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And it is being seen in almost every case being registered under this section that the police are also slapping charges under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code. Section 153 punishes any act designed to incite communal disharmony. |
So, in a country like India, which is perpetually on a communal tinderbox, where religious sentiments run deep, where respect for certain public and historical figures always come accompanied with veneration for their demi-god status, it doesn't take much for malice to be coated with a toxic communal hue. And since one... |
At stake here is not only freedom of expression, but also communal harmony and precious lives, and all these are inextricably linked with Section 66A. Thus, the only way out is to read down this provision - that is, pare it down to reasonable limits. Of course, the best course of action for a robust democracy is to rep... |
The constitutional validity of Section 66A is already under challenge before the Supreme Court, and the precedents from Britain and the US would be of immense value. |
In 2006, the House of Lords read down Section 127(1)(a) of UK's Communication Act, 2003 (on which Section 66A is closely modeled) - holding that the phrase must be construed according to standards of an open and just multi-racial society, and that the words must be judged taking account of their context and all relevan... |
The court added that "there can be no yardstick of gross offensiveness otherwise than by the application of reasonably enlightened, but not perfectionist, contemporary standards to the particular message sent in its particular context." |
Guidance from the US could be sought from the decision in the pending Anthony Elonis case, where the Supreme Court is to decide the meaning of a "true threat" in online communication. |
It essentially means that the court shall gauge the purported intention of the person before deciding if his words, etc. posed a real menace. In 2003, the Court had struck down a law prohibiting cross burning because it penalised expression even if there was no overt intention to commit acts of violence. Now the test i... |
Whether the Indian government and its agencies takes the bull by the horns or uses social media as the whipping horse would be the litmus test for freedom of expression on the internet in India. |
Saurav Datta teaches media law and jurisprudence in Mumbai and Pune. |
BOSTON (AP) Thousands of people braved rain, snow and stinging winds Sunday to pay their final respects to former Boston Mayor Tom Menino the vast majority the ordinary Bostonians he touched during his more than 20 years in office.Mourners, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick a... |
Apr. 15, 2019 1:30 a.m. |
Great French director Claire Denis again drew inspiration from her childhood in colonial French Africa for her new movie “High Life,” her English-language debut. |
“In Ghana, when they were playing jazz, they invented the name ‘high life’ for the music, as a sort of joke for the white people. I have a lot of ‘high life’ records at home, and I thought, ‘That’s great for the film, because it’s high. … and it’s life!” Denis said while in The City for the San Francisco Film Festival. |
The stark, provocative sci-fi movie is about death row criminals (Rob Pattinson, André Benjamin, Mia Goth and others) sent into space to investigate a black hole as a potential energy source. |
At the same time, a doctor (Juliette Binoche) experiments with artificial insemination using the crew members. Eventually, a baby is born, and one crew member must raise her. |
“The baby brings so much hope,” says Denis. |
While Denis is known for poetically placing characters in natural space — especially the wide-open African exteriors of “Beau Travail” and “White Material” — the enclosed, stale spaceship of “High Life” proved a challenge. |
The solution is the ship’s indoor garden. |
The movie’s simple opening shot, a gentle mist moistening the garden, wasn’t so easily filmed. At first, the water came out like heavy rain, and a mist machine could not be located. Denis insisted, explaining that water would be scarce in space. |
“Then, in the end, when the mist was there, everyone loved my garden!” she says. |
Finding English-speaking actors was also a long process. Benjamin, of the great hip-hop group OutKast, didn’t understand why Denis wanted him. But she flew to Atlanta to meet him and pleaded. |
“I said, ‘This character knows more than the others,’ she says, citing a self-awareness she saw in the actor. |
Binoche was a last-minute replacement after Patricia Arquette dropped out due to scheduling problems. |
Binoche was at the Cannes Film Festival for “Let the Sunshine In” in 2018 when “High Life” funding came through, and she told Denis she thought she could play the part. |
In another example of stars aligning, “High Life” features a score by Stuart Staples (of the English band Tindersticks), who has provided music for Denis’ films since 1996. |
For her 2008 film “35 Shots of Rum,” she planned to use only a few songs, with no orchestral music. But she changed her mind when Staples arrived in the editing room with a piece of music that fit perfectly over the film’s opening. |
The timing of the “High Life” release couldn’t be more perfect, coming just days after the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics released the first photograph of a real black hole. |
During writing and filming, Denis worked with astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau to get the details of her film right. |
With Penn State and Notre Dame on the horizon, DePaul (2-0) made sure they would head into those two games on a high note with a comfortable 91-63 victory over Morgan State (0-3) Monday night at Wintrust Arena. |
DePaul grabbed control of the game with an early 17-2 run that helped them open a 20-6 lead just eight minutes into the first half. After Morgan State hung around for much of the first half, the Blue Demons closed out the opening half on a 13-3 run over the final four minutes and 20 seconds to take a 39-20 lead to the ... |
After all was said and done, one of the first things DePaul head coach Dave Leitao looked at was the assist line. He liked what he saw with 21 assists on 35 made baskets. |
Leitao also pointed to the size disparity inside as something DePaul was able to exploit that never allowed Morgan State to get in a rhythm early on. |
Coming in, DePaul wanted to force Morgan State into outside shots and handle the pressure they knew was coming. The Blue Demons did both of those things limiting the Bears to just 25.8 percent shooting in the first half, while also capitalizing on the press with 11 fast break points, including four dunks. |
“Keep them out of the paint, get stops on defense that lead to offense we knew they were going to try to speed us up a little bit I thought we did a great job handling the pressure,” DePaul senior guard Max Strus said of the plan coming in. “That starts with Devin but once we got the ball moving guys were just making o... |
Senior guard Eli Cain played 19 of the possible 20 minutes in the first half and led the Blue Demons in all categories with 11 points, five rebounds and five assists. Earlier in the first half, the senior also reached the 1,200 point-mark in his Blue Demon career with two free throws to give DePaul a 26-16 lead. |
Senior guard Eli Cain dribbles against Morgan State guard Martez Cameron. |
The senior guard from New Jersey was not aware at the time that he had accomplished that feat, but was happy to reach the milestone and credited his teammates for helping him get there. |
After two uneven performances against Rockhurst and Bethune-Cookman, the Blue Demons played arguably their most complete game so far in the young season with nine players making their way into the scoresheet. The Blue Demons were paced by Cain who finished with 21 points, eight rebounds and six assists. Strus was just ... |
In just his second regular season game back from injury, sophomore Devin Gage also had a bounceback night a career-high 13 points and nine assists. After getting off to a similarly good start last season, Cain praised his point guard for the return he’s made already this season. |
The win marked the first time since the 2014-15 season DePaul had been 2-0 to start the year. |
The Blue Demons road gets a little tougher on Thursday when they host Penn St. in the Gavitt Tipoff Games on Thursday night at Wintrust Arena. |
The curtain is about to rise on the first Angus film festival in the latest step forward for a community cinema group. |
Common good fund money from three Angus burghs is to be used for improvements to civic amenities. |
The Hohner's tones will ring out this week for an Angus audience in the latest musical coup for the county. |
A big-hearted mother and son are making plans for Brechin’s first community Christmas lunch, with the help of a host of local saviours. |
Brechiners have been thanked for the part they have played in making the community-led takeover of the City Hall a success. |
Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN) will release 2012 fourth-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. |
Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN) will release 2012 fourth-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. The Company will host a webcast to discuss earnings at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 7. |
Interested parties are invited to listen to the webcast via the Company’s Investor Relations website at www.albint.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website at approximately noon Eastern Time on February 7. |
Albany International is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company, with two core businesses. Machine Clothing is the world's leading producer of custom-designed fabrics and belts essential to production in the paper, nonwovens, and other process industries. Albany Engineered Composites is a rapidly gr... |
Abstract: Ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) take advantage of the stored energy in the ground for space heating and cooling. Their greater energy performance compared to conventional heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is well documented. The key factors that hinder the wide adoption of these systems in the... |
The fight at Sleepy Lagoon. Photos by Craig Schwartz/CTG. |
The revival of the iconic Luis Valdez play about 1940s Los Angeles "Zoot Suit" opened Sunday night back at the Mark Taper Forum, 39 years after the play first ran there. There was a festive opening night vibe outside the theater (souvenir tables, singers, lots of dressed-up fans and celebrities) and inside (applause fo... |
The Music Center announced last night that the run has been extended a second time to March 26. |
When “Zoot Suit” first opened at the Mark Taper Forum in 1978, little about the production screamed hit. Much of the cast had scant acting experience. The story itself was a Brechtian take on a relatively obscure unsolved murder in 1942 Los Angeles; its climax involved a humiliating assault on a Latino man by racist Un... |
Today, at a vigorous 76, hair and mustache graying, Valdez flashes the same benevolent smile he flashed when his aptly named El Teatro Campesino, the Farmworkers’ Theater, was in its infancy in the 1960s. Valdez and I first met during those salad days, shortly before I joined the drama desk of the Los Angeles Times, as... |
In September 1965, Chavez led a strike in the Central Valley to protest low pay and poor working conditions. |
Bichir, who first performed on stage at age 3 and at 17 was directed in his first leading role by Tony winner Jose Quintero, returns to the theater when he can. When he heard about the Taper’s revival of its landmark 1978 production of “Zoot Suit,” he sought an interview with playwright-director Valdez to detail his vi... |
Della and Henry, played in 2017 by Jeanine Mason and Matias Ponce. |
Rose Portillo and Daniel Valdez. |
The comprehensive and carefully selected English to Greek Dictionary, is an excellent choice for English travelers visiting Greece and for students learning Greek. The full dictionary version provides Greek translations of over 25,000 unique English words. A Greek font is *not* available within BEIKS Dictionary Reader ... |
1.) Recycle it. Most municipalities have tree-collection programs. Some offer pickups with regular trash pickups, and others open collection points where you can drop off your tree. |
The trees are usually ground into mulch, which sometimes ends up on public grounds or is used in municipal composting programs. |
Some local tree farms, garden centers, and retailers who sold trees also take trees back at no charge. |
The Pick Your Own Christmas Tree website has a listing of specific central-Pennsylvania pickup/dropoff programs. |
2.) Use it to insulate your plants. Cut off the branches and intertwine them around the base of rose bushes and other winter-tender landscape shrubs to insulate their roots and crowns from cold. |
If you have a chipper-shredder, grind up the branches to make your own mulch. Trunks can be dried and burned in a fire pit or outdoor fireplace. |
This former Christmas tree trunk was turned into a bird-feeder pole. |
3.) Do something clever and crafty. Turn your tree into a winter bird-feeder by decorating it with suet cakes, popcorn strings, and peanut butter balls rolled in seeds. |
Or turn it into a vine support by securing it and pruning it so that bared branches become grabs for climbing vines come spring and summer. |
4.) Return it to the environment. If you live in a wooded area, toss the tree along a stream bank or other brushy area where birds and small mammals can use it for shelter. |
Fallen or cut evergreens also make good soil-erosion barriers along creek banks. |
Or sink your tree in a large, private pond as a fish refuge. |
While you're taking down the Christmas tree and any house-light decorations, don't forget to remove strings of lights you might have wrapped around landscape trees and shrubs. |
These wires can become embedded in growing tree bark, which can stunt branch growth and possibly create weak spots where branches could snap under wind pressure in the future. |
The growth doesn't do your lights any good either, making them almost impossible to remove once embedded. |
Some trees grow so fast that they can grab onto lights the first summer - especially ones that were tightly wrapped. |
Get your plant protection in place ASAP to avoid this kind of damage, which are arborvitae eaten from the bottom up by deer. |
Winter is when landscape damage from deer is at its worst. Your azaleas and yew bushes look very appetizing when so many other growing-season food choices have gone bare and dormant. |
The best line of defense is erecting a fence - either around the plants/areas you really want to protect or around the whole perimeter of the yard. |
Several kinds of fences work. Gardeners report varying success with electric fences, parallel fences (side-by-side wire fences a few feet apart that confuse deer), and solid or mesh ones at least 8 feet tall. |
A second option is treating target plants with repellents. Many brands are available in garden centers and online - some that work by using scents that deer don't like and some that coat the plant with foul tastes, such as rotten eggs or bitter flavorings. |
The key is reapplying repellents often enough to keep the scent/taste fresh. Product labels typically advise every two weeks. |
Also helpful is rotating different kinds of repellents so deer don't figure out the ruse. |
Rabbits and rodents also are active in January and can be just as destructive, although not to the sheer scale of a big hungry deer or three. |
Mice can girdle bark around trunks - killing whole mature trees - while voles and chipmunks can kill perennials and shrubs by eating the roots out from underneath. |
Protect tree and shrub trunks by wrapping them with hardware cloth or similar narrow-opening wire. Ideally, run it at least 3 feet up the trunk to account for snow and run it at least a foot out across the ground to discourage tunneling. |
Urine from predators and other versions of rabbit and rodent repellents (also sold in garden centers) help keep rodents away from shrub and perennial plantings. Again, reapply them to stay fresh throughout winter. |
Cage traps baited with peanut butter are another option, and roaming cats are effective in letting nature fight nature. |
Voles are also notorious for making destructive tunnels in the lawn as they venture out under protection of winter snow cover. |
The Kansas City Chiefs placed the franchise tag on outside linebacker Dee Ford on Monday with a potential eye toward making a trade. |
Both NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Chiefs are looking to deal the pass-rushing specialist. The Chiefs are switching from a 3-4 base defense to a 4-3 under new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, with Ford likely moving to defensive end if he stays with Kansas City. |
Ford, 27, has 30.5 career sacks in five seasons, all with the Chiefs, including a personal-best 13 in 2018. He also forced a league-high seven fumbles. |
The one-year franchise tag for linebackers is worth $15,443,000 in 2019. |
—Defensive tackle Grady Jarrett remains with the Atlanta Falcons, but a long-term extension is on hold after the team used the franchise tag on the 25-year-old star. |
Using the franchise designation assures Jarrett of a one-year deal worth nearly $15 million for 2019. The two sides have until July 15 to negotiate a long-term contract extension. |
—The Dallas Cowboys are putting the franchise tag on pass-rusher DeMarcus Lawrence for the second consecutive season. |
The Cowboys and Lawrence, 26, have been talking about a long-term deal, but the sides were “not close,” according to multiple reports. Dallas tagged Lawrence last season, when he made $17.1 million. He would earn $20.5 million under the franchise tag in 2019. |
—The Houston Texans placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on outside linebacker/defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. He is reportedly being tagged as a linebacker, according to The Sporting News. |
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