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Diana Ross - Stone Liberty (Tamla Motown)

wrt. arr. & prod. Bob Gaudio, 1973.

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Genia Blumberg (b. 1923), Miniature tea set, crocheted from electric wire, 1945

Magdeburg, Germany Electric wire, beads, gold paint, metal base

This miniature tea set was made from electrical wire by prisoner Genia Blumberg at a concentration camp near Magdeburg, Germany. She made wire objects like this one using material stolen from the factory in which she worked and gave the objects to fellow inmates as gifts, or traded them in exchange for extra rations.

More Information Genia Blumberg was born in Vilna, Poland in 1923. She was deported at age twenty to Kaiserwald concentration camp. After the war, Genia was brought to the Hillersleben Displaced Persons camp, where she met her husband, David Goldberg, who was also a survivor. They settled in the United States in 1956.

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Chapter 29 of Roneo and Kimliet

Chapter 29

(Feb. 15, 2006, 4:49pm)

It was now time for the fifth and final scene of Act I of Romeo and Juliet . And Kim feared this scene as the worst one of the act, for she had to kiss Ron on the lips...without any Moodulating chip.

It is not a BF/GF kiss in any way, shape or form . she thought to herself, You are doing this only for a grade, nothing more.

Lord Capulet, played by Reeger, came on to the stage first. This was followed by Tybault, played by TJ (who doubled as one of the Chorus members and who Barkin gave to since he didn't announce who played the character), Zita as Lady Capulet. Kim, of course, came in as Juliet, and the Nurse, played by Ashley A. Half of the class made up the Capulets when not as the chorus

They then saw Ron, Felix and Arnie as Romeo, Benvolio, and Marcuito, respectively.

Kim gulped upon seeing Ron, while Ashley A gave an evil smirk.

Just you wait and see, Possible...

Reeger then proclaimed, "Welcome, gentlemen. The ladies who aren't shy shall dance for you! Ha, my ladies, which of you will refuse to dance now? Does this hit close to home? Welcome gentlemen. Come on musicians, play music!"

Amanda sighed from her desk and put out a CD player with a CD that says, "Lame-o 16th Century Elizabethian Music" in permanent marker. She put the CD inside the player and started to play it. She had been instructed by the Glee Three to stop at certain intervals in the scene.

The students on the stage began to dance to the Shakespearian music.

To one of the Capulet's Cousins, played by Earwin Lawson whom was a senior at the time of Middleton High and played defensive end for the Mad Dogs football team, Reeger then added.

"Ah, sir. These unexpected guests are welcome. No, sit, sit, my Capulet cousin. We're too old to dance. How long has it been since you and I last wore masks?"

Earwin replied, "I'd say about 30 years."

"What? No, it hasn't been that long. It was at Lucentio's wedding. No matter how quickly the years fly by, it's been just 25 years since we last wore masks.

Ron went to a servingman, played by Mikey Blumberg. Mikey, as well as his other friends from 3rd Street School from their youth, were all juniors at Middleton High.

He was looking at his longtime friend.

"Who is the girl on the arm of that lucky man over there?" Ron asked, trying to keep himself in character.

Mikey replied, "I don't know, sir."

"Oh, she shows the torches how to burn bright! Her beauty is too good for this world; she's too beautiful to die and be buried. She outshines the other women like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows. When this dance is over, I'll see where she stands, and then I'll touch her hand with my rough and ugly one. Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment! My eyes were liars because I never saw true beauty before tonight."

Inside Ron's head, there was Joyous Ron, Angry Ron, Fearful Ron, Disgust Ron, and Sadness Ron.

"I don't know if we should do this..." Fearful Ron replied, "I don't know if we should kiss Kim. It could impact our friendship with her in a negative way. He's known her for almost 13 years!"

"Look at it this way..." Angry Ron said "...it's either this or getting an F on the course and not graduating on the stage!"

"But shouldn't we celebrate that we are actually going to get Ron to finally, for real, kiss Kim?" Joyous Ron asked. "It would be like getting the largest chimmerito that Bueno Nacho has ever made! Covered in sweet and spicy Diabo sauce!

"No...Kim's going to get mad at him...her parents are going to get mad at him...and he'll get grounded for life by his parents!" Sadness Ron whined before breaking down in tears.

"Ewww...I think she would totally use the wrong lip gloss to kiss Ron on the lips." Disgust Ron said.

Tybault, played by TJ, then came onto the scene glaring at Ron.

"I can tell by his voice that the man is a foul Montague!" Looking at the Page, played by Gus, who also was doing double-duty as one of the chorus members, he added, "Get me my sword!"

With his eyes back at Ron, TJ continued, "What, does this peasant dare to come here with his face covered by a mask to sneer and scorn our celebration?"

Gus gave TJ a styrofoam and grey plastic sword.

TJ added, "Now, by the honor of our family, I do not consider it a crime to kill him!"

Reeger intervened and asked "Why? What's going on here, nephew? Why are you so angry?"

"Uncle, this man is a Montague-our enemy!" TJ exclaimed, "He's a scoundrel who's come here out of spite to mock our party!"

"That must be Romeo, right?" Reeger asked.

"That's him, that villain Romeo." TJ exclaimed.

"Calm down, cousin. Leave him alone!" Reeger insisted, "He carries himself like a dignified gentleman..."

Ron was also picking his nose while waiting for his line.

"...and to tell you the truth, he holds a reputation throughout Verona as a well-behaved young man. I wouldn't insult him in my own house for all the wealth in this town. So calm down. Just ignore him. That's what I want, and if you respect my wishes, you'll look nice and stop frowning because that's not the way you should behave at a feast."

"It's the right to way to act when a villain like him shows up!" TJ countered, "I won't tolerate him!"

"You will tolerate him! What, little man? I say you will. What the...am I the boss here or you?" Reeger exclaimed "You'll start a riot among my guests! There will be chaos and it will be your fault.

"But uncle, we're being disrespected!" TJ shouted.

"Go on, go on..." Reeger mocked, "You're an insolent little man. Is that how it is, really? This stupidity will come back to bite you. You're a punk, get away! Keep your mouth shut or else!"

"More light! More light!" Reeger then called out to the lighting crews to intensify the stage lights. They did so.

Turning back to TJ, he added, "I'll shut you up!"

"The combination of forced patience and pure rage is making my body tremble!" TJ insisted, holding onto the plastic sword, "I'll leave here now, but Romeo's prank, which seems so weet to him now, will turn bitter to him later."

As TJ left, the other students on the stage resumed the coordinated dancing. Amanda then whispered something to the head student of the lighting crew to focus on the attention of Kim and Ron, whom were also dancing as well up to this time. This was also when Amanda turned the video camera to focus on the pair as well as zooming in to make sure she got some grade-A footage for Bonnie and her co-horts.

When the lighting focused on them, Kim gulped as she held both hands with Ron. Both of their cheeks began to blush at the fluttering language of the next few lines.

"Your hand is like a holy place that my hand is unworthy to visit." Ron said to Kim with his cheeks blushing. "If you're offended by the touch of my hand, my two lips are standing here like blushing pilgrims, ready to make things better with a kiss.

Kim gathered the strength to read her next line, despite her nervousness.

"Good pilgrim, you don't give your hand enough credit. By holding my hand, you show polite devotion. After all, pilgrims touch the hands of statues of saints. Holding one palm against another is like a kiss."

Amanda meanwhile focused the video camera on them.

"Don't saints and pilgrims have lips too?" Ron asked, leaning in closer to Kim.

"Yes, pilgrim!" Kim replied, "They have lips that they're supposed to pray with."

It's only a play, Possible. It's only a play.

"Well then, saint, let lips do what hands do" Ron replied with his cheeks blushing even more. "I'm praying for you to kiss me. Please grant my prayer so my faith doesn't turn to despair.

Kim replied nervously smiling, "Saints do move, even when they grant prayers."

Ron then replied, "Then don't move while I act out my prayer."

As he said this, Ron leaned in, took a deep breath and kissed Kim on the lips for a small six seconds. Amanda zoomed in with the camera with glee.

"Now my sin has been taken by your lips." Ron said with a slightly higer voice over this act.

"Do my lips now have your sin?" Kim asked, her cheeks just flush with red.

"Sin from my lips?" Ron wondered, "You encourage crime with your sweetness. Give me my sin back."

And with that, both he and Kim kissed a second time on the lips. This time, it was a five second kiss.

"You kissed like you studied how." Kim replied after composing herself upon kissing her best friend twice in that span of 15 seconds.

Ashley A, upon seeing that Amanda has done her job in capturing both kisses of Team Possible for Bonnie, pushed Ron to the side and said to Kim while slightly pulling up her bib down overalls. The pin to her belt broke earlier in the day and it was no good in doing up the strap since she manipulated both buckles so Ashley A was forced to hold them up by the hand.

"Madam, your mother wants to talk to you."

Ron then asked to Ashley A, "Who is her mother?"

Ashley A said with a slight grin, for she and the rest of the Mean Cheers agreed to meet at Bonnie's house at 7:30pm tonight. Bonnie also texted that she was at ballet practice, for that was her routine every Wednesday.

"Indeed, young man, her mother is the lady of the house. She is a good, wise, and virtuous lady. I nursed her daughter, whom you were just talking to. Let me tell you, the man who marries her will become very wealthy."

Ron then stood alone and said, "Is she a Capulet? Oh, this is a heavy price to pay! My life is my enemy's debt."

Felix then came to Ron and said, "Come on, let's go while everything is still perfect.

Ron replied to Felix over what had happened. "Yes, but I'm afraid I'm in more trouble than ever."

Reeger came up to the pair and said, "No, gentlemen, don't get ready to go now. We have a little dessert coming up. Is that really true, Well then, I thank you both. I thank you honest gentlemen. Good night. Bring more torches over here. Come let's get to bed. Ah, my man, I swear it's getting late. I'm going to get some rest"

And with that, almost everyone left the stage except for Ashley A and Kim. Kim's blushing from those two kisses had faded away.

"Come over here, nurse." Kim insisted to the Mean Cheer member, "Who is that gentleman?"

Ashley A replied , "He is the son and heir of old Tiberio."

Kim then asked, "Who's the one who's going out the door right now?"

Ashley A then said, "Well, that one, I think, is young Petruchio."

"Who's the one following over there?" Kim then questioned, pointing, "The one who wouldn't dance?"

"I don't know his name." came Ashley A's reply.

"Go ask." Kim insisted. Ashley A ran off the stage while holding up her bib-down overalls.

Kim thought to herself.

It's a good thing I didn't see the MC Honey-Britina video. My parents would freak if I wore them like that. And Ashley A needs to get herself a belt.

"If he's married, I think I'll die rather than marry anyone else." Kim said while the blush returned to her face.

Ashley A returned. This time, she managed to refasten the left overall strap, leaving the right one undone.

"His name is Romeo. He's a Montague." Ashley A replied, "He's the only son of your greatest enemy."

Kim turned to the audience, which consisted only of Amanda, Barkin, and a few of the Drama students, including the Glee Three, plus a scientist and one of the Golden Dancers awaiting her ride because she ended up in detention. Her name was Lisa.

She said. "The one man I love is the son of the one man I hate! I saw him before I knew who he was and learned it too late! What a monster love is to make me love my worst enemy."

Ashley A then asked, "What's this? What's this?"

"A rhyme I learned just now from somebody I danced with." Kim replied.

Gus called from off-stage, "Juliet!"

"On our way! Come on, let's go!" Ashley A insisted, "The strangers have all left!"

The two girls exited and mercifully ended the first act.

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28th July in the medical history!!!

I. Introduction

A. Brief introduction to Dr. Baruch Blumberg

American physician, geneticist, and virologist Dr. Baruch Blumberg (July 28, 1925 — April 5, 2011) made important advances in medical science. His revolutionary research into the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and efforts to provide a test and vaccine for the infection are what made him most famous. In addition to advancing our knowledge of viral hepatitis, Dr. Blumberg’s research produced life-saving treatments that have contributed to the global prevention and management of HBV infections. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments. Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s legacy continues to inspire advancements in virology and public health initiatives globally.

B. what is the significance of his birthday on July 28th ??

Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s birthday, which falls on July 28, is significant because of the great influence he had on the medical and public health fields through his ground-breaking research on the hepatitis B virus (HBV). On the occasion of his birthday, we remember and honor this Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s life and accomplishments.

On this day, the scientific community and proponents of public health honor Dr. Blumberg for his accomplishments, which included the identification of HBV, the design of a diagnostic procedure, and a vaccination to prevent the virus. His efforts have prevented and reduced HBV infections all across the world, saving countless lives.

We celebrate his birthday in order to pay tribute to him and the important contributions he made to the fields of virology, research on infectious diseases, and medical interventions.

II. the main Discovery of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)

A. A description of hepatitis B and its effects on health worldwide

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the virus that causes hepatitis B, a viral liver infection. Given that it affects an estimated 257 million people worldwide, it is a serious global health issue. The main way that HBV is spread is via coming into touch with infected blood or body fluids. A chronic infection increases the risk of developing cirrhosis, liver cancer, and severe liver damage, which accounts for about 880,000 annual fatalities. Sub-Saharan Africa and some portions of Asia are areas with a high prevalence. Global health initiatives aim to lessen the burden of liver-related disorders worldwide by focusing on HBV vaccine, early diagnosis through screening, and improving access to treatment and care.

C. Dr. Blumberg’s groundbreaking research in identifying HBV

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was found thanks to Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s ground-breaking research in the 1960s. Through his research, he discovered an antigen in an Australian aboriginal’s blood that turned out to be a crucial HBV marker. This discovery created new opportunities for investigating and diagnosing the virus. His groundbreaking work in virology helped us understand viral hepatitis much better and set the way for the creation of diagnostic tools and HBV vaccinations to help people all over the world.

C. Importance of his discovery in understanding viral hepatitis

We have learned a lot about viral hepatitis thanks to Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s discovery of the hepatitis B virus and its accompanying antigen. It gave doctors a crucial tool for identifying HBV infections, allowing for early detection and treatment. His work served as the starting point for later study on viral hepatitis, which resulted in the creation of efficient treatments and preventative measures.

II. Diagnostic Test for HBV

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) diagnostic test was created as a result of Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s studies on the virus. In the blood of an Australian aborigine, he discovered an antigen known as the “Australia antigen” (now called the hepatitis B surface antigen, or HBsAg). This antigen evolved into a critical indicator of HBV infection, enabling early recognition and diagnosis of the virus. Since then, the HBV diagnostic test has been routinely utilized in medical settings to screen patients for infection and to track the development and effectiveness of treatment. It has been crucial in enhancing patient outcomes and halting the global spread of hepatitis B.

The QMe Hospital Management System Software ’s comprehensive patient history and electronic health records ensure seamless access to critical medical information, enabling healthcare professionals to make informed decisions and provide personalized care.

IV. Vaccine for Hepatitis B

A. finally, the Development of the hepatitis B vaccine

The hepatitis B vaccine was created as a result of Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s discovery of the hepatitis B virus and identification of the Australia antigen. Dr. Blumberg worked with other researchers to develop the first recombinant hepatitis B vaccine in 1981 using his understanding of the virus. The HBV surface antigen (HBsAg), which triggers the body’s immune system to make antibodies against the virus, is included in this vaccine, which was created utilizing genetic engineering techniques. In order to lessen the burden of hepatitis B and its repercussions, the hepatitis B vaccine has proven to be an extremely efficient means of avoiding HBV infection.

B. Importance of vaccination in preventing HBV

The most crucial step in avoiding HBV infection is receiving a hepatitis B vaccine. Long-lasting protection is provided by the vaccination, which prompts the body’s immune system to develop antibodies against the virus. We can drastically lower the prevalence of hepatitis B, avoid its serious sequelae, and strive toward the disease’s global eradication by immunizing people, particularly at-risk populations. The . QMe Hospital Management System Software’s comprehensive patient history and electronic health records ensure seamless access to critical medical information, enabling healthcare professionals to make informed decisions and provide personalized care. QMe Hospital Management System Software provides a comprehensive vaccination plan and reminder system to ensure individuals stay up-to-date with their immunizations. The platform allows users to create personalized vaccination schedules based on age, medical history, and recommended vaccines. QMe Hospital Management System Software sends timely reminders via email or mobile notifications to schedule and complete vaccinations, ensuring individuals never miss a crucial immunization.

V. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

VI. Legacy and Impact

The legacy and scope of Dr. Baruch Blumberg’s contributions to medical science are immense. His ground-breaking studies of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), the construction of a diagnostic test, and the development of the hepatitis B vaccination have averted serious liver illnesses and saved countless lives around the world. His work has significantly aided in the prevention of viral hepatitis, the control of HBV infections, and the motivation of upcoming generations of scientists to work in the fields of medicine and public health. Dr. Blumberg’s achievements have had a long-lasting effect on world health and continue to affect the discipline of virology.

VII. Conclusion

The advancements made in medical science by Dr. Baruch Blumberg have fundamentally changed the state of global health. His ground-breaking work in the identification of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), as well as the creation of an HBV diagnostic test and vaccination, has been crucial in the prevention and management of HBV infections around the world. His work has lowered the burden of liver-related disorders, saved countless lives, and motivated further developments in virology and public health. The medical profession continues to be motivated and guided by Dr. Blumberg’s legacy as they fight infectious diseases and advance human health. His outstanding accomplishments will always be remembered and honored as a symbol of development and commitment to the welfare of humanity.

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As coldly drawn as an atlas yet no less capable of enflaming the imagination, Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come” is a hard and brittle period love story that thaws into something much warmer — what its hyper-literate heroine would call “astonishment and joy” — as a merciless 19th-century winter blushes into a most unexpected spring.

Tuesday, January 1, 1856. Abigail (Katherine Waterston) mourns the daughter who was taken by diphtheria a few months prior, and journals about a world that feels barren in the young girl’s absence. “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,” she reads aloud in voiceover, offering the first excerpt from an interior monologue so pronounced that Fastvold’s romance often feels like an epistolary film written by a woman to herself. “The water froze on the potatoes as soon as they were washed. With little pride, and less hope, we begin the new year.”

And what a new year it will be for the ever-studious Abigail, an overgrown schoolgirl who likens her loneliness to “a library without books.” It will begin with new neighbors. It will bloom with new memories. And it will shudder with the tectonic aftershocks of a woman who — with no means of escaping her nook-like place in the world — dares to remap herself.

That cartography motif provides “The World to Come” with a clear sense of place from the moment it starts; the credits are scrawled above a map of upstate New York (played with patience and edenic possibility by the hills of Romania), and they give way to a valley so petrified in gray ice, even the slightest hints of color seem exotic. Embodied by a mealy-mouthed Casey Affleck (whose quietly moving performance as Abigail’s husk of a husband sneaks up on you), Dyer bristles against the depressive pall that’s settled around their house like it’s just another fallow period any farmer worth his beard could survive. “Contentment is like a friend he never gets to see,” Abigail notes in her journal with a novelist’s sense of invention, sketching the inner life of a spouse always less expressive than his shadow. They may be married, but what can that really mean to a woman who’s only met a handful of people in her life? At night, he grabs her breast and offers her another child. Abigail requests an atlas instead.

It could be worse. Abigail could be married to the more controlling Finney (Christopher Abbott), a jealous brute who’s just leased out the log cabin nearby and doesn’t appear to have any inner life at all. Not that his wife Tallie (Vanessa Kirby) would try to draw it out if he did. Unlike the bookish Abigail — who’s been raised to think of the world as a hidden empire built of ink and imagination — Tallie walks through life with her chin up, her cheeks flushed, and her hair caught in the wind. She is a woman less compelled by what she can imagine in her mind than what she can feel on her skin. Things like the webbing between Abigail’s fingers, which Tallie explores with unclear intentions as the two prairie housewives trade polite gossip about their husbands.

Has Tallie been with a woman before? Has any woman been with a woman before? Abigail doesn’t know the answers to these questions, or even how to ask them. All she knows is that the house seems warmer after Tallie’s visits. The swirling winds of Daniel Blumberg’s clarinet score — which can whip into a winter storm at a moment’s notice — grow as warm and soothing as an orange hearth. And a story that opens with the grief-stricken chill of a rustic horror movie starts to pull focus away from its monsters, eventually settling into a harsh but hypnotic love story less rewarding to watch than it is to remember.

In that respect, it differs from a recent spate of similar films. Critics — and this one speaks from experience — should be careful about relating every restrained sapphic romance to the likes of “Carol” or a Céline Sciamma movie. But Fastvold’s stiff knockout of a second feature (which arrives six years after “The Sleepwalker,” and trembles with the same intensity its filmmaker wrote into the scripts for “The Mustang” and “Vox Lux”) shares a common interest in female interiority and the sweet vertigo of falling in love. “The World to Come” takes that pioneer spirit and runs with it deep into the woods, even if its characters spend most of their lives standing in place, even if the movie around them — which entwines the furtive eroticism of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” with the kerosene ache of “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” — owes as much to the latter as it does any of its more obvious influences.

Without “Jesse James,” “The World to Come” literally wouldn’t exist. Andrew Dominik adapted the Western from a history book of the same name, sparking an artistic kinship between Affleck and author Ron Hansen — whose writing partner Jim Shepard got the idea for a novella about a forbidden affair when he found a note scribbled in the margins of an old farmer’s journal: “My best friend has moved away, I don’t think I will ever see her again.” When Hansen and Shepard offered Fastvold the script version, Affleck came with it, as did the implosive fatalism he brought to the role of Robert Ford, and the bitter survivalist mindset of living at nature’s mercy.

“The World to Come” is so withholding that the characters from “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” are practically sky-writing their emotions by comparison, and Fastvold’s film — despite its delicate lilt of a last scene — never detonates inside of you with remotely the same force. It’s jabbing and elliptical instead of lush and symphonic; old-fashioned where some of its predecessors have thrummed with contemporary zeal. No one filters drugs through armpits, or scissors their bodies into shapes that Abdellatif Kechiche might cut together. On the contrary, Abigail and Tallie are seldom onscreen together at all, and only in hindsight can we appreciate how charged the space between them is when they are. Fastvold shoots the movie at a polite and unfussy remove, the fuzzy vibrations of Andre Chemtoff’s 16mm cinematography hinting at an energy invisible to Abigail and Tallie’s husbands.

Many of the script’s most pivotal moments are folded into the margins like the two lines of chicken scratch that gave birth to these characters; each scene begins with the date scrawled across the scene as Abigail reads from her diary, and it isn’t until the end of the movie that you realize how much she’s kept hidden from us. It’s enough to know that she has access to it, and always will, but it’s also frustrating that we’re stuck watching some more ordinary histrionics instead. Abbott’s performance shivers with a sociopathic affectlessness, but “patriarchy incarnate” is thin gruel in a film where everyone else gets to play so many layers (even Affleck, who earns Dyer some hard-won dimension by the end). It’s not that his character doesn’t ring true, nor that Finney’s jealous chaos is at all contrived. Only that his destructive boorishness is such a plain way to spoil a story this ornate, like a wedding invitation embossed in comic sans.

But “The World to Come” is about the things we remember, and not the ones so easy to forget. “I hold our friendship and study it,” Abigail writes of her bond with Tallie, “as if it were the incomplete map of our escape.” Whether or not she ever finds her way free, the first half of 1856 will linger in Abigail’s mind like all of the best love stories do, her neurons and nerve endings rearranged into forest trails that forever lead back to the legend that explains them.

Grade: A-

“The World to Come” premiered in Competition at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution.

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Felicity

Tv series (1998-2002)

Spoilers...

I’ve gradually been watching Felicity for the past few months & have completed watching the series. I gotta say it’s charming & oddly addictive.

At the beginning of the series Felicity (Keri Russell) is an extremely shy & introverted character. She’s adorable. We see her proudly graduating high school but also feeling some trepidation about it. Naturally.

She sees her high school crush, Ben Covington, (Scott Speedman) at their high school graduation & decides to just go & talk to him. She regretted not getting to know him before. So she fixes that. Her yearbook had some sort of printing issue so they gave it to her on graduation day. So she asks Ben to sign her yearbook.

Surprisingly he sits down & writes a very thoughtful message to her. It’s sweet & inspiring. She decides to follow him to New York & she gets into NYU.

In tv land one can get into school in just a couple months - ya know completely ignoring the hundreds of people waitlisted lol That made me chuckle when watching. No big deal though.

Felicity gets to school & realizes Ben was just a nice guy & wasn’t in love with her of course. So she gets a bit of a reality check.

She makes a few friends & lives in the biggest dorm room on the history of planet Earth!

My room in my old dorm was ‘big’ and it had 3 feet of space between the beds...much bigger than my sister’s dorm lol

Felicity is likeable because she’s sweet, smart, shy & confused & just trying to figure her life out. All she knew is she didn’t want med school as her parents kept trying to shove it down her throat.

Ben is a nice guy who struggles with feeling stupid sometimes (though is actually really smart). He struggled with some of his classes & lacks a clear path for his major.

Occasionally Ben has these lines & that message in the yearbook which made me stop & go ‘you’re a writer’. I kept thinking he was going to become a writer...then in season four he decides to be a doctor. Okay...it was an alright decision & I like his academic plot lines in season 4 so no real complaints there.

We meet Noel Crane (Scott Foley)who is super dreamy. He’s smart, nice, outspoken but sensitive. A straight laced student & Resident Advisor (RA) who becomes Felicity’s friend & has a crush on her.

Throughout the series that’s the love triangle. It was interesting but there was far too much emphasis on it. Often it overshadowed the more interesting storylines on the show, IMO.

Noel pines for Felicity & loses sight of his life then soon graduates without a plan then later develops depression. I thought that was a great storyline. Noel’s family history of depression was compelling & how the character described it was very well done.

Back then tv shows didn’t talk about mental illness but this was handled delicately.

Noel gets help & gets better. He gets his life back on track, pursuing his dream of graphic design. There’s a line where he gets teased for liking computers...ya know as only ‘nerds’ like that stuff 😂

Felicity’s roommate Meghan Rotundi (Amanda Foreman) is a bit of a goth/Wicca practitioner. Every other character wear clothes I assume that are from The Gap so Meghan looks very different in her black mesh clothes & dark makeup. Nice contrast but I feel like Meghan’s development was overlooked for the most part of the series. She’s very blunt, unapologetic, sometimes mean...but she also cares for others even though she’ll deny it.

In her romantic life there’s growth but not academically. It’s only in the end of the last season does she realize she wants to pursue psychiatry. I think there were some missed opportunities there.

Though I will say I like that her uptight parents accept her for her quirks & clothing choices.

Sean Blumberg (Greg Grunberg) ...I have mixed feelings about his character. He’s an ambitious inventor & sort-of businessman. He owns a loft where Ben sublets /shares with him. Sean’s nice, caring & excitable. He’s also several years older. Around 5 or 6yrs difference I think.

His age difference was brought up several times, as if it were supposed to be important. In my last year of school I lived with a woman who was 15 years older than me. So what? Not a big deal. I’m not sure why the show kept pointing it out.

The only issue with his age is that at one point he’s 27 and STILL has no steady job. None! He’s all-in with his inventions that make no money & his family isn’t rich so how does that work now? He has a loft in New York with zero income? One episode talked of him owing money but come on, get rid of the loft, downsize then get a job, even if part time. *sigh*.

At the start of the series I liked Sean but then they turned him into a pathetic leech who gets mad & throws tantrums easily. He became incredibly annoying.

When I was near the end of the series I started to think that Sean would actually make a good salesman. Imagine him trying to sell cars, just the right amount of pushy. Though they put an episode in that made him look like a buffoon when making a sales pitch. So I feel like the writers were confused or trying to sabotage his character because he still ends up leeching off his buddy Noel & they end up business partners. 🤷‍♀️

Sean & Meghan date & eventually marry. I thought they were cute together at first but not as long term. I feel like Meghan would murder him due to being sick of his shit.

Elena Tyler (Tangi Miller) becomes a good friend to Felicity. All the ladies care for each other a great deal. Elena is very intelligent & a hard worker. She had a few romances & nearly got married. But I’ll be honest I found her boring. Not sure why. I think the most interesting part of her character was that she chose not to marry her fiancé Tracy. I thought it was a very smart move. And I found her background with her mom interesting but they didn’t do much with that.

Richard Coad starts out as an annoying member of the dorm. He & Noel become friends then later gets befriended by the group. Richard is a neurotic, blunt talking mess. He’s somehow still kinda adorable though does have some rough spots. I really liked him up through season 3. Season 4 he was in much less and then the writers turned him into a racist moron. Even if he had those thoughts I feel like his character would be more subtle & not as rude due to his overly developed sense of self preservation. Plus he’s not stupid, just blunt & a bit disconnected.

He did apologize but still it felt just so...wrong. Out of character even.

In any case I think the writers should have made him a little more like Rob Benedict, the actor who played him. Rob’s loveable.

Javier Quintata (Ian Gomez) is the owner at the coffee shop Dean & Deluca. He’s the boss but becomes very close with everyone, especially Felicity. I really liked him at first. Eventually his personal favours become outlandish & his stories started to make my eyes roll.

He & his devoted husband break up over non-issues. Why? It added nothing to the plot. Javier also wants to pursue acting at NYU. He’s really not good so it came off as a dumb idea & all scenes in acting class become annoying. I feel like the writers didn’t know what to do with him. I’d have preferred if he pursued a different dream- one that made sense. Like maybe all the years working with coffee & pastries inspires him to want to be a chef? 🤷‍♀️

Felicity. Throughout the series she’s shy, gradually getting more of a backbone. She admits to loving art & wants to pursue it. Her parents constantly pull her down , try to talk her out if it, even bully & manipulate her. She is for the most part uncompromising. I loved that! She held her ground & from a person like her, who always kept the peace at the expense of her own happiness, that’s amazing.

We see her grow though she spends far too much time angst-ing over Ben & Noel. Often she seems tortured with very few moments of being free & having fun.

I loved how in season 4 she befriends fellow artist Owen. I feel like that was huge. I loved how they went to galleries together & talked about their art & life. It was refreshing. I love that Felicity’s honours art class was so important to her & everything around that plot.

I hated however, how she always put others first.

So...I have to mention Felicity’s haircut from Season 2. I didn’t find it that bad...but apparently Keri Russell got death threats from it. Complete insanity!

Though I do think as it was 1999 back then, people were more uptight with personal style. If she had dyed her hair pink instead people would have flipped out too.

I do think there were better hair styles to choose from though. I think if she had a cut her hair to chin length & straightened it it could look pretty & still have a big impact. Something like that.

But honestly it’s just hair. I had a horrible haircut one year in university but it grew out on a few months & was fine. No big deal....but I wasn’t on tv so no one cared I guess 🤷‍♀️

In the ‘series finale’ , Felicity abruptly chooses medicine. Why??? That uncompromising love for painting just gone....And back to medicine? I wanted her to be an artist!

Every artist has a day job to support them. Felicity was acting like she was going to starve because she couldn’t sell her paintings.

I wish they found her a day job she really liked to support herself. I wanted her to be all-in.

Or they could find her a middle ground. That internship at the architectural firm, she could have realized she wanted to be an architect or something. Something other than medicine.

I really like though that she chose herself finally. Then Ben follows her to school. That was perfect. I just wished she didn’t want to be a doctor. I feel like that goes against everything she wanted.

Overall a great series. I love how they approach mental health - Felicity’s too. She was getting therapy regularly. It was nice to see. Very healthy.

I like JJ Abrams’ work but I (like everyone else) question the last several episodes. Nonsensical & out of place.

Personally I think the show should have put less emphasis on the romantic relationships & drama & more on self discovery by all characters. That’s more interesting...then sprinkle in a few moments here and there. A few episodes on love etc each season. We didn’t need the constant longing looks & drama of Will they won’t they.

I know I’m in a minority when it comes to such things but I feel the media - tv & movies especially focus WAY too much on the romance.

Then of course people like me who are borderline Asexual (except when it comes to fictional characters lol), I find it exhausting to always be bombarded with romance from all angles. However, if Felicity (and other shows) just used it occasionally & not every single episode I wouldn’t mind.

It’s just hard to care about a show if it just feels like it’s only about relationships and not much about life. But that’s just me.

The storylines that had me intensely interested in this show were:

- Ben’s relationship with his dad

- Ben gaining self confidence & realizing he’s actually smart

- Noel’s graphic designs & career

- Noel’s mental health

- Meghan’s rebellious nature & wanting to see what happens when she gets over the need to rebel (though we didn’t see much of it).

- Felicity’s parents’ attitude - I wanted them to see that they were wrong & admit it to her (though they don’t) 😞

- Wanting to see Richard find something he was really interested in & good at (which never happened)

- Wanting Felicity to have fun! Random silliness or parties...they rarely partied or did weird outings to things like paintball or bowling. College is for doing a million things. I wish tv land would do more if this

- Wanting Felicity to stop making decisions because of her love interests

- Wanting Felicity to go on a summer trip or internship to Europe on her own (never happened)

- Wanting Felicity to choose art (also didn’t happen) & support herself with either a job she simply likes (dog waking, tutoring, retail etc) or something in the art field (art therapy, illustrator etc)

To me these should have been the priorities & add romance occasionally...

But overall the series was good. The acting was really good from everyone. Even minor characters had pretty good actors. So well done!

The actors are great in other projects too. Keri Russell was in The Americans, even the Rise of Skywalker. Never saw them but I heard great things. Personally I really liked her in Austenland, August Rush, Mission Impossible 3 (small but great role), and I LOVED her in the movie Waitress.

Definitely give the actors a watch in other projects, even if you have mixed feelings about them in Felicity. They’re all good.

[ao3feed-cmbyn]

Parallel Lives, and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves to Avoid Complete and Total Crisis

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2K8Y8Uu

by qupecupid

Twenty years after summer, 1987, Elio receives troubling news just as he is about to return to Europe for good. Oliver, in the process of getting divorced, has attempted suicide, leaving his children in desperate need of an adult. Micheal, the oldest, reaches out to perhaps the only remaining adult who can help in the situation, Elio himself. - Idk if I will ever finish this but I thought it was a good idea and eventually I just want them to have a slow burn reunited happy ending. Low-key? Fuck Andre Aciman he can suck my dick also he's a very talented writer but WE DESERVE HAPPY ENDINGS

Words: 6792, Chapters: 5/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Call Me By Your Name (2017), Call Me by Your Name - André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Oliver (Call Me by Your Name), Elio Perlman, Marzia (Call Me By Your Name), Annella Perlman, Oliver's two sons, Oliver's Fiancée (Call Me By Your Name), who I wrote as a bitch but is probably a very nice woman, and I gave Oliver a third child and I will explain why just read it, she's a girl - Character, and like seven

Relationships: Oliver/Elio Perlman, Oliver & Elio Perlman

Additional Tags: Suicide Attempt, Mentions of Suicide, nothing explicit or instructional though, Internalized Homophobia, Kinda, Canon Compliant, but not really this would never happen, namesake, Pining, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Divorce, Separations, Isolation, marzia gets a lot of frantic gay phone calls, elio and marzia are best friends, Semi-Canonical Character, I gave his sons names and personalities and added a child for reasons, Oliver's children Need an Adult, they chose Elio and he has no idea what he's doing but he's trying his best, I gave Oliver a last name, its Blumberg, Slow Burn

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[artbydip]

I first painted Sophie three years ago. She’s my most popular painting. She died young trying to protect people that needed to be protected. This painting is a two stencil piece on glass. Read below for more information on Sophie. Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich (LMU) with her brother, Hans. As a result, she was executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work. Scholl was brought up in the Lutheran church. She entered junior or grade school at the age of seven, learned easily, and had a carefree childhood. In 1930, the family moved to Ludwigsburg and then two years later to Ulmwhere her father had a business consulting office. In 1932, Scholl started attending a secondary school for girls. At the age of twelve, she chose to join the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls), as did most of her classmates. Her initial enthusiasm gradually gave way to criticism. She was aware of the dissenting political views of her father, friends, and some teachers. Even her own brother Hans, who once eagerly participated in the Hitler Youth program, became entirely disillusioned with the Nazi Party.Political attitude had become an essential criterion in her choice of friends. The arrest of her brothers and friends in 1937 for participating in the German Youth Movement left a strong impression on her. She had a talent for drawing and painting and for the first time, came into contact with a few so-called “degenerate” artists. An avid reader, she developed a growing interest in philosophy and theology. In spring 1940, she graduated from secondary school, where the subject of her essay was “The Hand that Moved the Cradle, Moved the World.” Scholl nearly did not graduate, having lost any desire to participate in the classes which had largely become Nazi indoctrination. Being fond of children, she became a kindergarten teacher at the Fröbel Institute in Ulm. She had also chosen this job hoping that it would be recognized as an alternative service to Reichsarbeitsdienst (National Labor Service), a prerequisite to be admitted to the university. This was not the case, though, and in spring 1941 she began a six-month stint in the auxiliary war service as a nursery teacher in Blumberg. The military-like regimen of the Labor Service caused her to think very hard about the political situation and to begin practicing passive resistance. After her six months in the National Labor Service, in May 1942, she enrolled at the University of Munich as a student of biology and philosophy. Her brother Hans, who was studying medicine there, introduced her to his friends. Although this group of friends eventually was known for their political views, they initially were drawn together by a shared love of art, music, literature, philosophy, and theology. Hiking in the mountains, skiing and swimming were also of importance to them. They often attended concerts, plays, and lectures together. In Munich, Scholl met a number of artists, writers, and philosophers, particularly Carl Muth and Theodor Haecker, who were important contacts for her. The question they pondered the most was how the individual must act under a dictatorship. During the summer vacation in 1942, Scholl had to do war service in a metallurgical plant in Ulm. At the same time, her father was serving time in prison for having made a critical remark to an employee about Hitler. Between 1940 and 1941, Scholl’s brother, Hans Scholl, a former member of the Hitler Youth, began questioning the principles and policies of the Nazi regime. As a student at the University of Munich, Hans Scholl met two Roman Catholic men of letters who redirected his life, inspiring him to turn from studying medicine and pursue religion, philosophy, and the arts. Gathering around him like-minded friends, Alexander Schmorell, Wil Graff, and Jurgen Wittenstein, they eventually adopted a strategy of passive resistance towards the Nazis by writing and publishing leaflets that called for democracy and social justice, calling themselves the White Rose. In the summer of 1942, four leaflets were written and distributed throughout the school and central Germany. Based upon letters between Scholl and her boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel (reported and analyzed by Gunter Biemer and Jakob Knab in the journal Newman Studien), she had given two volumes of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s sermons to Hartnagel when he was deployed to the eastern front in May 1942. This discovery by Jakob Knab shows the importance of religion in Scholl’s life and was highlighted in an article in the Catholic Herald in the UK. Scholl learned of the White Rose pamphlet when she found one at her university. Realizing her brother helped write the pamphlet, Scholl herself began to work on the White Rose. The group of authors had been horrified by Hartnagel’s reports of German war crimes on the Eastern Front where Hartnagel witnessed Soviet POWs being shot in a mass grave and learned of the mass killings of Jews. Her correspondence with Hartnagel deeply discussed the “theology of conscience” developed in Newman’s writings. This is seen as her primary defense in her transcribed interrogations leading to her “trial” and execution. Those transcripts became the basis for a 2005 film treatment, Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. With six core members, three more White Rose pamphlets were created and circulated over the summer of 1942. he core members initially included Hans Scholl (Sophie’s brother), Willi Graf, Christoph Probst and Alexander Schmorell (Schmorell was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2012). Initially her brother had been keen to keep her unaware of their activities, but once she discovered them she joined him and proved valuable to the group because, as a woman, her chances of being randomly stopped by the SS were much smaller. Calling themselves the White Rose, they instructed Germans to passively resist the Nazi government. The pamphlet used both Biblical and philosophical support for an intellectual argument of resistance. In addition to authorship and protection, Scholl helped copy, distribute and mail pamphlets while also managing the group’s finances. She and the rest of the White Rose were arrested for distributing the sixth leaflet at the University of Munich on 18 February 1943. In the People’s Court before Judge Roland Freisler on 21 February 1943, Scholl was recorded as saying these words: Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don’t dare express themselves as we did. No testimony was allowed for the defendants; this was their only defense. On 22 February 1943, Scholl, her brother, Hans, and their friend, Christoph Probst, were found guilty of treason and condemned to death. They were all beheaded by a guillotine by executioner Johann Reichhart in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison only a few hours later, at 17:00 hrs. The execution was supervised by Walter Roemer, the enforcement chief of the Munich district court. Prison officials, in later describing the scene, emphasized the courage with which she walked to her execution. Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” Fritz Hartnagel was evacuated from Stalingrad in January 1943, but did not return to Germany before Sophie was executed. In October 1945, he married Sophie’s sister Elisabeth. Following her death, a copy of the sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany through Scandinavia to the UK by German jurist Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, where it was used by the Allied Forces. In mid-1943, they dropped over Germany millions of propaganda copies of the tract, now retitled The Manifesto of the Students of Munich. In a historical context, the White Rose’s legacy has significance for many commentators, both as a demonstration of exemplary spiritual courage, and as a well-documented case of social dissent in a society of violent repression, censorship, and conformist pressure. Playwright Lillian Garrett-Groag stated in Newsday on 22 February 1993, that “It is possibly the most spectacular moment of resistance that I can think of in the twentieth century … The fact that five little kids, in the mouth of the wolf, where it really counted, had the tremendous courage to do what they did, is spectacular to me. I know that the world is better for them having been there, but I do not know why.” In the same issue of Newsday, Holocaust historian Jud Newborn noted that “You cannot really measure the effect of this kind of resistance in whether or not X number of bridges were blown up or a regime fell … The White Rose really has a more symbolic value, but that’s a very important value.” Else Gebel shared Sophie Scholl’s cell and recorded her last words before being taken away to be executed. “It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives. What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted. Among the student body there will certainly be a revolt.”

[fixaidea]

Excerpt from the Holmes pastiche:

Count Willbury-Higgs was now smirking at them, leaning against the doorframe in a manner that was entirely too casual for someone of his class, and a stark contrast to his previous posture. The high-pitched, whiny affectation was gone from his voice, he sounded like anyone would on the streets of Munich.

Backhaus cocked his head, a small half-smile playing at his lips. He approached the count in a slow swagger.

‘I started to suspect as much the moment I spotted you’ he said ‘I doubted such matters would have brought you all the way here, unless of course you were after a completely different fellow. Apparently not. What is it then? Intel? Documents? Submarine plans again?’

Schatz jammed his fists into his pocket to keep himself from burying his face in his hands. He would have asked for clarification, for Backhaus to explain who the hell Willbury was, but he knew he would only get a condescending smile, and maybe some vague hints and a declaration that it was ‘elementary’.

‘That diamond necklace was but a side project for… what is he calling himself this time? Blumberg. His true prize were… a certain set of documents. Very, shall we say, sensitive ones. In the wrong hands they could cause a lot of trouble.’

‘I see’ said Backhaus ‘And where, pray tell, do you suggest we should find these documents?’

‘Oh?’ Willbury shrugged. Reaching under his cloak he pulled out a thick envelope and waved it in front of Backhaus’ face ‘Right here. As his plan to steal the necklace was interrupted he had no time to go back to his room to fetch them. I thought it best to retrieve them before he snuck back to get them.’

‘What makes you so sure he would?’ Schatz snapped. He was getting fed up by being left out of the conversation. Willbury merely raised an eyebrow at him. After a beat Backhaus took pity on him.

‘If these papers are indeed so important, he must have a vested interest in getting them back.’

‘That is the understatement of the century. If sold to the right bidder, these documents would worth thousands of that little necklace and cause serious international conflict’ said Clarkson. Schatz started – he had no idea when the man showed up.

‘Oh, the good doctor!’ Backhaus smirked ‘How is the lady?’

‘Devastated but calmer now. I gave her some hot cocoa, though if she asks, it was a potent sedative. I left her to her maid – capable girl, she will take good care of her.’

‘Colossal!’ exclaimed Backhaus, bouncing on his heels ‘All we need do is to lay in wait and catch the scoundrel!’

‘It may not be so simple’ said Willbury ‘He will be cautious. We can lay a trap for him, but we must work together, lest your assistant blunder into my plans again’ he threw a withering look at Schatz.

Backhaus had no clever comeback to that, though for a long moment he visibly struggled to come up with one.

‘Very well’ he said finally ‘Come to my room after lunch, we’ll see what we can do. Bring the doctor too.’

With that, the two Brits nodded their goodbyes and left. The moment they were out the door Schatz rounded on Backhaus.

‘What possessed you to trust a random stranger like this? All we know of this so-called Count Willbury is that he’s not who he said he was!’

Backhaus blinked at him slowly. Twice.

‘My dear Schatz. That may be all that you know of this fellow. What I know, is that Archibald Willbury-Higgs does not exist. That man is an English private agent called Sherlock Holmes.’

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[josephine-cialfi-blog]

Week 12

The first article about performance art gave a general idea of what it was. I learned that performance art first started to focus on body art. There was a lot of history to performance art that surprised me. I like how the rise of feminism is added in the history because it is an important part of how performance art is like today. It started because artists wanted to “rejuvenate their work.” Painting came back in the 1980s and took over performance art. It is still a form of art today including installations, paintings, and sculptures.

The second article was a little hard for me to understand. Even though Bree Newsome tried taking down the flag, it didn’t work and the flag went right back up. I enjoyed looking at the video of her work and what she did with the flag. I think it is very creative and I like how she unthreaded the bottom of the flag instead of cutting it up. Even though she climbed to cut the flag, it was meant as a metaphor to get rid of racism.

Nick Cave’s work is something that was very different. I wasn’t a fan of some of the outfits that he made. I really enjoyed the colorful ones because it really stood out and made the performance seem more fun. Seeing bright colorful colors makes me feel happier and enjoy things more compared to dark colors. The outfits were very time consuming to make, but were an important part of his work and performance art in general. I really enjoyed watching the part of the black mannequin because it had a deep meaning that is occurring in today’s world. In this piece, Nick dresses a black mannequin with sneakers and jeans. On the mannequin’s side, there is a blow up doll that acts as its guardian/protector. On top, the mannequin is covered up with a constructed web made from pony beads. From afar it looks like a beautiful piece of art, but once you get closer you are able to see the man trapped inside the web. Seeing art like this gives me a deep meaning to it because it is something that has an effect on me and it is something I have a voice about.

I initially wanted to pick Chris Burden as my relevant artist because of his famous photographed art in Los Angeles called Urban Light at LACMA. Then I saw Carolee Schneemann’s work and chose her. When first looking at her work, it made me curious to why she decided to have scenes of women being tortured. Looking at these pictures made me feel disgusted because it seemed like the artist was portraying women as dolls that can be used for anything, which is not true at all.

Carolee Schneemann was born October 12, 1939 in Pennsylvania. Her artwork consisted of gender politics and social things that aren’t meant to be talked about. She is known for her performance art practices and “is considered the progenitor of body art.” She first started her career with abstract, but later moved onto performance art. Not many people liked her explicit works and reacted with rage. (One film was of her and her ex-husband having sex, while another of her pulling a conversation out of her vagina and reading it.) She liked focusing on feminism and the female body. Her work isn’t something I really enjoy, but I can respect her for putting out controversial material to the world knowing that she will get a bad backlash from the audience.

Blumberg, Naomi. “Carolee Schneemann.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 8 Oct. 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Carolee-Schneemann.

[cdntennis]

Hall of Fame Open 2021 (Newport, United States)

Canadian Vasek Pospisil and Austin Krajicek advanced to the final in Newport in their professional debut as a team after João Sousa and Jordan Thompson gave them a walkover in the semifinals. They will face Pospisil’s former partner Jack Sock and William Blumberg tomorrow for the trophy.

(Picture : © Hall of Fame Open)

[freenewstoday]

New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2021/04/01/billions-in-new-obamacare-subsidies-are-now-available-on-healthcare-gov/

Billions in New Obamacare Subsidies Are Now Available on Healthcare.gov

Federal officials have reprogrammed Healthcare.gov, making new benefits available to tens of millions of Americans, weeks after Congress authorized spending billions on additional health law subsidies.

The Biden administration has doubled Obamacare’s advertising budget to get the word out, and will now spend $100 million telling Americans about newly affordable options.

Nearly everyone with an Affordable Care Act health plan can now qualify for increased financial help with premiums by going back to the website. Many Americans who buy their own insurance outside the A.C.A. marketplaces may also qualify for substantial help, and may benefit from reviewing options and switching to an eligible plan. Uninsured Americans also qualify.

For some, the savings could be significant: A 64-year-old who earns $30,000, for example, would see monthly premiums drop to $85 from $195 for a midlevel plan. A family of four that earns $40,000 would go from paying a $136 premium to nothing at all.

More than six million people, or about three in five currently uninsured Americans in Healthcare.gov states, will be able to find health plans that won’t cost them anything in premiums, according to a new government analysis (the government will fully pay the monthly premium).

“These changes are really important because there is a fair number of people who didn’t qualify before,” said Laura Packard, executive director of Get Covered America. “Maybe they gave up trying, maybe they got a substandard policy somewhere else. This is a great opportunity for them to get coverage.”

Maximizing subsidies will require enrolling in the right kind of plan, and getting financial help right away will mean logging onto Healthcare.gov. The federal government will not automatically apply the new subsidies to the existing 8.2 million enrollees’ premiums. Instead, those who buy their own insurance will need to log into their accounts and re-enroll in coverage. People who fail to do so will still get the money, but they will have to wait.

About 3.3 million people who buy their coverage outside the government marketplace could now qualify for subsidies on the marketplace. These are typically higher-income Americans who previously earned too much to qualify for help. These people will need to switch to a marketplace plan to take advantage of the premium tax credits.

The Biden administration has added another $50 million in advertising to an earlier $50 million marketing commitment; the campaign will run on television, radio and online, and will emphasize the reduced cost. In early March, the administration announced $2.3 million in grants to nonprofits that help enroll consumers in coverage. By contrast, the Trump administration slashed the health law’s outreach and advertising budget shortly after taking office.

“People deserve the peace of mind that comes with knowing you can take care of your health without going into debt,” said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of Health and Human Services, in a statement.

Typically, the opportunity to enroll is only during a brief period in the fall. This year, people will have more time. Customers can buy insurance or switch plans until Aug. 15.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the new subsidies will help 1.3 million uninsured Americans get coverage over the next two years. Some analysts say the policies could lower the number of uninsured Americans even more. The additional subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2022, though the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress are working to extend them through future legislation.

Linda Blumberg, a health policy expert at the Urban Institute, said the challenges of notifying people about their new options and the temporary nature of the program could limit its effect. But, she said, the Biden administration has the opportunity for a more substantial impact.

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Ms. Quenga has begun to work with some enrollees to sort out their new subsidies. She has one family, deterred from buying coverage by a $1,200 monthly premium, that expects to enroll now that the amount has dropped to $700. Another client now paying $30 a month will see his premium disappear.

Some people will have to wait longer for the stimulus law’s health subsidies. There are 15 states that run their own marketplaces, and some will take slightly longer to update their websites with the new premium amounts.

The stimulus law includes additional subsidies for Americans who have used unemployment insurance this year. Those people qualify for a no-cost health plan on the marketplace, but that benefit is more complex to administer and will not be available on Healthcare.gov until July.

Shoppers who do not re-enroll in coverage will still eventually get their insurance subsidies. Instead of showing up as a monthly discount on insurance premiums, they will be rolled into that person’s 2021 tax return next spring.

If you are uninsured, or are trying to decide whether to switch plans, this guide may be helpful.

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Should COVID-19 Vaccines Be Mandatory?

By Nicholas Yousefi, University Of California San Diego Class of 2023

June 27, 2020

The COVID-19 disease has led to new controversies and brought back old ones. One such controversy is the issue of whether the government should make vaccines mandatory.Recently, a New York State Bar Association Task Force published a report saying that COVID-19 vaccines should be mandatory, even if they go against people's religious beliefs or philosophies [1]. The report said that exceptions should not be made unless people have medical reasons for them [1].

The Bar Group supported its point of view by citing previous instances in which mandatory vaccinations were issued due to outbreaks. In the report, they wrote, "Constitutional challenges under the religious freedom clause under the First Amendment and under the substantive due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment have failed, when the individual interests are not strong enough to outweigh the public benefit." [2]. An example of one such challenge is the Zucht v. King case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that it did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to require a child to be vaccinated for admission to a school [3]. Another such example is Prince v. Massachusetts, where the Supreme Court ruled that states could force parents to vaccinate their children despite religious objections without violating the First Amendment [3]. However, the Bar Group called not just for state policies, but for a national mandate that everyone get vaccinated.

There was some opposition to the Bar Group's position. Professor Dorit Reiss, at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, did not believe the historical precedents would be sufficient to justify a mandate for the vaccine.She said that since these past cases gave states the power to mandate vaccines, not the Federal Government, they are not sufficient to justify federally mandated vaccines [4]. Also, Patricia Finn, a lawyer based in Rockland County, said that she had worked with many people who disobeyed orders to take vaccines [4], which could possibly happen if COVID-19 vaccines become mandatory.

If COVID-19 vaccines become mandatory, however, it is unlikely that many major religions will oppose them. The Catholic Church supports getting vaccinated, even if the vaccines were developed using aborted fetuses [5]. According to Catholicism, abortion is a sin,but the Catholic Church advises that instead of flat out rejecting the vaccines, parents should accept them if no alternatives are available while advocating for vaccines to be developed without the use of aborted fetuses [5]. The Protestant Church takes a similar view, although it also recommends that parents seek God for wisdom regarding what decisions to make [8]. Jehovah's Witnesses consider it morally okay to be vaccinated unless the vaccine was made using blood, in which case it is morally questionable, but still up to the parent to decide [6]. As for Jews, the Torah says that people should protect their own health and that of their children [7]. To do this, many Rabbis recommend weighing the benefits that the vaccines provide against any possible risks or side effects to determine what will pose the least risk to one's health or the health of the community [7]. Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism do not contain any doctrines forbidding vaccines either [9].

Since many major religions do not have hard and fast positions against vaccination, opposition to vaccinations is mainly due to other factors. According to the World Health Organization, three of the most common reasons people reject vaccines are they view it as an overstepping of the government's power, they are concerned with the safety of vaccines, and they believe that the diseases protected against by vaccines do not pose a serious health risk[11]. As the debate between the New York State Bar Group and Professor Dorit Reiss shows, there is no obvious widely accepted legal argument as to whether or not the government is allowed to mandate vaccinations. As for the other arguments against vaccines, only objective, evidence-based medical studies can show whether these points of view are valid.

The New York State Bar Group also argues that "The gravity of COVID-19 presents compelling justification for State legislatures and Congress to mandate a COVID-19 vaccination" [1]. However, there is disagreement over this statement. Although COVID-19 is slightly deadlier than the flu, it is far less deadly than other diseases such as SARS and Ebola [13]. To support its argument, the New York State Bar Group will have to have data that shows that the COVID-19 disease is indeed serious enough to warrant government intervention.As more information is discovered about the disease, this argument may or may not gain ground.

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[1]: Grant, Jason. "State Bar Group Calls for 'Mandatory' COVID-19 Vaccinations, Regardless of Objections."Law.com,28May 2020, https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/05/28/state-bar-calls-for-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations-regardless-of-objections/

[2]: Report of the New York State Bar Association’s Health Law Section Task Force on COVID-19.New York State Bar Association, 13 May 2020, https://nysba.org/app/uploads/2020/05/HealthLawSectionTaskForceCOVID-19Report_5.13.20-1.pdf

[3]: Beltz, Laura. "Where does the government’s right to require vaccinations come from?" Constitution Daily, 27February 2015, https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/where-does-the-governments-right-to-require-vaccinations-come-from/

[4]: Grant, Jason. "Lawyers, Professors Push Back Against State Bar Group Call for 'Mandatory' COVID-19 Vaccinations."Law.com, 4 June 2020, https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/06/04/lawyers-professors-push-back-against-state-bar-group-call-for-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations/

[5]: Connolly, Marshall. "What is the Catholic Church's position on vaccines?"Catholic.org,24 July 2018, https://www.catholic.org/news/health/story.php?id=77999

[6]: "Should My Family Be Immunized?"Watchtower Online Library, 1993,https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101993568#h=1

[7]: Shurpin, Yehuda. "What Does Jewish Law Say About Vaccination?"Chabad.org, 25 June 2020, https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2870103/jewish/What-Does-Jewish-Law-Say-About-Vaccination.htm

[8]: "How should a Christian view vaccinations/vaccines." GotQuestions.org, 2 January 2020, https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-vaccinations.html

[9]:Blumberg, Antonia. "Here's Where Major Religions Actually Stand On Vaccines."Huffington Post, 31 March 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heres-where-major-religions-actually-stand-on-vaccines_n_58dc3ef0e4b08194e3b71fc4

[10]: White, Cameron. "How deadly is COVID-19? What the research says."Medical News Today, 4 May 2020, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-coronavirus-deadly

[11]: "Six common misconceptions about immunization."World Health Organization, 25 June 2020, https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/detection/immunization_misconceptions/en/

[12]:Montgomery, David."COVID-19: How it compares with other diseases in 5 charts."MPR News, 11 March 2020, https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/03/11/covid19-how-it-compares-with-other-diseases-in-5-charts

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The completely unnecessary news analysis

by Christopher Smart

February 11, 2020

INTERNAL FOX NEWS REPORT: WE LIE

& ALIENS INVADE IOWA

Hold on to your MAGA hat — you won't believe this, but an internal report at Fox News Channel reveals the network is peddling disinformation — also known as LIES. (We are not making this up.) Fox is the gold standard for President Trump's supporters. In fact, Trumpers know that Fox News Channel for Real Americans is the only place they can get the “truth.” Everything else is Fake News! But wait. The research by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy shows that during Fox's Ukraine scandal coverage, various host and guests regularly spouted false information. It singled out Sean Hannity, Rudy Guliani, as well as Trump supporters and D.C. attorneys Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. The four have appeared 348 times on Fox since 2018 — 203 on Hannity's show, alone, according to Media Matters. The 162-page report details allegations of “non-disclosure of conflicts, use of unreliable sources, publishing false and misleading stories, misrepresentation of sources, and opaque coordination with involved parties.” Well, don't that just beat all. Go Trump! Where we would be without Fox?

GOT WIVES?

Thanks to a proposal at the Utah Legislature, it could become easier to be a polygamist. No, really. Remember that hit TV show about polygamy in suburbia called “Big Love?” That's right, it was about a polygamist, Bill Hendrickson, who lived in Sandy with his three wives: Barb, Margene and Nicki. People all over the country just loved it, particularly when Bill lost track of which wife to sleep with that night. The Utah Travel Council, however, wasn't so fond of the prime time show. For example, they didn't put billboards all over L.A. screaming, “Best Wives On Earth,” like they did for Utah's skiing: “Greatest Snow On Earth.” During Big Love's run from 2006-2011, Utahns venturing out of the state were often asked if they were polygamists: “Oh, you're from Sandy, Utah? Where are your wives? Do you know Barb, Margene and Nicki?” Now, a  new development could be a boon for brides: Proposed legislation would effectively make polygamy an infraction rather than a criminal enterprise. That's right, if you're pulled over with more than one wife, you just get a ticket. This is great news for Utah's image and could be worth new billboards: “Utah — Got Wives?”

ALIENS INVADE IOWA

A dozen or so candidates for president spent months and months and zillions of dollars in Iowa to win the State Caucus, which is now likened to a thousand drunk farmers playing twister. Surprise, the results got all screwed up on account of the Iowa Democratic Party used an App to count delegates developed by the Psychlos from the planet Hysterina. So, it no longer matters who won Iowa because our collective   attention span is less than a 24-hour news cycle. That set Bernie Sanders' hair — what's left of it — on fire. Pete Buttigieg declared victory, Joe Biden declared defeat and everyone went on to New Hampshire, while Donald Trump was taking victory laps and dissing Democrats for being idiots. It don't rain but it pours. Meanwhile, Michael Blumberg sprinted around the country dumping loads of cash on TV ads and saying he didn't give a trump about Iowa or New Hampshire, because no one lives there but little white, rural people who don't count. It all has left Democrats in a state of confusion, much like they've been for the past three years. Rome is burning and they just keep fiddling — or whatever you call that. Is this anyway to elect a president? How about something more intelligent — say, Spin The Bottle.

LIMBAUGH & OTHER PATRIOTS

At his wondrous State of the Union address, President Donald Trump recognized one of the greatest Americans of all time: right-wing radio host and the don of the Ditto Heads, Rush Limbaugh. It was a tough choice because there are many other great Americans on the president's List of Patriots that would help his reelection  — people who, like Rush, have made this country what it is today. The list of other great Americans in contention came into our possession, here at Smart Bomb:

  David Duke for his leadership and community building and tireless efforts to restore white supremacy.

  Bernie Madoff for his knowledge of our economic system and how to rip off unsuspecting investors.

  Sean Hannity for his bravery in facing down truth every day. It's a special talent to turn facts inside-out to make the president look sane.

  Congressman Devin Nunes for his patriotism and loyalty to the president for whom he works tirelessly to protect him from those Democrat bastards in Congress.

 Attorney General “Honest” Bill Barr for continuing that great tradition of cover ups and corruption of the truth. What a great American.

 And not least, Harvey Weinstein for reminding people just how business is done in Trumpworld and the natural order of things. Whose your daddy?

 Freedom fighters one and all.

Post Script — Well sports fans, if there was any doubt who rules the roost in the nation's capital before last week, there sure as heck ain't any now. Congressional Republicans bowed to Trump, giving him the green light to act out all his dark fantasies and he didn't have to be nudged twice: Decorated war veteran Lt. Col Alexander Vindman and his twin brother, Yevgeny, walked the plank because Alex told the truth under oath in the House impeachment hearings. Yevgeny had to go, too — collateral damage. European Ambassador Gordon “Quid Pro Quo” Sondland was escorted off the White Cliffs of Dover for not lying under oath in those same hearings. (No Wilson, you're not hallucinating. This shit is real.) The president also got after God-fearing Utah Sen. Mitt Romney for committing blasphemy in support of the overwhelming evidence that Trump abused his power by extorting Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate the Bidens or lose $400 million in defense funding. And the hits just kept coming: Nancy Pelosi got it for praying for Trump. And since he hadn't dumped on former FBI chief James Comey for a while, the president got after him, too: “What a sleazebag.” The diatribe lasted well over an hour. It was a show like the East Room had never seen with enough whining and victimhood to last until, well, until Trump does it again. And when the president was finished calling out all the “Bullshit,” his minions gave him a standing ovation. And it's a good thing they did — God knows what would have happened to them if they neglected to show necessary praise for their Dear Leader — Pol Pot Trump.

   Alright Wilson, on that cheery note, why don't you and the band get us out of here with something for the Mean Season: I look inside myself and see my heart is black. / I see my red door and want it painted black. / Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts. / It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black... I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black / Painted, painted, painted, painted black...

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Pre-order now:⁣ 🖼 C. Blumberg ‘South from the Future’⁣ audio cassette / digital⁣ (special low introduction price) ⁣ The second track, 神奇森林上海 (tr. Shanghai Magical Forest), holds a certain key to enter the psyche of the album. Here Blumberg is inspired by a photo found on Flickr. The author of the photo gave it a made-up name, c.q. a theme park that doesn’t exists. But in the canon of the Internet this place was misunderstood to be an actual real place. Resulting in bewildering daytrips and unfulfilling online voyages to find the apt information about this amusement park. It became a glitch. ⁣ ⁣ 🎶 Link in Bio ⁣ ⁣ ❗️Plus as a gift, i’m throwing a few DL codes in the comments. Enjoy (bij Chrysler Building) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_owYVVAcBl/?igshid=18cyc9es9jyvl