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Name. College. Year Of Study
Hitesh Mundhra; M. S. Ramaiah College Of Law : 2nd Year
I interned at Child Rights & You also known as CRY after giving final semester exam of my 2nd Semester.
Name Of The Organisation. City. Mentor. Office Address. How Big Was The Office:
CRY (Child Rights & You)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Michelle Baxter & Padma T.S. (Assistant Manager – Volunteer Action & Mentors)
No.11, 16th Avenue, Harrington Road, Chennai – 600 031
Tel: (044) 28365545/ 5547/ 5549
The office was located in an apartment and occupies the second floor.
The interns work in one spacious room and everyone have their own work station.
Kind Of Organisation
CRY is a non-profit organisation that is engaged in uplifting and improving the status of children and works to remove obstructions from the very root level.
Not only this CRY also funds and assists several other NGOs working for the similar cause.
Application Procedure. Internship Contact Details
I applied as an individual applicant filling the application form and sending it to cry's regional office. Moreover, you can also apply though your college placement cell.
Application Form
It consists of certain question to know your thoughts regarding child rights and how you can uproot the difficulties of child right.
Once your application is being selected than they will e-mail you with when they can conduct a small telephonic interview.
Telephonic Interview
It's to know your potentials & areas of interest.
Duration in Weeks. No. Of Days/ Week. Timings
I interned from 9th July – 5th August i.e. 3 Weeks & 6 Days
Seven Days a Week
Monday – Friday : 9:00 am – 1:00 pm; 2:00 am – 5:30 pm
Weekend (Optional): 2:00 am – 6:00 pm
Accommodation: how, where, how was it?
I stayed at my relatives' in east Anna Nagar, Chennai from where I commuted by share auto or bus every day.
But faced difficulty during transportation as:
1. Neither did I know about Chennai nor do I know Tamil.
2. Due to Metro construction several road ways were being blocked & buses on that route were cancelled.
Main Tasks:
The interns at CRY Chennai are in no way treated different from any other employee of cry.
We are given all kinds of tasks from designing, to planning and organising an event. Moreover, works are given by Ma'am to each intern knowing his/her potential and capability & to his/her interest.
Interns are always guided by their mentor/s.
Generally they are asked to work for a programme or press conference or to make a case-study about child rights issues and suggestions to improve them or might be given an awareness programme to work upon and several other research works.
Interns are supposed to maintain a record of what work was done during each day which is to be submitted to their mentor at the end of the day.
Work Environment, People
The work environment is energetic, positive and encouraging.
The entire staff at CRY Chennai is very helpful and warm.
The group of Raiyan Sir, Harry Sir & Dammodaran Sir is very encouraging , positive and wonderful to talk to and a joyful experience.
Moreover, during break sitting with this group will refresh you, they would discuss everything under the sun – college life, various spheres of improving child rights & even movies!
Even my co-interns were all very positive & warm people with whom I am going to be friends for a long time.
Best Thing
Firstly, getting an opportunity to work hand in hand with the best of their field.
Secondly, the community meeting at weekends at various downtrodden slums where they not only remove child labour, but also teach children and play with them which was a joyful experience.
Thirdly, the office environment which enlighten us & make interning with cry a joyful experience.
Things To Improve
Timing at CRY Chennai may be a problem for some.
Long distance journey could also be the problem for some.
So please specify it to your mentor they are co-operative and will help you always.
Stipend/ Month
Though there is no stipend given.
But your transportation cost in case of field work except your coming and going back from office will be refunded.
Biggest Lesson
This blog has been the hardest to write for me by far.
In part, the challenge stems from trying to sum up months worth of experiences is just a few paragraphs.
Even more challenging, this post marks the end of my internship here with Experience Inc.
What I've Learned
I'm not alone: Coming into this position, I felt that I had no idea where my career was going and I lacked confidence about what I could do and what I am really good at.
My internship at CRY Chennai has definitely given me a better understanding of my skill set and where my career may take me, but most importantly, I've come to learn that I am not alone.
This job has taught me that almost everybody is in the same position as I am.
Very few college students know what they want to do, and it is something that is simply not worth worrying about.
I know that if I continue to work hard things will fall into place.
To keep writing: This was huge for me. I have always enjoyed writing and always felt that I was pretty good at it.
Yet, what this position taught me is that I really didn't have the writing skills I thought I had.
Writing takes practice and I simply was not practicing enough.
Writing for the web and writing your average research paper could not be more different.
I had to learn to adapt a new tone with my writing, something that took a little getting used to.
This position kept me writing something new every day, and I can say that my writing has improved drastically.
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Oregon Ducks basketball: 5 things we've learned so far this season
After reaching the NCAA Final Four last season, the Oregon men's basketball team had a major overhaul of its roster, and not many knew what to expect this year.
Who would step up to fill big roles left behind by Dillon Brooks, Jordan Bell and Tyler Dorsey, and what would be the identity of this team?
Through the first seven weeks of the season, the Ducks are starting to show some signs of who they are.
Oregon is 10-3 as it heads into Friday's Pac-12 opener against Utah.Here is a look at what we've learned about them so far:
1. Payton Pritchard has become a scorer
Coming into the season, the Ducks lost their top five scorers from last season, so a big question was whether Pritchard would step up and score.
So far, the answer is yes.
Last season as a true freshman, Pritchard scored 7.4 points per game, which ranked sixth on the team. This season, he is scoring 16.3 points per game to lead Oregon.
Pritchard's increased scoring has not taken a toll on his ability to distribute the ball — he leads the team with 4.6 assists per game.
2. Kenny Wooten becoming a force
After losing both Bell and Chris Boucher, Oregon came into this season searching for a legitimate defensive presence.
Wooten has filled the role nicely so far for the Ducks.
The freshman 6-foot-9 forward has 41 blocks and nine steals in 13 games this season, to go along with 8.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.
3. Troy Brown and Elijah Brown making immediate impact
True freshman Troy Brown and senior transfer Elijah Brown are making their presence felt early.
With the roster overhaul in the offseason, the Ducks needed both players to step up right away, and they have.
Combined, they are averaging 25.1 points and 11.4 rebounds per game.
4. Starting lineup taking shape
Before the season, Oregon coach Dana Altman said he would be trying a variety of starting lineups and rotations until the new group developed an identity.
Through the first 13 games, the Ducks have started eight different players, but the starting five is starting to take shape.
Expect the starters to be guards Pritchard and Elijah Brown, and forwards Wooten, Troy Brown and Paul White.
5. Bouncing back from adversity
The Ducks had a rough stretch in late November and early December, where they lost to Connecticut and Oklahoma at the PK80 Invitational in Portland, and then lost to Boise State at home on a buzzer-beater.
Oregon lost three out of four games during that stretch.
Since then, Oregon has won five games in a row as it heads into the Pac-12 regular season.


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Tips On Creating an Effective Website
Online businesses are something that a ton of people are getting into. In this day and age where technology is rising and rising everyday, where it has become more evident than ever before, online businesses sure would be a hit. So if I were you, I'd start my very own online business now.
The first thing to do about that, is to set up your very own website. If you have enough knowledge and skill on creating your own business, then that's great, since you won't have to hire someone to do the job. But if you don't, then you should definitely consider hiring web design penang to do the job.
Hiring them will give you so many benefits. But, before we get into that, you might want to learn some tips you could use yourself to create an effective website.
- When making a website, one of the things that attracts potential customers the most, is the physical look of the website. And with that, we're talking about the colors, the font, the design, the vibes it gives, the theme, and everything the naked eyes could see. You need to make sure that the color combinations you choose gives an idea on what product or service you offer. You need to make sure that it somewhat symbolizes what your business is all about.
- Make sure you know how to catch attention. Good reads can help you in getting attention for your business. The way you spread the news can greatly affect how your customers would view your business. You need to make sure that you are someone they can trust, so consider making you words comforting. Consider choosing words that would feel assurance and security, and that you really do offer quality services or products they can truly count on.
- Try to add some graphics and designs in your website. Words and colors are not enough if you want to get the attention you need. You need to show your potential customers the products you offer. Make sure that the photos you used are well-lighted so that it can add beauty to your website. The better the pictures are, the easier it is to attract customers.
- Now, the physical look of your website can attract customers, but how your website functions can keep them interested. You need to make sure that your website is not just pretty for the eyes, but functional as well. You don't want your potential customers encounter crashing systems and having problems with your website every now and then. If that happens, guaranteed you will lose them.
So those are just some of the many tips you could use to get make yourself an effective website. If you don't know how to make one yourself, you can always talk to the web designer what kind of website you want, and how you would want it.
Guaranteed, you will not regret following these tips once you see the results. Try it out now before it is all too late.


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ChainLink's Mainnet Launch Is Set to Revolutionize Smart Contracts
On May 30, 2019, ChainLink, a decentralized oracle, announced that it would be launching its mainnet on Ethereum. The project has been touted as one of the most promising developments for adoption as it allows for verification of real-time information for use in smart contracts.
Launching the Oracle
ChainLink looks to connect smart contracts to all the external inputs and outputs that are required for functionality.
A problem most users have seen with smart contracts is their reliability in one area of use and the exact opposite in another. ChainLink helps to verify data and create a reliable smart contract ecosystem from all ends of the spectrum.
As ChainLink goes live on Ethereum, they will provide a decentralized oracle network run by multiple independent nodes along with an approach to decentralized computation that combines individual results into a single contract input.
ChainLink conduct three independent security audits to test the scalability of the platform. It's rise to the top of the chain is fueled by the demand for a reliable yet decentralized oracle for smart contract implementation.
The most reliable nodes will be the ones who have been subjected to a technical review by the ChainLink team or any other group that is considered competent to carry out such an investigation. As more transactions appear on the network, the organizations will implement more automated approaches to determine a node's reliability.
Contributing to Ethereum's DeFi Ecosystem
The decentralized finance offerings on Ethereum are currently more robust than any crypto finance ecosystem. As an incoming member, ChainLink gives Ethereum an extra edge in that context.
Reliable market prices for cryptocurrencies and the ability to source reliable data are a critical component to smart contracts for DeFi. Determining the value and outcome for billions or trillions of dollars worth of financial products requires concise, verifiable, and accurate data.
Many of the financial products in cryptocurrency focus on early adopters, but when mass usage of these platforms materializes, the decentralized finance world needs to be able to sit on a level peg with traditional finance.
Humans are irrational creatures who make decisions based on sentiment and efficiency. As has already been witnessed with the rise of surveillance capitalism, many would be willing to trade off privacy and security for efficiency.
With well-founded data backing smart contracts, ChainLink and decentralized oracle's hold the key to mainstream adoption of decentralized financial products.


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World's highest mountain is Everest which is 8848 meter high, it is in Nepal and a chunk this mountain lies in China. There are only 14 mountains in the world that are higher than 8,000 meters, and out of those 14 mountains, 5 are in Pakistan. These 5 mountains have given Pakistan an important edge in tourism and has made Pakistan a global destination for those who want to conquer their limits.
These 5 mountains are not just high but are dangerous as well. Many mountaineers who came on a mission to conquer these 5 mountains, lost their lives. Many came, tried, failed and went back with desires, and many successfully chased their dreams and reached the summits of these mountains. As much as these mountains are beautiful, that much for sure these are dangerous.


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Bal-Mukund teaches my kid our Hindu culture and rich tradition. It is also very structured and brings lot of discipline and value to my kid. One distinct feature about Bal-Mukund is introduction of pranayam and different breathing techniques to kids which helps kid build focus. I have been a strong advocate of Bal-Mukund to all my friends and I would continue to do so, that everybody could enjoy the benefits it has to offer.
- ~ Student: Peter Age: 8 yr
I like Bal-Mukund because it's interesting. Now that I have attended class for a few months and it has increased my knowledge about India. I would recommend to all my Indian friends because they would understand all the stories better. I really enjoyed doing craft, story time and watching a movie.
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I put Peter in Bal-Mukund because I was interested in yoga. I thought it would be nice for him to learn Yoga. Now I have learned that the class is much more than doing yoga. There's so much information especially for us. It has brought us closer as a family because we talk about it after the class and read books together. I enjoyed it very much.
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The main reason I put my son in Bal-Mukund is to learn more about our Hindu culture. The fact that there are language classes was an added bonus. The most I like about this class is that it not only teaches kids about spiritual concepts but also talks about more day to day concepts, for example, New Year resolutions and learning about Indian States. I would definitely recommend this to friends.
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I like Bal-Mukund because we do shlokas and yoga. Shlokas and yoga makes me happy. I also like the craft work. I like the teacher.
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President Trump has signed several highly controversial executive orders. Three involve foreign policy and national security: the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico; termination of U.S. involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP); and a temporary travel ban on foreigners and refugees from seven countries in the Middle East and Africa.
The administration is also considering a draft order that could lead to the deportation of undocumented immigrants who receive any form of federal assistance. Under the so-called public charge law, the government may expel immigrants who become financially dependent on U.S. taxpayers. If this new order goes into effect, Vineyard residents without proper immigration papers could well be targeted by the authorities.
Historically immigrants were eligible for some assistance. They have access to Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), housing benefits, and nutrition programs. And yet a section of the draft has unlimited language: It is the policy of the United States "to identify and remove, as expeditiously as possible, any alien who has become a public charge and is subject to removal."
The authority of the president
Presidents possess broad legal authority to decide who may come into the U.S., thanks to the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, passed during the Cold War and McCarthy red scare to bar Communist infiltrators. The act states that the president has the authority to "suspend the entry of all aliens" whenever he thinks they "would be detrimental to the interests of the United States."
Mr. Trump has cited this provision to argue that the current review of immigrants and refugees is ineffective. And yet, since 2001, the United States has developed the most rigorous refugee/immigrant review process in the world — it can take from 36 to 48 months for a person to complete.
The 1952 law, however, does not address whether the travel ban is constitutional.
The White House claims that the order is not "a Muslim" ban, something candidate Trump called for in December 2015. But it focuses only on Muslim-majority countries, and in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, President Trump said he would give priority to Syrian Christians. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 28, former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said that when the president "first announced … a Muslim ban," he asked Giuliani to put together a commission to "show me the right way to do it, legally."
After the president announced the travel ban, career officers in the State Department circulated a "dissent channel" memo, which they have been permitted to do since 1971 during the Vietnam War, decrying the policy of turning away thousands of refugees. They argued the ban would make Americans an even greater target for terrorists. Although the memo was signed by more than 1,000 diplomats, the Trump administration suggested they quit if they disagreed with the order.
Sixteen state attorneys general, including Massachusetts's Maura Healey, signed a statement claiming the ban was based on religious discrimination against Muslims. Ms. Healey also joined the American Civil Liberties Union in a suit against the president. She declared that "the executive order is harmful, discriminatory, and unconstitutional. It discriminates on the basis of religion and national origin, denies access to due process, violates immigration laws."
Gov. Charlie Baker supported Ms. Healey's actions. He maintained that the ban "will not improve our security, and the lack of guidance associated with such an abrupt and overwhelming decision is problematic for all involved." University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan noted that "we are deeply disheartened by [the president's] alarming action that has violated the rights of members of the UMass community and many others."
In fact, no person from any of the listed countries has participated in an act of terrorism in the U.S. since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
But is it constitutional?
The overall question is whether presidents, even if they have legal authority, also have constitutional authority to act alone to protect Americans. More specifically, has President Trump violated the First Amendment religion clauses, or the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment? Here, the past is useful, if not controlling.
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln, on his own, suspended habeas corpus in Baltimore, then all of Maryland, and ultimately all the way to New England, essentially setting up martial law in most of the Union states. He feared that Washington would be overrun when pro-Southern sympathizers began blowing up railroad tracks and bridges, preventing Northern militiamen from protecting the city.
The courts criticized his unconstitutional action because the suspension of habeas corpus appears in the Constitution's provision that pertains to Congress (Article I, Section 9), not the president (Article II). Lincoln's response was to ask, "Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself go to pieces lest that one be violated?" He figured he had to act when the country was literally falling apart in a bloody civil war.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the internment of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast, mainly in California. The order was clearly mixed with fear, which had no basis in reality, of Japanese espionage and sabotage, and led to the detention of some 110,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese immigrants for years. Although the United States was also at war with Germany and Italy, no German-Americans or Italian-Americans were interned.
During George W. Bush's administration, Vice President Dick Cheney advocated the theory of the unilateral executive, arguing that the president must act alone to keep the nation safe without congressional or judicial oversight. Examples: the administration's opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba; executive creation of military commissions; detention of suspected terrorists without the right to counsel, a trial, or even knowing why they were being held. When the Supreme Court called out the Bush administration for denying Guantanamo detainees these rights, the president reluctantly backed down.
President Obama criticized the Bush administration's unilateral actions, but undertook his own once elected. After he ordered, without congressional approval, American air cover to protect rebels fighting against Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi, congressional leaders of both parties claimed he ignored the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which requires the president to secure congressional approval to have troops in harm's way for more than 60 days.
But is Trump's action different?
In making a constitutional argument, the White House may claim a parallel with Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Bush. And yet the Trump travel ban is very different. Hastily crafted to instill fear in Americans that they are in grave danger, it was written at the end of the president's first week in office when no one there had firsthand knowledge of how rigorous the current system is. Nor did its writers gain input from terrorism specialists in the FBI, the CIA, Homeland Security, or the Defense or State departments.
In the meantime, federal district court Judge James L. Robart temporarily halted the ban after he agreed that Washington State had demonstrated that its universities and industries would be seriously harmed if travelers from the seven countries were prohibited from traveling to the U.S.
He also attempted to gauge whether the stated goal of the order (stopping terrorists from coming into the country) was rationally related to temporarily halting immigrants and refugees from the seven countries the president identified. In the law, this is known as the rational-basis test. Judge Robart found no such relationship, because no terrorist from those countries have engaged in attacks in the U.S.
The 16 attorneys general noted earlier, including Ms. Healey, joined Washington State's suit against the ban.
The United States' appeal of his decision to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took place on Tuesday evening, Feb. 7. The three-judge panel hearing it promised a ruling this week. The losing side could request that all the judges in the circuit rehear arguments, or it could appeal to the Supreme Court, which, if accepted, would hear it on an emergency basis.
Meantime, because Judge Robart's temporary restraining order only focused on procedural issues, he has continued to ask both sides for written briefs. He is obviously planning for the future when he will rule on the constitutional merits of the case.
The conclusion is clear: If the travel ban, or the draft order leading to deportation of undocumented immigrants violating the public charge law, is found to be unconstitutional, the American people must demand accountability, even from the president of the United States.
Jack Fruchtman, a seasonal Aquinnah resident, teaches constitutional law and politics at Maryland's Towson University. His most recent book, published last year, is "American Constitutional History: A Brief Introduction."


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The Festive Season is all about entertaining and delighting your guests. Whether you are hosting your guests at home or bringing gifts for your host, a charming gift is a must.
And we are pleased to share with you OLLELLA's holiday collection with you.
For those of you not familiar with OLLELLA, this French-inspired pastry store is opened by the sisters behind the popular 'The Bunny Collection' snow skin mooncake. Their usual selection of delicious creations includes their signature mini-choux, macarons, kueh lapis, and ice-cream choux.
For those of you who are already huge fans of OLLELLA, you will be happy to know that they have included a brand-new strawberry champagne flavoured mini-choux in their repertoire by popular vote on social media. It is even more convenient to get your hands on them now as they have opened a second store at Takashimaya Food Hall on B2. To commemorate this occasion, they added a new item, the chouquette, to their repertoire of sweets. The chouquette is available in original and salted caramel flavors.
OLLELLA Christmas Holiday Collection
For the holidays, the OLLELLA team has created delectable treats such as the Christmas Trio below, plus a range of holiday cookies for everyone in mind.
You will also love their limited edition chocolate-flavoured Gingerbread man Macaron Lolli, and the eagerly anticipated Christmas Advent Box with a special celebratory goodie for each of the 12 days of Christmas!
Instead of the regular log cake, why not try this unusually delicious Santa Belly Mousse Cake?
In the spirit of celebration, from now until 24 December, spend S$70 or more at the new Takashimaya store on B2 and get one large 200g cookie jar (worth S$22) as a gift from OLLELLA!


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Last year for our daughter's birthday party we created a Fairy party. It was so much fun watching our daughter and her friends, seeing their excitement and amazement. Our daughter still talks about the fairies, wondering where they came from, and whether we might see them one day. So this year, my (incredible!) Mom and I decided that we would like to work on another fun party idea … A Walk Down Main Street.
Using Canva, I created invitations for the girls. I know how much our daughter loves receiving a party invitation in the mail, so we sent them out the old fashioned way.
Then my Mom, Godmother & I worked on creating a make believe Main Street. We set everything up in my parents' front yard, and enlisted the help of our family and friends to work at the various "stores".
When the children first arrived, and everyone had settled in, we started! The girls began at "Home" where they used various stickers and embellishments to decorate their shopping bag. In their bag they found a $5 bill (pretend money!) and their ID (which I created with Canva to match the invitations). Once their bags were all decorated and looking gorgeous, the girls headed off to the first stop on their walk down Main Street …
The Fishing Pond
The girls used the $5 in their shopping bag to rent a fishing rod. They each took a turn fishing, and "caught" a little paper bag which my best friend's son hooked on their line. In each bag was an adorable little change purse. Our daughter helped prepare this station by painting the fish for the pond!
The Bank
The next stop was the bank. The girls showed their ID, and were given a set amount of cash by our banker (which they tucked away in their new change purse!).
The Jewelry Store
The girls popped next door to the jewelry store, where they spent $10 to make their own bracelet/necklace. The girls seemed to enjoy sitting at the picnic table, in the sunshine, working away on this craft!
Ice Cream Truck
It was a warm day, and we figured our little shoppers might be in need of a cool treat! The girls lined up to purchase an ice cream cone from my brother (who was even wearing a hat I made for him – which was a bit of a cross between an ice cream/soda shack hat and something that a pirate would wear!). As a side note, I was even able to find gluten-free ice cream cones from Thriftys – so wonderful!!
The Library
Next stop was the (outdoor) library, and in an unprecedented move, the children were allowed to eat their ice cream at the library! They attended a book reading by my best friend. We had set up a blanket on the grass, and hung a sweet gauzy net (from IKEA) from a tree above.
We have a very popular summer market here in town on Thursday nights. There are crafts for sale, food, live music … and often the silver man or bronze cowgirl. They come dressed up, painted head to toe, and they stand motionless on a block. Any time someone puts a coin in their basket/hat, they come to life! They do a few moves, and then turn back into a statue. We wanted to try something like this on Main Street, so we enlisted the help of my best friend's daughter, a beautiful ballerina. We had a small wooden stage, and each time one of the girls put a pretend toonie in the jar, she did a short little dance (on pointe!) and then froze again in a beautiful pose. It was a big hit with the girls!!
The Nail Salon
The girls headed over to the nail salon next, where they paid $20 (a steal!) for a manicure. While waiting, the girls also had the opportunity to get a beautiful temporary tattoo. I thought about adding a "Tattoo Parlour" to Main Street, but wasn't sure what the other Moms would think about their 5-year old visiting our tattoo parlour … :)
Main Street Cafe
The last stop on the adventure was the Main Street Cafe. I had once again used Canva to create a menu, which I passed out to the girls. The other servers and I took their orders (and money!) and brought their snack and drink out to them on the front deck.
I love crafts, and love to plan things and be creative. So I really enjoyed working on this party. I had a ton of help from my Mom and Godmother, and loved spending time with them to prepare everything. I am pretty sure that it was a hit with the girls – I know my daughter definitely loved it! Now to start planning something wonderful for next year … yikes!


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Tell me 3 characteristics that belong only to photography.
The spontaneity of photography – the possibility to obtain a complete work of art in a split second. It is due to this fact that photography has gained its place among the new artistic trends. Photography clearly has a documentary value which is far more superior to painting. Photography can render an image from reality and this can turn into evidence in a trial for instance, whereas the realism in painting cannot render it with such precision. Photography has become extremely accessible and easily obtained because of the development of the digital technology, but this also makes it more commonplace.
Black and white or colour?
I started with black and white but I have also worked in almost all my themes and projects in black and white and in colour (even if I didn't exhibit the black and white ones so often because of technical reasons; lately, all agencies, newspapers and magazines publish their photographies almost exclusively in colour).
I always take with me a digital camera and also a film, black and white one. I decide which to use depending on the circumstances, some things I observe can be shown better in black and white or have a special graphical aspect, better for the monochromatic approach. Also, the atmosphere of a certain place can sometimes be rendered better in black an white. I "see" some shots directly in black and white, I know for certain that it is the best choice. One can draw the attention on the subject or on some symbolic elements by eliminating a messy chromatic aspect in favour of valuable grayish shades.
However, other times you may come across a rich chromatic atmosphere, brought out by a very good light, which almost "forces" you to use colour. This may also save you when you don't have an obvious subject. One can appreciate a photography on a chromatic-base only.
You worked on numerous photo-reportages and projects, some of them about real circumstances (traditions such as the pig, the lamb, palinca, etc) cities, but others propose a distance from the real world (the dream, winter, window). Which is harder to render?
I have been working as a photo-reporter since 1997, so I have specialized in documentary photography and I have done many photo-reportages. I have learned that everyone has a story to tell. The challenge is to discover it, to know how to listen and how to render it. I initially do some documentation work on the theme in question and I try to make some contacts. When I get on the field, the first and most important thing is to mingle with the people there. The secret I guess is to behave naturally. It is of utmost importance to win the trust of the one you have to work with. It depends only on you whether the man will invite you inside his home or turn his back on you.
When it comes to personal projects I organize myself in such a way so that I have enough time. It is important not to hurry. As soon as the interlocutor has accepted you , you can work freely and the "subject" can go on with his activity naturally.
I prefer to remain as discreet as possible and I also include in this the cameras I use. It is more comfortable for me to use a small camera that doesn't arise curiosity. You shouldn't get in situations where the photographer is in the centre of the attention.
To digitally manipulate, retouch or not?
As I said, the photo reportage has a documentary characteristic, its job is to tell about what happened in that place. You shouldn't intervene and manipulate things. Anyway, in a subjective way your own perception also gets transmitted. This is a basic principle for me. This is why I don't retouch my photographies, I don't crop them, replace them, I don't change the light or the colours so that they should render as good as possible the atmosphere of the event.
When I work, I pay attention to the details, the composition, the chromatic aspect, the gestures of the characters. One is forced to pay attention to all these in a very short period of time, then you click, and that is it, anything else is painting. Of course, I also assume the inevitable mistakes.
You work covers many elements in the life of the village. What is it about these photo reportages that you find so appealing?
I prefer the social photo reportage, it is the one I feel most comfortable with. I have been working one project called "Traditions during Transition" since 2000. Practically, I took the task of documenting the everyday life in a secluded mountain village in Apuseni, on the verge of the Romanian integration in the UE. I made frequent trips to Rogojel , where I made several series of photo reportages about the work in the fields, the distillation of the palinca, the sacrifice of the Easter lamb or the Christmas pig.
I was interesting to see that in that village, that hadn't experienced collectivization, they managed to keep unaltered the rhythm of life. But what couldn't be changed by the war or by the communism is changing due to nowadays globalization. Since 2003 I have worked in team with 2 Frenchmen. Then, in 2007 we presented the exhibition "Le Mond selon Rogojel" at the Multimedia Festival of Est-Ouest, France. In March 2008 – the exhibition "Traditions during transition at Rogojel" at the Matei Corvin House, Cluj, and in may – November 2008 at the Museum of Compared Art of Sangeorz Bai, Bistrita Nasaud.
The theme about the Christmas pig later evolved in a new project, "Long Live the Pig", on which I worked together with the artists Maxim Dumitras and Cosmin Nasui. This project was exhibited in december 2008 at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest, and we were invited by ICR Venice to exhibit it during the Vencie Bienale, in nov. 2009.
After the first month of your project "12 o'clock", what did you feel when you saw all the photographies together, a small calendar of your own life?
I realized it was only the beginning… since I've decided to shoot one photo at the same time, daily, during a year. I think it is also an exercise of perseverance. It is right, I did have the real feeling of a personal calendar. I remembered many details, apart from that specific image of the day. It is interesting that I could be always in a different place, meeting different people.
Do you like other art forms besides photography? Digital art?
I am a conservative fellow. During 1994-1995 I worked as a ceramist painter at the Porcelain fabric of Sighisoara. During that time I also had a painting studio and I have always been attracted by drawing and painting. But once I started my studies at the University of Cluj-.Napoca, I started with photography. After more than 10 years I began to paint again. I find inspiration in Chinese Calligraphy and in Japanese painting. The simplicity and spontaneity of these techniques resemble photography and somehow, the circle is closed.
You haven't approach eroticism in your work. Do you think it is all said about it in photography?
Yes, you are right, I haven´t touched this theme. We all know eroticism catches the eye, draws attention, but there is also the risk that the viewer may admire exclusively the subject and completely forget about the photography and the photographer. I guess I am selfish about this, but that's what I think.
Lucian Muntean Website: http://www.lucianmuntean.ro/
Born on 1974, in Sighisoara, Romania, Lucian Muntean graduated the Faculty of Geology in 2001. Starting with 1997, he worked for local and national newspapers like Ziua, Ziarul de Cluj, Dilema Veche, Pro Sport, Gazeta Sporturilor and with press agencies Rompres, Mediafax, Hepta from Bucharest.
Since 2006, he has been working for ADEVARUL national newspaper from Bucharest.
His passion for photography expressed itself in many personal exhibitions, showing images from Romania and countries such as France, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Greece, Tunisia and Zambia.


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ABŪ ZAYD AḤMAD B. SAHL BALḴĪ, in his day a noted scholar in both Islamic and philosophical disciplines, but now known chiefly as a geographer. He was born in the village of Šāmestīān, near Balḵ in Khorasan, ca. 235/849 and died there in Ḏu'l-qaʿda, 322/October, 934. His father was a schoolmaster from Seǰestān. As a young man he left home and traveled on foot as far as Iraq with a company of pilgrims bound for Mecca. He spent eight years in Iraq, assiduously studying many different subjects. Of his teachers the only one mentioned is the well-known philosopher Abū Yūsof al-Kendī (d. 255/868-69 or a year or two later). Along with philosophy Abū Zayd studied other Greek sciences such as medicine and physics; he is said to have been especially interested in astronomy/astrology. At this period, it was unusual for students of the philosophical or "foreign" disciplines to pay any attention to the Islamic disciplines, but Abū Zayd combined the two sets of studies and gained a high degree of mastery in both. Of the Islamic disciplines he seems to have been most interested in Koranic studies and kalām. It is possible that after his eight years of study in Iraq, he traveled in other neighboring lands. He eventually returned to Balḵ by way of Herat and became a teacher of the subjects he had mastered. Nothing is recorded of his life in Balḵ, however, until after the accession of Naṣr b. Aḥmad Sāmānī in 301/914, when first the general Ḥosayn b. ʿAlī Marvarrūḏī and then the vizier Jayhānī broke oft friendly relations with him because of some of his books. The first was a Qarmaṭī and the second a dualist. The books in question were written from a Sunnite point of view, although Abū Zayd had originally been an Imamite. When the amir Aḥmad b. Sahl b. Hāšem arrived in Balḵ in 306/918, Abū Zayd was offered the post of vizier, but he declined this and instead became a secretary for about a year. There is a story of how the man who became vizier, Abu'l-Qāsem Kaʿbī, voluntarily gave up 100 dirhams of his monthly salary of 1,000, so that Abū Zayd might have 600 instead of 500. Through the generosity of the amir and his vizier, Abū Zayd was able to buy a small estate in his native Šāmestīān; and this estate passed to his descendants. He refused an invitation from the Samanid amir to go to Bokhara and seems to have spent the last part of his life on his estate.
Ebn al-Nadīm (Fehrest, p. 138) lists forty-three of his books, and Yāqūt (Odabāʾ I, pp. 125, 142-52) fifty-six; but of these only one relatively unimportant work still exists as such. The titles of the books cover most of the fields he had studied. The books on religious subjects were much appreciated, especially one called Naẓm al-Qorʾān, which is often cited. Strangely enough, the book which eventually became the most influential of all is not clearly mentioned in either list. This was apparently called Ṣowar al-aqālīm or Taqwīm al-boldān; although it is not extant as a separate book, it is in a sense contained in the geographical works of Eṣṭaḵrī and Ebn Ḥawqal. Indeed Eṣṭaḵrī's book was described by M. J. De Goeje (see bibliog.), who studied the matter in detail, as a second, greatly enlarged edition of Balḵī's work. It has been suggested, since the title Tafsīr ṣowar occurs in the lists of books, that the geographical work was essentially a commentary on maps of the various "climes" (probably in Eṣṭaḵrī's sense of "provinces"). Even if this is the case, however, it would seem that Balḵī went far beyond previous writings on geography, which did little more than supply information about the post-routes of the empire. Geography was now conceived as including descriptions, not merely of the physical features of countries, but also of their climate and natural products and the influence of these on the structure and activities of the population. On such grounds Balḵī has been hailed as the founder of the classical school of Arabic geography.
A biography of Balḵī was composed by one of his pupils Abū Moḥammad Ḥasan b. Moḥammad Wazīrī, and this was utilized in a later book about him by Abū Sahl Aḥmad b. ʿObaydallāh b. Aḥmad. From this, information passed to biographical dictionaries, such as that of Yāqūt.
Bayhaqī, Tatemma ṣewān al-ḥekma, ed. M. Šafīʿ, Lahore, 1350/1931-32, pp. 26f.
M. J. De Goeje, "Die Istaḫrī-Baḷḫī Frage," ZDMG 25, 1871, pp. 42-58.
J. H. Kramers, "La question Baḷḫī-Iṣṭaḫrī—Ibn Ḥawkal et l'atlas de l'Islam," Acta Orientalia 10, 1932, pp. 9-30.
V. V. Barthold, preface to Ḥodūd al-ʿālam, tr. Minorsky, pp. 15-23.
Brockelmann, GAL I, p. 408. EI2 I, p. 1003.
(W. M. Watt)
Originally Published: December 15, 1983
Last Updated: July 21, 2011
This article is available in print.
Vol. I, Fasc. 4, pp. 399-400
W. M. Watt, "ABŪ ZAYD BALḴĪ," Encyclopædia Iranica, I/4, pp. 399-400; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abu-zayd-balki (accessed on 31 January 2014).


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Phoenix, Arizona is one of the most popular retirement destinations in the U.S. and has a long list of active adult communities in the area. The area is also home to the first-ever 55+ community: Sun City Arizona. With so many retirees living in these age-restricted developments, it's easy to see why the area is booming with so many great things to do in the vicinity.
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Factors Affecting The Size of Current Flowing Around a Circuit
To investigate this we first setup an experiment, a circuit diagram of this experiment is below.
For this experiment I predict that the current size will decrease as resistance increases, when voltage stays the same value. Also, as voltage increases, so will the current.
I predict this due to knowledge that the battery voltage provides energy to move around a circuit, therefore if the voltage is doubled, then the current will be doubled. Also, I know that the current value depends on the value of the resistor as the resistor offers resistance or opposition to moving current. Therefore if resistance is doubled, the current should halve.
To test this prediction we did an experiment to see how current changed as resistance increased.
To help to see these results more clearly I have made the graph overleaf with lines of best fit to show the results.
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The gradients of the lines on the graph show a relation between the different values of resistors. This is that the steeper the gradient the lower the resistance of the component.
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Biogenerics LTD (BIGN) Announces Commencement of Dri||ing 0perations in Gas-Rich Formation. The company's recent |ucrative acquisition of Tyche Energy ,coup|ed with a joint venture with Hydro S|otter Corp (a techno|ogy-driven company) has increased we|| production by up to 600%.
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Share Volume: 211,144
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- 0il prices are approaching $50 a barre|
Brian Kelley, CE0 of Biogenerics,says:
"Drilling in such a rich area of gas reserves represents another mi|estone for Biogenerics. The Company's new affiliation with Tyche Energy could garner significant short and long-term va|ue"
PRESS RELEASE--TORONT0--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 20O5 Biogenerics Inc. today announced that Tyche Energy Inc., the Company's joint venture partner,advised that dri||ing operations at the Mosa 6-13-III we|| have commenced. The Mosa 6-13-III we|l is the first of an initial two (2) wel| exploration drilling programs targeting the Gas prone Silurian Grimsby formation encountered at a depth of approximate|y 2,1OO feet. Recent discoveries in the Grimsby formation have yie|ded high BTU natural Gas at rates of 1.2 to 4.2 mi||ion cubic feet (MMCFD) per day.Individual pool reserves may be up to 10 billion cubic feet (1O BCF). Tyche Inc. current|y ho|ds over 4,OO0 acres of petroleum and natura| gas leases within the fairway of this expanding natura| Gas p|ay. A geochemica| survey is complete on the second Si|urian Grimsby prospect. Analysis of this data wi|l assist the company in identifying prospective dril|ing targets on these |ands.
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Newt Ferris, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
What does SDOP mean to you?
I've been involved with SDOP for 10 years through the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, and I have never run into a charitable organization that works the way SDOP does. Everything starts with the organizers talking to our church leaders and lay leaders to see what we want for our community.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
Years ago, nobody was paying attention to the county budget. But SDOP brought 300 people for an evening meeting. This was the first time the county had an evening meeting – and people were overflowing through the halls.
Last year, SDOP and other organizations involved in the Invest in San Diego Families coalition advocated to receive $60 million from the County to work on community issues. That's huge.
Also, when Prop 47 was on the ballot, we got more than seven thousand infrequent voters to vote. We were able to say we can bring several thousand people to either support you or not depending on what you do.
How has SDOP changed you?
SDOP is people coming from different faiths who all want to make their community better.
Before SDOP, I didn't know what other faith groups were doing. I thought our church was the only one doing active protests, active actions to change the community. There's more power in a coalition that wants to make things different.
Tom Cartwright, City of Hope International Church
What does SDOP mean to you?
Through City of Hope International Church, I have been involved with SDOP for more than 20 years. SDOP is a community committed to helping people, fighting for social justice and human rights, preserving human dignity, and doing this for the good of our community and beyond our community.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
My proudest moment with SDOP was when Prop 47 passed. I was at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church when I heard the news. It was awesome celebrating it with the group of people who worked together. We did it.
Wendy Baez, St. Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church
What does SDOP mean to you?
We have seen the difference SDOP makes to help our community.
We work with immigration issues, and for some families that have been detained, I see how SDOP helps families to not feel alone. They find legal support for people detained, and they help provide for the families that stay behind.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
A couple of years ago, a local school district wanted shut down Jefferson Elementary School with the purpose of opening a charter school. For many parents, this meant their children would need to transfer to another school because they couldn't afford the new charter school.
SDOP gave parents hope. They got organized and protested to make their voices heard. They told the district they didn't want the school to close; they wanted the one they already had. Now, that school is still open today. When we get more people involved, we can actually make a difference.
How has SDOP changed you?
I'm more knowledgeable now. I'm now able to find resources for people who ask for my help. Even when I don't know, I ask SDOP to see what resources we have.
Father Edmundo Zarate, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
What does SDOP mean to you?
SDOP is like a lighting rod. It's a way to reach out to people of other faiths or no faith that believe in the same values.
SDOP unites people despite their differences. Social justice is an area in which many religions or people of faith agree on the dignity of the human person.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
In one of the parishes where I served, we had a large problem with the industry in our area; they polluted a lot. We got them to move away from the practices that polluted the area because we had the worst quality of breathable air in San Diego – my asthma was triggered because of the quality of the air. Through the organizing of SDOP, we were able to work with the City to change that.
How has SDOP broadened your perspective?
Once people are awakened, they see their voice is important. You see people come alive and be involved, and that's a great thing. It begins as trying to make change in the community and as result, it can be powerful in the broader community. The positive involvement changes people's perspectives, bringing about new relationships with people who think differently.
Father Neal "Pepe" Wilkinson, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
What does SDOP mean to you?
SDOP is a group of people dedicated to causes of social justice. It's people who share the faith with me. We give a platform where they can speak up.
We don't speak for them but do everything we can to help them to speak for themselves.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
The President came down to San Diego to see the border wall prototypes, and SDOP gathered a group of faith leaders concerned about the way things are happening.
At the demonstration, I said something spontaneous about why our savior died for speaking up for undocumented people. I was quoted in the New York Times.
How has SDOP changed you?
I think the biggest thing is that SDOP helped me understand that it's our responsibility to listen to people. The emphasis is on helping people to speak for themselves.
It's important for me to respect an individual's journey, even if it's different from mine. When we pull together, we work together to accomplish much more than we could as individuals.
Martha Roman, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
What does SDOP mean to you?
SDOP means to me a path between all the communities that don't know their rights. This is the connection for any kind of solution.
We don't speak for them but do everything we can to help them to speak for themselves.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
We showed up for the migrants coming in at the border, for the children facing separation. We fought very hard to get the children returned to their parents, to not live in prisons like animals.
It touched my heart, showing me how the community gives out a hand in unison.
What first got you involved?
It was personal. I was ready to apply for my citizenship and looking for help. I met organizations that wanted to profit from my situation.
SDOP arrived to my community church, and I knew they were the right ones. I started getting closer to the SDOP volunteers through the citizenship process. I saw that they really fought for the community regardless of where they come from, for the needs of the person.
Sister Zita Toto, St. James – St. Leo Catholic Community
What does SDOP mean to you?
For me, SDOP is a very well organized group that helps the needs of our parishes. I used to feel very frustrated when I didn't know how to help people with their immigration status. SDOP has changed that for me.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
I spoke at a recent District 49 candidate forum, sharing my personal story with the people who attended. I was very nervous; my English isn't perfect, but I knew sharing my experience would be important to share.
How has SDOP changed you?
SDOP has helped me help others. I can see how important path-to-citizenship education is, helping people with their immigration status and fighting for affordable housing. I like to take action, and SDOP helps make things happen.
Father Tommie Jennings, Christ the King Catholic Church
What does SDOP mean to you?
For me, I see it like putting feet into the gospel. SDOP is really involved in doing things within the community – not just talking about it.
What are your favorite SDOP memories or fights?
A great memory was when we started thinking about how we were going to be welcoming to immigrants, and we met with DACA students. It was very powerful. It was a big turning point, and we started going to marches together.
How has SDOP broadened your perspective?
I get a lot of ideas through my learnings with SDOP and PICO California that I share with my community. I share about voting engagement, immigration and what it means to be welcoming. Material we get from SDOP helps me articulate what we're supposed to be about as Christian people.


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A wife who filed a false police report claiming her husband "choked her and hit her until she feared for her life" was caught on surveillance cameras punching herself in the face just before she made her complaint.
From 9 News, "'Deport my wife': Woman hits herself to 'frame husband for domestic violence'":
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A man has called on the federal government to deport his estranged wife after he claims she attempted to frame him for domestic violence.
Sydney man Faisal met Asmae through the Muslim dating website, Muslima.com.
He was smitten with her, and proposed soon after leaving western Sydney to meet Asmae at her parents' home in Morocco.
[…]CCTV vision shows Asmae leaving the apartment and entering the lift.
Inside the lift, she gave herself two uppercuts to her face.
She then went to the police and claimed Faisal had assaulted her.
Faisal, concerned for Asmae's safety, also went to the police, where he was arrested and charged.
He was held overnight while officers accompanied Asmae back to the unit to collect her things.
Faisal claimed the police unwittingly helped Asmae steal his belongings, including designer sunglasses, expensive watches and a laptop.
Of greater concern, however, were the four assault charges Faisal faced, which could have seen him jailed for up to seven years.
During the next two months, he desperately sought to prove his innocence.
He spent $20,000 on a lawyer and trolled through hours of apartment CCTV vision until he finally found the footage that proved his innocence.
NSW Police immediately dropped the charges against Faisal, but never moved to charge Asmae with making a false accusation.
Of course they didn't.
According to The Daily Mail, the couple "had been married for eight months when trouble began brewing in April," which seems to suggest she was only in Australia for around a year.
That was more than enough time for her to learn "the tricks of the trade."
Unfortunately for her there was a surveillance camera in the elevator, otherwise she no doubt would have got away with it and Mr. Faisal would be rotting in prison.
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Cinephilia: Movie Mania at Hollywood and Divine
During the 1970s I attended Hunter College's film school in Manhattan with movie critic, historian, author and CUNY-TV programmer Brian Camp, who has the most cinematic encyclopedic mind of anyone I've ever known. Luis Reyes has actually co-written an encyclopedia about film, Hispanics In Hollywood , as well as two movie history books with me, including Pearl Harbor in the Movies. Both Brian and Luis are motion picture purists, who often grouse that today's audiences, especially the younger generation raised on a steady diet of TV, videos, DVDs, Blu-ray, videogames, the Internet, etc., have little or no interest in watching vintage films on the big screen in their original formats -- especially those that are silent and/or black and white. I confess to holding similar filmic fears. To paraphrase that old counterculture expression: Don't trust any viewer under 30.
But ye of little film faith! The April 22-25 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival at historic venues along (appropriately!) Hollywood Boulevard's celebrated Walk of Fame gives reason to hope that my fellow cineastes have little to worry about. Judging by the festival's huge turnout, cinephilia is alive and well. Audiences came from far and wide to be regaled by star-studded panels and Q&As with notables (often conducted by TCM hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz) before and after screenings, and, above all else, to watch features, shorts, cartoons and documentaries (yes, on a motion picture screen in the formats they were originally projected in), stretching from the silent era all the way to the first in a series on film history that TCM won't air until next November. Auds viewed oldies but goodies as avidly as SEC regulators gawked at porn.
Audience turnout was a filmfest organizer's dream come true, and there was a great camaraderie among the countless devotees united by movie madness. Indeed, despite the fact that your humble scribe was credentialed to cover the TCM Film Festival, due to the overflowing crowds he was unable to get a place on the red carpet for the screening of 1954's A Star Is Born or even a ticket to watch the Judy Garland/James Mason classic inside of a mobbed Grauman's Chinese Theater, the 1927 movie palace which reportedly seats 1400-plus ticket buyers. And while many of the moviegoers were indeed senior cinema citizens and middle-aged movie addicts enjoying once again the films of their youth, a surprisingly substantial percentage of the fans consisted of under-thirty cinephiles likewise reveling in reels of undiluted, unspooled silver screen Nirvana.
There used to be a comic strip in the Village Voice that guaranteed all of its dialogue was overheard on New York's streets, mass transit, etc. So in that same surreptitious spirit and at the risk of seeming to surveill my fellow film fans, allow me to report on some of the conversations I eavesdropped on – uh, accidentally/ on purpose overheard – while sitting in theater seats waiting for the curtain to rise, made by some wistful whippersnappers besotted by movie magic. Before Mel Brooks was interviewed at a showing of 1968's The Producers in Grauman's, two young men in their late teens or early twenties who seemed to be film students intently discussed with great relish the various films they were catching at the festival. The conversation turned to Alfred Hitchcock, and they told stories about the Master of Suspense and his work as if they personally knew Hitch, who was long dead well before they were born. Among the things they said was that there are no pictures of Hitchcock laughing, but these budding cinephiles should check out the photo of Sir Alfred at Hitch's Wikipedia entry. In any case, while they spoke, in the cinema of my psyche I flashbacked to Brian and I, and our fellow film school acolytes, Kenny, Mario, Lenora, etc., animatedly discussing, debating, Howard Hawks, Bernardo Bertolucci or whatever auteur du jour.
Upstairs, at a Mann's Chinese screening of The Proposition attended by Anjelica and Danny Huston, before Mankiewicz interviewed the latter who starred in the 2005 Aussie Western, I overheard a pretty 20-ish female gushing over the white haired Robert Osborne. "I'd love to marry him and discuss movies all day!" Here's some of my personal highlights of the TCM Film Festival:
To tell you the truth, on the opening night instead of inside at Grauman's for A Star Is Born I preferred to be poolside at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (where the first Oscar ceremony took place in 1929 and I was filmed for the 2005 Australian documentary Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise) for Neptune's Daughter, the 1949 crowd pleaser featuring Esther Williams, Betty Garrett, Ricardo Montalban, Red Skelton and Xavier Cugat. The screening was preceded by the Aqualilies' synchronized swimming to disco versions of songs immortalized by Marilyn Monroe and Edie Adams in honor of swimmer/actress Williams. In a poolside interview with Mankiewicz the 89-year-old wheelchair-bound "aquamusical" star seemed to be quite a diva. In any case, while Neptune's Daughter appears on the surface to be innocuous mindless entertainment (and it is indeed good fun with lots of slapstick, mistaken identity, nautical dance numbers, etc.) the film actually reveals much about the era's racial attitudes, from the interracial romance between Williams and Montalban to an extremely "exotic" work performed by Cugie's orchestra and dancers from south of the border. Mel Blanc, best known as the voice of Warner Bros. cartoon characters, plays a stereotypical Hispanic, and the country one Latino is identified as coming from is called "South America." Aye Chihuahua!
And speaking of RED Skelton, lest we forget, Larry Parks, the late husband of Williams' co-star, Garrett, gave the most heart-wrenching testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee on March 21, 1951, not long after he starred in two Al Jolson biopics. When HUAC asked Parks: "Are you now or have you ever been?" and to inform on other La-La-Land leftists, he told the congressional Committee: "Being a member of the Communist Party fulfilled certain needs of a young man who was… idealistic… for the underprivileged, the underdog… I don't think this is American justice to make me… crawl through the mud… This is what I beg you not to do…I am no longer fighting for myself, because I tell you frankly that I am probably the most completely ruined man that you have ever seen. I am fighting for a principle, I think, if Americanism is involved in this particular case… I do not believe it befits this Committee or its purposes to force me to do this… I don't think that this is fair play. I don't think that it is in the spirit of real Americanism. These are not people that are a danger to this country, gentlemen, the people that I knew. These are people like myself."
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TCM is doing its bit to make sure that auds today don't forget the despicable mud crawling and throwing of the Hollywood Blacklist. According to a trailer with the Hollywood Ten's Dalton Trumbo and his son Chris, part of TCM's upcoming seven-part series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood deals with movie McCarthyism in the portion on 1950s films. The coming attraction was shown at the Egyptian Theater after the screening of the series' first installment to air in November 2010, Peepshow Pioneers, a superb re-telling of the creation of moving pictures, the sagas of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, inventor Thomas Edison and those mostly immigrant early moguls such as the Brothers Warner, plus the talents who wrought the art and craft of cinema, including Edwin S. Porter and D.W. Griffith. While this is familiar territory for those in the know about movie history, Peepshow Pioneers is told in a highly entertaining, engrossing way, with great clips from Georges Melies, Lumiere Brothers, Griffith, etc., films. Although I'm a film historian, I too learned much, including the staggering assertion that Magic Lantern shows began in France around the time of the French Revolution (who knew? Was there a Magic Lantern equivalent of Sergei Eisenstein?), and by the time of the nickelodeon and movies being projected on screens in the 1890s, audiences had already been watching moving images onscreen for more than a century. And did you know that at the turn of the last century Fort Lee, New Jersey was the Tinseltown of its day? Holy Kinetoscope, Batman! I can't wait for the entire Moguls & Movie Stars series to play on TCM, and its 1950s chapter will premiere shortly before 2011, the 60th anniversary of the second wave of HUAC hearings aimed at Tinseltown's reds under the beds.
One of the worst informers of the Blacklist era was Elia Kazan; nevertheless, I went to see a restored version of Kazan's 1960 New Deal drama Wild River, co-starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet as a stubborn old lady who refuses to vacate her home as the Tennessee Valley Authority prepares to flood the area. Convincingly playing a character 30 years older than her, Van Fleet's Big Government hating Ella Garth seems like the grandmother of today's Tea Party activists. TCM is big on film preservation and it aired a short featuring Martin Scorsese, Anthology Film Archives' Jonas Mekas, etc., on this subject prior to Wild River.
According to TCM's Festival Programming Guide 1946's Leave Her to Heaven was not only "The top-grossing 20th Century-Fox film of the 1940s" but "One of the most subversive of all Hollywood films." In this bone chilling film noir-ish tale Gene Tierney plays a terrifyingly psychopathic femme fatale, who stops at nothing in her monomania for Cornel Wilde, destroying everybody who stands in her way – including her overzealous self – all in glorious Technicolor. Leon Shamroy's cinematography won him an Academy Award, while Tierney's tyrannical depiction scored her an Oscar nomination.
A sold out Grauman's screening of Hitchcock's masterful 1959 North By Northwest was preceded by Osborne interviewing co-stars Eva Marie Saint and Martin Landau. Marie Saint revealed she was half-Quaker and gave a shout out to her fellow Friends in the audience. Landau revealed that, with Hitch's blessing (and this is a story those two young film students would relish), he played his killer as a homosexual who wanted to have Marie Saint liquidated because he was jealous of her relationship to Cary Grant's character. Landau disclosed that screenwriter Ernest Lehman added a line of dialogue, wherein Landau's gay character refers to his "woman's intuition, if you will." Indeed, if you must.
During the festival Club TCM was established adjacent to the Roosevelt's lobby. Complimentary food was sometimes dished up there, as were panel discussions and interviews, such as the one I attended featuring 96 year old Norman Lloyd, with great stories about old timers such as Charlie Chaplin and Nigel Bruce (best known for playing Dr. Watson in the 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies), and clips from Lloyd's TV shows and films, from Alfred Hitchcock Presents (more Hitch trivia!) to St. Elsewhere to The Dead Poets Society.
While seeing Mel Brooks live was a dream come true, my personal favorite of the filmfest was the presentation of "Out of Circulation Cartoons" from 1931 to 1944 by Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, etc., presented by Donal Bogle, the preeminent film historian of the celluloid stereotypes of Blacks. Bogle put into context the racial, sexual, religious, musical, etc., caricatures and tropes of Blacks in 'toons such as Uncle Tom's Bungalow, Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land, Isle of Pingo Pongo. Needless to say, all of these animated shorts were created by the dominant majority culture, not by African Americans, and are so culturally dubious that they have been censored since 1968. Amidst their racial archetypes, as well as what Bogle readily admits is the 'toons' indisputable wit and talent, are other telltale signs of their times. Napping bloodhounds in Uncle Tom's Bungalow are drolly referred to as "sit-down strikers," while anti-fascist agitprop is inserted in a wartime 'toon, as a creature clearly resembling Soviet leader and U.S. Ally Joseph Stalin kicks the derriere of another character who looks like Hitler.
Other flicks presented at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival included 1923's Safety Last, 1933's King Kong, 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1967's The Graduate, etc. (Go here for full festival info.) The most common "complaint" overheard at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival was too many movies, too little time to see them all, often at competing screenings. I for one lamented missing seeing Jean-Paul Belmondo in person at a screening of Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 Breathless. Alas! A cinephile's motion picture cup runneth over! As movie mania descended upon Hollywood and divine, I imagine that my cineaste brothers Brian and Luis would have enjoyed the films, panels and bonhomie of fellow buffs. With this filmfest TCM is not only my favorite TV channel, but now one of my favorite festivals. Hooray for Hollywood – and TCM!!!