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My Musings
I am what one would call a jane of all trades, and I strive to master at least one or two. I muse a lot, and this is an attempt to give words to musings.
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
To Daffodils
I had written this some time back for Padyapaana, but did not publish it there because I was too late. It is a translation of the famous poem 'To Daffodils' by Robert Herrick.
ಕಳೆವ ಮುನ್ನವೆ ಹೊತ್ತು, ಓಡೋಡಿ ಹೋಗದಿರಿ
ಎಳೆಬಿಸಿಲ ತಂಪಿನಲಿ ನಗುವ ಹೂವುಗಳೇ !
ಅಳುವುಕ್ಕುವುದು ನೀವು ಸೊರಗುವುದ ನೋಡುತ್ತೆ
ನಳನಳಿಸಿ ಗಿಡಗಳಲಿ ನೈದಿಲೆಗಳೇ !
ತಡೆಯಿರೈ! ನಿಲ್ಲಿರೈ! ಸಂಜೆಯಾಗುವ ತನಕ
ಪಡುವಣದಿ ರವಿತೇಜ ಮರೆಯಾಗುವನಕ
ಕೂಡಿ ನಿಮ್ಮನು ನಾವು ಬರುವೆವೈ, ನಮ್ಮೊಡನೆ
ಮಾಡಿ ನೀವ್ ಸಂಧ್ಯೆಯಲಿ ಅರ್ಚನೆಯನು
ನಿಮ್ಮಂತೆ ಕ್ಷಣಿಕವೈ ನಮ್ಮ ಬಾಳೂ ಕೂಡ
ನಮ್ಮಯ ವಸಂತವೂ ಚಿರವಲ್ಲವಲ್ಲ!
ನಮ್ಮ ಜವದೇಳಿಗೆಗೆ ಜವರಾಯ ಕಾದಿರುವ
ಎಮ್ಮ ತೆರವೂ ಕೂಡ ನಿಮ್ಮಂತೆಯೇ
ಮುಗಿಸುವೆವು ನೀವು ಜೀವನ ಮುಗಿಸುವಂತೆ, ಬೇ
ಸಗೆಯ ಮಳೆ ಧರಣಿಯಿಂದಾವಿಯಾದಂತೆ
ನಗುವೆಲೆಯ ಮೇಲಿನಿಬ್ಬನಿಯ ಮುತ್ತುಗಳೆಲ್ಲ
ಮುಗಿಲ ಮಡಿಲನು ಸೇರಿ ಕಾಣೆಯಾದಂತೆ ||
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Happy Independence Day!
When I was younger, our patriotism was intense. Songs like "bhAratIyaru nAvu endendu onde" and "bhAratAmbeye janisi ninnoLu dhanyanAdenu" moved us to tears accompanied with happiness and excitement and contentment. (The former song still moves me to tears sans all the good feelings). Our patriotism also found expression in the marchpasts, in saluting our tricolor with pride. In fact, it is always a cherished dream of children that they will grow up and achieve things that will make their country proud of them. We were no exception. We read stories of war and Independence with greed and pride. We were proud that we belonged to a country of brave soldiers, valiant and benovelent kings and queens and freedom fighters who cared more for the country than for their families.
It was not long before we started questioning our beliefs. Of late, all I have are questions. True, we are a great country. But is the greatness showing itself? If so, where and how? Various news reports and surveys show us that we rank down there along with Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia in the way we treat fifty percent of our population, that we are only slightly better than Pakistan when it comes to corruption, that we rank lower than tiny countries like Belarus when it comes to winning medals in Olympics, that we are slowly but steadily losing vast tracts of our land to our neighbors.
Coming to the last thing first, the news about Assam was conspicuous by its absence in the newspapers. Assam violence certainly deserved many more pages than it got. Initially I thought that it was just because of the way we thought about the Northeast - news from the Northeast does not jump out of the newspapers like the Bacchan family. But the more I read, the better I realized that Assam is being deliberately kept far from the prying media. Or, may be the media does not venture too close to the weaknesses of the Congress party. Things would have been vastly different if we had exchanged Gogoi with Modi. There are no Sardesais interviewing Gogoi. There are no online petitions this time around (I remember signing one for Irom Sharmila a few years ago).
Our problem has always been that of shortsighted leadership. Chacha cared more for his image on the international political stage than his policies at home, and left us with a legacy far too troublesome to ignore - Kashmir and Tibet (by induction, Arunachal Pradesh). Indira Gandhi was better, but did nothing to check Bangladeshi immigration. And look what it is doing in Assam.
Another recent incident in Assam shook my belief about my country. Unlike the Bangladeshi immigration and associated violence, this news was literally popping out of newspapers. The torture undergone by a young girl oustide a pub at an early enough time were disconcerting. The Mangalore and Jharkhand news came not too later, and both found me asking myself if I would like my daughter to grow up in such an environment. There is a beautiful shloka in the raghuvamsha about Raghu's rule, that says that while Raghu was king, even the wind did not dare to disturb the clothing of an abhisArikA who went in search of her lover at night. That was the kind of freedom and security that an able leader like Raghu gave his subjects. In contrast, we are scared to venture out of the safety of our homes after dark, even for work or buying medicines. IMO, the culprit here is not just patriarchy as some feminists claim, but a sick mentality and confidence that they can get away with anything by paying a good enough bribe. And also that ordinary people would not give a damn, whatever happened.
In our History classes, we often studied about various dynasties. The achievements of these dynasties would be listed in separate categories like Conquests, Literature, Art and Architecture and so on. When I tried to do the same thing now, I could not come up with as many items as I would have liked. The progress we have made is on par with other developing nations of the world, not any better. The technological advancement we seem to have made is less because of indigenous technology and more because of technological advancement happening halfway across the globe. Indeed, our poverty is such that we do not have one good institute other than IISc that encourage the Sciences, but cry ourselves hoarse celebrating the accomplishments of the likes of Sunita Williams and Kalpana Chawla. They are Americans, for crying out loud! And also, there are no signs of any improvement coming the people's way with respect to education either, with Sir Kapil as the incharge of the country's education.
I have never felt this depressed on any Independence day. As a person remarked, we seem to have passed from the hands of the British to the hands of thugs and rowdies and criminals. This sort of makes me agree with what Churchill had said once, that we were still not capable of ruling ourselves. Till date our biggest achievement seems to be that we have remained whole as a political entity, even when we have people in our midst who think they are in their right to vandalize a monument to our soldiers when people elsewhere are killed. Oh, and also that we can talk about gifting phones to families below the poverty line.
There, I did not mean to be so caustic in this post. I would like to think that there are promising things happening around us, that we are still living and thriving, Churchill's words be damned. And sure there are, if we look for them. There are little things happening everyday, that show that though all is not well, somethings at least are going in the right way. We have come far from the days of the license raj. Schools are more accessible than in the past. Sensible laws exist, even if they are mere paper tigers, as do sensible people, even if they are not powerful. All is not lost, yet. It is up to us to make the best of what we are provided with, and also to make the lives of those around us better.
So, folks, wish you a very happy Independence Day! May God give us the ability to live up to the dreams of countless people who died fighting for freedom.
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Māyūrī modayati manāṃsi
The original story of 'Mayūra' is a fairly familiar one to many of us, from our History classes. An orphan boy raised as a brahmin, Mayura Sharma lives in Kanchi, belonging to the Pallava kingdom. He has an altercation with one of the princes of the kingdom and is forced to leave Kanchi. The rest of the story is about how he overthrows the regime of the Pallavas and establishes the Kadamba kingdom. History tells us this much, and it takes a master craftsman like Devudu to make a beautiful sculpture out of this fine granite. He has added his own details - ministers loyal to the old king, wars fought with the brain and not with brawn, an enemy everyone would wish to have and a love interest. The result is a book that guarantees hours of absorbing reading.
'Mayura' is not as heavy as Devudu's other books**. The language is definitely a lot lighter (more Kannada and less Sanskrit :)). One can see expressions like "ತಲೆ ಕುಟ್ಟ" and "ಬೊಡ್ಡೀ ಮಕ್ಕಳು". Rural Kannada is used very effectively. There is more action and less description and hence this book is much more egalitarian than his other three novels.
In his descriptions, Devudu has followed the path of our classical writers. One cannot forget the way he describes the cow Nandini in his mahabrAhmaNa. It is easy to see the touch of Kalidasa there (बिभ्रती श्वेतरोमाङ्कं सन्ध्येव शशिनं नवम्). It is so even in this book. When Mayura asks how his mother looked, Narasimhadatta replies "ನೇರಳೆ ಹಣ್ಣಿಗಷ್ಟು ಕಪ್ಪನ್ನು ಕೊಡುವ ಕೂದಲು, ದಂತವನ್ನು ಚಿನ್ನದಿಂದ ತೊಳೆದಂತೆ ಮೈಬಣ್ಣ..". As in his other books, the descriptions of nature are lyrical. His writing is poetry in prose. The beauty of this book is that it is definitely a work of great erudition, but also maintains simplicity.
Devudu had an uncanny eye for the beauty of words. He has used a couple of Kalidasa's nuggets to great advantage in Mayura. The first instance is when the Pallava princess Premavati suspects that the merchant Gupta is Mayura himself, and receives a present from him. The present is a peacock (mayUra) that, when given the key, turns around and bows. Later, a priest brings her a message from Gupta, apparently about a dream that he had. Immediately the princess retorts "मायूरी मदयति मार्जना मनांसि", and then, feeling shy, runs away. Now this line occurs in the first act of the Malavikagnimitram. Mother Kaushiki says this line when getting ready for the competition between the dance teachers. In both cases, the very air is full of the moisture of longing and the fragrance of romance. There is the sound of the beating of māyūrī drums keeping time with melodious music, jingling anklets and hearts full of yearning. In that one line of harmless-sounding reply, the princess indicates that she suspects Gupta to be Mayura, and that she is in love with him. An outsider would have just thought that she referred to the gift of the peacock.
The other heartwarming instance happens after the princess is married to Mayuravarma, who is a king by then. She is singing a line from the Meghadūta "इष्टे वस्तुन्युपचितरसाः प्रेमराशीभवन्ति". (My fervent opinion is that each verse from the Meghadūta is a nugget of sheer joy. Well, almost all of them. The beauty of these words, these sounds joined together in the beautiful Mandākrāntā meter is so great that so many times, I cease to think about the meaning and play the sounds in my head over and over again). Again, one can see the queen playing the veena with the king watching her with satisfaction on one side, and on another side there is the yakshi playing the veena, thinking of her husband.
Today is the age of pacifists. While warmongering is not good, it is basic human (even animal) nature to defend one's territory, and not to do so is to go against nature. Mayura probably had another interest in having a cordial relationship with the Pallavas, and so he resorted to bloodless war, even when he had a full-fledged army fighting for him. The warring sequences are simplistic but fantastic, and capture the imagination well. The simplicity and far-fetched-ness of the sieges are just afterthoughts. Such is the writing prowess of Devudu that when one is reading the book, one is sure that that was exactly how Mayura became the king. The plot is woven delicately and intricately, and makes it hard to put the book down once you pick it up.
Incidentally, this book was made into a movie starring Raj Kumar and Manjula. As it is with almost all movies based on books, the movie fails in a lot of things. It does inspire the viewer with patriotism but brings in unnecessary Kannada-Tamil controversy. But it is certainly a movie that can be watched once.
In my opinion, a good book can be differentiated from a not-so-good one by its ability to elevate and calm the mind. All of Devudu's books are just that - good. They leave the reader calm, peaceful and happy. Dear Reader, if you read Kannada but have not read Devudu so far, do find Mayura and read it. And do tell me about it!
*This post was written some time back.
** A note on Devudu: Devudu Narasimha Shastry is a well-known Kannada author. He has written other books like Mahakshatriya, Mahabrahmana and Mahadarshana. Mahakshatriya is the story of King Nahusha and Mahabrahmana is the story of how Kaushika became Vishwamitra. Mahadarshana is the story of Yajnavalkya. This last one can probably be called his magnum opus, because of its depth and the magnanimity of the subject itself. Recently, I also came to know that he translated each verse of the 'Yoga vAsishTha'
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
The Eternal Battle
At that moment, you could have felled me with a fork. Raised in a family of strict vegetarians and married into one, it has never occurred to me to eat anything other than vegetarian. When we were young, the "Eww" factor kept us from eating NV. During college days, I used to try to convert non-vegetarians to vegetarianism. But later, with more reading, I learned to be tolerant of, and accept others eating that kind of food.
Actually, non-vegetarianism is not new to sanātana dharma, and from old texts, it does not look like it was forbidden for Brahmins, either. In the famous story of sage Agastya getting rid of vātāpi, it is evident that he ate vAtApi,in the form of a goat. In the kathāsaritsāgara, there is the story of a brahmin, a servant in a merchant's house, who desired to eat meat -aamisha, and it is just one such example in our literature (On an aside, people who constantly complain that the learned brahmins sitting on high horses kept others away from knowledge should spare a look at classics like kathāsaritsāgara to get a more real and complete picture - but that should be a topic for a separate post). In fact, a story from the same classic explicitly mentions that sanātana dharma endorsed violence and therefore bauddha-dharma was better, because it preached peace and non-violence. If one wants examples from sacred texts themselves, it is very clear that animals were used in various yajñas (horse during aśvamedha and goat during somayāga), until religious leaders like Madhvācārya advocated the use of images of animals made of flour (piṣṭa-paśu).In fact, the manusmṛti says the following about eating animals for food -
'pravṛttireṣa bhūtānāṃ nivṛttistu mahāphalā' |, meaning that this was the tendency of living beings, but abstinence would be greatly beneficial.
Having said all this, this is my view of vegetarianism. Even if all the śāstras of the universe espoused non-vegetarianism, I would not eat non-vegetarian food. For the simple fact that I would be taking the life of another animal to satisfy not just my hunger but also my palate. Our ancestors had a simple reason to resort to eating animals - that of non-availability of food. When people did not know how to grow their own food, it made sense to eat the animals they got by hunting. This reason does not hold during the present time and age. As R says, a person can eat an animal if you kill it. If you can stomach the killing, you can stomach the kill.
Secondly, the animals in the feedlot are treated in a very inhuman way. Not just in crowded ranches abroad, but even in our non-violent country. Chickens, still alive, are often seen packed in metal boxes, with no space to stretch their wings. It is not a rare sight to see live chickens dangling from the handlebars of bicycles. I am sure the situation is no better for other animals in feedlots. Cows in dairy farms are probably treated better, but apparently they are also fed hormones, so that more milk is produced. Also there was this news about artificial insemination for cows. The question is, for how long can we get away with this kind of cruelty to animals?
The third issue is that of resources. Non-vegetarian food consumes a lot of resources. It makes collective economic sense to become vegetarian, or at least, reduce the consumption of non-vegetarian food. Not to mention the health benefits. Other factors being equal, a vegetarian is less likely to develop heart disease than his/her non-vegetarian counterpart. If this is not reason enough for continuing to being a vegetarian, I do not know what else is.
To come back to my Sunshine, I told him that non-vegetarian food was not really healthy and that we did not make it at home. Luckily, that evening, there was this program on Discovery, about catching sharks for their fins (shark-fin soup is apparently a delicacy). It was a bloody (sorry!) gruesome sight - the way the shark was caught, its fins were cut off, and it was thrown back into the water to die (if it was not dead already). My son was watching this too - and R asked him if he would like to do that to any animal. The shocked child replied "No", while I turned away, grinning. For a few more years, us parents can still influence him, at least in the matter of food.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
May the Sun shine bright on Life's winding path
To show us thorns and flowers
May He give us the strength to weed out
The thorns, and leisure to smell the flowers.
May the Earth bless our eyes with her beauty,
And our bodies with her green bounty.
May we tread soft on her fragile cloth
For, without her, we are naught.
May the Moon temper us with her sweet, soft light,
That we may not lose sight, even at night
May the stars always guide us from their heavenly homes
That we may never wander far, away from our homes
May the new year bring cheer all around
From the humble farmer to those who don the crown.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Monday, February 15, 2010
At home? Not Quite!
"Isn't he beautiful, Papa?" exclaims the child, peering at me with his bright eyes. I simper and say "Come on, kiddo! I know we all look the same to you!" The boy is thrilled to hear me growl, and his father is beaming at his son's enthusiasm.
* * * * * * * * * *
A wet sun smiles from behind the clouds. I like this weather and this time of the day. I like the visitors that come at this time. They are fresh and enthusiastic. Some people even make notes. Though we are separated by grilles and walls that would not give way even if I rammed against them with all my strength, my life has been woven inextricably with the humans. The visitors are my life now.
The stories that Mother used to tell me, all contained the same kind of moral – do not stray into unknown places, do not eat food unless you have caught it, but each time I ignored her. I used to be a very curious baby, and was quite a handful. I am still paying for my curiosity – that was what got me here, the point of no return. And then she used to tell me horror stories about humans, about how we were made to perform rope-tricks and jump through fire-circles just to amuse them. Oh, Mother, if you knew that this place is not even remotely like that! You sure did know a lot, you had seen a lot of the world, but I assure you that this place that you called a circus was only in your imagination!
* * * * * * * * * *
I come out of my world of thoughts and take a walk in the backyard. My shadow gets shorter on the ground painstakingly made to mimic a forest. A cloud hides the sun and I am able to look up at the vast blue dome above, dotted with white and light-grey clouds. Back in the forest, we could only catch glimpses of narrow strips of the sky, slightly wider strips when we were wading in the water. But here in the zoo, I can trace the path of the sun from one side of the sky to the other. Looking at the Sun, some of my friends here can even say when the people stop visiting for the day.
My neighbor Belli, a fine female, beckons to me. We share the same spacious backyard. The poor thing was born in captivity, and has never seen a forest. I tell her about large pools where we can wade to our hearts content ("you can actually swim?") and about tall trees ("you mean, taller than this?" indicating a mango tree that grew nearby). She listens, wide-eyed, my only friend in the whole world. "Hi!" I cry out. She responds with a growl and walks towards me. She brushes her head against mine, her way of greeting me. She points to a loudly dressed lady carrying a small baby, pointing at us excitedly. "If I could kill, I would kill that woman over there, if only to stop her from staring at me like that" she says, looking at her. "But I won't, because I can't" and smiles a little sadly. Somehow, Belli cannot understand the concept of killing to eat, and cannot stomach the fact that I have killed before. How can any self-respecting tiger pounce on a helpless animal and kill it, asks she. "I would not do it" she affirms, "not if I were dying of hunger". I retort "Oh, but you have hardly ever died of hunger; you have always gotten something to eat daily!" Belli refuses to back down. "Oh, but don't you realize what you are doing to the poor thing? You have probably killed a mother deer who was still feeding a baby – have you ever thought how forlorn the baby would be without its Mom? Why, look at you! Can you tell me you don't miss your Mom? ..." So goes her lecture. The loudly dressed woman is forgotten by my dear non-violent friend.
"There's lunch!" Belli announces. I turn my head and see the big green noisy animal (bigger than an elephant!) bringing us our lunch. Humans are so scared of us that they just leave our food someplace for us to get it. "They do not know about non-violent tigers like you", I tease Belli. She smiles. We part for lunch.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Really, one of the best parts of living in a zoo is that we get food regularly, without worrying if our teeth and nails are sharp enough, or about the time when they do become too blunt for us to hunt. Tigers like Belli who do not know a world apart from the zoo even tend to be non-violent, unlike me and my Mother. We were fierce. Mother taught me how to draw my nails in and walk noiselessly, how to wait silently for the prey to get near, and how to time my jumps. Oh, the thrill when I caught and killed a deer!
I still remember that night. The whole forest was shining in the glory of the full moon. I was almost a year old, but had not yet hunted on my own. I walked noiselessly with Mother by my side. And then I smelled my favorite food- deer. It was a young buck lying under the cover of a shrub, about to sleep. He probably smelled me as I drew near, for he started and stood up with a jerk. One glance to the left told him that his end was near. He tried to get away from me. I pounced on him (mercilessly, would Belli say?). A couple of jumps and I was on him. He struggled and tried to hurt me, but I held on to his neck tightly with my teeth. A few seconds, and it was all over. I had earned my first meal.
I was tired, and bruised where the antlers hit me. My beaming Mother came and gently licked it. That made the pain go away, really. Joy in the fact that I was an independent little cub and relief in the fact that she would no longer have to hunt for four, danced on Mother's face. Suddenly I felt all grown-up and important. The deer was fresh and tasty back there, unlike the food that we get here. I confess, I have never come across any tiger that felt a pang in its heart when it was about to kill. The idea that Belli presented to me was completely new. The memory of the smell of deer makes my mouth water, even after two months in the zoo. I walk wearily to my lunch of beef.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
My nap is rudely interrupted by the loud clanking of the door of my cell. I look up to see the friendly person who opens my mouth and examines my ears and all that. They call him "Doc", funny name it is, for a funny man. I look at the big thorn in his hand and sigh. I know that is for immobilizing me if they think I am becoming dangerous.
I let Doc do the check-up. There is another person with him today and he is watching Doc impatiently with a frown, hands in his pouches. After what seemed like ages, Doc patted me with a satisfied smile and left. Later in the day, I asked Belli who the other person was. She said he was called a 'researcher'. Then a shadow passed over her face. She shook her head, and said "I don't like him". I told her I did not like him either. He made one's flesh creep. "You don't know him", she said. "They sometimes take us away to do what they call experiments... It is not nice". Then, she became a little more cheerful, and said "At least we are not in the circus! Here we sleep and jump when we want to. Those poor things do not even have that luxury!" So, this place called circus existed, after all! My head was reeling.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
The days in the zoo are very tiring. My limbs ache to jump long distances. The water in the excuse for a pool that we have here does not even come up to my stomach, forget swimming in it. I go and wet my legs in the water and look up. There are people, people and more people. Some look at us with wonder, some without any interest, some with pity, and almost all of them are afraid of us. Afraid of letting us go nearer to them than we are now. Belli tells me often that zoo is better for a tiger than forests, because apparently we live a little longer in zoos than in forests. Ah well…
* * * * * * * * * * * *
My Mother never stopped us from exploring. When we were very young, we used to stay close to Mother, to be safe. I, being just a little more adventurous than the average tiger, would stray more than I was allowed to. And see where it brought me!
Should curiosity and exploration stop at a certain stage? What can we say about humans, who have given themselves the supreme authority to rule, maim and kill other animals, and justify it all in the name of curiosity and survival? If the humans had shown us some consideration a few decades ago, the likes of me would not have to languish in this place that is practically a prison. Belli tells me often about a captive tiger that lost a fight against a bull. A couple more months in the zoo, and I will not be able to combat a lamb, let alone a grown bull. Just to live a couple of years more, do I need to sacrifice my tiger-ness? All around me in the zoo, I can see animals that are striped and sharp-toothed, but I cannot see even one tiger. I will also cease to be one soon.


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"One of the
most remarkable student films [I've] ever seen." -- Film Studies Professor Phil Solomon
University of Colorado film student David Marek wrote, directed
and produced a feature-length film, "Somewhere West," for his
Master of Fine Art thesis project. View the article from the Daily Camera Here.
'Sleeping River' interweaves breathtaking expanses,
wounded characters and a psychological method of editing to create an
indelible return home for Tim, who can't seem to remember the details
of a traumatic event from his childhood. Set in Colorado's north
eastern grasslands, 'Sleeping River' takes full advantage of a
landscape of austerity and abandoned places, where the sun, sand and constant wind have kept wounds from healing for those who've never
Ian Soroka was born in New York City in 1987 and grew up in Western Colorado. He is a currently working towards his undergraduate degree in Film Studies and Philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Ian received accreditation from the Czech Film and Television School of the Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU Int.) in 2008. His short film Nostalgia (2008) has screened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin as a part of the Rescontres Internationales program. Ian is currently working on the film project "Gogol Americana" (working title) which will be primarily funded by a Princess Grace Foundation-USA undergraduate student filmmaking scholarship, the John H. Johnson film award for 2009.
Synopsis: GOGOL AMERICANA (working title).
"GOGOL AMERICANA" (working title) is a portrait of contemporary Nevada as a region of extremes. On the one hand it is a land of notorious desolation, while on the other it is a capital of excess and artifice. The film will attempt to explore the death of the American frontier through the example of Nevada, a place where modern culture is in conflict with the West's contemporary landscape and mythology.
"Somewhere West" will be a feature length film that chronicles the story of a
dying man finding solace and understanding through experiencing the
American landscape and seeing similarities between its wonders and his own
illness. The film will capture a 2300 mile journey that begins in the deep woods
of Northern Michigan and finishes on the salt flats of western Utah. "Somewhere
West," which will be shot in HD on the Sony EX1 with a Letus 35mm adapter,
hopes to explore the following thematic elements: issues of death and dying,
what makes a landscape sacred, cancer as a cultural icon, the role of landscape
in ecstatic spiritual experiences, and the connection between illness and faith.
There will be a test screening of the film on the CU campus in mid November of
Film Studies BFA senior Andy Young received a UROP grant to travel to Africa to make Kigali100. It was shot in October 2007 over the course of 14 Days in Kigali, Rwanda, commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the city as capitol of the country. The film focuses on the experience of Gilbert Ndahayo, a Rwandese filmmaker, who comes to grip with the murder of his father during the 1994 genocide when he must come face to face with the murderer. In a more abstract sense, the film investigates the role of media in the 1994 genocide (including the dangers that persist today), and how new media makers, such as Gilbert, strive to change the voice of Rwanda.
The project was completed with generous contributions from the University of Colorado at Boulder's University Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
Also receiving a UROP grant was CU film student Musa. Sunshine in Africa, a cultural documentary directed by Musa, a University of Colorado, Boulder Film Studies student, follows a group of Americans before, during, and after their first time visit to Ghana, West Africa. Before, they only knew this country through media images, mental assumptions, judgments, and misunderstandings. Watch as these Americans leave their comfort zone to experience Africa with their own eyes and realize that there is Sunshine In Africa.
June 25, 2006 -- Creative Demolition was the theme of the 2006 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Held from June 17-24, the 2006 Seminar brought together 150 filmmakers, critics, historians, curators and students to discuss the art of the moving image. Participating media makers included Zoe Beloff, Vittorio De Seta, Jacqueline Goss, and Sharon Lockhart.
Among this year's participants were a number of current and former Film Studies students and faculty. Joaquin Villalobos, BFA 2005, received a Student Fellowship to attend the Seminar. Student Ashley Swendson participated as an intern, and engineered the audio recordings of all of the discussions. Former student and Flaherty Fellow Scott Nyerges was also in attendance. Instructor J. Gluckstern attended on a Professional Fellowship. Film Studies Instructor Patti Bruck is President of the Flaherty Film Seminar.
July 1, 2006 -- CU film students Ken Amarit, America Palacios and Matt Talarico were accepted for the 2006 summer internship program of the Filmmakers Lab at the Sundance Institute in Utah. The Filmmakers Lab is a three-week workshop that offers directors hands-on experience rehearsing, shooting, and editing scenes from their screenplays on videotape under the mentorship of accomplished directors, editors, cinematographers, and actors. Past Lab projects include Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Boys Don't Cry, and Me and You and Everyone We Know.
April 28, 2006 -- Two CU film students had their films shown at the 2006 Starz First Look Student Film Festival in Denver in April 2006. Clay Pruitt's documentary The Coming of Winter was produced in Patti Bruck's Art of Independent Filmmaking class, and Andrew Ratzlaff's documentary Photographer was produced in Russ Wiltse's FILM 3600 class.
March 25, 2006 -- David Marek's (BFA 2004) FILM 4500 project Snow Petals was shown at the March 2006 Durango Independent Film Festival and the March 2006 East Lansing Film Festival. The 30-minute experimental narrative uses a split screen and simultaneously moves forward and backward in time to tell a a story of star-crossed soul-mates between a 62-year-old man with Alzheimer's and a young woman who assists him in his garden. The film took home first prize in the student film division at the 2004 Crested Butte Reel Festival. It als screened at the Boulder Fringe Festival in 2005 and the Eugene Film Festival in 2006.
April 5, 2006 -- The Comedy Central animated series South Park, created by former CU film students Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been honored with a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in the 65th Annual Peabody Awards competition. The Peabody committee described South Park as "Comedy Central's notoriously rude, undeniably fearless lampoon of all that is self-important and hypocritical in American life, regardless of race, creed, color or celebrity status."
The Grillo/Goldfarb Kage Credit grants are designed to encourage excellence in filmmaking and help defray some of the expenses required to pursue a degree in film production. Grants will be distributed each year to four tiers of production students. Final recipients and individual grant amounts will be determined each semester by a combination of in-class student votes and a panel of judges made up of CU Film Studies faculty. A selection of films from the advanced classes will be screened at the Awards show in the First Person Cinema series. The Grillo grants are given as Kage credit in honor of the founder and former director of the CU Film Studies Program, Virgil Grillo (1938-1994), whose dedication and vision helped shepherd Film Studies from its modest beginnings in the 1970s to an undergraduate degree program boasting some 600 majors. Goldfarb grants are given by the Goldfarb Foundation and Peter Goldfarb, President. (Screening made possible by ACE fees.

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the place to be on Saturday night (November 1) as the 2014 LACMA Art+Film Gala honored Barbara Kruger and Quentin Tarantino.
There's no doubt that the arrival of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has changed the way people (and celebrities) interact, but sometimes that's not such a good thing.
Kirsten Dunst just released a new two-minute short film called "Aspirational" to show how strange things get when her fans only care about getting a selfie with her to post online.
She's a main stay in Hollywood and possibly eyeing a role in HBO's upcoming season of "True Detective," but Kirsten Dunst took a beat to chat with the latest issue of Net-a-Porter's The EDIT.
The "Spiderman" beauty is rumored to be the female lead in the award-winning drama and she discussed the possibility of a television career with the fashion mag.
It's no secret that celebrities like to take sexy selfies just like everybody else, but unfortunately a huge nude photo leak has left a ton of Tinseltown hotties feeling overexposed.
An anonymous hacker has posted compromising photos of dozens of famous ladies to an online bulletin board after breaking into the Apple iCloud storage service.
Given her youthful vibe, it's hard to believe that Kirsten Dunst isn't still a carefree twentysomething anymore.
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She's come a long way since "Interview with the Vampire," and Kirsten Dunst couldn't look any hotter on the cover of Madame Figaro's June 2014 issue.
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At the centre of it all, where the ceremony would kick start would be one a view that will include 3000+ people. A view containing so many performers who would be contributing to the largest and biggest event till date. With performance including so many people, it goes without saying that the performances will be power packed and entertaining as well.
With a huge place such as Glasgow being picked for the event, the speculated number of people who are expected to attend the event are over 40,000 to say the least. With 71+ countries taking part in the Commonwealth games a total number of 4,500 athletes will be present in the Scotland to compete in against each other. The opening ceremony will also see the likes of these athletes being part of the opening ceremony.
One of the biggest moments in the opening ceremony will be when – "Her Majesty" – the Queen will read the final message which would be taken out of the Baton after traveling across the Commonwealth arena and finally reaching her. It is the Queen who will finally declare the Commonwealth Games 2014 finally open. It is with this gesture that Scotland will show its passion and enthusiasm towards the Commonwealth games and its interest in being the host to such an event.
With a global view of over 1 trillion people gaining access to the Commonwealth games, the opening ceremony will be telecasted at almost every nation and country as the participation has come in acceptance from each country as well.
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Alimony Law - Spousal Support Law - Maintenance Law
What is Alimony Law?
Alimony law provides the rules for awarding financial support to one spouse following a divorce or separation. The purpose of alimony is to avoid unfairness. When a couple parts ways, the court will divide their marital property in an equitable manner, but this may not be enough to avoid an unjust result. For example, one spouse may leave the marriage with a significantly greater earning capacity. To help ensure the other spouse can maintain a standard of living similar to the one enjoyed during the relationship, the first spouse will be ordered to pay support. The amount and duration of alimony is decided pursuant to state law.
Courts will weigh multiple factors when deciding questions of alimony. These include the supporting spouse's ability to pay, the length of the marriage, and the time it will take the supported spouse to achieve economic self-sufficiency. If the supported spouse has been assigned custody of the couple's minor children, an alimony award will also reflect the extent to which that spouse must sacrifice career opportunities in order to care for the children in the years ahead. Moreover, alimony statutes usually contain a catchall provision, allowing courts to consider any unique factual circumstances in the case.
While the law provides alimony guidelines for courts to follow after a marriage has ended, couples are free to enter into contracts related to alimony beforehand. Known as prenuptial agreements, these contracts can partially or completely limit a spouse's post-marital alimony obligations. To be valid, however, a prenuptial agreement must have been executed "knowingly," and after full disclosure of each spouse's income and assets. This typically requires that both spouses visit with their own attorneys about the agreement before signing it.
Types of Alimony
Like other matters of state law, alimony statutes are slightly different in each jurisdiction. Nevertheless, the various forms of alimony can be categorized four ways. The first type is permanent alimony. As the name suggests, permanent alimony will continue for life, or until the spouse receiving it gets remarried. Courts will usually refuse to order permanent alimony when the marriage lasted a short time, or when it appears it will be relatively easy for the supported spouse to secure gainful employment. In such cases, the court will likely establish a termination date. This second type of alimony is called limited duration alimony.
The third type of alimony is known as rehabilitative alimony. To qualify, the supported spouse must propose a course of action whereby the spouse will obtain career education or training. The idea is to award a specific amount of support to finance the plan, after which further alimony will not be necessary. The fourth type of support is reimbursement alimony. This is designed to repay contributions made during the marriage. For example, reimbursement alimony is appropriate when the supported spouse paid for the other spouse to earn an advanced degree, but the marriage did not last long enough for both to enjoy the financial rewards of that education.
Establishing a Right to Support
Convincing a court to award alimony is a matter of presenting facts about the marriage relationship in a way that addresses the statutory guidelines. For instance, a typical alimony statute might include the marital standard of living as a factor for the court to consider. Thus, to maximize the amount of alimony, the supported spouse should gather and present evidence of the couple's regular expenditures during the marriage. In addition to receipts, account statements, and other documents, the supported spouse could call the couple's acquaintances to testify as to what life was like in the household prior to divorce.
Of course, a spouse seeking alimony may not have personal access to all financial records bearing on the issue of the couple's past finances. The discovery process is meant to rectify this problem. Discovery is the procedure whereby each party demands that the other turn over copies of relevant evidence. In an alimony case, discovery is sure to include all forms of financial information. In short, the supporting spouse cannot try to hinder or prevent the efforts of the supported spouse by refusing to allow access to the evidence needed to establish a right to receive alimony.
Modification of an Alimony Award
All types of alimony have one thing in common – they are awarded in order to address the needs of the supported spouse. What happens if the needs of the supported spouse unexpectedly change after alimony has been established? The answer is that the court will modify or terminate alimony, as long as there is sufficient proof that the need no longer exists. For example, even if the supported spouse has not remarried, if it becomes evident that he or she is receiving financial support from a new partner, the court may decide to reduce the level of alimony accordingly.
Consult an Alimony Lawyer
If you have questions about your alimony rights or obligations, it is best to consult with an experienced attorney in your area. Factors may exist that you have not considered. Even if you have a cordial relationship with your former spouse, alimony is an issue that requires independent legal advice.
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- Unlawful Provisions in Premarital Agreementsit is vital that any attorney drafting a prenuptial agreement know about unlawful provisions. Otherwise, a client may later be unhappy if provisions of a premarital agreement, or an entire premarital agreement, is later deemed to be invalid because of the inclusion of unlawful provisions. In addition to the information provided in this article regarding unlawful provisions, any attorney should be careful that they are complying with the laws in their specific jurisdiction.
- Parenting Time and the Upcoming HolidaysThe holidays can be stressful - add in the fact that you may be going through a divorce or separation. Here are some helpful hints to guide you through the holidays and parenting time in order to make the holidays pleasant for you and especially your children.
- How Do You Determine Who Owes What Debt?Divorce cases are already confusing without trying to figure out how all of the financial obligations are going to be divided between both parties. Many people think that they don't have to worry about their debts because they can pawn them off on the other party. Just because you can get rid of the spouse, that doesn't mean your debts are going to disappear as well.
- Are Disparaging Social Media Remarks by an Ex Protected by the First Amendment?In 2010, Steve Nash, a basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers, filed for dissolution of his marriage to Alejandra Nash. Nash v. Nash, 307 P.3d 40 (Az. Ct. App. 2013). The parties were able to the resolve custody and parenting time with their two young children through a joint agreement, but the matter went to trial on the issue of child support. On the day the trial court issued its decree, Mrs. Nash "tweeted" several disparaging remarks pertaining to Mr. Nash.
- 4 Common Misconceptions About Child Support After DivorceWe've all heard of child support: an ongoing, periodic payment made by the noncustodial parent following the end of marriage. In fact, even in "joint custody" cases, there's still a custodial parent—who the child spends more time with—and a noncustodial parent, and child support must be transferred. An exception to this would be if both parents earn the same income, pay equal amounts of expenses for the child and have the child the same number of days.
- Depositions: A Metal Detector in a Landmine FieldParties often question the necessity of a deposition in a contested family law case. Versus allowing their attorney to take a necessary deposition, parties often dismiss the idea as a cost savings move or in the blind hope that their case will settle. This is a common mistake for parties who will undergo a trial or contested hearing in their family law matter.
- Avoid A "Bar Fight Mentality" In Your Family Law CaseParties going through a divorce often have the viewpoint that it is helpful to be aggressive, confrontational and hostile in their family law case. By being a bully, or acting angry, they wrongly conclude that this will lend to a positive result in their family law case.
- Divorce & Family Law Courts: The Ten Biggest Mistakes Men MakeIt's no secret, when it comes to divorce with children involved, there seems to be an inequality in the courts based on gender—more often than not, the mother walks away with all of the rights, leaving the father frustrated and denied of the paternal rights deserved.
- California Child Support Laws - The BasicsWith divorce effecting over three quarters of marriages nowadays, there is a constant demand for answers to the unknowns. Oftentimes, the most important, and stressful, unknown that couples face when encountering a divorce is monetary issues.
- Protect your Financial Security During and After DivorceA growing number of people are divorcing late in life. No matter what the reason it is imperative to protect your financial security throughout and after the divorce process. You have accumulated a lot of things during the marriage—now is the time to retain as many as possible. There are savings and investment accounts, real estate and other personal and in some cases business assets to consider. An estate plan must be updated, health and other insurance replaced and the list goes on.
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General Rule - Gross income includes amounts received as alimony or separate maintenance payments.
- IRS - Topic 452 - Alimony Paid
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Spartanburg, S.C. -- The South Carolina Art Education Association honored a professor and a student from the University of South Carolina Upstate at its fall conference, Layers: Art, Education, and Life, held October 12-14 at the Greenville Regency Hyatt.
Dr. Rachelle Prioleau, department chair of the Fine Arts and Communications Studies at USC Upstate, was named the 2006 Outstanding Administrator of the Year for the State of South Carolina. Prioleau was recognized for achieving major initiatives for the arts programs of USC Upstate by spearheading the community outreach program that includes music, drama and visual arts components for the Southside of Spartanburg. In addition, she has co-authored the art education proposal for Bachelor of Arts degree in art education.
"Rachelle lives and breathes the arts," said Mary Lou Hightower, assistant professor of art education at USC Upstate. "In my 35 years in art education, she is the administrator that every art educator wishes for and she is so much more. She makes you believe that you can walk on water with her guidance and support."
Dan Fowler, a junior at USC Upstate, received the South Carolina Art Education Association scholarship, which is awarded through the following criteria of artistic merit, grade point average and interest in pursuing art education as a career goal. Fowler is from Glenn Springs, S.C. and is the son of Robin Shull and Robert Fowler.
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I officially grew old yesterday afternoon. Once you've seen the rise and fall of a sports stadium, you've officially, um, been around the block. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I'd peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonderment at The Sportatorium, ... More >>
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Our monthly wrap-up of restaurant openings and closings around Dallas. See what's been canned, what's new and what's sizzling on the back-burner in local restaurant news. Entered Nick & Sam's Grill: a casual spin-off of Nick & Sam's Steakhouse recently opened in Uptown. It replace ... More >>
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) — Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.
Two suspected drug traffickers were killed and four were arrested in Sunday's operations by Rio de Janeiro's military police, the official news agency Agencia Brasil reported.
But the atmosphere in general appeared calm in the slum known Morro dos Macacos in northern Rio, where the day before crossfire between two gangs left 12 dead, including two police officers who died when their helicopter was shot out of the sky. Residents had also set eight buses on fire during the clashes in an attempt to divert the attention of police.
"This was truly one of the worst incidents of this type," one local resident told CNN en Español, who declined to give his name for fear of his safety. "It was like a scene from a real war. It was like the world would end, lots of bullets, lots of noise."
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DULUTH — Through the first 30 minutes of play, the Gwinnett Gladiators held a lead and were holding firm on defense, but after 60 minutes, it was the South Carolina Stingrays that came out on top.
The Stingrays won 4-2 and swept the three-game weekend series between the two teams.
Maxime Legault gave the Gladiators an early 1-0 lead in the first period when he cashed in on a Josh Currie shot that squeaked through the Stingrays starting goaltender Adam Morrison and stayed in the crease. Jeremie Malouin also picked up an assist on the goal at 2:29. Gladiators goaltender Chris Rawlings was sterling in the first, making all 10 saves on the 10 shots he faced.
The Gladiators (1-7-0-0) kept the momentum of the first period going through the early part of the second, peppering opportunities in on Morrison. At 2:14 of the second period, Kurtis Bartliff doubled up the Gwinnett lead by scoring on a wrap-around chance. He picked up the puck behind the net immediately after Malouin was stumped out front from point blank range.
From there, the Stingrays (7-0-0-1) scored two of their own in the second when Peter Boyd scored on a broken play at 7:54, and Jordan Owens deflected a shot from Igor Gongalsky on the power play at 14:00. Though South Carolina had taken the advantage on opportunities later in the second, Rawlings was able to stonewall a late breakaway opportunity from Chad Painchaud with under 30 seconds left when Painchaud received a loose puck as he was crossing over his offensive blue line. Despite the dekes from right out front, the North Delta, British Columbia native stuck with Painchaud and made the save.
Peter Boyd lit the lamp again at 2:19 to start the third period, and then laid a dangerous knee-on-knee hit on Josh Currie around the eight minute mark. Legault defended his teammate - who returned to play minutes later - and dropped the gloves with Boyd, but it was South Carolina that fed off the controversial non-call, scoring their fourth unanswered goal at 8:28 on Owens' second tally of the night.
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Let's talk about steroids in sports or drugs in sports in general. What percentage of people do you think are using and what are your thoughts on "protecting" the integrity of the sport versus anything else?Tim Ferriss: I think that at the highest levels, if we're talking about any sport that is dependent on power, speed or endurance, all of the athletes are using some form of drug. That may simply mean $1,000 a month of supplementation and prohormones. Or it could mean interleukin therapy and 20 IUs of growth hormone a week. Or it could mean erythropoietin, EPO and darbepoetin, which not many people have heard of. Darbepoetin is pretty interesting.
I agree with Charlie Francis, who said that in the Olympics, at least in sprinting, there are the people who are using and don't get caught, there are the people who are using and get caught, and then there are the people who come in last place.
It's an unfortunate reality, but you do run up against physical limitations when the public demands new world records every year. We're not evolving to become better at the 50-meter sprint. It's just not very high on the list of evolutionary changes. So people are naturally going to augment with pharmaceuticals and everything else at their disposal. What would you do if you'd made $50,000 a year at most and now you suddenly had the chance for a $1,000,000 bonus from a huge shoe manufacturer if you broke a world record wearing their logos?
Turning to doping, I think a smarter approach to the problem would be first identifying the athletes in each sport or in categories of sports who have the highest naturally recorded levels of, let's say, testosterone and thyroid hormones. The next step would be allowing everyone to dope up to that measurable limit with medical supervision.
That would certainly go farther toward establishing a level playing field than simply testing everyone using mass spec for a few dozen anabolics. Because everyone's going to cheat, if it is truly a matter of protecting the athletes and establishing a level playing field, the regulators would be much more effective if they approached it from the perspective I recommended. In reality, I think the anti-doping measures are mostly about politics and very seldom about protecting athletes.
You've said that doctors can learn about steroids from bodybuilders. Can you elaborate?TF: Bodybuilders usually view doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting, and the doctors view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs. This is an unfortunate separation of expertise that results in no cross-pollination between the two groups.
One example of how educated bodybuilders can make a difference comes in the anecdote of a friend of mine who was hit at an intersection by a car while on his bicycle. He was training for an Ironman and was sideswiped by a car that put him into the intensive care unit. He suffered brain damage that affected his testosterone production.
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The empirical data from bodybuilding circles can be extremely valuable. It's unfortunate that it's so dismissed. Just because someone didn't go to an Ivy League school doesn't mean they don't have better data than you do.
One subject that's getting the book a lot of attention is obviously the sex. More specifically, you have two chapters on the 15-minute female orgasm, which of course piques a lot of curiosity. Who did you speak to about this subject matter? Can you give a very brief overview of who they are, what their expertise is and what you learned from them?TF: Some chapters, of course, were more fun to research than others. The two chapters on female orgasm ("The 15-Minute Female Orgasm") were certainly in that group.
I started with the experts. First off, I wanted to find people who'd already tried hundreds of things. One was Nina Hartley, who has starred in more than 400 adult films and helped me tweak many common positions to make them more effective for female orgasm, which is actually pretty simple to do.
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I, of course, in the name of science, had to ensure that this worked in the field. Testing ensued. And, as it turns out, there were plenty of things that didn't work -- and that's the point of research in the real world. Labs are controllable; a Friday night is much less so.
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Phonak Bolero Q-13 - Waterproof hearing aids (formely H20, and 13 denotes the size of the battery) (image) - The Phonak H20 is waterproof to 1m depth and gives great protection for golfers, walkers, sailors etc. The Bolero Q-13 is available as Bolero Q90, Q70 and Q50. List of features.
Phonak CROS and BiCROS - Single-sided-deafness - These are designed for people who have one dead ear and a good ear (CROS), or a better ear with an treatable hearing loss (BiCROS). Click this link for more information on single sided deafness for suitable hearing aid solutions.
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