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29 March 2015 11:10 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written for the screen by Christopher Kyle
Directed by Susanne Bier
USA/France/Czech Republic, 2014
Based on a bestselling novel by Ron Rash, Serena, as brought to the screen by director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Christopher Kyle, feels like a husk of an adaptation even to one completely unfamiliar with the source material. It's the sort of film that, at least in the form prepped for theatrical release, makes one inclined to believe its makers have completely lost the ability to tell a story. And it's not like that ever seems like a deliberate stylistic choice, with Bier actually focusing on some thematic flourish off on the sidelines. Serena is always focused on its plot. Its perpetually rushed, choppily told, borderline confusing plot.
Part of the trouble in the telling is that the film's a tonal mess. In her native Denmark, and with American cinema forays »
- Josh Slater-Williams
24 March 2015 5:49 PM, PDT | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
At least once a month, Cinelinx will chose one director for an in-depth examination of the "signatures" that they leave behind in their work. This week we're examining the trademark style and calling signs of Paul Thomas Anderson as director.
Anderson began his career without any related college experience as a production assistant. With some money he scrounged together, he made a short film, which he entered into the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. He decided to turn that short into a feature and was invited to attend the Sundance Feature Film Program, where he was mentored, and his talents were further developed. In 1996 his first feature film was released, Hard Eight, which Anderson had to raise his own money in order to edit it as he wanted, which was different than how the production company wanted to release the film. His version received some critical praise. His next film, Boogie »
- email@example.com (G.S. Perno)
17 March 2015 9:43 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Editor Jacob T. Swinney has created a fascinating five minute video featuring the first and final shots from 55 different films. In some cases we can attempt to draw meaning from what we're seeing and in others there doesn't appear to be much rhyme or reason, but that in itself can offer a window into what the director was attempting to achieve. My only complaint with the video is the fact Swinney didn't include the film titles in the actual video, opting instead to list them in the film's description. While the majority of the images are recognizable enough, I did find myself looking at the descriptions here and there, taking me out of the video for a second and ultimately causing me to have to pause the video overall. Not a major complaint, just more a compliment in fact to the engrossing nature of what was created. I personally find the images of Birdman, »
- Brad Brevet
16 March 2015 6:30 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress -- at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: is this a movie you'd want to see? Tell us in the comments. Wiglum Tweetable Logline: At his local supermarket salad bar, Wiglum witnesses the ridiculous routine of human life in mindless motion -- and it has taken its toll. Elevator Pitch: Our main actor is from "There Will Be Blood" and "American Beauty"; our stylistic influences are David Lynch, PTA, & Bela Tarr. "Wiglum" tip-toes 'fever-dream' and 'madcap black-comedy' through the banal gaze of a microscope. Our cinematographer had a Sundance feature titled "The Woman." Much of the compositions pack a bizarre sober punch that capture an alien energy "Wiglum" senses in these seemingly mundane moments and spaces. Production Team: Story, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer - Kouros Alaghband Writer, »
- Indiewire Staff
13 March 2015 9:08 AM, PDT | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Paul Thomas Anderson's weird and wild noir adventure, Inherent Vice, is making it's way to blu-ray in April, and Warner Bros. has revealed all the details on when you can pick it up, and what to expect on the disc. Come inside for all the details!
Chill out and get groovy when "Inherent Vice" arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on April 28 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. With an ensemble cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers, rockers, and more, "Inherent Vice" is the seventh feature from Oscar® nominee Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.
"Inherent Vice" stars Oscar® nominees Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master," "Walk the Line"), Josh Brolin ("True Grit," "No Country For Old Men"), Owen Wilson ("The Royal Tenenbaums," "Midnight in Paris"), Katherine Waterston ("Michael Clayton," TV's "Boardwalk Empire"), Oscar® winners Reese Witherspoon »
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3 March 2015 12:22 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
We've already seen a really great trailer for Alex Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina but with the movie's Us release around the corner, a new trailer has been released and this one offers up an even darker look at Garland's Turing Test thriller.
Oscar Isaac stars as Nathan Bateman, the reclusive CEO of a tech company who is working on a secret AI experiment in his home lab. When Ava reaches the point of testing, Bateman invites one of his employees, played by Domhnall Gleeson, to come and spend a week at the retreat to test the AI. Obviously, things go wrong but in this new trailer, we get a sense of just how wrong they go.
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2 March 2015 12:44 PM, PST | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The Weinstein Company has climbed aboard to co-finance with FilmNation the McDonalds origins story set to star Michael Keaton.
TWC will also distribute the film in the Us while FilmNation continues to represent sales for the rest of the world after reporting a roaring trade in Berlin.
StudioCanal will release in the UK, Elevation Pictures in Canada, Roadshow Films in Australia, Europacorp in France, Splendid Film in Germany, Videa in Italy, Sun Distribution in Latin America and Mis Label in Scandinavia.
FilmNation also closed deals in South Korea (9ers Entertainment), Hong Kong (Bravos), Taiwan (Applause), Singapore (Shaw Renters), Portugal (Prisvideo/Ecofilmes), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Philippines (Captive Entertainment), Indonesia (Pt Amero), India/Pakistan (PVR Pictures), Turkey (Aqua Group), Greece (Spentzos Film) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).
FilmNation co-president of production and acquisitions Aaron Ryder will produce with Jeremy Renner's and Don Handfield's The Combine.
John Lee Hancock will direct recent Oscar nominee Keaton ahead of an expected »
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27 February 2015 7:04 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
In a competitive situation, the Weinstein Company has closed a deal to acquire "The Founder," which is set to star Michael Keaton as McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, multiple individuals familiar with the bidding war have told TheWrap. John Lee Hancock will direct from a script by Robert Siegel, and FilmNation is producing with Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield's company The Combine. Also Read: Michael Keaton Pocketing Planned Oscar Acceptance Speech Goes Viral (Video) Described as being in the vein of "The Social Network" and "There Will Be Blood," the drama is expected to have all the makings of a strong awards contender. »
- Jeff Sneider
27 February 2015 9:06 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Paul Thomas Anderson might not have won an Oscar this past weekend for writing "Inherent Vice" — or for "There Will Be Blood" in 2008 (which is a shame), or "Magnolia" or "Boogie Nights" — but his day will come. He's too good for the Academy to continue to pass up time after time. As a writer-director, he brings his unique voice to every film he makes, consistently delivering moving, character-driven stories that stand out in their ability to showcase situations and people infrequently depicted in mainstream cinema. (Speaking of his voice, be sure to listen to this interview PTA did with Interview Magazine about "Inherent Vice" if you've not yet done so.) Even before Paul Thomas Anderson was a recognizable name, his knack for engaging, well-written dramas set in Southern California was already becoming a defining characteristic of his. For proof, look no further than Anderson's 1993 short, "Cigarettes and Coffee. »
- Zach Hollwedel
24 February 2015 10:50 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted a unique visual style with his seven deep filmography. He has the slow dolly in on someone's face, long steadicam takes, etc. Among his visual go-tos is the long shot, or even extreme long shot (which is just a long shot to the Extreme). Anderson's films generally deal with characters in isolation, and the long shot is a perfect way to illustrate this. In this supercut, courtesy of Jacob T. Sweeney, we get to see PTA's various uses of the long shot, which are both beautiful to look at and can say so much about the characters completely out of context. I wish this was more of a video essay and not a supercut, explaining why these are effective shots, but it is nice to see them all compiled in a neat package like this. Regardless, it still showcases the extremely well constructed shots of »
- Mike Shutt
20 February 2015 2:30 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Had history turned out differently, Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights" might've gone straight-to-video and we likely wouldn't have seen one of American cinema's finest directors deliver movies like "Magnolia," "There Will Be Blood," and "The Master." But early reviews saved the movie, it was released to great acclaim, and here we are nearly 20 years later, still appreciating the film. Today brings yet another perspective on the porn world picture, with Justin Barham's "Close-ups, Objects, etc." And the title says it all. It's a quick, but fascinating look at all the tight shots in PTA's movie, and, even across two minutes, it becomes quite apparent how these moments that usually get lost in the fabric of movie are actually essential in tying it all together. So get in your shaggin' wagon and watch below. Warning: probably Nsfw. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
19 February 2015 12:12 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Movies are as complicated or as simple as you want them to be, and crime flicks don't need to be cluttered with narrative. Toss in a bag money, a bunch of characters who want the money, and you're off the races. It's the green stuff that's the center of attention in the red band trailer for "Kill Me Three Times." Simon Pegg leads an ensemble that includes Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, and Bryan Brown in the tale of a hit man hired to kill a man's wife. Simple enough, but it seems there are more than few people who want her dead, there's the subject of that aforementioned cash, and more than a few twists along the way before this situation is resolved. There will be blood. "Kill Me Three Times" arrives on VOD on March 26th and in cinemas on April 10th. Watch below. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
19 February 2015 7:23 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Best Cinematography is one of the most closely watched technical categories at the Oscars, due largely to the fact that it's often so difficult to predict. Indeed, since 1986, when the American Society of Cinematographers first started handing out prizes, only 11 of its winners went on to triumph at the Oscars: -Break- 1990: Dean Semler, "Dances with Wolves" 1995: John Toll, "Braveheart" 1996: John Seale, "The English Patient" 1997: Russell Carpenter, "Titanic" 1999: Conrad L. Hall, "American Beauty" 2002: Conrad L. Hall, "Road to Perdition" 2005: Dion Beebe, "Memoirs of a Geisha" 2007: Robert Elswit, "There Will Be Blood" 2008: Anthony Dod Mantle, "Slumdog Millionaire" 2010: Wally Pfister, "Inception" 2013: Emmanuel Lubeszki, "Gravity" Updated: Experts' Oscars predictions in 24 categories This year, th...' »
4 February 2015 12:31 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Stumbling across that list of best-edited films yesterday had me assuming that there might be other nuggets like that out there, and sure enough, there is American Cinematographer's poll of the American Society of Cinematographers membership for the best-shot films ever, which I do recall hearing about at the time. But they did things a little differently. Basically, in 1998, cinematographers were asked for their top picks in two eras: films from 1894-1949 (or the dawn of cinema through the classic era), and then 1950-1997, for a top 50 in each case. Then they followed up 10 years later with another poll focused on the films between 1998 and 2008. Unlike the editors' list, though, ties run absolutely rampant here and allow for way more than 50 films in each era to be cited. I'd love to see what these lists would look like combined, however. I imagine "Citizen Kane," which was on top of the 1894-1949 list, »
- Kristopher Tapley
4 February 2015 10:10 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Inherent Vice, 2014.
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jena Malone, and Martin Short.
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
Reviewer's note: I have no interest in describing the plot of Inherent Vice in this review. If you want to know what it's about, there are many places to get that information online.
Expectations are a baggage which, despite best efforts, you sometimes cannot help but bring to a first viewing, especially if that first viewing is for the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson. He's a director who has produced films of startling magnitude time after time, and as I sat down to watch this, his seventh film, I was guilty of having it all planned out in my »
- Gary Collinson
3 February 2015 6:20 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Paramount Vantage/Miramax Films
Of all the filmmakers currently working in America few deserve the label of auteur quite as much as Paul Thomas Anderson. Like his contemporaries Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh, Anderson is a self-trained writer-director – he cut his teeth not in film school but through his obsessive cinephilia.
Paul Thomas Anderson's early works, in particular Boogie Nights, are instantly noteworthy for their cinematic virtuosity, both in terms of visual flair (the opening tracking shot from Boogie Nights is as impressive as any staged by Martin Scorsese) and in their complex ensemble-based narratives, where the influence of Anderson favourite Robert Altman is clear.
More recently the visual panache has become subdued in comparison, while the narrative and depth of subtext has only deepened and broadened. With There Will Be Blood and The Master, Anderson turned his focus towards more personal character studies, choosing to mine the psychological »
- Andrew Dilks
31 January 2015 7:04 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Director Paul Thomas Anderson has brought us some challenging and cerebral work in the past, from the unrelenting intensity of There Will Be Blood to the downright headache-inducing The Master. But his latest offering Inherent Vice is seen as a bit of a change of pace.
The title (imported from Thomas Pynchon's source novel) is as weighty as you might expect, but aside from that the focus is on slapstick and the absurd, mixed in with Pynchon's lyrical take on the seamier side of urban society. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Larry "Doc" Sportello, a detective in 1970s La who, like Sherlock Holmes, is often loaded on drugs but who unlike Holmes is about as organized as a cat trapped in a filing cabinet.
Sportello has his adventures rooted in the works of Raymond Chandler and, oddly for Anderson, the output of Naked Gun producers Abrahams and Zucker – though »
- Steve Palace
29 January 2015 6:42 AM, PST | Scott Feinberg | See recent Scott Feinberg news »
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Adapted screenplay nominees Damien Chazelle and Paul Thomas Anderson have been nominated for films that they also directed.
Chazelle's Whiplash, about an aspiring jazz drummer and his sadistic instructor, is his second feature film and is adapted from a short film of the same name that he also wrote and directed. The short won the jury award for short films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Whiplash was nominated for four other awards, including best picture.
Anderson received his second adapted screenplay nomination for Inherent Vice, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name. The film was also nominated for costume design. Anderson previously received an adapted screenplay nomination for 2007's There Will Be Blood, which he also directed. He received a best director nomination, and the film was nominated for best picture.
If either wins, they will become the fifth adapted screenplay »
- Anjelica Oswald
27 January 2015 4:34 PM, PST | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★★ There Will be Blood (2007) gave us the birth of American capitalism, The Master (2012) doused us in the uncertainty of post-war malaise and now Inherent Vice (2014) takes us to the crossroads of the modern Californian ethos. This is Paul Thomas Anderson's American history trilogy - how the West was won, bought and sold. Gore Vidal called his own series of historical novels the Narratives of Empire; it would be an apt title for PTA's trilogy, which serves as a document of the 20th century incarnation of that pioneer spirit. Daniel Plainview, Freddie Quell and Doc Sportello may initially seem like a disparate group of characters, but that spirit connects them. Each is a pilgrim staking his place in the New World.
- CineVue UK
27 January 2015 9:47 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To celebrate the release of Inherent Vice in cinemas on January 30, we're giving you the chance to win one of five sets of film merchandise.
From acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood) Inherent Vice is the groovy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name, featuring an all-star cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Jena Malone, Owen Wilson and Benicio Del Toro .
When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin…well, easy for her to say.
It's the tail end of the psychedelic `60s and paranoia is running the day and »
- Dan Bullock
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Family and Community - Atheist Nexus 2015-03-30T02:28:06Z http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/categories/family-and-community/listForCategory?categoryId=2182797%3ACategory%3A655750&feed=yes&xn_auth=no Choir singing hymns in public school performance tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-28:2182797:Topic:2586007 2015-03-28T02:34:39.716Z Billie Culver http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/BillieCulver My grandson, a high school freshman in Michigan, just played for me the recording of his choir performance. The singing was beautiful, but the song lyrics were about "praising God and giving glory to his name". I say this is inappropriate for a public school and violates separation of church and state. My husband says its just a song that demonstrates their vocal skills, and no big deal. Your thoughts? My grandson, a high school freshman in Michigan, just played for me the recording of his choir performance. The singing was beautiful, but the song lyrics were about "praising God and giving glory to his name". I say this is inappropriate for a public school and violates separation of church and state. My husband says its just a song that demonstrates their vocal skills, and no big deal. Your thoughts? Poor people tithing tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-26:2182797:Topic:2585674 2015-03-26T21:53:20.289Z Buck316 http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/buck316
I just learned my 88-year-old mother tithed $2,000 to her church last year. She's poor and barely lives off of a $1200 monthly check from Social Security. She recently underwent surgery for an aortic valve replacement, and not one representative from her church paid a visit or called. In fact, the church hasn't done a damned thing for her. It's a non-denominational evangelical mega-church in Wichita, Kansas. I did a happy dance when she left a Southern Baptist church years ago because they…

I just learned my 88-year-old mother tithed $2,000 to her church last year. She's poor and barely lives off of a $1200 monthly check from Social Security. She recently underwent surgery for an aortic valve replacement, and not one representative from her church paid a visit or called. In fact, the church hasn't done a damned thing for her. It's a non-denominational evangelical mega-church in Wichita, Kansas. I did a happy dance when she left a Southern Baptist church years ago because they were worse (and I'm gay). Thanks for letting me vent.
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Most Canadians say faces shouldn't be covered at citizenship ceremonies: poll

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Hi. I'm David Seidman, a member of this forum (although I don't post often), and I have a new book out.

It's called What If I'm an Atheist?, a guidebook for teenagers that's just been published by Simon and Schuster.

The reviews have been pretty strong: Kirkus Reviews says that the book is "superbly written, smart and sensitive," and School Library Journal calls it "a must-have resource." On Amazon,…

Hi. I'm David Seidman, a member of this forum (although I don't post often), and I have a new book out.

It's called What If I'm an Atheist?, a guidebook for teenagers that's just been published by Simon and Schuster.

The reviews have been pretty strong: Kirkus Reviews says that the book is "superbly written, smart and sensitive," and School Library Journal calls it "a must-have resource." On Amazon, it's reached #6 in Teens > Personal Health > Body, Mind & Spirit and #9 in Teens > Social Issues > Being a Teen.

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Thanks for listening.

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 "God Bless America" being in Public School Curriculum" tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-10:2182797:Topic:2580821 2015-03-10T05:54:08.614Z Jason Andrews http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/JasonAndrews747
Hi all,

My son just joined the choir at his elementary school. He's eight years old and in second grade. I know there's a combined school concert coming next month. I was told tonight that one of their songs is "God Bless America." and I am unsettled.

Whether justified or not, I don't like the phrase or the song for its religious overtones and assumption that god hold our country in some special status. I am unsure how to proceed. I don't want to tell my son he must quit the…

Hi all,

My son just joined the choir at his elementary school. He's eight years old and in second grade. I know there's a combined school concert coming next month. I was told tonight that one of their songs is "God Bless America." and I am unsettled.

Whether justified or not, I don't like the phrase or the song for its religious overtones and assumption that god hold our country in some special status. I am unsure how to proceed. I don't want to tell my son he must quit the choir or that he can't sing this song, as I value my son's right to make decisions. If I tell him to stand out and not sing it, am I denying him a cultural immersion. Or at his young age, if I allow him to continue, am I allowing him to participate in an indoctrination both religious and nationalistic.

I must find out what the theme of the concert is now, which I will do in the morning. Are there songs that venerate other deities? (I doubt it) We live in Colorado Springs, CO, a city saturated with religious conservatism and dominated by such powerful churches and the Focus on the Family Megaplex HQ.

Is it reasonable to talk to the principle to relay my concerns? I intend also to contact Freedom From Religion Foundation to see if this may violate Church/State issues.

Honestly, if this were some historical exploration of Hayden/Brahms, I wouldn't mind, since that music is studied for its beauty and complexity in a time when religion was saturated into the culture of the world and influenced nearly every aspect of art. This song certainly does not qualify and I find myself not sure how to act.

Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks,

Jason
 Bad news sells but it's bad for you. tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-10:2182797:Topic:2580565 2015-03-10T03:04:59.727Z Daniel W http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/Daniel57
This is something I am guilty of, big time. Passing on bad news about issues that affect secular people, or atheists, or folks here. Sometimes it seems hard not to - either most of the news IS bad, or there is a "bad bias" regarding news reports.

Apparently, our brains are wired to better respond to bad news. "The brain, Cacioppo says, reacts more strongly to stimuli it…

This is something I am guilty of, big time. Passing on bad news about issues that affect secular people, or atheists, or folks here. Sometimes it seems hard not to - either most of the news IS bad, or there is a "bad bias" regarding news reports.

Apparently, our brains are wired to better respond to bad news. "The brain, Cacioppo says, reacts more strongly to stimuli it deems negative. Thus, our attitudes are more influenced by downbeat news. Our
 ability to weigh negative input so heavily evolved, he explains, to keep us out of harm's way."  The term is "bad news bias".

The Guardian - a news site - States "News is bad for you, and giving up reading it will make you happier" The author's bullet points -

News misleads.

News is irrevelant.

News has no explanatory power.

News is toxic to your body.

News increases cognitive errors

News inhibits thinking.

News works like a drug.

News kills creativity.

The author concludes: "Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don't have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.

I have now gone without news for four years, so I can see, feel and report the effects of this freedom first-hand: less disruption, less anxiety, deeper thinking, more time, more insights. It's not easy, but it's worth it."

Of course there is a place for bad news. No one would want to think they missed the twin towers' destruction. And I believe we need to be informed to function in society, and wise voting decisions, and create a better world for ourselves.

It might be a good idea to balance some of the bad news with celebration of our atheism, victories of secularism, positive actions, etc.

Here's some good news:

 Female Equality tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-03-03:2182797:Topic:2578168 2015-03-03T22:53:28.174Z Patricia http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/Patricia980
Hey,

I just signed the petition "Federal Party Leaders: Join an Election Debate that Speaks to Women" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 2,500 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:…

Hey,

I just signed the petition "Federal Party Leaders: Join an Election Debate that Speaks to Women" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 2,500 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/federal-party-leaders-join-an-election-debate-that-speaks-to-women?recruiter=89915719&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive

Thanks!

Patricia
 Atheist Billboards Go Up in Puerto Rico to Promote Upcoming Conference tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-02-24:2182797:Topic:2575221 2015-02-24T17:58:54.853Z Hiram http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/Hiram

Billboards sponsored by American Atheists are now up in San Juan and Ponce, Puerto Rico, to mark the upcoming conference there this August:

Translated, that reads: "We're Puerto Ricans and…

Billboards sponsored by American Atheists are now up in San Juan and Ponce, Puerto Rico, to mark the upcoming conference there this August:

Translated, that reads: "We're Puerto Ricans and we're Christians — We're ex-Christians — We're atheists!"

"A significant part of our mission at American Atheists is building up and empowering communities of atheists everywhere, nationwide," said American Atheists President David Silverman. "Separation of religion and government is a major problem in Puerto Rico — just this month, an unconstitutional police blockade in Santa Isabel stopped 800 cars just to hand out religious pamphlets and offer prayers from on-duty officers. We intend to foster recognition of the Latino atheist community and the need, both legal and moral, for religious neutrality in government."

I like the image. It features local atheists and isn't antagonistic (though I'm sure some Christians will find a way to take offense). More importantly, it reaches out to a demographic not usually targeted by atheist billboards. I'm curious to see if it'll lead to an uptick in conference registrations.

(Image courtesy of American Atheists)

 Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/02/23/atheist-billboards-go-up-in-puerto-rico-to-promote-upcoming-conference/#ixzz3SgctCQKl

http://atheists.org/PuertoRico
 Anti-Atheist discrimination and corruption in the Federal Magstrate's court and The Family Court tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2015-02-23:2182797:Topic:2574456 2015-02-23T02:02:46.081Z Bruce Long http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/BruceLong536
Make of it what you will, but I don't hallucinate, and nor do I have delusions of reference, and I never have.

Avoid Christian psychiatrists in family court settings, especially if you are a known outspoken atheist.

ARTICLE

During the course of the last several years (since 2009) I have been…

Make of it what you will, but I don't hallucinate, and nor do I have delusions of reference, and I never have.

Avoid Christian psychiatrists in family court settings, especially if you are a known outspoken atheist.

ARTICLE

During the course of the last several years (since 2009) I have been forced to contend for parenting and custody rights with my devoutly faithistic Pentecostal Charismatic ex wife and her extended Baptist and Pentecostal family. The case ended up in the family court of Australia.

INITIATION

The court proceedings were initiated by my ex wife - Mrs Bronwyn Long (now Bronwyn Kibble) as an application for parenting orders in 2010 in response to complaints made by myself to her and to the police on behalf of my daughter about reports made by my daughter. My daughter reported that Mrs Long's then boyfriend (now husband) Mr Alan Kibble had been (repeatedly and on separate occasions) directing her to sit in his lap specifically when there were no other adults in the vicinity or present, apart from one occasion where there were other adults present. In other words – in secret.

Both Mr and Mrs Kibble have lied about the related events in court and in affidavits, and I demonstrated this from email documents sent to me by them during the proceedings.

Regardless, the outcome at this point is dire. My former spouse has been given sole parental responsibility, and I have been savaged by a biased and corrupt family specialist's report prepared by a devout Christian psychiatrist - a one Dr Peter Krabman. I have never been involved in harassment and family violence, and nor have I ever experienced any kind of hallucination, delusion of reference, or difficulties with perseveration or delusions of grandeur as asserted by Dr Krabman after less than one hour of interaction with me. There have been no claims against me of family violence and I have no history of the same. Yet the assertion was made based on a misdiagnosis that although I decry such behavior as a moral agent I could feasibly exhibit such behavior. A serious beat up in and of itself.

FEDERAL MAGISTRATE'S COURT: MY EVIDENCE

I am in possession of a report prepared by another professional psychiatrist prior to the proceedings - which was a result of no less than four separate meetings of one hour (four times as long at least as the court appointed family specialist spent with me) that gives me a clean bill of health and implicates my former spouse's personality as seriously problematic and even pathological, especially in relation to her rigid inflexibility as a faithist.

Those meetings were initiated by me in 2008 because my then spouse demanded that I see a Christian counselor in order to save our marriage (controlling and obsessive much?) I had been slowly losing my faith (which frankly never really took with me), and had been quite depressed by the bad marital relationship and her rather psychopathological and inflexible personality (and that is not an overstatement as you will discover below).

The resulting report and the letter accompanying it in support of my mental health status were dispensed with during proceedings in a very precipitant and untoward manner.

 This evidence was thrown out of the Federal Magistrate's court (before the case was handed to the Family Court) by its only seriously devout Catholic Magistrate (who retired only a few months later) on a technicality because it had not been formatted as a formal report and because some of the handwriting was difficult to read. The supporting letter from the atheist psychiatrist testified to my good mental health, but it was ejected out of hand along with the original report. Both should have been retained as general evidence. They demonstrate my good mental health status, and question that of my ex wife.

 My daughter's reports about Mr Kibble's behavior were ejected by the same magistrate as inadequate evidence on the basis that I had conveyed them. They were given by my daughter initially inadvertently in reponse to a general discussion I was having with her little brother in response to his question "what is child abuse". At the point at which I related the kinds of things sexual abusers do to groom children, my daughter piped up and flatly stated "Alan does that with me all the time". I almost missed the response at first.

 FAMILY COURT: AMBUSHED

During the short 1 hour session (less than that on my own) with Dr Krabman I indicated to him that I had been harassed, stalked, and in some cases threatened by individuals with whom I had had a serious falling out some 14 years prior to the proceedings. It is difficult to identify these persons as some of them are associates of my original antagonist(s) and I do not know their identities, but can only identify them by their troubling behaviour. This behaviour includes public intimidation and insults and interference with my career at the university where I have been studying and working towards my PhD in philosophy for several years.

The individuals in question are related to and associated with persons in the University's academic community in various ways, including at one point being closely associated with my own supervisor, who may have responded by joining them. Dr Krabman opportunistically interpreted these reports as delusory. I have been made aware that there are other persons aware of the harassment in the university community, but they have been unwilling to come forward and give evidence (no one wants to get involved in family court proceedings, and my reputation and character had already been attacked and maligned by those persons involved in stalking me.)

 I was forced by the judge in court on the spot as a litigant in person to submit a list of possible witnesses off the top of my head to prove my case, but as most of them were ex girlfriends or former actual or ostensible friends who had witnessed (and in some cases been involved in) the harassment and had decided to abandon me, and was the opposite of useful from a legal and practical perspective. No other list was accepted by the Family Court judge, former Northern Territory chief justice Hilary Hannam.

 Hannam also foreclosed outright on my ability to present any forensic counter, with which I could have made my case, by stipulating that the family court seeks to avoid adversarial counter arguments (which would pit the court appointed specialist's professional capacity against that of another equally well qualified professional). The problem is that this further foreclosed on my ability to defend my mental health status.

 SYSTEMATIC ABUSE:

My experiences with the Federal Magistrate's court and the Family court in Australia have demonstrated that the framework of each of them makes them staggeringly susceptible to manipulation and subversion on the basis of personal opinion and ideological stance of the officers of the court. If you are an atheist liberal going up against conservative puritanical theists the outlook is bleak.

We have legal aid in this Australia, and I was appointed legal aid on two occasions because of concerns about my daughters' safety. On both occasions the solicitor appointed to me turned out to be a devout Christian - the first a former Jewish Anglican married to the daughter of an Anglican Priest, the second a devout Mormon. I did my best to trust in the objectivity of each of them.

 In response to the candid and spontaneous reports made originally by my daughter, my former spouse emotionally abused my daughter calling her a liar and berating her and denigrating her character in front of family and friends to shame her. My daughter at 10 years of age (now 14) had a personality like my own and is both bright and unbelieving. Not traits with which my former spouse handles with any grace or ease.

 During the course of the proceedings I had to face much mischief at the hands of officers of the court who have learned over many years how to subvert the family court system to their client's ends, or against those with whom they have interpersonal or ideological differences. Just prior to a major hearing I was told directly by the independent children's lawyer - a former police detective and religionist sympathiser employed by the legal aid commission who supported my former spouse at every turn and who exhibited personal disdain for me as a PhD candidate in our very first meeting - that if I wanted further legal aid I would have to apply to, and I quote, "my organisation".

My applications for legal aid were often misprocessed and lost in administrative confusion.

Five minutes prior to the final hearing I was able to approach the family specialist Dr Krabman for the first time (having been told illegitimately by his office that this would be my first opportunity to speak with him). It is at that point that he revealed that he would be taking the oath on the bible, and that I should take this as an indication of his beliefs, which I already suspected must be theistic and devout from the contents of his biased and flawed report, which errantly identifies me as seriously mentally ill largely on the basis of my former spouse's say so. His appraisal of her character was all but glowing, but he was forced to admit that she was chronically depressed. Her depression, however, was attributed to me as being because of my personality. This is patently nonsense.

I do not know for certain but the ICL's special counsel may well have been a devout Christian also. At one point during the pre-session interval inside the courtroom prior to the judge's attendance or during adjournment she and my former spouse's devout Christian female lawyer had a very cosy conversation in my presence about attending the retirement party of the Catholic Federal Court magistrate who threw my psychiatrist's evidence out of court. For anyone that knows anything about the court rules associated with impartiality, intimidation, and sabotage of process etc., they are definitely not supposed to do that sort of thing.

 THE SURREAL ELEMENT:

 Bizarrely, when I tried to foreground the obvious ideological bias and religious obsessive behavior on the part of my former spouse, the judge asserted that there was no evidence that Mrs Kibble was religious! I was too stunned to laugh.

Which brings me to another interesting point. I was the only person in the court room representing myself and my daughter in the last two hearings. I had no support and no counsel. My former spouse had a lawyer, a barrister (apparently paid for or secured by her church), the ICL (who had already exhibited serious bias against me) and the special counsel for the ICL (who usually does not turn up at all). All of them and a rather unbalanced court against me. Mrs Kibble's entourage often included at least two people who appeared to be pastors or perhaps parents in law of Mr Kibble. That's rather a lot of firepower to deal with one putatively mentally ill dysfunctional person representing themself in isolation.

A DUMB, BLUNT INSTRUMENT:

 Perhaps it was because during proceedings I was able to have my wits about me enough to point out such things as the evident ideological bias of Dr Krabman, and to identify that his report was internally contradictory regarding my former spouse. At one point it identifies her as specifically chronically depressed, and at a later point as healthy and recovered.

My former spouse exhibits all of the traits of a psychopath: lack of empathy, lack of remorse, unwillingness to self-correct or admit error, and bullying and manipulation. During proceedings it was revealed that she had been seriously bullying our daughter - by throwing and locking her out of the house in the cold and rain in the dark on multiple occasions such that my daughter ran away from home twice (our daughter was 10 at the time). On another occasion she and Mr Kibble kicked my daughter out of the car with no shoes to walk to a friend's home. Their excuse is to blame my daughter's behavior. Firstly, is it any wonder that she responds to them negatively given their abuse of her, and secondly – this so called school teacher cannot manage her own child, but I can?

No such negative and abusive behaviour was associated with my parenting of the children, and during proceedings at least it was seriously frowned upon by the judge and the special counsel employed by the independent children's lawyer. This alone should have been enough to undermine assignment to my former spouse of sole parental responsibility. There is the imperative to avoid conflict on behalf of the children, but the cost to me and - by extension to the children - has been devastating. As is the threat to expose submit them to the attention of Dr Krabman. I can only imagine with horror what will happen when my children assert their disbelief.

DAMAGE AND IMMINENT DAMAGE INC. :

 It was ordered that my former spouse have sole parental responsibility for the children, and that I not be able to approach the children's schools except for special events (the motivation for which was unstated at any point – I have never had any complaints from school staff and have only ever contributed positively on behalf of my children and gone into bat for them when necessary.) My ex wife is a secondary school teacher, but (in addition to being terrible at mathematics,) tends to agree with everything other teachers say about our kids – even when it places our children at a serious disadvantage or if the other teacher is clearly mistaken or behaving in an untoward manner.

 Moreover, it was ordered that the children be told by a psychotherapist chosen by Dr Krabman that I am mentally ill and have a skewed sense of reality and of the threat posed to me by certain members of the public.

 It was also ordered that I have to disclose the full identity of any partner or spouse that I have to my ex wife in order for the children to stay with me. This is blatant provocation to rejection of the orders and an indirect way of removing my relationship with the children. It is at this point that the corruption of the family court system on the basis of the collective religionist bias against and dislike of my person and my ideological disposition becomes truly apparent. No partner exposed to rumours about my mental health from multiple random sources approaching them, and exposed to the associated stigma, is going to be able to sustain peace of mind. Not to mention the effect on my ability to secure employment in the marketplace.

 There is a mountain of material related to the case, but I have included below a letter sent to the court after proceedings had been finalized.

THE MINDLESSNESS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM:

 I am sure that legal minds will boggle at my putative stupidity for approaching the problems as I now am. However, I have learned that this is the point at which legal training is an apparent impediment to good sense and counter to the wellbeing of the children, and certainly devastating to my own outcomes. Lawyers, I am afraid to say, can be terribly stupid agents of a disastrously corrupt and ineffectual system. They are a bit of a waste of time and money when it really matters.

 Why should I have to waste all of my time and lifeblood fighting a fight that my religionist former spouse is enjoying – despite her politically correct false overtures to the contrary. She gets the satisfaction of watching me suffer and feeling justified in her belief in her bastard god fiction, whilst bastardising me and my unbelieving daughter with the help of the power of the family court. Then when I recover she gets to take my money and give it to the Pentecostal Church and spend it on Jacuzzis instead of on our children's university education (which she has expressed a disbelief in).

 Understandably the effect on my emotional state and health due to stress and worry has not been conducive to my high functioning, and I can tell you that such stressors are apt to make the healthiest and toughest person a little twitchy. Frankly, people go down in psychological flames over much less.

YOU AREN'T PARANOID IF THEY ARE REALLY OUT TO GET YOU:

 Add to all of this the bizarre behavior of members of the public who have some knowledge of the situation generally. I had a contract with an employer in May 2014. The recruitment agent approached me avidly, which for someone my age and with my academic career interlude is rare. It transpired that the employer was a Christian lawyer, friends with the Christian lawyer Chancellor of the university where I study and had been working (until they – ahem – stopped giving me work due to complaints from theist students and perhaps for other even less savoury reasons. I am published in professional journals, and get good teaching reports from peers and impartial students.)

 The employer's daughter was studying philosophy as an undergraduate in the same department where I work and research. After only a few days of working with this employer I was getting comments about my personal psychological wellbeing that 1. It was too early for any reasonable person to be rightfully making based on very limited interaction and exposure to me, even if they had been objectively correct and 2. Should not have been made in public settings such as coffee shops at audible volumes.

 It is at times like that I realise that theists are really very much out of their minds. And I mean clinically. They are trying to say I am crazy, but that was – as the common parlance has it – "some crazy shit".

 I have not re-applied for legal aid yet, but will do so. But recall that my last two legal aid solicitors were not just believers or agnostics, but devout theist cultists (Episcopalian and Mormon) and so you can understand my reticence. If you want to discover how easy it is for a religionist to subvert the court system against atheists, then observe your devout theist solicitor – who is aware of your atheist views and activism – 'legitimately' and within the bounds of the law exercise their professional discretion and choose strategies that are sub-optimal.

 I don't think everyone is out to get me, nor do I dislike people. However, I am fairly sure at this point that my former spouse and her supporters might just be a little pre-occupied with my continued existence.

 LETTER/ADDENDUM

Family Court of Australia

At Sydney

From:

Mr Bruce Long

Defendant, Case No. PAC5089/2010.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Dear Madam,

Subsequent to today's unfortunate and corrupt judgments from the court, I am forced to communicate all of the following.

Despite overtures of the court to the effect that such findings are in the best interests of the children, the outcome is that now I will be forced to spend any monies that I earn on having the judgments overturned. This will of course affect the children's future. However, this outcome - objectively - is wholly the responsibility of the court and officers of the court representing The Applicant and to the extent that they have been involved in supporting the applicant in a clearly biased manner.

I do not yet have the financial wherewithal to mount an appeal or lodge any application, but this should be expected at a time in the future when my finances are more secure, despite the damage done to my abililty to earn an income by the corrupt malpractical and biased report compiled by Dr Krabman, which report with respect to myself is no more than an ideologically motivated hatchet job barely disguised in clinical parlance and as a clinical forensic report.

Regarding specific orders:

I will be appealing against all orders made, and in the short term there are some orders, parts of which I will not comply under any circumstances:

16. The father is to advise the mother of the address at which he proposes the children are to spend any overnight time with him, and the full names of all other occupants of those premises.

The final clause of this order (see italics) is wholly unwarranted and represents and invasion of my privacy and provides a way for the applicant and her spouse and supporters to interfere with my personal relationships by indirectly exposing my future partners to the corrupt, malpractical, and flawed findings of Dr Krabman. This is unacceptable morally and ethically, and constitutes a dire abuse of my person, and something about which I should be understandably distressed.

In connection with this, I would like to point out that:

When the applicant began their relationship with Mr Alan Kibble, I was not notified of such nor was I appraised of the fact that the children were spending time alone with Mr Kibble (which is a fact supported by evidence given by the children and by the Applicant herself in previous proceedings and in these proceedings).

No such injunction has been given to the applicant, whose behavior in relation to the seriously inappropriate disciplining and abuse of Kayta Joy Long, now 13 years old, was looked upon direly by the court and the special counsel representing the children's lawyer Mr Walkden. The court's orders do not appropriately match the recognition of this behavior on the part of the applicant as pathological.

The court and the report fail to adequately recognize the significance of my daughter's reports of Mr Kibble's inappropriate and likely sexualized behavior towards her, nor that evidence presented demonstrates that the applicant and Mr Kibble lied about it, nor that Katya was subsequently emotionally and psychologically abused by the applicant because of it.

  My own forensic clinical evidence in support of my position and prepared by a professional psychiatrist (not a religious believer)was thrown out of court on the basis of technicalities such as format and handwriting/legibility, with no consideration given to the content thereof as evidence. This will be appealed in the future.

The ostensible justification of 4 based upon the propensity for the court to avoid adversarial counters in proceedings is inadequate (and in fact corrupt) as a justification for blocking my ability to make a case on the basis of forensic evidence.

The protections against the corrupt, malpractical and criminally mischievous findings of Dr Krabman being discovered by the general public are wholly inadequate, and I will be seeking legal advice regarding the same. I expect this to be extremely difficult, but that the corrupt and morally reprehensible actions of Dr Krabman and the court family court and its officers in connexion with is have made this fact irrelevant.

Dr Krabman indicated to me before proceedings that he would be swearing on the Bible, and that this was a clear indication of his religious disposition as a believer. I reiterate, as was revealed in proceedings, that I was told by Dr Krabman's office that I would not be permitted to approach him until the hearing itself, which seemed to surprise even the judge. I complied and at no point were my extremely limited interactions with Dr Krabman untoward.

If the result of my intention not to comply with this clause of order 16 is that the children are withheld from my care and are unable to spend time with me, then that is or will be wholly and solely the responsibility – jointly and severally - of the corrupt agents involved in formulating these orders and the corrupt actions of Dr Krabman, whose errant, false and ideologically and religiously biased report is not only reproachable, but indicative of general dangerous malpractice.

With respect to the stated findings that I personally have a distorted view of the danger presented by or harassment of my person by other persons:

Dr Krabman's report with regards to the circumstances is misinformative and confused at best, and largely a blatant biased misrepresentation which exemplifies Dr Krabman's propensity to misinterpret my character in a negative way, and that of the Applicant (who, based upon her bullying and wonton behavior is probably in fact a clinical psychopath) in a positive way. There are good sound reasons to believe this is largely due to his faithistic and ideological disposition, which matches the disposition of the applicant.

I will now be forced to attempt to prove that pestering interference with, harassment of, and stalking of my person have occurred quasi-systematically over the last 14 years, which undertaking will be expensive and result in harm to my children's future that I can now not avoid.

In the event that, or if, the expectation of the court is that events that I claim to have occurred pursuant to 9. may well constitute objective facts, and that the current orders are connected with some form of social didactic to force me to engage with and expose the persons involved in harassing me:

This would be completely irresponsible and morally and ethically reprehensible on the part of the court and any agents involved with it, and would plainly breach any basic principles of the law that are intended to protect individuals from false accusations and mischief – including harassment and stalking - caused by agents at odds with them. Disgusting and ridiculous are not too strong as term to apply to such.

In the event that this were the case, I will endeavor to ensure the outcome will - justly - be perpendicular to that desired by persons pursuing it, and frustrate them. As it stands it will only amplify the harm done to my children by the court and its officers, by the applicant and her husband, and by those ostensibly claiming to act in the children's best interests by way of damage to my own person and reputation and thereby damage to the children's father and our relationship.

Any harm done to my children in terms of their psychological health and general wellbeing in connection with the above and especially with 2 a. and b. will be and is wholly and solely the responsibility of the court and the applicant and her husband, of persons that have harassed me and interfered with my career prospects over the course of 14 years, the agents ostensibly representing the best interests of the children, and Dr Krabman.

Further Notes Regarding the Proceedings and this Communique

The abuse of my children and myself at the hands of this court and that of the applicant, together with the bizarre ostensible motivation that the same is in the childrens' best interests, has been disgusting and reproachable, and is beyond contemptuous. My respect for it and for those involved in it as having any kind of worthwhile moral agency with respect to the situation is, appropriately, null.

I will be retaining all of the documents and letters relevant to these proceedings to discuss with the children as adults when they are fully able to comprehend the corruption involved in the applicant's actions (beyond their current comprehension – which is significant and accurate) and the unfortunate nature of the family court in this Country. Any attempt to block the same will be brought undone by legal appeals with the assistance of the children when they are adults.

Damages to Myself and My Children and Concerns about the Applicant's Behaviour Going Forward

My personal reputation and my own ability to have peaceful congress and to seek gainful employment and establish gainful enterprise in the public marketplace has already been inestimably damaged by these proceedings and by the likely quasi-sanctioned and unsanctioned leaking of the details or thrust of Dr Krabman's [report]. It is clear that this serves as an impediment to my further pursuing matters. This situation can not be allowed to stand. Correspondingly, any future negative outcomes are wholly the causal responsibility of the applicant and the court and it's officers, and I rightly abjure any responsibility.

I have dire concerns that the pathological behavior of the applicant, exemplified by her treatment of Katya through the course of these proceedings, will now be amplified. Clinical evidence shows that Psychopaths such as Mrs Long that regard that they have been given support for their behavior are apt to practice to elevate it. In connexion with this, I would like to point out that it is clearly the applicant whose personality is pathological on the basis of her impression of entitlement, exemplified by her treatment of myself and her own daughter in initiating these proceedings and throughout them.

Neither is it encouraging that this pathological sense of entitlement on the part of the applicant is connected with her extreme devout disposition with respect to doctrinal commitments that are also pathological in terms of clear delusions of grandeur and narcissism (that she is justified in her actions by some almighty god of the universe that is for all intents and purposes simply a figment of her pathological imagination, and is part of a grand holy army marching through history to oppose unbelief and headed by said divine and evidently fictional and hallucinated character).

 It is a common misconception that because such beliefs are widespread, that they are not pathological due to community acceptance. Firstly, such acceptance is far from universal, and secondly it does not indicate lack of pathology on the part of those holding such beliefs precisely in connexion with those beliefs. A disposition to such beliefs is arguably an indicator of narcissism, delusions of grandeur, hallucinatory experiences, and delusions of reference on a grand scale. My children and I have suffered greatly because of such behavior on the part of the applicant.

The complete lack of any genuine remorse on the part of the applicant and her spouse Mr Kibble is noteworthy.

Assertions made by the court in the matter that the applicant's doctrinal commitments were 1. not evident and 2. not relevant are ridiculous in the extreme. They are relevant to the applicants' clear psychopathology, and to the support given her by the biased report of fellow believer Dr Krabman.

Overall, the actions of the applicant, her husband, the court, and those officers of the court tasked with protecting the childrens' interests, has been extremely disappointing and immature.

It should be clear to the reader that any claims that this communique is somehow unclear, rambling, perseverative, or confused would be transparently mischievous and ill-regarded by any rational and thinking person given the circumstances.

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If you're a software developer and you haven't read Ward's Wiki [c2.com], I strongly advise doing so now. It has a lot of content from some very smart people you won't get elsewhere. Primarily it focuses on software design patterns, but even outside of that subject I've learned a lot just by reading random pages there.
What are they referring to here? This seems like a quote pulled out of context and now it makes no sense.
"It's only 40 lines, but every line carried some careful thought. "
Indeed it is taken totally out of context -- it's from pg 4 of the article, talking about a library called d3.js, which is apparently a library "to make things move on the screen"
The article didn't cover any of his work with the agile methodology community and his role as one of the three inventors (with Kent Beck and Ron Jeffries) of the eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology and the practices surrounding it (many of which were used in agile methodologies other than XP). To me that's a lot more important than CRC cards.
But, having known Ward for a very long time, I think his most notable contribution is his being a nice guy - humble as well as brilliant, and always willing to share. He is one of the unsung geniuses of the computing world and deserves a lot more attention than he normally gets.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?


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