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"Arrival" 2016 Movie Review
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Movie: Arrival
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Screenplay by: Eric Heisserer
Based on: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
Genre: Drama, mystery, scifi
Release date: November 11, 2016
My Rating: 8.5/10
Verdict: A unique alien invasion movie. For alien/scifi lovers, linguists, and philosophers
This is an alien invasion story. With a major twist. And I loved that twist, contrary to a lot of other people who complained about the movie being too boring or whatever.
I don't want to criticize those people. Some had valid reasons to criticize it (heck, I myself will criticize it a lot here..the only difference is..I still enjoyed it overall). Some found it too boring - those people usually are not the niche group for this kind of movie. It doesn't always mean that the movie sucks because someone thought it was boring. It just means that those people didn't like the subject tackled, and so it did look boring for them.
It's kind of like having an artist sit through a math class. Yeah, math is not bad or stupid...but it sure is boring for most of them!
We follow Louise (linguist) and Ian (physicist), who the government tasks with meeting with the aliens in the weird alien ship, and learning their language to understand what they want and why they came.
While this movie is from the perspective of the US government and it's employees, we are told - and shown - that the same thing is happening in other countries. There are 12 spaceships around the world...so each powerful country tasks their geniuses to do about the same thing: figure out what they want and if they're a threat to humanity.
And this is where language plays a huge role.
Some critics thought sending a linguist in was stupid. I thought those people didn't know what they were talking about. Even in war between different countries, translators play a huge role. So, I felt that the linguist playing a key role in this film was very true to life. And we do have to keep in mind that we still have a physicist next to her, who thinks of all the same findings in a different light from Louise.
I did wonder why they didn't have more scientists...but I think they did, they were just under the supervision of Ian. It's not uncommon for the government to pick a few to play leaders, and have a bunch of other genius do the rest of the work from afar, with the guidance of the leaders.
In this respect, I was more able to put that criticism to rest.
So we follow these two, and how they help each other decipher a new language in a shot amount of time, and prevent any miscommunication - which can start a war.
One thing I had a problem with was why the aliens didn't just straight up tell them why they were there and what they wanted, but I think it was on purpose.
They had to force humanity to learn their language, then decipher what they wanted, which in turn would help them speak with one another. I won't say any more because it might be a spoiler. But at the end of the day, I had to play devil's advocate to realize that maybe it wasn't because the aliens were stupid or short-sighted..but because they already knew everything, including the outcome of their influence (and the right way to influence us), and had to get us there through this trial.
A great scifi alien film that completely approaches the alien invasion story from a new light. It's a completely fresh idea, and for that, I loved it.
I don't know about you, but even if I like alien invasion movies, I get bored with the theme of aliens coming to kill humanity and take over the world...and somehow these puny humans kill the aliens against all odds.
I wanted something new. Something that got my brain thinking.
This was it.
If you're tired of the generic alien invasion films, you best try this one out. What's the worst that could happen? "2 hours of your life wasted?"
Like that's something that could end your world. It's just 2 hours. Nothing to fret over. Give this a go. You might surprise yourself by how much you enjoy it.
One thing that people need to understand, going into this movie, is that while it has aliens and all that good stuff...it's center of concentration is Language. And how language itself can alter how you think of time.
People who study language, even if you hate aliens, stop complaining and go watch this movie.
People who study philosophy, go watch this movie.
Seriously, this movie is right up your alley if you study one of those two.
But if you're into scifi in general, it's a love or hate kind of deal. If you hate time paradox scifi mumbo jumbo...you will probably hate this movie. Or think it's really boring.
But, for the sake of critical thinking, even if you hate the theme of the movie, watch it and see how you can criticize it and find what's wrong with this movie and it's theories. It's fun!
Also: that quote from the picture. It is hilarious. I love how they speak. It's really funny, how when you think about it, translation can be so funny if translated exactly as spoken in a native language vs a new language. Sometimes the adjective or verb or whatever is in front of the other..which sounds perfectly fine in that language, but when you hear it in another language, it sounds silly.
And I love it.
Also, can we just stop for a second and admire their language? I honestly think it's the most beautiful language ever. I think us geeks should unite and make it a real thing. Kind of like how Klingon can be learned, although it was a language from a star trek series!
Kudos and much respect for the artist that made these beautiful designs/words.
One thing I remember having a long debate about with someone when I first saw the trailer was the probability of having aliens this advanced when they resembled an octopus.
It's not very believable.
I honestly used a whole lot of science and statistics and evolution to back up my claims. Which basically supported the argument that if we encounter aliens that are advanced and have built technology and space traveled, they will not have those kinds of "hands" or "fingers" or whatever they are. There was a lot of other scientific facts I threw in there..(the person I was arguing against - it was very amicable, I promise - was very supportive of the possibility of aliens with those kinds of features being advanced).
While I don't want to explain all those arguments here (it would literally be over 5 thousand words. Probably 10). I won't torture you like that.
I'll just summarize in simplest terms:
The probability of octopus like creatures becoming advanced is so improbable, I'm more likely to believe that another humanoid creature created those technologies and died off, leaving it to these Heptapods to take over and utilize them. I can believe in them using what's already created, but in no way can science support them creating it themselves (think of it like this: humans create all these tech, die off, and one day octopus or chimps evolved enough to use our tech). Literally, their fingers would not allow them to create what's created.
We have to think of these aliens from a starting point: they probably started off as even less advantageous. They were probably meeker or had even less of a grip on their "fingers". They're really huge...so how can we assume that they were able to make these spaceships? How did they utilize the tools? Remember, even our biggest rockets and such have a lot of microscopic things in it. And while our robots of our day make them, something really small still was used to create them originally. It's a lot of headache to think about it...but the bottom line is that I had an extremely hard time believing that these aliens would be this advanced.
It wasn't that I was "close-minded", it was merely that science doesn't support them being able to create those tools, because their body literally restricts them from creating it.
It's kind of like trying to tell a human to fly when we have no wings.
Those "fingers" in the picture might look tiny....but in real life, they're huge! Bigger than our heads. If they even had precision, their technology would be much slower than ours because their tech gadgets would be bigger (our small hands gave us the ability to compress things extensively and still make something very fast). In reality, we are more likely to invade the Heptapods planet than they ours.
For that reason alone, I had to suspend this believe to enjoy the film. But I'm sure a lot of other people either don't care about this science, or just like creepy looking weird aliens compared to humanoid aliens (even though, statically and empirically, evidence shows that humans advanced as much because we were fortunate to walk on our feet and use our free hands - with an opposable thumb and good precision grip - to make small tools to create cool bigger things), so they're less whiny about this topic.
I guess taking physical anthropology and learning about evolution and all that stuff makes us more likely to criticize. But hey, even still..I enjoyed the film!!!! It didn't bother me much because the story was concentrating on another completely different subject the whole time. And that subject was fascinating!
So I say, go watch it!
and hey...who knows, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the odds are against them, but they're more ancient than us...and maybe they were slower than us...but because they were older than us...they advanced further than us.
So yeah...maybe I could be wrong.
But either way....these creatures were fascinating and the story different.
Ending (Spoilers!)
God. I loved-hated the ending. Let me try to be more clear.
You should know already that this section is going to spoil the ending of the story.
Louise and Ian:
What I liked:
So Louise calls the Chinese General Shang and through future memories, says in Chinese "In war, there are no winners, only widows." The director decided not to include the translation in the movie, but the screenwriter thought it was stupid and later told us what she told Shang. Thank you screenwriter, because it was bugging me like crazy what she told Shang. I mean...it's not like it's a big secret that will somehow make the movie change dramatically if there are translations or not...the only difference is, with translations, less movie watchers are pissed. Because at least now they know what she told Shang that made him stop the attack.
This was just a minor nuisance. I was just really curious what she told him..and now I know. I'm back to happy.
Okay...she stops the war...realizes that all the memories she's been having lately are because.....wait. I need to reword this whole section.
This movie is slightly confusing for those who are not good with the scifi genre or anything relating to time not being linear.
Time = Language:
Okay..so one thing the viewer needs to understand from this movie is that it's extensively centered on language. And time. If you get confused about this part, you miss the whole point of the movie and then the movie ends up being a big confusing mess.
So to clarify in the simplest terms:
Louise is good at deciphering language. She slowly learns the language of the Heptapods. The more she learns, the more she "rewires" how her brain thinks.
The language of the Heptapods literally changes how one sees time. Time is linear for humans. There is the theory that in reality, time is not linear..but that everything happens at once. Therefore, if you can rewire your brain to think like this, then you can see the past, present, and future at the same time. It does bring into question a whole lot on destiny/faith and not being able to change ones actions if it's already set in stone....but I'll cover that later. Let's get this straight first.
Louise learns the language of the Heptapods.....therefore she has rewired her brain to think of time as happening at once. She then realizes that the "memories" she's been having of her daughter are not random or weird. But that they are her future. She is seeing her future in the present time.
Louise learns Heptapod language = rewires brain to think of time as happening at once = sees her future thanks to learning the language.
So....this is where it gets even more mindbendy.
When she calls the general..she has no clue what to say. But then she sees the future. She hears Shang tell her the same quote: "In war, there are no winners, only widows."
The plot hole is that even Shang himself doesn't know why he's telling her that. I mean, after all...Louise has already told him this in the past. Are you confused yet?
Louise calls Shang = present.
Louise sees the future while calling shang = future shang (United Nations event) tells her the quote.
Louise in the present tells Shang that quote = Shang stops the attack.
Okay...I hope that clarified. I knew how to follow this story easily. I've seen some really messed up time paradox/temporal stuff..so this was really easy for me to follow (when I review predestination, you will be more confused than this)....but the average person who doesn't watch stuff from this genre was probably really confused. Nothing to be ashamed of, it's confusing stuff. The more you "practice it" (in my case, the more movies I watch in this weird genre), the more you get used to the idea.
This is what I loved about the film. The way it messed with ones mind.
What I didn't like:
Louise decides to have the baby without telling the father about the future.
So remember, the father - Louise realizes - is Ian. The memories she had of this little girl growing up and having an incurable disease and dying young - will be her future daughter.
But we see this moment in the end of the movie where she chooses the exact same path. Or...at least, it's heavily assumed.
Which brings me to one of the more fun topics: do we have free will? Can we change our future if we know our future? Will we want to change our future? Hence the quote on the picture above.
I think we do have free will. I think if we did see our future, we would be able to change it. There are so many theories going around about this. And a few are:
Causal Loop:
"A causal loop is a paradox of time travel that occurs when a future event is the cause of a past event, which in turn is the cause of the future event. Both events then exist in spacetime, but their origin cannot be determined. A causal loop may involve an event, a person or object, or information.The terms boot-strap paradox, predestination paradox or ontological paradox are sometimes used in fiction to refer to a causal loop." (Wiki)
Grandfather paradox:
"The consistency paradox or grandfather paradox occurs when the past is changed in any way, thus creating a contradiction. A time traveler can do anything that did happen, but can't do anything that didn't happen. Doing something that didn't happen results in a contradiction.Consistency paradoxes occur whenever changing the past is possible." (wiki)
Has your brain fried yet? Okay...so the easiest way to refute the grandfather paradox is through the theory of the multiverse (the one I believe has the most accuracy of being true). This basically says that we are one timeline. But any different choice we make splits the timeline into two, three..hundred, thousands versions of our life/planet. Basically, anytime you have a deja vu (another movie I can't wait to review) - that feeling that you've done this before - is when you converge with another version of your life. It's when 2 universes intersect for a short period of time. God, I love this stuff, but it gives one a headache thinking about it. Ha.
The multiverse theory - where many versions of your life exist at the same time (think of many parallel lines side by side, where each line represents another version of your life) - basically gives me reason to beleive that even if Louise saw the future, she would in fact have free will to change it. This would, in effect create a different timeline.
There would now be 2 timelines that we would be aware of:
1) Louise marries Ian, has a child, doesn't tell Ian the child will die. Ian leaves Louise because he's upset for being kept out of knowledge. The child dies.
2) Louise marries Ian, tells Ian their child will have an Incurable disease. This is as far as we know...but some options can be:
a) they still decide to have a child- no divorce
b) they decide not to have the child
I liked the second one more because it was less backstabby. I mean, she KNEW her daughter would die before even having the kid. The LEAST she can do is tell Ian that their child will be sick. I just thought it was really cruel.
Heck, there is even a third option:
3) Louise marries Ian, NEVER tells Ian that she knew their child will die. They have the child, the child dies. Ian never leaves her because he doesn't know she knew their child would die.
Honestly...any of these options are better than what she chose. They're less cruel towards Ian. I just lost all respect for Louise because of this choice. I just think that if you're going to have a child, both parties should be willing and aware of all complications/information and make the final decision together. It's not rocket science, it's respect and honesty towards your partner. I'm not asking for much.
This is really the biggest reason why I took off half a star. That's how annoyed I was about it.
Humanity and Aliens:
God, I loved this part of the movie. The ending, the implications...just everything!
I am sooooooo curious what will happen in like 3,000 years (because remember, the Heptapods came to give humanity the "weapon" of understanding time in a different way so that they could later help them when they are in need). So curious that I really wish they would make a sequel for that story! LOL. At least then, we'd see how humanity has evolved because of the new language that effects their linear timeline, and how they're supposed to help these aliens in the future. It's soooo coool.
Gahhh. Why can't they make a sequel.
I'd like to understand how the Heptapods even became aware of humanity, and how they even saw a future with humanity helping them. Though, this very implication supports my theory of a multiverse. Why? Because originally, the heptapods must have seen their future of doom...so they sought out other aliens, and envisioned altering the timeline where humanity helped them in that new future- therefore changing their future. AKA future not set in stone.
Regardless of my gripes with Louise, I still loved this film. Probably because it deals with time paradoxes and aliens. I mean...it's like my dream come true or something.
Just go watch it if you're into scifi, aliens, time travel/paradoxes, linguistics, or philosophy. It is thoroughly enjoyable and if you actually concentrate, it will make you think like crazy.
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Dealing with Aggressive Drivers
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We've all dealt with them on the roadways. Whether or not we're driving, they're hard to overlook. They weave in and out of traffic, lay their horn down on other cars, tailgate those who drive the posted speed limit (or slightly under), and even throw items at other cars. Yup, you guessed it, the insane in the membrane aggressive drivers. They come from all over; no state or country is excluded from their menacing ways of operating a motor vehicle. So, how do we deal with them?
Your first reaction may be to do exactly as they are doing. Please, I'm begging you, don't do this. Stop yourself from breaking your awesome defensive driving skills to stoop down to the level of someone who is driving erratically, poorly, and extremely dangerously. After all, we don't need more motorists like this on the road! Instead, do your best to stay out of their way. If you've ever seen those "Keep Calm and…" posters, be sure to "Keep Calm and Drive On" in this type of situation! I am sure they already have a picture online for this saying. Google Search it.
Next tip of advice: don't make eye contact. Like the Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride at Disneyland, you must not look into the eyes of what could be a danger to you! Alright, the ride won't hurt you if you look into the "eyes of the idol," (I know, I've done it many times and I'm still alive and kicking!), but making eye contact with an aggressive driver can be exceptionally risky. As we don't know what will set him or her off, directing your eyesight toward them could certainly rub them the wrong way and cause more anger and frustration. With a rise in irritation, the aggressive driver could become even more of a road hazard than they already are.
Last, but certainly not least, I suggest (as does NHTSA) that you call the police. Reporting an aggressive driver is as important as reporting a drunk driver. Similar to a child who is learning about what is right and wrong, aggressive drivers need to be taught the way they are acting on the roadways is inappropriate and dangerous! Now I know that some of you might think "calling the fuzz" is slightly harsh, uncalled for, or too much of a punishment, but by golly, do the right thing! Dialing 9-1-1 is one of the best things you can do to keep the roads safe when dealing with aggressive drivers.
Here's an example for you: just the other night I had a run-in with an aggressive driver. Because she was unable to get around the car I was passenger in or the truck that was in the other lane, she decided to act aggressively and throw a child-like fit of rage. She tailgated both our vehicles, switched lanes an excessive amount of times, and laid her horn down for about 30 seconds. When a third lane opened up on the freeway and she could finally pass (illegally on the right-hand lane, mind you), she sped up then threw items from her vehicle at our car and gave us the bird as she hurried off. This, my dear readers, is an example of an aggressive driver.
Did I call the cops? Because it was safe for me to do so as the passenger, I certainly did. Not only was her constant tailgating, horn honking, and other driving habits unsafe, the way she decided to handle not being able to pass was absurd. I'll let you know that both the car I was in and the other vehicle were already going slightly over the posted 65-mile per hour speed limit at roughly 70 MPH. It's not as if we were sitting in the car yelling "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" or anything of the sort (for those Lord of the Rings fans). She was simply an impatient and hostile motorist.
Lesson? Drivers, you don't have to put up with other motorists who jeopardize your life. If you feel as if you are in an unsafe situation on the roadways, do something about it! Don't just sit back and let something horrible happen. And here's some advice for the aggressive drivers out there: you are not in Mario Kart. Calm yourself down and drive safely. Your driving and throwing items at other drivers could cause fatal accidents. It's always better to be safe than sorry!


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Screening for Homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration: Monitoring Housing Stability through Repeat ScreeningPublic Health Reports (2015)
Objective. This study examined veterans' responses to the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA's) universal screen for homelessness and risk ofhomelessness (hereinafter referred to as "risk") during the first 12 months ofimplementation.
Methods. We calculated the baseline annual frequency of homelessness and risk among all veterans who completed an initial screen during the studyperiod. We measured changes in housing status among veterans who initiallyscreened positive and then completed a follow-up screen, assessed factorsassociated with such changes, and identified distinct risk profiles of veteranswho completed a follow-up screen.
Results. More than 4 million veterans completed an initial screen; 1.8% (n77,621) screened positive for homelessness or risk. Of those who initially screened positive for either homelessness or risk and who completed a second
screen during the study period, 85.0% (n15,060) resolved their housing instability prior to their second screen. Age, sex, race, VHA eligibility, and screeninglocation were all associated with changes in housing stability. We identifiedfour distinct risk profiles for veterans with ongoing housing instability.
Conclusion. To address homelessness among veterans, efforts should include increased and targeted engagement of veterans experiencing persistent housing instability.
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Publication DateNovember, 2015
Citation InformationThomas Byrne, Jamison D. Fargo, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Christopher B. Roberts, et al.. "Screening for Homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration: Monitoring Housing Stability through Repeat Screening" Public Health Reports Vol. 130 (2015) p. 702 - 710
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Most tornadoes occur during the month of May, but fall is considered to be the second most severe season for this type of weather. The tornado expert Dr. Greg Forbes looked over the statistics that have been compiled over the past decade, and he found that of the 55 largest tornadoes that the country experienced, six of these occurred during the autumn months of October and November.
Why Tornadoes Occur
According to Dr. Forbes, the last two weeks of October and the entire month of November are notorious for tornado outbreaks. The reason is because upper air systems and strong fronts begin to travel across the United States at that time. If warmer temperatures accompany these weather systems, the climate becomes unstable and serious thunderstorms and tornadoes can result. Generally, if tornadoes occur during September, this is because tropical storms and hurricanes have touched land.
Although there were fewer tornadoes this year than in previous years, not everyone in the United States has been able to escape the tornado's wrath. This year, around 46 people lost their lives to tornadoes with two of the worst of these storms occurring in Oklahoma in May. Along with the loss of life, significant property damage resulted from these severe storms.
The Damage that Hail Causes
Hail can accompany severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, and each individual hail stone can be as large as a softball. With this being the case, hail can cause a great deal of property damage by breaking windows, damaging the roof and vehicles. As a result, water comes inside the home, and this can cause even further damage. Because automobiles may remain outside during a hail storm, they are often dented when hail strikes them, and windows and windshields can become cracked or destroyed.
Insurance Company Bad Faith
Generally, damage to the roof is covered under a home insurance policy if it is caused by hail. Even so, your insurance company may delay payment of your claim, offer you a lower settlement than you think you deserve or deny your claim outright. If your insurance agent is engaged in any of these actions, he or she may be acting in bad faith.
According to United States insurance law, as an insured party, you have the right to expect that your insurance company will follow the terms and conditions that were written into your contract. If the executives fail to do so, you can sue your insurance company for breach of contract as well as for acting in bad faith.
Although every house on your block may have received damage due to the same severe storm, insurance companies can decide to pay to replace or repair your neighbor's roof while denying that your claim is legitimate. This occurs on a surprisingly frequent basis, and it is because your insurance company's adjusters make subjective assessments when inspecting each individual house. Therefore, they can determine that your roof did not sustain the required number of "dings" per square and recommend that the claim be denied. At the same time, they can determine that your neighbor's roof does have sufficient damage to warrant payment.
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If you believe that your insurance company is acting in bad faith and denying your claim without sufficient reason, you are within your rights to hire a hail damage attorney who can determine whether or not your insurance company is treating you fairly.
If you have sustained damage to your roof but have not filed a claim yet, you can also hire a property damage attorney. If you do so before you submit your claim, your lawyer can ensure that your rights are protected from beginning to end. In the event that you prevail in court, your property damage lawyer will make sure that you receive the appropriate amount of monetary compensation.


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The Olympic torch relay was met by angry protesters in Angra dos Reis, a city near Rio de Janeiro.
Local government employees angry over delayed salary payments and lack of public transportation took to the streets and confronted the procession on Wednesday.
Amateur video shared on social media show protesters surrounding and booing the tour bus, while a torchbearer returns on the bus with an extinguished torch.
Protestors allegedly threw rocks at the committee and the police responded by throwing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd, according to Brazilian TV Globo. The ceremony was canceled for security reasons.
Frustrated by the crisis currently plaguing the country, last night's demonstration is the latest episode in a series of attempts to steal or extinguish the Olympic torch in protest
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A poll conducted earlier this month by Folha found that nearly two-thirds of Brazilians think the Olympics will do their country more harm than good.
The torch is nearing the end of a 300-city relay that will end on August 5 at the opening ceremony in the Maracanã stadium.


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Levin LA. Lessons From the Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial: A Decade Later. Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(11):1570–1571. doi:10.1001/archopht.125.11.1570
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Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), the most common cause of acute optic nerve disease in the older population, is a peculiar disorder. It has a predilection for eyes with very small cup-disc ratios, causes predominantly inferior altitudinal visual field defects, and, like Thor's hammer, rarely strikes the same eye twice. Vision is lost rapidly, usually within days. However, in a small fraction of patients, visual acuity or field worsens over weeks, ie, "progressive NAION."
The pathophysiology of NAION remains a mystery, and worse, there is no treatment established to be effective. Thus, it can be understood why there was so much hope when a 1989 publication in the Archives reported that 12 of 14 patients with progressive NAION enjoyed visual improvement after optic nerve sheath decompression.1 Patients with a progressive course compose only a small fraction of NAION cases, and it was only the progressing patients for which optic nerve sheath fenestration was suggested to be helpful. Nevertheless, this qualification failed to deter ophthalmologists from performing the procedure in both progressive and nonprogressive cases of NAION. Fortunately, several investigators decided to determine whether the procedure was truly efficacious, initiating the Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial (IONDT), which was funded by the National Eye Institute. The IONDT studied patients with clinically diagnosed new-onset NAION, randomizing them between optic nerve sheath fenestration or follow-up alone.
More than a decade after publication of the results of the IONDT,2 it is appropriate to consider to what extent the results of the IONDT have influenced the management of patients with NAION. At first glance, it would seem that the IONDT conclusively showed that optic nerve sheath fenestration does not improve visual acuity in patients with NAION and may also be harmful. However, a closer analysis uncovers some ambiguity. First, the IONDT did not definitively answer whether fenestration helped the group of patients for which the therapy was originally described: namely, those with progressive NAION. The 1989 article describing optic nerve sheath fenestration for progressive NAION had specifically demonstrated that it was ineffective for nonprogressive NAION. The IONDT was underpowered to specifically assess progressive NAION, and the negative findings seen in both progressing and nonprogressing cases has made it unlikely that a more adequately powered study can be performed in the future. Of the 237 randomized patients in the IONDT, only 16 patients in the surgery group and 11 patients in the follow-up group could be considered progressive by 1 clinical criterion, namely, worsening of 3 or more lines of visual acuity before randomization.2 In comparison, if one were to design a new study to have an 80% probability of detecting (at P = .05) a 50% greater improvement of 3 lines or more beyond that found in the IONDT careful follow-up group, 66 patients per group would be required. Thus, the question of whether or not optic nerve sheath fenestration might have a benefit for patients with progressive NAION has not been answered to a reasonable degree of medical certainty.
Second, including a surgical arm in an investigation of this kind adds special difficulties. This is especially true when there are many centers and surgeons involved in the investigation. Optic nerve sheath fenestration is not a new procedure, having been increasingly employed in the treatment of patients with intracranial hypertension, but it is a low-volume procedure and surgeons may not have achieved the surgical facility that comes with high-volume procedures. Recognizing these potential problems, the IONDT investigators went to heroic lengths to attempt surgical uniformity, including the use of questionnaires and a videotape of a fenestration operation by each study surgeon. The investigators deserve to be lauded for employing these measures. However, it is never easy to navigate between the Scylla of achieving an adequate head count in a clinical trial and the Charybdis of using data pooled from surgeons among whom skill and experience vary. Feldon and colleagues3 described the surgical quality-assurance methods used in the IONDT. It is clear that even within this group of experienced surgeons there were great differences in their surgical technique, including the failure to adhere to 4 of the 6 required steps in the protocol for optic nerve decompression surgery in up to 20% of centers. The other 2 required steps mandated that intervals of sustained traction on the globe be limited to 7 minutes interspersed with at least 2 minutes of "rest." Not only was compliance difficult to assess, but it is possible that even 7 minutes of greatly elevated intraocular pressure was harmful, and this could have been 1 of the factors contributing to the worse visual outcome in the surgical arm of the IONDT.
Given these questions, how has clinical practice changed because of the IONDT? It showed that optic nerve sheath fenestration for nonprogressive NAION in the hands of most surgeons is not helpful, and thus the trial stopped an epidemic of ineffective and possibly dangerous surgery. This in itself completely changed the treatment of NAION. In addition, as reflected in an impressive list of articles published from the IONDT, our knowledge of the clinical features and natural history of the disease has been greatly expanded. The character of the visual field defects, the appearance of the optic disk, and many other elements are now better known because the trial enrolled a rigorously selected patient population who were evaluated in a uniform fashion. Based on the results of the IONDT, every ophthalmologist should know that 43% of patients with NAION experience a spontaneous improvement of at least 3 lines of visual acuity at 6 months. Although it is unclear whether improvement reflects true healing or simply improved scanning strategies, an ophthalmologist armed with this information can offer some hope to NAION patients who are overwhelmed by unexpected visual loss from an as yet untreatable disease. Meanwhile, the search for effective therapies continues.4
Correspondence: Leonard A. Levin, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Submitted for Publication: October 17, 2006; final revision received December 12, 2006; accepted December 19, 2006.
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Welcome back to another midweek show! The Cheese experienced some technical difficulties during the editing process for this one, so we ended up losing the intro and some of the early banter. We did not lose the Don story that we promised you!! We also give a short update on what has been going on with Game of Thrones, spoilers if you aren't caught up, and talk about Supergirl moving from CBS over to the CW to join Flash, The Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. Thank you for listening, liking, sharing, and being part of this adventure with us!! There is more craziness to come!!
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Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council is offering local companies the opportunity to take part in a five-day trade mission to Atlanta, Georgia this October.
The council's third Atlanta Trade Development Programme will offer local business representatives the opportunity to engage with buyers, promote their products and services, and develop and grow their business through increased export sales in the US market. It will also provide an opportunity to promote the Lisburn Castlereagh area.
The trade mission follows a high profile business delegation visit to Lisburn Castlereagh from Berrien County, Atlanta, to meet and network with local businesses and learn more about the infrastructure in terms of international trade, inward investment opportunities and the promotion of entrepreneurship.
The Atlanta Trade Programme offers local businesses the opportunity to benefit from market research, sales prospecting, pre-visit preparation through one-to-one support and an itinerary of pre-arranged meetings with contacts identified in the market by both the council and the Berrien County Chamber of Commerce & Development Authority.
Owners/managers participating in the programme will receive guidance on how to identify and take advantage of market opportunities, source new contacts and increase export sales to potentially result in job creation.
Local businessman Lester Manley, MD of Trailblazer BBQ, is currently piloting his product in the Georgia market.
"On meeting the people of Berrien County you will be very pleasantly surprised as to how friendly and accommodating they are, simply a joy to work with and with no lacking in capability. They will become a valuable and trustworthy point of contact for you and are always ready to help in any way they can," he said.
Cllr Uel Mackin, Chairman of the council's Development Committee, commented: "Following on from the successful inbound Berrien County visit last year the council is delighted to offer local businesses the opportunity to establish business connections through industry and tourism. With our strategic partners in Berrien County we are putting together a trade programme intended to highlight new market opportunities, investment connections and strategic business partnerships."
Berrien County has strong agricultural and manufacturing sectors and a variety of opportunities exist within the wider Georgia area for local businesses in the agri-food, food and beverage, electronics and manufacturing sectors.
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The Atlanta Trade Programme is now open for recruitment. Local businesses based within the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council area interested in finding out more information should contact Caroline Diamond on 07825 147191 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Wilderness Film Expedition 2011.
I'm a huge fan of cartoonist/artist Jason T Miles. His work comforts and confuses me. He's also a great grinding flywheel in an industrious community of otherworldly artists. One of these folks is the aptly named Sean Savage.
From Sean via Jason:
"yeah man, this was an 8-day backpacking trip into the remote Colorado unknown. we'd hike and shoot film during the day, and at night, under the new moon, we hand-processed the film in collapsible buckets, rinse it in the stream overnight, and line-dry it the next day. thing is, we were shooting negative film, so then we'd have to contact-print a positive on a homemade portable printer and then develop that (the rolling framelines are when the print stock slipped away from the negative). still waiting for our guide to send me the last 100' we shot that we didn't have time to print (and the Bolex pinhole lens I made). he's kind of a mad genius who makes his own emulsions too, but we used store-bought film."
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So cool and eery. Post-apocalyptic.
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Blayney's Brad Ingham will head to Newcastle next week to compete for the right to represent Australia at the 44th WorldSkills International Competition in Abu Dhabi this October.
WorldSkills Australia's Global Skills Challenge takes place in Newcastle from 5-8 July and will bring together more than 100 competitors from 16 countries to compete in a simulated international competition in the lead-up to the Abu Dhabi competition, also known as the trade and skills Olympics.
As a fully qualified mechanical engineer (fitting and machining) with Hort Enterprises in Orange, Brad has spent more than six hours training each week, as well as fortnightly trips to Wollongong for guidance from his mentor, TAFE NSW engineering teacher Peter Buttenshaw.
"I've been pretty busy with lots of training that's for sure," Brad said. "The training has been pretty full-on, but I'm really enjoying learning lots of new skills – it's been great."
Brad is one of nine TAFE NSW students and alumni in the 20-member Australian Skills Squad competing in Newcastle against the world's best apprentices, trainees and students under the age of 23.
The Global Skills Challenge will be the final test of their skills with the Australian Skillaroos team selected from this competition. Successful participants will be announced at the closing ceremony on Saturday, July 8.
"The plan is obviously to do well in Newcastle and get to go to Abu Dhabi – I think that would be a really great experience," Brad said.
"When I started out at Hort Enterprises and TAFE I never expected to get the opportunity to travel all over the world. Now I've made it this far, I want to make the most of it and see how far I can go with the ultimate goal to make the Skillaroos team and get to compete in Abu Dhabi."


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It's not exactly Affirmed-Alydar, but Heatseeker and Tiago, two of the favorites in Saturday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park, have what it takes to create quite a little rivalry.
The two handicap standouts have faced off in three consecutive races. The score? Heatseeker 2, Tiago 1.
What makes the rivalry more interesting is the fact the trainers – Heatseeker's Jerry Hollendorfer and Tiago's John Shirreffs – are good friends going back to their days of training against each other in Northern California.
"The last time I talked with him, we just felt we are both fortunate to have a good horse to run in some of these big races," Hollendorfer said. "So that's our rivalry. You know, there are a lot of other good horses that are going to be in this race, and we're not just thinking the race is between us."
Heatseeker is the 7-5 morning-line favorite for the Gold Cup, and Tiago is the 9-2 third choice in the field of 10.
"I think everybody enjoys seeing horses run against each other on different occasions, because then you sort of know the participants in the race and have a feeling of what's going on," Shirreffs said. "And you know, horses with names like Heatseeker and Tiago, which are recognized by a lot of people, it's exciting for us to be involved in it.
"Jerry and I are good friends, (but) you know we're going to do our best to win."
This good-natured rivalry began March1, when Heatseeker, a 5-year-old son of Giant's Causeway, won the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap by three-quarters of a length over Go Between, who also is entered in Saturday's Gold Cup. Tiago, making his third start of 2008, came home fourth, beaten by four lengths.
Then it really got good.
The two took their little sparring match to Oaklawn Park on April 5 in Hot Springs, Ark., and this time it was the 4-year-old Tiago who got the better of his elder with a neck victory after a stirring stretch duel left both horses seemingly hitting the wire simultaneously.
"For Tiago to have his best opportunity to win (Saturday), we need a good pace," Shirreffs said. "Tiago is always tough, as you saw at Oaklawn. If he can get within a head of the horse, then he's very tough, he pins his ears and he doesn't want to lose. He just tries his best when he gets in that situation."
That wasn't the situation when the horses last met, in the paceless Californian at Hollywood Park on May 31. In that Grade II event, Heatseeker unexpectedly battled Surf Cat for the early lead before taking command earlier than normal and drawing away for a powerful 5 1/4-length victory over Tiago.
"It was a surprise that the pace was soft in the Californian, but (Rafael Bejarano) adjusted to that and did a good job on that," Hollendorfer said. "I mean, every race is different, and the reason you try to get the best rider is because they can make the right decision. Rafael did a good job of judging in the last race and made the right decision."
Which bring us to Saturday's Gold Cup and Round 4 of the Heatseeker-Tiago saga. Can Tiago, a half-brother to 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, reverse the latest outcome?
There figures to be more speed to set up Tiago's late run with McCann's Mojave and Mast Track in the field. Don't expect to see Heatseeker battling with McCann's Mojave on the front end as the field heads down the backstretch.
"I don't like to predict before I take a look at the (Daily Racing Form)," Hollendorfer said. "I really don't know Student Council's form and some of the other ones that are going to be in there."
Shirreffs knows Heatseeker's form, and the veteran trainer realizes his good buddy's horse is going to be tough to beat.
"Heatseeker is very tough on the synthetic racetracks," Shirreffs said. "He's trained marvelously on them. I've been following it, obviously, and he's worked very well on the track, so it seems like he's primed for a great race.
"Heatseeker was very impressive in the Californian. He won pretty much going away."
Whatever happens Saturday, this rivalry figures to live on through the end of 2008, when a showdown in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita could be in the cards.


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LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are still promoting their reality show on VH1, LeAnn and Eddie.
The couple have been promoting their semi-scripted "comedy" for weeks, pitching it as "the truth… their side of the story" when it's mostly passive-aggressive digs at Eddie's first wife, the mother of his kids, Brandi Glanville.
So much so, not only were the reviews unflattering but the show flopped in the ratings (scoring half what the Naked Dating premiere did, and fewer than the debut of Candidly Nicole).
All this after LeAnn jumped the shark and bragged about the show's "success" and thanked her "haters."
In a new interview, LeAnn and Eddie admit they've told his children about their affair.
They cheated on their respective spouses with each other in 2009. The affair was outed by Us Weekly and it ended both marriages. They eventually married each other and LeAnn is stepmother to his sons.
"We've had discussions with them about the whole situation," Eddie admits of conversations with Mason, 11, and Jake, 7.
"They understand more than you think they do," LeAnn tells Life & Style.
When they first got together after the affair, they went to therapy together "to figure out how to put the kids first, to make sure they're stable."
"We are always bettering ourselves," LeAnn says, "and our marriage."


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Chapter 1 : If I Could Turn Back Time
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Congratulations on finding this page! Although there is no CURE for autoimmune disease, there is a real way to reduce or eliminate symptoms for little or no cost. Although this is a complex issue and severe cases should ALWAYS be supervised by a coach (I suggest Brooke Goldner MD (healed her own Lupus) or Dr David Klein (healed his own Ulcerative Colitis) ) I know many of you just want to jump in and do it on your own, which is why I am writing a guide.
I included DEPRESSION as many people in the support group I run have found relief using this plan also. However depression is a more complex issue and a combination of diet, supplements discussed below, positive life changes, exercise, someone to talk to and Louise Hay's books may also be beneficial.
First up, you MUST READ:
1. My article on Arthritis. It covers the links between diet/autoimmune diseases AND the science behind it, courtesy of Dr Fuhrman. It's super important to understand how this works so you can commit to trying it.
Read: http://fruityhealing.com/2015/05/arthritis-linked-to-diet-in-multiple-studies/
2. Either 80/10/10 by Doug Graham or The Vibrant Diet by Dr David Klein. Both are available on Amazon.com. Klein's book is $9.99 for a Kindle version (that can be read on an iPhone) so you simply MUST spend the 3 hours doing this before changing your diet. Must must must.
OK ready? As you read my article you now understand that immune disorders start out as DIGESTIVE DISORDERS. A lot of DEPRESSION also stems from digestive issues as 70% of seratonin is manufactured in the gut. So to get to the root cause, and eliminate it, we are going to have to change our diets. Half measures or modifying my recommendations at this point probably won't help, so really think things through.
Are you truly ready to be well again?
Is there anything you will do to feel better?
Are you ready to drop all the labels of sickness and be well again?
Let's go!
A disclaimer. I am NOT a doctor. My recommendations come from what I did to heal myself of debilitating autoimmune issues that were stopping me from working. SLE Lupus, Depression, Fibromylagia and Arthritis were the flames on top of a lifetime of Chronic Fatigue. These recommendations may not work for everyone and are only for those too stubborn not to hire a coach. But I know many healing by doing this, so it's worth the effort.
So, although our monkey friends in the wild eat a wide variety of fruits, nuts and seeds and take no supplements, they didn't impair their digestive systems with crappy food and antibiotics. Antibiotics are a big one. My symptoms escalated after 3 months of Doxy my MD put me on for Lyme. So, to heal we are going to start with foods that are easy on the digestive system AND use probiotics and amino acids to heal the gut damage you most likely have.
You will need to buy (and not from me)
1. Blender – best you can – Ninja/Blendtec fine. Check Costco, used online etc
2. Juicer – Hamilton Beech Big Mouth starts at $50 on Amazon.com
3. Primal Defense Probiotics or similar brand (check reviews on Amazon.com)
4. L-Glutamine (Amazon.com – get the big one) You can buy D-Ribose for an energy boost.
5. Garden of Life B12, D3 supps or similar brand.
FOR DEPRESSION: CALM Magnesium/Calcium for those with anxiety or depression. If you have gut issues it's highly likely you aren't absorbing Magnesium. SamE (buy Jarrow brand) or St John's Wort (the latter interferes with birth control) can make a HUGE difference. Try both separately for 8 weeks. Some people claim Niacin helps, but it didn't do much for me.
6. If possible run a BLOOD TEST with your PCP to make sure you don't have any other underlying deficiencies such as Iron before starting out.
You are essentially going to create a simple healing plan based on easy to digest, high nutrient foods which will give your body a chance to heal over time.
Greens: All and any in juices and smoothies. Rotate. Only Romaine in salads.
Vegetables: All that you can tolerate raw. Chew well. So no broccoli or cauliflower as they are hard to digest. I stuck with cucumber and celery. Tomatoes trigger many people with autoimmune disorders, but we seem to love them. Leave them out while you are trying to heal.
Fruits: Sweet only: So bananas, (ripe with brown spots) melons, (any) papaya, blueberries, soaked dates for smoothies and apples. For now. You add the rest back one by one when you feel better.
Fats: avocados only, no more than one a day in a SALAD (not smoothie, no mixing fat and fruit)
Fallback: All raw is fastest healing but if you are trapped somewhere or dying for cooked food – steamed carrots, squashes and sweet potatoes only with no oil.
So here's what I did:
1. On waking: 16oz distilled water (with concentrace mineral drops added – optional)
Flushes out the system.
2. Green juice time! Straight celery is great for poor digestion. You can mix in cucumber and any greens you may have. Green apples can cover the taste. Try to make 16-20oz of this green juice, as much as you can afford. Google "green juice recipe" if you need guidance. No cayenne or lemon. Irritants. Carrots/beets can be added here. Cabbage juice is very healing.
You will take your probiotics and vitamins now, and mix the glutamine into the juice. Only CALM should be taken at night in water. Spread probiotics through the day.
Enfuses the system with nutrients. Have as many juices as you like though the day.
The rest of the day, choose one of the following but try and get 2 green smoothies in a day:
You should be eating around 2000 calories – track on cronometer.com
Melon or papaya, blended into a smoothie or in a big bowl. Must be eaten alone.
Green smoothie: Mix fruit, water and greens in a blender. Experiment. I like 4 bananas, 4 sticks of celery. Any green thing will do. Here are recipes: http://www.rawfamily.com/recipes. Romaine. Cacao/Carob can be added to make a chocolate shake. Berries can be added to make a fruity smoothie. Greens can be taken out for a sweeter smoothie but try to do as many with greens as you can, they help you heal! Although you will be eating a LOT of smoothies, you can learn to modify them so they all feel different.
Dinner: Green smoothie if you are really sick.
OR green soup such as this one: http://rawfoodrecipes.com/recipes/blended-green-soup/ (leave out the peppers, spices, nuts and onions!)
OR well chopped and carefully chewed salad with romaine, apples, celery, cucumber and an avocado/lemon dressing.
OR steamed squash if you simply HAVE TO 😉
Drinks: Green juices, Distilled Water, Hot Water, Mint or herbal teas…. stay hydrated!
The key is to avoid all grains, all citrus and all legumes and nuts in this healing phase as they are ABRASIVE ON THE GUT. You will SET YOURSELF BACK. So if you want to cheat, that's what the squash is for.
That's it! Although it seems ultra simple, try this for a few weeks or a month and add other fruits back in slowly, monitoring how you feel. A month on mostly green smoothies can do MIRACLES for your health because it simply gives your digestive system a break without the hunger or potential deprivation that juice fasting can create. Do this AS LONG AS YOU CAN for best results. You owe it to your health.
Personally I left a LOT WORSE at first – because toxins were being cleared from my body along with the die off from non beneficial bacteria. Just keep flushing your system with water and a colonic can help. It was around 6-8 weeks that I felt better. 6 months to full remission.
For questions, please visit the FB group Vegan Fruitarians. 🙂


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We are soooo excited to announce that Emma Corrigan is going to be starting up Music For Baby Classes in North Weald in the Autumn Term. Emma is an amazing singer with a West End background, and we are delighted to have her on board!!
Karen and Emma first met musically back in 2000, and then lost touch until a chance encounter in a supermarket in 2008 when Emma had just had her first baby and Karen was pregnant with her first. They stayed in touch and then by chance Karen began running Music For Baby Classes in the same venue Emma worked at in Loughton and the relationship grew.
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Where has 2016 gone - it seems only but a few weeks since it was last Christmas? Yet so much has indeed happened: the EU Referendum; the resignation of David Cameron as our Prime Minister, and the appointment of Theresa May as Prime Minister and her Government; the election of Donald Trump as President elect of the United States of America; the terrible suffering of people and communities in Syria, the Yemen, and Afghanistan; the continued population migration from the Middle East to Europe, as people leave their home and country in fear of their lives and in search of security and peace; the impact of austerity on our nation and the suffering it has brought to thousands of people on low incomes; the recent revelations concerning sport and safeguarding; the terrible floods in the Calder Valley and elsewhere; all of which seems to have dominated the news for weeks and months.
In Halifax there too has been much activity, with a huge amount of capital investment coming into the town: the Cornerstone Project at The Square Chapel; the renewal of The Princess Building as the offices for the council; the new library; the plans to bring down Northgate House and the old library, making way for a new retail offer in the town; the planned new bus/rail terminal at the railway station; the regional transport money to re-design the roads coming into the town, and around the town centre; the preparation of the Cripplegate site for hopefully mixed usage including some housing, where the old gas works used to be; the vote by retailers in October for the creation of the Halifax Business Improvement District; and the icing on the cake, the reopening of The Piece Hall in the summer of 2017. Given the vulnerability of the national economy, it's extraordinary that Halifax is seeing so much investment, and certainly something we should celebrate and get behind.
At the Minster this year, we have carried out a major repair to the floor at the front of the Nave. The old flag stones were introduced by Sir Gilbert Scott in the 1878 reordering, and were already frost damaged having been outside in the churchyard for probably 100 years or so. The dais or stage that had been introduced in the late 1970s and made out of chip board was now worn out. So we've tried to keep the old stone flags that were usable and recyclable, and Marshalls did us proud with some new stone, which has blended in beautifully with the old. We've also introduced a new English octagonal dais, which has improved our worship significantly, and provides a useful platform for other users of the Minster.
This month we're expecting some 12,000 people through the Minster in the build up to Christmas. It's a magical time of the year when the story of how God became a human being in the person of Jesus is told year after year. Because parts of the Minster are some 900 years old, it seems extraordinary that so many generations have annually made the journey to the Minster at this time of the year. Schools, banks, Rotary, the hospice, real donkeys, brass bands, they all come to offer their thanks and praise.
Before we know it, Christmas will have come and gone, and we'll be looking at the New Year coming in. What will 2017 bring for you, for the people of Halifax, for our nation and the world? Some things we have no control over, other things we do. My hope and prayer is that, together, we can make the world a kinder place, in which to nurture and inspire children and young people, a place where communities can live happily side by side, and where people can grow old together, with security and hope that will support them to the end of lives. And where better to create that place of hope for the future than right here in Halifax?


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Friday, February 25, 2011
One Sunday
"Wherever I go through rain or snow
The people always let me know
'There's Jack the Peg…
With an extra leg'"
sings the character.
Guess many of us 'chinky' Indians get the same kind of treatment in some parts of the country. It used to be like that in Kerala where we went for vacations. People on the streets would turn back to stare. Same in Madras where we stayed a few months. Eyes would glare till i was tempted to poke with a finger to see if they could blink! It was like that in Hyderabad. And so on.
It's not so bad these days, at least not here in Mumbai. I didn't get it bad in Bangalore either. Can't say whether things have changed in general, or it's just the cities.
And in this church we attend in Santa Cruz, i even forget that i'm different. Meetings are in English, mixed with Hindi. The members are from diverse communities like Anglo-Indians, Goans, Maharashtrians, Mangalorians, Malayalees, Tamilians, Telugus, etc. I'm the only snub-nosed, chinky-eyed, yellow-faced one in the crowd. But the loving, caring folks make me forget that i hail from a remote place and have alien looks and ways.
But one Sunday it was brought back to me in a funny way.
After the meeting, a little NRI boy came up to me and said, "Hello, i'm J, i'm eleven years old. I'm from Dubai…."
"Hello, i'm M," i responded, and we got chatting.
After a while he asked, "Are you Chinese?"
"No," i replied.
"Are you Filipino?"
"What are you then?"
"I'm Indian" i said, curious about how he was going to tackle the question.
"But how come you look like Chinese or Filipino?" he came back.
"Many Indians look like i do," i told him, still playing the game.
Then he got clever. "What language do you speak with your parents at home?"
I finally told him i'm a Mizo, from Mizoram, a state in Northeast India. I asked him to look up a map and find Mizoram in it.
Hope J's knowledge of Geography or Social Studies improved a bit that day. Such a sweet kid!
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hi dear,
I'm from Hyderabad.These days the barrier b/w north eastern states and other parts has broken.These days we try to understand you and treat you as fellow Indians.I like to say a thing that one of my friend married your girl happily living and blessed with a child
- February 25, 2011 at 6:23 AM
- Calliopia said...
Well, that's an encouraging response you evoked from Mr. Srinivas. May his tribe increase :)
- February 25, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- mesjay said...
@Kameswara Srinivas, thank you for the visit and comment. That is very good, heartwarming news. Even those days, there were good people who were very hepful. Like 4 medical students a friend and i met while travelling - they sheltered us from what could have been a nightmarish trip. Such people are there in every community, though some others may have treated us as an oddity. The best thing is that the good side multiplies with more and more understanding. Best regards.
- February 25, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- mesjay said...
@Calliopia, may his tribe incease indeed!
- February 28, 2011 at 1:32 AM
- luliana said...
Hman te ngaihtuah chuan a zia ka ti tawh khawp mai. Mahse, a bikin keini Mizote hi, Hindi kan thiam loh lutuk bik reng chuan en hran loh theih loh kan ni reng dawn!
- March 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- mesjay said...
@Lulian, a dik hmel. Mizo tawng bakah Hindi leh English hi chu zam lo tawka thiam ve atan a tha khawp mai. A theih chuan kan awmna apiang state tawng nen, tlem a zawng tal.
- March 11, 2011 at 6:36 AM
- DayDreamBeliever said...
Well, good to see that your sense of humor is still intact, Miss Zozem! Me, I get so impatient that I fail to see the humor in these kind of situations anymore!! :D
- March 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- mesjay said...
@DayDreambeliever, come to think of it, it's quite funny, isn't it? We seem to be such a rare variety in our own country!
- March 15, 2011 at 2:26 AM