I hate when people don't say sorry! Emotional Incontinence?
Sorry for mentioning something so silly, but I thought that this would be the only place to share this without ridicule.
I absolutely hate it when someone doesn't apologize. I was helping my fourteen year-old nephew with something earlier and he hit my finger (which is in pain from a raised acrylic). Naturally, I yelled and said "Ouch! That hurt!" He then replies in a defensive tone "But did I mean to do it? You didn't have to scream." This incident left me near tears and made me want to scream!
Sorry if this sounds off, but I am as my name suggests.
A valid emotion, Mind adrift - people don't easily apologise these days. Sounds like your nephew was more concerned about shirking blame than 'owning' the fact he hurt your finger.
In his defence - it might have been a self-protect mechanism...so afraid of being blamed, he blurted that out before he thought. He might have been scared of being in trouble.
Thank you Lunar Lady! My nephew doesn't fear me at all lol. He and I are less than ten years a part. It was complete disregard, but I understand.
I'm old enough to shake my head and mutter "Oh, the youth of today...tut tut tut"
Lol! Even I do the same!
In all seriousness though, I have the feeling of being cheated or robbed whenever it happens.
I get the same, even over the most mundane occurrences! Like, if I say 'thank you' to someone at, like, the cornershop I buy daily staples from and I don't receive a "you're welcome", it gets under my skin. I'll just smile, but it's an irritant.
Or, yesterday I was walking up a narrow sidewalk, and a group of 5 women were just blocking the way, chatting in their own world. I said "excuse me, please" and they didn't budge! So I had to angle my body sideways and walk up on someone's doorstep while they ignored me. I felt like such a tool, and guilty for being annoyed, as they were a good 20 years older than me, but still!
And sorry is another one. Like if someone bumps into you or whatever. I always say it, even if it wasn't my fault. And lots of people just grunt at you (if you're 'lucky') and keep it moving!
I don't know your nephew's age? Mines 13, and he can be quite cheeky lol. Also, bc you're a family member/someone 'familiar', maybe he just had his guard down. I'm way more proper around strangers than friends or family, lol.
Still, I'm sorry you were hurt by the incident. Please don't feel silly for how you reactively/instinctively felt. It's just who you are. Be proud you value other people's feelings and are compassionate.
Thank you for you response! I was also teased for saying sorry often. Like yourself, I too am a manner's nazi lol. It doesn't take away from a person to have manners nor respect, but nevertheless I try to conduct myself the way I would like to be treated.
Lastly, those women knew better. I hate it when this happens! It is usually more frequent with women than with men.
I'm sorry you were also teased for the sorry thing! What is it with that? I know on some level, women are brought up to apologize more than men, to take up less space, but I think manners are a dying form of communication and I'm proud of having them, irregardless of whether or not they're appreciated!
Hold your head high and be proud that you choose to carry yourself with respect for others and class and dignity. Jokes on those that don't appreciate or care about these things.
I think it may just be seen as a sign of weakness for some odd reason. I also work in customer service and I'd love to hear your stories if you wanted to share .
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me! Overall I feel much better now that I got the chance to talk about it!
I'm glad that I could help as well!


2017 Rittenhouse Star Trek 50th Anniversary trading cards take on the entirety of the TV franchise. That means it goes well beyond the Original Series, which was the focus of its own release in 2016. This time around, Captain Kirk and his crew are joined by the characters of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and more.
Although more premium than the typical set of Star Trek trading cards, autographs are still a major focal point with two per box. Each box also has a relic card.
The 2017 Rittenhouse Star Trek 50th Anniversary base set has 101 cards. It highlights some of the best known moments from TOS, The Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and the movies.
The entire set is done in an etched foil format.
Printing Plates are available but don't expect to find them in packs. As an 18-case incentive, dealers get a special Archive Box. Among its contents are the four plates used to produce one of the base cards.
This is the first set of Star Trek cards to have signatures from all five of the captains from the various television shows: William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway), and Scott Bakula (Captain Archer). Not only that, but there's one Captain Autograph per case.
Other autographs use the design from 2014 Star Trek Aliens. A total of 60 autographs are present including Jonathan Frakes and Lee Meriwether.
2017 Rittenhouse Star Trek 50th Anniversary also has randomly inserted Cut Signatures from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy) and Mark Lenard (Sarek).
A dual autograph can be found in the set's incentives. It features William Shatner and Patrick Stewart is available to those ordering nine cases.
The Relic cards checklist features a total of 54 cards, making it tough to complete. In addition to these are six Dual Relics.
While a lot of Star Trek sets come with a bunch of basic inserts per box, that's not the case with 2017 Rittenhouse Star Trek 50th Anniversary. But that doesn't mean the product itself avoids chase cards. In fact, it's the opposite. They're just significantly tougher to pull.
Star Trek Heroes (50 cards, 1:24 packs) is a character-based set done on metal stock. Star Trek ArtiFEX (50 cards, 1:12) is another set of inserts that centers on characters. However, these are done as portraits done by Emily Tester. The original art for these cards is randomly inserted in packs. These are the only inserts that come in every box (at least according to the odds). Others are tougher pulls.
Starfleet Captains (18 cards, 1:48) spotlight not only the main captains from each show, but some of the others that graced the screen over the years. Tech Evolution (nine cards, 1:96) charts how technology like tricorders and phasers changed over the years and shows. Ships of the Line (nine cards, 1:96) depicts the various versions of the iconic U.S.S. Enterprise as well as other important ships from the franchise. While Starfleet Captains, Tech Evolution and Ships of the Line are tougher to pull that Heroes and ArtiFEX, if you work out how many packs it takes to complete a set, individual Captains and Ships cards are actually a little more common.
On the ultra-rare side are Star Trek Phaser Cut cards, which land 1:288 packs. These cover five captains and five first officers from the television shows in a mysterious format that hasn't been used in a Trek set before.
Commemorative Stamp cards are among the toughest pulls in the product. Although there are only four in the set, one lands every other case.
Sold separately, a binder comes with an exclusive promo card.
E10 exclusive to Rittenhouse Rewards program.
1 card. Inserted as a case topper.
1 card. Distributed as a nine-case incentive.
1 card. Distributed as a six-case incentive.
Looks like alot of chase cards !
This is a prime example of why I quit collecting cards. Too many chase cards that make it impossible to collect them all unless you're a millionaire. I enjoyed card collecting when it was just a set of cards with a few chase cards or stickers that could be completed with just the purchase of one or two boxes. These card companies took the enjoyment right out of the hobby. Too bad.


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Amy Robach Named '20/20' Co-Anchor
Succeeds Elizabeth Vargas on ABC newsmag
Amy Robach has been named co-anchor of 20/20 starting at the end of May. She joins David Muir on the ABC News show.
(ABC/Ida Mae Astute)
Robach will continue to report for Good Morning America, where she has been news anchor since 2014, and for ABC News when major news breaks.
She replaces Elizabeth Vargas, who signed a production and anchoring deal with the A&E Networks.
James Goldston, ABC News president, announced the news to staff. "Amy, as we know so well, is a brilliant journalist and a skilled interviewer," he said. "She has covered the biggest news events around the world, from the deadly terrorist attacks in Belgium and Manchester and the Pulse nightclub shooting to the poaching epidemic in Tanzania and the Olympic games in PyeongChang, Rio and Sochi.
"Amy's already well-known to our 20/20 audience for her reporting on some of the program's most compelling work," he continued. "She's proved uniquely capable of connecting with a diverse and fascinating group of people to tell their stories, including Tonya Harding, Gretchen Carlson, Hulk Hogan, former UVA dean Nicole Eramo, and Monica Lewinsky for her first network interview in over a decade."
Before joining ABC News, Robach worked at NBC News from 2003 to 2012. In 2007, she was the co-anchor of Saturday Today and an NBC News national correspondent. She also filled in as weekday Today co-anchor and anchor for NBC Nightly News.
Prior to that, Robach was an anchor at MSNBC from 2003-2007.
Goldston said of 20/20, "Great journalism and distinctive storytelling are always at the heart of what we do, and Amy will help make an outstanding team even better."
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Fates and Fortunes
'20/20'
David Muir Named '20/20' Co-Anchor
Replaces Chris Cuomo, who is joining CNN
Gretchen Carlson Sits for '20/20' Interview on Sexual Harassment
Elizabeth Vargas-anchored special airs on ABC Nov. 18
Chris Cuomo to Co-Anchor '20/20'
Good Morning America news reader confirms he'll leave morning show Dec. 11.
Official: Savannah Guthrie Named 'Today' Co-Anchor
The 9 a.m. host replaces Ann Curry on NBC morning program
'World News Tonight' Anchor Muir Named NY State Broadcaster of the Year
Syracuse native took over ABC's evening newscast in 2014
Disney Celebrates Vast Network Portfolio at Lincoln Center
ABC, FX, ESPN, Nat Geo, Freeform share the stage
Amy Reisenbach Named CBS Executive VP of Current Programs
Succeeding Bridget Wiley, she will oversee creative affairs for CBS and studio shows airing elsewhere

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That accuracy was difficult to achieve in the past because each person's body is unique. A person's face has things in common with most other faces, but there are countless small differences that make that face function and look like one person and no one else. Knees are like that, too, although the differences may not seem as apparent.
Computer Navigated Total Knee Replacement (TKR) ensures that knee components are placed in perfect alignment with the normal knee axis to ensure a lifetime of trouble-free performance. It also enables us to make bony cuts with zero degree error and enables us to do soft tissue balancing of the knee, so that all the ligaments are in even tension.
With today's computer technology, there is no guesswork. Doctors can see in real time the mechanical axis of the leg which is unique to each individual. It allows them to map your anatomy and customize the surgery. By constantly referring to the mechanical axis and the patient's unique anatomy, they are able to position and balance the knee more accurately.
This process usually enables them to get the knee positioned perfectly on the first try, as opposed to previous techniques, which often required several "trials." This proper positioning should allow the maximum life of the implant to be achieved. Improper positioning of the knee replacement will lead to rapid failure and is the number one reason for an early revision surgery.


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Dave Lepard
Dave Lepard (born David Roberto Hellman) was the lead singer and guitarist in the Swedish Glam metal band, Crashdïet.
He formed the band Crashdïet in 2000. In 2002 the band members split up. Dave Lepard continued with a new lineup. Their music was based on 1980s 'hair metal' bands, such as Mötley Crüe and Twisted Sister. Crashdïet gained a cult following, especially in Sweden.
Lepard's family said he may have been suffering from depression, but they still felt his death was unexpected.
Dave Lepard died by suicide on January 13, 2006. He was twenty five years old.
May 28, 1980 - January 13, 2006
Labels: Celebrities, Musicians, Their Life Mattered
Love, Honor, and Compassion. A Suicide Loss Announcement Done Right
Tommy Bloom Raskin
'[Tommy] opposed all malicious gossip,
stopping all such gossipers with a trademark Tommy line:
forgive me, but it's hard to be a human.'
With suicide loss, making public announcements is often complicated by the stigma attached to suicide. As a suicide loss survivor and as a suicide attempt survivor, I have experienced my own shame around losses and survival. For a long time, I avoided and sidestepped questions. I didn't speak up about needing comfort, and I often pushed it away when it was offered.
Today, I see speaking up as an imperative part of healing. And more so, I refuse to let shame dictate my behavior.
A few days ago, Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin (and his wife Sarah) publicly announced the death of their beloved son, Tommy Bloom Raskin. I am sharing their announcement now. I feel the announcement was done right. It focuses on what is important: Tommy's amazing life, his accomplishments, their compassion for Tommy's struggles with mental illness, and finally - their great love for their son.
With the exception of adjusting sizing of text and removal of a few photos (for spacing reasons) the announcement below is unchanged from that which was posted on Congressman Raskin's website. I hope that in reading the announcement, you might grow in your compassion for survivors of loss, as well as those who have lost their life to suicide.
To Senator Raskin and the rest of Tommy's friends and loved ones, I extend my heartfelt empathy and condolences. I know I speak not just myself, but for so many of our fellow survivors of suicide loss, when I say that we share your grief. We are deeply saddened that you have now joined our heartbroken club. Your son's life mattered. We know.
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin
Rep. Jamie Raskin
3 days ago·9 min read
TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin:
"On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was born to ecstatic parents who saw him enter the world like a blue-eyed cherub, a little angel. Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with his little sister in his father's constitutional law class, teaching other children the names of all the Justices on the Supreme Court, hugging strangers on the street, teaching our dogs foreign languages, running up and down the aisle on airplanes giving people high fives, playing jazz piano like a blues great from Bourbon Street, and at 12 writing a detailed brief to his mother explaining why he should not have to do a Bar Mitzvah and citing Due Process liberty interests (appeal rejected).
"Over the years he was enveloped in the love not only of his bedazzled and starstruck parents but of his remarkable and adoring sisters, Hannah the older and Tabitha the younger, a huge pack of cousins, including Jedd, Emily, Maggie, Zacky, Mariah, Phoebe and Lily, Boman and Daisy, and Emmet and spoiled rotten with hugs and kisses and philosophical nourishment from his grandparents Herb and Arlene Bloom, Marcus Raskin, Barbara Raskin, and later Lynn Raskin, the best aunts and uncles a mischievous ragamuffin could ask for, including Erika and Keith, Kenneth and Abby, Mina, Noah and Heather, Eden and Brandon, and Tammy and Gary, and a cast of secondary parents who wrapped him in adoration and wildly precocious conversation like Michael and Donene, Ann and Jimmy, Kate and Hal, Kathleen and Tom, Katharine and David, Judy, Reed and Julia, Dar and Michael, David and Melinda, Angela and Howard, Helen, Sheila, Mitchell, Will and Camille, Phyllis, Shammy,Khalid and Zina.
"With all this love infusing Tommy's world and soul, girls quickly came to fancy this magical boy who always made time for the loneliest kids in class and frequently made up his own words to describe feelings and parts of toasters — and, to be clear, he took a strong liking to girls too, these omnipresent magical lovely girls he found who always had a profound beauty radiating from within. Tommy was raised on a fine Montgomery County Education, which took him through Takoma Park Elementary School, Pine Crest Elementary School, Eastern Middle School, and Montgomery Blair High School (with a frolicking detour to Ecole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris for one family sabbatical year where he learned French, tried to teach himself Japanese, and insisted on travel adventures through North Africa and the rest of Europe), but his irrepressible love of freedom and strong libertarian impulses made him a skeptic of all institutional bureaucracy and a daring outspoken defender of all outcasts and kids in trouble. Once when third-grade Tommy and his father saw a boy returning to school after a weeklong suspension and his Dad casually remarked, 'it looks like they let finally let him out of jail,' Tommy replied, 'no, you mean they finally let him back into jail.'
"At Blair, Tommy's adult persona began to take shape: he co-founded Bliss, a life-changing peer-to-peer tutoring program and spent hours tutoring fellow students in Math and English; made wonderful friends he lavished attention on; became Captain of the Forensics Club and a savagely logical and persuasive orator in the Debate and Extemporaneous Speech Club where he had to be constantly reminded by his teammates that the purpose of high school debate tournaments is to score points and not convince people of the truth or change the world. He was active in the Young Dems and recruited dozens to get involved in the 2012 Obama reelection effort. On Prom Night, he threw a dinner party for 24 fellow students, including classmates who had no date that evening, and they all went to prom together as a group. He hated cliques and social snobbery, never had a negative word for anyone but tyrants and despots, and opposed all malicious gossip, stopping all such gossipers with a trademark Tommy line — 'forgive me, but it's hard to be a human.'
"Above all, he began to follow his own piercing moral and intellectual insights looking for answers to problems of injustice, poverty and war. A Bar Mitzvah from Temple Sinai, he taught a Sunday School with Heather Levy for two years at Temple Emmanuel, often substituting his social-struggle analysis of the Exodus story for teachings on the Hebrew alphabet. He ordered and devoured books on the Civil War and Maryland's history in it, World War II and resistance to Nazism, Jewish history, libertarianism, moral philosophy, the history of the Middle East conflict, peace movements, anything by Gar Alperovitz on the decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and anything by Peter Singer on animal rights. He began to pen these extraordinary essays and articles that now add up to well over 100 as well as write plays and extremely long polemical poems, which he eagerly performed for audiences astounded by his precocious moral vision, utter authenticity of emotion, and beauty of expression.
"At Amherst College, he majored in history, helped lead the Amherst Political Union, intellectually discredited the egregious Dinesh D'Souza who turned to pathetic insults when Tommy destroyed his argument from the audience with a simple question (even before D'Souza was soon to be convicted of federal campaign finance crimes), won the Kellogg Prize, created and performed one-act plays with his social dorm mates, and wrote a compelling senior thesis on the intellectual history of the animal rights movement. Spending his summers voraciously reading and soaking up all the wisdom to be had at his eclectic self-procured internships at the CATO Institute with Doug Bandow, J Street, the Institute for Policy Studies, ARC of Montgomery, Compassion Over Killing, and for Professor Frank Couvares, Tommy became an anti-war activist, a badass autodidact moral philosopher and progressive humanist libertarian, and a passionate vegan who composed imperishable, knock-your-socks-off poetry linking systematic animal cruelty and exploitation to militarism and war culture. He recruited gently and lovingly — but supremely effectively — dozens and dozens of people, including his parents, to the practice of not eating animals, and it will be hard to find anyone his age who has turned more carnivores into vegans than him. (He also cheerfully opposed sectarian holier-than-thou sanctimoniousness among a handful of vegans he met and would say, 'I'm working for a vegan world, not a vegan club.') A prolific and exquisitely gifted writer, he came to publish essays and op-eds in the Nation, the Goodmen Project, Anti-War.Com and other outlets. After his Amherst graduation, Tommy went to the Friends Committee on National Legislation to work on stopping the war in Yemen and on Middle East policy, and spent a year publishing more remarkable essays and articles (soon to be available to you) and launching a book of political philosophy offering a sweeping animal rights critique of Locke, Mill and classical liberal social contract theory.
"In 2019 Tommy went to Harvard Law School. He lived up in the attic of the home of Michael Anderson and Donene Williams, his Dad's beloved law school roommates, and made more remarkable friends. He studied constitutional law with Noah Feldman, criminal law with Carole Steiker, and property with Bruce Mann (Elizabeth Warren's husband); he loved the systematic thought and debate dynamics of law school but reported it to be like half an education because the moral philosophy component was somehow left out. Rather than read endless lists of long cases, why not have students read clear comprehensive statements of what the law is and then talk about what the law should be? So while zealously promoting his newfound favorite game — Boggle — to rescue his classmates and himself from the stress and anxiety of law school, he also pushed them to engage with social problems and found a strong affinity group in the Effective Altruists. He spent last summer working quite brilliantly as a summer associate at Mercy for Animals and found a knack for actual lawyering.
"This fall Tommy not only took a full complement of his second-year law classes, including Disability Law with Michael Stein which he loved, but, at the suggestion of his beloved Professor Steicker, became a Teaching Assistant with Professor Michael Sandel in his 'Justice' Course at Harvard. As a teacher, Tommy devoted great time to teaching his section of the class — working on his astonishing lectures and jokes, and meeting endlessly with his dozen students on Zoom, finding what was precious in their work and teasing it out. He loved his students and they loved him back. Not content with giving half of his teaching salary away to save people with malaria by purchasing mosquito nets with global charities, when the semester was over and after his grades were in and the student evaluations were complete, he made individual donations in each of his students' names to Oxfam, GiveDirectly and other groups targeting global hunger. When I asked him why he did this, he quoted something that he loved which Father Daniel Berrigan said about Dorothy Day: 'she lived as though the truth were true.' Tommy said: 'I wanted them to see that the truth is true.'
"We have barely been able to scratch the surface here, but you have a sense of our son. Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind. He began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless 'disease called depression,' as Tabitha put it on Facebook over the weekend, a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him, and despite very fine doctors and a loving family and friendship network of hundreds who adored him beyond words and whom he adored too, the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last for our dear boy, this young man of surpassing promise to our broken world.
"On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020, when hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world died alone in bed in the darkness from an invisible killer disease ravaging their bodies and minds, we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha's beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world.
"He left us this farewell note on New Year's Eve day: 'Please forgive me. My illness won today. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. All my love, Tommy.'"
Click here to find the announcement on Senator Raskin's Website.
Click here to find the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals.
Labels: Advocacy, Beauty of Grief, End Stigma Now, Other Authors, Survivors of Suicide Loss
Allie Brosh Is My Hero
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
- Jack Kerouac
Writers like me, don't look for writers like me. We are everywhere. I am a small potato compared to many of the incredible writers who share their stories via blogs.
Writers like me look for writers that are far more interesting than ourselves. I want to read writers who are funny, expository, and forthright. It is a mix that is sometimes hard to accomplish. Often I'll sacrifice one thing in order to achieve the others. But, occasionally I run across someone who puts things into just the right words.
Enter Allie Brosh. Allie is a New York Times best selling author whose renown arose from the personal essays and illustrations that she shared on her blog, Hyperbole and a Half. She voices a plethora of topics, but particularly poignant are the posts dedicated to depression and her own suicidality.
Allie began writing for her blog in 2009, but in 2014 she stopped publicly sharing her writing. One reason for the break was that she was struggling with her own depression, and then her sister died by suicide. At the same time that Allie was trying to manage her own challenges with mental illness, she became a survivor of suicide loss.
The pressure suicide loss survivors feel to 'move on' or to heal within a specific amount of time, is both unreasonable and unfair. But Allie Brosh was willing to set her financial success and fame aside. She waited until she was ready to step into the spotlight once again.
Two of Allie's older posts, Adventures in Depression, and Depression Part 2, are among my favorites. Below, I will share Depression Part 2, because I particularly enjoyed that post.
I hope Allie's writing makes you laugh. Even if it doesn't, it's worth the read. Much of what she describes is universal. [A few things stood out to me as particularly important. I highlighted those sentences using red text.]
Laugh or not, I hope you take something from her post that leaves you understanding depression a little more. Or, if you personally experience depression, I hope this post leaves you feeling more understood.
Depression Part 2
Allie Brosh
I remember being endlessly entertained by the adventures of my toys. Some days they died repeated, violent deaths, other days they traveled to space or discussed my swim lessons and how I absolutely should be allowed in the deep end of the pool, especially since I was such a talented doggy-paddler.
I didn't understand why it was fun for me, it just was.
But as I grew older, it became harder and harder to access that expansive imaginary space that made my toys fun. I remember looking at them and feeling sort of frustrated and confused that things weren't the same.
I played out all the same story lines that had been fun before, but the meaning had disappeared. Horse's Big Space Adventure transformed into holding a plastic horse in the air, hoping it would somehow be enjoyable for me. Prehistoric Crazy-Bus Death Ride was just smashing a toy bus full of dinosaurs into the wall while feeling sort of bored and unfulfilled. I could no longer connect to my toys in a way that allowed me to participate in the experience.
Depression feels almost exactly like that, except about everything.
At first, though, the invulnerability that accompanied the detachment was exhilarating. At least as exhilarating as something can be without involving real emotions.
The beginning of my depression had been nothing but feelings, so the emotional deadening that followed was a welcome relief. I had always wanted to not give a fuck about anything. I viewed feelings as a weakness — annoying obstacles on my quest for total power over myself. And I finally didn't have to feel them anymore.
But my experiences slowly flattened and blended together until it became obvious that there's a huge difference between not giving a fuck and not being able to give a fuck. Cognitively, you might know that different things are happening to you, but they don't feel very different.
Which leads to horrible, soul-decaying boredom.
I tried to get out more, but most fun activities just left me existentially confused or frustrated with my inability to enjoy them.
Months oozed by, and I gradually came to accept that maybe enjoyment was not a thing I got to feel anymore. I didn't want anyone to know, though. I was still sort of uncomfortable about how bored and detached I felt around other people, and I was still holding out hope that the whole thing would spontaneously work itself out. As long as I could manage to not alienate anyone, everything might be okay!
However, I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, alienating people is inevitable.
Everyone noticed.
It's weird for people who still have feelings to be around depressed people. They try to help you have feelings again so things can go back to normal, and it's frustrating for them when that doesn't happen. From their perspective, it seems like there has got to be some untapped source of happiness within you that you've simply lost track of, and if you could just see how beautiful things are...
At first, I'd try to explain that it's not really negativity or sadness anymore, it's more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can't feel anything about anything — even the things you love, even fun things — and you're horribly bored and lonely, but since you've lost your ability to connect with any of the things that would normally make you feel less bored and lonely, you're stuck in the boring, lonely, meaningless void without anything to distract you from how boring, lonely, and meaningless it is.
But people want to help. So they try harder to make you feel hopeful and positive about the situation. You explain it again, hoping they'll try a less hope-centric approach, but re-explaining your total inability to experience joy inevitably sounds kind of negative; like maybe you WANT to be depressed. The positivity starts coming out in a spray — a giant, desperate happiness sprinkler pointed directly at your face. And it keeps going like that until you're having this weird argument where you're trying to convince the person that you are far too hopeless for hope just so they'll give up on their optimism crusade and let you go back to feeling bored and lonely by yourself.
And that's the most frustrating thing about depression. It isn't always something you can fight back against with hope. It isn't even something — it's nothing. And you can't combat nothing. You can't fill it up. You can't cover it. It's just there, pulling the meaning out of everything. That being the case, all the hopeful, proactive solutions start to sound completely insane in contrast to the scope of the problem.
It would be like having a bunch of dead fish, but no one around you will acknowledge that the fish are dead. Instead, they offer to help you look for the fish or try to help you figure out why they disappeared.
The problem might not even have a solution. But you aren't necessarily looking for solutions. You're maybe just looking for someone to say "sorry about how dead your fish are" or "wow, those are super dead. I still like you, though."
I started spending more time alone.
Perhaps it was because I lacked the emotional depth necessary to panic, or maybe my predicament didn't feel dramatic enough to make me suspicious, but I somehow managed to convince myself that everything was still under my control right up until I noticed myself wishing that nothing loved me so I wouldn't feel obligated to keep existing.
It's a strange moment when you realize that you don't want to be alive anymore. If I had feelings, I'm sure I would have felt surprised. I have spent the vast majority of my life actively attempting to survive. Ever since my most distant single-celled ancestor squiggled into existence, there has been an unbroken chain of things that wanted to stick around.
Yet there I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.
That wasn't the worst part, though. The worst part was deciding to keep going.
When I say that deciding to not kill myself was the worst part, I should clarify that I don't mean it in a retrospective sense. From where I am now, it seems like a solid enough decision. But at the time, it felt like I had been dragging myself through the most miserable, endless wasteland, and — far in the distance — I had seen the promising glimmer of a slightly less miserable wasteland. And for just a moment, I thought maybe I'd be able to stop and rest. But as soon as I arrived at the border of the less miserable wasteland, I found out that I'd have to turn around and walk back the other way.
Soon afterward, I discovered that there's no tactful or comfortable way to inform other people that you might be suicidal. And there's definitely no way to ask for help casually.
I didn't want it to be a big deal. However, it's an alarming subject. Trying to be nonchalant about it just makes it weird for everyone.
I was also extremely ill-prepared for the position of comforting people. The things that seemed reassuring at the time weren't necessarily comforting for others.
I had so very few feelings, and everyone else had so many, and it felt like they were having all of them in front of me at once. I didn't really know what to do, so I agreed to see a doctor so that everyone would stop having all of their feelings at me.
The next few weeks were a haze of talking to relentlessly hopeful people about my feelings that didn't exist so I could be prescribed medication that might help me have them again.
And every direction was bullshit for a really long time, especially up. The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don't like can be overwhelming. And the longer it takes to feel different, the more it starts to seem like everything might actually be hopeless bullshit.
My feelings did start to return eventually. But not all of them came back, and they didn't arrive symmetrically.
I had not been able to care for a very long time, and when I finally started being able to care about things again, I HATED them. But hatred is technically a feeling, and my brain latched onto it like a child learning a new word.
Hating everything made all the positivity and hope feel even more unpalatable. The syrupy, over-simplified optimism started to feel almost offensive.
Thankfully, I rediscovered crying just before I got sick of hating things. I call this emotion "crying" and not "sadness" because that's all it really was. Just crying for the sake of crying. My brain had partially learned how to be sad again, but it took the feeling out for a joy ride before it had learned how to use the brakes or steer.
At some point during this phase, I was crying on the kitchen floor for no reason. As was common practice during bouts of floor-crying, I was staring straight ahead at nothing in particular and feeling sort of weird about myself. Then, through the film of tears and nothingness, I spotted a tiny, shriveled piece of corn under the refrigerator.
I don't claim to know why this happened, but when I saw the piece of corn, something snapped. And then that thing twisted through a few permutations of logic that I don't understand, and produced the most confusing bout of uncontrollable, debilitating laughter that I have ever experienced.
I had absolutely no idea what was going on.
My brain had apparently been storing every unfelt scrap of happiness from the last nineteen months, and it had impulsively decided to unleash all of it at once in what would appear to be an act of vengeance.
That piece of corn is the funniest thing I have ever seen, and I cannot explain to anyone why it's funny. I don't even know why. If someone ever asks me "what was the exact moment where things started to feel slightly less shitty?" instead of telling a nice, heartwarming story about the support of the people who loved and believed in me, I'm going to have to tell them about the piece of corn. And then I'm going to have to try to explain that no, really, it was funny. Because, see, the way the corn was sitting on the floor... it was so alone... and it was just sitting there! And no matter how I explain it, I'll get the same, confused look. So maybe I'll try to show them the piece of corn - to see if they get it. They won't. Things will get even weirder.
Anyway, I wanted to end this on a hopeful, positive note, but, seeing as how my sense of hope and positivity is still shrouded in a thick layer of feeling like hope and positivity are bullshit, I'll just say this: Nobody can guarantee that it's going to be okay, but — and I don't know if this will be comforting to anyone else — the possibility exists that there's a piece of corn on a floor somewhere that will make you just as confused about why you are laughing as you have ever been about why you are depressed.
And even if everything still seems like hopeless bullshit, maybe it's just pointless bullshit or weird bullshit or possibly not even bullshit.
But when you're concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like.
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"Amazingly, no picture of Talika appears when you Google 'effervescent'. But it should do. The woman is like human popping candy..."
Everybody loves Kew Gardens. It's that place you went when you were a kid - loved the flora and fauna and the butterflies - but perhaps never truly appreciated.
Back in the Autumn, I was in the car after a meeting, checking voicemails. Chief among them was a very polite message from a woman called Farrah. She asked about my availability to shoot her wedding in January. To this day, what sticks in my mind about that message is just how considerate she was to apologise for calling on a Sunday. In this day and age, that's pretty impressive.
Fast forward a couple of meetings and there we are at a freezing, drizzly Kew Gardens the first weekend after Christmas. So many venues would have struggled to put on a show in these conditions, but led by Kew's Ruth Denton the day ran seamlessly.
The day revolved around three separate locations within the Gardens, plus an initial visit to Farrah and Robert's home to shoot the preparations.
The couple held the service in The Nash Conservatory (think understated grandeur), the Princess of Wales Conservatory for drinks (think mini Eden Project), then the The Orangery for the wedding breakfast. Each building boasting a character all its own.
The day was laid-back, different, interesting and in my eyes a very happy occasion. It had a little piece of everything and you could easily describe Farrah & Robert in exactly the same way. Working for them was a pleasure and hopefully this shows in the shots.
I'm a huge advocate of simple, clean photography. I don't like fuss or endless set-ups. I love to try and search out little moments and do my best to capture something other people walk right past.
There is a lot going on here, but I have stepped-back from the chat and used the long Autumn evening shadows to illustrate a time of day and not really focused on any one guest in particular. The wonderfully relaxing outside space at Hedsor House provides the stage, and the lens of choice is a 28mm F1.8.
One of the great things about shooting weddings is meeting people. This was never more evident than during Lauren and Tom's small, very family-orientated wedding earlier in the year.
So the saying goes, "it's all about the bride". However, in this case I think of the groom first whenever I come across their selection in the library. This is because Tom is a proud Paratrooper, a breed apart, quietly getting married hot on the heels of a recent tour of duty.
We're talking about a very, very impressive young man. One of those fellas us everyday chaps thoroughly respect, as he does a job very few could handle. I know for sure I couldn't. Therefore, I greatly looked forward to their day at the atmospheric Layer Marney Tower, near Colchester.
Everything had been made easy for me, mainly due to Lauren being possibly the planet's most considerate girl. Timings, the essential names, the 'must get' shots - all were listed and prepped with (dare I say) military precision.
Being involved in a relaxed, very laid-back day is always a lovely flip-side from some of the bigger, more imposing venues at which I often work. This certainly comes across in what I see as a 'people set' . An extremely rewarding day - what a wedding is all about.


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#include "config.h"
#include "StorageEvent.h"

#include "Storage.h"

namespace WebCore {

Ref<StorageEvent> StorageEvent::createForBindings()
{
    return adoptRef(*new StorageEvent);
}

StorageEvent::StorageEvent() = default;

StorageEvent::~StorageEvent() = default;

Ref<StorageEvent> StorageEvent::create(const AtomicString& type, const String& key, const String& oldValue, const String& newValue, const String& url, Storage* storageArea)
{
    return adoptRef(*new StorageEvent(type, key, oldValue, newValue, url, storageArea));
}

Ref<StorageEvent> StorageEvent::create(const AtomicString& type, const Init& initializer, IsTrusted isTrusted)
{
    return adoptRef(*new StorageEvent(type, initializer, isTrusted));
}

StorageEvent::StorageEvent(const AtomicString& type, const String& key, const String& oldValue, const String& newValue, const String& url, Storage* storageArea)
    : Event(type, false, false)
    , m_key(key)
    , m_oldValue(oldValue)
    , m_newValue(newValue)
    , m_url(url)
    , m_storageArea(storageArea)
{
}

StorageEvent::StorageEvent(const AtomicString& type, const Init& initializer, IsTrusted isTrusted)
    : Event(type, initializer, isTrusted)
    , m_key(initializer.key)
    , m_oldValue(initializer.oldValue)
    , m_newValue(initializer.newValue)
    , m_url(initializer.url)
    , m_storageArea(initializer.storageArea)
{
}

void StorageEvent::initStorageEvent(const AtomicString& type, bool canBubble, bool cancelable, const String& key, const String& oldValue, const String& newValue, const String& url, Storage* storageArea)
{
    if (isBeingDispatched())
        return;

    initEvent(type, canBubble, cancelable);

    m_key = key;
    m_oldValue = oldValue;
    m_newValue = newValue;
    m_url = url;
    m_storageArea = storageArea;
}

EventInterface StorageEvent::eventInterface() const
{
    return StorageEventInterfaceType;
}

} // namespace WebCore

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Catherine decided to re-brand from Catherine's Beauty Boutique to CB Boutique, with a new colour scheme and logo, and with that came a request for a revamped website.
Offering a wide range of products and services, including cosmetic and aesthetic treatments like Mircoblading and Fibroblast, her new website had to be sleek and easy to navigate, and show off the wide variety of treatments and services on offer. This was achieved through a Portfolio-style homepage layout, with a corresponding dropdown menu from the main header, to ensure the treatments available took pride of place.
In addition to revamping the website, and developing promotion strategies, custom imagery was provided to the client to maintain a consistent and high quality feel throughout the website. The images were also made available to the client to use in any future online or printed promotions.
Always striving to be at the forefront of the Beauty Industry, Catherine decided she would like to launch an online store to promote and sell the range of products on offer in her Salon. After researching three alternative platforms and methods of selling online, and informing Catherine of her options, we decided to use Shopify to create the CB Boutique online store.
In addition to building the store, Inspired Business Solutions provide regular graphic and content updates, and following full training being provided to the client, she now maintains an easy-to-use online stock system.
The online store and the salon website link to each other through their respective main menus, ensuring simple navigation for the user, as well as providing an added boost to Catherine's search rankings in Google.
As an established business, Catherine was busier than ever, and found that her business presence on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp meant that she was constantly receiving notifications from clients looking to book and change appointments. In an attempt to achieve a better work-life balance, she decided it was time to move from a traditional appointment book, to an online booking system.
This simple and easy-to-use system has transformed how Catherine works, with the majority of her clients using the online booking feature to manage their own appointments. In addition to making her accounting process easier, and enabling her to identify client-trends for promotional purposes with ease, this new system also sends reminder notifications to clients to greatly reduce the number of no-shows, and has dramatically reduced the amount of admin time involved for Catherine to respond to appointment enquiries.
Best of all, with a little research and investigation by Inspired Business Solutions, Catherine got this simple and easy-to-use system for FREE.
Full training on the use of the system was provided to the client, so she is able to fully manage it herself, with input required periodically to make significant changes.
In addition to digital developments, Inspired Business Solutions also provide CB Boutique with on-going business support, content creation, and copy-writing services.
Have a project you'd like us to work on? Contact us to see how we can work together to make your business better!


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Perplexus® – Michael McGinnis
The poet Jonathan Swift once said, "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others," and vision is what Michael McGinnis had as a high-schooler. As an art project, he was asked to design a board game. He wasn't a lover of board games, so he thought beyond the flat, standard "board game" stereotype. McGinnis had vision—3D vision—and Perplexus began as a sketch on a piece of paper back in 1979. Today, it's a popular, colorful 3D maze game.
Children and adults across the world can thank McGinnis' high school art teacher for telling him to go beyond that 3D maze game sketch and "make it!" This encouragement led to more conceptual development, McGinnis' vision growing and changing. In his first sketch, the concept was cube-shaped and attached to its walls, and now it's sphere-shaped with pathways that appear free-floating. His early designs, including Perplexus Original, were made completely by hand, and now he designs digitally. It may have taken 22 years from conception to the first production model, but the vision never died.
McGinnis didn't allow fear or hardships stand in the way of his vision. Sure, he was afraid of putting his idea out there—success or failure could change his life—but he still ventured forth. Now a teacher at a junior college, with a BA and MFA in sculpture, McGinnis also barreled through a misdiagnosis that would prove ironic. He was born partially blind in his left eye, but was misdiagnosed with a lazy eye as a child. As an adult, doctors discovered the problem, and that McGinnis did not have normal depth perception due to this spotty blindness. How could someone with impaired depth perception have had a sculpting career in 3-dimensional study? His doctor suggested that his unique ability to think spatially, and therefore be accomplished in his field, was in response to his inability to see things in the round like most people do. McGinnis' vision impairment didn't affect his creative vision, and, perhaps even facilitated the development of Perplexus!
As of 2013, there are four unique versions of the Perplexus maze game. Perplexus Epic was the biggest challenge to create. The advanced pathways, forms, interconnections and spatial relationships were a constant struggle, not to mention dealing with software snafus. But, it was worth it when Epic won the Toy Industry Association 2013 Game of the Year award! McGinnis now spends time working on new designs, as well as building large sculptural models that travel to events. He also continues to teach, so McGinnis lives a very full, busy life in Santa Rosa, California with his wife and family.
McGinnis' original thought behind Perplexus was to create a tool to help children develop their spatial reasoning and hand/eye coordination skills. He also knew it would be an aesthetic sculptural object, a piece of art that is visually, as well as physically, stimulating. But perhaps what escaped his original vision and developed on its own was the pure joy and fun of playing with Perplexus, because it is truly an amusing challenge that is above and beyond a flat board game, and above and beyond what other toy inventors before McGinnis could see. Have you tried it yet?
To learn more and see McGinnis in action, go to http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperplexusDotCom
To set up an interview with Michael McGinnis, please contact us.
Photo courtesy of Laura McGinnis


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Roger Wright
Packaging Technologist Lead at M&S Clothing & Home
Tue 9 Apr 2019 16.33 BST
http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/stories/blog/a-circular-economy-success-story-worth-hanging-around-for
As a packaging professional, I'm not afraid to admit that plastic can be a minefield, with conflicting messages and signals meaning customers often don't know where to start. Our goal at M&S is to only use plastic where there is a clear benefit of doing so and we want to help our customers do the right thing. We're proud to be a zero-waste to landfill business already and we're now working towards our ambitious target to be a zero-waste business in totality by 2025. If that wasn't challenging enough, we're mindful that the call for less plastic and more paper or biodegradable materials is counterintuitive to the world's ambition to reduce our use of carbon.
At M&S, we believe we can achieve a balance between the two by focusing on a circular economy, where we reuse and recycle as much as possible. That's why we've been running our clothes hanger reuse programme for 12 years, where customers are encouraged to leave the hangers at our till points to go directly back to manufacturers. The hangers are then used again and again, whether they're fully intact or broken – every hanger will be given a new purpose by being reused or recycled into new ones.
As the first major retailer to start a hanger re-use programme, our brilliant store colleagues have collected and diverted over a billion hangers from landfill to date. But we wanted to do more. In 2017, we started working with Braiform, an organisation dedicated to changing the retail industry by offering garment hangers and packaging solutions that are better for business and the environment.
Braiform, which is based in Sheffield, partners with hanger manufacturers in all regions and primarily reuses products where they can. With their state-of-the-art sorting and cleaning technology, Braiform has been able to improve the yield of our hanger reuse and identify new opportunities for reducing waste. One example of this is in our M&S.com business, where we still provide some types of hangers to customers in parcels, often when they don't need or request them. With Braiform's support, we are working hard to collect and reuse these hangers in the same way as our stores and we hope to create an even bigger impact in the future.
Since this new partnership began, it's proven both good for business and good for the environment. In 2018, our stores returned over 100 million hangers to Braiform for recycling or reuse, which if converted into carbon, would be the equivalent to taking nearly 5,000 cars off the road for that year or preventing a million bags of rubbish from going to landfill. Now just imagine what one billion hangers looks like as a carbon saving!
We're proud of our achievement so far, thanks to the efforts of our store colleagues and customers. This programme reminds us that a collaborative approach helps us go faster and further and create real impact. It's a true circular economy success story worth hanging on to – and where we lead others inevitably follow!


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Q: How can I change the color of a material in Unity? I'am developing a Vuforia app that uses Virtual Buttons. I used the example of virtual buttons and I found this part on the script
public void OnButtonPressed(VirtualButtonBehaviour vb)
{
    Debug.Log("OnButtonPressed");

    if (!IsValid())
    {
        return;
    }

    // Add the material corresponding to this virtual button
    // to the active material list:
    switch (vb.VirtualButtonName)
    {
        case "red":
            mActiveMaterials.Add(m_TeapotMaterials[0]);
            break;

        case "blue":
            mActiveMaterials.Add(m_TeapotMaterials[1]);
            break;

        case "yellow":
            mActiveMaterials.Add(m_TeapotMaterials[2]);
            break;

        case "green":
            mActiveMaterials.Add(m_TeapotMaterials[3]);
            break;
    }

    // Apply the new material:
    if (mActiveMaterials.Count > 0)
        mTeapot.renderer.material = mActiveMaterials[mActiveMaterials.Count - 1];
}

As is seen, I just must add the code at each case to 'do something'. Well, the thing I want to do is to change the color of an object.
The object is a fbx exported from Maya and has an animation. I want to change the color of a mesh inside the object.
The object is called "path", inside it has 3 meshes (polySurface1_MeshPart0, ..1, ..2), and each mesh has different materials corresponding to different parts of the mesh, they are materials without texture, just a solid color with shader diffuse.
I need to change the color of one of these materials in a specific mesh of the object :)
Any help is highly appreciated.

A: From the Unity3D Documentation: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Material-color.html
You would need to either find the GameObjects at run time via GameObject.Find() or assign them to your scripts public members. Each mesh should be retrievable as a GameObject. Once you have reference to the GameObject in question you should be able to access it's material like so:
myGameObject.renderer.material.color = Color.Red;

An example using the code provided would be:
switch (vb.VirtualButtonName)
{
    case "red":
        mActiveMaterials.Add(m_TeapotMaterials[0]);
        GameObject go = GameObject.Find("The Name Of The Object You Are Looking For");
        go.renderer.material.color = Color.Red;
        break;
}

A: First off, gameObject.renderer has been depreciated a long time ago, you should be using GetComponent() explicitly.
Secondly, you are adding to mActiveMaterials (which I assume to be a List or equivalent), but you don't seem to be clearing that list, whlist the code might work fine, you are creating a serious memory leak this way (unless you clear the list elsewhere)
Now, for each mesh renderer, there's two ways to access the material, theres Material[] materials, and material, which is effectively an equivalent of (with the omission of array boundary check and null checks)
material { get { return material[0]; } set {material[0]=value;}}

For meshes with only 1 sub-mesh, only material[0] is used, but for meshes with submaterials (it depends how models were imported, sometimes they get split into seperate single-material objects, and sometimes you get a single mesh with multiple materials).
Now I am not sure i understeand the reason behind adding a new material to the list, than only ever using the last material from the list (the list makes sense
 if you are working with multiple sub-meshes)
I would suggest something along the lines of
void Start()
{
    teapotRenderer=mTeapot.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>():
}

Material FindMaterial(string buttonName)
{
     switch (buttonName)
        {
            case "red":    return m_TeapotMaterials[0];
            case "blue":   return m_TeapotMaterials[1];
            case "yellow": return m_TeapotMaterials[2];
            case "green":  return m_TeapotMaterials[3];
            default:       return mdefaultMaterial;
        }

}

public void OnButtonPressed(VirtualButtonBehaviour vb)
    {
      mTeapotRenderer.material=FindMaterial(vb.VirtualButtonName);
    }

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You Can't Take the Sky From Me – Space Adventure Movies in the 21st Century
Posted in Comic Book Movies, Iconic Movie Images, Lists and Top 10's, Movie Blog, Star Wars, tagged Ad Astra, Alien Covenant, Apollo 11, Attack of the Clones, Avatar, Avengers Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, First Man, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Interstellar, Life, Man of Steel, Nemesis, Pandorum, Passengers, Prometheus, Revenge of the Sith, Riddick, Rogue One A Star Wars Story, Serenity, Solo A Star Wars Story, Star Trek, Star Trek Beyond, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars, Star Wars Anthology films, Sunshine, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Force Awakens, The Green Lantern, The Last Jedi, The Martian, The Rise of Skywalker, Thor Ragnarok, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets on January 12, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We have spent a lot of the 21st century gazing at the stars, or at least CGI versions of them. The century started with the second and third movies in the Star Wars prequels trilogy, Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). A series of films that are constantly being revaluated, I'm not sure if they are officially good or bad at the moment. Star Trek ran out of steam, with the last movie from the Next Generation Crew Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) not being very good. But then in J. J. Abrams came along and with the help of some wibbily wobbly timey wimey stuff (if I may quote a TV series in an article about movies) created a new timeline to retell the story of the original crew of the enterprise. The first film Star Trek (2009) was excellent, the second Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), then Abrams jumped ship and the third film Star Trek Beyond (2016) directed by Justin Lin was a partial return to form. There may be a fourth film in the series eventually, it keeps getting pushed back or going into turnaround. There may also be a further film in the universe that by Quentin Tarantino, that is looking less and less likely.
The reason J. J. Abrams jumped (space)ship, was to go and work for the enemy, Star Wars. The director of the first and final movies in a new trilogy, a third and final trilogy to bring the Skywalker saga to an end. The films came about after Disney's acquisition of Lucas Film (for a staggering amount of money). All three films have their fans and detractors in a hugely polarized and quite amusing social media battle among a certain type of fanboy. For me, the middle film, The Last Jedi (2017) written and directed by Rian Johnson is the best (and the most controversial). The Force Awakens (2015) is the safest of the three, but good fun and it introduces some great characters, and brings back some old favourites. The Rise of Skywalker (2019) is certainly the weakest but is still good fun and gets to a satisfying end (except for that certain group of fanboys). Along the way, we also got two Star Wars Anthology films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) tells the story of the events leading up to the origonal 1977 film, and for me is the best film outside the original trilogy. The flipside to that, Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is totally unnecessary origin story of fan favourite Han Solo. it isn't terrible, just pointless. Not satisfied with just Star Wars, Disney went to space with their other big acquired property: Marvel. They started in 2014 when they took a less well know Marvel property Guardians of the Galaxy and had a smash hit with a more, fun and comic take on the superhero genre. a sequel Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 (2017) followed. To be fair parts of The Avengers movies were also set in space, and Thor is from another planet. It wasn't until Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Taika Waititi's brilliant but bonkers take on the character that you would call it a space adventure. After a decade, and about 20 movies Disney finally gave a woman a leading role in a Marvel movie. While a lot of the movie is based on earth, Captain Marvel (2019) is an intergalactic character, as is Marvels big bad Thanos. All the characters of the MCU came together to fight an intergalactic battle with the big purple one in Avengers Infinity War (2018) and the biggest film of all time (if you don't adjust for inflation) Avengers Endgame 2019. That brings us nicely onto Avatar (2009), with an even higher boxoffice if you adjust for inflation. James Cameron's first movie since 1997 when he made a little film about a shipwreck. As you would expect from Cameron, it made great advances in effects and technology, especially in 3D. I am not a fan. As yet he hasn't made another film yet, but understand he is filming about 100 sequels back to back with the first due for release in about two years. DC's ventures into space were less successful. The Green Lantern (2011) about a group of intergalactic supper powered policemen was rubbish. Man of Steel (2013) was a reboot of a 1970's movie about a man called Kal-El who is sent to earth as a baby before his home planet is destroyed. He ends up fighting against bodies from his home world. It isn't bad, but not as good as the 1978, and 1980 movies, and like those movies, all subsequent sequels are terrible. Ridley Scott decided that we were all wrong, the most interesting thing about his Movie Alien (1979), and James Cameron's sequel to it Aliens (1987), wasn't the Xenomorph, or Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley. It wasn't the brilliant world building of the story where corporations are more powerful than countries. He decided the derelict alien ship, and how the Aliens got there was more important. He then gave us two extremely average films, Prometheus (2012), and Alien Covenant (2017). There are some excellent characters that aren't used very well, and some who don't know how to run to the side. Lets not be too tough on Ridley Scott, he has given us an excellent movie in the genre, The Martian (2015). The story of a man left behind on Mars. This is part of a crop of Sci-Fi movies that feel more realistic and closer to where we are now than Star Wars or Star Trek. The pick of these for me was Gravity (2013). A film so spectacular in IMAX 3D (the only good 3D experience I have had) that I have not re-watched it again, it just won't be the same on TV. Other films in this sub genre could include Christopher Nolan's excellent Interstellar (2014), Danny Boyle's underrated Sunshine (2007), Claire Denis bleak but brilliant High Life (2018), and James Gray's disappointing Ad Astra (2019). A film doesn't have to be fiction, or particularly outlandish to be compelling, providing it is told well, and there are two such examples from the last two years: Damien Chazelle's telling of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong in the film First Man (2018), and the documentary on the same subject: Apollo 11 (2019). The latter is breathtaking look at the mission using stunning NASA images, no talking heads, or voiceover. I wouldn't include Passengers (2016) in the list of realist sci-fi movies, as it is too glossy and Sci-Fi, it is however worth seeing for the interesting plot, that is more disturbing the more you think about it. Part of the premise of the film is people in hypersleep on their way to a distant planet. Obviously something always goes wrong in these movies. Others worth watching are: Pandorum (2009) a film that takes these ideas, and gives them a horror and survival adventure spin. Pitch Black (2000) is an even better take on the horror space adventure, possibly the best and most original since the first two Alien films. It's sequel The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), was terrible, but the third film Riddick (2013) isn't bad, although its attempt to recreate the original are a little forced. Life (2017) has the almost real world setting, a fictionalised version of The International Space Station, it rapidly turns into Alien when an alien life form gets loose. It isn't Alien, but it isn't bad. The man who gave us The Fifth Element (1997) Luc Besson, was back this century, with another bold and bonkers tale: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017). The film had mixed reviews, as Besson's work often does, I liked it. The title is a little misleading and under serves one of its characters, based on the French science fiction comics series Valérian and Laureline; Laureline is the more interesting character and probably has a larger part in the story than Valérian. That asside, it is bright and bold and like nothing else, except maybe The Fifth Element! Saving the best for last. When I went to see Joss Whedon's Serenity (2005), I had not seen (or even heard of) Firefly, I have since watched the whole (short) series more than once. The movie is nothing short of a masterpiece. It works whether you have seen the TV show or not. It is all the more impressive, as it was Whedon's feature debut as a director. The budget was less than $40million or about a quarter of Revenge of the Sith that came out the same year. This doesn't show, as the film looks amazing, largely thanks to clever photography and practice sets/effects over CGI. Ticking every box for a space adventure, and a western, the film is fun, and often very funny, but there is a far deeper message about society, about right and wrong, but it is far more nuanced than anything you will get from Disney or Star Wars, it isn't black and white, or light and dark, The Alliance is not The Empire! I have probably missed lots, but these are the ones that spring to mind. I pleased to say the genre is in good health at the movies, and on TV, but that will have to be an entire article in itself.
Top Ten Movies 2019
Posted in Lists and Top 10's, Movie Blog, Movie Of The Month, tagged Apollo 11, Burning, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, If Beale Street Could Talk, Midsommar, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Styx, The Irishman, The Nightingale, top ten movies 2019, Under the Silver Lake on December 31, 2019| Leave a Comment »
It's that time of year again, my top ten movies of the year. The criteria for selection: All films to have been released in the UK during 2019, and seen by me in a cinema.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – The film I was most concerned about turned out to be my favourite of the year. I didn't particularly enjoy Quentin Tarantino's last film, The Hateful Eight, do we really need another movie about Charles Manson, and most significantly, is he capable of the sensitivity needed to tell the story of the horrendous murder of actress Sharon Tate?
The Irishman – Martin Scorsese's epic tale of mob hitman Frank Sheeran based on the novel I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. This is not Goodfellas part 2, it is more thoughtful and sombre film than Scorsese's previous entries into the gangster genre. A masterpiece by a true master of cinema, the three and a half hour runtime is justified!
Styx – Unbelievably this is just Wolfgang Fischer second feature, and more than a decade after his debut. If All Is Lost is an existential crisis, Styx is a commentary on one of the biggest world issues today. The title tells you all you need to know: In Greek mythology Styx is the river between the land of the living and the land of the dead. Passengers must pay the ferryman, if they have no money they must remain on the river for 100 years.
Midsommar – I visited rural Sweden for midsummer a few years ago, while I'm pleased to report there was no murder or mutilation, it is a really big deal. If you hated Hereditary, you will really hate Midsommar! I was mixed on Hereditary but loved Midsommar. The film looks amazing and is disturbing rather than scary, the near two and a half hour runtime flew by. Once again Florence Pugh proves she is the most exciting and talented young actor working today.
Apollo 11 – The rare inclusion of a documentary on my bets of year list. Made up of NASA footage shot at the time of the moon landings. Much of it on 65mm. With no voiceover and no talking heads, it's a wonder the film can hold the attention for its 93 minute runtime. The key word here is wonder, because the film is filled with wonder, it is nothing short of stunning.
Burning – Its best to go into Chang-dong Lee's Korean thriller with as little background information as possible. Wonderfully ambiguous that keeps you guessing until the end and ultimately asks a lot more questions than it answers.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – True story of celebrity biographer Lee Israel based on her own memoir detailing her decent to rock bottom. Written and directed by Marielle Heller with both flair, and humanity. Melissa McCarthy's gives her best performance to date, Richard E. Grant is as brilliant as ever.
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins adaptation of James Baldwin's novel. Brilliantly conveying a novels internal monologue in a way that last years On Chesil Beach failed to do. The acting is first rate throughout, but the true triumph of the film comes in its direction and construction.
The Nightingale – I have been waiting five years Jennifer Kent's follow up to The Babadook, it was worth the wait. What has been tagged as a revenge thriller, but it is so much more than that, a damning indictment of colonialism it is brutal but never gratuitous.
Under the Silver Lake – The downside to David Robert Mitchell's follow-up to It Follows is that it has a feel someone trying to emulate David Lynch or the Coen brothers. The plus side, is that it looks amazing and has some great moments of flair. It doesn't always work but it so bold it deserves to be seen.
Movie of the Month: July 2019
Posted in Movie Of The Month, tagged Animals, Anna, Apollo 11, Crawl, Midsommar, Spider-Man Far From Home, The Dead Don't Die, The Intruder, The Matrix, Toy Story 4, Yesterday on August 1, 2019| 1 Comment »
After three slightly lean months July is back to normal with eleven trips to the cinema. Which will be movie of the month?
Apollo 11 – Documentary made up of NASA footage shot at the time of the moon landings. Much of it shot on 65mm. With no voiceover and no talking heads, it's a wonder the film can hold the attention for its 93minute runtime. The key word here is wonder, because the film is filled with wonder, it is nothing short of stunning.
Yesterday – What happens when Danny Boyle walks away from directing the new Bond movie? He makes a rom-com with Richard Curtis, the results aren't as bad as you would expect, or as some reports will have you believe. The high concept of a world where only one man remembers The Beatles is a fun one, but the plot is full of holes. The film is enjoyable fun, and Himesh Patel and Lily James make likeable leads but the film is too lightweight to be truly good.
Spider-Man: Far From Home – Following the events of Endgame Peter Parker just wants to go on holiday with his class and hook-up with MJ, but the world needs Spider-Man more than ever. A better Avengers film than a Spider-Man film keeps its head above water largely thanks to the allways excellent Tom Holland.
Anna – The story of a reluctant female assassin is nothing new to Luc Besson. While Anna has the odd breathtaking set piece it is shot with Besson's usual flair, it can't hold a candle to Nikita (1990).
Midsommar – If you hated Hereditary, you will really hate Midsommar! I was mixed on Hereditary but loved Midsommar. The film looks amazing and is disturbing rather than scary, the near two and a half hour runtime flew by. Once again Florence Pugh proves she is the most exciting and talented young actor working today.
The Dead Don't Die – Jim Jarmusch's all star zombie film that doesn't make much sense and nothing much happens. Far from Jarmusch's best work but good quirky fun.
Animals – After ten years of hard living a inseparable friendship, two young woman find their relationship stretched as one when one of them meets a new man. A powerful story about real people with real flaws, and lots of them. Holliday Grainger is sensational.
The Matrix – Both the 20th anniversary of a classic movie, and my first experience of 4DX. The film was as great as ever, the 4DX was fun, but distracting at best.
Toy Story 4 – Following a perfect trilogy with a forth movie was very risky. This new film id very different to the earlier films, and sits comfortably aside from the trilogy, it's also the best and cleverest existential movie of the year.
The Intruder – A young couple buy a Napa Valley home but soon find the former owner is having trouble letting go. Dennis Quaid is effective but extremely hammy as the unhinged vendor, ultimately the film is both dull and derivative.
Crawl – Show as a Secret Screening three weeks before general release. A young woman goes to check on her farther during a hurricane, the pair soon find themselves trapped with incongruously large alligators. Director Alexandre Aja delivers the action ad tension we have come to expect from him. Kaya Scodelario does well bringing some life to a two-dimensional character. Ultimately it is dumb, but good fun.
There are only two contenders, they are too good, and too different to choose between, therefore, we have joint movies of the month: Apollo 11 and Midsommar.
The Loss of Wonder?
Posted in Movie Blog, tagged Apollo 11, Brexit, Buzz Aldrin, JFK, Moon Speech, Neil Armstrong, Rice Stadium Speech, Trump on July 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
At 2:32 pm BST on 16 July 1969, exactly 50 Years ago, Apollo 11 launched. Three days later Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of just twelve people to walk on the moon.
Earlier this month I watched Apollo 11, there is one word to describe it Wonder! With no talking heads, no voiceover, and no explanation, just stunning visuals and a fantastic score, it is about the emotion and the wonder of an extraordinary event, the first men on the moon. As well as the stunning images of the mission, there were a lot of images of people watching the from around the launch.
This made me think of two movies: The Martian (2015), and The Dish (2000). The Dish is about a satellite dish in the middle of nowhere in the Australian Outback integral to the satellite interface needed to receive and relay images from the moon, and how important those images were to the world. The Martian (2015), is about a the efforts to save an astronaut stranded on Mars as the world watches. Walking out of seeing it at the cinema, the friend I was with said the only problem he didn't believe that all the people portrayed watching the around the world would be that interested in space exploration.
This begs the question, have we lost the capacity for wonder? With the MCU zooming around the galaxy, and Disney making photorealistic remakes of their animations, it is now possible to recreate anything. To add to this, the world as we know it is out our fingertips, not just on home computers the way it was a generation ago, but on the phones we carry in our pockets, the phones that are rarely a few meters from their owners.
But it goes deeper than that, the world is in a pretty shity place at the moment. The catalyst that accelerated the Space Race was President John F. Kennedy's "Moon Speech" at Rice Stadium on September 12, 1962:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
Today we seem to be taking the easy option. We are destroying the natural world for our convenience. Two great nations with proud history of immigration are becoming more insular and closing themselves off from the rest of the world. Flying in the face of the words written on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" President Donald Trump has become obsessed with building a fence to keep out immigrants. At the same time, Brittan is tearing itself apart over Brexit a misguided plan to leave the European Union.
But there is hope, shows like David Attenborough's Blue Planet reminds us of the wonder of the natural world has opened many people's eyes to the damage we are doing, such as the legacy of single use plastic. Ultimately, Kennedy's speech wasn't about getting to the moon, and it wasn't about winning the space race, it was about hope, and as long as we have wonder, we have hope!


Ever since I was a little girl and went to Baku to visit my grandparents, the smell of roasted meat, saffron infused rice and the taste of figs and pomegranates picked freshly from the trees accompany me as dear memories. Did I become a foodie back then, I wonder…?
Traditional Azerbaijani food is very rich and extremely flavorful. Despite of the coastal location, meat – in particularly lamb – is the main ingredient of Azerbaijani cuisine, along with lots of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit.
Fish, especially the Caspian sturgeon, is also very popular. Although there are many fresh water varieties from the rivers flowing through the country, the sturgeon remains the king of fish. Sadly, it is becoming a very rare treat due to its decreasing population. Because sturgeon is a very meaty and richly flavored fish it can be either oven baked or grilled on skewers as kebab (Azerbaijani BBQ). It is commonly enjoyed with a few drops of narsharab – a traditional sweet-and-sour pomegranate syrup. In my view, Caspian sturgeon is a perfect fish to enjoy with red wine rather than white. I am thinking Pinot Noir or Sangiovese… yum!
Speaking of kebab… No summer feast is ever complete without it. Everything that goes on the grill is cooked on long metal skewers: lamb cutlets, tike (filet pieces), lule (sausage shaped lamb mince patties), aubergines, tomatoes and potatoes. Prior to going on skewers the meat is marinated for a few hours in salt and pepper and if desired, sliced onions.
The following video I made will (hopefully) say more than a thousand words and briefly showcase how it's done.
Not Azerbaijani but Georgian Khachapuri – dough filled with cheese. This is one of my guiltiest pleasures.
Kalam dolma (cabbage leaf dolma). Cabbage leaves stuffed with mince meat.
Last but not least, one of the (food related) highlights of my trip… On a tour of Icheri Sheher, the Old Town of Baku, I stumbled over a small shop that has been baking the traditional tendir bread on site. The staff were very kind to let me have a look inside and to see the tendir oven. I finally realized what Azeris mean when they say "hot as in a tendir" – it was absolutely boiling in there!
I remember my first proper tasting of Azerbaijani wines at the London Wine Fair back in 2014 and I reported on it here. Since then I wanted to experience these wines in the environment where they came from. Sadly, I still didn't get to visit the winery in Gabala, but it is certainly on my to do list for the next trip.
Do not forget to check out my newest post from the SweervyWine & The City series on Baku & Savalan Chardonnay.
Finally, I will share a few impressions of Baku itself. It is truly a remarkable place for many reasons. It is set as an amphitheatre around the Bay of Baku, a natural harbour. This provides stunning sea views from the hills as well as a fantastic view of the city from the sea, especially when illuminated at night (hence Baku is also referred to as city of lights). Once a smallish and cosy city, with buildings no higher that 5-7 stories in the centre, Baku has developed into a surprisingly modern metropolis following the construction boom, renovation and rebuilding works in this century.
It is now truly a city of contrasts: next to the modern skyscrapers and the sophisticated coastline somewhat reminiscent of Dubai, Baku has luckily managed to keep and maintain its incredible charm, in particularly around and within the walls of Icheri Sheher, the Old City of Baku which is listed as the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Did you know 2016 was the first time Baku hosted a F1 grand prix?


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I had an on campus interview with a BB for sales and trading last week. Never heard anything back until today when the recruiter called me asking to set up another call soon. I told her I was going to be in NY the next few days so it would have to be next week. She then called back a few hours later asking if I wanted to come in to the office instead since I will be in NY. I asked if it will be an interview and she said "not a formal interview. You will just meet with some representatives in a conference room." I have NOT had a superday for the position. Does anyone have any idea what this is or what the purpose of the visit will be?
Basically like an informational interview -- they'll ask you a few questions and decide if they want to move forward or not. it's more casual than an actual interview but you should treat it like one and do research and everything before going in obviously.
This. Just a preliminary screen in person instead of on the phone. Even if they don't say its an interview, be ready for technical questions. Although the actual meeting will probably be more relaxed, and fit based.
"Why S&T?" "Why XYZ Bank?" "Walk me through your resume" "What questions do you have for us?" will most likely encapsulate most of the interview.
Travailler dans une boutique ou pour un bulge bracket?
Has anyone ever asked for an Office Visit/Tour?


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Q: SQL change day in my language in select statement How  can I change the day in my language with a select statement like use if:
if day= sunday then set day = minggu

A: Are you looking for an update statement? Because you have a SET in your select statement. If so, how about this?
UPDATE table_name
SET datecol = CASE
    WHEN DATENAME(dw, datecol) = 'Monday' THEN 'Minggu'
    WHEN DATENAME(dw, datecol) = 'Tuesday'
    ...
    ELSE datecol
END;

A: You need some kind of conversion. Take a look at example below:
WITH Src AS
(
    SELECT * FROM (VALUES
    (GETDATE()),
    (DATEADD(DAY, 1, GETDATE())),
    (DATEADD(DAY, 2, GETDATE())),
    (DATEADD(DAY, 3, GETDATE())),
    (DATEADD(DAY, 4, GETDATE())),
    (DATEADD(DAY, 5, GETDATE())),
    (DATEADD(DAY, 6, GETDATE()))
    ) T(Dates)
)
SELECT
    FORMAT(Dates, 'ddd', 'id-ID') LocalizedFormat,
    SUBSTRING('MingguSen   Sel   Rabu  Kamis Jumat Sabtu ', 6*(DATEPART(WEEKDAY,Dates)-1)+1, 6) LocalizedExpression
FROM Src

It results in:
LocalizedFormat     LocalizedExpression
---------------     -------------------
Kamis               Kamis
Jumat               Jumat
Sabtu               Sabtu
Minggu              Minggu
Sen                 Sen
Sel                 Sel
Rabu                Rabu


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Иоанн III Ризокоп — экзарх Равенны с 710 по 711 год.

С возвращением императора Юстиниана II к власти начались преследования тех, кто поддерживал его свержение. В 709 году стратиг Феодор по приказанию императора прибыл в Равенну и захватил городскую знать вместе с архиепископом Феликсом. Захваченные аристократы были доставлены в Константинополь, где большинство из них было казнено, а архиепископ Феликс был ослеплён.

После того как известия о расправе достигли Равенны в городе началось вооружённое восстание. В ходе восстания экзарх Иоанн Ризокоп погиб.

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Литература
 Ludo Moritz Hartmann: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der byzantinischen Verwaltung in Italien. Leipzig 1889, S. 21.

Экзархи Равенны
Правители Европы VIII века

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