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Dark mode on Snapchat – How to enable on Android & IOS
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Dark Mode is one feature that many users have asked for on Snapchat. Now you can enjoy it too !
Why you need Dark Mode on Snapchat
How to Use Dark Mode on Snapchat on IOS
How to Use Dark Mode on Snapchat on Android
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As per New York Times, "It's common for people to get eye strain while using their phones or computers at night, but harsh blue light from screens at night can make it difficult to sleep, cause headaches, and more." In fact, the Times explains that even staring at a phone with blue light on while you're working at your desk or reading before bed can be harmful.
What is blue light? Blue light is part of the visible light spectrum that has a higher wavelength than other colors. It's also produced by digital devices such as computers and phones when they emit backlight for displays. Blue light tends to be more harmful than other colors because it's more likely to wake up the brain after dark and suppress melatonin levels that help you fall asleep.
According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, harsh blue light from screens can also cause macular degeneration and cataracts over time. The same study found that people who read e-books or look at tablets before bed had increased symptoms of dry eye and difficulty falling asleep.
The most common way for apps to reduce the amount of blue light they put off is by offering a "night mode." This usually means darkening text and lowering brightness on their screens. Many social media apps.
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Here's how to use Dark mode on Snapchat.
At first glance, it might seem a bit complicated but once you get down all of the steps you'll find that it's pretty simple.
Go to your profile on Snapchat by clicking your "Bitmoji" in the top left corner.
Select the "Gear (Settings) Icon" in the top right.
Scroll Down and choose "App Appearance."
Choose "Always Dark."
Snapchat officially hasn't rolled out any dark mode support on Android till now. The feature is currently a part of the beta version, so you'll have to opt-in to the Snapchat public beta testing group on Android to get it. The Snapchat official beta testing group on Android is full with beta testers all around the world and the company isn't accepting any new users as beta testers.
So, if you are interested in enabling force dark mode on Snapchat on your Android, here's How to Use Dark Mode on Snapchat on Android:
Open the system Settings and go to the "About phone" section. Now, tap on "Build number" and tap it seven more times. You have now enabled the developer mode feature on your Android device.
Move back to system Settings and go to "System" and then "Developer options" to access features of developer options.
Here, enable the toggle "Override force-dark", and force dark mode on your phone has been successfully enabled.
Note: Unfortunately, the latest few versions of Snapchat don't even support forced dark mode, and the snapchat on Android stays in light theme. so, you will have to install an older version of Snapchat.
You can download an older version of snapchat android app from Apkmirror. We recommend you to download the Snapchat version 10.72.0.0 on your device.
Congratulations you have successfully enabled dark mode on snapchat on android.
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If you're on iOS, be sure to update your Snapchat app and make sure you've hit the "update" button that appears when it tells you there is a new version. "Update" is at the bottom of the page in iOS.
Android users will have to wait for Snapchat to support dark mode or use workarounds such as Twilight or AdAway.
While it used to be possible on older versions of Snapchat, an app-wide forced dark mode no longer works on Snapchat's newer builds. You will have to use an older build of the app to use a system-wide forced dark theme.
Unfortunately, there is currently no official dark theme in the Snapchat Android app.
Snapchat does have a dark theme for its iPhone app and it's widely popular, which leads to the question of whether or not Snapchat has rolled out an official dark theme for Android.
The answer is no. But that doesn't mean you can't use workarounds to force dark mode on Snapchat.
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Q: This computer does not support virtualization(Vt-x). HAXM cannot be installed I tried to install xamarin in my pc but it is showing me this error when I am trying to install HAXM.

I looked up online and found some solution but my processor says virtualization not supported.

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A: Intel HAXM isn't required to use Xamarin. It is required to use some hardware-accelerated emulator images but you can just stick with the classic ones, which are slower but work too. Just skip the installation of Intel HAXM.
In some cases it is required to enable Vt-x in the BIOS. The Intel Pentium B960 does not support it so it's not an option for you.

A: HAXM isn't required by the Xamarin platform tools but is used for the accelerated Google AVD emulator x86 images.  It's also noteworthy that it's only available for supported Intel CPUs.
You also need to ensure that Hyper-V is disabled in Apps > Turn Windows Features On of Off dialogue:

Looking at your second screenshot it looks like virtualisation may be disabled in your BIOS.  Some manufacturers require you to turn this on manually.
Restart your computer and press the key stated on boot to enter the BIOS (usually Delete).  Look for a setting there that may be listed as "Intel Virtualization Technology," "Intel VT-x," "Virtualization Extensions," "Vanderpool,"
Once you have enabled this you should be able to install the HAXM driver.
I would definitely recommend installing the HAXM driver over using the older ARM emulator images which are extremely slow in comparison to the x86 counterparts.

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Voter Suppression Goes National
Pennsylvania is one of the few states that stopped the voter suppressing photo id law. I was part of this suit in 2013 and testified before the PA Commonwealth Court on what I had observed. The law was overturned in 2014. We successfully made sure that women, the poor, the elderly, and people of color had an equal chance to cast their ballot here in our state.
Yet the argument of voter fraud still continues and has now reached national proportions with 45's new federal voting commission (aka, the "Advisory Commission on Election Integrity"); many states, including Pennsylvania, have said this commission's call for the detailed voting records of more than 200 million people across the country is "unwarranted" and is fraught with privacy issues.
What this commission is NOT looking at are the aging electronic voting machines, many of which have no paper trail to verify one's vote. Here in Pennsylvania, 80% of voters voted on such machines in the 2016 Presidential election. And when a recount was requested, there was nothing available to verify the count other than to reread the same aggregated vote count on the electronic machine chips. As the Morning Call in Allentown, PA reported in December 2016,
These paperless digital voting machines, used by roughly 1 in 5 U.S. voters last month, present one of the most glaring dangers to the security of the rickety, underfunded U.S. election system. Like many electronic voting machines, they are vulnerable to hacking. But other machines typically leave a paper trail that could be manually checked. The paperless digital machines open the door to potential election rigging that might not ever be detected.
The machines and voter suppression, not voter fraud, are the problems to be solved.
There is almost no voter fraud — only four cases of voter fraud were found nationwide last fall. In contrast, a study conducted by researchers at the University of California San Diego and at Bucknell University found that strict voter id laws do, in fact, suppress votes among minority communities and skew elections toward the political right.
For more about this conflict between so-called voter fraud and the real effect of voter suppression, check out Nel's New Day blog entitled Voter Suppression Goes National.
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Update: Court Rulings Impact Voting Rules Across the Country
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Yesterday I re-blogged an article on voter suppression by Nel's New Day and added additional information from the Brennan Center for Justice on both increased access in eleven states as well as more background information on voter suppression across the country.
This afternoon, I received an email from the Brennan Center for Justice. It includes more information on the status of voting laws and decisions made in the last couple of weeks in Arkansas, Arizona, Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin. It includes several references to emergency appeals to the US Supreme Court by either the Brennan Center or by other advocates. Here's that email…
Court Rulings Impact Voting Rules Across the Country
A series of court decisions in the past few weeks have changed voting rules in several states. Here is a breakdown of the latest developments.
Current Status: On October 14, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas's restrictive photo ID requirement, which a federal judge had blocked five days earlier. The Brennan Center is part of the legal team representing plaintiffs in the case, who filed an emergency appeal today to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Background: After a lengthy trial in September, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos ruled last week that the Texas legislature enacted the ID law to purposely discriminate against minority voters. She also found more than 600,000 registered voters lack the kind of ID required by Texas's law.
Current Status: On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin's photo ID law from going into effect for the November election.
Background: Lawmakers initially passed the ID requirement in 2011, but it was blocked before it could go into effect for a major election. In September, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling allowing the law to be put in place immediately. Advocates filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, arguing implementing the law so close to an election would "cause chaos at the polls."
Current Status: On October 8, the Supreme Court allowed restrictions on same-day registration and out-of-precinct balloting to remain in effect for the November election.
Background: In 2013, legislators passed a series of laws cutting back on voting. Earlier this month, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked two of those restrictions, but the Supreme Court's October 8 order reversed that decision.
Current Status: On September 29, the Supreme Court issued an emergency injunction delaying early voting in Ohio by one week, a day before it was scheduled to begin.
Background: Ohio reduced early voting this year by eliminating Sunday and weeknight hours and ending "Golden Week," a six-day period where voters could register and vote on the same day. A district court blocked those cuts in early September, but the Supreme Court's order means they remain intact for the 2014 election.
Decisions are still pending in:
Arkansas – The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the voter ID law October 2. The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief arguing the requirement violates the state constitution.
Arizona/Kansas – The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule soon on new rules requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The Brennan Center represents the League of Women Voters in a suit challenging the laws.
View all of the Brennan Center's Election 2014 resources.
Stay connected. Stay informed. Get involved.
And once again remember to get out and vote on November 4!
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Voting Restriction Rulings in Just One Week
I'm reblogging Nel's New Day article on voter restrictions today. It is an excellent commentary on the increasing denial of voter access and voter suppression around the United States. Nel has done a good job of summarizing the methods designed to reduce voter turnout, including gerrymandering, mandatory photo ids, reduced early voting, and elimination of same-day voter registration in states that had previously allowed this.
Another source for this information is The Brennan Center for Justice. It has an excellent report on the current status of voting and elections in the US. This report is titled "The State of Voting in 2014" and covers both the voter suppression issue as well as an increased access to the ballot in some states.
Sixteen states have passed laws increasing access to the ballot since 2012; eleven of these states' new laws will be in effect on November 4. Interestingly five of these eleven "progressive" states — Illinois, Nebraska, Mississippi, Virginia, and West Virginia — also enacted more restrictive voter laws. The most common forms of laws that increase access to the ballot include online voter registration and other methods to modernize voter registration (like being able to have your voter registration move with you) plus methods to increase access to early voting.
So read Nel's blog below and then head on over to the Brennan Center for Justice for more information.
And remember to get out and vote on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
Marriage equality didn't stop for last weekend. Alaska, the first state to ban marriage equality in 1998, now legally recognizes same-sex marriage after U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess of the U.S. District Court of Alaska issued his ruling. The Republican governor plans to appeal the decision to the 9th Circuit Court which legalized marriage equality in Nevada and Idaho last week.
Meanwhile, last week saw a rollercoaster of court decisions about voter suppression laws. In passing these laws, the GOP has openly declared that the reason for photo IDs required for voting is to keep Democrats from have their rights at the ballot box. With fewer than 31 fraud cases in over 10 years, the number of legitimate voters kept from voting has vastly increased. Joy Dunn, 79, is an eligible voter who found out that new laws had disqualified her vote after her absentee ballot in March's Arkansas…
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Voter ID Laws Block Women's Votes
In the early spring of 2012, Pennsylvania passed its restrictive photo voter id law that is similar to the one in Texas discussed in Nel's New Day. That summer, I testified in Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court about my observations at the PennDOT licensing center in Pleasant Gap about the problems I observed in obtaining a photo id. These included lack of timely public transportation to and from the facility, lack of knowledge of the staff about the voter id law, inaccurate paperwork, long lines, and how women changing their names on their drivers' licenses could be disenfranchised.
This last problem is one I saw in addition to all of the issues for women voting that are raised in Nel's blog. Here's what I observed.
A woman came in and said that she had just gotten married and needed to change her name on her driver's license. She asked for the paperwork. The employee said rather than filling out the paperwork and paying for a replacement driver's license, he could give her a piece of paper to carry with her current license showing her new name. Since Pennsylvania's voter id law requires the name to be "substantially the same" on the voting records and the driver's license, any woman taking this suggested route could end up being disenfranchised since what is on the id doesn't match her new legal name and will not match the voting registration if she has made the change with the elections office. Had she gone through the paperwork and paid for the new license, she could have done a voter registration update at the same time since PennDOT is one of the recognized state voter registration sites. None of that was offered.
As a result of the Commonwealth Court case, the Pennsylvania Voter ID law has been temporarily enjoined. I wrote about the case in January of this year. The second stay came in March and the third one came after the primary. That stay says that until the constitutional issues surrounding the Voter ID law are resolved, photo ids can be asked for but cannot be required. First time voters will still need some form of identification (but doesn't have to be a photo id; for example, it could be a copy of an utility bill).
As Nel states at the end of her blog, we here in Pennsylvania are hoping for the same thing:
"Let us hope that the lawyers will carefully explain to the judges the [constitutionally] discriminatory basis for voter ID laws and that the judges will believe them."
GOP legislators and governors have found many ways to disenfranchise voters who might possibly vote against them: gerrymandering, voter ID laws, voter list purging, etc. The Supreme Court decision that struck down Section 4 of the almost 50-year-old Voters Rights Act created even more havoc for voters. The tipping point against these actions may have come this fall in Texas.
Last night Rachel Maddow laid out the Texas problem on her show. It starts with a Texas law that mandated that all married women must use her maiden name as the middle name, a change resulting in a mismatch between the name on voter registration and driver's license for women. The information went viral after Sandra Watts, judge in the 117th District Court, was challenged when she tried to vote. Watts has voted in every election for the past 49 years, the name on her driver's license has stayed…
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Where Is the 'Dream'?
Another great commentary on the current state of civil rights in light of the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act passed the year after King's speech and followed that with the Voting Rights Act. The United States, however, has failed to address the March's goals for economic opportunity and equality, ten demands in civil rights legislation, public school desegregation, voting rights, job training, and an increased minimum wage.
Congressional comprehensive and effective civil rights legislation without compromise or filibuster-to guarantee all Americans access to all public accommodations, decent housing, adequate and integrated education, and the right to vote.
Withholding of federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists.
Desegregation of all school districts in 1963.
Enforcement of the fourteenth Amendment, reducing Congressional representation of states where citizens are disfranchised.
A new Executive Order banning discrimination in all housing supported by federal funds.
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The most popular fair of rajasthan is the pushkar camel fair. It is held every year at the time of full moon. It is not only a fair for camel trading but a tryst with good time and merry making for all. For all the 7 days a prescheduled format is made and everything is done in the mela ground only. Tents are set up for guests to stay who comes to visit this place by different hotels.
28th October to November 1st is celebrated as the Pushkar cattle fair. Lots of lots of camel come to this fair and they are dressed well. The beauty contest and the camel race is conducted for camels. This carnival is full of array of musicians, magicians, dancers, snake charmers and folk singers.
On 2nd and 3rd November Pushkar cultural fair will be celebrated. These are the days when most of the cultural activities takes place.
On 4th of November Pushkar fair is going to be held. This is the most holy day for hindus and they take a dip in the holy pond of pushkar. Although it is not recommended for tourists as the crowd is much more than the other days. People believed that this day is holy and thus from far and near hindu comes to take a bath here. The culture here is all fascinating and miraculous.
Many fairs and festivals are celebrated all the year round in India. The people here celebrate each and every festival with great spirit and enthusiasm. Most popular fair in Rajasthan is the desert fair of Jaisalmer. This is celebrated every year in the month of February for three consecutive days. The dates are a bit flexible as it is basically organised just three days before full moon. This year it was celebrated from 8th to 10th February. So do check the dates for this fair before being part of it. It showcases some of the most preserved tradition and culture of Rajasthan.
The cultural events which took place in this three day fair is basically comprised of folk dance and songs. Few of the things which took place in this is puppeteers, snake charmers, moustaches competition, turban tying competition and many more things took place which basically highlights the rich culture of the colorful Rajasthan.
By taking a rajasthan tour you can see all the traditions and culture of this charming state at one place. The narration of heroic poems makes the atmosphere more mystical and vibrant. Most weird thing is the organising of camel polo in this fare and believe me it is worth watching. It is just full of fun, food and a country fair sort. As it is organised by the local governing body so extra care and full support is given to the tourists who comes to visit it.
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on the YouTube homepage. The video included a Call to Action overlay that encouraged YouTube users to donate money to help build wells and provide clean, safe drinking water for those who don't have it.
Feeling inspired? If you're a YouTube nonprofit partner, adding a Call to Action overlay is easy. Just go to "Edit Video" and fill out the fields in the section marked "Call to Action overlay." All you have to do is include a short headline, ad text, a destination url, and upload an optional image, and the overlay will appear whenever someone watches your video.
If you're a nonprofit organization in the U.S. or U.K. who hasn't yet joined the YouTube Nonprofit Program, but would like to gain access to Call to Action and other special benefits, you can apply now at www.youtube.com/nonprofits.
This week, we launched a new "Call to Action" feature for YouTube's nonprofit partners, which allows them to use InVideo overlays to drive traffic to an off-YouTube web page, where they can collect signatures, email addresses, or even donations. Already, we're seeing nonprofit organizations use this new feature with great success.
On Sunday, to commemorate World Water Day, we featured a video from charity:water on the YouTube homepage. The video included a Call to Action overlay that encouraged YouTube users to donate money to help build wells and provide clean, safe drinking water for those who don't have it.
Hey, that's actually useful. I'm usually against InVideo ads, but this is an exception.
That's super awesome. Wonderful idea.
it's great to see non profits be put into this great system.
This is a great idea, and would be even greater if a charity from other countries could participate. We look forward to it being expanded.
Thanks for helping a country who has been almost invisible to the world at large. I have spent 50 years in the CAR and love helping bring Hope back to a forgotten country.
Thank you Google. Personally I cant thank you enough.
Do you have any similar fund-raising or sponsorship opportunities for regular small businesses just starting out?
WE"D LOVE TO HAVE THIS!!!!! I did apply, and I'm a legit non-profit, but for some reason you felt it appropriate to decline my request. Is it b/c my organization is religious in nature? Why are you against religious organizations?
@admiral202 kind of a chicken and egg situation... gotta have the money before you can show a video of the work done funded by that money.... though I think they are 'doing' and using the money already.
Thank you for this good news, Ramya.
Charity:Water is such a GREAT organization. I am going to take immediate action to use this overlay for my favorite charity in Africa - KENWA - Kenya Network of Women with HIV/AIDS.
This is absolutely awesome! I can see how this can benefit a large range or organisations. I will be looking to do the same thing for Stop the Traffik - www.justgiving.com/ryankilfoil - I'm raising $10,000 by running the Rotorua Marathon!
I believe the wider Internet community can stand behind the Fight against Poverty and that we cannot, we must not infringe upon the generosity of Governments and Millionaires to help funding. Individuals can play a key role in this global project and whatever we carve for today's world, sets a landscape for tomorrow and the next generation who will follow in our footsteps.
This is nice and all, but WHY WONT THE VIDEOS PLAY!!!! They're all repeating that they're "No Longer Available." Youtube is pointless if you cant watch anything on it!
This is excellent news, we will be looking at this for our UK appeal films at www.wateraid.org asap!
What a great and valuable feature for charities! Great work!
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We have enrolled in the NonProfit program and trying to use the new callt-to-action overlay but it does not seem to work. We have filled all the forms in but the overlay still won't show up! Any ideas anybody?
CDF launched a new video today using the overlay (thanks YouTube!).
Here's my problem: I'm using YouTube's Call to Action Overlay for this video and it's working just swell if you view the video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVsTcTYT0Ek, but not on our channel main page (http://www.youtube.com/childrensdefense) or when embedded on our website (http://www.childrensdefense.org/accidents).
This is very cool, thanks for the helpful feature!
One suggestion: It might be helpful to have a different label instead of "advertisement" in the lower right corner for call to action overlays.
Maybe instead of "advertisement" it could read "call to action" or "non-profit partner program" or something that would distinguish the overlay from a paid advert. Otherwise, users might think YouTube is either charging non-profits for an ad placement, or that the non-profits are investing resources into YouTube ads.
I think everyone would benefit from a more accurate label. Just a thought. Thanks again!
This is kewl, count me in, a little help goes a long way.
When is the Canadian program launching?
Wow that is really good and a wonderful idea, it a great way to help worthy causes instantly.
my organization got approved but i cannot see the CTA tab on the edit video button.
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An entry in the Johnston Terrace Council Elementary School Log Book under the date, August 27th 1928, reads: 'Johnston Terrace Boys' School was reorganised this day as a boys' Central School with Mr A E E Cook BA BSc as Headmaster'.
In August 1928 Johnston Terrace Central School for Boys was further reorganised by the Plymouth Local Education Authority and split in to two: a junior mixed and infants' elementary school, under Head Master Mr William Harper Cornish, which continued as Johnston Terrace Council Elementary School; and Tamar Central School, under Mr T Willcocks FLS LCP, which at that time still accepted boys and girls.
The girls department was hived off at the end of 1930, when the pupils were redistributed around the other schools in the Borough. At the start of the Easter Term in 1931 the Central School staff took over the lessons from the Elementary school staff, although the name still remained as Johnston Terrace Central School. On the afternoon of Tuesday June 23rd 1931 the School held its first open day, when parents were allowed to watch the classes on the upper floor at work. On the following Thursday, a similar open day was held for the classes on the ground floor.
At the end of the school year Mr A E E Cook BA BSc retired and was replaced with Mr T Willcocks FLS LCP and at the start of the calendar year 1933, after much argument over whether it should be called Devonport Central School or Scott Central School, it did at last become Tamar Central School for Boys.


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What started as a small movement by the Plastic Free Foundation in Australia in 2011 has now turned into an influential global environmental campaign. Less than a decade later, millions of people around the world participate each year in the Plastic Free July campaign, with many participants committing to reduce their plastic usage even beyond just this one month.
If you have been considering going plastic-free but haven't yet figured out how, this is a great month to start your journey! To help you along, we spoke to six individuals who have reduced plastic waste in different areas in their lives. The hope is to inspire you to either start out small, or really challenge yourself.
'I made note of brands' eco-friendly practices'
In 2019, Mumbai-based independent journalist Joanna Lobo embarked on a mission: to reduce her usage of plastic. She joined Facebook groups dedicated to living a zero-waste life, and started actively following relevant bloggers and influencers. She started small, she shares, replacing plastic toothbrushes with bamboo ones, and carrying tiffins to pick up food from nearby restaurants.
Mumbai-based independent journalist Joanna Lobo
But there was one area where she really wanted to make a change, which was proving difficult. "As a journalist who writes on food and gets invited to restaurants and events, I used to get an assortment of food, gift baskets sent home for tastings, etc. I began making note of these brands' eco-friendly practices, and I started telling them to ensure that there was no plastic in my packaging," she says. If she happened to receive a package that made use of plastics, she would politely decline it. Slowly, brands started paying attention. "Most then started sending me packages in cloth, bamboo baskets, glass bottles I could reuse, and more."
These days, though the pandemic has increased the amount of plastic entering her home, Joanna still tries to ensure her shopping is eco-conscious by supporting brands that make an extra effort to be friendly to the environment.
'I am a conscious pet parent'
Saritha Sudhakaran is an urban designer and the founder of Waste Less Project, which aims to guide beginners on their waste management journey. She is also a pet parent to a five-year-old cat, whom she and her husband ended up inadvertently adopting a couple of years ago. "She was an outdoor cat, but she would keep entering our house through a window. So we started feeding her. When we moved homes around a year later, she had become a part of our lives, so she came along. Now, she's a completely indoor cat," says Saritha.
Saritha Sudhakaran's cat Mimosa enjoys eating dried prawns
She shares that when it comes to cats, food and litter are the two main aspects where plastic waste is generated. A lot of pet parents opt to feed their cats readymade wet and/or dry food, which is most often packaged in plastic. "If you can, offer your cats fresh meat and fish cooked at home. I also like giving my cat dried prawns. If cooking fresh food is proving difficult, my advice is to at least swap out plastic food packets for canned cat food. The metal can then be recycled," she says. If you plan on making a switch, Saritha cautions to make the transition slowly, as cats don't take too well to sudden changes.
Litter can be a slightly more complicated issue to tackle. "We did try biodegradable litter for a while, but it is very expensive and wasn't fully biodegradable in my experience. So, I started researching alternatives. I tried newspaper pellets, which also didn't work well for me. Now, I use sawdust, which I source from a neighbourhood carpenter. I use a sieve with slightly bigger holes to get all the splinters out before putting the sawdust in her litter box." She adds that while it doesn't clump like regular litter, if you clean it daily, you won't face any issues.
'I carry a glass bottle with me wherever I go'
Over two years ago, Sunny Amlani decided to pay attention to the amount of plastic he was using in his daily life. "It started out with me ditching plastic straws and replacing it with a steel one. Next came bamboo toothbrushes. Now, I was trying to figure out where else in my life I could make a change. My work, both as a digital marketing consultant and as a tour guide, requires me to spend a lot of time outdoors, in meetings or on foot. There was a perfect opportunity here. I decided to stop buying bottled mineral water and started carrying a glass bottle filled with water everywhere I went," he says.
Digital marketing consultant and tour guide Sunny Amlani
Sunny shares that when he is leading tours, he even encourages guests to carry their own bottles of water if possible. It might not always work, but something else does. "If you carry an attractive glass bottle, it catches people's attention. They ask about it, and then you can talk about why you have made the switch from plastics. It gets the conversation around eco-consciousness going," he says.
According to Sunny, everyone knows plastic is problematic, but the problem is people don't see how it affects them. "It tends to remain a social cause. So you have to make sustainability a point of conversation without sounding preachy."
'I completely ditched disposable diapers for my baby'
"I was introduced to the concept of cloth diapering when I was pregnant," says Goa-based fashion designer Falon D'Cruz. "When I visited a family friend, I saw that she was using cloth diapers on her son. Based on what I had heard from others about the convenience of disposables, I had assumed using cloth would be unmanageable, but I found it inspirational to watch my friend manage so beautifully."
Falon is a mom to 9-month-old Zoe, whom she has been exclusively cloth diapering for six months now. She shares that apart from her concern for the environment, there was another reason why she chose cloth diapering over disposables. "Even with disposable sanitary napkins, a lot of women suffer from rashes, so it's the same concept with babies, right? I wanted better for my baby's skin."
Falon D'Cruz's 9-month-old baby Zoe wears Superbottoms cloth diapers
Falon mentions that she did face a few challenges when she started, like getting the fit of the diaper right, and figuring out how to manage laundry, but once she had figured out a way to go about it, it became easy and routine.
She says, "I know it's very difficult to do a lot in terms of being responsible for your plastic use. A lot of stuff we buy from the store is already packaged in plastic, and we don't always have control over those things. So, for me, ditching disposable diapers was something I could really control, and I am happy I went through with it."
'I have been using a menstrual cup for nearly six years'
"Until recently, there was little to no awareness about menstrual cups. The options available to us here in India for the longest time were pads and tampons. But a friend who was visiting from Australia told me about cups, and on my first trip to the US, I ended up picking one for myself," says photographer and filmmaker Tina Nandi. That was nearly six years ago. Today, she uses a combination of cloth pads and her trusty cup, but is quick to share that she prefers the latter for its ease of use.
Photographer and filmmaker Tina Nandi
She admits that there is a learning curve involved when you switch to a menstrual cup, but that once you get used to it, you are unlikely to ever turn back. After all, there are many advantages to using a cup — they don't dry the vagina like tampons do, they are not associated with toxic shock syndrome, they don't pile up in landfills, and they're very economical in the long run as they can be reused for several years.
Tina says, "There is yet another advantage, as I am now learning. With supplies being difficult to come by in this pandemic, I realised that thanks to my cup, my menstrual cycle is the last thing I need to worry about. I don't need to go hunting for tampons. I have my cup, and I am sorted."
'I said no to plastics at work'
Artist and designer Nishita Surin puts as much love and effort into going plastic-free as she does when it comes to her art. Her work, in fact, is a marriage of these two passions. "I don't want to create art that harms the environment," she says, adding, "For instance, I've seen some beautiful work come out of resin pouring techniques, but I would personally never attempt art involving the use of epoxy resin, which is a type of plastic."
Artist and designer Nishita Surin with her son
Nishita sells handmade paper journals through her brand page on Instagram, and shares that she has found an innovative way to package and ship the products she sells. "There is a lot of paper wastage involved when I'm making my books. So, I make use of the scrap paper cuttings as packing material while wrapping the books. Even during the monsoon, at the most, I use a layer of butter paper to make the packaging waterproof, but I'd never resort to plastic," she says. She also uses scrap paper to make miniature books, which she sells as keychains or pendants.
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COVERHAM returns to Chelmsford tomorrow afternoon after finishing a good second there last time out. He is running over the same distance of a mile and is drawn 3 of the 9 runners. Ryan Tate will once again take the ride. He possibly didn't get the best of luck last time he ran and is running off the same handicap mark. He has been a model of consistency all season and continues to be in great form at home. If he can get a bit of luck in running he should be thereabouts again tomorrow.


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Intro (0:27)
Tea (feat Melo-Zed) (5:10)
Say Yes (feat Ruby Francis & Ashley Henry) (3:28)
Watch It X Blue Katana (feat Nice & Femi Koleoso) (4:09)
Dome (feat Othasoul & Daniel Taylor) (5:38)
Xover (feat Moses Boyd) (1:26)
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My Dream (feat James Vickery) (3:44)
Oooo Lala (feat Kaidi Akinnibi) (3:32)
Outro (feat Daniel Taylor) (5:45)
Played by: RUSTAM OSPANOFF., DJ Johnny Rebel, Juno Recommends Hip Hop/R&B
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Albatross (3:48)
The Threshold (2:58)
Moves Us Blind (2:55)
Emigre (3:10)
Never Easy (3:42)
Song For Sandy (3:35)
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Sweet Decay (4:48)
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Constellations (3:16)
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Bears (3:24)
Pink Salt Lake (2:39)
Bend Your Knees (5:01)
Change Of Heart (2:41)
Glad It's Raining (3:11)
Don't Wait Forever (2:10)
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Review: Originally cast as a folk singer rather in the Damien Rice mould, James Vincent McMorrow has managed a sterling job of subverting expectation on the pathway to this, his third record. Not content with simply embracing R&B and electronic abstraction (a move which has even led to luminaries like Drake sampling him) he now takes a notable lurch into the experimental deep end with this abstract, futuristic and uncompromising opus, the clues to which can be firmly found in opening track title 'December 2914' - on this evidence however, it's a move that suits him well, with these beat-driven textures, James Blake-esque ethereal forays and honeyed falsetto croons marking him out as an unlikely maverick to be reckoned with.
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State Lines (3:28)
Sleepless (3:21)
Repeat Until Death (3:48)
Oh, Round Lake (2:56)
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This is the seemingly simple, everyday creativity that happens around here. When I am old and gray, these are the moments I want to remember.
My eight-year-old is busy creating art on top of the dining room table. All her new art supplies that she received for Christmas are scattered in various places around the house.
This is something she has to do. This is creating for the pure joy of it. Creating something is a part of who she is, just as is the sound of her laugh.
The urge to create can strike at anytime, anywhere. And, when that creative bug comes calling…you just have to answer the call.
Which totally explains why there is glitter all over the entryway stairs.


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Q: Odoo - Long process leads to XmlHttpRequestError BAD REQUEST error In odoo while I am doing any long process such as getting data from
amazon and process those data in odoo and after 5-10 min I am getting
this error don't know the reason why this happen.
XmlHttpRequestError BAD REQUEST
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<title>400 Bad Request</title>

Bad Request

Invalid JSON data: ''

The process seems running in background in server but I am getting this error every time. This leads users into the wrong direction.
I am wondering why I am always getting this error? Is that a normal behavior ?
Even data processing will be done properly even after getting this
error, so I am not getting the meaning why this error pop out only in
long process.
Is there timeout issue happen with web server ?
Where I need to look out for that ?

UPDATE
I have did this process from different system and it seems everything
  working fine over there.
So what my guess is "It is something related to browser end only"
May be browser is not able to manage such idle requests (may be any
  request time out settings needs to be updated)

A: Solution:
It wasn't clear at first but the tracing telling me exactly what the problem is "cookie".

The problem was due to a cookie that has become corrupted. Not sure
  how it got that way but it seems that the last time it was generated
  something went wrong.   The easy solution is to delete all your
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He is known for his humorous prowess, but comedian Oga Obinna alias Oga The Top is also surprisingly a great cook. He invited the PD Wikendi team to his home in Muthaiga for lunch, and we can attest to this.
The home is cosy, decked out in brown theme and furniture, his favourite colour. He leads us to his kitchen where everything is in its rightful place. He even has his set of rules for family, friends and girlfriends who might want to use his kitchen. Obinna is keen to detail, and he does his things in a specific way. The comedian gets down to business to make meatballs and rice.
He starts by preparing and chopping the ingredients; onions, tomatoes, garlic, eggs, green capsicum (hoho), coriander, minced meat, Royco cubes, and corn flour. He washes and brings the rice to boil, then gets to the meatballs. He mixes all the ingredients into a big ball and then starts making small balls, all the while keeping an eye on the rice that soon finishes cooking.
Obinna then deep fries the meat balls until they become golden brown. Next, he prepares the stew gravy then adds the deep fried meat balls in it. The meat is left to simmer for a few minutes then served with the rice. We all sit down to sample the dish, and truly, we couldn't complain. Quite a filling and tasteful plate, that doesn't take long to prepare.


To make: stir 1/4 cup water into a container of frozen whipped topping, spread in a lined sheet pan and pop in the freezer for an hour before cutting out your shapes.
Since Christmas usually means a crowd, here's an easy way to feed them all. Cheesy eggs with spicy chorizo sausage are baked in a sheet pan for build-your-own breakfast burritos you just slice and serve. Even this pretty photo doesn't do justice to how crazy-good these burritos are.
Making pancakes for a crowd usually means you're stuck in the kitchen flipping and pouring while your friends are in the other room, having all the fun. No more! Make one giant pancake, and join the party. Slice into squares (like sheet cake) or bust out the cookie cutters for some serious fun.
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Place a drying rack over a baking sheet, and like magic your oven transforms into a jerky-making machine.
Once you discover slab pie, you'll wonder why you even own a pie pan. It's so easy to slice and serve, and there's always enough for everyone to have a piece.
"Mise en place" is the French culinary term for "everything in its place," and it's the professionals' secret to keeping restaurant kitchens running smoothly 24/7. Prep and collect all the ingredients you need for a recipe on a sheet pan before you start cooking, and simply use the pan to bring them all with you when it's go time. You'll save time and prevent any unnecessary surprises, like realizing halfway through cooking that you don't have the right ingredients (not that that's ever happened to us).
From turkey to stuffing to candied sweet potatoes, the we took a sprawling Christmas feast and shrunk it down to apartment kitchen-friendly proportions. It's completely ready to eat in a little more than two hours, and makes enough to comfortably serve four people—or two people, plus a very comfortable amount of leftovers.
For more hassle-free holiday ideas, check out our series 24 Holiday Hacks to Keep You Sane.


Lane county nurses, mental health specialists, and other clinicians who serve some of our most vulnerable populations are demanding a fair, living wage. AFSCME, the union representing more than 600 county employees, and the county have not reached an agreement and the strike will continue over the weekend.
Register Guard – "In response to a request by The Register-Guard for data on the number of citations police issued under the dog ban, the police department's spokeswoman said the department was still compiling that information. She said the information will be available next week.
Once a year, when the park blocks are occupied with another event, OM takes the opportunity to travel through Lane Co. in hopes to inspire others to start their own clinic and spread the notion that bottom line profits should never rule over patient care. On August 28th, we took our trusty Thunderbird bus outside of the area and set up camp at the Nancy Devereux Center in Coos Bay!
A huge thank you to our new allies in Coos Bay! It was a great day to spread healing to the coast.


Last week, I had the chance to shoot (more) photos of Cory Miller, and I wanted to share a few of them with you.
Something really interesting happens to Cory when he is in front of the camera. It is almost like the lens turns him in to an uncontrollable being, and he just makes a lot of really weird faces. I'll have to post more pictures to include a few of those, but for now, these will have to do.


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The British International School of Al-Khobar and the International Schools Group, Dammam, are two examples.
Some schools are not selective and will accept any child in the right age range. Many schools administer tests in English and mathematics to determine the child's learning level but they also use previous school reports to make the determination. You should contact the respective schools to get information specific to your child's status.
Early childhood education at both private and public facilities are available in Saudi Arabia. Depending on the area you're living in there might be one or many.
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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Abridged Edition
April 27, 2012 April 27, 2012 Kathryn20 Comments
Title: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Abridged Edition
Editors: J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel
Poetry Editors: Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Leith Morton, and Hiroaki Sato
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese is the most comprehensive anthology of Japanese literature since the mid-nineteenth century; but, with two enormous (and expensive) volumes, it's a bit daunting for all but the most stalwart of readers. I was therefore excited to learn that an abridged softcover version of the text has been released. At almost a thousand pages, the anthology still isn't for the casually interested. As it provides a much wider selection of writers and genres than every other anthology of modern and contemporary Japanese literature on the market, however, The Columbia Anthology is an invaluable resource not only for students of Japanese literature but also for anyone interested in Japan in any capacity.
The anthology is divided into six sections spanning from the beginning of the Meiji period in 1868 to the end of the twentieth century. The two sections devoted to the Meiji era include work by naturalists and playwrights such as Mori Ōgai, Shimazaki Tōson, Kunikada Doppo, and Nagai Kafū, as well as essays by Natsume Sōseki, including "The Civilization of Modern-Day Japan." The anthology then proceeds into the interwar period, which includes the work of authors such as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Edogawa Rampo, Kawabata Yasunari, and Tanizaki Junichirō. The section titled "The War Years" is mercifully short but includes stories by Dazai Osamu, Ishikawa Tatsuzō, and Ōoka Shōhei.
The "Early Postwar Years: 1945-1970" section is the longest in the anthology and reads like a hit parade of famous postwar writers such as Abe Kōbō, Enchi Fumiko, and Mishima Yukio. Many well-known postwar joryū bungaku ("women's literature") writers, such as Hayashi Fumiko and Kōno Taeko, are represented as well. The last section collects contemporary literature from the seventies, eighties, and nineties by both internationally famous authors such as Murakami Haruki and Ogawa Yōko and writers who are prolific and well known in Japan, such as Hoshi Shinichi and Furui Yoshikichi.
What is wonderful about this anthology is that, unlike other anthologies of modern and contemporary Japanese literature, it includes lengthy selections of Japanese poetry, both in "traditional" forms (such tanka and haiku) and in more modern forms (such as free verse). Although I am not a connoisseur of poetry in translation and thus can't vouch for the quality of The Columbia Anthology's selections, I am thankful that so many works of modern and contemporary Japanese poetry have been brought together in a single volume. The majority of the original publications in which these translations appeared have long since gone out of print, so The Columbia Anthology is perhaps the best way to familiarize oneself with a rich yet underappreciated body of literature. The anthology also includes dramatic scripts by playwrights and screenwriters such as Inoue Hasashi and Kara Jūrō, texts which are also difficult to find elsewhere.
My enthusiasm for The Columbia Anthology is genuine, but some of the editors' comments in the Preface shed light on some of the more conservative politics of literary anthologization. For example, to justify the entry of their project into a field in which many anthologies already exist, Rimer and Gessel state:
One difference between this volume and some of the earlier collections is related to the evolving view of both Japanese and foreign scholars as to what constitutes "literature." Many of the earlier collections sought, consciously or unconsciously, to privilege the long and elegant aesthetic traditions of Japan as they were transformed and manifested anew in modern works. […] But many other kinds of writing, ranging from detective stories to personal accounts – always valued by Japanese readers but neglected by translators in the early postwar decades – can now be sampled here.
Expanding the scope of what is considered literature through diversity in anthologization is always good, of course, but two paragraphs earlier, the editors also made this strange comment:
Whatever the level of young people's interest in manga (comics) and video games may be, literature, as opposed to simple entertainment, often remains the best way to grapple with the problems, and ironies, of the present generation of Japan.
On reading this sentence, I somehow managed to raise an eyebrow and roll my eyes at the same time. The context of this statement was a defense of the strength of contemporary literature in the face of a weighty literary tradition, but I wonder why the editors needed to make the distinction between "literature" and "entertainment" at all. Some types of print culture (such as dramatic scripts) are literature, but others (such as the text portions of visual novels) are not? Edogawa Rampo's grotesque short stories are literature, but Otsuichi's horror fiction is not? Haiku are literature, but tweets are not? And – most importantly – manga is not literature? Seriously?
Despite the editors' stated desire to expand the scope of what is considered literature, their literary politics are, as I stated earlier, quite conservative. Popular fiction by writers like Murakami Haruki and Yoshimoto Banana is included in the anthology, but the work of such writers has been so resolutely canonized by scholarly articles and inclusion in course syllabi that its anthologization comes as no surprise. It's good to have "outsider" writers like Tawada Yōko and Shima Tsuyoshi included in the anthology, but all of the volume's stories more or less fit neatly into the category of "literary fiction." You will not find the cerebral science fiction of Kurahashi Yumiko, or the historical revisionings of Miyabe Miyuki, or the fantastical explorations of Asian-esque mythology of Uehashi Nahoko, or the socially conscious mystery stories of Kirino Natsuo in The Columbia Anthology. You also won't find any prewar popular fiction, such as the short stories of Yoshiya Nobuko.
This leads me to another criticism I have concerning the anthology, which is that it is remarkably dude-centric. Until the last two sections of the text ("Early Postwar Literature" and "Toward a Contemporary Literature"), there are no female writers represented (save for Yosano Akiko, who has a few poems about flowers and vaginas); not even one of Higuchi Ichiyō's short stories is included. In the anthology's defense, many of the women writing before and during the Pacific War, such as Enchi Fumiko and Hirabayashi Taiko, are included in the "Early Postwar" section. Unfortunately, this means that their more overtly political work has been passed over for stories that focus more on "traditional" women's issues like female sexuality and the family. Furthermore, even though I applaud the editors for including literary essays in their anthology, it frustrates me that not a single one these essays was written by a woman, despite the fact that many female authors – including those represented in this anthology – are extraordinarily well known for their essays. What the editors has done is the equivalent of collecting the most influential essays on literature in North America and leaving out something as important and groundbreaking as Margaret Atwood's On Being A Woman Writer.
In the end, though, I stand by my assessment of the abridged edition of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature as an essential resource to students of Japan. The volume contains many excellent stories, poems, essays, and dramatic scripts that are difficult to find elsewhere, and the editors keep their introductions of writers and literary epochs brief and to the point. As long as this text is supplemented to bridge over its gaps and omissions, I can imagine it becoming the backbone of a respectable introductory course on modern and contemporary Japanese literature, as well as a source of out-of-print translations of the work of less widely taught authors.
Review copy provided by Columbia University Press.
November 25, 2011 Kathryn4 Comments
Title: Schoolgirl
Japanese Title: 女生徒 (Joseito)
Author: Dazai Osamu (太宰 治)
Translator: Allison Markin Powell
Year Published: 2011 (America); 1939 (Japan)
Publisher: One Peace Books
At the beginning of an essay on Yoshimoto Banana, Ann Sherif quotes the Japanese psychiatrist Machizawa Shizuo as saying that he despairs of the darkness in Japanese literature, as people come into his office clutching books by Dazai Osamu and saying, "This is exactly how I feel. I'm sorry that I was born."
Dazai's work is pretty dark. However, for all the young men who have lived "lives full of shame" (a sentiment expressed in the opening line of No Longer Human, generally considered to be Dazai's defining work) there are apparently hordes of schoolgirls who visit the author's grave on the anniversary of his death to offer flowers and prayers. I never really understood why this would be so (most of Dazai's narrators are abusive pigs); but, having read Schoolgirl, I think I'm starting to get it.
Schoolgirl is an uninterrupted stream-of-consciousness monologue by a bourgeois high school student who has lost her father and lives alone with her mother. The girl rambles from topic to topic, stating strong feelings in one paragraph (I hate my mom!) and then contradicting them in the next (I actually love my mom!). She talks about her best friend (whom she hates – or not), the other women she sees on the bus (whom she hates – or not), the people who come over for dinner (whom she hates – or not), and the prospect of getting married (which she hates – or not). She also meanders through mundane topics such as her dogs, movies she likes, her teacher, and the garden around her house. More than anything else, though, she subject she repeatedly returns to is that of her feelings regarding herself. The narrator of Schoolgirl describes herself with the self-loathing characteristic of all Dazai narrators:
In my heart, I worry about Mother and want to be a good daughter, but my words and actions are nothing more than that of a spoiled child. And lately, there hadn't been a single redeeming quality about this childlike me. Only impurity and shamefulness. I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.
Her descriptions of herself tend to be a bit dramatic, but I guess she is a teenage girl. In fact, Dazai uses the narrator's identity as a teenage girl in order to make general third-person and first-person-plural statements about young people. Sometimes these statements are a bit strange for the narrator herself to make (such as when she says, "What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me"). Generally, though, Dazai uses the relatively marginal social position of the teenage girl to make rebellious manifestos of the My Generation variety. Where the narrator's "girliness" really takes off, however, is in her flights of fancy. For example:
Mother used this parasol long ago, when she first got married. I felt quite proud for finding this interesting umbrella. When I carried this one, it made me feel like strolling through the streets of Paris. I thought that a dreamy antique parasol like this would go into style when this war ends. It would look great with a bonnet-style hat. Wearing a long pink-hemmed kimono with a wide open collar, with black lace gloves and a beautiful violet tucked into that large, wide-brimmed hat. And when everything was lush and green I'd go to lunch in a Parisian restaurant. Resting my cheek lightly in my hand, I'd wistfully gaze at the passerby outside and then, someone would gently tap me on the shoulder. Suddenly there would be music, the rose waltz. Oh, how amusing. In reality, it was just an odd, tattered umbrella with a spindly handle.
Another flight of fancy I enjoyed was the narrator's description of her "Rococo cooking," which is enjoyable and meaningful for her but apparently not fully appreciated by all of the ugly, stupid, and boring adults in her life. As insecure as the narrator is in her identity and her relationship to other people, however, she can always find refuge in her fantasies of luxury and glamour of an ahistorical European origin. "I'm Cinderella without her prince," the narrator says at the end of the novella. "Do you know where to find me in Tokyo?"
Despite her petulant grumpiness, the narrator of Schoolgirl reminds me less of the tortured youths of novels like No Longer Human and The Setting Sun and more of the narrative voice of the Gothic Lolita poster child Ryūgasaki Momoko from Takemoto Nobara's 2002 novel Kamikaze Girls. In fact, reading Schoolgirl felt a bit like reading one of the longer essays (perhaps by someone like Miyavi) from the Gothic & Lolita Bible. In Schoolgirl, as in Lolita fashion cultures, a certain world weariness and disgust towards adult society is mixed with a self-consciously artificial desire to maintain one's innocence and emotional purity through a beautiful and delicate fantasy enacted through clothing, cooking, visual imagery, and music.
Of course, the Gothic Lolita mindset inspired in part by the narrative style of Schoolgirl is only one facet of the novella, which glitters like a diamond from any way you choose look at it. Schoolgirl might be used to demonstrate how premodern poetic nature imagery made its way its modern literature, or how the early Shōwa period was not all about fascism and conquest, or how "modern girls" viewed the West as a site of cultural maturity and longing, or how the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship shape the development of teenage girls – or even how male authors use transgender narration to escape the confines of literary conventions. Despite its relative brevity, Schoolgirl is fascinating and can be approached from a variety of angles by a wide range of readers. I can't think of a single person to whom I wouldn't recommend this novella.
Schoolgirl is published by One Peace Books, a small indie press that readers of contemporary Japanese literature in translation should keep an eye on. One Peace has published translations of two amazing manga, Tenken and Breathe Deeply, that should already be on the radar of serious and mature manga fans. They've also published two illustrated children's books and a handful of inspirational books, such as Treedom and Shift. If the high publishing quality of Schoolgirl (and the small number of their other titles I have in my possession) is any indication, One Peace Books puts a great deal of attention and care into their non-conventional yet highly interesting catalog. Go check them out!
Review copy of Schoolgirl provided by One Peace Books.
Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
February 19, 2011 February 21, 2011 Kathryn2 Comments
Title: Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
Japanese Title: "文学少女"と死にたがりの道化 ("Bungaku Shōjo" to shinitagari no piero)
Author: Nomura Mizuki (野村 美月)
Illustrator: Takeoka Miho (竹岡 美穂)
Translator: Karen McGillicuddy
Publication Year: 2010 (America); 2006 (Japan)
Publisher: Yen Press
Oh, Yen Press. Oh, how I love you; oh, how I hate you.
I love the money and effort you put into publishing your books. I love that you took a chance on titles like Black Butler and succeeded remarkably. I love that you turned garbage like Maximum Ride and Cirque du Freak into readable and artistically beautiful graphic novels. I love that you found room in your capitalistic heart for series like Bunny Drop and One Fine Day. I love how you don't put Japanese manga-ka on a pedestal but instead give equal attention to Korean and American artists. I hate that you stopped publishing the paper-and-ink version of your monthly magazine. I hate that I can only access the digital version from your website even after I pay for it. I hate that you sent cease-and-desist orders to scanlation sites but then decided to launch your digital titles exclusively on the most expensive e-reader on the market.
I am similarly conflicted about the light novels Yen Press has released. I enjoyed Spice & Wolf, even if it was a bit bland (the most interesting bits were the watered-down speculations on preindustrial economies, if that gives you any idea how clumsy the characterization was). Kieli had an intriguing premise and was set in a fun dystopic fantasy world but was riddled with stereotypes and awkward dialog. Worst of all, the nails-on-a-chalkboard banality of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya made me despite not only Tanigawa Nagaru but the entire genre of light novels. So, when Nomura Mizuki's Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime was released last July, I decided to give it a pass. I felt justified in my decision after reading the opening epigraph:
Mine has been a life of shame. I'm like the one black sheep born into a pure white flock. Unable to enjoy the things my peers enjoyed, unable to grieve the things they grieved, unable to eat the things they ate – being born an ignoble black sheep, I didn't understand the things my friends found pleasant, such as love, kindness, and
Actually, let's just leave it at that. There's no need to copy the full paragraph. Glistening tears leaving black ebony trails of eyeliner down a tragic alabaster face – you get the picture. Maybe I would be more patient with such things if I were seventeen; but I'm ten years past seventeen and not quite as intrigued by alienated narcissism as perhaps I once was, regardless if said narcissism is a deliberate homage to Dazai Osamu. And so it was that Book Girl fell off my radar.
What made me leave my desk and walk straight to Borders to pick up a copy was Erica Friedman's glowing review of the second book in the series, Book Girl and the Famished Spirit, over on Okazu. If the series is that good, why shouldn't I read it immediately? And so I did. Suicidal Mime was short and engaging enough for me to read from cover to cover the very evening I bought it, and I did indeed enjoy the experience.
The "book girl" of the title is Amano Tohko, who seems to be an ordinary high school student save for the fact that, instead of food, she consumes the written word. She is the president of her prestigious high school's book club, the only other member being Inoue Konoha, whom Tohko has drafted to write short, impromptu snacks for her. Tohko's secret is that she quite literally eats paper with stories written on it, and Konoha's secret is that he once wrote a bestselling novel under the name of his former girlfriend, who had committed suicide by jumping off the roof of her middle school in front of him. Konoha is taciturn but good-natured, and Tohko is brash but unflaggingly cheerful. The dynamic between these two characters is typical (one might almost say stereotypical) of the genre of Japanese high school comedy, but it's entertaining nonetheless.
The book is plot-driven instead of character-driven, though, and the plot is set in motion with the introduction of Takeda Chia, who asks Konoha to write a series of love letters for her. The recipient of these letters is Kataoka Shuji, an upperclassman on the archery team. As Konoha soon discovers, however, Shuji doesn't exist. Or, at least, not anymore – he supposedly committed suicide ten years ago, but a letter found inside an old copy of Dazai Osamu's No Longer Human hints that there might have been more to his death than suicide. The story is thus propelled by three intertwined mysteries. Who was Kataoka Shuji? How did he die? What stake does Chia have in the matter? Playing the role of Sherlock, Tohko knows more than she lets on but sends Konoha on several fetch quests to discover concrete clues.
These clues seem unconnected at first; and, unfortunately, they tend to remain unconnected towards the end of the book, when everything wraps up so quickly that I was left wondering what had just happened. It turns out that Dazai Osamu is not the only sociopath in the story; literally everyone is a black sheep who has lived a life of shame. This sudden plot development boggled my mind, and I ended up not really caring about any of the inexplicably psychologically damaged characters. Perhaps this makes me a sociopath, but, in my defense, the characterization is rather weak. For example, Tohko is introduced to the reader in this way:
Tohko was perched on a metal folding chair, her knees pulled up to her chest. It wasn't a very modest way for her to sit. Her pleated skirt was almost wide open – but not quite. If she moved her legs even slightly she would be flashing me.
This is how Chia is introduced:
A girl was splayed out on the floor, her skirt flipped up in her fall, exposing her bear-print underwear for all to see. It occurred to me that my little sister had the exact same pair of underwear, but she was only just starting elementary school.
In other words, the characterization depends fairly heavily on anime tropes, which are emphasized and reinforced by the illustrations:
To make a short story even shorter, then, Book Girl and the Suicidal Meme is a plot-driven novel with a ridiculous and poorly paced plot populated by characters that are little more than amalgamations of tropes culled from the otaku database. Despite this (or perhaps because of this), the book is a fun read. It's short, and it moves quickly. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and I imagine how it would be perfect for a younger audience. If nothing else, Tohko's synaesthetic responses to literature are kind of cute:
"Mmmm, so good. Fitzgerald has a really snazzy flavor. I feel as if flamboyance, glory, and passion are dancing a waltz in my mouth, like I'm eating glittering caviar with champagne at a party. When I bite into it, its delicate skin pops, and a fragment of liquid spills into my mouth."
As you can probably tell from the above passage, the touch of the translator is feather-light, so reading Book Girl feels really no different than reading "normal" (ie, contemporary American) young adult fiction, save for the eight full-color pages of illustration at the beginning. At $8.99, the book is priced like normal young adult fiction as well, so it's well worth picking up and breezing through for anyone interested in light novels, young adult fiction, or anime and manga in general. I'm definitely going to order the second volume of the series before my next plane ride. The Famished Spirit is about sixty pages longer than The Suicidal Mime, so hopefully there will be more room for plot and character development.
Another mystery-flavored light novel I read recently was the first volume of Sakuraba Kazuki's Gosick series, which is published by Tokyopop and still (as of this writing) available at a discount through Right Stuf. Like Book Girl (and many of Doyle's original stories), Gosick employs a Todorovian element of fantasy in that the reader never quite knows if the cause of the story's improbable events is supernatural in origin. The innocence of the beautiful young female Holmes-equivalent can be grating at times (as is that of Tohko), and there were times I suspected that her "astronomical genius" was only given to her by the author to make her a more desirable prize for the male reader-stand-in protagonist; but, if you can get around that, the first volume of Gosick is an enjoyable mystery novel. The Gosick anime series is currently streaming on Crunchyroll, and it's worth briefly checking out if only for its gorgeous Mucha-inspired art nouveau opening sequence.


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Self-driving cars have started to wear out their welcome, and they aren't even here yet. Much of the promise and disappointment around them centers on Level 4, one of six levels of technology that allow cars to operate without our input to some degree.
I largely agree with former Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt's view that "it's a bug that cars were invented before computers." In terms of sheer technical elegance, we never should have been at the controls in the first place.
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Imagine we hadn't yet invented automobiles. Suppose I Iaid out a vision for using 3,300 pound machines to typically transport just our 175-pound selves in a process requiring we pay rapt attention to the use of a steering wheel and pedals to navigate roads composed of asphalt, brightly colored suggestions and poorly guided machines like ours which, even after years of refinement, killed 36,000 Americans each year. You'd send me packing.
History aside, vehicles driven by us make sense in only a minority of the cases where it happens. And all of this is coming from a guy who loves driving cars, but knows he can't ultimately justify it. Except that we've had no choice.
Which brings me to Level 4, which promises to offer such a choice. Of the six levels of vehicular autonomy, as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers, it's the one that promises to substantially relieve humans of the need to drive in the foreseeable future. A Level 4 car may not have a steering wheel or pedals, though elimination of them isn't part of its definition. And Level 4 is conditional, which is to say it works when it can work, as opposed to Level 5, which must work all the time for every trip and seems barely achievable in my lifetime.
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One of the smartest carmakers out there, Toyota, has an interesting take on all this. It embraces both Level 3 and Level 4, rather than seeing the latter as a necessary graduation from the former. Toyota's concept of "guardian" describes a Level 3 car that acts as an exoskeleton of driver assists, shaping our human driving behavior and saving us from most of the dumb things we do behind the wheel. Their "chauffeur" concept is essentially Level 4 autonomy. Both are valuable concepts that are offered as choices rather than assuming we all abandon manual driving as soon as technically possible. Level 3 "guardian" technology would have a long and vital role taking the venom and tedium out of driving, though Level 4 is the more technically admirable in a big picture sense.
Check out the video as I try to make clear distinctions about each level of self-driving and put them in context against the current state of technology. You might be surprised to learn how many of the building blocks of future "driving" you have in your current car.
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The photograph above is of 'The Volumes' pop group taken in the mid-sixties when they performed on stage at the Kursaal Ballroom. Unfortunately, they never found the fame they were searching for like so many pop groups of their time. However, they did cut their teeth on playing at local venues. e.g. Great Wakering Secondary School and Shoeburyness High School dances and Southend Co-operative Society Club events. Their pinnacle to fame was when they performed on the stage at Seymour Hall, London W1 at a New Year's Eve function in 1966, when for the first time they were paid relatively loads of money. The group was so popular at this event they were invited back the following year.
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From viewing the holiday brochure and postcards from your friends that have visited the Whitsunday Islands, most people think the gorgeous Whitsundays is going to be too expensive, and probably out of their price range.
But to sail them islands, party in a tropical location, or just relax on the perfect white sandy beaches of the Whitsundays is possible, and can actually be much cheaper than you think!
Whether or not your are traveling with a group of mates with the condor whitsundays, or just by yourself, you really don't have to spend your last dime to discover why the Whitsunday Islands truly is a place of wonder and why so many people travel from all over the world to visit this spectacular part of Australia.
The perfect affordable 'below $100 a day' holiday of the 74 Whitsunday Islands, and beautiful Airlie Beach is within your reach, if you know the secrets to travelling the Whitsundays on a budget.
The Great Barrier Reef and the crystal blue waters of the Whitsundays is the real reason you come to the Whitsundays, right? Well, experiencing the Whitsundays from under water is a must for any visitor, and you can do it for around $85 per person which includes a two island cruise of the Whitsundays and a snorkel in some of the best spots you'll ever go.
Imagine if you could charter your own yacht around the Whitsunday Islands, and then imagine that you can do it for way under $100! Seems hard to believe, well it's not.
Bareboats are the best way to get out and see the Whitsundays and visit areas many tourist don't see. Now, if you head down the main street of Airlie Beach to Magnums or other spots that the backpackers hang out and suggest splitting the cost of the boat, you'll quickly find a bunch of willing new friends to share the costs, and your trip will end up costing you maybe $70 at the most for one of the most scenic adventures of a lifetime.
OK, so like any tropical destination, the Whitsundays can be a little expensive for accommodation, but if you are willing to sacrifice the luxury of air conditioning, maybe your privacy and a few other things you can actually find share accommodation in Airlie Beach for under $20 a night. Or if you really prefer your own room and ensuite bathroom, than the YHA offers rooms for under $90 a night.
While the Whitsundays may have plenty of world class restaurants on hand, you can head down to the Airlie Beach Hotel or one of the other local spots in town and find for $100 you'll eat for a week, and the meals are fantastic! They also taste even better with an icy cold beer overlooking the beautiful Airlie beach.
If you want to see a little more of the Whitsundays, you can catch a ride on one of the island transfer boats to and from the Airlie Beach mainland out to a number of tourist resort islands in the Whitsundays, stop in for a few hours and have a look around the islands, and then head back on the next boat the same day. It's a great way to see the Islands without actually having to pay the big dollars to stay there.
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