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The Criminal Meets the Princess a Monica-san story chapter 15
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15.Twitter and Asthma
Courtney took a deep breath, breathing in and out. For about three minutes, she will be doing this, and then she will go back to work. She rubbed her temples and took another deep breath.
"Do tu have asthma, babe?" Duncan whispered in her ear lowly. "If tu do, I'd gladly give tu mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. I'm not complaining."
Courtney swiftly elbowed him on the stomach and then turned around, hugging him.
"That can't do anything for asthma, stupid."
Duncan chuckled. "Hit me, then cuddle—I like it." He was quiet for a moment. "Are tu okay? You…look más stressed than usual."
"'More stress than usual'?" she repeated. "Do I look stressed a lot o what?"
"Well, school is starting now, and you've been looking super frazzled. What's up, Princess?" He gently kissed her forehead. "Talk to Doctor Duncan."
"You'd be a horrible doctor; you'd only molest young teenager girls."
He snorted in disgust. "Ugh, don't compare me to those molesters and pedophiles appearing on TV a lot, okay? That's the worst insult ever—sort of."
She sighed. "My…parents found out about you," she muttered. "Apparently they heard it from my brother, who saw it on Geoff's Twitter."
"Damn your excessive twittering, Geoff." He frowned. "And why did your brother rata tu out? I thought he wasn't like that."
Courtney laughed nervously. "He's not…but if tu do something bad to him, he'll get revenge on you. He holds grudges for a long period of time and it's not pretty at all. He's so freaking immature."
"For some strange reason, that makes me like your brother."
"Oh, great, I have a homosexual boyfriend."
"Hardy, har-har, sweetheart." He rolled his eyes at her. "And why are tu so worried about your parents? Are tu scared?" He smirked.
Courtney sighed again and groaned. "Yes," she admitted. She looked up to see Duncan's eyes widen. Of course, she thought. He would expect me to deny it and say some snarky remark back at him.
"Why are tu scared of your freaking parents? It's not like they'll make them live with tu again, installing surveillance cameras everywhere." He shook his head, chuckling.
She scowled. "They would. They're that extreme and domineering. I don't know how the hell I spent my eighteen and a half years of living with them. My brother got emancipated when he was fifteen."
"He's my hero," Duncan joked. "But how did he live, Court? I mean, sure it's Valiente of him to do that so-called 'irrational' behavior, but he's only fifteen. How did he cope?"
"My brother…was my all-time hero, as well." Courtney had a soft smile on. "He followed my parents' every whim without pregunta and was best at everything—school, sports, socializing, et cetera, et cetera. He absolutely loved fotografía and took amazing photos—mostly about misceláneo things.
"Of course, my parents wanted him to take over the business like regular demanding, strict parents—except más brutal. That was when my brother lost his temper; it was shocking, because he was normally a calm person."
"The opposite of you," Duncan added, grinning.
"Shut up. Anyways, he yelled at them, ranting about how they controlled his life. I was there listening in, staying unobtrusive. It made me want to cry, but I didn't." She felt Duncan's arms around her tighten. "Deep inside the pit of my stomach, my brother became my idol, my hero. I've always wanted to do what he did, but I couldn't. I didn't want them to hate me."
"Who could hate you?" she heard Duncan mutter. "Or wait…"
"Duncan, just shut up. Anyways, I—wait, Duncan, did I ever tell tu what my hopes and dreams were?" She stared at him curiously.
"You mean becoming a man-hating dictator of the world, forcing them to become slaves for you, with tu cackling like a witch in the background? Well, no."
Courtney pinched his lips together tightly, causing him to jump up a little.
"Damn it, woman, I won't be able to kiss tu properly!" he hissed. He winced when he smacked his lips together.
"I've always wanted to be a lawyer!" she exclaimed. "I wanted to be the one to help my brother get out of our parents' clutches. I wanted to help him so badly. My parents approve of this, but they don't know the true reason behind it. I…love my brother dearly."
Duncan rubbed his hands up and down on her back affectionately. "Where is he now?" he inquired quietly.
"He's married now in Ontario—'twenty-six and loving it' in his words. I spoke with him a week ago. He's doing fine."
They stayed quiet for a moment, staying locked in a soft embrace.
"So, I'm going to meet your parents?" Duncan asked. "Well, to ease your worries, all parents amor me, babe."
Courtney groaned, knowing he was lying.
Geoff patted Duncan's head repeatedly, treating him like a little boy—which was annoying Duncan a lot.
"Stop that!" he shouted, slapping his hand away. "I don't need any of your pity o any of your babying. This is your fault!" Ugh, I'm getting a headache, he thought, rubbing his forehead. Now I feel like Courtney.
"How is it my fault? I don't even talk to Courtney's parents!"
"I blame your addiction to Twitter, Geoff." He spoke with clenched teeth. "Twitter is overrated, dude. It's not the most popular website o whatever crap, all right?"
Geoff looked confused. "Courtney's parents have a Twitter? Well, maybe they aren't that lame at all," he murmured to himself. "It's probably the dad since a lot of female celebridades use that site. o maybe it's the mom—"
"Geoff," Trent interrupted, sighing, "just…shush." He looked over at Duncan. "Are tu scared?"
"Why the hell are tu asking that?" he inquired incredulously. "No way am I scared…even though it's my segundo time meeting another girl's parents. It went well, 'cause Trisha's parents were laidback and stuff. But now…I'm going to meet the kind of parents who are judgmental and wouldn't approve of me right away."
Trent put a hand on Duncan's broad shoulder. "Duncan, just don't back down. Stay tough—don't let them get to you, all right? This is where you'll see where Courtney gets her toughness and uptightness. Don't tell her I dicho that, about the uptightness part," he added.
Duncan laughed. "She'll just get mad at me for talking about her with tu guys. Man, I amor her…"
"Then mostrar it to them," Geoff dicho suddenly, sounding mature. "Show Courtney's stiff parents that tu amor her. Even if they're the most cold-hearted freaks, they have a heart, right? I mean, it's not like they had an arranged marriage and Courtney's mom had to give birth to two kids, one boy, one girl. That's stupid."
"No, Geoff. What tu dicho was stupid. Who does arrange marriages nowadays?" Trent asked. "That's so…long time ago."
"But Courtney's parents are old, so they must've done that kind of thing. They might've been in an pasado de moda, antigua family. tu never know, Trent." Geoff crossed his arms over his chest.
Duncan stared at the two, knowing that the subject was no longer on his problem.
"Well, you're screwed, Court," Gwen dicho bluntly. "That's all I gotta say."
Bridgette looked at her, glaring at her. "That's not helping, Gwen!" she hissed. She turned and smiled reassuringly at the panicking Courtney. "Just calm down and think on the positive side."
Courtney punched the muro beside her. "'Think on the positive side'?! What positive side?! My freaking parents like to think on the negative side, Bridge! tu should know that! tu met them!" she screamed. "My parents are the embodiment of the 'Devil's Couple' probably!"
Gwen rolled her eyes. "Courtney, just sit down and stop being so overly dramatic, all right?" she ordered, irritated. "It's not the end of the world, and don't say it is. We both know your parents are freaking psycho, but that doesn't mean tu can go that far."
"But it's true!"
"Do tu think actuación like a complete baby would give tu a solution to your 'problem'?! No, it wouldn't!"
"Guys, just freaking shut up!" Bridgette shouted. "Okay, Courtney, Gwen is right—stop being such a puerile whiner! You're nineteen—a freaking adult! You're living on your own; tu have a good job, although tu don't like it much; and you're going to a good college soon!"
"Court," Gwen sighed, looking calm now. "Do what your brother did."
Courtney's eyes widened and she looked away, clenching her fists. She dreadfully wanted to do what her amazing brother did. She couldn't, though. As much as she hated to admit it, she wasn't strong enough—she wasn't courageous enough.
Gwen walked over to Courtney and put a hand on her shoulder tenderly. "Being a lawyer wasn't your only dream, right?" she dicho softly. "Show your parents you're an adult now; mostrar them you're doing fine on your own; mostrar them tu are away from their freaking, ugly clutches."
Courtney smiled determinedly and laughed. She hugged her Goth friend. "Thank you, Gwen," she whispered sincerely. "For a 'I-don't-like-to-help-people-with-their-stupid-pain-in-the-ass-problems' kind of person, you're innumerably helpful and wise."
She then walked over to Bridgette and hugged her as well. "And thanks, Bridgette. I'm proud that tu can blow your temper just like me." Bridgette giggled. They released each other. "You guys are manically awesome."
"Same goes for tu except ten times more," Gwen and Bridgette dicho in synchronization.
Duncan tried not to wince as Courtney's grip on his hand got tighter and tighter. They were in Courtney's car, and they were heading to Courtney's parent's house. Each time they got closer and closer, Courtney's grip got tighter and tighter.
Duncan hated to admit it, but he was quite nervous about meeting his girlfriend's parents. He was never good at being polite o not saying whatever he likes to say. He didn't want to ruin it for Courtney, but it's not his fault he's not like those girlie men Courtney's parents must like.
"So…," he started conversationally, "what are your parents' names? I'm getting tired of saying 'your parents' and 'Courtney's parents.'"
Courtney's grip loosened and Duncan sighed quietly in relief. "Well…my dad's name is Cameron and my mom's name is Darlene. It's pretty ironic, right?" she laughed.
"Eh? How is it ironic?"
He saw Courtney roll her eyes at him. "Gosh, you're so freaking stupid sometimes, Duncan," she muttered. "I don't know what goes on in your brain—if tu have one." She whispered the last words.
Duncan glared at her. "Hey, I'm not that dumb, nor am I deaf, sweetheart. I just don't like to think all the time, all right? It hurts my brain."
Courtney didn't answer this time—instead she gave him a sad look. Duncan raised an eyebrow at her.
"What? Why do tu look so sad, Princess?"
"I've never…asked about your parents. Hell, I never even asked about who tu are. I feel…selfish." She frowned. "Tell me about yourself."
Duncan laughed. "That was random. Hmm…okay, my name is Duncan. I'm a hot male specimen—the number one case, actually—and I'm a great kiss—"
"Ah, forget it—just tell me about your parents."
"Harsh, man." Duncan pursed his lips. "Well…my parents are both cops—practically everybody in my freaking family is a cop."
"Now that's ironic. You're a criminal with a family full of cops? Doesn't that…make them furious o disappointed?"
Duncan snorted. "Hell yeah, babe. They think that I'm supposed to be a cop, as well. But I don't want to be—I hate abiding por the rules. It sucks, and I just want to be who I want to be. I don't want anyone telling me I have to be this, I have to be that. That just annoys me. It's my life and I can do whatever I want with it."
Courtney smiled. "I've always wanted to say that to my parents," she dicho quietly. "You're doing what I've always dreamed of doing. I guess that makes tu my hero."
As soon as she dicho that, Duncan blushed a bit. Duncan Evans does not blush, but here was his insane girlfriend, making him blush por a simple compliment.
Duncan cleared his throat. "Um, my dad hates me," he blurted out. "He hates that I always get in trouble. Apparently he likes to protect his reputation. He doesn't want anyone to think of him as 'the man with a troubled son.' My mom thinks that I'm a good person. She doesn't hate me." He chuckled. "I'm really close with my grandma, though."
"Really? Why?"
"She…taught—or forced to make me learn—Italian since I have Italian blood in me. So I guess that makes me bilingual. She's a retired cop now and she taught me everything—how to stay strong, fighting techniques, being independent, and all those other stuff to prepare me for the future. She just knew that I would be someone who liked to fly solo, no babying crap.
"I ran away, but I told my grandma about it. I remember the exact words we both had together.
"'I'm getting away from this hell-like piece of crap, Old Gran. Don't worry, I'll come back,' I said.
"Then she dicho this, and it really surprised me. 'Duncan…I don't approve of what you're doing, but I know your true reason behind it. I'll pretend I don't know where tu went. But I want tu to come back as soon as possible… I amor you, my little boy.'" Duncan felt tears coming out.
Courtney rested her forehead on his shoulder. "Oh, Duncan," she whispered. "I'm… I don't know what to say."
Thankfully, the tears didn't come pouring down. He hated crying and hasn't cried since…like, forever. He turned to Courtney, smiling.
"Do tu have a picture of your parents?" he asked suddenly. "I just want to know how they look like so I can act easily around them."
Courtney snorted at the thought, though she did have one in her wallet. "Why would I have a picture of my parents?" she asked, stalling. "That's a strange piece of paper to put in your wallet."
Duncan rolled his eyes. "Whatever, Princess. I know tu have a picture of them. I just want to know how they look like—if they're ugly, I might yell out loud when I see them, so…just spare your life por mostrando me it."
She did not want to mostrar Duncan how her parents look like. She didn't know why, but it seemed…dangerous for her to mostrar the picture of her parents to Duncan. But she pushed away the bad feeling.
Courtney turned her head away from him. "Well…fine." She pulled out her wallet from her bag—she didn't know why she was carrying a bag—and opened the wallet. "Here's how they look like." She held the wallet out.
The car halted to a stop slowly at the red light. Duncan looked away from the road and looked at the picture. He gasped loudly.
"They're not ugly!" Courtney snapped. "I mean, they look intimidating and all, but they are in no way unattractive!"
Duncan gulped. "That's—that's not what made me gasp, babe," he sputtered out. "They're—they're—they're—"
"Just spit it out already! You're like Harold when he supposedly saw a monster behind me! Ugh, we do not need another coward nerd here!"
Duncan looked at Courtney with wide eyes. She doesn't understand why Duncan was actuación like he has seen a ghost. They may seem scary, but to Courtney they seem all right, she guessed. Then Duncan dicho something that made her look shocked like him.
"They're…the ones who put me in the prison I escaped."
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Olympics / Preview
October 15, 2021 - Jessica Taylor Price
World Gymnastics Championships: Five things to watch in return to the mat
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Miss gymnastics yet?
If you loved watching gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics and are missing the thrill of a stuck landing, you're in luck, because gymnastics doesn't just happen at the Olympics. In fact, the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships are set to kick off in Kitakyushu, Japan on Monday, featuring some of the top athletes in the sport.
Normally, worlds are held only in non-Olympic years. But when the 2020 Olympics were postponed, 2021 worlds stayed in place on the calendar, making this the first time in 25 years that a world gymnastics championship has been held in the same year as an Olympics. In 1996, the competition happened a few months before the Games, so it acted as a dress rehearsal for top talent like Simona Amanar and Svetlana Khorkina.
Here, a worlds held just months after the Olympics will be less predictable. We'll see some overachievers who have pushed through after the Olympics, but we'll also see athletes from very deep countries like the United States, China and Russia who were left off of their Tokyo teams and now hope to make a name for themselves.
It's not the type of competition you can expect to see each year, but if you're a fan during the Olympics, this one is well worth your time. The competition starts Monday with qualifications. The all-around final on Thursday and the event finals on Saturday and Sunday will air live on the Olympic Channel. NBC will also provide tape-delayed coverage.
Here are five things to look out for at this year's worlds:
Melnikova could clean up
Russian star Angelina Melnikova just won a gold and two bronze medals at her second Olympic Games. If anyone told her that it's OK to take a breather after the best competition of her life, she hasn't listened, instead plowing through to make the Russian team for her fourth world championships.
In fact, despite injuries, a breakup with her longtime coach, changes in her body and even the now-infamous twisties, Melnikova says she hasn't missed a competition since 2017. "I thought about whether to take a break [after Tokyo] or go to the World Championships," she said in an interview translated by Gymnovosti. "But since I was invited to various … competitions, I still need to be in shape. So, why not try it?"
Why not? Melnikova is at the top of her game and excels in all four events, so this could be a worlds where she cleans up. Plus, without U.S. stars Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee — who beat her at the Olympics — in the mix, the coveted world all-around title appears to be hers to lose.
But first, she'll have to answer to Rebeca Andrade. A veteran of the Brazilian team, Andrade came back this year after tearing her ACL three times and repeatedly missing world and Olympic podiums to do what we all knew she was capable of — winning.
In Tokyo, she earned a silver medal in the all-around, her country's first-ever Olympic medal in gymnastics, and an incredible gold on vault. "I wanted to shine in the best way possible, and I think I did," she told the FIG.
Look out for her powerful Cheng, an Yurchenko-style vault and one of the most difficult performed by women today.
Where does the U.S. stand?
After the Olympics, many of the top U.S. gymnasts are away, either recovering from injuries, off at college or participating in Biles' post-Olympic tour. That's why, when the U.S. held worlds trials earlier this month, only six athletes competed.
That doesn't mean there's a dearth of talent on the U.S. team, though. Quite the contrary: Kayla DiCello and Leanne Wong, both Olympic team alternates, are world-class athletes who hope to make a splash on the international stage. DiCello had an impressive showing at trials, winning the all-around and earning the highest score on three events. Plus, she doesn't seem phased at all by the prospect of leading this team. "This is our turn to show the world what we can do," she said.
Wong, meanwhile, earned the top score on floor, where she competes a gorgeous whip to triple twist. After spending much of her Tokyo experience in her hotel room after her teammate tested positive for COVID-19, Wong hopes to have a better showing at worlds.
"I was really disappointed in my experience," she said. "And I just wanted to train more and get the real experience of competing outside the country."
She's had trouble with consistency in the past, but if she does what she's capable of next week, then she has a real shot at a medal.
Filling out Team USA's roster are eMjae Frazier, who surprised when she took second in the all-around at trials, and Konnor McClain.
McClain's year has been marked by drama and unmet expectations. After an incredible 2019 season, MClain had disappointing performances in the lead-up to the Olympic trials, followed by a last-minute gym change. Then, at worlds trials, she fell twice on beam and twice on floor.
But there's reason to be hopeful for McClain at worlds. After trials, she told the media that she's feeling much better at her new gym, both mentally and in terms of her gymnastics. "I didn't feel any nerves at all [at worlds trials], so I just felt different. It was a good experience," she said. "The last four months have been really good … it's just crazy how much it has changed and how happy I am to go into the gym every day."
She also said that she hit her high-difficulty beam routine during the behind-closed-doors session on Day 2. If she can replicate that at worlds, then this could be a turning point for her career.
China's redemption
China's best gymnasts, normally representing a superpower in the sport, had a rough outing at the Tokyo Olympics, coming in seventh as a team in the final. Team members Tang Xijing, Lu Yufei and Fan Yilin also underperformed in the all-around and bars finals to miss the podium. It looked like China could actually go without a medal until the beam final, where Guan Chenchen and Tang went 1-2 in glorious fashion.
Now, China is sending a very strong and talented group to worlds for the chance at redemption. Wei Xiaoyuan, for one, gets to make a name for herself on the world stage after coming in second in the all-around and first in bars at China's second Olympic trials but still being left off of the Olympic team. Here, she'll lead China in the all-around after winning that title at the recent Chinese National Games with a 55.064. Bars are her specialty, and if she, Becky Downie and Melnikova compete there at full strength, it will make for a thrilling final.
Wei Xiaoyuan - UB 2021 CHN NG QF pic.twitter.com/73hYp6Wdxa
— Xiaoyu_CHN_DTY_in_Tokyo⚰ (@xiaoyuonion) September 20, 2021
We also saw the return of Li Shijia, who was a favorite to make the Olympic team before an injury ruined her chances. At the National Games, she earned a 14.666 at qualifications — the highest beam score of the competition — with a routine that she absolutely needs to repeat at a world championships.
Li Shijia BB TQ
Welcome back Jiajia💕💕 pic.twitter.com/koxOmOoCbw
— 体操光年 (@chngym) September 20, 2021
Downie's comeback
Becky Downie is back. A two-time Olympian and one of the sport's great veterans — she's competed as a senior elite since 2008 — Downie was set to contend for a bars medal at the Tokyo Olympics before she was shockingly left off of Team Great Britain. The situation surrounding her omission made it all the more heartbreaking: Downie's brother died unexpectedly during the trials process, and while British Gymnastics granted her a separate trial, they still didn't include her on the team.
Downie expressed her disappointment, but didn't let it stop her from training for her 10th world championships. "I don't want to retire like this," she wrote on Twitter.
Her inclusion on Great Britain's worlds roster, then, was a relief for many fans, who hope to see her dominate in the bars final. Downie is known for her exciting bar routines, which are packed with releases and quick transitions.
Only way is up 🤍 pic.twitter.com/DAcagDEQAV
— Becky Downie (@Bdownie) May 14, 2021
If she's able to bring her full difficulty to Kitakyushu, it will be a thrill to watch.
The return of one-touch warmups
It's a small thing, for sure, but the misguided rule that fans and athletes have hated for years is finally gone — the "no one-touch warmup before event finals."
Some background: In team and all-around finals, athletes get the chance to warm up on each apparatus before they perform. But historically, in event finals, the warmup happens in the back gym, and when athletes come out to compete, they don't get to try out the equipment again before competing. The rule, according to gymnastics authorities, was meant to appease broadcasters.
It stood at the Tokyo Olympics, where falls during the bars final led to an outcry from athletes and fans, who argued that not having a warmup leaves gymnasts at a disadvantage. McKayla Maroney said on Instagram that when she competed in the vault final, her legs felt "like Jell-O" after the long wait.
The controversy was enough to get the rule changed, starting at these world championships. Here, the first four athletes in an event final will have the chance to warm up before they compete, followed by the other four. It's unclear what the effects of this will be, but ideally we'll see fewer falls and better performances. And, needless to say, it probably won't affect the viewing experience.
Jessica Taylor Price is a freelance sports writer. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, ESPNW, and Bleacher Report. She is also the gymnastics writer for the women's sports newsletter The IX. Follow her on Twitter @jesstaylorprice.
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"Life's a Batch," right? Whether it's a fresh, warm batch of cookies straight from the oven, or a batch of fun photos that I'm working on, life is found in the moments. In fact, there are so many moments around here, I find it hard to keep up!
I'm Nicole, and I think there's nothing greater in the world than a 1/2-birthday. (You can still have cake, but you don't have to select the next age category on any survey – ha!) My husband and I were high school sweethearts, and we have been married for over 14 years. He just left the military, where he served Active Duty in the Air Force for just shy of 14 years. In the last six months, we moved from snowy & cold Minot AFB, North Dakota to hot & humid Houston, Texas. What a change!
I have two boys, and I wouldn't trade them for the world! A.J. is my oldest, and he is quiet & sensitive. Jack is younger, and he is a firecracker of energy. Neither of them ever forget (why do kids remember EVERYTHING they've not yet done at bedtime?!), and they are patient "models" for me & my camera.
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Yesterday, we talked about what you could expect from SeaWorld's 2017 announcement, and now we know all the details.
In 2017, SeaWorld will be opening new rides, a virtual reality experience, and several new shows and events.
As predicted, Orlando's Kraken roller coaster will be getting a virtual reality update, and will be the first VR coaster in Florida when it opens.
Orlando will also be getting Electric Ocean, a new nightly show, and a more interactive dolphin nursery that offer better viewing of mothers and babies.
San Diego will be getting a new orca encounter designed to help guests understand the habitat, natural behavior and conservation of killer whales. This encounter will come to Orlando by 2019.
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More Muslim tourists means more demand for halal-certified restaurants.
Applications are surging in Taiwan for halal (清真) certification – assurance that a restaurant's food preparation strictly follows Muslim law. This growth likely helped Taiwan achieve its ranking as the world's seventh-most Muslim-friendly travel destination among non-Muslim countries, according to the "Global Muslim Travel Index 2016" survey published by Mastercard-CrescentRating. Taiwan's rating was up from 10th place in the 2015 survey.
Given the continuing efforts of the Taiwan government to promote tourism from countries with large Muslim populations, this ranking may well move even higher. The number of restaurants, hotels, and other venues in Taiwan certified either as halal or the equivalent "Muslim-friendly" designation increased to 92 at the end of October 2016, according to Jeff Tsai, Halal Specialist for the Chinese Muslim Association (CMA), which is responsible for the certification process. The figure was up 21% from the 76 at the end of 2015, and a steep increase from the mere 11 at the end of 2011. Tsai expressed hope that the number of certified establishments will soon reach 100.
This program has transformed Taiwan from a place with very limited halal food availability to a locale offering many choices from among many different types of cuisine. The CMA office, located within the Taipei Grand Mosque at 62 XinSheng S. Rd., Sec. 2, can provide visitors with a list of Taiwan's halal-certified restaurants.
Among the provisions of Islamic law are a prohibition on pork products and a requirement that other meat come from animals slaughtered in accordance with Islamic ritual practice.
A key factor behind the surge in halal certification requests are shifts taking place in the composition of Taiwan's tourism. For both political and economic reasons, the number of tourists coming from China, especially in group tours, has been declining, while arrivals from areas with large Muslim populations are growing. Taiwan's extension of its e-visa and visa-waiver programs to more countries with large Muslim populations has helped spur the trend.
Taiwan Tourism Bureau data for the first 10 months of 2016 show that tourism arrivals from China were down by 44% to 220,000, while arrivals from Southeast Asia rose by 25% to 150,000. Among the Southeast Asian countries, arrivals from Malaysia rose by 11%, Singapore by 8%, and Indonesia by 5%.
In response to that shift, the Tourism Bureau has engaged in active outreach to encourage restaurants to gain halal certification. It has conducted forums to educate restaurant owners about the potential benefits of halal certification and the procedures for obtaining it. The Bureau offers subsidies of up to NT$200,000 to help offset direct costs incurred in connection with the halal certification.
Besides making Taiwan more attractive to Muslim visitors, the government views the encouragement of halal certification as a worthy activity in its own right. "Taiwan is a Gourmet Kingdom, right?" says Eric Lin, director of the Tourism Bureau's International Affairs Division. "Halal is a healthy standard. Everyone can eat and enjoy foods that meet this standard, whether they are locals or visitors."
"When we first started encouraging restaurants to obtain halal certification, many owners dismissed the idea, saying 'Oh, that's very difficult,'" Lin recalls. "But we've worked to show them that it's really not that difficult or expensive." Over time, as restaurant owners have looked more closely at the program, more and more of them have decided that in the current environment it may make sense for them to obtain either halal certification (accorded only to those of Muslim faith) or the "Muslim-Friendly" designation in cases where the owner is not Muslim.
According to the CMA's Tsai, changes are also occurring in the demographics of Taiwan's resident Muslim population. Although he estimates that the total number of Muslims has remained rather stable at about 223,000 believers, the composition has been evolving. Many of the older Muslims who came over from China in the wake of the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s have passed away, but taking their place have been younger people from countries such as Indonesia, who are either working or studying in Taiwan. These more recent arrivals have also increased the demand for halal eateries.
The diverse demographics of Taiwan's Muslim population can be observed at the Taipei Grand Mosque during Friday prayers. The Mosque is open to guests, although non-Muslims should avoid entering the prayer hall. Visitors are also asked to dress appropriately (no short pants, please).
Below is a selection of halal-certified restaurants representing a range of cuisines, atmospheres, and price levels.
Chungkuo Beef (Noodles) Restaurant (清真中國牛肉麵餐館)
No. 1, Alley 7, Lane 137, YanJi St. Located near the intersection of YanJi St. and ZhongXiao E. Rd., Chungkuo Beef Noodles tends to be crowded, a testament to its popularity. It is one of the old-style Chinese Muslim restaurants founded more than half a century ago by natives of northeastern Chinese provinces, especially Shandong, and now often run by their descendants. Others of this type are Zhang Jia Beef Noodles (21 YanPing S. Rd.) and right next door to it the Muslim Beef Noodles Restaurant (23 YanPing S. Rd.).
Of these, Chungkuo is the largest and most modern. For NT$155, you can enjoy a flavorful bowl of traditional Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Also recommended is the beef with pancakes, which resembles Peking duck in style and flavor (you can request a less sweet style if you prefer). Also be sure to also try some of the side dishes, such as the sliced cucumbers and Chinese eggplant.
Tajin Moroccan Cuisine (塔吉摩洛哥料理)
No. 3, Lane 144, Keelung Rd., Sec. 2. If you're looking for a delicious meal that's a bit different from what you're used to, Tajin Moroccan may be the answer to your search. The owner, Hicham Samh, is from Morocco and seeks to provide an authentic Moroccan experience, starting with the interior design and decoration, as well as the traditional music playing in the background.
Among the signature dishes are Ourzazata Traditional Lamb (摩洛哥羊肉) and an excellent Marrakech Cheese Kofta (番茄起士牛肉丸). The set meals include saffron rice and pita bread. For an extra charge, very good couscous and humus are available.
Also recommended is the Meknes Beef with Plums (番紅花牛肉蜜棗). The spiciness of the beef together with the slight sweet-and-sour flavor of the plums makes for a very tasty combination. Finish the meal with the excellent coffee or mint tea, and the desserts include dates (try these!), marshmallow treats, and yogurt.
Safronbolu Turkish Restaurant (番紅花城土耳其餐廳)
60 NanJing E. Rd., Sec. 2. The elegant interior and cushioned seats create a very comfortable and welcoming atmosphere. The menu options include eggplant with yogurt, lamb kebab, lentil soup, and a good beef pida, which is something like Turkish pizza. The Turkish salad with its bursts of Mediterranean flavors is a good choice to begin the meal.
The cold, sour flavor of the traditional yogurt drink adds a nice refreshing note during the meal, and afterward a cup of Turkish tea and the very sweet but good cookies are a nice way to top it off.
Kunming Islamic (昆明園)
No. 26, Lane 81, FuXing North Rd. Proprietor Yacoob Mah has operated the current Kunming Islamic Restaurant for more than 20 years, earning a reputation for very tasty dishes and building a loyal clientele. The restaurant offers what Mah describes as "international" dishes, primarily based on the cuisines of India, Thailand, Burma, and the Middle East.
Frequent customer Jason Sliman regards the Kunming as his favorite restaurant, and his favorite dish is the Chili Prawn (辣醬蝦). "The sauce is out of this world," he raves.
The menu offers quite a bit of variety. Start with the moist and well-flavored vegetable samosas – the best we've had in Taiwan. Another good early selection is the Burmese Cold Tea Salad. The Indian chapati bread and humus make good pairings with other dishes, such as the coconut chicken and spicy lamb.
Taj Indian Restaurant (泰姬印度餐廳)
No. 1, Lane 48, Civic Blvd., Sec. 4). Taipei has several halal-certified Indian/Pakistani restaurants. One we especially enjoyed was the Taj Indian, whose pleasant interior design is highlighted by beautiful tapestries on the walls. The Taj offers a comprehensive menu, such as chicken palaak (curry chicken with spinach) and dahl macani (lentils with kidney beans). Try the potato parata as a change from the more common naan bread.
Yunus Halal Restaurant (Thai) (清真泰富豪)
36 BeiNing Rd. Yunus offers a very friendly atmosphere and a menu containing a mix of Thai and Chinese dishes, with an emphasis on the former. The dishes are tasty – imaginatively prepared and attractively presented. An English menu with photos is available (although the photos don't really do justice to the food).
Royal Café and Restaurant (Indonesian)
72 XinSheng S. Rd., Sec. 2. This simple shop, offering tasty Indonesian flavors at very reasonable prices, is situated just a few doors south of the Taipei Grand Mosque. The food, while not exotic, is very enjoyable. We had the mie goreng (Indonesian fried noodles) and two glasses of iced tea for only NT$180.
Kunming's Yakoob Mah: Long Journey to a Good Place
Yakoob Mah was born in what was then called Burma to Muslim parents from China's Yunnan Province. Mah's father was a member of the Kuomintang army during the Chinese Civil War, and was among many soldiers who withdrew to Burma after China fell to the Communists. As hopes of retaking the mainland faded, young Mah was sent to Taiwan to study, and eventually the rest of the family followed.
Years later, after taking his father back to visit Yunnan, he realized that "In Burma we were refugees, when we arrived in Taiwan we were 'mainlanders,' and when we went back to Yunnan for a visit, we were 'Taiwan compatriots (台胞)'! It was as if we didn't really belong anywhere."
In the early 1980s, Mah established the first Kunming restaurant – named in honor of his grandmother, a native of Kunming – across from the Taipei World Trade Center on Keelung Road. Serving halal food, the restaurant did very well, and attracted many customers from among wealthy Muslim businessmen from Saudi Arabia and other locations. They encouraged him to shift from the Chinese cuisine he originally offered to fare from India, Thailand, and other areas that might suit the tastes of more Muslims. He thus gradually moved his menu in that direction.
Taiwan's economy was booming, and so was Mah's restaurant. Seeing the potential for further growth, he moved the restaurant to a location behind the Sogo Department Store. But this move coincided with a downturn in Taiwan's economy as China's rise began to attract business people away from Taiwan. In those circumstances, this second restaurant failed.
Mah says this was a very difficult time in his life, and his spirits were low. Perhaps he had been too greedy, he thought. Eventually, he was able to put together enough funds to open the third Kunming, which is the current restaurant.
With a slight choke in his voice, he says: "This place has been lucky for me." He believes God (Allah) gave this opportunity to him, and he is very thankful for it. In the same year that he opened his current restaurant, he experienced another life-changing event with the birth of his daughter. He happily notes that this year she has begun attending university in Tainan.
Mah says one lesson he learned from his earlier difficulties was the importance of having a diversified customer base. If the winds of change blow and one type of customer declines, there will be others to enable the business to continue. Currently Mah says that about half of his customers are local Taiwanese and half are expatriates and overseas tourists.
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Basketball Spotlight Grand Finale 5th Grade Championship Recap: Team Nation Cruises!
Tristan Jeffries and Justice Williams put together great games as Team Nation stormed past Team Final 40-19 to win the Basketball Spotlight 5th Grade Grand Championship. Congratulations to both teams for making it to the finals. Stay tuned as we bring you the top performers from the 5th Grade division of the Grand Finale.


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Three Northern California artists are adorning the new arena with their takes on humor, beauty, sports and the Sacramento Valley's natural landscape
Rebecca Huval
Near the jagged ripples of Golden 1 Center's exterior skin, the distant sound of a bouncing basketball echoes against a wooden floor. But it's not coming from a Kings game inside, it's coming out of 24 speakers tucked inside planters and the building's vertical garden that comprise an audio sculpture by San Francisco composer Bill Fontana, who is one of three artists from Northern California selected to create works in and around the new arena. In the midst of the controversy over the New York-based artist Jeff Koons' $8 million sculpture in the plaza, $1.5 million was donated ($1 million from art patron Marcy Friedman and $500,000 from the city) to infuse the cultural center with art from regional artists.
After an open call in April 2015, the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission (SMAC) was flooded with 135 submissions. A panel of nine cultural leaders (including Crocker director Lial Jones and the Oakland Museum of California's senior curator René de Guzman) winnowed the submissions down to a group of 17 artists. From there, the committee chose the three creators with the most inspiring artworks—and the ability to manage a $300,000 budget—including Sacramento artists Gale Hart and Bryan Valenzuela. "It's the fastest project I've ever worked on in my 30-year career," says Shelly Willis, executive director of SMAC. "These works of art really are going to be powerful."
Gale Hart
On L Street near 5th, along the staircase to the arena, dart flights sit flat on and beside an enormous bronze hand. Elsewhere, two darts are scattered far from their intended target—the dartboard, which has shed its numbers and bull's-eye. What is a game without a way to keep score? It's a way for mischievous midtown artist Gale Hart to let out a wry laugh. "It's just kind of poking fun—no pun intended—at where we are in regards to growth and sports."
The irreverent sculptor and painter has stimulated Sacramento's art scene since the 1970s. Her daring work includes sculptures of a spiky skateboard and a gun with a self-defeating, barbed handle that would prick any shooter. She snickers in the face of utility. Though her work has been exhibited everywhere from Seattle to New York, Missing a Mark is her biggest commission to date. "It meant I could expand my horizons and do things that I had never gotten to do before," she says of the opportunity.
Though Hart is grateful to the Kings, she's skeptical of their industry. Sports used to be about community, bonding and fitness before they were on TV, she says. "Today, they've turned into mega corporations." To her, the piece asks if sportsmanship has faded: "Is just getting paid to do sports more important? Does it matter if you win or you lose?"
She understands not every basketball fan will share her interpretation. "If nothing else, the piece is funny," she opines. Even when the Kings get swept, spectators can feel some subtle schadenfreude over a nameless hand that will never win.
Bryan Valenzuela
While many in town will recognize him as the lead singer and guitarist of the popular local rock band Exquisite Corps, Bryan Valenzuela has been working in the visual arts for years, and his star is quickly rising.
In 2015, one of his pieces took "Best of Show" at the California State Fair's fine art competition. The 38-year-old was also chosen by SMAC and Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA) to take part in the inspired Capitol Box Art project, for which utility boxes around town were covered with works of art. Now, for the first time, Valenzuela has translated the lines of his two-dimensional work to a three-dimensional sculpture.
Named Multitudes Converge, the piece, which will hang just inside the 5th and L entrance, consists of 400 glass balls resembling water drops strung on stainless steel wires that represent currents along the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers, Valenzuela says. The artwork is suspended in the atrium above the escalators, casting a kaleidoscope of light and shadows that dance slowly around the room as the sun passes overhead outside. Aquarelle blues and greens eddy around the glass, along with glints of gold that represent the Gold Rush.
To realize his designs, Valenzuela sketched out his vision and hired skilled artisans from the Czech Republic, a country with glassmaking traditions dating back to the Middle Ages, and traveled there to meet with them. The midtown-based artist also collaborated with Franz Mayer of Munich, Inc., a renowned architectural glass firm, as well as local engineering firm Buehler & Buehler and the steel-bending company Microform Precision, to get his rivers flowing.
After growing up near the Pacific Ocean in Orange County and later spending summers along the South Fork of the American River in Coloma, Valenzuela feels an innate fascination with water and its ability to shapeshift. "It can become anything," he says. "It's kind of amazing."
Bill Fontana
During a drought, one of the first things to disappear is a beloved noise: the soothing trickle of public fountains. Composer Bill Fontana, 69, thought the arena should keep the soundtrack, minus the water: "a virtual fountain with different kinds of moods and sound colors," he says. Using roughly 100 hours of field recordings of the Sacramento Valley and the Eastern Sierras (some recorded as far back as the 1970s), including the twittering of migrating birds; sounds of the Kings playing basketball; and 24 loudspeakers placed outside the main entrance, Fontana created what he calls a "sound sculpture." (Listen in a video below.)
The aural artist appreciates the chance to present Sonic Passages in a bustling center. "My point of view as an artist is to slow people down—to get them to really stop and feel present without being bombarded by their routines, their emails and their text messages, to create an experience that causes [people] to feel a connection to a place in a way that normally they might be too busy to have."
An accomplished composer, Fontana has exhibited his works at institutions like the Whitney Museum of American Art and SFMOMA. Though this is his local debut, he has a deep history with the region. In 1979, Fontana worked with the Oakland Museum to showcase the nature sounds of California, for which he recorded throughout the Sacramento River's "incredible wildlife refuges." Now Sacramentans can hear what our wilderness sounded like in the 1970s—those old tapes have found a new home.
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This article appeared in the October-November 2016 issue of Sactown Magazine
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Owen Coyle was delighted to see his players put an end to their unwanted recent away record which has not brought a victory since the opening day of the season, with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Yeovil Town at Huish Park on Sunday.
"We had a slow start to the game for sure," he said, "Yeovil started well as we expected. They're a team fighting for their lives, with talented players and a fantastic manager, but we grew into the game and were unlucky not to ahead before half time when we had a couple of chances cleared off the line and Marc Albrighton hit the bar.
"After that, the second half was one-way traffic in which we dominated and should have put to bed long before Marc-Antoine Fortune's winner.
"He's had a lot of misfortune in front of goal lately, seeing shots cleared off the line, being denied by the woodwork, and in the first half today he saw a goal-bound shot cleared again.
"So I was delighted for him and delighted with the goal; Grant Holt did fantastically well to create it with his work on the wing and put it on a plate for his team mate.
"When you make substitutions you want them to make an impact on the game and that's what he, Roger Espinoza and James McArthur did in the second half.
"Of the seven games we've had in the last month, I feel we could have won each and every one of them.
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Growing up in conflict – project explores experiences of young people in Occupied Palestinian Territories
The experiences of young people growing up amid conflict and crisis will be explored during a new project between Northumbria University, in Newcastle and An-Najah University in the Occupied Palestine Territories.
Over the next two years, academics from both institutions will work with around 120 young people, aged 16 to 25, living in the Occupied Palestine Territories. They will explore the role of shared cultural identities and heritage expressed through things like music and food, in helping young people deal with the conflict around them.
The research will be used by organisations working with young people in the region, enabling them to create resources which support the young people more effectively.
The project has been awarded more than £260,000 of funding through a British Academy Sustainable Development award, supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund.
It will be led by Professor Matt Baillie Smith from Northumbria University's Centre for International Development. He said: "We are delighted to have won this grant from the British Academy to be able to work with our partners An-Najah University on a project we believe can play an important role in understanding and supporting young people in conflict and crisis settings.
"By bringing together different disciplines, universities and organisations, we hope that we can develop new understanding of the ways culture, heritage and creativity shape young people's capacities to cope, their citizenship and agency, and through this, their abilities to shape sustainable development for themselves and their communities."
Over the last five years, academics from Northumbria's Centre for International Development have worked on a variety of projects exploring volunteering, civil society, learning and care in the context of conflict in the global South. This includes a Rutherford Fund Strategic Partnership grant with project partner, An-Najah University, further British Academy funding for research on gender and checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and collaborative research on volunteers in conflicts and emergencies with the Swedish Red Cross.
Professor Baillie Smith added: "Many young people today are living in protracted conflicts and crises. However, humanitarian aid responses and related academic research are often characterised by formal, professionalised and immediate approaches that can neglect community-based responses over time.
"Young people's agency and citizenship and their capacity to shape change can be overlooked, especially where the focus is on improving the delivery of humanitarian aid. In the occupied Palestinian territories, 16-25 year olds constitute a third of the population. However, little is understood of how cultural agency, creativity and citizenship help them not only cope with the stress and trauma of conflict, but also shape their own and their communities' futures."
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EXPERT COMMENT: Peruvian women reflect on mining and development in the Andes
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The role of voluntary action in the provision of welfare services to be explored
A project led by Northumbria University has been awarded funds by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to address pressing questions about different narratives surrounding the role of voluntary action in the provision of welfare services.
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Has The Time Come For Electric Cars?
Shell has bought NewMotion, the owner of one of Europe's largest electric car charging networks, to give its alternative fuels efforts a jolt.
Jaguar has unleashed its first electric vehicle – the Jaguar I-PACE.


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MT Forest Recreation Plans Suffer Court Blow
June 22, 2015 Katherine Proctor
SEATTLE (CN) – Federal regulators must reassess how snowmobile use will affect 2 million acres of Montana's largest national forest, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday.
WildEarth Guardians, Friends of the Bitterfoot and Montanans for Quiet Recreation brought the challenge at issue after the U.S. Forest Service designated 60 percent of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest for use by winter motorized vehicles.
Contending that the agency's environmental impact statement failed to adequately evaluate how snowmobiles will affect the area's big-game wildlife, the groups alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
They also claimed that potential conflicts between snowmobiles and other recreational uses of the land warranted consideration.
A federal judge ultimately found the agency's analysis unclear but said it was nevertheless adequate and granted the government partial summary judgment.
The Ninth Circuit revived the claim regarding wildlife impacts Monday, saying the environmental impact statement provided "virtually no information about where the big game winter range is actually located, nor the concentration of game in each area."
Though the Forest Service had cited tables and data in the statement regarding species as moose, elk and mule deer, the three-judge appellate panel rejected the proffered "paltry information."
"The Forest Service asks us to assume the adequacy and accuracy of partial data without providing any basis for doing so," Judge Richard Paez wrote for the court. "NEPA requires more."
Paez said that the environmental impact statement "does not provide the public adequate access to information about the impact of snowmobiles on big game wildlife and habitat."
"The information included in and referenced by the EIS therefore does not allow the public to 'play a role in both the decision-making process and the implementation of that decision,'" the 30-page opinion continues.
Paez likewise revived claims under the Travel Management Rule (TMR), saying the service is required to minimize soil and watershed damage, as well as wildlife harassment.
"The EIS's reference to plan-wide data and general decision-making principles is inadequate under the TMR," Paez said. "There is nothing in the TMR, or anywhere else, that allows the Forest Service to designate multiple areas for snowmobile use on the basis of a single forest-wide analysis and general decision-making principles.
"Instead, the TMR requires the Forest Service to apply the minimization criteria to each area it designated for snowmobile use." (Italics in opinion.)
Paez said that "mere consideration" of the TMR's minimization criteria is not sufficient to comply with the regulation.
Uncle Sam did get credit in the decision, however, for its assessment of the potential conflict between snowmobiles and other winter recreational activities such as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
"WildEarth's argument that the Forest Service did not adequately review the consequences of its recreation allotments is not supported in the record," Paez said.
The environmental impact statement's sections addressing seasonal visitation levels and forestwide recreational trends and opportunities provided sufficient information to establish that the Forest Service took the NEPA-mandated "hard look" at the impacts of snowmobile use on non-motorized recreation in the area, the court found.
Neither side immediately responded to request for comment on Monday.
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Picking the right market for your funnel is crucial. Pick the right market & you'll make money right away. Pick the wrong market & you might never make a dollar. This module will give you the tools & know-how to pick winning markets based on the passion or problem approach, market size, urgency and why it's always important to promote evergreen products.
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This is where we put the "marketing" in affiliate marketing. It's up to you as the affiliate marketer to make sure that your audience sees the affiliate links and offers you have on your site. You can't simply throw them into the right sidebar and hope that your audience seeks them out and clicks on them. There's a great deal that you can do to increase the likelihood that your visitors click on the links and get in front of the affiliate offer.
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If your website doesn't have much traffic to speak of, there's probably not a big opportunity for you now in affiliate marketing. Focus on producing high quality content, building some links, and getting a recurring stream of visitors to your site. But if you have a website that is already attracting a significant number of visitors from referring sites, organic search, and direct visits, affiliate marketing could be a logical way to monetize.
Online advertising started to take shape – Cost Per Mille (CPM) models and paid placements were important components of the marketing mix, but difficult to measure. An emphasis on quality traffic and conversion helped transition marketers from buying impressions and site visitors, to paying exclusively for traffic that resulted in a sale and affiliate marketing lead the charge.
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The network is, again, contested by some as to whether it's truly a part of the affiliate marketing conglomerate. But for good measure, we'll discuss it. The network is essentially the middle man used to manage this exchange. The network helps accomplish such tasks as payment processing, tracking technology, reporting solutions, and can serve as a repository of available affiliates.
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Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello (Perugia) on the 12th of March 1915. He obtained a degree in medicine in 1940. Because he was a medical officer he was taken prisoner by the Allies in Tunisia in 1943 and was sent to Hereford Camp, Texas. This is where he started painting. On his return to Italy in 1946 he settled in Rome and dedicated himself to painting. He held his first one-man show in 1947-1948 in Rome (Galleria La Margherita).
In 1951 he participated in the foundation of the "Origine" group with Ballocco, Capogrossi and Colla. The following year he exhibited 'Neri e Muffe' in the Galleria dell' Obelisco. In 1950 his sack works gained importance, eventually dominating the one-man shows which, after Rome were held in various American and European cities: Chicago, New York, Colorado Springs, Oakland, Seattle, São Paulo, Paris, Milan, Bologna, Turin, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, San Francisco.
At the start of the Sixties, Legni, Combustioni, and Ferri were subsequently exhibited (Venice, Rome, London, New York, Brussels, Krefeld, Vienna, Kassel). In the same period the first anthological collections were shown in Paris, Rome, L'Aquila, Livorno and also Houston, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Pasadena, which, with the new contribution of the Plastiche, will then become true historical retrospectives in Damstadt, Rotterdam, Turin and Paris (1967-1972).
The Seventies saw a progressive refinement in his technical methods, with his shift towards monumentality, from Cretti (soil and Vinavil glue) to Cellotex (compressed for industrial use) while in Assisi, Rome, Lisbon, Madrid, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Milwaukee, New York, Naples there was a succession of historical retrospectives. In more recent years Burri created complex cyclic organisms with a polyphonic structure. The first was "Il Viaggio" exhibited in Città di Castello in 1979 and in Munich the following year, then "Orti" in Florence 1980, "Sestanti" in Venice (1983) and "Annottarsi" (1985-86), which began the European presenta-tion in Rome.
Since 1981 there has been a permanent exhibition of selected works in the Palazzo Albizzini in Città di Castello, Burri's homage to his hometown. In 1984, a comprehensive exhibition on Burri was organized in Milan for the inauguration of the Brera contemporary art industry.
The painter's success with the critics was closely connected, on one hand with the contrasting reactions arising from the popularization of his work, engendered by the evolution of taste in the cultural landscape of Europe and the USA.
On the other hand it was connected with the critics' approximations and attempts to connect meaning and motive to the pseudo-categories popularized internationally: Art brut, Informel, Conceptual, etc. In this climate, newspapers and magazines, from the Fifties, began to register a changing taste in the public, from scandalized repulsion to curiosity and acceptance, from willful acceptance to undiscerning exaltation.
In 1973 Burri received The Premio Feltrinelli per la Grafica from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei with the following reasoning : «per la qualità e l'invenzione pur nell'apparente semplicità, di una grafica realizzata con mezzi modernissimi, che si integra perfettamente alla pittura dell'artista, di cui costituisce non già un aspetto collaterale, ma quasi una vivificazione che accoppia il rigore estremo ad una purezza espressiva incomparabile [for the quality and originality of the apparently simple images, achieved with modern methods which function perfectly for the artist's work, not as a collateral aspect but as an invigoration that unites extreme rigor with incomparable expressive purity]».
The prize was then devolved by the artist for the restoration of Luca Signorelli's cycle of frescos in the Oratorio di S. Crescentino a Morra (Città di Castello).
In 1989 the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini bought the Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco (Old Tobacco Warehouses), a complex of industrial sheds used until the end of the Sixties for the exsiccation of tobacco. These unique and unusually large buildings, completely painted black externally in accordance with Burri's wishes, were thus transformed into an enormous sculpture, the ideal location for the great pictorial cycles like Il Viaggio, Annottarsi, Rosso e Nero, Non Ama il Nero. These, and many other works, among which the three sculptures: Grande Ferro Sestante, Grande Ferro K, Ferro U, set at the en- trance of the Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco, were donated by the artist to Città di Castello to complete the first nucleus in Palazzo Albizzini.
In 1990 the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini published an exhaustive book with documentation on 2000 of the artist's works (Burri contributi al Catalogo Sistematico). Again in 1990, Burri exhibited in a private New York gallery (Salvatore Ala Gallery) the Palm Springs cycle, the 11 big cellotexes of 1982. Then followed the Perileio: Burri-Saffo exhibition at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Athens. That same year, the Sapone di Nizza gallery showed a series of Cellotex at the F.I.A.C. in Paris and the Grande Ferro R sculpture was installed at the Palazzo delle Arti e dello Sport "Mauro de Andrè" in Ravenna.
In 1991 an extensive retrospective organized by the Pincoteca Nazionale di Bologna was set up at Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande di Bologna, where very small works were exhibited for the first time. The exhibition moved on to Locarno, hosted by the Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca. In the same period the Castello di Rivoli presented 20 previously unseen Cellotex. Again in 1991 Burri exhibited at the Mixografia Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1992 Metamorfotex was presented to the public at the Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco in Città di Castello and The Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini presented the Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco catalogue on that occasion, with an updated bibliography. Again in the same year the Sapone Gallery of Nice showed works by Burri at the F.I.A.C. in Paris at the Grand Palais, this time works from 1949 to 1992 while Galleria delle Arti of Città di Castello housed a graphic exhibition.
Between 1992 and 1993 the Obalne Galerije Piran and the Moderna Galerija of Lubiana presented a retrospective of graphic works (from 1962 to 1981). At The Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco in 1993 a new cycle was opened to the public, Nero e Oro consisting of 10 Cellotex.
That same year an enormous ceramic work with the same title Nero e Oro was realized for Faenza, and placed in the International Museum of Ceramics, a gift from the artist to the city. Again in 1993 the Master's graphic works were shown in the Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo of Pescara. In 1994 Burri participated in The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York.
From the 11th of May to the 31st of June 1994 the Polittico di Atene, Architetture con Cactus cycle was on exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Athens subsequently shown at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Madrid (1995). On the 10th of December 1994 there was a celebration for Burri's donation to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which included a 1969 'Bianco e Nero' painting and three graphic series dating from 1993 to 1994. Alberto Burri died in Nice on the 13th of February 1995.
Nero Catrame , 1951	, tar, acrylic, enamel on canvas	, 61 x 87 cm
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social change | July 16, 2013
Anatomy Of A Dissenter: Eyal Press On Why People "Break Rank"
"Generally speaking with whistleblowers, they are not doing what comes naturally to them," Eyal Press tells Uprising Radio. "They are doing exactly what, in a sense, violates everything that they grew up believing or thinking." Press is the author of Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People. In the book, he chronicles the experiences of people who "broke rank;" they went against authority or convention in favor of standing up for what they deemed to be morally right. In this particular radio interview, they use the case of Edward Snowden as a jumping off point to discuss why people go against the grain. And, as Press says, how the people who do so are usually not the ones you would expect.
"When we think about these people we often think, in a sense, that they're rebellious types," he continues. Turns out, however, that the opposite is true. "People who go into these organizations with a cynical view are more likely to conform, oddly enough, because they don't expect much," Press argues. Most of the people he profiled in his book didn't get involved with the companies or organizations they worked for to stir up trouble. In fact, they often believe that the work they are doing is for the greater good. A soldier he profiled, for example, believed that the military tasks he was assigned to do were morally conscionable. But, when he found out that the fundamental ideals of his superiors were not in line with his own values, he was forced to object.
These people often take a moral stand even in the face of adversity or risk to their reputation or career. They believe so strongly in the "good" of the system that they react strongly to any fraud or wrongdoing. Using new research from both neuroscientists and moral psychologists, Press delves into the reasons some of us conform to authority—and some don't. Both his stage presentation and award-winning book explore the pervasiveness of the human condition. Press shows us how we respond to ethically taxing situations, and, what our response says about us as people.
health | July 15, 2013
The Rise & Fall of Mainstreamed Asperger's: John Elder Robison in Vulture
Stanford Psychologist Jamil Zaki Explores the Intersection of Empathy and Tech, on NPR
There are millions of people who want to interact with others in a more productive way online—but...


The North America traffic management market would witness a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.6% during the forecast period (2017-2023). The ever-increasing population has led to the need for effective traffic management systems, with dynamic traffic management as the most preferred choice, as the platform offers the opportunity to simulate variety of traffic data gathered by various sensors, cameras, and software. The growing need to deploy traffic management systems to control traffic has driven the need for DTMS platform. The DTMS platform assists the traffic operators in various ways and helps in controlling and managing traffic more dynamically. The system also eliminates potential security risks and logistical costs associated with traditional traffic management systems. The fast changing regional landscape has led to poorly planned road networks. Due to unplanned road networks, small critical areas become the hot-spots for congestion and ineffective and poor traffic management around these hotspots potentially results in extended traffic jams. Privatizations of highways and road pricing have been some initiatives proposed to reduce congestion. The traffic management market is segmented based on Solutions (software hardware and Services), Systems and Countries. Based on software, the market is segmented into smart signaling, route guidance, traffic analytics, and smart surveillance. Based on hardware, the market is segmented into display boards, sensors, surveillance cameras, and others (intelligent traffic controller, networking components, and linked traffic controller). Based on services, the market is segmented into consulting, deployment and integration, and support and maintenance. The traffic management software segment would be the most potential market, and would hold the largest market share. The rapid growth in the urban population has led to traffic congestions, demanding better traffic management systems. The traffic management software allows live streamlining of traffic information which can be later used for predictive analytics and define traffic management rules.
Based on the systems, the market is segmented into Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) system, Adaptive Traffic Control System (ATCS), Journey Time Measurement System (JTMS), Predictive Traffic Modeling System (PTMS), Incident Detection and Location System (IDLS), and Dynamic Traffic Management System (DTMS). Based on Country, Traffic Management market is segmented into US, Canada, Mexico and Rest of North America. US remained the dominant Country in the North America Traffic Management market in 2016. Canada would witness promising CAGR during the forecast period (2017-2023). The report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the Traffic Management market.


There are a lot of reasons why a disc would rapture and we're likely to see them below. The disc should enable the typical selection of movement of the spine. On account of the herniation, it will affect your neck muscles in addition to the nerves. Should you do, might you've got a herniated disc, also referred to as a slipped disc. A herniated disc in the neck is a frequent condition that's sometimes painful. A herniated disc in neck is mainly a bulging disc in neck that has weakened perceptibly and has now started to protrude from the rear of the spine. Generally speaking, a herniated disc in the neck will gradually heal.
The discs are produced with a soft jelly-like middle with a challenging outer shell. It may also bugle in relation to a back injury and sometimes in regards to what kind of a lifestyle is led by the patient. A herniated disc occurs every time a part of the vertebral disc ruptures. If you've got a herniated disc, or when you think that may have a herniated disc, whether you notice any pain or not, it shouldn't be ignored. The simplest approach to steer clear of a herniated disc is to exercise regularly, maintain excellent posture and keep up a healthful weight. If you're diagnosed with a cervical herniated disc and aren't better within that time you might need to consult a spinal surgeon to examine surgical treatments. If you've got a herniated disc in the lumbar spine, you might feel the exact same in the back, legs or buttocks typically, you'll discover your symptoms to be on only 1 side of your physique.
Essentially, there are lots of people who suffer from bulging or herniated discs but don't experience pain or any noticeable symptoms in any respect. Healthy discs are indispensable for all of us to move freely without pain. A bulging disc isn't a cause for panic as they're fairly typical in both younger and older people. In the majority of cases, a slipped disc does not need surgery. From time to time, a herniated disc in your neck will take place from reasons you cannot prevent. If you are going through a herniating disc in the neck, then there are specific facts to be conscious of.
My neck is basically collapsing on itself. Stiff neck causes discomfort because of the pain that accompanies it. An individual should notice that the neck is just one of the most sensitive areas of the body, and hence, one should be careful when performing activities which might result in an injury to the neck. On the flip side, bending down or craning the neck for a lengthier time may also lead to pain. It can however not be possible to have a whole neck collar at home but you could always improvise.
By age 60, the majority of people have some level of disc degeneration. The place of the neck for comfort is necessary for the relief of pain. The interior of the disc is composed of spongy material that's brought into compact by a jellylike material. In the event the back or neck pain doesn't go away within a couple of days or in case you are going through restricted movement because of the pain, then you should talk your doctor. At the correct time in recover, specific neck exercises can be help restore function and offer relief of pain, and help strengthen the region to stop more damage. Injuries in the spine are inclined to be from diversified arenas. Also, you'll be properly advised on how best to reduce disc injuries, how to recognise when a disc is beginning to bulge, and what things to do at the first symptom of a disc bulge.
The pain is a consequence of spinal nerve inflammation and swelling resulting from the pressure of the herniated disc. If you're suffering from neck pain owing to a herniated disc in neck, please consider treatment alternatives available through Spinous. Although causes of neck pain aren't well understood, outcome studies have demonstrated that it frequently isn't a self-limiting condition and can be an enduring issue. It occurs due to a variety of reasons. Another system to assist with pain and muscle spasm is the usage of a TENS Unit. Plus there's severe pain. Arm pain from a cervical herniated disc is among the more prevalent cervical spine conditions which occur in the usa.
If pain symptoms do not subside within a couple of days, patients should get in touch with a physician. Herniated disc symptoms might be particularly intense when somebody coughs, sneezes or moves the spine a particular way. Acute signs of a herniated disc needs to be reported to the physician in order to allow them to make an educated assessment of the spine condition. The indications of disc herniation and headaches are occasionally called hangover headaches because they can feel very much like the effects of a hangover minus the true alcohol consumption. The signs of cervical neck problems often need numerous kinds of treatment.