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Why Children Of Men Is The Best Sci-Fi Movie Of All Time
By Steven Tye/Nov. 20, 2020 11:05 am EST
A truly great film must stand the test of time. Children of Men, which is more than a decade old at this point, has emerged triumphant. Few would have expected this: The film's release in 2006 was a lackluster affair, earning $70 million worldwide on a $76 million budget. Granted, releasing such a morose movie at Christmas was not the best production decision. That cheerful holiday is hardly a time when moviegoers are looking to descend into an apocalyptic world, wrought with global sterility. Release date withstanding, this sci-fi masterpiece was already a difficult sell: Its most bankable star, Julianne Moore, is killed 28 minutes into the film, and it lacks the sort of flashy techno-gadgetry that woos audiences into theaters.
Nevertheless, this Alfonso Cuarón-helmed epic has earned more and more praise over the years since its debut, and continues to be discovered by cinema lovers. Time has done nothing but sweeten Children of Men's allure and allowed the rest of us to catch up with its legendary truth. It still feels fresh and vivid, helped by its avoidance of typical movie tropes and cliches that often plague the science fiction genre. Children of Men truly is the best sci-fi movie of all time, and we're excited to explain exactly why.
It quickly paints a picture of a world in crisis
Children of Men sets a tone so efficiently, you hardly recognize its happening. The opening moments feature audio of news coverage playing over a black screen, which suddenly flashes to an image of a coffee shop, packed wall to wall with glum patrons. They are all engrossed in the news, which is covering the death of the world's youngest person, Baby Diego, who was stabbed by an angry fan. A rabid crowd had responded by beating the assailant to death.
Theo Faron (Clive Owen) makes his way through the captivated news watchers and orders himself a black coffee. A single camera shot follows Theo out to the street where he nonchalantly adds some liquor to his brew. Suddenly, the coffee shop he was just in explodes, shooting a plume of debris into the streets of London. A woman steps out, carrying her detached arm. The ringing in Theo's ears continues as a high pitched tone that leaks into the following scenes.
This opening is an incredibly succinct introduction to both the local and global climate the movie takes place within. It lays the story foundations in about 90 seconds, without any lazy exposition or coddling. Not only do we feel this world's despair, but also its numbness, which envelops Theo as he meanders through his daily life.
It feels simultaneously futuristic and mundane
The technology of 2027 is a mundane reality in Children of Men. There is a glimmer of the future in Theo's office, glimpsed as the camera pans across a mourning population, wearily absorbing footage of Baby Diego's death on advanced computer monitors. But really, the flashiest look we get at a distant future comes during a dinner conversation, when one of Theo's relatives plays with a high-tech Rubik's Cube. But even that device is only modestly impressive, and is clearly reserved for those rare few with means.
Societal issues take precedence over the tech advancements of Children of Men's far-off calendar date. This helps the world the characters navigate feel alarmingly current. Set designers opt for a run-down effect, even in public spaces featuring cutting-edge technology. This decision drives home Children of Men's dystopia. After all, there wouldn't be much reason for upkeep of a world destroyed by infertility. Rather than inserting impressive gadgets to transport us to the future, Cuarón relies upon the story. All of this makes the film feel as though it could be happening somewhere in the world, right now.
It lets the background explain the world
Cinema often enables exposition through dialogue. This can feel enormously lazy. Our brains have trouble grasping the reality presented to us, because we are perfectly aware of the fact that no one talks like characters delivering exposition. Children of Men lets the set explain the complexities of its world instead to tremendously powerful effect.
Rather than showing Theo meeting up with his friend, the film shows his walk through a crowded train station, where refugees are being detained, caged, and shipped elsewhere. Rather than offering a simple conversation about relationship status, we get information on new apocalyptic religious affiliations and the stress they place on the dating scene. Alfonso Cuarón does a wonderful job of trusting his audience to piece together the whole picture he is painting through these small moments, and it pays off massively.
Make no mistake: Though it's largely delivered through imagery and design, Children of Men's world-building is vast. From shots of news coverage to glimpses of graffiti across town, there is nothing on screen that isn't intentionally there. A prime example would be the words sprawled across concrete on Theo's trip to visit his friend, Jasper (Michael Caine): "Last one to die, please turn out the light."
It features an amazing array of single camera shots
Right around the time that Chiwetel Ejiofor guns down a couple police officers in the middle of the road, you realize that the past three minutes have been one continuous take. This particular take goes all the way back to the moment a flaming car rolls down the hill, and an angry mob descends to throw Molotov cocktails at the characters' car. It's an incredible shot which is unequalled — aside from a six minute ordeal later in the film, featuring Clive Owen navigating the streets of a refugee camp during an active battle.
For Children of Men, Cuarón sought out his friend and longtime cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki. Lubezki sports an impressive resume that has gone on to include The Revenant and Gravity. His skill is on full display here: The longer tracking shots used throughout Children of Men draw the viewer into the dystopia with unique force. The handheld camera movements manage to avoid the pitfalls of the shaky camera effect that Hollywood fell in love with for a few years in the late 2000s (a la Cloverfield), while still making us feel like we are trudging along right next to the characters.
It isn't afraid to kill off its stars
There is a certain element of fear missing from many films: The stars on screen feel removed from danger, for the simple fact that they're the stars. We are perfectly aware that while Tom Cruise may be dangling from the side of a plane, he is going to be just fine, because we're only halfway through the film. In contrast, Children of Men injects uncertainty into its characters' fates by killing one of its leads, Julianne Moore, less than half an hour into the film.
A little while later, another one of our favorite characters, played Michael Caine, drops dead in the woods. The fear that every character feels leaks out of the screen and elevates our heart rate: We know, as they do, that any of them could be next. There are even instances in which primary characters are killed in the background, as the camera moves on without them. No one is safe, and no one is even particularly important, in the grand scheme of the story being told. This laces every action sequence with a tension unmatched in any other science fiction film.
It doesn't feel like science fiction -- it feels real
Much of the technology in Children of Men doesn't feel new and fresh. Really, it feels old and unmanaged. These derelict products of science present a world that has lost hope: Without a future for humanity, there is no need for maintenance or advancement. Thus, our technology and buildings fall to the wayside. The wonderful set design mixed with the movie's camera work results in a realistic representation of Children of Men's bleak 2027 reality: It never feels impossible, impressive, or unreachable. This makes Children of Men a very pure work of science fiction, in which little distracts from the future it imagines and just how possible its horrors feel.
In this, Children of Men stands distinctly on its own in the world of cinema, and is likely to remain an evergreen film. What keeps people coming back for multiple viewings are the characters, the world-building, and the deep themes explored. Its lack of overt science fiction tropes emphasizes all of these qualities and ensures its place in the cinematic canon.
Alfonso Cuarón is an amazing director
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After the lackluster box office performance of 2006's Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón took a five year hiatus from filmmaking. The director was demoralized by the whole ordeal, as well as being largely overlooked at the Oscars: The film got three nominations, none of which resulted in a win. We wouldn't have the pleasure of another Cuarón-directed film until 2013's Gravity.
The Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban director pours every ounce of himself into his movies. This shines through in his attention to detail: Every frame is filled with minute elements that all have a purpose, from newspaper clippings to the color of an extra's jacket. His next outing at the Oscars would see the director garner a whopping seven wins for Gravity, including Best Director and a win for his cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki. His next film, Roma, enjoyed similar acclaim, earning Cuarón another Best Director statue.
There is no denying that Alfonso Cuarón is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. His cinematic visions are always captivating. His ability to give his films a pulse is magnetic. There is something primal he taps into: You can't pull your eyes away from the screen when he's in charge of what's on it. Children of Men is an epic display of his talent which has only gotten better with time.
It raises unique existential questions about the future of humanity
It isn't just the ambiguously optimistic ending of Children of Men that keeps your brain's wheels turning after the credits roll — it's also the very nature of the entire film. There is a deep discussion at the film's heart as to our purpose in life. If humanity had no future generations to look forward to, Children of Men asks, what would be the point of doing anything?
This is a valid query which can be difficult to answer. Alfonso Cuarón decides to answer it in his own way, on a global scale: Apparently, we would all fall into a big pit of despair and society would implode. The end of the world is always an intriguing topic, and there is no shortage of movies that deal with it — but Children of Men is unlike any of them. Rather than attribute its destruction to a sudden mass event, such as a meteor or nuclear war, humanity is here being subjected to a slow, drawn-out death. The answers to the underlying question are continuously pouring out of Children of Men as its slow-motion nightmare plays out, which is part of its magic.
All the acting is phenomenal
Children of Men features a magnificent display of acting prowess from almost every single one of its actors. Even the army of extras featured throughout the film all play their parts wonderfully. With all the nuance involved in Children of Men, the background actors need to be at the top of their game — and so they are.
Clive Owen dazzles in the lead. His ability to capture a man who gave up before humanity did doesn't feel forced — it simply feels like who he is now. The transition from depressed cynic to hero willing to die for humanity is an inspiring journey, but never a forced or cheesy one. Juliane Moore pulls you in so well that her violent death feels especially devastating. Clare-Hope Ashitey radiates quiet strength. Michael Caine is strange, warm, and unforgettable. There are no weak links in this chain.
There is a lack of close-up shots in this film, but we still feel every emotion, even with the entire world parading across the background of each scene. A lot of the time, the actors aren't presented front and center, which evidences a cast and crew more worried about the film as a whole and less about personal glory. The final product speaks volumes as to the talent present on the set of Children of Men.
There are no traditional villains in the film
A lot of films feature two primary types of character: heroes and villains. Our primary protagonists are usually fighting against adversaries seeking their downfall. Many times, the villains can be just as captivating as the heroes, but the line drawn between them gives us something to cheer about. In contrast, Children of Men may have antagonists who appear to be detrimental to the endgame, but they are anything but traditional villains.
For the first chunk of the film, freedom fighters known as the Fishes seem like they are fighting against the injustices of the world. Developments later in the film prove that their motivations are tainted by a blind sense of virtue. They don't feel associated with any evil machinations though — they only feel righteous. Chiwetel Ejiofor's character Luke may make some brash decisions, but there is still a softness to the man that steers him away from villainy — he's more of a misguided hero.
The indifference of the world bleeds through as the main villain in Children of Men: Every character is merely taking their own approach on how to face its tyranny. This characteristic places the movie in a class all its own — one in which every person we see isn't so much right or wrong as much as they are all drowning in a dystopian hellscape.
The subject matter's despair lingers in every frame -- and so does its hope
Children of Men is undeniably melancholy. Humanity has failed to produce another generation for over 18 years, and it has taken a psychological toll on every person on Earth. Despair is implanted into every moment. Every building looks derelict. All the actors' clothes are old and ragged. The skyline is permanently bathed in a dreary grey. Even moments of sunshine are sullied by humanity's ability to create its own despair.
There is an underlying message of hope, but Children of Men places the responsibility of seizing it on its flawed characters' shoulders. Children of Men is anything but futile, however — its misery actually highlights the promise of its ending. Every frame is littered with destruction, but our heroes march through it towards their final destination. Choosing to ignore cosmic indifference and move to a hopeful future is our most human characteristic. Children of Men puts this on a pedestal and forces you to admire it. It locks your eyes to the screen so ferociously that it will make you forget you made popcorn before the movie started. It wants you to see how bad the world is, so that you might understand how great it could be. That doesn't just make it a masterpiece of science fiction — it makes it a masterpiece, full stop.


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Landowners Bank on Conservation: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Guidance on Conservation Banking
by Marybeth Bauer, Jessica Fox and Michael J. Bean
Swept Away: A Cautionary Tale Regarding Endangered Species Mitigation
For many years, fossil enthusiasts have searched for Miocene fossils on a secluded beach south of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. About a decade ago, without warning or explanation, a formidable chain link fence appeared on the beach, anchored at one end to the nearly vertical cliffs behind the beach, and extending at the other end about 30 feet into the Chesapeake Bay. No sign warned against trespassing, and since the water is shallow there, most fossil hunters simply waded around the fence to get to the more productive areas on the other side. A year later, the fence was even less of an obstacle. Enterprising beachgoers had scraped out a small passage between the cliff face and the landward end of the fence through which a person could squeeze. The bayside end of the fence was sagging, having been battered by storms the previous winter. More storms the next winter pretty much leveled the fence. Soon, not a trace of it remained. Most visitors then never knew why the short-lived fence had been erected. Most visitors today are unaware it ever existed.
The mystery of why the fence suddenly appeared is revealed in--of all places--the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS') endangered species Consultation Handbook. The handbook gives extensive guidance to the FWS staff regarding implementation of §7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Section 7 is the provision of the Act that requires federal agencies to consult with the FWS to ensure that the actions they authorize or carry out do not jeopardize the continued existence of endangered species. The handbook illustrates its detailed guidance with numerous documents showing how to implement various stages of the consultation process. Among those illustrative documents is a letter dated January 11, 1993, that discusses the mysterious fence. The letter addressed plans for a boardwalk along the bayfront from the center of town to a point just short of the fossil hunters' beach. The boardwalk, by facilitating access, was sure to increase public use of the beach. That concerned the FWS, since the beach was not only a good place to find the fossilized remains of long extinct sharks and whales, but
Federal Oversight Vs. State Discretion: EPA's Authority to Reject State Permitting Authorities' BACT Determinations Under the CAA's Prevention of Significant Deterioration Program: Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA
by Sean H. Donahue
In Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly upheld orders issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to §§113(a)(5) and 167 of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), prohibiting construction of a new power generator unit at a mine in Northwest Alaska. EPA issued the orders because it concluded that the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), the state agency responsible for administering the CAA's prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) program in Alaska, had arbitrarily failed to require the mine operator to adopt the best available control technology (BACT) to limit emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the new generator unit. The state agency had argued that it had complied with the CAA's BACT provisions, and that the Act did not give EPA the authority to second-guess a state agency's decision as to what sort of pollution control equipment represents BACT. As it reached the Court, the controversy centered on whether EPA possessed the authority to reject a state agency's designation of BACT under the PSD program. What follows are excerpts of the brief of a group of amicus curiae--Environmental Defense, the National Parks Conservation Association, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, and Alaska Community Action on Toxics--in support of respondent EPA. After the excerpt are some comments on the Court's opinion in ADEC and its impact.
The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)--Implementation and Legal Challenges
by Lynn L. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton
The U.S. Congress enacted the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) in 1996. In so doing, Congress revolutionized the fundamental principles of food safety and ushered in a new regulatory and legal framework for addressing food safety issues. The legal, regulatory, and scientific challenges posed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) and other federal agencies' implementation of the FQPA poses unprecedented opportunities and pitfalls for the legal practitioner and toxicologist.
This Article introduces the FQPA, and describes chemical substances for which testing could be conducted under the FQPA, chemical testing that could be required, persons required to conduct the tests, procedures that have been considered for selecting test chemicals, and associated legal challenges.
The Food Quality Protection Act--Chemical Testing Issues
by John D. Walker
The previous Article described the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) and some of the legal challenges that have occurred during implementation. The purpose of this Article is to illustrate three generic chemical testing issues that could be related to the testing required by the FQPA. These issues are based on the author's participation on the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee's (EDSTAC's) Priority Setting Work Group, development of the endocrine disruption priority setting databases, previous publications on quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) for predicting estrogen-receptor binding affinities of chemicals, and experiences gleaned from the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee's (ITC's) selection of chemicals for testing. These issues include the need to consider: (1) the bioavailability of the chemicals being considered for screening or testing; (2) the physical properties of the chemicals being considered for screening or testing; and (3) the application domain of the chemicals used to develop QSARs to predict relevant endpoints versus the domain of the chemicals being considered for screening or testing.
Nature and Property: A Riparian Law Perspective
by Ashley S. Miller
This Article will characterize how one area of property law, title rules for coastal and riverfront property, represents particular views of nature. In doing so it will examine how the law in this area defines the line between natural and non-natural. What does "natural" mean in riparian law? How do humans fit into that picture? In what ways do differing ideas of "nature" inform property rights? Does property law reflect any coherent notion or ethic of nature, or deliberately invoke a particular notion of nature to justify its institutions?
Property law is a particularly relevant institution to examine in this vein, as it can be said to represent the contact point between humans and nature, acting as the socially endorsed system through which all interaction with the environment occurs. Property law in that sense symbolizes the pervasive control and impact that humans have had on the environment; there is a trend in recent environmental thought toward conceptualizing the entire world as "unnatural," or impacted by human activity, a sort of worldwide garden which humans are cultivating on a global scale. Given this central role that property law plays in the human interaction with nature, it is inherently an environmentally charged area of law. Therefore it is crucial to understand the ethical content inherent in property law.
Navigating SWANCC: An Examination of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineersâ
by Daniel Simmons
For the last 25 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and courts have argued that the Clean Water Act (CWA) gave the Corps and EPA the authority to regulate waters in the United States to the full extent of the U.S. Congress' authority under the Commerce Clause. This assumption was rejected in 2001 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Court held that the presence of migratory birds did not provide the Corps regulatory authority over isolated ponds. In rejecting the Corps' broad assertion of regulatory authority, the Court limited the Corps' regulatory scope to conform with the limits in the CWA.
This Article asks: in light of SWANCC, what are the statutory limitations on the Corps' authority to regulate wetlands property under the CWA? The Article reviews the history of Congress' regulation of navigable waters, the history of the Corps' regulation of "navigable waters," the SWANCC decision, CWA's legislative history, and counterarguments to the holding in SWANCC. The Article concludes that the CWA provides authority for the Corps to regulate navigable waters as they have been traditionally defined and the power to regulate wetlands adjacent to navigable waters. The CWA does not provide authority of the Corps to regulate beyond those statutorily defined boundaries.
The Supreme Court Forces a U-Turn: The Fate of American Trucking
by Craig N. Oren
In American Trucking Ass'n v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ATA I), a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C.) Circuit shocked the administrative and environmental law worlds. There, the court, in a 2-1 decision, remanded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for reconsideration of its new air quality standards under the Clean Air Act (CAA) for ozone and particulate matter. Subsequently, the court, sitting en banc, modified ATA I, but narrowly refused to grant rehearing (ATA II).
ATA I's primary rationale, articulated by Judge Stephen Williams, was that the Agency lacked an "intelligible principle" for setting air quality standards. This holding, to some commentators, presaged the revival of the delegation doctrine, which had last been used in the 1930s to invalidate congressional grants of power to administrative agencies. These commentators foresaw a drastic reduction in the U.S. Congress' power to use broad delegations to administrative agencies as a way to regulate private industry.
There was another important, although less noted, aspect of ATA I: the court apparently ruled that the CAA did not give EPA authority to require the states to take steps to implement the new air quality standard. Hence, barring an act of Congress, the revision of the standard would do little to clean the air.

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This Week in the Forest: April 24-30
The Midwest Conference Tennis Tournaments highlight a week loaded with important contests for the Forester spring sports.
The week in Lake Forest College Athletics will begin with a softball doubleheader at Ripon College on Tuesday. The Foresters are coming off a pair of lopsided victories at Knox College on Sunday and are now 18-14 overall and 9-5 in MWC play this season. A sweep of the Red Hawks would likely clinch Lake Forest's 18th consecutive appearance in the four-team MWC Tournament. Ripon enters the week 12-20 overall and, at 7-7 in the league, has not yet been eliminated from conference tournament contention. The Foresters own a 43-13 advantage in the all-time series between the two programs and have won the last five meetings.
The women's tennis team will be in the Nielsen Tennis Center in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday for the four-team conference tournament. The women, who are 10-9 overall on the year and earned the #4 seed in the tourney with a 6-3 MWC record in the fall, will face league champion Grinnell College (14-6, 9-0 MWC) in the semifinals. Lake Forest is 12-27 all-time against Grinnell and has dropped the last two meetings. St. Norbert College (21-11, 8-1 MWC) and Cornell College (18-6, 7-2 MWC) will play in the other semifinal with the winners playing later in the afternoon for the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Friday's men's tennis tournament at the same location will decide the league champion and Lake Forest is the #3 seed after winning three times in Wisconsin last weekend. The Foresters are now 13-10 overall and finished 6-2 in the league. Their semifinal contest in the morning will be against Cornell College, who enters the weekend 17-10 overall and won seven of eight conference matches this spring. The Rams lead the all-time series 5-3 after edging out the Foresters 6-3 earlier this month. Grinnell (16-9, 8-0 MWC) will face Lawrence University (11-9, 5-3 MWC) in the other semifinal. The championship match will be played in the afternoon and will also decide which team represents the league in the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Play will continue in Madison for the men as the entire conference gathers for the MWC Individual Tournaments on Saturday and Sunday. League titles will be earned at each of the six singles and three doubles positions in the lineup.
The Forester women's golf team will close out its season with a dual match against visiting Wisconsin Lutheran College on Friday. A Lake Forest victory at Highland Park Country Club would make the team 4-0 in dual matches for the third time in as many seasons as a varsity program. Friday's competition will also be the final collegiate event for senior Allie Girard, who has been the team's top player in 18 of her 19 appearances over the last three seasons.
The Lake Forest men's golf team will also be in action this weekend at the St. Norbert College Invitational. The team's final event of the regular season will be played on Saturday and Sunday at Royal St. Patrick's Golf Links in Wrightstown, Wisconsin, where the Foresters finished third out of eight teams a year ago.
The softball team will also close out its regular season this weekend when the Foresters play a doubleheader against Illinois College (21-9, 13-3 MWC) on Saturday in Janesville, Wisconsin. All 10 teams in the league will gather at the neutral site for the final conference games of the year.
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Tue, April 25 Softball at Ripon College (DH) * 3:00 p.m. Live Stats
Thurs, April 27 Women's Tennis MWC Tournament semifinal vs. Grinnell College
MWC Tournament final vs. TBD (if win at 11:30)
(Nielsen Tennis Center - Madison, Wis.) 11:30 a.m.
Fri, April 28 Men's Tennis MWC Championship semifinal vs. Cornell College
MWC Championship match vs. TBD (if win at 8:30)
(Nielsen Tennis Center - Madison, Wis.) 8:30 a.m.
Fri, April 28 Women's Golf vs. Wisconsin Lutheran College
(Highland Park Country Club - Highland Park, Ill.) 2:00 p.m.
Sat, April 29 Men's Tennis at MWC Individual Tournaments
(Nielsen Tennis Center - Madison, Wis.) All Day
Sat, April 29 Men's Golf
at St. Norbert College Invitational
(Royal St. Patrick's Golf Links - Wrightstown, Wis.) 11:00 a.m.
Sat, April 29 Softball vs. Illinois College (DH) *
(Janesville, Wis.) 3:00 p.m.
Sun, April 30 Men's Tennis at MWC Individual Tournaments
(Nielsen Tennis Center - Madison, Wis.)
Sun, April 30
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Q: Do I have to use Bundle for data exchange between activity and fragment? Multiple Fragments are created in one Activity to switch pages to Fragment binding. At this point, the data in Main Activity must be used by all fragments.
So I did it like this.
I called method in Activity that return data in activity.
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MainActivity main = (MainActivity) getActivity();
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And this is getCurrentUserID() in MainActivity.
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This way, no data is loaded. Why is that? How can I take out items in one Bundle from multiple fragments to use Bundle?

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Maisano, Paul Angelo (1995) Puncture resistance of geotextiles and evaluation of the g-rating classification system. Coursework Master thesis, Victoria University of Technology.
The puncture resistance of geotextiles in Australia is measured in terms of the G-Rating, which is the product of CBR and drop cone puncture test results. CBR and drop cone puncture tests were conducted on 24 geotextiles to provide up-to- date results, and to evaluate the G-Rating. CBR puncture tests using modified plungers were also conducted to assess the accuracy of shape factors quoted in the literature- 3.0 for angular aggregate and 0.8 for rounded aggregate. Wide strip tensile tests were also conducted to compare with CBR puncture test results. The results of the testing program show no relationship between wide strip tensile test results and CBR puncture test results. The modified plunger CBR puncture test results show that shape factors are not only shape dependent, but are fabric dependent as well, with the results somewhat different from those commonly quoted. The exponent used to calculate the G-Rating varies for the same fabric tested at different drop heights in the drop cone puncture test. Also, the restriction of elongation in CBR puncture tests to 80 per cent by the G-Rating classification system, was found unnecessary for all the geotextiles tested, as elongation at failure in all cases did not exceed 80 per cent. A Rupture Index classification is proposed, being the product of failure load and vertical plunger displacement at failure in a CBR puncture test. It is considered to be simpler than the G-Rating as it relies on the results of only one test. The Rupture Index calculated for a given fabric will not vary by more than the inherent variability of the specimens tested. However, G-Rating values were shown to vary considerably for the same fabric tested at different drop heights in the drop cone puncture test.


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Big Brother topped the poll for best Noughties show on Channel 4.
Former Big Brother host, Davina McCall, last night took viewers through a countdown of the best Channel 4 shows from the noughties, with Big Brother coming out on top of the poll.
During the show, viewers were guided through a countdown that included iconic shows such as The Inbetweeners, Skins and Come Dine With Me.
Celebrity Big Brother featured on the list as a separate item from its parent show, coming in at number 7 on the list, with clips of Vanessa Feltz's meltdown in the first series and interviews with Claire Sweeney.
Meanwhile, Big Brother topped the viewer voted poll, featuring interviews from former housemates Nikki Grahame and Kate Lawler.
"It almost became a fixation" explained Nikki. "It was fascinating, watching them sleep, watching them eat, watching them argue with each other! Everybody was obsessed"
"I thought, I want to do this show and live this experience."
Nikki later went on to appear as a housemate in Big Brother 7, before being evicted on Day 58.
"The producers are extremely clever at creating these situations and storylines in order to create tension" she continued. "I will never forget how very angry I was, the day that Suzie voted me out"
The show also featured Big Brother 1's Nick, and his controversial notes which caused him to become the first ever Housemate to be ejected by producers.
Big Brother has featured on other shows over the last few weeks, with BBC's series focusing The Noughties has also included it. The first episode, discussing 2000, featured the first series of Big Brother.
The series later went on to discuss the controversial fifth series of Celebrity Big Brother, featuring the racism row between former housemate Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty. The row itself made global headlines, plunging the reality giant into an unprecedented amount of controversy.
Finally, the BBC series ended with an episode about 2009, featuring the demise of Big Brother on Channel 4.
Big Brother first aired on Channel 4 in 2000, spawning 11 civilian series and seven Celebrity editions before being axed, with a special all stars run. Big Brother was later picked up by Channel 5 for a further eight years, airing another eight civilian runs and a staggering 15 celebrity series.
Earlier this year, Channel 4 revisited Big Brother with a series of best ever episodes, with Davina and Rylan hosting the special series.
Back to the Noughties and Big Brother: Best Shows Ever are available on All4 while The Noughties is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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1. Energy Efficiency: 94% of new homebuyers rated Energy Star appliances as their most wanted new home feature. An Energy Star rating of the whole home appeals to your prospective buyers' desire to maximize savings (9 out of 10 would prefer a reduction in their bills over homes without these features that cost less) AND reduce their carbon footprint.
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WINNIPEG, MANITOBA (August 1, 2018) – Cody Anderson, a pastor at Faith Covenant Church, was more than a little nervous when he sent a link to the video of his reworked version of the hymn "As We Gather at Your Table" to the hymn's writer, Carl Daw Jr.
Daw is the adjunct professor of hymnology at Boston University School of Theology and served as executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada for 13 years. "I wasn't sure if he was going to berate me for getting in front of the text," admits Anderson, who had received permission from Daw to use the words.
Those words were a relief and encouragement to Anderson. Making hymns more accessible to a new audience was one of his goals when he recorded his new worship CD, Hymn and Chorus. In addition to Daw's hymn, the album includes five original songs written by Anderson, who leads worship at his church, and four hymns that already are in the public domain.
The CD title is drawn from the idea for the new arrangements. A lot of hymns have multiple verses but no responsive chorus, and Anderson thought worshipers who are unused to singing traditional works would be drawn to the reworked versions. "The title exemplifies that the verses and choruses don't have to be against each other," Anderson says.
Even the album's cover and a brief accompanying lyric booklet pay homage to history. The cover is a photo of the front of his grandfather's Swedish hymnal that was published in 1890. The pages of the lyric booklet were also taken from the hymnal.
Anderson says he has sold out of most of the CDs, but people can still purchase the digital album from his website or wherever digital music is sold. Listeners can also stream it on sites like Spotify and Apple Music.
The album is excellent and Cody does an amazing job of connecting the emotion of the past with contemporary voice. Well done!


Today was my first morning back from Japan and as if life wasn't going well enough already, the FedEx man just made my life a little more interesting. Thanks to Sigma USA a new 120-300mm F2.8 EX APO lens has arrived just in time for my 2 Bald Eagle tours that start next week in Alaska. This is a lens I have been wanting to get my hands on for a long time. The 120-300 appears to have an almost too good to be true balance of reach, speed, price and flexibility. So how good is this lens for wildlife photography? Over the next two weeks I will be spending a lot of time in the field with this lens photographing Bald Eagles in flight and of course I will be posting my findings here. I will be looking closely at AF speed, image quality, handheld use, tripod use, and I will share a lot of images made with this lens with and without the 1.4x TC. If you are interested in this lens and have questions or requests send me an email and I will do my best to answer them during my time with this lens.
My 2012 Japan dream trip co-led with Arthur Morris went amazingly well right up to the last day successfully exceeding everyone's expectations. I am looking forward to sharing images and details in my 2012 tour report that I am finishing up now complete with details for my soon to be announced 2013 Japan tour. If you are interested in a winter wildlife tour in Japan I hope you will join me in 2013!


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Soane Lilo Foliaki SM (* 18. April 1933 in Maʻufanga; † 24. Dezember 2013 in Nukuʻalofa) war Bischof von Tonga.

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Soane Lilo Foliaki trat der Ordensgemeinschaft der Maristenpatres bei und empfing am 21. Juli 1955 die Priesterweihe.

Papst Johannes Paul II. ernannte ihn am 10. Juni 1994 zum Bischof von Tonga. Der Apostolische Pro-Nuntius in Fidschi und Apostolische Nuntius in Neuseeland und Nauru, Thomas A. White, spendete ihm am 23. Juni desselben Jahres die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren Petero Mataca, Erzbischof von Suva, und Max Takuira Matthew Mariu SM, Weihbischof in Hamilton in Neuseeland.

Am 18. April 2008 nahm Papst Benedikt XVI. seinen altersbedingten Rücktritt an.

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renovated Wicklow Gaol as a tourist and genelogical centre Val Byrne, Chieftain of Clann O'Byrne made a welcoming presentation to Crioch Branach, the O'Byrne's Country, to President Mary McAleese.
This occasion was particularly poignant for Byrnes as many Byrnes, including the famous Billy Byrne of Ballyanus, were incarcerated in the gaol for their part in the 1798 rebellion.
Many Byrne descendents from Australia attended as this was the main country for the deportation of rebels by the English authorities.
Val Byrne is now working with Wicklow County Council Geneology on the upcoming Irish Worldwide Home Coming Festival in 2013.
Info on the 1798 Rebellion and the O'Byrnes of Leinster.


Kawagoe is a city in Saitama Prefecture. It's served by Kawagoe Station which connects it to Ikebukuro via the JR Kawagoe Line/JR Saikyo Line and the Tobu Tojo Line.
The city is known as "Little Edo" due to the survival of neighbourhoods of historical warehouses and shops, which give parts of the city a 'ye olde Edo' ambience.
The Kawagoe Festival is a festival of national significance that takes place on the third Saturday and Sunday of October.


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Living near the sea does not always translate to mean an understanding of its wealth of resources. That is something El Peix al Plat seeks to change with its business. The social enterprise focuses on responsible fish consumption, encouraging people to purchase and eat local and less well known species by developing a direct supply chain between fishermen and consumers.
This eating of "common" and "forgotten" fish is the key to sustainable fishing, and is the crusade of Giuliano Petroni and Anna Bozzano, the founders of El Peix al Plat. For these defenders of biodiversity, consumers play a key role in the push towards sustainability, for it is their buying habits that determine the market. The objective of El Peix al Plat is to publicize and promote the forgotten species, in aims of reintroducing them into our kitchens.
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El Peix al Plat makes it easy for consumers to get their hands on these less common fish.
It sells its seafood in what it calls a fish box — a recyclable cardboard box filled with a variety of species you would never find in your average grocery store. This includes blue fish such as European pilchard and mackerel, white fish such as the red mullet and European barracuda, and mollusks like horned octopus and broadtail short-finned squid. All of the fish comes straight from the Catalan coast, and is delivered within 12 hours for maximum freshness. There are three sizes of fish boxes ranging in price from €15 for 1.25 kilograms to €37 for 3.75 kilograms.
Aware that its customers may not have heard of the fish they are receiving, El Peix al Plat has developed a series of recipes for many of the species you may find in a fish box. Those recipes are currently available in Spanish and Catalan, and are being translated into English.
We encourage a responsible approach to fish consumption by promoting local and lesser known species fished using traditional methodsEl Peix al Plat
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One of the lessons El Peix al Plat wishes to instil is that most of the species sold in conventional food stores are not local, and is often imported from other countries. This can even happen in coastal cities like Barcelona.
That is why El Peix al Plat is working closely with local fishermen to make their work known to visitors and tourists — a way to encourage tourism based on sustainable, natural resources, and a way to prompt dialogue between fishermen and consumers. The business also organizes visits to fish markets where guests learn to notice the difference between local and imported species.
Moreover, consuming local fish enables the continuation of traditional Catalonian culinary culture, one that has been passed from generation to generation. Through cooking classes, food tastings, and workshops for children, El Peix al Plat modernizes "common" fish, creating a movement that is as environmentally important as it is tasty.
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Happy New Year! Tantawan Bloom is proud to be a Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Platinum List Member for 2011, as well as humbly honored to have been featured throughout their latest issues available at newsstands now! Please click on each feature below to read in full as captured directly from the magazine.
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ICE's report singled out Sacramento and Los Angeles counties along with jurisdictions from Texas to Pennsylvania for resisting the questionable requests to hold inmates beyond their release dates. If Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León has anything to do with it – and he will – the entire state of California could soon be on the list.
California is home to 2.66 million undocumented immigrants, nearly a fourth of the nation's population of individuals living here without authorization, the Public Policy Institute of California reports.
About 10 percent of California's workers are undocumented, and 12.3 percent of public school children have a parent who is here illegally. It's no wonder, then, that many California leaders are resisting Trump as best they can.
No Californian should have any interest in preventing the deportation of undocumented immigrants with felony convictions. But due process must be observed. There is the matter of the 4th Amendment, and the threat of costly lawsuits, as became apparent a few years ago.
In 2014, the Obama administration's Department of Homeland Security ended the Secure Communities program. The Homeland Security secretary at the time, Jeh Johnson, said the program discouraged victims and witnesses from coming forward. Courts also found that aspects of it violated the Constitution.
Los Angeles County, for example, paid a $255,000 settlement in a suit by a man who, as a result of the program, was held in jail for 89 days beyond his release date, and Sonoma County paid $8,000 in an unlawful detainer suit.
If we had learned from history, we might not be repeating it. But there's a new president in town accustomed to getting his way. On Jan. 25, Trump issued Executive Order 13768, reinstating the Secure Communities program, without addressing the very real legal and public safety issues.
ICE officials refused a request by The Sacramento Bee's editorial board to discuss the issue. But evidently, the agency would prefer to present local authorities with legally suspect detainer orders, not judge-issued warrants requesting that state and local officials hold soon-to-be freed inmates who are subject to deportation.
Aided by Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Santa Clara County and other locales including the city of Sacramento have sued to stop the administration's effort.
The bill is a work in progress. But as de León envisions it, the state would provide the feds with a list of all prisoners being freed 60 days before their release date. ICE could cull through the list, identify illegal immigrants, and obtain a court-issued warrant requiring the state to detain them.
The legislation is easy to attack, and plenty of law enforcement officials are doing just that. One critic is Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, who will host acting ICE Director Thomas Homan here on Tuesday.
Sen. Joel Anderson, a San Diego County Republican, is campaigning against de León's bill, saying that there are no fewer than 11,661 felons in state prisons who are undocumented immigrants. If the state fails to cooperate, Trump threatens to withhold $50.6 million in federal aid to California to cover the cost of incarcerating illegal immigrants.
Anderson warns that if the state refuses to turn over the names of undocumented inmates, ICE agents will fan out into neighborhoods to find them. Such sweeps will scoop up residents who are otherwise law-abiding. Perhaps he is right. But the Trump administration's deportation efforts already are taking a toll.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said sexual assault and domestic violence reports have plummeted because some residents fear deportation if they interact with cops or testify in court, the Los Angeles Times reported last week.
"Fear is everywhere," The Bee's Ryan Lillis and Jose Luis Villegas wrote last week, detailing how deportation worries among farm workers have made it hard for farmers to find laborers to tend to their crops.
California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has written to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Chief John Kelly urging them to stop sending agents into courthouses in search of illegal immigrants.
None of this would be happening if Washington were doing its job; it's not.
Like all nations, the United States has a right to control its borders, through legal means. Governing is complicated. It much easier to pander by issuing questionable executive orders and public safety advisories that have little to do with safety and everything to do with politics. Legitimate immigration-related issues facing this nation cannot be solved with bully tactics.


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Thune Discusses Dakota Agriculture with Department of Agriculture Nominee Former Governor Edward Schafer
Washinton, D.C. — Senator John Thune today spoke with former North Dakota Governor Edward Schafer, whom President Bush nominated yesterday to serve as the Secretary of Agriculture.
"I've worked with Ed Schafer on several matters important to the Dakotas and I believe he is a good man and is a great choice to serve as the next Secretary of Agriculture. As a North Dakotan who descended from a pioneer farm family, he understands that agriculture is the foundation of the economy in the Dakotas. Governor Schafer also understands how critical the biofuels industry is to our two states. It will be a big advantage for South Dakota to have someone from the Dakotas in that position," said Thune.
Thune and Schafer discussed the 2007 Farm Bill, which will be debated on the floor of the Senate next week.
"We had a good discussion about the Farm Bill and what it means for the Dakotas. We discussed the importance of the ethanol industry and, in particular, my Biofuels Innovation Program that has been included in both the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill. I was impressed with his level of knowledge and commitment to help America's family farmers and the entire agriculture sector," said Thune.
Before being confirmed by the full U.S. Senate, Schafer must first be confirmed by the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, on which Senator Thune serves.
The only other Dakotan who has served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is Clinton Presba Anderson from Centerville, South Dakota, who was Secretary from June 30th 1945 to May 10th 1948.
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Research: Bitcoin remains under pressure ahead of CPI data; Michael Burry makes stagflation call
Analysts forecast a year-over-year increase of 6.5% in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December 2022 — with the Bureau of Labor Statistics' official data releasing Jan. 12 — but 2023 could bring some upside as investor Michael Burry expects CPI to move lower this year but warned that any subsequent pivot on interest rates to stimulate economic activity would trigger a second inflationary spike.
November 2022's actual CPI came in at 7.1%, less than the forecasted 7.3% rate. The better-than-expected result led to a jump in crypto prices during the announcement, with Bitcoin posting an immediate spike to $18,000 at the time.
Throughout this bear market, CPI data and interest rate announcements have been significant catalysts to crypto price volatility before, after, and during announcements. But to what extent?
The chart below shows approximately half positive and half adverse effects on the Bitcoin price before the CPI announcement; this was also the case during the announcement.
By contrast, the day after the announcement tended to yield mostly adverse price effects, presumably as investors have had time to absorb the reality of elevated consumer prices and the subsequent continuation of interest rate hikes.
Source: CryptoSlate.com
Separating the three categories of "Day Before, "During CPI," and "Day After" into individual percentage change charts better depicts the previously stated findings.
Based on these patterns, there is no significant directional likelihood either before or during the CPI announcement. However, it is expected that Bitcoin will trend lower post-announcement.
Growing signs of stagflation
There is increasing evidence of stagflation, despite denials of a recession at the present time, including the White House redefinition of what constitutes a recession.
Stagflation refers to a combination of high inflation and economic stagnation, particularly high unemployment. This presents policymakers with a dilemma, in that measures to lower inflation could aggravate unemployment.
A recent article by Peter Schiff blamed our current economic woes on "those stimmy checks" triggering inflation, which has since morphed into stagflation. He pointed out that government spending, one way or another, must be paid for by the public.
Further, quoting work by Spanish Economist Daniel Lacalle, the article mentioned the reality of weaker growth trends, rising taxes, and severe inflation, particularly in respect of energy prices.
The last time things looked this bleak was during the stagflation of the 1970s. This decade was characterized by weak economic growth, high unemployment, and double-digit inflation.
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A repeat of the 1970s?
Burry recently tweeted:
"Inflation peaked. But it is not the last peak of this cycle. We are likely to see CPI lower, possibly negative in 2H 2023, and the US in recession by any definition. Fed will cut and government will stimulate. And we will have another inflation spike. It's not hard."
The scenario described by Burry occurred on three occasions during the 1970s. The chart below shows these three distinct inflationary waves peaking and then receding over the course of the decade.
It wasn't until Paul Volcker, Fed President between 1975 and 1979, pushed for a funds rate above CPI that spiking consumer prices finally came under control.
Source: fred.stlouisfed.org
Drawing on this, investor Bill Druckenmiller recently pointed out that once inflation exceeds 5%, it has never retreated until the Fed funds rate was taken above it, which begs the question, why are interest rates not at 9%?
During the 1970s, debt to GDP ranged between 30% and 35%, enabling Volcker leeway for taking rates as high as 19%. Now, with a debt to GDP of 120%, taking interest rates above CPI inflation would destroy the economy.
Source: fred.stlouis.org
The next FOMC meeting is due to conclude on Feb. 1. Currently, analysts are 4/1 in favor of a 25 basis point hike, supporting the narrative that a slowdown in the pace of rate hikes is playing out.
Nonetheless, previous comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in which he spoke of rates "higher for longer," suggest, despite a slowdown in pace, we have yet to reach the terminal rate. Equally, there is no indication of how long the Fed intends to stay at the terminal rate once it has been reached.
Regardless of Burry's prediction, from the current perspective, a pivot seems a long way away, keeping pressure on risk assets, including Bitcoin, at this time.
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While the European Union process seemed to advance in fits and starts, Mr. Erdogan simultaneously began the process of establishing his Islamic credentials. The first major step to capture world attention was Mr. Erdogan's very public storming out of the 2010 Davos Summit after publicly berating the Israelis. He became an instant hero to all those who had watched in frustration, over decades, the continued destruction of the Palestinian homeland. Mr. Erdogan followed his Davos words by organizing the ill-fated Mavi Marmara flotilla to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. This was a clever move, since anyone with a scintilla of empathy is moved by the suffering of innocent Palestinians at the hands of Israel's Zionist leaders. Mr. Erdogan ensured that the Mavi Marmara flotilla was peppered with international journalists to record the inevitable Israeli overreaction. There were only two possible outcomes of the flotilla adventure: either Israel would show the world its brutality and stop the flotilla or the flotilla would break the blockade make it to Gaza. Either way, Mr. Erdogan would be a hero.
Perhaps Mr. Erdogan really thought he could help the Palestinians, but the flotilla debacle seemed to fall neatly into a pattern of broader efforts to attract attention to himself as the only Muslim leader ready to take real action to challenge the Israelis' disgraceful treatment of the Palestinians. If so, it was an effective start, but it needed a follow-up beyond merely repeating the flotilla disaster. That particular drama played out to Mr. Erdogan's advantage in terms of burnishing his anti-Zionist, Islamic credentials, even if the Palestinians gained little or nothing from the action-packed, high-seas Mavi Marmara drama.
Mr. Erdogan needed to place Turkey in a position of power along Israel's land border if he was going to progress in the eyes of the Islamic community as a true savior of the Palestinians. This required finding a government among the "confrontation states" along Israel's border that would be willing to forget the dreaded Ottoman legacy and ignore the perception of Turkish discrimination against and sense of superiority over Arabs. The problem was that given Turkey's widely perceived disregard for Arabs, it would be political suicide for any sitting Arab government to allow Mr. Erdogan and Turkey that much credit, access and power. Therefore, Mr. Erdogan needed to find a sitting Arab government to replace with a regime loyal and indebted to Turkey. Enter Syria.
Unfortunately, just as the USA did not consider the welfare of Iraq's people in deposing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and attempting to establish a base from which to harass Iran, Mr. Erdogan's government seems prepared to fight Assad's regime to the last innocent Syrian, of any religion, ethnic group or sect, in order to establish a base on Israel's border. Over 140,000 have died thus far, by some estimates, and the carnage continues. Mr. Erdogan, meanwhile, has also caused a small crisis in Saudi Arabia. The world has watched a panicked Saudi government try to prevent Mr. Erdogan's meteoric rise as a Muslim leader by seeking to take over as the lead champion of the Syrian rebels after the fact. The result has not only failed miserably in terms of the Saudi image but may well have helped further strengthen radical terrorists in Syria who could eventually become a threat to even the Saudi regime.
Amidst all this, while the Saudis look alternately feckless and extremist, Mr. Erdogan is being touted as the savior of Syria's populace. In light of the positive press portraying Mr. Erdogan as a peacemaker, it should come as no surprise that Mr. Erdogan seems bent upon secretly undermining peace talks that do not favor his intended future Syrian candidates. If Mr. Erdogan were to succeed in convincing the West to do his dirty work for him and replace Assad with a Turkish-backed puppet regime on Israel's border, it would be the ultimate triumph for Mr. Erdogan as a true modern-day Muslim Caliph.
The irony of the threat Mr. Erdogan poses to established Arab Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia might be excusable, or even ridiculous, if so many Syrians were not suffering. Mr. Erdogan's egomaniacal ambition to triumph as The Muslim Leader already has caused over 140,000 deaths and risks pitting Europe and the US against Russia and Iran, and destabilizing Saudi Arabia while distracting attention from continuous Israeli annexation of Palestinian land. It is a sad state of affairs for all concerned, except Mr. Erdogan, who is basking in the attention and, most appallingly, for hard-core, anti-Arab Zionists, who have carte blanche to act as they please amidst the Syrian chaos.


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Riz Ahmed Says He Missed Star Wars Celebration Because He Was Racially Profiled at the Airport
Riz Ahmed says that the reason he wasn't able to attend a recent Star Wars event was because Homeland Security stopped him from boarding his flight.
While attending the CAA Amplify conference in Ojai, California last week, the 36-year-old British actor, who is of Pakistani descent, opened up about the real reason he had been unable to attend the fan gathering in April.
According to IndieWire, Star Wars Celebration posted at the time that the actor, who played Bodhi Rook in Star Wars: Rogue One, had been unable to attend "due to circumstances beyond his control."
Ahmed, who has spoken out in the past about how frequently he gets searched at airports because of the color of his skin, used the incident to address the ongoing problem of Islamophobia.
"I can win an Emmy, Ibtihaj Muhammad can go to the Olympics, but some of these obstacles are systemic and we can't really face them alone, we need your help. I'm basically here to ask for your help, because it's really scary to be a Muslim right now, super scary," he told the crowd, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I've often wondered, is this going to be the year when they round us up, if this is going to be the year they put Trump's registry into action. If this is going to be the year they ship us all off."
During the event he also spoke about how he no longer wants to have to change the way he speaks or acts in order to avoid being discriminated against.
"How I do what I do is because like all of you here, I'm a code-switcher," he remarked. "We all know how to change the way we talk, the way we dress, the way we walk as we enter one room or another. We all know how to navigate terrain that isn't of our own making. That's how I can do it, but that's not why I do what I do. The why is because I don't want to have to code-switch anymore."
PEOPLE has reached out to Homeland Security for comment.
Last year, the actor, who is also a rapper known as Riz MC, opened up about how appearing in Rogue One had little effect on how frequently he got stopped at airports.
"For example, I was getting on the plane to do the Star Wars press tour, I'd be stopped for a second time, patted down, searched," Ahmed explained during an interview with Sunday Today. "At this point, the guys searching me are, like, they're fans of mine."
"So, they're quoting rap lyrics back at me about being searched at the airport while they're searching me at the airport and then they're asking me for selfies," Ahmed said.


Written and directed by Sean Oliver, this 7-minute short explores the "reality of reality television," that ultimately serves as a predictably cheesy short film that largely skewers those who create the hyped up drama and faux conflicts and attention-seeking behaviors that pass for entertainment amongst much of what qualifies as contemporary "reality television."
The film is intended as a comic short, though I will admit sending the film to a domestic violence activist may not have been the wisest move on the part of the filmmaker. While I understand the amped up dramas one finds within the world of reality television, there's a gravitas to the subject matter that isn't particularly funny and the film's stilted dialogue and over-the-top performances don't make it funny. Hitting Home ends up playing more like a spoof that takes itself too seriously.
"Reality Should Hurt," but watching a short film shouldn't.


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El navarrès-aragonès o navarroaragonès fou una llengua romanç parlada a la vall de l'Ebre durant l'edat mitjana. D'ella en descendeix l'actual aragonès, i encara en queden trets en el castellà parlat a La Rioja, a l'Aragó i a Navarra.

Té el seu origen en el llatí vulgar, amb un possible substrat basc. La llengua rep, per al seu període medieval, la denominació —segons els lingüistes actuals— de navarrès-aragonès, per abastar els romanços afins a l'aragonès i al navarrès, així com el riojà precastellà. És classificada en el grup pirinenc-mossàrab.

Història

L'origen
L'expansió del Regne de Navarra sobre terres musulmanes i cristianes, amb la consegüent repoblació amb cristians del Regne de Navarra, portaria amb si l'idioma per tot el territori conquistat. L'annexió per Navarra dels comtats aragonesos va suposar una important influència de la llengua navarro-aragonesa sobre els territoris posteriors de la Corona d'Aragó. El document més antic que pot considerar-se de llengua navarrès-aragonesa és les Glosses Emilianenses, procedents del Monestir de Sant Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja).

El navarrès-aragonès abasta l'evolució del llatí vulgar a la zona compresa entre la Rioja Alta i la Ribargorça, regió propera a l'àrea de llengua basca, la qual cosa fa suposar influència d'aquesta llengua. El Sobrarb va tenir una llengua romanç, que no diftongava, tal com es pot veure en un document del , en els Orígens de l'Espanyol de Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

L'existència d'uns ceretans occidentals al Pirineu mitjà es comprova en les fonts islàmiques dels segles VIII-IX; en aquesta època existien encara com a poble diferenciat, segons G. Fatás en Ibn Hayyan, "Muqtabas"; Al'Udri, "Tarsi". En elles es troben referències a la terra dels Certaniyyin o Sirtaniyyin, és a dir, els habitants de la terra Certana. El lloc es localitza quan les mateixes fonts parlen del riu Gállego que neix a les muntanyes d'aquestes terres.

D'altra banda, la Canço de Rotllan, quan refereix el conegut episodi de Carlemany, ens permet deduir com les tropes musulmanes que salin a la seva trobada, ho fan seguint la calçada romana de Saragossa a Bearn, que travessava la terra certana i els ports de Siresa.

Dins dels elements preromans, el component cèltic de l'actual aragonès és minoritari respecte al basc. A vegades es remunta al celta de la Gàl·lia en comptes del celtibèric: bruc (bruc), aranyó (aranyoner), artica, broda (quadra), garmo (prada a la muntanya).

L'expansió medieval

Amb la conquesta de la Taifa de Saragossa, es creu que el navarrès-aragonès es va estendre cap al sud comprenent la pràctica totalitat de les avui províncies de Saragossa i Terol, així com àrees de les províncies de Castelló i València, les costes de les quals van ser, no obstant això, repoblades sobretot per catalans.

La llengua dels repobladors aragonesos va entrar en contacte amb el romanç dels mossàrabs i muladís natius i amb el d'altres repobladors que els van ajudar: occitans a l'interior i catalans a la franja que condueix a la costa valenciana, la qual cosa li va fer perdre al navarrès-aragonès molts dels seus trets identitaris.

Alguns aspectes històrics

La varietat de La Rioja en les Glosas Emilianenses
Alguns estudiosos afirmen que les Glosas Emilianenses de Sant Millán de la Cogolla no estan escrites en castellà sinó en navarrès-aragonès, en la seva varietat de la Rioja; La Rioja no era part del regne de Castella durant el , en què es creu que van ser escrites les Glosas Emilianenses, sinó que va ser incorporada a aquest regne al , quan podria haver començat la seva castellanització. Les Glosas Emilianenses mostrarien algunes evolucions fonètiques pròpies del navarrès-aragonès, i no del castellà, com en aquestes paraules: lueco (després), get (és, en aragonès actual ye), plicare (arribar), feito (fet).

La convivència amb les llengües basques a Navarra
En el sud i a l'est de Navarra es va parlar romanç navarrès durant tota l'Edat Mitjana, alternant amb el basc i amb l'occità arribat de l'altre costat del Pirineus. Com a exemple, podem citar un poble a Navarra de nom navarrès-aragonès, Pueyo, que en castellà hauria donat "Poyo", com derivat de Podium. Al seu torn, la paraula "Javier" és una castellanització d'una paraula en navarrès, Xabier, que al seu torn es remunta al basc Etxe berri, casa nova. En aragonès va donar Xabierre i després, Chabierre.

La supervivència del navarrès-aragonès a l'Alt Aragó
Al , amb el casament d'Andregoto Galíndez amb Sancho Garcés II, es va materialitzar l'annexió al Regne de Navarra del conjunt del Pirineu i Prepirineu aragonès: comtats d'Aragó, Sobrarb i Ribargorça.

Tot i la creença que l'aragonès ha estat sempre reduït a la zona pirinenca, la realitat és que s'ha fragmentat recentment, moltes de les diferències actuals de pronunciació i de lèxic entre la zona occidental i oriental en aquest territori coincideixen amb les classificacions antigues, com la de iacetans i ilergets de l'antiguitat. Per tant, els dialectes actuals s'haurien emmarcat en almenys dues àrees històricament diferenciades al Pirineu central: una que gravita cap a Jaca (valls de Echo i Ansó) i una altra, cap a la Ribagorça. En l'occidental diuen "pro", "baxo", "almadía", "a ormino"; mentre que en l'oriental: "prou", "baixo", "nabata", "asobén".

Varietats del navarrès-aragonès

Divisió
Divisió oficial:

 Riojà precastellà
 Navarrès
 Aragonès

Divisió tradicional segons Manuel Alvar, que diu que l'aragonès de la Vall de l'Ebre, fruit de la reconquesta i població era molt diferent de l'aragonès original de l'Alt Aragó:

 Alt-Aragonès Medieval
 Aragonès de la Vall de l'Ebre

Romanç aragonès

El període millor testimoniat de l'aragonès medieval comprèn el període 1336-1387, en la qual el tron va ser ocupat per Pere IV el Cerimoniós, que es va preocupar molt pels llibres i la transmissió del saber. Sota el seu auspici es van traduir llibres històrics, i entre 1369 i 1372 es va redactar primer en llatí, i després es va traduir al català i l'aragonès, la cèlebre Crònica de Sant Joan de la Penya, qualificada per alguns autors com "la font narrativa més completa i important de la historiografia medieval aragonesa". Joan Ferrández d'Heredia (h. 1310-1396), que va arribar a Gran Maestre de l'Ordre de l'Hospital de Jerusalem i que va ser molt influent a la Corona Catalano-Aragonessa com en els Estats Papals va patrocinar la traducció de nombroses obres (Flor de les ystorias d'Orient, Llibre de Marco Polo, La gran crònica d'Espanya, Llibre de fechos et conquestes del prinçipado de Morea o la Corónica dels conquiridores).

El cultiu literari de l'aragonès cau abruptament al , quan les obres literàries d'Aragó escrites en romanç es redacten gairebé exclusivament en castellà com a Cancioners de Palacio (1440) i Estúñiga (1460), que recullen versos de poetes vinculats a Alfons el Magnànim. Als segles posteriors l'aragonès només és perceptible en aragonesismes incrustats en obres escrites en castellà. D'altra banda a més dels texts literaris existeixen nombrosos documents i texts jurídics que aporten dades informatives sobre l'aragonès.

Romanç navarrès

Els testimoniatges en navarrès medieval són una mica més escassos que els escrits en aragonès medieval. Del 1310 data una còpia navarresa del cantar de Roncesvalles. Del  data el Cancioner de Herberay des Essarts (1461-1464), compost en la cort de Elionor I de Navarra, encara que només un dels autors presents en aquesta compilació, Carlos Arellano, era navarrès. Més abundants són les obres de contingut històric, que freqüentment apareixen ja molt castellanitzades, com la Crònica de 1405 de García López de Roncesvalles, la Crònica general d'Espanya de Fra García de Eugui i algunes versions bíbliques romantiques. Una obra important és la Crònica dels Reis de Navarra de Carles d'Aragó, príncep de Viana (1421-1461).

A causa de l'escassetat de textos històrics i literaris la principal font d'informació són els textos de caràcter legal. Així els juraments de Carles II (1350) i Carles III (1390) es van fer en romanç navarrès (in ydiomate Navarre terre) el fragment del jurament del primer és:

Romanç de La Rioja

Restes
Paraules que el castellà generalment ha pres del navarrès-aragonès, amb el seu corresponent equivalent castellà actual, són: "feix" (fes), "faixa" (haza), "plet" (plecho), "sisallo" (sisajo), "chepa" (giba) i "boina". En zones on es va parlar aragonès hi ha moltes més restes lèxiques, i esporàdicament podem veure topònims com el nom Valdefierro, d'un barri de Saragossa, la qual cosa tampoc és tan freqüent, ja que la majoria de la toponímia romanç a Saragossa i Terol, és mossàrab; de fet tant la paraula "Saragossa" com "Terol" són formes mossàrabs. Aquesta toponímia mossàrab va ser poc modificada per l'etapa en la qual es va parlar aragonès, i després freqüentment els topònims, anessin mossàrabs o aragonesos, es van castellanitzar. Molts dels topònims que acaben en -i actualment com Castellot, Taüst, Casp, Jarque, etc. A la província de Saragossa, mancaven d'i final quan s'hi parlava aragonès.

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