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Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter (2002) Script
Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter
Letter from a Filmmaker to his Daughter Sound.
Sound rolling.
Image.
Rolling.
Clapper.
One day, my daughter asked me... why I hadn't made a film for her.
...Why I hadn't made a film for children.
I replied to her that I couldn't do it.
It was impossible for me, because it had been so long since I had been a kid, that there was no kid left here any more... so what would I film?
So I'm embarking on a search mission to recover it to try to convey my relationships with others.
Arising from her question and desire there is a desire to answer her: to tell her some stories... stories I had been waiting to tell her.
In Cuba some filmmaker friends interceded with the god Eleggua to help me make this film.
I prepared three small packets with a little something for each one.
A fish caught in a clothespin,
its eyes pierced through with a needle.
And accompanied with a clove of garlic.
Around the packet, red and white twine, cinched tight.
I hid them at day's end in three nooks along the street that passes by our house.
As long as they remain, Eleggua will help you to triumph over your enemies.
I made a fourth packet with a key a sea snail a chain these peppercorns and these dried up raisins.
Wrapped them up in white paper and hid them away behind the front door during that day.
I'd taught you how rivers flow in the direction of the sea, thus I turn them around in the direction of the South I marked the spot, with an arrow made from eggshell powder.
Finally I lit up a cigar, its strong smell certain to revive Eleggua wherever he might be found.
I'm writing to make a film for you.
I'm writing to share with you some images and sounds that would tell you the stories that I wanted to tell you.
I'm writing to tell you about the cinema that I love which is a personal cinema, very much akin to painting almost.
A cinema of beholding.
Of thoughtfulness.
Of sharing.
Rather different from the cinema of power and spectacle.
See this bakery?
I've known this bakery forever ever since I've been buying bread at this place.
But he doesn't know I make films because I've never told him.
I'm so ashamed of cinema sometimes I'd rather be making television.
And his son, I've known him for a long time, for as long as his father has run the bakery.
Whereas you, you met me after I started making films.
Autumn.
Portrait of Mohamed, the pool boy, shared for a moment.
Film, for me, is first of all, looking at another.
The face of another.
But also the traces of others, as here or elsewhere in the countryside.
This is where I should film someone who works in the cinema.
So I've made a portrait of Roger.
Though his face has never been seen on the screen, he spends his time gazing upon others' faces while he's adjusting their color in the laboratory.
This man, this doctor whose portrait I made, was the first man who touched you.
Held you in his hands.
And when your mother was carrying you, before our first meeting and we were shown where you were.
It was a drawing by Leonardo.
The first image of you.
Among all the stories that I want to tell you, there's the story about the little clay tablet upon which are inscribed the first traces of writing.
This was in Sumer
5,000 years ago.
After much searching and study of what was written there, it was finally possible to decipher it:
"Here there were four goats."
And since the fooprints of birds left behind in the clay so closely resembled their writng, the Sumerians believed that god and the spirits had left messages behind for them...
...all of which had naturally been scrambled.
"But," they said, "those who could read these signs are no longer here
"and that's the history of the world."
This glance, this is the only portrait of the Japanese painter, Utamaro.
The sole image of this man is hidden behind the woman the painter loved.
Written upon the fan, the poem tells the story of a snipe, drawn to the flesh to be found in a shell:
When he sticks in his beak the shell snaps itself shut on him and the bird gets stuck, a prisoner of his own desire.
Then there's also the story of the Sultan who lived in southern Persia during the tenth century and who owned one of the greatest libraries of the epoch:
120,000 books.
Yet since he harbored a nomadic spirit, he often left his palace to return to the desert sands.
And since he couldn't bear to be separated from his books, he loaded all of them onto his camels.
And each one of these camels, corresponded to a letter of the alphabet.
But what was even more amazing, was that these camels responded to the alphabetic names they'd been given.
ا This camel stands for ʾalif
ب This camel stands for bāʾ
ت This camel stands for tāʾ
ث This camel stands for ṯāʾ
ج This camel stands for ǧīm
ح This camel stands for ḥāʾ
خ This camel stands for ḫāʾ
د This camel stands for dāl
ذ This camel stands for ḏāl
ر This camel stands for rāʾ
ز This camel stands for zāy
س This camel stands for sīn
ش This camel stands for šīn
ص This camel stands for ṣād
ض This camel stands for ḍād
ط This camel stands for ṭāʾ
ظ This camel stands for ẓāʾ
ع This camel stands for ʿayn
غ This camel stands for ġayn
ف This camel stands for fāʾ
ق This camel stands for qāf
ك This camel stands for kāf
ل This camel stands for lām
م This camel stands for mīm
ن This camel stands for nūn
ه This camel stands for hāʾ
و This camel stands for wāw
ي This camel stands for yāʾ
More than one hundred years ago, in the Ural plains close to the little village of Tabory, a gigantic meteorite fell.
Weighing more than 4,000 kilos, the famous meteorite from Okhansk has today utterly disappeared.
Once the scientific research had been completed, there was almost nothing left to discover.
For the next century, bit by bit, the inhabitants of the village have gobbled it up, convinced of the aphrodisiac effects of the meteorite.
Even a fragment of one kilo, which had once been displayed at the Ochyor Museum, a principal place in the Okhansk region, has also vanished.
This isn't a story, but just an image that I want to show you.
The image of a window in the small village in Jura.
A window behind which a woman arose to look after and to nurse, for twenty-seven years, her comatose son who had been struck by a car.
For twenty-seven years, day after day... she held him in her arms.
The image of a pieta.
And what image to show for that man who could kill his child?
With his wife's dead body, he rushed to a hospital in Chicago.
To the hospital room where his baby was kept artificially alive.
His baby of nine months in an irreversible coma since birth.
Just so: after disconnecting the machines, he kept the caretakers at a distance with his pistol.
And, as though rocking him to sleep, he held his baby in his arms until he died.
I can't find a single image for this story.
And I wanted to bring back from over there another image.
An image strange and sad: that of a clown's burial.
This is my boxcar, everything I've got.
For them, there's social security, unemployment. People have got that.
But I don't.
I'll tell you about something that happened to me recently.
I was right in the ring, clowning around, and with one bad move, mmm...
I busted my ankle, busted it.
I went on with the number, but... but... on all fours.
The effort it took me to get out of the ring, it was... and at all that the people laughed.
People enjoyed seeing the clown hobbled, walking with such difficulty, to get through the curtain, trying to disappear. That... that's pretty funny.
After all of that, you get through the curtain.
Who should I run into? The director who said, "Tomorrow,"
"I want the same thing."
So for three weeks, with my foot in a cast, I did the same number.
The moment would come for me to bust my foot... and to struggle to leave while making a big comic impact
with my foot busted.
That reminds me of two stories.
A little one. and a big one.
The little one?
Well... you were little, very little.
At daybreak, you appeared in the room before me, all dressed up.
In one hand, you held a magic wand capped with a star.
And in the other, you held, I don't know, an object... an eraser, I think.
You stood before me with such seriousness and announced that you were going to perform magic, that you were going to make it disappear, the eraser.
Then, all of a sudden, you said, "Pay attention."
And you said three times in a row the magic words and squeezed hard on the eraser hidden in your hand.
Then... very proud of yourself, you opened your hand slightly and looked into it with curiosity.
Naturally, the eraser was still there.
So a little while later, you said to me, it didn't work.
And you went back to your room.
At that moment, I wanted so badly to make myself believe that it had worked.
The other story... the big one... is the story of the bird who sang so beautifully.
One day, in the north of Africa, close to Aziz, a man heard a bird singing.
Such a birdsong as you've never heard!
Something unique, marvelous.
He peeked into the windows of the house where the song was coming from.
He went ahead and knocked on the door and two old folks opened the door.
He asked the couple, "can you tell me where that amazing song is coming from?"
They told him, "Yes. Come in."
They showed him a bird in a cage, which was the bird who sang so beautifully.
He offered them a good price for him.
But they refused.
He doubled his offer!
He trippled it!
And yet, the old folks still refused his offer.
So... crushed, he went away.
The next day, in a small town nearby, at the bird market he saw exactly the same bird.
He didn't sing.
But he was exactly the same.
He had no sooner bought him than the idea of a swap sprang to his mind.
So that afternoon he went back to wait in the same street in Aziz.
As soon as the old folks went out, he entered their house and made the switch.
Then, he returned to Europe and brought the bird back with him.
And here, for years, he listened to him.
And he shared with his friends the bird's singing which ravished their senses.
But one day, in due course, the bird died.
And his story became just another topic of idle talk.
So he decided to return to Africa.
When he came to the street in Aziz, he knocked on the door.
It was the old man who opened it.
He said to him, "Do you remember me?
"After all of these years?"
"Oh yes!" said the little old man, "How well I remember!
"Years ago, you wanted to buy our bird, "who sang so beautifully.
"Well, sir...
"luckily, you didn't buy it.
"Because the day after you left, "my wife died.
"And the bird wouldn't sing any more."
You see?
I believe that in the future images will travel into space.
We're going to see images go as far as possible into the stars as time will allow.
Because the images can't just go out into space.
They'll also encounter time, the harsh domain of time.
When the first men left Africa, some of them went to Europe and others went into Asia.
So it went on, from generation to generation, from Asia to the Americas.
They populated the North and the South of the American continents.
On foot, they crossed the Bering Strait.
Their descendants numbered twenty million.
2000 years later, Christopher Columbus, coming from Europe, happened upon the new continent.
The indians there saw appear on their horizon the white sails of ships.
And behind them there was also another time, from out there, maybe.
The tribe's sorcerers and shamans went out to discover what they could.
During their shamanic journey, a storm swelled up.
And from his boat, Christopher Columbus saw in the distance men looking at him.
The world stood still.
After twenty-thousand years apart, they'd come face to face.
A moment of equality between those who looked into space and those who looked into time.
This man in this cafe, this man born in Prague, is Kafka.
The writer, Franz Kafka.
Near the end of his life, a story happened to him that I'd like to tell you.
While he was walking, he spotted one day in a park a little girl who was crying.
He approached her.
He asked her the cause for her tears.
She told him she had lost her doll.
Her most beautiful doll, her dolly.
So Kafka asked her than name of her doll.
And the little girl answered him, "Anna."
"But," said Kafka, "there was just a doll called Anna who has started writing letters to me."
And Kafka asked her to come back to the park the next day.
And so for the next day, and all of the days of the weeks that followed, Kafka brought the little girl a letter from Anna, the doll, who had gone travelling, described her adventures.
When Kafka, falling ill, needed to return to the sanatorium, he wrote a final letter from the doll in which she said that she had found a friend.
That she was going to marry this other doll and continue her travels.
While I was filming these images, you were beside me.
I got the impression I was reproducing for your gaze sensations of movement, of disappearance.
Just as, one day, shall disappear every trace and everything written.
Just as our work, too, shall disappear.
Joseph de Jussieu, in 1735, set sail on one of the most incredible expeditions ever contemplated.
A crew of explorers, appointed by the Royal Academy of Science, would go across the Atlantic.
They were charged with cordoning off an area to measure an arc of the terrestrial meridian.
The expedition itself was pure folly:
Yet, with dogged application, ten years were spent in the Amazon to achieve it.
But a destiny even more incredible awaited him there.
Doctor and naturalist for the expedition, he remained in this place with the indians, living among them, in their care, learning each plant, each animal, and discovering the secrets of their medicines.
Then, when his companions eventually returned, he stayed behind.
For hundreds of days, deep in the Amazonian rainforest, reporting on the marvels included in his collection.
For 36 years, he amassed a collection of specimens and knowledge, unique, prodigious.
When he finally returned, sick and exhausted, he went mad in Quito where he was found.
Some Peruvian friends arranged for his repatriation to France and once there, he forgot the precious results of his work.
I spent these last years trying to survey his field and every attempt to recover his work has amounted to nothing.
Nobody knows what had become of these European expeditions, so nobody can follow in their shoes.
Before our eyes, everything has disappeared.
Yet perhaps you could recover everything yourself.
As anyone might recover from her own losses, the entire history of humanity.
I'm done with the film you wanted.
It's naturally a terrible, terrifying story. like the big sisters of little girls.
These tragic, melodramatic stories are the first stories that children know.
They're the first stories that the cinema told in black and white when they were already spoiled.
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little princess
But one day, a terrible fire...
...and she lost her parents.
In her grief she finds a friend...
...and a new home.
Almost happy.
But one day, a child trafficker...
The return of the friend.
Months went by.
Then, one day...
The reunion.
Short-lived happiness.
After so long in the dark, she'd become blind.
She recognized the perfume of her mother who wasn't dead.
Her wealthy parents, sent her to get well.
And a miracle happened.
Happiness, at last!
Don't you see?
Making an image, for me, is also an everyday task.
Like this moment on the street corner, leaving the grocer's for another errand, seen through a camera, makes a scene.
I'd like to end by giving you a final story as well as a song.
This story is a story about women, the first written in the French language in the 12th-century.
It tells the story of Sir Gawain, Knight of the Round Table gathered around King Arthur.
Among them all, he was a man of his word.
So, one day as Gawain was riding on his horse toward the castle of King Arthur, a monster, a terrifying ogre came before him.
The giant would have liked to have fought him right then, but Gawain was said to be a man of his word and not a man of the sword.
"What have we here?" said the giant, "I want to ask you a question. Just one.
"If you're unable to anwer it, "you will die.
"So here's my question:
"What does every woman want?"
Gawain, lost, could only answer by asking for more time.
He gave him his word, yes, gave him his word he'd return.
The giant agreed to meet him after a year to the day and let him leave.
Then on the road toward the King's castle, Gawain encountered a repulsive little old lady who was situated on the way.
Never had Gawain seen anyone uglier.
Anyway, she told him all she knew.
She said she also knew the answer to the ogre's question.
"But," said she, "I'll only give you the answer...
"the right answer, "if you swear to come back and marry me."
Gawain jumped on his horse and left for the castle.
Arriving at the King's court, the feast had already begun.
Gawain was asked what had kept him so he recounted his adventures.
Arthur cried, "Even so?
"You, Gawain?
"You, a man of his word, you weren't sure how to answer this question?
"But what every woman wants
"is jewels, "beauty, "allure."
The Lord Chamberlain interrupted, "Allow me
"to state my mind:
"what every woman wants doesn't dwell in riches but in dreams, "in the imagination, "in the nocturnal acts of this world."
Then a third, followed by a fourth and several others interrupted, and throughout the evening, each one ventured what he knew about what women want.
Days... weeks... months passed.
And each one who thought he knew what women wanted came to the castle to give Gawain his answer to the Ogre's question.
But the more answers that Gawain heard, the less he thought of them.
And once the year was out, he would go, full of doubts, to the fateful meeting.
Along the way, again as before, the little old lady, so ugly and repulsive, stopped him.
"So, Gawain," said she, "Think you have the answer?"
"But I have 10,000 answers!" said Gawain.
"Ten thousand, "but not the right one.
"Hear my answer.
"I'll confide it in you.
"And when you return, "you must marry me."
So she whispered the answer in Gawain's ear.
The ogre had come to their meeting and was waiting now for the answer to his question.
Gawain gave him the first answer he'd been told, the one from the king, and the ogre prepared to kill him.
But Gawain stopped him and gave the second answer and then the third, ...all of them, until he came to the last.
And then he gave him the old lady's answer.
"What every woman wants
"is to freely choose her own destiny."
And the giant was engulfed in a raging flame.
Since Gawain was a man of his word he would marry the little old lady.
And once the vows are given, people like to enjoy themselves.
So there he found himself with her that first night.
He tucked himself in, facing the other side in the big bed.
And then, all of a sudden, he heard so sweet and beautiful a voice, which spoke to him:
"Well, Sir Gawain, "Is this any way to treat your wife?
"Such a gulf between us?"
Surprised by the sweetness of this voice, Gawain turned over and discovered next to him, a young woman of dazzling beauty.
And as he lay there, silent under her spell, she said to him, "Now it's my turn to ask you a question, Gawain.
"Do you want me to be beautiful by night
"and ugly by day?
"Or beautiful by day
"and ugly by night?"
Gawain reflected for a moment.
Only able to say, "I can't.
"I don't have an answer to your question."
"Maybe one day I would have found an answer to the ogre's question.
"but to your question, there is no possible answer."
And so, she looked at him, and responded, "I see, Gawain, "that, while you have truly become a man of his word, "yet you are beginning to find your word has its limits.
"So since that's how it is
"and to please you, "I'll remain beautiful night and day."
And so Gawain found happiness and begot countless children.
This is the end of the film that I devised just for you.
A film that about desire and about pleasure.
I leave you with this pretty song I want to share with you.
The sound of these men's voices which tell their story, even though they haven't been here for a long, long time.
They're telling you that memory is collective and that death doesn't exist.
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Realistic Expectations for the 2020s in the U.S.
The article If Biden Wins is a succinct list of what to expect from a Biden presidency. I've cited most of it and added some extra notes of my own.
 Supreme Court: <iq>[...] he'll pick a conservative corporatist [...] to placate the Republicans in the Senate.</iq> Immigration: <iq>Kids will remain in cages at the border [...because] he won't want to appear weak on immigration.</iq> Medicare for all: <iq>No change on healthcare.</iq> Debt relief: <iq>No student loan forgiveness.</iq> Environment: <iq>No Green New Deal.</iq> Foreign Policy: <iq>War with Venezuela? Entirely possible.</iq> Continued sanctions on and strife with Iran and Russia and China? Unavoidable. Military Machine: No change from Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump Privacy: <iq>The dude was behind the Patriot Act.</iq> Progressive Agenda: <iq>He will not appoint a single progressive to his cabinet. Obama didn't either.</iq>
 <h>"You're on your own"</h> Together with the article The Senate Just Abandoned the Working Class Without a COVID-19 Relief Package, Americans should face the realization that they are well- and truly fucked. There is no-one coming to help them. The American Dream is not a lie. They literally called it a "dream"; how much more honest can you get? It has always been a dream for all but those who inherit wealth and the lucky handful of winners in the Panem sweepstakes. If Trump wins, we already know what we're going to get: pretty much the same as Biden's list, but executed even more incompetently. There are minor differences on how much lip service will be paid to an anti-racist agenda---Biden/Harris will pay lip service, whereas Trump/Pence won't---but, in the end, it won't make a lick of difference where it matters. There is an argument to be made that executing an abhorrent agenda incompetently is better than doing so competently, but let's assume that Biden/Harris will be less abhorrent than Trump/Pence. They're all committed to reducing rights for everyone---they just differ on whether certain groups should lose rights in greater proportion or more quickly. It's a difference without distinction to the average citizen. O the lofty goals we have in 2020. <h>Identity takes a back seat in times of true crisis</h> The leaders in the U.S. are in agreement: they had a choice between funneling money to their elite and billionaire donors or to help their constituents. They elected to drop most Americans into a new Dark Age, regardless of race or gender. In the past (up until the early 70s or so), certain groups' lack of any of Maslow's hierarchy was nearly purely due to discrimination, since nearly everyone else was actually having their collective boats lifted in a way that at least resembled a functioning society. Now, though, America's inherent discriminatory policies mean that minorities and women will be overrepresented---but pretty much everyone's invited to this poverty party. With all current and potential leaders committed to policies that will see unprecedented numbers of Americans<fn> unemployed, uninsured, and homeless, what good is it to have one's "identity" (or "identities") recognized? It won't feed, house, or clothe them or their children. People with no home, no job, and no prospects don't really care about whether society recognizes their "truth" or their particular "intersection of identities". Their priorities have shifted. Until they shift back, they have bigger fish to fry. <h>No good will come of this</h> I've read people's laundry lists of all of the cool goodies that Biden/Harris will bring. These are the purest fantasy. These fools with their laundry lists will be the same ones who won't hold anyone accountable when absolutely nothing gets done over four years. Despite decades of disappointment, they think that when a politician says they'll do something, that they'll actually work on it. Get Biden in there and lean on him. Bullshit. There is no reason to expect anything interesting or different or good from a Biden/Harris administration. I would love to be proven wrong, but we have already seen that administration---in eight years of Obama/Biden. They did none of the things America needed. The military grew, belligerence increased, drone-bombing increased, Guantánamo remained open, Wall Street ruled the roost, mega-millionaires filled the cabinet and decided policy, even the nuclear-weapons program was refreshed and grew. Instead of doing anything significant on climate change, the Obama administration oversaw the fracking boom and the expansion of fossil-fuel production to unprecedented levels. The Obama administration took a run at health care and the U.S. ended up with the ACA, which is, by all accounts, a disaster. It gives more Americans health-care coverage, but it's ludicrously expensive and complicated and ends up not providing the promised coverage to many people that it ostensibly covers. You still have a populace wedded to employer-provided private/corporate health-care that is terrified to use their insurance because of prohibitive co-pays and deductibles. So don't try to sell me this hopeful bullshit of a rainbows-and-unicorns administration full of sensible, sane, and compassionate policy from Biden/Harris. We've been here before. We know how this movie ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. <h>An Example: Medicare for All</h> Biden already said he won't do Medicare for All. Harris at first supported something like it, but then backpedaled on it during her campaign.<fn> The Democratic Party voted it out of the official platform by 4-1 just a few weeks ago. Hell, Trump is more likely to do it, purely on a whim, and by accident. Were anyone at that level even interested, the Congress would never pass it. They don't pass anything except for salary increases for themselves. Executive orders with no legal standing fly back and forth. None of it means anything for a social-safety net that would provide stability to people's lives. This is all without even discussing Biden's dementia or Harris's tendency to say whatever people want to hear while coincidentally always doing what her rich donors want.<fn> Even were Biden able to stay at the helm, he's been in politics for several decades and has been instrumental in starting wars, surveilling Americans, building up the military, and expanding the carceral state. It's a marketing coup that most Americans consider the Democrats to be "left of center". <h>Ruled by the Cabinet<fn></h> We know what we would get with Biden/Harris: rule by self-appointed unknowns with financial-company pedigrees (most likely Goldman Sachs). That's what we got with Obama; Biden would be no more progressive than that and would likely be even worse---especially now that he's having a harder time than ever hiding his real personality: a mean old man afraid of his own diminishing capacity.<fn> Would this council of philosopher kings be worse than Trump's ship of fools? No. That's almost impossible. They would almost certainly have handled the pandemic better, but would also have---just like the Trump administration---ensured that the rich benefited from the crisis.<fn> They would listen to experts more---but would take advice that helps the people only if it doesn't conflict with their benefactors' wishes. The response would perhaps have been more coherent and more organized and, if not more compassionate, then at least less casually stupid and brutal.<fn> Would they be more insidious because they're less obviously corrupt? Yes. Biden/Harris would lull enough of America back to sleep just at a time when everyone should be wide awake and rowing like crazy to avoid the jagged rocks.<fn>
 <ft>A stunning feat, to be sure, since America already leads all wealthy nations by far in the number of people living in absolute or just plain-old regular poverty. It also leads the wealthy nations in hunger, malnutrition, and infant mortality, while trailing on nearly all health indicators, including life expectancy. Those are averages, though. The privileged classes are doing fine; underprivileged minorities have it so bad that they drag the numbers down for everyone else.</ft> <ft>It doesn't matter anyway, because she'll be vice president---at least until Biden completely breaks down. The vice president's only official function is to break ties in the Senate.</ft> <ft>They will be about as self-interested as the Small Council or the Curia Regis.</ft> <ft>I believe that's the OED definition of "politician". This makes her no better or worse than Biden or Trump or Pence, but it means she's of no use whatsoever in getting anything enacted that would actually benefit most Americans.</ft> <ft>Biden's anger flares more and more quickly these days. He reminds me of George W. Bush: an affable and jocular exterior until you make him mad. Then he turns into a completely different person---the one he's been all along.</ft> <ft>Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine comes home to roost.</ft> <ft>Lack of real leadership and cooperation in the face of crisis in the House, Senate, and the White House contributed to this. People blame the Trump administration exclusively, but Trump didn't have to veto a single piece of COVID-response legislation that Congress passed but with which he disagreed. Not enough of them were willing to try very hard at all.</ft> <ft>In a political cartoon, those rocks would be labeled "Shocking Inequality", "Climate Crisis", "COVID-19", "Racism", "Neoliberalism", "Neofeudalism", "Unemployment" and "Poverty Crisis".<fn></ft> <ft>H/T to Economic Update: Socialism vs. COVID-19: A Very Different Story or  Global Capitalism: As US Capitalism Shakes, US Socialism Renews [July 2020] , from which I got some of this list. (I can't remember which of the two videos it was, though ... they're both good.)</ft>

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Q: git pull error when trying to deploy to AWS EC2 I am trying to commit some new lines of code from my repository to Aws. I have everything synced on Github. Trying to do a pull from my repository to the EC2 instance.
I ssh in to my EC2, no issues here, but when I do "git pull" (and enter in my github username and password) i get a prompt saying:
"You are not currently on a branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details. git pull <remote> <branch>".

Update:
I tried a 'git checkout master' before the 'git pull' but it messed up by EC2, the site is down with these errors - 'Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files. Please, fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as appropriate to mark resolution, or use 'git commit -a '
Appreciate your help!

A: Try git checkout -b <your_branch>, it seems that your local Git isn't working in any branch right now.

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Der Køkkenmødding bei Mejlgård ist ein vorzeitlicher Abfallhaufen, der sich im Wald Nederskov nördlich von Mejlgård auf der ostjütischen Halbinsel Djursland in Dänemark befindet. Er besteht hauptsächlich aus 2000 m³, oder etwa 20 Millionen Austernschalen.

Er ist 125 m lang, zwischen 20,0 und 30,0 m breit und etwa 1,2 m hoch. Als die Abfälle abgelagert wurden, lag der zugehörige Wohnplatz noch direkt am Meeresufer, in den folgenden Jahrtausenden zog sich die Küstenlinie durch die postglaziale Landhebung zurück. Die steile Schräge der Haufen gegen Westen markiert den einstigen Strandabhang.

Bei Entdeckung des Køkkenmøddings Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts setzte sich gerade die Einsicht durch, dass solche Anhäufungen von Muschelschalen kein Naturphänomen, sondern den Abfall der Kongemose- oder der Ertebølle-Kulturen darstellten, zweier mesolithischer Jägerkulturen. Die Ausgrabung im Jahr 1850 durch J.J.A. Worsaae war die direkte Folge dieser Erkenntnis, die durch Japetus Steenstrup Verbreitung fand.

Siehe auch
 Køkkenmødding von Åmølle
 Køkkenmødding von Ertebølle

Literatur
 Nicky Milner: Oysters, cockles and kitchenmiddens. Changing practices at the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition. In: Preston Miracle und Umberto Albarella (Hrsg.): Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption. MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-9519420-8-5.
 Japetus Steenstrup: Køkkenmøddinger, eine gedrängte Darstellung dieser Monumente sehr alter Kulturstadien. 1886.

Weblinks
 Bilder + Lageplan
 Meilgård bopladsen dän. und Bilder

Archäologischer Fundplatz in Dänemark
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Europa
Ertebølle-Kultur
Geographie (Norddjurs Kommune)
Kongemose-Kultur

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George Bettinger's Mom & Pop Shop: The Interviews
Di: George Bettinger
Letto da: George Bettinger, Madeline Kahn, Rose Marie, Judy Tenuta, Kathy Garver, Drew Friedman, Lily Tomlin
Editore: BearManor Media
Comedian and radio personality George Bettinger talked with Emmy-winning actress-comedienne Lily Tomlin (Laugh-In) just after she received her Kennedy Center Honors Award. Tomlin, who currently stars opposite Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston in the hit Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, is just one of 10 rare and unedited celebrity interviews in this collection: Madeline Kahn, Julie Newmar, Rose Marie, Robert Morse, Judy Tenuta, Butch Patrick, Michael Learned, Kathy Garver, Drew Friedman, and Lily Tomlin.
In 1982, George Bettinger got started in TV with Movie Magic, a series he wrote, produced, and hosted. Movie Magic (later The George Bettinger Show) ran on Manhattan Cable Television from 1982 to 1987. It was cartoons, comedy, and fun. Soupy Sales said George made him think of himself when he was young. During the making of Movie Magic, George was also appearing on The Joe Franklin Show and The Uncle Floyd Show. Next he moved on to doing radio and TV commercials. Soon he was producing and directing corporate training films for companies such as Pfizer, Hoffman LaRoche, The Cancer Institute, and Maimonides Medical Center. His CDs have been given fine mention in The Daily News, New York Post, and Herald Tribune newspapers.
Currently George is teaching acting and creative writing and continuing to host live shows. You can hear George Bettinger live on his Internet radio show The Mom & Pop Shop on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4:00 pm EDT and 1:00 PM Pacific. The show is an entertaining mixture of classic and rare music and features zany comedy skits with his unique impersonations.
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George Bettinger's Mom & Pop Variety Shop
George Bettinger's Mom & Pop Shop Interviews & Variety, Box Set


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Home > > Hilton boasts record development deals but pipeline faces backlog
Hilton boasts record development deals but pipeline faces backlog
07/28/2022| 7:33:17 PM| Skift 中文
Hilton opened 91 hotels worldwide and achieved net unit growth of 13,300 rooms.
For Hilton Worldwide, one of the key long-term engines of growth would be returning to its pre-pandemic level of net unit growth — or essentially the pace at which it adds properties to its network. The timetable for that recovery was still unclear on Wednesday when the hotel giant reported its second quarter 2022 results.
Room growth was an important driver of the company's profitability, along with higher daily average rates. In the quarter, it generated a quarterly profit of $368 million attributable to stockholders off of $2.24 billion in revenue. The company reported that its systemwide revenue per available room, a key industry metric, was only 2.1% below the 2019 level on a currency-neutral basis.
Hilton said on Wednesday that it's on track to grow net units by about 5% this year. But that was below the 6 to 7% range the McLean, Virginia-based company had enjoyed before the pandemic. Yet the company was optimistic about its hotel development pipeline.
In the quarter, Hilton opened 91 hotels worldwide and achieved net unit growth of 13,300 rooms. In the comparable quarter in 2019, the company opened 123 hotels totaling 17,100 rooms.
But a backlog appears to be growing. As of June 30, Hilton's development pipeline was nearly 2,780 hotels representing more than 413,000 rooms, a record. Half are under construction. The 413,000 figure was higher than the roughly 373,000 rooms in its global development pipeline in June 2019.
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Building Empowerment: HGTV Star Jasmine Roth Inspires Confidence
Profiles Master Investors
Bobby Burch | 6 Mar 2019
From treehouses to TV, Roth shares the journey to building her dreams.
If you ask Jasmine Roth when she first ventured into real estate, the blossoming star of HGTV's "Hidden Potential" has to laugh.
"I would say in utero," Roth responded with a chuckle. "My parents moved from New Jersey to Virginia when I was just a thought. They bought a piece of land and cleared it. They knocked down the trees, and floated them down the river and milled those logs into a log cabin. I've been building since before I was even born, via my family."
With a childhood full of tree houses, zip lines, sheds, dog houses and a myriad of open houses, Roth's real estate, and building roots run deep. Though not full-time real estate investors, Roth's parents were frequently building, remodeling or flipping homes, providing a ripe environment to cultivate Roth's curiosity, skills, and creativity in real estate, she said.
"You name it, we built it," Roth recalled of her youth construction experience. "I grew up around tools. We spent a lot of time measuring, going to the lumber yard, and figuring out how we were going to build these one-of-a-kind structures."
For Roth, it's been a winding, serendipitous journey since her youth in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to landing a show on national television that revamps humdrum suburban homes. But while her platform and business have grown immensely, her familial philosophy on real estate remains steadfast.
The source of her passion for real estate ultimately leads back to the family, she said.
"It's not really about the real estate or the building so much as the fact that it's where the family is — I think that's the backbone of real estate," Roth said. "Whether it's in real life or on my show, or if it's me building a little doll house for my nephew in my garage or if I'm building a brand new home for my husband and me, it's the same thing. You're building an experience. You're building a place for somebody to spend time in and have memories."
Jasmine (baby) and her parents in front of the log cabin home they built. Photo courtesy of Jasmine's mom, Terry Mueller.
Forging her own way
Armed with a degree in entrepreneurship from Northeastern University, Roth was greeted with a rocky economy and bleak job market in 2008. She bounced from consulting work to nonprofit management to human resources before she and her husband, Brett, decided to buy a tract of land to build a home in Huntington Beach, Calif.
To offset the cost of their home, the couple decided to construct an investment property adjacent to their home while helping build on the weekends.
But two years into the project in 2012, the couple recognized that enough simply wasn't getting done. That's when Roth rolled up her sleeves.
"Every extra moment that my husband and I had, we were working on our house, but it still wasn't moving forward or progressing," she said. "Finally I was just like, 'You know what? I'm going to go and work on this full-time, and I'm going to get it finished.' … And that's exactly what I did. So I gave my two-week notice, and two weeks later I was on the job site."
Acknowledging her ignorance of construction, Roth embraced her curiosity and began asking questions — lots of questions. She shadowed general contractors, carpenters, electricians, and plumbers, hoping to learn as much as possible on the home-building process. And when she faced challenges, she dedicated herself to research possible answers.
"They know their trade and I knew nothing. I just tagged along, helped where I could, and asked questions," Roth said. "When they needed a decision made, I told them, 'You know what? I don't know, but I'm going to find out.' And I would work until I figured out what the answer was."
Roth's inquisitive nature and desire to learn proved valuable not only in building homes but throughout her life, she said.
"Every single day I learn something new, and every single day I admit what I don't know and what I have to find out," the 33-year-old said. "Being curious and having the ability to ask questions — especially in real estate and renovating — is one of the best skills to have. It's one of the things that has 100 percent led to my success and continues to drive my success."
In 2013, the Roths finally finished their home projects and sold their investment property, which was the first home sale in more than five years in Huntington Beach, she said. Satisfied and empowered by the sale, Roth realized just how much she loved the investment, design and building process. That passion eventually materialized into her residential development business, Built Custom Homes.
Telling her own story
As Built Custom Homes carved out a market in Huntington Beach, Roth was eager to document its projects and experiences along the way. Turning to Instagram, Roth shared behind-the-scenes details of her company's home builds: demolitions, painting techniques, furniture rehabs, antique finds, finished projects and, of course, photos of her bulldog, Nala.
In addition to personal stories, Roth also aimed for impact with her social media approach. Frequently the only woman on build sites, Roth recognized that what she was doing was rare. As such, she employed the #WomenWhoBuild hashtag to create a community of women investors and homebuilders.
"As I started posting online, I realized that what I was doing was pretty unique and that there aren't very many women in construction," she said. "So I started posting #WomenWhoBuild to bring that community together, and to nod to the fact that what I'm doing is a little bit different. … It's more just bringing attention to the fact that women can do this, and we can do it really well. Whether you're a guy or a girl, it doesn't really matter. As long as you're passionate about it and you're working your butt off, you can do really well in this industry."
Fans and clients alike flocked to Roth's company. And among her steadily growing base of Instagram followers was a production company contracted by HGTV, who loved Roth's creative storytelling and approach to homebuilding.
"When I got a call from the production company working for HGTV they said, 'Hey, we're interested in making a show about what you do. Would you be available for a FaceTime?' I thought it was a joke," she said. "But as soon I realized it wasn't a joke, that was a big, aha moment for me, that people are interested in what I'm doing."
On set with one of Hidden Potential's
biggest stars: Nala, Jasmine's bulldog.
On a mission to empower
Roth's call with producers eventually brought forth HGTV's "Hidden Potential," which focuses on transforming drab suburban homes into custom dream homes. Now in the midst of filming the show's second season, Roth said she's thankful to have the ability to live her passion, help her community and share it with the world.
"'Hidden Potential' is reality TV, so the cool thing is that I get to do what I love to do, and live my life — there just so happens to be a whole lot of cameras there," she said. "Not really that much has changed because I always worked really hard, and I always had a lot of projects going. Really the only difference is that we're working a little bit faster because we do things fast for TV."
Incorporating her "California Casual" style into homes, Roth is less about what's on-trend, and more about what is going to actually function and work for a family.
"It's sandy feet. It's bikes in the garage. It's surfboards on the front patio. It's open doors and barbecues, and it's just a lot of real life," Roth said of her breezy, timeless design motifs. "As I've been hanging out here in California and travel a ton, I've gone a little bit more modern, but I still definitely have that traditional, craftsman background to my style."
Regardless of the style, Built Custom Homes can't keep up with customer demand, Roth said. Since launching the company, Built Custom Homes has completed 68 custom homes. And when you add in the 17 homes she'll be revitalizing as part of the second season of "Hidden Potential," Roth has a full plate.
"We're growing rapidly," she said. "It's to the point right now where I have so many projects going on I can't take new clients, which is a good position to be in."
"While she loves designing and building, as well as helping families, Roth said to be successful as a real estate investor you have to treat it seriously. Real estate investing is a business and you have to make logical decisions to thrive, she said.
"Real estate, unfortunately, a lot of the time, turns into an emotional practice," Roth said. "But taking the emotion out of buying and selling real estate is the only way that you can be successful long-term as a real estate investor. And you have to treat it professionally."
Whether it be through "Hidden Potential" or Built Custom Homes, Roth's ultimate mission is to give people the tools and encouragement to add value to their homes in a way that's functional and great for a competitive market.
"I get feedback from families and people saying, 'Thank you so much, you gave me the confidence to redo my kitchen, or to buy this house that I wasn't sure about,'" she said. "It's just a pretty cool position to be in, to empower people."
Category: Master Investors, Profiles
Tags: HGTV, Hidden Potential, Jasmine Roth, March/April 2019, Real Estate Investing, Think Realty Magazine


Andriy Yarmolenko has revealed that playing as a team was the key to West Ham United recording their first Premier League win of the season.
Following a dismal start to the campaign which included four straight defeats at the hands of Liverpool, Bournemouth, Arsenal and Wolves, Manuel Pellegrinii took his winless side to Everton last Sunday in a bid to end that sequence of results.
Not many pundits gave the Irons a chance against a side who were unbeaten under new manager Marco Silva.
However, the visitors turned the form book on its head to win 3-1 thanks to a brace from Yarmolenko and one from top scorer Marko Arnautovic in a result which lifted them out of the relegation zone.
It turned out to be a special afternoon for the Ukraine international as he marked his first league start for the club with two goals.
However, instead of taking the glory for the victory Yarmolenko has praised the whole team.
"We played well at Everton. We played like a team, both in defence and attack, and we are very happy for our first win in the Premier League," he told the club's official website .
"I'm very happy for my team winning. Who scores the goals, I don't care.
"We worked hard this week because we had to change around the results and we had to show our fans that we will fight for this Club."
The Hammers will take great confidence from that win at Goodison Park, but things don't get much easier in their next two league games.
This Sunday they welcome rivals and current league leaders - who have a 100 per cent winning record - Chelsea to the London Stadium before hosting Manchester United at the end of the month.


The T530 will not accept a replacement non-genuine Lenovo battery, I am aware of this. However, I have acquired a 2nd-hand extended battery that IS a genuine Lenovo battery, and when my T530 boots up, it still complains that the battery is not authorised and will not charge. Sure enough, it does not charge.
Does anyone know why this would be? The battery is a 8.4 Ah, 94Wh. FRU 42T4969 ASM 42T4802, registered Lenovo product.
The battery with FRU p/n 42T4969 belongs 55++ battery series. This series isn't compatible with T530 and any Lenovo laptops with battery HW autentification feature as this series doesn't have such capabilities. It's a reason neither this battery nor non-geniun Lenovo batteries don't capable to work (to be charged) in your T530 laptop.
Hi there, many thanks for the explanation - I see there is a large '55+' label on the battery. What should I be looking for on the battery that will indicate a compatible battery?
There is a lot of T530 compatile batteries, 70+ series (6 cell) and 70++ series (9 cell), as well 28++ series (9 cell, slice) in the parts list.
Be very (!) watchful if you'll decide to purchase the battery not from Lenovo official store. There is numerous faked batteries in the aftermarket (ebay, ali etc.) w/out HW authentification feature, even with Lenovo FRU p/n and genuine-like labeles. There was a lot of cases such faked batteries related here in the forum. In most cases it's possible to recognize the faked battery by its labels and, it's desirable, by information Lenovo Power Manager provides.
So, demand from the seller warranty the battery is Lenovo genuine, the battery labels photos in your (!) package, with capability to return it in case of incompatibility troubles.
Hi, and thank you. I am having the same problem. T530 Thinkpad, replacement batter is FRU P/N 45N1007, ASM P/N 45N1006. Tried resetting battery controllers, even reinstalled power management drivers. Battery worked just fine for over a year, and one week after warranty went out this happens. Very frustrated! Thank you for any help you can provide.


We can analyze price movements based on technical limitations. Pitchfork trading strategy is based on identification of high or low reversal points. By linking the two reversal points and determine the middle point as reference to draw a median line parallel with the second channel is a reversal point.
By using the pitchfork analysis of this system we will obtain the limits of price movement in a technical.
As if you already know the channel or Gann Grid, pitchfork gave constraints like the support and resistant where the price will move to follow the channel, until finally break out and find new boundaries.
I am sure you also have to think about the "Buy Zone" – "Sell Zone", a technical area where we will only put the "Buy Only" or "Sell Only".
Up Trend = Swing Up – Swing Down – Swing Up.
Trend Down = Swing Down – Swing Up – Swing Down.
Swing Up is the lowest point where price turned to go up.
Swing Down is the highest point where price turned to go down.
To make it easier for you to get to this point, you can use the indicators Trend_Direction. This indicator will of give you an arrow up and down as a tool for analysis of top and bottom, not as an execution because it may change position (repaint).
2. Figure pitchfork red on the swing 1-2-3.
Select Insert -> Andrews pitchfork, click first on the swing point 1, the second click on the swing point 2, third click on point swing 3.
3. Image of blue pitchfork in swing 2-3-4.
Select Insert -> Andrews pitchfork, click first on the swing point 2, the second click on the swing point 3, the third click on point swing 4.
4. Buy the zone is valid when the arrow appears as a signal swing 4 (Swing Up), the price of "cross up" one of the old channel line (red pitchfork). If this has not happened means swing 4 has not been valid, the price may still be a "new bottom" and the resulting arrow will shift (repaint). Because of that arrow is not used as an execution. You can use from your metatrader indicators RSI overbought / overshould 20-80 to add as a filter.
5. Sell valid zone, when when the arrow appears as a sign of Swing 4 (swing down), the price of "cross-down" one of the old channel line (red pitchfork). If this has not happened means swing 4 has not been valid, the price may still be a "new top" and cause the arrow will be shifted (repaint). Because of that arrow is not used as an execution parameter. You can use from your metatrader indicators RSI overbought / overshould 20-80 to add as a filter.
6. The execution of buy or sell performed, when the price of "cross trendline" from the old channel and the open price candle in the new channel.
In addition, as well as to facilitate determining the point of execution, you can use this indicators, which will appear aqua colored line breakout, so you can "buy" while flying in the buy zone. And will appear in magenta line breakout, so you can "sell" when you are on the sell zone.
7. Do not forget, "lock your profit …." and "Let Your Profits Run ..".
8. You can safely exit when price touches the upper channel.
9. If you want to maximize profits and take risks, you can hold some positions even though the price has penetrated the upper / lower channel, and the arrow opposite has emerged. As long as prices are still not back into the channel, then the arrow still more likely to shift (repaint).
You can actually exit when the arrow in opposite directions appear, prices will also cross the opposite direction on one line channel, you will create a new channel next.
You can delete old pitchfork (red), change the blue to red pitchfork, and gives a blue color to a new pitchfork when the final swing is valid.
I determine the "buy zone", or "sell zone" if it meets two requirements. First, it has emerged arrows point reversal. Second, the price of re-break the previous channel pitchfork line.
If prices do not break the channel, then the possibility of a reversal point is still valid to say, or are still premature. That is still possible that prices will continue into the new top or bottom.
So this double pitchfork method is one of my best system that I've used until now in my live trading.
You can download a brief explanation of the andrews pitchfork trading strategy here.
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TUC: Pay Growth Down Again!
Jul 18, 2018By Rtuc's Blog
Issue date 17 Jul 2018 Commenting on today's (Tuesday) labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics – which show that nominal wage growth is down for the second month in a row and…Read more…
Jul 18, 2018Rtuc's Blog
Anaylsis of the HIOW STP plan:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Health & Care System STP Delivery Plan Final Draft by Nancy Farrell The "Hampshire and Isle of Wight Health & Care System STP Delivery Plan Final Draft" was…Read more…
Glasgow staff walk out after discovering hidden lenses in health food shop
by Niall Christie @NiallChristie1 STAFF at a city centre health food store have gone on strike after discovering secret cameras in rooms where staff changed, just four weeks after opening. Workers…Read more…
– European Network Against Arms Trade –
Military Industry Fund Could Encourage Development and Export of Controversial Weaponry The European Union (EU) is about to agree to a shared military industry fund which will give billions of…Read more…
NATO Summit Intensifies Imperialist War Preparations:
Summit Shows Dangers Posed by National Interests of the Imperialist Powers Brussels, Belgium, July 7, 2018. Banner reads "Yes to Peace! No to NATO!" While NATO countries fight with the…Read more…
German Foreign Policy:
Struggle for Influence in the Western Pacific (TML) – (The Marxist-Leninist) – German Foreign Policy – The U.S.-led RIMPAC 2018, the world's largest naval manoeuver, began…Read more…
Tens of Thousands March to Defend NHS and Condemn Underfunding and Privatisation:
70th Anniversary On June 30, tens of thousands of ordinary people marched through London to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS and to condemn its privatisation. The overwhelming sentiment was…Read more…
Government Descends into Chaos
White Paper on Brexit: After the Chequers meeting of the Cabinet on July 6, Theresa May stated that the agreement on the government's position on Brexit "marks the point where ……Read more…
EU Refuses to Treat Refugees and Migrants as Human Beings with Inalienable Rights:
EU summit meeting in Brussels The recent EU summit meeting in Brussels was dominated by what is presented as the continuing problem of migration to Europe, much of it occurring because of the exodus…Read more…
No to the Deployment of British Troops in Afghanistan!
Massive opposition which has been organised to Trump's warmongering and attempts at global dictate Ahead of the recently concluded NATO summit in Brussels, Theresa May committed 440 more…Read more…
England fans lay wreath for Soviet war dead:
England fans lay wreath for Soviet war dead ahead of World Cup opener An England fan at the Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (Owen Humphreys/PA) By Scott D'Arcy, Press Association in Volgograd –…Read more…
Programme of, "The Music of Hugh Shrapnel", Morley College, London, 2018.
Jul 9, 2018By Rtuc's Blog
Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust presents: Welcome to Alternative Worlds – the music of Hugh Shrapnel, at London's Morley College. I'm delighted to be hosting this concert. Hugh Shrapnel is one…Read more…
Jul 9, 2018Rtuc's Blog
Funding for War or the NHS?
British Government Cannot Reconcile Its Anti-Social and Pro-War Direction with the Needs of the People This week saw another chain of events that show how Theresa May's government cannot…Read more…
July 1 Election in Mexico:
Overwhelming Expression of People's Desire for Change – Claude Brunelle – Victory celebration in Mexico City's main square, El Zócalo, on election night, July 1, 2018. In what…Read more…
The EU & the Customs Union.
For your information The EU Customs Union and Single Market Background The Customs Union and Single Market go back to the earliest days of the EU's history, when its forerunner, the European…Read more…
TUC: 50,000 Jobs Axed in first half of 2018
'Government needs to up its game,' says union chief Frances O'Grady The Independent Alamy Around 50,000 jobs have been axed in the first half of this year as retail workers bore the…Read more…
Teacher Numbers at Lowest:
Teacher numbers at lowest since 2013, official figures show By Judith Burns BBC Teachers leaving the profession outnumber new recruits, the figures suggest The number of teachers working…Read more…


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Q: How do I change icon size in folders? Is it possible, and how do I change icon size in my folders in Ubuntu 14.04?  This was part of the folder menu in 12.04, but is missing in 14.04.

A: You can also use these keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out.

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*Ctrl + + to increase the size (zoom in)

*Ctrl + - to decrease the size (zoom out)

*Ctrl + 0 to revert to normal size

A: Try this : Hold Ctrl key and scroll.
Hope this work for you.


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I'm shooting with a Red Dragon, doing some tests, and being a little disappointed with the shadow noises.
My OLPF is a Skin Tone model and, as I don't bought a Low Light OLPF for comparing, my next step is take it out and shoot some subjects without any OLPF, just to feel how it works... An optical bypass.
Could it damage my sensor? Is it danger? Anyone already doing something similar?
Maybe with an IR filter/hot mirror at the mattebox?
do you have any R3D?
Besides the sensor cavity now being open, and the potential for dust particles to land on the sensor (should still not land directly on it as it should be in it's own sealed casing), but for dust to get into the cavity and later have the potential to get attracted to the sensor during shooting. If NO OLPF is in place then I would say you would need a hot mirror (or other IR cut filter) and possibly a very light diffusion. Lowcon 1/4 or even 1/8th. This should help reduce any moiré. Back focus is going to be off as the refraction of the OLPF is taken into consideration when setting the sensor distance. This might be to great of a distance to overcome with the typical jackscrew back focus adjustment being implemented with the cameras.


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Home Energy and the Environment The National-Security Case for Decarbonization
The National-Security Case for Decarbonization
Getting off fossil fuels will save a fortune in averted military misadventures.
by Lucas Kunce
Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo
An Iraqi worker at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, December 13, 2009
I spent a decent chunk of 2009 rolling down the roads of western Iraq, working with Iraqi police, and trying not to get blown up. On my most recent birthday, I tried to reflect back on the birthday I spent there near the end of that deployment. How different it was. But, looking back, I couldn't even tell you where I went that day. Fallujah? Ramadi? Habbaniyah? It's hard to tell. It's been more than a decade since most of us were there and, while some things are still quite sharp, the day-to-day stuff is getting fuzzy.
I did remember a running joke that would come up now and again, though, because it was exactly the type of thing that would come up on a birthday in Iraq. Occasionally, when the opportunity seemed right, someone would wonder aloud, "Why are we here again?" And the answer, delivered dryly, was always some refrain of: "Oh, yeah. Oil."
It's not like we were being clever. Everyone knew it. The old CENTCOM commander, John Abizaid, had said it quite clearly in 2007: "Of course it's about oil; we can't really deny that." Alan Greenspan had agreed, and Chuck Hagel directly confirmed it: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are."
It's the reason we've cared about the Middle East for decades. It's almost certainly the reason I spent parts of 2012, 2013, and 2014 in Afghanistan, too. Al-Qaeda would have likely never existed were it not for the U.S. obsession with oil, considering that the chief popular complaints that al-Qaeda exploited centered around our actions in the Middle East. Without al-Qaeda, we would have cared about Afghanistan and the Taliban about the same amount we care about Eritrea and its repressive king. Which, of course, is not at all.
Without an oil addiction, the U.S. military could avoid a number of costly and resource-intensive operations in the Middle East.
Without an oil addiction, the U.S. military could avoid a number of costly and resource-intensive operations in the area, such as working the Fifth Fleet overtime to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. In 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo affirmed that the U.S. would keep the straits open at any cost militarily. An incredible amount of dedication to an expensive policy that, ironically, helps our adversary, China, more than us. Seventy-six percent of the oil flowing through those straits in 2018 went to Asia, not the U.S. And China received more than double the amount that came here.
As my generation enters middle age and we look back at the several decades of conflict we endured because of oil, and the effort we continue to put toward it, it's hard to believe that it was worth the cost, or will be going forward. The time. The lives. The dollars. The price tag on U.S. actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria in the 21st century totals more than $14 trillion.
Not to mention the intangible cost of allying with countries like Saudi Arabia, incubator of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers. The country that funded and exported Wahhabi extremism and anti-American sentiment for decades. The fourth-most repressive country in the world that murders journalists, commits war crimes, and shares none of our values.
Taking it back to oil: The cost of rapidly decarbonizing the power grid is estimated at about $4.5 trillion, plus some amount for accelerating the transition to electric vehicles. That's a much better investment than what we got for the trillions we spent helping secure China's oil supply chain, and certainly less than future potential oil conflict would cost, whether in Syria, Iraq, or even Iran.
For our national security, we must adopt an industrial policy to rapidly and fully decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors. We need to ditch all fossil fuels, not just oil, the same way we ditched whale oil for petroleum in the late 1800s.
This is not coming from some coastal elitist, hippie, or any of the other fair or unfair stereotypes that surround advocates of renewable energy. I watch football on Sundays, I grew up in a regular neighborhood in a small conservative town in the great state of Missouri, and I joined the Marine Corps when George Bush said we were going to surge in Iraq.
I've worked against terrorists, helped counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and represented our country in arms control negotiations with Russia.
My life's work is national security. And the case could not be clearer. Decarbonizing will make us safer, allow us to focus on adversaries like Russia and China, and save us money.
The threat posed by climate change is not a secret in the defense world. The Pentagon has periodically issued reports on it for years.
On January 27, the Biden administration acknowledged the threat climate change poses to national security and initiated a plan to tackle it. This should be a bipartisan issue. The threat posed by climate change is not a secret in the defense world. The Pentagon has periodically issued reports on it for years. The Bush administration had one in 2003, the Obama administration in 2014 and 2015, and, yes, even the Trump administration in 2019. Michèle Flournoy wrote about it last fall and suggested a litany of steps the Pentagon can take to reduce its carbon footprint. Sens. Jack Reed and Elizabeth Warren have focused on how climate change impacts defense supply chains.
Throughout the years, the story hasn't changed. Climate change–induced severe weather has caused billions of dollars of damage to defense infrastructure and threatens to damage the majority of Defense Department installations, costing taxpayers billions over the long haul. Sea-level rise is undermining our naval bases. Climate change taxes the military by increasing refugee flows and other events that require humanitarian relief missions. It fuels conflicts over basic resources such as food and water that create instability and lead to military intervention. An increase in temperature directly correlates with an increase in violence.
A recent study of conflict in Africa found that a 1 percent increase in temperature leads to a 4.5 percent increase in civil war in the same year and a 0.9 percent increase in the following year. By the year 2030, based on averaged data from 18 climate models, this would lead to a 54 percent increase in armed conflict on the continent over the next decade.
As defense budgets continue to rise, avoiding and preventing conflict is one of the best cost-saving measures available to U.S. policymakers and illustrates one of the key external benefits of decarbonization and slowing global warming. We can't go back and get the $14 trillion we spent over the last 20 years in the Middle East, but we can prevent the need (or desire) to spend the next $14 trillion by both making the region and its natural resources irrelevant and slowing global warming and the attendant increase of global violence.
This is a critical component to transitioning from the so-called war on terror and its regional power struggles to a focus on near-peer competitors like China and Russia and retaining the position of the West, and democratic values, in the international order.
I've already mentioned the irony of our navy securing Chinese oil supply chains, but eliminating carbon-based energy dependencies is even more important in our competition with Russia, whose economy is largely based around oil and gas. Fully decarbonizing the U.S. energy and transportation sectors will depress prices of oil and gas, giving Russia a hard choice between continued militarization and its domestic economy.
U.S. decarbonization will also pressure European countries, which are reliant on Russia for natural gas and let that reliance constrain them politically, to likewise decarbonize. We could even bake decarbonization into our national-security agreements with Europe or into future arms control agreements. The technology we develop and know-how we build in the decarbonization process will be a boon to U.S. business as we export our knowledge, technology, and products overseas. Crushing Russia and exporting U.S. tech and products at the same time? That's decarbonization.
The technology we develop and know-how we build in the decarbonization process will be a boon to U.S. business.
Decarbonizing isn't even complicated. We have many of the tools to start doing it right now: the technology, the manpower, and the financial structure. The only thing missing is bipartisan leadership with the courage to enact an industrial policy around decarbonization and the creativity to make it happen.
It could be funded by re-prioritizing the $650 billion in fossil fuel subsidies the U.S. hands out each year. It could be funded by eliminating tax cuts. It could even be funded without spending a dime by shifting the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing from juicing the stock market, including fossil fuel junk bonds, to funding decarbonization. The federal government could back decarbonization-related loans, like federally backed mortgages, that the Federal Reserve would then purchase. Or create a special purpose vehicle with the Departments of Defense and Treasury for the purchase of green assets. It wouldn't even increase the Fed's $7 trillion balance sheet if done the right way.
After World War II, the Department of Defense shaped industrial policy and the direction our country was headed. The department could lead with its budget in that regard. Other national security–based tools, like the Defense Production Act, which has numerous authorities and even energy-related sections, including an exhortation to maximize renewable energy, could also be leveraged.
The technical details can be accomplished in any number of ways. It just needs to get done. Building renewables here is like creating our own reservoir of oil out of thin air.
In the end, this type of leadership shouldn't even be that risky. I think leaders would find that if you offer the American people two worlds: one with more conflict, higher future defense spending, and an artificially juiced stock market; or one with more security, less military action, cleaner rivers and skies, and more economic opportunity, they would overwhelmingly pick the second. This Marine from Missouri sure would.
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Lucas Kunce
Lucas Kunce is the national-security director at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is a former Marine officer and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Follow @lucaskuncemo
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This entry was posted in Every cat has a story and tagged catnip teabag, Downton Abbey, Downton Tabby, giveaway, Phoebe, The Cat on My Head Sunday Selfies Blog Hop by pilch92. Bookmark the permalink.
You are so adorable that you should have all kinds of us toms howling for you. SMOOCH. sorry, I just couldn't help myself. I love. Smooching lady cats.
Thank Mario 🙂 I like smooching too- are you single?
Have you seen the Downton Tabby spoof? We can't recall where we've seen it but we think some (very talented,unlike us) artist drew them! MOL!! Mom loves it! We're so sorry we haven't been visiting – mom just realized tonight that your address dropped off her feedly! Grrrr.
Thanks for noticing and coming back to see us 🙂 Yes, we saw that spoof on Facebook- it is cute.
Wow, those teabags look like a lot of fun!
Oh we LOVE LOVE LOVE Downton Abbey here too…….tonight's the night! They're having an ALL DAY Downton Abbey on PBS – all of last season then the first of Season five later tonight. I think your Mom's catnip tea bag crochet goodies are absolutely ADORABLE and what a CUTE idea!!!! Your Mommy is very clever Phoebe….you're lucky!
We didn't know they were rerunning last season today- thanks for telling us 🙂 Its good that Mom can crochet to make up for the awful singing.
You do look mighty pretty with that necklace!!!
What a fun craft your mom makes. And you do look do lovely for Downton Tabby viewing- it is always a special occasion!
That is such a pretty necklace and a fun tea bag. What a good idea. Hope you all have a fantastic Sunday.
Thank you- I hope you have a nice Sunday too!
Thank you for the Downton Abbey reminder! I like the name of Downton Tabby better though. Love your catnip tea bag. I had a spot of catnip myself just this morning! Nice way to start a Sunday.
Thank you-what is wrong with our moms?
Phoebe, you're so pretty. What a great idea to make an earring into a necklace! We all here can't wait for Downtown Abbey tonight either. Your mom's crocheted catnip tea bags sound like a lot of fun. You've got a fun, creative mom.
Thank you, my mom wasn't too happy about the necklace- she says I always "borrow" without asking-phooey. Enjoy Downton tonight.
Hi Phoebe. I am incredibly out of the loop. I have never seen the TV show Downtown Abbey. I'm not a cat and dont have one here at home. I used to have a goldfish until the neighbors cat came to visit me one day, but I'd rather not talk about that. Your Mom makes some cool stuff for you. Tell your Mom and Dad Forris says hi. If I ever adopt a cat I hope it likes Alfred Hitchcock movies. Thats what I watch.
You look very glamorous all dressed up for Downton Tabby Phoebe.
Aww…thank you Flynn, you are such a gentleman.
Phoebe you look like a princess! We think you will find your prince soon! And our Mama LOVES Downton Abbey. She is very excited that the new season is starting tonight! She was sad when Mathew was "killed off" though!
Thank you. That was sad being that they had killed off Mary's sister not long before.
My mom (and dad) watch Downton Abbey too. They thought last year was a little slow so they're hoping this year has better story lines. You're looking quite lady like in your necklace.
We agree about Downton. Thanks for the compliment on the neckalce.
You are like me, mom only lets me blog twice a week-phoooey- we need our own blogs.
You look purrfectly ready for tea Milady. I can't wait for Downton Abbey tonight!
Thank you- hugs to you too.
Pheobe! Yous looks marvelous darling. And don't worry about the man cats…go to the pawtys and then yous can dance with ALL of them without hurting any feelings!
Um…you may think us strange but we have nevfur seen that show…really truly we haven't! Meowmy doesn't like those kinds of shows…she must be weird, MOL!
Love your selfie, all done up to catch yourself a kitty-man!
And Minko heard the Nip word…OMC!
We would enjoy tossing that around our den.
Everyone has different tastes, I am sure your mom watches some other good shows.
We bet those tea bags are lots of fun.
Yes, you look lovely. Are you sure that Abby isn't the name of the tabby on that show? We've never watched it. I still play with the ball you sent. It that silvervine? I love silvervine. Re: mancats. I may be able to spare a couple. Do you have any preferences?
Hmmm, someone older than 13 … My very special mancat, Buzzy, is older but he's all mine. We've been dating on Twitter for 5 years. MOL! I love Flynn but I could ax him if he'll take you to the dance.
I LOVE FLYNN- I have a secret cruch on him. Do you think he would take me to a dance?
Phoebe, don't give up on finding that purrfect boyfriend. He is out there somewhere!
Thank you, I won't give up.
We love Downton Abbey too. As we live in England we have already seen the latest season and there was a Christmas special on Christmas Day as well. It was really good! We're sure you'll enjoy it.
England has the best tv shows between Downton and Dr. Who. There are a lot of other shows we copy and remake too. I am glad the season is going to be good.
Downton TABBEY would be better.
Phoebe thanks you for the tips- she may have to try them.We love hopping with you.
Aaaaw Phoebe yous not need a boyfuriend to make yous purrfect, yous dat way all on yous own. But weez sure yous will hav no twubble in dat depawtment. Now fur those tea bags. OMC Nip and Vine? Weez wuld sure like to enter ow names, dat's fur sure. Yous mommy be so talented, we just luv hers made wiff luv toys. Hope yous all awe havin' a pawsum week.
Phoebe and I both thank you. You are entered into our giveaway- winner will be announced on Thursday.
You are such a beauty Phoebe!


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3. I removed the cap and again marked the level of liquid inside. There was almost exactly a 0.25 inch difference as measured on the slanted surface. Also, the second mark was 2 11/16 inch vertical distance from the top of the bottle with the cap on.
4. I took a different empty A&W bottle and made similar marks on it.
5. I put 200 g. of sugar, 1 tbs. Zaterains Root Beer Extract and enough water so that the bottle was half full. I capped and shook the bottle until the sugar dissolved.
6. I proofed 0.5 gram of Red Star Quick Rise Instant Dry Yeast in 1 tsp. molasses and 1 tbs. water for 2 hours. This served as a test for yeast vitality. Then I added the mixture to the bottle.
7. I added water to the bottle until it reached the upper mark. I capped the bottle and shook it.
9. I placed the bottle in the same spot as in step 1. and waited until the level of liquid dropped to the lower mark. This took about 20 hours and there was no visible headspace until about 5 hours.
10.I put the bottle in the refrigerator overnight before pouring into a glass.
It fizzed and tasted as I predicted. Then I poured the rest down the sink because I am Type 2 Diabetic.
Next, I will repeat the experiment using the theoretically minimum required amount of sugar plus artificial sweetener. I bet it doesn't work but I would be a fool not to try it.


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One year on from their sell-out first concert, Moree's all-female vocal group Serendipity will return to the stage for its second spine-tingling concert. This time, the group of talented women will take audiences on a journey through time in their upcoming concert 'Serendipity Time Travels'. "Because we have such a wide-ranging group of people, from ages 13 to 75, from all walks of life, I thought we could look at music through the ages," Serendipity musical director Michele Maurer said. "We're looking at how music has been with us forever." Not only will the concert be covering music of different ages, it will also journey through different cultures and different continents. "Our journey starts with the driving rhythms of the 2015 chart topper Sing by Pentatonix," Ms Maurer said. "From there, we spin back in time 20,000 years to the Yana tribe of North America as they celebrate the majesty of nature. "As we journey through time, we'll touch on a multitude of musical eras and genres including Gregorian chant, folk music, sacred and spiritual, the Renaissance, classical, World War I, the Romantic 1930s, World War II, Rock and Roll, the soulful 1960s, psychedelic 1970s, excessive 1980s and into the new millennium. "I mean it when I say we're really time travelling. "This concert has something for everyone and we'd love you to join us." Since last year's sell-out concert, Serendipity has been busy performing at various community functions including at the Christmas at Twilight carols event, Fairview Retirement Village's Christmas party, and as the entertainment at the 2019 ADF and National Service Reunion in Moree, however this will be only their second public concert. The group has been rehearsing for 'Serendipity Time Travels' for the past six months. The concert will be held at Bank Art Museum Moree on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, to coincide with Moree on a Plate on May 11. "That way people if people are visiting for Moree on a Plate, they can come to our concert on Friday, stay the night and then go to the festival on Saturday, or make a day of it on Saturday," Ms Maurer said. If those performances sell out, as they did last year, Ms Maurer said they will add an additional concert on the Thursday night. Last year, the group's two scheduled performances sold out in five days, so a third night was added, and based on anticipation for this year's concert, Ms Maurer expects they'll end up doing the same this year. Tickets are $25 and go on sale at Sylvia's Fabrics on Wednesday, April 17. Ms Maurer encourages people to get in quick to avoid disappointment. For more information, go to the Serendipity Sings Facebook page.
Serendipity will take audiences on a journey through time when they take the stage for their upcoming concert 'Serendipity Time Travels'.
One year on from their sell-out first concert, Moree's all-female vocal group Serendipity will return to the stage for its second spine-tingling concert.
This time, the group of talented women will take audiences on a journey through time in their upcoming concert 'Serendipity Time Travels'.
"Because we have such a wide-ranging group of people, from ages 13 to 75, from all walks of life, I thought we could look at music through the ages," Serendipity musical director Michele Maurer said.
"We're looking at how music has been with us forever."
Not only will the concert be covering music of different ages, it will also journey through different cultures and different continents.
"Our journey starts with the driving rhythms of the 2015 chart topper Sing by Pentatonix," Ms Maurer said.
"From there, we spin back in time 20,000 years to the Yana tribe of North America as they celebrate the majesty of nature.
"As we journey through time, we'll touch on a multitude of musical eras and genres including Gregorian chant, folk music, sacred and spiritual, the Renaissance, classical, World War I, the Romantic 1930s, World War II, Rock and Roll, the soulful 1960s, psychedelic 1970s, excessive 1980s and into the new millennium.
"I mean it when I say we're really time travelling.
"This concert has something for everyone and we'd love you to join us."
Since last year's sell-out concert, Serendipity has been busy performing at various community functions including at the Christmas at Twilight carols event, Fairview Retirement Village's Christmas party, and as the entertainment at the 2019 ADF and National Service Reunion in Moree, however this will be only their second public concert.
The group has been rehearsing for 'Serendipity Time Travels' for the past six months.
The concert will be held at Bank Art Museum Moree on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, to coincide with Moree on a Plate on May 11.
"That way people if people are visiting for Moree on a Plate, they can come to our concert on Friday, stay the night and then go to the festival on Saturday, or make a day of it on Saturday," Ms Maurer said.
If those performances sell out, as they did last year, Ms Maurer said they will add an additional concert on the Thursday night.
Last year, the group's two scheduled performances sold out in five days, so a third night was added, and based on anticipation for this year's concert, Ms Maurer expects they'll end up doing the same this year.
Tickets are $25 and go on sale at Sylvia's Fabrics on Wednesday, April 17.
Ms Maurer encourages people to get in quick to avoid disappointment.
For more information, go to the Serendipity Sings Facebook page.


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