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I HAD NO IDEA AND I WAS AT THE CINEMA BY MYSELF AND THE FIRST POST-THEME SCENE STARTED AND HE CAME ON SCREEN THE FACE I MADE WAS FULL

AND I HAD NO ONE TO TURN TO!!! HE EVEN HAD LINES??? I WAS. SHOCKED!!!

LMAO i did see his review! in fact one of my very oldest and best friends is absolutely obsessed with james bond, and is also a huge peep show fan, so while he didn’t love david’s disappointment he did send it to me about five seconds after it was published. i understand david’s fundamental issue with the ending and wish he was a bit more satisfied with it overall, since i know how ingrained it is in british men his age to care about james bond. but alas! film was quite fun but i have my own qualms as well... better discourse for my other blog, i reckon. but hugh dennis!!! made it all worth it ★‿★

i don’t think i read a full start-to-finish rundown, but what i saw was that the guy was being incessant and really unnecessary (and eventually a bit hostile), like well overboard a simple back-and-forth between a comedian and an audience member, and that jimmy gave him quite a few warnings before he was removed. tbh it seemed like the guy specifically wanted to be removed, to cause enough of a scene that it’d be notable either for the patrons there or even the local news. headlines claiming jimmy went off on him or “raged” or whatever are just clickbait — the audience chanted to have the guy kicked out and said in interviews after the gig that jimmy was in the right (and turned the show around again). i think it’s relatively common for these things to happen, especially in smaller venues. fortunately, not everyone is having food thrown at them like nish; at the same time, not everyone is like acaster, simply unable to mentally recover from hecklers or other commotion. glad the audience still felt the show was money well spent!

i have checked it out, since rhod’s made the clips such an agreeable length! it’s good fun so far! i hope he’ll keep them under ~20 minutes or so so i can keep up easily. he’s an affable guy who’s easy to get along with so it’s cute gig :’)

anon i’m not even trying to be shady but i did not know anyone particularly liked mr swallow? is there something you love him from apart from catsdown? educate me!! but SAME literally my sole talent is being able to go “oh yeah they were on an episode of 8 out of 10 cats in 2014 mm i think david o’doherty and alex jones were on that one? yeah yeah that’s the one” 💀 outside of the universe of this blog i am quite a useless person let me tell you...

PLEASE four days ago i was talking about how cute they were and now i’m wondering how jamali didn’t bury her ass in the woods when no one was looking

juehMAHHHLLLLLEEEEEEE

you’re only allowed to have a crush on 3 people at once so 😌 better think it over and stake your claims now 😌

first of all i’m so sorry about your tired day and i too turn to meet the richardsons when i want some cheering up, and second of all LMAO I SHOULD HAVE WARNED YOU there may be no divorce-type drama but there is still drama!!! honestly sally phillips as a villain...explains so much about the way i feel about her... that feeling being extremely attracted 🧙

i am...very obsessed with the return of superman — full well knowing how heavily edited it is to show almost exclusively the happiest moments of parenthood and toddlerdom. tablo & haru were my og faves and then, despite never thinking i’d love another duo as much as them, the do family came along and i felt an obsessive joy i haven’t felt since the heydays of njjtw. when kyungwan announced they were leaving the show because he was going freelance, i almost jumped into the hudson 😁 as for a regular, it’s hard to say since so many variety shows rely on the chemistry of a large permanent cast opposed to a small permanent cast with rotating guests. i tend to love a lot of the varietydols because they have such honed charisma and confidence, like kim heechul, cho kyuhyun, song mino, p.o... lee soogeun is one of my reliable faves (very sean lock-like), but i guess i’d say song mino if you forced me to choose. i don’t want to expose my parasocial relationships with celebrities any more than i already do on this blog, and later in this ask post (extraordinary props to anyone who reads these entire things lmao), but thanks to the nature of a show like njttw + a long-standing and heavily documented entertainment career, i feel confidence and comfort in his being a genuinely charming and goofy person that makes everything he’s on just a bit more charming and goofy. everyone he’s ever worked with adores him, he’s very perceptive of others’ moods and senses of humour so can play off of anyone easily, and he’s got a great degree of duality to him: he’s both a total ditz and an absolute genius, he’s the most easy-going guy who doesn’t overshadow others while also being a beacon of chaos, he’s very down-to-earth no matter the situation or dynamic but is lowkey one of the most showbiz people on the variety circuit. i just love the guy, what can i say! when he enlists for military service before long, i’ll probably cry for...3–4 days?

if there’s one thing you should know about me it’s that i rarely watch scripted tv and spend 95% of my screen energy on panel shows, variety shows, youtube... which is hella ironic considering i have undergrad and grad degrees in film theory o_o anyhoo— i absolutely agree! if anyone reading this is not particularly interested in checking out korean panel shows but needs a cool party trick, let me tell you: korean is not characters like chinese, it’s just a short alphabet like english! do this sporcle quiz every day for a week and you’ll be able to read korean lol

apology accepted smh 😌😌😌

honestly vote was it the most wholesome moment in the show’s history yes or yes

just one more reason it’s a fucking crime this is a distanced, audience-less season... i’m trying not to think too much about that and ruin any degree of fun for myself but uuuggHHHHHHhhhh it’s so annoying sometimes—ANYWAYS i appreciate that while she’s a know-it-all in her own way, she doesn’t pretend to be un-helpable or un-teachable. she’s a very keen, knowledge-hungry person in general, and i’m sorry for people who confuse that for being pretentious. she’s not unapproachable and certainly isn’t beyond making fun of herself! and i love seeing any version of wide-eyed victoria we get!! ≧◡≦

i actually have a folder on my computer just of her laughing

i think...we’re getting there...let’s...keep waiting...👁👁...

aw anon o(╥﹏╥)o i’ll keep making them for you!!!

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bm2ab · 5 years ago

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Arrivals & Departures - 25 August 1530 Celebrate Ivan IV Vasilyevich [Ivan the Terrible] Day!

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (/ˈaɪvən/; Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич, tr. Ivan Vasilyevich; 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Ива́н Гро́зный (help·info), Ivan Grozny; "Ivan the Formidable" or "Ivan the Fearsome"), was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584.

Ivan was the crown prince of Vasili III, the Rurikid ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and was appointed Grand Prince at three years-old after his father's death. Ivan was proclaimed Tsar (Emperor) of All Rus' in 1547 at the age of seventeen, establishing the Tsardom of Russia with Moscow as the predominant state. Ivan's reign was characterized by Russia's transformation from a medieval state into an empire under the Tsar, though at immense cost to its people and its broader, long-term economy. Ivan conquered the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan and Sibir, with Russia becoming a multiethnic and multicontinental state spanning approximately 4,050,000 km sq (1,560,000 sq mi), developing a bureaucracy to administer the new territories. Ivan triggered the Livonian War, which ravaged Russia and resulted in the loss of Livonia and Ingria, but allowed him to exercise greater autocratic control over Russia's nobility, whom he violently purged in the Oprichnina. Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, and the founder of Russia's first publishing house, the Moscow Print Yard. Ivan was popular among Russia's commoners (see Ivan the Terrible in Russian folklore) except for the people of Novgorod and surrounding areas who were subject to the Massacre of Novgorod.

Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan's complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, but also prone to paranoia, rages, and episodic outbreaks of mental instability that increased with age. Ivan is popularly believed to have killed his eldest son and heir Ivan Ivanovich and the latter's unborn son during his outbursts, which left the politically ineffectual Feodor Ivanovich to inherit the throne, a man whose rule directly led to the end of the Rurikid dynasty and the beginning of the Time of Troubles.

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198X Review

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198X Review

198X taps into our love for the games of the ’80s, giving you a handful of short gaming vignettes wrapped around a simple story about the pain of growing up. The games themselves look more like ’90s SNES games than ’80s arcade titles (albeit very handsome SNES games), but 198X’s neon aesthetic (and, of course, its name) is clearly trying to evoke a sense of nostalgia for this period. Unfortunately, despite a few nice homages, it’s not a particularly transportive experience.

198X features five faux-’80s arcade games to play through, and they’re short enough that the whole thing, story sequences included, wraps in less than two hours. They’re not quite minigames–they’re framed as tiny slices of full games that exist within the narrative’s world, the first few levels of five larger experiences. These games, which are chained together sequentially by beautiful pixel-art cutscenes set to a synth soundtrack, make up the entirety of 198X’s gameplay. The plot centers on the “Kid” (he’s never named beyond this), who lives in a suburb outside of a major city. He watches the highway at night and thinks about getting out of town. He seems generally unhappy with his life, until he discovers an arcade hidden away in an old abandoned factory and discovers a sense of purpose and place amidst the machines and patrons there.

198X suffers from some of the same problems that Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One suffered from. If that book’s insistence that being a geek is inherently good irritated you, then 198X’s vague reverence for arcades and youth will likely have a similar effect. There’s something very immature about the game’s portrayal of the Kid and the way he talks about his idealistic childhood, while giving limited insight into why things are so hard on him now. “You get to high school and everyone’s brainwashed,” he says at one point, which is about as deep as the game gets in its exploration of the difficulty of one’s teenage years. You’re not given enough insight into the Kid to really get a sense of why this arcade is so important to him, beyond a few vague references to his father not being around anymore.

Of the five games you play through in 198X, only two really touch on the boy’s struggles in a meaningful way. Playing through the five games in order, then, doesn’t tell us a lot about more about the Kid’s private life, and there’s little real sense of why they are important to him beyond a general sentiment that games are powerful and important by default. Much of this narrative assumes your own investment in the power of an arcade, and the game doesn’t put much effort into selling you on why this particular arcade, and these particular games, mean so much to the Kid.

Your first foray into the arcade comes through Beating Heart, a Final Fight-style brawler with a simple two-button control scheme. It’s the most basic game included–you can punch, do a jump kick, or perform a spinning kick, and if you die while facing off against the handful of enemy types, you can immediately respawn without penalty. It’s a simple introduction, with a lovely period-appropriate midi soundtrack that does a great job of evoking the arcade classics it is paying homage to (in fact, this is true of every game in 198X). But it doesn’t offer anything interesting or unique in its mechanics, nor does it contribute much to the narrative of the Kid.

Next is Out of the Void, a shooter clearly inspired by R-Type, which only runs for two levels. You fly from left to right, collecting ship upgrades and firing regular and charged shots to take down your enemies. It’s solid fun, if nothing spectacular, and things get quite hairy in the second level. It’s one of the more enjoyable games in 198X simply because it actually feels pretty close to a decent arcade space shooter. Alas, it’s over very quickly, and while it’s relatively enjoyable, it’s certainly not as inventive or intense as the best games in the genre–the final boss, for instance, is a pushover. A more challenging experience, or some unique mechanics, would have better represented the games from this period that we have actual nostalgia for.

After this comes The Runaway, an OutRun-style driving game that lacks the arcade classic’s sense of speed and whimsy. The lack of gear changes and sharp corners makes this one a bit of a snooze, although it’s also the game in the collection that achieves the most resonance with the narrative–at a certain point, elements of the world you’ve seen in the cutscenes blend into the game. It’s a neat trick, but it’s in service of a plot that isn’t particularly gripping..

Shadowplay, a “ninja” game, is the standout of 198X. It’s the longest game in the collection (although you’ll still likely finish it in about 20 minutes). You play as a fast-running ninja across a series of automatically-scrolling screens. You can move left and right, jump, slide, and slash your sword at enemies ahead of you. It’s got the feel of an involved auto-runner, and timing your jumps and slashes to avoid enemy attacks and traps is engaging, with ever-changing level designs and interesting challenges that hit the right balance of difficulty where the game is challenging without being frustrating.

The platforms, spikes and pits you encounter make you read your environment and think about how you time your movements as you run through each level slashing at your enemies. You can collect power-ups to give your sword a greater reach, and there are more levels here (and more gameplay variety) than in the other games. There’s even a great boss fight at the end where you have to dodge between multiple platforms as a demon shoots tendrils at you, and reaching the end feels satisfying in a way the other games don’t. As much as 198X feels like a gimmick, Shadowplay stands out as an experience that feels like it could work as a full title. It feels disconnected from the overarching narrative, but it’s the most enjoyable part of the 198X.

The final game, Kill Screen, is a simple first-person RPG. It’s aiming to be weird and creepy rather than particularly challenging, and on that level, it works fairly well. It’s meant to represent the mental state of the protagonist, who has, up until that point, spent every cutscene moping. It works as a mood piece, and there’s some cool weird imagery in there, but the gameplay, which involves hunting for dragons in a maze full of random encounters, is very simple. There’s a neat Paper Mario-inspired mechanic where you can time button presses on attacks to do more damage, and the weird enemy designs are inventive, but it’s fairly one-note in both its gameplay model and its commentary on the Kid’s state of mind.

198X ends with a “To Be Continued.” This feels appropriate because the game, which is not being explicitly billed as episodic on its Steam page, feels not just short, but incomplete. As neat as the concept is, 198X doesn’t do enough to sell you on the connection between the metanarrative of the Kid and the arcade games he is playing–or spend enough time investing you in why any of this matters. There’s promise in some of these short genre riffs, but the game doesn’t give you many reasons to care about the Kid and his desire to get out of the suburbs.

198X is a great idea with middling execution. While its games offer some brief enjoyment, there’s not enough here for the game to feel like a proper ode to ’80s arcades, nor does the Kid’s plight, and his longing to escape his current life, totally connect. There’s definitely a spark of something here–and Shadowplay, in particular, is a lot of fun–but 198X feels more like a proof of concept than a final product.

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shadowfollowweb · 5 years ago

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StayHomeWriMo Public Health DEA Cases and more Counter-Surveillance - 084

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his week on the Writer's Detective Bureau, StayHomeWriMo, public health, DEA cases and more counter surveillance. I'm Adam Richardson and this is the Writer's Detective Bureau. Welcome to episode number 84 of the Writer's Detective Bureau, the podcast dedicated to helping authors and screenwriters write professional quality crime-related fiction. This week I'm answering your questions about the new StayHomeWriMo initiative, how law enforcement works during a public health crisis, whether DEA discloses case info to local cops, and how one might spot surveillance in a restaurant. I need to thank Gold Shield patrons, Debra Dunbar from debradunbar.com, C.C. Jameson from ccjameson.com, Larry Keeton, Vicki Tharp at vickitharpe.com, Chrysann, Larry Darter, Natalie Barelli of nataliebarelli.com, Craig Kingsman of craigkingsman.com, Lynn Vitale and Marco Carocari of marcocarocari.com for their support. And I also need to send a big thank you to my Silver Cuff-link and Coffee Club patrons as well. You can find links to all of the writers supporting this episode by going to the show notes at writersdetective.com/84. And to learn about setting up your own Patreon account for your author business or to support the show for as little as $2 per month, visit writersdetective.com/patreon. P-A-T-R-E-O-N.

How quickly the world has changed. How are you holding up? I saw a new take on a popular meme recently and it said, "Introverts, check on your extroverted friends. They are not okay." I am definitely an introvert and would probably love to be self-isolating. I say probably because I'm still working as usual, but if I was in self-isolation mode, I'd seriously consider tackling StayHomeWriMo brought to you by the NaNoWriMo folks. They are posting daily self-care checklist of things to do for yourself while you're stuck inside. Each day has four things to do. Number one is for mental wellbeing, number two is for creative wellbeing, three, social wellbeing, and four, physical wellbeing. So day one's checklist was for mental wellbeing, put your phone in a drawer for half an hour and give yourself a break from the news and social media. For the creative wellbeing, they gave you a writing prompt. Write about a character who's stuck inside. How do they feel about it? Why are they there? For social wellbeing, write and mail a letter to a friend or a family member. And for physical wellbeing, take note of where the tensest points in your body are. Take three deep breaths while relaxing those muscles. So I'll provide a link to the StayHomeWriMo page in the show notes at writersdetective.com/84 if you'd like to get the daily checklists sent to you. Also, Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income, who I consider a virtual mentor of sorts, has some great content right now geared toward dealing with the quarantine as an online business owner, which as a writer you are. Pat's showing up every morning on YouTube for a Q and A and he just put out a great video on five things you can lean into to make the most of the new time you have and come out better on the other end. So I'll link to that video in the show notes as well. So watch it when you have a chance and think about how this giant timeout can be viewed as a chance for you to do something you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. This is you time and we're going to get through this and I can't wait to see what you create. And if you're just looking for a laugh and a little rabbit hole to go down, follow end NCWHM on Twitter. It's the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Unlike most places, it's closed right now. So the museum left Tim, their head of security, in charge of the museum's social media account while the museum is closed. Tim's a grandpa and he's learning the ropes of how to use Twitter and he is funny. I'm not really into the whole cowboy thing and it doesn't have anything to do with police work, but I am loving this account and I bet you might as well. So check it out on Twitter at NCWHM if you just want a smile for a bit and help him go viral in a good way. All right, let's get into this week's questions... Continue reading...

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When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness 'crusade' marches on

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When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness 'crusade' marches on

(CNN)They started swarming across America’s border, millions of desperate families fleeing poverty or seeking political asylum.

One leader even thought of a radical way to keep them out.

“Can we build a wall high enough around this country so as to keep out these cheaper races?” he asked.

That scenario may sound familiar, but it’s actually a description of early 20th century America. The country was gripped by a demographic panic. That fear, along with mounting anxieties about crime and poverty, led to one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

“The Eugenics Crusade,” an American Experience film that premiers on PBS Tuesday night, recounts how America responded to those fears. The country’s leaders tried to breed a better race, and millions of American citizens were enthusiastic backers.

It was an ugly time. The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”

How American laws inspired the Nazis

The engrossing two-hour film, though, is about something deeper than science. It is about fear — how fear of “the other” can corrupt even the most brilliant minds. The film shows how an iconic inventor, a Nobel physics laureate and a brilliant Supreme Court justice all embraced the pseudoscience.

The crusade also found champions in social reformers like birth control proponent Margaret Sanger and W.E.B. DuBois, one of the founders of the NAACP. DuBois saw no irony in calling for African-Americans to “breed for better brains, for efficiency, for beauty.”

The film, written and directed by Michelle Ferrari, is filled with jaw-dropping moments: newsreel footage of white American families merrily competing in “genetic fitness” contests at state fairs where they were measured like livestock; a retelling of a pivotal court case where a teenage mother was forcibly sterilized by her mother; and the story of how the irrepressible inventor of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes became a champion of eugenics.

One the most chilling parts of the film involves an appearance by Adolf Hitler. Ferrari shows how America’s sterilization policies inspired Nazi Germany’s leaders to launch their own eugenics program, which later led to genocide.

Hitler actually wrote a fan letter to one of the biggest backers of eugenics in America, a wealthy lawyer named Madison Grant, who wrote a book, “The Passing of a Great Race.”

“Your book was my bible,” Hitler told Grant.

Few people today, however, know about this period in American history.

“It’s like this dirty secret that people whisper to each other once in a while,” says Nathaniel Comfort, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who is featured in the film.

“It’s uncomfortable. It’s ugly,” Comfort says. “It’s a nasty part of our country’s history that’s not very fun to confront. It’s not very pretty to think about ways in which Nazi eugenics policies were practically modeled on American eugenics policies.”

Why eugenics was so seductive

Behind every movement there’s a powerful personality. The eugenics crusade had Charles Davenport, a slender, Ivy League-educated scientist whose dignified demeanor exuded an air of authority. The PBS film shows why Davenport was the right man to spread the wrong idea.

He was ambitious, a shrewd manipulator of the media, and he knew how to attract the support of wealthy patrons to spread his eugenics ideas to powerful politicians. It was Davenport who called for a wall to be built around America to keep out the “cheaper races.”

Davenport was inspired by the work of Sir Francis Galton, who is credited with starting the eugenics movement during the late 19th century. A cousin of the famed naturalist Charles Darwin, Galton theorized that humans could control their own evolution. His proposal: Pair the most intelligent and fit so that their children would boost the “breeding stock” of the human race.

That proposition, of course, led to the next question: What do we do about those deemed not fit or intelligent? The eugenics crusade provided a monstrous answer: Ban them from reproducing.

The solution was so seductive because it bore the authority of science. The America of the early 20th century was torn by social ills: massive inequality, urban squalor, tensions over immigration.

Eugenics gave reformers a scientific answer to these problems. If social ills were caused by “feebleminded” people with bad genes, as many eugenics champions argued, why not make the world better by eliminating bad genes?

“Just as we have strains of scholars, military men, we have strains of paupers, of sex offenders, strains with strong tendencies toward larceny, assault, lying, running away,” Davenport once told a reporter. “The costs to society of these strains is enormous.”

It was a planned extinction of the most marginalized people in society — dressed up as a way to better society.

Why eugenics ideas persist

The crusade to build a better race eventually became a quest to build a whiter race. The film shows how lobbying from eugenics proponents helped push Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924. It banned the entry of Asian immigrants and limited Eastern and Southern Europeans for more than four decades.

“To some extent humanity has always been about ‘othering’ — there’s us and there’s the other,” says Adam Cohen, a writer and historian featured in the film. “The eugenics movement gave this scientific punch to this idea that there’s us and there are others, and we are the right people. We’re the people that’s not only important to favor now, but we’re the people who have to own the future.”

The film shows how the eugenics crusade was finally stopped by several factors: A counterattack from the scientific community, changing attitudes toward poverty triggered by the Great Depression, and later revelations about Nazi atrocities.

But the core idea of eugenics — an overwhelming faith that everything in human nature is determined by our genes — persists, says Comfort, author of “The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Become the Heart of American Medicine.”

He calls this notion “genetic determinism” and alluded to some of its assumptions in a recent article for Nature magazine.

Want to explain why students of color do poorly on tests? Look at their genes, the theory goes, not lack of support.

“But the benefits of good teaching, of school lunches and breakfasts, of having textbooks and air conditioning and heating and plumbing have been established irrefutably,” Comfort writes. “And they actually are causal: We know why stable blood sugar improves mental concentration.”

Then there is another disturbing shadow from the eugenics movement that lingers.

People talk openly now about creating “designer babies” due to advances in gene therapy. This is the world envisioned in sci-fi movies like “Gattaca,” where society is divided between wealthy people who engineer physically perfect babies and those who can only have children the natural way.

Comfort writes that such a world would be a nightmare:

“People would be defined at birth by their DNA. Expectations would be set, and opportunities, resources and experiences would be doled out — and withheld — a priori, before anyone has had a chance to show their mettle.”

Comfort is not so sure that humanity can resist the eugenics impulse to breed better human beings. The belief that genes are the primary determinant of a person’s success is seductive because it can absolve people of blame, he says.

“The allure of the innate is very real. Genes. Blood. Your basic inborn identity. It sounds like the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything,” Comfort says.

“What makes a eugenicist is this overwhelming faith that everything in human nature is determined by your genes,” he says. “This takes different forms in different places. We need to know how it manifests itself in these different periods right down to this day.”

In some ways the eugenics crusade marches on.

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Reader Response

Prompted by a Masthead member’s decision to talk publicly about her mental illness, Caroline Kitchener interviewed The Atlantic’s own Scott Stossel about his January/February 2014 cover story, “Surviving Anxiety.” A clinical psychologist remembers reading Stossel’s story the first time around:

I was so impressed with it that I made copies and gave them to several of my patients. His piece is a clear example of why personal stories like that are probably the most effective way of getting people to become more aware of the many issues involved in psychological and emotional difficulties.

Last June you wrote a piece about how difficult it was for many students who had to lose their therapist when they graduated from college. It made me think of how many therapists there are who see people for five, 10, or 20 years. Perhaps, because I worked in a city with few mental-health resources and a high demand for services, I always felt that if someone is “in treatment” for 10 years, while it can be beneficial to them in many ways, it shouldn’t be called therapy. To me, therapy implies that someone will get better. I don’t think mental-health professions have made as much progress as they could have in developing better treatments. Other sciences have been able to use many of the new technologies to improve almost every other area of treatment, but many of the basic treatments for anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder have barely improved over the last 25 years. Anyway, any mention of the issues is a help to the cause.

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Top 10 Found Footage Movies You Can Stream

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Top 10 Found Footage Movies You Can Stream

October is here and it’s time to stock up on those extra batteries! What better way to start off your horror binging than with some chills and thrills from behind a camera lens? Since the The Blair Witch Project took the box office by storm in 1999, we’ve had no shortage of Found Footage Flicks to feast on; good and bad. We’re here to help you sort through the good. Here are the ten best found footage films that you can check out right now to jumpstart your horror-filled binge!

DOCUMENTING YOUR FEARS

For those new to found footage; These films bring the audiences closer to the horror by putting them in the perspective of the camera. All or most of the fiction is presented to viewers as if being discovered or documented footage of the events. Usually this is shown from the point of view of one or more characters’ camera(s) and given their real-time commentary. Popularized by films such as The Blair Witch Project and the Paranormal Activity series, found footage has kept itself relevant to audiences and a horror staple for fans of the genre. They found a way to keep us interested in the events the characters show as they unfold.

CREEP (2014)

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Synopsis – The film follows videographer, Aaron, as he answers a Craigslist ad to spend the day documenting the life of it’s poster, Josef. Josef requests that Aaron spends the day recording his life as he is doomed to perish from a terminal cancer in his brain. All this so he will have something to leave behind for his unborn child. As Aaron documents more and more of Josef’s life, he begins to wonder who exactly he agreed to work for.

Why You Should Watch – This movie has gained quite the following with fans and with a sequel on the way, this one is a must watch. Mark Duplass as Josef steals the show. His sincere demeanor followed by the duality of his sheer, well, creepiness is what will keep you wondering what else could happen? This one will get under your skin and keep you uncomfortable while we join Aaron on his discovery of what kind of person Josef really is.

Where You Can Watch – Netflix

Afflicted (2013)

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Synopsis – Best friends Clif and Derek decide to document their travels overseas and upload their adventures online for everyone to see. This comes as a sort of “last wish” for Derek because he has AVM, an abnormality in the brain which could kill him at any time. Briefly into their journey, Derek is injured mysteriously. Through the remainder of their travels, Derek begins to exhibit strange changes and behaviors while Clif documents these in escalating scenarios.

Why You Should Watch – Frankly the film can be broken down into two parts; the first being Derek’s transformation and the latter half being Derek’s search for answers. Both have very different elements and the switch in tone between the two are fascinating. Derek’s transformation is the highlight of the film. Seeing how he changes and what changes with every moment, along with his and Clif’s reactions, keeps us interested.

Where You Can Watch – Amazon Prime Video

Grave Encounters (2011)

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Synopsis – A paranormal investigation team and their crew decide to explore the halls of an abandoned mental institution, deemed to be the most haunted place on earth. The footage that is discovered of their investigation is named as the final episode to their television series: Grave Encounters. With intentions of the venture to be just any “normal show”, the team thinks to fake any sort of ghostly experiences to boost their ratings. As the night carries out and unexplained events begin, the team starts to wonder ‘could the stories of the institution be real?’

Why You Should Watch – For anyone who loves those ghost hunting shows, this is the pinnacle of an investigation going entirely into chaos. Everything you’d like to see happen when people go searching for spirits happens. The setting is the other thing that really makes the film worth watching. Nothing would be scarier than trapped in an abandoned mental asylum all night. With winding halls and rooms galore to explore, there could be anything lurking in the dark corners of these walls.

Where You Can Watch – Shudder

The Den (2013)

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Synopsis – Elizabeth is conducting a social experiment for her graduate thesis revolving around the people and the world of the web. She hopes to document how we can connect via social mediums on the internet and the people who dwell online through a chat site called The Den. At first she gets to experience what most come to find in random online chat sites. The world of the friendly, perverse, scam artists, and those looking to get a reaction out of strangers through pranks. One day she comes across a user who shows her such a horrific sight, that it has to be real.

Why You Should Watch – Let’s face it, the internet is a scary place. Period. You could be interacting with anyone, anywhere and there is no certainty to who you’re talking to. This film captures that fear in the back of your mind that maybe in this world of technology, someone is watching you even with the computer in sleep mode.

Where You Can Watch – Netflix

Atrocious (2010)

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Synopsis – Siblings and amateur paranormal investigators Cristian and July are being forced to spend their vacation at their family’s country side home. Along with parents and younger brother Jose, hopes of a fun get away are saved by an old legend of an ominous ghost woman. This woman is rumored to be in the labyrinth like forest beside their family vacation home. Against the wishes of both parents, Cristian and July explore the diverting paths of the labyrinth in hopes of capturing signs of this ghostly apparition.

Why You Should Watch – Remember the good old days, fiends? When you wanted to go exploring graveyards and old houses hoping to see a ghost? No? Yeah neither did I. These teens are like most with a taste for the creepy. They want to see something supernatural but also don’t want to. This film captures that young, adolescent desire to see more of the unknown, with youthful arrogance. All the different paths and hidden areas that the teens stumble upon in their investigation is interesting, along with a twist you really wouldn’t see coming.

Where You Can Watch – Shudder

Heidi (2014)

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Synopsis – Two teenage pranksters, Ryan and Jack, are trying to just enjoy their summer and create new content for their prank video channel. Sadly family and responsibilities are making it difficult to spend time making videos. As a part time summer job, Ryan begins caring for and cleaning up an elderly woman’s home while she’s away. On the job, Ryan and Jack discover a passage to the attic of the house to find an eerie doll. The doll named Heidi is found amongst a collection of valuable and old items. After finding this doll, it seems to appear in places it shouldn’t and mysterious murders seem to follow. Could Heidi be linked to these horrific events or is it just coincidence?

Why You Should Watch – Any fans of the Annabelle films will enjoy this. The creepy doll theme has been a host of fears for many fans of horror. What makes Heidi different is that she is just a doll for the film. She is subtle, unlike her major Hollywood counterpart. The fears build up and by the third act, things go straight into slasher territory with gruesome deaths and gore galore.

Where You Can Watch – Amazon Prime Video

HellHouse LLC (2016)

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Synopsis – Documentarian Diane Graves looks to interview the sole survivor of a haunted house attraction that experienced a tragedy on it’s opening night five years ago, killing fifteen people. The remaining member of the group, Sara, provides tapes to Diane showing the events before and during the tragedy. Tapes from when the location was purchased, creating the attraction, and strange events that lead to that terrible night might reveal what actually happened.

Why You Should Watch – For fans of The Houses October Built this is a must see. This film gives audiences more of what they love about October. An in depth look at a group of scare junkies and horror fiends building a haunted attraction for patrons to experience. All the while spooky events begin to creep out the owners. The attraction they build is something that excites you and makes you actually want to attend it. While the ghostly story keeps you glued to story as it plays out.

Where You Can Watch – Amazon Prime Video

The Presence (Die Presanz 2014)

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Synopsis – Couple Markus and Rebecca retreat with friend Lukas to an old, abandoned castle rumored to be haunted. Rebecca under the impression that she and Markus were vacationing to spend time together is thwarted. Disappointed to find that she has been roped into another attempt to document spirits with her boyfriend and his friend. What seems to be a well kept old castle turns into nights of strange events and built up tension between the three during their increasingly terrifying nights.

Why You Should Watch – This German film is one that is more along the lines of the Paranormal Activity formula. The film is structured around the nights spent at the castle and the events get creepier with each night. For fans of this structure, seeing it played out in a more remote, exotic area is a breath of fresh air for the genre.

Where You Can Watch – Netflix

21 Days (2014)

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Synopsis – Three filmmakers set out to challenge the paranormal by barricading themselves in a home where no family has been able to stay in the home for more than 21 days. The families that have lived there have vacated and left their belongings, never returning to the home. Some have even been affected to dark outcomes. As the three try to document and make it through the ensuing days, they become more certain that something evil lurks in the home.

Why You Should Watch – The film has a very Amityville Horror sort of backstory. What makes you want to keep watching is the perspective of being in a home rumored to be haunted and not being able to leave. The tension between the three as things get crazier keeps the momentum going and wonder how they will be able to escape the house.

Where You Can Watch – Amazon Prime Video

WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

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Synopsis – Local broadcasting station WNUF aired a special on October 31, 1987 where tv personality Frank Stewart leads paranormal investigators into a supposedly haunted house. The Webber House known for it’s grizzly murders and strange occurrences through the years has become quite the urban legend. With special commercials to keep your Halloween extra creepy, tune in as Frank and company’s investigation unfolds.

Why You Should Watch – If you are nostalgic for anything 80’s, this is the film for you. The camera work and quality if typical of time, giving you a throwback to the days you use to sit by the TV for any sort of specials for Halloween. The film goes as far as to even include actual commercial breaks! Yes, really, there are numerous breaks throughout the film for everyday products and those special to the holiday. They can get a bit tiring (just like when we were kids) but definitely keep up the atmosphere of the film.

Where You Can Watch – Shudder

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Ivan the Terrible (16.01.1547—18.03.1584)

For other uses, see Ivan the Terrible (disambiguation). Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич, tr. Ivan Vasilyevich; 3 September [O.S. 25 August] 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome (Russian: Ива́н Гро́зный (help·info), Ivan Grozny), was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and 'Tsar of All the Russias' from 1547 until his death in 1584. His long reign saw the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan, Khanate of Astrakhan and Khanate of Sibir, transforming Russia into a multiethnic and multicontinental state spanning almost one billion acres, approximately 4,050,000 km2 (1,560,000 sq mi). Ivan managed countless changes in the progression from a medieval state to an empire and emerging regional power, and became the first ruler to be crowned as Tsar of All the Russias. Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan's complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental instability, that increased with his age, affecting his reign. In one such outburst, he killed his groomed and chosen heir Ivan Ivanovich. This left the Tsardom to be passed to Ivan's younger son, the weak and intellectually disabled Feodor Ivanovich. Ivan's legacy is complex: he was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, founder of the Moscow Print Yard, Russia's first publishing house, a leader highly popular among the common people (see Ivan the Terrible in Russian folklore) of Russia, but he is also remembered for his paranoia and arguably harsh treatment of the Russian nobility. The Massacre of Novgorod is regarded as one of the biggest demonstrations of his mental instability and brutality.[better source needed] More details Android, Windows

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PART 4! 7 Women - 7 Challenges

7 Women - 7 Challenges PART 4

At the start of 2017 after feedback from the Tough Girl Tribe. I started 7 Women - 7 Challenges.

Throughout the year I will be interviewing 7 women as we follow them on their journey of going after their own personal challenges.

We will learn what really has to happen for people to achieve their goals, we will hear about their frustrations, disappointments, set backs, as well as their successes and achievements.

It is real stories, from real women, living real lives.

Schedule of future episodes

Part 1 - 1st January LIVE

Part 2 - 12th February LIVE

Part 3 - 2nd April LIVE

Part 4 - 28th May LIVE

Part 5 - 1st October

Part 6 - 19th November

Part 7 - 31st December

Show notes

Rae Red

Feeling a bit weird in January

Finding out she was pregnant!

Knackered, dealing with morning sickness

Stopping training

Going on a mental roller coaster

Not being able to tell people

Moving house & being surrounded by boxes

Processing the news

Being angry

Going through a grieving process

BREAK

Struggling with mental health

Walking everyday

Publishing her blog posts

Feeling lonely while pregnant

Making her pregnancy her own experience

The first 3 months

Round ligament pain

Pregnancy Yoga via Youtube

Not fighting against it

The elephant in the room!

Heartburn

The London Marathon Ballot!

Being due early October

Plans for the future.. new business idea

Ice climbing in February?

How her diabetes has been affected by being pregnant

Having a starvation test

Eating a banana a day..

Trying to stay positive

Why you need to reach out to people

Starting with her blog - howdoesshedoit.com

Laura Try

Listening back to part 3 of the podcast and crying about it

Being on the edge of nearly giving up

How it has all changed….

Getting a main sponsor!

Going to a business networking meeting every week #BNI

Asking for a dream referral and wanting to speak to Russell Quirk

6 week later being told he will be at the meeting

Should she mention the rowing trip?

Doing her research.. taking a deep breath and saying hello!

Going for it!

£2,000 to go

Becoming numb to emotion and not being able to feel anything

Why the challenge is not about rowing GB

Getting excited!!

Give some love to www.emoo.co.uk

Why it’s more than just the money

Getting physical and emotional support

Being a New World Record Holder!!!

Being a member of the Sub 7 Rowing Club

Saying “YES”

The world record row!

Fitness before the challenge…. & not being able to train properly for the past few months

£150 club? Still an option?

The plan to get the final £2k

Donations have stopped since she got a main sponsor

Guest speaking gigs - which is ticking a few boxes

Exhausted, scatter brain, forgetting things, never being so tired in her life!

Taking time off….

Moving house on Monday - 5 days before she goes rowing!

Having a job for when she comes back!

Starting her row on the 3rd June!

Mental skills coaching

Why it’s all about imagery!

Getting excited!!

8 weeks - follow along with Laura via her social media channels

It’s so easy!!

Jen Dykhoorn

What’s been happening since we last spoke!

Moving countries and living in Stockholm

Getting to travel more

Experiencing Spring twice!

What she loves about Stockholm

Signing up for an Ultra Marathon in July (Eco Trail Ultra Marathon)

Doing long runs at the weekend and cycling to work everyday

Tips for running on new trails, using iPhones and having a back up plan

MapMyRun.com

Getting the balance right between running and cycling while training

Using the ultra as a training exercise

Doing what she can do

Being prepared as much as she can while maintaining everything else in her life

Structured Reflection from using the Passion Planner

Having fewer obligations in Stockholm and being able to choose what she wants to do

Struggling with anxiety and why her tools helps her to create space

Dealing with the stress and pressure from work

Everyday magic goals!

Making music once a week! Taking up the harmonica

The 100 Day Challenge!

Tips for meditation

Planning for LEJOG - mapping and accommodation

Getting excited for her challenge!

Her goals for the coming weeks

Heading off to Budapest for a weekend getaway

Jo Jo Rogers

Dealing with injury

Focusing on recovery

Being angry with her injury

Getting a new rescue dog and training her to get use to cars

The frustration of not being able to run

Being able to get out to Texas to race!

Not pushing on her running, until race day

Heading down to Dallas, and getting to see her son as well

Running on cement in the heat!

Carrying her own hydration and not needing to stop at the aid stations

3 loop course of 10.33 mile course

Not having a time goal or a place goals

Assessing the other runners on the start line

Her goal for the race and wanting to run even laps

1 hr 30 mins for each loop - finishing 2nd women!!

Women placed - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th!

“Go the Girls!!”

The challenges during the race…

Running the last 3 miles faster and making an effort to stay over pace

Feeling fully recovered

Plans for the summer months

Sleep & nutrition

Meeting Jo Jo in Maine

Her B Goal - To run the fastest 50K for women over 50

Being the 2nd fastest female in the US for running 50K in 2016

Her C Goal - To get a PB in a 50K

Her 50k PB - 4 hr 5mins

Georgie Akin-Smith

2 challenges done

Injury update…

Not being able to run London Marathon (but being able to defer it to next year)

Focus on cycling and 2 cycling challenges completed

What was going through her head before Mallorca 312

The pressure of having a cut off time of 14 hours and trying to do the distance in that time

The start line

Not sleeping well the night before and having a 5 am wake up call

Dealing with mountains from the start of the course

Eating every half an hour - which became harder and harder as the time went on

Getting to 290K

Dealing with the nerves and excitement at the start of the race

Race tactics

The hills!

Deciding to carry on and not stop at the 220

The final 2 hours of the race and why they were so hard - mentally

Having not choice but to carry on (having a few tears)

What she’s learnt from the Mallorca experience

Going to the extremes of her mental and physical fitness

Pushing herself and gaining confidence from the experience

2 week rest and then cycling from London to Paris

Cycling with Laura Kennington

Meeting10 new people and having a lose plan for the cycle

Having a MRI scan on her hip and being able to start running again

Racing to the finish line to make it in 24hrs!

Making changes to her 12 challenges

Doing a Tough Mudder with her parents in August

Having more of a focus on running and cycling

Getting to a good place with cycling and training for her next 100 mile race in July

Is she still enjoying herself?

Making the challenges work for her and her lifestyle

Why you can achieve more than you think

Gemma Smith - Adventures of a Novice Mountaineer

What’s Gemma has been up to

Climbing the Cosmiques Arête, how it came about and what it is

Why she decided to do it

Taking advantage of the weather and managing to get some skiing in

Fitness while climbing at altitude

What she’s learnt from climbing the Cosmiques Arête and how she will be able to apply it to future challenges

Building her confidence and gaining reassurance from the experience

Getting a new climbing partner

Climbing with a para climber and how it’s made her think differently

Getting half way up a 7a

London Ladies Climb - FB Group

How her personal training is coming along

What she’s focusing on with her training

Getting tickets for the ARC’TERYX CLIMBING ACADEMY

Going on a mountain clean up

Having to give up on May as a training month

Working brutal hours and struggling to get the balance

Feeling guilt about not training

Having to speak to her boss about her work

Plans for the coming months

Bullet Journal….

Trying to get a routine back in her life

Not managing to make it to Scotland

The Sandstone Trail…on the list for July to test her endurance

Making a commitment and learning when to step back

Making more time for herself

Blogging… having more stuff to publish

Rachel Wise

Summary from the last 2 months

The big things have been done

A family will be able to take the house furnished

A home has been found for the dog

Sorting out her job and speaking to her boss

Having the difficult conversation

Feeling relief that people now know

Running the Geneva Marathon!

Being ready for the next one!

Running her own race, and running at a steady pace

Pushing the dark throughs aside

How the children are coping with the upcoming changes

How Rachel is feeling about the trip

Not being super excited and more focused on getting things organised

Trying to save money and make money

Her experience with Air BnB

Dealing with back to back bookings

Renting the whole house out for July

Prices

Trying to fit it all in

Money and the budget..

Heading off in August!

The girls education for while on the road

The jobs that have to be done before they head off

The website - slowtravelfamily.com

Wanting to write more and share more blogs

What she hopes will have happened by October

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How Faith Helps Depression

A substantial amount of research points to the benefits of faith to mitigate symptoms of depression. In one study, for example, researchers at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, found that belief in God was associated with better treatment outcomes. They followed 159 individuals over the course of a year to examine the relationship between a person’s level of belief in God, expectations for treatment, and actual treatment outcomes. Individuals with no belief — or only a slight belief — in God were twice as likely to not respond to treatment than people with stronger beliefs.

Of all my sanity tools, my faith is what has kept me alive during severe depressive episodes. When I’m convinced that no one else could comprehend the intense suffering I’m experiencing, I cling to my belief in a God who created me for a reason, who knows my pain more intimately than any other human being, and who will see me through to the other side.

Faith Provides Hope

I was just 11 years old when I learned of faith’s power to strengthen someone in the midst of a deep depression. In the year of my parent’s separation, my mother, devastated by the loss, prayed a novena to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. On the fifth day of five consecutive days of prayer, when tradition holds that the person will receive a shower of roses, our neighbor Mr. Miller, who kept an impeccable garden, was pruning his rose bushes. He gave six dozen flowers in stunning shades to my sister to surprise my mother. I’ll never ever forget the tears of hope she cried when, on the fifth day of her novena, she walked into a kitchen that looked and smelled like a rose garden. Through the intercession of St. Thérèse, she knew her prayer had been answered and God would give her the resolve she needed to get through her depression.

For a nonbeliever, I know it may appear lame to depend on such “signs” from God — superstitious attempts to make sense out of nothing. But these “signs” have provided me immense comfort during critical times in my mental health journey; they’re consolation that God is with me. They’ve even saved my life at times, reminding me that although I can’t always feel God’s love, He is with me.

Faith Changes Your Brain

One reason that faith protects against depression could be that religious practice actually changes the brain. According to research conducted by Lisa Miller, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College, a thickening of the brain cortex is associated with spiritual and religious activities. This study links the protective benefit of spirituality or religion to previous studies that identified large expanses of cortical thinning in specific regions of the brains of adult offspring of families at high risk for major depression. A previous study by Miller and her team published in September 2011 in The American Journal of Psychiatry showed a 76 percent decrease in major depression in adults who said they highly valued spirituality or religiosity, and whose parents suffered from the disease.

Faith Assigns Meaning to Suffering

All religious traditions, especially the Jewish and Christian faiths, offer plenty of examples of how some very bad situations (think Job) were redeemed in the end, and all the suffering actually had a purpose — some greater good came out of it. The Christian story is a powerful provider of redemption and hope in Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. Pope John Paul II explains in his encyclical on suffering, Salvifici Doloris, that because of the Cross, all suffering has a purpose and is even a vocation. I, for one, find immense consolation in that concept: that my tears and angst have a greater purpose and can be used for goodness. The Psalms are full of verses of inspiration for those caught in depression’s hold, saying that God is there in our trials and will carry us through the valley of despair.

Faith Provides a Support System

According to research conducted at the University of Colorado in Boulder, regular churchgoers live longer than people who never go to worship services. One reason associated with the longevity is the social support gained by a church community. One consistent key to happiness is weaving a network of support for yourself: We all need a security net. If you go to church regularly — and especially if you get involved in your parish or church community — that social support is provided. Also, regular churchgoers are more likely to GIVE support to others, and this act of generosity, or any altruistic activity, really, promotes better health.

Faith Provides Heroes and Inspiration

We do better navigating the dark night when we know people have walked the same steps before us and arrived at the light. Different faith traditions offer us plenty of heroes we can turn to for inspiration. Like my mom, I have always maintained a strong devotion to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, my patron saint. In my deepest depressions, I would read her Story of a Soul over and over again, trying to imitate her faithfulness and little ways despite her despair at the end of her life. So many of the saints have known profound anguish and depression, which is why they can be helpful guides to anyone with inner pain.

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Originally posted on Sanity Break at Everyday Health.

from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/05/18/how-faith-helps-depression/

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New Post has been published on Globeinfrom

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Gambhir Gaffe: Is sporting spirit a history now?

Srinagar: “Sports activities have to in no way be mixed with politics,” author George Orwell as soon as wrote in his iconic The wearing Spirit. He wrote the piece on the give up of the England go to by using the Russian soccer group Dynamo that noticed them play four suits against the English sides, maximum of them turning unpleasant with players coming to exchanging blows. In place of enhancing the Anglo-Soviet members of the family, it had a bad impact prompting Orwell to call for Sports to now not be considered as a remember of country wide satisfaction, but to be treated simply as it is.

Orwell’s declaration is in no way determined to be followed by way of carrying countries inside the contemporary instances. Sports activities have come to be extra of a trademark of the kingdom of political members of the family among countries. No faster there may be a diplomatic tiff between the nations, Sports exchanges are the primary casualty.

In struggle-ridden locations, Sports activities are used as a device to score political points, promote as an indicator of peace and what now not.

Sub-continent is a prototype of the way Sports exchanges are depending on political environment among the international locations, with neighbors India and Pakistan its protagonists.

A political imbroglio among the two arch-competitors brings Sports encounters to a standstill. Cricket- famous and most followed recreation in each the nations- receives stalled no faster there’s a tension between the neighbors. Post-2007, there has been no bilateral series between India and Pakistan and the latter’s cricketers are barred from taking part in the cash wealthy Indian most advantageous league.

For any authorities to score brownie factors, cricket encounters are stopped to delight the loads. For years, it’s been restricted to politicians and respective governments to take a choice on Sports exchanges in the days of heightened anxiety among India and Pakistan.

Whilst the governments hold to apply Sports activities as a manifestation of relationship with Pakistan and vice-versa, there’s a risky trend that has set in with cricketers now not shying away from expressing their views on something and the entirety: howsoever improper it may be. most of it is selective outrage lacking context and historic statistics. greater than something else it appears gamers are glad playing to the gallery.

The latest episode that stunned all the sane voices across the divide turned into Indian opener Gautam Gambhir’s latest statement that 100 ‘jihadis’ (examine Kashmiris) have to be killed for each slap on navy jawan. The left hander’s tweet came in reaction to a video in which a protester became hitting a CRPF jawan quickly after ceasing of bye-elections in a Budgam village.

Indian media didn’t waste a 2nd in projecting the authorities forces as sufferers without mentioning the killing of eight Kashmiris on the same day.

Gambhir and his former Indian teammate Virender Sehwag joined the refrain displaying their anger over the incident. Gambhir, now not behooving to a cricketer of his magnificence, got here up with the words that called for a bloodbath of Kashmiris.

“For every slap on my military’s Jawan lay down at least aa hundred jihadi lives. Whoever needs Azadi Depart NOW! Kashmir is ours. #kashmirbelongs2us,” tweeted Gambhir.

In Gambhir’s tumultuous tweet, there may be a prime caution. Sports activities and sportspersons alike are no longer bereft of giving an opinion on non-wearing subjects. Sehwag trolling Gurmehar Kaur-daughter of an ex-soldier- over her comment that ‘Pakistan didn’t kill her father, however warfare did’ become every other example of a sportsperson crossing the bounds of decency to delight most of the people.

in the apparel of nationalism and patriotism, the likes of Gambhir and Sehwag have buried the sporting spirit below the avalanche of their phrases that promote hatred and hegemony.

For a real Sports nerd the ultra-modern fashion is worrisome. Gambhir and Sehwag lecturing on political topics while not having a experience of different facet of the tale could set in an example for budding cricketers. The ones looking to emulate their cricketing performances will definitely be laid low with all. It would be tough to disclaim that during this day and age of net and social media, something these cricketers having a relating their followers. They follow them in letter and spirit: performances, mannerism and greater importantly mentality (picking their brains).

One might desire commonplace feel prevails and the tribe of Gambhir and Sehwag doesn’t get bigger and sportspersons protect the carrying spirit which seems a history in current instances.

An Unforgettable Day When the carrying Spirit Triumphed in Cricket Can we see anything noble occur inside the Sports & video games of these days? something that touches the coronary heart and remains with us, inspiring us to do similarly, While we will? I assume no. Lengthy, Lengthy ago, in the historical beyond, lie instances When Sports activities & video games have been played truly for the sake of the game itself. For pleasure. For the mental & physical exercise it offers. For honor. For a legitimate area in history. And as a token of those, an insignificant laurel wreath to hold because the prize. The prize intended a whole lot but had no cloth price! today, the Sports activities&video games arena is a miles cry from all that – gamers and athletes have became slick, viciously greedy and corrupt. Handiest winning counts, not often how. Prizes are terrific sums in cash or type that players like to stash away for a future of opulent residing; mere wreaths not suffice. One of the brilliant ‘talents’ of several pinnacle Sports-human beings nowadays appears to be the potential to inform lies coolly, without batting an eyelid even slightly. So much in order that one has come to view recreation file-breakers and Guinness Ebook entrants dubiously until all assessments have validated their achievements smooth. The situation has became extremely excessive-tech, mechanical and unpleasant – with numerous corrupt gamers doing their bit on the interior and rotten match fixers, making a bet men and dope peddlers on the out of doors.

So what is left for something noble at the Sports field? Something has took place to the famed and well-loved ‘sportsmanlike spirit’? That nature of large-hearted provide and take between Sports activities-humans that kept a game as a recreation, and by no means an unpleasant, bloodless battle? One to be won at any value, whether by hook or by means of crook?

I comply with cricket, the most famous world game outdoor the united states. Over the years, it too has lost its glamor and seen as a recreation of field and person. today, it’s miles One of the video games maximum rocked by scandals and corruption than any other within the international! Although outwardly performing to be so, today’s cricket isn’t controlled by using pure cricket enthusiasts alone. Big ‘control’ is exercised by a network of very quite positioned and influential people, from behind the scenes. Participants of this network ‘purchase out’ some cricketers by means of imparting to praise them with Something they ask for – astronomical sums of cash, intercourse, capsules, personal development inside the participant’s profession and so on. as soon as ‘sold’, these players change into mere stooges for their purchasers and may be made to carry out poorly or to perform nicely on the field in line with their consumer’s choices. So the outcome of a selected cricket healthy receives ‘fixed’ in advance. betting men and gamblers get concerned at this stage. Primarily based on ‘suggestions’ approximately fixed video games obtained from the patrons they do business with, they optimistically vicinity bets favoring the anticipated result. And needless to mention, they may be pretty successful almost all the time!

honestly, I used to be one of those that had been deeply troubled and distressed when I observed the rapid decline of the sport. It really is Whilst, the incident I’m approximately to narrate, befell, pretty all of the sudden. I did now not watch it live nor did I come to recognize of it except after many years of it’s taking place. but ever seeing that I did examine approximately it, it has left a long-lasting and beautiful influence on my thoughts. it is beauty hasn’t diminished with time and that i agree with it’ll remain evergreen in my memory. it is that second Whilst West Indian cricketer and captain, Courtney Walsh, regaled the arena with the aid of a first-rate sportsmanlike gesture inside the global Cup Cricket match of 1987.

West Indies have been gambling in opposition to Pakistan. The triumphing group would enter the semi-finals. Pakistan who have been batting second, as usual, have been in warm pursuit of victory, replying to a modest overall published via the West Indies in advance. Notwithstanding dropping wickets frequently, they were handling to attain at the specified run-fee. Sooner or later, Whilst it turned into time for the very last ball of the healthy to be bowled, they had been simply one run in the back of the West Indies! Two runs from the closing ball to win and one to attract stage!! any other end result might suggest defeat. One wicket in hand. Consider the anxiety within the minds of the players on the sphere. Specially of the Pakistanis who’ve recognized to be emotionally risky and vulnerable to violent and unsightly outbreaks of temper While losing. Walsh became the bowler of the remaining ball and facing him turned into Abdul Qadir. Saleem Jaffer, was on the non-striker’s give up. Walsh came in to bowl, but earlier than he released the ball, a fearful Jaffer had already streaked out of his crease in anticipation of his companions’ walking to his end after hitting the ball. Walsh observed that he was out of his crease and could have without difficulty stumped and got him out! but he didn’t. As although pronouncing jovially to Jaffer ‘Boy! Isn’t always that too much of a blunder to dedicate? but do not worry, I won’t tell absolutely everyone about it! I’m just going to hold it to myself’ he stopped and became back, sparing Jaffer that once. With Jaffer again at his crease, he came returned and bowled the remaining ball. Qadir hit it tough sufficient for the batting pair to cross the pitch twice – for two runs. And Pakistan won! (For individuals who would love to look at the movement, right here’s the YouTube video to view –> Courtney Walsh’s wearing act, 1987!. You may discover the above right on the cease of this 38-minute video. Role: 36/38 mins, approximately.)

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