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2022 Film List

January

Sakaling Maging Tayo (JP Habac, 2019)

Kalel, 15 (Jun Robles Lana, 2019)

Ang Henerasyong Sumuko sa Love (Jason Paul Laxamana, 2019)

Isa Pa With Feelings (Prime Cruz, 2019)

LSS (Jade Castro, 2019)

Distance (Percival Intalan, 2018)

Sakaling Hindi Makarating (Ice Idanan, 2016)

1-2-3 (Carlos Obispo, 2016)

Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington (Jade Castro, 2011)

A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018)

Apocalypse Child (Mario Cornejo, 2015)

Water Lemon (Lem Lorca, 2015)

Quezon’s Game (Matthew Rosen, 2019)

Sundalong Kanin (Janice O’Hara, 2014)

February

Ang Babae sa Septic Tank Movie Cut (Marlon Rivera, 2019)

Rakenrol (Quark Henares, 2011)

Pagdating sa Dulo (Ishmael Bernal, 1971)

Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok (Lauren Sevilla, Faustino, 2012)

Genghis Khan (Manuel Conde, 1950)

White Slavery (Lino Brocka, 1985)

Zamboanga (Eduardo de Castro, 1937)

Mga Anak ng Kamote (Carlo Enciso Catu, 2018)

Bwakaw (Jun Lana, 2012)

Glorious (Connie Macatuno, 2018)

T’yanak (Peque Gallaga & Lore Reyes, 2014)

March

Babae at Baril (Rae Red, 2019)

Die Beautiful (Jun Robles Lana, 2016)

Historiographika Errata (Richard Somes, 2017)

Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)

Ang Pambansang Third Wheel (Ivan Andrew Payawal, 2018)

The Gifted (Chris Martinez, 2014)

Ned’s Project (Lemuel Lorca, 2016)

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Joe Berlinger, 2019)

Bridesmaids (Pau Feig, 2011)

Through Night and Day (Veronica Velasco, 2018)

Lorna (Sigrid Andrea Bernardo, 2014)

Adela (Adolfo Alix, 2008)

April

Delia and Sammy (Therese Cayaba, 2018)

Ang Larawan (Loy Arcenas, 2017)

Belle Douleur (Joji Alonso, 2019)

Elise (Joel Ferrer, 2019)

Yellow Rose (Diane Paragas, 2019)

Never Not Love You (Antoinette Jadaone, 2018)

Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria Kirchbaum (Remton Siega Zuasola, 2010)

Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018)

Ocean’s 11 (Steven Soderbergh, 2001)

Ocean’s 12 (Steven Soderbergh, 2005)

Ocean’s 13 (Steven Soderbergh, 2007)

May

Iska (Theodore Boborol, 2019)

Miss Congeniality (Donald Petrie, 2000)

ABNKKBSNPLAko! (Mark Meily, 2014)

Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution (Kunihiko Yuyama, 2019)

Shazam! (David Sandberg, 2019)

MOMOL Nights (Benedict Mique, 2019)

Sonata (Lore Reyes, Peque Gallaga, 2013)

Magic Temple (Lore Reyes, Peque Gallaga, 1996)

Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (Mario O’Hara, 1976)

Turumba (Kidlat Tahimik, 1981)

FRIENDS: The Reunion (Ben Winston, 2021)

Lapu-Lapu (Lamberto Avellana, 1955)

June

Bar Boys (Kip Oebanda, 2017)

Kuya Wes (James Robin Mayo, 2018)

I Love You. Thank You. (Charliebebs Gohetia,2015)

Buy Bust (Erik Matti, 2018)

Best. Partee. Ever. (Howard Yambao, 2016)

Ma (Tate Taylor, 2019)

Blue Bustamante (Miko Livelo, 2013)

Fan Girl (Antoinette Jadaone, 2020)

Loving Vincent (Dorotea Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, 2017)

John Tucker Must Die Betty Thomas, 2006)

T-Bird at Ako (Danny L. Zialcita, 1982)

Someone Great (Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 2019)

July

Dolly Parton: Here I Am (Francis Whately, 2019)

Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts (Nicholas Zeig-Owens, 2019)

Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence, 2007)

The Mummy (Stephen Sommers, 1999)

Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)

Burlesque (Steve Antin, 2010)

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (Christopher Bird & Simon Lupton, 2019)

Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live (Jonas Akerlund, 2015)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 2018)

The Interview (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, 2014)

The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, 2001)

Allegiant (Robert Schwentke, 2016)

Gameboys: The Movie (Ivan Andrew Payawal, 2021)

August

Captain Barbell (Jose ‘Pepe’ Wenceslao, 1973)

Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher, 2019)

Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005)

Mamma Mia (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008)

Ulam: Main Dish (Alexandra Cuerdo, 2018)

Mahal Mo, Mahal Ko (Elwood Perez, 1978)

Tar-San (Efren Jarlego, 1999)

Sunday Beauty Queen (Baby Ruth Villarama, 2016)

Biyaya ng Lupa (Manuel Silos, 1959)

Only Yesterday - The Carpenters Story (Samantha Peters, 2007)

Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes (Michael Harte, 2021)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Jay Roach, 1999)

Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute (2021)

September

Cinderella (Kay Cannon, 2021)

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (Taylor Swift, 2020)

Spiderman: Far From Home (Jon Watts, 2019)

Yesterday (Danny Boyle, 2019)

Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021)

Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (Mat Whitecross, 2018)

Freddie Mercury: The King of Queen (Jordan Hill, 2018)

The 40-year-old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005)

Barber’s Tales (Jun Robles Lana, 2013)

Respeto (Alberto Monteras II, 2017)

Manila by Night (Ishmael Bernal, 1980)

Cleaners (Glenn Barit, 2019)

October

Star Na Si Van Damme Stallone (Randolph Longjas, 2016)

Class of 2018

Mahal Kita With All My Hypothalamus (Dwein Baltazar, 2018)

Thy Womb

Rak of Aegis (Maribel Legarda, 2021)

Fuccbois

Britney vs Spears

Ang Hapis at Himagsik ni Hermano Puli (Gil Portes, 2016)

Citizen Jake

The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin

November

Reputation

The Map of Tiny Perfect Tings (Ian Samuels, 2021)

Love and Monsters

The Fabulous Filipino Brothers

Jonas Brothers Family Roast

Rent Live

A Boy Named Christmas

Tick Tick Boom

Klaus

School of Rock

December

I’m Drunk I Love You

The Princess Switch

Single All the Way

Grease Live

Detective Pikachu

Scenes from a Gay Marriage

Don’t Look Up

Baby Driver

Don’t Look Up

Birdbox

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postpunkpontypandyphantomthief · 5 years

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4th Comedy Monologue

“Hands up if you just love combining strange foods together and gauging down on them while watching netflix on a late night?”

Oh yes you over there what do you like to conjure up?

Gravy and rice,Nandos mayo on pasta or...or lightly salted Doritos dipped into a KFC Oreo Krushem

KFC,Kentucky Fried Chicken or Kentucky I can’t say the word but this is what baby me would’ve called it Chicken one of the biggest fast food chains in the world or mainly in the UK while America has so many fast food places we only have a couple of their places while the rest are mainly local

They have tacos,soups and stacked burgers over here we only have the odd few places and then the chippy down the street

Speaking of chips, who here has tried their new chunky chips yet?

Ok,quite a few of you enjoy your potatoes being chunky and the rest of you like chips how you like your make up covered in plastic and full of chemicals.

Personally despite not minding the new chunky chips I’d go with liking both of them but I’ve seen mixed reviews

Some prefer the chunk others don’t, while some of their chips weren’t bad I get the same feeling from eating them that I get from our everyday weather

“It’s very dull isn’t it? like my eyes when I lose sleep”

Sometimes you just want to get the blanket out and have some britcom and chill

Which I know probably isn’t going to catch on since most of you prefer watching american teen dramas about comic book characters where the same person who plays Salem the cat

is the same guy who was in that old disney or nick tv show from your childhood

Either that or your someone more into looking at images of Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor’s actors from the Bohemian Rhapsody film

then again me neither, and I mean the Roger Taylor from Queen not the Roger Taylor from Duran Duran although they’re both cuties

John Deacon and Brian May’s actors too

When I watch films I try to teleport myself into the film’s universe as much as I can

I got a bit of a surprise when heard a northern irish actor playing one of Freddie’s lovers Paul Frenter

On hand Yay! More representation!, more film opportunities, on the other hand he plays the villian!

When I went to see the film I expected some things but then again outside of their music I didn’t know much about the personal lives of Queen,

In one of the scenes with Paul Frenter I was like is this a film about classic rock legends or does it want me to break free?

So my/this country has been featured quite a few times recently in films hasn’t it

Derry Girls,Coming Home,Game of Thrones,Star Wars etc.

While I’m listing these I think your noticing something in the intonation and tone of my voice

It’s that despite being Northern Irish my voice doesn’t sound like I come from there

I come from the land of punk music,Nirvana and chip shops but because I looked up to Hannah Montana,Lady Gaga and P!nk for most of my life so as I got older I ended up sounding like a alternative instagram model before instagram even existed.

That and with the stuff I was interested in I could go from being into Music,Games and books to being interested in the cultures of different countries

I used to love typical american based things,then japanese things during my weeaboo phase although I will admit that phase might still be going on,German things,Scandinavian things etc.etc.

In the year Instagram was invented 2010,I was on holiday on florida and because my yank voice of stars and stripes was developing the people in florida didn’t know I was from a different country that’s how confusing my voice was,

I mean I know now. some people here are like me and don’t have the accent but even before that as a child my voice was so high if someone went up to me or had a conversation with me it would be like talking to a balloon.

You’ll float too! (evil voice) (mickey mouse voice) Hiya Fellas it’s me Mickey Mouse

But if we are talking about representation and how we identify with certain people or characters

I’d say I’m not really much of a liam neeson type of irish person I’m more of a Ed Byrne irish person

I like potatoes,punk music and pirates how about ye

So speaking of certain generations liking certain other alternative things

A lot of people have started liking blur recently

Then again who likes the gallaghers anyway?

So the people liking Blur are like what I used to be like about One Direction

Pulp are pretty good too I like me some of Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Cocker in his younger days actually looked a lot like Ed Byrne other times he looks like Tim Burton

There is one thing I disagree with Jarvis Cocker on though and it’s his short tea about michael jackson

Basically during the 1996 brit awards he showed his bum to the public in protest of the cringy performance michael jackson was doing

Oh,great now that makes it sound even more wrong

Jarvis was defintely off his cocker but he wasn’t mooning the moonwalker...ok he was

He interviewed a furby on the radio moving on

So, Michael Jackson one of the rock legends alongside bowie and mercury

You either like him,adore him,not really care about him or dislike him based on the rumours and scandals created about him by certain people and publications

I love him,he was peculiar sometimes but I was fascinated by that by his neverland,

by his talent and by how he was able to reach into the hearts of millions

So many opportunities for comics and actors to make creative jokes or puns

but nope let’s joke about the one thing some people mainly associate him with outside of his music which he was tormented for the rest of his life.

Oh almost forgot my blanket,at least I’m not dangling it over a window balcony

(deadpan stare)

Cringing can at times feel like a sting from a bee

Speaking of bees we apparently won’t have them for much longer

Bees are now next to pandas and Tigers in the endangered animals of the USA

Have we learned nothing from the bad history of colonization!

Well in the words of Suggs let’s bless the bees

Besides It’s the wasps you should be killing not the bloody bees

you can remove the cause but not the symptom

It��s a bit of a mind flip as the future continues we are heading into a time slip

Let’s do the Time Warp again!

I’ve recently been listening to the soundtrack of Rocky Horror Picture Show

But not just that the sequel too

Some of you know what I’m talking about and the rest are probably surprised that a rocky horror sequel even exists

It’s called Shock Treatment it came out in 1981 and it was less successful

It’s more focused on Brad and Janet as they live in a fictional town called Denton

Where everything is televised as the town is located inside a tv studio,

Not too different from 2019 seeing as we are all looking at screens that show manufactured faces,

The storyline is about how reality tv affects the public and mental health

Considering reality tv hasn’t changed much since then I’d say that film was quite accurate in it’s satire

Do I need to bring up roxanne from Celebrity Big Brother?

Brad is not feeling good after the events of the first film so he and Janet have been having marriage problems.

They go on a game show hosted by tosser in a purple wig...I mean Barry Humphries as they sing about how they relate to refrigerators and toasters

Such a mood

Brad is then sent to the set of a fictional soap opera Dentonvale which takes place in a mental hospital

Where the character actors are played by some of the same actors from the original such as Patricia Quinn,Richard O'Brien and Nell Young

The songs are actually quite good

Especially the title song,little black dress,farley’s song,Breaking Out and Me of Me

For those of you curious to see that film watch it

If you like rocky and if your ok with rocky going from the sci-fi horror genre to the musical comedy genre

When you see that Time Warp sequence in Rocky Horror it’s like a circus just a group of talented people being their kooky,incredible fun vibrant selves

It’s art house,it’s shock humour,it’s surreal but it’s fun and it’s out of this world

Like Belfast sometimes a few weeks back I was there and the streets were full of performers

There were musicians,actors,comedians,stunt artists and even a very tall person on stilts

It’s things like these that make me realise how creative this country is

A lot of good talent is overshadowed from our lack of representation in media to being ignored in projects

Northern Ireland is a cool place

Kurt Cobain,Stiff Little Fingers,Van Morrison,Two Door Cinema Club,Patricia Quinn,Mark Ashton,Terri Hooley, Jimmy McShane and all you performers,singers,actors,dancers,designers,Producers,Directors,Artists and Creators

are all from here

I’m just a sweet transvestite from Hibernia--i ha ha

We're going to do it anyhow, anyhow

We're going to do it

No matter how the wind is blowing

We're going to do it anyhow, anyhow

We're going to do it

We just gotta keep going

The sun never sets for those who ride on it

Goodnight!

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Today, psychiatrists would believe that trying to diagnose Ernest Hemingway’s mental illness, posthumously, is unrealistic because they never had the chance to speak with him, draw his blood, study an MRI of his brain or interact with his family and friends.

But that didn’t stop renowned forensic psychiatrist Andrew Farah, and he reveals the results his fascinating book “Hemingway’s Brain.”

Hemingway is widely thought to have suffered bipolar disorder and alcoholism that eventually led to his 1961 suicide. But Farah, the chief of psychiatry at the High Point Division of the University of North Carolina Healthcare System, provides a new diagnosis, one that focuses on traumatic head injuries and a detailed neurological and psychological analysis.

Farah’s examination, he believes, sets the record straight with the medical community and Hemingway scholars because Farah believes the tormented author was misdiagnosed — and could have been successfully treated had he not been.

For starters, Farah astutely tracks Hemingway’s mental illness to his parents Grace Hall Hemingway and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, the latter of whom committed suicide Dec. 6, 1928. After Clarence perished, at least four more Hemingways killed themselves, including Ernest, his sister Ursula, and his brother Leicester. Ernest’s granddaughter Margaux overdosed in 1996, and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, took her own life in 1998 in London.

Suicide and dementia are visible themes in Hemingway’s stories, especially in “The Battler,” which features punch drunk ex-fighter Ad Francis, and in “Indian Camp,” wherein the husband of the pregnant Indian woman, in labor, slashes his own throat. Hemingway’s 1933 short story collection, “Winner Take Nothing,” includes the popular “Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a sparse story set in a Spanish cafe in which two waiters discuss a deaf patron’s suicide attempt by hanging, and in “Fathers and Sons” fact becomes fiction as Nick Adams’ father dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Scholars believe Nick Adams is the autobiographical character of Ernest Hemingway; thus, Nick’s father is Clarence.

Progressive brain injury

But why did Ernest Hemingway commit suicide? I caught up with the author in a phone interview, and according to Farah, “By 1960 Hemingway suffered from a type of dementia, which led to his cognitive decline, a deterioration in his writing skills, and volatility and personality changes. And it was predominantly his nine major concussions that caused a syndrome we now refer to as ‘chronic traumatic encephalopathy,’ or CTE. There were other contributors, such as alcoholism. The CTE meant he would tolerate alcohol less well, and there was also what we now term a ‘vascular’ component to his dementia, that is, an accumulation of tiny strokes over time, as he suffered pre-diabetes and hypertension, probably from his early 40s. But the main cause of his decline was CTE. This was the primary diagnosis; the depression and psychosis were stemming from this syndrome. In a way, he was treated only for symptoms, not his underlying illness.”

Because he was not treated properly, his delusions continued, and readers learn about them in “Hemingway’s Brain.” Specifically, Hemingway believed the FBI was monitoring his actions and that hunting on private land would alert the sheriff. He also had a “persistent fear of arrest for ‘taking liberties with a minor’ ” — spurred by his relationship with 18-year-old Adriana Ivancich of Italy. (Hemingway was 49 when he met Ivancich, who inspired the character Renata in “Across the River and into the Trees.” Ivancich committed suicide in 1983.)

In addition to the passages about the delusions, Farah provides detailed accounts of the litany of concussions Hemingway suffered, including one he experienced when a mortar shell exploded near him in Italy during WWI, a famous story about a skylight falling on his head in Paris in 1928 and a brain rattle suffered in a car crash during WWII in London with new acquaintance Dr. Gorer at the wheel. Add two more resulting from back-to-back African plane crashes on two days in 1954 and the after-effects from hundreds of rounds of boxing, and Farah had a lot to work with.

History of suicide attempts

Although Hemingway’s suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, made worldwide headlines on July 2, 1961, Farah points out several other occasions that Hemingway pondered taking his life. In fact, when he first married Hadley Richardson, he cogitated jumping into the Atlantic Ocean on his way to Paris, and he contemplated walking into a plane’s propeller on his way to the Mayo Clinic in the final years of his life. (Hemingway’s doctor Georg Saviers, however, disputes this action; the propeller story has been written about ad nauseam, but in Farah’s book, Saviers “had no sense that Papa was ready to run into either of the rotating blades.”) And two months prior to his death, his wife, Mary, found him holding a shotgun, shells and a suicide note.

Doctors tried several times to level Hemingway’s mood with invasive shock treatments and in-patient stays at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and Farah places the reader bedside for one of Hemingway’s shock treatments. “An intravenous line was started in his arm, and amobarbital flowed into his veins … the rubber bite-guard was placed in his mouth, and a conductive gel was rubbed in the circles over his temples.” When he woke up, his head “felt cloudy” and he did not like this feeling: “Well, what is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital” — which may have been the impetus for his obsession with ending his life. Farah, via phone, laid out his multipronged treatment plan (also featured in his book), which may have helped Hemingway:

“Firstly, we’d have to address the alcoholism. He described a life without alcohol as driving a race car without motor oil, and though he could cut down on drinking, he was never fully abstinent. For such patients, we may prescribe a medication like diazepam, which prevents withdrawal and may provide the same anti-anxiety relief as alcohol. It is also addicting but spares the liver and brain damage of the alcohol. Then I would design a realistic exercise program, which would include increasing his walking and swimming, and prescribe a particular B vitamin capsule (Enlyte-D) that would lower the toxins in his brain. Antioxidants such as NAC (or n-acetylcysteine) are used in high doses by the military to protect the brain after blast-injury concussions. It also helps to reduce the cognitive decline in dementia. We would also use an omega-3 supplement, which would assist in restoring the integrity of his brain cells. We would add the standard anti-Alzheimer’s medications (memantine and rivastigmine), and finally, an antipsychotic and an antidepressant would address his delusions and depression.”

Too bad Hemingway was not treated today because the passage about Hemingway’s final morning is harrowing.

“That morning, July 2, 1961, Ernest woke just before sunrise and put on his slippers, then his red bathrobe dubbed the ‘Emperor’s Robe.’ … He then went directly to the windowsill in the kitchen, where he knew he would find the keys he needed. He then made his way to a storeroom in the basement where his guns were locked up.” Readers know what happened next.

Just like the husband in “Indian Camp,” the cafe patron in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” and Mr. Adams in “Fathers and Sons,” Hemingway’s suicide will never be fully understood and doctors will never know if they could have saved him, but Farah’s thought-provoking and cogent examination provides the unique perspective of a respected psychiatrist that will aid Hemingway aficionados and literary scholars in discerning just a little bit more about the tormented mind of a man who is admired worldwide.

Wayne Catan teaches English literature at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix.

Source: http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/books/article159139749.html

#ernest hemingway #suicide #CTE #concussion #alcoholism #dementia #andrew farah #famous authors

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Ex-NPA child warrior recalls life as Sparrow Unit member

#PHnews: Ex-NPA child warrior recalls life as Sparrow Unit member

CEBU CITY – After suffering physical abuse from her father, she left home and ended up being recruited into the New People’s Army (NPA) at just nine years old. She was a slim, long-haired girl when the “hukbo” (corps) enlisted her to the Sparrow Unit tasked to kill government troops in Metro Cebu in the 1980s.

In an interview on Monday, Myrna Romero, now a 47-year-old farmer in a village in Cebu province, recalled that her sad experience with her father made her run to the activist-priests at a church here, which led her to become one of the youngest combatants of the communist rebel group in Cebu.

She mentioned a certain “priest” from Carmen, Bohol, as among her mentors.

She recalled being given Maoist teachings on communism as well as living a life under the KPPH (Kongkretong pagtuki sa kongkretong kahimtang, which means “Concrete discussion of the concrete situation”).

“Intelektuwal ko nga bata, may sariling kalibutan. Di ko bugo nga bata, tingale motubag ko unsay dapat, kulatahon ko… (I was an intellectual child that had her own world. I was not an ignorant child, when I talked back, I got assaulted),” Myrna told the Philippine News Agency.

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The former child warrior recounted that aside from the priests, she was also recruited to the rebel group by a youth activist group which also had links with the church in the uptown district here.

Trained as a child warrior

Myrna said she was the lone regular child warrior of the NPA at the age of 12 under the "Grupo sa Gagmay’ng Kabataan", organized to counter the "Kabataang Barangay" (KB) program of then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

“Akong lang sa babaye before as regular fighter ko. Twelve years na-train nako sa armed (combat). That time, ang uban mag-16 to 17, naay mag-18, (I was the only woman regular fighter before. I was 12 years old then when I was trained for armed combat. At that time, others were 16 to 17 years old, there were some who were 18 also),” the former rebel said.

During the Marcos regime, she recalled having met nine to 13-year-old child warriors in the “hukbo”.

She opined that family problems could lead a child to become rebellious and be easily swayed to believe in leftist teachings.

She said that if a child is fully guided by parents and enjoy social acceptance from the community, those societal issues confronting him or her would just become part of the child's development.

“Personal nako, ang importansiya sa komunidad, sa pamilya kay sa mga guidance gikan sa mga tawo. Ang ginikanan ang naka-front sa issues ngadto sa ilang mga anak nga before unta ipakatawo ang bata hangtod sa pagka-tawo, guided sila (Personally, guidance from community and family to the children is important rather than guidance from other people. Parents should be at the forefront in tackling issues confronting their children, that before they were born until they grow old, they are guided),” she said.

Debate on communists’ principle of equality

Myrna described herself as a voracious reader. Whenever she finds reading materials, she read and studied them to fill the gap caused by having no formal education.

She said she was a graduate of "UM" or University of the Mountain but was able to outsmart a professor who came to Cebu for a plenum (congress of members of the Communist Party of Philippines and NPA area commanders). She said they had a debate over “equality” as espoused by the Maoist communists.

The plenum, she said, was called to plan out their way ahead in the fight against the government. She was sent to attend the event that was only meant for officials of the NPA despite her tender age, as she was already known as an expert in operation, intelligence, and politics.

“She (professor) taught us that we are all equal in the 'hukbo'. But I argued that it cannot be because we have a different background and purpose in life – she was a university professor and I was just a poor warrior in the mountain, how could we be equal?” she asked in Cebuano, stressing the impossibility of the ideal world where there is no rich and no poor.

The organization then demoted her and sent her back to the mountain to continue fighting government forces.

Myrna said that argument with the professor over the philosophy of equality was left unsettled and became the springboard for more questions than answers, which later on led her to think of leaving the CPP-NPA. Sparrow Unit operating in Cebu City

The monikers “Ka Magda,” “Ka Ligaya,” and “Ka Chona” became well known in Cebu in the late '80s.

Myrna’s story as a beautiful, long-haired teenager who could kill officers of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) in broad daylight spread in Cebu and the Visayas like wildfire.

Her "legend" started when she executed a man in Sitio Villagonzalo in Barangay Tejero, where her ballcap fell and her long, braided hair fell to her buttocks.

She recalled that she was able to start good propaganda by floating the moniker "Ka Chona" of the Sparrow Unit who later owned up to the killing of the victim, a known womanizer.

Her other moniker, "Ka Ligaya", came about when she posed as a bar GRO (guest relations officer) and waited for lawmen to come so she could execute them.

Myrna also recalled having robbed a famous jewelry store in the downtown area, organizing a front group and meeting more NPA leaders, including those from the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU).

Graceful exit through marriage

Although she had long planned about leaving the CPP-NPA, she could not yet present an intelligent reason.

One day, she asked to be assigned in an area where she befriended everyone she met, believing they could help her leave the Sparrow Unit.

Using a different name, she enrolled in the Japan Karatedo Association (JKA), where she met a plumber whom she later married. The man, she said, did not have an inkling about her life as a hit squad member.

“Nagtuman akong gusto, mabuntis ko pinaagi ani. Wala sila kahibalo kinsa gyud ko sa tinud-anay. Akong tuyo manganak lang, pero nagpakasal gyud ko (My wish came true to get pregnant. They didn’t know who I was. My objective was to get pregnant, and get married),” Myrna recalled.

However, by the time she got married, she was already wanted by the authorities, with a PHP150,000 bounty on her head.

This led her to decide to turn herself in to the government troops who were operating near an NPA hideout in the village of Guadalupe here in 1996.

She said she led other rebel surrenderers in a ceremony for the “Balik Igsoon Program” under the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos.

Among the rebels who took their oath of allegiance to the government then were members of the Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabayan (RAM) led by then Col. Gregorio Honasan, who later became a senator.

Through the “Balik Igsoon Program”, Myrna and the other surrenderers were granted amnesty.

Giving back to the government

Now that she is enjoying life in a democratic society, planting crops and raising goats on her farm, Myrna is helping the local police in their “little needs” and provides them with a place for their target shooting practice.

She said she is now a friend to local officials and the church, as well as the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), other government agencies, and the Philippine Army, giving talks to people about the atrocious life in the CPP-NPA.

“Ako lang silang papilion. Akong ipresentar ang kinabuhi sa bukid ug ang kinabuhi natong wala makig-away sa gobyerno ug asa ang walay kalinaw (I will ask them to choose. I will present to them the life in the mountain and our life here, who are not fighting against the government and which life has no peace),” she pointed out.

“I discovered that in the CPP-NPA, we can see that they are just riding on the innocence and poor state of the people just to satisfy the aim of the people who are hungry for power,” she said in Cebuano.

As a guest lecturer in anti-insurgency seminars, Myrna does not accept payment, which, she said, is her way of giving back to the government against whom she fought as a child.

Myrna said Gen. Alexander Yano, former chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, offered to make her a regular soldier so that she could receive a salary and at the same time continue teaching about the ills of insurgency.

But she said she declined as she wanted to give her services for free. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Ex-NPA child warrior recalls life as Sparrow Unit member." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1082474 (accessed October 08, 2019 at 04:23AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Ex-NPA child warrior recalls life as Sparrow Unit member." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1082474 (archived).

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Women’s mid-life stress linked to memory decline

A new study links stressful life experiences among middle-aged women—but not men—to greater memory decline in later life.

The researchers say their findings add to evidence that stress hormones play an uneven gender role in brain health, and align with well-documented higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease in women than men.

Although the researchers caution their study was designed to show associations among phenomena, and not determine cause and effect, they say that if future studies demonstrate that stress response does factor into the cause of dementia, then strategies designed to combat or moderate the body’s chemical reactions to stress may prevent or delay onset of cognitive decline.

The findings appear in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 1 in 6 women over age 60 will get Alzheimer’s disease, compared with 1 in 11 men. There currently are no proven treatments that prevent or halt progression of the disease.

“We can’t get rid of stressors, but we might adjust the way we respond to stress, and have a real effect on brain function as we age,” says Cynthia Munro, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “And although our study did not show the same association for men, it sheds further light on the effects of stress response on the brain with potential application to both men and women,” she adds.

Munro says prior research by other investigators shows that the effect of age on the stress response is three times greater in women than in men. Separately, other research has shown that stressful life experiences can result in temporary memory and cognitive problems.

Mid-life stress and trauma

To further explore whether stressful life experiences can be linked to developing long-term memory problems in women especially, Munro and her team used data collected on 909 Baltimore residents for the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. That study recruited participants from 1981 to 1983 from five cities in the US to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders.

Some 63% of the participants were women and 60% were white. Participants were an average age of 47 during their mid-life check-in in the 90s.

After enrollment, participants returned to trial sites for interviews and checkups three additional times: once in 1982, once between 1993 and 1996, and once between 2003 and 2004.

During the third visit, researchers asked participants if they experienced a traumatic event in the past year such as combat, rape, a mugging, some other physical attack, watching someone else attacked or killed, receiving a threat, or living through a natural disaster. Some 22% of men and 23% of women reported at least one traumatic event within the past year before their visit.

Researchers also asked participants about stressful life experiences such as a marriage, divorce, death of a loved one, job loss, severe injury or sickness, a child moving out, retirement, or birth of a child. About 47% of men and 50% of women reported having at least one stressful life experience in the year before their visit.

At the third and fourth visits, the researchers tested the participants using a standardized learning and memory test developed by Iowa researchers. The test included having participants recall 20 words spoken aloud by the testers immediately after they heard them, and again 20 minutes later.

At the third visit, participants could recall on average 8 words immediately and 6 words later. Participants also had to identify the words spoken to them among a written list of 40 words. During the third visit, participants correctly identified on average 15 words. By the fourth visit, participants recalled an average of 7 words immediately, 6 words after a delay, and correctly recognized almost 14 words.

The researchers measured any decreases in performance on the tests between the third and fourth visits, and then compared those decreases with participants’ reports of stressful life experiences or traumatic events to see if there was an association.

Lost words

Munro’s team found that having a greater number of stressful life experiences over the last year in midlife in women was linked to a greater decline in recalling words later and recognizing those words.

Women who experienced no stressful life experiences within the past year at the third visit were able to remember on average 0.5 fewer words when given the same memory test at the fourth visit. Women with one or more stressful life experiences, however, recalled on average one fewer word at the fourth visit than they had at the third visit. The ability to recognize words declined by an average of 1.7 words for women with at least one stressor at the third visit compared with a 1.2-word decline for women without stressors at midlife.

They didn’t see the same trend in women who had traumatic events. Munro says that this finding suggests that ongoing stress, such as that experienced during a divorce, may have more of a negative impact on brain functioning than distinct traumatic events. This makes sense, Munro believes, because what we call “chronic stress” can impair the body’s ability to respond to stress in a healthy manner.

The researchers did not see an association in men between a drop in word recall or recognition and experiencing either stressful life experiences or traumatic events in midlife.

Is it hormones?

Stress much earlier in life also wasn’t predictive of cognitive decline later in either men or women.

“A normal stress response causes a temporary increase in stress hormones like cortisol, and when it’s over, levels return to baseline and you recover. But with repeated stress, or with enhanced sensitivity to stress, your body mounts an increased and sustained hormone response that takes longer to recover,” says Munro. “We know if stress hormone levels increase and remain high, this isn’t good for the brain’s hippocampus—the seat of memory.”

The researchers say that stress reduction hasn’t gotten a whole lot of attention compared with other factors that may contribute to dementia or Alzheimer’s, and that it might be worth exploring stress management techniques as a way to delay or prevent disease.

Munro adds that there are medications in development to combat how our brains handle stress, and that these may be used in conjunction with other behavioral stress coping techniques to reduce the impact of stress on aging minds.

Coauthors of the paper are from the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, one of whom has consulted for Awarables, Inc. Funding came from the National Institute on Aging.

Source: Johns Hopkins University

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MATCH OF THEIR DAY: Stuart Storer the scorer saved Brighton in their sliding doors moment

When Stuart Storer thinks of April 1997 and the last game of Goldstone Ground, he sees euphoria. & # 39;

According to Storer Brighton, United Kingdom and the support of Hove Albion the old stadium was & # 39; good to dismantle & # 39 ;. It closed after 96 years. Storer thought it was an appropriate end.

& # 39; I remember in an interview & # 39 ;, he says, & someone who is the & & # 39; acts of violence & # 39; I said, "Wait a minute, some of these fans have been coming here for 40 years, why wouldn't they take a souvenir?"

Stuart Storer scores against Doncaster while the seagulls avoided relegation

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Stuart Storer scores against Doncaster as the seagulls avoided relegation to non-league

Scorcher: Storer 67.

BRIGHTON: Ormerod, Johnson, Humphrey, Mayo, McDonald, Morris,

Administrator: Steve Gritt

DONCASTER: O & Connor, Warren, Moore, Schofield, Pemberton, Cramb, Anderson, Cunningh am, Marquis, Ireland

Managers: Mark Weaver and Danny Bergara

It was the only one of a tough match against Doncaster Rovers, in which Ian Baird and Darren Moore were deported to fight. Crucial was that the victory brought Brighton a place on the table.

That it shows from the bottom of Nationwide Football League Division 3 to the second-bottom – or from 92 to 91st – Brighton & # 39; s plight. It may seem unthinkable today in their shiny new stadium hosting Premier League matches – the home of the FA Cup semi-finalists – but 22 years ago, Brighton was on the eve of relegation to non-league football and great uncertainty.

& # 39; Before Christmas, we were in a great mood, & # 39; Storer remembers. Liam Brady, who signed me, had resigned from the manager. Jimmy Case, who followed Liam, had conquered pressure from all angles.

& # 39; Our way was terrible, we would have a point deduction and you looked at the table and just thought, & # 39; No way out & # 39 ;. & # 39; Brighton was in an uproar. Supporters were furious with the running of the club by Bill Archer and David Bellotti. There were protests, pitch invasions and boycotts.

There was also a transfer embargo in the Brady era. When it was abolished in 1996, fans helped finance the purchase of an Exeter – Stuart Storer player.

& # 39; I was not aware of these tensions at the time, & # 39; Storer says. & # 39; I was in an untenable situation at Exeter because they went into administration. I had to leave. It was in the fire from the frying pan.

& # 39; The ground itself had closed one stand for security reasons.

Having been a 16-year-old rookie debutant at Mansfield, purchased by Ron Saunders in Birmingham City, then Howard Kendall at Everton, Alan Ball at Exeter, and Brady at Brighton, Storer had his share in glittering admirers.

He had signed the previous season when Brighton was in the above division. It seemed that another devastating relegation was unfolding. Then local businessman Dick Knight successfully increased Archer and Bellotti and installed Steve Gritt as manager. & # 39; It was lifted a great weight, & # 39; Storer says.

Knight and Gritt gave Brighton faith.

& # 39; I remember we beat Hartlepool 5-0 and that was a fans day. There was a large crowd and atmosphere. But every time we won at home, we would lose.

But Hereford United also dropped and with two more games to go, three points separated the two at the bottom.

Brighton first had to defeat Doncaster, and then hope that Hereford lost to Orient, otherwise the last day of the Goldstone would also be the worst.

& # 39; On the way to the ground I saw hordes of blue and white, as if they were honoring them. At 1.30 pm the place was already half full. "

The quality of football was not high, according to Storer. It was 0-0 at half-time. Then, with 23 minutes to go, Brighton won a corner. The ball pinged around the Doncaster box, once out of the bar and finally dropped six meters to Storer. & # 39; Normally I skied it, but this time I didn't do it. & # 39;

Brighton has won. Hereford is lost.

The following Saturday, Brighton moved to Hereford and that was enough to stay in the Football League on scored goals.

Taking into account where Brighton and Hereford are now, it was, Storer says, a & # 39; sliding doors moment & # 39 ;.

Storer, 52, is now the manager of Bedworth United.

The day after, when he was harassed by Brighton supporters at a gas station in Kent , reinforced what he did on the Goldstone Ground. & # 39; It really is very humble, & # 39; he says.

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El Gaucho steakhouse coming to Waterfront Vancouver

Find out how to get the best plumber in Vancouver Washington

One of Seattle and Portland’s fine dining mainstays is adding a new location: El Gaucho Vancouver will open in 2020 on the ground floor of the future Hotel Indigo at The Waterfront Vancouver.

Hotel Indigo developer Kirkland Development and the steakhouse’s parent company, Fire & Vine Hospitality, announced the news Monday.

“Our team is excited to be part of the growth of the Vancouver waterfront and the opportunities it presents for our guests and our staff,” Fire & Vine Hospitality CEO Chad Mackay said in a press release. “We have been looking to expand in the area and the beautiful setting and connection to this growing area make this the perfect spot.”

Fire & Vine Hospitality currently operates three El Gaucho restaurants in the Puget Sound region and a fourth in downtown Portland inside the historic Benson Hotel, along with two luxury hotels and six other individual restaurants throughout Washington, many of which were opened by Fire & Vine’s culinary director, Jason Wilson.

The El Gaucho restaurants emphasize a festive traditional atmosphere with live music and tableside meal preparation.

“Order the caesar and you’ll have the entire thing — mayo included — made from scratch before your eyes,” Eater Portland wrote in a 2016 story. “Order the Bananas Foster, and you’re in for a fire show.”

The Portland El Gaucho location has been a frequent dinner and event destination for the Portland Trail Blazers, and players Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum have both listed the steakhouse among their favorite local restaurants in previous media interviews. Nike has been known to entertain its athletes at the restaurant.

The company has been looking for an opportunity to expand the El Gaucho brand in the Portland area for several years, according to Fire & Vine public relations director Beth Herrell Silverberg, and The Waterfront Vancouver development presented an ideal location.

El Gaucho Vancouver will include a main dining room, bar and private dining rooms occupying 8,500 square feet on the main floor of Hotel Indigo at the southeast corner. The restaurant will also operate a 1,500-square-foot terrace bar on the hotel’s eighth floor, including a 600-square-foot patio overlooking the Columbia River.

Visitors who have dined at other El Gaucho locations will find a familiar menu in Vancouver, including many of El Gaucho’s classic and popular items like the tableside Caesar salad, Chateaubriand for two and bananas Foster.

“The menu will be very familiar and the level of service will be identical,” Silverberg said. “What will be different (from the Portland location) is it’ll be lighter and brighter and have a view.”

El Gaucho Vancouver will be open for dinner and happy hour, and the restaurant will be the exclusive provider of lunch and dinner catering services for the Hotel Indigo’s 10,000 square feet of events space.

‘Greater, bigger things’

The 138-room hotel broke ground last year and is being built alongside the future Kirkland Tower, a 12-story condo building. The two buildings share a foundation and are being built as a single construction project, scheduled for completion in 2020.

“As a lifelong resident of Vancouver, I’m very proud to be a part of the Waterfront development which is changing the skyline of Vancouver,” Kirkland Development President Dean Kirkland said in a press release. “Having El Gaucho Vancouver as part of the Hotel Indigo/Kirkland Tower development sets the stage for greater and bigger things in our city.”

The Hotel Indigo and Kirkland Tower will feature a total of 20,000 square feet of space for retail uses, according to Kirkland. El Gaucho will occupy about half of that space, he said, and another 8,000 square feet has been leased to other business partners that have not yet been announced.

The El Gaucho brand dates its origins to the opening of the El Gaucho steakhouse in Seattle in 1953. The original restaurant closed in 1985, but it was reopened in a new Seattle location in 1996 under the ownership of Chad Mackay’s father, Paul Mackay, who had worked at the original location.

The Portland location opened in March 2000, followed a couple months later by a seafood restaurant on the Seattle waterfront that was later rebranded as AQUA by El Gaucho. The third El Gaucho location opened in Tacoma in 2002, followed by the fourth in Bellevue in 2008.

Chad Mackay took over the business in 2014 following the retirement of Paul Mackay. The parent company El Gaucho Hospitality was renamed Fire & Vine Hospitality in 2017, partnering with Wilson and expanding the El Gaucho Revelers Club program to Wilson’s family of restaurants.

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El Gaucho steakhouse coming to Waterfront Vancouver

Find out how to get the best plumber in Vancouver Washington

One of Seattle and Portland’s fine dining mainstays is adding a new location: El Gaucho Vancouver will open in 2020 on the ground floor of the future Hotel Indigo at The Waterfront Vancouver.

Hotel Indigo developer Kirkland Development and the steakhouse’s parent company, Fire & Vine Hospitality, announced the news Monday.

The El Gaucho restaurants emphasize a festive traditional atmosphere with live music and tableside meal preparation.

‘Greater, bigger things’

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Smoking And Obesity Are Both Harmful To Your Health

Smoking And Obesity Are Both Harmful To Your Health. Smoking and plumpness are both noxious to your health, but they also do considerable damage to your wallet, researchers report. Annual health-care expenses are sincerely higher for smokers and the obese, compared with nonsmokers and people of salutary weight, according to a recent report in the journal Public Health. In fact, obesity is literally more expensive to treat than smoking on an annual basis, the study concluded proextender johnson city review. And the cost of treating both problems is in borne by US society as a whole. Obese people run up an average $1,360 in additional health-care expenses each year compared with the non-obese. The own obese untiring is also on the hook for $143 in extra out-of-pocket expenses, according to the report. By comparison, smokers order an average $1046 in additional health-care expenses compared with nonsmokers, and pay an extra $70 annually in out-of-pocket expenses women show your legs. Yearly expenses associated with weight exceeded those associated with smoking in all areas of custody except for emergency room visits, the study found. Study author Ruopeng An, aide professor of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said it shouldn't be surprising that the corpulent tend to have higher medical costs than smokers. "Obesity tends to be a disabling disease. Smokers turn up one's toes young, but people who are obese live potentially longer but with a lot of hardened illness and disabling conditions" natural medicine. So, from a lifetime perspective, obesity could prove strikingly burdensome to the US health-care system. Those who weigh more also pay more, An found, with medical expenses increasing the most to each those who are extremely obese. By the same token, older folks with longer smoking histories have in essence higher medical costs than younger smokers. An also found that both smoking and paunchiness have become more costly to treat over the years. Health-care costs associated with obesity increased by 25 percent from 1998 to 2011 and those linked to smoking rose by nearly a third. To show compassion the financial crash of obesity and smoking, An analyzed data from nearly 126000 participants in the 1996-2010 National Health Interview Surveys. The NHIS is the nation's largest annual in-person household form survey. The participants also took say in a subsequent survey on health-related expenses. The lessons focused solely on health-care expenditures: hospital inpatient and outpatient care, danger room treatment, physicians' office visits, out-of-pocket expenses and prescription drug costs. Between 1998 and 2011, estimated health-care expenses associated with embonpoint and smoking increased by 25 percent and 30 percent, respectively, according to An's findings. The rising tariff of medication drugs appeared to fuel the increase in health-care expenses related to obesity and smoking, An found. Pharmaceutical expenses associated with grossness and smoking were 62 percent and 70 percent higher, respectively, in 2011 than in 1998. Mayo Clinic salubriousness economist Bijan Borah said the creative research documents something that has been understood for some time - that obesity and smoking are very costly to treat. "There is a bring in to be paid for being obese or a smoker. In the US, what we have seen is that over time these costs have been increasing. It's heyday for people to be accountable for their behaviors that are modifiable. It's not only going to tax themselves, but society as well". Although the study considered obesity and smoking separately, both An and Borah said it stands to apology that obese people who also smoke are apt to face even higher medical expenses. Borah famed that the study only dealt with direct medical costs, and did not include costs to association like absenteeism and loss of productivity. "When you factor those in, the true outlay would be even higher. An said his results show that obesity prevention and anti-smoking campaigns could go a long avenue toward reigning in rising medical expenses bonuses. "In order to contain increasing health-care costs, we trouble to think more about how to prevent obesity rather than treating obesity, because treatment of obesity is much more expensive than prevention.

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Interview of Deborah Slappey Pitts, Author of "I Feel Okay"

Peruser Views is upbeat to have with us Deborah Slappey Pitts. Deborah's works of short stories, exposition, and verse traverse somewhere in the range of 35 years. Welcome!

Irene: Your book "I Feel Okay" is tied in with looking for a fix an ailment that very few individuals have known about. It would be ideal if you inform us concerning the ailment.

Deborah: Primary amyloidosis (AL) is an uncommon ailment of the invulnerable framework that influences about eight individuals of a million yearly. The sickness isn't disease, yet the impacts on the real organs of the body can be similarly as fatal as growth. Amyloidosis is an anomalous protein that is stored into any of the body's tissues or organs by method for the circulatory system. The malady comes about when enough amyloid protein collects in the tissues or organs in the body to make the tissue or organ glitch.

The aggregated amyloid protein causes the dynamic breakdown of the influenced organ. The heart, kidneys, sensory system, stomach, and liver are regularly influenced. For Clyde's situation, the amassed amyloid protein made his heart breakdown, so he passed out.

It is intriguing to take note of that essential amyloidosis (AL) has a few attributes of a platelet issue and once in a while exists together with numerous myeloma. Various myeloma is a disease of the plasma cells in the bone marrow. At in the first place, the specialists initially believed that Clyde had numerous myeloma.

Irene: You took a tremendous mission to discover more data from a medicinal network that couldn't speak with you in regards to your significant other's malady essential amyloidosis. Disclose to us what motivated you to compose a book of your experience.

Deborah: From the specific start, after Clyde's passing, I needed to recount his story so others would be instructed about the staggering impacts of essential amyloidosis (AL), however I didn't have the quality to discuss our family's catastrophe. As well as could be expected do then was to make a site in 1996 about essential amyloidosis and I trusted others would read about Clyde's story and essential amyloidosis, from an individual point of view. It took me nine years to at long last disclose to Clyde's story in I Feel Okay since I needed my children (Clyde Daryl and Alex Keith) to realize what happened and to leave them an inheritance of their dad.

I additionally composed the book since I wanted to teach the general population about the staggering impacts of the ailment so others would find out about the malady and to keep away from another disaster. I'm grateful to state that Clyde's story has helped other individuals who are at present determined to have essential amyloidosis (AL).

Irene: It doesn't appear that you had much help from the restorative network on the loose. Have you lost confidence in it?

Deborah: I would had sought after more help amid Clyde's underlying determination of the malady, and amid the early long periods of living without Clyde, I was exceptionally baffled with a portion of the specialists who treated him. In any case, I should state that the help and understanding that we got at The Mayo Clinic was total fortune! I won't ever overlook the adoration and liberality that was straightforward according to Clyde's doctors and medical caretakers as guardians.

Furthermore, no, I haven't lost my confidence in the therapeutic network. I have an enormous regard for the people who work in the social insurance calling consistently. Presently, I'm more perceptive of taking "charge" of my social insurance by making inquiries of the medicinal services experts about elective answers for the suggestive method of treatment. I have faith in getting to sites, for example, WebMD as a wellspring of data. This has been extremely useful to me and my family.

Irene: I comprehend that essential amyloidosis can be made do with drugs. What amount of sensibility is there with meds?

Deborah: Currently, there is no solution for essential amyloidosis (AL). In any case, essential amyloidosis (AL) can be made do with drugs. The unusual amyloid protein that works in the bone marrow can be impeded or even halted, in the event that it is analyzed effectively and so as to stop the monstrous develop of protein fibrils.

At present, specialists are treating patients with essential amyloidosis (AL) with a regimen of chemotherapy treatments to incorporate melphalan and colchicine to react to the strange plasma cells. Furthermore, doctors will likewise consider bone marrow transplantation to bring sound cells into the patient. Bone marrow transplantation includes utilizing high-measurement chemotherapy and transfusion of beforehand gathered youthful or fresh recruits cells (foundational microorganisms) to supplant the unhealthy or harmed marrow. These cells might be collected from the patient's or from a giver.

There are examples of overcoming adversity in the treatment of essential amyloidosis. I am aware of a man who has survived over 18 years with the sickness. Once more, the key is to be analyzed so as to moderate or stop the monstrous develop of the protein fibrils in the body.

Irene: You specify being analyzed early. What are a portion of the signs that point toward essential amyloidosis?

Deborah: If analyzed early, essential amyloidosis (AL) can be moderated and now and then even halted in its creation. I was exceptionally heart broken when I initially took in this reality. I trust that things would have turned out contrastingly if Clyde would have been analyzed in time.

Manifestations of essential amyloidosis (AL) are basically predictable with different sicknesses. While thinking about the analysis, a doctor should consider the side effects of essential amyloidosis (AL) in totality, not independently. Amid my broad research, I found the accompanying manifestations for the illness: Swelling of the lower legs and legs, general shortcoming of the limits, weight reduction, shortness of breath, deadness or shivering in the hands or feet (This side effect can be related with carpel burrow disorder.), the runs, extreme exhaustion, amplified tongue, feeling of totality in the wake of eating littler measures of sustenance than common, lastly, wooziness after standing.

It ought to be noticed that amyloidosis can be analyzed just by positive recognizable proof utilizing an uncommon Congo Red stain on an example of the amyloid fibrils. The typical demonstrative arrangements in a research center won't yield a right conclusion of the amyloid ailment.

Irene: The sickness is hopeless. Is there examine going on right now for a fix?

Deborah: Yes, as I said prior, there is no remedy for the malady, yet solutions and treatments are accessible to moderate or stop the movement of the development of the amyloid proteins in the body. At present, The Mayo Clinic and Boston Medical Hospitals are the main healing centers in research of the amyloid sicknesses. All through the most recent 10 years, these two healing centers and others have proceeded with investigate for new meds and treatments to battle essential amyloidosis (AL) and other amyloid sicknesses.

Irene: You property a great deal of your quality and mettle to your confidence in God. Kindly tell your perusing crowd how you by and by could surrender your will to God and take a stab at keeping the excursion in His grasp.

Deborah: God has guided the Slappey family through numerous difficulties. Also, when we were looked with this exceptionally uncommon sickness, an illness that we didn't know how to spell or articulate at to start with, I normally swung to our Heavenly Father to direct us through this substantial tempest in our lives. Nothing can be included or subtracted from God's assertion. He says in Proverbs 3:5-6, to trust in His statement and not to depend without anyone else understanding, and to recognize Him to coordinate our ways. Also, we did.

Clyde and I realized that this malady was greater than the two of us; we needed to depend on God's constant hands to help us through this horrendous tempest in our lives. God is all knowing and all observing, and we were eager to surrender all to him since we didn't include anything inside ourselves to change the truth that Clyde was enduring with this dangerous infection. I additionally realized that in the event that it was God's will to fix Clyde, he would be restored. I had finish trust in God and I surrendered to His will.

Irene: Sometimes it is difficult to trust and have confidence in an option that is more prominent than ourselves. What process did you experience to surrender your will to God?

Deborah: I'm an individual from the Church of Christ, and I attempt with the best of my capacities to make the wisest decision in God locate. I miss the mark, however I do make a decent attempt. I took in quite a while back that there are a few things I can't change, regardless of what I do. I realized that this sickness was substantially greater than Clyde and considerably greater than me. I realized that I couldn't change the circumstance that was spread out before the Slappey family, so Clyde and I simply did what we knew: we supplicated. Also, we implored and asked; requesting that God give us the quality to manage our family circumstance.

There were commonly when my confidence was shaken amid Clyde's experience, however God dependably fortify me to continue moving and clutching His constant Hand. What's more, he did. I realized that God was conveying me in those dim days when the doctor would stroll into the room and clarify Clyde's visualization. Commonly, I needed to flee and stow away, however I continued asking since I realized that on the off chance that it was God's will to convey Clyde from this bad dream, He would. I realized that God was in charge and nothing would be included or taken away, except if He permitted it.

Miserable and deplorable things happened to all individuals and on November 12, 1994 (the beginning of Clyde's power outages), it happened to the Slappey family. I don't need anybody to ever need to encounter the torment and enduring that we did with the amyloid ailment, and this is the reason I'm so energetic and devoted to teaching people in general about the staggering impacts of this ailment.

Irene: It was clear to you and your family that your significant other would not recuperate from this ailment. What process that you experience to acknowledge this reality?

Deborah: despite what might be expected, we didn't acknowledge the way that Clyde wouldn't recuperate. I realized that as long as Clyde was alive, there was trust. My expectation and supplication was that on the off chance that it was God's will to fix Clyde, he would, and that is the reason we continued searching for somebody to encourage Clyde, starting in Columbus, Georg

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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 21, 2018

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"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" "In Bruges" "A Star is Born" "Step Up 2: The Streets" "The Vietnam War"

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"Bowling For Columbine" (Criterion)

We've written a lot about the timing of Criterion releases before. It's a fascinating system, one that often feels like it's not tied to anything else in the market, with the occassional exceptions for horror releases around Halloween and Cannes hits in May. However, it's impossible to look at their first release of June and not consider the real-world timing of a film about the proliferation of guns in American society. Michael Moore was a name on the arthouse scene when his film about gun violence in America came out, but its release made him a household name, becoming the highest-grossing documentary of all time when it came out, on its way to an Oscar win. Sixteen years later, "Bowling For Columbine" still has power. If anything, it seems a little dated in a way that's truly sad: the situation has gotten even worse.

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Special Features New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray Michael Moore Makes a Movie, a new documentary featuring Moore, chief archivist Carl Deal, field producers Jeff Gibbs and Meghan O’Hara, and supervising producer Tia Lessin Programs covering Moore’s return to Colorado in 2002, his 2003 Oscar win, and three film-festival interviews with Moore Excerpt from a 2002 episode of The Charlie Rose Show featuring Moore Corporate Cops, a 2000 segment from Moore’s television series The Awful Truth II Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Eric Hynes

"The Death of Stalin"

Armando Iannucci is one of our best living political satirists, detailing worlds of power in "In the Loop," "Veep," and this arthouse hit, a movie that made almost $8 million domestically, a crazy number for IFC (it's their 4th-highest grossing film of all time and the biggest success for them since 2014's "Boyhood"). Given how much critics adored this pitch-black comedy, why on Earth is it not on Blu-ray? Yes, this is another one of those DVD-only releases. Given the relationship between IFC and Criterion, one hopes that this just means that "Stalin" will get a Criterion issue in the next year or two. Maybe they'll be cool enough to do "In the Loop" at the same time.

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"El Sur" (Criterion)

Again, it's difficult not to consider real-world implications of Criterion's timing. As stories of immigrants in cages dominate the news, one can't help but think that people in the United States, especially those in power, might be more empathetic if they watched films made outside of our country more often. As Roger notoriously said, film allows us empathy by showing us lives different than our own, and this country could sure use some empathy right about now. Of course, Victor Erice's 1983 drama isn't about the U.S.-Mexico border but it is a story about lives very different from modern America. Based on the novella by Adelaida Garcia Morales, it features Erice's interest in the Spanish Civil War, telling the story of a girl fascinated by her father's past, and it feels influential on the work of Guillermo Del Toro. Cinema allows us to draw lines through artists and parts of history to today, and we should be grateful to Criterion for helping sketch those in.

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"Pacific Rim Uprising"

Guillermo Del Toro's "Pacific Rim" was a controversial blockbuster, a movie that disappointed some fans of Del Toro's more "serious" work and yet wasn't quite silly enough to become a multiplex blockbuster either. At least here. Around the world, "Pacific Rim" was as big as its monsters and robots, making over $400 million. And so while US audiences may have wondered how Del Toro's movie got a sequel, the answer is "the rest of the world wanted it." Sadly, GdT is gone, but he's replaced by the capable Steven S. DeKnight, who spearheaded "Marvel's Daredevil" and brings a strong action hand to the second half of this adventure. The first hour here is kind of a dull slog, but once you get to the "good stuff," the stuff involving giant monsters and robots smashing into each other, it's hard to deny the B-movie thrills on display. It's just dumb fun. And we could all use a little more of that nowadays.

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Does Race Matter in America’s Most Diverse ZIP Codes?

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Does Race Matter in America’s Most Diverse ZIP Codes?

“The gift about being in close proximity is that you’re desensitized to seeing a different culture and judging it right away,” said Lena Yee-Ross, a 17-year-old high school senior whose mother is Chinese-American and father is black.

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Lena Yee-Ross, center, with her classmates Arabella Compton, left, and Christian Bustos at Jesse Bethel High School in Vallejo. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Living next to one another for generations, since a major naval yard drew large numbers to the town with the promise of jobs, has mitigated much of the tension found in more segregated communities. People of all stripes sing arm in arm during Thursday night karaoke at Gentleman Jim’s bar, where on a recent evening a white man with a cowboy hat sat next to a Filipino man in a biker vest, and the songs ranged from Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” to the Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly.”

Students of different races study side by side at one local high school, and their shades of skin color span such a spectrum that it is difficult to tell what races or ethnicities they are when they congregate for lunch.

Still, Vallejo (pronounced va-LAY-oh) is no promised land.

Stubborn racial divisions remain. The typical black family has a household income that is three-fourths of the city’s median. Nearly three out of every four members of the Police Department are white, and all of the City Council members are either Filipino or white.

Academic performance is improving in schools, but achievement gaps remain: Of the 11th graders at Jesse Bethel High School, which is in the 94591 ZIP code, 42 percent of black students and 51 percent of Hispanic ones tested proficient in English this year, compared with 63 percent of white students and 77 percent of Filipino ones.

Spencer Lane, a 17-year-old white senior at a high school where whites are in the minority, said classmates had told him that he looked as if he could shoot up a school. Ms. Yee-Ross said her mother once heard a news account of a robbery and insisted that the perpetrator had to be black. And the Johnsons have battled racial tension in their family and their business.

A white customer who had been a regular at the restaurant once asked the woman taking his order to make sure that a young black employee did not cook his food, Ms. Johnson said. When she heard commotion at the front of the restaurant, she said, she confronted the customer, who told her: “How can you have people like that working here? His pants are sagging.”

The Johnsons met in Vallejo in 2003, introduced by mutual friends. He liked her toothy smile, she liked his respect, but each harbored racial stereotypes.

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Mr. Johnson, 33, assumed that she would be a devoted homemaker who would cook and clean for him. Ms. Johnson, 31, said she was impressed that he did not wear baggy pants and that “he doesn’t talk ghetto.”

As diverse as Vallejo is, Ms. Johnson said she grew up hanging out mostly with Filipinos, a clustering that many local residents of different races said is natural. Immigrants from Mexico or the Philippines may want the company of people who can help them navigate a new country.

But within these groups, stereotypes can fester.

When Mr. Johnson’s mother, Tanja Mayo-Pittman, found out he was dating Ms. Johnson, she thought of the time she worked at Home Depot. She was the only non-Filipino on her team, and felt ostracized in part because her co-workers spoke Tagalog and joked with one another, leaving her to wonder if they were teasing her.

“Until I met them, I couldn’t imagine that they just had open arms toward my child,” she said of her son’s future in-laws.

But those fears and barriers have dropped. “I stopped feeling judged or left out,” she said. “I stopped seeing them as Filipino. I started just seeing them as people.”

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East Vallejo is within the third most diverse ZIP code in the country, 94591. Credit Photographs by Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Ms. Mayo-Pittman, 52, also had to contend with her own formative years in nearby Pinole, when, as a fair-skinned woman, she had trouble fitting in — not black enough for the black people, or white enough to be white.

“To be honest with you, I never wanted my kids to be light-complected because I didn’t want them to have an identity crisis,” she said.

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The Johnsons have four daughters together, from age 3 to 11, each with tawny brown skin.

As the girls lounged on the carpet of Ms. Johnson’s grandparents’ ranch-style home one evening, after a dinner of lumpia and white rice, Ms. Johnson joked about some of the questions that had come from her husband’s side of the family: Do you work at a nail salon? How do you speak such good English?

Ms. Johnson’s father, Al Remorin, 51, grew up in nearby Richmond, where most of his friends were black. He moved to Vallejo in 1979, when he was 13. That’s when he came to know a lot of other Filipinos. He was surprised, he said, to hear some of their racism. People asked him why he talked as if he were black.

Mr. Remorin quickly bonded with Mr. Johnson, often discussing sports. So Ms. Johnson said she was caught off guard by her father’s reaction when she became pregnant.

“How can you?” Ms. Johnson said her father asked. As in: How could she think it was O.K. to have biracial children?

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Tanja Mayo-Pittman with her granddaughter Serenity Johnson. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Mr. Remorin said he did not recall saying that. He never had an issue with his daughter having biracial children, he said. Back in his day, he rarely saw “half-Filipinos and half-blacks, or half-this and half-that,” he said. “It’s hard enough as it is being nonwhite, and you imagine when they’re half-this and half-that.”

Things are different today. In the Vallejo-Fairfield metropolitan area, 22 percent of marriages from 2011 to 2015 were interracial, more than double the national rate in the same period, according to a Pew Research survey.

Even in 2001, The New York Times was reporting that Vallejo was one of the most racially balanced cities in the country. Then, as now, racial and ethnic groups often stuck with their own.

Back then, there were also concerns about the racial makeup of the police, with no African-Americans above the rank of sergeant. Today, the longest-serving member in the history of the department is black and currently a lieutenant, but there are no other African-Americans above the rank of sergeant.

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“There is not really the interaction in the way we would like,” Liat Meitzenheimer, who is black and Japanese, said in 2001. “Kids in the neighborhoods play with each other, but by and large, people stay to themselves.”

A decade and a half later, Ms. Meitzenheimer still lives in Vallejo and she says those divisions still exist.

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Al Remorin with his granddaughters Cheyenne and Serenity Johnson. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times

“For somebody who has lived here for 32 years now, it really hasn’t changed,” she said in a recent interview. “There are people actively trying to find ways to bring people together so that we participate from different communities together on single issues, whether it be sports or some artistic endeavor.”

Vallejo is even more racially balanced now, with the white population dropping and other racial and ethnic groups growing. Hispanic and white residents each make up about 25 percent of the population. A little more than 23 percent of the city is Asian and nearly 21 percent black.

The 94591 ZIP code — where the Johnsons live, own their business and send their children to school — is a sprawling swath of the city known as East Vallejo. Among ZIP codes with at least 50,000 residents, it is the third most diverse in the country, according to a Times analysis of census data.

Vallejo’s diversity stems from the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, which for nearly a century and a half attracted families with the promise of stable jobs. The yard closed in 1996, and with it went much of this town’s fortunes; the city declared bankruptcy in 2008. It remains a largely working-class bedroom community, though some fear that the relatively affordable housing could lure more affluent Bay Area residents, displacing low-income residents.

Past restrictions that kept people of color confined to certain neighborhoods have largely fallen, but glaring disparities endure. Black households rank lowest in median income, at $42,000. Residents have complained of brutality by the police force against black and brown people, and the seven-member City Council currently does not have a black or Hispanic member.

“I think that’s part of that racial divide, where Filipinos want to have Filipino leadership or African-Americans want to have an African-American leader or whites want to have a white leader, so they specifically target an individual for election,” said Bob Sampayan, who was elected the city’s first Filipino-American mayor last year.

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But Mr. Sampayan and other local residents see promising signs of integration, like the diverse neighborhood watch patrols that sprang up after cuts to the Police Department and the diverse group involved in the city’s participatory budgeting process.

The Vallejo Chamber of Commerce, once a mostly white organization, now has its first Latina chairwoman, and nearly half of its board members are people of color. Different ethnic chambers of commerce — Filipino, Hispanic and African-American — work more closely with the city chamber under a group called the Vallejo Business Alliance.

Then there are the day-to-day interactions that blur conventions of race and culture.

Christopher Morales, 17, said his black friends were not offended when he, a Mexican-American, used an anti-black slur because their relationships transcended race. It is an attitude, he conceded, that puts Vallejo in something of a diversity bubble.

“It doesn’t really offend us,” he said, “until someone from, like, an outside town comes over here.”

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