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WASHINGTON _ It is an afternoon in 1954. In households across America, chatty groups of homemakers gather. Around the women are scattered candy-colored plastic cocktail shakers, plastic cigarette holders, plastic hors d'oeuvre dishes, plastic storage containers, plastic bowls and plastic sets of tumblers, drink stirs and wagon-wheel coasters.
You guessed it — it's a Tupperware party.
Today, somewhere in the world, a Tupperware party occurs once every 2.5 seconds, says a new book published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. And since its birth in the 1950s, the Tupperware party has become for generations of homemakers the distinctive and exclusive way Tupperware sold its products. It also was one way Tupperware changed society.
"It was really about how objects and consumers become meaningful. People make meanings and identities and social groups through the items they buy and the products they have," Alison J. Clarke said. She is the author of "Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America," a history of the cutting-edge plastics company.
And the famous gatherings became an excuse for people to get together and socialize. "The Tupperware party," Clarke said, "was a new social event."
Clarke spent a decade dredging through tens of thousands of papers and interviewing former Tupperware saleswomen. "I was looking at how technology gets popularized in every day life," Clarke said, "and Tupperware seemed like an easy topic."
Some of Clarke's information came from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian displays only a handful of Tupperware products. But the museum's archives store three separate collections of Tupperware leftovers: business documents, films and recordings — 31 cubic feet of papers alone.
John Fleckner, chief archivist at the museum, gives the Tupperware memorabilia a high value. "These collections, like the best ones we have, have stories within stories within stories," said Fleckner. He waxes poetic on the plastics' collection:
"At one level these are biographies of two people who were successful businessmen in the day. This is a story of an American and now successful corporation. This is a story about inventing and the inventing spirit. It's a story about entrepreneurs, a story about business and commodity intersecting and effecting our lives. It's a story about transforming women in American society. It's a story about the way in which artifacts are used in some really elemental social relation both commercial and private. So it's a lot bigger story than just plastic houseware. That's what makes this such rich collection to have."
Who would have guessed that about Tupperware?
In Clarke's book, the centerpiece is Brownie Wise — the daughter of a plumber from Buford, Ga.; a divorcee; and the mother of one child. She was hired by Tupperware inventor Earl Tupper in 1951 and became Tupperware's Vice President and fairy godmother. Wise generated the Tupper-revolution with her innovation of the home party system. She was a motivator who encouraged housewives to become saleswomen, businesswomen and hostesses. She also encouraged them to have a good time.
"It was about being fashionable and fun that made it sell," Clarke said. "She understood that women really valued the advice and opinion of other women as consumers." The Tupperware party offered employment, money and self-esteem to women in the Tupperware sorority — a chance for women to socialize as well as sell. And sell they did. By 1954, Brownie's troops numbered 20,000 dealers, distributors, and managers — 95 percent of them women.
"Women would genuinely swap advice on which product they used," Clarke said. "Brownie Wise really keyed into the concept that buying and consumer culture wasn't about competition but about sharing. It was about women feeling modern."
Wise became the first woman to grace the cover of Business Week in April 1954. She lived her part with enthusiasm. She loved pink or "Tupperware Rose." Her Tupper-wear consisted of mostly pink clothes. She grew hybrid pink roses, drove a pink convertible and even owned a dyed-pink canary.
As a motivator, she was creative. To celebrate the three-year anniversary of Tupperware Home Parties, for example, she brought her top saleswomen to company headquarters in Orlando, Fla., for what she called a "Tupperware Homecoming Jubilee." Out of what was nearly hallowed ground, the saleswomen dug extraordinary rewards: attaché cases, diamond rings and mink coats. The Homecomings continued every year since.
By 1958, Wise and founder Earl Tupper — a reclusive man who kept a stiff Tupper-lip — fell out. Company directors dumped Wise. Tupper sold the company the same year.
Now, the company competes with Rubbermaid and plastics makers. But Tupperware remains a household name, generic for anything plastic that holds food. From its first Wonder Bowl — with the burp, to let out air and seal its lid tight — Tupperware produced the Party Susan, tumblers, children's toys, and microwave-safe dishware.
"Tupperware has always changed with plastics technology," Clarke said. "It has always been at the forefront of plastics technology."
Her research, she admitted, changed her life. "I was Tupper-less before I started my research," Clarke said. Now, even she has her own set of pastel cereal bowls. "I was converted to the Tupper-gospel."
About Jeff Rose - Fall 1999
Some things are easier to explain than others. For example,I was born in Indianapolis,Ind. I am 22 and 5' 9". Others aren't as easy. After a year of mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,I transferred to Indiana University. Now,I am a senior in journalism and computer science. The explanation? I found a love for writing,whether I'm writing fiction or fact. This love was more valuable than a $40,000 job and a nice car. My passion has led me forward. In the summer of 1998,I served as editor of the Indiana Daily Student. I have also held positions as campus editor,copy editor,humor columnist and beat writer. I like to spend my free time constructively. This is why I have dabbled in painting,guitar and harmonica. I do not do any of these things with any notable skill. This makes my use of the word "constructively" questionable.


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Where should you organize your next meeting in Lisbon?
Historical locations or modern ones, flexible, with beautiful panoramas e and professional staff. These are some qualities of the venues you can choose in Lisbon for your next event or meeting.
According to the International Congress and Convention Association, Lisbon is in the top ten 10 the world's most requested cities to host international congress thanks to its investments in the hospitality field, both leisure and MICE.
In Lisbon there are several locations considered the best one where organize an event. The Lisbon Convention Bureau suggests three venues in particular: Pavillon Carlos Lopes, in the Parque Eduardo VII in the heart of the capital, Sud Lisboa, which is named after is position, and Montemar Lisboa, both on the north bank of the Tejo River.
Pavillon Carlos Lopes
Pavillon Carlos Lopes has been built to represent the Portuguese during the International Exposition organized in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. This building has an incredible story, since most of its part where moved from Portugal to Brazil, where it was built. Then, after the end of the Exposition, it was taken apart to move t back to Lisbon and then reassembled in 1932 in the Parque Eduardo VII. Afterwards, it's been used for sport competition, cultural and art center and during political events.
Restructured for years, Pavillon Carlos Lopes reopened just last spring. Its outstanding location and its adaptable structure make it a perfect location for any kind of event: meetings, conferences, business lunches and dinners, exhibitions, and congress. Its three main rooms can host 3.300 people, Sala Nobre, 180 mq, Sala dos Azulejos, more welcoming and with capacity of more than 100 pax, and Sala Multiusos, that can host 2.900 participants.
Between Torre de Beléme and Ponte 25 de Abril, on Brasília Avenue it's located SUD Lisboa. Here, just 5km away from the city center, there are a lot of must see, monuments, museums, and cultural centers such as Monastero dos Jerónimo, Museo dos Coches, and Centro Culturale di Belém.
Surrounded by the green , and refreshed by fountains and the breeze of the Tejo River, this location is ideal to organize a memorable event. Fascinating by the neighborhood, the structure represents the equilibrium of the two sides of the Tejo: SUD Lisboa in fact has two main buildings connected by a terrace that function as a bridge.
Its terrace and its rooms are equipped by technological tools and high quality audio systems. Each space is flexible and large, like the two halls, the one on the first floor is 1.000mq, and the one on the second floor is 100mq. You can decide how to furnish and decorate them.
In SUD Lisboa there are also a restaurant and a bar, their excellent service is guaranteed also during big events, weddings, and parties. For bigger events, the restaurant and the bar offer a buffet and/or cocktails.
And if you want just relax, just go on the terrace, where from the open swimming pool you can admire the Tejo River.
MonteMar Lisboa Resturant
Monte Mar Lisboa has been created on the North side of the Tejo River, in an elegant but at the same time urban atmosphere.
The terrace provides one of the best views of Lisbon, the serenity of the Tagus River, where you can relax and forget you are in the heart of a city full of life! The magnificence and beauty of the 25th of April Bridge is well expressed in the fact that, when it was inaugurated, it was considered the fifth largest suspension bridge in the world and the biggest outside the United States.
Monte Mar Lisboa offers a high quality and contemporary service, starting from food: fresh fish, seafood, and all the traditional Monte Mar Cascais cuisine to the capital. The hake fillets with cockle rice, our signature dish, has a simple name but is very rich in flavor. Since Monte Mar Lisboa is not just a fish and seafood restaurant, if you prefer a more traditional option, choose "iscas", a delicious and tender liver dish served in a skillet.
Monte Mar Lisboa boasts an elegant multi-functional space, adaptable to various types of events and to your preferences. To create a memorable experience you can customize all aspects of your event. The interior space can accommodate up to approximately 300 people and sit about 300. On the outside deck, there is the possibility of a cocktail service for up to 400 people.

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi Sends Letter to HHS Secretary Requesting Explanation of San Francisco Ryan White Funding Cuts
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson calling for a "full explanation" of a $4 million reduction in San Francisco's Ryan White CARE Act funding, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Gordon, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/19). HHS on March 1 announced the grant as part of 51 grants totaling more than $595 million for cities nationwide to provide care and support services for low-income HIV-positive people. The grants, which are overseen by the Health Resources and Services Administration, are funded under Title I of the Ryan White CARE Act. Funding amounts are based on a formula using the estimated number of people living with AIDS in each city, with supplemental grants awarded competitively based on the "demonstration of severe need" and other criteria. San Francisco received $29.8 million in funding for its HIV/AIDS programs and services, including physician visits, home-based care, hospice care, substance abuse treatment, mental health services, case management and assistance in obtaining medications for HIV-positive people who have partial or no health insurance (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 3/2). The city's grant amount for fiscal year 2004 is 12% less than the amount the city received in FY 2003, the Chronicle reports (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/19).
Pelosi's Letter
According to Pelosi's letter, San Francisco "experienced the largest dollar reduction of any [eligible metropolitan area] and the third highest reduction by percentage." She said that the reduction "will have a devastating impact on HIV/AIDS services in the Bay Area" (Pelosi letter, 3/12). She said that the $4 million cut would "force" the city to eliminate 1,171 hours of treatment adherence services, 554 days of adult day health services, 1,779 dental procedures, integrated case management for 527 people and "numerous other services that are critical to maintain and improve the health of people living with this terrible disease" (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/19). According to Pelosi, San Francisco "cannot sustain a loss of this magnitude without undermining the safety net for the most vulnerable persons living with HIV/AIDS in our community." Pelosi requested that Thompson provide a "detailed explanation of the process by which allocations were made, a response to the concerns raised [in the letter] and documentation that allocations were made in an equitable and accountable way." Pelosi also said she hopes to be able to work with Thompson to "identify other funds within [HHS] to help offset these cuts and prevent reductions in vital health services for people living with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area" (Pelosi letter, 3/12).


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The UK's Army Cadet Force Music returned to Gibraltar this week to play various concerts and assist the fledgling Gibraltar Cadets' Corps of Drums, which was launched last year. The UK cadets will be performing today at St Michael's Cave and later this evening at 7pm in front of City Hall. The band first visited...
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The Daniel Defense M4 Carbine V11, based on the popular V9 series, was designed for shooters who prefer the benefits of the KeyMod system integrated in the new SLiM Rail™ (Slim Lightweight Modular). KeyMod is a recoil resistant, two-part, direct attachment method for accessories that offers outstanding "return-to-zero" when accessories are removed and reinstalled. The new SLiM Rail™ 15.0 offers incredible weight savings as well as superior cooling, ergonomics, and modularity while maintaining the strength and durability expected from Daniel Defense.
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UC and CSU adjust entrance requirements to help students affected by COVID-19
Updated: Apr 2, 2020
Two major California college systems make temporary changes to their entrance policies softening the blow for students burdened by class restructuring.
By Solomon Smith, Managing Editor
Coronavirus closures have affected college campuses across the state causing some Monarchs to worry about their transfer prospects, but the UC and CSU systems have moved to help ease the process.
Last night the office of the President of the University of California, Janet Napolitano, signed off on the changes created by the UC Board of Regents. "We want to help alleviate the tremendous disruption and anxiety that is already overwhelming prospective students due to COVID-19," said Chair of the Board of Regents John A. Pérez. "By removing artificial barriers and decreasing stressors — including suspending the use of the SAT — for this unprecedented moment in time, we hope there will be less worry for our future students."
The adjustments will consider COVID-19 related admission issues offering flexibility in basic course requirements, fees, deadlines and other issues. Valley College's Office of Institutional Effectiveness estimates 27,000 students per year, based on totals from the 2017 and 2018 academic years, with a fall semester average of 17,000. In the 2018 and 2019 school years Valley awarded 3,452 certificates, AA and AA-T degrees. Students transferring to UC or CSU campuses in the fall of 2019 totaled 907 — 139 matriculated to UCs.
The announcement from the UC system addresses some student concerns about their ability to graduate and transfer with some added flexibility in their policies. Students who have received their acceptance letters have been assured their place if their transcripts, or fees, are received late. Letter grades for the A through G College Entrance Requirements courses have been suspended for winter, spring and summer of 2020. Also suspended are the caps on pass/fail units (toward the 60 semester or 90 quarter limit) for transfers who need junior standing. Those who have not met some of the requirements will have the ability to meet the standards without losing their admission, on a case by case basis at their school.
"These changes do not lower the bar for admission," reads the UC statement, "but accommodate the real barriers students have faced as tests have been cancelled and classes have moved to pass/fail grading."
The UC COVID-19 website includes some additional information for students in their FAQ stating that schools in the UC system will "work with families over the summer to review their eligibility for financial aid."
Director of public affairs for the California State University Office of the Chancellor, Toni Molle, shared the CSU policy changes with the Valley Star. They include adjustments similar to the UC policy changes, but extends the A-G class changes, pass/fail acceptance, and several other policies, up to the Spring 2021 semester. Both systems seek to bring a sense of stability to future students who may be admitted under unique circumstances, but the CSU policy leaves more space for individual schools to work with students who may not have all of the classes they needed to apply.
In the past few weeks institutions have had to make rapid last minute adjustments to fast changing situations while offering normalcy and stability.
"The CSU system and CSU campuses are prepared to exercise flexibility and accommodation when working with our educational partners and fall 2020 applicants in meeting admission requirements and the subsequent steps toward enrollment," reads the CSU policy statement. "Although there has been disruption as campuses transition to some or all staff working remotely, processing of admission applications and communications is continuing."


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'Skanky Possum' hit at Penn
Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith shared their experiences in publishing a small journal.
The Daily Pennsylvanian
September 20, 2002
Sitting and eating comfortably around the dining room table, an intimate group gathered to discuss micro-publishing at the Kelly Writers House yesterday afternoon. Hoa Nguyen and her husband Dale Smith traveled to Penn from Austin, Texas, to share their experiences in publishing a small-press poetry journal. Both are also published poets themselves.
While enjoying hummus, pita, spanikopeda and greek desserts, the entire group participated in a lively and informal discussion. Nguyen and Smith brought along their 14-month-old son, Keaton, whose presence added to the personal ambiance of the event.
Nguyen and Smith's magazine, entitled Skanky Possum, was passed around the table, along with examples of other small-press publications in which their work has been featured.
Skanky Possum, a small, staple-bound magazine, has received some national recognition. Four poems from the magazine were selected to be printed in The Best American Poetry, a prestigious journal.
Thomas Devaney, program coordinator at the Writers House, contacted the writers and invited them to campus.
"It's great to bring in younger writers who are distinguishing themselves both in their own work and in small-press publishing," Devaney said. "Their work seems to me to cultivate community."
Nguyen explained the idea of small-press publishing as "creating a hearth space, a place people can gather, though not in the physical sense, to share ideas and poetry."
The publishers reflected on the way they said poetry is hidden in today's culture, and how very few celebrity poets are nationally recognized.
"I would hope that young writers would have a sense of how important it is to create a community sense for poets," Smith said.
He also explained that there are very few places to publish poetry. "I hope this discussion will inspire young writers to seek out work from established writers and make their own magazines," Smith said.
Two magazines are published by the Writers House -- Cross Connect and Penn Review.
College senior Brian Cope created his own poetry magazine on campus, entitled Shrinkwrapped.
"I wanted to see if the writers are interested in anything published in the magazines on campus and to hear about creating a literary entity, which is something I'm definitely interested in," Cope said.
The audience was diverse, composed of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and members of the Philadelphia writing community.
Lauren Rile Smith, a part-time student in the College of General Studies, has participated in Nguyen's internet creative writing workshop for years.
"It was interesting to finally meet her in person," she said. "I'm also interested in starting a magazine."
"I'm on the Writers House mailing list," said Ebony Collier, a 23-year-old senior at Temple University who attended the lunchtime discussion. "I just thought this sounded interesting."


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When the world's biggest messaging platform makes changes or updates it's important to take note. WhatsApp is not only developing a proper Group Invitation System, it is also experimenting with an updated algorithmic feed for the Status system.
The WhatsApp Group Invitation feature is not yet available but was uncovered by WABetaInfo, who discovered that this new feature allows you to set privacy controls for who and when other contacts can add you to group chats or groups.
Getting added to a group chat without your permission is one of the biggest frustrations with WhatsApp. This upcoming feature will allow all WhatsApp users to set their own privacy controls for all numbers.
At present, the feature is only available to those on the iOS beta program but the feature will rollout for Android devices in the future too. That said, the feature is naturally under development so it isn't working at all currently.
How will this Group Invitation System work?
You will have a few controls on who can add you to groups, along with your privacy settings for each type of chat or message.
- Everyone: the user can be always added in groups. No invites will be received when this is set.
- My Contacts: this means that you can be always added in groups from your contacts. It also means that you will receive an invite to join a group from people not on your contacts list.
- Nobody: when this is set you cannot be directly added to any groups, in any situation. You will receive a request every time someone wants to add you to a group too.
🚫 WhatsApp doesn't allow to add Enterprises in groups anymore: new feature coming?https://t.co/DG6Zhj7HX3
It opens doors to a new possible group privacy feature for all WhatsApp users in future, seen that the server is configured for it.
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) May 15, 2018
It's worth noting again that this WhatsApp Group Invitation feature still isn't available yet and there is no exact timeframe when it will be rollout to a wider user base.
WhatsApp is also experimenting with the Status layout (via Mashable). If you were unaware, Statuses within the WhatsApp application are essentially the same as Instagram Stories. You can add snippets of video, images and text throughout the day. At the moment the most recent images, videos and text are added to the end of a Status.
Users in Brazil, Spain and India are experimenting with the Status sorting updates by relevance, as opposed to this chronological order. This is thanks to an algorithm that will work out how often you interact with each users Status.
This does pose questions as to how and what the Facebook-owned company will do with the data collected on how we interact with each user story within our feed. For a company that prides itself on privacy, this might not be ideal. It's also worth pointing out that Facebook itself made a similar move to an algorithmic news feed on its own interface. That didn't go down too well.
It will be interesting to see how this affects users on WhatsApp. It is the most used application on my Pixel 3 by far but I can't honestly say that I have ever used or seen another contact using the feature since it debuted. That said, according to TechCrunch, over 450 million global users access it every single day.
More on WhatsApp:
- WhatsApp bans 2M accounts per month, explains the automated tools used
- WhatsApp to begin limiting message forwarding to 5 individuals or groups to curb fake news
- WhatsApp for Android to receive fingerprint authentication for security in future update
- WhatsApp introduces long-awaited stickers, rolling out in the next few weeks
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Looking back: Jump! Jump for your life!
August 21, 2009, Author: Shaquil Hansford
Sometimes, you just have to wonder what it could've been like for developers working on platformers immediately after the incomprehensibly successful Super Mario 64. It was 1996, and though everyone expected the new Mario game to be exceptional, no-one could have foresaw how much it would reshape the foundations of all platformers, even to this day. We now take for granted the free-roaming, combat-savvy, acrobatic characters that dance from platform to platform with graceful whimsy, but if it wasn't for a game like Super Mario 64, none of this would even exist (or at least not as we know it).
It's here that many people may part ways with me in opinion, because it does sound quite ludicrous to think that a pudgy plumber's first baby step into three dimensions is in direct relation to Alex Mercer's quest for self-enlightenment in Prototype. But my claim isn't so bold as to say that Prototype would be impossible without the platformers of past, just improbable. I'll prove it to you.
A lot of people are just getting past the grudge match that was the release of Prototype and Infamous at around the same time this summer. The debate over which was better wasn't fueled by differing gameplay styles or premises, but rather which home console was better—those choices being the PS3 or Xbox 360 (even though Prototype was multi-format…). I can remember a similar debate, that was based on gameplay and premise rather than the idea of console wars, over two free-roam platformers of similar qualities to each other. Can you?
Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank. Ratchet and Clank and Jack and Daxter. The two will always remain coupled as both rivals and allies. Though a lot of people have, in their minds, had the two series battling it out from day one, in the real world they did nothing but aid each other's survival. You really just have to understand that since the two were so great, and were always spoken of together, most people got a copy of each in order to decide for themselves, which effectively led to the longevity that we see these two franchises still benefitting from today.
The parallels between the war of two games that feature unstoppable anti-heroes and the war of two games that feature furry dynamic duos might seem like a stretch, but let me plead my case. Peal back all of the blood and gore of Prototype, and do away with all of the shallow good and bad karma of Infamous, and you'll find that each is just a finely tuned, good old-fashioned platformer at the core. The correlation between any of the games, Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank, or Prototype and Infamous, and Super Mario 64, is that they capitalize on the most thrilling aspects of the best platformers; interesting characters, fun and intricate environments, unique forms of combat, and smooth methods of traversing the landscape.
There's probably no game more emblematic of the platformer formula than the recently released Prince of Persia for the current gen consoles. Though this entry into the ever-growing collection of Prince of Persia games attempts to shake loose its predecessors by having new art and characters, while retaining the same moniker it was birthed with, no one will ever play it without thinking of what led up to it. The Sands of Time series is a staple of the platformer genre, the first of which being one of the most honored and renowned games of the previous generation.
The results of the Sands of Time series are not limited to the new flavor of Prince of Persia, either. Remember that other Ubisoft hit, Assassin's Creed? If there were any game more strongly representing The Sands of Time on next generation software, I'd be shocked and intrigued. Assassin's Creed takes every possible motion from Sands of Time, amps up the atmosphere and freedom, and then makes the controls ten times smoother. Though you can't run along walls like our favorite old Prince, you can still run up walls, swing from flagpoles, and scale precarious legdes of buildings and edges of cliffs, lacking all fear of falling and having enough grace to never need to fear it.
The next game to be looked at blends a groundbreaking new vantage point with unmistakably unique style and old-school difficulty. Mirror's Edge was a game which blew everyone away at first sight. I personally had times when, while watching a trailer for the game, a family member or some other non-gamer visitor stood over my shoulder to watch with me, and had many of the same questions I had myself. Unfortunately, the game's ambitious style was undercut by its unforgiving difficulty, poor checkpoints, and unwieldy combat mechanics.
So what inspired Mirror's Edge, anyway? Your guess is as good as any. All that can be said for sure of the game is that its nonpareil individuality is symbolic of the nature of all platformers, which is to be as inventive as possible. Most fans of the genre, when they see such a new approach as Mirror's Edge, harken back to the days of Rayman 64, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo Kazooie, and Spyro. At one time, it was almost commonplace that games would, while having a somewhat childish premise, but vivid and interesting. Now that platformers have taken a role in the back, it's noticeable how much less original content gamers are exposed to.
But if we can't praise Mirror's Edge's gameplay for many things, one of the few can be its throw-back to the original era of platformers, which were all incredibly difficult. Let's face it, my fellow aerialists, everything has changed. Though Super Mario 64 did start a revolution in gaming that still echoes to this day, the games that led to it were definitely much more of a challenge. But those of us looking to grit our teeth in frustration don't have much to worry about.
Today we have games like Splosion Man, Little Big Planet, Braid, and Prince of Persia Classic (for the Xbox Live Arcade) to frustrate us into breaking our expensive controllers. It just goes to show that platformers, though taking a back seat to more popular genres like the shooters in modern gaming culture, are still growing and expanding, while never letting go of their roots. Who knows where we'll be jumping to next, but for now we'll have to wet our appetites and wait for upcoming releases like Super Mario Galaxy 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and whatever else may come our way. Jump on, jumpers.
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"Forget about it; let the two of us be a band!"
That was the beginning of French outfit Sendwood; a declaration roared when guitarist/vocalist Kriss Wood (ex-The Real Mc Coy) and drummer/vocalist Alex Mc Wood (Harmonic Generator) found themselves alone in rehearsal without any sign of their band mates. It is a spontaneity and defiance which equally fuels their music and a debut album which just makes you want to get involved.
From the first breath of Fist Leaf, there is a sense that anything could happen, that the pair themselves did not have a firm grip on where their imagination at the time of recording would take them or want to place one. The result a collection of songs which explode like a sonic scatter bomb on ears with the intent of fun, mischief, and rock 'n' roll. Last year saw the release of the duo's first EP, Log Face, a potent introduction to their feral blend of blues, metal, punk, and rock which is off the leash within Fist Leaf.
The first of three tantalising instrumentals starts the album off, Riffocephalus Minus a lure of crisp magnetic beats and meaty riffs swiftly bursting into a fiery proposition, though just as quickly that in turn slips into a harmonica led flirtation before evolving once again. It is a sign of things to come, of the unpredictable devilish antics on offer.
Demon immediately bursts from its predecessor; rapacious riffs and grooves colluding with more of Mc Wood's rousing swings to grab ears and appetite. It is rock 'n' roll to the core, a ferocious slab of infectious enticement easy to roar along to as also the following Needle. Gnarly riffs hit the spot straightaway, beats and vocals taunting as they bait lustier attention, the song uncaging a wild incitement of garage punk 'n' roll again needing just a mass of seconds to get under the skin as untamed stoner lit grooves entwine.
Then the virulent catchiness of Leash consumed ears, its grungy stroll and contagious swing an insatiable persuasion with, as in all tracks, imagination rousing detours of varying potency along the way, next up Gotham proving the point. The second of the two is an asylum of wiry grooves and nagging riffs driven by rhythmic manipulation and a vocal unity which share lyrics which may not be the most inventive in the city but has you hollering along with matching energy.
Riffocephalus Medius is a scuzzy slice of sound and temptation, a brief but potent piece of enticement setting up the snarling presence of Penny, a song as seductive as it is unbroken. As so many within Fist Leaf it just pulled ears into eager attention and pleasure in tandem with an increasingly greedier appetite for the album and its hungry sounds. Gun is no different, the track a compelling trespass of concussive yet well-balanced rock 'n' roll simultaneously chewing upon and caressing the senses.
The album concludes with firstly the viral exploits of Ber, a track which as the album is maybe not looking to breed uniqueness but is as fresh and as hungry to arouse as anything around. It is followed by final instrumental, Riffocephalus Rex; a piece of captivation which is deceptively calm but with a carnival in its heart which subsequently erupts into a dirty clamour before easing into its cycle all over again.
Both make for a superb end to a thoroughly enjoyable encounter. Rock 'n' roll should be fun yet imposing, flirtatious but aggressive and Fist Leaf, indeed Sendwood pretty much tick all the boxes.
Fist Leaf is out now across most online stores.
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A group of about 60 children and adults in Yellow Springs recently volunteered to package thousands of ready-to-cook meals that will be delivered to those in need.
In about two hours, the group worked on an assembly line combining pre-cooked quinoa, rice, lentils, cumin and pink Himalayan salt into bags that were sealed and packed into containers. Their efforts resulted in 10,000 meals being prepared, according to the organizers.
The unique event is the result of a partnership between nonprofit organizations Kids Scouts and Hunger Van.
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Kids Scouts was created as a non-gender alternative to traditional scouting programs, which do not have a lot of community service opportunities for children under 12, according to Jessica Yamamoto, founder of Kids Scouts who recently relocated with her family from Florida to the Greene County village.
Yamamoto said Kids Scouts is focused on giving children community service opportunities, and they plan to partner with Hunger Van and open a headquarters in Yellow Springs.
"We decided this year, in 2019, we're going to expand and we're going to work with Hunger Van to be a part of every community that they're apart of and give kids all over the world the opportunity to volunteer," Yamamoto said.
Hunger Van, a project under the national nonprofit organization Muslims Against Hunger, is in 20 cities and seven countries, including India, Pakistan and Nigeria.
Hunger Van Founder Zamir Hassan said his organization is about educating and engaging people to get involved.
"I use hunger as an issue to bring people together. There is no reason in our country, we have 49 million people who do not know where they are going to get their next meal," Hassan said. "We are the richest country on the planet. There is no reason to have that problem here."
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Those who volunteered were given the opportunity to take as many of the sealed bags of ingredients as they wanted to give to people they know may need the food.
Hassan said in addition to the hungry people on the streets, older people who are living on fixed incomes are also vulnerable to not having enough food.
"If one of the partners passes, the second person still has to pay the same rent, the same utility bill, and they are on fixed income. They are going hungry and no one talks about it," he said.
Hassan said he's excited about working with Kids Scouts in Yellow Springs.
"We bring the Hunger Van program to your place. It could be at your house … It takes about six volunteers. In about one and a half hours, you can make 100 bags, that's 1,000 meals."
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Hauschka Composer Toolkit Review – By Spitfire Audio
Hauschka Composer Toolkit is a library for electronic music and works great when you compose to picture. Keep in mind this is a library with an organic feel that wants to disruptive your usual creative process. It wants to inspire you. Hauschka Composer Toolkit is not for everyone, it is for anyone who loves to think outside of the box. If you ready for a change, you will be surprised and thrilled. The Hauschka Composer Toolkit was developed in cooperation with the composer and sound artist Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka.
Spitfire and the world-renowned German composer Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) produced this new library in collaboration. Hauschka is best known for film scores such as the Oscar-nominated Lion (2016) and Adrift (2018). As a multifaceted musical toolkit to add dazzling depth, tension, and texture to anyone's scoring spadework by bottling a sought-after signature sound palette, performed by Hauschka himself on a Steinway Model D grand piano with 40-plus preparations. Presented in Spitfire Audio's advanced Evo Grid layout and masterful Mercury synth engine with mix-and-match multiple signal options as an industry-standard Kontakt-powered instrument benefiting from the sound-specialising British music technology company's seasoned sampling expertise, encompassing unique soundscapes from epic industrial rhythms and thundering bass lines to offbeat, atonal plucks and beautiful, shimmering pads that genuinely capture the sound world and creative spirit of a true innovator.
Although Hauschka has a number of prepared piano compositions to his notable name — not least, appropriately, an album titled The Prepared Piano (released in 2005), his HAUSCHKA COMPOSER TOOLKIT namesake collaboration with Spitfire Audio is not actually a prepared piano sample library in the way that someone hearing those two words out of context could conceive it to be, but rather a creative exchange and an opportunity for its users to effectively collaborate with a one-of-a-kind composer. Clearly uncompromising and unorthodox, who better to formally introduce that sought-after signature sound palette than Hauschka himself. Spitfire Audio did send a review copy with no strings attached.
It is as with all Spitfire Audio products an quick and easy installation process. You use the Spitfire Audio Installer Application and if available update the library later when an update is available. Hauschka Composer Toolkit requires the free version of Kontakt. Following downloading the library, you must register the serial number in Native Access.
Hauschka Composer Toolkit is unmistakably different from the other libraries offered by Spitfire Audio, you could even go that far different to anything in the market. To work and appreciate the Hauschka library you have to be prepared to work outside the sonic world that Spitfire Audio works in. And that is a good thing, as we get finally from Spitfire Audio libraries that do not repeat and launch another Skandi or orchestral library. I love the orchestral and Skandi libraries, and I was thirsty for something different from Spitfire. The sounds of the toolkit come from a piano. The samples were recorded at the Berlin Vexton Studios.
The Hauschka library is divided into six sections. Four Evo Grids: Plug Hits, Plug Rhythms, Pad Sounds, Pad Hits, Swells, and Drum Kits. Each is unique in sound. From rhythmic hits to thunderous basses, sustained notes to atonal stabs. The team made sure to design the sounds to allow them to be layered mutually. The Plug Rhythms are made by playing rhythms while objects such as tea lights and ping pong balls bounce or fly off the strings, creating dynamic, multi-layered textures. Other objects used range from saxophone reeds to toy drums, tambourines to gaffer tape and light filters to wooden pegs, creating a huge range of new instruments. Both the Evo Grid layout and multiple signal options give you endless possibilities for each sound, with different results for every user. I personally love the rhythmic sequences that are included.
The Hauschka Grids include
- PLUG HITS – Objects like wood mutes beating the piano to produce percussive sounds
- PLUG RHYTHMS – In this grid, each of the plug hits preparations has its own rhythm
- PAD SOUNDS – Ping pong balls and tea lights resonating on the piano strings to create pad-like sounds. Excellent use of the Pedal FX mic and the Modular FX
- PAD HITS – Long decays, sampled in combination with FX chains
- SWELLS – Mallet, Octave, and Single Key creating amazing, vibrant textures
- DRUM KITS – Atonal, percussive patches, in which Hauschka turns the whole range of the grand piano into a drum kit, virtually unrecognizable as a Piano
If you still wonder if you should obtain Hauschka Composer Toolkit you can download the Hauschka Composer Toolkit Free Demo Patches.
These free patches can be used in Kontakt Player for 15 minutes, or in Kontakt Full indefinitely. Watch Spitfire Audio How It Works video if you need help on how to install your demo patches.
The sounds and vibes of the Hauschka Toolkit are between pure and alien nature. It incites your creativity with something new and different. The included sounds, especially the pads have a tremendous climatic warmth and work excellently without many much more work really in a film score. Outstanding tool for atmospheres.
Rating: Four Out of Five Stars
Hauschka Composer Toolkit is excellent when scoring for a modern film, TV, Ads, Games, and media. For the producer of electronic music, this library helps to make your track unique while it still fits the genre.
The Kontakt library Hauschka Composer Toolkit is different and comes with a very unique sound and is not the traditional library you are used to. You need to spend time with this library, go through mangled sound, or take the raw sounds into your own effect tool. As a result, you get a huge amount of variation. The corporation between Hauschka and the Spitfire Team produces ambiances, soundscapes, percussive beats, thundering bass sequences, atonal plucks, and beautiful pads.


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Title and lead line: "Obama Signing Statement: The NDAA Doesn't Apply To US Citizens":
In his signing statement attached to the NDAA, President Obama made it clear that the language about detentions does not apply to US citizens.
The website: PoliticusUSA.com, "Real Liberal Politics. No Corporate Money. No Masters."
The part about no masters will have to be changed because, previously a fairly reputable news source in that its biases are clearly stated and up-front, this report sadly undermines any credibility it may ever have had.
Too bad. I had no problem citing them as a source before now.
The report showcases the now debunked NDAA signing statement by Obama, as the article comments clearly show that even the readers are better informed than the website. The key signing statement language:
Second, under section 1021(e), the bill may not be construed to affect any "existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States." My Administration strongly supported the inclusion of these limitations in order to make clear beyond doubt that the legislation does nothing more than confirm authorities that the Federal courts have recognized as lawful under the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for the Use of Military Force.) Moreover, I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens.
But the ACLU said:
"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law...Under the Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody..."
Why would the ACLU take a directly contrary position to PoliticusUSA.com? I have pointed out many times before, people may think that "existing law" is the Bill of Rights. But it is not. Existing law is in flux, and right now it is Jose Padilla, who Fourth Circuit affirmed could be held indefinitely by the military without charge or trial. Sen. Lindsey Graham made this abundantly clear on the Senate floor during debate:
Are you familiar with the Padilla case? That is a Federal court case involving an American citizen captured in the United States who was held for several years as an enemy combatant...The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said: An American citizen can be held by our military as an enemy combatant, even if they are caught in the United States... the law of the land is that an American citizen can be held as an enemy combatant. That went to the Fourth Circuit. That, as I speak, is the law of the land.
As well, (as I have also said before,) if the law does not allow "the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," why would Obama need to promise that his administration will not "authorize" what he is not allowed to do in the first place? That's a bit of a slip for someone as clever as Obama, and a smoking gun.
It is surprising that Politicususa.com does not invoke the other red herring, the language in Section 1022: "(b) APPLICABILITY TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS AND LAWFUL RESIDENT ALIENS":
(1) UNITED STATES CITIZENS.--The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States."
For the millionth time, even if military custody is not "required," it is still "allowed," by the plain meaning of the text in Section 1021 (page 265 of final bill), in substance:
"Congress affirms that the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force ...to detain...A person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda...or associated forces...including any person who has...directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces...The disposition of a person...may include...Detention under the law of war...without trial until the end of the hostilities..."


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Malawi music festival Lake of Stars returns to Salima for 15th anniversary
After a year's break, Malawi's biggest international arts event, the Lake of Stars Festival, is returning to the central region for its 15th anniversary celebrations.
According to a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the three day extravaganza will take place this year in a new location in Leopards Bay, Lifuwa Salima.
The festival, which was recently voted one of the World's Best in the Fest300 Awards, is being held from September 28 – September 30 at the newly constructed, Malawi-owned, Kabumba Hotel resort, situated at the foot of Senga Hills in Salima.
"I'm delighted to be returning to the central region and working with a new venue partner in 2018. Lake of Stars is known for breaking new ground in Malawi so it's fitting that for our 15th anniversary celebrations year we are offering something new and exciting for our loyal audience.
"When I started the festival I always planned for it to move around the country so that different areas of Malawi could benefit from the boost in tourism, social outreach and economic benefits that the festival brings. We are excited to celebrate our special anniversary at Kabumba Hotel, a stunning new site with over a kilometre of beach front, a tranquil wooded hillside and excellent facilities. It's also only around 125km from Lilongwe, making it accessible from people all around the country and international visitors to come and celebrate with us," Lake of Stars Director Will Jameson explained.
The statement further added that fans of the event can expect an exciting programme of local and international music and arts, set on a wide expanse of rolling golden sands backed by a lush tree-covered hillside.
In his remarks, Director of Tourism Isaac Katopola said: "We are delighted to see the festival return to Lake Malawi to celebrate their incredible 15 years of culture, music, arts and travel."
Early Malawian artist bookings for this year's festival include current hot female artist Kim of Diamonds, who will be making her debut at Lake of Stars following her successful set at the recent Set It Off event in Zomba.
Kim of Diamonds will be joined by Madalitso Band who impressed crowds at Tanzania's Sauti Za Busura festival in 2017; George Kalukusha, who has recently returned to Malawi after a stint honing his musical craft in South Africa; and the Forus Dance Crew who have been wowing audiences with their jaw-dropping routines.
Alongside these will be Scotland's Frightened Rabbit, who will be amping things up with their five-piece indie rock sounds, and poetry from charismatic Scottish wordsmith Michael Pedersen.
Many more artist announcements will be made over the coming months spanning music, poetry, theatre, dance and more. An application process is also open for artists wishing to apply for the festival.
In line with Lake of Stars' strong tradition of engaging with the community within which it operates, an Outreach Programme will be established again this year, working closely with the owner of Kabumba Hotel, Ephraim Mganda Chiume, and local community leaders.
Past outreach successes have included hosting a Day of Ideas to inspire and motivate local school pupils, organizing community sports matches, staging free concerts for the local village, recycling wood from the festival into school desks and benches and donating mattresses and sheets to KCH.
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Hello all, I will be installing a solar system in my Forest River, lexington210, motorhome. Of course I will listen to all advice but my concern, because the space I intend to use for batteries and controls will be below the couch/bed. The use of AGM batteries takes care of the gas venting concerns but I have read that the noise level of the converter and controller could be a problem for our sleeping. Any comments please.
Thanks so much for the reply. The noise I have read about comes from the inverter fan. This has been mentioned in the con (pros/cons) comments.
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Hi Larry, How does your system perform in general ? What do you run with it and for how long? We are planning a 12 month (+-) x-country adventure in March. After many months and visits to choose an RV, we decided on a beautiful, pre owned 2005, Forest River, Lexington2210 motorhome. I will make several mods to the storage and "bathroom" area. Solar is a big MUST. We want to be able to dry camp any time we want.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Susan Ashbrook, Pioneer in the Field of Celebrity Marketing, is Ladybrille Woman of the Month November 2012.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sacramento, CA (November 6th, 2012) – Susan J. Ashbrook, pioneer in the field of celebrity marketing, is Ladybrille Magazine's Woman of the Month for November 2012.
The Ladybrille 'Woman of the Month' is a monthly feature on Ladybrille magazine which celebrates women, locally and internationally, for their brilliant contributions to their communities and society at large.
"I am beyond honored to be featured in Ladybrille to help share my story as an entrepreneur, pioneer and a woman," said Ashbrook when asked about what it felt like to be honored as Ladybrille Woman of the Month.
Ashbrook has been involved in celebrity product placement for twenty years. She founded and pioneered Film Fashion, the first fashion product placement company in Los Angeles. Her first client was Ralph Lauren, and she went on to match top celebrities with a roster of clients that included Lanvin, Chopard, Swarovski, Escada, Isaac Mizrahi, and many more. She has also consulted for non-fashion brands like Nikon, Hasbro, and MasterCard. In 2008, Ashbrook sold Film Fashion to the Public Relations power house Rogers & Cowan.
"One of the questions we often receive, especially from our fashion designer readers, is how they can get American celebrities to wear their designs on Hollywood's most prominent red carpets," said Uduak Oduok, Editor-in-Chief for Ladybrille Magazine. "Susan pioneered and perfected the art of celebrity marketing. She also helped many designers increase their brand equity and revenue by having prominent names wear their designs on the most prominent red carpets in showbiz. We are honored to celebrate her remarkable achievements and also share her insights with our audience."
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The Wire's #PartitionAt70 series brings a number of stories, through text and multimedia content, that will attempt at drawing a comprehensive picture of those weeks and months when entire geographies and histories changed forever.
Not too long ago, BJP president Amit Shah referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a "chatur baniya", which loosely means "a clever trader".
Opinions and counter opinions flew over Shah's intent behind that cryptic remark. I remember thinking why Northeast Indians like me should be particularly grateful to the "chatur baniya".
In fact, on a closer glance, Shah himself should also be thankful to Gandhi for having, in the first place, a state called Assam in independent India where his party could sweep an assembly election in May 2016. As the BJP president, the win in Assam was certainly a face saver for Shah after the 2015 Bihar debacle.
This August marks 70 years since that unfortunate episode of the truncation of British India, which we remember as Partition. Perhaps it is time to reflect on the role Gandhi played in the run-up to Partition so that people from the Northeast can call themselves Indian.
Gandhi's role in the freedom movement is well documented but the leadership he gave to the Assam Congress to help geographically integrate the Northeast to independent India is not quite so. His role should be seen through two vital interventions that came at a time when the indigenous people of the region needed it the most.
Significantly, one intervention – in the form of a statement – was to protect the demographic character of Assam in which Gandhi suggested violent means "if necessary," a trait that the world has never known Gandhi for.
Though Assam saw six years of agitation in the 1980s against "illegal immigrants" from what is now Bangladesh, and is still nowhere near finding a solution to it even after signing a peace accord with the central government, no reference is made to the support Gandhi offered to the pre-independence leaders of the Assam Congress on the issue – at least to validate the longstanding nature of the vexed issue, if not for anything else.
In the seminal book on the Northeast, Strangers of the Mist, Sanjoy Hazarika refers to that statement of Gandhi, recorded by his secretary and diarist Pyarelal Nayyar, to observe that it "has been completely ignored so far in Assam, perhaps because it is so little known."
That statement, called 'A message to the people of Assam', was issued from Panchgani, the hill town in Maharashtra in July 1944. Assam of Gandhi's times also included Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya – most part of what we now term as the northeast.
Gandhi's statement was in response to the then Congress leader Gopinath Bardoloi's objection to the Muslim League leader and Assam premier Muhammad Sadullah's land settlement policy, undertaken to populate the state with migrants from erstwhile East Bengal.
Known as the Line System, the policy had its roots in a British effort to extract more revenue from Assam by making the land more productive (since the local peasants were not willing to work for the British). It later amped up the migration policy under its "grow more food" programme in the build-up to World War II. The Muslim League government in Assam under Sadullah further fuelled the policy, so much so that Viceroy Lord Wavell later wrote in his memoirs that Sadullah was much more interested in "growing more Muslims".
Hazarika noted in the book:
"Uppermost in his (Bardoloi's) mind was the unspoken fear that these migrations were laying the foundation for a demand by Jinnah for Assam's inclusion in a future Pakistan, by emphasising the size of the Muslim population and its close links with East Bengal.
The Assamese caste Hindu power block felt most threatened by the migrations, fearing a loss of political power and economic and cultural dominance by the immigrant Muslims. On top of it, the issue touched old suspicions of domination by Bengalis in the nineteenth century. Those memories still rankled."
Bardoloi thought of devising a plan to discard that policy, if not reverse its impact already on the demography of Assam. It was none other than Gandhi who came out in his support.
Hazarika underlined in his book,
"The Mahatma was blunt: 'If the people feel that the present policy of the government on settlement and immigration is oppressive and anti-national, let them fight it non-violently, or violently, if necessary.'"
A few days later, Gandhi sent another message, saying, "I have no message of hope for my Assamese brothers and sisters but I send my deep sympathy for them. May God bless you all to come out of the ordeal successfully."
These messages emboldened Bardoloi to tailor a plan, with support from Rohini Kumar Choudhury, a right wing Assamese Hindu from the Nationalist Independent Group. Hazarika terms it a "coup", for it caught Sadullah unawares and toppled his government in November 1941 and thereby put a halt – albeit for a short while – his provincial government's backing to rampant migration from East Bengal. Sadullah, though, returned to power in August 1942 and continued till February 1946.
By mid 1946, all thanks to the Sadullah government's actions as per the covert plan of the Muslim League leaders from New Delhi, Bardoloi, as the head of Assam Congress, was to face his severest test – saving the state "from being sold out to Pakistani interests." Therein too, it was Gandhi who backed him.
Bardoloi's biographer and well-known historian Nirode Barooah wrote in Gopinath Bardoloi, 'Assam Problem' and Nehru's Centre:
"As in the case of all his previous important political decisions, Bardoloi wanted to consult Gandhi. For this purpose, he sent two of his trusted colleagues, Bijoy Chandra Bhagawati and Mahendra Mohan Choudhury, to Srirampore in the middle of December 1946."
While Bhagawati was the secretary of the Assam Congress, Choudhury was then the secretary of Assam Congress Parliamentary Party.
The Muslim League was in support of the grouping scheme proffered by the Cabinet Mission to divide British India into two halves. The Assam Congress was opposed to the party high command's likely decision to go with the constituent assembly's plan to divide the states into sections and thereby eventually fall for the grouping scheme. By agreeing to be a part of the sections, Assam ran the risk of being clubbed with Bengal which was already seeing an ugly confrontation building up between the state Congress and right-wing Hindu organisations with the League over division of the boundary based on religion. Assam leaders feared that it would have to opt for Pakistan if voting was done on the basis of religion along with the Muslim-dominated Sylhet, which was added to the state during the division of Bengal and continued to be so even though the British revoked its 1905 decision in 1911.
On the other hand, it feared that if clubbed with Bengal, the Hindu Bengalis would dominate Assam culturally and linguistically, like they did in the early days of British rule.
Bhagawati and Choudhury's conversation with Gandhi on December 15, 1946 – recorded by anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Basu and later published in the December 29, 1946 issue of Harijan – said, "Two Assam friends, Shri Bijaychandra Bhagawati and Shri Mahendra Mohan Choudhury saw Gandhiji on the morning of December 15, 1946 on behalf of Shri Bardoloi. They asked him what Assam was to do with regard to the question of grouping. It was a question of life and death for Assam. They didn't wish to be grouped with Bengal. Some people told them that they would be helping the League if they stay out. Assam couldn't be allowed to stand in the way of progress of the rest of India and so on. They had asked the Congress Working Committee (CWC) which failed to give any clear guidance. So they had come to him for advice."
Gandhi told them categorically not to agree for sections, to "lodge its protest and retire from the constituent assembly." He gave the duo "many historical instances" to "steel" their hearts and give them "courage", underlining, "If you do not act correctly and now, Assam will be finished."
Gandhi was quoted as saying by Basu, "Tell Bardoloi, I do not feel the least uneasiness. My mind is made up. Assam must not lose its soul. It must uphold it against the whole world. Else I will say that Assam had only manikins and no men. It is an impertinent suggestion that Bengal should dominate Assam in any way."
Recalling those moments to Hazarika decades later, Bhagawati, then well into his eighties, said that they "travelled by rail, road and ferry to reach Gandhiji at Serampore."
On reaching Serampore, they sought time with Gandhi. "We were told to go with him on his walk at 3 pm. But we could hardly get a word in as the Mahatma walked and talked with a Sikh we didn't know. Then it was time for his bath and massage." But Gandhi summoned them to his hut in the evening and read the short letter that Bardoloi had sent with them, briefing him on the developments on grouping and the positions of the central and state Congress leaders.
"We told him that it was the biggest test of our lives," Bhagwati recalled.
An interesting nugget of information, also little known, comes across from Gandhi's conversation with the two Assam Congress leaders, that Subhash Chandra Bose was opposed to Assam Congress resigning from the provincial government in 1939 by following the call of Gandhi, which helped the Sadullah government to seize power in the state and push for the Line System.
Basu's noting of the interview of Bhagavati and Choudhury quoted Gandhi as saying, "Subhas Babu opposed it as he thought Assam was a special case. I told Bardoloi that there was much in what Subhas Babu had said and although I was the author of that scheme of boycott I said Assam should not come out if it didn't feel like it. But Assam did come out. It was wrong."
What also floated up in that interview was the apparent sign of the growing grip of Congress "high command" on party men to the extent of being undemocratic, a trend that was to reach its zenith by the time Indira Gandhi took over the reins of the party. Nirode Barooah points out, "Having grown up only in the tradition of habitual obedience to the central command, the two Congressmen could not believe their ears (about what Gandhi told them to do)."
Gandhi sensed the dithering in them, gave them examples from his own actions to show how they could do "a kind of satyagraha against the Congress for the good of the Congress". He concluded by saying, "Tell the people (of Assam) even if Gandhi tries to disguard us, we won't listen."
There was no stopping Bardoloi thereafter. The Assam Congress along with like-minded parties went full throttle to make Assam a part of independent India. Barooah writes that soon after the CWC session of December 22, 1946, Pandit Nehru, J.B. Kripalani and Sankar Rao Deo decided to meet Gandhi personally at Serampore on the question of Assam. They were obviously unhappy with his decision. Though Sardar Patel was initially supportive of Bardoloi, he later backed out. Patel, Nehru and other central leaders of the Congress were of the view that Assam's opposition to be a part of the sections would delay the independence of India.
But Gandhi was of the view that "each unit must be able to decide and act for itself."
"No one can force Assam to do what it does not want to do. It must stand independently and autonomous. Whether you have that courage, grit and gumption, I do not know. You alone can say that. But if you can make that declaration, it will be a fine thing. As soon as the time comes for the constituent assembly to go into sections you will say, 'Gentleman, Assam retires.' For the independence of India, it is the only condition…I am hoping that in this, Assam will lead the way. I have the same advice for the Sikhs. But your position is much happier than that of the Sikhs. You are a whole province. They are a community inside a province. But I feel every individual has the right to act for himself, just as I have," Gandhi told Bhagwati and Choudhury.
So it was Gandhi, and Gandhi alone, who stood by the decision of the Assam Congress to oppose the "central command" when it came to the effort behind integrating greater Assam to today's India.
According to Barooah, after Gandhi's decision on Assam, the British government realised that "the constituent assembly would never function in the manner planned by the Cabinet Mission", and "made a new plan" for transfer of power under a new viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, "who having already had a poor opinion of Jinnah, told him categorically in April 1947 that he could not expect Assam in his East Pakistan."
"In the east", Mountbatten writes, "I pointed out that he would get the most useless part of Bengal, without Calcutta, and if he wished it he could have Sylhet back from Assam."
Future exchange of letters between Bordoloi, as Assam's first chief minister, and Pandit Nehru, as the country's first prime minister, is a testament of the two Congressmen more at loggerheads than reaching any point of agreement, particularly when it came to the issue of migration that continued from the then East Pakistan to Assam. Interestingly, it also held up the existence of a space for debate between a prime minister and a chief minister, an impossible dream in today's time and politics.
However, what is also noteworthy is that Bardoloi's role of nation building and working on the idea of India, particularly during Partition, was curiously never quite highlighted by the Congress "high command" in the coming decades. In 1999, when the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government conferred the Bharat Ratna on Bardoloi, many in Assam didn't know whether to be pleased or offended by the news from New Delhi. The country's highest civilian award to Bardoloi, the first in the northeast, came nearly half a century after his death.
B.C. Roy, though the second chief minister of the neighbouring West Bengal but the one who can be really called a contemporary of Bardoloi and an equally tall Congress leader from the independence movement, was bestowed the Bharat Ratna back in 1961.
Today, if Gandhi is to be remembered for his significant role in integrating a good part of the northeast to an independent India, Bardoloi should also be celebrated not just for fighting his corner well to be with India but also for sticking firmly to the strong sense of sub-nationalism of the people of the northeast – if not for being a Congress man who dared to create a space within his own party, as Gandhi said, "for a satyagraha for Congress's own good".


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The fact that Casey Affleck is still out here making movies and promoting them is proof that cancel culture has no real consequences. It's just something that a-holes complain about because they don't want to be called out for being awful people and having terrible opinions. Casey, who has been sued by two different women for sexual harassment and is still conducting lighthearted interviews, was asked about the fact that he was thought to be the person throwing out the lifesize cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas. If you're not familiar with that, here's the tweet:
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After that tweet came out outlets noticed that the guy was wearing a shirt from a landscaping company so it was more likely that Casey's brother, Ben, asked a worker to get rid of it. The landscaper does look like Casey, I see it. For someone who hates being talked about Ben Affleck sure doesn't act like it. He had to have known that the cutout stunt would make headlines. (We talk about this in our podcast coming out Sunday morning, check it out!)
Casey told ET he's not sure if Ben and Ana will get back together but that she's a great actress and person and he thinks she'll win an Oscar this year. Plus he's been single in lockdown and doesn't recommend it.
"No, that's not me, and I can't even really say if they have totally broken up for good or whatever. I would leave that to them to speak to," Casey told ET's Rachel Smith. "A bunch of people sent that picture to me and I was gonna tweet some, like, joke, response or something. And then I couldn't think of one and a joke didn't seem appropriate. And I don't have Twitter so that wasn't going to work. But it definitely wasn't me."
"The reality is, I think that this year has been really hard on people in relationships. I wouldn't know because I've been single, but I bet there are a lot of people that have, you know, it's been challenging to relationships," he continued. "And I think that Ana is just the sweetest, funniest, smartest, most charming person. I think she won't have any problems meeting somebody else."
Casey also raved over Ana's acting skills, going so far as to predict that she'll "win an Oscar next year."
"I saw her performance as Marilyn Monroe in this movie called Blonde, which hasn't come out, and I would bet a lot that she's gonna pick up every single award," he explained. "She's gonna have a good year. I'm not too worried about her."
"I think she's a catch in every way. And I'll be there to carry Ben through it, but I don't think he'll have any problems [either]," he added. "My advice to them would be like, 'Yes, think long and hard about it, because quarantine is not fun if you're single.'"
When asked if Ana and Ben could reconcile, Casey told ET that he has "no idea," but will "be sorry if it doesn't work out."
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He says on one hand that Ana will meet someone else and on the other that she might get back with Ben. It sounds like Casey and Ben don't talk much. You also know that Ben is not happy that Casey is talking on his behalf. GMAFB with this lonely dude act. At least he's not complaining about the way the press treated him after we learned he was an abuser. Maybe that's because he barely faced any consequences, although I like to think women who might have otherwise dated him have steered clear. He should give his brother advice on how to deal with the media.
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Governor to give final state of state address
HELENA -- Gov. Steve Bullock will deliver his final State of the State Address at 7 p.m. Thursday to a joint session of the Montana Legislature.
Bullock will highlight his priorities for the 66th Montana Legislature, including passing what he has described as a budget that leaves a "meaningful reserve" for a rainy day, while preserving investments made in recent years into the state's economy and the health and well-being of Montanans.
State Sen. Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, will offer a Republican response afterward.
In November Bullock proposed a two-year, $10.3 billion budget that includes the reauthorization of a health insurance program for low-income residents and tax hikes that Republican legislative leaders are already dismissing as "not going to happen."
He would continue the Medicaid expansion program that insures 96,000 low-income residents and is scheduled to expire next year.
Bullock proposes raising an additional $50 million a year through tax increases on hotel rooms, rental cars, tobacco and liquor and increasing a fee charged to investment advisers to help pay for programs.
Similar proposed hikes were rejected by the tax-averse Republican-led Legislature during the 2017 session.
Bullock's budget would spend $30 million on early childhood education, freeze university system tuition and spend $292 million on infrastructure projects while leaving a $300 million ending balance.
Bullock said he doesn't look at voters' rejection
Bullock will be governor until 2020, however the state of the state address is given when the Legislature is in session.
The speech will be live streamed by Montana PBS: https://www.montanapbs.org/live/
This story contains information from the Associated Press. Reach Phil Drake at 406-231-9021 or email@example.com
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Gov. Steve Bullock's final State of the State speech will be 7 p.m. Thursday at the state Capitol in Helena. Watch it at the Montana Public Affairs Network, at leg.mt.gov or on Montana PBS at https://www.montanapbs.org/live/