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by Mark Miller, New York Times, July 15
Jana Panarites, left, and her mother, Helen. The years she spent caring for her mother will mean an estimated 20 percent reduction in her Social Security income.
Jana Panarites was about to make a midlife career shift in 2010 when her father died. At age 50, she had completed a master's degree in cultural diplomacy at the University of Southern California and was looking for a position in the nonprofit sector. That plan ground to a halt when she moved back to Maryland, where she grew up, to take care of her mother.
"Like a lot of caregivers, I had no idea what I was getting into," she said. "I wound up spending so much time taking care of her, there was no time to take care of myself, let alone produce an income."
Ms. Panarites has no regrets about the three years she spent caring for her mother, who now lives in an assisted-living facility in Florida. On the contrary, she said, "it's one of the most important things I've ever done."
But the detour damaged not just her career prospects but her future retirement security as well. Her annual Social Security income — projected at $18,500 if she files for benefits when she reaches full retirement age in 2026 — will be at least 20 percent less than she could have expected had she not left the work force, according to a rough estimate from the Social Security Administration.
A growing number of legislators and policy makers would like Ms. Panarites and other caregivers to receive some relief as part of a broader effort to expand and modernize Social Security benefits.
Until recently, all the talk in Washington regarding Social Security was about cuts. But a grass-roots progressive coalition began campaigning for expansion nearly three years ago, and it has succeeded in moving the concept to the center of the Democratic Party.
Expansion was a popular theme of Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign; now Hillary Clinton has moved into the expansion camp, saying she would support higher benefits for caregivers and widows and widowers.
Advocates were also elated recently when President Obama endorsed improving benefits. That was a shift from his earlier support for limited cuts at a time when he was hoping, in vain, to reach a grand fiscal bargain with Republicans in Congress.
"We can't afford to weaken Social Security," Mr. Obama said in a speech on June 1. "We should be strengthening Social Security. And not only do we need to strengthen its long-term health, it's time we finally made Social Security more generous, and increased its benefits so that today's retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that they've earned."
"Like a lot of caregivers, I had no idea what I was getting into," said Jana Panarites, with her mother, Helen.
The changing political winds have emboldened those who say that fears that Social Security will go bankrupt are overblown.
"I'm delighted people are arguing for expansion," says Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. "I've always been against cutbacks, so now I'm in the center of the debate."
More than 20 expansion bills have been floated by lawmakers, with proposals ranging from targeted increases for vulnerable retirees to larger increases in benefits for all retirees. At the same time, many of those pushing for increased benefits support dealing with Social Security's long-range imbalance by making cuts elsewhere and raising revenue to pay for both expansion and by closing the financing gap.
The combined trust funds for Social Security's retirement and disability benefits are projected to be depleted in 2034, according to the annual report of the program's trustees. At that point, Social Security itself would have sufficient revenue from current taxes to pay only 79 percent of promised benefits.
That problem could be avoided if Congress agreed to raise additional revenue, impose benefit cuts or do some combination of the two.
Some targeted expansion recommendations come from centrist camps. For example, a recently issued report on retirement security by the Bipartisan Policy Center called for adjusting Social Security's progressive benefit structure to deliver higher amounts to lower-income retirees. The changes would increase benefits by $176 a month to the median recipient who files at full retirement age — an increase of 10 percent on a $1,700 benefit.
The policy center called for lifting Social Security's minimum benefit for very-low-income seniors, and enhancing the program's survivor benefit. Currently, widows and widowers receive either their own benefit or 100 percent of a deceased spouse's benefit, whichever is higher; under the B.P.C.'s proposal, survivors would receive their own benefit plus 75 percent of their deceased spouse's benefit.
At the same time, the center recommended two across-the-board benefit cuts: gradually raising the normal retirement age and adopting a less generous annual cost-of-living adjustment.
"We're really trying to show solutions that can emerge when you put people with very different ideological perspectives in a room and let them negotiate for two years," said Shai Akabas, director of fiscal policy at the center.
As for caregivers like Ms. Panarites, some proposals would help bolster their retirement income by giving them extra credit for years devoted to taking care of a parent or child in need. Social Security benefits are determined by a formula based on the average of a worker's highest 35 years of lifetime earnings.
Ms. Panarites and her mother at the assisted-living facility in West Palm Beach. A growing movement seeks to expand Social Security benefits for caregivers.
Ms. Panarites's earnings peaked at $75,000 in 2006, before she left a job as a paralegal to pursue her master's degree. Her income has been negligible since 2008, although she has since started a career as an author and podcaster focused on the issues facing caregivers.
"Your 50s are supposed to be your peak earning years," said Ms. Panarites, now 56.
Her lost lifetime Social Security benefit could easily top $125,000 if she lives to roughly 89, the expected longevity for a woman who reaches age 65.
"When people decide to leave the work force to do caregiving, they usually think, 'It will be just a couple years, and I can get by,' but they don't think of the implications 20 years later when they want to retire," said Gail Gibson Hunt, president of the National Alliance for Caregiving.
Meanwhile, progressives who started the expansion movement are thinking bigger.
"The real question is whether you expand Social Security across the board, so middle-class workers get an increase, or you don't," said Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, an advocacy group. "Then, you can argue about how big to make the increase."
Expansion would mitigate the erosion of benefits put in motion by the last major Social Security overhaul, enacted in 1983, which gradually raises the full retirement age from 65 to 67, effectively reducing, by 25 percent, the amount of preretirement income replaced by benefits.
How would the government pay for Social Security expansion, while also helping close its solvency gap?
The main vehicle would be through changes in the payroll tax on salaries and wages, which now collects 12.4 percent — equally split between employers and employees — up to a cap, currently set at $118,500.
An option would be to raise the tax rate gradually. The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends raising the payroll tax another 1 percentage point, spread over 10 years.
Others favor permitting Social Security to invest a portion of the trust fund in equities. By law, trust fund reserves must be invested in special-issue Treasury bonds that pay very low rates of interest. Some proposals call for allowing investment of 40 percent of reserves in higher-return equities, which could close about one-fifth of the long-term shortfall, according to Stephen C. Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration.
The revenue solutions ultimately will depend on the breadth — and cost — of any expansion.
"Most of the expansion proposals have been modest," Mr. Goss said. "People understand we have a shortfall to deal with, and across-the-board bumps get expensive."
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Il Coro Val Canzoi "Bepi Cocco" è un coro maschile fondato a Castelfranco Veneto nel 1965.

Il coro è stato diretto dal 1968 al 1977 dal maestro Angelo Tieppo; dal 1977 al 1990 dal maestro Renato Magoga; dal 1990 la direzione artistica è ritornata al maestro Tieppo, che lo ha diretto fino a dicembre del 2010, quando ha deciso di lasciare la direzione artistica del coro al più giovane maestro Bruno Beraldo, docente al conservatorio di Padova di musica d'insieme per strumenti ad arco. Dal febbraio 2013 al gennaio 2019 il coro è stato diretto dal giovanissimo (30 anni) maestro Luis Lanzarini, talentuoso sassofonista e organista diplomato al Conservatorio Steffani di Castelfranco Veneto. Da gennaio 2019 la direzione è affidata al giovanissimo (23) maestro Alberto Pelosin. Il Coro Val Canzoi ha festeggiato, nel 2015, il suo 50° di fondazione con una  serie di iniziative culturali culminate con il Concerto del 50°, tenuto il 21 giugno dello stesso anno, nella piazza antistante il Duomo a Castelfranco Veneto.

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Il Val Canzoi "Bepi Cocco", dal nome di uno dei cantori fondatori, prematuramente scomparso nel 1969, si occupa, sin dalla sua fondazione, della ricerca e della valorizzazione del canto popolare. Il repertorio attuale, in gran parte composto o elaborato dal suo ex direttore, maestro Angelo Tieppo, spazia dal canto d'autore d'ispirazione popolare alle elaborazioni corali di canti di tradizione orale, in particolare d'area veneta ed alpina.

Il coro ha svolto un'intensa attività concertistica, esibendosi in importanti sedi: Teatro Comunale di Treviso, di Belluno, di San Donà di Piave, al Teatro Duse di Asolo, al Filarmonico di Verona, al Comunale di Piacenza, alla Cultur Hause di Bolzano, all'Ariosto di Reggio Emilia, al Teatro Romano di Aosta, al Teatro San Fedele di Milano, al Teatro Regio di Parma, al Salone dei Cinquecento a Firenze, Villa Guarnieri alla Rassegna Internazionale di Canto Corale di Mel, al Teatro Accademico del Bibiena di Mantova, a Cremona, a Torino, a Imperia, due tournée in Germania, una in Svizzera, una in Bulgaria ed una in Argentina. Ha prodotto sette lavori discografici, un Canzoniere che comprende circa 80 partiture di brani popolari recuperati grazie   al lavoro di ricerca effettuato in questi 50 anni di attività. Ha partecipato a numerosi Concorsi Nazionali di Canto Corale Popolare (vedi dettaglio a parte) con lusinghiere affermazioni.

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As a young single foreign woman doctor living in small-town America where I had no prior commitment to —except for my job, people seem to think the holidays have to be exceptionally difficult for me. The comments come from a good place; these people care enough to ensure I am wholly doing well.
But I guess for most people who could fit my demographic it could be a difficult time? For me, the holidays are still a merry time and I enjoy them as much as everyone else does. Or so I choose to think?
Here is my holiday mantra: The holidays will only be as hard as you make it.
And seeing as I am on the self-love bandwagon, there is no time here for self-pity and you should not tolerate that either.
Newsflash: a new partner or more gifts or sappy holiday photos would not make the holidays any less miserable if you are already miserable at heart.
Your happiness will never come from another person – it begins deep within you. If you are not happy alone, you wouldn't be happy with a crowd.
Clutching unto anyone who does not wholly love you just to have companionship for the holidays will leave you feeling even more empty by Jan 1st. May as well just hold the single pill in your throat until then when everyone else returns to relative normalcy. Trust me, in my previous insecure life – I have also served as a placeholder in a man's life just so he could get through a holiday. Not fun!
"Oh, but Nina, I am not the one asking myself intrusive questions at the dinner table" – you may say.
To that, I will say, your response would determine the rest of the conversation and perhaps the rest of your life.
You alone are in control of how others make you feel. Maybe your expectations of these people who should understand you are just way too high compared to what it should realistically be. Don't make idols of family opinions. Truth is they are all just struggling with other major decisions in life as well. This does not mean you should be disrespectful to mom and dad though. However, receive criticism but respond with grace.
Give gifts of love and service. You don't even need to have to give. Go volunteer at a shelter, school or a place where lonely people are bound to gather. If you have extra coins, then shower your family and happy coupled up friends with gifts they don't even need but still want.
Quit comparing yourselves to frozen moments on social media! You just don't need and know that other person's pain and/or struggles. Stay focused on your course.
Count your blessings daily. You still have a family – of some sort! So you are not entirely alone. That's worth being thankful for! Extra tip – write down some of your blessings just so you don't forget. Grab a cup of hot chocolate, a journal, pen and a few of your favorite pumpkin scented candles and write away.
Stop freaking feeling sorry for yourself and realize you have this life better than most of the world. I grew up in Cameroon and the holidays weren't as commercialized as they are in the West. In some areas, a decent chicken laden family meal, one gift and maybe a new outfit were enough to call it a great one. Now, here we are tormenting ourselves with comparison about who is having the best holiday season based on societal pressures. We have turned to materializing a life we should simply enjoy. We have exactly what we absolutely need. Can you now see how awesome your life is already?
Stay busy with other hobbies and pleasures or make some extra $ along the way. All those people cashing in their paid-time-off for the holidays means you can fill in the gap needed by various employers, and at twice the rate. Friend, Go! Get! Your! Coins!
Host a Friendsgiving dinner! It's easy, grab other lonely people in your area (they exist), get them to each buy healthy cooked food and create a new temporary family.
Don't sit around waiting for your festive period to be lit someday when you will have a spouse or children of your own or more cooperative family. Your life can be lit right now if you light it up! Use the family you've got now. If you don't want to deter from the traditions of this time of the year, keep them alive by combining one or two of my suggestions above. Let us see how that transforms this holiday season for you.
Remember; this is YOUR LIFE, right now in front of you to maximize it, enjoy it and live it. Be present in it and make the moves you want to see happen for you.
There is no human to rescue you, you are what you've got in this season.
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Yes to all this! With our medical journey displacing us all over the country away from family, we all have to create our own village and bloom wherever we're planted. I've hosted or gone to Friendsgiving for years. The friendships that come out of those times are some of the most cherished ones in my life.
I wish we could have you over for our Friendsgiving. I hope one day our virtual friendship can turn into a real one. Have a Happy Thanksgiving, Nina!
You're so kind! We will meet someday!


When time undergoes extraordinary friction, diverging into the concentrated, higher forms of essential communication, space follows suit with extreme shapes of astonishing density.
From land and memory comes Terramara, immediately projecting its voice and action into the mirrors of the sky and current times. But the projection is movement and withdrawal, a respectful view of present-day living, the present as it takes place and is gone. And life, once more, makes its selections and abstractions to find two supreme performers capable of taking on a variety of "roles" and values or becoming narrative protagonists.
Above the terrace, the embankment between earth and sky, a man and a woman are custodians of the procreative rite, the creative cycle of nature that joins the before and after and by crossing space makes it whole. Following vertical lines between orbs, heavenly and earthly vaults meet in the definition of a primordial universe or more modest aspirations, in tune with nature and its manifestations. Trees and fruit, the "life-giving" objects: creatures of creatures, lives of other lives in a multiplication which is an act of love and labour. It is the love of lovers as well as filial, motherly and fatherly love, brotherhood: a love of life and its harmoniously variegated flow - each loves the other's life - and by loving life is produced. And it is work, the transformation of bodies into other bodies via instruments and movements.
The movements are carried out according to choreographic designs, abstract stories which often fall back on evocations of a different depth and clarity: tools, verses, colours, tones. Ethnic voices and traditions or, by contrast, the most lucid and naturally limpid classicism alternate in a universal catalogue of the sounds of man. Beyond single cultures and the borders between countries and regions it is once again the echo of the land that expresses the fullness of memory's experience and brings the poetry of time to this performance of movements, sets and sculptures.
The load is also a painful one when the witnessing of time is interpreted as memory lost, recoverable only via symbols and signs. Because time is also lost time, which returns to what remains and by turns confuses, transgresses and yet energises it in the legendary context of the eternal return.
Life is not interrupted, perhaps, but every peak is also a passage where something, some trace is also lost.
Every word, every truly new story has its origin in the when and where of such falls.
The duo, which Abbondanza interprets with Antonella Bertoni, weaves the memories of love experienced into a symbolic plot. In a continual metamorphosis, in these poetical shards of meaning Terramara wins over the audience (large and enthusiastic for all three performances).
It is pleasing when a performance leaves a clear picture, a definite sensation of colour and intent in the viewer's mind. Terramara conveys a unity of ideas, a joint choice of the direction of research. Abbondanza and Bertoni, both extremely convincing, move in a dance that unwinds along intense, ironical, simple paths and dialogues in an authentic way.
The originality of Terramara lies predominantly in the poetry and spirituality of its choreography. The show is thus evocative, searching and luminous and reveals Michele Abbondanza to be one of the most refined protagonists of new dance.
The prize for the most moving show goes to Michele Abbondanza's Terramara, performed by Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni on a stage flooded with a sea of orange and echoes of ethnic motifs. Like a delicate love poem, this duo is sweet and touchy, fresh, with great sets, great lighting and great tenderness.
Abbondanza is a solid dance professional. Terramara is a dual reflection on the passing of time, on prehistoric vestiges and on the complexity of the bond between two beings of opposite sexes who meet to create new life and recreate themselves.
While still tied to the brilliant Finnish-Californian choreographer, the Trentino artist is searching for his own special voice. And he shows it in this almost ecumenical work, right from the musical backup ranging from classical echoes such as Bach to a dense ethnic interlacing of Hungarian, Indian, Rumanian and Sicilian tones. A blend as interesting as the idea behind Terramara.
Terramara is an hour of intense emotions in the language of whispers rather than shouting, of deep glances and prolonged gestures well compiled in a stage format that is fully comprehensible. The latter aspect, a rarity in contemporary dance, should be underlined. A work for two dancers, it is not to be confused with one of the long pas a deux companies often propose. The protagonists of these intense sixty minutes which fly by are Michele Abbondanza himself, the driving force behind the choreography, and Antonella Bertoni, his wonderful companion in the adventure.
On the contrary, ours were for once decidedly the best. Together with Antonella Bertoni, Michele Abbondanza is king of the event. The pair avoid the impromptu quality of new dance, coming to our attention only now, for which we make amends. The atmosphere is that of The Tree of Wooden Clogs , whilst the message launched in simple terms is universal.
Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni were protagonists of the most sublime moment of Encontros acarte '92 in Lisbon. This choreography has the poetical aura of a work that tends to seek out only the essence of things. As dance expression Terramara legitimately joins the group of essential works of art for the human race.
1991. Teatro Auditorium - C.S.C. S. Chiara - Trento; Teatro Trianon - Roma; Drodesera Festival - Dro (TN); Festival Inteatro - Polverigi - Ancona; Teatro Ariosto - Reggio Emilia; Haus der Kultur – Bolzano.
1992. Teatro San Gimignano - Modena; I.T.C.- San Lazzaro (BO); Teatro Portaromana - Milano; Castello Malcesine - Varese; Solstizio d'Estate – Mezzocorona (TN); Teatro Sociale - Udine; Fontemaggiore - Perugia; Teatro Comunale - Casalmaggiore (CR).
1993. Amici della Musica - Trapani; Cascina – Milzanello (BS).
1994. Casa della Comunità – Nago (TN).
1995. Teatro Civico - La Spezia.
1997. Palazzo Marino - Milano; Haus Der Kultur - Bolzano.
1992. Théâtre de L'Agora – Evry (Paris) France; Festival Tanec – Praha (Czechoslovakia); Fundaçao Gulbenkian – Lisbona (Portugal); Ernst-Beyer-Haus – Lipsia (Germany).
1994. Théâtre de Cherbourg – Cherbourg (France).
1996. Palazzo del Cinema - Cannes (France).


Of course, the radical views held by Porter and the others in no way dissuaded Bachmann from attending. In fact, Bachmann appeared on Porter's radio program ahead of the event and used it as an opportunity to [praise] her and endorse the May Day at the Lincoln Memorial prayer event Porter was planning for the following spring.
That May Day event ended up being so infused with Seven Mountains Dominion Theology that Porter lost her radio program and almost ended her career at a Religious Right activist, until she showed up in Ohio earlier this year where she began scheduling fetuses to "testify" on behalf of her extremist anti-choice "Heartbeat Bill." In her downtime, she was busy praying for God to give Christians control over the media and every level of government.
Seven Mountains Dominion Theology, for the uninitiated, posits that Christians have an obligation to fill the ranks of government and other key areas—mountains—of life ahead of the second coming. Bachmann's relationship with Porter isn't as deep as Huckabee's (who called her a "prophetic voice"). But it does underscore a problem she'll face as she looks to establish her credibility with mainstream Republicans: Bachmann has made it in politics by forging alliances with folks whose ideologies make her own conspiratorial views and anti-gay positions seem downright pedestrian.


Startups take a lot of hard work and commitment but can be very rewarding. Most people would prefer to be making money for themselves rather than someone else, but in the US, about 50% of new startups fail in the first year.
This can be because of market forces, because the owner has chosen the wrong industry for their skills or because they have neglected important things that help to make the business successful.
Especially at the beginning, you are the most important element of your business, and you need to take care of yourself. You have to make sure you get enough sleep, exercise and eat properly or you will not have the drive to do all that needs to be done.
Many new business owners do not realize how many different jobs are involved, and then they find they cannot cope. You should ask for help with some of the tasks and there are plenty of freelancers who would be willing to give you a hand. The beauty is that you only pay them for whatever work they do, and they are not covered by any of the employment laws.
Outsourcing your bookkeeping, accounts social media management and several other things can mean that you will stay alert enough to deal with the more important aspects of your business.
We all like to think that our business will ever be affected by some disaster, but unfortunately, it happens all the time. Floods, fires, and break-ins could stop you trading for a while which as a new startup is the last thing you need. Insurance is vital to all new startups, no matter what line you are in.
Just look at truck insurance, business interruption insurance, liability insurance, and inventory insurances and you may be pleasantly surprised how little some peace of mind will cost you.
Regardless of what type of business your new startup is, from day one you need to provide excellent customer service. This will ensure that consumers return to you and that is the start of a loyal customer base.
People will remember how you dealt with them more than they will the product they have purchased.
Generally, if they are not happy with the user experience they will moan about your business to more people than they will tell of a good experience. This will spread a bad reputation for you quicker than anything, so make sure this does not happen to your new startup.
There are many things a new startup needs to deal with that should not be neglected, but most people are aware of them before they start. You need a good website that is user-friendly and easy to navigate as well as being responsive to all devices.
You have to know your target audience so that your marketing is aimed in the right direction, and know your rivals so that you do not make the same mistakes as them.
These are all the basics things you should not neglect and then your startup will stand a better chance of not being one of the 50% of failures in its first year.
What did you neglect in your first year or two as a startup? I definitely neglected myself for a very long time. Did you?


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Whiplash is a great new film about jazz starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. If you've ever played an instrument, pursued anything creative with a passion, or even if you just like jazz, you should see this film. Here's an excerpt from my review for Christianity Today:
One of the things Whiplash is about is the necessity of discipline and accountability in a world where kids grow up—emboldened by shelves of participation trophies and constant "you can do anything!" pats on the back—thinking world-changing greatness is just a Kickstarter campaign away. It's a world where many aspiring artists, including many Christians, skip that whole "tireless, decades-long training to master the craft" part, jumping straight to making the "masterpiece" that they are then surprised to see get trashed by the critics.
No, in order to be a legend, in order to make a difference as an artist, one must accept the indispensability of mastering technique. In order to be a good improviser, one must first excel within limits. Prior to "breaking the rules" in a brilliant and influential way, artists must study the greats and be great. Before Jackson Pollock was in a position to convince anyone of the excellence of his abstract expressionism, he had to first train in representational technique (he did in part under Thomas Hart Benton). Terrence Malick could have never made a formally bonkers film like To the Wonder had he not first established his credibility with more traditional fare like Badlands.
So it is for young Andrew under the tutelage of Fletcher, a man who maintains that the most harmful two words in the English language are "good job." Andrew is brought to literal blood, sweat and tears repeatedly in the film, as the Hegelian collision between his drive and Fletcher's punishing temper gradually produces something brilliant. Andrew's father (Paul Reiser) is nurturing and outwardly loving; he's there to hug his son when a concert performance doesn't go so well.
But Fletcher provides something fatherly that Andrew desperately needs: discipline. One minute Fletcher encourages Andrew and the next he's slapping him in the face. One minute Andrew is Fletcher's go-to drummer and the next he's kicked out of the band. But it's not bipolar as much as it's two faces of the same love—a love that includes both grace and discipline, both mercy and judgment. When Andrew comes to realize this, he may as well be reading Hebrews 12:5-6: "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."
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What's Missing in "Gone Girl"?
Gone Girl is an exceptionally made film. That's the first and undeniable observation that one must make about David Fincher's new film. Fincher is a master of the craft and his command of the filmic language gets more impressive with each film he makes. The editing, angles, words and plot turns in Girl are all as razor sharp as the box-cutter that proves so pivotal in the film's most dramatic scene. I don't think Girl tops Fincher's best work (Zodiac or The Social Network), but it's certainly one of the most cinematically accomplished American films to be released this year.
Still, Gone Girl left a bad taste in my mouth and has me a bit sour on Fincher in general. Since Se7en he's been a filmmaker I've greatly admired, and Zodiac is probably in my top 20 films of all time. Yet I felt like Girl was missing something, and it made me wonder whether Fincher's films in general are largely void of the spiritual or existential gravitas that their lighting, music and mood would suggest they might have. Even in their unique brand of postmodern-ish film noir (a genre that in the mid-20th century was the most existentially perceptive of Hollywood's output), Fincher's films (with the exception of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network) feel a bit one-note. He's probably the best living director we have in terms of giving prestige treatment to C.S.I.-type procedurals and potboiler page-turners. The case could certainly be made that Fincher is a bit Warhol-like in terms of taking popular, mass-consumed culture (Facebook, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl) and turning it into high art. But I'd rather not call it high art as much as highly polished art. He's a technical, aesthetically brilliant filmmaker. What's I'm less convinced about is whether he has much to say.
After finishing Fincher's Gone Girl one gets the feeling that there was maybe something profound-ish going on in the film. Something about the elusive nature of truth in narrative, or maybe something about the changing nature of media. I tried to reflect upon the film from an auteurist angle, looking at Fincher's larger filmography to pick up connections to his typical preoccupations. Certainly Girl explores familiar Fincher territory like domestic violence and female revenge narratives (Panic Room, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), postmodern "there's no way to know what's real" narratives (Fight Club, The Game) and head-scratcher detective procedurals (Se7en, Zodiac). And while all of this makes Girl more intelligent and substantial than your average film, it nevertheless strikes me as mostly really good decoration. But where's the meat? Where's the film's coherent voice and vision?
If Girl is about anything it's about marriage. Here it may convince some viewers of its insightfulness, perhaps. It's a film that tries to be a commentary on marriage in America in the same way that American Beauty or Revolutionary Road do; which is to say lyrically bleak and meager on substance. And that's a shame. There's a way to tell stories that critique American marriage and gender roles in a way that is insightful even as it is bleak. Mad Men does a pretty good job of this, I think. But Girl's portrait of marriage, much like that of the Underwoods (Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright) in House of Cards, feels too extreme, too cold-hearted and cartoonish to reveal anything very insightful. Girl's central villain, Amy (Rosamund Pike), is so fictionally overblown as a femme fatale that it's hard to make any connections to real life. Even Barbara Stanwyck as the consummate noir vixen in Double Indemnity (1944) feels closer to real life than the man-eating "Amy" of this film. I'm far more interested in films that explore the dark sides of suburban soccer moms (and dads) in subtler ways. Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson in Todd Field's In the Bedroom (2001) comes to mind as one example.
In addition to providing a not-really-helpful commentary on marriage, Girl also feels a bit exploitative and counter-productive in light of the current cultural conversation surrounding domestic violence. Wesley Morris discusses this at length in his critique for Grantland:
The movie doubles as a snide contradiction of the serious conversation Americans have been having lately about men, women, exploitation, and violence. Gone Girl isn't complicating that conversation. It gets off on thumbing its nose at it, using a vengeful false accusation to exploit an old trope of the terrifying femme fatale… Flynn and Fincher are presenting a glib and facetious alternative provocation in the name of entertainment. The movie isn't smart enough to think around the problems it superficially engages with. Amy turns abuse into a romantic fantasy for her amusement and for ours.
Maybe I'm reading too much into Girl and expecting too much of it. But again, Fincher is clearly a smart guy and an accomplished director. He's got immense talent. Can't we expect more substantive and nuanced ideas from his films?
There is a cold objectivity and moral indifference to Fincher's films. On one hand it's refreshing to see dark stories simply told, with room for the audience to make judgments and determine the blurry contours of good and evil (I like many of Michael Haneke's films for the same reason). On the other hand it feels sometimes like Fincher is interested in drama, intrigue, violence and revenge for their own sakes; as if the survival-of-the-fittest struggles of human existence are compelling even when stripped of telos or conscience.
Maybe there's more than meets the eye in Fincher's films. Perhaps if I re-watch his other films I'll feel differently. But Girl feels too flippant for our times; a waste of slick form on middling substance. But maybe that in itself is a commentary on the HD polish of our vacuous age.
Tagged David Fincher, Film Noir, Gone Girl, House of Cards, In the Bedroom


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This Instructable is going to over how to tweet pictures from a Webcam on a ZYBO, when everything is finished, you'll be able to turn the ZYBO on and start tweeting immediately.
If you don't have a Twitter account, fill out your credentials and log in. In order for us to tweet, we need to create a Twitter application. We're gonna do this before we start working on the ZYBO, you can do this on the ZYBO, or a computer.
On the top right-hand corner, there will be a green button with an egg in the middle. Click on the egg button, then when the drop-down menu appears, click on the Settings option, this will take us to the use options of your Twitter account.
In order for us to create a Twitter App, we have to register a mobile phone number on Twitter (and confirm it). After you've created your app, you may unregister your phone number.
Click on the Create New App button.
Now you can create your App License!
Before you can continue there is a license agreement at the bottom of the page. Accept the agreement and your App License will be created!
In order for us to Tweet with our account, we need to get our Application and Access tokens.
Click on the Key and Access Tokens button.
You'll see the Application Settings, there will be a Consumer Key (API Key) and a Consumer Secret (API Secret). Scroll down and generate your Access Tokens, these will have an Access Token and an Access Token Secret.
You will need these to Tweet anything. In order to find them again go to apps.twitter.com.
In order for us to be able to send Tweets out of the ZYBO, we need to install Apache. You don't have to everything, but if you want to work with websites it is advised.
To open your terminal hit ctrl+alt+t, most of the following steps will be done in the terminal.
First, enter the command: sudo apt-get update, this will update our install lists.
Next, enter the command:sudo apt-get install apache2, this may take a few minutes.
At this point, you want to be using the ZYBO, we are going to install Tweetpony, which is an API that allows us to Tweet. Before this, we need to install pip, which is going to assist us in Tweetpony installation.
Enter the command sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential, this is going to install pip.
TweetPony is a Python API that will allow us to communicate with Twitter. There are other APIs that have similar functionality, but this one had install instructions that were easy to understand.
Enter the command:sudo pip install tweetpony, this will install TweetPony.
Next, we're going to install Motion. Motion is the image capture software that we're going to be using.
At this point you can run motion, but it will save a file every 1/4 second or so, which isn't what we want for this project. We are going to change the configuration file of motion to continually overwrite one image (temp.jpg) in our www folder.
Download the zip file, in there we have the motion.config file and picpytweet.py files.
The main difference between the motion.config currently being used and the motion.config file downloaded is how/where images are saved.
The picpytweet.py file a python file that we are going to use to Tweet.
Once this is done downloading, extract the tweet folder and place it in the Documents folder.
Remember the Keys and Tokens we created way long ago? Well, now it's to use them!
Once you have the Tokens, open picpytweet.py. You can do this using the command gedit Documents/tweet/picpytweet.py or right-clicking and opening with gedit.
Now that the tweet folder has been downloaded, we can replace the auto-generated motion.conf folder with the one updated for tweeting.
Now we can run motion by using the command sudo motion, this will re-write temp.jpg at 30 FPS in our /var/www folder.
This is going to create a copy of picpytweet.py and place it into /var/www.
The chmod +x command makes picpytweet.py an executable application.
In the new terminal enter the command sudo motion, this will start motion.
Now you can tweet images using the t on the keyboard!


Ring The Bell is poised to become just the second dual Silver Collar winner tomorrow at Manukau.
The $88,000 Duke Of Edinburgh Silver Collar is a tough, gut-busting 779m greyhound staying endurance event with the race distance being the longest race contested in Australasia.
Making it even tougher is the quick back-up over the extreme trip which got even harsher for the eight finalists after a 24-hour postponement of heats owing to last weekend's rain.
Those heats turned into a real paw slugfest owing to the rain sodden Manukau track which was graphically illustrated by last year's Silver Collar winner Ring The Bell requiring 47.47s to complete his assignment. Compare that to his winning 46.22s time last year — a staggering difference of around 20 lengths.
Ring The Bell is poised to become just the second dual Silver Collar winner tomorrow at Manukau for Hall of Fame conditioner Ray Adcock, who reports his charge has come through his heat in super condition.
"He was as fit as he has ever been before his heat and he certainly won't be fazed by the quicker turnaround."
Ring The Bell has drawn ideally in trap two.
Tirau trainer Karen Walsh has prepared two previous Silver Collar winners and Dusty Gambler has done everything right to provide her with a third winner. He has won all seven of his races since he crossed the Tasman including his 47.85s heat win.
"He was caught in early traffic and he had to do fair amount of work in his heat which I guess was reflected in his time. I'm rapt he has drawn the eight trap and he has been bouncing around on his lead during the week," advised Walsh.
Cristiane Cyborg adds the intrigue factor to this event for her trainer Hayley Mullane after her traffic impeded heat third to Ring The Bell. "Her draw [one] isn't the best for her as she'll look to get out. I'm stoked with her and I expect a really strong race from her especially on hopefully a dry track," said Mullane.
Canterbury trainers Dave and Jean Fahey commands respect when it comes to group one greyhound racing. They have given their heat runner-up to Ring The Bell, Translator a prefect preparation for tomorrow. Expect their other charge, Pirate's Curse, to be sighted rocketing home late.
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The EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food provides a scientific opinion re-evaluating the safety of paprika extract (E 160c). Paprika extract (E 160c) is a natural dye allowed as a food additive in the EU. The bioavailability of capsanthin and capsorubin from paprika extract is very low. Toxicological data were limited to a 13-week oral toxicity and one chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity study on a specified paprika extract (DN-933), representative of commercially produced paprika extracts used as food colour. Based on the new studies on the specified paprika extract (DN-933), compliant with good laboratory practice (GLP), which fulfil the requirements for genotoxicity assessment according to the EFSA guidelines on food additives, the Panel concluded that paprika extracts used as food colours do not raise a genotoxic concern. No reproductive and developmental toxicity studies are available, but evaluated by read-across. The Panel concluded in the chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity study that for the dose levels tested, paprika extract (E 160c) was not carcinogenic. Based on the lack of genotoxic potential, the Panel considered that the no‑observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) for histopathological changes from this study could be used for establishing an acceptable daily intake (ADI). On this basis, the Panel established an ADI of 24 mg/kg bw/day for paprika extract (E 160c). Based on the analytical data on paprika extract N1, which is reported to be comparable to the specified paprika extract used in these studies (DN-933), the total carotenoid content was 7.1%. Using this value, the Panel established an ADI of 1.7 mg carotenoids/kg bw/day for paprika extract (E 160c). Exposures to paprika extract (E 160c) for the refined exposure assessment scenarios were below the ADI established by the Panel.


After using an avocado, save the pit for a future plant.
Using 3 – 4 toothpicks, stick them in the avocado pit.
Place in a jar or glass of water, so only the bottom of the point is in the water.
It may take a while for the foots to appear.
Once there are a fair amount of roots, plant in a pot and place in good bright light.
Jen! i'm so happy you stopped in! Beautiful little B. take pictures and let me know if the avocado sprouts!


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They brought in allies and operatives – many of them festooned with red armbands, without a hint of irony or historical perspective. They demanded that the vote be overseen by an outside observer – Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner. They enlisted the assistance of Governor Cuomo, who used surrogates to cajole and persuade the members of the Erie County Democratic Committee to replace outgoing chairman Len Lenihan with Frank Max of Cheektowaga.
Max's support came not just from the governor's arm-twisting, but from two breakaway party factions. City Hall told the governor that it could work with Max, but not with Lenihan #2, Jeremy Zellner. The Steve Pigeon faction has a reasonably consistent alliance with city hall, because they share an anti-Lenihan sentiment.
How did it work? When a committeeman arrived at Saturday's reorganization meeting at the Hearthstone Manor, she was handed a ballot upon check-in. The ballot was turned over after the committeeperson had shown an entrance card and ID, and then signed a receipt acknowledging its receipt.
Before you hop on the "Democrats are hypocrites" with respect to voter ID, voting for the chairman of your regulated private club isn't the same as voting for an elected official. The latter invokes constitutional rights, the former does not.
Each ballot contained the committeeperson's name at the top, and weighted vote at the bottom. The list of candidates was printed in the center. The attendees ripped the top off, removing their name from the ballot, ticked the desired box, and dropped the ballot in a container. Each container was being watched by Max and Zellner representatives to ensure that there was no ballot-box stuffing.
The weighted vote is more complicated. It was all calculated based on the number of people within a given election district. Some suburban voters had weighted votes of under 200, while some city voters had weighted votes in excess of 900.
Max claims he won more ballots cast, that isn't how the winner is calculated – Max and his faction knew this full well. One insider who was in the room tells me they didn't even tally who received how many ballots cast in the counting room. Not only that, but they knew how the weighted votes were allocated and could have – but didn't – file an objection of some sort in advance of the reorganization. The court case that's being filed seems to center around the redistricting and reapportionment of the weighted vote in the Town of Amherst. Amherst's town committee is led by Board of Elections Commissioner Dennis Ward, who is a Lenihan/Zellner partisan. But it's not clear whether the allegation is that Ward did something wrong. Even Max attorney Peter Reese acknowledged to the Buffalo News that, "[Ward] used an arcane provision of election law to redistrict in Amherst to his advantage." Election Law section 2-104 is "arcane"?
Even arcane statutory provisions are valid, though, aren't they?
Ward rightly argues that the redistricting was done well in advance of the reorganization, and Max's people had an equal opportunity to run people for new committee seats earlier this year, but didn't.
The charges of ballot-stuffing are vague and don't name names – the police were not called, no one is being haled into court over it, and in this smartphone age, no one took so much as a snapshot. By failing to pre-emptively challenge the Amherst redistricting, and by calling in the state party committee to don a blue helmet and oversee the process, the complaints from the losing side seem to be nothing more than soreness and sour grapes.
In fact, Miner – whom Frank Max asked to attend and oversee the process – was in charge of the counting room. If she did not raise an objection (and there's no report that she did), the count was fair on its face. If part of their strategy was to challenge the procedural legitimacy, it flew in the Max camp's face. That explains why the allegations of counting improprieties are relegated to rumor and won't be part of the litigation.
It would be great if the Democratic party in Erie County could be unified, but any such unity is a three-way street. Conspicuous in their absence were any mouth-noises from the Pigeon or Brown camps about pledging to work with the ultimate winner. (Zellner and Max pledged to work with anyone, to their credit). To Pigeon and Brown, this is part of a decade-long effort to wrest control of the party apparatus back even though Lenihan found it in debt and utter disarray. Over ten years, almost always fighting a war on two fronts – against Republicans and breakaway Democratic factions, Lenihan navigated the party ship to a scandal-free path of successes that would have been unthinkable ten years ago.
It would be great if the party could now unify behind Zellner, but no one's holding their breath. Zellner is more pitbull to Lenihan's likeable teddy bear, and has alienated many party stalwarts. The likelihood of these people shrugging off their personal bias in favor of party unity is slight. The Cuomo camp will have to reassess how wise it was to attempt to cajole and bully party loyalists to do something they couldn't do in good conscience. The governor is alleged to have held up big civic issues such as the Bills lease over this idiotic party battle. If accurate, holding the entire community hostage over a party squabble is rank governmental malpractice.
Party politics is by its very nature a massive battlefield of competing egos, and Erie County Democrats have proven time and again that these egos are most often unreconcilable. Maybe that conflicted status quo is better than the alternative.
Tags: Democratic Party, ECDC, erie county, Frank Max, Jeremy Zellner, reorganization


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Nanodiamond based surface modified screen-printed electrodes for the simultaneous voltammetric determination of dopamine and uric acid
Baccarin, M and Rowley-Neale, SJ and Cavalheiro, ÉTG and Smith, GC and Banks, CE (2019) Nanodiamond based surface modified screen-printed electrodes for the simultaneous voltammetric determination of dopamine and uric acid. Microchimica Acta, 186 (3). ISSN 0026-3672
Official URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00604-0...
© 2019, The Author(s). The electroanalytical detection of the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) in the presence of uric acid (UA) is explored for the first time using commercially procured nanodiamonds (NDs). These are electrically wired via surface modification upon screen-printed graphite macroelectrodes (SPEs). The surface coverage of the NDs on the SPEs was explored in order to optimize electroanalytical outputs to result in well-resolved signals and in low limits of detection. The (electro)analytical outputs are observed to be more sensitive than those achieved at bare (unmodified) SPEs. Such responses, previously reported in the academic literature have been reported to be electrocatalytic and have been previously attributed to the presence of surface sp 2 carbon and oxygenated species on the surface of the NDs. However, XPS analysis reveals the commercial NDs to be solely composed of nonconductive sp 3 carbon. The low/negligible electroconductivity of the NDs was further confirmed when ND paste electrodes were fabricated and found to exhibit no electrochemical activity. The electroanalytical enhancement, when using NDs electronically wired upon SPEs, is attributed not to the NDs themselves being electrocatalytic, as reported previously, but rather changes in mass transport where the inert NDs block the underlying electroactive SPEs and create a random array of graphite microelectrodes. The electrode was applied to simultaneous sensing of DA and UA at pH 5.5. Figures of merit include (a) low working potentials of around 0.27 and 0.35 V (vs. Ag/AgCl); and (b) detection limits of 5.7 × 10 −7 and 8.9 × 10 −7 M for DA and UA, respectively. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
This is an Open Access article published in Microchimica Acta, published by Springer, copyright The Author(s).
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Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical, Chemistry, Detection, Dopamine, Uric acid, Nanodiamonds, Screen-printed electrodes, Micro-electrode array, Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, ASCORBIC-ACID, ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR, DIAMOND NANOPARTICLES, CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY, GLUCOSE, Detection, Dopamine, Electrocatalysis, Electrochemistry, Micro-electrode array, Nanodiamonds, Screen-printed electrodes, Uric acid, 0301 Analytical Chemistry, 0399 Other Chemical Sciences, Analytical Chemistry
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It's time to get the old waffle iron and use this recipe. Bring the taste of your childhood to your children.
1. Take a small pot and put margarine in it. Put it on the gas stove and turn on the fire and let the margarine melt. Drive in chicken eggs, and pour out the sugar. Well get in the way of the mixture. Then add vanilla sugar, salt, cow's milk, soda and, in several parishes, pour in all the wheat flour.
2. Depending on the quality of flour, it may happen that cow's milk needs more than indicated in the recipe. When baking wafers dough will be located throughout the area of the waffle iron. Therefore, it should be made liquid. Next, using a mixer, you need to shake everything. In a pre-included waffle iron pour a little dough and start baking waffles (one at a time). Ready dessert has a gilded hue. As soon as you remove the wafer from the waffle iron, without waiting for it to cool down, immediately twist it into the shape of a tube.
3. Also, you can apply prepared wafers as cakes for a small cake, smeared each with any jam, cream or jam.


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Padres Points: Benoit, Coaching Notes, Alonso
Justin W.
Major League Baseball, National League, National League West, Offseason, San Diego Padres
As the official first week of the 2015 offseason is in full gear, the Padres stayed busy in what will be another important time period for a club that played far below the expectations fans and pundits ever thought. The moves that will happen over the next few months will determine which direction the ball club plans to go. All indications are they will retool and attempt to be in contention in 2016.
The first roster moves were made and here is the rundow on what effects each will have on the potential 2016 roster:
1) Joaquin Benoit club option for the 2016 season was exercised (Link).
Benoit is projected to be the set-up man for Craig Kimbrel and continue to dominate the back end of the bullpen, something the Padres bullpen was able to do successfully over the course of last season. The club could go the route to trade either Benoit or Kimbrel. They'd get more for Kimbrel than Benoit. Trading either would open up payroll space that is already tight heading into the offseason. Given Benoit's age, he's an injury concern and a candidate for regression. A bullpen-needy team may be willing to send a pair of prospects for him. If not, he and Kimbrel could make one of the top 8th and 9th inning duos in the National League.
2) Clint Barmes club option for the 2016 season was declined (Link).
Barmes was a great addition last season to the team because of his veteran presence and leadership skills, but the decision here to not pick up his option comes as no surprise. Given other infielders on the roster, there was realistically no room for him on next year's roster. This is also a clear indication that next year's starting shortstop is currently not on the roster as the team looks to acquire one for next season. A reunion here on even a cheaper deal is about as unlikely as it can get given the circumstances.
3) Cory Luebke club option for the 2016 season was declined (Link).
Luebke, whose career has unfortunately been ravaged by injuries, is a player that could come back on a small, incentive-laden deal. According to Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union Tribune, there's mutual interest of possibly working out a deal. Given the lack of left-handed pitching in the upper-levels of the organization, a flier on Luebke might not be a bad idea. He could be a left-handed reliever coming out of the bullpen and then the front office can see what he can do from there.
Coaching Notes
New manager Andy Green's deal with the club is believed to be three years, tweets Dennis Lin. He'll be under contract through at least the 2018 season.
Pitching coach Darren Balsley will return to the club next season, tweets Corey Brock of MLB.com. He's been with the coaching staff since 2003.
Bench coach Dave Roberts is not expected back next season given other opportunities he's pursuing, tweets Scott Miller of BleacherReport.com. According to multiple reports, he's interviewed for the Dodgers managerial opening.
Third base coach Glenn Hoffman, who also works with the club's infielders, will return next season, tweets Corey Brock.
The Padres offered their bench coach duties to former Twins' manager Ron Gardenhire and former Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach, tweets Dennis Lin. Gardenhire seems to have the desire to manage again so the idea of him becoming the bench coach is unlikely. On the other hand, Wallach could rejoin Don Mattingly's staff with the Marlins. One trend that these two picks show – the Padres want experience on the bench to help first-time manager Andy Green.
Friar Notes
There is already interest in the trade market for setup man Joaquin Benoit, tweets Buster Olney of ESPN.com. The possible scenarios of a Benoit's future are written above.
The Padres will make a qualifying offer to Justin Upton and are leaning towards doing the same with Ian Kennedy, writes Corey Brock. Upton is not expected to be re-signed, so they'll recoup a draft pick, though the idea of Kennedy re-signing if he rejects the qualifying offer is a possibility. Inside The Friars profiled free agent Ian Kennedy recently.
Yonder Alonso's medical reports are positive, tweets Dennis Lin. Lin notes that his name should come up in trade talks this winter. His future with the club will be determined by where they decide to play Wil Myers. Upgrading at first base with either Myers or someone else that has the ability to hit for power and drive in runs is likely on a the team's wish list.
The club hired Duane Shaffer, who was the scouting director of the White Sox at one time in his career, tweets Corey Brock. He was most recently with the Mariners.
Friar Moves
The team announced that they outrighted left-handed pitcher Corey Luebke to Triple-A El Paso. He rejected his outright assignment and has officially became a free agent.
Also, the team announced that they have outrighted infielder Cody Decker to Triple-A El Paso. Right handed pitcher Cory Mazzoni and Yonder Alonso were both activated off the 60 day disabled list.
According to the club's transaction page, the Padres signed the following players: left handed pitcher Omar Fernandez, outfielder Danny Tovar, and outfielder Alam Martinez.
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Justin covers the San Diego Padres on @Padresindepth on Twitter. He writes for his own blog, called Inside the Friars, which can be found @InsideTheFriars on Twitter. He's been writing for Baseball Essential since September 2014.
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