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Home by Michael Bublé (Bub-lay)
johnfowles
Location: NJ U.S.A.
My ears pricked up this morning when I heard for what I thought was the first time what was to me a great sounding record on New York's 1067 Lite FM. Checking their on-line playlist I found that it was:-
"Home" by Michael Bublé
which strongly reminds me of Keith Urban's hit,"You'll Think of Me",which is no bad thing in my book.
hear a Windows Media clip at:-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clips...772395-3690363
Compare with the Aussie/New Zealander's ditty clip at:-
I decided to Google and was suitably astounded to find that he has sold over 10 million CDs
and the song I had heard had been number 1 in Canada and a hit also in the UK and even Australia. Moreover he is a Vancouver native and checking his discography I noted that he has covered an eclectic mix of standards, many by Sinatra but also including Queen, Van the Man, The Beatles and Bee Gees and even fellow Canuck (and mentor) Paul Anka's old hit "Put Your Head On My Shoulder".
Yet despite having been taken under the wing by David Foster I could find no cover of any Lightfoot song
"Michael was duly signed to Foster's own 143 Records through Reprise and work began in the spring of 2001 on his major label debut"
so I am amazed that hitherto this artist was unknown to me
any comments/opinions anyone??
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I've been a fan of the gorgeous Michael for a long time and 'Home' is a fave track of mine.
I'm astonished that you did not know him before this. Shame on you, Sir John.
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shame shame shame Sir John!
.....unfortunately I have been overwhelmed with the over exposure of Buble and am now sick of him....i enjoy (enjoyed) his stuff but like Josh Groban I found a little went a long way....
He's with David Foster - master of the over-done/over-produced and often already perfected material. Lord help him if Paul Anka gets too much influence on him...ugh. Look up arrogant and egocentric in the dictionary and Anka and Foster both have pics there....hopefully Michael will not follow their lead that way. They are the antithesis of the Lightfoot humility.
He is damn cute tho....
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It just so happens that I find myself in Mr. Fowles
camp regarding this subject. I just heard his name this past week and visited his website to see what all the buzz was about.
There's a lot of info (videos, etc) that seem to provide an insight into his character. His humility at the time appeared to be in tact. I believe he wrote the song
"Home", but his covers do nothing for me. For example, I'll take The Drifters version of "Save the last Dance for Me", or Van Morrison's original "Moondance" anyday. Perhaps he's great in concert, I don't (and will never) know. I do admire his respect for the older standards, but I still don't get it.
He has a great voice and so far there is no sign of any arrogance ... not that I have seen anyway.
And he looks real cute.
voice is great and he is still a young pup-humble and shy really when i've seen him in interviews from local canadian stuff to Entertainment Tonight with Mary Hart...I hope he stays that way....
he's up for a few JUNO awards on Sunday night..... http://www.junoawards.ca/
and he is adorable looking. puppy dog eyes and he wears his clothes really well...
just what a mum would like to see her daughter bring home....
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I have his CD and love it. I even bought one for my dad and sent it to him because of all the older songs he covered on it. I first heard him sing "Home" during a movie I saw last year (which name I forgot -- it was that forgettable), but, the *song* stayed with me. I immediately (read: right after the movie) ran over to Tower Records and bought his CD. Yessirrree, he's a cutie-pie. And young enough to be my son, darn it!
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Yes he is a great singer, just like my fellow countryman...
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my wife says he got first or near first exposure playing a small club singer on "Days of Our Lives".
He built his earlier career she heard on a much "gentler" approach to old standards 40's - 60's, but in my and my wife's opinion, does not hold a candle to Harry Connick Jr. who started out the same way, and CAN do a mean Sinatra tune.
Buble sings well, but you'd be embarrased to be listening to him down at the construction site when the boys there say "whad da he** is dat stuff, uh?" j/k
He does sing well, I just prefer a more robust sound like Lightfoot. Q:
Do we try to hear (as men anyway) an alter ego of ourselves in our favourite music ? I dunno. I think I have many times heard, astonishingly, my own feelings and what-not in Lightfoot's music. I don't hear it in Buble.
To each his own though, and I hear he is very popular, especially in one way with the ladies, and for gentlemen who appreciate a quality standard sung well. - Steve
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I remember hearing about PM Mulroney telling David Foster how great BUBLE was when he sang at his daughter's wedding (Caroline) and Foster was there. Buble seemed to have caught all the right breaks.....
Michael Buble delivers the old-fashioned goods
Updated Mon. Mar. 10 2003 6:41 PM ET
TORONTO — Listening to Michael Buble croon classics like Sway and Fly Me To The Moon conjure up memories of an era when tuxedo-clad hepcats sipped vodka martinis in casino bars.
He's got Dean Martin's good looks, Sinatra's dreamy eyes (green instead of blue) and he snaps his fingers like any full-fledged member of the Rat Pack.
At a recent showcase at Toronto's Reservoir Lounge - a popular hangout for swing fans -- the 25-year-old Vancouver vocalist wowed the audience with an earnest performance that earned him three enthusiastic encores.
In an interview the following day Buble says he only left the stage at the insistence of his manager.
"I would have stayed up there forever," he says wide-grinned, bouncing excitably in his chair in a meeting room at a downtown hotel where he's making the media rounds to promote his first major label album, simply entitled Michael Buble -- pronounced Boob-lay.
The CD, 13 perennial favourites sung in velvety baritone with big band support, has generated a surprisingly loud buzz since it hit stores in early February.
His tour manager explains the success on Buble's delivery of the music.
"It's honest, there's a lot of integrity in it," says Vancouver-based Joe Jackson, who's managed tours for Anne Murray and Bryan Adams. "He believes what he's doing. Everybody's saying 'How does this voice live inside this 25-year-old young man?' "
The son of a salmon fisherman, Buble started singing as a young boy at Christmas.
"I'd just be ecstatic because Bing Crosby's White Christmas would be playing in the house. I drove my parents nuts. Five years old and I listened to that thing through July," he says, cheerfully slapping his knee for emphasis.
He began learning more about music from the Sing Era of the 1940s and '50s at the request of his Italian grandfather.
"Grandpa got a real kick out of the fact that I liked the music so much. We'd start singing at the dinner table together, like Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime," he says, breaking into song.
"He started saying to me 'Hey Sunshine, before grandpa dies could you learn Stardust?' So I'd go and learn the songs word for word, sit with him at the table and I'd sing him the song."
From there the young singer entered talent shows and paid his dues working conventions and even cruise ships. He did a stint performing across the U.S. as part of the Red Rock Diner and a musical revue titled Forever Swing. In between, he recorded two independent albums, one as a gift for his grandfather's birthday.
But his real break came wrapped in a gig as a wedding singer at the wedding of Caroline Mulroney, daughter of the former prime minister, in the fall of 2000. That's where famed producer David Foster caught his act from the back of the room.
"Brian Mulroney was standing next to David Foster with his arm around him and he was shaking him saying, 'Come on, David, watch him. Sign him,' " Buble recounts. "I can just imagine David thinking 'What do I want with a nerdy wedding singer like this?' But it turned out."
Perhaps Foster saw in Buble what he saw in vocalist Josh Groban, whom he pushed into the spotlight in 1999.
"Michael, not unlike Natalie Cole or Diana Krall, has lived this music. While everybody else his age was listening to Nirvana and Pearl Jam when they were growing up Michael was listening to Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin and Louis Prima and that's what his music reflects. He's not a copy of any of those people but he's a healthy combination of all of those people from that genre," Foster gushes in Buble's electronic press material.
For his part, Buble is adamant that he's not trying to duplicate a bygone era.
"I don't want to be a copycat. What you see is who I am. It's just me and how I grew up and what I thought was cool," he says. "There was always something special about that music to me. It just stood out. I always felt like I was born in the wrong time."
He credits Harry Connick Jr. for pushing him to perform the music in high school talent shows.
"I remember all of a sudden seeing this guy's picture on girls' lockers . . . He kind of made it cool, made it OK for me to come out of the closet and say I love this music, too."
And he thinks with the recent success of Norah Jones, more people are open to music not found on mainstream radio.
"There was a void in the market for a long time. Now people are getting a chance to get their hands on some nice stuff. There's room at the top for everything."
Fellow Canuck Paul Anka was brought in to help produce the album. The result is a lush collection of songs from Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon to George Michael's '80s hit Kissing a Fool and the BeeGees' How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. Barry Gibb sings backup vocals on the latter.
Buble is touchingly sincere in his renditions of the classics. That enthusiasm, coupled with the big-name talent pushing him into the limelight -- including Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg -- puts the former wedding singer on the brink of international stardom.
He performed on NBC's Today Show on Valentine's Day. He appeared as a lounge singer on the daytime soap, Days Of Our Lives. He was part of the pre-game show at the Super Bowl. His version of Come Fly With Me is featured on the soundtrack for the Sandra Bullock-Hugh Grant film Two Weeks Notice.
Some quick facts about Michael Buble
Born: Vancouver, 1975.
Big break: Caught working as a wedding singer by David Foster.
Albums: Babalu, 2001; Dream, 2002; Michael Buble, 2003.
Awards: Received two Genie Award nominations in 2000 for songs he wrote for the film Here's To Life, starring Eric McCormack.
Acting: Played a karaoke singer in Gwyneth Paltrow's Duets, played Elvis in touring troupe for Red Rock Diner, and a touring musical revue in 1999 entitled Forever Swing.
Quote: "You can try to trick the people and me come out wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me. I was born in the late '70s, I wear jeans. I don't hang out in casinos. The lifestyle isn't my thing. I don't drink martinis and I don't smoke cigars."
Michael did very well at the JUNO awards last night:
http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=...e00085&k=43818
Originally posted by charlene:
You have permission to shame me too, Char. I'd never heard of him until last week. Someone was talking about him on the acoustic guitar newsgroup. Or maybe I had heard of him but he's stuck somewhere in my short term memory. I suppose I'll have to go out and buy a CD or something.
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Nava and Garza qualify for NAIA National Championship
Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU) cross country NAIA National Cross Country Championship Jerry Nava Destiny Garza Sooner Athletic Conference Shawnee, Oklahoma
"These two kids continue to impress me more and more," says cross country coach Jason Covarrubias excitedly, "Destiny has been pushing through a tough season but has begun to peak at the right time! Being a back-to-back national qualifier is a huge accomplishment!"
Garza finished in seventh place in her 5K with a time of 18:29.65. With her seventh place finish, Garza is an All-Conference pick as well as an NAIA qualifier. Caitlin Cruz finished 45 th at 22:37 and Genny McCullough was not far behind in 49 th place with a time of 22:59. Keila Padilla came in 52 nd (23:37), Hannah Lee finished 62 nd (27:07) and Hannah Dotson finished 63 rd (27:18).
"The women ran great today. We had a couple goals and met one of them. I'm so proud of how hard they have worked all season and I am proud of each one of them," says Covarrubias.
The SAGU men's team had their best finish ever at a SAC meet, coming in 5 th overall. SAGU's Jerry Nava is now an NAIA Qualifier and an All-Conference pick. Nava finished 11 th overall with a time of 26:11.78.
According to Covarrubias, making it to the Nationals is a goal Nava had set for himself, "Jerry has been working all season for this moment. He was on a mission this morning and not going to be denied a spot to nationals! He deserves everything he gets and if Jerry continues to work; a lot is coming and it starts with being the first NAIA National Qualifier in school history."
In addition to Nava's 11 th place finish, Adrian Cedillo finished 28 th at 277:52, Cody Walker came in 33 rd at 28:08, Jose Campos was 39 th at 28:26 and Raul Olmos was 47 th at 29:29. Peter Castro finished 62 nd (32:21), Brad Beimler came in 63 rd at 31:25 , Jenson Price was 73 rd (37:10) and Cameron Solomon was 74 th (37:20).
"The men ran their best race of the season. We knew going into the race that no one was looking at us to do much especially after our sub-par showing at the NAIA Mid-States Classic. I could not be more proud of these men finishing 5th in this tough conference. We had a great season and our future is very bright," says Covarrubias.
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FRINGE Episode 19 Recap: 'Letters of Transit'
April 20, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
For as bizarre as the 19th episode of FRINGE tends to be, what made "Letters of Transit" so freaking terrifying is that what happened didn't seem impossible. It wasn't a musical noir. It wasn't an animated episode. It was simply in the future. Can it be prevented? I sure as heck hope so. Because while some of it was lovely, goodness, there is a lot to be worried about.
First of all, the Observers? Kind of freaking terrible. In the year 2015, the super scary scroll told us "they stopped watching." They've taken control over our home and made life pretty terrible unless you pledged loyalty. Our team? The scroll says they were "quickly defeated" and we know they end up ambered. The Division was allowed to continue on policing the "natives" (non-Observers), and even though Broyles was still in charge, there were no other familiar faces. However, one determined young woman, Etta, kept searching for the original team. When the episode starts off, her contact has found one of the members — Walter.
Etta, with the help of another agent, Simon (played by LOST's Henry Ian Cusick) frees Walter from the amber, and they have questions about the location of the rest of the Fringe team and the device to get rid of the Observers they were working on before things went bad. However, Etta and Simon quickly realize all is not well with him.
It seems Walter has brain damage, so they go to Nina for some help. She tells them that pieces of Walter's brain are at the former Massive Dynamic — which unfortunately is in an area highly populated by Observers. Nonetheless, the team sneaks in and perfects an injection to fix Walter (who promptly passes out). However, before they're able to get in and out, an alarm is tripped and Broyles (who apparently no one thinks to loop in?), and a team of Fringe agents is sent to find the intruders. Walter helps to lead them out and manages to explode some Observers with a trap.
When the new team gets back to the amber site, they're able to rescue Astrid (!), but the device to help propel people out of the amber before it rehardens breaks. Simon sacrifices himself and gets himself amberized so they can get Peter out — but the group leaves William Bell (who is stuck in the amber with them) behind. (How amazing was that reveal?!?!?)
Later, while presumably going home after escaping from the amber, Etta asks Peter if he knows who she is. He's confused at first, but it suddenly hits him — "Henrietta?" he asks. She confirms it's her, when she replies, "Hi, dad." And that's where they leave it. (I see your evil game, FRINGE writers. I'm on to you.)
So that's the gist of what went down, but there are a few issues I want to dive into deeper…
Olivia is MIA.
We got the vague tease that William Bell did something terrible to Olivia. We don't know what it is, but Henrietta is wearing what looks like a bullet around her neck. As much as I missed Anna Torv (Olivia) in the episode, I do like the mystery of what the heck happened to Olivia. Is she ambered somewhere else? Did Bell torture her? Kill her? Cause her to break in some other way? Did her powers destroy her? The options are endless.
(Also worth noting that Lincoln was MIA, too…)
Tribe. Of. Bishops.
When we saw Future!Peter and Future!Olivia in "The Day We Died," as happy as they were together, there was the regret over their lack of children. In this future, we may not know where Olivia is or if she's even alive, but they have their little Henrietta. (Which is adorable, but kind of creepy that she's named that. It's not like Peter is without the knowledge of Henry now.)
And the reunion of Peter and his daughter? Made me weep. (Oh yes, I'm embarrassed to admit that. I'm even more embarrassed to admit I'm tearing up just writing about it.) It's amazing that this character was unknown to us before this episode and by the end of the hour — and I'm guessing many of you realized who she was before Peter did — I cared SO MUCH about her well-being. Not just because she's Peter and Olivia's kid, but on her own characteristics, she interested me.
Got to say the casting of Georgina Haig was incredible. She was a fantastically plausible mix of Peter and Olivia. And she and Josh Jackson (Peter) killed their final scene together. Again, tears. (One of you had to have cried, too. Don't leave me hanging here alone.)
The William Bell of it all.
Safe to say that when I talked with FRINGE executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman back in November about William Bell (and his last appearance in 3×19), I didn't know this was coming. But what a lovely surprise, right?
Fight the future.
Can this future be changed? Last time we saw the future, Peter's sacrifice changed things. Can this be prevented? I'd like to believe we're not doomed to a world where many of our beloved characters spent two decades in amber, something tragic happened to Olivia and Observers took over the world. However, given that the show already showed us a future that ceased to be true, could they really do that again?
Quote of the night: "20 years? No wonder I'm so hungry. Do you have anything to eat?" Walter, reacting to the news of how long he had been in amber.
ETA: Because it's been driving me crazy since I saw the screener, did anyone notice the number they used to key into the facility? "052010"…Walter used that combination in "Jacksonville." I literally cannot tell you why those numbers stuck in my head, but we have no context as to why those are important, do we? It's been driving me crazy that I somehow remembered those numbers two years later but I have no idea if they mean anything more. (I think at the time, I speculated it might have something to do with the finale date.)
Enough from me…what the heck did you think of "Letters of Transit"?!
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23 Responses to "FRINGE Episode 19 Recap: 'Letters of Transit'"
Kristina on April 20th, 2012 10:19 pm
I'm confused. Are they going to go back to this with the remaining episodes or was going into the future a one episode thing?
Amy tvgirl222 on April 20th, 2012 10:36 pm
No worries, I totally teared up at the end. I LOVED this episode and I didn't like LSD or the singing episode so I had **zero** expectations. I found myself wishing they would do a spinoff with these two agents…Absolutely a perfect hour of television even without Olivia and Peter in it.
Blair Brown looked so great I couldn't look away from her!
Walter's transformation was hysterical as was his speech about cutting out the pontinfication.
Just loved it and wished it was three times as long.
I was stunned…thinking that the TV geniuses behind Fringe are pretty much smarter and more clever than the rest of the TV world put together. Am I right?
Scully8 on April 20th, 2012 11:05 pm
@amy, totally agree with everything you said, except I did enjoy the musical and animated episodes. )
Man, I didn't think I'd like the episode without Peter and Olivia, but Etta, Simon and Walter were excellent. Now Etta and Simon is a team I wouldn't mind getting to know better. I really liked Etta and had a feeling she was a Bishop.
Loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
meijioro on April 21st, 2012 12:15 am
I had an suspicion that Henrietta was Peter and Olivia's kid from the beginning just by her looks but with her always being described as "special" she had to have gotten some of Olivia's abilities. Gotta love that she takes after Peter in the snark department.
Marisa Roffman on April 21st, 2012 1:22 am
@Amt tvgirl222: Thank you and you are right! 😉
Kim on April 21st, 2012 2:17 am
One thing that I can't stop thinking about?
We're told the team was quickly defeated after the Observers took control in 2015. But, given that they said the team was in amber for only 20 years, and Etta was four when she last saw Peter and Olivia (having been born, presumably, in fall/winter of 2012), it seems they may not have been ambered until late in 2016.
So, we're possibly looking at an entire year that the team was still around and kicking. What happened? That seems a LOT of time to give them and have no fruit to show for it. Anyone else get the feeling that maybe Bell betrayed them?
About the ETA (05 20 10), my theory: 052010 was used in Jacksonville, yes, where Olivia learns more about her special gifts and her ability to recognize things from and ultimately travel to the other side. The Season 2 finale also aired on 05.20.10, during which Olivia first travels over to the other side and is trapped. I'm hoping, then, that the code is a clue to what happened to Olivia, that she is somehow trapped in the other universe (where Lincoln could very well still be, if he was there when the Observers attacked).
@Kim: I noticed that timeline thing, and I wondered if perhaps we were actually somehow still in 2011 in FRINGE world. Let's be honest — it wouldn't be the least unusual thing the show did with time. Or I suppose they could have taken control in Dec. 2015 and they were defeated in Jan/Feb/March 2016?
Very interesting theory Olivia is Over There in 2036…
Amy tvgirl222 on April 21st, 2012 9:39 am
@Kim and @marisa There is definitely something up with the timeline thing. There is no possible way that the brilliant people behind Fringe could put this thing together and then count the years wrong for Etta's age. More mysteries yet to unfold!
Laffers on April 21st, 2012 11:09 am
Wow…this episode was amazing. Seriously awesome.
It hooked me in right from the Star Wars like introduction (who DOESN'T love Star Wars?) to the 'Hello, Dad' at the end. (And I totally didn't realise she was his daughter…as my twitter feed will attest to.)
I missed Olivia, I did, but I also love a good mystery. 45minutes playing 'Where's Olivia' is always fun.
I think it says so much about the Fringe writers that, within the first 15 minutes of this episode, they made me care for Etta and Simon so much. I totally fell for Simon over the course of the episode…he helped make up for no Peter for so long 🙂
It was brilliant, and the Fringe guys continue to amaze and delight me. I think Fringe is the only show on TV at the moment that has never disappointed me. I never watch an episode and feel underwhelmed at all…it's such a nice change 😉
Marisa Roffman on April 21st, 2012 12:36 pm
@Kim & @Amy tvgirl222: Also may be worth noting that when I spoke with Lance Reddick (https://www.givememyremote.com/remote/2012/04/20/fringe-episode-19-lance-reddick-teases-that-in-2036-the-state-of-the-world-is-very-different/), he mentioned in the script, it said it was 25 years later. Considering we're in 2036…
@Laffers: Yep, I geeked out over the STAR WARS intro, too. Agree that it says a lot about these writers that I was able to be fully invested in these brand new characters so quickly and so many others were, too.
@Kristina: The promo for the next episode showed our current timeline 🙂
Donna on April 21st, 2012 1:10 pm
Has anyone done the math yet? If Etta last saw her parents when she was 4, and it's been 20 years since Peter went into the amber, then that makes her 24… which means she was born in 2012.
Which means Olivia is pregnant with her. Right now. (No doubt, conceived right after the big street kiss in episode 415…)
Anyhow, I'd like more explanation of how the Observers turned so nasty (or at least, what happened to our NICE, halfway decent, scientific Observers team), but this episode was a brilliant way to project Fringe's storylines into a future that the TV show itself might not even reach. Who DOESN'T want to find out more about what happens in 2036? What a cliffhanger – our Fringe team (sans Olivia) escaping on a train, heading off to fight the future. If the show gets cancelled before Season 5, that storyline will still be hanging out there, making fans curious. Do I smell a comic book or novel series?
But next week, it's back to our present time and the resolution of the DRJ story. Should be great.
Oh, PS… in 2036, I hope the Harvard lab has been totally forgotten by the Observers (and Loyalists) and can now be both Walter's lab AND a secret Resistance hideout. That would be awesome.
Wasn't the crawl intro supposed to be a tribute to Blade Runner though?
Marisa Roffman on April 21st, 2012 9:42 pm
@Donna: I've actually never seen BLADE RUNNER, so it's entirely possible. My first thought was STAR WARS, but it's possible it was BR (or BR, too).
Ray Roberson on April 22nd, 2012 1:01 am
As a father of three adult children, I was also hooked into tears.
We now have confirmation that the "future" of "The Day We Died" has now been changed. Set in the year 2026, Peter was encased in amber that year in this current timeline.
Etta's necklace is probably the bullet that killed her mother. Recall September's message in episode 408, where he told Olivia – after looking at all possible futures – she had to die.
We are now presented with a new mystery. Is William Bell (encased in amber) really dead in this current timeline? Was he encased at the same time as Walter, Astrid, and Peter? Was he the unfortunate victim of an experiment that he could not escape – and so was dead for all intents and purposes?
Hats off to the makeup artists. The facial aging of Nina Sharp and Philip Broyles was visually very convincing.
jophan on April 22nd, 2012 12:48 pm
I doubt they can use the lab since Broyles is working for the Observers, however unenthusiastically. Plus, if the Observer team we knew were (possibly unwitting) scouts for this takeover they will know well about the lab.
A ruthless Walter will be interesting to see. Will the formerly-criminal Peter be his anchor to ethical experimentation? Granted, ethics slip in time of war, and Peter can be ruthless as well.
Ray Roberson on April 22nd, 2012 1:04 pm
A short night's sleep, a 3 hour patrol, and some additional "topical impressions" about references to "wars".
> Broyles appears to be in the same position as French Police Captain Renault – not a collaborator, but stuck in-between and "observing" the Observers. There are no marks on his face. His expression is solid stone as he looks at the red licorice.
> As I was watching,I thought it strange that Broyles didn't address Etta as "Agent ". In retrospect, this was probably a device to spoil the ending, but it may have been a practical measure to avoid exposing her true identity to others.
> We now know that the Observers "true ability" is to "read" the thoughts of others in their company – not some knowledge of things that have occurred. This appears to be progressing into a war of Pyschic abilities – something watchers of Bablyon 5 evolving into the Telepath War.
> Good to see that Walter did get to see Star Wars. His recital of Obi-wan's pyschic suggestions to the Stormtrooper was classic.
> And speaking of the "Loyalists" … I saw a very strong reference to the khaki clad SS Corps. … Has anyone seen an Observer that was any color than white?
And, again, my three questions that I'd like to see resolved by the time Fringe finishes its run. If anyone has a pipeline to the producers, please let them know.
1. What were the original, significant timeline events of each universe "before" the Observers began time travel?
2. What was the "important" evet that September needed to observe in Walternate's lab?
3. What was "the machine" really built for in the first place, what are its full capabilities / functions, and who/when/how did it get buried before Peter was born.
Oops, one omission.
> As I was watching,I thought it strange that Broyles didn't address Etta as "Agent (last name)". In retrospect, this was probably a device to spoil the ending, but it may have been a practical measure to avoid exposing her true identity to others within hearing. He would obviously know her history and may have developed some ability to avoid being read.
Big Al on April 22nd, 2012 5:13 pm
Why did some characters have numbers on their faces? Maybe that was explained and I just missed it….?
From the beginning text, see "Loyalists".
They came from the future.
At first, they only watched.
Arriving at key moments in human history.
We called them 'OBSERVERS'
But in 2015 they stopped watching…
and seized control.
Citizen uprisings proved bloody and futile.
Those who survived became known as 'Natives'.
In an attempt to show their allegiance,
some Native factions became 'Loyalists'
and were marked by the OBSERVERS.
The original FRINGE TEAM fought the invasion,
but was quickly defeated.
FRINGE DIVISION was allowed to continue
at a reduced capacity, but only to
police the Natives.
The resistance was quickly overcome
…or so they thought.
trancefreak on April 22nd, 2012 11:36 pm
Anyone wondering why the observers were nasty was in the Fracture Episode.
Gordon tells Broyles the end is coming and they had to take matters into their own hands. He says "they" are here, collecting data, making observations. That's what's in the briefcase. "They" have been passing information to a courier. As he says this we see the trenchcoat man Burgess tried to intercept bringing his briefcase to someone who loads their food up with pepper. Gordon says whatever's in the briefcase is going to destroy us all. We see it's The Observer (Michael Cerveris) who received the packet. He thumbs through the photos inside. They're of Walter. Credit to IMDB
So many tie in's to Fringe. There are so many clues, mystery's, messages in the fringe universe it could take fans Imaginations to go frame by frame ep to ep to figure out all the hidden secrets. I love it.
shann on August 21st, 2012 6:30 am
I know I'm late to the game, but seriously, I've seen people mentioning Star Wars reference for the intro to the episode.
BLADE FUCKIN' RUNNER people! Watch your classics for crying out loud, even the music reflected the score of Blade's intro 😉
That aside, I didn't love that episode. I think it's very diminishing for the otherwise fantastic Observers. I much preferred them as omniscient beings of superior capabilities, making them mean Gestapo style bad ass is to me a huge loss to the show's depth. But we shall see where they go with it. So far I have the feeling the only way the screenwriters manage to "resolve" their story plots was to simply throw a whole line down the drain as an ended universe and move on to the next, starting afresh, which I'm starting to find extremely disappointing. Ultimately so far NO plot has really unfolded, and I certainly hope it won't be all about the observers suddenly turning up evil.


The crypto world is yet again beset by criminal activity as the first clipper malware has been found on Google Play.
Thanks to the research and skills of WeLiveSecurity (part of security software firm ESET), it explains that cryptocurrency stealers replace a wallet address in the clipboard. It was previously limited to Windows or "shady" Android app stores.
The clipper it found lurking in the Google Play store, detected as Android/Clipper.C, impersonates a legitimate service called MetaMask.
The malware's primary purpose is to steal the victim's credentials and private keys to gain control over the victim's Ethereum funds. However, it can also replace a Bitcoin or Ethereum wallet address copied to the clipboard with one belonging to the attacker.
WeLiveSecurity says for security reasons, addresses of online cryptocurrency wallets are composed of long strings of characters.
Instead of typing them, users tend to copy and paste the addresses using the clipboard. A type of malware, known as a "clipper", takes advantage of this.
It intercepts the content of the clipboard and replaces it surreptitiously with what the attacker wants to subvert.
In the case of a cryptocurrency transaction, the affected user might end up with the copied wallet address quietly switched to one belonging to the attacker.
This dangerous form of malware first made its rounds in 2017 on the Windows platform and was spotted in these "shady" Android app stores in the summer of 2018.
There is good news as the firm reported the discovery to the Google Play security team, who removed the app from the store.
In addition, always check the official website of the app developer or service provider for the link to the official app. If there is not one, "consider it a red flag and be extremely cautious to any result of your Google Play search".


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The service will run again this year offering a direct bus route between Hawes Pier in Queensferry and the City Centre for cruise passengers.
New for the 2019, Lothian will launch Cruiselink X50, a direct service between Newhaven Pier and the City Centre for cruise passengers landing at Newhaven.
Buses will meet all cruise ships scheduled to call at Queensferry and take visitors into Edinburgh City Centre in around 45 minutes.
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MISD Names Amanda Rodgers as Middle School #3 Principal
Midlothian ISD Names Amanda Rodgers as Middle School #3 Principal
Midlothian ISD names Amanda Rodgers as the Middle School #3 principal, effective summer 2019. This new campus will open to students for the 2020-21 school year. Throughout the past two years, Rodgers has served as a member of the Middle School #3 design team in helping provide the vision of what this school will look like architecturally, as well as the type of collaborative learning to continue the district's long-standing tradition of inspiring excellence. Because of this unique opportunity to open a school that she has helped design, Rodgers asked to be considered for this position. Currently, Rodgers serves as the principal of T.E. Baxter Elementary.
"Amanda is an incredible, genuine and multi-talented leader," Dr. Lane Ledbetter, Superintendent of Schools said. "With an extensive kindergarten -- 8th-grade background, she recognizes and values the importance of the pivotal transition between the elementary and secondary experience. She believes deeply in personalized learning and meeting the needs of each and every child."
While it is an honor to be named Middle School #3's first principal, it has been an incredible privilege to be a part of the Baxter Elementary School community. I am so grateful to the Baxter family for allowing me to serve their children," Rodgers said. "I look forward to empowering middle school students to fulfill their dreams and become innovators of tomorrow."
Rodgers earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies at the University of North Texas and her master's degree in education administration from Texas Christian University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership at Dallas Baptist University. She came to Midlothian ISD in 2009 to teach English and coach at Midlothian High School. Rodgers later became the physical education teacher at Frank Seale Middle School before transitioning to the campus' testing coordinator and language arts and math instructional leader and campus liaison. In 2017, she became the assistant principal at T.E. Baxter Elementary and in 2018 transitioned to the campus principal.
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Schniarfers are an alien species in the Valerian, Space-Time Agent graphic novels. A Schniarfer first appears in 1990, in the The Living Weapons graphic novel.
Schniarfers — so named because they can schniarf — come from the dismal, extremely dangerous planet Bromn. They are homonculi with Human-like hands and a rattlesnake-like tail.
As an evolutionary adaptation, their shabunal gland release a compound in their bloodstream. It makes them nasty, aggressive, and taking pleasure in schniarfing. This constant hostility is necessary to defend themselves on Bromn.
As a side effect, a person who seize them by the shabunal gland will imprint onto the Schniarfer, who will become forced to serve them. This may be because squeezing the gland provokes an overdose of shabu. Thus, Schniarfers are prized as faithful living weapons who will schniarf on command.
In a few cases, Schniarfers were equipped with a circlet around their shabunal gland. It normally compresses it so the Schniarfer isn't constantly in the throes of rage. But a switch can release the pressure, making the Schniarfer aggressive again – and restoring his full ability to schniarf.
Most space-going people will recognise a schniarfer and the risk it poses. Shabunal gland binding seems much more obscure. Thus, a gland-bound schniarfer could go past security who did not realise that this was reversible. However, one strongly suspects that corruption was also involved in this case.
Valérian was once hired by penny-ante weapons merchant to deliver a Schniarfer to obscure, war-torn, low-tech planet Blopik. This specimen was as nasty, crude and aggressive as any Schniarfer. Even though Valérian had squeezed its shabunal gland, the alien was insulting and difficult to control.
Laureline was angry that Valérian was trafficking weapons to pay for ship maintenance. The job was generally miserable. Valérian eventually decided to leave Blopik behind, and take away all the living weapons recently brought planetside.
He then operated on the Schniarfer to keep his shabunal gland bound – a minor, reversible surgery. Valérian most likely wasn't the first person to do that operation, but he had to independently develop the procedure. Still, it was a complete success.
The Schniarfer was highly appreciative of no longer being in a state of constant aggression. Articulate and friendly, he joined a troupe of alien artists and Laureline to perform in a circus show in major Russian cities. Apparently, he performed as a sort of carnival trick shooter. The show was a success.
A different Schniarfer was later acquired by the Quatuor Mortis. This Schniarfer was an ex-con. A previous owner had been another criminal, who had used the Schniarfer in a failed attempt to break into a major embassy to steal stuff.
The QM equipped the Schniarfer with a reversible shabunal gland circlet. Then they smuggled him into a megaluxury cruise ship to kidnap a VIP. They unlocked the circlet to let the Schniarfer cow and intimidate a roomful of tourists. When the security came in, the schniarfer destroyed half a double detective with a single schniarf.
However, Valérian pounced on the schniarfer and bound its gland again. This made the Schniarfer Valérian's ally, and the Human took it along. The Schniarfer proved an invaluable ally in rescuing Laureline, who had been accidentally kidnapped by the Quatuor. He then stuck around by Valérian and Laureline, becoming a sort of sidekick.
Laureline and Valérian later handed their Schniarfer over to their friend Ky-Gaï, to serve as a bodyguard and help her run her business. The Schniarfer apparently did a fantastic job at revitalising the industry in which Ky-Gaï used to work. His business acumen also improved the previously dismal conditions of the garment workers of Phnom-Nam.
When Ky-Gaï went on a successful quest to find the Time-Opener, she took her Schniarfer along for security. The Schniarfer wanted to focus on running the company instead, but had to come along.
When she was reunited with Laureline and Valérian, Ky-Gaï had the Schniarfer help her fellow Humans. Later on the pair helped with the logistics with the nanotech injection for the fighting force raised against the Wolochs.
During the battle against the Order of the Stones, the devastating Schniarfer was snatched by the willy Earth criminal Sun Rae, who imprinted on him. With Sun Rae's talent for underworld enterprises and the many opportunities that brought to schniarf, the Schniarfer was satisfied by his new boss.
The pair then associated with "irregular explorer" Captain Singh'a Roog'a as the tough-as-nails space picaroon was assembling her newest motley crew.
A solid projectile, which the Schniarfer can accurately ricochet off multiple surfaces. The apparent weight of the projectile also seems modifiable to alter its trajectory.
A corrosive that can melt through thick, hard metal. It can also dissolve a man.
A sort of energy attack, perhaps not unlike lightning. This can be less-than-lethal, or lethal.
Schniarfers also have a keen sense of smell. It is precise enough to track targets and hit them with schniarf. However, it makes them sensitive to bad smells.
Schniarfers can schniarf with amazing accuracy. Even if the shot involves multiple ricochets. Or hitting multiple targets with shrapnel from a single schniarf impact. This is a good part of what makes them so dreaded – they don't miss. Also, they're rather quick.
Thus, people who know that a Schniarfer is aiming at them will act as if threatened by a tripod-mounted machinegun.
Schniarfers in an aggressive mood have an horrible voice. Apparently it's less insufferable once their gland has been bound.
Under the influence of shabu, Schniarfers are cruel, hyperactive ravagers who draw great physical satisfaction from schniarfing. They love terrorising others, and are liable to play with their prey. They constantly swear, shout abuse… and schniarf.
Once the gland is bound, there's an adjustment period as the Shniarfer will be overwhelmed with affection toward their new master. It will gradually subside, but the Schniarfer will remain highly loyal, helpful and supportive.
If a Schniarfer is ordered to turn against their old master by their new master, the new imprinting may not work as the old imprinting is still present.
Once a gland has been bound, Schniarfers become very talkative – or at least the two observed specimens were. They are deprived from most social interaction when in a rage, so they make up for the lost time once they've been made calm.
The second Schniarfer often launched into comical walls of text, loved lecturing about his interests, and made a constant lot of unrequited comments and remarks. He really liked the sound of his own voice – which lost its horribleness as shabu levels receded.
In particular, he spent all his time reading about business management and would often launch into MBA tirades. However, he was also genuinely helpful, and even helped take care of animals. He also seemed quite smart, and was a highly competent entrepreneur.
A Schniarfer with a bound gland still will long to schniarf from time to time. It is better for them to have occasions to release their destructive, schniarfing wrath.
Shrinking is Always On and Already Factored in. A Schniarfer's movement speed is minus 2 but their OV vs ranged attacks is 06.
The various attack Powers are all Contingent Upon Projectile weapons, as they all represent schniarfing. Only Projectile Weapons has a Range, but the other Powers can ride Projectile weapons' Range.
The various attack Powers all have the Indirect (+1) Bonus. They do not have to follow a straight line, but they need something to ricochet on or shrapnel from.
The various attack Powers have a selective 0-APs Area of Effect.
Analytical smell/tracking scent allows for attacking without penalties targets that are unseen but clearly smellable.
Accuracy (Shniarfing): 07. The second Schniarfer had Charisma (Persuasion): 04.
The second Schniarfer had a Scholar in Business Administration.
Creepy Appearance (Theirs is an unpopular, feared species), SIA toward serving the person who last squeezed their shabunal gland, MID of people/species with an unpleasant smell, Misc.: with the shabunal gland active, Schniarfers have an altered personality.
Under the influence of shabu, a Schniarfer has a Serious Rage, a Psychopath Motivation, and the Iron Nerves and Lightning Reflexes Advantages.
An AV of 07 is enormous for the setting, where AVs above 04 are heroic and OVs are on the same scale. To most onlookers, it will look like a Schniarfer never misses. But they're not more accurate than an AV of 07 anywhere else.
Notably, a Schniarfer once missed Valérian, though Valérian was in flight and spent Hero Points. And the Schniarfer may have been going for a Trick Shot to make roll fall onto Valérian rather than hit him directly.
The EV is also superior to energy small arms in common use in the setting. There are of course pistols and carbines with a higher EV. But that usually means Terran military hardware like the one Valérian uses during the rare, genuine combat mission.
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September 5, 2013 Discovering Biodiversity
Evolution as it happened, plus wet walkers
Posted by Alison Jobling
First up, there's a great (if busy) illustration of the evolutionary 'tree' here. As you can see, it's not so much a tree as a densely packed root system, with most extinctions removed (because otherwise it just look like a solid mass).
And in recent news, scientists have discovered a new species of walking shark. There's a fascinating video in that article, showing the shark walking along the sea bottom, using their pectoral and pelvic fins to push them along.
Axolotl. Image by Stan Shebbs, licensed under GNU FDL.
There are also a number of walking fish. The axolotl, or Mexican walking fish, is probably the best known, but the waters around south-east Australia are home to 14 species of handfish, who use their hand-like (and footlike) fins to walk along the bottom. If you look at the 4 photos in this National Geographic article, you can see from some of them that there are two fins placed like legs, which is quite unusual for a fish.
The handfish species are all considered threatened to some degree or another – they only live in shallow coastal waters off south-eastern Australia, and individuals tend to stay close to their homes. So their genetic diversity is probably quite low, putting them in danger, as they'll be less able to weather any threats such as climate change. Scientists are hoping that the clean-up of the Derwent river may help the species to bounce back, by reducing the threat from pollution.
Although handfish are only found around Australia, fossils have been found in the Mediterranean, and scientists suspect the creatures may have lived in oceans around the world millions of years ago. If they're currently restricted to a small area of shallow water near Tasmania, they'll be unlikely to survive the warming waters that climate change will bring, as they'll be unable to migrate to suitable shallows further south.
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i study biology and i think i have very strong evidence for design in nature
a) we know that a self replicate robot that made from dna need a designer
b) from a material prespective the ape is a self replicate robot
a+b= the ape need a designer
or even a self replicat watch.the evolution side always say that a watch need a designer because it cant self rplicat. so if we will find a self replicat watch we need to say that is made by itself
plus: if a self replicate car cant evolve into an airplan, how can a bacteria can evolve into human ?
the evolution say that small steps for milions years become a big steps. but according to this a lots of small steps in self replicat car (with dna) will evolve into a airplan.
but there is no step wise from car to airplan
evolution say that common similarity is evidence for common descent. but according to this 2 similar self replicat car are evolve from each other .
Alison Jobling says:
Hi gil, and thanks for commenting. I'd like to reply to your comment piece by piece, if that's okay.
No, you've defined the ape as a self-replicating robot.
Your argument is similar to this:
•	Concrete is hard and humans designed concrete
•	Rocks are hard like concrete
•	Therefore humans designed rocks
In other words, you're saying that because we can (possibly, in your example) replicate something that occurs in nature, then everything that occurs in nature must have been made by someone.
No: evolution says nothing about watches, because watches don't occur in nature, and evolution deals with things occurring in nature, not things that are manufactured.
Also, you're mixing up evolution and the origin of life. Evolution talks about how species change over time in response to evolutionary pressure from their environment – the best-suited to survive will survive and pass their characteristics to their offspring. When we talk about origin of life, we're talking about the jump from non-self-replicating molecules to self-replicating molecules. They're two entirely different topics.
Very simple self-replicating molecules (not bacteria) did evolve into humans, and that happened through random mutation and natural selection over millions of years. Random mutations happen. Individuals that have a competitive edge over other members of their species have a better chance of survival, and so have a better chance of reproducing and passing those characteristics on to their offspring. That's natural selection. Combine these two mechanisms over millions of years and you get the evolution of species.
No: there's no current push to make that car evolve into an airplane – in biological terms, there's no evolutionary pressure. A self-replicating car would continue to replicate as is, until/unless circumstances changed and it was no longer suited to its environment. At that stage, the changed circumstances might favour one particular mutation, to the extent that that mutation is better able to survive and reproduce, and that would be a first step towards your car evolving into an airplane.
Or it might evolve into an amphibian vehicle, or a tunneling machine, or something else, depending on the environmental conditions that prompted the evolution. Or the car species might just become extinct, if it couldn't adapt sufficiently fast.
evolution say that common similarity is evidence for common descent. but according to this 2 similar self replicat car are evolve from each other.
Not quite: evolution says that common similarity of species is evidence for common descent, not similar individuals. Your 2 similar cars would both be part of the same species, so one doesn't evolve from the other.
"No, you've defined the ape as a self-replicating robot. "-
from a marerial prespective why not actualy?
" you're saying that because we can (possibly, in your example) replicate something that occurs in nature, then everything that occurs in nature must have been made by someone."-
not. i just say that a robot with dna need a designer.
"No: evolution says nothing about watches, because watches don't occur in nature"-
acctually thay are a product of humans. so they are a product (side effect)of evolution.
"Also, you're mixing up evolution and the origin of life. "-
you right. but we can talk abut a bacteria in a close room. if bacteria can evolve into human-then a car can evolve in a close room because the bacteria can evolve to a human and he will made a car.
" That's natural selection. Combine these two mechanisms over millions of years and you get the evolution of species."-
but for new kind of animal we need a new systems. so the question is if there is a step wise to get a new system. can you as intellegent design. make a car in small functional steps?
"No: there's no current push to make that car evolve into an airplane – in biological terms, there's no evolutionary pressure. "-
why not? an airplan can fly and get is food better then a car.or run away from predators.
"Or it might evolve into an amphibian vehicle, or a tunneling machine, or something else, depending on the environmental conditions that prompted the evolution. "-
yep. but there is no stepwise to this systems also.
"Not quite: evolution says that common similarity of species is evidence for common descent, not similar individuals. Your 2 similar cars would both be part of the same species, so one doesn't evolve from the other"-
not if they are in different models. like 2007 and 2008.
Because you're using the logical fallacy of proof by example: you're assuming that the ape (and by extension any living thing) is a self-replicating robot which needs a designer, and hence the ape needs a designer.
acctually thay are a product of humans. so they are a product (side effect)of evolution
No, they are a product of human engineering – evolution has nothing to do with it.
"Also, you're mixing up evolution and the origin of life. "
Now you're vastly oversimplifying the origin of life as well as evolution.
New kinds of animals have evolved continually over the millennia – radically new kinds. But that evolution happened slowly, over a massive time scale. There was generally no stepwise evolution – gradual changes make subsequent generations more fit to survive and pass on their characteristics to their offspring.
Again, you're misunderstanding the process of evolution: if there is no evolutionary pressure that favours new mutations over the current form, then there's no reason for creatures to evolve. Just because you believe that planes are 'better' somehow than cars, doesn't mean that there would be any pressures forcing the cars from their current niche. Cockroaches have been around in their current form for more than 60 million years, but since they are very well adapted to their current niche, and there have been no evolutionary pressures forcing them to evolve, they're still around even though they're not what most people would consider the peak of anything.
You're stretching your analogy well beyond breaking point here, I think.
hi again alison.
"you're assuming that the ape (and by extension any living thing) is a self-replicating robot which needs a designer, and hence the ape needs a designer."-
what is the diference actually? if i will made a robot with dna. is this kind of robot is not a robot?
"No, they are a product of human engineering – evolution has nothing to do with it."-
if human engineering is a product of evolution- then it mey be true also.
"New kinds of animals have evolved continually over the millennia – radically new kinds. But that evolution happened slowly, over a massive time scale."-
so how do we know that a one kind of animal can evolve into another?
"Again, you're misunderstanding the process of evolution: if there is no evolutionary pressure that favours new mutations over the current form, then there's no reason for creatures to evolve. Just because you believe that planes are 'better' somehow than cars, doesn't mean that there would be any pressures forcing the cars from their current niche."-
its just an example. you can choose any 2 complex object that you whant. can you, as intellegent designer change an mp3 into cell phone or anything by a step wise?
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This is reported as the worst plague there in three decades.
An independent Sudanese daily said authorities in Gezira State had declared a state of emergency in the hospitals of Wad Medani city to contain the epidemic that broke out when the swarms arrived last Wednesday.
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A Letter by Regelson and Yakunin, March 1976 (41.3)
In CCE 40.16 ("Letters and Statements") there was a short summary of a letter from Lev REGELSON and the Orthodox priest Gleb YAKUNIN, sent in March 1976 to Philip Potter, Secretary-General of the World Council of Churches (WCC ).
The Chronicle considers it necessary to give a more detailed account of this letter.
The authors of the letter note with satisfaction the achievements of the 1975 WCC Assembly in Nairobi regarding the fight against the absence of religious rights in various countries of the world, including the USSR. The Assembly's decision to set up a WCC sub-committee to investigate the position of religion and religious believers in these countries was particularly important.
Lev Regelson (b. 1939) and Father Gleb Yakunin (1934-2014)
Regelson and Yakunin propose that the investigation into the position of religion in our country should take as its starting-point the existing legislation on religion.
This legislation was introduced in the USSR in 1929; on 23 June 1975 a decree of the Presidium of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet made certain amendments.
The authors of the letter draw attention, first of all, to the issue of the registration of religious congregations. Soviet law regards such registration, not as a statement of fact establishing the existence of a religious congregation, but as permission for it to exist. The right of registration (and the right to refuse registration) is wholly in the hands of the Council for Religious Affairs.
In this way:
"A religious congregation cannot exist on its own initiative, by the wishes of its members and according to the law: on its own, before registration and without it, the congregation is forbidden to exist, and only the administrative sanction of the authorities can lift this ban in each individual case.
"To clarify the situation, let us imagine that, having decided to invite friends to our house for some celebration, or merely to pass free time together, we would not have the right to do so, on pain of criminal prosecution, unless we first obtained permission from a special government authority!
"This is the situation, not only with regard to registration, but also with regard to gatherings organized by religious congregations and groups. Every such gathering (with the exception of religious services in religious cult buildings) may have special permission from the local authorities. The same applies to religious rites."
The authors of the letter recall that "the principle of sanction through registration" was used as a weapon of religious discrimination even before the revolution (at that time against non-Orthodox congregations) and was subjected to severe criticism in the State Duma.
Two, depriving religious congregations of the right to own their meeting houses and cult objects, and refusing religious societies the right of persons in law, made those religious denominations which were traditionally linked with church services wholly subject to the arbitrary authority of the State administration.
The statute on cult property, which prescribes confiscation if the church itself is closed, is especially difficult for such denominations as the Orthodox, the Catholics and the Old Believers. After all, church canon law and tradition forbid the confiscation of church property (especially the holy vessels) and their use for worldly purposes. Infringement of this canonical prohibition is defined as "blasphemy" and obliges believers to oppose it by any means. In this regard, the well-known situation which existed in 1922-3 could be repeated at any moment.
The third discriminatory aspect of Soviet legislation on religious cults, as noted by the authors of the letter, is the prohibition of missionary and cultural-social activity by religious congregations. The [1936] Soviet Constitution (Article 124) gives atheists freedom of anti-religious propaganda, but to believers it gives only the "freedom to perform religious cult-practices" (while the first Constitution of the RSFSR, in the corresponding article, granted all citizens freedom of both religious and anti-religious propaganda).
The law on religious cults permits preaching on religious themes only in a meeting-house during a religious service. This in fact represents a ban on missionary work.
This ban specifically puts Christians in the position of having to break Soviet law, as nothing can compel Christians, even by force of law, to renounce one of the Saviour's most important commands: "Go ye and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19).
At present, those who suffer most from the ban referred to are the Baptists and Christians of other denominations who carry out the greatest missionary activity: but in principle it applies to all Christians, and those of other confessions, who regard missionary work as a necessary precept and thus inevitably find themselves in conflict with the state.
In 1966 the Presidium of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet issued a decree "On the application of Article 142 of the RSFSR Criminal Code", which qualified "the perpetration of deceitful activities with the aim of awakening religious superstitions in the population" as a crime. The Commentary to the Criminal Code (also see V. A. Kuroyedov in his Izvestiya article of 26 January 1976) identifies such activities with acts of healing at holy places and with "dissemination of rumours about the end of the world".
In this connection the letter refers to the fact that, as early as 1918, Deputy People's Commissar of Justice Shpitsberg called for Holy Communion to be banned as "an act of sorcery".
"As for the 'rumour' about the inevitably approaching 'end of the world', or more precisely the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the whole Christian Church has persisted in disseminating this rumour …for almost 2,000 years."
The authors consider the fourth essential characteristic of the religious situation in the USSR to be the discriminatory nature of the education system and the ban on organized forms of private religious instruction and education.
The saturation of compulsory school courses with atheist content is traumatic for religious pupils and gives rise to sharp conflicts within the school.
"The inclusion of atheism and atheist propositions in the compulsory curriculum of educational institutes… cuts off the path to higher education for religious believers."
The 1974 Law on National Education lays down that parents must bring up their children in the spirit "of high communist morality". Certain interpretations of this law make it possible for parents who give their children a religious education to be deprived of their parental rights.
On the other hand, private religious education of minors by anyone other than their parents is a crime, under the provisions of Article 142 of the RSFSR Criminal Code.
The logical conclusion of the letter from Yakunin and Regelson is as follows: if the Law on Religious Cults were to be applied in full, religious life in our country would be impossible. However, the actually existing legal restrictions are sufficient for one to speak of the absence of religious freedom in the USSR.
At any moment the law could be used to revive the persecutions of 1918-1923, the 1930s and 1959-1964. To normalize the relationship between religion and the State, a radical reform of the Law on Religious Cults would be required.
For the full text of the Regelson-Yakunin letter, see M. Bourdeaux, H. Hebly and E. Voss (eds), Religious Liberty in the Soviet Union. The WCC and the USSR, a Post-Nairobi Documentation, Keston College, Kent, 1976, pp. 40-53.
Posted in: Church & religion | Tagged: Article 142*, Orthodox Christians*, Regelson L.*, Yakunin G.*
Religion in the USSR, A Lecture by Vasily Furov, May 1976 (41.2)
A New Way of Fighting Religion, June-July 1976 (41.4)
Those who Have Left, November 1977 (47.8)


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HTC One (E8) has started receiving Android 6.0 Marshmallow update via OTA. The update is being rolled out by Sprint and brought a new version 3.10.651.6. According to source; the update also packs all current security patch updates.
As we all know that OTA updates do take sometime before hitting your device. You need to exercise patience a little.
Roll-outs will be completed by August 29, this year 2016.


Often I only want a site visitor to make a single menu choice, but need their selection to populate a number of items instead of just the usual single option value. Also, I usually don't even want them to see what their single selection has spawned such as prices changes in a shopping cart, thus eliminating just asking them for all the values.
So here is how I take advantage of using the option element's LABEL as well as ID and TITLE to define more values.


worker failure: The master pings every worker periodically. If no response is received from a worker in a certain amount of time, the master marks the worker as failed. Any map task or reduce task in progress on a failed worker is also reset to idle and becomes eligible for rescheduling.


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Metro Art Presents Deep Routes with dublab – Saturday, May 7
by Maryam Hosseinzadeh , May 5, 2022
Metro Art is proud to present Deep Routes with dublab this Saturday, May 7, at Union Station. The free, primarily outdoor event manifests the collaborative radio documentary series on LA music [continue reading]
Artists selected for Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project
by Heidi Zeller , May 4, 2022
A panel of nationally recognized curators, local arts professionals and community members from the Purple Line Extension Section 2 and 3 project areas has selected artists to create site-specific, integrated artworks for the future Wilshire/Rodeo, Century City/Constellation, Westwood/UCLA and Westwood/VA Hospital stations. The diverse range of accomplished artists includes: Eddie [continue reading]
Metro Art and KJAZZ Present Jazz Tracks at Union Station on Sunday, April 24
by Maryam Hosseinzadeh , April 15, 2022
In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, Metro Art Presents and KJAZZ are teaming up for Jazz Tracks at Union Station on Sunday, April 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. [continue reading]
Metro Art 2022 Call to Arts and Cultural Organizations
by V. Aquino , April 7, 2022
UPDATED 6/15/2022 – The deadline for the 2022 Arts & Cultural Organization Pool Request for Qualifications has been extended to Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 5:00 pm (PDT). Click here [continue reading]
New glass artwork reflects neighborhood landmarks at the future Martin Luther King Jr. Station
by Maryam Hosseinzadeh , February 25, 2022
Recently, Metro Art installed a new artwork by Metro-commissioned artist Mara Lonner at the future Martin Luther King Jr. Station on the Crenshaw/LAX Line. The artwork, titled Leimert Park Landscape, [continue reading]
Who We Are… Celebrating Metro riders and more
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Have you passed through Union Station lately? If so, you may have seen an exhibition Metro Art launched in December titled We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists in [continue reading]
New Video: Shinique Smith on "Only Light, Only Love" at future Martin Luther King Jr. Station
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The Matlab script, 'callGetNldasForcing.m' will call the function, 'getNldasForcing.m,' which downloads [NLDAS](http://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/nldas/) primary forcings (A) at any number of point locations and saves them as individual text files that contain the corresponding meteorological timeseries. If a requested location is not in the NLDAS domain, the script will issue a warning and download the closest NLDAS pixel to the requested location.

Use 'inFile_test.txt' to select site locations to save.

## Requirements

You must first install [nctoolbox](https://github.com/nctoolbox/nctoolbox). Follow the instructions on that page to install.

Matlab R2008a+. You can verify the version of Matlab by typing:

      version

Register with URS and create a file titled .netrc in your home directory. Place the following in that file: (for details see Procedure 2 on the [GES DISC help page](https://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/recipes/?q=recipes/How-to-Download-Data-Files-from-HTTP-Service-with-wget))

      machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login <uid> password <password>

Java version 7 or higher. You can verify the version of Java used by Matlab by typing:

      version('-java')

The version returned should start with 'Java 1.7.' If it doesn't, you can try updating the Matlab JVM: http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-1812J/

## Demo

The script, 'callGetNldasForcing.m' will
* Read the site name, latitude, and longitude of two arbitrary locations found in the input file, 'inFile.txt.'
* Define the range of dates over which to download. This is initially set to only 2 days for testing, which should take about a minute to run.
* Place output in a directory it creates called 'nldasForcings.' Each location's forcing data will be in a tab-delimited .txt file named after the site name. Details about the site's location are provided in a header in each file.

The above options can be changed in the 'callGetNldasForcing.m' script.

Using a CU internet connection and a 2015 Macbook Pro, it takes about 4 hours to download one year of forcing data.

## Contact
If you have any questions or edits, please [contact me](mailto:peter.shellito@colorado.edu) or create a new pull request.


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Roosevelt gets a regional win over Canfield 14-5. Nick Krestan led the way with seven points. Freshman Lane Hudson got his first career start and scored two goals. The defense was led by Ty Chlad as they held Canfield to five shots through three quarters. The Riders have their first home game Saturday against rival Walsh Jesuit. JV is at 12:00 and varsity is at 2:00.


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Great Phone Calls Featuring Neil Hamburger is a 1992 album by alternative comedian Neil Hamburger. It was originally released by Amarillo Records in 1992 and then re-issued on Ipecac Recordings in 2000 with 7 extra tracks.

Track listing

"I'm In Your Band" (5:56)
"Cancel It!" (0:23)
"Hijinx" (4:16)
"Hijinx and a Child" (2:48)
"A Score to Settle" (2:14)
"Blood Pizza" (1:03)
"Graduate of Yaoo" (3:16)
"(Write My) Name on the Toilet" (2:00)
"You're Not Good Enough" (2:40)
"A Special Request" (2:45)
"Rock & Roll" (3:08)
"Pickle Potato" (1:45)
"The Man from Hott" (1:30)
"Music of the Night" (featuring Mike Patton) (1:03)
"A Nationally-Known Comedian" (6:16)
"I Got Shot" (1:13)
"Nude Models" (0:33)
"MHC" (1:10)
"Nobody Seems to Love Me" (1:07)
"SF Hotline" (1:17)
"Friends" (1:06)
"Pablo Cruise Fan Club" (1:05)

References

Gregg Turkington albums
Ipecac Recordings albums
1992 albums
Prank call albums
Amarillo Records albums

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Errata list for Manual of Computer Graphics
Errors found by the author
Plate E.1. "Subviding" should be "Subdividing".
Plate G.3. "Dye" should be "Die".
Page 110. See error correction for page 1226.
Page 1226. The Bayer filter is named after its developer, Bryce E. Bayer (1929--2012). Bayer, a scientist at Eastman Kodak, received U.S. Patent No. 3,971,065 in 1976 for the filter.
It is interesting to note that he suggested in his patent application that either RGB or CMY colors could be employed in the filter.
Bayer was also the developer of the recursively-defined matrices used in ordered dithering (matrices D_22 and D_44 on page 110).
Error found by Mahmoud El-Sakka
Pages 639-640. The CALIC encoder algorithm listed on these pages is wrong. This error has been in the book since the 2nd edition.
Anyone interested in CALIC is invited to submit a listing of the correct algorithm to the authors.
Error found by Fred and Kay Skripka
Page 1495, line -25. "Scott H. L." should be "Scott, Herschal Lee (artist, 1945--2012)"
Errors found by Zack Lindbloom-Brown
1) On page 336 of Volume 1, shouldn't the expressions read P_L = P \dot T_L and P_R = P \dot T_R? This would be consistent with P_{left} and P_{right} on page 333.
2) The example at the top of page 334 with P = (5, 0, 1), leads to P_{left} = (7/4, 0) and P_{right} = (3/4, 0). Intuitively, wouldn't one expect the x-component of P_{left} to be less than P_{right}'s,
since P resides to the right of the midline of the two eyes? As written, it seems that the left eye's image crosses over the right.
The following comment refers to the 1992 article:
L.F. Hodges, Tutorial: time-multiplexed stereoscopic computer graphics,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Volume: 12, Issue: 2, March 1992).
3) On page 24 of this article, the equations (2) and (3) are the same as your x_L and x_R in the middle of page 334, except for a sign flip in the numerator.
Both sources appear to use a left-handed coordinate system, and both state that the left and right eyes, respectively, are situated at (-e, 0, -k) and
(e, 0, -k) (minor details: they consider e to be the distance between eyes whereas you picked 2e, and d = k). Why the sign difference? (See next point.)
4) Middle of page 334: "The two eyes are located at (e, 0, -k) and (-e, 0, -k)," which according to Figure 6.58a,c, and d implies that the left eye is now at (+e, 0, -k),
whereas the last sentence of page 332 and Figure 6.55b clearly show the left eye at (-e, 0, -k). This flip from left-handed coordinates to right-handed likely explains
the sign difference seen in Point 3) above. To prevent confusion (I know I certainly was), you may consider using the same coordinate convention for both projections.
5) When deriving the sophisticated approach for generating a stereo image, in the middle of page 334, the mysterious w variable should really be e.
6) In the Code for Figure 6.56 on page 335, the matrix Trg is not used. The comment should read "(* use Trg for the other image *)"
Once or twice he [Joyce] dictated a bit of Finnegans Wake to Beckett, though dictation did not work very well for him; in the middle of one such session there was a knock at the door which Beckett didn't hear. Joyce said,
"Come in," and Beckett wrote it down. Afterwards he read back what he had written and Joyce said, "What's that `Come in'?" "Yes, you said that," said Beckett. Joyce thought for a moment, then said, "Let it stand."
He was quite willing to accept coincidence as his collaborator.
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (1959).


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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Fully Deregulate Dow Chemical's GMOs Sprayed with Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D
Dow Chemical 2,4-D was once a chemical combination used in Agent Orange
By Christina Sarich
Theme: Biotechnology and GMO
What a surprise – the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to make a decision to fully deregulate Dow Chemical's Enlist corn and soybeans, genetically engineered to be repeatedly sprayed with the herbicide 2,4-D and glyphosate. When does this agency ever choose to protect our food supply? Now, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) is condemning this action, though it isn't much different from all the other ridiculous actions the USDA and FDA usually make.
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of CFS, says:
"2,4-D resistant crops pose a monumental threat to our nation's agricultural, environmental and human health. With this approval comes millions of more pounds of toxic herbicides dumped onto our land; it's an unacceptable outcome. . .Center for Food Safety will pursue all available legal options to stop the commercialization of these dangerous crops."
2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid), produced by Dow Chemical, was once a chemical combination used in Agent Orange, which was heavily sprayed in Vietnam. Unfortuantely, 2,4-D and other herbicides are in a class of toxins which cause deadly immune system cancers, Parkinson's disease, endocrine disruption, and reproductive problems.
The only reason to use this group of chemicals as at all is because Monsanto's RoundUp is basically ineffective on its own. It is no longer controlling weeds, and farmers who once counted on RoundUp are now growing more weeds than edible crops. Instead of first generation GE crops becoming immune to RoundUp, the weeds have.
Experts already agree that way too much glyphosate has been sprayed around the world on every conceivable crop – GMO and non-GMO. And though Dow claims 2,4-D crops are the solution to weed resistance, a recent peer-reviewed study published in the prestigious journal Bioscience concludes that these new GE crops will instead pour oil on the fire by triggering still more intractable weeds resistant to both glyphosate and 2,4-D.
Dow says one thing, food experts like kimbrell say another:
"This is not the solution to our superweed problem and will only spur the evolution of yet more herbicide-resistant weeds. We need a new direction for our agricultural system, not increased reliance on chemicals."
Even the USDA reports without any seeming concern that the approval of 2,4-D resistant corn and soybeans will lead to an unprecedented 7 fold increase in spraying of 2,4-D chemicals by 2020, and this will be compounded with the glyphosate and RoundUp chemicals already heavily in use. As much as 176 millions lbs of 2,4-D will be in use per year. That doesn't sound very safe, for anyone or anything.
Are they trying to grow crops, or freakish plants and poison people?
The original source of this article is Natural Society
Copyright © Christina Sarich, Natural Society, 2014
Articles by: Christina Sarich


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Q: NTLM authentication + soap client + response not received I have the following code to call the NTLM authentication for Sharepoint data:
class NTLMSoapClient extends SoapClient {
/**
 * Whether or not to validate ssl certificates
 *
 * @var boolean
 */

    function __construct($location, $user, $passwd)
    {
        //print '1';

        $headers = array(

            'Method: POST',

            'Connection: Keep-Alive',

            'User-Agent: PHP-SOAP-CURL',

            'Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8',

            'SOAPAction: ""',
        );

        $request='';

        //$this->__last_request_headers = $headers;

        $ch = curl_init($location);

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER , $headers);
        //print '2';

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST , true );

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS , $request);

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION , CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);

        // the next option may or may not cause issues with non-XML documents
        //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_NTLM);

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.':'.$passwd);
        //print '3';

        // optional SSL verification
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        print $response;

        // TODO: Add some real error handling.
        // If the response if false than there was an error and we should throw
        // an exception.
        if ($response === false) {
            //print '5';
            throw new EWS_Exception(
              'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch),
              curl_errno($ch)
            );
        }

        //print '6';

        return $response;
    }
}

The call is made as follows:
try{
            $this->soapObject = new NTLMSoapClient( $this->wsdl, $this->spUser, $this->spPass);
        }catch(SoapFault $fault){
            //If we are unable to create a Soap Client display a Fatal error.
            throw new Exception("Unable to locate WSDL file.");
        }

The response is coming as wsdl. Why is the response coming as wsdl. It should return me the soap client object array as in normal soap client call.

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Some people love to celebrate their birthday, others hate announcing another year of wrinkles, aching back pains and the thought of their eye sight or hearing going out. But celebrating a sober birthday is completely the opposite of a normal birthday.
In the sober community, a person's "belly button" day, aka the day they were born, is not as important as their sober birthday. A birthday represents the day they came into this world, born with expectations of learning to walk, getting good grades in school, and ultimately becoming an outstanding citizen that pays taxes and roots for the home team. From the day you were born, you will only get older and your body will change until it begins to decay away to complete the circle of life that is mortality.
One's sober birthday is completely the opposite, it is the day they put the bottle down, flushed the drugs, walked away from the dealer empty handed; it is the day they freed themselves from the drug that enslaved them. The day they rose from the ashes of their drug influenced life.
A sober birthday is a conscious decision that an addict made to live a better life than a life of fix after fix. Their decision empowered them to find a life worth living on their own terms rather than the drug that governed so much of their existence.


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Agenda, decisions and minutes
Planning Committee - Wednesday, 13 May 2020 10.00 a.m.
Printed decisions PDF 103 KB
Chairman's Announcements
For the benefit of members of the public viewing the live webcast of the meeting, the Chairman introduced Committee members and officers in attendance.
He explained that this meeting of the Planning Committee was the first to be held virtually and asked for patience bearing in mind the challenges posed by the technology in use and by the new meeting skills required.
The Chairman confirmed that the Planning Committee would continue with the practice of recording votes unless a resolution could be reached by affirmation. He explained the process he would follow in a virtual meetings environment.
He confirmed that the meeting was quorate but informed members of the public that, if a Committee member was absent for any part of the presentation of or debate about an agenda item then that member would not be allowed to vote on that item.
There were no Apologies for Absence.
There were no declarations of interest.
Minutes of Previous Meeting PDF 160 KB
To authorise the Chairman to sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 11 March 2020 as a correct record.
The Committee authorised the Chairman to sign, as a correct record, the Minutes of the meeting held on 11 March 2020, subject to the following:
Minute 7: S/4615/18/OL – Landbeach (Land to the West of Cambridge Research Park, Beach Drive)
An amendment to show that Councillor Judith Rippeth voted in favour of the application rather than against it.
Minute 6: - S/4002/19/VC – Fowlmere (Apple Acre Park, London Road)
Under the heading 'Reason for objection, the word 'permanence' between the words 'permitted' and 'residence' should be 'permanent'.
An amendment to clarify that, in the absence of Councillor Pippa Heylings, Councillor Brian Milnes had been appointed as Vice-Chairman of the meeting.
Public speaking at meetings of Planning Committee PDF 226 KB
Appendix A - Public Speaking at Meetings of Planning Committee , item 5. PDF 255 KB
The Planning Committeeapproved the amended scheme for Public Speaking at Planning Committee meetings as set out in Appendix A, as amended to replicate the existing arrangements, as follows:
(i) In paragraph 4.1(d), by adding the words "…or another Councillor appointed by them" so that it says "Local District Councillor(s) or another Councillor appointed by them"; and
(ii) By confirming paragraph 4.3 as stating "The same person is not allowed to address the committee in more than one of the speaker categories. Where speakers have competing interests, such as community objector and Parish Council representative, they should choose their dominant interest prior to registering to speak, and delegate the other role to another representative if need be."
The Planning Committee considered a report on proposed revisions to the scheme for public speaking at its meetings to reflect the requirement to operate virtually.
Members considered several technical issues and potential benefits related to video conferencing.
Councillor Heather Williams highlighted an inconsistency between paragraph 6 of the report and paragraph 4.1(d) in Appendix A. She additionally sought clarification, with reference to paragraph 4.3. The Joint Director of Planning and Economic Development acknowledged that there was a discrepancy between the wording in paragraph 4.1(d) and the current scheme, but indicated that the original wording could be reinstated if Members wished. He further advised that the wording of paragraph 4.3 was unchanged from the original scheme.
Councillor Heather Williams proposed that paragraph 4.1(d) of the proposed protocol for public speaking at meetings of the Planning Committee be amended so as to replicate the current scheme. This was seconded by Councillor Anna Bradnam and carried by the Committee by affirmation.
The Planning Committee unanimously approved the amended scheme for Public Speaking at Planning Committee meetings as set out in Appendix A, subject to amendment of paragraph 4.1(d), by adding the words "…or another Councillor appointed by them" so that it says "Local District Councillor(s) or another Councillor appointed by them".
To note the dates of future meetings
There will be two additional Planning Committee meetings in May:
· Wednesday 20 May 2020 at 10.00am
· Tuesday 26 May 2020 at 2.00pm
The previously scheduled meeting on Wednesday 10 June 2020 will go ahead at 10.00am.
There will be a further meeting in June – date to be arranged.
Members noted that, with the consent of the Chairman, two additional Planning Committee meetings had been called, as follows: