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First Man blends CG greatly with practical effects and the CG feels real, it looks really realistic.
IW may have had some amazing shots, but also some really weak CG. Whereas First Man looked realistic and didn't have any standout bad CG.
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Here's a bit of a recap as to what I've been cooking!
Monday was Family Day in Ontario and we made the most of it, even though it was crazy cold!!!
We started the day with yummy french toast and bacon. Later that morning I started whole wheat Cinnamon Buns to enjoy after our ski.
For dinner I put a pork tenderloin into my slow cooker and made this recipe we ate roasted asperagus and sweet potatoes as our sides.
IT WAS DELICIOUS!!
Even the kids loved it!
I borrowed this photo from the recipe site!
Tuesday we were all back to work with meant school lunches and coffee and left over cinnamon buns for snacks. Along with our usual fresh fruit and veggies.
For dinner I used the left over pork to create Quesadillas and wraps with home made guacamole and fruit salad.
I ate the left overs for lunch on Wednesday! Man they were so good!
We were planning on this GEM of a recipe for Dinner Wednesday night, but a busy day and after school meetings left me too tired to cook, so it was Kraft Dinner (Mac and cheese for my American friends) for the kiddos and eggs for mamma.
I did find the time yesterday to bake up this yummy loaf. It is low fat and super tasty. It made a terrific bed time snack to go with my David's Tea.
Today's challenge from Healthy sELF came at the perfect time - make a green smoothie. I enjoyed this yummy berry banana smoothie with vanilla protein powder and lots of fresh kale after this morning's workout!
Tonight I really hope to make that Coconut rice shrimp bowl from Nutrition Ella. I've got all the ingredients ready to go.
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Dateline – July 18, 2020 – Carrollton, Texas
Well, here’s something I don’t see in my neighborhood everyday! This is a juvenile Anhinga, a bird not often seen outside a few select environs around the metroplex. Other than a few breeding birds at the UTSWMC rookery near downtown Dallas, I most frequently encounter Anhingas in remote places along the Trinity River.
I found this bird in our neighborhood creek. He was perched just above the water on a tree trunk felled by Beavers. In fact, this part of the creek is a relatively deep water Beaver Pond, which is likely what attracted the Anhinga to this spot in the first place.
Urban Beavers do a great job transforming habitats all around the metroplex. In this case, the busy rodents had constructed a mud-and-reed dam dozens of yards in length. A large impoundment water soon followed. The Beavers worked to clear reeds and other vegetation, creating significant areas of open water, while leaving enough brush to allow for plenty of cover. A vibrant urban ecosystem resulted.
Anhingas are unusual birds. The hunt by swimming underwater propelled by their large webbed feet. Anhingas prey on fish, which they often spear with their long pointed beak. Other aquatic animals, such as crayfish, snakes, and small turtles are also on the menu, depending on availability.
Here is how Wikipedia describes the unique Anhinga…
The anhinga (/ænˈhɪŋɡə/; Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird. The origin of the name snakebird is apparent when swimming: only the neck appears above water so the bird looks like a snake ready to strike. They do not have external nares (nostrils) and breathe solely through their epiglottis.
The anhinga is placed in the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to Indian (Anhinga melanogaster), African (Anhinga rufa), and Australian (Anhinga novaehollandiae) darters. Like other darters, the anhinga hunts by spearing fish and other small prey using its sharp, slender beak.
Later that same day, I found the Anhinga perched again in his favorite spot above the water. This time he had a sprig of aquatic vegetation in his beak. As I watched, the big black bird made a game of it, tossing the strands into the air and catching them as they came back down. The Anhinga did this over and over again!
Anihingas do not have waterproof feathers like ducks and geese. In some of the pictures below you might notice the Anhinga spread its water-logged wings in an effort to speed the drying of his feathers.
As you can imagine, the Anhinga shared this pond with a number of other critters. As mentioned earlier, Beaver sign was abundant all around the pond. Stumps of numerous Black Willow Trees (a Beaver favorite) could be found along the water’s edge. A large Beaver lodge sat commandingly in the middle of the big water feature.
Red-eared Sliders find this Beaver pond, with all of the tree trunks laying across the water, a prime spot for basking. Dozens of these turtles can be found perched on the dead-falls and soaking up the sun at any given moment.
A little further upstream, in a small grove of spared willow trees, I discovered several attractive Yellow-crowned Night Herons. These bird were hunting the shallows, protected from the heat of the day by the shade cast by the few remaining willows.
Upon examining my pictures at home, I discovered that one of the herons had a nasty and very serious looking foot injury. The trauma appears to be relatively recent, and has apparently cost the bird his middle toe. Despite the gravity of the injury, nothing about the birds behavior clued me into the problem while I was on site observing. I am frequently amazed at the resilience displayed by our urban wildlife
Sharing the willow branches with the night herons was a pair of these slightly smaller, but equally attractive, Green Herons. These clever and engaging birds are always a joy to watch. Here is how Wikipedia describes these charming birds…
The habitat of the green heron is small wetlands in low-lying areas. The species is most conspicuous during dusk and dawn, and if anything these birds are nocturnal rather than diurnal, preferring to retreat to sheltered areas in daytime. They feed actively during the day, however, if hungry or provisioning young. Shore-living individuals adapt to the rhythm of the tides. They mainly eat small fish, frogs and aquatic arthropods, but may take any invertebrate or vertebrate prey they can catch, including such animals like leeches and mice. Green herons are intolerant of other birds – including conspecifics – when feeding and are not seen to forage in groups. They typically stand still on shore or in shallow water or perch upon branches and await prey. Sometimes they drop food, insects, or other small objects on the water’s surface to attract fish, making them one of the few known tool-using species. This feeding method has led some to title the green and closely related striated heron as among the world’s most intelligent birds. They are able to hover briefly to catch prey
The following morning I was eager to have another look at the snakebird. I was curious to see if he was still going to be at the pond, or if this had been just a one-time anomaly. I planned to swing by the creek as part of our morning dog walk.
As we came round to the Beaver pond, I was disappointed to find the young Anhinga missing from his favorite perch. I quickly scanned the rest of the pond and still found no sign of the big black bird.
Then it occurred to me to look up… There he was, soaring high in the sky, tracing out big circles against the blue, as Anhingas are apt to do. Maybe he will stick around for a while after all.

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Ignore the absurdities and sophistries spouted by the Chomsky cultists who have come here to flood this book with one-star reviews. They are brilliant (pseudo-) "intellectuals" who know much more than common sense. Read their writings, and you will see that their talking points directly echo Chomsky's own words.
There are no straw men here. Chomsky DID support Pol Pot. He made no bones about it--during the genocide. Let's allow the man to speak for himself, shall we?
"...the evacuation of Phnom Penh, widely denounced at the time and since for its undoubted brutality, may actually have saved many lives. It is striking that the crucial facts rarely appear in the chorus of condemnations."
After the Cataclysm [South End Press, 1979]
"The victors in Cambodia undertook drastic and often brutal measures to accomplish this task, simply forcing the urban population into the countryside where they were compelled to live the lives of poor peasants, now organized in a decentralized system of communes. At heavy cost, these measures appear to have overcome the dire and destructive consequences of the U.S. war by 1978."
"...executions have numbered at most in the thousands; these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent, where brutal revenge killings were aggravated by the threat of starvation resulting from the American destruction and killing."
"While all of the countries of Indochina have been subjected to endless denunciations in the West for their 'loathsome' qualities and unaccountable failure to find humane solutions to their problems, Cambodia was a particular target of abuse. In fact, it became virtually a matter of dogma in the West that the regime was the very incarnation of evil with no redeeming qualities, and that the handful of demonic creatures who had somehow taken over the country were systematically massacring and starving the population."
"There was a significant degree of peasant support for the Khmer Rouge and the measures that they had instituted in the countryside."
"A more appropriate comparison [for Pol Pot's Cambodia] would be France after liberation from the Nazis."
The Nation, June 25, 1977, "Distortions at Fourth Hand."
"The 'slaughter' by the Khmer Rouge is a Moss-New York Times invention."
"I think the use of terror would be justified."
Alexander Klein, ed., Dissent, Power and Confrontation [McGraw-Hill, 1971], p. 119
"[My aim is to] stem the flood of lies about Cambodia."
From a personal 1977 communication with Francois Ponchaud
Explaining how the Khmer Rouge had actually saved up to one million lives: "U.S. officials predicted at the war's end that a million people would starve in a year. It appears that the new regime was at least partially able to avoid this consequence of the war."
Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 1977. Chomsky's letter to the editor can be seen online on Paul Bogdanor's site.
The breathtaking dishonesty of these assertions expose Chomsky as a fraud and his "revelations" as hoaxes. Take the last claim, his most egregious and contemptible by far. The prediction to which he alludes referred not to the effects of war, but to the likely death toll from the Communist take-over, especially the death march from Phnom Penh. Imagine what he must think of his credulous audience! This prediction is easily accessible as a matter of public record (see, for example, The Washington Post, June 4 & 23, 1975), and he was writing in 1977 (when it would have been fresh in everyone's mind). As we now know, the Khmer Rouge went on to murder twice that sum in a far shorter period of time than anyone would have believed and with much greater brutality than anyone could have imagined. Genocide investigators have determined that the Khmer Rouge perpetrated 1,386,734 violent killings and murdered about 2.2 million victims overall (see Etcheson's After the Killing Fields and Bruce Sharp's "Counting Hell"). (The number could be even higher if we counted all those killed by the Khmer Rouge in both civil wars and in the famine from 1979-81.)
Chomsky, claiming that the holocaust had been "inflated by a factor of a thousand," stated not only that the Khmer Rouge had refrained from murdering a million people, but that those they had allegedly refrained from murdering had actually been SAVED by the Khmer Rouge--even though the Khmer Rouge had, in fact, slaughtered well over a million individuals at the time he made this assertion.
(The great irony of all this is that, as Amartya Sen has written, "famines are, in fact, so easy to prevent it is amazing that they are allowed to occur at all"--if such a prediction HAD been made, the Khmer Rouge could have averted it just by allowing foreign aid!)
Chomsky would later rewrite his record of genocide denial, arguing that the Cambodian Civil War had killed at least 600,000 people and that American bombing was ultimately responsible for all of their deaths--although this estimate is more than twice the actual number of war-related deaths and American bombing accounted for less than a fifth of them (see Marek Sliwinski's excellent work on Cambodia).* His ridiculous intent was to make it appear that "the responsibility of the United States and Pol Pot for atrocities in Cambodia seems to be roughly in the same range." He transformed himself into an eloquent voice against "both" genocides, a delusion his cult followers have been eager to embrace. Anecdotal, forensic, and demographic evidence do not support Chomsky's fantastical version of Cambodian history. The memoirs of genocide survivors Chanrithy Him, Haing Ngor, Sam and Sokhary You, Someth May and Thida Mam, Vann Nath, Loung Ung, Sophal Leng Stagg, Paul Thai and Molyda Szymusiak all fail to mention a single death of friends or family caused by American bombing (this is hardly surprising, given that most of the bombing did not extend deeper than 10 miles into Cambodia, where there was hardly any population at all).
As Sharp examines in "Averaging Wrong Answers" our "courageous" dissident wrote that 250 people were dying every day in Phnom Penh alone due to "the conditions left by the US war" (an exaggeration of a self-described guess from the infamous pro-Pol Pot polemic Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution); in fact, the Red Cross had observers on the ground who put the death toll at 15 per day from all causes, natural and unnatural. The "war-related" deaths were caused mainly by the Khmer Rouge shelling of the city, and prove nothing about normal conditions expected for the rest of the country. Although Chomsky's original claim was that "the total for March  alone comes to nearly 8000 people," his comrade Edward Herman later inflated this number to 8,000 deaths PER DAY in "Pol Pot's Death in the Propaganda System"--this statement was 30 times higher than his original exaggeration, which itself was inflated by a factor of 10 or 20. Presumably, the implication is that Pol Pot, far from killing millions, may actually have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Chomsky's work on Cambodia has no connection to reality and frequently borders on the surreal. As Sliwinski demonstrates, at least 30,000 very young children died as a direct result of the evacuation of Phnom Penh, and at least 870,000 citizens of Phnom Penh were killed by the Pol Pot regime altogether. William Shawcross believes that Phnom Penh had at least two months worth of food, and notes that many foreign nations offered to bring food into the city. The Khmer Rouge had been systematically forcing people out of their homes since 1972, which caused large quantities of food to rot. US air support kept Phonm Penh alive by dropping humanitarian aid and breaking up previous attempts to besiege the capital--as in the Berlin Airlift, the communists were the ones isolating and starving the city. As James Donald opined, "It is somewhat odd that the "American attack" should cause a huge outbreak of disease two years after it ended, and two weeks after millions were forced to march long distances in the hot sun without food or water, with the result that they had to drink from muddy puddles polluted by trampling feet, urine, and corpses."** Chomsky was so brazen as to defend the forced evacuation of hospitals!***
Chomsky's claim that "At the end of 1978, Cambodia was the only country in Indochina that had succeeded at all in overcoming the agricultural crisis that was left by the American destruction" is exactly backwards. By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.25 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to "the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot," most of whom who were saved by American and international aid after the Vietnamese invasion. The Cambodian communists' economic plans were, at times, utterly surreal. Scholar David Chandler notes that, in a Democratic Kampuchea report on General Political Tasks of 1976, there are three lines devoted to education, and six devoted to urine. The document states that, regarding human urine, "We collect thirty per cent. That leaves a surplus of 70%." These were indicative of the types of policies that Chomsky and Herman claimed had lifted Cambodia out of the ashes of war. Absurdly, Chomsky even cited the Khmer Rouge decision to export food confiscated from starving victims as evidence of the success of their economic policies!
When Vietnam launched brief, punitive border raids on Cambodia to retaliate for Khmer Rouge attacks on Vietnamese villages--while still hoping to renew friendly relations with their fellow communists--Chomsky cited the supposed Khmer Rouge "victory" as evidence of popular support for the genocidal butchers: "The Cambodian people have not exactly been awaiting liberation from their oppressors." Unfortunately for Chomsky, the Khmer Rouge government collapsed almost instantly when Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion, due to the complete lack of popular support for the regime. (Would Chomsky cite the genuine popular support for Hitler as proof that Nazi Germany was really benign?)
Even left-wing revisionist historian Ben Kiernan has no stomach for Chomskyite delusions: "Along with [Khmer Rouge apologist Michael] Vickery's theory of a 'peasant revolution', we can now dismiss [Nazi Holocaust denier and Cambodian Holocaust denier Serge] Thion's assertion that in Democratic Kampuchea, 'The state never stood on its feet.' Despite its underdeveloped economy, the regime probably exerted more power over its citizens than any state in world history. It controlled and directed their public lives more closely than any government had ever done." (The Pol Pot Regime, 1996).
Chomsky continues to totally deny the brutal purges in communist Vietnam and Laos, which left up to one million people dead; his main method of denial is simply to ignore all reports of such atrocities, or to smear refugees as CIA agents while quoting communist press releases. His propaganda on Cambodia is considerably more sophisticated. Like all propaganda, it makes contradictory arguments (i.e., "the mass deaths under the Khmer Rouge were caused by war-induced famine that took several years to kick in," "the Khmer Rouge prevented famine through ingenious economic policies," and "there were no mass deaths under the Khmer Rouge"), because it is not concerned with the literal truth--only with affecting the reader's emotional state. In fact, by allowing readers "to come to their own conclusions" from a highly warped and delusional set of "facts," his propaganda mirrors the "system of thought control and indoctrination" that he claims is prevalent in the "Free World press." Of course, his ravings are far too convoluted for a mass audience, but the simple version ("the Khmer Rouge were not communists but CIA sponsored Nazis, and all leftists everywhere always opposed them") is the new (heavily revised) official version of events (taught to our kids by former Pol Pot admirers like Kiernan).
It's good to see Chomsky finally called to account for his lies.
*W.J. Sampson estimated all deaths caused by the entire Cambodian civil war at 100,000 or less (to be fair, Sampson was an early skeptic about the scale of Khmer Rouge atrocities). Marek Sliwinski put the number at 240,000. Paige Johnson and Judith Banister described 275,000 as "the highest mortality we can justify." Of these, about 40,000 were killed by US bombing, mainly combatants (Sliwinski). I'm no expert, but here's an easy way to check the estimates: Reports from the Red Cross and others in Phnom Penh in 1975 suggest that Chomsky's "8,000 dead per month" was inflated by at least a factor of 10. If we accept 800 dead per month--a high estimate describing the maximum death toll in the most stricken city in the country while it was under siege in 1975--and multiply it by 4 because the 2 million people in Phnom Penh represented a fourth of the Cambodian population--even though conditions were not nearly as serious elsewhere--we would arrive at a maximum country-wide death toll of about 3,000 per month. Although earlier stages of the war were far less lethal, we could use this to extrapolate for all 5 years of war (1970-5) through the following equation: (3,000 per month*12 months in a year=36,000)*5 years of war=180,000 total dead. This appears to be close to a possible maximum, so I don't doubt that 275,000 is indeed the highest demographically possible number of "excess deaths" attributable to the war (there had also been some low-level fighting in the late sixties). Chomsky's claim of 600,000 to 1,000,000 killed in "the US war", when he isn't claiming that most of the deaths under the Khmer Rouge were also caused by the war, is obviously an unsupportable propaganda fabrication.
**Donald: "The Khmer Rouge neglected to allow many of those they marched out of the city access to water during the march, resulting a very large death rate among the evacuees. They frequently neglected to feed their slaves for long periods. They deliberately destroyed food sources that could not easily subjected to centralized storage and control, such as fruit trees. They also forbade harvesting such food source from the wild, for example fish. They neglected to plant rice in their focus on cash crops, such as jute, and in their focus on irrigation works to build the future without regard for feeding people in the present. The famine that they caused was in part accidental, caused by incompetence, for example planting the wrong kind of rice, and building foolish irrigation ditches, but it was in part deliberate, as when they forbade fishing, had fruit trees cut down, and forbade the planting or harvest of mountain leap rice." The Khmer Rouge also outlawed medicine and hospitals.
***"I shall never forget one cripple who had neither hands nor feet, writhing along the ground like a severed worm, or a weeping father carrying his ten-year old daughter wrapped in a sheet tied around his neck like a sling, or the man with his foot dangling at the end of a leg to which it was attached by nothing but skin." - Description of the death march from Phnom Penh (Cambodia Year Zero, pp.6-7)


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Cobleskill will celebrate Earth Day along with SUNY Cobleskill’s Fish and Wildlife Festival on Saturday, April 16.
Both events will be in Centre Park.
Earth Day will run from 8am to 10am and feature Cobleskill’s annual clean-up.
Volunteers can show up at 8 and should bring rakes, shovels and brooms. Organizers will provide trash bags.
A coordinator will assign teams of volunteers to clean streets, sidewalks and parking lots through the village.
The clean-up will wind down at 10am when the Fish and Wildlife Festival takes over.
Events include reptile and raptor exhibits, a Trout Unlimited fishing derby, fly-tying and –casting demonstrations, a petting zoo, composting tips, a New York Power Authority display and master gardeners who’ll offer gardening advice.
Also, Farmer John of the Fabulous Beekman Boys will be on hand.
Besides village parking lots, parking will be available at Mesa Tech, Key Bank, Head Start, Newberry’s and the Cobleskill Fire Department.
Sponsors for the day are SUNY Cobleskill, Noble Ace Hardware, Kelley Farm and Garden, Cobleskill Partnership Inc. and the Village of Cobleskill.

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More than 100 workers began a week-long strike at the terminal on February 2 after a satisfactory enterprise agreement with the port wasn’t reached.
According to Reuters, union workers were due to resume a full-day strike today, with more stoppages to continue throughout the week; however, this has now been called off.
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union district vice-president Bob Timbs told Reuters he was optimistic about the negotiations.
“We are hopeful we'll be able to reach a fair outcome,” Timbs was quoted as saying.
Workers have been demanding increased job security on top of a 4.5% wage increase.
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The Office for National Statistics today reaffirmed its findings that the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter.
The figure was unrevised from the ONS' original estimate. It added that 2014 GDP growth was 2.6 per cent, also unrevised, the UK's highest growth since 2007, which made the UK the fastest-expanding G7 economy in 2014.
Meanwhile, another report from the ONS suggested the economy's output was still unbalanced, with output in the services sector rising 0.8 per cent on the third quarter, while industrial production rose just 0.1 per cent and the construction sector actually contracted by 2.1 per cent.
Howard Archer, an economist at IHS Global Insight, said the figures suggested the economy was on track to grow faster in 2015.
With oil prices expected to stay very low and earnings growth now trending up, the economic fundaments currently look broadly positive for the United Kingdom in 2015 – especially for consumers. Furthermore, we expect Eurozone growth to see improvement in 2015, which will help UK exports.


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Kate Lynn has devoted years to bringing her talented, fragile sister Martha’s extraordinary art to the world, while her own life has never quite gotten off the ground. One day, a package arrives from an old friend, a message that will call Kate back to Pascagoula Mississippi, where an Indian tribe had walked into a river rather than be conquered, and where she and Martha began the journey they were now being called to complete. Readers who loved The Help, Swamplandia! and The Secret Life of Bees will enjoy The Last of the Pascagoula.
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Over the past summer, they were spotted hanging out in London in July and Greece in August.While in Paris, Cadieu shared a telling quote alongside a photo Opens a New Window.Last year, when asked about his love life during an interview, the star politely declined to comment, revealing grabbing headlines for his past affairs has forever scarred him.“I think when you’re in a relationship, you are constantly scrutinized, your friends are scrutinized, but …I would love to not talk about my personal life,” he told The Guardian.For years now, Jake has really tried to limit the personal gossip about his romantic life – we’ll hear some rumors every so often about him having a girlfriend here or there, but nothing seems to stick.I don’t know where this rumor fits in: Jake, 38, is dating a 22-year-old model.(2001), in which he played a psychologically troubled teenager alongside his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal.Jake Gyllenhaal was born as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal on 19 December 1980, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He is a member of the Gyllenhaal family and the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner.
If so, Jake is doing it better than Leo, because Jake doesn’t have Leo’s skeevy “girlfriend experience” reputation.
Jake has been able to fly under the radar with almost all of his relationships post-Taylor Swift.
He has an elder sister named Maggie Gyllenhaal who is also an actress.
He graduated from the , but dropped out after two years to concentrate on acting.


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We keep our designs flexible, because we know that technology changes every day. This highly sustainable and adaptable state-of-the-art facility houses advanced-level digital battle simulation training, as well as testing and development for new training applications such as DARWARS and VBS2.
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Big girls should cry. Not only are tears a sign of authenticity, but there’s also important health benefits of having a good ol’ sob every now and then.
Crying acts as your body’s release valve for stress, sadness, anxiety and frustration. It is part of your body’s inbuilt healing system. In fact, research shows that while reflex tears (the type that happen when something gets in your eye or your chopping up onions) are 98% water, emotional tears also contain stress hormones which get excreted from the body through crying.
Shedding a few tears is also important because it can have a calming effect by slowing your breathing down and reducing your body’s manganese level, a mineral which can make you feel anxious, nervous, irritable or just plain emotional.
So, how can you make the most of your tears? Use crying to make a positive connection between what once was and what now can be. You can also track your tears and ask yourself what’s really going on under the surface and making you feel this way. As John Bradshaw writes in his bestseller, Homecoming: “All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.”
And whatever you do, don’t hold your tears in…or you’ll end up looking like Dawson!

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LA Salle coach Ramil de Jesus returned the favor to University of the Philippines mentor Jerry Yee in wishing the Lady Maroons the best of luck against the Lady Spikers' back-to-back Finals tormentor Ateneo on Saturday at the MOA Arena.
Yee prayed and hoped that the Lady Spikers win their final match against National U in the elimination so that the Lady Maroons would avoid a playoff against the Lady Bulldogs. The win by La Salle handed UP the last Final Four spot and shoved NU out of the semis picture.
“Good luck, good luck sa kanila,” said the eight-time UAAP champion coach.
“Ginawa namin ang magagawa namin para makatulong sa kanila,” he added.
Incidentally, it was UP and La Salle that put a blemish on Ateneo’s record this season. The Lady Eagles, however, finished on top with a 12-2 win-loss record at the end of elimination.
Meanwhile, No. 2 La Salle will face third-seeded Far Eastern University in their own Final Four series on Sunday.
If the Lady Spikers, who are armed with a twice-to-beat advantage, win the match and if the Lady Maroons will pull off an upset and defeat the Lady Eagles twice in the semifinals, La Salle and UP might not end up wishing each other luck anymore.

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Far Cry 5 Extended Gameplay Walkthrough.
In case you didn’t get to know about the upcoming “Hope County” of Far Cry 5 and what’s going on. Ubisoft has come along and released an extended gameplay walkthrough. This new Far Cry 5 extended gameplay takes us on a tour of Montana with our companion Boomer and warns us of the Cult that we’ll face in Far Cry 5.
This is the gameplay demo that a few lucky people got their hands on during this year’s E3. It was shown behind the doors while a shorter gameplay preview was shown off to the public. Far Cry 5’s Associate Producer Phillippe Fournier and scriptwriter Marri Knadle are the two voices behind the video as they take us through Hope County Montana.
Welcome to Hope County, Montana, land of the free and the brave, but also home to a fanatical Domsday Cult known as The Project at Eden’s Gate that is threatening the community’s freedom. Stand up to the cult’s leader, Joseph Seed and the Heralds, and spark the fires of resistance that will liberate the besieged community.
In this expansive world, your limits and creativity will be tested against the biggest and most ruthless baddest enemy Far Cry has ever seen. It’ll be wild and it’ll get weird, but as long as you keep your wits about you, the residents of Hope County can rest assured knowing you’re their beacon of hope.
Far Cry 5 will be released on 27 February 2018 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Stay tuned to Thetechslab for more updates.

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All But One Cavs Player Voted LeBron James for MVP of 2017-18 Season
- Updated: April 12, 2018
The 2017-18 NBA Most Valuable Player Award has been the Houston Rockets’ James Harden’s to lose. Some of the media members who have a vote have pretty much handed him the award but the individual players of the Cleveland Cavaliers haven’t conceded it to Harden just yet. Virtually everyone on the team believes that LeBron James should take home the MVP award this season.
Except for one player, that is.
ESPN’s Dave McMenamin posted a link on Twitter that showed the results of a poll in which 13 Cavaliers voted for MVP, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, Most Improved Player, Defensive Player of the Year, and Sixth Man of the Year.
Here’s what McMenamin said pertaining to the Cavs’ MVP voting results:
“ESPN conducted an anonymous poll with 13 Cleveland Cavaliers players Wednesday to see how they would vote for the six major awards and none of the results were unanimous, including LeBron James for MVP, who received 12 votes (James Harden getting the other). No instructions were given (i.e. not being allowed to vote for themselves or their own team, etc.).”
It’s interesting to think that there’s one player on James’ team that doesn’t think he is this season’s MVP.
If Harden wasn’t having a phenomenally amazing year, the Cavaliers forward would be the runaway winner. James’ averages of 27.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 9.1 assists are numbers that are among the league’s best and should be enough to warrant consideration from the media members included in the voting process.
In Harden’s favor is the fact that the Rockets star led his team to the best record in the NBA this season at 65-17. He lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook last year.
James is a perpetual candidate to win the award but it’s been five years since he won the last of his four MVPs. The Cavs have won 50 games this season, nearly matching their record of 51 wins last year, despite losing All-Star Kyrie Irving in a trade in the offseason and having a roster overhaul at the Feb. 8 trading deadline.
That’s a testament to how great James is as he has carried the team to the finish line on his broad shoulders.


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London, May 20 (PTI) "Supermassive Black Hole" hitmakers Muse have released a new single "Dig Down", ahead of their headline slot at Reading and Leeds Festival in August.
The group - compromising of Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard - dropped the track, which is available for download now, reported Contactmusic.
"When I was writing this song I was looking to counteract negativity in the world and give inspiration, optimism and hope to people to fight for the causes they believe in; that as individuals we can choose to change the world if we want to," Bellamy said.
"Dig Down" marks the first standalone single Muse have had since 2010s "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)".
The video for the song was directed by Lance Drake and the record itself was co-produced by Mike Elizondo and Muse and features Lauren Wasser. PTI JCH SSN

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Lucha Libre is a popular taco shop in San Diego and has even been featured on shows like Man v. Food.
My parents requested something distinctly San Diegan during their visit, so of course California burritos popped in my mind and one of my favorite places to get a California burrito these days is Lucha Libre.
The colorfully decorated shop is constantly busy, offering an array of burritos, tacos, quesadillas and hot dogs.
I especially love that the food comes with complimentary chips and salsa. The chips are thick-cut, crunchy, and warm– my ideal characteristics for a tortilla chip. The free salsa bar comes with 9 different varieties. My favorites are the spinach dip, verde salsa, and mango salsa.
Surfin’ California Burrito
While Lucha Libre offers a classic California burrito, the standout is definitely their Surfin’ California burrito, which is a surf and turf variation on the classic California burrito. It’s packed with carne asada, fries, avocado, shrimp and their secret creamy chipotle sauce. I love the addition of plump shrimp to the burrito and the chipotle sauce brings all the ingredients together. I do wish the fries were crisper though, as they basically just taste like potatoes.
Surf and Turf Burrito
This is similar to the Surfin burrito except it has rice instead of fries.
Undefeated Seafood Grilled Shrimp Burrito
For a lighter fare, we also ordered the seafood burrito which is served with fresh cabbage, black beans and cheese.
Mr. K chose to try this chicken and mole combination. I found it a little too sweet for my liking.
Overall, we had a good lunch here. The burritos were quite filling and tasty, though they seemed a little smaller than before. The complimentary chips and salsa was as delicious as always. If you’re a fan of the California burrito, this place is definitely worth a visit.
Lucha Libre Taco Shop
1810 W. Washington Street
San Diego, CA 92110
Love Lucha Libre, especially its Surfin’ California burrito! The Champion Fries/Nachos are also pretty tasty. The Gold Booth is fun! You can wear their masks if you wanted to, haha. They’ll come to you for orders and bring everything out to you in giant containers. The soda and chips come in huge goblet things and they’ll give you all the salsas. They’ll supply nice looking utensils as well, lol. You also get to sign a little book at the end of the meal! A reservation (at least 24 hours in advance) is required though. Definitely try it out next time you go cause it’s pretty darn cool. 🙂
thanks for all the info on the golden booth! I have friends visiting soon who really want to go to Lucha Libre, so I’m going to reserve it when they come!
Can’t believe I have not been here yet! Ever since it was featured on MVF, I want to try the Surfin’ California burrito with that cilantro sauce! Oh, my stomach just growled. Wow, had no idea they have lots of salsa/sauces with their complimentary chips – that’s a PLUS! Thanks for sharing, Kirbie!
You should definitely go visit! The chips, cilantro sauce and Surfin burrito are all delicious!
Have you ever sat in the Champion’s Booth? It’s pretty fun! We haven’t been here in awhile, it was just okay on our last visit but maybe we need to give it another shot. I do like the salsas though.
I have not! So tempted to though!
Mmmm, this is my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Diego!! I loooove the salsa bar.
I love the salsa bar too. I could just live on the salsa and chips.
Is the Holy Moly a new item? It looks interesting (maybe b/c it looks saucy and less dry to me). I don’t like their chips all that much but I would do endless cartwheels for their creamy cilantro salsa.
I don’t think its a new menu item. It’s definitely quite saucy.
I like Lucha, its not traditional Mexican food but tasty stuff. Bf usually gets the surfin’ california and I get the surf n turf taco as well as flaco taco (lettuce instead of tortilla). And then we cover everything in their yummy white sauce 🙂
My brother was taking off all of the tortilla wrap. I told him he should have just done lettuce instead of tortilla! I really love the surfin burrito here
Recent subscriber so I can find San Diego eateries new to me. Disappointed you don’t include prices, which would help me plan and time my visits.
I include pictures of the menu when I can, but sometimes it’s hard to do so. For instance, the menu here was constantly blocked by heads of customers.


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“A Gentile’s House”: Lolita and the Holocaust
Nabokov, a three-time refugee from totalitarian governments, famously rejected literature bearing social messages. Yet at the end of his seventh decade, he vowed to his first biographer that he would one day tackle Nazi terror. “I will go to those German camps and look at those places and write a terrible indictment.”1 Decades later Kubrick made real progress toward his goal: he drafted a script, cast lead actors, and scouted a location in the Czech Republic for a film with the working title Aryan Papers. Yet neither man would complete his project.
Lolita, their only collaboration, somehow survived the censors, despite a plot centered on a professor’s cross-country travel and multi-year sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. While the subject of the movie stands at some distance from genocide, Nabokov’s 1955 novel and Kubrick’s 1962 film each play with coy and explicit Holocaust references, and hint at why neither man would ever produce a masterwork exploring the tragedy.
Kubrick and Nabokov each had a complex relationship with Judaism and Nazi Germany. Born wealthy in Russia and forced to flee after the Revolution, Nabokov moved to Berlin, where fellow émigrés mocked him as half-Jewish because of his philo-Semitism. He married Russian Jew Véra Slonim, who gave birth to a son in Germany a year after Hitler came to power. The couple escaped to France in 1937, and managed to get away yet again three years later, just before Paris fell to the Wehrmacht. The war scattered Nabokov’s siblings, and his brother Sergei ended up dying at a concentration camp outside Hamburg. At one point suggesting Germany should be chloroformed, Nabokov wrote a short story savaging Holocaust denial before the war had even ended. 2
This history was both more and less immediate for Kubrick, who was Jewish but had spent the war as a teenager in the relative safety of the Bronx. Raised outside any faith, he is reported to have told screenwriter Frederic Raphael that he was not so much Jewish as “he just happened to have two Jewish parents.”3 His first two wives were the daughters of Jewish immigrants. His third wife, Christiane, to whom he was married for more than 40 years, is a German actress who grew up in Nazi Germany. She is also the niece of filmmaker Veit Harlan, who produced the grotesque Nazi film Süss the Jew, a legacy her family wrestled with for decades.
Kubrick and his partner James Harris first invited Nabokov to write a Lolita screenplay in 1959. Out of fear of offending the censor, Nabokov was asked to include a hint “that Humbert and Lolita had been secretly married all along.”4 He turned down the invitation, unable to imagine how his story could work as a film. Later, he hit on a solution, and when Kubrick asked him again to take on the screenplay, he agreed. Nabokov spent half of 1960 in a rented villa on Mandeville Canyon Road in Los Angeles, meeting regularly with Kubrick.
In June, Nabokov turned in a script that Kubrick estimated would translate into a seven-hour movie. After Kubrick pleaded with him to cut and cut more, Nabokov turned in a revised version that September, which he felt was well received. A year and a half later, he saw the final version of the film in a small, private screening before its public premiere and realized that Kubrick had humored him, keeping “only ragged odds and ends” from his script.5
Nabokov and Kubrick were merciless visionaries transforming perversion and violence into baroque creations, but they had very different visions of Lolita. Nabokov lured the reader in and encouraged a kind of sympathy for and complicity with pedophile Humbert Humbert, all the while underlining the horror of what happens to Lolita. In the novel, Humbert overhears her crying every night. When Nabokov translated the book into Russian, he pushed the point further, clarifying that Humbert molests Lolita three times a day.
Kubrick, however, seems to have taken Nabokov’s narrative restraint as sympathy for Humbert. “Nabokov was brilliant in withholding any indication of the author's approval of the relationship” he told Terry Southern in 1962, noting that it isn’t until the end of the movie that “the really genuine and selfless love [Humbert] has for her is revealed.” Pointing out to Southern that Lolita seduces Humbert, he classifies Lolita as a “tragic romance” and “one of the great love stories.”6
Given their different readings, the gulf between book and film hardly comes as a surprise. But the changes Nabokov made as he transformed his novel into a script and the way Kubrick rewrote the script for his film provide a glimpse of how they wrestled with the idea of Jewish identity and the Holocaust.
Lolita, directed by Stanley
Kubrick (GB/United States; 1960-62).
Lolita (Sue Lyon) and Prof. Humbert Humbert (James Mason). © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Nabokov had injected an exquisite awareness of contemporary anti-Semitism into his 1955 novel. A wartime refugee from Europe, Humbert has nightmares of vivisection and “the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.”7 When Humbert relays that Charlotte Haze, Lolita’s mother, fantasizes about getting “a trained servant maid like the German girl the Talbots spoke of,” it was Jewish refugees who filled those slots in that era.8 Nabokov’s own wife Véra had been told to get testimonials for skills as a maid, because being a domestic was one of the few paths by which Jewish women could get visas into the US.9
Taking Lolita to the hotel where he plans to drug her, Humbert is at first refused a room by the manager, who looked at his features and “wrestled with some dark doubts.” Humbert later notices the hotel has “NO DOGS” and “NEAR CHURCHES” stamped on its stationery.10 When the book was written, “No Dogs” was shorthand in America for “No Dogs, No Coloreds, No Jews.” “Near Churches” indicated specifically that Jews would not be welcome.11
Renting summer lodging on butterfly hunting trips across the US, Nabokov grew furious over these listings, and while traveling even had confrontations with one rental owner and a manager at a diner over their exclusion of Jews.12 After Humbert sees “NO DOGS” and “NEAR CHURCHES” on the hotel letterhead, he recalls seeing a guest with a dog, and wonders if perhaps it had been baptized.13
The list goes on. Lolita’s mother suspects that Humbert has “a certain strange strain” in his family and says she will commit suicide if she ever finds out he is not Christian. An acquaintance of Humbert’s complains about the number of Italian tradesmen in town and adds that at least “we are still spared—.” The man’s wife cuts him off mid-sentence, not wanting to offend Humbert. But in the Russian translation, Nabokov is more direct. The speaker clearly begins to say an anti-Semitic slur. When Humbert confronts Clare Quilty, the man with whom Lolita ran off, he is told to leave, because refugees like him are unwelcome in “a Gentile’s house.”14
Is Humbert actually Jewish, or does mid-century prejudice against foreigners just lead others to see him so? Is the madness of the war he fled part of the back story for his mental derangement—a derangement Nabokov makes explicit through repeated institutionalizations?
Many more winks and nods appear in the interplay between Humbert and American society in the book, but by the time Nabokov had finished his adaptation—after initially drafting a mammoth 400-page script—he had moved the story’s setting to 1960 and eliminated every oblique Semitic reference. Humbert was no longer a war refugee, and any hints about his identity had been scrapped.
Stanley Kubrick with his viewfinder during the production of Lolita |
(GB/United States; 1960-62). © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Transforming Nabokov’s script to the screen, Kubrick thoroughly mined the comic brilliance of the book—particularly Humbert’s frustrations as a parent once Lolita’s mother Charlotte dies in a freak accident. Daughter and stepfather argue over dates, parties, homework, and participation in the school play. Humbert has secured the object of his obsession, but to keep prying eyes away, he has to maintain a charade of family life, despite Lolita turning into a rebellious teenager.
When the film hit theaters, literary critics had not yet considered the question of Humbert’s identity or the depictions of American anti-Semitism in the novel.15 But Kubrick had sniffed out the odd vibe of exclusion and racial hierarchy creeping through Nabokov’s story, re-inserting elements from the book into the film where Nabokov’s script had excised them.
In what became the opening scene of the movie, Humbert (James Mason) wanders through bric-a-brac detritus in a mansion, calling for Quilty (Peter Sellers). Face to face, Humbert knows Quilty as his rival, but Quilty does not seem to recognize the armed intruder. Kubrick resurrects a moment from the book that Nabokov had left out of the final script, with Quilty saying, “You are either Australian [a play on Austrian] or a German refugee . . . This is a Gentile’s house. You better run along.” The question of who Humbert is and whether he has a right to be present constitute our introduction to him.
Kubrick added his own touches of WASP anxiety, with Charlotte (Shelley Winters) reassuring Humbert at their first meeting that the town of Ramsdale is filled “with lots of good Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-Scotch stock.” But where Charlotte says in the novel she would commit suicide if she ever learned Humbert were not Christian, Kubrick changed it to if “you didn’t believe in God.” Kubrick kept the religious angle, but broadened it from Christian prejudice into a general oppressive religiosity.
In the film America is still suspicious of foreigners, but sexual hypocrisy dominates. Behind the public façade of propriety and religion squirms a bacchanal. Kubrick made it apparent that Charlotte slept with Quilty the last time he was in town. Quilty later quizzes Mr. Swine, a hotel desk clerk, on where to find local action. John Farlow, the man who nearly makes a slur in the novel, instead implies that he and his wife are swingers. In one scene, Charlotte says she has a surprise, and Humbert asks if the Farlows have been arrested.
With a comic veiling of pornographic excess, Kubrick has replaced the town’s parochial bigotry with a sexual free-for-all. (Absent this reinvention of Ramsdale, it becomes hard to imagine Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks.) In Kubrick’s send-up of genteel America, a man’s obsession with his stepdaughter remains the last sexual taboo.
Cast as Quilty, Peter Sellers plays a dizzying number of characters. In addition to his actual roles as a television personality and playwright, he pretends to be a policeman, Lolita’s uncle, and “Doctor Zempf,” a school psychologist. As Zempf, Quilty interrogates Humbert about his relationship with Lolita, affecting a heavy German accent, chiding Humbert for refusing to cooperate, and explaining how “we Americans” do things. On one level, Zempf is using the threat of the nanny state to manipulate an unwitting Humbert into letting Lolita star in her school play. On another, Zempf’s riff suggests that Humbert is at risk not so much for his suspected sexual misbehavior as for his inability to pass as American.
Kubrick makes subtle and crude use of Holocaust imagery. He restores dialogue absent from Nabokov’s script in which Humbert begins to contemplate murdering Charlotte. After Charlotte tells him that she will send Lolita away to boarding school so that she will no longer live with them, Humbert loses his erection. When she notices, Humbert asks her to give him a moment, as he is following a train of thought. He rolls over on his side, at which point Charlotte’s revolver is visible in the foreground. Oblivious, she coyly asks if she was on that train, and he says, “Yes.”
But the film’s strangest Holocaust interpolation lacks any subtlety. After a lecture from Charlotte, an irritated Lolita listens to a list of instructions. Leaning on a stairway post, she raises her left arm to deliver a mocking Hitler salute and says, “Sieg Heil!” It’s a startling moment, but any shock comes from the rebellion of a put-upon Lolita, who half-heartedly makes the gesture with the wrong arm from her slumped position.
Talking with Michael Ciment two decades after Lolita’s release, Kubrick admitted a fascination with Nazi horror. He identified Doctor Zempf and Zempf’s filmic offspring Dr. Strangelove as “parodies of movie clichés about Nazis.”16 Unlike Nabokov’s novel, however, these winks and nods function less as historical cues than symbols that help viewers interpret the scene they’re watching. Kubrick framed his tendencies in terms of an interest in evil that he thought was typical: “More people read books about the Nazis than the UN.”17
Within Kubrick’s Lolita this interplay stays on the level of vamping and masks. None of it leads to the kind of specific history that peeks from the corners of Nabokov’s novel. Kubrick’s film spans a broader horizon, building toward the moment that comedy flips into tragedy as Humbert loses Lolita to Quilty and then hunts her down years later. Firmly convinced of his pure love for her, he sits awkwardly in her living room, breaking down as he realizes that she will not run away with him.
Humbert leaves alone after a very pregnant Lolita has delightedly accepted a large sum of money from him. But deviating from the novel, she does not die in childbirth after Humbert’s departure. In Kubrick’s film, Humbert owns all the tragedy.
Nabokov, on the other hand, saw Humbert as a monster—but he could not resist layering complexities into his character, making any single analysis of the novel almost impossible. He loathed sentimentality and wanted to write novels guarded enough not just to withstand, but to require rereading. Ultimately, even where he seems to render his productions fantastic and abstract, Nabokov tends to stake the poles of his circus tent to precise places and times, and points to events from the world of the reader. Though he had been writing fiction about young girls sexually abused by older men for decades, he mentioned the 1948 real-world kidnapping of a 13-year-old New Jersey girl named Sally Horner in the pages of Lolita itself.18 Nabokov binds his characters to such specificity that they resist symbolic interpretation.
Kubrick, however, tends to turn his protagonists into archetypes. Alex’s free-range ultraviolence in A Clockwork Orange is horrifying, not heroic, but the film’s larger narrative plays out as a direct clash between free will and an oppressive state. Small wonder that Nabokov’s signature image became the tiniest detail marrying horror and beauty, while Kubrick’s became the panoramic shot that accomplishes the same effect.
Nabokov and the Holocaust
Given their fascination with the Holocaust, what kept both men from memorializing it directly? Though Nabokov’s vow to write about what Germany had done was made with more emotion than his biographer had ever seen him express, he fell into a life of relative isolation from the world late in life. His novels became more and more involute in his waning years.
Nabokov also felt that there was a correlation between distance from history and the greatness of the art that addressed it. He wrote a note in his 1942 diary calling War and Peace “the greatest novel about any war” but underlined that Tolstoy had written his epic half a century after Napoleon had been defeated. 19
In the end, the enormity of the Holocaust defied the oblique approach and aesthetics that Nabokov excelled at—the poetry which philosopher Theodor Adorno said would be barbaric to write after Auschwitz. Aspects of the Holocaust could be addressed indirectly, as Nabokov did in Lolita—and afterward more explicitly in Pnin, where the death of a childhood love at Buchenwald nestles at the heart of the story of hapless Professor Pnin’s misadventures. Such surprises in stories about other people and places render the vast ocean of deaths specific and human again.
All magic and misdirection, Nabokov’s writing encompassed multiple readings other authors dreamed of. But he could only succeed at historical tragedy when he addressed it elliptically. With parody, linguistic games, and ambiguity as his most effective tools, Nabokov was ill-equipped to play Tolstoy and create a War and Peace-style epic about the death of millions. He could make questions about Humbert’s refugee past haunt the pages of Lolita, but the Holocaust in its entirety could not be written as subtext.
Kubrick and the Holocaust
Though Kubrick’s transformation of Lolita made only generic gestures toward Jewish identity and the Holocaust, Kubrick had opportunities before and afterward to address both more directly—several of which he side-stepped. In the early 1960s, he turned down an offer to direct The Pawnbroker, the story of a Holocaust survivor targeted in a robbery in East Harlem.20 Historian Geoffrey Cocks notes that in five of Kubrick’s films, Jewish characters disappear in the translation from text to screen, usually due a need to streamline the narrative. But there is more to it than that. “Jews are absent from Kubrick films,” Cocks writes, “because the main subjects of Kubrick’s films are perpetrators and not victims.”21
Which is not to say that Kubrick was uninterested in reflecting Jewish experiences. He asked his brother-in-law in the mid-1970s to find out if Isaac Bashevis Singer might be willing to write a Holocaust screenplay. Singer declined with barbed modesty, saying, “I don’t know the first thing about it.”22
Years later, Kubrick mentioned to collaborator Michael Herr that he wanted to make a Holocaust film. He eventually began developing a scenario from Louis Begley’s 1991 novel Wartime Lies, which follows a young boy named Maciek and his aunt as they try to stay ahead of Nazi invasion and arrest in Poland. He developed the idea under the title Aryan Papers, and began drafting a script himself. Christiane Kubrick recalls that he was depressed from the beginning to the end of his work on it.24 The arrival of Schindler’s List may also have played a role in his abandoning the project, but he was reported to have said that Spielberg had not captured the Holocaust. Kubrick said he wanted to somehow represent the six million dead, not those who survived.25
He ultimately gave up, but the debate over the degree to which he wrestled with the Holocaust in his films continues today. His 1980 movie The Shining ostensibly traces the mental disintegration of a writer who drags his family off to a haunted mountain resort during a claustrophobic winter. Yet its imagery would spawn an entire book devoted to interpreting it as a Holocaust film. Most striking were what one critic called “hemorrhagic elevators” spewing an ocean of blood, and the slaughtered Grady sisters, who recall both Diane Arbus’ “Identical Twins” photo and Josef Mengele’s barbaric experiments at Auschwitz. But as Holocaust symbols, even these visuals make for abstract ghosts, horror pulled in to electrify the existing story rather than to tap into historical allegory.
Other books Kubrick made into movies contain no shortage of ideas he could have embraced. The first page of the novel The Short-Timers, on which Full Metal Jacket is based, describes Parris Island as a “suburban death camp.” Later, the Marine protagonist dreams of Hermann Göring as his mother, breast-feeding him while driving Germany into war. These references disappear in Kubrick’s film, the metaphor of America’s military as Nazis replaced by subtler visuals: a sea of sheared hair from the recruits on the floor at boot camp and swastika designs in the metal framework of an interior rail during a firefight in Vietnam.
Across his career, Kubrick broadly reconstituted symbols of Jewish suffering and Nazi mythology as a vocabulary of evil in movies about other subjects. But as for portraying Jews or the Holocaust, Kubrick could not pull back far enough to build a cinematic frame around either one. No higher-order visual vocabulary exists as a set of symbols to interpret the horror of the Holocaust itself. So we are instead left with fragments scattered throughout Kubrick’s work. From the very absence of the Jewish characters he consistently obscured to the Leni Riefenstahl footage playing in A Clockwork Orange and Lolita shouting “Sieg Heil!,” Kubrick’s legacy suggests that making art out of the Holocaust is both impossible and inevitable.
About the Author
Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. Her work has appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, McSweeney's, and Slate, among other publications. In 2009 she founded Nieman Storyboard, the narrative journalism site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She is currently writing a global history of concentration camps from the 1890s to the present.
1. Andrew Field. Nabokov: His Life in Part (New York: Penguin, 1977), 201.
2. The short story, “Double Talk,” was later renamed “Conversation Piece, 1945.” The letter was written to the Chair of the New York Browning Society, and appears in Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1991), 47-8.
3. Frederic Raphael. Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (New York: Ballantine, 1999), 108.
4. Nabokov, Lolita: A Screenplay (New York: Vintage, 1997), vii.
5. Ibid., xii.
6. Terry Southern, “An Interview with Stanley Kubrick,” New York City, 1962.
7. Nabokov, Lolita, 254.
8. Ibid., 82.
9. Stacy Schiff. Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), (New York: Modern Library, 2000), 103.
10. Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita (New York: Knopf, 2010), 261.
11. Alfred Appel. The Annotated Lolita (New York: Random House, 1991), 435-6.
12. Ibid., 436.
13. Nabokov, Lolita, 261.
14. Nabokov, Lolita: “a certain strange strain,” 75; “we are still spared,” 79; “a Gentile’s house,” 297.
15. Alfred Appel would lead the way in making note of many of Lolita’s references to American anti-Semitism in The Annotated Lolita, which first appeared in 1970.
16. Michael Ciment. Kubrick (Glasgow: Collins, 1983), 156-7.
18. Nabokov, Lolita, 289.
19. Nabokov diary entry, January 24, 1942.
20. Geoffrey Cocks, The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (New York: Peter Lang, 2004), 158.
21. Cocks, 30.
22. Joan Dupont. “Kubrick Speaks, Through Family’s Documentary,” The New York Times, September 15, 2001.
23. Michael Herr. “Kubrick,” Vanity Fair, April 2000.
24. Cocks, 15.
25. Raphael, 107.

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I’m not usually the one to post polling data, but one particular poll conducted by Rasmussen caught my attention today—because it largely refutes what the loud anti-traditional values crowd is telling us.
The poll I’m talking about was released on June 20. Rasmussen discovered the following:
1) “The majority (71%) of American Adults continue to believe that being a father is one of the most important roles a man can fill in today’s world…”
2) “Sixty-four percent (64%) think that being a mother is the most important role for a woman to fill in today’s world.”
Hold on a minute. Haven’t we been told that the roles of father and mother are interchangeable? That Americans are ready to “move on” from the belief that fatherhood and motherhood are distinct, equally important roles?
Apparently those attempting to change traditional values have been talking to the wrong Americans.


I have been drawing on Sana’a’s walls for years. In 2012, when I was a high school student, I launched my first art campaign: “Caricature of the street.” I used to save up my allowance to draw in the streets as a way of expressing my opinion and echoing what the youth of the Arab Spring revolutions were doing. My murals highlighted a range of issues from politics and the crimes of Al-Qaeda to famine and censorship, which directly impact me as an individual in the community and as an artist.
Over time, my fingertips got accustomed to the brush until it became like a sixth finger. I was addicted to the smell of paint. I’d stand for hours drawing, wrapped up in the dream of freedom of speech and change. Each color meant a lot to me. Every line, dot, and shape made me more aware of the importance of art and how to reflect reality in a street mural.
Beginning in 2014, people started to stop and ask me what I was drawing; I’d respond with the enthusiasm of the novice, saying I was expressing myself by drawing a caricature about the National Dialogue Conference, the post-revolution transition process that began the previous year. My drawing was a dream to resolve Yemen’s long-standing problems. Some thought the mural represented a pessimistic view, but I observed the situation and predicted the failure of dialogue. The way the international community was dealing with Yemen was thoughtless and rash, and ignored the conflict that was happening outside the conference’s halls.
After the Houthis entered Sana’a in September 2014, I launched a new art and social campaign called “Art and life” aimed at strengthening community peace. I drew the faces of 21 of Yemen’s most prominent singers, as a tribute to these artists and the cultural heritage they have imparted. First, I drew the faces on paper then in black on the walls. Several friends and passersby gathered around and helped paint, using the colors of art and life. Our laughs echoed in the street while we documented a significant art phase in Yemen’s modern history. It was a carnival of colors, celebrating these figures whose songs we still listen to until this day. The voices of these singers are an integral part of societal memory and cultural heritage for Yemenis, whether in the fields, rural areas or city streets. I considered it my duty as an artist to document something we are proud of, something that should be protected and spread everywhere.
Later, in December 2014, I drew a mural on Al-Qeyada Street documenting the slogans and civil demands of Yemeni youth. These slogans have a value that will continue to exist despite the changes in the political situation in the country. The tents and squares of the revolution may be empty, but these murals serve as documentation of the peaceful protests that changed Yemen. I used to say: “If the voice of the youth goes silent in the street, the walls will continue to speak.” I still believe this. The campaign, “Caricature of the street,” bore witness to the situation from 2012 until September 2014, a phase that was characterized by the participation of the youth in many fields, and by freedom of opinion and expression.
Ever since the Houthis seized the capital Sana’a in September 2014, I felt a sense of responsibility. The Houthis were not the only thing that raised my fears during this period. I went out to the street two weeks before the launch of Operation Decisive Storm in March 2015 to paint murals about foreign interventions on Al-Sabaeen Street. I drew two cold figures moving chess pieces on a board in the shape of Yemen’s map, divided into squares. I did not know then I was predicting a new foreign intervention that would tear my country apart.
For a while I stopped drawing. I did not know how to resume my art activity. During the first months of Operation Decisive Storm, Sana’a became a ghost town. Streets were deserted and people were scared. The silence was what frightened me the most. There wasn’t room for art or life when there was war. The issues I drew about seemed marginal compared to things like famine, displacement and constant death. Daily life changed in every way. The city was no longer tolerant of newspapers or views that opposed the Houthi movement.
And just like war chooses its victims, it also chooses its merchants. I wondered how I, as a painter, could maintain the brightness of my colors and not sink in despair or hatred. How could I continue to draw based on my slogan that art is part of my daily life? How could I depict the humanitarian suffering that struck us?
Sometimes, I wondered how I could draw when people were starving and asked myself if my art would make any difference. I did not know the answer but I knew that I had to draw. I had to document what I was seeing. I thought of how to proceed with my art. Since all newspapers were banned in Sana’a, I decided to reproduce the newspaper and turn it into a protest poster. I looked for newspapers at kiosks and shops and eventually I found some that I could reuse as canvases for my art.
When I first started drawing, my aim was to go to the street to express my opinion and enjoy drawing. Today when I go to the street I hide my paints and I’m afraid of being stopped. But Yemen is full of events, crimes and stories which the world must not forget. Art is a duty. I must document what I am living. Every second I live is a second I feel I must draw for the future. One day the war will end. The walls may go back to how they were and the world will forget what we lived through. My hope is that these murals and other works of art remain to narrate what the war put us through amid the world’s silence.


Hervis opens new store in Budapest
Hervis, the Austrian sports and fashion company, opened its new, 800-sqm store, which now offers new brands, in MOM Park Shopping Center, the company announced in a press release today.
According to the press release, Hervis offers several new sports brands such as Vaude, La Sportiva, Dynafit and Salewa.
“Based on our experience, the customers at MOM Park and the shoppers from Hegyvidék district are opened to the new things, and as we found it is the best place to make our sport brands available to them,” said Krisztina Viola managing director at Hervis Sport.
The press release added that the newly opened store in MOM Park Shopping Center is the 26th Hervis store in Hungary.
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Lisa Marie To Tour With Elvis Hologram?
By KRISTA WICK
May 04, 2012
Thanks to the folks at Coachella last month, the hologram is the new must-have accessory for artists on tour, so we asked Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley, who is currently promoting her new album Storm & Grace, if she would ever venture the Tupac route alongside video of her late father.
"I personally couldn't do that," replies Lisa Marie, squashing hopes that she one day might duet with a projected Elvis on stage.
Although she unfortunately shies away from the trend, she says casts no judgment on those who do.
"I just think if things are tasteful that's good," she explains. "If not, then no."
Hologram or not, fans of Lisa Marie have some new music to look forward to May 15-- Her first after a lengthy hiatus.
Storm & Grace features down-home Southern tracks, following up her previous two releases, 2003's To Whom It May Concern and 2005's Now What, both of which hit the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.


Paul Gascoigne, the former England footballer, has been fined £1,000 after admitting to making a racist ‘joke’ in front of hundreds of people at his ‘An Evening With Gazza’ show.
Dudley Magistrates’ Court heard that Gascoigne ‘humiliated’ a black security guard assigned to protect him during one of his shows in Wolverhampton.
The 49-year-old was fined because he used ‘threatening or abusive words or behaviour’.
Gascoigne asked Errol Rowe: “Can you smile please, because I can’t see you?”
District Judge Graham Wilkinson also ordered Gascoigne to pay Mr Rowe £1,000 in compensation.
Mr Wilkinson told the former England star: “You sought to get a laugh from an audience of over 1,000 people because of the colour of Mr Rowe’s skin.”
He praised the Crown Prosecution Service for taking the case to court, saying Gascoigne’s comment at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on 30th November was an example of ‘insidious’ racism which needed to be challenged.
The judge continued: “Mr Rowe was clearly humiliated on stage, as part of an act.
“As a society it is important that we challenge racially-aggravated behaviour in all its forms.
“It is the creeping ‘low-level’ racism that society still needs to challenge.
“A message needs to be sent that in the 21st century society that we live in, such action, such words will not be tolerated.
“It is not acceptable to laugh words like this off as some form of joke.”
He told Gascoigne what happened was a ‘stain on his character’.
When interviewed by police, Gascoigne had said he meant no offence and that it was ‘just good humour’.
He added: “I’m upset that I upset him. Looking back, I said the wrong thing. I’ve upset somebody. I apologise from the bottom of my heart. It will never happen again.”


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The New York Yankees are banking on the contributions of several veteran players for the 2024 season, having successfully offloaded some of their older, less productive talent. A notable departure is 38-year-old Josh Donaldson, which clears the path for DJ LeMahieu to take over the third base position after experiencing a significant upswing in the latter half of the 2023 season.
Rizzo’s Road to Recovery
The Yankees are also placing their hopes on Anthony Rizzo to rebound from a challenging season. The veteran first baseman’s year was marred by a concussion sustained during an early game against the San Diego Padres, a condition that went undiagnosed for months, ultimately cutting his season short.
Rizzo started the season strong, being one of the team’s top hitters in the initial weeks, but his performance dipped to a .244/.328/.378 slash line, including 12 home runs and 41 RBIs across 99 games, effectively making him a league-average hitter. The concussion symptoms, including grogginess and exhaustion, significantly impacted his performance.
However, Rizzo has spent the offseason rehabilitating and has moved past the concussion symptoms, gearing up for a healthy return. “All the head stuff is behind me, thankfully. Had a very normal offseason. It felt very long but excited to be back in camp,” Rizzo shared, indicating his readiness for the upcoming season.
The Yankees Need Max Value From Rizzo
Rizzo is approaching the final year of a two-year, $40 million contract, with a 2025 club option looming. His performance in the upcoming season will be pivotal, especially considering his $20 million luxury tax salary and the Yankees’ $17 million option for 2025.
Rizzo’s performance in 2022, which included a 134 wRC+, tying his career-high of 32 home runs, and posting his highest slugging percentage since 2019, sets high expectations for his potential impact.
Beyond his offensive contributions, Rizzo is renowned for his consistent defense at first base and his integral role in the locker room, being one of Aaron Judge’s closest teammates.
As the Yankees look to integrate young talents like Anthony Volpe, Oswald Peraza, and Austin Wells into their lineup, Rizzo’s experience and leadership will be invaluable. With a clean bill of health entering spring training, Rizzo is poised to make a critical impact on the team’s performance in 2024.


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“My greatest regret is that I didn’t manage to bring my parents to Universal Studios.”
With those words, jaws dropped across the nation, and Tin Pei Ling, then 27, set herself on the path to becoming one of the most controversial personalities of General Election 2011.
A senior associate with Ernst & Young at the time, with a degree in psychology, the candidate for Marine Parade GRC seemed markedly different from the usual People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate. Voters were used to seeing standing for election former generals, scholars and civil servants who were typically mature individuals in their 30s and 40s.
Then came her first doorstop with the media, where she uttered those infamous words. Netizens began questioning her qualifications and wondered aloud if she had gotten in through her connections – she is married to Ng How Yue, former Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and now Second Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Then this photo was unearthed:
From that point on, there was no turning back.
Many netizens were convinced that Ms Tin was too immature and inexperienced. She lacked substance. She could not speak well. She was being parachuted into power by riding on the coat tails of former Prime Minister and then-Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.
Perhaps even more crucially, she stood in stark contrast to one of her direct opponents: the National Solidarity Party’s (NSP’s) Nicole Seah, then 24. Attractive, composed and idealistic, Ms Seah had star power that Ms Tin simply could not match.
During an NSP rally, I personally witnessed the crowd booing the speaker before Ms Seah, urging him to get off the stage. When she had finished speaking and came to shake hands with supporters, one starstruck, middle-aged woman even told her: “Nicole, I will vote for you! You must fight for us in Parliament, okay!”
If there was such a thing as preferred youth candidate, it was Ms Seah. Some even called NSP the Nicole Seah Party.
All of which led to this memorable scene on Nomination Day, when the PAP team contesting Marine Parade came out to address supporters. Among my colleagues at the time, there were more than a few sniggers.
When the PAP eventually won in Marine Parade with more than 56% of the vote – a historically low margin of victory in the ward – SM Goh acknowledged that Ms Tin had played a significant role in the reduced percentage.
Outraged netizens even set up a Facebook page called Petition to Remove Tin Pei Ling as a MP. It attracted thousands of likes.
To her credit, a chastened looking Ms Tin addressed the criticisms directly, “I hope that I’ll be given this opportunity in the next five years to prove myself through my actions, serving the residents of MacPherson.”
But Ms Tin herself acknowledged that it would be an uphill task.
An unfortunately timed video a year later seemed to sum up the prevailing sentiments towards her:
In the years since 2011, Ms Tin looks to have thrown herself into the task of serving her constituency.
She is a full-time MP, and the comments on her Facebook page (more than 18,000 likes), once vitriolic, are now largely positive:
Other than the occasional naysayer on social media, there was also plenty of goodwill towards Ms Tin when she gave birth recently.
As evidenced from her Facebook page, she continued to serve even while heavily pregnant:
Senior Minister Emeritus Goh posted the first photo of the happy family, along with a promise:
How will Ms Tin fare this time round, especially as a candidate in her own right? We will just have to wait and see.


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