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The main aspect of Yoast SEO plugin, is ofcourse, managing SEO of your website. When you write content in WordPress, you will see a box below which will tell you all about how optimized your text is. The box has several parts. The first part will allow you to insert the keyword that you want to use so the plugin can check for consistency and use of that keyword within the text. The second part will help you find out everything about the readability of your text. Your focus keyword will help Yoast determine whether you have used the keyword properly in your post.
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Content is really important in SEO. This means that you can't just post texts that are unreadable because they are stuffed with keywords, have long sentences, long paragraphs and no breaks. This doesn't work for the web today. However, Yoast SEO helps you create readable content. Not everyone can write in a way that's easy to digest by most Internet users, so a readability analysis is very useful. You need concise, formatted writing with short paragraphs, short sentences, plenty of subheadings, direct lines and active tone of voice. All of this helps you create the type of content that everyone can read. Yoast SEO will correct your writing style and adapt it to suit modern audiences.
Website content is not the same as book content. We scan, process and look for usefulness and directness in online content. So, you need to optimize your content to match those requirements. This post is an example of content that needs to be readable and scannable while offline content like books can be a bit longer, less concise and direct.
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Alaska Native Arts & Culture | Arts & Culture | Sealaska | Southeast
Sealaska Heritage Institute awarded federal grant to publish Tlingit, Haida archives for language revitalization project
November 10, 2020 by Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO
The late Nora and Dick Dauenhauer in Sitka in May 2014. The couple carried the knowledge of Southeast Alaska's native languages into the 21st century. (Photo by Emily Forman/KCAW)
Late Tlingit scholars Nora Ḵeixwnéi Marks and Richard Xwaayeenák̲ Dauenhauer once dedicated the first volume of their book "Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature" to Tlingit orators. They co-edited the four-volume series and were two-time winners of the American Book Award.
The couple carried the knowledge of Southeast Alaska's Native languages into the 21st century.
Recently, the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Sealaska Heritage Institute a two-year grant to process and digitally publish a massive collection of Tlingit and Haida documents archived by the late scholars.
https://media.ktoo.org/2020/11/10literaryestate.mp3
In one of the recordings, Marks Dauenhauer has a conversation with a Tlingit speaker. The recording is just one part of the Dauenhauers' archive.
Richard died in 2014, and Nora died in 2017. But what they left behind will last for generations.
"They came up with a method that's kind of the standard now," said Chuck Smythe, Director of Culture and History at the Sealaska Heritage Institute. "People are taking this as a starting point and are enhancing it and further, further developing it but it all started with the Dauenhauers."
The Dauenhauer Literary Estate is a massive inventory of fieldwork documents and audio collections of both Tlingit and Haida languages. The estate is made up of several dozen boxes of documents and audiotape of translations and transcriptions that go back decades.
"Their books and files were so heavy that their house was literally splitting apart," Smythe said.
The Dauenhauer Literary Estate includes more than 275 linear feet of documents, three boxes of journals, 18 boxes of media and 89 boxes of books, which will be processed over two years and made available to the public. (Photo courtesy of Sealaska Heritage Institute)
Will Geiger, a foremost scholar in Tlingit, is working on the project. He said much of the Tlingit oratory the Dauenhauers archived is to Southeast Alaska what Homer is to Ancient Greece.
"This new batch of materials, which is mostly papers, so there's going to be a lot. I'm sure we're gonna come across a lot of, say, draft documents that transcriptions of recordings that just haven't been circulated or made public or published," Geiger said.
Emily Pastore, archives collection manager at SHI, is also working on the project.
"Without the Dauenhauers, Tlingit language revival would not be where it is today," Pastore said. "And so by making these new papers available, we could be fostering new developments in Tlingit and Haida language revitalization that could not be done without them and without these papers. "
She says when it comes to their fieldwork, the Dauenhauers talked to everyday people.
Pastore also says the archives will also provide a way for future generations of Tlingit learners to connect to the language by giving them access to a wide range of Tlingit and Haida documents.
Once the project is done, the digital archive of the Dauenhauer Literary Estate will be public for everyone, not just academic researchers.
The song included in the radio version of this story is titled "Where Are You?" and is the exclusive property of the Lukaax̱.ádi clan.

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"Wade in the water": Jim Crow scenes from Maysville, Kentucky
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Maley, George S.
This research explores Jim Crow scholarship in real estate, entertainment, policing, and recreation. The thesis of this research is that outside forces came to bear on Jim Crow laws and customs. This research will show that without that outside pressure, a more equal society may not have evolved organically. In addition, this research highlights scenes from the small town of Maysville, Kentucky to more fully illustrate the power and tenacity of Jim Crow. This research is not meant to belittle the efforts of thousands of brave Americans, of all colors, who risked and sometimes lost their lives in the face of racial bigotry and oppression. It is rather to suggest that without the full power of the federal government behind them, their heroic struggle might not have happened and most certainly would have been more burdensome. The methodology employed in this project was to locate primary and secondary sources related to the topic and apply those sources to the central argument of the thesis. These sources were used to gain an understanding of Jim Crow as a social and political phenomenon and demonstrate that Jim Crow was so engrained into the fabric of American life that it took a national effort spearheaded by all three branches of the federal government to wrench it away from the American experience. (Author abstract)
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NOTE: Each POUND® class is first come, first serve due to limited space/equipment.
No class June 20, July 4.
Rochelle Spencer, Pound Pro – Rochelle Spencer is a Michigan Tech Alum who recently returned to the area. Her fitness journey was unexpected, but whole-heartedly embraced. After being diagnosed with PCOS (a disease that causes rapid weight gain in women), Rochelle decided to find a fitness program that she would want to stick with long term. That's when she discovered Pound. In March 2014 she became a certified Pound Pro and has loved every minute of each cardio jam session. The following year, Rochelle started running, became a NETA certified Group Exercise Instructor and started teaching Line Dancing. She has fallen in love with fitness and believes anyone can try it, love it and live it too.


Duckett, T. faced 7 batters in the 6th.
Courvoisier reached on an error by ss.
Barth, K. homered to right field, 2 RBI, unearned; Courvoisier scored, unearned.
Graham advanced to second on a passed ball.
Porcaro singled, RBI; Graham scored, unearned.
Ross hit by pitch; Porcaro advanced to second.
Brewer homered to right field, RBI.
Burdi walked; Ortiz advanced to second.
Olla, J. singled to third base.
Healy to 3b for Ostrowski.
Ostrowski takes a one-hop grounder off his face and leaves game.
DeMartino reached on catcher's interference.
Olla, J. singled up the middle.
Barth, K. singled through the right side; Olla, J. advanced to second.
Barth, K. advanced to second; Olla, J. advanced to third on a balk.
Ross homered to right field, RBI.
Keane singled to left field.
Brewer doubled down the lf line; Keane advanced to third.
DeMartino singled up the middle, 2 RBI; Brewer scored; Keane scored.
Healy singled, bunt; DeMartino advanced to second.
Ortiz singled, bunt; Healy advanced to second; DeMartino advanced to third.
Burdi doubled to left center, 2 RBI; Ortiz advanced to third; Healy scored; DeMartino scored.
Baglow, R. to p for Duckett, T..
Ross flied out to lf, SF, RBI; Burdi advanced to third; Ortiz scored.
Porcaro advanced to second; Burdi scored on a balk.
Schilter, M. homered to left field, 2 RBI; Mayer, M. scored.
Olla, J. singled through the right side.
Barth, K. singled down the lf line; Olla, J. advanced to second.
Simmerman to p for Thompson.
Pankow, D. walked; Shea, D. advanced to second; Barth, K. advanced to third.
Healy doubled to left center.
Mayer ejected after arguing strikeout.
Schilter, M. singled up the middle.
Olla, J. singled to right field; Schilter, M. advanced to second.
Grear to p for Simmerman.
Meitzler to 1b for Ross.
Vincenti to p for Grear.
Shea, D. singled to left field.
Martz, A. reached on an error by 3b; Shea, D. advanced to second.
Banton, B. singled up the middle; Martz, A. advanced to second; Shea, D. advanced to third.
Banton, B. advanced to second; Martz, A. advanced to third; Shea, D. scored on a wild pitch, unearned.


Dr. Bishop received his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Harvard provided Bishop with his first research experience and introduced him to the study of animal viruses. Bishop completed his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and pursued a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. In 1968, he accepted a faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco and remains there to this day.
At UCSF, Bishop began to study Rous sarcoma virus. He was soon joined by Harold Varmus. Together, they made the seminal discovery that retroviruses can hijack genes that control normal cell growth and convert them to cancer causing oncogenes. Bishop and Varmus were honored with the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this research.
Bishop served as chancellor of UCSF from 1998-2009. He is involved in many aspects of research advocacy and he continues to enjoy running his research lab and teaching students at UCSF.


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Unser Racing Museum
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico (NM), US
Four time Indy 500 winning driver Al Unser, Sr. and his wife Susan opened this motorsports museum in 2005. It not only showcases the story of the racing Unser family, but also features various exhibits from other forms of racing.
The museum was once an office building, which was purchased and renovated at a cost of $9 million. Unlike other automotive museums, the cars are not roped off, allowing visitors a closer view of the exhibits. Many displays feature an informative electronic kiosk.
Six different Unsers have raced in the Indy 500. Al, his brothers Jerry and Bobby, his son Al Jr., and his nephews Johnny and Robby.
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Links: www.unserracingmuseum.com
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Indy car on display
'Tree II' by Steven Rudy
Bob Bogan's House
Nathan A. Twining's House
Mark J. Caruso's House
'House in Rio Grande Valley' by Antione Predock
Blake Chanslor's House (Former)
St. Therese of the Infant Jesus
'West Mesa House' by Antoine Predock
'Solar Arc' by William Drexel
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center


The gashapon machine that was first used to get Whisper can also be used to get new Yo-Kai through the use of in-game coins which.
Crypto chatter on Reddit is up 930% this year. So. The biggest bitcoin group on Reddit is adding 1,300 new. according to a MarketWatch analysis of data from.Bitcoin Price, Bitcoin Experts Interviews, Bitcoin Videos etc.
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It's steampunk weekend in Haworth! What's steampunk? It's a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. And for us, it's an excuse to get creative, so join local artist Rachel Lee for a junk-modelling/up-cycling drop-in workshop.
Reduced admission (£1 discount off adult ticket) for steampunk-attired visitors (Saturday only).
The activity is free with admission.


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Dounreay Nuclear Reactor
December 7, 2019 Ivar
Dounreay Nuclear Reactor is an exhibit in the National Museum of Scotland which combines elements from the creative disciplines of architectural modelling and sculpture. It was completed by artists Kate Williams and John Lloyd in 2007.
The tag tells us that the piece is "kiln cast using uranium glass lit with ultraviolet light." Uranium glass, as its name implies, contains a small percentage of uranium which causes it to glow under ultraviolet light. This is an extreme example of using a material which is apropos to the subject. It's a bit like making a model of the moon out of a moon rock.
The otherworldly green glow of this eye-catching piece is a reminder of the controversy which surrounds nuclear energy. Promoters of the technology champion its ability to dramatically reduce air pollution when compared with traditional energy sources like coal and petroleum. On the other hand, detractors point to the environmental calamities which resulted from accidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima.
Depending on your views regarding nuclear energy, Dounreay Nuclear Reactor can be seen as either a celebration of scientific progress, or a warning against the hazards of technology. Either way, it's a compelling hybrid of artistic techniques. The work is not only a thought-provoking representation of its namesake, but a symbol of nuclear technology and all the questions it raises.
If you like to build dioramas and want to learn more about how to optimize the visual impact of your work, you might like Diorama Design. It's available in both ebook and print formats at Amazon.
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The roof of a gas station sits in flood waters in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Aransas Pass, Texas.
Key oil and gas facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast have temporarily shut down as Harvey pounds the region with torrential rain and high winds, virtually assuring gasoline prices will rise in the storm's aftermath.
How soon they reopen depends on the severity of flooding and the resumption of power to the areas. Experts say it's still too early to say, with the storm still moving through the region Saturday evening. But they believe gas prices will increase 5 cents to 25 cents per gallon.
Harvey also continued to take a toll on U.S. air travel Saturday, with more than 1,000 flight cancellations as of the early evening, according to FlightAware. Nearly 850 of the canceled flights were scheduled to either depart from or land at Houston's two airports.
REFINERIES: Nearly one-third of the nation's refining capacity sits in low-lying areas along the coast from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
A Valero oil refinery's flare continues to burn as Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.
Tom Kloza, an analyst for the Oil Price Information Service, predicts that prices could rise by up to 25 cents a gallon, but that an increase of 5 cents to 15 cents is more likely, assuming that the hurricane doesn't cause lasting damage to refineries.
OIL AND GAS: Companies have been evacuating workers from oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, and that is crimping the flow of oil and gas.
Rescuers battling heavy downpours plucked hundreds of people from rising floodwaters left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, answering desperate calls for help all along the ravaged Texas coastline where at least two people were killed and up to 14 injured.
"We could see more production be taken offline in the Gulf of Mexico" if the path of the storm wanders farther east, said Jenna Delaney, an oil analyst for PIRA Energy. But, she noted, oil companies announced fewer platform shutdowns on Friday than they had on Thursday, which is an encouraging sign.
SHIPPING: Shipping terminals along the Texas coast shut down as the storm approached. Port operations in Corpus Christi and Galveston closed, and the port of Houston said container terminals and general cargo facilities closed around midday Friday.
Rates for carrying freight between the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. East Coast rose.
TRAVEL: After more than 1,200 flight cancellations Friday and Saturday, airlines already had canceled an additional 823 flights scheduled for Sunday, according to FlightAware's calculations on Saturday evening.
UTILITIES: Researchers at Texas A&M University estimated that the storm would knock out power for at least 1.25 million people in Texas. They said the hardest-hit areas will include Corpus Christi, which is on the coast, and San Antonio, which is about 140 miles inland.
INSURANCE: A firm that does forecasts for insurance companies said wind-damage claims could top $6 billion, although it said losses in the low billions are more likely.
AP Business Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this story.


My daughter has a Bachelors degree and she is at present pursuing her Masters degree in Germany in Intelligent systems....she has completed 6 months...We are currently based in Surat. We come from an upper middle class, nuclear family background with moderate values. People describe her as knowledgeable, social, disciplined, family oriented and smart. Her hobbies and interests are art / handicraft, listening to music, painting, photography and puzzles.
My daughter is a Software Professional with a Bachelors degree currently pursuing her master's degree in Germany . We come from an Upper middle class, Joint family background with Liberal values.
My daughter completed her schooling in Goa & Surat.She finished her B.Tech(EE&E) from Kalasalingam University and completed her PGDM ( Development Management ) from IIFM,Bhopal.She is presently working for PRADAN (NGO) on a rural development project at Bhavra,near Itarsi,Madhya Pradesh. She is self confident and joyful.She is ready to relocate after marriage but would like to continue her profession.
In Aditya's own words: Hi there, I am an easy going, down to earth, no frills guy and I believe in simplicity. Mostly an introvert, I take my time to gel up with new acquaintances. Probably if my partner is an extrovert, that would make opposites attract and make up for a good match. I use Hindi as my language of choice so expecting my partner to be the same or comfortable with it. I am successfully running my own IT firm in Surat named Falcon Solutions (at present the company has ten bright and energetic engineers ). After having competed my Masters degree (M.S) from Germany in Computer Science, I worked there with top MNCs for sometime before moving back to India in 2014. I prefer mountains over beaches and love driving and going on long rides and weekend getaways. I like working out during my free time (though not too regular), playing cricket on Sundays, a casual book read every once in a while and random jogs with my Rottweiler (Yes we have a pet tiger at home) :-) Though my parents are Tamil Brahmins (Iyer), I was brought up in Jamshedpur and moved to Gujarat about 20 years back. Therefore we speak Hindi in our family which has now become our main language of communication. I expect my partner to be a working woman. Someone who is career oriented yet caring and understands her responsibility towards the family.
My son, Karthik Iyer is working as a Medical Officer in the Government sector. He has completed MBBS from Indore and did schooling at Surat . He is pursuing for PG entrance examinations.
I am making this profile for my relative. He completed his bachelor's degree and is now working as a doctor. He belongs to an upper middle class, joint family with orthodox values, currently settled in Surat.
My son is a doctor with a Bachelor's degree working in public sector. He is currently living in Surat. He is a caring, down to earth person. He is very hard-working and focused person. We come from an upper middle class, nuclear family background with traditional values.
I am an officer with a Bachelor's degree working in government sector. I am currently living in Mandvi(Surat). I come from a middle class, nuclear family background with orthodox values.
Hi, I have completed my PGDM in Retail Management & marketing and currently working with Mahindra & Mahindra in the passenger car division. I am a native of Aluva, Kerala and currently residing at Surat, Gujarat. I love to cook, travel and go on drives and a foodie too. I love to try a variety of cuisines and explore various flavours. My job involves a lot of traveling and relocating as well and I'm passionate about cars and hence in the same industry. Im looking for a partner who is equally passionate and believes in family togetherness, celebrates traditions and values culture.
My son is self-employed with a Finance degree currently living in Surat. We come from a Middle class, Joint family background with Moderate values.


Savages have announced that they will release their sophomore album Adore Life on January 22, 2016. It's the long-awaited follow up to their debut Silence Yourself which was released in 2013.
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The Double-Key Necklace has a fine chain and excites, just like every other jewelry from the Decode! collection, through its characteristic key element. The Double-Key Necklace is a beautiful necklace for every day and can be very well combined with other pieces or be worn together in both colors.


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Q: Tool for converting all VARCHAR to NVARCHAR in one or few steps I am using SQL Server Management Studio and need to convert all VARCHAR columns to NVARCHAR. Is there a tool or something similar to do the conversion in one or few steps? It should be applied to different databases.
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Excuse me, but is it possible that you gave me a script to convert NVARCHAR to VARCHAR? I need it the other way round. Also when I run the script which was produced by your script it gave me the error
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multiple times. Actually I thought that the solution your script produce, to simply alter the tables doesnt work when there are constraints related to tables. Thats why I asked whether there is a tool that can do this, because I thought a simple script has restrictions.

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A few weeks ago I posted a selection of paintings of cinemas (here), and to follow-up I thought that this week we would have some short stories and comics freely available from the World Wide Web.
E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prodigious English writer, and even made the cover of Time Magazine on 12 September 1927. Many of his novels and stories were adapted for the cinema, mostly between 1917 and 1924. You can find his imdb page here, which lists 43 different titles adapted from his work. His short story 'The Cinema Murder' published in 1917 and filmed in 1919, can be accessed here.
The winner of this years International Cinema Short Story Contest at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca was Álvaro Vázquez de la Torre, with EL VIEJO INDIO QUE SONRÍE.
Obviously, these are all in Spanish.
Multiplex is a twice weekly comic from Gordon McAlpin, and has just celebrated its sixth birthday. It is set in a Chicago movie theatre and focuses on the staff and patrons, but the website also includes movie reviews, trailers, and other stuff.
Another comic to check is Joe Loves Crappy Movies, by Joseph Dunn, which has also been going for several years. Each strip focusses on a movie presenting one man's commitment to watching bad films (which we all probably really like too), and if you scroll down you below the comic you find reviews, comments on the DVD, and other stuff too.
John W. Townsend is the author of some apparently very strange books and a poet too. He is also the author 'The Phoenix Cinema,' a short story in which the name of the cinema is most apt.
Theater Hopper is a webcomic by Tom Brazelton about movies 'written from the fan's perspective,' and has been going since 2002! As you can see below it has some truly terrifying ideas.
Finally, you can visit Joe R. Lansdale's website here. Lansdale is the author The Drive-in' series of comic horror novels that chart the strange occurrences at a Texan drive-in theatre and its aftermath. He is also the author of the short stories 'Drive-in Date,' which combines a love of cinema with necrophilia, and 'Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program,' the title of which is self-explanatory (no, really), both of which can be found in Writer of the Purple Rage. Joe's website has information on all his books, but also features a free short story of the week.


If at all you are of the plans to host a corporate event in Washington, then you must as well be aware that you will as well need to have a catering division to the whole event which will be a sure way to ensure that the event is indeed a success. The facts we know of in general is that at any event where there will be dining in them, a lot of attention will be given to the food. As such you will have to keep in mind the fact that your corporate event will only be a success all as per the food quality that you will have to serve your guests as a matter of fact. Now this just tells you how significant the need to have a sure catering service for your corporate event will be and as such take some time to ensure that you are indeed going for the best corporate catering service for your event. See more on Potomac preferred vendors.
Generally, a corporate event will be coded as being formal ad as such all those who will be participating in them will just but be at their best formal statuses. You just cannot stomach anything that will give a poor impression of your company and as such you will have to be as careful to ensure that the service will not be the type that will cost you such mistakes that will take away your desired professional outlook you may want attached to your business.
Considering the fact of the significance of the catering aspect of the corporate event you are planning to host, it will be important that you settle for dealing with a catering service company that has a wide experience in handling the corporate service so as to be sure that the advantage of the experience they come with assures you to a reliable degree of the services they will be getting you. When you will have duly factored this need, you will have basically have ensured that what you will have nothing but a service which will be able to hand you and your guests at the event a service which will be free of untoward events that may spoil the whole event.See more at http://maisonculinaire.com/weddings/.
As such ensure that you always have the time to look around and get the best of the catering services for the corporate event you will be hosting as this will quite guarantee you and your guests a great time at the event and make it just a big success.


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By Frank Newman on 15th November 2014
Last week the Reserve Bank released its half yearly Financial Stability Report. It's purpose is to report on the soundness and efficiency of New Zealand's financial system and the measures undertaken by the Reserve Bank.
In the media conference that followed , Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler commented on the possibility of regulations to curb buying by larger property investors (those owning more than five rentals).
The Stability Report itself made no mention of the need for such controls but the media made much of the Governor's comment and as expected politicians jostled their way into the limelight with one-liners about home affordability, but more on that later.
In amongst the 59 pages in the report is some interesting information. The Reserve Bank reported our banking system is, "well capitalised, funding and liquidity buffers are above required minima, and non-performing loans continue to decline… each bank has the capacity to manage a range of significant negative events."
The report went on to describe four key economic risks:
Imbalances in the housing market (between demand and supply);
High levels of indebtedness in the dairy sector;
The potential effects of a slowdown in the Chinese economy; and
The banking system's reliance on offshore funding.
He said the balance of these risks had shifted in the last six months: The housing risk had eased because of the loan-to-value ratio (LVR) measures, but risk within the dairy sector had increased.
The impact of the LVR limits has been obvious. In the year to September 2014:
House prices inflation nationally declined from 9.4% to 5%.
In Auckland house price inflation declined from 16.4% to 8.6%.
New lending with a LVR ratio >80% went from 24.4% of lending down to just 7.3%, and now accounts for 16.5% of total lending against 20.5% last year.
That's a dramatic turnaround and on that score the LVR policy has achieved its purpose.
On the future of the LVR policy, it reports; "The Reserve Bank intends to ease or remove the restriction when a sustained moderation in house price inflation is achieved, and when there is little risk of a resurgence in housing market activity." While immigration remains strong, the LVR policy will remain in place.
With respect to the dairy sector the Reserve Banks says; "The forecast dairy payout announced by Fonterra for the 2014-15 season of $5.30 per kilogram of milksolids (excluding dividends) is well below the payout for the previous season of $8.40. If realised, it would be the lowest payout in six years…Based on the recent outcomes of international dairy auctions, the payout could be lower than currently forecast [Westpac is expecting $4.80]…some highly indebted farmers are expected to experience negative cash flow at the reduced milk payout."
That is certainly a risk for regional economies.
With respect to the banking systems reliance on offshore funding, overseas lenders now provide 30.1% of bank funding, down from 38.3% in 2007. That is due to the slow down in the demand for credit and improved domestic savings, which is good news.
Not surprisingly a number of commentators and politicians are calling for the Reserve Bank to regulate property investors. They say these large investors are pushing up prices and elbowing out would be first home buyers. That, of course, is untrue and ignores the fact that investors are not buying more homes than they did previously, they are simply buying a greater percentage of homes sold because fewer are selling to first home buyers due to the LVR regulations.
Unfortunately the home affordability debate has focused on property investors as the villain, instead of looking deeper into the issues. Ironically, those who complain about high property prices are the same people who at each election call for GST to be removed from fruit and vegetables. They say nothing of the impact of GST on those building their first home (something the government is encouraging via KiwiSaver), even though avoiding GST on fruit and vegetables is easy (grow your own) but avoiding GST on a new home is impossible.
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HyNet North West: Delivering Clean Growth
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HyNet North West is a significant clean growth opportunity for the UK. It is a low cost, deliverable project which meets the major challenges of reducing carbon emissions from industry, domestic heat and transport.
HyNet North West is based on the production of hydrogen from natural gas. It includes the development of a new hydrogen pipeline; and the creation of the UK's first carbon capture, and storage (CCS) infrastructure. CCS is a vital technology to achieve the widespread emissions savings needed to meet the 2050 carbon reduction targets.
Accelerating the development and deployment of hydrogen technologies and CCS through HyNet North West positions the UK strongly for skills export in a global low carbon economy.
The North West is ideally placed to lead HyNet. The region has a history of bold innovation, and today, clean energy initiatives are thriving. On a practical level, the concentration of industry, existing technical skill base and unique geology means the region offers an unparalleled opportunity for a project of this kind.
The new infrastructure built by HyNet is readily extendable beyond the initial project, and provides a replicable model for similar programmes across the UK
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HyNet North West: Unlocking Net Zero for the UK- Vision Statement (2020)
HyNet North West will play a critical role in the world's fight against climate change, accelerating the UK's transition to 'net zero' greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. As a collection of world-leading organisations coming together to develop HyNet North West, our hydrogen network will produce, store and distribute hydrogen to decarbonise the North West of England and North Wales. Together with carbon capture and storage (CCS), these technologies have the potential to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 10 million tonnes every year by 2030 – the equivalent of taking four million cars off the road. The project is a game-changer. It will realise the potential of the hydrogen economy through the creation of state of-the-art infrastructure. It will offer a viable alternative to the use of natural gas, providing a safe transition to a decarbonised world
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HyNet North West is a hydrogen energy and Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) project. The goal of HyNet is to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industry, homes and transport and support economic growth in the North West. Spanning across Liverpool, Manchester and parts of Cheshire, the region's unique geology, existing technical skills base and concentration of industry make it ideally placed to host HyNet. It can bring strong economic and environmental benefits to the North West, as well as positioning the region as a leader in the research, development and deployment of hydrogen and CCUS technologies, providing opportunities for skills export.
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HyNet North West is a new energy project in North West England and North Wales that will put this region at the forefront of the UK's journey to a Net Zero future. It will use a combination of hydrogen energy, in place of fossil fuel gas, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to meet the challenge of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from industry, homes and transport by 2050, starting in the 2020s.
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Survey: Environmental Impact Of Food A Top Concern For Grocery Shoppers
Grocery shoppers in Illinois and other states say they would consider paying more to purchase foods produced in a more environmentally friendly manner, according to a new survey.
Public Interest Group Urges Subway To End Antibiotic Use In Meat (VIDEO)
An Illinois public interest group and its affiliates across the country launched a nationwide campaign Tuesday urging Subway to serve only antibiotic-free meat and poultry at its sandwich shops.
Specifically, the Illinois Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is calling on Subway to "stop using meat raised with the routine use of antibiotics."
Illinois PIRG canvassers promoted the public interest group's "Subway: Go Antibiotic-Free" campaign late Tuesday morning at a Chicago Subway restaurant at 319 S. Jefferson St.
Outside the Subway location, Illinois PIRG volunteers and interns distributed flyers and asked passersby to pose for photos with signs reading, "I was craving a sub, but I wanted meat raised without antibiotics."
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McDonald's announced Wednesday that it plans to start serving chicken raised without human antibiotics at its U.S. restaurants.
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Consumer rights advocates and health professionals are calling on the Obama administration to restrict the use of antibiotics on healthy factory farm animals, saying the "overuse and misuse" of antibiotics generates bacteria that are resistant to one or more classes of drugs.
"Bacteria is getting resistant to these antibiotics they're using at factory farms, and the bacteria is then being passed to our community through the air we breathe, through water, through animal waste and through the food we eat," said Dev Gowda, of the consumer advocacy group, Illinois PIRG. "President Obama and the FDA need to take action and essentially save antibiotics for future generations."
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Eating less meat or none at all has the potential to significantly shrink an individual's diet-related carbon footprint and "can make a valuable contribution to climate change mitigation,"according to a recent study published in the journal Climatic Change.
The study examined the diets of 29,589 meat eaters, 15,751 vegetarians, 8,123 pescatarians (vegetarians who eat fish) and 2,041 vegans between the ages of 20 to 79 in the United Kingdom. Participants took a "food-frequency questionnaire" asking how often in the last year they consumed 130 different food items. Researchers were able to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions, which trap heat and warm up the planet, associated with the various foods.
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Report: 6 Million Pounds Of Toxic Industrial Pollution Discharged Into Illinois Waterways (VIDEO)
Industrial facilities discharged 6.1 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Illinois' rivers and streams in 2012, shows a new report by the Environment Illinois Research & Education Center.
The "Wasting Our Waterways" report ranks Illinois as the 13th worst U.S. state for the total volume of toxic industrial releases to waterways.
At the national level, polluting facilities dumped 206 million pounds of harmful chemicals into American waterways in 2012, according to the report. And some 8.39 million pounds of toxic pollution were discharged into the Great Lakes watershed. Ammonia, chromium and lead are among the chemicals released into Illinois' waterways, according to the report.
Environmentalists Call For Stricter Regulations On Factory Farms
Factory farms are one of the leading causes of pollution in Illinois' rivers and lakes, according to a group of environmental activists who called on the state to impose stricter regulations—and even a moratorium—on industrial livestock production.
"Clean water is critical to the environment, to public health, and to the quality of life in Illinois. Factory farms seriously threaten the health of our waterways," said Lisa Nikodem, campaign director for Environment Illinois Research and Education Center.
Environment Illinois joined organic farmers Wednesday morning at the Heartland Café, located at 7000 N. Glenwood Ave. in Chicago, to put a spotlight on water pollution caused by the large-scale release of animal waste at concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), commonly called factory farms.
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Local Groups Voice Displeasure With Kirk's Votes On Nominations
Two local groups have voiced their displeasure with U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk's (R-IL) votes on the nominations of Mel Watt for the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Gina McCarthy for the job of administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Consumer Advocates Demand Congress End Farm Bill Subsidies To Food Additive Production, Corporate Farms
If lawmakers are interested in cutting costs during the 2013 reauthorization of the farm bill, they should reduce wasteful spending on subsidies that support processed food additives and already profitable agribusiness corporations, according to members of the consumer advocacy group, U.S. PIRG.
"The way our subsidies are distributed right now is a strong example of how skewed our system is," said Dani Neuharth-Keusch, assistant community outreach director for Illinois PIRG, who spoke at a press conference Tuesday to release the nationwide research group's new report, "Apples to Twinkies 2013."
Federally subsidized crop insurance is intended to help farmers manage the risk inherent to their business. According to the report, the current farm bill, enacted in 2008, fails to "appropriately direct federal dollars" with subsidies that "mirror a pattern of special interest influence."
"We need to push back against subsidies skewed toward big agribusiness and inadequate subsides for fresh produce," said Neuharth-Keusch.


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By Ezekiel Kweku
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Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually come and attack me!'"
In the days after Michael Brown's death, we watched a sadly familiar story play out. The media ran pictures of him staring sullenly into the camera and making "gang" signs with his hands. They emphasized his weight and large frame, listened to his music and declared it "violent hip hop." For their part, the police made certain to pair pertinent details about his death with seemingly irrelevant details about his life: releasing the long demanded name of the officer who shot him alongside surveillance footage of an unrelated shoplifting incident, leaking a toxicology report indicating that Brown had "marijuana in his system" at the same time they released an autopsy confirming that he'd been shot six times. Black people desperately tried to defend Michael Brown, pointing out that he was a child, that he was gentle, that he never got into any trouble, that he was going to college. If we fail to name the battleground being fought upon, this fight over what narrative to impose on the details of Brown's life might seem oddly tangential to the argument over the circumstances of his death. So let's be clear about the stakes of this conflict: we are trying to decide whether or not Michael Brown was a nigger. A dead human being is a tragedy that needs to be investigated and accounted for. A dead nigger doesn't even need to be mourned, much less its death justified.
As the story in Ferguson became about not only the death of Michael Brown, but also about our reaction to his death, two more similar, and similarly familiar, narratives emerged, advanced by black and white media and celebrities alike. The first is that the black community's outrage about death at the hands of white killers is opportunistic and misguided. Even if racism is a factor in these murders, and it probably isn't, the murders of most black people are committed by other black people. The implication being made here is that blacks are quick to seize on racism as a way of ignoring or excusing problems within the black community. The second narrative is closely related to the first, and it is the story that white people may at times act in ways that may appear racist, but this behavior is merely a rational reaction to black America's culture of criminality and violence. A direct interrogation of each of these stories could fill a book, and I will not undertake that task here. However, the fact that they are being told about the death of Michael Brown gives us a hint about whether we should think of them as valid.
The idea that Michael Brown's death is being emphasized too much by the black community, which should instead be concerning itself with "black on black crime" is oddly dissonant with the specific details of this case. The death of a person at the hands of a police officer, a person who is vested with the state's power to do violence, should obviously be treated with an even greater seriousness than their death at the hands of another citizen. It also would seem strange to invoke the ancient spectre of black criminality given that, even if we take the questionable police account of events as completely credible, the worst crime for which Brown was stopped was shoplifting a handful of cheap cigars. Why this should be treated as something more than an instance of ordinary American juvenile mischief is unclear. That each of these well-worn narratives are being wheeled out in this this case only seems strange if we fail to recognize the argument's core: we can't complain about being treated like niggers when we're acting like niggers.
And this, ultimately, is the logic of respectability politics. That respectability politics is the narrative of the oppressor digested and regurgitated by the oppressed is obvious. But we shouldn't dismiss it without understanding its allure and durability: it reframes the terms of power, restoring agency into black hands. For the black upper class, it is the parable that allows them to rationalize their privilege as a sign of their own worthiness, while simultaneously giving them cover to righteously withdraw concern from the plight of the less fortunate of their race. It's no coincidence that the black people advocating for blacks to somehow be cleansed of their blackness by bathing in the waters of post-racial healing are many of the same complaining that "we" don't pay attention to "black on black crime". For the black middle class, respectability becomes an aspirational fable, a promise that they, too can be free of racism if they become successful enough to transcend their race. For the black underclass, it becomes a morality tale that explains their own destruction. Respectability politics is a false narrative, but it maintains its power because, like so many powerful lies, it sits adjacent to the truth and set slightly askew: they are looking for a way to turn you into a nigger, and if necessary, they will find one. You will never leave a body pure enough to not be judged complicit in its own destruction.
When you recognize this essential truth, it becomes uncomfortably clear that an alliance with whites newly uncomfortable with police militarization and misconduct is not an answer. I agree that we should take steps to demilitarize the police, and I agree that that we should require police officers to wear cameras and install them on their dashboards. But let's not pretend that these measures would constitute a solution to the problem of state violence done to blacks. New regulations to restrict police usage of the paraphernalia of military occupation will not stop them from taking the attitudes of occupiers. The police did not need military weapons to kill Eric Garner. They didn't even need a gun. Forcing the police to put cameras on their dashes and wear them on their bodies is a good idea, but it will not force them to respect the humanity of black bodies, and it might not even be sufficient to get justice after the fact. Oscar Grant was shot in the back, while lying prone on the pavement, in full view of multiple cameras, and his killer received less than a year in county jail. And let us not fail to name, either, the fear awakened in many white people, that the police force in Ferguson could one day be at the gates of their own town, that it already is: it is the fear of being treated like niggers. The troubling scenes we've seen in Ferguson – of the abrogation of basic civil rights, of the lack of respect for the community being policed, of casual brutality and harassment of the citizenry, of a police force taking the aggressive crouch of an occupying army – these scenes might be new to many white Americans, but for black America, they are as old as Reconstruction and as familiar as Sunday. Our white allies can alleviate their fears by returning the country to some imagined golden age of the friendly neighborhood constable, whistling as he strolls his beat, idly swinging his baton. Black Americans don't have to be civil rights scholars to know that there is no idyllic utopia there for us.
Black people have long been conscious of the fact that the police are not our allies, and it is beyond time for us to realize that the state it protects is not our ally, either. The machine of state was not designed to serve and protect blacks, it was designed to control them and confiscate from them. Ferguson is a city in which 67% of residents are black and 22% live below the poverty line. It is not a mistake that the second largest source of revenue for the government of this poor, black city is court fees and fines. It is not a mistake that this city with an average crime rate serves 3 warrants per household and conducts 1.5 court cases per family each year. It is not a mistake that this city with a 14.3% unemployment rate collects $321 dollars in fines per household per year. The Missouri state government's own statistics show that blacks in Ferguson are stopped disproportionately more than whites, that they are both searched and arrested at almost twice the rate of whites, despite the fact that police are are more likely to find contraband when they search whites than when they search blacks. That the machine of state wants the grist of black bodies is not unique to the city of Ferguson, and it is not new to America. The thickly knotted vines of petty infractions that can strangle a black family into imprisonment, bankruptcy, and homelessness find their roots in the pre-Jim Crow vagrancy laws that saw blacks imprisoned and pressed into forced labor for the crime of existing. The explosively growing for-profit prison system finds its genesis in the system of prison labor and chain gangs that emerged after the Civil War. The maze of laws and regulations that define governance in America, from the federal level down to the municipal is not intended to be navigated successfully by blacks, it was designed to entrap them. With respect to Ta-Nehisi Coates and his moving, thought-provoking essay, there is no way of making reparations for a crime that is in progress.
Jesus told the Parable of the Unjust Judge, the writer of Luke tells us, to teach us about prayer, but I think it can tell us something about justice as well. The unjust judge of the parable could be petitioned into rendering justice in a particular case if it were made inconvenient enough for him not to. This realization, of course, we have heard echoed by Malcolm and Martin alike. We should notice, though, what does not happen in the parable – the judge does not repent or reform. He does not become a righteous man. He renders justice to the widow out of pure self-interest, but this does not make him anymore inclined to be just in the next case the widow might bring, or indeed the next case that anyone else brings. There is no amount of pleading, petitioning, or protesting that will transform the judge into a just man. We live in under a state that is at best, indifferent to our problems, and at worst, actively seeking to destroy us. It is good and right that we hound the state into giving us justice, but blacks cannot delude themselves into thinking that the state will ever become justice. There are no laws that can be passed or reforms that can be pursued that will allow us to stop being vigilant. There are no victories that will bring us peace. We will never be able to pound our swords into plowshares, because we will always have to be prepared to fight. Dr. King, our beautiful prophet, was wrong. The arc of the moral universe does not lead anywhere in particular, not in this life. If it bends towards justice, it is only because it is pulled that way by our constant effort, by our unceasing straining and sweating and shouting.
I wish I were ending this comment with answers or at least encouragement, but I have none to offer. I just have a list of things that I know. I know that I have never called the police, and if in future I do, it will be because I have reached the furthest of last resorts. I know that I am taking steps to learn how to arm myself for the protection of my loved ones and my community. I know that I will always vote "not guilty" if I am on a jury prosecuting a non-violent drug offense. I know that I will always oppose any expansion of the state's power to harm and jail its citizens. I know that I will be going to community meetings and protests and vigils and organizing sessions and memorial services for the rest of my life. I know that one day I will tell my child, if I am blessed enough to have one, that the world is afraid of them, and that the police are not to be trusted. I know that one day, that child will tell her own child the same thing. And yet, I know that I still have enough hope to want to bring children into this world, broken as it is. That is something.
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Film Review: John Wick: Chapter 2
Posted on February 9, 2017 February 22, 2017 by Lauren
Lauren: I don't care what anyone says: I'd much rather repeatedly kidnap Liam Neeson's daughter than experience John Wick's particular set of skills firsthand. Dude is scary.
Back in 2014, John Wick surprised me by blowing away the minimal expectations I had for a new Keanu Reeves driven action flick. The movie is violent, unrelentingly so, and I'm sure it's difficult to stomach for those who get queasy at the mere thought of blood. But even the squeamish may fail to find it garish because of the motivation behind it. No one lays a negatively driven finger on a puppy and gets away with it! John Wick will make sure they suffer. And he will make sure we enjoy watching him do just that.
Speaking of dogs, when we last see Wick he is walking off into the vengeance soaked night with a new trusted companion at his side, and this is basically where we pick up in Chapter 2. Maybe just hours later, the beginning of this sequel starts off with Wick's mission to bookend his first quest for vengeance, in what he believes will be the final actions to cut the ties to this old world once more. Arguably one of the best sections of this film, Wick holsters his gun for some bumper car fun, taking notes from Melissa McCarthy on how to properly survive an encounter or two with a moving vehicle as he hunts down the second thing he lost days prior, his Mustang.
I'd argue that the film is on a barely noticeable downward slide from here, but let's get Zac's thoughts before I get to that.
Zac: My thoughts involve politely disagreeing with you. As politely as Wick calls a truce after killing an entire henchmen army.
I think Chapter 2 just keeps getting better with each set piece topping the last, in both ideas and style. I'll give you that Peter Stormare is a lot of fun in that opening, as is the hand to hand/car to body stuff, but I would have to argue each additional set piece brings something new to the table. Don't get me wrong, you'd be hardpressed to find a scene that lives up to the first film's club scene, but overall I might prefer Chapter 2 to the original.
Lauren: Gasp!
Zach: That's right, I'm taking the sequel. I think Chapter 2 just really streamlines everything we like about these films; the world building and the shooting people in the face. And man, does John Wick shoot a lot of people in the face.
I do think the first film's motivations are a better premise, by a mile, but what are you supposed to do to top that? Kill more dogs and wives? Do we know how his wife died yet, like for real? That has to be the Chapter 3 twist, right? Someone killed his wife to bring him back?
Lauren: Um… I always just assumed she died of cancer. If Wick could go after cancer in Chapter 3 that'd be great.
Zac: Still, I think the premise works here: how does Wick handle being back in a world he doesn't want to be in? Not driven by raw vengeance and the processing of his grief through the violent mayhem he was hoping to escape, Chapter 2 sees a reluctant Wick just trying to get out from under anyone's thumb. I bought it. And, with the way the film resolves, I think it reflects just how hard it can be to shake something that so defines you.
Lauren: You actually touched on my problem with this movie, the motivation. Everyone's always talking about how depressing the opening of Up is as we get a brief glimpse into Carl and Ellie's life together. It's beautiful, touching, loving and tragic, but at least it's full. At least I can stomach those bittersweet memories. Whereas with John Wick I can't even watch the scene that starts it all. Seeing his puppy die once was bad enough, and the retribution he seeks is the retribution we demand as viewers. Every single death is necessary, every single death is satisfying. Every single death is for Daisy.
This movie doesn't have a Daisy. Don't get me wrong, thank God it doesn't. I wouldn't have been able to handle another death scene like hers. Repeating this would've been cruel, not to mention poor storytelling on the filmmakers part. Which is why I get that it is completely unfair to compare the motivation of the two films and say that the first is superior to the second because of it, yet here I am doing just that. I can't help it.
All that said, I can't say enough that Chapter 2 is still a great movie, story and all. The characters always talk about Wick like he's some mindless killing machine, but the Wick we see is much more than that. He's crestfallen, he's tired, and most importantly, he's human. A human capable of terrifying things, but still human.
I stand by the first action sequence being my favorite part of the film, but when I said the movie is on a barely noticeable downward slide from there I meant just that. The world is flat levels of barely noticeable. These movies know how to pace themselves, that's for sure, and they know how to look pretty doing so. Maybe not as good as the club scene from the original, but it's still easy to lose count of the sequences worth mentioning: the concert, John's trip home, the museum, any scene with Common… It's all great. Just maybe mix in another signature move. Even Zombieland's rulebook is like: "We're proud that you took rule #2 to heart, but you're not fighting zombies. Cool it on the double tapping. Chest shot to head shot, chest shot to head shot, chest shot to head shot… We get it, dude."
Zac: Wick can shoot whomever, wherever, and however many times he wants!
Where you have a bit of a problem with the action, I think all of the talky scenes might be a bit too talky…
(Lauren: Wick can talk to whomever he wants for however long he wants!)
…until the final confrontation, but the invention of some of the action scenes is too good to complain. The brilliance of Wick trying to get through NYC with a hit on his head was fantastic, and executed pretty damn well. The escape from the concert/party was perfectly set up beforehand so we kept expecting the next big weapon, and I thought the final set piece was just full of fantastic shots in that house of mirrors.
Also, these set pieces last forever and never get a bit old. The bad guys just keep coming and the script keeps on throwing one thing on top of the other. I still think the fight choreography can be a smidge sluggish at times…
(Lauren: Cuz of all the double taps)
…but I will take that any day if it is being presented in beautiful and sparsely cut wide-shots so I know what the hell is going on.
If I had to level any complaints, it would be the pointlessness of Laurence Fishburne's presence, even if it is at the center of a fun little world building piece. Fishburne is fine and all, but he doesn't really get to do much. Maybe in Chapter 3. The back and forth with Common was a little too convenient too, in that there is no way they couldn't have taken one another out, but I think the film clearly knows it is having fun with these two.
That might be the film's greatest asset: it knows exactly what it is, how ridiculous what we are seeing is, and that we are here to have fun reveling in the carnage. Yes, these are ultra violent films, but they are by no means a political statement or anything distracting like that. I can enjoy the show and still hold my beliefs on gun control. The film doesn't attempt to exist in any reality; this is the world of John Wick, and I will keep coming back for more and more.
Lauren: As will I. I love this world. Yes it is a heightened world with its own code and language at times, but I love the way in which it manages to feel like it's hidden right beneath the surface of ours. It's that dichotomy between the mundane and abnormal, the dialogue to the actions taking place, the transitions from one set dressing to the next within one fluidly designed room, that makes this more than some stupid shoot-em-up that is as forgettable as the bullet casings left on the ground. These films make sure they are remembered.
Artfully lit blood, guts, and all.
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📽 Disney Time – Big Hero 6
April 6, 2020 Cinema, In ProgressBig Hero 6, Disneymulholland
List Item: Watch The Disney Animated Canon
Progress: 54/58 Title: Big Hero 6
Okay, so the posts about my trip to South Korea begin tomorrow but first let's cross off the next entry on the Disney watching challenge. I love that I was able to do this on the London-Seoul flight via the in-flight entertainment and make constructive use of a plane right where I found it near impossible to drift off to sleep (more on that in tomorrow's post I guess).
After the phenomenon of Frozen, any animated film that Disney released was always going to pale in comparison in terms of both commercial success and cultural relevance. Looking back, no Disney animated film has yet come close to matching Frozen, but the film immediately afterward was always going to have an extraordinarily raw deal.
Enter Big Hero 6, a film that a former colleague of mine didn't see because they hadn't seen the first five – I wish I was kidding. I guess that was a by product of this being one of many Marvel adaptations being released and some people didn't want to jump into a franchise. Guess the advertising team missed a trick by not making sure it was understood that this was a standalone film.
Big Hero 6 is a pretty unique film in the Disney canon in a number of ways. For one thing, it's the only one in the superhero genre with the premise of the latter half of the film being the setting up of a hero team using the top robotics students at a nearby university. In this way, it is also one of the few films where intelligence (and I mean scientific and genius level of intelligence) is lauded and doesn't always come with the backhand of being some sort of eccentric (yes Meet the Robinsons I am looking at you).
You also have the first time where a Disney film has had the main character have to spend the whole movie dealing with the death of a loved one – with The Lion King using it as a tipping point for the second half. In most other films, the death happens and there is a passage of time so most of the healing happens off-screen. In this film, however, we see Hiro having to deal with and eventually overcomes the pain of losing his brother in a fire. His motivations become all centred around this death and they ultimate climax shows how healing has truly begun.
Considering the amount of death in Disney films of loved ones, It's actually shocking that it took over 70 years before they made a film that a child, who has been through a similar loss, could watch and then have a kinship with. This alone makes Big Hero 6 a special film in the canon that shouldn't be overlooked. That and it's an excellent film in its own right with the cutest inflatable deuteragonist of all time.
Okay so it's going to be a while before I get to the next Disney film in the list, but was really neat to do this film now as it ensures that I'll be able to watch Frozen 2 in the cinema and still maintain chronological order. Next up is Zootopia, or Zootropolis depending on your region, which is my favourite Disney movie of this era. I can't wait to get to that once I am back in the UK.
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Making the most of the opportunity, Selena Selvakumar
A debut on the ITTF World Junior Circuit, the forthcoming 2018 Côte d'Ivoire Junior and Cadet Open provides the opportunity for many young players to experience international play.
There is a host of new names on the entry list for the tournament which commences is Abidjan on Sunday 1st April; no less than 16 girls from the host country are named on the entry list.
Selena Selvakumar, the highest ranked player on Junior Girls' Singles duty in Abidjan (Photo: Alvaro Diaz)
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The task is to seize that opportunity, one such player who in the past two years has taken full advantage of the opportunities afforded is India's Selena Selvakumar, the leading name in the Junior Girls' Singles event in Abidjan.
Notably in 2016 she made no less than nine appearances on the ITTF World Junior Circuit, making the perfect start. She competed at the Doha Junior and Cadet Open in Qatar and won the Junior Girls' Singles event.
A regular face in 2016, it was just the same last year; she was in action on five occasions, again she secured a Junior Girls' Singles title, she won in Egypt, finished in third place on the Standings behind Japan's Maki Shiomi and Belgium's Lisa Lung, thus gaining an invitation to Luxembourg for the 2017 ITTF Wold Junior Circuit Finals.
Third place was to be her lot in the initial group stage and thus no place in the main draw but she came very close to a last eight berth and could depart the Grand Duchy with pride. She was beaten by Chinese Taipei's Su Pei-Ling in seven games (11-7, 11-4, 7-11, 11-7, 8-11, 10-12, 11-8), before losing an almost equally close contest in opposition to Hong Kong's Chau Wing Sze. She experienced defeat was in six games (7-11, 11-6, 13-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-1). Sandwiched in between, she recorded her one win when overcoming Egypt's Marwa Alhodaby (8-11, 16-14, 11-5, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7).
Now, in 2018 Selena Selvakumar is once again on her travels, earlier this year she competed in the Czech Republic and Tunisia; in the former she reached the third round losing to Poland's Julia Szymczak, in the latter it was a quarter-final exit at the hands of Croatia's Andrea Pavlovic.
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