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In celebration of the iconic character's 80th anniversary, Batman returns to the big screen! But these aren't new movies but the four iconic Batman movies that brought the Caped Crusader's name to more audiences worldwide.
Audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), and Batman & Robin (1997)in movie theaters across the United States on May 2019. Each of these films will only be shown for a day in over 600 theaters so it's an opportunity that shouldn't be missed by Batman fans. There's nothing like the big screen to appreciate Batman and his crime-fighting adventures!
The tickets to these four Batman films are already available at the official website of Fathom Events and at participating theaters. Warner Bros., the production company behind the Batman film franchise, has also released the screening dates for each movie, as follows:
Batman – May 4 (Saturday) 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Batman Returns – May 6 (Monday) 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Batman Forever – May 12 (Sunday) 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Batman & Robin – May 14 (Tuesday) 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
All times are local. Be sure to check with your favorite theaters for more information about the screening times.
The return of these four Batman movies to the big screen is timely for DC Comics fans in general and for the Dark Knight's fans in particular. The last Batman-centric film, Dark Knight Rises, was released in 2012 although there were also other films featuring the Dark Knight.
These include Batman Begins (2005), Dark Knight (2008), Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017). These films, however, will not be returning to the big screen in May 2019.
While DC Comics have its share of box-office success, the Marvel Universe continues to be on a roll in recent years. The worldwide success of the Avengers franchise including the solo movies for its individual superheroes, especially with the recent theatrical release of Avengers: Endgame, is speculated as the reason for the four Batman films' re-screening.
Of course, these are just speculations as the re-screening is likely tied to the momentous 80th anniversary since Batman's debut. At any rate, Batman fans are happy for the opportunity to see their favorite superhero on the big screen.
Batman, the fictional self-made superhero, was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane in 1939. Originally named Bat-Man, his first appearance was in the Detective Comics #27 in the same year, and his cult of fans has grown by leaps and bounds since then.
Bruce Wayne, an American billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist, is Batman's alter ego. As a child, he witnessed his parents' murder, a traumatic event that inspired him to fight crime and criminals. He became a self-made superhero with a bat-inspired persona when he's in his superhero suit.
Batman lives in Gotham City, a fictional place, and fights criminals with several supporting characters including vigilante Robin, police commissioner Jim Gordon, and loyal butler Alfred. He doesn't possess any super-human powers, unlike many of his fellow superheroes like Superman and Aquaman. But due to his superior intellect, unparalleled skills in martial arts, and vast array of gadgetry at his disposal, he is able to fight alongside his fellow superheroes.
Through the years, Batman has fought – and made – many enemies including Joker, his archenemy, as well as Penguin, Poison Ivy, and Harlequin. He also has several allies like Batgirl, Oracle, and Huntress.
Batman almost immediately became popular after his introduction. By 1940, he was given a comic book of his own, Batman, and the character and franchise are among the most profitable in the entertainment industry.
There have been plenty of creative interpretations about Batman, too, on print, radio and television as well as on cinema. There are countless Batman merchandise, too, including apparel, toys and video games.
Batman on the big screen also has its ups and downs in terms of critical reviews and commercial performance. The four Batman movies that will be screened in May 2019 are considered as among the commercial successes of the franchise although not all of them are considered critics' favorites.
Batman (1989) is arguably the best-known among the four films. With Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Jack Nicholson as The Joker, it was 1989's top-grossing film and a critics' favorite. Such was its success at the box-office that it resulted in three sequels.
Batman Returns features Keaton reprising his role as the Dark Knight, as well as Danny DeVito as The Penguin and Christopher Walken as Max Schreck. It was also a hit with audiences worldwide, thanks to the actors' compelling performance and impressive visuals.
Batman Forever has Val Kilmer as the Dark Knight with a supporting cast led by Tommy Lee Jones as Two-face and Jim Carrey as The Riddler. Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, and Drew Barrymore are also in the cast. The film wasn't as successful as expected due to the uneven script and inferior character development, but it's still fun to watch in 2019.
In Batman & Robin, O'Donnell reprises his Robin role but George Clooney replaced Val Kilmer. The cast included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alicia Silverstone, and Uma Thurman. Like its predecessor, unfortunately, it wasn't as well-received by audiences and critics but many people also loved it.
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Less than two months before the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic presidential contenders are ramping up their spending with television ads that sell themselves and take aim at President Donald Trump.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has slipped in some recent polls, has reserved $7.4 million in television advertising in the four early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina as of Tuesday, according to a CNN tally of advertising from Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group, or CMAG.
Most of the new spending — $3.1 million — will hit the airwaves in Iowa, a state key to Warren's presidential ambitions and where she has recently lost ground to South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Former Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, also has dramatically upped his advertising, plowing nearly $2.4 million into Iowa, where he has just wrapped up an eight-day bus tour.
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who has spent no money on TV advertising, still hasn't made the debate cut.
Warren's planned $7 million advertising blitz through the fourth week of February is more than five times the amount she spent during the first 11 months of this year. Her latest ads tout her work to create the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau and the anti-corruption message that is central to her presidential campaign. In one ad, she charges, corruption is "breaking our democracy" as an image of Trump flashes on the screen.
Her advertising comes as Warren has seen her support drop in recent national polls. A Monmouth University poll released this week put her at 18%, down from 23% in September. She also slipped in CNN's poll with SSRS released in late November, from 19% in October to 14%.
Dave Peterson, a political scientist and pollster at Iowa State University in Ames, said his polling — which includes surveying the same likely caucus-goers repeatedly over several months — shows an unsettled race with a "chunk of Iowans drifting between candidates" and Warren losing ground to Buttigieg.
He said the new crop of ads may help "remind people what they like about her."
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With his inauguration, Biden makes his return to 'Catholic Washington'
Between the institutions representing conservative and liberal Catholic Washington is a thriving local community of ordinary Catholics living out their faith.
President-elect Joe Biden is joined his wife, Jill Biden, as they celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during Inauguration Day ceremonies Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (RNS) — When President Joe Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday (Jan. 20), he became only the second Catholic president in U.S. history.
But when he marched off the Capitol grounds later in the day, he reentered a much larger group: a peculiar, hyperpolitical faith community that makes the nation's capital one of the most active and ardent Catholic centers.
Those believers who live in what locals call "the District" are a complex, multilayered web of cardinals and other churchmen, politicians, professors and everyday Catholics who also happen to regularly rub elbows with the most powerful people on the planet. It's a community Biden has known for decades, but one that already looks markedly different from when he left the vice president's official home, Number One Observatory Circle, to return to his home state of Delaware just four years ago.
Washington's Catholicism is in part a reflection of the country: As the largest Christian denomination, with some 51 million members in the U.S., it's statistically fitting that at least a quarter of Congress (around 30% this go-round, per Pew Research) usually claims a Catholic identity. Several recent House speakers — Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner and Paul Ryan — are Catholic. Their shared beliefs were on full display when Pope Francis addressed Congress in 2015, a moment that brought Boehner to tears.
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Catholicism is the majority religion on the Supreme Court, and Catholic or not, the justices, along with many notables in the capital's judicial community, typically attend the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, celebrating those in the legal profession.
The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. Photo by Sarah Stierch (CC BY 4.0)/Creative Commons
Catholic priests and sisters can often be spotted on the streets of Washington and around the Capitol, as they go about the business of public welfare with the support of the federal government.
"For generations, Catholicism has had a very robust presence in American public life — through its social service agencies, schools, hospitals and the like — and also as a strong presence in conversations about major public topics of the day," said Kim Daniels, a Washington-based religious-liberty attorney and former spokesperson for the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Conversations about topics of the day take place in different ways in a multitude of Catholic or Catholic-oriented organizations, schools and formal and informal get-togethers, some of which deepen Washington's entrenched partisan divides.
Conservatives often flock to the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, where prominent, mostly conservative Catholics such as Ryan, former Trump budget director and chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and now-deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia have promoted Catholic political causes.
Conservative-leaning Catholics also gaggle at gatherings hosted by the Federalist Society and the Catholic Information Center, an Opus Dei-affiliated bookstore where former Attorney General Bill Barr served on the board from 2014-2017. Besides forwarding their respective missions, these organizations, multiple Catholic Washingtonians said, often function as hubs of networking and intellectual life for conservative Catholics.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, next to Catholic University of America, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Another locus for some conservative Catholics is Catholic University of America, which sits in Washington's northeast quadrant next to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. A major sponsor of the Catholic prayer breakfast, the school has connections that are far-reaching in the U.S. government and national Catholicism. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote her controversial law review article on the responsibilities of Catholic judges, raised during her confirmation hearings, with CUA's president, John Garvey, when he was her professor at the University of Notre Dame.
"There's a significant and often overlooked Catholic presence in the Brookland neighborhood in D.C.," Garvey told Religion News Service, "anchored by Catholic University, the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and dozens of houses of study of religious congregations, which earned it the nickname Little Rome. It's a significant presence in our nation's capital that demonstrates the serious commitment of Catholics to be a vital part of this nation. It's a privilege to form a part if it."
Biden, a Democrat, will have plenty of liberal Catholic company in the city. Just south of CUA is the headquarters of Network, the social justice lobby founded by Sister Simone Campbell, a longtime ally of the new president. Nestled on a bluff above the Potomac River on the city's northwest side is Georgetown University, a celebrated Jesuit institution whose Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life is led by John Carr, a former adviser to Catholic bishops who endorsed Biden last year.
Georgetown University's main campus above the Potomac River. Washington National Cathedral is visible above campus, in the background. Photo by Patrickneil/Creative Commons
John Gehring, the Catholic program director at the liberal-leaning advocacy group Faith in Public Life, called Carr's events "a focal point where social justice Catholics who are steeped in the church's intellectual tradition meet to grapple with big theological and political questions in the context of our faith."
Between these political poles is a thriving local community of Catholics living out their faith.
"Catholic Washington starts, for me, in my parish," said Daniels. "It's a very close-knit, active Catholic community with long-standing ties and long-standing service to the Washington community."
The Rev. Ray Kemp, who grew up in Washington and works at Georgetown, agreed. He was reared among a generation of fellow white Catholics who were often passionate about their European ancestry.
"It was Irish and Italian and German and Eastern European and English," he said. "It was a solid, hardworking, middle-class-to-lower-middle-class community of civil servants and people related to everything that supports a local and national government."
Historic parishes dot the city. St. Augustine Catholic Church, a congregation founded by emancipated African Americans near Meridian Hill Park, is often referred to as the "mother" church of black Catholics in the region. It was at St. Augustine where Vice President Kamala Harris, while studying to get her bachelor's degree at Howard University in the 1980s, reportedly used to slide into the pews to listen to gospel music and sermons by Black priests.
St. Augustine Catholic Church (est. 1858), located at the intersection of 15th and V Streets, NW, in the U Street Corridor of Washington. Photo by AgnosticPreachersKid/Creative Commons
Kemp pointed to crucial subsets of Washington's Catholic core, including a growing population that hails from parts of Central and South America. Kemp recounted that Sean O'Malley, now a cardinal in Boston, used to work closely with the community when he lived in Washington, and several noted the importance of parishes such as Our Lady Queen of the Americas in northwest Washington.
As in any diocese, these local communities regularly interact with prominent church hierarchs. When Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the first African American cardinal in Catholic history, visited St. Augustine in 2019 as the newly minted archbishop of Washington, he reportedly declared: "I stand on holy ground."
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Unlike other dioceses, those local interactions are often removed only a few degrees from positions of global significance. This effect will likely be magnified under a Catholic president. Gregory and Biden are reportedly already in regular conversation, so much so that the cardinal delivered the opening remarks at the first event of Biden's inauguration schedule: a memorial service Tuesday evening to mourn those who have died as a result of the pandemic caused by the coronavirus.
Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory poses for a portrait after Mass at St. Augustine Church in Washington on June 2, 2019. Gregory, who was elevated to cardinal in November 2020, is the first African American to lead the Archdiocese of Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Some of those interactions are just part of the daily routine.
"I happened to get my hair cut by the same barber as the apostolic nuncio," Kemp said, referring the Vatican's ambassador to the United States.
It remains to be seen how all these pieces will interact under Biden. For his part, Gregory told RNS in December that he hopes to have a relationship with Biden that "allows us to have a serious conversation, knowing full well that there are issues that he and I will be diametrically opposed (on), but hopefully also being able to capitalize on issues that we can advance together."
Catholic Washington will be watching to see whether conservative Catholics — in Congress, the Supreme Court or the pews — who disagree with the new president on several core issues will offer that cooperation.
It's sure that for all their differences, Catholics in Washington will continue to gather, worship and partake in the Eucharist. For Kemp, a Catholic Washington that worships together despite all its complicated layers is more than a democratic phenomenon.
"It's home," he said.
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Hannah Yeoh leads TTDI residents in saying resounding no to scaled down Rimba Kiara project
Monday, 22 Jul 2019 10:59 AM MYT
BY AZRIL ANNUAR
Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh (right) speaks during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur July 22, 2019. — Pictures by Ahmad Zamzahuri
KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 — The Taman Tun Dr Ismail Residents Association (TTDI-RA) and a group of longhouse residents living on Taman Rimba Kiara, led by their MP Hannah Yeoh, gave a huge thumbs down to developing one of the city's last green lungs.
Yeoh, surrounded by representatives of the two residents groups, said they can only accept two outcomes for the prolonged Taman Rimba Kiara development saga: either develop only the longhouse area in the park that was meant only for temporary housing or revoke all development plans altogether.
"I have also obtained support from the other KL MPs, seven of them.
"They have given me a letter on our proposed resolution which is to revoke the development order given, and number two — if you want to continue to allow them to build, they must build in the current long house footprint — 4.4 acres and not go beyond the current footprint.
"The scale down version will never be accepted by me or the residents, even the longhouse residents. What they want is to retain their current livelihood there, no high rise... the longhouse resident has also presented it to the FT Minister and spoken about it at the town hall," the Segambut MP told a news conference here today.
Federal Territories Minister Khalid Samad said the previous development plan, comprising eight blocks of high-end condominiums, had been scaled down to four blocks involving 3.2ha of land, compared with the original 4.9ha.
The revised plan would only see 1.6ha of open space taken up for development, compared with 3.2ha in the original plan. He added that the revised plan would include a 29-storey block with 350 units meant for Bukit Kiara longhouse residents.
Yeoh said she had requested a meeting with newly appointed MACC chief Latheefa Koya to discuss the issue.
Yeoh and Khalid have been at loggerheads over the fate of the development, with Yeoh wanting the entire project scrapped while Khalid said he needs to save public funds as the scrapping of the project would probably cost Kuala Lumpur City Hall around RM150 million.
The deputy women, family and community development minister as well as anti-graft NGO Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism on the other hand asserted that revoking the project will only cost the government around RM115 million.
Khalid had promised to bring the matter up to a Cabinet meeting but Yeoh confirmed today that it has not been discussed yet.
At the press conference, Yeoh also said she had requested a meeting with newly appointed Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Latheefa Koya to discuss the issue.
She said that Khalid's predecessor, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor had abused his power in granting the development of the Pavilion Taman Tun project.
Yeoh urged the MACC to look into all the reports lodged against the development.
"My hope is that MACC will look into all the reports that have been lodged, also the fresh report lodged by TTDI-RA last week. I hope that something like this, we have a say on this kind of governance. We don't want this trend to continue.
"If MACC say there's nothing wrong with something like that when there is a clear case of conflict of interest, then it will send the wrong message to all politicians in every GLC level that you can have the license to continue doing this," she said.
The DAP lawmaker also said that if the MACC finds no wrong-doings in the project, then the laws in question which has loopholes for politicians to abuse their power must be changed.
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Riz Ahmed stifles laughter as he reads out My Year of Dicks Oscar nomination
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Riz Ahmed struggled to contain his laughter while reading out an X-rated film title during the 2023 Academy Award nominations ceremony.
On Tuesday (24 January), the nominations for the Oscars ceremony were announced. You can read the full list of nominees here.
The nominees were presented by Riz Ahmed and Alison Williams, with the Animated Short Film category.
Among the nominees was My Year of Dicks, an animated film created by Pamela Ribon and directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir.
The Sound of Metal star Ahmed had to take a breather after saying the film's name, with the audience heard laughing along.
Ahmed then got a second laugh for the short film An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It, while his co-host could also be heard giggling.
Also nominated in the category were The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse, The Flying Sailor and Ice Merchants.
Irish films and actors received a lot of love at this year's nominations.
Brendan Gleeson and Kerry Condon join Paul Mescal and Colin Farrell in the list of acting nominees.
The Banshees of Inisherin, An Irish Goodbye and A Quiet Girl all received nods this year.
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Here's What You Need to Remember: Hypersonic autonomy would also bring new dimensions to high-speed attack, as it would introduce a measure of flight precision far beyond what's known as waypoint kinds of GPS guidance. Projectiles or hypersonic missiles could not merely transit from one predetermined point to another but rather maneuver more freely to avoid defenses by synergizing sensor targeting with guidance systems. For instance, an autonomous hypersonic weapon or drone could discern, and then avoid, an interceptor weapon or air defense system.
Hypersonic attack drones will definitely exist, the question simply is when. The prospect of surveillance drones or armed unmanned systems catapulting through space at five times the speed of sound, is already on the radar at high levels at the Pentagon.
"You can think of autonomy and hypersonics being integrated in the way you fly vehicles and the things you might do with those vehicles," Mike E. White, Assistant Director for Hypersonics, Office of The Undersecretary of Defense For Research and Engineering, told reporters according to a Pentagon transcript.
After all, successful attacking at hypersonic speeds will hinge upon fast-adapting, reliable guidance systems and ISR. Many newer kinds of sensors already bring an ability to help weapons course correct or change course in flight, and in future war it will be crucial to attack with the capability of doing this at hypersonic speeds.
Any kind of hypersonics-autonomy blend introduces questions about ISR and high-speed sensing, something White described as "command and control elements and the front end of the kill chain elements for targeting hypersonic strike weapons."
Should advanced course-correcting sensing, AI-enabled autonomy and hypersonic propulsion integrate into a single system, an unprecedented and uniquely modern advantage would be achieved.
Many weapons systems already operate with high-levels of semi-autonomy and the ability to course-correct in response to changing target information. A Tomahawk missile, for example, draws upon a two-way data link and an advanced ISR-capable "loiter" ability to discern and adjust targeting while in flight. Advanced Navy SM-6 missiles, engineered with new software upgrades, operate with a dual-mode seeker enabling a fast-moving ability to adjust to moving targets in flight. The SM-6 can send its own "ping" forward without needing to rely purely upon a ship-based illuminator to identify targets. This enables the weapon to shift, re-direct or even re-target upon receiving new signal data.
The challenge now will be to perform many of these kinds of tactical functions at hypersonic speed. There are many dimensions to this, and initially the most pressing one pertains to heat. Traveling at hypersonic speeds is known to generate unprecedented levels of heat, making flight trajectory and stability very difficult to manage. This is why Pentagon researchers and weapons developers are working intensely to develop new kinds of heat-resistant materials increasingly capable of sustaining operational capacity at extremely high temperatures. Managing airflow is yet another key element of this, as moving particles surrounding an object can disrupt the equilibrium in the air surrounding a projectile or vehicle, throwing off or complicating the flight path.
Hypersonic autonomy would also bring new dimensions to high-speed attack, as it would introduce a measure of flight precision far beyond what's known as waypoint kinds of GPS guidance. Projectiles or hypersonic missiles could not merely transit from one predetermined point to another but rather maneuver more freely to avoid defenses by synergizing sensor targeting with guidance systems. For instance, an autonomous hypersonic weapon or drone could discern, and then avoid, an interceptor weapon or air defense system.
Kris Osborn is Defense Editor for the National Interest. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army—Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has appeared as a guest military expert on Fox News, MSNBC, The Military Channel, and The History Channel. He also has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. This article first appeared two months ago and is being republished due to reader interest.
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Acne is experienced by a majority of teenagers. It is estimated that 85% of teens will have acne at some point during their adolescent years. Despite the large numbers of teens with similar acne conditions, it still affects their social life and self esteem. In severe cases, leaving the individual with physical and emotional scars that can last a life time. The naturopathic doctors at the Nardella Clinic in Calgary have extensive experience with treating teenage acne.
'Teenage pimples' were known to show up in the mid teens. Presently, with the earlier onset of puberty, we see children as young as nine with this skin condition. Acne can last up to 25 years old. However, it can be a life long struggle. The majority of people with teen acne will have it clear up and not have issues with it again. However, due to the potential life long effects of teen acne, it is important to treat it and get it under control before the damage is done.
There are two acne types—inflammatory and non-inflammatory.
Each type of acne is graded. Often, non-inflammatory acne is not recognized as a problem. This is because the lesions are not 'inflamed'. It encompasses grades 1 and 2 and involves mostly blackheads and white heads. Oil and dead skin cells build up and mix in the follicle and cement together. This completely blocks it. The blockages that are open to the air turn black due to oxidation and become a blackhead. The blockages that are covered by skin remain white and look like a little bump under the skin. This is a whitehead. This type of acne does not usually result in permanent physical damage to the skin unless tampered with (squeezing and picking). However, it does tend to have some impact on self-esteem.
Inflammatory acne is comprised of grades 3 and 4. These are the most damaging. Grade 3 acne (acne vulgaris) is the most commonly recognized type due to the prevalence of pustules. A pustule is made up of the same dead skin cells and oil as the black heads and white heads in non-inflammatory acne. The difference between them is the addition of bacteria that causes inflammation. The inflammation in turn results in an abundance of white blood cells (pus) to fight off the bacteria. This type of lesion can leave scarring.
Grade 4 is the most severe and damaging. It is known as nodulocystic acne. This type of acne has lesions that rupture out into many follicles forming large and often painful lumps in the skin. Some of these lumps stay as a hard ball known as a nodule and others become fluid filled and inflamed – a cyst. These types of lesions leave deep physical and emotional scarring.
Hormones – higher amounts of androgens in the body during adolescence stimulate and help set conditions for acne to develop.
Diet – poor diets help create an pro-inflammatory environment that makes the acne worse than it otherwise would be.
Stress – this is an important consideration for young people. The immediate and long-term consequences of not properly managing stress result from the inflammation that it causes in the body and hormonal disregulation.
Sunshine – It is believed that tanning helps acne because the skin appears to clear up after some sun. The increased vitamin d certainly does help with the skin; however, it stimulates cell proliferation and sometimes oil production. Both of these things are involved in forming an acne lesion. It often takes several months to build up that acne environment, so the summer sun may give short term relief. However, be prepared for the worse in the fall.
Early intervention is extremely important with acne – especially with the inflammatory types. The Nardella Clinic in Calgary uses naturopathic medicine to focus on finding the underlying cause of the inflammation. Finding an individual's source of inflammation and helping to remedy the problem is recommended. There are always a few factors at play at any one time. A good homecare regime involving high grade, active ingredients and botanicals is imperative. Also, regular skin treatments with an experienced and sympathetic professional keep things on track. A balancing of the skins oil and moisture is very important for the teen with acne. The faster the condition is taken under control, the less long-term effects there will be to deal with. Dermasound treatments, IPL PhotoFacial, and high grade active products are all offered at the clinic to help balance the skin.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With many races still tight but polls showing a general trend in favor of Republicans, the White House on Monday blamed voter dissatisfaction with Washington for what could be an Election Day rout for President Barack Obama's Democrats.
Both parties pushed to get voters to the polls in a final effort to sway the electorate ahead of Tuesday's election, which could shift control of the U.S. Senate and upend policy priorities for the last two years of Obama's final term.
The president, who spent the weekend campaigning in Michigan, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, stayed in Washington on Monday and was scheduled to have a meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen about the U.S. and global economy.
Obama will face pressure to make changes at the White House if his party loses across the board. A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed 75 percent of respondents believed the administration needs to "rethink" how it approaches major issues facing the United States. Sixty-four percent said Obama should replace some of his senior staff after the election.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest played down the prospect of major firings.
"At this point, I don't anticipate that will happen," he told a briefing. He said a key factor driving the election was "frustration with the failure of Washington, D.C., to put in place policies that are helpful to middle-class families."
Vice President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview broadcast on Monday that he expected Democrats would hold the Senate and dismissed suggestions that the White House would have to change the way it does business.
Voters elect 36 senators, all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 36 state governors on Tuesday. Control of the Senate may not be clear, though, for some weeks, depending on the outcomes of races in Georgia and Louisiana that could spur runoffs.
Democrats had hoped a superior get-out-the-vote effort, which helped Obama win the White House in 2012, would offset apathy among their core constituency groups, which have a history of sitting out non-presidential elections.
But the Republican Party has stepped up its "ground game." Republican National Committee spokesman Kirsten Kukowski said volunteers would keep knocking on doors until polls closed.
"We've completely revamped our ground game, and nearly all of our time and resources have gone toward expanding the electorate by persuading and turning out voters who typically don't vote and turning them out as early as possible," she said.
Republicans must pick up six Senate seats and retain those they have to reclaim the majority from Democrats and control both chambers of Congress. Polls show several races are toss-ups.
One is in New Hampshire, where Republican Scott Brown is challenging incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen.
A WMUR/University of New Hampshire poll put Shaheen, a first-term U.S. senator and former governor, leading by 49 percent to 48 percent, while a New England College survey showed Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, ahead by 49 percent to 48 percent.
Races in Colorado, North Carolina, Kansas, Iowa and Alaska are also tight.
(Additional reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Caren Bohan and Doug Royalty)
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The land colonized at the time and without international legal statute is susceptvel for applicable of self-determination and independence. Drew Houston understood the implications. All the lands, those that are integrant parts of the State can complain its unit. Treating to the case of the Sara Occidental person, where the legal relationships between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Saara Occidental person retrace the centuries. The sovereigns of Morocco governed the Saara Occidental person, as well as the remaining portion of the Moroccan territory. This government exerted the power, under the form of constitutional emission of laws, including the aspects and economic activities, treating to the sectors of the commerce and the production, nominated to fish, as sector monopolized and kept in general in favor of the Sulto. This discloses cases special that had been used to advantage for the foreigners. Such program also involved the management of the ports, in view of having control on the opening and blockade of the foreign commerce, in compliance with the requirements of the national politics.
The historical facts and relative international information to the agreements between the United kingdom and Morocco (signed in 13 of March 1895), treating to the relative commitment the purchase of the company north-west of Africa in Tarfaya, disclosing that the colonial countries Europeans recognize two principles of international law: The sovereignty of Morocco on its territory, including the region of the Sara, as well as the power of the Moroccan people of the north for the south in direction to the border with the Mauritnia. In the practical one, the Moroccan people fought in all the parts of the kingdom, of side by side with the saranianos during decades consolidating the unit of its country. Unhappyly, a small saraniano group of separatistas that was supported by some neighboring countries, having for objective to provoke tension in the region to harm the process of the consolidation of the territorial unit of the Kingdom of Morocco.


The goal of treatment in CHF is to control the symptoms and treat the underlying cause as well as the precipitating cause. Before prescribing medications, your physician may want you to lose weight and stop smoking. These measures may reduce the workload on the heart as well as control some of the causes of CHF (high blood pressure, coronary artery disease). In addition, reducing the intake of salt and water can improve symptoms and may reduce the need of some medications. Exercise may be helpful to improve overall fitness. However, when CHF is severe, bed rest may be required.
A major side effect is a low potassium (K+) level, which can cause muscle cramping and abnormal heart rhythms. Potassium supplements or potassium-sparing diuretics can be used either alone or in combination with other diuretics.
Side effects include cough and occasionally a rash.
These medications do not cause the side effect of cough produced by ACE inhibitors.
Nitroglycerin dilates veins and can be taken under the tongue (Nitrostat), intravenously, by mouth (Isosordil, Sorbitrate, ISMO), or by skin patches (Nitro-Dur, Transderm-Nitro).
Side effects include low blood pressure, headache, edema, and constipation.
Hydralazine is a vasodilator that acts on arteries. It is used less frequently since ACE inhibitors have been found to be more effective.
Alpha blockers block the alpha-adrenergic receptors of the sympathetic nervous system, thereby dilating blood vessels. Alpha blockers include prazocin (Minipress) and doxazosin (Cardura). Side effects include rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure.
Digitalis medications (digoxin, Lanoxin) increase the force of contraction of the heart muscle and also control abnormal heart rhythms, especially atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. Therefore, digitalis is most useful when someone with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter has CHF (a fairly common scenario). It improves heart function without increasing mortality. It has many side effects, including nausea, vomiting, many types of abnormal heart rhythms, confusion and negative interactions with other medications.
Sympathomimetic medications act similarly to the sympathetic nervous system and are used when CHF is severe, such as in cardiogenic shock. They treat CHF by increasing the force of the heart's contraction. Sympathomimetic drugs include dopamine (Inotropin) and dobutamine (Dobutrex). Because they must be taken intravenously and are extremely strong, these medications are used mainly when CHF has become life threatening. They can cause abnormal heart rhythms and ischemia.
Heart valve replacement When a heart valve malfunctions, valve replacement can reverse the symptoms. In some cases, this can be a life-saving procedure.
Congenital heart defect correction Surgical repair of congenital heart defects is frequently used to restore normal functioning as much as possible.
Coronary artery bypass If Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the cause of CHF, then correcting the CAD with coronary artery bypass grafts can be useful.
Heart transplant When CHF persists and worsens despite maximum therapy, then a heart transplant can be an option. Patients considered for transplants usually suffer from severe symptoms (Class 4 on the New York Heart Association's scale), have ejection fractions of 15 to 20 percent and have one year survival rates of 50 percent. The improvement in anti-rejection drugs (especially cyclosporine) have increased survival from this procedure. There are also some devices that assist the severely failed heart, such as an intra-aortic balloon pump and a left ventricular assist device. These are used as bridges to keep a person alive until a donor heart can be found.
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The review should begin with a brief description of the condition being addressed and its significance. It may include information about the biology, diagnosis, prognosis and public health importance (including prevalence or incidence).
Description of the intervention
A description of the experimental intervention(s) should place it in the context of any standard, or alternative interventions. The role of the comparator intervention(s) in standard practice should be made clear. For drugs, basic information on clinical pharmacology should be presented where available. This information might include dose range, metabolism, selective effects, half-life, duration and any known interactions with other drugs. For more complex interventions, a description of the main components should be provided.
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Cuban Economy Will Go for More, President Says
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President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday stated that the Cuban economy is going for more despite a difficult international environment and the worsening of the US blockade against the island.
The president participated in discussions of the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of the third ordinary period of sessions of its 9th Legislature that opened on Monday.
Diaz-Canel announced about this issue that the economy grew more than expected in 2018 and the purpose is to achieve a modest increase despite the Washington-applied economic, financial and commercial siege 'that has not allowed us to deploy in full force.'
In his speech, he said that foreign investment projects are under way for several billion dollars and there are other projects aimed at reducing imports.
He urged to invest more in the Agriculture and Food industries and increase the quantity of cultivable land under irrigation, which is currently insufficient for national needs.
The head of State referred to measures for economic boost that include wage increase to the public sector and reiterated that 'popular wisdom,' was taken into account. It was expressed in direct contact with the population and in forums such as the Congress of the Cuban Workers' Union, bringing together all unions in the country.
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Launch coaster for Busch Gardens Tampa
Florida's Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is to introduce a multiple launch rollercoaster for 2011 called Cheetah Hunt.
Using a linear synchronous motor (LSM) ride system from Intaride (Intamin's US subsidiary), the coaster will launch riders from 0 to 60mph in a matter of seconds not once, but three times. The ride will start from the park's monorail station, which is being completely renovated as part of the new attraction.
Cheetah Hunt covers a lot of ground, setting a new distance record for Busch Gardens' rollercoasters with 4,429ft of track in total. The first launch will propels the train across a portion of the park's "Serengeti Plain". Moments later, a second burst of speed accelerates riders to 60mph and up into the ride's signature tower element that climbs more than 10 stories above the African-themed landscape before plunging 130ft into a subterranean trench. Elements such as over-banked turns, air-time parabolas and a heartline roll inversion apparently imitate an agile cheetah chasing its prey, leaping and pouncing into the Nairobi area, where the train twists through a rocky gorge that was formerly part of Rhino Rally. At the far end of this three-quarter-mile path, a third burst of speed rockets the train back across the plain toward the station.
Cheetah Hunt will be part of a new area at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay called Cheetah Run, Located in the area freed up by the removal of the park's Budweiser Clydesdale horses, this expansive new habitat will give visitors the opportunity to get closer to cheetahs than ever before with elevated, glass-panelled viewing areas. Take a virtual ride on Cheetah Run at the Busch Gardens website.
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Pakistan: Hindu sisters not forcibly converted to Islam
A court in Islamabad on Thursday has ruled that two Hindu sisters from Sindh province, who were allegedly abducted and forced to marry Muslim men, voluntarily converted to Islam.
The court also states the women, Nadia, 18, and Asia, 19, who were formerly known as Reena and Raveena, respectively, are adults and free to make informed decisions for themselves according to Pakistani law.
The ruling came as the result of an investigation by a five-member commission that was formed after the women filed a petition to seek protection from their family. The sisters claimed they had been harassed and threatened for converting to Islam and marrying Muslim men.
"This was a sensitive matter, and we have investigated it thoroughly. I have personally met with the girls and their husbands, and it doesn't seem the girls were abducted or forcibly converted," Khawar Mumtaz, chairperson of National Commission on the Status of Women and a member of the newly formed commission, told the court, as reported by the local newspaper, Express Tribune.
Before Thursday's ruling, the court instructed the government to take the sisters into protective custody until a decision was made.
News of their alleged abduction and conversion made headlines and became controversial in the majority-Muslim country last month when Hari Lal, the women's father, appeared in a video condemning his daughters' disappearance.
In another video that surfaced on various social media sites days later, Nadia and Asia are seen sitting with their husbands and a Muslim cleric, who claimed the women had accepted Islam freely and had not been forced to convert.
The videos prompted Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to conduct an investigation. Authorities arrested several people belonging to the grooms' families for their alleged involvement.
Authorities have not said anything about the fate of the arrested family members, but they could be freed following the court ruling.
Forced conversions
Hindus, a religious minority who make up about 4% of Pakistan's population of 200 million and largely live in the country's Sindh and Punjab provinces, have long been concerned about the abduction of their teenage girls by Islamists.
They charge that so-called voluntary conversions and marriages are in fact legal cover for the kidnappers, whose young victims fear for their lives and their families' if they speak the truth publicly.
Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, a member of the Pakistan Hindu Council who was present in the court Thursday, told VOA that legislation is needed to ban forced conversion of religious minorities in Pakistan.
"Most of the cases are about Hindu girls of marriageable ages. You would not hear stories of older women being abducted," Vankwani said. "Madrassas (Islamic seminaries) and Islamic clerics play a critical role. These girls are abducted and taken to the mosques directly where they are asked to embrace Islam and then married to Muslim men right away. This has been going on for quite some time in Sindh."
Every year, about 1,000 young girls are forcibly converted to Islam across Pakistan, according to local rights groups and activists.
"The Hindu community says almost 1,000 girls in Pakistan are converted to Islam every year. We cannot verify the figure independently, but it does depict the problem this community has faced for so long," Zohra Yusuf, a Pakistan-based rights activist, told VOA.
Local officials, however, charge that the girls often elope with affluent Muslim men to evade poverty, and convert to Islam because a marriage between a Muslim and Hindu is not permissible in Islam.
Persecuted minority
Pakistan's Hindu population has significantly decreased in recent years, with many migrating to India to seek refugee status, citing religious persecution in Pakistan.
They have long complained of prejudice against them both from the government and society. A majority of them live in poverty in the Sindh and South Punjab regions of Pakistan.
"Laws in Pakistan and the prejudices in the society have contributed toward the persecution of minorities. Their rights are violated regularly, and they have little or no support from the law or the society," Yusuf said. "When you do not provide protection and discriminate (against) them on the basis of religion, what other options are they left with?"
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I realized I never finished our three part California trip series. I got caught up in the holiday madness and now that its all over I'll recap the last and most relaxing part of our Cali trip.
We left Dan's Sister's apartment Monday morning when they had to go back to work. Waiting until rush hour was over, we left around 10:30am and headed from Anaheim to San Diego. We made a pit stop in La Jolla to see the sea lions too. It was a bit underwhelming, Ada had just woken up from a nap in the car, Dan was doing a work phone call on his headphones and I wasn't feeling good, so we just stopped, took a few pictures and got back in the car.
It took just about 2 hours to get to Coronado Bay and as soon as we pulled into The Del at Cornonado Beach, we knew this was the real "Vacation" part of the trip. The valet took our car and unloaded all our luggage for us. We did curbside check in and someone walked us to our room.
We had an AMAZING view from our huge balcony, this was a view at sunset our first night!
We spent our first day snuggling and playing at the Beach. It was a bit chilly, but of course that doesn't bother Ada at all. We explored our resort and discovered that everything at the hotel was way over-priced. We got suckered into $25 salads the first day, but the second night we decided to drive into Coronado Bay and we did dinner at the Coronado Brewing Company. Way more food, for much better prices!
Dan's Sister Becky and her boyfriend Dave decided to make the most of our time in Cali since we knew we wouldn't be seeing them again until probably the Spring. So they drove up after work Tuesday night and came to hang out with us at our hotel. Dan appreciated having some people to go out with that night, since Ada and I crash early, but they sat on the patio and enjoyed wine and then headed out to a bar downstairs at the hotel for a little bit.
Our last day there was my favorite day! It was the warmest day we had pushing 80 in the sunshine so we spent the day swimming in the hotel pool, soaking up the sun on our balcony and exploring more of our old historic hotel.
The Hotel Del Coronado had some awesome holiday events going on, but everything was so expensive and nothing was included which was a bit disappointing. They had marshmallow toasting on the beach, but it was going to cost us almost $200 for our family of 3, and the ice skating was so crowded every night because they had school groups and holiday parties going on, even on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. It was fun to watch, but we promised Ada we could do those things at home, and fortunately she was fine with that!
We really enjoyed our stay the the Hotel Del Coronado, would definitely come back again, but we'll do less eating at the hotel and more exploring of San Diego and Coronado Bay, especially since we had a car. It was a beautiful property, very high end, and a very relaxing end to our long California trip and final babymoon for just the three of us!! We'll also come back when its a bit warmer out!!


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Of papers. Not counting what's at the office at school.
This is what comes of not filing anything for over ten years. Well, okay. Periodically I've filed stuff, but the file folders are in the boxes and drawers too, in no particular order. And I should go through all of the filed stuff anyway, throwing much of it away and combining duplicates.
First, I need to finish the pile of "do this now" papers, but that's down to a few inches, and mostly consists of the binder for the adoption agency. Then... what. Start on whatever box is closest?
I guess I don't have to worry about kindling for the wood stoves for the rest of the winter.
Idunno. I could go with less than half or 90%.
Less than half or 90% sounds very likely, actually.
I've made my mother keep all of my grandmother's itty bitty notebooks that she wrote down *everything* she paid for with cash, even down to 2c stamps.
I think you are perfectly capable of overcoming the packrat gene of yours. Take small, manageable chunks.Organize and file them appropriately. Then, take refuse and offal from that procedure, and BURRRN it!
I'm not sure about overcoming that gene. I do think that if I start with some sort of metric it might help. Like the one when I moved from CA to VT: if it isn't easily replaceable (mostly regardless of cost) and/or isn't of serious sentimental value, give it away. I ignored the rule for tools, but otherwise was pretty good with it.
Papers. Hm. (1) Important legal documents - must keep those. (2) Sentimental value, e.g., letters - keep those. Other stuff (which must be well over 90%) .... I'm not so sure. Documentation of herb classes I taught in 1986? Brochures from herb schools so that I know who's out there doing what? Flyers from the Freight (coffee-house/ folk music venue in Berkeley which I'm a life member of, semi-sentimental value)?
It's going to be a long process.
The information in your brochures is likely out of date and available on the web in most cases, I'd say.
Oh, undoubtedly. I'm thinking of them more as a general resource - that there are those particular 36 people out there teaching, who I worked with ages ago and might want to get back in touch with for some reason.
But, of course, I can come up with a reason to keep just about any piece of paper.
I did just burn the one from the college that said they had my app for the tenure position. Don't need to see *that* piece of paper ever again.
I'm a packrat myself, but most of mine isn't papers. It's "stuff". I intended to work on it, but just after I moved into my house serious parental health issues started to take up much of my free time and I didn't want to spend the remainder sorting. Once I get the living space back under control, I do want to work on the boxes.
Recently, a scanner was suggested for papers in my office and I'm considering that. Have you thought about a scanner? Might be useful where the paper item itself isn't of sentimental value, but you might want the info someday. They are now quite inexpensive, and digital data is much easier to store--maybe good for herb school brochures, or class documentation, etc.?
That's an excellent idea. I was just thinking that I don't end up collecting quite so many pieces of paper any more, because some of it is all on my computer, instead. And I actually have a scanner, but right at the moment it's decided that the scanning part of it won't. (Copying works, printing from the computer to the scanner/printer works - scanning to the computer does not.) And I have another one, too. But it thinks it's got paper stuck in it (it doesn't) and won't do anything except give a paper stuck message.
So, once I get the technology dealt with, I can work on your excellent suggestion. In the mean time, I can also think about sorting into a scan-and-then-toss pile.
Having done something similar, yes, start with whatever box is closest. Anything else is procrastinating on the hard part.
Just starting on the box that's closest is proving to be a procrastination point. I do have the two inches of current Do This Yesterday stuff to deal with.... first? And it occurs to me that if I get my current several boxes (they're included above) better organized before I start, that I won't be piling confusion on top of confusion.... Or is that a procrastination technique?
I should just do it. I'm sure it will prove to be a fascinating process. I love old memorabilia.
I might need to wear a mask. I think there's enough mildew in there to set off my allergies. Or is that another procrastination point?
What would happen if you just disposed of the boxes without going through them?
Um. I think I'd panic.
I was fairly ruthless this last time because I needed everything to fit nicely into my new office and because most of what I had was information for projects that had become outdated or to which I will never get around, and I needed to clear out the psychic space as well as the physical space.
I'm thinking about a quick sort into "almost certainly save, but sort later" and "burn now!" That could go pretty quickly.
Of course, then I'd have that first pile to go through a second time. But it might work.
The pitching boxes wholesale is not an option, and not just because of my packrat (hording, possessive, whatever) tendencies. Things like birth certificates, vaccination records, property deeds, etc. are in there. Somewhere. I should be an adult and file them responsibly.
And I have this empty safe-deposit box I inherited from my grandmother, too. Ought to put it to use.
On the plus side (at least for now), I defy anyone to steal an important document from me. They'd have a helluva time finding it - or even knowing whether it exists and, if so, whether it's in any of the various containers to begin with.
I think of myself as a very organized, responsible person. Who knew?
Plan drafts. I forgot that I have one or two large stacks of drafts of my dissertation in my office. Along with other assorted stuff that needs to be tossed.... but is probably mixed in with important documents. Gah. Glad to do a bonfire, though. Mid-March?


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Trash, Traffic, and Tragedy: What It's Like to Run NYC in an Age of Terror
A quest for miles can put runners face-to-face with sites they'd often avoid.
By Matt Gross
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About 20 minutes into Sunday's New York City Marathon, I wanted to quit. Not because I was tired, undertrained, bored, or a quitter at heart—I actually felt light on my feet. No, my mind drifted from the three hours of running ahead to a spot just off the course in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. One block over to my right was one of my favorite restaurants in the five boroughs: Grand Sichuan House, whose spicy and numbing fish, pork, and tofu dishes I adore—but which I hadn't visited in a year or more.
Was the restaurant still there? I wondered. Did the same family run it? Were the wontons in red oil as delicious as I remembered?
Within a few minutes, the restaurant was gone from my mind again. I had running to do, and spectating friends to locate on the sidelines: there on 46th Street; near my home at the edge of Gowanus and Boerum Hill; in Fort Greene, where my wife and daughters were cheering me on. Where I didn't have friends to spot in different neighborhoods along the course, I had other memories to reflect on. That block in Williamsburg where I lost my skateboard—a decade ago? The kimchi grilled-cheese sandwich on the Upper East Side—five years ago? A stroll with my older daughter down Fifth Avenue to visit the Central Park Zoo—who knows when that was, but I recall it being a chilly, drizzly day just like Sunday.
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For those who live and run in New York City, the streets quickly become awash in memories. On every corner, on every hill and curve and straightaway from Van Cortlandt Park to the Rockaways, flash moments of our pasts. The meaningful moments jam up against the mundane. You remember, that's where my wife lived when I met her or that's where I met that weird runaway from North Carolina.
And sometimes the memories are collective ones—the echo of traumas that happened, in some way, to all of us. I'm sure I'm not the only New Yorker who ran the marathon thinking constantly about the Hudson River Greenway, the popular running, walking, and cycling path where, just five days before the marathon, Saifullo Saipov drove a pickup truck down a busy bike lane, killing eight and injuring 11 in what officials called the worst act of terrorism in this city since September 11, 2001.
I know the spot well. When I used to run home from my office in Times Square, it was a stretch where I'd pick up the pace, hoping to make it across Chambers Street before the light changed so I could easily cut across the island to the Brooklyn Bridge. Sometimes I'd make it, other times not. Often, especially in winter, when the sidewalks grew icy, I'd run in the bike path itself. (Sorry, cyclists.) Always, as I approached that intersection, where the attack came to its end, I'd judge how close I was by the size of One World Trade Center looming in the near distance.
And now, there's that tragedy there. That stupidity. That ugly new memory that's imprinting itself on the geography of my brain as well as the geography of my city. And that's the reality we have to adjust to, in New York and in Boston especially—but also in any city, large or small, whose density and interconnectedness require that you come face to face with urban scars—where the blood and debris were long ago cleaned up but the images persist.
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Everyone has to figure out how and why to go on after these events, but we runners are a special case: We cover more ground than anyone else, and our quests for miles are inevitably going to bring us to sites of death and destruction that others would avoid. How do we set off in the morning or evening, fiddling with our GPS watches and kvetching about sore muscles, knowing where our routes may lead us? When we know what has happened, are we silly or amoral to run over hallowed ground?
To run in a city—a classical American city—has always been difficult. The obstacles are everywhere: cars and traffic lights; trash cans and scattered debris; broken sidewalks and busy sidewalks; dogs and slow-moving people and stairs and people and construction sites and people. You learn, over weeks and months and years, how to get from point A to B to C in the way that suits you best, across that block where no one seems to walk (oh right, there's that smell!) or through the little park that offers brief shade from the summer sun. You studiously avoid your ex's neighborhood. You pick a favorite bridge to go over. (The Williamsburg Bridge, obviously.)
And as you run—and run and run—you begin to see the city differently. It's a series of challenges, large and small, that test not only your physical ability, but also your personhood. Who do you think you are? asks the steep hill you run repeats on near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Where do you think you're going? demands the long, flat, weird stretch near the Navy Yard. Quit now and go back where you came from! screams the maddening final miles of the marathon.
Along the way, with each implicit rejection of the city's challenges, you build new victories and memories. You come to admire the stultifying climb up Flatbush Avenue to Prospect Park. You find yourself running through the ex's neighborhood without fear. A new skyscraper replaces the toppled ones as your beacon.
"You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now," wrote the novelist Colson Whitehead two months after 9/11.
He's right, of course, but being a New Yorker is not just about nostalgia. Because to remember "what was there before" requires "what was there before" to have disappeared—closed or retired or moved away or senselessly destroyed—and been replaced by something else. And it's that something else—what's there now—that we have to acknowledge as it comes to live side by side with, on top of, or instead of what was there before.
As runners we know this: No step is the same as the last, no marathon identical. We adapt to the ground, the weather, our changing bodies, and as we do, new memories gradually overtake and replace the old ones. What was so tough about that hill? Where did my ex live anyway?
What was there before still lingers, but we run in the here and now. With luck, or maybe just with time, the bad memories get gentrified out of our brains, out of our city, out of our lives. They quit, we don't.
Matt Gross is the digital director for Runner's World.
Matt Gross Matt Gross is the digital director of Runner's World.
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