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My Harlem
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Aurea Gonzalez | 12/11/2014, 1:27 p.m.
Keith Lee Grant (Director) and Katie Lugo (Maria) Photo by Aurea Gonzalez
West Side Story has found a new life. The Harlem Repertory Theatre has breathed fresh air into the 57-year-old play in its new home at Tato Laviera Theatre on East 123rd Street and 2nd Avenue. Keith Lee Grant directs the classic in a larger space that seats 100 people—compared to only 40 in its previous home on West 133rd street.
With explosive dance numbers that will leave you on the edge of your seat, the actors offered a fresh representation of gang warfare and love. With minimal stage props for the set, Grant uses the entire theatre for a more interactive environmental experience. It allows the actors to move freely and take advantage of the space, including the area where audience members sit, at times breaking the fourth wall and singing right to them.
The acting is so compelling an out of town audience member who came with his partner said he was glad he had made the trip to Harlem.
Photo by Aurea Gonzalez
Keith Lee Grant (Director) and Katie Lugo (Maria)
“We came from Long Island because we love West Side Story,” he said. “We haven’t seen it done this way, with a minimalist stage set, but the acting is so good it makes up for it! We love it!”
Not only does Grant alter the physical appearance of his show but he also blind casts it. Mario Brown, a 22-year-old African American student on break from the City College of New York plays Tony. This is Brown’s first musical performance but his singing is as strong as his acting.
He had no problem playing a black Tony. “When you go into a production of WSS playing Tony as a black man you kind of feel the gravity of it all, but at the end of the day it's just another opportunity to get on stage and do what you love. The politics don't really come up in the rehearsal process.”
He adds, “But you see people outside of the production react, negatively and positively, and you see how people react after seeing the show and it all adds up.”
Katie Lugo, 22, also a CCNY student, stars as Maria. “I absolutely love playing Maria,” Lugo says. “I will have a really hard time letting go of this character because I am really obsessed with the role. All of the passion is in the music and writing and it is so beautiful to connect to this role. This theatre experience has been extremely beneficial and inspiring for me and having this under my belt is really helpful.”
Next up for the very busy Keith Grant: The Wiz for HRT which opens December 19th and runs through January 10. Grant says, “It was very difficult. There was a period I was rehearsing seven days a week. And we got the rights to The Wiz so I had to do it because you never get the rights to The Wiz in Manhattan.”
West Side Story runs through December 13. All tickets range from $15 to $50.
For more information, visit harlemrepertorytheatre.com.
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Emerging designers reign for spring/summer ’18
RENEE MINUS WHITE | 2/1/2018, 9:30 a.m.
Spring/summer designs by CAAFD's designers
Through a collaborative effort by a few key people in the fashion industry, the Council of Aspiring American Fashion Designers put on quite a show for Fashion Week. This nonprofit organization backs designers who aspire to do business in the United States. CAAFD educates, promotes and empowers aspiring designers and fashion professionals and helps them gain a foothold in the fashion business that can lead them to become the renowned designers they yearn to be. Each and every New York Fashion Week, CAAFD sponsors several international and domestic designers and gives them a platform in the greatest city in the world.
For spring/summer 2018, one of CAAFD’s series of shows included a collective showcase with a designer lineup featuring Port Zienna, Mouton Blanc and Zabetta Couture. Port Zienna and its founder, Francesca Canepa, hail from Lima, Peru. This designer has aspirations for haute couture, and she incorporates various elements from cultures she experienced while traveling around the world.
Mouton Blanc’s fiery young designer, Hakuyo Miya, is also a world traveler. His heritage lies in his Japanese roots. He studied in Paris at the Atelier Chardon Savard. Both the Japanese and French cultures influenced his designs. Zabetta Couture’s designer, Ruth Zabetta, was born in New York City; however, she was raised in both Spain and the Dominican Republic, imparting a unique set of inspirations for this couture line. Zabetta Couture’s pieces exhibited femininity through asymmetrical cuts that enhanced the natural beauty found in the silhouette of a woman’s body.
Although she is not a part of CAAFD, Claudia Li showed a collection that offers a new look for spring and summer. A New York-based designer and creative director of the Claudia Li brand, Li focuses on creativity and true craftsmanship. Her designs combine an artistic aesthetic and an emphasis on details. This brand has successfully gained industry attention in its brief history through its ever evolving play on silhouettes, shapes, textures and dimensions. Each season, Li paints a story to express emotions and abstract experiences into a tangible collection with personal sentiments that resonate with viewers. Keep an eye on these young designers.
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Benguet Kicks off Rabies Awareness Month (Herald Express)
March 21, 2018 June 13, 2018 capitoladmin
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Bannering this year’s theme “Barangay Kaagapay, Alis Rabies Tagumpay” the province of Benguet commenced the Rabies Awareness month celebration through a motorcade from the provincial capitol passing by Buyagan to Km 3 La Trinidad and back the capitol on March 6, 2018.
The said activity was spearheaded by the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) of Benguet in partnership with the different organizations and agencies in the region such as the Department of Agriculture (DA -CAR), Department of Health (DOH-CAR), Department of Interior and Local Government Unit (DILG-CAR), Benguet Provincial Health Office (PHO), Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of Education (DepEd-CAR), Benguet State University (BSU) College of Veterinary Medicine, and the different municipalities of Benguet.
According to Mark Lloyd Wadasen, Veterinarian I of PVO, the motorcade is to promote awareness to the people and let their dogs be vaccinated as to being responsible pet owners.
“We actually hired 4 vaccinator and coordinated schedules for the different municipalities regarding the free vaccination,” said Wadasen.
Before the kick off activity, the PVO conducted Information Education Campaigns (IEC) through lectures and giving IEC materials like leaflets and brochures.
“The IEC was participated by 15 representatives in each barangay of the different municipalities,” added Wadasen.
Accordingly, in the past six years there were 10 positive cases on rabies recorded in Benguet. However, the PVO still strengthened its campaign through encouraging each municipalities to adopt and localized rabies ordinances.
Moreover, the awareness and advocacy campaign is a year round activity highlighted on two occasions which is March as the Rabies Awareness Month in pursuant to RA 9482 or the Rabies Act of 2007 and September 28 as World Rabies Month.
On the other hand, as of February this year, the DA-CAR recorded 8 positive cases from the provinces of Kalinga with three cases, two in Ifugao, Apayao, Mt. Province and Tabuk City with one case.
“We hope that this would be last case and we still encourage all the provinces to continuously conduct mass vaccination of dogs and cats and also IEC,” said Dr. Cecilia Capuyan of DA-CAR.
The Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (RADDL) also urged pet owners and other stake holders to submit the head of dead dogs for further testing, since it is also free.
Roy Fiaching, Regional Rabies coordinator of DOH-CAR, mentioned that the temperature in March is hot, thus the dogs and cats are aggressive to facilitate transmission of rabies. The pet owners should look into their pets, make sure they are vaccinated, and must give proper food and shelter.
Rabies is viral disease of mammals especially from dogs and cats often transmitted through the bite of infected saliva of the animal. The rabies virus infects the central nervous system, ultimately causing disease in the brain and death. Rabies is 100% fatal but 100% preventable.
By Budikey Aurita
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Astro-Challenge: Hunting for Van Maanen’s Star.
December 17, 2012 By David Dickinson 1 Comment
A Earth-sized star. (Credit: NASA/RXTE).
It’s sobering to ponder the ultimate fate of our Sun. We orbit a middle-aged main sequence star, one that will continue to happily fuse hydrogen into helium for our energy consuming convenience for the next few billion years. We see the ultimate fate of our Sun, however, when we look out at planetary nebulae and burned out cinders known as white dwarfs.
This week’s astro-challenge is one such object. Gliese 35, also known as Van Maanen’s star, is one of the best telescopic examples of a white dwarf within the grasp of backyard telescopes. Shining at magnitude +12.4, Van Maanen’s star is only 14.1 light years distant, making it the 32nd nearest star to our solar system and the 3rd nearest white dwarf. The second “a” is silent, and Van Maanen is pronounced Van MUN (rhymes with “fun”) –nens star.
A wide field view of Pisces and Van Maanen’s Star.
Keen readers of this column will recall that Omicron Eridani & Sirius B are closer, but Omicron Eridani is in a trinary star system and Sirius B is extremely difficult to discern due to its nearby dazzling primary. Van Maanen’s star is thus the nearest solitary white dwarf to our solar system. One can’t help but wonder if it might just harbor a detectable exoplanet or two?
A narrow one degree field of view showing Van Maanen’s star.
The star was first noticed by Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen as having a large proper motion during a 1917 sky survey. In fact, Van Maanen’s star has an annual proper motion of 3 arc seconds a year. One of the stars with the highest annual proper motions is 61 Cygni at 5.22” per year. This means that Van Maanen’s star will move about 4’ arc minutes across our sky in 80 years, a little over 10% the diameter of the Full Moon.
Keep in mind, the term white dwarf was coined years later 1922 by William Luyten; 18 white dwarfs had been identified by 1939, and thanks to the modern Sloan Digital Sky Survey, over 9,000 have now been identified. Van Maanen’s star packs 63% the mass of our Sun into a sphere about the size of the Earth; such a strange high density body squeezes matter into a degenerate state. White dwarfs can be thought of as cooling cinders, slowly and miserly releasing remnant heat back out into the universe. Eventually, these stars will cool down to black dwarf status in about 1015 years (that’s a 1 with 15 zeroes after it, or 1,000,000,000,000,000=a quadrillion years, give or take an odd eon). The universe, of course, is only 0.0013% of this age, and thus, no black dwarfs have had time to cool down yet! The very fact that there are no black dwarfs detected (and the current age of white dwarfs seen) speaks to the relative “youth” of the universe and is one of the pillars of modern cosmological theory.
But back to our Earthly vantage point. Van Maanen’s star is within three arc minutes north east of the +5.7 magnitude double star 96 Piscium. Van Maanen’s star is well placed high to the southeast just after local sunset in December for northern hemisphere observers. Its position in 2000.0 epoch coordinates is;
RA 00H 49′ 10″
Dec +05 23′ 19″
Van Maanen’s Star also makes an appearance in Larry Niven’s Rip Van Winkle tale of A World Out of Time.
Much like sighting a 14th magnitude quasar, part of the fun of spying a white dwarf is knowing what you are seeing. As the December 28th Full Moon slides out of the evening sky, Van Maanen’s star makes for a fine holiday treat to check off of your cosmic life list!
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Mystery of the birth of iPod
Date: 10 months ago 2018-09-14 14:00 Category: Hi-Tech
While iPod, tiny and almost to nobody uninteresting the child of Apple, took the first shy steps to triumphal success, the secrets connected with his birth of nobody interested. Then they were exposed on a public inspection and presented dirty and shameful...
Triumphal success causes envy and hatred from time immemorial, probably, it is one of features of our species. We will just get acquainted with how it was actually, and we will draw own conclusions.
B Steve, most likely, didn't even think 2000 of one more attempt of Apple to win the market of consumer electronics. Such attempts already were, and their results are well-known. Technically, the household devices offered Apple in the 90th were very interesting, Newton MessagePad had a serious potential, the QuickTake digital camera wasn't a frank failure too, but the result was sad.
In the company worked on several household appliances. For example, in the 90th Apple was engaged in development of phone. It is a little data on this project, it is known only that it was not iPhone.
But at the end of 2000, or at the very beginning of 2001, happened something very important... Tony Fadell of Tony is the American of the Arab origin (Lebanese), the biological father of Steve Jobs too (from the Syrian city of Homs), most likely it had no value, just interesting detail.
of Tony worked for Philips until he had had one idea. As it happens always and everywhere, to convince the management of the company it didn't manage to be engaged in it. I have left, and I have tried to carry away this idea some other company, but too unsuccessfully. One more parallel, you don't find?
As was noticed once by Steve if in 1976 there was already a personal computer which could be bought, he just would buy it. Such computer wasn't, and any of the companies to which he handled his idea didn't begin to listen to it. I assume that at that time, despite talent of belief, Steve lacked knowledge in this area, and he couldn't prove convincingly value twist the ideas.
of Tony offered, neither more nor less, a revolution in the musical industry which main hero had to be a portable MP3 player constructed around the hard drive, tiny but decent capacity, and connected with online store, for example, with already incredibly popular "piracy" shop Napster.
As any of the companies capable to solve technical and organizational problems of this project hasn't seen in him potential, he has begun this revolution. One by one, he has constructed several prototypes, awful externally and far from the fact that it would be possible to call a word a product, but...
First, it has found those who have understood him, and was even ready to support, technically and even financially. This PortalPlayer company was called, and it was engaged in development "it is system - the chip", on the basis of ARM processors, generally for players. Tony has addressed to this company in search of processors for the prototypes, and has got acquainted with the senior manager there
URL: http://booktable.info/articles/mystery_of_the_birth_of_ipod
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Bright orange bikes help women break barriers in Iran
ABC News(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Sara Alirezaei was riding a bright orange bike along one of Tehran's main, tree-lined boulevards when a male flower seller noticed her labored breathing and offered a word of encouragement: "Don't be scared. Biking is easy," he called out.
The image of a woman on a bicycle along a busy road in Iran's capital could become far more common with the launch of Bdood, the first private bike-share company that rents its signature clunky, orange bikes to both men and women. An earlier bike-share initiative was run by the city government and was available only to men.
Alirezaei, a 27-year-old Iranian who develops game apps for phones, enjoyed cycling as a girl, she said. But after she turned 9 -- the coming of age for Muslim girls in Iran -- she dropped the hobby. Now that she has taken it up again, she explained that she was woefully out of practice.
"I was stressed and excited" to take a Bdood bike for a ride, she said. "The last time I had ridden was about 17 years ago."
Since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, the country has lived under Islamic guidelines that, among other things, govern what women wear and how they behave in public. Women were barred from many activities outside the home, including events at stadiums and singing.
But as reform-minded women and politicians have looked for ways to push back against the government restrictive guidelines, change has come, even if very gradually. The long black veil that nearly every woman wore in the early years after the revolution has slowly given way to colorful blouses, worn long and loose over long pants or long skirts.
Similarly, the shifting view on bikes -- and Bdood's inclusion of women -- has come quietly. Its proponents note that the victory could be fleeting.
"To make changes, sometimes we campaign to let the policymakers hear us or to increase awareness. But sometimes, we just keep doing what we want without shouting it out, and it slowly leave conservatives no way but to accept us," said Niloofar Hamedi, 26, an Iranian journalist who covers women's issues and women's athletics.
Until recently, cycling on Tehran's bumpy streets was reserved almost exclusively for men. In 2016, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni issued an official position on the subject. "Women biking in public areas and where they might be seen by unrelated men is 'haram' (religiously forbidden)," he ruled, according to his official government website.
But others, notably the current mayor of Tehran, have encouraged the idea as a way to help reduce the city's chronic congestion.
Bike shares have exploded in popularity in recent years in cities around the world, which advocates say can help reduce the number of vehicles on the road and encourage exercise and reduce stress.
"The idea of women biking is as much a gender issue as it is an environmental one," Hamedi said.
Bdood, which is a private company, rents bikes for about 10 cents per half an hour, which women say is considered affordable. The company's presence has encouraged biking more broadly.
"I used to bike with my husband outside of Tehran, but, recently, seeing women riding the orange Bdood bikes, I am thinking of riding by myself in the city," said Saba Javid, 28, a marketing content developer.
She said she mostly rides on the weekends for fun.
"It helps me feel safer when there are more women riding bikes on the street," she added.
There are also challenges.
Mahsa Hosein, who is 27 and works as a journalist, wears headphones in one ear when she rides, in order to block out the comments that male drivers and passerby shout out at her.
"They would mock me, or discourage me with loud laughter," she said.
She can't block the heckling out altogether though because, she said, she needs to be aware to safely navigate Tehran's streets.
It's not clear that the rest of Iran is ready to follow Tehran's lead.
In May, the local prosecutor in the historical city of Isfahan banned women from biking because the activity had led to "harassment." The prosecutor ordered police to issue warnings to women bikers and seize their ID cards. He told the Islamic Republic News Agency that if women are found to be biking after receiving a warning, then "they must be confronted based on the Islamic regulations."
Women in Isfahan responded by posting photos of themselves riding bikes on social media.
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This isn't a response video, just a short rant about feminism and consent... particularly the "enthusiastic consent" standard, which is getting more and more coverage and has now been adopted into law in California.
This is something I've discussed in various other forums for years, and there's a response I consistently get that is terribly dishonest so I want to address it now & get it out of the way. All of feminism's various approaches to separating consensual sex from sexual violence rely on the very same traditional gender roles and stereotyping they claim to oppose. Every campaign they've had has been based on assuming that the male role in a sex encounter is seeker, and the female role is gatekeeper.
Their portrayal of social interaction is insultingly melodramatic, presenting the female role as that of a naive, helpless non-participant who never seeks sex and never has control over our environment or ourselves, making men and boys, with the inferred privilege of agency and strength, responsible for us by insinuation.
They, in turn, are presented with a false dichotomy: Fill the age-old role of women's guardians and protectors, or by default fit the villain portrayed in these campaign's propaganda; indiscriminately sex-obsessed, insensitive, pushy, and unscrupulous about where and how he gets what he wants.
When that reliance on traditional roles and stereotypes is pointed out, then and only then do feminists promoting any given campaign ever mention male consent as a factor. Often, that mention is limited to homosexual relationships, thereby still excluding female responsibility for obtaining consent, until that, too is pointed out. It takes a hard push against their own lack of self-awareness before feminists even so much as pay lip service to the human rights of men and boys in relation to sexual choice.
So before anyone responds to this video with statements about how your particular brand of feminist consent campaign includes men and boys and therefore isn't about demonizing and dehumanizing them, you'd better be willing to prove that from the beginning, you've been equally targeting females with "don't rape" messages, equally teaching women and girls not to assume their advances are wanted or accepted, equally portraying them the same way your campaign portrays men and boys... in short, assigning women and girls the same responsibility and accountability for their role in an encounter as you do men or boys.
If not, you might want to re-examine your claim that you're giving male consent equal time. If you're following the existing formula that relies on presenting hapless female helplessness and ineptitude as the norm, you can't rightfully make that argument, and it's a waste of your time to bother making it here.
With that out of the way, on to the rant itself.
I wrote about this a while back in my breaking the glasses post about the enthusiastic consent standard, titled Tit for tat: A standard advocated is a standard owed. I'm going to revisit it here so although the article is a longer statement, much of what I'm saying will be the same.
According to feminism's expressed rhetoric on the enthusiastic consent standard, spoken word is the only acceptable method by which female consent during a heterosexual encounter may be accurately confirmed.
The inference is that nothing a woman does, even to the point of aggressive sexual pursuit of a man, indicates consent to sex. It's basically a statement that no matter what action a woman takes, men must ask for permission to respond, even in kind.
Within this mentality, a man's consent is assumed, partly on the basis of the same behaviors feminists claim don't indicate a woman's consent, but mostly just because he's a man. This standard relies on treating women's sexuality as sacred and coveted, while condemning male sexuality as automatically predatory and in a way, larcenous. It's very clearly intended as nothing more than a means of enforcing the traditional male seeker, female gatekeeper sexual dynamic women use to make sex a tool for manipulating men.
I don't think men have to let it be used that way.
Instead of accepting the imposition of these traditional dynamics, if you're living in an environment where this is now the legal standard, you can use it to cast those dynamics off.
For one thing, stop juming through hoops to earn the affection of women who can't even be troubled to respond to your efforts with equal enthusiasm. Stop shouldering all of the responsibility for the experiences of both parties.
Most of all, don't accept being treated like your consent is a given.
While feminists advocate their enthusiastic consent model as a means of giving women the upper hand, logic makes it a reason for men to exercise the right of refusal when you are not comfortable or satisfied with the dynamics of an encounter.
Nobody is entitled to your attention or affection. Being male doesn't make you community property.
Don't let women treat you like it does.
If nothing else, you have the right to protect yourself from what this standard turns shy or demure women into; essentially Schrodinger's false accuser. After all, you're being told that a woman's participation in a sex act isn't valid consent unless she enthusiastically says so.
She can initiate sex with you, make all of the advances, ride you like a post horse and later accuse you of committing a felony because she didn't say the magic words.
Logically, that's reason to presume heterosexual sex a risky proposal that you're entitled approach with suspicion. You've got every right to require that your partner prove her intent with clear, unmistakable communication before you give your consent. It's reasonable for you to reserve your attention, your affection, your regard, and your trust for only someone willing to give you that reassurance.
And really, you should have been entitled to expect that all along anyway. You're no less deserving than a woman is to be treated as a wanted and interesting partner, to be offered an equal experience of demonstrated intent to please and impress.
Don't settle for some lazy scumbag who expects you to put in all of the effort while she sits back and makes you guess.
Don't tolerate getting treated like a beggar or a slave instead of a romantic interest.
Don't accept being ignored or lied to throughout a sexual encounter.
Those behaviors are abusive.
If the woman you're with cannot afford you the human dignity to treat you as, and act as, an equal partner, she hasn't earned the right to be one. No one has the right to expect you to put up with that, and you don't have to.
You never should have, but now you can also cite this standard and the danger it presents as supporting reasons why you refuse.
As for any women watching this who are offended by what I've said, I'm not the person you should be complaining to about it. Tell your feminist friends who have asserted that male courtship behavior is predatory, consent resulting from it isn't consent, and only verbal communication is communication.
They've made these demands in your name and governing bodies are listening.
Therefore, you no longer have the right to expect to be courted for your attention, subtly flirted with, or even treated like your own actions are intentional, because men have been authoritatively told that when they give you that they're abusing you.
Protesting the expectations I just laid out is asking your potential partners to risk a rape charge just to be with you.
That's a hell of a demand to make, and frankly, there is not a person on earth whose attention is worth that risk. Therefore, women, it IS your responsibility to prove yourself trustworthy... or even worthy at all, the same responsibility men have always had. You no longer have the right to sit back and expect a man to impress you, while you attempt to maintain an air of demure, modest propriety. If you're shy, if you prefer a traditional approach, if you like to be romanced... well, tough shit. Get over it. It's the 21st century now, and you're outdated.
Realize that a requirement for communication goes both ways.
If men are to be expected to obtain communication, women must be equally expected to provide it.
By asserting that men may be expected to assume that anything a you don't directly and clearly request is unwanted, feminists have given men license to assume that you don't want anything until it has been directly and clearly requested.
They haven't just placed the greater burden on men to obtain verbal consent, or be guilty of rape.
They've placed an equal burden on you to speak up and do so with enthusiasm, or go without sexual intimacy.
So it's on you now. Quit being so lazy.
Get off of your ass, stop expecting to sit back and leave all of the work in a relationship to the guy, and start proving yourself the way they've had to for centuries.
Under the circumstances, you're an abusive asshole if you don't.
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A question a lot of anime fans ask is, "Where can I watch the "One Piece" anime series and movies online for free?" With the sheer number of "One Piece" anime episodes about to hit the 700 mark, it's no wonder that viewers are looking for a way to watch this popular series without having to buy all the DVDs and Blu-rays which can be very expensive (especially for those One Piece completionists).
Thankfully, like other popular anime series such as Sailor Moon, Bleach, Glitter Force, and Naruto there are now several ways to watch "One Piece" online completely free that are legal, support the companies involved in "One Piece's" production, and are fairly easy to understand for the average consumer.
Watch on Neon Alley
One of the best places to watch "One Piece" online is Neon Alley which is part of Viz.com. The episodes available on Neon Alley are only in Japanese with English subtitles but with over 600 available for free, it's hard to complain.
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Another option is Crunchyroll which has a few more episodes and with their numerous apps, allow you to watch "One Piece" on your tablet, smartphone, smart TV or gaming consoles such as Xbox 360 or Xbox One, Playstation3 and 4 or Nintendo Wii.
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The official One Piece website also has several episodes to watch, though the site's usability may confuse some people and it's hardly the most convenient place to watch a TV show.
In addition to these free methods for watching "One Piece", there are also several services that provide "One Piece" episodes and movies as part of an affordable monthly subscription service or for a one-off payment to own the digital version that can be downloaded and viewed offline.
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One of the better options is Hulu which has over 600 episodes in original "One Piece" anime in Japanese and English subtitles but also over 100 episodes with English audio. Subscription plans to access the entire Hulu library of shows and movies start at US$7.99 a month but most will want to pay for the US$11.99 plan which also removes commercials. Hulu is also available to watch on gaming consoles, smartphones, and a variety of smart TVs which makes it a very accessible service for many.
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Aytzim Statement Against Anti-Semitic Terrorism
Oct. 29, 2018 — 20 Cheshvan 5779
As advocates for sustainability, we at Aytzim understand that no progress can be made in creating harmony with the planet when there is not harmony between human beings, and that eradicating violence and anti-Semitism in all its forms goes hand-in-hand with eradicating violence to the planet. As Jews and as defenders of both human rights and the Earth, we were horrified this past Shabbat when a white-supremacist terrorist murdered 11 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. But we were not shocked: It unfortunately was the natural outcome of the anti-Semitism and racism that has flourished in this country at the encouragement of the hate-mongering demagogue in the White House. Hateful words lead to hateful actions.
The president needn’t personally murder anyone — although he has bragged that if he did so that he would not lose a single supporter — rather he can murder with his words by inciting others to commit the physical violence. The result is state-sanctioned anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitic sentiments have been below the American surface, held by real people, and driven by their real hate, prejudice and misguided fears.
“This plague is very protean and very durable and very volatile. It appears in all ages and in practically all societies,” journalist Christopher Hitchens said about anti-Semitism in a 2010 lecture in California. “Just as you think it’s been eradicated, up it pops again, surges. It’s exploded with or without the existence of the state of Israel, with or without Zionism, with or without finance capitalism, for which Jews were blamed, and with or without communism, for which, amazingly, Jews were simultaneously blamed.”
The latest anti-Semitic surge has been particularly virulent — the worst-ever year-over-year recorded increase in the number of anti-Semitic acts in America, according to the Anti-Defamation League. All prodded through the nation’s hater-in-chief. Indeed, the FBI found that hate crimes increased the very day after the presidential election. And as we’ve written previously, “we Jews, Arabs, African Americans, immigrants, transgendered — to name just a few — are all in this together. We are hated baselessly by closed-minded, fearful-but-dangerous modern-day Nazis.”
A year ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, Nazis saluted Hitler outside the doors of the local synagogue. The Nazis shouted, “The Jews will not replace us.” These Nazi marchers included “very fine people,” the president said.
At the time, we wrote that “in a country that Jews have long considered a safe harbor from persecution, anti-Semitism and baseless hatred are reemerging” and that the reemergence of Nazism “is neither an accident nor a coincidence. The president and his administration have created and nurtured a safe space for vitriolic and baseless hatred.”
The president continually has propagated one anti-Semitic trope after another — even in the very week leading to the terrorist attack in Pittsburgh, when the president railed once again against the “globalists,” a long-standing code for Jews among anti-Semites. Globalists, he said, are “not caring about our country so much.” When the president was still a candidate, he even went so far as to release a campaign ad named “Donald Trump’s Argument for America” that featured three Jews — Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros and Janet Yellen — with the narrator labeling them as “those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests” and as those “who don’t have your good in mind.”
Make no mistake: The current administration and its allies are no friends of the Jews or of Israel (or of the Earth, for that matter). And having Jewish family members does not make an anti-Semitic president become a philo-Semite — rather it makes for an anti-Semite with cognitive dissonance.
But what can we do?
We can grieve together. We can pray together. And we can respond together through peaceful action.
Some Jewish organizations are calling for Jews to attend synagogue this coming Shabbat. Doing so can send a powerful message of support for our family in Pittsburgh. Many communities are also holding vigils. It is important to stand together against hatred. And the most effective way of doing so may be voting on Nov. 6 for others who stand against violence and who stand up for the Earth and all its people. Many politicians enable the hate speech flowing from the White House but the power of the vote can help usher in a return to civility.
Let us pray for more peaceful times and let us act to help prove that love can indeed triumph over hate.
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May their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion.
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Asif Ezdi A nation’s history includes all those past events which have shaped its character. The more recent they are, they more they are likely to have impacted on the present. Pakistan is a country with a long and rich history. Like the history of other nations, ours too had its ups and downs, its triumphs and setbacks. We need to remember all of them. (Asif is so right ~~t)
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Kenya Eurobond 2018 A to Z (Part II)
Excerpts from reading the prospectus for Kenya’s 2018 Eurobond issues totaling $2 billion (~Kshs 202 billion).
Advisors: joint lead managers were Citigroup Global Markets, J.P. Morgan Securities, Standard Bank of South Africa and Standard Chartered Bank. The fiscal/paying agent was Citibank (London), Registrar was Citigroup Global Markets (Deutschland), legal advisors were White & Case LLP and Allen & Overy LLP (English and US law), and Coulson Harney LLP and Kaplan & Stratton Advocates (Kenya Law) and the listing agent was Arthur Cox (Dublin).
Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Securities, Standard Bank of South Africa and Standard Chartered Bank each committed to subscribe for $250 million of the 2028 and $250 million of the 2048 bond issues
Codes: for the 2028 Notes: 491798 AG9 / US491798AG90 / 178426192 XS1781710543 / 178171054 and for the 2048 Notes: 491798 AH7 / US491798AH73 / 178426478 XS1781710626 / 178171062
Debt Rescheduling: Kenya has approached the Paris Club three times to seek debt relief and rescheduling; in January 1994 for $535 million, in November 2000 over $301 million and in January 2004 over $353 million. Also to the London Club 1998 over $70 million and in 2003 over $23 million.
Default (defined as): Failure to pay 15 days after due date, or issuer (Kenya government) ceases to be a member of the IMF.
Denomination: The Notes are issued in registered form in denominations of US$200,000 and integral multiples of US$1,000.
Disclosure: The Issuer will publish all notices and other matters required to be published (regarding Condition 14, 10, 13: on the website of the National Treasury.
Finance Management: Kenya’s law provides that: over the medium term, a minimum of 30% of the national budget shall be allocated to development expenditure and the national government’s expenditure on wages and benefits for its public officers must not exceed 35% per cent. of total national government revenue and over the medium term, the national government’s borrowings should be used only for the purpose of financing development expenditure and not for recurrent expenditure. .
IMF: The second and third reviews of the IMF programme due in June 2017 and December 2017 could not be completed on time due to the prolonged election period. Accordingly, no funds under the SBA-SCF 2 facility are available to Kenya until it has reached certain targets to the satisfaction of the IMF, which will be assessed at the next review. But, even if the IMF agrees to make this or another programme available upon conclusion of their review, the government intends to continue to treat the arrangements as precautionary and does not intend to draw on the facility unless exogenous shocks lead to an actual balance of payments need.
Income tax (enhancement of): A review of the Income Tax Act is ongoing and is targeted to be completed by mid-2018. In an effort to boost domestic revenue mobilisation, the government is undertaking reforms to bolster revenue yields including roll out of the integrated customs management system, implementation of the regional electronic cargo tracking (RECTS) to tackle transit diversion; data matching and use of third-party data to enhance compliance, integration of iTax with IFMIS to ensure timely collection of withholding VAT and other withholding taxes; expansion of tax base by targeting the informal sector, betting, lotteries and gaming; pursuit non-filers and increased focus on taxation of international transactions and transfer pricing and enhance investigations and intelligence capacity to support revenue collection.
Informal economy: A significant portion of the Kenyan economy is not recorded and is only partially taxed, resulting in a lack of revenue for the government, ineffective regulation, unreliability of statistical information (including the understatement of GDP and the contribution to GDP of various sectors) and inability to monitor or otherwise regulate a large portion of the economy.
Interest Rates: The yield of the 2028 Notes is 7.25% and the yield of the 2048 Notes is 8.25% in each case on an annual basis. The yields were calculated at the issue date.
Listing: The Eurobond Notes will not be issued, offered or sold in Kenya, and the notes may not be offered or sold in the United States. Applications have been made to the Irish Stock Exchange at a cost of 5,500 euros and the London Stock Exchange for GBP 4,200.
.@LSEplc delighted to welcome Kenyan Cabinet Secretary to the Treasury, Henry Rotich, to open London trading this morning to celebrate the Kenyan Government’s $2 billion bond listing. pic.twitter.com/74MRGAcgci
— LondonStockExchange (@LSEplc) February 22, 2018
Litigation: The Issuer has appointed the High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya in London, presently located at 45 Portland Place, London W1B 1AS as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings (“Proceedings”) before the English courts permitted by
Indebtedness: Total national government debt stood at US$41.2 billion as at 30 June 2017, representing a 17% increase from June 2016. The government is permitted under the terms of the PFMA to incur debt within the limits set by Parliament, currently set at 50% of GDP in net present value terms. Following the issue of the (Eurobond) Notes, the total net present value of debt as a percentage of GDP is expected to nearly reach the 50% limit. Although the government may be restricted from incurring further public debt under such circumstances, the Government will be seeking to refinance or repay near-term maturities, and therefore expects to maintain the ratios within the set limits.
Total multilateral debt increased by 15.8% to stand at US $8.0 billion at 30 June 2016 while total bilateral debt increased to US $5.3 billion at 30 June 2016, mainly driven by a rise in stock of debt from the People’s Republic of China, which increased by 21.2%. Also, as at 30 June 2017, the national government guaranteed approximately KES135.1 billion of the indebtedness of the non-financial public sector include Kshs 77 billion to Kenya Airways last year.
Purpose Kenya expects the net proceeds of the issue of the Eurobond Notes, before expenses, to amount to approximately US$1,999,600,000 which it intends to use for financing development expenditures and to refinance part of its obligations outstanding under certain syndicated loan agreements. According to the “Plan of Distribution”, Kenya syndicated loans of from October 2015 (debt now $646 million) and March 2017 ($1 billion) and proceed from the new February 2018 issue will be used to pay all of the 2015 loan and part of the 2017 loan and to “manage the maturity profile of the government’s debt.”
Repayments: (for both issues) payable semi-annually in arrears on 28 February and 28 August in each year commencing on 28 August 2018. The Eurobond Notes are not redeemable prior to maturity.
Withholding Taxes: All payments in respect of the Eurobond Notes by or on behalf of the Issuer shall be made without withholding or deduction of any present or future taxes,
See Part I about the 2014 Eurobond issue.
1USD = Kshs 101, 1 GBP = Kshs 139, 1 Euro = Kshs 123
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Kenya Eurobond 2018
Kenya’s National Treasury has just announced a new $2 billion Eurobond which was seven times oversubscribed amid concerns about the country’s debt levels and intrigues about the availability of an IMF financing line.
The official Kenya Government statement reads: The fact that we got $14billion in investor appetite reflected the continued support the country receives. We now have a dollar yield curve stretching out to 30 years, making Kenya one of only a handful of government’s in Africa to achieve this.
The funds are earmarked for development initiatives, liquidity management, and ambitious infrastructure programs. It goes further to add that the Eurobond issue will be listed on the London Stock Exchange and that the joint Mandated arrangers were Citi, J.P. Morgan, Standard Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank.
The @KeTreasury is pleased to announce the successful pricing of a new $2billion Eurobond issue at the @LSEplc following a successful roadshow conducted with international investors which resulted in a significant level of interest expressed in the issue. #EconomyKE pic.twitter.com/U5kK8Eg1JR
— CS Henry K. Rotich (@HKRotich) February 22, 2018
There was little awareness about the bond, no prospectus was publicly released, and there was no indication on which investors the Eurobond was being pitched to, but it appears that the successful issue will be dated February 28, 2018.
Eurobond selling. Opened today. Value dated 28 Feb. If you have loose $200,000 rush! Selling like hot cake!
— Mohamed Wehliye (@WehliyeMohamed) February 21, 2018
The Eurobond breakdown is for a mix of two equal halves of 10-year and 30-year bonds, priced at 7.25% and 8.25% respectively.
#Kenya is in the #Eurobond market today. It is selling 10-year dollar debt with initial price talk of around 7.625% and 30-year debt with initial price talk of ~8.625%. @markets
— Paul Wallace (@PaulWallace123) February 21, 2018
The announcement comes after some potentially embarrassing news reports that the International Monetary Fund had cut off a line of funding, a statement which was later retracted, and others that Moody’s had downgraded Kenya’s ratings, a claim which the government also disputed.
IMF Statement on February 20, 2018, clarifying status of Kenya’s Precautionary Arrangements: https://t.co/jtynjYG3O5 pic.twitter.com/NaCX02TPas
— Central Bank of Kenya (@CBKKenya) February 21, 2018
But the ratings cut, and the mysterious IMF news (and retraction) did not appear to have an impact on the pitch to investors.
So far order book at $13.3bn. GoK only wants $2bn. So much for Moody's and imf's interference 😎
This is the second Eurobond after another set of bond issues in 2014.
$1 = Kshs 101.4
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Barclays launches the Africa Financial Markets Index
Barclays launched their first edition of the African Financial Markets Index (AFMI) that ranks and compares the depth of financial markets in seventeen African countries. The countries were score against six broad pillars of (1) Financial markets depth, (2) Access to foreign exchange, (3) Market transparency & the regulatory environment, (4) Macroeconomic opportunity, (5) Enforceability of agreements and (6) Capacity of local investors.
South Africa came out on top of the AFMI with 92 out of 100. It was classified as a highly developed market but (with a) challenging macroeconomic outlook; It was followed distantly by Mauritius (66), Botswana (65) and Namibia (62).
Kenya was ranked fifth (59), just ahead of Nigeria (53) Ghana (49) and Rwanda (48), and Kenya was found to be the most sophisticated in East Africa due to innovations and reforms by the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA). Kenya’s scores were quite consistent across the six pillars with recent developments including the de-mutualization and the IPO of the NSE, the launch of a first exchange-traded fund by Barclays Kenya, and the launch of the M-Akiba bond.
Kenya is the seventh largest stock exchange by market capitalization and sixth by bond listings. But George Asante, Managing Director and Head of Markets at Barclays Africa said that Kenya lacked deep-pocketed market-makers who could broker deals, and take price risks and also that Kenya needed to develop a primary dealership network. He added that the participation of local investors in long long-term investing was quite limited and local investors are critical as they buffer volatility caused by foreign investors. Assets were concentrated among buy-and-hold investors, rather than pension funds and insurers. Kenya’s domestic institutional investors have $12.6 billion of assets but this only works out to $173 per capita and he suggested that Kenyan markets and regulators needed come up with more securities listings, instruments, and innovations.
Barclays Bank of Kenya Managing Director Jeremy Awori said that “The AFMI will be produced annually to drive conversations, track progress and address gaps in financial markets.” Already countries like Rwanda and Morocco want to use the index data to improve their financial markets. At the tail end of the AFMI was Egypt, Mozambique, Seychelles and Ethiopia. Ethiopia was scored as “a fast-growing economy but with no financial markets depth or local investor capacity.”
Guests at the launch included Jeffrey Odundo, CEO of the NSE, and Paul Muthaura, CEO of Kenya’s CMA. Muthaura said the CMA had a master plan to make Kenya a choice destination for capital flows by 2023, while Odundo said the NSE has broadened its revenue and product base (by introducing REIT’s, ETF’s, M-Akiba and next derivatives, and a new law to govern securities lending), and was working to make Kenya more visible. They are active members of the Africa Securities Exchange Association and will host a “Building African Financial Markets” seminar in Nairobi in April 2018. They also plan to join the World Federation of Exchanges.
The AFMI report can be downloaded here from the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum website; OMFIF produced the report with Barclays Africa.
This entry was posted in Barclays, CMA Kenya, derivative, emerging markets, Ethiopia, Investing in Kenya, Kenya economic growth, NSE bonds, NSE investor awareness, South Africa and tagged Africa Rising, Barclays on January 18, 2018 by bankelele.
Moody’s places Kenya’s B1 rating on review for downgrade
Moody’s Investors Service has placed the B1 long-term issuer rating of the government of Kenya on review for downgrade.
Persistent high primary deficit & high borrowing costs. Debt. Debt. Plus GoK Liquidity pressures. Political risk just means no attention 👆👆 https://t.co/n9iEwliJJZ
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The decision to place the rating on review for downgrade was prompted by the following key drivers:
Persistent, large, primary deficits and high borrowing costs continue to drive government indebtedness higher
Government liquidity pressures risk rising in the face of increasingly large financing needs
Uncertainties weigh over the future direction of economic and fiscal policy, in part due to evolving political dynamics
Moody’s expects that Kenya’s government debt burden, which has risen to 56.4% of GDP in June 2017, up from 40.5% five years ago, will continue to rise due to persistently high primary deficits and borrowing costs. Pressures on the government primary balance, which posted a deficit of 5.3% of GDP in the latest fiscal year ending June 2017, come from elevated development spending and weak revenue performance. Unless a decisive policy response is introduced, the upward trajectory in government debt will see debt-to-GDP surpass the 60% mark by June 2018.
Due to the erosion in government revenue intake in the last five years and increased recourse to debt from private sources on commercial terms, government debt affordability has deteriorated. In the latest fiscal year, the government spent 19.0% of its revenues on interest payments, up from 10.7% five years ago.
A key focus of the review will be to assess the capacity and willingness of the government to address these budgetary challenges in a comprehensive, effective and timely manner.
2. Downgrade at a time when we are using debt to pay off debt is a nightmare scenario. Investors charge more. We borrow more. Tipping point
Moody’s would downgrade the rating if the review were to conclude that Kenya’s government debt and financing needs, and hence its fiscal strength and liquidity position, have eroded to levels no longer consistent with B1 rated peers. In particular, the rating agency would downgrade the rating in the absence of an effective policy response to these challenges.
Moody’s would confirm the rating at B1 if the review were to conclude that the policy response offers the prospect for tempering the currently-anticipated upward trend in government debt and that liquidity risks are being effectively managed.
This entry was posted in Debt ratings, Kenya taxation, Moody's, NSE bonds on October 6, 2017 by bankelele.
Moody’s Debt Summit Nairobi
Moody’s 4th annual East Africa investor summit Kenya, held in association with Rich Management, looked at East Africa’s resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa’s low growth environment.
Economic growth:
Kenya and Nigeria summit audience think political risks are main challenge to credit in emerging markets. Dubai summit ones are watching USA (policies under Trump and China (economic slowdown) events
Between 2007-15, 6 of 10 fastest growing African economies were commodity exporters, but for 2016-18, 5 of fastest growing ones are in East Africa. While Sub-Saharan Africa growth is at a 20-year low, East Africa is attractive as their growth is not about commodities.
Kenya’s economy growing due to infrastructure, FDI, population but banks not benefiting, partly due to the interest rate cap.
Investors in Kenya want to see a benign August 8 election with a first round winner and a gracious loser.
Bank’s and interest rate:
Banks face a dilemma – on whether to lend to companies in the Kenya economy or to the Kenya government (where they can earn 10% per year short-term, or 14% in the long-term).
There was already a slowdown in bank lending (due to regulation and NPA’s) before the interest rate caps.
The Cost of borrowing in Kenya was too high; and even after interest rate caps, large banks are still getting good 20% returns on equity.
Some firms are opportunistically raising debt – locking in cheap funding ahead of the election e.g. East African Breweries announced they would build a brewery at Kisumu even as they are yet to agree on the financing. But the problems at Nakumatt are probably due to the drying up of their credit lines as banks feel 14% lending does not compensate their risk.
At Moody’s, they rate three large Kenya banks – Coop Bank, Equity Bank and KCB Group all equally. Equity has 55% SME exposure and KCB is big in property, while Coop is well-balanced between business and consumer lending – but they have all taken steps to mitigate risks from the interest rate cap law.
Africa Debt markets
While Moody’s recently upgraded Senegal and Ivory Coast and stabilized Ghana, 8 of 19 Sub-Saharan Africa economics are still rated negative.
South Africa preempts state corporation defaults through bailouts – e.g. at Eskom, SAA – but this doesn’t inspire business confidence.
East Africa economies have solid reserves (4-5 months of imports) but key risks are fiscal deficits and debt accumulation (50% debt to GDP is a warning point).
One of the best performing Eurobonds in Mozambique defaulted.. a flood of money can ignore fundamentals
Kenya’s Debt
Kenya has a history of debt going back over the last ten years.. it knows how to live with the debt. Currently 15 to 17% of Kenya’s income goes to pay debt – (Moody’s get data from government budgets or IMF)
The London Stock Exchange, and some European ones, are considering issuing some debt in Kenya shillings.
Kenya can do better in terms of exports & revenue e.g. by improving productivity – the government explained this to the IMF.
This entry was posted in credit reference in Kenya, Kenya economic growth, NPA, NSE bonds and tagged Africa Rising, Bonds, Debts on July 5, 2017 by bankelele.
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hatuey memory of fire review
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Post by lennygoran » Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:15 am
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MONTCLAIR, N.J. — I won’t lie: I had to suspend disbelief while watching a crucial moment in Frank London’s new opera “Hatuey: Memory of Fire” on Sunday. On stage, a conquistador priest brandished a crucifix as he urged an indigenous rebel to embrace Jesus. In Yiddish. Tied to the stake, the defiant Taino chief told the priest that if heaven had whites in it, he would rather go to hell.
“Vayl di vayse zaynen in himl vil ikh liber in Gehenem zayn,” the chief sang, as the salsa band — yes, salsa band — played on.
It would seem that Mr. London, a leader of klezmer groups in New York, and his librettist, the playwright Elise Thoron, have some explaining to do. Their opera, which received its United States premiere in the Peak Performances series at Montclair State University this weekend and runs through Sunday, is set in Cuba and sung in Yiddish, with some text in Spanish and English.
Hatuey, its hero, was a real-life Taino warrior who organized an armed defense against the invading Spaniards and was burned at the stake in 1512. Mr. London and Ms. Thoron are both white. The work’s musical language is Afro-Cuban jazz.
Chutzpah much?
As it happens, the opera’s incongruities are also its strength, as the layering of cultures helps make it a compelling and eminently entertaining work of musical theater. The opera is based on an epic poem written in Yiddish in 1931 in Havana. Its author, Oscar Pinis (later, after traveling to America, Asher Penn), was a 23-year-old Ukrainian Jew who had recently fled the pogroms in his homeland. The story of the failed indigenous uprising against the forces of Hernán Cortés evidently touched a nerve in Pinis and inspired a work simmering with anti-colonialist outrage.
In the opera, Oscar becomes a character. In a Havana nightclub he falls under the spell of Tinima, a Cuban singer of Taino descent as well as an activist fighting the repressive regime of Gerardo Machado, Cuba’s president. In her songs, she evokes the martyrdom of Hatuey and encourages the young poet to write about him.
“In Yiddish?” he asks, incredulously.
“Does your language have a word for ‘freedom?’” she responds, by way of permission.
The 16th-century story comes alive in scenes acted out by characters from the nightclub. At the same time, Tinima enlists Oscar’s help in arming Havana’s students against the police crackdown. He is fearful, haunted by memories of a bloody pogrom back in his village in Ukraine.
The 1930s nightclub setting works. It gives Mr. London an excuse to arrange a number of vibrant Cuban songs and is a vehicle for the fierce artistry of Jennifer Jade Ledesna, a smoky-voiced alto and feline dancer, as Tinima. The onstage salsa-band-with-cello, conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulos, moves in and out of the spotlight, underpinning spoken dialogue with a light rhythmic shimmer and turning up the heat for barn-burning numbers like Irving Berlin’s “I’ll See You In C-U-B-A.”
The members of the strong cast were all amplified, sometimes too closely. Nathaniel Stampley’s suave baritone, in the title role, and Nicolette Mavroleon’s dusky soprano could probably have shone unaided. But all were comfortable in the transitions from spoken theater to song, and the frequent dancing was more than persuasive.
Yes, it felt odd to see a predominantly black and Latino cast perform in Yiddish. (A first production in Cuba last year translated chunks of the libretto into Spanish to make it more accessible to audiences.) But as the story of the vanquished Hatuey was brought to life, the language added a layer of melancholy. After all, Yiddish, too, is virtually extinct in the part of the world that gave birth to it. And it was easy to see the affinity a Jewish refugee felt in 1931 for a people forced into internal exile by a conqueror.
The ambitious Peak Performances series took a gamble when it decided to stage a work that would inevitably draw questions about cultural appropriation on a university campus. On Sunday the audience responded with warmth and enthusiasm. For New Yorkers interested in salsa, social justice and “oy veys” in aria form, it’s worth the schlep.
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Re: hatuey memory of fire review
Post by RebLem » Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:50 am
Yiddish in an opera about the Spanish Inquisition? I could see Ladino, but Yiddish? Really? Yiddish is the language of Ashkenazy Jews. Ladino is the language of Sephardic Jews.
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Post by jbuck919 » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:50 am
Linguists consider Yiddish to be a dialect of German (ironic, no?). In fact, as long as it is written in the Latin alphabet, I can usually make it out. What I can't make out is a name like Hatuey, which looks misspelled whether it is or not.
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HOME › REGIONS › Africa › Esquire lands World Cup deal
Esquire lands World Cup deal
by Stuart Wilson, Monday 24 August 2009
Africa-based Esquire Technologies has landed a deal to become the official distributor of computer accessories emblazoned with the 2010 FIFA World Cup logo. Distribution outfit Esquire has signed a deal with Global Brands Group that will see it sell customised promotional products with the iconic 2010 FIFA World Cup branding, including mouse pads, notebook skins, CD wallets, CD holders and screen cleaners.
“Kicking off the partnership with Esquire Technologies is another positive step in obtaining readiness for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Esquire is a key distributor of various international brands of computer components and peripherals, as well as digital lifestyle products in South Africa, and we are confident their experience in local and international markets will prove invaluable to the team,” said Paul Zacks, general manager of Global Brands Group.
In 2005, FIFA appointed Global Brands Group, a leading independent, international brand management, retail and licensing company, as both its worldwide exclusive licensing representative and store operator for FIFA branded retail destinations, from 2007 to 2014. Additionally, Global Brands Group will act as the on-site concessionaire for all FIFA events throughout this eight-year term.
Asgar Mahomed, managing director of Esquire Technologies, said: “South Africa is enjoying unprecedented exposure due to 2010 FIFA World Cup, and we look forward to using our expertise to contribute to making this product range a great success, as gifting and memorabilia options for this historic event.”
Esquire Technologies is a distributor of IT components, desktops, notebooks and peripherals and digital lifestyle products in southern Africa. Esquire distributes world-renowned brands to resellers, distributors, system integrators and system builders in the computing industry in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
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After blowing a double-digit halftime lead, the Vols hold on against the Crimson Tide and move to 5-0 in SEC play. (2:55)
Tennessee is the new No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll on Monday, climbing two spots to earn their first top ranking since the 2007-08 season.
The Volunteers received 48 of 64 first-place votes from a media panel in the poll released Monday, after Duke, Michigan and Virginia all suffered losses last week.
No. 2 Duke received 11 first-place votes, No. 3 Virginia received three and No. 6 Michigan State two. Gonzaga and Michigan rounded out the top five.
First-place votes in parentheses
1. Tennessee (48) 16-1 3
2. Duke (11) 15-2 1
3. Virginia (3) 16-1 4
4. Gonzaga 18-2 5
5. Michigan 17-1 2
6. Michigan State (2) 16-2 6
7. Nevada 18-1 10
8. Kentucky 14-3 12
9. Kansas 15-3 7
10. Virginia Tech 15-2 9
11. North Carolina 14-4 13
12. Marquette 16-3 15
13. Maryland 16-3 19
T-14. Texas Tech 15-3 8
T-14. Buffalo 17-1 16
16. Auburn 13-4 14
17. Houston 18-1 21
18. Villanova 14-4 22
19. Iowa 16-3 23
20. Mississippi 14-3 18
21. NC State 15-3 17
22. Mississippi State 14-3 24
23. Louisville 13-5 -
24. Iowa State 14-4 -
25. LSU 14-3 -
"The guys playing right now built this thing,'' Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said.
Expectations followed the Vols into the 2018-19 season. With its top six scorers back from a team that shared the SEC title, Tennessee had its highest preseason ranking at No. 6 and was eyeing a deep NCAA tournament run in Barnes' fourth season.
The Vols have lived up to the forecast so far, bouncing back from an overtime loss to then-No. 2 Kansas to win 12 straight games. Tennessee knocked Gonzaga from atop the AP Top 25 with Barnes' first win over a No. 1 team in early December and won its two games last week, rolling over Arkansas and holding off Alabama .
The only other time Tennessee (16-1, 5-0) was No. 1, it lost the next night to Vanderbilt -- the Vols' opponent on Wednesday.
"Tennessee basketball hasn't been ranked No. 1 in a long time," Vols guard Jordan Bone said. "That's a good feeling, but we can't be so locked in on that. We have to continue to stay hungry. We can't be so focused on that. It's so fleeting. It can change really quick."
Tennessee is the first SEC program outside of Kentucky to ascend to No. 1 in the AP Poll since Florida in 2014.
The changes in the AP Top 25 came quickly after a wild week.
What's real, what's fake, and who should really be No. 1?
Duke started by losing to Syracuse in overtime at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils played without a sick Cam Reddish and lost point guard Tre Jones to a shoulder injury in the first half.
Reddish returned against Virginia on Saturday and Duke responded with a superb game, knocking Virginia from the unbeaten ranks with a 72-70 victory despite playing without Jones.
Michigan lost to Wisconsin by 10, also on Saturday, leaving the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers as the last Division I team to go undefeated.
In all, 13 ranked teams lost last week, including No. 7 Kansas, No. 8 Texas Tech and No. 9 Virginia Tech. The Jayhawks fell two spots after losing to West Virginia. The Red Raiders dropped six spots to No. 14 after losses to Iowa State and Baylor. The Hokies were down one to No. 10 following a loss to Virginia.
Florida State, after stretching its losing streak to three games with defeats to Pittsburgh and Boston College, fell out of the poll from No. 11.
Kentucky saw a steady slide down the Top 25 after opening the season with a blowout loss to Duke. The preseason No. 2, the Wildcats were down to No. 19 just a month ago, but started climbing again. Kentucky is up to No. 8 after beating No. 14 Auburn and Georgia this week, with games against No. 22 Mississippi State and No. 9 Kansas coming up.
Maryland, winners of seven straight, had the biggest climb of the week, up six spots ahead of the Terrapins' game at No. 6 Michigan State on Monday night and a trip to Madison Square Garden on Saturday to face lowly Illinois. Kentucky, No. 17 Houston, No. 18 Villanova and No. 19 Iowa each moved up four spots.
Louisville moved into the Top 25 for the first time this season at No. 23 following wins over Boston College and Georgia Tech.
Iowa State's wins over Texas Tech and Oklahoma State put the Cyclones back in at No. 24 after they dropped out from No. 20 last week, while LSU beat then-No. 19 Mississippi and South Carolina last week to return to the poll at No. 25.
Oklahoma joined Florida State in dropping out of the poll following losses to Kansas State and Texas. The Sooners were No. 20 last week.
Indiana, No. 25 last week, did not receive a single vote after lopsided losses to Nebraska and Purdue.
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Robert Patrick and the ‘Tone-Deaf’ Team on the Scene That Made the Producers Nervous
by Perri Nemiroff March 18, 2019
Richard Bates Jr. is not the filmmaker to turn to if you’re looking for more of the same or for a story that plays by familiar rules, and his latest feature Tone-Deaf is no different. A synopsis probably won’t do this one justice but for what it’s worth, Amanda Crew leads as Olive. After losing a job and a relationship, she opts to ditch the big city for some alone time by renting a country house from Robert Patrick‘s character, Harvey. Little does she know though, Harvey’s got some sinister things on his mind, which include a serious grudge against entitled millennials.
Tone-Deaf is a genre mash-up like you’ve never seen before with some serious authorial flair that made it quite the treat to talk about with Bates Jr., Crew and Patrick when the trio swung by the Collider Studio in Austin. You can hear all about what sparked the idea, what it was like for Crew and Patrick reading the script for the first time, the “bullshit lookbook” Bates Jr. made to get financiers behind such a bold project, the scene that took Patrick to a weird and dark place, and so much more in the video interview at the top of this article. Also, if you’d like, there’s a handy breakdown of the full chat below.
I’d also like to take a moment to give special thanks to our Collider Studio partner, A-List Communications. At the Moonfire Lounge venue in Austin, libations were flowing courtesy of Tequila Comisario, Blue Moon Belgian White, Line39 Wine, and Hint Water. Without these fine folks, we wouldn’t be able to share conversations about movies like Tone-Deaf with all of you, so another big thank you to our partners for their support.
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Bates Jr. on the painting that inspired Tone-Deaf.
There’s some serious style to the final film; was the cast able to picture everything from the script alone?
The “bullshit lookbook” needed to get financing to make a horror movie like this.
Patrick talks about his experience reading the script for the first time, and investigating Bates Jr. and his work.
The good vibes on set; Bates Jr. on why he had so much fun making Tone-Deaf.
The scene that seemed crazy on set but wound up working in the final film.
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Willis joined Pharmaca last year. "This is the eighth company that I've been a president and CEO of," he says, explaining that his specialty is in helping companies make
financial turnarounds.
"For the first 15 years, Pharmaca wasn't making money,
so that's why in January 2016 they asked me to come in
and help with that," he recalls. "We made a decent margin
last year, and hopefully we're on track to continue that upward trend."
In January 2017, the private-equity firms that owned the
majority of Pharmaca did a recapitalization and simplified
the capital structure.
"They put some money in and I put some money in to
help propel the company forward," he continues.
These funds are being invested in the company's growth
through the acquisition of other pharmacies. After it purchases a pharmacy, Pharmaca will change the location's
storefront and bring in its lines of alternative and wellness
products, Willis says.
Pharmaca recently bought and renovated a pharmacy in
Chicago. "We changed over all the pharmacy systems and
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says, adding that the company takes pride in quickly turning
around its locations.
"During these transitions, it's essential that we continue
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April 1st, 2018 - RØDE Microphones is thrilled to announce the return of My RØDE Reel, the world’s largest short filmmaking competition. Now in its 5th year, the global competition is back with even more incredible prizes and opportunities offering a whopping $1 MILLION PRIZE POOL and 30 CATEGORIES to enter.
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This year boasts 30 categories, both budding and professional filmmakers are encouraged to enter.
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(No more) heavy metal in Iran
The latest refugee in Australia's archipelago of detention centres: an Iranian heavy metal drummer, fleeing persecution by the theocratic regime:
The man wrote that he abandoned his beloved drums after authorities began to increasingly target music fans.''In an underground concert more than 60 fans were arrested, charged and locked up. Players were taken to Intelligence. Two teachers of mine were arrested also.''
He panicked. He sold his drums, moved to a new location and changed his phone number, cut ties with everyone but family and sank into depression. ''I deleted every history of my music from my life because of my fear of being arrested by the government who were intent on stopping this music. During this time six musicians that I knew were arrested in their training place. After that no one contacted each other, even on Facebook.''
The Iranian regime's war on popular music is old news: a documentary from 2009, Nobody Knows About Persian Cats, recounts the travails of an underground twee pop band in Tehran. If anything, heavy metal musicians would be singled out for particularly harsh prosecution, possibly even executed for religious crimes, as the unnamed drummer suggests. (Metal bands in neighbouring Iraq haven't fared well either recently; the country's one and only well-known band, Acrassicauda, fled via Turkey and sought asylum in the US.)
(It's interesting that Facebook is (a) not blocked inside Iran, and (b) avoided by those fearing persecution; which suggests that the regime has the means to monitor it, possibly using those forged SSL root certificates it is speculated to have, enabling it to carry out man-in-the-middle attacks on any SSL connections.)
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Waiting and wondering…
by John Lynds • October 6, 2010 • 0 Comments
When Chris Marchi was walking along a stretch of East Boston land he and other community activists have been eying as a potential site to finally connect Eastie’s park system from Piers park to Constitution Beach he spotted a red foam ball.
When he picked it up and turned it over handwritten on the ball were the words “What if?”.
It pretty much summed up the sentiment felt here in Eastie in the decades after Wood Island was stolen from the community to make way for Logan Airport expansion.
Now, in the area where Marchi found the ball people are asking what if we can finally designate a small stretch of land to connect all of the neighborhood’s parks so families and children can travel from one end of Eastie to the other without ever hitting a busy city street.
That’s the dream that has been gaining momentum and could soon become a reality if Marchi, Eastie’s elected officials and residents can sway Massport from allowing public use of a little piece of land on airport property.
Marchi, a member of Eastie’s AirInc. is looking to extend the airport buffer mitigation to include a small pathway big enough for walkers, joggers, and bicyclists to continue from Bremen Street Park to Constitution Beach.
If AirInc. gets its way, Eastie will have one continuous park system that would go from Piers Park on Marginal Street all the way to the Bayswater Street buffer.
“This will allow everyone in the neighborhood to access the park closest to them and continue in one direction to Piers Park or the other to Constitution Beach without being on dangerous city streets,” said Marchi.
Marchi and AirInc. recently conducted a neighborhood-wide survey on Eastie’s park system and asked residents what they would like to see more or less of in their parks and if they supported a plan to connect the beach with the rest of the parks.
“We have 189 out of our target 200 responses in,” said Marchi. “The Jeffries Point, Mount Carmel, Maverick and Eagle Hill survey blocks are closed. Orient Heights and Star of the Sea should be done this week. So that’ll close out the neighborhood based survey and should be able to get out a draft project report with some basic survey results next.”
So far only one resident has opposed the plan and added a comment that he likes the isolation of Constitution Beach, and doesn’t want any more foot traffic and that it should be left the way it is.
However, this does not discourage Marchi and supporters of the plan.
“I’ve learned that this sort of argument against a greenway can come from residents’ legitimate concerns over crime and other perceived negative impacts and fears,” said Marchi. “We’ll work to demonstrate that greenways actually bring about an opposite effect to this. Public spaces become safer the more they’re used. A perfect example of this is the East Boston Greenway itself. 20 years ago that was an abandoned space, loaded with garbage and only used by scofflaws. Today, it’s open, patrolled and full of a vibrant positive community presence. It seems more likely that resident’s fears about certain areas and loss of control and safety in them are more likely to stem from their previous experiences in those places.”
Marchi and AirInc’s most interesting concepts of unifying Eastie’s park system is using the old MWRA right-of-way as a greenway. The right-of-way runs parallel to the Blue Line behind Wood Island and dumps out onto Constitution Beach.
Marchi explained that there is nationwide movement called Rails to Trails that is using old right-of-ways and train track beds and transforming them into public open spaces and greenways like Eastie did years back on its own Greenway using the abandoned Narrow Gauge railroad.
“Open spaces with a history of teens hanging out and getting into trouble like the MWRA right of way along the tracks have been burdens on abutters for years,” said Marchi. “And as the guardians of those places, after decades of conditioning, people are leery of increasing any sort of activity there.”
With the survey report almost complete, Marchi and AirInc. are switching gears and beginning a community outreach campaign.
“So we’ll be going to the civic groups and talking about our aspirations for a better open space future for our families and asking for their support,” said Marchi. “Last week, Gail Miller, Gretchen Scheider and I attended the Eagle Hill Civic Association meeting. We received unanimous support and can expect a strong letter of support from them. We’re on he agenda for the November 8 Jeffries Point meeting and are currently looking to schedule visits to other groups.”
Councilor Sal LaMattina, Senator Anthony Petruccelli, Representative Carlo Basile and Mayor Menino have all pledged their support and the group is also expecting a letter of support from At-Large Councilor Felix Arroyo.
“Building a strong political coalition is one of our most important goals,” said Marchi. “It’s going to take leadership from our elected officials to convince Massport to abandon the trenches they’ve dug over the past 20 years and shift into a more productive gear.”
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Frustrated Elected Officials Call for Another MassDot Meeting Regarding Traffic
by John Lynds • August 16, 2018 • 0 Comments
Since MassDOT took down the Sumner Tunnel toll booths as part the All Electronic Tolling (AET) project and
Traffic is still a mess in East Boston since the toll booths came down. East Boston’s three elected officials are calling on MassDOT to hold a public meeting and address the current traffic situation in and around the toll plaza.
reopening the plaza to vehicular traffic in May 2017, resident have endured a traffic nightmare. The road reconfigurations have led to long queues entering the tunnel and backups that extend out into neighborhood side streets.
It’s no secret in the neighborhood that traffic here has gotten a worse, not better, as a result of MassDOT’s AET program and state traffic engineers have tried in vain to correct for over a year.
Many residents have reported late arrivals to work, being late to drop their children off to school and general frustration over trying to navigate Eastie’s streets during the morning commute.
Again, Eastie’s three elected officials, Rep. Adrian Madaro, Sen. Joseph Boncore and City Councilor Lydia Edwards are calling for a community-wide meeting so MassDOT can update residents on current plans to address the traffic.
The three officials hope that there is a plan to address the traffic woes in Eastie before the start of the school year when there is a significant spike in traffic in the neighborhood.
“We write to you once again expressing our frustration and disappointment with the traffic patterns at the Sumner Tunnel Toll Plaza,” the three officials wrote in a joint letter to MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack. “The current status of this project is unacceptable. It has become a major quality of life issue for residents of East Boston, causing a significant increase in traffic congestion, commute time, and pollution levels. The Department of Transportation must take swift, comprehensive action to remedy the situation.”
In September 2017 hundreds of Eastie residents voiced their disappointment with the whole toll plaza project at a community meeting. From inadequate traffic studies to poorly attended community meetings before the AET went into effect, residents said more could have been done and more community input given before construction began. Some also accused the state agency of trying to shoehorn the AET program, that has worked on the MassPike, into a dense urban area. In places where removing toll booths increased the speed of traffic and decreased gridlock, like the Allston/Brighton, the removal of the Sumner Tunnel tolls has had the complete opposite effect.
Residents at the meeting said MassDOT failed to recognize that Eastie’s toll plaza is unique in that it is situated smack dab in the middle of a residential and commercial neighborhood. Unlike the Mass Pike tolls, the toll plaza here includes pedestrian traffic, neighborhood traffic as well as North Shore traffic coming down Route 1A. The plaza is bordered by homes, businesses and neighborhood side streets. So MassDOT’s goal of increasing traffic flow and volume for Route 1A commuters has had hugely negative effect on the neighborhood as side streets have become completely gridlocked during the morning commute.
In November 2017 MassDOT reported that crews were continuing with roadways reconstruction operations at the entrance to the Sumner Tunnel and expected that the traffic pattern would be adjusted so that vehicles traveling into the Sumner Tunnel would be closer to the median area meaning a straighter approach into the tunnel.
At the time MassDOT officials thought this would solve some of Eastie’s traffic problems. “During the redesign planning phase, MassDOT officials assured the East Boston community that – new traffic patterns would result in a safer, smoother, and more efficient commute,” said Madaro, Boncore and Edwards in the joint letter. “The results, however, have been far worse than ever imagined. Residential streets are congested on a daily basis. Traffic is appearing in areas where it formerly never occurred. Levels of pollution are rising, and the existing gridlock carries serious implications for the maneuverability of emergency vehicles. The current conditions caused by the redesign process are detrimental to the health, safety, and quality of life for East Boston residents.”
While Madaro, Boncore and Edwards said that they recognize the ongoing efforts of MassDOT to address this issue and they are aware that engineers have been closely monitoring the situation and searching for new solutions it has now been over a year since the tolls came down and the neighborhood has yet to see improvement.
“We request that MassDOT officials hold a public meeting in East Boston to provide an update on the current status of the project and to solicit feedback,” said the electeds in the letter. “A public meeting, held at an accessible time and location, will facilitate transparency and accountability by allowing East Boston residents to get a full understanding of current conditions and the expected timeline of the project, and to submit their comments on the conditions they have been experiencing in their everyday lives. MassDOT must acknowledge the deficiencies of the current pattern and utilize the significant resources at its disposal to fix these issue expeditiously.”
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"I Love a Challenge:" From the Rains of Tenby to the Crosswinds of Kona
British 55-59 age-grouper Share Forrester tells the inspirational tale of her 20-plus IRONMAN finishes and her tips for 140.6-mile success.
by Matthew Elmore
Three IRONMAN World Championship qualifications. Two IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship finishes. Five editions of IRONMAN Wales completed. Over 20 IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 finishes. Seven London Marathons ticked off. British age-grouper Share Forrester has crammed more into the last 10 years than most of us manage in a sporting lifetime.
And yet Forrester started her fifties a world away from 226km finishing gantries and the famed tarmac of Ali’i Drive, Kona, suffering a major liver failure soon after turning 50. "I was dangerously ill in hospital but thanks to the support of my husband, Trev, I pulled through to be 100 percent fit," says Share, just days after completing 2017’s epic IRONMAN Wales. "The recovery took a long time so I had to quit work. I bought a collie springer, Jack. Along with Trev, he’s my inspiration and focus in life. I began walking – then running – with Jack, and started getting fit."
Forrester admits her early sporting years didn’t suggest an IRONMAN age-group-topping career was to come later in late, and puts much of her multisport success down to dedication and a winning mindset. She says she was "hopeless" at sports at school but has always had "a burning desire to be on top." "I've always liked riding on the edge," she says, someone who's completed a number of parachute jumps with the Red Devils. "I train, train, train every day without fail."
After joining the local Stafford Triathlon Club, Forrester started biking and swimming, and her triathlon journey began. She won her age group at the first Olympic-distance triathlon she did. This went onto taking on the London Marathon, which she has now completed seven times.
A love of Tenby
After her triathlon and marathon ventures, Forrester's love for long-course racing was firmly established at the inaugural IRONMAN Wales in Tenby in 2011, where she finished in 14:15:30. "I did really well and saw Wales as the start of my IRONMAN journey," she says. "The way the local population has embraced IRONMAN is incredible. You have people lining the route of the whole marathon run course providing the support just when you need it. I was running in the dark one year and you’ve got people who have been sat there all day with campfires going. That really pulls you along." (Forrester is glad Tenby is on board for another five years of IRONMAN.)
Forrester returned to Tenby in 2012 to knock an hour off her time, two years later to top her age-group and, in 2016, she went sub-14 hours to lead the 55-59 category once again. Her second-place finish in 2017 came after a bike crash and some of the most biblical conditions an IRONMAN race has ever been subjected to—with rains and winds battering both the athletes and spectators for much of the event. "It was brutal; you can go through all four seasons in one day in Wales. They say it’s the toughest IRONMAN course in the world for a reason. But I got through it. I love a challenge and prefer a hilly race over a flat one."
After a well-earned rest from Tenby, up next for Forrester is another shot at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, where she hopes she'll see the top of the 55-59 IRONMAN All World Athlete rankings for the 2017 season. "I’m very competitive and I don’t want to just get round: I want to podium every time," Forrester says about her goals. "But you’ll feel like a king or queen racing in Hawaii. The atmosphere on race week is unbelievable, with the pre-race events and the locals bowing down to you. The experience makes you feel fantastic."
Tips on Conquering IRONMAN
1. Do your homework
"Whatever event I’m racing, I do my homework and check the weather and who’s racing in my age-group to get myself ready for it. I call it my six P’s: proper planning prevents piss poor performance."
2. Course recon
"I’d definitely try and recco the course before an IRONMAN, riding the bike course in Tenby especially. The bike is the key element there because you’ve got three incredibly steep hills, and I saw people falling off because they hadn’t picked the right cassettes."
3. Planning is key
"Make sure you use the special needs stations. I wish I’d put a gilet in my special bag in preparation for the weather. If you’re racing Wales, aim to stay in Tenby close to transition instead of staying somewhere way out. I’ve already booked my hotel for 2018 in Tenby."
4. Use your mental reserves
"Mental strength is the fourth discipline of triathlon. Over the years I realized how your body is capable of doing so much more than you’d think. At Tenby in 2017, I was soaked within 40 miles on the bike and started coughing. I thought about all my family and friends who were as drowned as I was, and they’d got up early with me as well. I thought, there’s no way I’m quitting."
5. Fine-tune your nutrition
"I really struggled on the run in Hawaii for the first time and didn’t know why. I changed my nutrition and gels, but I didn’t realize my sweat levels were so high until I had a sweat test by Komfuel and Precision Hydration. Packing salt tablets prevented this issue and stopped me feeling sick on the run. After over more than 20 full and IRONMAN 70.3 races, I’ve fine-tuned my nutrition. As for recovery, taking my dog for a walk acts as recovery for me, but mostly it’s just normal food—meat and two veg—and what your grandmother would cook for you."
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Star Wars Fan Debunks Huff Post's "40 Unforgivable Plot Holes in The Force Awakens"
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The Huffington Post ran an article shortly after The Force Awakens was released, criticizing the film for an "unforgivable" amount of plot holes. This provoked some fans, including Matty Granger, who took to Facebook to debunk all of the so called inconsistencies in the movie. While there were some moments in the film that seemed a stretch of the imagination, Matty made some great points to explain how many of the plot points are actually pretty feasible and make sense. Since Matty shared this piece on January 6, his Facebook post has received over 25,000 shares.
You can read Matty Granger's debunking of Huff Post's “40 Unforgivable Plot Holes” below:
Over the last few weeks I saw this article reposted over and over both by folks in the film industry and outside of it. The reposts often carried captions from Facebook users like “Yep!” or “This is exactly my problem”. Oh shit. Did I miss something? Maybe the Huffington Post and half of Facebook saw something I didn’t. I needed to know more. So I read the article. I read it numerous times. In the end, I came to my own conclusion…
So what are these “40 Unforgivable Plot Holes” and why is the Huffington Post ass-backward in their review? I blame it partly on the click-bait era. I also think that being a contrarian dick makes people feel intelligent. But those aren’t the reasons the review is horseshit. It’s horseshit because it really seems like the reviewer didn’t watch the movie at all.
Let’s take a look at these 40 “holes” and see just how hard I can plug them.
1. To blow up the 120-km "Death Star" in Star Wars, the rebels needed detailed plans for the base and a full-scale invasion force -- as well as the supernatural targeting skills of the most powerful Force-user in the galaxy.
Yes they did. And in the Force Awakens, the hastily thrown together plan formulated by the Resistance to possibly, maybe cripple the Starkiller Base…FUCKING FAILS. Poe Dameron and his squadron have pulled out and are actually leaving the planet when they see that the target they couldn’t even dent has been damaged from the inside. They then turn around and manage one last, desperate run. I don’t want to hit this too hard on the nose, but you would’ve noticed this had you actually watched the movie.
2. The wily Han Solo loses track of his most prized possession, the Millennium Falcon, for more than a dozen years. And yet, less than a minute after Rey begins piloting the Millennium Falcon, Han looks out the window of his freighter and says, "Oh, there it is."
Try finding your car after it’s been stolen. Try finding your kid’s bike once some asshole has swiped it. Try finding your virginity even if you know exactly where you lost it. This is an entire galaxy we’re talking about here, not the backseat of a ‘93 Ford Taurus.
Admittedly, I thought it was somewhat convenient that Han happened upon the ship, but he explains later that it wasn’t luck that he found the Falcon. It was found by his freighter’s scanners which conceivably could’ve been set to keep watch for it.
Also, I don’t want to speculate, but there’s a ton about Rey’s past and the denizens of Jakku in general that’s still going to be revealed in future films. Han may have even left the damn thing in the hands of Unkar Plutt in case he needed to use it to protect Rey. We just don’t know yet.
3. Kylo Ren, a powerful Force-user, fights a light saber duel with an ex-janitor who has never held a light saber.
Actually, the “ex-janitor”, Finn got his ass handed to him. He lasted about thirty seconds against Kylo Ren. Not only that, but he ended up sliced open and left for dead. What the fuck are you talking about?
But let’s entertain this dumb-ass statement a little more. First off, Finn was a Stormtrooper assigned to sanitation, much like other Stormtroopers would’ve been assigned to various departments around the base. Nowhere in this movie is it said that Finn was a janitor. Not once. And how does he hold his own in combat against Kylo Ren for as long as he does? I’d hazard a guess that Finn was trained in the same fashion as the badass, laser-baton wielding Stormtrooper he fights at Maz Kanata’s castle. Setting up the Stormtrooper skill-set is the whole point of showing that fight. Which incidentally, is actually the first time he holds a lightsaber, not when he fights Kylo. Learn why scenes are in movies, dude. It’ll help you not make embarrassing statements like this.
4. Rey becomes nearly as effective a Force-user in a few hours as Luke Skywalker did in a few years.
Yeah. Makes you wonder why doesn’t it? Kinda feels like we’re being set up for something in the future. I wonder if we’ll ever find out about her mysterious past and her mystical connection to the Force and Luke Skywalker? If you don’t understand that this is set-up for future films, then you should have your Netflix password taken away from you.
5. Just minutes before Starkiller Base explodes, Supreme Leader Snoke tells Hux to go get Kylo Ren and take him off the planet. Unfortunately, Ren had recently (unbeknownst to Hux) run into the woods like a lunatic, leaving no information about his whereabouts. It's no problem, though, because Hux apparently has special Kylo Ren GPS.
Or the powerful Force user Snoke closes his eyes for two seconds and tells Hux exactly where Kylo is. Unless of course that power is reserved for first-time Force users like Leia when trying to find her brother who’s hanging from a twig on the under-side of Cloud City. Don’t make me use the Original Trilogy against you, dude. That shit’s just wrong.
6. The reason Ren was slowly bleeding to death -- instead of being dead by Rey's hand -- is that a massive a chasm had just miraculously opened up in the several feet between the two of them. Such bad timing for Rey! (Damn you, deus-ex-geology!)
I’d call it more of a “Deus-ex-unstable-planet-collapsing- after-the-stored-power-of-a-sun-started-tearing-it-apart-from-the-inside-as-laid-out-by-the-plot”, but that’s just me. And as far as the awesome symbolism of a chasm forming between two people goes, I’d probably call it ‘a little on the nose’ before I called it a plot hole, especially considering that it was one of many chasms that opened during their fight that they managed to evade.
7. Rey, who has never left her home planet since she was a child, can speak Wookie.
She also speaks droid. How did she acquire these language skills? Might it have been part of her mysterious past as well? Dude. Come on. You’re making this too easy.
8. It's okay that Poe survived a Tie Fighter crash; after all, so did Finn.
Finn was miles away, strapped into an ejector seat with a spent parachute strewn out behind him. Poe stated he woke up that night and didn’t know where he was (probably strapped to ANOTHER EJECTOR SEAT). Here’s a hint when it comes to watching movies. Use the parts you know to fill in the parts you don’t know. That’s not a writing lesson. That’s a watching lesson.
9. What is all this nonsense about the First Order only wanting to destroy the Republic because the Republic is supporting the Resistance?
Only because of the Resistance? Hux SCREAMS a Hitler-like proclamation to his men that the galaxy’s systems will fall in line with the First Order after the corrupt Republic and it’s massive fleet are destroyed. Watch the movie, dude.
10. For that matter, why is it made to seem like the entire Republic is centered in just one star system?
Let me simplify this so you can understand a little better. There’s this place in The United States called Washington DC…
11. Kylo Ren is the head of the Knights of Ren, but there are no other Knights of Ren in the movie.
Except for the six guys you see in Rey’s vision. Idiot.
12. Captain Phasma is supposed to be a big-deal character in The Force Awakens.
Why? Because she looked awesome? Because she was in the trailer? If you can’t see that this badass bitch is going to be pursuing the shit out of FN-2187 for the next two movies, then you are in dire need of a lesson on ‘set-up’.
Also, I REALLY hate to do this, but I have to. Remember the ‘big deal’ that was Boba Fett? He was the most boring character in the entire Original Trilogy. Not only did he let Darth Vader do all his work for him, he was also little more than a glorified Fed-Ex guy delivering shit to Jabba the Hutt. He’s also the badass that was accidentally killed by a BLIND GUY standing two feet away and yelling his name. Big deal? Not a chance in hell. But none of that negates the fact that we all think he looks cool as fuck on a lunchbox. Next.
13. Really? Was there no previous order Finn had ever refused to execute?
The Jakku raid was his first mission. It’s in his dialogue. “In my first battle I made a choice. I wasn’t going to kill for them”. Prior to that he was standing around the sanitation department wondering when he was going to get his next pee break. What order was he going to refuse on moral grounds in the sanitation department? It’s getting tiresome to keep saying it, but watch the movie.
14. Finn is an ex-janitor who goes AWOL from a Stormtrooper force numbering in the tens of thousands. Yet he is absolutely convinced, despite being someone of no importance whatsoever to the First Order, that he will be chased across the galaxy for having defected.
And breaking a high-value prisoner out of the brig. And stealing a Tie Fighter. And blowing up a few dozen guys. And shooting up the landing bay of a Star Destroyer. Not to mention helping return the droid the First Order is scouring the galaxy for to the Resistance. All things considered, I think he has a pretty good reason to believe what he does. Also, he’s not a janitor. Just thought I’d remind you. Again.
15. Let's be clear: Han's son joins the First Order, and Luke's attempts to train new Jedis goes horribly wrong, and both men respond to these setbacks by, well, abandoning the Resistance to be utterly slaughtered by the First Order.
Aside from this article, have you ever failed horribly? I don’t mean something trivial. I mean something like…I don’t know…being responsible for turning your nephew into a mass murderer. How about being the shitty father that completely failed his mass murderering son? I imagine those type of things could leave a psychological scar or two. To make it worse, that’s just what we currently know. We have no idea of the full scope of what happened to these men yet.
16. By the end of the movie, the impression is left that every single First Order soldier is dead besides Supreme Leader Snoke, General Hux, and Kylo Ren.
It is? Where is Snoke broadcasting his Hologram from? Could there not be more First Order there? Legions of them even? I mean, A New Hope left no impression that there was anyone left after the Death Star took it in the chute but there was most certainly a hell of a lot more of them out there.
For argument’s sake, let’s say the First Order HAS been obliterated along with the Republic. How badass is it that the coming films could be centred on these small groups of individuals as other forces of both good and evil, rise up in the Galaxy? Get your head out of your ass and realize how much this could open up from a storytelling point of view.
17. Why does General Hux need to gather all of his troops just to tell them he's about to press a button and destroy the entire Republic?
Aside from the fact that the answer to this is actually in the question itself, did you not listen to Hux’ speech? The dude announces to his zealot legion that the weapon THEY BUILT TOGETHER is about to fire for the FIRST TIME and wipe out the ENTIRE REPUBLIC. He basically blows everyone there for taking part in this glorious moment. He’s rallying his men around a common cause.
Again, let me simplify this.
You know when you go to your shitty office party and the boss you’ve never spoken to stands up and toasts all the attendees for the great year, then talks about how next year is going to be even better because of all your hard work and then concludes his speech with a shitty slide-show of the company’s accomplishments? It’s that, but with a giant planet-smashing super laser.
18. How pissy is it of Luke to (a) abandon the Resistance, and then (b) leave an obnoxiously coy trail of bread-crumbs to sort of (but not really) help people find him (at some unspecified time)?
We don’t know why Luke abandoned the Resistance. Perhaps his presence would be a danger to them. Remember when he said he was ‘endangering the mission’ to Endor? Same thing. Or maybe he’s a shattered man. Maybe he’s wounded. Maybe he is using the force to allow himself to be found by the right person at the right time. Maybe there’s a whole pile of shit we don’t know yet. There isn’t even a trail of breadcrumbs. There’s a missing piece of map that has clearly been hidden away deliberately. This isn’t a plot hole. If anything it leaves some very compelling questions.
19. Why wasn't the Resistance able to access R2D2's data archives at any point over the course of the many years Luke was gone?
I’m not an expert in droid memory systems, but when the most powerful Jedi in the Galaxy tells his fiercely loyal droid to code and hide something, I’m pretty sure it gets coded, broken up and hidden in places that programmers can’t find. Then again, maybe the Huffington Post dude knows something about droid memory systems that I don’t.
20. When the Resistance finally figures out where Luke is, after looking for him for many years, why do they send only Chewbacca and a random girl who Leia just met to collect him?
Let’s just get this straight for a second. It’s not said aloud in the movie, but it’s pretty obvious that Han, Leia and very probably Luke know exactly who Rey is. There’s a connection there. A mysterious one. One that we are now DYING to uncover. Sometimes when you write a movie, there are things that happen between scenes that never see the page. Was there a message from Luke in R2? Possibly. Had Leia been left with instructions for what to do if Rey ever showed up? Possibly. Again, this is all for the sequels and the eventual reveal of who Rey is.
21. Kylo Ren has such a Force-enabled sense of where his father is in the Galaxy that when his father lands on Starkiller Base, Ren immediately exclaims to himself, "Solo!" Yet a few minutes later, when Ren is just twenty feet from Solo, he can't detect him -- and actually starts searching for him in the wrong direction.
Hold on a second. If you were watching the movie, you’d have seen that Kylo Ren marches into that giant room with eight Stormtroopers, looks around with the force and says, “Find them”. He knows good and goddamn well that Solo is in there and like a good villain, he leads Han onto that bridge to trap him out in the open, alone and defenseless. If you can’t see that, I don’t know what to tell you.
22. How lame is Han's attempt to convert his son?
What? By talking like a dad? By offering him anything he needed, including his life, in one of the most awesome, double-edged scenes of the entire series? Yeah. Pretty lame.
23. Why do Rey and Finn just stand by watching as Ren murders Han?
You mean like the way Luke watched Ben Kenobi get sliced in half from just a few feet away, let alone several hundred? No idea.
24. Rey says that the Millennium Falcon is "garbage" and hasn't been flown in many, many years. Indeed, it's such junk, in her view, that she won't even board it when she's about to be ripped to pieces by twenty Tie Fighters. Then she gets on board and it basically flies perfectly.
First off, it was two TIE Fighters not twenty. But let’s look at this a little more closely. There’s clearly evidence that Han knows who Rey is. There’s also evidence that he knows who Unkar Plutt is. We also know that Rey is left on Jakku in the care of…Unkar Plutt. We also know that Luke knows who she is. From all this we could surmise that at some point in the past there was conspiracy to hide Rey on Jakku that possibly included Han, Leia, Luke and Unkar Plutt. There is a lot more to that ship being there than we know.
If you really want to say that Falcon starts on the first turn of the key and flies perfectly, you must not have been watching when thing crashed and smashed its way into the air, stalled out, had its belly gun lock up, malfunctioned to a point where it was in danger of spewing poison gas or the fact that Rey had to yank parts out of it with alarms blaring all over the place just to keep the hyperdrive from overloading. Yeah. Ran like a champ.
25. Why does Plutt offer Rey 250 times her usual pay for BB-8 and then, when she says "no," simply tell some of his heavies to just steal it?
We don’t know Unkar Plutt’s connection yet. I assure you there is one. A big one. He has likely been given the task to keep her on the planet at all costs, yet make sure she’s able to survive. When he sees her with the droid, he sees the threat and must act. His first move is to give her more food than she has ever had. When that fails, he resorts to sending in the goons. We are not done with Unkar Plutt.
26. Maz Kanata is a friend to the Resistance. So why is she hiding Luke's light saber from them?
We don’t know why she has it. She too may have been instructed to hold onto it. As she puts it, it’s a ‘good question for another time’. Don’t lose your marbles over it quite yet.
27. How did Kylo Ren manage to get Darth Vader's mask into his little fetish den?
It doesn’t matter. I can think of a million ways it fell into his possession, as I’m sure anyone could. The answer will probably end up being in a comic book about some Stormtrooper on Endor. Quit being so picky. Make something up in your head if it’s bothering you that much because it really doesn’t matter.
28. How does Finn find Rey's settlement?
He happened upon it. He didn’t know where he was or where he was going. Watch some westerns. People have been happening upon plot points in the desert since “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”.
29. Who trained Rey to fight with a staff as effectively as she does, given that (a) she is an orphan with no friends or family, and (b) she has never been in a battle, but is, rather, merely a scrap-metal scavenger?
Dude. Wander down to the poorest part of whatever town you’re in and pick a fight with a mangy little mutt of a guy. The smaller the better. Once you’re out of the hospital, you’ll realize that people who are forced to survive in the harshest environments don’t train to fight. They learn the hard way and they get really, really good at it.
30. If Finn is such a good guy that he would try to save Rey the moment he saw she was in distress?
Actually, he ran right over to her, but by the time he got there, she had handed the thugs their asses. What movie were you watching? Nice phrasing on the question, by the way.
31. Given that all Poe knows about Finn is that he's a First Order defector, why does he seem happy to see Finn just seconds after (and perhaps as) BB-8 tells him Finn is alive?
I don’t know. Maybe Finn saved his life and completed his mission for him? I’d be sorta stoked to see the guy too.
32. Kylo Ren takes his mask off pretty readily, and in pretty mixed company, for someone determined to wear super uncomfortable headgear perpetually.
He takes it off twice. Once to show Rey he doesn’t need the mask to scare her and once to show his face to his father as he fights against the call to the light. This is the dumbest-fuck comment of all these dumb-fuck comments.
33. Why does Kylo Ren assign just a single Stormtrooper to guard Rey, the most valuable prisoner in the history of the First Order?
I can’t imagine that an eighteen-year-old girl bolted to a chair would need much more than one badass Stormtrooper who, under his armour is built like Daniel Craig, to keep a bead on her. Why is this a plot hole?
34. How do the Rathtars on Han's freighter get loose?
Rey in an attempt to throw some fuses to close the doors between Han and the two gangs, hits the wrong fuse and instead opens the Rathar cages. She even has dialogue about it. WATCH THE FUCKING MOVIE!
35. Why do the Rathtars immediately kill every human they encounter -- except Finn, who is randomly dragged off just long enough to be rescued?
A Rathar dragged off another guy just before Finn was dragged away. I guess you were too busy not watching the movie to notice.
36. Why are all Stormtroopers human?
I only saw FN-2187 out of uniform so I can’t assume that all of them are. I don’t know what version you saw where they all take their helmets off, but I must’ve missed it. If you really want to get into old school Star Wars lore, the Emperor was actually a cosmic racist and only wanted humans in his ranks.
37. If basically everyone in the Galaxy knows the Force is not a myth -- for instance, every single Stormtrooper in the First Order, who has seen Kylo Ren use it or heard tell of him using it; every single person in the Resistance, who knows the Resistance is looking for Luke Skywalker; every single person in the Republic, which was first established in part by the heroism of the Jedis -- how is the existence of the Force a total shock to Rey?
What the fuck are you talking about? The second she hears the name Luke Skywalker she lights up like a Christmas tree. All Han does is confirm that the stories that have trickled down to this completely uneducated girl, who lives alone on a planet inhabited by thirty people, are absolutely true.
38. Is Supreme Leader Snoke actually a giant?
Seriously? Is this really a question? Is this what you asked the first time you saw the thirty foot tall Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back? Let me fill you in on something. There was this little movie called The Wizard of Oz. The great and powerful, thirty-foot-tall Wizard was actually a little tiny man behind a curtain. Do you think that these bad guys might all be drawing from the same archetype? Don’t be so stupid.
39. Why would the First Order spend untold quadrillions of [insert unit of money here] to build the Starkiller Base, when a similar concept and design plan had twice before been destroyed with minimal difficulty by the rebels?
Because they’re arrogant little shits trying to do better than their predecessors. They probably sat around going “You know, that Death Star was a great idea, but man it had some flaws. You know what we should do? Put that giant, fucking gun in a planet that you can’ t blow up with a couple torpedoes.” Expanding upon the ideas of the past. Remember the cold war? When the bombs just kept getting bigger and bigger and we had enough nukes to obliterate the planet a hundred times over? It’s the same thing.
40. Is there any other film franchise in the history of cinema that would be permitted, by its fans and by critics, to recycle so many plot points?
There are most certainly many, many structural familiarities between this film and the films of the original trilogy. I’m not going to argue with that. Quite the contrary actually. This mirroring of Episode IV has been done on purpose. I’d like to offer you an education through one of the most brilliant essays ever written on the structure of Star Wars and the circular imagery inherent in the first six films. The Star Wars Ring Theory.
http://www.starwarsringtheory.com/
Last year I spoke to the author of the essay, a helluva gent named Mike Klimo. We discussed ring composition and I asked that if his theory is correct, how should it affect the storyline of Episode 7. His answer, without hesitation, was that Episode 7 would be a direct reflection of Episode 4. And he was absolutely correct. Sadly, it appears that this brilliant, classical writing technique has been dismissed by The Huffington Post’s online reviewer as little more than an old, recycled plot.
As some of you may be able to see, the ‘plot holes’ outlined in the Huffington Post‘s article are not plot holes at all. They’re simply things to which the reviewer willingly turned a blind eye due to the fact that he went in with a prepossessed notion of what he was going to write. His notion was so strong in fact, that he was able to completely overlook clear and obvious parts of the movie in order to back up the ‘facts’ of his dumb-shit, preconceived article.
That’s not journalism. It’s internet horseshit.
We are very close to reaching the end of social media’s usefulness. Anyone with a keyboard can write anything they want with little to no training or skill. More often than not, the articles don’t even need to be true or have any sort of back up research and sadly all it takes is a bold, contrarian statement to convince people who aren’t interested in doing research for themselves that something wildly incorrect is truth. This extends from simple movie reviews to horrifying humanitarian crises. Actual news has become a rare commodity and we are little more than targets for advertising and electoral votes. We are being fed stupid disinformation and tricked into thinking we have knowledge that we don’t actually have.
We have willingly grown stupid.
In the end, I had to look up who the twenty-something, hate-filled, millennial troll who wrote the Huffington Post article actually was. I imagined some smug, little bearded shit with horn-rimmed glasses and that typical douchebag air of millennial entitlement. At least then I could chalk it up to youth. However, what I found made this all the more disturbing. He isn’t a millennial at all.
The forty year old writer, Seth Abramson, is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and a graduate of Harvard Law School. What a shame. I guess when you’re hired to write click-bait articles for horseshit news-sites, your education comes after your pay-check and you do what you’re paid to do.
Nice work Seth.
Wake me up when the war against fun is over.
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Pop culture recommendations for those of us who may have big dreams, but who lack the ability to climb up the face of a glass-fronted skyscraper in order to pursue them.
August 12th 2016 by Daniel Harmon
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FLOOD’s weekly Pop Culture Cure offers an antidote—or six—to the most upsetting developments of the past week. (Because therapy’s expensive, and entertainment’s not.)
Stephen Rogata made a lot of news this past week by traveling from his home in Great Falls, Virginia, to the Island of Manhattan in order to climb the face of Trump Tower and meet face-to-face with his candidate of choice, Donald Trump. That was the plan anyway, but Rogata—who recently changed his name from Michael Ryan—was apprehended by the NYPD at around the twenty-first floor. He’s safe now, thankfully, and although the ambition of his attempt is to be lauded, we thought we’d take a look at some equally outsized attempts that resulted in more positive outcomes.
The Problem: You’ve been dumped.
The Solution: You punk your ex with a Phil Collins wake-up song.
Let’s just get this out of the way immediately: if you ever think that the solution to your problem is the right outfit, the right song, and a boom box held mightily aloft, then you are probably thinking about this thing all wrong. And yet, friends. And yet….
The Problem: You’re facing real jail time for a marijuana conviction.
The Solution: Fake your own death, move to Mexico.
Faking one’s own death is a pretty serious endeavor, but I guess if you’re a merry prankster, maybe this is just another one of the merry pranks you pull? Ken Kesey seemed to think so anyway. And for a short while, it worked. Would that death were always so transitory, man.
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The Problem: You gotta survive in Leningrad under siege.
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a place where normal circumstances much apply. Lev (an awkward Jewish teenager) and Kolya (a smooth-talking, good-looking soldier) have both found themselves in jail, and their only hope of escape is to find the eggs that a Soviet colonel needs for his daughter’s wedding cake. Death is around every corner, but Benioff never overdoes the terror or the melodrama. The book is just as funny and just as sad as it needs to be. Like a great wedding cake, everything is in proportion—except, of course, the enjoyment it provides. It is a real human drama written by a real human author. But if there are flaws, it’s hard to spot them.
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The Problem: You’re an artist but you gotta make a living.
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Lisa Hanawalt, like Allen Iverson, is The Answer. That much is known (via her comics, and via her BoJack). The only trouble is, you have to know what the question is first, lest you wind up with a buncha breasty snakes when you’re tryna to seal the deal on a mortgage. But if you’re Tegan and Sara, and you know that the question is, like, more about a certain kinda vibe(?), then you’re all set, because a certain kinda vibe is Lisa Hanawalt’s stock in trade. Lisa’s own personal vibe is, as she has said many times—and I paraphrase here—horsey as fuck. But when I say horsey, I also mean genius. In summary, she has made an entire funky career out of drawing funky horses, and that career is necessary and good. And I can’t think of a better outcome for a weirder proposition.
The Problem: You’re in an arms race with your geopolitical super-rival, the USSR.
The Solution: Send human beings to the moon.
So yeah, TV’s pretty weird. It used to be the case that if humanity couldn’t see something with its own eyes, it pretty much didn’t exist. Then, around the nineteenth century, humanity started taking pictures and stopping time in its tracks. And then, in the twentieth century, the pictures started moving and talking, and Lucy loved Ricky, and Ricky loved Lucy, and you could watch sports at home, and then man was on the moon, and then we were there with him, and then… WHAT?! That is where we went too far.
But no, it’s true: When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and the Apollo 11 crew landed on the moon, we were there with them. We were on the moon. We also, of course, remained on Planet Earth. That is a strange thing. For All Mankind tries to make a kind of sense of that strange thing, showing how these people got there, what they thought there, and what we saw when they stepped off a spaceship (a ship that flies through space!) there. On the moon. Where that weird man lives. (PS: How did he feel when humans stepped on his moon-face? Will we ever know?)
The Problem: You banged your prospective mother-in-law.
The Solution: More bangin’?
So first things first: screaming and hammering on things during your beloved’s wedding is generally not gonna do the trick, BUT: this clip, though perhaps not a guide to life in the twenty-first century, still has it all. Here is what it’s got: a hilariously rattled gas-station attendant; a Simon and Garfunkel jam running out of steam along with Dustin Hoffman’s fuel tank; Dustin Hoffman performing the first-ever Tom Cruise sprint, Dustin Hoffman perfecting the rom-com Hail Mary before it was even a trope, and the greatest man vs. church scene of all time. (Not pictured here: Dustin Hoffman bangin’. Go watch the whole movie if you need the whole catharsis, sheesh.) FL
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