I don't know when Friendship Day really falls and frankly I don't care much.
I don't think I have ever wished a friend of mine on a day that was dedicated to us being friends, because, you know me, it ain't my style – I would rather invest each day, every day into friendships that I want to nurture, than forward mushy messages on Whatsapp, trying to force-feed my counterparts on the importance of our relationship.
Today, we aren't talking of Friendship Day, but I wanted to talk about this today itself, because, after all, I am going to talk of friendships.
If you come to think of it, this word, friendship, in itself sounds so weird, so half and half, as if the creator of this word purposefully placed it somewhere in between the extremes of love and that of acquaintance. And when I was younger, I used to believe it.
When celebrities tell off the paparazzi that they are "just friends" with a co-star, it sounds weird, funny, and childish even, as if being "just friends" is any less intimate than being "just lovers".
SRK's cult dialogue in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the ones I know by heart, and the ones that played as the background score of my adolescent heartbreaks, clearly made it law by saying that – Pyaar is Dosti.
But in our urgent rush to follow this law, we forgot to ask him, if this holds good the other way round too?
Pyaar equals Dosti – So, being the nerd that I am, Dosti equals Pyaar too, no? – It's an equation for Christ's sake!
Oh, I love him, but I love him like a friend – We have all heard this line way too many times, but why do we say it like that? Why is it so absolutely necessary to insert this but? Why justify how you love him? Why patronize? Can't we just say – I love him. Period?
I am always triggered by something or the other when I am writing – In fact, I don't write at all, unless I am triggered deeply, it brings out the best in my writing. And so, as Friendship Day special, and all that blah blah jazz about having true friends in your life, let me talk to you about one such story.
I never had one, ever. Maybe I still don't. Because pen friends are people in your life you only write to, and haven't ever met. Correct?
I don't have too many friends either. Quite a few have taken the liberty to call me a loner – But trust me, I am far from that. I love meeting new people and making new friends. It is just that my definition of friendship hardly ever aligns with anyone I meet regularly, which is why, I am left with just a few, within whom, I find my home.
And because of my definition, and the complexity of the definition, I am always thinking, and questioning.
Let me start by saying this – This friend is one of those within whose aura, I have found home. I don't even want to call him a friend. It somehow does not justify. I don't meet him that often, which is why I coined the term Pen Friend, but he's a part of my life, each day, every day, writing to me, talking to me, sometimes about life and death, about intense subjects, and sometimes being frivolous and goofy. It is a relatively new friendship, but somehow, it feels like forever. It feels like I have known him for so long. It feels like he is a clone of mine, because we have so many views that are united. Every relationship is ought to make you into a better person, and this has – This has made me learn so much, about myself, about what I am capable of feeling. This has made me feel alive, has made me laugh, and no prizes for guessing, made me cry too. He is almost like a mentor, but then just as I float this thought in my head, I realize that maybe he is not.
I am happy when I talk to him – The cells in my brain somersault a bit – I am a bit sad when I don't talk to him. I feel restless.
I don't know where I am going with this blog, and whether I am even going to publish it. Because it is so abstract. So hard to explain.
You know me, in every single thing I have done in my life, there hasn't been anything that I have done half-heartedly – I go all in – I love with an intensity that could give the greatest lovers a run for their money – I give it all – And that might be where a certain misalignment might occur, between friends, between people, because, however similar people are or they seem, in reality, they are not really your clones. So yes, ideas and expectations, from life, from each other, end up differing.
Hence, I romanticize most of my friendships, and relationships to be one-sided, because, can they really give it their all, ever? Can they love with an intensity that collides with mine and yet stays invincible? Do they think of me as much as I think of them?
Do they feel like they have known me forever? Do they feel alive when they are with me? Have they ever cried for me? Could I ever be the mentor in their lives, the way they have been in mine?
Even in this story. My side of the story.
Can you really expect from your friend the way you expect from your other relationships, for example? Can you demand time from them? Can you demand anything at all? Do you have the right to?
Or is this façade of an umbrella that we like to call friendship, a safe term where it is actually half and half? – Is this something you place in an area which denies you the comforts of a fully committed relationship? – You can confide into them, but not everything you have ever felt. You can spend time with them, but not as much as your other relationships. You can be intimate with them intellectually, and emotionally, but not enough to break you. You can say that you love them, but you can't tell them how deeply. You can follow your heart, but follow it only up to the point where the boundaries are drawn. By you. Or him. Doesn't matter.
Doesn't this seem like half-hearted to you?
And I don't do half-hearted.
I can't. I choose not to.
Because in my tears, lie the remnants of my commitment.
And in my intensity, lies my honesty.
So I don't know where this is headed. This Pen Friend.
But I know something for sure, a time might come, sooner than later, when the mismatch in the very definition of friendship might become pronounced.
What if you want more and he doesn't? What if he wants more and you don't?
Should one leave things at what they are? – Wouldn't that be a compromise?
And a compromise, in my opinion, is a settlement, an agreement, something that is very business-like, that follows processes and procedures, and something that completely defies the musings of the heart.
And just like a lot of things I don't do, defying the musings of my heart tops the list.


That sounds so fun!! Though at this point, dd would just constantly be saying, mama what happened, what happened and not stop! lol what is that man doing? Why did he take my money? lol I'm glad you all had such a great day!!


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Phone Makers' Android Tweaks Cause Security Problems
Smartphone makers' custom software is responsible for a slew of Android security issues, researchers at North Carolina State University say.
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The open nature of Google's Android operating system means manufacturers can add their own software layer to the phone—helping them stand out from the pack with a different look and features. Yet new research shows such tailoring may also be responsible for a host of security weaknesses that could make phones more vulnerable to hackers.
According to a study conducted by computer science researchers at North Carolina State University, changes manufacturers made to the stock Android software were responsible for more than 60 percent of the security flaws uncovered in phones from different handset companies. A paper (pdf) on the work is slated to be presented Wednesday at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Berlin.
"We were surprised by the overall insecurity," says one of the authors, Xuxian Jiang, an associate professor of computer science at the university, who researches mobile malware. Jiang sees it as an indication that some phone vendors aren't taking security seriously enough, and that they feel constant pressure to bring new software features to market.
In their study, researchers looked at 10 Android smartphones; five ran variations of the fourth generation of Android software, and five used the second generation (in between those two, Google released a version 3.2, also known as Honeycomb, that was intended for tablets). The researchers tested one handset with each of the two Android versions from Samsung, HTC, LG, and Sony—including the popular Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X—as well as two Google-branded handsets (the Nexus S and Nexus 4, made by Samsung and LG, respectively) that served mainly as frames of reference, since they don't include the same customized software skins found on many other Android handsets.
In order to figure out what the security vulnerabilities were and where they originated, researchers first separated the apps that came loaded on the smartphones into three categories, noting which came from Google's Android Open Source Project, which were created or customized by the smartphone maker, and which came from outside programmers.
They then looked at the data and features that apps want to use—for example, the ability to access your photos or dial your contacts' phone numbers—to figure out which apps requested permissions they weren't actually using. Apps with more permissions than they need are problematic because they can put personal data like usernames and credit card numbers at greater risk of being compromised if that app is hacked.
The researchers found that 86 percent of the apps preloaded on these smartphones asked for more permissions than necessary, and most of the so-called "overprivileged" apps had been added by smartphone makers as part of their customization processes. Because they are integrated with the operating system at a low level, apps added by manufacturers may get greater permissions access than those made by outside app developers.
Marc Rogers, principal security researcher at the mobile security software company Lookout, says the problem of overprivileged apps is common to app developers in general, not just specific vendors. "If you look across the market, there are quite a few applications that have this problem where the app developer has said, 'I'll request as many permissions as possible just in case I need them,'" he says.
Researchers also hunted for security issues that might let apps act as if they have permission to do things they aren't authorized to do, or that could let apps share sensitive user data without permission.
Overall, researchers determined that between 65 percent and 85 percent of the 177 security vulnerabilities on the Samsung, HTC, and LG smartphones originated from manufacturer customizations; 38 percent of the 16 weaknesses encountered on the Sony smartphones came from that source.
Rogers, who has seen vendor customizations produce security problems in the past (such as one that stemmed from Samsung's customization of the Galaxy S3 lock screen), says regardless of where the problems originate, any change to Android software contributes to fragmentation of the operating system and can introduce vulnerabilities that aren't tracked by Google.
The study researchers say they tried to reach smartphone makers to inform them of the security issues they found, but not all have responded. Smartphone makers and Google did not respond to requests for comment on this story.
Nevertheless, Jiang hopes the study will help vendors and users recognize such security problems. "Hopefully, the next generation of phones will become much more secure," he says.
Rachel Metz

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Law Commission has recommended to the Union Law Ministry that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) be brought under the Right To Information.
IN A strongly worded report, the Law Commission has recommended to the Union Law Ministry that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) be brought under the Right To Information (RTI) Act because it "exercises state like powers" and "virtually acts as a National Sports Federation".
The commission described the BCCI's role "as monopolistic in regulation of the game of cricket", which has "resulted in the Board flying under the radar of public scrutiny, encouraged an environment of opacity and non-accountability".
"In the past this has probably given an impression in the minds of the general public that corruption and other forms of malpractices are adversely affecting one of the most popular sports played in India," the commission said.
It noted that the BCCI was a "limb of the state" as it nominated cricketers for the Arjuna award, abided by India's policies on issues such as Apartheid in South Africa and engagement with Pakistan, and received "substantial financing" from the government in the past in the form of tax exemptions and land grants.
Speaking to The Indian Express, former Chief Justice of India Justice R M Lodha said the commission's recommendation was a reiteration of the 2016 Supreme Court order in the BCCI vs Cricket Association of Bihar case.
"Actually, this (recommendation) is already the law of the land. This recommendation is just re-emphasising the order," said the retired CJI, whose SC-appointed committee had made largescale recommendations to clean up cricket in the wake of the 2013 IPL spotfixing case.
At the time, the apex court had given the BCCI six months to implement the order, but the Indian board continues to maintain that it cannot be brought under RTI since it's not a government body but a society registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act.
Justice Lodha said he wasn't sure if the executive would implement the commission's recommendation. "I have reservations whether the government accepts the recommendations because BCCI has always been influenced by politicians and people from political parties. They have a huge clout. It is a matter of interest for them… I don't know if it serves their political purpose and whether they will be keen to bring that law. But yes, it is a recommendation by the Law Commission, which is always weighty, and the government is expected to give deep thought and consideration," he said.
Former BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said the RTI Act cannot be made applicable to organisations that don't receive government funding.
"The RTI definition says that only if substantial funds come from the government do you come under the RTI Act. So to bring the BCCI under the RTI ambit, the government will have to change the law. A law cannot be passed for one particular organisation. If this law is passed, it may affect many organisations, even political parties. From the beginning, the BCCI hasn't taken any funding from the government," Shah told The Indian Express.
The commission, meanwhile, noted that the BCCI "should be held accountable, under all circumstances, for any violations of basic human rights of the stakeholders".
"An analysis of the functioning of BCCI also shows that the Government does exercise control over its activities and functioning. As was argued in the Zee Telefilms case (over broadcast rights in 2005), the BCCI, falling in line with the foreign policy of India, did not recognise a player from South Africa due to their practice of apartheid; and that the cricket matches between India and Pakistan in view of tense international relations were made subject to Government approval. The foregoing positions BCCI as a 'limb of the state', and it should, therefore, be held to be 'State'," the report said.
"BCCI virtually acts as a National Sports Federation (NSF). Its own Memorandum of Association states that the Board's objects and purposes are to control, improve quality, lay down policies pertaining to the game of cricket in India as well as select teams to represent India at international fora. Moreover, as per the statement made in the Lok Sabha, the Central Government has already been regarding BCCI as a National Sports Federation and hence, it is recommended that, for the removal of any doubt, the same be explicitly mentioned in the list of NSFs available on the ministry's website," the commission said.
"This express mention would automatically bring BCCI within the purview of RTI Act. Other sports bodies listed as NSFs… (by) the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, available on its website, do attract the provisions of the RTI Act," the commission said.
"In light of the above stated facts, since all other sports bodies which are listed as NSFs are covered under the RTI Act, it is inconceivable as to why BCCI should be an exception… it is recommended that RTI Act be made applicable to BCCI along with all of its constituent member cricketing associations, provided they fulfil the criteria applicable to BCCI," said the six-member commission chaired by Justice B S Chauhan.
* The BCCI "nominates cricketers to the Arjuna Award… The uniform of the players of the Indian team (as selected by BCCI) contains the national colours and their helmets display the Ashok Chakra".
* "Recently, the Apex Court reaffirmed that BCCI is the "approved" national level body holding virtually monopoly rights to organize cricketing events in the country".
* "…owing to its monopolistic character coupled with the public nature of its functions and the 'substantial financing' it has received from appropriate Governments over the years (in the form of tax exemptions, land grants et al), it can, within the existing legal framework, still be termed as a 'public authority' and be brought within the purview of the RTI Act".
* The BCCI, like other NSFs, undertakes activities of "organization of national/ international tournaments in the country, selection of sportspersons/ teams, sending them for training and participation in international tournaments abroad".
* "And, it be noted that in relation to cricket, BCCI exclusively performs/ undertakes these activities in as well as on behalf of India; thereby operating and functioning as the NSF for cricket".


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Shazahn Padamsee was felicitated by the staff at the Launch of Madame's Studio Collection
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November 21, 2002 Arts & Culture » Review
Precision Peccadillos
Modern dance's bad-boy perfectionist returns.
By Margaret Regan
Mark Morris Dance Group performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 23, at Centennial Hall on the UA campus. Melissa Lowe, a UA professor of dance, gives a free pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m. in the lobby of the Arizona State Museum. Tickets to the UApresents concert cost $16 to $44 at the box office, with student discounts ranging from 20 to 50 percent. For information call 621-3341.
Mark Morris brings his dance troupe to Centennial Hall this weekend for one performance only. A choreographer at the very top of his art (with 18 bravura dancers to match), Morris has evolved from modern dance's enfant terrible to its most eminent practitioner. The Seattle native began his eponymous troupe in New York in 1980, and he has since choreographed some 100 dances, directed opera, picked up the McArthur genius award, and co-founded the White Oak Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
A prickly perfectionist who almost always insists on live music for his performances, in Tucson Morris is allowing recordings to accompany two pieces, "Resurrection" and "A Lake," only because the music demands a full orchestra. Otherwise, the dancers will be accompanied by live piano (on the solo "Peccadillos" and the male quartet "Foursome"), and on the finale, "V," 14 dancers will move to Schumann's Quintet in E-Flat for piano and strings.
Herewith, an interview with Morris unvarnished.
TW: What can you tell me about the program?
MM: For "Resurrection" the music is "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from On Your Toes by Richard Rodgers. It's a dance for 14 people. And it's a very brief, big number. We have to do it there on tape, because it's for a very big orchestra and it's very short. We actually filmed it for a television show with the Boston Pops.
Richard Rodgers? I don't remember that show.
On Your Toes. It's well known; it's from the '30s. Balanchine choreographed it originally. Ray Bolger was in it. It was a big deal. There've been revivals of it.
"Resurrection" is a big, fun piece?
I don't decide those things.
OK. How old is it?
Just a few months old. It debuted on TV and at the American Dance Festival (in Durham, N.C.) this summer.
The costumes are by Isaac Mizrahi. What do they look like?
I'm not telling you that.
You're not?
They're beautiful. They're basically black and white. Everyone's in a different pattern.
"Peccadillos" (2000). That's a solo that I do. The music is Erik Satie, performed on a toy piano. Mr. Baryshnikov was doing it for a while as well, with White Oak.
Are you still doing stuff with White Oak?
They still have some dances of mine in repertory but they're not doing them right now. They're on a tour right now doing some new stuff.
Is "Peccadillos" the only piece you'll be dancing?
No, I'll be dancing in "Foursome" (2002) as well. It's a quartet for four men, to the piano music of Satie and Hummel, who was a wonderful composer from the early 19th century who isn't remembered very well except for a few pieces. It's the Three Gnossiennes of Satie and these Hungarian dances for piano by Hummel. There's pretty much every possible duet out of the four people and some quartets. They're very brief, very simple dances.
What about "V"?
"V" (2001) is a big dance for 14 people again, and that's to the Schumann piano quintet. "A Lake" (1991)--I made that for my company and White Oak at the same time. That's to a Haydn horn concerto so it's in three movements. Ten people are in that. It's pretty much a certain neoclassical, fabulously beautiful dance. "A Lake" won't have live music, because it's for orchestra and a horn soloist. We can't travel with that.
If it's a smaller piece with a smaller number of musicians, you always have live music?
We mostly have live music to everything. Lately because of a couple of pieces in the repertory I've consented to do those to recordings.
Why is it important to use live music?
Because that's what music is. (Otherwise) it's like watching a videotape of dancing. Why would you not want live musicians? How is it better not to have that?
Everybody thinks it's better, but hardly anybody does it.
I don't think everybody thinks it's better. It's a pain in the ass, it's expensive, and it's complicated. You have to very interested in music, or why bother? If you want it to be exactly the same every time, you should use a recording. A lot of people aren't all that interested in music.
A lot of choreographers?
In your biography by Joan Acocella (Mark Morris, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1993) she quotes a comment from you, "Ballet is our Latin."
That's the grammar we use. I use ballet class for my company class. The logic of it and the symmetry of it are very important for everybody who's dancing.
Are you on a big tour?
We're not on the road. We just go to Tucson and come back. We usually just go out for a few weeks at a time.
Do you have a New York season?
Usually we do a spring season. This year we're doing A Hard Nut (a 1960s-style comic book version of The Nutcracker) this December at Brooklyn Academy of Music. It's in Berkeley every year; this time we're doing it at BAM. We're doing a season in March, two programs also at BAM.
They must be disappointed in Berkeley.
Yeah. I think it's fine. We're going back next year; it's all set. Skipping one year I think is (OK). I'm happy to do it in New York; we couldn't do it in both places.
Tell me about your new center in Brooklyn.
We've been in there for a year and a half. It's going great. It's very beautiful and it's perfect for what we do. We rehearse and we have a school that's going quite well, mostly kids more than adults. We have classes offered all the time. We rehearse there. We have subsidized rental for other dance companies; they work there very cheaply. It's really happening. It's a wonderful sort of community.
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Savannah James-Bayly breaks down the tropes and stereotypes used to represent non-monosexual identities in mainstream media and whether or not things are getting better.
Last year, a dear friend of mine, and experienced writer, encouraged me to co-write a show with him about the increasing visibility of non-monosexual identities. Primarily, I'm a producer, but it's a topic he knew to be close to my heart, so I nervously agreed. The process of writing and pitching the project highlighted a number of issues about the representation of bisexuality in the media that I had previously not given much consideration.
With LGBTQ+ cinema in the spotlight following the recent award success of Moonlight, and the upcoming BFI Flare Festival, I feel it's time I add my own thoughts to this important and often ignored conversation. Please note I use "bisexual", "pansexual" and "queer" interchangeably, but I am talking about all sexual identities that aren't covered by "gay" or "straight". Please also be aware that this is only a critique of the representation of female bisexuality on screen; male bisexuality is plagued by its own damaging stereotypes.
The first thing that struck me, when we began pitching our show, was that it was repeatedly categorised as a "lesbian project", despite the fact that the bisexual experience and lesbian experience share little other than the occasional bedfellow. I suddenly became very aware that whilst we're hardly flooded with lesbians on screen, the bisexual experience is even more rarely portrayed. Perhaps the concept of fluid sexuality challenges heteronormative culture even more than homosexuality does? Previously, people who felt opposite-sex attraction could feel safe in the comfort that they were part of the dominant straight majority. Now that more people are talking openly about sexual fluidity, that no longer applies.
Of course there are a few brilliant talents, like Desiree Akhavan and Jill Solloway, who are bringing non-mono sexualities to life in incredibly powerful, modern and entertaining ways (if you haven't seen Appropriate Behaviour or Transparent I urge you to). All too often however, the way bisexual women are portrayed on screen falls into one of the following four categories, all of which reflect wider societal prejudices:
1 – Bi-Erasure.
Most commonly seen when a character swaps sexual orientation from straight to gay or vice versa, rather than defining as bisexual or pansexual.
Example: Even Orange is the New Black, fantastic in its diversity in terms of trans-women and women of colour, falls victim to this. Alex says about her ex-girlfriend Piper "rule number one: don't ever fall in love with a straight girl" and Piper is also referred to as an "ex-lesbian" or "lesbian" on multiple occasions yet there is just one mention of the word "bi" in the first two series. Sexual fluidity is a key theme of the show, but their hesitance to define her as bisexual or pansexual reinforces the idea of monosexuality. For more on this, read this more in-depth article by the Huffington Post.
You encounter the same sentiment off screen, in the most infuriating form of prejudice I've experienced: the complete denial that your sexuality exists. I've heard the phrase "I don't believe in bisexuality" from straight, gay and lesbian friends alike, and if I hear it one more time, I may well become violent for the first time in my life. I'm here, I'm queer, what more proof do you need?
2 – Bisexuality for the Male Gaze.
This is when male-targeted shows or films, have two conventionally "sexy", feminine-presenting girls having sex for the pleasure of their predominately male audience. I admit, it can seem pretty hot, but it leaves you cold when you realise your sexuality has been co-opted for hetero-male fantasy.
Example: Black Sails. Initially, I was thrilled to be watching two beautiful women making out, but then one betrays the other and jumps back into bed with her ultra macho ex-boyfriend (whilst the other is gang-raped, just to add insult to injury).
"But doesn't this show her to be bisexual rather than lesbian, and therefore shouldn't you be celebrating?", I hear you ask. No. The male creators haven't written these parts to celebrate the diversity of female sexuality, two pairs of boobs were simply deemed more profitable than one.
In the real world too, bisexuality is fetishised in a variety of ways: the expectation that bi automatically implies kinky; the requests to be the third partner in someone else's relationship; the hope that you will share your intimate stories as arousing fodder for heterosexual men; the assumption that sharing your orientation is an open door to ask anything about your sex life (the number of times near strangers have asked me "how many girls have you been with?" is ridiculous).
This attempt to depict sexuality in a manner that caters for a heterosexual audience may also be responsible for the fact that bisexuality gets the most media airtime compared to other identities on the spectrum of non-binary sexualities. It is seen as the most palatable to non-queer audiences, because it doesn't also challenge gender-binary. I'm sure the same incentive lies behind why most lesbians depicted on screen conform to heteronormative feminine beauty standards!
3 – The Wild Child.
A conventionally attractive young woman who sleeps with men and women in a shallow attempt to show how fun, kooky, or out of control she is.
Example: Black Swan. A great film in many respects, but Nina's fantasies about Lily come at a time where she's being encouraged to tap into her darker, wilder side and coincide with her doing drugs, making reckless decisions, and generally going a bit off the rails.
This superficial depiction may be responsible for the phobia amongst a few in the lesbian community that bisexuals are curious tourists looking for a thrill, who'll be back to straight-land once the holidays are over. It's a stereotype that equates bisexuality with moral ambiguity or emotional flippancy, and creates distrust.
4 – The Vampire.
Example: True Blood, Buffy, The Vampire Diaries, The Hunger (1983), Van Helsing (2004) etc. Why do so many blood-sucking monsters seem to have a sexual proclivity for various genders? It equates bisexual people with promiscuous, amoral, hedonistic, and murderous creatures whose primal urges cannot be controlled. If you feel that is an accurate representation of your sexuality, please seek professional help.
I joke about it, and it may seem trivial, but these types of stereotypes can fuel the injurious notion that, as a bisexual person, you're naturally more promiscuous, and can't be happily monogamous with only one partner, because they can't fulfil your attraction to other genders.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz aptly pointed out, "Vampires have no reflections in a mirror… if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves".
This is why it's important that the media reflects the true diversity of the LGBTQ+ community – not just in terms of sexuality and gender spectrums, but also race, class, religion and locale.
Moonlight, one of my favourite films of the year, shone a light on a unique element of the gay experience, where it intersects with race and class in America. It captured hearts not just because it was so delicately crafted, but because it allowed us insight into a world that is rarely explored on screen. The authenticity of the story by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the author of the play it is adapted from, is apparent in the subtle nuances of the relationships. We need to see a greater diversity of queer stories on our screens, and I'm thrilled that it became the first LGBTQ+ film to win best picture.
When BFI Flare opens next week, London will again be host to a range of new and exciting LGBTQ+ films. In terms of bisexual representation I'm particularly looking forward to A Date for Mad Mary, Lovesong, and the web-series Different for Girls. More generally, Signature Move, Out of Iraq, Torrey Pines, Rewind/Fast Forward, The Pearl of Africa, It's Only the End of the World, and the many interesting shorts programmes promise to be a treat. You can view the full line-up here.
I hope this article encourages writers and directors of all sexualities to consider these stereotypes when they include bisexual characters in their films. And to other sexually fluid filmmakers out there, please get out and tell your stories; you have at least one audience member right here.
Finally, I'd love to hear any viewing recommendations that defy the sorts of stereotypes I've written about.
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Savannah established Fox Cub Films in 2012 and has since produced over eight short films, starring talent such as Jason Flemyng, Bill Paterson and Alice Lowe. These films have shown at a range of festivals internationally, and in 2014 Arthouse Cinema Crouch End included a feature length collection in their December programme. She's currently working as Associate Producer on A Guide to Second Date Sex, written/directed by Rachel Hirons, and developed by Starfield Productions with the support of the BFI. She's also developing her own slate of features. She was participant in American Pavillion's Film Programme at Cannes 2015, Film London's Micromarket 2015, Bird's Eye View's Filmonomics 2016, Edinburgh International Film Festival's 2016 Talent Lab, is part of the recently launched Female Film Leaders, and has served on the jury of Watersprite Film Festival 2016.


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Dan holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, M.B.A. from the Technion, and M.A. in Law from Haifa University.
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Spokesman Confirms Taliban Visit to Tehran on Afghan Peace Talks
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi confirmed on Tuesday that a political delegation from the Taliban visited Tehran and held talks with Iranian officials on the latest developments in the Afghan peace process.
"In line with the Islamic Republic's comprehensive talks with all parties to Afghanistan's peace talks, a political delegation from Taliban group has held talks with Iranian authorities," Mousavi said.
Members of Taliban's Qatar-based political bureau arrived in Tehran on Monday to hold talks with senior Iranian officials on the latest developments in the Afghan peace process, including the breakdown of US-Taliban negotiations.
The delegation has conferred on Monday with a number of political and foreign ministry officials of Iran on the Afghan peace talks and the intra-Afghan negotiations.
The visit by Taliban delegation to Tehran was the second foreign trip of the Taliban delegation after the collapse of its talks with the United States. The Afghan group earlier paid a visit to Moscow, Russia.
"The purpose of these visits is to inform leaders of these countries about the peace talks and [US] President [Donald] Trump's decision to call off the peace process at a time when both sides had resolved all outstanding issues and were about to sign a peace agreement," a senior Taliban leader in Qatar had earlier said.
US President Donald Trump canceled high-level talks with the group last week, citing a deadly bomb blast in Kabul that also left an American soldier dead.
"They thought that to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better negotiating position when they did that they killed 12 people … And you can't do that can't do that with me. So they're dead as far as I'm concerned," he said.
The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan under the guise of the war on terror. Some 18 years on, Taliban has only boosted its campaign of violence across the country and Washington has sought a truce with the militants.
After nine rounds of negotiations in Doha, which began in October 2018, American and Taliban officials agreed a draft accord that would have seen some 5,000 US troops withdrawn from Afghanistan in exchange for security guarantees from the Taliban.
However, Trump cancelled the talks in a move that surprised the Taliban leaders.
The group said that an agreement had been "finalized" and that discussions had ended in "a good atmosphere," but the deal had been sabotaged by Trump.
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English to Hindi Dictionary interruption
बाधा
a chance to study without interruption
the action of interrupting or being interrupted.
translation of 'interruption'
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बाधा,
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It is very expensive to have staff doing nothing if there is an 'interruption' of supply.
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a chance to study without 'interruption'
There's likely to be an 'interruption' to our quiet winter days this year, and I'm hoping to get it over with before settling down by a different fireside, in a different location.
It was almost as if the two month lay-off had been of benefit rather than a frustrating 'interruption' to a burgeoning career.
Some of our local businesses are not in a position to accommodate any further 'interruption' to business.
An extra £79 million was claimed for business 'interruption' .
Try to find a quiet place that has no possibility of disturbance or 'interruption' .
The answer must be to plan new developments so as to minimise the disturbance and 'interruption' they can cause, and to improve the compensation code to alleviate any remaining distress.
The need to keep chugging along with minimum 'interruption' to the relentless process of clocking up more and more miles means that refuelling of the body must take place on the move.
We are here to minimise the costs incurred from business 'interruption' and get commercial organisations back on their feet as soon as possible.
she ignored the 'interruption' and carried on
The area will slowly open up to tourism, but the priority is to allow the Aboriginal communities to maintain their way of life without obtrusive 'interruption' .
Not that I'm not pleased to have a straight day to write in, but I'll be even more pleased when promotion season is over and I can get back to making stuff up without 'interruption' .
I could've done without the 'interruption'
the programme will be run without 'interruption'
Here was a place where she could dream to her heart's content in peaceful solitude and study her scores without 'interruption' .
As a student of waves, Cass is steadfast in his insistence that this period is an 'interruption' - not a halt: a technology downturn, not a global downturn.
a brief 'interruption' of play
students returning to education after an 'interruption' in their career
As the Internet continues to expand in volume and diversity without 'interruption' , only a relatively small percent of its total mass will be money-making.
A personal dream at the moment, after all the frantic activity of the past year, would be to settle for a holiday or, failing that, a shot on the swings without 'interruption' .
This month the hospital began trialling a pilot scheme to give older patients a quiet window in the afternoons when they can eat their evening meal without 'interruption' .
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Административный центр поселения — станица Бессергеневская.

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В состав Бессергеневского сельского поселения входят:
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 хутор Калинин.

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 Административное деление Ростовской области
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Middle East > Iran
Public hanging film to highlight plight of gay Iranians
Richard Ammon | September 19, 2012 | Iran | GlobalGayz
Trailer released for film based on the true story of two gay teenagers publicly hung in Iran
A film based on the shocking true story of an Iranian teenager, hung in public with his partner for being gay aims to highlight the hardships faced by people in Iran.
The movie, called Sin – Based On A True Story, is trying to raise $160,000 (€124,000), to tell the story of the events leading up to and after the public hanging in 2005 of one of the boys who was hung alongside his partner.
Film maker Wajahat Ali Abbas, is using crowd funding website Kickstart.com to raise the money needed to put the film into full production.
Speaking about his motivation to make a film based on the hanging, Abbas says: 'Moved by this incident, since 2005 I have done extensive research on hate crimes because of sexual orientation in the USA and worldwide and found some shocking facts.
'There are no words in any language to adequately convey the level of sympathy, and body-crushing grief for someone losing their life because they are gay or lesbian.'
Images of the hanging were broadcast around the world in 2005, bringing Iran international condemnation and highlighted the country's laws. Under Islamic law (Sharia), homosexuality is punishable by death. Many LGBT Iranians are forced to flee and seek asylum.
by Ben Tritton
Source – Gay Star News
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Manav Gangwani Thrilled About Showcase In Stockholm
By: IANS | August 23, 2017
Fashion designer Manav Gangwani presented his "India @ 70" latest couture collection at the Stockholm Culture Festival, hosted by the Ambassador of India Monika Kapil Mohta.
Gangwani on August 17 showcased his collection to celebrate India's 70 years of Independence at the festival. The collection comprised of handcrafted ensembles of over 70 exquisite styles for women.
"I am thrilled to have showcased my collection 'India @ 70' at the Stockholm Culture Festival hosted by the Embassy Of India, Sweden and Latvia in partnership with India unlimited," Gangwani said in a statement.
The designer, who has styled the likes of Kangana Ranaut, Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, presented a collection which "was specially created in celebration of India's 70 years of Independence".
"I have taken inspiration from every region of India to create this uniquely dynamic collection. I have used techniques silhouettes and designs that together create a perfect amalgamation of traditionalism and authenticity," he added.
The designer tried to encapsulate design elements from different states of India using various techniques.
The collection showcased is an amalgamation of the rich heritage of India along with modern edgy elements that are incorporated in each garment. Gangwani incorporated elements of design from different regions like Kashmir reflecting Jamawars, Bandhanis of Rajasthan, Kathakali from Kerala and Brocades of Varanasi.
Using different techniques like Badla, Chikankari, Zardosi and Parsi, the colour palette for this collection are hues that are most commonly seen in India -- royal blue, crimson, ivory, orange and green.
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Media Room MacKenzie Art Gallery Announces Enhanced Membership and Admissions Policy
MacKenzie Art Gallery Announces Enhanced Membership and Admissions Policy
Regina, Saskatchewan – Monday, April 8, 2019: In support of the MacKenzie Art Gallery's ongoing transformation, we will today be implementing a new simplified and enhanced membership program with customizable benefits that will enhance our robust programming.
As part of the MacKenzie's multi-phase transformation, the Gallery is implementing a number of new opportunities to ensure our ongoing growth and the high standards the public has come to expect, beyond the changes we have already enacted over the past few months: notably, commissioning a major artwork on the façade of our building — Kâkikê / Forever by Duane Linklater, and opening our café, Craft Services — built around the artwork of Regina-born artist Bill Burns. With the recent appointments of a new Director of Programs and a new Assistant Curator, who join the MacKenzie's world-class art museum team, the Gallery is working on delivering more exciting projects over the coming months.
Beginning on June 10, 2019, the MacKenzie will also be transitioning to a paid admissions model. Admissions will continue to be complimentary for members. The cost for admission for nonmembers will be $10, with individuals 17 and under admitted for free. Admission fees will be for the second floor of the MacKenzie Art Gallery only. The main floor of the Gallery, which includes the MacKenzie's café Craft Services and community program space, the Gallery Shop, the Shumiatcher Theatre, and the BMO Learning Centre, will remain free to the public.
The MacKenzie's new membership program will now offer a Core Membership for individuals at a reduced cost of $30, as well as a reduced double membership for $55. Current memberships will be honoured, along with all of the accompanying benefits, with the addition of complimentary admission, until a member's renewal date.
"This change will allow us to expand our programming, including new and diverse exhibitions, and introduce more events and programs promoting and supporting art and artists," says Anthony Kiendl, Executive Director and CEO of the MacKenzie Art Gallery. "These measures will also allow us to implement a more customized experience delivered through a more enhanced level of visitor
"It is thrilling to look forward to new developments on the horizon, including the transformation of the Gallery's public spaces," says Johanna Salloum, President of the MacKenzie Art Gallery's Board of Trustees. "We know that our community demands diversity and in-depth programming, and these changes will enable us to expand our offerings and continue to define the MacKenzie as an entity that is rooted in playful, creative and experimental experiences."
Kiendl adds, "Ultimately, a vital art museum is at the core of democratic societies and most business leaders agree that a vibrant arts and culture scene creates a healthier, more productive, and more innovative economy and higher quality of life. We want to ensure we are able to deliver this for generations to come."
In reimagining the role of a public art gallery, the MacKenzie Art Gallery seeks to become an immersive, community-engaged centre for art, focusing on visitors and artists, Indigenous culture and diversity, engaging people in transformative experiences of the world through art.
The MacKenzie is grateful for the support of the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation; Canada Council for the Arts; SaskCulture; the City of Regina; University of Regina; and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.


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Maggie Jahn
Margaret Jahn is a West Palm Beach native who attended Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts and Kansas City Art Institute. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004.
After working for Arts in Architecture, the design firm in Litchfield, CT and teaching in New Haven, CT. She returned home to West Palm Beach in 2012 and continued her teaching career at Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts where she has taught for the past 5 years as an Artist in Residence teaching Printmaking and Senior Portfolio.
Margaret's work deals with Florida native botanical plants and environmental issues such as invasive plants and animals while abstracting the forms into design elements. Her work includes printmaking, painting, and mixed media surface embellishment through beading and embroidery.


It's interesting that so many people I know are given to regular, if not daily, exercise routines, often putting in a couple of hours at the gym without a blink. If asked why, they invariably mention the numerous benefits of maintaining strength, flexibility and cardio performance, for "It's the only body I've got." Some explain that they love exercise in general, however many do it principally for the long-term benefits, understanding the results are worth the time and effort it requires.
Yet so many admit they fail to practice meditation on a daily basis, even in the briefest of 5 – 10 minute intervals, explaining that "I have too much going on," or "I can't sit still." Some try to claim that their morning coffee and news reading, or their jogging is "meditative," which would be like claiming "my television watching is how I exercise." This is hardly a wise choice: increasing evidence via research shows that spending a life without training the mind is as detrimental to brain function as a life without exercise is to the body.
While activities that quiet the mind, such as hiking, swimming, painting, etc, are certainly soothing, they do not provide the same benefits as meditation, and the distinction is essential, as meditations based on focused attention (otherwise known as sustained concentration, wherein one steadily monitors the breath and body sensations without additional movement or thought) and open monitoring (vipasanna meditation, which develops a non-reactive awareness that can attend to experience without identifying with the content) have clinically documented, significant long-term neural benefits that soothing activities do not.
Recent insights into the importance of meditation derive from the advent of new scanning technologies, notably fMRI. What they document is that our previous understanding of the brain, which was once considered to be a somewhat set structure with hard-wired functions, was substantially incorrect. We now understand the brain to be continually flexible, with significant neuroplastic capabilities. It is, in other words, a uniquely malleable and self-editing organ, changing structure and function depending on the nature of our experience, how we focus attention, interpret the world and act. For example, a 1995 Harvard study documented that people who simply imagined playing the piano, without actually touching one, still rewired the somatosensory lobe in the same way that an actual piano players rewired their brains.
Long-term meditators increase the neural capacity of the hippocampus, cingulate, temporal gyrus, and insula, which are associated with the performance of memory, emotion-regulation, empathy, impulse control. In conjunction with exercise, meditation leads to reduction in vulnerability to alzheimer's disease.
Meditators, in as short a period of a few months, show continual and even activation in the cingulate, which focuses attention for sustained periods and, in conjunction with mirror neurons, allows for empathetic connection with others. Meditators invariably demonstrate superior ability to perform tasks that require uninterrupted attention.
There is also the benefit of increased levels of GABA, which lowers anxiety and improves one's disposition. In as little as two months, the left prefrontal region of the brain, associated with optimism, shows increased activity, even in the case of those who've previously suffered significant episodes of depression.
And of course there are the many health advantages to meditation which are well documented, such as the reduction of cortisol and stress, which in turn reduces high blood pressure, heart and digestive ailments, along with increasing the production of white blood cells. In short, meditation improves your brain function as significantly as exercise improves your health.
Given all the above, why would someone exercise without meditating? It's essentially choosing to take care of one's body without bothering to take care of one's brain. We do depend on both.
If you're looking to develop a short daily meditation routine, its easiest to avail oneself of all the free, online guided meditations available. There are numerous meditations found on tarabrach.com, dharmaseed.org, audiodharma.org, and of course dharmapunxnyc.podbean.com and lionsroar.com.
Originally published on the DharmaPunxNYC blog. Please note the citations listed there for some of the hundreds of peer-reviewed, clinical papers that document the importance role meditation plays in upgrading brain structure and performance.


This blog is written as part of the lecture on 'Tragic Perpetrators and Imperfect Victims' that takes place on 4 October 2017 at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague. More information and registration.
It is easy to assume that only 'evil' people commit atrocity. And it's equally easy to imagine all victims as 'good' or 'innocent'. But the reality is far more complex. These binaries and antipodes don't fit well. Many perpetrators, after all, are tragic -- they may begin as victims. Some victims survive – and some even thrive – because of harm they inflict upon others. The persecuted may become persecutors.
In recent writing, I explore how to approach the pain that victims inflict upon others. When someone is harmed by another victim, how should that someone speak of the harm? Does the tragic nature of the perpetrator dull the pain? Or might it worsen it? I try to think about these questions through various venues – law, of course, but also literature and film.
Writings of Jewish Holocaust survivors such as Primo Levi are populated by many victimizing victims. Levi scorns them; but all the while refrains from denouncing them, judging them, or locating in their desperate conduct any diffusion of responsibility away from the Nazis. The literary format of these accounts, to be clear, does not oblige them to punish or to determine sentence.
Unlike Levi, Israeli legislators and courts did judge some of the victimizing victims in the 1950s and 1960s in forty national trials called the Kapo trials. Kapos were concentration camp inmates who served as leaders of barracks or labor platoons. They, along with police and ghetto officials, were prosecuted as Nazi collaborators. In addition, other Kapos were prosecuted in communal courts in displaced persons' camps throughout Europe after the war. And in a criminal libel trial, Rudolf Kastner, a Hungarian Jew involved in rescue efforts, challenged how a journalist had portrayed him as a traitor. At trial, the journalist prevailed – Kastner was found to have 'sold his soul to the devil' for having negotiated and bargained with Adolf Eichmann to save some Jews in exchange for remaining muted about the extirpation of several hundred thousand others. The verdict discredited Kastner. He was ostracized. He appealed but was then assassinated by a right-wing extremist. Posthumously, an appeals court found otherwise, conceptualizing Kastner as a victim whereas at trial he was found to be a villain. In reality, perhaps, he was both, or neither. But criminal law does not permit this liminality, gauziness, or ambiguity.
Rather, the energy of criminal law is one of finality and disjunctive category: guilty or not-guilty, victim or perpetrator, oppressor or oppressed, right or wrong, powerful or powerless. The criminal law's status as the iconic manner in which to deliver accountability for atrocity thereby hinges upon a vocabulary that struggles to narrate how and through whom atrocity actually proliferates, becomes massive, and metastasizes. Criminal trials play an adversarial zero-sum game. Prosecutors seek to convict. The Defense pushes to acquit. Both sides thereby present contrasting narratives. It is their job to do so.
The indictment of a former child soldier, Dominic Ongwen, at the International Criminal Court offers a contemporary case-study. Reductionist zero-sum games do not do justice to the realities of child soldiering. Many child soldiers demonstrate mercy and kindness. Other child soldiers can do wretched things as children. Former child soldiers can do horrific things as adults. And adults who do horrific things may begin on that path when they are abducted and tortured as a shy child. Great pain can be caused by morally ambiguous people.
So instead of casting Kapos in World War II or child soldiers like Dominic Ongwen as monstrously evil – the prosecutor's impetus (welcomed by some judges) – or as innocently helpless – the defense's impulse (welcomed by other judges) – another narrative goal could be to uncork the conundrum that mass atrocity involves the handiwork of people who are neither too purposeful not too purposeless. Without this handiwork, after all, atrocity would never become massive in scope or reach.
Is a criminal trial up to this challenge?


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Active Roles 7.1 – Automation for On-Prem AD and Azure AD
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Using the single, familiar Active Roles interface, there is no longer a need to be constantly switching between consoles, and writing complex scripts in an attempt to automate, because Active Roles does it for you.
Creation of a user, for example, can…
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With version 7.1, the One Identity Active Roles solution has expanded its scope to cover both on-prem AD (as its always done) and Azure AD. Here's an explanation of how it works.
The ADSI provider serves as the interface between the Active Roles…
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Over the past couple of years Azure Active Directory and Office 365 have been quietly and steadily gaining ground within our businesses. While many administrators have been busy managing their environments, the level of effort involved in their daily…
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Q: setBroadcaster(Broadcaster) from the type SimpleWebSocket is not visible in Grizzly java I use Grizzly to setup websocket server in java. My problem is that I can't set broadcaster to websocket to use optimized one by overriding WebSocketApplication. I followed the way the documentation describe. But I got that error.

The method setBroadcaster(Broadcaster) from the type SimpleWebSocket
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Here is my code
public class BroadcastApplication extends WebSocketApplication {

    private final Broadcaster broadcaster;

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    @Override public void onMessage(WebSocket socket, String data) {
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My grizzly-websockets version is 2.3.22. Any suggestion is welcome.

A: Something like this should work:
public class BroadcastApplication extends WebSocketApplication {

    private final Broadcaster broadcaster;

    public BroadcastApplication(Broadcaster broadcaster) {
        this.broadcaster = broadcaster;
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    @Override
    public WebSocket createSocket(ProtocolHandler handler,
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    @Override
    public void onMessage(WebSocket socket, String data) {
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    private static class BroadcastWebSocket extends DefaultWebSocket {

        public BroadcastWebSocket(Broadcaster broadcaster,
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            super(protocolHandler, request, listeners);
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20161119 - Up in the am to a quite house with the 2 big boys gone. I had to get some things done at the desk and eventually G&I headed out on some errands. First stop was Waffle House for a huge meal. Then we hit the gas station to get a lotto ticket for the next month. On to Goodwill looking for book I donated and now need... Kroger to get bags for the awards tonight. Home and took stack of stuff to basement to work on while we watched the Buckeye game. Got flyers and awards ready for tonight. Set up Paypal for the troop to collect wreath $ this year.
We then got bundled up and headed to the Boy Scout Thanksgiving Dinner and Annual COurt of Honor. We had a good meal and weren't to cold. It was a nice Court of Honor and some good speeches were given. We got some extra supplies to D&J and headed home in good time.
We settled into the basement to watch some more college football and I worked on stack of stuff until 2am. G watching (sleeping) college football with me.