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Nicije dete 2014
1h 35min | Drama | 8 April 2015 (Serbia)
At late eighties, a boy has been found in mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nobody found out how he came in wild, nor if animals fed and raised him.
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This is a film inspired by actual events and has indeed closely followed the 'real'story of a feral child found somewhere in rural Bosnia. A child is found living among wolves, nobody knew who he is, his name, family, background. He could have wandered off and gotten lost never to be found, he could have been left there, who knows. Anyway, the child is sent to Belgrade, Serbia (1988 it was still Yugoslavia) to be examined and placed him into orphanage.
He even got a name – a Muslim name, Haris (cause that part of Bosnia is mostly populated by Muslims) and this seemingly tiny and unimportant detail will somewhat determine his faith.
Haris does not seem to walk, talk or understand language, he acts like a wolf and keeps to himself, pretty much isolated from other kids. The teachers at the institution try to reach out and get through him, with little success. But an older boy, Zika grows interested in poor Haris and starts tutoring and protecting him from other children's cruel jokes.
Big portion of film is dedicated to his time spent at the orphanage, following his progress and relationships with Zika and the rest of the local kids… Haris (nick-named Pucke) gets really attached to older boy, but the boy is troubled, with abusive parent and pretty much in 'n out of the orphanage. Zika's faith will pretty much mean a big turning point for Haris, who goes through big change, socializes as much as possible in a couple of year's span, while he was there.
But, something changes and interrupts Pucke's progress. The civil was breaks in former Yugoslavia, war in Bosnia – and Haris gets called to come back to the place where he was found. What's more, some orphans who lost their homes, a Bosnian Serbs, now immigrants are sent to Haris' orphanage. And having heard his name, they developed and instant pick on him, cause he is 'enemy'. He is Bosnian citizen and need be back home…so authorities in Serbia had no other choice but to get him 'shipped' out.
Drama is very slow building at first, as we follow this 10-12 year old boy though his difficult socialization, much screen time is used to depict the orphanage and its hierarchy. Production and cinematography are excellent, as are the roles, especially young Denis Muric (Haris) who shines in a demanding part in which he doesn't speak much but his body language is exquisite. His face shows every complicated emotion the role demands and more… very talented young actor.
As you can imagine, with all things said here, and some left to find out yourselves, this is not a happy tale, cause there's a lot of grief, loss and not enough sense of belonging, no friends, no family for the protagonist of this film.
No One's Child could have easily slipped into preachiness, sappiness, etc. It's nothing of the sort. It uses a peculiar feral child story and places it into many contexts, a war context being the most hard hitting of them all. Unfortunately, sometimes you're better off society and people. Especially those who call the shots in a sad and messed up world.
Director: Vuk Rsumovic
Writer: Vuk Rsumovic
Stars: Denis Muric, Pavle Cemerikic, Isidora Jankovic


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Woman Robs Blue Lake 76 Station – December 19, 2011
HCSO Press Release
BLUE LAKE – On Sunday, Dec. 18 at about 7:50 p.m. Sheriff Deputies responded to the 76 Gas and Mini Mart at 295 Blue Lake Blvd., Blue Lake, to handle a reported armed robbery. Upon their arrival they were met by the female clerk who reported the following:
At about 7:45 p.m. the lone clerk was working when a female subject entered the convenience store and demanded money from the cash register. The female suspect claimed that she had a knife and a gun, however, no weapon was displayed. After receiving the money from the cash register the suspect told the clerk to go into the bathroom for five minutes. The victim clerk complied and after five minutes she exited the bathroom and immediately locked the store doors and called law enforcement.
The female suspect was described as a white female adult, approximately 45-55 years old, approximately 5 ft. tall with a thin build. The suspect wore a medium brown mask that had the appearance of wrinkled skin. The suspect wore a dark blue jacket, possibly with plaid patterned lining, a black beanie cap and brown fleece gloves. The suspect was carrying a black trash bag in her hand when she entered the store.
Responding deputies patrolled the area and were unable to locate the suspect.
The amount taken is not being disclosed at this time pending further investigation. Video surveillance will be reviewed for possible suspect identification.
Further details will be provided when obtained.
Anyone with information regarding this robbery is requested to call the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line 707-268-2539.

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Neck pain can be quite annoying as it can hinder your daily activities. You will have difficulty in moving the neck, which can even lead to shoulder pain and headache. The common reasons of neck pain are sleeping in an awkward position, stress, muscle strain, injury, sitting on your desk for long, bad posture, etc. Mostly people suffering from neck pain pop a pain killer and resume work. However, pain killers can only provide relief for some time. To get rid of neck pain completely, you can use the below-mentioned home remedies:
1. Massage
You can massage the affected area with olive or mustard oil. Massage it gently for several minutes until the oil gets in the skin. It will increase blood circulation and you will feel relieved and relaxed.
2. Hot water bath
A hot water bath will help in relaxing your muscles. Make sure that you keep your neck under the shower for some time. This will help in reducing the stiffness in the neck.
3. Exercise
You can perform several neck exercises as it can be extremely helpful in treating neck pain. The exercises will help in relieving tension that was caused by strained neck muscles. However, if the pain increases then stop doing the exercise immediately.
You can try out these:
4. Hot and Cold therapy
You can try using cold compresses for your neck by applying ice pack on the affected area. Ice will dull the pain as it will freeze the affected area. If the cold compresses are not showing any effect then you can try the hot therapy. Heat will increase the flow of blood and will thus reduce pain. You can continue with any of the therapy depending on the effect it had for your neck pain.
Acupuncture is advisable for those who have chronic neck pain. It is a great way to relieve pressure inside the muscles and reduce pain.
Other than the aforesaid tips, it is important that you take good care of your neck. Follow these tips for preventing neck pains:
1. Posture
Your posture has a lot to do with the neck pain. So, make sure that you sit on the desk by keeping your back and neck straight.
2. Sleep
If you are sleeping in an awkward position then you will surely get up with a neck pain. Don't use too many pillows. In fact, it is advisable to use a very thin and soft pillow under your head so that your body remains straight while sleeping.
3. Meditate
Meditation will provide the much-wanted inner peace in our hectic lifestyle. It will reduce stress, which is a common cause of neck pains.
4. Exercise
Exercise every single day so that your muscles get stretched and your weight remains constant. You can perform any exercise that you enjoy doing like swimming, running, cycling, yoga, etc.
For severe neck pains, you can use a neck brace that will provide support to your neck. However, if the neck pain persists for long then you should consult your doctor immediately.


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Re entering industry. Will get TD school certificate on the 30th. Applied to Superservice 4/20. Asked me for employment gap affidavit this morning. Sent it. A little while ago Superservice recruiter emailed I was scheduled for orientation May 3rd in ATL. with motel and terminal address and list of things to bring. ( live an hour away. Gonna drive down. ) Am I 'in' for orientation and testing or is this more game playing? Any other comments or info on orientation will be appretiated.
Are they serious?
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gaps in employment seems to be a big deal now. After owning my own buisness for 38 years i find myself back driving a truck. Transam needed a letter from my accountant saying i was selfemployed. So I wouldn't worry about it
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Crusty, just be aware that many companies consider orientation to be an extended job interview these days. Not saying superservice is one of those, but it may pay to ask them before driving there. At least you are only an hour away. I have heard of many guys who travel long distances to an orientation somewhere, and then get sent home for silly stuff that should have been noticed by the company before it ever got that far. And that happens to guys who where totally honest on the app and passed the drug test too.Crusty and NavigatorWife Thank this.
well i think the real app is the only one they look at the one you fill in during orientation.
The companies could hardly do it any different with the amount of ppl they bring in thru up or down or whatever . It isnt hard to see why they have to treat everyone as if they are on a job interview
First day at SS Ellenwood. MANY papers to fill out! Road test, Physical then cold pizza for lunch. Nice people. Phone interview was strange. Went to the house at 2:30.123456 and rubberducky68 Thank this.
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Keep the info coming Crusty.
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Home / Books / Spring 2014 Catalog
Fiction / Mexican History
The City of Palaces
A Novel
Michael Nava
Terrace Books
Finalist, Gay Fiction, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Best Latino Focused Fiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, Latino Literacy Now 2nd place, Best Historical Fiction Novel, International Latino Book Awards, Latino Literacy Now Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Reviewers Honorable Mention in Drama, Latino Books into Movies Award, International Latino Book Awards, Latino Literacy Now
"An extraordinary portrait of one of the most critical periods in Mexico's history. Nava breathes life into the stories of political, cultural, and social revolutionaries as they navigate change in their country and within themselves. This is a breakthrough novel."
—Rigoberto González, author of Autobiography of My Hungers
In the years before the Mexican Revolution, Mexico is ruled by a tiny elite that apes European culture, grows rich from foreign investment, and prizes racial purity. The vast majority of Mexicans, who are native or of mixed native and Spanish blood, are politically powerless and slowly starving to death. Presiding over this corrupt system is Don Porfirio Díaz, the ruthless and inscrutable president of the Republic.
Against this backdrop, The City of Palaces opens in a Mexico City jail with the meeting of Miguel Sarmiento and Alicia Gavilán. Miguel is a principled young doctor, only recently returned from Europe but wracked by guilt for a crime he committed as a medical student ten years earlier. Alicia is the spinster daughter of an aristocratic family. Disfigured by smallpox, she has devoted herself to working with the city's destitute. This unlikely pair—he a scientist and atheist and she a committed Christian—will marry. Through their eyes and the eyes of their young son, José, readers follow the collapse of the old order and its bloody aftermath.
The City of Palaces is a sweeping novel of interwoven lives: Miguel and Alicia; José, a boy as beautiful and lonely as a child in a fairy tale; the idealistic Francisco Madero, who overthrows Díaz but is nevertheless destroyed by the tyrant's political system; and Miguel's cousin Luis, shunned as a "sodomite." A glittering mosaic of the colonial past and the wealth of the modern age, The City of Palaces is a story of faith and reason, cathedrals and hovels, barefoot street vendors and frock-coated businessmen, grand opera and silent film, presidents and peasants, the living and the dead.
Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring Henry Rios, a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer. The series has won six Lambda Literary Awards. In 2001 he received the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants, Nava lives near San Francisco.
Author's Website - http://michaelnavawriter.com/
Author's Blog - http://michaelnavawriter.com/blog/
"This first novel in the author's 'Children of Eve' series begins to untangle a tight knot of political and historical intrigue surrounding the Mexican Revolution."
"It is in creating a novel that manages to interweave beautiful love stories alongside radial political awakenings that Nava really shows his genius as a novelist."
—Gay San Diego
"The huge achievement of The City of Palaces—aside from its portrayal of the history and grandeur of Mexico and Mexico City, aside from a story of great beauty and profound humanity—is its powerful integration of a central historical event on our continent into our American consciousness. The City of Palaces is, indeed, a masterwork."
—Lambda Literary
"So compelling is Nava's writing and storytelling that the reader yearns for more. . . . It's enjoyable to relish the rich lyrical texture and substance of this new novel, and revel in its many special qualities."
—Somos en Escrito
"This tender and unusual love story of two wounded souls caught up in the swelling tide of profound social, political, and cultural changes forms the nucleus of the epic story of an entire nation teetering on the brink of rebellion."
"A magnificent epic about family, politics, art, revolution, and hope. This is a masterly work of old-fashioned storytelling, rich and spacious and moving, a novel that deserves to be compared to The Leopard, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Doctor Zhivago, but with its own intimacy and grandeur. I fell in love with these people and did not want to say goodbye to them."
—Christopher Bram, author of Exiles in America
"From the extraordinary first sentence, I was caught up in the confident and visionary storytelling of Michael Nava's The City of Palaces. Nava guides us with a remarkably sure hand into this fevered dream of love and history. He has crafted a world as coherent, precise, and compelling as Gabriel García Márquez's imaginary Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude and with the depth politics of the best US–Mexico border fiction that explores the liminal histories of our most wounded frontier."
—Tim Miller, author of 1001 Beds
"The characters are so real and the story so compelling."
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Everybody loves Girl Scout cookies, right? In addition to helping girls around the world (Girls Scouts are included among Sisterhood Agenda's global partners), you can go even further in indulging your sweet tooth by also enhancing your palette with wine. However, sisters, you must be the legal drinking age and you cannot choose just any wine.
Specific wine types go better with particular Girl Scout cookies. Who came up with 12 Girl Scout cookie and wine pairings? Two women wine connoisseurs, of course. Jessica Norris, wine director at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse in New York City (also named one of Wine Enthusiasts top 40 under 40 tastemakers) and Tracy Byrnes, Vivino partner and wine expert, came up with 12 wines to pair with 12 cookies. Yea!
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Stephen Stout is the Director of Original Content Development and Production at The Peoples Improv Theater, having previously served as The PIT's Artistic Director. He, along with Colin Waitt, produced the original sold out, downtown run of Matt Cox's Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic at The PIT, and serves as an associate producer on it's subsequent runs at The Elektra Theater, and New World Stages. Puffs was performance captured and shown nationally via Fathom Events as Puffs: Filmed Live Off-Broadway! and is now available for download and streaming: Del Rey Books will publish Puffs: The Essential Companion In 2020. He co-created and produced the sold out, late night hit #serials@theflea at The Flea Theater from 2011 – 2014, featuring new work by a score of playwrights, directors and actors who have subsequently gone on to Broadway, Off-Broadway, HBO, Netflix, studio and independent features and across all rungs of show business. He also served as then Flea Artistic Director Jim Simpson's assistant on the NEA grant award winning video game adaptation of Anne Carson's Krapp Hour, starring Alan Rickman. Other NYC producing: the long running geek extravaganza Kapow-i GoGo (The PIT). He also ran the New York wing of The Old Vic Theatre's Old Vic New Voices and produced programming at 3LD, Soho House, Space on Ryder Farm, The Vineyard, The Public and The Old Vic itself as well as The Orchard Project, the first simulcast transatlantic theatrical performance. Additionally, he has worked in development at both The Public Theater and StoryCorps. He is currently commissioned by Tilted Windmills Theatricals for The Magnificent Revengers, a western comedy epic where the audience determines the protagonist's journey via their phone.
As an actor, he is an original company member of Puffs (The PIT, The Elektra, New World Stages); other NYC: Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective); Kapow-i GoGo (The PIT); Chiara Atik's Women (The PIT, Hollywood Fringe Festival Best of Fringe). At The Flea Theater: Smoke; The Mysteries, Restoration Comedy, These Seven Sicknesses (all directed by Drama Desk award winner Ed Sylvanus Iskandar); Thomas Bradshaw's Job – all NYTimes' Critics Picks. Salamander Leviathan(Joe's Pub, Ars Nova); untitled degradation play, Clown Bar (Rising Phoenix Rep); Rady and Bloom's La Boheme (Spoken) (The Flea, the cell), extensive work with Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood and multiple seasons with the Aquila Theatre Company. Readings/workshops with Exit, Pursued by a Bear, The Lark Play Development Center, Red Bull Theater, Labyrinth Theater Company, Roundabout and Theater for a New Audience. Film: Puffs: Filmed Live Off-Broadway! (Fathom Events/BroadwayHD), Mystery Team (Roadside Attractions), The Onion News Network. BFA NYU.


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October 8, 2020
It's probably true to say that most people – I haven't measured it – feel that we live in dark times. Just mention the environment, war and militarism, structures dissolving, poverty, global development goals never met, lack of political leadership, erosion of basic norms and ethics, corruption, sexism, the US/Western world falling slowly but surely apart, COVID, nuclear weapons and fears for what the future will bring – you name it.
While the media of course love all these things, we can also not say that it is just the media that convey bad news to us all the time. While lots of positive events and trends are ignored by them, the net character of the global situation – and in many countries – is that it was better yesterday than today and that we are far from sure where it will move in the mid-to-long-term future.
Please keep this in mind if you continue reading. Because what I shall argue is that art in general – including art photography – shall, of course, be expressive of its time and place but that it must also – to a larger rather than smaller – be an indicator towards alternatives. That is, look into good futures, create hope, express resistance…
Why? Well, not because I have a deep or surprising philosophy about what the essence of the arts is. Even less do I attempt to tell what other artists should do – but simply because of a more practical-political reasoning: The more we are exposed to violence, death, destruction, crisis, doomsday-like images, news, debates etc., the more we may come to see it as 'normal' and loose hope, the less we shall be willing and able to struggle for the desirable world, the good society, the common good or, say, Luther King Jr.'s beloved community.
That is, we stop believing in alternatives – in TINA, There Is No Alternative. Because we cannot see them.
And when we stop believing in a better future and the possibility that things can change – and that "we, the peoples" can change them – then we play exactly the role in that dark corner where the people and structures of power want us to be: The voting cattle that have no demands, ideals, criticisms, hopes and alternatives but are happy being "protected" even to the extent of losing our basic freedoms and being "guided" by elites who, to call a spade a spade, couldn't care less about the citizens but care all about their own interests, benefits, privileges and profits.
It is in this perspective that I shall argue that the arts have a responsibility, even a duty: To open our eyes about the world we live in – really live in – and often how cruel it is, yes. But also to explore and share visions of the world we could be living in and help its audience to get going, take action to shape those better futures…
Yes, I put "future" in plural – "futures" – because there is not one pre-determined future for our country or for the world as a whole. There are countless alternative worlds possible. Authoritarian leaders build on TINA – There Are No Alternatives. I would like us to build on TAOA – There Are Only Alternatives.
By that I mean that the only impossible future is to continue doing what we have done the last 300 years in the West, particularly after 1945 and after the end of the first Cold War in 1989-90. That cannot continue and the Corona tells us that there will be no going back to "normal".
There will only be progress toward The New Necessary Normal (NNN) or there will be no future. The Danish philosopher, designer and cosmopolitarian – also known for the aphorisms called Gruk – Piet Hein – expressed it with haiku-like simplicity many years ago: There will either be Co-Existence or No Existence.
These are things I have thought of before, because I am also a peace and future researcher. I've done research and teaching as well as some activism for peace and not just against militarism. But this complex of problems got very clear to me when recently I visited the leading art photo fair in Sweden if not in all of Scandinavia, the Landskrona Foto Festival.
Beyond any doubt, it shows high average quality, considerable diversity, many and highly topical themes – all the attributes defining fine curatorship.
So what was my problem?
Well, that at least 40% of the exhibited works focus on war, genocide, massacre, concentration camps, the suffering of particular groups of people, refugees and other 'damned of the earth.' And that much of the rest is either expressive of de-politicised themes, identity issues or experimental photography, constructed, stage-set or hybrid, and quite formalistic.
And it's all pretty lifeless! No humour, satire, no attempt to depict beauty, conviviality, happiness. Or make the spectator think about peace and other positive values.
I mean, what is the point of displaying yet another series of (documentary) images of skeletons from history's various massacres in the narrow, dark prison cells of a Citadel?
Is the assumption, perhaps, the – naive – one like the one surrounding Hiroshima and hibakusha films and photos, namely that by showing them the audience will be appalled and become more critical of warfare and other types of violence? (There is no evidence that it has such an effect – people are more interested in Hiroshima than in today's nuclear dangers and war risks which are higher than at any point since 1945).
Is it part of the broader "violence industry" in which we also find the museums of wars and massacres and the Holocaust? But hardly any peace museums?
Or is it that it hits us emotionally and gets an "automatic" mileage, a little like if a photographer takes portraits of celebrities rather than non-celebrities, then she or he becomes famous more easily?
Why are there so many more images in this world of destruction than of construction? Of various kinds of violence than of peace?
The very important World Press Photo contest is another example. Just look at the photos on the link.
It's filled with violence and suffering – and I am relatively sure that those who run these contests and festivals are not even aware of that bias or have discussed it. As if reality or the imagination or the creative impulse could not also be expressed through images of beauty and peace?
Now, when it comes to the World Press Photo, it of course reflects – more than other photography would – the general obsession in the media with negative, destructive and simply 'bad' news.
It should be obvious to any thinking human being that there are also good things happening in this world – people getting education, peoples being liberated, refugees returning home and building a new life successfully, reforms and societal developments that create better living conditions for millions, human stories of love, help, compassion, reconciliation, forgiveness, etc. (But that is more difficult to find and convey – whereas supposedly you get a lot of emotional mileage by depicting the skeleton from a massacre).
But all that doesn't qualify as news. Good news are bad news. Photojournalists catching such images would hardly get a job or become famous.
We have – amazing, deeply impressive – war photography. But did you ever hear about peace photography? Cooperation photography? Reconciliation photography? Or, photography depicting the common good, progress and welfare? Or the nonviolent struggles for that all over the world?
In this particular sense, all media contribute to creating the feelings of hopelessness and of "it-doesn't-matter-whether-or-not-I-try-to-take-action". Passivity – giving up. Or the end of democracy and the vibrant, dialoguing society.
In its consequence, it gives those in power a free reign. And by doing so also ignores the essential ideal roles of the media – and their photographers – as public educators, as critical "fourth estate" that operate to secure diversity and do their best to practise objectivity and reveal the abuse of power. And so too the press photographers – and the World Press Photo.
Perhaps we have come so far down the mental slippery slope of globalised depression that war and destruction is considered (un- or subconsciously) to be more 'realistic' and significant or 'normal' and everyday-like than peace, love, cooperation and beauty?
We live in an age influenced much more by images than by texts and even sound – also because everybody has become a kind of photographer.
What the hundreds of images we more or less consciously perceive during a day through all sorts of media tell us about the world is extremely important in shaping our worldview.
Well, you may say, it's always been the case that the negative dominated and fascinated us, hasn't it? Perhaps.
But if so, let's become a bit more peace-creative, positive-conscious and re-balance it all!
Quite a few years ago I wrote to the HQ of the World Press Photo and, in friendly terms, pointed to the problems I have discussed above, albeit in a shorter form. I said I was willing to discuss it all, face-to-face or by mail. Neither the original letter nor the reminders moved the people there to reply.


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Jun. 21, 2018 4:26 PM
I just recently took my Metal Saga collection out of the basement and I was wondering if there's anyone here in Rome willing to meet and just chat about the game over a drink or even find a spot to take a stadium and have a little friendly street tourney. I would stick to Metal Saga simply because Burst is totally unpopular in Italy, with no Switchstrike to be seen and a ridiculous asking price of 18 euro per starter when they really shouldn't be over 10. Let me know if you're interested. Later!


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Reid Mullins Scholarship recipient for 2014
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The Reid Mullins Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the recipient for 2014 is Kimarah Laurent. She is a graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville. Kimarah plans to attend the University of Georgia in the fall pursing a degree in International Affairs.
She is the daughter of Christi and Kevin Laurent. Miss Laurent graduated with a 4.0 grade point average and is Valedictorian for her graduating class.
As a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel, Kimarah served as the South Gwinnett High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Battalion Commander during her senior year. She participates and leads the JROTC Color Guard, Drill Team and Female Raider Teams. Among her other accomplishments, Kimarah was a member of the SGHS Marching Band Saxophone section, a member of the Gwinnett Student Leadership Team and a member of the the National Society of High School Scholars.
Kimarah is an active member of Hope and Life Fellowship Church where she sings in the Voices of Life choir, volunteers as a crew leader during Vacation Bible School and serves as an assistant coach of the church basketball team. She is a member of the Teyat Pawol Theater Group which performs worldwide.


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ginger 2015
It's time! Competitive gingering at its best/worst! Here's how this year's competition is gunna go down.
When you send in your Ginger 2015 entries, a team of highly trained ginger professionals (2.0 and I) will group your masterpieces according to crappiness/awesomeness/theme. Gingerbread savants will battle other savants in their online grouping. Ginger creations that look like they were slapped together by well-intentioned baboons? Well, they'll be grouped accordingly. Crappy entries are welcome! (PLEASE send me some crappy entries. They make Ginger way more fun.)
Here's whatcha gotta do:
- Create a gingerbread house. I don't like rules, so if it's a structure zoned residential, agricultural and/or commercial, I'm happy. Slap up some sort of building. Yes, you can glue stuff on. Yes, you can use a kit. Yes, you can use inedible add-ons. No, I will not respond to emails requesting clarification. FIGURE IT OUT.
- Let's face it, half of you will send in ginger horses, locomotives, carousels and crime scenes. Those aren't houses, bozo. Alas, I don't give a flying fart. I have far more important things to worry about (world peace, artisanal cheeses, why the left side of my hair looks so awful lately). So go ahead, enter your ginger whatever.
- Send me a picture (two maximum) of your ginger thing by Sunday, December 13, 2015, 11:59 pm AST. Photos shouldn't include any humans, because I don't like people.
- Send TWO photos only. I'm not kidding. Don't send me six and ask me to pick two. I WILL PICK ZERO and send your entry back to you. And don't send me a photo you found online and then claim it as your own, weirdo.
- Send your name, email, and some information about your entry. If you're a blogger, please send a link to your blog so I can share it with people. Personal information (such as your email address and weight) will not be posted. Just your first name, photos, and the stupid stuff you tell me about your "creative process" (aka the inspiration you found at the bottom of a bottle). Your info and photos should be sent to movita {at} live.ca.
- I beg of you – tell me something, anything – about your gingerhouse. Take a look at past entries to see what sort of things people send in. I get that you are busy brushing your horses and counting your money stacks, but if you can't be bothered to tell me a single thing about your ginger creation, I can't be bothered to write something clever/smart-assed about it. Do you see what is happening here? I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN MY VOICE SOUNDS LIKE THIS.
- Wait for your super-awesome ginger masterpiece to appear on movitabeaucoup.com. I will make fun of it/you. That's how things work around here. If you don't have a sense of humour, love Jason Bateman, or think this is the best video ever, you should probably move on.
- Watch the people of the interwebs vote (or perhaps not vote) for your super-awesome ginger structure. Online polling WILL NOT DETERMINE THE 2015 CHAMPION. But it will determine the winner of the 2015 People's Choice Prize!
- The 2015 Ginger Panel will assess the entries and determine the 1st and 2nd place winners.
- Win bragging rights, the respect and admiration of many, and a crappy prize!
I'm assembling a crack team of Ginger Judges, and they will determine this year's champion. There is no specific criteria, and their decision is final. They might consider: skill level, techniques used/attempted, mediums incorporated, overall appearance, use of theme, or the clever stories you submit about your creative process. Of course, they might just pick an entry that makes them feel sorry for the sadsack that created it. You no like, you no enter.
The one competitor receiving the most overall online votes will win the 2015 People's Choice Prize.
This year's prizes are very modest, because I refuse to remortgage my home for this competition. I mean, I'd love to give you KitchenAid mixers and brand new cars, but I'm not Sherry Brydson. More importantly, this is a for-fun competition. You no like, you no enter.
1st Place:
(Determined by the 2015 Ginger Panel.)
A $50.00 Amazon* gift card which you can spend on anything you darn well please, but if it were me, I'd buy this and this.
2nd Place:
(Determined by the 2015 Ginger Panel.)
A $25.00 Amazon* gift card which you can spend on anything you like, but I'd highly recommend this and this.
People's Choice:
(Determined by the People of the Interwebs through online polling.)
A $25.00 Amazon* gift card which you should spend on candy and this.
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Yes, it is possible that the winner of the People's Choice Prize may also win the 1st or 2nd place prize. Sometimes life isn't fair, kiddo.
The competition starts NOW! Early entries are appreciated more than I can tell you!
Send your entries by Sunday, December 13th to movita {at} live.ca or click on the email icon in the sidebar. Honestly, if you can't figure out how to email me, you probably shouldn't enter an online competition.
(Tips on entering my competitions can be found here!)
(Check out previous Ginger entries here!)
*Amazon US or Canada, your choice.
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I did another gingerbread house…..remember my third ginger piece, Cindy's Castle….well last year I was too busy planning my wedding that I didn't get around to putting together a piece….I just finished one for this year though. It's not as grand as the castle….I think I reached my peek too soon…LOL…I like this years though….I'd totally live there. I'll be entering this year, intent on winning! 🙂
So flipping excited!!!!!
I now know what I'm getting people for christmas (thanks to the things you linked to on amazon). Also, GINGER 2015! I'm so excited! But I'm also not participating this year, because I'm super lame, and also, last year I disappeared into the kitchen for 7 whole days and came out the other side having forgotten how to communicate with anyone/anything not made out of gingerbread, gumpaste, or icing. I am forever in awe of those who do it every year and don't need to re-acclimate to the civilized world afterwards.
WILLOW – I will participate in your honor.
LOL I saw this comment after I just finished one and Holy Shit your not kidding! I am still working on….well what was I saying! LOL
I love ginger season. I can't wait for the reviews.
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
As reigning world ginger champion, I'm super excited about this!
I did not see the "theme" anywhere in your crappy post about the ginger competition. What is it?
I have never been more thoroughly entertained than by reading your contest guidelines….ginger sarcasm at it's best!!!♡♡
I sent in my entry. This is my first time doing a contest online and my first gingerbread house. Where do I find all the entries at? Like where do I tell people to go vote for mine at? LOL sorry I am new to this!
Hi ! Is it only for U.S resident? I am over sea but would love to !
Me again … Oops … Us and Canadian residents ?
Can't wait to see this year's entries, stories and comments! None for me this year 🙁 as we are in the middle of a kitchen remodel 🙂 but I hope to be back in 2016. Good luck to everyone and happy gingering!
You have the best taste in Amazon. Amen.
Darn, I missed the deadline 🙁
Good luck to all the entrants!
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know when it was going to come up, but I saw it's flume (or spout), and
then it breached–not very far out of the water, and then a few minutes
later we saw it's tail. Pretty neat. We went through a storm last
night (just rain, no heave seas), but it's sunny today. There's always
a wind out here it seems. I can see why it was fairly easy for sailing
ships to move about on this ocean. I can, also, see how much balls it
took for them to sail further away from their homes, when they had no
idea whether or not there was anything over that horizon.
We are headed for the Azores right now, should be passing by them in a
couple of days, heading for Barcelona, via the Straights of Gibraltar.
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Southern Missouri county asked to remove nativity scene from courthouse lawn
A nativity scene displayed on the lawn of the courthouse in Oregon County, Mo., has been called unconstitutional by the American Humanist Association, a secular advocacy group.
The county has displayed the nativity scene on the courthouse lawn for the past four or five years.
But on Thursday, the Appignani Humanist Legal Center – the legal arm of the association – sent a letter to the county's presiding commissioner, Patrick Ledgerwood, saying the display violates the Establishment Clause and should be removed.
"You cannot have a display that prominently promotes one particular religious view, and that's exactly what this display does," said David Niose, who directs the legal center.
The nativity itself isn't the issue – it's where it is displayed.
"We are not opposed to nativity scenes, per se," Niose said. "That nativity scene would look beautiful on a church lawn or on a private home lawn, but it just does not belong at a court house."
He added, "Christianity is fine, but we just don't want the government endorsing Christianity, any more than we would want the government endorsing Scientology, or Judaism or Islam. We just want a secular public grounds."
The letter compares the Oregon County display with two others, which both were brought to the Supreme Court.
One of those cases was Lynch v. Donnelly, in 1984. The city of Pawtucket, R.I., included a creche in its holiday display in a private park. The rest of the display was secular and featured Santa Claus, his sleigh, carolers, a Christmas tree, a cut-out clown and other non-religious characters, along with a "Season's Greetings" banner.
Since the creche was just one religious symbol amid many secular ones, the Supreme Court ruled that it was OK – the city wasn't violating the Establishment Clause.
In 1989, a nativity and a menorah in Pittsburg, Penn., came into question in Allegheny v. ACLU.
A nativity scene, donated by the Holy Name Society, was on display inside the courthouse. There were other decorations, such as Santa Clauses, in other parts of the courthouse, but the nativity was the focus. The court ruled the nativity unconstitutional because, unlike the display in Lynch v. Donnelly, it was the focus – not a small part of something larger. The fact that it depicted the Christ child, a deity to Christians, was also problematic.
Meanwhile, an 18-foot menorah outside the City County Building was found acceptable. It was next to a 45-foot Christmas tree, which the court considered a secular symbol. A sign about liberty was also part of the display, and in the eyes of the court, that lessened the possibility of the display being seen as an endorsement of Christianity and Judaism. And while the menorah commemorated what the Jews believe to be a miracle from God, it didn't depict the person of a deity.
According the humanist group's letter, the nativity in Oregon County is more like the one in the Allegheny case.
"When a matter of law is this clear, it sometimes is just a matter of pointing it out to the public officials in charge," Niose said.
The humanist group has asked for a reply by Jan. 17. At that time, Niose said, the group will determine its next steps, based on what the county does.
"We're hoping the county realizes that what it's doing is improper, and we're hoping they take down the nativity scene, and they promise not to put it up again next year," Niose said.
We have reached out to Ledgerwood in Oregon County, and we are awaiting his response.
Last May, the American Humanist Association's legal center sent a letter to Fayette High School in Missouri, asking that it put an end to prayers being led by a teacher. The association then filed a lawsuit in November.
This story was produced in partnership with Columbia Faith & Values (ColumbiaFAVS.com), mid-Missouri's source for nonsectarian religion news.


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Michael Jackson
As we watched the news last night:
Me: "Kaden, Michael Jackson died today."
Kaden: "I knoooow Mommy! I saw it!"
Me: "Okay! I just wanted to see how you felt because you were such a huge fan. I know you and Aunt Kinsey made an entire cd with Michael's song. Just checking to see how you feel. Are you sad?"
Kaden: "No!"
Me: "Angry?"
Me: "Then what are you?"
Kaden: "Nothing Mommy. Nothing."
Me: "Okay."
Minutes passed. I began to watch the Barbara Walter's Special on Farrah Fawcett. I, being a big baby, begin to tear-up.
Kaden: "Mommy, how many people died today?"
Me: "Lots of people died today. They are talking about these two so much because they are celebrities."
Kaden: "Oh."
Me: "You should say a prayer for their families. They probably need it right now."
Kaden: "Okay."
Me: "When are you going to release your Michael Jackson cd?"
Kaden: "That has to come out tomorrow."
I smile inside as we continued to snuggle on the couch. Finally Kaden falls asleep.
Kaden really has developed a thing for Michael. Over the last couple of months, he has mimicked Michael's moves, lyrics, and created a cd with his Aunt Kinsey covering his songs. His most recent favorite song, or shall I say lines, was from Keri Hilson, 'Knock You Down". Kanye West is featured on the song. Kaden's two favorite lines from Kanye's section are:
"This is bad, real bad, Michael Jackson.
Now I'm mad, real mad, Joe Jackson."
MJ managed to touch even those who were born decades later. He will be greatly missed, but never forgotten.
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Seoul Central District Court sets mediation date for Luhan and Kris this January
The Seoul Central District Court has confirmed the dates for SM Entertainment's mediation with former EXO members Luhan and Kris.
On December 17th, a day after failing to meet an agreement during their first mediation session with Luhan's legal representatives, Seoul Central District Court schedules a second mediation on January 16th. After failing to settle during their first session, both sides will meet once more to discuss settlement and reach an agreement for the validity of Luhan's exclusive contract with the agency.
It was also confirmed that the third mediation between Kris and SM Entertainment will be held on the same day. As both Kris and Luhan reportedly consulted with the same legal team, the mediations will take place within 40 minutes apart of each other.
Luhan and his legal representatives met with SM Entertainment last December 16th for their first mediation for his contract nullification case after leaving the agency back in October, while Kris, who left in May, also failed to meet an agreement with the agency for his second mediation session.
The mediation continues until both respective sides find an amicably agreement before entering a standard civil proceeding.
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Situated 5km from the city of Funchal, our first stop is the quaint and famous fishing village of Câmara de Lobos; a favourite painting spot of the late Winston Churchill! Thereafter we travel up to the magnificent 580m high, glass balcony view point of Cabo Girão, famous for being the highest in Europe and second highest cliff in the world.
Traveling along the coast of the island we soon arrive at the village of Ribeira Brava, where we can visit a church dated in the 15th century. Next we make our way to the 1007m high viewpoint of Encumeada, to enjoy beautiful landscapes overlooking the north and south coast of the island as well as the valleys of Ribeira Brava and São Vicente.
From an altitude of between 1300-1500 meters we find the tourist attraction of Paúl de Serra and it's initiation of several levada walks that connect to different points of the island through the Laurissilva forest such as Rabaçal, Risco and the 25 fountains.
We then stop for a lunch and extra time at the seaside town of Porto Moniz - home of the largest volcanic natural pools of Madeira. On our decent towards the town we can enjoy fantastic views, especially those of the volcanic pools in their entirety. In the good weather it is possible to take a dip, so come prepared.
Next we enjoy a brief stop overlooking the black sandy beach and natural rock pools of Seixal village Along the way, we have the pleasure of passing several waterfalls, particularly the famous and stunning Bridal Veil waterfall. Staring up at the water pouring down the mountain, you can see how the rock-face has been delicately sculpted by the wind and rain over millions of years to form what can only be described as the perfect art form.
Thereafter we visit the picturesque neighbouring village of São Vicente, where you can visit a beautiful church dating from the 17th century before returning to Funchal.


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NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine clinicians in progress on Phase 1 clinical trial of PSMA-Targeted Therapeutic Agent for the Treatment for Metastatic Prostate Cancer
NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine have begun the first clinical trial in the U.S. that uses a small molecule, 177Lu-PSMA-617, to treat men with progressive prostate cancer that has spread beyond the prostate, or is metastatic, and is no longer responding to hormonal therapy. The Phase 1 study has completed its first round of patient enrollment, with the first six patients having undergone dosing.
The researchers are using 177Lu-PSMA-617 to target prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), a protein that is abundantly expressed by virtually all metastasized prostate cancers. The small molecule binds to PSMA and delivers precise radiation therapy intended to shrink the cancer. Because PSMA is present in 85 – 90 percent of prostate cancer patients' tumors, virtually all prostate cancer patients can be treated — and, because of the precision of the molecular targeting, tumor cells can be targeted and treated even before there are enough cells to form a visible tumor on a bone or CT scan.
The trial primarily seeks to determine the highest dose level of the drug that can be given without significant side effects, as the prior decade of related work here points towards better responses and longer survival with higher doses. PSMA-targeted therapy is thought to be one of the most promising advances in treating metastasized prostate cancer.
"This trial represents a new frontier in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer," said Dr. Scott Tagawa, an oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and The Richard A. Stratton Associate Professor in Hematology and Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine. "While this type of therapy has shown promise, this is the first trial of its kind in the U.S. So far, patients are doing well."
While this trial is the first of its kind in the U.S., this same approach to treat metastatic prostate cancer has gained substantial traction in recent years in Germany where "Compassionate Use" laws have allowed physicians to treat patients who have exhausted standard treatment options. German physicians who are able to provide this treatment in a Compassionate Use" setting have shown Lutetium 177Lu-PSMA-617 can significantly reduce the volume of tumors in the body and lead to remission of the cancer.
NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine have been at the forefront of PSMA-targeted 177Lu therapy for more than a decade. Dr. Neil Bander, the Bernard and Josephine Chaus Professor of Urological Oncology and a urologic oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, developed the first monoclonal antibodies to PSMA that could bind viable prostate cancer cells. As a result of Dr. Bander's efforts leading the way, PSMA has become recognized as the most prostate-cancer specific cell surface molecular target known and the lead antibody, J591, was shown to be able to target virtually all prostate cancers in patients while also avoiding healthy tissue and normal organs. It is now thought that PSMA-binding small molecules such as 177Lu-PSMA-617 and antibodies such as J591-177Lu may prove similarly effective therapeutics.
The clinician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine have a long-standing interest and pioneered the accurate targeting of PSMA in cancer patients, and they are in the unique position of being able to target PSMA with either or both antibodies and/or small molecules. Currently, no other institution is able to offer this type of treatment. The NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine clinician-scientists are rolling out a unique program of clinical trials over the coming months that are designed to maximize the benefit to prostate cancer patients.
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January 29, 2014
Here is yet more momentum in support of our call for the Ontario Government to develop and enact an Education Accessibility Standard under the AODA. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) wrote the Ontario Government on January 7, 2014 to support our call for the Government to create this new accessibility standard. OECTA represents elementary and high school teachers in Ontario's English Catholic schools. We set out that letter below. We express our deep gratitude to OECTA and all others who support our effort. We invite you to help us press for action.
The AODA requires the Ontario Government to lead Ontario to become fully accessible to all persons with disabilities no later than 2025. To do this, the Government must develop, enact and effectively enforce all accessibility standards needed to ensure that Ontario reaches that goal on time.
The five accessibility standards that the Government has enacted to date will not achieve that goal, even if they are fully obeyed and enforced. Making matters worse, last fall we revealed Government records that show that the Government has not kept its promise to effectively enforce the AODA despite ample public funds available for enforcement. Those records also showed that the Government knew last year of massive violations of the first of those standards, the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard, among private sector organizations with at least 20 employees. To learn more about the Ontario Government's failure to effectively enforce the AODA despite available funds and its knowing of massive violations.
For over two and a half years, the AODA Alliance has unsuccessfully pressed the Ontario Government to start developing more accessibility standards. We have asked that the next three accessibility standards to be developed should address barriers in education, health care, and residential housing.
Over one year ago, the Government announced that the revamped Accessibility Standards Advisory Council (ASAC) would be mandated to develop new accessibility standards. However, despite our efforts and unexplained governmental delay, the Government has not given ASAC any new accessibility standards to develop.
As a cruel irony, the Government is taking longer to decide which accessibility standards it will develop next than it takes to actually develop an accessibility standard. This is just one reason why Ontario continues to languish behind schedule for full accessibility by 2025.
The three new accessibility standards we seek are all critically important for Ontarians with disabilities. Focusing for the moment on one of our three proposals, Ontario needs an Education Accessibility Standard to ensure that our education system at all levels becomes fully accessible for persons with disabilities. While there has been some progress in recent years, without an Education Accessibility Standard, Ontario will not ensure that its education system will become fully accessible by 2025, or ever. To learn more about why Ontario needs and would benefit from an Education Accessibility Standard.
We were delighted last summer when our proposal for an Education Accessibility Standard was publicly endorsed by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO), and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF). With the new support of OECTA, we now have Ontario's university professors, as well as Ontario's English public and Catholic school teachers collectively supporting our call for an Education Accessibility Standard. This reflects the collective experience of so many who deliver education on the front lines of Ontario's publicly funded education system. We are aware of no organization that has publicly opposed our proposal for the three new accessibility standards we seek.
In the campaign leading up to the five August 1, 2013 Ontario by-elections, we asked all major Ontario political parties to endorse our call for new accessibility standards to now be developed to address barriers facing persons with disabilities in education, health care and residential housing. Last summer, the New Democratic Party gave this commitment. Ontario's Liberal Party and Progressive Conservative Party did not. It's not too late for them! To see the commitments on disability accessibility that the major Ontario parties made in the August 1, 2013 by-election campaign.
We are seeking similar commitments in the campaign for the two upcoming Ontario by-elections to be held on February 13, 2014. As always, our non-partisan coalition does not endorse, support, or oppose any party or candidate.
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Text of OECTA's January 7, 2014 letter to Ontario Economic Development Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins
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January 7, 2014
The Honourable Eric Hoskins, MPP
Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Employment
Hearst Block, 8th Floor
900 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario, M7A 2E1
Dear Minister:
Re: Education Accessibility Standard
On behalf of the 45,000 members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA), I am writing to urge you to help teachers and students succeed as workers and learners in Ontario's publicly funded education system through the establishment of an Education Accessibility Standard under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission released a consultation report in 2003, The Opportunity to Succeed, which revealed Ontario's education system does great work to meet the needs of a diverse population. However the report also described a number of barriers within the system faced by teachers as well as students. The Province of Ontario passed the AODA in 2005 with the unanimous support of all political parties. The act requires a barrier-free Ontario by 2025.
While the Government of Ontario recently appointed a Council to develop new accessibility standards under the AODA, this Association is concerned that the 2025 deadline for full accessibility will not be met.
It is vital that the Council be directed to develop the new accessibility standards for education at this time and that these standards be made enforceable in order to meet the 2025 deadline. An accessibility standard for education will open doors to those teachers who currently cannot obtain employment in publicly funded schools due to their personal disabilities. A well-founded accessibility standard in education will also ensure opportunities to learn for all students.
OECTA looks forward to your government moving forward expeditiously on this important issue.
James Ryan, President


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As of today, Disney's live-action Aladdin has officially passed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Though not really favored by film critics, the box office numbers prove that this movie is clearly making a lasting impact on audiences around the world. The animated classic was originally released in 1992.
In addition, this milestone also means that actor Will Smith and director Guy Ritchie are part of the billion-dollar club for the first time, not adjusted for inflation.
The summer tentpole crossed $1 billion today after finishing Thursday with a North American total of $343.1 million and $656.2 million overseas for a global haul of $999.3 million.
Aladdin first hit theaters over Memorial Day. Since then, its box office numbers kept rising which is much to Disney's delight, who has been revamping its collection of animated movies and reimagining them into live-action films.Not only that, but this is now the third Disney release of the year to join the club after Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel, and the fifth Disney live-action movie to do after Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland and two of the Pirates of Caribbean installments.
The 2019 version of Aladdin is made up of an international cast that stars Smith as the Genie, Mena Massoud as Aladdin and Naomi Scott as Princess Jasmine. Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, Billy Magnussen and Numan Acar also star.
As mentioned already, Disney's Aladdin has maintained a strong run in movie theaters across the globe. It stayed in the top seven for nine weeks in North America. Overseas, it has impressed audiences in Japan, earning nearly $100 million to date. In South Korea, it is the No. 4 Western title of all time with $81 million, while it is the highest-grossing movie of all time in the Middle East region.
When looking at the bigger picture, Aladdin is the 41st movie to cross $1 billion, and did so just one day after Sony and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Far From Home achieved the same milestone.
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The forthcoming new release of "Force On Force" and its supplements is under the flag of Osprey Publishing - the world's biggest publisher on books about military history and the history of warfare through the ages.
Of course Osprey has a series of books on the topics and conflicts, Force On Force is going to cover. Interesting about this is the fact, that some of the authors of these books are also writing the rules and scenarios you'll later find in your gaming resources. Let's take a look at what's out there - in this example I'll pick what I am personally interested in: Iraq and Afghanistan and the conflicts in those countries, as well as NATO involvement over there.
Osprey has many series of books - for wargaming "moderns" the most interesting ones however are "ELITE" series, "WARRIOR" series as well as "NEW VANGUARD" series and "ESSENTIAL HISTORY". I'll try to cover the others in the next volumes. Let's have a look at the "ELITE" series first:
Both books seen above are written by Leigh Neville, an Australian intelligence specialist with excellent contacts with the US, UK and Australian special forces. Leigh is also writing for Force On Force and the forthcoming supplement called "Enduring Freedom" has large parts of his knowledge packed into some awesome scenarios to game! If you are looking for books on the topic of the rather silent and hidden ops that took place (and well continue to do so nowadays), the Osprey ELITE series "Special Operations Forces in Iraq" and "Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan" are top notch resources.
These books give you an insight in what took place and how missions were performed - it has a lot of potential to go deeper into the subject and find inspiration for many gaming sessions. Coloured images, drawings and tablets of gear and weapons should give the modeller and painter enough ideas on how to paint/convert their figures and vehicles accordingly. If you want to know how to set up a group of SOF soldiers for your games, this will give you an idea where and how to start.
In the next volume I'll write about the Osprey WARRIOR series - those cover the regular troops like the modern US Army or the USMC participating in the ongoing conflicts like those in the middle east.


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When the coronavirus began ravaging New York City, Chenghui Zhang's parents begged her to return to China. But Zhang, who is 25 and also goes by the adopted first name Helen, would not leave her adopted home of nearly seven years.
"It was very scary, but I told them that it was better for me to not move for now," Zhang told The Daily Beast on a Zoom call. "I said, 'It's even more dangerous if you go to the airport.'"
Zhang's mother, Limin Chen, lives in Beijing, where she has been spared the worst of the pandemic. She has been quarantining with her twin sister and tending to a small backyard garden. After the country lifted national travel bans, Chen went on a few trips. "She's gone places with a few friends," Zhang said. "She's having more fun than I am."
This Mother-Daughter Duo Are Bringing Change to New York Fashion Week
Zhang considers her mom a role model, the type of strong-willed and independent woman she has in mind when designing for her clothing line, Social-Work. They have not seen each other since last November, but Zhang hopes they will reunite next spring "after everything gets better."
Like many New Yorkers—the ones who aren't complaining about how dead the city is in whiny op-eds—Zhang stayed in her Brooklyn apartment when the city shut down in March. Though the designer was born in Italy and spent her high school years at a British school in Shanghai, she has only ever wanted to live in this city.
"It feels like home to me," Zhang said. "I always wanted to come to New York because it is a very international place. It's part of the dream to be here."
An extension of the fantasy: Social-Work nabbing a spot on the CFDA's New York Fashion Week schedule. Zhang's spring collection is inspired by the 1976 Éric Rohmer film La Collectionneuse, about a young woman who wields sensuality on her own terms while wearing an of-the-era avocado green sweater, pixie cut, and mustard yellow bikini.
"During the pandemic, I got very nostalgic," Zhang said. "I thought about things that happened before the lockdown, going to movies with my friends, traveling with my parents, doing this and that. I realized how the things I took for granted are very precious. So I named the collection 'A Dialogue to Introspection,' which is me talking to myself and feeling nostalgic."
When Zhang began Social-Work in 2018 with her fellow Parsons grad, Qi Wang, the pair made unisex clothing. (Zhang has full creative control now—Wang left the brand two years ago.) After learning that "80 percent" of her shoppers are female, Zhang updated her shop to be "mostly womenswear—for girls who still want some coolness, edginess in their wardrobe."
"Most of the [spring collection] is very comfortable—knits, washable silk," Zhang said. "It's very easy to wear and doesn't really have a size. It has elastic. Moving forward, people might not need to go to an office and they can stay at home. So how do you make them feel comfortable, but nice, so they're not wearing pajamas everyday?"
Zhang is someone who might be working from home forever. During quarantine, her studio lease ended and she began designing from home.
"I thought it would be better to combine my working and personal space," she said. "This has been my first experience working remotely. I've outsourced a lot of my operations overseas. So I'd show people my sketches [virtually] and they'd send me swatches. It's been a new way to manage myself."
The pandemic has forced on Zhang, like so many others, adaptability. She spoke of having to nimbly change plans and put projects on hold. Around March, Social-Work and the beer company Tsingtao were planning a capsule line, marking the launch with a pop-up restaurant.
When COVID-19 forced businesses to shutter, Zhang decided to donate the line's profits to Asian American-owned restaurants. Fifteen percent of the earnings from the upcoming NYFW collection will go to aid immigrant artists in the city.
"We want to be relevant to what's going on around us," Zhang said, speaking as a Chinese expat living in a country whose racist president dubbed the virus the "Kung Flu."
"It's been intense," Zhang admitted. "In the beginning of the pandemic, I noticed people being very rude to me [as an Asian woman]. People would look at me on the subway [because] the government was saying, 'this is the China Virus,' or whatever."
She feels like she did not face the worst of it in Brooklyn. "[Microaggressions] would happen, but I don't feel like it's very normal in New York, because everyone is so international," Zhang said. "The political climate right now is so sensitive, and I guess living through this helped me to really understand American culture. Before, I didn't know that much about it because I was at school and had a foreigner perspective. I've become more educated and started to understand more during this time."
Despite her cinematic inspirations and habit of putting models in sweeping, wide leg trousers, Zhang does not come off as a dramatic person. On a Zoom call, she wore all black and had her hair up in a neat ponytail. The walls of an apartment she shares with a friend from college are bone-white. She was first drawn to the fashion not for its glamor, but out of an appreciation for its history and attention for detail.
She describes herself as "kind of a nerdy" art student. "I feel like I escaped into a fantasy whenever I was painting," she said. In high school, she had to choose an elective: interior design or fashion.
"I saw portfolios from other students, and it was fascinating to see how much research went into them, that just surface-level stuff," Zhang said. She thought about attending Central Saint Martins in London, but did not want to commit to the British education system, which makes incoming applicants commit to a field of study.
"I wanted to study fashion in America because basically you can do anything," she said. "You don't need to choose a specific major. I thought, 'Maybe I'll do art, maybe I'll do business.' Fashion is the perfect balance of both."
Zhang said her professors at Parsons encouraged her to "challenge the system" rather than follow trends. During her sophomore and junior years, she worked at a couture atelier. She watched as the artisans in those workshops, many of whom were immigrants or first-generation Americans, clock painstaking hours sewing garments by hand.
"A lot of them have their own characteristics," she said. "There was a woman I remember, also named Helen, who liked pretty dresses. She would dress up herself. So she had the perfect touch for making these dresses. When you see a garment, you don't see it as something that was made by someone who put in real effort. You see it as merchandise, or a commodity."
Haute couture clients might appreciate such craftsmanship, Zhang thinks, but the rest of us who put on ready-to-wear often ignore it. "At the end of the day, clothes are made by human beings," she said. "Especially when you're talking about an independent designer like me—I don't have the resources to do mass production."
Since the beginning of Social-Work, Zhang put her garment workers front and center. Some of them walked as models for the debut runway show. Each piece of clothing has a barcode, and shoppers can look it up on the brand's website to learn more about the people who made the item. "We want to bring the workplace to the people who don't understand what that looks like," Zhang said.
Since Zhang's NYFW show must be digital this year, she enlisted friends to wear the clothes in a short film. "They're going to talk about who they are, where they're from, their heritage," she said. "We're always talking about individuality, rather than focusing on the model as someone who just wears clothes. They also have a personality, a character, a value."
Zhang shrugged off the fact that other young designers like Kerby Jean-Raymond and Telfar Clemens ditched NYFW this year. "It's just a calendar," she said. "It's just a time to showcase your stuff. It makes perfect sense for me to do it. What matters is the content you're putting out there, and that you're trying to do something different."
Social-Work is also sold in China, and Zhang said that sales bounced back almost immediately after the country began rolling back its intense lockdown. "I'm very surprised by how well we're doing—we have double the sales we did in previous seasons in China."
Not so much in her adopted home. "I have realized how different American and Chinese consumers are," Zhang said. "Here, people are willing to buy things only if they have paychecks. In Asia in general, people have more savings. People in China suppressed their needs during that quarantine, so when things opened back up, they just went shopping. There's also not much else they can do—they can't go traveling, they can't go to parties, they can just go online to buy stuff."
Another silver lining in a very non-traditional fashion week: Zhang's mother can watch the virtual presentation in real time. Though she's not the most glamorous person, Zhang says her mother is always happy to give advice on business.
"She understands how to be a consumer, even if she doesn't get what fashion is," Zhang said. "She'll say, 'I can wear this!' or 'I can't wear this!' or 'Where would anyone ever wear this?' It's very blunt and direct, which I appreciate. By the end of the day, people have to wear your stuff. You're making something someone is supposed to use in their daily life."
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Sec. Grimes encourages Kentucky cities, counties to endorse medical marijuana legislation
Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is encouraging Kentucky cities and counties to endorse medical marijuana legislation which can help their citizens, many who are veterans fighting physical and mental illnesses, get care and relief they need.
"It's clear momentum is building for medical cannabis in Kentucky. I challenge our local officials in cities and counties across the Commonwealth to join in the effort to bring relief to thousands of Kentuckians who suffer daily – their own citizens," Grimes said.
"This affects people in every county and corner of the state. Local officials should step up for their constituents to support medical cannabis legislation in the General Assembly in 2018. We can't leave our people who are hurting behind," added Grimes.
Maysville and Mason County have recently taken official action in support of legalization legislation.
"Eric Crawford lives every single day in pain from an automobile accident he suffered as a young man," said Grimes.
"It's because of Eric that both Maysville and Mason County, where he lives, have endorsed the effort to bring Kentuckians relief with medical cannabis. The people it can help – like Eric – are their friends and neighbors. They go to church with them every Sunday. They see them in the grocery store. This issue has a face and a name for our local officials.," commented Grimes.
Maysville adopted a resolution last year that "encourages the Kentucky General Assembly to consider legislation for medical marijuana which provides for the care, comfort and relief" of Crawford and other Kentuckians who can benefit from medical marijuana. Mason County's fiscal court adopted a similar resolution in 2014.
Crawford, a member of Grimes' panel advising on medical marijuana legislation, told the group last week that medical marijuana had significantly improved his conditions. He showed the dozens of prescription pain relievers, including narcotics, he had been prescribed and have many adverse side effects. Crawford said he feels the most relief with marijuana, which is illegal in Kentucky.
Medical marijuana is legal in 29 states and the District of Columbia.
The Madisonville Messenger reported Wednesday that members of the Hopkins County Fiscal Court this week voiced support for legalizing medical marijuana in Kentucky.
Grimes' panel last week also heard from other individuals, including two veterans, who attested to the way medical marijuana had greatly benefited them in dealing with physical and mental illnesses. The veterans said severe post-traumatic stress stemming from their service in Iraq had impacted their work and relationships.
Significant evidence exists showing marijuana counters side effects of a large number of illnesses and diseases, including cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Crohn's disease, hepatitis C, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Bargain time for antique furniture
If you've been waiting for the market for Victorian furniture to weaken, now is your time to pounce. Antique prices are finally falling, reports the Wall Street Journal [or here if you don't have a subscription]. They point to a 19th century Chippendale-style desk that only sold for $14,000, but would've gone for $25,000 last year.
But the trend seems to be impacting things normal people might buy, too. In Pennsylvania, antique dealers are saying they're seeing prices from the 1970s and believe this is the bottom. In Texas, sellers have seen some prices fall 75% in a year. In England the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors reports that the super-rich are still buying antiques, but mere mortals have backed off.
I'm not really an antique-store shopper, but I have noticed just on eBay that prices have fallen for things I might actually want, like an old Hoosier cabinet. Antiques are the opposite of commodities. Condition, history, quirks matter. But it's still a market with macro trends. The Journal thinks people may be just sick of antiques.
I wonder if the bed bug scare has turned people off other's people furniture. Just like with real estate, there are the hold-out sellers who haven't gotten the memo and are still trying to get boom-era prices. And just because something sold for more last year, it's a mistake to think of that as what it's somehow really worth. But I'm looking at those Hoosier cabinet auctions a lot more closely.


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Some people say, "Your soulmate is your other half. Your missing puzzle piece."
Other people say, "You should not look for a partner to complete you. You should already be whole without them."
I am slowly learning neither of those statements are entirely true. No one is ever fully complete. We are all a work in progress. We are constantly evolving, eternally shaping ourselves into different, more enhanced versions of ourselves.
You should not confuse true love with wholeness. You can be in a relationship with your soulmate and still feel an itch, like something is missing from your universe.
Even if you are already happy ninety-nine percent of the time, you can still wonder whether there is something more, something greater.
A soulmate will not magically make sense of the world. They will not take away your fears and doubts about your purpose here. They might encourage you to pursue your passions, they might give you a newfound confidence about your sense of self, but they will not be able to erase your existential questions. They will not be able to cure all of life's biggest ailments.
I am slowly learning soulmates are not about completion. They are about commitment, cohabitation, and complexity. They are about finding someone who understands the unique way the gears in your mind tick.
I am slowly learning a soulmate will never make you feel complete — but they can make you feel safe and loved and valuable and secure. They can make you feel at home.
Your soulmate is someone who can see where you are coming from. They can listen to your jumble of words and get what you are trying to say when you are having trouble forming the thought. They can grasp your ideas. They can stir your inspiration.
Your soulmate will make you feel understood for the first time in your life. They will make you feel like you are exactly where you belong. But they will not be able to do more than that.
They will not be able to grant you uninterrupted peace. They will not be able to take away every ounce of pain and suffering. They will not be able to take your broken pieces and turn them whole again. And that is okay.
I am slowly learning there is no such thing as a complete human being. Even once we find happiness, we can only enjoy it for a little while before we begin to strive for something greater.
That sounds like a dangerous thing, but it is actually a healthy thing. If we stopped searching, stopped expanding, stopped growing into bigger and better versions of us, then we would have no reason to continue on living.
Life is about more than discovery. It is about the hunt. It is about learning more and more about ourselves — but the learning is never finished. You will never know exactly who you are because that person is shifting every single day.
You are never going to reach completion — because completion means finished. It means the end. And it is never the end.


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Le Butcherettes have announced their latest EP, Don't Bleed. Due out Valentine's Day, February 14th, the seven-song effort is being previewed today with the new track "Tunisia".
Produced by "the mysterious entity by the name of Violeta Félix," Don't Bleed was recorded in Le Butcherettes' homebase of El Paso, Texas. The band's Teri Gender Bender described the EP's title in a press release as having "a powerful double meaning of being told not to bleed as a woman and feeling shame of blossoming, so with time we are manipulated to hide in the darkness and our blood calls out to the forest creatures pulling them in closer to us for the hunt, even if we hide we are exposed."
Lead single "Tunisia" indeed pumps like blood through a stalking heart. The synth-heavy cut teeters between electronic menace and bass-driven resolve as Gender Bender sings of realizing how truly insignificant an individual is in the grand scheme of things: "Thought I've seen all of it/ Guess we're just a small part of it all." As she explained of the song in a statement,
"Yet…another country not visited. There is another world outside our own. Realization that the universe is bigger than one can ever fathom. There is still so much to discover yet the more we learn, the less we know so instead of focusing too much on the rational maybe it's okay to let go of all the rational and maybe just maybe accept that we are nothing at all unless we choose to become one with all."
Listen to "Tunisia" below, and pre-order Don't Bleed via the band's merch store.
Meanwhile, Le Butcherettes are currently on the road with Incubus for their "Make Yourself 20th Anniversary Tour". Get your tickets here.
Don't Bleed EP Artwork:
Don't Bleed EP Tracklist:
01. Wounds Belong to Me
02. Out for You
03. Don't Bleed, You're in the Middle of the Forest
04. Now I Know
05. Tunisia
06. Love Somone
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The Dead Sea, so dense with salt and other minerals that it's impossible to sink, is the lowest point by far on the face of the earth. It's also the most otherworldly body of water on the planet.
The southern part of the Dead Sea, where travelers like to experience the floating sensation, can have a metallic sheen in soft daylight, while in noon sunlight, it can be sky blue with miragelike white "saltbergs" floating on its surface. The northern coast (along Hwy. 1) is rugged and beautiful. At Ein Gedi and the spa hotel strip at Ein Bokek, the water is the most dense and helpful for skin diseases such as psoriasis. These were Cleopatra's favorite waters for her beauty needs, and today the water and the mud are said to be cleansing for the skin and scalp, improving skin texture and even smoothing wrinkles.


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Iron staining is a common problem in homes today. It causes orange staining on fixtures, as well as dingy clothes and sometimes can have negative effects on both hair and skin. Sulfur is easily detected by the presence of a "rotten egg" odor, and is sometimes associated with yellow staining,
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