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Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse hit theaters today in limited countries. The worldwide release date for the movie is 2nd June 2023. Sony Pictures Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse impressed both audiences and critics in 2018. It set a benchmark for animated movies, setting impossibly high expectations for the next installment of the film.
Thankfully, Sony didn’t disappoint fans’ expectations with the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse part one. It lives up to the expectation of both critics and fans and continues to amaze with a more creative animation style. Here I will share a spoiler-free movie review for you. So, let’s delve into the world of Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Movie Review
In 2018’s first installment of the Spider-Verse saga, It was all about the Miles Morales universe. Although a few different versions of Spider-Man did appear in the movie, it was just a drop from the oceans of Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse shows an uncountable number of Spider-Man versions, including the live-action ones. A few memorable mentions are Miguel O’Hara, Peter B Parker, Jessica Drew, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Punk, Lego Spider-Man, and Pavitr Prabhakar.
We also get to see the different universes, which are represented beautifully with different animation styles. The movie explores the other characters this time, especially Gwen Stacy. We get to know why the chemistry between Miles and Gwen is like this.
The story of the movie leaves the audience in a situation where they want to support a character, but deep down, they know it’s not the right choice. That’s the time I asked a question to myself (With Great Powers Come Great Responsibilities) does this really matters? By the end of the movie, I had my answer.
It shows Miles Morales trying to do exactly what King Pin did in the first part of the Spider-Verse saga. He is ready to end the Multiverse just to save one person. The story also shows more aspects of Miles Morales becoming Spider-Man. As it was just an anomaly in the Multiverse, making Miles the villain of the rest of the Spider-Man Versions.
However, this isn’t like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse part one is flawless. The movie just keeps building momentum for the final 40-30 minutes and ends right before the final fight. Meanwhile, the fight between Spider-Man was already spoiled by Sony in Tv-Spots.
I personally believe that the main villain of the movie (The Spot) needed more time on screen. The sudden changes in his behavior from goofy to a maniac villain were a bit awkward. However, the connection between Miles and the Spot was on point to continue the story of the movie.
In conclusion, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has turned out to be a better sequel and continues the story of the Spider-Verse saga further. The story doesn’t end in this part, as the sequel of the movie is scheduled in the first quarter of 2024. Across the Spider-Verse explores the beautiful different universes from Spider-Verse more than ever. You shouldn’t miss the opportunity to feel this on the big screen if you are a Spider-Man fan.


Partisan Fighting Continues Over Election of Chair
The Planning and Zoning Commissioners continued their battle over election of officers last night. The Democrats normally have a 4 to 3 majority, but with Commissioner Barbara Plum again absent for the winter months, and the Republican alternate, Ken McClellan, seated, there were 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats voting. The Democrats entered the meeting with a plan for sharing power with the Republicans. This plan was that Democrats would hold both the Chair and the Vice-chair position, while Republicans would hold the Secretary position and the representative to MidState Regional Planning.
The Republicans did not agree. When vice-chair Richard Pelletier (D) called for the vote on Chair, it went strictly according to party lines, Les Adams (R) getting 4 votes and Quentin Phipps (D) getting 3 votes. Dan Russo (D) then quickly nominated Les Adams (R) for Secretary, apparently catching the Republicans off guard. Adams was elected by a unanimous vote. Catherine Johnson (R) was then also nominated by Dan Russo to serve as the P&Z representative to Midstate Regional Planning, and also elected unanimously.
At this point, the meeting turned silly and ugly. Adams made a motion that in the absence of a chair, the commission ask Mayor Giuliano, as an ex officio member of P&Z to chair the meeting temporarily. Dan Russo, who also serves as Chair of the Democratic Town Committee, objected strenuously, "I find the suggestion offensive and insulting." The normally equanimous Phipps reached his limit, shouting at the Republicans, "This is audacious and this is destructionist! We [the Democrats] have reached out with our hand with an olive branch." Phipps also claimed that his support for Adams as secretary was purely on the basis of a meritocracy, and had nothing to do with political party.
Russo tied the impasse to the failure of the Republicans to support the election of former Commissioner James Fortuna as secretary at the last meeting, implying that Fortuna's death by a heart attack was related in some way to the obstructionist approach of the Republicans on the P&Z.
After extensive discussion, Adams and the other Republicans admitted that it was not possible for the mayor to chair a meeting, when the bylaws explicitly said that if there is no chair, the vice-chair or the secretary should run the meeting. Adams withdrew his motion relating to the Mayor. Almost an hour after they started, the commission turned their attention to planning and zoning.
A new ordinance for the keeping of animals has been proposed by the Health Department, and Planning and Zoning has been given an opportunity to advise the Common Council before the Council votes on the ordinance. The ordinance is far more nuanced and detailed than the
current ordinance on farm animals, which simply states that any and all animals must be 200 feet from the nearest residence (including that of the owners). The proposed new ordinance regulates what kinds of animals can be kept, and at what density, issues of fencing, how close they can be to neighboring properties and wells, and waste storage and disposal issues. The commission has 35 days to provide its recommendation to the Council.
Ron Borrelli, former P&Z commissioner and current Inland Wetlands commissioner, spoke to the commissioners at length about his problems with his neighbor's horses. Repeatedly informing the commissioners that each horse produces 10 tons of manure per year, he spoke of the pollution that this amount of waste creates. Borrelli passed out photographs of run-off from the neighboring horse farm, and told the commissioners "The Health Department is not doing their job." Pointing to the problems he has experienced, he called on P&Z to reject the proposed new ordinance. He argued that most of the new rules should be in Zoning laws rather than a Health Department ordinance.
The Commission unanimously decided to spend the next two weeks studying the matter, and continued the discussion of the ordinance until the January 27th meeting. They also agreed to later hold a workshop and to get input from the UConn Extension Service, with a view towards modifying the Zoning regulations.
Plan of Conservation and Development
A state law taking effect on July 1st will ban cities without an updated Plan of Conservation and Development from receiving state discretionary funds. The Commission worked assiduously from the summer of 2008 to last fall, to update Middletown's POCD, holding numerous workshops and public hearings.
Michael Ennis spoke, as a citizen and as an individual member of the Conservation Commission, of the importance of moving on the POCD, "It's a good blueprint for going forward." Pointing out its importance, he said that the renaissance of Main Street during the past 19 years is a direct product of the 1991 POCD. In a letter to the Commissioners, he praised both the process and the product, "It is my belief this document represents a solid, comprehensive blueprint for Middletown's next decade, and reflects an intelligent and balanced approach to growth, conservation, and Middletown's unique character and quality of life. I also believe it is the product of a diligent, thorough, open and democratic process, and the best collective effort of your commission, City staff and departments, other commissions and private citizens."
The Commission set a date of March 10 to vote on the plan in the draft form as it currently stands (available HERE). They also agreed on a target date of June 9th to finish making changes to the plan and amending the approved plan. Commissioner Johnson proposed January 28th, at 6:30PM, for a subcommittee to work on the POCD. Most of the commissioners agreed to attend.
Randolph Road: Storage Structure at the Emergency Management Headquarters
By statute, all improvements to public facilities (roads, parks, city buildings) come before P&Z for approval and it is customary for the applicant to appear to explain why the improvement is needed. As nobody from the the Middletown Emergency Management team was present, the commissioners tabled the discussion until the January 27th meeting.
A Busy January 27th
An application for a Special Exception by The Public nightclub on Main Street, for an expansion, was scheduled for a public hearing at the January 27th meeting. Two subdivision applications, on Saybrook Road were also scheduled for a public hearing that night.
Acting chair Richard Pelletier opened the meeting with a moment of silence for Commissioner James Fortuna, who died in December. Commissioner Dan Russo praised Fortuna's service, noting in particular his attendance record over the 20 years that he served, "I was told in all that time he missed three meetings."
I have attended P&Z meetings off and on for over a decade, and it was quite sad last night to see an empty chair where he normally sat. Jim was not the kind of commissioner who displayed passion as a public servant, he epitomized the state nickname, "Land of steady habits." He was always there, always polite, never held a grudge, and most of all never seemed to vote for anything other than what he thought was right for the city. I must confess that there were many times when I wanted him to jump up and down, he never did. There were times I wanted him to shout, he never did. There were times I wanted him to argue violently with another commissioner, he never did. In the end, I came to appreciate his equanimity, he provided the long-term, steady, public service that balances a city, and keeps a democracy going forward through thick and thin.


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Holiday rental host launches petition calling for rethink of fees
Extra fees on residents using their homes for vacation rentals have been challenged in an online petition.
The change.org post by Eugenie Simmons-Vidal had racked up 164 of its target 200 signatures as of 9pm tonight.
The move for an annual fee, defended by tourism minister Vance Campbell in the House of Assembly as a modest charge, is expected to bring in $500,000 annually for the public purse.
Under the legislation, to come into effect on April 1, properties with an annual rental value below $22,800 will pay $1,500 annually.
Those valued between $22,801 to $90,000 will pay $2,000 – with a $2,500 yearly fee for property valued at $90,001 and above.
The move was passed despite objections from the One Bermuda Alliance.
It incurred criticism from owners of the rentals, seen as a less expensive option for visitors to Bermuda.
Property owners also highlighted the continuing slump in Bermuda tourism, which was dealt a body blow by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ms Simmons-Vidal’s post stated there was a misconception that “Bermuda vacation rental hosting is a lucrative business”.
“The fact is, for the majority, it is not. It is comprised primarily of older property owners who are attempting to defray the cost maintaining their properties on limited pension incomes.
“The money earned from vacation rentals is not making them rich or supporting lavish lifestyles.”
Ms Vidal said the real competition in Bermuda was not between local vacation rentals.
She said renters were up against “the global vacations rental market in other places where travellers can rent similar size units with same amenities (linens, toiletries, complimentary items) for about half the cost of a vacation rental unit in Bermuda”.
Ms Vidal claimed the extra fees could take a 27 per cent bite out of rental host revenue.
“There is no other business or industry paying this percentage of revenue on its gross earnings,” she wrote.
“This added licensing fee therefore is unjust to Bermuda’s vacation rental hosts and must be revoked immediately as it will put many vacation hosts out of business, remove critical vacation rental units from the market in the face of insufficient hotel beds in the upcoming tourism season, and has the potential to cost additional tax money to implement and to police.”
She added: “If the Bermuda Government is seeking revenue, it should consider increasing the existing vacation rental tax by 0.5 per cent.”
Mr Campbell assured MPs during the March 24 debate in the House that the move would not cut down the number of vacation rentals on the island.
The minister said: “We believe these fees are nor exorbitant, nor are they prohibitive.”
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Rough Idle; Acceleration Hesitation from Stop; Backfire
I have a 2001 Dodge 1500 pickup with the 3.9L V6 engine. It has approximately 60,000 miles.
The problem is the truck idles fine when it starts up, but after about 5 mins or so when idling, the truck starts to shake and idle low (about 300-400 rpm). The engine does not stall. I can hear a sucking noise from the Idle Air Control (IAC), and it gets louder. Eventually, the noise, rough idle, and shaking disapears and the engine runs very smooth.
This also occassionally happens when the truck is idling at a stop in drive position. When this happens and I try to accelerate, the truck hesitates and I hear backfiring from the exhaust. The truck loses power and will not accelerate. I have to pull over and try to baby the truck to return to normal. I still hear the sucking noise from the IAC when this happens.
I have gotten a Check Engine Light with the P0132 code (O2 signal wire shorted to voltage) a couple of times. I checked the O2 wiring before the catalytic converter, and the wire seems fine. I have replaced IAC, spark plug, ignition wires, throttle position sensor (TPS), and fuel pump. What could cause this problem? This is happening more often, and it is starting to irritate me. I would like some suggestions. Thanks.


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|Season 3, Episode 6|
Gorilla My Dreams
Adam and Jake try to determine which of them is the leader and which of them is the lackey.
- Adam Lyon
- Jake Spidermonkey
- Slips Python
- Windsor Gorilla
- Lupe Toucan
- Ingrid Giraffe
- Principal Pixiefrog
- Mrs. Warthog
- Donna Dorsal
- Dickie Sugarjumper
- Bull Sharkowski
- Brandon Capybara
- Harry Bat
- Henry Armadillo
- Miss Chameleon
- Mr. Hornbill
- Endugu Elephant (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Larry Monitor Lizard (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Phineas Porpoise (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Wardell Wombat (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Marvin Hammy (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Joanie Ox (Non-Speaking Cameo)
- Truffles Duvall (Mentioned)
- Jippy (Mentioned)
- The title is a pun on "Sidekick".
- Truffles Duvall is mentioned again, and it's revealed that not only is she a singer, but she also has a show called "Yo Mama" and a sidekick named Jippy.
- Ingrid constantly speaks street in this episode, which nobody else likes. However, when Windsor talks street, it's accepted and considered funny.
- Many "leader and lackey" pairings between characters are established in this episode. Here's a list of them, with the leaders being listed first and the lackeys listed last.
- Apparently, there's a Leader's Lounge in the school, which serves as a separate, more high class cafeteria, that leaders can eat in, while the sidekicks are only allowed in the regular cafeteria.
- Slips depends on Windsor to help him shed his skin, by using him as a backscratcher. However, in "The Sheds" and "Don't Noc It 'Til You Try It", he usually sheds his skin, independently.
- Henry Armadillo is the only kid in school, who doesn't have another student, to be his sidekick or leader.
- When the sidekicks took over their leaders, and entered the "Leader's Lounge", Henry was in there, indicating he must have found a counterpart to be his leader.
- Credits: A male seahorse pulls a never-ending line of baby carraiges filled with baby seahorses.

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Welcome to Literacy Cafe!
Monday 26th June
Today we read the Monster Pet by Jan Pienkowski. A story set in a fantasy world and using repeated patterns and rhymes. The children created their own monster pets and posters to care for their pet. They also made finger puppets so they could retell the story in their own words.
Monday 12th June
Today we read the Runway Pizza by Brenda Parkes. It is a re telling of the traditional tale - The Gingerbread Man. The Children enjoyed joining in with the rhyme the cheeky pizza shouted at all the people trying to catch him.
The children and their parents thought of interesting words to describe the pizza and completed some pizza inspired maths work.
Monday 5th June
Today's book is called Kakadu Jack by Brenda Parkes. It tells the story of a naughty parrot who lives in the Caribbean and the chaos he causes on a trip to the market. We will looking at the rhyming words and predictable language. We will also be learning about Alliteration - when words start with the same letter sound.
15.5.17 - Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt
We talked about the importance of rhyming for developing language. We listened to the funny story of Timothy looking through his telescope in the park and what did he see?
A Shark in the Park!
or did he?
8.5.17 - Elmer and Wilbur by David McKee
This week we will be reading this lovely story about Wilbur and his mischievous cousin Wilbur.
Click the link below to see the powerpoint for ideas and activities.
Summer Term 2017
Our first book this term was Pig in the Pond by Martin Waddell.
We had lots of fun listening to the story. We played babble gabble with our parents, listing all the different animals that could be found on a farmyard.
Click on the link below to find ideas that you can do at home after reading the book.

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Finding music in ‘moments of mishearing’
The author of seven novels, Chaudhuri’s wide ranging creative career extends to being one of the most influential literary critics of his generation, alongside being a poet, essayist, anthologist as well as a trained and critically acclaimed singer in the North Indian classical tradition.
While most authors focus on single human protagonists, Amit Chaudhuri believes in focusing on the simplicity of a moment itself. Human characters don’t take centre stage; instead, single elements of a moment—be it a room, a wall or even smoke, become central characters that continually change, taking readers from one moment to the next, depicting the everyday in a style so powerful, yet quite, that Hilary Mantel, double Man Booker prize-winning author, compared him to Marcel Proust, for ‘perfecting the art of the moment.’ ‘He is a miniaturist,’ she says, ‘for whom tiny moments become radiant, and for whom the complexities of the fleeting mood uncurl onto the page like a leaf, a petal.’
The author of seven novels, Chaudhuri’s wide ranging creative career extends to being one of the most influential literary critics of his generation, alongside being a poet, essayist, anthologist as well as a trained and critically acclaimed singer in the North Indian classical tradition. The recipient of numerous awards such as the Commonwealth Literature Prize and the Betty Trask award (for A Strange and Sublime Address), the Encore Prize (for Afternoon Raag), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Freedom Song), Sahitya Akademi Award (for A New World) and the Rabindra Puraskar (for On Tagore), Chaudhuri’s passion for the creative arts goes well beyond just writing. His first CD of experimental music, This is Not Fusion, established him as one of India’s most internationally acclaimed experimental musicians, bringing together the raga, the blues, jazz, rock, and techno in what can only be called a monumental album.
Despite his illustrious career in the creative arts, Chaudhuri finds it difficult to define the inspiration behind his artistic impulses. ‘This word has always puzzled and confused me,’ he says, ‘I don’t know what “inspiration” is. If you’re talking about a certain kind of excitement, then I would say it happens from time to time when certain things fall into place, in a way that you hadn’t noticed before, urging you to explore further. The whole business of inspiration has to do with noticing things which you had left unnoticed or hadn’t seen. That’s what inspiration is to me—to see something in a way I haven’t seen before and then to explore what I’ve found. The pleasure and the excitement you feel, even when there is no guarantee of any reward or comprehension, it has its own value —value for its own sake. That is what drives me to continue doing what I’m doing.’
Growing up with music
With quite a singular and unique approach to how he views the arts—be it writing or singing, Chaudhuri’s love affair with Indian classical music can be traced to his mother Bijoya Chaudhuri, a well-known exponent of Tagore songs and devotionals. ‘She was singing all the time. She sang in a very exact, classicist way that was unromantic and devoid of sentimentality, bringing out both the voice’s tonality and the emotion inherent in the music,’ he shares. He found a great calmness in her singing, with her personality going into the background, and a ‘kind of serenity’ coming to the foreground. ‘That contrast is something I became aware of quite early because I noticed everyone would put their personality in the foreground and their interpretation of the music was all about themselves. She, on the other hand, didn’t feel it necessary to add her own emotion. She felt that the emotion was there the music itself and that’s what she tried to draw and bring out, as much as possible.’ Over time, he began to realise that this affected the way he thought about art, understanding the importance of the craft it takes to allow the music to occupy the foreground. Art had become a kind of exercise in precision and in exactness, in fidelity to the kind of meaning inherent in things.
Growing up in a small nuclear family in Kolkata and later Mumbai, Chaudhuri recalls listening to rock and pop music in the late 1960’s when his father brought home a Hi-Fi system that came with two complimentary records. ‘In the kind of more middle class areas where we were growing up, western pop music was everywhere,’ he tells me. Listening to The Cure and the early Bee Gee’s, he began his musical journey by first playing the air guitar, and later the actual guitar, composing and singing his own songs. By the time he was 16 years old, he began harbouring the dream to become a Canadian singer-songwriter, influenced by musicians such as Neil Young, James Taylor and Leonard Cohen.
Despite his indulgence in western music and his aspirations to be a western musician, Indian classical music was an ever present force that shaped his life. It was around the same time he became exposed to Indian classical music through Pandit Govind Prasad Jaipurwale, a new teacher who came to teach his mother bhajans, or devotional songs. ‘It was a great experience just listening to him sing. I also remember listening to ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan and what he was doing with the ghazal – again, a very classicist, classical approach to singing – extremely calm and unromantic.’ Around that time, he found himself drawn to the singing of Indian classical legends such as Pandit Jasraj and Kishori Amonkar who were often singing live in Mumbai, leading to the dissolution of his aspirations of being a western singer-songwriter while also distancing him from his interest in western music.
A regime of manic practice
‘When I began to hear more and more of them, my old prejudices began to fall away and I began to realise what an extraordinary kind of music it was. I would be trying to sing in the way they were singing and then I would realise that it wasn’t easy,’ he says. Refusing to admit defeat, he went into a regime of ‘manic practice,’ training for up to five hours a day, gradually setting aside his guitar to have more time to solely devote to Hindustani classical music. ‘I began to learn from Pandit Govind Prasad, practising incessantly. My mother was worried because I had a congenital heart murmur, a heart defect, and she worried this regime of practising for hours would hamper my health but I continued nevertheless.’
Pursuing a degree in English from University College London, Chaudhuri’s dedication to music remained his main priority. Carrying a small, custom-made tanpura, a harmonium and a cassette that had the thekas and Vilabmit ektal taped, he conducted his riyaaz in his London room, extremely conscious of his surroundings, but still steadfast in his determination to keep up his practice.
What led to such single-minded dedication? Was it merely the excitement of finding a new hobby? To that he replies with a strong no. ‘I felt that I was drawn to it, I was committed to it. It wasn’t a hobby—I don’t have any hobbies. Anything I do, I follow it through. Music certainly wasn’t my hobby—it was much less exciting. It wasn’t something I thought about making time for, and it wasn’t something I did so people could recognise what I was doing. I was doing it for myself.’
Situated in solitary confinement
For the first two years of college, Chaudhuri was notorious for skipping classes. The idea of coming into contact with others made him miserable while not coming into contact with them did the same, so he decided to situate himself in ‘solitary misery rather than misery amidst others.’ Not only did this give him ample time for his riyaaz, he was also able to write more, a passion he took just as seriously.
It was in his final year of study when one of his teachers applauded and appreciated his essays that things came together for him intellectually. ‘He was the first person who saw a real value in what I was writing. That was the first time I had a sense of being recognised. In Bombay I never had that chance,’ he adds.
He discovered the joy of writing when he was admitted to The Cathedral & John Connon School, an elite school in Bombay. With his parents never speaking a word of English to him, he felt the pressing need to fit in, to be able to learn and write English. ‘The headmistress told my mother to give me comic books and Ladybird books to read. Soon after, I picked up English and began to write and take pleasure in showing off that I had learned the language and I did so by writing stories,’ he recalls. In a place which was otherwise extremely miserable for him – school – he found delight in writing. ‘I felt alienated but I felt so, not just because I didn’t understand the language, but I felt alienated from the whole system of school itself. I detested the system where teachers instinctively rewarded the extroverted child and ignored those that didn’t step into the foreground,’ he explains.
While his love for writing stayed with him through college and thereafter, he also continued to nurture his fascination for classical music. Spending a lot of time in India during his college years, his insatiable quest to keep learning music made him desperately seek time away from the confines of London, to return to India, under the comfortable guidance of his teacher.
A religious conversion
In the 16 years Chaudhuri spent in London, as he pursued his PhD from Oxford, he had voluntarily switched off from listening to western music. ‘When I returned, the intensity had gone,’ he tells me, ‘I could listen to western music without flinching again.’ While listening to Jimi Hendrix playing the blues, in the pentatonic scale, he noticed certain ragas. ‘I began to hear doubly. Many months after that, I was listening to Raag Tori in the morning and I thought I heard the riff to Eric Clapton’s Layla,” he shares.
These ‘moments of mishearing,’ as he describes it, is what led him to study and explore these convergences. Despite being a devoted practitioner of the traditional form of Hindustani classical music, Chaudhuri went on to explore a rather unconventional version of experimental music in his albums This is Not Fusion and Found Music. ‘This knowledge of these convergences within oneself, coming about at certain moments, through these moments of mishearing is what led to this project. It wasn’t fusion in the ordinary sense—it was a convergence where you suddenly hear Layla in a Tori. Where is it coming from, what can it lead to?’ he asked.
‘Once something occurs to me, I see how long it continues to exert pressure on me and then I commit to it. If I commit to it I go all the way through. The same thing happened to the riff in Layla in Tori,’ he explains. Can musical language emerge from such an overlap? He wondered, unable to let go of the idea. ‘The idea stayed with me and I thought that maybe I should pursue and explore this,’ he adds. A Moment Of Mishearing, his 2015 feature-length film explores his awakening to the similarities between classical Indian ragas and western pop, jazz and blues.
‘This is Not Fusion’
Despite the apparent blend between western and Hindustani classical music, he refuses to call his album ‘fusion,’ aptly naming it This is Not Fusion. ‘Fusion presumes that an Indian person is located in a certain
place that has clear demarcations in India and the west is somewhere out there in the West represented by a western musician,’ he says. ‘Music isn’t a part of a common inheritance,’ he insists. ‘The riff in Layla is as much as my inheritance as much as Raag Tori is. In fact it is much more my inheritance because I knew Layla before I heard Tori. In fact it’s as much your inheritance, and an American’s or anyone else’s.’ His album questions the conventional markers by which we decide what experimental music should sound like. ‘Musical experimentation has to have a kind of impulse of its own, arising from the musical make-up and background of the musician,’ he explains. ‘It cannot arise because a classical Indian musician wants to do fusion all of a sudden. Or, if someone wants to popularise Indian classical music and puts it in a kind of capsule which would be more pleasant for others to listen to. If these are the impulses then that’s not an experiment,’ he adds. For Chaudhuri, experiments are not secondary to something you actually do, rather, it is as important as everything you do.
Arguing that the space for genuine experimentation, or exploration is lost, he hopes to be able to witness a time when people make way for these excursions. ‘We have to find a way of creating a conversation of a language which can talk interestingly and meaningfully about culture. It should have a status of its own so that even if we have heard a piece of music this person is talking about, or we have previously heard what he/she is saying, it should be of interest itself. But that doesn’t happen. All we can talk about is whether someone is successful or not. We don’t know why they’re successful.’
In his novel The Immortals, Chaudhuri delicately explores the contradictory world of music, as seen from the eyes of a mother-son musician duo set in the backdrop of 70s Bombay. ‘I wanted to write about this whole business of what creative people from different generations and classes that are connected with music, do in a time when the free market is changing the way we are looking at art.’ Painting a detailed portrait of the spiritual force behind the Indian tradition of learning classical music, the novel traces the lives of two families—one affluent, while the other middle-class, depicting how their musical choices are influenced by society.
Using the novel as a springboard to share observations made from his own life, Chaudhuri argues that in today’s age, art has no place. ‘However much one argues that art still has a place today, it actually doesn’t. Traditional artists and practitioners of Indian classical music are living in a world where the idea or value of their art is directed by the market, and not through any inherent memory or value associated with their art form. Those memories and values have been erased—so what do the arts do? Immortals is an exploration of the great beauty of learning music while showing how the protagonist is living in a world which actually has no way of valuing that music. It only values success. It only values financial reward. He has no way of valuing something like music and he has made peace with the world, making music regardless.’
Despite his belief that traditional Indian music is losing its place in the world, personally, he still feels drawn to it like never before. When asked what about music entices him the most, he takes a moment’s pause. ‘The sensuousness, or the hypnotic impact of the tone of the voice is what draws me to it. Voices that do not possess that tone don’t mean anything to me. However famous a singer may be, if their voices don’t possess that tonality, the kind of spiritual value, they are lacking the basic beauty of music. There’s nothing like the beauty of the tone a great singer or musician has. It’s a question of what that singer can do, what his instruments can do and how they fare with improvisation and on-the-spot creativity.’
With his seventh novel Friend of My Youth out this year, Amit Chaudhuri’s passion for creation has him working on a book of essays, with ideas for albums and novels in the pipeline. Alongside these endeavours, he currently serves as the Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the editor of the Picador/ Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature.
N Anita Amreen is a writer who began her creative career with a five year stint as a journalist, with her work appearing in national dailies such as Dhaka Tribune and Daily Sun. Presently, she works as Manager for the publishing wing of Bengal Foundation.
The author of seven novels, Chaudhuri’s wide ranging creative career extends to being one of the most influential literary critics of his generation, alongside being a poet, essayist, anthologist as well as a trained and critically acclaimed singer in the North Indian classical tradition. While most authors focus on single human protagonists, Amit Chaudhuri believes…


When will the internet stop body-shaming people?
I recently saw the movie The Dressmaker. It’s set in 1950s Australia where a woman comes back to her hometown to exact some revenge. She’s a dressmaker and just so extremely talented, that she decides to use her talent to get back at those who may have wronged her when she was a young girl.
The title role called for someone dynamic and breathtakingly beautiful. Befittingly (no pun intended), the producers chose Kate Winslet, the 40-year-old, Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta winning actress. Watching Winslet’s astounding figure fill up the screen, dressed in Dior and Channel, romancing onscreen with Chris Hemsworth, an actor eight years her junior, I was reminded just how powerfully talented Kate Winslet really is.
She recently spoke about body shaming saying,
“I know a lot of young women are pressurised by what they see on the media”. She added, “You only have one life. I don’t want to waste it worrying about how I look or how other people perceive me to be.”
The discourse on how actors and actresses in mainstream media ‘look’ is of course a legitimate one. It’s the business of vanity, looks matter. Yet how much is too much? When does it stop being about how someone looks and begins to overshadow their work as a performer? When do people refuse to see an actor as anything but a ‘fat’ dude or a ‘model-thin’ woman? Both of these stereotypes are harmful for either genders, and definitely are a discredit to a performer’s hard work.
Considering Kate Winslet again, it is often reported that she was told by her drama teachers that she was too fat for certain roles. She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Titanic, she won for The Reader and won a Bafta for her supporting actress role in Steve Jobs’ Aaron Sorkin biopic. When you see Winslet’s work onscreen – if the only thing that comes to your mind is what size of pants she wears or how she could lose a few more pounds – you’re getting the art wrong.
Many actors and actresses have faced similar onslaught for being ‘fat’ or ‘chubby’. Ariel Winters, Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson – basically everyone from Kristen Bell to Melissa McCarthy and Tyra Banks to Gabourey Sidibe have been shamed by people in the media for being too thin, too fat, too this too that.
While the majority of body shaming has been directed at women, the attack extends to men as well. Recently, Wentworth Miller, star of Prison Break TV series, was the subject of a meme that went viral.
Miller responded to it on his Facebook page and explained his struggle,
As an audience, we shower our love upon our stars in a heartbeat and take it away within heartbeats as well. The same fan base that creates these magnificent mirages also produces venom with equal measure. Such is the circle of star life. And thanks to social media, it has become even easier to hate on celebrities; known, popular, pretty, successful people who are within your reach – through your anonymous profiles. Sitting somewhere in the comfort of your own PJs, devouring your own anxieties in a tub of ice cream, it has become too easy to attack others for trying to become perfect just so they can sell you themselves better.
Wentworth Miller used his experience to educate all his viewers about suicide and depression. Kate Winslet used her own experience to teach young girls about learning to accept themselves and not fall into the trap of believing the perspective others have of them. While those are excellent measures to spread awareness of body acceptance, it would serve well to these pages that use such experiences and photos for cheap ‘likes’ and RTs. Sure, a lot of it is okay because humour means pushing the envelope, but maybe once in a while, we can use humour to not hate, but educate.
The views expressed by the writer and the reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of The Express Tribune.


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Life changes; I awoke thinking.
Things aren't meant to stay stagnant.
The tree, which brings shade in summer, sheds leaves in winter.
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PressReader, the technology partner of the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, recently said that a system failure that halted its operation around the world was the result of a ransomware attack.
Canadian company PressReader reported a service outage on March 2. The company said it found suspicious activity and took all sites and apps, as well as PressReader, offline for 24 hours as a defensive measure while it investigates.
The network outage affected many sites and apps, including the Democrat-Gazette’s mobile and iPad apps.
PressReader said it restored some services for some customers as of March 3. Subscriber access to Democrat-Gazette products via PressReader was fully restored on Sunday, March 6.
“We can now confirm that the network issues we encountered were caused by a ransomware attack,” PressReader wrote in a letter to Jay Horton, president of digital at WEHCO Media, the company that owns the two newspapers.
In its letter, PressReader said that as part of its response to the attack, the company is working with cybersecurity experts in its investigation, assessment and remediation efforts. The company said there was no indication that customer information had been compromised or that partner systems or applications were at risk.
In response to emailed questions this week, a PressReader spokesperson declined to say whether the company knew the source or motive of the ransomware attack, or provide further details, citing an investigation. In progress.
On February 25, PressReader posted on Twitter: “In order to help Ukrainians access up-to-date information, we are opening up all PressReader content in the country for free to individuals. PressReader will absorb the cost paid to publishers until as further notice.”
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
PressReader offers thousands of local, regional and international newspapers and magazines online, on mobile devices and in print, including publications like The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Houston Chronicle, according to the company. The outage was global and affected the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
A ransomware attack earlier this month that targeted one of Toyota Motor Corp.’s parts suppliers. forced the automaker to close 14 factories in Japan for a day, disrupting the completion of around 13,000 vehicles.
There have been no reports on who was behind the attack, or if there was a motive other than a ransom. The attack came just after Japan agreed to join its Western allies in announcing economic sanctions against Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. It was unclear if the attack was related.


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|Miloslav Rechcígl Sr.|
|7th President of Czechoslovakia|
|Prime Minister|| Alexander Dubček|
|Preceded by||Ludvík Svoboda|
|Succeeded by||Alexander Dubček|
|18th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia|
8 July 1961 – 22 September 1969
|President|| Jan Masaryk|
|Preceded by||Václav Majer|
|Succeeded by||Alexander Dubček|
|Federal Minister of Agriculture|
|Prime Minister|| Ladislav Feierabend|
|Preceded by||Juraj Slávik|
|Succeeded by||Michal Bakula|
|Member of the Federal Assembly|
|Czech Minister of Agriculture|
|Member of the Czech National Assembly|
|Member of the Czechoslovak National Assembly|
|Born|| 13 May 1904|
|Died|| 5 October 1985 (aged 81)|
Mladá Boleslav, CR, Czechoslovakia
|Political party||Republican Party|
|Spouse(s)||Marie (nee Rajtrová)|
|Children|| Miloslav Jr.|
|Alma mater||Prague Commercial Academy|
Miloslav Rechcígl Sr. (13 May 1904 – 5 October 1985) was a Czech politician, miller and business executive, serving as the chairman of the Republican Party (RS) from 1965 to 1981, prime minister of the Federal Republic of Czechoslovakia from 1961 to 1969, and president of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1982.
He displayed a strong dedication to a broad vision of market-based liberal democracy and anti-communism, and started many reforms and is remembered for administrating the government efficiently. A shrewd politician, Rechcígl was deeply committed to the idea of political compromise. In foreign policy, he worked to improve relations with Germany and Austria, and was deeply committed to a Western-oriented foreign policy.
His son, Miloslav Rechcígl Jr., also representing the Republican Party, served as Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987 and as Senator from 1991 to 2003.
Early life and career
Miloslav Rechcígl was born as the oldest child of miller Adolf Rechcígl and Marie Rechcíglová (nee Berglová) in Chocnějovice, Austria-Hungary, on 13 May 1904. He had a younger sister, Anna (1906–1926) as well as two younger half-brothers, Adolf and Stanislav. In 1917 he lost his mother, and his widowed father found it necessary to remarry because he could not manage the affairs of the mill without a wife, particularly with two small children. In 1918, his father married Marie Ferklová. Rechcígl had frail health throughout his life, and had to take pills and had numerous medical examinations.
From 1910 to 1915 he attended elementary school in Drahotice, and from 1915 to 1918 he attended high school (Gymnazium) in Mnichovo Hradiště. He initially wanted to study law, but his parents would not hear of it. Instead, he attended the Prague Commercial Academy (Obchodní akademie) from 1918 to 1922, finishing with a final Maturity Examination. He also attended classes at the Prague University of Commerce (Vysoká škola obchodní). From 1922 to 1924 he worked in a bank in Český Dub. In 1926 he took over the management of his father's mill in Chocnějovice. In 1928, his father Adolf bought himself another mill in Šaravcota Lhota, where he moved with his wife and two small children. In 1928, at the age of twenty-four, he bought the Chocnějovice mill from his father. On 26 July 1926 Miloslav Rechcígl married Marie Rajtrová. They had two children: a son, Miloslav Jr. (born in 1930), and a daughter, Marta (born in 1933).
From 1928, he worked in various professional organizations of millers, including the Millers’ Association, Trade Millers’ Alliance of Czechoslovakia, Czech Territorial Union of Millers and the Central Union of Millers in Czechoslovakia of which he became executive secretary. 1930-1934 he held the positions of Executive Secretary in the Alliance of Commercial Mills in Bohemia (Sdružení obchodních mlýnů v Čechách) which later changed its name to the Miller's Cooperative (Mlynářské družstvo). In 1934 he became the Deputy Director of the Czechoslovak Millers' Cooperative (Mlynářské družstvo ČSR) until 1942, when it was abolished. In 1938, through his initiative, the supreme organization of Czechoslovak millers was established under the name Central Office of Czechoslovak Millers and he became its President.
He also worked in professional agricultural organizations and became a member of all such organizations in his district. He was a council member of the Czech Agricultural Board in Prague, chairman of its economic section, a member of the cultivator committee, and a member of the Central Office of Agricultural Board in Czechoslovakia. He became a member of the Czechoslovak Agricultural Academy and officer of agricultural economists. Rechcígl was vice-chairman of the water agricultural organization in his district and an officer of the Water Agricultural Union of Czechoslovakia, chairman of the Economic Council in Mladá Boleslav, executive secretary of the Economic Institute of North Bohemia, and vice president of the Union of Economic Councils, as well as chairman of the Committee for Regulating the River Jizera and its Tributaries.
Early political career
While a student Prague Commercial Academy he was involved in the organisation of the agrarian students and later in various organizations of agrarian youth in the country and the agrarian Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants (RSZML). At the age of twenty-six he was elected chairman of the County organization of the Party and two years later, a member of the Party's Regional organization.
In the 1935 parliamentary election, at the age of 31, he was elected as the youngest member to the Czechoslovak National Assembly, representing the Mladá Boleslav District. In this capacity, he devoted his energies to economic problems, and served on several committees, relating to agriculture, industry and commerce, and international relations. He rented an appartment in the Vinohrady section of Prague. When at home in the weekends, he devoted much time to the affairs of his mill, meetings with his constituents, attending political meetings and helping farmes solve their problems. In his absence, the daily managment was run by his wife and an old classmate.
Following the end of the war, he was a member of the Provisional Federal Council from 1945 to 1946, where he contributed in forming Czechoslovakia's Federal Constitution of 10 April 1946. Later that year, he was elected to the Czech National Assembly for the Mláda Boleslav constituency. He was re-elected in 1950, and served as the Czech Minister of Agriculture from until 1954. In the 1954 federal election he was elected to the Federal Assembly, serving as Federal Minister of Agriculture in the cabinets of Ladislav Feierabend and Jozef Lettrich.
Following the election defeat of 1957, Rechcígl was elected leader of the party. Rechcígl immediately saw the need to modernize the party and to attract an additional electorate with the continuing decline of the agrarian share of the population. In hopes of changing its image, it changed its name to the Republican Party (Republikánská strana, abbreviated RS), and under Rechcígl's leadership the party continued its gradual movement from being an agrarian-conservative party to a more liberal and social conservative party, while keeping an agrarian profile. Rechcígl proved a successful leader, as the Republican Party emerged victorious in the 1961 federal election, ending four years of Social Democratic government.
Rechcígl became the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia on 8 July 1961, serving concurrently as the Leader of the Republican Party.
|Portfolio||Name||Party||Assumed office||Left office|
|Prime Minister||Miloslav Rechcígl Sr.||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||22 September 1969|
|Deputy Prime Minister||Stanislav Broj||Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)||8 July 1961||7 May 1968|
|Ivo Ducháček||Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)||7 May 1968||22 September 1969|
|Deputy Prime Minister||Martin Kvetko||Slovak People's Party (SĽS)||8 July 1961||22 September 1969|
|Deputy Prime Minister||Alexander Dubček||Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party (ČSSD)||7 May 1968||22 September 1969|
|Foreign Minister||Štefan Osuský||Independent||8 July 1961||11 February 1963|
|Ján Papánek||Slovak People's Party (SĽS)||11 February 1963||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Defence||Bohumír Lomský||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Finance||Vladimír Čermák||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Foreign Trade||Bohumil Suchard||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||7 May 1968|
|František Krajčír||Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party (ČSSD)||7 May 1968||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of the Justice||Martin Kvetko||Slovak People's Party (SĽS)||8 July 1961||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of the Interior||Ivo Ducháček||Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)||8 July 1961||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs||Zbyněk Žalman||Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)||8 July 1961||2 November 1964|
|Hans Schütz||Sudeten German People's Party (SDVP)||2 November 1964||7 May 1968|
|Alexander Dubček||Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party (ČSSD)||7 May 1968||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Health||František Zvěřina||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||7 May 1968|
|Lubomír Štrougal||Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party (ČSSD)||7 May 1968||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Education and Research||Stanislav Broj||Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)||8 July 1961||7 May 1968|
|Augustin Navratil||Czechoslovak People's Party (ČSL)||7 May 1968||22 September 1969|
|Federal Minister of Transportation and Communication||Pavol Blaho||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||7 May 1968|
|Federal Minister of Agriculture||Jiří Burian||Republican Party (RS)||8 July 1961||13 April 1966|
|Miloslav Rechcígl Jr.||Republican Party (RS)||13 April 1966||22 September 1969|
Rechcígl died in Mláda Boleslav on 5 October 1985, at the age of 81, and was given a state funeral. He was buried in the family graveyard in Chocnějovice.


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The focus of palliative care, as per WHO, is to improve quality of life and provide comfort to people of all ages with serious, chronic and life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, congestive heart failure, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and AIDS amongst others. This is achieved through prevention and relief of suffering by early identification of associated complications, assessment, treatment of pain and other problems – physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
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Hereditary coproporphyria (HCP) is a disorder of heme biosynthesis, classified as an acute hepatic porphyria. HCP is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme. Hereditary coproporphyria is one of the porphyrias, a group of diseases that involves defects in heme metabolism and that results in excessive. Looking for online definition of protocoproporphyria hereditaria in the Medical Dictionary? protocoproporphyria hereditaria explanation free. What is.
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Manganese was found to be the most discriminative component of all the 78 variables investigated, accounting for about 98 per cent of the variance between the groups. Multimodality imaging features of hereditary multiple exostoses. Hereditary medullary thyroid cancers MTC have been shown to be highly responsive to a multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor vandetanib, which exerts specific activity towards mutated RET receptor.
Molecular cloning, sequencing and An opportunity for gene therapy. Suppress menses using a GnRH agonist. As well, diagnostic criteria and treatment of HCP resemble that of chronic pancreatitis of other causes. Although we have vast knowledge on the association between drug transporter variants and clinical outcome, the overall data is inconsistent and the predictability of the related phenotype is low.
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A filter paper dry blood spot procedure for the determination of whole blood uroporphyrinogen-I-synthase UIS activity is presented. Effect of hepatobiliary disease, chronic hepatitis C and hepatitis B virus infections and interferon-alpha on porphyrin profiles in plasma, urine and faeces.
Hereditary coproporphyria is a form of acute hepatic porphyria see this term characterized by the occurrence of neuro-visceral attacks and, more rarely, by the presence of cutaneous lesions. Radiosensitivity of these hereditary diseases was also described, and factors of carcinogenesis were investigated.
Orphanet: Coproporfiria hereditaria
Methods used may include: Hereditary syndromes with enhanced radiosensitivity. Prognosis With early diagnosis and management, attacks from porphyria are rarely fatal. Rotor syndromeinherited in an autosomal recessive manner and caused by simultaneous deficiencies of the organic anion transporting polypeptides OATP1B1 and OATP1B3, is also associated with coproporphyrinuria [ van de Steeg et al ]. Autosomal dominant hereditary ataxia in Sri Lanka. Mean age was 21 years. The intended stage of initiation of the new therapeutic approaches ranges from neonatal life and a structura Some drugs are clearly unsafe for CPOX heterozygotes.
T2-weighted images, especially fluid-attenuated inversion recovery FLAIR sequences showed herediyaria lesions in the posterior frontal, parietal and occipital cortex and subcortical white matter.
Because it is likely that testing methodology and our understanding of genes, allelic variants, and diseases will improve in the future, consideration should be given to banking DNA of affected individuals.
With the aim to identify genetic classifiers for hereditary ovarian cancer, we profiled hereditary ovarian heredditaria linked to the hereditary breast and ovarian cancer C1Inhibitor concentrate and tranexamic acid can be used during pregnancy.
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In the remaining five families an extended genetic investigation was necessary. Liver transplantation has cured individuals with hereditariia acute symptoms [ Soonawalla et al ]. Moreover, the association between genetic variants of drug transporters with the clinical outcome is comprehensively discussed.
Tachycardia and hyponatremia are common during attacks. Human voluntary movement heeeditaria controlled by the pyramidal motor system, a long CNS pathway comprising corticospinal and lower motor neurons.
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The risk hereditsria greatest in women older than age 60 with acute intermittent porphyria fold increased risk above the general population risk ; for men there is a fold increase in risk [ Sardh et al ]. Treatment of the acute symptoms of HCP is the same as for other acute porphyrias.
We believe that this format would facilitate practice of precision medicine in the field of hereditary endocrine diseases. Such testing should be performed in the context of formal genetic counseling. An involvement of the lipid metabolism, observed by the raised levels of plasma NEFA and glycerol, was also evident. Liver transplantation has established that this organ is responsible for acute attacks. The presence of a CPOX pathogenic variant detected by prenatal testing does not predict whether individuals will be symptomatic, or if they are, what the ehreditaria of the clinical manifestations will be.
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The struggle between artistic impulses and commercial imperatives is a question as old as art itself. In the film world, big data is changing all that. The joy and greatness of independent film is that the artist’s vision supersedes the fiduciary interests associated to the project. It doesn’t ignore them -nor should it- but it gambles on the fact that there is an audience for an idiosyncratic piece of filmmaking. Financiers never quite liked it, and it never was quite a gamble, but there was an agreement in place. There was a sense that a film could fare well in its own niche market.
But in this day and age, commercial films don’t just target broad groups such as ‘boys under 25’. They target absolutely everyone, and this unsubtle assault is not due to lazy market segmentation. In an age of polarisation, despite the great financial crisis we’ve gone through, ‘too big to fail’ seems to be the motto of a number of corporations. Disney, Fox and Comcast have understood this. Netflix certainly has, too. In fact, in May 2018 Netflix passed Disney in market cap. While stocks fluctuate with time, this is an eerie symbol of how the media landscape is changing.
Big data is taking over
‘We don’t have any idea who went to see Star Wars in the cinemas.’ This shocking admission came from Disney chairman Bob Iger after the release of The Force Awakens, the first Star Wars film produced by the Mouse House which went on to be one of the handful of films to gross over $2 billion at the global box office. It is fascinating to see that the behemoth that is Disney does not have a granular understanding of its audience when the new kid on the block Netflix has built its business model on that.
Not only do they know how you’re going to watch the content, and what content is best for your tastes, they also know that you get bored within 90 seconds of scrolling through the menu, and that certain films are only meant to be watched up to 70% because they are just too scary to finish. But once they know what the audience looks for in content, they can order or buy films and series that push just the right buttons, and know which audience members to push those to.
The problem is that studios don’t have the data that distributors or cinema chains have about consumer behaviour, therefore they are not able to predict accurately how a film will succeed or fail. This is why Netflix’s place on the market is unique: it knows what audiences want, how they want it and when they want it, and have the power to choose their content. This puts the traditional partnership of studios and distributors at a disadvantage.
Big Data Analytics are just a tool
There is a massive difference between Netflix and Disney. Netflix knows when I scrolled to another tab, paused for a pee break, when I switched to another episode, which shows I like to binge on, which series I’ll take more time to watch: from a number of patterns, they’ll know their user’s taste better than the user. In comparison, Disney has no way to know that I was bored out of my mind by the latest Avengers, they’re just happy I bought a ticket.
And yet: Avengers grossed over $2 billion, and I tweeted about it. We don’t know how much money Queer Eye made for Netflix -probably enough for them to invest $1 billion in European content-, but I’ve also tweeted about it quite a lot. At the end of the day, analytics are one tool among many, including experience and creativity.
In most film schools –not ours-, screenwriting students are not taught how to approach the industry. They’ll leave university with a Bachelor’s Degree and no idea as to how to put together a one-pager or a one-sheet that will sell their film. Creativity remains the one singular, irrepressible human quality that can’t be reduced to analytics, patterns and trends. At a time when the old-timers are trying to approach analytics and wrap their heads around that while limiting artistic products to ready-made bite-size unengaging products, the new kid on the block has already mastered this new tool in a way that does not stifle creativity, and gives agency to both creatives at one end of the pipeline, and users at the other end.
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Last year specialist crisis resolution home treatment teams provided 106,000 home treatments, supporting people who would otherwise have had to be admitted to hospital. This compares with 95,000 in 2006-2007, representing an 11% increase.
Additionally, early intervention teams treated 8,300 young people who experienced a first episode of psychosis in the 12 months to the end of March. This compares to 6,500 in 2006-2007, representing a 27% increase.
Lastly assertive outreach teams supported 19,900 people who have persistent mental health problems but are hard to engage in 2007-2008, compared with 18,300 the previous year – a rise of 9%.
Speaking at an event to mark the start of building work at Runwell Hospital in Essex, junior health minister Ivan Lewis said: ‘This positive news demonstrates that frontline services are pulling together to improve the quality of care for people with mental health needs.
More people who might otherwise have to be admitted to hospital can now be cared for in their own home,’ he added. ‘Improving crisis resolution and early intervention services remains a priority for this year.’


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Chillin' out till it needs to be funded
In a way more reminiscent of emerging markets though they have not seen many recessions, Banco Santaner continued buying its units in Latin America, having earlier last month bought off Santander in Mexico from Bank of America. It proposes to buy more retail banks in Colombia and Peru as well where it already has a double digit market share. Santander is however staying away from US and European markets as per its stated strategy. It has taken its chances in Germany, however, buying 173 branches for $699 milllion despite operating losses of over $160 m (116 m Euros) in 2009. BofA held a 25% stake in Santander Mexico.
“With the mellifluous tones of the Spanish language making its way through 340 million people globally and more now, there is nothing to stop a growth gene privileged Spain from growing its way out of the Developed World/Recession frame of mind. Tools of Monetary policy can fundamentally change the attractiveness and growth of the Spanish civilisation”
The Banco Santander has a Market Capitalization of 81 Billion, and though I am reading it off their Balance sheet, only 50,000 of their 170,000 employees are in Continental Europe, and 21% of its $3 bn Q1 profits came from Brazil alone, and 24% from home in Spain.
Santander, which largely managed to dodge the fallout of the U.S. toxic debt crisis due to strict Bank of Spain rules on the kind of financial derivatives Spanish banks can hold, has continued its aggressive acquisition campaign in recent years.
The bank has bid for a network of 318 UK branches being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and has had conversations on merging its U.S. operations with M&T (MTB.N), a company official said recently. [ID:nLDE65G0W0]
Santander also announced Jun 24 plans to acquire $3.2 billion of CitiFinancial Auto’s auto loan portfolio and offered around $56 million for part of the capital it does not already own in Puerto Rico Santander Bancorp.
Reuters and NYT did the legwork on the report. I much rather have your opinion too, but the NYT format seems just what the doc ordered, with dealbook making online connects with all the reference material for the report. Do they thank us for that?
After the Spanish inquisition at the World cup, the Spanish team will come home to large scale unemployment, but if the growth imperative lives on with such positive business from Santander and the ilk, Spain is unlikely to disassemble from the recession extending itself into 2012.
Citi and BofA continue the selloff of their internationl businesses to focus on the US assets with the Treasury investment planned to exit by end 2010 only. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are likely to continue to focus on the growth fueled Emerging markets and if Santander is allowed to buy assets in the UK and when it decides to grow in Asia, its challenge may be more effective than the French.

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Dr. Hari Polavarapu graduated from the M Rampure Med Coll, Gulbarga Univ, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India in 1996. He works in Brooklyn, NY and specializes in Internal Medicine. Dr. Polavarapu is affiliated with The Brooklyn Hospital Center. He speaks English and Spanish.
Years in Practice: 19 Years
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Medical School: M Rampure Med Coll, Gulbarga Univ, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India
Graduation Date: 1996
Hospital Affiliations: The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Specialties: Internal Medicine

domain: health


text:
Farm media were misled about new animal welfare legislation the Ontario Conservatives have launched in the legislature.
All of the spin by Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman and a number of farm organizations, such as Sheep Farmers of Ontario and the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, was about fines for animal activists trespassing on farms.
They could be fined up to $15,000.
What none of the spin masters said was that the same legislation calls for fines of up to
$130.000 for a first offence and $500,000 for a corporation for causing an animal distress.
Nor did anybody mention that animal activists deem dairy cattle in tie-stall housing or laying hens in cages to be in psychological distress.
Instead of praise, Hardeman ought to be vilified for daring to introduce such draconian and foolish legislation.
And the farm organizations that depend on the provincial government for "stable funding" ought to get a swift kick in the shins and ordered to lobby for farmers.


The recent visit of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to Israel is a very important development.
For years, Brazil’s diplomacy took a rather hostile stance toward Israel. In fact, the government of Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva (2003-2011) got very close to the Iranian regime and, in 2010, even tried to prevent the United States and the European Union from sanctioning Iran for its nuclear development program. Brazil was a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council at the time, and certainly helped Iran evade international sanctions, at least for a period of time.
Dilma Rousseff, Lula’s successor, distanced herself a bit from the Iranian regime but kept the anti-Israel stance of her predecessor, voting against Israel in virtually all international forums.
The traditional anti-Israel posture of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) responds in part to a third-worldist worldview, deeply rooted in Latin America, which has sought to keep distance from the United States, and therefore from one of its main allies, the state of Israel. This worldview is based on a somewhat simplistic understanding of Latin American history, according to which the United States is to blame for most of the region’s problems. This ideological position has been disastrous for the region since it generated a culture of victimization and the distancing of many Latin American governments from the democracies of the West in order to get close to obscure regimes such as Iran, Russia and China, among others.
In the case of Brazil, Itamaraty’s anti-Israel posture had also to do with the desire of the Brazilian career diplomats to get Brazil elected as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, in the highly improbable case that the council gets reformed to include new permanent members one day. To achieve this, these diplomats thought it would be necessary to get the votes of the countries that make up the Organization of the Islamic Conference. But the truth is that such a reform of the U.N. Security Council would be impossible to achieve without the agreement of the United States government, which would in turn need to be ratified by the U.S. Congress, something extremely unlikely.
In any case, this anti-American and anti-Israel worldview seems to have received a major blow since Bolsonaro took power. His foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, said in a recent tweet that the discriminatory treatment of Israel at the U.N. had been a Brazilian foreign policy tradition, and that this government is determined to break with this “spurious and unjust” tradition, in the same way it is breaking with the anti-American and third-worldist tradition that prevailed.
Bolsonaro’s campaign promise to move the Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem will apparently have to wait. But his recent announcement about the opening of a trade office in Jerusalem and his visit to the Western Wall, in the company of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (an unprecedented gesture), are very strong signs of change.
The recent vote of Brazil at the U.N. Human Rights Council is yet another sign. For the first time in the history of the council, whose anti-Israel bias is both shameful and notorious, Brazil voted against two anti-Israel resolutions.
In November and December this year, Brazil’s new, warmer relationship with Israel will be put to a test. This is so because two important resolutions will be re-introduced at the U.N. General Assembly. As every year, member states will have to decide if they want to renew the funding and mandate authorization of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights, the two entities that make up the most powerful anti-Israel propaganda apparatus that exists under the U.N. roof.
In addition to demonizing the state of Israel in the name of the U.N., these entities promote the most extreme Palestinian positions as they question Israel’s very right to exist and advocate for the right of return of the more than five million people of Palestinian ancestry (who are still wrongly considered “refugees” by the U.N.) to the State of Israel. This radical stance is clearly against the two-state solution that the U.N. claims to support, as the mass migration of these people to Israel would mean the destruction of Israel as a majority-Jewish state, and the eventual creation of one Palestinian state “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”
Brazil votes, year after year, in favor of the continued funding of these two entities, creating among the Palestinians the illusion that the U.N. will eventually grant them a state “from the river to the sea,” and directly discouraging genuine peace negotiations with Israel. A change in the way Brazil votes would undoubtedly be a breath of fresh air, and would send a positive message not only to other countries in the region but also to the entire world.
This post was originally published on the B’nai B’rith website.


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Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his remaining fuel.
just once, he picks up a message from another pilot, and eventually the
temptation to find out who else is still alive becomes irresistible. So
he takes his plane over the horizon, knowing that he won't have enough
fuel to get back. What follows is scarier and more life-affirming than
he could have imagined. And his story, THE DOG STARS, is a book unlike
any you have ever read. From Goodreads.
This Post Apocalyptic book is set after end of the world. There are few survivors. One must kill or be killed. However, it isn't actually as bad as I might have expected but then we don't see a lot of different areas. There is hope!
This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Tower Teams Read 2013
Serious Readers 2013
Let Me Count the Ways Reading Challenge 2013 (336 pages)
2013 Ebook Challenge
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ATHENS, Greece -- Training with her dog high in the Sierras,
then dodging herds of sheep on runs through the hills of Crete in
the days before the Olympics, Deena Kastor kept believing she could
earn a medal in the marathon.
"I couldn't have prepared myself any better," she said during
a break in her Crete training.
Two weeks later, Kastor conquered the rugged hills of the
ancient course that gave the marathon its name, somehow marshaling
the energy to pull from eighth to third in the final few miles and
earn the first U.S. marathon medal in 20 years.
Mizuki Noguchi of Japan held off Kenya's Catherine Ndereba to
win the gold, but Kastor was gaining on them at the end. Ndereba
took the silver, reversing the order of last year's world
championships, where the Kenyan won and Noguchi was second.
Noguchi, who ran the course as a warmup in June, won in 2 hours,
26 minutes, 20 seconds. She was 49 seconds ahead of Ndereba, who
narrowed the lead to 14 seconds late in the race but could get no
Kastor, who overtook Ethiopian Elfenish Alemu with less than a
mile remaining in the 26.2-mile race, finished in 2:27.19. Her
bronze was the first marathon medal for an American since Joan
Benoit's gold in 1984.
"It's incredible," said Kastor, an ultra-thin, exceedingly
gracious 31-year-old. "I was in tears the whole last lap."
The favorite, British world record holder Paula Radcliffe, faded
to fourth place and then quit about 3½ miles (six kilometers) from
the finish, bursting into tears, then sitting on a curb and
At the finish line in Panathiniko Stadium in central Athens --
site of the original modern Olympics in 1896 -- the crowd of mostly
British fans stood in stunned silence as the giant television
screen showed Radcliffe stopping, trying to start again, then
stopping for good, her face contorted in agony. They never had the
chance to wave the British flags that most of them carried.
A silver medalist at the last two world cross-country
championships, she was Deena Drossin when she broke Benoit's
18-year-old American record at 2 hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds with
a third-place finish at the 2003 London Marathon. She married
Andrew Kastor almost a year ago, and the couple lives in Mammoth
She easily passed the fading Ethiopian to clinch the surprise
"A little more real estate, and she'd have had the gold," said
her husband, who admitted that he too choked up when he saw her
tears on the final lap.
The marble, horseshoe-shaped stadium was less than half-full,
although most of those there were for Radcliffe. They waved flags
and danced to music blaring from loudspeakers as Radcliffe set the
pace through the halfway point of the race.
But one and a half hours into the competition, Noguchi and Alemu
opened up a lead over Radcliffe and Ndereba.
Discarding her gray cap as the sun went down, Radcliffe faded to
third. She briefly retook second, then fell back again behind
Ndereba and the leader Noguchi.
Two hours into the race, Noguchi held a 30-second lead over
Ndereba and a minute over Radcliffe. After the finish, Noguchi had
to be helped from the stadium by an official.
She had run the Olympic course in June, then went to train at
altitude in St. Moritz, Switzerland, returning to Athens just three
days ago. She kept the gold in Japanese hands -- her countrywoman
Naoko Takahasi won the gold in Sydney in 2000.
The race begun in the heat of early evening in the town of
What once was a rural landscape during the first modern marathon
108 years ago had turned into a course lined with strip malls, car
dealerships and fast-food restaurants -- and a series of hills that
made it one of the toughest marathon routes in the world.
This was the first time women had raced the ancient course over
which, it is said, Pheidippides carried the news in 490 B.C. that
the Greeks had defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
"Be joyful. We win!" Pheidippides shouted.
Then he dropped dead.


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Manchester United have been linked with another couple of midfielders in Atletico Madrid’s Raul Garcia and Athletic Bilbao’s Benat Extebarria.
According to Tutto Mercato Web, the Manchester club will open negotiations with both the Spanish sides over the next few weeks and try to bring them to Old Trafford before the end of the mid-season transfer window.
Garcia has been very impressive this season in Atletico Madrid’s midfield , scoring six goals and providing one assist in 14 league appearances while notching up 3 goals and 3 assist in the group stages of the Champions League. Benat, who has been continually linked with United now, has scored one goal and registered three assists in 14 La Liga matches.
David Moyes is believed to have set his sights on signing the two Spanish midfielders in the January transfer window as he looks to rescue United’s stuttering season. The reigning Premier League champions are in 7th place with 34 points, 11 points off of league leaders Arsenal.