It's as flawed as the first movie, albeit in very different ways, but there's still a lot to like. Ultimately too angry and ugly for the giant audiences that made the first film a hit.
5. Ed Wood (1994) -Still Tim Burton's masterpiece, Ed Wood contains everything he's good at as a filmmaker and says everything he wants to say. A great movie about outsiders forming a surrogate family, and the need to make personal art by any means necessary. Also, Johnny Depp's best performance.
6. Mars Attacks! (1996) - There's so much silliness and weirdness in this movie, and it's the last time we would see any of that from Tim Burton. He was once a terrific anarchist -- though even Mars Attacks! fails to be anything but soulless comic anarchy. Whereas a movie like Beetlejuice could be a lot of things, Burton's later movies were only able to be one thing at a time. I'll take this over what he's doing now, but Mars Attacks! marks the beginning of the end for Burton.
7. Sleepy Hollow (1999) - Burton's take on Hammer makes one wish he would do more horror movies. Gorgeous, gothic, bloody and funny.
8. Big Fish (2003) - The closest Tim Burton has come to making a real movie (or good movie) since the '90s, it's also one of his most accessible films. It's a fairly straightforward story, and the trademark weirdness he grafts onto it actually works for the most part. This is the movie that will be reducing fathers and sons to tears for years to come, not because it earns it entirely but because something has to and Brian's Song is now too old.
9. Alice in Wonderland (2010) - This is what has become of Tim Burton. Fuck him.
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'The Umbrella Academy' characters ranked by power
Let's take a look at these superpowered siblings
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It's time to evaluate each of the adoptive Hargreeves siblings to find out who comes out on top.
With season two just around the corner from being released on Netflix, we decided it was time to look at each of the seven gifted siblings and see whose powers are the most effective - not only in terms of pure brute force, but also how much the storyline revolves around each ability. So, who do you reckon is the most powerful member of 'The Umbrella Academy'?
Out of the forty-three superpowered babies born around the world in 1989, Reginald Hargreeves only managed to adopt just seven children for his private bidding. Let's take a dive into each character and see who comes out on top.
*Major spoilers for 'The Umbrella Academy' season one below*
7 - Ben
Starting at the bottom of our list, we've got good ol' Ben Hargreeves. Unfortunately for Ben, his literal presence is at the mercy of his brother Klaus, because depending on whether or not he is sober, we might not even end up seeing him on screen. His powers are quite incredible however - that is, if he ever gets to use them to their full effect. Ben has the ability to produce tentacles from another dimension from under his skin - handy if there's ever a few bads guys in his vicinity.
With him having to rely on his extremely unreliable brother, as well as him being a deceased member of the family, this is why he's placed at the very bottom of our list. Sorry Ben, maybe you can use your abilities in an alternate reality where you're alive or something?
6 - Klaus
Apart from Ben, Klaus has quite possibly the most random of "superpowers" amongst his siblings. Klaus has the ability to speak with the dead, as well as hire an army of the undead (should he be of sound mind and body to do so, of course). However, due to his excessive alcohol and drug consumption, his abilities have a way of disappearing when he needs them the most.
Due to Klaus' lack of credibility amongst his family, he is the least trustworthy of the lineup. Having said that, he is quite the charmer and has somehow managed to wrangle his way out of some very tricky situations, which has to count for something. As we can see from the season two promo, he's managed to become a cult leader in the '60s - so maybe he's on his way to becoming a much for powerful adversary. For now however, he's still the least powerful sibling who isn't dead.
5 - Luther
Luther, for all his huge size and leadership qualities, is a definite underperforming member of 'The Umbrella Academy'. He is nicknamed "Number One" for a reason - think of him as 'The Umbrella Academy' version of X-Men leader Cyclops.
Gifted with the ability of super strength and durability, Luther has also had his DNA altered by his father. In order to save his life, Reginald Hargreeves granted him a more ape-like appearance by injecting him with a super-serum, which he is very selfconscious about. Looking like he's all brute force, there's really just a big softie underneath his foreboding exterior. Must try harder, Luther.
4 - Diego
Going from one foreboding exterior to a steely one, Diego is certainly the most headstrong sibling of the bunch. He has the ability to manipulate objects and throw them at a specific target - with his weapon of choice being a sharpened knife. Number Two in the family is also a very skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
Unfortunately for Diego, due to his inability to get along very well with his adoptive siblings, he's quite the lone wolf and prefers to do things by his own rules and often gets left on the sidelines. He didn't have too many opportunities to shine in season one, so we're looking forward to seeing him use to powers to a fuller effect when the series returns to Netflix.
3 - Allison
With the ability to put her victims under her influence and do her bidding, Allison is quite the force to be reckoned with. By saying the words "I heard a rumour..." she can force anyone who hears her to do what she pleases - whether that's to make her a cup of tea, or to punch themselves in the face.
A major downside is that those who know Allison may not trust her all that well, due to her having such a spellbinding superpower. She admits to using her four little words to get her own way at times, and last time we saw her, she wasn't even able to speak. So if she can't speak, then there's no superpowers. Season two is going to be very interesting for Allison indeed.
2 - Vanya
It's always the quiet ones, isn't it? Vanya begins to awaken her powers mid-way through the first season, with her possessing no memory of ever having any abilities while growing up. Thanks to her medication, which she begins to ditch, and due to her being treated as the outcast of the family, all of her suppressed feelings finally take its toll on Vanya, turning her into The White Violin.
Vanya, with all of her anxiety and deeply troubled past comes in a very close runner-up of most powerful member of 'The Umbrella Academy'. All that trauma had to escape at some point, and nearly blowing up an entire planet is a sure-fire way of claiming the top prize. However, there's one other sibling who clinches the title...
1 - Number Five
Let's face it, without Number Five, none of these storylines would have ever been possible. Being the catalyst of season one, the time-traveller, and a wise-cracking OAP stuck in a teenager's body - the winner has to be Number Five. Graced with the nifty ability to teleport himself and anyone he touches to a different location, or a different era in time, he's certainly the most powerful one in the Hargreeves family arsenal.
Although Five's plans never, ever go according to plan, he's the one who is always left with the job of picking up the broken family's pieces. He saved them all from the Apocalypse in season one, but can he save them from it all over again in season two? We'll have to wait and see what trials await them...
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Critics round-up: Mariinsky at Covent Garden, Homage to Fokine
The second of six programmes brought to London by the Mariinsky was a triple bill of Mikhail Fokine's choreography: Chopiniana, The Firebird and Scheherazade. The Times explained the programming:
In the space of two years, Mikhail Fokine created a trio of works that helped to change our perception of classical ballet. Chopinianaembodied the very idea of abstract ballet; The Firebird was a dramatic burst of Russian folklore; and Schéhérazade was a blaze of exotic Orientalism and sensational colour. No wonder audiences at the Ballets Russes in pre-First World War Paris were enthralled.
So were the London critics a century later:
Aspects of the design and staging may fall short of authenticity, but these ballets fill the stage with a blast of colour and conviction that triumph over many more careful revivals.
said The Guardian. Sarah Frater in The Evening Standard gave a bit of background,
It may seem blindingly obvious to us today but when the Mariinsky-trained Fokine insisted that the choreographic style and dramatic subject should relate to one another, and that choreography, music and design should be artistically unified and not randomly assembled, his ideas were met with hostility in the then Tsarist Russia.
Chopiniana
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The Independent thought this the best of the three ballets,
They're at their best in Chopiniana, the ballet known in the west as Les Sylphides. Harking back to the Romantic ballets of the 1830s, Fokine shows a poet dancing with airy sylphs in a glade. Mariinsky sylphs have lighter hearts than their western counterparts. Orest Allegri's forest set suggests the end of a long summer evening; no dank midnight or Gothic abbeys here. There's a hint of sunshine in the light, brisk dancing.
This ballet was created for the company and, as The Financial Times notes,
St Petersburg's traditions have guarded this romantic reverie since its creation there in 1908, and the cast illuminates every moment. "Reaching for the moon", as Fokine told Alicia Markova, they dance with the softest accents, the lightest gusts of feeling as of step.
The Mariinsky's corps de ballet has always been its trump card. The Guardian said,
The female soloists are impressive, but it's the corps, in their collectively exquisite softness and their attention to Romantic style (delicately averted faces, thistledown jumps) who remind us of the poetry, as well as the drama that made Europe first fall in love so completely with the Russians.
And The Sunday Times spotted the expat:
… and as the Poet who has conjured this vision, Xander Parish, recruited last year from the corps ranks of the Royal Ballet to become the first British dancer ever to join the Mariinsky. Strong and with a long, elegant line, he was excellent in partnering, if less secure in solo.
Second up was
The Firebird
Photo: Ekaterina Kondaurova; © Natasha Razina
The Mariinsky Firebird, which forms the centrepiece of the programme, may suffer from slightly Disneyfied designs (reconstructions of the 1910 original), and from shamelessly acrobatic tweaks to the choreography. But such issues are submerged in the thrilling spectacle of the dancing. The monsters in the Infernal Dance mass and surge like creatures from a nightmare, while Ekaterina Kondaurova is a Firebird of scorching intensity. Physically, she's perfect for the role, with her long, strong body, her glittering, scouring gaze. But she's also more completely in character than almost any ballerina I've seen, from the flickering, flaring detail of her hands and eyes to the self-immolating ferocity of her jump.
said The Guardian. The Sunday Times agreed,
Ekaterina Kondaurova was a tremendous Firebird, long-limbed, soaringly thrilling in flight, exotically glamorous, powerfully authoritative in quelling the evil magician's cohort of demons.
and so did everybody else: The Times,
Ekaterina Kondaurova was exotically beautiful, dancing with creamy strength and an alluring diva hauteur.
The FT,
I was bowled over by the huge shapes carved in the air by Ekaterina Kondaurova as the Firebird
The Telegraph,
Firebird was further spiced, above all, by a stunning central performance from first soloist Ekaterina Kondaurova. Blessed with film-star cheekbones and a long but fleet physique, she was as skittish and elemental as a firefly (apt to say the least), but also lustrously feminine and utterly authoritative.
The Standard,
Ekaterina Kondaurova as the Firebird dominated the performance. Her nimble, darting style and sustained characterisation exactly captured the Firebird's fearsome independence. There was almost a Carmen quality to her longing to be free.
And so on… The star of the show.
Scheherazade
Photo: Diana Vishneva
The Times points out that,
In Isabelle Fokine and Liepa's hands, Schéhérazade is a fevered melodrama more vulgar than voluptuous. Yet even so, it's a marvel of serpentine sexuality and orgiastic abandon, though the reproduction of Bakst's designs are less flamboyant than the original.
The Mariinsky field two stellar leads,
Diana Vishneva enjoys herself as the unfaithful queen Zobeide, all crimson lipstick and yearning limbs. Igor Zelensky lacks the explosive technique, and the sensuality, to be the Golden Slave she lusts after.
said The Independent. The Telegraph thought differently,
As the sultan's ill-fated favourite, Zobeide, Diana Vishneva put her wasp-waisted abdomen to simply astonishing use. And, if Igor Zelensky's age is now telling in his jumping – he no longer appears to dance mid-flight, as he used to – his fusion of crisp technique and shameless braggadocio made him a worthy object of her affections. In their hands, Fokine's duets looked like lust incarnate, even if Zelensky did accidentally administer a mid-turn wallop to one unfortunate wife.
The Arts Desk loved the dancing but wa even more taken by the décor,
Originally choreographed for Nijinksy, there is a heroic role for Igor Zelensky, who performs manfully, and Diana Vishneva, his adoring odalisque, who purrs felinely beside him. But apart from Zelensky's show-stopper turns, the piece is primarily focused on the vivid, glittering décor, all jewel colours and bare midriffs. Bakst's oranges, purples, turquoises, his depiction of an elegantly savage harem, entranced Paris a century ago, and today it continues to charm, without perhaps ever being able to shock, or even surprise, as it once so obviously did.
The Guardian, as all of the London critics, loved the central couple,
Diana Vishneva and Igor Zelensky are completely compelling as Zobeide and the Golden Slave. Initially, the silky, mannered eroticism of their dancing appears exaggerated to the point of narcissism. Yet they're portraying two beautiful creatures, reared in captivity for decoration and sex. Zobeide only knows how to move like a concubine, the Slave like a show animal (at 42, Zelensky dances like a man 10 years his junior). When a glimmer of spontaneous emotion breaks through their love duet, the effect is peculiarly touching.
Another success from the Mariinsky then. As The Telegraph says,
The Mariinsky Ballet's tribute to the great Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokine (1880-1942) is a multifarious, multicoloured delight.
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What's not to love about satay? It's seasoned meat that's easy to whip up and delicious to boot. This recipe was first published in Flavours magazine.
Blend all ingredients finely, and season to taste.
Blend coriander, cumin and lemongrass till fine, adding a little water if necessary. Mix with the rest of the marinade ingredients, then marinate chicken for at least 1 hour in the fridge.
Thread 4 to 5 chicken pieces on each skewer, and grill over charcoal fire, constantly basting with the lemongrass skewer dipped in oil. Once one side is done, turn over.
Serve with peanut sauce, freshly-cut cucumber and onions and ketupat on the side.
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…and welcome to the blog of WIZARDMARRAS DRYSTONE WIRELESS SHOW numero 4 and before I say anything else this one is dedicated to my THIRD GRANDCHILD who made here way into the world on June 20th weighing 7lbs 12ozs her name is ELLIE GRACE ARROWSMITH and the most beautiful baby I have ever laid eyes upon.
You'll find the links on their myspace but it's easy to miss stuff sometimes and I really recommend you to check out their myspace page as it has a couple of truly wonderful YOUTUBE vids that you simply must see. One is of the legendary Irish drinking band THE DUBLINERS demonstrating how to play instruments together! The other clip is of I know not who, to say it's a group of semi naked men in a waterfall pool could give entirely the wrong impression. These guys are making fantastic music, mind blowingly breathtaking amazing music that you won't believe. Watch it all.
Mikey Grant sent me the track by DUMB INSTRUMENT through my demo upload page on my website. This is music to make your flesh creep (in a good way) it's the stories they tell that send a pleasurable thrill of unease through you. They are timely songs that make poignant comments about todays world with truth by the bucket load. Simply put they tell it like it is but underscored with beautiful tunes. This track has also been featured on Radio One making the late play list.
For those who don't live in Scotland "Neds" are "Chavs" ( or insert your own name for troublesome youths).
This track is for me one so synonymous with Solfest that it gives me extra special goosebumps every time I hear it. Emma and the Professor were another act who played on the Drystone Stage in it's debut year and it's special because of that. Emma Heath and The Professor (Mark Davies) have an on stage chemistry that spreads outwards off the stage in waves. Then you take Emmas soaring vocals and Marks super funky bodrahn playing (that really takes the instrument into new dimensions) and you have sheer unalloyed pleasure. Nowadays they are augmented by Jonathan Draper aka Jonny Cello on cello (surprise) and Kevin Willoughby on Bass and the mix is even better. Another act to see at Glasson Music Festival this coming weekend. Although I'll miss them as I'll be back I Carlisle on Saturday for the Spinners.
Rory Connor finished the Drystones contribution to last years Solfest and as I say on the podcast they were my favourite act of the weekend and not just because I'd finished my compering duties for the night and I could completely relax. No, they were just a damn good band making fine music. They are back this year, appearing on one night as The Rory Connor Band and then with a slightly different line up as TARRAS making a return to the stage after far too long an absence. In truth I should say that some members of Tarras are in the Rory Connor Band and Rory is a new member of the reformed Tarras, along with Ben from Digitalis and a few others. Confused you won't be just enjoy the tunes, that's what counts.
Jaca (Julie Armstrong) is a petite lady whose size belies the power of her voice, and what a fantastic voice it is too. At last years Solfest she was attending as a journalist standing in front of the stage wishing she was on it, she told me this in the letter accompanying her demo and when I put it on, well there was no question about it. She had a gig at the next one. She calls to mind Tori Amos, Regina Spector, and yes there's Joni Mitchell there too. Check out the article in the Cumberland News.
This is an exclusive recording and mix of Wills new song "Officer" and there are one or two swear words in it and it deals with subjects that some may find offensive. But it IS a comedy song and if anyone should be upset by it then I hear and now apologize. But it is a joke and an extremely well written one at that. It had the audience in stitches at the Spinners when he premièred it and it is for his many fans that I take pleasure in including it here.
A bit of nonsense from me from some while ago, as a welcome to the world and hello to Ellie.
The official very first band on the Drystone. Lead by Stephen (Spud) Murphy who also played solo set last year. It's pure pop and sumptuously good at that.
Next one hopefully a bit sooner. We're less than two months away from Solfest now so I'm hoping to put a couple of these out a month until then. There are still tickets available if you want to come along and enjoy the bestest ever festival there is.


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Official Secrets: Best Movie So Far This Year
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The true story of British whistleblower Katharine Gun is public. The new movie dramatizing that story, with Keira Knightley in the starring role is called a thriller. And that it is.
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How can a known event be made into a suspenseful thriller? In part this is possible because the story is a complex one that few know the details of, and in part because most people don't know anything about anything. There's too much information in the world, and most of it is useless or worse. The story of a whistleblower who took great risks to expose the greatest possible crimes by people holding the most power in the world is not the bit of information that has been most repeated over the past 16 years since it happened. In fact, it's hardly been mentioned at all in corporate media.
I recommend not reading anything about Katharine Gun until after you see Official Secrets. And what I write about the movie here will avoid revealing much at all. But feel free to go watch the movie first and then come back to this.
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The movie has no fights, no shootings, no car chases, no monsters, no nudity; and the closest thing it has to demonized villains you love to hate are actual politicians in actual television clips that the characters in the movie watch on their TVs. And yet, the movie is thrilling. It is gripping.
The film's director Gavin Hood also directed a god-awful piece of propaganda called Eye in the Sky. He claimed to intend it to raise important moral questions, while in fact it purported to justify the most immoral actions on the basis of a fantastic scenario that has never existed in the real world and never will. But that interest in moral questions has now borne fruit. Official Secrets is a dramatic confrontation of moral choices, and an important model because the protagonist makes a wise and courageous choice each time.
The official "trailer" for Official Secrets reveals that the general context is U.S. and U.K. lies about reasons to attack Iraq in 2003. Katharine Gun leaks evidence of wrongdoing in an attempt to prevent a war that she expects to be disastrous. Her colleagues don't act. Her superiors don't act. A whistleblower is a rarity. But others do help, without whom the leak would have accomplished nothing. Peace activists help with the leak. Journalists work to confirm the story. Government officials help to confirm it, and to allow it to be published. A newspaper that openly and explicitly supports launching the war, values the news scoop as a reason to consider publishing the story. Even a lawyer who since then has done more for justifying drone murders than any movie, takes a stand for peace.
Gun continues to worry about preventing a war, but also worries about her colleagues who come under suspicion for the leak. Should she admit her guilt, clear her colleagues, and verify the story? What will best confirm the story for the public? What will best promote future whistleblowing? Does the fate of her colleagues even weigh into a matter that threatens many thousands or millions of lives? Does the fate of her marriage or of her husband, who could be put at risk? How does she draw the distinction that all whistleblowers draw between something so evil that it crosses a line and all the dubious work she has done for years without protest? The film thrusts us into all of these questions and many more.
If Gun is caught, or if she turns herself in, should she plan to plead guilty and obtain the lightest penalty? Or should she plead not-guilty and seek, through a trial, the exposure of government documents that would further expose the criminality of the war -- at the risk of a lengthy prison sentence? What will achieve the best outcome in the long run? If the war happens anyway, but shamefully and clearly illegally without global support or a UN vote, will that be a failure? Can courage inspire others to blow the whistle, even if the goal is not achieved? What if the courage is quickly forgotten? What if it's made known potentially to vastly more than ever knew about it, through a movie that's widely viewed years later?
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My first year as a teacher, I was a paid intern. In the State of California, schools can hire teachers that aren't fully licensed, so long as they are in the process of getting their credential. In my case, all of that training teachers get before they are in charge of their own classrooms, I wasn't educated to the level of a first-year teacher. I was learning to build the boat while casting off to sea.
So, at the start, I was already behind. But I thought I knew enough to get started. Boy, did I have a lot of learning to do. So, when my site offered PD, I did my best to soak it up, but they were sharing the same insights I was getting in my credential program. Sometimes the presentations were good, but most of the time it was mediocre. And I did have to sit through some really bad PD as well.
If you're PD experience was anything like mine, there is hope for you! In the next section, I'm going to share the four signs that may show that you may lack development as teacher and what you can do about it.
The Four Signs Your Development as a Teacher May Be Delayed.
Below I will describe some of my experience with Professional Development over the past 13 years, which I think has contributed to my stunted growth. After that, I will give you a peak into five different ways I have come from behind to catch up, five things you can start doing tomorrow to get better.
1. Your PD planners and presenters assume what you need to know. If I were to string together all the hours that I have attended PD, most of them were framed where those attending needed to know whatever the presenter is sharing. And there have been times where I truly needed to know something that was presented, but I have had plenty of experiences where the presentation wasn't a benefit for me at all. It may have been for a select few in the audience, but many people had either had this training before or they were well-versed in the ins and outs of the topic. And that's how these "presenter knows best" approaches seem to go: they only apply to about 30% of those in the room. The worst ones are when it is PD for everyone instead of disciplinary action for the three faculty members that are resisting some sort of needed change.
2. Most of your PD is One-Size-Fits-All. Cleverly disguised as a staff meeting, your stuck in a big room with your whole site who either teach completely different subjects and/or grade-levels than you. It will be on a topic like "differentiated instruction," which is a great element of teacher practice that teachers need training in. However, the applications of differentiated instruction are so varied and subject specific, there is no way to make this apply to everyone at the meeting. In my experience, presenters will maximize the time discussing the principles and then minimize the time demonstrating application. The application is also narrow, like a math concept/problem.
3. Most, if not all, of your PD is at the beginner-level. I have attended PD where the topic was energizing. I was looking forward to a deep dive into a given instructional strategy or tech tool, only to walk away disappointed because we only scratched the surface of the application. I have attended training with tech where the allotted time only allowed us to create a username, a password, and set up elements of our profile. That's it! Many times when this happens, it's clear that there are several teachers in the audience who could take that presentation much further. I wish someone would ask those expert teachers to lead a break-out session half way through for either (1) the more advanced learners, or (2) in subject-specific areas.
4. Most of your PD presenters have been the "Sage on the Stage." Most of time, presenters are the know-it-alls in front of the group, or at least that's the way that it's they come across. They present the material–usually run through a poorly designed PowerPoint with way too much text on each slide–then they field questions only about the content they presented (which teachers tend to use as a platform to complain about something they have been asked to do). This may not be the presenter's fault either, it could be the design of the space where the PD is taking place (Is it only set up for lecture, with seats in rows facing a front? What's the lighting like, dark?).
1. Attend Conferences. These have been going on forever. There are probably two or three that will be held within driving distance from your house this next year. It's never been easier to find information about these events with the internet, so find them and attend. If you can get your district or site to pay for your registration, great! If not, pay your own way. Having to pony up that fee on your own will make you sit up a little straighter and get more out of your experience.
2. Read Books. There are great books out there written by those still in the trenches (and by that I mean teachers in the classroom). See what the latest research says. Discover a whole host of strategies. If you're looking to improve your general practice as a teacher, there are plenty of options. But if you're looking for something in a particular niche, there are even more of those. Hypothetically speaking, you may be looking for a little more insight about using a Writer's Notebook with your students, so, I don't know, maybe you look here.
If you want more, then a good place to start is the Education Podcast Network.
4. Take an Online Course. This approach is growing in popularity, especially if you're more introverted and the concept of networking at a conference made you anxious. This is like a conference on video. Great teachers are taking their best practices and teaching others how to use them in their classroom. This past semester, I took Dave Stuart Jr's Student Motivation Course, and it was awesome! Not only did he whittle down all of his insight from all the research his done, he distilled it into "use it in your classroom tomorrow" applications. And, if you have ever walked away from a great PD and thought, "I wish I could go back and hear it all over again," Well, now you can!
5. Build Collaboration Online. I am just a beginner at this one, but the applications for social media in the teacher-space is getting really interesting. There are all kinds of ways teachers are engaging other teachers online and learning from one another.
If you're looking to learn more about certain instructional strategies, there may be a Facebook group for that (like, I don't know, a Writer's Notebook).
I plan to go gradeless next year, but I'm going to need a lot of support. The people at my site aren't doing this, so I have joined the TG2 Facebook Group. I have posed several questions there and received some great replies!
There are Twitter hashtags out there that are great to follow. If you throw a question out there with the right hashtag, the teacher collaboration on Twitter is so great, several teachers are bound to answer it.
With Twitter, you can just ask a teacher-writer a direct question. I was confused about something I read in Kelly Gallgher's Write Like This, so I just snapped a pic and sent him the question. Not only did he respond, at least one other teacher jumped in and further clarified the concept!
Follow blogs (like this one). As topics trickle in that you care about, you will get linked with a lot of other resources.
Now that you know what's out there, it's up to you to take your professional development to the next level! What are you waiting for?


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Wedding Customs: Highland Park designer says the right dress can be a 'life-changing' experience
"I love that fashion can be whatever the girl wants it to be now."
by Rebecca Nuttall
Photo by Sarah Wilson Jen Rocket in her Highland Park Studio
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Wedding Customs
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Outside-the-Box Venues
Tying Your Own Knot
Behind-the-scenes Cover Shoot
As a fourth-generation seamstress, you could say sewing is in Jen Rocket's blood. The 32-year-old wedding-dress designer first got her hands on a sewing machine at age 5 and has been at it ever since.
"From the age of 3, I was with my mom in her studio begging to get on the [sewing] machine," says Rocket. "She likes to tell the story of how when I finally got on the machine, I lit up and she didn't see me smile like that again until my wedding day."
At Rocket's Highland Park studio, racks are filled with wedding dresses of all shapes and sizes. Some are her original creations; others are store-bought and in need of alterations; Rocket's custom dresses start at around $1,300.
Even though she only opened her studio in 2012, Rocket has gained notoriety as a go-to seamstress for wedding alterations and custom gowns. Surprisingly, though, she says she never had her sights set on the wedding industry.
"I always thought, 'Why would I do wedding gowns? It must be really high stress,'" says Rocket. "But after I made my wedding gown, it was just abundantly clear that there was magic in this."
That dress was a pink satin gown with a detachable ruffled train. It was inspired by a 15-year-old Vogue pattern she discovered years ago.
"I saw the design and something sparked," says Rocket, who's been married for four years. "The night I was engaged, I ran to my studio and pulled that pattern out and I knew it. That's the feeling you want."
It's a feeling Rocket sees often when brides visit her studio for dress fittings.
"Some girls are very emotionally attached to their dresses and the closer we get to the final fitting, the more excited they get," she says. "There's so much feeling that goes into a wedding gown. Whether it's a big puffy cupcake dress from David's Bridal or a chic bohemian soft creation from one of the designers at Glitter and Grit. It can be life changing."
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Final scheduling decisions and reasons: NCEs and Appendix H
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1.1. Appendix H
2.1. Crisaborole
2.2. Brigatinib
2.3. Lanadelumab
2.4. Romosozumab
Part A - Final decisions on matters not referred to an expert advisory committee
1. Delegate-only decisions on Schedule 3 substances to be added to Appendix H of the Poisons Standard
Delegate's final decision
Final decision:
The delegate's final decision is to amend Appendix H of the Poisons Standard as follows:
Appendix H - New entries:
CICLOPIROX
CLOBETASONE
ISOCONAZOLE
KETOPROFEN
NALOXONE
OXICONAZOLE
PODOPHYLLOTOXIN
PODOPHYLLUM EMODI (podophyllin)
PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM (podophyllin)
TIOCONAZOLE
Index - Amend Entries
Appendix H
Appendix F, Part 3
cross reference: SILICOFLUORIDES
Appendix E, Part 2
Appendix G
cross reference: ASPIRIN, IBUPROFEN, METOCLOPRAMIDE, SALICYLAMIDE, CAFFEINE
cross reference: PODOPHYLLIN
cross reference: CHOLINE SALICYLATE
Appendix F, Part 3, Part 2
Proposed implementation date:
There is no potential for abuse, inappropriate use and/or diversion that may be exacerbated by advertising.
There are no potential interactions with the substances (drug-drug, drug-food) that require increased patient education to ensure safe use and therefore patient choice could be adversely influenced by advertising.
There are no additional risks associated with the dosage form that may impact on safe use that may be exacerbated by advertising.
There is no other information that may be relevant, for example the substance has sedating properties, or there are safer alternatives available and therefore patient choice could be adversely influenced by advertising.
The matters under subsection 52E (1) of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 considered relevant by the delegate for the decision include:
The outcome of the Appendix H review;
Consideration of the submissions in response to the public consultation and feedback from stakeholder workshops;
The Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council's Scheduling Policy Framework (2018) stating that Schedule 3 substances will be include in Appendix H unless it is determined that advertising is not appropriate for a particular substance; and
Section 52E of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, in particular (a) the risks and benefits of the use of a substance; (b) the purposes for which a substance is to be used and the extent of use of a substance; (c) the toxicity of a substance; (d) the dosage, formulation, labelling, packaging and presentation of a substance; (e) the potential for abuse of a substance; and (f) any other matters that the Secretary considers necessary to protect public health.
The delegate has also decided to refer the following substances to the ACMS for further advice:
Glyceryl trinitrate
Scheduling proposal and reasons for proposal
Advertisements to the public for therapeutic goods must not contain any reference to a substance included in Schedule 3 of the Poisons Standard[1], unless the substance is also listed in Appendix H of the Poisons Standard.[2]
Up until 2018, substances in Schedule 3 were not included in Appendix H, unless an adequate justification was presented as to the reasons for including the substance in Appendix H. Currently there are only 19 of 85 Schedule 3 substances included in Appendix H. As mentioned, the current Scheduling Policy Framework (2018) states that Schedule 3 substances will be included in Appendix H unless it is determined that advertising is not appropriate for a particular substance.
To facilitate the transition of substances to Appendix H, it was agreed that the current Schedule 3 substances would be considered via consultation, and specific rescheduling applications from individual stakeholders would not be required.
A consultation paper inviting comments on proposals to add a number of Schedule 3 substances to Appendix H of the Poisons Standard was published on the TGA website on 4 June 2018, and closed on 9 July 2018. This consultation was the culmination of input from stakeholders at targeted consultation activities held at the TGA in February and March of 2018, and led to the development of draft Guidelines for advertisements for medicines containing Schedule 3 Substances.
[1] Advertisements available exclusively (e.g. through genuine professional or trade journals) to healthcare professionals or persons engaged in the wholesale therapeutic goods trade are not subject to this requirement.
[2] See also Sections 42AA and 42DL of Part 5-1 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989; Part 3 Miscellaneous Regulations, Section One - Advertising, in the Poisons Standard and Part 2 of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990.
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WhatsApp Rolling Out QR Codes for Contacts, Dark Mode for Mac App, and More
Thursday July 2, 2020 2:42 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
WhatsApp has announced it is rolling out a number of new features across its app, web, and desktop variants, including a QR code scanning option for contacts and a new Dark mode theme that extends to computers.
WhatsApp has been extensively testing the use of QR codes on mobile to let users add contacts to the messaging app instead of typing in digits one by one, and it sounds like it's almost ready to go live.
Currently WhatsApp users must first add a contact via the Contacts tab in Apple's Phone app. Only after that can they open WhatsApp and send them a message. Using a QR code instead would skip this step and make the process a lot more convenient.
Meanwhile, following the recent added ability to video chat with up to eight people, WhatsApp is bringing new improvements to group video calls. It's now easier to focus on someone in a call by pressing and holding to maximize their video to full screen. There's also a new video icon for group chats of 8 or less, making it easier to start a group video call with a single tap.
WhatsApp says animated stickers are one of the fastest growing ways people communicate on the platform, so it's also rolling out "more fun and expressive" animated sticker packs. In addition, KaiOS users can now enjoy the popular feature that lets them share updates that disappear after 24 hours.
Finally, while Dark Mode on WhatsApp for iPhone arrived earlier this year, the same feature is now coming to the web version of the chat platform as well as WhatsApp for Mac.
WhatsApp says these features are rolling out to users over the next few weeks. WhatsApp is a free download for iPhone and Mac available on the iOS App Store [Direct Link] and Mac App Store [Direct Link], respectively.
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Ryan_Mak
Still waiting on an iPad and Apple Watch app.
Marbles1
WhatsApp is such a great example of network effects. A technically poor app that is only used widely becuase it's used widely.
RichMercer
And yet there's still no iPad app. ?
cupcakes2000
Yes. No iPad app is a ridiculous pita
LiE_
+1 for iPad app.
sn00p
This is just going to be a thread full of "And still no iPad App".
But yes, still no iPad app. (And that's the reason I stopped using WhatsApp)


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Scion A/V Metal and Nuclear Blast Records are teaming up on November 12th to deliver the first event in the new series: the Scion Label Showcase. The live recorded event will take place at The Roxy in West Hollywood, CA and will feature Exodus, All Shall Perish, Origin, and Decrepit Birth. Admission is free (though not guaranteed) via an RSVP here.
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Michael O'Hare of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the management of art museums. O'Hare suggests a number of changes that would allow museums to be more effective and to justify their non-profit status–lower admission prices, selling part of their substantial unseen inventory to other museums, and broadening the activities of the museum to include educational exhibits on the creation of art and the commercial side of art. He encourages trustees of museums to see their job more as tough-minded advisors and less as financiers of museum budgets.
A direct link to the audio is available here.
We're in the middle of a healthcare revolution but it's about more than marvelous life-saving and life-enhancing apps on our smartphone. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and author of The Patient Will See You Now argues that the digital revolution will give us more control of our health information and data. More powerful patients will transform the doctor-patient interaction. Topol talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book giving us a glimpse of the changes coming to medicine from the digital revolution.
Did an 800-year old piece of parchment really change the world? Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Magna Carta, the founding document of English law and liberty. The Magna Carta was repudiated just ten weeks after King John issued it. Yet, its impact is still with us today. In this conversation, Vincent explains what led to the Magna Carta and how its influence remains with us today in England and elsewhere.
Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political economy of megaprojects–massive investments of a billion dollars or more in infrastructure or technology. Flyvbjerg argues that such projects consistently end up costing more with smaller benefits than projected and almost always end up with costs that exceed the benefits. Flyvbjerg explores the reasons for the poor predictions and poor performance of giant investment projects and what might be done to improve their effectiveness.
Is climate change the ultimate Black Swan? Martin Weitzman of Harvard University and co-author of Climate Shock talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the risks of climate change. Weitzman argues that climate change is a fat-tailed phenomenon–there is a non-trivial risk of a catastrophe. Though Weitzman concedes that our knowledge of the climate is quite incomplete, he suggests that it is prudent to take serious measures, including possibly geo-engineering, to reduce the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Nathaniel Popper of the New York Times and the author of Digital Gold talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Bitcoin. Can Bitcoin make it? What went wrong with Mt. Gox? Why did Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, just get sentenced to life in prison? Why are venture capital firms pouring millions of dollars into companies promising easier ways to use Bitcoin? Popper discusses these questions along with the technical side of Bitcoin to help listeners understand why so many investors are excited about the potential of Bitcoin.
What's it like to hang out with Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell for two months? Adam Davidson, who writes for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, was the technical advisor to the upcoming movie, The Big Short. Besides rubbing shoulders with celebrities, he noticed what he calls the Hollywood model where highly talented workers come together temporarily in project-based employment. Davidson discusses the costs and benefits of this approach and its potential emergence as a more common phenomenon throughout the economy.
Morten Jerven of Simon Frasier University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong. Jerven, who will be joining Noragric at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences this fall, argues that economists have misread the economic history of Africa, ignoring successful episodes of economic growth while trying to explain a perpetual malaise that does not exist. Jerven is critical of many of the attempts to explain growth using econometric techniques and suggests that a richer approach is necessary that is aware of the particular circumstances facing poor countries.
Science writer and author Matt Ridley discusses climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Based on his reading of the scientific evidence, Ridley describes himself as a "lukewarmer." While Ridley agrees that humans have made the climate warmer, he argues that the impact is small or positive over some temperature ranges and regions. He rejects the catastrophic scenarios that some say are sufficiently likely to justify dramatic policy responses, and he reflects on the challenges of staking out an unpopular position on a contentious policy issue.
Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on matching markets. Examples include marriage, matching kidney donors to kidney recipients, and students to schools in cities that allow choice in their public school systems. Roth also discusses repugnance–the unease some people have with allowing buying and selling of some goods and what it's like to watch a kidney transplant knowing your research has helped make the surgery possible.
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Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1760s was a hotbed of radical political activity and the scene of constant violent protest against British colonial policy. Much of the credit for the Revolutionary stance of Bostonians belongs to Sam Adams and a group that came to be known as his "Sons of Liberty" (or the "Boston Mob" as some called them).
Adams, a Boston attorney and John Adams' cousin, hardly seemed like a revolutionary. revolution. "He had a sunken chest, a sallow complexion, and 'wishy-washy gray eyes,'" wrote one historian, and his "lips twitched and trembled, for he suffered from palsy." Financially, he was a loser: he dressed poorly and earned little.
Like his more successful cousin, Sam Adams was a devout Christian, beginning his day with prayers and ending the evenings with Bible-reading. One might expect, then, that "freedom of religion" would have dominated his political rhetoric. Instead, Adams saw the central connection between free religious expression, property rights, and political liberty. In 1768, his Boston Gazette editorial admonished fellow colonists that "the security of right and property . . . is the great end of government [and] such measure as tend to render right and property precarious, tend to destroy both property and government. . . ."
Concerns over property rights rapidly led Adams to a position of opposing British imperial policies, and turning him into a fiery radical and rabble-rouser. He organized political opposition to the British in the Massachusetts colonial assembly and soon became the colony's most effective Revolutionary propagandist. Nor did Adams confine his activities to non-violent polemics. One of the most fascinating aspects of Adams' career was his organization and leadership of the Sons of Liberty.
Adams contended that the colonists had to oppose British tyranny dramatically—even with violence. He and members of the "Loyal Nine," a secret group of Boston radicals, welded together a corps of husky South Boston "bully boys" to perform some of the more unsavory revolutionary tasks, including intimidating tax collectors and threatening British officials. Mob violence had always plagued Boston, but now the rioters attained a political role, which brought with it a certain revolutionary legitimacy.
The Sons of Liberty were under the direct command of Adams, who called the Mob out whenever he determined that a British action demanded a protest. Early on, he learned a trick of modern political protestors by making the riots appear spontaneous. Of course, Adams controlled them with precision, and aimed actions only at Royal officials, politicians, or tax collectors. The Mob burned Royalists in effigy from the "Liberty Tree," stoned their houses, and tarred and feathered customs collectors. When Tory John Robinson was married, the Sons of Liberty surrounded his home on the honeymoon night, broke out all the windows, and shouted obscenities at the newlyweds until dawn.
But not all of the Mob's activities were so prankish. Following passage of the Stamp Act (1765) the Sons of Liberty completely demolished Stamp Commissioner Oliver's home and drank the entire contents of his wine cellar. He resigned his post the next day. Then the Mob proceeded in a drunken rage to Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson's home, where an observer described the scene:
With respects to the Lieut. Governor's House, where they ended their vile [transactions]…they had rais'd a greater Number and were intoxicated with Liquor, broke trio Windows, threw all his furniture out of kilo House, stamp'd upon the Chairs, Mahogany Tables, very handsome Large gilt-framed Pictures, the Pieces of which lay in Piles in the Street, open'd his Beds and let all the Feathers out, took ten thousand pounds in Cash, took all his Cloathes, Linnen, Plate, and everything he had, cut the Balcony off the Top of his House, pulled down all the Fruit Trees in his Garden, and did him in all 25,000 pounds damage.
Adams and the Sons of Liberty continued their activities until Independence was declared in 1776. The British government simply could not cope with the hundreds of rabble-rousers who took part in these riots, and after British troops fired on snowball-throwing civilians in the "Boston Massacre" of 1770, the image of the Royal Government dropped beyond redemption. Adams also likely played a role in organizing the band of "Indians" that held a "tea party" in Boston Harbor in 1773.
By 1775 the American Revolution was inevitable. The battles at Lexington and Concord were simply formalized versions of the resistance that had been going on in the streets of Boston for 10 years. The Sons of Liberty introduced violence into the British-American dispute and made reconciliation impossible, which was Adams' goal all along, namely to alienate the moderates and make them choose sides. Events also revealed that "news" and "propaganda" often were one and the same, depending on who did the "reporting." With that strategy in mind, Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty proved that rioting, looting, and violence—disgusting as they often were—could be effective Revolutionary tools.
A. J. Langguth, Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988)
John C. Miller, Origins of the American Revolution (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1943), quotation on 135.
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Q: Making different group of sequential null data in pyspark I have data that contain sequential null and I want to make those sequential null data to different group
I have data like below

group_num
days
time
useage

1
20200101
1
10

1
20200101
2
10

1
20200101
3
null

2
20200102
1
30

2
20200102
2
null

2
20200102
3
null

2
20200102
4
50

2
20200102
5
null

3
20200105
10
null

3
20200105
11
null

3
20200105
12
5

What I want to do in this data is that make null_group data in usage as the group.
I want to make the same null group if null data is sequential. And also I want to make different null group if null data is not sequential or have different group_num.

group_num
days
time
useage
null_group

1
20200101
1
10

1
20200101
2
10

1
20200101
3
null
group1

2
20200102
1
30

2
20200102
2
null
group2

2
20200102
3
null
group2

2
20200102
4
50

2
20200102
5
null
group3

3
20200105
10
null
group4

3
20200105
11
null
group4

3
20200105
12
5

Or maybe make new data that only contain null data with different group.

group_num
days
time
useage
null_group

1
20200101
3
null
group1

2
20200102
2
null
group2

2
20200102
3
null
group2

2
20200102
5
null
group3

3
20200105
10
null
group4

3
20200105
11
null
group4

null_group can be change to numeric like below

group_num
days
time
useage
null_group

1
20200101
3
null
1

2
20200102
2
null
2

2
20200102
3
null
2

2
20200102
5
null
3

3
20200105
10
null
4

3
20200105
11
null
4

Can anyone help with this problem? I thought I can do this with pyspark's window function, but it didn't work very well. I think I have to use pyspark because the original data is too large handling as python.

A: This looks a bit complicated, but the last 2 parts are just for displaying correctly. The main logic goes like this:

*

*calculate "time" difference "dt" between rows (needs to be 1 for the same "null_group")

*generate "key" from "usage" and "dt" columns

*use the trick to label consecutive rows (originally for pandas https://www.codeforests.com/2021/03/30/group-consecutive-rows-in-pandas/)

*rename and manipulate labels to get desired result

Full solution:
w = Window.partitionBy('group_num').orderBy('time')
w_cumsum = w.rowsBetween(Window.unboundedPreceding, 0)

# main logic
df_tmp = (
    df
    .withColumn('dt', F.coalesce(F.col('time') - F.lag('time').over(w), F.lit(1)))
    .withColumn('key', F.concat_ws('-', 'usage', 'dt'))
    .withColumn('prev_key', F.lag('key').over(w))
    .withColumn('diff', F.coalesce((F.col('key') != F.col('prev_key')).cast('int'), F.lit(1)))
    .withColumn('cumsum', F.sum('diff').over(w_cumsum))
    .withColumn('null_group_key',
                F.when(F.isnull('usage'), F.concat_ws('-', 'group_num', 'cumsum')).otherwise(None))
)

# map to generate required group names
df_map = (
    df_tmp
    .select('null_group_key')
    .distinct()
    .dropna()
    .sort('null_group_key')
    .withColumn('null_group', F.concat(F.lit('group'), F.monotonically_increasing_id() + F.lit(1)))
)

# rename and display as needed
(
    df_tmp
    .join(df_map, 'null_group_key', 'left')
    .fillna('', 'null_group')
    .select('group_num', 'days', 'time', 'usage', 'null_group')
    .sort('group_num', 'time')
    .show()
)


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One Is Not Born But Rather Becomes a Mother: Claiming the Maternal in Women and Gender Studies
Tatjana Takševa
In their dominant, institutionalized iterations within the field of women and gender studies, as well as in much feminist theory, the concepts of female empowerment, self-direction, and gender equality are still largely based on Western neoliberal views of individualism, self, and agency. Notwithstanding important theoretical interventions from the field of motherhood studies and a recent strand of feminist theory and philosophy promoting a relational understanding of identity, self and agency, full equality in mainstream feminism still "requires that women be liberated from the consequences of their bodies, namely the ability to bear children" (Fox-Genovese 21). The aim of this article is to contribute to work seeking to deconstruct forms of essentialism embedded in women and gender studies and feminist theory by bringing together feminist critiques of Western conceptions of self and identity and the theory of the maternal articulated in motherhood studies. My hope is to make apparent the distance between the body in its reproductive function (pregnancy and birth) on the one hand, and the performativity embedded in the maternal role, on the other. By discussing maternal work as separate from pregnancy and birth, I wish to highlight the socially constructed nature of expectations and ideas associated with maternity and reveal that the often neglected agency involved in taking on and performing the role of mother.


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FG is responsible for the death of Sheikh Qaseem Umar
February 7, 2018 freezakzaky
As a leading figure in the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Qaseem Umar is laid to rest in his home, Sokoto today 07/02/18, we unequivocally announce to the world that the federal government must bear full responsibility for his death since he was shot by its agents while peacefully protesting the illegal detention of Sheikh Zakzaky – the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. Plain cloth policemen acting on a tip off, identified and shot him at close range in Abuja, breaking his right thigh. He was taken to a private…
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Sea Of Heads, Ocean Of Tears As Sheikh Qaseem Is Laid To Rest
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Sokoto town received an unprecedented number of persons and witnessed what can best be described as an ocean of tears today in an otherwise dry town, as a leading member of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria killed by agents of security apparatus was laid to rest in his home town. The death of Sheikh Qaseem Umar Sokoto, who was shot by Nigerian Police while peacefully protesting against the illegal detention of Sheikh Zakzaky – the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria had shaken everybody, members and nonmembers alike. Sheikh…
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Five motorists charged with drink-driving offences
a reporter
Ahead of the weekend and Christmas festivities, Road Policing officers are urging motorists to not to drink and drive.
Over the last 24 hours five drivers were caught allegedly over the limit across the North East including in Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Aberdeen with two people allegedly being significantly over the drink drive limit.
At 10.55am yesterday (Thursday, December 20) a 63-year-old man was detected at allegedly being almost five times over the limit on the North Deeside Road in Aberdeen. He is expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court at a later date.
At 7.30pm on Thursday, December 20, a 43-year-old man was detected at being allegedly six times over the limit in the Ardallie area of Peterhead. He is expected to appear at Peterhead Sheriff Court today (Friday, December 21).
A 37-year-old man was charged and is expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court today in relation to alleged drink driving offences after being stopped at Wellington Road in Aberdeen at 11pm on Thursday, December 20.
A 20-year-old man and a 63-year-old man were both charged in relation to alleged drink driving offences having been stopped in the Tillydrone, Aberdeen and Fraserburgh areas respectively and being almost twice over the limit. They are expected to appear in court at a later date.
Road Policing Sergeant Peter Henderson said: "It is extremely disappointing and worrying that despite continued messages and enforcement we are still finding people behind the wheel over the limit.
"Two drivers have been kept in custody after being caught allegedly over the limit and once through the court system they face an automatic ban for a year, a criminal record and could also face a fine or even imprisonment.
"The safety of all road users in the North East is a priority for us and we will not tolerate drivers taking the law into their own hands in this way.
"If you choose to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs, as well as endangering the safety of others, you run the risk of gaining a criminal record for a lengthy period which can affect every area of your life.
"So, if you do decide to drink when you are out, plan ahead and think about how you are going to get home.
"Our advice remains if you need to drive then it is best not to drink at all - there is no safe limit.
"Law abiding motorists and other road users can rest assured that we continue to watch for drink drivers and will always take action against those found to be over the limit."
Taxi driver murder: new calls to police
Police crack down on violent crime in the lead up to Christmas
Anyone with concerns about a suspected drink or drug driver is urged to contact 101 or 999 if it is an emergency.
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What They Don't Know CAN Hurt YOU!
One of the main arguments proponents of GMO crops give is that they are just as safe as regular crops. Possibly one of the most well-known of the GMO crops are those that are "Roundup Ready", meaning farmers can spray their fields with the herbicide Round-Up (chemical name glyphosate) and it won't kill the crops, only the weeds. This works because the plants have been modified to resist the active ingredient in the herbicide. The genetic engineers who developed this technology say it is totally safe for humans because they are not plants. Sounds logical? On the surface yes, but since we really encourage critical thinking here at Well Fed Family we aren't going to take something just on the surface – we ask questions and dig a little deeper!
Here is what a simple search of Wikipedia revealed. Normally I tend not to trust Wikipedia with highly controversial topics simply because either side of the issue can come in and rewrite evidence they don't agree with. GMO-related posts on Wikipedia are constantly changing depending on who gets hold of them that day. However the following quote is actually fact-based. It tells the mechanism that makes a plant Round-Up Ready.
"One of the most famous kinds of GM crops are "Roundup Ready", or glyphosate-resistant. Glyphosate, (the active ingredient in Roundup) kills plants by interfering with the shikimate pathway in plants, which is essential for the synthesis of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan. More specifically, glyphosate inhibits the enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS).
So again, on the surface it sounds fine. We aren't plants, we don't have a shikimate pathway. We get our amino acids from the food we eat. We can eat GMO crops that have been heavily sprayed with glyphosate and it won't matter one bit – what do you think? Well think about this – our gut flora, the trillions of microorganisms living in symbiosis within our digestive tract, DO have shikimate pathways. They DO need this pathway functioning in order to make essential amino acids for their survival. When we eat foods doused in glyphosate/Round-Up we ARE harming our gut bacteria!
Let's dig a little deeper – not only does glyphosate/Round-Up kill our gut bacteria, it also shuts down our own body's production of CYP (cytochrome P450) enzymes. CYP enzymes are critical to our ability to detoxify foreign substances that enter our body whether through food, drink, medicines or vaccines. This leaves us more vulnerable to inflammation of all kinds when we can't detoxify dangerous substances.
Many if not most of the diseases we face today are directly related to the deteriorating health of our gut flora and our inability to overcome inflammation. Everything from Alzheimer's to cancer, diabetes to heart disease, depression to digestive disorders can be linked to either or both of these key areas.
Just because we are not plants doesn't mean eating herbicide, or eating crops designed to be heavily sprayed by herbicides, is a safe thing to do. Look for the Non-GMO Project Verified logo on packages. Purchase organic whenever possible to avoid food sprayed with glyphosate.
What are YOU doing to avoid GMOs in your family's food supply? Leave us a comment here. Tweet this post to spread the word!
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A Japanese railway operator has issued a deep apology for the 'tremendous nuisance' caused by a train departing 20 seconds early, surprising even a nation renowned for both punctuality and politeness.
The Tsukuba Express train linking Tokyo and the capital's northern suburbs pulled out of Minami Nagareyama Station at 9:44:20 instead of 9:44:40.
"We deeply apologise for causing tremendous nuisance to customers," said the Tsukuba Express company.
"There was no complaint from customers over this incident," said the firm, which added that no one missed the train due to the early departure.
Even the slightest delay prompts an effusive apology from the train guard, which often lasts longer than the hold-up itself.
With trains running the same route every few minutes to cope with huge numbers of passengers, even brief delays can back up the whole network causing overcrowding.
The apology had several social media users scratching their heads.
"A weird country in which a 20-second difference prompts a sincere apology while faking quality data on aluminium and steel products or misconduct on car check-ups are done just like that," read one tweet.


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Director Vicki Lesley with William Magwood IV, US Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner (at the time of filming, now director of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)
Director Vicki Lesley with Juergen Trittin, German Green MP and former federal environment minister under Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Director Vicki Lesley with Tony Benn, British energy minister in the 1960s & 70s
Director Vicki Lesley with Mike McCormack, retired nuclear chemist and politician, chair of the House Energy Committee in the 1970s
Director Vicki Lesley talking with American anti-nuclear activist and consumer advocate Ralph Nader
Interviewing retired French nuclear engineer and Chief Scientific Advisor at Areva, Bertrand Barré
Interviewing science historian and author, Spencer Weart
Retired nuclear engineer and model train collector, Jack Hornor
Joanne Buehler, communications executive at Seabrook & Vermont Yankee nuclear power plants in the 1970s
Alan, Barbara, Bryan, David, Tony, Glenys & Brenda, employees at Bradwell nuclear power plant in Essex when it first opened in the 1960s
Director Vicki Lesley with Ursula & Michael Sladek, anti-nuclear campaigners and founders of German energy co-operative EWS, and their sons Alexander & Sebastian
Linda, Liz, Jane & Carol, from the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Over the course of an almost 5 year filming period, director Vicki Lesley travelled far and wide across the United States, Britain, France & Germany interviewing an array of writers, historians, scientists, engineers, politicians and campaigners about the gripping and chequered history of nuclear energy. Some of the important players in the nuclear story featured in 'The Atom: A Love Affair' include:
TONY BENN - A legendary and colourful figure in British politics, Tony Benn (who sadly passed away in 2014), was the minister in charge of nuclear power in Britain, first as Minister for Technology in the 1960s and later as Energy Minister in the 1970s.
BERNARD INGHAM - Best known as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham worked in the Department of Energy under Tony Benn in the 1970s. He was and is a passionate supporter of nuclear power and until 2007 was the Secretary of the advocacy group Supporters of Nuclear Energy (SONE).
HAROLD BOLTER - Originally a journalist, Harold Bolter was a director at British Nuclear Fuels Ltd from 1975 until 1993. His time at Sellafield included the controversial push into nuclear reprocessing following the Windscale Inquiry and a number of safety scandals in the 1980s.
PETE WILKINSON - As director of Greenpeace UK in the 1980s, Pete Wilkinson went into battle against British Nuclear Fuels with a series of direct actions attempting to stop the discharge of nuclear waste into the Irish Sea from Sellafield.
RALPH NADER - Perhaps still most remembered for his presidential candidacy against George W. Bush in 2000, Ralph Nader is one of the most high-profile advocates for public and consumer safety in America and has been involved in anti-nuclear campaigning since the 1970s.
MIKE McCORMACK - A chemist at the US Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s, Mike McCormack later moved into politics, serving in the US Congress from 1971 to 1981 and becoming the first chair of of the House Subcommittee on Energy.
WILLIAM MAGWOOD - Now at the OECD, William Magwood has held a number of senior political positions in the US nuclear sector, including director of nuclear at the Department of Energy during George W. Bush's administration, and Commissioner at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission until 2014.
JUERGEN TRITTIN - Now a Green MP in the German Bundestag, Juergen Trittin entered politics in the early 80s, inspired by his involvement in the anti-nuclear protest movement. From 1998 to 2005, he was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation & Nuclear Safety in Gerhard Schroeder's government
MICHAEL SUESS - Michael Suess has worked in engineering and senior management roles at numerous high-profile German companies. From 2006 to 2014 he worked for Siemens, rising to become CEO of the manufacturing giant's Energy Sector, overseeing its withdrawal from nuclear power after Fukushima.
MARCEL BOITEUX - As head of Electricite de France, the French state power company, from 1967 to 1987, Marcel Boiteux was one of the chief architects of the major expansion in nuclear power undertaken in France after the 1973 oil crisis.
BERTRAND BARRE - Physicist Bertrand Barre began his career at the French Atomic Energy Commission in 1967 and has held a variety of senior posts in the French nuclear industry, including Chief Scientific Advisor at Areva, as well as serving as Nuclear Attache to the French Embassy in Washington DC in the 1970s.
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Cosmology and Divination, Religion, Spirituality
The Hermeneutics of Christmas
Is the story of a baby named Jesus born to a virgin named Mary on 25th December in a manger in Bethlehem literally true?
Doubtful.
But I suggest that the literality of this story should be the least of your concerns.
The two Gospels containing infancy narratives, Luke and Mathew, give inconsistent accounts of the genealogy of Jesus as well as the time and place of his birth and attendant visitors (shepherds in Luke and the Magi in Matthew). This distinction was prevalent in the art of the Middle Ages and while it may be glossed over today, academic theologians accept that where these accounts conflict, then at least one of them cannot literally be true.
Realizing that the Word of God represented more than the literal text, early and medieval Christianity developed the allegorical method of reading scripture in order to interpret the inner meaning of the literal text. By the time of Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century , the four levels hermeneutic had become widely accepted as the means by which Scripture was to be interpreted, its method summed up in a well-known verse:
The letter teaches you the facts
Allegory what you should believe
Morality how you should act.
And Anagoge what to hope for.
The primary task of the four levels approach was to bring the Old and New Laws (Testaments) into unity through a double structure of prophecy.
Since the events of the Old Testament prefigure the mission of Christ, the Old Law is a prophecy of the New (allegory). The New Law in turn is a prophecy of the Kingdom of Heaven upon Earth at the Second Coming (anagoge). Understanding the allegories of the Bible was also the gateway to the moral meanings of the various stories and a guide to Christian conduct (tropological or moral image of 'the Truth'). For ordinary priests, who might find the four levels hermeneutic difficult, standard interpretations of Bible stories were devised to aid with the anagogics (mystery interpretations).
But does this mean that you have to accept these standard interpretations as the only 'truth'?
For example, the facts pertaining to the life of Jesus we know them could be interpreted as a patchwork of events in the lives of those who came before him: born to a carpenter and a virgin, like Krishna: born on 25th December, like Mithras; heralded by a star in the East, like Horus; walking on water and feeding the five thousand from a small basket, like Buddha; performing miracles, like Pythagoras; raising from the dead, like Elisha; executed on a tree, like Adonis; and ascending to Heaven like Hercules, Enoch and Elijah.
Looking at the Nativity through similarly expanded eyes, in Mary, you might sense of the presence of Isis; in Joseph, the patriarch with a crooked staff, Osiris, the luminous babe in the manger, Krishna; the ox (Taurus) and the ass (Aries), the two ages leading the new Age of Pisces, the Magi's guiding star, the spirit of Zarathustra, and the angel announcing the birth, the spirit of the Buddha.
What if one of the Magi were Pythagoras reincarnated? What if the Magi had been initiated by the prophet Daniel? What if instead of one Jesus, there were two as depicted by the Leonardo Cartoon in the National Gallery in London and on the north portal at Chartres?
What if…well, you get the idea.
May peace be with you this holiday season and may hermeneutics take you as far as you're willing to go.
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