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David Cameron: LGBT Ally of The Year?
Gay news organisation PinkNews recently awarded David Cameron an 'Ally of The Year' award in recognition of his work towards securing equal marriage rights for gay couples during his time as Prime Minister. Since then there has been a quick and incredibly varied response with both straight and LGBT+ people wanting to voice their opinion on the decision. My initial response was anger, but as both a queer individual and a Labour supporter who doesn't approve of Cameron at the best of times, I wanted to wait and assess the situation rather than respond too quickly and irrationally. However, just under two weeks and lots of thinking later, my response remains largely the same.
The struggle for LGBT+ rights is not one that began in the new millennium, let alone in the past seven years, and the idea that a man who has only vocally supported queer rights since 2009 could ever be the 'Ally of the Year' is incredibly confusing, as well as demeaning to those who have made dedicated their life to improving the rights and lives of LGBT+ people. The basis for David Cameron's nomination was his role in the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. While the legalisation of same-sex marriage is of course a crucially important step in the pursuit of equality, nominating someone with a history of anti-LGBT+ policies and wavering views on equality purely based on one action reflects a wider issue within the global views on equality.
The fight for marriage equality is an issue of importance to many couples who do not adhere to standard heterosexual relationship structures, but it has been given too much prevalence in the mainstream media in comparison to other struggles faced by the queer community, and this is perhaps why PinkNews saw David Cameron as deserving of the title 'Ally of the Year' despite his previous failings. When the media and LGBT activists focus on marriage equality, other issues such as the stigmatisation of non- traditional relationships outside the homosexual spectrum, the continuing HIV struggle, lacklustre education about LGBT+ issues in schools, and the overwhelming importance placed on the nuclear family at the expense of non-traditional ones.
David Cameron's record prior to 2009 is indicative of his attitudes towards the queer community, with his voting against the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 in 2003, opposition to gay adoption in 2002, and the restrictions the Conservative party under Cameron wanted to impose on IVF treatments in 2008 that would require a father figure to be listed by lesbian couples who wanted the treatments. However, the politician's policy on LGBT+ equality seems (on the surface at least) to have changed in favour of equal rights. In 2009, he issued an apology for his voting record on Section 28, which banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality and thereby undermined LGBT education and continued the narrative that homosexuality was transgressive and immoral. Two years later, the lifetime ban on MSM blood donation in the UK was lifted under the Tory government, and two years after that, same sex marriage was legalised.
Cameron's record may have improved recently, but ultimately one has to consider whether his pro-LGBT+ efforts are a case of too little, too late, or perhaps even the result of a publicity drive attempting to make an alienating upper class politician seem more likeable to those unlikely to vote Conservative due to its traditionally exclusive policies. In a 2010 interview with The Independent, Cameron stated that "I think we can look gay people in the eye and say, 'You can now back us…because we now support gay equality'", and it is comments like this that create a sense of scepticism around Cameron's nature as an ally. Furthermore, Cameron appears to have decided that now that marriage equality has been achieved his work is done in securing the rights of the LGBT+ community, as since 2013 we have witnessed massive cuts to HIV/AIDS funding, cuts to LGBT mental health services, and even the removal of the MSM blood donation ban saw it replaced with another ban that requires gay men to be celibate for a year before donating blood.
There can be no denying that Cameron has played an important role in the development of same sex marriage law, and his willingness to align himself with LGBT+ groups and policies earns him the title of 'ally', but I have trouble believing that there was not a single straight person more sympathetic and beneficial to the gay cause. In just under 30 years in politics, Cameron has had many impacts on the LGBT+ community, not all of them beneficial, and I personally do not feel comfortable having him lauded as the Ally of The Year. The LGBT+ struggle is not a bargaining chip used to win votes, and I refuse to be told to praise someone who sees funding for lifesaving HIV research as optional spending, and who accepts an award as an ally to the gay community one week after standing silently by as a member of his former party halts a bill that would pardon 50,000 gay and bisexual men convicted under homophobic laws. David Cameron may have helped secure my right to marry, but he is not my ally.


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Friday, December 20, 2013
1948 - A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
Every year at Christmas I re-watch the same films, so I'm trying this year to watch ones I haven't seen before and this was on my list to check out anyway. Kal Penn & John Cho could make these films forever and they'd work because of their awesome chemistry. This one is similar to White Castle, the original, in it's wonderful simplicity. If I'm honest I don't love the more cartoonish elements with the coked up kid and the waffle-bot - that stuff felt a little bit too much, and the characters are interesting enough to not need it. Both just felt like easy gimmicks that ended up being plot resolving points. Neil Patrick Harris' cameos continue to be an absolute delight in this series. If you like your stoner human this could be the Christmas flick to check out this year.
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Sunday, 27 January 2013
Revell/Matchbox Wellington Mk. X 1:72 - back to the brushes!
Having marveled at Diego Quijano's latest amazing creation, back to rather more mundane modelling matters - my build of the ancient Revell (ex-Matchbox) Wellington. I'm putting this together as a 'quick' OOB build, but its been a while since I've had to work this hard on a kit and I'm wondering whether my 'skill' level is up to doing this one justice. Progress has been slow and painful - poor fit and airbrush problems! Having replaced my broken nozzle I have been unable to get my airbrush to spray as nicely since I snapped the nozzle in the first place to the point that I have ended up brush painting this one ...a thin enamel coat or two with a wide flat brush over a primer undercoat, its been a while since I finished a model like this but I quite enjoyed it. I used a spray can for the wheels/props/armament. Goes without saying that white is a very hard colour to paint... and photograph.. As for my airbrush troubles, what a pain. I've always used a very cheap set-up (Badger 200, Premi-Air G 35, some Chinese copy, cheap Iwata compressor) on the basis that it keeps things 'uncomplicated' and up to now that philosophy has never given any problems. But all of a sudden I've got three brushes in bits on the bench and no idea what to do next frankly - aside from invest in a new Iwata Eclipse or some such. Will see how I feel when the 'On Track' show comes around at the end of February. Meanwhile nozzle, needle, seals have all been replaced and I'm still getting far too much splatter and the nozzle (0.30) clogging after a minute or so spraying on the G 35 - which up to now has always worked well for me. I know the paint is not the problem- highly thinned enamels go through one brush, acrylics through another! Anyway the point is, that I've done anything at all recently is down to brush painting. Brush painting too has stirred all sorts of long-forgotten memories; from finishing a Frog Blackburn Shark to my first Airfix Dogfight Double aged 11 and knocking out a 1:24 Harrier in a matter of weeks aged 13 - all brush painted! Of course some of the best modellers out there use brushes - not perhaps technically the best, but as people, certainly among the best! You can see why too. Brush-painting is very therapeutic for one thing. You do of course lose all pretensions to becoming a modelling 'deity' knowing that most modellers out there will look rather disdainfully at your work ..but if you've got the paint at least you can get some modelling done!
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This seems to be Wellington month. Daz Greenwood recently finished one, I have a Trumpeter example in process, and yours. I still think that the Matchbox/Revell came closest in solving the issue of visual representation of the fabric surfaces over the geodetic structure. Much better than the Trumpeter I would say.ReplyDelete
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According to professionals, the Adirondack chair in fact was originally called as the Westport chair, which actually was named after a small town that's located near the Adirondack Mountains. The chair's design was in fact first created in 1900 by Thomas Lee. With the mission of designing a chair to which could be utilized outdoors and indoors and one to which is comfortable, he started his work through the use of standard boards and nails.
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The style of the slatted boards and the big wide armrest would be what makes the Adirondack chairs popular and that the style likewise remain popular even until today. The armrest in fact is nice because it is wide and angled for you to easily set down a cup of coffee or glass of lemonade while you relax in the shade.
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One of the best things about choosing an Adirondack chair is that this is extremely comfortable and for its efficiency and quality, it is in fact affordable. Most Adirondack chairs actually are made from natural wood or this is being painted with white, but you could now find new colors today. You may also choose from the basic Adirondack chair or you can choose the Adirondack lounge chair to which could recline easily or a double Adirondack chair, which is perfect when cuddling with someone.
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When you actually love to spend time indoors or outdoors, it is best to make sure that you have a comfortable and good chair that you can actually get from an Adirondack chair. A chair like this is usually handcrafted which is going to give you a unique country look. Chairs like these also is able to add a real touch of class.
A standard Adirondack chair have a measurement of 32 1/4 inches wide, 38 1/4 inches deep and has a height of about 35 inches. The price with a standard Adirondack chair is going to vary from the maker, but it usually comes with a price that's reasonable. The best thing about it is that the Adirondack chair is durable and is able to last several years when this is take care properly.


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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Rachel Weisz as Queen Isabella, Oil on Linen. She lives in Brooklyn with her 007 Husband.
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(I am going to warn you now that this is pretty much a soapbox post. So, if you aren't in the mood for a rant, just move on to the next blog you like. I won't be mad. I promise! But if you are so inclined, just scroll down past the picture and start reading! Oh, and word of warning, this post is looooong!)
I have been away from this blog for much longer than I intended. I would love to be able to say it is because I have been so busy living my incredible life that I just haven't had the time. Not that I haven't been living my incredible life... I have! I've had a wonderfully relaxed summer filled with reading, yoga and family time. Interspersed with a few stressful moments dealing with my mother who has Alzheimer's. But, overall, things have been good...really, really good.
No, the reason I haven't been posting is because my heart just hasn't been in it. My heart has been heavy. It still is.
I need to say upfront that I love teaching. And when I say love, I mean L-O-V-E teaching.
I love working with children every day.
I love that I can be creative in how I teach concepts.
I love writing here about the students I teach and the wonderful things that happen on a daily basis.
Teaching is in my blood.
Teaching is deep rooted in me.
But these past few months with our contract negotiations and job action have been tough. As in T--O--U--G--H...
Without teaching it is like a part of me has been cut off or taken away. This leaves a hole. And it leaves me feeling sad and not a little angry at the reasons I am not allowed to teach right now.
It was so depressing and heart wrenching to not be in the classroom at the end of June. To have to finish off what was a wonderful year with a wonderful group of students by going on strike and walking the line. Having to spend hours walking around my school with a picket sign on instead of being in the school teaching the children I love. Thank goodness for the students who came to visit and give hugs. They made it all more bearable.
It was depressing not being able to spend my own time in the summer setting up my room for September. Most years I would have gone in for a bit every week to clean, organize, plan, and decorate the class. (Don't even get me started on the primary book room which has not been cleaned or inventoried yet. Something else I do in my free, unpaid time every summer.)
It is depressing and infuriating having to listen over and over to government rhetoric about education and all that they are already doing for it. Feeling frustrated and angry that we have won a court case against the government's illegal stripping of our contract not once but TWICE and yet they still will not step up and admit that they were wrong and take steps to right that wrong.
It is frustrating and saddening to know that tomorrow morning I will be back on the picket line and not back in my classroom. More so because I don't see an end in sight. Not with a government that doesn't see the worth in funding our future. That doesn't see the value in funding, not just the people educating, but the children receiving that education.
But I know my value. And I know the value in providing the children in this province with the educational setting and supports that they not only need but deserve. I know the value, not only for those individual children, but for our society as a whole. And I believe in that value. I believe that our children deserve to have someone see their worth and back it up with action.
When the government keeps saying that they don't have the money to fund education they speak of education broadly, as pretty much a service that is provided in our province. It is a concept. Our premier, Christy Clark, and our Education Minister, Peter Fassbender, don't see the individual students who are impacted by their decisions and lack of willingness to do what is right. Or, if by some miracle they do (I wouldn't hold my breath), then they just don't care. Which, in my opinion, would be even worse.
Education may be a service but it is a service made up of individual real people, real children with real needs who have the right to have those needs met.
I see the results of decisions made by government. I not only see but I KNOW the grade 3 student who is reading at mid-grade 1 level because life got in the way of his learning in grade 1 and he only got 50 minutes of resource teacher support a week in grade 2 because extra staffing has been cut so much over the years that there are too many students who need help and not enough staff to fully help them. Is this his fault? No. Is the "system" failing him by not meeting his needs? Yes.
I know the students with fine motor difficulties (a growing epidemic in the early grades by the way) who struggle to print but haven't got an OT (occupational therapist) to come in and work with them since they were cut too. Is this their fault? No. Is the "system" failing them by cutting services? Yes.
I know the student who I think may have a reading disability but who will sit on the wait list to be tested for close to THREE YEARS because budget cuts have made it so only a handful of students get tested from any one school in any given school year. Is it the student's fault that they learn in a different way? No. Is the "system" failing them by making them wait years for help? Yes.
I know the student who has a very hard home life, who comes to school each day angry at the world and feeling like no one cares but who can only see the school counsellor once a week for 20 minutes because that counsellor works at three schools each week and has over 50 kids on their caseload. Is it the student's fault that his family life is in turmoil? No. Is our "system" failing him by not helping him learn to deal with his emotions so that he can begin to learn? Yes.
I know all of these students and many others with a variety of needs. I know them because I live with them each and every day. I watch them struggle. I see how little support we are able to provide and how that support has diminished a little bit more every year. I know this system and I have been trying to do more with less for years and years. All teachers have.
This system that fails these students (and many others with a variety of needs) is the system created by our now premier, Christy Clark. She started the downward spiral when she was Education Minister and stripped our rights to negotiate fully and she has continued to create a system that is failing students by refusing to fund education properly.
Enough is enough.
I know each and every one of these students up close and personal. I struggle each year, on a daily basis, to provide the children in my care with everything that they need emotionally, intellectually, physically to be better people. I bring these struggles home with me. I dream about certain children I am having trouble reaching (just ask my husband!) I worry about children in my care whether I am at work or not.
Enough is enough.
How many times is Christy Clark going to have to be told that she has behaved unconstitutionally and has acted illegally where our contracts are concerned? How many more cuts do our children have to take before the people of this province stand up and say "No more!!!"? How many more children have to fall through the cracks that our government is busy cutting in our education system?
Enough is enough.
I am not on strike for me. I am on strike for the children I see day in and day out who are being shafted by a system that cares more about money than it does about people. I am on strike against a government that has shown time and time again that it does not want to follow the letter of the law.
Do I want to be on strike? NO!
Did I ever want to be on strike? NO again!
Do I wish we could have resolved this without ever having to strike? Double YES!
But, will I remain on strike even if it means losing salary and worrying about how to keep a roof over my head and food on my table? YES!
Enough is enough.
So, if you're in my 'hood tomorrow, and see me circling the school, give a honk and a wave. And if you live in BC and haven't written to your MLA's and premier's office, please do. Whatever your point of view (you don't have to agree with me!) your voice matters. Together we may just be able to end this strike and get on with the classroom learning.


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Released: 1 November 2006
Version: 1.3 (23 February 2015)
License: Freeware
Developer : Irrgheist
H-Craft Championship is a science fiction racing game developed by two people independent game studio Irrgheist located in Tübingen, Germany. The game was built using the free graphics engine Irrlicht for Windows, Linux and Android. In 2007 the game was released in digital distribution internationally by Manifesto Games and in aRussian version released by Akella. In 2014, after a long down time, the developers released the game as freeware. In February 25, 2015 the game was released asopen source under the zlib license. The game features various hovercraft which race on superhighways in the sky, meaning that an important part of the game involves staying on track and not falling to the ground. It features several different games modes: "Championship" acts as the singe-player campaign, while "Rival " allows for multiplayer games with up to four players in sequence. In addition it also features "Arcade" and "Time attack" game modes.
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According to analysts, property prices in Dubai have grown up slightly and the market, in general, has stabilized, showing lesser distress sales.
Few of the sellers who were waiting in the hope of a price recovery, offloaded their assets at a loss during the first half of the year. This trend is not out as yet, but properties in the country are continuing to be sold without many premiums.
Despite the second quarter slowdown in the decline of residential property prices in the UAE, majority of such properties are being sold below their original price.
Apartments in Jumeirah Lake Towers are being sold at the original price and 5 percent below the original price. The trend is more apparent in areas that are not completely developed and the ones that are too highly priced to begin with.
However, the properties that were delivered few years ago, have been faring comparatively better in the current environment. People are continuing to make profits on The Springs and The Greens properties. Even Dubai International City has been doing well, as the original price here was not very high.
The one big change at present, compared to the last few months, is that the sellers are hanging on to their properties rather than moving ahead to take big hits. Sellers are even seen removing their listings from the market aiming to minimize their losses. This was noticed in localities such as the Business Bay and Jumeirah Village South, where the infrastructure is in its early stages.


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The New leaders in insurance – Nicolas Gilbert
Justine Montminy
April 25, 2018 09:00
Director of retention
La Capitale financial group
What are his accomplishments since he made a career in the insurance industry ?
Nicolas Gilbert has joined Capital financial group in 2011 as an agent of personal insurance, then as an agent for insurance companies by the following. Since 2016, he is the director of retention. Nicolas placed on the proximity of the agents to provide them with individual coaching that stands out. He believes that by giving them a better experience of coaching, they will offer a better customer experience.
Nicolas has accumulated the particulars since its inception in the insurer. In 2011, he was named rookie of the year among the officers of the branch network of the vice-president — sales and fidélisations. In 2012, he is ranked in the top 10 of the best agents of the same network.
Why does he continue his career in the industry ?
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Traumatic brain injuries are a common neurological disease in New Haven, and throughout the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 2.5 million brain injuries suffered in 2010, the most recent year for which statistics were available. These injuries generally occur when some outside force causes brain dysfunction; typically due to a blow, jolt or bump to the head. People can suffer traumatic brain injuries as the result of motor vehicle accidents, while participating in sporting events, on the job or due to any other number of accidents and incidents. Regardless of the cause, returning to their everyday activities can be a lengthy process for people who have suffered this type of injury.
Are pregnant women more likely to be involved in car accidents?
Motor vehicle accidents occur every day on the roads throughout New Haven, and all of New England. These types of collisions can affect more than just negligent or careless drivers. Often, other motorists are also involved. This can result in them, or their passengers, suffering serious injury, or even death. Generally, both male and female drivers of all ages have at least some level of risk of being involved in auto accidents. However, the danger may be greater for some groups than it is for others. One such group, according to a study recently conducted by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, is pregnant women. According to a Fox News report, the study found that approximately one out of every 50 women would be in an auto collision.
2 injured in Willimantic accident caused by alleged drunk driver
Drunk driving continues to be a problem in New Haven, and throughout the U.S. As was discussed in last week's post, getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol can be highly dangerous. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 10,000 people were killed in alcohol-involved collisions in 2012 alone, and many more were injured. It is not just drunk drivers who are at risk of being injured or killed in drunk driving accidents, but also other motorists, passengers and bystanders.
The effects of alcohol consumption puts drivers, others at risk
Often, the winter months are filled with parties and other gatherings for people in New Haven, and throughout the U.S. While attending these numerous soirees, some may choose to indulge in libations. This can quickly take an evening of fun and laughter to one of tragedy, however, when people who have been drinking choose to get behind the wheel of a vehicle. As a result, other motorists and passengers, as well as the drunk drivers themselves, may be seriously injured or, in some cases, killed.
Dogs that are kept as pets in Connecticut, and throughout the U.S., may bite or attack for any number of reasons. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.5 million people suffer dog bite injuries in the U.S. each year. Of these, approximately one out of every five requires medical treatment. With few exceptions, Connecticut state law generally holds dog owners liable for the losses resulting from such injuries. To ensure that they receive the help that they need, it can be important for dog bite victims to understand what type of compensation they may be entitled to.


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Life bursts forcefully from the screen in French director Jean Vigo's 1934 film L'Atalante. Often quoted by critics as the apotheosis of film art, it is a fascinating blend of realism and unbounded flights of the imagination. Anticipating the future developments of cinematic art in about 88 minutes (the length varies in different prints), the classic contains romance, comedy, drama, pathos, startling moments, exuberance and even musical sequences, but remains homogenous throughout.
L'Atalante was Vigo's only full-length feature, coming soon after 1933's controversial short Zero de Conduite. Sadly, it was also his last – the director contracted tuberculosis near the end of shooting, and died the year of the film's release, at the age of 29.
L'Atalante's storyline is straightforward. Jean (Jean Dasté), the skipper of the barge L'Atalante, marries Juliette (German actress Dita Parlo), who goes to live on the barge. Her shipmates are Pere Jules (the prolific Michel Simon), a Falstaffian and paternal old sailor, a young cabin boy, and Jules' 12 cats – as well as the hand of Jules' deceased friend, which is preserved in a jar.
The film focuses on the difficulties of the early years of marriage, with drama arising when Juliette flirts with a peddler in a bar and is abandoned by a jealous Jean, who sets sail without her. It's left to the good-natured Jules to find Juliette and reunite the two lovers.
Flashback: A Night at the Opera (1935) – Marx Brothers' anarchic MGM comedy
As with the films of Orson Welles, the production and release of L'Atalante were fraught with difficulties. Vigo had made a strong impression with Zero de Conduite, but its criticism of the French educational system had led to a government ban.
L'Atalante was the idea of French distributor Gaumont, which wanted him to make
a commercial film to take advantage of a popular interest in barge songs. Vigo was given a script, which he rewrote extensively to reflect his own sensibilities.
The shoot was problematic, as Vigo was ill, and it snowed towards the end, making it difficult to match shots with the earlier scenes. The expressionistic shots of the camera looking upwards were constructed to keep the snow out of the frame.
Gaumont hated the initial version, changed the title, and cut it for release. Since then, various restoration projects have tried to recreate Vigo's version. Back in the day, Vigo and his films were quickly forgotten, and he disappeared from cinema history until he was rediscovered by critics in the United States in the late 1940s.
He became a major influence on the French New Wave, with François Truffaut especially admiring the insouciance and vitality of his work.
L'Atalante will be screened on December 3 and 16 at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, in Wan Chai, as part of the Cine Fan programme.


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- Research
- Open Access
On improvements of the Rozanova's inequality
- Chang-Jian Zhao1Email author and
- Wing-Sum Cheung2
© Zhao and Cheung; licensee Springer. 2011
- Received: 14 March 2011
- Accepted: 18 August 2011
- Published: 18 August 2011
In the present paper, we establish some new Rozanova's type integral inequalities involving higher-order partial derivatives. The results in special cases yield some of the interrelated results on Rozanova's inequality and provide new estimates on inequalities of this type.
MS (2000) Subject Classifiication: 26D15.
- Opial's inequality
- Hölder's inequality
- Rozanova's inequality
1 Introduction
In the year 1960, Opial [1] established the following integral inequality:
The first Opial's type inequality was established by Willett [2] as follows:
A non-trivial generalization of Theorem B was established by Hua [3] as follows:
A sharper inequality was established by Godunova [4] as follows:
Rozanova [5] proved an extension of inequality (1.4) is embodied in the following:
The inequality (1.5) will be called as Rozanova's inequality in the paper.
Opial's inequality and its generalizations, extensions and discretizations play a fundamental role in establishing the existence and uniqueness of initial and boundary value problems for ordinary and partial differential equations as well as difference equations [6–13]. For Opial-type integral inequalities involving high-order partial derivatives, see [14, 15]. For an extensive survey on these inequalities, see [16].
The first aim of the present paper is to establish the following Opial-type inequality involving higher-order partial derivatives, which is an extension of the Rozanova's inequality (1.5).
We also prove the following Rozanova-type inequality involving higher-order partial derivatives.
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f, g and x(s, t) are as in Theorem 1.1,
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p(s, t) is increasing on [0, a] × [0, b] with p(s, β) = p(α, t) = p(α, β) = 0,
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h is concave and increasing on [0, ∞),
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ϕ(t) is increasing on [0, a] with ϕ(0) = 0,
- (v)For ,
2 Main results and proofs
This completes the proof.
Remark 2.2 Let x(s, t) reduce to s(t), and with suitable modifications in the proof of Theorem 2.1, then (2.1) becomes inequality (1.5) stated in Section 1.
Let x(s, t) reduce to s(t), and with suitable modifications, then (2.5) becomes inequality (1.4) stated in Section 1.
Let x(s, t) reduce to s(t) and α = β = 0, then (2.7) becomes Hua's inequality (1.3) stated in Section 1.
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f, g and x(s, t) are as in Theorem 2.1,
- (ii)
p(s, t) is increasing on [0, a] × [0, b] with p(s, β) = p(α, t) = p(α, β) = 0,
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h is concave and increasing on [0, ∞),
- (iv)
ϕ(t) is increasing on [0, a] with ϕ(0) = 0,
- (v)For ,(2.8)
This completes the proof.
The inequality has been obtained by Rozanova in [17]. For and , the inequality (2.13) reduces to Polya's inequality (see [17]).
The authors express their deep gratitude to the referees for their many very valuable suggestions and comments. The research of Chang-Jian Zhao was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (10971205), and the research of Wing-Sum Cheung was partially supported by a HKU URC grant.
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With Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 now out for public consumption, the Mobile chip maker will also be bringing out a new chipset with close to the level of its top-tier end variant into the mid-range segment. Between the current Snapdragon 660 and Snapdragon 845 platforms, Qualcomm introduced the new Snapdragon 700 series with a number of best features of the SD800 series to affordable devices.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 series will feature advances in mobile technologies similar with the Snapdragon 845 including Kyro CPU cores, Adreno Visual Processing Subsystem, Spectra ISP camera image processing and Qualcomm's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine. With these new features, we could expect mid-tier devices to become more powerful and even more capable of bringing premium experiences at a price-point that we could easily adapt into.
"The Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series will bring premium tier technologies and features into more affordable devices, something our global OEM customers and consumers are demanding," said Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager, mobile, Qualcomm Technologies. "The Snapdragon 700 Series is optimized to support the experiences consumers have come to expect from the most advanced mobile devices at a lower price point."
With the new Snapdragon 700 Series, we could also expect twice the performance with its AI engine, there's a 30 percent increase in power efficiency and with its support for Quick Charge 4+, devices with this chipset will be able to charge devices up to 50% in just 15 minutes.
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John Boswell – one of the major figures in gay and lesbian scholarship
John Boswell
Book Overview
"Truly groundbreaking work. John Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition." Michel Foucault John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members among them priests, bishops, and even saints when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality," still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force."
John Boswell
John Boswell, 47, Historian Of Medieval Gay Culture, Dies
By DAVID W. DUNLAP – Published: December 25, 1994
John Eastburn Boswell, a Yale University historian who upended medieval scholarship by finding not only that homosexuality was tolerated in the Middle Ages but that same-sex unions were celebrated liturgically, died yesterday in the Yale infirmary. He was 47 and lived in New Haven.
The cause was complications from AIDS, a friend, Jerry Hart, said.
"I regard him as one of the major innovative figures in gay and lesbian scholarship," said Martin Duberman, founder and executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. "John was very brave and pioneering. And very brilliant."
He was also controversial. Some scholars and theologians disputed his findings, which gained wide notice in 1980 with the publication of "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century" (University of Chicago Press)
"I would not hesitate to call his book revolutionary," Paul Robinson, a Stanford University historian, wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "for it tells of things heretofore unimagined and sets a standard of excellence that one would have thought impossible in the treatment of an issue so large, uncharted and vexed." It won the American Book Award for history in 1981.
One major aim of his work, Dr. Boswell wrote, was "to rebut the common idea that religious belief — Christian or other — has been the cause of intolerance in regard to gay people."
Among his findings was that there had been, from about 1050 to 1150, "an efflorescence of gay subculture, with a highly developed literature, its own argot and artistic conventions, its own low life, its elaborate responses to critics."
Last June, Dr. Boswell again captured attention — and provoked much debate — with "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe" (Villard Books), based on the study of more than 60 manuscripts from the 8th to the 16th century.
By the 12th century, Dr. Boswell wrote, the ceremony of same-sex union had become a "full office" which involved burning candles, placing the parties' hands on the Gospel, binding their hands or covering their heads with the priest's stole, saying the Lord's Prayer, receiving communion, kissing and sometimes circling the altar.
As to whether the ceremony celebrated a "relationship between two men or two women that was (or became) sexual," Dr. Boswell wrote, "Probably, sometimes, but this is obviously a difficult question to answer about the past, since participants cannot be interrogated."
He was far more confident in declaring that the ceremony was "unmistakably a voluntary, emotional union of two persons," one that was "closely related" to heterosexual marriage, "no matter how much some readers may be discomforted by this."
James Brundage, a professor of history and law at the University of Kansas, said in an interview last summer that "the mainstream reaction was that he raised some interesting questions, but hadn't proved his case."
And Brent D. Shaw, of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, argued in The New Republic that the ceremonies Dr. Boswell described were more akin to the "ritualized agreements struck between members of the Mafia or other 'men of honor' in our own society."
Scholars were not the only ones wrestling with this matter. At least two newspapers withheld the comic strip "Doonesbury," by Garry Trudeau, in which the character Mark Slackmeyer described the "gay marriages" uncovered by Dr. Boswell: "They were just like heterosexual ceremonies, except that straight weddings, being about property, were usually held outdoors. Gay rites, being about love, were held inside the church!"
Dr. Boswell's other major work was "The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance" (Pantheon Books), published in 1989.
"Marred though it may be by interpretive excesses, this is a pioneering work of large importance," Mary Martin McLaughlin, a historian, wrote in The New York Times Book Review. She added that it was "the first to map out and explore a tangled, mysterious region of human experience."
Dr. Boswell was born in Boston. He attended the College of William and Mary and Harvard University, from which he received his master's degree and doctorate. Among the 17 languages he read or spoke, Dr. Boswell counted Church Slavonic, Old Icelandic and some classical Armenian, Syriac and Persian.
He joined the Yale faculty in 1975 as an assistant professor, was appointed a full professor in 1982 and named the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History in 1990, when he began a two-year term as chairman of the history department.
In 1987, Dr. Boswell helped organize the Lesbian and Gay Studies Center at Yale, which is now the Research Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies.
He is survived by his parents, Col. Henry Boswell Jr. and Catharine, of Grand Junction, Colo.; a sister, Patricia, of Greensboro, N.C. and two brothers, Wray, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Henry 3d, of Chapel Hill, N.C.
Photo: John Eastburn Boswell. (Jerry Bauer)
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An alert Arlington Heights police officer spotted the suspect with the bike on Euclid Avenue near Rohlwing Road about 8:56 a.m. A Norridge police officer assisted the Arlington Heights police officer, and the suspect was in custody by 8:57 a.m.. Norridge police were presumably in the area traveling to or from the Cook County Circuit Court in Rolling Meadows.
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I now also did the next replica of 2004's season of Formula 1, the two cars of former Panasonic Toyota F1 Team:
#16 Cristiano da Matta and #17 Olivier Panis.
(I now also included a Michelin tyre texture made by Bas - thanks for the great work, man)
Again, there are two versions, 2k and 4k.
I also made these F1 skins:
McLaren Mercedes
BMW Williams
Panasonic Toyota
Sauber RedBull
Friends also made these ones for you:
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BAR Honda (Bontkraag)
Jaguar F1 (Bas Bouma)
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It was assumed the PS4/PC release date would be simultaneous, but there now seems to be some doubt about that. Destiny 2 has been confirmed for PC, but that doesn't mean the title will launch at the same time as on Xbox One and PS4.
Announces that, as a result of the fulfillment of the contractual conditions, the obligation to final purchase by Chelsea Football Club Limited of the right to athletic performance of football player Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello was taken.
Jonas Jerebko , who had been used only in mop-up duty over the first two games, was a Brad Stevens last-ditch attempt at changing the game's direction that worked brilliantly. "It was a game we should've won", Ty Lue said following the game. "That's all I can do, all I can control". " I had a tough game, period ". Bradley admitted Friday's lopsided loss left a sour taste in his mouth.
When the season starts you think the most important day to day is La Liga . Real needed just a point to wrap up the title and raced into the lead when Ronaldo scored in the second minute, ensuring the champions scored in every league game of the season.
Dixon's other two were in 2008 and 2015, all for Chip Ganassi Racing. "I thought maybe the dash had broken on the steering wheel and brought up a fake number", Dixon said in the post-qualifying news conference of the 232.595 miles per hour, the fastest of his four laps.
Failing to offer this has seen the likes of Willian, Mohamed Salah and Henrik Mkhitaryan have chosen to take their services elsewhere in favour of Champions League football. A final day win over Middlesbrough ensured that the Reds secured a passage into Europe's elite club competition by finishing fourth in the Premier League table.
The first half of Game 3 was not almost as one-sided as the first half of Game 2 , but the Cleveland Cavaliers are still firmly in control with a 66-50 lead over the Boston Celtics at the break. Smart, who has struggled with his 3-point shot throughout this National Basketball Association career, connected on seven 3-pointers while scoring a team-high 27 points on Sunday night.
But the reality for the Dutch club - with an operating budget of 85 million euros - over the last decades has been their role as a producer, and then swift seller, of talent. I have been asked a few times about it and I always say I don't have a preference because sometimes you perform better as a No. 6, sometimes it's better to be No.
The Cavs led by as many as 21 points in the third quarter, but shot 2-of-17 from 3-point range in the second half. Boston's comeback was fueled by Thomas' replacement, Marcus Smart , who made 7 of 10 3-pointers and scored 27 points. "It's a weird thing with you, Kenny, you always come around when we lose, I swear". "That's not who we have in our locker room", said Celtics coach Brad Stevens.
While the two F1 world title contenders live very different lives away from the track - with Vettel holding a guarded family life while Hamilton prefers to share his globetrotting exploits on social media - the Ferrari driver feels their rivalry is healthy given their bond over racing.
Ajax were pipped to the Dutch title by bitter rivals Feyenoord, and though they made next season's Champions League qualifiers, they will be eager to add to their European trophy cabinet. If the Red Devils fail to qualify for the Champions League, they will incur a £50 million loss on matchday, sponsorship and TV revenue, and will also see their Adidas kit deal worth £75 million per season cut down by 30 percent.
Rome: Twenty-year-old Alexander Zverev beat John Isner on Saturday to reach his first Italian Open Masters 1000 final, and will take on veteran Grand Salm victor Novak Djokovic on Sunday. "I'm very happy with the way I played and my performance all week, I think today was one of the best matches I ever played", said Zverev. He lost in the third round at Wimbledon, his earliest defeat in a Grand Slam in seven years, lost in the first round at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, reached ...
Novak Djokovic will be coached by Andre Agassi at the French Open after being humbled by German youngster Alexander Zverev in the final of the Italian Open . On the court he understands the game amazingly well. "But also, on the other hand, he's someone that nurtures the family values, philanthropy work.
However, some batsmen are not in the best of form and that is a major concern. With KL Rahul out of contention, recovering post surgery, there was no debate that Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan will be the two openers picked. He is also now placed second in the leading run-scorer list of the IPL. Prasad made it clear that IPL is a premier domestic tournament even though players performance can't be the sole criteria for selecting a squad .
The scan came back pretty good, so we're happy. "We know how hard they will be as opposition". Vunipola's withdrawal was a particular blow to Gatland such has been the No 8's form over the last couple of years. "We have called up James to the squad". The seven players from all corners of the British Isles laughed as they began the challenge in a somewhat useless fashion.
United fell short of qualifying via a top-four Premier League finish - a 69-point haul leaving them sixth - meaning the Ajax clash assumes extra significance, a fact not lost on Mata. 'It's a defining moment in our season and we need to win the game. Past year he became chief executive at the club he helped to Champions League glory in 1995 and is now in the midst of frantic preparations for their latest shot at European glory.
Defenseman P.K. Subban faked a shot from the left point before sliding the puck over to Neal, who wasted no time blasting a slapshot that deflected off Anaheim forward Corey Perry into the net. Jakob Silfverberg scored on the Ducks' first shot, and Gibson stopped 43 shots in a stellar performance. Edmonton - facing elimination at home - blew out the Ducks, 7-1, on Monday night behind three goals and two assists from Leon Draisaitl , who leads all Oilers in playoff scoring (6 goals, ...
The Maroons team for Origin I will be named at 1pm Monday, with selectors confronted by a host of hard decisions. "He's obviously not happy about the decision, but he's accepted it and said, 'Whatever's best for Queensland",' Queensland chairman of selectors Gene Miles said, according to News Corp .
Arsenal will be in the Europa League with Everton , which finished in seventh place and scored its only goal at the Emirates Stadium from the penalty spot through Romelu Lukaku in the 57th minute. Disappointed Arsenal could point out that their total of 75 points was more than they achieved in finishing runners-up last season and would normally have put them in the top four.
A semi-final appearance this week would have been enough for Sharapova to earn a spot in the main draw for Wimbledon , but a thigh injury forced her out. Sixteenth seed Mirjana Lučić-Baroni of Croatia beat the Czech Republic's Lucie Šafářová 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. "So that feeling ultimately stays inside of you.
I know that the fans love the club with all their hearts. "Obviously the coach is very important to the team, but we need people, players and managers who will be here and play for the club with heart and spirit, As with the company, we need the best employees".
The England striker's achievement is all the more remarkable considering he has missed eight league games this season through injury. It was his 29th of the season but Pochettino replaced Kane with Victor Janssen with 11 minutes left, when supporters from both sides stood to applaud.
Muntari called on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to do more to clampdown on the evil of racism in football. "There are always idiots everywhere but we have to fight them". Global players association FIFPro said in a statement: "We urge Italian authorities to hear Muntari's version of events, investigate why the situation was mismanaged, and take firm action to ensure this never happens again".
The Celtics , without injured star Isaiah Thomas, rallied from 21 points down to win game three, reducing the Cavs' Eastern Conference Finals series lead to 2-1. "And you just kind of stay the course". "So you can plan for a few, but then he might run something you've never seen before". Cleveland's three-point shooting has been the difference so far.
Conte said: "He deserved this". Chelsea were at home to Sunderland on the final day of the Premier League season, an occasion which also saw John Terry making his final appearance of the season. The players are unlikely to be drinking much of the fizz, however, with their Cup final game against London rivals Arsenal only six days away. The twins celebrated their 11th birthdays last week.


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Wow, is this me actually writing something on my blog?? Yes, yes it is.
I've been away for a few weeks because I've not been feeling myself recently. Being bogged down with anxiety and studying/working has meant that blogging has been at the bottom of my priority list. That's not to say that I've not had time to blog, but I don't see the point in writing content that I'm not proud of. But let's forget about that now, I'm back and I'm ready to write a personal blog post; there's no better way to come back than with something personal.
I've been away for a few weeks because I've not been feeling myself recently. Being bogged down with anxiety and studying/working has meant that blogging has been at the bottom of my priority list. That's not to say that I've not had time to blog, but I don't see the point in writing content that I'm not proud of. But let's forget about that now, I'm back and I'm ready to write a personal blog post; there's no better way to come back than with something personal.
Hypochondria. It's a word you may have heard thrown around referring to someone who constantly worries about their health, then everyone will fall around laughing until the joke dies down and then they'll return to the thing they were doing. If that's the first time you'd ever heard of Hypochondria then you'd probably think it was a joke and use it in the same context. But did you know that it's actually a mental illness? Yep, a real, restricting form of anxiety.
Do you ever get a headache, google search your symptoms and then automatically have to break the news to your family that you've only got six months to live? Do you constantly self diagnose yourself? If the answer to these questions is yes, then you've probably been referred to as a hypochondriac. I am in no way a medical professional, and to be honest it's not something to be worried about. That's only if it happens a few times. However, if it happens at least 5 times a week like it does for me, then maybe it's a cause for concern. If I wrote you a list of the amount of life threatening illnesses I self diagnose myself with in a week then you'd probably have a list that is 6ft long. I stop myself going out through the fear that I'm going to be sick, have an excruciating pain and then have to go to hospital. Sometimes I would say that this is one of the main causes of my anxiety; I constantly fear that there is something wrong with me and then the more I google my symptoms, the lower my life expectancy becomes. It's a vicious circle. I also think that my fear of hospitals has something to do with it as well; a hospital is somewhere you go when there's something wrong with you, and I don't like knowing that there's something wrong. I also HATE being in pain.
If that's not enough, I can't watch the television or do my job without going into a state of panic. Any medical programmes, medical dramas or characters with illnesses make me feel anxious and I have to leave the room until the programme is over. It also doesn't help that I work with hair and wigs which means that I deal with a lot of cancer patients who are going through chemo (even just writing the word cancer makes me full of anxiety). I think that these people are some of the bravest, most wonderful people in the world and I really do admire their bravery but when they speak to me about their illness and they tell me how they were diagnosed, I am again flooded with anxiety and sometimes have to excuse myself from the situation and ask another member of staff to take over, or I fight through it which I do in most cases. The next thing I know, I'm googling whichever type of cancer they have and looking at the symptoms, just to check that I don't have it too.
Hypochondria is an anxiety that seriously affects my life. The amount of sleepless nights I have through worrying that something is wrong with me, that I could go to sleep and not wake up in the morning, is a number that is too high to type. I get the slightest stomach pain and start to shake because I'm scared of the thing that's wrong with me. My family also hate me for it, I try to express my concerns and worries but they tell me that I'm being dramatic which I know I probably am, but what if the people who did have these symptoms were told that same thing too, and then it turned out to be something much worse? That right there is just an insight to the way my brain works, and it's so messed up.
What I'm trying to say is that the next time you joke about hypochondria or laugh and call someone a hypochondriac, just remember that it is a real mental illness. If I sat here writing and joking about depression or social anxiety then I'm sure that this post would be inundated with comments about how disgusting I am and how horrible my opinions are. Fair enough, call someone a hypochondriac if you please but remember there's people who live with it every day, people who can't sleep at night.
I'm sorry if this post was a ramble, or if you didn't really understand what was going on, but I've been wanting to write something like this for a while and as I express all of my thoughts and feelings on this blog, I thought that this would be the best place to do it.
What are your opinions on this matter?
Lots of Love,


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depression, feelings, fibromyalgia, hope, invisible illness, loneliness, my story, pain, poem, poetry, sorrow, Wish
I dedicate this poem to everybody ou there who suffers from a chronic illness, in my case Fibromyalgia.
One more week, one more day
Still there you are…
You came and you will never leave!
Killing me inside slowly
Taking away from me all hope…
Making me cry !!
The day becomes so dark when you come
Pain is unbearable each time
I crouch and I scream in silence
Tears marking the path
Loosing my freedom gradually…
forgetting who I used to be!
Pains all over my body
No mercy, no choice
It hurts so much …
I want to die,
I want to be invisible !…
You came and you stole everything from me!
Testing me every single day of my life
Ripping from me all my strength
Hurting me more and more
You brought darkness into my life….
Agony, despair,
Torture, torment
Aches, sorrow
Depression, grieving…
Stop the pain!
I want to say yes but you force to say no!
I want to smile yet you make me cry!
I want to strong instead you made me weak!
I want to be happy still my life is a living hell….
Will you ever leave me?
Will this pain ever reach to an end ?
I can't endure with all this anymore …
So many pains, such loneliness…
Just driving me insane!
Written on October 04, 2011


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"Shear and shear alike," Thathaji instructed Varadan. "Saar, is it a Sanskrit sloka?" asked Varadan innocently.
"Illa da! It means give everyone the same haircut," said Thathaji as he prepared to oversee the hair-raising—no, hair-shedding event!
* * *
Varadan was a much-dreaded figure in my grandfather's household. Every other Sunday he would promptly appear at six in the morning and sneak into the backyard and wait patiently until grandfather sauntered out. Nobody announced his presence. Everyone just assumed that Varadan would materialise on alternate weekends 'to shear and shear alike' the thriving locks of ten restless youngsters—an event that Thathaji directed with great precision.
Armed with a much-used comb, which was a mild orange in colour, a small stainless steel cup, some soap—a green and awful-smelling neem preparation—scissors and blade, Varadan would
arrive on his cycle bearing the entire luggage in a tiny yellow cotton bag advertising the famous 'Swarna Coffee' of yore. Unlike these days when you can just walk into a saloon on any day,
get your hair cut, pay and walk away, one had a strict set of dos and don'ts then. No haircutting on festival days. Or Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Which meant that the haircutting
exercise could be undertaken only on Sundays. (Moreover, it was impossible to assemble the ten uncontainable brats, except on a holiday.) The barbered lot were not allowed to step inside the
house until they had washed at the well, from which water could be drawn only by an un-barbered person. The 'hair shirts' had to be washed and dried on a separate clothesline on the terrace…
Haircutting then was surely a tough regimen to follow!
* * *
"Varadan, won't you ever fall ill or something?" asked Lacchu, one of the Raman-Lakshman twins.
Varadan smiled impishly and said, "Ambi, switch on the radio, let's hear some sangeetham." Once strains of thodi came wafting in, Varadan began to hum slowly along with it. Not to be
outdone, Seenu also began to whine along.
"Adada! Ambi, thodi has periya nee, but you are touching bhairavi nee," said Varadan earnestly, not understanding that Seenu was actually trying to rag him. Varadan was a nagaswaram vidwan, whose side-profession was barbering.
However, he was careful not to display his talent in front of Thathaji. Varadan went about preparing for the 'event', while the boys stood around waiting for the inevitable. Suddenly a
scuffle broke out about who has to give his head first. Screams of "you go first, not me you fool, you go first!"resounded in the air as the boys wrestled each other, ending up in the mud near the coconut tree. Varadan stood watching as he sharpened his instruments on a whetstone almost
All this persisted only until Thathaji emerged from inside and commanded one of the ten to fetch him a stool. The boys stood up, dusting themselves. "You, Lalli's son, go first!" ordered
Thathaji. Soon, all the grandchildren were made to stand in a line for 'treatment' from Varadan.
Without much ado, Varadan got to work on Lalli's son.
"Why is there so much sand in your hair?" he asked loudly, snipping away at the back of his head.
Of course, this resulted in a huge peroration from the grandsire (on the evils of getting sand in the hair, which could lead to worms breeding inside one's stomach because of eating with
hands unwashed from scratching one's sandy hair and so on…) that ended with a dig at Lalli's son, "Is the kaliman inside your head coming out?"
Kinda, who was next in line, was a little braver than the rest and mustered enough courage to complain loudly, "What is the use of having an oil-bath yesterday if you are going to get a
haircut today?"
That somehow seemed to make sense to Thathaji. "The boys have their oil-baths every Saturday and their haircuts happen on alternate Sundays. Why bother pouring ladles of expensive gingelly oil on these thugs' hair just to cut them off the very next day?" said
thrifty Thathaji. Kinda became the hero of the day when Thathaji declared that
henceforth oil-baths shall happen only on alternate Saturdays—one week ahead of Varadan's arrival.
Thathaji seemed lost in thought for a while. "Varadan, how much do you charge for a haircut?" he asked suddenly.
Varadan looked puzzled. "25 paise per person saar, but why this question after so many years?" he asked humbly.
Thathaji grinned and continued, "If you were summoned to cut Ravanan's hair, how much would you charge?"
Varadan scratched his head and said, "25 paise for each head saar."
"What! You dare to speak untruth. Just now you said it is 25 paise per person and now you say it's 25 paise per head," Thathaji boomed. "Now tell me, how much would you charge Ravanan?" he persisted mercilessly.
"Er...25 paise sir," agreed Varadan.
"If your fee for Ravanan who has ten heads is 25 paise, then you should charge me also only 25 paise for the ten heads you are attending to today," ordered Thathaji.
By now, the ten hooligans were doubling up with laughter. "Saar, shall I cut your hair also, then
the count will be 11 and this confusion would also end," pleaded Varadan pathetically.
Convulsing with laughter, Thathaji concluded, settling for a royal haircut on that
luxurious Sunday, "Ade Varada, sharpen your wits along with that blade of yours!"
The boys were besides themselves with devilish glee. It was a treat to see Varadan squirm like
semiya in hot milk. Lifting one leg over another, Seenu, tongue sticking out, struck a Nataraja pose to show his happiness. Rama-Lacchu did synchronised swimming in the air. Kinda folded his
hands and kept bowing his head like an automated toy that said "Jai Hanuman". Varadan took it all silently. Quietly observing the boys' black humour, he plotted his revenge. Thathaji's haircut
was almost over. With other customers, Varadan would have stopped with the haircut for 25 paise. But for Thathaji he always threw in an oil massage for free. The old man was a tough customer. He always made sure he got his money's worth and more. If this grandsire had
one weakness, it was money, and he never spent it unnecessarily.
Varadan poured some oil onto his palm and got to work. Moving his fingers soothingly over Thathaji's scalp, Varadan began, "SaarI am planning to go to my village to meet my mother. I will be away for nearly a month."
"Very good," said Thathaji.
"I will ask Subbu, my barber-friend, to come to your house while I am away."
"Very good," said Thathaji.
"But he will charge you 30 paise per head saar," said Varadan cautiously.
"Why is that? I will not pay so much. I'll wait for you to come back," retorted
"Saar, at your age, hair will not grow back so fast. But what about these poor
boys? They will grow enough hair to make into a plait by the time I come
back. Summer is approaching fast. In fact, just yesterday I gave the opposite house
Dikshitar's children a good headshave. They feel so cool and light now. I can do it for you at no extra cost, saar,"said Varadan, and stopped for the message to sink in along with the oil.
Just then Kappu came up to the well to draw water for the boys' bath, when Thathaji stopped her quite suddenly. "Kappu, go inside and get some sandalwood paste. The boys are going
to get their head shaved!" Thathaji ordered, immensely interested in Varadan's proposal because of the prospect of saving a month's barbering costs. Kappu ran in giggling, yelling the
news to the others.
The boys stood transfixed. Seenu's cosmic dance stopped. The twins' froze and Kinda fell to the ground in shock. The other six boys, less brave than the others, were already sitting in a row
waiting for the blade to fall!
Varadan was too clever to laugh in Thathaji's presence. But he talked about Tirupathi, the delicious laddoos one gets there and the medicinal properties of the sandalwood paste
used while tonsuring heads. No amount of rebellion deterred Thathaji from his thrifty decision.
"Keep quiet, you rascals. Going around with mud and lice in your hair. I'll give you a shave every month if you don't keep quiet now," Thathaji said and shut them up once and for all.
In 20 minutes flat, there were ten gleaming heads, shining with sandalwood paste...ten faces yellow with anger! Seenu was almost foaming at the mouth with anger. Kinda was ready to pick up the nearest stone. But what could one do with Thathaji around? Having successfully finished
his task, Varadan bowed low to Thathaji and said, "Bless me saar, I'll come back next month from my village. In fact, I decided to go there only after coming here. That too only when I was cutting your hair saar," he said humbly, all the while throwing a sly smile at the ten
yellow heads.
The barber walked few steps. Then, as an afterthought, he called the youngest of the boys and handed him a rupee. "Buy laddoos for yourselves with this and say govinda-govinda before eating it, okay?" he said and sped off on his cycle before Kinda's stone could hit
1.Illa da : No, man
2.Sangeetham : Music
3.Thodi : A well-known raaga in
Carnatic music
4.Periya nee : A high-pitched
musical note
5.Bhairavi nee : A musical note
from the Bhairavi raaga
6.Nagaswaram vidwan : A
person proficient in playing the
nagaswaram, a windinstrument
famous in South
7.Kaliman : Clay
8.Semiya : Vermicelli
*Between the barber and the barbarians was published in Chatterbox Children's magazine. Since I carried a Sitamma story last week, my family requested me for a "Thathaji" story this week. The story is in memory of my late grandfather whose birthday falls this month :) Hey cousins- enjoy!
Music Season - Dec 2011
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Now...part of the adventure of this mode of buying DVDs is that often I have to make do without the original box (and accompanying cover art/copy). Usually this doesn't pose a problem, since I'm generally at least passingly familiar with a DVD before buying it, even cheap and used. This time around, though, I picked up something billed as "The Ultimate Bruce Lee Collection" in a generic used DVD case. Now, let me be clear here. I knew at some level not to expect that much. I mean...it was just one DVD -- how "ultimate" of a collection could it be? Nevertheless, can any Bruce Lee collection be a bad Bruce Lee collection? So onto the stack it went.
At this point, you can probably imagine (though may not be surprised by) my disappointment when I got the thing home and it turned out to be a "collection" (double-feature, actually) of movies not featuring Bruce Lee, but Bruce Li, that so celebrated Bruce Lee clone. (Not to be confused with Bruce Le, by the way.) So I spent at least part of last night in a fevered near-delirium watching a couple crappy, second-rate seventies Hong Kong Brucesploitation movies. I got treated to Fists of Bruce Lee, which was sadly pretty much a total snooze, and Image of Bruce Lee, which was not a total loss, since it featured naked boobies and Bolo Yeung. Even naked boobies that weren't Bolo Yeung's, which is amazing in and of itself. The DVD itself also threw me a little extra bonus by having some mad old commercials on there, which was nice of them. Mostly seventies, but there was a Christmas Seals ad on there with John Wayne from, like, I think the fifties. Plus it had cartoons!
As a total aside, while tooling around the web trying to learn more about my Bruce Lee knockoffs, I came across a total gem called The Dragon Lives Again. Just check out the Wikipedia entry. There is no way this movie can be bad. From the article's summary:
...The soul of Bruce Lee (played by Bruce Leung Siu-lung) goes to the Underworld. The deceased Lee meets a number of pop-culture icons, including Dracula, James Bond, Zatoichi, Clint Eastwood, The Godfather, The Exorcist, and even 1970s soft-porn character Emmanuelle. Lee befriends The One-Armed Swordsman, Caine from TV's Kung Fu, and Popeye.
Damn. Just...damn.
Anyway. So here I am today, just kind of trying to determine where my head's at. I am sorely tempted to call out of work again today. I'm largely feeling better, so calling out would probably be both stupid and unnecessary, but it would really be satisfying. I'm also, thanks to this recent cinematic misadventure, also experiencing an acute craving for Bruce Lee movies. The real deal, I mean. I don't guess there's really anything I can do about that, unfortunately, but...well, there ya go. Sometimes you don't know you want something until you almost get it.
Peace, everybody!
1Also, lately my Netflix usage has been devoted solely to catching up on TV shows on DVD. As of today, Netflix is saying that their shipping problems have been fixed, and they're sending out delayed shipments today. Unfortunately, according to the information on my queue page, they fucked up my queue and are sending me stuff in some kind of whack out-of-order formation. Ordinarily, I wouldn't mind that at all, but currently that's a giant pain in the ass because I'm watching TV shows and need the DVDs in order! Damn it, Netflix!


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We had our first frost this morning. All the plants that should be in a greenhouse are. The plants left outdoors are ready for winter, most have not been watered for a month. These are Mexican Laelias and Cymbidium hybrids and a few other hardy Cattleyas. The area is at about half capacity, but I'm sure that will change next year.
I did a little happy dance yesterday. My first blog post was on November 6, 2008 so I have been at this for three full years. It has helped me to better appreciate my plants.
I have had the website www.backbulb.com even longer. It includes both flower pictures and a plant inventory. Part of the inventory is notes on the plant's history and the notes have been sketchy at best. This year I have improved them by adding a link to any related blog entries to the notes.
Here's to another three years of orchid blogging.