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December 3, 2019 12:17PM EST | Dispatches
Russia Should Be Held Accountable for Any War Crimes in Syria
Airstrike Investigation Supports Human Rights Watch Findings
Sara Kayyali
Syria Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division
@skayyali1
Residents rescue injured child after strike on the displacement center in Hass on August 16, 2019. © MacroMedia Center 2019
A December 1 New York Times investigation found that Russian aircraft were responsible for an August strike in the last anti-government held area in Syria. Two months ago, my colleague and I investigated the same attack, finding that it amounted to an apparent war crime.
On the evening of August 16, an aircraft bombed a displacement compound run by a Syrian aid organization just outside Hass, a town in Idlib governorate. The attack killed 20 people, mostly women and children and injured 52, according to the head of the displacement center, and took the center out of commission.
Human Rights Watch spoke to 24 witnesses and reviewed open source and satellite imagery relating to the attack. We found that there was no apparent military target in the vicinity, and only Syrian-Russian aircraft were operating in that area. The displacement center had been attacked previously. Under international law, deliberate or reckless attacks against civilians and civilian objects committed with criminal intent are war crimes. This seemed to fit the bill.
The NYT investigation agreed with our findings but adds a crucial piece to the puzzle. Relying on a cache of recordings from Russian pilots operating in Syria, the Times investigative team said that Russian aircraft were in the area at the time of the strike. The substance of a time-stamped Russian pilot recording, which human rights watch also listened to in the video, showed that the aircraft had executed an attack that same minute.
Russia is jointly responsible for any violations as part of its military alliance with Syria. However, the existence of evidence that may directly link Russian pilots to war crimes opens the door for prosecution and individual liability.
Until today, Idlib continues to suffer from indiscriminate attacks by the Syrian-Russian military alliance – using the excuse that they are combatting terrorism to indiscriminately bomb an area with over three million civilians trapped next to the closed Turkish border. To urgently save those civilians from a tragic fate, governments need to make clear that Russia will be held accountable for its unlawful disregard for civilian life in Syria.
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Karen is a writer and editor with a history of involvement in projects about preservation and place, from joining Friends of the High Line as its first volunteer more than a decade ago (and volunteering on the High Line to this day), to creating a documentary short about one East Village intersection.
A former editor-in-chief of the public policy website CityLimits.org, Karen loves New York City and considers Greenwich Village nirvana. She served as associate editor of the Forward, beat reporter at The Tennessean, and has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Next City. A native Virginian, she studied English Literature at the University of Virginia and got her start covering zoning and development issues, among others, at newspapers in her home state.
At GVSHP, Karen will not only be coordinating our East Village work — advocating for expanded landmark and zoning protections, and working with our allies and colleagues to protect small businesses, promote the arts, and advance all things that make the East Village unique and wonderful — but will be in charge of many "special projects," ranging from responding to attacks on landmarking by REBNY to increasing GVSHP's social media presence and outreach in the community.
If you want to reach Karen, she's at (212) 475-9585 x33, or kloew [at] gvshp.org.
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Despite economic growth and the reduction of both poverty and inequality that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has experienced during the last decade, it still remains the most unequal region in the world.
Tax collection in Latin America and the Caribbean is low in relation to its potential and does not reflect the huge social needs in the region. Public finances reflect an inequitable social and economic model, which perpetuates power concentration and discrimination, and are undermined by high rates of tax evasion and avoidance. Courageous reforms are urgently needed in order to achieve fiscal policies to help reduce entrenched inequalities in the region.


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Dolphin brothers and cousins have better success with the ladies if they hang out together
ABC Eyre Peninsula
By Jodie Hamilton
Posted Sun 3 Mar 2019 at 11:25pm Sunday 3 Mar 2019 at 11:25pm Sun 3 Mar 2019 at 11:25pm , updated Mon 4 Mar 2019 at 1:43am Monday 4 Mar 2019 at 1:43am Mon 4 Mar 2019 at 1:43am
Family bonds ensure dolphin gene pools continue as up to five males court one female in Coffin Bay, SA. (Suppled: Flinders University, Cecilia Passadore)
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Male southern bottlenose dolphins in the Coffin Bay waterways in South Australia have greater sexual success if they work together with their brothers and cousins.
Two hundred dolphins in SA were studied
Coffin Bay is a competitive mating environment with more males than eligible females
Males found cooperating with cousins, brothers had more success reproducing
And the larger their group, the more likely they are to entice the ladies.
Flinders University analysed the social and genetic structure of 12 groups of dolphins in the Coffin Bay waterways, with the study finding males teamed up in groups of two to five and formed alliances to increase their chances of mating.
Professor Luciana Moller (right), with Professor Luciano Beheregaray from Flinders University, says male dolphins form bonds based on bloodlines in the Coffin Bay waterways. (Supplied: Flinders University)
Lead researcher Fernando Diaz-Aguirre said the collaborations appeared to help in a competitive mating environment.
"There are not enough females to go around so the males work together to herd a female away from the pod and then court her as a collective," Dr Diaz-Aguirre said.
Dolphin wingmen the key to success
Associate professor Luciana Moller said the population of about 200 resident dolphins in the waterways was about 50 per cent males and 50 per cent females, but available females were fewer because they only gave birth to a single calf every two to five years and that calf stayed with the mother for up to four years.
"There's a lot of competition for males to get a mating opportunity because there are not a lot of females that would be in oestrus [the period when the female is fertile] each given year," Professor Moller said.
"The males just came up with the strategy to cooperate with each other like they were cooperating with their mates to gain access to a female.
"And if you do that with your brother or your cousin, then you might not be the father of the calf yourself but you have genes that you share with your brother or your cousin that will be passed on to the offspring."
Blood is thicker the water
Previous research had shown other dolphin types form similar bachelor groups but this study analysed why bonds were based on blood relations in the Coffin Bay region using photo-identification data and biopsy samples.
Researchers find the strong male bonds in the Coffin Bay area improves their chances of mating, and ensures they stay fit and have stronger family bonds over time. (Supplied: Flinders University)
"It seems quite successful to form an alliance … they might have two or three animals together or four or five and the ones who were able to have that cooperation with a larger number of males had much more success in getting offspring," Professor Moller said.
"It's quite complex for them to sort out the dynamics of being in an alliance and who is going to mate.
"It seems to vary but the observations that we have are that most of them would have access to mate with the female so they seem to be sharing access."
Dr Diaz-Aguirre said alliances meant they could also defend females to prevent other male groups from mating with them.
Simon Allen, from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, said similar social patterns occurred in bottlenose dolphin populations elsewhere, such as Port Stephens in NSW and, perhaps most famously, Shark Bay in WA. But he said the more interesting alliances were non-related males.
"In Shark Bay, there is a nested system of alliance formation — so 'alliances of alliances' that work together [and against other alliances] in order to gain access to reproductive receptive females," Dr Allen said.
"These 'second-order' alliances consist of four to 14 males and are the core social unit in the bay, within which two or more pairs or trios of males form very tightly bonded 'first-order' alliances.
"The more unusual circumstances that are somewhat harder to explain are those in which allies are unrelated, so someone else gaining paternity success means none of your genes being passed on," he said.
"Mechanisms other than kinship must play an important role in unrelated alliances."
Decades of research
Dolphins that form family alliances have similar success elsewhere. (Supplied: Flinders University)
Dr Allen worked on research with University of Massachusetts's evolutionary biologist Richard C. Connor and evolutionary anthropologist Michael Krutzen, from the University of Zurich.
The group have been researching dolphins under the Shark Bay Dolphin Research Alliance, which has 30 years of observations.
Professor Connor and Professor Kruetzen said the Coffin Bay research added to previous work from other locations.
"Given the patterns of philopatry, where females [and even males] continue to use their mothers' home range throughout their lives, it is not surprising that opportunities arise for males to associate with relatives," Professor Connor said.
Professor Connor said their findings showed the Shark Bay dolphins' first-order alliances of two or three dolphins varied, but the larger second-order alliances were stable.
He said the Coffin Bay study of larger first-order alliances might be a combination of first and second-order alliances.
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Don't call it a 'wolphin': Hybrid dolphin spotted off Hawaii
Rare encounter as playful dolphin and curious labrador frolic together
Shark Bay dolphins use 'unusual' method of keeping track of friend or foe
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17 doctors resign as authorities probe into fake certificates
Kuwait Crime Published on: 10 April, 2017 @ 1:15 AM
April 9: The investigations carried out by the panel, which was formed to look into the case of fake and forged certificates in academic institutions, have forced 17 doctors to resign out of fear of being exposed and referred to judicial authorities, reports Al-Shahed daily quoting sources.
They explained that the sudden shocking resignations affirm what has been discovered of late that there are fake and forged certificates in a number of academic institutions in the country. This prompted Minister of Higher Education Dr. Mohamed Al-Fares to issue a decision to further extend the work of the concerned panel. Some have lamented that the extension will give room for holders of fake certificates to run away before they are exposed and referred to concerned authorities. The preliminary release of the investigation results disclosed the involvement of prominent figures.
This has put the panel in a difficult situation, as some holders of these fake certificates are well-known prominent figures who have a big say in political and academic circles. Meanwhile, the resignations of a number of officials in executive apparatuses of some local banks and companies have raised questions regarding the lack of expertise in this sector, despite its financial stability.
These resignations by banking officials and companies occurred successively without the motives and real reasons being revealed. Sources said more than 50 cases of resignations were witnessed in a number of companies and board of directors of some banks during the past period as well as in companies of the oil, real estate, health, welfare, and aviation sectors.
They added that all those who resigned used to occupy high positions such as chairman and member of the board of directors, financial managers in banks and directors of investment departments in companies. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education has received roughly 3,000 complaints from expatriate teachers regarding the housing allowance cut, reports Al- Anba daily. The daily quoting knowledgeable sources indicated the ministry has asked its finance counterpart to boost its budget for the disbursement of outstanding sums to the expatriate teachers. However, the ministry has yet to receive any response from its finance counterpart in that regard. Concerning the reduction of housing allowance, sources noted the Ministry of Education is not responsible for the decision, indicating it's the sole decision of Civil Service Commission (CSC).


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Final Fantasy Creator Hopes to Announce New Game Next Year
What do you hope it is?
By Eddie Makuch on December 29, 2016 at 5:07AM PST
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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi may reveal his next project in 2017. In an interview with 4Gamer, as translated by DualShockers, Sakaguchi said the plan right now is to reveal this project next year, though he did not share any specifics about when the game will be revealed or what it is.
Sakaguchi now works at Mistwalker as its founder and CEO. His team is working on a console version of the mobile game Terra Battle, while Mistwalker announced a technology partnership with Bravely Default company Silicon Studio for a new project back in February.
As Siliconera points out, Sakaguchi has also spoken about opening a new "development-type" company, though whether or not this ties in to the new game is unclear.
We'll report back with more details about Sakaguchi's new game as they're made available.
What would you like to see? Let us know in the comments below!


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THE RED WRATH - A Journey between Two Destinies
Life is a journey and every man must bear the burden of conflict between his own free will and the vicissitudes of destiny. The heart endures the trials and tribulations that accompany us through life and stores the sorrows and joys that make us who we are.
This is the story of a man who traces the steps he took during his youth and the leaps that forced him to maturity. In confronting the realities of life, he tests the values of his culture and his own principles and stands by them, forfeiting the sweetness of youth and the sheltering comforts of innocence.
The past, laden with heavy memories, nourishes and enriches his existence on a new continent, and lends him the gift and curse of being without peers. He was complete only in the fellowship of thoughts, dreams and memories. It is there, in his past, that his true and unadulterated self resides, and it is there that he finds the source of love and the selfless strength compassion requires; the gifts nature endows each and every person willing to find them within.
After all, we take only memories into the beyond and follow our beliefs to the promised place, a final destination where those who have gone before await and those who will come after are awaited. He comes to understand this and to accept that we can only reach those we have loved and lost when our imagination takes over from where our breath has left us.
Love is the fruit we receive when we pay its full price in sacrifices, without which no being can earn nature's highest gift.
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Author: Hatef Mokhtar
Born in Afghanistan, Hatef Mokhtar grew up in a refugee camp in Pakistan and is now working as the Editor in Chief of The Oslo Times in Oslo, Norway.
"The pain of separation from my homeland, the cries and sorrow of my people inspired me to write this book."
My effort and determination will mean nothing unless I acknowledge those who stood by me in all the phases of this book.
My work could not have been completed without their great support, so that I could envision my goal to win the hearts of readers.
I would like to show my gratitude to Dhiraj Singh, Anubhav Gupta, Fauzia Umar, Hulya, and S.S. Fahad Hussain, who all have borne my impatience and been sensitive concerning my vision for this story.
Book writing has been a very tedious task, and I feel proud that these people contributed their insights and editorial skills to improve the narrative structure, as well as to enhance its final acceptance. I am thankful to them from the bottom of my heart for the constant motivation and caring that helped me to accomplish this revolutionary novel.
A Bird Called Destiny
Certain experiences in life unfold leaving deep imprints on one's mind, body, and soul. There's not much scope for forgetting there, unless one's mind is numbed by a memory that one's heart finds difficult to accept and adapt to. Yet, life is not about sublimating such experiences. We do that often to avoid the pain and suffering that those memories bring. Instead, it is about carrying them along, as evidence of our survival, in the direction chosen by destiny, because often, giving in requires much more strength and character than withstanding.
Asif contemplated a myriad of thoughts that had surfaced in his mind after a long and tiring day at work. He left the office with the intention of rejuvenating himself over a steaming cup of coffee. It quite effortlessly scored as his favourite stress buster. Wind played with his hair, and he took a deep breath to enjoy the fragrance it brought with it. As he turned a corner, he found himself on a street full of exotic eating places in downtown Oslo. A Norwegian café, which gave an impression of balance between tradition and modernity, caught his attention.
As soon as he entered the café, he felt a strage sense of belonging; he carefully scanned the entire set-up trying to absorb as much as possible. His eyes were constantly hungry for images that reverberated with his heart. Several landscape paintings, done in a typical Norwegian style, adorned the walls. The murals stretched from end to end, depicting Norwegian life in its various hues and colours, from its ancient past to its modern life-style.
Asif ordered his favourite cappuccino with extra sugar. By then, the aroma of coffee had already started to soothe his frayed neves, as it tickled his grey cells and occasionally the white matter. It enveloped him and transported him back in time and place to those precious days in his homeland when his mother used to serve him tea as a child. Memories from that distant past filled him, and he inevitably contrasted them with the conditions of his present life. Memories were all that was left in the linear progression of time. Like a web, they connected and interconnected his past, present, and future, often rejuvenating him at some points in time, while causing distress at others. A man's memories are like that; they're like a trapeze net, on which he can fall without worrying about how he'll land.
While waiting for his 'cuppa', Asif made himself comfortable on a couch, looking for the unusual in the usual and vice versa.
A family of four—a couple with two kids—sat across his table. The little girl hid from her father, thinking that covering her eyes repeatedly made her invisible; she played her own version of hide and seek. Her father played along, acting as if he was looking for her.The girl would burst into fits of laughter, opening and closing her eyes, again and again, as she was 'caught' by her father. It reminded Asif of his sister back home, who would behave in a similar fashion on seeing him when he would visit her after a hard day's work.
His chain of thoughts was broken when the waitress asked him if he wanted anything else. Dressed in an impeccable, white, pleated skirt and a pink top, she moved between tables carefully taking each order. Asif thanked her for her quick service and politely declined anything else for the moment.
He carefully scraped the whipped cream topping the coffee cup, much like a skilled craftsman, and put it in his mouth like a seasoned coffee taster. It was the same ritual every time, for he loved the cream to melt in his mouth before his first sip.The little girl had been looking at him for quite some time; she silently seemed to include him in her game by hiding under the table. Her father wondered what was wrong when he caught her staring at Asif. He smiled back at him and then back at the girl, as if approving of the game and of Asif's intentions.The happiness around us gives us the feeling of belonging and eases us from the pressures of living. It is contagious. Asif felt much lighter in those moments as if the laughter of the little girl had enveloped him and asked him to cheer up too.
"Worora," someone called out from the crowd. Asif had not heard that word in a long time. It meant 'brother' in his language. He turned around, and his eyes followed the hand that rested on his shoulder. It was really a strange feeling to hear those warm and soothing words from someone who belonged to his homeland, a place that he had abandoned to relocate to greener and safer pastures many years before.
Asif almost fell off his chair. He had not seen that man for ages and had almost forgotten about him. He stood up and hugged him; he had appeared out of nowhere after what felt like an eternity. Somehow, it seemed to Asif that they had met only yesterday. He was too numb to think or speak anything.
"Do you recognise me?" the man asked with a warm expression on his face.
"Worora, how could I ever forget you? Akram Khan, my friend, my brother!" Asif's tone was one of excitement and love. It was hard for him to remember how many years had gone by, but suddenly standing face to face with Akram took him back to his village and childhood. Those carefree years came fluttering and engulfed his vision; he had to blink many times to come back to his present surroundings.
"What are you doing here, Akram?" Asif asked. That was the only question that came out of the thousands running through his mind at that time.
"I live here," Akram said, smiling ear to ear.
"Really? In Oslo? I live here too." Suddenly Asif felt a swathe of relief, coupled with a whiff of disappointment—disappointment that despite living in the same city they never crossed paths for so long and relief at Akram's sudden and unexpected appearance, which eased him of the notion that his friend was no more. He had tried to trace Akram many a times in the past, but all those attempts had proved futile. And then, there he was, standing right in front of him, in the flesh, and completely out of the blue.
For Asif, this chance meeting with Akram meant rediscovering a part of his lost existence. Akram was one person whom Asif had lost all hope of reuniting with, especially in the Scandinavian world, which was fairly new to him. He felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted off of his chest. A cure for his loneliness was found, and it seemed a thing of the past.
Akram sat down across from him and rested his hands on the table. Asif caught a glint of mischief in Akram's eyes, which was reminiscent of their carefree school days.
"How are you, Akram? How have you been?" Asif continued.
"Still alive!" Akram remarked in jest. "I always knew we'd meet again. And now, here we are, in the same city."
"Naseeb (My friend), it's all destiny," Asif was quick to reply.
"Yes, I know you've always believed in destiny," Akram said teasing him.
Destiny is a strange bird. It carries us in its stronghold, taking us to unthought of places and times that are beyond imagination. People whom we would give up all hope of meeting again would suddenly appear out of nowhere. Whether we believe in destiny or not, certain things that happen for apparently no reason make us feel their hold over our lives.
Time had left its indelible imprints on Akram. His thick, black hair had turned grey around the temples, hinting at a certain level of maturity, just like his father, Khaled. A receding hairline made the lines on his forehead and eyes appear even more prominent, but his eyes showed no signs of ageing. They were like a window into his young heart and indomitable spirit, which were as young and unfazed as ever, growing in fact in reverse with every passing day.
Asif was ready to plunge into a sea of questions, which splashed waves of curiosity in his mind. He could not decide whether it would be worthwhile to have Akram face the lashing tides of enquiry. Wouldn't that mean revisiting grey areas and opening old wounds for them both? He felt in a dilemma also about which questions would draw a comfortable response out of Akram and which ones would make him uncomfortable? After all, he didn't want that meeting to turn into one even remotely laced with despair and disdain, so he weighed the pros and cons of each and every question that erupted in his mind. Asif stood motionless in front of the man for whom he would have gladly laid down his own life.
Separation is the key to strengthening relations, while sudden reconnection furthers an even stronger bond of long-lasting togetherness.
"What would you like to have, sir?" The voice of the waitress was a welcome relief.
"I too will have a cappuccino, please—double, thank you," Akram said smiling at the waitress.
"One more cappuccino coming up," she said gaily as she glided back to her counter. Her white apron reached way down her knees, which made Asif think that she was either from a relatively conservative background or a cleanliness junkie. He would have thought about anything else in the world then, to distract himself from the gush of emotions that Akram's reappearance brought with it.
As Asif took a sip from his cup, he noticed the glitter of diamonds set intricately into the yellow metal that ringed Akram's finger.
"So you're married?" Asif was relieved for finally having found something to talk about that was a welcome point of departure, as compared to delving into each of their morbid and decrepit pasts.
Akram lifted up his hand to show Asif his ring. "Yes, brother, I am—happily married; what about you?"
Just then, the waitress appeared with Akram's coffee and asked him if he wanted something else. As Akram picked up the menu for a second look, his phone buzzed; the look on his face took on an altogether different glow as he answered it.
"Salaam, Zinab. What happened, my dear?" he enquired lovingly into the phone.
"Okay, yes, I won't forget the new set of crayons you asked me to get. Now, I'm with a dear friend. I'll call you later, and tell your mother that I'll be a little late in coming home today. Will you, my love?" He disconnected the phone and a huge grin appeared on his face.
It was clear to Asif that he'd been talking to his daughter.
"Hey, was that your daughter?" Asif was beginning to get excited again, hoping to play uncle to Akram's kids.
"Yes, I am blessed with a son and a daughter! Let me show you their picture." Excitement filled his eyes.Akram took out his wallet from his pocket and showed Asif three separate pictures. "My daughter, Zinab; son, Khaled; and wife, Maria!" he said, carefully placing each picture between his fingers.
"Give me that, I want to have a closer look." Asif took the wallet from Akram's hand. Maria's serene beauty instantly took Asif by surprise. He's indeed a very lucky man, he thought. Maria's straight, blonde hair and blue eyes made her look distinctly Norwegian; but her face had a quality that was hard to place. It was a face that could soothe a crying baby with its serene and calm glow; the face of a mother perhaps, someone meant to nurture and take care of people. It glowed with devotion and strength of character.
"Brother, your wife comes across as a picture of beauty and compassion from what I can see," Asif said heartily.
Akram said nothing, but his smile said it all. Zinab, his little princess, looked like a mix of her father and her mother; but she definitely had her mother's eyes. Khaled's skin was lighter than Akram; but his smile, jaw line, and cheek bones were like his father's. His eyes, however, had something that made Asif beam into innocent laughter.
"What, what is it?" Akram was curious to know what had tickled his friend so much.
"Is that how you looked at Maria when you first saw her?" he held out Khaled's picture. "I mean, did you reach out to her soul with your eyes, just like this guy here is doing?" Asif asked, pointing out the sharp gaze that Khaled seemed to have inherited from his father.
"Good observation, my friend!" he said playfully.
"You are truly blessed with such a wonderful family. Zinab looks like an angel, and what can I say about Khaled? I mean, he is just like you." Asif's words came straight from his heart; and they touched Akram, who was really moved with their ingenuousness.
"You're my brother and true friend!" he exclaimed. .
Asif's loneliness had begun to haunt him by then. The thought of Akram living a life complete with a family consisting of a beautiful, embracing wife and lovely children made him crumble from the inside. His mind now floated with the image of his friend's jovial domesticity, where his wife and children waited on him lovingly as he returned home after a long day's work. It must be the most satisfying feeling on earth. A pang of jealousy hit him hard.
"Asif, we have to catch up again soon; right now I have to pick up my son. How do I meet you again?" Akram's voice broke Asif's flow of thoughts.
"Let me give you my number," Asif said, scribbling down his phone number on a napkin. His hands trembled as he wrote the number.
"We have to meet again as soon as possible, Asif."
"Yes, absolutely! Give me a call and we'll have dinner together sometime."
"That is a great idea. Maria would love to serve you her favourite dishes."
Asif reached for the check and proceeded to pay at the counter. Both started to walk slowly towards the parking nearby. Their steps were far slower than their heartbeats.
More memories started to crowd Asif's mind as Akram was leaving. There was never a day when he did not meet Akram and discuss everything under the sun in their school days. The stories their teachers had told them in school, as well as their dreams and aspirations, all of which now appeared in a kaleidoscope of images before his eyes. Whenever anyone asked them what they wanted to be, Asif would quickly say, a 'doctor'; Akram would point out to the airplane high up in the sky and say, a 'pilot'. Asif wanted to help people, to cure them of their illnesses and take care of them. Akram wanted to fly high and see the world and charm people with the glint in his eyes.
They hugged each other just like they used to in the old days and proceeded along their own different ways. Asif's memories of Akram grew stronger and stronger. Until then he did not realise there was so much in his past that he had tried to hold back and forget. Once back home, he threw himself on the sofa and took a few deep breaths. He felt as if he was in the eye of a storm, in the centre of a growing tornado. He tried looking at the scene that presented itself out of the window, but everywhere he looked it seemed to reflect back his past to him, or so he thought.
It was good to be united again with an old friend, traversing through the lanes of memory and reliving those moments that they both had missed when life separated them. They shared a peaceful childhood but had a different taste of adulthood. He felt much more alive today. Life can be very surprising for you sometimes, but meeting Akram was not less than a wonder for Asif.
Maybe writing would help, Asif told himself. He switched on his laptop, waited for the system to load, and sat down, typing out whatever filled his mind then. Soon words filled up his computer screen. They were scrambling for space coming from a crowded mind.
It was early morning before he realised his fingers could no longer keep up with his fevered mind. He lay down on his bed awaiting sleep to lull him away into dreamland; but unfortunately sleep seemed a more than distant possibility. That was what memories could do to a person.
Asif woke up with the sun's rays warming his face. It was a long and weary night, and the dreams had not been pleasant. He was lost between his homeland, his life in Oslo, and everything in between. It was Friday, his off day. He tried but could not go back to sleep. His head felt heavy as he got up and turned on the coffee maker and headed for a wash.
Norway has turned me into a caffeine addict, just like its citizens; but I can hardly complain, he thought to himself. He got dressed and sat down by his kitchen window. There were children playing outside. Some were playing with a ball; others were making bucket moulds inside a sandbox. It reminded him of the time when his sister and brother were small. Though his mind was Norwegian, his heart still longed for his homeland.
The building where he lived was a low-income housing block with small one-bedroom flats. It was enough for him since he was on his own, but sometimes he felt its emptiness and saw it as a never ending domain. In Afghanistan, his homeland, they used to live in a big house. Occasionally his present house felt like a cage.
His cell phone suddenly broke his reverie.
"Halo, worora, sengah ey?" It was Akram.
"I'm fine, thank you. How are you?" Asif's voice trembled with joy and anticipation.
"I'm okay. I just called to invite you over for dinner. How does Sunday sound to you?"
"Sure, no problem! Sunday is good. I don't have any other plans."
"Just give me a call when you are leaving home. I'll give you the directions."
He could hear the noise of traffic through Akram's phone. Maybe he is outside, walking. He hung up even without saying good-bye. Perhaps he is a busy man, Asif thought to himself.
Asif and Akram had gone through many ups and downs in their lives with the changing mood of destiny. They had to alter their directions towards achieving different goals set by them in their childhood days. Fate, however, is usually not kind to all. It had played its game. Their aspirations and dreams were thwarted by circumstance.
Asif took his cup and went over to his laptop to check his e-mail and catch the headlines. He liked to keep himself abreast with the latest happenings around the world. The day's news took him back to his past once again. His spirit and soul seemed to linger endlessly in his past since the time he had met Akram. Everything seemed to be taking him back in time only to return to the present for little fractions of time.
When he closed his eyes, he could see his village. He could almost smell the air blowing from the mountains. He could feel the freshness of the brook's waters that ran across his village, when he showered. The illusions were not going to leave him at least for that day. It was as if he was able to touch everything that once stood for his village in front of him. He knew those memories, which were etched deeply in his imagination, would never become reality again; and he would never hear his mother's voice calling him for breakfast—or his father call him to read from his library. It was all so real that he felt as if he were travelling in time. The thin line between illusion and reality seemed to have faded away.


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Angelina and Loung Ung to receive "Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award"
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Some great news to the lovely ladies – Angie and Loung Ung won the "Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award" and for First They Killed My Father and they ceremony is on Sunday, November 5 at the Beverly Hilton in California. And I'm guessing they both will attend! James Corden is going to host the awards ceremony and you can read more below:
Dick Clark productions announced today that Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, and author-activist Loung Ung will receive the "Hollywood Foreign Language Film Award," at the 21st Annual "Hollywood Film Awards" for their critically-acclaimed film First They Killed My Father, which has been selected by Cambodia's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.
Jolie also directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Ung, who also serves as executive producer and whose gripping memoir the film is based upon.
Loung was five years old when the Khmer Rouge came to power, and the story is told through her eyes, from 1975 through 1978, depicting the indomitable spirit and devotion of her family as they struggle to stay together.
Acclaimed Cambodian director and producer Rithy Panh, who is himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, and produced First They Killed My Father together with Jolie said, "We are grateful for this recognition by the HFA. In Cambodia, the film was welcomed with such success, a success beyond the normal commercial measure, with a much deeper and with lasting impact. This film comes at a time where 70% of the Cambodian population is under 30 years old. This generation is just starting to ask questions about the history of the country. This film serves as a bridge to connect them with their history."
The 2017 "Hollywood Film Awards," known as the official launch of the awards season®, will be hosted by actor and comedian James Corden for the third consecutive year and will take place at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, on Sunday, November 5, 2017. The ceremony, which honors the most acclaimed films and actors while previewing highly anticipated films and talent for the upcoming year, also acknowledges artists in the categories of Cinematography, Visual Effects, Film Composing, Costume Design, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Makeup & Hairstyling. In its 21-year history, more than 120 of the "Hollywood Film Awards" honorees have gone on to garner Oscar nominations and/or wins. This year's ceremony will benefit MPTF, which supports the entertainment community in living and aging well, with dignity and purpose, and in helping each other in times of need.
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Case of cow vigilantism surfaces in UP's Shamli
ANI | Updated: Aug 21, 2018 16:42 IST
Shamli (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug. 21 (ANI): In another case of cow vigilantism, two men were beaten up with belts and sticks allegedly by Gau Raksha Seva Dal workers on Tuesday over suspicion of being cow smugglers in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district.
According to the police, "the members of the group spotted a vehicle carrying cows in Adarsh Mandi area and stopped it. The duo on board had no proper documentation of the purchase which angered the mob."
The police have taken the two men into custody for further interrogation and a case has also been registered in this regard.
The rampant incidents of cow vigilantism in several parts of the country have become a matter of concern for the government.
On July 3, the Supreme Court strongly condemned these incidents terming them 'unacceptable'.
The three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said, "Nobody can take law into their own hands. It is the obligation of the states to see these incidents are prevented."
The Apex Court, in September last year, directed all the state governments and union territories to take active steps to put a full stop to the violence in the name of cow protection and asked them to designate special officers to keep a strong watch on the 'vigilante groups'.
In July last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also took note of such incidents and sent a stern message to cow vigilantes saying that killing in the name of cow is unacceptable."Killing people in the name of cow is unacceptable. Nobody has the right to take law into his or her hands," he had said. (ANI)
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The founder of Born Yoga has a passion for working with kids, and leads practice especially for little ones at this Birmingham yoga studio.
Born Yoga, which opened Sept. 12, 2015, is one of very few kids/families-only yoga studios in the area (or country, for that matter). It's a bright, welcoming environment designed with toddlers to teens in mind.
"The beauty of kids yoga is that it's a noncompetitive, fun activity that allows children to use their imaginations, learn social skills and be empowered," says founder Ashley Goldberg, 31, who teaches yoga and preschool. In fact, her "aha" moment for Born Yoga came from the positive response she received from her students and parents at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. Goldberg would bring her yoga expertise and enthusiasm to her classroom.
In addition to being certified in adult and children's yoga, Goldberg went on to receive special certifications in therapeutic yoga and aerial and mindfulness yoga.
What a crescent warrior pose was to an adult, Goldberg modified to a tiger pose for a tyke. And her "silly yet compassionate" personality made her a natural match.
When Goldberg was 7, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in her left femur. She survived surgeries and chemotherapy, only to have the cancer return at age 12. Today, she is cancer free. A 13-inch scar down the front of her left leg remains.
Kids entering Born Yoga will find Goldberg's favorite mantras written on a giant chalkboard wall, such as "Yogis are kind to themselves and others." She also uses the wall to play creative games with kids, like Yoga Pictionary.
Everything about the whimsical studio is done from the perspective of a child, topped by a playful round chandelier and complete with a soft foam allergen-and-latex-free floor.
Classes vary from prenatal and mommy/baby or toddler to teen yoga. Find options for ages 2-5, 6-9 and 10-12, too, plus family yoga and story time yoga for infants to age 6. Or ask about camps, birthday parties and slumber parties (which happen every other month).
Born Yoga's aerial classes, which use individual soft-fabric hammocks, are especially beneficial to kids with sensory integration issues like ADD and autism.
"I always used calm breathing to help me deal with my cancer treatments. Breathing is so important to help with anxiety, stress relief and self-regulation. What children learn here in the studio can be applied to everyday life." All balanced, of course, with plenty of fun.
Editor's note: Writer Julie Yolles is second cousin to Ashley Goldberg.


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Field Samples: Trying to Predict Ecosystem Changes Before They Occur
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they've been up to and what they've learned. Today, post-doctoral researcher, Eric Larson, from Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, talks about better managing our resources by trying to predict ecosystem changes before they occur.
Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get here?
Eric Larsen runs water samples as he hunts for eDNA of the invasive rusty crayfish in a Vilas County lake in Wisconsin. Image: Eric Larsen
I'm Eric Larson, a postdoc at the Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research at Chicago's John G. Shedd Aquarium. I'm also joint appointed with David Lodge's lab at the University of Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative. Before Chicago, I was a postdoc for two years at the University of Tennessee's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology working with Paul Armsworth on ecological economics and protected area design, largely around projects with The Nature Conservancy in Appalachia. My PhD was with Julian Olden at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I worked on the ecology and management of both native and invasive crayfishes in the Pacific Northwest. Going even farther back, I got my undergraduate degree in fisheries at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and also have a Masters in biology from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. So I've covered a lot of ground (and water) over the last decade!
Pretend we just boarded an elevator and you only have a one-minute ride to tell me about your research – can you capture it a few sentences?
I'm a conservation scientist focused primarily on protecting and managing freshwater species and ecosystems. My work is unified by an interest in improving conservation decision-making under data-limited circumstances. Ideally, we'd like to be able to anticipate species at risk of extinction before they begin experiencing population declines, or predict species likely to become invasive before they're introduced to new environments. In both of those cases, we're often limited by the data available to make predictions. I'm trying to get the most out of our statistical and modeling methods, so we can see around the corner and anticipate environmental challenges before they happen. By being proactive on these issues, we save money spent on management or mitigation, and hopefully prevent unwanted impacts to species and ecosystems.
What question did you ask and answer or do you hope to answer? What other questions might your work lead scientists to ask?
Although my work tries to push at the boundaries of what we can infer given our considerable data limitations, I also care about trying to reduce those data limitations themselves. For example, I work primarily on crayfish, a taxonomic group where perhaps a third to half of the over 300 species native to the United States are considered vulnerable to extinction. For the vast majority of those species, we know almost nothing about their basic biology or life history. That type of natural history research is increasingly difficult to fund and publish, but is the foundation for managing and conserving these species, or asking more complex questions about their ecology. So how do we make research into the basic biology of these organisms appealing (and fund-able) to researchers? How do we do it in a systematic way that stretches our limited resources to fill in the most important data gaps? I've been involved in launching a Southeastern Crayfish Biologists Working Group with a number of other researchers around the US to start tackling that question, and it's my hope that we'll succeed in both expanding our understanding of the basic natural history of crayfishes for conservation applications while also learning some new and exciting things about these organisms.
Pacifastacus leniusculus, or the "signal crayfish." Photo: Jeff Benca
Not to sound harsh, but why should someone NOT in the field of freshwater sciences care about your work? What's a bigger picture implication, in other words?
Freshwater is so central to human society and quality of life that I don't think it's difficult to motivate most people to care about it. Whether it's drinking water quality or aesthetics and recreation, people are inclined to care about rivers and lakes, and the organisms that live in them. Incidentally, almost everyone I meet is curious about crayfish, or has a story about catching crayfish as a kid or attending crawfish boils. They're great, charismatic organisms to engage people both inside and outside of science with how we both depend on and affect freshwaters. It probably irritates my family and friends how easily I can steer almost any conversation into crayfish, and from there into freshwater ecology and conservation more broadly.
What do you love about your work? What do you love, well, not-so-much?
Lake Shikotsu, Japan. One of the perks of field work. Photo: Eric Larsen
I grew up in Wyoming, and a close family friend was a biologist with the state fish and wildlife agency. From hanging out with him at his job, I figured out pretty early on that it was possible to have a career outdoors working with nature, and that just seemed like the most appealing way to possibly spend my professional life. And that's what I still love most about my job: field work, the incredible places I've visited to do research, and the new things I've had the opportunity to discover about the world. Over the course of my graduate career, I transitioned from just being excited that someone would actually pay me to spend time outdoors, to being excited that I could build a career out of discovering new things and sharing that knowledge with the world. There's nothing I'd rather be doing with my life, and I don't find a lot of drawbacks to my career.
But I did arrive here from being a high school and undergraduate student who was not particularly enthusiastic about math and statistics; that was what I didn't love early in my professional life. If I could send a message back to myself in the year 2000, it would be to pay more attention in math and statistics classes, and probably take more of them.
If you're anticipating a career in the sciences, you're eventually going to have to engage with the reality that math, statistics, modeling, or coding will be part of your work. The more you choose to embrace that, then the more successful you'll likely be.
Obviously, like any profession, ecologists face trade-offs with respect to how we choose to spend our time during our education. How do you balance learning the classic literature in the field, staying current on what's new, training to be a naturalist and field biologist, becoming a strong writer and communicator, and figuring out statistics and modeling? You can't necessarily do it all, or can't do it all at once. But everyone needs a little math or statistics in the recipe to be successful, and that's something I didn't believe (or want to believe) early on.
Tell me about one funny, memorable, exciting or awesome moment from the lab or the field.
I'm heading into my fifteenth year of doing field biology, and there have been too many great experiences to easily recount. For example, I always loved the camaraderie of field research crews when I was an undergraduate technician; the best summers of my life were spent conducting stream surveys for trout and salmon out west with the Forest Service and Idaho Fish and Game.
But I would say that my most interesting and challenging field season was the summer of 2008, when I visited Japan as a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Islands Summer Institute (EAPSI) fellow, hosted by Nisikawa Usio, who is now at Kanazawa University. I did a summer's field work in national parks on the northern island of Hokkaido, getting lost in my rental car and spending nights in small, rural inns all over the countryside. Conducting field research always has its challenges, and those challenges are compounded by language and cultural barriers. But I had a great experience and was able to do some really good work for my PhD, and I'm so grateful to everyone who helped me and showed me kindness when I was bumbling my way through that project. And it probably doesn't hurt my memories of that summer that I was working in some of the most beautiful lakes in the world.
Where do you hope to go from here? New research questions? Continuing with this work?
Two things really excite me about my current position. One is the incredible opportunity to contribute to outreach and education about freshwaters through Shedd Aquarium. Shedd is an exceptional platform to reach a broad and diverse audience about the role of freshwater in our lives, and how we can meaningfully affect the management and conservation of freshwater resources like the Great Lakes. I really enjoy the opportunities that Shedd affords to meet and talk with the public and school groups about my research, crayfish, and freshwater ecology and conservation in general.
And I'm also excited about the opportunity to work and collaborate with the laboratory of David Lodge at Notre Dame. That includes inheriting access to a wealth of data and natural history knowledge about organisms like the invasive rusty crayfish Orconectes rusticus in lakes of northern Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as learning new field and laboratory skills around the emerging methodology of environmental DNA (eDNA). The Lodge Lab has pioneered the use of eDNA (environmental DNA) to monitor and detect species invasions in the Great Lakes region and elsewhere, and I've enjoyed the opportunity to add experience with eDNA to my ecologist's toolbox. Using eDNA to detect new invasions at population sizes where control or eradication is most feasible and cost effective really meshes with my research interests, and it's been interesting to begin applying this tool to study crayfish populations.
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Andrew Hamilton appointed president of NYU
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Andrew Hamilton, who will succeed John Sexton as the university president, served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford starting 2009.
By Valentina Duque Bojanini and Marita Vlachou
The university has announced that Andrew Hamilton, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, will succeed John Sexton as the 16th president of NYU. In an email sent Wednesday, the university said Hamilton would begin his tenure as president in January of 2016.
The search for a new president started in September 2014 with the creation of a Presidential Search Committee, comprising trustees, faculty, students and administrators. The committee received over 200 nominations and held 27 listening sessions before narrowing down the list of candidates.
Hamilton served as provost of Yale University from 2004 to 2008. Aside from his administrative positions, Hamilton was a professor of chemistry at Oxford, Yale University, Princeton University and the University of Pittsburgh.
As president of NYU, Hamilton said he will work to make education affordable for all students by continuing NYU's fundraising efforts, including the Momentum Campaign, to provide better financial aid.
"During my time in Oxford and indeed when I was provost at Yale I placed the highest priority on affordability of education and most importantly about ensuring that the cost is not an impediment to those particularly from disadvantaged income backgrounds," Hamilton said. "When I come to NYU I'm going to want to play a very active role in that fundraising campaign and I hope we will blow through a billion dollars quickly and actually set a higher goal."
Hamilton added that he wants to focus on academics and teaching, but in order for students to have access to the best quality education, investment in new facilities will be required.
"I hope I'll be able to bring a very strong emphasis on core academic issues, the teaching that we offer our students, the high quality of research that's carried out in NYC and in the overseas campuses," Hamilton said. "We are making sure that the faculty and the students carrying out research have the very best experience possible and that will mean investment, that will mean building new buildings, all great universities must invest in their facilities, otherwise they will fall behind, they will fall behind worldwide competitors, we will lose students, we will lose outstanding faculty. "
In an email to the NYU community, the university and the Presidential Search Committee said they believed Hamilton is the right fit for NYU and will help move the university forward.
"Everywhere he has served has benefited from the quality and style of his leadership," the email reads. "It was clear to us that he understood NYU — our urban character, our distinctive global presence, our vibrancy, our diverse community, our focus on the future, our innovative spirit, our sense of being on the move and our habit of exceeding others' expectations."
CAS senior and student member of the Presidential Search Committee Jules O'Connor said she was confident the committee had made the right choice.
"I think that he will do great things at the university and the whole committee really felt that throughout the entire process he was really the one who encompassed a lot of the qualities, if not every quality, that we were looking for: a strong leader, a great visionary, someone who is really willing and able to keep moving the university forward," O'Connor said.
Sexton said in a press release that being president of NYU has been a great privilege, but he is looking forward to seeing what Hamilton will do for the university.
"I know and admire him, and I am certain he will do great things for the University," Sexton said. For my own part, I have had no higher calling in my life than to be a teacher and to contribute to building strong institutions. For nearly 35 years, I have had the exceptional privilege of being able to do both those things at NYU."
Email them at [email protected].
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When Jacksonville entered its bye week winless, the goal was to turn things around in the second half of the season.
'We struggled to throw and catch and do some of the simple things,' Houston coach Gary Kubiak said.
Houston hadn't made a first down on four straight possessions and had just 20 total yards before a 29-yard run by Johnson 4½ minutes before halftime. But the offense soon stalled again after Keenum was sacked and the Texans settled for a 49-yard field goal to cut the lead to 10-3 at halftime.


One of my girl crushes is Kate Hudson, not just for her incredible red carpet fashion style, but also for her killer body, basically she is my gym-inspiration so I am pretty excited about her new fitness line, Fabletics.
Inspired by her own personal wardrobe and active lifestyle, Fabletics is fashionable and affordable, you can get a whole outfit for as little as £44, plus the collection really does cater for all body shapes and has a really funky, fun Californian vibe that will make you want to hit the gym.
I went to check out the collection a few weeks ago and I was super impressed, the fabrics are soft with added stretch, they look fun, and I really loved how so many of the items layered together perfectly, which is probably why the label is all about outfits. You can pick up a sports bra, a loose T-shirt and cropped leggings – everything Kate says you needs for a workout – I just wish you also got her body when wearing her designs!!!
To get the best price for an outfit you have to become a VIP member of Fabletics, where you receive a whole new fitness outfit every four weeks, if you don't like anything that month you can just opt out, but you have to do so within a time limit, which to be honest can be a little annoying and I always seem to forget.
But if you workout a lot, like to change up your look and generally buy a lot of sportswear each month then this subscription service could work for you as you do save up to 40% off retail prices with the VIP membership. However, if you are like me and rotates about three outfits that you feel comfortable in and rarely get new fitness gear you might want to just shop the line as a regular member.
What do you think of Kate Hudson's Fabletics fitness collection? Would you wear to the gym?
I picked out these black leggings with the sheer panels and I can't wait to wear them – don't they just look slimming.


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7 big questions heading into Canucks training camp
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While the 2018-19 edition of the Vancouver Canucks isn't expected to be very good, training camp should be.
With players reporting to camp on Thursday and on-ice sessions beginning on Friday, let's dive into the biggest questions surrounding the Canucks before they begin the preseason on Tuesday.
1. Who's going to be the captain?
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The Canucks will enter training camp without a captain for the first time in eight years.
Bo Horvat is the heir apparent, but Jim Benning has hinted that the team may go in a different direction regarding who wears the C.
"Travis [Green] and I have talked about this," Benning said in an interview on TSN 1040 last month. "We're going to continue to talk about it. Bo's a leader of our young players already in that group, but we have other good leadership on the team and we want him to continue to work on his development as a player and do all the things that he's capable of.
"We're going to have more conversations in the next couple weeks to decide if we're going to name a captain this year or go with three assistants."
Horvat, 23, now has four seasons of NHL experience and ticks a lot of boxes to be the team's next leader. He's probably ready for it, but the Canucks have the luxury to wait a year to make sure.
Henrik Sedin wasn't given the C until opening night in 2010. Will they do the same with Horvat?
2. Who plays with Horvat and Boeser on the first line?
Horvat and Brock Boeser took over from the Sedins as the team's top offensive producers last year and enter this season as two-thirds of an undisputed top line.
Question is, who's going to join them?
Sven Baertschi was given the plum assignment on most nights last season, but Green could elect to spread the wealth.
The so-called garbage-goal king, Loui Eriksson could benefit from cashing in on Boeser rebounds. Brendan Leipsic brings some grit, skill, and speed that could compliment them.
Or perhaps rookie Elias Pettersson slides in on the wing – though we don't know what position he'll play yet.
3. Is Pettersson a centre or a winger?
Pettersson was drafted as a centre – a position the Canucks desperately need to solidify following Henrik Sedin's retirement.
Still just 19, Pettersson is rail thin, so it remains to be seen if he can withstand the rigours of a physically-demanding position. The Canucks could elect to start the season with him on the wing, where he played a majority of his record-breaking season in Sweden last year.
If they stick with him at centre, he'll likely need support. Playing him with a defensively-responsible player like Eriksson, a fellow Swede, makes sense. If he needs help on faceoffs, they could move Brandon Sutter to the wing.
4. How many rookies make the opening night lineup?
For a rebuilding team, the Canucks sure have stocked themselves with a lot of veterans.
Pettersson's a shoo-in, but after that, it could be tough.
Adam Gaudette is probably the most NHL-ready rookie available, but his inclusion on the roster will mean putting another veteran on waivers. Jonathan Dahlen looked good at Young Stars in Penticton, but he'll really need to stand out to earn a spot.
Olli Juolevi is another candidate, though his unassuming game doesn't lend itself to 'banging down the door' to earn a spot. Thatcher Demko's time in Utica is nearly up, though with Jacob Markstrom and Anders Nilsson signed to NHL contracts, he'll need to continue to prove himself in Utica.
5. Who will end up on waivers?
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As it stands, the Canucks will risk losing one veteran on waivers – probably Brendan Gaunce – assuming no injuries. If another rookie sticks, it likely means that Nikolay Goldobin, Brendan Leipsic, Sam Gagner, Markus Granlund, or newly-acquired Tim Schaller could wind up on waivers as well.
This also assumes the Canucks keep seven defencemen and 14 forwards, meaning Alex Biega is destined for the waiver wire. For Juolevi to stick under those circumstances, someone like Ben Hutton or Derrick Pouliot would need to be exposed.
6. Will Olli Juolevi look out of place?
This is an important year for Juolevi.
It hasn't been smooth sailing for the 20-year-old blueliner since being picked fifth overall in the draft more than two years ago.
It's important for the franchise that he develops into a top-four defenceman, so starting him in Utica is probably the right course of action. Give him meaningful minutes and watch him grow – he's coming off an off-season back surgery, so that's the likely path with the possibility of a call-up once injuries start taking their toll later in the season.
Until then, it'll be very interesting to see how he performs during the preseason. He didn't look at home last year at this time. If he duplicates that performance, it will be cause for concern.
7. Will anyone surprise us?
The Canucks will be looking for some surprises this season, the good kind, that involve players taking an unexpected step forward.
Power forward Jake Virtanen turned 22 over the summer and the path has never been clearer for him to earn ice time. Goldobin is less than a month away from his 23rd birthday, and will need to gain the trust of the coach in order to show off his skill.
Leipsic, 24, scored nine points in 14 games with the Canucks following a trade with the Vegas Golden Knights. Was that a blip or a sign of good things to come?
Is Granlund the player we saw in 2016-17 that was on a 20-goal pace or a fourth-line checker? Are the three new free agent signings – Jay Beagle, Antoine Roussel, and Schaller – as bad as many fear?
On defence, Hutton's playing for a contract. Can he escape the coach's doghouse?
Can Markstrom stay consistent? He had a shaky start to last season but quietly settled down after January 1, putting together a .917 save percentage in his final 32 appearances.
There are more questions than that, but we haven't got much more time to address them. Let the post-Sedin era begin.
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A classic collection of fairy tales and folklore from various parts of Europe, including such well known tales as "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "Rapunzel", as well as many, many more that are not nearly so well known.
Several well known authors, including Neil Gaiman, have cited this book as a source of inspiration. So, I had to read it as see what it was all about. And certainly, several of the tales were rather incredible. I loved the tone and slightly altered telling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," for example, and it was fun to read all the tales that I'd never heard of before.
The sheer size of the book almost works against it however, and I wouldn't recommend reading it from beginning to end, unless you want the tropes of the fairy tale hammered into your head. Reading it straight through, as I did, took on a level of redundancy. There are variations in every tale, of course, but the actions are often the same. Hero/heroin must face three test, is helped by magical being and ends up marrying a prince/princess. There are many other tropes. Hero is told not to do something, he does and is told he will never see his bride again, until he makes up for it. Pretty daughter is good and kind receives rewards, ugly daughter is lazy so is punished, but when pretty daughter marries the king, ugly daughter tricks her and tries to take her place. Etc.
I love fairy tales enough to work my way through it, and this really is an excellent and thorough collection, but it would have been better to read it in bits one tale when ever the mood took me, rather than ploughing straight through.
When Babo leaves Madras, India to study in London, he finds only loneliness and cold, that is until he meets Sian. When he meets her, he immediately falls in love with a ba-da-boom boom boom of his heart. Though his strict Jain parents are horrified by his new love, they are willing to make a compromise. If Babo and Sian wish to marry, they must live with his parents in Madras for two years -- after which point, they can live where they please.
So, Sian leaves Britain's shores and flies to India, where she learns how to properly wear a sari, how to behave as a good India wife should, and how to temper the isolation and loneliness of living in a new country. Babo and Sian are an island unto themselves and their love is passionate and forgiving.
But this story is not just about Babo and Sian. It is about the nature of family (both in Madras and Wales), and how each individual member stands both rooted in its foundations and as a solitary pillar in the world. Each family member, from the great grandmother (who accepts the purity of Babo's love for Sian without question) to Babo's brother (who is somewhat lost in his position as second son), is opened like a fruit, with their soul, ripe with love and loneliness barred for the reader to see.
Tishani Doshi's prose is like crystal, clear and deeply resonate. This novel, evocative, sweetly painful, and compassionate, is one of my favorites of the year.
My second read of Atwood's lovely collection of poetry ingrained them even more into my imagination. Her poetry creates a mythology of the everyday and brings a feel of reality to mythological tales, often speaking from the point of view of a previously silent woman. This is a beautiful collection, which I will be adding to my personal book shelf as soon as I can.
This fascinating collection of essays by poet Barbara Guest looks at nature of art and poetry and discusses the idea of imagination in a poets life and work. Her style essays are often poetry in and of themselves, delving into strong form and powerful language to convey her ideas. This is a book that should really be read multiple times and discussed among a group, as her thoughts are open to multiple interpretations.
Celiane lives in the Haitian mountains with her mother and brother while her father works in New York, sending money and recordings of his voice home to his family when he can. After surving a bombing at and being witness to increasing violence in Port-au-Prince surrounding the 2000 elections, Celiene and her family holes up into her aunt's house for safety to afraid to go outside and hoping that her father will be able to send for her soon.
This is not my favorite of Danticat's work. It's good, but I feel that Danticat doesn't work well in the diary format. Also, since I've read several of her books, I feel that she's stuck in this story of a child coming from Haiti to the U.S. I know that she is drawing from her own life with this storyline. However, I also feel that she's already told this story and told it better with Breath, Eyes, Memory, which was much more richly textured.
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Tete is purchased as a young girl by Toulouse Valmorain's as a gift for his new wife and works as a domestic slave within the household. A series of events binds both Valmorain and Tete together, and carries them from war the war torn Saint-Domingue to Cuba and finally to Louisianna. All the while Tete longs and plots for her freedom, taking and holding on tightly to what joys, hope, and passions she can obtain as a slave.
The scope of this novel is huge, switching back and forth between third person POV and Tete's own POV. Allende is thorough in her history (however accurate), describing in detail the brutal rebellion of slaves on the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue and how the island, later known as Haiti, became the first free black country in the Carribean. From there, she weaves her story briefly through the Cuban landscape, where white refugees are forced to flee, and finally land in Louisianna, where she presents a very different world than that of Saint-Domingue.
Tete has a subdued quality throughout the book. All her life she has had to suppress her own emotions in the face of her own reality, filled with horrors, so it is no surprise that when she tells her tone seems nearly disinterested almost flat. But she is not a woman without passions, which have lain in the quiet depths of her heart. Her battles have been quiet subterfuges and she has had to face her life with simultaneous complacency and secret resistance.
The people who swim around Tete, such as Valmorain and his mad wife or the doctor who often visits to the plantation, are each treated with tenderness and respect. Allende works hard to leave judgment out and to let the reader observe and judge each character on their own terms.
Finishing up the The Good Neighbors trilogy, Kind makes it all the more clear that our kindly neighborhood fairies are not so good or kind. Now that Rue's city is trapped in the fairy world, things have not calmed down -- her boyfriend is still being eaten alive by water sprites, her father is on the crazy train, and groups of humans and fairies are at war with one another.
While this entire series is very short and could have done with some expansion of plot and characterization, it's still quite good and an enjoyable tale of the fairy world.
A collection of essays (and handful of short stories) from chick-lit and modern literary authors assesses the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice. It's a fun light-hearted criticism of the book, addressing it from a modern perspective, even going so far as to imagine what it might be like if Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters had to deal with cell phones or if the book was actually a reality TV show. Some of the essays are better than others, but most of them were easy reads with enough I-hadn't-thought-about-it-that-way throughout to hold my interest.
In book three of the Enchanted, Inc. series Katie Chandler is finally getting what she desires. Owen Phillips, the hottie wizard (and possibly perfect man) at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc. has asked her out -- except Katie now has to deal with a meddling fairy godmother, their enemies are up to something, and every date they go on goes horribly, horribly wrong.
This book, like the previous two before it, is extremely funny and cute. It's intelligent and fun chick-lit with a likable heroine, who can stand on her own two feet and doesn't want to bother with being a damsel in distress (she'll save herself, if she can, thank you very much). Now that I finished this book, I'm itching to read the fourth. I can't wait to see what happens next to all of the characters, and I hope she gets enough sales to publish the fifth and six books in the series.
Yarrow and De Lint's work in general. His brand of urban fantasy is ... compassionate, I guess, and all too real. It feels like I could at any moment step into that Otherworld. But this is a wonderful story, beautiful and frightening, and if you haven't read any De Lint yet, you really should.
In a time when Haiti in the process of political change, Djo has been brutally attacked and beaten and lies close to death. Jeremie, a young woman from a local convent school, has been assigned to come sit with him and record his tale, so that it will not be lost. As he tells her his story -- how he became one of "Titid's Boys", became a car washer, and was dragged off to the Dominican Republic to cut cane -- an affection and friendship grows between them.
This is the kind of book I would have read in school, serving as kind of educational tool to show what live might have been like for young people in a country torn apart be violence and how they choose to wake up and take a stand in what ways they can. It is a good story with good writing, however, the association I had with school reading took away some of the enjoyment. I kept feeling like I was supposed to learn something from this, as though I might have to write an essay about it later, rather than getting wrapped up and passionate about the storyline. But this probably has more to do with my own bias rather than any flaws in the book.
For years Sophie Cacao has lived with her aunt Atie, while her mother has been away in New York working to send money back to her family in Haiti. To Sophie, her mother is a stranger, and she is heart broken when her mother sends for her and she must leave her Tante Atie and travel to New York. When she arrives there, Sophie learns that there are deep secrets and painful past horrors that her mother has carried with her all the way from Haiti, and it will only be by returning to Haiti that Sophie will be able to begin heal the long history of her family's wounds.
To be honest, the first time I read this I didn't appreciate it as much as I did this second time around. This is one of Danticat's earlier works, and reading it again reminds me why I came to love her writing. In this earlier work, there is a deeper feeling of truth to her writing. He prose is clear and poetic, and she pulls no punches as she lays out before us her characters lives, all their pleasure, all their pain. It's a beautiful book, for all the brutality -- not just from the macoutes, but from each other -- that these women must survive and eventually come to terms with.
A very cute retelling of Rapunzel. Is it a bit two-dimensional, perhaps, but it's also lots of fun. The characters are wonderful, and if I were a kid again I would have been gaga over all that hair.
I think Legacy does an excellent job of continuing the storyline from the first movie. Neither the first nor the second are the greatest stories ever told, but even in the first one, it was more about the action and amazing visual effects more than the storyline, but there was enough there to be entertained. Here we have the same kind of thing going on, so it works for me.
This sequel to the series was just as good as the first. Noomi Rapace, who plays Lizbeth, is really fantastic in her role. She's almost androgynous looking at times, which adds to it, but the main thing is that she can pull off that icy hardness while still being able to make us care about her.
A completely ridiculous move about three women fighters (including Michelle Yeoh), who eventually come together to stop an evil mastermind from kidnapping children for an ancient ritual. I'm sure the English dubbing (not my preferred way of watching) contributed to the silliness of the whole thing.
I was flipping channels and saw this was on. I mean to just pause for a moment, but ended up watching the entire thing. It's a good version and follows the book pretty closely, though the pretentious attitude of the time traveler when he encountered the Eloians was annoying.
I love reading poetry, too. It's so inspiring to me as a poet.


Visually see who is calling before you answer the phone, and then decide if you want to answer or let it ring to voicemail (or Call Forward No Answer, if activated).
See who is calling before you answer the phone.
Even when you are on the phone, the call display will show you who is on Call Waiting (if enabled).