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"Instantly engrossing."
I had seen a review of this (book) from a friend and decided to get it on Audible. I was instantly hooked into the story from the first moment. What sets this apart from the traditional true crime book is the way the story is told from several different perspectives, based on interviews with friends, family and acquaintances of the victim, but also acquaintances and family of the perpetrated. It ends up being both a chronological story of a crime, its investigation, and the trial and a character study of many of the most prominent characters, not just the victim. It also presents a portrait of the difference between Japanese and British/American world views about crime, justice, society, and family. It really was almost impossible to stop listening once I started, and I highly recommend it if you're looking for an engrossing listen.
The narrator, who I have heard on several other audio books, was excellent.
"Odd, but it worked for me."
I've read other reviews of this book and disagree on some of the points that have been made by those who disliked the book. I can see why people would not like the (spoilers) intimations about magic, but I actually liked that part- specifically because it's absolutely never explained. What this book captured for me was the sense of magic that comes from intense youthful attachments. That magic does feel real, and it's not something that you ever experience again once you've turned the corner into adulthood. I saw the 'magic' in this book (and also the similar hints of supernatural from the first book in the series In the Woods) as being largely metaphorical. The fact that it isn't really explained or dwelt upon is precisely why I liked it.
I have come to really like Frank Mackey, and I'm assuming that Tana French must also as he has now made three appearances in her novels. It was nice to see him again, and in his usual top form. Liking him made it a little harder to like Holly, though. I found her to be a troubling character in Faithful Place, and she still is now.
One piece of criticism I agree with is that the teen-speak got to be a bit much. First, if I actually had to listen to that I'd slap those kids silly after five minutes. Second, while I understand that kids can be bold and don't necessarily understand when to be serious, I felt that it was a bit unrealistic for girls being interrogated in a murder case to make no real attempt to drop the lingo for the sake of self-preservation. One thing I did think Tana French got right, though, was showing the convoluted thinking process that young people engage in- what many of the characters did seemed completely nonsensical, but that's very much how adolescents are. I would have liked a bit more follow up about what happened to everyone in the aftermath of the case. French normally provides quite a bit of this, but it sort of cut off sharply in this one.
I don't really agree with the many comments people have made that they could not understand the female narrator. I didn't have that problem at all. I thought both did a good job, and any annoyance I felt was just transference from the obnoxious people being narrated at times.
"A conflicting read."
This book came highly recommended from a friend who is a big mystery reader, so I had anticipated that I would like it better than the average mystery. I thought the set-up was well-chosen, but then felt that the author made a crucial error in making the 1984 mystery FAR more interesting than the Devlin murder ever became. I was intrigued by every mention of the 1984 crime, but quickly figured out the likely culprit in the Devlin crime before even making it to the second half of the novel. Worse, I found myself becoming extremely irritated with the minute detail about every interaction between Cassie and Rob. Both characters come across as being absolutely thrilled with themselves, which made them off-putting in the extreme.
These little 'friend crushes' do happen, so it's not that it bothered me that they were constantly being depicted as being as in-tune to each other as a couple married for fifteen years. Both characters, however, came across as sneering at every other character and so absolutely sure of his/her own conclusions that the lack of humility was distasteful- particularly as it led to a very rough interrogation of a grieving family member based upon no actual evidence. Cassie is a sort of 'Mary-Sue' character, presented as a bit too perfect in every way to not be a thinly-disguised avatar for the author's idea of the perfect female character. Rob, on the other hand, is so absurdly self-involved (and frankly, a bit misogynistic) that I really began to dislike him once the story got rolling.
I'm an attorney, so maybe I am over-focused on the ethical lapses here, but I was horrified at how little concern Rob (and Cassie!) had for the fact that their concealment of his involvement with the 1984 case would have on any attempt to prosecute in the Devlin case. ANY defense attorney who became aware of what he had done could get the whole case dismissed faster than you could say "OJ Simpson" because of the substantial likelihood of evidence tampering. To continue working the case simply because he wanted to (and for Cassie to allow this to happen) alienated me from both beyond repair. Ironically, the characters I actually liked (Sam, for example) were often ridiculed by Rob and Cassie, which did not help me like them better. They came across as the snotty kids at the popular table in the cafeteria during middle school, so perhaps it was fitting that the relationship fell apart the same way a teen-aged romance might.
Many have commented on their dissatisfaction with the ending. Without giving too much away, I will simply say that this is likely to be more of a problem for people who like more formulaic mysteries. Since I don't read many mystery novels, the lack of resolution only made the story more believable for me. One of the reasons mystery novels are not always my favorite thing to read is precisely because of the neat, 'wrapped up with a bow' resolutions and lack of realistic ambiguity. I wanted more resolution at the end, but found it realistic that I couldn't have it.
A note on the performance: I found it a bit odd that the narrator was not Irish and none of the characters had Irish accents despite the whole thing taking place in Dublin. It's somewhat explained, but still a bit weird. The reason for my somewhat low rating of the performance, however, is because nearly all of the characters who were either female or children were given rather annoying characterizations. Even Cassie's 'voice' is done in a whiny, snotty way that I found grating. I don't expect a grown man to sound female or like a child, but the voices chosen made those characters sound whiny and irritating.
"Interesting, but a weirdly anticlimactic ending."
I followed the advice of reviewers for this book and listened to River of Doubt first. I agree that it is a more entertaining book, but after finishing it I was still sufficiently curious to pick up this one as well. The story is interesting, but I felt a bit mislead about what it was going to be about. The description bills the story as an investigative reporter trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of Percy Fawcett's party in the Amazon. The book is really more a detailed history of Fawcett and his motivations and then an exploration of the many people who subsequently tried unsuccessfully to find out definitively what happened to Fawcett over the years. This story was quite interesting, though Fawcett does not come out looking particularly well. However, the actual exploration of the author sort of concludes in an anti-climactic way because while he decides that he has learned the truth about what happened to Fawcett, it is based on a third-hand account that had been previously reported so it was not exactly new ground being covered. Honestly it seemed obvious from the outset that there was never going to be any way to prove what happened definitively without actually recovering Fawcett's remains (or those of his son or Raleigh Rimell), a task that seemed next to impossible due to drastic changes to the land in that area. It is interesting for the history of Fawcett and other Amazonian explorers, but River of Doubt is far superior for the description of the experience of exploring the Amazon.
"Simpsons already did it, and did it better."
***spoiler alert*****
This novel, while interesting enough to finish and in some places enjoyable, contains a few of the characteristic irritants I often find in Stephen King novels. First and probably foremost is his bright-line distinction between the good guys and the bad guys. In this novel as in others where the antagonist is human (Dreamcatcher and Firestarter come to mind), the good guys are so altruistic and willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good that they emerge as being someone flat and unreal. The villains, on the other hand, are so cartoonishly evil that I find myself frequently rolling my eyes- as if anyone ever nakedly thinks to himself "Aha, now for my chance to do bad things because I totally want to do bad things." Yet in this novel there are many, many characters who appear to think in just such terms and you find never a single twinge of discomfort or uncertainty among them even when they're all in a group. For example, a group of young people, literally as soon as they are made police officers, engage in a brutal gang rape, and none of them exhibit even a flicker of human feeling or guilt before, during, or after the nefarious deed. I certainly agree that people in groups do things that they might never do alone, but King's unwillingness to humanize any of his bad guys at all rings solidly false.
The second common King trope that was too annoying in this novel was having his good guys act in absurdly stupid, short-sighted ways that often lead them to their own deaths. Examples abound: the minister, outraged by the aforementioned brutal gang rape, confront the group of rapists ALONE, physically pushing them around, even though she could just as easily have gone directly to the police chief inside the building right behind them. Of COURSE, she gets beaten up and gets her poor dog's head blown off. Then the widow of the chief of police, despite being warned not to go alone, confronts the main town villain Big Jim about his criminal activities on her own and has her neck snapped within minutes. Next the secondary protagonist Rusty confronts Big Jim, also alone, with his knowledge that Big Jim has murdered his own minister. probably at least one other person, and possibly three. Unsurprisingly, he ends up being jumped by Big Jim's goons and then arrested. What is up with these freaking moronic acts of bravado? Since when is confronting dangerous people the only way to deal with them? Why didn't they publish this information in the newspaper, which clearly should have been operating from a secret location by the time these things happened, or do a word of mouth campaign? Our heroes acted with such reckless disregard for themselves and the town in general that I was disgusted with them all by the time the novel rolled into it's fifth part.
That's the other thing: I have nothing against long books, or even long KING books, but this novel takes place over the course of about a week and did not need to be over a thousand pages long. King needs to give his editor more authority, or he needs to reel himself in a little. There are many parts that drag, or where he takes far too long to complete a scene of marginal value to the plot and marginal interest to the reader. Did we really need chapters told from the dog's point of view? The work's pacing really suffers as a result. It meanders for days and then pounds the last ten pounds of plot into a five pound bag.
Finally, the narrator. I am a little on the fence about this and felt a bit guilty about the two-star rating because Esparza did a decent job of keeping the narration interesting and did voices and all that, which I normally appreciate. However, it was hard to get past some of his odd choices. This is a tiny town in Western Maine. Most of the characters have rarely ventured from the region. In spite of this, Big Jim is given a 'fat southern sheriff' drawl, a French Canadian character is given what can only be described as a bastardized Jamaican accent, and several of the teenagers and Rusty, the secondary lead, sound like Keanu Reeves in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Seriously, they really do. Most annoying to me was the narrator's voices for female characters, which fell along two lines. Either they were whiny and nasal (Sammy Bushey, Norrie Calvert, all of the female children) or they were old-timey accents of sophisticated affectation that sounded like Katherine Hepburn at her absolute snootiest (Julia, Andrea, the sheriff's widow). NONE of them rang true to me, and some of them I found downright hard to listen to. I stress that I have a pretty low bar for the narrator. I don't expect awesome voice performances, but am happy when I find them. I just got really tired of listening to these weird, out of place accents because they took me out of the story that I was having enough trouble staying engaged in.
"Meh. And dated, too."
I had never read a Sandford book before, but wanted to try one since I'm from the Twin Cities and he's a local writer. This didn't really do it for me, although I'm not traditionally a mystery reader and that is likely at least part of the reason. First, I didn't really like any of the characters- including the main character. I didn't hate him, but he didn't really make me like him either. The female love interest was at first very off-putting, and then just not particularly engaging. While her character did have a function in the story, she still felt 'planted' to be 'the love interest.' All of this is ok, as I don't expect stellar character work in a multi-book mystery series.
What I found more annoying was the set-up of the story- a conspiracy of several adults over a child sex ring. It felt like a late 80's or early 90's episode of Geraldo, frankly- back then, everyone thought there were large conspiracies of either 1) child sex or porn rings or 2) satanic murder cults- everywhere. Unfortunately for books like this, all of these rumors and stories turned out to be unsubstantiated. While obviously child sexual abuse is a real thing, the description in this book of this group of sleazy adults who pass children around for sex really just made me think of those rumors and the craze of accusing everyone in sight of being part of satanic ritual abuse (think McMartins daycare, Jordan, MN, etc.) It felt so dated to me that I couldn't get past it.
To be fair, my dislike of this book is really more a symptom of not really getting into mystery novels. Maybe I would try a Sandford novel that is more contemporary to see if my reaction is better.
"Detailed and engaging."
I knew a little about this case from television, and was very interested to hear more about both the progress of the case and the lives of the victims. It was fairly depressing, but quite interesting, to hear the sad backgrounds of the women and how that played out in the aftermath of the discovery of their remains. The work Kolker did in investigating the residents of the Oak Beach area was quite informative and I was very glad it was included. Nothing like that was included in any television reports I saw of the case. My only real criticism of the book was that it focused very little on the unidentified remains. Whether or not the murders were all related, there must have been more information available (even if just the forensic reports) about these unidentified victims. I realize there could not have been much background information to find without knowing who the bodies belonged to, but it did feel that they were simply not a focus of the book. Yet it seems odd not to have put a little more into that aspect of the story. Still, it was detailed and well-researched. Well worth the credit.
"A great narrator reading one of the best novels."
This is truly one of the best novels ever written. The pacing is perfect, the characters are timeless, and it is one of the most quotable books I've ever read. The narrator was perfect for the text and did a great job bringing the characters to life.
"Dreamlike and very compelling."
I listened to this novel in Minnesota during the coldest, most bitter winter in recent memory. Reading the descriptions of the beach and the warm gulf waters made me sick with envy. I enjoyed King's setting in Florida- sometimes it gets a little repetitive to hear about another small town in Maine. (Not that I don't like small town Maine, but it was nice to read about a totally different place.) This novel has a deceptively slow pace, sort of a dreamlike quality, as it becomes obvious that Edgar is getting drawn into something. I thought it was an excellent choice King made that we don't know exactly what is happening until the end, and truly never do find an answer to the final mystery. Some things just are unknowable.
A cast of great characters combined with a truly original plot had me glued to my ear buds late into the night until I finished. Edgar's paintings sounded interesting enough that it made me hope that this gets made into a movie at some point so I can actually see them produced. My only complaint is that the ending of the novel makes living twenty minutes from St. Paul's Lake Phalen a very scary prospect!
"I wish King wrote more of them like this one."
I really enjoyed this one. I've listened to many Stephen King books, and have bought audio books of ones that I've already read because I enjoy listening to the stories when I'm driving, jogging, etc. This one I particularly liked because it's a simple, engaging ghost story and mystery rolled into one. It's not overly long, involves a relatively small number of characters, and has a nice tone throughout. It has a different feel than some of King's other novels; it's not a horror story at all but rather a nostalgia tale with a supernatural twist. It was nice for the characters of Joyland to have the center stage.
"Interesting stories, but morbidly fixated."
The story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates is one of my favorite short stories of all time. I have also loved many other short stories of hers. As a result I keep trying to enjoy her longer works as much as her short fiction; yet it has so far been without notable success. It seems that with JCO (for me at least), the shorter and simpler the story, the better it works. It's not that I didn't enjoy the stories in Evil Eye at all, but what happens when you read multiple JCO tales back to back is that you start to notice how similar her characters and themes are. Her protagonists are usually fragile women who end up being victimized, often in a horrible fashion, by cruel men. You can see this as either feminist or anti-feminist (or neither) depending on how you look at the story. I do my best not to think much about 'isms' when I read a story and rather to focus on how the story is working. What doesn't always work for me in these four novellas is that many of the women characters seem weak and mildly contemptible for their naivety. Fine in each individual story, but a bit overwhelming when taken together. Also, it feels at times that JCO dwells in the violence she depicts in a somewhat prurient way.
In spite of this, many things in Evil Eyes worked. I liked the use of unreliable narrators, used in at least two of the stories, making the reader wonder if you could trust the story being told. It's not her best work but the stories are worth the listen, especially if you already are a fan of Joyce Carol Oates and know what to expect.
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The sex-crazed insects emerge every 17 years to bang each other in your front yard.
This is a hideous insect from hell called the cicada. If you've never seen a cicada, that's probably because they live underground, much like mole people and hobos. But every 17 years, billions of these creatures surface all along the East Coast to mate with each other, and in the process, ruin our lives.
This is that year.
Those who remember that dark, dark summer of 1996 - when cicadas last attempted to enslave the human race - will likely be fleeing to higher ground before they finish reading this post. But for the rest of you, here are a few things you should know before the swarms have their way with you:
-Cicadas are technically harmless. Whoops! Sorry if we scared you.
-Still, they are terrifying to look at, and loud as all hell. The sound of their incessant buzzing will likely drive you insane long before our collective national nightmare is over.
-Their mass emergence usually takes place in a single, hellish night. That means that one of these days (maybe tonight!) you will go to sleep as usual, and wake up the next day to the tune of billions of locusts banging their brains out.
-Scientists predict that this season will bring such large numbers of these micro-beasts that humans will be outnumbered 600 to 1, from North Carolina all the way to Connecticut.
-If this merely sounds like annoyance, consider that those who live in the hardest-hit regions will literally be shoveling them off the front lawn by the thousands.
-Don't bother trying to kill them with pesticides. They will shit on your pesticides, and then mock you for all eternity. We recommend using fire - just strap on the ol' flame-thrower and have at it.
So, on that note, um, have a great summer, everyone!
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October – December 2014
"You already know the importance of saving a language. You know the reason, but not the motivation to save it," admits Anchi Chen, one of the collaborators for TONGUES OF HEAVEN. With 96% of the world's population speaking only 4% of the world's languages, what does it mean today to speak your mother tongue?
To put it another way, what do you lose when you lose your native language? Using video as the primary medium of expression, four young indigenous women from the Austronesian language territories Taiwan and Hawai'i share their questions, desires and challenges of learning their native languages.
Dir: Anita Chang. 2013. 60 min.
Anita Chang is a Bay Area independent filmmaker, educator and writer. Her award-winning works have screened internationally and broadcast on U.S. and Taiwan public television. She has taught in community centers and film departments in San Francisco, Nepal and Taiwan's College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University. Honors include grant awards from the Fulbright, San Francisco Arts Commission, and KQED Peter J. Owens Filmmaker programs.
Artist website: anitachangworks.com
Tongues of Heaven is a Creative Capital and National Geographic All Roads Seeds funded project.
BAY AREA DOCS is a monthly program featuring the best films made in the mecca of documentary filmmaking.
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NIPPON NIGHTS is monthly series of Japanese cinema bridging different genres, styles and generations. In the 2nd season of the series, we introduce Japanese cinema themed with Music.The 1st title is "IDOL IS DEAD", musical horror comedy stared by real Japanese idol group, BiS.
In Japan, beautiful pop pin-up Idols rule the music scene. Frustrated in her dreams of being a star in Tokyo, Rui ended up a hostess in a provincial bar. When her former rival Momoko returns home a successful Idol singer, Rui flips out and kills her and the rest of her pop group. In order to hide the crime, she and her friends take the dead girls' place, creating BiS (Brand-new Idol Society). But when a mad scientist reanimates Momoko as a half-robot half zombie, she retaliates on the new starlets and their fans. A strikingly original part-horror, part-comedy, part-music-video starring one of Japan's freshest pop sensations. (in Japanese with English subtitles)
Once, Rui has aimed at a singer. However, now, she was frustrated and was doing the hostess's work in the country. When Rui goes home together with a friend's Tsunko, She met Momoko, the rival at the time of her having aimed as a singer. Momoko became an idol singer and was successful. On the grounds that Momoko has ridiculed Rui, Rui killed two friends, her and her. In order that Rui may escape a crime, She formed the idol group together with Tsunko pretending to be Momoko and others.
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Director/Screenwriter : Yukihiro Kato, JAPAN, 2012, 63min.
Casts : BiS (Brand New Idol Society)
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag's life through evocative experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, read by actress Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books and her first experience in a gay bar; from her marriage in adolescence to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today. More than any other thinker of her day, Sontag was watched, viewed, photographed and stared at. She was gazed at, and she looked back, very carefully, particularly at language and metaphor and at photography and what she called "the ecology of images." REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG gives viewers the chance to watch Sontag while she examines the world. REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG has been made in partnership with HBO Documentary Films and will be broadcast Fall 2014.
Directed by Nancy D. Kates, 100 Minutes, U.S.A., 2014
NIPPON NIGHTS is monthly series of Japanese cinema bridging different genres, styles and generations. In the 2nd season of the series, we introduce Japanese cinema themed with Music.
This is a documentary about Japan's law regulating entertainments.
Noon, a venerable Osaka club, was busted in April 2012 for violating Japan's law regulating entertainment establishments. Eight were arrested in the case, their charges being that the club allowed approximately 20 people to dance on its premises "without permission." The law regulating entertainment businesses makes it illegal to allow patrons to dance, but the law went into effect in 1948, and in many ways is out of step with contemporary society. The 65-year-old law was created when so-called dance clubs were used as hotbeds of prostitution. This documentary covers the music event held in July of the same year by over 90 artist teams, who rallied in protest. This film delves into problems in Japan's music industry with interviews of performers like Ito Seiko and Hanaregumi, who have their doubts about the law.
Directed by Moriro Miyamoto, 93mins., 2013, JAPAN, English Subtitled.
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High Five
On October 2nd, 1977 Dusty Baker hit his 30th homerun of the season, making history as the 4th player on the Dodgers to hit 30 or more home runs. As Baker rounded the bases, an excited rookie named Glenn Burke met him at home plate, raised his arm high in the air and slapped Baker five. It was the first high five recorded in the history of sports. A year later, Burke was forced about of baseball amid rumors of his sexual orientation. The film takes audiences back to the spontaneous moment between the two men and tells the story of how the celebratory gesture spread throughout the sports world at same time Burke was being forced from the game he loved. The film won the Jury Award and Best Short Doc at the 2014 San Francisco International Film Festival.
10 Minutes, Short Documentary, A Film by Michal Jacobs
Director's Bio…
Michael Jacobs debut feature Audience of One won awards at SXSW, Silverdocs and screened at New Directors/New Films before going on to theatrical release and a premiere on Sundance Channel. Jacobs has directed documentaries for Sony Pictures, Current TV and Popup Magazine. Jacobs is currently a founding member of Strike Anywhere Films.
Santa Cruz del Islote
Santa Cruz Isolate is less than three acres large and is one of the world's most densely populated islands. This remote but family-like community resides fifty miles from Cartagena, Colombia. Such isolation has provided a peaceful existence for generations, but sufficient resources are becoming increasingly scarce. This short documentary explores the daily lives of a young boy and a fisherman as they come to terms with their changing paradise.
19 Minutes, Short Documentary, A Film by Luke Lorentzen
Luke Lorentzen is an undergraduate Film Studies major and American Studies minor at Stanford University. He has a particular interest in visually centered stories that explore everyday ways of life. His work has won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Luke is currently working on a new documentary about the variety of barber shops and hair salons throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
The Delano Manong
Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers Movement
The Delano Manongs tells the story of the Filipino farmworkers who spurred the Great Grape Strike in 1965 and joined forces with the other ethnic workers to create the United Farmworkers Union.
The film chronicles the untold story of the Filipino farmworkers who instigated one of the biggest labor struggles in American history — the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. Led by Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco, the Manongs (a Filipino term of respect for an older man) joined forces with Chicano farmworkers, led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, to create the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). The documentary, compounded by interviews and both archival and present-day footage, sheds light on the lives of these Filipino farmworkers from their arrival into the United States in the 1920s and '30s to the demise of their assemblage in the 1980s, highlighting their many struggles and achievements. The legacy created by the Manongs — out of a necessity and want for basic equality and humanity — is one still significant to and celebrated by thousands of Filipino Americans today. The Trailer is Here.
27 Minutes, Short Documentary, A Film By Marissa Aroy
Director's Bio…
Marissa Aroy, director, of The Delano Manongsreceived an Emmy for the documentary "Sikhs in America," which was shown on PBS. She produced and directed "Little Manila: Filipinos in California's Heartland" also for PBS and produced "Sounds of Hope" for Frontline World. Aroy holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Boston College and a master's degree in journalism from University of California, Berkeley. She recently came back from Tacloban where she was filming the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Aroy was named one of the most influential Filipina women in the US in 2009 by the Filipina Womens Network. She and her filmmaking partner, Niall McKay, founded Media Factory, a media production company in 2004. For more about Media Factory: http://www.mediafactory.tv
Facing Fear
As a 13 year-old, Matthew Boger was thrown out of his home for being gay. While living on the streets of Hollywood, he was savagely beaten in a back alley by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads. Boger managed to survive the attack and escape life on the streets. Twenty-five years later, Boger found himself in a chance meeting with a former neo-Nazi skinhead, Tim Zaal. The two men soon realized that they had met before…Zaal was one of the attackers who beat Boger and left him for dead.
With their worlds turned upside down, the two embarked on a journey of forgiveness and reconciliation that challenged both to grapple with their own beliefs and fears. Neither could imagine that it would to lead to an improbable collaboration…and friendship.
"Facing Fear" Trailer from Jason Cohen Productions on Vimeo.
23 Minutes, Short Documentary, A Film By Jason Cohen
Director's Bio…
Academy Award-nominated Jason Cohen has produced and directed all formats of film and television on projects that cover a broad range of topics over the past 20 years. Currently, Cohen is in production on a global film about love and forgiveness that has taken him around the world to highlight stories in Uganda, India, Haiti, Spain and Italy.
Cohen has had an ongoing relationship with Academy Award-winning director Steven Okazaki for over 15 years. Last year he produced the Okazaki-directed APPROXIMATELY NELS CLINE, about the world-renowned lead guitarist of the rock band Wilco. He co-produced HBO's Emmy-nominated BLACK TAR HEROIN: DARK END OF THE STREET, with Okazaki and was a producer on his Emmy Award-winning HBO doc on the dropping of the atomic bomb, WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN, which also screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. *Full Biography
Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into SLOMO, trading his lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a taste of divinity.
18 Minutes, Short Documentary, A Film by Josh Izenberg
Director's Bio…
Josh hails from Ann Arbor, where he earned a degree in Screenwriting from the University of Michigan. He's since worked as a copywriter, a cab driver, and a carpenter. SLOMO is his first documentary.
Elliot Lavine and Don Malcolm proudly present a stellar four- day festival of Gallic noir, twelve dazzling noir films featuring works by famed directors like Melville and Clouzot as well as films from equally talented but somewhat less widely known group of filmmakers such as Julien Duvivier, Jacques Becker, Robert Hossein, and Claude Autant-Lara. The big Roxie screen will glisten with unimaginable star power provided by Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Brigitte Bardot, and 1950s French glamour couple Robert Hossein and Marina Vlady.
Most of these exciting films have been absent from US movie screens for decades and we are indeed honored to be hosting this incredible event. Be watching the Roxie website for a complete schedule of films!
NIPPON NIGHTS is monthly series of Japanese cinema bridging different genres, styles and generations. In the 2nd season of the series, we introduce Japanese cinema themed with Music.
I heard Mizue is making animation. How exciting! I can't wait to see!!
—Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Internationally Noteworthy, Japanese Animation Creator : Mirai Mizue! His works have been screened and judged at many international film festivals and he continues to forge the future of the Japanese independent animation scene. Since 2002, he has been creating abstract animations, known as his 'cell animations', in which cell structures form the central motif.
In 2011, Modern No.2 was nominated to the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival and to the Spectrum section at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, enthralling audiences with its vivid colors and dynamic, delicate movements synchronized with music. In 2012, Modern No.2 won the SACEM Award for Original Music Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the world's biggest animation festival. With his vast experience and boundless energy, Mizue is in his prime as a filmmaker.
In "WONDER FULL!!", a film that Mirai selected and joined some films from his works himself will be screened.
Director's statements
Getting this pleasant opportunity to show many of my films first time, I take into account of the order, music and screen size of my works since 2003 to make those like one long-animation film. I believe it will help you to enjoy and understand all films naturally and smoothly.
(As life and death is never-ending and have existed since extremely long time ago, it is probably just one tiny piece what I can feel.)
Our body is composed of over 60 trillion cells. Surprisingly, it is way much more than the number of all stars in the solar system. Needless to say, each of our cells is alive and both life and death take place for each cell again and again and again until our lives will end. The world is always full of WONDER.
If you feel wonder, miracle, surprise, and a mass of happiness through my masterpiece, I am very much satisfied.
■Modern No. 2 –We went for it without any hesitation. We've formed the world at a quickening pace. What on earth is this world that we have created?
■JAM– The sound is piled up. The image is piled up as well. Before long, the screen becomes chaotic.
■Minamo– Made by a frame-by-frame shooting of ink streaming on the surface of water.
■FANTASTIC CELL– This animation is Mirai Mizue's debut film.vThe birth of 'cell animations'.
■METROPOLIS– This film was requested from the Seoul International Cartoon And Animation Festival, and produced for the appeal of Seoul City, South Korea.
■TATAMP– Each living object has its own sound.a Thus the sounds varied when there are more living objects. It becomes chaotic, and at the same time, melodic.
■TRIP! TRAP!– An expression of a chaotic world. A mixture of different techniques.Graduation film.
■MODERN– The hexahedron keeps changing shape. Besides, anything doesn't happen.
■LOST UTOPIA– The tale of the Biblical Adam and Eve is used as the motif in this anthropomorphic phantasmagoria of animated images.
■DEVOUR DINNE– Various dinners made with different living things…
■Adamski– A subjective view of an UFO. Shot frame-by-frame along the Tama River.
■Playground– An improvisation that combines several images: the innocent world-view of a child, the continuousness of life, order and chaos, unity and division and the real streaming world.
■AND AND– It is born. It dies. They repeat. The mandala of a life. Hypnotic patterns by Mirai Mizue for Toru Matsumoto's And And.
Mirai Mizue Director/Animator
He was born in Tokyo, 1981. People around him was surprised by his drawing a perfect circle when he was three. He started making animation by himself when someone told him that his illustrations looked like it was moving in his study at the Department of Graphic Design, Tama Art University.
His high quality pictures that he drew by hand on paper and his method to make animation by computer with scanning all papers with his original drawings attract people beyond the border or stereotyped animation.
His first work "FANTASTIC CELL"(2003) debuted on the world stage after received recommendation of the jury at Japan Media Arts Festival.
The short animated films he made has been always beloved around the world.
His graduation film "LOST UTOPIA"(2007) has screened over eighty film festivals in the world.
In 2011, "MODEERN NO.2″ was screened in the Orizzonti section of the Venice International Film Festival,
and he became the first Japanese who received SACEM Award(an award for best music)
at Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the next year.
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Indianaoplis, IN, United States (4E Sports) – The Butler Bulldogs announced Friday that forward Austin Etherington will be out at least 12-16 weeks after undergoing foot surgery.
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Geometry of Fear
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A Hayward Touring exhibition
1 October – 16 November 2007
Peter SCOTTGALLERY, Lancaster University
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Bringing together fifteen sculptures and eight works on paper from the Arts Council Collection, Geometry of Fear explores the generation of sculptors that emerged in the post-war years, creating work in direct response to the horrors of the Holocaust and WW2, and in reaction to the climate of fear generated by the Cold War. The show takes its starting point from the ground-breaking exhibition at the British Pavilion in the 1952 Venice Biennale. It was here that art historian Herbert Read coined the term 'Geometry of Fear' to describe this emerging group: "These new images belong to the iconography of despair, or of defiance... The geometry of fear …their art is close to the nerves, nervous, wiry." Geometry of Fear comes to Lancaster in October as part of the national tour.
As with the 1952 Venice exhibition, Geometry of Fear includes work by Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Reg Butler, Kenneth Armitage, Bernard Meadows, Robert Adams, and Eduardo Paolozzi. Also like Venice, it includes a work by Henry Moore, highlighting the difference between the two generations. The young artists' work was characterised by linear, spiky forms, made from welded metal and reflected many of the concerns and anxieties of the post-war era.
The exhibition includes key works of the period, such as Reg Butler's Girl and Boy (1951), Eduardo Paolozzi's The Cage (1951) and Kenneth Armitage's Figure Lying on its Side (1957). The contemporary recognition and praise enjoyed by these artists was largely influenced by the skill with which they interpreted some of the anxieties of their time. In today's uncertain climate, it is perhaps a timely moment to reconsider these works.
This exhibition is also supplemented by works on paper by sculptors represented in the
PeterScottGallery Collection at Lancaster University. Included in this display are works by Eduardo Chillida, Elisabeth Frink, Charles Hadcock, Barbara Hepworth, and William Turnbull.
EXHIBITION TALK: Ann Jones, Arts Council Collection
Ann Jones, Curator of the 'Geometry of Fear' exhibition, will give a talk about the exhibition at the Peter Scott Gallery on Tuesday 9 October at 1pm. For enquiries please call the gallery on 01524 593057.
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Alf Dunn: Sculptures and Artists' Prints
Also on display at the Peter Scott Gallery from 1 October until 16 November, is an exhibition of work by Alf Dunn. Dunn studied at the Royal College of Art, where he later worked as a Senior Tutor. His work is represented in many collections including the Arts Council Collection, the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Peter Scott Gallery Collection. This exhibition shows a range of bronze and stone sculptures, alongside artists' prints.
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In the old translation of the world's most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar." Make that "brother or sister" in a new translation that includes more gender-neutral language and is drawing criticism from some conservatives who argue the changes can alter the theological message.
The 2011 translation of the New International Version Bible, or NIV, does not change pronouns referring to God, who remains "He" and "the Father." But it does aim to avoid using "he" or "him" as the default reference to an unspecified person.
The NIV Bible is used by many of the largest Protestant faiths. The translation comes from an independent group of biblical scholars that has been meeting yearly since 1965 to discuss advances in biblical scholarship and changes in English usage.
Before the new translation even hit stores, it drew opposition from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, an organization that believes women should submit to their husbands in the home and only men can hold some leadership roles in the church.
The council decided it would not endorse the new version because the changes alter "the theological direction and meaning of the text," according to a statement. Similar concerns led the Southern Baptist Convention to reject the NIV's previous translation in 2005.
At issue is how to translate pronouns that apply to both genders in the ancient Greek and Hebrew texts but have traditionally been translated using masculine forms in English.
An example from the translator's notes for Mark 4:25 to show how the NIV's translation of these words has evolved over the past quarter-century.
The widely distributed 1984 version of the NIV quotes Jesus: "Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
The more recent incarnation of the NIV from 2005, called Today's New International Version, changed that to: "Those who have will be given more; as for those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them."
The CBMW had complained in 2005 that making the subject of a verse plural to convey that it could refer equally to a man or a woman "potentially obscured an important aspect of biblical thought — that of the personal relationship between an individual and God."
The NIV 2011 seems to have taken that criticism into account and come up with a compromise: "Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them."
While the translators' former grammar teachers may not like it, the translators offer a strong justification for their choice of "they" (instead of the clunky "he or she") and "them" (instead of "him or her") to refer back to the singular "whoever."
They commissioned an extensive study of the way modern English writers and speakers convey gender inclusiveness. According to the translators' notes on the Committee on Bible Translation's website, "The gender-neutral pronoun 'they' ('them'/'their') is by far the most common way that English-language speakers and writers today refer back to singular antecedents such as 'whoever,' 'anyone,' 'somebody,' 'a person,' 'no one,' and the like."
Randy Stinson, president of the CBMW and dean of the School of Church Ministries at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said the changes are especially important to evangelicals.
"Evangelicals believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of scripture. We believe every word is inspired by God, not just the broad thought," he said.
So if the original text reads "brothers" — even if that word in the original language is known to mean "brothers and sisters" (such as the Hebrew "achim" or Spanish word "hermanos") — many evangelicals believe the English translation should read "brothers."
Stinson said a notes section would be the best place to point out that the original word could be read to include men and women.
It's not yet known if the Southern Baptist Convention will reject the new translation the way it did the 2005 version. The nation's largest Protestant denomination still sells the 1984 translation in its stores. If it chooses to condemn the new version, that would happen at its national convention in June.
The publisher says the NIV 2011 will replace both the 1984 and 2005 versions.
Even while panning the new translation, the CBMW thanked the Committee on Bible Translation for being open about the process they used to develop it. That included taking comments from all sides of the gender debate.
And the new version doesn't always use gender neutral language. It takes reader sensibility into account by not using inclusive terms for some of the most familiar verses where that might sound jarring. For instance, Matthew 4:4 is rendered, "'Man shall not live on bread alone."
That's a change from the TNIV, where the same phase read, "People do not live on bread alone."
"I think that clause has entered into standard English," translator Douglas Moo explained of the move back to the more traditional "man." "People know it who don't know the Bible."
Moo said the translators hope that the phrasing of the new NIV is so natural that the average reader won't be aware of any of the gender language concerns that are debated by biblical scholars and linguists.
The group's website says its goal is "to articulate God's unchanging Word in the way the original authors might have said it if they had been speaking in English to the global English-speaking audience today."
While the change to the generic "man" in verses like Matthew 4:4 is applauded by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, linguist Joel M. Hoffman, author of "And God Said — How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning," said it is simply incorrect.
"'Anthropos' (the Greek word in the original text) means 'person,' plain and simple," he said. "It's as much a mistake as translating 'parent' as 'father.'"
He doesn't buy the argument that "man" is understood in English to refer to men and women.
"If you walk into a church on Sunday morning and say, 'Will every man stand up?' I would be shocked if the women stood up, too."
Biblica NIV official site: http://www.biblica.com/niv/
Committee on Bible Translation: http://www.niv-cbt.org/
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: http://www.cbmw.org/
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The Declaration of Independence seems to contradict what linguist Joel M. Hoffman is saying. Just read the preamble. Should it also be re-written?
The rub here is that of course men and women are not created equal. No one is alike in thought or physique and therefore cannot be equal. But they can be treated equal by a government under the restraints of a Constitution.
If we look at today, are common folks of Main Street treated equally by government when compared to Wall Street bankers? If campaign donations equates to free speech, are those that have money treated equally to those that do not? Just what kind of system is it that we have?
Why does the media feel it more important to prattle on about changes to the Bible versus changes to our government?
All this biblical and politically correct nonsense is b.s. plain and simple!
While clowns of this type discuss how many angels can fit on the tip of a needle or focus on genderism in the bible our nation is going down the tubes.
If citizens such as these put as much energy and thought as they do into these non issues and focused such on ending wars, balancing our budget, reducing debt and expenditures at all levels of government then maybe we'd have some forward motion on the playing field. Also failure to see justice served against criminals in high places of government and business is part of our undoing.
We're just like the Titanic, bow under stern up while a bunch god-slapped fools are singing in the Grand Salon…"God Save America" or some other such tune as their nation sinks to the bottom along with others throughout history who's citizens fell asleep at the task of maintaining honest, ethical governance.
When a people are no longer righteous and ethical they must pay the supreme price. : |
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I've reached a question in a maths text book I'm reading that I'm having some trouble with. Any help/suggestion would be greatly appreciated. The question it self is short but there are a couple of paragraphs which set it up that I've copied directly out of the book.
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
We distinguish a positive and a negative side of a directed line l as follows. Let P be any point not on l, and let Q be the foot of the perpendicular to l through P. Then P is on the positive or negative side of l according as the angle from l to the directed line QP is 90 or -90 degrees.
We shall now determine the equation of a directed line l. We draw through the orign O a line m perpendicular to l, and direct m so that the angle from it to l is 90 degrees. The angle from the directed x-axis to m will be called [tex]\beta[/tex]. Then [tex]\alpha = 90^{\circ} + \beta , \sin \alpha = \cos \beta , cos\alpha = -\sin \beta[/tex]. Let R with coordinates x1, y1 be the point where m meets l. We shall denote by d the directed distance OR on directed m.
Show that d is positive if and only if O lies on the negative side of l.
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3. The attempt at a solution
The question states that d should be positive if and only if O is on the negative side of l. However I've attached a simple sketch where (i think) d is positive when O is on the positive side (the black line being l and the green one being d and m). I'm not sure what I've done wrong to get this result, any pointers would be great :)
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Overnight, Vallecillo went from being a prisoner in an Elk River jail to a mother with an ankle monitor at a comfortable home in Brooklyn Center. The paperwork glitch surprised immigration officials and Vallecillo, who is among the growing number of parents facing deportation who must grapple with the fate of their children.
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Bring your bike this week, there is one site close for those who like rocks, everything else is a bit down river, still walk-able but quicker on wheels. And if you have a BOB trailer, bring it!
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Ed Dixon and friends have been working very hard in the North, the Patapsco 100 is one of the many many results. We're now fully engaged with making sure the race route is in tip-top shape. We need to get the sections around Woodstock Road as sustainable as possible before the race. Welcome to the Patapsco 100 Trail Work Series brought to you by AFC, Old Line Velo and MORE. Work will commence on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month, March thru June. I know it's a lot. We see all of this as a baby step toward an official Tour de Patapsco Epic. It's worth it. Weather permitting we'll likely bring bikes and BOB trailers since some of the sites are more than a mile away from Woodstock road ( though hiking in is good too, sometimes I even drag my kids along ). Let me know you're coming via RSVP in the Calendar entry ( sign in to the new site or use your email addy if you don't have a free account already! ) so I know how many donuts/tools/snacks to bring ( especially if you're bringing kids, they like to run in packs ). You should bring gloves and sturdy footwear suitable for doing trail work outside, something to drink, a smiling face and your favourite tool. Expect to get dirty, wet and have a ton of fun doing it! We may retire to the Inn for lunch afterwards if there's interest.
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Thanks to the near-prohibitive hike in cigarette prices, lighting up will get a new meaning.
This week's 'Poke Me', invited your comments on 'The Smoking Lounge'
In circumstances, where the individual affected is not in full control of information regarding his or her illness, legalising euthanasia is out of the question.
Welfare schemes supply cheap rice and wheat, not cheap onions. There is no evidence to suggest that life without cheap onions is miserable.
The next three months will show why commodity futures trading is so important for sanity in India's food economy.
The choice of admiring a country in the World Cup and then 'choosing' it is primarily conducted by our response to the way they play football.
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Communication / emotional development
By now your toddler may be beginning to use two or even more words in combination. It's common for toddlers to start with mini-phrases using nouns like 'more milk', and then verbs 'Mummy say' and the oh-so-common 'Me do!'.
If your child wants something and can't communicate it, or wants something that you don't want him to have, then whining is a common reaction. If you think that he's frustrated by an inability to communicate then you can try asking him what it is he wants, or asking him if he can show you. This may well be enough to end the whining, but if not then it's worth making the point that he won't get whatever it is he wants while he's continuing to whine. If there's something that you don't want him to have at all, then a little distraction may come in handy. If you do give him what she wants when he's whining then you'll only encourage him to think that whining is the way to get things. Of course, there's a big difference between whining for something he wants and letting you know that there's something he needs, like a drink or a clean nappy.
At play
Some nineteen-month-olds will be ready to kick a ball, rather than just walk into it, and might even enjoy trying to get a ball into a large target such as mini goal posts or an upturned laundry basket. Big bouncy balls can offer hours of amusement, just make sure it's big enough that he can't put it in his mouth or bite a chunk out of it, and supervise bouncy ball play, just in case.
Ride on toys are usually popular at this age and he'll becoming more adventurous with where he gets too. He may still enjoy push- and pull-along toys also.
Posting, stacking, sorting, building, opening and closing will all still be keeping him amused. If he's got one toy down pat then show him a more challenging variation, like stacking cups on top of one another, rather than inside one another. If he's outgrown his posting box he may be ready for a simple big-piece jigsaw puzzle.
He's most likely still fascinated with containers and can spend minutes at a time transferring blocks, sand, water or stones from one place or container to another container and then back. By now he should be able to hold a bucket or tub with one hand and use the other hand to fill it - and maybe even talk at the same time!
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You probably still won't understand a lot of what your toddler says to you, but listening is very important never-the-less. You obviously can't hang on every 'word', particularly when he's busy chattering away ten to the dozen, but if you pay close attention when he's telling you something you can't at first understand, the combination of his speech and body language - or pointing - may make new words clear to you. Try suggesting words you think he might mean, and he'll probably let you know when you hit on the right one. Being listened closely to will be reassuring to him and spur him on to keep trying, it's also a sure way to make him feel loved. If he's mispronouncing words but it's clear what he's trying to say, then it's more helpful to say 'yes, it's a ...' and then repeat the word correctly for him, rather than saying 'no, it's not that, it's such and such'.
Helping Mummy and Daddy will still be a wonderful game to him, and there is more and more he can do all the time. It will take longer to wash and fold the laundry with him, to sweep the floor or wipe down surfaces, but if you're patient and turn all these things into a game together you create a fun playtime for him at the same time as getting the chores done, so why not? Many kitchen cleaning toys like mops and brushes are designed for the 3 plus age group and may be a bit too pointy for him to use safely, but take a look at your own mop and brush - many have adjustable handles that you can shorten to a suitable length that won't be frustrating or dangerous for him. When you're watering the garden he might like to follow suit with his own little watering can. It goes without saying, of course, that you need to keep him away from any cleaning products (even the 'natural' kind) and buckets of water, and take extra care to guard against him slipping when you're cleaning. If you're wiping down units why not give him his own clean, dry cloth to wipe the fronts of the cupboards or walls with?
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Do you guys remember the freaking awesome Valmont dakimakura I commissioned from soltian this summer? And how I sadly had to wait 8 months in Japan before I could actually get my hands on him?? Well I am happy to say he is just as perfect in person (or… in pillow) as in pictures. Have some photos of him chilling out with my Yomako pillow! And since I am too internet shy to take pictures of me cuddling with him please accept my friend Pyro as a substitute. c:
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You were busy with college football and the NFL opening weekend. (And why wouldn't you be? Notre Dame collapsing and the Bears engorging on Falcon meat? How does it get better?) But members of the Hawks organization were on the ice in Ontario the past two days.
The Maple Leafs rookie tournament kicked off with the Baby Hawks playing two games in 15 hours. Bet you feel fat now.
Sadly, the Hawks dropped both of them, 4-2 to the Leafs' kids and 6-5 to the Senators. They end the tournament tomorrow with a game against the Penguins' kids, who are also 0-2.
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When I say "my sort of autistic person" I mean like…
If all autistic people were in this huge multidimensional grid with closer meaning more similar in a certain way and further meaning more far away in a certain way. "My type of autism" is everyone within a certain vague distance of me in every direction. And so is anyone else's type. And that makes way more sense than the subtypes we use today.
So I mean things like feliscorvus and amorpha and a bunch of other people I've met who have a lot of similarities to me, especially in areas I find important.
I also don't mean that other sorts of autistic people don't experience the same thing.
And I don't ever mean that I am low functioning and I am speaking only of low functioning people because I don't even believe in low functioning people or high functioning people, that boundary makes no sense to me emotionally, scientifically, intellectually, or ethically. So I never mean that and am never meaning to exclude people who see themselves as on the other side of that line from me.
Lots of people see feliscorvus as on the other side of that line from me, yet she is the closest to a duplicate of me brain wise that I have ever met, both by our own estimations and the estimations of mutual friends. So I would never say "my sort of autistic person" and leave her out just because some people like to put her on the other side of a meaningless line.
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07-25-11, 01:23 PM Are raisins good or bad? #1EverAfter
Are raisins good or bad?
I read that raisins are a mood enhancing food that can help both children and adults feel better. However, my sister says raisins are bad for kids. Can you see any reason raisins would be bad?
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07-25-11, 01:49 PM Are raisins good or bad? #2superwhat
I can't think of any reason that raisins would be bad for you. They only thing that comes to my mind is that they are pretty high in sugar. So parents who really cut down on sugar do tend to stay away from them.
07-25-11, 09:06 PM Are raisins good or bad? #3Diandra
I have never heard that raisins are not good for kids. Raisins have many health benefits. They are good for your eyes and teeth, and help with anemia, constipation, fever and sexual weakness.
07-25-11, 09:44 PM Are raisins good or bad? #4BabySoon
I've never heard anything about raisins being bad for kids either. I can see the sugar being bad but there are probably alternatives with less sugar I imagine.
07-26-11, 01:28 PM Are raisins good or bad? #5rose
I have heard it before and I completely understand it after visiting a dentist for my own work and asking him. It seems that these are funny little things most parents do not think about but really once dry they are just the same as concentrated juice. So think about that the next time you give a kid a raisin (and make them go brush their teeth right away).
07-26-11, 02:52 PM Are raisins good or bad? #6Arial
I can the point about raisins not being good for kids' teeth, but that's easily solved by encouraging them to brush. The only thing I know about raisins being bad is for smaller children because they can be a choking hazard. Beyond that, I think they're a good snack for kids.
07-27-11, 03:45 AM Are raisins good or bad? #7Diandra
Oops, actually I have just read another article about raisins and their health benefits. They do have many health benefits, and one of the benefits is helping you with weight gain.
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We also have these five "Fascinating Facts about Exorcism," compiled by UCLA Associate ProfessorDr. Ysamur M. Flores-Peña to close out your Ash Wednesday.
- 42% of Americans believe in possession by the devil.
- There are dozens of references of Jesus exorcising demons in the Gospels.
- Exorcisms can be done on inanimate objects or places as well as on people. These need not be "real exorcisms" but can be "simple exorcisms" (usually thought of as baptizing the infant or "blessing" the house or place).
- By conservative estimates, there are at least five or six hundred evangelical exorcism ministries in operation today, and quite possibly two or three times this many.
- The Catholic Church has at least 10 official exorcists in the US.
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Chronic Female Pelvic Pain - What Happens
It can sometimes be hard to know how long pelvic pain will last and how best to treat it. It's a little different for every woman. But in general:
- When a cause is found and treated, such as an ovarian cyst, the pain will most likely go away.
- When it's hard to find a cause, your doctor can do a number of tests and try certain treatments to see if they work.
- Symptoms that are caused by hormone fluctuations often go away without treatment when menopause occurs and the ups and downs of hormone levels settle down.
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