[18:32] Cephas Loire gurgles a wet cacophony of chuckles, this time actually standing his ground and allowing the bullets to enter his abdomen. A heavy metallic thud resonates as the rounds bounce off the lieanr frame beneath. "Going to take more then....", he stutters a moment, coughing up a little blood, "...then that, little kitty. Catwalkers don't understand warfare, trying to grasp straws, house of cards. Wait until shipment comes, going to blow your fucking house of cards down." He reaches up, drawing the machette, "Going to give you one more chance to go lay in corner like little kitty...", he inhales, stiffling another cough, "...little song...little dance...big knife jammed down yer pants."

 

[18:35] Bailey Dazy continues to stand her ground on the ramp of the den. She knows if she backs down now, the den and her own ego will be lost forever. She doesn't have much more protection. She realizes she doesn't have any more bullets in her pistol, not like they were doing much anyway. She holsters it and reverts to the lone weapon she has left.... her hand made metal claws. 8 inches in length and razor blade sharp... She crouches with her claws extended... she'd be ready to pounce directly on top of him. "You may get too much sexual enjoyment from that."

 

[18:38] Cephas Loire extends his tongue, still dripping with regurgitated blood and bile, "Rather like pussy pussy...", he hisses menacingly, "..count self lucky caught me on good day or would have rippe dyou apart already." He takes a step closer, tilting his head, twirling the machete playfully, "Random shit happens all the time, shiv? SOmetimes it finds you...", he takes another step, "Sometimes foolishly go out looking for it."

 

[18:44] Bailey Dazy focuses her eyes on the intruder, her mind turning feral, words are hard to come by at this point as all her brain can think is 'kill, kill, kill' "You.... you're foolish... you... you come here. YOU LEAVE!" She roars with the last statement, as she leaps downward aiming directly for his head, should she succeed she may dig deep in with her claws.

 

[18:44] Bailey Dazy has nothing but revenge on her mind right now

 

[18:50] Cephas Loire growls loudly, announcing his own intent. He veers back, the claws missing his head but imbeding themselves instead in his chest, stopping short when they riccochete off the frame beneath. He growls again, slamming his head into hers, apparently not at full force or it would've caved in her entire skull. The impact dislodges her claws, he in turn crouching slightly, taunting her to continue with a beckoning hand.

 

[18:53] Bailey Dazy feels her feral adrenline rushing but the blow to the head takes quite a bit out of her... She stumbles back, and away from the edge of the catwalk. She all but pins her back to the wall... she hears Shadows cheering but it echoes in her ears. She reaches forward with her paw making an attempt to slice her bladed claws across Cephas's face. It's not until she nearly slaps him that she realizes she's unarmed.

 

[19:03] Cephas Loire leans into the path of her attack, allowing her hand to make contact with his ice cold synth flesh. He chuckles in amusement as he lashes his hand out to grab her wrist in a vice like grip. “See darkness in your eyes…”, he snarls, his voice heavy with intent, malice, “The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do and devise reason later.”, he pulls her towards her, her body whipping at him like a ragdoll, “There is nothing else. Existence is random, has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it too long.”, he brings the machete up, relishing as she wriggles in his grasp, “No meaning save what we choose to impose.” At that he punctuates the remark by bring the blade swiftly down in a shallow arc, gleaming the flesh of her throat open, parting it in a smooth, glistening red line.

 

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Most of my pictures are moving pictures shot from cabs and auto rickshahs ,,

 

bald headed

barefeet

with lots of guts

live on a street

in shanty of huts

one stammers

one stutters

one bad words

loves to splurt

word to word

three against

the might

of a herd

three flock

together

like warbling

birds

now going for

hafta wasuli

from roadside

shop keepers

selling iftar fare

fruits jelly falooda

samosas bhajias

dates and custards

their body language

created this poem

three street smart

idiots

 

I shot these kids from a moving cab, these are kids you will find in any Muslim ghetto or locality,and Ramzan does a lot of good in controlling their bad upbringing in many cases.

 

I live close to a slum, and the kids almost the same age talk in a lingo laced with abusive words piciked up from the gutters of life or words that the adults use as normal bill of conversational fare , without realizing it is being picked up by the kids,

 

One of the most common word that begins all conversations in the slums extensively used by kids and I am not making it up, is Aye Loudey which is a dirty slang for the male member ..it is something more abusive in sound and content than dickhead,

 

And a few days back a person was telling me at least for a month he wont be hearing all this but he was wrong this word and others too reverberate in Muslim pockets and maybe in ghettos were other communities live too,

 

This was one of the reasons I stopped taking Marziya through the slums to my workplace, but I showed her how kids live for the few months we walked through this gutter of human despair.

 

Some words like chutiya teri bahen ka , teri ma ka are words that are part of the lexicon of life in every corner or nukkad of slum dwellings ..

 

You might wonder how I am writing all this, today is my 10 fast I dont keep track, I just fast, this was a subject I had kept in abeyance and the kids pictures without text I posted last night bought out all this ..

 

There is a marked change in the manner of kids during Ramzan whose parents have bought them up well, you see them rushing for namaz for tarabi and other religious related events.

 

So in a way it is ones surroundings parentage that makes the kids what they are.

 

Recently there was an incident that occurred at JJ Colony I did not want to give it much importance but I shall tell you in brief I had come from shooting the Bandra Station Iftar time pictures and cut across the sky walk to enter the Anjuman e Islam lane most of the people know me as thy have seen me shoot pictures and they know I am trying to popularize this lane as a Ramzan food stop.

  

I was taking a picture of a guy selling nan Muslim flat bread and a guy in his 40s pushed me roughly shouting at me why I was taking the bread sellers picture without permission , I had shot the same bread seller a few days back too, I was about to talk to him when he raised his hand at me, in the meantime a crowd gathered in my support and this local don just slipped away.

 

In normal situation I would have unleashed my fury too, but Ramzan makes us cool headed and tolerant, tolerance is the Mantra of Peace , we dont hit back fight argue our fast our meditation I am always carrying my prayer beads along with my camera.'

  

So when I read 60 soldiers killed or some more persons or child killed in Kashmir it breaks my hearts and I know it breaks your heart too, why not show restrain in this cherished noble month that is attributed as Gods own month beats me.

 

And three kids can in one image unfold so many emotions locked up in silence when I first shot them and now a perpetual text and way of life through a stray thought,

 

This is a blog it needs no agenda , it maybe purposeless to those who dont understand the street imagery and young urchins on the roads,

 

So it is not a just picture I shot the criteria of a photographer but I shot an emotional process the only forked path where a blog and photo journalism part ways.

 

Bloggers are known as failed writers burnt out writers I have no pretensions of becoming a writer and my audience is the man a little more fairer than me I write for him , this is my mind set from the time I became a blogger I wrote for my Buzznet friends Benn Bell and the rest of them , I still write for them but I am lucky some more read me at Facebook and Twitter where I pimp my blogs .

 

And now it includes the brilliant and witty bloggers from Indi Bloggers too.. and I am mature content in my use of cuss words so use your discretion ,,,

 

I think we are all grown ups and if you have not grown up wake up and read the Times of India where a child slits his step fathers throat or a ten year old buy rapes a five year old girl..or a twelve year old girl implicates her teacher of rape and molestation for failing her in class and I can go on but I wont..

 

And I dont know call me a monolithic moron but trusting your pre pubescent daughter or ward with a male tutor without a responsible person in the house is asking for trouble , even tutors carry their libido in gonads that are bigger than a childs school bag that hangs on their back.

 

You get the gist..

If you start to hear voices you should ask them to sing

And you could start dancing when they get into full swing

Now some people might look and some might stutter

When dancing you appear to be using a feather duster

 

Now not all voices are real so if you have your doubts

Ask them to speak up or even give out a shout

But be careful not all voices are here to help you

So no running with scissors or making home brew

 

And never let the voices tell you what to do

There`s enough people to take exception to

If the voices aren`t real why do they have good ideas

Or maybe you only hear them if you`re one of the messiahs

 

Some voices you hear might try to provoke

While others give good ideas and signs of hope

So when voices speak listen to what they say

But the decision is yours at the end of the day

 

Don`t listen to voices that might cause some harm

Yet you might learn something from the ones who charm

The rules for the voices require some tact

They consider it rude if you answer back

 

................. Copyright (c) Rodney Harrison 2014

so it's been a sl-sl-slow and st-st-stuttering start to the groupie culture again... for some reason it's been slightly intimidating this time around.

 

i mean it's not as simple as in the old days. back then you'd pour your heart out into an anonymous screen in some dingy net cafe in some dingy alleyway in old delhi or somewhere equally smelly, and press send. 3 days later someone would be guilted into writing back, even though they have 'nothing to say, home is home, same old same old.' these days you have to set up a travelblog, then you have to get everyone to bookmark it, and check it, and then leave comments so that you know you're not just writing to the cybergods who never listen anyway, and of course your parents, who don't really count (sorry folks). and to be honest, travelling with two people is, i suppose quite obviously, completely different to going it solo. i mean, someone already knows about the hell 17 hour ferry bus train trip you just did, so the imperitive to inflict, i mean share, the experience with others is just lacking.

 

but you know what? 3 days in bangkok in 40 degree heat is just the tonic for someone lacking the writing bug. (net cafes being airconditioned and all, and you might as well use one of the computers, as the proprietors tend to look at you funny if you just sit in the mercifully drycoldairflow, naked.)

 

so, after the somewhat waffly preamble, let's get started. oh, before i do, let me give you a quick "live" style rundown on what's hot and what's not in bangkok.

 

HOT: sausages on the charcoal braziers. it used to be squid, now they've got wieners. huh; thaksin sinawatra. that's right, the army's done such a bad job of managing the coup, the people want thaksin back to manage it for them; these weird jammalatra (sp?) amulets everyone is wearing. supposed to confer goodluck. at 2000B each and another 10000B upwards to get them blessed at a temple, thai time magazine is dubbing them the marketing miracle of the century. i think apple is releasing something called the "ipod" here soon. be interesting to see how it goes. this is one scam in thailand i'm glad i'm not in any danger of falling prey to!

 

NOT: thai people. its 40 freaking degrees and they're walking around in jeans and hiking boots. how do they stay so cool?; taksin. half the people love him as i said. the other half hate him. but it's more complicated than that. i can't keep up. the papers are no good either. the other thing about this preamble is that it reminded me of the new constitution the government is drawing up. the buddhist monks and some lay people (and foreigners!) are lobbying to have buddhism declared the state religion. the kingdom has always been a secular state, so it should be interesting watching the standoff...

 

ok so, what have jo and i actually been doing? good question, with a short answer - not a hell of a lot. leaving melbourne in ablaze of glory - thanks to all those who turned up to the golden monkey and kicked on into the wee hours - we alighted in singapore and crashed with my new boss-to-be. kicking in a couple of wines to his collection as rent for dumping some bags there (i think this could be a liquid appointment, judging by the stock already amassed), we winged it out for krabi the next day on tiger air. a lovely brandspanker of an A320, with about 30 people on board... for about 70 bucks. you people better pray they set up shop in melbourne, and give jetstar the spanking it deserves.

 

from krabi we hot ferried it to phi phi, and there the wheels started to fall off, to mix a metaphor 3 ways. some of you will know that i spent a lot of time on phi phi in '01,and to put it mildly, the place has changed. with the exception of a cleared piece of landin one corner of the village (which could be an ordinary construction site), some twisted and distorted building materials, and a heartbreaking baby's grave halfway up to the viewpoint, you'd never know there'd been a tsunami. until you speak to some of the locals, who talk about it quite freely - where they were and what they were doing... some of whom have missing or mangled limbs. so, that was different, but not markedly so. what struck me was the rampant development going on. phiphi was always"touristy". i knew that. but this is different. this is a 4 storey mall (!) being built where "charlie's" used to be. it's tour boats from phuket lanta and krabi converging on phi phi ley at 9.30 in the morning, disgorging orange lifejacketed snorkelling japanese tourists from the back of huge vessels, like they decided to return all the whalemeat in a "molecular food" form. we were lucky to get to phi ley bay by 8.30, and have 15 mins of uninterrupted bliss. but still, who wants to get up early on holidays just to enjoy an island cruise in peace??

 

so, instead of taking to the water, we took to the roads. hiking down to runtee bay, then over to ton ko bay (or trying to - we got lost and ended up on a new road above town, a massive swath cut into the hillside that bodes only ill for the coming years...). tiring of being tired, we alternated with some serious beach time, but really, unless you can escape the main village, the beaches at phi phi aren't all that crash hot.

 

so, we bailed to ko lanta, south of phi phi, which is only accessible in the dry season.

1961; The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by Erle Stanley Gardner. unknown Artist. Australian edition but printed and made in Utrecht The Netherlands !

Imagen y titulo que refleja el estado animico y laboral por el que estoy pasando....homenaje a mi mismo!!!

 

BANDA SONORA PARA LEVANTARME EL ANIMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Elastica: Stutter

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shown with 'failure to launch' - www.flickr.com/photos/ecbrown145flick/6829571876

a stutter in space-time

i want every word to leap from my mouth as if it is set aflame.

 

i want the passion i think in to come out when i vocalize my thoughts.

  

i'm tired of the way i speak.

i stutter i mumble i sound confused by my own ideas.

and i'm not.

  

i'm just thinking faster and in an intangible manner.

 

its frustrating.

  

i feel like i'm choking on my own thoughts.

   

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SIXTEENFACTS.

1.I am ridiculously afraid of being diagnosed with a mental disorder. To the point of near obsession.

2. I buy underwear more than any other clothing item.

3. photography is the only thing in my life that consistently doesn't make me feel like i've been "raped in the face" to quote hamlet 2.

4. My boys are the most immature assholes i've ever met and i love them with every fiber of my being.

5. i'm a bibliophile. i have a problem. i've spent over 100 dollars on books in the past week.

6.i'm a civilrights activist and a misanthrope and all i really want is for someone to understand that that's possible.

7.I'm bisexual. And not in the cool post pictures of you kissing girls on your myspace to get that guy you like to like you more kind of way. It's not that big of a deal, so don't make it one. being bi isn't the only thing about me.

8. green and grey are my favorite colors.

9.I don't shower that often. and thats really gross i know but i'm totally okay with it.

10. i hate relationships. i've tried, repeatedly. i can't make it happen right now i'm not bothering anymore. i'm only 18. i've got my whole life to figure my shit out.

11. i swear a lot. i mean a LOT. its horrible and gross and makes me sound unintelligent but man does it get your point across.

12.i make lots of to do lists; usually filled with things i've already done so i look productive.

13.balloons are the best things ever. they make me so uncontrollably giddy its not even funny.

14. i have insomnia and i stay up til the wee hours of the morning doing nothing important. its kinda nice being alone.

15. i drink a lot of water and tea and energy drinks. i always have to pee. i'm mildly addicted to caffeine and i'm sure that doesn' thelp my insomnia.

16. I can't wait for high school to be over and let me just run my life how i need to.

Underwater Pano Straight out of the camera

there's a weight on my wrists

the gentle pricks of fingertips

the gravitational friction

feather boa constriction

stuttering tongues with strangulated diction

I'm learning a lot from what I don't do

call me a liar, but I've been believed

by more truthful men than you

I made it through on feelings and false starts

but in the process of climbing, I'm falling apart

shouting out encouraging words

that get pecked on the way

by noise-canceling birds

I'm running out of hate

I love before I land

I feel like a boy

my flight is unmanned

stretched beyond

all coming back

a lone wolf lonely

at the center of the pack

when I stretch my jaw to howl

I feel my spirit crack

I don't think that's a metaphor

but I can't say for sure anymore

I'm raging in this room

in the midnight of the moon

I've forgotten forever

what peace was for

I'm making my treaty with war

  

© Steve Skafte

  

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Voigtlander Vito B : a great little camera from the 1950's , quite often the shutter 'stutters' on the slow speeds. Here's how to get to the shutter to service the mechanism and also clean up the optics. Start by setting focus to 'infinity' & taking out the set screws in the focussing ring (4 screws) using a 'jewellers' screwdriver..by the way ; this camera needs a film to be in place to charge the shutter via the movement of the film on a sprocket wheel.

Quite inadequate, awkward, shy and stuttering.

Bitting his lips til they bleed and sitting with tennis shoes on the couch.

This picture of my niece was taken at 5.40 in the evening in the living room.The sunlight was directly on her face from the window and got the grill shadow as well.The pic was clicked on stutter priority.

Seen On 7th St/ Georgia Ave.

Howard University Hospital.

I know, it is not that funny.

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, by Erle Stanley Gardner

Pocket Book 6007, 1960

Cover art uncredited

15.5.08

♫♫ A Stutter - Ólafur Arnalds with Arnon Dan ♫♫

 

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The main reason for purchasing the full Termi system with race chip was to get rid of that annoying stutter when the butterfly valve opens or is opening/closing when you are trying to maintain a particular speed, typically where it's somewhere the police are a concern and you want to maintain speeds within the posted limit. Not sure if stutter is the right technical term to use but it's not a surge, it's a drop off in power before it comes back on. Very annoying when you are riding pillion and helmet smack together! The full Termi system with race chip resolves that problem and the bike is now such a pleasure to ride, with smooth power delivery from low RPM all the way up. And that's with the decibel reducer installed. I tried it removed and it was way too loud, definitely would have drawn unwanted attention and the bike runs great with it installed so it doesn't concern me that I might not be getting maximum power. The engine does have some mild popping sounds on deceleration that was not there before. I brought the bike to an authorized Ducati technician and he said that was normal and not to worry about it. Another bonus you get from switching to the full Termi system is losing that huge catalyser. I should have weighed both sets of components but I know I shed a significant amount of weight by losing that big hunk of metal. Installation was not difficult and all parts fit together pefectly, with no cobbing required as I've seen with other aftermarket systems and bikes over the years. Overall I am very happy with the system and find that it was well worth the US $2300 I paid.

 

Reuploaded in an edited aspect ratio for a photo series.

Billboard and the east side of the Dick Block building in Inglewood.

all the lawyers wish they were children or infants and all the infants wish they were drunk or fearless;so please (pretty please), dear admitted junkies and heartbroken caretakers, burn every photograph before todays and unlearn the contract of those to come.

viewing 1080p video on flickr is like looking at it through beer goggles covered in vomit while having an uncontrollable fit of the stutters :) you can at least wipe some of the vomit off with your sleeve by checking out the "HD" version on vimeo. let's just say it looks a wee bit better in true 1080p. if you log in to vimeo you can download it and see for yourself. just make sure your computer is fast enough. it stutters on my MacBook Pro that is only a couple years old (not mentioning the fact that it doesn't fit on the 15" screen).

 

i find it really, really annoying that you can't control the aperture manually when shooting video. i forgot my little filters for the 50mm to trick it into shooting wide open. yes, i understand that there is a hard limit on the shutter speed to maintain 30fps, but why not just blink at me like it usually does when the exposure isn't right?

My baby Chai, got her outfit from Wimukt today, she's so cute~

A team desperate to erase painful recent memories immediately settled in at their new, adopted venue, with a four-wicket win against a struggling Australian side in Dubai. The devastation caused by Shahid Afridi's career-best 6 for 38 had all but shut Australia out of the match before the halfway stage of their innings. A late recovery pushed them to 168 but it wasn't enough to seriously challenge an unpredictable Pakistan outfit. Pakistan stuttered, rebuilt, stumbled again and a late push by Afridi, contributing an adrenalin-filled yet brief 24, pushed them towards a win.

 

The ultimate difference between the two sides was spin. While Pakistan's pair of Afridi and Ajmal shared eight wickets, Australia's Nathan Hauritz bowled four overs and failed to pick up a wicket. It wouldn't be fair to blame Australia's lone specialist spinner for the defeat. It was a collective failure of their middle order to read the spinners who mercilessly ran through the batting and effected a top and middle-order crumbling to the tune of 8 for 27.

 

Australia's rapid demise was a reflection of their ordinary recent one-day form. A collapse of this magnitude exposed a weakness against spin which was also on show in South Africa, even with a number of familiar returning faces in the ranks. With the ball gripping and turning, Afridi's mixture of googlies and topspinners caused most of the problems, but the relatively inexperienced Ajmal offered little respite with his doosras.

 

At 95 for 1 in the 19th over, Younis Khan's pre-match prediction of chasing a target of 260-270 seemed a reality. That was until Afridi got the ball and the crowd to dance to his tunes. He began by getting rid of the most well-set batsman, Brad Haddin, for a brisk 40, tamely chipping a flighted delivery to short cover. Michael Clarke's struggles against the spin trio of Paul Harris, Roelof van der Merwe and Johan Botha in South Africa were well documented and the nightmare didn't end with the move to another country. He was flummoxed by an Ajmal doosra and edged behind before Afridi worked his magic.

 

A rusty Andrew Symonds nicked one to a refreshingly sharp Kamran Akmal, before Shane Watson, who had played neatly on his return to the side after injury by adding 54 with Haddin, was beaten by one which turned through the gate. Safe catching helped Pakistan and Misbah-ul-Haq showed his sharp reflexes to cling onto Callum Ferguson's edge to remove one of Australia's few in-form batsmen. Hauritz completely misjudged Ajmal's line, shouldered arms and lost his stumps.

 

The score suddenly read a shocking 110 for 7 and it brought back bad memories of their collapse at Centurion very recently. It wasn't the kind you would expect of the second best team in the world even in the worst of days. The spinners sensed a weak link and exploited it with clinical efficiency. Afridi's googlies proved too much for the tailenders Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken as he collected his best ODI figures and Pakistan's best figures against Australia.

 

James Hopes enjoyed a free swing of the arms in the third Powerplay with an unbeaten 48 to push the score to 168, a big improvement from a hopeless 122 for 9, but the momentum was still with Pakistan.

 

The Australian seamers failed to get enough early breakthroughs to cause a serious flutter in the Pakistan camp. The dangerous Salman Butt was trapped lbw for 5 in the seven-over period before the dinner break before a fidgety Younis Khan holed out to midwicket.

 

Spin was introduced in the 13th over but Hauritz couldn't extract the same turn and bite that Afridi and Ajmal managed against his batsmen. He overpitched too often and that allowed Akmal to get forward and drive through the line. He used his feet well and chipped down the track to bisect the gaps in the infield.

 

Shoaib Malik contributed only 12 in a stand of 48 with Akmal, content to let his partner hog the strike. However, as Akmal motored along, a flashy drive outside off cost him his wicket and Clark had his revenge after being slashed for a four past slip two balls earlier. A loose dab by Malik brought Afridi to the crease, who began by clipping his first ball - a low full toss - past square leg and then pulling the next past midwicket.

 

He took Pakistan within 31 of the target before mishitting one to mid-on. The chase thereafter was scratchy, with Misbah holding fort as Pakistan got home with 35 balls to spare. It wasn't the most convincing of chases but good enough to prove a point. Moreover, they played with a hunger to win against a team dogged by injuries and knackered after a back-breaking summer.

 

Kanishkaa Balachandran is a sub-editor at Cricinfo

Mayor Bill de Blasio and actress Emily Blunt present Eric Dinallo with an award during the American Institute for Stuttering Award Dinner at Guastavino's in Manhattan on Monday, June 25, 2017. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

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Experimenting with deliberate stutter caused by the Olympus E-M1 II High Resolution Mode

I met Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, my ultimate dream girl. She was entirely sweet and I could barely utter a word without stuttering.

 

*Sigh*

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 12: <> attends the American Institute For Stuttering 17th Annual Gala hosted by Emily Blunt on June 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for American Institute For Stuttering )

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Xi to meet Putin in first trip outside China since COVID began

 

LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) -Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin, just a month before he is set to cement his place as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.

 

The trip, Xi's first abroad since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows just how confident he is about his grip on power in China and just how perilous the global situation has become.

 

Against a backdrop of Russia's confrontation with the West over Ukraine, the crisis over Taiwan and a stuttering global economy, Xi is due on a state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

 

China's president will then meet Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's summit in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Kremlin said.

 

Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters last week that the Russian president was expected to meet Xi at the summit. The Kremlin declined to give details on their talks. China has yet to confirm Xi’s travel plans.

 

The meeting will give Xi an opportunity to underscore his clout while Putin can demonstrate Russia's tilt towards Asia; both leaders can show their opposition to the United States just as the West seeks to punish Russia for the Ukraine war.

 

"It is all about Xi in my view: he wants to show just how confident he is domestically and to be seen as the international leader of nations opposed to Western hegemony," said George Magnus, author of "Red Flags", a book about Xi's challenges.

 

"Privately I imagine Xi will be most anxious about how Putin’s war is going and indeed if Putin or Russia are in play at some point in the near future because China still needs an anti-western leadership in Moscow."

 

Russia suffered its worst defeat of the war last week, abandoning its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine.

 

The deepening "no limits" partnership between the rising superpower of China and the natural resources titan of Russia is one of the most intriguing geopolitical developments of recent years - and one the West is watching with anxiety.

 

Once the senior partner in the global Communist hierarchy, Russia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union is now considered a junior partner of a resurgent Communist China which is forecast to overtake the United States as the world's biggest economy in the next decade.

 

Though historical contradictions abound in the partnership, there is no sign that Xi is ready to drop his support for Putin in Russia's most serious confrontation with the West since the height of the Cold War.

 

Instead, the two 69-year-old leaders are deepening ties. Trade soared by nearly a third between Russia and China in the first 7 months of 2022.

 

The visit "shows that China is willing to not only continue 'business as usual' with Russia but even show explicit support and accelerate the formation of a stronger China-Russia alignment," said Alexander Korolev, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at UNSW Sydney.

 

"Beijing is reluctant to distance itself from Moscow even when facing serious reputational costs and the risks of becoming a target of secondary economic sanctions."

 

XI SUPREME

 

Xi is widely expected to break with precedent at a Communist Party congress that starts on Oct. 16 and secure a third five-year leadership term.

 

While Xi has met Putin in person 38 times since becoming China's president in 2013, he has yet to meet Joe Biden in person since the latter became U.S. President in 2021.

 

Xi last met Putin in February just weeks before the Russian president ordered the invasion of Ukraine which has left tens of thousands of people dead and sown chaos through the global economy.

 

At that meeting at the opening of the Winter Olympics, Xi and Putin declared a "no limits" partnership, backing each other over standoffs on Ukraine and Taiwan with a promise to collaborate more against the West.

 

China has refrained from condemning Russia's operation against Ukraine or calling it an "invasion" in line with the Kremlin which casts the war as "a special military operation".

 

"The bigger message really isn't that Xi is supporting Putin, because it's been pretty clear that Xi supports Putin," said Professor Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

 

"The bigger signal is that he, Xi Jinping, is going out of China for the first time since the pandemic in the run-up to the party congress. If there were going to be plottings against him this is when the plottings would happen. And he's clearly confident that the plottings are not going to take place because he is out of the country."

 

Xi, the son of a communist revolutionary, is poised to secure a historical third leadership term at the 20th Communist Party Congress beginning on Oct. 16. He last left China in January 2020, before the world went into COVID lockdown.

 

KREMLIN CHIEF

 

After the West imposed on Moscow the most severe sanctions in modern history due to the war in Ukraine, Putin says Russia is turning towards Asia after centuries of looking to the West as the crucible of economic growth, technology and war.

 

Casting the West as a declining, U.S.-dominated coalition which aims to shackle - or even destroy - Russia, Putin's worldview chimes with that of Xi, who presents China as an alternative to the U.S.-led, post-World War Two order.

 

Putin aide Ushakov said the Xi-Putin meeting would be "very important". He did not give further details.

 

As Europe seeks to turn away from Russian energy imports, Putin will seek to boost energy exports to China and Asia.

 

Putin said last week that a major gas export route to China via Mongolia had been agreed. Gazprom has for years been studying the possibility for a major new gas pipeline - the Power of Siberia 2 - to travel through Mongolia taking Russian gas to China.

 

It will carry 50 billion cubic metres of gas per year, around a third of what Russia usually sells Europe – or equivalent to the Nord Stream 1 annual volumes.

 

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China, India, Pakistan and four Central Asian states, is due to admit Iran, one of Moscow's key allies in the Middle East.

 

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Top Chinese legislator pays official goodwill visit to Russia

 

Li Zhanshu, chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, paid an official goodwill visit to Russia from Wednesday to Saturday, at the invitation of Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

 

During his visit, Li met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the country's far eastern city of Vladivostok, held talks with Volodin and Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko respectively in Moscow, and also met with leaders of the five State Duma factions.

 

When meeting with the Russian president, Li conveyed cordial greetings and best wishes from Chinese President Xi Jinping to Putin. He said that under the strategic guidance and personal efforts of President Xi and President Putin, the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era has maintained a strong momentum of development.

 

Political mutual trust, strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries have reached an unprecedented level, setting a good example of good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation between major countries and neighboring countries, Li said.

 

Both China and Russia are at a critical historical stage of development and revitalization, enjoying great potential and broad prospects for cooperation, Li said.

 

China is willing to continue to work with Russia to firmly support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns, implement the Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative put forward by President Xi, and turn high-level political mutual trust into more pragmatic cooperation results, Li said.

 

The top Chinese legislator said he firmly believes that under the leadership of President Xi and President Putin, the two sides will raise the bilateral ties to a new level and will follow the development path in line with their national conditions and achieve the great goals of their respective development and national rejuvenation.

 

Li also congratulated Russia on successfully hosting the 7th Eastern Economic Forum and briefed on the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

 

Putin asked Li to convey his best wishes to President Xi. He said that the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era is special and important, and that the Russian side is satisfied with bilateral relations and cooperation with China in various fields.

 

Russia-China trade, especially against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown a sound momentum of growth, Putin said, expressing his belief that the two sides will achieve greater goals of cooperation in this area.

 

More exchanges between the Russian and Chinese legislatures will play a positive role in promoting the development of bilateral relations, Putin said. He also wished the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China a success.

 

During his talks with Volodin and Matviyenko, Li said that the important task of cooperation between the legislative bodies of China and Russia is to promote the implementation of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and provide legal protection for the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.

 

The NPC will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Russian State Duma and Federation Council, tap the potential of the mechanism for regular exchanges, maintain a good momentum of high-level exchanges, and promote exchanges among friendship groups and special committees, Li said.

 

Li said that the NPC is ready to work with the two institutions to create a favorable environment for practical cooperation through legislation as well as examination and approval of treaties and agreements.

 

He added that the two sides should strengthen exchanges of experience on national governance and legislation regarding fighting against external interference, sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction, among others.

 

Li thanked the Russian side for firmly supporting China on the Taiwan question.

 

Both Volodin and Matviyenko once again condemned Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan region, saying that Russia firmly adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to deepen cooperation with China on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit.

 

Volodin said that the legislative bodies of Russia and China should further upgrade their cooperation, expand cooperation models, enrich cooperation content, so as to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and contribute to the development of bilateral relations.

 

Matviyenko extended congratulations on the great achievements made by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. She said that the in-depth development of Russia-China relations has given the legislative bodies a new task of cooperation, and that both sides should actively promote cooperation in such fields as politics, economy, trade, finance and youth, as well as enhance sub-national, people-to-people exchanges and cultural cooperation.

 

When meeting with leaders of the five State Duma factions, Li said that all the groups have demonstrated their support to enhancing friendly cooperation with China, showing that it is the broad consensus of all parties and people from all walks of life in Russia to develop the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era.

 

China is ready to maintain close contact and exchanges with all parties in Russia to consolidate the foundation of the friendship and practical cooperation between the two countries, he said.

 

Leaders of the five State Duma factions expressed their willingness to play an active role in intensifying inter-party exchanges between Russia and China, and make unremitting efforts to deepen the development of Russia-China relations, so as to benefit the two countries and their people.

 

During his stay in Moscow, Li laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and visited Vladimir Lenin's former residence.

p-p-p-please don't do this to me.

 

according to flickr.com this is my best picture.

 

Ya gotta love Light Trails. I wonder what people think when your pointing a camera at them in there cars.... mmmm..

"Stuttering" Craig Skistimas, retro gamer and founder/owner of ScrewAttack.

 

*Sleeves are modified MMCB

*Logo is sticker

Babes got horns! My moody little ram is complete!

Ex Hong Kong Leyland / Dennis Condor at Market and Stutter in San Francisco working for Big Bus Tours.

A photo from last summer. Now I'm starting to hear sprinklers again, stuttering water across lawns everywhere.

Italian postcard. Maldacea nel suo repertorio. Ed. Bideri, Napoli, No. 156 B. Il balbuziente [the stutterer]. To hear Maldacea sing this song, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDahcndMZa0.

 

Nicola Maldacea (Naples, October 29, 1870 - Rome, March 5, 1945) was an Italian actor, comedian and songwriter, who before the First World War was one of the most popular vaudeville and café chant performers of Naples, beloved for his various types or 'macchiette'. Between 1935 and 1945 he acted as character actor in over 60 Italian sound films.

Hermosa Beach, March 2011

Seaside Reverie

Walnut, CA, March 2011

Vegetation

Skidaway Island, Chatham County, GA

Shell beach, Harbor Marina, Wilmington River.

Spotted sandpiper on marsh wrack.

Richly spotted breeding plumage, teetering gait, stuttering wingbeats, common shorebird that breeds further north.

Part of Rail Theatre Company's publicity shots commission.

 

Nurse Ratched: Aren't you ashamed?

Billy: No, I'm not.

[Applause from friends]

Nurse Ratched: You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother is going to

take this.

Billy: Um, um, well, y-y-y-you d-d-d-don't have to t-t-t-tell her, Miss Ratched.

Nurse Ratched: I don't have to tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You

know that.

Billy: P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother.

 

Probably the pivotal scene in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the suicide of Billy Bibbit.

 

Although Billy Bibbit longs to be like the heroic McMurphy, he is not strong enough to stand up to Nurse Ratched on his own. Billy entwines his arms and legs when Nurse Ratched questions him, virtually tying himself into knots for her. A shine comes into Nurse Ratched’s eyes as she makes him suffer by reminding him of his weakness and his previous suicide attempts. Billy is so timid and fearful that he stutters his own name when he first meets McMurphy. However, McMurphy’s confidence and strength immediately charm and fascinate Billy, who becomes a devoted disciple. McMurphy tries to get Billy to realize that he should be out in the world, driving a convertible and having fun with girls. Even though Billy is a voluntary patient who can leave the misery of the ward at any time, he tells McMurphy that he is not ready, because he believes he is not strong enough to face the world. McMurphy encourages Billy’s natural longing for girls as a healthy appetite for life. By the time of McMurphy’s farewell party, Billy is sufficiently self-assured to embrace Candy in a romantic dance. When Billy confesses to McMurphy his attraction to Candy, he is confessing a desire to be the healthy, normal young man McMurphy has encouraged him to be.

 

The next morning, after Nurse Ratched finds him in bed with Candy, Billy speaks for the first time without stuttering. The men applaud not only for his confidence and manhood but also for his effrontery of Nurse Ratched’s control. Using her voice and the threat of his mother to shame Billy back to subservience, Nurse Ratched forces him to cower at her feet, begging for mercy. Rather than continue living under her repressive rule, Billy chooses suicide, relinquishing life, while simultaneously making an independent decision. Billy acts as the catalyst for the final battle between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, the forces of good and evil in the film.

 

Explore Highest position: 341 on Thursday, April 3, 2008

March 2011, Walnut

Vegetation

A gagueira envolve alterações anatômicas e funcionais em regiões do cérebro responsáveis pelo sequenciamento da fala. Link para artigo completo.

 

Mirror.

Erle Stanley Gardner: De stotterende bisschop.

N.V. Boek en Wereld z.j.

Oorspronkelijke titel: The case of the stuttering bishop.

Cover art by Smid.

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A Better You marks the second directorial comedy feature of Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh. Within Hollywood’s unconventional healing community of Reiki therapists and acupuncturists, Dr. Ron Knight (Brian Huskey) stands out with his “Wake Up! Wake Up!” form of screaming hypnotherapy. A published author of self-help, he can cure whatever ails you, from smoking to your lack of confidence. But with great ego and success come great costs. As Dr. Ron becomes the prisoner to his own head, he loses touch with his gorgeous wife Margo (Morgan Walsh) and their two children. Margo forces Dr. Ron to go to marriage counseling, but he finds that Dr. Milner (Joe Lo Truglio) is just another quack. Thrown into a midlife crisis, Dr. Ron looks to the most unlikely of shoulders to cry upon: Hugo (Horatio Sanz), the day laborer at the Hardware Superstore. Along for the ride are a number of eclectic patients including Patrick (Matt Walsh) who has a smoking problem, Tamara who’ll do the most X-rated things for a cigarette (Natasha Leggero), a befuddled high school football coach (Rob Huebel) and a stuttering voiceover artist (Nick Kroll). Then there’s hot patient Lindsay (Erinn Hayes), a conflict of interest waiting that could further spin Dr. Ron’s head. Further complicating Dr. Ron’s life are his neighbors, led by Joel, the snarky association president (Andrew Daly) and his wife (Riki Lindhome). A Better You also stars Adam Pally (The Mindy Project), Reid Scott (Veep), Mo Gaffney (Veep, Marry Me, House of Lies)and Parvesh Cheena (A to Z, Barbershop 3). Find out more at www.abetteryoumovie.com

 

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