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The Brits who took the slow road to success – by killing the zombie hordes

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2016
Andrew Lincoln’s role in The Walking Dead shows that you don’t have to be a superhero to break America ... Think of it as The Waltons with putrescence ... “That’s true for The Walking Dead ... In The Walking Dead the world is hardly aspirational ... “In the last couple of decades we’ve had a lot of actors coming through, like West or Hugh Laurie in House, where audiences experience a kind of cognitive dissonance when they speak in English English.”....

They’re Not ‘Conspiracy Theories’, They’re Conspiracy Facts

Edit Inquisitr 22 Oct 2016
And yet every day we hear the Clinton campaign and its accomplices make use of the term “conspiracy theory” to try and invalidate such revelations, to try and gaslight everyone into thinking the folks shining a light on their misdeeds are the crazy ones, and to give themselves a raft to float on in the immense sea of cognitive dissonance they must surely be experiencing....

Not a matter of secularism

Edit Deccan Herald 22 Oct 2016
The idea of women seeking to have equal rights in marriage, divorce and inheritance seems like an unbelievable, unattainable form of legislation ... Let me begin by talking about marriage, because I believe the conversation till now has only been about divorce and separation ... A large part of the building of consensus and dissonance around UCC in public discourse, unfortunately, has been on the question of Islamic practices ... ....

Swedish commuters are suing their own government

Edit Business Insider 22 Oct 2016
Swedish and Danish flags are seen near the Oresund Bridge. It’s not exactly typical for commuters to sue their own state for slowing down their journey to work ... It’s a striking turn of events in a region that, until this year, was seen as a model for an almost borderless future ... Borders are back in fashion in Europe and the two sides of the Oresund are simply trying to manage the dissonance between their national governments’ policies ... ....

Sci-fi stories envisage Iraq in 100 years

Edit BBC News 22 Oct 2016
A Chinese-run hive of digital development dependent on "water trains" from Europe. A hi-tech destination for a new generation of religious pilgrims ... When the award-winning Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim and British publisher Ra Page asked Iraqi writers to imagine their homeland in 2103, 100 years after the US-led invasion, a plethora of haunting, dissonant - and sometimes uplifting - versions of the future emerged ... 'Badass underdog' ... ....

The Nose review – virtuosic staging smells like teen spirit

Edit The Guardian 21 Oct 2016
Gogol’s surreal, sardonic short story about the bureaucrat Kovalov and his increasingly desperate efforts to be reunited with his errant organ may have been a perfect match to Shostakovich’s precocious brilliance, but the breathless energy in the score – with its manic gallops and insidious ostinatos, winding chorales and dissonant outbursts – sometimes betrays a composer in his early 20s trying a bit too hard to make his name ... ....

Economists Are Blind to How Little They Know

Edit Real Clear Politics 21 Oct 2016
In 2007, for example,Yale researchers reported evidence for cognitive dissonance in monkeys as well as 4-year old humans ... Cognitive dissonance or rationalization is still well-established as a matter of everyday experience ... With a preannounced date in hand, Festinger et al knew that this was a unique opportunity to study dissonance when inevitably, as the book's title makes clear, very dear beliefs are invalidated....

Why Swedish Commuters Are Suing Their Own Government

Edit CityLab 21 Oct 2016
It’s not exactly typical for commuters to sue their own state for slowing down their journey to work ... It’s a striking turn of events in a region that, until this year, was seen as a model for an almost borderless future ... This wasn’t just airy aspiration ... Borders are back in fashion in Europe and the two sides of the Oresund are simply trying to manage the dissonance between their national governments’ policies ... ....

Inspired by Hemingway, a new cello concerto takes flight

Edit Detroit Free Press 21 Oct 2016
Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director emeritus Neeme Jarvi(Photo. Simon van Boxtel) ... to Mt ... Tolling bells were expected, of course, but Daugherty (a longtime faculty member at the University of Michigan) didn't belabor the point, They struck quickly and with enough dissonance to slip the noose of cliche ... He captured a breadth of color, texture, dynamics and feeling in the virtuoso solo part ... Contact Mark Stryker ... Saturday. Max M....

Need new tracks for your October soundtrack?

Edit The Oklahoman 21 Oct 2016
The NBA season's nearly returned. In the meantime, won't you listen to new music with me?. Carly Rae Jepsen — 'Higher'. Carly Rae Jepsen's third album, “Emotion,” sold far worse than her second, while improving on it sonically ... Big Baby D.R.A.M. — 'Cash Machine' ... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' dissonant, mournful sixteenth studio album “Skeleton Tree” hit shelves, followed by a catchier, but no-more-cheery new song from Leonard Cohen ... ....

October 21, 2016 (New Ways Ministry)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Oct 2016
(Source. New Ways Ministry). A U.S. bishop who will be made a cardinal in late November has spoken publicly about the pattern in recent years of LGBT church workers firings ... He advocated dealing with church workers on a case-by-case basis. ... .I would want to speak with the person about it, and ask, 'Do you find any sort of dissonance within yourself teaching faithfully what the church teaches and the choices you make in your life?' ' ' ... ....

52% of gay men without peer support suffer violence (Special to IANS)

Edit Newstrack India 21 Oct 2016
null. For all the 22 years of his young life, Ajith (name changed to protect identity) has had to hide his sexual preference for male partners ... In many families, there is severe pressure on gay men to marry ... "The bill does not elucidate on the legal dissonance between its provisions of non-discrimination and other acts and case-law that discriminate against sex-workers, homosexuals and transgenders." ... Feedback at respond@indiaspend.org)....

The public is starting to take sexual assault seriously — but only when it's convenient

Edit Business Insider 21 Oct 2016
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Trump speaks during the third and final debate with Democratic nominee Clinton in Las Vegas. Since Donald Trump denied during the second presidential debate that he ever committed sexual assault, nearly a dozen women have accused him of unwanted physical advances ... Or fail to ... The scale of the accusations made it impossible for much of the electorate to maintain cognitive dissonance ... Copyright 2016 ... ....
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