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Justin Bieber In Trouble!! Did He Get Arrested??
Justin Bieber a Canadian singer, who have had faced a number of controversies including a legal trouble will now have to reappear in the court in reference to a fistfight after an NBA final match in 2016. The man with whom Justin fought has pulled a case against him two years after the incident. Read more to know the twist in this case......
By Akash Last updated Jun 8, 2018
Is it the first time he is facing a legal trouble?
Back in 2016, when Justin Bieber faced a similar legal trouble in reference to an altercation of him with a Photographer who later on filed a case against him and his Body Guards. One of his body guards was involved in beating the Photographer. It was also reported that Photographer took a photo of the singer without any permission.
Another legal trouble for Bieber!
According to reports, Justin Bieber might have to send a lawyer in his defense to a court-of-law. Canadian singer had got into a fight with a Man outside of the NBA finals back in 2016. The man happens to be ‘Tobias Canon’, with whom the Singer fought. He has filed a lawsuit and has also accused the singer of causing injuries resulting from the Brawl. He has filed a lawsuit against the actor after almost two years after the incident.
Justin didn’t really stand a chance against Tobias!
As per the reports, Justin wasn’t really much bigger than the man he beat! So it’s still not clear whether the singer beat the man. It was also observed from the obtained footage of the fight that the man who has accused Justin of beating him was actually seen throwing punches at Justin. Will the court proceedings fall in favor of Justin?
Is the man looking to defame Justin?
According to an insider present at the time of the incident took place, said that “It’s clear that he’s just looking to cash in on Justin’s fame. He doesn’t realize that Justin has a team of lawyers who are constantly dealing with this sort of thing.”
Fistfight led Tobias to go to the Hospital!
Justin and Tobias and got into a fistfight after the verbal abusing they threw on each other. It was also observed from the footage that entire crew of the singer got involved in the fight and which made the situation even more worse. The man was rushed to a nearby hospital due to the injuries he suffered from the fight.
Did Bieber remove plaintiff’s sunglasses without permission?
It was reported that Justin had removed plaintiff’s sunglasses without any permssion after which Cannon started taking pictures of the singer which annoyed him and later on started throwing punches. As the case is getting too much of twist with both sides proving each other guilty, further court proceedings will take little longer than expected.
Is Cannon demanding Jury to award him damages?
It was reported that Cannon who claimed to have suffered multiple injuries due to the punches were thrown by Bieber is now asking for a jury to award him damages in an unspecified amount. Not sure where the case will take its course but, it’s clear Justin might have to face a tough time in order to prove himself innocent.
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Barrow said: “Supporting the growth of the transport sector is a key focus area of ADB’s private sector strategy in India. We are pleased to provide long-term financing to GRIL, which will enable it to expand its execution capacity and allow it to bid for larger and more complex projects.”
Established in 1995, GRIL is a major engineering and construction company based in India. It currently has orders worth $2.78bn, which the company plans to execute in the next three years.
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Continue efforts to hold credible election, President asks EC
Dhaka, Nov 1 (UNB) - President Abdul Hamid on Thursday asked the Election Commission and others concerned to continue their relentless efforts to hold the 11th parliamentary elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner.
The President came up with the directives when a six-member EC delegation, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda, met him at Bangabhaban.
“At the meeting, the EC apprised the President of its overall preparations for the next general election. It also informed the President about the demarcation of 300 constituencies and preparation of voter list with and without photographs," President's Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told UNB after the meeting.
Abdul Hamid advised the EC and others concerned to avoid all sorts of controversies in election activities, he said.
The President directed the EC to play a more active role in preventing the abuse of technologies during the election time, saying it hampers any good work.
Election commissioners Mahbub Talukdar, Md Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam and Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury, EC Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed and secretaries concerned to the President were present at the meeting.
After the meeting, the CEC said a meeting on fixing the schedule for the upcoming national election will be held on Sunday (Nov 4).
“There has been no decision yet. President Abdul Hamid has been apprised of the election preparations. The EC will sit in a meeting on November 4 for taking the decision over the election schedule,” he told reporters emerging from Bangabhaban.
According to the Constitution, the EC is bound to hold the general election within 90 days before the expiry of this Jatiya Sangsad.
The EC is planning to hold the election in the middle of December after announcing the schedule at the beginning of November.
President returns home
Geneva, Oct 27 (UNB) - President Abdul Hamid returned home from Switzerland on Saturday after attending two international conferences on investment and security.
A regular flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the President took off from Cointrin Airport at 3:15 pm (local time) and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport here at 8:15am.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Dean of the diplomatic Corps, Swiss Ambassador Ren Holenstein, chiefs of the three services, Foreign Secretary, Cabinet Division secretary, Secretary to PM, Inspector General of Police (IGP) and high civil and military officials received the president.
Abdul Hamid went to Switzerland on October 22.
During the visit, the President joined the 20th edition of ‘Global Leaders Investment Summit’ and 20th annual session of ‘Home Land and Global Security Forum’.
President leaves Geneva for home
Geneva, Oct 26 (UNB) - President Abdul Hamid left here on Friday afternoon wrapping up his five-day visit to Switzerland to attend two international conferences on investment and security.
A regular flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the President took off from Cointrin Airport at 3:15pm local time.
The flight is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:40 am on Saturday.
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN and other international organisations Shameem Ahsan and representatives of the Swiss government saw Abdul Hamid off at the airport.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the UAE and Consul General in Dubai will receive the President at Dubai International Airport during the transit.
Over 5,000 participants from 160 countries met in Geneva to thrash out major new investment-for-development initiative in the World Investment Forum 2018 from October 22 to 26.
Organised under the overall theme – ‘Investing in Sustainable Development’ – the Forum addressed global challenges for international investment in the new era of globalisation and industrialisation.
This year’s event comprised of some 60 events, including three summits, five ministerial round tables, private-sector led sessions and several award ceremonies.
Abdul Hamid also joined the official opening session of 20th annual session of the Homeland and Global Security Forum organised by Crans Montana Forum which took place in Grand Hotel Kempniski, Geneva (Switzerland) on October 25.
This Forum addressed major security challenges in a world facing rejections and hardenings.
It brought together heads of states and governments, ministers, international organisations, parliaments, justice and police administrations and businesses from around the world.
The President also enjoyed the cruise of Thunlake in Switzerland on October 24.
Outgoing Iranian envoy meets President
Dhaka, Oct 7 (UNB) - Outgoing Iranian Ambassador Dr Abbas Vaezi Dehnavi called on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Sunday.
During the meeting the President spoke of excellent bilateral relationship between Bangladesh and Iran, said the President's press secretary Joynal Abedin in a post-meet media briefing.
Referring to cordial support of Iranian government on Rohingya issue, President Hamid expressed his gratitude to the people and government of Iran.
Abdul Hamid said Bangladesh and Iran extended mutual support and cooperation to each other in different regional and international forums.
The outgoing Iranian envoy lauded the overall development and progress, especially, in ensuring the women empowerment in Bangladesh.
The envoy also praised the time-befitting role of Bangladesh in giving shelter to the forcibly displaced Rohingya people.
He also thanked the President for his cooperation during his time here.
President urges people to accept good aspects of satellite culture
Dhaka, Oct 3 (UNB) - President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday urged the people of the country to accept the good aspects of satellite culture excluding the evil sides.
The President was speaking as chief guest in the inaugural ceremony of International Folk Festival 2018 at Muktarpara field of Netrokona organised by Greater Mymensingh Cultural Forum.
President Abdul Hamid said “Do not get influenced by the cheap trend of satellite culture. Rather, you will have to accept the good aspects of it and you will have to exclude the evil sides.”
“Information-technology has affected everyone's life in the village and city. The whole world has become a village because of the free flow of information. As a result, the sky culture is now reality. The influence of the culture of different countries and nations is spreading very fast. The cultural pattern is also changing at the same pace,” the President said.
The President stressed on the need for establishing an international institution for preserving folk culture. He said “The precious components of folk culture which is now scattered should be preserved in an organised way. An international standard folk culture institution should be established for the preservation of folk culture.”
He added "I am happy hear that the Cultural Forum has already taken a timely step to establish this type of institution with the collaboration of cultural ministry.”
The President said “This international folk festival will intensify the relationship among the local and foreign researchers and artists and play a vital role in developing this region’s history, heritage and lifestyle. This festival will be considered as a milestone in the national history.”
Calling upon the countrymen to spread own culture abroad, he said “There are various components of our culture across the country. You should collect these and will have to spread those abroad. I hope that many people including poets, writers, dramatists, producers, collectors, researchers, and institutions will come forward in this regard.”
Visva-Bharati University Professor Sabuj Koli Sen, and Dinesh Chandra Sen's great grand-daughter Debkanya Sen were also present in the programme.
Renowned folk researcher Jatin Sarker presented the keynote speech in the programme chaired by Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar.
Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports Arif Khan Joy, Chief Coordinator for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Affairs in the Prime Minister's Office Abul Kalam Azad were present.
Earlier, the President laid the foundation of Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Centre in the district.
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Typically, entrepreneurs focus on branding, business plans and financing. However, neglecting to consider your core business values from the start could have serious implications further down the road. My favourite example of this is via leadership expert and author Simon Sinek. The same goes for attracting outstanding and loyal employees. Why does your business exist and why should anyone care? Sinek illustrates this point with Apple. Want to download one?
Want to download one? The way we challenge the status quo is by making our computers simple to use and user friendly.
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We just happen to make great computers. As a result they are known for their cutting edge ethos and uber coolness which draws downloaders to them. As great as their products are, ultimately it is their core values that drive brand loyalty. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe. They govern all our behaviour, decision making and have no capacity for language.
When we communicate from the inside out, however, we are talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behaviour.
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Meet the People You Help. Again, get beyond the computer screen and take the time to see the actual, tangible results of our time and effort.
In turn, this will motivate us to push harder, do more, be better. Rule 4. And the result is always going to be better work and better innovation.
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There is no strict formula and everyone is different. But he emphasises, that it will take time and patience to build trust. It happens when leaders prioritise the results; the margin, profit, product over the people who are responsible for creating the results; the employees, managers, staff.
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When the culture is one of trust, the company will reap the benefit of innovation and hard workers. So Goes the Leader, so Goes the Culture — in this rule, Simon emphasises the importance of the leader taking responsibility for their employees, whether it be success or failures. If the captain provides direction and protection, the crew will do what needs to be done to advance the mission.
Friends Matter too — Simone emphasises the importance of bonding with your colleagues outside of the working environment. Leaving the workplace behind gives you the opportunity to really get to know each other, see your colleagues as people and friends rather than co-workers or even worse, competitors. Lead the People, Not the Numbers — perhaps the one that Simon talks about the most throughout this book.
Businesses need to look beyond profit, although it is the goal of every company, it cannot be the primary priority. Simon defines the difference between leaders and managers as follows; Leaders take responsibility for lives, not numbers.
Managers look after numbers and results. Simon believes that all managers have the opportunity to be leaders, but they need to take a step back and look at themselves as the problem and start focusing on protecting their people, not the numbers. Simon insightfully compares incentive programs to drug and alcohol addictions.
Drug and alcohol addictions are essentially dopamine addictions. We are addicted to the rush they give us. In the corporate world, incentive programs are another way to get a hit of dopamine, we become addicted to performance. And just like drug and alcohol addictions, this becomes unhealthy. It becomes unhealthy and imbalanced when the motive is all about the results and overrides looking after the employees and those responsible for the results.
Step 12 is about committing to another person, someone who is also addicted to alcohol, and helping them overcome their addiction. Step Twelve is all about service. And it is service that is the key to breaking our dopamine addictions in our organisations too. Leadership takes work.
It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment to human beings.
A happy and safe work culture will cultivate harder workers and more innovation. A true leader needs to always tell the truth and needs to be courageous. We live in a time where our reality is increasingly virtual. The rest — as they say — is history.
If so, stop — for a second, a minute, an hour, a week, a month! For example, a woman the authors worked with had all but given up on her life.
However, that part belongs to the past and psychology studies. The one which follows belongs to the future and motivational books. Namely, the woman had a sister.
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And the thing that really made her feel as if she did something good with her life was few acts of self-sacrifice when she protected her sister.
There was the revelation, there was the WHY: she wanted — really, really desired — to help vulnerable people in need. And, suddenly, her life made sense again. However, discovering your WHY sometimes may not be as simple. You may need some external help such as the woman did in the above example. So, try to casually slip your WHY conundrum in a conversation with some of your friends. Start retelling stories from the past and see where that will lead you.
The only thing you need is a good listener with observant and curious mind. Because these people will try to find your WHY for you. Few of them — and you just might have a winner.
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Gaza Crisis: Stop the ship - Action needed now for an International Arms Embargo
Amnesty International UK AIUK wrote:
Amnesty has learnt that a German owned cargo ship, the Wehr Elbe, carrying huge amounts of weaponry from the U.S - possibly including controversial white phosphorous - has been heading for the Israeli port of Ashdod.
There are breaking news reports that the ship has been suspended after pressure from Amnesty International. At the time of writing the status of the shipment is unclear, but its deadly cargo remains on board. We must maintain pressure to prevent the arms from being unloaded and used to fuel the conflict in Gaza.
More munitions will only fuel further military aggression in Gaza. For the sake of civilians in Gaza and Israel, we need to prevent this deadly shipment from reaching its final destination.
Amnesty is urging Foreign Secretary David Miliband to increase international pressure to prevent this ship with its “vast consignment” of weapons docking anywhere in Israel. Further, we are calling on the UN Security Council for an immediate arms embargo on all parties involved in the bloody conflict in Gaza.
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Thoughts at the end of a year...
What could we say?
I always hope that the next is better than the one which is gone.
Just to realize that it was better when it was worse.
One thing is always the same: the future approaches us at 60 minutes an hour.
And if there is someone who reads this: Happy New Year!
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Posted by Baffington.post at 5:50 PM 3 comments:
They have a hell of a nerve...
"It should be pointed out that the first responsibility of the US government is to US citizens and we have people living below the poverty level, people without health care, and are drying up the Pell Grant program for college students.
The whole thing is a disgrace -- our economy -- and the fact that these other countries mock our genorsity; they have a hell of a nerve -- and that guy backed down."
You are damned right...but it is a surprise to me...in a country where the President is guided directly from our Boss up there...
One would expect a little bit more of generosity, from a country that already spends billions to bring Democracy to the World...
But may be this is the real lesson from the Bible.
God himself had to invent BAD, otherwise, how could HE look so good?
If the World was a happy island inhabited just by good people, how could we appreciate it? How could we feel so well when we do the slight good to somebody?
This is the answer, HE didn't Forbid the Serpent to Adam and Eve, otherwise instead of the Apple they would have eaten the Devil, and the whole story of this world would have been different.
They would have disobeyed the same, of course, but then, Hell would have had to disappear, we wouldn't have needed to be good, because we just couldn't have been something else...
It is getting too complicated.
Being selfish is human... admitting it, is something more...
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Regardless of whether they are at home or at a
branch location, employees have access to all
telecommunications functions using any terminal
device in their mobile office. Contact
remains possible via a single telephone number.
This not only increases employee flexibility,
but it reduces telecommunications costs
by optimizing communication paths. These
functionalities are available as components
and as integrated systems.
When you can be reached
any time, anywhere, by any
means, will you be more
productive?
“Unified” Presence/Availability/Modality
The public Internet enabled the idea of “always
on” access to information and messaging contacts.
Rather than sending asynchronous email, being
aware of a recipient’s existing (Internet) connection
enabled a user to start a “chat” or immediate
text message exchange.
This capability is expanding to real-time voice
message exchanges (e.g., wireless push-to-talk)
and, with IP Telephony, will change the way we
use telephones to both initiate and receive real time
Today’s “buddy list” concept of instant messaging
is a way for users to selectively control
immediate access to themselves by specified people
or vice versa—or, in the future, even by specified
application processes. It works hand-in-hand
with “presence” awareness (network connectedness)
to let the initiator know whether to start an
instant message exchange, or simply leave a message.
The buddy list is an extension of the directory
function, which can provide personalization
information for automatically managing all personal
From a contact initiator’s perspective, the
availability and status information can become the
logical first step in selecting the most practical
mode of location-independent communication at
the moment, rather than guessing and wasting
time with different contact attempts.
“Buddy lists”
will work
hand-in-hand
with presence
How will we deal
explosion of
features?
The vision of “unified messaging” and “unified
communications” has had to wait for the practicalities
of a converged voice/data network infrastructure
to make implementation possible. The
market movement towards IP telephony and
instant messaging is now helping make this vision
a reality. In the meantime, wireless handheld
mobility has also become a “must-have” capability
for more and more enterprise end users, and
this, too, has reinforced the need for converged
Mobile users will need the ease and flexibility
of changing modalities to match their situation
and those they are communicating with. The necessary
intelligence to minimize the confusion in
making contact with others will be found in a
cross-network, multimodal capability that dynamically
coordinates the needs and priorities of both
What end users really want from converged
communications will be flexible, easy-to-use,
mobile and remote communication services that
will save them time and effort in communicating
with others, and, sometimes more importantly,
will save others’ time in contacting them. Of
course, the technology should be relatively costefficient,
but, unless it does what they really need,
end users won’t bother with it even if it is free!
The "Peer to Peer through Peer Network"
Since the first man was born or appeared on this earth his life was dedicated to the answer to two big questions: Who he was and why he was.
And communication has been the natural evolution of this need.
Communicating was sharing and exchanging opinions.
The first step was toward finding a way of an open standard of sounds that gave life to a language, an "Idiom".
The second one was converting the spoken language in icons, expressing a word or a feeling.
The birth of computers meant a simplification of all the complicated ways to simulate the work of the human brain in communication.
Digitalization was nothing different from the big step taken thousands of years ago by the ones who simplified the iconographic way of writing and inventing the alphabet.
Instead of the sound of a full word or phrase, they invented 22 simple letters that expressed the main sounds of our expressions and with those 22 sounds they built all the possible words, and the words built phrases and phrases made pages and pages made books and so on.
With the birth of computers data became numbers and the following step was simplifying their transmission.
The Internet was possible and useful because the computer had been invented, as hand writing was enormously wide spread thanks to the invention of the alphabet.
Also the printing machines and the Mass Market printing machine, the type writer, were possible because of the invention of the alphabet.
The world is changing at a fast rate because wide spread communication is possible thanks to the Internet.
Whether the communication is data, voice, music, video, it is digitized and encapsulated into packets. Every packet has a destination address and a tag for class of service.
Every packet is sent and reaches a destination through the Internet thanks to the invention of the computer.
In this new, progressive, digital world there is no place for old antiquated "iconographic" way of communication.
The Telecoms still exist thanks to the Monopoly and the stupidity of our politicians (and the ignorance of many).
How long will progress have to wait?
Why Wi-Fi will win.
Once people made a Market. Needs made the Future.
Now no more.
In this society of the "Must Have" what makes the Market's rules is not anymore what people want, but what they are "invited" to want.
And what they want is generally what they do not have, something new, which generally will be in the place of the "old".
So that the garbage can is never empty and there is always something new to produce, because there is always something new to consume.
At the end of every year and the beginning of the next, there is a game in forecasting the future possibilities of the Market.
And we come very often to the most extravagant predictions, like "we will be able in the near future to look at TV on our portable phone".
Now, syllogism is a complicated sequence of logical conclusions, whose characteristic is that you start from a perfectly reasonable statement and, through surreptitious assumptions you gradually change the reasonable nature of your first figure until you reach a complete distortion which can be utterly unreasonable.
For example "TV is a highly requested and used medium", the portable phone is a "widespread and ubiquitous tool to communicate" so, putting together two successful mass market products, you would be sure to have a greater one.
Syllogism is one thing and reality can be totally different.
In an age where the tastes of the people are daily more sophisticated, where an analog TV is an obsolete tool, is quite unrealistic to think that somebody would enjoy a TV program on such a small screen as the phone's.
But one thing is sure and shouldn't be under valuated by investors: the Market badly needs something new to promote, to sell, to "invite" the people to consume.
And the future is there, clear and inviting.
There are several requirements to fulfill to give life to a new product:
It must be something alluring.
It must cover the expectations of the mass.
It must be at an affordable price.
It must be easy to find.
It must be easily reachable.
It must fit with our life.
It must be well commercialized.
Entertainment has been since long a safe investment, and TV, Cable, Satellite have been since long the way to deliver what goes under the name of "home entertainment".
The Internet is the new medium facing the future and alluring investors.
It needs three main conditions to fulfill its promises:
1) Content. But that is already available.
2) A good and high compression for the big files.(mostly video)
3) A cheap broadband mean to deliver content.
And at point 3 is where Wi-Fi comes into the picture.
Because point 1 and 2 are already available and the Market is eager to change channels.
Content needs badly a broadband delivery and Wi-Fi needs badly content to deliver.
Take for example a rural location with an average of 10.000 people.
If you deliver fast broadband Internet with a Wireless system you will have
an investment of X, N users/customers and a ROI of Y.
But if you deliver high quality content, for example, good quality and low price VoIP (best if wireless) movies on demand, music programs, you will have the same investment X in infrastructures, but N² users/customers and Y³ ROI.
A market product can only be understood backward, but must be planed forward.
Monopoly, Monopoly, Monopoly, all around the World
There is an almost universal feeling that U.S. telecommunications laws and regulations are way out of step with current telecom reality.
The basic law was passed in 1934 and updated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which is eons (or longer) ago when it comes to telecom technology.
No one I know is looking forward to the prospect of Congress, outnumbered as it is by lobbyists, trying to "fix" the current mess.
If anyone did have any hope that such a process might result in a positive outcome, recent events in Pennsylvania will have extinguished them.
After more than a year and a half of trying, the Pennsylvania legislature recently passed House Bill 30, which updates the existing state telecom regulations.
This bill got a lot of press in mid-November because of a provision added late in the game that prohibits municipalities from offering "any telecommunications services, including advanced and broadband services" for a fee without basically getting the permission of the local monopoly telephone company (see Verizon deal lets Philadelphia move with wireless plan),
It's probably not a coincidence that this provision showed up around the time that Philadelphia announced a plan to offer inexpensive, citywide, Wi-Fi-based Internet service. This provision was clearly added to protect local monopoly telephone companies such as Verizon from municipal-based competition.
Under the provision, Verizon could block any future deployment of municipal-run networks by saying that it was going to offer similar speed Internet services in the same area.
That would be the case even if Verizon's services were not going to be available for years or were going to cost a hundred times what the municipal-run network was going to charge.
This provision almost perfectly symbolizes the entire bill.
The bill starts out with a bunch of good sounding platitudes describing how it aims to ensure that Pennsylvania will get the best telecom services that Verizon decides it wants to deliver.
Oops, that's a bit sarcastic, but that's how I felt when I read this bill. Telecom bills like this are ostensibly for the good of the public but in actuality mostly benefit two monopolies: the regional telephone company and the utility regulators. There is very little in this bill that will benefit the ordinary citizens of Pennsylvania.
They will get higher prices and little innovation.
The bill includes some bribes to get specific groups to support it.
For example, it establishes an educational technology fund (the e-fund) to support things that educators like. The level and passion of support from some people in the educational community for the bill shows that this type of payoff works. Of course the money has to come from somewhere and it will come from higher phone costs for the residents of Pennsylvania.
In other words, the e-fund and other similar goodies in the bill are supported by yet another tax on telephone users.
What is missing is any hint that the best way to get innovation and lower prices would be to encourage competition for basic phone service. But that would threaten both of the bill's main beneficiaries.
This bill is the result of a perfect storm of telecom regulators and big telecom lobbyists. But this storm is a local squall in comparison with the Category 4 hurricane that will spring up when Congress starts to revamp federal telecom law. It will be very ugly, and you can be sure the beneficiaries will not be you and me.
By Scott Bradner
Not far from Italian Telecom.
Italy signed the Geneva Telecom Act and we would be supposed to be free to use the 2.4 GHz frequency.
But the only allowed frequency is 26 GHz. that doesn't have any use or application.
That is for sure.
Could we really think to be able to infringe the Telecom Monopoly?
But that is not even the fault of the Telecom.
The fault is in those who agree that it is a shame, but do nothing to change it.
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Are Smart Networks dumb or are Stupid Networks smart?
I would say none of the two.
Usually things aren't smart or dumb, but the people who make them can be.
We are facing a new revolution which will change the society in which we live.
Like in the French Revolution, nothing of what surrounds us will really change, but people's mentality and behavior will.
In 1790 the potatoes grew in the same way they used to in 1788, so the garlic, the onions and the tomatoes.
But the people who planted and ate them were living in a different way.
The Internet and the whole business of Communications will be the same, may be even worse in certain aspects, but the people who will run them will be different people.
You cannot concentrate the profits in the hands of a few and still expect that the mass has enough to pay for the services.
If the money is not shared, the one who produces will have to eat the whole production.
That is the simple mathematic law of economics and we are beginning to see how it works.
People do not have enough money to pay for what they are pushed to consume.
They borrow it.
So the producers earn on what they sell and on the money they lend to the people who consume.
Mathematic is made (and till now worked that way) that if you sell 2 and the one who buys 2 pays with 2 you make a profit of 1.
But if the one who pays 2 doesn't have any profit and borrows the 2, sooner or later will have to produce 2,50 to pay back the borrowed 2 plus interest.
But what happens if he cannot produce and earn anymore?
The one who sold 2 and lent 2 and is supposed to get back 2,50 won't get back anything.
As simple as that.
And this is the most logic explanation of what is going to happen in a very near future, unless a revolution takes place.
Profit must be shared, jobs must be available, investments must be done.
No more big Monopolies, but thousands of small entrepreneurs.
No more restricted number of aristocratic investors, but thousand of middle class workers.
The working class of today is not motivated anymore.
Working for the salary is like studying for getting good marks.
It is not gratifying enough.
Human beings are made to work to create something, they must have a goal in life.
That is the lacking push in our society, in our economies.
The Zero Billion dollars business
I probably should say the Zero Billion Euros business, but since the amount is Zero, I do not think it makes that big difference.
I am talking about VoIP of course.
Why such a promising business doesn't make money, or makes much less than preview?
The only ones who make a little are the "Terminators".
But not even them anymore, since the fight has come to a point in which for every available customer you have at least two companies offering the "best rates".
1) First, let's have a look around to see who could be the possible customer.
Do not mix up telephony with VoIP.
Both deal with communication, but they are fundamentally different.
Telephony is a well established, mostly Monopoly's owned and state (politically) controlled business.
The infrastructure were already paid long ago by the customers, but still in the hands of the Monopoly, which plays at its own pleasure with them.
They can upgrade or lower the rates to what they find convenient and easily fight against the competition.
Is VoIP a threat to them?
I do not think so. The moment it will really be, then they will begin to be worried about.
I looked around me and asked myself: Who among my friends and relatives and acquaintances could be a possible customer of VoIP?
It was easy to count them, because they were so few.
In principle the normal people are not interested in long distance calls. No matter what number they report of Skype customers.
It is more like a fashion or a status symbol.
Very few young people do a lot of international calls and the national calls are much cheaper and better quality with a normal phone.
Why should they bother to use VoIP?
2) There are companies, and may be a lot of them, who could be relevant customers of VoIP, but they are still sleeping and many already tried the "best rates" and decided that it is undoubtedly great to speak for so cheap rates, but understanding each other, especially when you come to business, is more important.
To that you should also add the laziness and lack of interest or ignorance of most of the business (especially European) men and you have the complete scenario.
This is why till now VoIP is the Zero billion Euros business.
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There are over 300 million Americans. Less than 30% of them have passports. That means Americans are not traveling abroad. And 50% of those who do leave the USA are traveling to either Canada or Mexico. So, why is it that Americans are not traveling overseas in larger numbers?
Realistically, money and time are the two biggest factors in our estimation as to why Americans don’t travel abroad. Airfare is costly and flying is a hassle. Meanwhile, Americans on average get around two weeks of vacation a year– not enough to get abroad, get over jet-lag and start enjoying another country. In reality, many of those vacation days are used here and there for extensions on Thanksgiving, for family birthdays or other small events, and that results in, usually, less than two weeks in one chunk for travel. Its not surprising that Asia or the Middle East seems out of reach to Americans who have around 7 days to travel, explore and return. That doesn’t sound like a vacation, it sounds like a gauntlet.
In contrast, the average worker in Europe gets around a month of vacation. By law, all countries in the European Union must allow all workers four weeks of paid vacation at a minimum. Even part-time workers who have worked more than 13 weeks are entitled to their month of paid vacation. This isn’t accrued, its a right. And that doesn’t count public holidays, which are paid days. Americans get 13 days, on average, though some companies have adopted even stricter vacation plans for entry-level employees, like the company Mike worked for in Minnesota. They told him his two weeks of vacation were “To ambitious for an entry level employee.” To which Mike said “audios!” (Chart above shows average PAID vacation days by country)
Meanwhile, workers in the USA have longer daily hours, on average, then their European counterparts. This is interesting because the average salary (even taking into account cost of living) is lower in the USA on average. For example, countries in Europe have a standard 40 hour work week and depending on the country there are laws in place to put a cap on how many hours of overtime per week and year an employee can log, according to the Federation of European Employees. And although the 8 hour day wasn’t always in place, it wasn’t until 1937 that the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law and the 8 hour work day (44 per week) in America became accepted as a baseline for a new standard. (Chart above shows average work week by country and gender).
Granted, there are social implications to these differences in Europe and the US. For example, Europeans are taxed at a much higher rate and companies have to sell products at higher prices to follow labor laws. However, the work-life balance in Europe does seem to be more balanced than in the USA, where success is more important that enjoyment to many. Still, the differences are drastic, and many health related problems in America are stress related, possibly stemming from overwork and lack of holiday time.
Along an entirely different chain of thought, perhaps one reason for the shortage of Americans traveling is fear. American movies constantly have foreigners as the ‘bad guys’ and a general lack of knowledge about other countries and their cultures in the US may lead many to think it isn’t safe anywhere abroad. When the media constantly cover problems abroad in uniquely terrifying language, its no wonder people think the entire world is dangerous. Meanwhile, Americans don’t speak a second language, and this limits their capacity to travel abroad with confidence. Luckily, English is the language of travel, but to many places (Africa and Asia) even English won’t suffice. The American education system should require students to learn a second language fluently by the time they graduate from High School. What language they learn should be their choice, naturally, but it holds people back from traveling, working abroad or even understanding a second worldview when they are limited to one language. Ideas are only as solid as the language in which they are expressed, so learning a whole new language is like learning a second culture, a second way of viewing the world. Americans (myself included) miss out on this when they don’t learn a second language as a child.
CNN Travel recently did a story on the surprisingly low number of Americans who travel abroad. We were excited to see they quoted several of our fellow international travel bloggers, folks like Nomadic Matt and Everything Everywhere.
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Mike February 10, 2011 at 9:51 PM
At the time I was told I was being, “too ambitious” for my first year regarding vacation time, I had only taken 5 days of vacation. 3 days to go fishing, and 2 days around Thanksgiving and Christmas to see my new nephew (and I had already been with the company for 9 months). To make matters worse, they did not have an official vacation policy, that’s right, no policy, because guilt tripping their employees seemed to work in their favor. When I asked for unpaid leave instead, I was told that it was not legally possible without meeting certain criteria.
Ben February 13, 2011 at 1:33 PM
My firm has much the same policy. Although to be fair I am in a profession that is known for requiring long hours.
The only vacation policy that is written down is something to the effect of “We consider our employees professionals and expect them to balance vacation with responsibilities at the office.”
In 18 months I’ve taken precisely 3 days of actual vacation. You could add in maybe a handful of Friday afternoons, but I think those are more than canceled out by the weekends I’ve worked.
Sol Lee February 13, 2011 at 6:20 PM
America has a “productivity” culture, if you’re productive, you could be assumed to be morally superior, but a good balance between work and life could help improve productivity.
It is a lot easier for EU citizens to travel internationally because most European countries don’t occupy large areas, and they could hop on a train and be in another country hearing a different language in a few hours. Whereas USA is just so big, it’s not as easy as in Europe.
During my visit in Beijing, the majority of expats I’ve met so far have been Americans, so it wouldn’t be accurate to say Americans don’t travel abroad, but I’ve met them in church, so maybe it’s because there are more church going American expats in Beijing. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is, the introduction that people make about themselves, in a small group setting, Americans tend to tell others they’re from whichever particular state, whereas people from other countries would tend to say their country of origin, unless they’re from world famous cities, like I tell people I live in Sydney, and mostly people get it’s in Australia.
Here’s an interesting video from No Leave, No Life. All full time Australian employees are entitled to 4 weeks of paid annual leave, but some have chosen to not take it and work instead. This project is designed to encourage employees to take their leaves. It’s not strictly related to overseas travel, as it’s targeted at domestic holidays.
http://www.noleavenolife.com/employer/NLNLvideo.html?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=347&width=371
mike February 17, 2011 at 10:47 PM
@Ben: That is really too bad. I can just imagine some corporate sociologist hired to come up with that idea of “no vacation” policy to get the most out of the employees.
@Sol: Thanks for your comments as well and the video! I hope you take advantage of the holidays you have readily available, a luxury that most other people do not get.
Independent007 May 12, 2011 at 4:00 AM
I think that here in Shanghai, there are many Europeans, and some Americans, but that all in all there are many more Europeans Canadians, and Australians here than Americans.
That’s because Americans love to view the world through their eyes only and not through the way the world sees them. That has changed a bit with Obama in office, but generally the expats here just have a different perspective on life than those that are in the US. That is why we are here.
I got sick of the rat race only recently and decided to jump across the pond to Shanghai and have not looked back since. I hope to return to the US only for visits, and maybe just maybe for retirement.
Even then, I will probably retire in Central or South America. But still not sure about that, I have a ways until that happens anyway.
I learned Mandarin in college while everyone was learning Japanese and its been the best decision I have ever made. Though I am not native I am advanced, and feel quite comfortable here.
Sure there are some things I miss, but all in all, I have a different perspective on Americans, and I feel sorry for them. Its one big capitalistic country from the politicians on down, and it will stay that way until the people wake up. Since that will never happen, its in the politicians interests to keep everyone divided and carry on as if nothing is wrong. Maybe when the world stops using the American dollar as a benchmark people will raise their heads. I hope it doesn’t come to that though and really hope they start teaching more language in schools. And it should be mandatory that every high school in American offer either Spanish or Mandarin. Again, that will never happen but if you master those two languages you can speak to 75 percent of the world.
Rob May 22, 2012 at 4:11 PM
I don’t know how many years abroad it takes before an American can gain a realistic perspective on what life is really like in the United States. I left in 1985 and I think it took 10 years before it really sank in that it is not the “greatest nation on earth” by a longshot.
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Machine learning, big data and artificial intelligence – those catchphrases of the fourth industrial revolution – will eat many of our jobs. That’s inevitable. Profmed’s podcast series The Professional has been looking into how the world of work is busy adapting in surprising ways to our tech revolution.
As computers become smarter, robots more sophisticated, and the world more connected, everything – including the way we look after our teeth – will change. Yes, even the dental industry is poised for a digital transformation that will see diagnoses, treatment plans and patients’ health records handled by computers. It’s been dubbed digital dentistry – or dentistry 4.0.
Counter-intuitively, these technological advances are making the dental industry more human. Instead of dentists sitting for hours by themselves, trying to come up with a treatment plan, they can now play around with options with their patients – because computers are doing the heavy lifting. They can show their patients 3D models of what their smiles could look like, and let them choose.
This more human approach is going to open doors for a new breed of dentist – it’s going to be less about injections and drilling and pulling out teeth, and more about a personal connection.
In fact, in the context of the fourth industrial revolution, any professional’s greatest skill is not the ability to fit in, but to stand out. After all, uniformity can be replicated by computers, uniqueness can’t.
And uniqueness is something Dr Smile has in spades.
Drwho?
Dr Lex Rawhani is a dentist – a celebrity dentist, no less, who counts Bonang Matheba, Cassper Nyovest, Terry Pheto, Nasty C, Maps Maponyane, Pearl Thusi and AKA among his clients. (His Insta account has 75 000 followers.) But he’s also a university lecturer, a philanthropist and youth worker, a jewellery and fashion designer, and hip-hop artist. With his sharp haircut and trimmed beard, jeans, leather jacket, and silver bling on every finger, he looks about as far from a conservative doctor as you could imagine.
And that’s just how he likes it. Raised by his Persian immigrant parents in the Bahai faith, he learnt early on to “dedicate the precious days of your life to the betterment of humanity”. His childhood was spent “being taken to meetings, trips, outreaches, service projects in which my parents and other members of the Bahai community would go to every part of South Africa, every township, every rural area, every upper class area – everything.”
We have a lot of bubble life in South Africa, where people are comfortable in their bubble. My parents would always make sure that they pop that.
— Dr Lex Rawhani
And so, while other teens were trying for acceptance, Lex was thinking, “How can I develop my capacities and talents and interests in a direction that doesn’t make me fit in?”
After matriculating in 2004 he spent time in Greece to work with Doctors of the World, who provide basic healthcare for refugees who survive the dangerous crossing from Turkey. His basic Persian language skills helped him as the first point of contact with refugees, and as a 17-year-old he learnt an important life lesson: how to listen to some incredibly distressing stories. Later, he says, this willingness to listen stood him in good stead with patients, both while he was studying and afterwards.
Lex enrolled in dentistry and recalls a lecturer asking, in the first-year class, who had taken art as a subject in high school. Lex was the only one in the class of 45 who put up his hand. The lecturer said, “You shouldn’t be doing dentistry if you’re not artistic.” It makes sense, actually. Dentistry is practical, and artistic: “You have to see shapes, shades, colours, designs. You have to be obsessive about detail,” says Lex.
Lex’s philanthropic passions find an outlet in Project Smile, where he helps people who need expert dentistry but can’t afford it. He focuses particularly on victims of domestic violence or violent crime. One of the people Lex has helped is Bukelwa Moerane who was kidnapped by a criminal one evening in 2017 on her way home from Maponya Mall. She managed to throw herself out of the moving car and was found bleeding and badly hurt – several of her front teeth knocked out or broken. Lex repaired her teeth for free.
He spends weekends working with children around Johannesburg, running community development classes on the Bahai faith. As a former preemie himself (Lex was born two months early) he also runs a charity called Tiny Seeds that supports families with premature babies.
For Lex, it’s about recognising your privilege or your fortune and making the most of it.
The privilege, the resources I’ve been given… sometimes undeserved. What am I going to now do with it? The answer is not to suddenly give away everything. How do you use it to empower, how do you use it to benefit how to use it to uplift and inspire?
Once, worried about having chosen a career that seemed to exclude other parts of his personality, a psychologist friend asked him, “Why does it have to be either/or?”, words he says have shaped his life.
And so when I speak to my students at Wits, or the youth that I teach or the ones trying to figure out what they’re going to do, I use the same line. It doesn’t have to be either/or. It has to be whichever one you can visualize that serves humanity the best. You do that first, then do your second, third, fourth, fifth thing in order of how they contribute to the world.
And that’s why Lex stuffs his life full to the brim. Last year, he even released a hip-hop single, Bafun’ uwazi, under the stage name LexLeo.
Lex is the epitome of the new professional – a skilled person doing meaningful work in a range of disciplines. And in this fast-changing world of ours – where a celebrity dentist can also be a rapper and a fashion designer and a philanthropist, too – what’s next for Lex?
It will come as no surprise that the next project is one that has Lex thinking big. “I want to go into industrial design, which deals with everything from the shape of these headphones we’re using to this bottle in front of me to a car to a cellphone to a toothbrush to a new type of water treatment or solar panels – all of these things. I want my brain to go there professionally, because then I can help a million at once. Not one or two or three people a day.”
Lex is part of a new wave in the world of work globally: the blurring of boundaries between the physical, virtual and biological worlds as previously unconnected industries and fields merge together, thanks to technology. Think 3D printers creating heart valves, voice-controlled smart homes and self-driving cars. It’s a world in which we can and must be many things, not just one.
Thanks to our new world, this guy IS for real… and there’s no way machines are ever going to replace him.
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Eutelsat CEO to step down
Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen will step down in March 2016 and be succeeded by former Canal+ chief executive Rodolphe Belmer, the satellite operator has confirmed. De Rosen, who turns 65 next year, will remain non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Eutelsat until the end of his current mandate in November 2016. Belmer, […]
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Insight TV
Take a look at Insight TV at 19.2° East, it’s free-to-air and in English. There are two versions available, one in HD, the other in UHD, or watch live on their website. Website: www.insight.tv You can watch INSIGHT UHD and INSIGHT HD using the following settings on your satellite receiver: Insight UHD ASTRA 1KR (19.2° […]
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ORBCOMM Announces Launch Window for Second OG2 Mission
Eleven OG2 satellites to launch from Cape Canaveral aboard dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to complete next generation constellation Rochelle Park, NJ, October 16, 2015 – ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, today announced that ORBCOMM and SpaceX plan to launch eleven OG2 satellites from […]
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EBU calls on UK to protect independence & financing of BBC
The EBU has called on the UK government to guarantee the BBC’s independence and has expressed concern about recent discussion about the pubcaster’s future. In a letter to UK culture, media and sport secretary John Whittingdale, EBU secretary-general Ingrid Deltenre said that “the BBC continues to set the standard across Europe” for public broadcasting and […]
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More than half of kids watch children channels
Children’s channels attract one young TV viewer out of two, and they are watching two hours daily over the first half of 2015. According to recent Kids TV euro study by Mediamétrie in five countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK), this opens new broadcast opportunities. Despite the nearly 100 measured channels dedicated to […]
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220 European UHD channels by 2025
Ferdinand Kayser, CCO at Luxembourg-based SES, speaking at IBC, said the satellite operator sees “steady momentum” and an accelerated uptake of Ultra-HD broadcasts leading to an expected 220 UHD channels over Europe by 2025. Kayser was launching an SES ‘White Paper’ on UHD which confirmed that 2015 has seen a significant breakthrough with the number […]
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Apple TV 4 expected in October
Apple is expected to announce the fourth generation of its Apple TV set-top box later this month, featuring an App Store, a new remote control, Siri voice control, games support, and a new user interface. With a predicted launch date in October, the new Apple TV is also likely to cost at least twice the […]
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NHK to showcase 8K display at IBC
NHK will have what it describes as the world’s first 85” 8K LCD (“Super Hi-Vision”) display on show at IBC next week. The display will also have High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology built in. The unit’s screen displays 7680 horizontal pixels x 4320 pixels height. The contrast ratio is claimed to be 100,000 : 1 […]
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Mediaset to encrypt satellite channels
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced it will fully encrypt its free-to-air satellite channels on satellite. Until now, Mediaset’s flagship channels Canale 5, Italia and Rete 4 were available in the clear for viewers in Italy and Europe, via the Eutelsat 13 degrees East orbital position. The only exception were live sports events and some […]
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France Télévisions to launch news channel
France Télévisions plans to launch a digital news channel on the web initially that will have a distinctive remit and content from existing commercial news channels, according to the pubcaster’s new director-general, Delphine Ernotte-Cunci. In an interview with Le Monde, Ernotte-Cunci said that the new channel would do more than “provide information”, providing a space […]
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4K TV shipments to grow 147%
According to the worldwide TV market report from Futuresource Consulting, 4K TV shipments are expected to grow by 147 per cent in 2015, despite an overall 2 per cent fall in TV sales. Global TV sales rose in 2014 by 3 per cent to reach 235 million units, with trade value up to $94 billion. […]
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Barnardos Australia Places Critical Processes in Safe Hands with Nintex Promapp Deployment
Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, has announced that Barnardos Australia, a leading non-government, non-denominational, child protection organisation providing services for vulnerable children, young people and their families, will deploy Nintex Promapp® throughout its operations.
The cloud-based process platform will support Barnardos’ commitment to ensuring that its operational and compliance processes successfully become an integral part of the organisation’s strategic objectives, management systems, policies and procedures.
“As an organisation our aim is to have systems and processes in place that enable us to do the very best for the communities we serve, including vulnerable children and their families,” says Penny Hood, Executive Manager, People & Practice, Barnardos Australia. “Having the right people on board and then having strong systems and processes with the right technology to support them is critical. We also need to use processes which are consistent and sufficiently robust so that staff can update and document a range of user-friendly procedures. Nintex Promapp will enable us to reach our goal of fostering a culture of continuous quality improvement.”
Barnardos has more than 800 committed staff and works with a team of foster carers and supporters. Each year, the organisation supports more than 14,000 children, young people and families in New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), working with them to ensure children are living in an environment that is safe, stable and allows them to flourish. Over 90 per cent of Barnardos Australia’s total expenditure is spent on direct service delivery.
The decision to deploy Nintex Promapp followed growth and expansion in its range of services and an internal audit which identified improvement opportunities in operational areas across the organisation. These included a requirement for a central repository of processes and the ongoing adoption of a culture of continuous improvement.
Barnardos also needed a solution which could support processes for both head office teams and remote field staff on the job. Robust procedures relating to donors, philanthropists and government agencies are required as the organisation has a duty of responsibility to report on how funds are being applied in the best way possible to achieve positive client outcomes.
Nintex Promapp will help document, enhance and share process knowledge from a central online repository, and contribute to process improvement by assisting users to maintain processes via simplified process mapping. Nintex Promapp’s improvement add-on will also provide Barnardos with a central collaboration point to report and track quality issues.
In addition, Nintex Promapp will foster a culture of collaboration within Barnardos by enabling staff to make suggestions for process improvement as part of a central repository of content. The software’s process variant management add-on will also be useful to Barnardos’ operations in both the ACT and NSW jurisdictions where users can capture processes in line with the controlled variations prescribed by state legislation.
Phase one deployment of Nintex Promapp will focus on ensuring that all processes and operations are captured. This will enable and support Barnardos’ portfolio of operations by providing a consistent framework for its People and Practice, Corporate and Finance Services, and Engagement Partnerships and Giving divisions. Compliance process champions will support the rollout of Nintex Promapp among head office teams.
Phase two will focus on reaping the benefits of the modular functionality of Nintex Promapp for continuous quality improvement, supporting a culture which encourages continuous feedback and providing a centralized location to manage processes, compliance requirements, risk and quality issues.
“We want to ensure that our valuable resources are spent on our clients. As a result, we’ll also focus on ensuring that our back-office support and systems are as efficient as possible. Nintex Promapp is easy to use and understand and has valuable features which will support repeatable processes in line with the latest legislation.
“Once fully deployed across the organisation, Nintex Promapp will enable us to support our compliance reporting requirements and we’ll be able to map processes around the work we do on a day-to-day basis. We are a highly collaborative organisation and want to deploy Nintex Promapp across the organisation so that it can be part of our everyday operation as rapidly as possible,” says Penny Hood.
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Back and Forth – Episode 27
May 16, 2018 May 14, 2018 The Blackadder Podcast Team Specials
Back and Forth was a special episode of Blackadder created as part of an exhibition to mark the turn of the century at the Millennium Dome and saw the Lord Blackadder of the time travel through history to impress his friends. In this podcast Gerry and Iain consider skipping ahead to the next episode.
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Series regulars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerney, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie took centre stage in the special, with returns for familiar faces Miranda Richardson, Rik Mayall and Patsy Byrne. There were also cameos for Kate Moss, Simon Russell Beale and Colin Firth in a star-studded ensemble.
Blackadder: Back and Forth was written by Ben Elton and by Richard Curtis and was directed by Paul Weiland. Sophie Clarke-Jervoise produced the special and Howard Goodall was responsible for the music.
Back and Forth was released in 1999. It is 33 minutes long and originally aired as part of the Millennium Dome’s opening exhibition. Blackadder is presently available on Netflix (which rotates Seasons 1 & 2 with 3 & 4 on a regular basis) and a remastered set of the whole series is available on DVD around the world (Region 1) (Region 2).
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AJAX Libraries at a Glance - Anyone who has ever used Gmail, Microsoft Outlook Web Access or Google Maps is already indirectly familiar with the power behind AJAX, which gives the responsiveness associated with desktop applications to website applications.
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Horror Headlines: Thursday October 31st, 2013
It's spooky day kids! The most magical day of the year for all of us horror nerds. Tonight is the night we all sit down and watch our favorite movies, sob in our parent's basement because we've never found love and finish off the evening by pleasuring ourselves to internet porn. Enjoy it, Halloween only comes around once a year. Thank god.
Fede Alvarez, the fella who wrote and directed the "Evil Dead" remake has dropped word that if a sequel does happen it won't be with him involved. No word on if the producers will still move forward with the project but if I was a bettin man I'd say they most likely would. Cause ya know, money and stuff right?
Because it's Halloween and because it's spooky time here's a video from the folks over at Funny or Die. It's called "Are These Tales Spooky to You?". Those of you who are old might catch on the resemblance to the old "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" show that was on Nickelodeon. Those of you who are old and didn't get laid in high school might remember the host of the video as Marilyn Manson, of music old ladies used to protest fame. Enjoy.
While I was on my crazy leave it was announced by Michael Dougherty that "Trick R Treat 2" was in fact moving forward. No other details were really given but now it looks like that Michael has let out that we'll for sure see some witches in this next installment, we'll get just a touch of Sam's back story and there will most likely be a third film to complete the trilogy. He also said that I'm his muse and that he thinks I've lost weight and that I look perfect. That part didn't make it into the interview but I'm sure it was said.
According to Ridley Scott he's already got "Prometheus 2" and "Prometheus 3" written and ready to go. He plans on them seeing the light of day in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He's also apparently completed his taxes for the next 5 years and is actively working on that model ship that's been sitting in your closet for three years.
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And here's a group of guys that dressed up as bloodied flight attendants from the Asiana Airlines crash for a Halloween party. Because ya know, Chicago.
A 41 year old man is under arrest after he apparently assaulted his girlfriend with a cat. I have no idea how you really do that but I like to think there was some sort of freezing involved to make an elaborate frozen cat sword. Most likely that didn't happen though and is probably impossible.
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Home » About Us » Introduction » Heritage
We have a heritage site, The Malebogo Boer War Battlefield that was declared the Provincial Heritage Site by the Limpopo Heritage Resources Authority in February 2007.
Malebogo was the great leader of the Bahananwa people who fought against colonialism in his area. In September 2006 during the Heritage month, the Premier of Limpopo Province Sello Moloto unveiled the statue of this great leader of Bahanwana people Kgoi Rathatha Malebogo.
Today, Kgoshi Malebogo's name has become a rallying point and an embodiment of noble anti-colonial battles of the Bahanwana people and is counted amongst the many nation-builders of the country such as Nghunghunyane, Shaka, Bhambata, Sekhukhune, Makhado, Mokopane and many others who shed blood for the peoples liberation.
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Lifestyle Sports 'Singapore's football gangsters' - Euro styled hooliganism and mob gangsterism in local...
‘Singapore’s football gangsters’ – Euro styled hooliganism and mob gangsterism in local league
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The video of a sudden brawl which broke out at a recent Football Association Cup 2016 (National Football League & Island Wide League Stage) match in Singapore has gone viral. The brawl was first brought to light by the captain of Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association (SAFSA), Syafiq Siraj.
His Facebook, as well as the video uploaded by him are no longer viewable to members of the public. But a cached copy of his post is still viewable.
Veteran sports journalist Suresh Nair also shared videos of the brawl in his Facebook.
Commenting on the incident, Mr Nair called the agitators “Singapore football gangsters”.
“Yes, this is NOT Anfield, Moscow or Ankara. This IS Gombak Stadium in Singapore!
In a FAS Cup tournament between SAFSA and Balestier. Unbearable to see!
The worst sickening Euro styled hooliganism and mob gangsterism are coming to town. If this is not curbed, football will go to the dogs. Unbelievable to imagine!
The FAS must come out strongly and (condemn) this rowdyism immediately for sports law and order to be restored in Singapore.
Shame, a big shame, if this is conveniently swept under the piling dirty carpets!
More irony to this farce: SAFSA comes from the highly-disciplined Armed Forces, where discipline is the key moral code. Balestier is managed by a prominent FAS Council Member, who is Chairman of FAS Competitions.
What’s happening? What’s happening? Are we going back to the football shameful era of the 1950s and 60s?
Thankfully, FAS General Secretary Winston Lee assured that “we’re looking into this serious matter”. Let’s get the whip cracking, without fear or favour, please!”
Both Siraj and his mother were sent to hospital and have made a police report.
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It's been a big week for FORTNITE with the official release of the much-anticipated toys. Now there's some game news, as Epic Games has officially-announced the arrival of the rumored FORTNITE Creative - a new mode that lets players design games, battle friends in new ways, and build the Fortnite of their dreams. It all happens on their own private island where everything they make is saved. Check out the announcement trailer below!
Season 7 Battle Pass owners will have access to their own private island for the first week of Season 7. During this early access week Battle Pass owners can invite their friends to play on their island. Starting December 13, all players will have access to a private island for free.
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James Zahn is best-known as The Rock Father™, a media personality, commentator, adventurer and raconteur. He is the Owner, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of THE ROCK FATHER™ Magazine. In January, 2019, after nearly a decade of publishing The Rock Father™ Magazine, he joined Adventure Media and Events as Senior Editor of The Toy Book—the leading trade publication for the toy industry since 1984, as well as The Pop Insider — a destination for all things pop culture, and The Toy Insider — the leading consumer guide for toys and games. He is also editor of The Toy Report, a weekly newsletter published by The Toy Book each Thursday. Zahn has over 27 years of experience in the entertainment, retail and publishing industries.
He regularly serves as a Brand Ambassador and spokesperson for several Globally-recognized pop culture and lifestyle brands in addition to consulting for a number of toy manufacturers.
Creatively, James has directed/edited music videos, lyric videos, and album trailers for bands such as FEAR FACTORY, has appeared as an actor in feature films and commercials, written comic books, and performed in bands. He currently serves as an artist manager and video director for PRODUCT OF HATE, whose debut album was released by Napalm Records in 2016, distributed by ADA/Warner Music in the U.S. with Universal Music handling global. A new album has been completed and is set for release this year.
Zahn and/or his work have been featured in/on CNN, NBC, ABC, WGN, CBS, GCTN, G4, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, MarketWatch, Reuters, BusinessWire, Fangoria, Starlog and more. He's appeared as a music expert on CNN's AC360 alongside Anderson Cooper, and has been interviewed by Larry King. In the past he served as a writer for the Netflix Stream Team, Fandango Family and PBS KIDS, penned articles for Sprout and PopSugar, and was a contributor to Chicago Parent.
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CCTV surveillance to be extended in city
By By Our Reporter On Dec 21, 2016
SHILLONG: More localities in the city will soon come under surveillance as East Khasi Hills police have decided to install 30 more CCTV cameras.
The police department has submitted a proposal to the headquarters for bringing more areas in the city under its hawk eyes after the already installed cameras helped it check crime to a great extent.
East Khasi Hills SP M. Kharkrang said on Monday, “It has helped us in preventing and detecting many crimes, besides nabbing those involved in hit-and-run cases.”
The District police sent the proposal to the police headquarters earlier this year and are still awaiting approval.
At present, 30 locations in Shillong are under the surveillance of CCTV cameras and till April this year, the cameras led to the detection of as many as 188 cases of crime, including instances of drunken brawls and wrong parking.
The project is being implemented by the North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach and the State Police have been laying emphasis on installation of CCTV cameras after miscreants set on fire two people in the city during the ILP agitations that rocked the State in 2013.
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Your Kids' Favorite Crayons Could be Full of Dangerous Toxin
Judy Dutton July 8, 2015 at 7:00 AM
Asbestos is definitely one of those things parents want to keep away from their kids -- but as long as your child isn't hanging out in some condemned building, he's safe, right? Well, not according to a new report by the nonprofit watchdog the Environmental Working Group, which has found asbestos in crayons. That's right -- crayons.
To conduct this study, the EWG purchased 28 boxes of crayons at various national retail chains. Four brands were found to contain asbestos fibers: Amscan, Disney Doc McStuffins Jumbo Crayons, Disney-Pixar Monsters University Confetti Crayons, and Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Crayons.
All the asbestos-laden crayons were made in China. And although some were named after popular Disney franchises, it's unclear whether those brands were official license holders or just random pirated knock-offs (in other words, Disney may not be to blame here).
The reason asbestos is so dangerous is these tiny fibers, if inhaled, can lead to cancer and other fatal lung diseases down the road. In crayons, these particles can be released into the air as children grind crayons down to create their drawings.
Another potential asbestos hazard named in this EWG report? Kid crime scene kits, which contain fingerprint detection powder that could contain trace amounts of asbestos. Even more alarming, this powder could be easily inhaled as kids blow the powder off the fingerprints.
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Health authorities have actually been aware of this problem since 2000, when the Consumer Product Safety Commission conducted tests on crayons and concluded that the risk of exposure was "extremely low," yet "as a precaution, crayons should not contain these [asbestos] fibers." Yet clearly some crayons still do.
What's more, product labels don't disclose the presence of asbestos ... so what's a concerned parent to do?
While avoiding crayons sounds cruel, what you can do is stick with crayon companies that have vowed to purge asbestos from their products. Although crayons sold by Crayola, Prang, and Rose Art were found to have asbestos in 2000, they have since complied to safety standards, and the EWG also tested eight new samples of Crayola crayons, all of which were found to be asbestos-free. Avoid cheap restaurant crayons (or throw them out after you leave the restaurant, rather than saving them). And, of course, keep an eye on your coloring kids -- it's not unheard of for kids to eat crayons!
You can also support a bill known as the READ Act -- for Reducing Exposure to Asbestos Database -- now under consideration in Congress. If passed into law, it would make sure that Americans have accessible and up-to-date info about asbestos-containing products.
Are there any substances you're worried may be in your kids' toys?
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Melodies are so far my best friend
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PRICE is the name behind a fictional character developed by artist Mathias Ringgenberg in a number of hybrid performative works across the last years. The live and video performances with elaborate soundscapes, costume and stage designs as well as a music album, which constitute his body of work, seem at first to obey contemporary imperatives of self-presentation. They could be understood as exercises in ostentatious self-exposure, which explore the affective resonances to an environment that demands constant divestments of the self. We would then be presented a solipsistic figure, who embodies, sings and speaks about the psychopathologies resulting out of these conditions, feelings of loneliness and a fundamental disconnectedness leading the way. The often tormented appearing countenance of PRICE would thus make his work appear as a critique of the advent of social media. Even though such a reading might be accurate to some degree, it ultimately fails to recognize certain key issues put forward by his work.
PRICE offers a profound interrogation of selfhood, highlighting its necessary fictionality and nonetheless persistent efficacy under present conditions. His voice, an integral element in all works, plays a crucial role in this endeavor. Philosopher Mladen Dolar has described the voice as both going beyond and remaining attached to signification. From this twofold attribution, he locates two distinct traditions of conceiving the voice in Western thought. The first and dominant one treats the voice as a transparent carrier of meaning, ignoring those aspects that exceed signification, and the other one, of which the most prominent example would be singing, neglects the signifying aspects of the voice and treats its physical qualities as an object of admiration. Synthesizing the two prior models, Dolar continues to develop a third way of conceiving the voice that makes it especially suitable for psychoanalytic inquiry.1 Counter to Dolar, I want to argue that PRICE employs primarily the second of the two established conceptions, the one stressing its carrier qualities over meaning and evident in the musicality of his work, in order to critique the normative power of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis offers an important model and mode of confessionality that precedes and informs more recent forms of compulsory self-disclosure.2 There is a well established line of queer and feminist critiques of psychoanalysis, which makes it worthwhile to consider these in conjunction with contemporary demands of self-exposure as suggested in PRICE’ work.
The broad range of affects covered in his performances along with recurring biographical anecdotes (childhood pillow scenes, episodes from adolescence etc.) and self-pathologizing lines (“I’ve got issues, you’ve got issues”) can be understood as misleading flirtations with the psychoanalytic promise of the voice as a possible access point to a hidden, interior truth. Misleading because they are in fact the result of various disidentificatory3 appropriations from a vast archive of pop cultural references. Mistrust against psychoanalysis is also made apparent in a sequence of his debut performance, where PRICE delivers a scatological account of the ur-szene of artistic production. We are told that the first artistic object produced by human is “ka-ka” (note the onomatopoeic wording), mocking psychoanalysis’ obsession with infantile ”stages” and their meaning for psychic development.
The activity of self-disclosure witnessed in PRICE’ performances and structurally rooted in psychoanalysis is revealed to be under the conditions of affective capitalism the product of an extraordinary amount of continuous labor by not only himself but a variety of collaborators such as fashion designers and music producers, whose influence into the creation of PRICE is always kept transparent. The monetary connotation behind his chosen artist name and its literal capitalization, understood homonymously, further point to the importance of the connection between commodification and subjectivity in his work. It is also no coincidence that we find PRICE almost always appearing with his signature shiny “glow”. Initially, it seems to stem from a lavishly applied layer of sun cream onto his face, as indicated in one of his early video performances. This not only refers to a meticulous skin care routine, evoking contemporary obsessions with youth and beauty and conversely a paranoid fear of aging, but can also be deliberately misread as a thick cover of sweat resulting from the labor required for the maintenance of the fiction of selfhood and its ongoing exposure. In the reflective and sleek texture this produces onto the skin, we encounter an erotics of the surface that is paralleled sonically by the employment of aestheticization strategies for the voice, through singing, in order to reject any claims of interiority associated with it.
In his more recent work, this erotics of the surface, crucial for the understanding of PRICE’ early performances, is questioned pervasively in relationship to the subject moving in and inhabiting physical, social and discursive space. A wooden stretcher frame figures as an important element of the scenery in one of his latest performances, putting contemporary forms of coercive image building in proximity to art history and painting. It is important to note that the wooden frame comes in the shape of a grid, the grid being not only an “emblem of modernity” to recall a famous phrase by Rosalind Krauss but also an emblem of an utterly flattened out spatiality. In his performance, this structure, precisely, functions as the locus where PRICE tries to become literally flat, an image, and inevitably fails to do so. In the beginning of his newest performance, we see PRICE interacting in varying manners with a table and pushing it to an already arranged line of tables that exceeds the proper stage area and projects into the audience stand, slightly resembling a fashion catwalk. The odd ways PRICE chooses to interact with the table brings Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology to mind: In her introductory chapter, Ahmed departs from the writing table to highlight how perception is connected to the way bodies are turned toward objects around them. Lines of direction shape the way we perceive the world, and her interest is dedicated to the question what happens if we are “out of line” in order to develop an understanding of “queer orientation”.4 A lot of PRICE’ more recent work is situated in the productive tension between flatness and this notion of queer orientation. The curtain fabrics appearing prominently in the newer work seem to echo this interest. They function as a comment on traditional theater’s architectural configuration and the line of direction it generates, but also as something to wear, restructure space, as backdrop or cover. The wide range of uses we encounter is enabled by its material polymorphism, which makes it possible to be both flattened out and draped, folded and unfolded.
Art historian David Joselit writes: “flatness may serve as powerful metaphor for the PRICE we pay in transforming ourselves into images – a compulsory self-spectacularization which is the necessary condition of entering the public sphere in the world of late capitalism.”5 PRICE manages to link these self-spectacular logics governing our contemporary world to earlier modes of confessionality grounded in psychoanalysis. His work offers a moving aesthetic exploration of both their inevitably fictional character and actual potency in terms of racial, sexual and gendered normativization as well as the economic forces perpetuating them.
1 Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More (The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA/London, 2006), p. 4.
2 Following Foucault, one could, in turn, trace back psychoanalysis’ specific mode of speaking to an earlier power technique that he named pastoral power and which originated in Christian institutions before gradually getting secularized and eventually becoming one of the key techniques to structure the modern sexuality dispositif among others.
3 José E. Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN/London, 1999).
4 Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Duke University Press: Durham, NC/London, 2006).
5 David Joselit, Notes on Surface: Toward a Genealogy of Flatness in: Zoya Kocur/Simon Leung (eds.), Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985 (Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton, VIC, 2005), p. 293. Emphasis added.
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Agency ID 3799
Title Magistrates Court, Hungerford
Start Date 3/4/1922
The Magistrates Court is the local court where all criminal and many civil cases first enter the court system.
642 Police Charge Bench Book 1/1/1965 17/9/1967
19 Department of Justice (I) 3/4/1922 7/12/1989
658 Court of Petty Sessions, Hungerford
Queensland Government Gazette 1922, Vol CXVIII, No 99, p. 999
Small Debts Courts Acts 1867-1894
Justices Act 1886
Justices Act Amendment Act 1964
Penberthy Fry, T., Australian Courts and Administrative Tribunals, University of Queensland, 1946
Establishing Magistrates Courts Act 1921
Administered Magistrates Courts Act 1921
Justices Regulation 2004
Under the "Magistrates Courts Act 1921", from 3 April 1922 onwards: all small debts courts established under the Small Debts Courts Acts 1867-1894 were deemed to be magistrates courts, all officers of small debts courts were deemed to be officers of magistrates courts. Under this legislation, from 3 April 1922 the Small Debts Court, Hungerford was deemed to be the Magistrates Court, Hungerford.
Under the "Justices Act Amendment Act 1964", from 1 January 1965 onwards: all courts of petty sessions districts were deemed to be magistrates courts districts, all places previously appointed for the holding of courts of petty sessions were deemed to be places for the holding of magistrates courts, all clerks of petty sessions were deemed to be registrars of magistrates courts. Under this legislation, from 1 January 1965 onwards, the Court of Petty Sessions, Hungerford was deemed to be the Magistrates Court, Hungerford.
Under the "Magistrates Courts Act 1921", magistrates courts inherited the civil functions of small debts courts. With the abolition of district courts by this same Act, their jurisdiction increased to claims of £200 or less in the following civil actions: personal actions, actions for the unliquidated balance of a partnership account, actions for a distributive share under an intestacy or for a legacy under a will, equity suits for recovery of money or damages, actions for replevin concerning distress for rent, summary actions for ejectment between lessors and lessees, and complaints for maintenance. In 2000 Magistrates Courts hear claims to $50000.
Under the "Justices Act Amendment Act 1964", magistrates courts inherited the petty criminal jurisdiction of courts of petty sessions. Petty criminal jurisdiction is a complicated matter of law involving numerous Commonwealth and State statutes but can be briefly described as jurisdiction over summary trials of simple offences and committal proceedings for indictable offences sent to the Supreme Court.
Actions brought before a Magistrates Court are heard and determined by a magistrate sitting alone. From 2004 the Magistrates Court, Hungerford is within the Cunnamulla Magistrates Courts District.
Queensland State Archives Agency ID3799, Magistrates Court, Hungerford
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Leo Takes To The Skies
When one peruses the list of theatrical releases for the year with the purpose of composing a Top 10 of the year, which Cinecultist did last night, mixed emotions arise. Can one place a film on the list which one hasn't seen yet, but which we think will be on the TT (ie. Hotel Rwanda)? And what should one do with the guilt over certain pantheon directors still not making TT worthy films? It tears us up inside Marty! Quit breaking our hearts! This is our roundabout way of saying sadly, The Aviator was totally butt-numbing.
It's been requested that with our tremendous pull in the movie making industry, CC put a call out to directors to restrict themselves to 120 minutes. We don't need 180 minutes of Leo with long nails, twitching, peeing in milk bottles, seducing starlets and flying phallic airplanes. It's just not necessary. We did like Cate Blanchett as Kate Hepburn, she does that eccentric WASPy thing very well. Actually, now that we think of it, Cate has delivered two weirdly wonderful performances this year, as Kate and then as the journalist Jane Winslett-Richardson in the Life Aquatic. They're both just this side of caricature and quite engaging.
This doesn't redeem Martin Scorsese from the double whammy of Gangs of New York and now the Aviator, but at least we know he can still make some good choices. However, whoever decided on those wacked out faux superhero title credit should be given the boot.
Posted by karen at 11:11 AM |
Holiday Overload
Oy. It's getting to be that time of the season where the Cinecultist is hanging on by a thin thread. Everyone around us is either getting really sick with that evil stomach bug, freaking out over their workload or going hay wire from holiday shopping stress. We've tried hovering near the 1st Avenue tree stand breathing deeply from the pine-y goodness, but it's not done too much good so far.
A few things getting us through right now:
Our eBay bid on the Interactive Talking Edna Doll from the Incredibles movie. This is so going on our desk at the day job in the new year. On Gothamist today, we also have some other movie related gift ideas, and Jen offered a few music related ones. Together, it's the Seth Cohen Christmukah Starter Pack! Beat that Virgin megastore gift table!
Ken Tucker at New York magazine called our friend John Walter's movie How To Draw A Bunny, his third favorite movie of the year. Yipee! Rent it today, you won't be sorry.
This random quote from this week's NY mag... "I learned what every self-respecting Ohioan has always known: Big chains offer their own kind of bliss. Most notably, popcorn shrimp, which I've been enjoying in immoderation at Red Lobster in Times Square. The little fried frizzles are yummy, and it's a place where no one will ever look for me: a big family restaurant in midtown. I can wrap a breaded coating around myself and go to sleep."
While we're not ready to start eating in Times Square chain restaurants, if anyone knows where CC can buy some fried breading pajamas, please send the info to our regular e-mail.
Posted by karen at 10:57 PM |
It's All In The Tone
Last week, Cinecultist alluded to the geeked out children's lit conversations between ourselves and our friend Lisa Graff, a student in the New School graduate writing children's lit program. Now we bring to you, in lieu of a straight up review, our continuing chat with Lisa about Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events wherein we discuss adaptation issues, how Klaus should have been fat with glasses and our favorite children's movies when we were kids. BTW: The Neverending Story scared the bejeebers out of Lisa as a child, in case you were wondering.
elysecritic: The more advertisements I see [for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events], the more I'm struck by how they're touting it as a Jim Carrey movie, like the Mask or something. Odd, don't you think?
lisa: YES. It really bugs. Even the covers of the new books have Jim's face plastered all over them. Like the books didn't sell enough copies before he showed up to promote them.
elysecritic : Do you think that's to spread out the market -- appeal to Lemony Snicket fans and Jim Carrey fans, or do you think it comes from a misunderstanding of the "point" of the books, as you see them?
lisa: hmm. Excellent question. Maybe a mixture of both. I think you could be right about trying to appeal to JC fans who wouldn't otherwise see a kiddy Snicket movie, but then the movie itself really revolved around Count Olaf, which I don't feel like the books did. Olaf's present in every book, and he's certainly the most colorful character, but the story's really all about the kids and how their cleverness gets them out of these tough spots.
elysecritic: I caught a few minutes this morning of "Roeper and Ebert" and that idiothead Roeper was saying, he thought it was boring how the structure revolved around the three kids meeting a new guardian, Olaf shows up, then they have to escape. He thought they could have varied the plot more! He also wanted it to be more upbeat. That's the point when I just turned it off so I wouldn't have to spit at the TV, but I think it's always interesting to see how someone like Roeper � who does zero research on the movies he sees, in my opinion � can like any ordinary viewer misunderstand a movie. In otherwords, would the movie have been perhaps less misunderstood if it were darker? Less sunny at the end, as a sop?
lisa: You should have spit on Roeper.
elysecritic: Someday, I'll get my chance.
elysecritic: He's not an adaptations man.
elysecritic: I don't think he reads, actually. That's my personal theory.
lisa: There were parts I thought that were WAY too cheerful. Vomit-inducing, even. But I think the tone of the books was so hard to carry through to the big screen. Some of the parts that were so funny in the books didn't carry through completely, and maybe that's because they came off a lot darker than they did in the book. I'm trying to think of examples, you'll have to give me a sec.
elysecritic: So, is Snicket unadaptable? Or was it a case of the wrong director, or producers who didn't deliver on the promise of the book? (Side note, I don't think anything is unadaptable actually. But I'd like to see a book that could stump a really visionary director, just to see if it's possible. as I said last night, books and movies are different things, but I think most books can be translated to the screen.)
lisa: I've been debating over that since yesterday, and I think maybe it was unadaptable to some extent. It's like if someone tried to make a movie out of Tristram Shandy, say. It would suck. And that's because the story is not really in the events or the "plot," but rather in the narration. It's like that in Snicket, because all of the humor is in the narration. Because Roeper's right, to some extent. The story is really repetitive. And that's only fun to read when you have this crazy narrator cracking you up every other line. I thought they did a pretty good job with Mr. Law on that front, but still, narration's just hard to pull off in a movie.
elysecritic: Entertainment Weekly thought Law was spot on as the narrator. And I'll say I liked him as well, in particular that it was his voice but not his sillouete at the typewriter. That might have been distracting. Instead, we just get his perfect voice and some other person's hands and profile. I found that quite smart on the filmmaker's part.
lisa: I agree. And I thought of an example of where the movie was much darker than the books (it helped that I pulled them off my shelf...). I think a really great example is when the kids find out their parents have died. It's a sad moment, obviously, but still somehow in the book there's humor there. For instance, right after Mr. Poe tells them their parents "have perished in a terrible fire," he explains, "Perished means 'killed.'" And then Klaus gets mad because Mr. Poe thinks he's an idiot who doesn't know what "perished" means. See? Darkness and humor at the same time.
elysecritic: That's a great bit. But do you think your love of the book ruined your movie going experience? As a person who hasn't read them, though I've heard lots about them from you, I didn't know that moment could have been there, so I didn't miss it. Does a slavish devotion to a books details (ie. Harry Potter I & II) hamper a movie's ability to tell it's own kind of story?
lisa: Hmm. Another interesting point. I don't know. I think loving a book can mess up what you think of a movie, because as you pointed out, you know what's missing or added and you're constantly comparing. But I didn't really feel that way with the Harry Potter movies. I think I noticed most of the changes, but they were all so true to the story (and I could see how they were necessary to make the movie better) that none of them bothered me. I think with Snicket the changes upset me because they didn't seem to represent the books. The tone was off, and I'm a huge fan of the tone. It's what makes these books so great. So even the things I thought were really funny in the movie (like Sunny's subtitled witticisms) still kind of perturbed me because they wouldn't have been in the book.
elysecritic: That makes sense. Do you want to say some words about the casting? I know you felt strongly about that. Generally, I found the kids amiable and I enjoyed the adults in minor roles like Meryl Streep, Cedric ("Whatchyou doin' here Olaf, man?") the Entertainer, Luis Guzman, Jane tk her last name, etc.
lisa: Meryl Streep was perfect. Can't say enough great things about her as Aunt Josephine (or in general). Baby Sunny was the cutest thing on earth, and even though that goes against my perception of her as this ornery biting-machine from the books, I think that worked for the movie. I was SO not digging that Liam kid who played Klaus. Not that his acting was bad, but it just wasn't the Klaus I've come to love. In the books, he's not a moody kid. Or emotional and weepy. None of them are. When things go wrong, they're all business about fixing things, and Klaus fixes things by reading. None of this oh weepy me, my parents don't love me, let me soliloquize by the window now. No. It's all about the READING, and that's what's funny -- that we know they're in terrible danger and yet here's this kid who's going to read his way out of it.
elysecritic: You mentioned earlier, your love of the book's tone. Did you find the production design compelling, in terms of delivering on tone? If nothing else, I liked the way the thing looked. In particular, I found the closing credits quite arresting. It almost made me wish the whole thing had been done in Edward Gorey-esque cut outs, although maybe an animated Lemony Snicket would have been too precious, now that I think about it. But I did like the faux-Victorian English look of the sets and costumes, though the movie seems to not be placing the story in any particular place or time, despite the distinctive look.
lisa: You're right about the end credits. I think they were my favorite part, which is slightly sad, but kind of not, because they were seriously fantastic. I was taken aback by the slightly goth look of the movie at first, but I think it did do a lot to set the tone as being kind of out-there weird. The books aren't set in any real time or place, and that would definitely be a difficult thing to work with in making a movie. I think their decisions were probably good ones. But I felt like they let the sets and costumes run the show a lot of the time, and down-played the wackiness of the situations the kids were in. Like, don't they notice that Aunt Josephine's house is built on freakin' stilts?? Let them have a moment of reflection on that one, so the "look" and the story can interact a bit, you know?
elysecritic: Yes, I see that. Though, all of those odd details are taken in stride by these kids, which I thought you were implying was their modus operundi?
lisa: Hmm. Yet another good point. I must think upon that.
elysecritic: You didn't realize I don't dwell in the "dude that was awesome" reaction when I get down to it, eh?
lisa: Having had nothing to base your opinion of the movie on, did you think it was more funny, or more dark? I remember you said you liked the movie but you felt like it wasn't truly spectacular. What do you think it was missing?
elysecritic: Overall? I'm not sure what was missing. It just wasn't inspired, I guess. I expected more magic coming from the screen. Not hocus pocus exactly, just movie magic like the third Harry Potter. I feel that Alfonso Cuaron raised the bar on kiddie movies this year. Him and Brad Bird, of the Incredibles.
lisa: Excellent movies, both of them. AND kid-friendly. That's hard to do.
elysecritic: Children's films can be thrilling entertainment, even for adults. I remember how jazzed I was as a kid by certain movies, Dark Crystal, Mary Poppins, The Neverending Story, the Muppet movies when I was little. I don't know that all of those examples still hold up, advances in technology etc, but I think they are what could be.
lisa: Okay, The Neverending Story scared the bejeebers out of me as a child, but other than that I'm with you. And I think kid's don't need the technology. They're getting way more sophisticated, sure, but still it's all about the story. I think it's just like grown-up movies. We're willing to forgive some hokey fake punches here and there, or UFOs on strings, if the story is really intriguing. Of course, having technology AND a good story is even better.
elysecritic: True. Any final thoughts?
lisa: Excellent end credits.
elysecritic: Indeed. I don't know that I would recommend the movie per se, especially to discerning kid viewers, but there were parts I liked well enough. Not a complete disappointment. Faint praise, I know but hey, at least it didn't suck as much as the Fat Albert movie looks like it's going to. Talk about trampling on my childhood... How could Cosby? How could he? Well. That's a rant for another time.
lisa: Word.
Overpaid Actors Entertain Themselves
About a week ago, Cinecultist watched Ocean's Twelve, now referred to with fondness as The Twelve. Who knew a vanity project like this, chock-a-block with self-indulgent stars, and a sequel to boot could be so darned entertaining? It only goes to show that Steven Soderbergh is really The Man. At least when it comes to constructing likable Hollywood product, when he could be just paid to phone it in.
Right after she went to see it, our friend Ilana, programmer of the Twelve Days of the Cloon, called to warn us that The Twelve is a heist movie with no heist. Knowing this before you go to see the film will alleviate any pesky desires for causal plot. One of the strengths in The Eleven is the way the camera shows us every little black leather clad detail of the casino's heist. But this time out, Soderbergh eschews revealing for obfuscation, otherwise known in less skillful hands as inside jokes. Like the scene depicted in the still above where the young Matt Damon goes along with George and Brad for a sit down in an Amsterdam "caf�" to discuss business with one of their contacts. Like those weirdo childhood games where your statement has to include certain letters or images to count as a clue, the other three men seem to know how to communicate while Matt's character is completely useless.
No one in this is taking it all to seriously, except for perhaps Vincent Cassel, who plays Fran�ois Toulour, the master thief and playboy trying to out nab Danny Ocean. Silly, silly man. Doesn't he know who he's dealing with here? This is the Cloon, in all of his middle-aged, salt and pepper, impeccable suits, rakish grin firmly planted glory. Look at the international super star go, as he does what he does so well. But getting back to Vincent, aka Mr. Monica Bellucci, he keeps himself in good shape. The sequence where he break-dances through a laser field is worth the price of admission alone. Though, the scene where he works out in those white pajama pants is pretty damn good too.
With so much loveliness and finesse and sleek little roadsters motoring up to Lake Como villas (remember Ilana, when you're Mrs. The Cloon, we're coming for late summer visits), it seems perfectly acceptable to ignore the less than stellar performances or bits that pop up. Yes, we're looking in your directions Andy "One Step From Liberace" Garcia and Julia "Look, I'm Preggers!" Roberts. Or rather, we have our fingers in our ears and are singing, while you're on screen. No hard feelings. With this much unabashed movie fun going on, we don't feel guilty about shunning you a bit.
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Feeling A Bit 'Lemony'
So very excited for Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events this weekend. So excited. Out theory: Any book wherein the author's photo (example seen at left) is taken from his back (?!) has to make for an awesome kid's movie. That's what Cinecultist hopes anyway. Further evidence, Jim Carrey in various get-ups wherein the adults never recognize him but all the children instantly do is potentially priceless. Also, two words: Meryl. Streep. Love her. She was a male Orthodox rabbi in Angel's In America. The woman can do anything. The baby, Sunny's main talent is that she bites things. Bites things! It's going to be awesome.
A big part of this level of fanatical excitement comes from our friend Lisa*. Children's book writer, part time nanny and zoo volunteer, she's has been psyching CC up for Lemony Snicket on the silver screen for ages now. It seems like nearly every time we get together the convo turns to either Lemony or Harry Potter (which may account for why we don't really have any other participants in these conversations), and then there's the obsessing. Full disclosure: CC hasn't read any of the books yet, but that's because Lis wants us to read them in order. It's a whole thing. Like most stories which you anticipate the telling of far before you actually read them or hear them, surely Lemony Snicket can't live up to this much hype. It's just not possible. And yet, it's the kid's book version of Tristam Shandy, which every English major worth their salt knows is a post-modernist masterpiece before they even had modernism, let alone po-mo.
*Last year from Halloween, Lisa went as Charlotte's Web. As in the whole book. She had tiny fake spiders in her hair, the web of words on her shirt, Templeton the rat was on her shoe and she carried a stuffed animal pig. My friends, she's hard core.
Maybe we'll hate the movie and have to print a retraction on this whole posting after the weekend. Or maybe we'll have a two thrilled kid's lit fans, CC and Lisa, leaving the theater cheering. Only the fates can tell us. The author would advise turning back now, this can only end in disaster.
[Note to LG: please let us know via one of the usual communication methods when we're going to the cinema this weekend.]
Damn The Man, Save The Vertigo!
Well, it�s a sad day on Pike street. Seattle Maggie is unhappy to report that our favorite movie rental haven, Video Vertigo, is going out of business today. It seemed to be a rather quick decision that no one was expecting; on a recent visit, several grieved patrons wandered in with forlorn puppy-dog faces, asking, �It isn�t true, is it?� Alas, it seems that it is.
Seattle Maggie wishes dearly that we could be in rock band that would rouse the Capitol Hill community to raise the money to keep Video Vertigo going at the very last moment (we may instead sway-dance around our apartment to Dire Straits� �Romeo and Juliet�, or maybe glue some quarters to the floor in an artistic fit), but we don�t think it will help. The official word from the owner is that the closure is a personal decision not prompted by money woes. So, all of our Empire Records fantasies are going out the window, and we are left both sad and fuming that yet another cool independent establishment is shutting its doors for whatever reason.
So we salute thee, Video Vertigo. Thanks for introducing us to obscure Asian horror films, offbeat documentaries (we would never have known about Okie Noodling or taken a Wisconsin Death Trip if it wasn�t for you) and a solid selection of anime. Thanks for not holding it against us when we asked if you had Almost Heroes that one time when Boyfriend Todd was on his inexplicable Chris Farley kick. And thanks for being the funky, excellent video store that we could pop down to when we had a cinematic itch, where we could count on your good opinions to guide us (you were right, Castle Freak was pretty awful) and where, funnily enough, you always knew our name. Best of luck to Rhias, with whom we shared our love of H.P. Lovecraft, and Rob, who was nice enough to fast forward the in-store video so we could watch the crazy Christian turkey beast slaughter some unsuspecting pot smokers. Try getting someone to do that for you at Blockbuster. Yeah � we didn�t think so either.
P.S. We hear that Video Vertigo will be selling what is left of its inventory on Saturday, December 18 - come by and check it out if you're in the area.
Posted by seattle maggie at 4:20 AM |
Look! CC's A Legitimate Entertainment Journalist
What did you do this morning? Cinecultist pretended to be a legit entertainment journalist. We went to the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou press junket at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Battery Park where we ate breakfast on Touchstone's dime (fresh fruit! all you can drink lukewarm coffee!) and then sat in on press conference style convos with screenwriter Noah Baumbach, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray and Wes Anderson. How funny to see our little name alongside the attribution Gothamist.com posted on the press list outside the conference room. More quotes and thoughts on the junket spectacle tomorrow on Gothamist. Perma link now available.
For now, enjoy some promo pics from The Life Aquatic, which isn't getting such hot reviews but oh well, CC still liked bits of it anyway. (Bad sign, the dreaded AOS liked it. Ouch.) Also, we now have two The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou CDs (one of the bits from the movie we enjoyed, those Portuguese acoustic Bowie songs), one of which we'll send to a reader who answers the following Wes Anderson trivia question:
Wes and Owen ran into budget problems while making Bottle Rocket until mega-producer James L. Brooks came on board and offered the first time filmmakers and UTA grads what sweet sum of money?
PS. The CD you'll receive is not the copy which our silly friend John Walter signed "Love You! Wes" inside just to mock us. That one we keep. Be sure to watch John's new movie, Some Assembly Required, on the Sundance Channel (Dec. 14 @ 9 pm) and Court TV this week, it's about the First Amendment's right to assembly and the cut we saw was super duper good.
Be Like Your Favorite Literary Figure
Last night, Cinecultist caught a post-day job screening of the much buzzed about movie, Finding Neverland starring one of our first American thespians, Mr. Johnny Depp. As soon as the "The End" title faded and the credits began to roll, CC and our movie going buddy, Capn' Design, launched into a debate* over whether this could be indeed considered the best movie of the year (as the National Board of Review thought last week), surely causing rampant second-guessing around us in theater and probably ruining our fellow audience member's viewing experience.
This kind of bitchy criticism for criticism's sake reminded CC that we recalled Dorothy Parker wrote reviews of J.M. Barrie plays and was a tad harsh on his sweetness and nostalgia for childhood. But then we were worried CC was just thinking of that one review where she rips A.A. ("Winnie the Pooh") Milne a new one. Rushing home to our Portable Dorothy Parker (no household should be without one), we were relieved to discover, she ragged on both of them. Gotta love our girl Dorothy! Just when you think the sight of Johnny Depp communing in an Irish accent with sickly Kate Winslet and her four towheaded poppets is enough to warm your heart through to new year's, you re-read some acidic DP and all is right in the world.
"I suppose that the fair thing to do is to let the blame for the dullness and the embarrassment of The Admirable Crichton rest equally upon the cast and upon Sir J. M. ("Never-Grow-Up") Barrie. It doesn't, I feel, matter. Conciseness is not my gift. All my envy goes to the inspired Mr. Walter Winchell, who walked wanly out into the foyer after the third act�there are four and they are long, long acts�and summed up the whole thing in the phrase, "Well, for Crichton out loud!"
Personal: Robert Benchley, please come home. A joke's a joke."
- from "No More Fun" published in The New Yorker, March 21, 1931
*By the by, CC's stance was "good but surely not the best thing we saw this year," while the Capn' says, "really like it right now, but not sure how I'll feel about it tomorrow."
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Daggers At The Ready
Cinecultist was pretty psyched to see Zhang Yimou's The House of Flying Daggers. From people who'd seen it during this year's New York Film Festival, we'd heard it was better than Hero, a movie we enjoyed quite a bit. Also, it seemed to bode well that the distributor, Sony Pictures, seemed more anxious to get Flying Daggers into American theaters than Miramax did with Hero (2 years is a long time to sit on a movie people, we will continue to hold a grudge on that one).
However, Flying Daggers had an even patchier plot, and while the visuals are quite lovely (Zhang Yimou makes moving paintings, not moving pictures) it wasn't enough for CC. Leaving the theater we marveled over the awesomeness of Takeshi Kineshiro (feel free to whisper in our ear any day), but why the obsession with being the wind? Isn't that just another way of saying you're a commitment phobe? It all seemed too juvenile to CC. The kind of story written by a spurned junior high school boy convinced that the cute girls always choose the bad boy over the one who's really dedicated to her, ie. him. It seemed like too much special pleading to us, and not emotionally resonant as it was trying to be.
Happy Hannukkah!
Just a little greeting from our Village (The East One) to yours, on this the second night of Hannukkah. Or Chanuka. Or how ever you spell it. (We like to fit as many n's and k's in there as possible.) It's the holiday with a million spellings, yay! CC's planning to have a festive dinner of latkes at Veselka tonight, with extra applesauce.
(Small biographical note, this lovely menorah pictured in front of a synagogue in our nabe, the rabbi here is the uncle of CC's friend, Saul Austerlitz, who also writes about film for the New York Press. See how it all goes back to movies? See?)
Today Is Wes Anderson Day
Cinecultist <3 director Wes Anderson, and everyone who knows us suggested we try to refrain from completely drooling all over him when we interviewed him for Gothamist a few weeks ago. We tried. Honest.
Read the fruits of our brief telephone convo over at Gothamist today.
Also, we wrote a short review of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as a part of Reverse Shot's weekly contributions to indieWire. Thoughts from Michael Koresky, Michael Joshua Rowin and CC, with many of the same points from each but with wildly different interpretations of how good those elements were.
And, if you're not one of the lucky winners of the Gothamist free passes to the movie tonight (don't worry, there were 1,475 odd click throughs who didn't get one. Crazy amount, no?), it's playing on Wednesday at 8 and 8:30 pm at the MoMA as a part of their Premieres series before it opens this weekend.
PS. If you're going to the movie, and or, you won one of the red Team Zissou ski caps and matching Speedos, please send us your comments or better yet, a picture. We'd love to hear from you.
A Sunday With the Cinecultist � Hello, Space Cadet
Picture a Cinecultist in the lobby of the 14th Street Loews trying to pick up a pre-purchased ticket to Closer on Sunday afternoon with our credit card. The movie starts a 1:55 pm, but we were way-layed in Filene's purchasing some new tights then held up at Cosi grabbing a sesame ginger chicken sandwich, and so it's now 2:07 pm. The reader won't recognize our card. Weird. Neither will the other one. That's funny. CC walks over to the counter to enquire with a real person as to why we can't pick up our ticket to Closer. Oh wait, here's why. Closer isn't playing at this theater. Head smacking and muttering ensues. Where is it playing? Quick consultation with Moviefone. 3rd Ave and 11th Street is where we're supposed to be for the 1:55 showing. Drat!
Needless to say, after we booked it over there, CC missed the first 15 minutes of the movie. But that's okay, as we think we caught the gist of it pretty well. Two couples, swapping of various partners, pain, upset, conversations about sex, and beautiful faces. As many of the reviews have been saying, it's a technically well done movie but it's not really something which resonates beyond the credits. Clive Owen, well, CC went to see King Arthur on his behalf so you understand the level of our devotion. Jude and Julia also quite good but neither give revelation performances. And Nathalie Portman, eh? She sure is pretty but we have to say we found her cerebral stripper a bit creepy. She's too tidy to be the sex industry, or maybe that's just us.
The most arresting part for Cinecultist actually was the theme song which plays all through the preview and is in the final montage of our sad protagonists. We've given you a downloadable audio link below and suggest just looking at pictures of Clive and Jude while listening to it, rather than spending the $10 on admission. It's cleaner and more to the point this way, wouldn't you agree?
Damien Rice � "The Blower's Daughter"
An Ethan Hawke For The 21st Century
Last night as a part of the Reel Pieces series at the 92nd Street Y, Cinecultist and Josh Cultivated Stupidity took in a screening of Gattaca (1997) before a discussion with the film's star, Ethan Hawke. It's sort of a relief when a pre-teen crushes of ours continues to be a credit to CC's interest in him. Hawke's a well-spoken and thoughtful interview subject, with the right awount of wry self-mockery and sincere, serious interest in the "craft" of acting.
CC enjoyed his release from this year, Before Sunset, quite a bit but we left it feeling a bit like a Jewish mother towards poor, gaunt Ethan. Someone needed to be force feeding that boy baked potatoes on the set, he was just far too thin. We were worried. However, last night he appeared to be in fine form, full of banter and also filling out in a reasonable way his brown corodoray suit thing. Welcome back from the precipice, E. It's feel comfortable to offer the guy nicknames because his on stage comfort with the moderator Annette Insdorf. She was well prepared and able to cover the breadth of Hawke's filmography from Explorers to Tape to even his theater work.
Watching Gattaca again after all of these years, it really did hold up surprisingly. The performances are all quite nice and the visual style, of sci-fi futuristic America combined with a '50s modernist aesthetic really works. If you're not totally sick of Jude Law this season (6 features!), it's worth a rental for his performance as the crippled Valid alone. As Ethan pointed out in the interview, the boy is gorgeous. We can understand how that was his initial impression of him as he walked into the casting office to read.
Getting back to Ethan, we're excited to see him take the stage in Hurly Burly later this year (he mentioned being in the process of memorizing lines) but we still think we'll avoid the remake of Assault on Precinct 13. Doing these more commercial projects might allow him to continue to do the small things too, but that doesn't mean we have to go see them in the theaters when they look that dreadful.
Crazy Accents and Nudity � Oh, That Oliver Stone
As we mentioned earlier this week, Cinecultist has been feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of great movies coming into the theaters right now (House of Flying Daggers! Finding Neverland! Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou! Bad Education!), and thus it was with perhaps a bit too much Schadenfreude-tinged glee that CC plunked down our $10 for Alexander the other day. And boy, was it bad. But it's one of those movies where the badness contributed to the fun and if your butt can stand the 3 hour running time, we might actually recommend it to you.
If only Oliver Stone were less himself ("this is my opus") and more Jerry Bruckheimer (Look, it's Johnny Depp in an eye patch!), then we wouldn't feel so much like we were puncturing his auteur balloon with our reveling in the bad epic-ness of the movie. Don't worry, we'll get over our Stone as serious director guilt in a second. Whew, it passed. And speaking of eye patches, CC was fascinated with Val Kilmer's single eye. Why is he missing that eye? Who the hell know. Battle injury, perhaps? There's another minor character who also only has one eye, also unexplained, but we think we recall it was on the opposite side of Val's, which then leads to the confusing thought that perhaps continuity messes up and switched Val's good eye back and forth during the picture.
Either way Mr. Kilmer yells quite a bit, which apparently is what counts for acting in this movie. Yelling and crazy, geography-defying accents is the method to this madness. The Macedonians all sound either Welsh or Irish and then anyone from the outer provinces or who you might call a barbarian behind their back, like Angelina Jolie or Rosario Dawson's characters, sound like Natasha from "the Bullwinkle Show". Poor Rosario. She sounds weird and then she has that blush inducing nude scene with our man Colin where they growl at each other. Girl has got no where to hide, and more enormous breasts than we realized, by the by.
Despite her weirdo accent and snake fetish, Angelina is the best part of this movie. She's seventeen different kinds of crazy, but to watch her in an epic, with all the sweep of history at her finger tips and a larger than life figure to inhabit, is heaven. With her as your mother, you can understand why Alexander had issues with women. We like Colin doing tortured and sexually confused, but for our blood there isn't quite enough pay off on the love affair between his character and Jared Leto's. Perhaps Jared is supposed to be just the coy tease but we would have liked to see a little more actual "stuff," beyond longing looks, requests to "stay" and declarations of undying manly love.
All of this is mere dressing to the climactic battle scene between the bedraggled Macedonians and the Indians with their elephants. Here's where Stone really gets cooking with the reverse color correction to red and the slo mo black stead versus charging pachyderm. That's pretty awesome. If only the whole movie could have had all that energy and verve but sadly, it was not to be.
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Programme for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
From Coastal Wiki
Definition of Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF):
The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna - CAFF - is the Biodiversity Working Group of the Arctic Council. CAFFs Mission is to: Address the conservation of Arctic biodiversity, and communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic, helping to promote practices which ensure the sustainability of the Arctic’s living resources.
This is the common definition for Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), other definitions can be discussed in the article
The CAFF program has five core objectives:
Monitoring of Arctic biodiversity
Conservation of Arctic species and their habitat
Consider the establishment of protected areas
Conservation of nature outside protected areas
The integration of conservation objectives & measures for economic sectors of the society.
Furthur reading
http://arcticportal.org/en/caff
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Domestic airplane makes its debut
By Wang Wen (China Daily) Updated: 2015-11-03 09:57
The C919 plane, which aims to compete with the Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 globally, is ready for ground tests and is expected to make its maiden flight next year.[Photo/China Daily]
The C919, China's first domestically developed large passenger aircraft, rolled off the final assembly line in Shanghai on Monday.
The plane, which aims to compete with the Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 globally, is ready for ground tests and is expected to make its maiden flight next year.
It took seven years for it to progress from the project launch stage to the rollout.
Vice-Premier Ma Kai said at the rollout ceremony, "The research and development of a big passenger aircraft is a complex systematic engineering project, and the rollout is an important milestone for this project."
Ma said the C919 has entered a key stage in preparing for its maiden flight, and the manufacturer also faces tough tasks ahead.
Jin Zhuanglong, chairman of Commercial Aircraft Corp of China, which built the C919, said the maiden flight is scheduled for next year. Before this, the aircraft will soon face a wide range of tests, Jin said.
Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said the domestic civil aviation industry had been calling for a domestically developed aircraft to be put into operation as soon as possible.
Li said 2,635 transport air-craft had been registered with the administration so far this year, but only 23 were domestically manufactured.
"There is an urgent need to make China strong in civil aviation," Li added.
The C919 has received 517 orders from 21 clients globally, including leading domestic carriers and leasing companies.
Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei said the aircraft's rollout marks a solid step in thoroughly implementing the "Made in China 2025" strategy and accelerating the nation's progress to becoming a strong manufacturer.
"The next 15 to 20 years will be an important period in opportunities for the development of China's civil aviation industry," Miao said.
The implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative provides more scope for China's aviation industry to deepen international cooperation and achieve mutual benefits and "win-win results", he said.
Sixteen joint ventures have been set up between Commercial Aircraft Corp of China's foreign suppliers and Chinese aviation manufacturers nationwide.
More than 100,000 people from 200-plus companies in 22 Chinese provinces have participated in the C919 project to date.
The short-to-medium-range single-aisle jet can seat between 158 and 174 passengers and has a standard range of 4,075 kilometers.
Apart from the basic version of the plane, the manufacturer will also launch extended, shortened and cargo versions of the C919 along with a business jet in the future.
With manufacturing capacity comparable to global standards, the corporation's assembly and manufacturing center in Shanghai's Pudong district has set up five assembly lines for the C919.
The corporation's assembly and manufacturing center in Shanghai's Pudong district has set up five assembly lines for the C919.
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Noblesville Breaks Ground On Little Chicago Road Trail
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Noblesville Breaks Ground On Little Chicago Road Trail
Noblesville officials broke ground today on Little Chicago Road Trail, an 8-foot-wide multi-use trail that runs from Indiana 38 to the South Harbour Elderberry Entrance. Little Chicago Road Trail consists of 2,700 feet of new trail and the widening of 2,500 feet of existing 4-foot sidewalk. The new trail will connect to the city’s existing trail network and continue south along Hazel Dell Parkway to 146th Street.
“We are increasing Noblesville’s trail availability and connectivity, which accomplishes a goal of making the city more walkable,” said Noblesville Mayor John Ditslear. “Making these trail connections are just as important as the larger projects. Having more options and longer stretches of trails allows our residents to be outdoors and active.”
Little Chicago Road is the first of five trail connector projects the city will complete this year. Other 8-foot wide trail projects include:
460 feet on 156th Street, east of Summer Road.
405 feet on Cumberland Road, north of SMC Boulevard.
425 feet on Greenfield Avenue, west of Summer Road.
Connecting a small gap on Stony Creek Trail, east of Regal Cinemas Noblesville 10.
Trail work has been a focus this year as two projects near completion:
* Noblesville’s Midland Trace Trail Project Phase I started paving on Aug. 17. The 12-foot wide multi-use trail will be completed in September. The trailhead along Hazel Dell Parkway will be finished around Memorial Day 2018. Phase II, which will extend the trail east to Willowview Road, will begin next year.
* The Riverwalk project, in partnership with Hamilton County, is receiving its finishing touches and will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Friday, August 25. By finishing the third phase, the project provides the missing link of the half-mile trail along the east side of White River in Downtown Noblesville.
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The Key to the Mystery
I was assistant in a clothing store when I was sixteen. Look Smart was the name of the establishment; it was a suitable title. My boss promised all customers that they looked wonderful in her skirts and blouses whether or not they actually did. I would quietly whisper the truth if I thought the colour or the shape was not suitable. They would, usually, thank me for my honesty and dash away to leave my boss shaking her head in frustration.
"I don't know. They never buy, they just try on," she would mutter. "God forgive me."
One afternoon while we idled without customers the door flew open. A red-faced woman burst through.
"I need help today," she said. Then she noticed the vast racks and rails of clothing, and blinked in confusion.
"You do make keys here?"
My boss, a brittle woman with a grim deficit of people-skills and a limit to her English, grumbled her answer.
"You want a dress?"
"No. Just keys."
"We don't carry shoes."
"KEYS!" cried the woman. I thought she might back out and run away.
"Blouse? You see what we have! You go and look!" She waved an irritated hand.
The exchange was terrifying to the bewildered woman; my boss, ever curious about strange people, was climbing all over the conversation. I could not get a word in.
"Is this a lock smith or not?" she pleaded.
"Nobody is called Smith here," my boss said, but she stared at me anyway, on the off chance that my name was secretly Smith after work hours.
"I thought this was a lock smith's."
"We're called Look Smart," I said, explaining the root of the error. "We sell clothes."
"Oh. I see."
She took one more glance around the store, as if a corner for making keys might be tucked away among the sweaters, that we were just not telling her about it.
"Fine," she muttered. Outside she craned her neck to see the name of the store, enough to see the foot-high mistake, and she sidled away up the street.
My boss shook her head.
"They never buy anything. God forgive me but they never buy anything."
"Look Smart" and "Lock Smith" could look similar if your glasses were left on the kitchen counter. I think the customer and the store owner were made for one another, one couldn't see, and the other couldn't hear and comprehend. You, however, were obviously relishing every blathering moment in anticipation of writing it down someday for others to enjoy. Pappy
Texican,
I was, I was enjoying it. I'm sure I'm the only one who still remembers it.
He Had Bananas
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Stand Out on Social with These Visual Acrobatics
by Mary C Long
Social marketers who think their words alone will win fans and influence people — how to put this gently?
Text is out.
It had a good run, but it's pretty much over.
Long form content still has its place.
According to Social Media Examiner's 2016 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, 38 percent of marketers said blogging was the single most important form of content for their business.
Want to know what came in second? Visual marketing, at 37 percent.
Consider these marketers the ones to beat, because they've already figured out the key to cutting through the noise comes down to catching your audience's eye — and words alone just won't cut it.
Visual Media Is In (and That Should Come as No Surprise)
Visual media is hardly an overnight success — images have been part of the equation since the internet began, and certainly have always been part of social media.
But as peoples' attention spans have shortened, visual media has become the most economical and effective way to convey whatever you're thinking or feeling — with far more nuance than abbreviated netspeak and sparse character limitations ever could.
It makes perfect sense consumers have increasingly gravitated to visual content over the past few years.
According to Animoto, "Four times as many consumers would rather watch a video about a product than read about it," while "four in five consumers say a video showing how a product or service works is important."
But don't think it's all about video — it's not. Infographics, for one, are still going strong — they are "shared and liked three times more than any other visual materials available," according to Mass Planner.
And on social media, visual media has influenced how the top networks have evolved. From the simplest of images (emojis and GIFs) to the most compelling videos (360-degree and livestreams), the stories being told on social are increasingly visual ones.
Striving to Stand Out on Social
How have top social networks met this visual content trend? With a variety of new features aimed at attaining social users' love.
Here's a quick break-down of what types of visual content are popular, and where:
There's no time like the present to engage your followers in a one-time only event they can attend without ever leaving the house, and live video offers that connection.
Facebook Live and Twitter's Periscope are the biggest games in town, but other contenders crowd the field.
Facebook reports, "People spend more than 3 times more time watching a Facebook Live video on average compared to a video that’s no longer live." So there's your incentive to embrace this real-time option.
Snapchat and Instagram Stories
Snapchat's success inspired Instagram to come up with a competing version of the 24-hour Story feature. Both networks allow you to add images and videos throughout the day — to be viewed as a single Story, which then auto-deletes after 24 hours.
It's a great way to connect with the privacy-conscious Snapchat crowd, and another way to keep followers interested on Instagram.
User generated content (UGC)
Don't discount the adoring artwork of your fans, as sharing it saves you a lot of time and money you'd otherwise spend on creating your own imagery. Fans can share this type of content anywhere, but Tumblr in particular is one network where artistic users tend to gather.
The option to leave a video comment on Facebook also offers a unique opportunity to engage your followers by making them the star.
Pins are the lifeblood of Pinterest, but brands and marketers may want to take a fresh look at their value. As the Pinterest 100 2017 notes, "People save things on Pinterest for themselves, not for other people."
This means Pinterest gives you a direct look at what consumers care about — and that's every marketer's goal.
Connecting the Visual Dots
Understanding consumers' passions is a crucial part of offering up a customer experience they can't refuse — which starts with how you reach them on social media.
Use the Pinterest 100 2017 as a resource to discover trends for the upcoming year, as well as inspiration for how to creatively use those trends to reach your target audience.
Don't dismiss the importance of social media listening tools as well. The more you can learn about your audience and prospects, the better. People are more than willing to converse with you when the interactions are just that — a conversation. Market "at" them, and you're sure to fail.
Failure is also likely if you don't properly vet your visual media before sharing. American Apparel learned this very publicly when one of its social media team shared what they thought was an image of Fourth of July fireworks — but was actually an image of the fatal Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
Know what you're posting, be sure you're not violating copyright and don't try too hard. There's nothing worse than attempting to be cool when you're not. If you ever thought "LOL" meant "lots of love," you can appreciate how easy it is to get things wrong once that generational divide kicks in.
The in-jokes are evolving, and so is social media. Who knows what the hot thing will be when we reach 2018? But for this year, let the pictures and video do the talking and your brand will be "in" — until the next big thing comes along.
This post originally appeared on CMSWire.
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Gambling Firms Out of London Stadium Naming Rights
3 months ago Byung-joon
Gambling firms are out of the naming rights for the London Stadium as stakeholders look for a deal to reduce their financial losses. That means the stadium can’t have the name of a bookie software or anything related to the industry.
Also, stakeholders don’t want tobacco and alcohol companies to have the naming rights for the stadium. Lord Legacy Development Corporation doesn’t want the name of a brand from those categories because they deemed inappropriate for the image and legacy of the stadium. LLDC is the landlord of the venue.
The stadium is home to the West Ham United of the English Premier League. In recent years, the stadium is losing money. In fact, the most recent financial report showed a $32 million loss in the fiscal year ending to March 31, 2019.
London Stadium Naming Rights
Per head sportsbook experts found out that the venue lost around £3 million a year due to not having a naming-rights agreement. In fact, a naming-deal can bring in more than £20 million a year.
There were talks with Vodafone coming close to a London Stadium naming rights deal. The two parties were trying to work a deal worth £20 million in six years. However, negotiations stopped in May 2017 without coming to an agreement. If the deal pushed through, all the proceeds of the deal will go to the landlord of the stadium. None of the naming rights revenue will go to West Ham.
Financial estimates have operational losses up to £150 million by 2023. Lord Legacy Development Corporation can stop the bleeding if it can close a naming rights deal. Due to the landlord’s preference against gambling firms, West Ham’s shirt sponsor Betway will not be a candidate for the naming rights.
Many people find where to bet on sports through ads. A stadium named after a company can bring more players to a sportsbook. That’s why naming rights is one of the most sought-after deals in the industry.
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Game Over Cookie
Heads up girlfriends and my good boys too, I’m living with a cookie monster. No, not the one you are thinking of. No disrespect to my old friends at Sesame Street, but my cookie monster is fare more high tech.
As some of my sisters know, my beloved works in video games. Incidentally he also plays with them. Many a night of my life has been spent sitting by his side as he shoots zombies or wages war on Afghan rebels via an electronic console and a very large television.
This began when we were dating, almost 20 years ago. The “it” video game at the time was called “MYST”. It was 1994 and I drove to half a dozen stores in a Winnipeg blizzard looking for a copy of the game. My car was a 1972 Plymouth Valiant, it was Minus 30 degrees and the heater was broken. All of the signs were there. I should have know back then the price you pay when you love a gamer.
Years passed and my love grew. I went from an enabling, enthusiastic girlfriend to a supportive wife. I listened patiently to the cries from our family computer while my beloved gamer played the latest and greatest.
Shouts of,
“I need a medic!”
“Requiescat in pace, you bastard”
And “Mario”
Filled my living room over the years.
Did I object to the floods of explosions, grunts and growls that invaded my living room? Not so much.
You see marriage is about loving someone else’s pursuits in addition to your own; it’s about finding room in your life for another’s joy.
And just as my beloved knows every character on Sex and the City, I too know the names of the greatest video game heroes ever. My life can accommodate Duke Nukem and Batman as much as it can handle Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik.
Over the years I have found many ways to turn the other cheek in the name of love and the love of all things gamer. There indeed is a PS3 in our bedroom attached to a 52” screen. Make no mistake , the television was my idea- but the PS3 is my husband’s. Affectionately his user name for this console is “Jay in the bedroom” and yes, I think it’s charming.
Does he play video games in bed? Yes he does. Do I complain about the sound of zombies dying or Orks going to battle? No I do not.
Over the years we have developed an unspoken agreement. I can watch Survivor and Top Chef and any crappy reality television show I chose and he can be “Jay in the Bedroom”.
There was one night when at 2 am I awoke to the sounds of Call of Duty. My beloved had been playing with earphones so as not to disturb me when the batteries on said headphones went dead.
“What’s going on?” I called from a half sleep, woken to the sound of a war zone in my bedroom.
“Shh…” Jason comforted me, “you’re dreaming. GO back to sleep”.
You see my sisters, I know living with a gamer is often a metaphor for a video game itself. There will be times when you understand the rules and navigate through the various chambers and chasms. There will be times when you need a character or two to follow for guidance to a certain level. Sometimes you have a variety of weapons to use and other times you need a tutorial on how to push the little red button to enable a stun gun thingy or something. There will be times when you have to check your health and take a few minutes to restore what was lost. There will be times when you are ready for your next boss battle and times when you need to save your level and come back to it later.
But overall, your avatar is unique and real and something you grow accustomed to as if it had been with you all along.
I myself have only played one real video game in my 42 years on the planet. Sure, I was a child of the PacMan era and yes, I know my way around a Space Invaders but truthfully my only video game on record is Ratchet and Crank. It may even be called Ratchet and Clank- I never can get it right. It too me about a month to finish and I had to set the oven timer for 1 hour increments so as not to get lost playing the game for days on end.
That being said, I am capable of discussing in great detail any of the following video games:
Duke Nuken
Bio Shock Infinite
Batman: Arkam City
Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3
Half Life 1 and 2
Anything SuperMario
I was perfectly happy living a symbiotic video game existence of this nature for years to come. That was until Cookie Clicker came on the radar.
Now, I have not played Cookie Clicker and this is by no means an endorsement. My beloved spent 3 days extolling its virtue. My understanding of this game is that indeed the goal is to make as many cookies as possible. Cookies are made by clicking the mouse button repeatedly. You can then even outsource cookie making to “Grandmas” Whom you hire to do your cookie baking bidding for you while you, say, go a for a walk with your incredibly magical wife. There's also something about cats making milk but I must admit that while Jay was explaining this bit to me, I got a little creeped out and just shut off. Cats making milk? That's just weird.
Cookie Clicker is like the baked goods version of Candy Crush. I have not played Candy Crush, either but I am aware that it is indeed the technical version or crystal meth. I am told by those “on the other side” that indeed once you get hooked on Candy Crush- you are pretty much done for. I even went so far as to warn a friend against Candy Crush activities. Sure I was meddling but indeed she was a doctor with a full time practice and two kids at home. Her life was full enough already; she had no time for a video game addiction.
I myself had never considered my beloved a VGA (Video game addict). He always used enthusiastically but responsibly. There was indeed a time and a place for Unchartered 1, 2 and 3.
So imagine my joy when last Sunday morning I was awoken to the sound of a mouse clicking; not once or twice but at a rate of 120 clicks per minute. Yes, the boy had gone mad….. Mad for cookies and I was now along for the ride.
Make no mistake my sisters- I can handle the odd moment listening to the merits of RTS (real time strategy) or FPS (First person shooter). I can wax poetic and hold his hand and be ever so supportive while he escape from a South American drug lord or asks me to guess how much Rock Star Games made in its opening week of Grand Theft Auto 5.
But I do indeed draw the line at rabid clicking on a Sunday morning.
And so my beloved and I had our first video game fight.
“Click it again and I’ll break your mouse pad” I threatened from behind the pillow.
“Huh?” he asked innocently.
“You heard me,” I growled.
“But sweetie- it's Cookie Clicker. I've gotten millions of cookies. I’ve got grandmas working for me in factories around the world. They need me.”
My husband had turned from a sweet prince of peace to a crazed Cookie Slum Lord with international chocolate chip cartel ties to baked goods. He had factories and seniors as slaves and had subverted several labour laws by my count. This had to end.
“Today is Sunday. You have until Thursday to get this shit out of your system.” I announced, “now go downstairs and click your empire. The bedroom is off limits.”
And there it was.
A study published in Pediatrics in February, 2011 looked at the prevalence of video game addiction in a longitudinal study of 3500 kids in Grade 8. The study used American Psychiatric Society criteria to diagnose video game addiction.
The researchers showed that the percentage of pathological youth gamers in Singapore was similar to other recent video game addiction studies in other countries, including the United States (8.5 percent), China (10.3 percent), Australia (8.0 percent), Germany (11.9 percent) and Taiwan (7.5 percent).
Video Game addiction has been defined as excessive and/or compulsive gaming behaviour. The subject typically needs continued gaming in order to function and becomes irritable or withdrawn when not gaming. Accompanied with this is social isolation as a result of video game play.
In May, 2013, The Fifth version Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders known as the DSM-5 included INTERNET GAMING DISORDER as a new condition requiring further study.
Further studies have shown that certain repetitive play increases blood flow to addiction centres in the brain on PET scans of young adults.
Does my beloved fall into this category? Hell no, my sisters. Settle down. In a world where we often indeed rush to diagnose I will refrain here and now. Sure the boy loves his games but indeed he is not an addict. Does he have a temporary fix on Cookie Clicker? Hell yes. But indeed I’ve given him until Thursday and then like any sympathetic supportive wife…. I am shutting that shit off.
tehehehe ya its crack for gamers, pray that he doesint find out about the meta game .....
You're crazy. Just let him enjoy his game. I was addicted to this game too for a while. If you show him that the game is easily cheated he'll get bored with it in no time. (that's what happened with me).
Just send him here --> http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Cheating
He'll most likely be super tempted to do it and when he does he'll inevitably get bored because it's no longer a challenge.
You're overreacting in a horrible way and I would personally break up with you (but then again I would have gone downstairs to begin with if I was going to be cookie clicking at off hours of the night). But if you really want him to get bored of this game and stop it, let him be aware of the cheats.
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A Battle for an Unconventional Princess: "Saving" Disney's Merida
Left: Merida as she appeared in Brave (2012) and
Right: a promotional image from Merida's induction
into the Disney Princess range.
Why would over 240,000 people feel compelled to sign a petition asking a multi-national, mass media corporation to alter the design of an animated film character as she appears in their merchandise, including clothing and dolls? In the past three weeks, A Mighty Girl, a site that promotes books, movies and toys that celebrate "smart, confident and courageous girls", has promoted the "Keep Merida Brave" campaign. Those who have signed the petition are disappointed that an unconventional girl heroine, who is confident wielding a bow and arrows yet uncomfortable in a fancy dress, has been homogenised in order to enter the Disney princess stable. (The Disney princesses are a lucrative merchandising phenomenon, until now based on the characters of Ariel [The Little Mermaid], Aurora, [Sleeping Beauty], Pocahontas, Snow White, Mulan, Rapunzel, Belle, Jasmine [Aladdin], Cinderella and Tiana [The Princess and the Frog].)
Everyone from Jon Stewart to Brave writer and director Brenda Chapman has criticised aspects of Merida's makeover, including her noticeably thinner build, her dress's lower neckline (indeed the very choice to place her in the more formal dress that she despises in the film), the use of make-up, taming of her unruly hair, and, most significantly of all, the removal of her bow and arrows. Here is one "princess" heroine who does a little more than wait for her prince to come, and yet in her leap from film to Disney's merchandise machine, she has lost most of the qualities that made her distinctive.
Merida merchandise in the Disney store,
It is astonishing to see so many people mobilise, even if only via an online petition, to preserve what they see as a more inspiring role model for girls in popular culture. There will always be comments that call debates about the representation of girls and women a "first-world problem". However, the view that endless depictions of passive girls and women in fiction plays at least some part in limiting options for them in reality has gained widespread acceptance.
While Brave was not quite a Disney production, in that it was produced by Pixar Animation Studios, Disney has owned Pixar since 2006. Though Pixar may have found a way to present a heroine who breaks convention (although in some fairly typical ways, such as through her fiery red hair, the signifier of "different" yet beautiful girl heroines since Anne of Green Gables), it is unthinkable that the homogenising force of the Disney Princess entity would not take some steps to make Merida conform to its brand.
Merida as a baby-face doll for young girls and sparkly
gold sandals from the range
The photograph above, which I took yesterday in the Manchester Disney store, shows a shirt that depicts something closer to the film's original image of Merida. The slogan that accompanies it describes her as "boldly beautiful". The adjective that describes Merida is "beautiful": her appearance is her most important quality. She is unique in that, as the adverb indicates, she is beautiful in a way that is bolder than the likes of Cinderella or Belle, but she's not sufficiently different to be "beautifully bold". Like other princesses in the range, Merida needs to be adapted to sell items like wigs (also available for Rapunzel) and shoes (like the sequinned sandals shown above). These items relate to transforming a girl's appearance in a way that a Merida set of bow and arrows do not. Merida's bow and arrows were not available in the store I visited in England, yet they are currently sold out at the Disney online store for America. The Merida tiara, puffy, sequinned pale blue dress, which bears no resemblance to Merida's preferred dress, and gold gladiator sandals (intended for girls to "embark on a courageous fashion adventure") seem to be in plentiful supply.
Merida dolls in two styles of dress.
Though Merida dolls in both the plain and more ornate dress are available in UK stores packaged with sets of bows and arrows, the overwhelming direction of the Disney princess juggernaut has been toward a particular vision of princesses, even as it has made superficial moves to accommodate diversity. Mulan and Pocahontas may have been granted admission into the pantheon of princesses, yet there are no costumes for these princesses to be found on the US Disney site (however problematic they might be if they did exist there). You can find a Mulan headband, complete with orchid leaves, and a Pocahontas jewellery set, but there is no way for girls to emulate these characters in the same way as they can dress as Cinderella or Rapunzel (who has several costume dresses, both regular and "wedding" edition).
It is still clear that a Disney princess means one particular model or ideal of being feminine, which originated with Snow White in 1937. Individual characters in recent films may break convention in some ways, such as The Princess and the Frog's Tiana, who aspires to own her own restaurant, yet the Disney princess- as an object to be consumed- minimises difference and unique qualities as an integral part of maintaining a brand.
While Disney has clearly been taken by surprise by this social media campaign, it is hard to imagine that the world of Disney princesses will ever expand to fully embrace a natural-faced girl heroine with a drab dress and messy hair. An average appearance and focus on skill rather than beauty is not the dream that Disney sells to small girls and, presumably, their mothers. While the campaign to keep Merida as she appears in Brave shows strong public support for different fictional role models for girls, the ongoing popularity of the generic Disney princess shows that she will be hard to dislodge from her throne.
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Harry Potter has become a household name around the world. On 26th June 2017, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone celebrates 20 years since...
Harry Potter has become a household name around the world. On 26th June 2017, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone celebrates 20 years since it was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997. An online cartridge company has produced an infographic showing the success of the books with a comparison to other successful books and subsequently the films, over the years.
Did you know that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was originally turned down by 12 publishers before Bloomsbury snapped it up for an advance of only 1500 copies? That number now pales in comparison to the 107 million copies that have been sold worldwide in over 70 languages including Greek, Finnish and Vietnamese.
These are just a few of the stats that feature in the infographic created by online cartridge company, Cartridge Save, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publishing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
It goes on to detail the most popular words in the Harry Potter series, including:
· “The” is the most popular word.
· “Harry” appears 16612 times, “Ron” 5784 and “Hermione” 4966 times.
· “Dumbledore” is the next most popular character at 2868 mentions.
· The most popular adjectives in Harry Potter include “nasty”, “terrified” and “magical”.
· “Nothing happened” is the most frequently used sentence in Harry Potter followed by “Harry looked around” and “Harry stared”.
The infographic compares Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone alongside other popular bestsellers, including Don Quixote, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Da Vinci Code. A timeline shows the dates each was published and graphs compare their word counts and copies sold.
Copies Sold
· Harry Potter (full series): 504 million (bestselling series)
· Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: 107 million
· Don Quixote: 500 million (bestselling standalone book)
· Fifty Shades Trilogy: 100 million*
· The Hobbit: 100 million
· The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: 85 million
· The Da Vinci Code: 80 million
*Did you know Amazon UK alone has sold more copies of Fifty Shades of Grey than it has the entire Harry Potter series?
Finally the infographic explores the further development of the books into films, comparing these to other blockbusters:
· Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2): $1.34 billion
· The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: $1.12 billion
· Alice in Wonderland (2010): $1.03 billion
· The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: $1.02 billion
· The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: $858.4 million
Source: Cartridge Save
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2 Opening Acts Announced for Fleetwood Mac at A Day On The Green - Nov 30th Geelong, Australia
Richard Clapton & Stonefield named as Special Guests for Fleetwood Mac The Hill Winery, Geelong - Saturday November 30th.
Promoter Roundhouse Entertainment is pleased to announce the special guest support artists for the sold out Fleetwood Mac concert at The Hill Winery Geelong.
Much-loved singer songwriter Richard Clapton and the blues-influenced rock of Stonefield will provide the perfect accompaniment to the legendary Fleetwood Mac.
All tickets to the Saturday November 30 concert are completely sold out but promoters are keen to ensure a great value-for-money day with the inclusion of special guests to the bill.
Richard Clapton is a huge a day on the green crowd favourite. He has endeared himself to music-lovers everywhere through his heartfelt inspired performances and a songbook that defines our times. With hits like ‘Girls On The Avenue’, ‘Deep Water’, ‘Capricorn Dancer’ and ‘I Am An Island’ Richard was a thoroughly deserving and popular inductee into the ARIA Hall Of Fame. In late 2012 he released his first album in eight years “Harlequin Nights” to universal acclaim.
Opening the show will be one of the next big things in Aussie music, Stonefield. The four Findlay sisters from a small farming town in North Victoria were raised on their parents’ vinyl collection of Zappa, Hendrix and Zeppelin. Since winning Triple J’s 2011 Unearthed High competition, they have been solidly building a fan base through performances at major festivals including Glastonbury in the UK, supporting the likes of Kaiser Chiefs and Foo Fighters and at their own shows. After several successful releases, the girls have just finished recording their first album, a dynamic collection of blues-influenced rock, set for release on October 11.
Playing times are:
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More than 14,000 fans will attend the concert making it arguably the biggest ever staged in the region. Due to the capacity crowd, promoters suggest patrons leave the car at home and travel by coach. For coach and shuttle bus enquiries, contact Melbourne On The Move 1300 558 686 and locally McHarry’s Coaches on 03 5223 2111.
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Planet Earth, Space Debris
Posted online: 2009/04/03
by: Bechara J. Saab1*
Vol.7 No.1 ˑ
1Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1A8. Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5G 1X5.
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Please cite this article as: Saab BJ. Planet Earth, Space Debris. Hypothesis 2009, 7(1): e1.
The Astronomy and Space Exploration Society’s 6th annual conference in early 2009 discussed the new: new space robots, new space nations, new space motives, and new space problems. That is the general purpose of a conference, after all – to discuss what’s new. Included in the discussion was the concept that space flight is becoming more accessible and desirable, and consequently more risky. It appears there is a potential situation on the horizon that, at least theoretically, could render future use of Earth’s orbit impossible.
For those of us who haven’t yet made it up into space to look down onto Earth, there are techniques for tantalizing our temptations: museums, telescopes, websites, simulators, board games, computer games, television shows, radio series, magazine and journal articles, books, movies and even the occasional space conference. And what better for space-enthused individuals like myself to do than sit back and absorb lectures delivered by people that build astronaut tools, plan astronaut missions, or are astronauts themselves?
I was fortunate to stimulate my medial septal nuclei at the Astronomy and Space Exploration Society’s 6th annual conference in January 2009. In this opinion piece, I briefly summarize three of the conference’s lectures while sharing some small thoughts that rotated, coalesced and concentrated in other systems of my brain that starry Friday night. Finally, I make a case that international efforts to ensure the future safety of Earth’s orbit are warranted.
CSA’s “Dextreous” Automation
Robotics engineer with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Taryn Tomlinson discussed the implementation and future challenges of the agency’s newest robotic development, Dextre (see Figure 1). As the latest of at least three major robotic contributions to international space exploration, Dextre adds to the growing legacy of the famous original Canadarm still in use today on NASA’s space shuttles. As something of a robot child of both the original Canadarm and Canadarm2 that operates on the International Space Station, Dextre is smaller than and is carried around by his predecessors. Key to its function, Dextre has two arms with which to wield tools and cameras fitted onto its ‘hands’ to allow astronauts (or even an expert down on Earth) to operate Dextre with precision exceeding human vision. Dextre is designed to perform routine exterior maintenance on the International Space Station previously carried out during chancy and expensive human space walks, thereby enhancing safety while reducing cost.
Figure 1: Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency newest automation. Equipped with tools and cameras, Dextre will be busy conducting maintenance work on the International Space Station’s interior. Reproduced with permission from the Canadian Space Agency.
Dextre sounds so perfect you probably gather it mustn’t have been easy to build. But according to Tomlinson, the greatest challenges when building big space-bound handy-grabbers, like Dextre and the Canadarms, is not in the design or programming, but in finding sufficiently strong materials. This seems odd at first because heavy items should be easy to lift when gravity is negligible as it is on the space station. However, even in microgravity, bodies of large mass are still hard to maneuver because they garner large amounts of inertia. Thus, when positioning payloads of 20 tonnes or more, the materials used in these robots (even very strong composites like graphite-epoxy) can wear over time as they are repeatedly twisted and tugged upon. While the CSA probably has a very good idea as to what arm positions are best to optimally distribute the undesirable forces delivered by inertia, higher grade materials are still in demand. The environment of space itself can also be hard on material. Surface temperatures rapidly fluctuate by over a hundred degrees above and below zero and high-speed particles of sizes from smaller than a pea to larger than a pumpkin collide into the robots’ Kevlar casing on a continual basis. These menacing particles are known as space debris.
Our Third Nation in Space
In the following talk, Dr. Ying Du, a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer at CAST (China Academy of Space Technology), laid out China’s previous and future space exploration missions. Du reminded us that five years ago China became the third nation to launch a human into orbit. This fact has now become common knowledge, but few people may realize that China has since installed a satellite on the Moon, or that China has roughly twice as many personnel employed in their space program than the US does at NASA. From Du’s talk, it seems China’s short-term plans are similar to those of other space exploring organizations: go to nearby celestial bodies and return with samples. Plant a flag if possible. Du, indeed, indicated an aggressive directive. Oddly, China is not part of the 16 nations conducting research on the International Space Station. I wondered if they were building their own.
The speaker most were waiting for that night was Anousheh Ansari – the only person in the room who had defeated Earth’s gravitational prison bars and broke for outer space. Ansari exuded an attractive aura, as if radiation experienced in orbit was slowly leaking free. Surprisingly at first to me, Ansari spoke less as an astronaut and more as an entrepreneur. Then I learned she and her family donated a large portion of the money for the original X-Prize (later renamed the “Ansari X-Prize”) which in 2004 rewarded 10 million USD to the first private team to ever use a recoverable vehicle to launch the equivalent of three people into space twice in two weeks. The boundary for space was set at the international standard of 100 km. Though an impressive first for the private sector, similar feats were achieved by the US Air Force X-15 when it clipped 100 km twice in the summer of 1963, over four decades earlier. Because 100 km is too low to sustain orbit, this form of “space travel” can more functionally be described as high, fast flight. It does not directly allow for long-term experiments either in the absence of Earth’s mighty atmospheric and gravitational forces, or in other regions of the solar system. However, the aim is that the Ansari X-Prize will indirectly give birth to a new era of space travel. This would be akin to how the Orteig Prize directly rewarded a 33.5 hr flight across the Atlantic in 1927, but (some would argue) indirectly gave birth to the airline industry as we see it today. The Ansari X-Prize also succeeded in generating hype and research for single-stage, reusable space-faring vehicles during an era where launches to orbit and beyond employ multi-stage disposable rocket boosters. Hopefully, further development on the new technology will one day achieve orbital altitudes using an entirely reusable (and thus cheaper) system.
Ansari is one of several entrepreneurial spoke-persons for the “privatization of space”. The so-called “privatization” is not a greedy plan for space to be sectioned, zoned and sold, but rather describes a somewhat novel trend (supported in part by her prize) for companies to project profitable returns on sending people into Earth’s orbit and beyond. This concept is relatively new to the human race. Now, for roughly 25 million USD, the richest space cadets (including Ansari in 2006) buy their way into space. The company, Space Adventurers, is even advertising for trips to swing round the Moon for 100 million USD. If your only aim is to visit space (as opposed to explore or colonize), this is all the money you need. If the market is right, privatization of space could potentially do for space travel what it does best for all other industries: ratchet down the cost – something that in turn helps everyone (NASA and CAST included) better afford exploratory expeditions. Of course, there are also other barriers to establishing a modern space-faring species.
The Literal Obstacles
During question period, aspiring space explorers (again, myself included) crowded the microphones for the privilege of tapping into the live expert wisdom. My question was simple: “Does space debris pose a threat to current or future use of space?”
I framed the question by recollecting a slide produced by Ansari that listed potential roles for companies in space. On the list was written something about clearing space debris. While Ansari and Du were lost for words to answer my question, Tomlinson engaged me with this striking comment: “I know our cameras get chipped a lot”. How much is a lot? How big are the chips? Could a particle that chips a camera’s lens also rip through a space suit? A space plane? Isn’t this a challenge needing a solution?
Space debris is all the small pieces of non-functional, human-generated material in Earth’s orbit (though this is something of a silly definition since a creative human can find a function for anything and non-human generated particles are just as dangerous as those human-made). Most space debris is comprised of garbage previously pushed out from space stations, retired satellites, rocket cartridges, and collisions between these items. Space debris can remain in orbit for decades and generally does so at speeds exceeding 10,000 km/h. Of course, what really matters is the relative speed of impact during collisions. While the accumulating space debris prompted full shielding of the International Space Station, it’s probably not feasible to fully shield space suits. Therefore, every space walk is a calculated risk whose odds are growing worse. Odds at orbits further out are even less favourable (see Figure 2). On account of the space debris problem, NASA has recently considered cancelling their planned repairs and upgrades to the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most informative and popular tools in astronomy’s rich history (1). The importance of a safe near-Earth orbit cannot be overstated. Satellite communication dependent on an intricate array of hundreds of orbiting transmitters and receivers underlies our cell phones, banking systems, military, weather/environment monitoring and forecasting, and more. Plus, our view of the universe, as in the case of Hubble and a collection of other telescopic satellites and sensing probes, requires a safe near-Earth orbit. All these technologies are of immediate importance. But perhaps even more critical than the use of Earth’s orbit to allow us to operate as we do on Earth today, is the use of Earth’s orbit to allow us to operate as we will have to off Earth tomorrow. For it is well accepted that sooner or later the cosmos will absolutely force us to do just that.
Figure 2: Levels of space debris as of 2007. Orbits with more space debris have higher risks of impact. Space debris in higher orbits requires the most time to fall back to Earth. Reproduced with permission from G. Forden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
When I asked my question, some present may have assumed it was meant to alarm. In truth, I was innocently curious. Then on February 11th, just 2 weeks after the conference, a deactivated Russian satellite (Cosmos) and an active US satellite (Iridium) collided (1). This single mishap may have created the most dangerous amount of space debris since China proved the accuracy of their rocket technologies by shattering one of their own orbiting satellites in 2007 (2). These events are not all that rare; also in 2007, an active Russian rocket booster – silently orbiting for two years following a failed satellite launch – suddenly exploded (3). Fortunately, this explosion was in a very low orbit and most of the debris crashed back into Earth within the following couple months, making the brilliant show left behind for those underneath an equally notable consequence. Then on March 12th, while this opinion piece was still in press, astronauts aboard the International Space Station took refuge in an escape capsule due to a close encounter with space debris that could have damaged the station’s life support systems (4). Even more recently, on a rendezvous to the Station, the space shuttle itself came into contact with space debris (5). Thankfully, no lives were lost.
Yet the point is obvious. As more collisions, explosions and mishaps occur – an inevitability with the increasing orbital presence exercised by existing space nations, emerging space nations and the private space sector – the more debris is created. And, in accordance with statistics, the more debris is created, the more collisions occur. This feedback loop could eventually result in something know as Kessler Syndrome, the situation where debris in Earth’s orbit is so abundant that space exploration and satellite technology becomes entirely impossible (6).
The size of the “danger zone” is expanding. Now, at the early stages, we seem to have an opportunity to implement methods that can stop or curb the proliferation of space debris in the future.
Planet Earth, Space
During the conference’s humble discussion on the dawn of a “Global Space Age,” the International Space Station inaudibly floated overhead roughly ten times. From the nature of the talks, it became completely lucid that space exploration is alive and thrusting forward. These space people are of no small imagination and I have complete faith they will overcome the obstacles, literal or otherwise, to pursue their profession. We depend on it. On the walk home I did a lot of gazing upward. Space debris or not, it’s certainly a nice place to peek up at the sky, Planet Earth, Space.
1. Brumfiel G. Kaputnik chaos could kill Hubble. Nature, 2009; 457(7232): p. 940.
2. Brumfiel G. Satellite kill creates space hazard. Nature News, 2007; 115: p. 14.
3. Young K. Rocket explosion creates dangerous space junk. New Scientist, 2007; online Feb 27.
4. McKee M. Debris threat prompts space station crew to evacuate. New Scientist, 2009; online March 12.
5. International Space Station Status Report: STS-119-02. Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas. 2009; March 16.
6. Kessler DJ, Cour-Palais BG. Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt. J Geophys Res, 1978; 83(A6): p. 2637-46.
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An Island Fortress 1941 British Pathe
“An Island Fortress”. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/an-island-fortress
Off British Coast.
Various L/Ss of a fortress constructed from concrete and metal built in the sea of few miles from the coast. Shots are taken from a launch approaching the fortress. The fortress was built in Queen Victoria’s time to protect Britain from invasion. C/U of two soldiers looking out of window in fortress. Various shots of stores being brought onto the fort from a naval supply launch. M/S of the lookouts at work in the fort. Various shots of one of the forts’ guns being loaded and turned towards the sea.
Various shots of chef cooking in fort kitchen. M/S of the commander of the fort, he is tending onions growing in a window box. Various shots of a table in the canteen where seamen are eating. C/U of Naval officer looking through binoculars. L/S of the sea. Various shots of sailor operating signalling lamp. C/U of soldiers drinking beer and playing cards. C/U of pinup photographs. Various shots of soldiers playing snooker and laughing. M/S guard on the fort, he is silhouetted against the sea.
D-Day Museum drama by Blackout44
1959 film of Gosport
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To Reduce Carbon Emissions, Any Policy Must Change Behaviour. To Ask Otherwise is Absurd.
posted Dec 10, 2014, 11:24 AM by Joel Wood [ updated Dec 10, 2014, 11:58 AM ]
The latest in carbon tax scare-mongering occurred last week when The Province published an anti-carbon tax OPED by my former colleague Ken Green of the Fraser Institute. (Aside: I do have a ton of respect for Ken and he is an all-round nice guy). The piece aims to review the problems with carbon taxes, but ultimately fails to identify any actual problems if our policy goal is to reduce Canadian greenhouse gas emissions.
Ultimately, I think my major disagreement with Ken about carbon taxes is not in regards to carbon taxes themselves (though, most of his article is focused on fear-mongering about how a carbon tax is a tax on everything), but with respect to whether Canada actually ought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ken actually doesn’t think that anyone at all should reduce carbon emissions, though he doesn’t state that in his OPED. If you start from the assumption that Canada shouldn’t do anything to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, then even a revenue neutral carbon tax is probably not welfare enhancing. There are studies that do predict that they are welfare enhancing depending on which taxes you cut; here is one from my PhD supervisor Ross McKitrick. But more recent studies that take into account the tax interaction effect, generally show them to be not welfare improving (the welfare loss is usually very small though). But again, this is only if we ignore the potential welfare gains from the resulting GHG emissions reductions.
If we instead start from an assumption that Canada needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions- which is the official position of the federal government and all provincial governments- the anti-carbon tax rhetoric does not stand up to scrutiny. A revenue neutral carbon tax is, based on my reading of the rigorous academic and policy literature, probably the least costly way of achieving these reductions. If the assumption is that we need to reduce emissions, the valid policy alternative is not Business As Usual (Ken’s preference), but more heavy handed regulations such as fuel economy standards, sector-by-sector regulations, or in every economist’s worst nightmare, technology based standards.
Ken bemoans that economists are too focused on efficiency and cost-effectiveness and are ignoring how the tax will alter people’s choices and penalize people who have carbon intensive preferences. That is kind of the point. If emissions reductions are the goal, then peoples’ behaviour needs to be changed regardless of which policy you implement.
Ken seems to think that the appropriate test for a carbon policy is that it changes nothing for anyone in anyway. He wants it to impact low emitters and high emitters equally. This is absurd; you cannot have emission reductions without changing peoples’ behaviour. Basically, he wants not a single person to be made worse off by the policy (a Pareto Improvement in econospeak). Whereas, the usual bar in policy analysis is that society is made better off and thus has the potential, though is not required, to compensate anyone made worse off by the policy (a Potential Pareto Improvement). I wonder if he thinks his stronger criterion should also be applied to Canadian pipeline policy?
A carbon tax and associated tax cut package that makes nobody worse off would require an excessive amount of information that certainly is currently not recorded in any government database; and I doubt many at the Fraser Institute would be interested in the government collecting that information. Policies like Alberta’s Specified Gas Emitters’ Regulation (what he incorrectly refers to as a carbon tax) or a cap and trade system with freely allocated permits would probably come closer to meeting his equity requirement, but this is purely because they allow so many emissions for free. But these policies would still change behaviour and definitely still not be equity neutral at the individual household or firm level.
That said, it is obviously important to consider the equity impacts of carbon policy on different impact groups, with special attention on low income households. In fact, economists have studied this and the most recent evidence predicts that the impact of BC’s revenue neutral carbon tax is progressive.
Furthermore, almost all taxes other than lump-sum taxes alter behaviour. What would we rather tax, greenhouse gas emissions or work effort? If you think Canada should be a global free-rider or that greenhouse gases are the greatest thing ever, then I guess you’d have to agree with Ken and prefer to tax work effort.
The bottom line is that to actually result in emissions reductions any policy must change behaviour. Carbon taxes are just a tool to achieve a stated policy goal. If you disagree with that policy goal, then focus on critiquing that, rather than using populist rhetoric to bash what the research suggests is the best tool for the job. In response to a comment from me on twitter, Ken said “Gov’t: I want serfdom. Economist: Let me show you the most efficient road”. Bashing carbon taxes is like bashing the road engineer’s best schematics rather than the idea of serfdom itself.
Aside: I am baffled by the use of sneer quotes around “bipartisan” in reference to the EcoFiscal Commission. EcoFiscal has ex-politicians from several political parties, as does the Fraser Institute; they even share one in common: Preston Manning.
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On Strips: Pre-Panther Biographics
By Sean Kleefeld | Friday, February 09, 2018 1 comment
As I mentioned last week, I have not yet been able to find any instances where Black Panther appears in a comic strip. However, some of the actors who are in the film have.
Steve McGarry inherited the comic strip Biography from John Roman in 1989. Not surprisingly, each week featured a short comic-style biography of some famous individual. McGarry continued working on that until the strip was cancelled in 1991. In 2005, McGarry returned to a similar format launching essentially the same idea under the name Biographic. That strip still runs today.
While McGarry has done a number of famous characters, from Sherlock Holmes to Batman, and has showcased actors who feature in comic-based TV and movies, such as Hayley Atwell and Krysten Ritter, he has yet to mention anyone because of their work on Black Panther. He has however looked at two actors who were later cast in the movie: Martin Freeman, who was a subject in 2011, and Lupita Nyong'o, who was a subject in 2014...
I expect it's too late in his production schedule to suggest to him anyone else from the movie before it's released, but here's hoping he's got something related lined up to appear later this month.
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Hybrid cloud future bright as 73% of enterprises moving apps back on prem
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Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced the findings of its second global Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with adopting private, hybrid and public clouds. The new report found enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud architectures, with respondents reporting steady and substantial hybrid deployment plans over the next five years. The vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85%) selected hybrid cloud as their ideal IT operating model.
For the second consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix to learn about the state of global enterprise cloud deployments and adoption plans. The researcher surveyed 2,650 IT decision-makers in 24 countries around the world about where they're running their business applications today, where they plan to run them in the future, what their cloud challenges are, and how their cloud initiatives stack up against other IT projects and priorities. The 2019 respondent base spanned multiple industries, business sizes, and the following geographies: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia-Pacific (APJ) region.
This year's report illustrated that creating and executing a cloud strategy has become a multidimensional challenge. At one time, a primary value proposition associated with the public cloud was substantial upfront capex savings. Now, enterprises have discovered that there are other considerations when selecting the best cloud for the business as well, and that one size cloud strategy doesn't fit all use cases. For example, while applications with unpredictable usage may be best suited to the public clouds offering elastic IT resources, workloads with more predictable characteristics can often run on-premises at a lower cost than public cloud. Savings are also dependent on businesses' ability to match each application to the appropriate cloud service and pricing tier, and to remain diligent about regularly reviewing service plans and fees, which change frequently.
In this ever-changing environment, flexibility is essential, and a hybrid cloud provides this choice. Other key findings from the report include:
1. Apps are migrating away from the public cloud back to on-premises infrastructures. Nearly three-fourths (73%) of respondents reported that they are moving some applications off the public cloud and back on prem, and 22% of those users are moving five or more applications. These moves underscore, in part, enterprises' need for hybrid cloud's flexibility in allowing them to adapt their infrastructures based on their fluctuating requirements. App mobility is critical, and more than nine in ten (95%) respondents reported that it is essential or desirable to be able to easily move applications between cloud environments.
2.Security remains the biggest factor impacting enterprises' future cloud strategies. Well over half of 2019 respondents (60%) said that the state of security among clouds would have the biggest influence on their cloud deployment plans going forward. Similarly, data security and compliance represented the top variable (26%) in determining where an enterprise runs a given workload.
3. IT professionals deem the hybrid cloud the most secure of all the IT operating models. More than a quarter of respondents (28%) picked the hybrid model as the most secure — substantially surpassing those who chose a fully private cloud/on-prem model (21%) and more than twice as many as those who chose traditional (non-cloud-enabled) private data centres (13%). One reason for this is perhaps because enterprises can select the right cloud for their security requirements.
4. Nearly a quarter (23.5%) of respondents currently aren't leveraging any cloud technology today. Many companies still fall behind when it comes to enterprise cloud adoption. However, respondents' reported plans indicate that in one year's time, the number of enterprises with no cloud deployments will plummet to 6.5% and in two years' time will drop by more than half to 3%. Regionally, the Americas reported a slightly lower incidence of non-cloud use (21%) compared to EMEA (25%) and APJ (24%).
5. Enterprises are striving to integrate cloud computing with their digital transformation goals. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of 2019 respondents said digital transformation was driving their cloud implementations, and 64% said that digital transformation was the top business priority in their organisations.
"As organisations continue to grapple with complex digital transformation initiatives, flexibility and security are critical components to enable seamless and reliable cloud adoption," said Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix. "The enterprise has progressed in its understanding and adoption of hybrid cloud, but there is still work to do when it comes to reaping all of its benefits. In the next few years, we'll see businesses rethinking how to best utilise hybrid cloud, including hiring for hybrid computing skills and reskilling IT teams to keep up with emerging technologies."
"Cloud computing has become an integral part of business strategy, but it has introduced several challenges along with it," said Ashish Nadkarni, group vice president of infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies at IDC. "These include security and application performance concerns and high cost. As the 2019 Enterprise Cloud Index report demonstrates, hybrid cloud will continue to be the best option for enterprises, enabling them to securely meet modernisation and agility requirements for workloads."
Supporting Quote - Paul Ruinaard, Regional Director Sub-Saharan Africa at Nutanix
"The local and global results of the report speak directly to what we are seeing amongst customers within South Africa," states Paul Ruinaard, Regional Director at Nutanix Sub-Saharan Africa. "While the cloud has not moved off of the business agenda, South African customers are looking at how they can better modernise their on-premise datacentre's and are in some instances scaling back their use of public, private, and hybrid clouds. This is supported by a stated 9% decrease in cloud usage by local respondents, and a staggering 84% who stated that they have moved or are planning to move applications from the public cloud back onto their private IT infrastructure.
"Locally the fact that customers are eyeing out the cloud with more caution, is in part due to the fact that the costs of scaling workloads to the cloud have caught many South African customers unaware. Security is also a concern, as is performance, and lastly application delivery. The data by no means states that South Africans are halting their cloud journey, but instead they are approaching it more maturely and cautiously, it also states that they intend to grow their hybrid cloud use by 35% and decrease their data centre use by more than 50% by 2024. But when this will happen will depend on the fact that there is a lot of work to be done when it comes to deploying and delivering on cloud management tools that can assist customers with their migration and better manage the true cost of the cloud."
To learn more about the report and findings, please download the full "Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index 2019" here
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Morocco: DOHA workers continue campaign to support Abdullah Rakhmoun, demand jobs and union rights
Workers of the DOHA canned fish factory in Agadir, Morocco, continue with their regular actions demanding that their union leadership be cleared of all charges and the court order imposing an incongruously large fine on the union's president Abdullah Rakhmoun be reversed. They also demand reinstatement for dismissed activists and recognition of their union, which belongs to the national center CDT.
The workers' action was launched in spring 2015, when the management unilaterally decided to de-recognise the union that had been organising the factory workers since 2011 and dismiss the more active members. This provoked a strike and a retaliatory lock-out of more than 700 workers the majority of whom are women. The court, following the company demands, found the union's president guilty of inflicting a financial loss on the company and ordered him to pay the company around EUR 300,000 in damages. The court decision was instantly appealed, the appeal is being constantly postponed, yet every time a hearing is scheduled hundreds of factory workers and their family members fill up the courtroom and the corridors, eager to support their leader.
One such action took place on the day when the Kingdom of Morocco hosted a meeting of the Sub-Committee on Fish Trade of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in Agadir, February 22-26, 2016. The situation at the factory was reported to the meeting participants to illustrate the deplorable situation of human rights violations in the sector at a special side event on decent work issues. The Sub-Committee took this information with all due seriousness as responsible business practices and observation of human rights in the sector's supply chain are increasingly becoming prerequisites for access to national markets in Europe and North America and therefor are related to international fish trade policies.
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The radial streets of Bologna illustrate the dilemmas of choice that face Richard, who, until now, has escaped his past in Italy by estranging himself on Dartmoor. Elio, who he has not seen for fifteen years, tracks him down, wanting answers to questions concerning his mother’s death. Richard struggles to hide a terrible secret as they recollect their time together as young men in Bologna in the lead-up to the train-station bombing. And when friendship deepens into forbidden love the truth threatens to destroy their world.
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Will the Press Turn its Head to the Cold Light of Day?
By Dan Nexon
On Sunday, Shakezula wrote about the gunman who showed up at Comet Pizza to ‘investigate’ its possible involvement “in a child trafficking ring run by Clinton.” Well, something interesting happened on the Twitters yesterday.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s son sparred with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Twitter over the “pizzagate” conspiracy that led an armed man into a Washington, DC, pizza shop Sunday.
Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., vehemently defended the story, which baselessly alleged that a pedophilia ring involving high-level Democratic Party officials — including Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta — is operating out of a Washington pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong.
… Tapper apparently began to direct message Flynn Jr. on the app, asking for one piece of evidence proving that the pizza shop was “the site of a satanic pedophilia cult.” Those direct messages were posted by another user.
“Michael — the police called pizza gate a fictitious conspiracy theory tonight,” Tapper wrote. “Does someone have to die before you take this s— seriously. Spreading this nonsense is dangerous.”
“I want it to be false,” Flynn Jr. responded.
“It is not the site of a satanic pedophilia cult,” Tapper shot back. “It is a f—— pizzeria. Show me what you’re talking about that proves a satanic pedophilia cult. Your tweet is wildly irresponsible. Listen to me. You are going to get someone killed. Maybe an innocent child. For what??????”
Flynn Jr. later posted another screenshot of a DM thread with Tapper with the caption, “Want evidence??? I must’ve really hit a nerve.”
Tapper’s mistake? He thought that the son of the incoming National Security Advisor—and the holder of a Presidential transition email—couldn’t possibly be merely an unhinged purveyor of ethnonationalist conspiracy theories. Flynn must simply be feeding red meat to the base. All Tapper needed to do was reason with him. Perhaps Tapper wagered, if he appealed to the reasonable person lurking behind the Twitter persona, Flynn would do the right thing?
But Flynn either really is unhinged or just doesn’t care. And this should have been abundantly clear in the first place. In fact, Flynn the elder is a big fan of some of the same ethnonationalist conspiracy theorists as his son:
Follow Mike @Cernovich He has a terrific book, Gorilla Mindset. Well worth the read. @realDonaldTrump will win on 8 NOV!!! https://t.co/o0QwkonjeZ
— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) October 9, 2016
And what of Pence’s claim that Flynn the younger has no role in the transition?
why doesn’t Flynn Jr release those transition gov’t emails so we can determine his role?? https://t.co/CuZtvCocYD
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 6, 2016
This is where things get very ever more serious.
For years, much of the American media has operated under the assumption that GOP national elites are, at heart, reasonable people—ones who don’t really believe the wackier ideas circulating in the Republican base. Even if members of the establishment media understood otherwise, it wasn’t reflected in their reporting. Indeed, the assumption isn’t entirely wrong, as evidenced by the number of GOP elites and center-right conservatives now grappling—to their horror—with Trumpism.
However, the increasing transformation of the GOP was still pretty obvious. The waves of GOP congressional candidates elected in 2010 and 2014 included significant numbers of recruits from the radicalized base. John Boehner certainly knew what was going on. We even saw the effects of this transformation on those venerable Republican figures who started consuming only right-wing news.
The lunatics, as the saying goes, now run the asylum. No one, let alone the press, can assume that cooler heads operate the levers of government. Indeed, the assumption is particularly dangerous in the age of Trump. Evan McMullen points out, correctly, the whole autocratic game works by leaving us hanging on the dispositions of the person in power. It’s not that far a leap from, on the one hand, Tapper’s naïve appeal to the younger Flynn to ‘do the right thing’ to, on the other hand, holding out hope that Trump will intercede on behalf of the good and the victimized. But, as Brad DeLong used to remind us during the Bush Administration: the Cossacks work for the Czar.
Everyone—from the center-right and true conservatives to liberals and the left—needs to put away any illusions about the nature of the Trump Administration. But the establishment media, in particular, needs to fully adjust to the abnormality of the new normal.
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Dan Nexon is an Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. HIs new co-authored book, Exit from Hegemony: the Unravelling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press), is due out in 2020.
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Scotland Yard Arrest Anonymous BPAS Hacker
In the morning of March 9, Metropolitan Police officials apprehended a 27-year-old man, allegedly part of the Anonymous community, suspected of being responsible for the data breach that targeted the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) a day before.
Graham Cluley brings to our attention that the official site of the BPAS, an organization that offers advice regarding abortion, pregnancy and other similar topics, was defaced for some time yesterday, being altered to display the Anonymous logo and an anti-abortion message.
While an official Met Police press release stated that no medical or personal information was obtained by the hackers, a Twitter account called @PabloEscobarSec revealed that the entire database was obtained.
“British Pregnancy Advisory Service was attacked because they kill unborn children that have no rights. It's murder,” PabloEscobar wrote. “We have their entire database and customers contact details.”
It’s uncertain if the man behind the Twitter account is the person apprehended this morning by authorities, but at press time, the last activity recorded on the social network site was 17 hours ago.
Other tweets posted by the hacker hint that he may be part of the old LulzSec gang which announced its intentions of disbanding in the summer of 2011.
In the meantime, the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PeCU) is working on mitigating the effects of this incident.
“We have taken rapid action to identify and arrest a suspect involved in hacking. This was done to prevent personal details of people who had requested information from the BPAS website being made public,” Detective Inspector Mark Raymond of the PeCU said.
“It should be stressed that the stolen data did not contain the medical details of women who had received treatment or why individuals had contacted the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.”
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Hall Of The Super Topics
Reviews & Archive
Transformers Super Thread 9
By eriku, August 12, 2009 in Hall Of The Super Topics
treatment 309
SMS Squadron Leader
well, fwiw...
i saw rotf Devastator at the local wally's yesterday for US$98.
he's big. make that, reasonably HUGE!
here's his link from online wally's: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?...uct_id=10963123
Edited September 7, 2009 by treatment
areaseven 213
Super Dimension Member
Not worth it. He's just big chunks of plastic with horrid articulation, not to mention that the individual Constructicons don't transform into robots. Plus, he's one Constructicon short. It's a challenge deciding which is a bigger waste of money - this toy or Ultimate Bumblebee (Animated Supreme Rollout Command Optimus Prime has been ruled out due to stores slashing his price at 50%).
If you want Devastator, get the Legends version instead.
Vermillion21 0
Alaska Base Survivor
Location:Southern California
Interests:Macross, Robotech, and Transformers
Found Target Exclusive Bruticus ... price was right, $29.99.
VFTF1 5
Galactic Diva
Location:Advanced European Union
Re: ROTF Devastator, "Ultimate" Bumblebee, TFA Supreme Prime...and going all the way back to "Supreme" BM Cheetor:
Remember the days when a "BIG" Transformer was actually something you dreamed of and would still die for in rerelease form today? You know...things like Omega Supreme, Fortress Maximus...heck even Ultra Magnus and Galvatron were considered "big guys" in their time...
It is so annoying that the largest class Transformers are - these days - the worst. And given their history as shelf warmers...how does it make marketing sense to produce those things? I mean - who dreams this stuff up?
ps - since my post lacks a coherent argument...I am kind of assuming you understand what I am talking about: namely that back when I was a kid, Transformers that would fall under today's 'supreme' class category were not just big, but actually had fairly intricate Transformation, usually fit in with the rest of the line or were at least interactive with it, and didn't use cheesy cop outs (ROTF Devastator) but instead took full advantage of their size.
RD Blade 15
Bridge Bunny
Location:NJ
True. I've noticed that designers don't take advantage of the larger TFs' size. I'd like to see the same kind of clever engineering used in certain Deluxes...only taken to the next level. Seems that's expecting too much.
Edited September 8, 2009 by RD Blade
Letigre 0
Skull Leader's Lackey
Location:Eden
I have to say I've noticed the cleverness seen in Deluxes rarely is seen past Voyagers.
There's a reason for that: the larger TFs are marketed to kids. Right, Hasbro - as if the average parent will actually fork over that much $$$ for chunks of plastic.
eugimon 59
collect me all
Location:Bay Area, California
Not all old big transformers were feats of engineering... Metroplex basically sits down for all his alt modes.
David Hingtgen 347
Powerless Mod
Interests:Airplanes (especially airliners), trains, warships.
That's why Metroplex is the lamest of the cities. The Decepticon ones were much better. Trypticon may not have the most complex transformation (better than Metro's though), but all the money/engineering went into making him walk and light up. He'd have probably had an even more impressive transformation and better city mode if they left out the mechanics.
But even Metroplex's transformation is way more complex than that of BM Cheetor. Metroplex doesn't just "sit down" - his legs unfold three different ways. Also, I think they did take some care with his upper body as well. They could have just had him put his hands up and said "buildings" - but instead they have the half-chest opening into a helipad and one of the arms swinging backwards.
Also - again - when making these comparissons we have to remember what was possible in 1985 and what is possible today.
Today they SHOULD have a whole slew of greater possibilities. We saw this in Beast Wars, and we've seen it in numerous deluxe sized TFs as has already been said.
The argument that the huge ones are supposed to be simple because kids like to play with them is actually NOT that far-fetched. And parents are stupid by and large.
If I had a dollar for every time I've seen parents select the "big but simple" toy over smaller more intricate things - I'd be a millionaire now.
Sometimes the market does wierd things or things we don't quite fully understand from our POV.
But I think that there is a market for big, simple toys. The kids are happy because they are too small to appreciate complex intricacies and actually the more complex a toy, the more likely the are to break it (therefore making the parent think "last time I'm buying him one of those") OR to get annoyed with it, throw it in the corner and go play with something that doesn't demand that much effort from them.
These kids are what I like to call the "Screaming Ninnies."
A screaming ninny is a little kid whose value system looks something like this in terms of toys:
a) Must be bigger than Billy's toy
b) Must have flashy colors
c) Must be a main strong character who is the most powerful
d) Must make noises
e) Must be something that will make all the other kids jealous and envious of me
No thought is given to transformation, complexities, anything like that - because the kid doesn't really care about Transformers as such, but more about having the biggest toy of the latest fad toy line.
This is augmented by parents who are Adult Versions of Screaming Ninnies.
Adult Versions of Screaming Ninnies (Parents) are characterized by the following values:
a) They must get jr. the biggest toy because to them big toy = happy child
b) They don't know anything about the toy market, about what's available, and they couldn't care less - it's just kids stuff.
c) They accept the simple idiom: "Big Item = Big Price" and don't think too far outside of that box.
To these parents, it is not surprising that something as simple and crappy as BM Cheetor (supreme) or TFA Supreme Prime costs as much as they do. These parents aren't sitting there scratching their head thinking "dag. Why does this cost so much when it's so simple compared to other Transformers half its' price?" because they've never handled TFs half the price and aren't about to start.
This is a segment of the market, and Hasbro just wants a share.
I've seen worse.
I've seen Christmas where somebody would import some cheap half assed "transforming car" that was also an RC that could be radio controlled (well, I repeat myself) - the thing so obviously cost pennies on the dollar, and it would go for like 20 or 30 bucks and parents would be eating it up because it was like 30 cm tall when "fully transformed" [aka when, Throttlebot style, the car "stood up" - no poseability... But it did have an RC motor...].
But parents bought it because it was "big" and "big" = "happy kid."
I remember once some friends of the family were visiting before Christmas, and I gave them an MISB TFA deluxe Bumblebee for one of their kids.
They took it, of course, but the look on their faces were "what?! THAT thing is SO SMALL! It will be embarassing to give that to a child as a present on Christmas."
They didn't care that the transformation on Deluxe Bumblebee TFA was out of sight, that it was cute, that it was a kiddified bumblebee, that it was kind of the "perfect Transformer" for a little kid... nope.
The main beef was - it's so frackin' small. When junior takes this to school - he'll be laughed at.
Hence Hasbro makes crappy large scale over-simplifications and sells them for 50 bucks.
Because people actually do exist who shop in accordance with the above noted criteria.
I've owned a copy of metroplex since it was first releasedand I played the hell out of it growing up and I've taken it apart and put it back together again (to fix the spring loaded head). It sits down. Yes, the legs open up in various ways, but it's all just variations of sitting down. It's not a complex toy at all and you're giving it far too much credit while being far too harsh on more recent large size transformers.
My point is only that just like not every modern transformer is an example of the utmost paradigm of transforming toys so too can one find disappointing examples in the various classic lines.
eriku 34
Location:Minneapolis, MN
Armada Unicron is a great example of a big, well-made, and fairly complex (not to mention nicely articulated) modern TF toy. And Primus, while not quite as big, is typically pretty loved as well (although I was never able to get one so I can't say from first hand experience).
There was also that massive Starscream that, while pretty much an up-scaled version of the regular toy, is still a pretty good toy and no less complex than Metroplex. I kinda wish I had gotten one when they were cheap, but I never really liked the colors they chose for Starscream with that mold.
Honestly I don't place myself on either side of the vintage vs. modern argument. There are turds in the modern lines, there are turds in the vintage lines. But in the end I've got room enough in my heart for both.
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 15
True. I've noticed that designers don't take advantage of the larger TFs' size. I'd like to see the same kind of clever engineering used in certain Deluxes...only taken to the next level.
But even Metroplex's transformation is way more complex than that of BM Cheetor.
Yeah but did ANYONE like BM Cheetor? The Supreme one one of the acknowledged black sheep of Transformers.
The larger=simpler rule doesn't always apply either, ROTF Prime and TF1 Prime are far more complex than the same pricepoint Cybertron Prime and much, much more complex than Classics voyager Prime.
I have both and IMHO the only reason Unicron is more popular than Primus is because he has much more recognition being a character that fans wanted a toy of since the 1986 G1 movie. Primus has more intricate details and IMO looks better. Both are worth picking up without a doubt.
Yeah- Unicron was ok. His planet mode could have been better- but without a doubt he is one of the best and most anticipated Transformers out there. I used to have him, but eventually he went bye bye, like everything else in my collection that wasn't G1.
I am not arguing the vintage vs. modern debate here. I think that debate is kind of pointless because it's a matter of preference- I'm just stating mine. Whenever I "bad mouth" modern, it's not like I'm trying to convince people to change their preferences, but instead I'm just justifying mine.
A long time ago, I used to be a Transformers completist, until I realized what Hasbro and Takara seem to have realized long long ago - namely that the Transformers fan community and market in general is not homogenous. They needed to diversify their offer because there were so many diverse fragments in the market.
Once I realized that, the burden of "being a completist" evaporated.
I just decided it was OK not to own figures from each and every line, but just own what I liked for the reasons I liked them.
Transformers for me now is all about my childhood - and that is G1. I have discovered that as much as I tried to get into the newer incarnations, and as much as certain elements of them were interesting, and heck...as much as I KNOW about the stories up through BM (which is pretty much in intricate detail)...at some point - they just lost me, and I just lost interest.
I collect Encore/TFC/G1 reissues because to me - those figures are special and more alive than any of the more poseable figures from later lines.
So...just keep that in mind folks when I dis on modern TFs (which I do a lot). I'm not trying to troll agianst modern Transformers as if it was a matter of getting people to see the light.
I just don't have much sentiment for the later ones - not as much as for the vintage ones.
Grand Admiral 0
Global's Pipe Holder
This is pretty much where I'm at. I own a smattering of figures from the last several years, bought because of whether I liked the individual designs.
I'm more of a general transforming toy fan, and not so much a completist character/storyline fan.
You don't need to justify it, no one is saying you should or shouldn't like whatever line. It's just that when you cite certain examples or pursue certain lines of reasoning it invites discussion.
Same here. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I don't carry the "completist" chromosome. The closest I've ever got to collecting an entire line due to liking them all was Classics, but even then I had no interest in the color variants like the seekers, Ultra Magnus, etc.
Wanzerfan 1
Location:Harris County, Texas
Does Cybertron version of Starscream fall into that category, at least he's got decent articulation in robot mode.
Oh and for the Revenge of the Fallen Devastator, he's missing his nuts.
Edited September 12, 2009 by Wanzerfan
No big loss. He's not movie-accurate anyway.
Excillon 0
Interests:Gundam and Macross, machining and welding, and electronic music.
I only collect the big size TF's and MPS/BT's. I used to collect a lot more TF stuff, but I just got sick of hunting it all down, and got more into models. Anyhow, the reason I'm posting is to say that Metroplex was awesome, I still have one, and his transformation wasn't as lame as Fort/Brave Max's.
On a somewhat related not... and out of blind curiosity... how would people feel about model kits for Transformers? Like Hasegawa does Macross models that are non-transformable, but just renditions of the jet.
Do you think Transformers fans would be interested if Hasegawa did - I dunno...say...an ROTF Starscream's F-22 Raptor in 1/48 scale?
mikeszekely 396
Location:Pensburgh, PA
Interests:3P Transformers, video games, quantum gravity, hockey
I doubt it. Kawamori's VF's are unique fighters that are as iconic in fighter mode as they are in Battroid or Gerwalk. But TF alt modes, especially early G1 or the movie line, are supposed to be real-world vehicles. So at what point is an ROTF Starscream model kit just another F-22 model kit? It'd probably make more sense for Reprolabels to print up some tribal stickers for an existing F-22 model kit.
Bot mode-only model kits, ala Bandai's Gundams, might work though. I've only built a few of the 1/144 HG kits, but the results are very posable. And, it's not like we don't have a precedent for bot-mode only toys. We've already got Action Masters, Robot Replicas, and a few Revoltechs.
promethuem5 6
Location:Albany, NY
Interests:3D Printing
I'll tell you in ~10 minutes, depending if I win I don't know about like a plastic traditional kit...
EDIT: YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I won this:
http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/111389702
And am soooooo stoked! I don't know which WonderFest it is from, and I've never seen one before, but this kit looks amazing! I need a basic Microman figure for the pretender fig bits tho. I think garage kits like this that update older figures are neat, but to be fair, this kind of figure could easily be superseded by an updated toy release, but we'll never see it.
Edited September 15, 2009 by promethuem5
Continuing along with my random questions about Transformers... next one...
What do you think the future holds for Transformers outside of the movie franchise? I don't want this to address whether there will be a TFIII or what it will be about (there's a whole thread dedicated to that).
This is sort of like...what will the next animated series be? What would you like it to be? Will it be a movie tie in? Should it? Will it be another reboot?
I'm kinda dead on Transformers nowadays. I never thought the day would come.
It's not that I'm burned out with them - nope. I'm just feeling like ...I'm still waiting to find out what happened to all the heros from the last series... I guess what I'm really bummed about is the amount of reboots.
Independent of which of them were better and which worse - just the fact that there is no longer a straight continuity bothers me. Yeah, I understand abstractions like the whole "multi-verse" theory... I guess... but... still...
What else can they do here?
I wish there were some character driven Transformers stories.
Recently they've been totally focused on the archetype - on Transformers as a theme, and on archetypical characters who keep "doing their thing" - sometimes better sometimes worse - over and over and over.
I miss the days when Transformers had some in continuity traction.
Meaning I miss Marvel comics
the equivalent in the TF Fandom of the old man sitting on the porch saying "I remember when..."
With the exception of the Beast Wars tie-in late in season 1 (or was it early season 2?), Marvel comics was the only TF media to have actual continuity with G1. Since then, Animated, although another reboot, has been the only series to make a blip on my radar.
As for the next TF show:
A show based on the Classics line.
A continuation of Animated.
A modern G1 remake.
A GI Joe Resolute-style TF show.
Don't Want
Another Japan-written TF show. (They can animate it, but please don't write it.)
A movie tie-in show. (Animated Megatron was already too movie-esque for me.)
CG used for the TFs.
RavenHawk 69
Pineapple Eater
Interests:Obsessed with variable bikes (MOSPEADA, Megazone 23, Bubblegum Crisis, Viper's Creed, Rideback, etc.)
Are people here familiar with the new G1-based series from IDW?
I think the designs are the right mix of movie and classics where this should be the future, both for a cartoon and the toy line.
http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/803/
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2009-0...nsformers_N.htm
IDW's art has its moments, but their writing and editing are absolutely god awful. I finally got myself to the point where I refuse to buy another IDW book ever. All Hail Megatron was the absolute worst dreck I have ever stupidly bought. I'll gladly take Dreamwave's WarWithin stuff, even tho Pat Lee was a crook any day over the crap IDW's put out.
Yeah but that's because Warwithin was written by Simon Furman, who actually has a clue about Transformers and G1...
See... my problem is I'm still really waiting and wanting a continuation of THOSE stories. And you know...I don't mean "continuation" in a linear sense. I understand the time line - if I can even use such a term with regard to TF - is screwed majorly. But there is still much that can be done. There are some great great characters that were built up with interesting character arcs that could concievably be continued.
But instead of characters with rich histories and a broadening panorama - we just get more and more servings of the basic Transformers premise served up over and over and over..
You know what I want?
I want a cartoon that spoofs Bogart films and stars Nightbeat as the main hero. Have Optimus Prime be some distant icon that we see on somebody's wall as a framed poster. Have some of those great characters that Bob Budiansky wrote...
there I go again...
I used to be a lot more open minded towards new series. Seriously. I wasn't a G1 purist until pretty much ROTF rolled around at which point I just said forget it. That's the last time I'm going on the "reboot" ride... not that I saw that movie...that's probably the only movie whose trailer made me think "No. I'd rather spend the money on kitty litter."
The toys helped...
oh..but...whatever...I'm ranting again
I didn't mean to go all negative. I try to say positive things only... I know people like ROTF...somewhere...hm...
But yeah...so... There's much they could do with the line...
I'm curious to see which way it goes.
But as far as I'm concerned - the only thing that excites me anymore are reissues, reprints of old comics and re-editions of old DVDs...
I'm old.
I'd like to see the next TF series be in the Animated universe. Animated is the only TF cartoon I've liked since G1. I'm still kind of bitter that it had to be killed just to make a little extra room for Bay's movie Transformers. At the very least they could have just put Animated on hold until the movie stuff subsided. Generally speaking, kids loved Animated, fans loved it, the toys seemed to be a hit, the artists and writers loved working on it and it showed. There was enough material for at least a few more seasons before any staleness would set in. But no, they couldn't keep it because Devastator's balls needed more room to swing around. *sigh*
I guess I'm ambivalent about what comes next. I'm still so stuck on Animated that if it's not in that universe and style I'll probably have a hard time caring much. If the new series is related to the movie TFs in any way, I'll just avoid it completely.
I guess we disagree. I recently read ALL of the IDW comics in pretty much one sitting (well, over the course of a week of so, but you get the idea) and overall enjoyed it (except for Hearts of Steel, which I thought was poorly written and illustrated, and a couple separate issues here and there), never having read any IDW stuff before. I think Simon Furman's stuff reads MUCH better all at once, rather than with a month or multiple months between issues.
I also read the Dreamwave stuff right afterwards (even though I know it came out first) and, while the art was decent (except Pat Lee... never liked his art, but since I heard about how he ripped off the people working for his company, it has really tinged my view of his creative work even more negatively), I thought the writing was just terrible for the most part, with the exception of a couple specials and War Within.
Overall, I've liked Simon Furman's writing for both companies, and Don Figuroa's art for both companies.
I don't know, I'm optimistic for the new series and curious to see what this Universe chronology thing does with the whole timeline.
Regardless of any of the above though, I still say that I really like what I've seen of the new designs for the characters in the links I provided above, and think that this would be the most successful path for Hasbro to pursue, both with a cartoon and accompanying toys as, I think, movie aesthetic fans will find something to appreciate, G1 fans will likely appreciate the less-silly updating of those characters, and it isn't visually so complex as to turn off kids who liked animated (and for us adults who liked animated, well, it's over, so whatever comes next will be different somehow).
ntsan 4
Man Japan always get the best exclusive.. black OP with ROTF DVD/BD
knoted 1
Destroid Armour Waxer
With me - I once agreed with your line of thinking in terms of poseability. I thought - heck - these G1 toys can't pose at all. It seemed that good Transformers really started with...
Which other transformable robot toys of 84' - 87' of the same price range, did feature immensely better articulation ? Also, G1 84/85/86 toys did feature some really nice chrome app details, rubber wheels & diecast parts.
2) My introduction to Macross goods produced by Yamato, and then to Gundams and other fine quality Japanese mecha and figures. These taught me that Transformers were truly inferior toys in every imaginable way possible.
Well, that's because Yamato has the luxury to focus on a handful of variants, of basically the same robot/jet mold (which have a fairly simple transformation scheme). There are a billion TF's with a billion different altmodes.
In fact - regarding this question of the toys not looking like the animation models... call me crazy - but to me - they do. To me, G1 Optimus Prime looks closer to the animation model then Henkei Prime. G1 Megatron actually looks closer to the animation model than Henkei Megatron. Lots of the Henkei/Classic designs are actually not very faithful to the animation models and take extreme liberties. And even those that don't...they still...well... they just lack something. It's hard to put into words...
Those are some bad examples, because Classics Megatron is of course, not allowed to mirror an actual Walther P38 anymore.
All the Classics/Henkei Seekers do a better job at representing their cartoon counterparts than their G1 toy versions. It's not a golden rule though. Personally, I prefer G1 toy Prime & Megatron over their Classics versions too. But hey, that's what the Masterpiece versions are for - How come you don't like those ?
About the 'new vs old' debate : I like both new & old. From 84' G1 to current ROTF.
There's no ROTF 1/48 F22 Starscream model kit coming up, but I do love the current voyager version as much, if not more than my Universe 2.0 Starscream, and I'm looking forward to the ROTF Leader version of Starscream.
Edited September 19, 2009 by knoted
But hey, that's what the Masterpiece versions are for - How come you don't like those ?
Simple. As you said - there are "billions" of Transformers. Part of what makes Transformers fun is that you have tons of robots, all with different personalities and abilities. Now, as much as I appreciate the level of detail that Masterpiece presents they are...ironically...not very good in terms of playability. I like making comics with my Transformers toys and having adventures with them. And it just doesn't work with Masterpiece. It's a task to transform them back and forth - and there range is so limited in terms of how many characters there are. I'll probably be like 90 by the time there are at least 10 different MP characters - and by then I'll be even less able to play with them
Now - I realize this is kind of a cop out, since the modern toys are more poseable than G1, and thus more "playable" and yet still simple in terms of transformations...and here I am critiquing MPs for lacking what the modern toys I also don't like have but...
I guess in the end I just am overwhelmed by all the different TF lines and varients - and as I said above - I just made a choice: one line, for consistency's sake - and that line is G1 - where I have a huge variety of characters, good playability, sometimes better sometimes worse poseability, and also the nostalgia factor.
There's no ROTF 1/48 F22 Starscream model kit coming up
Maybe not - but apparently it is under consideration.
Any opinions on the upcoming Device Label figures?
JB0 473
I'll probably be like 90 by the time there are at least 10 different MP characters - and by then I'll be even less able to play with them
With a Seeker mold already in existence? I doubt it'll take that long.
Optimus Prime, Naked Ultra Magnus, Megatron, Grimlock, Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker... 7 already, and the seeker mold has 3 more repaints to go!
I think they're kinda awesome, but grossly overpriced.
The flash drives mainly, since they're almost PRACTICAL(I would TOTALLY buy Ravage if he made it out at something resembling a realistic price).
Blaster shoulda been an MP3 player. And a better one than Soundwave was.
With CompactFlash memory cards, so there's actually room to make "tape bots" out of dummy cards.
He looks good, though. But as a USB hub, he'd probably be snared in wiring.
The mice are failures. Incredibly ugly, and a wired peripheral that you aren't likely to want to remove from your PC(even if the USB cable DOES detach).
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Premier Matteo Renzi has said he would resign if the referendum fails, and opposition politicians and dissenters in Renzi's own Democratic Party have come out strongly against the ballot question in a bid to challenge his nearly three-year-old government.
Renzi has been campaigning hard to pass the measures, which he says will simplify bureaucracy and make the country more competitive. Monti's unexpected swipe came as the Italian premier was being feted in Washington by President Barack Obama for the last state dinner of his presidency.
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Renzi said that he fully expected that the "yes" vote would win, but added, "I don't believe there will be cataclysms in the case that no wins. But to avoid doubts, I prefer to do everything to win the referendum."
Monti said in an interview published Tuesday in Corriere della Sera newspaper that the reforms proposed in the Dec. 4 referendum do not go far enough and he downplayed the risk of major political and economic problems in case the ballot question fails. Monti's popularity plummeted after his 2011-2013 term at the head of a government of technocrats, but he remains influential abroad.
"If the 'no' wins, foreign investors won't disappear. And if 'yes' wins, democracy won't disappear. And the EU, which never asked for these constitutional changes, can rest assured Italy doesn't risk, as was the case five years ago, to bring down the euro," Monti said.
Monti said that the Renzi government has used previous measures like fiscal breaks and payroll tax bonuses "to lubricate public opinion. I thought about it a lot, and I decided that to vote 'yes' in the referendum would be voting 'yes' to keeping Italians dependent on this sort of state providence."
Political analyst Wolfango Piccoli cast doubt on Monti's position that rejecting the reforms would not cause major political and economic troubles, but said that it nonetheless, "could further limit the ability of the 'yes' camp to play the 'fear factor' card."
"Monti's denial of the negative consequences of a 'no' should be seen as an attempt to gloss over the one factor that has likely prompted the former PM to advocate a rejection of Renzi's reform plans: The two men's famously strained personal relationship," said Piccoli, co-president of the Teneo Intelligence consultancy.
Former Premier Massimo D'Alema of the Democratic Party also has come out against the referendum, along with the head of the opposition 5-Star Movement Beppe Grillo, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and Northern League leader Matteo Salvini.
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Linde Electronics presents 2016 global supplier award to Advance Research Chemicals
Linde Electronics presents 2016 global supplier award to Advance Research Chemicals Advance Research Chemicals, Inc. recognized for excellent performance, product quality, and continuous material supply
Taipei, Taiwan, 6 March 2017 – Linde Electronics, the global electronics business of The Linde Group, today announces that Advance Research Chemicals, Inc. has received the Linde Electronics Preferred Supplier Award for 2016 in recognition of its continuous support and commitment to Linde Electronics. Advance Research Chemicals (ARC) is known as a reliable resource in the field of specialty chemicals. Many of the world’s largest companies are closely associated with ARC as business partners in the manufacturing of specialty materials for their products.
Linde Electronics is committed to leading and exceeding customer expectations by providing reliable, consistent and competitive electronic material products to global semiconductor, display, solar and LED markets. The global supplier performance award is one way that Linde Electronics shows its appreciation to suppliers and encourages all suppliers to strive toward continuous improvement.
Linde Electronics undertakes comprehensive due diligence to ensure reliability in its supply chain. Linde audits the suppliers based on their technical and operational capabilities and implements processes to ensure the sustainability and consistent quality of supply. Once the supply chains are established, Linde maintains a continuous engagement and improvement program with suppliers, keeping them updated on industry trends and the changing needs from customers. Linde conducts an annual, comprehensive supplier performance evaluation (SESPA) involving all major raw material providers to Linde Electronics globally. Suppliers are assessed on various aspects, which include commercial, quality, safety, delivery, technology and service levels. The Global Supplier Performance awards are based upon the results of this SESPA program.
Andreas Weisheit, Head of Linde Electronics, said: “Suppliers play a critical role in our success in the Electronics business. Their commitment, continuous quality improvement, support and cost efficiency enable us to work together to grow our business and continue our leading position in the global electronics market.”
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November 2, 2018| environment| LIZFOREST
Every minute we lose 60 football fields worth of forests to deforestation. That’s one football field lost every second. Global deforestation is on an upward trend, threatening various efforts aimed at tackling climate change and the massive decline of wildlife. In 2017, the data from a global satellite survey revealed that the world lost more than one football pitch of forest every second.
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1.6 billion people on this planet depend on forests for their daily livelihood. The first-ever survey on forest genetic resources by FAO called for urgent measures to protect forest resources as they provide a range of economic, health and ecological benefits. Out of the 1.6 billion people depending on forest for daily livelihoods, 60 million indigenous people are almost wholly dependent on forests for livelihood. Forest tree species have evolved into some of the most genetically diverse organisms in existence and if urgent conservation measures are not taken, the increasing population pressure may lead to the loss of forest genetic resources.
20% of the planets oxygen is produced in the amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest has always been described as the “Lungs of our Planet” as it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. Actually, more than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rain-forest.
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80% of the world’s plants and animal species depend on forests for their homes. Forests are so much more than a collection of trees. Forests are home to 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. These ecosystems are complex webs of organisms that include plants, animals, fungi and bacteria.
1 out of 4 medicines we take are derived from plants and trees. Aspirin was made from willow trees! We could be losing the next wonder medicine that cures everything. Over 8000 tree-species that represent 10% of the earths’ trees are threatened with extinction. This is as a result of the degradation of woodland and forest habitat or unsustainable timber production. The Woolly willow is one such species; a bushy willow found only in mountain areas.
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We got a Methuselah, 5000 years old-oldest tree in the world. Bristle-cone pine tree located in White Mountains California. However, the exact location of the gnarled, twisted Methuselah is a Forest Service secret, for its protection.
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4 primary drivers of tree loss: Beef, Soy, Palm oil and Timber. These are by far the leading causes of deforestation and forest degradation in the world. Beef is recognized as the worst deforestation culprit as well as a major cause of climate change. The increase in soy production resulting from its rising use in the livestock sector as animal feed has also led to forest loss. Increasing demand for wood and wood products as well as palm oil for bio-diesel and use in processed foods, has also led to the massive loss of forests.
Cutting down trees releases the same amount of annual carbon into the atmosphere as all cars, trucks, planes and trains in the world combined. It might take a long time before we transform the world’s transportation fleet to be emission-free. However, right now, if we focus on halting the cutting and burning of tropical rain-forests, we could eliminate 17 percent of all global emissions. Trees help stabilize climate which helps reduce natural disasters such as forest fires, floods and landslides.
There are over 60,000 tree species on this planet. According to the first ever comprehensive list of tree species compiled and released by scientists from the U.K.-based Botanic Gardens Conservation International, the list of all known tree species totals to 60,065 different kinds.
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Bievans Cemetery
From junctions 42 & 17 in Iberia, take Hwy 17 south to Charcoal Kiln road and turn left. Go to Pear Orchard and turn left. Go .5 miles to the cemetery on the right. This cemetery is in a field, surrounded by stately trees, enclosed with broken concrete blocks. The blocks can be seen from the road in early spring and goes approximately 300 feet into the field. There are only two stones to be found and only one is legible, but the other is definitely a tombstone which years of weathering has caused the stone to be unreadable.
Robert K. & Dorinda had a child born in 1858 and Dorinda died the following year. This unknown stone is possibly an infant for Dorinda may have died in childbirth. Robert Bievans remarried Catherine Hoskin a year after Dorinda died.
Inventoried by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly & Glenda (May) Crawford & Vera (Clark) Strutton (May 1, 2001).
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Bievans, Dorinda O. (Gardner)
8 May 1833 - 26 July 1859
w/o Robert - wed 13 Aug. 1854
daughter of Jacob Gardner and Olive (Allen)
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William Hoge, Junior
Abt 1701 - 1789 (~ 88 years)
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Name William Hoge [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Suffix Junior
Alt. Birth 1685 [16]
He was the 2nd son of William & Barbara.
Alt. Birth Abt 1700 [14]
Born Abt 1701 Pennsylvania Province (now Deleware) [2]
American Revolution American Revolution
Preacher/Religious Preachers & Religious
FamilySearch AFN 4VFM-PH
Alt. Birth 9 Mar 1700/01 Winchester City, Virginia [6, 17]
in the Three Lower Counties
Alt. Birth 1708 Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey [2, 4, 11, 15]
Land 1726-1732 Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania [9]
"His son, William Hoge, Jr. (b. 1700) was taxed in the same township from 1726 through 1732."
Land 1733 Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania [10]
on Pigeon Swamp next to Samuel Oldale
Move Aft 1732 Villas of Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania [10]
Move Aft 1735 Loudoun County, Virginia [2, 12]
Cartmell states that William Hoge and Barbara Hume had 5 sons when they moved to Hoges Run near Winchester, Virginia. That John stayed in Chester County Pennsylvania and the rest removed with their parents, and that "William J. afterwards married a quakeress, and removed to what is now Loudoun County, and left many descendants."
Since the Quakers show William married in Feb 1722/23 and since Cartmell says his father moved about 1735, there is some question about whether William actually accompanied his father. Perhaps they married, accompanied the family to Virginia, and then moved to Loudoun County.
Land Acquisition 31 Dec 1739 Orange County, Virginia [10]
by purchase from Isaac Parkins 200 acres for £30
Occupation 1744 Winchester City, Virginia [1, 2, 18]
obtained a license to keep an ordinary
Religion 1748 Villas of Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania [2, 7, 19, 20]
a Member of the Society of Friends, a Quaker,
He brought a certificate from Opequan Monthly Meeting, in the Shenandoah Valley, to Richland MM dated 4m 16d 1748, which stated that they were married 2m 9d 1723, and included their minor children. Birth dates of seven children are entered upon the records of Richland MM
Land Acquisition 16 Feb 1748/49 Richlandtown (Richland Manor), Bucks County, Pennsylvania [2, 21]
by purchase from William Allen a 100 acre plantation named "Richland"
Land Sale 14 Nov 1750 Orange County, Virginia [22]
the 200-acre patent land to Geroge Pearis for £217
Pearis willed the land to his third son, Robert Pearis.
Land Grant 21 Nov 1754 Kernstown, Winchester City, Virginia [22]
a Fairfax grant (while in Pennsylvania) for 191 acres which had been surveyed on 19 Oct 1750 as 194 acres
This land was adjacent southeast of his 200-care Parkins Patent land and adjacent to James Wood's and Isaac Parkins' land (Tracts 198 and 189).
Political Oct 1756 Villas of Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania [2, 23]
elected to the legislative Assembly
...on June 4, 1756, James Pemberton and Joshua Morris, members from Philadelphia County, William Peters from Chester County, Peter Worrall from Lancaster County, and Francis Parvin from Berks (Quakers) resigned their seats in the assembly giving as a reason that many of their constituents seemed of the opinion that the situation called upon their representatives for service "in a military way," which from a conviction of judgement after mature deliberation they could not comply with. At the October election, however, Mahlon Kirkbride and William Hoge of Bucks County and Peter Dicks and Nathaniel Pennock of Chester County, although of the same religious persuasion as the seven, were returned. This was without solicitation on the part of these four and, to avoid all question, they resigned."
Probate 7 Nov 1757 Richlandtown (Richland Manor), Bucks County, Pennsylvania [2]
was conveyed to his second son William III and Esther his wife
who executed a mortgage thereon the following day.
Religion 17 May 1759 [2]
certificate from Richland MM to Virginia was issued to William Hoge
Occupation Aft May 1759 Kernstown, Winchester City, Virginia [2, 24]
was proprietor of one of the earliest taverns, called an "ordinary,"
Kernstown This town should be treated distinctively It has been mentioned by writers as a small town lying East of the Opecquon Presbyterian Church. It is in old court records as Hogue's Ordinary, the place where William Hoge conducted his tavern or ordinary.
About the Revolutionary period it was mentioned as Karnsville in reference to opening a road Later on it received present name Kernstown. Several families this name owned land comprising the site. This town was celebrated in early days as a tavern stand. Two taverns were successfully there for half a century or more. The old covered wagons traveling the Valley Pike, which is its only street, made the place famous as their stopping place.
The taverns did not maintain the good reputation they once enjoyed Many violations of the law, by the hilarious, were duly noticed by the old courts – names the offenders given and offense named. Owing to the too frequent occurrence of such disturbances the tavern license was revoked and from that period the town has been noted for its decorum. Notwithstanding the large distillery started there by L. E. Savage about thirty ago and conducted since his death by his son Joseph H. Savage, under whose skill and management the great plant is not known to encourage use of its products in the village, the passer-by fails to discover the objectionable features usually found around common distilleries. Three fourths of a mile further South on the same road is the Kernstown railroad station and postoffice. At this point also the village store is kept.
Shenandoah Valley Pioneers — 1909
Marriage Contract 4 Mar 1760 Burlington County, New Jersey [2]
a record of the Burlington MM
states that William Hoge was reported married to Mary Pancoast
Military Discharge 4 Aug 1777 [2]
"At 70+ years old it seems a little strange for a man, a Quaker, to be entering the military. Even his son William III would have been age 50. There was a Francis Hogue who's family was entirely separate of the descendants of William I and perhaps this person was related to this family."
Move 1782 Virginia [2]
his son, Solomon, moved
Alt. Death 13 Apr 1789 Loudoun County, Virginia [6, 25]
Name William Hoge [21, 26]
Name William Hoge [14]
Name William Hogue [16]
Will 13 Apr 1789 Loudoun County, Virginia [2, 27]
Virginia Records, Book D, page 99
It shows:
Sons; George Zebulon, James William Solomon (son-in-law of Isaac Nickolls).
Step dau-in-law, Sarah Pancoast.
Daughter-in-law [? possible wife for James, Joseph or Zebulon] Hannah Boone.
Brother James Hoge.
Grandson Morgan Hoge.
Granddaughter Sarah Gore, grandson Solomon Hoge (a weaver), who is my son James Hoge's own son and granddaughter Nancy Jenkins (widow).
Daughter Nancy Hays (hus. William)
Exrs: son Solomon and his son in law Joshua Gore.
Wit: William Kenworthy, Joseph Shields and Rebekah Hoge
William's 2nd wife Mary declined to accept the provisions of his will and claimed her dower.
Died 13 Apr 1789 Winchester City, Virginia [5, 11, 17]
Probate 13 Jul 1789 Loudoun County, Virginia [27]
He listed sons George, Zebulon, James, William and Soloman. He also listed daugher Nancy Hays, wife of William Hays.
Reference Number b-5
Person ID I5305 If the Legends Are True...
Last Modified 5 Aug 2018
Father William Hoge, b. 1660, Musselburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland , d. Bef 8 Aug 1749, Winchester City, Virginia (Age 89 years)
Mother Barbara Hume, b. 1667, Paisley, , Renfrew, Scotland , d. 1745, Kernstown, Winchester City, Virginia (Age 78 years)
Married Between 1688 and 1689 Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey
Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Ann, b. 1704, Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania , d. 21 Mar 1759, Richlandtown (Richland Manor), Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 55 years)
Alt. Marriage 9 Feb 1722/23 Richland Friends Meeting, Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania [2, 16, 17, 25, 28]
Married 9 Apr 1723 Opequon, Frederick, Virginia [21]
The preface of Early Friends families of Upper Bucks says: "Due allowance must be made also for dates prior to March, 1752, which were 'Old Style'. March before that date being the first month of the year. We have used the numerals as we found them."
Nevertheless, The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families, which credit Early Friends for the dates it gives for this family, have the date of their acceptance at Richland Monthly Meeting as 16 Apr 1748, and make similar errors with the rest of their dates. The date in Early Friends is "4 mo. 16, 1748" which translates to 16 Jun 1748.
(Quakers object to the pagan origin of the names of most of the months and therefore designate them with numbers.)
In short, the dates (prior to March 1752) sourced by Quaker Meeting Records, Early Friends Families, and Pioneers of Old Frederick County are correct. Other sources appear to have failed to account for the change in Quaker dating.
Additionally, the Ancestry.com index of the Richland Monthly Meeting record for this family shows the birth location of the children as Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This is the location of the Meeting House where the information was recorded and not (necessarily) where they were born.
William & Ann were members of the Opequon Friends Meeting in Frederick County until they moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1748 and transferred to the Richland Friends Meeting. The Opequon Friends Meeting became the Hopewell Friends Meeting. All the early records of the Opequon Meeting were lost in a fire in 1759.
[14, 21]
Alt. Marriage 9 Apr 1723 [22, 29, 30]
Children 7 children [7, 26]
James, William, Solomon, George, Joseph, Zebulon, and Nancy.
Move 16 Apr 1748 Villas of Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania [14, 22]
Their certificate of membership in the Quaker Church from Opequan Monthly Meeting was received at the Richland Monthly Meeting.
Move 16 Jun 1748 Richland Friends Meeting, Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania [21]
It is noteworthy that the left page has their marriage and children with birthdates, all before Mar 1752. And the death date for Ann is on a subsequent (facing) page by itself, after the Quakers changed their dating, from the 1st month being March to it being January.
Land Acquisition 26 Feb 1748/49 Richlandtown (Richland Manor), Bucks County, Pennsylvania [21]
by purchase from William Allen 100 acres
Land Relinquish 7 Nov 1757 Richlandtown (Richland Manor), Bucks County, Pennsylvania [21]
to their son William the 100-acre plantation
Move 1760 Virginia [2, 14, 21]
Early Friends families - "All the male members of the family except Solomon returned to Virginia at about the latter date."
Tenmile Country - "Ann Hoge died in Bucks County March 21, 1759, and William Hoge returned to Virginia in 1760. His sons, James, William, Solomon, George, Joseph, and Zebulon Hoge, either went with him or had preceded him in the migration back to Virginia."
+ 1. James Hoge, b. 6 Feb 1723/24, Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania , d. Yes, date unknown
+ 2. William Hoge, III, b. 4 Mar 1725/26, Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania , d. 6 Oct 1804 (Age 78 years)
+ 3. Solomon Hoge, b. 2 May 1729, Hyle, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , d. 7 Mar 1811, Loudoun County, Virginia (Age 81 years)
+ 4. George Hoge, b. 6 Apr 1733, Virginia , d. 1805, Greene County, Pennsylvania (Age 71 years)
5. Joseph Hoge, b. 1 Feb 1735/36, Loudoun County, Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown
6. Zebulon Hoge, b. 15 Jun 1738, Loudoun County, Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown
+ 7. Ann Hoge, b. 26 Feb 1740/41, Loudoun County, Virginia , d. May 1805, Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania (Age 64 years)
Family 2 Mary
Married Bef 1764 [22]
Land Sale 19 Mar 1764 Kernstown, Winchester City, Virginia [22]
194 acres to David Denny for £100
William Hoge went with parents to PA where he married Ann (?), a quaker, adopted the faith, and settled on a plantation in Richland Manor, Bucks Co, PA, removing later to VA where he settled his family in Loudoun County; members of Society of Friends, Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Progenitor of the Hoges of the Hoge-Nichols branch.
William removed to VA following his wife Ann's death in Richland 3/21/1759.
[S71] Hoge, Family of, James Hoge Tyler (compiler), (Greensboro, North Carolina: James Fulton Hoge, editor & publisher, 1927) (Reliability: 3).
[S64] Kenzie, Ross B. Kenzie (compiler), (RootsWeb.com: 30 Aug 05), Descendants of John Hogue | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kenzie/GenJOHN.htm (Reliability: 3).
[S73] Colonial Families of the U.S., George Norbury Mackenzie, (New York, New York: Genealogical Publishers, 1907, 5094 pages), Vol. IV, page 205 (Reliability: 3).
[S329] Hogg DNA Project, Dwight Hogg, (http://hdhdata.org/hoggdna.html), Descendants of Sir John Hoge of Musselburgh Scotland: NJ1682 | http://hdhdata.org/roots/h2721.html (Reliability: 4).
[S9] Ancestral File, FamilySearch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, 1995-2005), 4VFM-PH (Reliability: 3).
[S131] Pedigree Resource File, FamilySearch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.), Submission No: 78916-1027100094735 (Clinton, Iowa: Jerry Blaine) (Reliability: 2).
[S147] Illinois, La Salle and Grundy Counties, (Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company, 1900, 873 pages), page 513 (Reliability: 4).
[S131] Pedigree Resource File, FamilySearch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.), Submission: MMQ5-Y93 (Reliability: 2).
(Santa Rosa, CA: Suzanne Guerra)
[S65] Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Cecil O'Dell, (Marceline, Missouri: Wallsworth Publishing Co., 1995), Library of Congress: 95-92197., page 281 (Reliability: 4).
[S443] Compendium of American Genealogy, Frederick Adams Virkus, F. I. A. G., (Chicago, Illinois: A. N. Marquis, 1925-1942, 7 Vols.), https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/172707?availability=Family%20History%20Library., Vol. V, page 586 (Reliability: 3).
(Chicago, Illinois: The Institute of American Genealogy, 1933)
[S75] Shenandoah Valley Pioneers, Thomas K. Cartmell, (Winchester, Virginia: The Eddy Press Corporation, 1909), https://archive.org/stream/shenandoahvalle00cartgoog., page 411-412 (Reliability: 4).
[S486] Listen to the Mockingbird, Daniel Dunbar Howe, (Boyce, Virginia: Carr publishing Company, Inc., 1961), page 306 (Reliability: 4).
[S493] Tenmile Country, Howard L. Leckey, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001, 1977), ISBN: 0806350970, 9780806350974., page 100 (Reliability: 3).
[S329] Hogg DNA Project, Dwight Hogg, (http://hdhdata.org/hoggdna.html), A List of Hogg Lines Line: SL1580, DNA Project ID: NJ1682f | http://hdhdata.org/hoggdna/families.html (Reliability: 4).
[S342] Washburn, Mabel Thacher Rosemary Washburn, (Greenfield, Indiana: W. Mitchell Print Company, 1952, 214 pages), page 179 (Reliability: 3).
[S172] Knowing Lady's Family Tree, Rebecca Bannon, (Little Rock, Arkansas: Tribal Pages, 11 Feb 2007), bbannon.tribalpages.com. (Reliability: 3).
[S74] Shenandoah Valley, History Lower, J. E. Norris, (Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Co., 1890), page 73 (Reliability: 3).
[S65] Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Cecil O'Dell, (Marceline, Missouri: Wallsworth Publishing Co., 1995), Library of Congress: 95-92197., pages 281-286 (Reliability: 4).
[S67] Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence Vernon Roberts, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Clarence Roberts, 1925, 716 pages), page 431 (Reliability: 4).
[S67] Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence Vernon Roberts, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Clarence Roberts, 1925, 716 pages), Chapter IX. Blackledge Family, page 69 (Reliability: 4).
[S68] Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal, H. M. Jenkins (editor), (Philadelphia: 1903, 3 vols) (Reliability: 3).
[S75] Shenandoah Valley Pioneers, Thomas K. Cartmell, (Winchester, Virginia: The Eddy Press Corporation, 1909), https://archive.org/stream/shenandoahvalle00cartgoog., Page 238 (Reliability: 4).
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The Shape and Form of Connections in Roman Muradov's Resident Lover (mini kuš! #66)
by Scott Cederlund March 01, 2018
There are few comics which could pull off lines like, “I’ve never met my former lover’s lover’s lover, and neither had my lover. I’ve heard they’re good at bocce, my lover heard they have no limbs.” Roman Muradov’s minicomic Resident Lover explores the geometry of relationships, beginning with one path and finding many branches to veer off into. Muradov lets his story breath and expand to fill a great space, crafting a story about these connections that we call “love,” but are probably something altogether different.
There is a movement in Muradov’s tales that seems random at first and you can’t say that it all comes together in the end to form a satisfying narrative but it creates an experience of following an idea or an emotion through different iterations. The story is about how we love but viewed through different kinds and levels of relationships. Muradov’s story starts with one person describing a trip to a store but grows in complexity and characters to fill the space of the pages that he has to work with.
With this store in the Columbian Valle del Cauca department at the center of this book, an odd transactional tone hangs over Muradov’s tales. The element of commerce in these relationships isn’t lurid or tawdry but it is strangely businesslike. Part of that is the fairly forthright and staid demeanor of the narrator, a character herself in the first part of the book who disappears as an actor in the second half as she relates the story of two women, similar enough to be mistaken as the same woman by their lover.
As Muradov writes this measured narrative, his artwork helps frame the structure of the story, told in simple, flat shapes that contain an amazing amount of warmth and depth. Using color and form in a very clean, stylistic design, Resident Lover emphasizes its world as an orderly place. As these people live, breath, love and suffer heartbreak, his visualization of these stories create a well-ordered and designed world that masks a sense of whimsy and chaos. It sets up a tension that’s echoed in the final pages of the book as Muradov’s narrator talks about the two women, the heiresses of the department store, and the ways that their lives play almost carelessly with the people around them.
With a deft and intimate touch, Roman Muradov’s Resident Lover tells a story about the forms of these connections we make with people and places. These vignettes of characters and situations merge together in a compelling way, all linked together by this store. The store touches these moments and bonds. Without ever selling us something like a store should, it acts as the center of this universe, forming bonds between all of these characters that help sculpt the emotional tone of the bonds explored in this comic.
Resident Lover (mini kuš! #66)
Written and drawn by Roman Muradov
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Home > PCB Clone Blog > PCB COPY Technology >PCB Copy Engineering Impedance Control Method...
What is PCB Copy Engineering Control Impedance?
The most common examples of PCB Copy control impedance components that may be most common are the feeders that connect the wireless device or the TV receiving antenna. Antenna feeders are typically in the form of a "flat cable" (typically supplied with a VHF broadcast receiver) or a low attenuation coaxial cable. Regardless of the form, the impedance of the feeder is controlled by the physical size and the cable material.
You can think of PCB traces as shorter cables that are precisely laid out on the board to the various devices installed on the board, where the PCB traces resemble the conductors inside the coaxial cable, carrying the signal and its return line In this case the ground plane) is insulated by the board laminate. In the case of a microstrip configuration, this is shown in the cross-section in Fig.
The trace widths W and W1, the thickness T and the laminate height H and the insulation constant Er must be strictly controlled. The solder joints on the surface will slightly reduce the impedance, so a more predictable stripline configuration as shown in Figure 2 is often used.
Why PCB Copy Engineering Control Impedance?
Receiving antennas have natural or characteristic impedances. Electronic theory suggests that the impedance of the feeder and the receiver should match the antenna in order to transmit the maximum power to the receiver (ensuring the integrity of the electrical signal) using the antenna. In other words, the signal impedance should ideally behave as a constant during the transmission of the signal from its source to the target. If a mismatch occurs, only part of the signal will be sent, and the remaining signals will be reflected back to the source (weakening the signal). The cable designer must therefore ensure, in particular, the accuracy and consistency of cable length and material properties. With higher signal switching speeds, the electronic properties of the cable, such as capacitance and inductance, must be taken into account, and the cable can not be considered a simple wire. The corresponding cable that takes these factors into account when designing a cable for high-speed signals should be called a transmission line.
Impedance Control on PCB Copy Engineering
Also, as the signal switching speed on the PCB continues to grow, the electronic properties of the traces carrying the signals become more important. The impedance of the PCB trace is controlled by the following factors
● Configuration
● Dimensions (trace width and thickness, the height of the board material)
● The insulation constant of the circuit board material
When using a cable, when the signal encounters an impedance change caused by a change in material or geometry, a portion of the signal is reflected back and a portion of the signal is delivered to the target. These reflections can cause signal artifacts, which can degrade circuit performance (such as low gain, noise, and random errors.) The board designer will in practice specify the impedance and error of the board traces and rely on the PCB manufacturer to follow the appropriate Of the specification.
Test the PCB
Most PCBs that control the impedance go through 100% of the tests. However, it is more difficult to detect PCB traces that are not easily detectable. In addition, the trace may be very short, and may include many branches, it is very difficult to accurately test the impedance. Adding additional lines for test purposes will affect performance and take up board space. PCB testing is therefore usually performed on one or two test coupons integrated into the PCB panel, rather than on the PCB itself. The sample has the same layered and trace construction as the main PCB, and is identical to the PCB's impedance, which is very accurate. And then test the sample is sufficient to determine the impedance of the circuit board is correct.
Measure the control impedance
Impedance measurements are usually done using a time-domain reflectometer (TDR). The TDR applies a fast voltage step to the sample by controlling the impedance cables and probes. Any reflections in the pulsed microwaves will be shown on the TDR and will represent a change in the impedance value (called a discontinuity.) TDR can indicate the position and magnitude of the discontinuity. Using the appropriate software, the TDR can plot the impedance plot over the length of the test trace of the specimen. The resulting graphical representation of the characteristic impedance of the trace will allow for the implementation of the complex measurements described earlier in a production environment.
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Renshi Edward Scharrer
Inducted into the W.K.U.H.O.F. for 2000
JUJITSU INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR : AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Renshi Edward Scharrer began training in 1969 at the age of five with the Queanbeyan RSL Judo and Jujitsu Club, which was later to become the Peter Morton Academy of Self Defence. During his junior years he participated in the many exhibitions that the Academy held to raise money for charitable and service organisations. In 1974 his potential was recognised when he was awarded the prize of Best and Fairest Boy from a field of about 200 other boys training in the class at the time. At the end of 1977 he graded to lst Kyu Brown. A year later he joined the senior class in Queanbeyan and at the same time began instructing in the junior class. In 1980 he was nominated to commence training for Shodan and successfully graded to that level in December 1981.
Since grading to Black belt, Renshi Scharrer began his teaching career in earnest, teaching in many branches and seminars within the Academy. In 1982 he started teaching in the following branches: the Canberra branch for two years, gaining the award of Outstanding Club Member in the first year; Queanbeyan seniors for nine years until 1991; Canberra/South Coast Black Belt class for 16 years until 1998. During this span he taught nine separate Shodan groups totalling 46 students, of which 45 achieved a successful grade to Shodan. Today he is still acting as an advisor to the two Shodan classes currently running in the region.
In 1984 he took on the role of Chief Instructor at the St Edmunds branch, a position he still holds today, teaching ju-jitsu/ self defence to the pupils of both St Edmunds and the adjoining St Clare’s colleges as part or their extra curricular activities.
In 1985 he began teaching at the newly formed Lyneham branch. A year later the branch moved to the Evatt Primary school to gain extra students, doubling its membership to 40 students with the move. He continued to teach there until 1992.
In 1995 he returned to the Queanbeyan branch to take on the role of Chief Instructor of the junior class and held that position until the beginning of 1999 before giving the mantle to one of his students, so that he will in turn receive the valuable experience of being a Chief Instructor.
Renshi Scharrer became more involved with the administrative side of the Academy in 1988 when he was appointed to be the Academy Secretary. He held this position for six years until 1994. His work involved preparing committee meetings, communicating with all Academy branches ensuring that they were kept up to-date with administrative developments, maintaining insurances, organising coaching accreditations for Academy instructors through the Australian Coaching Council’s National Coaching Accreditation Scheme and preparing and publishing four editions of the annual newsletter.
During his time as Secretary, Renshi Scharrer also perceived the need to create new, as well as to update, existing academy documents of syllabus, rules and regulations. This work formed the foundation of what later became the Academy’s Standard Operating Guidelines and Procedures Manual, which he commenced to work on after completing his appointment as secretary. The first edition was recently published in 1999.
In 1992 Renshi Scharrer was appointed Vice Deputy Principal of the Academy by Soke Morton. A year later this role was extended to include a role of National Chief Instructor of the Academy. At the same time with these appointments his training partner and co-instructor of the Canberra Black Belt class, Renshi David Rowley, was similarly promoted to Vice Principal and National Chief Instructor. Together they were charged with the responsibility of becoming more active in the leadership of the Academy, together with demonstrating and teaching all syllabus techniques at Academy seminars, as well as visiting branches to ensure that techniques are taught and executed properly.
From 1991 the Academy has invited its students and instructors to attend its national seminars which have been hosted by its various branches all around Australia. Renshi Scharrer has played an integral role in every seminar to date by conducting classes together with Renshi Rowley on the technical aspects of the Academy’s style of Ju-jitsu. He has also collaborated in planning the full program of four Annual Seminars.
Renshi Scharrer currently holds the rank of Godan and in 1999 was awarded Life Membership, for his 30 years of dedication and service to the Academy.
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Admissions & Records Assistant III
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San Mateo County Community College District
Posting Number: 2014883S
Department: Admissions & Records CAÑ (DEPT)
Location: Cañada College
Position Number: 3C0145
Percentage of Full Time: 100%
FLSA: Non-Exempt (accrues overtime)
Months per Year: 12
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Min Salary: $58,536 (annual)
Max Salary: $74,844 (annual)
Position Type: Classified Positions
The San Mateo County Community District is committed to achieving educational equity for all students. As outlined in the District’s Strategic Plan, “success, equity, and social justice for our students are longstanding goals.” The District’s https://www.smccd.edu/strategicplanning/SMCCCD%20Strategic%20Plan%20Brochure.pdf is focused on “Student Success, Equity and Social Justice.” We provide students with a rich and dynamic learning experience that embraces differences — emphasizing collaboration and engaging students in and out of the classroom, encouraging them to realize their goals, and to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders. When you join our team at San Mateo County Community College District, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners.
The College and the District:
Cañada College is part of the San Mateo County Community College District and is designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI ), enrolling approximately 11,000 students each academic year. Cañada College has a diverse student population that is a reflection of the communities that it serves. Detailed information about the student population, including data related to student success, can be found on https://canadacollege.edu/prie/ website.
Who We Want:
We value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. Therefore, we prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to a professional educational community. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded individual committed to collaborating with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also committed to closing equity gaps. The San Mateo County Community College District seeks employees who value mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment, guided by a commitment to helping all students achieve their educational goals.
Under general supervision, the Admissions & Records Assistant III performs a variety of clerical and technical duties related to planning and implementing a variety of student enrollment services. The Admissions & Records Assistant III provides policy and procedural information, documents and tracks student enrollment activity, and assists supervisory staff in coordinating and monitoring the work of other staff. Public contact is extensive and includes students, staff, and the general public as well as other educational and governmental institutions for the purpose of exchanging policy and procedural information. A high degree of independent judgment and creativity are required, within the scope of prescribed policies and procedures to resolve a variety of minor and occasional major problems that arise. Consequences of errors in judgment could be costly in public relations, staff and employee time; however, supervisory controls and prescribed procedures limit the risk of serious consequences. The Admissions & Records Assistant III is distinguished from level II by responsibilities for leading the work of teams or individual staff and/or by assisting supervisory staff as the designated technical resource for resolution of the more complex operational issues. The Admissions & Records Assistant III can train and lead the work of other clerical staff, volunteers, and student assistants as assigned.
This position requires the ability to work Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The duties below are representative of the duties of the classification and are not intended to cover all of the duties performed by the incumbent(s) of any particular position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the scope of work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this classification.
1. Exchanges information with current and prospective students, faculty, staff, other educational institutions, governmental agencies, and the general public regarding student enrollment policies and procedures, confidential and other records, and services, programs and activities
2. Confers with supervisory staff to plan short and long-range staffing needs, workflow, customer service enhancements, web and other electronic modifications, operational procedures, enrollment services programs, outreach, and other activities, as well as the development and modification of computer programs, screens and reports
3. In conjunction with supervisory staff, trains staff in new and modified enrollment services and procedures
4. Responds to in-person, telephone, electronic, and written inquiries
5. Coordinates, leads, and monitors the work of teams and individual staff as assigned and provides input into staff performance evaluations
6. Enters, modifies, and retrieves enrollment and related data with a database, including correcting student academic records and maintaining accurate lists of attendance records, student IDs, graduation, and grades
7. Processes grade changes
8. Processes a variety of student requests, including transcripts, petitions, academic renewal, cumulative audit, variable unit changes, class transfers, and add/drop requests
9. Sets up and maintains a variety of complex electronic and manual files of student enrollment data, including transcripts, transfer, certification and graduation, student eligibility, support services, demographics, and fee schedules
10. Provides input into the development and modification of computer programs, screens, and reports in conjunction with supervisory staff
11. Makes residency determinations and makes appropriate notifications to students about their residency status
12. Uses spreadsheets and a variety of computer software to format data and prepare routine reports, correspondence, forms, surveys and informational materials
13. Distributes, prepares, maintains and verifies records of weekly, daily, and positive attendance rosters
14. Assists students in the accurate completion of forms and required information
15. Compares electronic and other records of enrollment and completed coursework to verify eligibility and completion of certificate programs and graduation, transfer, GPA , and other requirements for a variety of college and outside agency purposes
16. Interprets and applies state and federal regulations governing the collection of VA benefits
17. Maintains course repetition report
18. Researches student electronic and manual files to complete reports and surveys and to respond to telephone, electronic, in-person, and written inquires and to refer inquiries to appropriate staff or other departments as appropriate
19. Attends meetings to obtain current information
20. Makes presentations to small and large groups regarding enrollment policies, procedures, timelines, electronic services, fees, and required forms
21. Scans and indexes current and prior records
22. Performs other related duties as assigned
• A combination of education and experience equivalent to an Associate’s degree in business administration, office administration, or a closely related field• Successful general clerical experience of increasing responsibility, preferably in educational enrollment services• Demonstrated cultural competence, sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff• Experience with the organization and maintenance of electronic and manual files and records• Experience with training and leading the work of others• Experience with the use of a variety of computer software to compose and prepare correspondence, forms, reports, presentations, and other written materials• Experience with research and compiling data for, formatting, and preparing statistical, financial and other reports• Demonstrated skills in oral and written communication, including giving clear and concise instructions• Demonstrated skill in multi-tasking, prioritizing workloads, and working independently• Demonstrated skill in working as part of a customer service team• Ability to work Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
This classification requires sitting for various lengths of time; the ability to type, use phone, occasionally lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects of light to moderate weight; work at a computer, including viewing a monitor for various lengths of time, repetitive use of keyboard, mouse or other control device, and dexterity of hands and fingers to operate keyboard in order to perform the essential functions.
Equivalence to Minimum Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of student enrollment services policies, procedures, and forms and fees
2. Knowledge of supportive resources available to students for admission, enrollment, and retention
3. Skill in respectful and sensitive communication with people who are diverse in their academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds
4. Skill in training, directing and coordinating the work of others
5. Skill in using a database and a variety of computer software to enter, modify, format and retrieve complex data, compose and prepare correspondence, reports, memoranda, narratives and other written materials
6. Skill in oral communication, including giving clear and concise instructions
7. Skill in written communication
8. Skill in working accurately with detailed information under deadline pressure
9. Ability to lead and participate in effective and efficient customer service work teams
Spanish speaking skills highly desired.
Benefits include paid holidays, vacation and sick leave. The District pays all or a portion of monthly medical plan premiums (depending on the coverage) and pays all of the monthly dental and vision plan premiums for employees and eligible dependents. Additional paid benefits include life insurance, salary continuance insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program. Classified employees participate in the Public Employees’ Retirement System, a defined-benefit retirement plan through the State of California. Optional tax-deferred 403(b) and 457 retirement plans are also available.
Open Date: 12/17/2019
First Review Date: 01/24/2020
Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Special Instructions Summary:
All applicants are required to submit:
1. A completed online District application form (go to https://jobs.smccd.edu to complete the application and to apply for this position).
2. A resume that details all relevant education, training, and other work experience.
3. A cover letter of no more than 3 pages that addresses the applicant’s cultural competence, sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff as well as the applicant’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements, knowledge, skills, and abilities listed in this announcement.
Candidates for interview will be selected from among those who most closely meet the requirements and knowledge, skills and abilities. Meeting the minimum qualifications does not guarantee an interview. As part of the interview process, candidates may be asked to demonstrate job-related knowledge and skills.
For questions related to this posting, please contact:
SMCCCD Office of Human Resources
3401 CSM Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402
Web Page: www.smccd.edu/hr
Prior to employment, the selected candidate will be required to complete the following:
1. Submit official transcripts (applies to all faculty or educational administrative positions)
2. Submit verifications of prior employment
3. Satisfactory references
4. Successfully being cleared for employment through the background checking process
In addition to background checks, the District may review publicly available information about a candidate on the Internet. If a candidate is aware of incorrect or inaccurate information that is available on the Internet, the candidate is welcome to address such an issue with the Office of Human Resources.
5. Present original documents for proof of eligibility to work in the United States
6. Approval of your employment by the SMCCCD Board of Trustees
7. Provide a certificate of Tuberculosis exam for initial employment.
8. Have fingerprints taken by a Live Scan computer (Clearance must be received prior to first day of employment). Please note that the California Education Code requires, in part, that community college districts shall not employ or retain in employment persons in public school service who have been convicted of certain felonies, a misdemeanor drug charge (including alcohol offenses) or misdemeanor moral turpitude (sexual offense) crime. However, consideration may be given to those whose drug convictions occurred more than five years ago. A conviction for other crimes may not necessarily disqualify you from the job for which you may be applying.
EEO Statement:
The San Mateo County Community College District is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to employ individuals who represent the rich diversity of cultures, language groups, and abilities of its surrounding communities.
Applicants who have disabilities may request that special accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process. Accommodation request forms and a copy of the Americans with Disabilities Act applicant procedures are available in the Office of Human Resources.
Annual Security Report:
San Mateo County Community College District’s (SMCCCD ) 2019 Annual Security Report (ASR ), required by the Clery Act, includes statistics for the previous three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by SMCCCD ; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from SMCCCD . Our 2019 Annual Security Report also outlines various campus safety and security policies, such as those concerning crime reporting, prevention and response to sexual and gender violence, alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, emergency response and evacuation procedures, and other matters. The 2019 Annual Security Report also includes important tips to help every member of the community remain safe and avoid becoming a victim of crime. The 2019 https://www.smccd.edu/publicsafety/2019%20SMCCCD%20Annual%20Security%20Report.pdf is now available. You can also obtain a copy of this report by contacting the Department of Public Safety at the District Office or any of the three Campuses (650) 738-7000.
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Three large-scale works to celebrate Colin Matthews' 70th birthday
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Colin Matthews Cortege, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto; Leila Josefowicz, Anssi Karttunen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, Riccardo Chailly, Rumon Gamba; NMC Recordings
Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 15 2016
Essential listening: three large scale work from Colin Matthews who recently celebrated his 70th birthday
This terrific disc on NMC Recordings helps celebrate Colin Matthews' 70th birthday with recordings of music written between 1988 and 2009. There is a live recording of Matthews' Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz (violin) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen, recorded at the 2010 BBC Proms. Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Cortege, and Anssi Karttunen (cello) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba, perform Cello Concerto No. 2.
Matthews has been at the centre of UK musical life, not just through his composition but in his founding of NMC Recordings, his role as executive administrator of the Holst Foundation and musical director of the Britten-Pears Foundation, not to mention his assisting Deryck Cooke in his performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony.
Colin Matthews
The Violin Concerto is the most recent work on the disc, written between 2007 and 2009 for Leila Josefowicz. It is in two movements, each around 10 minutes long. The first starts with high violin arabesques, and aetherial textures, before developing a more dramatic edge. It is very much a violin showcase, with the orchestra providing a darker textured support. Though abstract, you get a strong sense of narrative, the violin's singing line contrasting with the harmonic complexity. An atmospheric transition with long sustained horn notes, leads to the second movement. Here there is a sense of building tensions and more of a feeling of interaction between violin and orchestra. This reaches a terrific climax with rhythmic drama in the orchestra, and real vibrant edge to the violin part. The performance is superb, with the live recording giving it real vividness.
Cortege was written in 1988 and first performed by Bernard Haitink and the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It is a single, large-scale slow movement and whilst not specifically a funeral march is very much a dark hued work. It opens with a terrifically atmospheric sequence for brass and drums. The music develops in one long sustained span, with an underlying sense of struggle. There are climaxes, and the opening material returns, with a sense of progression in the drama leading via an austerely spare section to the final huge chords, each surrounded by a sense of space. Again there is no narrative but one seems implicit. The studio recording brings out the huge array of dark colours in Matthews' writing, and real showcases the orchestra.
The final work on the disc is Matthews' Cello Concerto No. 2, which was written between 1994 and 1996 for Mstislav Rostropovich and premiered by him with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis. From the outset the solo part was intended to be spot-lit and to showcase the talents of Rostropovich. Here Anssi Karttunen steps up to the mark with a vibrant performance. The opening movement Declamation is intense and sustained, with the cello soloist declaiming against an orchestral backdrop. The second movement, Song without text starts rather mysteriously with the cello rather intense and dramatic in its song rather than lyrical. The third, middle movement, is the only fast one; marked Scherzo. Allegro energico it is vigorous and dramatic with a sense of dialogue between soloist and orchestra. Pounding rhythms lead to the fourth movement, another Song without text which is austere and intense, forming something of a cadenza-like pause in the structure. The final movement, Resolution, is full of gorgeous textures, with a sense of contrast coming between these and the dramatic moments, between vigour and stasis.
Whilst it would be nice to hear Rostropovich playing the work, Karttunen makes a fine soloist with a real sense of ownership of the taxing cello part and little sense of strain from either soloist or orchestra. All the recordings on this disc have that sense of confidence, and bravura challenge. This is a fine birthday present and is essential listening.
Colin Matthews (born 1946) - Violin Concerto (2007/2009) [20:00]
Colin Matthews - Cortege (1988) [18:35]
Colin Matthews - Cello Concerto No. 2 (1994/1996) [26.40]
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Recorded: live at BBC Proms July 2010 (Violin Concerto); 19 December 1998 at the Concertgebouw (Cortege); 23-24 April 2002 at Maida Vale Studios (Cello Concerto)
NMC RECORDINGS NMC D227 1CD [66.09]
Available from Amazon.co.uk.
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Hetairos Takes Line Honours in Transatlantic Superyacht Regatta & Maxi Yacht Cup 2011
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Hetairos, the stunning 66 metre Baltic Yachts ketch launched in July this year was the first superyacht to finish the Transatlantic Superyacht Regatta - Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Cup 2011 at 00.03 a.m. GMT on 30th November.
Hetairos Photo: Baltic Yachts
She crossed the finish line just off Saba Rock after 8 days, 10 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds of navigation. Designed and engineeried by Dykstra & Partners and Reichel Pugh, Hetairos covered the 3069 mile trip from Santa Cruz in Tenerife at an average speed of 15.12 knots.
Second-placed Sojana (GBR), owned by Peter Harrison, was approximately 400 miles from the finish at 09.55 GMT today. She was travelling at approximately 9 knots and was followed by Andrea Recordati's Wally 101 Indio (ITA).
Hetairos at the start Photo: IMA
Last night Indio's skipper Mark Fliegner, said that the conditions were pretty challenging
"The wind has started dying down about an hour ago, only 23 to 28 knots now. We are carrying the storm jib forward with 3 reefs in the main. A bit underpowered through the night in the light patches (23-30knts), but perfect when squalls came in (30-38 usually, one at 46knts), with lots of rain. We are still managing acceptable average speed, with some amazing top speed out of nowhere of up to 24 knots," Fliegner said.
Tobias Koenig's Swan 82 Grey Goose of Rorc (GBR) was in fourth place. Although following different courses, there was little in it between the Wally 107 Kenora (ITA) and the smallest yacht in the fleet, the Croatian Karuba V, which both had approximately 900 miles still to cover. Salvatore Trifiro's 49.7 metre Zefira (ITA) made the decision to switch to engine power for the final stretch and is no longer competing in the race.
On iRC corrected time Hetairos completed the course in just over 17 days and 9 hours and the fleet will be fighting tooth and nail over the next few days to be in with a chance of taking overall victory.
The top scoring IMA and YCCS boats will also receive awards at a glittering prize-giving ceremony held at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda's stunning new Clubhouse perched above the Club's purpose built superyacht marina. Another six superyachts will be arrive in Virgin Gorda over the coming days.
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Labels: Photos: Baltic Yachts; IMA
Groupama secure 3rd - Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12
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Groupama Slam Into Third Place - Volvo Ocean Race
Leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race drew to a close on Tuesday when Groupama 4 and Franck Cammas/FRA crossed the finish in Cape Town at 17.28.31 UTC (19.28 local time) after 24 days, four hours, 28 minutes and 31 seconds (24:04:28:31) of racing.
Photo: Paul Todd/Volvo Ocean Race
It is the first time that a fully French entry has been seen in the race since the late Eric Tabarly skippered the maxi La Poste in 1993-94. Groupama Sailing team score 20 points for the leg, to add to the two points awarded for fifth place in the Iberdrola In-Port Race in Alicante on October 29. The team are in third place overall.
“Third is not that bad, some others are in a much worse position. But we are disappointed because especially at the end of the leg, we didn’t get to come back on the others,” Cammas said.
"We are pleased to get to Cape Town and to leave with some learnings and confidence in the boat, and all the experience we have built up - it is a lot more important than any amount of training you can do over two years", Cammas said shortly before arrival in Cape Town.
The last two days have been tedious in the extreme for Groupama 4 whose progress was hampered first by no wind and then by too much. It was a tired and relieved crew that finally made it to Cape Town as dusk fell.
Groupama 4 briefly took the lead on day three, November 7, but it was day four that decisions were made from which there was, almost, no going back. Cammas decided to keep inshore and follow the African coast in the painfully slow, upwind conditions. Taking a risk, which, ultimately, did not pay off, the team split from the pack, clearly confident in their choice of tactics. CAMPER (Chris Nicholson/AUS) also took the same track, but later paid a costly price to follow Telefónica (Iker Martínez/ESP), the eventual leg winner and PUMA’s Mar Mostro (Ken Read/USA) later dismasted, out to the west.
The tactical gamble immediately began to cost the French team and, later that day, CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand bailed out to the west. The sails slatted and flogged in less than two knots of wind and Groupama sailing team became lonely warriors, heading the traditional trade route less than five nautical miles (nm) off the Moroccan coast.
By day five, the French were on the ‘highway to hell’, over 300 nm east of the rest of the fleet and 42 nm offshore. “With Morocco just under our eyes, we really feel like this is the start of a round the world trip… A lonely one, and one that wasn’t really planned,” wrote the crew that day. The unbelievable scenario that the crew felt could happen, was now taking place. “Let’s say ‘we won’t see them again soon’”, wrote MCM Yann Riou. How right he was.
On day six, Groupama 4 was top of the leaderboard, and Cammas was still confident. “It was not our choice to go alone,” Cammas said in a radio interview on day six. “I have nervous moments for sure, but I don’t share them. I just share my hopes. We’ve done everything we wanted to do up to now,” he said. But, by day eight, the tables had turned as the boats in the west hooked into a new weather system and Groupama were left struggling in fourth place, a position they never recovered from.
At the time, Cammas said, ruefully, “The outcome won’t be very positive, that’s for sure. That’s the risk of our option. We knew it would be favourable in the short term. It was uncertain in the long term and it didn’t come out very good for us.”
That being said, their position on the leaderboard at the end of the leg looks positive enough. Team Telefónica lead with 31 points, followed by CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand on 29 and Groupama on 22.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing have six points, PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG are on five and Sanya are on three, after all three were forced to retire from Leg 1.
The next opportunity for all six to score points will be in the second in-port race in Cape Town on Saturday, November 10 at 1300 UTC. The second leg to Abu Dhabi begins the following day at the same time.
Provisional Leaderboard Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12
1. Team Telefónica: 31 points
2. CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand: 29 points
3. Groupama sailing team: 22 points
4. Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing: 6 points
5. PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG: 5 points
6. Team Sanya: 3 points
Volvo Ocean Race Media
Labels: Photos: Paul Todd/Volvo Ocean Race
Fast Sailing - Pirates of the Caribbean - Black Pearl - Volvo Ocean Race
Groupama Does It Slowly - Volvo Ocean Race Update
The struggle to Cape Town continues for the beleaguered Groupama 4 (Franck Cammas/FRA).
They'll be none of this for Groupama Photo: Paul Todd/Volvo Ocean Race
Overnight the team made little or no progress, covering just 140 nautical miles in 24 hours and averaging 5.9 knots, but at 1000 UTC today, as the team hooked into a new low-pressure system, it was a question of slowing the boat down as she raced towards the finish at over 18 knots.
“It’s pretty brutal onboard,” said watch captain Daman Foxall. “We are bouncing along now, so we’re actually trying to slow the boat down to avoid unnecessary risks,” he said.
...or this! Photo: Paul Todd/Volvo Ocean Race
Overnight, bowman Brad Marsh described what it felt like to be onboard Groupama 4:
“We are trying our best to get back to the real world, but at the moment it feels kind of like we are on parole for some horrible crime none of us can remember committing.
“We thought when we crossed the equator that King Neptune had informed us of all our wrongdoings and punished us accordingly. However, it appears that another mythical and equally important character named ‘Uncle Huey the Wind God’ has decided he would like to add salt to our wound.
“Imagine Sebastian Vettel’s Formula One car running out of petrol on the final lap and then watching him jump out of the driver’s seat and try to push his car around the track in order to finish for some vital championship points, a similar scene is happening here now on Groupama 4 in the grand prix of offshore sailing.
“For the last 12 hours we have been sitting in the middle of a high pressure system that has absolutely no wind at all. No matter how hard we attempt to trim the sails and urge our boat towards Cape Town, it is Uncle Huey and Mother Nature who are having the last say and are currently laughing at our attempts.”
With 108 nautical miles to run to the finish, computers have been predicting a finish today at around 1630 UTC, but as Brad Marsh says, “Our estimated time of arrival (ETA) has begun to sound like an old person’s Bingo game. Basically a lot of numbers that are not worth taking note of recently, as they are subject to such a great range of change.”
Report: 29/11/2011 10:01:18 UTC
DTL DTLC BS DTF
1 TELE Finished: 021d 05h 14m 25s
2 CAMP Finished: 021d 21h 48m 04s
3 GPMA 0.00 0.0 18.3 108.8
- ADOR Retired from Leg 1
- PUMA Retired from Leg 1
- SNYA Retired from Leg 1
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Groupama's Rough Ride to Cape Town - Volvo Ocean Race Update
The worst is yet to come for the frustrated crew onboard Groupama 4, as the windless ridge stretches further across their chosen route to the finish in Cape Town and the crew play games to keep themselves amused.
Photo: Yanni Roui/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race
While the sails flog in a confused breeze some 250 nautical miles from the finish, the crew have been playing solitaire on an iPad and asking the classic boredom cure-all: “If you could take just one movie to a desert island, what would you choose?”
Despite the obvious frustrations, multihull sailing champion and Groupama sailing team skipper Franck Cammas was able to remain philosophical about this team’s position, especially as third in Leg 1 and overall was all but guaranteed.
“Third is not that bad, some others are in a much worst situation,’’ he said. “But we are disappointed because, especially at the end of the leg, we didn’t get to come back on the others.
“The Doldrums stopped us from getting the same weather system that the others had. We were 10 hours behind CAMPER, we are now more than two days away – it’s frustrating, for sure. But that’s the sea, that’s the weather, that’s sailing. It happened to us and it will happen again – that’s the game.”
Volvo Ocean Race meteorologist Gonzalo Infante said Groupama would continue to encounter fickle, light upwind conditions until later this eventing, possibly for another 10 hours.
Their saviour will be a low-pressure system that will build increasing southern winds overnight. The southerly change means Groupama will be able to gybe later tonight, and finally point and accelerate for the finish at Cape Town.
However, closer to South Africa’s shores awaits a hostile greeting similar to that afforded to CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand, Infante said, with winds gusting in excess of 30 knots and confused seas from at least 50nm from the finish line.
Cammas said his team were in no rush, and keeping the boat and her crew safe and in one piece was priority number one.
"We want to get to Cape Town as soon as possible because the stopover will be short, but we also want to get there in one piece with a boat in perfect condition.
"It’s a combination of both going fast without taking useless risks"
While the unpredictable conditions make any estimated finish time more of a guestimate, Infante said a finish could be expected tomorrow morning, possibly 0900 UTC.
Groupama will take third place on the leaderboard with 22 points assuming they get across the line. Team Telefónica lead with 31 points, followed by CAMPER with 29.
As Cammas alluded to, some teams are in a far trickier situation than Groupama. PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG were playing golf on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha as they awaited a ship that finally left Cape Town in the early hours of Monday.
The best Ken Read’s team can hope for is to be back in South Africa on December 6 – just four days before the second in-port race.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing and Team Sanya, forced to retire form Leg 1, were expecting their boats to arrive in Cape Town by Wednesday.
3 GPMA 0.00 0.0 8.1 255.7
Labels: Photos: Yanni Roui/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race
Groupama 4 Travelling At A Snail's Pace - Volvo Ocean Race Update
Groupama 4 is making slow progress towards the finish line in Cape Town in a meagre 8.7 knots of breeze.
It's a frustrating situation to still be at sea while the two teams who finished ahead of them, Telefónica and CAMPER, get a head start in preparing their boats for the Cape Town In-Port Race and the start of Leg 2 on December 10 and 11 respectively.
With just one more night at sea and 274 nautical miles to go the French boat team is keen to make landfall.
Meanwhile, the crew of PUMA’s Mar Mostro are wiling away their days playing golf and keeping an eye out for their rescue freighter, Team Bremen, which left Cape Town in the early hours of Monday morning. The ship is expected to take four days to cover the 1,500nm to the remote island of Tristan da Cunha where she will crane PUMA's Mar Mostro up onto the cradle that is perched on her deck.
On board is shore team boat builder Chris Hill, the cradle for Mar Mostro, a shipping container filled with tools, supplies, personal items for sailors and some delicious freeze-dried food for them to eat on the return trip. If all goes to plan, the boat should arrive in Cape Town on December 6. A replacement mast leaves the United States today and is expected to arrive in Cape Town on Friday.
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Del's
Title: Del's
Subject: Lemonade, List of frozen dessert brands, Brand name frozen desserts, Limeade, Fla-Vor-Ice
Del's Lemonade & Refreshments, Inc.
A container of Del's Lemonade in Rhode Island
"Stop at the Sign of the Lemon!"
Current owner(s)
Bruce DeLucia
http://www.dels.com/
Del's is a brand of frozen lemonade typically found in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts during the summer months. Del's lemonade is available in 20 states.[1] Frozen lemonade is a kind of slush. It is made from crushed ice, lemons, and sugar. In Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts "Del's" is synonymous with frozen lemonade.
Del's was founded by Angelo DeLucia, who originally received the recipe for lemonade from his father, Franco DeLucia, who brought the recipe to the United States from Italy. Angelo then developed a machine to dispense their product.
The first Del's stand was a small, pushable cart in Cranston, Rhode Island, in 1948. Soon afterwards, Angelo started using "Del's Trucks" to serve the beverage anywhere in the state. The company still uses the trucks today in addition to its storefront locations.
In 1993, Rhode Island legislature made an attempt to select an official state beverage. Del's lemonade and coffee milk were chosen as "finalists"; however, coffee milk was eventually chosen as the official state beverage.
The 2011 television movie Lemonade Mouth, a Disney Channel Original Movie adapted from the book of the same name by Rhode Island author Mark Peter Hughes, prominently features "Mel's Frozen Lemonade," which the author has indicated is a parody of Del's.
A Del's Lemonade stand in San Francisco
Angelo DeLucia died on September 6, 2007.
There are eight flavors of the popular drink: lemon, lite lemon, watermelon, peach-mango, blueberry, cherry, grapefruit, and pomegranate. Coffee was once a flavor but has not appeared on the menu for many years. Del's also sells other various products such as warm pretzels, candy, hot dogs, and popcorn.
In partnership with Del's, the Narragansett Brewing Company produces a shandy called Del's Shandy.[2]
Del's operates franchises selling their prepared product, with 20 locations in Rhode Island, the most of any state, as well as locations throughout the US, and even internationally. Trucks selling the product are often seen at popular beach locations in summer months. The Del's "take-home" mix and non-frozen variety of lemonade can be found in grocery stores throughout the world.
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^ Perreault, Denise (July 23, 2014). "Del's lemonade folks squeezed from festival again". The Valley Breeze. Retrieved 2015-06-07.
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#23054 - 08/04/07 07:47 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: BrianPatrix]
MikeBinOK
Loc: Oklahoma
Originally Posted By: BrianPatrix
And what are you on about Star Wars? It soooo had a plot, there's a decaying Evil Empire and the local farm boy discovers he's a destined hero, to save the beautiful princess. We call that Space Opera, see Niven's the Mote in Gods Eye.
Check back on what I read...I didn't say Star Wars had no plot, I said that the movies that tried to copycat it decided that all they needed was special effects, and they didn't bother to have interesting plots!
I agree that Star Wars had a plot, but stand by my statement about it being a Western with Ray Guns. Watch the original Star Wars, then watch John Wayne's "The War Wagon" and see if you don't agree!
Don't get me wrong, I loved the original Star Wars trilogy and still like them a lot.
Mike B in OKlahoma
"Never confuse with malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
#23071 - 08/06/07 06:47 PM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: BrianPatrix]
TheFallibleFiend
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"The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a great movie for its time. The theme was something that should resonate with religious people - don't worry about "stuff" cause there's a higher power looking out for the welfare of the galaxy. I keep a copy at home and watch it from time to time, but my kids aren't fond of it.
I like Metropolis better, but I'm not sure how much it affects current SF.
#23073 - 08/06/07 08:04 PM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: TheFallibleFiend]
Loc: Pago Pago, American Samoa
At the time of its release I thought that "Blade Runner" would create a wave of films dealing with Artificial Intelligence, but it never happened. That was also adapted from a little Phillip Dick novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". I read that in a single sitting, as a High School Junior on a Basketball trip on a bus. It really makes you think, especially the last 60 pages or so. Not a good way to get "psyched" to play Ball!
Strangely, a few years later I was travelling South-North in Germany by train. I noticed a passenger sitting in a seat just ahead of me reading "Traumen Androiden Von Elektrisken Schafen?"
I was dissappointed in the film version because it omitted so much. In the book, Deckard was married to a woman named Iran. They lived out a rough existence on a small salary (in San Fran, not LA) and. like most Americans, resented the flow of immigrants into the country. There were so many immigrants that the common language on the street was a mish-mash of English/Japanese and Arabic. Real animals are almost completely extinct so people keep android animals. Deckard himself has an Electric Sheep that he keeps on the roof of his building. He was offered $6,000 to terminate 6 Replicants. Errr... 6 large was a lot of money in 1968! The film also deleted two minor characters who I thought were pivotal The first was named Buster Friendly, a Game Show Host who gave peole hope. The other was Mercer who had established a new religion after the Nuclear War. I kept waiting for one of them to show up. Nope. But THE OWL showed up! That was Deckard's dream, to one day have enough money to buy an Electric Owl. After the War radiation was killing everything, people were leaving for the Off World Colonies.
In the end Deckard retreats to Oregon with his wife. Climbing a path on a hill, he finds a toad, and is ecstatic that he actually has a real, living animal, something only the very priviledged could own. But that night his wife realizes that it too is a replicant. Decckard goes to bed happy, deluded, but happy, and his wife orders android flies for the toad, to keep him happy.
Oh, it's an incredible Book, it makes you think about things like the Human Condition, Technology and Religion. Very few books do that.
Edited by Wolfman (08/07/07 12:01 AM)
#23108 - 08/08/07 10:38 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Wolfman]
Speaking of Phil Dick, have you read "Lies Inc" or "Counter-Clock World"? CC World is a real head-trip and would make a great film.
Unfortunately though, while his concepts are mind-blowing, his writing can be a bit crap - well, a lot crap actually. It's a pity he didn't have better narrative skills to complement his grand ideas. Just my 0.02c.
#23120 - 08/09/07 04:24 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Kate]
Loc: Australia
Why do I feel that in the Androids/ Sheep book the Deckard character was also left questioning his own human status? I liked both the film and the book, but they are both very different really, (but the book is more interesting). And stop getting stuck into Star Wars (esp the first, the original and best), it was a western, it was fun, I would have made that movie if I could have... BUT nothing on this planet will convince me that Luke and Laia were ever intended, in the future, to be found to be to be brother and sister in the way they were portrayed in that first episode!!! No Way!!!
#23136 - 08/10/07 06:53 PM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Ellis]
redewenur
I'll take the liberty of stretching the thread a wee bit.
This was the most influential sci-fi for me, but it wasn't a movie, it was a radio broacast: Journey into Space
First broadcast in 1953, in the UK it was the last radio programme to attract a bigger evening audience than television. It could even have served as a model for Star Trek (and 'Q' in particular). From Wiki:
Although Journey Into Space was primarily an entertaining science-fiction adventure, it often touched on deeper moral issues, many of which were very thought-provoking. A recurring theme throughout all three series was the lack of respect which humans often demonstrate towards the Earth and each other. At times, a non-human intelligence (such as the Time-Traveller or the Martian), being much older and more advanced than mankind, would rebuke the main characters for mankind's selfish and destructive tendencies.
In Operation Luna, a good example is the diary entry which Doc unintentionally writes while being influenced by the Time-Traveller on the Moon:
... We should never have come. Man has no right here, no right to carry the secrets of this planet back to Earth, back to terrestrial beings who can neither understand them nor appreciate them, and in consequence will only attempt to destroy them, rip them to pieces, tear them apart, as they have already begun to destroy their own planet ...
Another example is Mitch's speech while possessed by the Time-Traveller on the Moon:
... Why do you interrupt the peace of your sister planet? ... Already you are tearing your own planet to pieces, destroying it, and now you mean to do the same here ...
http://www.jeton.themoon.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_Into_Space
Wonderful stuff, even for a 4yr old.
"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler
Loc: IL
Star Wars is a classic hero myth, like the Potter films, but I doubt it would have been made if not for 2001. Does Dr. Strangelove qualify?
#23674 - 09/30/07 05:02 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Mr. Wizard]
Why do you think that 2001 is so influential? Star Wars is definitely the archetypal quest myth- it has all the features including the maimed hero, as does Harry Potter, but so do many other novels and movies. 2001 may have influenced the setting by popularising the notion of science fiction film, but I think it had a different message entirely. While 2001 was a sort of history of humans of Earth and looked to its own future- Star Wars was set on 'a galaxy far, far away' and the action does not intend to apply specifically to Earth. This is important as imagination runs free in Star Wars, fantasy is given full flight and ideas are limited only by the budget!
#23685 - 10/01/07 01:26 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Ellis]
2001 was influential partly in making science fiction movies "respectable". Kubrick was a major director, and if he was going to make a science fiction film, it was more difficult to dismiss science fiction as a fringe genre suitable only for teen-aged movie goers. A lot of later science fiction movies wouldn't have been able to get funded if Kubrick hadn't ventured into the field.
And I think it is a pretty cool movie, though by being set in the "near future" it hasn't aged well. A common risk of doing that.
#23695 - 10/02/07 01:44 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Amaranth Rose II]
Rallem
Loc: South Royalton, Vermont
I voted for 2001: A Space Odyssey because I was a child then and remember how it sparked the minds of my classmates who were allowed to see it. My family was poor so I didn't go to theaters to see movies then. I am sure Metropolis was a fine motivator of its time since I think it was the original sci fi movie, but it was too far before my time to know for sure. The Last Star Fighter was a fun movie and I own a copy for my personal library, but I would not say it was all that influencial.
big fat pig
why isn't star wars on the list? lol star wars was the funniest ever(entire series) i loved it.
#26987 - 07/05/08 12:36 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: MikeBinOK]
Mike Kremer
Loc: London UK
Originally Posted By: Mike Kremer
Its been a long time since we had a worthy update to Sci-Fi Movies. There is an update to one of the most famous films of all time, Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'
It was always a difficult film to understand, but now everyone will be able to see this film in its entirety and understand it.
For one fifth of the original version of this silent film was edited and shortened by the American Paramount Co: back in 1927.
Ever since then the original has been lost for over 80 years.
Until the original was found an Argentinian Museum in 1992.
The film was taken to Germany, where it has been restored. It will soon be available for the public to see, and understand, for the first time ever.
The new added scenes now make sense of the film, and show the fights of the bizarre "gynoid" robot. Love scenes between Freder, (the leaders idealistic son) and the underworlds beautiful leader Maria, are also new. It also brings in the "thin man" who is paid to spy on the leaders son, and Freder's mother.
The full techno-sexual violent imagery has been restored, the reasons that this epic film was cut, in the first place.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/07/lost_metropolis_footage_could.html
Edited by Mike Kremer (07/05/08 01:10 AM)
Edit Reason: URL added
"You will never find a real Human being - Even in a mirror." ....Mike Kremer.
#26994 - 07/06/08 01:51 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Mike Kremer]
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/images_and_descriptions_of_found_metropolis_footage_online
The above site claims to have stills of some of the discovered footage. Quality leaves something to be desired, though I suspect they will work wonders on this using the video equivalent of Photoshop to clear it up.
I'm a big fan of this film, and am quite excited. Maybe the full plot will now actually make sense!!!
Edited by MikeBinOK (07/06/08 01:53 AM)
Arcturus66
"I wanna root for THX 1138"
I just *grinned* so big that something fell off. While possibly not being so influential for latter works, it was somewhat 'prophetic' (IMO) and a nice dystopia. On that note, I recommend Terry Gilliam's Brazil or, for lighter viewing, the forever-considered-a-B-rate futuristic Cherry 2000.
That one fits very well, considering some of the current news blurbs.
#27984 - 10/09/08 12:23 AM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: Arcturus66]
Subtopic? I check this topic months later and not one has mentioned The Quiet Earth.
Hi, Arcturus66. I'm ever on the lookout for engrossing sci-fi movies, but they do seem few and far between - I have a deficiency, i.e. a complete inability to appreciate the Star Wars type. I visited imdb.com, and The Quiet Earth looks promising. What did you like about it?
#28577 - 11/30/08 02:08 PM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: redewenur]
yourmaker316
Loc: Delaware, United States of Ame...
I am a big fan of 2001. The other books would have made awesome movies.
I'm actually going to put my vote in for Star Trek. Sure there are outragous ideas but the point is it was/is a huge for modern technology, like the flip phone, and it has a realistic time line for how we got there. It's long which is very real.
Star Wars was cool but little science.
Alien is cool, but the plot kind of covers the science be hind it.
The Day the Earth Stood Still is coming out with a remake. I hope it's good.
I think therefore I'm MAN.
#28969 - 12/29/08 10:37 PM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: yourmaker316]
Unfortunately it's not! It's just an arcade game for most of the movie, and Keanu Reeves, who I think is very attractive indeed, is beyond expressionless. I know the role demands it, but he is supposed to be acting it!
( Plaintive whine here) -- Why do they remake really good movies? The original in black and white is a truly remarkable movie.
qraal
2001 set the standard stylistically and broke-away from the V2/UFO spaceship design paradigm that dominated all through the 1950s/60s. Spaceships became Deep space-ships that looked functional, instead of like missiles or hub-caps.
#29125 - 01/09/09 01:34 PM Re: Most Influential Sci Fi Movie [Re: qraal]
Yes, I think you're right qraal. Although the Star Trek craft combined hub-cap with missiles; but they can be excused, as they also served as landing craft!
Which brings me to mentioning that I've recently finished watching the entire Star Trek Voyager series, which I think is brilliant. One could attack the program on the grounds that it isn't agonisingly realistic. But why be concerned over that? It's a visual delight, thoroughly absorbing as the central characters develop throughout the 26 episodes, and all-in-all excellent entertainment. This is the kind of space soap that I like. The end titles of the final episode were a sad sight.
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Regimental Colour of the Regiment of Line Infantry Saboya 1840-1845 (Bandera sencilla del Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Saboya)
Queen's Colour of the Regiment of Chasseurs Isabel II 1841-1844 (Bandera coronela del Regimiento de Infantería de Cazadores Isabel II)
Historical Flags 1701-1785 (Spain)
Vexilología Militar. Antecedentes y Evolución de las Banderas en España 1700-1978 (Military Vexillology. Origins and Evolution of Flags in Spain 1700-1978, Spanish text only) 1700-1808 and 1808-1978 by Luis Sorando [smz], at the Nec Pluribus Impar website
Banderas Militares (Military Flags, Spanish text only) image by Sergio Camero:
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Regimiento de Artillería de Costa número 4: Banderas (4th Coastal Artillery Regt.: Colours, Spanish text only), showing historical and current Colours, at the Spanish armed forces website
The overwhelming majority of Spanish 18th and early 19th century military flags, followed this pattern: a Burgundy Cross – usually but not always on a white field – and a coat-of-arms upon the end of every branch of the cross. These arms would identify the particular unit; Irish units, for example, would bear coats-of-arms with the Celtic harp.
Juan Morales, 23 Jan 1999
The Regimental flags (...) were to made out of taffeta, and with the main colours used by the respective province's Arms or of the City where the regiment was quartered. Following the precepts of the House of Bourbon, by an official notice of 1734, it was ordered that every regiment had three flags, all on white taffeta: the Coronela [Editor's note: Colonel's Colour, equivalent to King's Colour], with the Royal Coat of Arms centered on it, and the other two [Capitanas or Captain's Colours, equivalent to Regimental Colours] with the Burgundy Cross; on their four corners, the Coat of Arms of the Province and the Crown, and on the two top quarters the name of the regiment itself. Source: Vargas 1981, pp. 28-29.
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The regulations for Line Infantry established that sencilla flags (Regimental Colours) would not bear the royal arms (cf. the Louisiana Infantry 1779-1781 colour). Source: Manzano 1997 [mzn97].
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Batallón de Voluntarios Numancia
Here is a link with two images (b/w) of the flag of the Batallón de Voluntarios "Numancia" (1808). I'd like to know if someboy knows about this batalion taking part in military actions overseas or only domestically.
Esteban Rivera, 11 Dec 2005
I can only find a Voluntarios Numantinos. Not quite the same name, I admit. It is mentioned in volume 4 of Heraldica e Historiales del Ejercito (Madrid, Servicio Historico Militar, 1979). But if I read the Spanish correctly, this regiment was raised in 1810 in the mountains of Soria, and was absorbed by the Cazadores de Barbastro No.9 in September 1815. Barbastro was serving in Caracas (modern Venezuela) at the time.
Ian Sumner, 12 Dec 2005
According to Rafael Martin, El Periodico Mediterraneo, 15 July 2006, the municipal administration of Segorbe (Valencia) has sent a letter to President of the Republic Jacques Chirac. They require the return of the banner of the Volunteers' Battalio of Segorbe, which was taken during the siege of Zaragoza by the Napoleonic army in 1809 and exposed as a war trophy in the Museum of the Invalides in Paris. They propose to replace the flag in Paris with a replicate and to show the original in the Municipal Museum of Segorbe.
Source: Rafael Martin, El Periodico Mediterráneo, 15 Jul 2006
Ivan Sache, 20 Jul 2006
Reading of several cases of similar rerquests being asked before in other countries, it seems to me that the chance to get the flag back is quite close to zero. It seems that, in general, the flags taken as booty by victoring armies are considered legally obtained. It seems that taking a flag in a battle (no matter what we think of the rightfullnes of the past war today) is considered the right of the victor and that returno fo such goods is not practiced.
I seems to remember (but I write from memory) requests for flags being returned from Moscow, Belgrade, Stockholm etc. and none have been returned, the current owners always claiming that they obtained them legally and with dyre price in blood.
Željko Heimer, 20 Jul 2006
I have found more information on the battalion in "Levante." The banner is the unique remain of the Segorbe Batallion, also known as Volunteers' Regiment, Segorbe Chasseur Regiment, Segorbe Infantry Regiment and Light Infantry Batallion of Segorbe Camp. The batallion included more than 500 soldiers, who almost all died in the fighting. For the 200th anniversary of the siege of Zaragoza, which started in 15 June 1808, the municipality of Segorbe plans to erect a monolith on a square of the city on which the names of the batallion's soldiers will be written.
Source: Levante, 15 Jul 2006
Personally, I would encourage the return of the banner provided it will be kept in good conditions and available to all, which seems to be the case. I don't seen any reason, especially educative, to maintain the tradition of "war trophy" when the French army acted as an invader. Let us keep the banner, but let us answer to a serious and official query. I have not seen anything related to this query in the French media.
The municipality of Segorbe (Spain) had recently requested French President Jacques Chirac the return of a flag captured by the French troops during the Napoleonic wars. Jacques Chirac has accepted the request and the flag shall be soon retroceded to Segorbe and replaced in the Army Museum by a replica.
Source: Rafael Martin, El Periodico Mediterráneo, 22 September 2006
Ivan Sache, 29 Sep 2006
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Here's a story from the owner of a 13 year old, beautiful Audi S4. He reminisces about buying the car, maintaining it's minty condition and enjoying it on weekends regardless of the weather, being an S4 this car excels where others might shy away, and finally the time to consider parting ways and finding a new owner for the car who will care for it as well. Having gone through a similar series of emotions with my own 'old car', right down to finding a justified new owner, this story just rings so clear of the passion we all have for these things. Farewell.
"I'm about to meet a few prospective buyers for my B5 S4. I'm moving to the city and will no longer have a garage, or the time to give it the attention a 13 year old car needs and deserves. I want to honor it by telling its story to some people who will sympathize.
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Years later at my first job I had the dealer catalog page cut out and hung above my desk. The Nogaro Blue S4 photoshopped into some impossible track maneuver. After a few years, it seemed like maybe it was too late. It was 2007, and 2002 cars were tricky to come by, especially in any useable form- the S4 was so easy to tune it encouraged reckless hoonage and 6-figure odometers.
In passing conversation I mention I'm looking for an Audi and a coworker says "my friend is selling his A4." I ask for the details and he says "it's the twin turbo V6." I said, "No it's not." He said "Yes it is."
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I made the decision to keep my Pontiac Sunfire to preserve the value of the lucky score I made. It was the best decision of my life. All week long I could sit in traffic in the Sunfire, park it, and then put on my weekend persona and get in the S4.
The car is perfect- it fits me like a glove. The right type of mindset understands a tool that is an extension of yourself. Every control in the right place and the right position. The seating position and controls were so effortless I could lose track of myself and the car and I would become one.
And the AWD- if you've never experienced the joy of a torsen differential in the snow, then you are missing out on one of the biggest joys of driving- there's nothing like the feeling of a perfectly controlled 4-wheel drift around an exit ramp. I was the only maniac pulling my shiny sports car OUT of the garage when it snowed.
Now many years later, my daily driver is more tolerable and my living situation is changing, so I have to move on. Besides, 13 years is a long time, perfectly preserved or not there are things that get old. The Nav system which can only navigate 1/6th of the country at a time; listening to my iPhone through a cassette tape adapter; the dashboard display losing 1 line of pixels at a time until it's almost unreadable. It's age is showing.
The car represented a stage of my life, a goal achieved and a welcome into adulthood. I'll never forget the love of driving it gave me.
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RB26 Engine Turbo Swap & External OverhaulThis guide picks up where the Pulling the RB26 Engine walk-through left off. Having just separated the transmission from the engine, we now look to remove the old turbos and then set up the new ones. There is a lot of patience needed to do this, as there are a many fragile parts. It does take quite some time to complete this, maybe even a day or two if its your first time. First thing to do is remove any intake piping that may still be attached, put it off to the side. There is an array of metal and vacuum hoses just above the heat shields, and it wraps around the back-side of the engine, remember to label each line that you disconnect.There is also the water feed line, which spans the length of both heat shields, these lines have been heat cycled for 20 years - and unless you plan to replace with stainless steel braided lines (as I have done) - then you need to be very careful when removing the lines or they will crack, as in the picture b…
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As part of the campaign to update the interior, and make it more functional many people modify the center console to better suit their needs. Fortunately, Nissan had the foresight for this and accommodated its fans by making the center console exactly 3 DIN units stacked on top of each other. The climate control unit is also exactly one DIN large and can be relocated to any number of places.
We start by removing the gear shift knob and the shifter boot, this gives you access to 4 screws, which when removed will allow the center console trim to come off. From there, depending on your own set up, you can remove the triple gauges, the stereo, the climate control, all the brackets, and ashtray and cigarette lighter.
My plan involved a lot of wiring, and custom work. I wanted to install 2 Defi Gauges for water and oil temperature, the Defi control unit, a stereo (later on) and the Greddy turbo timer. I also wanted to relocate the climate control unit. So with everything out of the way I star…
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When I needed to bleed the ATESSA All Wheel Drive system during an overhaul on the Never Ending R32 GTR Epic Build Story, I found a particularly good walk-through on the forums, and from Tyndago's site. So this is a combination from both. (RBS14 on GTRc and Tyndago). You need Nissan ATF fluid for this application, or any equivalent.
Step 1: Fill the tank 30 mm above MAX line. The tank is located in right rear of your trunk.
Step 2: Open the air bleeder on the oil pump. Crack it open until there is no more air coming out and you get fluid dripping. This air bleeder is located on the pump on top of the rear diff. Bleeder is on right side. Can’t miss it.
Step 3: After you tighten up that bleeder go and turn the ignition on. Don’t start the car just turn the key to IGN (Ignition).
Step 4: You need to unclip the air bleeder connector. This is a white clip located under the dash on the right side behind your kick panel" Opposite side of your ECU" Might be a good idea to un screw …
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Everyone needs to know How To Jack up a Vehicle Safely whether for changing a flat or starting some modification work. Lifting the Skyline is necessary for almost any maintenance procedure, and using a jack-lift to do so can be difficult to figure out. Honestly, it took me at least a few hours of mucking about trying to figure it out while making sure I was being safe the first time I did this. There's a big risk in doing something like this, you need to take every precaution necessary to stay safe, always have a buddy with you too.
Some people have managed to completely ruin their cars by improper lifting, trying to jack the car up using the frame rails or worse the floor panels will without doubt, result in a damaged chassis, just don't do it like that. This, is the proper way to do it, safely, with out damaging anything. Note: E-brake should be on.
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Posted on June 1, 2009 by kwilder
KW: Considering that Sonia Sotomayor was first appointed by George H W Bush, and then climbed the judicial ladder based on an appointment by Bill Clinton, Ian and myself do not have much belief that she will be a shining light of enlightened and progressive justice.
Still, when someone is being considered for a government appointment, it would be nice if society, the media, and even the politicians could keep some sense of decorum. It would be nice if we had a dialogue where racism, sexism, and nastiness were called out for what they are. Though, somehow, both high-ranking Democrats (including President Obama) as well as the Republican Party have again revealed their true colors of racism, sexism, and nastiness in the way that they have approached the Sotomayor discussion, and particularly Sonia Sotomayor’s 2001 speech.
I have heard the speech, in context, and find her words fine and true. And, I find it comical that people have focused on the “racism” part. How about focusing on the entire other half?: Sotomayor said wise women more often than not have better judgment than regular men. It is racism to ignore her praise of her fellow sisters, in order to dig in on the racism issue.
Asa Gordon, a Green Party member from DC, and an important thinker in electoral activism, has a wonderful piece on the matter. (More info on Asa Gordon’s extensive work regarding the Electoral College can be found: here.)
No regrets for a “choice of words”
by Asa Gordon
We may be certain that due to their rich experience of privilege and denial, white male pundits, be they of liberal or conservative persuasion, will never regret or even acknowledge their own racist “choice of words” when commenting on Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor’s 2001 speech.
As a case in point, take the opening paragraph of the front-page Washington Post article headlined “Obama Says Judge Regrets Wording” (Saturday, May 30, 2009). The article’s biased “choice of words” presents the phrase “wise Latina” out of the context of Sotomayor’s caveat “I would hope” and places the word “often” out of the context of Sotomayor’s caveat “more often than not.” This provides the pretext for “white male” pundits to charge that Sotomayor’s “choice of words” is racist, when in reality the term “racist” better describes their own “choice of words.”
A racist would not provide caveats when expounding on racial superiority. A racist does not simply “hope” to make better decisions than would another race. It is presumed that such is the case. For a racist, “a better conclusion” would not be rendered “more often than not.” It would be the unavoidable outcome of racial superiority. The institutionalized racism in media reports represents the irrational bias of “white male” pundits that has prevailed over the rational “choice of words” in Sotomayor’s 2001 speech.
The Washington Post’s selective paraphrase reads as follows:
“President Obama said yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor regrets her choice of words in a 2001 speech in which she said a “wise Latina” judge would often make better decisions than a white male.”
Sotomayor’s “choice of words” in context reads:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
It is the ultimate sexism to assert that the experience of women does not offer better insight into the problems of women than does the experience of men, particularly when the statement is qualified by the phrase “more often than not.” Similarly, it is the ultimate racism to assert that it is racist to suggest that the experience of the victims of white supremacy, in a nation founded on white male supremacy, may “more often than not” provide better insights into the nature of racism in America and “reach a better conclusion” than what is provided from the experience of being a white male. It is the ultimate racist and sexist mentality to insist that the white male’s intellect is so superior that his racially privileged experience is no handicap in rendering justice and that there is no advantage in the experience of women and non-whites when rendering judgments on the issues of sexism or racism in our society. To the white male, any consideration of gender or racial “diversity” is reverse sexism and reverse racism. The political power of this fanciful and irrational racial assault by white male pundits has actually pressured an African-American President to declare that his Latina Supreme Court nominee regrets her “choice of words.”
The controversy over the role that life experience offers to judicial insight arose a few years ago over the nomination of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts. The self-righteous, bi-partisan liberal and conservative media pundits rebuked veteran Civil Rights leaders John Lewis and Wade Henderson for their characterization of the “indisputably qualified conservative” Roberts as a pre- Brown v Board of Education Justice. The media reaction at the time made it clear that many white male pundits, regardless of political persuasion, just didn’t get it. Their paternalistic rebukes represented a belief in a race so inherently rational that fairness was assumed even where prejudice was evident. It was such a faith that moved “liberal” Senators Patrick J. Leahy, Herb Kohl, and Russell Feingold to vote for Roberts on “hope” and won the endorsement of the “liberal” Washington Post. Is there any wonder that Plessy v. Ferguson’s 1896 ruling (“[I]t is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it”) remains this nation’s ageless judgment of racial conflict. Yes, media pundits, the pre-Brown/Plessey justices that made the decision to provide judicial cover for legal apartheid in America were all “indisputably qualified conservative” justices who knew they were not racist, that their judgment was not racist, and that the criticism of the blacks of their day was emotionalism.
However, Thurgood Marshal posed a caveat, with respect to Justice Clarence Thomas, as to the danger in giving unwarranted weight to identity “experience” in order to judge a favorable “empathy” in considering the justifiable need for diversity on the Supreme Court. I am concerned that Sotomayor’s experience as a prosecutor and corporate lawyer may embody an “empathy” that may prove to be as hostile to the Latina-American community as Justice Thomas proved to be for the African-American community. But in that my experience is that of a African- American, I will rely on the “experience” of the Latina-American community and “hope” they “reach a better conclusion” than we did.
Asa Gordon,
Executive Director, Douglas Institute of Government
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Gary Michael Coutin, on June 15, 2009 at 10:09 pm said:
Dear Mr. Gordon,
I am the attorney who has been suing the Electoral College since 2000. I called you to talk about it. I sent you an amicus brief. Apparently you did not use it.
I came across the ruling against you. I have a way that you could take the case to the next level. Did you ever hear of civil Gideon?
Gary Michael Coutin
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Top 5 Fishing Lures For Fishing in Unfavorable Conditions
Jose Wejebe of the Spanish Fly shares his favorite fishing lures for fishing in unfavorable weather conditions. The 5 fishing lures you will always find in his Tacklebox include a bucktail jig, butterlfy jig, topwater plug, mid-water plug, and a deep diving plug.
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Check out some behind the scenes photos from Jose's trip to Australia. Sea Snakes, Barramundi, Purple Cod, Bluefin Trevally and more.
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RAPALA X-RAP MAGNUM TROLLING PLUGS.... Jose talks about the success he's had with this lure as well as some tips for trolling them.
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When you�re planning to negotiate over 500 miles of open ocean you tend to keep a close eye on the weather and how it�s going to affect your trip. We started calling Weather Routers a couple of days ago for a comprehensive analysis of the weather and sea conditions we could anticipate during our crossing
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In Key West, what happens when you mix blood and guts, wahoo and sharks, in the wintertime? Well, down here, we go swimming!
This is the time of year that we spend a fair amount of time close to the edge of the reef just�off Key West. Most of the inshore water is cold, but the warm offshore waters of the Gulf Stream move in closer.
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A group of us had come to the Dry Tortugas to do a shoot for Costa del Mar on Wild Florida. Little did we know that we would find out that there are many ways to define the word "wild".
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After years of hard work and testing, the plane is finally done and has been put to the test. The goal was to build a plane that could fly far, fast, and heavy. It comes from a kit plane manufacturer known as Compair and you build it together with a company known as Composite Technologies. We built it from the ground up with exploration, filming and fishing in mind.
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The new regulations make clients accountable for their health and safety decisions and the influence they have on projects. The new principal designer role will have responsibility for communicating with project teams, identifying and ameliorating risks and making sure other designers in the team comply with all regulatory requirements.
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Chris explained: “In the short term, the changes are likely to result in more designers, clients and small contractors being subject to enforcement action as a result of a failure to fulfil their regulatory duties due to lack of health and safety skills, knowledge, experience and training, if they take on these roles without appropriate advise and adequate insurance.”
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April 10: Southwest Corridor light-rail route gets green light
Despite Met Council vote, Minneapolis remains opposed and could slow or kill the project.
By Pat Doyle Star Tribune
April 12, 2014 — 8:53pm
The Twin Cities’ biggest transit project passed a major milestone Wednesday with the approval of a $1.68 billion design that emerged from years of planning and quarreling.
The Southwest Corridor light-rail line now faces a showdown with Minneapolis that will likely decide its fate.
The Metropolitan Council, the agency in charge of the project, voted 14-2 in favor of a plan to hide the light-rail line in twin tunnels through the Kenilworth corridor of Minneapolis, despite complaints that it will disrupt and transform the neighborhood.
“This is really about building a project for the next century,” Metropolitan Council Chairwoman Susan Haigh said.
One of the two dissenting votes was cast by Council Member Gary Cunningham, who represents part of Minneapolis and is married to Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, who opposes the plan.
“I stand with the elected representatives of the city of Minneapolis,” Cunningham said, though he later indicated that negotiations could resolve some of his objections.
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The Minneapolis City Council last month came out against the tunnels, and Hodges last week refused to consider the tunnel route at a meeting of mayors and other leaders of communities where the line would run.
Now cities get to vote
The Met Council decision for the first time sends the project to the five cities along its nearly 16-mile route for their consent, a process that could trigger negotiations for concessions. Agency planners have left open the possibility of forging ahead without Minneapolis’ consent, but Gov. Mark Dayton has said that could tie the project up in lawsuits and effectively doom it.
Asked after the meeting whether she’d move ahead without consent from Minneapolis, Haigh said, “I cannot imagine this region moving forward with a $1.6 billion project to move 30,000 people a day into the city of Minneapolis without the support of the city of Minneapolis.”
The Southwest line would link Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Hopkins and St. Louis Park with downtown Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota, the State Capitol and downtown St. Paul. Riders also could transfer to the Blue Line light-rail line south to the airport and Mall of America and to the future Bottineau line in the northern suburbs.
The plan includes a sweetener for Eden Prairie: an additional station and extended line. Community officials argued the extension was needed to take advantage of employment opportunities.
In approving the plan, the Met Council rejected the demands of Minneapolis officials that freight trains be rerouted from the Kenilworth corridor to St. Louis Park to make room for the light-rail trains to run at ground level next to recreation trails. St. Louis Park opposed the plan, as did a railroad that would have had clout with the federal government in any decision over rerouting its line.
The tunnels were designed by Met Council planners as a concession to some homeowners in the corridor who didn’t want light-rail trains running at ground level next to the freight trains or didn’t want the light-rail line at all. But the homeowners objected to the plan to have the light-rail line emerge from the tunnels to cross a bridge over a water channel between Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake, and said the construction would disrupt and transform the area.
Touting jobs, education
Disputing critics who say the Southwest line favors suburban interests over the city’s, Met Council members described the line as a crucial link in an expanding light-rail network.
“The execution of this rail transit plan will reinforce the pre-eminence of downtown Minneapolis as the predominant employment center,” Council Member Steve Elkins said. “I would hope the city keeps that in mind.”
“We can’t make a decision that everyone will be happy with,” Council Member Jennifer Munt said. “We have to think regionally.”
Munt said the plan satisfies key goals because it doesn’t adversely affect water in the nearby lakes and channel, keeps bike trails in the corridor and doesn’t require the acquisition of homes or businesses.
“The region’s quality of life and our economic vitality depend on moving this project forward,” Munt said. “This is an opportunity train. It connects people to higher education.”
While the tunnels contributed $160 million in costs to the plan, Haigh called it “the right decision for … the project budget and for the region and for our economic prosperity.”
Council Member Adam Duininck, who represents parts of eastern Minneapolis, also voted with the majority.
Renee Jones Schneider, Star Tribune
In this July 2013 file photo, the Cedar Lake Trail is pictured alongside a current freight train track that has been a proposed site for the Southwest Corridor light rail line in St. Louis Park, Minn.
The council member who represents the Kenilworth corridor — as well as St. Louis Park — was absent. Met Council spokeswoman Meredith Vadis said Council Member James Brimeyer “is traveling out of the country on a long-planned trip.”
But Brimeyer wrote a letter to other council members saying he supported the plan. “It may not meet everyone’s ‘ideal’ solution, but it does meet the transit needs of the region for the long term,” he wrote.
Council Member Wendy Wulff of Lakeville joined Cunningham in casting the only no votes, saying alternatives to the controversial route had not gotten enough attention.
Eyes on Minneapolis
Cunningham, whose district includes north Minneapolis, told the council that the process leading to the decision was “interesting and convoluted” and cited a history of what he called broken promises. “We … are sharing in something that I don’t think is right,” he said.
He noted that three Minneapolis stops on the line are near areas of high unemployment and said transit systems in Portland, Ore., and elsewhere had “gentrified” nearby neighborhoods and forced out low-income residents.
Afterward, Cunningham struck a more conciliatory tone. “We want to see a plan that assures that economic development occurs along those stops,” he said. “That’s what I want to see. I’m only speaking for myself. The city of Minneapolis has elected representatives that … will negotiate.”
He said he saw the possibility of an agreement.
JEFF WHEELER• jeff.wheeler@startribune.com
Susan Haigh, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Council, left, listened to comments by Council Member Gary Cunningham before she called for a vote on the Southwest Corridor light-rail project.
“We’re at the beginning of a process,” he said. “That process now says the city and the Metropolitan Council will negotiate an agreement … about how this gets decided.”
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Haunted Vista
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A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.
The Anna S. underground mine on Rattler Mountain opened in 1905. It was set apart from the owner’s other mines across the deep Wilson Creek Valley. Rather than use a rival’s nearby inclined plane, a cable line, somewhat resembling a ski mountain chair lift, was built across the valley to carry coal by the bucketload to the friendly depot.
The dramatic viewpoint from this apparatus gave birth to a local folk legend. It’s been said that from the top of Rattler Mountain, you can see the ghosts of workers who died carrying coal across the valley.
Although neither mine records nor local historians can definitively identify anyone who died crossing the valley, the Pennsylvania State Archives show deaths due to mule accidents and rock falls in the Anna S. mine. The cable line ran until the Great Depression claimed the operation in 1937. Decades later, another company started surface mining around the old underground mine, and yet again, ghost stories emerged. In the late 1970s, men working the night shift reported seeing the ghost of dead miners climbing out of the mine shaft with lamps and picks.
Today, part of Pennsylvania’s longest hiking trail, the Mid State Trail (MST), leads to the haunted panorama over the old mining town. From a parking area on Rattler Road, the trail traverses a rock ledge, then woods, at which point a choice emerges at a sign for “Rock Bypass.” The less adventurous can turn right here, going around a rock maze. The main trail continues ahead, inviting hikers to step over 10-foot-deep crevasses in the rock. Soon, another trail diverges, dropping down into the maze where you can wander through narrow passages as others step across the voids above.
The trails come back together to cross a ghostly white creek on large stepping stones. (The white, slippery aluminum hydroxide in this water is a byproduct of the cleaned and treated acid water that once flowed from the old mines.) After passing a foundation from the old bucket tram, two miles in from the parking spot, a panoramic view opens up revealing miles of woods and a distant view of the old mining town of Antrim atop the mountain across the valley. At your feet, a pile of black shale extends 400 feet down to the creek below. Though the miners’ spirits may or may not visit you, the waste they left behind subtly haunts the landscape.
Turn your back on the view, climb the hill, and turn left on an old road, and you’ll see the entrance to the old underground mine on the left. State forestry folks partially blocked the entrance to retain the acid water to be treated, and to keep out too-curious explorers, but a large pipe remains so bats can come out at night. If you come here on the full moon, you might want to follow the wide old road back out to your car. Otherwise, retrace your steps on the trail you came in on. Or, hike on north towards New York State, descending and climbing the valley, wishing you could ride over.
The way in described here starts on a gravel road that may be hard to follow in winter. The map coordinates listed are to a grassy parking spot in Tioga State Forest. The paths described here are on public land. Do not try to park on Anna S Road to the north and trespass on nearby private land. There is free trail map of area, Section 17 of Mid State Trail.
Duncan Tavern, a local watering hole in the old company store in Antrim, offers good bar food and has historical photos on the walls. Nearby Wellsboro has several hotels and restaurants in its cute, genuinely gas-lit downtown.
Used with permission from AtlasObscura.com.
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All Top Series To Watch On Netflix – New Netflix Series List
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Strangers Things is an American sci-fi frightfulness web series or TV series made by the Duffer Brothers and discharged on Netflix.
Netflix’s Strangers Things fiction series is back for its third season. The show lifts things up in 1985 with El, Mike and the posse wavering ponderously on the incline that isolates youth from pre-adulthood. Maya Hawke joined the cast for the third season means Strangers Things 3, while Ferguson was elevated to an arrangement ordinary. This season more than compensates for old 2 seasons, by focusing the activity on the perpetually charming connection between the youthful characters.
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In this superhero series, Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand/Iron Fist, a hand to hand fighting master with the capacity to call upon a mysterious power known as the “Iron Fist“. Jessica Henwick, Tom Pelphrey, Jessica Stroup, and Sacha Dhawan additionally star, with Ramón Rodríguez, Rosario Dawson and David Wenham going along with them for the primary season. After a film dependent on the character went through over 10 years being developed at Marvel Studios.
This Netflix tv series comes in one of top Netflix series, improvement for the series started in late 2013 at Marvel Television, with Buck procured as the series showrunner in December 2015 and Jones give a role as Rand in February 2016. Metzner was uncovered as the iron fist series’s new showrunner in July 2017. Taping for the whole series happens in New York City.
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The story is set in India in a tragic future where fascism at its top and the story’s principal plot is the cross-examination of a psychological militant Ali Saeed in a mystery government internment camp. Radhika Apte plays the fundamental character Nida Rahim upheld by Manav Kaul, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, S. M. Zaheer, Mahesh Balraj, Rohit Pathak and Mallhar Goenka in conspicuous jobs.
13 Reasons Why is an American teenager show web TV series produced for Netflix by Brian Yorkey, in view of the 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. The 13 reasons why web series rotates around seventeen-year-old secondary school understudy, Clay Jensen, and his ex-friend Hannah Baker, who kills herself after the culture of tattle and rape at her secondary school and an absence of help from her friends and her school mates. This best Netflix series is created by July Moon Productions, Kicked to the Curb Productions, Anonymous Content, and Paramount Television, with Yorkey and Diana Son filling in as showrunners.
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Interpreting Signs Expressed in Glyphs With Sign Writing
Sign writing is a featured script of sign language developed in 1974 by acclaimed dancer Valerie Sutton. It is the only one of its kind, and is roughly recognized as a standard script across the globe. She had already developed a language called ‘Dance Writing’ when she proceeded with a similar script for the signers. Ms. Sutton collaborated with Lars Von Der Lieth, who was, at that time, researching sign language at the University of Copenhagen.Keeping with the prideMillions of people all over the world use the sign language every day to communicate with one another. Community pride is a big thing and it comes naturally because signers virtually live in their own world! However, this heavy sense of pride has also prevented the development of a uniform language throughout the world. As of now, you can assume that there are as many variations of sign languages as are the countries across the world.
The ASL or the American Sign Language is the standard in the U.S.A. Further complicating the parameters, many localized communities have their own special inputs in sign language. In this context, the sign writing script is quite an achievement for its global recognition. The language was developed from the perspective of the signer (rather than the observer). The hearing impaired community of Brazil has been one of the leading groups in adopting the language.Nature of signageThe scripts are enlisted upside down and different hand gestures are represented by glyphs. Apart from expressing hand gestures, facial expressions, shoulder movement and body locations are used for signing. The Brazilian Sign Writing dictionary enlists a comprehensive list of more than 3600 signs! The script is also included as a part of Brazilian sign language curriculum at the UFSC (University Federal de Santa Catarina). Prominent community member Maria Galea has used this script to develop a text on the sign language used in Malta.Generally, one should learn to interpret signs well, on anything. When you are verbally challenged or hard on hearing, expressing yourself by signs is the only option! In fact, many people are not even aware of the incredible diversity in the deaf community. There are universities especially for the deaf, special events such as beauty pageants & sports, and many inspiring stories of super achievers from this spirited community.
Sign writing has allowed the bridging of hearing and hearing impaired worlds. Most importantly, it is also serving as a template to connect hearing impaired people all over the world. Clearly, a lot of work is to be done, but there is hope for an amazing collective expression.
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That Song Sounds Like
Songs that Sound Like Other Songs
The Supremes vs. The Coral
Posted on July 2, 2012 by Ryan — 3 Comments ↓
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English band The Coral released their popular track “Dreaming of You” in 2002. But some would say it closely resembles The Supremes “My World Is Empty Without You,” recorded back in 1965. Check out the clips below. Gloomy melodies, angsty lyrics, and everything you need for a great breakup song. They even have similar imagery:
“Inside this cold and empty house I dwell… My world is empty without you, babe.” (The Supremes)
“Up in my lonely room, when I’m dreaming of you… Oh what can I do? I still need you.” (The Coral)
The Supremes - "My World Is Empty Without You" (1965)
The Coral - "Dreaming of You" (2002)
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3 Replies to “The Supremes vs. The Coral”
Travis July 3, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Ehm,yes.That matches up.
Kyle July 4, 2012 at 3:07 am
These both remind me of Mother’s Little Helper by The Rolling Stones
I thought I was listening to “paint it black” initially.
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New daily alcohol limit proposed
Reflects harm caused by binge-drinking
The recommended weekly alcohol drinking limit should also include a daily maximum limit which takes into account the harm caused by binge-drinking, an expert has said.
Professor Nick Heather of Alcohol Research UK told the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee that the weekly drinking limits for men and women should not be raised.
But within the weekly guidelines there should be a new maximum daily limit of alcohol consumption which "should never be exceeded," to reflect the risk of acute injury caused by binge-drinking.
Professor Heather suggested that the daily limit could be set at around eight units of alcohol for a man, and six units for a woman.
Drinking above this limit in a single sitting, also known as binge-drinking, has been shown to put drinkers at greater risk of alcohol-related accidents and violence.
The 'binge-drinking limit' could be incorporated into the current Department of Health guidelines, the professor said.
Currently, the Department of Health advises that "men should not regularly drink more than 3–4 units of alcohol a day and women should not regularly drink more than 2–3 units a day," to reduce the risk of chronic health conditions linked to heavy drinking.
Previously the DOH recommended that men and women should drink no more than 21 units and 14 units of alcohol a week respectively, and abstain from alcohol for at least two days a week.
The professor said these should remain, but also include a new daily limit. If a man was to drank eight units of alcohol in a single sitting - although not advised - he should then restrict himself to 13 units for the rest of the week, with two alcohol free days.
The Commons Science and Technology Select Committee is examining the evidence relating to guidelines on alcohol consumption.
Professor Sir Iain Gilmore, Royal College of Physicians special adviser on alcohol and chairman of Alcohol Health Alliance UK, also said: "As someone who still looks after people with liver disease, and with hospital admissions rising, I think that any recommendation to increase limits would add to the tide of harm that we are seeing in our hospitals every day.
"Given the burden of harm that we've got, it's vital that levels are not increases at this point."
This article was published on Thu 13 October 2011
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Published On: Fri, Nov 16th, 2018
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John Schneider comments on Roy Clark’s passing, how he could ‘light up the biggest of rooms’
John Schneider has issued a statement on today’s passing of Country Music icon, Roy Clark:
“Roy was an amazing talent whose smile and dexterity on a guitar would always light up the biggest of rooms. His down home way of making the most difficult of licks and runs seem almost possible for us mere mortals will be missed on every fret board from here to the ends of the earth.” — John Schneider
Watch this classic footage of Schneider and Clark together on Hee Haw at the bottom.
Schneider spent the past few months competing on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars. He will return for the finale on Monday, November 19 to perform his latest single (“Walk A Mile In My Shoes”) live.
About John Schneider:
John Schneider’s extensive acting career includes the iconic roles of “Bo Duke” on The Dukes of Hazzard, “Jonathan Kent” on Smallville and “Jim Cryer” on his current OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) series, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots – the #1 primetime series on cable on Tuesday nights.
Schneider is also a celebrated country music artist with 10 albums to his credits and 4 #1 singles on the Billboard Country chart. This year, he launched an ambitious 52-song project, The Odyssey, releasing a song a week throughout 2018. In addition, he will drop a Greatest Hits album and Christmas EP before year’s end.
It’s also worth noting that John co-founded the Children’s Miracle Network – a non-profit organization that raises funds for children’s hospitals, medical research, and community awareness of children’s health issues. Founded in 1983, they have raised more than $4.7 billion dollars, which is distributed directly to a network of 170 hospitals.
For more information, download the free John Schneider App or visit the official website at JohnSchneiderStudios.com.
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Judge Crushes Berkeley Antifa Leftist’s Attempt to Hide Her Activism on Public Time.
We first saw Yvette Felarca attacking a guy who came to hear Milo Yiannopoulos at Berkeley in February of 2017. Before the night was over Antifa and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) had started fires, caused violence and shut down the speech by the controversial social commentator.
Felarca leading the mob attacked on this guy.
She’d created quite a name for herself in the official Leftist thugocracy as noted here by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch:
“Felarca is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), a group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary Workers League that protests conservative speaking engagements. In 2016, Felarca and two of her allies were arrested and charged with several crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento. Earlier this year, Felarca was ordered to stand trial for assault.”
Worse, we learned that the diminutive street thug was actually a paid government employee working as a middle school teacher!
That’s when Judicial Watch sought legally available public records on the teacher from the Berkeley Unified School District:
“Felarca had sued the BUSD in federal court to keep the school district from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide Judicial Watch with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. Judicial Watch also asked for Felarca’s personnel file.”
Felarca sued to block the school district from giving over the legal records and lost. Big.
“U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, Northern District of California, who had previously ruled that Felarca’s lawsuit was “entirely frivolous,” wrote in his ruling awarding legal fees to Judicial Watch that Felarca and her co-plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims were “premised on the obviously baseless assumption” that the First Amendment condemns the speech of some while condoning the ideological missions of others.”
The teacher, who apparently didn’t know that the First Amendment applied to all Americans, even people with whom her highness disagrees, not only had her lawsuit thrown out, she was ordered to pay all of Judicial Watch’s court costs and legal fees.
“Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), and two co-plaintiffs were ordered to pay Judicial Watch $22,000 in attorney’s fees and $4,000 in litigation costs.
Judge Chhabria added that “The plaintiffs also mischaracterized the documents under review” [shocker] and that the plaintiffs “failed to grapple with the role Ms. Felarca played in making herself a topic of public discourse through her physical conduct at public rallies and her voluntary appearance on Fox News.
Along with Felarca’s $20,000 payment, co-plaintiffs Lori Nixon and Larry Stefl were ordered by Judge Chhabria to pay Judicial Watch $1,000 each (Yvette Felarca, et al., v. Berekely Unified School District, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-06282-VC)).
Judicial Watch is entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was frivolous, and their litigation conduct was unreasonable,” Judge Chhabria wrote in his order.”
The humorless woman who claimed that people on the right, such as Yiannopoulos, with whom she disagreed were “fascists,” “killers” who believed in “genocide” and said that the gay and (born) Jewish Yiannapoulos was a homophobic genocidal man bent on another “holocaust” and didn’t have the right to speak.
“This is a huge victory for Judicial Watch against Antifa and the violent left,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Ms. Felarca attacked Judicial Watch without basis and the court was right to reject her ploy to deny our ‘right to know’ because we don’t share her violent left views.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=602&v=6Lley84Wrck\
Thanks Judicial Watch for once again showing the way.
May 22, 2019 Antifaantifa, BAMN, Berkeley, By Any Means Necessary, Free Speech, Judicial Watch, lawsuit, Yvette FelarcaVictoria Taft
Trump Calls Portland State Cow Bell Incident – Which Drowned Out Mike Strickland – “Disgraceful” in Signing Exec Order on Campus Free Speech
President Trump called the incident involving the Antifa/Anarchist cow bell ringer drowning out a speaker at Portland State University earlier this month “disgraceful” and “horrible” on Thursday.
The Cow Bell Boy drowned out Portland journalist Mike Strickland for more than an hour before he left. Police stood by watching as Strickland was prevented from giving his presentation on his notorious Portland case. Eventually, order was restored because the Antifa cow bell ringing hype man and his two wingmen left. They were never cited by Campus Police.
Antifa Hype Man Disrupted Mike Strickland Speech for More Than an Hour on March 6 at Portland State University as Police Stood By and Let It Happen
Trump said,
“Even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers many have been increasingly hostile to free speech and to the First Amendment, you see it all the time.
You turn on the news and you see things that are horrible. You see people being punched hard in the face. …And you’ve seen the cow bell scene. You saw that horrible scene. That was a disgraceful thing at a school, at a university.”
CBS News reported that Trump’s Executive Order would make schools pay for crowding out conservative voices on campus:
“The president’s executive order Thursday is meant to pressure schools to permit free speech and expression on college campuses. Mr. Trump has threatened to pull federal funding if they don’t. The First Amendment already prohibits the government from quashing free speech.”
While CBS News is correct that “the First Amendment already prohibits the government from quashing free speech,” the reality on campus is quite different as you can see from the video taken of the Cow Bell Boy in action:
The person who shut down the College Republicans Portland State event then went to the front and blocked the projector so that the speaker couldn't play a video. This continued for more than an hour while police watched. pic.twitter.com/eF3YNraWQ4
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 6, 2019
March 21, 2019 Uncategorizedantifa, Campus Free Speech, Cow Bell Boy, donald trump, Executive Order, Free Speech, MIchael Strickland, Mike Strickland, Portland State UniversityVictoria Taft
ANTIFA = ANTI FIRST AMENDMENT
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March 8, 2019 Uncategorizedantifa, Antifa Anti First Amendment, dane p carver, Free Speech, Portland State University, PSU, snowflakesVictoria Taft
Antifa ‘Protesters’ Shout Down PSU Free Speech Presentation by Mike Strickland and Police Do … Nothing.
An Antifa protester holds a Cascadia flag in front of a projector to prevent Mike Strickland from showing supporting media for his First Amendment presentation
This post has been updated to indicate that Portland State Police did *not* escort out the Antifa/Anarchist free speech disruptors.
Before Ann Coulter, Milo and Ben Shapiro were met by the fire bombing mobs who would later become widely known as Antifa, there was Mike Strickland. In 2016, Strickland was arrested, charged and convicted in Portland for drawing his legally concealed weapon to stop a phalanx of Antifa protesters who conspired to beat the citizen journalist out of their Don’t Shoot Portland/Black Lives Matter protest in downtown. No shots were fired. No one was hurt.
As a result of the widely publicized incident, Portland State University and Portland Community College campuses banned Strickland for two years.
As I wrote this week, there was a simple reason why banning him was irresistible:
Though the incident didn’t occur near any of the campuses, Strickland was well known by campus administrators for reporting on the speeches, marches and antics of the University professors and protesters. Protesters included the Occupy, Antifa, IWW (Wobblies) and ISO, as well as the usual Portland Professional Protesters, Incorporated™ social justice, environmentalist, anti-Israel groups. Strickland’s reports on those campuses made national news. University and College administrators saw an opportunity to keep their well known antagonist off campus and took it.
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Tuesday night, Strickland was back on campus in front of a group of College Republicans, live streaming cameras and citizens and tried to tell his compelling story (read many of my stories here). However, some Portland area Anarchist/Antifa antagonists were also there and had different plans.
Strickland was shouted off the stage several times by a man interrupting the speech with wild rantings, screaming and using the new anti-free speech weapon of the moment … a cowbell.
Strickland, Laughing at Liberals on YouTube, posted this video of the dingle dangler:
He dingle dangled his bell and spoke over Strickland, who kept a smile on his face for the 68 minutes it took cops to get rid of them. More on that in a minute.
Cowbell Ringing person interrupts Strickland’s presentation.
The agent provocateur identified himself as “Sawyer” and silenced his cowbell only long enough to stand in front of Strickland’s projector, preventing the citizen journalist from showing video and supporting documents about his case.
The last time we saw “Sawyer” he was heckling a bunch of men with the Proud Boys in downtown Portland and one of his fellow Antifa mates got hit by a truck. Notice that “Sawyer” never stops talking into his megaphone:
This is Sawyer’s co-conspirator. Austin Goodrich is well known to some area folks for all the wrong reasons. This apparent Bernie Bro has allegedly harassed, stalked and threatened people in Hillsboro who displayed Trump for President signs in 2016.
He was back Tuesday night to apparently harass and intimidate Strickland and people there supporting him, such as 83-year-old Kay Bridges who is herself a citizen journalist and was live streaming the event on Facebook. View her video here:
Mike Strickland has been scheduled to speak at PSU College Republicans for months… but the Cowbell Crew tries to shut him down. This is hard to watch … but we had as many as 60 at a time on the LIVE feed including Victoria Taft and Mike's trial attorney. It was after Mike asked if he could file charges and Campus Police said NO .. and then I said "What about me." and he didn't answer …suddenly the guys decided to leave. Hmmmmm….. So if any of you have seen the Oregon Push Back Page …. Mike and the implication of his appeal nationally is what is at stake here in Oregon. This is a small example. If you don't know the whole story… please research. He was defending his First Amendment Right with his Second Amendment Right and was charged and convicted while the MOB became the victim according to the judge. It is a long story .. and we can elaborate but time is short for tonight. OregonPushBack.com
Posted by Kay Bridges on Tuesday, March 5, 2019
When asked who the two main antagonizers were, this is what several said about Goodrich:
Austin later remarked over on my Facebook page that he wasn’t an Antifa member and scoffed at being called a Bernie Bro. Here’s Austin’s Facebook page:
“Creating action.” “Family First.” Gee, he seemed like such a nice guy I thought I’d ask him for a quote:
Those watching the spectacle saw the dramatic difference between the ‘protesters’ and the behavior of the man Antifa and company have lied about for going on three years, Mike Strickland.
Randi commented:
“What a contrast between calm, cool, collected, courteous Mike Strickland, and a room full of out of control motor mouth kooks, with nothing better to do than shut down Mike’s privilege to speak.”
“If this is how they act when law enforcement was around, then we know how they acted when they surrounded and attacked you. They really are afraid of what Mike may have to say.”
Another said:
“To bypass the one-man cowbell choir, Mike’s presentation begins at about 68:00 minutes into this video due to the Breach of Peace.”
Edwin wrote:
“I wish people would remember this. This is America. Every citizen has the right of free speech. Even if you don’t like or agree with what that person is saying. They have the right to free speech. And yes even hate speech is free speech.”
Lauri said:
“The first 45 minutes were the most telling I don’t know how Michael put up with all of that hate. The haters rang bell’s and screamed at him and talked over him and put them selves between him and the projector to make it impossible for him to give this lecture”
And Jack had an excellent question:
“Why the hell are the cops just standing there like zombies?”
Why the hell, indeed.
A real head scratcher, this.
As the cowbell and scream fest continued. Strickland was banished to the back of the room since he couldn’t speak over Antifa’s noise. But they found him and surrounded him again.
(The young woman (pictured above) claims to have been a reporter from the student newspaper, “The Vanguard,” but you wouldn’t know it from her behavior. She spoke over Strickland, clearly sided with Antifa protesters and treated Strickland with obvious disdain. She’ll be with the Washington Post any day now.)
The spectacle was all in view of the PSU cops.
Portland State University’s finest.
Strickland told VictoriaTaft.com that he spoke with Sgt. Halliburton (pictured above) and asked him at what point would they consider the situation disorderly conduct and he replied, “I’ll decide when.”
For the attorneys in the audience, that was the wrong answer.
Jason Short, one of Strickland’s attorneys during his first trial and who was watching the livestream of the event, opined that it looked like disorderly conduct, but conceded college cops in Portland were unlikely to do anything.
James Buchal, attorney and the head of the Multnomah County Republican Party suggested to VictoriaTaft.com that it might have been Disorderly Conduct by the cowbell ringing pair:
1)A person commits the crime of disorderly conduct in the second degree if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, the person:
(a)Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior;
(b)Makes unreasonable noise;
(c)Disturbs any lawful assembly of persons without lawful authority;”
Police escorted the duo out of the room only after Strickland implored them to do so saying he wanted to file a complaint.
After talking with the officers on site, the Antifa/Anarchist disruptors, including Cow Bell Boy, left.
That [Writing a report] apparently sounded like too much work for the officers and they escorted the two out of the room. No report was taken that VictoriaTaft.com was aware of as of publication.
Strickland was able to continue with his speech, but not before Antifa’s antics had burned up most of the College Republicans reserved time in the room.
Strickland’s case is under appeal at the Oregon Court of Appeals. A decision on his case is expected any time.
Strickland’s Defense Fund has been set up by Oregon Firearms Federation. Please give generously here.
March 6, 2019 Uncategorizedantifa, Benjamin Ben Kerensa Antifa, Benjamin Jacob Kerensa, Benjamin Kerensa, Benjamin Kerensa Hacker, Benjamin Kerensa police informant, Benjamin Kerensa Terrorist Perjury, Don't Shoot PDX, Free Speech, Laughing at Liberals, Mike Strickland, Portland Professional Protesters, Portland State University, StricklandVictoria Taft
PDX Mayor Calls for Ban on Free Speech for “Alt Right” After Bernie Sanders Supporter Allegedly Murders Two On Max Train
May 29, 2017 Portland Oregon, Portland Professional ProtestersAnarchists, antifa, Free Speech, Oregon, Portland, Protesters, Ted WheelerVictoria Taft
Three men stood up for right and paid a huge price on the Max line on Friday when a crazed man threatened two Muslim women on the train. Two of the men died and another was badly hurt as they were slashed by the knife wielding crazed man.
In this video, Twitter user “St. Tenderheart” claims to have been an eyewitness who chased down suspected killer Jeremy Christian who was still foaming at the mouth and in a psychotic episode before his arrest:
#JeremyJosephChristian #Jeremychristian short video leading to arrest : https://t.co/WYHcU2b9Ep
— St. Tenderheart (@Tenderheartist7) May 30, 2017
The reaction by leftist Portland is curious.
First, a spokesman for the far leftist anarchist, self described “anti fascists” in the form of Cameron Whitten said the nutter who killed two people on Portland’s light rail was a Trump supporter and that as long as Trump was in the White House he would feel unsafe:
Yes, the person who likely committed the murder is a repeat offender and suffering from mental illness. But if Donald Trump was not president today, I believe we would still have two bright lights among us today. I believe that stronger than I believe in my own birthday.
Then, Marc Abrams of the KXL weekend radio show Kremer, Abrams and Pasero claimed that the nutter was a Christian. No, Marc. His last name is Christian. He’s no more a Christian than you are Abram.
Attempts have been made to connect the killer to the “alt right” (whatever that means) because the accused killer turned up to a so called “free speech” event in Portland in April. As you can see by the video posted by YouTuber Airliner World, the suspect was disavowed, told to get out, shut up, and even one guy said “he’s on his own.” As the YouTuber put it:
Please don’t put Jeremy with those guys, they have already made it clear that he wasn’t a part of them.
Christian was separated from the so called “Patriot Prayer Group” by the cops because they didn’t want him in their group. He’s shown on tape (surrounded by photographers) complaining about it.
Christian then walked down the street toward the anarchist, black bloc protesters.
Furthermore, as the website Chicks on the Right discovered, the accused killer appears to be a Bernie Sanders supporter.
But, oddly, Ted Wheeler is not calling for an end to the far left protests that occur nearly every week in Portland — only the so called “alt right” one scheduled for June 4th and 10th.
Remember now, to some people facts are fungible. They’re plug-and-play components for certain intellectually dishonest people to construct them into a jerry-rigged storyline so long as it concludes that it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.
In the left’s and City Hall’s (but I repeat myself) zeal to construct this narrative, Mayor Ted Wheeler has taken it upon himself to urge the federal government officials to stop a planned “free speech” protest by what he calls an “alt right” group on federal property on June 4th and another one June 10th.
(2 of 3) pic.twitter.com/RYlq1SdP7b
— Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) May 29, 2017
I recognize that Portland’s heightened political atmosphere is ripe for riot and the mayor wants to keep things peaceful. But allow me to remind you that the city has been the victim of several such riots without the presence of so called “alt right” free speech supporters. In fact, the street violence has been a function entirely of the left and helped by the city’s inability or unwillingness to confront it.
Scapegoating the “alt right” in this case is absurd, intemperate and unbecoming a serious politician.
I don’t recall Wheeler calling for revoking or disallowing the planned May Day riots and I actually asked him to do that. I’ve also called for the National Guard to protect the citizens of Portland during the leftist’s riots due to the city’s unwillingness to do its job.
It was leftist thugs who threatened violence against Republicans participating in a civic parade and got it canceled.
It’s understandable that Wheeler’s concerned about riots. But who’s been doing the rioting in Portland? Not the so called “alt right.” It seems that the better part of valor would be to appeal to the leftists to leave the permitted protesters alone.
San Diego citizen journalist Mark Dice banned from YouTube.
March 23, 2014 UncategorizedBan, Citizen Journalism, Free Speech, google, Mark Dice, You TubeVictoria Taft
YouTube channel operated by man-on-the-street-maestro Mark Dice deleted.
Mark Dice has put up some of the most gobsmacking videos on YouTube. They’re not profane, nasty or anything that would win you an “R” rating, but they are provocative.
Dice does the hard political analog of the old Jay Leno stand by, “Jay Walking” or Jimmy Kimmel’s “Lie Witness News.” I’ve used some of his videos on the air to show how incredibly stupid and gullible voters can be. His man on the street interviews at the Oceanside Pier are cringe inducing for how dumb people can be.
Dice also has an Alex Jones/9-11 inside job/Illuminati/Trilateral Commission bent which I find off putting, but so what? You can view any number of actually destructive things put on Google’s YouTube, why would Mark Dice be targeted?
The San Diego area agent provocateur says he has a spectacularly successful website with as many as 60 million views of his videos. So why would YouTube cancel his account?
Dice has issued a statement a statement on his back up YouTube Channel called The Resistance (see his video below). I’ve excerpted most of it here.
Hey everyone, it’s me Mark Dice, this is my back up YouTube Channel. As you probably heard, my primary channel, YouTube.com/MarkDice has been shut down due to what YouTube said were just severe violations of our ‘community guidelines’ even though the channel was getting three million views a month consistently for well over a year, 60 million views accumulative, 265,000 subscribers, 800 and some videos–just deleted, just gone you know, so… Some of those videos are on this channel. Always take precautions, always have a plan B and that’s why this channel has remained my original YouTube channel I started in 2006. And when I started to see the potential of YouTube censorship, I just sort of left it idle and was just primarily using my main channel so…
I really appreciate everyone getting the word out. I woke up this morning to tons of emails, tweets, and facebook posts about the channel being gone, so I really appreciate that.
I would sue them for breach of contract except they put in their terms of service that everybody agrees to when you open an account, they can literally delete your channel for any reason. Just any reason ‘we see fit we can, you know, remove your channel. I mean, that’s literally in the text.
So that would be like your boss saying, ‘Well, you can come and work for us but for you any reason I can just fire you. Even though it’s violating the bill of rights…so this is a major free speech issue. That’s why I never use profanity. I never used ‘hate speech.’ I never called for violence, I never would.
But, ah, you know what? I was just getting too popular. Just getting too big. You know there’s an old proverb, I think an old Chinese proverb, that says, ‘The nail that stands up will get pounded down,’ and so um, we’ll see what happens from this point on. But…if you want to support me go get my books. They’re not in stores, they’re on Amazon.com or paperback or any E reading devices until they just pull them from there too. If you want to pay pal some stuff to me you can do it on Mark@MarkDice.com.
…Till further notice, just check out this channel I try to post videos on this one. I’ve gotta lot of stuff in the works that I’ve been working on.
I expected that this would happen at some point in time, particularly because I was growing so fast. And I’ll tell you the secret of my success: I just started to obsessively, compulsively posting videos every single day.
The trolls will flag videos and try to shut em down as well which has happened just numerous times, but I would always file a counter claim and get em restored.
With God for me who dare can be against me. If you know anyone at YouTube please email me their names.
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New Online Mag Cuts Sharply Through the Din
Review of Cleaver, Spring
Emily Hoffman
Despite its name, the new online journal Cleaver Magazine is neither a venue for the latest Hannibal Lechter fan fiction nor one for decidedly more sane foodies to wax poetic about their favorite cuts of meat. Instead, Philadelphia-based Cleaver is a slick and inviting site that takes full advantage of its online environment to enhance both the written and visual work it publishes.
Issue 2 of Cleaver features poems, flash fiction, short fiction, essays, and art. It also includes a novel excerpt by Nathanial Popkin. Many pieces are supplemented by still images and, in one case, video. For instance, Mark Lyons‘s “The Place of the Red-footed Rooster in the Hierarchy of Sentient Beings,” a reimagining of an event in the life of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, gains depth and context from the inclusion of some of Hokusai’s famous Mt. Fuji woodcuts as well as other works that are posted at the story’s end. Leah Koontz’s “Drag, Societal Identity and Gender Equality” essay detailing her art created from the discarded garments and props from drag shows benefits from photographs of her art and video interviews with drag performers.
Art published in traditional hardcopy journals typically stands by itself with only a title, the medium, and a brief artist bio to help the audience engage. Cleaver, however, pairs the art of Rithika Merchant, “Works on Paper: Comparative Mythology” with lengthy chunks of text that serve as connective tissue, linking one image to the next. This is especially welcome because Merchant’s illustrations chart the evolution of her protagonist, Heroine. Without Merchant’s explanation, I would likely have mistaken Heroine for an actual figure in the mythology of a particular Eastern culture rather than a composite based on multiple mythologies.
While so much of the poetry published in today’s literary journals reads like mash-ups of phrases and clauses with scrambled syntax, Cleaver favors approachable verse that ignites the imagination through the music of evocative but unpretentious language and the beauty of careful observation. There is no experimental formatting to contend with except for “Carefully Wrapped Festival of Discovery” by Rich Ives, and it seems exceptionally tame when compared to the poems populating the pages of other journals. Several of this issue’s poems qualify as straightforward anecdotes with first person speakers. The standouts among them include Luke Stromberg’s “Memorial Day” Still, there is variety. Anna Strong’s five brief prose poems are all pleasingly enigmatic monologues, and, with their tightly focused nature images, Randi Ward’s bite-sized poems read as a stylistic fusion of haiku and Emily Dickinson.
Cleaver’s selection of flash fiction highlights the diversity of its contributors. Seemingly every publication claims to be invested in showcasing new voices, but the author bios so often prove otherwise. Carly Greenberg, author of “Wash, Rinse, Repeat,” is currently an undergraduate at New College of Florida. Her appearance in Cleaver marks her first publication. Daniel Torday, whose “Air Conditioner” is both funny and poignant in its observation of family relationships as well as our relationship with that most essential of seasonal appliances, has published in Esquire and Glimmer Train. He is also an editor of Kenyon Review.
Piece for piece the issue’s flash fiction may comprise its most affecting group of narratives. They are uniformly potent glimpses of contemporary lives. Some deliver swift gut punches while others nibble away at your thoughts long after you’ve finished reading and gone back to your daily doses of emails and errands. One that does both, making it, I think, one of my favorite pieces in the issue, is George Dila‘s “That Summer.” It is a sweet and harrowing glimpse of loss and love framed by life-nurturing act of gardening. Just as satisfying is Amber Lee Dodd’s “Crocodile Hands,” the thematic mate of Dila’s piece. Both culminate in haunting final sentences that leave the reader with a pitch-perfect but disquieting open-endedness.
In its submission guidelines, Cleaver’s editors clearly state that they are interested in receiving only literary fiction. Some wiggle room does seem to exist, however, given Mark Lyons’s story that could be described as historical fiction and “Of Snakes and Stones,” Jennifer Pullen’s story seen through the eyes of Medusa. Pullen delves into the psychological complexities of Medusa and exposes an unexpected vulnerability that humanizes the snake-haired monster.
The issue’s best short stories come from Kat Carlson and Christopher X. Shade and fit squarely into literary fiction rubric. Carlson’s “Baby Pictures” builds to a moment revealing the protagonist’s jealousy, insecurity, and frustration in a simple but damning gesture, one with which female readers, if they are anything like me, will likely sympathize. Shade’s “In Very Little Time on the Nile” is a lyrical meditation on storytelling and people watching as Howard, a man on a tourist cruise to Aswan, imagines the life an attractive fellow passenger has been leading alongside his over the course of their intersecting vacations. Shade cleverly uses the woman’s scarf as a trigger for Howard’s fantasies, and it becomes a recurring detail, a thread that tightens the story’s scope. Maximum length is three thousand words, though several of the twelve stories come in well below the limit.
The seven brief essays are more of a mixed bag, ranging from Katherine Hellerstein‘s intimate, deeply felt meditation on personal loss and the writing life titled “My Writer’s Block” to Jamie-Lee Josselyn‘s more reporterly “Dispatch from the Cat Show.” Whether it means to or not, Josselyn’s essay comes uncomfortably close to mocking the cat devotees it portrays…and I say this as someone who is decidedly not a cat person. The issue also contains reviews, and the submission guidelines allow artists to submit monologues up to two thousand words with accompanying video performance. Unfortunately, none is included in Issue 2.
Cleaver Magazine bills itself as “cutting edge words.” Although none of its content feels radically new or revelatory, this infant journal’s high quality and appealing blend of written and visual texts would fool most anyone into believing it has been around far longer than a mere two issues. The only clue that it is still finding its footing? A roster of contributors dominated by artists living in or connected to its Philadelphia home base. Still, Cleaver has succeeded at providing a meaty second issue for readers eagerly hoping their next mouse click takes them to carefully crafted narratives rather than gimmicky experimentation.
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the essential lingering one, needless to say, involves June’s fate. What is going to be of June (Elisabeth Moss) while the other handmaids stuck in intimate slavery in Gilead? Will they finally obtain the young kiddies of Gilead away and bring them to security?
June probably won’t get free from Gilead in 2010
With just three episodes left whilst still being a great deal left doing, it does not appear to be June will discover a finish to her battle this year. The final episode revealed June making great intends to get the young ones of Gilead away. She convinced Commander Lawrence to assist her with this particular undertaking.
“I’ll get you a truck,” stated Lawrence. “You get my spouse down, safely.” June also allows him in on her behalf intend to assist get as numerous kiddies out as she can. This can assist get Lawrence out also, though he is nevertheless a pugilative war criminal. “You have to bring them one thing valuable. Young Ones. The taken kiddies of Gilead,” June tells him.
— The Handmaid’s Tale (@HandmaidsOnHulu) July 26, 2019
To your shock of no-one, The Handma >based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical title. The show has recently taken the story a great deal farther, with therefore much still kept to accomplish when you look at the lifetime for the primary character.
June includes a strong want to get free from her chains and escape the dystopian culture this woman is forced to reside in. The handmaids are intimate slaves obligated to keep the young young ones of Gilead. They will have no other ties for this culture. They truly are viewed as items with one purpose, to make kiddies for any other partners. Forcibly raped constantly, these women have nothing else to accomplish but resist and get rid.
June includes a purpose that is new nearly losing it entirely
In past episodes, audiences saw starting to unravel in her mind june. She had been forced to stay static in the hospital with OfMatthew while she waited for the impending birth. The isolation and general situation that is terrible very nearly way too much for June to simply just just take. She had been murder that is contemplating in addition to committing committing suicide.
Has already lost Hannah, and viewers don’t know if the family will ever reunite june. Nobody generally seems to understand where Hannah went, which will be clearly damaging for June. She nevertheless needs to get her child and obtain them both down.
When June snaps out of it, she understands her real function would be to move out the innocent kiddies stuck surviving in this terrible spot. She’s going to fight enamel and nail to conquer Gilead while the social individuals maintaining all of them here. She will reunite along with her spouse and discover security, also in the process if it kills her.
Muffins suggest yes, and therefore it is time to get to the office. Episode 10 has become streaming, just on @Hulu. #HandmaidsTale pic.twitter.com/GGoIS1QhVC
— The Handmaid’s Tale (@HandmaidsOnHulu) 26, 2019 july
Warren Littlefield, the administrator producer when it comes to Handmaid’s Tale, revealed during the tv experts Association that this year should include a cliffhanger, that isn’t really that astonishing, based down previous seasons.
“What we’re seeing is the fact that June no further considers herself an other,” Littlefield stated. “She may still wear the robe of a handmaid, but she’s asserting herself. What you’ll see between now therefore the end regarding the period is her being less obedient to authority, being more assertive, and she co-opts Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) into her eyesight and her plan and that’s beginning to unfold, however it’s a snowball rolling straight straight down a mountain. It is simply getting bigger and larger and bigger, and she’s likely to be a potent force become reckoned with. I think … it is a switching point in that relationship, also it’s unforeseen. I’m excited in what we’re going to present.”
Littlefield proceeded to spell out the show’s cliffhanger that is upcoming. Fans may be kept wondering whatever charmdate tips they shall do with by themselves, as with past periods. “I hope you’ll feel shocked at everything we accomplish and where we leave our characters that are key” Littlefield stated. “I think it is a significant cliffhanger that we’ll leave you with. And I also feel quite confident that when we possessed a 40 % jump from 2 to Year 3, I’m looking forward to what that leap will be in Year 4.” year
The show is very well-liked by fans and has now no plans on permitting up any time quickly. The show is gearing up for something that will leave audiences breathless with three episodes left in the season.
While the final end of period 3 draws near, fans of this Handmaid’s Tale continue to have a large amount of unanswered concerns.
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The Speeding Up of Evolution
The past twenty years has shown an unprecedented curvature in evolution. To explain what I mean by this we need to break it down a bit. In this period of time more choice, more inventions, more technology, more dramatic events, and more diversity has arisen than at other time in recorded history.
This shows that consciousness is becoming deeper, larger, wider, and helps to show that consciousness is linked to evolution.
How is consciousness linked to evolution? Well if consciousness never evolved, grew, or changed, then nothing would really change - hence evolution of the species would be dormant and stagnant.
Consciousness changes = evolution of the species. It cannot be any other way if you think about long enough.
So just only 20 years ago (in 1990) the consciousness was in this mode:
Simpsons started amidst shock.
Poll tax appeared in England.
Channel Tunnel was being built.
Smoking on planes was banned.
Hubble was launched into orbit.
Windows 3.0 and the 16Mb chip appeared.
NES and Sega games consoles were high tech.
Aids was invented.
Home Alone, Ghost, and Pretty Women (the whore) were the favourite films.
Pokemon, Stars In Their Eyes were favourite TV programmes on the 4 analogue channels.
Tears For Fears and Kylie Minogue were favourite music and Rave culture appeared.
The average UK house price was £59k, it was $380 for a gold ounce (now about $1100), and $17 for a barrel of oil (now about $75)
In 1990 independent travel was rare and difficult, and most looked to career and house ownership as the success and basis for happiness in life.
Now immediately we realise we have leaped enormously since then, especially in technology and outrageous elite control. The world has become small, all knowledge is available, and privacy is a thing of the past.
Now when we look back and grab another 20 year period we can then see the curvature difference, lets pick one at random and have a look.....tssssss.... 1630-1650.
Ok, what was going on during this 20 year period to give us a feel of the time:
The collective mindset was one of Empires and Religion, with Catholicism tightening its grip by killing heretics and witches.
The Dutch, Spanish, and English were colonising and enslaving.
There was the 30 year war in central Europe and England and Scotland rucking.
Boston was founded by colonists, and in India the Taj Mahal was built.
The first newspapers appeared in London, and The King James Bible was finished (though millions were Catholic without ever having read the doctrine).
The Spanish Inquisition forced Galileo to recant his belief that the Earth goes around the Sun.
Inventions were....drumroll....the vernier scale, an adding machine, the barometer, and the vacuum pump...woooOOooo.
Remember in this time there were no cars, phones, planes, or trains.
Culturally, Renes Descartes (Father of modern philosophy) was around and had just started to wrench philosophy from theology, Rembrant was painting, and many philosophers, architects, and composers were "born" in this time.
Entertainment was mainly sport (boxing, hunting, croquet), gambling, church, and theatre.
But in this 20 year period; inventions, entertainment, technology, philosophy, and social views all pretty much stood still - especially as we are looking at this time with the eyes of a 2010 human, and it is these attributes that have relation to evolution in consciousness (collective consciousness).
1630 is not that long ago, and if we include Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Eygpt into our thoughts we see that 1630 was really not very long ago at all.
And what if we looked at say, 110bc to 90bc? It is even less change curvature for sure.
We need to look back to know fully were we are going, and as a species, as a collective consciousness, we are spiralling in, just like a golden phi spiral seen all around in nature and in the universe. All is a fractal becoming more dense.
When you start to see all the crazy world events as nothing but a natural part of this spiral then you can rest in peace knowing it is all part of the natural curve.....with the higher knowledge that each cell can affect the whole curvature.
Much more on golden phi and evolution is within the coming book.....
Fede 3 September 2010 at 11:30
any news about the new book?
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Back with a bang, Mima Ito sends strong message with Austrian Open success
Mima Ito stole the spotlight on the final day of play at the 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum bet-at-home.com Austrian Open in Linz, as a result of a sensational display from the Japanese teenager in a thrilling women's singles final on Sunday 17th November.
A timely victory for the 19 year old with the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals just around the corner but could it mean so much more in the bigger picture of the sport?
Does Mima Ito's title success in Linz have big implications for wider picture? (Photo: Rémy Gros)
by Simon Daish
Seeded third for the women’s singles draw and having won the title in 2016, Ito travelled to Linz as a major contender for glory and she opened her campaign with real intent.
Dropping just one game across her two opening fixtures against Monaco’s Yang Xiaoxin (11-9, 14-12, 12-10, 11-5) and Hitomi Sato (11-13, 11-5, 11-4, 12-10, 11-1), another class performance followed in the quarter-finals as Ito needed just five games to beat no.6 seed Cheng I-Ching (3-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-8, 11-8). Then, in a potential banana-skin encounter, Ito swiftly dealt with one of the surprise packages of the tournament in Chinese qualifier Qian Tianyi by a convincing 4-0 score-line (11-6, 11-9, 11-9, 11-6) to reach the final.
Awaiting Ito at the final hurdle was none other than top seed Zhu Yuling, one of China’s finest players who held a superior head-to-head record (3:1) from their past encounters.
However, Zhu hadn’t enjoyed the most comfortable of passages to the gold medal match having required the full match distance in both her quarter-final and semi-final affairs against Gu Yuting and Wang Yidi. Then there was also the fact that in their most recent meeting Ito produced a crushing 4-0 win over Zhu at the 2018 Swedish Open, a contest which coincidentally also happened to be a final.
With all of this considered there was reason for the Ito camp to feel optimistic, emotions that were evident right from the start as Ito set the stage alight in game one with her blistering pace and all-out attack.
Spectators in Linz were treated to a number of mesmerising rallies in a dramatic women’s singles final (Photo: Rémy Gros)
Holding a total of three game points in game two Ito had her chances to double her lead early in the contest, but Zhu did well to recover and after finally converting on her fifth game point opportunity it was the top seed who took the game 18-16 to brings the scores level.
Clearly disappointed with the outcome of game two but showing great maturity to keep her chin up and leave it in the past, cancelling out Zhu temporary momentum boost with a quick response in the third game to move ahead once again. Then, for the first time in the match, Ito managed to put some daylight between her and Zhu, claiming game four at the third game point attempt to extend her advantage to 3-1.
Just one more game was required but it was important that Ito didn’t let her concentration drift, focusing on each game as it comes. Attempting to overcome a monumental climb Zhu survived Ito’s first championship point, but she couldn’t manage another.
Mima Ito emerged as 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum bet-at-home.com Austrian Open champion (11-5, 16-18, 11-7, 13-11, 12-10).
Ito was back on the top step of an ITTF World Tour women’s singles podium for the first time this year, in fact her previous gold medal success in the category came at the 2018 Swedish Open in Stockholm beating Zhu on that occasion too. Not even in her 20s as of the time of writing but Ito has already amassed an impressive seven women’s singles titles on the ITTF World Tour. For reference, Zhu who will turn 25 in January 2020, has lifted four.
This is not just a one off occasion, Ito has been the player posing the most threat to the Chinese elite in recent years and only last month was involved in the women’s singles finals at both the 2019 ITTF World Tour Swedish Open and 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum German Open.
Not only does this result bode well for Ito’s aspirations for next month’s 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals but also paints a promising picture for the teenager at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Since the sport of table tennis was introduced to the Olympic stage in 1988 no athlete from outside of China has won women’s singles gold, now the one player Team China fears could bring that incredible run to a halt has just laid down a major statement of intent.
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Should you vote?
I've never really been one for politics. I never felt interested and to be honest I always found the subject a bit of a bore, especially when you had to study policy after policy for exams. This year I am old enough to vote and that's posed a few things in my brain. Why should I vote? Who should I vote for? Who even does what? Do I trust politicians?
I for one agree with the argument that you have the right to vote, so do so. Many around the world do not have the luxury to have a say in their governments. I took it upon myself to really find out what each party has planned for the UK and it's worth the few hours that it'll take to get educated. A lot of young people didn't vote in the last election and I get why. We aren't well represented or catered for however some parties are working on ways to change that this time a round. We have the chance to have our voices heard so why miss the chance?
Don't sit around and do nothing. I've unfortunately found those who don't take an interest in elections are the first to complain about certain issues, which poses the argument of can you really complain when you had the chance to make change? For those who don't want to vote for varying reasons such as a mistrust of those in power, make that known too. As Stef off of The Michalaks said recently, go down to that polling station and strike out your vote.
Whatever you do make sure the decision is yours. It can be easy to be swayed by what who your friends and family are in favour of. You have to ensure that this decision is what you truly believe in. (Just don't vote for UKIP...I mean I'm not telling you who to vote for, but don't...)
The closing date for registrations is 20th April, you can't vote if you're not registered so take a little visit here.
So, I hope that's made those of you able to vote give it a think or think about voting in future if you can't vote right now! What's your opinion on voting?
Doctor Anne 12 April 2015 at 12:08
Such an important topic! I get so mad when I think back to the Suffragettes who suffered and fought for women right to vote not to long ago and see todays girls not giving a damn. Being able to vote is a privilege you should be proud to have!
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Chontelle Louise 14 April 2015 at 01:54
I think, we have the opportunity to vote and we should take advantage of that. But sometimes I get so annoyed at the people who have no interest and just vote for whoever to get it over and done with - sometimes that'll be why others suffer. If that makes sense. Great post love x
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I agree so much. Just like protest votes, it's stupid and dangerous!
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Tagaytay: People’s Park in the Sky
by Tupang Gala · Published March 9, 2017
Aerial view of the People’s Park in the Sky
Also known as the People’s Park, it sits atop Mount Sungay, aka Mount Gonzales, which at the height of 709 meters (2,326 ft) above sea level and the highest point in Cavite, offers a breathtaking view of the surrounding areas as far as 50 kilometers in a clear day, including the view of Taal Lake and the famous Taal Volcano. It is also one of Tagaytay’s most visited landmark next to Picnic Grove.
While Tagaytay is often known as the “other Summer Capital” aside from Baguio due to its cooler climate compared to the lowlands, the summer weather is still warm at thirty degrees according to the thermometer of one of our flock. It’s still cooler in the shade, especially when there’s a cool breeze blowing.
The park sits atop Mount Sungay, the highest point in Cavite (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
When we came to the site, rain clouds are starting to gather over us. As soon as we reached the top it rained hard, although briefly. Too bad that visibility is not that good when we came, and we can barely see Taal Volcano. The view would have been much more awesome during a perfectly clear weather.
Near the entrance gate is a parking space surrounded by souvenir shops which sell items ranging from foods to toys and accessories. And because private vehicles may not be brought beyond the gate, visitors must leave their vehicles in that parking space, or if it is full, at the roadside leading to the gate entrance.
From the gate, visitors must endure a climbing walk – or rather a hike – for almost 300 meters. But there are also jeepneys offering a ride to the top for 10 pesos for those who don’t wish to hike (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
At the top is an unfinished and seemingly abandoned mansion commissioned by former First Lady Imelda Marcos in the 1980s. It is said that the construction was rushed to accommodate US President Ronald Reagan who announced his planned visit to the country, which was later, unfortunately, cancelled.
Mount Sungay was named because of its former distinctive peak which resembled horns (“sungay” means “horn” in Tagalog) and was used as a navigational aid by sailing ships. The peak was destroyed and flattened to accommodate the mansion.
The park complex (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
The mansion was still unfinished when the Marcoses were ousted in 1986 revolution, and the park was given its current name. The mansion looks abandoned, with broken windows and molds sticking on its pillars and walls. But yet, it hosts several rows of souvenir shops at the bottom, a restaurant on the second floor, and an observation deck at the third floor. A military relay station is also in active operation on the top floor.
View of Tagaytay Highlands condos (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
The perfect place to hang-out (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
Don’t forget to pose at the giant pineapple (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
The Shrine of Our Lady, Mother of Fair Love is also one of the main features of the park. It was installed on December 15, 1974, by Hernan D. Reyes together with four high school students and two workers. It is said that attempts to blast off the rock that contained the image of the Virgin Mary was made during the mansion’s construction in 1981 but were unable to, so it was left intact.
The shrine (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
PAGASA Doppler Radar Station
Besides the mansion are the Doppler Radar station of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the state weather forecaster. Being a member of the Western Pacific weather group we were given a rare opportunity to go inside the weather radar station, our appointment being arranged by one of our meteorologist friends. Normally, access is restricted only to PAGASA personnel.
During our visit that time, the radar was said to be non-functional, being hit by a lightning strike. But weeks later the equipment was fixed and the radar was brought back online. We were also allowed to go to the rooftop – below the radome – experiencing the strong, cool breeze while enjoying a near-360 view of the view.
Being on the high ground, its location makes it an appropriate site for a weather radar that can cover Manila. (The other radar that can cover Manila is in Subic). This is just one of the Doppler radar systems that were placed across the Philippines in the early 2010s, designed to accurately see the amount of rainfall and thereby allowing our forecasters to more accurately predict the weather.
PAG-ASA’s Doppler Radar at left, Military radio tower at the center (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
Entrance – P30
Parking Fee – P20
Ride a bus bound for Tagaytay and get off at Olivares Terminal, then take a jeep going to Palace in the Sky.
Spuvenir T-shirts (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
More souvenir shops (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
QUIPS
The park offers a breathtaking view from the highest peak in Cavite. However, the park seemed to have been severely undermaintained if not abandoned, with broken railings and lampposts, and even the crumbling large signage with almost all the letters missing. The park needs improvement, even simple cleaning ops will do.
Find the missing letters (People’s Park in the Sky, Tagaytay)
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Tupang Gala
What happens when a flock of sheep gets out of the pen? They will scatter, right? Well, in case of Tupang Gala (Wandering Sheep), we aren’t actually scattered or lost, but we’re just travelling in places and enjoy God’s creation. Tara na't maggala kasama ang Tupang Gala!
Beyond PH / Japan
Osaka: Universal Studios Japan
Manila: Harbor and Skyline at Manila Bay
Beyond PH / Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Sky100’s Incredible 360° View of HK
Berlin: Wandering Around the City
Beyond PH / Korea
MIMAROPA / Mindoro Occ.
San Jose: Glittering Ambulong Cave
Batangas / Calabarzon
Mataas na Kahoy: Shercon Eco-Park and Resort
London: Wandering Around London
Ilocos Sur / North Luzon
Vigan: Blue Hour at the Heritage Village
Bataan / Central Luzon
Pilar: Dunsulan Falls
La Union / North Luzon
Luna: Leaning Watchtower (Baluarte)
Abroad adventure Ambulong Anime Architecture Beach Boat City Culture Eco-tourism Environment Falls Garden Getaway Grace Island History Ilocos Ilocos Sur Island Japan Korea Limestone Man-made Mountain Museum Nature Norte Palace Resort River Rock Formation San Jose sea Shrine Spring Stream Summer Sunrise Sunset Taiwan Tokyo Trek vacation Visayas Waterfalls
Tupang Gala © 2020. All Rights Reserved.
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Kansas basketball v. Villanova (Final Four)
Photo by Nick Krug
Kansas guard Marcus Garrett (0) is late getting to Villanova forward Eric Paschall (4) as he lines up a three during the first half, Saturday, March 31, 2018 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Stories this photo appears in:
Game day: No. 1 Kansas basketball vs. No. 17 Villanova
A look at some of the keys for top-ranked Kansas in today's Allen Fieldhouse showdown with No. 17 Villanova in a rematch of last season's Final Four clash in San Antonio. By Matt Tait
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The Reach To Impeach, Con't
House Intelligence Committee members heard from Marie Yovanovich on Friday and it was devastating for Trump as I pointed out yesterday. But the real damage may have come from a later closed-doors deposition from diplomat Bill Taylor's aide who overheard DOnald Trump's phone call with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about Ukraine. His name is David Holmes, and he just might have delivered a fatal blow to both Sondland and Trump. WaPo's Aaron Blake:
At three distinct points, we have seen Sondland’s testimony called into question. The first time was when other witnesses said he talked about a quid pro quo with Ukrainian officials on July 10, which Sondland soon confirmed via clarified testimony. The second was this week, when Taylor disclosed that Holmes had overheard a Sondland call with Trump on July 26 that Sondland had failed to mention and in which Trump asked about the investigations he was asking for. “Sondland will address any issues that arise from this in his testimony next week,” his lawyer said Wednesday.
And now Holmes undermines a central claim in Sondland’s testimony: That Sondland didn’t know that Trump and his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interest in investigating a Ukrainian company that employed Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden had anything to do with the Biden family.
“I noted that there was ‘big stuff’ going on in Ukraine, like a war with Russia,” Holmes says of his conversation with Sondland on July 26, “and Ambassador Sondland replied that he meant ‘big stuff’ that benefits the president, like the ‘Biden investigation’ that Mr. Giuliani was pushing.”
The quote about the “Biden investigation” is key. Sondland said in his deposition that he had pushed for an investigation into Burisma Holdings, which had employed Hunter Biden, but that he didn’t know there was any connection to the Bidens.
Not only is that a lie, we now know Sondland very publicly, in the middle of a Ukrainian restaurant, put Donald Phone on speaker to signify how important He himself was to Trump's operation. One of the great boneheaded moves in criminal history, no doubt.
Holmes says Taylor told him that on a June 28 call he had with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and the “three amigos” — Sondland, special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and Energy Secretary Rick Perry — “it was made clear that some action on a Burisma/Biden investigation was a precondition for an Oval Office meeting.”
This detail, notably, was not part of Taylor’s own testimony, though Taylor quickly came to believe that such a meeting was indeed conditioned on Ukraine launching such an investigation.
Taylor testified that on the June 28 call, before Zelensky was added to the line, Sondland said he didn’t want interagency officials on the call, because “he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring as they added President Zelensky to the call.”
So yes, the quid pro quo was premeditated and involved several US officials in the Trump regime: Rick Perry, Rudy Giuliani, Sondland, as well as Ukrainian criminal fixer Lev Parnas, who is currently singing like a canary to the feds.
Finally, Holmes says he agreed to testify because of the GOP "defenses" of Trump, because he knew they were lies.
Holmes’s account is something he says he didn’t consider to be relevant — until he saw some of the defenses of Trump.
Holmes mentions that Trump defenders have argued that perhaps Trump himself wasn’t personally involved in the quid pro quos. He also mentions a GOP argument that was prominent during Wednesday’s hearing featuring Taylor and top State Department aide George Kent: that the witnesses didn’t have firsthand knowledge of some of the key events.
“I came to realize I had firsthand knowledge regarding certain events on July 26,” he said, referring to the date of his overhearing the Sondland-Trump call, “that had not otherwise been reported and that those events potentially bore on the question of whether the president did, in fact, have knowledge that those officials were using the levers of our diplomatic power to induct the new Ukrainian president to announce the opening of a particular criminal investigation.”
It’s worth noting that, despite early GOP attempts to portray Holmes as a partisan — on Friday they promoted a photo of him shaking hands with Barack Obama — he won an award in 2014 after raising concerns about Obama’s Afghanistan policy. Holmes, who served in Afghanistan, was awarded for his “constructive dissent.”
Holmes doesn’t directly say that his testimony contradicts the GOP’s arguments, but it’s certainly suggested. And it makes his full deposition, which we have yet to see, worth paying close attention to.
Expect that to be released soon, and perhaps for Holmes to testify in open hearing as a result.
StupidiTags(tm): Criminal Stupidity, Diplomatic Stupidity, Governor Goodhair's Inconsequential America, Legal Stupidity, Rudy Giuliani, Trump Regime, Ukraine, Wingnut Stupidity
Ukraine In The Membrane, Con't
The Washington Post finally steps in and defends the Ukraine whistleblower that has made the impeachment proceedings that we're now watching possible, rightfully casting them as a hero whose allegations have been corroborated and stressing how much danger they are now in from Trump.
The lights are often on late into the evening at CIA headquarters, where a team of elite analysts works on classified reports that influence how the country responds to global crises.
In early August, one of those analysts was staying after hours on a project with even higher stakes. For two weeks, he pored over notes of alarming conversations with White House officials, reviewed details from interagency memos on the U.S. relationship with Ukraine and scanned public statements by President Trump.
He wove this material into a nine-page memo outlining evidence that Trump had abused the powers of his office to try to coerce Ukraine into helping him get reelected. Then, on Aug. 12, the analyst hit “send.”
His decision to report what he had learned to the U.S. intelligence community’s inspector general has transformed the political landscape of the United States, triggering a rapid-moving impeachment inquiry that now imperils Trump’s presidency.
Over the past three months, the allegations made in that document have been overwhelmingly substantiated — by the sworn testimony of administration officials, the inadvertent admissions of Trump’s acting chief of staff and, most importantly, the president’s own words, as captured on a record of his July 25 call with the leader of Ukraine.
As the impeachment inquiry entered a new phase of public hearings on Wednesday, the outlines of the case have been thoroughly established: President Trump, his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and two diplomats are alleged to have collaborated to pressure Ukraine to pursue investigations to bolster Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2016 election and damage the prospects of his potential opponent in next year’s election, former vice president Joe Biden.
Trump cites corruption in Kyiv and European stinginess to justify actions on Ukraine. Neither rationale withstands close scrutiny.
To advance this hidden agenda, Trump and his allies orchestrated the ouster of a U.S. ambassador, the withholding of an Oval Office meeting from Ukraine’s new president and the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid.
But beyond that familiar fact pattern, the revelations reflect a country in political crisis.
The United States has embarked on an impeachment proceeding against a president for only the third time in its history. The voluminous testimony so far has revealed a government at war with itself over how to respond to Trump’s frequent conflation of the country’s interests with his own. After casting itself as a force against corruption, condemning politically driven prosecutions in other countries, the United States now appears to have sought to coerce such actions from a partner nation.
It is not clear whether any of this would have come to light were it not for the actions of a relatively junior CIA employee, who is now the target of almost daily attacks by Trump and right-wing efforts to make his identity widely public.
While Pelosi and Schiff have been openly defending the whistleblower, and the media (other than Fox News State TV of course) have been protecting the whistleblower's identity against a raging thug of a chief executive, it's far past time that the media has laid out the reasoning for choosing to defend this hero.
Despite all the GOP dirty tricks and smoke and mirrors, the whistleblower's case has been solidly backed up at every juncture by evidence and testimony.
This is the case to remove Trump from office, being made as we watch.
Posted by Zandar Permalink 12:00:00 PM No comments: Somebody Noticed!
StupidiTags(tm): Adam Schiff, Criminal Stupidity, Intelligence Stupidity, Legal Stupidity, Nancy Pelosi, Rudy Giuliani, Trump Regime, Ukraine, Village Stupidity
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adam tavel
The Fawn Abyss
Plash & Levitation
Red Flag Up
(cover art by Madara Mason)
The Fawn Abyss was published by Salmon Poetry in February 2017. Previously, it was a finalist for the 2010 Intro Poetry Prize with Four Way Books, a finalist for the 2010 Open Readings with Sarabande Books, and a semi-finalist for the 2011 De Novo Prize with C&R Press.
You can purchase a copy directly from the publisher here. It is also available on Amazon.
Publisher’s Book Detail:
The Fawn Abyss explores the emotionally fraught terrain of family, belonging, and injustice against the pastoral backdrop of the Delmarva Peninsula on the Chesapeake Bay. Steeped in memory, Tavel’s poems conjure a cast of cultural ghosts—from Abraham Lincoln to Sam Cooke—in their documentary investigations of the past, including the poet’s own youth. These retrospections, buoyed by wry wit and cinematic detail, sustain the collection and anchor it in our own whiplash age. Throughout, Tavel’s poetic range, keen ear, and tenacious heart find full expression. Lyrical, mythic, unflinching, The Fawn Abyss grieves the seemingly inevitable destruction of innocence while affirming the promise of renewal, transporting readers from “the river’s glinting bone-cage” to a sonogram’s “bean-body and nubbin hands” reaching toward a brighter fate.
“Tavel reaches through generations of history and ancestry in search of a hidden solution to grief. Often, the human response to violence is to either reach outward to God or inward towards the self. Tavel juxtaposes his family’s religious traditions with his tendency to combat sorrow with attentiveness.”
–Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“There’s a measured authority in every line; and when he talks about the present time there’s a cellular reality, touched with hope, saying what must not be lost.”
“The intrepid reader of The Fawn Abyss will travel into the intimacy of suffering, into the anguish of long-ago Eastern Shore men and women, slaves and free, guided deftly by this brave poet.”
-The Delmarva Review
Advance Praise:
“In the deft and moving poems of The Fawn Abyss, Adam Tavel explores, with recurrent wisdom and wit, the fall from inexperience into something more satisfyingly complex than mere sobriety, abjection, or distrust. These are poems whose elements of serious play relish the archival details, the incarnational hunger and mystique of the narrative, while honoring the imaginative and speculative power to make all things new. Not that suffering alone redeems us, and yet the deer corpse in the field is full of bees, resilient, resplendent, compelled. To read these poems is to kneel and listen.”
–Bruce Bond
“Adam Tavel’s vision of life is so generous and large that I am taller having read this book, a full foot above my given height, which means I am able to see just a bit more of the everything he would have me see.”
–Bob Hicok
“Adam Tavel’s The Fawn Abyss refuses easy resolutions even as it communicates directly and honestly—its honesty can be measured by the doggedness of its refusals. Tavel makes a poetry that at first seems to be a poetry of things seen well, which is gift enough, but upon closer inspection reveals itself to be a deeply empathetic poetry of things felt into, so that the fawn abyss of the title is, on the one hand, a big hole in a fawn, and, on the other hand, an abyss opened in the world. And to see that it is also an abyss and not just a hole is a great and honest refusal, and a gift both possessed and given.”
–Shane McCrae
“Adam Tavel’s poems are sonorous, luxurious, and inclusive. While often grounded in a particular landscape, these poems move across cultures, centuries, and even light-years. Taken together, The Fawn Abyss forms a rich tapestry in which personal experience of the ecstatic is tempered by the realities of our shared history. Like the great Hellenic poet C. P. Cavafy, these poems look to wed the historic to the personal. This is a daring collection.”
–Sue William Silverman
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De Beers, Namibia invest in new diamond mining ship
today May 17, 2019
Anglo American on Thursday said its De Beers subsidiary was investing in a $468 million new offshore diamond mining ship to mine for diamonds off the coast of Namibia, with the capacity to add 500,000 carats of annual production from 2022.
The vessel is a joint venture between De Beers and the government of Namibia, which is keen to encourage foreign investment in mining as a mainstay of the economy.
The ship will be the seventh in the Debmarine Namibia joint venture’s fleet that mines the country’s high-quality diamonds from the ocean floor using hi-tech surveying equipment.
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani said in a statement the vessel was in line with the group’s focus on efficiency and margin and the investment offered an EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) margin of more than 60%.
Namibia’s Mines and Energy Minister Tom Alweendo told Reuters the government would do everything necessary “to encourage inward investment in the mining sector in such a manner that the investment is mutually beneficial to the investor and the host country.”
Some African countries have been imposing tougher conditions on international miners.
Namibia, however, has been relaxing restrictions. Last year, it said it was scrapping a requirement for companies seeking mining licences to be partly owned and managed by black Namibians.
Mining, of which uranium and diamonds are a major part, contributed 14% of the country’s GDP in 2018, Namibia’s Chamber of Mines said.
Diamonds also accounted for 14% of Anglo American’s core profit in 2018.
The natural diamond market has been unsettled by competition from lab-grown stones and weaker values for smaller diamonds, but high-quality gems can still command a premium.
Analysts say there are signs supply is becoming tighter.
In a research note, Panmure in March said a review of its global diamond database found production growth would moderate this year and decline into 2021.
“We are not suggesting prices are going to surge,” it said. “But we believe the foundations for higher prices are now being laid, even accounting for lab-grown alternatives.”
Alweendo said he was concerned about the impact of lab-grown diamonds.
“Our only hope is that we will still be able to convince the consumers to make a distinction between natural and lab-manufactured diamonds,” he said.
© Thomson Reuters 2020 All rights reserved.
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FEDESSA eNews May 2015
En este número:
FEDESSA Conference wins International Award
The FEDESSA SSA UK European Self Storage Conference has won the Best Conference Development Award at this year’s International and European Association Awards. It beat a wide range of high quality entrants, including global events with over 1000 delegates. Judges praised the conference for its focus on quality.
SSA UK Annual Survey Released
The 2015 UK Annual Survey is the most comprehensive insight into the UK self storage industry ever produced. Combining data from both industry operators and the general public, the report details trends in both supply and demand for self storage in the UK. This allows readers to consider not just the performance of the industry historically, but also demand factors influencing the growth of the industry into the future.
European Commission seeks to foster greater transparency in online comparison websites and apps
According to a study (353 pages!), available for download at: http://ow.ly/M4owR , published on 25 March 2015 by the European Commission, nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers have experienced difficulties when using a comparison tool, mostly due to incomplete information. Just 28% of the sites analysed were providing explanations on how the initial rankings were made, and only 40% of these sites were giving information on how they were making money. Comparison tools have a significant role to play in helping consumers identify better deals across the EU single market. That's why transparency in online comparison tools is important. Are you offering your customers insurance? Furthermore, just over one in ten comparison tools gave an indication of their market coverage, and less than one in five sites were showing the frequency at which they were updating the data.
New Danish Association Chairman
Niels Meibom-Larsen (City SelfStorage) has stepped down as chairman of the Danish Self-Storage Association (DSSA). The FEDESSA Council is grateful for Niels’ assistance and valuable input over many years and takes this opportunity to wish him well in the future with his continued work within the industry.
Allan Agerskov (COO, Pelican Self Storage) has been elected as the new chairman of the DSSA and will also represent DSSA on the FEDESSA Council. FEDESSA extends a warm welcome to Allan.
Cityvarasto Crowd Funding
During 2014 Cityvarasto Oy self storage, operating nationwide serving in the major Finnish cities, acquired the businesses of BTW and Turun Minivarasto. This year Cityvarasto has reached its goal of attracting at least 100 new shareholders via the ‘crowdfunding’ process. This is part of the requirement according to the rules of ‘Nasdaq OMX Helsinki First North’ as companies need at least 100 shareholders when using a market making service. However, the market making service is not needed if a company has at least 300 shareholders and a listing on the stock exchange with 300 shareholders would be more cost effective. With this in mind they have decided to enlarge their goal to have 300 shareholders. As a result the offering remains open for the time being. A number of questions and answers regarding the trading scheme and for those considering making an investment can be found on the ‘Investor Forum’ section of the Invesdor website at: https://goo.gl/RWrOrJ
Norwegian General Assembly Meeting
The Norwegian Self Storage Association (NSSA)recently held its General Assembly. Despite disappointing attendance numbers , the NSSA reported that among other projects a uniform rental contract is available this year for use by all members. Furthermore a national website has now beenT created. The NSSA currently has 13 member companies and 42 facilities. There has been an increase of 4 member companies from the previous year. The Board members were re-elected and are as follows: The Chairman: Per Hauge (APR Lager AS); Deputy: Jo-Atle Kopperud (Ditt Ekstralager AS); Treasurer: Lars Skurtveit (Selvbetjeningslageret AS); Director: Isaac Larsson (City Self Storage AS); and, Director: Eirek Taasen (Holmen Minilager AS);
National legislation developments
Belgium: New tax measures announced,
France: New Rooftops must be covered in Plants or Solar Panels.
Netherlands: New Disclosure Obligations of Private Data for Family Companies,
Switzerland: Revision of Swiss Code of Obligations
Si eres miembro de AESS, accede al contenido global en http://aesstrasteros.es/content/fedessa-enews-may-2015
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Honolulu, HI, US / Aloha Stadium
with Rocko and the Devils, Pearl Jam 2
Twenty months after Vertigo '05 kicked off in San Diego, the tour came to a close with an ecstatic performance at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu on Saturday. Rocko and the Devils played a crowd-pleasing opening set followed by a blistering hour from Pearl Jam and when the onstage video began highlighting each of the 131 dates of the tour to date... the final date was with us.
With the last, '131. Honolulu.', Edge's familiar chords cracked open the night with City of Blinding Lights and the show was underway. It was a seamless, virtuoso performance as Vertigo gave way to Elevation ('Do you believe in The Edge?' asked Bono - everybody was a believer), I Will Follow to Still Haven't Found. Bono found time to thank Pearl Jam for their set and name-checked Kings of Leon ('We have royalty in the house'), here to see the end of the tour, after opening up the first leg last Spring in North America.
"Thank you for giving us a second chance," he said. "Thank you for hanging around." And special thanks to Edge for 'staying strong'. "For a carbon-based life form, this cat can play," he added, segueing into a particularly stellar moment with the totally unexpected arrival of Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, best described by the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
'One lucky audience member actually had the guts to get up on stage, position himself behind the Edge's keyboard setup, and lead the band through an unexpected and impromptu rendition of the rarely played "Who's Gonna Ride Your White Horses." At song's end, he gleefully ran down the stage right ramp and leapt for joy back into the crowd.'
That was followed by a touching Bono/Edge rendition of The First Time, a soaring 'Sometimes' and this show shot into orbit with the fearsome trilogy of Love and Peace, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet the Blue Sky. A little girl called Maddy was the star of 'Sunday' ('a prayer for her generation') while Miss Sarajevo offered special props to Luciano Pavarotti, who first duetted on this song with Bono in the 1990's.
If the first encore - The Fly, Mysterious Ways and With or Without You - wasn't a complete surprise, the second was almost all surprise. First up 'a nice little psychedelic type pop song that none of you have heard before' (that'll be the new single Window in the Skies then) followed by the arrival on stage of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to join the band on guitar and vocals for 'The Saints Are Coming.'
Next up ("Give it up for Pearl Jam'), it was Eddie Vedder and Mike McReady from Pearl Jam, back onstage to join U2 for an irresistible version of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World - lyrics customized to reflect the campaign to fight global poverty. Pretty special, as the Honolulu Advertiser pointed out: 'The spectacle of Bono and Vedder sharing a spontaneous dance on stage and McReady and the Edge trading soaring solos even had Kid Rock nodding his head and Anthrax's Scott Ian air guitaring with friends in a field-level sound booth.'
As the entire stadium chanted 'We love The Edge' this tour had time for just one more song - 'All I Want Is You.'
Bono left first, then Adam, then Edge with a final flourish and so it was just Larry, first in, back in 1976, and last out on Vertigo '06, thirty years later. 'Thank you for waiting. See you soon.'
/ Theme From Hawaii Five-O
/ She Loves You
/ Elevation
/ Alive
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
/ In A Little While
/ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
/ Blackbird
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
/ La Vie En Rose
Love And Peace Or Else
/ Rock The Casbah
/ When Johnny Comes Marching Home
/ The Hands That Built America
Where The Streets Have No Name
/ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Window In The Skies
The Saints Are Coming
/ When The Saints Go Marching In
Rockin' In The Free World
IMAGE + VIDEO
ALL TOUR PHOTOS |ALL TOUR VIDEOS
Vertigo Photos
Vertigo 2005
Adam playing live
Yahweh Heart
Bono on stage
Bono reaching out to fans
Vertigo 2005 065
Crew Member At Rest, Vertigo 2005
AJ Keeps an eye on the Singer, Vertigo 2005
Dublin, home of U2 and Guinness, Vertigo 2005
Wet, Wet, Wet in Dublin, Vertigo 2005
Vertigo Tour EPK
A Day in the Life of Edge 1
All Because Of You - Vertigo Tour Indoor
Police Escort, South America
Vertigo Tour - South America - Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award to U2
Vertigo Tour - South America - City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo Tour - South America - U23D Shoot
U23D Film Trailer
U2 3D Trailer
Vertigo Tour Australia - Willie Williams on his way...
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niumero7
waiting for the originals
2 Europeans and a Californian along with Hawaii for U2
Doug Sloan
Aloha U2!
Amazing night under the stars at Aloha Stadium. The final show of the Vertigo tour (which bad been postponed due to a serious illness to Edge's daughter)and they went out guns blazin'. Pearl Jam opened and they were outstanding. Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day joined U2 onstage to perform "The Saints Are Coming", "Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own" was played as a tribute to Bono's father, Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" was played with Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready showing up back on stage and the tour ended with the song "All I Want Is You". Last to leave the stage was Larry who simply approached the mike and said "we'll see you next time" and it was done...incredible tour, incredible night.
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Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G is the 5G phone to beat
By James Rogerson
and James Rogerson
The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G is arguably the most impressive of the currently available crop of 5G phones, but Samsung looks set to beat it, as the company has just announced the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G.
This new phone has a lot going for it, including a massive 6.8-inch 1440 x 3040 Dynamic AMOLED screen with 498 pixels per inch, almost no bezel, and HDR10+ support. And to help you make the most of all that space it comes with an S Pen stylus, just like previous Note handsets.
Except this time the S Pen is smarter and better, supporting various gesture and click controls, so you can use it to navigate the phone without touching the screen.
Packed with power (and cameras)
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G is also tremendously powerful, packing a 7nm Exynos 9825 octa-core chipset. This is even more powerful than the Exynos 9820 in the Galaxy S10 5G, and it’s backed up by an enormous 12GB of RAM. In fact, this should just about be the most powerful phone on the planet at the time of writing, which makes it a perfect fit for 5G.
It also has four rear cameras, giving you a choice of a 16MP ultra-wide one, a 12MP variable aperture one, a 12MP telephoto one, and a DepthVision one (for sensing depth). Plus there’s a 10MP camera on the front, and a huge 4,300mAh battery with fast charging, fast wireless charging, and even reverse wireless charging.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G also has up to 512GB of storage (expandable to 1TB with a microSD card), stereo speakers tuned by AKG, and an in-screen fingerprint scanner. That’s all wrapped up in a curvy metal and glass build with IP68 certification – so it can survive a splash.
Pre-order now on the network of your choice
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G Deals
30GB data
Unlimited minutes
Unlimited texts
5G Ready plan
£69 a month
£29 upfront
5G plan
And if you like the sound of it you don’t have long to wait – the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G is hitting stores on August 23rd and can be pre-ordered already from EE, Vodafone, Three and O2.
Prices of course depend on network and plan, but on Three it currently starts at £63 per month, plus £29 upfront, EE meanwhile has prices starting from £69 per month, with £250 upfront, and Vodafone starts at £64 per month, with £99 upfront. O2 goes as low as £50.14 per month, with no upfront cost, but that’s on a 36 rather than 24-month plan.
About James Rogerson
Sub-Editor at 5G.co.uk
James is sub-editor at both 5G.co.uk and TechRadar. Also works as a researcher/ technical writer for 5G.co.uk and several other websites including TechRadar, T3, Smart TV Radar, 3G.co.uk with work on the web, in print and on TV.
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Vodafone using manhole covers to ‘build 5G cities’
By Sarah Wray
Vodafone is using “yesterday’s infrastructure” to build tomorrow’s smart cities. The operator is installing small antennae within manhole covers, as well as on lamp-posts and phone boxes.
The aim is to boost speed and extend coverage of today’s 4G networks in high-traffic areas such as busy roads, town centres and shopping malls. Vodafone says the tech can then be easily upgraded to make way for 5G.
Another benefit, the company says, is that installing equipment on manhole covers causes minimal disruption for businesses and citizens – no construction work or street closures are required. Further, the landscape is not altered, making the antennae instalments ideal for busy public spaces.
In time for New Year
Vodafone has installed two types of connected manhole covers at its headquarters in Newbury. One is purpose-built and the other uses existing manhole covers. The antennae-equipped manhole covers can carry calls and internet access over 200 metres using only a small amount of power.
Further, Vodafone plans to roll 4G out beneath its own manhole covers, which it inherited through the acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide in 2012 as well as those of utility providers across the UK.
Vodafone is also fitting 4G antennae to traditional phone boxes along Edinburgh’s Princes Street – it says these will be in place ahead of the New Year’s Even Hogmanay celebrations.
The company says phone boxes are ideal homes for antennae in places where mobile masts would be hard to install due to the need for a power supply and fibre optic cable connections.
Looking ahead to 5G
The antennae are connected using Vodafone’s high-speed fibre converged network.
A statement on the initiative from Vodafone said: “These fibre-connected 5G-enabled small antennae are the foundation on which connected smart cities will be built.”
There are high hopes for 5G to advance smart cities – for example, enabling connected traffic lights which automatically re-route traffic away from congested areas and allowing city councils to monitor their infrastructure intelligently and deploy predictive or on-demand maintenance.
Vodafone UK Chief Executive Nick Jeffery said: “We are committed to providing customers with the best network possible by drawing on our strengths in innovation and strong UK heritage. It is great to be able to use yesterday’s infrastructure – from phone boxes to manhole covers – to deliver the services of tomorrow. This is one of the ways we are extending our 4G services to areas other networks cannot reach, and getting ready for 5G.”
About Sarah Wray
Technical Writer at 5G.co.uk
Sarah Wray is a technical writer with over 10 years' experience writing about technology, including telecoms, smart cities, data, IoT, aerospace, and more.
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Spider-Man Split, Disney+ Weekly, Genesis Mini, KNEWZ, Lucky XFL, Batbot
Inbox +1Spider-Man Split, Disney+ Weekly, Genesis Mini, KNEWZ, Lucky XFL, Batbot
I’m back. And very behind on email. So I’m sending you one. Lots to link to.
The Amazing(ly Stupid) 'Spider-Man' Standoff
Borys Kit with the details on Sony pulling the Spider-Man character back away from Disney — first, the backstory:
Disney and Sony were in different places when the idea of a co-operation was broached in 2014. Sony was coming off of two successful but widely derided Amazing Spider-Man pics and was seen as squandering the most popular Marvel hero. Marvel, while successful, was still finding its footing in its “phase two” of movies, jumping from a nadir with Thor: Dark World to a zenith with Guardians of the Galaxy.
It was in this environment that then Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairperson Amy Pascal reached out to Feige and over lunch made a proposal. What ensued was a very simple arrangement. So simple, say insiders, that the deal was only a four- to five-page document. Sony would loan Spider-Man out for one film, Captain America: Civil War, and in return, Sony would get Feige’s producing service for two movies. The deal was later revised to include both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. “You have to remember, Marvel wasn’t in the same place as it was now. There was still a question of how far could this ‘superhero thing’ go,” says one insider familiar with the deal.
Disney did not get a producing fee nor did Feige for the initial deal, say multiple insiders. “Just getting Spider-Man in even one of their movies at the time, that was a stem cell infusion for Marvel,” notes a source regarding the company’s willingness to make a deal at the time.
There was also the unique merchandising arrangement. Sony had earlier relinquished the merchandising rights to Disney for a one-time payment of $175 million. Also in the deal, insiders note, was a provision that saw Disney making a yearly royalty payment to Sony that was amounting to around $30 million a year. Sources say that Disney tied the royalty to the performance of the Feige-produced movies; the better the pics performed, the lower the royalty. (It is unclear whether this will change going forward.)
Everyone knows that Sony benefitted from Disney letting Feige work on the Sony Spider-Man movies, but it is interesting to think about the flip side about what Disney got out of it too. A real win-win. And yet…
And then there was Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the animated film that became one of 2018’s critical darlings and won the best animated movie Oscar. The feeling from Sony was that it bounced back to a place where it could strike on its own. “Tom is thinking ‘Okay, we’ve learned everything we need to from Kevin’s playbook. We did Venom on our own and we did Spider-Verse,'” comments a Sony insider.
While Venom may have performed well at the box office, it’s a bad movie. Spider-Verse, by all accounts, is a great movie (I haven’t yet seen it), but obviously very different from what makes for a great, live-action action film. That these two things gave Sony confidence to go alone at best seems sort of silly, at worst seems foolish. Will star Tom Holland go along with this? Anyone else involved with the Feige Spider-Mans?
And one more detail from a different take:
Under an expiring agreement, Disney received a small percentage of the box office revenue in return for lending creative assistance on the Holland movies. Sony shouldered the production costs. In negotiations in recent months, Disney pushed for a much greater percentage of the revenue in exchange for paying a share of the production costs.
Is this just some elaborate ploy to get Disney to buy Sony (the movie studio, at least)? Did Sony wait until Disney set Spider-Man up as a key cog in the go-forward MCU strategy? It sort of feels like it… That, I would respect! With great power…
Disney+ to Release Episodes Weekly
Speaking of Disney, newsflash: they’re smart. Matt Webb Mitovich:
TVLine hears that Disney+ episodes will be released on a weekly basis, versus the all-at-once “binge” model often employed by rivals.
Is this a welcome respite for those who have felt a need to “stress-binge” full seasons ASAP upon release (lest they, for one reason, get spoiled by those who watch faster)? Or is it, as some see it, a “cash grab” by the House of Mouse? A way to force month-to-month subscriptions and foil those scheming to sign up, binge, and bail?
This sounds like a good idea. One Netflix should experiment with in various capacities. (Though I don’t think this has to be or should be a black or white issue. Some shows are better binged, some better weekly, some morph into the latter with popularity.) And they sort of are…
[via Gavin Purcell]
The Sega Genesis Mini Builds on What Made Nintendo Minis Great
Andrew Webster:
What’s most remarkable about the Genesis Mini is the attention to detail. The PlayStation Classic felt disappointing mostly because it was a step back from Nintendo’s offerings in a lot of ways. It still had no home button, and it didn’t add any new quality of life features. Sega not only nails the basics, but it has made some welcome and notable changes. Hold the start button, and you can return to the system’s main menu, instead of having to get up and hit the reset button on the console itself. You can also display the sizable library as if the games were on a bookshelf, browsing the spines. It sounds like a small thing, but it’s surprisingly nostalgic.
And then there’s perhaps my favorite feature: the menu music is a kickass new song from legendary Streets of Rage composer Yuzo Koshiro. According to Sega, he made the track using a YM2612 sound chip from the original Genesis. All of these elements — the home button, the huge library, the music — combine to make a product that actually improves on what Nintendo has done in many ways.
I’m a big fan of Nintendo’s nostalgic mini offerings, though I wish they had taken them further (and not bungled the roll out). And yeah, the reset button is ridiculous. (As are the wired controllers — that’s a little too nostalgic — though the Sega offering has those as well.) Nice to see Sega push things forward a bit more.
(Though Nintendo’s Switch Online NES offerings — in particular the quick “rewind” aspect — are fantastic. And SNES starts hitting tomorrow!)
News Corp Readies News App
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Lillian Rizzo:
The articles on Knewz.com will link directly to publishers’ sites, and News Corp won’t take a cut of the advertising revenue the articles generate. News Corp also expects to share data with those publishers. The service will aim to promote original news reports rather than those that are quick rehashes of existing articles, and it will treat subscription news sites the same as nonsubscription sites in determining which articles to link to, the people familiar with the plans said.
News Corp isn’t striking licensing deals with media companies for the service, since it is simply linking out to their sites without hosting their content on its platform or charging for it, one of the people said.
You know you have a problem when the initial report about the product reads more like a parody. “Knews” would have been bad. “Knewz” is unrecoverable from, in the same way that Tronc and Quickster were. Such a self-own.
And none of that speaks to the product itself! Which sounds like… a web browser? A feed reader? Lulz.
A Second-Chance League and Its Not-My-First-Rodeo Commish
Dan Greene on Oliver Luck’s attempt to do the XFL right, this time:
For Luck, it would not be an entirely novel task. He had been 30, three years out of the NFL and working as a commercial litigation lawyer, when he was named the inaugural GM of the Frankfurt Galaxy, a founding franchise in the NFL-backed World League of American Football (later rebranded NFL Europe). There he sold Germans a strange foreign sport by turning games into spectacles of excess: hours-long pregame parties, blaring in-game deejays, sideshow acts like fire-eaters and jetpack flyers. And it worked. In 1992, the WLAF’s second season, Frankfurt was the only profitable franchise, its circus atmosphere soon becoming the league standard. By ’96, Luck was NFL Europe’s president.
In 2001 he returned stateside, to his wife Kathy’s hometown, where he served as CEO of the Houston sports authority. There he continued building, overseeing the opening of new homes for the Texans and Rockets. He lured an MLS franchise away from San Jose and jumped aboard as GM of the newly-christened Houston Dynamo, which won two MLS Cups in Luck’s five-year tenure. He then left to serve as athletic director at his alma mater, West Virginia, which in 2012 he steered from the dissolving Big East to the cash-sown pastures of the Big 12.
Some have called Luck a serial entrepreneur; he jokes that he can’t hold a job.
He is also, of course, the father of Andrew Luck, the recently and surprisingly retired quarterback. But perhaps his retirement shouldn’t be all that surprising given the above. In a way, it could be “like father, like son”.
As for the league itself:
The XFL had already tested its kickoff rule at a December scrimmage between two jucos in Mississippi. For that one Luck invited some NFL representatives, emblematic of how this XFL’s relationship with the NFL is markedly different from 20 years ago, when McMahon positioned himself as an adversary. Luck is open about his love for the more established league, from which he receives a pension and in which his eldest son stars. In December he even brokered a meeting at the NFL’s Manhattan office, where he and McMahon outlined for Roger Goodell the XFL’s intentions: innovate in the spring, don’t compete with the big boys in the fall. Luck says you’ll never hear him say a bad word about the old standard.
This sounds substantially better than the first attempt. And the elder Luck does seem to be the right person to run this. But those team nicknames and logos… yikes.
I mean… they look like the logos for one of those old football video games before they had the licenses to get the real teams’ logos.
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beware: It’s harvest time for pot farmers….
ONTARIO – As the annual marijuana harvest period approaches, police are reminding the public about the dangers of outdoor grow-operations.
Typically, marijuana crops are harvested as early as late August up until the beginning of October. During this period, pot growers will be headed into rural areas to collect their plants, which are typically grown in swamps, corn fields, wooded areas, along rivers and on rural, rental properties with large acreage.
There are several public safety risks with these grow operations. Growers often carry weapons and ammunition and the grow sites are usually protected by booby traps to keep trespassers like “pot pirates” at bay.
Potentially these hazards could lead to dangerous confrontations for unsuspecting, innocent people – including children – who just happen to be in the area of these illegal crops.
There are also environmental dangers of grow-ops, which usually involves the unregulated use and disposal of different chemicals and other environmentally-damaging products.
The OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) continues to warn the public about the increasing threat to public and police officer safety posed by the expansion of marijuana cultivation.
Marijuana grown in Ontario is typically distributed throughout the province and exported to the United States. Stronger drugs, such as cocaine, as well as weapons and cash, often return to Ontario to fuel other criminal enterprises, which further endanger public safety.
Marijuana plants are bright green in colour and grow to between three and five feet in height. The leaves have seven jagged fingers and the plants give off a strong, pungent, musty odour.
Here are some of the telltale signs of a grow operation:
Abandoned vehicles parked on sideroads or trails
People walking in remote areas for no apparent reason
Bags of fertilizer, planting trays or chemicals located in remote areas
Well-trampled trails in wooded or swamp areas
Cleared out areas in swamps, wooded areas or corn fields
Recent posting of “No Trespassing” signs.
If you discover or suspect an outdoor grow operation, call police or Crime Stoppers, but do not take matters into your own hands. If it can be done safely, try to record any licence plates or GPS information that could help police with their investigation.
If by accident you find yourself in a grow-op, leave the same way you came in to avoid setting off a booby trap.
from the Alliston Herald
….don’t be sad, still another few days left of summer….
Not to spoil the mood, but we are close to the Fall, and with every change of season, there are maintenance items to review and see which ones should be done, and in which order. Getting an early start to these leaves you more prepared in case Winter comes early.
The CMHC has a good list of what you should be looking at doing at your properties:
Have furnace or heating system serviced by a qualified service company every two years for a gas furnace, and every year for an oil furnace, or as recommended by the manufacturer.
If you have central air conditioning, make sure the drain pan under the cooling coil mounted in the furnace plenum is draining properly and is clean.
Lubricate circulating pump on hot water heating system. Bleed air from hot water radiators.
Disconnect the power to the furnace and examine the forced-air furnace fan belt, if installed, for wear, looseness or noise; clean fan blades of any dirt buildup.
Check chimneys for obstructions such as nests.
Vacuum electric baseboard heaters to remove dust.
Remove the grilles on forced-air systems and vacuum inside the ducts.
Turn ON gas furnace pilot light (if your furnace has one), set the thermostat to “heat” and test the furnace for proper operation by raising the thermostat setting until the furnace starts to operate. Once you have confirmed proper operation, return the thermostat to the desired setting.
Check and clean or replace furnace air filters each month during the heating season. Ventilation system, such as heat recovery ventilator, filters should be checked every two months.
Check to see that the ductwork leading to and from the heat recovery ventilator is in good shape, the joints are tightly sealed (aluminum tape or mastic) and any duct insulation and plastic duct wrap is free of tears and holes.
If the heat recovery ventilator has been shut off for the summer, clean the filters and the core, and pour water down the condensate drain to test it.
Check to see that bathroom exhaust fans and range hoods are operating properly. If possible, confirm that you are getting good airflow by observing the outside vent hood (the exterior damper should be held open by the airflow).
Check smoke, carbon monoxide and security alarms, and replace batteries.
Clean portable humidifier, if one is used.
Check sump pump and line to ensure proper operation, and to ascertain that there are no line obstructions or visible leaks.
Replace window screens with storm windows.
Remove interior insect screens from windows to allow air from the heating system to keep condensation off window glass and to allow more free solar energy into your home.
Ensure windows and skylights close tightly; repair or replace weatherstripping, as needed.
Ensure all doors to the outside shut tightly, and check other doors for ease of use. Replace door weatherstripping if required.
If there is a door between your house and the garage, check the adjustment of the self-closing device to ensure it closes the door completely.
Cover outside of air-conditioning units and shut off power.
Ensure that the ground around your home slopes away from the foundation wall, so that water does not drain into your basement.
Clean leaves from eavestroughs and roof, and test downspouts to ensure proper drainage from the roof.
Drain and store outdoor hoses. Close interior valve to outdoor hose connection and drain the hose bib (exterior faucet), unless your house has frost-proof hose bibs.
Have well water tested for quality. It is recommended that you test for bacteria every six months.
If you have a septic tank, measure the sludge and scum to determine if the tank needs to be emptied before the spring. Tanks should be pumped out at least once every three years.
Winterize landscaping, for example, store outdoor furniture, prepare gardens and, if necessary, protect young trees or bushes for winter.
another property to start managing this month…..
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Really nice 6-plex in downtown Barrie, recently purchased by the realestate rangers. Check them out at http://realestaterangers.ca
another property to start managing this month…
Great 3 bdrm house in South Barrie…
landlord attacked with an axe yesterday…,.
CTV Toronto
A man has been arrested after a violent axe assault in the city’s west end, Toronto police said Friday.
Police say the assault occurred Friday morning, shortly before 10 a.m., when a landlord went to pick up a rent cheque at an address near Dundas Street West and Bloor Street West.
The tenant let the landlord in and then allegedly attacked him by swinging an axe overhead several times, said Toronto police spokesperson Tony Vella.
The landlord was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Vella said the victim is fortunate to be alive and is recovering in hospital.
Rallin Edward Lawes, 64, of Toronto, has been charged with one count of attempted murder.
He will appear in court at Old City Hall Saturday morning.
we’ll see where this goes…
This article was taken from the Star…not a new topic for sure, as there have been various tenant action groups pushing for standardized leases for a long time now, but this one’s gaining a little momentum.
There’s nothing wrong with ensuring that leases comply with the law…there are some crazy things out there, but with all the unique properties out there, there will always be slight changes required to any lease.
Ontario tenants federation pushing for standardized leases….
It’s the clause that has no claws, yet many landlords still use it, and many prospective tenants still fear it.
The infamous “no pets allowed” line is frequently inserted into lease agreements, sending many animal-owning apartment seekers scattering.
However, what some do not know is that the clause is void in Ontario. And it’s not the only one.
Does your lease say you can’t have overnight guests? Void. Obligated to pay a damage deposit? Void.
Due to a general lack of awareness on the parts of both landlords and tenants on how to bring a lease in line with Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act, with all its rules that govern living arrangements, the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations (FMTA) has come up with what it believes to be a solution.
This fall, the FMTA will roll out its version of a standardized lease agreement, an 11-page document they want all landlords in Ontario to use. Similar templates exist in other jurisdictions,including parts of Australia.
The standardized lease would lay out the rights and responsibilities of each party as stipulated by the tenancies act, as well as room for negotiating charges and services provided, such as electricity bills or parking fees. In other words, “clauses that are not void,” said Anita Agrawal, the FMTA’s vice-chair.
“Our first priority is to propose it and have it legislated, and then to give tenants the ability to better negotiate with their landlord,” she said.
The FMTA’s board is currently working on a promotional campaign for their “fair lease” concept and approaching MPPs.
But on the government end, it seems there is little interest in the idea.
“Considering the unique nature of each tenancy agreement in Ontario, we believe landlords and tenants should have the flexibility to decide how best to determine the lease agreement,” said Richard Stromberg, a spokesman for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
The concept of a standardized lease partly stems from the numerous phone calls fielded by the FMTA’s hotline from tenants questioning certain sections of their lease.
“When one of (the void) clauses appears, we tell tenants they don’t even have to debate it. They can tell the landlord or can go straight to the Landlord and Tenant Board,” said Geordie Dent, the FMTA’s executive director.
While Stromberg pointed out that landlords are obligated to give new renters a government-produced “Information for New Tenants” brochure, the document only touches on one of the five void clauses mentioned by the FMTA: the clause regarding damage deposits.
Daryl Chong, president of the Greater Toronto Apartment Association, which represents owners of multi-unit residences, said the tenancies act “already acts as a kind of standardized lease” as landlords must follow it.
At the Ontario Landlords Association, which acts on behalf of small residential landlords, spokesperson Liz Dong said the association does its best to educate its members on how to properly draft leases.
Should there be a greater push for a standardized lease in the near future, Dong said “it will require all stakeholders to create it,” mentioning tenant groups, “huge corporate landlords,” and landlords of small- and medium-sized buildings.
Top 5 most commonly reported void clauses in leases
• No pets allowed
• Requiring a tenant to pay a damage deposit
• No overnight guests
• Requiring a tenant to get contents insurance
• No subletting
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Oh My, Nicki Minaj
By Troy, July 30, 2017 in Culture, Race & Economy
Troy 2,370
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I just sat down to look at some youtube videos before calling it a night. I generally watch Youtube video on a regular TV. I usually search for subjects that interest me. I started to watch an Inconvenient Truth but after a few minutes I grew bored...
I decided to see what was trending on youtube (something I almost never do), the #9 video was the one shown below . This video was watched over 8 million since in the last two days. That is 8 times more than the number of view all of my videos have received in the last decade!
I watched at least 1/2 of the video. I doubt anyone would confuse the music with being great, but after watching the video for 5 seconds it is obvious the music was secondary this video was all about Nicki's bangin' body! Her body is so off the chain it doesn't even look real.
Imagine the views I would get on a video if I could get Nicky to shake her thang while an author was reading from their book. Shoot I might even sell a few books.
Still I wonder who this video is for, really. Is it designed for the teenage white boys who buy most rap. Is it for Black women to give them something to aspire to. Is if for all men to give them something to, well.. use your imagination...
Again I can't image it is to listen to the music..., but what I know I'm too old to appreciate this music.
Where else does one watch music video nowadays anyway?
Del 157
Yeah I'll skip the inconvenient truth as well.
Mel Hopkins 1,336
LocationAtlanta Metro
This is an example of hip hop music -next generation. Future is huge in the hip hop world as is Nicki Minaj- put the two together and you have a bona fide hit...
Nicki looks amazing but she always does ... I love the way her body is sculpted but don't take away from Future's presence - he is a big draw too . Wait that's an understatement - He had back-to-back number 1 albums on billboard's 200 Check out this article lol The title is funny.
Nicki has also had a few movie roles too - but her presence, so far, outside of the hip hop arena hasn't translated into a box office draw... But I wish she would promote black books too - because I find her another a-list talent that is moving into her own power.
I never heard of Future until last night. Maybe this is a man thing, but were it not for Minaj, I would not have watched for than 30 seconds of the video.
I guess I'm in the minority regarding Future's music, but again I know I'm not the demographic, so this is not surprising.
Del I was just too tired to give Inconvenient Truth a good watch, that is really what I meant when I wrote "bored." I was too tired to give the film the focus needed to watch it critically--a Minaj video does not require the same mental capacity.
I do plan to get to it and to IT2 well. I'll let you know what I think on the other conversation.
Cynique 2,307
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LocationThe great prairie state of Illinois
@Troy In answer to your question, you can watch music videos of all genres all day long on cable Music Channels VH1 and BET.
This video is really well-produced; the hook is catchy and Future and Nicki really complement each other. They certainly typify what rivets black folks: "bling and swag".
Yes the production quality was very high. Clearly, they have created a video that appeals to a great number of people, I found it compelling until I realized that I was simply riveted by Minaj's physique and I had to turn away before I spent the rest of the evening looking for Minaj videos to watch all night
Despite my fascination, I did not feel compelled to buy the music.
Man, I have not thought about BET or VH1 in years! I would be willing to bet that more people watched the video on Youtube than VH1 and BET combined. The video has been viewed over 9 million times in less than 3 days!
6 hours ago, Cynique said:
@Cynique , yes thank you! I couldn't describe the feeling but you nailed it.
You know @Troy I would have missed the video premiere if not for your post. I, tend to stick with contemporary jazz, soul, funk and old school house these days - but this was a great find.
Pioneer1 813
Hate to piss on the praise parade but................
This video is a bit disturbing for a number of reasons:
1. If you notice, why do they have so many WOMEN looking at Nicki's body in a sexual manner?
Even the hotel maid takes a look at Nicki and looks like she's getting hot as she whips out her hair.
2. Besides Future, why are the ONLY Black men in the video being chased down and beat up by NON-BLACK police officers?
(right around the 2 minute mark)
What kind of message is that sending, that Black men who look at a good looking woman must be chased down by the police and beat up?
Or when you see Black men being beat up by the police you should just walk by looking sexy like Nicki did as if it's a common everyday thing?
What's the message?
3. Finally, it's not the biggest deal but......
Nicki is an attractive woman but she doesn't really represent "Black women" or the way most Black women look.
So constantly praising women who look like HER or BEYONCE or AMBER ROSE and talking about how beautiful they are really tells darker skinned Black women with more African features how UNattractive they are.
But again, what's up with all the women lusting after Nicki and what's up with the brothers being beat down by non-Black police?
Who says that music videos can't be political and provocative ???
Sure Pioneer the video sends all kinds of crazy messages. I completely understand why the Hotep crowd, the religious right, and prudes would be taken aback. This is Viola Davis time cover taken to another whole 'nother level.
But Maybe it is just a fun video and ain't all that serious...
How would you make the video differently? Would you have Minaj wear a burka?
Pioneer is a "stick in the mud". Pop culture is not his strong suit. He's always trying to "intellectualize" trivia. Art imitates life. This video is not sending messages; it's reflecting what's already out there in the mix.
Pop culture is not my strong suit either, but after listening to y'all I've learned to lighten up.
When I was a kid I could give you the programming on all of the TV stations. I did not need a TV guide, but there were only about 10 station--6 that people really watched NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, and two local stations. I also new all of the popular songs by Black people. I went to every Black movie that came out and I watched every Black sitcom. When cable become available I would sit with my VCR ready to record all the black music videos so that I could watched them whenever I wanted. I LOVED BET! I listened to Black radio exclusively. I mean I grew up in Harlem, witnessed, first hand, the birth of Hip-Hop.
But that all started to change once I got into college. After I started the website and was really exposed to the world of books--pop culture failed to interest me. Despite being completely immersed in Black pop culture for the first 30 years of my life, I didn't really know shit about what it really means to be Black. I guess I felt like I had to play catch up ever since.
But watching that Minaj (is her name a play on ménage à trois?) video if felt like I missed the last 20 years of music videos--like I was locked up for 20 years, get out and seeing an Galaxy 8 cell phone for the first time. Now seeing scantily clad honeys shakin their rumps in music videos is not new on me--BET made billions promoting those. This video was just so much better than was I recall ever seeing seeing.
It is not enough for me to start watching VH1 or BET again, but it was an entertaining diversion from trying to listen to Al Gore drone on about climate change...
@Troy No need for anybody to apologize about not keeping up with pop culture. It is a lot of vapid blather. I just follow it so i can hate on all the phony, air head celebrities, - and participate in the conversation when others discuss it.
I've always tried to be a well-rounded person, conversant on a broad scope of subjects. This is a throwback to my 1950s up bringing, back when girls were always advised to be this way in order to hold a boy's interest. It was considered having a good personality. But it didn't necessarily work with guys who were more interested in loose girls with big boobs and fine legs.
Cynique
Infact, race and sex are often intertwined anyway.
However, if the video IS political.....exactly what type of message is it trying to send?
I have no problem with her sexuality.
She could get butt naked in the video and I'd love it....I watch porn from time to time myself, lol.
And even ENGAGE in it occasionally.....lol.
My questions were simply why does she have WOMEN looking at her in a seductive way and why are Black men being attacked and beaten up by non-Black police officers for no apparent reason.
This is one of the problems I have with a lot of these AfroAmerican artists and entertainers who try to make political statements.
You can't figure out what the hell they're trying to say.
Even with Colin Kaepernick, or Beyonce.....you get the feeling that they're trying to "stand up" for something or "speak out" on something but they are so confusing and vague and symbolic you can't figure out what they're trying to say or what they're trying to accomplish.
Like Beyonce and Bruno Mars' performance at the Superbowl the other year.
It was supposed to be some sort of statement about police brutality, but it didn't actually tell the public what they should do about it.
I'm not the biggest fan of Kanye West but one thing I LOVE about the brother is he tends to speak his mind regardless as to how crazy he sounds.....instead of speaking in garbled and coded language.
He came right out on live television and said George Bush doesn't care about Black people.....straight up.
There was no confusion or vagueness about what he was saying and everyone could understand it and most agreed with it.
But this video......what the HELL was the point in showing a bunch of Black men holding eachother back while slobbering over Nicki and then later on getting beat up and arrested by cops?
I admit, I'm not the smartest man in the world so help a brother out.
What was the PURPOSE of that scene....somebody tell me.
@Pioneer1, 45 speaks his mind too. I think there is some value is discretion. Besides how does a Kanye know who Bush likes or does not like. Maybe he does not like poor people, maybe his reaction to Katrina was incompetent but that had nothing to do with his personal predilections and more to do the failings of the local and national administrators. Sure Kayne's statement, like 45's tweets are great for the media, but counterproductive.
I'll have to watch the entire video with my "Hotep Hat" and third eye engaged, and get back to you.
The problem is that our activists are validated by media and they are usually celebrities. Celebrities can assist, but they can not be the leaders. Baldwin, Angelou, Belfonte assisted King and other civil rights leaders in the civil rights struggle, they did not lead it. Celebrities get all the attention because that is the way the media get more people to watch. This does us a disservice.
Whenever we attempt to choose our own non-celebrity leaders the media marginalizes them, focuses on their flaws and failures, or simply don't cover them.
King, Malcolm, The Black Panthers, etc, had media campaigns launched against them and may Black people were turned against these institutions and men. Sure Dr. King is universally celebrated now, but he was not during his day. I doubt a Dr. King could rise to prominence today. We'd probably be fixated on whatever a Little Richard had to say about civil rights if it the media operated the way it did today...
So Colin K. the professional football player, has been thrust into the limelight as if his kneeling during a football game, given the media coverage, is the more important civil rights action that has taken place since the march on washington. And (choose your favorite local activist), struggles for the support to make a difference in obscurity.
@Pioneer1 Maybe the message Nicki is sending is that she identifies with her fans and is "keepin' it real" because what she portrays and depicts in the video is what is already happening in their culture. I repeat: "Art imitates life".
If the genre doesn't appeal to you. Perhaps you are not the intended recipient. Except for perhaps the last sentence is all predictive text.
I agree and I don't expect our celebrities (or those PROPPED UP to be our celebrities) to be leaders.
But I do expect them to be intelligent enough to be conscious of what they do and say in public and I CERTAINLY don't expect them to be COUNTER-productive in the political struggles of their community.
I like the new features you've added to the site, by the way.
I like how I can now edit my posts with all of he same tools that allowed me to post in the first place!
The problem is, when you have White supremists who are controlling the entertainment industry.....too often LIFE imitates ART.
Currently, most Black people won't walk past Black men being brutalized by non-Black police officers and ignore it.
Even if they don't or can't do anything about it, they'll atleast cry out against it or record it with their cell phone.
After more videos like this making police brutality seem like an "everyday" thing to be ignored, who knows what the results will be.
Why can't this just be a pop video meant to entertain and not taken seriously or be deconstructed? The music and the lyrics are the hook. The setting is incidental.
Again, nothing in a video is put in there by accident.
Everything is designed.....orchestrated....choreographed.
So my question was why was this particular scene of Black men struggling with eachother and then being beaten up by non-Black (not Black....but NON-BLACK) police officers inserted?
If they are vacationing in some Carribean island, why didn't they choose Black cops which are so abundant in the West Indies instead of non-Black cops?
What does that scene have to do with the song, the lyrics, and the good beat?
Delano 1,071
The color scheme and use of light is interesting
Xeon 108
OMG! Seriously??? Why should represent anyone?? Where is it written that a personality, celebrity or whatever must physically represent the majority of their race? Please tell me because I do not understand your statement. I’ll wait for a detailed response.
Wow! Here we go again! Ya now, I really don’t follow your logic. I really don’t. If Niki, Beyonce or Amber Rose are perceived as being attractive –why is race politics being injected into their appeal? Why can these women not be attractive and represent who they are as individuals (and their craft) minus race animus and petty racial carping? American Negro females are so schizoid and paranoid about not being perceived as being desirable and attractive to most people. For example, a young black woman posted a video on YouTube, complaining that Beyonce makes her and black women who look like her feel undesirable and unattractive. WTF??!! YOU DON’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS TYPE OF NONSENSICAL JUVENILE THINKING? These women are very talented for what they do. Yes, they are attractive but it was their craft that got them where they are. The looks was a big benefit and perhaps had they not been attractive they might not enjoy the success they have. But this unfortunate protocol of having to be attractive in order to enjoy success is not limited to Negroes. You do realize this don’t you?
As far as dark complexioned BW with Negroid physical features not being seen as attractive is concerned, well -that is pretty much a lost cause because there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. It is what it is. We have discussed this before. In fact, I wrote a very detailed rebuttal to the discussion were having about attractiveness vs. Gabourey Sidibe and Viola Davis phenotype a while ago. I never posted it because the computer I had written it on crashed and I had to remove the hard drive and rebuild the entire box. I still have that treatise on one of the 20 different hard drives I have. Rather than research for it hd by hd I would rather recreate the argument if needed. We can pursue that discussion again. I’m more than willing to do that but for now, let’s focus on this black female pity party because some black women are seen as attractive while others feel slighted, bitter and left out. I have no idea how you are going to convince the world that what they perceive as attractive is misguided and wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the consternation of dark complexioned BW. But it’s like convincing women that given all things being equal, a man that is 5’1” is equally attractive as a man that is 6’1”. Good luck with that…..
OMG! Seriously??? Why should represent anyone??
Because by human nature you tend to look up to and immulate people who LOOK LIKE YOU.
If you are Black and/or DARK SKINNED and the only positive (and beauty and sexuality are positives) images you see are represented by WHITE or LIGHT people then you grow up with damaged self esteem.
Wow! Here we go again! Ya now, I really don’t follow your logic. I really don’t. If Niki, Beyonce or Amber Rose are perceived as being attractive –why is race politics being injected into their appeal?
OK.....here's the logic.
Race is being injected because Nicki, Amber, and Beyonce are all NON-BLACK women who are being marketed heavily towards BLACK PEOPLE and especially BLACK GIRLS.
And that marketing of non-Black women to young girls who look nothing like them is very damaging and ruinous to the self-esteem and psyche of these young girls.
. For example, a young black woman posted a video on YouTube, complaining that Beyonce makes her and black women who look like her feel undesirable and unattractive. WTF??!! YOU DON’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS TYPE OF NONSENSICAL JUVENILE THINKING?
I'm actually glad who ADMITTED and ARTICULATED her frustration in this way.
I'm proud of her for doing this.
Most women just bottle it up without admitting it and their frustrations are released in other ways.
She's being honest....and is justified in her frustration...at the fact that the promotion of these very light non-Black women are damaging the self esteem of Black girls in a society that promotes the image of White women as the most desirable.
Yes, they are attractive but it was their craft that got them where they are. The looks was a big benefit and perhaps had they not been attractive they might not enjoy the success they have. But this unfortunate protocol of having to be attractive in order to enjoy success is not limited to Negroes. You do realize this don’t you?
There are plenty of DARK SKINNED Black women who are just as beautiful and talented but they weren't promoted by the WHITE MEDIA EXECUTIVES who run the mainstream media.
Look at Kelly Rowland.
She's more beautiful than Beyonce and can pretty much sing just as well....why wasn't SHE promoted the way Beyonce was when Destiny's Child broke up?
I have no idea how you are going to convince the world that what they perceive as attractive is misguided and wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the consternation of dark complexioned BW. But it’s like convincing women that given all things being equal, a man that is 5’1" is equally attractive as a man that is 6’1". Good luck with that…..
Well, first of all a man's height isn't the ONLY thing about him that women look for when it comes to physical attractiveness.
I've seen plenty of inshape muscular SHORT men holding it down with beautiful women while tall fat sloppy men are home alone jacking off because the women don't want them.
Height is just one of MANY physical features that makes a man attractive and physical features is just one of MANY characteristics that women look for in men.
Infact, I think a man's height matters more when dealing with OTHER MEN than it does when dealing with women.....but I could be wrong.
As far as convincing the world about who is and isn't attractive.......
There's no need to convince or sway the world, I say just leave them alone and stop brainwashing them through the media and NATURE will eventually take it's course and what NATURE has determined to be the most attractive women and men will eventually win out.
Which means women won't be choosed based on their skin color or hair texture, but by how wide their hips are, how healthy their skin is, how white their teeth and eyes are, and other attributes of health and fertility that have little to do with race.
On 8/11/2017 at 8:13 PM, Xeon said:
But this unfortunate protocol of having to be attractive in order to enjoy success is not limited to Negroes. You do realize this don’t you?
Men don't have to go this this at all. There are plenty of unattractive Black men with successful careers, because they are talented. Forrest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Rock, etc, etc.
I think the video advances the objectification of women, which does not really serve us very well. But that is in my opinion and I'm sure people will disagree.
The conversation that has emerged here, and arguably the video itself reveals the sexism inherent in our culture. I agree women do have to look much more attractive than men performing the same task. Women who fall short get a lot of grief where men don't.
I agree with everything you said but the fact is for some reason a woman's looks weigh more heavily on her success in life than a mans and this is a WORLD WIDE standard that is pretty much the same through out ALL CULTURES.
Man are prized on their intelligence and strength while women are prized on their beauty and femininity.
Which is why when I hear Black women promote the "strong Black woman" theme, it makes me cringe a little.
Some cultures prize a women for their intelligence, but I don't know of any that prize women for thier strength except for the mythical "Amazons".
What I've noticed is that a man's looks only work against him if he's VERY unattractive.
If he's average to good looking then he's OK.
Infact, good looks tend to be a plus.
But even if he's slightly below average in looks....if he is relatively normal in intelligence and physical ability he can manage to do great.
If he's gifted in intelligene or physical ability he'll do VERY good.
But if a man is VERY unattractive then that tends to work against him heavily and it's hard to overcome.
i have been hearing this conversation for years and i'm curious as to why it doesn't resonate with me. I grew up going to the movies, beginning in the 1930s because my mother worked at a movie theater and i could get in for free. I'd go to the show every time the pictures changed, and back then a trip to the movies meant a double feature. When i sat in my seat, munching on pop corn, gawking at the silver screen watching all the legendary movie stars, it never bothered me that these people were white and i was not. I simply viewed them as actors who were in the business of supplying entertainment and escapism for moviegoers like me. The characters didn't have to look like me to advance the story line or to amuse me, all they had to do was to embody emotions that i could relate to; human emotions and sentiments that applied to everyone. Back in the 30s and 40s, the only black characters in these movies were either ones grinning and tap dancing or maids and chauffeurs, none of whom i identified with because because i was never around servants who wore uniforms or people who bucked their eyes and danced on tables.
I remember going to see "Carmen Jones" in the 1950s when i was in my twenties. It starred Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandrige and had an all-black cast. I looked upon the movie as a novelty, and i didn't identify with the characters because the people were the same color as me, i enjoyed it because it was a compelling story and its character types were universal. In the heyday of the blaxploitation movies, i was amused by their absurdity but i certainly didn't identity with the black pimps and ho's and action heroes and heroines. I've always been big on separating fantasy from reality. To me, these characters were caricatures. The same with Nicki Minaj who has had breast and butt-cheek implants, making herself over as a voluptuous Barbie doll. Yes, men can get by with an average-looking face but women do like well-toned bodies. Halle Berry and Beyonce have both been cheated on by their mates so beauty ain't all it's cracked up to be. Women in touch with the real world, know that looks can only get you so far. And it's not like plain women don't get men. They do and there's a whole population of fine women who are constantly being asked why they're still single. Sometime it's because men find them intimidating. Other times it's because the Mr. Right they think they deserve, doesn't exist.
I retrospect, maybe i am a natural born spectator, possibly a product of my passive era because it also didn't bother me that i never had a black teacher. My role models were people i knew, either in the community or in my family. But I was , and still am, impressed and proud when in real life situations, a black person gives a good accounting of themself.
That is interesting Cynique. I think you are a product of your time. How do you feel about a white Jesus?
I'm old enough to remember all white TV and I remember being excited when Black people were finally depicted on the screen. It makes a difference to see yourself reflected in movies and to have stories that speak to your experience.
More importantly it is important for others to see our experiences as well and not just a ghetto dwellers or big booty vixens in music videos. Perhaps if white folks saw us in films with universal stories that resonated with them, they would not be marching in Charlottesville.
You see we are presented with broad diversity of they humanity everyday, but they are not presented with ours
Most of the Blaxploitation films were filmed in my neighborhood so they were really exciting. When I watch a film like Shaft I marvel over how much Harlem has changed.
Well, there are plenty of movies and series on TV out there now that depict black people in diverse roles or in their natural environment; not only on cable channels like BET, TV-One and Oprah's channel, OWN, but on network TV, too. i don't think watching these programs make a lot of white converts. Even millennials haven't gotten past their white entitlement. There was an undercurrent of resentment over black characters debuting in the super hero community. Whites balked at the idea of a black James Bond, and muttered about the main character in the last Star Wars movie being black. Many whites just can't get past skin color.
i don't even remember what i thought about Jesus being portrayed as white. Maybe i accepted this idea because he didn't seem to give a damn about what was happening to black folks. When i abandoned religion in my 20s, i did think that it was ridiculous how he was Anglo-sized when he was supposedly a Jew from the middle east.
Maybe i am an alien which is why i'm detached about a lot of things.
Yes there are indeed a great many Black folks on TV now. Interestingly I don't watch any of the programming. I may try Queen Sugar, based upon Natalie Brazille's novel, I hear that show is good.
I don't know how many more white people now see us as human as a result of more Black folks being portrayed on the small screen. But I'm sure it is more than if would be otherwise. I think Black people are in a better place than we would be otherwise.
Cynique you aren't alien, you objective and not a slave to either time or place. It's like people say surfing is a white sport.
No Troy, I think Eddie Murphy said it best. One time he was shopping and someone called him a nigger. When he turned around the guy was like Yo it's Eddie Murphy. He was no longer a nigga. So celebrities may exist in a separate reality from mere mortals because they are Stars.
Ahh, I remember Carmen Jones.....
And I still remember her in that black bra and zebra panties.
Del, what you said reminds me of that scene in Do The Right Thing when Mookie and Pino were discussing race and when Mookie (Spike Lee's character) asks Pino (the Italian racist) why he's so racist and calls Black people "niggers" when his favorite entertainers are Black like Prince and Magic Johnson.....Pino responds by saying that Prince and other celebrities aren't "niggers", they're "different".
I thought that was a brilliant scene by Spike because it illustrates the distorted thinking of a lot of White people who see THEIR FAVORITE Black person as different than the OTHER Black people of society in general that they may see more negatively.
Most people, even racists, view and treat celebrities as if they are superior to other humans. But this of course has nothing to do with the person. If I'm a white racist and I don't happen to know you are a celebrity you are just another nigger to me...
In any event, this is simply not enough to make a red neck change his thinking about Black folks in general -- unless it was possible to make every Black person a celebrity.
"OMG! Seriously??? Why should represent anyone??
............I say just leave them alone and stop brainwashing them through the media and NATURE will eventually take it's course and what NATURE has determined to be the most attractive women and men will eventually win out.
Which means women won't be choosed based on their skin color or hair texture, but by how wide their hips are, how healthy their skin is, how white their teeth and eyes are, and other attributes of health and fertility that have little to do with race."
Ya know…I read your response. In fact, I read it twice. I thank you for your very thoughtful opinions. With that said, at first I had a number of very detailed responses to everything you wrote. But after mauling over it a few days, I couldn’t finish my retort. Why? Because the absurdity of your statements was not worth the effort. I say that not to be disrespectful (that’s not my interest nor intention) but I could not bring myself to argue with the idea that an artist who is extremely popular should be criticized because their attractiveness makes girls who are less attractive feel bad about themselves. That’s like me saying the guys in the NBA or NFL make me feel bad about myself because I do not possess the level of athleticism they do. If your self esteem and feelings of self worth are so low that an entertainer makes you question your own self worth and self-perception of attractiveness –I think that says it all. The sheer absurdity of such thinking is ridiculous. And you defending their butt hurt adolescent feelings because a popular entertainer that is deemed attractive by the general public is equally ridiculous.
I mean, seriously, I can’t debate this because such thinking is so outrageous and gelastic it’s not worth my time. Unfortunately, these girls that you speak of do not meet the standards of what is attractive. Your argument is these girls have a particular physical phenotype that may be deemed as less attractive than the entertainers and this is unfair? If the standard is 6’ and you’re only 5’7”, well –whose fault is that? The person who is 6’? They should be called out and lambasted because you (5’7”) can’t meet the standard? I don’t think so. And as far as you blaming the media, that makes no sense either. Never in human history has a very unattractive person been deemed as equally desirable as a very attractive person. You want Beyonce and Leslie Jones to be seen as equally attractive by the world so girls who look like Leslie Jones won’t feel bad about themselves? REALLY? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Good luck with that. We have discussed the general phenotype that is seen as attractive by the overwhelming majority of the human race. You and I both may disagree with these standards but at the end of the day –it is what it is and there is nothing you nor I can do to change it…PERIOD! I suggest these over sensitive immature thinking girls stop allowing entertainers to usurp their self esteem and develop their own sense of self worth instead of blaming “other people” for their lack of attractiveness. I don’t know what else to tell you…..
With some White people, infact a LOT of White people.....being a celebrity or just being very successful in general makes White people hate you even WORSE.
If you notice, a lot of White people seem to LOVE Black people they CLEARLY feel they're superior to.
They love to see homeless Black folks out begging, they'll even give them money and a hug or take a picture of them and put it in a publication for a story.
Because it re-enforces the belief that Black people are poor and need their help.
Meanwhile they'll hate on the wealthy Black entertainer or athlete and talk about all the money they have or spread rumors about some sex scandal or vice they're involved with.
Truth be told......
I believe this is one of the reasons so many athletes find themselves in trouble with the law and in court.
You have poorer White police officers and other public officials with less money and fame who are angry and jealous and they make it a point to "go after" wealthy Black entertainers to teach them not to get too "uppity" and forget their status.
I used to work with a White dude who would grab the paper every morning and read it aloud just to antagonize his co-workers and one of the things he liked doing is talking about all the money these football players or basketball players were getting.
I could not bring myself to argue with the idea that an artist who is extremely popular should be criticized because their attractiveness makes girls who are less attractive feel bad about themselves
It's not the physical attraction of these artists that is the problem, it's the fact that they only seem to find attractive artists who LOOK ALMOST WHITE.
You have attractive and unattractive people in every race, but they'll disregard the dark skinned attractive man or woman to promote the one who looks nearly White in order to promote "white beauty" among Black people.
That’s like me saying the guys in the NBA or NFL make me feel bad about myself because I do not possess the level of athleticism they do. If your self esteem and feelings of self worth are so low that an entertainer makes you question your own self worth and self-perception of attractiveness –I think that says it all. The sheer absurdity of such thinking is ridiculous.
You clearly don't understand SOCIAL ENGINEERING and how it operates.
Everything you believe about beauty has been TAUGHT to you.
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The video is ridiculous. Nicki Minaj doesn't even look like Nicki Minaj. Her hair is fake. Her body parts are fake. Her wardrobe looks like a strippers wardrobe and she inspires Black women to emulate her and empowers them to wear weaves. Also, she identifies as a bad bitch. But what does that mean? Because if you look at her style, she shows that being a bad bitch, is dressing like a whore and her job is to turn men's heads by showing all to the public. New age rap music is single handed one of the most destructive forces destroying the Black community. Nicki is no exception.
Let's understand exactly how the industry works. Like I said, Nicki Minaj is not even Nicki Minaj.
How many people want to pay to see the real Nicki Minaj
@Del, the fake woman in the video is the draw. At least it is what kept my attention for a couple of minutes. I never did go back and watch the full video.
My feelings the video mirror @NubianFellow's for the most part, but I probably don't feel as strongly about it as he does. Basically if women themselves don't agree with that assessment, it will be a very difficult battle to wage, as evidenced with the Viola debate. Even if your intent is to protect Black women, you get accused of "mansplaining," overstepping your bounds, or something else just as counterproductive. Now I think the MInaj video is far worse for Black women than the Viola Davis photo, but again that is just me.
While I view the video as the very definition of the objectification of women, some women view it as a demonstration of exerting their power and no man is qualified to even speak on the matter... and so it goes.
I agree brother @Troy, that our people are super sensitive most of the time and it has never helped us to get ahead. We need to understand how to speak with and deal with each other. It's a lot of nonsense our brothers are doing wrong too, that is perhaps even more destructive. This all needs to be pointed out by anyone brave enough to deal with the criticism that will follow. Women get on me all the time. I told one lady that she was too beautiful to have that damn trash in her hair (weave) and to throw that stinking mess in the trash. The next thing got back was I need to find god. Something about her private parts and more rudeness. But wait sista, all II did was call you beautiful if you examine what I said. We need to learn how to put our emotions to the side as a dominant people of the planet.
But yea, as far the feminists go. They don't respect men at all so we can never oppose them or we are done. Feminists believe they are superior and that men should be the submissive ones.. LOL
I, for one, hate dread locks. i think they are inauthentic because they are synthetic, and are also serpentine and ugly and whether they smell or not, they look like they do. I'm sure if i expressed this distaste to a man wearing them , he would feel insulted or indifferent. I also hate full grown beards like NBA hoopster James Harden wears. I am a supporter of Colin Kaepernick but i not a big fan of his big Afro. If i were still in the mix, my appreciation for males would lean toward clean-shaven or neatly barbered ones. Does anybody care about this? Hell no.
Hair has always been an issue with black folks. Yes, black women are brainwashed by popular standards of beauty. Because they want to be popular. Why wouldn't the female of the species not want to make herself look like what men are salivating for? My only advice to my black sistas is to also cultivate your mind so that when the lights come back on you can bedazzle and amuse your stud with some interesting pillow talk.
As to whether or not i would overlook what i consider a bizarre hairstyle on a man if he was brilliant and virile, i would simply say, it's not something i ponder about since it's not a situation that i would encounter at this stage of my life.
@Cynique I feel you queen. And that makes sense - what you just said. However, let's consider the chain that we build, like a slave chain for example... If a Black woman hates her natural hair state, then that means this is something about herself that she hates. So she changes the state. This means that she will never come to accept and love this state - something of which is a part of her. The way god intended for her to be. Now imagine an entire nation of people who feel this way about themselves. Now imagine many nations of women who hate this natural state they are born. Let's delve a little bit further and now imagine just about every Black nation on the planet having a complex with their own natural state.
A new social dynamic is created where hardly any Black people on earth embrace their natural state. But these are just our women. The goddesses right?
Now imagine most of these women being solely responsible for the development of our new generations. They are raising our Black men and Black women of tomorrow. These will be the warriors responsible for leading us to a better place socially, financially and civilly. They are already raised to not embrace THEIR own natural state. Most Black nations on the planet embrace a form of beauty that is not their own to claim. They are actually appropriating another race and emulating traits that they were never meant to possess.
Now let's understand that these are genetically weaker traits that are being embraced.
For instance, let's take a flower. Since birth, I raise children to believe that roses are ugly and give detailed explanations of why that is so. Everything that is beautiful, I create reasons as to why they are inferior traits and why that sweet smelling rose is ugly. Indoctrination. All their lives these children will hear why roses are ugly and terrible plants. I have taught them to love and embrace cactuses. Most will form an opinion of how ugly these plants are. They will not want to associate or be around roses. They will embrace cactuses. Which explains the behavior of Black people. We embrace cactuses.
A cycle is being created and embedded into our mental state. Research shows that these ideas don't just get passed down mentally, but also genetically. Our ideas, opinions, and beliefs do affect our genetics. So we have to responsibly consider the damage we are doing to ourselves, not just culturally, but on a genetic scale as well. Why should goddesses strive to be trolls?
Everyone else from every other culture and race on the planet is taught to love themselves. Black people are the only ones who embrace everyone else and not ourselves. But somehow, we have come to accept that this is perfectly fine. It's not queen. It will never be.
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New NYPD recruiting goal to make sure officers reflect city
By Darla Miles
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The new goal in recruiting new NYPD officers is making sure the force mirrors the people it serves.
"You look like New York City, you come from every neighborhood, you reflect the greatness of our city," said Mayor Bill de Blasio
It is no secret the department has increased its efforts to bring on more minorities following the deaths of Eric Garner and Akai Gurley. In terms of diversity, the graduating class is 48% white, 25,7% Hispanic, 13.51% Asian, but only 12% Black.
For gender, in a class of 555, 449 are male, 106 are female. One of those women who graduated Wednesday at Madison Square Garden is Teryann Ferguson, who grew up in Brownsville.
"I hope young black females see me, and say 'I could be her one day," says Ferguson.
For those for religious beliefs, like the Sihk faith, the NYPD has now revised its patrol guide to allow these new head coverings, and prospective officers can have beards up to 1/2 inch long.
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France could still be sued by the European Union in the coming weeks if it is found to have violated anti-discrimination laws with its expulsion of Roma migrants, the union’s justice chief said.
Asylum and immigration issues were focal points in Australia’s recent election campaign. The government has now unveiled plans for more detention centers to accommodate an increasing number of asylum seekers, as well moving children and family groups from detention into community-based accommodations as part of a more “humane” approach.
In the UK, three security guards have been arrested over the death of a man on a plane at Heathrow Airport, as he was being deported from the UK to Angola.
Canadian government officials have put forward legislation setting out tougher penalties for those caught smuggling illegal migrants into the country. Critics have already voiced disapproval over the proposed law, saying it treats refugees like criminals.
As the immigration and Islam debate rages through Germany after chancellor Angela Merkel proclaimed the failure of multiculturalism, the German president defused the situation on his visit to Turkey by affirming that immigrants have a positive influence on German society.
Updates from the US:
With the DREAM Act on hold, students across the country continue organized efforts to “come out” as illegal, as this poignant NY Times story tells.
Nearly one in five Americans are either immigrants or were born in the United States to at least one parent from abroad, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce seeks support from colleagues to revise the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to restrict automatic U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday a 17% drop in Border Patrol arrests this year shows heightened enforcement is slowing illegal immigration.
…and the circus continues in the run-up to the Nov. 2 midterm elections, as candidates across the political spectrum have found one common enemy: foreigners. In political commercials around the country, candidates are sounding a nativist tone and castigating their opponents as supporters illegal immigrants.
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ORIGINAL DESIGN Podcast
By Stephanie Renee Cluff
Imagine how it would feel to go into labour confident that it's going to be a calm and beautiful process. Your mind is clear. Your heart is filled with faith. You're expectant and joyful. But how do you get to that place? The ORIGINAL DESIGN™ podcast is your roadmap. Expand your belief in your ability to birth by listening to uplifting birth stories from women in Australia and around the world. Learn more: ourlifeblood.com
My Husband's View ft. James Cluff
ORIGINAL DESIGN Podcast • By Stephanie Renee Cluff • Aug 18, 2019
Experience the Impossible
So...what would happen if you didn't push? You know? In the last part of labour...to get your baby out. What if you didn't push? Astonishingly, some women never get the chance to push because... Something. Happens. First. The most AMAZING thing can happen in birth—the 'Fetal Ejection Reflex'. Have you ever hear stories where the mother says, "...and my baby just propelled out of me". Yep. That propulsion is the "Fetal Ejection Reflex" and it is POWERFUL! But it only happens if the circumstances are exactly right. What would it be like if every women experienced the sheer power of giving birth like this? In this episode, experienced midwife Teresa Walsh talks about a #homebirth where the birthing mother experienced this ejection reflex. This article by Evidence Based Birth says, "In some un-medicated births, the active pushing phase may be more accurately described as the fetal ejection reflex—where the mother waits for her baby to descend and then her body expels the baby with little or no conscious effort. Mothers sometimes describe this as 'I wasn’t pushing, my baby was just coming out!'" In an article Do Not Disturb: The Importance of Privacy in Labor in The Perinatal Education Journal, it says: "We, like other mammals, need to feel both safe and protected to give birth easily. If we do not feel safe and protected in early labor, catecholamine levels rise and labor shuts down. Odent describes the fetal-ejection reflex in women (Odent, 1987, 1992). During the second stage of labor, if the hormone orchestration of normal labor has been altered (e.g., by the use of pitocin or epidural analgesia), the fetal-ejection reflex does not occur. Women choose to give birth in hospitals because they believe it is “safer” than birth outside the hospital. In fact, laboring and giving birth in most hospitals create a set of physiologic responses that actually occur when we feel unsafe and unprotected. In the typical hospital environment, women are disturbed at every turn—with machines, intrusions, strangers, and a pervasive lack of privacy. The shadow of “things going terribly wrong at any moment” follows women from one contraction to another. Together, these fears contribute in powerful ways to the release of stress hormones, moving women into an attitude of physiologic fight or flight. On an intellectual level, a woman may believe that the hospital is a safe, protected environment, but her body reacts quite differently. No matter what her head says, her body gets the message loud and clear. Her body responds on a primal, intuitive level, kicking automatically into fight-or-flight mode and dramatically altering the process of labor and birth. In choosing modern medical “safety,” women are stressed physiologically, which makes labor and birth more difficult. The lack of attention to women's inherent need to not be disturbed in the typical hospital environment has set the stage for a [high] cesarean rate, the routine use of epidurals in labor, the high rates of augmentation of labor, and the high incidence of instrument deliveries..." If we can keep birth undisturbed, then more women can experience the joy and sheer power of giving birth this way. I hope you enjoy this short and mighty episode! Much love, Steph
The Supernatural Power of Childbirth
Welcome, to a series of conversations with birth professionals. These short and mighty interviews are full of inspiration. Learn from people who've dedicated their whole lives to supporting women through the powerful transition of childbirth. These astonishing people understand the physiological birth process and have supported hundreds of women to give birth. In this episode, I chat with Teresa Walsh one of the Director's of New Life Midwifery in Australia. New Life Midwifery is a private midwifery practice providing family-centered pregnancy, birth, and postnatal services. Teresa met with James and me for our initial consultation back in 2016 when we were pregnant with my first baby, Willow. Teresa was also present at my first birth (as the secondary midwife). It gives me shivers to think about the greatness of this woman. It's not an exaggeration to say that she is one of Australia's most qualified and experienced birth professionals. She's attended hundreds of births, lots of home births, she's worked in hospitals in the UK and Australia, she does advocacy work with parliament, she meets with women (though her caseload is smaller these days), Teresa mentors student midwives, and so generously and easily made time to sit with me for two and a half hours to chat. She is incredibly humble. In her words, she says that "being 'with women' as a midwife has been her privilege and honour for many years". To read the full transcript go to: https://ourlifeblood.com/journal/. :) Much love Steph
This week I am glad, honoured, stoked, happy to be hosting my delightful HUSBAND! In this episode (the last for Season One) we cover: The most challenging part of labour from his perspective The role of the protector in labour and birth 'Sending love' to your wife Living with humility (and how humility impacts birth) Why he loved having a private midwife present for the births Encouragement for husbands I hope you thoroughly enjoy these words. Much love Steph
VBAC Body-Healing Birth ft. Bek Shelling
This week's birth story is powerful! Bek shares how her body was miraculously realigned and healed by God through the birth of her second child. In this episode we cover: Her VBAC experience Receiving promises from God for your birth Quick healing after birth Thoughts on postpartum care Products she loves "Don't stress" Bek is a good friend and high caliber mother and friend. She is kind and honest. Her and her husband, Jay, prioritise their family as the bedrock of their lives and it's wonderful to watch and learn from.
Home Water Birth ft. Stephanie Renee Cluff
If you're wanting a calm birth, a home birth, a water birth...this is the episode for you! In this episode we talk about: home birth into water exercises to for comfort in pregnancy labour, TENS Machine, making noise, transition birth, no tearing, water birth, vernix postpartum, resting, bleeding, food best products, advice for postpartum It was Winter. Cold. Dark. And this is my (Stephanie) story of River's birth. He is my second child and only son, born on 9 April 2019. He was 4kg and covered in vernix. A total dream, I had the most wonderful journey. Let's dive in! And for more, follow me on Instagram (@ourlifeblood). DM via Instagram with questions you might have. Much love, Steph
Shower Free Birth ft. Jessica Morley
A fascinating chat with Jess. Based in Thailand, she gave birth to her fifth child, Harrison, in the shower of her Thailand home alongside her husband Chris. Aided by the Holy Spirit, and trusting deeply in the natural process of birth, she experienced peace and joy with her birth. She reports that it was an intense experience but she wouldn't call it painful. A beautiful way to welcome her child into the world, she speaks of how grateful she was for the birth. She also shares her advice for postpartum and encouraged new mamas to allow others to help them. A wonderful episode and not to be missed!
Loft Free Birth ft. Laura Horn
Interviewed Laura, an Ohio based mother of four who had her last birth at home in her loft. A wonderfully empowering story about trusting the process of birth. Listen and be inspired to birth without fear.
Living-Room Free Birth ft. Dani Avery
What a woman! Dani shares candidly and with wisdom about the calm, peaceful and QUICK birth of her third child (and first daughter), River. In this episode Dani talks about: her holistic parenting approach, her hospital experiences with her first two boys (powerful births too!), what she did to combat fear throughout her pregnancies, her favourite fear-busting scriptures, and lots more! This episode will be life-changing, if you let it. Allow her faith and calm knowing to infuse into your spirit. An hour of pure listening bliss!
Hospital Water Birth ft. Ally Paterson
This podcast is so uplifting! Calm, relaxed and grounded, Ally talks about her natural water birth in hospital. Q: "What were you believing for you birth?" A: "My prayers are always 'safe and free of complications' and that's what I was expecting. I was also really hoping for painless, but I definitely got a safe and a birth completely free of complications. That's what I expect every time and that's what I have in my mind is going to happen. Having a still mind definitely helps." Enjoy!
Blissful Home Birth ft. Ashlee Wilson
This podcast is so glorious. We recorded it in my study, sitting on the carpet, both heavily pregnant and sipping tea. Ashlee talks candily about the home birth of her first child. Roaring. Resting. Swaying. Cackling. It's all there! Ashlee's gentle spirit is so nourishing throughout this recording. Listen and be filled with encouragement!
Cozy Home Birth ft. Stephanie Renee Cluff
In this episode, I talk about my home birth with Willow (my first daughter). Our conception journey The day of the birth / birth prep Rock Bottoms (and the breakthrough that comes afterwards) Why I love baby carrying and lots more! Listen to be inspired that you can have the birth you desire. Willow was 4.7kgs and oh so healthy. If I can birth at home, then you can as well! Learn more at https://ourlifeblood.com/journal
Peaceful Water Birth ft. Chloe Bowles
In this episode, Chloe Bowles shares the story of her beautiful first birth with Mirabelle. She gave birth in water in a hospital birthing suite alongside her husband, Caleb and her midwife. It total, the experience was just under 5 hours long. This powerful testimony sheds light on how to believe—and continue to believe throughout labour. A beautiful and profound story that's filled with faith!
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Avoiding the Subject: Reflections on life without Parkinson's Disease.
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Curtains For Suky
Posted on January 18, 2012 by andy daly
for children under the age of 12, unless accompanied by a parent or Guardian
Junior Science teachers ( a minimum of 2 years experience)
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Meeting Suky
Once upon a time, before the invention of colour, I found myself in an English lesson. It wasn’t any old English lesson, oh no. It was my first English lesson at my new middle school: the monument to knowledge, learning and betterment of the Human Soul that was St. Wilfred’s Catholic Comprehensive Co- Educational Middle School, Rochdale. As I recall, a largely grim place which bore more than a passing resemblance to that which features in Ken Loach’s iconic 1969 film ‘Kes’. His version of the Barry Hines story ‘Kestrel for a Knave’. Honestly if you want a fairly accurate picture of what life was like in a run of the mill secondary school in the industrial North of England: all its banalities, injustices, absurdities and gallows humour, you need look no further than Casper’s school. In particular, the masterpiece that is the PE lesson and the Headmaster’s Office sequence (Go on have a look. For those of you who have no idea what the hell I’m talking about, click below for a vintage piece of social commentary in film) I can remember numerous lessons – not just PE, which were as surreal and farcical.
However, its significance was in more than just the marking of another new phase in my life. I admit, I suppose the fact that this notable lesson was being taught by a professional wrestler was something that doesn’t happen every day. (‘Taught’ insomuch as he gave us the books, set the task, remained with us the whole lesson and repeatedly told us to ‘Shut Up’) Mr. Green as I recall; though I daresay that wasn’t his ‘ring name’ I reckon it was something like ‘Greedy Guts Green: the Grappling Greaser’. He had shoulder-length lank, dark hair and great sideburns like strips of airport runway tarmac that very nearly met under his chin and a huge paunch on top of which you could comfortably park a decent sized family car. A monicker that would have been suitably in keeping with his hirsute style, far from athletic frame and the kind of bizarre, yet strangely compelling spectacle that was British ‘Professional’ wrestling in the 1970s.
No. Despite being an interesting footnote to my education in English, the lesson’s significance did not lie with Greedy Guts or plain Mr.Green nor indeed, how he chose to earn his pocket money.
It was significant because this was the first time I met Suky.
Suky was (and hopefully still is) Edmund Giddins, loveable rogue, tearaway and ne’r do well of Castleton near Rochdale. Not that I ever – not once, called him ‘Edmund’ or ‘Nez’,’ Ed’or ‘Giddy’ In fact I can recall times where I had trouble remembering exactly what his real name was. No, the strange nickname was down to elder brother Robert’s teasing, singing the nursery rhyme ‘Polly Put The Kettle On. The line ‘Suky Take It Off Again’ seemed to stick, and Suky it was.
We were pals straight away and every chance we got to sit together, we did. Suky was alright. Not least because he was PNE. That means he was a supporter of Preston North End. Living in Rochdale, that took some bottle, particularly as he was so passionate about them. It wasn’t something he hid: quite the opposite. He tattooed the back of his hands during another English lesson. I remember watching him do it, ‘convict style’ with a compass and a fountain pen ink cartridge. ‘PNE’ across his knuckles. I admired this aspect of his character. The only other PNE supporter in Rochdale I knew of was my Dad, who although he didn’t tattoo their name across his knuckles, was passionate in his own way when he talked wistfully of his times at Deepdale watching the great Tom Finney.
Suky had eight brothers: Frank, John, Robert, Chris (who I was to get to know some years later, in of all places, Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was doing teacher training) Anthony or ‘Ants’ as he was known, Michael, Richard, Patrick and three sisters: Anne, Shiela and Pauline. Chris and ‘Ants’ were the only ones I knew. My Best Mate Aky lived nearby and bunked off with ‘The Giddins’ – or at least Suky, Chris and ‘Ants’ – closest to him in age, on a fairly regular basis.
And ‘The Giddins’ is how they were known. A collective entity. Mad on Bowie, Velvets, Lou Reed, Roxy. Not so mad on school, authority, being told what to do. There were times when they bunked so much, people thought they were on part time timetables. Suky wasn’t a bad lad. He was bright but lazy, enjoyed having a laugh, was fearless – every time some hairbrained scheme or other was hatched requiring someone with a bit of moxie to front it, Suky was there. He was always in trouble: increasingly so as he got older; but nothing major, nothing nasty. He gave the impression he just didn’t care – and he didn’t about a lot of things: but he never would have hurt anyone.
Two memorable lessons (for all the wrong reasons)
Both incidents take place at the Bishop Henshaw Memorial R C High School, Shaw Road, Rochdale. Don’t look for it, it’s no longer there. It is now St. Cuthbert’s. I attended for two years: 4th and 5th year (Years 10 and 11 in today’s money)
Anyway, it is three years later and it just so happens that me and Suky are sitting together, funnily enough, in our first Geography lesson at our new high school, the aforementioned Bishop Henshaw – or ‘Benshaws’ as it was known. Despite it being our very first lesson of the year our teacher was absent (not a good sign) and so we were being looked after by the Head of Department, the ‘hilarious’ Mr. Broadgland. He was playing the ‘Introductions’ Game. Go round the room one table at a time and get everyone to say who they are, which school they have come from, why they have chosen Geography and who they fancy for the 3:30 at Chepstow. Anyway, he finally casts his piggy little eyes in our direction. I am dreading this, but he starts with Suky – “Now, don’t tell me … You’re a Giddins aren’t you?”
“Yes Sir” says Suky
“Aaaahhhh. See? I can smell ‘em a mile off” Chortled Mr Broadgland to himself.
“Yeah, but at least I don’t smell of shit like you, you cunt” said Suky under his breath, smarting (as I did on his behalf too) at the uncalled for verbal assault by Broadgland.
“What’s that lad?”
“Oh I was just saying I hoped I’d be able to sit nearer the front Sir”
“Pleased to hear it Giddins, my lad, pleased to hear it. Next week”
“Fuck you, you knob” muttered Suky
“Sorry? …. “
“I said just the job …”
What an outrageous thing to say. Thirty five years later I can still see, as though it were yesterday, Suky colour up, bite his lip, breath quicken and blink rate increase as his eyes begin to prick and sting …. .
The second episode is – surprise, surprise! Another Geography lesson, six months down the line. It turns out that our Geography teacher, second in command in Broadgland’s little empire, is ‘up the duff’ or ‘with child’ so not only have we not seen her since we started at the school, we’ve had cover teacher after cover teacher after supply after cover teacher and its a load of crap and we’re all sick of Broadgland’s photocopied sheets. In fact, we never do see her,ever, because after giving birth, she decides to give up teaching to be a full time Mum! Excellent! Another year of photocopies we’ve actually already done and cover teachers,supply teachers, cover teachers …
… Like this one. Dr. Joy. Bastard. He was a Physics teacher of bad hair and humour. Today, he had our lesson. The inevitable photocopies came round, we said we’d already done them. He said we hadn’t, we said WE HAD: TWICE, he said there must be a good reason for us doing them again and not only that, but we would do them in SILENCE! (Shouted) – a common teacher’s trick. Lull your class into a false sense of security, with a gentle calm voice … then make them all jump when for no apparent reason, YOU SHOUT THE LAST BIT OF YOUR SENTENCE OUT AS LOUD AS YOU CAN! Great fun.
Anyway, there’s no chance me and Suky are going to pass up the opportunity of a good natter – probably about music, which by this time, we were both heavily into. Joy obviously knew we were talking, he kept looking up and giving us the ‘I know you two are talking, and so I’m going to keep doing this till I catch the pair of you’ look. Well me and Suky are quite adept thank you very much at holding surruptitious conversations. I mean, we’d had lots of chance to practice. But what this sneaky bastard does is quietly slip out of his seat, work his way around the room, coming up behind as we chunter away. He’s brought with him ‘Scrote’s Elementary Physics’ a sizeable hardbacked tome, which he brings down with full force, on first my noggin, then Suky’s. To add insult to injury, he gives us a post lesson ‘stern talking to’ and asks us each do an essay for the following morning on ‘Truth’ ‘Why it’s important not to lie’ or some bobbins like that. Bastard! …. Anyway, I thought as he sent us away, We didn’t tell any lies: we were talking; you caught us.Then you hit us over the head with the fucking Domesday Book.
I saw Suky the following morning.“Essay? “ He looked unconcerned. “Nah, he can stick it up his arse. I’m not writing any essays. He won’t bloody check “ He didn’t, Joy never bloody did. My Dad was Head of the Sixth Form at the school, and I didn’t want tales of my misdemeanors finding their way back and embarrassing him. So my earnest, crappy little ‘essay’ was dutifully handed in at the staffroom door. It probably went straight into the bin. (As kids, staffrooms seemed to suggest a fiercely guarded garden of delights. When I became a teacher, I discovered that all that was fiercely guarded were the few minutes calm in a sea of lunacy …there was no garden of delights. Not even, despite the many plant pots and yoghurt containers anything remotely green and living – except in the fridge – the squalor! …)
The Tale of Suky and the fireproof curtains
Now then, in a grim, colourless and unstimulating environment, Science labs were an Alladin’s cave of wonders just crying out to be stolen, broken, fucked about with, and used for entirely the wrong purpose.The corridors and stairwells where we had to ‘line up’ for Science lessons had fire extiguishers at approriate intervals on their walls. It was considered highly amusing, around this time to read out to those around you for their health and safety, the instructions for operational use of these vital pieces of equipment.
Remove from the wall
Keep upright
Aim at the base of the fire
Strike knob
At which point, some unfortunate of the male persuasion and not party to what was coming next, would be the recipient of a barrage of thumps into the goolies which would serve to make his eyeballs spin, like washing machine drums in different directions, stream stinging tears and be enough to raise the pitch of his voice by two octaves. Little did we know that today they would be called into action. (And at least one of them found wanting)
Like many school Science departments, the rooms were collected around a central resource space with connecting doors to the classrooms. we entered the classroom and sat down. Suky was in the other class. After a few minutes I felt sure I heard a faint scream, from the class next door. Then lots of subdued shouts, calls and a couple of bouts of hysterical laughter. The noise was getting louder!
Suky had decided to appoint himself Chief Fire Officer for the day and number one on the list of checks he had chosen to to perform was over the effectiveness of the flame retardancy of the safety curtains. All Suky had to do was open the gas tap and torch the nearest curtain at the same time. The rest of the class, sensing something was ‘afoot’ began to sidle over to Suky’s side of the room, eyes on the curtains.
And they weren’t disappointed as much to their glee minimal contact between flame and fabric, and they went up like the Hindenberg. One of the white-coated Science technicians burst through the connecting door, into our classroom, from where, she amost bounced up to Mr. Viscsak our teacher and began whispering frantically.
A loud “Ooooooooohhhhhh!” from next door. It seems like another curtain had gone up. It was like bloody Bonfire Night!
We weren’t aware of it at the time, but it transpires that poor old Suky is in double trouble. For as we strain our necks to watch the flaming tatters of the ‘fire- proof’ curtains peel away and fall with a kind of ghostly grace, they do so onto neatly stacked piles of unmarked Science exam papers! Arkward.
“Now that’s enough!” Said Mr. Viscsak, as he strode purposefully next door to sort out the whole flaming mess. We were out of our seats peering into next door’s room for a better view. Suky was dragged off for questionning The whole school was abuzz with his exploits at lunchtime.
What’s all this about the curtains in the Science lab?
‘Fireproof’
‘Huuuuhh?’
‘Fireproof, flame retardant. I think they have to have them in case of fire.’
‘Well, they had a case of fire today, and they were fucking useless’
Later that same afternoon, Suky was grilled by Headmaster, Mr. O’Riordan . His defence that he wanted to check and confirm that the curtains met minimum BS standards was found to be untenable. Suky was sent home the afternoon of his misdemeanor, to come back again the following morning, to then be taken out of his lessons all day, returned to his science classroom at the end of the school and held there for an hour’s detention. That was just for starters. I think the Science department wanted its pound of flesh for those damaged exam scripts.
With a clarity that is admirable, Suky said “This is bollocks”, went home that afternoon never to return!
Let me explain. All this nonsense took place about four weeks before the end of the summer term of Suky’s third year. the summer holidays followed, then …a new school! …. Bishop Henshaw! Suky confided in My Best Mate Aky. What was he going to do? They were going to crucify him at school. Aky put his thinking cap on. Master-tactician and strategist even at the age of 13, Aky considered the whole picture. There was a fair chance, he reasoned, that if Suky ‘laid low’ till the end of term, then a new start in a new school? who knows? It might all blow over. It was a calculated risk. But one that Suky was prepared to take. My Best Mate Aky concerned that Suky’s immediate future and peace of mind rested on his ‘long shot’ agreed to accompany him. So the two of them bunked off the whole of the following month.
And what do you think? It bloody well worked! Suky ‘re-surfaced’ anew at Bishop Henshaw, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, so to speak, having escaped the wrath of Headmaster O’ Riordan and St. Wilfred’s Science department. Now you can see why idiot Broadgland’s stupid remarks struck a raw nerve.
So there you go. That’s the story of Suky and the unsafe safety curtains. I last saw Suky in The Flying Horse 1977, before I moved away from Rochdale. But I gather that he still lives in the area with his family. Thanks Suky for a great story and just mind how you go with the barbecue.
© Andy Daly 2010
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Robert Giddins on December 14, 2011 at 6:40 pm said:
A good read – I went to Bishop Henshaw and indeed am Robert Giddins. You said early on how you didn’t know why he was called Suky – well I do as I gave him that name. It came about years earlier when I. as an elder brother was doing things to annoy him. It transpired during this ‘exercise’ that one could call Edmund anything and he went wild (he was probably 9 or 10 at the time. Suky was just one of ,many names he was called in a short-lived burst of sibling sadism. It is the Suky of ‘Polly put the Kettle on’ fame – the one who took it off. So there you have it……..now you know. Thanks for the story.
andy daly on December 23, 2011 at 3:42 pm said:
Apologies for not replying sooner, but I am recovering from an operation to help control the Parkinson’s. Very slow as a result. Will correct and reply properly as soon as I can.
Finally…. I’m sorry it has taken so long. How did you find the story? I’ve long since given up trying to ‘promote’ the blog (If you can call it that) Whatever, I’m pleased you did, and have solved a 40 year old mystery for me. So that was it! Suky take it off again … Well, I’ll be. I’ve very fond memories of Suky – of course I always knew him as Edmund as well, but its true that all the time I knew him I only ever reffered to him as Suky. It just seemed to stick with me. In fact, come the ‘Friends ReUnited and Facebook era, there have been many times I’ve mentioned him only to get the reply ‘Who?’ ‘But as soon as I try Edmund, they cotton on.
I re-read it the other day. It needs a bit of tidying up: its not my best, and there’s a fair bit embroidery here and there, but it’s all basically true!
Sheila dawson on December 15, 2011 at 8:33 am said:
very amusing. I am Sheila Giddins of the Giddins family. Just need to correct a factual error. Edmund (I have never once called him or referred to him as Suky..theres those that can and those that can’t). has 8 brothers..you missed off Patrick.I agree about Doc Joy-horrible. Did A level physics for 1 week and then left it to do Biology because of him.
grace on November 2, 2014 at 11:01 pm said:
If this is the same Dr Joy who also taught physics at St Theodore’s RC High School in Burnley, I think you’ve nailed him! He once hit me for “looking through” him. I was 11.
I guess he was embittered by slumming it with his doctorate in state schools. It’s a good story! Take care.
andy daly on November 3, 2014 at 12:35 pm said:
Could be… He hit you because you looked through him? If they only knew, some teachers how they scarred us for life!
Sheila on July 5, 2015 at 4:39 pm said:
Came across this story by chance, Suky is married to my step sister Ruth. Not seen them in years. fond memories of them and their family.
Mike Farrell on February 17, 2016 at 11:24 pm said:
Loved reading this. Fond memories of all the Giddins family though I don’t think I ever met Chris. Are you sure the head’s name is right ? Bishop HEnshaws was Mr Kelly, St Wilfrids was Mr O’ Loughlin
Greg on November 2, 2017 at 12:35 am said:
Frank Kelly…”bags of shoulders, walk on the left” or the ever productive. ..,”you boy”.
Paul Mullins on February 22, 2018 at 4:30 pm said:
Kelly made my life a misery at Wilfred’s from 66-70
andy daly on February 18, 2016 at 9:23 am said:
Yes, its a Sudon… Psuod… Pysdon…a false name, O’ Roirdan.
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Kim on September 30, 2016 at 10:26 pm said:
This is strange, I knew the family too. Demoralising the supply teachers, the lack of enthusiasm for teaching and the frustration. Strange to find an article. Some people are lucky with their education, sadly we weren’t. Mr Stamp was a fabulous art teacher, sadly others not.
andy daly on October 3, 2016 at 12:12 pm said:
So did you live in Castleton?
Kim on October 30, 2016 at 7:24 pm said:
Yes, Hillcrest Rd, grandmother and grandfather had a shop in Partington Street, on the corner the far end of the road. Kim and Deb Biggins, twins, now 52. We attended school at the old then new St Gabriels schools. Sorry Andy, forgot to look at reply.
Greg Bussy on November 2, 2017 at 12:33 am said:
Hi, enjoyed reading all this. I had the pleasure of shaw Road for couple of yeas before I headed to Greenhill.
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