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The owner of Wholesome Foods, and blogger behind Imara Doesnt Cook, shares her style transformation

The owner of Wholesome Foods, and blogger behind Imara Doesnt Cook, shares her style transformation. From wearing bulky boots and sweaters in chilly Montreal to moving to Karachi and adopting a more understated and chic sense of style, this emerging fashionista shares it all!

Understanding your body is the key to looking good and a trait found amongst all impeccably dressed fashionistas. While people shy away from talking about their bodies, these brave souls explain how they work their anatomies to their advantage.

How would you describe your body type?

I would describe my body type as petite.

Has your body type changed over the last five years?

From the time I started university, I had been carrying around my freshman 15 weight, until just over a year ago. However, over the last year I made an effort to become fit by making exercise part of my lifestyle, which in turn has helped me to become lean and toned.

How has your style changed over the years?

Considering I was living in Montreal for four years, where the weather was extremely cold or chilly for majority of the year, I felt restricted and demotivated when it came to dressing. However, after moving back to Karachi, my style has changed. From wearing boots, oversized sweatshirts and scarves I am now more simple and chic, and prefer a clean look.

In your opinion what is your most troublesome area?

Over the years, I have grown to accept my body the way it is, while focusing on exercising to make myself stronger.

How do you dress your body according to your body type?

Since I am lean, I enjoy wearing ripped or skinny jeans. When wearing them, I have the option of going for either a casual or a slightly trendy look.

In your opinion what is the biggest mistake a person can make while dressing here?

I believe that fashion is a form of art and allows for creativity enabling one to have a unique identity. The biggest mistake anyone can make while dressing up is not being authentic to that means of expression. I think it is essential for people to dress according to what they love and feel most comfortable in. When you follow that motto, confidence comes naturally.

Which silhouettes suit your body the most?

Silhouettes that are neither too loose nor too fitted.

What is the one piece of clothing that you shy away from wearing and why?

I dont necessarily shy away from any particular clothing, however, my fashion pet peeves are feeling too tight in my outfit and wearing materials that can be sharp on my skin. I physically need to feel comfortable in everything that I wear.

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Style anatomy: Imara Hashwani - The Express Tribune

Key Takeaways

Featuring a diversity of programming languages, backend technology offers the right tool for any kind of job. At the frontend, however, it's one size fits all: JavaScript. Someone with only a hammer will have to treat anything like a nail. One attempt to break open this restricted world is represented by the growing set of source to source compilers that target JavaScript. Such compilers are available for languages as diverse as Scala, C++, Ruby, and Python. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler is a relatively new open source project, aiming at executing Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes.

For a tool like this to offer an attractive alternative to everyday web development in JavaScript, at least the following three demands have to be met:

To be successful, all aspects of these three requirements have to be met. Different compilers strike a different balance between them, but no viable compiler for every day production use can neglect any of them. For Transcrypt, each of the above three points has led to certain design decisions.

Demand 1:

Look and feel of web sites and web applications are directly connected to the underlying JavaScript libraries used, so to have exactly the same look and feel, a site or application should use exactly the same libraries.

Although fast connections may hide the differences, achieving the same page load time, even on mobile devices running on public networks, mandates having roughly the same code size. This rules out downloading a compiler, virtual machine or large runtime at each new page load.

Achieving the same startup time as pages utilizing native JavaScript is only possible if the code is statically precompiled to JavaScript on the server. The larger the amount of code needed for a certain page, the more obvious the difference becomes.

To have the same sustained speed, the generated JavaScript must be efficient. Since JavaScript virtual machines are highly optimized for common coding patterns, the generated JavaScript should be similar to handwritten JavaScript, rather than emulating a stack machine or any other low level abstraction.

Demand 2:

To allow seamless access to any JavaScript library, Python and JavaScript have to use unified data formats, a unified calling model, and a unified object model. The latter requires the JavaScript prototype based single inheritance mechanism to somehow gel with Pythons class based multiple inheritance. Note that the recent addition of the keyword 'class' to JavaScript has no impact on the need to bridge this fundamental difference.

To enable efficient debugging, things like setting breakpoints and single stepping through code have to be done on the source level. In other words: source maps are necessary. Whenever a problem is encountered it must be possible to inspect and comprehend the generated JavaScript to pinpoint exactly what's going on. To this end, the generated JavaScript should be isomorphic to the Python source code.

The ability to capitalize on existing skills means that the source code has to be pure Python, not some syntactic variation. A robust way to achieve this is to use Python's native parser. The same holds for semantics, a requirement that poses practical problems and requires introduction of compiler directives to maintain runtime efficiency.

Demand 3:

Continuity is needed to protect investments in client side Python code, requiring continued availability of client side Python compilers with both good conformance and good performance. Striking the right balance between these two is the most critical part of designing a compiler.

Continued availability of trained Python developers is sufficiently warranted by the fact that Python has been the number 1 language taught in introductory computer science courses for three consecutive years now. On the backend it is used for every conceivable branch of computing. All these developers, used to designing large, long lived systems rather than insulated, short lived pieces of frontend script code, become available to browser programming if it is done in Python.

With regard to productivity, many developers that have made the switch from a different programming language to Python agree that it has significantly increased their output while retaining runtime performance. The latter is due to the fact that libraries used by Python applications for time critical operations like numerical processing and 3D graphics usually compile to native machine code.

The last point openness to changed needs means that modularity and flexibility have to be supported at every level. The presence, right from the start, of class-based OO with multiple inheritance and a sophisticated module and package mechanism has contributed to this. In addition, the possibility to use named and default parameters allows developers to change call signatures in a late stage without breaking existing code.

Conformance versus performance: language convergence to the rescue

Many Python constructs closely match JavaScript constructs, especially when translating to newer versions of JavaScript. There's a clear convergence between both languages. Specifically, more and more elements of Python make their way into JavaScript: for ... of ..., classes (in a limited form), modules, destructuring assignment and argument spreading. Since constructs like for ... of ... are highly optimized on modern JavaScript virtual machines, it's advantageous to translate such Python constructs to closely matching JavaScript constructs. Such isomorphic translation will result in code that can benefit from optimizations in the target language. It will also result in JavaScript code that is easy to read and debug.

Although with Transcrypt, through the presence of source maps, most debugging will take place stepping through Python rather than JavaScript code, a tool should not conceal but rather reveal the underlying technology, granting developer full access to 'what's actually going on'. This is even more desirable since native JavaScript code can be inserted at any point in the Python source, using a compiler directive.

The isomorphism between Python and the JavaScript code generated by Transcrypt is illustrated by the following fragment using multiple inheritance.

translates to:

Striving for isomorphic translation has limitations, rooted in subtle, but sometimes hard to overcome differences between the two languages. Whereas Python allows lists to be concatenated with the + operator, isomorphic use of this operator in JavaScript result in both lists being converted to strings and then glued together. Of course a + b could be translated to __add__ (a, b), but since the type of a and b is determined at runtime, this would result in a function call and dynamic type inspection code being generated for something as simple as 1 + 1, resulting in bad performance for computations in inner loops. Another example is Python's interpretation of 'truthyness'. The boolean value of an empty list is True (or rather: true) in JavaScript and False in Python. Dealing with this globally in an application would require every if-statement to feature a conversion, since in the Python construct if a: it cannot be predicted whether a holds a boolean or somthing else like a list So if a: would have to be translated to if( __istrue__ (a)), again resulting in slow performance if used in inner loops.

In Transcrypt, compiler directives embedded in the code (pragmas) are used control compilation of such constructs locally. This enables writing matrix computations using standard mathematics notation like M4 = (M1 + M2) * M3, at the same time not generating any overhead for something like perimeter = 2 * pi * radius. Syntactically, pragma's are just calls to the __pragma__ function, executed compile time rather than run time. Importing a stub module containing def __pragma__ (directive, parameters): pass allows this code to run o
n CPython as well, without modification. Alternatively, pragmas can be placed in comments.

Unifying the type system while avoiding name clashes

Another fundamental design choice for Transcrypt was to unify the Python and the JavaScript type system, rather than have them live next to each other, converting between them on the fly. Data conversion costs time and increases target code size as well as memory use. It burdens the garbage collector and makes interaction between Python code and JavaScript libraries cumbersome.

So the decision was made to embrace the JavaScript world, rather than to create a parallel universe. A simple example of this is the following code using the Plotly.js library:

Apart from the pragma allowing to leave out the quotes from dictionary keys, which is optional and only used for convenience, the code looks a lot like comparable JavaScript code. Note the (optional) use of list comprehensions, a facility JavaScript still lacks. The fact that Python dictionary literals are mapped to JavaScript object literals is of no concern to the developer; they can use the Plotly JavaScript documentation while writing Python code. No conversion is done behind the scenes. A Transcrypt dict IS a JavaScript object, in all cases.

In unifying the type systems, name clashes occur. Python and JavaScript strings both have a split (), but their semantics have important differences. There are many cases of such clashes and, since both Python and JavaScript are evolving, future clashes are to be expected.

To deal with these, Transcrypt supports the notion of aliases. Whenever in Python .split is used, this is translated to .py_split, a JavaScript function having Python split semantics. In native JavaScript code split will refer to the native JavaScript split function as it should. However, the JavaScript native split method can also be called from Python, where it is called js_split. While methods like these predefined aliases are available in Transcrypt, the developer can define new aliases and undefine existing ones. In this way any name clashes resulting from the unified type system can be resolved without run time penalty, since aliases do their work compile time.

Aliases also allow generation of any JavaScript identifier from a Python identifier. An example is the $ character, that is allowed as part of a name in JavaScript but forbidden in Python. Transcrypt strictly conforms Python syntax and is parsed by the native CPython parser, making its syntax identical. A piece of code using JQuery may look as follows:

Since Transcrypt uses compilation rather than interpretation, imports have to be decided upon compile time, to allow joined minification and shipment of all modules involved. To this end C-style conditional compilation is supported, as can be seen in the following code fragment:

The same mechanism is used in the Transcrypt runtime to switch between JavaScript 5 and JavaScript 6 code:

In this way optimizations in newer JavaScript versions are taken into account, retaining backward compatibility. In some cases, the possibility for optimization is preferred over isomorphism:

Some optimizations are optional, such as the possibility to activate call caching, resulting in repeated calls to inherited methods being done directly, rather than through the prototype chain.

Static versus dynamic typing: Scripting languages growing mature

There has been a resurgence in appreciation of the benefits of static typing, with TypeScript being the best known example. In Python, as opposed to JavaScript, static typing syntax is an integral part of the language and supported by the native parser. Type checking itself, however, is left to third party tools, most notably mypy, a project from Jukka Lehtosalo with regular contributions of Python initiator Guido van Rossum. To enable efficient use of mypy in Transcrypt, the Transcrypt team contributed a lightweight API to the project, that makes it possible to activate mypy from another Python application without going through the operating system. Although mypy is still under development, it already catches an impressive amount of typing errors at compile time. Static type checking is optional and can be activated locally by inserting standard type annotations. A trivial example of the use of such annotations is the mypy in-process API itself:

As illustrated by the example, static typing can be applied where appropriate, in this case in the signature of the run function, since that is the part of the API module that can be seen from the outside by other developers. If anyone misinterprets the parameter types or the return type of the API, mypy will generate a clear error message, referring to the file and line number where the mismatch occurs.

The concept of dynamic typing remains central to languages like Python and JavaScript, because it allows for flexible data structures and helps to reduce the amount of source code needed to perform a certain task. Source code size is important, because to understand and maintain source code, the first thing that has to happen is to read through it. In that sense, 100 kB of Python source code offers a direct advantage over 300 kB of C++ source that has the same functionality, but without the hard to read type definitions using templates, explicit type inspection and conversion code, overloaded constructors and other overloaded methods, abstract base classes to deal with polymorphic data structures and type dependent branching.

For small scripts well below 100kB source code and written by one person, dynamic typing seems to only have advantages. Very little planning and design are needed; everything just falls into place while programming. But when applications grow larger and are no longer built by individuals but by teams, the balance changes. For such applications, featuring more than roughly 200kB source code, the lack of compile time type checking has the following consequences:

An interface featuring even one parameter that may refer to a complex, dynamically typed object structure, cannot be considered sufficiently stable to warrant separation of concerns. While this type of 'who did what, why and when' programming accounts for tremendous flexibility, it also accounts for design decisions being postponed to the very last, impacting large amounts of already written code, requiring extensive modifications.

The 'coupling and cohesion' paradigm applies. It's OK for modules to have strong coupling of design decisions on the inside. But between modules there should preferably be loose coupling, a design decision to change the inner workings of one module should not influence the others. In general, this leads to the following rules of the thumb for the choice between dynamic and static typing.

So while the current surge in static typing may seem like a regression, it isn't. Dynamic typing has earned its place and it won't go away. The opposite is also true: even a traditionally statically typed language like C# has absorbed dynamic typing concepts. But with the complexity of applications written in languages like JavaScript and Python growing, effective modularization, cooperation and unit validation strategies gain importance. Scripting languages are coming of age.

Why choose Python over JavaScript on the client?

Due to the immense popularity of programming for the web, JavaScript has drawn lots of attention and investment. There are clear advantages in having the same language on the client and on the server. An important advantage is that it becomes possible to move code from server to client in a late stage, when an application is upscaled.

Another advantage is unity of concept, allowing developers to work both on the front end and the back and without constantly switching between technologies. The desirability of decreasing the conceptual distance between the client and server part of an application has resulted in the popularity of a platform like Node.
js. But at the same time, it carries the risk of expanding the 'one size fits all' reality of current web client programming to the server. JavaScript is considered a good enough language by many. Recent versions finally start to support features like class based OO (be it in the form of a thin varnish over its prototyping guts), modules and namespaces. With the advent of TypeScript, the use of strict typing is possible, though incorporating it in the language standard is probably some years away.

But even with these features, JavaScript isn't going to be the one language to end all languages. A camel may resemble a horse designed by a committee, but it never becomes one. What the browser language market needs, in fact what any free market needs, is diversity. It means that the right tool can be picked for the job at hand. Hammers for nails, and screwdrivers for screws. Python was designed with clean, concise readability in mind right from the start. The value of that shouldn't be underestimated.

JavaScript will probably be the choice of the masses in programming the client for a long time to come. But for those who consider the alternative, what matters to continuity is the momentum behind a language, as opposed to an implementation of that language. So the most important choice is not which implementation to use, but which language to choose. In that light Python is an effective and safe choice. Python has a huge mindshare and there's a growing number of browser implementations for it, approaching the golden standard of CPython closer and closer while retaining performance.

While new implementations may supersede existing ones, this process is guided by a centrally guarded consensus over what the Python language should entail. Switching to another implementation will always be easier than switching to the next JavaScript library hype or preprocessor with proprietary syntax to deal with its shortcomings. Looking at the situation in the well-established server world, it is to be expected that multiple client side Python implementations will continue to exist side by side in healthy competition. The winner here is the language itself: Python in the browser is there to stay.

Jacques de Hooge MSc is a C++/Python developer living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating from the Delft University of Technology, department of Information Theory, he started his own company, GEATEC engineering, specializing in Realtime Controls, Scientific Computation, Oil and Gas Prospecting and Medical Imaging.He is a part-time teacher at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches C++, Python, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Realtime Embedded Systems and Linear Algebra. Currently he's developing cardiological research software for the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Also he is the initiator and the lead designer of the Transcrypt open source project.

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Put aside for a moment the geopolitical implications. How did the assassins evidently sent by North Koreas Kim Jong Un to murder his half brother get the job done?

BANGKOKOne by one, on different flights at different times, four men from North Korea flew into Malaysia over the course of a fortnight in February, coming together finally in a condo apartment on Kuchai Lama Street in a bustling middle-class suburb on the edge of the countrys sprawling capital, Kuala Lumpur. According to multiple reports, after the murder and at the height of the scandal, they huddled frequently with Ri Jong Chol, a 47-year-old North Korean who holds a science degree and who moved to Malaysia in August 2016.

Ri worked for an outfit called Tombo Enterprises. According to its website it makes anti-cancer supplements and emphasizes wholesome treatment built around herbal medicines. But Ri may have been more useful to the new arrivals for a particular set of skills: handling and combining the binary components of the deadly nerve agent VX, the weapon of mass destruction that would be used to kill Kim Jong Nam, estranged older half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

VX, which is outlawed around the world by signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention, is a slightly yellow liquid with no smell and no taste. When its dispersed as an aerosol, victims do not know they have been affected until they begin to die, quickly and horribly, more or less like flies zapped with bug spray, choking, twisting, and kicking as their nervous system shuts down. In one infamous incident at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah in 1968 more than 4,000 sheep were killed by accident some 30 miles from the test site.

But how do you handle such dangerous stuff, using it to kill one man instead of a whole crowd, especially if your best shot at that man is likely to be in a public place?

That would require two hands at a minimum, or better yet, two people. Then the question would be, who could approach the pudgy playboy Kim Jong Nam while raising the least suspicion?

Its not clear how the four men on Kuchai Lama Street hooked up with two young women called Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, both of whom have been arrested, both of whom have said they are innocent, and both of whom face the death penalty if convicted.

Siti, an Indonesian in her twenties, had been working as a masseuse and nightclub hostess, and reportedly was out partying with friends the night before the slaying. Doan, 28, is a Vietnamese who flew into Kuala Lumpur from Hanoi on Feb. 4. She also had been working as a hostess. On her Facebook page she posted under the name Ruby Ruby.

But the more details are revealed about their backgrounds, the murkier those become.

Citing travel documents she was carrying when arrested, Malaysian police identified the Indonesian as Siti Aisyah, of Serang, the capital of Indonesias Banten province. But Indonesian-language websites suggest she is from the village of Angke, near Jakarta, and that there are two listings for her there: One indeed identifies her as entrepreneur Siti Aisyah, 25; the other says she is housewife Siti Aisah and that she is 27.

Indonesians do not typically have two ID documents.

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One site says Siti is divorced from an Indonesian man and has a 7-year-old son she rarely sees. She was married when she moved to Malaysia in 2013, one site said, but subsequently split from her husband.

She reportedly met the man, or men, who hired her for the Kim Jong Nam hit at a nightclub where she works in Kuala Lumpur. Local reports say she told police the men she met looked Korean or Japanese.

Broadcast reports say Doan Thi Huong is an aspiring singer who competed onVietnam Idol, her countrys version of the global Idol franchise. A video of the program shows a woman apparently auditioning who looks remarkably like Doan. She sings for just a few seconds before one of the three judges interrupts her and says, OK,a dismissal. She also says OK, and bows demurely. But the contestants name thats flashed on the screen is Dinh Thi Khuyen, not Doan Thi Huong.

A Facebook page attributed to Doan, which includes a couple of dozen Korean-sounding names among her friends, shows several photos of a woman with dyed reddish hair dressed provocatively. In one she wears a very fitted cheongsam, the classic one-piece Chinese dress, and in another shes sporting a red one-piece swimsuit. She is also pictured wearing a white, long-sleeved T-shirt emblazoned with the letters LOL.

Malaysian authorities say that prior to the incident at the airport, Siti and Doan staged a couple of practice runs, moving in on hapless victims at shopping malls with what presumably were benign chemicals or none at all.

On the morning of Feb. 13, police say, Siti and Doan entered Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 2, known as KLIA2. Its the home base of Air Asia, one of the worlds most successful low-cost carriers, and at any given time its likely to be full of holidaymakers and business people on a budget. It would have been teeming with backpackers, tour groups, and adventure seekers, the departure area full of people waiting to board flights.

What grainy CCTV video shows from Feb. 13 is a portly man subsequently identified as Kim Jong Nam wearing a light blue suit and carrying a medium-sized bag on one shoulder. Suddenly, a woman rushes up behind him and forcefully throws both arms around his neck as if to restrain him. Then a second woman comes up to him from the front and puts somethingperhaps a rag or tissue paperin his face. It all happens very quickly, and there appears to be little commotion around the heavy-set tourist and the women, who briskly walk away after attacking him.

One of the women, apparently the one who approached from behind, was wearing a white long-sleeved T-shirt. Another surveillance camera caught a clearer picture of her. The letters LOL were emblazoned across the front of the shirt.

The 45-year-old Kim Jong Nam has known for years that his 33-year-old half-brother, Kim Jong Un, the worlds most dangerous nuclear-armed dictator, wanted him dead. Jong Nam had questioned the right of his family to heredity rule, and there was a reported attempt on is life in 2011. But for years Jong Nam has lived in Macau under the protection of the Chinese, who may have deemed it wise to hold him in reserve as an alternative or at least an implied threat to their impetuous young client in Pyongyang.

Jong Nam has always been restless. He once famously got caught trying to visit Disneyland Japan using fake papers. In Kuala Lumpur, he was traveling on a passport under the name Kim Chol and posing as a businessman. He apparently believed that by traveling incognito on a low-cost carrier he could dispense with a phalanx of bodyguards.

Almost immediately after the LOL woman and her accomplice carried out their attack, police said, Jong Nam rushed toward employees at a nearby help desk, gesturing at his face, telling them he could not breathe well. First-aid workers soon placed him on a stretcher, police said, and as Jong Nam began to choke, the emergency crew left with the stricken victim, heading toward a nearby hospital. But he died in agony on the way, less than 20 minutes after he first ingested the poison.

At a news conference, Malaysian Health Minister Subramaniam Sathasivam said, VX only requires 10 milligrams to be absorbed into the system to be lethal, so I presume that the amount of dose that went in is more than that. If he inhaled the substance, or it went in through his tear ducts, a smaller quantity might have sufficed. But in any case, The doses were so high and it did it so fast and all over the body, said the minister. So it would have affected his heart, it would have affected his lungs, it would have affected everything.

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y launched an investigation, ordering an autopsy of Jong Namover the objections of North Korea, which demanded the bodys immediate release, and accused the police of desecrating the remains of a citizen of the so-called Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

Kang Chol, the countrys ambassador to Malaysia, declared that the North had nothing to do with the death of that citizento whom he doggedly referred as Kim Chol.

South Korean acting-President Hwang Kyo-ahn decried the killing as an intolerable crime against humanity and terrorist act. In Seoul, government elements told reporters they believed the plot was hatched and carried out by North Koreas foreign and security ministries.

Malaysia accused the plotters of endangering the lives of thousands of passengers by exposing them to a weapon of mass destruction. Luckily, a hazmat sweep found no evidence of VX contamination at the airport, which quickly went back into service.

On the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, the hit squad abandoned the safe house on Feb. 13. At least three of the men fled to neighboring Indonesia: Hong Song Hac, Ri Ji Hyon, and Ri Jae Nam boarded Emirates Flight EK0359 at 10:20 p.m. local time bound for Dubai. No one knows how the fourth, O Jong Gil, got out of Malaysia, but it appears he is gone, too. All are said to have returned to Pyongyang on Feb. 17, presumably to the huzzahs of the increasingly paranoid, erratic, and murderous Kim Jong Un, who recently ordered the executionby anti-aircraft gunsof five senior officials who made supposedly false reports that enraged the young tyrant.

Not all members of the black op got away in the initial police roundup. In addition to the women, police held Ri Jong Chol, the medicine-manufacturer employee, but subsequently released him. He gave a press statement in front of the North Korean embassy in China protesting his innocence.

Malaysian authorities believe at least seven North Koreans were involved in the attack. One person they want to question is North Korean embassy Second Secretary Hyon Kwang Song, who some believe ran the operation from his office. Because of diplomatic immunity, Hyon would have to consent to an interrogationwhich isnt going to happen.

Police also would like to interview Kim Uk Il, an employee of the Norths flag carrier Air Koryo, who apparently was at the airport when Jong Nam was killedand also is believed to be hiding out in the embassy.

One of the women, Siti, has told authorities her recruiters told her she would be playing a practical joke on a businessman for a TV show, claiming she was paid $90 for tossing some baby oil on the mans face. But National Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar has said the woman seen on video daubing VX on Jong Nams face clearly knew she was carrying out an attack, not some reality TV stunt. And the womens claims dont explain why they rushed to wash their hands after the incident. Nor why theyre still alive.

Siti vomited after she was nabbed by police, but both women should have been severely injuredif not killedthrough close contact with the VX. That they were not has led police to question whether their handlers gave them atropine, an antidote for the WMD.

Did the four men smuggle VX or its components into Malaysia? Did their local contact help mix it right there in Kuala Lumpur, or show the women how to combine the elements on Jong Nams face? Was it brought in through North Korean official channels, perhaps in diplomatic mail that is not subject to normal customs procedures? And was the whole affair coordinated by North Koreas shadowy spy agency the RGB (Reconnaissance General Bureau)?

It is very likely that the VX was smuggled into Malaysia either in person or as cargo, says Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore. There is also a possibility that the North Korean embassy smuggled it in by diplomatic pouch.

A few days after the murder, Pyongyang sent a high-level delegation to Malaysia for talks aimed at claiming the body of Kim Jong Nam/Kim Chol, and springing Ri Jong Chol. Group spokesman Ri Tong Il told reporters the envoys also wanted to further develop friendly relations between the two governments. The two countries had enjoyed reciprocal visa-free travel, although mutual trade amounts to less than $10 million. Pyongyang had seen Malaysia mostly as an entry point into Southeast Asiaa region the North wants to be friends with as a means of countering Seoul.

But improved relations now seem unlikely, even impossible. Both countries have been lobbing angry accusations at each other, including a blast from Pyongyang that KLs investigation has been awash in weak points and contradictions. The Malaysians recalled their ambassador from Pyongyang, and are said to be even more suspicious since someone apparently tried to break into the morgue where Jong Nams body was held.

Pyongyang was not getting any love from China either. China is unlikely to abandon its protg any time soon, but theres no question Beijings patience is wearing thin as his behavior gets weirder.

A video surfaced earlier this week in which a young man who says he is Kim Jong Nams son tells the camera he is with his mother and sister and concludes, We hope this gets better soon.

Siti and Doan will next appear on April 13, when prosecutors will ask that they be tried jointly in a higher court. At the request of defense lawyers, the judge slapped a gag order on the case, the better to protect the womens rights and their prospects for a fair trial. Expect frequent leakage.

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PARIS For at least the past year, populism has been wreaking havoc on Western democracies. Populist forces parties, leaders, and ideas underpinned the Leave campaigns victory in the United Kingdoms Brexit referendum and Donald Trumps election as President of the United States. Now, populism lurks ominously in the background of the Netherlands general election in March and the French presidential election in April and May.

But, despite populisms seeming ubiquity, it is a hard concept to pin down. Populists are often intolerant of outsiders and those who are different; and yet Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch populist leader, is a firm believer in gay rights. In the US, Trumps presidential campaign was described as an anti-elite movement; and yet his administration is already practically a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.

While todays populist resurgence comes from the nationalist right, some of the leading populist exponents in recent decades such as Venezuelas late president, Hugo Chvez were firmly on the left. What they share is a zero-sum view of the world, which necessitates the creation of scapegoats who can be blamed for all problems. Moreover, because populist leaders claim to embody the uniform will of a mythical people, they consider democracy to be a means to power, rather than a desirable end in itself.

But populists have more in common than an obsession with cultural boundaries and political borders. They also share a recipe for economic governance, one that Project Syndicate commentators have been tracking since long before todays brand of populism began dominating the worlds headlines. Guided by their insights, we can begin to understand the origins of todays populist resurgence, and what is in store for Western countries where its avatars come to power.

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Anatomy Of A Bicycle Accident: Who's At Fault? CBS Local It happened in a flash. As reporter Sandra Torres was preparing for a live shot at Adams and Canal, a bicyclist collided with a taxi. Banged-up biker Lance Cooper broke a bone in his hand. He initially thought the cabbie ran a red light, but after ... and more »

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Employees at Ford's Bridgend Engine Plant, UK, building the 1.6-litre EcoBoost engine

A confluence of factors, many of them rooted in history, are behind theexpected decline in output at Ford's Bridgend plant which will lead to the loss of 1,100 jobs over the next five years.

Firstly, the much-talked about megatrend of engine downsizing has had a marked effect on the addressable market of Bridgend's bread and butter engine of recent years, the Sigma or Zetec-SE, and its proposed successor the Dragon engine (understood to be a 1.2 and 1.5L petrol engine family). The Sigma engine family was introduced in 1995 and produced at both the Bridgend and Valencia, Spain engine plants initially (latterly it's been built further afield). The petrol engine spanned 1.25-1.6L capacity (with a special 1.7L variant developed for the Ford Puma by Yamaha) and its performance was sufficient to make some parts of the bigger capacity Zetec engine 1.6-2.0L petrol engine redundant. They do say what goes around comes around and this became apparent in 2011 when the three-cylinder Fox engine, built in Cologne, Germany and Craiova, Romania was introduced. The Fox engine, necessary to support the required reduction in fleet CO2 emissions under European rules, epitomises downsizing and eroded much of the Sigma's addressable market.

The second major factor is the programme consolidation, known as One Ford, that Ford embarked upon as its signature strategy under Alan Mullaly. While singular global vehicles and platforms may be the visible front for One Ford, it's also a back-office operation for significant components like powertrains. Therefore, whereas in the past, Ford might have been happy to let legacy and older engine programmes continue manufacturing past their European or US market sell-by date in developing markets it is no longer the case. Also, it's the case that regulatory standards in emerging markets are rapidly converging on those in Europe thus enabling a consolidated global approach like One Ford. Thus, the Dragon engine will not only be built in Bridgend but also in India (the lead plant), Brazil, China, Russia and Mexico.

One Ford has had, and will have, other ramifications for Bridgend. It prompted Ford to disband PAG (Premier Automobiles Group) comprising Volvo, JLR and Aston Martin with the first two providing Bridgend with incremental volumes through Volvo's SI6 engine and also JLR's AJ126 and AJ133 engine. The dissolution of PAG saw that the newly independent Volvo and JLR had to develop their own engine programmes. This first saw Bridgend stop building the SI6 engine for both Volvo and JLR. While volumes for the JLR engines have climbed in recent years it is now reported that the JLR contract ends in 2019. At around that time it is thought that JLR will replace the AJ126 V6 with an inline six engine derived from its Ingenium engine programme. Whether the V8 AJ133 will continue manufacture somewhere else is unknown but it's not hard to conceive that boosted versions of the Ingenium inline six could supersede it.

Finally, the uncertainty that Brexit brings over future tariff and trade arrangements will not have helped. In a single European market this is not such a problem. Sure, there is some ForEx risk being outside the Eurozone but the uncertainty brings an added complication that Ford could do without on top of the issues outlined above. Of course, this factor is amplified for Ford in the UK as it no longer manufactures vehicles in the country after shuttering the Dagenham vehicle plant in 2001 and the Southampton Transit plant in 2013. While Dagenham continues to be Ford's centre of excellence for diesel engine manufacture the mounting opposition to diesel in European cities, together with the pressures of manufacturing in a global environment, do start to raise some questions about its longevity after the disclosure of phased job losses at Bridgend.

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The artist, graphic designer, and now creative head of the clothing line Pinx, talks to us about her style evolution

The artist, graphic designer, and now the creative head of the clothing line Pinx, talks to us about her style evolution. Having developed a passion for fashion from a very young age, she breaks down her signature look and her beloved fusion style statements

Understanding your body is the key to looking good and a trait found amongst all impeccably dressed fashionistas. While people shy away from talking about their bodies, these brave souls explain how they work their anatomies to their advantage

How would you describe your body type?

I would say Im curvy and sporty.

Has your body type changed over the last five years?

Absolutely, and for the better! I feel a more positive and healthier change in my body.

How has your style changed over the years?

Its more fusion now, and a lot more versatile. I tend to wear tunics, which can easily blend with both Eastern and Western ensembles. I prefer that to wearing a typical shalwar kameez.

In your opinion what is your most troublesome area?

Definitely my arms they have always been my biggest problem area.

How do you dress your body according to your body type?

I prefer wearing ensembles that flow. I love my boot-cut pants paired with a nice, short, breezy top that gives my silhouette some movement. I dont like fitted clothes.

In your opinion what is the biggest mistake a person can make while dressing here?

Following fashion trends rather than thinking about ones own body type. We seriously need fashion police here, because everyone is copying others and people arent authentic.

Which silhouettes suit your body the most?

Smart-casual wear suits me best. When it comes to Eastern outfits, I usually opt for long, embroidered formals.

What is the one piece of clothing you shy away from wearing and why?

Cap-sleeves anything! I find that particular cut very unflattering.

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In an interview with NPR, Kimmel explained the origins of his signature signoff. We had a bad show The guests were bad, and I was feeling pretty bad about myself at the end of the program. And I decided to say, for the amusement of one of our producers who was standing next to me I want to apologize to Matt Damon. We ran out of time. And he got a kick out of it, the producer, so I just started doing it every night to amuse him. Matt Damon was just the first name that popped into my head. I was trying to think of an A-list star, and somebody we absolutely would not bump if he was on the show. The legs on this bit are unbelievable to me. I mean, people laugh every time I say it. Repeating the same joke every single night, youd think eventually people would get tired of it, but they dont.

While the show-ending line kept getting laughs, Damon himself got into the act when Kimmel's then-girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, enlisted the "Bourne Identity" star to appear in the video for her self-explanatory 2008 song, "I'm F***ing Matt Damon".

Kimmel turned the tables on Silverman and Damon in 2009 when Damon's old pal Ben Affleck appeared in Kimmel's response song video, "I'm F***ing Ben Affleck".

This was followed by Kimmel sidekick Guillermo appearing on the set of "The Bourne Ultimatum" only to get beaten up by Damon, who was not too thrilled to see Kimmel's show promoting the upcoming movie as "The Guillermo Ultimatum". Says a ticked-off Damon: "I mean, are you f***ing kidding me?"

Damon got his revenge when Kimmel's fake lover Affleck was joined by John Krasinski, Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Dempsey, Keith Urban, Sting, and Rob Lowe to eject Kimmel from the Handsome Men's Club with the big twist that it was Damon who engineered the entire thing.

In Kimmel's trailer for "Movie: The Movie", a dejected Matt Damon (inexplicably costumed as a bunch of grapes) winds up being cut from the star-studded faux-movie, leading him to send out this pithy response.

In 2013, Damon finally managed to get revenge on Kimmel for all those bumpings, kidnapping the host and hijacking the show, with the help of Andy Garcia and the late Robin Williams.

Kimmel fired back by sending Guillermo to crash the junket for Damon's sci-fi flick, "Elysium", which he took over by promoting a movie HE made, called "Estupido." As Guillermo explains (in Spanish, via subtitles), his film is "about a stupid man who has a friend named Ben, who is also stupid. And he's from Boston. He is very stupid."

Kimmel made Damon pay for his takeover when he and the rest of the cast of "Monuments Men" visited the show, with Damon shuttled off to the side to sit in a tiny stool while the rest of the cast sat in couches.

Finally, the pair decide it's time to try to repair their relationship when Damon visits the show wearing a Dr. Phil disguise. The whole thing, however, is a setup to show a clip of what happened when Kimmel and Damon attended couples counselling. Try to contain your shock, but it did not go well, especially when Damon reveals that he lives "at the show, in a dressing room," in perpetual hope of not being bumped.

When Ben Affleck returned as a guest, he took to the stage wearing a ginormous suit that surprise! actually contained Matt Damon, smuggling him onto the show until Kimmel figures out the pair's scheme.

Kimmel was incensed when he cut to a remote in Vegas, where his Aunt Chippy was playing blackjack until she was accosted by "Matthew from South Detroit," who was actually, as Kimmel described, overrated actor and simpleton Matt Damon.

Damon and Kimmel attempt to give couples counselling another go, but Damon's feelings are hurt when Kimmel is dismissive of his idea for promotional "Bourne" bumper stickers, such as the one that says "Honk if you're Bourney."

When Kimmel decided to run for vice-president, Damon took the low road in a faux political-style attack ad designed to trash-talk the host. Declares Damon solemnly: "If Jimmy Kimmel f***ed Ben Affleck, who's he gonna f*** next? America?"

After Emmy host Kimmel lost to John Oliver at the 2016 Emmys, Matt Damon joined Kimmel onstage, crunching an apple while gloating at Kimmel's loss, reminding him how humiliating it is to have lost "and now you gotta stand out here for the rest of the night in front of everybody." He asked the crowd to try to make Kimmel feel better by giving "the big loser" a round of applause.

Following the New England Patriots' stunning comeback at the 2017 Super Bowl, Damon once again tried to sneak his way onto the show, this time disguised as Pats QB Tom Brady. It doesn't take Kimmel long to figure out Damon's ruse. As he's being escorted offstage by security, Damon yells: "I won the Super Bowl and I won your stupid show!'

Jimmy Kimmel and wife Molly McNearney welcomed their first child a few years ago, and the couple are now expecting a second but is Kimmel really the father? Damon believes HE's the father, and they all appear on Maury Povich's show (with Maury played by Martin Short) to take a paternity test. "We dont know if you're a boy or a girl, but you have a choice of daddies," Damon tells the fetus inside McNearney's belly. "One daddy could be an Emmy loser the other daddy could be an Oscar winner! Do you wanna play with daddy's Oscar?" Tracy Morgan drops in for a twist ending to prove who's REALLY the father.

So will the feud rear its ugly head while Kimmel hosts the Academy Awards. You can count on it. "Im going to do everything I can to make sure that he doesnt win or doesnt know that he won," says Kimmel of his plans for Damon. "My goal is to keep him offstage." Responded Damon: "I'm just sad Chris Rock isn't hosting the show, someone who's actually funny."

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Technically speaking, almost all components of ransomware, such as spear phishing, watering hole attacks involving popular and trustworthy websites, antivirus evasion techniques or data encryption algorithms, are well-known and have been used separately by hackers since years. However, modern ransomware certainly merits a classification as one of the most evolving sectors of cybercrime in 2017.

Though it is quite difficult to calculate the overall damage caused by ransomware in 2016, some researchers state that cybercriminals received over $1 billion in ransom payments last year. Others mention a 3,500% increase in the criminal use of infrastructure that helps run ransomware campaigns. Carbon Black says that ransomware is the fastest growing malware across industries, up 50% in 2016. Technology (218%), utilities and energy (112%) and banking (93%) saw the highest year-on-year ransomware growth last year.

Due to an important lack of qualified technical personnel and other resources, law enforcement agencies are globally unprepared to detect, prevent and prosecute this type of digital crime. Moreover, more and more cases of ransom payment by the police have become public, while those police officers who dare to resist take a substantive risk. There is the Texas police who lost eight years of their investigative work and all of the evidence by refusing to pay cybercriminals. This sad statistic explains why the majority of despaired victims of cybercrime fail to report it to the law enforcement agencies.

Attackers can easily rent a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) infrastructure for as low as $39.99 per month, making up to $195,000 of monthly profit without much effort in comparison to other niches of digital fraud and crime. The business of ransomware has become so attractive that some cybercriminals dont even bother to actually encrypt the data, but just extort money from their victims with fake malware. The victims are so scared by media stories about ransomware, combined with law enforcement agencies inability to protect them or at least to punish the offenders, that they usually pay.

The new generation of ransomware attacks IoT and smart devices, locking not only mobiles and smart TVs, but also doors in hotels and air conditioning systems in luxury smart houses. Criminals switch from file encryption to database encryption and web applications, demonstrating a great scalability of ransomware tactics.

To increase their profits, hacking teams behind the ransomware campaigns now threaten to send the victims sensitive data to all of their contacts instead of just deleting it. Cryptocurrencies allow attackers to receive online payments almost without any risk of being traced and prosecuted. Despite the media hype around blockchains ability to reinvent and improve the world, so far only the cybercriminals have entirely leveraged the full potential of this emerging technology.

A simple business model, high profits, accessibility and affordability of resources to deploy large-scale attacking campaigns, and low risks in comparison to other sectors of (cyber)crime, assure the flourishing future of ransomware. All of this without mentioning the problem of global inequality actually causing the cybercrime, which I briefly described in Forbes recently.

Nonetheless, it does not mean that organizations should give up. The FBI confirms the skyrocketing problem of ransomware, but suggests relying on prevention rather than paying ransom to the criminals. PwC also suggests to plan and prepare the organization to this kind of incident in order to have internal capabilities to recover without suffering important financial losses.

Some cybersecurity vendors, like SentinelOne, contractually guarantee protection and provide a financial insurance for their clients. Others, like Kaspersky, offer free tools to decrypt data compromised by popular malware. Last, but not least, Europols No More Ransom public-private partnership with other law enforcement agencies and leading cybersecurity companies, provides a comprehensive collection of free tools to recover the data and clean the systems infected with ransomware.

Below are six essential steps that will help you avoid paying ransoms:

By following those rules, any company and organization can significantly reduce their risk of having to pay ransom. Attackers would rather target easy and unprepared victims, instead of spending their efforts on any particular organization. Properly implemented security standards, like ISO 27001, can also prevent the vast majority of costly ransomware incidents.

However, keep in mind that information security starts with factual security, not with a paper-based compliance. If your IT infrastructure is secure in practice, you will not only easily pass the majority of compliance and regulation requirements, but you will also defend your business from many vectors of cybercrime, including the growing monster of ransomware.

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When I found out that Maggie's mother was going to show up on Grey's Anatomy, I was a little sulky about it at first. Why is Grey's always trotting out new guest stars? Why do the characters we've fallen in love with disappear forever? I know the answer to that second question is, "Because a whole bunch of them are dead and a few more of their performers are dead to Shonda." Still, it's a little bittersweet to meet Maggie's mom when who I'd really love to see again are family members like Derek's mother or sister or ex-wife. Or Teddy! Or Mama Burke. And the list goes on and on. I am 100% aware that this is almost entirely Trump-induced "Sure wish things were the way they used to be!" melancholy, but I stand by it.

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That said, I ended up liking Maggie's mother, Diane, just fine, and not just because she's played by the inimitable LaTanya Richardson Jackson. It's always exciting to learn a little more about Maggie, who I still feel like I only know between three to five facts about, in spite of the fact that this is her third season on the show.

Diane tells Maggie she's come for both a visit and for some elective plastic surgery with Jackson. But when she's in an examining room with Jackson, she shows him a rash on her breasts and asks if he can remove it. He can't; it's a rare and aggressive form of cancer called inflammatory breast cancer. He offers to set Diane up with doctors back in Hawaii, to fly in when Diane needs surgery, and to come to dinner with Diane and Maggie, so that he can be there to answer Maggie's questions. I've tried to come up with an articulate way about how that emotional availability makes me feel, and all I can come up with is OMG JACKSON FOREVER.

But Diane never gets a chance to tell Maggie. When Maggie comes home to Meredith's house and finds Diane and Jackson there, she flips out, still angry at the fact that Diane showed up, inserted herself into Maggie's world, met her friends, and made plans on her behalf. That segues into what Maggie's really mad about: her mom divorced her father, moved far away, and "destroyed our family." It feels really abrupt and awkward, but then again, that's sort of how Maggie is: holding feelings inside of her brain and heart for so long that when they spill out, they're super-sized and a little bit spazzy. Diane tells Maggie that her life in Seattle is beautiful, and that Maggie should call her when she's ready to share it with her mom. She leaves, but since Maggie still doesn't know about her cancer (and since Jackson still does), we'll likely see her again soon.

Meanwhile, the battle against Eliza rages on, with most of the attendings still refusing to work with her. Bailey retaliates by suspending Meredith and giving her job to April, and it seems very inconsiderate of April to accept, since that is not the proper way to behave toward someone who let you have a caesarean section on their dining room table. Eliza insists that Arizona is afraid of Eliza being fired or quitting because then there will be NOTHING STOPPING THEIR LOVE and that terrifies her. Also, Catherine gives a speech about being a dragon at one point? It's all still very awkward.

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Throughout the episode, Owen and several other doctors work on a patient who was found wrapped in thick razor wire, having fallen from a wall she and her husband built to protect their house. It's properly harrowing to watch, and I did so almost entirely with my head in the comfort and safety of my sweater. Obligatory aside: pretty dark anytime says anyone even tangentially related to building a wall, huh?

I'm hesitant to type this, and hesitant to even believe this chapter of our lives has come to an end, but I think the question of whether Alex will go to jail is finally, finally settled. PROBABLY. Let's not jinx it. DeLuca bursts into the District Attorney's office and announces that he wants to drop the charges (I'd like to point out that I totally called this development LAST YEAR), but he's pretty deflated when the DA tells him he actually can't. The charges are the state's, not his. He thinks for a moment, then announces that if he's put on the stand, he'll blow the case by saying Alex didn't brutally attack him they were just in a fistfight that went too far. And just like that, Alex walks free. Bailey gives him his job back and everything, and he finally apologizes to DeLuca.

It's a sincere and heartfelt apology (especially given that we're talking about ALEX here), but it sends DeLuca into a bit of a rage. He tells Alex he gave him "every chance to say that" months ago. Alex says that he tried to, and then DeLuca claims he should'vetried more times? It's strange. If the guy you beat half to death asks you to get and stay away from him, the right thing to do is to listen, not pester him until he accepts your apology. And even though DeLuca claims Alex could've tried to make contact through one of his friends, I seem to remember DeLuca getting really standoffish when Arizona and Meredith mentioned Alex to him. Regardless, it seems like they're on non-hostile terms now, and as hard as I roll my eyes at DeLuca sometimes, I was still really touched when he gave Alex his reason for helping him: "Because Jo's been through enough." There's still no word about what this means for Alex and Jo, even though she shows up at Meredith's house for a long, erotically charged hug on the front porch. (I watched the hug three times to confirm and am comfortable with "erotically charged" as my assessment.) Neither one of them says a word, which seems fine, since their communication issues never played a part in this long, strife-riddled affair.

Also, Amelia is still hiding from Owen. Actually hiding. Not avoiding his phone calls, hiding in an apartment and refusing to answer when he knocks on the door. She does sometimes stand near the door while he's knocking, so that'sprogress. I've typed all of that out in a very judgmental manner, but now that I have, maybe Amelia has the right idea.

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Grey's Anatomyand Station 19returned on TV with new episodes on January 23, 2020. The two shows started with a crossover filled with a high dose of drama and disaster. WhileStation 19saw the squad looking at a car-in-a-barsituation, the team of Grey's Anatomy is ready to heal the injuries along with its regular drama.

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The Station 19 squad crashed into Joe's bar. Grey's residentsHelm and Simms appeared to be in particularly bad shape. Parker suffered from a head injury and Casey gotPTSD. Ben tried to get everyone out of the back door, but it was blocked by a cement truck. The firefighters of Station 19 raced towards this chaos while Vic worried about the fact that herhot doctor lover was among the people present in the bar. Levi,on the other hand, urged the car driver Joan to drive faster as Don was atrisk of dying of a heart attack.

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Vic and Andy had a one to one regarding grieving and loss, as she herself had lost Ripley. Ben made Joan perform CPR on Don and use EKG paddles as well. They successfully restart his heart. But in an attempt to cut off her seatbelt, Joan stabbedherself in the carotid artery and died.

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As of the Grey Anatomy's end of things, Meredith was forced to admit that Cristina's hunky Irish pediatrician gift is pretty good-looking. Amelia can't seem to admit that she knows where her baby was conceived. Amelia feared that Owen Hunt might be the father of her baby while he is off to get engaged with Teddi. Meredith is also concerned about DeLuca being in the bar during the accident. There is also a mention of the fact that Alex is still in Iowa.

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There are rare occasions when one episode of television just takes your breath away. Or makes you laugh. Or think harder. That's the power of television: in the course of about an hour, a single episode can get fully seared in your memory. Fortunately for TV lovers, 2019 was full of a whole slew of incredible television. Taking a bit of inspiration from the realities of 2019 itself, series like Watchmen, Pose, and even Grey's Anatomy (yes, it's still on) tackled the social ires that plague our communities, but there's something extra poignant about seeing those topics seep into the entertainment we consume in our down time. Television has always had a way of making the taboo a bit more digestible, but the stories told on television this year took it to a whole new level.

But beyond the social messaging, some series simply found a way to tell a damn good story, message or not. The second season of Fleabag punctuated the decade with some of the sharpest comedy we've seen in years. Big Mouth continues to find a way to weave in animation with smart storytelling season after season. And even though some of these series didn't see Emmy or Golden Globe nominations, they still managed to occupy a place in our minds.

10. "Duke," Big Mouth

Duke narrates a central mystery: how did jazz legend Duke Ellington, whose ghost lives in Nick Birchs attic, lose his virginity? This Very Special Episode takes Nick, Andrew, and Jay back in time to Washington D.C. circa 1913, or as Duke describes it, Americas puberty, and my puberty, too. What follows is a singularly unusual episode of Big Mouth, one filled with romance, wistfulness, and a rare, cheeky bit of privacy. In an age where teenagers are more logged on than ever, an episode of television preserving the intimate mystery of Dukes first time is a welcome revelation. Adrienne Westenfeld

9. "Chase Drops His First Album," The Other Two

Comedy Centrals The Other Two remained a bit of a blip on the comedy radar this year, mostly adored in critical circles, but the heartfelt comedy from Chris Kelly was at its best in its inaugural season when it tackled the line between comedy and tragedy. In a bottle episode that kept its entire cast on a plane for Chases album drop, Cary (Drew Tarver), Brooke (Helne Yorke), and Pat (Molly Shannon) wrestle with the complex task of when to reveal to Chase (Case Walker) that his father died from alcoholism.Justin Kirkland

8. "Janets," The Good Place

The Good Place has been a nugget of gold for all four seasons its been on air, but the quirky NBC comedy is at its best when it leans all the way into the weird. Janets is the epitome of that type of strangeness. Stuck in a void while Michael (Ted Danson) and Janet (DArcy Carden) attempt to save the Soul Squad from eternal damnation, the core four are kept in Janets void, but theres a catch: they all appear as Janet. Carden was tasked with the impossible feat of playing four different characters who all interact with one another. What easily could have been a shtick of an episode turned into a true testament to the comedic force that Carden is, as well as how inventive network sitcoms can be.Justin Kirkland

7. "This Is Not For Tears," Succession

In the hall of fame for television episodes that fulfill that old surprising and inevitable chestnut dispensed in writing workshops around the country, This Is Not For Tears is a standout. After a season spent building dread and suspense around which Roy family member would become the blood sacrifice laid at the shareholder altar, this season finale solves the mystery, only to subvert expectations at the final second. This Is Not For Tears pays off the long saga of tortured gamesmanship between Logan and Kendall, allowing Kendall to rise like a phoenix from the debasement hes suffered for two seasons. Adrienne Westenfeld

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Years and Years was one of those series that floated under the radar for most of this year, but it packs one of the biggest punches of the 2019. Actually, the insane realism of the sci-fi show that speculates on what global politics could look like over the next 15 years might hit a bit too close to home for most. In Episode 4, the tragic repercussions of immigration reform are on full display when Daniel (Russell Tovey) attempts to get his fiance, Viktor (Maxim Baldry) back to England via a small motorized raft. The results make for one of the most heart-wrenching, brutal twists on television this year.Justin Kirkland

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Russian Doll might have been the first truly great series of the year, but of all its parts, the final installment is the one that really sells the series as something remarkable. After multiple episodes of seeing Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne) die over and over, the season finale explores why this show about death was actually about living all along. Lyonnes character arc provides a concrete foundation for a series that very easily could have saccharine, and its final episode gave an emotional conclusion that felt neither forced, nor arbitrary.Justin Kirkland

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Pose turned up the intensity in Season Two by jumping forward in time and highlighting activism within the HIV community. The true shock of the season hit in Episode Four though, when Candy, a trans woman and mainstay of the ballroom scene, was brutally murdered in a motel. The episode highlighted the unceremonious treatment that trans women, particularly those of color, receive in death. But more than the injustice of Candys death, Never Knew Love Like This Before shined a light on the tight knit community that mourned her death. For a show set in 1990, its incredible just how much this particular episode resonates in 2019. Justin Kirkland

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In twelve formally daring, perfectly compact episodes, Fleabag excavated themes of family, grief, trauma, and spirituality, all through a remarkable arc of growth and self-knowledge. In the final episode of the series, creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge crystallized these themes into a perfect, gutting ending, which sees Fleabag offer her heart to the Catholic priest for whom shes fallen, only for him to choose God over her. Fleabags compulsion to break the fourth wall as an emotional crutch comes full circle in the episodes final moment, when a heartbroken Fleabag tells us goodbye, choosing instead to embrace her life in all its agonies and ecstasies. As Fleabag ends the story shes been telling us all along, what emerges is a poignant celebration of being present in ones life. Adrienne Westenfeld

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For a series that has been on the air for 15 years, Greys Anatomy could get a pass for sticking with whats comfortable. But under the guidance of showrunner Krista Vernoff, the series has reclaimed its cultural currency by skewering social issues via the work done at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Most powerfully, the series aired Silent All These Years earlier in 2019. Set with two dual storylines, a series regular discovers that her birth was the result of a sexual assault, while back at the hospital, a patient comes in after being raped. Traumatized by the experience, women (comprised of real-life actors, extras, writers, and technical crew) line the halls of the hospital so that the woman can go into surgery without having to see a man. It remains one of the most powerful images to emerge from television this year.Justin Kirkland

1. "This Extraordinary Being," Watchmen

In the short run that Watchmen had this year, the series has already exceeded the high expectations its viewers had for it. Still, no episodeWatchmen or otherwisehas managed to have the impact that This Extraordinary Being had. Acting as an origin story for Hooded Justice, This Extraordinary Being also served as a painfully relevant meditation on racism in America and how the subtleties of prejudice can be just as damaging as overtly racist acts. Pulling off an origin story fo
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The biggest run of the night was a 35-yard sprint around the offensive left side that gave the Raiders a chance to score at the end of the half. But how did the Raiders manage to get such a wide open running lane for Jacobs?

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The next player to look at is Chiefs Safety Daniel Sorensen. Sorenson comes on a blitz and is able to disrupt this play by getting in Carrs face.

Fast forward to Jacobs 35-yard run at the end of the half. A few things are the same:

Sorensen thinks he recognizes the play and abandons his gap in the run game in hopes that he can make a big play on what appears to be a bootleg. Only this time the Raiders are actually running the ball and the void Sorensen leaves allows Jacobs to accelerate into the second level.

Of course, there werent enough examples of plays like this coming to fruition for the Raiders. Its telling that a non-scoring play was their best play of the game. The last several weeks the offense has taken a step back. Theyll need to create more explosive offense if they have a chance of righting the ship this week against the Titans.

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Theres a moment in Greta Gerwigs new film adaptation of Little Women that ignites the screen with as much energy as a fire that sets ablaze a characters dress in the scene prior.

Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) is at a party with Theodore Laurie Laurence (Timothe Chalamet). He asks her to dance. But shes accidentally scorched a part of her dress and doesnt want other guests to see. Laurie takes Jo outside, and they have their own mini-dance party on the front porch bathed in the light of the larger party inside.

They dance in ways that are refined, silly, playful and buoyant all at once. The moment, choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes, has a bit of a punk-rock rebellion quality to it, but also keeps with the time.

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I didnt want them to be doing dances they wouldnt necessarily know. But I did want it to feel joyful and young, like kids dance.

Gerwig said the idea for this dance came from a Saturday Night Live sketch that features Gilda Radner and Steve Martin, where the two meet in a nightclub and trip the light fantastic.

For our film, we wanted it to be this shimmery moment that feels like maybe it almost didnt even happen, she said.

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Reports involving Official US Enemies, especially North Korea, grow more distorted and scarier with each re-telling in the media. This is a distortion process honed by our media over the decades of US imperial saber-rattling and military build-up since the 1950s.

What begins as a hyper-qualified, even sober analysis, is laundered through initial reports and subsequent reports and more reports and finds its way on the airwaves of Fox News, ultimately morphing into a whole new media creature, rounded up to the scariest interpretation of facts with each link in the media chain and ending with an almost apocalyptic fervor.

One recent such example was so egregious and naked it bears special mention. What started out as an exercise in idle speculation by an obscure geopolitical research firm, within a week, morphed into a major story featured on Fusion, the LA Times, and Fox News.

Small Virginia-based security contractor Strategic Sentinel noticed that on Google Earth some islands had emerged off the coast of North Korea and decided to speculate as to what their purposes was in a May 1st article in The Diplomata respected foreign policy magazine focusing on Asia-Pacific affairs. One of those purposes, of course, was military. The piece hedged a lot but effectively ran with the premise that the islands North Korea was building were largely to house missiles and for sinister military application.

Theres only one problem: The basis of the whole story was overreaching at best and bunk at worst. Long-time North Korea observer 38North laid out, in detail four days later why the story didnt add up:

On May 1, 2017, The Diplomat published an article by Damen Cook based on a report by Strategic Sentinel, which purported to show that the North Koreans had constructed several military facilities on small islands surrounding the city of Sohae. The methodology and conclusions in this report, however, demonstrate a lack of understanding of both North Koreas military infrastructure and recent history

In the Strategic Sentinel analysis, they suggested that a series of islands near Sohae (which is not a city) are being used for ballistic missiles (BM), anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM), or surface-to-air-missiles (SAM); however, there is no credible evidence to support this claim. In fact, there is ample evidence to refute it...

As best as can be determined, it seems [Strategic Sentinel] looked at a few Google Earth satellite images (but forgot to look at the Landsat imagery) and drew conclusions based on pre-existing expectations.

The report would go on, playing down and refuting many of Cooks core claims. The entirety of which should be read.

Ryan Barenklau, Cooks partner at Strategic Sentinel, disagrees with 38Norths reading of events, telling AlterNet, he didnt find the debunking by to be fair.

I feel as if the piece has too much emotion from the writer and that the piece was a knee jerk reaction, Barenklau told AlterNet in an email. If you read the original article, you will see that we completely agree that these islands may only be for agriculture and never will be used for military purposes.

This debunking by 38Northregardless of what one thinks of its meritswas too little too late. The Diplomat added a 142-word update further qualifying their claims after being contacted by analysts from 38North (but before 38North published their rebuttal three days later). This would have little effect, North Koreas Mysterious Nuke Islands of Doom were too tempting to pass up and the media was off to the races:

Fusion: North Korea Is Building Mysterious New Islands In The Yellow Sea

LA Times: North Korea is building mysterious artificial islands that would be perfect for missile launches

The Independent:North Korea 'building mysterious artificial islands' apparently equipped with military installations

Daily Mail: North Korea 'is copying China and creating artificial islands to use as military bases

The Express: North Korea's man-made islands being primed for nuclear attacks, expert warns

Fox News: North Korea's mystery islands: Man-made keys could be new nuclear launch sites

To further hype the threat, Fox News turned to reliable North Korea fear-monger Gordon Chang--who's carved out quite a career rounding up to the most dire assessment of North Koreas actions. He fed Fox News the expected red state red meat, complete with a gratuitous book plug:

While their purpose is unknown, suspicions are high that the islands could be used to launch missiles. Those speculations are not far off the mark, according to Gordon Chang, author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World.

North Korea is never up to any good, Chang said in an emailed statement to Fox News. The new facilities, whatever their purpose, will be used for evil deeds, mischief, or troublemaking of some sort.

My sense is that the facilities on the new islands will be used for missile launches of some kind, especially because they are near Sohae.

In less than a week, an analysis that began as qualified speculationeven if overreachingmorphed into a full blown media panic. Grainy, decontextualized Google Earth images were enough to justify bold claims about a sinister Bond Villain-like plot to menace East Asia.

I do not like the way the media has been reporting this article, Strategic Sentinels Ryan Barenklau told AlterNet. The original purpose of this article was to examine islands that were being built up by DPRK and theorize if they could be used for military purposes, how would DPRK go about doing that. I definitely disagree with how Fox News has taken the article.

Strategic Sentinel did, however lend quotes the LA Times article that while more qualified than Fox News, was so only in degree not substance. One problem is that government contractors writing reports and providing quotes for respected publications like The Times is that these analyses often double as marketing efforts. Indeed, the LA Times story is currently Strategic Sentinels pinned tweet. And don't let their .org url fool you, Strategic Sentinel is a pro-profit defense contractor thatwhile currently without anyis more than open federal government contracts.

When it comes to marketing. I would definitely like to think that these articles show potential clients what we are capable of doing, Strategic Sentinels Ryan Barenklau told AlterNet. Any marketing that we do get from the pieces I am happy with, but I personally make it my mission not to hype anything. I do not want my company to be known as partisan or having ulterior agendas.

Nevertheless, here we are. The average media consumer isnt going to follow the links and parse all the nuance. 60% of Americans get their news from headlinesand North Korea Building Islands for Bombs is all theyre going to come away with it. This is consistent with what well call the North Korea Law of Journalism, which states that the editorial standards are inversely proportional to a country's Enemy Status as it relates to the U.S. State Department.

Because North Korea is seenfairly or notas the baddies, journalists can always round up to the most speculative, ungenerous reading of their actions and get away with it. There is no pro-North Korean public relations firm thatll call up the editor at The Diplomat or LA Times. No AIPAC like Israel has, no US government PR rep like the CIA does, no Gulf-funded think tank to run spin for the Qataris. Given these conditions, any story about North Korea can spread without challenge, because, frankly whos going to object?

One common rejoinder to this line of criticism is that North Korea, by its very nature, is difficult to report on and so more leaps must be taken. But this begs the question. There is no law of nature saying reporters have to idly speculate on the internal affairs of North Korea, especially given the way in which that speculation
will be weaponized by a rightwing media perpetually eager for war. Those operating in the space should factor this in, and do their best not to feed the media beast, lest a bogus North Korea story spread unchecked with their names all over it.

Adam Johnson is a contributing analyst at FAIR and contributing writer for AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter @AdamJohnsonNYC.

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The Anatomy of a Bogus North Korea Story - AlterNet

The Chiostro Del Bramante, a cloister-turned-gallery in the heart of Rome, is currently presenting Jean-Michel Basquiat: New York City a generous selection of work spanning the short, but immensely prolific, career of this extraordinary artist. The extensive exhibition includes nearly one hundred significant works on loan from the Mugrabi Collection, which includes acrylics and oils, as well as drawings, silkscreen prints, and ceramics completed between the years of 1981 and 1987.

Born in Brooklyn, New York to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Basquiats stunning and breathtakingly rapid ascent to fame and stardom was paralleled by few, if any, other artists in the twentieth century. At Sothebys recently, Basquiats painting of a skull, Untitled (1982) sold for $110.5 million a record price for an American painter, placing him in the art history pantheon alongside Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. We can be pleased that Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire who bought the painting, intends to share his taste for art with the public. However, if we are to truly approach these works at all, it is necessary to get beyond the din of the market the screeching vultures as the late John Berger puts it and give our attention to the sophistication and wit of this painter, the sincerity and exuberance of his canvases.

Untitled, 1982 (Source: Sothebys New York via artnet News)

From the first early portraits in the exhibit, we see Basquiats confident and energetic line, which he used to tremendous expressive effect throughout his career. We also find Basquiats characteristic use of haloes; and most recognizably, the three-pronged gold crown, which he would use to establish the dignity and worth of something or someone, or simply as an assertion of the artists power.

The crown features prominently in Loin (1982), a painting of a horned bull alongside a bloody knife. On the one hand, we seem to have a sacrificial offering: loin as in a cut of beef, a tenderloin. On the other hand, a symbol of sacred strength and power (the bull was in fact one of Zeus divine manifestations, a form he took when he seduced and abducted Europa). In this case, the loin is the creative, generative potency of the artist himself, in what amounts to a kind of self-portrait. Similarly, Pablo Picasso, who influenced Basquiat greatly, depicted himself as a quadruped in his etching Minotauromachy (1935) and included an image of a bull in Guernica (1937), a painting which Basquiat credited as being among one of his all-time favorites.

Loin, 1982(Source: David Bird / Pinterest)

There is no escaping violence in Basquiat, and while it is sometimes presented upfront with the intention to arrest and confront the viewer there is often an indeterminate sense of menace. In Side View of an Oxens Jaw (1982) Basquiat may be invoking the story of Samson a Biblical figure who slew the masses of Philistines armed with only the jawbone of an ass. Basquiat would explicitly revisit Samson in one of his most successful paintings, Obnoxious Liberals (1982) identifying himself with the black hero/martyr that reappears in so much of his work.

Hand Anatomy (1982) brings our attention to one of the fundamental themes of the show and Basquiats work throughout his career. Basquiats knowledge of art history was apparently encyclopedic: he painted in dialogue with many of the masters who preceded him and his works are full of such references. Leonardo da Vinci looms large in this sense, not only as a painter (Basquiat seems to have regarded Da Vinci as among his favorite artists), but as a student of human anatomy and physiology. Da Vinci is known to have secretly dissected human cadavers (a practice widely condemned at the time) to understand more fully the inner workings and processes of the human body. Basquiat may have been attracted to this readiness to go underground, as it were; and like da Vinci, he had to escape and outmaneuver the conventions of ordinary social morality to bring to light something that we are almost afraid to see; something that by its very nature interrogates our tendency to conform to established modes of understanding and discourse.

The exhibition includes several works that Basquiat and Andy Warhol painted together. The two had a highly-publicized friendship which led to an exhibition of their collaborative works at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Soho in 1985. Warhol and Basquiat: Paintings was panned by the critics, a reception which contributed to the dissolution of their personal and professional relationship. In Thin Lips (c. 1984-1985) (which is to say, false promises) the two artists satirize Reaganomics. Basquiats work was political throughout, and sometimes his works are most-effectively political when the content is not explicitly so.

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Source: WideWalls)

At his best, Basquiat can be viewed as an American shaman: an artist who brought meaning to a fragmented society by acting as a conduit to another realm of consciousness. In his appropriation of so-called primitive art and renaissance iconography especially the halo (which sometimes becomes a crown of thorns) he created a unique vocabulary that he developed as a way of exploring a broken world. Much like the writer William Burroughs, who was a profound influence on the painter, Basquiat is charting a kind of guide to the underworld employing Ancient Egyptian glyphs and petroglyphs, as well as hobo signs, in his mapping of the in-visible.

Basquiats art is inseparable from language that is, from the power and sometimes the impotency of names, lists and phrases: and even among his earliest pieces we find him charting words and letters in semi-incantatory ways. He saw the disintegration and brutality of everyday life in America: for Basquiat, the world is in tatters, and because of this, his work tends to lack a center as well as a privileged point of reference. If we could talk about the metaphysics of Basquiats world, then it was one of violent explosiveness he taps into the dehiscence of being to create something altogether unsettling, evocative, and distinct.

Basquiat does not abandon, but transforms, the project of high modernism inasmuch as his paintings are indeed an autobiographical search for wholeness. There is, we might say, a therapeutic intention underlying his work: he seemed to want (at least at times) to heal the self to repel ghosts (as one of his late works states).

Some of the later paintings seem to suggest that he saw the end was near: for example, the extraordinary painting Riding with Death (1988), or the final piece included in this show Gravestone (1987), a work which consists of three doors joined together and the word perishable partially blotted out at the top center. This was, on the one hand, a tribute to Andy Warhol (who died that year), and it evokes the painted panel altars of medieval and renaissance art. Like so much of his work, it represents Basquiats pattern of salvaging and resurrecting the rejected and discarded. But one must wonder if this piece could also be seen as a requiem for the artist himself, as he was coming to terms with his own self-destruction (he died in 1988 from a heroin overdose).

Gravestone, 1987 (Source:Cie Cefeg / Pinterest)

Much of this exhibition concerns, we might say, the anatomy of suffering, and at the same time the strength, resilience and protest that comes from the stripping down, the peeling away of the outer layers to reveal the blood vessels, the muscles and tendons, and the skeleton itself. In Rusting Red Car in Kuau (1984) with its engine (that is, its anatomy) visible, we are witness to another form of Basquiats self-portraiture.

Basquiats work remains immensely provocative, often disconcerting, barbed and defiant scathing in his critique of the racism, greed and moral apathy of American society. He takes a wrecking ball not only to false barriers between conceptualism and expressionism, painting and writing, imp
rovisation, and composition; but to the various social, political, and artistic edifices we have built atop lies. As Berger observed, if Basquiat is an artist whose work is about seeing through lies, then we cannot deny his timeliness and the claim his work ultimately makes on us.

Sam Ben-Meir, PhD is an adjunct professor at Mercy College. His current research focuses on environmental ethics and animal studies.[emailprotected] Web: http://www.alonben-meir.com

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