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The Creeping Danger Of Hindu Extremism – Analysis

By Balachander Palanisamy*

India’s government is neglecting the creeping danger of Hindu extremism. The nation has seen several mass riots from Ayodhya in 1992 and Gujarat in 2002 to the recent New Delhi riots in February 2020.

The Delhi riots were sparked by Kapil Mishra — a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician — making incendiary remarks at a crowd protesting the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. Violence ensued between Hindu mob extremists and Muslim minorities when goons in Mishra’s cadre coordinated attacks throughout the city.

The BJP government was criticised for its slow and passive reaction to the ‘anti-Muslim pogrom’. The Hindu nationalist BJP is giving Hindu extremists impetus to violate minority rights. Key state organs are also responsible for extremist violence in the country. The police, judiciary and federal government are all increasingly aligned with Hindu majoritarianism despite their non-partisan mandates, encouraging the scourge of extremism.

Hindu extremism benefits from political support and sympathy among many in the police. Steven Wilkinson regards the inaction of police officers during ethnic clashes as pervasive, attributing their passive behaviour to a fear of retribution from their political superiors that could ruin their careers. Some are actively sympathetic to Hindu extremism. In one study, 35 per cent of officers felt it was appropriate for a Hindu mob to punish a Muslim culprit who slaughtered cows. The study also found a general disdain for Muslims among police who often assume they are criminals.

India’s judiciary is similarly tainted by Hindu extremist bias, leading to laws being interpreted unfavourably towards minorities. In November 2019, the Supreme Court of India ruled that a temple should be erected on disputed land in Ayodhya. The court order retrospectively legitimised the historical destruction of the Babri Masjid mosque in 1992 and the violence that caused thousands of deaths. The Babri Masjid was destroyed by Hindu extremists who claimed the site to be the birthplace of the Hindu god Lord Rama. The verdict galvanised Hindu extremists — especially in a political landscape where a Hindu nationalist party holds power.

The Supreme Court’s political neutrality also came into question when Judge Arun Mishra praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an open display of partisanship, labelling him a ‘versatile genius who thinks and acts globally’. A Delhi High Court justice who was critical of the BJP’s role in instigating the Delhi riots was also transferred to another state without proper cause.

The current federal administration run by the BJP shows greater disregard for ethnic clashes than the previous Congress government. Christophe Jaffrelot argues that inaction is now the norm. Modi harbours extremist views but is careful not to explicitly reveal his position. He moderates his nationalist stance just enough to nominally maintain solidarity with minorities and to protect his international reputation. Yet the effects of his extremist beliefs were evident in his inaction as chief minister during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Modi also relies on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation, for support and is reluctant to antagonise it. The RSS has substantial clout through its thousands of branches throughout the country. Its millions of members are staunch believers of Hindutva and many of Modi’s cabinet members and cadres have expressed their loyalty to the RSS. Amit Shah, a former RSS student wing leader, is notably the current home minister. He is credited with pushing through the citizenship law that fast tracks non-Muslim refugees toward citizenship. Modi must embrace Hindu nationalist policies to capture political capital in his own administration.

The spread of Hindu nationalism has been too rapid for the government to adjust to. In India’s largest state of Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu nationalist leader Yogi Adityanath was appointed as chief minister by Modi after the BJP won the state election in 2017. The state has since witnessed a rise in so-called ‘anti-Romeo squads’ that hunt down ‘love jihadis’ — Muslim men courting Hindu women.

Violence against Muslims who slaughter cows for a living is also increasing. The gau rakshaks (cow protectors) commit violent acts by instigating mob justice and beating Muslims suspected of cow slaughter or transport. With a federal government that advocates for a Hindu nation, it is difficult to control the extent of Hindu extremist violence without the government alienating its core supporters. Many Hindu extremists see themselves as doing what the government secretly desires.

The extremist Hindutva ideology promoted by the BJP draws support from a significant section of society. Alex Schmid describes the section of society that sympathises with extremists and supports them ‘morally and logistically’ as the ‘radical milieu’. They act as the ‘supportive or even complicit social surrounding’ to endorse extremism.

The police, judiciary and federal government each feed into Hindu extremism. Their continued inaction erodes India’s secular identity and allows the Indian state to brandish a Hindu majoritarian view that endorses extremism. Hindu secularists and minority groups in India ultimately risk being put in a position at the mercy of a state overrun by Hindu extremism.

*About the author: Balachander Palanisamy is a graduate student at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

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    June 13, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    The Author himself seems to be full of Prejudice and is biased for the reasons best known to him. The reasons for that are the following
    The riots in Delhi were pre planned to be executed during the visit of Trump. The collection of acid bottles , even fixing of large size catapults cannot happen just by a spark which allegedly was initiated by Kapil Mishra.
    The author does not mention any study or survey or report , but just blames the police , judiciary of India
    CAA was brought by Amit Shah as he is a RSS worker , but the recommendation for the bill were made long back by a parliamentary panel including Kapil Sibbal

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    August 9, 2020 at 5:04 am

    An article full of lies and half truth. Journalists and such forums supposed to be of thinkers should be neutral and honest and avoid having pre conceived views and hate feelings.

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What does testing test? schooling, homeschooling and unschooling

I include this article mainly to keep bringing forward this topic of schooling in a climate where testing seems to be all that counts and curricula are becoming more and more rigid. Seems to me we need to have a real debate as to what authentic human learning actually consists of. Should so-called education be canalized into manageable, easily delimited and defined blocks of already pre-figured (so-called) “information,” a lock-step approach that morphs people’s brains (and hearts?) into nuts and bolts of pseudo-machines? Or should we recognize learning as a biological, evolutionary process, often messy and seemingly incoherent, driven by real, internal needs to explore yet uncharted realms.

One of my sons didn’t learn to read until he was ten. I wasn’t worried; I figured he’d learn to read when it would serve a useful purpose in his life, like reading the instructions to build a new bike.

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Public Schooled, Homeschooled or Unschooled: Who Makes the Grade?
Last week, the Atlantic reported on a new Canadian study that compared the test results of children in different educational environments. The conclusion: homeschooled children score higher on tests. For most people, this is probably not a surprise. But what does it mean?

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Sandra Martin-Chang, Odette N. Gould and Reanne E. Meuse published their study on the impact of schooling on academic achievement in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. The study involved 74 Canadian children between the ages of five and ten years old, half of whom were attending public schools and half of whom were homeschooled. Among the homeschooled students, 25 were following a structured home schooling program while 12 were in an unstructured (unschooling) environment. Using standardized tests focusing on reading, writing, math and other subjects, the children were evaluated across seven academic measures.

The results showed that children in a structured homeschooling environment had the highest scores, with a half-grade advantage in math and two grade level advantage in reading over their public school counterparts. Children from an unstructured homeschooling environment had the lowest scores across all seven academic measures. The authors of the study concluded that “children taught in a structured home environment may have an academic edge over their peers in traditional schools” (source: The Atlantic).

The Critique

What was this study really testing? According to critics of the study, it wasn’t really testing intelligence or knowledge or potential. It was simply testing children’s test-taking ability. In a post entitled Homeschooling Research: Fish Climbing Trees, author and publisher Wendy Priesnitz wrote:

The twelve unstructured homeschoolers did poorly on those standardized tests. Of course! Those fish in a tree-climbing competition were bound to lose the race. The question for me is: Why were they involved in the first place? The whole premise of “unschooling” is that learning happens as a result of the learner’s interest, rather than somebody else’s agenda or timeline, and doesn’t rely on testing or accountability to anyone but the learner. The researchers do give a nod to that, wondering if “the children receiving unstructured homeschooling” might eventually “catch up or surpass their peers given ample time.” But they don’t say if they want to study that. (Nor do they say if the unschooled kids were coached in testing writing techniques, which is important, since testing tests test-taking skill as much as anything.)

Academic achievement, standardized tests and grade levels are ultimately an arbitrary and artificial measure of intelligence developed by people who design curriculum and testing instruments. They are biased in favor of students who are following a curriculum that closely patterns the things that are being measured on the test.

Additionally, the study did not include any children in private schools, so there is no information on how they fared compared with the other three groups that were tested.

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While this study reads like an endorsement of structured homeschooling as the best way to educate children, proponents of public schools, private schools and unschooling can all likely cite reasons why their preferred approaches provide an advantage to students and their families.

What do you think? Which educational environment have you chosen for your children and why?

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Ford/Kavanaugh Imbroglio: More con-siderations

Please see the comments by both Rose and Laura in response to the last post. Both women are opposed to Kavanaugh, for reasons other than what has been dangled in front of us: possible sexual demands of a drunken teenager 36 years ago.

I too, have been riveted by what was dangled in front of the internet audience, and wondered who was lying, since both Kavanaugh and Ford held opposing “memories” of the supposed event. (And I wondered, in a moment of deliciousness: What if both took a lie detector test, and both were deemed to be “telling the truth”? There goes the veracity of so-called “lie detector” tests!)

Instinctively, in looking at Kavanaugh’s face and behavior on the stand, I felt sorry for him, assuming that he was being unfairly accused by the “Me Too” movement that has been weaponized by the Democrats. Then, in line with my unconsciously either/or attitude, I checked into Ford’s face and behavior, and quickly assumed that she was either lying or mis-remembering; at first, mis-remembering loomed larger in my mind; then lying took over. Again, see last post.

Meanwhile, I paid no attention to Kavanaugh’s past views and opinions. I was tunnelled into the tiny titillating focus that “they” set up for us, told to weigh in on who was telling the truth, rather than wondering if that whole emotional drama was inserted to cover up Kavanaugh’s prior record in his professional life.

Mea culpa!

This morning, I listened to an aim4truth audio on Kavanaugh, where Douglas Gabriel refers to Kavanaugh as a “soy boy,” by which he means that Kavanaugh swings both ways, depending upon his employer at the time. In other words, if this is true, Kavanaugh has no integrity.

Gabriel: “He will do anything you want. He was on both sides of the fence. He has no spine. We have the blackmail on his early life, because he was victimized. And we know that he was clean otherwise, because we know of the traumas. That’s what they do with anyone they put on the list. They know. They’re groomed.”

Commenter Laura put up a Ben Swann video that needs to be seen. Not only did Kavanaugh write parts of the draconian Patriot Act, not only does he apparently condone any amount of government surveillance, but he lied about knowing about waterboarding way back when that was an issue.

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  1. “Opposed” is too strong a word for how I feel about Kavanaugh. I remain curious. Things are not as they’ve been presented, that much is clear. According to the Q drops, “patriots” intend to use Deep State rules, surveillance, and laws in order to take down the Deep State.

    There’s a delicious poetic justice in that, at least on the surface. Where things get creepy is that this whole process creates justification for such invasions of privacy. These infringements have been ongoing at least since 2001, probably much earlier. Is it possible to take down the honey trap, blackmail, collusion system without using these tools? Maybe not. I don’t know. I don’t personally have any kind of security clearance. I just have my intuition and my body as a biofeedback “machine.” To me, it seems like a very high stakes game, but I feel a sense of peace and relief … a sense of things improving, being set to right. I don’t know if that’s just in my own sphere of influence or the much larger collective, but I usually experience very strong micro-macro synchronicities.

    In any case, I do not believe Kavanaugh is an innocent angel, nor do I believe the sexual allegations against him. As someone who experienced sexual harassment and more, and as an intuitive who reads people’s energies for a living, I can say the accusers do not match up with the accusations. This whole thing seems like smoke and mirrors … a mise en abyme … to reveal a particular “truth” as justification for future revelations and actions. While this “truth” may not be technically true, it might serve as an effective placeholder. I don’t tend to look at things from a linear or a black or white perspective.

    It just seems important to Trump and the Q team — whatever their real intentions — for Kavanaugh to agree to the Patriot Act and the idea of military tribunals for traitors. We shall see how this plays out for the average citizen with Smart Phones and no email privacy…….. Are we living in that movie, “The Circle”? Probably. Can we roll it back without a massive EMP? I don’t know. Maybe we just sidestep to a different timeline. Or maybe collective reality shifts in a fundamental way once 9/11 “truth” goes mainstream.

    • Ann Kreilkamp says:

      Beautiful. Thanks so much, Laura. I very much appreciate your more nuanced perception than my own and I too, continue to sense that things are “improving,” despite appearances. And I continue to tend to trust Trump, and Q. Basically, I sense that the world will reconfigure itself in the direction that a small, potent percentage of awake people express from within the depths of their own souls into the world around them. Cultural homeopathy.

  2. I love the term cultural homeopathy!

    • Ann Kreilkamp says:

      I’ve always seen my own work that way. That’s the role I play. No need to be “famous” to make an impact.

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Ithilwen K-Bane chapter 1 . 3/29/2006
I think Michael would at least recognize her as the beautiful woman he'd noticed in the subway, even if he'd also remember that she'd been part of the shootout.

Actually, the cacaphony did draw Lucian's attention away. I think he looked to one side, if memory serves.

At this point, Michael doesn't know Selene's name. It might be cool if it's not mentioned in the parts of the narrative that are from his perspective. ... Oh wait. This is in retrospect. Never mind.

Michael might say "bit" as a past participle, but Selene's a bit more formal. She'd use the correct term, "bitten."

Aw... You left out the kiss scene. Even - or perhaps especially - with all the crazy stuff going on, Michael was getting a little attached to Selene. Then he says in that adorable breathy voice, "No, I want to go with you" and if one looks very closely, one can see him look at her lips.

"An American Werewolf in London. Jesus Christ."

Heh. Lucky for Michael he's in Budapest.

Hm. Heavy Greg Cox influence if I'm not mistaken.
XinnLajgin chapter 1 . 3/17/2006
The crack about the american werewolf in london was beautiful.
twinmuse chapter 1 . 3/17/2006 the Michael thoughts.

He did take to the whole 'vamp/were' reality rather fast.

Loved seeing his POV on things.

Great piece!

Colly E. of twin*muse
ScarletDeath7 chapter 1 . 2/16/2006
I agree with your thinking, and your scenario really makes more sense. However, I would have liked it better if you could have found a way to keep more romance in it, but I can see how that would require more changes to other aspects of the story. Anyway, I thought you showed how Micheal would have really thought and it rocks.
baditterbunnyqueen chapter 1 . 2/4/2006
Very interesting take, and it seems to fit better with the characters, especially the second scene. I always felt a little jarred by that kiss, it just felt a little too forced to me. Exceptional job of getting inside the scene and working through the characters!
Wanderer3 chapter 1 . 2/4/2006
I don't really see much difference. But the minor ones I do see make sense. Personally, I'd fresk too, once the initial coolness factor WEARS off. Get it? WEARS...Werewolves? Huh? _ ...yea yea I know bad joke...


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List of NFL Players Who Have Opted Out of 2020 Season

Aug 6, 2020 at 6:17 pm ET

Players have had the opportunity to opt out of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The player simply had to provide the team with a written notice indicating their choice no later than 4:00 pm ET today. A player may still opt out later under certain conditions, but as of right now, the following players are not expected to play in the 2020 NFL season.

Arizona CardinalsOL Marcus Gilbert
Baltimore RavensKR De'Anthony Thomas
OL Andre Smith
Buffalo BillsDT Star Lotulelei
CB E.J. Gaines
Carolina PanthersLB Christian Miller
LB Jordan Mack
Chicago BearsDT Eddie Goldman
S Jordan Lucas
Cincinnati BengalsDT Josh Tupou
OT Isaiah Prince
Cleveland BrownsOL Colby Gossett
G Drew Forbes
T Drake Dorbeck
DT Andrew Billings
G Malcolm Pridgeon
Dallas CowboysCB Maurice Canady
WR Stephen Guidry
FB Jamize Olawale
Denver BroncosDT Kyle Peko
RT Ja'Wuan James
Detroit LionsDT John Atkins
WR Geronimo Allison
C Russell Bodine
Green Bay PackersWR Devin Funchess
Houston TexansDT Eddie Vanderdoes
Indianapolis ColtsLB Skai Moore
DB Rolan Milligan
DB Marvell Tell
Jacksonville JaguarsEDGE Lerentee McCray
CB Rashaan Melvin
DT Al Woods
Kansas City ChiefsRB Damien Williams
OT Lucas Niang
OL Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Las Vegas RaidersDB D.J. Killings
DE Jeremiah Valoaga
LB Ukeme Eligwe
Los Angeles RamsOT Chandler Brewer
Miami DolphinsWR Allen Hurns
WR Albert Wilson
Minnesota VikingsDT Michael Pierce
New England PatriotsS Patrick Chung
TE Matt LaCosse
LB Dont'a Hightower
FB Dan Vitale
RB Brandon Bolden
OL Najee Toran
WR Marqise Lee
OL Marcus Cannon
New Orleans SaintsTE Jason Vander Laan
TE Cole Wick
New York GiantsOL Nate Solder
WR Da'Mari Scott
CB Sam Beal
New York JetsOL Leo Koloamatangi
LB C.J. Mosley
WR Josh Doctson
Philadelphia EaglesWR Marquise Goodwin
San Francisco 49ersWR Travis Benjamin
OL Shon Coleman
Seattle SeahawksOL Chance Warmack
Tampa Bay BuccaneersOT Brad Seaton
Tennessee TitansOL Anthony McKinney
Washington Football TeamDE Caleb Brantley
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What becoming a poll worker taught me about securing the 2020 election

Security researcher and Georgetown Law professor Matt Blaze inspired me to work the polls in the last few elections. It showed me the value of paper in ensuring our democracy’s integrity.

What becoming a poll worker taught me about securing the 2020 election
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Keeping our elections secure and our ballots private already represented one of the trickiest challenges in a modern democracy—and then the coronavirus pandemic landed.

In a keynote that opened the Black Hat conference Wednesday, security researcher and Georgetown Law professor of secure systems and cryptology Matt Blaze offered advice for our current situation. But his solution doesn’t center around software or protocols. Instead, it’s all about people.

As in, election officials need more of them working elections—not just because pandemic fears have many older poll workers opting out, but because governments must dramatically scale up mail-in voting. More of us, especially those who work in information security, need to volunteer our time and expertise.

“I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a problem that’s harder than the security integrity of civil elections,” Blaze said. Protecting the secrecy of your ballot makes it harder to verify that your ballot was counted, and vice versa. And ever since our elections got too big to have people complete a paper ballot and drop it in a box for hand-counting, those goals have been difficult to square.

We magnified that problem, Blaze said, by overreacting to Florida’s hanging-chad debacle by mandating the replacement of punch-card and lever voting machines. That law also mandated hardware accessible to voters with disabilities, and many jurisdictions met that laudable objective by buying “direct recording” touchscreen voting machines. But these machines kept no independent record of votes, and as subsequent research established, many of these computers were horrifically insecure.

Consensus has since swung to having voters complete paper ballots and feed them into optical scanners—with ballots retained for safekeeping—while providing touchscreen ballot-marking machines for voters with vision or hearing disabilities.

I can testify for that approach. After seeing Blaze tell enough hacker conferences that the best way to learn this subject is to become a poll worker, I signed up to serve as one in Arlington, Virginia.

Since March, I’ve helped more than a thousand people vote and witnessed over three elections just how hard it is to screw up a well-designed ballot-scan system. The machines we use in my district accept ballots inserted forwards, backwards, upside down, or right side up—and will spit out a ballot if they detect no vote, allowing the voter to mark more clearly.

(Disclosures: My wife works for Arlington’s government but has no role in elections, while the county has paid me $625 combined for these 15-hour-plus workdays.)

Combining this system’s paper trail with a risk-limiting audit—a check of a sample of those ballots with scanners’ digital records—yields what Blaze called “very high confidence” in an election’s integrity.

Unlike app-based schemes that require immense trust in both voting software and in every voter’s smartphone—and which 73% of Black Hat attendees called impossible to secure in a survey taken by conference organizers—we’ve seen this combination of paper and math survive contact with reality.

These two ideas have kind of become the gold standard for election security.”

Matt Blaze

“These two ideas have kind of become the gold standard for election security,” Blaze said. “Election security at the beginning of the year was a matter of getting it implemented.”

Instead, the pandemic has made waiting indoors with crowds of people to vote much riskier—for voters as well as poll workers. The simplest way to address that is to spread out voting, with early in-person as well as mail-in balloting.

That second option zeroes out human contact, so states have rapidly adopted it. The Washington Post‘s tally now estimates that 76% of Americans will be able to vote by mail this fall.

But, Blaze explained, mail balloting adds extra steps that may be hard to scale: A voter requests a ballot; election officials remove them from the in-person pollbook for the voter’s precinct; the voter sends back the ballot with their signature on its envelope; officials check the voter’s signature against the one on file; if it matches, they remove the ballot from the envelope and scan it.

“This is a pretty labor-intensive process,” Blaze said—especially when a signature mismatch requires contacting the voter to give them a chance to fix it.

The risk of delayed mail-ballot delivery is also increasing as the U.S. Postal Service struggles with cost-cutting moves recently ordered by President Trump’s new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy.

Blaze’s advice to the audience watching online: Make yourself part of the solution and ask your local election office if they need help. “We can do this, but we need to engage now.”

In a conversation Thursday, Amber McReynolds, CEO of the Denver-based nonprofit National Vote At Home Institute, offered other recommendations to help scale up the mail-in voting process. She advocates for printing “intelligent mail bar codes” on ballot envelopes to speed their delivery and allow quicker tracking. In addition, ballots should be clearly designed, such as the templates published by the nonprofit Center for Civic Design.

When it comes to returning a ballot, McReynolds says that voters should be able to leave ballots in 24-hour dropboxes at secured locations such as libraries and government offices. And on election day, people should be allowed to hand-deliver mail-in ballots to polling places. She notes that more than 70% of Colorado mail voters delivered their ballots this way.

But this may require changing existing rules: In each election I worked, somebody showed up with an absentee ballot that we could not accept. Per the lengthy election-officer manual, we had to handle it differently regardless of whether it was blank or completed.

All this, however, leaves one obstacle that Blaze didn’t address and which McReynolds’s process-oriented advice can’t tackle: Trump’s repeated, false attacks on the integrity of mail-in voting, some of which Twitter has flagged with fact-checking labels. They already have local Republican leaders worrying that GOP voters will refuse mail ballots and wait to vote in person.

I asked Blaze about this in the chat system on Black Hat’s site. His response was not terribly encouraging.

“By and large, democracy only works if we collectively trust it,” Blaze wrote. “This is a hard problem.”

About the author

Rob Pegoraro writes about computers, gadgets, telecom, social media, apps, and other things that beep or blink. He has met most of the founders of the Internet and once received a single-word e-mail reply from Steve Jobs.


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F3: Fittipaldi aiming for the top ten in Spain

Barcelona 13 August 2020

The Barcelona-Catalunya track is one of the best known to everyone involved in motor racing in Europe. In recent years the Montmelo circuit has been the venue of choice for pre-season testing for pretty much all the categories, which means even the youngest of drivers have a good working knowledge of the 4.655 kilometre Spanish track. Brazil’s Enzo Fittipaldi knows the 16 turns here well, having raced in Formula Regional last year, coming away with a second and third place.

Working on qualifying. The 19 year old FDA driver is coming off the back of a weekend that did not live up to expectations. With no fewer than 30 drivers taking part, qualifying plays a key role in Formula 3 races and Fittipaldi’s main task is to get better at this part of the proceedings. He was 13th on the grid in Silverstone but he could have been in the top ten if he had not been one of the first drivers past the chequered flag, as later runners were able to improve. Barcelona will therefore be a chance to show what he learned in England.

Very hot weather. “As usual, it will be a very busy weekend for the Formula 3 runners,” confirmed the technical head of the FDA, Marco Matassa. “According to the forecast, they will have to contend with very hot weather for the whole weekend. Enzo arrives in Barcelona having recorded his best ever Formula 3 qualifying at Silverstone and if he keeps progressing like this, then the top 10 is within his grasp.”

Programme. For the sixth round of the season, Formula 3 is back to the usual timetable, with free practice getting things underway on Friday at 9.35 CET, followed by qualifying at 14.05, Race-1 is on Saturday at 10.25. The weekend ends with Race-2 on Sunday at 9.45.


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A new menstrual pictogram for use with feminine products that contain superabsorbent polymers

The menstrual pictogram (SAP-c version) is a potential diagnostic tool for heavy menstrual bleeding, and would be suitable for testing treatment effects in clinical trials.

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Julia L. Magnay, M.Sc., Tracy M. Nevatte, Ph.D., Christian Seitz, M.D., Shaughn O’Brien, D.Sc.

Volume 100, Issue 6, Pages 1715-1721.e4, December 2013

To determine whether the menstrual pictogram (the superabsorbent polymer-c or SAP-c version) can reliably estimate blood and total menstrual fluid volumes on prestained Always Ultra slim feminine towels (Proctor & Gamble) that contain superabsorbent polymers.

Randomized blinded study using simulated menstrual fluid (SMF: 50% blood, 50% saline mixture).

Gynecology research clinic.

12 premenopausal women with regular menstrual cycles who had not previously used a graphical method to assess menstrual loss.

Main Outcome Measure(s):

Assignment of 135 prestained towels containing known volumes of 0.5–25.0 mL of SMF to five pictorial icons of the menstrual pictogram, and correlation of pictogram scores to blood recovered from towels by the alkaline hematin method and total fluid applied to towels by measurement of soiled towel weight.

There was a high level of agreement between individual scores. For 112 (83%) of 135 towels, the participants’ readings either completely concurred or differed by only a single icon. There was a statistically significant correlation between the volume of blood applied (SMF/2) and that recovered by alkaline hematin, and volume of fluid applied and soiled towel weight.

The menstrual pictogram (SAP-c version) is a potential diagnostic tool for heavy menstrual bleeding and would be suitable for testing in a clinical trial.

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Fertility and Sterility

Editorial Office, American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Fertility and Sterility® is an international journal for obstetricians, gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists, urologists, basic scientists and others who treat and investigate problems of infertility and human reproductive disorders. The journal publishes juried original scientific articles in clinical and laboratory research relevant to reproductive endocrinology, urology, andrology, physiology, immunology, genetics, contraception, and menopause. Fertility and Sterility® encourages and supports meaningful basic and clinical research, and facilitates and promotes excellence in professional education, in the field of reproductive medicine.

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Image guided drainage versus antibiotic only treatment of pelvic abscesses Short term and long term outcomes

Patients with pelvic abscess treated with antibiotics alone are more likely to require surgical intervention than patients who also receive image guided drainage.

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Volume 102, Issue 4, Pages 1155-1159

To determine the efficacy of image-guided drainage versus antibiotic-only treatment of pelvic abscesses.

Retrospective cohort analysis.

An academic, inner-city medical center.

Women ages 11–49, admitted between 1998 and 2008 with ICD9 code 614.x (inflammatory diseases of ovary, fallopian tube, pelvic cellular tissue, and peritoneum).

Medical records search, chart review, and phone survey.

Main Outcome Measure(s):

Surgical intervention.

We identified 6,151 initial patients, of whom 240 patients met inclusion criteria. Of the included patients, 199 women received antibiotic-only treatment, and 41 received additional image-guided drainage. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of age, body mass index, parity, incidence of diabetes, obesity, endometriosis, or history of sexually transmitted infection excluding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Abscesses in the drainage cohort were noted to be larger in dimension (5.9 cm vs. 8.5 cm); 16.1% of patients who received antibiotics alone required surgical intervention versus only 2.4% of the drainage cohort. Patients who received drainage had longer hospital stays, but the time from treatment to discharge was similar in both groups (7.4 days vs. 6.7 days). We successfully contacted 150 patients, and the differences in long-term pregnancy outcomes, pain, or infertility were not statistically significant.

Patients who received antibiotics alone were more likely to require further surgical intervention when compared with patients who additionally received image-guided drainage. There were no observable long-term differences.

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Fertility and Sterility® is an international journal for obstetricians, gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists, urologists, basic scientists and others who treat and investigate problems of infertility and human reproductive disorders. The journal publishes juried original scientific articles in clinical and laboratory research relevant to reproductive endocrinology, urology, andrology, physiology, immunology, genetics, contraception, and menopause. Fertility and Sterility® encourages and supports meaningful basic and clinical research, and facilitates and promotes excellence in professional education, in the field of reproductive medicine.

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The Learning Space

The Learning Space is the educational arm of the NGO Al Tarab, providing a meeting place to raise awareness of the values of cultural diversity, cooperation and solidarity among schoolchildren through film screenings and educational sessions. By means of ongoing work with young people in Andalusia, the Learning Space aims to foster a more accurate, more realistic understanding of African societies, using the most universal language of all: art.

Besides film screenings and discussions with pupils attended by directors, the activities also include guided visits to the various exhibitions held at the Festival, as well as the “Junior Aperitifs”, in which some of the participating classes will have the opportunity to discuss cinema with a young African director and a film critic.

This year, the Learning Space morning sessions in Tarifa are attended by all primary school pupils in Tarifa and the surrounding rural area, as well as by pupils from twenty secondary schools in the provinces of Cádiz and Seville. Meanwhile, Spanish primary and secondary schools in Tangier, along with several other secondary schools, attend screenings organised in the Moroccan city. This edition, the Learning Space will also operate from our new venue in Algeciras, allowing even more students to discover these unique, enriching stories.

Motion Picture Aperitifs

From April 27 to 30 in Ecocenter | From May 1 to 3 in Casino Tarifeño | 13:30h to 14:30h

The Motion Picture Aperitifs are an unmissable event on the FCAT calendar, bringing together filmmakers, journalists and the public over a glass of wine. The day after the screening of each film in the competition section, viewers are invited to explore their experience of the films and to discuss ethical, aesthetic and stylistic aspects with the directors, having had time to ponder and question what they have seen. These gatherings reflect one of the main aims of FCAT: to remind people that African filmmakers are filmmakers first and foremost, and that African films play a role in influencing contemporary trends in global cinematographic narratives.

Moderating the Aperitifs, we once again welcome two Spanish critics and programmers who are already well-known at FCAT: Javier H. Estrada, contributing editor to the magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, programmer at Seville European Film Festival (SEFF) and Filmadrid, and teacher at Master LAV in Madrid, and Pablo de María Díaz, a regular collaborator on Asturian public radio and programmer of Oviedo’s Contemporary Audiovisual Week (SACO).

The Aperitifs will be held from 13:30 to 14:30 from Saturday 27 April to Friday 3 May on the rooftop terrace at the Casino.

The Palaver Tree

VII Training Forum "The Word Tree"

Training and education of film directors from Africa and the diaspora in the promotion and distribution of African cinema in a global market

Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 May | 10:00h to 13:30h | Casino Tarifeño.

One of the main obstacles to growth affecting African filmmakers and African cinema in general is linked to distribution, both within the continent and beyond. Although numerous films are produced each year in Africa, they continue to reach limited audiences and are often isolated to the specialised circuits of festivals or thematic film series. In other words, commercial distribution continues to be the Achilles heel of most African cinematographies.

For years, we at FCAT have been committed to the growth of African cinema and we know that it is often a lack of training and professionalization among directors, especially younger directors, which impacts on the difficulties they face in accessing commercial circuits. For that reason, this edition of the Palaver Tree will focus on training young African directors in accessing a space which continues to close its doors to them: global markets. We will approach the topic through practical analysis of fundamental markets for African and diaspora cinema, including the African, European and North American markets, paying particular attention to new digital platforms for screening audiovisual content.

In order to explore these aspects, we have brought together experts in the promotion and distribution of African cinema, as well as professionals from the international sales and distribution sector. This training course, which is organised as part of the ACERCA Programme from the Spanish Agency for Cooperation and Development (AECID), also provides opportunities for theoretical reflection, professional networking and discussion between directors, distributors, programmers and media professionals.
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Family Cinema

Film Forum for kids

April 29 and 30, May 2 and 3 18:00h | May 1 and 4 12:00h | Guzmán el Bueno

Frogs, baobab trees, flies and prince charmings accompany children and their parents on an extraordinary journey through African animation. Short films and feature films from different eras and countries allow children to delve into an African consciousness with a moral. And there’s more! We’re also offering a selection of three fiction features which won awards during previous editions of FCAT.

Literary Space

Between Lines: literary walk

Friday, May 3 | 11:15h | Start: Casino Tarifeño

In 2017, we launched a series of literary tours of the streets of Tarifa, accompanied by writers. To supplement the African American film retrospective held this year, the two guest readers have selected texts by female African American writers Toni Morrison, June Jordan and Assata Shakur, whose work was fundamental in illustrating the struggle of black people in the 20th century.
Two experts in African American literature will perform the readings:
Mercedes Jabardo.
Mercedes Jabardo is an associate professor and doctor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social and Human Sciences at Miguel Hernández University in Elche, where she coordinates the doctoral programme in Anthropology Applied to Crisis Contexts and also manages the Official Master’s Degree in New Trends in Social Anthropology. She teaches on Diaspora and Black Feminism modules and is the author of the book Black Feminisms. An Anthology.
Deborah Ekoka.
Deborah Ekoka is a cultural manager at United Minds, a bookshop and sociocultural venue dedicated to African and diaspora literature, which is one of the main promoters of African and Afrodescendant culture in Valencia.

The History of Black Feminisms in the United States.

Friday, May 3 | 10:00h | Casino Tarifeño
Mercedes Jabardo provides an extensive historical overview of African American feminism from the time of slavery with Sojourner Truth to the emergence of names as relevant as Ida Wells, Patricia Hills Collins and Angela Davis.

Book Presentation

Black Sufism by Antonio de Diego González

Friday, May 3 | 11:30h | Casino Tarifeño

The history of contemporary West Africa cannot be understood without a consideration of Sufism. Sufism is a vibrant spirituality full of incredible stories of saints who, using their charms, configured the identity of the Sahel countries and linked them to the rest of the Islamic world. The Sufi female saints, so little-known and yet so representative of their time, contribute hugely to enriching the balance between power and gnosis.

Hshouma by Zainab Fasiki

From April 26 to May 4 | Cárcel Real
Hshouma is a project created by Moroccan artist Zainab Fasiki during El Ranchito, an artistic residency programme held at Matadero (Madrid) in June 2018, in collaboration with the Queens Collective in Marrakesh. The word hshouma comes from the Moroccan dialect and refers to a taboo which must not be talked about with others. In Morocco, taboos relating to various aspects of society prevent certain subjects from being spoken about with family members or at school. The lack of communication about these matters leads to numerous social problems, as people learn incorrect information about essential topics which require the involvement of professional educators.
The ten illustrations exhibited by the artist in Tarifa depict several of the most deeply-rooted taboos in Moroccan society: sex education, gender equality, the body, violence, discrimination and freedom.
Aged just 24 years old, Zainab Fasiki has become a feminist role model in the Arab world. Her commitment to raising awareness of the difficulties experienced by women in Morocco as widely as possible has led her to exhibit her work in numerous countries.

ExpoMagazine Afrique

From April 26 to May 4 | Casa de la Cultura.

Music Space

Nuri (Tunisia)

April 27 | 23:00 | Hogar del Pensionista (outside)
Nuri forms part of a new generation of musicians to emerge in the final years of the Ben Ali dictatorship, hitting the streets to demand the dictator’s departure during the Jasmine Revolution. Based in Denmark, the musician launched his first album Drup in 2017, a tribute to African heritage in Tunisian music which acts as a bridge linking to ancestral traditions. Nuri supplements this tribute by playing traditional percussion instruments live. He combines this melodic fabric with a patchwork of sounds from the Sahel. In the last year, he has presented his work in countries such as Tunisia, Morocco, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Spain and France.
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April 29 and May 2 | 23:00 | Almedina

Tango night

April 30 | 23:00h | Liceo (Casino Tarifeño)

Juno & Darrell (Ecuatorial Guinea/Egypt/Spain)

May 1 | 23:00h | Mercado de Abastos
Juno & Darrell are a musical duo of composers founded in Madrid. Influenced primarily by African and African American music, they identify with a contemporary concept of spirituality, mixing Afro-rooted electronics, synthesisers and organic elements to produce unique results. Their music is a fusion of soul, afrobeat, hip hop and jazz, combining the analogue and digital worlds. Juno & Darrell have participated in international festivals such as ImaginaFunk, Slap! Festival, Madrid Es Negro, Eat My Soul and Monkey Week, and their experimental approach have taken them to venues including the Thyssen Museum and Felabration, the annual commemoration of Fela Kuti and afrobeat music.
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Juani Cash (Jukebox Jam!) (Spain)

May 3 | 23:00h | La Ruina.
For more than five years, Juani Cash has been shaking up the Andalusian music scene with his mix of disco, house and black music. In recent years, the musician has devoted body and soul to promoting electronic music and African American-rooted sounds in Córdoba and Andalusia, which despite not being hostile to this style of music are not particularly enthused by it either. He also founded the Jukebox Jam! Movement, a series of club nights in which he revives the spirit of jam sessions while using vinyl as the main instrument.

Alberto Mvundi (Angola)

May 4 | 21:30h | Waikiki.

Festival Nights

The activities at the 16th African Film Festival continue after the film screenings have finished for the night. Various establishments in Tarifa are collaborating with the festival by offering a live music programme in line with the event, providing nocturnal entertainment and creating an ideal setting for festival guests, the audience and the city’s inhabitants to come together.

Training Course

Pioneers and revolutionaries of African cinema

From April 27 to 30 | 10:00 to 13:15h | Casa de la Cultura
Over a four-day period, the course taught by film critic and programmer Javier H. Estrada examines key periods and figures in African cinematography. Tracing links between past and present, each session explores creators who have influenced the evolution of cinema on the continent, establishing connections with contemporary talents and arguing that African audiovisual creation has been consistent in producing daring, ground-breaking films.

With a vast territorial scope ranging from Morocco to Rwanda, Ethiopia to Mali and Senegal to Tunisia, and from the perspective of visionaries such as Djibril Diop Mambéty, Sarah Maldoror, Souleymane Cissé and Ahmed Bouanani, “Pioneers and revolutionaries of African cinema” analyses the ways in which the most established, original filmmakers have interpreted realities which are overlooked in the West despite their huge relevance.

The course demonstrates the extraordinary ability of African filmmakers to anticipate political developments, warning of the fragility of their systems and societies in a visionary manner and casting light on possible alternatives.

Curso Pioneros y revolucionarios del cine africano

Cross-border project to train programmers and cultural managers in visibility for African cinema

African cinematographiesremain among the least well-known in the world, despite winning more and more awards at the main international festivals. This lack of knowledge is even harder to understand in societies which appear to have forgotten their historic links to African culture: on the one hand, Andalusia and the Algarve owe a great deal to their historic relationship with North Africa, while the Alentejo, the Algarve and Portugal as a whole have been culturally and economically enriched by the Portuguese-speaking African former colonies.

This project aims to create ongoing collaboration between film festivals in the AAA Euroregion (Alentejo, Algarve, Andalusia) to encourage cross-border dialogue and cooperation. In order to do this, the aim is to work together to promote African and diaspora cinematographies at film festivals in the region. The work will involve training aimed at programmers, managers and directors of film festivals in the Algarve, Alentejo and Andalusia regions in the form of meetings, film screenings, study of the history of African cinematographies, and meetings with African experts and directors. The participating festivals are Algares (Lagoa), Heritales (Évora), Periferias (Marvão | Valencia de Alcántara), FIKE (Évora), FICCAB (Benalmádena), FICSAN (San Roque) and Cortogenial (Puente Genil).

African Cinema On Demand Channel

Al Tarab, thenon-profit organisation behindFCAT, has spent the last 16 years working to increase the presence of African cinema on screens acrossthe Spanish-speaking world. With this aim in mind, in addition to the annual festival, Al Tarab has also developed projects such as Cinenómada, a flagship project enabling African film series to be organised across Spain and Latin America throughout the year.

But as times change, so does the way in which people consume films, and it is now time for Al Tarabto take a step forward in its efforts to promote cinema from the neighbouring continent. Following years of requests from the Spanish-speaking public, we have nowdecided to create and launch avideo on-demand platform in Spanish specialising in films from Africa and the African diaspora in order to meet our primary objectives: to increase access to these cinematographies as widely as possible, to enhance knowledge of the multiple realities of the continent, and to contribute to deconstructing stereotypes.

Sixteen editions of FCAT and deeply rooted relationships with the African audiovisual sector have provided us with the experience necessary to launch this on-demand channel, which we are convinced is an essential step forward in building audiences for African cinema in Spanish.

A festival in itself is not enough to present the cinema of an entire continent. For this reason, in 2005, Al Tarab initiatedCinenómada, one of its key projects, which is aimed at bringing the Spanish public closer to African cinema and, by means of its films, to the social and cultural realities of the continent. More specifically, Cinenómada promotes the film production of the African continent through non-profit cultural sessions, there by carrying FCAT’s effort over the whole year. Since the last edition of FCAT in 2017, 50 itinerant movie sessions have been organized in 32 cities of Spain.

In a country in which African cinema is still a great unknown, this alternative cultural distribution in collaboration with associations, NGO’s, film clubs, cultural centers, museums, universities, etc. is an essential preliminary stage to overcome the lack of commercial distribution channels.

Cinenómada offers a wide selection of films, subtitled into Spanish, from previous editions of the Tarifa African Film Festival that, at this time, represents the only channel of its kind and magnitude available in Spain.


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Research predicts the high-tech garage of the future

Holographic and Augmented Reality technology, advanced robotics and 3D printing of car parts are just some of the high-tech innovations that experts predict will become a feature of car body repair shops in the future.

Forget what you know, it’s going to be more Tom Cruise in Minority Report than Danny Zuko in Grease with repair centres becoming hives of technology more akin to a laboratory than a workshop.

Holograms will no longer just be a fantasy in films like Iron Man and Star Wars, with the technology set to be used to help mechanics to accurately repair car problems.

Likewise, holographic and augmented reality technology will be built into vehicles to enable drivers to fix minor problems at the roadside with assistance from professional mechanics remotely.

Working with Thatcham Research, DG Cities and the Women’s Engineering Society, Direct Line has highlighted the exciting new technology that the industry is embracing. According to the research, the top ten innovations that experts predict will be a reality in auto repair centres by 2050 are:

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1. Holographic and Augmented Reality technology

2. Advanced robotics to assist with manoeuvring and adjustment of vehicles

3. 3D printing of car parts to improve turnaround time for repairs

4. Ultra-connected workshops

5. Hyper clean work areas akin to laboratories

6. Self-diagnosing cars

7. Video communication technology for mechanics to speak with customers

8. Advanced laser welding

9. Space saving car storage

10. Innovative staff training areas for mechanics to learn as technology evolves

Diagnosing problems could become as simple as the car itself telling the engineer what the issue is – sometimes before anything has even gone wrong.

Waiting for a spare part to come into stock at a garage will become a thing of the past. Thanks to on-site 3D printers, mechanics will be able to create replacement spare parts in an instant.

Professionals also foresee that driverless cars may even be able to drive themselves to the garage to be checked, meaning people won’t even need to leave their home to get a MOT. Instead, customers will be able to speak with mechanics via video calls.

“It’s really exciting to think that holographic and AR technology, advanced 3D printing, and connected vehicles that allow mechanics to find the route of a problem quickly, will begin to become a reality,” Felicity Harer, the Motor Network Technology Specialist at Direct Line Group said.


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Christmas Gift Wishlist

The Challenge
Welcome to my Wishlist!  I wanted to share a few things that are both on my real and "if only" list and maybe give you some ideas in the process.
What do I mean by "if only"?  Well, I've seen the Burberry graffiti scarf a couple of times in person and it is so up my ever-lovin' alley, BUT in my climate (and my future climate), it will not get enough wear to warrant it's price, which would be daily in my book.  It is currently marked down, though, so if you are in a climate that it will work for you, then "Yay!"

The Details
In addition to the above mentioned scarf:

Faux fur leopard coat.  Because they are glamorous, fun, warm and on-trend.

Jo Malone fragrance.  Both Blackberry and Bay and Grapefruit are favorites.  I sometimes wear them together.  The Blackberry and Bay bath oil goes right on my skin, then may be followed up with the Grapefruit spray.  Everyone who smells the Blackberry and Bay really likes it.  The fragrances are light and subtle.  You owe it to yourself to go to a Jo Malone counter and try some if you haven't yet.

Brahmin Small Camille Satchel in Toasted Almond.  The toasted almond colorway is only available at Dillard's.  This color is pleasing, because it is a neutral, warm tone, but not too dark.

Tiffany T Wire Ring.  The Tiffany T collection really appeals to me, because it has a casual elegant look.

Michael Kors Watch.  I have a collection of watches.  Most of them have seen their better days and were relatively inexpensive.  My go-tos right now are identical Fossil Georgia watches, one in gold with a gold leather band, one in rose gold with a warm grey band (it looks dark brown to me).  They have narrow bands so can be stacked with bracelets.  Although the model below is not exactly the one I have in mind, I'd like something more substantial than my current ones.

A new mattress.  The one shown here is a Serta iComfort, which has gotten some good buzz among people I know.  The Hubs and I tried it the store--he is all about a firm mattress (as in rock hard) and this was not appealing to him.  We are opting to get a hybrid of coils and foam by Beauty Rest and ordering a California King instead of a traditional king, so we'll need...

New sheets.  I don't have any one favorite brand, but we currently have a used Ralph Lauren and it's wearing like iron!

Laura Mercier lip glace.  There are other good brands, but I'll check out this brand first.  I don't use lip gloss as much as I used to, but I still like it occasionally.

Godiva Chocolates.  Several years ago, my husband received a box from a client.  We left them in his (home) office and once a day or so, we'd have a clandestine meet up without kids around and indulge in a piece.  Now, we buy are own, but we still don't share with the kids--ha ha!

The Takeaway
Although this post is all about "stuff."  No matter what's on our lists, none of it would mean a thing without those we love!

Please consider Following my blog via BlogLovin'Instagram, Email or Pinning!  Your comments make my day!

  1. Well I hope Santa brings you everything on your list! You've been so good all year! I really like that ring and bag. You have such good taste Kim and I can tell you really think things through - a skill I both admire and lack. I hope you have a wonderful weekend my friend!

  2. Oh you have some great items on your wishlist! Hopefully Santa knows to look here for your gift ideas ;)

  3. Hello,

    Beautiful !

  4. I have to admit that I'm so glad we all bought a leopard coat last year. Well, my mom already had one, but they are such a great statement least here where it's cold!

  5. Fun post Kim! I have all kinds of items rolling around in my head. I should pour them out into a post! :) Thank you for the inspiration. :)


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Keep up-to-date on the current happenings of the San Antonio Film Commission below. Also, make sure to check out our listing of film industry events on our calendar.

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HBO “Entre Nos” Latino Comedy Special Coming to San Antonio

Tickets to the taping will be available for free to individuals 18-years of age and older

SAN ANTONIO (Apr. 12, 2019) – HBO Latino is bringing its stand-up comedy special, “Entre Nos” to the Alamo City. The free, 18-and-over taping will take place April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Charline McCombs Empire Theater. Tickets to the show are available at

 “Entre Nos” is an English-language stand-up comedy special showcasing some of the best Latino comedians in the US. Four Latino comedians make up the impressive roster, including Nick Guerra, Erik Rivera, Gina Brillon, and Kim Congdon.

“We are thrilled to have HBO Latino and “Entre Nos” coming to San Antonio,” said Krystal Jones, Marketing, Film & Music Administrator, City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture. “This is the first time the producers are taking the show on the road and the fact that they chose San Antonio speaks highly of all our city offers television and film projects.”

“The City of San Antonio truly opened its arms to our production,” said Edwin Licona, Producer of “Entre Nos”. “The city’s film-friendliness as well as the services its Film Commission provides made it a very easy decision for us to bring the show to San Antonio.”

“Entre Nos” will not only feature top Latino talent, but also the skills of San Antonians with the production estimating to hire more than 25 local crew and a number of background cast. “Entre Nos” is also a success story for the City of San Antonio’s Film Strategic Plan, with its local film incentive, no film permit fees and film-friendly locations playing a key role in enticing the production to come to the city.

The “Entre Nos” comedy special to be taped at the Empire Theatre will air later this year on HBO Latino, HBO Go, and HBO Now. With a reputation for discovering new Latino comedy talent, “Entre Nos” is known as one of the hottest Latino-American stand-up comedy specials.

About “Entre Nos”
“Entre Nos” is an English language stand-up comedy show that features top Latino comedians. The show airs on HBO Latino, HBO Go, and HBO Now, and is the highest-rated show of its kind that also appeals to mainstream audiences. It finds its audience with Latino-Americans who have grown up here or were born in the U.S. Previously the show has featured Latino comedians from the USA, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico.

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A broke(n) artist and writer.

This story is a sequel to Love-Making As A Parent

When Twilight brings a friend from rehab home after one of her sessions, one of the twins make the visit very interesting.

Part of the SciTwi Shimmer Chronicles

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Welp. Can't say I'm surprised by this turn of events, but I got a kick out of it!

*Riotous laughter* Sunny! Twiggles! Your lives just got a whole lot more complicated. Congratulations.

Light, I love the twins. Now I'm sure that their moms are going to go completely bonkers by the time they're three years old.

Actually caught me completely off guard. Damn.

Glad you liked it.

Who said that they're not already bonkers?

You know, that's a very good point.

Well who saw that coming?

It wouldn't surprise me if Gleaming has magic too.

The part where Solaria got twilight’s magic and messed around with company

I daout anybody expected THAT to happen.

Eh, who knows?

Ahhh! Omg! I should’ve known this was gonna happen.

This is gonna get even more exciting.

If Solaria has Twiggles magic... does that mean Gleaming has Sunnybuns magic...?

It's actually a little more complicated than Solaria having Twiggles' magic. It'll make sense in the next story, which is part of both the SciTwi Shimmer Chronicles and the AppleDash Diaries.

It would be so funny if twilight and sunset have a pair of magic wielding twins to deal with, they’ll never get any sleep whatsoever.

Well. Either Solaria is inheriting Twilight's magic, or she's draining it. Either way, this is gonna get interesting. XP

oh mah goodness that was just to cute and funny

The answer to if Gleaming has magic or not is here.

wait, dash and applejack have their own story series set in this universe AND I DINT'T KNOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?

*Instantly goes to the very beginning of that one and starts reading.*

oh wait, before I do that this is one of my favorite universes that has SUNLIGHT in it. keep up the good work.

Thanks. I'll keep it going as long as I can. :twilightsmile:

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