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Cinderella And Her Four Knights - Episode 6 (A SqueeCap)
Shuk: Things are getting more twisty and complicated, but really, all I'm waiting for is the relationships to start straightening themselves out. And a PA Lee brooding shower scene. Actually, maybe all I'm looking for is a PA Lee brooding shower scene.
Drama Noona: Ditto, that's pretty much all I'm looking forward too. Really let's have a show with PA Lee as the star!
Kmuse: I would be OK with all the guys having a good shower brood. You can never have too many angsty shower scenes.
Trotwood: The hope of a broody shower scene is pretty much the only thing getting me through at this point. And my devotion to this team. We will get through this I promise.
JoAnne: Shower scene, plus I want Ibeol and Rabbit to get together. She's adorable.
Jaehyus: yes, all of that. PA Lee and Ibeol are why I'm here.
Yes! Ibeol and Rabbit absolutely need to end up together!
The Continuity Fairy
Preparations are going apace in the temple. Pictures, memorial tablets food, everything is efficiently laid out.
But The Continuity Fairy apparently was taking a potty break at the beginning of the episode. Previously it was Cindy alone as Gramps, Maleficent, and PA Lee trudged up all those steps. But somehow, PA Lee is now standing beside her, next to Gramp's vehicle.
Seriously, I think the temple is super high up, and we were at different levels of the temple. You know how Dante's Inferno has different levels?
Makes you wonder what they were doing with all their pre-production time when they have huge issues like this.
I feel like this is something they were too close to and couldn't see properly. You know how you obsess while editing paragraphs and fix each piece just so and completely fail to realize that you left out key information because it's so obvious to you? Continuity is more like she starts a scene in one outfit and ends in another, but this is piecing things together without considering the whole.
Together they wait. The car is a snazzy silver number, and Ibeol's mom pops out in lots of frills and black tulle. She exchanges a few words with the "uptight" PA, then notices Cindy. She formally introduces herself to the older woman, who recognizes her name as "Hyun-min's fiancee". Where is Ibeol?
I'm still a fan of Ibeol's mom, she's cute and fun and it makes me happy that he has someone who cares for him so deeply.
Yay! A healthy parent/son relationship.
I can't decide if I like her or not. I mean I don't know if she just seems good because the other mom is so horrid. She is nice to her boy, but I'm not sure he's getting the parenting he needs or deserves from her either.
I don't consider it a healthy relationship. She was very childlike and I get the feeling that she depended on him when there wasn't a man her own age around.
Ibeol is an adult. He doesn't need mum parenting him. I did think he could've set time aside for her visit, though. And I don't understand why neither of these mothers live in SK.
Anyone else want to stroke his knee?
He is in the recording studio, creating a plot filler new song recording. For a minute there, I thought "plot filler new song" was an actual thing, and then I thought, nah, can't be, and then I realized oh, yes, we just got it. He soulfully sings as we see a montage of Cindy talking to all the Kang Cats, in situations where Ibeol would have never ever heard the conversations. Somehow this is relevant, though, because as soon as he finishes the recording, he bolts out of the booth.
Because he realizes (as they all do) that she is right. he really does want to sing for his dead father! (Sigh.trying not to roll my eyes because I do like his character)
Logic is unwanted here!
Ibeol is going to have great song material once his heart is broken. A little bit of a Taylor Swiftesque silver lining.
Will 2017 be the year Kanye shows up in a drama?
I don't like Ibeol's music.
At the temple, there's a new vehicle. It's DuckMom! Her black outfit is almost purple. IbeolMom points out her crow's feet, which, HAAH!
*snicker*
We get a flashback when DuckMom abandons her little boy, warning him to stay and protect his position within the family. She gave him a fierce hug, then threw him to the ground and walked away, leaving him crying after her. WTF?
And what is this supposed to show us? Am I supposed to see that she really loves him and abandons him out of some weird noble idiocy? Or am I supposed to think she's just an evil harpy?
I thought I couldn't hate a parent more than I hate Cindy's dad. But wow, this mom is a nasty piece of work and deserves lots of terrible things. How could you leave your grieving, frightened, terrified little boy? Seriously ugh, she is the worst sort of person.
So many bad parents, so little time to create life long parental baggage.
I'd like to know why she couldn't stay. It was clearly very difficult for her to go.
Turns out it's not a flashback, but a nightmare Ducky was having. He drags himself to the sofa for a glass of water. He's surprised by Mrs B and Mrs B vacuum in hand, is surprised to find him there. She mumbles about what a heartless guy he is not to have gone to see his father, and does he know about Ha Won agasshi's situation? That perks his ears up, and he wonders what Cindy has to do with the whole mess. Before she can close the door and leave, he pushes it open and demands the info.
I love that Mrs. B can't help herself but to mumble just the right things to get the Kang Cats to do what she wants.
Mrs. B is the best kind of meddler.
I still want to know why they gave her that hair.
It's modern-day court lady hair.
Is this another flashback? Is all of this a backwards time skip? I don't know, since the Continuity Fairy must be taking a dump and reading the newspaper. We now are in a scene where Cindy and Mrs B are happily prepping the food for the memorial service. We find out that Cindy had never performed a memorial for her mom, since StepBiatch didn't like it. But she would at least visit every year on the death anniversary. Mrs B and Cindy chatted about the Kang Cat's terrible manners, Cindy's great pancake-making skills, and the fact that they both expect everyone to show up at the temple.
Those pancakes looked delicious. My mouth was watering watching them cook.
I would think Cindy would at least do a small memorial, even if it is in her closet. She doesn't seem the type to ignore her mother's death anniversary.
And now, back to current time, we have the DuckyCar heading out – yay! Just in time, too. Cindy is sad that none of them have shown up for the service. PA Lee says it's too soon to throw in the towel.
Sigh. Swoon. Lovely PA Lee. Can you give a hug of solace maybe?
Good ol' PA Lee making sure to keep Cindy's spirits up!
Idol Van Alert! Ibeol and his coordi pull into the parking area. Ibeol and Cindy exchange friendly grins and waves. For a moment, he looks sad that he is the only cousin to show up. Such an expressive nose. Just then, DuckyCar pulls in, and we are 67% there! Cindy's smile gets wider; PA Lee hasn't shown any teeth, but it's clear he's happy for her.
His eyes can turn on the warmth.
By the power of PA Lee's eyes, I undress thee!
By your powers, here's your Precious. PA Lee is busy with me. ^^
Ducky is looking anywhere but her. He asks if they were waiting for him, and finally focuses on her when she answers in the affirmative. But it's not her that's waiting, but everyone, breathing and not breathing, up those stairs. He gives a ghost of a smile and the two boys head up the steps.
The birds chirp, the branches sway, but no other vehicles or men appear. Looks like we have a failed mission.
Does this mean she gets kicked out? The missions are a stupid plot device.
Yes, they are. Unless we look at her as a contract employee going from job to job within the same company. But the word "mission" is irritating here. Just say, here, the goal is to make these young men into a family, and each assignment is a separate contract.
We must have been in live-shoot by now with these post-production gaffs. Cindy walks up the steps alone as PA Lee turns invisible. She bows to the suddenly-appearing-out-of-nowhere Gramps, and apologizes for her failure. (This is the final scene of last episode). He says nothing but sighs and walks up the steps again, leaving her and the suddenly-reappearing PA Lee on the second tier of steps. Pa Lee thought it would be a miracle for Emo to show up, but a miracle was what Cindy expected. She was successful, though, even if it wasn't complete. She heads back down the steps, alone.
Again, logic (or continuity) has no place here!
Gramps takes his place in the row of people before the altar; PA Lee stands outside the temple and watches. The ceremony begins. IbeolMom is crying, but almost everyone else is calm. Outside, a monk greets PA Less and chats. He's happy that all the Chairman's sons have seen their children this year. PA Lee is puzzled…everyone? The friendly monk points out a dried up white rose placed in front of Emo's dad's photograph. Ah hah! He did show up after all!
This is very in character for Emo, he can't show up when everyone else is there, it would be a hamper to his brooding.
He needs to embrace the emo and channel a full goth look. I might like Emo better with a thick layer of guyliner.
Now this is something I can't unsee and something that I didn't realize I wanted.
After the ceremony, everyone sits down for a meal notable for its almost physical awkwardness. DuckMom spits out a few ingratiatingly flowery phrases about her new and refined stepmother-in-law. Maleficent smile-sneers how nice it is that after allll this time, she finally shows up for the service. From DuckMom's point of view, it's natural that she would show up, as the mother of the family heir, you know, the only one completely raised at Sky House.
Ugh Duck Mom has no place to call herself a mother, she abandoned her child!
She sucks.
She uses the moment to campaign for her son, but Mal has something to say about that. So does IbeolMom. So does Gramps, who finally puts her in her place by saying he would never put an under-qualified person in charge of the company, even if he has to search for any byblows her husband might have seeded. Whups, there are potential illegitimate heirs?
Then why hasn't Gramps found them? I mean he's so about finding an heir, wouldn't he have gathered everyone, legitimate or not?
Aren't we assuming that he has? Emo has always presented as an illegitimate son.
Ibeol is the son of an illegitimate son. And, Duck is totally unqualified for anything except shopping.
During the entire ceremony and meal, Cindy has only managed to walk across the parking compound. She looks back and sees now-strangely-parked Grampsmobile pick up its passengers and head out. Inside the vehicle, Gramps is sad Emo didn't show; Mal squeezes his hand, since at least he is enjoying the afterlife with his wife. He doesn't want to ever talk about the woman that caused his grandson to end up raising himself.
They should at least call an Uber for poor Cindy.
That's rather mean to Emo's mother.
PA Lee climbs into the driver's seat, and, for whatever reason, Mal lets go of Gramp's hand. She mentions how nice it would have been with Grandson #3. PA Lee alerts Gramps that Emo stopped by earlier in the day and did pay respects to his father.
TAKE THAT, MOM. How do you like THEM apples?
Emo car driving scene. Current? Flashback? Time skip? Does it matter in this episode?? (Is it going to matter ever again?) Anyway, he looks snazzy in a white turtleneck. Yep, flashback. He stopped by the columbarium to see his mother first, and noticed the wilted rose Cindy left in the niche. Somehow he knows it was that pesky shortie.(It's because it is a flower exactly like the big bunch she left in the space below for her mother) He spends time at the columbarium walking around until dark, thinking. So, err, this was the night before the service? It's sunny now, though, when we see him place Cindy's rose on the stand where his father's picture was displayed. So I'm guessing he spent the night in that dark, creepy columbarium with all those dead people, trying to decide if stopping by a pretty, bright temple was better than this…
Dark, creepy columbarium with dead people is the perfect place for brooding don't you know? Only place better would be a graveyard during the new moon under the cover of fog.
Emo can only psychoanalyze his true inner angst in creepy places. His fancy room doesn't fit the bill.
He does have that work room.
Maybe he needs to hang out in a different house.
At Sky House, Cindy is packing. Since she failed, it's time for her to vacate. She looks at the selfie stick and remembers the fake birthday before putting it away. She writes a teeny-tiny goodbye note and leaves it on a table in her bedroom, which, naturally blows off the table as soon as closes the door.
Because this always happens. I can't blame dramas though. Has anyone read Tess of the d'Urbervilles? Even Hardy pulled this crap. This is a 19th-century trope. (Hmm. another reason I've always hated Thomas Hardy)
Of course it does, there's no way it could stay where someone would see it. That wouldn't make sense.
You would think she would at least say goodbye in person to PA Lee and Mrs. B. if no one else.
Cindy has to be as noble and self-sacrificing as possible because she's annoying like that.
DuckMom is in DuckCar with Ducky. What happened to her wheels? All she can talk about is how all the other cousins know their 'place' and won't challenge him for the position of heir. Wow, Mom, no "how are you doing", no "you're looking good, trim those bangs"??
She isn't a real mom, she's a witch so no she wouldn't waste her breath on being kind to her son.
Ducky has also had enough of her one-sided obsession. She notices that they are not heading back to her hotel. Nope, says her son, he is taking her straight to the airport, and she should never come back to South Korea again.
I actually love this line and wish it was said by more sons in more dramas.
Good!!!
Don't let the car door hit you on the way out.
The StepWhatevers have made an appearance at Sky House. I weep for the lack of minimal security, even if it just keeps this sort of riffraff out. They blah blah jealous blah blah about the house. Mrs B meets them, and they greasy-talk their way in (I love her, but she ought to know better. She should be a housekeeping gatekeeper). Wherein, of course, they act like complete green-faced fangirling asses. AssMom heads for Cindy's room and bitches about how nice it is and how she doesn't deserve nice things. AssSis runs over to Ducky's room to fondle his belongings. She finds Cindy's school uniform and decides to completely destroy it.
I am so tired of these stupid peoples, can we just skip their parts? Also, where the hell is the security of this place? Any vagabond off the street can just waltz up to the front door?
They need a sign on the gate. "No Soliciting, No Proselytizing and No StepWhatevers".
Pfffft
ShukNote: I asked the TList for other words to describe the steps without using the word "ass". The winner from randomsoju: "villainous penisleeches".
Haha that is the best description!
It makes me picture random penii slowly snaking their way over a thigh, like blind snakes pulled along by some mysterious force. I'm thoroughly creeped out. Also, add one billboard and Sky House looks like a departure terminal.
This is not an image I needed first thing in the morning, Jo.
PA Lee comes upon the pair just as AssMom is tapping on Ducky's door to get trespassing, vandalizing daughter out of there. She can't talk her way out of it with him, and they end up forcibly removed by suddenly-appearing security. But only to outside the building. Why not off the property, Show?
All I can do is shake my head at this point.
The security is only paid to walk to the door, they can't go past or it will nullify their contract.
Don't you mean Ma Penisleech?
AssSis goes on the offensive, as if she wasn't offensive enough, by using social media to excoriate Cindy as a runaway mingling with the Kangs and doing [...] with them.
Surprised it took AssSis this long to go that route.
Miss Penisleech?
Cindy is oblivious to all of this. In fact, she is at the cafe, trying to beg Barista for a place to stay overnight before their graduation. But she lives at home and her house is tiny. The 'discussion' is interrupted by Fashion Girl stopping by. In short order, Cindy is heading over to Hye-ji's house to stay the night.
Yay, Hye-ji! I never thought I'd get to say that...
Is Fashion Girl happy about this? I don't know, but she seems friendly enough when she gives Cindy a tour of her place. Cindy does her usual snooping around and finds a photo of a young girl and two boys. Fashion Girl pulls it out of her hands, and tells her it's her between Ducky and her older brother, who died. Way to go, Ha-won.
The way people touch other people's things in this show--bad people and good people--makes me crazy. This bit of the story does show that Fashion Girl isn't always mopey. She could be nice, and they could be friends. I love how Cindy is so excited about spending the night with someone really. Sky House doesn't count.
What? Why would Cindy suddenly want to stay with Fashion Girl? And why would Fashion Girl suddenly say yes? I thought she wanted Cindy to disappear? So many questions with no answers.
Rabbit put Fashion Girl on the spot, and as Trot mentioned, Cindy would love to make friends.
And that photo made me understand Hye-ji's obsession, and really hate Duck.
Cindy mentions that Ducky doesn't look nearly as broody in the old photograph as he does now. Fashion Girl says he was bright and happy once, then slides the conversation over to Sky House and Cindy's relationship with its inhabitants. Our Tracksuit Princess is happy to finally clear the air about her fakey fiancee situation and her real status at the place. Fashion Girl is relieved, too, especially when she finds out Cindy is rooting for the two of them.
I was so thankful that she finally told her this. We (and Cindy) needed a respite from some of the misunderstanding.
Holy cow, finally we spend two seconds telling the truth! This wonderful clarity won't last long though.
Fashion Girl can now resume her usual stalking schedule with an untroubled heart.
I hate fake fiancee storylines.
The two of them are finally ready to sleep, and Cindy expresses gratitude for the comfortable sleeping arrangements the day before her graduation. Hye-ji wonders if her family will be there to celebrate; Ha-won isn't sure if they'll show. On impulse, Fashion Girl promises to be there for her. That gets her a gleeful Cin-hug. Later that night, though, Cindy sends a text to her father, asking if he will be there at the school tomorrow.
This man does not deserve to get such loyalty from Cindy. But this was nice of Fashion Girl. I mean, I don't know what she does with her time otherwise, but it is still a nice gesture.
Am I the only one who is confused by her sudden desire to be nice to Cindy?
Nope, it is so odd.
There have always been signs that she was intrigued by Cindy, and now that they've had a minute together where Ducky wasn't being a dick, she can see that Cindy is a nice girl. A nice girl who is very lonely. I think Fashion Girl would appreciate a friend...and a friend who is close to Stalker Prime Objective could be useful.
Amazing how so many people haven't had friends before Cindy came along.
At Sky House, PA Lee is knocking on Cindy's door, never realizing she isn't there. Maybe he ought to peek between the blinds? As he's knocking, Emo strolls by, and PA Lee takes the opportunity to thank him to going to the temple. He's sure it was Cindy's influence that got him there, and he asks Emo to comfort our girl, since she was upset that he didn't show. He mentions her graduation ceremony the next day. After the convo, Red heads back to his EmoCave to mull over PA Lee's words. Does it matter to him whether she graduates or not? He hugs a pillow and thinks.
Is the hugging pillow bit supposed to show he's progressing?
Should he have been hugging a tangle of thorns, you mean?
Early in the morning, Ducky barges into her room, but figures it's empty because she was already out and about. He snoops at her calendar, and suddenly realizes (a) her graduation is that day; and (b) he still had her uniform hostage. He hoofs it over to his bedroom and, to his horror, finds her StepAss-ruined clothes. Eottoke?!
Shop, that's what. It's what he's for.
The sidewalk is full of chattering teenagers in the exact same outfits, and one tracksuit being completely ignored. The behavior continues into the classroom, where AssSis makes sure Cindy is ostracized even more.
Something bad, publicly bad, needs to happen to her. They better not try to redeem this character at all.
I really hope that show gives AssSis her comeuppance! She is so evil and conniving and just cruel.
Karma needs to give her a swift kick.
Peeee nissss leeeeeeech. Miss. Miss Peeee nisssss leeech. I think you can call her Teeny Peeny, yeah? And Mom can be Ma Peen. Unless you guys think that Ducky should be Peen, and then Teeny becomes Miss Leech and Mom is back to Ma?
Eh, I just don't care. I skip her as much as possible anyway.
Finally Barista shows up, and they head to the auditorium together. And in another part of town, Ducky is high-ending an emergency purchase of a new school uniform. He tries to call her, but it flips to voicemail. He leaves her a note that he is on his way with her clothes.
See, he's in this show as the official shopper.
Ducky is driving through the streets with a couple of panel trucks. Fashion Girl picks up a cute bouquet of flowers. And finally, finally, Mrs B finds the good-bye note and contacts PA Lee. He wastes no time in telling Gramps; together they wonder where she might have gone.
StepAssSis spamming clickbait pops back up, implying that Cindy is Gramp's mistress. Everyone glances at her tracksuited self during the ceremony. (How anyone would believe this story while she is wearing her tracksuit to graduation makes me afraid. South Korean teenagers could not score in the top 10 of the international PISA test with such a lack of critical thinking skills. It must be just this school.) Afterwards, she takes few pictures with Barista. When her bestie heads to the side with her parents, Cindy wanders towards the hall entrance. StepAssMom is here!
I would think that a mistress of a bajillionaire would dress a bit better. Logic is obviously not AssSis's strong suit.
That whole thing was just gross. Wrinkly old grampabody and Park So Dam? NO way.
Honestly, it's amazing the things people will believe. And it just takes one negative thought to kill a positive view of someone.
Of course, the only words she shares are hurtful ones, ending up with a reiteration to never come back to the place she grew up. She squeals happily when she spots AssStepSis and forgets her other daughter completely.
AssMom is an ass, which I suppose is apparent in her title.
Yass.
Why was Cindy worried about her family showing up when her stepsis was graduating the same day?
Ibeol is being dolled up as a schoolboy for his shoot. As he posts a selca on IG, he sees a barrage of sasaeng comments about attacking "that girl" at her graduation. Right away he yells for his coordi and runs out the door.
He is such a great friend. Always there when needed.
Totally friend-zoned.
In the auditorium, a classmate tells Cindy that someone is looking for her. Outside the venue, Emo can't decide if he should go in or not. But he overhears some students talk about "capturing' Ha-won. At the same time, Ducky pulls up in DuckCar. The panel trucks open up to reveal snack shops. Ducky grabs a tiny bullhorn and offers treats as "Eun Ha-won's boyfriend". He heads inside to look for her.
But poor Cindy. She's in the soundproof recording studio (since when did high schools have these?), being held by a couple of mean girls while a couple of others snark at her. She's not even struggling. Where's your martial arts skills Cindy?
I hate that they have done this to her. Why even have her like that in the beginning if they are going to abandon half her personality especially since this is the personality that Ducky liked from the beginning and that Emo found so intriguing? To me, this is the biggest travesty to the narrative even more than the Continuity Fairy's bowel problems.
Seriously! Kick them? Throw them? Use those martial skills to beat their dumb mean girl asses! Ugh, Cindy isn't a weak, delicate flower. Why in the hell would she just let them hold her like that? She isn't even fighting back!
I hate that Cindy lost all her spunk.
Those penisleeches sucked it all out of her.
This happens in dramas, right, where a woman knows martial arts, but loses all skills when around cute guys?
Ducky and Emo are wandering different parts of the building, followed by a trail of fangirls. F4 / BoF homage as a cover of SHINee's "Stand By Me" is the BGM during the boy's stroll through the school. But go faster, guys! Mean Girl Overbite decides to cut off Cindy's clothes to see if she is "pure". Oh, and also to videotape it. Wow, I'm incredibly glad NOT to have gone to a South Korean high school.
Fight them Cindy!
Plenty of mean girl stuff going on here, but I (cough) I mean other people I know would have been rolling around on the floor injuring others at this point. Actually, it would've never gotten to this point at my high school. We would've taken care of this long ago. And we had to wear white dresses for our graduation--no one would've messed those up or thought to mess up someone else because we were not going to mess up our ceremony (somebody out would've messed up our military precision-like but lovely entrance).
We wore white under our robes, also. Guys wore white shirts and navy slacks, except this one guy we all called Fish (no part of his name was even close to that), he wore a tie-dye tee, cut off jeans, and bare feet. Fish went from 5'4 to 6'2 the summer between 7th and 8th grade and let his hair grow out into a blond froth of crazy that he never cut and probably rarely brushed throughout high school, and he never really got over any of it. I'm not certain that he had one day of high school that was not viewed through a haze of pot smoke, either. He was the mellowest creature you ever imagined.
He's probably a State Judge now.
Emo finally makes it to the right hall, as evidenced by the bored male students bullying each other. He takes them out in about 15 seconds, and busts in with Cindy still doing nothing to defend herself. The girls scatter, leaving her crumpled to the ground; her shoulder is ripped but her clothes are otherwise intact.
All hail the Emo White Knight.
Passing on the Hail because too disappointed. Cindy should've laid those girls low.
Emo gently lays his jacket over her shoulders and helps her up, leading her through the fallen boys. But the mean girls are back, and they've brought more penises with them. Emo readies himself for another fight when Ducky's voice rings out.
He's a lover, not a fighter. He wiggles the car keys in front of everyone, then throws them out the window. (I remember thinking that this was a very smart move for someone who can't fight) (and who can afford to lose his car.) All the guys run pell-mell towards the exit, leaving Overbite and a few girls. They slink off, tails between their legs. Cindy is relieved.
Where is the school staff? Where are the parents of these kids? Why are they allowed to wander the school halls?
Ibeol has finally showed up. Love the outfit! He warns everyone to let him know who the mean girls are, but they are all swimming in Ibeol-love and yell out denials. He then calls out for anyone who knows Eun Ha-won, and who pipes up? Barista! Together they run.
I'm glad that Barista and Ibeol have a moment together, her love for her Oppa is adorable.
This is one of the few times I think Barista came through in the friend department.
I like Barista Bunny. Her voice makes me laugh.
Fashion Girl has finally arrived. Upstairs, Ducky tosses Emo's jacket back at him and starts fussing over Cindy. Emo takes it as time for him to leave. Cindy tries to thank him but doesn't get the chance. They exchange looks, though. Ducky leads her to the studio to change.
And who gets the keys? Who who who? Why PA Lee, of course, who chases the youngsters away with his sheer hotness and style.
And we all know that he could've taken them all without messing up his suit. Sigh. (waving my brand new glitter sign!)
Go PA Lee!!
I have keys, PA Lee. Frisk me.
Cindy's happiness is restored, and she yells her thanks through the glass window of the production room, where Ducky is leaning against the soundboard with his back to her. Finally he turns around and pushes himself upright, not realizing he flipped the broadcast button on.
Because why not? This just flows right in with the rest of the logic.
Logic be damned.
Every television set in the school lights up with a perfectly-focused shot of Ducky and Cindy face to face. And everybody everywhere is watching.
Emo leaving bumps into Ibeol entering. He is embarrassed when his younger cousin asks if he came to the school specifically because of Cindy. His exodus is short-lived though, as the audio from the nearest monitor is heard.
I love how straightforward Ibeol is.
They cluster around the screen, and Fashion Girl finally makes an appearance, surprising Emo.
I told you that the clarity of Cindy telling Fashion Girl the truth would be short lived.
Oblivious to the goings-on outside their room, Cindy and Ducky are talking. She is adamant that she is not returning to Sky House, but he's not interested in that at all. Just one word: "Confession".
He admits that she is different from any other girl, and that his thoughts constantly come back to her. Emo takes one look at Fashion Girl's stricken face, and heads back to the A/V room.
Guess this means no more girly sleepovers for Cindy.
Meanwhile, Ducky is on a roll. He doesn't like her hanging out with guys, especially Emo. He enumerates his sterling qualities, and waits expectantly for her starry-eyed agreement.
Ducky has not learned, she will not fall for his cheese, ever.
She's assprose intolerant.
Cindy chooses her words carefully. It's time to stop this. Every girl in the school collectively gasps, including AssStepSis. Ducky got dumped!
I love that she finally told him that she wants to stop, but I hate these public confession exposure things in general. I hated it here because I really wanted Cindy and Fashion Girl to become allies, but now the script has changed them into unnecessary rivals again.
It's an SK drama. The lead female has to get all the menz.
Cindy get ready to leave, but Ducky grabs her by the shoulders. There's more to his confession! The two of them should....[CLICK] Emo shuts off the feed.
From Ducky's point of view, since they hadn't 'started' anything for real, maybe it's time to try. But Cindy says no, she is tired of being a pretend fiancee, and they should just end it. Oups! Emo's ears pick up the word "pretend" in the convo, and turns around to look at the couple through the glass partition.
Ducky is perfectly agreeable to ending it. That way they can begin a real relationship! Cindy hears, Emo hears, annnnd Fashion Girl, standing outside the partially-open door, hears. Ack1 All those pretty purple flowers hit the ground.
Fashion Girl can move through portals? She was just with the other students watching and now she's at the studio?
That's right. She's actually a ghost.
This episode was all over the place, but at least we had some advancement. This is the first mission Cindy is able to complete on her own, mostly on her conviction about family. Ducky is fascinated by her, but I think more like a strange specimen than a girlfriend.
I agree. I think he does like her but I think he doesn't realize that none of the other people he hangs out with are real friends. Cindy is a real friend. He needs one, and he likes having one, so he thinks he likes her as a girlfriend. It makes me sorry for how lonely he must really be to conflate the two concepts.
Strange specimen, yes that's perfectly accurate.
I do wonder if Ducky's feelings could have shifted to true love? You know, if this was a different drama and he was the lead?
It seems like none of them had any friends before Cindy came along. Yet, I don't feel sorry for them at all.
We get a glimpse of the kind of parenting everyone has experienced. It's clear that none of the Kang Cats have experienced what most of us would call a "normal" childhood. Of course, now we know why Ibeol is so bubbly (I love his mom), and Ducky is sooo....Ducky.
I love his mom too!
I didn't really care.
Then post-production continuity errors got on my nerves, but I have to admit I didn't notice them the first time watching it. (I did. It made me crazy then, too) So maybe I'm just too sensitive? (Nope, you aren't. You were being gracious before) I would probably be a lot more forgiving if the show didn't disappoint me by turning Cindy into a helpless ingenue.
Ugh! I am so fed up with the 180 turn that Cindy's character has taken? It's like they have introduced a new character, she's resembling the spunky and self-sufficient girl that we met at the beginning.
Damsel in distress Cindy is a downer.
Yes, disappointed that living with cute guys made changed her that much.
Anyway, the cats out of the bag, the whole world knows Ducky got burned, Barista got more fangirl time with Ibeol. Let's see what's around the next corner!
I think Trotwood needs her own glitter truck.
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In the shadow of the Gulag, Soviet citizens were still cracking jokes. They had to.
Drawing on diaries, interviews, memoirs and hundreds of previously secret documents, It's Only a Joke, Comrade! uncovers how they joked, coped, and struggled to adapt in Stalin's brave new world. It asks what it really means to live under a dictatorship: How do people make sense of their lives? How do they talk about it? And whom can they trust to do so?
Moving beyond ideas of 'resistance', 'doublethink', 'speaking Bolshevik', or Stalin's Cult of Personality to explain Soviet life, it reveals how ordinary people found their way and even found themselves in a life lived along the fault-lines between rhetoric and reality.
Dr Jonathan Waterlow
Jonathan is a writer and podcaster who grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He received his PhD (DPhil) in History at the University of Oxford in 2012. He went on to hold a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford. He's also been a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, and studied at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, and the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St Petersburg, Russia.
He's a founder at Voices in the Dark, where he writes and podcasts.
Praise for It's Only a Joke, Comrade!
The best book on Stalinism I've read in a long time.
With unprecedented subtlety, Jon Waterlow explores the contradictory responses of Soviet citizens to the Stalin regime through a multi-faceted exploration of the ways in which telling jokes helped citizens cope with the pressures of living under a terroristic regime hell-bent on economic and social modernization.
The book will be required reading for those interested in the history of the Soviet Union, but also for anyone interested in understanding the manifold social and psychological functions that laughter can perform.
Waterlow integrates solid archival research with an impressive command of the theoretical literature on humour and he writes lucidly and with verve.
This is a book of great humanity and insight (with some good jokes thrown in).
Professor Stephen Smith, FBA
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
An extraordinary achievement.
Jonathan Waterlow has found a unique lens into Stalinist society through this brilliant exploration of humor. Maneuvering through the dark days of the 1930s, ordinary people told jokes that belie the image of a cowed, totally repressed, atomized population. Rather than all Soviet people being divided into pro- and anti-Soviet, affirmation or dissent/resistance, they made up a 'muddled majority' that practiced a critical acceptance of Soviet life.
Humor was at one and the same time a safety valve, a form of social communication, and a critique often founded on acceptance of socialist values and disgust at their violation in the experiences of everyday life.
Professor Ronald Grigor Suny
William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, The University of Michigan
Humour is not an emotion usually associated with Stalin's Soviet Union, but Jon Waterlow's outstanding book shows how it was an integral part of the lives of Soviet citizens as they sought to make sense of the reality of life under the dictator. Enlivened by the bitter-sweet humour of Soviet men and women during the grim years of the 1930s, It's Only a Joke, Comrade! gives us a powerful insight into the way societies function at times of great stress and into the nature of humanity itself.
Professor Peter Waldron
It's Only a Joke, Comrade: Humour, Trust and Everyday Life Under Stalin is not only an original contribution to the historiography of Stalinism, but contributes as well to our understanding of the role of popular humour, more generally, under authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century.
This book re-vitalizes our understanding of Soviet society by demonstrating the ways in which humour served as a means of self expression for Soviet citizens, offering them agency in their attempts to cope with and adapt to the demanding tribulations of everyday life – whether in shopping queues or in the shadow of Stalin's Great Terror.
Professor Lynne Viola, FRSC
A stunningly original study of Stalinist society, It's Only a Joke, Comrade! explodes the sterile binaries of 'consent' and 'resistance' to show that vast swathes of the Soviet population lived in the thickets of language and ideas where official ideology mingled with popular attitudes.
Waterlow's fresh and fluent style crackles with wit and perception as he deftly teases out the veiled assumptions, fears and aspirations that underpinned the workings of (often gallows) humour in the 1930s Soviet Union.
Essential reading for anyone interested in daily life under the Stalinist dictatorship but also for anyone interested in how human beings navigate a path through times of extraordinary upheaval, privation and danger.
Dr Daniel Beer
Reader in Modern European History, Royal Holloway, University of London
People laugh at the very darkest times as well, as Jonathan Waterlow reveals in his brilliant study of humour and trust under the Stalinist dictatorship. Uncovering the dark and often disturbing ironies of history, It's Only a Joke, Comrade! challenges our understanding of 'Soviet subjectivity' by telling a compelling human story of people's ability to maintain agency in their daily encounters with the Stalinist system.
Prodigiously researched and lucidly argued, this book will make a major contribution to understanding Stalinist culture and society. It will be read with great benefit and pleasure by both lay and expert readers. Highly recommended.
Dr Matthias Neumann
Senior Lecturer, UEA
We are told that Stalinism was no laughing matter. Waterlow disagrees, revealing how popular humour was integral to how Soviet citizens engaged with the world around them.
Stalinism, a human drama. This important and engaging book reanimates ordinary Soviet citizens, revealing how they laughed and joked, shared and despaired, connected and communicated across one of the most traumatic periods in modern history. Through the medium of popular humour, Waterlow immerses us deep into the lived experience of ordinary folk during Stalin's 1930s.
A revelatory account of how ordinary citizens experienced Stalinism. Essential reading.
Dr Andy Willimott
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<!-- Copyright 2000-2022 JetBrains s.r.o. and contributors. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license. -->

<link-summary>Listeners allow subscription to application and project events.</link-summary>

_Listeners_ allow plugins to declaratively subscribe to events delivered through the message bus (see [Messaging infrastructure](messaging_infrastructure.md) for details).
Listener implementations must be stateless and may not implement life-cycle (e.g., `Disposable`).

You can define both application- and project-level listeners.

> All available listeners/topics are listed on [](extension_point_list.md) under _Listeners_ sections.
> Browse usages inside existing implementations of open-source IntelliJ Platform plugins via [IntelliJ Platform Explorer](https://jb.gg/ipe).
>

Declarative registration of listeners allows you to achieve better performance than registering listeners from code.
The advantage is because listener instances get created lazily — the first time an event is sent to the topic — and not during application startup or project opening.

> Defining listeners in <path>plugin.xml</path> is supported starting with version 2019.3 of the platform.
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## Defining Application-Level Listeners

To define an application-level listener, add the [`<applicationListeners>`](plugin_configuration_file.md#idea-plugin__applicationListeners) section to your <path>[plugin.xml](plugin_configuration_file.md)</path>:

```xml
<idea-plugin>
  <applicationListeners>
    <listener
        class="myPlugin.MyListenerClass"
        topic="BaseListenerInterface"/>
  </applicationListeners>
</idea-plugin>
```

The `topic` attribute specifies the listener interface corresponding to the type of events you want to receive.
Usually, this is the interface used as the type parameter of the [`Topic`](%gh-ic%/platform/extensions/src/com/intellij/util/messages/Topic.java) instance for the type of events.
The `class` attribute specifies the class in your plugin that implements the listener interface and receives the events.

As a specific example, if you want to receive events about all [Virtual File System](virtual_file_system.md) changes, you need to implement the `BulkFileListener` interface, corresponding to the topic `VirtualFileManager.VFS_CHANGES`.
To subscribe to this topic from code, you could use something like the following snippet:

```java
messageBus.connect().subscribe(VirtualFileManager.VFS_CHANGES,
    new BulkFileListener() {
        @Override
        public void after(@NotNull List<? extends VFileEvent> events) {
          // handle the events
        }
});
```

To use declarative registration, you no longer need to reference the `Topic` instance.
Instead, you refer directly to the listener interface class:

```xml
<applicationListeners>
  <listener
      class="myPlugin.MyVfsListener"
      topic="com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.BulkFileListener"/>
</applicationListeners>
```

Then you provide the listener implementation as a top-level class:

```java
package myPlugin;

public class MyVfsListener implements BulkFileListener {
  @Override
  public void after(@NotNull List<? extends VFileEvent> events) {
    // handle the events
  }
}
```

## Defining Project-Level Listeners

[Project](project.md)-level listeners are registered in the same way, except that the top-level tag is [`<projectListeners>`](plugin_configuration_file.md#idea-plugin__projectListeners).
They can be used to listen to project-level events, for example, [tool window](tool_windows.md) operations:

```xml
<idea-plugin>
  <projectListeners>
    <listener
        class="myPlugin.MyToolWindowListener"
        topic="com.intellij.openapi.wm.ex.ToolWindowManagerListener"/>
  </projectListeners>
</idea-plugin>
```

The class implementing the listener interface can define a one-argument constructor accepting a [`Project`](%gh-ic%/platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/project/Project.java), and it will receive the instance of the project for which the listener is created:

```java
package myPlugin;

public class MyToolWindowListener implements ToolWindowManagerListener {
  private final Project project;

  public MyToolwindowListener(Project project) {
    this.project = project;
  }

  @Override
  public void stateChanged(@NotNull ToolWindowManager toolWindowManager) {
    // handle the state change
  }
}
```

## Additional Attributes

Registration of listeners can be restricted using the following attributes:

- `os` - allows restricting listener to given OS, e.g., `os="windows"` for Windows only (2020.1 and later)
- `activeInTestMode` - set to `false` to disable listener if [`Application.isUnitTestMode()`](%gh-ic%/platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/application/Application.java) returns `true`
- `activeInHeadlessMode` - set to `false` to disable listener if [`Application.isHeadlessEnvironment()`](%gh-ic%/platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/application/Application.java) returns `true`.
  Also, covers `activeInTestMode` as test mode implies headless mode.

> If declared listeners are intended to be used by other plugins depending on your plugin, consider [bundling their sources](bundling_plugin_openapi_sources.md) in the plugin distribution.
>
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Acquittal following firearms trial
An Olliers client was last week found not guilty of all charges after a three week trial at Leicester Crown Court.
The client was charged with very serious offences of conspiring to transfer firearms and ammunition from Manchester to Leicester. The jury also acquitted him of a third charge under s49 of RIPA relating to the PIN numbers for his phones.
His case was dealt with by solicitor Matt Corn. Matt's case preparation with the client involved in particular, detailed analysis of telephone evidence relied on by the prosecution. Matt instructed Damian Nolan of Exchange Chambers as Counsel for the trial. This was a very significant outcome for the defendant who faced a long custodial sentence if convicted and testimony to the extensive work conducted by both Matt and Damian.
Matt Corn – Serious Crime specialist solicitor
Matt's background is as a Serious Crime Specialist and he is a supervisor for VHCC cases for both fraud and non fraud. His litigator caseload invariably involves cases prosecuted following National Crime Agency (NCA) investigations as well as HM Revenue and Customs and also the Counter Terrorism unit. He also deals with a number of complex proceeds of crime confiscation matters and has appeared in high profile cases involving fraud, drugs importation conspiracies, murder and terrorism. As well as being a member of the Law Society, he remains a (non practising) member of the Bar of England and Wales. Click here to read more.
Matthew Corn
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Lancet: Failure of US Response to COVID-19 Was Decades in the Making
Credit: Elvert Barnes Photography
Last week, The Lancet's 33-member Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era (the Commission) issued its final report. In just 49 pages, it blasts the administration of Donald Trump for undermining US health and welfare and harming Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) populations in particular. But the Commission also notes that Trump's team built upon a foundation dating back to the Nixon years that has influenced the health policies of preceding administrations, liberal and conservative alike:
Trump's election was enabled by the failures of his predecessors. A four-decade long drift toward neoliberal policies bolstered corporate prerogatives, privatized government services, reinforced racism, and imposed public austerity. The rich got much richer while their taxes were halved. Workers' earnings stagnated, welfare programs shrank, prison populations greatly increased, and millions were priced out of health care even as government payments enriched medical investors. GDP grew but longevity lagged, a sign of profound social dysfunction.
This combination of racism, privatization, and privileging the needs of the wealthy has marked an evolution in public policy that has undermined US federal capacity in a range of areas, from healthcare to education, to housing, to the environment.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the inability of the US to handle it effectively provides one stark illustration. If the US had merely maintained the average COVID-19 mortality rate of the G-7 nations (namely, the US, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Canada), Americans would have lost 40 percent fewer lives. With deaths in the US from COVID-19 now in excess of 485,000, that translates into nearly 200,000 people.
The failures of the Trump administration in controlling the virus were exacerbated by a weak healthcare system that predated it. For example, The Lancet reports that between 2002 and 2019, the public health share of US health spending fell from 3.21 to 2.45 percent, leaving it at roughly half the Canadian level.
Dr. Richard Horton, The Lancet's editor in chief, puts the Commission's findings in a broader context: "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how woefully inadequate the country's healthcare and public health system has been in protecting the nation's health. The COVID-19 pandemic has exploited existing health and social inequalities and nowhere is this more apparent than in the US."
The Commission report also underscores how structural racism made COVID-19 health outcomes so much worse in BIPOC communities. According to Dr. Mary T. Bassett, Commission member and director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, in comments reported by Medical Xpress, "The disastrous, bungled response to the pandemic made clear how existing, longstanding racial inequities simply have not been addressed. It's time to stop saying these preventable gaps cannot be eliminated. The report calls for structural solutions, including reparations, to ensure everyone has the right to health."
The Commission found that "death rates for Black people in the USA at ages 25–29 years are four times higher than the average of the other G7 nations and, for Native American and Alaska Native people deaths rates at ages 25–29 years are seven times higher than this average."
As the authors point out, there were clear signs of decay in US public health before COVID-19. Take Puerto Rico. Although Hurricane Maria made headlines in 2017, decades of efforts prior to the storm to restrain the public sector had left the territory in bankruptcy. A once-robust Puerto Rican public health system had been sold off to private interests; the result, according to the Commission, was "more fragmented, inadequate, and costly than the public system it replaced, forcing the government further into debt."
But the Commission also sees in this moment of crisis the potential for radical change. With the Trump era coming to an end, there's the chance to undo not only what was done in the last four years, but the harms of the past 50 years.
The report recalls the words of activists and scholars Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward in 1977 when they "argued that sudden disruption to the status quo—whether by popular protests or changing electoral realignment—often cause big positive changes in public opinion and, subsequently, public policy." At that time, they were looking at what allowed Lyndon Johnson to move forward on civil rights, voting rights, and anti-poverty programs that had failed to move for decades before he took office.
If Joe Biden's administration can move boldly, The Lancet authors assert, it could reverse "decades of neoliberal policies seeking to privatize many public services and deregulate corporations to maximize profits" and "a brand of neoliberalism that particularly favors individual enrichment…over public goods and seeks to reduce the size and scope of US Government services and terminate US support for health abroad."
The Commission also offers a series of recommendations. Beyond improving US pandemic response to mitigate immediate harm, the Commission echoes many items NPQ has emphasized: reparations for wealth denied to Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans; enacting the Green New Deal; revising tax systems to end wealth hoarding by the super-rich; significantly increasing public spending on social programs; establishing a single-payer health insurance program; creation of a new immigration system that embraces an inclusive, multiracial vision of national identity; instituting a living minimum wage; an end to the carceral-industrial complex and empowering communities to control their police forces; and protecting voting rights.
This is a big agenda. The nation's shortcomings, as the Commission notes, are even larger. The nation is at a moment when it can continue on the path it has followed for administration after administration, Republican and Democratic alike, or it can change course to the direction that justice and good public health demand.—Martin Levine
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Q: Is youth club available in Manager mode? I played FIFA '07 way back in 2008. In manager mode the the youth club was present from where you could sometimes take some players and include them in your team.
I played FIFA '11 during last couple of days, and I tried to figure out where the youth club is without luck. Did EA remove that feature, or am I looking in the wrong place?

A: After playing the game for a couple of weeks, I did not find youth club. I don't think that it's available, but someone can comment if he thinks otherwise.

A: According to this thread, EA removed that feature starting with FIFA 10, and this thread suggests that it's gone in FIFA 11 as well (although perhaps only for consoles/PC; the PSP version apparently has a youth academy), so I don't think you're missing anything.
EA doesn't seem to list features that have been removed from games, so I haven't found any information about why it was removed or if it might be added for FIFA 12 or a subsequent console or PC release.

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Q: Databinding to Property of class that in another class with property What is the correct way to perform databinding if the property (the context in this case) that i bind to is a class (LatestReading class) with its property (Unit).
The datacontext is set to the root of the class. Here's the hierarchy of my class. MonitoringPoint.LatestReading.Unit
<DataTemplate x:Key="TrackBallInfoTemplate"
              DataType="{x:Type winGRAPH_Core:MonitoringNode}">
    <StackPanel Margin="3">
        <Grid Height="Auto">
            <StackPanel Height="Auto"
                        VerticalAlignment="Top"
                        Orientation="Horizontal">
                <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap"
                           Text="{Binding DataPoint.Value, FallbackValue=0.00}"
                           FontWeight="Bold"
                           FontSize="16" />
                <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap"
                           Text="{Binding LatestReading.Unit, FallbackValue=°C}"
                           Margin="2,3,0,0" />
            </StackPanel>
        </Grid>
        <Grid Height="Auto">
            <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap"
                       Text="{Binding DataPoint.Category, FallbackValue=time}"
                       d:LayoutOverrides="Width, Height"
                       FontStyle="Italic"
                       Margin="0,2,0,0" />
        </Grid>
    </StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>

A: If the type that is assigned to your DataContext is a LatestReading then just use the property Unit. The DataContext already set at a higher level (if you've remembered to set it - it's a common mistake to forget) automatically cascades to the child controls.


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A kiwi family of three travelling around Europe. We're getting out of our comfort zone, living simply, shedding the burden of "things" and replacing them with rich experiences. Follow our adventure!
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Welcome to Ireland, land of the DUNN'S!
We landed here via our ferry from Stranraer. About 1.5 hour ride but with one of the best ferries we've ever been on!! It felt like a cruise but for only 1 and a half hours. A few restaurants, a small cinema, gaming areas, a sectioned off area for recline seating (which we bought for ourselves because... why not). We wished it was longer but were also grateful that the day we traveled was a sunny, clear day - a kind of day we hadn't had in a while.
CAR RENTAL IN IRELAND
When arriving in Belfast, we caught a taxi to the closest airport to hire our car.
Hiring a car can be costly - we all know this. When making bookings online, the terms and conditions of any car rental tell you the possible charges you'll get and not necessarily the actual amount they'll charge for holding on your card or insurance. You hope for the "from" amount as opposed to the top charge they could possibly give you.
In England we hired a car for over a month and the deposit required was £500 - not bad considering we had the car for over a month. In Belfast, the minimum amount they would hold was £1300!!!!! (NZ$2600) We had just bought our tickets home to NZ and didn't have a spare $2600 sitting there to be held for over a month. So our only other option was to pay for insurance - even though we were already covered for insurance excess by travel insurance. Their insurance cost that is non-refundable?? £600 (NZ$1200) while still holding some money as well.
We didn't really want to stretch our budget that far but we had no other option. We could sit at the airport and research some other car rental places available only to have the same charges or the possibility of it being more expensive or take what we can as we didn't have all day to wait around. And we had a travel party member that wasn't feeling 100% so that pressure didn't help either.
Be aware people... Learn from our mistakes. Research in advance. Find a company that will not charge you ridiculous amounts as deposits just so you will have to pay for their insurance. Hindsight is both beautiful and horrible. (Don't rent a car from Hertz Belfast at the George Best Airport)
So we basically lost $1200. Money we didn't really have spare and money we had to make adjustments around for the remainder of our trip. We were gutted with this and it hung over us for a while and we still tried to find ways around it to make it cheaper... like perhaps to return the car and find our way around Ireland without a car. In the end, we had to take the loss. And vow to make the most of the car and see as much of Ireland as the rest of our budget could afford. Plus, we were living literally in the middle of nowhere - no close-by township that could make it easier to travel around so it was either take the loss or see Ireland from our windows for a month.
Another thing to note about driving in Ireland is... there are two different countries here. One that measures distance in miles (Northern Ireland as they are still a part of the UK) and Republic of Ireland (an EU country) that measures distance in kilometres.
The car we hired from Northern Ireland - even though still in the UK - had a speedometer in kmph because we would be returning the car in the Republic of Ireland. During the time we were in Northern Ireland, we had to manually convert the mph speed signs into kmph (in our heads) so we knew we were driving at the correct speed limit.
Thankfully, the car hire cloud was slightly lifted enough for us to explore Belfast before we headed south into Republic of Ireland. Unfortunately, the weather was typically Irish weather... constant rain.
We forced our way around the city to see some things before making the trip out. Our first stop was trying to find a port that the Titanic left from. There is a huge Titanic museum building close to the water where you can learn more. We did not go in - we were still licking our $1200 loss wounds. We did wander around the area though where they have a measurement of how large the Titanic was.
We also went into Belfast City to just see what the city had to offer. It was still raining and nothing opened until after 1pm as it was a Sunday.
What we did notice is that Irish people push through this common Irish weather. Nothing stops them from getting out there. They breed them tough here!
We had a quick visit to Belfast before heading south to our accommodation in the Republic of Ireland. Our planned exploration of the top of Northern Ireland had to be pushed back for another time when the cloud of car rental charges were more settled.
Once we started to head forward in our car rental money loss and make the most of what we had, we made our way back up towards Northern Ireland to visit the Giant's Causeway. An overnight trip to try and get an early start.
This hexagon-shaped stone natural wonder on the northern coast of Ireland is very popular to visit but worth the effort to see!
It is FREE to visit but be warned that it may seem like it isn't. There is a car park right next to the entrance to go down the road towards the Causeway. This carpark belongs to the adjoining visitor's centre. It charges you £11.50 per adult and £5.75 per child. For our family of 3, that is nearly NZ$60... for a FREE site! It includes the price to park there, entry into the visitor's centre and an audio guide. It cannot be bought separately - you cannot pay for parking only or visitor's centre only. It's either all or nothing.
We didn't need to go into the visitor's centre, nor do we need to pay for a guide - nor pay that much for parking. We are all for supporting these heritage sites but just not that much.
So we didn't. (But if you wish to, feel free too! If you want the audio guide and to go into the visitor's centre - go for it!)
About 100 metres down the road from the visitor's centre and the road entrance into the Causeway is a place called Bushmill Railway Station. You can park there all day for £6 per car and walk up to the Causeway. It is the cheapest parking close to the entrance. There were park and ride options from the town of Bushmill but we opted for this as it was quite close and fairly cheap for the 3 of us for the whole day. Just go inside the small railway station, pay for your parking and you'll receive a carpark ticket to put on your dashboard and you're set for the day.
Once you walk up to the Causeway and arrive at the visitor's centre and see their carpark, there is a bridge/tunnel thing between the carpark and the centre that looks like it is part of the centre and somewhere only those who have paid for the parking can go. It is not. You can go through it and it will lead you to the one road down towards the Causeway.
If you didn't pay for the parking and centre then you don't have use of their bathroom facilities either but there is a free toilet on the left of the centre apparently (we didn't use it but a local told us there was one there). There is no toilet once you're down on the shore so get all that business done first!
The walk to the Causeway is about 10-15 minutes on a gradual slope down towards the shore - and only that long because you're taking in scenery of the shore and taking photos. It is cold there and windy. There is one road that goes down and only a bus can go up and down that road.
You can catch the bus both down to the bottom and back up again which costs £1 per adult and 50c per child per ride. We walked down to the Causeway and caught it back up. It cost £2.50 total for the 3 of us.
Once down at the shore, it's such a beautiful sight to see - we were lucky to have a clear day - but know it is busy... very busy. Tourist buses have arrived early and even though you still have space to move around the stones, you will have to be quite strategic to take a photo of a portion of it that has no one else in it. When going up the main stones, foot traffic can build up where you'll have to let people through and manoeuvre around them but once you're up to the top of the main stones, it's not as crowded. Know though, that with tourists come rude tourists that do not wait or let others through and they can be quite ruthless and rude. Be aware and in some cases, be just as ruthless!
There are staff there that will let you know where it's not safe to go (and tell someone to stop taking a drone shot and that said person will of course listen but take his time in lowing the drone...........).
I highly recommend having well gripping shoes while there. I don't recommend climbing up in jandals - yes, I did go up in jandals and yes, it was difficult and yes, it was dumb... and yes, I did get strange looks and yes, I also had two comments about it... one being from an Aussie that said I was pretty brave doing the climb in my thongs!! Uhhh no, I did it in my jandals... 😉 She continued to say "Oh of course it had to be either a Kiwi or an Aussie but then I saw your All Black's jacket and of course, a Kiwi!"
The other comment I only caught as I happened to turn around and catch a woman pointing to my shoes and was about to say something to her husband about it. She then seemed to feel it was pointless trying to pretend she wasn't about to talk about me and just commented on it to me instead. Basically calling me crazy for doing it in jandals and wondering if I was cold.
I also highly recommend this for kids that are old enough to climb stones without too much supervision. Because guysssssss, Hadrian woke up tired and grumpy and cold and did not want a bar of what we had planned that day and he expected something GIANT because of its name only to be disappointed that they were not, in fact, hexagon steps that giant's could step on. But once he arrived at the stones and realised he could climb them, he loved it - like, a lot! It basically saved our lives that day in cheering him up. It wasn't just another old building but it was something for him to navigate himself and do (with us supervising from close-ish proximity because there are no rails or safety... anything).
If you are in Northern Ireland - take the time to visit the Causeway even though it is a busy tourist attraction and a little further out from Belfast. It was worth every cheap carpark Pound and cheap bus ride back up the road from the bottom!
Here you can read Hadrian's own personal review of the Giant's Causeway!
LONDONDERRY (or DERRY)
A city on the border of Northern Ireland just before you enter the Republic of Ireland. An Irish city with a lot of Irish history. Worth looking up and researching.
Worth the quick visit especially to the walls and the Peace Bridge.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI)
Whenever there's an impending border cross between countries, we never know what to expect.
But guys... just know right at this moment (PRE-BREXIT finalisations), expect literally nothing while crossing from Northern Ireland to ROI.
On one side of the border they will have traffic signs in miles then suddenly with a small sign saying you're entering ROI, it's changed to kilometres, prices are now in Euro instead of Pounds and Irish Gaelic is on every single sign in the ROI (which I also loved to see like we did in Wales and Scotland).
All of Ireland is similar in some way to somewhere in NZ. Grass so green it seems fluorescent; some very flat landscapes; some high mountains; cold and windy; cows and sheep everywhere as you drive through it - except their cow and sheep numbers are a lot less than what would be seen in NZ.
And if you are in Ireland in the colder months you will discover a certain Irish smell in the air... a smell that could also be found in some places in Scotland and England and also in some Scandinavian countries but is still very Irish. That smell being IRISH TURF or in other places, it's known as PEAT.
During our stay in County Roscommon in the middle of literally nowhere, we met some of our Irish neighbours and were introduced to Irish turf. Soil that has been compressed for many years, dried and hardened then used as fuel in fireplaces - an old tradition used during shortages of wood to burn. When you drive through Ireland, you can smell that distinctive smell that at first you wonder what it is... but I'm telling you now, that is Irish turf! Before knowing what the smell was, we did wonder why we smelt it everywhere but once we were educated and given some to try ourselves, we now love winding down our car windows and getting a whiff of that Irish turf smell! *weirdos*
We also were a part of two convoys driving through small Irish towns welcoming back their local sports teams. They would slowly go through the towns - one with a Police escort (or Garda, as they are known here) - and with the convoy using their hazard lights as they slowly drive through the towns with locals waving their sports flags and some burning piles of turf on the side of the road as a town welcome. Loved it!
DONEGAL, SLIGO, MULLUGHMORE, STRANDHILL
Smaller Irish cities/towns we visited during our travels.
Donegal we went through fast through the rain. We didn't get to stop and investigate it. There is nearly always rain....
Mullughmore is a beautiful coastal town that if you lived there, you would have the best views! The town is high on a hill with views of beautiful coastal surf beaches plus views of beautiful mountains as well! It was quite nearly a literal breath taking view when at the top of the hill looking at a near 360° of ocean. If passing near this town, take a 20 minutes side trip and go to the top of the hill and see how beautiful it is up there!
Sligo is a bigger town south of Mullughmore and Donegal. This was our closest major town from where we stayed and it was still 40 minutes away from us! Not too big but not too small. A nice place with all amenities a city has but on a smaller scale and a coast line near by.
Strandhill is that coast line near by. A little town not too far from Sligo on the west coast of Ireland. Another beautiful surf coast but not a coast line that is safe to swim in - there are signs everywhere telling everyone not to swim there. Worth the visit though if you want to see the beautiful west coast.
Swipe Right: Strandhill Surf Beach
We only had an afternoon in Galway but it was a very popular, busy, happening city! It was vibrant with street performers, comedy festivals and just a multicultural city. The main hub in Galway is a strip of colourful old buildings with various types of shops and pubs. After being in the middle of farming county where we were staying, Galway was a breath of fresh air!
Further south of Galway is Limerick and we went here to Church then to look around the city since it was 2 hours away from where we were staying.
Not as happening as Galway but it seemed very family friendly. We had a quick look through the city to visit King John's Castle and learn a little more about some pretty sad Irish history before we had to move on.
Still on the west coast of Ireland but between Limerick and Galway along the Wild Atlantic Way (a scenic route along the west coast of Ireland). We stopped here on our way back to our accommodation after Limerick. We actually had not heard of these cliffs before until a worker in the Lego store in Glasgow recommended it to us after finding out we were heading to Ireland next.
These cliffs are featured in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince when Dumbledore and Harry go to get the locket. They are also the Cliffs of Insanity on the Princess Bride.
We didn't do as much planning with this visit as we had for the Causeway but it would help to do some before going.
Like the Causeway, there is also a visitor's centre here - as well as a carpark that charges you entrance to the carpark and the visitor's centre per person in the car but again, it's all or nothing. It cannot be two separate costs even if you didn't want to go to the visitor's centre.
The site is still FREE though so if you found a cheaper or free way to park, you would still be able to go to the cliffs. Again, like the Causeway it's perceived that you cannot see the cliffs from that main area without paying. But you can.
It is not as expensive as the Causeway and if you book a day in advance, it's half the price of what you would pay on arrival.
Entrance cost for parking and visitor centre is €8 per adult if not booked online a day in advance with children under 16 free. €4 per adult if booked online a day in advance.
Some have gotten around the carpark charges per person by having the driver drop off the rest of the travel party outside of the carpark and the driver only paying the parking and centre cost for themselves and skipping the centre altogether. At least that would save some costs! It all adds up in the end...
Since we didn't do this research beforehand, we didn't want to pay the carpark charges for us when we had no intentions of going to the visitor's centre.
Unfortunately, there is one quite narrow road that leads up to the cliffs and out... and nowhere is there free parking. You could park in one of the towns on either side of the cliffs and there are walks that can lead you to the cliffs if you're up for a hike or you can be frickin lucky like we were and find the best place to park for free and see the best view of the cliffs!
If heading north towards the cliffs from Limerick, drive past the carpark and visitor's centre for the cliffs until you go around a corner and down the hill and see a bit of a driveway space/area on the left side of the road that can only fit maybe 5 cars in it (and only enough space to tightly reverse out of there) and a side road on the right opposite the little driveway space/area.
This place doesn't have any signs saying you cannot park there and we were lucky enough to find a space for our little car to fit in (leaving space to reverse for all the other cars there).
From there is a path that will lead you to one of the best views of the cliffs! You have to climb over fences via provided steps and in typical Irish weather, it's muddy and slippery so I don't recommend jandals - from my own experience, of course - and it's cold and windy. On this pathway you will find a point where there are two options - going up towards the area people have paid to park and see the cliffs from that angle or going down towards a different open space to see the cliffs from a lower point.
We chose the lower (mainly because that walk up would have killed me) and headed to this open space area that had one of the best views of the cliffs.
AND we were lucky enough to be there and witness a planned, organised marriage proposal!! A photographer and a violinist with some flowers were set up on this open space area waiting for the couple. Yes, it was so romantic and yes, everyone around was cheering when he proposed!
Highly recommend seeing these cliffs and even a 10 year old was happy to navigate through these paths. Check out his personal review!
We left visiting Dublin until we were flying out - mainly to save on travel costs (because of our previous car rental debacle) as it was nearly 3 hours away from our accommodation.
The thing you need to know about Ireland in Autumn is that... it rains, a lot (have I mentioned it enough already?!). And it's cold and windy. And when you do get a sunny day, it's very few and far between. We should have known from this rule that the day we were leaving our accommodation would be raining as it was sunny the day before.
Guys, it rained... and rained... and rained.
When we arrived in Dublin, it was still raining and we had time to kill before our final Ireland accommodation was ready for us to check in and we had tickets and other things to print out at an internet cafe in town and we just wanted to see Dublin.
But it was pouring... and not just one kind of rain, every type of rain: sideways, heavy, light, windy plus rain. It was pretty bad.
We sucked it up though, like the Irish, and still went into Dublin City. Half hoping there would be a break in the weather but being disappointed when there wasn't.
We went anyway, we covered ourselves well with our jackets and we accomplished what we needed to for our printing needs, we explored a much as we could on foot close to the city centre and then we cut our losses and left.
If it wasn't raining, we of course would have stayed and explored longer but the rain was now turning into flooded areas in the city and we thought we'd better head to our accommodation.
What would have usually taken half an hour to get from one side of Dublin to the other - where our accommodation was - took over an hour with the added rainy day traffic and slower driving. We ended up driving through Dublin City to reach our destination and probably saw more of the city from inside the safety of our car!
Luckily, our accommodation (a cosy little log cabin) was toasty warm when we finally arrived but it did pose a problem when we had to bring our luggage in when it was still pouring with rain.
We wish we could have explored Dublin a lot more than we did. If we're ever back in Ireland, it will be on our list again!
Ireland was cold, yes, but the people made it warm. Everywhere we went and the people we came in contact with made us feel extremely welcome. We didn't get to see all of Ireland like we hoped but we feel like we experienced true Ireland life in our country-side accommodation.
After Scotland, I wasn't sure if Ireland would meet that high bar Scotland had set but it nearly matched it. I would definitely return to Ireland to explore just that little bit more and take in a breath of that famous Irish Turf!
H: Ireland was very nice. It was cold though, and the wind would sting sometimes. But it was a very nice country though, and it was very green! Just like New Zealand!
N: It was wonderful to be in the land of my Dunn ancestry. The Irish have been around a long time and what a roller coaster ride of a history they have had. Just like the Scots (Scoti being the Latin word for the Irish tribes that settled northern Briton) they have had to fight for their independence and ultimately paid for it with their lives. I'd fully recommend getting a car so you can explore off the beaten track and get to the beautiful coasts and natural wonders. Also loved Irish butter - fatty and salty!
T: It rains, it's cold so it's basically NZ. It may have been cold outside but the people and their hospitality were warm. Loved that we experienced more natural sites than just looking at man-made things. I don't know when I'll be back to Ireland but I hope I return here in the next 10 years! Worth the trip out there to this little island with so much history!
RELATED: 10 Things to Know - Northern Ireland
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Film Noir/Crime
Two Down One to Go (1945)
By jonah / Aug 15, 2013 / no comments
Synopsis: Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe and on the plans for the return home of American forces.
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
More movies!
Desert Victory (1943)
The Negro Soldier (1943)
Prelude to War (1942)
The Battle for New Britain (1944)
The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
Divide and Conquer (1945)
The Nazis Strike (1943)
Attack! Battle of New Britain (1944)
The Memphis Belle (1946)
Combat America Part 3
Attack in the Pacific (1944)
Our Job In Japan (1945)
Diary of a Sargeant (1945)
The Battle of Russia (1943)
Donald Duck: The Spirit of '43 (1943)
Tunisian Victory (1944)
The Battle of Midway (1942)
Triumph of the Will
Another World is Possible Vol 1-War REDUX (2009)
Appointment in Tokyo (1945)
War Comes to America (1945)
The Battle of China (1944)
Payoff in the Pacific (1945)
Know Your Enemy (1945)
Shirley Temple: War Babies (1932)
Salome Where She Danced (1945)
Documentary,
The Ordinary Radicals (2008)
Return to El Salvador, narrated by Martin Sheen
Reefer Madness (1936)
Another World is Possible! Vol. I-War (2004)
Mondo Cane (1962)
Liane Jungle Goddess (1956)
Chino (1973)
Scarlet Street (1945) – Edward G Robinson
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Critical Care > General Critical Care
ECMO Outlook Greatly Exaggerated to the Public
— Survivors' stories dominate in the media
by Nicole Lou, Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 4, 2021
News reports may contribute to unrealistic expectations about success with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in the ICU, a study suggested.
Online media articles reported that their subjects were alive at the time of publication in 92.2% of cases after ECMO -- a survival rate much higher than observed in large cohorts and randomized trials.
Less than half of news reports mentioned functional outcomes; those that did reported no disability in 88.0% of cases, a group led by Shannon Fernando, MD, MSc, of the University of Ottawa, reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"Together, this has the potential to mislead patients and families by not describing the substantial mortality and disability after ECMO. Recognition of this phenomenon of exaggerated benefit based on media reports may help clinicians frame realistic discussions with patients and families with respect to prognosis after ECMO," Fernando and colleagues wrote.
"Furthermore, although ECMO may be beneficial for selected patients with critical illness, the ability to provide ECMO may be limited in some settings, highlighting the urgent need for conveying accurate information about patient selection and outcome," they added.
Feel-good anecdotes from the news may go as far as to actually hurt critically ill patients and their families, according to an invited commentary by Jessica Holtzman, MD, and Sanket Dhruva, MD, MHS, both of the University of California San Francisco.
For instance, unrealistic media reports may complicate physician-patient discussions and lead to requests for transfer to specialty centers despite such transfer not being in the patient's best interest. In addition, patients and family members may be discouraged from enrolling in any future ECMO trials, Holtzman and Dhruva suggested.
In 2008, the landmark CESAR trial showed that patients getting ECMO had a 63% rate of survival to 6 months without disability compared with 47% of patients randomized to conventional management. Since then, ECMO has become more popular in U.S. centers but remains relatively scarce.
The scarcity of ECMO has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients with better chances of surviving severe disease due to SARS-CoV-2 infection may be offered ECMO over their peers in the same hospital. However, there is no surefire way to judge who the best candidates are.
International registry data indicated a 37.4% incidence of 90-day in-hospital mortality among COVID patients receiving this therapy, researchers reported in September.
Fernando and colleagues had searched searched Google News and Bloomberg for English-language news articles from 1960 to 2020. They found 605 unique news story reports from 31 countries. Social media posts, peer-reviewed journal articles and case reports, and personal stories appearing on private, non-third party websites were excluded.
Subjects of those reports averaged 29.7 years of age, and 58.2% were men.
The study did not include stories from all news sources, the investigators acknowledged. However, what they did include "may reflect the most common stories encountered by patients and families who conduct online searches for ECMO," they argued.
Ultimately, Holtzman and Dhruva urged that news organizations produce more balanced stories by noting the strengths and limitations of medical therapies like ECMO.
Physicians can also do their part by presenting nuanced evidence in traditional and social media. "By partnering with the media to provide realistic insights into current evidence and expected outcomes, physicians can advocate for the best interest of patients," the duo said.
"With medicine squared centrally in the public eye, now more than ever we must encourage the media to accurately portray medical therapies. Public trust depends on it," according to Holtzman and Dhruva.
Fernando and Holtzman had no disclosures.
Dhruva reported receiving travel reimbursement from the FDA and the National Evaluation System for Health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc) as well as research support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Greenwall Foundation, and NESTcc.
Source Reference: Fernando SM, et al "Media portrayals of outcomes after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation" JAMA Intern Med 2021; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6094.
Source Reference: Holtzman JN, Dhruva SS "Media portrayals of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: the unforeseen harm of unfounded optimism" JAMA Intern Med 2021; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6091.


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Spilomyia saltuum is a species of Hoverfly in the family Syrphidae.

Distribution
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Eristalinae
Insects described in 1794
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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The acquisition, which is expected to be finalized shortly, will enable DMB&B to merge Saugatuck into its growing Clarion Marketing and Communications unit in Greenwich, Conn., headed by president/ceo Ray Rizzo. DMB&B has been on the prowl for Saugatuck for several months (ADWEEK, Jan. 18).
Founded in 1979, Saugatuck has estimated billings of $55 million and services clients such as British Airways, Southwestern Bell and New York Telephone. Previously, the agency attempted to buy itself back from its Minneapolis-based parent, Carlson Cos., before the shop agreed to the DMB&B deal.
Sources said that DMB&B's strong balance sheet may lead to more acquisitions. DMB&B, which bills some $4.7 billion worldwide, is scouting for more ad and below-the-line agencies in both the U.S. and abroad.


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John Root: The Visionary behind Bleacher League Baseball
Ever attend a major league baseball game with a date, family, or friends, and just wonder why you left the security of your man cave loaded with reasonably priced beer and a sweet home theatre. Well we all feel at one time or another that it would be a great idea to take someone to the ball game because you can experience the American pastime together. Your girlfriend or wife is lying to you when they say they are having fun at the Nationals' games, and it's all about gaining leverage to get you to do something they want later. There are women out there that are more engaged in the ball game than their male counterpart, and that woman is a keeper especially if she gives you great tips on your fantasy leagues to beat your friends. Then there are people like me that have a young child that has lost interest in game after the third inning, and only wish to disrupt the experience leading you with no choice but to leave early. The last scenario is the friend you took to the ball game who complains about the game and overpriced beer. Their goal is to use every last bit of energy to ruin your experience and convince you to leave early.
John Root has entered the Baseball Winter Meetings Trade Show with a solution that leaves the fans in the stands with a simple way of engaging the game. The Bleacher League Baseball game is the concept that John created while attending Phillies' games with his nephew. The goal was to figure out how to keep his nephew and other kids engaged in the ball game to improve everyone's experience and have fun. He would ask the kids to make predictions of what would happen next during the game. Correct predictions would earn points, and the highest point total would determine the winner. The winner would receive a pretzel, money, or ice cream, but the most important factor was that everyone had a great time. Not only were they talking about what happened during the game on the way home, but there was the question of when are they going to go to the next game.
John engaged me with his product as I walked past his booth, and with his warm personality and hospitality began to tell me the story off his product. He even gave me a sample to take with me, and in the car to the airport my son wouldn't put it down. John spoke of the issues that many of us have keeping our family or friends engaged at the ballgame. Just holding this simple notebook style game in my hand I smiled, as I know that I will see John's product in the hands of fans within the near future. It is great to see a success story unfold in front of your eyes, and it makes me quite aware that the American dream is still alive and well.
John invented the game with simple rules, but ultimately he leaves the fans in the stands to use their imagination. Picture playing your wife, where the loser must take out the trash when arriving home. Have the kids occupied playing the game, so now you can catch up with the wife on different issues. Create a drinking game where you and friends have a blast, but still everyone is engaged in the ball game. John is even working on the online version, so in the near future with a downloaded application you are playing the game from your phone.
To see more info about Bleacher League Baseball checkout:
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Published May 26, 2021 | 5:47 pm HKT Last updated 2 years ago
By Michelle Lim
Ripple faces SEC request for further discovery over XRP transactions
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is asking a judge for additional discovery from Ripple Labs in connection with XRP transactions, according to a new legal filing.
The SEC is seeking six additional depositions and records on five more custodians, including former Ripple employees and Christian Gil, a co-founder of crypto trading firm and liquidity provider GSR. The SEC also wants Ripple to produce information on its XRP transactions following the filing of its complaint against the company last December, as well as on its lobbying efforts.
"Ripple should also be compelled to produce documents concerning its lobbying efforts," wrote SEC attorney Jorge Tenreiro in his letter to U.S. magistrate judge Sarah Netburn. "Evidence of efforts by Ripple to affect public perception — or to sow confusion in the market — about XRP's regulatory status is relevant to rebutting Ripple's affirmative defense that it lacked 'fair notice'."
According to the letter, the SEC is also planning to seek a short extension of the current July 2 deadline for fact discovery, given "the amount of other discovery still outstanding."
The SEC filed a lawsuit against Ripple last December, alleging that its sale of XRP was an unregistered securities offering worth over US$1.38 billion. The SEC also named Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse and executive chairman Chris Larsen as co-defendants for allegedly aiding and abetting Ripple's violations. The lawsuit is currently in its discovery phase, with the SEC and Ripple battling over the information to be shared with the other side.
See related article: Ripple seeks to protect legal advice on XRP from disclosure to SEC
Michelle Lim
Michelle is a journalist at Forkast. Prior to joining the team, she wrote for CNN and served with the Singapore Foreign Service. She holds a Master of Journalism from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.
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Q: Is there an app that helps you move files without drag-and-drop? I know that I can move files at the command line, but I'm looking for an elegant desktop solution besides the traditional drag-and-drop of the Finder.
Basically, I want to right-click on a file and have a menu option that says "Move..." with a bunch of recently moved locations, or with a dialog box letting me choose the location.

A: One option is to use the built-in "Copy" and "Move Item Here" options:

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*Right-click on the source:

*Hold ⌥ Option while right-clicking at the destination:

(Of course, these can also be done using keyboard shortcuts!)

A: OS X Lion has build-in copy & move item function. If you're using (Snow) Leopard, my favorite software is Total Finder.

A: You can check out alfred.

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*Launch Alfred

*Key in the name of the file that you want to move

*Press Ctrl

*Select Move to...

*Type name of destination folder

Don't even need to use the mouse. And it's a lot more easier than it sounds.

A: My app of choice for this is Path Finder.

A: Yes, Xtrafinder gives you what you are looking for.
I came across this post looking for the same thing, a way to "right-click on a file and have a menu option that says "Move..." with a bunch of recently moved locations, or with a dialog box letting me choose the location." but I didn't find it here.
So I kept looking.
And found it here: http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
Super simple.
You can set up a "Copy to..." menu item, and a "Move to..." keyboard shortcut (no menu item for "Move to..." for some reason, but I just set it to CMND + -> (right arrow) and its smooth as can be.)

A: I'm using FileCutter (on 10.5.8), which does exactly what you're asking about. According to its webpage though there's no support for contextual menu plugins in 10.6+ so I'm not sure if you find it very useful (but see this link).

A: My app of choice for this is moveAddict although it doesn't have the 'recent places' feature that you asked for.
(I'm not aware of any app which does.)

A: You could try QuollEyeTree, a Mac OS X file manager inspired by XTree.
It features a full basic set of file operations, copy, move, rename, delete for files, directories and tagged files file filtering and tagging.
Most operations can be done with the keyboard, mouse or menu, so it should satisfy most - although there is no drag and drop.
It can be downloaded from http://binnie.id.au/Ian/TreeApp.html, which also shows a screenshot.