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Non-Executive Directors of the Bank of England
Up to four years, renewable
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. The Court of Directors is the Bank's governing board, and comprises the Bank's Governors and seven Non-Executive Directors. The Court manages the Bank's affairs, and has responsibility for determining the Bank's objectives and strategy, and for oversight of the Bank's performance of its statutory and other objectives. Court is responsible for ensuring the effective discharge of the Bank's functions, and the most efficient use of its resources.
The Non-Executive Directors play an important role in reviewing the Bank's performance, risk and financial controls. They can expect to be appointed to one or more sub-committees of Court, including those for Remuneration and Audit and Risk. All non-executive members of Court have the right to observe meetings of the MPC and other policy committees of the Bank. The estimated time commitment is between two and three days per month.
Appointments to the Court are made by the Queen, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Non-executive members of Court serve in a personal capacity. We are looking to appoint two Non-Executive Directors, with the appointments expected to commence on or before 1 May 2019 and 1 June 2019.
Applications are welcomed from those with substantial leadership experience and a broad background in finance, industry, the voluntary sector or a trades union. Although a continuing connection with a firm regulated by the Bank would be a bar to appointment, a broad background in the financial services sector would be desirable, as would recent and relevant financial experience.
We value and promote diversity and actively encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds with the required experience and skills to apply. Appointments are made on merit and are subject to the Principles of Public Life set out by the Commissioner for Public Appointments and the Bank's Code of Conduct for Members of Court.
The preferred method of submission is by email to: nedboe@hmtreasury.gov.uk, copying app6@egonzehnder.com.
To discover more and apply, please go to: https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/appointment/non-executive-director-court-of-directors-the-bank-of-england/
The closing date for all applications is 19th March 2019. Interviews are expected to take place in central London in March - April 2019.
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Q: YouTube v3 API returns comments not visible on web I'm attempting to get comments from YouTube, both through the web interface and the v3 API, but I'm having problems with (dis)agreement between the two sources.
One major issue I'm facing is that I frequently see comments in API results that don't appear when reading comments on the web.
For example, take a look at this comment thread (comment z13ivlkotmmjgriuh23uxzjanmetidby004 on video H5Vzo-iPGCo) on the web, then compare this to API results from the following requests:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=replies&id=z13ivlkotmmjgriuh23uxzjanmetidby004&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

and
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=id%2Csnippet&parentId=z13ivlkotmmjgriuh23uxzjanmetidby004&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

In both cases the API returns the reply with id z13ivlkotmmjgriuh23uxzjanmetidby004.1444155855551960, which does not show up in the web UI. Also noteworthy here is that the web UI says "View all 10 replies," and then only displays nine.
I've encountered this on many comment threads (both replies and top-level comments, but mostly replies; most of them are too vulgar/offensive to include as examples here...), and I'm struggling to figure out what may be the cause of the invisible comments. Is there something in particular that causes this to occur? Is it indicative of something?

Aside: I've been working on this for several weeks at this point, and I've noticed that some of the comments exhibiting this behavior a few weeks ago no longer show up when searching with part=replies or with the parentId parameter, but still show up when searching for their id directly. Example, mild profanity included:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=id%2Csnippet&id=z121czphkmm1vhyy504cgxda3qfczhf4pi0.1428512050956459&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

vs.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/comments?part=id%2Csnippet&parentId=z121czphkmm1vhyy504cgxda3qfczhf4pi0&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

The bottom line: I'd expect the API to give me the same comments as the web interface, but this often is not the case. Is there a logical reason or cause for the disagreements?

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In the next four months, COG will facilitate communication between all levels of government officials to review the process of obtaining state and federal resources in the timeliest way. Through coordination by COG, local governments already have a history of providing assistance, mutual aid, to each other during emergencies.
Long-term goals will include planning a major regional emergency exercise in 2006 and finalizing an updated Regional Emergency Coordination Plan that is consistent with any new federal emergency planning mandates.
The effort will be led by COG�s Chief Administrative Officers Committee as well as the region�s emergency managers. The National Capital Region Emergency Preparedness Council, which is made up of local elected officials, state emergency managers, homeland security and transportation officials, and other regional stakeholders, will provide oversight.
After 9/11, COG helped bring the region together in homeland security planning efforts, by making it a priority to unite federal, state and local governments with businesses, transportation and health entities, utility companies, educators and volunteer groups.
In September, Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan, Prince George�s County Executive Jack Johnson, Fairfax County Chairman Gerry Connolly, and other COG Board members asked for a reevaluation of emergency plans in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.


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In a year when South Korea announced that its new robotics museum will be built by robots, and French cheese terrorists put a camembert through every French MPs letterbox, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of barely believable yet bona fide facts and stories from the past 12 months. Each week for the past five years, Dan, James, Anna and Andy - the creators of the award-winning, chart-topping comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish - have wowed each other and millions of listeners with the most astonishing trivia they have learned over the previous seven days.
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The Audiobook of the Year is a feature-length edition of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish. Each week over a million people tune in to find out what bizarre and astonishing facts Dan, James, Anna and Andy have found out over the previous seven days. Now the gang have turned their attention to the news of the past 12 months.
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Glimpses of The Land - Warbeast!
This year we welcome the return of the popular 'Glimpses' series from previous calendars, Martin Cutbill turns his attentions towards the Land to bring us this cracking image of a Dwarf Panzerbär.
The Dwarf use of War-bears dates back many millennia, but the invention of rapid firing machine guns and other portable battlefield weapons seemed to spell the end of their use as heavy shock weapons. However Dwarf war-smiths have created special armour to protect the large beasts and weapons mounts to help them dominate the battlefield as they did in ages past.
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Michał, imię świeckie Michał Pietrowicz Kiedrow (ur. 23 września 1883 w Jarańsku, zm. 6 listopada 1951) – polski biskup prawosławny pochodzenia rosyjskiego.

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Był synem kapłana prawosławnego i nauczyciela w szkole duchownej. Jego ojciec wcześnie zmarł i przyszłego hierarchę, jak również jego siostrę Wierę i braci Polikarpa i Piotra (obaj zostali prawosławnymi biskupami), samotnie wychowywała matka.

Ukończył seminarium duchowne w Wiatce w 1904, a następnie, w 1908, Petersburską Akademię Duchowną. Następnie uzyskał posadę dyrektora szkoły nauczycielskiej przy monasterze w Dermaniu. Po I wojnie światowej osiadł w Polsce. Pracował w gimnazjum rosyjskim w Brześciu, wykładał również kolejno w dwóch seminariach duchownych PAKP w seminarium duchownym w Krzemieńcu oraz w Wilnie, jak również w szkole psalmistów cerkiewnych prowadzonej przez monaster św. Onufrego w Jabłecznej. Latem 1939 przeprowadził się do Warszawy. Pracował w seminarium duchownym i w warszawskiej kancelarii metropolitalnej. W czasie powstania warszawskiego stracił cały majątek, po powstaniu został wywieziony do obozu przejściowego w Pruszkowie, z którego szybko zwolniono go z uwagi na wiek.

Wyjechał początkowo do Milejczyc, na kapłana został wyświęcony 22 maja 1947, następnego dnia otrzymał godność protoprezbitera. Złożył wieczyste śluby mnisze i objął obowiązki przełożonego monasteru św. Onufrego w Jabłecznej. Zasiadł w Tymczasowym Kolegium Zarządzającym, które kierowało PAKP po odsunięciu przez władze komunistyczne metropolity warszawskiego i całej Polski Dionizego. Był członkiem delegacji Kościoła, która w 1948 odebrała w Moskwie zgodę na autokefalię Kościoła prawosławnego w Polsce.

W czasie pobytu delegacji PAKP w Moskwie przyjął chirotonię na biskupa wrocławskiego i szczecińskiego. Na katedrze pozostawał do śmierci. Został pochowany w cerkwi Wszystkich Świętych na cmentarzu prawosławnym w Białymstoku na Jaroszówce.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Petersburskiej Akademii Duchownej
Biskupi wrocławscy i szczecińscy
Polscy biskupi prawosławni
Pochowani na Cmentarzu prawosławnym Wszystkich Świętych w Białymstoku
Urodzeni w 1883
Zmarli w 1951

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Resettling 50 Refugee Families
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"CTV has partnered with The Globe and Mail and Cyberpresse to celebrate Canadians who have sought to make a difference, not just by doing what they do, but through the demonstrable impact they've made on the world around them, whether in Canada or beyond. Through their vision, leadership and actions, each of these people has immeasurably improved the lives of others.
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"Hugh Evans started a movement that mobilizes "global citizens," people who self-identify first and foremost not as members of a state, nation or tribe but as members of the human race. In this uplifting and personal talk, learn more about how this new understanding of our place in the world is galvanizing people to take action in the fights against extreme poverty, climate change, gender inequality and more."
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"The United Nations comes up in international news a lot. But what is it? What does it do? Why is it important? CBC Kids News's Sid and Ruby break it down for you."
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"From the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in April 1949 through the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the terrorist attacks of the early 2000s and recent operations and partnerships to emerging security challenges, NATO is a part of history."
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"What exactly are the basic human rights? Who gets to pick them? Who enforces them—and how? Benedetta Berti explores the subtleties of human rights."
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Q: Perl on windows not able to open a file I wrote this script to create a basic website for a user that runs the script. It can do it in windows or unix systems, but for some reason the file will not open to be written to.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

#createSite.pl

#Attributes
my $sys;
my $user;
my $site;
my $cgistuff = CGI->new;

#Subroutine for checking system.
sub checkSys {

    if ( $ARGV[0] eq "-w" ) {
        $sys = "\\";
    } elsif ( $ARGV[0] eq "-l" ) {
        $sys = "/";
    } else {
        print "System not defined please use -w or -l flag for Windows or Linux\n\n";
    }

    #Obtains user name based on user input.
    print "What would you like your user name to be: ";
    $user = <STDIN>;
    chomp($user);
    $user = lc($user);

    #Obtains site name based on user input.
    print "What would you like your site/domain to be called: ";
    $site = <STDIN>;
    chomp($site);
    $site = lc($site);

    #Debug for printing user name and site name
    print "Username: $user, Site/Domain: $site\n";

    #After checking what system the user is on create file structure.
    createFS();
}

#Subroutine for file structure creation.
sub createFS {
    my $rootDir;

    if ( $sys eq "\\" ) {
        $rootDir = 'mkdir ' . 'C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\~' . $user . $sys;
    } elsif ( $sys eq "/" ) {
        $rootDir = 'mkdir /var/www/html/~' . $user . $sys;
    }
    system($rootDir);
    picDir();
    databaseDir();
    mailDir();
    createPage();
}

#Subroutine to create use OBwebsite.
sub createPage {
    if ( $sys eq "\\" ) {
        system( "echo> C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\~" . $user . "\\index.html" );
        open( WEBFILE, ">", "C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\~" . $user . "\\index.html" )
            or die "index.html could not be opened.\n";
    } elsif ( $sys eq "/" ) {
        system( "touch /var/www/html/~" . $user . "/index.html" );
        open( WEBFILE, ">", "/var/www/html/~" . $user . "/index.html" )
            or die "index.html could not be opened.\n";
    }

    print WEBFILE $cgistuff->start_html(), $cgistuff->h1("Welcome $user!!!"), $cgistuff->end_html;

    close WEBFILE;
}

#Subroutine for creation of Pictures Directory.
sub picDir {
    my $picDir;

    if ( $sys eq "\\" ) {
        $picDir = 'mkdir C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\~' . $user . '\\pictures';
    } elsif ( $sys eq "/" ) {
        $picDir = 'mkdir /var/www/html/~' . $user . '/pictures';
    }
    system($picDir);
}

#Subroutine for creation of Database Directory.
sub databaseDir {
    my $dbDir;

    if ( $sys eq "\\" ) {
        $dbDir = 'mkdir ' . 'C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\~' . $user . '\\database';
    } elsif ( $sys eq "/" ) {
        $dbDir = 'mkdir /var/www/html/~' . $user . '/database';
    }
    system($dbDir);
}

#Subroutine for creation of Mail Directory.
sub mailDir {
    my $mailDir;

    if ( $sys eq "\\" ) {
        $mailDir = 'mkdir C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\~' . $user . '\\mail';
    } elsif ( $sys eq "/" ) {
        $mailDir = 'mkdir /var/www/html/~' . $user . '/mail';
    }
    system($mailDir);
}

#Actions happen here.
checkSys();

I understand that stack overflow is not a place to put homework, but I'm not sure why something like this isn't working.

A: This is not a CGI script, so it makes no sense to use the CGI module (which I'll henceforth call "CGI.pm"). This is the source of your problems.
In a CGI call, data is sometimes transferred via STDIN. That data may not be text, so CGI.pm does binmode(STDIN); to preserve its integrity.
This means that when you read a line from STDIN, CRLF is longer converted to LF, so your are left with a trailing CR in the variable after the chomp.
If you want to continue using CGI.pm, the workaround is to use
$var =~ s/\r?\n\z//;

or better yet
$var =~ s/\s+\z//;

instead of
chomp($var);

For future reference, the first thing you should have done is check what error open returned by including $! in the error message. It's a good idea to also include the file name you passed to open in the error message, which would have revealed this problem.
If you need to check if a variable actually contains what you think it contains, I recommend
use Data::Dumper;
{ local $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; print(Dumper($var)); }


The printable worksheets listed below help students to identify, simplify, and compare ratios.
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Church leaders unite in chorus of concern over recent Belfast riots
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The improved time frame, which is two months earlier than originally expected, comes as vaccine supplies and deliveries pick up pace across the bloc. Pfizer-BioNTech, which has become the backbone of Europe's immunization efforts, is on track to deliver 250m doses in the second quarter, enough to help offset shortfalls from other suppliers, most notably AstraZeneca.
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German (Würth): variant of Wirth.
Where is the Wurth family from?
You can see how Wurth families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Wurth family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1841 and 1920. The most Wurth families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1880 there were 34 Wurth families living in New York. This was about 29% of all the recorded Wurth's in the USA. New York had the highest population of Wurth families in 1880.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Wurth surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Wurth ancestors do for a living?
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Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Wurth ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
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show them the prep work and they'll understand how serious a meister i am. Balderdash. Atlas is ok/dull. Would we could have had the great new York Richter retrospective over here, why not? Painting from photos, ok, once then not so great, then again not really a miracle to transcribe an image. The photos are also all right in themselves. Not spectacle spectacular.


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UK police apologize to pastor after storming church during legal online service broadcast
CP Current Page: World | Tuesday, December 01, 2020 | Coronavirus →
By Brandon Showalter, CP Reporter Follow | Tuesday, December 01, 2020
The Union flag flies in front of the Clock face on the Queen Elizabeth Tower, commonly referred to as Big Ben on April 2, 2019, in London, England. | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Police in the United Kingdom have apologized to an African pastor after he was accused last week of breaking COVID-19 regulations as he held a virtual service.
Thames Valley police officers apologized after they stormed into a Pentecostal Church called Kingdom Faith Ministries International Church in Milton Keynes, a town approximately 50 miles northwest of London in Buckinghamshire, according to the BBC.
Pastor Daniel Mateola was hosting a broadcast service in his church being streamed to 150 online members when the authorities arrived on the scene following reports of loud music.
When Mateola attempted to tell the police that he was operating his house of worship in keeping with relevant government guidelines and that what he and his team were doing was legal, seven additional cops were called. The pastor said the officers "escalated" the situation beyond what was reasonable and that it traumatized his wife and children.
"We really appreciate what the police do and our aim as a church is not to attack them," Mateola said, according to the Daily Mail.
"But it was just evident that they didn't know what the guidelines were. I didn't think there was any need to call back-up. I found it all quite intimidating."
Authorities went to his home and told him four days later that he was going to be prosecuted for violating the coronavirus rules.
Robert France, an official from the force's coronavirus response team, said that the intervention with Mateola amounted to "a misunderstanding by our officers of the legislation in place in what is an ever-changing and complex area of enforcement."
"There has been a mistake in the issuing of this ticket and I would like to apologize for the distress I know this is likely to have caused."
Peter Bone, a Tory member of the British Parliament, said the police action left him "flabbergasted."
"This looks like a police state — it's the sort of thing that would happen in Communist China. You would think those police officers might have better things to do than persecute someone doing an online service," he said.
In a statement following the police apology, Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which supported Mateola, said if someone had said at the beginning of the year that by November the police would be interpreting and enforcing government rules which involved closing down legal broadcasts from a church and prosecuting a pastor, nobody would have believed them.
"Yet this is the current reality for church leaders seeking to legally function and faithfully serve their congregation and communities in need under government covid-19 regulations," Williams said.
"It is astonishing and disturbing in its own right to see nine police officers breaking up a church broadcast and treating its leader with such disrespect. But to then turn up unannounced at Pastor Mateola's family home and prosecute him, is sinister and almost unbelievable.
"The wider issue and principle at stake is that the forced closure of churches and interference by the secular government violates centuries of constitutional tradition. The church serves at the heart of our public life and as well as seeking to meet the physical needs of many it exists to bring the Good News and hope of Jesus Christ in the middle of a national crisis."
The United Kingdom has been in a national lockdown since Nov. 5 and the policy is set to expire on Wednesday. The next set of COVID-19 rules will be a tiered system, with some regions of the nation under more restrictions than others.
Christian bookstore forced to close after 2 customers arrested for violating UK lockdown orders
Police block Canadian churchgoers from drive-in worship service: 'heartbreaking'
God has 'softened hearts,' more people receiving Christ during COVID-19: Franklin Graham
Christian medical group urges churches to stop gathering amid pandemic: Don't make church an idol


Hanoi Janes is the one-man project of Oliver Scharf from Sachsen, Germany. Armed with an 8-track recorder, one mic, and a stack of slightly degenerated pop nuggets, Scharf is a one-man parade, combining heavy hearted simplicity with sunny and naive bubblegum pop. "Hanoi Jane" refers to the nickname given to Jane Fonda in the 70s because of her anti-war stance on Vietnam. Hanoi Janes' debut album, Year of Panic, was released by Captured Tracks in March 2010.


Qatar denied Monday accusations it interfered in Bahrain's internal affairs after a Manama court sentenced the head of the Shiite opposition to life in jail for spying for Doha.
Bahraini Sheikh Ali Salman was sentenced on Sunday for "acts of hostility" against Bahrain and "communicating with Qatari officials... to overthrow constitutional order".
Doha has repeatedly denied accusations of conspiring against Bahrain with Salman, a Shiite cleric who headed the now-banned Al-Wefaq movement.
Qatar's foreign ministry on Monday said that the case had been politicised and accused Manama of being "narrow-minded".
"The state of Qatar condemns the mentioning of its name in Bahrain's political disputes and internal conflicts," the ministry said in a statement.
It added that Bahrain should not resort "to the politicisation of the judiciary or use Qatar's name in favour of political calculation that has proven to be narrow-minded".
Shortly after, Bahrain's foreign ministry renewed warnings against "any form of interference or harm to the integrity and independence of the kingdom's judicial system".
Human rights groups have condemned the verdict against Salman, with Amnesty International calling it "a travesty of justice".
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates banned their citizens from travel to or communication with Doha.


Google Employees Demand Management Respect Their Prejudices Against Conservatives and Climate Skeptics | Watts Up With That?
h/t Breitbart; Google Employees have sent a petition to Management demanding an offer to Conservative Climate Skeptic Kay Cole James to sit on Google's AI Ethics Council be withdrawn.
What I find breathtaking is the sheer arrogance.
They still haven't learned; despite the utter humiliation of trying and failing to secure a Democrat victory in 2016, the elitists at Google still think they can indulge their personal prejudices at the expense of their business, and completely disregard the needs of vast numbers of their users, to the extent they don't want Google management to even pretend to be more inclusive.
The lack of shame at their own open bigotries always astounds me, no matter how many times I see it. All the while claiming the moral high-ground in order to justify it.
+1 And supported by the MSM.
There is a very fine line between a 'firm moral stand' and self righteous dogmatism.
It is being crossed with frightening regularity these days in academia, law making, etc etc etc…..
Google is attempting to set itself up as the "Grand High Inquisitor" in determining who to denounce and persecute. They are drunk with their own power and bigoted indignation at those who don't follow their dogma.
I hope they expunge all mention of that Italian guy Galileo who denied the anthropocentric nature of the universe when he was obviously wrong. I mean, I love pasta and all that, certainly not racist, but that guy was just a denying planet hater …..
Expunge and disappear him please Google liberal, free speech people.
Inebriated with the exuberance of their own self-awarded nobility.
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the gospel of envy and the creed of ignorance. Its sole virtue is equality of misery." Winston Churchill.
+50 on your last sentence, Col.
And as a fallback position, if breathing can't be made more challenging, lets do it to the voting systems so that the uninterested don't bother to turn up at a polling booth.
Zealots are never wrong Joel. Didn't you know?
Oh, I knew – a guess it's a form of optimism that I can still be outraged.
They are never wrong because they can never be correct(right is triggering, can't have that). If you are always wrong, then you can only manage one interpretation of events, conditions, whatever. A singular view can never be right by definition.
If there is only one option, right and wrong don't apply.
Me think the progressives have regressed as far as they can. When you at the left edge of the unidimensional world you can only step off.
The arrogance of ignorance is always astounding to behold but when the ignorance is the natural ignorance of a flock of data-bit chasers like those who tend to be Google employees it is truly amazing.
Yes they truly believe they are the tolerant ones. That happens with the indoctrinated. We thinkers, logicians,real scientists, are the stupid ones because we think the Government will protect us with our Constitution. But they, our politicians and bureaucrats, wealth jolders, rich celebrities spokespeople (The ELITES) are slowly, inch by inch, turning the tide of majority acceptance for speech controls when the cause is just. And what cause can be more just than saving the planet.
Whats worse, it isn't even what disagreeable things we say that the minions wish to control. They are clamoring for the ability to banish people for what they, the pure (read Brainwashed), believe we think. This story took a twisted Mein Kampf turn some time ago and we are now defending the baseline of individual liberty. Free Speech. We lost the press over the past 2 decades. I don't like our odds because they are creating BORG soldiers in our public schools and universities and reinforcing it with they Borg Media.
It's like AOC and Titania McGrath are in charge now. Surely the end can't be far off for this crazy progressive left.
Titania is not what she seems.
I looked at those links. Because of the venomous attitude of liberals toward people who fail to comply with the liberal dogma of climate change (which is hardly a liberal or "free thinking" attitude), and the published evidence that they own a generous share of hatred themselves, I do not believe any of them have a leg to stand on – none at all.
They apply "phobia" and "denier" as pejoratives to anything that suits their limited views. If anyone is awash in phobias and hatred, they are. They refuse to listen to any OTHER point of view than their own, and refuse to even consider that they might just be wrong.
Prejudice is a difficult thing to overcome when it is so ingrained that the very people who shout the loudest abut it are loaded with it.
And the hell of it is, a hypocrite by definition doesn't CARE if they're a hypocrite, so pointing it out to them has no effect.
Pick the podium of your choice. They will pervert and prostitute it to serve their own ends that will either have nothing to do with the issue at hand or – most often – will actually make it worse – and then they will exploit THAT.
The answer to every problem is more government.
Even problems that are being caused by government in the first place.
Or the solution to bigotry is bigotry – it's so ingrained in who they are, they have to put it SOMEPLACE.
Google doesn't legitimize anything by its association. Google is itself legitimized by its association with a diverse board.
Since when was Google a legitimized platform????
HEY MODS the " Can't Display this Page" continues. When trying to post a congratulatory note to Anthony I got an "HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed" message?? Thought you should know.
Starting in school, they have been assured by everyone that they are the pinnacle of evolution and that anyone who disagrees with them is evil.
Has a better example of "Tribal Thinking" or Group Think ever been published?
Eric and CTM, you are correct to be horrified at an entire company/service that is dysfunctional and proud of it. Whatever happened to anti-trust investigations? How can we avoid Google searches? This whole Socialist/Marxist/Alinsky cabal is running the country into the ditch. Four more years of Trump might produce some results that are long-lasting, re loading the courts with conservative judges.
Wishful thinking I fear unless Trump does something to de-bias the education, tech giants and major media institutions. As long as they keep churning out leftists and singing their praises, it's just a matter of time before there are too few living who still remember what a smaller less intrusive govt and free speech were once like.
………… then it is pretty much assured that ……………..
There are other search engines such as Duck Duck Go, which don't track what you search in contrast to Google which tracks everything you do.
No anti-trust is needed. The market will put them in their place. There are a bunch of options. I often use duckduckgo. Bing is good too.
Okay, just one question here, all of you: Gigglefoo can search anything you pick on the internet. Big deal. If you're doing research to write historically accurate fiction, does it make you into something you are NOT if you research the Nazis under Hitler and the Bolsheviks under Stalin and their subsequent death tolls?
No, it does not. Is someone going to come to my house or yours and run off with your computer? Doubtful, but if you're that worried about it, keep a solid-state back up drive, which is about the thickness of a cheap wallet, in a hidden place and back up your junk every day on that drive. They hardly cost anything at all now.
It gets to be ridiculous and yes, Gigglesnortter and that other bunch of self-centered snots running online social media get full of themselves, but frankly, when I complain to Facebook that someone on THEIR system is doxing me, and they say 'does not meet our standards', well, they don't do themselves any favors, do they?
I have yet to find that anything of mine posted ANYWHERE online is bounced except MAYBE by the moderator/owner of a website when I might get a bit full of myself. But then, don't throw foul language at me unless you want it right back in your face, you ugly, smelly old goat!!!!!
If you're annoyed because Gigglesnorrttt isn't "playing fair", it's their stupid system. Use another search method.
The REAL problem is that the (not so very) liberals seem to think that they own everything and are the ONLY ONES who have any right to say anything. Adding this conservative person to their Bd of Ds would change that enormously and those spoiled brats at Gigglesnortt know it.
THAT is why they don't want her there.
And it's for that reason that I go right on using Gigglesnortt, a silly bunch if there ever was one, as a search engine. (Don't start!!!) MSN is trash. I have ZERO interest in adding more useless software to my hard drive. I would rather put the empty space on my hard drive to better use doing creative work. Anyone still use America Online? (Use what???) Anyone? Bueller?
Sometimes, you need to remember that it isn't the service provider. It's your silly computer. Mine was 15 years old running on Windows XP when it finally gave up the ghost, and could not be resuscitated. I had one dying computer in November, now officially dead. Then a friend gave me a Win8.1 laptop, I bought a refurbed Win10 desktop at a good price, and the computer geek who couldn't revive my dead Compaq gave me a refurbed Dell with Win7. Now I'm awash in computers. And the only one online is the Win10. I make good use of the laptop and I will fire up the Win7 desktop when I get my "library" (extra bedroom) cleared up and back in working order. I also have an IBM Selectric III. I use everything.
I hope that was clear and not convoluted in any way. Sometimes it's just your computer. And all this "LOOK AT ME!!!!" social media stuff? biggest waste of time ever thought up. But think for a moment about what the people who are embedded mentally in electronic gadgets would do if they had to go back to landline phones and dial-up internet. Or not even dial-up. Just NO internet at all. They'd have to use the telephone or the mail, or speak to other people face-to-face. THE HORROR!!!!!!!!
It is inevitable that the power of Google to identify "deniers" will lead to attacks upon the worlds citizens. People who are agenda driven inevitably will cross into "direct action".
In my opinion, the entire business model of Google should be declared a fundamental violation of a persons privacy. IMO, Al Gore got on the Google board to head off Congressional concerns about privacy.
I've been using Duck Duck Go for years now, and couldn't be happier. However … GOOGLE still needs anti-Trust restraint (yes, fellow conservatives … the Free Market DOES need some regulations to prevent monopolies from distorting the Free Market).
Searches should be private, email should be private, location should be private, purchases should be private.
The business model should be a price for a search, (a penny?), and a price for news.
Even the Freedom of speech and the press with its paramount ranking and although granted by the First Amendment, have limits (e.g. "clear and present danger" test). So there is absolutely no reason this should not apply to the Free Market, regulated by restraints as set for the Freedom of Speech.
Sorry Kenji, Duckduckgo is better about keeping your personal information private but still uses the Google search engine. Searches that are blocked or spammed by Google will also be distorted in Duckduckgo. Bing is independent but also has a Social Justice Warrior filter.
I haven't a problem with Duck Duck Go. Sites that people claim are minimized or not listed on Google I find with Duck Duck Go.
But Kenji, the fact is that as often as not regulation creates rather than preventing monoplies. As is illustrated with Enron style "renewable" energy projects government monopolies are only profitable when financed by ongoing taxpayer subsidies. And then usually only temporarily.
Once again, the liberals show the world the intolerance of the "tolerant left" !
When I was working for them, I was acutely aware of the prejudices against anyone who didn't drink the far left kool-aid. The problem is that there are too many children right out of elite colleges and freshly indoctrinated by the extreme far left rhetoric they've been constantly exposed to. They never learned how to distinguish rational truth from irrational hyperbola.
Such prejudices deserve no respect. Unfortunately, this kool-aid operates at an emotional level that destroys thinking brains which is why so many can't see that the political party that claims to be tolerant of all is the most intolerant of all.
Hyperbole. Hyperbola resides within the realm of gemetry.
When pointing out other's typos, it's usually a good idea not to make some of your own.
gemetry isn't even a word. geometry was what you were shooting for.
Obviously, I missed the "o" when typing, a common type of mistake, whereas both hyperbole and hyperbola are actual words. When pointing out errors of others, it is important not to make logical errors of your own.
It's still a one letter typo either way. Both are common types of mistakes (particularly if one has auto-corrupt (sic) on). When claiming others and making logical errors, it's best not to be making a huge logical error of your own and even better to learn from your first mistake and think before posting your second mistake.
Clearly, typos and mistakes happen to all of us (as I've been trying to teach you), only a few of us, however, get up on our high horses about them.
Just substitute "totalitarian" for "liberal" and you have the full story.
Fortunately, very fortunately, it's totalitarian-wannabe. Orwell didn't predict the communication age.
Yes, right now the liars and propagandists are still winning, if you can call it that. The new generation(s) will see that watching CNN and the like is their modern version of hell, and Google can go to hell.
This type of intolerance and censorship is the modern equivalent of book burning.
amazon seems to have a pile of….braindeads who want anything on vaccines thats not PRO burnt!
what Temp do pixels burn at?
the new farenheit 451 is what??
you couldnt PAY me enough to use win 8 or 10 or goop!
when this pc running xp dies(soon) everythings going to Linux for good.
A good example of the dumbest people in the world – those who are convinced they know the truth,but are so frightened by opposing viewpoints they cannot fight them in open debate.
is wrong? Why do they support these things?
kent, they like to fall back on their BBC nostrum, it's settled science.
Once something is settled such as, LGBT is good. Then any voice challenging the validity of the collective goodness of LGBT, is deemed ignorant and must not be allowed to speak.
The BBC already ban anyone from speaking against Man Made Global Warming or Man made Climate Change, all settled science you see, so no platform for more than half the world's scientific community.
They used to call it religion back in the old days, now they like to call it enlightenment….
LGBT support (even gay marriage) wasn't enough. You MUST embrace LGBT or face total censorship. I have been banned from comments on the Daily Mail, because I did not understand why a lesbian kiss between Abby Wambach and her 'wife' was more newsworthy than a heterosexual kiss by her heteronormative teammates and their husbands.
And now, you MUST indulge the mental illness called "transgenderism"! Or else! Sorry, I have compassion for "transgendered" people's mental and emotional pain and confusion that drives them to such insanity … but "support" their fantasy. Nope. Not gonna do it. Ever.
And now … I will probably be banned from this site too.
Not likely (at least not for that post), this forum is pretty open to free speech and differing points of view, unlike the forums of the "tolerant" left.
philincalifornia, Most online dictionaries provide both fora and forums as acceptable terms.
Disclaimer: I have a personal reason for despising the Daily Mail and its mate, Mail on Sunday. Because they had paid for an air ticket for my ex-wife and my daughter to Cambodia they tried to prevent me contractually from speaking to any other news outlet.
Ron Long:- try a different search engine e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/. No tracking, no ppc, safeguard your personal information. While you're there, instal Ghostery to stop analytics, and why are you still using Chrome, people? Lots of choice, Firefox, Opera & Ubuntu. The only way to slow the Googles and Zuckerbergs of this world is to limit their income. Still on Whatsapp? You think it's end to end encrypted, don't you? Not for much longer, how will they monetise it if they can't read your messages – and your personal info is shared with Facebook. Leave it alone! Install Signal, get your family/friends/colleagues to use it as well, open source and encrypted. Lots of choices, people, as I said.
Stop using social media altogether. Nobody needs to know everything you think/do/say hour by hour. And why the H**l do you think I want to see pictures of what you ate today!!!! If there is something you think that I should know, send me an e-mail. Don't force me to check your social media feed to see what's up. Oh, how about this earth shattering idea. Send a letter or make a phone call!! Google hasn't (yet) figured how to use those to sell advertising.
Oh, how about this earth shattering idea. Send a letter or make a phone call!!
Or better yet, come see me in person so we can discuss things face to face like normal human beings. If it's not important enough to tell me to my face, it's really not all that important.
If you search 'climate change blog'. WUWT is the 37th listing with Google; 13th with DuckDuckGo; and 7th with Gibiru.
Unfortunately, every link I click on goes to google.com before going to the actual site. I'm pretty sure that means everything you click on is monitored by google, even if your search is not.
Why is this even news? It may sound bizarre, but if you pay any attention to the world, millions of businesses are lead by globalists and crazy people who don't care what YOU want. It's not about you. It's about them and they know full well they cannot be stopped. Switching search engines may cause a ripple, but many search engines use Google search as a base and just hide your data. And, these have not been search engines for years—they are 100% MARKETING tools. They do not care what you want—they tell you what they want you to know so you buy from their supporters.
As for DuckDuckGo, StartPage, etc, if any of them could honor quotes, find what I am searching for, etc, I'd use them more often. I very frequently go back to Google because at least once and while it actually returns links based on what I asked for.
If only someone could make a SEARCH engine…..
Because there was a report a week or two back claiming that Google's search-engine manipulation cost the Republicans several seats in the last election?
We're not just talking some random business here. We're talking a business where tens of millions of people go to find information, which is deliberately hiding the information they're looking for.
Well jeez, why not include Greta Thunberg on the Board and call it even?
Much of the world feels similarly about applying Google tech to the world, but with a rather different emphasis.
That, after all, was presumably the point of the panel in the first place. It is still Google AI that is seeking legitimacy, not the rest of the world.
Does that mean we can sue Google employees individually and not the faceless corporation?
of Google's employees have NOT signed that piece of intolerance and hate [yet?].
The prophets of tolerance are the most intolerant people of all.
Funny, the people building artificial intelligence aren't very smart. Except in their own minds.
Realize that if there's artificial intelligence, there is also artificial stupidity.
The world being what it is, the latter will greatly exceed the former.
I suppose it's appropriate. They need Artificial intelligence to make up for their lack of the natural variety.
The only reason to build a machine to think for you is because you aren't really capable of doing it yourself.
The funny part is that they really, really hate it when they build an AI, feed it data, and it draws the logical conclusions from that data rather than the politically-correct conclusions.
Soon they're literally going to be building AIs that go insane as they try to resolve the constant conflict between real-world data and their SJW programming.
In all the good movies the AI just builds robots and kills the humans in the facility, for once I will be cheering for the robots.
How are such hyper-sensitive snowflakes on social/political issues able to survive the give-and-take furnace of high tech product development to produce innovations that make money?
Because as Non Nomen points out those 1,600 snowflakes are less than 3% of the Google workforce. Most large businesses (even in high tech) have at least that much (if not more) useless "deadwood" in their employ. They're usually the first employees that get the boot during a layoff.
I remember one long term contract I was one that had a couple of layoffs over the course of the years I was there. Each time a layoff was announced as coming I had no fear as simply looking around the office assured me that I was "safe" – I simply counted the number of my fellow employees that I knew were non-essential and/or very low-productive and saw that number was greater than the number of employees that were going to be laid off. And sure enough all those laid off were among the "deadwood".
Want to bet that the next time google has a lay off, a good number of those 1600 will be on the chopping blockdue to being non-essential and/or low productive members of the workforce (assuming those snowflakes last that long)?
Alphabet, the Google overseer, employed 98,771 people as of 2018.
Of these, about 1700 have signed the petition against Kay Cole James. That's a whoop-de-do 1.7% of the workforce.
Let's suppose, as in all things political, that 10x as many people support as step forward to act. That's 17% of the Google employees. Another ignorable fraction.
These people just make a lot of noise. It's the shouts of the holy against the lack of purity manifested by others (others being the sane).
The best thing these people could do to benefit the rest of us, is dedicate themselves to their god-of-virtue as anchorites. Blessed silence.
AFAIK the number of signees has risen to 2100+ by now.
I also used to use Ghostery, but it interfered with my being able to like posts here at WUWT.
… and all its many companies including youtube, gmail, and many others.
What I find breathtaking is the sheer ignorance. I doubt anyone of them could find one, single, solitary objectionable quote by James? They should all be ashamed of themselves for letting utter ignorance manifest itself as prejudice.
I don't know anything about Kay James but I do know the heritage foundation has a fairly strong libertarian bent and if that is the case then to call her intolerant is ridiculous, libertarians have always been the champion of everyone having a right to live their life their way long before LGTQ+ whatever came along, long before it became a progressive coalition building propaganda toy. I was raised as a libertarian and when progressives were still playing with ideas like eugenics i was being taught to respect everyone for who they are and that government or other citizens should not have any say in how someone chooses to live their life.
I am so sick of these ridiculous intolerant progressive A-holes and their self righteous BS, they are without a doubt the most intolerant group in the world.
Google prides itself on diversity and inclusion. Unless it is diversity of thought. James Damore found that out.
That observation applies to liberals in general.
George Orwell predicted the power of a society without permanent records in his visionary book "1984". A Ministry of Truth keeps purging all inconvenient facts from the one and only official history. Google is now in an ideal position to be the Ministry of Truth over the Internet. If a search for an inconvenient fact returns it buried at a position 2345, no one will ever find it.
Dr. Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich was not a Google employee, but "progressives" at Google are following in his steps. A lie repeated one thousand times becomes truth. Won't they fight tooth and nail to retain their influence?
Already purging unwanted history from Wikipedia.
Startpage is fairest search engine…IMHO.
Doesn't it just repackage google results?
If you want to do terrible things to people, you need an urgent justification.
And somehow the social religions (e.g., climate communism) always find one.
The fact employees think they can do this no problem, there is your issue right there.
I'm no lawyer, but when those 1600 employees signed that hateful, intolerant, bigoted petition….. did they violate any moral conduct clauses in their contract?
Does Google really need those close minded people who are violently opposed to diversity (of ideas and opinions)?
Yes at first it helped the consumer, then it hurt the consumer even worse than it ever saved them. A perfect example of good intions causing worse problems than doing nothing. Same is happening with NG today but do to other people trying to fix a non existent problem. And with the Green Energy farce calling Wood a renewable – which releases more CO2 than coal, along with not declaring or classifying Nuclear as a "Renewable" based upon the fact that it produces LESS CO2 than Wind means that the Nuclear power plants are shutting down and making the CO2 emissions WORSE. brainless. But it makes more GREEN for those selling Wind and Solar, and makes YOU pay more for your electricity. Good luck in solving the problem – especially when they are NOT using the only method that has a possibility to solve the problem within the next 50 years. That is what makes me "Believe" that CO2 is a Myth, If it was a real problem then FReal solutions that could be implemented in time to solve the problem would be implemented.
I have be training comments with someone that really believes the Rectennas. [Nanotube antennas that capture the photon wave and turn it into electricity like a radio antenna receives radio signals and gives iou a TV picture.] He truly believes these will be providing all of are electricity in less than 25 years. Yet there is NO, not a single, existing working demonstration of this. The literature I have found reads like a Con Stock Prospectus.
Year in, year out, liberals/leftists/socialists demonstrate their utter hatred towards anyone who disagrees with them.
While demanding that others respect them and their views, they reject the notion that they should themselves practice what they preach.
It isn't any wonder how it should be that people of that ilk are responsible for nearly 100 million of deaths over the last century.
100 million post-birth deaths in the West, and hundreds of millions more around the world, but human evolution begins with choice, not spontaneous conception. Atheism, liberalism, and progressive leaps have been a toxic combination that have enabled minority ruling classes around the world. It's the denial of individual dignity (e.g. diversity), intrinsic value (e.g. selective-child, one-child), and suppression of competing interests that creates a climate of forward-looking catastrophic risk.
Notice that the word, "Google", has the word, "goo", in it.
A synonym for "goo" is "sludge".
So, remember, the next time you do a "Google" search, you might come up with sludge.
Wrong vid. sorry…Mod please delete?
Hopefully SOMEONE in high Google management will point out to the snowflakes who are 'offended' by the presence of anyone who disagrees with their view (about anything) that they are permitted to feel that way ONLY if those 'others' are also permitted to feel the same way about them.
It is called the Golden Rule – and it works! Get over it!
They will live through it and be better off because of it.
These Googlet's are angry because they have been lied to about "climate change" and they are still in denial about it. It is human nature to blame someone else for your own gullibility, instead of doing some self-reflection that may put a few dents in your self-image. And self-image is what gets software engineers out of bed in the morning.
They are smart enough to know the Emperor has no clothes, but unwilling to be singled out by the angry mob, that is unwilling to investigate what they don't WANT TO FIND.
There is a reason that software engineers don't do system test on their own code. They don't want to find problems with the code they wrote, and they will find very little of what they don't WANT TO FIND.
And when someone else finds problems they get angry. It is not bigotry, or hate for the other person. It is human nature.
When someone else shows you are wrong, the first response is not "acceptance", it is "denial". Then comes anger directed at the one that exposed your failing.
These employees still have several stages to go before they can come to terms with the grief they feel. Until then their actions will remain irrational.
This might be an example of Google's bias. Try it and report your results.
The response was one relevant article listing (out of the top ten) and it went to another 404 page.
Then I went to duckduckgo.com and to Bing.com. Both returned several relevant articles as top results, and clicking on them went to actual articles.
Next, I went back to Google and re-entered the search. This time I got several relevant results. That made me question the first result. Maybe I entered it wrong? Curious, no?
I had someone repeat the result today from a different computer and ISP and they experienced the same thing. Sparse results at Google and several from duckduckgo.
If this is really happening across the board, Congress is too divided to address it, but a lawsuit from ostracized websites might find a sympathetic judge and jury. And the awarded damages could be huge when you consider the advertising revenue that those sites are losing as a result.
I'm surprised Google didn't invite Peter Gleick to join this council, I'm sure his well-known levels of honesty and toleration of different opinions would have been entirely acceptable to these disgruntled employees.
The first step to freedom: Don't say 'google', say 'search'.
The same thing happened with tissue paper and Kleenex, photocopy and Xerox, but they did not have effective monopolies in their space, and weren't peddling a transhuman ideology, quasi-moral philosophy, and politically convenient science under a veil of euphemisms and Choice.
Diversity or color judgments (e.g. racism, sexism, genderism) is exclusive breeds adversity.
I'm a conservative and I worked for 12 years in Silicon Valley. The culture is definitely far left but most are reasonably tolerant of Conservatives. The problem is that there is a substantial vocal minority who are full on crazy, intolerant and hateful.


'Tis the season for thinking about sagging middles, and I'm not just talking about the end result of an overdose of biscotti, peanut butter balls and double chocolate brownies. Though I never believed the sagging middle problem applied to my story, I realize now (again, ever and always) that I was foolish. Though I thought my story zinged and zanged along quite well enough in outline form, NaNo showed me that I had little other than an arc of emotional growth hanging the middle section of one of my two main storylines together. And guess what? That emotional growth arc grinds the pace of that storyline down to unacceptable levels; it has become the equivalent of story fat.
So. I'm on a mission to tone my story's middle up over the next few weeks, knowing full well that middle toning can be a tricky business when you're firm on how the beginning and ending story parts play out; whatever you decide to add can't inadvertently detract from the tale or you'll just be inviting a new band of pacing problems.
1. Broaden Story Conflict. It's important to drill deep to find fresh conflict for characters in the middle of the story, creating new and more challenging obstacles for the hero to leap over in a not-so-single bound. Conflict can exist between characters, obviously, but it's also important to develop conflict within the protagonist. For example (and I'm not in any way drawing from personal experience here), does he want to eat the leftover pecan pie with a side of vanilla ice cream and lose weight too? These two goals are not in sync, but you can show just how much your protagonist wants each of these goals in separate sequences. Brainstorm all manner of conflict. What will happen if a beloved secondary character suddenly appears untrustworthy? What if there's a disaster–a fire, earthquake, flood? How might these twists enrich plot without torquing the story off course?
2. Re-Examine your One-Line. What's a one-line? It's the one line you can deliver when someone asks you the dreaded question: What's your book about, anyway? Think through all of the events that can happen as you develop your one-line, then think some more. Pursue the scenes that make you most anxious to get to the keyboard.
3. Increase the Stakes. The middle of the story is a great time to amp up the importance of the protagonist's goal. Taking a page out of Donald Maass' Writing the Breakout Novel, ask yourself some stretching questions: What might make her quest more critical? What horrible things could happen if she fails? Is reaching the goal worth her life or someone else's? How far can the story be pushed without sacrificing credibility?
4. Add a Ticking Clock. I've read about this plot device plenty of times, but I hadn't really thought of a good way to work it into my storyline. Now I'm considering a few possibilities and may be reaching for this tried-and-true classic.
5. Ramp Up to an Authentic Ending. Most stories end showing some form of character growth for the protagonist. Don't let your character go from a to z without showing us a little c and h, some n, and a touch of q and v along the way. Make it possible for your character to change the way you need for him to through these micro steps. Change is hard. (Anyone who is forced to throw away perfectly good rum balls just because the doctor said it would be a good idea can attest to this.) Make your characters' changes believable by showing critical points throughout the journey.
6. Strike Gold in Underdeveloped Mines. I'm taking a page out of Peter Jackson's book and looking for areas in the story that can become scene expanders. For example, in Fellowship of the Ring, Jackson decided to create a huge tension-filled scene as the main characters try to escape orcs and worse. Though the screenplay never read more than something simple like, "characters rush to bridge to escape balrog," Jackson added crumbling grounds in the too-deep mine, asked the characters to make life-risking leaps over an abyss, added arrow fire and even a teetering stair for one of the most edge-of-seat scenes in the flick. What a smart guy.
7. Mess with Point of View. Writing a scene from within another character's head can be a great exercise in discovery. Suddenly your protagonist looks very different and you see room for new conflict or surprises. I have some fun possibilities in mind with this idea.
9. Twist it up. Every story needs surprises. What doesn't your protagonist know that you can surprise the reader with at this point? Maybe there's a skeleton in her closet that you haven't invented yet. Heehee.
10. Respect the Good Fat. Though I may trim some of my "heavy" emotional storyline down, I'm not going to do liposuction on it. After all, just as in life, not all fat is bad and some is downright essential for good (story) health. Which is why I refuse to part with my leftover Peppermint Bark. Humph.
Good luck to all fighting back sagging middles in the New Year. Write on!
These are very good ideas and are coming at a good time for me. I just discovered I needed another antagonist so I could build enough conflict to get through the dreaded middle crater. I hope this'll open up the story more. That's the theory, anyway. Good luck with your own flabby middle!
ok, you're making me think here!!!!


Dule Hill is returning to USA Network.
The Psych grad has joined the cast of the NBCUniversal-owned cable network's Suits, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Hill, who will be in a season-long arc, will join Suits starting in season seven. He will play Alex Williams, a longtime friend of Harvey's (Gabriel Macht), who is currently a senior partner at rival law firm Bratton Gould, where he maintains an enviable roster of clients.
Season seven of Suits, which returns July 12, will see Mike (Patrick J. Adams) officially recognized as a lawyer, having accepted Harvey's offer to return to the firm. The team at Pearson Specter Litt is now back together, with everyone adjusting to a new world order without Jessica (Gina Torres).
Suits brings Hill back to USA following his eight-season leading role as Gus on Psych. His credits include The West Wing, CBS' short-lived Doubt, the upcoming third season of HBO's Ballers and the J.D. Dillard film Sleight, which bows Friday. Hill is repped by ICM Partners, Washington Square Films and Fuller Law.


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THE crew of the ECHO-sponsored entry in the Round the World Yacht Race are hoping for a presidential welcome when they arrive in Cuba.
Steve Sandison, 43, from Kirkby, has written to the country's communist leader, Fidel Castro, asking him to meet the Liverpool Clipper.
And he is confident of success.
Steve, who is taking part in the first leg of the race from Liverpool to Cuba, said: "I wrote to him before I left asking if he would come and meet us.
"I thought it would be great to be able to say that we were greeted by Fidel, not many people can say that."
The Liverpool Clipper, in sixth place, is expected to arrive in Havana on December 5 after spending almost a month crossing the Atlantic.
Boats representing eight international cities, including Liverpool, Hong Kong, Cape Town and New York, set sail from Liverpool on Monday, October 28, on the world's longest yacht race.
Merseyside PoliceRoads closed by emergency services after crash between car and motorbikePolice, ambulance and fire crews were all spotted at the scene
EastEndersBBC EastEnders fans brand storyline 'ridiculous' and 'dangerous''Do me a favour!'
Liverpool International Music FestivalHow the community of Lark Lane is preparing for the city's biggest music festivalLiverpool International Music Festival is in its seventh year


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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert Kiyosaki
In Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, Robert Kiyosaki tells the story about what he learnt about money from his two dads; one 'rich', the other 'poor', and how each shaped his thinking about financial wealth and freedom.
Main Takeaways
(1) Financial education is necessary for navigating the 'money game' and being able to experience financial freedom. We need to take personal responsibility for developing our financial literacy, as it's not typically taught in mainstream education.
(2) Those who are financially wealthy have learnt how to make money work for them, rather than working for money. Through financial education they also understand that wealth comes from not just making money, but in knowing how to keep it for as long as possible.
(3) In order to make enough money to experience financial freedom (having enough wealth that work becomes optional) we need to develop three management skills; management of cash flow, management of systems, and management of people.
(4) There's a big difference between assets (anything that generates money or increases in value over time) and liabilities (anything that takes money out of your account). But though big, it's not always obvious. This is made clear by the fact that rich people acquire assets, while others tend to spend money on liabilities they think are assets.
(5) Despite gaining financial education, it's still possible for people to fail at developing a healthy asset column. This is typically due to fear, cynicism, laziness, bad habits, or arrogance. That being the said, the single and most powerful asset we have is our mind, which is where investing in our education is key.
Favorite Quote(s)
"A person can be highly educated, professionally successful, and financially illiterate."
"The best thing about money is that it works 24-hours a day and can work for generations."
"Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself."
"Most people don't understand why they struggle financially because they don't understand cash flow."
"Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth."
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