A Course in Miracles (often called just "the Course") is a self-study course for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although it uses Christian terminology, it is ecumenical in its approach, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world's most hallowed traditions.
The Course is pragmatic in its method, and its aim is a peaceful mind: "Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is. Nevertheless, the Course frequently emphasizes its simplicity.
The story of the Course began when, in the midst of an environment of intense competition and negative attitudes, Columbia University clinical psychologist Dr. William T. Thetford decided he had had enough and declared to his colleague, Dr. Helen Schucman, "There must be another way, and I'm determined to find it." Dr. Schucman vowed to help him.
What ensued was a dramatic progression of waking dreams for Schucman, which culminated in October 1965 with her experience of a voice which spoke clearly in her mind, saying "This is a course in miracles. Please take notes."
With Thetford's support and assistance in transcribing her shorthand notes, Schucman took down some fifteen hundred typewritten pages of A Course in Miracles over a period of seven years.
Schucman did not claim to be the author of the material herself. As she often explained, she heard a kind of inner dictation and she felt compelled to write it down, even though at times she disagreed with the content and resisted the process. The voice which spoke through Helen clearly identifies himself as Jesus. Nonetheless, one need not be Christian nor accept Christianity's traditional doctrines to benefit from the teachings of the Course. Indeed, traditional Christians will at first find many of the pronouncements contained in this work to be startling and perhaps unbelievable. Persistence and open-mindedness will nevertheless be rewarded.
The dictation of A Course in Miracles was completed in September 1972 and resulted in three volumes—the Text, the Workbook for Students, and the Manual for Teachers. As the development of the material progressed, Schucman and Thetford faced the formidable task of organizing the original typescript (often called the "Urtext") into what would become A Course in Miracles. They divided the Text into chapters and sections and gave titles to each, and they removed a great deal of material from the early chapters, material they believed was meant for them personally, not for the Course. The edition that resulted from those efforts is the book you hold in your hands.
The Text volume of the Original Edition has undergone an evolutionary process since the 1972 manuscript of A Course in Miracles was discovered and released on the internet in late 1999. In early 2000 Course in Miracles Society (CIMS) printed the 1972 manuscript of the text as Jesus' Course in Miracles. Distribution of that book was suspended during the continuance of the copyright litigation, which was concluded in 2006.
In November 2006 the initial printing of the Original Edition (referred to as the 2006 Printing), containing the Workbook for Students and Manual for Teachers in addition to the Text, was released. The 2006 Printing corrected numerous typographic errors, misspellings, and aberrant punctuation that had appeared in the original 1972 manuscript and which were reproduced in the Jesus' Course in Miracles edition.
There was a second printing in 2009 (referred to as the 2009 Printing) which continued the process of correcting errors in the manuscript. In this undertaking the editors for the first time looked back to earlier manuscripts and restored material that appeared to have been inadvertently or mistakenly omitted in retyping. This process of restoration has continued through the 2012, 2017, and 2018 Printings, adhering always to the fundamental directive, "fidelity to Source." Among the improvements, beginning with the 2012 Printing, was the updating of paragraph numbering in Chapters 2, 9, 26, and 27, necessitated mainly by the restoration of material from an earlier manuscript. Paragraph renumbering is described in footnotes where pertinent.
In its continuing evolution, this Original Edition faithfully reproduces the original transcript of the book that was the result of the collaboration between Schucman and Thetford, whom many believe were involved with each other in the "holy relationship" described in Chapters 17 through 22 of the Text. This edition preserves the original language of the dictation of those chapters, which were addressed to the two collaborators as they worked together to produce the manuscript. Later editing of the manuscript changed the focus of these important chapters and addresses them to a solitary reader, removing the mutuality that is explicit in the original dictation.
While we honor that edition of the Course, we believe that the additional editing resulted both in shifts of meaning and a change in the over-all tone of the work. When encountering Schucman and Thetford's Original Edition, students often find fresh clarity as they read its wording or new understanding as they encounter passages that were not included in the later 1975 edition. In the case of editing, it seems to us that the "less-is-best" rule applies—the less tampering with the eloquent and carefully worded dictation that Schucman received, the better.
We would be remiss were we to fail to acknowledge the selfless support provided to the Course in Miracles Society by its members and others. From its earliest days, the work of the Society has been enabled by tireless contributions of labor and generous financial support provided by many individuals whose only compensation has been the satisfaction of fostering the circulation of this sacred writing in the world. Publication of this edition, in particular, has been underwritten by a substantial grant from a member who wishes to remain anonymous. To those supporters and all of our members, we extend a sincere "thank you." We are most grateful.
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McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has begun construction on the 53 MW Millington Solar Farm in Millington, Tenn.
The project represents a public-private partnership between Nashville-based Silicon Ranch Corp.; the U.S. Navy; Tennessee Valley Authority; Memphis Light, Gas and Water; and the Millington Industrial Development Board.
The 402-acre, utility-scale solar plant will host 580,000 single-axis photovoltaic panels, representing the largest solar energy project in Tennessee, according to McCarthy. Construction is scheduled to be complete at the end of this year.
The developer, Silicon Ranch, an independent solar power producer, selected McCarthy's renewable energy team as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor. McCarthy is thus responsible for the design, procurement, construction and commissioning of the facility. Silicon Ranch is funding the installation and will own and operate the array.
McCarthy is seeking to hire local subcontractors and craftsmen to provide the bulk of on-site work for the project's construction, just as the company has done for all other Silicon Ranch facilities it has built. The facility's construction is expected to support more than 300 jobs, and McCarthy will provide local workers with on-site training in pile driving, tracker assembly and panel installation.
The U.S. Navy provided a long-term lease of 72 acres of base land at the Naval Support Activity Mid-South to accommodate part of the array, while the remainder of the land was purchased from the Millington Industrial Development Board.


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The Allen W. Dulles Papers contains correspondence, speeches, writings, and photographs documenting the life of this lawyer, diplomat, businessman, and spy. One of the longest-serving directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (1953-1961), he also served in a key intelligence post in Bern, Switzerland during World War II, as well as on the Warren Commission.
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Allen W. Dulles (1893-1969), though a diplomat and lawyer, was renowned for his role in shaping United States intelligence operations, including the longest service as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Allen W. Dulles Digital Files contain scanned images of professional correspondence, reports, lectures, and administrative papers, declassified and released by the CIA in 2007. The collection spans Dulles's time as Chief of the Office of Strategic Services office in Bern, Switzerland during World War II, his work at the Central Intelligence Agency, and his retirement.
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William E. Colby, Princeton University Class of 1940, was a career agent in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Director of Central Intelligence from 1973-1976. However, the bulk of the collection documents his post-CIA career and contains correspondence, speeches, writings, newspaper clippings, and subject files that reflect Colby's professional and private interests.
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Runway cottage has a lovely ight and sunny open plan kitchen/ lounge with all mod cons, large flat screen t.v, hob, oven, dishwasher, fridge/freezer etc.
A large modern shower room with large shower and constant hot water, toilet, wash hand Basin and fluffy soft towels.
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"""This example gets non-removed responsive search ads in a specified ad group.

To add responsive search ads, run add_responsive_search_ad.py. To get ad groups,
run get_ad_groups.py.

The LoadFromStorage method is pulling credentials and properties from a
"googleads.yaml" file. By default, it looks for this file in your home
directory. For more information, see the "Caching authentication information"
section of our README.

"""

from googleads import adwords

PAGE_SIZE = 500
AD_GROUP_ID = 'INSERT_AD_GROUP_ID_HERE'

def main(client, ad_group_id):
  # Initialize appropriate service.
  ad_group_ad_service = client.GetService('AdGroupAdService', version='v201809')

  # Construct selector and get all ads for a given ad group.
  offset = 0
  selector = {
      'fields': ['Id', 'Status', 'ResponsiveSearchAdHeadlines',
                 'ResponsiveSearchAdDescriptions'],
      'predicates': [
          {
              'field': 'AdGroupId',
              'operator': 'EQUALS',
              'values': [ad_group_id]
          },
          {
              'field': 'AdType',
              'operator': 'EQUALS',
              'values': ['RESPONSIVE_SEARCH_AD']
          }
      ],
      'paging': {
          'startIndex': str(offset),
          'numberResults': str(PAGE_SIZE)
      },
      'ordering': [
          {
              'field': 'Id',
              'sortOrder': 'ASCENDING'
          }
      ]
  }

  more_pages = True
  while more_pages:
    page = ad_group_ad_service.get(selector)

    # Display results.
    if 'entries' in page:
      for ad_group_ad in page['entries']:
        ad = ad_group_ad['ad']
        print ('Responsive search ad with status %s and id "%d" was found.\n'
               'Headlines:\n%s\n'
               'Descriptions:\n%s'
               % (ad_group_ad['status'], ad['id'],
                  '\n'.join(['\t%s (pinned to %s)' %
                             (headline['asset']['assetText'],
                              headline['pinnedField'])
                             for headline in ad['headlines']]),
                  '\n'.join(['\t%s (pinned to %s)' %
                             (headline['asset']['assetText'],
                              headline['pinnedField'])
                             for headline in ad['descriptions']])))
    else:
      print 'No ads were found.'
    offset += PAGE_SIZE
    selector['paging']['startIndex'] = str(offset)
    more_pages = offset < int(page['totalNumEntries'])

if __name__ == '__main__':
  # Initialize client object.
  adwords_client = adwords.AdWordsClient.LoadFromStorage()

  main(adwords_client, AD_GROUP_ID)

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Q: Making an averaging program I am trying to make a program that finds the average of a dynamic number of doubles but I need to reference items from other methods.
public int count = 0;
    public double[] nums = new double[1000];
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        label3.Text = "";
    }

    public void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        count++;
        string mucho = textBox1.Text;
        nums[count] = Double.Parse(mucho);
        string countstr = Convert.ToString(count);
        label3.Text = countstr;
    }

    public void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        double average = 0;
        int count2 = 0;
        string countstr2 = label3.Text;
        int value = Convert.ToInt32(countstr2);
        while (count2 <= value)
        {
            count2++;
            average = +nums[count2];
        }
        double average2;
        average2 = average / count2;
        string ans = Convert.ToString(average2);
        label2.Text = ans;
    }

A: just use a List or write your own average function
   private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        List<double> dynDouble = new List<double>();

        // TODO Cast your array to a List<double>

        double result = dynDouble.Average();
    }

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Applying to colleges and preparing for the next leg of your academic career is a stressful and chaotic time for everyone. But knowing these 250 words will help you prepare for a new world of academic rigors.
Every year, tens of thousands of families trust Edward Fiske, author of the #1 bestsellingFiske Guide to Collegesand the former education editor of the New York Times, as their guidefor honest advice on creating the best educational experience possible. Together with vocabulary experts Jane Mallison and David Hatcher, Fiske 250 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Knowteaches students the most important words they will encounter in college, across a wide range of subjects and skill levels.
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Easy way to save to calendar?
I send a lot of event emails and have not found an easy way to create a link to download a calendar file.
The last test I did (here: http://t.co/8VLRlVlRnQ), I had to upload a .ics file to a server and then add a bunch of script to it (and it still didn't work on mobile). My event platform doesn't offer any options for creating this link. Any ideas on an easy way to populate a calendar event (needs to work for Outlook)?
I've not done this myself but have stumbled over some related article recently that may help.
"Only servers that support the WebDAV protocol play nicely with the sharing of calendar files"
For Outlook I'm not too sure, I just tried running an outlook meeting invite email through Litmus scope hoping to find a solution but nothing showed up in the code. But I'm sure there must be a way to get this.
Hope that helps. If I get time I'll do some testing, can see this being useful for a lot of people.
Thanks for the articles, Mark. The WebDAV protocol is where I'm having issues. It shows as code on a mobile device and it's not a good user experience. I'll keep you posted if I can come up with a way around that.
Can you describe what part isn't working? Also, how are you sending them with your test? Attached, or as a link tot he web-hosted version?


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using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace HelloXamarinForms
{
	public partial class App : Application
	{
		public App()
		{
			InitializeComponent();

			MainPage = new HelloXamarinFormsPage();
		}

		protected override void OnStart()
		{
			// Handle when your app starts
		}

		protected override void OnSleep()
		{
			// Handle when your app sleeps
		}

		protected override void OnResume()
		{
			// Handle when your app resumes
		}
	}
}


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Horoscopes: To read or not to read
by Marcia Montenegro
Have you ever glanced over at the horoscope column in a newspaper or magazine just for "fun" or out of curiosity? Do you even deliberately look for it each day?
As you do so, maybe you say things like, "I don't take this seriously," "it's just like reading the funnies," "I know a lot of people who do this," or perhaps "I don't really believe in astrology so it's okay." Or maybe you are really looking for guidance.
The word "horoscope," which comes from the Greek and means, "watcher of the hour," was first coined in an ancient, declining Greece that began to tolerate astrology after long resisting it. Horoscopes, as innocuous as they may appear, are not just products of the imagination. The authors of these columns are usually astrologers; some are psychics.
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Between 33% and 41% of world land risks desertification
The unsustainability of human behaviour is reflected in the dramatic deterioration of the earth's land, which is already affecting between 1,5 to 2 billion people as the latest report by UNCCD
If it's true that humanity is "living off its ecological credit card and can only do so by liquidating the planet's natural resources", as Mathis Wackernagel, director of Global Footprint Network, puts it, then this credit is ostensibly drying out. The unsustainability of human behaviour is reflected in the dramatic deterioration of the earth's land, which is already affecting between 1,5 to 2 billion people as the latest report by UNCCD, which was published on May 14, shows. Desertification is, by definition, irreversible, as the UN Convention that is designed to prevent it well knows. In between, there are various degrees of progressive depletion and ruin. Although there is no official agreement about the extension of drylands and areas affected by desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD), the study estimates a worldwide range "between 33% and 41%, 46% in Africa". In Europe, the report says, 13 countries are under threat. Spain is well aware of this, to the extent that it has given funds and scientific support to the UNCCD research: "This is not just a global environmental issue, but also a societal and security issue", writes Elena Espinosa, the Spanish Environment Minister. Although climate change is described here as the "key environmental driver" of the desertification process, overgrazing, overuse of land, poor irrigation methods and deforestation are doing the rest. During the last 40 years, there was an accumulated worldwide productivity loss of about 20%, currently estimated at 0,5 to 1% per year. Forced migration is bound to follow any major food crisis due to progressive desertification (a few years ago it had been estimated that 60 million people from sub-Saharan Africa could be forced to migrate to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020). However, the future of the Mediterranean region, although not as dramatic as that, looks uncertain. Somebody described it as a place of "transition", with many areas risking to become a desert, too. Back in 2004, a staggering 30% of Italian territory was considered at risk of desertification. Today, extreme drought elsewhere in the world is shifting the focus of the problem, said Luc Gnacadja, UNCCD executive secretary general, in February this year: "The food crisis continues in countries that deal with erratic rainfall, like in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, many of these countries are food importers, so to see an extreme drought in Argentina, Australia, and now China, is indeed alarming". The food crisis, states the latest UNCCD report, "may become even more severe until 2050 and 2100 due to growing demand and declining supply. The interaction of these factors may result in extreme or fatal societal outcomes that will bring severe consequences" for security at all levels. Some think it could happen even sooner. Back in 2006, news had come out that British military planners were already envisioning future conflict arising from the scramble for resources in 20 to 30 years' time, when desertification, melting permafrost and flooding could lead to loss of agricultural land, poisoning of water supplies and destruction of economic infrastructure. Maxing out on the Earth's credit card might also cost us terrorism and strife, soon enough.
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Shelby Hospital Associates Step up to Help When Disaster Strikes
On Sunday, April 14, at around 5 p.m., a powerful tornado touched down in Richland County, sweeping for 17 miles through the southern section of Shelby and several neighboring townships.
The half-mile-wide tornado with winds up to 125 miles per hour ripped through dozens of homes, businesses and barns, tearing off roofs and siding, downing trees and power lines, and flattening about 30 structures.
Fortunately, no one was killed, but about seven people were injured, two seriously. The storm caused power outages across the county, including for three hours at OhioHealth Shelby Hospital. Associates both in and outside the hospital sprung quickly into action to help their community, even as some grappled with personal losses from the tornado and feared for the safety of their families.
Theresa Roth, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, NHDP-BC, director of critical care for OhioHealth Mansfield and Shelby hospitals, was at her Shelby home sewing a quilt when the storm hit. At first, she and her husband, John, didn't realize their house was in the path of a tornado.
"All of a sudden the sky got dark," Roth recalled. "I turned around and I said, 'John the sky is swirling.' I thought it was hailing, but it wasn't hail, it was actually debris."
Seconds later, Roth received a text from Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, vice president of medical affairs for Mansfield and Shelby hospitals, who'd been watching the storm from Columbus: "Are you OK?" he asked. "Looks like you've been hit by a tornado."
"That's when I knew I needed to call the hospital," said Roth, who immediately got on the phone with Shelby's nursing supervisor Wendy Roop BSN, RN, while walking outside to survey property damage. Roth noticed ripped-off roof shingles, shattered fence and pool equipment that would take weeks to repair. She also noticed that she was lucky compared to some of her neighbors who experienced more significant damage. After checking her property, Roth drove to Shelby Hospital, dodging debris and road closures that turned her normal seven-minute drive into a 30-minute ordeal.
At Shelby Hospital, associates began receiving severe weather alerts on their phones shortly before the building's tornado alarm sounded. They immediately began moving patients into the hallway, closing blinds and doors.
Roop had an ominous feeling. It was a Sunday evening and she had limited staff. What if there were mass casualties and other associates were too busy to come in to help?
Thankfully, she couldn't have been more wrong. Minutes after the tornado hit Shelby, bypassing the hospital, Roop's phone began ringing non-stop. Roth called to say she was coming in and setting up the command center. Off-duty associates and the nursing supervisor at Mansfield Hospital called offering assistance. Soon, Shelby Hospital was filled with double the usual staff.
Roop fielded each call, even as she worried about her own family members who live in Shelby. They turned out to be safe, although a cousin suffered damage to his home.
"When I finally got a chance to go to the basement where we have our command center, I had tears in my eyes when I saw how many people were there," Roop said. "I wasn't alone. I appreciated knowing they had my back."
After the tornado, OhioHealth associates continued to rally around the Shelby community. On Wednesday, April 17, Christina Thompson, media relations and communications senior consultant for Mansfield and Shelby hospitals, coordinated distribution of food and water to residents and workers impacted by the storm with the help of about 70 volunteers – a third of them associates.
"I was struggling with, how can I help? Where do I tap in?" Thompson said. "You know there are people who are really suffering, and you want to be there for them the best way you can."
In total, the volunteers delivered a light breakfast and 400 brown bag lunches to areas with storm damage. Among the volunteers was Wendy, who came in to Shelby Hospital on her day off.
"It was just amazing how everybody pulled together," Roop said of the tornado aftermath. "The only thing you can kind of compare it to is family. Everybody took care of each other."
This story was originally published in an internal OhioHealth associate publication.
About OhioHealth
OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare outreach of the United Methodist Church.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, OhioHealth has been recognized as one of the top five large health systems in America by Truven Health Analytics, an honor it has received six times. It is also recognized by Fortune as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" and has been for 13 years in a row, 2007–2019.
Serving its communities since 1891, OhioHealth is a family of 30,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, and a system of 12 hospitals and more than 200 ambulatory sites, hospice, home health, medical equipment and other health services spanning a 47-county area.
OhioHealth hospitals include OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital, OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital, OhioHealth Hardin Memorial Hospital, OhioHealth Marion General Hospital, OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital, OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, OhioHealth Shelby Hospital, OhioHealth Grove City Methodist Hospital and OhioHealth Berger Hospital. For more information, please visit OhioHealth.com.


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Every Christopher Nolan Movie, Ranked
Aug. 7. 2019 1:18 AM
In a little over two decades, Christopher Nolan has gone from being a micro-budget independent filmmaker in London shooting his directorial debut on the weekends to one of the most respected and revered directors in Hollywood and across the globe. It was no easy feat.
The filmmaker is one of the rare directors working today who can sell a movie based solely on name recognition alone, and that mark of quality craftsmanship that comes with each of his movies is one of the few assurances in a changing Hollywood landscape. In short, Christopher Nolan is one of our truly great filmmakers.
That's why we're taking this time to celebrate him by looking back on all ten of his feature films, which have culminated into an incredible career — filled with films both big and small, expansive and intimate, visually stunning and intellectually stimulating. It is an enviable career, to be certain, and one that doesn't come about readily for most people in the movie-making business. It takes a lot of passion, wit, skill and care to make the movies that Christopher Nolan creates, and it's clear that this level of respect and dedication has earned him a great career.
Therefore, especially with the teaser for Christopher Nolan's next film, Tenet, premiering in front of screenings of Hobbs & Shaw this week, we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate all the great movies that've created Nolan's filmmaking legacy and rank them accordingly, hoping to find the best of the best.
Now, before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let's address a couple key notices: 1) Christopher Nolan is a masterful filmmaker, so it should come to no real surprise that the British storyteller has never (at least in my opinion) misstepped and made an outright bad movie. While not every movie can be as good as the last, he is an supremely confident, dutifully assured craftsman, and he weaves elegant, engrossing, compelling and sometimes damn near impeccable movies.
So, when one film is ranked higher than the other, don't take it personally. It doesn't mean it's bad or less deserving of praise. Instead, it can come down to personal taste or recognizing that while one film is really good, the other one is even more amazing.
2) While Christopher Nolan incorporates his familiar, well-honed style into every one of his features, his films — notably in terms of focus and genre — can often be very different from each other. With the noted exception of his Dark Knight trilogy, each movie is striving to be something different and to do something different, which can make the task of ranking his individual movies a little tricky.
There is no exact science to this ranking. I'm not here to turn movies into math. I hate math. I'm just here to rank them as I see fit, and I'll do my best to explain why one movie is above (or below) another.
Now, without further ado, here's a ranking of all of Christopher Nolan's films to date — starting with the quite good ones, working through the genuinely great titles and finally walking up the ladder all the way to the masterpieces. It's not an easy task, but few things are truly easy with Nolan.
10. Following (1998)
Everyone had to get their start somewhere. For Christopher Nolan, his first brush at feature filmmaking came through the humble efforts that created Following, a lean, intriguing, intensely small-scale, micro-budget independent movie shot for 15 minutes on Saturdays throughout the course of three to four months and made on a small budget of $6,000 (which is basically less than the catering budget of any of his current works). While it doesn't quite reach the heights of his other, better movies, it's certainly easy to see why this early film paved the way for what came next.
It's a fractured narrative that follows a nondescript 20-something whose habit of following people throughout London results in some dangerous, high-stakes conclusions when he interacts with the wrong people. Following doesn't carry the director's smooth visual style, favoring a sort of French New Wave black-and-white vibe as the handheld camera frantically and intently follows our directionless lead throughout the perils that define his adventure.
Nevertheless, Following benefits nicely from sharp performances, a nicely-honed screenplay and smart low-budget filmmaking that proves that even on a minor scale like this movie, Christopher Nolan was a smart and commendable filmmaker really to challenge himself with each new turn.
9. Dunkirk (2017)
Right off the bat, I'm getting divisive. Certainly, there is a tremendous amount to admire in Christopher Nolan's latest film, Dunkirk. The sparse, tensely dramatic war picture is an incredible technical feat and narrative accomplishment, allowing the British director to hone in on his talents for building a wealth of suspense and dread with the perpetually ticking clock announcing the impending doom that is always felt in the hearts and minds of these soldiers.
It's a captivating watch in the right moments, allowing itself to always feel urgent and dutifully true to life, even if the events themselves took place nearly 80 years prior. It's a movie that's always rich on atmosphere, tension and the jittery feeling that anything can go wrong at any moment.
As a cinematic experience, it's a ticking time bomb that's also willing to let itself breathe in moments of somber, sobering reality, realizing that tragedy is always at the door of triumph and that for every victory, there's the inevitable defeat of many good men. But while it's understandable to see why Dunkirk is the Christopher Nolan movie that finally got on the Academy's good notice, earning eight Oscar nominations and winning three awards, it is also the one that feels less-than-whole compared to Nolan's other, more involving, character-driven narratives.
The actors in this cast, including very strong work from Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, a surprising Harry Styles and particularly Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance, provide their good graces, but the characters are intentionally left distant, only rarely making us feel like we know these noble men in the midst of perpetual war and grave sacrifices.
It should be stressed that it's an incredible accomplishment as a film, but when it's all said and done, there is something a bit absent in Dunkirk compared to the other Christopher Nolan movies. It's a commendable film and one that's rich in its execution (particularly in how it juggles three totally separate narratives in the span of its surprisingly tight runtime). It is only a lesser movie by Nolan's incredibly high standards.
Still, compared to the rest of his filmography, this is one where it's easier to praise what it pulls off than it is to richly remember the characters and its story. For a movie that's meant to honor the everyday sacrifices of these war-torn soldiers, it's disappointing that we're often at a distance from these men — even though the movie itself is often great about making us feel how they feel during every intense moment they're left in the thrust of ongoing war.
8. Insomnia (2002)
Made in-between Memento and Batman Begins, it can be easy to see why Insomnia — much like his debut, Following — is often forgotten-about in the broader conversation about Christopher Nolan's oeuvre. The director's third feature film, a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name (and the director's one-and-only remake to date), was Nolan's first time working with an American studio, and it was the first time he was working with veteran acting titans like Al Pacino and Robin Williams.
It can be easy to see why this movie is seen more as a stepping stone for Christopher Nolan's career rather than a monumental achievement that should be revered in the same way a number of his other, better movies are often discussed and celebrated. But it would be inconsiderate to write Insomnia off as simply a lesser Nolan film, especially as it carries a number of underrated charms.
The story, which follows a sleep-deprived LAPD detective (Al Pacino) and his partner (Martin Donovan) investigating a murder in Alaska, where the sun will often not shine, in order to investigate the murder of a local teen. In terms of Nolan's more ambitious, narratively windy films, Insomnia can easily be seen as something a little more formal and potentially formulaic by the director's high expectations.
But while the story itself doesn't often try to push any new creative or thematic bounds, particularly as a remake, it shouldn't be readily dismissed for being a little more simplistic and focused. Indeed, Insomnia is a great showcase for Nolan's quieter, more tempered creative choices, particularly when it focuses on Al Pacino and a chilling supporting turn from Robin Williams, providing yet another showcase for what the comedic actor could accomplish outside of the laugh department.
In the broad conversation related to Christopher Nolan's filmmaking, Insomnia is certainly a little too somber and grim to be celebrated in full. It can be hard to champion this movie as readily as any number of other movies set to be listed. But Insomnia is, to state an obvious pun, a bit of sleeper hit, allowing Nolan to expand into a bit more traditional storytelling and allowing the director to reach a wider audience until he made his pivotal next film.
7. Interstellar (2014)
Two years after delivering the final entry of his Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan gave the masses Interstellar, his second foray into the realm of science fiction. Set in a dystopian future, the movie follows Matthew McConaughey's Joseph Cooper, an astronaut who embarks into the depths of space with his team to go through a wormhole near Saturn so that they can find a new home for humanity, resulting in a temporally-bending chain of consequences. Back on the increasingly desolate Earth, we also follow along with Joseph's daughter, Murphy, who continues to await her father's return and tries to fix Earth's problems her own way.
It's a beautiful and devastating film, allowing Christopher Nolan to continue to push himself in bold, invigorating ways while also appearing to be one of the more personal films in Nolan's resume, touching on the connections we lose while we push ourselves farther and father into our work, and how our inherent desire to be at the forefront of humanity's greatness can often remove us from what makes us human in the first place.
It's a rich movie to dissect, and it's clear that Nolan had big ambitions here. Unfortunately, though, some of those ambitions can get a little too heavy-handed and a bit too broad-reaching, resulting in an occasionally messy and over-extended film that doesn't entirely reach the full scope of its huge, incredible desires.
Interstellar is often a long and frustrating film, one that is often at the peak of greatness but never fully accomplishing what it sets out to achieve. There is a tremendous amount to appreciate, particularly from its great performances of its talented ensemble to its rousing score and stunning cinematography. And it is clearly a movie that intriguingly challenges what one can accomplish in a single film, resulting in Nolan's arguably biggest and most elaborate film.
But while Interstellar has a lot working in its favor, the downsides are often glaring. And while it is an intriguing step forward (in many respects) for the acclaimed director, it's also one that doesn't quite get fully out of the stratosphere or prove itself to be one of Nolan's most engaging or impeccable films — though it's arguably one of his most meaningful.
6. Batman Begins (2005)
In many ways, Batman Begins was the film that put Christopher Nolan into the general public's gaze, lifting him up from arthouse darling to one of the most culturally-distinguished and acclaimed filmmakers of our times. Batman Begins wasn't the movie that fully made that transition just yet (that film was set to come in just a few short years), but it was this superhero film that announced Nolan's presence in a major way.
And it was the movie that turned this rising British director into a staple of ambitious blockbuster filmmaking in Hollywood, allowing him to make movies on bigger, bolder scales and become one of the most influential storytellers of the early 21st century. That is a hell of a lot for a mere superhero origin story to accomplish.
Meant to turn Batman's tarnished reputation after the ill-fated Batman & Robin into something worthy of the legendary comic book character, Batman Begins was a revisionist take on the origin story of this classic hero, allowing the Dark Knight to become something that was both more grounded and more thematically dense that your typical light-hearted superhero affair.
The resulting 2005 film became a cornerstone for how the ever-expanding superhero genre was set to shine (or, rather, darken) in the next ten to fifteen years, giving validity to the notion that men in tights could also be richly-realized and intellectually-stimulating characters through which broader social, political commentary could be infused on a major scale in Hollywood.
Batman Begins was a vital film for how superhero movies would currently be seen and taken seriously in Hollywood, and its sequel, The Dark Knight, would only continue to impress upon those concepts in key and vital ways in blockbuster filmmaking. But as a film, you can tell that Batman Begins is the director's first attempt at blockbuster filmmaking, considering that the transition can often be a little bumpy.
The action sequences don't pack the same punch as the character and conversation-driven sequences, lacking the technical prowess the director would hone in future films, and the third act can feel a little bombastic compared to the more somber, quieter first two-thirds. But at its best moments, Batman Begins is an astounding achievement for the filmmaker, and it's undoubtedly the movie that would pave the way for how moviegoers around the globe view the director today.
5. Inception (2010)
Movies are often considered dreams projected into life, and Inception is one film that certainly tackles that notion head-on. Christopher Nolan's loopy, brain-splitting science-fiction film, centered around a team of thieves who steal information by breaking into people's subconscious minds, is a movie that often blurs the line between how we see reality and what can be become reality in a dream.
It's an engrossing, sometimes even maddening mind-bender of a film, and one of the director's most formally-challenging films at the early to mid-point of his career. It also announced Nolan's presence in a major way as a top-tier director, proving to audiences what he could accomplish after The Dark Knight and how he could play with form and structure.
It's an impressively layered marvel of a movie, pleasing the eyes and the mind as it plays with how the cinema can twist and turn the logics of reality, all while staying grounded and true to the core foundation of these rooted characters. But in addition to its stellar cast, lead by Leonardo DiCaprio, it is also an astounding technical feat that never sacrifices intelligence or original ideas even while appealing to a broad audience. The film's impressive mix of practical effects and CG are often enhanced by the weighted notions of morality and possibility that are at the core of this logic-hopping movie.
Inception is a wonderment of a film that continued to astound audiences massively impressed with the director's most recent film. Inception is the film that allowed Nolan to be a major commercial selling point — the mere mention of his name became enough validation to make whatever he wish to make. And it was the film that suggested that Nolan's expertise could expand beyond what we initially perceived, becoming a wholly inventive storyteller who'd continue to push and challenge himself with each new film, continuously creating daring, invigorating art with commercial appeal.
4. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Once again, I expect this choice this ruffle a few feathers. But similar to Christopher Nolan, you have to make some bold choices. The Dark Knight Rises has unfairly been perceived as the lesser of the three Nolan Batman movies, with the reputation of being overlong, over-indulgent and narratively unwieldily. And while there are quite a few flaws to be gleaned from Nolan's astoundingly ambitious trilogy-capper, it also feels definitive and rousingly epic in a way few superhero movies — or other films, for that matter — often do.
It's also, undeniably, one of the most towering and grand movies ever presented onto the big screen, and it's certainly one of the most impressive superhero movies to be made in cinematic history, providing a fitting and formidable finale to what might possibly be the greatest superhero trilogy to date — much to the distress of Marvel lovers.
Left with the nearly-impossible task of making a sequel to arguably the greatest superhero movie in history, The Dark Knight Rises could've easily played it safe and made a more conventional, formulaic finale that tied up loose ends in cheesy, familiar ways. But it's clear that for Nolan to feel as though the effort is worth the while, he needed to make something that was appropriately worthy of the legacy he founded, resulting in a movie event that is often grand and impressive in its use of practical effects and visually splendid set pieces. At the same time, it also felt rich and cinematic —and intensely stripped down and character-focused — through its exploration what truly makes the man in Batman, and what becomes of our heroes during their greatest fights.
The result is a movie that carries the weight of finality in a manner that few superhero movies are willing to, especially these days, while also feeling justified in its completion. It feels vindicated to make our lead character a fragile and often weak man, broken in several different respects, who must earn the right to be Gotham's savior — whether they deserve him or not — during its greatest moment of peril. We feel the perseverance of this wounded character, and we're made to see a very familiar larger-than-life character in a new and intensely realistic way.
It's also a very political and thematically dense film, with an abundance of ideas constantly streaming through its free-flowing conscious. The result is a richly-realized look at the legacy of our heroes, and how they can be both human and larger-than-life during their greatest failures and triumphs. What makes a hero is often what makes a man, and The Dark Knight Rises is the rare superhero movie that respects both the super and the human of this super-heroic send-off.
3. The Prestige (2006)
At its core, making movies is a magic act. At its earliest days, cinema were often used as a luxurious, encapsulating way to dazzle and spellbind audiences through the art of editing and photography. Once again, Christopher Nolan pays his respects to the foundations of filmmaking through his work, particularly with his fifth film, The Prestige, which can often be ignored for what it is: one of Christopher Nolan's best, most enrapturing feats.
Boasting two impeccable turns from Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, The Prestige is the director's twisty, intensely (and inventively) suspenseful mystery-thriller which provides a number of twists and turns, while never using them solely as a cheap way to keep the audience's attention — particularly from its constantly moving slight-of-hand.
Instead, The Prestige is a dynamic, vigorous look at obsession and deception, reminding viewers of the great wonders and thrills that can come from an incredible bit of magic, while also providing a pulsating, head-spinning look at the world of magic-makers, and how the concept of creating a twist of fate can often leave one removed from what should be obvious in front of them, and how playing God can often make someone disconnected from their own fragile reality. Plus, this is also a wonderfully entertaining movie to boot.
Christopher Nolan is, in many respects, one of our greatest working magicians, creating spellbinding cinematic achievements that constantly dazzle and spellbind audiences of all ages. In that respect, The Prestige is the director's ode to the wonders (and dangers) that come from this deceptive profession, and how the greatest trick that a magician can pull is to make you believe that the impossible is possible, and how fiction can be a reality — at least, in the moment they have you under their spell.
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
Quite easily the director's most famous and monumental film, The Dark Knight is an absolute game-changer. Not merely for the superhero genre, which was given a validity and a reverence it only partially received prior to this movie's debut, but for blockbuster cinema as a whole. Particularly with blockbusters proving that they could be just as intellectually dense and thematically stimulating as any other form of media — while never sacrificing the enriching entertainment value and gripping stories that make going to the movies, at their peak, one of our most deeply satisfying experiences.
Meant as a continuation of Christopher Nolan's previous film, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight succeeds as both a sequel and as a standalone triumph, providing one of the most intensely dynamic and dramatic movies — especially of this size and scale —in cinema history. The film's bold, intrinsic influences on their well-celebrated characters provided a whole new depth and nuance to some of the most popular literary and cinematic characters in history, particularly with the introduction of Nolan's take on The Joker, played phenomenally by the late, great Heath Ledger, in what became the tragically young actor's best performance — even if he heartbreakingly never got to celebrate its powerful success.
Through the weighted dichotomy of order and chaos, civility and anarchy, which feeds The Dark Knight's incredibly well-realized morality play, Christopher Nolan made a masterpiece of this genre, a film that richly and impressively fed comic book adaptations with a vibrant and engaging look at humanity in heroes and what it means to be good or evil — if such concepts can be boiled down in such a simplistic manner — and whether or not it is in humanity's best interest to value themselves or each other in times of grave destruction and disorder. It is undoubtedly the finest adaptation of this character we've gotten to date, and it is easily one of the greatest superhero movies that has ever been made — and possibly the absolute best.
1. Memento (2000)
While it was through The Dark Knight trilogy and major films like Inception that audiences everywhere became aware of this prominent filmmaker's greatness, for many moviegoers, it was through their introduction to Christopher Nolan's sophomore feature, Memento, that they became aware of this formative British filmmaker's potential. And it was through this film that it became apparent that Nolan was a storyteller meant to shake up the filmmaking scene in an undeniably vital way, already producing original, structurally dexterous art even from the beginning of his impressive career.
An entirely inventive look at the mystery genre, which flipped the concept of distorted reality on its head by having the entire film be told in a backward fashion (i.e. the last scene of the story is the first one we see and visa versa), what could've easily been merely an amusing gimmick became a brilliant dissection of the unreliable narrator, and how the conclusions we draw from our main characters — even in a fractured presentation — can often be deceptively twisted, believing what we want to believe (or what we expect to believe) from our protagonist before the truth slaps us right in the face.
Aided wonderfully by a great lead performance from the excellent actor Guy Pearce, Memento is quite easily Christopher Nolan's most ingenious screenplay and the film that balances his thematic and formative desires with a wonderfully engaging screenplay that constantly leaves you in a state of suspense, guessing what has already happened even when we already know the intended outcome. It's a phenomenal feat of both storytelling and filmmaking, and it's the film that not only introduced Christopher Nolan's power and potential as a filmmaker, but (in my view) remains his best feature.
There is no denying that Christopher Nolan's filmography is an incredible roaster of astounding films, many of which are constantly the source of in-house fighting when it comes to which one is actually the best of the best. These are merely one man's picks, but we'll be happy to hear what you have to say (because surely, you have your own personal favorites) in the comment section below. The mark of a great filmmaker is knowing that nobody's list looks exactly the same as the next, and nearly all the films we listed could arguably be considered his greatest. Let us know your picks.
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BHS announces Athletic Hall of Fame inductees/
Bellefontaine City Schools » District » District News » BHS News » BHS announces Athletic Hall of Fame inductees
Three athletes along with a team, a coach, and a longtime supporter will be inducted into the Bellefontaine High School Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, January 21st.
Somer Spain, Ben Fulton, and Chris Walden will be inducted.
The 1999 BHS Boys Track Team has also been chosen for the hall of fame.
Late wrestling coach Jim McDonald and longtime team doctor Art Costin have been selected as well.
Spain starred in cross country and track at Bellefontaine.
She has the fastest 1600, 3200, 3200 relay, and 6400 relay times in school history.
Spain helped the Lady Chiefs win 3 CBC championships in cross country.
She was a two-time state qualifier in track in the 1600 and 3200.
Somer graduated from BHS in 1996.
Fulton starred on the gridiron and diamond.
He earned 3 varsity letters in football and 4 varsity letters in baseball.
As a senior, Fulton helped the Chiefs upset defending state champ Columbus DeSales in the football playoffs. BHS advanced to the regional finals that season.
He rushed for over 1,500 yards and scored 20 touchdowns in his final season.
Fulton was named First-Team CBC in '98 and '99.
In baseball, Fulton was named team MVP his senior season.
He hit .434 and had a team-high 21 stolen bases.
Fulton was a standout catcher for the Chiefs.
He graduated from Bellefontaine in 2000.
Fulton then graduated from the Air Force Academy.
He continues to serve our country as a pilot in the Air Force.
Chris Walden shined in football, bowling, and baseball.
He holds the school record for passing yards in a game (369).
Walden was a First-Team CBC selection at quarterback.
He led the Chiefs bowling team to two state appearances.
Walden tossed a pair of 300 games and had the team's high average.
The hard-throwing right-hander really made his mark in baseball.
Chris holds school records for career wins (31), ERA (1.02), and strikeouts (262).
He fired 8 career no-hitters.
Walden helped the Chiefs advance to the state tournament in '04 and '06.
He earned 4 varsity letters in baseball and signed with the University of Kentucky.
Walden graduated from BHS in 2006.
The 1999 boys track team finished 3rd at the Division II state meet.
Junior Keith Roberts won the state title in the 110 hurdles.
Jorrell Johnson placed 3rd in long jump.
Adam Hall raced to a fourth-place finish in the 1600.
Howard Traul finished 6th in pole vault.
Ben Davis was the head coach.
Larry Young and Jim Robinson were assistant coaches.
The Chiefs also captured CBC, district, and regional titles that season.
Jim McDonald was a wrestling coach at Bellefontaine for 30 years.
He developed several outstanding wrestlers who competed at the state tournament.
Through Jim's hard work, enthusiasm, and leadership, the Chieftain wrestling program remained successful.
Jim is the namesake of the "Jimmy Mac" Invitational hosted by BHS.
McDonald is also a member of the Greater Miami Valley Wrestling Association Hall of Fame.
McDonald retired from Bellefontaine in 2001.
He passed away in November.
Longtime team physician Dr. Art Costin has been chosen for the hall of fame.
Costin, who graduated from BHS, has been on the Chiefs' sidelines for 46 seasons.
His office has provided physical exams to BHS athletes for many years.
Art's late father, Jim, was the team doctor.
Art's son, Scott, also serves as a team doctor.
Art has been a longtime donor to Chieftain Athletics.
Finally, the Bellefontaine Athletic Boosters have chosen two award recipients.
The Dutch Wilde Award will be presented to Bill Boy.
The Booster Award recipient is Iron City Sports Bar in Bellefontaine.
The hall of fame ceremony will be held between the JV and varsity boys basketball games vs. Tecumseh.
A reception for the inductees will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the BHS Distance Learning Center.
Photos from top to bottom: Somer Spain, Ben Fulton, Chris Walden, Jim McDonald, and Dr. Art Costin


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Posted: April 5, 2022 | Author: bostonboomer | Filed under: Afternoon Reads | Tags: Bucha massacre, GOP and authoritarianism, GOP Russia sympathizers, March Madness, RonDeSantis, Russia, sanctions on Russia, Ukraine, University of Kansas, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, war crimes |16 Comments
By Aliza Nisenbaum
It's really difficult reading the news these days, between Putin's genocidal attack in Ukraine and the Republicans' attempts to end democracy here at home.
Last night I took a break from the cable news shows and watched the University of Kansas beat North Carolina in the NCAA basketball championship game. It turned out to be really exciting. K.U. was down 16 points at the end of the first half, but came back to win 72-69. It was a battle to the finish and fun to watch, so I'm glad I took a break from politics and war news.
I spent my early childhood years in Lawrence, Kansas, where my Dad was working on his Ph.D. I still have happy memories of those years and of the K.U. campus. When we moved away, I was heartbroken. In those days Wilt Chamberlain played for the Jayhawks before he decided to go pro after his junior year. Anyway, our family always rooted for K.U. in basketball for sentimental reasons.
Now on to today's Ukraine war news.
This morning, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the UN about Russian atrocities and Russia's ludicrous claims that the torture and murders of Ukrainian citizens were committed by Ukrainians themselves: Yahoo News: Zelensky: Russia 'will try to hide the traces of their crimes.'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russian military of plotting to cover up the mass killing of his country's civilians in a bid to "distort the facts."
Speaking in an emotional address to the nation in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Zelensky warned that Kremlin-led forces were attempting to hide the atrocities that were committed in the areas still occupied by Moscow. His speech comes days after hundreds of Ukrainian civilians were reportedly found dead in Kyiv suburbs like Bucha in the aftermath of the recent withdrawal of Russian troops in the region.
In his 10-minute speech, Zelensky accused Russia of using the same propaganda tactics it used when a Malaysia Airlines passenger flight was shot down in 2014 over eastern Ukraine. An independent Dutch investigation found that Russian-backed rebels downed the plane with a surface-to-air missile, killing 298 people. Russia blamed the Ukrainian government for the tragedy.
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"They used the same tactics when the occupiers shot down a Malaysian Boeing over Donbas," Zelensky said. "They blamed Ukraine. They even came up with various conspiracy theories. They even went so far as to claim that the corpses were 'thrown' on board the plane before it crashed."
Zelensky made his comments undoubtedly aware that the Russian government is already promoting implausible theories to explain the images and video of bodies littering the streets of Bucha. The Russian Defense Ministry suggested that some of the dead civilians were actually actors pretending to be dead, claiming that the video shows the bodies still moving. Independent media fact checkers and satellite images contradict Russia's claims; the many journalists documenting the aftermath of the killings also undermine Russia's case.
This is reminiscent of the conspiracy nuts here in the U.S. who claimed that victims of the Boston bombing were "crisis actors," and the entire event was staged by the government. They made similar claims about the horrific murders of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Did they get their ideas from Russian propaganda?
You can read Zelensky's response to the Russian lies at his official website: There is ample evidence that it is Russian troops who destroy peaceful cities, torture and kill civilians – address by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Yesterday The New York Times published an analysis of satellite images that disprove Russia's ugly lies: Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.
When images emerged over the weekend of the bodies of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha — some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head — Russia's Ministry of Defense denied responsibility. In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after "all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha" around March 30.
Russia claimed that the images were "another hoax" and called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on what it called "provocations of Ukrainian radicals" in Bucha.
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But a review of videos and satellite imagery by The Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia's military was in control of the town.
One video filmed by a local council member on April 1 shows multiple bodies scattered along Yablonska Street in Bucha. Satellite images provided to The Timtes by Maxar Technologies show that at least 11 of those had been on the street since March 11, when Russia, by its own account, occupied the town.
To confirm when the bodies appeared, and when the civilians were likely killed, the Visual Investigations team at The Times conducted a before-and-after analysis of satellite imagery. The images show dark objects of similar size to a human body appearing on Yablonska Street between March 9 and March 11. The objects appear in the precise positions in which the bodies were found after Ukrainian forces reclaimed Bucha, as the footage from April 1 shows. Further analysis shows that the objects remained in those position for over three weeks.
Read more at the NYT link.
Bloomberg on the latest sanctions on Russia: Russia's Effort to Avoid Default Undermined by New U.S. Sanction.
Russia's efforts to avoid a sovereign default took another blow after the U.S. Treasury halted dollar debt payments from the country's accounts at U.S. banks.
The decision further complicates Russia's attempts to keep meeting debt obligations amid the sanctions imposed after it invaded Ukraine. As the government tries to sidestep its first external default in about a century, those restrictions have hampered and delayed the process of transferring money to bond holders.
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Other governments are also planning tougher sanctions after allegations that Russian troops massacred civilians in Bucha and other Ukrainian towns. The European Union is proposing to ban coal imports from Russia, which would be a major step-up for a region that's so far shied away from targeting energy flows crucial to the bloc's economy.
The U.S. announcement is intended to force Russia into either draining its domestic dollar reserves or spending new revenue to make bond payments, or else go into default, according to a spokesperson for the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, who discussed details on condition of anonymity.
"Clearly this latest announcement by the U.S. Treasury is designed to put additional pressure on the Russians," said Gary Kirk, a portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management. "The alternative payment methods are significantly more punitive and more challenging for Russia and hence it does increase the chances of a technical default."
More Ukraine war stories:
The Washington Post: Ukrainian villagers describe cruel and brutal Russian occupation.
Cathy Young at The Bulwark: The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists.
BBC: Ukraine war: Biden calls for Putin to face war crimes trial after Bucha killings.
CNBC: U.S. warns Russia will intensify its military operations in Ukraine after weeks of stalled ground fighting.
Walter Russell Mead at The Wall Street Journal: Biden's Ugly Options in Ukraine.
Republican authoritarians and Russia sympathizers
Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post: This Republican about-face is so much worse than 'cancel culture.'
The GOP no longer argues that free markets, rather than government, should choose "winners and losers."
In today's Republican Party, the primary economic role of the state is not to get out of the way. It is, instead, to reward friends and crush political enemies.
Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham expressed the new ethos in a recent monologue threatening companies that advocated for LGBTQ rights, ballot access, racial justice and sundry other political stances that are anathema in today's GOP.
"When Republicans, they get back into power, Apple and Disney need to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table," Ingraham warned. "Your copyright, trademark protection. Your special status within certain states. And even your corporate structure itself. The antitrust division at Justice needs to begin the process of considering which American companies need to be broken up once and for all for competition's sake, and ultimately for the good of the consumers who pay the bills."
This might have been an unusually eloquent articulation of Republicans' punitive new approach to economic policy, but it is hardly unique to Ingraham.
A Romance by Santiago Rusinol
A bit more:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is furious that Disney has publicly criticized his new law prohibiting classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity (nicknamed the "Don't Say Gay" law); beyond using his bully pulpit to rail against Disney's supposed indecency, he has threatened to cancel Disney's half-century-old special status under Florida law that enables the company to effectively govern itself on the grounds of its theme parks. Similarly, last year, DeSantis signed a (likely unconstitutional) law to punish tech companies for privately determined content-moderation decisions, and another law that fines private companies that attempt to set vaccination requirements in their workplaces.
In other states, such as Georgia, GOP politicians have punished private companies for taking supposedly "woke" stands on issues such as gun violence. Republicans in Congress have likewise tried to use antitrust enforcement and other government levers to punish companies whose public stances on voting rights or internal policies on content moderation they dislike.
This approach to governance was expertly modeled by Donald Trump, who as president frequently used the power of the state to reward friends and punish perceived political enemies.
He did this through tax law, tariff policy and other proposed subsidies that chose winners and losers according to their political allegiances. He selectively enforced energy policies, such as allowing offshore drilling, to dole out favors to friends.
Another interesting read by Aaron Rupar about how DeSantis is following Trump's example. In the article, Rupar interviews authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat. An authoritarianism scholar on DeSantis as "the ultimate agent for the normalization of extremism."
DeSantis rode the Trump cult of personality to the Florida governor's mansion in 2018, but he's since forged his own brand of right-wing demagoguery. Last Friday, he was on Fox & Friends, which has celebrated him for the stands he's taken against public health regulations to combat Covid, against the LGBT community, and against liberalism in general….
By Henry Meynell Rheam, 1859-1920
More importantly, DeSantis's Fox & Friends appearance gave him a platform to rail against Disney, Florida's largest employer, for publicly speaking out against "Don't Say Gay" legislation he signed into law that allows parents to sue teachers who bring up gender or sexual orientation in K-3 classrooms.
"This wokeness will destroy our country," DeSantis declared.
Florida has a large LGBT population and Disney is a major economic driver for the state, so from one standpoint DeSantis picking a fight with Mickey Mouse doesn't seem to make much sense. But he has his reasons. To better understand them, I reached out to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism and professor of history and Italian studies at NYU.
Ben-Ghiat has written about how DeSantis is following in Trump's authoritarian footsteps for both CNN and MSNBC. Last month, she wrote on her blog ("Lucid") about how he's turning Florida "into his own mini-autocracy."
"DeSantis is a particularly dangerous individual," she wrote. "He may be up for re-election as governor in Florida, but he has designs on the White House as soon as two years from now. It's not hard to see what he is doing in Florida as a rehearsal for illiberalism on a national scale."
Read the interview at the link.
William Saletan at The Bulwark: Who's Soft on Russia? Meet the Republican Anti-Ukraine Caucus!
After years of defending a pro-Putin American president and dismissing Russia's interference in American elections, Republicans have returned to their old shtick: accusing Democrats of being soft on Russia. Their hypocrisy is galling, but the bigger problem is that their depiction of the two parties is backward. In polls, Republicans are more dovish on Russia and Ukraine than Democrats are. And in Congress, the purveyors of isolationism, appeasement, and Russian propaganda are on the right, not the left.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the House of Representatives has voted on three measures specific to the war. The first vote, taken on March 2, was on a resolution that endorsed sanctions against Russia, reaffirmed Ukrainian sovereignty over territory seized by Russia, advocated military aid to Ukraine, and pledged to support the Ukrainian resistance. All six members of the progressive "Squad"—Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib—voted for the resolution. So did Rep. Barbara Lee, the Democrats' foremost opponent of military spending. Not one Democrat voted against the resolution. But three Republicans did: Reps. Paul Gosar, Thomas Massie, and Matt Rosendale.
La Musique, Henri Matisse
On March 9, the House passed a bill to suspend oil and gas imports from Russia. Five of the seven Democratic leftists voted for the suspension. The two who voted against it—Bush and Omar—were joined by 15 Republicans who also voted no. In addition to Gosar and Massie, this time the list included Reps. Andy Biggs, Dan Bishop, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Scott DesJarlais, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Glenn Grothman, Clay Higgins, Bill Posey, Chip Roy, and Tom Tiffany.On March 17, the House passed a bill to end favorable trade relations with Russia and its accomplice in the war, Belarus. Eight Republicans voted against the bill. Every Democrat, including the seven leftists, voted for it.
Several Republicans have gone further. Cawthorn and Gosar are pushing legislation that would prohibit the U.S. military from deploying "by reason of the situation in Ukraine" any more troops than are stationed at the Mexican border. No sensible military planner would want more troops guarding a friendly border than deterring an imminent threat to our most important alliance, but that's what this bill would do: It would block deployments to NATO countries in Eastern Europe. It's a gift to Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, 10 Republicans have signed on to a bill that would bar any delivery of military aid to Ukraine until "a border wall system along the United States-Mexico border is completed." The cosponsors include Reps. Bob Good, Jody Hice, Mary Miller, Ralph Norman, and Randy Weber. (Don't bother trying to square this demand with Trump's insistence that he has basically built the wall, except for a couple of tiny spots.)
That's all I have for you today. Please let me know what you think, and feel free to use the comments to discuss any topics that interest you.
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Have a nice Tuesday, Sky Dancers!!
Inside the consulting firm run by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas https://t.co/AYXFw7fhW9
— Ann MacGibbon (@BostonBoomer) April 5, 2022
'I didn't win the election': Trump admits defeat in session with historians https://t.co/i5KwVDlpWl
OMIGOSH!
It's not really that exciting. Did you read it? He's still delusional.
Trump, Zelizer wrote, "seemed to want the approval of historians, without any understanding of how historians gather evidence or render judgments".
Zelizer also pointed out that shortly after the session with the historians, Trump announced he would give no more interviews for books about his time in office.
"These writers are often bad people who write whatever comes to their mind or fits their agenda. It has nothing to do with facts or reality." [said Trump]
Yep. Still delusional.
The Russians leaving corpses in the street for weeks … no words. It's cruel, callous, and also intentionally a health hazard.
Leaders of the free world, what the fck more do you need to see?
Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas. pic.twitter.com/sK26wnBOWj
— Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) April 4, 2022
Heartbreaking.
TL cleanser.
Finally I see a tiktok of an Akhal-Teke horse. 😍
They are bred to have a shiny pearl-like coat! pic.twitter.com/X3TsBiq0oR
— Nah. 🐍💚🤍💜🟥Angry lesbian velociraptor ❤ (@WackyPidgeon) April 5, 2022
They can also be a light tawny color that shines gold. I've never seen the silver before. They're spectacular.
Gorgeous!! Like Shadowfax!
Ukrainians rescued a peacock so it won't be killed by the Russians and are bringing it to a safe nature reserve. You all know how much I love peacocks. ❤🇺🇦❤ pic.twitter.com/yPewPan2qc
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) April 6, 2022
I didn't know you could pick them up and hold them like that. Actually, I know almost nothing about peacocks. Now I'm curious.
They're wild in India and, I think, SE Asia. But everywhere else they're either farm birds or pets, so more or less tame.
As you can see by the feet, if you tried to hold a wild peafowl like that, you'd be shredded in minutes 😆 (or maybe not 😆 )


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Passion for volunteering continues to grow for Oklahoma City man
by Bryan Painter
Published: Sun, November 2, 2014 12:00 AM Updated: Sun, November 2, 2014 10:00 AM
Rodd Moesel, Photo by Todd Johnson, Oklahoma State University
Conditions don't always have to be ideal for significant growth to occur within volunteers.
Horticultural expert Rodd Moesel, a "third-generation habitual volunteer," has seen trying circumstances yield some of the greatest blessings in his life.
Moesel was a child when his father, Richard, was critically injured in a farm tractor accident.
Years later, Moesel, while volunteering in agricultural advisory work at refugee camps in Azerbaijan, witnessed passion and pride among people "who had lost everything but their lives and family."
Moesel, of Oklahoma City, through the years has volunteered in numerous areas, including youth and education, church, small business and economic development, agriculture and horticulture, politics and government, industry trade groups and international aid and development.
Having just turned 60, Moesel recently reflected that two of the most difficult situations he has experienced or witnessed have had some of the greatest influences on his life.
"Dad was in the hospital and unable to work for months," he said of his father's accident when they lived in southern Oklahoma, operating a vegetable farm and greenhouse. "The amazing people of Pauls Valley plowed our nursery and vegetable fields, helped harvest the crops, loved and cared for us and gave us the most memorable Christmas ever.
"They made us believe in the power of giving and sharing and created the real desire to give back or pay forward, to in some small way repay the amazing generosity and love of so many people we did not even know."
Richard recovered and in 1963, along with wife, Marjorie, and their family, moved the "Moesels Hort-Haven" business to Oklahoma City. Rodd Moesel, who was only in the fourth grade at the time, is today president and co-owner of American Plant Products and Services in Oklahoma City. He considers those acts of kindness he witnessed as a child as the "single event that most impacted me to the power of volunteerism."
That desire to volunteer has led him to involvements locally, nationally and abroad.
Moesel was recruited by a relief group to do volunteer agricultural advisory work for "three weeks in Azerbaijan in refugee camps from the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia."
The experience, when Moesel left the safety of America, "had a huge impact on my life and taught me hundreds of lessons on the human spirit and what is really important."
"There were a million homeless people from the conflict now living in the former schools, rail cars, cattle barns of the Russian Empire and in countless tents and U.N. sod houses," he said.
Moesel soon realized he had no use of telephones and rarely had electricity. Plus, without an interpreter he could not understand the language of those he had come to help. Still there was a desire and a bond.
Moesel remembers how they worked together to create simple greenhouses and hoop houses in 15 refugee camps to extend their growing season for green, leafy crops.
"I was forever touched by these kind and friendly people living in very challenging, even depressing, conditions that were grateful for their freedom and new choices even when they had lost their homes and farms," Moesel said. "I came back grateful for roads, highways, bridges, electricity and plumbing."
Moesel, who watched his parents as well as his grandparents volunteer in and beyond their communities, has participated in more than 30 organizations since the 1970s.
Earlier this year, Moesel was a recipient of the Oklahoma State University Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources' "DASNR Champion" award.
Ron Elliott, interim head of the DASNR's department of horticulture and landscape architecture, said of Moesel, "He is a civic-minded individual who has literally helped shape dozens of organizations."
"One of the most impressive things about Rodd is the fact he has offered his insights and talents in a sustained manner over a period of decades," Elliott said. "He tirelessly gives of himself in helping others reach their goals and objectives."
Also this year, Moesel was inducted into the Agriculture Hall of Fame by the state Agriculture, Food and Forestry Department. He has received numerous other awards.
But when he talks about the most important benefits from service professionally and through volunteering, Moesel points to those he has been privileged to work for and with.
"Volunteering has provided countless friendships and given real meaning to my life," Moesel said. "It has been a real honor to meet so many wonderful people and to be a small part of so many great projects. We hope we are helping to make our country, state and city a better place to live.
"It has been cool to learn so many new skills and to stretch my limits and learn so much tackling these volunteer projects."
Volunteering has provided countless friendships and given real meaning to my life. It has been a real honor to meet so many wonderful people and to be a small part of so many great projects. We hope we are helping to make our country, state and city a better place to live."
Rodd Moesel,
Bryan Painter
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Kyoto Drive release video for "Breathe"
Kyoto Drive (facebook.com/kyotodrivemusic) have just released the video for 'Breathe' from their new Mini-Album 'The Approach'. The video was produced by the very talented Josh Partridge who has worked with such artists as Deaf Havana, Portia Conn, The City Calls and Sell Your Sky. You can watch the video here.
Also the mainland Europe tour with There For Tomorrow of Hopeless Records has just been confirmed and announced.


Finely chop the onion, garlic, leek and de-seeded pepper.
Heat the oil in a large sauce pan and cook the vegetables for 3-4 minutes.
Add one fish fillet, the tomatoes, fish stock, wine, bay leaves, fennel seeds, thyme, Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper and cook for five minutes.
Break-up the cooked fish fillet with a fork. Add the other fillets, and the optional squid, in one layer and top with the scallops.
Cover and simmer for another five minutes. Sprinkle with parsley.


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