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Ever been to a circus act before? Were you awed by elephants playing with hula hoops? Amazed at how the trapeze artists seamlessly flew through the air? Mystified at motorcyclists racing around a steel ball cage at breakneck speed? Impressed at any smiling eccentric clowns doing any juggling acts as the internal monologue in your head asks "Damn son, where'd you find that hand-eye coordination?" Nobody?
Well imagine if those acts were prolonged for ten months straight and had nearly a thousand jugglers in the troupe each with nearly a thousand random objects to juggle. That equates to a whole ton of clowns, but not a whole ton of smiling ones after a while. Sooner or later over those ten months one of those clowns is bound to slip up and make fools of themselves in front of the entire crowd. You might be wondering if there's circus troupe that's actually depraved and sadistic enough to do this to their clowns. There is. It's called the American public high school system.
Whether or not you like to admit it, if you've ever walked within the walls of a high school, chances are you've either been one of the clowns in that analogy, one of the laughing spectators, or both at one point or another. High school can be a pretty awkward time in a really awkward place, and four years is a lot of time for you to experience both sides of the cringe coin. So how would you properly articulate this embarrassing misery that the circuses known as American public high schools perpetuate? With German words, of course! Any language that can make "I love you" (Ich liebe dich) and "Thank you" (danke) sound vaguely threatening in the right cadence must have some pretty apt words for pain and suffering, and boy does German.
Schadenfreude (pronounced sha-den-froi-dah), literally translating to "harm-joy" in English, is a word for the pleasure derived from another person's misfortune. It's parallel to fremdschamen (pronounced frehmd-scheam), which is the sensation of feeling secondhand embarrassment from the embarrassment of others. Adolescence is inherently awkward. You're stuck in this weird quagmire between being seen as a kid in some ways and an adult in others, your mind and body are grotesquely metamorphosing into something anew, and you have little to no control over any of it. But why do we sometimes can't resist grinning from ear to ear or intensely cringing at that awkwardness if it's at someone else's expense, especially in high school? Well, because science. And psychology. And Internet listicles. So without further ado here's a putrid listicle with psychology and scientific stuff. Read it. Or don't. I could care less. Unless you step on a Lego and fall down a flight of stairs as you read this. Now that'd be some comedic gold.
1. Schadenfreude stems way before high school
It's a no-brainer to parents or anyone who's ever babysat that little kids sometimes revel in being demonic hellspawn who would overthrow civilization and detonate the entire world's nuclear stockpile if meant getting that one toy they wanted for Christmas. Granted there's some hyperbole (just a bit) in there, but nonetheless, kids can be pretty evil little monsters sometimes. Obviously you don't just pop fresh out of the womb with a concrete sense of right and wrong. It takes years to learn that, and learning requires a lot of trial and error. So it's only natural that with those errors comes either laughing at those errors or feeling intensely ashamed at them.
A study by the scientific journal PLOS ONE showed that children as young as two are capable of experiencing joy from other people's pain. The experiment involved a group of 35 moms reading stories to their kids and one of the kid's friends. The toddlers weren't very happy when mom was giving their friends more attention, and that anger led to jealousy. So unsurprisingly those kids were found to be pretty amused when karmic revenge befell their parents when they did something like say, drop a glass of water all over their book. Schadenfreude can escalate way beyond a glass of water, but why? Well…
2. Misery loves company
In an article for Scientific American, writer Emily Anthes examined a few other studies about the implications of schadenfreude on older minds. The first one she talks about sheds some light on the duality between fremdschamen and schadenfreude. Back eons ago in the ancient period of 2009, a neuroscientist by the name of Hidehiko Takahashi gathered 19 volunteers into a room and asked them to read about the fictional fortunes and misfortunes of fictional people, and to report the feelings they elicit. As they did this, Takahashi's team simultaneously had MRI scans hooked up to their brains. When the participants reported feeling envious, the anterior cingulate cortex (or, in English, the part of your brain that experiences psychical pain) was lighting up on the MRI like a slot machine in a casino, suggesting that, shocker, envy's a pretty unpleasant feeling.
But at the same time, the scans showed that schadenfreude triggered the subject's striatum, a part of the brain involved in processing rewards. So in a way, fixating on other people's negatives can make us feel positive. And, even bigger shocker, Anthes suggests that despite most studies dwelling on individual schadenfreude, group schadenfreude can be even more potent. In one social experiment, psychologists Wilco Van Dijk and Jaap Ouwerkerk organized teams of two people to play a game where they exchanged money. After several rounds of moving cash back and forth, the participants were allowed to vote players or teams out of the game, and it was found that the participants tended to enjoy voting out entire teams instead of individual players. Researchers aren't totally sure why this so-called group discontinuity effect happens, but one of their most shocking hypothetical theories of all was that, gasp, group members feed off the emotions of other team members.
So how does all this scientific nonsense relate to the ten month circus otherwise known as high school? Well, think about it. There's no money at stake, but like it or not you'll occasionally have group projects or assignments which, according to these experiments, are psychologically inclined to suck. Your hormones and grotesque mutating body and striatum and negative feelings are all bouncing off one another like a pinball, and this is only amplified by other people. Even with friends you sometimes won't always be on the same page, and in a perverse way it can feel good to see them proven wrong once in a while.
But the end of the article leaves off with an ominous note. University Of Connecticut psychology Colin Leach did a group study in 2009 on prejudice. Shocker to end all shockers: the more schadenfreude a subject reported, the more they seemed to affirm their prejudices, and Leach and his colleagues concluded that schadenfreude could be tied to even more insidious group conflicts than high school drama, such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide. "It's subtle," Leach warns of schadenfreude, "But it has this potential to turn into something else, to be a first step on a slippery slope."
Is it? Should you feel guilty and atone for your petty drama? Is there a correlation between spilling a glass of water on a book and wishing somebody in your group stepped on a Lego and violent international war crimes that violate the Geneva Convention? Well…
3. It's all good to feel good about bad (or bad about bad stuff. Something like that.)
Not only does the magic of psychology and science lend credence to the possibility that stepping on Legos and genocide go hand in hand, it also claims that wanting suffering for the sake of comeuppance is actually, shocker, totally normal. Obviously not if you want it to the degree of war crimes and genocide, but you get the idea. I hope. Princeton University researcher Mina Cikara had this to say: "A lack of empathy is not always pathological. It's a human response, and not everyone experiences this, but a significant portion does."
Much like the 2009 Takahashi experiment, the team hooked up equipment to study brain activity (only this time using electromymograms to study electrical activity in the brain). Interesting, even when the patients declined to report it out loud, the electrical activity seemed to show that most patients took pleasure in the misfortunes of the people they envied in the examples the researchers showed them. Cikara also had this to say about the experiment, something I think is very applicable to the circus of high school:
"We need to remember this in terms of everyday situations. If you think about the way workplaces and organizations are set up, for example, it raises an interesting question: Is competition the best way to get your employees to produce? It's possible, in some circumstances, that competition is good. In other ways, people might be preoccupied with bringing other people down, and that's not what an organization wants."
Is competition good? I don't know. But if there's anything to take away from these experiments, apart for German, remember that even when you're stuck in the heat of the juggling act, juggling one stressful thing after another, struggling to toss the Algebra Chainsaw in between the Live Hand Grenade of Overwhelming College Preparations, remember that feeling a little sardonic once in a while isn't petty or doesn't necessarily make you a terrible person. It's perfectly fine, according to all of these people that are more intelligent than me in just about every way, so I assume that has to mean something, right. In life, what goes sometimes can also come around, and if it comes back around to any bullies or naysayers or Martin Shkrelli, all the more power to you. If not, that sucks, but that's also a part of life, a periodic sour dosage of Fremdschamen for you or somebody else.
What do you think of schadenfreude and fremdschamen? Do you have any memorable stories of feeling either in high school? Is competition a good thing or a bad thing for you? Do I ask too many dumb questions? Feel free to let me know in the comments.


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No longer just "more". Now, some links don't count for much, some don't count at all, maybe even some count against you?
There are probably several dozen factors that influence this, none of them the pure "number"; relevance, age, history, changes, all play a part.
after a new update you gained links and have now 94 backlinks, but the entire web gained also backlink as a matter of growth. you 94 backlinks are only a 3% of all the web's backlinks now and you drop to a pr6 although you absolutely gained backlinks.
and now you have to consider that each backlink has its individual relative value, which makes it even more complicated.
There are probably several dozen factors that influence this, none of them the pure "number"; relevance, age, history, changes, all play a part.
How would these factors affect PR, and TBPR to be specific, by any means?
We are talking about pure PageRank here, not the strength of backlinks on SERPS, which those factors would actually affect.
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Personal sites mostly static; one went down one point.
One week-old site with three articles and almost zero backlinks shows PR3 - this is the odd one.
A two-week-old work site with about 200 article shows PR2. It has some solid link-love, so this is also odd (but more normal compared to the above).
Small directory sites definitely showing greybar on actual listing pages wherever I look. Big directories that don't pass PR seem untouched.
An interesting TBPR update for sure.
I think anallawalla is on target with the update. After reviewing tons of sites, it seems as if google is penalizing for having links on your site going to sites doing bad things like link farm boxes or pretty much any site passing alot of pr so making recipical links exchanges even more devalued or worthless and paid links worthless. Im just trying to figure out what they changed with there algorythim. Also people saying PR has nothing to do with ranking well it does and especily when your trying to get to the number one spot, almost any repitial SEO person will tell you backinks are 80% of SEO. And PR is one way to measure trust and its way more valuable because its harder to fake or falsify.
Is this a waitibg game or is there something wrong with the page?
It was fine before the update but now the page has also dissapeared for it's term.
Can it be the DC I am looking at?
again for most of the people i know this Tool Bar PR update, ended up with disappointment.
yeh, this update have been quite unpredictable and very unusual,,
for example, one of site, domain just one month old gained a PR 1 !,
some very good sites like mahalo even lost its pr by 1,
and surely in this update, home page PR of many sites remained almost untouched while inner pages have seen lots of fluctuation in PR..!
Well, i :-D developed an assumption on this early update, Google updated mainly Home page PRs in last ( July )update, and kept changing PRs and backlinks (as I noticed for 1 of my site in Aug-Sep) as well now finally done with the backlinks update & internal pages PR update, they h've spread the update in tool bars. :)
[did anyone else noticed this change in TB PR & backlinks during the month of Aug & Sep.?]
well this is just my personal assumption to this tit bit update..! :-P
Try this, uninstall your Google Toolbar for 30 days. I did and you know what, it really didn't have that much of an effect on me. In fact, the only time I really look at that thing is when people start talk about updates. ;)
Heh, me too, but I didn't have to uninstall the Google Toolbar. Virtually none of the sites I watch for myself or my clients (except for the very newest ones) ever moves at all, up or down, no matter what happens. I'd fall over dead if one of 'em did, at this point.
Two months ago we move from PR5 to PR4. Twenty five days ago we moved from PR4 to PR3. This weekend we moved from PR3 to PR2. Our daily impressions have been halved, even as we add more content.
I'm sure most people will think we've done some kind of black hat SEO that's been "discovered", but we haven't! We're about as straight up white SEO as it gets!
I am completely at a loss about the PR as we have never, ever tried to "game" the system and our site is increasing in quality and content daily.
If PR didn't directly correspond to our unique visitor count or page impressions, I wouldn't care. But it does. And I just. Don't. Get. It.
My site was unchanged in the last update. In this update home page and sub pages dropped 1. No change in the serps. Still a little worried that I am doing something that big g is frowning on. Not sure what.
In my sector old sites (6+ years old) that have had questionable link practices in the past are retaining pr. Newer sites (2-4 years old) are losing pr.
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well Google did thie PR update almost a month earlier,, and as i felt it has most of the quite good quality pr link gathered in last 2-3 weeks
the wall street journal site is now PR4, how did that happen?
We definitely have worked to improve our paid-link and junk link detection algorithms. In our most recent PageRank update (9/27/2008) for example, there are some differences in PageRank because we've improved how we treat links, for example.
I have 2 sites and both have had something bizarre go on during the last PR update. all the top tier pages, home, about, us etc. have now finally got a page rank but 1 page from both sites have not. they are good quality pages but it seems strange and there is nothing similar between the two pages. Differnt sections, different content.
Has anyone else experienced this?
What can it be?
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Last fall we saw several updates in rapid succession around Google's war on paid links, so it this is not without precedent.
That effect could go a few website layers out (4-5?) until the dampening effect was too great to have much of an effect on TBPR.
People are talking about paid links. I don't have any paid links but would Google drop PR for other deceptive linking practices?
This was done unconsciously, but I have an amazon affiliate product text link bang smack in the middle of my homepage above the fold directly after an introduction. This attracts a lot of clicks as people mistake it for a central navigation link. The title of the product is very similar to the title attribute of my Homepage.
Could that cause a drop in PR?
We definitely have worked to improve our paid-link and junk link detection algorithms. In our most recent PageRank update (9/27/2008) for example, there are some differences in PageRank because we've improved how we treat links, for example.
The "nofollow" attribute on links is a granular way that site owners can provide more information to search engines about their links, but search engines absolutely continue to innovate on how we weigh links as well. Thanks for the question!
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I don't have any paid links but would Google drop PR for other deceptive linking practices?


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Based on the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; filing a petition for a 'mutual divorce' would be appropriate if both you and your spouse are having to deal with marital issues and it has gotten to a point that both of you are looking for legal separation. You as a spouse can file for divorce even if the other spouse is unwilling to be divorced - this is known as, 'Contested Divorce'.What is the meaning of Divorce by Mutual Consent?According to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 both the spouses have the right to dissolve their marriage through a decree of divorce on several grounds specifically itemized in Section 13.Section 28 of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 as well as Section 10A of the Divorce Act, 1869, permits divorce by mutual consent as well.The necessary conditions under section 13B of the Hindu Marriage Act are as follows:(i) The separation between husband and wife for at least a year or more.(ii) It's impossible for both spouses to live together. (iii) Both the spouses are of the opinion and in fact, have mutually agreed that the marriage cannot be salvaged at all and therefore ought to be dissolved. Under these circumstances, filing a Divorce by Mutual consent would be appropriate.According to the Indian legal system, with the filing of a divorce petition, a divorce procedure fundamentally begins.The place for filing a divorce petition:1. The court in the location of the last residence of the couple before they got separated would have jurisdiction. 2. The court in the location of solemnization of the marriage would also have jurisdiction.3. The court in the location of the wife's current residence would have jurisdiction as well. Based on The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 both spouses have the right of dissolving the marriage if there are marital issues and either spouse can initiate divorce proceedingsThe starting point of divorce proceedings in its entirety in India begins with the divorce petition filed by the concerned parties related to the divorce process and notice of the petition served to the other party.Based on the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; a 'mutual divorce' petition can be filed if both the spouses are going through marital issues and want to part ways legally.Anyone of the spouses could file for divorce even if the other spouse is unwilling to be divorced - this is known as 'Contested Divorce'.Step by step procedure in case of Mutual DivorceMutual Divorce Procedure to be followed Step 1: Divorce Petition to file At the outset, a petition for dissolution of marriage has to be presented to the family court by both spouses for a decree of divorce on the basis of not being able to stay together and therefore both spouses have consented to dissolve the marriage or they have been separated for at least a year or more.This joint petition has to be signed by both parties.Step 2: Court appearance and petition inspection Both spouses would have to make an appearance before the family court after the petition has been filed and at the same time the spouses would have to present their counsels/lawyers. Upon critical observation of the petition along with all supporting documents by the court, the court may even try and reconcile the marital issues of the spouses. If that fails then the matter proceeds to the next level for even further follow-ups. Step 3: Decree for a recording of statements on oathOnce the court analyses the petition and it's satisfactory, it may decree the statements of the parties be recorded under oath. Step 4: Between the passing of the first and the second motion a period of six months elapsesWith the statements of the parties to the suit already recorded, the court passes a decree on the first motion. Thereafter, both the parties to the divorce suit get a period of six months prior to filing the second motion. At most, it would take 18 months from the presentation date of the divorce petition in the family court. Step 5: Second Motion and the Final petition hearing The penultimate step is that once the parties have made a mutual decision to pursue the proceedings and be there for the second motion, final hearings may ensue which includes recording of statement of parties in front of the Family Court.The Supreme Court recently has maintained that the period of 6 months allocation to the parties can be negated at the decision of the court. In other words, it's the court's discretion to override the six months' time period. Hence, the parties genuinely intending to reconcile their marital issues including alimony, child custody or any other outstanding issues, it can be waived off in these six months.Even if the court's opinion is that the longer the waiting period the parties would suffer more, in this case also the six months can be waived off.Step 6: Divorce DecreeWhen the divorce is mutual, the consent is from both parties and therefore contentious matters related to alimony, child custody, maintenance, property, and so on are all taken care of or have been agreed upon by both parties. Therefore, a complete and absolute agreement between the parties is needed for finally deciding on dissolving the marriage.After hearing the parties if the court is satisfied that what has been alleged in the petition are in fact true and that isn't any possibility of the parties reconciling and cohabiting at all, the decree of divorce gets the court's seal of approval, and the divorce is final. This blog is all about the divorce procedure explained step by step. Anyone reading this blog would be able to clearly understand the divorce process.If you're filing for a divorce and haven't got a clue as to how long it might take, or what might be the steps or procedures involved. Get in touch with Vidhikarya who would find the expert divorce lawyers for you.
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A Rape Covered Under The Veil Of Marriage By Ashish Ranjan Samal, Advocate Orissa High Court 1. Introduction Whenever Mahira, who is 25 years old, has a fight or a heated argument with her husband, he takes it out on her in the bed. She is merely a toy for him whom he can use differently every night. He forces himself on her, every single day, even during her periods. Their relationship has never been about 'consent' and 'equality'. Similarly, many women are subjected to dowry harassment and brutal rape which involves inflictions with torch lights leading to serious injuries. These are just a few examples out of the plethora of such cases. These women are all married and they have to go through such kind of violence and forced intercourse. Is a wife merely a tool to vent out sexual and emotional tension and frustration? Marital rape is an oxymoron. Yet marriage and rape have an unfortunate continued relationship in India. Both rape and marriage are considered ways of gaining control over a woman's body since time immemorial. This was also exemplified in the infamous Imrana rape case[1] where back in 2005, 28-year-old Imrana, a mother of five, was raped by her 69-year-old father-in-law. And the Panchayat (local council) declared her marriage to her husband as void since she had had sex with her father-in-law and by virtue of her physical relationship with her father-in-law she was also told to treat her own husband as her son. The dictionary meaning of the word "rape" is "ravishing or violation of a woman" which in its generic term "Raptus" implies violent theft, applied to both property and person. Rape is the word for forced or coerced sex. It is when the woman has not had the opportunity to freely give consent or she is unable to give consent. Marital rape is the non-consensual sex committed by the spouse. It is also known as partner rape or rape in marriage. 2. Indirect laws addressing Marital Rape Marriage in India is considered a holy sacrament between a husband and his wife. When a man marries a woman, it not only brings implied consent of sexual intercourse but also the man's duty to give due respect to the dignity of his wife. When the husband commits unwanted forceful intercourse with his wife, he breaks the confidence of his wife and breaches her trust in him. Lately, Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code i.e. the anti-dowry law is voluminously misused by the women and a considerable number of rape cases reported each year are also false. Proving marital rape and taking bedrooms to courtrooms in such cases is not only a difficult but also a dangerous idea.[2] As per the Indian penal legislation i.e., Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code- "Sexual intercourse" or "sexual acts" by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape." [3] Exception to Section 375[4] of IPC provides immunity to the husband who rapes his wife and declares marital rape as legal and does not consider it as rape. This shows that the concept of marital rape goes beyond the virtues of Article 21[5] of the Constitution of India i.e. right to live with human dignity. Marital rape prima facie violates Article 14[6] of the Constitution as it creates a classification between married and unmarried women and denies equal protection of the criminal legislation to the former.[7] Though marital rape violates basic human rights that are attributed to every human being under the purview of these Articles there are not many remedies available to the victim. Therefore, in India, marital rape can come under cruelty clauses of section 498A of IPC. Cruelty covers physical and mental harassment. Punishment is imprisonment for a maximum period of three years with fine. The remedies for cruelty under the Indian Penal Code take years to reach an outcome. In view of this, victims remain victims. They either give in, or give up. Another remedy available to the wife is under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 which deals with protection of women from physical and mental cruelties of all forms, including sexual abuse. Family Courts as well as Magistrates provide counseling to the husband under domestic violence laws. But unfortunately, the provisions of this Act provide civil remedies only and a wife who wants to see her husband (rapist) punished finds no solution to that. Instead she is the one who struggles and suffers especially if she has children or is financially dependent or is without family support. The only lasting solution to the problem of marital rape is legal separation or annulment of the marriage itself. A legally separated wife can only file a complaint for rape against her husband under Section 376A[8] of IPC.[9] 3. Startling Statistics Marital rape is both common and an un-reported crime. A study conducted by the Joint Women Programme - an NGO, found that one out of seven married women had been raped by their husbands at least once. They frequently do not report these rapes because the law does not support them.[10] According to the UN Population Fund, more than two-thirds of married women in India, aged 15 to 49 years, have been beaten, or forced to provide sex.[11] Bertrand Russell in his book Marriage and Morals saw marriage as one of the most conventional forms of livelihood for a woman where the frequency of undesired intercourse she has to give in to is in all probabilities higher than that endured by a prostitute. [12] ?till the problem of marital rape has received very little attention from the activists, criminal justice system and the society at large. The concept of rape in marriage got recognition only after 1970s. The right of a husband to have sexual intercourse with his wife was considered to be one of the most natural implications of the contract of marriage.[13] International Instruments Article 2 of the Declaration of the Elimination of Violence against Women includes marital rape explicitly in the definition of violence against women.[14] Also the unanimous resolution at the UN conference in Beijing, September 1995 guarantees every woman the right to say no to sex as she wishes, specifically wives. In accordance with these Declarations and Conferences many countries have either enacted marital rape laws, repealed marital rape exceptions or have laws that do not distinguish between marital rape and ordinary rape. These States include Albania, Algeria, Australia (in 1991), Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mauritania, Mauritius (in 2007), New Zealand (under Crimes Act, 1961), Norway, the Philippines, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, the United Kingdom (in 1991), the United States, and recently, Indonesia, Thailand (in 2007), Turkey (in 2005).[15] In England and Wales, the House of Lords held in 1991 that the status of married women had changed beyond all recognition. Lord Keith, compared a marriage of the modern times with a partnership of equals where the wife is no longer the subservient chattel of the husband.[16] 4. Rethinking of the existing law In India, the 42nd Law Commission Report (1972) suggested that marital rape should be criminalized. However, actions were not taken to that effect and the 84th Report (1980) was not in favour of the criminalization. In the year 1996 the Supreme Court of India in Bodhisattwa Gautam v. Subhra Chakraborty[17] classified rape as a crime against the basic human rights and a violation of the victim's most cherished of fundamental rights, namely, the right to life enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution. However, the Apex Court negated this very pronouncement by not recognizing marital rape.[18] This shows that the Indian courts as well as the law makers have made recommendations and pointed out the need for penalising marital rape several times. Still there has not been any substantial change in this field. 5. The gray areas There are a lot of loopholes in the Indian legal system when it comes to marital rape. It not only provides immunity to the rapist husband but is also silent with regard to a lot of questions. For example, there are no provisions to deal with the cases of rape which are committed by the husband in collusion with a third person or if rape is committed by both the husband and a third person. Whether the third person will only be punished for rape, or whether the husband, would escape punishment for marital rape owing to his relationship with the victim are some of the many questions which the law has failed to adequately answer.[19] The honourable High Court of Delhi has rightly pointed out in the case of Meena & Anr. v. State & Anr.[20] on 17 October, 2012 where the Court observed that if a girl who is not the wife of the man but is below 16 years of age (15 as per the Criminal Law Amendment 2013) then even the consensual intercourse between the two amounts to rape. But if the girl is above 16 years and is wife of the man, then even the forced intercourse is not rape. This provision in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 is a specific illustration which shows that the legislature has legitimized the concept of child marriage by keeping a lower age of consent for marital intercourse. 6. The deep scars left from the crime Marital rape causes both mental as well as physical trauma which has severe and long-lasting consequences on women. The immediate physical and gynaecological effects of marital rape include injuries to private organs, lacerations, soreness, bruising, torn muscles, fatigue, vomiting, miscarriages, stillbirths, bladder infections. It may also lead to infertility and HIV. Rape in marriage has a lot of long-lasting psychological consequences also. It causes anxiety, shock, intense fear, depression, sleep problems, suicidal ideation, etc. [21] 7. Conclusion The concept of marital rape is an oxymoron. It is a rape under the veil of marriage. Marriage is not a licence for sex. Just because a woman says "I do" to marriage it does not mean that she has said "I do" to sex whenever, wherever, and however her husband wants it. Sex is not an implied 'right' under the contract of marriage rather it is a clear communication of love, mutual consent, caring and respect between husband and wife. A recent incident of gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 led to a mass outcry. This outrage took place when the girl was raped by strangers. Had she been raped by her husband, would it have the same effect? If rape is the violation of human rights then it would continue to be a violation whether committed by her husband or a stranger. The dignity of women either married or unmarried is alike. She cannot be considered as a property or the subservient chattel of the husband In today's scenario we require generation of awareness along with judicial awakenings. What really needs to be done is to teach both boys and men to not rape and educate them to view women as valuable partners in every aspect of life.
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February 19th, 2009 by Perfesser Deviant
Director:Uwe Boll
Writer:Uwe Boll and Bryan C. Knight
Release Year: 2007
Bring out the monkeys!
Postal Dude (Zack Ward) needs money to support his horribly wife 'Bitch' (Jodie Stewart) and so teams up with his uncle Dave (Dave Foley) and his cult to steal a bunch of Krotchy dolls before the Taliban can. Yeah.
(Spoilers follow…)
So it turns out that the Krotchy dolls that everyone is so interested in carry vials of a bioweapon that the Taliban – led by Osama bin Laden (Larry Thomas) – wants to destroy the United States and Uncle Dave cultist Richard (Chris Coppola) wants to bring about the apocalypse to make Dave's prophesies come true. The Postal Dude is trapped between these two fanatical organizations as well as being sought by corrupt cops John (Ralf Moeller) and Greg (Chris Spencer), for reasons that are not especially well-explained but irrelevant anyway. So the plot crawls forward as Postal Dude finds love in the form of a coffee shop girl named Faith (Jackie Tohn) which is symbolic of him coming to terms with his lost faith in humanity. I'm only kidding about that, there's no symbolism or subtlety whatsoever in this film. The fact that, despite all Postal Dude's efforts, the apocalypse comes anyway in the form of a nucular … I'm sorry … a 'nuclear' bombardment only shows that Uwe Boll uses this film to expound on his nihilistic, yet still cynical, view of humanity. Nope, kidding again, there's nothing even remotely meaningful in this film.
The plot of this film is nothing more than an excuse for a lot of violence and stupid comedy, not that I'm complaining mind you, but the film doesn't offer much more than that. Like the video game this is based on, the comedy comes from the extremely politically incorrect material that is supposed to make us laugh heartily at the outrageousness. The problem is that the film really isn't that funny, all the best scenes are in the trailer making this the biggest disappointment since Jesus said he'd be back soon. While watching someone use a cat as a silencer or the antics of a character called "Abdul the Retarded Taliban" (Derek Anderson) is as amusing as could be inferred from his name – that is, not much – the rest of the film isn't even up to that level. Mostly Uwe Boll tries to get by on jokes that might have been funny about five years ago, but topical humor has a very short shelf-life and Taliban jokes, George W. Bush (Brent Mendenhall) jokes, and Brokeback Mountain references are so five minutes ago. I mean, I find Verne Troyer as funny as the next person, and the idea that he would be raped by a thousand monkeys does amuse me, but that's not enough to carry the film. It's really too bad since the video game actually is a lot of fun as far as shooting civilians go.
Since this is a video game adaptation, it means it would be required to be done by Uwe Boll or Paul W.S. Anderson, and since this one is stupid it leaves it for Boll. The game itself is a poorly-coded mess that makes use of every controversial point possible to offend the normal people and amuse the irreverent, not that I'm complaining about that either. The problem of a good translation of a video game to a film is one that has, as far as I know, never been accomplished since films and video games, while both entertainment, both entertain in fundamentally different ways, one passive and the other active. This means that most films based on video games have a surfeit of action at the expense of anything like the plot in the original, this is required because most video games are solo entertainment and a single protagonist without supporting characters does not work especially well. The problem with this film is not the change from a single character focus to an ensemble film – that works fine since there is so much material to work with – but the problem is that the film leaves out the really mean-spirited stuff that was a part of the game. There's nothing as amusing as shooting civilians while in a police uniform only to have the police say "Watch it man, you'll lose your pension", there's a certain cynicism there that the film leaves by the wayside. What I find amusing about that is that Boll, for all his puffery about making the most controversial film ever (where have I heard that before?), has made an emasculated shadow of a stupid game. That sucks!
The characters in this film exist only to be victims of each other or behave like asses, which I'm sure is Uwe Boll's comment on humanity in general. Just kidding again, I keep fooling you like there's no tomorrow don't I? I'm that slick. Anyway, people wander in and out of the story staying long enough to get shot or whatever, but that does give us a chance for a bunch of cameos. On the street corner we have Candidate Wells (J.K. Simmons) who talks about the conspiracies of the evil government with all the sophistication I've come to expect from people who howl from street corners. Michael Paré makes an appearance as an aggressive panhandler which, considering the roles he's been taking lately, might not be that far from his future role in real life. Seymour Cassel hams it up as an old man talking about how fun it is to have sex with a morbidly obese woman, for those of you who don't know, it's way hotter than sex with a skinny woman. Finally, Uwe Boll shows that he has a sense of humor by playing himself as a horrible man who pays for things with Nazi gold and lusts after children. He even admits something that we've all suspected for a very long time: he hates video games. That final bit of information clears up the reason that everything that Uwe Boll has made sucks, he hates his work. At least this time he had the courtesy to have Vince Desiderio, executive producer of the game, and the film, appear to complain about the treatment his work suffered at Boll's hands.
I have no pity for him, I reserve all the pity for myself.
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Nashville Skyline
I got a call last week from my friend Andrew Mendelson, the chiefmastering engineer and manager for Georgetown Mastering. Mendelsonwanted to let me know that our mutual friend, Brian Ahern, was droppingin with surround mixing engineer Doug Beal to check out their mixes forthe upcoming Rhino Records DVD-Audio release of Emmylou Harris'acclaimed 1981 album, Roses in the Snow.
When I arrived, Beal and Mendelson were comparing two mixes of theH.W. VanHoos song "Green Pastures," which features theharmony vocals of Dolly Parton and Ricky Skaggs, as well as WillieNelson's distinctive gut-string guitar work. Beal felt that one of thetwo mixes had the "hair standing up on your neck" factorwhen he mixed it, but he wanted to see if it still had that magic inanother setting. After playing it for Mendelson and myself separately,it was clear that one mix had the mojo.
While I sat there in the Denny Purcell chair, Beal and Ahern'ssurround rendering of an already great song was pretty amazing. It isgreat when you get to hear a surround mix that is dead-on at capturingthe emotional essence of a performance — and this one did.
"We just tried to make it sound like they were breathing thesame air at the same time," says Ahern of the mix. "We hadthe autoharp and the dobro come in at the same time, and they are kindof rear-ish in the mix. I built some 'clouds' that theybounce off of in front with my Lexicon 960. So when the dobro comes in,you hear the sound bouncing off the clouds up front. It's subtle, butit's there. I also put a Memphis-style slap on Willie's gut-stringguitar and Dolly's vocal, so I linked them in time. That slap comesfrom the dead center of the room and that is what you were hearing overyour head. It was a mix idea that we had that we couldn't do when wewere working in stereo."
Ahern feels that having a fine mastering engineer to reference iskey to maintaining objectivity in one's work. "It's foolish tomix and master in the same room. You are bypassing a great opportunityto jump realms and go through another filter. Denny Purcell used tosay, 'You only get to hear it the first time once.' Havingsomeone who is hearing your music for the first time is a valuabletool. That 'first-listen' experience is already lost toyou, because you've already heard the music a million times."
Concerning "Green Pastures," Ahern shared a story aboutNelson's involvement on that track: "Willie often came in to singand overdub guitar. He was always willing to play and he's great towork with," recalls Ahern. "One day, I got really impatientwith that old guitar of his, the one with the hole in it, because itwouldn't stay in tune. I said, 'Willie, this isn't going towork.' He just looked disappointed and he left. A couple of dayslater, he pulled up in a big limo and walked in with a $30,000gut-string classical guitar ready to do that overdub. He did it,climbed back in the limo and left. This really impressed me and made merealize that he really is a professional fellow."
The other tracks Beal and Ahern referenced from Roses in theSnow with Mendelson were "Jordan" and "Gold Watchand Chain."
Prior to his arrival at Georgetown, Mendelson had mastered forthe Cleveland-based audiophile label, Telarc, which has not onlyreleased many award-winning and commercially successful orchestralrecordings, but they have also great jazz and blues releases. Capturingthe sonic essence of many of those fine releases is multi-Grammy Award— winning Telarc engineer and producer Michael Bishop.
I was tipped off that Bishop was doing a jazz project in town, so Ihooked up with him while he was doing mixes on Hiromi Uehara over atChuck Ainlay's great Back Stage recording studio, with Jim Cooleyassisting. The project, titled Key Talk, is Uehara's secondalbum for the label. The tracks were recorded at The Sound Kitchen inthe Big Boy room, with Matt Weeks assisting.
"The Big Boy is one of the best-sounding rooms I've everworked in," Bishop says."I captured ambience tracks oneverything that could actually be used for the surround mixes.Recording in Big Boy gave me lots of options in recording ambiencearound each of the three musicians. It may seem like overkill to placean acoustic trio in such a large room, but I needed that space forcreating the right surround field to be used in the mixlater."
Bishop's experience in Nashville wasn't his first by any means, buthe says his positive results and supportive interactions with therecording community have made the city a preferred destination forfuture projects. "I have long been trying to get more of ourTelarc jazz sessions to Nashville, largely because of thecost-effective studio facilities here, many great rooms without thehigh costs of Manhattan, convenient and affordable hotels withinwalking distance, and an extremely friendly and creativeatmosphere," Bishop points out."It's so cool that should wehave a need for a particular piece of gear, one can call someone withinthe local recording community and get immediate assistance. TracyMartinson, Chuck Ainlay, George Massenburg and Michael Wagener wereamong those to be of tremendous help here in many ways and at a momentsnotice. Instead of being territorial, the pros in Nashville will bendover backward to help a colleague out of a bind."
The musicians on the album dates were Anthony Jackson (Fidora contrabass), Tony Gray (Fidora bass), Martin Valihora (drums) and Uehara onpiano and keyboards. Uehara (a Yamaha artist) was provided a YamahaCFIIIS Concert Grand piano, courtesy of Yamaha Artist's Services.
"I should also mention that, because of the piano-intensivenature of this project, we had contracted with Max Michimoto, one ofYamaha Artists Services' top piano technicians, to stay and work withus throughout the entire session," says Bishop. "The YamahaCFIIIS Concert Grand had to be able to hold up to the scrutiny that DSDhigh-resolution surround affords."
When I arrived at Back Stage, Bishop was very accommodating andeager to play me the tracks. While Uehara does utilize what one mightcall a classic jazz piano, bass and drum lineup, calling her a"jazz" artist is almost misleading. The tracks I heardranged from "Kung-Fu World Champion," with its progressive,rock-like melodic and rhythmic passages, to reflective moments on"Wind Song," which possesses the rich lyricism of some ofWindham Hill's most thoughtful recordings. The dynamics and techniqueof Uehara and the other players were quite astonishing, particularlythe unison bass and piano lines on a couple of the tracks.
"Hiromi has a distinct vision for her music," saysBishop."She goes into the studio with a very detailed idea ofwhat she wants to achieve there. That is a great quality in a musician,especially at just 24 years old. Working with Hiromi is a real pleasure— she composes exciting and provocative music and she gives herall with absolutely every take."
With regards to Back Stage, Bishop states, "My compliments toChuck Ainlay and everyone at Sound Stage for creating such agreat-sounding mix room and making it so easy to mix surround there!TheATC SCM-300s, SCM-50s and Nova Applause speakers all gave me lots ofoptions in mixing, while helping give me a mix that translates verywell on anything elsewhere. Very little has to be done after the factin mastering with mixes I've done in the back room. Sound Stage isprobably the most accommodating facility I've worked in. Did I mentionthat I like working there?"
The Uehara project will be released simultaneously on CD and SACDearly this summer. Bishop tracked the session in multitrack DSD on aGenex 9048 and the SADiE System 5 DSD workstation and mixed through theSSL 9K at Sound Stage to the Sony Sonoma DSD workstation. The SADiESystem 5 is going to be used again for the SACD and CD mastering andauthoring back at Telarc.
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On Monday, April 25, the visiting committee from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education held an open forum with members of the Rensselaer community.
After a brief introduction from Georgetown University President Jack DeGioia, who chaired the committee, regarding the MSCHE process, the floor was opened up to questions.
Michael Gardner '17 referenced a paragraph in Chapter 3 of the Self Study Report, which discussed athletic compliance at RPI. "In 2011-12, Alden Associates (independent NCAA approved auditors) audited compliance and overall management of Division I and III sports at Rensselaer. The Institute was assessed as being highly compliant and praised for its efforts in being diligent in this area. The general observation section of the written report from the auditor reads, 'Individuals directly responsible for structuring Rensselaer's compliance program have worked hard to improve its program over the last several years. Staff changes in numerous areas have facilitated this improvement. The Consultant believes that a 'culture of compliance' has been established at Rensselaer.'"
The question connected this excerpt to the February athletic budgeting change, where the Rensselaer Union Executive Board was notified of the planned separation of intercollegiate athletic budgeting from Union budgeting processes. Previously, a portion of ICA funding had been provided by the Rensselaer Union Student Activity Fee and, as such, was budgeted by the Union.
DeGioia explained that he had a chance to meet with student government leaders, along with the administrative leader for student leaders, to understand the situation. He said that he could not attest to whether or not MSCHE would weigh in on the matter of athletics, as it does not relate to compliance with any of the MSCHE's 14 standards. He went on to explain that he served on an NCAA committee for Division I athletics in the 1980s, and the committee had a focus on "institutional control," which dealt with the question of whether or not the president or chancellor of a university had appropriate institutional control over varsity athletics.
Graduate student Joseph Wiegartner asked if the committee was aware of recent developments regarding the governance of the Union and the related student protests.
DeGioia met with President of the Union Chip Kirchner '17, Grand Marshal Paul Ilori '17, former President of the Union Nick Dvorak '16, and former Grand Marshal Marcus Flowers '16, where he received "a very thorough briefing of what has unfolded." However, he continued in saying that the process of accreditation is generally longer than the emerging issues at the time.
Professor Bill Puka noted that one of the standards that the committee looks for is "ethics and integrity." He wondered how the committee goes to investigate that particular standard, and also noted the culture of fear that was discussed during the most recent spring Town Hall Meeting.
DeGioia, responsible for that particular standard, told Puka that he looked at policies in handbooks and guidelines with staff, and was given a "pretty clear sense that academic freedom is a respected, protected, and deeply held value."
Puka pressed further, asking specifically about implementation: "I know there are statements made in a book, but you said you looked at implementations, which is the only level that matters."
DeGioia said that the three-day stay was not enough time to fully explore implementation, but that he did have a conversation about a recent Poly article regarding the culture of fear. DeGioia described the situation as "complex," but he did not come away sensing a culture of fear.
The 126th President of the Union Nick Dvorak '16 asked what stood out to the committee members while visiting Rensselaer.
Compliments of the Institute included the extensive planning processes that move the Institute toward goals, the collegiality with students, faculty, and administrators, and the sense of pride at the rigor of the academics that the students have.
The issue of diversity came up as the committee was asked what steps the Institute could take to improve the diversity amongst the student body.
The committee noted that Rensselaer has seen an improvement in its gender diversity, but needs to work on improving minority representation. Dr. Lorraine Fleming said that it was important to first define diversity, as it could pertain to gender, race, geography, or something else. She said that it is important for the environment to be comfortable for everyone; that people bring "baggage" to RPI, and that instead of "checking bags at the door," the community should aim to blend the cultures together.
Emily Phillips '17, on the topic of diversity, asked about the Preferred Names Petition that reached the Student Senate last year, and how the administration has failed to follow through on the subject, despite the work the Senate has done. Adding on, another student asked if the LGBT issue came up as a concern in discussions. DeGioia said that those topics had not come up, but was something they could look into.


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Spain 1-0 Holland: Iniesta settles a tight game
Spain are the World Champions. They were the better side and played a more positive, cohesive brand of football throughout.
There were no surprises when the team line-ups were announced just over an hour before kick-off, they were as predicted in the preview. Vicente del Bosque kept with the side that beat Germany in the semi-final, meaning Pedro Rodriguez started ahead of Fernando Torres. Holland, meanwhile, welcomed back Gregory van der Wiel and Nigel de Jong from suspension, meaning they returned to their first choice XI – as evidenced by them lining up with the numbers 1-11.
There was also no surprise in the pattern of play in the first quarter of an hour, for Spain dominated possession and were camped in the Dutch half. Bert van Marwijk's side seemed to be inviting pressure, and Spain's pressing when they lost the ball meant Holland were unable to construct any meaningful attacks of their own.
There seemed to be a shift in tactics from Holland after around 10 or 15 minutes – they started pressing earlier and higher up the pitch, seeking to disrupt the passing of Sergio Busquets and Xabi Alonso – the latter in particular had too much time on the ball in the opening period, and his influence declined as soon as he was closed down.
The pressing also complimented the tactics of their back four, who were playing a surprisingly high line. On three separate occasions early on, through balls nearly found David Villa in behind the Dutch defence. The problem was not necessarily the high defensive line, but the fact that there was never any pressure on the man looking to play the pass. Playing that position, Villa needs service, so when the supply was cut off, he was less visible and Holland looked more comfortable.
Holland were creating little, however. Wesley Sneijder was quiet and Arjen Robben was cutting in and running into traffic – Busquets, Alonso and Xavi all understood the need for one of them to occupy the space next to Joan Capdevilla that Robben likes to work in.
It became apparent that Holland were essentially using pure spoiling tactics, trying to physically unsettle Spain's creative players and break up the rhythm of the game. Maybe they were influenced by Chile's positive start in the final group game, where Spain were second best until they took the lead, but the Dutch tactics went too far. Mark van Bommel and Nigel de Jong could both have been dismissed in the first half for shocking tackles, and of the Dutch outfield players who started the game, only Dirk Kuyt and Sneijder finished without a booking. Spain were not blameless in this respect either, and it was a poor first half.
Second half
This modern Holland side aren't used to pressing intensively, and weren't able to do it for the entire game. In the second half they were clearly less effective in this respect, especially after Dirk Kuyt departed. "It's very difficult to play for 90 minutes at the rhythm they imposed", said del Bosque. "They had a great physical effort and we dominated extra time."
But the two managers should be praised for their substitutions, as almost every switch had a broadly attacking motive. Eljero Elia for Kuyt, Cesc Fabregas for Alonso, Rafael van der Vaart for de Jong were all positive moves, and contributed to the game becoming more open and attractive in the second period.
Another del Bosque substitution was crucial – Pedro was withdrawn after a quiet start to the second half, and replaced with Jesus Navas. And then, finally, Spain had natural width and someone to run at Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who eventually had to be replaced. Navas' delivery was as inconsistent as ever, but he did a good job by stretching the play and providing dribbling rather than one-touch passing, which opened out the game and allowed Iniesta and Xavi more space to work in. It was Navas' run and cross that presented Villa with a golden opportunity at the far post midway through the second half, and later his run and shot deflected inches wide, into the sidenetting.
But the biggest goal threat was coming from Holland, through direct counter-attacks. The introduction of Elia meant Holland had a natural winger on the left, allowing Robben to make more direct runs in behind the defence, and he twice came close to breaking the deadlock. Spain have often looked vulnerable against pacey forwards at this tournament, and Robben's move inside exploited this weakness.
Robin van Persie was playing an intelligent role by dropping deep to the left to distract the centre-backs, allowing Robben the opportunity to make runs on their blind side – once a straight ball found him and he shot straight at Casillas, another time van Persie's flick-on put him through, but he was eased out by Puyol.
Spain eventually find a way through
Whilst Pedro started brightly and faded, Iniesta was the opposite. He was barely visible in the first half, but grew in stature later on and became the game's most important player. Twice he found himself in good goalscoring positions in the Dutch penalty area but delayed the shot and the move broke down, but the positive for del Bosque was that the game was being dictated by him, rather than Sneijder or van Bommel.
The other key factor was the introduction of Fabregas. This allowed Xavi to drop deeper, where he could see the whole of the attacking area ahead of him, whilst Fabregas provided direct, driving runs from midfield, both on and off the ball. He had the best chance in the opening period of extra time when he went through one-on-one with Maarten Stekelenburg, though his finish was weak. Spain's midfield now had more variety – they now had both width and direct running, and after Holland were worn down by the Spain passing earlier, they were now struggling with the more blatant attacking threat.
Maybe Spain needed Holland to go down to ten men to make the breakthrough. It's a shame when a game is essentially decided by a red card, but considering Holland played such a physical game, it was no real surprise when Howard Webb was forced to reach for his red card. Holland were only living with Spain through fouling, and they essentially paid the price for that. Having used all three substitutes, van Marwijk was forced into a three-man defence with van Bommel dropping back to help out, which then left them exposed in front of the defence, with de Jong having departed.
Heitinga's dismissal was when he tracked Iniesta into the box, and therefore it was probably no coincidence that after that, Iniesta found himself free to smash home the winner. The goal was fitting in that it started with a long, mazy run from Navas, and was assisted by Fabregas from an advanced midfield position. Iniesta had previously turned down those two excellent opportunities to shoot, but made no mistake this time.
It was effectively a golden goal – Holland had no energy left and were a man light, and didn't manage to construct anything meaningful in the final four minutes. They will obviously be devastated but can have few complaints – they were second best on the day, and they failed to take their chances. Spain weren't much better in front of goal, but when Iniesta finally found the net, a 1-0 Spain win seemed the fairest outcome. "It is harsh, but the best team won tonight", van Marwijk conceded.
A disappointing final, because it was based around fouls and cards rather than technical quality or even a real tactical battle. Spain dominated the game but failed to score when Holland had eleven men on the pitch.
They eventually found a way through when they offered more of a varied attacking threat, and the impact of substitutes was a key factor. Navas and Fabregas clearly influenced the game, whilst it's difficult to remember what Elia or van der Vaart contributed. Pressing was also key – the less Holland could do it, the more Spain created.
Spain will now go down as one of the greatest international sides in history – European Championship and World Cup holders, and an incredible record leading up to both tournaments. In both competitions they have struggled to find a perfect system going forward, but the key in their success has not been their attacking play, but their defensive ability. Seven knockout games played over the two tournaments, and seven clean sheets.


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Okay, I may be bad at optimization problems, but this question I can't even read it without getting a headache, and I have a test!!
If a farmer digs up his potatoes on July 1st, the crop is 120 m^3, which sell as new potatoes at $3.00/ m^3. If the crop is allowed to mature further, it increases at 15 m^3/ week. However, the price drops 20 cents/m^3/ week. When should the farmer dig the crop for the maximum cash return??
So am I supposed to find the profit or something or the day hes supposed to dig it up aghhhh


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Submitted by Tracy Felix Fraker
I have been asked this by many students in my acrylic painting workshops. I think the answer will vary based on the medium you are using and the goals of your artwork. It will also be a personal decision based on your understanding of composition.
1. Short answer: you are satisfied with it.
2. Long answer:
Critique the composition and correct
Review the way your eye travels the painting and be confident of your focal point
The work is ready for presentation - meaning does it need smudges cleaned up, edges are addressed and sheen is uniform or to your liking.
3. The painting either moves your method forward (you learned from it... you are inspired to do another piece based on what you got from this one) ... or you met the goal of pleasing a client in the case of a commission.
4. Be discriminating in who you ask for a review of your work. Family members love you but don't always know what you are trying to accomplish, or what you need beyond a compliment.... or worse feeling the need to find a recognizable image in a non-representational painting.
5. Know that some paintings will "fall off the brush" and others may take many passes and corrections. I will set a work in progress in my family room and live with it, until I know what to do next. The more advanced the painting becomes the slower my process goes. (usually) So I don't go into it unless I know what it is I want to accomplish.
I have heard this one too... It's like when you are having dinner. You just know when you are done.
See the comments section below? How do you answer this one?


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New Music Video!
I got together with some great human beings on Sunday evening to create a music video for my recently released single, How Do You Know. And here it is! My Rising Point album release is coming up this weekend, and I put this music video together in anticipation of Saturday night's multimedia concert event at Sacred Heart Music Center.
Thank you Nicole, Andy, Moira, Gabe, Kate, Jerry, and Leah, for bringing your authentic selves to the shoot, and to Zeitgeist Arts for use of the theater to film.
Rising Point on the Radio!
This afternoon, Wednesday, January 21st, I'll be heading over to KUMD (103.3 FM) to sit down with DJ-E at 5pm to talk about Rising Point, and listen to a couple of tracks from the new album. KUMD offers a live stream in the upper right corner of their homepage. And on Thursday night, I'll be a guest on the Walt Dizzo Show on KUWS (91.3 FM) at around 10pm. Tune in! And don't forget to find your way to the Rising Point album release concert this Saturday night, 8pm, at Sacred Heart Music Center!


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Police have confirmed that a post mortem examination has now been completed on a man whose body was found in Lurgan Park yesterday morning and have said it is no longer being treated as suspicious.
A police spokesman said: "While his death is not believed to be suspicious, police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding it and the events leading up to his body being discovered."
Lurgan Park has now re-opened following the police investigation of what at that stage they believed was a suspicious death there.
A council spokesperson announced: "Lurgan Park will be re-open from 2.30pm today (Saturday, January 9) until usual closing of 6pm."
The park had been closed following the discovery of the body of Stewart Agnew, who was in his twenties.
His body was discovered in the park, close to the Avenue Road entrance, on Friday morning.


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It is day 5 of my 31 days of writing challenge and I am loving it! I am excited about today's topic -- BREAD!!
I have shared here several times now that I have started baking bread. It started simply as a task to show myself I could do it, and has blossomed into something some much more. You see, bread is such a comforting food. I think it's comfort comes in so many varieties and shapes. For example, there is nothing more comforting than a thick piece of hot bread that has been slathered with butter, or a slice of pumpkin bread in early fall. Or how about a biscuit made from scratch by your grandmother, or bread speckled with Parmesan cheese and rosemary dipped in rich olive oil...bread is comforting.
So here are several reasons why I bake bread...
One. My grandmother and mother did it.
This is one of the main reasons I began baking bread, I had my grandmother's weathered recipe, and wanted to see if I could do what she and my own mom did weekly for years. I can remember my mom making cinnamon rolls on the weekend with the dough, they were such a special treat. My mom and grandmother were "the bread ladies"...they brought loaves to everything and to everyone. I want to be like this.
Two. It is a labor of love.
This could not be a more true statement. My bread takes 3 days to complete, so I am pouring a little love in every time I interact with it. From feeding my starters (all three of them) 2-3 times a week, to making 3 batches of dough two times a week, I love pouring myself into these loaves of bread. It brings such joy to my heart to have friends, and strangers try my bread, and come back for more. There is nothing more rewarding I believe.
Three. It is therapeutic.
Call me crazy but there is nothing more relaxing than to dig my hands deep into flour, sugar, and oil and squish and knead to form dough. I love it, and I love the messes. I truly find joy and rest in being able to be wild in the kitchen while I make bread. I can get flour all over me, and the floor, and the stove...it is okay. I can spill something, or get my hands sticky with dough...and it is okay. It just helps me to reset, and is good for my soul.
Four. It is a lost practice, and requires slowing down.
Slow is not cool these days. We want fast, instant, and on demand. However, you simply cannot have that with this bread. I have to plan ahead, and cannot simply whip it together if I need it for a meal. It takes time, and energy, and more time. It has been a good discipline for me to learn to practice slow. By embedding slow rituals such as bread making, and making other things from scratch I am forcing myself to slow down. And friends, it is beautiful how deeply you can breathe when you have a beautiful golden loaf of bread in front of you that you made over the course of several days.
I love carbs, but more than that I love all that goes along with making bread. It is a practice that I did not want to see forgotten now that my grandmother is gone to be with the Lord, and society says you should make bread from a box mix. I want to embrace the slow, embrace the monotony, and embrace the simplicity of bread making!
Be sure to check back in Monday for a tour through what I call "work" and my kitchen! Happy Sunday friends!
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This is one of our favorite fireplace and football snacks. There are exactly 4 ingredients in this recipe. It really doesn't get any easier than this. BUT. I'm currently experimenting with dried garbanzo beans that are soaked in water for 24 hours before proceeding with the recipe. Please stay tuned! I'm sure, that given enough time, I can complicate this recipe for you. Till then, here's the bare bones version using canned garbanzo beans.
Roasted Garbanzo Beans with Cajun Spice
2 cups canned garbanzo beans, rinsed, drained and patted dry
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon commercially prepared Cajun Spice
1/2 teaspoon golden brown sugar
Coarse salt to taste
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a no-stick baking sheet with no-stick spray and set aside.
2) Toss garbanzo beans with Cajun Spice and brown sugar in a small bowl. Mix well.
3) Place beans in a single layer on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until crisp and golden. Sprinkle with coarse salt to taste. Allow to cool before serving. Yield: 2 cups.


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Ocean Revival
The other night we went out for a lovely dinner at La Parada, noshing happily on tapas and sipping merrily on pinot noir/chardonnay. But as we filled up and the stream of ham croquets and prawns and calamari and patatas bravas stopped, the flow of delicious wine did not. We're also human, you know, and we do love the grape! And so it was rather late when a warm, fuzzy head was put to the pillow, and needless to say, in the morning it was less of the warm and more of the fuzzy. So we needed a fast cure for a decadent evening on Bree, and the only thing for it really is to dive into the ocean!
We arrived at Bakoven and the sun was sidling behind an obnoxious cloud creeping over the mountain, turning the air cool and the sea dark. But we didn't falter, and grabbed the towels and headed for the stairs. Along the drive and from the top of the stairs, the ocean out past the rocks was rumbling, energetic, but as we skipped down to the sand, the water was calm and a clear aquamarine, lapping lazily at the shoreline. So it was a fast flurry of tops off and towels down, then a scurry into the water and…PLUNGE!
Well, we shot out like The Flash, cradling our insides, but once the cold ache dissipates, you're left with a divine tingle on your skin, an immediately revitalised mind and in a considerably better state to take on the day.
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Eat Out for a Bit
Well, it has been a couple weeks of hard cookin', family time, and visiting. Now that going back to work is looming on the horizon, I'm thinking "time to give myself a break!" I figured I would re-post the big restaurant link to remind you all it is there (and always on the sidebar). Times are getting tough, so be sure to support your favorite local restaurants to make sure they stick around. Eat, drink, and be merry in 2009!
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I think Shova replied to Ruffel with a comment to be more like the men. > My advice to you is to do YOUR work. If that means tending the plants, then > do so and do it well. If you are on equal educational footing with the men > in your group then do not let them push you around AT ALL!!! If they assume > more intelligence because they outrank you degree wise there are many ways > to proceed. 1)Do not let the B**ch title bother you. Some of the most > respected women are called this because society has no easy title for > women who assert themselves. A man with equal assertiveness would be called > ambitious or some other positive qualifier Can't we create a better system where we don't have to be bitches with egos in order to do our good work? > 2) The best way to deal with egos is to have one of your own. Joy Frestedt, PhD candidate in Pathobiology Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Box 86 UMHC University of Minnesota Mpls, MN 55455 (612)625-5676 frest001 at maroon.tc.umn.edu


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Megafruit pining for absent megafauna
From a distance this 25 metre high tree looks like a flowering gum of some kind, a bloodwood (Corymbia) perhaps. The large leaves and, in February, the clusters of pink flowers are quite misleading.
Sort of. It's the right family, Myrtaceae, but wrong genus. This is a Lilly Pilly, Syzygium moorei. The fruits, when they form in March, give it all away. As does the location of the flowers and the fruits, clustered around the stems and branches. In a flowering gum they would be at the ends of branches.
This type of flowering and fruiting is called cauliflory, which I've mentioned before in passing. Why plants do this probably depends on the particular species and its pollinators, but it happens most commonly in tropical or subtropical rainforests, the natural habitat of our species.
Flowers packed around the branches are usually more firmly attached and less likely to be removed by a large pollinating creature, such as a bat or mammal. In this mature tree all the flowers are well above the grazing height of a ground-dwelling animal, but well place for climbers and creepers.
Syzygium moorei is called by local Aboriginal people the Durobby or Coolamon, Europeans have named it Rose Apple (a name applied to a few lilly pillies) or Watermelon Tree. The last name gives you a hint about one of its distinctive features - big fruits. Although not that (watermelon-sized) big. These fruits still had a little growing to do when I photographed them in in early May, but they are close to their final size of 3-5 centimetres in diameter, and their final colour - white.
The relative bigness of the fruits got scientists thinking about what might have eaten then before humans settled in Australia over 60,000 years ago.
Lui Weber speculates on this in an article in Wildlife Australia about plants not doing so well after the demise of Australia's megafauna. He suggests that Durobby is a 'rainforest tree with big fruits and a tiny subtropical distribution (Richmond River to Mudgeeraba area), consistent with it being a plant that depended on now-extinct cassowaries for dispersal'.
So where are the cassowaries in Australia? They have a fragmented distribution north of Townsville up into Cape York. These days they certainly don't find there way down to the Gold Coast in southern Queensland, the north-east corner of New South Wales,
Weber is worried about the future of Durobby and other rainforest species in Australia. In the absence of a big animal to eat the fruits and disperse the seed (out their rear...) the advantage of producing relatively few, larger seeds becomes a liability. All that energy and risk without a suitable animal distributor. Relatives and neighbours of the species produce small seeds and are still well served by the local animals.
Where did the 'megafauna' go? In the same issue of Wildlife Australia, fellow Australian ecologist Chris Johnson concludes that while the drying climate may have hastened the decline of rainforest species, many big herbivores found it a positive change, giving them opportunities to evolve and spread into new habitats. Overall it was most likely hunting by humans that sent the megafauna to extinction. This over time, may send some of our megaflora the same way.
In Africa, a reduction in the number of elephants due to habitat destruction and hunting is having a similar impact on large-seeded rainforest plants, which are now finding it difficult to regenerate and disperse. In Australia, the White Bark (Endiandra compressa) is distributed widely throughout the remaining tropical rainforest up north where the cassowaries distribute its seed, while in the south it clings to the side of streams where it probably relies on 'water, rodents and gravity'.
There are fossils leg bones of a cassowary species in southern Queensland, a dwarf species like that found in New Guinea today. This may have been our plant's megafaunal companion. Weber suggests that 'one way to help [plants like the Durobby] would be to reintroduce cassowaries to southern Queensland and northern New South Wales'. The next decision would be whether it's the larger northern Queensland species or its smaller relative in New Guinea.


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Critics' Week, the independent section of the Venice Film Festival, unveiled today its lineup comprised of nine international first films—eight of them making the world premieres—and featuring the Colombian film The Nobodies / Los nadie by Juan Sebastián Meza as the only Latin American entry.
Shot in seven days with a reported budget of $2,000, the film is a black-and-white tale of fraternal love, and hate and broken promises, between five friends who are street artists. Camilo, Mechas, Manu, Ana and Pipa are five friends going through that blended trance of intense unrest, astonishment, contained tenderness and manifested rage that is typical of the end of adolescence. They survive at the edges of a city, Medellin, that simultaneously attracts and excludes them, that lure them with promises but rejects them with hostility.
Nevertheless, they want to embrace the city and fight against its logics of fear. Music, street art and friendship are their weapons of resistance, hoping for a rite of passage that could transform them into someone else. The film had its world premiere as the opening night of the Cartagena Film Festival last spring.


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Stubble: Stub Testing for HTTP 23 Jul 2012
I'm pleased to introduce the first release of a new testing library called Stubble. Stubble was created to help developers test their applications' communication with other applications over HTTP. It provides an easy way to set up an embeddable test server that will respond to requests you specify with associated responses. Stubble was written in Scala and runs on the JVM. Adding a request/response interaction looks like this:
To understand Stubble a little better, let's rewind a bit. Why is this useful? Many of the applications I've come across communicate with other processes via HTTP. They may need to call external web services to integrate data from other systems, or they may need to make HTTP requests to initiate actions such as sending emails on the application's behalf. At Cyrus Innovation we tend to have a culture of testing everything, but testing this part of our applications has always been difficult. In order to make sure our software correctly handles different conditions that arise in these interactions, we are faced with a couple of undesirable options.
The first, perhaps most obvious way to approach this is to set up an instance of the external system (for the purpose of this article, let's call the system under test "internal" and anything outside it, particularly the HTTP server(s) with which it needs to interact "external") with test data suitable to reproduce some important interactions. Depending on the degree of control you have over the other software, this may or may not be possible, but there are two big problems with this. Taking the external system through the states necessary to cover important cases may require driving through a user interface, or it may not be possible at all. At best, this is likely to be slow and complicated to set up. Worst of all, this creates an external dependency in your software's build. If the server goes down, is reconfigured, or its version doesn't match that expected by your software revision, your build fails and you're left to figure out what happened. Was it a new bug in your software, or just a glitch in the other system? The main upside to this approach is that it can be used to provide fairly high fidelity to production use. Because you are using an actual instance of the external software, communicating between machines over an actual network, this test system is likely to be bug-for-bug compatible with the production system.
Another approach is to write a custom test system to simulate the external system. This often involves setting up an HTTP server and programming it to respond as the external system would. This provides a high level of flexibility, as you can tailor the test server exactly to match the needs of the tests you are writing, but can be tedious to integrate with your build and involves a lot of low level detail in managing HTTP interaction. After trying variations on this theme for several systems, I asked myself, "Why doesn't something already exist that just lets me tell it what response to return when the request looks a certain way?" As it sometimes turns out in cases like this, my solution was to create that thing I was looking for myself.
Stubble takes care of the repeated, low-level details of this approach by providing a simple API for setting up HTTP responses that will be returned when HTTP requests are made that meet specified conditions. If you've ever used a stub or mock library such as Mockito for specifying interactions between objects, using Stubble to specify interactions with an HTTP server should be familiar.
The Stubble Approach
An interaction in Stubble is a list of request conditions and a response. When Stubble receives an incoming request, it runs through the interactions you've registered with it and returns the response of the first matching interaction. Stubble also comes with Maven integration to make it easy to run during integration testing in your build. Using Stubble can be as simple as starting the server in your test and adding an interaction to it, but the build integration provides a way to start up Stubble before your application starts for integration testing, so that any requests made throughout your application's lifecycle can be handled by Stubble. A common example of this is data that's loaded at startup. Using Stubble, you can provide enough boilerplate data to get the system running, then make calls to refresh or change data when you've set up new interactions inside a test.
A great way to get started with Stubble is to read the introductory material at the project page on GitHub. I hope you'll check it out, and feel free to help out by logging any issues you have or submitting pull requests (though I invite you to send a note or open an issue before writing too much code).


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A Fun Evening with Family and Friends!
Join us in the Coors Light Party Zone
at Greater Nevada Field
Friday, August 3rd at 6:00pm
Reno Aces vs Colorado Springs Sky Sox
Non-Refundable Admission: Adults – $31 – Children (3-10) – $19.00
Sign up in the foyer by July 15th
Fireworks Show after the Game!!
Free Aces Hat
Complete Dinner with fresh-off-the-grill food –
served from 6:05 to 8:05pm
Choice of:
• BBQ Pulled Pork
• BBQ Roasted Chicken
• Caesar Salad
• Fresh Seasonal Fruit
• BBQ Smoked Baked Beans
• Roasted Corn
• Freshly Baked Cookies
• Assorted Canned Soda and Bottled Water
Private tables and a great view down the foul line.
Bring your gloves and your appetite!


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- Updated: January 27, 2009
The Bluejackets have placed forward Nikita Filatov on the IR list, retroactive to January 18th, per Scott Howson.
No indication that this is any hint of a dire injury to Filatov. With Chimera, Novotny, Klesla all destined to return this week, this is primarily a move to clear some roster space while they decide whether to keep Filatov here or down in Syracuse.
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