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Il mio problema è mia sorella
Liberamente tratto da Manola di Margaret Mazzantini
ideato ed interpretato da Silvia Padula e Tina Sosic
regia Paolo Carnieri
durata: 20 min circa
Due ritratti antitetici, che sono il riflesso di un unico essere incasinato: la donna. Esplorano la loro esistenza attraverso un percorso che le porterà a confrontarsi e scontrarsi. In questo work in progress vengono affrontati molteplici aspetti, che portano le protagoniste a riscoprirsi e riviversi come appartenenti allo stesso caleidoscopico universo femminile.
Foto di Paola Castellan, per qualsiasi utilizzo basta chiedere :)
Here's a T-shirt advocating men solve their problems by throwing their girlfriend out the window (or through the wall). It was for sale at Kohl's, and created a stir. Kohl's took it off their website, but - Google be praised - could still be retrieved.
There is a serious problem with cool's appropriation of domestic violence of late. If you (boys) want to be cool, you need to beat your girlfriends. Or use them for your own gratification.
Cool has always been about transgression, so domestic violence-as-cool shouldn't surprise us.
Metra F40C 611 departs Bensenville, IL with a inbound. All seemed normal here, but just minutes later, 611 suffered a major mechanical failure and broke down in Franklin Park.
Today, I'm going to write a couple of long things that call a lot of people dumb. I do a better job with these kinds of things when I just write them right off when it hits me to do it, and I've been putting this one off a bit. But I really do want to put this out there, so I'm just going to go ahead and do it.
The thesis: Americans are really dumb about immigration. We're dumb and insular and paranoid. We've ignored our own origins -- the people I've known who hate immigration the most are all second- or third-generation Americans whose grandparents passed easily through Ellis Island without any kind of visa. We've forgotten the whole point of the American experiment. Those of us who claim moral superiority based on a spurious attachment to a contorted form of Christianity have devolved into race-based nationalists. We've needlessly handcuffed the economy because we don't understand how much capitalism depends on the constant flow of new labor that birth rates can't sustain. In a couple of words, we're stoopid. You can see it in these signs on a protest fence in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. "We are uneasy and scared." And, well ... God forbid you be uneasy!
"Say, Clint," You might be saying. "You've ranted on about versions of this before. What's the deal, now?"
Well, friends, here's the problem, and it starts with the moron governor of Texas.
Greg Abbott was elected Texas governor after a long stint as the state's attorney general that focused mainly on important issues like banning sex toys and encouraging large corporations to physically harm as many people as possible. He's been a big supporter of Trump and has sung all of MAGA's greatest hits, and he absolutely hates brown people. His state has a long border with Mexico, and he hates the idea that people cross it, even refugees who have a legal right to seek asylum under the laws of the United States. He'd shoot them all if he could. He's placed barriers in the Rio Grande to drown people trying to cross. He's put Texas National Guard soldiers along the river and ordered them to force men, women, and children gasping for air back into the water. He's a huge anti-abortion guy who loves life so much that he'll kill a woman to prove it, but he loves watching brown kids die.
He's also big on stunt, and for the last year or so, his big stunt has been to grab as many of the people who've made it across the federal border into Texas territory as he can, load them up onto rickety, unregulated buses and ship them all to liberal northern cities he doesn't like. Chicago has been a big target on the MAGA radar for years, so a lot of those buses are running up I-57, where they dump a few hundred refugee immigrants on some random street in the middle of the night and leave them all to figure it out. Abbott could have the buses drop them off at some central processing location and let the city know they're coming and when, but what's the fun in that? That wouldn't be cruel enough, so he just dumps them in random spots, and everybody has to scramble to figure it out on the fly. The city's tried mandating that the buses follow an actual procedure, and the city council recently passed an ordinance allowing them to impound buses that drop the migrants outside a specific location. They nabbed one bus and found the bus driver didn't have a drivers license. Texas responded by flying 90-someodd migrants up here on a private plane and dumping them in a random hangar. The "handlers" ducked out in an uber before the cops showed up.
According to the internet, between August of 2022 and the start of this month, December of 2023, the Greg Abbott buses have dumped 21,700 refugees on the streets of Chicago. (This seems hugely counterproductive if you're looking at this from a xenophobe's standpoint, because now you've got 21,700 people you don't want in the country 1,500 miles from the Mexican border. They could go anywhere.) As of the end of October, this program has cost the taxpayers of state of Texas -- which still hasn't figured out how electricity works -- about $75 million. Switching over to planes will pump that up fast.
But here's the thing about this whole Greg Abbott deal: he accidentally kind of has point.
He has his point for stupid, racist, xenophobic reasons, and he's making his point with as much inhumane cruelty as he can manage. He mostly just wants to troll Chicago mayors Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and US President Joe Biden. But he's trolling them with a point.
Immigration is a federal issue, and it is up to the federal government to handle it with federal resources. It's unfair to place the financial burden of this issue on any one state, but the states along the southern border with Mexico -- Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California -- have borne the brunt of the cost. The federal government, meanwhile, has been running a wildly haphazard border immigration policy for decades, and has never managed to figure out a logical, reasonable system for processing people. It really needs to do this. In a best-case scenario, the feds would take this thing over and run it themselves at the border crossings. At the very least, they need to supply federal money to cover the states' cost.
But the feds won't do that, and politicians like Greg Abbott are the reason why. People like Greg Abbott don't want to solve the problem. Their only solution is simply to shut the door. Build a wall, put up a bunch of barbed wire, drown people in the river and shoot whoever makes it across, and that is no solution. People have a right codified in American law to seek asylum, and we need a rational process to allow these people in. More than that, the continued success of this nation absolutely depends on new people coming in. But Congress -- where Republicans reign in the House -- would never authorize any such system. And so we're frozen, impotent, unable as a nation to act. So Greg Abbott will just keep up his human trafficking, keep using Texas money to put people on crap buses and planes, and dumping them in the night.
FORT MCCLELLAN, Ala. August 16, 1955 - Georgia Guardsmen from Company A, 286th Infantry Battalion work on field problems during annual training. The Soldiers of the Lyons-based unit are led by Captain William Salem of Lyons (left). The remaining Soldiers are Cpl. Delaney Dixon, Private 1st Class Bobby Curl, Staff Sgt. John Wiggins and Cpl. Donald Moslesy of Vidalia.
Photo Courtesy of Georgia Guard Historical Archives
Approximately 1200 middle and high school students and their teachers from 50 schools across the state on campus on Tuesday April 23, 2019, for the third annual UW Oshkosh Mathematical Problem Solving Contest.
No, flash worked perfectly on this Santa portrait.
But I'm having the devil's own hard time trying to get my studio flash system up and running.
Boring tech stuff to follow: System is three Strobelite Plus flash heads, two Softboxes, one background flash unit. All head units are working normally. I can't seem to get the communication to work between the flash heads and two remote triggers (PocketWizard Plus II). Can't get the camera to wirelessly trigger the flash heads. Wired, they work fine. The remote triggers are working normally...but somewhere in between, the communication breaks down.
I believe it is one of two problems. It is possible that the cable between PocketWizard receiver unit and first flash head is incompatible in some way...though I don't know how that could be. Or, it is possible that the 3.3v that the remote trigger sends out is not appropriate for the flash head input...though I was told that these two systems work together.
Until I hear from one of the manufacturers, I'll remain both puzzled and stymied.
We bought two large garden rockers last Summer, and they were great. The problem was, they couldn't stay out all seasons and they took up room in the shed. A lot of room.
After many false starts - including the idea of suspending them from the shed roof - I worked out that I could hang them on the wall! And in the end it only took an hour.
Here's the first one in position, shot from both sides so you can see the mounting bracket (there's now also a small secondary bracket at the bottom, supporting the footrest).
Pleased with self.
Pimples and eczema are main skin problems. The simple act of sweating can clear the glands. A quick rinse in the shower loosens excess skin cells without the damage from rubbing. In addition to the benefit of releasing toxins that can zap the strength of the immune system to deal with bacteria, increased capillary flow to the skin also has a beneficial effect.
We often magnify our problems by denial ...recently one of my friend had lots of problem with another friend of mine because he was not able to accept the irrational behavior of other friend ... and yesterday he told that he found his life had changed because he accepted the fact that other friend is usually irrational ... sometimes accepting things helps ...
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
Uno de los problemas más comunes en la morfología del pene es su excesiva curvatura, o lo que llaman comúnmente pene doblado, pene torcido, pene curvo, o pene chueco. Esto no siempre obedece a un defecto, sino, sólo es su forma.
Muchos hombres pertenecen al grupo de los que no tienen su pene recto y lo sufren en silencio por vergüenza, o miedo al exponerlo o tratar de hacer algo al respecto, exagerando ese mal entendido defecto.
Sin embargo, son muchas las preguntas y foros que han aflorado en el ciberespacio en el que ocultándose tras el anonimato, muchos hombres se han atrevido a preguntar y a saber.
Otros hombres que poseen un pene doblado sufren una enfermedad llamada enfermedad de Peyronie. La enfermedad de Peyronie o cavernitis fibrosa también llamada induración plástica peneana, es una condición en la que el tejido interno del pene se transforma en una cicatriz en forma de placa dura e inflexible de tejido en uno de los lados del pene tirando del otro lado y provoca que el pene se dobla en su erección a veces de forma exagerada. Aparece en la edad adulta y en la fase temprana de su evolución suele ser dolorosa, sobre todo durante la erección. Provoca una curvatura del miembro que en grados avanzados puede impedir o dificultar la erección.