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Who would have thought, looking back, that 2008’s Iron Man would be the thing to kickstart a universe? The titular character Tony Stark, a Bruce Wayne type with no inherent superpowers other than his wealth and intellect who tools around in a mechanical suit, had never been one of Marvel’s marquee heroes–but with their heavy hitters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four leased to other studios, Marvel gave him a shot at the big screen. With actor-turned-director Jon Favreau behind (and in front of) the camera and a career-redefining performance by Robert Downey Jr. in the lead, the film managed to deftly tweak the standard superhero origin story into something original, affecting, and funny. Iron Man was richly rewarded critically and commercially for breaking the mold, and the characters it introduced went on to define the Marvel cinematic universe.
Favreau’s previous two films were 2003’s Elf and 2004’s Zathura (it may seem like a miracle to land Iron Man with a resume like that, but Hollywood’s modus operandi of late has been to give untested directors superhero movies as a test of their chops), and both had scores by John Debney. For reasons that have never been clear Debney either did not seek or did not get the assignment, possibly because during the movie’s 2007-2008 production he had seven other films on his docket, including The Stoning of Soraya M. which was a labor of love for the composer. With the job open, Ramin Djawadi, an Iron Man fan since childhood, applied for and got his dream job. Djawadi’s credits, at the time, were primarily smaller films or additional music work as part of his mentor Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios team. Djawadi was hired on the strength of some prior superhero work (for Blade: Trinity), a recent film for Marvel’s then-distributor Paramount (Mr. Brooks), and the fact that Zimmer himself followed his pupil as music producer while allowing him full use of the Remote Control team.
Djawadi began work by writing a then-traditional orchestral superhero theme, but Favreau had other ideas: recalling the heavy metal song “Iron Man” by Black Sabbath (a version of which eventually played over the film’s end credits), he pushed for a heavy rock and guitar influence. Zimmer, in his role as producer, also offered suggestions out of the superhero playbook he was in the midst of developing after 2005’s Batman Begins and the concurrently-developed The Dark Knight which would bow two months after Iron Man. As a result, Djawadi’s score plays like a mixture of Favreau’s preferred guitar sound and Zimmer’s “wall of sound” Remote Control approach, with the orchestral performances largely subsumed and dominated by those two styles.
The main Iron Man theme, such as it is, gets an extended rock-inflected performance in “Driving With the Top Down,” the first album track, and a somewhat more straightforward outing in the later “Vacation’s Over.” While it’s possible to hear echoes of the original orchestral theme Djawadi wrote, particularly in the latter, the end result is so overbearing, so over-processed with an extra-liberal slathering of faux Black Sabbath atop a rather rote version of the Remote Control sound that it’s all but lost. The music is certainly loud, certainly energetic, and has plenty of synths to reflect the technological nature of Iron Man himself, but the conflicting demands of the filmmakers and Remote Control left Djawadi essentially writing to the lowest common denominator of them both: neither particularly strong film music nor particularly strong rock music.
For Tony Stark’s on-again-off-again dalliance with his assistant Pepper, the score offers a love theme of sorts, most notably in “Are Those Bullet Holes?” and “Extra Dry Extra Olives,” but it’s so tepid and thin–perhaps as a result of being stripped down at either Favreau’s or Zimmer’s insistence. A “plotting theme” that eventually is used as a motif for the villainous Iron Monger is, again, so subtle and stripped-down that it barely registers. Rather than being theme-on-theme smackdowns or snarling menace like the best superhero scores in the Danny Elfman vein, villain-centric cues like “Arc Reaktor” (sic) or “Iron Monger” are either disappointingly violent noise or brooding nonentities.
It seems a little mean-spirited to blame Djawadi for the problems that Iron Man has as a score; he is clearly a big fan of the concept and was at the mercy of larger influences from the producer. But the fact remains that Iron Man is barely functional as a score in the movie and pretty unlistenable outside it. the score did, at least, get pride of place on the album release, sharing it with a few songs but, curiously, not the resounding instrumental performance of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” that dominated the end credits that most people probably remember. This could help explain its easy availability in used-CD bins, so there’s little monetary risk for anyone who wants to give Djawadi’s score a chance. It’s tough to recommend Iron Man to anyone but die-hard fans of the film or Remote Control enthusiasts, and it seems that the powers-that-be agreed: Debney got his shot at the concept with Iron Man 2, but it wasn’t until Brian Tyler’s Iron Man 3 that a composer was able to successfully create a memorable theme with the electronics, orchestral presence, and occasional cheek that Tony Stark demands.


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Michelle Bonczek Evory
Michelle Bonczek (BAHN-zak) Evory was born and raised in the New York metro area, the first person born in the United States on her mother’s side. After moving to upstate New York in high school, Bonczek Evory attended the State University of New York College at Brockport where she completed a BS in Communications (Journalism) with minors in creative writing, dance, and sociology, and an MA in English Literature working under the poet William Heyen and the Medievalist Evelyn Newlyn. She received a scholarship from Eastern Washington University where she completed an MFA in poetry focused on eco-literature, and a Doctoral Fellowship from Western Michigan University where she completed a Ph.D. in Creative Writing specializing in contemporary poetry, early American literature, and British Romanticism while teaching creative writing, American literature, and women and gender studies.
Bonczek Evory is the author of The Ghosts of Lost Animals, winner of the Barry Spacks Prize (Gunpowder Press, 2019) and recipient of a 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award; A Roadside Attempt at Attraction, winner of the 2017 Celery City Chapbook Contest (Kalamazoo Friends of Poetry, 2018); Before Fort Clatsop (Finishing Line P, 2017); The Art of the Nipple, winner of the 2012 Orange Monkey Chapbook Award (Orange Monkey Publishing); and a textbook, Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations (Open SUNY Press), which is taught in creative writing programs throughout the country and is currently being translated into Gujarati by Dr. Saurabh Vaishnav, St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
In 2015, she and her husband poet and musician Rob Evory were the inaugural Artists in Residence through the National Parks Arts Foundation at Gettysburg National Military Park and in 2019 they held artist residencies at SERDE, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Latvia.
Her poetry has been anthologized in venues such as Best New Poets; The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street (forthcoming); Fantastic, Imaginary Creatures: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose Poems edited by Gerry LaFemina (forthcoming); Rewilding: Poems for the Environment edited by Crystal S. Gibbins; Anthology of Polish American Writers; Scientists and Poets #RESIST; and Awake in the World, Vol 2. And her poems have been featured in over 150 literary journals and magazines, including Orion Magazine and The Progressive, and literary journals such as Atlanta Review, Crazyhorse, cream city review, Green Mountains Review, New York Quarterly, North American Review, Rattle, Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, Willow Springs. Her awards include the Sherwin W. Howard Award through Weber : The Contemporary West, the Jane Kenyon Award for poetry through Water~Stone Review, The Consequence Prize through Consequences Magazine, and a grant from the Kalamazoo Arts Council.
Bonczek Evory has been a contributing editor and reader for poetry publishers Eastern Washington University, Lost Horse Press, and New Issues Press, as well as the literary journals Third Coast and Willow Springs. In addition to the literary side of publishing, she has also worked as a freelance editor for the McGraw-Hill Companies.
Bonczek Evory has taught in colleges across the country including teaching creative writing at Western Michigan University and Lebanon Valley College; environmental writing and literature at The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Western Michigan University, and Le Moyne College; and arts and culture courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. In all of her classrooms she has been recognized for fostering a vibrant, energetic community of writers and thinkers who thrive on storytelling and reading diverse texts. Her experimental approaches to creating art and her knowledge of publishing enables her students to produce innovative works that they can share with the world, while her broad expertise in literature equips them with a firm foundation in literary and cultural history. Her students have published poetry collections, received Fulbright Fellowships, been awarded fellowships in MFA and Ph.D. programs, and attained tenure-track positions.
She is currently working on a series of essay about the Oregon wilderness, a collection of poems focused on trauma and climate change, and a dark academic novel.
She mentors poets on The Poet's Billow, a nonprofit organization that she and her husband Rob founded in 2012.

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There is great disparity across the world when it comes to jobs.
The job situation in the United States is dire in that businesses desperately need workers. Yet many people seem unwilling to work. Small and medium-sized businesses are especially vulnerable, with owners, their families, and possibly a skeleton crew often forced to work extremely long hours to keep the business open. Sadly, many of these businesses are forced to close, causing hardships to the owners and others.
The bottom line: Lots of good jobs. People unwilling to work.
The job situation in East Africa is also dire yet in a very different way. Thousands upon thousands of people are desperately seeking jobs to help pull themselves – and their families – out of poverty. But frequently jobs are not available, leaving these people in terrible hardship and without Hope.
The bottom line: Not enough jobs. People who desperately need and want to work.
A rumor of 20 vacancies was met by 2,000 people seeking a job in Nairobi, Kenya.
Waiting in line for hours just to submit an application.
The need for jobs in East Africa is critical. Many people do not have enough money for decent housing, food, clothing/shoes, medical needs and to educate their children. They want to work, but are unable to find jobs. This is where Talanton … and you … can make a big and lifesaving difference. Through Talanton, you can invest in values-aligned, growth-stage businesses so they can create thousands of good jobs, helping people lift themselves out of poverty, bringing them Hope and transforming many lives. Good jobs are the best way to combat poverty.
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the
least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for Me.”
David and the Talanton Team
P. S. Employment by companies in Talanton’s portfolio since its inception in 2019 has grown to more than 15,000 farmers and direct suppliers, plus almost 2,000 full-time and part-time workers. Please consider joining us to create more jobs and save thousands of lives. The need is urgent.

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- Tag results for Chandrasekhar Rao
The grapevine has it that in all probability, former finance minister Etela Rajender, who belongs to Backward Classes, may be made Speaker of the House.
Rao should take along all parties, Singh, a bitter critic of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM), said.
In the December 7 elections, the TRS won 88 seats in the 119-member assembly.
A battery of former ministers, bureaucrats were present at the ceremony. The CM took oath in the name of God in Telugu whereas Mahmood Ali did the same in Urdu at around 1.30pm.
Reacting to Rao’s barbs, Naidu, in a way, welcomed the TRS chief to AP.
Sources said that lists were being prepared on the availability of ENT specialists, dentists, pathologists working in government hospitals.
Rao then commented on Minimum Support Price (MSP), saying that AICC president Rahul Gandhi had lied to the farmers of Mizoram when he was campaigning there recently.
K Chandrasekhar Rao set to take oath as Telangana CM at 1.33 PM today, lists out priorities for second innings
The TRS chief is confident of getting enough financial resources to implement his promises.
In the second term, I will ensure that the Congress disgorges its corrupt money. Rao, during electioneering, had alleged that the Congress misused crores of rupees and involved in housing scam.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday declared that he would go to Andhra Pradesh and ‘interfere’ in AP politics.
K Chandrasekhar Rao himself won by a margin of over 51,000 votes from his Gajwel seat, trouncing V Pratap Reddy of the Congress.
Chandrasekhar Rao said a national party will emerge that will form a coalition with a consortium of regional parties to take on the BJP and Congress.
Telangana election results HIGHLIGHTS: KCR to enter Andhra politics as 'return gift' to Chandrababu Naidu
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has swept back to power with a bigger tally than in 2014. Among Congress' big losers is Revanth Reddy.
After a three-hour long meeting with Rao a day ahead of counting of votes polled in the December 7 assembly elections, he discounted a scenario where his party would back out if BJP goes with TRS.
Owaisi said he will meet KCR Monday afternoon adding this is "our first step towards a larger goal of nation building."


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Blacks and Hispanics Disproportionately Jailed in Rhode Island, National Report Indicates
Posted: July 26, 2007|Category: Discrimination Category: Racial/Ethnic Discrimination
The Rhode Island ACLU said today that the release of a national report analyzing incarceration rates across the country demonstrates the need for a broader commitment to address racial profiling and related problems of racial disparities in Rhode Island’s criminal justice system. The report, “Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration by Race and Ethnicity,” was released this past week by The Sentencing Project, located in Washington D.C., and examined nationwide prison statistics for 2005.
Although Rhode Island’s overall incarceration rate for all races is lower than that of most states, the report documents that the ratio of incarceration for blacks and Hispanics within the state, when compared to whites, was well above the national average. Rhode Island had the eighth highest ratio in the country of Hispanic to white inmate population, and the ninth highest ratio when it came to African-Americans.
Specifically, according to 2005 statistics, when comparing incarceration rates per population of 100,000 in Rhode Island, great disparities exist between these rates for whites, blacks and Hispanics. The incarceration rate for Hispanics was 631 per 100,000, and 1,838 per 100,000 for blacks, while the rate for whites in Rhode Island was only 191. In other words, per population, blacks were 9.6 times more likely than whites to be incarcerated in Rhode Island, and Hispanics were 3.3 times more likely to be incarcerated – nearly twice the national ratios for the two groups was 5.6 and 1.8, respectively.
The statistics remain troubling when compared to overall national averages. Despite the fact that the state’s overall rates of incarceration are lower than the national average, whites, comparatively, were still significantly underrepresented in the incarcerated population when compared to blacks and Hispanics.
RI ACLU executive director Steven Brown said today: “These latest statistics make very clear the consequences of governmental policies and laws that are implemented and enforced in a disparate manner against the minority population in Rhode Island. For example, the statistics on traffic stops in Rhode Island have consistently demonstrated that blacks and Hispanics are much more likely than whites to be stopped and searched, even though they are less likely than whites to be found with contraband. If police target particular groups for extra scrutiny, the inevitable effect is a prison population whose racial breakdown mirrors that targeting.” Brown said he hoped these latest figures would prompt the General Assembly to enact strong anti-racial profiling legislation in 2008. No action was taken on such legislation in the most recent session.

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|Name||Joey (J-pups 4 mos)|
|Attributes||Spayed Neutered House Trained Declawed Special Needs Shots Current  |
|Environment||Children Dogs Cats  |
|****Please DO NOT message the rescue asking if this puppy is still available; if a dog/puppy is still listed on Petfinder, we are still accepting applications for them. The first step in our adoption process is to fill out an adoption application at www.snarrnortheast.org. PLEASE READ ENTIRE BIO & FAQs BEFORE EMAILING****|
*Age: 4 months
*Current Weight: 23 lbs
*Rescued from: Tennessee
*Adoption fee: $495
*Possible breed mix: Shepherd / Hound / Terrier
*Health: up to date on puppy shots so far (adopter will be responsible for remaining puppy vaccinations), neutered, microchipped
Joey, his littermate Jillie, and their 8-week old "siblings" are the result of owners not spaying/neutering their dogs. We say "siblings" because they were surrendered from the same household and are likely related to each other in some way, but were born 2 months apart so probably not from the same mom (we hope not, at least!). Unfortunately we were not given any additional information about the parents from the people who surrendered them 🙁
These adorable pups had some fur loss when they were initially rescued, likely from fleas, but they were given flea/tick treatment by the shelter in Tennessee and their fur is growing back in nicely 🙂
Joey is an adorable, well behaved pup looking for a place to call home! He loves to run in the yard and play with dogs and kids or really anyone who wants to play! Working on leash walking- he is picking it up fast and will be a professional in no time! He loves to sun on the back patio while the humans around him relax, and he will make a great addition to a happy, active home. Could that be you?
To apply to adopt Joey, fill out an application at www.snarrnortheast.org/applications.
**Meet and greets will not be scheduled without an approved application.**
We do recommend listing a 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice when applying for puppies with several littermates.
Littermates: Joey (m) and Jillie (f)
"Siblings" (8 weeks old): Joanna (f), Journey (f), Joy (f), Johnny (m), Juno (f), Joel (m)
FAQs -- PLEASE READ ALL BEFORE EMAILING
**Please note that SNARR NE is a volunteer-based organization. While our volunteers will try to respond to you as quickly as possible, it is helpful if you review the following information about our adoption process before emailing:**
- LISTED BREED(S) & AGE: We are taking our best guess on age, breed, and size when fully grown, based on the puppy's/dog's physical appearance and what we might have learned about one or both parents depending on the situation. *NOTE* We rarely know a dog's exact age, nor are we able to tell the true or full breed mix of dogs as our information is limited most of the time. Because we often do not have access to medical records at the time that we are posting dogs to Petfinder, there are sometimes discrepancies between what is posted on Petfinder and what might be listed on a dog's medical records.
- SNARR'S ADOPTION PROCESS: The first step in adopting or meeting a SNARR dog/puppy is to fill out an application at www.snarrnortheast.org/applications. Once we receive your application, one of our adoption application processors will contact you, review our adoption process with you, and answer any additional questions you may have. **We do not go on a first-come-first-serve basis for adoptions, but on best fit for a family and most importantly the puppy or dog.**
- MEETING ADOPTABLE DOGS: Meet and greets will not be scheduled until after your adoption application has been fully processed by one of our adoption processors.
- APPLYING ONLINE: If you fill out an online application, please do so from a computer (not a mobile device), make sure you answer ALL the questions in as much detail as possible, and that you receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email, that means we did NOT receive your application.
- PUPPIES: We do suggest listing a 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice on your application if applying for a puppy with several litter mates.
- ADOPTION FEES: $495 for puppies / $375 for adults. Adoption Fees for Seniors, Special Needs and Bonded Pairs vary

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The basis for containers are so-called images, a simple file that eliminates the need to install and update software. Images contain all the components needed to run an application platform-independently. Thus, an image can be transferred to another system only by a simple copy process. The container can then be started from the image.
Images are made available via a registry, which stores, manages and provides them. The most well-known public Registry is Docker hub.
In addition, we can build our docker images with so-called Dockerfile. A Dockerfile is a simple text file. It describes the structure of a Docker Image.
Docker on Linux
The Docker engine is doing the following actions on multiple containers:
The Docker engine is built on top of the Linux kernel and it extensively leverages its features. for example under Ubuntu It can be installed with the follwoing command:
$ sudo apt-get install -y docker.io
Docker on Windows
The Docker engine could be run on the Mac and Microsoft Windows operating systems by using the lightweight Linux VMs with the help of adapters, such as Boot2Docker, or using the docker desktop.
Docker Desktop (Windows and Mac)
Docker Desktop is a popular way to configure a Docker dev / test environment. It eliminates the “it worked on my machine” problem because you run the same Docker containerized applications in development, test, and production environments. It exists on both Windows and Mac. It includes Kubernetes
|Source: Docker Blog|
The client and server of docker each has its own version nad can be asked by version command as follows:
Client: Docker Engine - Community Version: 19.03.5 API version: 1.40 Go version: go1.12.12 Git commit: 633a0ea Built: Wed Nov 13 07:22:37 2019 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 Experimental: false
Server: Docker Engine - Community Engine: Version: 19.03.5 API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12) Go version: go1.12.12 Git commit: 633a0ea Built: Wed Nov 13 07:29:19 2019 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Experimental: false containerd: Version: v1.2.10 GitCommit: b34a5c8af56e510852c35414db4c1f4fa6172339 runc: Version: 1.0.0-rc8+dev GitCommit: 3e425f80a8c931f88e6d94a8c831b9d5aa481657 docker-init: Version: 0.18.0 GitCommit: fec3683
For downloading an image from a registry we can use pull command.
$ docker pull busybox Using default tag: latest latest: Pulling from library/busybox bdbbaa22dec6: Pull complete Digest: sha256:6915be4043561d64e0ab0f8f098dc2ac48e077fe23f488ac24b665166898115a Status: Downloaded newer image for busybox:latest docker.io/library/busybox:latest $ docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE Busybox latest 6d5fcfe5ff17 3 weeks ago 1.22MB $ docker run busybox echo "Hello World!" "Hello World!"
It is the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux.
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.
BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.
BusyBox is maintained by Denys Vlasenko, and licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 2.
The follwoing diagram show an example of a running an alpine container.
- Step 1: we call docker run follwing by name of image and then the command which must be run there.
- Step 2: the docker engine create the container from the image and run the requested command inside that.
- Step 3: the container will be shut down.
Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution based on musl and BusyBox, designed for security, simplicity, and resource efficiency. It used a hardened kernel until release 3.8 and compiles all user-space binaries as position-independent executables with stack-smashing protection. Because of its small size, it is commonly used in containers providing quick boot-up times.
run the following commands and explains what they do.
$ docker pull busybox $ docker images $ docker run busybox $ docker run busybox echo "hello from busybox"


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Calprotectin in the host response to infection
The S100 zinc-binding protein, calprotectin, is a noncovalently associated anionic complex which incorporates two immunologically distinct polypeptides in a molecule of Mr 36.5 kDa. Calprotectin's abundance in neutrophils, where it constitutes 60% of cytosolic protein, suggests an innate host defence function. In vitroit is microbiostatic. The trace metals, iron and zinc, are essential to the growth of most microorganisms. During the acute phase response to infection in man, the marked decrease in plasma iron is associated with a reduction in microbial growth. The similar, though smaller decrease in plasma zinc during this response to infection, may also act as a protective measure. As most microorganisms appear not to have zinc retrieval agents analogous to siderophores for iron retrieval, pathogenic microorganisms may be more susceptible to zinc deprivation than to iron deprivation. Thus, we hypothesized that calprotectin's in vitro candidastatic activity may be mediated by zinc chelation and that this phenomenon may also occur, in vivo, in plasma. In Sabouraud's culture medium, we demonstrated that calprotectin, at concentrations as low as 10ml, has potent, pH dependent candidastatic activity associated with zinc chelation. In plasma from children with cystic fibrosis (CF) & infected children, we demonstrated increased plasma calprotectin concentrations (median: 1832 & 4753 g/l respectively) compared to controls (median: 685 g/l). Plasma calprotectin concentration correlated positively with serum C- reactive protein in infected children, reflecting an association with the acute phase response. In CF children, there were positive correlations between plasma calprotectin and plasma copper and between plasma calprotectin and the Northern score, reflecting associations with the acute phase response and the extent of lung involvement respectively.

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Zombie play sets are all fine and dandy, but GLOW IN THE DARK ones are even better. And ones that you buy from us are even MORE better. Yes, that’s improper english. But whatever, we sell cool zombie merch.
Each play set includes nine 1″ to 3.25″ tall, hard vinyl zombies just begging to be played with!
- glow in the dark flesh eating zombie action figure
- Product Options
# Option Price 1 1 set of zombies $19.95
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In the month of October, Yusuf Ahmen Bulbulia, better known as Yab, dyes his beard pink to create awareness for breast cancer. We chat to him to find out why he started doing this.
Yusuf Ahmen Bulbulia (Yab) (46) lives in Lenasia, Gauteng with his wife, Amina, and their two children.
In 2001, at the age of 26, Yab noticed a swelling in his right breast. With a few months passing and the swelling not decreasing, Yab’s wife, Amina, encouraged him to see a doctor. “There was also slight pain in my arm with decreased sensation and even though my right breast was firm, it looked huge,” Yab recalls.
A mammogram, which Yab says was uncomfortable, an ultrasound and blood tests were completed at a public hospital. The plan was to be admitted into hospital to do a partial biopsy, however, the whole lump was removed, and further tests were done on the mass.
Thankfully, the results ruled out breast cancer and proved it was a fibroadenoma (a solid, noncancerous breast lump).
Fast forward to 2018
Since Yab lost many family members to cancer, he felt the need to create more awareness, especially for male breast cancer. “Breast cancer is overlooked in the male population, so I saw the need to raise awareness that men can also get breast cancer,” he says.
How did he do this? In October 2018, Yab dyed his beard pink in support of breast cancer awareness month and has continued since.
He hosts an open day at Trade Route Mall, in Lenasia, where pamphlets are handed out. “Thankfully, there are volunteers, who are breast cancer patients or survivors, who support this initiative and assist in handing out brochures and sharing their experience with the public,” Yab says.
Funds are also collected and donated to various cancer organisations, such as The Brave Bag Foundation. Yab also does broadcasts during October on breast care as well as interviews with radio stations to create more awareness.
“My aim is to offer hope and support to people who have suffered and are suffering from cancer as well as those who have passed on. Some people secretly fought cancer while others are battling this disease openly, hoping to be the strength to others. So, I’m trying to do the little I can do.
I remember a man contacted me after reading our brochures. He explained that it was thanks to this info that he went to see a doctor and was diagnosed with breast cancer,” he says.
The process of dying his beard
Yab doesn’t just spray his beard pink. He goes to a hairdresser, Nesha’s Hair Salon in Lenasia South, to get it dyed like how one would normally dye their hair. He says, “I have a lovely hairdresser that supports my initiative and completes a process over four to five hours that dyes my beard pink. I keep the dye on for the whole month of October going into November.”
Yab explains that many breast cancer patients and survivors appreciate his efforts, as it’s coming from a man. “After we have our open day, I get calls from women who went for tests and were diagnosed with breast cancer. They don’t feel alone. Husbands of newly diagnosed spouses visit us to ask how they can be more supportive. Every year we get new volunteers wanting to be part of this because of someone they know that has had cancer.”
Yab’s message to men
Breast cancer doesn’t only affect women but men too. Cancer doesn’t have any boundaries on age, colour or sex. There is nothing to be ashamed about if you have or had breast cancer. Technology is so advanced and with the proper help, the cancer can be slowed or removed completely. So, if you do have any symptoms, kindly check it out.
For more info, visit Yab’s Facebook page @yabsbeardagainstcancer
MEET OUR EDITOR – Laurelle Williams
Laurelle Williams is the editor at Word for Word Media. She graduated from AFDA with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Live Performance. She has a love for storytelling and sharing emotions through the power of words. Her aim is to educate, encourage and most of all show there is always hope. Write to the email@example.com

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text: The Moorcrofts appear to have the perfect life, until disaster strikes. One of their twins – blonde haired, blue eyed, inseparable and identical – dies in a terrible accident. Both parents feel their lives spiraling out of control due to alcohol and mental illness but for the sake of Kirstie, the surviving child, Angus and Sarah decide to sell up and move to a remote Scottish island. SK Tremayne steadily racks up the psychological pressure with the island, Eilean Torran, becoming a malevolent force in its own right as they try to rebuild their lives. Then, the unthinkable happens. Kirstie reveals to her parents that she is, in fact, Lydia, the twin thought to be dead. Read the review by DeathBecomesHer here.

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GENO BROOKS | Founder, Exec. Producer, Director, Writer, Actor
Geno Brooks is a rising filmmaker, known for his New Media projects including award-winning web series THE THERAPIST and the HBCU greek life web series BLACK BOOTS. Brooks was an integral part of a creative collective which amassed over 60,000 subscribers, and now he has successfully built a digital streaming network channel, Artistic Standard TV that showcases more of his original and refreshing content.
He continues to sharpen his directing and writing skills as a fundamental member of an Oscar Nominated team at the leadership of recently celebrated Virgil Williams, Netflix Original MUDBOUND, and the upcoming film A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, penned by Virgil Williams & directed by Denzel Washington. Brooks’ recently supported director Ali LeRoi (Co-creator of EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS) on the upcoming film THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE (The LAUNCH’s 1 Million Dollar screenplay competition winner). Also Brooks’ producing skills led to supporting producer Debra Martin Chase through pre-production and production of the highly anticipated Harriet Tubman bio-pic HARRIET. Brooks is an active member of the Writers Guild of America and serves as a participant on the Committee of Black Screenwriters.
The Chicago Native is an active member Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and is no stranger to adversity so Brooks volunteers with the Young Writers Program, which encourages and cultivates young writers’ skills. Brooks’ experience over the last 10 years in social services not only adds to his storytelling ability but it also exemplifies his passion for cultivating the youth. He is proactively designing a creative arts program, which will provide the educational foundation so children can explore the art by writing scripts, shooting short movies, editing, while showing them how to market them on their own.
MYLES GRIER | Creative Director, Producer, Actor
Myles Grier brings 16 years of entertainment experience to the team. At the age of 13, Grier entered the entertainment industry as a young actor in Atlanta, GA. Finding his passion in the arts, he chose to sharpen his Media Production, Theatre, and Visual Arts skills, graduating from the top performing arts high school in the city, DeKalb School of the Arts. Followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre performance from Valdosta State University and professional work in casting, supporting talent agencies, TV/Film production and post-production.
Since relocating to Los Angeles, CA in 2012, Grier has made guest appearances as talent on various primetime television programming on NBC, ABC, FreeForm, FOX, and more. He also continued his work in television production, supporting multiple series at NBCUniversal from 2012 until 2018. In 2018, Grier accepted an offer to support Academy Award nominated Producer Lee Daniels day-to-day for the year under Lee Daniels Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.
Grier brings his visual arts and media production skills to his role as Creative Producer, having history as a graphic designer, along with his keen eye and knowledge of quality branding, marketing, and television production. Grier is an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and first worked with Geno Brooks as a series regular actor on the network’s hit series, BLACK BOOTS.
MAUREEN PIERRE | Head of Production, Producer
Maureen Pierre found her passion for theatre and music at a young age, Maureen studied acting at Actors Studio Chicago and briefly sang as a back up singer for top rated band, The Steve Edwards Orchestra during her freshman year in college until focusing on school.
Maureen majored in Psychology taking minor classes in theatre at DePaul University then worked at a non-profit organization as a prevention specialist/Social Norms Marketer in developing, editing weekly posters and content for local schools to promote healthy choices amongst adolescents and teens.
In 2013, Pierre’s love for acting relocated her to Los Angeles where she landed a job as a behavioral therapist and made appearances as an actress in various awarded films, music videos and worked as a brand ambassador for Coca-Cola, Naked Juice and IZZE. Maureen felt inspired to find another outlet to hone her entertainment skills and quickly found her way into producing for Social Media Influencer, Bianca Bee. In 2014, Maureen produced studio and red carpet interviews for THE BIANCA BEE SHOW and gained experience in casting, camera operation, scheduling, scouting locations, pitching and drafting contracts with studios and talent. In 2016, Pierre produced her first play WHEN SINS COME KNOCKING, worked production on a Docu-series, TRIUMPHANT SERIES and found her way working with Geno Brooks producing digital content with The Artistic Standard.
Maureen keeps to her passion of working with adolescents, young adults with mental illness, social disabilities as a therapist and curates Vision Board Events for young women. Maureen focus is to produce, create quality content, showcasing and empowering underprivileged voices.
CHRIS MOORE | Head of Development, Writer, Producer
The journey to Hollywood for Christopher D. Moore started back in 1988. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA his childhood was filled with Marvel comic books and Saturday morning cartoons. A career in creative writing began with poetry and rapping from 2006 to 2011. He merged creative writing and video production by enrolling at Savannah College of Art and Design in the Bachelor of Arts Television Producing program. At the institute of creativity Chris learned how to write one-hour TV dramas and feature films under professor Kevin Collins, who worked as a staff writer under Felicia Henderson on Showtime’s hit series SOUL FOOD.
His sophomore year, Chris wrote and produced a 30 minute short-film called HERSTORY, where a college student loses her virginity to a distant lover when her best friend throws a wild birthday party for her. His senior internship at Atlanta’s CW69 television station gave him the opportunity to write and produced a sketch comedy show called Give Me 30! for the station’s website. Graduating with honors, Chris relocated with confidence to pursue living in Hollywood, California in 2015. His writing style can be defined as witty and even abstract.

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A brand new service to support Telford & Wrekin people with their mental health needs is to be officially launched in April.
The Telford & Wrekin Mental Health Hub will be a drop-in service giving quick access to support, advice and help seven days per week without an appointment.
It will operate from bases in Wellington and Madeley, but will also have other access points around the area.
The service is being funded by Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Telford & Wrekin Council. It will be operated by a consortium of local organisation including Telford After Care Team (TACT), Telford Mind, Telford Community Health and Enterprise Centre (CHEC), Wavelength and CVS.
It will listen to and support people when they have mental health issues. The Hub will help in a crisis, but will also support recovery by helping people to develop skills for work and life.
Dr Shailandra Allen, the CCGs GP Lead for Mental Health said: “We are absolutely committed to parity of esteem for patients with mental health needs – that means putting mental health on a par with physical injuries or illnesses. We believe a service like this could benefit many people locally.
“The hub will provide safe places where people can go to get help if they are experiencing a mental health crisis or feel they need support. This is often what patients say they want most – someone who will available to talk to them in a non-judgmental way. It can help avoid feelings of isolation and anxiety that can be associated with problems like self-harming.
The service will be open from 9am-8.30pm. Support will also be provided at weekends. In addition a safe place will operate until 2am, 7 days a week.
Dr Allen said: “We wanted to extend the hours as far as possible as it’s at night that people often feel low and need help.
“As well as a drop-in and listening service the Hub will also offer access to training and support to gain employment. This is really important as it can greatly enhance self-esteem which is often key to combating mental health problems.
“We want everybody to know this service is coming, including GPs and care professionals, so it will be well used from the outset.”
Kelly Middleton, Hub Manager for TACT said: “We are delighted to be part of this new and innovative approach to mental health services in Telford & Wrekin. The hub will deliver a new and collaborative way of working to ensure more accessible and effective wellbeing services for all.”
Councillor Arnold England, Telford & Wrekin Council’s cabinet member for Adult Social Care and observer on the board of Mind, said: “The aim of this new service is to increase the ease of access for service users and enable them to receive instant support when they need it.
“We have developed a strong partnership with the Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group to provide this drop in service and I am sure that people with mental health needs will find it extremely useful.”
More details will be announced closer to the official launch at the beginning of April.

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The IL 76/78 Fuel System simulator is a state of the art system which simulates the entire functionality of the fuel system of IL 76/78 Aircrafts. The Simulator has various modules like Configuration Module, Information Module, Procedure trainer Module, Fault Simulation Module, Exam Module and self test Module. Various operation and maintenance activities of the fuel system are simulated as an interactive CBT. The Actual switches and LED’s in the fuel system are simulated as a hard panel to provide the look and feel and are interlinked with the Simulation software. The movement of the switches will simulate the required actions on the soft panel.
The Engine Control Test Set is used simulate the throttle positions and conditions used for engine control. It consists of a PC, Data Acquisition Card, Touch Panel Display and Replica Throttle custom designed and fabricated by us. The PC is connected with the DAQ card mounted in the throttle. This card is used to sense throttle position and also get switch positions. The touch screen display is connected with PC to perform various test sequences.
Our ECTS supplied to Indian Airforce received an appreciation letter from the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
APTT is used to impart training to pilots and the maintenance crew. APTT uses a simulation software to duplicate the operation and functionality of an actual aircraft system.
This facilitates the crew to get hands-on experience in both “on-ground” and “in-flight” conditions. This cost effective system adds value to the training imparted to the crew and avoids inadvertent human error due to the lack of training and insufficient practice.
Ship’s bridge simulator provides realistic training to mariners with different levels of experience, ranging from captains and pilots to the mates-to-be. The bridge simulator provides the means for satisfying the training objectives for the trainees like obtaining a degree of skill in coastal navigation within a short time period that will help them apply these skills effectively at sea. Further, formulation and execution of a detailed passage plan, including the ability to track passage progress using realistic navigation aids, radar presentations and/or visual scene.
The simulator also provides gain awareness of the visual interaction and the practice of good watch keeping through realistic visual presentation accurately synchronised with the radar display. It facilitates understanding the principle, use, capabilities and limitations of the individual equipment on the bridge in order to provide maximum training benefit.
The sea king 42B and sea harrier FRS Mk51 simulation systems serve the purpose of training engineering personnel in understanding system maintenance procedures to enable trainees to become proficient in troubleshooting various aircraft sub-systems through the use of simulated switches, displays, control instruments, meters and keyboard. Moreover, the simulators enable effective and efficient classroom instruction, individualised practice and testing for related troubleshooting procedures.
Their sizes ensures effective visibility of indicators and the design permits easy operation of the controls. The simulators have provision to visualise the parts of the subsystems through television and to hear audio effects through multimedia, which makes the system understanding simpler.
NWS-MS is used as a training aid for training IAF maintenance personnel and operators in the maintenance (functioning, troubleshooting and failure analysis) of navigation and weapon systems of mirage 2000 aircraft. The behaviour of the NWSMS system is similar to that of an actual mirage 2000 aircraft. The simulated responses of the navigation and weapon system under faulty conditions are akin to that of an actual aircraft.
The total scope of work involves reconditioning the existing unserviceable simulator by providing a PC based COTS solution, which is easily maintainable and upgradeable. The NWS-MS software has all the functions similar to the existing system.
The Engine Maintenance System Simulator (EMSS), is a self-study training aid used to train pilots, engineers and technicians on the M53-P2 engine used in the Mirage-2000 aircraft.
The simulator is a computer controlled self-study system, extensively used during training of aircrew, engineers and technicians on engine of Mirage 2000 aircraft. The EMS can simulate complete starting sequence, ground running of the engine in different ratings and various in-flight emergencies. An elaborate procedure for engine maintenance is incorporated in the simulator.
The Combat System Simulator (CSS) comprises of different types of consoles developed by MELSS which are used to impart training to the command and control team on various sensors and systems in a well organised but cost effective method.
It is also utilised to evaluate the performance of individual team members by comprehensively recording their actions and training the operator in manning the sensors and segments effectively.
Submarine Control Simulator(SCS), is intended to impart realistic environment training for a submarine crew in the aspects of ship operations such as diving and surfacing control, submerged control, snorting control, surfaced control, firefighting drills and response to alarms.
Simulation includes emergency blowing of main ballast tank by air and hydrazine, snorting drills and submerged anchoring and bottoming.


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A 2,300-year-old solar observatory in Peru, a structure of 13 stone towers built atop a hill and used as a calendar, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site on Tuesday.
The Chankillo observatory, built by an ancient civilization about two millennia before the ascent of another well-known Sun cult -- the Inca empire -- allowed for remarkably accurate astronomical observations, according to recent studies.
The walled, hilltop ruins some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Lima had long puzzled scientists.
Then in 2007, a study in the journal Science proposed the sequence of towers erected between 200 and 300 BC "marked the summer and winter solstices" and that Chankillo "was in part a solar observatory."
Peruvian archaeologist Ivan Ghezzi, who co-authored that study with British colleague Clive Ruggles, told AFP the towers, erected "with great precision," were placed to mark different positions of the Sun "and therefore mark exact dates."
Their purpose was to time with astonishing accuracy the months, solstices and equinoxes -- the planting and harvesting seasons and religious holidays.
The structure works like a giant clock, marking the passage of time over the span of a year.
"Chankillo is a masterpiece of ancient Peruvians. A masterpiece of architecture, a masterpiece of technology and astronomy. It is the cradle of astronomy in America," Ghezzi told AFP on a visit to the site.
It was also likely a place of Sun worship.
Sites to the east and west of the towers feature the remains of objects used for ritual sacrifices.
The observatory and its ceremonial appendages were protected by fortress walls made of stone, mud and tree trunks.
The complex spans some 5,000 hectares, but only about one percent has been studied, said Ghezzi.
Last year, the coronavirus epidemic paralyzed archaeological excavations in Peru, as elsewhere, and abandoned many sites containing priceless pre-Columbian objects to the mercy of looters, who sell to the black market.
Chankillo was among the sites invaded; not by thieves but by nearby farmers who have long looked to expand their land and who capitalized on the lack of control to plant crops within the borders of the site.
Peru has 12 other sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list, including the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
Chankillo was added to the list at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, held online and chaired from Fuzhou in China.
It added four more sites in Latin America, including a tropical garden "living work of art" developed by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil, a modernistic church complex by engineer Eladio Dieste in Uruguay, the Chinchorro mummies of Chile and Mexico's Tlaxcala cathedral.
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Significance of the Title Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Vyasa and Mahasweta Devi view their protagonists in an unusual circumstance and show how they surface their Power within in the most crucial moment, and establish their feminine identities. In the epic, the stubborn Draupadi is a bonus to King Drupad, when the issueless King performs a yajna to have an heir to take revenge on his childhood friend, Drona. Along with his son, Dhrishtadyumna, the full grown Draupadi springs from the fire. The granite-willed Draupadi rejects Karna during svayamvara and becomes the wife of Pandavas. In spirit she is in no way less than Bhima and Arjuna. Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas and the Pandavas cousin considers them as rivals to the throne and schemes to win the wealth as well as Pandavas kingdom. By an unfair dice game, Duryodhana wins everything including the Pandavas and their wife, Draupadi.
The head strong Duryodhana sends a door-keeper to bring Draupadi to the Sabha, since she is a slave to them. Unmindful of the consequences, the door-keeper orders the Queen Draupadi to come to the court hall, as she is won by the King Duryodhana. Now, Draupadi directs her Power to authority and interrogates the man whether his master is mad and further she demands to know who the Prince loses first, either her or him.
She is not answered but she is dragged to the court by the inhuman Duhsasana. In the hall she never hesitates to question the elders the legality of the right of Yudhistira. The power structure Power over is exhibited on the part of Draupadi. Now she comprehends the position of her spouses and her wretched condition. She hardly waits for others to stretch a helping hand to her. As a queen she dominates the scene usurping the power of her husbands. Her brilliant mind boldly enquires the Kuru elders about dharma:
“Tell me, members of this sabha, answer me: / what do you think- / have I been won or not won- / tell me, O lords of the earth?” (11:67:42).
Karna, instructs Duhsasana to strip Draupadi naked, because a slave should at have the upper garment. When the wicked Duhsasana starts pulling her single dress, the forlorn Draupadi prays to Lord Krishna to protect her:
“Govindal/I am losing my senses in the clutches of the Kauravas! / O save me!” (11:68:47).
The mutual understanding between Krishna, the nephew of Kunti, and Draupadi supports her, that is Power with saves her from the disgrace. During exile the stubborn Panjali follows her husbands to the forest, leaving her sons in the custody of Subhadra. When Yudhistira opts for peace, it is she who persuades him to take arms against the perpetrators and thus takes revenge for her humiliation in the open sabha. Draupadi employs Power over, Power to and Power with to save herself from the dishonour.
Vyasa’s Draupadi is saved by the Lord whereas in Mahasweta Devis story the main character Dopdi is stripped naked by the officials. No god comes to save her honor. The power composition Power over makes her question Senanayak, who alone directs his police to humiliate the tribal woman. It is not an ordinary humiliation; it is a gang-rape ordered and performed by the leader himself. This heinous act of disrobing and making her naked, empowers the lady. Millers quotes from Srilatha Batliwala, defines the features of empowerment.
“When a woman/man experience the oppression, she/he swings into action to free herself / himself from the oppression. The change is possible because of her/his power that is empowerment.”
The term empowerment refers to a range of activities from individual self-assertion to collective resistance, protest and mobilization that challenge basic power relation. For individuals and groups where class, caste, ethnicity and gender determine their access to resource and power, their empowerment begins when they recognize the systematic forces that oppress them, but act to change existing power relationships. Empowerment, therefore, is a process aimed at changing the nature and direction of systematic forces that marginalize women and other disadvantaged sectors in a given context.
Dopdi, a twenty-seven year old tribal woman, is named by her mistress and she is in the list of wanted persons who had killed the mistress husband, Surja Sahu a land owning money lender, because he refuses to share water with untouchables. A reward of two hundred rupees is announced for her head. Dopdi herself seen that notice at the Panchayat office. Mr. Senanayak, an official, moves with the tribal as their friend and successfully corners Dopdi in the evening. She is kept at the canvas-camp till the dinner time. Senanayak permits the officials to do whatever they like. Her hands and legs are tied to four posts. She becomes unconscious. In the morning she is brought to the tent. On seeing the General the dishonoured Dopdi walks towards him to exhibit what has happened to her.
Her empowerment freezes the General. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ( the translator and critic writes that the illiterate and low-born woman teaches we male officials a shocking lesson. They are unable to face the “Unarmed target”:
It is when she crosses the sexual differential into the field of what could only happen to a woman that she emerges as the most powerful subject who, still using the language of sexual “honor,” can derisively call herself “the object of your search,” whom the author can describe as a terrifying super object- “an unarmed target.” (Gayatri Spivak).
The strong-willed lady indirectly questions their power. Her “Power over structure makes her dominate the scene. They can rape her, but they cannot stop her from remaining naked after the rape. Further the critic voices:
The men easily succeed in stripping Dopdi-in the narrative it is the culmination of her political punishment by the representatives of the law. She remains publicly naked at her own insistence. Rather than save her modesty through the implicit intervention of a benign and divine (in this case it would have been godlike) comrade, the story insists that this is the place where male leadership stops.
Empowerment makes the two ladies, Draupadi and Dopdi, question the members of the society of their roles that pulls up the unmitigated hidden power in them that simply jolts the patriarchal authority. The questioning certainly causes discomfort to the family or to the community but it is a definite therapy to effect healing operations to the long-drawn infections of the society.
Indrani Singh Rai forwards an apt concluding critique:
“Once Dopdi enters, in the final section of the story, the postscript area of lunar flux and sexual difference, she is in a place where she will finally act for herself in not acting, in challenging the man to (en) counter her as unrecorded or misrecorded objective historical monument. The army officer is shown as unable to ask the authoritative ontological question, “What is this?” (Breast Stories 36) (6) In fact, in the sentence describing Dopdis final summons to the sahibs tent, the agent is missing. An allegory of the womans struggle within the revolution in a shifting historical moment can be seen.”
Earlier in the same article Indrani Singh Rai presents the political setting that had provoked the writer to script her story about the colonial arrogance displayed in dealing with the cracking down the rebellion in the Naxalbari area in the northern part of the West Bengal. She observes:
“The story is a moment caught between two deconstructive formulas: on the one hand, a law that is fabricated with a view to its own transgression, on the other, the undoing of the binary opposition between the intellectual and the rural struggles. In order to grasp the minutiae of their relationship and involvement, one must enter a historical micrology that no foreword can provide. Draupadi the name takes us in long back in a hall, where the enemy chief begins to pull at her sari. Draupadi silently prays to the incarnate Krishna. The idea of sustaining law (dharma) materializes itself as clothing and as the king pulls at her sari, there seems to be more and more of it. She is infinitely clothed and cannot be publicly stripped. It is one of Krishnas miracles. But Mahasweta Devis Draupadi, gang raped by police, refuses to be clothed by men again. In Draupadi, what is represented is an erotic object transformed into an object of torture and revenge where the line between (hetero) sexuality and gender violence begins to blur.”
The critic well-explicates the meaning of disrobing – while the Draupadi of the epic gets her robe miraculously, the modern day defiant Dopti Mehjen refuses to be clothed thus making all those assembled there puerile and naked. Both the Draupadis are symbols of retaliation and stand as monumental role-models.

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Honeywell Process Solutions has established a new industrial internet of things (IIoT) business unit.
The company says its new IIoT unit will help manufacturers harness the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and more rapidly deploy technologies that will allow them to better manage and analyze data, making their operations safer, more reliable and more efficient.
Vimal Kapur, HPS president, says: “Since HPS’s introduction of the modern automation control system, we have helped plants and manufacturing sites around the world use an increasing amount of data to solve customer’s productivity and safety challenges.
“As manufacturers are looking to take the next step to manage and exploit data across multiple sites in locations across the globe, our new business unit will be a focused resource to provide that expertise.”
Andrew Hird has been named vice president and general manager of Honeywell’s new Digital Transformation unit and will report to Kapur. Hird most recently served as HPS’s global vice president of sales, where he gained exposure to customers in industries ranging from oil and gas and mining to power generation, and pulp and paper. Hird has more than 20 years of industry experience, including 12 years with Honeywell.
“Honeywell’s deep expertise in IIoT allows us to solve customer challenges by consolidating data in the cloud from multiple disparate systems, applying higher-level analytics and leveraging experts who are often physically remote from the customer site,” says Hird.
“Honeywell is in a unique position of being the recognized leader in automation and control room solutions for a wide range of process industries, plus we have advanced knowledge in connectivity with OPC UA, cyber security and advanced software development.”
OPC UA is Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture, a machine-to-machine communication protocol.
Honeywell has other technologies that help operators prioritize and manage a growing amount of operational data, including:
- DynAMo alarm and operations management;
- Industrial Cyber Security Risk Manager, which proactively monitors and manages cyber risk for industrial environments;
- Assurance 360, a multi-year cooperative service arrangement to maintain, support and optimize the performance of Honeywell control systems; and most recently
- Honeywell Pulse, a mobility app that allows plant managers to monitor real-time operations from a smartphone.
HPS’ IIoT solutions utilize Honeywell’s patented software infrastructure that gives customers a secure and simple method to capture their big industrial data in a secure portal that can be scaled to meet the varied needs of single-site or enterprise-wide operations.
Honeywell’s innovative solutions help manufacturing plants eliminate unplanned shutdowns, maximize output, minimize safety risk and optimize supply chain strategies.
For the refining and petrochemical industries, Honeywell Process Solutions will leverage the expertise of Honeywell UOP, the recognized world leader in inventing and licensing a wide range of technologies used globally to turn oil and natural gas into transportation fuels and petrochemicals.
Honeywell Process Solutions is a pioneer in automation control, instrumentation and services for the oil and gas; refining; pulp and paper; industrial power generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences; and metals, minerals and mining industries.
Process Solutions is part of Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies strategic business group, which also includes Honeywell UOP, a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries.


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I am fresh from a weekend on the Oregon coast where forests open to the ocean, with trees so tall they reach the heavens above. A verdant, magical fairyland.
You’d think mystical woodland creatures had scurried around planning this writer’s retreat. Pretty close. These aren’t your everyday, walking around folks. This band of self-described misfits are my people.*
Corporeal Writing co-founder Domi Shoemaker (striped shirt above) started out by declaring, “we are not the types to make you do sh!t.” This crew is about self-honoring practices. Here in old growth, Sitka Spruce country, the idea was to process pain and grief and express it in prose and poetry. With the support of wise old trees and one another, we turned pain into art.
Lots of vulnerability rose up in this space. It fueled our creativity to make stuff. Spending time in this incredible natural setting helped soak up the extra intense feelings. All this activity happens in right brain and produces sensations of connection and calm. It is so my preferred way to do vulnerability.
The playground of the brain’s right hemisphere is my favorite territory. It’s where I problem solve, dream, write and let go. It is free from social conditioning. Truth lives there and when it shows up, I don’t question it.
The work that happens in that right side is generative and real. My mission is to find direct pathways that take me there. For me, the most direct route is music. When I am inside an epic drum solo or soul stirring ethereal voice, I become one with it. My stressed out, self-conscious ego totally vanishes. It’s honestly such a relief.
Among these natural wonders and artists, Bastille’s Oblivion played in my mind over and over. Tears welled up.
Are you going to age with grace?
Are going to age without mistakes?
Are you going to age with grace,
Or only to wake and hide your face?
Before we had language, we had music. Singing. First, we hummed. Music occurs in the right brain where neurons are long, reaching backwards, forwards and into realms we can’t conceive of intellectually. Compared to the short, stubby neurons in the left hemisphere, it’s a way more connected place to be. Our culture trains us to live in that left brain where limited thinking, pressure and social and religious conditioning operate to reign in our wild hearts.
I’m here to tell you though, the right brain is where the magic happens. It’s the place I want to be all the time. Some left handed people have more going on in the right hemisphere than most. I am left handed so maybe that’s why it’s my preferred hangout. It’s where I coach my clients and ask right brainy questions to guide their problem-solving, desire-discovering and barrier-busting. It is RICH territory, totally free from cultural constructs and trauma. It accesses what we really want for ourselves. And sometimes that’s a real f!ckin surprise.
So. This song. It feels like it’s about me having the courage to show who I really am. To walk with purpose into the unknown. To trust that what, in retrospect, seemed like a wrong turn was actually meant to be exactly as it was. Or else it would have been different.
When oblivion is calling out your name
You always take it further
Then I ever can.
Are you going to age with grace?
Are you going to leave a path to trace?
We weren’t trained to cede control. My recent health scare reminded me that the unknown is all we ever have, regardless of what we put in place to avoid the inevitable. Control is an illusion. And the only way to move through it is with self-compassion. Grace. Trust. To surrender to the force greater than ourselves. The one supporting us on our path. And to always remember that what we want, wants us back. And that by staying in alignment with our own desires and unlearning harmful conditioning, we make ourselves available for all that is meant for us.
There is one aspect of this that we can actually control: what we think and believe about ourselves and others. If we question thoughts and beliefs that cause suffering, we can turn thoughts around to where they feel like peace in the body.** That is the only way to recognize truth. It feels exactly like freedom.
I will leave a path to trace. My journey will help others. And it is not only up to me. This path is a co-creation. Yours is too. And what a relief. I’ve been feeling so alone in my pursuit to figure out what all this is about, where I am meant to be, for a lifetime. And I don’t have to anymore.
When you realize you are held by a force greater than yourself and relax into the mystery and wonder of it all, you get the sense that it’s all going to be okay.
WRITING PROMPT: Do you recognize the difference between your own inner guide and the cultural and or religious conditioning that has convinced you of what you are supposed to want?
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*Where else will you get a writing space called “Sunday Spoonies,” a group just for people dealing with chronic pain. Or a dedicated LBGTQ session called Alphabet Island. Space for every kind of human, writing genre, and those of us who try to resist any labels at all. This is a group that welcomes you as you are. If you are like me and have always felt on the outside looking in, check them out. https://www.corporealwriting.com/corporeal-community
**https://thework.com/instruction-the-work-byron-katie/ This is a practice. And if you do it consistently, it will turn your everyday life into heaven on earth. I guarantee it.


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The $87.50 (the average cost at the time of the sale) is credited to Inventory and is debited to Cost of Goods Sold. The balance in the Inventory account will be $262.50 (3 books at an average cost of $87.50). In a moving average system, a new average is determined at the time of each purchase. Then, fifty are bought (bringing the total to sixty) with a cost of $15 each or $750 (bringing total cost up to $120 + $750 or $870). In a weighted (or periodic) averaging system, the average for the year is not determined until financial statements are to be produced.
- The cost of goods sold will be calculated by deducting the ending balance.
- In these cases, inventories are small enough that they are easy to manage using manual counts.
- The second sale of 180 units consisted of 20 units at $21 per unit and 160 units at $27 per unit for a total second-sale cost of $4,740.
- One of the main differences between these two types of inventory systems involves the companies that use them.
- This means the cost of its December 31 inventory using periodic LIFO will be $31 (1 unit at $11 plus 2 units at $10).
It is far more sophisticated than the periodic system of inventory management. A purchase return or allowance under perpetual inventory systems updates Merchandise Inventory for any decreased cost. Under periodic inventory systems, a temporary account, Purchase Returns and Allowances, is updated.
Let’s calculate the value of ending inventory using the data from the first example using the periodic LIFO technique. So out of the 14 units sold on January 6, we assign a value of $700 each to five units with the remainder of 9 units valued at the cost of the next most recent batch ($600 each). Second, we need to record the quantity and cost of inventory that is sold using the LIFO basis. NetSuite has packaged https://kelleysbookkeeping.com/ the experience gained from tens of thousands of worldwide deployments over two decades into a set of leading practices that pave a clear path to success and are proven to deliver rapid business value. With NetSuite, you go live in a predictable timeframe — smart, stepped implementations begin with sales and span the entire customer lifecycle, so there’s continuity from sales to services to support.
Under a periodic inventory system, Purchases will be updated, while Merchandise Inventory will remain unchanged until the company counts and verifies its inventory balance. This count and verification typically occur at the end of the annual accounting period, which is often on December 31 of the year. The Merchandise Inventory account balance is reported on the balance sheet while the Purchases account is reported on the Income Statement when using the periodic inventory method. The Cost of Goods Sold is reported on the Income Statement under the perpetual inventory method.
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The company uses a periodic inventory system to account for sales and purchases of inventory. Cameron Ltd. is an electronic retailer company that uses a tracking system to identify every single item in its inventory. The following table illustrates the company’s purchases and sales of LCD screens during the month of April 2017.
- The Cost of Goods Sold is reported on the Income Statement under the perpetual inventory method.
- The perpetual inventory system gives real-time updates and keeps a constant flow of inventory information available for decision-makers.
- The cost of goods sold, inventory, and gross margin shown in Figure 10.15 were determined from the previously-stated data, particular to perpetual FIFO costing.
- When using the perpetual system, the Inventory account is constantly (or perpetually) changing.
- The bad news is the periodic method does do things just a little differently.
- The software you introduce into the workflow will make it easier for you to update and maintain your inventory.
Changes in inventory are accurate (as long as there is no theft or damage to any goods) and can be easily accessed immediately. The information collected digitally is sent to central databases in real-time. Not only must an adjustment to Merchandise Inventory occur at the end of a period, but closure of temporary merchandising accounts to prepare them for the next period is required. Temporary accounts requiring closure are Sales, Sales Discounts, Sales Returns and Allowances, and Cost of Goods Sold. Sales will close with the temporary credit balance accounts to Income Summary. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) do not state a required inventory system, but the periodic inventory system uses a Purchases account to meet the requirements for recognition under GAAP.
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On November 18, the cost of seventy units bought on July 6 is also transferred. That leaves thirty units at $11 each ($330) plus the December 16 purchase of fifty units at $15 each or $750. To illustrate, note that two bathtubs were sold on September 9 by the Mayberry Home Improvement Store.
When applying a weighted average system, this single average for the entire period is the basis for both the ending inventory and cost of goods sold to be reported in the financial statements. Beginning merchandise inventory had a balance before adjustment of $3,150. https://business-accounting.net/ The inventory at period end should be $7,872, requiring an entry to increase merchandise inventory by $4,722. Journal entries are not shown, but the following calculations provide the information that would be used in recording the necessary journal entries.
Comparison of All Four Methods, Perpetual
This formula only uses to make assumptions and calculate the quantity of inventory being sold. To calculate the valuation of goods sold, it will be a problem when the cost we spend changes over time. We will use the valuation methods such as FIFO, LIFO, and Weighted average. Under the https://quick-bookkeeping.net/ periodic system, new inventory purchases will be recorded into the inventory account after receiving. The cost of goods sold will be calculated by deducting the ending balance. When a sales return occurs, perpetual inventory systems require recognition of the inventory’s condition.
Once those units were sold, there remained 30 more units of beginning inventory. At the time of the second sale of 180 units, the FIFO assumption directs the company to cost out the last 30 units of the beginning inventory, plus 150 of the units that had been purchased for $27. Thus, after two sales, there remained 75 units of inventory that had cost the company $27 each. The last transaction was an additional purchase of 210 units for $33 per unit. Ending inventory was made up of 75 units at $27 each, and 210 units at $33 each, for a total FIFO perpetual ending inventory value of $8,955.
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Periodic Inventory System
With this application, customers have payment flexibility, and businesses can make present decisions to positively affect growth. As you’ve learned, the perpetual inventory system is updated continuously to reflect the current status of inventory on an ongoing basis. Modern sales activity commonly uses electronic identifiers—such as bar codes and RFID technology—to account for inventory as it is purchased, monitored, and sold. Specific identification inventory methods also commonly use a manual form of the perpetual system. Each time this figure is found by dividing the number of units on hand after the purchase into the total cost of those items.
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As spare and clean and unflinching as a John Ford movie. At times reminds me of The Searchers in its perfect marriage of style and pained stoicism, and the way the sky and fate dwarf the all-too-human interiors. Superb editing and interior design, and probably Duvall's finest performance.
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The temporary liquor license issued to the embattled Villa Group is valid for only one of its resorts, the company said Thursday.
Customs along with the police had raided five resorts of the group owned opposition Jumhoory Party (JP) leader Gasim Ibrahim, which included Fun Island Resort, Sun Island Resort, Paradise Island Resort, Holiday Island Resort and Royal Island Resort.
Authorities later claimed that four of the five resorts searched under the operation had an illegally acquired stock of pork and alcohol.
According to the authorities, the country's inland revenue authority had temporarily revoked the alcohol license of the four resorts over failure to pay taxes. However, the Villa Group had illegally diverted pork and alcohol from its sole license in Royal Island Resort to its sister properties.
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Paris attacks 4 years on: What Islamic State and suburban gangs have in common
Jivani’s family got into a minor car accident on their way home. The response police was so overblown it became burned into his memory.
It was Paris’ darkest night this century.
On November 13, 2015, Islamic jihadists wearing suicide vests and brandishing AK-47s murdered 130 people and wounded hundreds more across the French capital.
Four years on, a resurgent and emboldened Islamic State is wreaking havoc with violence, crop fires and suicide bombings across Syria and Iraq, and according to Jamil Jivani, the frontline of the battle is much closer than you think.
Jivani is author of Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It’.
According to Jivani, the Paris jihadists and the kids from his neighbourhood have a few things in common: They were young, they were Muslim and they were men.
Terror, bloodshed and death might be where radicalisation and extremist ideology ends, but it’s not where it begins.
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The Paris attackers had all grown up in the margins and nearly all had fallen foul of the law and then been radicalised in prison.
Jivani remembers his first encounter with police. The shadow from their hats obscuring their eyes. Bright flashlights blinding his own.
He was just eight years old.
Jivani remembers it clearly, not only because of his age and his fear, but it was also one of the few times his family — both parents and his two younger sisters — were all together.
“That didn’t happen very much, so I remember really clearly. We were on our way home, and we got into a minor car accident,” he said.
As soon as the police arrived, they started acting aggressively.
Jivani’s dad was forced to sit on the kerb. They yelled at him and belittled him. Jivani watched on.
Like many children, Jivani looked to his parents as authority figures. He saw them as the arbiters of right and wrong.
“When you see your father being treated like he’s the child, being demeaned and yelled at and denigrated, it burns into your memory. I remember thinking the reason they were acting that way toward my father, who’s a black man, and my mother, who’s a white woman, is because of race,” he said.
From that point on, Jivani felt uncomfortable around anyone in uniform.
He saw police officers as part of the problem, only protecting the status quo but keeping him and the people he cared about down.
“The people who you trust as a taxpayer to keep your community safe are treating you like you are a danger. It’s a hard thing to get used to,” Jivani said.
Canada is the only country Jivani has ever known, and yet, because of his race, he never felt like he belonged.
“I think that’s the long-lasting effect that racial profiling can have on a community. It deteriorates your relationship with your country. You don’t feel you’re being welcomed, even if you’re born there,” he said.
In an ideal society, parents and teachers are involved in a young person’s life and can help them process difficult experiences. But Jivani didn’t have those adults in his life. Instead, like many young men, there was an unlimited supply of people who wanted to feed and fan the flames of his anger.
By 11th grade, Jivani was obsessed with rap music and gang culture and decided to buy a gun.
Surrounded by anti-authoritarian youth who were the product of similar broken homes, bad role models and a society that had not accepted them, Jivani was determined to live out the criminal lifestyle he’d glorified.
Jivani was at a crossroads. He liked being angry. He was ready to explode.
Yet unlike many in his peer group he chose to walk away from it all.
He didn’t buy that gun.
Instead, Jivani got his life together, attended Yale, studied law and eventually, as a professor, decided he wanted to be part of the change.
“The Paris attacks stood out to me just because the perpetrators – who were from Molenbeek section or district in Brussels – were pretty similar in biography to some of the young men I grew up with,” Jivani said.
They also resented the society that had discriminated against them.
“Being a criminal, being extremist, being violent, these are things that are born out of a rejection.”
Molenbeek has been dubbed the Jihadi capital of Europe.
“And the unfortunate reality is that in that neighbourhood, in Brussels at the time, the government just brushed that community off. They were not concerned about those families, those children, and so they were looking the other way while this hatred and anti-social thinking was boiling up,” Jivani said.
“It’s no wonder then that you wind up having an organisation like ISIS being able to thrive in that environment because people don’t care enough about those kids to make sure they’re not being exposed to that kind of hatred and divisive thinking, right?”
Jivani says his book aims to show the world what some of the young men we write off in our society can achieve if we engage them.
There is no silver bullet. Only with individual and localised programs and positive male role models Jivani believes hearts and minds can be engaged.
Jamil Jivani’s book ‘Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It’ is out now.
Angus Smith is a Melbourne based journalist. Continue the conversation on Twitter @angussmithh


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The India China border tensions (especially the Doklam issue) had an impact on Bollywood films. While Aamir Khan’s movies are a craze in China, a few Indian filmmakers played it safe by dropping the idea of casting Chinese actors in their films.
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