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How Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne Brought A Modern Twist To 'Mary Queen of Scots'
Award-winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne shares how she went about creating the costumes for the historically-inspired film
By Rosie Herdman
Saoirse Ronan plays Mary Stuart in Mary Queen of Scots. Photo / John Mathieson, Focus Features
Sunday Jan. 20, 2019
Alexandra Byrne might live in our modern world, but it seems she is almost as familiar with that of 16th-century England. An Academy Award-winning costume designer, she is responsible for the incredible clothing seen in the anticipated historical drama Mary Queen of Scots, which has just been released in cinemas in New Zealand.
The film tells the story of two of Britain's most significant female rulers, Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart of Scotland, as they both seek to assert their claim to the throne. Starring Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan, it is a visually stunning tale helmed by two headstrong women.
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Alexandra found she responded instinctively to the script, thanks to her prior work on films such as Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (for which Alexandra won her Oscar), and Hamlet. "It's a period I've worked in before and like very much," Alexandra says, speaking from London.
Searching for a single material to tell the story in a controlled way led Alexandra to denim, which formed most of the film's costumes. Photo / Supplied
Growing up in Stratford-upon-Avon, a medieval town in England and the 16th-century birthplace of William Shakespeare, meant she spent much of her early life in the world of Shakespeare and theatre, so feels somewhat at home with the era.
Although she has worked with another version of Elizabeth previously, the stories are completely different, she says. "We're not making drama documentaries — how you make the clothes starts as a response to the story, from the script and how the director wants to tell that story." This particular story, she says, is about two queens and how they manage to maintain their royal status in a world of predatory men.
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When designing their costumes, Alexandra focused on each queen's journey of how they came to throne. Because the film's aim wasn't to be 100 per cent historically accurate, she was able to use her own creative licence to interpret their wardrobes.
"Elizabeth was very bright and well educated — as a child she was declared illegitimate, so she learned to be strategic when she grew up. She also knew the power of her appearance," she says. "Elizabeth executed one of the earliest PR moves, I think, in that she understood the power of her image in newly Protestant England, and she used that image to replace the iconography of the Virgin Mary."
Alexandra wanted Elizabeth's dressing style to be strategic for each occasion, and used colour changes to frame her journey, from when she is a youthful queen to after she contracts smallpox and survives but is disfigured.
"At this stage, she was ill and undermined by reports of Mary's beauty. She had a loss of self-esteem, and that's where I take the colour out of her clothes as she goes under the radar."
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Mary's roots were very different, says Alexandra. Named Queen of Scotland when she was six days old, she married King Francis II of France at 16 and a year later was widowed, after which she returned to Scotland in mourning, stripped of her titles and her lifestyle.
Mary is the more practical of the two queens, and figured out how to make her situation work to her advantage upon her return to her homeland. Alexandra used blue, the colour of Scotland, as the key shade in many of Mary's costumes, increasing the saturation as she grows in her authority and self-esteem.
Alexandra wanted Elizabeth's dressing style to be strategic for each occasion, and used colour changes to frame her journey. Photo / Supplied
In the pivotal scene of the film, the two queens meet face-to-face in a fraught and dramatic exchange, something that didn't happen in real life, but is an essential part of this interpretation. "I didn't want the costumes to be distracting at this point in the story," says Alexandra, "so having figured out their story arcs within the film, it was important to work out the tone for the meeting and work in reverse."
She also wanted to avoid the film becoming an endless parade of different dresses. Limiting the materials to one fabric meant Alexandra could tell the story in a more controlled way while manipulating this single material. This led her to choose denim, which was used in myriad ways for the main characters' costumes as well as most of the background extras.
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"We filmed in Scotland and weather is a huge factor. Mary was living there and she was a vigorous, outdoor woman, so I wanted a fabric for her that actually got better [with wear]. The dirt and the patina became the decoration on her clothes; mud, salt from being on a boat and rust from the armour on her body."
Left: Academy Award-winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne. Photo / Getty Images Right: Margot Robbie plays Queen Elizabeth I. Photo / Supplied
Using denim and reinterpreting it in 16th-century detail and silhouette was more challenging than Alexandra had anticipated. "Particularly with the men," she says. "We have so much denim in our language today. What I realised as we started working with it was that I had to balance that modernity with the 16th century and balance that juxtaposition. I wanted the accessibility and modernity that denim brought, but that became a very finely tuned balance to get right."
It's not unusual for film-makers to add modern elements to films inspired by historical events; Sofia Coppola did it with the soundtrack to Marie Antoinette, incorporating contemporary music from New Order and The Strokes; Yorgos Lanthimos' new film The Favourite, centred on Queen Anne, employs satirical modern catchphrases in its script; and Alexandra's designs in Mary Queen of Scots avoid stiffness thanks to her innovative use of denim.
Most importantly, she says, it's about creating a world that has credibility through which the viewer can easily transport themselves into the story. Mary Queen of Scots, with its epic landscapes and inspired clothing, is a feast for the eyes.
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Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film
ByPolina Kroik
eBook Published 21 January 2019
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
Kroik, P. (2019). Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449345
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.
The book interrogates three common narratives: The rise of Fordism as a "masculine" mode of production and the transition to an era of "feminized" work; women's liberation through the sexual revolutions; and the rise of a new form of literary authorship. Conversely, it suggests that women's labor was integral to the operations of the Fordist business sphere, where, unlike at the factory, the white-collar office proletarian work was casualized and feminized. This book argues that this workplace was an important site of subject formation, affirming dominant ideologies through economic practices.
Analyzing work by Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, Anita Loos, and Sylvia Plath, the book presents an alternative history of American modernism, one that is more attuned to gendered discourses of labor and class. By looking at the micropolitics of power within cultural institutions, this study moves beyond the dichotomies of exclusion/inclusion to interrogate the terms on which women and minorities worked as producers, and the ideas and experiences that consequently entered the field of intelligibility.
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Mixing business with pleasure
The "business girl" and the rise of Fordism in Sinclair Lewis's The Job (1917) and Winston Churchill's The Dwelling-Place of Light (1917)
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"Beggars in velvet gowns"
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Teen Girl Shot in Lawncrest
Police say it happened around 9:45 p.m. on the 500 block of Rosalie Street.
By David Chang
Published Dec 8, 2012 at 10:40 PM | Updated at 3:40 PM EST on Dec 10, 2012
14-Year-Old Girl Shot in Drive-By
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A 14-year-old girl is in the hospital after she was struck in a drive-by shooting during a party Saturday night. NBC10's Monique Braxton has the details. (Published Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012)
A teenage girl is in the hospital after a shooting in the Lawncrest section of the city.
Police say the 14-year-old was shot in an alley behind the 500 block of Rosalie Street around 9:45 Saturday night.
The girl was taken to the Albert Einstein Medical Center. She's listed in stable condition.
No arrests have been made. Police continue to search for suspects.


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F-16CM Thunderbird investigation of fatal crash released by US Air Force
By Garrett Reim2018-10-16T18:42:07+01:00
The US Air Force concluded in an accident investigation report that a fatal Lockheed Martin F-16CM Thunderbird crash on 4 April was the result of the pilot suffering loss of consciousness, caused by an 8.56g manoeuvre.
The mishap took place during a practice of the "High Show" version of the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration in the south part of the Nevada Test and Training Range near Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. Maj Stephen Del Bagno, a former F-35A pilot, died in the crash.
Prior to loss of consciousness and near the scheduled end of the aerial demonstration training flight, the pilot spent approximately 22s in inverted flight between 5,500 and 5,700ft above the ground level, during the "High Bomb Burst Rejoin" manoeuvre. After transitioning into a descending half-loop manoeuvre, also called a Split-S, the pilot experienced a gravity-induced loss of consciousness, became completely incapacitated for a period of time, and was fatally injured on impact without an ejection attempt.
Lockheed Martin's airborne collision avoidance system (Auto GCAS) is supposed to prevent aircraft crashes caused by a pilot's loss of consciousness by automatically overriding the flight controls and steering the aircraft away from the ground. Lockheed Martin's airborne collision avoidance system (Auto GCAS) is supposed to prevent aircraft crashes caused by a pilot's loss of consciousness by automatically overriding the flight controls and steering the aircraft away from the ground. However, the software was not uploaded on the F-16 Thunderbird that crashed in April.
"Auto GCAS has successfully saved several F-16 pilot lives, however it is not currently installed in F-16 Block 52s flown by the Thunderbirds," said the USAF. "The Air Force will be installing this upgrade in all Thunderbird jets in November 2018, following the completion of the current season."
Lockheed Martin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Updated with a statement from the USAF.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
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Generational Tastes
by J. Hoberman
Star stricken: Fugit and Hudson in Almost Famous photo: Neal Preston
A historical marker in more ways than one, American Graffiti perfected a near Pavlovian formula for manufacturing the myth of a generation out of dated pop music and period ephemera. Cameron Crowe's quasi-autobiographical Almost Famous, which is set mainly in the spring of 1973 (a few months before American Graffiti's epochal release), seems to be working to similar effect—although in a more fashionably starstruck context. American Graffiti's implanted memory aspired to the generic; Almost Famous shows its hero inventing that memory. The scenario demonstrates its creator's preordained success.
As Almost Famous is dedicated to the demographic defined by its sense of having missed the big party of the '60s, Crowe begins by projecting self-righteous counterculture anticommercialism back onto his mother. His alter ego, William, is introduced as the son of a wildly controlling widow (played, with charmless aggression, by Frances McDormand). Supposedly some sort of lefty college professor and professional protestmonger, Mom is sufficiently clueless to imagine Simon and Garfunkel as dangerous apostles of "drugs and sex." Mom's moralizing drives William's big sister out of the house, but before she leaves she bequeaths her LPs to the 11-year-old with the promise that "one day you'll be cool." Cut from 1969 to 1973 when precocious William (Patrick Fugit), a would-be rock critic, wangles his first assignment from Creem editor Lester Bangs (embodied by Philip Seymour Hoffman as a living legend).
No less than Mom, Bangs is an anticommercial loudmouth—albeit of a different type. Thus, the aspiring writer has a crazed, overprotective mother and a distant, wacky mentor who, in preparing to cede the oedipal struggle, wearily informs him that rock is over: "You got here just in time for the death rattle." In fact, rock will provide William with a surrogate family, an education, a few cheap thrills, and a clear career path. The kid can't get backstage to interview Black Sabbath, but thanks to the sympathetic groupie—"band-aid" is her preferred term—who calls herself Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), he manages to attach himself to the up-and-coming Stillwater, a sort of amalgam of Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, led by Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee). "I'm the front man and you're the guitarist with mystique," Jeff tells Russell in an amusing contretemps over their respective placements on a promotional T-shirt.
Despite blathering Jeff's classification of the diminutive, enthusiastic William as "the enemy," Russell realizes that Stillwater (or at least he) can make use of the kid reporter and invites him to join their tour. Almost Famous has been described as a movie about the heroic era of rock criticism, but it has far more to do with establishing the coolness of celebrity journalism. The power of pop is seen from a backstage perspective rather than out front with the fans. William has nothing intelligible to say about Stillwater's music but everything to learn about their lifestyle. It's mere moments before the kid is called by the self-important Ben Fong-Torres and gets upgraded from Creem to Rolling Stone.
Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib, Almost Famous suggests a universe of interlocking sitcoms. (It might almost be a special two-hour version of The Wonder Years.) In one running gag, Mom keeps calling William's various hotels and compulsively tells her students that "rock stars have kidnapped my son." In another, William seeks midnight advice from the incorruptible Bangs. "I'm always home—I'm uncool," his guru frankly admits. (Hoffman and his character should have been the movie.) Warned by Bangs against imagining that he has become friends with the band, William pursues the elusive interview with rueful Russell as though it were his white whale—even as Penny shacks up with the star. William is more wide-eyed than usual when he is ravished by three lesser band-aids while Penny looks on in amusement, favoring us with her trademark nose-wrinkle and pretending she possesses the wisdom of the ages.
William enjoys a few other rowdy adventures, tagging along with Russell to a teenage party in Topeka in which the star drops acid and begins proclaiming himself a "golden god." (Another sign of the times—the Orgy has penetrated deepest Kansas.) Russell jumps off the roof into the pool; I fell off the bus in the next scene, designed to provide the designated moment of communion, with the band and band-aids all singing an Elton John anthem. (It's a generational taste—like flat soda pop.) The partying and careerism get more intense as William pursues his story to Cleveland and finally all the way to New York—at which point he receives a phone call from Jann Wenner himself. (The real Wenner has a cameo here just as he did in Jerry Maguire. What does it say about Crowe's directorial personality that his trademark is the presence of a powerful erstwhile employer?)
"It's not about money, it's about playing music and turning people on," the members of Stillwater keep telling each other en route to the cover of Rolling Stone. Almost Famous is a movie that defuses its own bad conscience. As suggested by Jerry Maguire, Crowe's specialty is the principled sellout. Almost Famous experiments with a variety of potential endings, most of them involving some sort of betrayal, before settling on the most positive alternative. You keep waiting for William to become disillusioned and he never is.
Budd Boetticher is almost almost famous—at least in some circles. His last feature released around the time William's big sister left home, the 84-year-old filmmaker is the sole survivor of the Fuller-Siegel-Aldrich generation of auteurs who entered the movie industry during World War II and made the 1950s the golden era of genre flicks.
Boetticher, whose AMMI retro will be complemented by a retrospective presentation of Seven Men From Now at the upcoming New York Film Festival, is best known for a cycle of low-budget westerns starring a very middle-aged Randolph Scott and a couple of bullfight films that he made to suit himself. A college athlete and a youthful tough guy—his photos show a resemblance to Warren Oates—Boetticher went to Mexico to learn bullfighting and wound up as a technical adviser on the 1941 Tyrone Power vehicle Blood and Sand.
Following the production back to Hollywood, Boetticher directed 10 Columbia B pictures before securing the patronage of John Wayne, who produced The Bullfighter and the Lady as a Republic prestige flick in 1951. This single-minded account of a driven gringo (Robert Stack at his most demented) pitching woo at a demure señorita while studying to be a Mexico City matador remains Boetticher's favorite movie. It was the first that he signed "Budd" rather than "Oscar," although it was cut before its release from 129 to 87 minutes by Wayne's bud John Ford. (The restored print, showing this Sunday, includes a lengthy steam bath scene that struck Ford as dangerously homoerotic.)
As Boetticher began his official career with a movie about an obsessive bullfighter, so he ended it in the '60s, spending nearly a decade making a staged documentary on the Mexican matador Carlos Arruza (it screens next Saturday). In between these two personal projects, he knocked out his seven Scott westerns—starting with Seven Men From Now (1956). Made on 12-day shooting schedules, these elemental cheapsters unfold in a distinctively ahistorical, underpopulated frontier that, in various ways, anticipates the western milieus associated with Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, and Monte Hellman. Boetticher's barren, rocky wasteland—compared by one French critic to Yves Tanguy's surrealist pebblescapes—is scarcely more mutable than his star's craggy visage. That the director was uncharismatically saddled with the granite-faced, stiff-limbed, fiftysomething Scott doubtlessly served to keep down the violence—or rather to sublimate it into existential quests predicated on a series of shifting tactical alliances and haunted by the hero's mortality.
Boetticher made the Scott westerns as ritualized as a bullfight. The sense of narrative action doubling back on itself is reinforced by the similarities the films share. Ride Lonesome (1959), screening Sunday, in which Scott plays a bounty hunter with a hidden agenda, is the leanest and most abstract (a prophecy of spaghetti westerns to come); Comanche Station (1960), the last film of the cycle as well as the retro, is a metaformulaic summation that reprises situations, music, and even dialogue from its predecessors. There's also a case to be made for the comic Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), a crooked-town western that might have been written for the theater of the absurd. So far as I know, Boetticher only once again vented his dark sense of humor: The bleakly geometric Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) is a mordantly minimalist gangster farce that, in an apt bit of programming, shares the bill with Buchanan on September 30.
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Vintage Wishon-Harrell Studio Art Pottery Vessel Description and Item Information Up for sale is this beautifully made, vintage studio pottery vase or vessel by the well-known, listed potters, James Wishon and Jerry Harrell. Please excuse the glare in the photos.
This mod, retro piece is made from a stoneware body; it has an unusual shape which is footed with four conjoined vases. It weighs just under 4 pounds, unpacked. The piece is approximately 7 1/8 inches tall, 9 3/4 inches long, and 9 5/8 inches wide. This sculptural piece would be a fine addition to a collection of vintage studio ceramics, or it would look fabulous in a mid-century modern decor. Identification The pot is marked beneath, Wishon-Harrell.
James Wishon and Jerry Harrell are listed potters in the Vasefinder Museum. Per Vasefinder, Wishon and Harrell worked together in Muncie, Indiana. Condition This piece looks very good overall, with no chips or cracks. TERMS OF SALE (the not fun but unfortunately necessary fine print) 1. The resale certificate must be properly filled out in accordance with California Board of Equalization regulations. Payments must be received within three days of the end of the listing, unless prior arrangements have been made. Some countries have restrictions or prohibitions on certain classes of merchandise. And international government regulations prohibit such behavior.
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Using Flash's Drawing API to keep MovieClips connected at runtime isn't only easy—it has additional benefits. In addition to commonly used rigid lines, you can connect clips with rubber bands.
The only thing new here is the aforementioned clear() method to erase the previous lines upon every enterFrame so only the current location of the circles will be connected.
To add some fun, and a tiny bit of realism, I'll show you how to bounce the connecting lines a bit after a collision, as if they were rubber bands. To accomplish this, all you have to do is draw a curve instead of a line between the two MovieClips and vary the curve structure each time a circle changes direction. First, it helps to understand how a curve is created.
Drawing a straight line requires only starting and destination anchor points. However, to draw a curve, you must also provide a single control point. (To simplify the method, and increase performance, Flash uses a single control point to draw a quadratic Bezier curve, rather than one or more control points for each anchor, as in the case of cubic Bezier curves). Flash starts with the anchor points and interpolates all interim points as it draws the curve toward the control point. Figure 3 shows what a curve would look like for a hypothetical set of anchor and control points.
Figure 3. Curve: This figure shows a Flash curve created with the Drawing API's curveTo() method. All such curves are quadratic Bezier curves, meaning they have two anchor points and one control point.
So, to simulate a rubber band, all you have to do is move the control point back and forth on either side of the curve, diminishing its value over time. This has the effect of plucking a rubber band. The arc of the band is large to begin with and diminishes steadily until the band is taught again.
Using Figure 3 as a hypothetical example, consider the points pictured as (left to right) anchor1 (x:0,y:50); control (x:50, y:0); and anchor2 (x:100, y:50). All you have to do is use a pattern like this for the control point: (50,0), (50, 100), (50, 25), (50, 75), (50, 50). This causes the control point to bounce back and forth—to y values of 0, 100, 25, 75, finally settling at 50—causing the curve to be a straight line.
Of course with moving points, you can't use fixed numbers, so you have to vary the distance from each anchor point, as it continually updates. You'll see what I mean when you look at the code.
You may notice that the curveTo() method still uses the destination anchor point, but a control point precedes the anchor. Since the circles are always moving, you merely have to subtract some x and y value from the anchor point's x and y values to always get a nearby offset for the control point. You may also notice that this value is stored in a stringVib variable in each circle individually so each line of a multi-line system can bounce independently.
Next you need to know how to get the value of this stringVib variable. All you need to do is pick a random value within a tolerance range acceptable to you (the bounce can't be too wild or you won't be able to understand what it represents), and assign it at after collision.
This line simply divides the value by 1.1 and reassigns it, causing the value to approach zero relatively quickly. The -1 just bounces back and forth from positive to negative every iteration, as described.
With these three lines in place, you have an initial random value, from which a control point is derived, and which bounces between negative and positive values, diminishing over time. Just like a rubber band.
I hope this very simple use of the Drawing API inspires you to create something. Ideally, you can see how much a simple thing like a little bounce can add to an otherwise static experience.
I encourage you to experiment with this code. After all, these examples are far from finished. For example, the bounce distortion is always random. It doesn't account for the speed of the MovieClip when it hits the wall, or how long (and therefore, how taut) the rubber band is when the degree of bounce is calculated. Try to move away from random values and make your file more accurate. As always, if you come up with anything interesting, or if you can improve on these examples, I'd like to know about it.


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Watch: NZCA Lines - "Two Hearts" Video
Infinite Summer Due Out January 22 via Memphis Industries
Jan 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts NZCA Lines
NZCA Lines, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, are releasing their second album, Infinite Summer, on January 22 via Memphis Industries. NZCA Lines previously shared the crazy video for Infinite Summer track "Persephone Dreams," in which a one night stand resulted in a man being sucked into a black hole within the woman he picked up. That was followed by the audio for "Two Hearts." Now "Two Hearts" has a video directed by Leo Stamps. It's a simple, but stylish clip featuring the band against a black background with lots of flashing colored lights.
Previously NZCA Lines was more of a solo project, but for Infinite Summer Lovett is joined by two females, Charlotte Hatherly (Ash, Bat For Lashes) and Sarah Jones (Hot Chip). Jones is featured prominently in the video.
Lovett commented on the video in a press release: "I feel the video for 'Two Hearts' mirrors the song's alternating intimacy and bombast. Lyrically the song is about isolation and the distance in a relationship, and here Sarah and I sing our parts separately, each alone in a void lit by blinding strobes and icy pillars of light."
The album was recorded over the last two years with Charlie Alex March (Veronica Falls) as "studio co-conspirator" and was mixed by David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Super Furry Animals). Lovett says that the album is influenced by his love of science fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), explaining the album's concept in a previous press release as such: "The album is based around the idea of a far-future Earth, where the sun has expanded to the size of a red giant and our extinction is imminent. Half of the world is covered by a city [Cairo-Athens] that clings to the past and embraces its destruction, whilst the other half is trying to rebuild, create and make something new. Yet, it's good on both sides because it's warm everywhere and people just party most of the time."
Lovett has also been in Metronomy's touring band for the last couple of years and "Two Hearts" definitely sounds like it could be the sibling to a Metronomy song.
Check out the "Two Hearts" video below.
THHM Rihanna
Has an interesting sound to it. I like the meaning of it. I am guessing it has to do with a long lost relationship that is still real. They both love each other but can't find their way back to one another.
Such Beautiful bit of music.,
the vocals I love even more !
Even more so because a really lovely girl Who's so nice I I keep pinching myself to check I'm not dreaming recommended the tune to me!


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Phone ahead to reserve a table - blackjack, that is
One of the drawbacks for recreational gamblers in a market like the Greater Chicago area is a lack of $5 minimum gaming tables. At many of the properties, $10, $15 and even $25 games are the norm, a price which is out of reach for many folks who'd like to play but simply can't afford it.
High minimums at the tables are the reason many casino guests must gravitate to the slots. It's a simple case of supply and demand. Space is at a premium at many of the properties, and as long as the seats are occupied at the high minimum tables there's really no good business reason for the casino owners to change things.
When a $5 game is open, it seems the table is always filled. Onlookers stand nearby waiting for a spot to open. Even some above average gamblers appreciate the flexibility a $5 minimum game offers, especially when it comes to weathering cold streaks.
Hollywood Casino Aurora, Illinois has a compromise solution to the dilemma. Since early March the property has been offering "Reservation Blackjack". It gives gamblers the opportunity to phone ahead and reserve a seat at a $5 minimum table for the date and time they wish to play.
The service charge is $20 per person for each hour of play. This fact complicates the economic dynamics of the game for serious players who, depending on their level of skill, can keep the theoretical house advantage on blackjack down to around one and a half percent or less.
But aside from that, there is something to be said for the convenience of knowing not only will you find a $5 minimum game, but your seat will be ready and waiting for you when you arrive. There are some casual players who will gladly take Hollywood up on its offer.
The casino launched Reservation Blackjack with one table using standard house playing rules. Reservations up to 30 days in advance may be made on the hour by calling 630-801-1234. A major credit card is required at the time the reservation is made.
The service is especially attractive for its unique social appeal. It makes organizing blackjack parties among friends easy and convenient. Hollywood makes planning ahead for a session of blackjack at a budget-friendly game as easy as a dinner reservation or a movie time.
The value of Reservation Blackjack depends on how much $20 per hour is worth to the individual for the "privilege" of gambling. It's certainly not meant, nor is it feasible, for casino regulars or serious blackjack players who spend hours at the tables.
Having to pay just to play is a concept that wouldn't fly in a lot of gaming jurisdictions around the country. The built-in advantage the house has on the games guarantees the casino owners a profit to begin with. Tack on a $20 per hour "service charge" and it puts playing blackjack in an entire new gambling category.
Of course, the best case scenario is to have fun playing and walk away from the table a winner. If making a night out at the casino an affordable entertainment option for casino neophytes and occasional players was Hollywood's goal with Reservation Blackjack, then it's a good bet they've succeeded.


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Richard welcomes an engineer who claims to have solved the universe. A grand unified theory that reveals a computer programmer interacting with our consciousness which creates our perceived reality. Listen to this episode and hear how to hack the matrix.
Jim Elvidge says the latest physics experiments demonstrate that an objective reality doesn't exist. And no one truly knows what consciousness is or where the mind resides. Strange interconnectedness, anomalous events, and changing histories confound even the most open-minded of scientists. No single theory seems to be able to explain it all. Until now.
JIM ELVIDGE holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in digital signal processing.Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded RadioAMP, the first private-label online streaming-radio company.


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As part of the post installation configuration of the VMWare ESXi server I tried to add a second (local) datastore by using the Add Storage wizard in the vSphere Client.
In the Add Storage Wizard, I specified Disk/LUN as Storage Type and selected the available disk (the RAID10 set).
An error occured during host configuration.
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "192.168.1.61″ failed.
On a side note, if you close this error message and go a step backwards and continue forward it wil not give an error anymore.
"De objectverwijzing is niet op een exemplaar van een object ingesteld" is dutch for "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
I couldn't find more detailed information about this error in the eventlog of the vSphere client, located in the directory: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\vpx.
And a search on the Internet didn't gave a answer either.
So I was forced to troubleshoot on my own.
I was certain that the volume was consistent , because I had performed a full initialization and integrity check when the RAID10 disk was created.
As shown in the second screenshot of this post, the Add Storage wizard indicated that the disk was blank. I further noticed that there was no Available space on this disk.
Normally speaking it would show how much space is available on the disk, so I assumed that there was something wrong with the partition table of this disk.
I couldn't find an option in the vSphere client to remove the existing partition info on this volume.
So I logged on to the ESXi server by using a SSH connection and issued the command fdisk -l.
The disk /dev/disks/naa.6001e4f023eb110013ffed36d40990cb is the disk on which I tried to create a datastore.
As you can see, this disk contains 3 partitions (p1, p2 and p3)!
Probably a leftover of the previous installation, although I had destroyed the previous RAID set.
Fdisk also gave some warnings, indicating a non-consistent partition table on this disk.
fdisk is started in the context of this disk.
Because partition 2 is an extended partition, partition 3 will be deleted as well. There is no need or even possible to delete the third partition.
After this procedure, I was able to create a datastore on this disk through the Add Storage wizard!


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Each year, ever since the founding of the state, an official poster is issued in celebration of Israel's independence. Some of these images, created by leading Israeli graphic artists, have risen to iconic status.
Often, these posters serve as didactic tools to illustrate an annual theme. In all cases, they present a moment in Israel's national history: its concerns and achievements during the past year, as well as hopes and goals for the coming one.
The following selection of some of the most important and beautiful posters issued over the past 70 years is taken from Israel's State Archive.
Read more about these beautiful posters on Israel21c.org HERE.


Her lecture was so well-received the first time, Genesee Community College is pleased to offer an encore presentation of 'The Longstreet Family in War and Peace' by D'Youville College Professor Terrianne Schulte.
Medina, NY- Her lecture was so well-received the first time, Genesee Community College is pleased to offer an encore presentation of "The Longstreet Family in War and Peace" by D'Youville College Professor Terrianne Schulte.
Dr. Schulte first led a discussion on one of the most well-known families from the Civil War-era back in May at the Batavia Campus. She will re-visit her riveting lecture about this interesting family, and in particular Confederate General James Longstreet, on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at the Medina Campus Center.
Dr. Schulte's lecture is free and open to the public, and will begin at 7 p.m. at the Medina Campus Center, 11470 Maple Ridge Road, Medina, NY 14411.
To learn more about GCC's Civil War initiative, follow Derek Maxfield's blog at: http://civilwaratgcc.wordpress.com/.
For general information, contact Marketing Communications Associate Director Donna Rae Sutherland at (585) 343-0055 ext. 6616, or via email: dsutherland@genesee.edu.


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back and did my thing.
I had to save up for the full century.
sure I didn't cramp up.
hours, the only question was by how much.
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Q: How can I generate the Average time difference from a set of results in Oracle SQL I am trying to calculate the average of the difference between two dates for the returned results.  I have already managed to return the timestamp number to a number of days, and this works perfectly fine, but I now need to calculate the average difference in days for those returned results.  This is my code:
select
    SUPPORTCALL.CALL_ID "Call ID",
    PROBLEMTYPE.PROBLEMCATEGORY "Problem Category",
    SUPPORTCALL.CALLDATETIME "Opened Date/Time",
    SUPPORTCALL.RESOLVEDDATETIME "Resolved Date/Time",
    TRUNC(SUPPORTCALL.RESOLVEDDATETIME) - TRUNC(SUPPORTCALL.CALLDATETIME) DTR

from
    SUPPORTCALL,
    PROBLEMTYPE
where
    SUPPORTCALL.PROBLEM_ID=PROBLEMTYPE.PROBLEM_ID and
    PROBLEMTYPE.PROBLEMCATEGORY='VMware' and
    RESOLVEDDATETIME is not null

The above returns the following result:
Call ID Problem Category                                   Opened Date/Time             Resolved Date/Time                  DTR
    19 VMware                                             05-MAR-18 15.14.23.100000000 06-APR-18 11.14.23.100000000         32
    18 VMware                                             01-APR-18 11.14.23.100000000 02-APR-18 11.14.23.100000000          1
     8 VMware                                             23-MAR-18 15.14.23.100000000 25-MAR-18 11.14.23.100000000          2
     7 VMware                                             21-MAR-18 11.14.23.100000000 22-MAR-18 11.14.23.100000000          1

Output from code
I am a bit lost on getting the average number of the returned results.
TIA
Simon

A: You can subtract two timestamps to get an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND data type and then use EXTRACT to get the component parts of the interval to give the time difference. Then to get the average you can use the AVG function. If you want to get all the other data as well then you can use AVG as an analytic function:
select s.CALL_ID "Call ID",
       p.PROBLEMCATEGORY "Problem Category",
       s.CALLDATETIME "Opened Date/Time",
       s.RESOLVEDDATETIME "Resolved Date/Time",
       EXTRACT(DAY FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)
       + EXTRACT(HOUR FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)/24
       + EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)/24/60
       + EXTRACT(SECOND FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)/24/60/60 AS diff,
       AVG(
         EXTRACT(DAY FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)
         + EXTRACT(HOUR FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)/24
         + EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)/24/60
         + EXTRACT(SECOND FROM s.RESOLVEDDATETIME - s.CALLDATETIME)/24/60/60
       ) OVER () AS avg_diff
from   SUPPORTCALL s
       INNER JOIN PROBLEMTYPE p
       ON (s.PROBLEM_ID = p.PROBLEM_ID)
where  p.PROBLEMCATEGORY='VMware'
and    RESOLVEDDATETIME is not null

Which, for the sample data:
CREATE TABLE supportcall (Call_ID, Problem_ID, calldatetime, resolveddatetime ) AS
  SELECT 19, 1, TIMESTAMP '2018-03-05 15:14:23.1', TIMESTAMP '2018-04-06 11:14:23.1' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  SELECT 18, 1, TIMESTAMP '2018-04-01 11:14:23.1', TIMESTAMP '2018-04-02 11:14:23.1' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  SELECT  8, 1, TIMESTAMP '2018-03-23 15:14:23.1', TIMESTAMP '2018-03-25 11:14:23.1' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  SELECT  7, 1, TIMESTAMP '2018-03-21 11:14:23.1', TIMESTAMP '2018-03-22 11:14:23.1' FROM DUAL;

CREATE TABLE problemtype (problem_id, ProblemCategory) AS
SELECT 1, 'VMware' FROM DUAL;

Outputs:

Call ID
Problem Category
Opened Date/Time
Resolved Date/Time
DIFF
AVG_DIFF

19
VMware
05-MAR-18 15.14.23.100000000
06-APR-18 11.14.23.100000000
31.83333333333333333333333333333333333333
8.91666666666666666666666666666666666667

18
VMware
01-APR-18 11.14.23.100000000
02-APR-18 11.14.23.100000000
1
8.91666666666666666666666666666666666667

8
VMware
23-MAR-18 15.14.23.100000000
25-MAR-18 11.14.23.100000000
1.83333333333333333333333333333333333333
8.91666666666666666666666666666666666667

7
VMware
21-MAR-18 11.14.23.100000000
22-MAR-18 11.14.23.100000000
1
8.91666666666666666666666666666666666667

fiddle

A: Thanks everyone for the comments / replies
After much thought and further research I decided that the assignment question is so ambiguous whether you are to return a specific problem category or show all problem categories and their averages.  So I decided to show all categories that have resolved cases and their Average "Days to Resolve" by using GROUP BY, my code ended up like this:
SELECT
    AVG(TRUNC(SUPPORTCALL.RESOLVEDDATETIME) - TRUNC(SUPPORTCALL.CALLDATETIME)) "Avg DTR",
    PROBLEMTYPE.PROBLEMCATEGORY "Problem Category"
FROM
    SUPPORTCALL,
    PROBLEMTYPE
WHERE
    SUPPORTCALL.PROBLEM_ID=PROBLEMTYPE.PROBLEM_ID AND
    SUPPORTCALL.RESOLVEDDATETIME IS NOT NULL

GROUP BY PROBLEMTYPE.PROBLEMCATEGORY

Which Resulted in the following output:
    Avg DTR Problem Category
         31 Servers
          3 Office
          9 VMware

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Bronze Age wreckage oldest in Turkey
on Sep 23, 14 • by Haemus • with Comments Off on Bronze Age wreckage oldest in Turkey
Within the scope of the Underwater Heritage Studies of Dokuz Eylül University (DEU), a Bronze Age wreckage dating back to 4,000 years ago has been discovered in Hisarönü Gulf in the western province...
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Within the scope of the Underwater Heritage Studies of Dokuz Eylül University (DEU), a Bronze Age wreckage dating back to 4,000 years ago has been discovered in Hisarönü Gulf in the western province of Muğla's Marmaris district. It is reported that the wreckage has taken the title from Kaş's Uluburun ship wreckage, which was known as Turkey's oldest wreckage site.
The remains, located 50 meters away from the coast 25-30 meters deep, include very rare amphora forms, as well as kettle-shaped pots and ceramic cups in various forms.
Bodrum Mayor Mehmet Kocadon said in a statement that the wreckage was older than the Uluburun ship in Kaş. "Three Bronze Age wreckages were found during underwater studies over the last 50 years.
Kettle-shaped pots were seen for the first time. The remains were delivered to the Bodrum Underwater Museum for analysis. Next year, further studies will continue at the wreckage site," he said.
The Underwater Archaeological Studies that have been headed by DEU Maritime Sciences and Technology Institute and Aegean Regional Studies Applied Research Center (EBAMER) Deputy Director Associate professor Harun Özdaş have recently been finished. Bodrum Municipality's STS School Ship was used in the studies, which mainly focused on the Ottoman era wreckages.
In a region between Bodrum and Finike, during more than 100 dives in 35 different areas, the 10 wreckage sites have been discovered.
Source: hurriyetdailynews
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HP is now offering US customers the option of adding an internal mobile broadband modem to their HP Mini 1000 orders. The modem will work with AT&T or Verizon's wireless broadband networks. But it costs $199, which is significantly more expensive than the broadband $125 AT&T broadband modem Dell offers for the Inspiron Mini 9, especially when you realize that AT&T will reimburse you for $120 of the purchase price when you sign up for a service plan. There's no indication on HP's site that AT&T or Verizon are subsidizing the cost of the modem.
You also need to configure your HP Mini 1000 to have the 60GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM in order to purchase the modem, which drives the price up further. In other words, while the HP Mini 1000 has a base price of $399, you have to pay at least $650 to get a model with a 3G modem.
In related news, if you already purchased an HP Mini 1000 or want to buy a new one and don't want to spend an extra $300 to get 3G connectivity, jkkmobile has posted a video demonstrating how you can add your own HSDPA modem to this netbook.
You can read more about the HP Mini 1000 in the Liliputing Product Database.
You get the feeling HP doesn't wnat to be in the Netbook marketplace. They want to be in the subnotebook marketplace. They don't expect people to buy their $399 unit, they expect to draw suckers in, and then "upsell" a $500 or $700 unit…with some $200 worth of accessories as well.
Any Netbooks compnay that is giving two dozen congfig options isn't going to give you a good deal. Their base unit will be under powered and they unit they really sell you will be over priced because they have to custom build it. And, then they need you to buy accessories (colored mice, keybaords, headphones, routers/access points, printers) you don't need to cover their costs. Give me a Coby unit in a blister pack from Rite-Aid any day over this boondoggle HP is presenting.
HP Mini 1000 Comes with Mobile Broadband - Specs, reviews and prices.
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Tag: Character
Perseverance: TheUndercurrent of Success
A few months back I offered some thoughts on courage. Tonight I've decided to take a look at perseverance. How many people give up when the road gets too long or doubts overwhelm us? On a personal level I wonder how often I have failed, not because of a lack of talent, but because of the inability to persevere? No success story ever occurred without perseverance. Hopefully this essay serves as a reminder of the necessity to battle on even when hope is obscured.
Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know of several thousand things that won't work.
-Thomas Edison (1)
We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step in a longer and even more difficult road…
-Nelson Mandela (2)
If one has not been a ronin at least seven times, he will not be a true retainer. Seven times down, eight times up.
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure (3)
Badlands!You gotta live 'em every day. Let the broken hearts stand as the price you gotta pay! Keep pushin' till it's understood And these badlands start treatin' us good.
-Bruce Springsteen from the song "Badlands" (4)
One of the unfortunate mindsets I see students (and, sadly, adults) adopt is the idea that people from different places, times, and cultures can't share much in common. Humanity, when we allow it, overrides many barriers. What commonalities do we see in the message from the 19th century inventor (Edison) and the 20th-21st century songwriter (Springsteen)?
It may be difficult to picture a 17th century samurai at a rock concert, but what message is Springsteen communicating that Tsunetomo would agree with?
How do the quotes on perseverance provide support to the virtue of courage?
Can you recall a time when you lived Tsunetomo's quote? What emotions and thoughts do you have looking back on this chapter of your life? What was the source of your ability to persevere?
Read the following passage spoken by the character Samwise Gamgee in the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Does it strike you in a personal way or merely as a(n) interesting, good, etc message?
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But, in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances to turn back, but they didn't. They kept goin'.
If courage does guarantee other qualities, it can only do so with a healthy dose of perseverance. Many of life's challenges take more than raw courage to overcome. Courage may start you on a journey, but the willingness…the ability…to persevere keeps us going. Few of the meaningful challenges of life are easily overcome. Some struggles last for years. We fight the good fight and we fall, because we are human and have all the weaknesses that accompany that condition. But when you fall, and fear threatens to overwhelm you, do you stay down? Do you convince yourself that you have gone far enough because some progress has been made? This is not to say that when you fall along a journey you have to jump up and move forward with frantic energy, ignoring the pain of failing. To pause to lick one's wounds is not the same as giving up. To attend to the damage done by the hardships of life is necessary for few injuries heal without attention. Still, if you can persevere you may find yourself capable of looking back on the trips and stumbles of your life with a sense of humor as Thomas Edison did, laughing about the numerous ways you learned how not to do things.
When in the middle of a difficult time, however, we often don't feel like laughing or we, perhaps, we aren't tuned in to the humor of life. The weight we carry seems unbearable and taking just one more step seems beyond our scope. At times like this the words of the Roman philosopher, dramatist and statesman Seneca strike us like truth, "For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live" (5). Courage exists, even when we don't see it clearly. Courage fuels our persevere, propelling us forward. My mind, yet again, turns to Frederick Douglass, his life a greater lesson than even his profound words.
An Amazing Journey
Douglass was born a slave in 1818. He escaped slavery in 1838, but that victory was only the beginning of his life's story. By the time of his death he had become one of the most prominent men in America. He became publisher of various newspapers, including The North Star. He not only focused on slavery, but on woman's rights as well. He published his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845. His writing and lecturing skills made him one of the most effective abolitionists of his day. These talents made his a sought after lecturer in Europe as well as in the Northern section on the United States. When the Civil War began he found himself in correspondence with president Lincoln. When Lincoln was afraid he would not be re-elected he sought Douglass' council on an important issue – how to make the Emancipation Proclamation permanent enough to survive him losing the presidency. The point became moot when Lincoln won, but it offers clarity to the fact that Lincoln admired Douglass. As Douglass' life progressed he became involved in freedman's rights, became ambassador to Haiti, and spoke in favor of Irish home rule. Advocate, publisher, writer, lecturer, statesman and humanitarian. Many a title can be attributed to Fredrick Douglass, but that is not the key to appreciating this great man.
To look at all Douglass accomplished is impressive in and of itself. To gaze upon these deeds with the backdrop of his first twenty years is all the more inspiring. Born a slave he started his life in the most crushing of situations. No chance for an education. The structures of society, both in the North and South, creating obstacles the like no one in America faces today. Yet he struggled and persevered. Could he have possibly have known what he would one day accomplish while he was sneaking towards freedom? Was the ambassadorship to Haiti in his mind? The correspondence with a President? Douglass did not know what he would one day become. He just knew, as did hundreds of other runaway slaves, what he did not want to be anymore. It is impossible to know what can happen when we forget to quit, when we forget to give in to our fears.
Of Fears and Failure (and perseverance)
But fears can be powerful adversaries, ones that cause us to cease our efforts. They creep into our minds, especially when we realize just how hard some of our goals are to accomplish. We fall. We fail. We say or do the wrong thing at the most unfortunate moment. We wonder, are our efforts worth all this frustration? Bruce Springsteen shouts to us that it is. His song Badlands is an anthem to perseverance. It'll be hard to move forward, sometimes the effort will, as he points out, break our hearts. His advice is to "keep pushin'" because someday the tides will turn.
As Samwise spoke so wisely, "Even darkness must pass. A new day will come." These words are insightful. The use of the word "even" communicates the fact that, to many of us, it feels as if bad times will never end. This despair can be powerful, but "even darkness must pass". You don't know what your efforts will bring, but standing still leaves you where you are. We must take some responsibility for the coming of Samwise's "new day."
Positive thinking alone would not have enabled the two hobbits to reach the heart of Mount Doom. They had to move forward, to persevere through the difficult journey that they took up due to their courage. Their fictional struggles reflect the real world wisdom of Fredrick Douglass, "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning" (6).
Granted (and thankfully) most of us will not have to struggle for our physical freedom, but our personal struggles can never end in success if we are not willing to work ("plowing up the ground") or endure frightful elements of a struggle ("thunder and lightning"). Be brave and persevere, my friends. You don't actually know where it will take you.
Character Challenge: Find a goal you have, but gave up on. Did you give up because you lost interest? If this is truly the case, mind you, you ought to feel good about your decision. I contemplated switching majors in college, but upon evaluating the change did not. The main motivator in my decision not to change was my interest in history. However, some goals we actually want but quit because we deem them too difficult. These are the focus point of this challenge. For younger people: do you wish you made the honor roll but decided the work was too much? Was making varsity too intimidating so you stopped working out because it "didn't matter anyway?" For adults: still thinking about a new degree? A new job? Write down the goal and the excuses you use to justify not chasing it. Are they impossible to overcome or just daunting? Can you accept, now that you are looking at your words, not pursuing this goal? Make a decision and good luck.
(1) Meadowcroft, William H. The Boy's Life of Edison. (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1911), p 301.
(2) Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. (New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2000), p. 460.
(3) Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Hagakure. (New York, Kodansha International, 1979), p 54. Translated by William Scott Wilson.
(4) Springsteen, B. (1978). Badlands. Darkness on the Edge of Town. New York, New York: Columbia Records.
(5) Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter 78). This letter can be found at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_78
(6)Frederick Douglass (1857). "West India Emancipation" speech can be found at http://www.blackpast.org/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress
Author thinkingpopculturePosted on August 8, 2018 August 8, 2018 Tags Bruce Springsteen, Character, Frederick Douglass, Lord of the Rings, PerseveranceLeave a comment on Perseverance: TheUndercurrent of Success
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
It is less than a week until the release of Avengers: Infinity War and people are pumped!! Ten years…that's right, ten years of storytelling culminating in round one of the climactic battle with Thanos. Yes!!
This post, however, will not focus on speculation regarding who has what Infinity Stone or who will die. This is not because I don't feel interested in those intriguing matters because I do! Rather, plenty of sources exist online and offline where those conversations are being held. Rather, as we approach April 27 I wish to pay respects to these characters who meant so much to me as a kid and, thank you Marvel Comics Universe, have been brought to life in my adult years.
Marvel Characters and the Call to Character
When discussing the concept of role models Professor Mark D. White wrote, "Good role models provide not just inspiration to achieve our goals, but also an example of the right way to achieve them" (1). He argued that, despite what some might think, fictional characters can be role models because they model "positive character traits such as honesty, courage, and wisdom – which means more if actions resulting from these virtues have consequences, even if only in their fictional worlds" (2). The beauty of a movie like Captain America: Civil War was the fact that my kids, while captivated by the action, weren't entirely sure why The Avengers were fighting each other. Are they still friends, dad? They were so interested in the "why" of the fight that we were able to have a real discussion about choices, consequences, and standing up for beliefs. Fiction, be it super heroes or classic literature, can open channels of conversation allowing opportunity to discuss what truly matters most. For those moment with my kids I say, again, thanks Marvel.
A Little help from Confucius (yes, you read that correctly)
As the Marvel Universe expands it can be easy to lose one's footing. I must admit, Iron Man 3 was far from my favorite Marvel movies. Far. Like, Asgard far. But there was a concept in it I loved. Of all the Avengers Tony Stark, despite his OUTRAGEOUS confidence, should have had the most difficult time adjusting to this new life. This was never the life he envisioned. Even the other human characters (Cap, Black Widow, and Hawkeye) were far more prepared to face such horrors than Tony. Struggling with anxiety and PTSD made perfect sense. To be honest I wish this issue was explored in a better executed movie, but the whole of the Marvel ride is greater than the sum of its parts.
Looking at the concept of character can feel a bit overwhelming. Where to start and where do we go? How to write it so my ten readers don't lose interest? Like Tony, I need a little grounding. For my purposes I am turning to the great philosopher Confucius. There are three key concepts from Confucian thought that will prove useful in our look at the Avengers.
Jen – This virtue focuses on the ideal relationship that should exist between people. This astounding commitment to relationships was both beautiful and exceptionally difficult to obtain. A person exhibiting Jen displays a feeling of humanity towards others, respect for oneself, and a deep sense of dignity for human life everywhere. Just a moment of reflection should allow you to see how much time in the Marvel Comic Universe is spent on both relationships between the characters and the needs of the larger community. If you are reading this I doubt you need my help to generate a list.
Chun Tzu – The individual exhibiting Jen would be said to be an example of Chun Tzu, often translated as the Superior or Higher man. This superiority is not from wealth or title; it is about one's character. The Chun Tzu is at great ease with themselves and, by extension, brings ease to others. The more people who can become chun tzu who exist the greater the possibility of achieving social harmony and enduring peace. The world can never have enough people who are chun tzu. Sadly, I would say we've also never had enough of them in the world…but there's always Captain America!
Li – This complex concept can be presented as the way things ought to be done. Confucius felt that people would not be able to discern Li from other paths completely on their own and therefore tried to provide models for them to emulate. He used maxims (short sayings), anecdotes, and his own life to create these examples. Following the correct path, while maintaining a deep regard for humanity and relationship, help create life as a sacred dance with seamless patterns, awe-inspiring fluidity, and transcendent beauty. (3). The world The Avengers envision.
Following the correct path, while maintaining a deep regard for humanity and relationship, help create life as a sacred dance with seamless patterns, awe-inspiring fluidity, and transcendent beauty. That sounds like a very tall order, perhaps well beyond our grasp. Perhaps it is too daunting or fanciful. A view Abraham Lincoln proposed when looking at the ideals of the Declaration of Independence proves helpful in such times. Lincoln stated the ideals of the Declaration could be, "constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated…," (4). This approach to ideal is exceptionally helpful. It is so easy to look at the idea of becoming chun-tzu and feel disheartened by my shortcomings and weaknesses. Yet, armed with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, I need not focus on my fragilities so much as the inspirational role models before me. I like to think Confucius would approve of this as he stressed the need to not allow a negative mindset to stop someone found following the difficult path he endorsed (5).
The Big Three
As we are stressing character strengths in this post we will focus on three original members of The Avengers (Thor, Ironman, and Captain America), utilizing each as an exemplar of a single character trait. To be sure each one of these heroes could be used to exemplify any number of character traits but those are conversations for another day!
The willingness to set aside one's personal interests for the good of the community does no come naturally to most. It can be hard not to fall into the mindset of wondering what's in it for me. I find Thor to be the best example of the willingness to make sacrifices. That may strike the reader as slightly surprising but consider this list.
Thor (in depowered human form) allowed himself to be killed by the Destroyer (Thor)
Thor shattered the rainbow bridge, choosing protection of others over his heart as he effectively cut himself off from Jane Foster (Thor)
Thor risked damaging his relationship with Odin to seek victory against Malekith (Thor: The Dark World)
Thor risked his death (almost crushed by falling ship) in his final effort to defeat Malekith (Thor: The Dark World)
Thor turns down the throne of Asgard (Thor: The Dark World)
Thor is told by Tony he may not survive the explosion his blow wold cause as he sought to destroy the falling landmass in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Thor sacrifices Asgard itself to ensure the defeat of Hela (Thor: Ragnarok)
Confucius noted that by looking at a person's intentions, examining their motives, and scrutinizing what brings someone contentment then you can see who a person truly is. In fact actions make it all but impossible to hide what you truly are (6). In that case, Thor is someone driven to do all he can to guarantee victory for his comrades, even if he should ultimately fall. One wonders how far he will go in the upcoming war with Thanos?
Not that kind of growth, sorry Ant-Man. We're talking about personal growth. The desire to becoming a better person tomorrow than you are today. Tony Stark, despite your unrelenting ego, that's you. Tony's run through the Marvel Cinematic Universe started as a misogynistic arms dealer who saw war as the perfect way to make HUGE profits! Damn. There was almost nowhere to go but up! And while it is true Tony's ego is still a bit much to take. His relationship with women (Pepper Potts in particular), willingness to admit a mistake (his truce with Captain America when tracking down Zemo in Civil War), and capacity to offer guidance to young Peter Parker all are actions that would have been far beyond his ability a decade ago. Confucius informed his students, "Those of the loftiest wisdom and those of the basest ignorance: they alone never change" (7). Living things grow. Stagnation is the death knell of life. Tony has grown as much as any Marvel character over the years and, quite frankly, still has work to do. Maybe some humble pie served up by Shuri will help? Yeah, probably not.
Or perseverance. Or maturity. Or commitment. Or…you get the point. There are so many virtues I could place at feet of Steve Rogers that it was hard to pick just one. I rather doubt that I have. Loyalty, however, seems to be a good place to start. Captain America's loyalty to friends (I'm thinking Peggy Carter's deathbed scene from Winter Soldier), the Avengers (recall his "together" speech from Age of Ultron), his ideals, and to people is inspiring. In many ways he has become the moral backbone and inspirational foundation of the MCU. It hasn't been easy but it has been done with a determined grace that is quite noble. Whether willing to stand by Bucky (Winter Soldier and Civil War), to stand up for his ideals in numerous debates with Tony and Nick Fury, to stand by people in trouble as when he refused to get off the landmass ripped from Sokovia when Ultron was preparing to drop it, heading to New York in The Avengers without any of the "big guns" because, well, someone had to, or his commitment to tear down S.H.I.E.L.D as well as Hydra because both violated the grandeur purpose (Winter Soldier) Captain America remains loyal to his unyielding conviction to follow the right path even if it is difficult.
I would like to take a moment, however, to focus on a simple but powerful act of loyalty Cap performed at the end of Civil War. In a simple but heartfelt note he reached out to his estranged friend Tony Stark promising to be there for him should the moment arise. What a small but wonderful gesture. In that movie Cap stated he stood by Bucky because, "He's my friend." Tony's response was, "So was I." Wrong tense, Tony. Captain America, more than any other Avenger, doesn't live in an either/or world. He strives, with great loyalty, to find both/and solutions when possible. Even when dealing with the most difficult of battles…navigating the murky world of human relationships and friendship. That letter…combined with his friendship with James "Bucky" Barnes allows us a cinematic vision of something quite rare, an adult male who not only takes his male friendships quite seriously but his willing to let that be known in no uncertain terms. Confucius once lamented to his student Lu, "Those who understand integrity are rare indeed" (8). The great sage is probably correct, which is why we all could use a little Captain America in each of us.
Never the End
As we close out this post it is so easy to see where it could go. Every member of the Avengers deserved a place in this discussion. The focus on Bruce Banner, the integrity of James Rhodes, the dedication of Black Widow, and the honor of T'Challa. It could go on and on, but I like to think the point is made. Role models are everywhere…even in the MCU. So sit back. Take a moment to appreciate what we can learn from our heroes and the great ride they've taken us on. And, if you need to, tremble a little for Thanos is coming and all the character strengths in the world won't be enough for all of them to see the final victory. Who else, however, would you want fighting such an overpowering and malevolent foe? Yes, Thanos is coming so…Avengers Assemble!
(1) White, Mark D. The Virtues of Captain America. Wiley Blackwell. 2014. p 27.
(2) ibid. p 27.
(3) Smith, Huston. The World's Religions. Harper San Francisco. 1991. p 172-177. In summarizing the first of the five key elements of Confucian thinking I condescend professor Smith's writing to fit the length of this post. Whatever elegance or poetry you found in those three sections work of the great Huston Smith.
(4) From a speech delivered by President Lincoln on June 26, 1857. It was Lincoln's public refutation of the Dred Scott decision.
(5) Hinton, David (translator). The Analects of Confucius. CounterPoint. 1998. Chapter 6.11.
(6) Ibid. 2.10
(7) Ibid. 17.3
Author thinkingpopculturePosted on April 24, 2018 May 12, 2018 Tags Avengers, Captain America, Character, Confucius, Infinity War, Iron Man, ThorLeave a comment on AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!


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Griskenas, Zeng make U.S. history at World Rhythmic Championships
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Laura Zeng allowed herself the fist pump.
It was a small departure for the normally cucumber-cool gymnast from the Chicago area who is generally not given to displays of emotion more excessive than a smile and a wave when exiting the rhythmic gymnastics carpet. But as she closed out a pressure-packed week of competition at the 2019 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Zeng made an exception.
The almost involuntary movement of triumph came just after she hit the final pose of her ribbon routine. The exercise had been mesmerizing, an enchanted 90 seconds of sport-meets-art featuring the satin ribbon fluttering around Zeng, who infused the choreography with all the grace the 19-year-old has accumulated from years of serious training in both ballet and Chinese folk dance.
That exercise, her final event in an all-around final where Olympic qualification berths were at stake, gave Zeng a 10th place finish in the all-around, her fourth top-10 finish in as many years at rhythmic Worlds. More importantly, it guaranteed the United States would send two rhythmic gymnasts to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the first time since 1992 that the flourishing U.S. program will be represented by two rhythmic gymnasts at a Games.
So, the fist pump.
"I'm so proud of how far we've come and how far we still have to go," Zeng said earlier in the week. "Right now all I'm thinking is onward and upward, focusing on tomorrow, gathering up all the energy I have left and just going for it. It's a big day, it's a culmination and I'm just going to breathe, be calm and go forward."
The top 16 in Friday's all-around competition in Baku qualified their National Olympic Committees a place in the individual competition in Tokyo. With a personal best eighth-place all-around finish in Baku, Evita Griskenas and Zeng earned the USA two spots, the same as many of the powerhouse nations of the sport, including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Griskenas said she didn't let previous success this season, including four gold medals at last month's Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, detract from her focus. The goal in Baku was two-fold, she added: maintain a solid team ranking following the USA's best-ever seventh-place team finish from 2018, and then earn those two Olympic berths.
Griskenas was on fire Friday, hitting all four of her routines solidly to total 83.000 points. Zeng, with 81.850, wasn't far behind. In addition to the joy of a clean competition, a more tangible prize was in store for Zeng. In a special ceremony following the conclusion of the all-around competition, she was selected as the recipient of the Longines Prize for Elegance, a prestigious award bestowed by the Swiss watchmaker on the gymnast deemed to express the greatest amount of poise and personal elegance on and off the rhythmic carpet.
It's the first time an American rhythmic gymnast has ever won the Longines prize, and the latest in a long list of accomplishments for Zeng, who also became the first U.S. gymnast to medal at the Youth Olympic Games, and still holds the record for the highest American all-around finish at Worlds.
Next up for both Zeng and Griskenas: more firsts, potentially in Tokyo next summer. "Each of us has had our own moments where we've done our best," Griskenas said. "Now we want to surpass those moments and do even better."


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Charli XCX Remembers SOPHIE: "I Love You and I Will Never Forget You"
Charli XCX has posted a tribute to her late friend and collaborator SOPHIE, the influential producer who recently died at age 34. "It's really hard for me to sum up the special connection I felt with such an amazing person who completely changed my life," Charli wrote. "There are so many memories, so many small details, so many different views and incredible feelings and stories. It's impossible to summarize the journey I went on with Sophie."
The statement closes: "She taught me so much about myself without even realizing. I wish I had told her more how special she was, not just her music, but her as a person. I love you and I will never forget you Sophie." Read the full statement below.
Charli and SOPHIE's first notable collaboration was the pop singer's Vroom Vroom EP, issued in 2016. That release helped set the tone for the collaborations to follow: Together, they made songs for Number 1 Angel ("Roll With Me," "Lipgloss") and Pop 2 ("Out of My Head").
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