My comments: I dunno it's satanic / demonic -- This person should be hanged

Husband who chopped off his wife's hands with an axe 'in revenge for cheating on him' faces a decade in jail after court declares him sane

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6217773/Husband-chopped-wifes-hands-axe-revenge-cheating-him.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-46217055/my-husband-cut-off-my-hands-with-an-axe

Husband who chopped off his wife's hands with an axe 'in revenge for cheating on him' faces a decade in jail after court declares him sane

Dmitry Grachyov has had his parental rights revoked after five hearings 

Russian court heard how he drove his wife to a forest and tied her up

Her hacked at both wrists with an axe. His wife's left hand was sewn back on by surgeons, and she now has a 'robot' right arm which she is learning to use

Margarita has been hailed as an 'inspiration' for overcoming the torture 

The brutal Russian husband who chopped off his wife's hands with an axe faces up to ten years in jail after being declared mentally sane and fit to stand trial.

Dmitry Grachyov, 27, feared his wife Margarita was cheating on him and wanted revenge, he told a court.

Margarita today expressed relief that a court, after five hearings finally deprived Grachyov of his parental rights - which means he will never see his two young children again or play any role in their upbringing. 

In December last year, he forced the 26-year-old mother-of-two into his car and drove her to a forest where he tied her up, forced her to kneel, and then severed her wrists with an axe.

Since then the woman has been hailed as an 'inspiration' in Russia after seeking to overcome her husband's appalling medieval torture.

Read on:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6217773/Husband-chopped-wifes-hands-axe-revenge-cheating-him.html

Schizophrenia: Key facts

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder affecting more than 21 million people worldwide.

Schizophrenia is characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behaviour. Common experiences include hallucinations - hearing voices or seeing things that are not there and delusions – fixed, false beliefs.

Worldwide, schizophrenia is associated with considerable disability and may affect educational and occupational performance.

People with schizophrenia are 2-3 times more likely to die early than the general population. This is often due to preventable physical diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease and infections.

Stigma, discrimination and violation of human rights of people with schizophrenia is common.

Schizophrenia is treatable. Treatment with medicines and psychosocial support is effective.

Facilitation of assisted living, supported housing and supported employment are effective management strategies for people with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia: Magnitude and impact

Schizophrenia affects more than 23 million people worldwide but is not as common as many other mental disorders. It is more common among males (12 million), than females (9 million). Schizophrenia also commonly starts earlier among men.

Schizophrenia is associated with considerable disability and may affect educational and occupational performance.

People with schizophrenia are 2-3 times more likely to die early than the general population. This is often due to physical illnesses, such as cardiovascular, metabolic and infectious diseases.

Stigma, discrimination and violation of human rights of people with schizophrenia is common.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schizophrenia

Excerpt from Prof. Kev Nair's Fluency Development Course

http://www.fluentzy.com

'Speech' comes first, and 'writing', only next

You know, the first thing you should understand about a language is this: A language has two sides, like a coin. Yes, two sides. A 'spoken' side and a 'written' side.

Listen. Doesn't a child learn to speak long before it sees writing? Hadn't people been speaking, long before writing came? So isn't one thing clear -- that the 'spoken' stage of a language before the 'written' stage? Isn't this also clear -- that 'speech' and 'writing' are different things, and aren't to be looked at or learnt in the same way?

This is true about any language. It's true about English, too

Don't you get one thing now? Don't you see why most non-native speakers of English find it hard to speak fluent English?

Non-native speakers learn English the 'wrong' way

By 'non-native speakers of English', I mean people for whom English is not their first language or mother-tongue, but a second language -- or just a foreign language. You see, for people in India, English is a foreign language -- but it's also a second language. For people in several other countries, English is simply a foreign language, and not even a second language.

Most non-native speakers of English find it hard to speak English fluently, because they can't learn English the way they learn their first language. You see they're born and brought up in a country where English is not spoken as the first language. And so they can only learn English in the wrong way: In a way that is just the reverse of the natural process of language acquisition. Haven't we seen just now what the natural way is? Haven't we seen that the natural way is to learn to speak first, and then only to learn to write? But most non-native speakers of English don't have the opportunity of learning English in that way.

So you see, as a non-native speaker of English, you've been learning English in the 'non-natural' way -- in a way that's opposite to the natural way of language acquisition. You've been learning to write English first, rather than to speak it. That's what you've been doing at school and college, You've been learning to produce written English. And the methods you had to follow never fully made you understand this: The 'soken' style is quite different from the 'written' style.

You see, the spoken word is the basis for the written word, and not the other way round. And so spoken English is more fundamental than written English. But the non-natural way in which you had to kearn English planted the wrong notion in your mind: A wrong notion that things are the other way round -- that written English is more fundamental than spoken English.

So the result is this: You're now steeped in written English. And your written English orientation has been preventing you all along from understanding on thing. It has bee preventing you from understanding that spontaneous speech has to be composed differently -- that is, in a way quite different from the way writing is produced. Result? You always try to speak the way you write. And you do this by trying hard to follow principles of grammar and usage as applied to writing, and not as applied to speech itself.

Is there any wonder fluency has eluded you so far?

So I want you to understand on thing here and now: When they speak spontaneously, fluent speakers apply principles of grammar and usage in a way that is different from the way they apply those principles when they write. And the spoken style has a number of devices and conventions are not derived from the written style.

English: An enigma

I'd like to zero in on something -- Indian students are as bright as their counterparts in any country -- but the problem they face is that -- their syllabuses are in English -- That's why they can't understand that -- And, catch-22 is -- if they study in a regional language medium of instruction school -- They'd have problem with getting employed and other things -- In Germany -- it's German -- in France it's French -- and so on -- Other thing is Lower KG to Intermediate -- Fourteen years of fundamental learning -- I didn't get that -- I was just like any other student -- We're poor and we didn't have access to good education -- I studied in proverbial blackboard jungle -- At my school they didn't follow the Education board's syllabi -- I studied in so-called English medium schools -- but they never spoke English -- at least in the begginng of my education -- I used to speak in written English -- like the classic example of Prof Kev Nair's -- instead of saying put out your cigarette -- I'd say exintiguish your cigarette -- one more thing is: Unlearninng is impossible -- you'd get it right the first time itself -- I became a laughingstock -- My peers taunted me -- Something else: We study in British English -- And, if we switch to American -- you'd be pronouncing some words in British English -- and some words in American English -- Writing also ditto -- 

To be continued . . . 

My Comments: Just one question: Save a child from starvation or ogle at nude paintings? It's your money -- It's your choice.

Do you need Arthur T. Benjamin to calculate this? My question is we're buying explicit porn for zillions of dollars, aren't we? And, there're zillions of people dying because of starvation etcetera. So you still think I'm a moron, retard and crazy? A despicable pariah? This defies logic.

Go to this United Nations site for Global Issues -- we're facing today.

http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/global-issues-overview/

Yemen food survey finds majority in 'dire' crisis, famine a danger

Yemen’s war and the ensuing economic collapse has left 15.9 million people, 53 percent of the population, facing “severe acute food insecurity” and famine was a danger if immediate action was not taken, a survey said on Saturday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-hunger/yemen-food-survey-finds-majority-in-dire-crisis-famine-a-danger-idUSKBN1O70DP

Some 85,000 children may have already died here in Yemen, and 12 million more people may be on the brink of starvation, casualties in part of the three-year-old American-backed Saudi war in Yemen. United Nations officials and aid experts warn that this could become the worst famine the world has seen in a generation.

“The risk of a major catastrophe is very high,” Mark Lowcock, the United Nations humanitarian chief, told me. “In the worst case, what we have in Yemen now has the potential to be worse than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives.”

A nude painting just sold in New York for a record-breaking $157 million - here are the 15 most expensive paintings ever sold

15. Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)" — $157.2 million

14. Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" — $135 million

13. Pablo Picasso's "Le Rêve" — $155 million

12. Willem de Kooning's "Woman III" — $137.5 million

11. Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" — $140 million

10. Roy Lichtenstein's "Masterpiece" — $165 million

9. Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu Couché" — $170.4 million

8. Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")" — $179.4 million

7. Rembrandt's "Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit" — $180 million

6. Mark Rothko's "No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)" — $186 million

5. Pollock's "Number 17A" — ~$200 million

4. Paul Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)" — $210 million

3. Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players" — $250 million

2. Willem de Kooning's "Interchange" — ~$300 million

1. Painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, "Salvator Mundi" — $450.3 million

https://www.businessinsider.in/A-nude-painting-just-sold-in-New-York-for-a-record-breaking-157-million-here-are-the-15-most-expensive-paintings-ever-sold/articleshow/64194028.cms