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Borrowed Costume
by Rabbi Meir Orlian
"What are your children dressing up as on Purim?" Mrs. Kahn asked her neighbor.
"Our whole family chooses a theme," answered Mrs. Lieber. "My husband also dresses up. This year the family is going to be Noach's Teivah."
"My son dressed up as a lion last year," exclaimed Mrs. Kahn. "We bought this great costume. It was so realistic and amazing!"
"Do you still have it?" asked Mrs. Lieber.
"Yes," replied Mrs. Kahn. "We keep the Purim costumes in a closet."
"Would you mind lending it to me?" asked Mrs. Lieber.
"With pleasure," replied Mrs. Kahn. "We're not using it this year."
On Purim morning, Mrs. Lieber dressed up her son as a lion with the costume borrowed from Mrs. Kahn. Throughout the day, the "lion" romped around the neighborhood. By evening, the costume was stained and slightly torn. After Purim, Mrs. Lieber washed the costume, but one stain and the slight tear remained.
"What should I do?" Mrs. Lieber asked her husband.
"We'll have to buy a new one," said Mr. Lieber. "We're borrowers and completely liable for the costume. But I suggest you first show it to Mrs. Kahn and see what she says. It's only a costume, and she may not mind."
"My son used the lion costume on Purim," Mrs. Lieber said to Mrs. Kahn. "Unfortunately, it got stained and slightly torn. If you want, we'll buy you a new one."
Mrs. Kahn looked at the costume. "It's only a costume," she said. "I can sew the tear and, anyway, I don't know when we'll use it again. I'll show my husband."
"Whatever you think," said Mr. Kahn. "However, if it got ruined through normal use on Purim, I'm not sure that Mrs. Lieber is liable! I'll talk it over with Rabbi Dayan at his weekly shiur, which Mr. Lieber also attends."
After the shiur, Mr. Kahn and Mr. Lieber approached Rabbi Dayan. "My wife lent Mrs. Lieber a lion costume for Purim, which got slightly ruined," Mr. Kahn said. "Are they liable for it?"
"A person who borrows an item is not allowed to lend it to others," explained Rabbi Dayan. "This parallels the halachah that one who is entrusted with an item is not allowed to entrust it to others." (C.M. 342:1)
"Nonetheless, it is expected that a guardian will rely on his wife and mature children," continued Rabbi Dayan. "Similarly, it seems permissible to allow them to use a borrowed item. However, a guardian may not rely on his young, minor children. Similarly, a borrower cannot allow them use of the borrowed item; doing so would constitute negligence on his part." (C.M. 291:21)
"What about a child's costume?" asked Mr. Lieber.
"In our case, a costume intended for children was clearly borrowed for them," replied Rabbi Dayan. "As such, it is logical that usage by children, and any ensuing typical damage, is par for the course, and included in normal wear and tear. The parent cannot be expected to constantly supervise and protect the borrowed item from any blemish typical for children of that age.
"Even a borrower is not liable for meisah machmas melachah, when the item died, broke, or was damaged through normal use, and certainly not for normal wear and tear of the item," added Rabbi Dayan. "Therefore Mrs. Lieber is exempt regarding stains or small tears that are customary when children wear such a costume. "However, a parent would still be liable for excessive damage not typical for such an age, since that could not be called damage due to normal usage." (C.M. 340:1; Pischei Choshen, Pikadon 9:9[24])
Clarification: In light of responses received regarding the article "Deny It!" I would like to reiterate that, as stated in the article, lying in beis din is unequivocally prohibited! Even the opinions that express some element of leniency in certain situations do not allow this!
This article is intended for learning purposes and not to be relied upon halacha l'maaseh. There are also issues of dina d'malchusa to consider in actual cases.
Rabbi Meir Orlian is a faculty member of the Business Halacha Institute, which is headed by HaRav Chaim Kohn, shlita, a noted dayan. For questions regarding business halacha issues, or to bring a BHI lecturer to your business or shul, please call the confidential hotline at 877-845-8455 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. To receive BHI's free newsletter, Business Weekly, send an e-mail here.


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Winning 28 Olympic Gold Medals Does Not Make You Happy
by John Lawrence
As a testimony to the false gods people worship, consider the case of Michael Phelps, the swimmer, who won 28 Olympic gold medals. Did that make him happy? No, He suffered major bouts of depression and even wanted to kill himself. Is winning at any price what it's all about? Is competition to prove you're the best in the world what makes you happy? I don't think so.
CNN reported:
"You do contemplate suicide," the winner of 28 Olympic medals told a hushed audience at the fourth annual conference of the Kennedy Forum, a behavioral health advocacy group.
Interviewed at the conference by political strategist David Axelrod (who is a senior political commentator for CNN), Phelps' 20-minute discussion highlighted his battle against anxiety, depression. and suicidal thoughts -- and some questions about his athletic prowess.
"Really, after every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression," said Phelps when asked to pinpoint when his trouble began. He noticed a pattern of emotion "that just wasn't right" at "a certain time during every year," around the beginning of October or November, he said. "I would say '04 was probably the first depression spell I went through."
That was the same year that Phelps was charged with driving under the influence, Axelrod reminded the spellbound audience.
And there was a photo taken in fall 2008 -- just weeks after he'd won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics -- that showed Phelps smoking from a bong. He later apologized and called his behavior "regrettable."
Drugs were a way of running from "whatever it was I wanted to run from," he said. "It would be just me self-medicating myself, basically daily, to try to fix whatever it was that I was trying to run from."
The "hardest fall" was after the 2012 Olympics, said Phelps. "I didn't want to be in the sport anymore ... I didn't want to be alive anymore."
What that "all-time low" looked like was Phelps sitting alone for "three to five days" in his bedroom, not eating, barely sleeping and "just not wanting to be alive," he said.
Finally, Phelps knew he needed help.
Phelps got help, and he opened up and talked about what was going on inside his head, stuff he had compartmentalized and repressed. Now he's trying to help others with the same problems. Could it be that the athletic activity itself helped Phelps keep his head above water, and that, when that activity was over like at the end of the Olympics, he sank like a rock? Perhaps exercise is good, but competition is bad. Or the stopping of exercise is bad once you're used to it. I wonder if Phelps swims at all now that he's retired just for the exercise and the salubrious effects it has on the human mind.
Phelps is working to try and raise awareness of depression and other mental health issues by telling others about his own journey. "I'd like to make a difference," he says. "I'd like to be able to save a life if I can. You know for me that's more important than winning a gold medal. "The stuff that I'm doing now is very exciting. It's hard, it's challenging but it's fun for me. That's what drives me to get out of bed every morning."

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The first public forum for the 178th district Pennsylvania House race was held Thursday evening at Anchor Presbyterian Church in Wrightstown.
Incumbent Republican state Rep. Scott Petri has held the seat since 2002. He briefly sought candidacy for the 8th District Congressional seat and bowed out during the primary after Brian Fitzpatrick, the eventual primary winner and brother to incumbent Mike Fitzpatrick, entered the race.
On the Democratic side is Neale Dougherty, a political newcomer who grew up in Upper Makefield and is now a resident of Solebury. Dougherty serves on the New Hope-Solebury School Board and works as a commercial insurance consultant.
Dougherty opened, laying out a campaign based on increasing funding for K through 12 schools, environmental protection, strengthening the economy and addressing the heroin epidemic in Pennsylvania.
Petri's opening statement focused on his plan to create jobs and generate revenue by routing gas transmission pipelines along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and charging a fee for it. Petri is working on legislation to that end, but nothing has been voted on.
Because of the nature of the forum, with candidates given about 60 seconds apiece to answer questions with no rebuttal, several issues were intermingled including gerrymandering, the state budget and taxes.
Petri said he supports a plan that would establish an independent body to select people who would serve in the redistricting process. He noted that the 8th Congressional District is symmetrically drawn, encompassing the entirety of Bucks County and a sliver of Montgomery County, and the 178th District map keeps communities intact.
Dougherty clearly had more of an issue with the way districts are mapped, calling Pennsylvania "one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation." He pointed to Republicans holding the majority of seats that represent Bucks, even though Democrats have the registration advantage by about 11,000.
"Republicans have taken gerrymandering to the ideological extreme," he said.
Dougherty also blamed state legislators for the gridlock that caused a nine-month budget impasse last year.
"The damage from it is permanent and lasting," Dougherty said, noting that some school districts resorted to short-term borrowing and nonprofits had to drop employees or shut down entirely.
"At a minimum, they should be putting pressure on their party's leadership to compromise," Dougherty said. "We saw none of that … it was a national embarrassment."
Petri called it "a battle worth undertaking," and said that Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed tax increase would have "devastated" taxpayers.
"I don't believe there is dysfunction in Harrisburg," Petri said, which yielded some groans from the audience. "Sometimes, you have to stand up for what you believe in."
As for the state income tax, Petri touted Pennsylvania's uniformity clause for keeping a flat tax in which everybody pays the same percentage under their local system, though he said that he would possibly support a minimum threshold for low-income families.
Dougherty called the system "regressive," saying it hurts low-income earners more than those who earn higher wages.
"Harrisburg is fixated on saying, 'We didn't raise your taxes,' " he said, but argued that the system transfers the burden to local municipalities and school districts, which may have to raise local taxes.
Petri authored legislation that would lift Philadelphia's power of preemption on local income taxes. Under the current system, people who live in Bucks and work in Philadelphia are subject to the roughly 3.5-percent wage tax, none of which is sent back to the places they live.
Local officials have been pushing to have the legislation amended. Northampton, Petri said, is missing out on about $1 million in income tax funding.
Dougherty called this effort a "non-starter" and said, "It is unrealistic to think that we could get credit for those city wages."
Petri said that, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pushing to end the reciprocity agreement with Pennsylvania, this issue was made "even more critical" because Bucks municipalities could end up losing out on even more of their income tax base.
When asked about funding for Philadelphia schools, Dougherty said that he would support more funding, but schools in the 178th District are his main priority.
"Funding needs to be increased across the board in all districts," he said. "I will not sacrifice our tax dollars at our cost to benefit Philadelphia."
Petri said that Philadelphia schools receive 50 percent state funding, and others in Western Pennsylvania receive more than that, while districts like Council Rock receive much less support from the state.
"(Philadelphia's) administrative process is a disaster," Petri said. "They need their own funding."
On minimum wage, Dougherty said he supports a raise because the current rate, he believes, keeps people too close to the poverty line. He also believes that because many women hold minimum wage jobs, it could help close the pay gap.
Petri said that he believes in equal pay, but that he thinks the market solves the issue more than the law would.
Dougherty said that fracking can be a boon to the economy, but it must be regulated to protect the environment and there still has to be a push toward renewable resources. He also supports a 5-percent severance tax.
Petri said he supports fracking as a means of economic growth and reiterated his plan to build a pipeline along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, where the environment has already been disturbed.
In light of Solebury Township supervisors passing a resolution urging lawmakers to get gun control laws passed, candidates were asked whether local municipalities should make policy statements on the issue.
Petri said the state should not have a "patchwork" system of gun laws, where each municipality has different policies.
"It has to be a statewide initiative," he said, but did not give specifics on his own views on universal background checks, banning assault rifles or other issues discussed in the resolution.
Dougherty said he would support background check legislation in the state and a more comprehensive system for reporting lost or stolen firearms.
During the debate, issues like college tuition, police-community relations, the presidential race and the opioid epidemic were either briefly mentioned or left out entirely. While the candidates remained cordial, some audience members sparred with the moderator, believing their questions were not accurately asked or appropriately followed up.
There is not currently another debate scheduled for the candidates.
The 178th district is comprised of municipalities including New Hope, Northampton, Solebury, Upper Makefield and Wrightstown.


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In today's political climate, it seems important new stories break every day. It is also without much surprise that people are now more worried than ever by the frequent reports. As noted by story editor Nitsuh Abebe in April in The New York Times, the past year has seen the growth of a collective sense of political anxiety among Americans who were concerned by the outcome of the United States' 2016 presidential election.
"As the campaign entered its alarming final weeks, therapists reported widespread 'election anxiety,'" Abebe wrote. "After its conclusion, just 'Trump anxiety.'"
Considering the number of American students at McGill, 11.3 per cent of the entering class of 2016 alone, residual anxiety from the U.S. election has kept the campus on edge since last November. McGill also faced no shortage of its own controversial news stories, from reports of sexual violence among members of the SSMU leadership, to the resignation of Andrew Potter.
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"I think the news has impacted my life in a negative way," Elaidi said. "It makes me angry to see the world full of hate and ignorance, and while I think I've gotten numb to [negative stories] because such awful news is so frequent, [before 2016] it would cause me to get upset."
According to a 1997 study published by Dr. Graham C. L. Davey in Psychology Today, a person's underlying worries and anxieties can be exacerbated by watching negative reports. With the aid of social media, negative stories pertaining to McGill and the world seem to spread faster than ever.
"We asked each participant to tell us what their main worry was at the time, and we then asked them to think about this worry during a structured interview," Dr. Davey wrote. "We found that those people who had watched the negative news bulletin spent more time thinking and talking about their worry and were more likely to catastrophize their worry than other people."
While acknowledging the impact anxiety has on a person, U1 Arts student Damian Arteca believes paying attention to reports is nevertheless important, even if most of them are negative.
"It could become problematic if the state censored media [that it] deemed anxiety-causing, which [would result] in misinformed citizens," Arteca said. "Possible solutions may include trigger warnings, but I believe the end result should be overcoming anxiety."
Although it might seem impossible for some to not worry about alarming news events, there are solutions to the problem of news-related anxiety, too. First and foremost, both Dr. Davey and Arteca cite the importance of seeking medical help for anxiety and related disorders, if it affects one's mood at all times, or impedes one's ability to function on a daily basis. At McGill, students can seek help regarding anxiety and related conditions through McGill's Counselling and Mental Health Service.
Additionally, there are ways to limit time spent on potentially stress-causing websites, while still allowing oneself to stay informed. One tool to facilitate this digital escape is StayFocusd, a Google Chrome extension that enables its users to allocate the amount of time allowed on specific websites each day. This can help significantly cut down on mindless scrolling through news and social media sites, thus lowering users' levels of anxiety.
Looking for good news is also an option. If one wants to read about the highs rather than the lows, there are many resources on the internet that can help. For example, GoodNewsNetwork, which provides positive news stories, and Facebook groups like 'protect this wholesome content' can give students a break from negative news stories.
The past year has brought major world changes, and a new presidential era has threatened many people's outlook on the world, so it is understandable that people are more affected by breaking news. Nevertheless, there are a variety of avenues that media consumers can take to avoid letting news anxiety negatively affect their lives for the next four years and beyond; they can follow different avenues to not let it get the best of them.


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Professor, you have been entrusted this responsibility at a very crucial time when the University is in deep coma and is gasping for survival. In medical parlance, coma is a state of extreme unresponsiveness, in which an individual exhibits no voluntary movement or behavior. The founding fathers of this university modeled it after Harvard and Oxford, and dreamt that like Harvard and Oxford,it will also attain glory as one of the best in Nigeria, Africa and the World. But unfortunately, today, the university is not even ranked among the top 10 universities in the country.
Dear Professor, as you are aware that the academic standards of the university are declining day by day and the issue of cultism has assumed alarming proportions. The havoc being caused by violent cult activities has become a source of worry and concern to students, lectures, parents and the government. It is not that the situation is completely out of control; even today a lot can be done only if one has the determination and the will power to do it.
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You may have heard about microservices: the trendy new architecture that lets you ship features quickly. All you have to do is spend three years rebuilding your organizational structure and rewriting your existing code. Sounds promising, right?
It doesn't have to be done that way, though. In many ways microservices are more of a development methodology than an architecture: you implement a small feature in a separate server.
-That means:
- Your code is easier to understand and test, since it's a small server doing one single thing.
- You can release faster, since you're not tied to your existing large codebase and its release cycle.
- You can use a different technology stack if you want.
Once you've built that feature you need just enough new infrastructure to get it running, and then you can move on to the next feature. Over time you will end up with many services, and that will require more infrastructure. But you can add that incrementally as you learn more about your needs.
Let's build a microservice
A classic use case for having a separate server is using a different technology stack. Let's say your existing server is built in Python using Flask, and you want to use Node to write a particular endpoint of your website in JavaScript.
Step 1: implement the microservice
Implementing a simple Node server that does a single task is easy. Here's a "hello world" example that just returns some JSON:
var express = require('express'); var app = express(); app.get('/', function (req, res) { res.json({"hello": "world"}); }) app.listen(8080);
Your actual service will be more complicated, of course. Given it's only implementing one small feature it should still be pretty small.
Step 2: expose it to the world
Your existing Flask application is the public face of your website, and probably does some useful and necessary tasks like authenticating users. Instead of figuring out some complicated way of exposing your new service publicly and passing around authentication tokens, let's start with the easy solution.
Your Flask application will act as a proxy, sending requests to the Node service. That means users will be authenticated by the time they hit Node, and you don't have to worry about exposing Node directly to the outside world.
Here's what the code would look like in your Flask application:
import requests # HTTP client library from flask import Flask, jsonify app = Flask(__name__) # ... existing code here... @app.route("/hello") def hello(): # By this point we're already authenticated. result = requests.get("http://nodeserver:8080/").json() # Pass the JSON on to the browser. Alternatively could # render it to HTML if that's how your application works. return jsonify(result) if __name__ == '__main__': app.run()
Step 3: protect against slowness
If your new Node server starts being slow this will also impact your Flask application: the thread pool or process pool will be used up waiting for Node. To solve that we can add a timeout to the HTTP request:
node_response = requests.get("http://nodeserver:8080/", timeout=1.0) result = node_response.json()
And that's it: you've got the code for your microservice, and you've got code to access it from your main application.
Planning for the future
Now that you have your first microservice implemented, it's worth thinking about what additional functionality you'll need when you're running this microservice in production.
Problem #1: load balancing and discovery
Eventually you'll want to have multiple copies of the Node service running, and multiple microservices. How will services find each other? Do you need to start worrying about setting up a load balancer for each new microservice?
Problem #2: logs are no longer centralized
Until now you've had a single application, a single source of logs. You only needed to look in one place when you debugged a problem.
What happens now that you have multiple processes? You want the ability to see a trace of the logs, from both Flask and Node, for a specific user request that spans both processes. And the more services you the worse this problem will get.
Problem #3: malfunctioning services
You added timeouts to make your main application more robust against slowness. But this only helps somewhat. What happens if your broken out services start breaking in other ways, or some are running slow enough to cause timeouts to be hit consistently?
You want some way to automatically blacklist microservices that are causing problems, so that they don't impact your main application.
Problem #4: distributing information
In your centralized Flask application you know who the user is, and other relevant information needed to handle requests. How do you get this information to other services?
You can pass it through manually but that means you can't just pass the relevant JSON back and forth, you have to design an extendable way for passing attributes in general.
Introducing the Microservices Development Kit (MDK)
To solve all of these problems you can use the Microservices Development Kit (MDK), which is available in Javascript, Ruby, Python and Java.
- The MDK provides service discovery, by default using a SaaS, and client-side load balancing. Just register in the server and clients will be able to find the server automatically.
- The MDK allows you to trace logs across multiple processes, and view them in a centralized location, Datawire's Mission Control.
- The MDK includes a circuit breaker that will automatically blacklist malfunctioning nodes. Malfunctioning doesn't just mean having network issues, either: exceptions inside your code will also cause relevant nodes to be automatically blacklisted.
- The MDK supports encoding a session, including information like deadlines and user-specified properties, and then decoding it on the other side.
You can use the MDK with your existing frameworks and clients, but to make it easier to use we provide wrappers for commonly used libraries. In the following example we'll use the Flask and Express.js integrations.
Example: using the MDK
Here's what your application would need to do to use the MDK:
import logging import requests from flask import g, Flask, jsonify from mdk.flask import mdk_setup app = Flask(__name__) # ... existing code here... @app.route("/hello") def hello(): ssn = g.mdk_session # Set a 1-second deadline (which will be preserved in the distributed session): ssn.setDeadline(1.0) # Log something using the MDK: ssn.info("main", "This will get sent to Datawire Mission Control.") # Store the user on the session: ssn.setProperty("myapp:user_id", g.user.id) # Send a request to the microservice, using MDK discovery to find # its location: url = ssn.resolve("node-hello", "1.0") result = requests.get(url, timeout=ssn.getRemainingSeconds(), headers={"X-MDK-CONTEXT": ssn.externalize()}) return jsonify(result.json()) if __name__ == '__main__': # Hook up the MDK to the Flask application: mdk_setup(app) app.run()
The MDK actually includes a wrapper for the
requests library which would reduce boilerplate even more, but I didn't use it to make it clear you can still use the same client libraries you've always used. Similarly you can route your native logging, e.g. Python logging, to the MDK.
Here's what the Node server will look like:
var express = require('express'); var mdk_express = require('datawire_mdk_express'); // Register with MDK's service discovery: mdk_express.mdk.register("node-hello", "1.0", "http://myaddress:8080/") var app = express(); app.use(mdk_express.mdkSessionStart); app.get('/', function (req, res) { // Log to same MDK session as server: req.mdk_session.info("node", "Got request from server"); // Extract username from the MDK session: var user_id = req.mdk_session.getProperty("myapp:user_id"); res.json({"hello": "world"}); }) app.use(mdk_express.mdkErrorHandler); app.listen(8080);
And that's it! You've got service discovery, distributed logging (visible via Datawire Mission Control), circuit breakers, distributed sessions… all with minimal effort.
Microservices: start today!
As you can see, writing your first microservice is easy. You don't need a multi-year architecture plan, you don't need a huge amount of infrastructure; you just need enough to deploy and run your services. And using the MDK you can easily make your microservices more robust and easier to debug.
So don't wait; write your first microservice today!


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Osun State's Home Grown School Feeding programme has launched a new pilot to combat vitamin A deficiency in Nigerian schoolchildren at the same time as promoting the livelihoods of local farmers.
Over 4,000 pupils are currently being fed Orange Flesh Sweet Potatoes (OFSP) – a crop highly rich in vitamin A, as well as being popular among the children.
"I really enjoy the meals and I want to be eating it every day," commented six year old, Abdul Kadri, beneficiary of the programme.
Both Imperial College London's Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and the International Potato Centre (CIP) are supporting the OFSP inclusion in the programme, which is being implemented by Osun State. The pilot began at the start of 2015 and will continue until April, it is being carried out in eight local government areas of the state, and will eventually be expanded to 31.
Before the pilot's delivery, PCD and the CIP carried out a series of sensitization workshops informing parents, teachers, smallholder farmers and food vendors on the importance, benefits, and knowledge on how to grow and prepare the crop.
After these workshops, Risikat Ibrahim, a caterer who prepares the school meals said, "The preparation is easy, saves time and money".
The meals which include the potatoes are served to the child once a week, and are accompanied by other nutritious items, pottage, garnished sauce and cat fish.


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75-year-old actress
Priscilla Presley is a 75-year-old American actress and business woman, best known for her role on the television series Dallas.
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- Name: Priscilla Presley
- Occupation: actress, business woman
- Age: 75
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- 1978 - 1991: Dallas (TV): Jenna Wade Krebbs
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- Priscilla PresleyAMP™, | Rumors of Dallas reunion had the internet in a frenzy on Wednesday (June 3) as reports claimed that CBS confirmed a revival of the popular sitcom for 2021. Finally!


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Newsletter, April 2016
Spring arrives in the northern hemisphere! Here in England, the skies are still grey, and it's still cold, but soon it'll be warmer and brighter – and before long our busy KE summer season will be upon us.
Busy season already…
At this time of year, many of the people who work for KE are doing presentations and telling teachers, students and parents about KE. So far, we've been to… Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, (mainland) China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and the Philippines. Coming up… Poland, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore and New Zealand! We want our programmes to be as international as possible, and this is why we travel extensively to attract a wide range of students.
Applications are now coming in quite quickly. If you're thinking of applying, don't wait too long!
KE presentations
So what do we talk about when we give a presentation? Of course, we talk about KE programmes – we think they are pretty good and want people to hear about them! But we do also offer other talks of more general interest.
If Sam Yang (KE's Founder) is doing the presentation, he offers a choice between:
- The 8 characteristics of successful people. This is concise, engaging and has a real impact. It is very popular at all the schools he has presented to.
- The 7 habits of highly effective people, for teens. Sam has been certified by the FranklinCovey Institute to deliver this presentation, which is based on the best-selling book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Dr Steven Covey. The goal is to help teenagers become more independent and effective by following seven basic habits.
- An introduction to a career in investment banking. This is an inspirational careers talk, based on Sam's experience in Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.
Ben Yang and Jessica Yang may also deliver the first of these presentations.
Sometimes Peter Chapple, KE's Principal and Academic Director, gives presentations as well. He adopts a rather different approach, and offers a choice between three topics which are linked to the three types of course which KE offers. These are:
- Introduction to an academic subject. Peter chooses a subject completely different from any which we offer, with the aim of giving a flavour of what this type of course is like: the subject chosen is linguistics.
- Introduction to critical thinking (one of the options offered under 'Skills for learning'). We look at what critical thinking is all about, and how it differs, for example, from 'theory of knowledge'.
- Introduction to leadership. Here the presentation focuses on the 'hidden leader within', and how everyone can develop leadership skills, regardless of their personality type.
Visit to the Valley
Because the main focus of KE programmes is on university entry, students sometimes forget that all those who stay at UC Berkeley, just outside San Francisco, also go to Silicon Valley.
There are no signs saying 'Welcome to Silicon Valley'; it doesn't have any official status. So what is it exactly? The term 'Silicon Valley' was first used in the 1970s, and related to the 'silicon chip' which was being used extensively at that time. It basically covers the southern part of the San Francisco Bay area, and includes cities such as San Jose, Mountain View and Palo Alto. Within this area, you'll now find the headquarters of companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook, and about 250,000 people are now directly employed there in IT!
Our visit to Silicon Valley starts off at Stanford University, one of the leading universities in the USA, and a starting point for many of the big developments in IT over the past forty years or so. The campus itself is stunning! After that, we go to see two of the big companies in the Valley.
In 2015, we visited Google and Apple. Students were delighted to have the opportunity of going to the headquarters of two of the best known names in this field. In both cases, there was a tour and a presentation. On one occasion, the second visit was to Uber, the company which has had such a huge impact on urban travel. This was quite a different type of visit, but of particular interest to students interested in business.
The exact destinations for this year are still to be confirmed, but we can be sure that students will really appreciate the experience!
Planning for university: when should you start?
As you may know, KE offers programmes for two age groups: 14-16 and 16-18. Although the content of the teaching for the two groups does differ somewhat, the programmes are essentially the same for both. And so sometimes we're asked: isn't 14 a bit young?
The idea behind all our programmes is that we believe students should be preparing ahead. Even if university is still a long way off for 14 and 15-year-olds, there are certain skills which you should be practising early on: generic linguistic or thinking skills (see our courses in 'Skills for learning'); possibly leadership skills to boost confidence; certainly trying out subjects which might be an option further down the track. And staying on university campuses, meeting our student mentors and visiting other universities will give you a great insight into what life as a student will be like. Then we have practice in drafting personal statements or essays and handling interviews – also great skills to be working on, even if between now and 'the real thing' you may decide to say something rather different.
In certain educational systems, you need to make subject choices, roughly at the age of 16, but well before you come to the end of your secondary school career. These choices may well be relevant to what you eventually go on to study at university. If you have an idea what you would like to study at university, you will be in a better position to make subject choices which are right for you.
The point at which applications for university need to be made comes up very fast, and by that stage you really need to have sifted through the thousands of possibilities open to you at universities across the world. If by the age of 16 you've already got a feel for the country you'd like to study in, and perhaps the broad subject area, you're doing pretty well!


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Escape the heat and check out an independent flick.
Wednesday is opening night of Philadelphia's Independent Film Festival.
The fest runs for five days and features intriguing films and talented filmmakers from all over the world.
The event kicks off with a showing of Auf Wiedersehen: 'Til We Meet Again, a documentary that brings history and the present together. The curtain goes up at 6 p.m. at the Media Bureau (725 N 4th St. in Northen Liberties).
Also Wednesday American Jihadist will be showing at Ruba Hall (414 Green St.) at 8 p.m. It's the story of an African-American Muslim living in the ghettos of Washington, D.C.
Don't dip out before the credits, though. Stick around for the after party to enjoy some music, festival discussions, food, drinks and get to meet some of the actors and directors. Tickets are $15 and available at the Festival Box Office, Ruba Hall and online. Be ready for a possibly late night -- the party goes until 2 a.m.
More than 100 films will be showing through Sunday at locations in Northern Liberties -- Ruba Hall, Media Bureau, DollFace Studio, Café Treece and Random Tea Room. Click here to see where they are all located.
There will also be music, an animation festival, meet and greets and a closing awards ceremony.
For a full schedule and more information, check out the festival's website. You can buy tickets for any of the screenings or events at the box office at Media Bureau, online, or at the site of the event. Day passes, all access passes and shorts passes are also available.


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Today being the eve of my birthday, I decided that I'll do something different and actually do nothing. Right now you'd see me sitting alone in our dining room, staring blankly at our backyard, which I would usually just ignore but today I'm staring at in awe. It's totally not normal for me to decide on something like this, but every once in a while I have to – for the sake of breaking life's monotony and starting again with genuine excitement and appreciation.
From Valleys to Hills
My 26th year has not been easy. Looking back I imagine so many events that I wish hadn't taken place. But the good news is that they have, and I've lived through them. It would be a daunting task to write all of those events down, and frankly I wouldn't want to. Suffice it to say that I live to tell the tale, but only the first part; the tale goes on and now the resolution is slowly kicking in – but not in your fairy tale standards.
My 26th year has been rewarding. In terms that perhaps not everyone would agree with. Yes, blessings were abundant and favors were rampant all year round. But reality is, what the world considers to be blessings usually come and fade away. True blessings for me happen from within; they are positive changes brought forth by what has caused me grief and distress initially. Yes – they come in all forms and shapes, but the best ones are given by God in the most unusual ways, sometimes wrapped in undesirable trimmings.
Brought to Light
It is said quite often that we don't necessarily remember the things said and done, but we always remember how they made us feel. And those feelings are what would live on to become the story teller of our lives.
In my 26th year I felt that:
…The more impossible it is to get out of a difficult situation, the more possible it is for God to bring me out of it.
…Courage and boldness would take me far, but humility is what would make me enjoy the ride and keep my pace.
…People will always disappoint and hurt me, but if I choose to love them anyway, the reward is doubled.
…Rumors never produce anything healthy, regardless of the truth behind them.
…No matter how hard I try, I sometimes give in to negative thoughts; but just in case I do, I should never allow them to manifest into negative actions.
…Forgiveness could sometimes be a long process, but we should never stop until it is completed.
…Everything is desirable from afar, but only a few remain that way up close.
…I can never get rid of a bad habit unless I replace it with a healthy one.
…I should be wise in choosing people whom I allow to mold my life.
…I need to make a stand and choose one place to get planted and truly flourish.
The Best is yet to come
What could be the end of an arduous year could perhaps signify the beginning of a year filled with overflowing wisdom and definition. And I intend to welcome it with anticipation of God's many more promises coming to life.
Almighty God, please surprise me! I trust in Your goodness. In Jesus' Name.


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The Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics (SEBE) covers research areas and activities focusing on cultural sociology, environmental and resource economics, sport and event management, buying behavior, innovation, rural research and energy management.
SEBE manages the Social Science studies in Esbjerg: Bachelors and Master of Science programmes in Sociology, Business Economics and Administration, Sport and Event Management, Energy Management, and in cooperation with Aalborg University, the Master of Science educations in Environmental and Resource Management, and Risk and Safety Management.
The focal point of the research is the strategic and the applied research. We often cooperate with the surrounding society which is both expressed in form of research projects and educations. A great part of our externally financed research occurs through our two centers: Center for Rural Research (CLF) and Energy Management Research Center (EMC). We do also perform research for the Danish Maritime Authority.


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Tillis eyes 'divide and conquer' agenda
The fact that the Republican Party establishment rallied behind Thom Tillis in North Carolina's U.S. Senate primary might give voters the impression that he's a mainstream, center-right candidate. He's not.
Tillis has helped cut off access to medical care for struggling families; he opposes gay rights; he's helped impose ridiculous new voting restrictions; and he's curtailed reproductive rights while expanding opportunities to carry loaded guns in bars. Tillis also happens to be a climate denier who cheered the government shutdown and suggested lowering the federal minimum wage to zero.
This is the guy the GOP backed because his primary rivals were seen as too extreme. But to fully appreciate what Tillis brings to the table, consider this striking clip from Monday's edition of "Hardball with Chris Matthews."
Matthews aired that clip the day before the North Carolina primary. You can tell from the discussion how much that state race matters in national politics – only more so now that Tillis has won the Republican nomination outright.
For those who can't watch clips online, here's what Tillis told a group of voters in 2011:
"What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance. We have to show respect for that woman who has cerebral palsy and had no choice in her condition, that needs help and we should help. And we need to get those folks to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government and say, 'At some point you're on your own. We may end up taking care of those babies, but we're not taking care of you.'And we've got to start having that serious discussion. It won't happen next year. Wrong time, because it's going to be politically charged. One of the reasons why I may never run for another elected office is because some of these things may just get me railroaded out of town."
As Brian Beutler joked, the Republican "fuses all of the ugliest elements of conservative politics into one mustache-twiddling, Bond-villainesque soliloquy laying bare the GOP's 'divide and conquer' strategy to undermine the social safety net."
The GOP's "47 percent" problem cost them dearly a couple of years ago, and the issue only appears to be growing more serious.
Greg Sargent had a good take on this.
The "divide and conquer" line seems relevant. As Chris Matthews noted in his commentary on the video: "The goal here politically is to get the sick people to attack the poor people." A Tillis spokesman didn't answer my emailed request for clarification of his comments. […]There's no reason to doubt GOP suggestions that Tillis is the strongest challenger to Hagan, who of course has plenty of vulnerabilities of her own. But the general election battle has not been joined, and once it is, Dems may have more to work with in defining Tillis on terms favorable to them than is immediately apparent.
There is a certain irony to Tillis' rhetoric. Whenever Democrats suggest asking more from the very wealthy in the form of slightly higher taxes, Republicans aren't just apoplectic, they're also fairly specific in their condemnations: Democrats, they argue, are trying to pit Americans against each other in class warfare.
And yet, here we have a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate literally and explicitly arguing that people with power should "divide and conquer" struggling Americans who rely on public assistance. Tillis envisions an environment in which policymakers pit those in need against one another, in order to cut off benefits for those on the losing end of the fight.
This is Mitt Romney's 47-percent video on steroids. One wonders if some of these things may just get him railroaded out of town.


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I'm four or five years old, in a muddy place, dragging a huge piece of wood. There are no trees or houses around. Only me, sweating, as I struggle to drag that rough log, my palms burning, scraped raw by the wood. I sink into the mud up to my ankles but I have to keep tugging. I don't know why, but I have to. Let's leave this early memory of mine just as it is: I don't want to correct or invent things. I want to tell you how it was without changing anything.
So, I was dragging that piece of wood. And after hiding it or leaving it behind, I entered a large opening in the wall, closed off only by a black curtain swarming with flies. Now I'm in the dark room where we slept and where we ate bread and olives, bread and onions. We cooked only on Sundays. My mother is sewing in a corner, her eyes wide in silence. She never speaks, my mother. She either shouts or keeps quiet. Her heavy fall of black hair is matted with flies. My sister, sitting on the ground, stares at her from two dark slits buried in folds of fat. All her life, at least as long as their lives lasted, my sister tracked her constantly, staring at her that way. And if my mother went out — which happened rarely — she had to lock her in the toilet, because my sister wouldn't hear of being separated from her. Locked in that little room my sister would scream, tear her hair and bang her head against the wall until my mother came back, took her in her arms and silently stroked her.
For years I'd heard her scream like that without paying any attention to it, until one day, tired of dragging that wood, lying on the ground hearing her scream, I felt a kind of sweetness spreading through my body. A sweetness that then became shivers of pleasure, so that little by little, I began to hope each day that my mother would go out so that I could listen, ear pressed to the toilet door, and take pleasure from those screams.
When it happened, I would close my eyes and imagine that my sister was tearing her flesh, harming herself. And so, touching myself in the spot where pee-pee comes out, my hands urged on by the screams, I discovered a pleasure greater than that of eating freshly baked bread, or fruit.
My mother said that my sister Tina — 'the cross that God justly sent us because of your father's evil ways' — was twenty years old. But she was only as tall as me, and so fat that, if you could remove her head, she would look like the trunk that Nonno always kept locked. Nonno, who had been a seaman, was 'even more wicked than his son'. I had no idea what a seaman did. Tuzzu said they were men who lived on ships and went to sea ... but what was the sea?
Tina looked just like Nonno's trunk, and when I was bored I would close my eyes and lop off her head. Since she was twenty years old and female, all females at twenty must surely become like her, or like my mother. For males it was different: Tuzzu was tall and had no missing teeth like Tina; his were strong and white, like the summer sky when you get up early to bake bread. His father was like him too: vigorous, with teeth that shone like Tuzzu's when he laughed. He was always laughing, Tuzzu's father. Our mother never laughed, and this too must have been because she was a female. But even though she never laughed and had no teeth, I hoped to turn out like her; at least she was tall and her eyes were large and gentle, and she had black hair. Tina didn't even have hair: just a few thin strands that Mama combed out trying to cover the top of that egg.
The screams have stopped. Mama must be back, hushing Tina by stroking her head. Who knows if Mama too has discovered how much pleasure you can feel by touching yourself in that spot? And Tuzzu, I wonder if Tuzzu knows? He must be harvesting reeds.
The sun is high. I have to go look for him and ask him about this touching, and about the sea too. Will he still be there?
From The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza. Copyright 2008 by Giulio Einaudi. Copyright 2013 by Anne Milano Appel. Excerpted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


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York Creek once again hosted its annual Resident Appreciation Day much to the delight of the tenants and children.
|Welcome to York Creek Resident Appreciation Day
|York Creek Staff Welcomes You
|Alpine Township Fire Department was on hand
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|Free hot dogs, anyone?
|Fire Chief Dave Klomparens and kids getting showered
|A drenched fire chief with Community Policing Deputy Ryan Guernsey


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Hi Mark,
If you had ever bothered to do even the most cursory research about biodiesel production, you would have immediately found out that there is nothing special about making biodiesel at room temperature.
I do find it amusing that while you seem to think I know nothing about chemistry, and you know everything because of your two degrees in chemistry, you have based your whole claim about your wonderful "Room Temperature Procedure" because of something you seem to think I said in my instructions in the World Famous Dr Pepper Technique (Pat Pend)
For some reason you seem to think that I said that you have to do the standard method at 55C or the reaction will not proceed. Of course I never said anything of the sort. More importantly, while you continually tell everyone about your two amazing degrees in chemistry, you never even bothered to verify your claim that the standard method would not proceed at room temperature.
You seem to think this room temperature aspect is one of the two most important parts of your procedure and that the standard procedure requires heating, yet you never bothered to perform a simple 15 minute experiment to verify for yourself whether the standard method of producing biodiesel requires heating or not.
Different techniques for the production of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil
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Received 13 October 2009; revised 8 November 2009; accepted 20 November 2009; available online 1 December 2009
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Temperature has no detectable effect on the ultimate conversion to ester.
However, higher temperatures decrease the time required to reach maximum conversion ( Pinto et al 2005). Transesterification can be conducted at various temperatures ranging from room temperature to the boiling point of the alcohol employed (68o C in case of methanol) so that the reactor does not need to be pressurized (van Gerpen, 2005).
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Dr Mark You asked for my reference on drying alcohol, but I can't find where the question was. My reference is Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry , Longman (publishers) , by Arthur Vogel , 3rd edition. It's a legal proceedure here if done with an industrial alcohol distillers' license or done in a university.
No. This method was developed for use with liquid oil only.
Obviously if you are using lard you will have to melt it first. The point is that with this method, unlike with the Dr Pepper method, heat is not required to initate the reaction
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Method update:
One aspect of this method that I didn't like was the long clarification time - about a month between the generation of the raw material and its use in my car.
I'd always figured this is a problem that could be solved by just more vigorous bubbling - therefore increasing the rate of evaporation of the xs MeOH
So I got an air pump off EBay for about $80 with a 100W motor that blasted air at 80LPM, which resulted in more vigorous bubbling.
The result of this is that the bio was ready to use after a week, which makes things a whole lot easier for me.
Also, as I've become aware that this method uses about twice as much (apparently) catalyst as the Dr Pepper method, I'm going to attempt to optimise it.
If I can reduce the level of catalyst, that will cut a few cents off the cost and reduce the amount of solid waste generated. Stay tuned
REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CATALYST! Blimey that's radical. Sorry Mark I couldn't resist that little dig. Glad to hear it though. Maybe you could even try titrating your oil. I look forward to your results.
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Do you mean you finally realize that the HUGE glycerol layer you are producing because of the massive amount of KOH you use in the reaction is a big waste.If I can reduce the level of catalyst, that will cut a few cents off the cost and reduce the amount of solid waste generated. Stay tuned
PS you forgot to tell everyone about your degrees in chemistry
Dr Mark Are you still drying your methoxide solution prior to the transesterification reaction? Maybe drying with cement? Le Chatlier's principle would indicate one advantage to that in the increase in methoxide concentration in solution but making soaps bonded to a metal with a valence of 2 is not good. Calcium soap, magnesium soap would be difficult to remove from biodiesel product. In the case of drying with calcium oxide , calcium hydroxide would be soluble in methanol/ methoxide solution to a degree and would make calcium soaps , combining with free fatty acids present in used vegetable oil.


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Hi bees 🙂 I'm thinking about buying one and I don't know where to start! For any of you that did buy one, where did you get it and how did it work?? Please help 🙂 Thanks!
@MommaJenn28: I know a lot of people who bought the Sonoline B. I bought the angelsound one…it was $20 so 1/2 the price, easy to use. The Sonoline is more high tech is if want to keep track of heart rate #s.
Sonoline B http://www.clinicalguard.com/id/sonoline-b-handheld-pocket-fetal-doppler–p-174.html?kw={keyword}&gclid=CKeP0fvj27oCFStp7AodgEkAmQ $55
AngelSound http://www.ebay.com/itm/Homecare-Angelsounds-Fetal-Prenatal-Heart-Rate-Monitor-Doppler-3MHz-Pregnancy-A-/331063610121 $20
Really liked having one esp. if I has not seen the doc in a while or was nervous about something esp. before I felt the baby move like I do now.
I don't have one but I just want to caution you that if you do get one, don't freak out if you can't find the heartbeat! It is harder than you'd think. My doc used one on me for the first time at my 12 week appointment and it took her a good 3 minutes poking around to find the heartbeat and I wouldn't have even realized that is what it was when I heard it! It affirmed my decision not to get a doppler because I was worried I'd be unable to find a heartbeat via user error and freak myself out on a daily basis. 🙂
I know some people have/love them though!
I have a sonoline b and love it. think it was 40 dollars or so not too bad
I also have the sonoline B and also paid around $40. Best purchase! I have never had trouble finding the heartbeat. The first time at around 8 weeks it did take a couple of attemps but when you know your looking in the right place you get the swing of it easily. I totally recommend it!
Also at my 12w midwife appt she couldnt find it and I totally knew she was not low enough so I pointed to where I usually here it and boom!! no problems 😀
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We all read and talk about the wonderful benefits of laughing but never about crying. It seems we have forgotten that everything negative has something positive about it.
Crying surprisingly has quite a number of advantages, namely:
1. Without crying ,we would all go blind
Tears serve as lubricants to the eyes. A dry eye is probably a blind eye and a very itchy one.
2. There are toxins that we flush out when we cry
Toxins are obviously bad for our health and crying is a great way to detox.
3. Crying is a great way to relive stress
This is a personal observation. I always feel less stressed after a good cry.
4. Crying is also a great sleep medication
Apart from the occasional headache crying gives. It's always certain that sleep follows almost immediately after crying. If you can't sleep, beat yourself up, after crying you should sleep.
5. Crying helps you grieve
After every loss, or break up, or failure, cry. Lock yourself up in your room or in a shower and just pour it all out. Cry till you feel your tears are used up. This is good because you'll come to terms with your grieve. Crying helps you accept how you really feel and thus speed up the healing process.
6. Crying makes you feel better
Ever notice how after a good cry it's almost as if a huge weight has been taken off your shoulders? Yes. Crying does that. It sorta ends your suffering and let's you let a lot of things go.
7. Crying makes you appear vulnerable
This is a good thing. People relate more with vulnerable type of people. People will think your soft and approachable and want to confide in you.
8. Crying also helps you get away with a lot of things
I don't know about you but crying has gotten me out of a lot of funk. You can fake cry yourself out of a lot of hassles in life.
9. Crying makes you strong
Contrary to the popular belief, crying actually makes you strong. No one will think you're a sissy when you cry over something that hurt you. On the contrary, people find others who are unable to cry, pretty scary. Girls love guys who are not afraid to express their emotions and maybe shed a tear or two.
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Screenplay Junkie #3: Who the Hell is Justin Marks?
Adam Volk is a wannabe screenwriter trying desperately to break into the industry and cram his hack drivel down Hollywood's gaping maw. Each week he examines one aspect from the wonderfully demented world of screenwriting.
As an obsessive compulsive movie geek I'd like to think that I have some abstract sense as to what's going on when it comes to the wacky world of Hollywood screenwriting. After all, I read my monthly issue of Script and CS magazines, drool over the weekly Script Girl video updates, and pour through the daily rumours and ramblings on the interweb. Yet for all my attempts to try and stay on top of screenwriting news, one mysterious name seems to keep cropping over and over again: Justin Marks.
Yes, these days it seems I can't do a random Google search without seeing the guy's name mentioned in passing half a dozen times. I flip through an issue of Variety and there he is again. The very next day MTV.com is busy pimping out his latest script -– hell the guy even appeared on a panel at this year's Comic-Con! Yes, everywhere I look there's Justin fucking Marks! Just who the hell is this guy?
Well, as it turns out Marks has become the de facto go-to screenwriter when it comes to some of the biggest franchises in geekdom, inking major six figure deals with Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Rogue Pictures – and he's done it all without having a single script ever produced into a feature length film. So I decided to do a little digging to see what I could find out about the enigmatic Mr. Marks. For all the positive buzz about his screenplays the guy maintains the kind of low profile normally employed by Osama bin Laden and Howard Hughes during his crazy urine-collecting phase. From what little I could find about his past, it turns out that Marks started out as a production assistant on a few films, had his name attached to a couple of shorts and spec scripts, and was eventually discovered by the wife of legendary filmmaker and geek hero David Goyer. So just who is Justin Marks?
Well, about the only thing we do know about him is that he's written a hell of a lot screenplays, so let's start there. First up for Marks is the soon-to-be-released Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Based on the classic 90s arcade brawler (and wisely washing its hands of the original Jean-Claude van Damme adaptation), the film is being produced by 20th Century Fox, is directed by action virtuoso Andrzej Bartkowiak and is slated for a release in early 2009. The film stars Smallville actress Kristin Kreuk as femme fatale ass-kicker Chun-Li, along with co-stars Neal McDonough, Chris Klein, Michael Clarke Duncan and…ugggg….Black Eyed Peas singer Taboo.
Okay, so in terms of a first produced feature it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Marks' abilities (or judgement in taking on new projects). After all, most fans are still left with a distinctive jizz-like taste in their mouths after the last time Street Fighter appeared on the big screen. Also, I as much as I loved rocking SF: II on my Super NES back in the day, I've never felt that the game had all that much source material to draw on. I mean, essentially it's just a bunch of super-powered freaks beating the living shit out of each other and aside from the characters pulling fire balls and energy blasts out of their asses and occasionally yelling "Hadouken!", the game's story isn't exactly Citizen Kane. That being said, I'm willing to give Marks the benefit of the doubt. After all, writing a video game adaptation is always going to be an uphill battle (thank you Uwe Boll), so I'll hold off before I pass judgment on it… even though deep down I suspect the film is going to reek worse than Blanka after a night of binging on tequila fizzies and Brazilian prostitutes.
Marks may have better luck with his script for another 20th Century Fox film — Voltron: Defender of the Universe. Yes, Hollywood seems to be in the early stages of glutting itself on a wave of 80s cartoon nostalgia, which has obviously worked out for Marks as he was brought on once again to pen an adaptation. Personally, I don't remember much about the original cartoon series other than crapping myself as a kid watching a bunch of giant lion robots blow shit up in space. The film however, sounds like a radical departure from the campy overtones of the cartoon series and is described as a "a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico" following the exploits of "five ragtag survivors of an alien attack [who] band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders." The film also seems to be getting some serious traction under it, particularly now that indie director Max Makowski has been brought on board. Even more promising though is that Latino Review – respectable fanboy critics in their own right – gave Marks script a solid A+ rating, declaring that it is a "fucking masterpiece". Will it live up to the hype? Only time will tell.
As if one 80s cartoon franchise adaptation wasn't enough, Marks has also been brought on by Warner Bros. to pen a script for He-Man entitled Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe. Again, Latino Review called the script a "fanboy masterpiece" and said the film is a dark PG-13 style sword and sandal blend of fantasy and science fiction which they described as "LORD OF THE RINGS meets THE MATRIX and a little BATMAN BEGINS thrown in for good measure". Marks also elaborated on the script in an interview with ToyFare magazine which makes the film sound even more promising. Currently, there's no director or cast attached to the project, although Joel Silver's name has been bandied about along with Brad Pitt and Gerard Butler looking to fill Prince Adam's loin cloth. If Marks' script is any indication though, the flick sounds like it could be pretty damn cool — at least, as long as they don't include that little floating fucker Orko.
Next up for Marks is the superhero action-flick Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max. Out of all Marks' many screenplays, I've got to say this is one that has the fanboy in me desperately hoping it: (a) gets made and (b) doesn't get horribly mauled by Hollywood in the process. The script started out as a spec of sorts with David Goyer and Warner Bros. recently helping the project get some traction. The script is also a radical departure from most superhero films in that it introduces lesser known DC hero the Green Arrow (a.k.a. billionaire-archer Oliver Queen). Rather than follow his origin story and early adventures however, Super Max skips the foreplay and jumps straight into the action as the Green Arrow is framed for a crime he didn't commit and incarcerated in a prison housing the DC Universe's most dangerous super-powered villains. Queen must then find a way to escape and clear his good name in the process. If that doesn't have the comic book fanboy in you creaming your pants in excitement –- brother, nothing will.
If Marks hasn't been busy enough over the past year, Rogue Pictures has also brought him on board to write an adaptation of Hack/Slash, the popular Devils Due comic book series created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli. The series follows protagonist Cassie Hack in her quest to hunt down homicidal maniacs and serial killers, known as "slashers". Marks' version reportedly contains heavy doses of comedy and horror with newcomer Todd Lincoln directing and Transformers hottie Megan Fox allegedly in talks to play the lead. Despite my comic geek background, I'm ashamed to say I haven't actually read the series before, but the premise of a hot chick hunting down serial killers does sound pretty damn cool. Run, Dexter, run!!!!
Finally, Marks recently announced that he's shopping around an untitled big-budget SF script which he describes as thematically similar to Children of Men. Marks had this to say about the project: "It deals with man's exploration of the universe. I grew up on 2001, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 even, are movies that I kind of love, but they have kind of steered science fiction towards horror. I want to bring the genre of space travel back to contemporary science fiction. The movie starts with a murder in zero gravity and goes from there." Again, it sounds like it could be a pretty cool flick and with Marks' current reputation there's a damn good chance someone will snatch it up.
So who is Justin Marks? Well if the above films are any indication, he may just be the last great fanboy hope when it comes to turning classic geek franchises into cinematic gold.


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Also, who all likes the name? Who doesn't? Suggestions for a better one?