Eileen has to keep the windows of their home

As part of his climate action plan, President Obama has pledged to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. This breakthrough will help millions of American breathe easier. Carbon pollution causes climate change, and climate change leads to higher levels of smog—pollutants that inflame the lung’s airways, trigger asthma attacks, and cause respiratory disease. The American Academy of Pediatricians says carbon pollution is especially dangerous for children, because smog can permanently damage their lungs.

Many parents know how frightening bad air days can be. Eileen Geoffrey lives with her family in Pittsburgh, double sided tape and her son Daniel almost died from an asthma attack “that left his chest so tight he wasn't even wheezing.” Eileen has to keep the windows of their home closed on most warm days because the air quality threatens Daniel's health.

Carbon limits will help lower this risk for the 25 million Americans living with asthma—including my son-in-law—and reduce the threat of extreme weather brought on by climate change.

And yet some members of the fossil fuel industry discount these enormous benefits. They claim President Obama’s climate plan is a war on coal, when in fact it’s a war on pollution. It’s a campaign to protect the health of our families and the future of our children. America has successfully used the Clean Air Act to reduce every other pollutant from power plants. Now it’s time to close the carbon loophole and unleash the next wave of energy innovation.

Innovation has been the key to reducing pollution and cutting costs for the past four decades. Nearly every time the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new public health standard, skeptics said it couldn’t be done. And yet over and over again, they were proven wrong. Industries found new, cost-effective ways to cut pollution and save lives.

When the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, for instance, the chemical industry predicted refrigerators would fail in America’s supermarkets, hospitals and schools. Yet companies succeeded in meeting the first round of standards up to six years earlier and at a cost of 30 percent less than expected. And when the EPA decided to reduce acid rain pollution, utilities leaders called it a “tragic mistake.” Yet thanks to new efficient scrubbers and other shifts, the cost of reducing acid rain pollution turned out to be about 80 percent lower than predicted, according to an MIT study. Meanwhile, the acid rain program has generated $80 billion in health benefits every year and saves nearly 19,000 lives annually.

America’s innovators will make similar leaps in carbon reduction. They will find new ways to control carbon pollution from power plants, and they will advance low-carbon energy technology.

Take the solar industry, for instance. China may be pulling ahead in producing first generation solar technologies, but America is already leading the next generation of solar breakthroughs. The National Renewable Energy Lab helped pioneer a thin-film panel that’s far cheaper to make than traditional silicon panels, and now US companies are building factories in America to expand this technology, exporting these products to China, Germany, and Spain, and creating more home-grown jobs. Already, nearly 120,000 Americans work in the solar industry.
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which supports movie development

A vain emperor who cares for nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or “hopelessly stupid.” The emperor’s ministers cannot see the clothing themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions, and the emperor does the same.

“The Emperor’s New Clothes” was written in 1837 by Hans Christian Anderson. Yet how analogous is the metaphor to much of today’s culture?

Many ogle Kim Kardashian and her self-absorbed entourage in much the same way. She struts around posing whenever and wherever she can, obsessed with being photographed and discussed by her millions of Twitter followers.

She recently gave birth to a baby girl with Kanye West, and her devoted fans are anxiously awaiting photos of the child.

She is clothed but essentially naked of intellectual content. Yet the hordes act as if she has something of value to contribute.

And even if they don’t they pretend, kapton tape they do it in order to be part of the crowd.

The “Housewives’” franchises make Kardashian look tame in comparison. The women in these shows are so botoxed and filled up with facial fillers that their faces wouldn’t move even if they were swept away by a tornado.

The “Bachelor” and “Bachelorette” shows really creep me out. How do these shows serve women or men? They are touted for their looks and physical attributes. Shouldn’t women want to be acknowledged for their brains vs. their boobs?

And, come on guys, enough with the shirtless look! We know you have great pecs and abs of steel. Who cares!

Commercials for products that have the ability to erase wrinkles and help you lose weight overnight, and drinks that increase energy and vitality, are marketed by models and celebrities who essentially have none of the aforementioned problems. Yet many run out and purchase the supposed magic elixir because they want to believe in what’s not there.

I am consistently in awe on how or why we not only accept most of the above as real, but continually add to the parade of fools. When did this paradigm shift occur? Has common sense been laid to rest in lieu of wanting to believe the emperor is clothed?

Part of the problem has to be the fact that there are at least 900 stations to choose from, and watching inane, insipid content has become par for the course. Many of them are on all night, so you need to fill the time with something.

Silvia Costa, an Italian member of the European Parliament and culture committee member who is the legislative body’s lead figure for Creative Europe, said that she would fight moves to cut the annual budget for the seven-year program from $2.3 billion (1.8 billion euros) to $1.7 billion (1.3 billion euros).

“I hope we shall at least draw the line at $1.9 billion (1.5 billion euros),” she said, adding: “But we must remember that compared with previous budgets covering this sector, we actually have extra means under this program.”

Speaking at a presentation about the new program – which brings together existing European Union cultural support programs Media and Culture, Costa said key decisions were due within the European Parliament within the next two weeks.

The Creative Europe program is part of a wider new national financial framework for the EU due to be introduced next year to run until 2020.

A final decision is due in September or October but until then activities currently funded under the Media Program – which supports movie development, distribution and other measures to enhance Europe’s AV industry and transnational circulation of movies and AV products, are in something of a state of flux, insiders say.

“It’s not clear when the scheduled round of submissions for MEDIA due in November will actually go ahead,” one European producer who works closely with the program told The Hollywood Reporter.

Creative Europe will spend 55 percent of its budget on MEDIA projects, 30 percent on culture and 15 percent on trans-sectorial stands, including a loan guarantee scheme to reinforce cooperation between MEDIA activities and those of the wider cultural sphere.
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when stock is taken to review the exploits

Floridians face changes in their lives Monday as wide-ranging laws — leading to more costly loans, changes in the way tenants can be evicted from rentals, revisions to protections for car buyers and other consumer impacts — take effect.

More than 160 bills passed by the 2013 Legislature will become law Monday, representing nearly 60 percent of the 283 bills passed in the annual session.

One law will keep Florida skies largely drone-free. Cities and counties will be blocked from requiring private businesses to pay workers for sick leave. Floridians with intellectual disabilities will no longer fall under the state classification of “mental retardation.”

Head shops will not be able to sell bongs. And Floridians will be banned from dyeing baby rabbits and chicks. The state will lift many restrictions on the daily lives of foster children.

The highest-performing public school teachers could earn a raise of up to $3,500, with many other teachers in line for a $2,500 increase. But the pay plans must be negotiated by each district.

Floridians could also feel the impact of the new laws if they seek a consumer finance loan beginning Monday. A new law increases from $2,000 to $3,000 the amount of the loan that finance companies can charge up to 30 percent in interest.

Consumer finance loans are defined as loans up to $25,000 for which companies can charge 18 percent or more in interest.

Consumer groups opposed two other laws that are taking effect, including a provision that will impact the nearly 6 million Floridians who rent apartments or homes.

 There comes a time in a man’s life when stock is taken to review the exploits of past years and testimonies of events that shaped the period. For Lagos State born Babatunde Bajulaye, such a moment came recently when Grand Oak Limited, the company he served for many years in various capacities, brought eminent personalities together to honour him on his retirement.

Aside serving as an avenue to take Nigerians through the life history of Bajulaye, who was described at the occasion as a quintessential manager of humans and resources,BOPP tape  the occasion was an avenue for people, whose paths have crossed with that of the brand builder to pour encomiums and eulogies.

The event which took place in Lagos witnessed a large turnout of colleagues, associates, family and well-wishers that came to felicitate with Bajulaye who is the pioneer Managing Director of the company. According to Rosiji, “There is no better way to reward the excellent performance recorded by Mr. Babatunde Bajulaye who made up his mind to join NDL 20 years ago from UAC in 1993 and rose through the ranks to become the Managing Director of Grand Oak Limited. “We wish him well in his future endeavours and pray that God will continue to guide him as he sets out to pursue other things in life.”

Bajulaye’s successor, Mr.Akshay Kumar, said although he had known the former MD for only five months, he was convinced that he was a thoroughbred marketing professional who knew his onions in the business.
“When I came and had discussions with him, I could see he is a great achiever. You can see the passion that drives every other employee under his care,” he said.

He became Sales and Marketing Director in 1994, from where he was appointed Managing Director, Grand Oak Limited in 2007. Bajulaye is a member of Nigeria Institute of Management as well as National Institute of Marketing.

The high point of the event was when guests, one after the other started commenting on their experience and knowledge of the man of the moment, who many described as a role model and experienced corporate player.

Chief Executive Officer of 141 Worldwide, a Lagos based advertising agency, Mrs. Bunmi Oke described him as a shining example of what a team leader should be.
“To us young people, Mr. Bajulaye is a role model and astute manager, whose life is worth emulation. As a team leader, he didn’t only supervise, he worked for the brand to grow,” Oke said.

Mr. Tunde Lawson, another advertising practitioner, said the former Managing Director was a fine individual to work with because of his deep knowledge and conceptualisation of briefs.

“Sincerely speaking, this is my moment of utmost joy. What else can I say and how I wish my children are around to witness this and learn some lessons from it. My solace is that technology has made things easy and I will keep the tape for children yet unborn to pick one or two things from these testimonies.”

Giving the secret of his success in the company, Bajulaye said there was nothing he achieved alone but with the cooperation of others.  He described the group as one institution that has never, for a second, been afraid of change.

To this end, he called on brand owners and managers of the country’s economy to always embrace creativity and innovation, which he described as essential tools for growth.
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Three exhibits on display at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Three solo exhibits currently fill the top floor at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, each with a different contemporary viewpoint.

One of the first exhibits visitors will come to at the top of the steps is “Coming Home,” an installation of hand-drawn, screen-printed fabric furniture pieces made by Philadelphia artist Kay Healy.

Each of the life-size furniture pieces make up specific rooms — a kitchen, a bathroom and a living room, from left to right, respectively — and are based on interviews of four Philadelphians' descriptions of their childhood homes.

The interviewees come from different neighborhoods, time periods and cultural backgrounds, but each of them has vivid memories of their childhood homes, which is something Healey became interested in after her parents sold her childhood home in Staten Island, N.Y.

“I am very interested in how objects can tell stories and that something as mundane as a salad spinner can embody memories of people, kapton tape events and periods of one's life,” Healy says.

The installation is accompanied by descriptive text giving the background for each piece. By documenting and validating the narratives of everyday people in this way, Healy says she has found a way to commemorate and share these stories, which are often overlooked.

“I have found that by talking to people about their experiences, I am able to learn and connect with others and create a sense of community based on our common stories,” she says.

Healy has done a good job of sharing these stories through this installation, which is seen here in its second iteration. It was initially completed for an exhibit in Terminal E in the Philadelphia International Airport, where it was on display earlier this year.

Next to Healy's installation is an exhibit by another Philadelphia-based artist, Maggie Mills. Titled “Rites of Passage,” the exhibit contains four paintings, all containing children, that are an “observation on how the intersection of nature, industry and technology affects our spaces,” the artist writes in an email.

In the paintings “Skinny City” and “Kingdom,” the children are placed against stark backgrounds that bespeak a post-industrial landscape stripped of all things human.

“I primarily depict children moving through these spaces because they have inherited them, have little control over them, and often navigate them with little or no guidance,” Mills says.

Mills says the title of her exhibit refers to her attraction to the rituals and rites of passage of childhood and the idea of creating a kind of “Wild West” environment for them to occur in.

“As a mother, I find myself often observing these scenarios — parades, school concerts, performances — and am fascinated by how children are simultaneously vulnerable and fearless, and what this implies about the world we are leaving politically, socially and environmentally,” she writes.

Finally, the video “Friday Nights at Guitar Center” by Allison Kaufman will take most by surprise for its sheer gawking value.

A photo and video artist living in New York City, Kaufman was teaching outside of Manhattan between 2009 and 2010 and kept driving on a particular highway between there and New Jersey.

“The highway could have been anywhere in America, filled with big box chain stores as well as a lot of empty storefronts from businesses hit hard by the economic downturn,” Kaufman says. “One store that I kept passing that was still open was Guitar Center. I started thinking about the customers who frequent Guitar Center and other musical-instrument chain stores.”

Correctly assuming they were mostly men with all sorts of levels of musical experience, Kaufman began to spend time in Guitar Center and other stores like it.

“These stores are fascinating to me,” she says. “They are huge and have different sections that perpetuate the fantasy and identity that accompanies playing a particular instrument, be it an electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, turntables, etc. People spend a lot of time in these stores, populating the stagelike spaces that have been set up.”

As a commentary on this effect, Kaufman created the video, which features a wide variety of men and boys of various proficiency playing instruments.

“There's an amazing cacophony of sound and performances happening next to each other and all over the store simultaneously,” Kaufman says of the experience filming the project. “There are people of all ages, and age does not determine skill.”

Kaufman says she would ask to videotape people just as they were, playing whatever instrument and music they had been drawn to in the store.

“In their performance in this public space, I saw an expression of how they were feeling, a projection of who they hoped to be or what they may want or have wanted from life,” she says. “I saw the vulnerability inherent in exhibitionism. I think there is beauty, humanity and sadness in the revelation of our dreams and alter egos, in our desire to be seen and recognized.”
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Which Finkbiner would also record

Richard L. Finkbiner, 39, Brazil, stood stoic in front of U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence as the sentence was read.

"By your horrible acts, you show you have no compassion for your fellow humans, especially children," Lawrence said. "You are the predator that parents are concerned about when their children are using the Internet."

Prior to the sentencing hearing, Finkbiner agreed to plead guilty to charges of child exploitation, extortion and possession of child pornography.

Finkbiner was initially arrested in April 2012 by federal authorities. During the serving of a search warrant of his home, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered thousands of sexually explicit images and videos depicting hundreds of possible victims.

According to prosecutors, Finkbiner used the Internet to prey upon children and teens across the country. The victims ranged in age from 12-17 and lived in Indiana, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Michigan, Illinois and Colorado.

Finkbiner was also charged with extorting two additional female victims from Alaska and Minnesota, BOPP tape threatening them with the distribution of sexually suggestive and/or partially nude photos.

According to prosecutors,as well as other video chat websites to locate victims. He then utilized "fake webcam" software to display pornographic videos of adults and of children to his victims, which he claimed to be live feeds from his webcam.

While displaying the videos, Finkbiner induced his victims to engage in sexually explicit or suggestive activity themselves, which he recorded. He then would confront his chat partners with the videos, threatening to publish the videos or send them to people unless the victims became his "cam slaves" and engaged in additional sexually explicit activity, which Finkbiner would also record.

"For nearly two years, this man sat in front of his home computer and orchestrated a scheme that terrorized hundreds of young people across this country," U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett said. "It is our hope that today's sentencing serves not just as a deterrent to criminals, but also a warning to Hoosier families as to the dangers that can lurk on these anonymous chat websites.

"What began in April 2012 with a knock on a Clay County door has come to a conclusion. In essence, (Finkbiner) will spend the rest of his life behind bars."

As part of the agreement, Finkbiner will not appeal the sentence.

Following an explanation of all the charges against Finkbiner, provided by Lawrence, and a 15-minute recess, defense counsel was given the opportunity to speak.

Finkbiner also spoke during the hearing.

"I want to apologize for my actions," he said. "I am very sorry for the pain I caused. I want to thank my family for their support ... I apologize for all the harm I've caused my victims."

Defense counsel argued for a sentence of 30 years, pointing out that there was no physical contact between Finkbiner and his victims.

Even though Finkbiner threatened to post images on the Internet of two of the victims, in addition to sending them to family, friends and others, he never did, according to counsel.

Counsel said Finkbiner grew up as a "loner," but not by choice. They said he had been diagnosed with health problems, but is now receiving medication.

In addition, they argued Finkbiner "lashed" out because he had simply given up, rather than satisfying his "sexual desires."

However, Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Meyers argued the fact the acts were committed "again and again."

"This was coercive, sexual sadism," Meyers said, "by a dangerous pedophile."

Hogsett's office was arguing for the maximum sentence of 50 years regarding the case.

Meyers then discussed a situation where one of the victims had explained -- through e-mail -- that her life had been ruined by Finkbiner's actions. She said she had already attempted suicide and was going to try it again.

Finkbiner, according to Meyers, responded with "Glad I could help."

"He chose to engage in this conduct," Meyers said. "There is no reason to believe (Finkbiner) will ever change.

"Fifty years is not vengance," Meyers concluded. "Fifty years is justice."

Following Meyer's comments, Lawrence asked defense counsel and Finkbiner to step back up to the podium.

Counsel again argued the acts were more for humiliation rather than sexual gratification.
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ArtWalk ready for the Village Stroll

ArtWalk brings the art gallery to the Village Stroll this summer, showcasing sculptures, photography, paintings, jewelry and even live painting shows in some unconventional settings.

“Not everyone goes into an art gallery, but ArtWalk is great because it opens that up to the general public … where they don’t feel intimidated,” said participating artist Alison Hodson. “People can come have a browse and have a look at a great variety of artwork, but also a great price point.”

The annual Whistler Arts Council (WAC) initiative will see artwork placed into all kinds of Village locations,double sided tape including cafes, retail outlets, hotels and restaurants starting next week until the end of August.

“I think it’s a great thing for locals to have their local art up at local venues, you can’t
really ask for anything better than that,” said local photographer Ashley Nagy Ouellette.

This will be Hodson’s fourth time contributing to ArtWalk, while 2013 will be Ouellette’s second year partaking.

Artists involved weren’t asked to focus on a specific theme but Andrea Mueller, visual arts programmer and event coordinator for the WAC, wanted to focus on the final product.

“I thought it would be interesting this year to show the different processes involved in making the work,” said Mueller.

Live demonstrations will include glass blowing, pottery turning, wood and stone carving and 15 artists painting with a variety of media.

Though Hodson won’t be part of the live demos, her work should not be missed. Her mixed-media approach starts out with an image of a subject matter, which she prints onto canvas and cuts to remove a lot of the original image, then replaces it with textiles.

“It gives a nice softness to it and it gives a sort of three-dimensional quality without being three dimensional,” she said. “Parts of the image will pop out without relief being there.”

Hodson is not the only artist mixing in different aspects to her work.

“This year I chose to display little feet, more or less just because it’s something different than the beautiful scenery that everyone has and to show the other side of Whistler, the family side,” said Ouellette.

Ouellette chose to capture abstract photographs of her friend’s youngster’s toes and displayed them in her self-constructed frames.

“Whistler is so beautiful … but there is so much other subject matter around, just life in general that hardly gets shown,” said Ouellette.

The Ontario native said Whistler has a very strong art community filled with famous artists and up-and-coming ones that may only stay for a short period of time.

Hodson said that the small, vibrant art community gives visitors a chance to enjoy it for its beauty and to find something that reminds them of home to take with them.

“It’s very rare that you go to a small town and have a council that is so active in the arts,” she said.

Mueller’s team has been working on ArtWalk since January. Most of the are in place and she is excited to see everything come together.

“The art community is inspired, creative, warm and welcoming with a little bit of an edge, it makes for a very dynamic art scene,” said Mueller.

Hodson is facing the challenges of getting all her work done with a 10-month-old at home, as her work is quite time-consuming, while Ouellette is looking forward to the future and being able to network with some more toddler’s toes.

“There is such a population boom right now with the babes and they’re going to be the little shredders of the future, it’s important for me to capture these things” said Ouellette.

Hodson said opening night is a chance to explain the work and tell what really goes into it and what’s behind the work.

“It’s nice to meet people from the community that have seen your work around and hear what they have to say about it,” said Hodson.
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Admitted leaker Edward Snowden took flight

Nelson Mandela's health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said Sunday.

The office of President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that he had visited the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader at a hospital Sunday evening and was informed by the medical team that Mandela's condition had become critical in the past 24 hours.

"The doctors are doing everything possible to get his condition to improve and are ensuring that Madiba is well-looked after and is comfortable. He is in good hands," Zuma said in the statement,kapton tape  using Mandela's clan name.

Zuma also met Graca Machel, Mandela's wife, at the hospital in Pretoria and discussed the former leader's condition, according to the statement. Zuma was accompanied on the visit by Cyril Ramaphosa, the deputy president of the country's ruling party, the African National Congress.

Mandela was jailed for 27 years under white racist rule and released in 1990. He then played a leading role in steering the divided country from the apartheid era to democracy, becoming South Africa's first black president in all-race elections in 1994. He was hospitalized on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Admitted leaker Edward Snowden took flight Sunday in evasion of U.S. authorities, seeking asylum in Ecuador and leaving the Obama administration scrambling to determine its next step in what became a game of diplomatic cat & mouse.

The former National Security Agency contractor and CIA technician fled Hong Kong and arrived at the Moscow airport, where he planned to spend the night before boarding an Aeroflot flight to Cuba. Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said his government received an asylum request from Snowden, and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would help him.

"He goes to the very countries that have, at best, very tense relationships with the United States," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., adding that she feared Snowden would trade more U.S. secrets for asylum. "This is not going to play out well for the national security interests of the United States."

The move left the U.S. with limited options as Snowden's itinerary took him on a tour of what many see as anti-American capitals. Ecuador in particular has rejected the United States' previous efforts at cooperation, and has been helping WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, avoid prosecution by allowing him to stay at its embassy in London.

Snowden helped The Guardian and The Washington Post disclose U.S. surveillance programs that collects vast amounts of phone records and online data in the name of foreign intelligence, but often sweeping up information on American citizens. Officials have the ability to collect phone and Internet information broadly but need a warrant to examine specific cases where they believe terrorism is involved.

5 things to know about the travels and future of the man behind the NSA surveillance leaks

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor behind the disclosures of the U.S. government's sweeping surveillance programs, left Hong Kong on Sunday and was seeking asylum in Ecuador. Five things to know about his admitted leaker and his future:

THE LEAK: Snowden disclosed surveillance programs that collect vast amounts of online data and email, sometimes sweeping up information on ordinary American citizens. Officials have the ability to collect phone and Internet information broadly but need a warrant to examine specific cases where they believe terrorism is involved. The revelation sparked debate about government surveillance and post-Sept. 11 civil liberties.

Since revealing himself as the principal source for reports in The Guardian and The Washington Post, Snowden had been in hiding in Hong Kong. The United States had sought his extradition but officials in Hong Kong rejected that, saying the U.S. petition didn't pass muster. The former CIA operative and NSA contractor has had his passport revoked, although that alone was unlikely to thwart Snowden's travel if he could find a friendly government to host him.

Before the first stories were published, Snowden left Hawaii for Hong Kong. While there, he continued speaking to reporters and disclosing other details. This weekend, he left Hong Kong with advisers from WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that helped disclose a trove of diplomatic cables that embarrassed Washington. He is said to have arrived in Moscow but did not leave the airport. His allies say he is en route to Ecuador, which has an extradition treaty with the United States but permits exemptions for political asylum. Ecuador's embassy in London has housed and protected WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.

The United States unsuccessfully sought cooperation from Hong Kong to extradite Snowden to the United States to face criminal charges. Instead, Snowden shuttled to Russia, with which the United States does not have an extradition treaty. His potential next stops were just as dicey for the United States: Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. All three have extradition treaties with the United States, but none are strong allies. U.S. lawmakers said Sunday there would be consequences for countries that harbor Snowden.
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Some mountain bikers wear helmet cameras

Mountain biking has become more extreme in the past two decades - with the trend fueled by better bikes, advanced protective gear, increasingly skilled cyclists and the growing popularity of downhill riding.

The growth of the sport also has increased the chance for trail conflicts among cyclists, hikers, runners, equestrians and others who use the maze of trails in the forested mountains above Ashland.

But behind the scenes, many mountain bikers are joining with other trail users to encourage courteous behavior and tackle on-the-ground projects to improve the trail system for everyone.

Sue and Bill Roussel, co-owners of Ashland Mountain Adventures, are on the front lines of those efforts.

The couple run a bike rental,BOPP tape  guide and shuttle service, ferrying mountain bikers to the top of Mount Ashland and other spots so cyclists can work their way back to town.

As a board member of the nonprofit Ashland Woodlands & Trails Association, Bill Roussel helps mobilize a small army of volunteers to build and maintain trails. He and his wife both join in the trail work.

In July 2012, Bill Roussel suffered a sprained wrist, bruises and scrapes when he crashed into debris dragged onto a mountain trail by a hiker who said he was angered by mountain bikers. The man was sentenced to 30 days in jail in May.

Southern Oregon University student and mountain biker Jordan Daniels also fell victim to the trail sabotage, striking a nylon cord strung at neck level across a trail, likely avoiding serious injury because of a protective brace he was wearing.

Sue Roussel said some trail users believe they are the rightful users of trails and that others - such as mountain bikers - are dangerous interlopers.

"My husband and I work closely with the Ashland Woodlands & Trails Association to bring hikers, runners and bikers together," she said.

At the Roussels' shop, a sign advises bikers on trails to yield to people on foot and horseback, and a donation box is set up to accept money to help fund trail work.

The mountain bikes and safety gear at Ashland Mountain Adventures reveal how far mountain biking has come since it became widely popular in the 1990s.

"When you have better equipment, you can ride better and move more quickly," said Sue Roussel, who has been mountain biking for about 20 years.

Bikes have advanced suspension and are stronger, with better wheels and brakes. Riders can use regular biking helmets or motorcycle racing-style helmets that have a front face shield. Body armor, back and neck protectors, knee and elbow pads, shin guards and other protective equipment are available for today's mountain bikers.

With years of experience under their belts, many riders are fitter and more skilled, allowing them to ride harder and farther, Sue Roussel said.

Some mountain bikers wear helmet cameras and post videos of their fast-moving adventures on YouTube and other social-media sites.

With its shuttle service, Ashland Mountain Adventures caters to mountain-biking tourists as well as locals.

On some trips, Sue Roussel said, about one-third of bikers - mostly tourists - are wearing helmet cameras.

"They want to film each other and have memories of the trip. I don't think it makes people go faster," she said. "I think they want to see themselves ride in beautiful terrain."

Some mountain bikers use smartphone apps that record their ride speed and distance - a technology that may be encouraging faster riding.

"It compares you to your friends who have ridden that route before. Essentially, every time you go on a ride, you're racing yourself and other people. It makes people ride longer and faster," she said.

More people are out in the woods, increasing the chance of trail conflicts, said Mike Bronze, president of the nonprofit Rogue Valley Mountain Bike Association.

Bronze said many mountain bikers favor trails that have good flow and allow for faster riding.

"Riders coming down at high rates of speed can startle hikers," he said.

The Rogue Valley Mountain Bike Association encourages bikers to alert hikers of their approach and to slow down or stop if possible for hikers.

"There are a few bad apples who ruin it for others, but that's the case in any sport or activity," he said.

Kim Lewis, co-owner of Ashland's Main Street Adventure Tours also runs a shuttle service that caters mainly to downhill mountain bikers.

Lewis said mountain biking in all its forms is an important part of Ashland's economy. He recently had a guided outing with a family from Ohio who came to the region to experience mountain biking, rafting, redwood forests and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The city of Ashland plans to spend $10,000 and two years crafting a trails master plan for city-owned forest land in the hills above town. Most of the city land is at lower elevation than Forest Service land.

The city plan will include shared trails, as well as trails specifically made for mountain bikers.

"The city has a key piece to the trails puzzle," said Ashland Fire & Rescue Forest Division Chief Chris Chambers. "A lot of trails funnel down through city forest land."

Ashland Fire & Rescue and the Ashland Forest Lands Commission have long been involved in trail issues, often teaming with Ashland Woodlands & Trails Association members and other volunteers on trail construction and maintenance projects.
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Even such basic disposal takes weeks of training

In a desolate field outside Kabul, an Afghan soldier hunches over a knee-high robot equipped with cameras, multidirectional pincers and tank-treads built for rough terrain. Carefully, he attaches four bottles of water and a tiny explosive charge to the robot. He uses a remote control to guide it 50 meters (yards) away to his target: a simulated backpack bomb.

"Explosion! Explosion! Explosion!" shouts the soldier, Naqibullah Qarizada, in a warning to others nearby. Then he remotely detonates the charge.

A small dust cloud kicks up. If all has gone well, double sided tape the blast has pushed the water into the bomb with enough force to knock out its triggering mechanism. But to be safe, his partner, Hayatullah, climbs into a heavy protective suit before lumbering over to pluck out the blasting cap and seal it in a fortified box.

The two men are among hundreds of Afghan soldiers training to take over the dangerous fight against the war's biggest killers: the Taliban-planted bombs known as IEDs that kill and maim thousands of people each year on and around the country's roads and towns.

A few years ago, there were almost no Afghan bomb disposal experts. Now, there are 369 — but that's far from enough. The international coalition is rushing to train hundreds more before the exit of most coalition forces by the end of next year.

Each day on average, two to three roadside or buried bombs explode somewhere in Afghanistan, according to numbers compiled by the United Nations, which says that the explosives killed 868 civilians last year, 40 percent of the civilian deaths in insurgent attacks. Among international forces, buried or roadside bombs accounted for 64 percent of the 3,300 coalition troops killed or wounded last year, the NATO force says.

Known in military parlance as improvised explosives devices (IEDs), the bombs have long been a favorite Taliban weapon that can be remotely detonated by radio or mobile phone when a target passes by or triggered by pressure, like a vehicle driving over it.

The U.S. military has over the years developed advanced detection and disposal techniques that manage to defuse about 40 to 50 IEDs each day, says Col. Ace Campbell, chief of the Counter-IED training unit. The coalition is working to transfer that knowledge to the Afghans who will be responsible once most foreign troops leave next year, and Campbell says Afghan teams are now finding and disposing about half of the bombs most days.

"Whenever I hear about an IED or I find one myself — maybe you will laugh, but I become very happy," says Hayatullah, 28, who has completed the highest level of training and like many Afghans uses just one name. "I am happy because it is my duty to defuse it, and I will save the lives of several people."

Hayatullah also has a personal reason for his chosen profession — his father was killed in a mine explosion. He was just 13 when unknown attackers planted two anti-personnel mines outside their home in Parwan province, and he says the memory fuels his desire to save others.

The country's main bomb disposal school is located at Camp Black Horse, set among a dust-swept field on Kabul's eastern outskirts, where a rusted-out Russian tank looms on a distant hill, a reminder of Afghanistan's long legacy of war dating back to the 1980s Soviet occupation.

Here, a team of about 160 instructors runs 19 different courses, ranging from a basic four-week awareness program for regular Afghan soldiers to the eight-month advanced "IED defeat" course that is a slightly shorter version of the U.S. Army's own counter-explosives training.

"We are giving them the best instruction that we have available, and they are picking it up," said U.S. Army Maj. Joel Smith, one of the training program's leaders. "Some are getting killed, some are dropping out, but their numbers are growing."

Still, it is a race against time to produce enough experts to fill the gap left by foreign troops' withdrawal. On Tuesday, NATO formally handed over full security responsibility to Afghanistan's fledgling 350,000-strong security forces, though many of the remaining foreign troops will stay until next year in a support and training role.

The goal is to have 318 full-fledged Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams, each with two or three Afghan experts, spread out around the country. But Afghan security forces now have less than 60 percent of the bomb specialists they need — hence the fever pitch of training.

"These guys are on a more accelerated program due to necessity," Smith said.

Equipping the Afghan teams is also a challenge. The coalition plans to distribute 12,000 metal detectors to regular police and army units, and each of the specialized disposal teams is slated to receive one of the high-tech robots that Qarizada and Hayatullah were working with. But Smith said each of the robots costs $17,000, and so far only about half of those needed are in the hands of Afghan teams. And that is not even taking into account who will maintain the sophisticated machines in a country where dust clogs nearly every machine and technical expertise is scarce.

Bomb disposal units gained widespread fame with the 2008 film "The Hurt Locker," but in real life the process — while still dangerous — is much slower and more methodical. The ultimate goal is to try not to approach a live bomb until it's been neutralized, which is the point of the exercise with the robot and the protective suit.

But with thousands of buried bombs and more being planted every day, it's impossible to have such sophisticated tools everywhere. That's why the program also trains regular Afghan army and police for four weeks in how to recognize signs of a smaller IED — freshly moved earth, or perhaps a conveniently placed culvert next to a bridge — and neutralize it in the crudest but simplest way: setting a smaller charge, moving far, far away and blowing it up in place.

Even such basic disposal takes weeks of training. Sitting attentively on rows of benches under a lean-to in the field, a group of Afghan soldiers listens to contractor James Webber, a former U.S. Air Force bomb disposal expert, as he explains how long to make a fuse so whoever sets it can then dash away for four minutes, or 240 seconds, to safety before the charge blows.
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The designation is reserved for offenders

An Edmonton man facing a dangerous offender designation was “wonderful” before he relapsed into drug addiction and violently sexually assaulted her, his former girlfriend testified Tuesday.

The woman testified at the dangerous offender hearing of Vern William Hunter, 39. After he pleaded guilty to sexual assault with a weapon, kapton tape assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, uttering death threats and theft for his August 2011 domestic attack on the woman, the Crown wants him sentenced to prison indefinitely.

The woman, whose name is banned from publication, met Hunter at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. At the time, she said, he was everything she wanted.

“He was awesome. He was wonderful and so kind. He was amazing.”

On Thanksgiving weekend 2010, Hunter and the woman had a relapse and used crack cocaine. After that, Hunter kept using and became a different person. He accused her of cheating on him if she didn’t answer her phone. He traded her clothes for drugs and pawned a camera that contained the last pictures of her father.

In June 2011, the relationship became violent. Hunter left Edmonton for Regina, which his girlfriend believed was an attempt to clean up and kick the drugs. She bought a jar of raspberry jam, his favourite, and left it on the kitchen counter for when he might return home.
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When Hunter came back to Edmonton, she recalled, nothing had changed. He hadn’t stopped using drugs. Eventually, he began living in her east Edmonton townhouse again.

In August 2011, court heard, she asked him to move out. In response, Hunter attacked. He choked her into unconsciousness and sexually assaulted her. He bound her to a chair with electrical tape and a belt from her housecoat.

Hunter attacked her again when she tried to escape the home they shared together. He hog-tied her, with her feet and hands bound behind her back. He threatened her with a knife.

“I can stab you and just keep on stabbing, stabbing, stabbing,” he said, according to the statement of facts.

Police arrived when the woman’s mother called 911 after her daughter failed to show at work. Hunter, who had left the home to buy drugs, was arrested when he returned to the home. The woman suffered ruptured blood vessels in both eyes, ligature marks on her hands and ankles, bruises and other injuries.

While he was in prison, Hunter and the woman contacted each by letter and phone though Hunter was under a no-contact order. They even made plans to marry after he served a jail sentence. Those hopes are long gone, the woman testified.

“It took me a year after the attack to realize that Vern was a bad person. I thought the drugs made him a bad person.”

Hunter had little reaction as his ex-girlfriend tearfully read a victim impact statement between loud sobs.

“The stranger in the alley, the monster in the closet, the boogeyman under the bed, is no longer a faceless terror for me. Now it is Vern,” she wailed in the courtroom. “You were supposed to take care of me.”

The dangerous offender hearing continues. The designation is reserved for offenders who show an escalating pattern of violence in their crimes and have little chance of rehabilitation.

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"Whenever a woman interview candidate walked out of the office, she was wearing a tight-fitted dress with heels," the recent Tufts University graduate tells the Voice. "As much as I try to dress myself toward the stereotypically masculine, I still have to reckon with the unarguable fact that my body still represents female. It added another layer of discomfort to an already stressful situation. If I had shown up wearing something that mismatched who I am to appease conventional gender norms,BOPP tape  I believe I would have felt more reasonably self-conscious and my personality might have been masked under that insecurity."

 Eli is one of a growing number of college graduates who refuse to conform to what, in queer theory-speak, is called "the gender binary," that is, strictly male or strictly female. In January, a New York Times profile of several "genderqueer" students at the University of Pennsylvania raised some eyebrows. Many readers undoubtedly shrugged it off as just another indulgence fostered by the protective confines of an elite university.

But these gender nonconformists maintain that, far from being "just a phase," this is who they are—and that they have every intention of remaining true to themselves. "There's this idea that it's just not a real way to exist past college, that it only works in the sort of bubble community that you can build in college, and that once you're out of that it's not an identity that you can sustain," University of Maryland graduate Sam Williamson, 22, says. "That's pretty hurtful. It makes it much scarier to go into the real world."

So what happens to these gender pioneers when they have to face the real-world workplace?

Ever since Plato founded the Academy, campus ideals have collided with the exigencies of making a living. Add to that the pressure of a seemingly endless recession for recent college grads. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the most recent unemployment rate for grads at a nerve-wracking 12.6 percent. Up against an endless flood of other talented and overeducated applicants, gender radicals find themselves in the unenviable position of sticking out for all the wrong reasons.

"When it comes to hiring in this market, anything that stands out as different is going to be a strike against somebody," explains human resources consultant Victorio Milan. "By 'different,' I mean something about that individual that is not going to be considered an asset to the company."

With a flood of qualified résumés, how many recruiters are willing to stick their necks out and present clients with an unnecessary dilemma? "If I know I have 20 other candidates right behind them, or a hundred or a thousand other candidates right behind them," Milan notes, "I'm going to dismiss that person a lot quicker."

After years of blatant discrimination, transpersons are finally making headway in the workplace. According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than one-third of Fortune 500 companies already prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. Celebrities like former Wachowski brother Lana Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix; Cher's son (born daughter) Chaz Bono; and Stephen Ira Beatty, the son (also born daughter) of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, are forcing Americans to confront their prejudices toward transpersons.

As transactivist Pauline Park points out, however, even some transpersons believe that one should pick a gender and stick with it. "Talking about binary trans issues has become a lot more common in the media, and so it's not as surprising," says Williamson. "People will have never even heard of having a non-binary gender identity. That doesn't make sense to people."

Williamson, who like many other gender nonconformists prefers neutral pronouns like "they' and "them" to "he" or "she," is currently pursuing employment with a union they interned with last summer. "I don't feel comfortable applying for a job that doesn't say explicitly that it encourages LGBTQ applicants," they tell the Voice. Instead, Williamson subscribes to a listserv specifically for transpersons seeking work, but so far has found to be an exercise in futility. "There's not a lot of open jobs out there for someone who wants to be very open about a non-traditional gender identity," they say.
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Michel explained key ratios of solar panel surface

As the world’s first solar-powered airplane to fly both day and night touched down early Sunday in Washington, all eyes focused on the odd-shaped plane and its pioneering pilots.

Equally significant is the science and innovative technology behind the concept of the Solar Impulse aircraft. From lightweight, high-strength plastics, to thin, protective films covering the solar panels, new technologies in advanced materials have provided durability and energy efficiency to propel Solar Impulse thousands of miles “Across America” without a drop of fossil fuel.

Special materials and expertise from Solvay, a global producer of chemicals and advanced materials, optimize the aircraft’s energy chain and contribute to the plane’s remarkably light,yet sturdy, structure.

 Solvay is a founding partner of the Solar Impulse consortium that also includes companies with expertise in solar technologies, aviation, engineering, electronics, mechanics and controls.

In a panel discussion today at Washington’s National Press Club, Solvay’s Solar Impulse Partnership Manager Claude Michel described the challenges in designing and building the plane. “Weight is an obsession with Solar Impulse,” he said.

According to Michel, for every 8kg — whether it’s 8kg of plane, pilot or equipment — Solar Impulse needs one square meter of solar panels. The solar panels are spread across the upper portion of the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer and wings which, at 63 meters, are the span of a commercial jet. That wingspan accommodates enough panels that Solar Impulse can carry just 1600kg. A typical four-engine propeller-driven commercial airliner weighs about 30 times more.

“Every piece of the plane is evaluated for its weight as well as its effectiveness,” he said. “Every gram is measured.”

Michel explained key ratios of solar panel surface areas to energy produced, stored and consumed on board, and how high-strength plastics, insulation,double sided tape lubricants and protective films contribute to the plane’s light weight as well as its energy efficiency.

“Many of these technologies found novel applications on Solar Impulse,” Michel explained, “but the specific products already existed, and are commercially available today for many manufacturing uses.”

George Corbin, head of research, development and technology for Solvay Specialty Polymers, provided several examples of Solvay products with new uses on Solar Impulse.

Traditionally designed as a coating material for protection and anti-corrosion applications, Halar was adapted in 2008 for Solar Impulse, where it is the photovoltaic front sheet.

Corbin also explained how key components of the Solar Impulse wings came together---literally. He explained how Solar Impulse’s wing spar is formed from a lightweight paper honeycomb sandwiched between two layers of carbon fiber.

In addition to adhesives products, Solvay also offers a version of Torlon PAI that can be injection molded or extruded into parts. Components made from Torlon PAI are also found on the Solar Impulse and commercial aircraft as well.

Eleven different Solvay products are used in 20 different applications and 6,000 parts of the Solar Impulse. “Solvay has sponsored this project since its inception in 2004 because we are deeply committed to sustainability principles including alternate energy technologies, and we wanted to challenge ourselves in this domain,” explained Corbin. “We're proud to see our sustainability vision realized through this remarkable technical achievement.”
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Jack the Giant Slayer Blu-ray Review

Taking special effects and sound to a new level Jack the Giant Slayer entertains with adventure and excitement.  The audience for the film targets teen males to thirties and women who like action films.  The movie will be released on Blu-ray in a special combo pack that includes the DVD, UltraViolet and a code for a 14 Day XBOX Life Gold Trial on Tuesday June 18. If you are an adventure film addict and enjoy movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth or 300 than this movie is your golden egg.

The story has been played out many times as Jack and the Beanstalk in children's films with Mickey Mouse and even a comedy starring Abbott and Costello yet in this movie there's more of a serious tone.  While the beginning does have the typical reading of the book and a young lad named Jack becoming immersed in the story,double sided tape it then flashes ahead where we find the grown up Jack (Nicholas Hoult) taking his horse (substituted for a cow as you will find out why latter in the movie) to market to bring home the money that will save the farm.

From here the movie gets more adult driven with Jack dropping into the local pub where the entertainment features a lot of ‘fooling' around.  Here he spots King Brahmwell's (Ian McShane) daughter Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) being bothered buy some drunk patrons and comes to her aid. The King's men led by Elmont (Ewan McGregor) arrive and whisk her away to the castle. Jack leaves the tavern and sells his horse to a Monk (instead of a peddler as you will see why later in the film) for some special mysterious beans.

Jack arrives home and his father gets upset over the beans with one of them dropping through a crack in the floor.  In a rainstorm sometime later he runs into Isabelle who he brings to his house for shelter. When a drop of water hits the bean that fell though the floor an astonishing beanstalk grows carrying off Jack's house with Isabelle with it.

So starts an adventure under the direction of Bryan Singer who uses some very good 3D CGI techniques to bring the beanstalk, a sky high country, hordes of marauding giants, a golden Faberge egg (why Faberge? If you find out, please let me know), and an amazing amount of castle damage from burning trees, slung objects, and a tug of war on the castle gates. His film gets violent, gruesome, but yet nothing extraordinary in this day and age. Jack, along with Elmont, Isabelle's fiancé Roderick (Stanley Tucci), the bumbling Wicke (Ewen Bremner) and a number of the King's best climbers start their journey up a mammoth beanstalk that can give someone with vertigo a visual challenge.

Singer's choice of talent includes Nicholas Hoult who worked for him when he produced X-Men: First Class as Beast and recently starred in the comedy/horror flick Warm Bodies.  Hoult makes Jack smart, protective, clever and attractive enough to catch the attention of a pretty woman.  That's where Eleanor Tomlinson comes in as the lovely Isabelle.  Although she has not built much of a career to date, she dazzles in Jack the Giant Slayer.  Her soft exterior turns into a boyish rebel when she has to help stand off a two headed giant.  I like her fresh look for the screen and with her starring role in the upcoming Styria, a fantasy horror flick set to come out this year, we may be seeing a lot of her in the future.

There are bonus features with the Blu-ray combo pack that include UltraViolet capabilities, the DVD and a code for a 14 day Xbox Live Gold free trial.

Other bonus features include:
"Become a Giant Slayer" Here's a very cool game that you can play by climbing a beanstalk.  On the way up you can choose to see some videos on how scenes were made.
"Gag Reel" A short reel, but fun.  I especially liked the cat training session.
"Deleted Scenes"

There's a very good visual quality to the film played on my 16x9 HD TV.  The special effects and CGI provide terrific giants, huge castles and a fantastic countryside.  The 2.4:1 aspect ratio gives you the whole theatrical width of the film, but does have bars top and bottom played on my system.

The sound quality is very vibrant with crystal clear dialogue and very good special effects.  The difference between using my television's speakers and my upgraded system show little change except for the surround.  Whether you use the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 for the Blu-ray or the 5.1 Dolby Digital on the DVD you should get nearly the same quality experience with no distortion. 

Jack the Giant Slayer has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense scenes of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief language.  Be cautious when deciding to allow anyone under 13-years-old view the film without an accompanying parent as it does have some scenes that may be inappropriate due to some very gruesome visuals.
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It’s a fair question though, given that Cavill’s Superman, his bulky frame encased in a deep-blue rendition of the Superman uniform, is handcuffed and attacked by the military at certain points in the retelling of the superhero’s origin. While the idea of Superman as a threatening outsider has been explored in other mediums, it’s new to the big screen.

“In the previous movies, it was just kind of accepted that he was a superhuman, but what would happen if this dude really did exist?” said Cavill. “If he was discovered, he would probably be put in a room and experimented on. That’s very clear in his choices throughout the movie. He’s become very adept at being who he is — but just not so openly.”

“Man of Steel” centers on an adult Clark Kent — or Kal-El, as he’s known back on his home planet of Krypton — at the inception of his superheroic identity. (The name Superman is actually only uttered a couple of times in the film.) It’s a matter-of-fact account of how a much more hesitant Clark rises up and responds when earth is threatened by Kryptonian outcasts.

At the beginning of “Man of Steel,” which opened Friday, this version of the character doesn’t wear spectacles, work at The Daily Planet, soar through the skies or own any clothes with a giant S plastered across the chest. He’s a drifter. He says more with actions than words, something the 30-year-old star of 2011’s “Immortals” completely understands.

“As an actor, you spend a lot of time alone,” said Cavill. “You travel the world by yourself. You don’t have your buddies that you see on the weekend or at the office every day. You make temporary families, and you can only see your friends between jobs. I’m actually not a naturally super-chatty person. It’s a skill I’ve had to teach myself.”

With an emphasis on folksy imagery instead of high-flying action, early “Man of Steel” footage suggested a darker take on the superhero. While the tone is certainly more emotional than previous live-action adaptations, kapton tape the filmmakers — which include “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan as a producer and writer — haven’t diagnosed Superman with depression.

“It’s not darker,” said director Zack Snyder. “It’s just a more realistically realized version of Superman. We tried to apply logic to the story. He lives in our world. That’s it. It’s a straightforward protocol. We put him in our world without it being a joke. If we had made it a little lighter, maybe it would feel more like the Superman of the past.”

You've brushed your teeth, used your floss - now for a nice swig of mouthwash. With people enticed by the idea of minty fresh breath and the promise of a clean mouth, sales of mouthwash have boomed in recent years.

But while mouthwash is often marketed as a way to keep your mouth really clean and prevent gum disease, do we actually need it - and could it even undermine your dental hygiene?

Gum disease begins with plaque. This is a film of sticky bacteria on the teeth which, if not removed by brushing, irritates the gums, which then bleed and start to recede.

So can a mouthwash help? A study in the Journal of Clinical Dentistry earlier this year found swigging with an antiseptic mouthwash twice a day reduced the build-up of plaque and reduced gingivitis (inflamed gums) over six months.

The study group consisted of 139 people - half of whom were given mouthwash and the other half were given a placebo to swill with. The mouthwash group had substantially better results.
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Don mentioned the last development in a surprisingly

That should have been my clue that this was going to be a terrific--and funny--episode, perhaps my favorite of the season. Call me old-fashioned, but I like episodes that move, that use storytelling. This has been a frustratingly uneven season, in part because Weiner chose as his season-long theme the idea that people don't really change, history repeats itself, nothing new ever happens. That's either incredibly bold or idiotic for a dramatic television series.

It also conflicts, at least on the surface, with the actual events of 1968 that have played out during season six. That violent year was so jarring precisely because so many things seemed to be happening to which Americans did not know how to react. Multiple high-profile assassinations, urban riots, the fairy-tale widowed first lady marrying a Greek shipping tycoon--none of these had precedents or prompted familiar responses.

Don mentioned the last development in a surprisingly flirty phone conversation with Betty, which puts this episode in late October 1968. That means Sally has been refusing to return to her father's apartment for several months now. "She says she's not going again," says Betty, who is uncharacteristically restrained in not pushing Don to find an explanation for Sally's abrupt change in behavior. Don looks destroyed—equal parts anxious that Sally will tell Betty or Megan and devastated that he's lost Sally, possibly forever. The episode opens with him curled up in a near-fetal position on Sally's bed, and he's back to self-medicating with alcohol.

Do we have a running count of how many times Megan has said "I don't know what's going on with you/us" this season? Megan, honey, this is the deal with Don Draper. You'll never know what's going on with him but you can guarantee it's not good. At the office, on the other hand, Don is back on his game—assuming his game is torturing Ted and pushing away Peggy. It was bad enough that Peggy left him for Ted, but now Don has to watch her laugh at Ted's jokes, see Ted putting his hands on Peggy, hear Peggy constantly telling him what a good man Ted is. Running into them at the movie theater together—that's their thing! He and Peggy see movies in the middle of the day when they're stuck!—pushes Don over the edge.

Our Don is nothing if not predictably petty, so we know almost before he does that he's going to blow up his truce with Ted, which lasted all of two months. Don tells himself—and anyone who will listen—that he's doing it for the good of the firm. And it's true that both Ted and Peggy have let their feelings impair both their creative and their business judgment. But Don's actions will have the long-term effect of making this shaky partnership unworkable. He lies directly to his partners, assuring Cutler there will be "no more surprises." He humiliates Ted in the St. Joseph's meeting. And by giving Frank Gleason credit for Peggy's commercial idea, he ensures that if the TV spot does win any awards, they won't go to her. If Don had looked at her face by the end of that meeting, he would have seen what became clear in the last scene, that Don has lost both Sally and Peggy forever.

We even saw a few of the characters-we-love-to-hate showing signs of personal growth. When Pete uncovers the deception of Bob Benson—or Bic Bittman, as I'll think of him—he reacts very differently than the Peter Campbell of Season One. Remember that when Pete discovered Don's secret and ratted him out to Bert Cooper, he gained ... absolutely nothing. By keeping his mouth shut for Bob, BOPP tape Pete has secured the very best kind of ally: one who owes him.

I can't help thinking, though, that this could potentially turn out very badly for Pete, particularly if someone else learns the truth about Bob and realizes that Pete knew already. And the last time a partner agreed to keep a colleague's secret was when Don told Lane he'd need to leave the firm because of that missing check. I don't think Bob's going to end up offing himself, but I also don't think this plotline will have a happy ending.
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The overwhelming majority of adults

As she prepares for 2016, is Hillary swapping images with Barry? In 2008, Hillary was the square one, mired in old-fashioned machine politics and an imperious mien, while lithe, smooth Barack Obama sprinted ahead with his sophisticated high-tech campaign and references to Jay-Z. Now Hillary’s looking cool on Twitter, in her shades, with her first tweet heard round the world garnering 366,000 followers in 24 hours, a faster start than her husband and Pope Francis.

Meanwhile, Obama is the square with the didactic mien mired in old-fashioned political scandals, fending off Nixon comparisons and a suspicious press corps aghast at the administration’s willingness to criminalize journalism. Hillary’s popularity numbers have drooped a bit. And she’s had “some dings in the armor” from scandals during her time running the State Department that may cling to her, as the NBC News White House reporter Chuck Todd told Andrea Mitchell.

As with Benghazi, Hillary is distancing herself from the latest kerfuffle roiling her former workplace. CBS News’s John Miller secured a State Department draft memo that he said suggested that several internal investigations were “manipulated, influenced, or simply called off” by department big shots. The allegations in the memo included a report of a State Department security official in Beirut “engaged in sexual assaults” on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards, another about members of Hillary’s former diplomatic security detail having an “endemic” issue with hiring “prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries,” and a third involving an “underground drug ring” operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and providing drugs to State Department security contractors.

Miller said “the most striking instance” in which State Department agents told the inspector general that they were ordered to stop investigating was the case of a U.S. ambassador who was prone to eluding his protective detail to cavort with prostitutes in a public park. Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman, denied that senior officials at the State Department ignored serious violations of the law, calling it “preposterous.”

Unlike Obama, who seems whipsawed by the cascade of federal scandals, Hillary “eats scandals for breakfast,” as Bill Maher put it. The president has a Twitter account but rarely personally tweets or checks the site like other pols, such as John McCain, Cory Booker, Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn and Claire McCaskill. It remains to be seen if Hillary will farm out the job to staff, as she did with her homogenized memoir that underscored her motto “It takes a village.”

This past weekend, I took my four year-old daughter Heloise to see Epic, the latest animated feature from Blue Sky Studios, creators of Ice Age and Rio. At this early-afternoon showing, the theater was nearly full. There were few teens or young adults; rather, the auditorium was packed with children aged three to ten—and their fathers. I counted a couple of heterosexual couples with kids, and two unaccompanied moms with little ones. The overwhelming majority of adults were like me—dads with their kids, without their partners.

As a gender-studies professor, I reflexively notice sex disparities in public places. Usually the anecdotal data I collect gets filed away in whatever part of the brain archives trivia I'm unlikely to use again. Not so on Sunday, when I realized that the theme of the film we were watching seemed perfectly designed to match the demographics of the audience. Epic wasn't just aimed at parents and children—it was, like so many other recent animated films, squarely focused on celebrating and redeeming the father-daughter relationship.

When it comes to the make-up of movie audiences, my anecdotal observation jibes with the data. Across the United States, there really are more dads than moms on their own with their kids at the movies. A 2011 study by polling firm Ipsos found that dads are 50 percent more likely than moms to take young kids to the movies.Matco Packaging Llc suppliers of BOPP tape, (This holds true for films of all ratings, from G to R.) "Dads are more interested in finding content they can enjoy with their kids," said Ipsos senior vice president Donna Sabino. Moms may remain the key decision-makers about most household purchases, but fathers increasingly rule in one area: entertainment.

It's not news that advertisers design sales campaigns to appeal to their target demographic. What seems evident is that when it comes to animated features, film makers are making the same calculation as the marketers.My way of applying kapton tape to Glass. A 1998 study found that girls are twice as likely as boys to cite animated films as their favorites. If preteen girls are twice as eager as boys to see animated features, and dads are 50 percent more likely to be the parent sitting next to them in the movie theater, then it makes sense to center that relationship in the plot of what they're watching together.
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She is the daughter of Always Looking-Young-Handsome Anil Kapoor. She started her career with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Saawariya'.stocks a huge selection of aluminum foil tape. She is the spokesperson for French beauty brand L'Oreal. With a career span of approximately 9 films, She still prefers to keep her personal life away from Media. She is considered as a Style Goddess for most of the actresses in Bollywood. The one and only Sonam Kapoor goes candid with Faisal Saif

Let the Style Goddess speak about what she likes about her Stardom?
I like everything about stardom. I don't mind being in the public eye. If anyone tells you that they want to be a film actor but they don't want to be a star, that means they are lying. I love acting and love the fact the people like both my work and me. I am not pretentious enough to say that I cannot stand the attention.

And your feeling on playing so many characters?
I love being in front of the camera and I love creating new things. Can you imagine a girl from Juhu playing a girl from Chandni Chowk or a girl from Banaras or a girl from Defence Colony. It is amazing to be able to play different people.

It is also said that a Director has to convince your Dad (Anil Kapoor) first before narrating you the script?
Not really. My dad is not going to play my role in any film. They come to me. I take a call. I do have strong views in this aspect. But after a certain point, my dad does get in. I don’t want to concentrate on the details that follow.

But you do discuss your films with your dad?
Of course. What is the point of having him as my dad? I think that every child looks up to his parents.

So this means your dad is a very strict father?
He is definitely protective about me. He doesn’t want me to do anything wrong. I am not allowed late nights. But then, even I am a very responsible girl.

And you believe your job is a challenging one..
People are not as bad as people think they are in the industry. We work very hard with odd hours. It is not only emotional, but has physical and mental work as well

You are considered as a Style Icon for many of the Bollywood
It stems from my mother’s side. My mom has been into fashion designing. I love her style. Even my masi is very aesthetically inclined. I wear branded clothes, But i also wear many vintage clothes too. If required, I will wear a simple sari. I pick up tees and jeans from streets as well.

You have also said that you are inspired by veterans such as Rekha and Waheeda Rehman?
I did meet Rekha and she was like 'it is amazing that you are doing the remake'. There are three or four heroines who I am obsessed with. They are Waheeda Rehman, Nutan, Rekha, Jaya Bachchan and Sridevi. I copy them all the time.

You are working on Rekha's Khoobsurat Remake, Do you believe in the current Remaking-Old-Films criteria?
I think every generation re-looks at a story. I don't think there is anything wrong with remakes.

If given an opportunity, Which "Remake" you would like to work in?
I would love to remake Guide of Waheeda Ji, Saraswatichandra of Nutan, I am the part of Khubsoorat and I would love to do Umrao Jaan. The make up and thumris were just amazing. I have completely copied Waheeda Ji's performance in Guide in my film Raanjhanaa.

But you say your character in Raanjhanaa is inspired by 'Guddi'?
I needed a reference point for my character. A naughty spunky school girl.My way of applying kapton tape to Glass. I had already seen 'Guddi', but I saw it again before shooting for the film. I was inspired by Jaya Bachchanji in 'Guddi' for the film.
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These soldiers wear the same gear to protect

This is just one of many possible situations from which the Massachusetts National Guard trains to rescue civilians after an attack or natural disaster involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or environmental factors.

The potential damage from an incident involving CBRNE factors is too great for just one unit to mitigate. That’s the reason about a dozen units from the Massachusetts National Guard, along with supporting security elements from the Vermont Army National Guard’s 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, contribute troops and equipment to the CBRNE Enhanced Response Force-Package.

“The CERF-P is a homeland security mission and the main emphasis of the CERF-P is massive casualty decontamination,” said Army 1st Lt. Tom Hohenstien, a platoon leader with the 272nd Chemical Company, Massachusetts Army National Guard, which performs a central function of the overall mission.

“Once we rally, we can assemble within 12 hours and start moving to a location in New England,” said Army Lt. Col. Mark E. Merlino, commander of the 79th Troop Command, Massachusetts Army National Guard, and commanding officer of the CERF-P, who throughout his career has been an Army engineer.

The CERF-P’s units operate together as a whole, working to rescue people from devastating circumstances. Since accomplishing the mission requires a high level of cooperation between all the units, the CERF-P conducts a rigorous three day training event, so the units can perfect their roles in the process.

This year’s training was conducted at Camp Hartell’s disaster training incident site in Windsor Locks, Conn.stocks a huge selection of aluminum foil tape., which provides service members an environment where they experience a sizable pile of concrete wreckage that could have once been a large building on a city street. The training becomes more realistic with role players hired for the exercise to play victims of chemical burns, lacerations and broken bones, injuries represented by quality makeup art fit for a horror film.

The training exercise begins with the 272nd Chemical Company and their assembly of collapsible tents used to decontaminate civilians and their fellow service members when they re-enter the safe zone after venturing out into the affected area.

The collapsible tents are specially designed for establishing a decontamination site anywhere, and they can be transported in 4-by-4 foot cubes when collapsed, according to Army Sgt. William Hurley, a team leader with the 272nd, and a welder from Lowell, Mass.

Hurley is one of many soldiers in the 272nd who not only assemble the tents and connect them with running water, but also run the tents like an assembly line, cleaning victims of contaminants as quickly as possible to prepare them for medical treatment.

They perform these tasks while completely sealed off with a strong adhesive from the outside air in a kind of personal sauna created by the protective suits and gas masks they wear. This gear can dramatically raise a soldier’s body temperature and may cause dehydration or heat stroke during hard labor. However, it’s a safer way for soldiers to effectively care for potentially contaminated victims of a CBRNE attack.

Once the decontamination site is established, a safe zone is cordoned off around the tents and guarded by soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard’s 86th Brigade Special Troops Battalion and 1st Battalion, 102nd Infantry Regiment.

These soldiers wear the same gear to protect them from contaminants while securing a perimeter and ensuring that civilians who reach the decontamination zone on their own are assessed by a medic or nurse, also in protective gear, from the 102nd or 104th Medical Group of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

Members of the 102nd and 104th use a system of triage similar to the one used by civilian medical staff, where colored tags let the physicians know who to treat first or who can’t be treated on site, said Air Force Maj. Angelina Russell of the 104th, who provides care based on the priority set by the medics in her group.

Airmen of the 102nd and 104th perform triage immediately upon a victim’s arrival from outside the decontaminated zone.

Those who can walk on their own are guided to be decontaminated and checked out at the medical tent by an Air Force physician or physician assistant. Those who can’t move on their own go through the same process,My way of applying kapton tape to Glass. but through a specially designed tent with rollers and boards that resemble a conveyor belt.
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The high-performance and high-safety batteries

Taiwan-based China Motor Corp. will begin using domestically produced high-performance, high-safety lithium-ion batteries, a major success for the ROC Ministry of Economic Affairs’ program to boost the local electric car industry.

The move, part of an import substitution program, is a big step to making the domestic electric vehicle industry independent of foreign suppliers, the MOEA said June 6.

“This can make Taiwan a model for the global electric vehicle industry, attracting international producers and developing export opportunities. By 2016 a new wave of lithium battery-related production worth NT$15 billion (US$502 million) can be created,” Deputy MOEA Minister Woody Tyzz-jiun Duh said.

To date,29 electric motorbike models from 10 manufacturers have achieved the Taiwan E-scooter Standard and, as of the end of April, sales exceeded 37,000 domestically, with related service and charging stations set up around the country, Duh said.

The MOEA is working with Hsinchu-based Industrial Technology Research Institute and vehicle makers to produce innovative lithium battery technology.

A recent breakthrough was the development of self-terminated oligomers with hyperbranched architecture (STOBA), which is a nanoscale polymer material added to the lithium battery as a protective film that produces multiple protection mechanisms.My way of applying kapton tape to Glass. The oligomers received a prestigious 2009 100 R&D Technology Award from U.S.-based R&D Magazine and are being employed by four local manufacturers.

The high-performance and high-safety batteries made with STOBA means that their endurance and lifespan can be doubled at the same time as weight is decreased by 40 percent, all of which are important considerations for consumers.

“This is a key development for electric vehicles and an excellent opportunity for local battery-makers to achieve a commanding position in the global supply chain,” Duh added.

The MOEA said it will continue supporting domestic research bodies and manufacturers to develop technology for large lithium batteries to ensure the electric vehicle industry flourishes and Taiwan becomes a major international manufacturing hub.

"It plagues me," said McCarthy, who also stars on CBS's "Mike and Molly." "I feel intensely guilty for working. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it."

Added Bullock, "I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?' But I also know that my entire life revolves around (son) Louis."

Both expressed strong protective feelings about trying to keep their kids out of the limelight.Matco Packaging Llc suppliers of BOPP tape, Bullock acknowledged, "We're adults, and we're fair game. ... But I instinctively throw things over Louis's head. ... He doesn't like (paparazzi). He gives them the stink-eye and they're like, 'That's such an angry kid' but I look at them and say, 'Only when you guys are around.'"

McCarthy was more emphatic, saying kids should be off-limits for roving photographers. "Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit," she said. "They think, 'We're putting out a product,' but you're putting out a child."

Still, these shared trials may have made for a stronger, more instant chemistry in "Heat." Noted Bullock, "Having kids connected us on a deeper level. And the things we're obsessed with outside of being a mom are the same, too -- construction and home renovation. ... We're kindred spirits in that world. If we had a beer den, with Barcaloungers -- but our version of that -- it'd be great!"

who was a central figure in penalizing

Baseball's commissioner, declared the game's steroid era "clearly a thing of the past" and the use of banned performance-enhancing substances "virtually nonexistent."

Major League Baseball is investigating allegations that the owner of a shuttered South Florida wellness clinic distributed steroids, synthetic testosterone and human growth hormone to as many as 20 major league players, making it potentially the worst single drug-abuse case in U.S. sports history.

Don Catlin, founder of the first anti-doping lab in the U.S. and the former president of Anti-Doping Research Inc., said this latest strike against baseball confirms what many on the front lines of sports' drug wars already knew: The playing field may never again be 100% level.

"Drugs in sport is never going to go away," he said. "You can beat it back quite far, and we've done that in many ways. But the people on the other side keep coming up with new and better techniques to foil our tests.

That view is shared by Travis Tygart, chief executive of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "The temptations and the pressures to win by any means necessary, [to] gain an unfair advantage, are so high.My way of applying kapton tape to Glass. And the rewards are huge," he said.

In baseball, the rewards include batting championships, Cy Young Awards and lucrative contracts. Outfielder Melky Cabrera, suspended 50 games last summer after testing positive for testosterone while with the San Francisco Giants, signed a two-year, $16-milion contract last November with the Toronto Blue Jays. The Oakland Athletics gave pitcher Bartolo Colon a $1-million raise this year despite the fact he too was suspended 50 games after testing positive for testosterone.

"Any unfair advantage creates victims," Tygart said. "If an athlete loses their spot on the field or loses a big contract or loses the chance to be MVP or is stuck in the minors — like so many players in the past had been because of those who were violating the rules — then that's an unfair system and it can't be tolerated.

"You're always going to have those, for whatever reason, that think they can cheat and get away with it. Whether it's corking a bat, a spitball, [or] using a performance-enhancing drug covertly. You're going to have a few that always think there's an easier way to win."

Major League Baseball's latest case involves Anthony Bosch, founder of Biogenesis of America, an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., that closed seven months ago. Bosch, 48, was expected to begin meeting with MLB officials this week to share information that could implicate some of the biggest names in baseball, including former MVPs Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees and Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Minor league pitcher Cesar Carrillo — a teammate of Braun's at the University of Miami, which is in Coral Gables — was suspended 100 games in March after his name was found on clinic documents. Carrillo denied having dealt with Bosch or the clinic, but because the pitcher was on a minor league contract, he was not entitled to appeal the suspension.

Other players whose names have surfaced in the investigation are members of the powerful Major League Players Assn., which has promised to "defend the rights of players." That could lead to months of legal haggling that would keep baseball's dirty drug laundry a front-page story.

Tygart, who was a central figure in penalizing seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, applauded baseball for launching its investigation knowing the sport would take a public relations hit. He also said Selig didn't have a choice.

"The sport can't afford not to do it because what we've seen is it eventually comes out," Tygart said. "And so you have to take aggressive steps during it. You want to give hope to clean athletes but also give confidence to the public that you're doing everything within your authority to provide a game that's based on rules."

Funding is one of the most significant hurdles faced by sports authorities.stocks a huge selection of aluminum foil tape. Catlin said the Canada-based World Anti-Doping Agency, which handles baseball's drug tests, has a budget of about $26 million — "the budget of one good baseball player."

"It's an uneven playing field," he added. "They're making progress, but they're trying to push toothpaste back in the tube if they're trying to get a drug-free playing field — which is probably not possible."

Testosterone, a steroid hormone found in the body, is just one PED that authorities are struggling with. High levels of testosterone are thought to enhance muscle development and athletic performance.

Tests revealed high levels of testosterone in Cabrera and Colon, and the use of that steroid is at the heart of MLB's current probe.

why blame one of the couple?

The last three days have been very hard on the Pancholi family, what with the son Suraj being questioned for the death of actress Jiah Khan. But Suraj’s protective father Aditya wants to know what his son is guilty of.

“If Suraj is to be blamed then please make him the villain. What’s Shobhaa De’s problem with me and my son? What does she mean by saying, ‘Like father like son?’ I think Sonam Kapoor was very right in pulling up Shobhaa some years ago. Hats off to Sonam. If he has some wrong let it come out. But don’t condemn him in your column for something he hasn’t done. Even you have children.”

Taking a deep breath Aditya relives the nightmare of a death so close to the family. “Suraj ki kya galti hai? They’re probably looking for a villain in this story, and Suraj has been selected as the villain. For the last three days I’ve done what I could do as a concerned father and the head of my family. I can see what loss Jiah’s family has suffered. Tauba tauba... My son Suraj and I went for the funeral. Not for a second did we think we should stay away just to avoid trouble. Jiah and her mother are our friends. We are not going to turn our backs on them just because some questions are being asked by some people who don’t know the truth.”

Sighing deeply Aditya says, “On the night before the funeral I asked Suraj, ‘beta, tumhara dil kya kehta hai?’ He didn’t say anything but on the morning of the funeral I got a call from my wife Zarina (who was shooting) saying Suraj wanted to go to the funeral. I asked him again, if he really wanted to go. My son made me proud when he said, ‘If I don’t go to the funeral I won’t be able to forgive myself ever.’ A close friend, writer Moin Beg advised me to come home since we would not be allowed to see Jiah’s face at the graveyard. Suraj and I went home. I can’t tell you how beautiful she was looking.”

Aditya breaks down and then after a pause, continues, “Suraj has told me so many things about Jiah. She was such a lovely human being. I didn’t know her that well while she was still with us. I’ve got to know after her death while talking to my son about her. If she was facing problems in life why didn’t she speak to any of her friends about it? Or confide in her mother? They were the best of friends. I always met them together.”

Shedding light on his son’s relationship with Jiah, Aditya says, “My son got to know her just 9-10 months ago... But if things don’t work out between two people it’s pointless to point a finger at one or the other person. And Mahesh Bhatt saab who knew Jiah well enough has been comparing her volatile nature to other actresses (Parveen Babi).stocks a huge selection of aluminum foil tape. I don’t want to name anyone else. Love is a beautiful emotion. If something goes wrong in a relationship why blame one of the couple? The film industry is filled with examples of love stories gone wrong. No need to get judgemental.”

Adds Aditya, “Bhatt saab said something very beautiful... If two people go on an expedition to the highest point of a mountain in Ladakh and one of them turns out to be asthmatic, suffocates and dies, does that make the experience of touching the highest peak any less exhilarating?” The worried father says his son is going through a rough time. “Suraj is very hurt and shaken. But what can he do? I know he will be fine. But what about Jiah’s mother and sisters? Would they ever be normal again? Looking at Suraj’s grief I am reminded of Jiah’s family’s grief. Agar Suraj ko itna dukh ho raha hai to unpar kya beet rahi hogi?”

Aditya has known Jiah’s mother since a very long time. “I’ve known Rabiaji for 25 years now. She is a wonderful person. And I’ve known Nafisa (Jiah) from the time she came to India in 2004, when she was a child. At Anju Mahendroo’s place I would meet Rabiaji and her lovely little daughter.”

Aditya says it’s wrong to only blame the broken relationship for Jiah’s suicide. “There must be other factors. Jiah bottled up all her emotions. Suraj tells me she never raised her voice. He says the maximum she ever raised her voice to say was, ‘Suraj, this is not done.’ I want to request people to not try to make my son the villain. It’s circumstances that played villain in Jiah’s life. If that one moment when she took that drastic step had been averted, she’d still be alive.”

About the run-in with a section of the electronic media at Jiah’s funeral, Aditya says, “The electronic media has to exercise some kind of a self-restraint at a time like this when the family and close friends need privacy.My way of applying kapton tape to Glass. This was not a film premiere. Can they imagine what the family was going through? Anyway, those media persons with whom I had an argument have apologised.”