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Release Date:
- September 14, 2012 - Toronto
DVD: February 12, 2013
1h 30m | Drama, Romance
Adib Abdel Kareem (Alexander Siddig) did the impossible. He escaped Syria before the Arab Spring began to take hold, and built himself the perfect life in Toronto. With a wife and two grown daughters, no one would have suspected that he came from such a haunted past. But his new life did not come without consequences, as Adib had to leave the love of his life, Fatima (Marisa Tomei), behind.
When his eldest daughter, Muna, suddenly disappears in Damascus, he knows he is the only one who can save her, forcing him to return to his homeland again. Once in Syria, he enlists the help of Fatima and a Canadian Consular official (Joshua Jackson). Although he seems helpful at first, the man turns out to know more about the situation than he initially lets on.
With the odds stacked against him, Adib must now face his sordid past as a young military policeman—putting everything on the line, he risks his life for the sole purpose of trying to save his daughter's.
|Ruba Nadda
|Alliance Films
|Daniel Iron, Lance Samuels
|Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei, Joshua Jackson, Saad Siddiqui
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That is the word Anik Cepeda, head coach of the women's tennis team, used to describe the spring season. But according to her, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
"Every season is different. It's unpredictable – and in some ways – that's what makes it exciting," said Cepeda. "I really like this group in particular because I think they are 'yes' people. They're really enthusiastic about everything we've been doing in our training."
The team will be tested early on this year when they travel to face Skidmore on Saturday. Last fall, the Ephs swept the Thoroughbreds in doubles when Williams hosted the annual Lindsay Morehouse Invitational and went 5-4 in singles. However, Cepeda remains cautious.
"Some of our facilities aren't there, we don't have the field house so we've had to adjust. Add an extra day at Bennington and less days hitting," she commented. "There are a lot of new pairings for doubles, and we haven't even had match yet."
Cepeda's prudence is not unwarranted. Four of Williams' NESCAC opponents are ranked in the top eight nationally by the ITA, with perennial rival Amherst occupying the third spot. Williams is ranked fifth, but Cepeda feels that the "unpredictability" of the spring has not weighed them down.
"They've been great," she asserted. "I haven't heard any complaints. They haven't been blaming anybody for it, which I think is a really big piece to it. There's been a lot of 'yes' and enthusiasm, and I think that's going to be our strength."
After playing Skidmore this weekend, the Ephs will take a break from the chilly Williamstown weather to take their annual spring break trip to California. But lineup of opponents is nowhere near relaxing – Williams will be playing some of the top teams in the country, including formerly no. 1 ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and no. 4 Pomona-Pitzer, a team that has risen rapidly through the rankings this season.
While this spring season may not look easy from the onset, the team is nowhere near inexperienced. All seven players from last fall are returning and will be joined by junior Sarah Yang from Santa Barbara, California. In addition, the doubles team of senior co-captain Leah Bush and junior Chloe Henderson snagged the no. 8 national ranking thanks to a successful fall campaign.
Even so, the team has big shoes to fill from the success the Ephs saw in 2018. Last year, Williams captured not only the NCAA doubles title but seven individual ITA honors as well. It is essential to note, however, that four of the seven awardees are returning players: Bush, Henderson, Rachel Cross '21, and Emily Zhang '20. It's no wonder Cepeda can't wait to watch them play again:
"It's more than just playing; playing is easy, you get out there and hit a ball a couple of times. Competing is problem solving, a willingness to be out there for a long time, to put yourself in positions on the court that don't feel like your A game. That's what I enjoy the most: looking across and seeing that all six courts are problem solving and doing whatever they can to figure out a win."
Cepeda's wish will be granted on Saturday at Skidmore when the first ball of the season is served at 1:00 PM.


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Tacos, burritos, and quesadillas are such easy meal ideas. Thank goodness they exist! As long as you have veggies in your fridge, beans in your pantry, and tortillas wherever you keep them, then you're good to go. We like to stock up on tortillas when they're on sale and toss them in the freezer. My only qualm with tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and the like, is that the tortillas can be kinda expensive!
I was trying to clean out the fridge with this meal a little bit, so there are lots of goodies in here. I'm realizing that coleslaw features a lot in our meals on the blog but truth be told we don't actually eat it all that much. Funny!
Mmmm roasted sweet potatoes are just awesome! They're truly the perfect addition to any meal or jumping off point. We've used roasted sweet potatoes a couple times in the past. For example, here and here. I feel like there're probably more but I cannot remember :S
These are kinda big tacos because we used large tortillas but you could easily make them more manageable by using small tortillas.
Sweet Potato, Pepper, Kale, and Chickpea Tacos
Ingredients for Taco Filling
6-8 large tortillas
1 tbsp + 2 tsp olive oil
1-2 sweet potatoes, cubed
2 bell peppers, sliced thinly
1 sweet onion, chopped or thinly sliced
½ cup kale, finely chopped
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 tsp salt
1 ½ tsp pepper
1 tsp paprika
½ tsp cumin
Ingredients for Coleslaw
½ bag of coleslaw
3 heaping tbsp of Veganaise
1 tbsp of lemon juice (or more), preferably fresh
salt, pepper
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place chopped sweet potatoes in a bowl and coat with 1 tbsp olive oil plus salt and pepper. Place in preheated oven and roast for 25-30 mins. But just keep an eye on them because truth be told I can't remember the exact timing. They should be soft and golden-looking. You could always place the sweet potatoes in the oven first and then proceed to prep the rest of the ingredients.
Heat pan over medium heat. Once heated, add olive oil to pan followed by onion. Allow onion to brown lightly, about 5-6 mins. Add peppers and cook for 4-5 mins then add chickpeas and kale, season with salt, pepper, and spices. Stir all the ingredients and cook for another minute or two. The sweet potatoes might be done at this time and then that would be great timing. If they're not just keep the pan on low heat until they are done.
Mix the ingredients for the coleslaw together in a medium-sized bowl until everything is evenly coated.
To warm the tortillas you could place them in the microwave with a damp cloth overtop or if you have a Panini press, like us, then you can pop them in there for a few seconds – not too long or they'll be too crisp.
Assemble your tacos, add any toppings you like, and dig in!


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Our twins were born 9 weeks premature and weighed just 3 pounds each. We had many worry-filled nights as the twins spent their first weeks of life in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. But finally, after 28 days, we were able to bring them home with us.
The next few years were filled with a whirlwind of changes and emotions, but we prayed all along that we would be able to adopt these children. We grew so attached to them that the very thought of them ever leaving was saddening. The relationship with their birth mother wasn't always easy, but in the end, she blessed us with permission to adopt them. And now, we are able to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of finalizing the adoption.
We feel so fortunate to have these wonderful children. Words cannot express how much they have enriched our lives. The twins are now very active 5-year-olds, enjoying wonderful, carefree, and loving lives. They are surrounded by family who love them unconditionally. I won't say that there were no emotional ups and downs in fostering, but it was all worthwhile in the end.


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First Take: Twitter shares take a dive
SAN FRANCISCO — The six-month anniversary of Twitter's IPO is a far cry from the stock's cheery debut in New York.
On Tuesday, shares nosedived 18%, to $31.85 a share.
With the IPO's initial sale lock-ups now expired, and more insiders and employees free to sell their shares, it's telling that the company and its lead investment bankers at Goldman Sachs haven't yet pursued a secondary offering of stock.
By not doing so, the company departed from the practice of other Internet firms that went public in the last three years, including LinkedIn, Zynga and Facebook.
Each of those companies floated a few million or so more shares into the public markets in the wake of their respective IPOs — raising millions of dollars more for the companies' balance sheets and generating more fees for their bankers.
As reggae legend Bob Marley once sang, "Strike the hammer while the iron is hot."
Yet even the best stock brokers at Goldman, Morgan Stanley or JPMorgan would have a tough time squeezing professional money managers into buying more Twitter shares while the stock's public performance is lagging the returns of the Nasdaq Composite Index.
Twitter shares are down almost 30% in six months of public trading, while the Nasdaq is up a respectable 5% during that time.
While the pros got Twitter IPO shares for $26 each on Nov. 6, the stock opened trading in the public markets the next morning at $45.10 a share.
By the end of 2013, it was trading above $70 a share, giving a profitless company a bubble-like valuation of more than $60 billion.
On Tuesday, though, the shares were trading at record lows, valuing Twitter at about $18 billion.
That means any public-market investor who's bought and held Twitter is now either under water, at best, or getting slaughtered, at worst.
Even without a secondary offering, millions more Twitter shares will be coming onto the market now that lock-up expirations have begun.
That additional dilution may mean even more pain for Twitter shareholders in the weeks or months ahead.
John Shinal has covered tech and financial markets for more than 15 years at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the San Francisco Chronicle, Dow Jones MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal Digital Network and others.


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Thanks to hibec, here is the interview:
Snabba Cash gave him a Guldbagge (Swedish movie award), respect on the street and a golden ticket to the dream factory. Joel Kinnaman lives the dream. King's Rebecca Åhlund meets the Hollywood favorite to talk about his entourage-life, the very hyped sequel to Snabba Cash and his 32 years in daily therapy.
When we met for the first time, Joel had just eaten five hard-boiled eggs. In a freaking hot studio in Hammarby sjöstad, with the autumn sun sipping through the window he was photographed for KING Magazine. He's sitting on a high stool while the assistant is holding up an umbrella to keep back the sunlight. Joel looks patient. He's relaxed, pleased and not at all sweaty, even tho he is wearing a much to hot designer suit. The reason for the photo shoot, and this article, is first and foremost the Sweden-premiere of The Darkest Hour, an american sci fi-movie with Joel in a supporting role as a Swedish, mean businessman in the middle of an alien invasion.
– It's no carrying role, but I wanted to work with Emilie Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby, because I like what they've done before. I mostly just walk around being scared and too afraid to do anything. It's interesting to see how people like him react in a disaster situation. My character is constantly panicked during the entire movie.
When the photo shoot is done, we leave the studio in a Audi A7 where you basically have to lie down. While on the road we listen a Lil Wayne song about pussy, money and weed. Five hard boiled eggs apparently didn't get Joel very far. While in the restaurant the staff quickly switch from very nice to extremely nice when they realize it's JW from Snabba Cash that wants to order fish and a Loka (sparkly water) for lunch. We sit down, put our phones on the table (they're on mute of course) and Joel stick a piece of nicotine chewing gum on the table. He had just stopped smoking.
– There's no point in have an addiction that's only about suppressing abstinence. I seem to miss that "addiction-gene", I mean, I've been a bartender and even if I've been drinking a lot for longer periods I've always been able to stop. It's never been difficult to break bad habits for me.
When we meet, he has a couple of days off from the filming of Snabba Cash II. The new movie is directed by Babak Najafi, who've previously directed the Guldbagge-winning movie Sebbe. The first Snabba Cash movie didn't exactly follow the first book, and the second movie won't follow the second book (Aldrig fucka upp. Eng: "Never fuck up") either. Joel describes the new movie as harder. More violence, the character go trough harder stuff and the desperation grows stronger.
Poor JW, you can't help liking that character.
– Yeah, he is very sympathetic. He's missing so much in himself and he has such bad self esteem and a lot of unhealed wounds. That makes him do all kinds of stuff…But he has a good heart.
That's exactly what if thought about your other characters. They've been kind of sketchy but they've always had a good heart.
– I don't like to divide good and evil. No one is born evil, it's dangerous to go around demonizing people. Bad actions get worse if you see that it's a good person who acted on them.
JW didn't just give him a Guldbagge for best male role, more friend requests on facebook and hotter party invitations, but also a ticket to Hollywood and what looks like a beaming acting career. He has already acted in several movies in USA, and a large role in the tv-series The Killing.
Snabba Cash changed your life, you could say. What's the biggest difference from two years ago?
– It's a lot more unstructured now. I have my apartment in Stockholm, but when I'm finished with this movie I'm going back to USA. I don't live anywhere. And it's a lot bigger there, of course. In Sweden you film in houses, that are already there, but in america they can spend weeks building a city or prepare for a single fight scene. It's different in Sweden and with Snabba Cash. No fuss, just a small team working together, like a family.
Are you abandoning Sweden after this?
– Absolutely not. My plan is to keep my apartment here, and come back to Sweden for a couple of months every year.
Being an actor is of course different in USA. Joel Kinnaman Inc employs about six agents; three movie agents and three for tv, one manager, a managers assistant, a publicist, a business manager and a lawyer. I'm a typical swede, so I of course associate these people as "his people", but Joel seem to genuine like them.
– I don't feel any pressure from them. The day I want to do theater just to get inspiration and evolve, they will think it's just fine. If we didn't understand each other we would never be able to work together.
How much Entourage is the life in LA?
– Haha, maybe 25%? Weird meetings, parties, it's all there, but it all depends how you relate to it. I'm quite skeptical and try take everything with a bit of humor. Like, it is what it is. I'd rather go to a nice place where they play good music than to the party Perez Hilton think is happening just because you get a free pair of sun glasses.
Daniél Espinosa, who directed the first part of Snabba Cash, has just made his Hollywood debut as director for the movie Safe House with Denzel Washington. Espinosa managed to give Joel a supporting role. So now he's acting with one of his biggest idols.
– I was sitting in my trailer, daydreaming about what our first meeting would be like. How I would sit and listen to old soul music and Denzel would walk by and be like: "Hey, aren't you that Swedish kid? You listen to this shit? This is good shit!" and I would say: "Oh man, you've been such a huge inspiration. I watched Malcom X and you got me so confused, because at dinner I saw devils everywhere!"
(To get this you need to know that in the movies Malcom X calls white people "devils", and the people around the dinner table in the Kinnaman house were, that's right, white people. There for: "devils".)
– He's not a social person, Denzel. He's famous for not talking to anyone, barely the director. The day after I, Daniél and Denzel got some time for our selfs and Daniél said something like "Joel is your biggest fan" and Denzel smiled and I started with "Oh man, you've been such a huge inspiration. I watched Malcom X and you got me so confused…" But then his security guard called him and he walked away and all I got to say was that he got me confused. It was all completely wrong.
Now he's chewing nicotine chewing gum again. I don't know if it's the one he put on the table or if it's a new one.
So are you rich now?
– I don't even tell my closest friends how much I make. But I get by.
Do you fly business if you have to pay for yourself?
I have the miles so I can often upgrade. But yes, I fly business on the long flights. You can't sit in the back when you're 6.2 if you fly to LA seven times a year.
He has finished his dinner, taken a phone call ("Sho, I'm doing an interview. No, you can't come over, I just told you I'm doing an interview.") and suddenly realizes he's in a hurry to catch the Göteborg train. I let him leave and pay the check. The staff is still happy about getting to serve Mr. Kinnaman.
Joel Kinnaman is a laid back and nice guy. I saw him at Way Out West this summer; girls were watching him, giggling while Joel was standing (he looks like he's leaning back a bit even when he stands up straight) with a group of friends talking and goofing off. maybe they were talking about about gangster stuff. The police claims that they almost always find a book by Jens Lapidus when they search criminals houses.
There's something special about Joel. Sometimes he looks just fine and happy, and sometimes he looks like he could explode any second. Maybe that's what they call charisma? When I talk to him he has his guard up, but he tells me that's he doesn't really like walking around town by himself anymore. It can get chaotic when Sweden's own Hollywood star comes walking.
A couple of days later we meet up at his apartment in Södermalm. It's white with dark wood and a couch big enough to live in. We listen to Pussy, money, weed again and he picks up a Polly (Swedish candy) and some dust off the floor.
– I'm really sorry about how this place looks.
He's wearing a pair of baggy Reebok shorts and a Hoodie. And if he wasn't wearing a pair of Birken-Stock loafers, this would probably be a typical outfit for Holder in The Killing. It's soon time for him to get back to Vancouver to shoot the second series of the thriller drama. The Killing has put Joel in a good position in the american market.
Yet there were some people complaining about your accent in The Killing.
– Swedes are very sensitive when it comes to that. But I'm my own biggest critic and wanted everything to be perfect. I asked to listen to what I said so I could change anything I didn't like, but the production didn't let me. They thought everything was perfect so they didn't let me listen. I'm irritate about two lines in the first episode and one in the third, they're not a hundred percent. Other than that, it's all perfect.
And that's not weird at all. Since he had an american dad Joel learnt both English and Swedish at the same time, went to an English speaking kindergarten and spent some time in Texas as a exchange student.
-I don't know if many knows that I'm Swedish. USA is such a young nation. People say "I'm German" if their grandmothers grandfather is from Germany. If you say you're from Sweden it could just as well mean your grandfather father spoke Swedish. Everyone's and immigrant.
Joel grew up in Stockholm with five sisters. His father worked as a computer consult and his mother as a psychotherapist.
Oh, you went to therapy?
– Haha yeah, at my mom's, every night for 32 years! Na, but we talked about psychological things. Things that could be good to think about while acting. I was a pretty anxious teen, but who isn't. She was great to have around then. I want to go to therpy sometime, it's just that I'm really happy right now.
After his first acting job as Lina Englunds little brother in the 80's series Storstad (Bigtown), Joel didn't give acting another thought. He became a troublemaker in High School cut class and got into fights. He says he hated it.
– It was really hard. Either someone was out to get you, or you were out to get someone else and then you had to fight them if they came any where near you. The secondary school at Södra Latin was calmer, but Joel was "too mature to study" and only went part time and graduated without final grades. After that he started to work in a bar as a bartender.
– You get streetsmart pretty fast, but it's not really a healthy environment.
After that he swept rooftops in Oslo, worked at a beer-factory, got himself a job as a bar manager in the French alps (which was catastrophic) and went to Asia. The inspiration to act he mostly got from his bigger sister Melinda. She was a success in the movie "Mitt liv som hund" ("My life as a dog") when Joel was five. She is one o his biggest inspirations today. What made him want to act was also his friend Gustaf Skarsgård, who went to acting school when Joel got home from Laos. He decided to apply to the school.
– I was so happy that I got into the school that I laid flat down in the street. I don't know why, but I got up just in time to not get hit by a car.
And instead of getting run over, he became one of Sweden's hottest actors. Hot, by the way. Joel Kinnaman is single, and this may sound like an understatement, but some girls think he looks just fine. In the extremely empty Flashback-thread (Swedish forum) about Joel you can read comment like: "Who gives a shit if he looks good, he's an awesome actor!".
Do you know what I mean?
– This thing about how I look..It kinda feels like The Emperor's New Clothes, like now I'm supposed to be hot and it get's all hyped up. I feel good about myself, and I guess it's good that people think I look okay if they're gonna watch a whole movie with me.
But you have to get a couple of unusual proposals?
– Actually no. Some people want to take pictures, and that's about it.
Ah, a reluctant hunk.
– It's all about choices. If you get caught up in that, that's how people will see you. I've said no to that. It's easy to make yourself ugly in movies. Yeah! That's what I'm gonna do! Make an ugly movie.
You've said that you play parts that play parts.
– Everybody plays parts, I think, all the time. It depends on who you'r dealing with and who you meet. You invent yourself every time.
But when do you fell most like your self?
– With my family and close friends, I guess…But I can feel really comfortable at locations too, when I'm doing my job. It's almost like meditation. You get to some sort of deep within yourself, even if it's in front of an audience. I think I feel the most present then.
He's eating knäckebröd (hard bread) with senapssill (mustard herring) and asks me if I want some tea. He switches the music again. He mostly listens to 90's Hip Hop, dancehall, and old soul. And he likes to dance. He says he doesn't get out that much, be when he does, he gets photographed a lot, he says. Later the same day he's going to Raija in Vasastan (part of Stockholm) to buy some old Indian cabinet. He wants to get out of the "just moved in"-mode he's been in for the last three years. I have to hold my self from writing what a bachelor pad this look like, but it is. The bachelor switches to another song and say that "this is the song about my life". Then we listen to Fashawn rap about being a "Samsonite Man".
– I like it a lot. Just being. But it has it's price. I have a hard time landing and it feels like I'm always on the run. But then again, I'm starting to make myself feel more like home when I'm away. I live in apartments instead of hotels, put up some posters and buy food to cook.
Do you cook a lot of food?
-Hm, not for myself. Most salad and a piece of steak. But when I'm in a relationship I cook a lot.
Why did you eat five hard boiled eggs before we met last time?
– There was nothing else healthy to eat! Only bread.
On his counter stands a jar of protein powder and he gives me a recipe of a smoothie. He doesn't know that I'm probably the only person in Sweden who doesn't get what's so great about smoothies. We talk about tattoos. On his right arm he has a half-ripped off FTW-tattoo. "It's for the movie" he says. I guess JW deiced to "fuck the world" while in prison. Above that there's a real tattoo. A nice Shakespeare quote in Joel's own hand writing. On the inside of the same arm there's "Ett liv" ("One Life") in old school handwriting. On the other arm there's a cpver up of some old tribal tattoo, all done by Bleckan at Salong Betong.
Before we say goodbye Joel changes his clothes. He even changes his pants two time because the outfit "matched too much" the first time. He chooses a pair out of his thirty pairs of sneakers.
Where are you living in two years?
– I'm living in New York and doing most of my work in America. But I'll go home for a couple of months a year.
And in five years?
– By then I've directed my first movie.
You've said that you want a lot of kids.
– I do! I got that from my own family. We were a big family with a lot of friends. It makes me happy, it's what I want. But right now…I want to be a good father. And I need to find me a babymama.
In the hallway there's two black suitcases. There about to get packed again. When he got home from Vancouver his things, his life, was all packed in to 8 suitcases.Maybe he can leave some of them in New York next time. But after all, home is where you boil your eggs.
ebony beard Says:
May 25th, 2015 at 8:04 pm
I just love this guy I had a lot of assumptions about joel after reading this it seems like I hit him on the nose
PS I would love to see u other than in my dreams


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Update: To add fuel to the fire, see this post at Failed Messiah. If all the judge gives this person is house arrest with Yeshiva privileges, what recourse is left to fight the problem of tznius patrols.
I don't often get into these debates with others, but this post truly makes me cringe. I am glad everyone is finally speaking up. All the Orthodox rabbinic organizations, RCA (their statement will be ready soon), Agudat Israel, and IRF (I don't want to here comments about whether it is Orthodox or not), are making statements condemning religious extremist violence in Beit Shemesh. The Belzer Rebbe also alluded to the violence according to this piece. Yet, I wonder if perhaps it is another case of too little, too late. Religious violence in Israel has been there for years. And sure, for every stone thrower, there is a Rabbi who says it is not appropriate. Yet, you only hear about that years later. And even in this, while all the organizations are talking, who is to say the zealots are listening.
Now, don't get me wrong, talk we must, but let's not get carried away and make declarations like R. Adlerstein is, that this is the beginning of an "Charedi Spring." I find the usurping of that term preposterous, as while I hope this event does cause a change, to equate it with what is going on in the rest of the Middle East is absurd. Besides, the Arab Spring upon which this is predicated upon is, by many accounts, turning into an Islamic winter.
To me, the violence should have been condemned and punished years ago. But when there was public silence against protesting Shabbat desecrators, all it did was embolden some of them to take their violence to another level. And to top it off, unless one of their grand Rebbes comes out and says the violence is not allowed, which most likely will not happen because of their own fear of their followers, I don't see much in the way of curtailing it. And should the Israeli government step in and arrest some of the more egregious men who are attacking and cursing young girls, I have a hard time believing the more mainstream Haredi world won't be up in arms to an extent.
To conclude, we should all hope that this violence will end as it is making us all look bad as well as proving Hillary Clinton correct to an extent when she sparked her own controversy with her comments about gender bias in Israel. To outsiders, it is no different, even if on the inside we can try to find the subtleties. I pray that these men find some seichel (intelligence) and stop this disgusting display of zealotry in a time when we need to be banding together as one nation.
Welcoming The Charedi Spring | Cross-Currents.
Welcoming The Charedi Spring
The Charedi Spring may have finally arrived. Eight year old Naama Margolese may do for Israel what a Tunisian street vendor did for the Arab world. The wave of revulsion for the behavior of the extremists, if sustained and channeled into focused police work, may release the Israeli public – both secular and charedi – from the tyranny of fanatics whose thuggery and primitivism ran unchecked in Meah Shearim for years.
The price we pay for it is a massive chilul Hashem, as hundreds of millions of people equate Torah with Taliban. The only partial antidote is for the genuine Orthodox world to do what Muslims do not do to their extremists. We must condemn with passion, conviction and without qualification.
As the numbers of Meah Shearim-grown extremists increased, they sought space in other communities. (It was not only a matter of space. They were repudiated by many in their own neighborhood, including the Edah Charedis, which was still unable to rein them in.) Large numbers settled upon the Beit Shemesh area. Their growing enclave in RBS-Bet gradually spread out, to the point that they found themselves in close proximity to existing neighborhoods of dati Leumi and conventional charedim. Ongoing clashes came to a head with the opening of a frum girls' school on land the extremists coveted in the dati Leumi neighborhood of Scheinfeld. While the dispute has been going on for months, and while violently imposing their requirements on local businesses has taken place for years, the issue exploded upon the national and international scene through a clip from Israel's Channel Two that has gone viral. Listening to an Anglo girl dressed in long sleeves and a skirt speak about her fears in simply crossing the street and having to run a gauntlet of taunts, curses, and spittle from bearded adults has turned out to be the impetus to galvanize a country – including many charedim – into taking action. Contrasting her angelic demeanor with the ugly rhetoric of one of the tormentors who is particularly honest about their objectives to take over the entire contributed to the mood of resistance.
Both the Prime Minister and the President spoke about the video. (Netanyahu was particularly gracious. ""We must beware of generalizing an entire population, because the vast majority of the Haredi public combines an adherence to Jewish tradition and a complete respect of the law"). Thousands came to Beit Shemesh and help stand up against the extremists. Groups of Knesset members are scheduling visits. Most remarkably, Haaretz reported that journalists were getting plenty of lip from charedim – but not to complain as usual about unbalanced treatment of their community. Rather, charedim were turning to them in person and by phone to implore them to keep the heat on through their coverage, so that the government will have no choice but to take firm action against the zealots who make life miserable for them as well. Haaretz even had to concede a difference between a minority population of out of control extremists and a "mainstream charedi" population.
To anyone not familiar with the history and dynamics of the charedi communities of Israel – and the century-and-a-half-long kulturkampf that created it, there is nothing in the pictures coming from Israel to differentiate the mobs in Beit Shemesh from those in Pakistan or Iraq. No amount of casuistry will put a dent in the plain truth: the behavior of many people who are seen as frum is a massive chilul Hashem of epic proportions.
Rabbinic and communal organizations are readying statements denouncing the barbarians at the gates of Beit Shemesh. This is necessary and good. It is probably not good enough. The extremists are not the equivalent of the poor, semi-literate unwashed masses in the Muslim suburbs of Paris. They were the recipients of many years of Torah chinuch. They studied, to some degree, the same seforim as the rest of us.
Even after we protest, the world will want to know what makes us more authentic than them. Why are they not the "real" Jews, and we are the reformers? How do we demonstrate that they are the imposters, that their understanding of Yiddishkeit is foreign to its genuine spirit? It is simply insufficient to say that we are right and they are wrong, or that our rabbis and leaders are greater than theirs. We dare not leave the very definition of Yiddishkeit to a he says, she says competition.
It is not enough to unequivocally denounce them. We must explain to the world – and fully and confidently to ourselves – why the extremists are a foreign, sickly weed, not another shitah among many. Where do we find within our mesorah the confidence to see these people as outside of it? We must be able to point not just to a collection of their terrible actions, but to fundamental themes in their lifestyle that make them different – and that we can package simply and reinforce in our children and students.
I have nothing magisterial or even particularly insightful to offer. A few thoughts, however, do come to mind.
How do I reject thee? Let me count the ways…
1) The dignity of everyone possessed of a Tzelem Elokim. We take it seriously; they don't. You can't take it seriously and still bring children to tears. You could never smear feces on the property of others. You could never spit at someone, rather than engage in discourse. You would see in all of this a belittling of the tzelem Elokim – the image of G-d vested in Man – not only of the other person, but of yourself. The imposition of one set of standards on others who are not willing (e.g. removing public benches so that women will not sit on them in public) is not only theft of the public, it is a denial of their Tzelem Elokim that allows them to choose their own decisors. Claiming that all other decisors but their own are wrong is a fatal distortion of halachic process.
2) Hakoras HaTov According to Chovos HaLevavos, owning up to the obligation to reciprocate what others have benefited you (even when done for the wrong reasons) is the key to any growth in serving Hashem. Closing their eyes to the benefits they have received from the State – the blood that has been spilled defending them in every war since '48; the subsidies that feed their children and pay for their medical care – is so profoundly un-Jewish that it should be sufficient cause to call them opponents of Torah. All the mental gymnastics applied by them to prove to themselves that they owe nothing to anyone (i.e., if it weren't for everyone else's sins, the Arabs would be our peaceful and loving neighbors) should only prove that they can compound lack of hakoras hatov with distortion of sechel. R. Chaim Shmulevitz zt"l used to ask every year during Neilah that people daven for the soldiers of Tzahal. "Those who don't understand why are fools."
3) The simplest one, and the one that works the most for me: The proper way, we are told in Avos, is one that brings honor to Hashem and honor to the one who follow it. It should be simple enough to argue that a lifestyle that brings nothing but contempt upon Torah cannot legitimately be Torah! Discounting the small percentage of Israelis who truly hate Torah, the rest of Israeli society cannot be written off the same way. Where they should see the ahavas Yisrael of the R Aryeh Levin they remember a generation ago, they see nothing in the video clip but unvarnished hatred. Where they should see a lifestyle to admire, they see a community that cannot support itself, covers up its misdeeds, and shows itself entirely unsuitable to face challenges of real life. They react – and indeed often overreact – with contempt. But at least part of their contempt is understandable. It certainly means that the extremists are not bringing honor to anyone.
This alone proves that their way cannot be Torah. Everything else is commentary.


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USAMO 1973 #3 August 17, 2009Posted by lumixedia in combinatorics, Problem-solving.
Tags: combinatorics, contest math, olympiad math, USAMO, USAMO 1973
USAMO 1973 #3. Three distinct vertices are chosen at random from the vertices of a given regular polygon of sides. If all such choices are equally likely, what is the probability that the center of the given polygon lies in the interior of the triangle determined by the three chosen random points?
Solution. Fix the first chosen vertex. Suppose that if we move from vertex to vertex clockwise around the polygon starting from the first vertex, we land on the second vertex after moves, . Then there are choices for the third vertex so that the triangle contains the center of the polygon. For example, if the second vertex is adjacent to the first, there is only one possible choice for the third vertex. If the second vertex is as far as possible from the first, reached after moves, then any of the vertices we haven't moved to is a possible choice for the third vertex.
Of course, the same reasoning holds for choices of the second vertex so that we land on it after counterclockwise moves starting from the first vertex, . So we have cases corresponding to the least number of moves from the first vertex to the second. The probability that there are moves from the first vertex to the second is . Given that there are moves from the first vertex to the second, the probability that the third vertex will satisfy the desired condition is . So the probability we want is
which is about for large .
Going beyond the problem in the obvious manner, we can make a similar calculation for a polygon with vertices. Now the second vertex can be moves from the first vertex, . (The center of the polygon will not lie in the interior of a triangle with two diametrically opposite vertices.) For each there are possible choices for the third vertex. Now the probability that the center of the polygon will lie in the interior of the triangle is
which is again about for large .
So the probability of the center of a circle lying in the interior of a triangle with vertices given by three random points on the circle really should be . To my relief, this is true, from a standard geometric probability argument. Let be the clockwise angle from the first vertex to the second and be the clockwise angle from the first vertex to the third. Both and can vary from to . If we graph against , we see that the interval we can choose and from is a square of side length . For , we need to satisfy the condition. For , we need . Shading in the appropriate areas on the graph, two triangular regions, it is easy to see that of the square is shaded.
Finally, just for fun, the probability of the center of a -gon lying on the boundary of a triangle given by three random vertices of the -gon is . We calculate this as follows. There are possible triangles. Of them satisfy the desired condition, since there are pairs of diametrically opposite vertices and choices for the third vertex for each pair. Dividing gives the answer.
…Okay, that was a lot longer than I planned to go on about a problem I'd put at the 15-20 range on a modern AMC-12. Heh.
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Amsterdam is full of trash, neatly separated and arranged trash. I sometimes forget that it's trash,
I worry that maybe someone's just forgotten their orderly box of old hangers or blown out Dutch
boardgames or tacky candle holders. But it's garbage. Garbage that you can greedily ransack.
This is one of the things that appeals to me about the city as someone who is both cheap and
constantly facinated by other humans but too lazy/anxious to actually engage with strangers.
So long story short, I was walking around a couple weekends ago and ran across…whatever that
is in the animation above. It took a bit of time to strip all these felt washers off of it, which coated
my hands in that familiar flea market film, and I now have a little paper bag full of them.
I have no idea what they're for yet.


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I can count on one finger the number of times that I have got out of bed on a Sunday morning to be greeted by a shiny new baby alpaca (cria) complete with the wrapping paper still attached.
Meet the latest new addition to the Lindforst Alpaca Team. Expected since April, this baby has been a long time coming. The baby was to be called Mañana if it had been a girl but as it was a boy he has been named Mañano.
So with Mañano now the last cria to be expected this year I think he takes the team up to a total of forty two Alpacas.
They are kept in four different groups. We have Sancho and his seventeen girls. Herbert and his five girls. A group of six girls. And my personal favourites 'the boys', eight young boys and four castrated boys.
It's a full time job looking after them all but a thoroughly enjoyable full time job. We've learnt so much about them in the week we have been here observing how they interact with one another.
They are endearing, curious, gentle herding animals with a wonderful communication system and such a super soft fleece. Being herding animals they are in constant communication with each other. They really are very vocal in a quiet sort of way. They hum, cluck, spit and snort at each other for varying different reasons. It's hard to explain what the hum sounds like so if you are interested you can hear it here on this YouTube clip.
For me, I find it very calming listening to the quiet background humming of the Alpacas. The humming, though, is generally associated with the alpaca feeling curious, distressed, anxious, bored, too hot, too cold, nervous or stressed. Whilst we are working amongst them feeding, watering and clearing their poop up they are constantly humming to each other. I guess they are alert and wary to our presence.
Herbert and Sancho need to be tethered as we go about our daily chores as they can become aggressive protecting their herd. Even though I've been told that Alpacas are easy animals to care for they are a little bit needy and fragile. For example, they don't really show any signs of illness until they have all four legs in the air so owners need to be constantly vigilant about any subtle changes in behaviour of their animals. And that poop picking. Oh yes, it needs to be done. Every. Single. Day. Cleaning up after them helps control parasites and worm related health problems.
The alpacas will generally 'go' en masse in the same two or three areas of their pasture which does make it a little easier to pick up but you'll always find several 'rogue' piles around and about too. Not to go into too much detail here about the size and consistency of Alpaca poop but it's a bit like rabbit droppings or chocolate coated raisins and it needs to be raked out of the grass. Yup, every last drop. Or as near to it as you can get.
But enough about the poop. A question often asked is 'do they spit?' Well, yes they do spit. And at point blank range. But not often. I wised up pretty quickly on their body language and why and when they are about to spit after being pebble dashed from a spitting Alpaca with a mouthful of food.
They have several different types of spitting technique too. We have the 'dry spit' which is just fresh air. As already mentioned, we have the 'food spit' and finally we have the 'get away from me I am very angry spit' or otherwise known as 'the green spit'. Now this one is really not one you want to be on the receiving end of. This one is serious and contains regurgitated stomach contents. And boy does it smell. I've seen two alpacas having a spat, or should I say spit, and the smell is horrendous. They'll spit at each other as a warning to stay away or at displeasure to another's behaviour.
It is lovely to just watch and observe them seing how they interact and care for each other. When the new cria was born the whole herd gathered around the Mum and baby to have a good sniff and to help protect them. So sweet 🙂
More from Alpaca HQ next week.
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There has been a recent incidence shared on social media that caught my attention for numerous reasons. Its relationship to my ongoing interest in parkour, health and safety, risk, and policy, however, that has inspired me to write.
The incident is the amazing story of Mamoudou Gassama, the 'migrant Malian Spiderman', who, staying illegally in France to be with his brother, scaled the outside of an apartment building to rescue a dangling 4 year old boy. Mamoudou, you're a champion. I love all of the life saving climbs you do.
I'm not going to comment on the family who left the boy at home or the people in the balcony next door who didn't rescue him – you can read the article to hear the full story. Rather, I'm interested in the implications of the decision by President Emmanuel Macron to honour him with French citizenship and a job as a firefighter for his bravery. More specifically, I'm interested in the interesting paradox that this decision by the press, bystanders, and the powers that be, both police (who would likely have arrived eventually) and politicians, has in the face of how parkour training* is often treated.
*Not to say that Mamoudou is a parkour practitioner or that parkour is the only activity where scaling buildings is present – climbing and free soloing is of course applicable.
The people watching the incident unfold did right to applaud and cheer Mamoudou for his bravery and to express their joy at the boy's life being saved. It's also wonderful for Mamoudou to be honoured with citizenship and a job for saving the boy's life – this, of course, opens up the discussion about the treatment of migrants, but again, not the focus of this article.
The other side of the coin is curious. Many in the parkour community are well aware of the laws, bylaws, and policies that impact on our ability to train parkour as well as public opinion and misconceptions about our practice. We sometimes face judgmental comments from passers-by and most practitioners within the core community (people who train outdoors, outside of a class structure) have had an interaction with staff, security, or police and asked to cease our activities.
This paradoxical situation is therefore fascinating to me. On one hand, you have government, laws, and people who act in the name of those laws (sometimes misinterpreting or overreaching) seeking to implement and uphold policies that impinge on people's options to train their physical and mental capabilities. On the other hand, you have government, laws, and the people who act in the name of those laws seeking to use policy to honour somebody for using their physical and mental capabilities within a practical situation.
In other words, if you use your abilities to save somebodies life there's a high chance that you'll be honoured for it, as in Mamoudou's case. But, if the child is removed from the equation, and you're training or using your body in ways that could enable you to save a life, you'll probably be told to stop or perhaps even arrested in some circumstances like Alain Robert, the first French 'Spiderman'.
I find this problematic.
Parkour is a training method that, among many things, improves people's confidence, physical and mental abilities, teaches appreciation for one's body and for the environment, and sound risk assessment skills. I've heard of a number of situations where people's parkour training has either saved lives (including their own), enabled them to escape muggings, get into their own or neighbours houses after being locked out, making it easier and safer to complete physical work on the job or for household chores, and the retrieval of children's lost balls from rooftops.
The tagline on the Parkour NZ website (of which I volunteer as CEO) reads, very aptly, in my opinion:
[Parkour], The activity that teaches you how to move and live in the modern world.
We shouldn't just celebrate the physical acts of bravery that save lives, we should celebrate and enable the training of physical practices so that more people can have such positive impacts on the world. (I'm looking at you balcony dude – sorry, I couldn't help myself).


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OFRF's 2015 National Survey of Organic Farmers will begin landing in e-mail boxes across the U.S. today, asking all certified organic farmers in the U.S. to share their experiences, and let the science community know what areas of research are most needed to advance organic farming.
Organic farmers rely on cutting-edge science to outsmart pests, improve fertility and produce bountiful harvests, without the use of toxic chemicals. Organic researchers across the U.S. are hard at work seeking solutions to organic farming challenges – but they need feedback from farmers in the field.
Survey results will be used to update OFRF's National Organic Research Agenda, an influential roadmap for the USDA and other research institutions, identifying the issues most critical to the success of organic farmers.
The 2015 National Survey of Organic Farmers will be emailed to every certified organic farmer with a listed email address on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) certification database, which lists a total of 13,352 certified organic farmers. Farmers without a listed email address will receive a mailed postcard asking them to access the survey via OFRF's website. Organic certification organizations nationwide have also agreed to help distribute the survey to their members.
Note: I talked with OFRF and they said they would also like to hear from farmers farming organically who are not certified. There is a place on the form to indicate that.
The confidential survey asks for data on farm size, production and location, as well as collecting detailed information about organic farming challenges and farmers' most pressing information needs, such as pest control, soil health, water conservation strategies, pesticide drift and GMO contamination of organic crops.
Organic Farming Research Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan, pro-farmer, all-organic research foundation, and a leading champion of American organic family farmers. Our mission is to foster the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming systems. Since 1990, OFRF has funded 315 organic research projects, and our National Organic Research Agenda report has greatly influenced the USDA's growing investment in organic farming research.
For more information on OFRF and our 2015 National Survey, please call our office at (831) 426-6606 or visit our website. In addition to the link on our website, the survey can also be accessed at this link.
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I am fascinated by the concept of time.
My bookcases are crammed with titles such as Times Arrow, Achilles in the Quantum Universe and Time travel in Einstein's Universe.
So what is time?
It is common to suggest that time is the 4th dimension. We can measure the other three directly – we can reach out and touch three dimensional objects. Our physical bodies exist in a three dimensions. But we cannot touch time. I am aware of it's effect when I look in the mirror. I look older. And time is always heading in the same direction. I am never going to grow younger.
This effect – times arrow – is scientifically founded in entropy. As we go "forward" in time, the second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a system tends to increase or remain the same; it will never decrease. Entropy measurement can, therefore, be thought of as a kind of clock. However entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that seems to imply a particular direction for time. In other cases, other equations, time does not assume a particular direction. But it is this perception of time passing that resonates in our everyday life.
We experience time in different ways. We talk about time flying, time dragging, time weighing heavily. It's passage is rarely, if ever, seen as regular, even or linear.
I heard a short story recently – more of a mind exercise really – where people in heaven relived their lives in the exact proportions they did on earth, but not in the same sequence. So if they had spent an hour a day on the train to work then in heaven they would spend 9,600 hours consecutively, without a break, sitting on a train. Bizarre thought but it does make you reassess how you spend time here on earth.
I had a perfect example yesterday. I have an iphone on which I play Bejeweled. I was trying to find the high scores when I came across a statistics page that suggested that I had played the game for 5 days – 5 whole days!! I've only had the phone for 7 months. Surely not?! I only play in those dead moments, waiting for a train, waiting for the kettle to boil so let's assume i play 4 times a day, 10 minutes a time; 40 mins a day over 7 months is 8520 minutes – almost 6 days!! To my horror it is possible!!
And every Wednesday I sit. I sit in a world where time in the way I normally experience it just doesn't exist. I help a guy who is the same age as I am and who has dementia. He has no coherent sense of time as his memory is fragmented and unreliable.
He knows that he knows me. He recognises me as a friend but can't remember my name. He asks where I am from at about half hourly intervals. And so we sit and cycle through simple, often asked questions and responses throughout the evening.
He gets tired and he sleeps; he gets hungry and so he eats. There is a rhythm to his day which marks the massage of time but all of the memories of what has passed are vague and jumbled. Time is flattened as all his experiences have happened at the sane time: yesterday, last week, last year are indistinguishable and lumped together as being past.
In my life and when I teach yoga or meditation I encourage myself and others to live in the moment. Things that have happened are gone, cannot be changed and should not be dwelt upon. Things in the future are beyond our control and should not be worried over.
I do believe that this is true but to be trapped in the present is not to live in the moment. Rather it is to be timeless. To be adrift in your own life.
Working with someone with dementia has added hugely to my understanding of time. It can fly, it can drag and it can be lost completely.


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Children aren't the only ones who need a nap, adults need them too and when you're a parent, you definitely need and deserve an occasional nap or two.
Today, I was zonked, tired, and a complete mess. I was also a crank despite my best attempt to stay composed. Yes, I may be a great mom but I can get cranky sometimes. Somehow, I made through most of the day and then it was nap time. Although my kid is older now, she benefits from taking a nap especially since we're up late sometimes.
Well, today, I had a nap. I can proudly say I enjoyed my nap and I'm a much better parent after the nap. I took responsibility for my actions and apologized to my daughter for being cranky today and my daughter apologized for being cranky too.
Now, we're off to play some board games, happy as can be (she's waiting for me to finish this because I said I'd post this thought on our website).
See, parents need a nap too. If you haven't had one yet, I highly recommend it!


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Candidate Speech - Dr Tony Bartone
AMA National Conference 2018
Candidate Speech
Dr Tony Bartone
Sunday 27 May 2018
***Check Against Delivery
I want to share a story with you - a story from my childhood.
A story of my family doctor, who repeatedly came to our home to visit my very sick father, who had been confined to bed for weeks. My father thankfully recovered, and remained very active for 40 more years.
The dedication of my family GP inspired my calling to medicine. A calling to help those who needed health care.
The inspiration that motivated me to become a GP still drives me today.
But my goals have expanded.
I now want to fight for Australian doctors, so they can continue to provide the excellent, compassionate care that my father received.
Australians have a right to quality health care, and it is up to us - as the AMA - to defend our world class health system.
But our health system is ailing.
Public hospital waiting lists continue to blow out.
Private health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable for our patients.
The enormous bottlenecks in the training pipeline.
The continuing struggle for some doctors around their own health and wellbeing.
Variable access to care in country towns and rural areas.
General Practice has been systematically starved of funding - tearing at its heart; wearing it down; putting at risk its world class outcomes in primary care, its very survival.
Delegates - our Australian health system needs our AMA to drive the health policy agenda.
The AMA, under my leadership, has the solutions to these issues. Solutions such as:
- significant, targeted investment in general practice, rewarding patient centred care
- improved access to health care, through better funding of public hospitals, not only in the cities, but in rural and regional Australia, and closing The Gap for our indigenous population
- a national medical workforce strategy with quality flexible training solution, addressing workforce distribution issues
- resolving the impasse that is mandatory reporting, and
- supporting our colleagues who are experiencing mental health issues.
Colleagues, we need a strong AMA. We need to work with the State and Territory AMAs to ensure the value proposition we offer is consistent across the country; collaborating to increase efficiencies across the federation, especially improving our communication with them.
Our AMA needs to champion solutions for Australians.
I am ready to act on that call to drive the political health agenda - a call that began, watching my family GP all those years ago.
A GP President will send an urgent, powerful message at this critical time to the GP community that membership of the AMA is essential.
Our Health Minister needs to understand that the time for rhetoric is over. Our patience is wearing thin. We need to see crucial positive actions now.
Next year, Australians will elect a new Federal Government.
We have a narrow window of opportunity to further deeply engage with Government and achieve meaningful outcomes.
And I am ready for any early election call.
Colleagues, I will continue to listen and engage with members across our AMA, ensuring your voices are heard loudly in the corridors of Government.
I am ready to be your next President.
Serving our members - that is what the AMA is about. It has been my honour to serve our AMA, and now I look for your support to continue that service as your next Federal AMA President.
27 May 2018
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Two more arrested in Wadala arms haul case
Cops recover three US-made pistols, a revolver, several swords, choppers and knives from home of one of the accused
Following the arrest of an externed criminal and his accomplice for possession of pistols meant for use by the US Army, the Wadala Truck Terminal police have made two more arrests and recovered a huge cache of arms from the residence of one of the accused in Bhakti Park, Wadala.
Badua Jamal Pasha (23), and Amir Rafiq Shaikh (20), were arrested on Monday, while Kaiyamatjan Pasha (45), and Rahim Raheman Khan (26), were arrested the next day. The items recovered so far are five US-made pistols, 30 live rounds, one revolver, several swords and knives, choppers and an axe. The police said the accused had received the arms consignment from a person in Bihar who is yet to be arrested.
According to the police, after receiving reliable information that a group of criminals were holed up in Bhakti Park, a police team was dispatched. When they reached the spot, accused Badua and Shaikh opened fire at the police team. The police retaliated and after an exchange of gunshots managed to arrest the duo. After intense interrogations, the duo opened up and revealed names of their accomplices, one of them happened to be Badua's father. On Tuesday, a police team was sent to Kaiyamatjan and Khan's houses, and they were arrested.
Datta Karale, deputy commissioner of police (Zone IV), said, "All the accused have been booked under Sections 341 (punishment for wrongful restrain) and 503 (threatening another with any injury to his person, reputation or property) of the IPC and under sections of the Arms Act. All of them have been remanded in police custody till Friday. Jamal and Shaikh, who were arrested on Monday, have also been booked under an additional Section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the IPC for attacking the police team."
Karale further added, "Investigations have revealed that the father-son duo has visited Pakistan a couple of times to meet relatives. The reasons for their possessing arms is unknown, and investigations are ongoing."
Five past cases are registered against Jamal and three against his father at the Sewri police station.
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9 Ways Kids Ruin Grocery Shopping Each & Every Time
Children are tiny miracles. They bring light and laughter into your life. They also can easily convince strangers that you're trying to kill them when, in reality, you're just denying them junk food on the candy aisle of the grocery store. Whether your child is still in the "screaming for absolutely no reason" stage of infancy or in the more advanced "secretly stash sugary snacks in the cart" phase, you probably already know that there are plenty of ways kids ruin grocery shopping. But in the parenting chapter of of the Girl and Boy Scouts, surviving a trip to the grocery store is a hard-earned badge you should be proud to show off.
If you manage to leave the store without anything being broken, security being called, and a meltdown (let's be honest, this could apply to either your children or you), you know just how much of an accomplishment that can truly feel like. In fact, it's a bonding experience in many ways. Haven't you ever walked by another mom or dad struggling with a toddler mid-tantrum and just nodded in solidarity? The struggle is indeed real. Check out these ways kids can absolutely ruin grocery shopping, even though you swear you love them to bits.
1. They Make Getting Out Of The Car Unnecessarily Difficult
Remember the good old days when you would simply drive to your destination, get out of your car, and walk in? Yup, those days are long gone. Now it takes a solid five minutes just to get your toddler unbuckled and out of the car seat.
2. They Make You Sweat Before You Even Enter The Store
If it wasn't the act of getting your child out of the car, it was the struggle of getting them not to run head-on into traffic that has you busting out your fan before you even walk inside.
3. They Think Grocery Carts Are Molten Lava
Have you ever tried to put a child into a cart who decidedly does not want to do so? You would think someone was actively sawing off a limb with the blood-curdling screams they let out as you try to do the unspeakable act of putting them into a grocery cart.
4. They Cause Everyone To Look At You
In between the banshee-like yells and your sweaty pits-stained shirt, your fellow shoppers aren't sure whether to judge your or feel sorry for you. Either way, the holes their eyes are burning in you only make you sweatier, so that's great.
5. They Cause You To Forget
A grocery list? What's that? Well, you probably have one. . . somewhere. . . or perhaps you intended to write it down but never did. You know you definitely need bread, or maybe not, but it was for sure something to do with the bread aisle, right? Kids have a way of inducing temporary amnesia in grocery stores, and also life.
6. They Want ALL The Things
This is a pretty obvious and well-known way kids can completely derail the shopping experience, but in case you don't know, your child will literally want everything in the store. People also may or may not think your child hasn't eaten in days by the way they are desperately pleading for even a morsel of sustenance.
7. They Make You Our To Be The "Bad Guy"
There just isn't any way around this one, unless you give in to all of your tyrannical toddler's demands. But most parents will stick by their guns and remind their child that, no, cookies are not a necessary part of a balanced diet but it's different when mommy eats them and they should just stop asking questions, OK?
8. They Turn The Checkout Line Into A Finish Line
Do you see that? It's the light at the end of an inexplicably sticky, noisy tunnel. You've managed to gather the essential items, put them back into your cart after they are thrown out, taken out stashed junk food, and didn't lose your wallet. So for you, your child has turned what was once an ordinary check out line into a glorious indication that your trials and tribulations are nearly over. And then you remember you still have to put both your child and your groceries back into the car. Sh*t.
9. They've Left You With Zero Energy
You would think that since your kids resisted going into the store so much that they'd be thrilled to leave and more than happy to oblige to getting into the car without a fuss. But those kinds of things only happen in movies, right? Once you've finally buckled everyone in and remembered to grab your purse off the roof of the car, you barely have the energy to turn your car on. Actually, you might just get drive-thru instead of making dinner with the groceries you bought.


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Ravi Bopara fails with the bat as South Africa beat Gloucestershire
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|50-over tour match, Bristol:
|South Africa 262-7 (49 overs) beat Gloucestershire 261 (49.5 overs) by three wickets
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Ravi Bopara was out cheaply as South Africa beat Gloucestershire by three wickets in a 50-over match at Bristol.
Essex batsman Bopara, playing for Gloucestershire to get some practice ahead of England's one-day series against the Proteas, made only three runs in Gloucestershire's total of 261.
Dan Housego, 23, top scored for Gloucestershire with 132 off 136 balls before he was bowled by Ryan McLaren.
A much-changed South Africa team chased down the total with an over to spare.
Bopara, 27, pulled out of the second Test for personal reasons but has been named in the squad to face the Proteas in the one-day international series, which starts at Cardiff on Friday.
His county Essex were not in action this week, so England national selector Geoff Miller asked Gloucestershire to select him for Wednesday's tour match to give him some time at the crease.
Bopara made just three runs from 14 deliveries before he was caught behind by South Africa wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile off the bowling of McLaren (3-29), who was the pick of the tourists' bowlers.
All-rounder Bopara was among the wickets, however, taking 3-43 in his 10 overs.
South Africa, who fielded only Hashim Amla and Imran Tahir from the team which won the third Test at Lord's on Monday, knocked off the runs comfortably.
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