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The Brattleboro Reformer, September 14, 2016
BRATTLEBORO - Vermont Performance Lab presents the innovative percussion quartet Sō Percussion this September with choreographer Emily Johnson and Director Ain Gordon to embark on the last phase of their multi-part residency to support the development and presentation of A Gun Show.
A Gun Show is a multidimensional meditation on guns in America. "We originally set to work on it as a way to process our emotions after the unfathomable school shootings in Newtown, Conn." writes Sō Percussion. Known for redefining the scope of the modern percussion ensemble, Sō Percussion's research process for A Gun Show was unique and included a series of VPL residencies starting in the Fall of 2015 dedicated to hunting and interviews with local hunters, sportsmen, and law enforcement officers. VPL is hosting two preview performances at the New England Youth Theater on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24 at 7 p.m. before the New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and a tour through New England.
"This timely and powerful work will take audiences on a journey into the ways in which Americans perceive guns and have important conversations in our own community." said VPL Director Sara Coffey.
To help foster such civic dialogue VPL has teamed up with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) to host a panel discussion, Artists Taking Stock of Guns, on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. with Sō Percussion and artists Linda Bond and Susan Graham, whose work is featured in the BMAC exhibit Up in Arms: Taking Stock of Guns. Admission is $5 for adults and is free for BMAC members, students, and youth 18 and under. For more information, visit: brattleboromuseum.org. The exhibit is on view through Oct. 23 and will continue to explore issues surrounding guns with a second panel "Guns in Our Community" on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7 p,m which will bring together a gun control advocate, a survivor of gun violence, a hunter safety expert, and a law enforcement officer to discuss the state of gun ownership and use in the greater Brattleboro area.
"We hope these presentations will broaden our community's understanding of this challenging social issue and encourage constructive dialogue among those with divergent viewpoints," says BMAC Director Danny Lichtenfeld.
Dedicated to the limitless possibilities of creative music-making, Sō Percussion formed at the Yale School of Music in 1999, and since then has cultivated a unique repertoire that focuses on contemporary American music – beginning with John Cage and exploring the rich diversity of today's musical culture. They have collaborated closely with many composers including Steve Reich, David Lang, Paul Lansky, Steve Mackey, Fred Frith, Dan Trueman, and Martin Bresnick.
Since 2008, VPL has been forging a symbiotic relationship with Sō Percussion: the ensemble's inaugural residency with VPL culminated in Music for Trains, an on-the-track performance at and between the train depots of Brattleboro and Bellows Falls. In 2012, the quartet returned to VPL with guitarist Grey McMurray and director Ain Gordon where they involved three local master artists in the research, development and recording of where (we) live.
For 10 years, VPL has supported a diverse range of over 400 artists working in dance, theater, and music. Through research, development and production residencies at VPL, artists create performance work that tours nationally and internationally. The A Gun Show artists Sō Percussion, Ain Gordon, and Emily Johnson have all worked in VPL's Lab, and received multi-year commitments and support from VPL for several award-winning performance projects.
On Friday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. and on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m., VPL will present two preview performances of A Gun Show at the New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat St., Brattleboro. Tickets are $10 to $15 and reserving tickets in advance is highly recommended as the performances are expected to sell out. Tickets can be purchased at vermontperformancelab.org/events.


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The Twenty-Three
Book Three in the Promise Falls Trilogy
About the Book
Everything has been leading to this.
It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe. Hundreds of people are going to the hospital with similar flu-like symptoms—and dozens have died. Investigators quickly zero in on the water supply. But the question for many, including private investigator Cal Weaver, remains: Who would benefit from a mass poisoning of this town?
Meanwhile, Detective Barry Duckworth is faced with another problem. A college student has been murdered, and he's seen the killer's handiwork before—in the unsolved homicides of two other women in town. Suddenly, all the strange things that have happened in the last month start to add up…
Bloody mannequins found in car "23" of an abandoned Ferris wheel…a fiery, out-of-control bus with "23" on the back, that same number on the hoodie of a man accused of assault…
The motive for harming the people of Promise Falls points to the number 23—and working out why will bring Duckworth closer to death than he's ever been before…
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"Twist-driven thrillers packed with explosive action are a hallmark of Barclay's career." —USA Today
"There's definitely something rotten in Promise Falls. In The Twenty-Three, the riveting final installment of the Promise Falls trilogy, the story comes to a frightful and fitting conclusion. Nothing is more satisfying than tucking into a new Linwood Barclay novel, and this is one we've all been waiting for." —Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
The Twenty-Three
I know I won't be able to get them all. But I hope I'll be able to get enough.
Patricia Henderson, forty-one, divorced, employed at the Weston Street Branch of the Promise Falls Public Library System as a computer librarian, was, on that Saturday morning of the long holiday weekend in May, among the first to die.
She was scheduled to work that day. Patricia was annoyed the library board chose to keep all of the town's libraries open. They were slated to close on the Sunday, and on the Monday, Memorial Day. So, if you're going to close Sunday and Monday, why not close for the Saturday, too, and give everyone at the library the weekend off?
But no.
Not that Patricia had anywhere in particular to go.
But still. It seemed ridiculous to her. She knew, given that it was a long weekend, there'd be very few people coming into the library. Wasn't this town supposed to be in the midst of a financial crisis? Why keep the place open? Sure, there was a bit of a rush on Friday as some customers, particularly those who had cottages or other weekend places, took out books to keep them occupied through to Tuesday. The rest of the weekend was guaranteed to be quiet.
Patricia was to be at the library for nine, when it opened, but that really meant she needed to be there for eight forty-five a.m. That would give her time to boot up all the computers, which were shut down every night at closing to save on electricity, even though the amount of power the branch's thirty computers drew overnight was negligible. The library board, however, was on a "green" kick, which meant not only conserving electricity, but making sure recycling stations were set up throughout the library, and signs pinned to the bulletin boards to discourage the use of bottled water. One of the library board members saw the bottled water industry, and the bins of plastic bottles it created, as one of the great evils of the modern world, and didn't want them in any of the Promise Falls branches. "Provide paper cups that can be filled at the facility's water fountains," she said. Which now meant that the recycling stations were overflowing with paper cups instead of water bottles.
And guess who was pissed about that. What's-his-name, that Finley guy who used to be mayor and now ran a water bottling company. Patricia had met him the first–and she hoped, last –time just the other evening at the Constellation Drive-in. She'd taken her niece Kaylie and her little friend Alicia for the drive-in's final night. Kaylie's mom – Patricia's sister Val – had lent her their minivan, since Patricia's Hyundai was a little too cramped for such an excursion. God, what a mistake that turned out to be. Not only did the screen come crashing down, scaring the little girls half to death, but then Finley showed up, trying to get his picture taken giving comfort to the wounded.
Politics, Patricia thought. How she hated politics and everything about it.
And thinking of politics, Patricia had found herself staring at the ceiling at four in the morning, worried about next week's public meeting on "Internet filtering." The debate had been going on for years and never seemed settled. Should the library put filters on computers used by patrons that would restrict access to certain websites? The idea was to keep youngsters from accessing pornography, but it was a continuing quagmire. The filters were often ineffective, blocking material that was not adult oriented, and allowing material that was. And aside from that, there were freedom of speech and freedom to read issues.
Patricia knew the meeting would, as these kinds of meetings always did, devolve into a shouting match between ultraconservatives who saw gay subtext in the Teletubbies and didn't want computers in the library to begin with, and ultra left-wingers who believed if a kindergartner wanted to read Portnoy's Complaint, so be it.
At ten minutes after five, when she knew she wasn't going to get back to sleep, she threw back the covers and decided to move forward with her day.
She walked into the bathroom, flicked on the light, and studied her face in the mirror.
"Ick," she said, rubbing her cheeks with the tips of her fingers. "ABH."
That was the mantra from Charlene, her personal trainer. Always Be Hydrating. Which meant drinking at least seven full glasses of water a day.
Patricia reached for the glass next to the sink, turned on the tap to let the water run until it was cold, filled the glass and drank it down in one long gulp. She reached into the shower, turned on the taps, held her hand under the spray until it was hot enough, pulled the long, white T-shirt she slept in over her head, and stepped in.
She stayed in there until she could sense the hot water starting to run out. Shampooed and lathered up first, then stood under the water, feeling it rain across her face.
Dried off.
Felt–and this was kind of weird–itchy all over.
Did her hair and makeup.
By the time she was in her apartment kitchen, it was six-thirty. Still plenty of time to kill before driving to the library, a ten-minute commute. Or, if she decided to ride her bike, about twenty-five minutes.
Patricia opened the cupboard, took out a small metal tray with more than a dozen bottles of pills and multivitamins. She opened the lids on four, tapped out a calcium tablet, a low-dose aspirin, a vitamin D, and a multivitamin, which, while containing vitamin D, did not, she believed, have enough.
She tossed them all into her mouth at once and washed them down with a small glass of water from the kitchen tap. Moved her upper body all around awkwardly, as though her blouse were made of wool.
Patricia opened the refrigerator and stared. Did she want an egg? Hard-boiled? Fried? It seemed like a lot of work. She closed the door and went back to the cupboard and brought down a box of Special K.
"Whoa," she said.
It was like a wave washing over. Light-headedness. Like she'd been standing outside in a high wind and nearly gotten blown over.
She put both hands on the edge of the counter to steady herself. Let it pass, she told herself. It's probably nothing. Up too early.
There, she seemed to be okay. She brought down a small bowl, started to pour some cereal into it.
Blinked again.
She could see the "K" on the cereal box clearly enough, but "Special" was fuzzy around the edges. Which was pretty strange, because it was not exactly a tiny font. This was not newspaper type. The letters in "Special" were a good inch tall.
Patricia squinted.
"Special," she said.
She closed her eyes, shook her head, thinking that would set things straight. But when she opened her eyes, she was dizzy.
"What the hell," she said.
I need to sit down.
She left the cereal where it was and made her way to the table, pulled out the chair. Was the room spinning? Just a little?
She hadn't had the "whirlies" in a very long time. She'd gotten drunk more than a few times over the years with her ex, Stanley. But even then, she'd never had enough to drink that the room spun. She had to go back to her days as a student at Thackeray for a memory like that.
But Patricia hadn't been drinking. And what she was feeling now wasn't the same as what she'd felt back then.
For one thing, her heart was starting to race.
She placed a hand on her chest, just about the swell of her breasts, to see if she could feel what she already knew she was feeling.
Tha-thump. Tha-thump. Tha-tha-thump.
Her heart wasn't just picking up the pace. It was doing so in an irregular fashion.
Patricia moved her hand from her chest to her forehead. Her skin was cold and clammy.
She wondered whether she could be having a heart attack. But she wasn't old enough for one of those, was she? And she was in good shape. She worked out. She often rode her bike to work. She had a personal trainer, for God's sake.
The pills.
Patricia figured she must have taken the wrong pills. But was there anything in that pill container that could do something like this to her?
She stood, felt the floor move beneath her as though Promise Falls were undergoing an earthquake, which was not the sort of thing that happened often in upstate New York.
Maybe, she thought, I should just get my ass to Promise Falls General.
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"People only notice ships when they are in trouble", industry folk often complain as they groan inwardly when a maritime accident hits the headlines. It is a perfectly valid observation in a world where the normal operation of countless commercial ships occasions no interest whatever. People expect that shipping – modern, technologically-advanced and precise shipping – will perform its functions without hesitation or interruption, and it is so far beyond the bounds of public consciousness that anything that might upset this timetable is almost incomprehensible.
Marine accident is rare. We know it is getting rarer, as revealed by the statistics, but it still attracts unwelcome attention. One might perhaps just discover some positive features to even bad publicity in that it reminds people that shipping still exists. It also informs them that despite all our supersize and modern technology, shipping is an activity where human beings remain to the fore, but that nature may well intervene violently in the shape of storms of indescribable fury.
So we can regret the sad incidents in the Adriatic, the South China Sea and Pentland Firth which took the lives of so many people, just as we can be glad for the efforts of the emergency services – helicopter and lifeboat crews and for all those who go that extra mile to help in these incidents.
We can shake our heads over the well-publicised sight of the giant car carrier lying on her beam ends on the sandbank in Southampton, but even such a spectacular incident serves to assure people ashore that merchant ships still matter and that all their goods in the shops do not arrive by air! It might be suggested that some of the "adverse" publicity was not all negative, as skill and seamanship was evident in the rescue of the crew, the deliberate grounding of the ship and the work of the salvors.
Then we had the tremendous publicity of the arrival in Northern Europe of the world's biggest containership CSCL Globe, which managed to attract plenty of positive words. Whether it is true or not, the remark in one newspaper to the effect that "just about everyone in the whole of the UK will buy something that had been brought from the Far East on this huge ship" says something about the facility provided by sea transport and the importance of international trade. The fact that even before the Globe had discharged her first cargo, the even bigger MSC Oscar was loading her first boxes, tended to build on all the superlatives flying around! There will clearly be more to come as the enthusiasm for giant containerships continues to roll on.
But even with ships so big that the mind can scarcely comprehend them, we are still reminded that the weather can dramatically intervene, with huge ships forced to wait for calmer conditions as storms roll through. Giant ships being blown off the berth provides a pretty dramatic illustration of the power of nature and the need for some traditional seamanlike skills to restore the situation. As always, the industry has to take the rough with the smooth.
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Hemvik 1890
Hemvik is a large house built around a drawing room, with five smaller rooms arranged around the large central room. Read more about its exterior, interior and structure here.
In the mid-nineteenth century, farmers' houses gradually changed from the traditional long narrow house, simple cottages, double cottages and front room cottages to houses built with two rows of rooms. The generic name for these is two-row houses.
The design of two-row houses was based on the room plans of manor houses. These houses typically had five or six rooms on each floor. All these rooms were a sign of changing living styles with a separate kitchen, bedrooms and, in particular, the drawing room. The large room was often in one corner of the farmhouse, while the classic six-room plan had the drawing room in the centre.
Inspiration for this style of house for the upper classes of society came to Sweden from southern Europe in the mid-17th century. The design spread in the 18th century to officers' buildings and vicarages. Well-to-do farmers imitated the style of housing when their prosperity increased after parcelling.


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Will Attorney General Jeff Sessions singlehandedly undercut President Trump's efforts to drain the swamp?
That is the question that political observers in Washington are asking as rumors swirl that Mr. Sessions is considering a request by lobbyists representing Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson to overturn state laws as they pertain to online gaming. Such a move would not only be cronyism of the highest magnitude, but would undermine the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Gambling is a contentious issue, but like most contentious issues the Framers of the Constitution relied on Federalism to settle difficult questions. As such, gambling laws have been the prerogative of the states since the founding of the Constitution. Some states allow gambling and others do not. Nevada, for instance, not only has casinos but also allows citizens within their borders to participate in online games of change. Some states, like Utah, do not even have a lottery. Some states. like Georgia, allow citizens to buy lottery tickets online. Other states do not. That is exactly how the Founders envisioned things.
However, for crony capitalists looking to limit potential competition, online gaming presents a problem. Fearing that people won't travel to Las Vegas to gamble, casino owner Sheldon Adelson is conducting one-man multi-million-dollar campaign to overturn state laws and he wants the federal government to do his bidding.
His congressional allies have introduced the Restore America's Wire Act (RAWA) bill that would overturn existing state laws and bar other states from legalizing online gaming. The bill has languished in Congress, but he has sensed an opportunity and he is now playing a new hand.Word on the street suggests that Adelson has made progress at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in their campaign to have the Department re-interpret the Wire Act. Such a change would pull the rug out from states that have legalized online gaming and prohibit other states from passing similar measures. Reinterpretation would also prohibit the online sales of lottery tickets.
Such a move would be a political disaster for the President. It is no secret that Adelson is a major funder of the Republican Party. He also was a contributor to the Trump inauguration and supported outside groups that helped defeat Hillary Clinton. Giving Adelson what he wants on a platter would give opponents of the president more ammunition to shoot.
States are more than capable of dealing with issues like gambling on their own. They don't need the heavy hand of Washington telling them how to do things. Mr. Sessions took an oath to the Constitution. Gutting the Tenth Amendment undermines that promise.
Finally, in the Garden State, it has been estimated that 3,000 jobs have been created since the state legalized online gaming. Prohibiting New Jersey from determining their own economic future would send workers directly to the unemployment line. President Trump said a core benefit of his presidency would be "jobs, jobs and jobs." Destroying an American industry would run counter to the values of the Trump presidency.
Mr. Sessions would be prudent to leave well enough alone.
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By STEPHANIE BARRY
NORTHAMPTON - Relatives of Iraqi artist Thamer Dawood feared he would be killed instantly upon coming to the United States.
Saturated with images of bombing and strife from the war, the 42-year-old father of three admitted he, too, did not know what to expect. But, surrounded by teens and local artists on Saturday, Dawood said he was pleasantly surprised after arriving here last year.
"Now, U.S. is not just army, army, army," he said in broken English, pointing his thumb and forefinger to form a gun. "There are very beautiful people here."
Dawood, temporarily living in Delaware after living as a war refugee in Jordan, came to Western Massachusetts to participate in an art exchange project organized by Northampton artists and using kids from schools in Hampshire and Franklin counties. It is the third Iraqi-American children's art collaboration under Northampton artist and antiwar activist Claudia A. Lefko.
"This is a good feeling, to work with children," said Dawood, a prominent painter in the Middle East with exhibits in Philadelphia and elsewhere. He said he fled Baghdad in 2004 after his house was bombed twice.
In the Center for the Arts, about a dozen children and teens painted simultaneously on a canvas on Saturday, the second day of work on the project.
"We sketched it out before, but we added a lot of things and details to it as we went along," 11-year-old Phoebe Pliakas-Smith, of Conway, said of their strategy.
Emerging from the canvas beneath a city skyline were staples of Northampton that appeared to be coming out of a book including demonstrators, street musicians, peace signs, trees and other natural features.
The mural is titled: "How Will They Know Us?"
Lefko said she has been traveling to Jordan twice a year to exchange artwork between American children and young Iraqi refugees. She said she believes children in both countries harbor misconceptions about the other and art can help change that.
"For me, this is about giving children a voice in the international community," Lefko said. "The art gives them a way to say something."
The mural is planned to ultimately be included in "Art Miles," a large-scale global exhibit in Egypt slated for 2010.
By STEPHANIE BARRY
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'127 Hours' is a powerful story of survival
James Franco perfectly cast in dramatic tale of trapped hiker
Going into "127 Hours," you probably already know the fate that awaits trapped hiker Aron Ralston in this based-on-truth story. You might even have heard about audience members fainting and/or retching at filmmaker Danny Boyle's depiction of Ralston's desperate act to save his own life.
Sure, it's tough to watch, but you can always turn away for a few minutes.
What might surprise you, though, is just how exhilarating the moments that follow are. For this is an honest-to-goodness, feel-good triumphant scene - albeit one that's disorienting and exhausting, somewhat as it must have been in real life.
That's when you realize how deeply Boyle has dunked you into the 2003 ordeal of Ralston, whose book, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place," he's adapted.
The hypercreative and hyperactive talented filmmaker of "Slumdog Millionaire" works wonders with a story that might have seemed unfilmable: It's basically one guy trapped in a Utah canyon, his arm pinned by a rock.
Boyle is too restless to stay there, though, so we go inside Ralston's mind as he fantasizes of escape, dreams of an old girlfriend, relives his past and imagines a future that's looking less likely with each passing hour.
Many of those scenes are brilliantly staged, though you could quibble that a few feel a bit desperate, too much obvious razzle-dazzle (we could have done, for example, without the inside-the-CamelBak shots showing Ralston's last few drops of water).
"127 Hours" has a terrific, breezy intro that sets up the stifling horror to follow: Ralston rushing to Utah's Canyonlands National Park, sleeping in his truck, racing on his mountain bike and showing off for a couple of attractive female hikers.
James Franco plays Ralston, and he's perfect: He captures that go-for-it glee of the young outdoorsman, a mix of bravado and foolishness - he didn't tell anyone where he was going, and he neglected to answer his home phone when his mother called (always a bad move).
A thought: Franco will co-host the Oscars next month, which might be awkward for him. What's the protocol if the host has to collect a Best Actor award? It could happen.
In "127 Hours," you revel with him as he romps through the Utah wilderness. And, trapped in that canyon, you feel his desperation: How awful it would be to die like that, slowly and all-so alone.
The movie's strongest scenes are there, as Ralston wrestles with the rock that traps him, screams for help and documents his own decline on a video camera.
He's cocky, solitary by nature. But "127 Hours" shows that what he really needs now - what everyone needs - is connection with humanity.
With family, with friends, with strangers.
It's hardly a novel thought. But, you know, when you're stuck in a Utah canyon all by yourself, it tends to gain more relevancy - even unstoppable urgency.
1 hour, 33 minutes. R. Some perfectly appropriate profanity, one gory scene.


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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The second highest al-Qaida leader in Afghanistan was killed in a weekend airstrike in the country's volatile east near the border with Pakistan, NATO-led forces said on Tuesday.
Saudi Sakhr al-Taifi, also known as Musthaq and Nasim, was responsible for commanding foreign insurgents and directing attacks against coalition and Afghan forces, NATO said in a statement.
He frequently traveled between Afghanistan and Pakistan, carrying out commands from senior al-Qaida leadership, supplying weapons and equipment to insurgents and transporting insurgent fighters into Afghanistan, the statement said.
He was killed on Sunday in the Watahpur district of Kunar province after being identified with another al-Qaida militant.
No civilians were harmed and no civilian property was damaged, the statement said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Around one hundred and seventy migrants who had been kept on the Italian territory of Lampedusa have been evacuated. The island's centre had been designed to house up to 850 people for around 48 hours. However it has been steadily transformed into a long-term refugee camp, leading to accusations of crowded, unsanitary conditions. Most of the migrants are now being taken to the Italian mainland by air. Giusi Nicolini, the Mayor of Lampedusa says the system needs changing. "I believe nothing can be the same as before. The parliament, all governments and especially the Italian government must realise that we must work seriously to totally reform how we treat asylum seekers in our country," he said. Last week video footage emerged appearing to show the refugees, some of them naked, in the freezing cold being being sprayed with disinfectant. This led to a storm of criticism. --Euronews, December 25, 2013
At the Lampedusa Welcome Center
workers are ordered to stop the scabies
epidemic among the North African detainees,
survivors of a boat capsizing that drowned
366 people off the coast of Sicily.
Cell phone footage shows workers
using a high-pressure compressor to blast
the migrants with a formula of cold water
and disinfectant. Men, women, children
huddle naked in an open-air courtyard,
rubbing their eyes, mouths gaping.
Lampedusa's mayor sees the images,
reacts with horror, condemns the treatment
as la practica da lager—something from
a concentration camp. The workers tell
journalists who stalk them, Attenzione!
We're just the picccoli pesci—the little fish.
Gil Fagiani is a translator, essayist, short story writer and poet. His most recent book of poetry is Serfs of Psychiatry (Finishing Line Press, 2012). In 2014, his poetry collection Logos, set in a Bronx drug program in the 1970s, is due to be published by Guernica Editions. Gil co-curates the Italian American Writers' Association's monthly reading series, and is a founding member of the Vito Marcantonio Forum.


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Wall Street rises but market braced for choppy week on eve of U.S. election
The Dow and S&P closed higher on Monday with the Nasdaq posting slimmer gains on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, as investors girded for what could be big market swings this week.
Last week all three indexes notched their biggest weekly decline since March, and this week market participants largely expected short-term volatility and the likelihood of major long-term policy shifts related to taxes, government spending, trade and regulation. The longer-term moves will depend on whether Republican President Donald Trump or his Democratic challenger Joe Biden wins the White House race.
Biden leads in national opinion polls, but races are tight in battleground states that could tip the election to Trump. Analysts said the outcome most likely to shake equity markets in the near term would be no clear winner on Tuesday night.
While the Dow and S&P were on the plus side, they ended well off session highs, and the Nasdaq dipped for awhile into the red as mega-cap technology and tech-related names struggled to gain traction after slumping in the prior week.
Growth stocks (RLG) rose 0.54%, but were soundly outperformed by beaten-down value names, which tend to provide better returns coming out of a recession. The Russell 100 value index (RLV) jumped 1.92% to notch its biggest daily percentage gain in nearly five months.
"It is hard to say whether this is sector rotation, an institutional driven event today or traders speculating on what might happen tomorrow," said Peter Giacchi, Head of DMM Floor Trading at Citadel Securities in New York.
"The longer this plays out over the course of the week, if it takes that long, the more volatility we could expect."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) rose 423.45 points, or 1.6%, to 26,925.05, the S&P 500 (SPX) gained 40.28 points, or 1.23%, to 3,310.24 and the Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) added 46.02 points, or 0.42%, to 10,957.61.
Investors betting on a Biden administration, which is expected to deliver a massive fiscal stimulus and promote green energy, have fueled a rally in solar stocks, industrials and small-cap names in recent weeks.
On the other hand, JP Morgan has listed Bank of America (N:BAC), Wells Fargo (N:WFC) and Citigroup (N:C) in its "Trump basket" of stocks. The S&P banks index <.SPXBK> added 2.27%.
Energy (SPNY), materials (SPLRCM) and industrials (SPLRCI) enjoyed the sharpest percentage gains among major S&P sectors, climbing more than 2.7%.
The S&P 500 ended a turbulent week at near six-week lows on Friday, after quarterly reports from technology mega-caps failed to impress and as coronavirus cases surged in the United States and Europe. The weekly percentage drop was the largest since late March, which marked the end of a selloff that sent the benchmark index into a bear market, or drop of more than 20% from a high.
The CBOE volatility index (VIX), known as Wall Street's fear gauge, inched lower after ratcheting up last week to the highest in nearly four months.
Investors will also watch this week's Federal Reserve two-day policy meeting, the monthly jobs report and earnings from about a quarter of the S&P 500 companies.
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I've recently learned about two very useful questions to ask of myself.
1/ For what moment today am I most grateful?
2/ For what moment today am I least grateful?
These two questions of St Ignatius' examen is a practical tool for daily inner reflection. I'm going to answer these two here today and share my answer with you.
1/ On my spiritual retreat last week, I took some time to examine and reflect on my own life. It was a time of spiritual rejuvenation.
I was most grateful this week for the opportunity to return to listening to praise and worship music. I hadn't taken the time to sit down and listen to the new music from recent artists and groups like Hillsong. I didn't know the new stuff that was being played in our contemporary evangelical churches. Anyone else out there been through periods of not having listened to new worship songs but do appreciate the music? It's been a dry period for me in the past. But now I've been refreshed through new music. I took the opportunity to reflect on the words of numerous worship songs and was really blessed and nourished by them. For this precious time, I was most grateful.
2/ For what I was least grateful that day was having my wife go through surgery. She had go fly to Taiwan in order to get surgery that otherwise, would've taken a very long time to receive here in Canada. She already had to wait for many months. We have a broken health care system and my fear is that it will get worse in the future as the population ages. Anyway, through my self-reflection and self-examination, I realized I still had much to be thankful for. Her mother, and her sister in Taiwan took some time off work to care for her during and after surgery. This is very big help. I'm thankful for this. So in what I had thought I was least grateful, I realized that I still had things for which to be grateful.
Reflecting on these two questions helped me realize that I had more to be thankful for than I had thought. Thank you God for your grace, mercy, and blessings.
Recently at my spiritual retreat I came across another book entitled, Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life, by Dennis, Sheila and Matthew Linn (Paulist Press, 1995). A good brief book that explained to me how and why the Examen helps. I add this below as added reference.


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Have you always been Catholic? How did the instruction and mentoring you received help you – or prevent you – from having a personal relationship with God?
I was born in 1957, and during my first eight years I steeped in the Catholic universe of South Louisiana.
Before I was old enough to go to confession I would accompany my father when he went to confession. This was before I was in first grade, and had not yet received any formal catechesis. I was, however, already very well catechized my extended family, such that I understood that in confession, Jesus forgave a person's sins. In church I was optimistically expected to behave while Daddy was in the confessional. But I was curious why no-one entered or exited from the middle part of the confessional, just the ends. So on one occasion I stuck my hand under the middle curtain to find out just what was in there. Maybe you can imagine the shock of Jesus grabbing my hand! If that was not shocking enough, I actually saw Jesus' hand as it gently and firmly put my little mitt back outside the booth. I never said a word about this to another soul until I was an adult.
In a strictly physical sense, that was not Jesus in the confessional; but close enough for a kid who was raised with a sacramental worldview. The world has always seemed to be soaking wet with God. I never didn't believe what the Church taught. There were many years when I didn't want to hear it, but I always accepted that the Church was right. Priests, Nuns, Saints, Angels, Satan, Mass, Purgatory, Trinity, Keys, Relics, Miracles, Bible stories; all were part of the visible and invisible reality that I swam in.
Truly, I can't remember a time that Jesus wasn't Right There. I used to think I could grab Him right out of the nothing that lay within my reach; and who knows, maybe I did. I owe that natural, vivid faith to my parents, my extended family, the Marianite sisters, and the Louisiana culture. Unlike later ethnic Catholic immigrant enclaves in America, Louisiana (1702) predated the United States, and was not part of the US until 1803. So there was no impetus to 'become American' by diluting our Catholic distinctives.
Then my family moved to Greenville, South Carolina when I was 8. Culturally it was a bigger leap than spending a graduate-school semester in Italy. Catholics were worse than mere outsiders: to some, we weren't even Christian. But gentle (and not so gentle) prodding by concerned Evangelical and Fundamentalist friends and neighbors gives Catholics an incentive to know the Biblical reasons (versus catechetical ones) for being Catholic; and accustoms us to talking about Jesus and religion in a very direct, even blunt, way. It has been a real blessing to live here. On the other hand, the Church is not where it needs to be regarding Scripture and evangelism; and poorly-catechized Catholics remain easy marks for the Biblically literate.
In your parish, how's your retention rate? What percentage of 8th graders in your parish are still practicing the faith at age 18?At age 24? Do young adults in your parish stay in touch with their childhood faith community, or do they drift away to an unknown fate?
Oh man, I dunno. Just considering the kids I've catechized over the last 9 years, many families moved away; the kids that turn 18 here often leave to go to college; and of those, many won't return to Greenville; and of those who ultimately stay, many will attend another parish, as my eldest son does. At Mass I do see a few young adults I taught years ago; then again, we have 5 Masses each weekend. But our parish is healthy. We have a school with full enrollments, run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. Youthgroup content is substantial and orthodox. We receive a constant stream of Fundiegelical converts. And our pastor steadily nudges the parish toward an explicitly Scriptural-evangelistic worldview.
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The pandemic and working remotely has shifted many lives, including those of social workers. Though some continue to do office-based work, there is a fair share that have been working from home. Whether it be working out of the office or from your makeshift bedroom-desk, social workers have not stopped working with their clients and supporting them. Perhaps it's the variety of stressors that are simultaneously occurring, I've noticed myself having that automatic thought with select clients of, "Oh please don't answer the phone." As social workers, we are ethically bound to be effective, do no harm, and provide best practice. In order to ensure that quality care is being provided, it's necessary that as professionals, we recognize those thoughts and self assess on where that comes from. So why is it, at times, we don't want clients to answer the phone?
On The Thought Bubble Podcast, we've talked about burnout, vicarious traumatization, and compassion fatigue. Remote work, alongside the compounded effects of dealing with one's own mental health, adjustments due to the pandemic, and other stressors that happen because of being human and living, it feels that burnout has been increasing. Not only are social workers adjusting to working in a pandemic, but many have their own children that are now home schooled, spouses also working from home, and imbalance in other areas of life. Adjusting social work practice is already difficult, but doing so while macro stressors are impacting all parties compounds the stress.
In terms of preventing burnout, many professionals talk about creating boundaries and "leaving work at work." As many are now working from home, it becomes even more difficult to instill healthy boundaries to create a semblance of routine and schedule. Personally, I have had clients that are not experiencing a crisis or emergency call me at both 1:00 am and 6:30 am – Hours that are not normal to talk to your therapist if it's not scheduled and if it's not a crisis. It was difficult at first, but I learned to be assertive with my clients in instilling those boundaries to ensure that calls like that were only done if absolutely necessary.
Whether this is pre-pandemic or in the middle of it, burnout never stops unless you actively work to prevent it. Burnout occurs when social workers experience overload and feelings of overwhelm. Oftentimes, there is a significant amount of work that time does not allow for. If you feel yourself not wanting clients to answer their phone, it's important to seek supervision and ask yourself if there is too much on your plate.
Not Liking Your Client
Just because you are someone's therapist, does not mean you are going to like them as a person. Of course, it's important to distinguish one's behavior from who they are as a person. We are human, and we don't need to connect with everyone to be a good social worker. We consider a person's background, and all of the social work assessments, trauma, and family drama. Sure, we can go over all of this and understand the reason behind our client's behavior, but it doesn't stop that behavior from being frustrating, annoying, or inconvenient. Now, as we discussed previously, it's important to self evaluate to ensure the client continues to receive the most effective treatment. If you feel that the therapeutic relationship is not beneficial, or the client would be a better fit for another clinician, it is okay to transfer clients. However, always seek supervision and always ask yourself why. Social workers are not immune to implicit bias, and this is an important concept to accept and acknowledge. This is why it is vital to evaluate yourself and the reason behind your dislike. We should be providing care for vulnerable populations in promoting equity and social justice. With that being said, our own biases impact how we practice, and if we don't see that and work towards better practice, we fail that client and we fail the purpose of social work.
Lack of Engagement & Rapport
Imagine you are calling a client that you recently met. You begin to feel some nervousness, and you think to yourself that you hope they don't answer. Why? This may be because you don't feel connected with this client yet, or you're nervous on what this session will look like. There are times I become nervous about sessions, because I'm concerned we won't have enough to discuss to fill 45 minutes. Feeling comfortable in session may come with continued work with that particular person, of which is a result of rapport and a solid therapeutic relationship. Ask yourself if you're comfortable with this client, and if not, ask yourself why. Usually, it has nothing to do with the client, but your own insecurities, concerns, or Imposter Syndrome.
Final Thoughts
Not wanting your client to answer their phone for a session is a normal thought that many social workers and therapists have experienced. This work is difficult and hectic, and there will be times you crave an opening in your schedule, or you don't want to pull yourself together to potentially deal with a frustrating client. The feeling is valid. The important next step, as a professional with high ethical standards, is to ensure your behavior is not impacted by that thought and negatively effects the client's treatment. Continue to evaluate yourself, your practice, talk to your supervisor, and discover the WHY behind it all. This is a difficult time, and we are not immune to it. Give yourself grace, and know that we are always growing and progressing as professionals.


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The Kennewick City Council has joined other Tri-Cities governments in supporting legislation to pull the plug on part of the state's Energy Independence Act that requires public utilities to buy solar and wind power to supplement their energy, whether they need it or not.
The Kennewick council voted unanimously last week to support House Bill 2124 and Senate Bill 5964, which would modify the act so public utilities would have the option – not be required – to acquire alternative energy only when demand exceeded their supply.
The Richland and Pasco councils signed similar resolutions of support last month. Commissioners in Benton and Franklin counties also are on record supporting the legislation.
The bills were introduced late in the last session and are expected to be reintroduced in January.
If successful, the measures would modify I-937, which was passed in 2006 to create the Energy Independence Act. That act requires the Benton PUD and other utilities with more than 25,000 customers to incorporate enough solar and wind power energy to make up 3 percent of their energy load for 2012, increasing to 9 percent in 2016 and 15 percent in 2020.
In adopting its resolution in support for the bills, Kennewick officials want utilities to have "the choice to avoid the purchase of unneeded renewable energy or credit," said City Manager Marie Mosley in a memo to the council.
"(It would not) change the intent of I-937, which is to encourage conservation and use of renewable energy resources. These bills will protect qualifying utilities from unnecessary additional costs which could result in unwanted rate increases," Mosley added.
Kennewick's resolution noted that I-937 passed statewide with 51.6 percent of the vote, and that Benton and Franklin counties' voters rejected it by more than 66 percent.
The state's energy picture also has changed since I-937 passed in 2006, with energy demands not growing because of a poor economy and successful conservation programs, the resolution stated.
Eighth District Sen. Jerome Delvin, R-Richland, said the political landscape also may have changed.
"I think of our economic times and how I hear some legislators on the west side talk about their constituents' concerns on the cost of energy. To get hydro declared as a renewable energy is a stretch, but this is a common sense thing. Utilities don't need this for their loads," Delvin said.
Additionally, Benton and Franklin PUDs have been talking with other PUDs in the state, Delvin said.
"There was a big split when the initiative originally came up, and things have changed," the senator said.
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Nik Honeysett recently addressed members of the Leadership and Management Network at their luncheon at the annual AAM Conference. I asked Nik to share his thoughts on museums and IT in a way only a non-IT person could ask. Nik accommodated beautifully.
Nik is CEO of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, a non-profit consultancy that provides technology support, development and strategy for the museums in Balboa Park, San Diego and beyond. Previously, he was Head of Administration for the J. Paul Getty Museum overseeing administrative services across their two sites. He formerly chaired AAM's Media and Technology SPC and their SPC Council; he currently sits on the Board of AAM.
Blog: The Recovering Technologist
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Despite my youthful looks, I've been in the museum field for twenty-seven years, but I should qualify that. In the mid-eighties I joined a tiny software startup company called Cognitive Applications as a software programmer; they were and are a for-profit company that started out of the Cognitive Sciences Department at the University of Sussex in the UK. Its purpose was to productise[i] a programming language called AlphaPop, applicable to the then current fad of Expert Systems, what we would call knowledge bases now. Expert Systems suffered from bad PR, in that it would replace everyone's job, so literally overnight we had no market. A chance meeting in a pub in Trafalgar Square London, with a guy who had been hired by the National Gallery to figure out how to use emerging technology (this is 1988) to enhance the visitor experience, resulted in us building what was probably the first touchscreen system to present a museum's collection digitally – the MicroGallery. I spent the next twelve years working exclusively in museums and galleries building digital systems in all their various forms for public access. I worked all over Europe and the USA, including the National Gallery in Washington DC and the San Diego Museum of Art in the early 1990s.
I moved from the for-profit world to the non-profit world in 2000 when I joined the Getty as an IT manager, and then moved into an administrative role in 2006; still with a strong connection to digital, which reported to me. The resources available at the Getty when I first joined were even more prodigious than they are today. I got to work on some amazing projects.
You have been at BPOC for nearly a year now. What do you enjoy most day-to-day, vs working in a single museum?
There's a certain amount of monotony working in a large institution, or maybe regularity is a better term. When I announced that I was leaving the Getty most people thought that I had taken leave of my senses, but I could feel myself getting soft; the Getty is a place where one can coast and that is not in my nature, so I needed a new challenge and that is exactly what I have now. BPOC supports most of the cultural institutions in Balboa Park ranging from volunteer-only museums like the Veterans Association and Memorial Center to the San Diego Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Natural History, and that makes for a different day every day. Every day is a gear-shifting experience, but the business model of BPOC makes for a very rewarding experience. How many volunteer-only museums have access to enterprise-grade technology and development services? The Veterans Museum is a great example; they have a cutting-edge, responsively-designed website that cost them a fraction of normal development costs because we are spreading the cost of the website redesign and development across five institutions. Their compromise is a website that has a similar functional look and feel to others, but I think that is a small price to pay.
One of the compelling reasons for me to leave the Getty and take on this role at BPOC was the opportunity to create a unified digital strategy for Balboa Park. As a supporter of the adoption of digital within the museum field, it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. If I can create a unified approach to the digital experience that aggregates all the cultural organisations in the park, we have a model for the field. That is really exciting. At the moment I'm fundraising for this initiative and that is something that I never had to do at the Getty, not surprisingly, but is something that I really enjoy. Sharing a big vision with individuals who have a passion for Balboa Park and its success is very rewarding. Modesty prevents me from saying how successful I've been so far, but I'm very excited about the future and the real potential to create a defining digital infrastructure.
Can you explain your "big vision" for this unified approach to the digital experience at Balboa Park?
From the visitor's perspective, a visit to Balboa Park is an encyclopedic experience. If we want to give the visitor a unified digital experience, it means we need a unified digital strategy, and that means a unified digital infrastructure. So my vision has three components, which are best thought of as levels, and a key philosophy in this vision is the notion of managing content as an asset in much the same way that we manage digital surrogates of our collection images as assets. The base level will be a rigorous information architecture that preserves and sustains the park's data and intellectual property (there is much digital deferred maintenance here). Above that level is an institutionally-agnostic expression of this content that promotes serendipity and discovery through rich connections, available as a single website. If you're familiar with Spotify (a music discovery framework), think of that but with cultural objects and content. Lastly is an institutionally-specific expression of content in the form of a way-finding app that translates those Spotify-type playlists into physical tours of the Park–I want to create an experience that literally helps visitors lose themselves in Balboa Park in the same way that I lose myself in Spotify following musical or artist connections. That's the essence of my vision, and my working title for the project is Lost in Balboa Park.
What would you say is the one thing museums miss or neglect as they approach or try out technologies in various public programs/exhibits/etc.?
Confining my answer to one thing is going to be difficult. But if I had to pick one, it would be philosophical, and that museums approach digital and technology in the same way that they approach exhibition programing – a defined project that has a start, middle and end. They have created these instances of digital expressions of the collections and content that are massively unsustainable, disconnected to their central collections management system, and thereby costly to maintain appropriately. To understand this approach, you have to look at how digital and technology "infiltrated" museums. It started out as this kind of underground movement, where the guy who had a computer at home became the IT Guy, the exhibition or book designer became the WebMaster, and other interested folks started taking on these digital roles in addition to their day jobs. The biggest problem with this was and still is the fact that senior leadership were taught that all this digital stuff happens for free, and now digital has reached a critical mass and is fundamental to virtually all museums' activities and operations; and it's time to pay the piper. These deferred maintenance issues in museums are significant and opportunities for investment are low. What is required is a solid investment in infrastructure to support their digital activities. A robust technological infrastructure that balances the needs of the institution to manage its business and core programmatic activities with the need to express and provide access to content should be a key strategic goal for museums.
Can you identify any exciting technology trends that are going to really benefit the museum community? What excites you the most when you look at what may be coming?
There are a few things that are restoring my faith that museums will figure this out; necessarily some of these are external influences that I think are important to drive change within the field. From a philosophical standpoint, there's emerging acknowledgement that digital audiences are just as important as physical audiences. For example, the Council of Australasian Museum Directors talks about museum visitorship holistically: 51 million museum visits for the 2014 fiscal year, of which 70% were online. This is a crucial and valuable mindset change for museums, particularly in assigning operational money to digital activities. The 2015 Horizon Report for Museums acknowledges that technology is becoming a focal point of budgetary considerations, and museums are and should begin to consider long-term plans that invest and expand on their infrastructure and digital tools.
There are a couple of external forces working to help focus the field that might be painful but are nonetheless necessary. Museums need to be tracking trends and initiatives outside their walls and none is more significant than Google. Two recent announcements to favour quality content and relegate mobile-unfriendly websites to the wayside should be calls to action for museums. Emerging generations' primary access to the web is through a smartphone, as is underserved and minority groups' access; desktop access is rapidly diminishing. These emerging generations and demographics are very discerning and adoption and use of a museum's content is as much about accessibility and functionality, as it is about the resonance of the content. They will equally judge the quality of a museum's bricks and mortar experience with their web experience, to the extent that they will make a decision to visit based on the mobile experience. This should be a wake-up call.
The other thing I see that I hope the museum field takes very seriously is the emergence of companies like MuseumHack that provides museum tours. This has nothing to do with technology or digital, though it will, but is a bellwether of the state of interpretation in our field. How is it that a company can come into a museum (the Met in this case, but others too) and charge $60 or $70 per person for something that the museum is giving away for free? MuseumHack is leveraging the emerging trend of "experiences" that emerging generations are craving. Museums are in danger of losing control of how visitors experience their collections, which I find fascinating, and hope that museums take this seriously.
Follow Nik's blog Recovering Technologist and @nhoneysett on Twitter.
[1] In deference to Nik's British heritage, I maintained the British spelling of words. (Although I did have to be convinced that "productise" is a real word.)—editor
Betty Brewer serves as President and CEO of Minnetrista, a 40-acre site with a museum, historic homes and gardens. She has held this position since 2005. Ms. Brewer has served the museum field for 30 years, including being a past chair of the Leadership and Management Professional Network and presenting sessions at national, regional, and state conferences and webinars.


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Ganguly, P and Vasanthacharya, NY and Rao, CNR and Edwards, PP (1984) Composition-controlled metal-insulator transitions and minimum metallic conductivity in the oxide systems LaNi1-xMxO3 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, or Co). In: Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 54 (3). pp. 400-406.
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The composition-controlled metal-insulator transition in the perovskite systems LaNi1-xMxO3 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, and Co) has been investigated by transport measurements over the temperature range 12-300 K. These systems, which have critical electron densities (nc) in the range (1-2) -1020 electrons cm-3, exhibit sharp metal-insulator transitions at the base temperature. The corresponding minimum metallic conductivity (Ï-min), separating the localized and itinerant electronic regimes, is of the order of 102 ohm-1 cm-1. Particular attention is paid to the idea of Ï-min scaling with nc, and our present results are compared with earlier studies of the metal-insulator transition in low (e.g., Ge:Sb) and high (e.g., metal-ammonia, supercritical Hg) electron-density systems. A link is established between the transport and magnetic properties of the title systems at the metal-insulator transition.
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Now, he could just mean someone incurs a terrible injury. Then again, someone may be leaving permanently.
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Giuntoli didn't give much away -- thank goodness. Who wants to spoil the surprise? But he did say that Nick and Juliette could be patching things up. "You could definitely see a Nick and Juliette reunion," he says. But
writers "love tearing people apart and bringing them back together," so who knows how that might end up.
And trouble is coming, with a "Level 10 Wesen" who arrives in Portland and is controlling a lot of other types of Wesen -- undead Wesen. "Zombies are entering Portland," as Giuntoli says.
As for Adalind, who's carrying a baby with Royal blood whose daddy may be either Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) or his half-brother (James Frain), Giuntoli says we'll be seeing more of her, too: "The Adalind story is insane."
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Nirmala enters the house and takes blessings of nanaji.She says she came to Delhi after long time and wanted to meet nanaji before leaving as these are the only relations left.nanaji asks how is your family in mumbai,she says everyone is fine.they all ask her to stay back for few days here in their home.Suman is tensed in her room,Shravan asks her are you going to tell me what happened or not.She stops him from leaving the room,she says she liked a guy from the photos and she wants to share that with him.He gets happy but then he realises she dnt see any photo.She says I saw the photo in your hand and liked him.She asks him to call that guy but they realise the phone number is on the backside of the photo and is left in nanaji room.Suman stops sharan from leaving the room and herself goes to gets the photo.
Nirmala is shown speaking with nanaji,she says nidhi is studying in USA and aditya is managing her business.Just then sumo comes there,Sumo and nirmala meet each other and nanaji says shravan came to our house and is downstairs now .Nirmala gets emotional hearing this ,she asks if shravan knows she is here.She asks suman to send him of from the house and he shldnt come to know that shes here.sumo randomly gets a guys photo and shows it to shravan,he laughs seeing that photo saying how did you like this guy .Sumo tries sending him from the home.he makes fun of her and teases her with the guy.They keep fighting loudly,nirmala hears shravan voice and gets emotional.She tries seeing him hiding near the stairs but fails to see him.sumo thinks when aunty herself doesn't want to meet him,why is she getting emotional.
Tiwari family have dinner together and they have a fun chat.Nirmala says I'm proud of Suman,she made her passion her profession.She was good in cooking from childhood.Sumo serves dal and asks Nirmala to taste it ,Nirmala getting happy thinking suman still remembers this recipe.Suman says this was even shravans favourite dal and he used to love it when he was a kid.Nirmala gets emotional hearing that and leaves from there.Shravan enters his home and is furious to see nirmalas painting on the wall.Vandi says I kept the painting their,Shravan gets angry and shouts on her.She says the painting was pretty so I hung there.pushkars dad tells vandi that the portrait is shravans moms.
Sumo is in nanajis home,Nanaji asks sumo not to prepare food because he eats more food when she cooks.Sumo asks Nirmala aunty used to love shravan and her family a lot ,does she love them even now.Nanaji says how can a person stop loving someone in a day and shravan is her son so she must be loving him .Sumo says now why do they hate each other so much,nanaji says because they used to love each other a lot now they hate each other more.Nanaji says they must all be having some misunderstanding ,sumo says then it can be solved right .Nanaji says yes ,if they have someone who can mediate between them and try to make them talk,they can be solved.
Mamiji and bua are talking about Nirmala,mamiji says if ramnath comes to knw that after all this time we still maintained relation with Nirmala what might he think abt us .bua says he won't know and says ramnath and nanajis relation is very old and it won't get spoiled because of small things like this.Sumo takes paan to Nirmala and they have a chat on old times.Sumo asks Nirmala why did you people shift to Mumbai.She stays i wanted to be far away from everyone .Nirmala says I have only two things in delhi,one is tiwari house and the other is my house in Mumbai where I can't go.Sumo asks don't you feel like meeting him,nirmala says it was hard leaving him and going but it was correct.Nirmala asks sumo if she can see shravan even from far but then gets nervous.sumo convinces her to see shravan atleast from far .
Nirmala says she couldn't sleep all night ,she was thinking abt shravan.She asks suman to say something about shravan .She opens Facebook's and shows his picture.Nirmala gets happy seeing Shravans photo.Sumo says soon I'll make you meet him.
Precap-Sumo is on call,she is asking shravan not to cancel the meeting he says we have to postpone it as I called the tiffin center guy to cook the dal.She says why did u call him.He asks her to come and learn some cooking from him .She gets tensed thinking that tiffin center guy might spill out the truth about dal
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Located 45km from Dalat centre, DaiNinh Lake was formed by a dam for hydroelectricity. The place used to be an immense valley of green is now full of water. Not only its environment has been changed but also the residents life; the farmer became the fisherman. The rich potential of fish also attract hundred of fishermen, who came from the South.
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linask (2930) 2008-08-20 3:39
Combination of dark, high contrast boat in the foreground and foggy background looks great.
Well done !
mattharvey1 (1044) 2008-08-20 3:56
Wonderfully cool toned shot.
AnaRita (1741) 2008-08-20 4:09
Olá Hoang!
Beautiful and peaceful blue colors and view with all the mist.
Congratulations and thanks for sharing,
xclusive06 (29) 2008-08-20 4:15
what a nice photo
i can only say one world
isabela_sor (47748) 2008-08-20 4:15 [Comment]
IN my favorites ...
sigur (338) 2008-08-20 4:26
Hi there,
Very tranquil scene and great contrast of the boat against the water and misty background. Well done.
Regards Simon
gary91 (15348) 2008-08-20 4:50
Hello Hoang,
No need to say a lot of words... this is simply outstanding. A superb image with an incredible peaceful mood caused by this steel blue tones and a perfect composition...
Hats off for this master piece.
Have a nice day.
Best regards, Christian
macondo (20449) 2008-08-20 6:31
Hello Hoang.
A delicate and beautiful shot, contrasting the sharpness of the boat with the haziness of the misty background. You captured the light superbly, especially the way it shines on the water. Despite the slow movement of the small boat, the photo has a great stillness about it. Truly a superb photo. Great work.
Leonie (8809) 2008-08-20 7:14
Wow, very beautiful picture! It looks like a poem! Congrats
dArpAn (499) 2008-08-20 8:49
Hello Hoang,
Is it real !!!
Seems a scene straight out of fairyland !!!
Unbelievable b'uty, just perfect !!!
With mouth still wide open,
mondele (823) 2008-08-20 10:16
Une image très "zen". Vraiment superbe.
LamCam (3717) 2008-08-20 13:32
Hello Hoang,
Time seems to stand still in this wonderful, delicate, ethereal scene.
A memorable image,perfectly captured.
Best wishes...Maggie
DKarine (3903) 2008-08-20 13:42
You can be proud of you because it is a fantastic image. The words are not much when we look at this kind of landscape.
JoseMiguel (860) 2008-08-21 3:40
Hi Hoang,
Is all that came to my mind when seeing this image.
The backlight is so well handled, plenty of subtle information on the elements.
It's curious that the former farmer's story has turned out in such a peaceful mood image.
My compliments and thanks for share your work.
Best regards,
tungtrinh (15) 2008-08-21 7:57
Just like a painting, very beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
ManuMay (36447) 2008-08-21 8:03
Hello Hoang!!
Really I have no words to describe it!!!
Great, wonderful is one of the best I´ve always seen... so I put on my favourites...for sure!!
Thanks very much for share this great...and congratulations.
Regards from Madrid.
lasscor (7640) 2008-08-21 12:24
Hi LyLong,
Wonderful peaceful asian scenery, full of poetry, softness and calmness.
Lovely landscape, blue tones and soft golden light.
Disabled_A (0) 2008-08-23 12:08
Hello Hoang,
amazing light and colours! interesting composition! The water seems to be illuminated from under the surface..
very beautiful!
tranthai (9) 2008-09-18 3:47
Great shoot
mpdre (1611) 2009-03-06 19:28
Marvellous light! So delicate image...
No words... this photo only deserves contemplation...
daddo (28748) 2009-03-29 4:27
This lake seems to be the place that turns you into a visual poet. Beautiful combination of colour, light and shapes. Powerful sense of stillness and peace. regards. Klaudio.
Hello !
The atmopshere is hypnotic ! I love the soft tones and the composition is perfect, like a painting !!! Direct in my favorite ;-)
Best regards,
jrleborgne (1554) 2009-06-30 1:44
Hello Hoang,
Wonderful photograph with a great misty atmosphere.
coco (30439) 2009-06-30 2:00
Hi Hoang.
One of the best photos that I've seen on TE with this work on the light.
The composition is great too.
veuchlu (60) 2010-10-04 4:28
All the critiques speak for themselves... I'm not sure it's usefull to add another one, but nevermind : congratulations !!!
Really nice shot.
Have a good day.
javierphoto (168) 2010-10-05 12:34
Hi Hoang,
amazing picture!
The colrs and light are încredible!
Shanky (98) 2012-12-05 3:48
Beautiful bluish tone, lovely composition and absolutely soothing image to see.
photoray (13981) 2014-06-22 6:40
Howdy LyLong,
A beautiful atmospheric scene in blue hues of the fisherman & boat with the background fishing net and solitary tree, with sun attempting to burn through.
Concerning dams, they are archaic and obsolete technology. Electric energy is created more efficiently and economically, and most importantly with little negative impact on the environment by wind mills and solar panels. And water for drinking and farming can be efficiently provided by modern piping systems.
Thanks for sharing,
haydn (276) 2014-10-31 10:00
Hi Hoang,
excellent capture as like as the others..very fantastic..thanks for sharing..
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- Copyright: Hoang Long Ly (LyLong) (1890)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2008-07-22
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Nikon D 200, AF Nikkor 80-200mm / f2.8 ED
- Exposure: f/10.0, 1/160 seconds
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Greetings from Santa Marta, Colombia - a beach town on the northern, Caribbean coast of Colombia! Allison and I arrived yesterday from Cali, after 2 plane rides and a 3 hour layover in Bogota, where I introduced her to Crepes and Waffles.
Upon arrival we dumped our stuff at our hostel, La Brisa Loca, and headed over to the beach front. Since it was New Years Day there were TONS of people everywhere! Apparently the Colombian thing to do on New Years Day is go to the beach with everyone you know. There were so many people bustling around everywhere, and as Allison noticed, everyone was actively engaged in some activity. People swam, read, played catch, etc. but no one just sat there sun bathing. Probably because the sun is so hot and out all the time! We walked along the beach for awhile before enjoying some crepes and pizza along the boardwalk. At night we walked down the beach a little further to a look out point where tons of people were perched along rocks just enjoying the evening breeze. What a treat to be able to sit along the sea in a sundress and talk with a friend on January 1st! That has definitely never happened in Minnesota!!
Santa Marta at night from the rocks.
Oldest cathedral in South America.
Tomb of the founder of Santa Marta.
Al enjoying some casual yogurt for breakfast in Parque de Bolivar
In Parque de Bolivar
Today we loaded up on snacks of bread, fruit, coffee, yuca chips and granola cookies before heading to El Rodadero beach for the day. The beach was again packed with people but we managed to secure ourselves a tent and two beach chairs for about $9 USD for the day. We planted ourselves in the sand and read, chatted and relaxed for our last day before our six day jungle hike! I just started Deception Point, by Dan Brown, which I have been dying to read, and like all Dan Brown books, I cannot put it down...in fact its next to the computer as I type. :) In the late afternoon we watched the sunset and met up with my friend Lori, another teacher at my school who is doing the hike with us. We had a delicious last meal with Chicken Parmesan pasta for some carbo-loading and have retired to the hostel to finish packing (aka removing anything we possibly can from our backpacks!)
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Been doing a whole lot of real life stuff lately, but at the same time got to play with some dolls again too!
First up in honor of the season is the Halloween Dal a good friend asked me to make. She gets a new doll every Halloween and this year wondered if I could customize one into a cute spooky lolita girl. She wanted something slightly casual, and I maaaaay have gotten a little frill happy, but wrapped her up with a wooly scarf and earmuffs to make her a little more cozy looking. Dal dolls always look so grumpy, I figured she's the kind of charachter who wouldn't suffer the cold just for a bit of candy.
I was sad to see her go but happy she went to a great lady with a great home. Snapped a few photos before shipping her off still.
Doll number 2 is still Halloween for me! I know a lot of people will want to hang me for saying this, but as a rule I find anthro dolls kinda terrifying. I don't know why, they just typically aren't my bag. That is until of course I ran into Pinkie Cooper. Somehow that peppy little spaniel won me over.
I have the London Pinkie sitting pretty just as she came out of the box, but something in my head snapped and I had to customize another Pinkie into Isabelle from animal crossing new leaf. So I did.
Something a bit different. I love painting her big eyes and making her tiny clothes. Just before I had her finished a friend said she needed a pet gyroid so now she has a little Lloid the gyroid to keep her company.
That's about all the sugary horror i have for now, but there are more photos over on Dolly Daydream for anyone needing an extra fix.