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10 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Company
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In this article, citizen Assato writes in his newspaper, Assato News some basic tips in starting a company.
- 1 10 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Company
- 1.1 1) Use an org to manage the company
- 1.2 2) Avoid bad types of companies
- 1.3 3) Make sure you have enough money
- 1.4 4) Have the recommended number of employees
- 1.5 5) Have active, high-wellness, employees
- 1.6 6) Buy the best raw material
- 1.7 7) Know your production cost
- 1.8 8) Check import taxes when buying licenses
- 1.9 9) Sell your stock before upgrading
- 1.10 10) Invest money in your company!
10 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Company
Sure, there are MANY newspapers out there teaching the basics before opening a company. So, to avoid any possible redundancy, I'll try to be brief.
In this article, I'll present 10 basic tips everybody should know before opening a company. They're not ordered by importance or anything like that – I just wrote them as they came to my mind. The main reason why I wrote is that this is a very frequently asked question on the forums - so now I can simply link people to this article.
1) Use an org to manage the company
An org allows your citizen to work, and also provides several other benefits - and it costs only 5 Gold! If you think 5G is expensive, then it's probably not the time to open a company yet...
2) Avoid bad types of companies
By "bad types", I meant:
- Hospital/Defense system below Q5
- Gift/Moving tickets above Q1
- Raw materials below Q3
- Raw material at medium/low region
3) Make sure you have enough money
One of the most common mistakes made by new players is opening a company as soon as they can - with only 20G or so. DON'T DO THIS! Remember, you'll also need money to pay salaries and raw materials, and some extra cash in the beginning for emergencies...
The amount of money required to start depends on many things, and is ultimately quite subjective. In my personal opinion, here's what you should have before starting (not counting the extra 5G needed for the org, if you don't have one yet):
- Food or weapons: 30, 55, 120, 220, 420G (for qualities 1 to 5)
- Gifts: 30G (Q1)
- Moving ticket: 35-40G (Q1)
- House: 40, 70, 130, 250, 450G
- Raw material: 110, 210, 410G (Q3+ only)
- Hospital/Defense system: 800G+ (Q5)
4) Have the recommended number of employees
Having 10 employees for manufacturing or land, and 20 employees for construction ensures you'd have maximum productivity per employee. Sometimes it's worth having over the recommended number - but you should only do it if you're know what you're doing.
5) Have active, high-wellness, employees
Wellness plays an important part of the productivity equation. A high wellness employee can produce even 3x as much as a dying one - and all that for the same salary. So make sure your employees have high wellness (or lower their salaries accordingly)!
There's no means to filter employees by wellness when hiring - so just keep firing until you get what you want. I'd also suggest sending them a message, explaining why you're firing them - many new players don't know about wellness. And sure, if you're hiring people with skill < 3, you can't really expect them to have 90+ wellness either - they probably can't even fight yet!
6) Buy the best raw material
The best raw material (RM) is not always Q1. As a matter of fact, it's almost guaranteed NOT to be Q1. This is because a Q2 RM yields 2xQ1 units; a Q3 = 3xQ1 units, etc.
So, always buy whatever has the cheapest price/quality ratio!
Also, with the help of an org, you can also buy RM from another country and donate it to your company - which might be cheaper than buying local.
7) Know your production cost
Either by using a company calculator, or by manually calculating it with the formula, knowing your production cost is very important. It allows you to know what price you can sell for, and what you can't afford.
If your production cost is too high (compared to market prices), try to lower it - or deactivate the company for a while.
8) Check import taxes when buying licenses
If you decide to buy an license (EL), make sure you understand how import taxes work, and what the taxes for the target country are. Many countries will have 99% import taxes for some product or other - make sure you DON'T buy a license in that case!
Also, only buy an EL if you're absolutely sure it will be a good thing, in many cases (even with low import taxes) it's just not worth it.
9) Sell your stock before upgrading
Remember that when you upgrade, you'll lose whatever stock you have. You'll also lose unfinished products - which hardly matters for companies such as food, weapons or raw materials - but can mean a lot for constructions!
You won't lose your raw material stock (for manufacturing and construction companies), so don't worry about that :)
10) Invest money in your company!
In order to pay salaries, upgrade and buy licenses, you must invest money in the company - using the "Finance" button on the company page.
Also, remember that by using the "collect" feature, you pay income taxes. There are ways to evade this tax, but I won't discuss it here...
Ok, that's it! Finally, it should be noted that these are only guidelines - some of which are even based solely on my opinion. If for some reason you disagree with something - then by all means feel free to ignore my tip. :)
In future articles I'll make a more thorough analysis of other details of company management (and other things).
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The Huffington Post ran an article last year on "11 Things We Fake in Our Social Media Lives" and I love it. As part of my business (and my inherently nosy personality) I love the peeking in on other people's lives aspect of social media. I love the stories they tell. I love connecting with people over similar interests. But what I don't love is the fakery and insincerity of some accounts on behalf of businesses. I just want to shake them and say, "Really? Are you sure about that?". I thought it was just me. Then I read Unmarketing by Scott Stratten and felt a huge sense of relief. I was not alone in my frustration on the fake factor.
I've had Unmarketing on my shelf for a bit. I'm not sure why I held out but am so glad I got over whatever was holding me back. This book confirmed that the fake route, autotweeting, push marketing and all the other things that drive me crazy were in fact dumb. And bad for your business. And annoying. Thanks to reading this book I now have a deeper confidence in the slow but steady growth of my social media audience and the recommendation to my clients that they too embrace the WYSIWYG way.
What author Scott Stratten does share is his experience and expertise that has made him one of the top 5 social media influencers on Forbes list. He discusses building trust, relationships and good strategy. He shares ways to create an audience that will be truly engaged with the content your sharing. He also is pretty strong on the whole fake thing.
One of the many things I love about this book is how each section is a manageable length for marketing newbies and filled with enough insight and actionable items for those more long in the marketing tooth. The fact that it made me laugh out loud several times and managed to teach me so many great things? Well, that's a bonus worth passing on to others.
If you're more of a video learner, then do yourself a favor and check out one of many of Scott's keynotes, the unmarketing podcast and other videos of amazeballs via: https://www.youtube.com/user/stratola/featured.
Careful if you have a drink in your hand while you watch it. It's either coming out your nose or ending up in your lap at some point because of laughing or a forehead palm for the aha moments you'll have so keep it cold. You're welcome 😉


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WHO excludes transsexuality as a mental illness
The World Health Organization (WHO) has excluded transsexuality as a mental illness and has incorporated the abusive use of video games as a behavioral disorder in the first update of its International Classification of Diseases in almost three decades published this Monday. After 11 years of work, the WHO has decided that transsexuality, which is a disorder of gender identity, leaves the category of mental illnesses -something that the LGTBI associations have been demanding for years- and enters into the category of sexual behaviors. It is maintained in this way within the classification so that when a person seeks medical help he/she obtains it since in many countries, if the diagnosis is not included in the list, the public or private health system does not reimburse the treatment.
"We want people who suffer from these conditions to get health care when they need it," Shekhar Saxena, director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at WHO, told a news conference. But it is no longer considered a mental illness "because there is no evidence that a person with a gender identity disorder must automatically have a mental disorder at the same time, although it often happens that it is accompanied by anxiety or depression". Furthermore, "if people with a gender identity disorder are automatically identified as having a mental disorder, in many countries they are stigmatized and their opportunities to seek help may be reduced". Another of the most striking modifications of the classification is the inclusion of video games in a new disorder, that of the pernicious "game", which is incorporated into the same list where there is also the harmful action of betting. "We include the disorder of playing addictively after analyzing the few evidences we have and after listening to a Scientific Committee that suggested that this new phenomenon be included as a disease that can and should be treated," said Saxena.
This update (ICD-11) replaces the ICD-10, in force since May 1990, the year in which homosexuality was removed from the list. Since then, versions of this classification have been authorized every so often, but transsexuality has always been considered a disorder against the demands of the trans collective, which calls for the depathologization of their condition. It is one of the most ironclad LGTBI claims that ends the philosophy that underlies most of the world's legislations: transsexuality is a disease that must be diagnosed and needs treatment. The WHO has wanted to move away from this conception to recognize it as a situation that can come into contact with health services, for which it creates a new chapter.
ICD-11, which has been in development for more than ten years, incorporates what it calls "gender incongruence" in the chapter on "conditions related to sexual health" together with other concepts such as "sexual dysfunctions" or "related disorders" with sexual ailments." It not only changes the name and situation in the manual, but also the definition. Until now, the ICD-10 described transsexuality as "a desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by discomfort or disagreement with the anatomical sex, and desire to undergo surgical or hormonal treatment to make that the body itself matches as much as possible with the preferred sex."
Now the definition - for adults and adolescents - will be: "A marked and persistent incongruence between the experienced gender of the individual and the assigned sex, which often leads to a desire to 'transition' to live and be accepted as a person of the experienced gender through hormonal treatment, surgery or other health services to align the body, as much as desired and as far as possible, with the experienced gender.The diagnosis can not be assigned before the onset of puberty. Gender preferences alone are not a basis for assigning the diagnosis." The ICD-11 will be presented at the World Health Assembly in May 2019 for adoption by the Member States, and will enter into force on January 1, 2022.
This presentation, specified by WHO in a communiqué, is an advance that will allow countries to plan how to use the new version, prepare translations and train health professionals across the country. The modification made by the organization is an achievement for the LGTBI collective, which asks to continue advancing in the total depathologization of transsexuality. This would imply that it was not denominated and defined as "an incongruity", but as an expression of human diversity.
The International Classification of Diseases is a standardized coding of all ailments, disorders, conditions and causes of death that helps countries obtain statistical and epidemiological data on their health situation and can plan programs and resources accordingly. The last revision of this standard was made 28 years ago, and for 11 years the most recent scientific information has been analyzed to create a new standard that is available for use by medical personnel from all over the world, although States have time to adapt until 2022. This process has served to update a classification that in many cases was outdated, did not reflect reality or did not include behaviors that are now considered diseases or disorders. The classification includes 55 thousand different codes.


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by Josh Depeel
The 2018 World Series featured two of the oldest franchises in baseball. The Los Angeles Dodgers faced off against the Boston Red Sox for the first time in the fall classic since 1916. With such staunch fans behind each team, one can imagine tensions arising between each other. However, for the fanbases of the 28 teams that did not reach, the divisiveness appears to be incredibly one sided.
In results that were published in the Boston Magazine, the sports betting website named SportsBetting.ag created a study that analyzed which states were rooting for which team in the 7-game series.
The study was conducted through a comparison on Twitter with the number of hashtags that citizens across the nation used during the World Series. Each of these hashtags were used to support a particular team. Some commonly used by the Red Sox were #DoDamage and #DirtyWater. The Dodgers on the other hand used #LADetermined and #GoDodgers. As seen on the map above, the majority of the countries Twitter users were quite profound with their support of the Red Sox.
In multiple states, the contest wasn't even close. North Dakota had 1,700 tweets for Boston but only 84 for Los Angeles. West Virginia was another secluded state that strongly supported the Red Sox with 830 votes compared to 63.
This comes off multiple playoff series for the Dodgers in which players were questioned for dangerous and unethical play; namely, shortstop Manny Machado. Machado was acquired earlier in the season for a handful of prospects from the Baltimore Orioles. He carries over a reputation that many fans consider to be hazardous for the game. His action of intentionally tripping Brewers first baseman Jesús Aguilar in the NLCS sparked outrage on social media. Many fans called for him to be suspended but the league deemed that no action was necessary.
After losing in the World Series the previous season to the Houston Astros, the Dodgers ultimately succumbed to the might of the 108-win Red Sox losing in 5 games. This included an 18 inning thriller which was the longest game in World Series history on record (seven hours and twenty minutes).
Both teams now look towards the offseason and free agency to re-sign players on expired contracts and to add some new pieces.
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SynopsisRenal cell carcinoma accounts for 90%-95% of malignant neoplasms arising from the kidney. Peak incidence is between ages of 50-70 years with a male-to-female ratio of 2:1. Risk factors for development of renal cell carcinoma include cigarette smoking, acquired cystic disease of the kidney associated with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), tuberous sclerosis, and the autosomal-dominant, often familial, von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.
Clinical presentation includes hematuria, abdominal pain, flank mass or abdominal mass, fever, weight loss, anemia, or varicocele. Many patients have tumors discovered incidentally with abdominal imaging performed for another reason.
The most common category of renal cell carcinoma is clear cell carcinoma, accounting for 60% of cases, and this histologic form is found in >80% patients with metastases. Other categories include bilateral and multifocal papillary tumors (5%-15%), indolent chromophobe tumors (5%-10%), benign oncocytomas (5%-10%), and rare but aggressive Bellini duct tumors (<1%).
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From Doodling in Programs to...Pixar?/
by Kari Jane Docter, cellist
Growing up in the Docter household was a musical experience. My parents were choral musicians: my father (Dr. Docter, no joke), a college professor and choir director; my mother, a music educator and children's choir director. All three of us Docter kids played instruments and were chauffeured around by my incredibly organized and dedicated mother to lessons and group musical activities. She practiced with all of us religiously and, when we were old enough, forced us to get up before school to practice on our own. We were destined for this life, really; my sister, who is now the violist of the Cavani Quartet and teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and I complied quite (well, mostly) readily.
My brother, Pete, however, had other plans. He was the one my mother was worried about, because he didn't like to practice and learned most of his lesson pieces "by osmosis," as she put it. Somewhere around age 15, he finally managed to convince my mom to let him quit the violin and play the double bass. (He was already well over 6 feet tall.) His interests, however, extended beyond music. Every summer, we made a trip in our VW pop-top van from our home in Minnesota to visit relatives in California. One perk of this annual trip was a day at Disneyland, which we all came to love. One year, inspired by our trip, Pete came home and made his room into a tiki room, complete with animatronic singing totems and parrots.
Fast forward twenty years, and Pete is the Oscar-winning director of three Pixar films - Monsters, Inc.; Up; and, most recently, Inside Out. Did our musical upbringing influence him in any way? Really, can we take any credit for helping him become who he is today? I asked him a few questions as he headed home from one of countless promotional trips he's made in the past few months.
Classical music was central in our childhood home. What influence, if any, did that have on you as you carved your path toward the creative world of animation?
Well, it's hard to say what really got me into animation, or why I didn't follow you guys into a career in music - other than the fact that I doubt it would have been an option for me, given my sloppy playing and dislike of practicing.
But I always loved bringing life to stuff, be it drawings or clay or puppets, and now that I work at Pixar the musical background comes in very handy. Obviously, it helps with the actual making of the film, seeing as music is such a huge element. I think music also helped shape and refine my sense of timing, both as an animator and a director. When I'm animating, I tend to hear the movement in my head, which I then work out with a stopwatch to time the movement. As a director, when we're looking at a cut, I can feel when the rhythm of dialogue or picture editing is off. I can't explain exactly why something feels on or off, but it's largely an assessment of rhythm and tone, which of course is what music is all about.
Do you remember any specific concerts or musical incidents that you've since used as inspiration?
Mom and Dad used to take us to a lot of concerts - to which I partially credit getting into animation. Programs make good drawing material if you forget to bring paper. I'd draw cartoons to entertain myself, inspired by the music or by scenarios like, "What if all the horse hair came loose on the violin bow?" (I didn't say they were good cartoons.)
Could you compare music-making to movie-making, especially in terms of collaboration?
Very much so. Working out a story is a lot like jazz, where one person throws out an idea, and the next person responds with an addition or variation, and so on. The story grows and develops as we talk it through. Who's in the room affects the work; to swap people in or out of the team is to change the film itself.
Film production - where we actually set up the shots, animate, and light the film - seems similar to an orchestra. As the film's director, I'm like the conductor, only better because I don't have to wear a tuxedo. Well, I guess I could if I wanted to. Anyway, I don't actually play any of the instruments, but it's my job to tell the players what we want from them so that the piece as a whole will have a certain effect on the audience. Actually, because of the nature of animation, it's as if I'm conducting each musician in isolation, trying to keep in mind how they'll all sound once they're all combined, which doesn't happen until the end. I have to kind of guess how it'll all fit together until we can see it all rendered and cut together.
How did music influence your career as an animator and a director once you got to Pixar? Do you feel any special connections to your film score composers because of your unique connection to music?
Well, too much knowledge can actually get in your way at times. On one film I worked on, I was trying to solve a problem and I told the composer what I thought would make the cue work better - to tacet the violas or whatever it was - and the composer got kind of angry with me. In retrospect, I can see that I was kind of stepping on his toes. He thought I was trying to do his job. I was just trying to help, but I've learned that it's better to speak in emotional terms and let the composer figure out how they want to solve the problem. I'll say, "Can we make it sound less active?" or, "We're giving away the surprise early," or whatever. Some composers are happy to hear my suggestions to problems, but either way this approach more clearly expresses why I'm giving the suggestion.
I actually have to be careful not to fall in love with the music being written. It's my job to judge the musical cues in terms of whether they work for the picture and story, not as to how catchy or musically interesting they are. I used to listen to the music in my car as we're making the film, but I stopped doing that because I think you hear very things very differently when you're familiar with something. I try to make myself see and hear the film as though I've never heard it before - like the audience.
Compared to the slow pace of the rest of the film, the music comes together fast. We recorded all of Inside Out in something like six days. I don't know how many weeks it took Michael Giacchino to write it, but making the rest of the film took five years.
Music has such a huge effect on the film. That's a lot of pressure on the composer.
Michael and I are good friends in part because of our connection through music, but mostly because he's an awesome guy and fun to hang around.
Animation speaks to the everyday public. Are you able to feel that connection, as a singer, an opera director, or a musician might feel?
Unfortunately, the connection is more remote. Of course, once the film is finished, I can sit with the audience and see what they laugh at, but by then it's too late to change anything.
As a filmmaker, though, you really need that feedback. So often, what you think you're saying isn't what the audience takes away. At Pixar we've developed a way to pre-visualize the film using drawings, which we cut together with dialogue, music, and sound effects. When you watch this played back, it gives you a rough but pretty decent sense of how the film is going to come off. These story reels are kind of tricky to watch for people who aren't used to them, so we only show them to each other at Pixar. Based on our reactions, we make adjustments - sometimes really big adjustments. It's kind of like rehearsing a play off Broadway.
That said, my primary tool as to how something is working is my own intuition. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. You never truly know how a film will land until the film comes out, and even then sometimes I'm surprised by what people talk about a year later and what they've forgotten.
Do you still play?
I guess you can call it that. I don't practice, so that gives you a sense of my skill level.
Actually, Michael Giacchino was nice enough to let me sit in with the bass section for a few cues on both Up and Inside Out. I chose the cues with lots of whole notes.
Do you have favorite composers, pieces, or performers that have influenced your creative work?
I'll often assemble a playlist of music that I listen to as I write. It helps me get into a scene if I'm really feeling it - kind of like the silent film makers used to hire musicians to get actors in the right mood, I guess.
More directly, we routinely rely on music to set the tone and pacing as we put together the film on story reels, as I mentioned earlier. Most of the time we use cues from other scores, but for Up we cut that montage of Carl and his wife growing old together to Ferde Grofé's Alice Blue. We also used Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel during the part when Carl mournfully looks through his unfinished Adventure Book. And we used George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for the busy city section of A Bug's Life - just to give a few examples. Obviously, these are all replaced in the final score.
The only trouble with using my favorite pieces in this way is that they are now forever associated with the pain and suffering of trying to make the film work.
Any desire to direct an opera?
Can I get the opera singers to use alum and make their heads shrink while they sing, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoon? If so, I'm in.


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Introducing a new playlist series, coming to you every Sunday. Each playlist will be curated by an artist, band, or some other entity /group/ person who's opinions we value, and will consist of 10 songs they've been listening to the past week.
First up: FEiN , aka Luke Walton and Brandon Woodward, an LA-based electro-pop-rock duo.
Here are 10 songs they've been listening to this past week:
1. Distant Past - Everything Everything
2. The Love You're Given - Jack Garratt
3. Get Out The Way - Mother Mother
4. Ghosting - Mother Mother
5. Christmas In L.A. - Vulfpeck
6. Slum Love - Kimbra
7. The Antidote - St. Vincent
8. Disposable Parts - Enon
9. No Control - One Direction
10. My Type - Saint Motel


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Becoming a ancestor gave Chance the Rapper a boyish glow. You can apprehend it in his voice. "My babe attending aloof like Sia / You can't see her," he teased on Kanye West's "Ultralight Beam," amid through the ballad of a lifetime. Her spirit captivated him on the opener to his mixtape Coloring Book, too: "Man, my babe couldn't accept a bigger mother." The 23-year-old was already disposed to exuberance, but the babyish babe abashed him anew. She unhinged him, all while sparking him to put bottomward roots with her mother, his city, and his art — to become added concrete, for her account and for his happiness, which are now melded into one. After she was born, Chance appear a fantasia that approached gospel. "Lil Chano from 79th," the diminutive nickname, is now a complete persona. He's earlier than the early, "Wonderful Everyday" period, and yet the signature overalls, the wide-eyedness, and an attraction with the emblems of burghal juvenilia abide brightly. This accomplished weekend in Chicago, at the anniversary to which he gave the children's fantasy name "Magnint Coloring Day," wily-looking puppets and invented animation characters popped up during his set. His purpose seemed alchemical, to about-face the burghal America calls a war area into a playground.
Chance has begin a byword to represent what is irrepressible in him: #BlackBoyJoy. Following his actualization at the 2016 VMAs, he sed administration ptos of himself at the event, preening, dancing, and posing, with the hashtag. He was a actomed spokesman. Others followed suit, announcement ptos of boys and men frolicking and grinning.
The #BlackBoyJoy hashtag preceded Chance's use of it, and its origins are in the broader, chichi abstraction of "carefree blackness." Like the apart agenda ociation that bore it, this carefreeness has an ambient quality, a aculating of aesthetics and idenies that abounding acclaim as a ambiguous anatomy of activism.
The trend was aboriginal sketched about a beheld type, alleged the Airy Atramentous Girl, that emerged on user-uced sites with boyish atramentous pockets, like Tumblr and Twitter, in the aboriginal 2010s. Crude concrete tropes of a ertive affectionate of "alternative blackness" articular the CFBG amid the sea of approved atramentous girls w weren't like her: about coiled actomed hair, quirky-but-respectable concrete flaws, a affairs that accurate an big-ticket diet and vacation. Her carefreeness, which astral amorpus affections like joy and happiness, developed ties to actual tokens of upper-cl, "bougie" existence. She had accessible avatars, actors like Tracee Ellis Ross and singers like FKA twigs. She actively resisted ualization, was added foed on advancement brainy health. She lived contemporaneously, altugh her courage could be anachronistically activated to administrator saints, like Zora Neale Hurston. She was consistently smiling. "An important aspect of the Airy Atramentous Babe is motion, movement that is un-cographed, unmitigated, exuberant, sometimes languid, but consistently abounding of life," wrote Patricia Ekpo in 2014, aback the hashtag accomplished aiguille saturation.
Now, the CFBG is a b actualization in ptography. Writing for The New Inquiry, net art babysitter Aria Dean cautiously addresses the apocryphal basal of selfie politics, a beyond agenda trend that encompes CFBG iconography: "So continued as the feminist adroit with the best absorption enjoys this apprehensible accord to visibility, it will alone bore into added aestheticization and depoliticization."
In 2015, the CFBG became a man, or rather a boy. The timing was right, the timing would consistently be appropriate — the abiding deluge of beheld media uming atramentous men in some aberration of state-sponsored affront has both bankrupt and depressed the accessible record. This is what Frederick Dougl, w was the best ptographed man of the 19th century, believed: that sitting for august portraits would present a claiming to the white angle of American history. Added recently, on the internet, a faculty has emerged that if a boy looked different, he would feel different, and accordingly be different. He could abrasion attenuate boyod braids into adultod, and he could yze anywhere on the spectrums of female and, added recently, gender. If carefreeness in atramentous women alone strains on femininity, again in atramentous men, it could allay masculinity. Interestingly, this new appellation developed to be abundant added cl- and region-inclusive than the original. #CarefreeBlackBoy and added agnate tags took off, a array of beards and annual crowns, and were alleged radical.
In music, no atramentous man embodies the trend — actually incorporates it — absolutely like Young Thug in 2016. This is because he is an absurd subject. Darker-skinned and an acolyte of Gucci Mane, Thug isn't a bright alternation to the rich, mixed-race babe with billowing hair. He is her opposite, a abolishment of a subversion. And yet actualization uses adulation him added fervently. He dressed himself with absurd grace, gesturing femininely in Japanese shirt-coats and a sky-purple changeable on his mixtape Jeffery. "I feel there is no such affair as gender," he appear in his Calvin Klein campaign. Later, he told us there would be "two brides" at his bells to a woman, Jerrika Karlae. Next to his eccentricity, he additionally nurtures trauma: The rapper has mentioned that his ancestor acclimated to exhausted him for cutting his sister's clothes as a child. Thug's perceived aberration — awning and aerial fashion, ultraviolent and peaceable, bandit in a dress — accomplish him a apparent on which to activity a peful approaching for atramentous masculinity. Alike aback he takes pains to dress like an aualized girl, the freeness with which he flouts conventions of actualization looks like the archness of a little boy.
There are others, too, adolescent than Thug's 25 years. Rae Sremmurd, the ured leaders of affair rap for the accountable future, appearance a acuteness and refreshingly green apple angle that is endlessly attractive. Lil Yachty aloof angry 19; he generally wears the blush red and googly-eyed gles, with artificial red chaplet ample up forth his braids. His antic insolence, shrugging off approved heroes like Tupac in radio interviews while sampling the Mister Rogers' Neighborod affair song, has apprenticed a bearing of rap clicists off the accepted cliff. Pushing the band amid carefreeness and appropriateness is a connected for artists like Yachty, w are littoral the expectations of developed burdens, alike apprehension them irrelevant.
Creating a type, inevitably, will stoke an exercise in opposition. For every artisan w satisfies the amphibian requisites for carefreeness in 2016, there is an artisan w does not, w cannot. Take Kodak Black, w, like Yachty, is 19. Prior to a few months ago, his aerial acceleration to Floridian folklore, Lisa Simpson–esque hair, and cleft of a beam admired the rapper to a airy ideal. His contempo acknowledged problems accept ricocheted absoluteness aback into the picture. That has consistently been the abashing irony of the airy aesthetic. Rhetorically, it denies the abounding alternation of atramentous adventures in America. It is a stereotype, admitting one advised for altruism and created, conceivably lovingly, by atramentous people. As Danielle Henderson has written, "I'm additionally afraid that the accent on actuality airy aloof gives us addition set of rules to follow."
Besides the banned of language, "carefree" additionally diminishes history. Atramentous adultod has been loaded with policing myths, but it has never been monolithic, in reality. Queerness, femininity, slyness, daintiness, and backbone drive the spirit of the masculine, alike aback this complication isn't visible, isn't meant to be apparent to abounding viewers. Part of what animates this advance to drag atramentous affectation aloft "regular" atramentous in the agenda age is both white and atramentous admirers advancing into acquaintance with, and again gamifying, the lives of added atramentous people. There is a accepted of exoticized sck in the actuality that Thug, a artery rapper, admires swishing skirts. That he is complicated, layered; that he has an close life.
The internet has accounted this artful "radical," acceptation unprecedented, but it is a aberration on a common affection in the progression of atramentous style. We accept alone to attending at contempo music history to acquisition its arbiters. Outkast, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, and Aaliyah are aloof a few of the acts w accept acclimated elements of cybergoth, Southern dandyism, and skateboard air-conditioned in audibly boilerplate endeavors. Before them, James Brown, Little Richard, and Stevie Wonder all apparent qualities of what is now marginalized as "radical" blackness. Artful radicalism will consistently accept an anterior in atramentous culture, which is to say, heteronormativity is activated on, but not necessarily actomed to, atramentous bodies in America. This is a ignment we tend to apprentice in adolescence. But that visceral, claimed adumbration does not abolish the absoluteness of the thing. What has afflicted in this agenda age is the attendance of the archive. What is new is the affluence with which we can ort the multivalence of blackness, via hashtags like #CarefreeBlackBoy. But the admiration to emble abandon — that was consistently there.
"Boy" doesn't consistently beggarly youth, or freedom. The chat can accelerate a wince to the atramentous men w apprehend it, for the activated chains it invokes. There was a time aback atramentous boyod alone existed as an acation to alter adults. That's the alternating bind of atramentous history, and the all-knowing attempt ancient to atramentous aesthetics. A chat can be reclaimed, or reconsuted, alone so far as the ambiance allows. One is airy alone for as continued as the accessible p stands, for as continued as some alfresco blackmail bids you to worry.
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Year: 2014
Award: Runner-up
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Whether you think you found a gem in your Granny's attic or you are searching for the piece of your dreams and don't want to get ripped off, at some point you will want to do some research. For sure the internet has made researching items so much easier but you need to use your head and good sense to come out on top. Provenance makes or breaks value so the more you know, the better you can make decisions.
I found this piece, NOW WHAT?
Makers Marks, Tags, Stamps, Signatures. All of these tell a story. If you are fortunate to have a piece with any of this information, it will greatly help you in your quests! There is a great community of enthusiasts and collectors who have vast knowledge of makers, designers and their works who post blogs and updates. Start your searching on google, Facebook, Instagram and my favorite, Pinterest. There are many ads and catalogs posted either for sale or just as a reference. These are valuable resources!
Now what do most people ask first when they post in a group to crowd source provenance? HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH? The short answer, nothing if no one wants it. Half the battle of reselling your items is getting it to the audience who does want it and is willing to pay market value to get it. Any legit retailer, myself include, has overhead which needs to be included in the selling price. We are trying to cover expenses and make some money on top of it. If this job was easy, everyone would be doing it. It's hard work and in 4 years, I am still not making much of a profit nor contributing to my personal finances so keep that in mind when you support the retail industry. If anyone is getting rich doing this at this stage, i'd love to meet them! 😂
Let's talk about some great places to start sleuthing. Google and Google Image will pick up large auction house listings, first dibs and other online sales. Use this as a start but be leery of claims unless there is significant proof of provenance. There are a lot of false claims coming from the highest end markets.
Ebay can be a great place as well and always remember to search current listings and then go one step further by clicking ADVANCED followed by checking the box for SOLD listings. This will get you realized sales. I also consider the source because there are many facets to retail. Ebay does attract collectors so an in demand item may realize for top dollar, however, a lot of large items are PICK UP ONLY so to me, that seller it not really experiencing the full national market which can affect his price.
Once you think you have figured out the origins of your piece, you can move forward into other realms. I love Pinterest for this and have found many original ads and catalogs there. Ebay also has been a great source for this.
Art specific items can be fun. I have found info in the American Art Archives of the Smithsonian, local art museums have libraries as well. I did find a search engine (worldcat.org) covering libraries and the art museums around the country are also in the search. I have twice used resources at the Philadelphia Art Museum and it is easy to reserve, make an appt to view and then you sign in at the desk and get a visitor's pass. This pass lets you spend time in the building perusing the current exhibits before you leave as well! Parking in the residential area behind the museum is free for up to two hours! Also note that you may even find a published book or exhibition catalog! Some leads do not amount to much but you will find out more as you go along.
Pay sites? I have paid for day use of ask Art and the like. Not that impressed and most of the info was publicly available anyway, Sotheby's and Christie's are searchable direct.
Print or Original? One trick to help you determine if you have a print is to use a magnifying glass. A print will show all the tiny dots in the ink from the printing process. An original will not have the dots. I started by checking a Picasso print I had so it was easy to see and then looked at my piece and it definitely was not a print.
Sculpture. Most reproductions of sculpture are plaster, possibly hollow and were big in the 70's. If you find signatures of NPI, FRANKLIN MINT, AUSTIN PRODUCTS, they are def reproductions. If you tap them they will ring high in pitch. The usually have felt on the bottom. Some are mounted to a board or base but many just have felt covering the hollow middle. The 2 original sculptures I have are both mounted on a base. The bolt that hold the piece to the base is visible under the base. Each piece is made out of a material that is denser than ceramic and makes a dull less bright noise when tapped...reminds me of striking rubber. In both cases, they are signed by the artist down toward the base on the side or back of the piece. My Mankowski piece has copyright symbol after his name (B. Mankowski) but it was a series he made to sell multiple pieces. The other sculpture I have from Bette Fast only says FAST. She seemed to sell her work privately and was not widely represented.
It really is interesting to see how the art world works. I have seen relatively unknown local artists selling prints, copyrighting their works and making a living. They do not show up in internet searches but they were selling. Buy what you love and find out what you can about it. If you are lucky, you will be able to unravel some of the mystery!
Happy New Year to all my friends! I look forward to an even more exciting 2018! Local peeps I will be having a clearance sale in my space at Fleetwood Antique Mall this month. 20% off everything, 10% off featured furnishings and Holiday items are all marked at least 50% off. The mall is open until 3:00 New Year's Eve. More items will arrive after I am done celebrating Christmas with family. It is always the two weeks of Christmas for us! 👌😂🎄


text: Lawrence "Larry" Jacob Fennell, 76, of Loyalhanna Twp., passed away on Thursday, December 27, 2018 at Select Specialty Care in Latrobe. He was born on Thursday, December 10, 1942 in Fennelltown, Pa., the son of the late William C. and Janet Wilson Fennell. Before his retirement, he worked as a welder for Elkin Manufacturing. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, working on cars and tractors and spending time with family. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Letha Darlene Morton Fennell, his children, Thomas L. Fennell and his wife, Debra, of Clarksburg, Daniel J. Fennell (Rebecca Fennell) of Pittsburgh , 2 grandchildren, Noah D. Fennell and Kayla M. Treu. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Helen Foust. Family will receive friends on Sunday, December 30, 2018 from 2PM until time of services at 6PM in the Kelly L. Corridoni Funeral Home LTD, 400 Indiana Ave., Avonmore, Pa. Pastor Jim Povich will officiate. Interment will be private.


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I've been chewing on whether or not to share the most recent creepy Goodreads friend request I received from a self-identified aspiring author. But this one was uncomfortable enough, that I felt like I needed to share in hopes of helping educate other aspiring authors about what not to do when attempting to engage readers.
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This will only happen when the company is certain the majority of its clients' PCs can perform speed tests of 500Mbps, however.
Cybersmart CTO Laurie Fialkov previously explained they limit their LightSpeed fibre service to 400Mbps because it is the maximum speed most users get when doing an online speed test.
Fialkov said their infrastructure makes it commercially and technically possible for Cybersmart to offer gigabit connections at affordable prices, but consumer expectations must be considered.
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Technology restrictions on the consumer's end can limit speed test results, and as speed tests are often used by consumers to judge their broadband connection, "under-delivery" is a concern.
Limitations include networking constraints – especially when using Wi-Fi – and the capacity of low-end laptops and PCs.
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Due to cold weather with mixed precipitation in the forecast for most of the week, we will be canceling the owl release for tonight. We truly apologize for any inconvenience; however, we want to give these young owls the best chance possible. We do not have a future date for the release at this time. Thank you for understanding.


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Fearless Prayer (with Craig Hazen)
If you've had doubts about the effectiveness of your prayer or wondered about how boldly you can pray, then our guest, Talbot Apologetics Director and Professor, Dr. Craig Hazen has wisdom about prayer that will surprise you. Sean and Scott interview Dr. Hazen and highlight his new book, Fearless Prayer: Why We Don't Ask and Why We Should.
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How to Make Your Bedroom the Best Environment for Sleeping
If the whole family doesn't sleep well, it can throw off the day. I can tell when things are going to be a bit more difficult because someone hasn't had enough sleep! For me, one of the most important things about sleeping is having the right place to do it. Some people can sleep anywhere. But many need specific conditions to help them drift off to dreamland. Both children and adults need the best environment not just to help them fall asleep but to make their sleep better too. There are lots of changes you can make to a bedroom to make it better for sleeping. Here are just some of the things that can make a difference.
Remove Distractions
I know that bedrooms are private spaces for every family member. It's not always possible to keep it just for sleeping (or more grown-up activities). The kids might want somewhere to play or do their homework in peace. But I still think you can do your best to remove as many distractions from the room as possible. For example, it's not always a great idea to have a TV in the bedroom. If there's a desk, it could go behind a privacy screen, so it's hidden at bedtime. Keeping fitness equipment out will mean you aren't reminded of how much you're not using it. Even minimising things like posters and photos can help to make the room calmer.
Get a New Mattress
If you want a better sleep, your bed is one of the main places to turn to. I love our bed and can never wait to fall into it at the end of the day. The primary focus of your bed should be the mattress. They can be expensive, especially once you reach the high-end ones. But it's worth investing in a good one. They should last at least eight to ten years, with some more expensive ones lasting longer.
There's a lot more to consider when you buy a mattress than you might think. Not too long ago, most people would have chosen between a pocket sprung mattress and a continuous or open coil mattress. Now, memory foam and latex are both popular options for more comfort. If you're hoping for a better sleep, you might consider using latex as a comfort layer with your mattress. Others prefer to use memory foam, which changes shape to fit your body. Just remember that the more comfortable the mattress, the more it will cost.
Make Your Existing Mattress More Comfortable
If you don't want to buy a new mattress, or you can't afford to, all is not lost. You can make your existing mattress more comfortable with a couple of tweaks. The first thing you can do is add a mattress topper. They add a layer of padding to your bed, and you can get them in different materials. It's important to remember, however, that they won't fix a mattress that's on its way out. If it's time for a replacement, you might have to bite the bullet. A mattress topper can help many people, though. You can get them in memory foam, feather-filled, wool, microfibre, and more.
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Choose the Right Pillow
There's nothing worse than waking up with a crick in your neck. And yet, a lot of people don't realise they're using the wrong pillow. It's easy to overestimate how many pillows you need or to continue using a pillow that's passed its best. The best way to choose a pillow is to think about your sleeping position. Your pillow needs to hold your neck straight, so you don't want anything too flat or too high. If you sleep on your back, you'll need less pillow than if you sleep on your side. Tummy sleepers should choose a softer pillow. Other things to consider include whether you have allergies or any sleep problems. You can get anti-allergy pillows and some designed to help with issues like sleep apnea.
Adjust the Lighting
Some people say that they can't sleep if their bedroom is too dark. However, too much light can disturb your sleep. There are a few things you can do to keep your room as dark as possible. Invest in some heavy curtains or blinds to banish moonlight and streetlights. It's a good idea to get rid of all the small lights that you might not think about too. For example, if you have an alarm clock, the glowing numbers can disturb you. If you have to get up during the night, using a nightlight in the hallway or bathroom is better than a ceiling light.
Keep Everything Tidy
A lot of people just can't sleep when their bedroom is messy. But if you can, that doesn't necessarily mean you're getting good sleep. Making sure everything is tidy before you get into bed can help you a lot. If you're not careful, it can be easy to let clutter build up. Make it part of your bedtime routine to tidy up before you go to sleep.
Adjust the Temperature
Getting the temperature right for your bedroom is important. You might like it warmer, but sleep experts say cooler is better. If the room is slightly lower in temperature, it's easy to snuggle under the covers. Your body temperature drops as you fall asleep, so a colder room can help you get ready for bed. Set the temperature a little lower than you would have it during the day if you have a controllable thermostat.
Eliminate Noise Disturbance
There are some noises that can help you drift off to sleep. But being disturbed by ambulances, helicopters, or even snoring isn't fun. Much of the time, there's nothing you can do to stop the noise. However, you can protect yourself against it. Wearing earplugs to bed is one option if you want a quieter night's sleep. If you share your bed with a snorer, make sure you explore every avenue to get their snoring treated.
Your bedroom makes a big difference to how well you can sleep. If you struggle to drift off, making a few changes could help you.


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WILMINGTON, MA — Analog Devices' engineers will promote science and technology education through demonstrations, hands-on activities, and a fact-finding competition during the 18th Annual Science and Tech Fair on Friday, April 12, 2019, from 7:30am to 1:40pm, at Wilmington Middle School (25 Carter Lane) in Rooms 247 and 248.
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This week and at the age of 41 Paula Radcliffe suggested that she is no longer able to keep up with the elite Marathon runners. She isn't classed as an elite entrant for April's London Marathon, a race which she suggests will be her last competitive Marathon.
The inevitable decline of such great athletes is often met with sadness, but looking back on her career it's obvious that Paula Radcliffe is a living legend of a runner. I'm not going to run through her entire career, but I want to highlight all of the distances at which she has held a worlds fastest time at one time or another:
Marathon – 2:15:25. Set in London in 2003, beating her own world record – this is still the world record.
30km and 20 Miles – set during the London Marathon in 2003. To set the fastest 25km time in the world ever during a marathon seems ridiculous.
Half Marathon – 1:05:40. Set in Newcastle in 2003.
20km – 1:02:21. Set in Newcastle during the above half marathon in 2003.
10 miles – 50:01. Set in Chicago in 2002.
15km – 46:41. Set in Puerto Rice in 2003.
10km – 30:21. Set in Puerto Rico in 2003.
5 miles – 24:47. Set in Balmoral in 1999 (this was beaten later that year but Paula held it from April to October).
8km – 24:05. Set in Puerto Rico in 2003.
She has also held the second highest time in the world at 2 miles distance.
When you look down that list of times and distances it's impossible not to be amazed. For a runner to be second best in the world at 2 miles and the best in the world at the Marathon puts them in living legend status in my mind, and yet, Paula goes even further: – Her Marathon time was such a huge jump that no one has still come close to beating it. At the time, Dave Bedford (the London Marathon race Director) described her time of 2 hours 15 minutes as "the greatest distance running performance I have seen in my lifetime" and it's hard to think of another that has surpassed it in the 12 years since. These sort of results happen once in a lifetime.
So when Paula takes to the track this April I don't expect to see a fast time, but I know I'll see determination and grit that no one else can give – and one thing's for sure; I won't feel sad.
Oh and yes she did a poo whilst running – stop asking me this!
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In the documentary film "Last Men in Aleppo," a Syrian civilian rescue squad known as the White Helmets rushes to a bombed-out apartment building on a residential street in Aleppo.
Often the squad's job is retrieving bodies from destroyed flats, hospitals, bakeries or other civilian structures targeted by President Bashar Assad's forces or his recent allies, the Russians.
But this day, as rescuer Mahmoud furiously digs through rubble, he uncovers a sign of life. A tiny hand reaching from beneath layers of broken concrete and rubble. Soon three young boys, bloodied, limp, covered in white dust like ghosts, are pulled out alive. Their mom and other siblings _ including a baby still in diapers _ weren't as fortunate.
It's war, brutal and graphic. You may question: Do I really need to see this? The answer comes in a following scene.
Mahmoud visits the surviving boys and their father a week later.
While the adults talk, the boy who's no older than 6 sneaks across the room. He sits on the floor next to Mahmoud, burrowing his small frame under his hero's arm.
The child waits until the others aren't listening and whispers: "Sir, how did you get me out?"
Mahmoud hugs him.
The boy persists: "I was really tired when you got me. Sir, how did you know I was there?"
"Because you were a flower," replies Mahmoud. "You needed to see the light."
Syria. It's complicated. That's the easy answer in the waning American conversation about a 6-year-old civil war that's taken close to half a million lives.
Like the war in Iraq that led to the one in Syria that led to a global refugee crisis that fed the Islamic State's rise, it's a conflict and humanitarian disaster the West pays attention to only sporadically.
But two new feature documentary films this month are reminders that the Syrian crisis is kids with kid-like questions, volunteers who risk it all for them, power-hungry despots, colluders and terror factions who thrive when the rest of the world turns its back.
Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's "Last Men in Aleppo" is a tightly focused, on-the-ground account of three men who serve in the White Helmets. It's pure reportage, no narration, no expert voices. It chronicles two years in the lives of embattled rescuers Mahmoud, Khaled and Subhi, all of whom constantly weigh the safety of their own families with their allegiance to serve the people of Aleppo.
As you watch the 104-minute film, it becomes eerily clear that some of the men and women on screen are likely ghosts by now, consumed by the conflict they sought to protect others from. It's raw, powerful, moving and candid.
Sebastian Junger's "Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS" is a bigger budget, comprehensive look at the demise of Syria _ from the Arab Spring to the Islamic State to the recent involvement of Russia.
The film does a phenomenal job detangling the numerous scenarios that led to Syria's civil war and current bloodbath, dispelling the notion that this conflict is too complicated for those not versed on the Middle East to understand.
The National Geographic Documentary Films' feature from Junger and Nick Quested (both of whom worked on "Restrepo," "The Last Patrol" and "Korengal") uses new and old footage, narration by Junger and interviews with Syrian refugees, Aleppo citizens, former Assad soldiers, ISIS members and U.S. leaders such as Arizona Sen. John McCain to demystify the chaos.
"Every Arab Spring was explicitly an anti-corruption demonstration," explains one expert. Syria was no different when its uprising started in 2011. Middle-school kids wrote on a wall protesting the rule of Assad. They were imprisoned and tortured. Protests ensued.
The film asserts that Assad knew what happened to leaders where the Arab Spring had blossomed (Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was ousted and thrown in prison) and responded with maximum force. The footage of his troops spraying unarmed protesters with gunfire is horrifying.
Former high-ranking Syrian officers explain how defectors from Assad's military formed the Free Syrian Army to protect civilians from the government. Then more anti-Assad militias joined in, funded by private individuals in the Sunni-majority Gulf who supported taking down the Shiite leader. When the rebels took a military base in Aleppo and freed most of the city from Assad's army, the air bombardments began: Barrel bombs day and night, nonstop, on civilians and militia alike.
On the world stage, Assad portrayed the battle as one against him and extremist Muslim forces. But in the documentary, journalists who covered the war recount when Assad released dangerous jihadis from prison in hopes of them joining the war and causing more diversionary chaos.
Says narrator Junger: "One of the problems of letting civil war go on for so long is that more and more people get involved. It's like a bar fight, where all a sudden everyone's jumped in and is throwing chairs at each other. Syria became a civil war in response (to) the violence of the government, but eventually Iran got involved through Hezbollah to support the Assad regime; the Kurds, Turkey, the Arab Gulf states got involved. ... Eventually all the world powers and all the regional powers had some investments in Syria. Once you get a proxy fight, with so many powers, so huge interests in the outcome, it's almost impossible to stop."
Enter the Islamic State, who sought to create its own continuous Sunni Muslim caliphate. Its leadership preyed on sectarian tension, say former villagers, taking over entire towns, instituting a barbaric strain of sharia law (public beheadings aren't shown in their entirety here, thankfully, but ghoulish displays of bodies hung from street lamps are).
Families who were targeted by Assad recount how they were required to serve the Islamic State or die.
The film follows one such family in its attempt to flee, video shot under the tarp where they all hid, disguised as cargo in the back of a truck as it crossed the border into the safety of Turkey. The film connects them with a refugee crisis so big it's poured over into Europe, inciting right-wing nationalist movements. And, of course, the lone wolf, ISIS-inspired terror attacks that have followed in places such as Toulouse, France, and San Bernardino, Calif.
McCain explains the entry of the Russians into the conflict is "to control areas of Syria of importance to Assad. ... People can't defend themselves from bombardments. Assad wants people in the middle eliminated so the choice is either him or ISIS."
In "Last Men in Aleppo," the rescuers of the White Helmets claim allegiance to neither faction. They race to the scenes of destruction perpetuated by both sides in sputtering old ambulances and trucks with rusty radiators that overheat.
"Are you leaving Aleppo?" one man asks another after a run, as they sit in a freezing-cold flat, warming themselves over a kerosene burner.
"Yes," says the other.
"Where to?"
"The cemetery," he jokes.
Later, in a more serious moment, rescuer Khaled explains why he stays in a place that will eventually kill him.
"Some people prefer to die than live in refugee camps," he says. "Where can we go? This siege is our destiny."
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Rating: R, for some disturbing violent images
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Playing: In limited release; premieres on National Geographic Channel June 11
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Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes
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