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Q: Exclude all files from folder for plato metric I'm deploy my webapp at a windows maschine (non POSIX command line) and I'm generating JS metric with Plato.
My Question is how can I exclude all files from a given folder that contains subfolders via regular expressions with plato.js.
I tried this command for excluding all minified JS Libs:
$ plato -x "^js[a-zA-Z0-9-.\/]*.?js" -r -d report src/app/

All JS files of src/app/js/**/*.js are not excluded.
I test my regex with rubular: http://rubular.com/r/zbTsv1nIWY (fix underscore issue is optional)
Can somebody help me please?

A: Remember to escape (.) because you want to match it literally.
i dunno why have you left out the _ (underscore) but an optional solution can be something like this :
^js\/(.*)\.js$

folder name starting with js and file name ending with .js
and as you are saying another solution can be to just include the _
^js[a-zA-Z0-9-\.\/_]*.?js

demo here : http://rubular.com/r/DPqnxtDB6E

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package com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec;

import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.graphics.Point;
import android.media.MediaCodec;
import android.media.MediaCodecInfo.AudioCapabilities;
import android.media.MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities;
import android.media.MediaCodecInfo.CodecProfileLevel;
import android.media.MediaCodecInfo.VideoCapabilities;
import android.util.Log;
import android.util.Pair;
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.Format;
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.Assertions;
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.MimeTypes;
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.Util;

/**
 * Information about a {@link MediaCodec} for a given mime type.
 */
@TargetApi(16)
public final class MediaCodecInfo {

  public static final String TAG = "MediaCodecInfo";

  /**
   * The name of the decoder.
   *

   * May be passed to {@link MediaCodec#createByCodecName(String)} to create an instance of the
   * decoder.
   */
  public final String name;

  /**
   * Whether the decoder supports seamless resolution switches.
   *
   * @see CodecCapabilities#isFeatureSupported(String)
   * @see CodecCapabilities#FEATURE_AdaptivePlayback
   */
  public final boolean adaptive;

  /**
   * Whether the decoder supports tunneling.
   *
   * @see CodecCapabilities#isFeatureSupported(String)
   * @see CodecCapabilities#FEATURE_TunneledPlayback
   */
  public final boolean tunneling;

  /**
   * Whether the decoder is secure.
   *
   * @see CodecCapabilities#isFeatureSupported(String)
   * @see CodecCapabilities#FEATURE_SecurePlayback
   */
  public final boolean secure;

  private final String mimeType;
  private final CodecCapabilities capabilities;

  /**
   * Creates an instance representing an audio passthrough decoder.
   *
   * @param name The name of the {@link MediaCodec}.
   * @return The created instance.
   */
  public static MediaCodecInfo newPassthroughInstance(String name) {
    return new MediaCodecInfo(name, null, null, false, false);
  }

  /**
   * Creates an instance.
   *
   * @param name The name of the {@link MediaCodec}.
   * @param mimeType A mime type supported by the {@link MediaCodec}.
   * @param capabilities The capabilities of the {@link MediaCodec} for the specified mime type.
   * @return The created instance.
   */
  public static MediaCodecInfo newInstance(String name, String mimeType,
      CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return new MediaCodecInfo(name, mimeType, capabilities, false, false);
  }

  /**
   * Creates an instance.
   *
   * @param name The name of the {@link MediaCodec}.
   * @param mimeType A mime type supported by the {@link MediaCodec}.
   * @param capabilities The capabilities of the {@link MediaCodec} for the specified mime type.
   * @param forceDisableAdaptive Whether {@link #adaptive} should be forced to {@code false}.
   * @param forceSecure Whether {@link #secure} should be forced to {@code true}.
   * @return The created instance.
   */
  public static MediaCodecInfo newInstance(String name, String mimeType,
      CodecCapabilities capabilities, boolean forceDisableAdaptive, boolean forceSecure) {
    return new MediaCodecInfo(name, mimeType, capabilities, forceDisableAdaptive, forceSecure);
  }

  private MediaCodecInfo(String name, String mimeType, CodecCapabilities capabilities,
      boolean forceDisableAdaptive, boolean forceSecure) {
    this.name = Assertions.checkNotNull(name);
    this.mimeType = mimeType;
    this.capabilities = capabilities;
    adaptive = !forceDisableAdaptive && capabilities != null && isAdaptive(capabilities);
    tunneling = capabilities != null && isTunneling(capabilities);
    secure = forceSecure || (capabilities != null && isSecure(capabilities));
  }

  /**
   * The profile levels supported by the decoder.
   *
   * @return The profile levels supported by the decoder.
   */
  public CodecProfileLevel[] getProfileLevels() {
    return capabilities == null || capabilities.profileLevels == null ? new CodecProfileLevel[0]
        : capabilities.profileLevels;
  }

  /**
   * Whether the decoder supports the given {@code codec}. If there is insufficient information to
   * decide, returns true.
   *
   * @param codec Codec string as defined in RFC 6381.
   * @return True if the given codec is supported by the decoder.
   */
  public boolean isCodecSupported(String codec) {
    if (codec == null || mimeType == null) {
      return true;
    }
    String codecMimeType = MimeTypes.getMediaMimeType(codec);
    if (codecMimeType == null) {
      return true;
    }
    if (!mimeType.equals(codecMimeType)) {
      logNoSupport("codec.mime " + codec + ", " + codecMimeType);
      return false;
    }
    Pair<Integer, Integer> codecProfileAndLevel = MediaCodecUtil.getCodecProfileAndLevel(codec);
    if (codecProfileAndLevel == null) {
      // If we don't know any better, we assume that the profile and level are supported.
      return true;
    }
    for (CodecProfileLevel capabilities : getProfileLevels()) {
      if (capabilities.profile == codecProfileAndLevel.first
          && capabilities.level >= codecProfileAndLevel.second) {
        return true;
      }
    }
    logNoSupport("codec.profileLevel, " + codec + ", " + codecMimeType);
    return false;
  }

  /**
   * Whether the decoder supports video with a given width, height and frame rate.
   *

   * Must not be called if the device SDK version is less than 21.
   *
   * @param width Width in pixels.
   * @param height Height in pixels.
   * @param frameRate Optional frame rate in frames per second. Ignored if set to
   *     {@link Format#NO_VALUE} or any value less than or equal to 0.
   * @return Whether the decoder supports video with the given width, height and frame rate.
   */
  @TargetApi(21)
  public boolean isVideoSizeAndRateSupportedV21(int width, int height, double frameRate) {
    if (capabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("sizeAndRate.caps");
      return false;
    }
    VideoCapabilities videoCapabilities = capabilities.getVideoCapabilities();
    if (videoCapabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("sizeAndRate.vCaps");
      return false;
    }
    if (!areSizeAndRateSupportedV21(videoCapabilities, width, height, frameRate)) {
      // Capabilities are known to be inaccurately reported for vertical resolutions on some devices
      // (b/31387661). If the video is vertical and the capabilities indicate support if the width
      // and height are swapped, we assume that the vertical resolution is also supported.
      if (width >= height
          || !areSizeAndRateSupportedV21(videoCapabilities, height, width, frameRate)) {
        logNoSupport("sizeAndRate.support, " + width + "x" + height + "x" + frameRate);
        return false;
      }
      logAssumedSupport("sizeAndRate.rotated, " + width + "x" + height + "x" + frameRate);
    }
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the smallest video size greater than or equal to a specified size that also satisfies
   * the {@link MediaCodec}'s width and height alignment requirements.
   *

   * Must not be called if the device SDK version is less than 21.
   *
   * @param width Width in pixels.
   * @param height Height in pixels.
   * @return The smallest video size greater than or equal to the specified size that also satisfies
   *     the {@link MediaCodec}'s width and height alignment requirements, or null if not a video
   *     codec.
   */
  @TargetApi(21)
  public Point alignVideoSizeV21(int width, int height) {
    if (capabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("align.caps");
      return null;
    }
    VideoCapabilities videoCapabilities = capabilities.getVideoCapabilities();
    if (videoCapabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("align.vCaps");
      return null;
    }
    int widthAlignment = videoCapabilities.getWidthAlignment();
    int heightAlignment = videoCapabilities.getHeightAlignment();
    return new Point(Util.ceilDivide(width, widthAlignment) * widthAlignment,
        Util.ceilDivide(height, heightAlignment) * heightAlignment);
  }

  /**
   * Whether the decoder supports audio with a given sample rate.
   *

   * Must not be called if the device SDK version is less than 21.
   *
   * @param sampleRate The sample rate in Hz.
   * @return Whether the decoder supports audio with the given sample rate.
   */
  @TargetApi(21)
  public boolean isAudioSampleRateSupportedV21(int sampleRate) {
    if (capabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("sampleRate.caps");
      return false;
    }
    AudioCapabilities audioCapabilities = capabilities.getAudioCapabilities();
    if (audioCapabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("sampleRate.aCaps");
      return false;
    }
    if (!audioCapabilities.isSampleRateSupported(sampleRate)) {
      logNoSupport("sampleRate.support, " + sampleRate);
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Whether the decoder supports audio with a given channel count.
   *

   * Must not be called if the device SDK version is less than 21.
   *
   * @param channelCount The channel count.
   * @return Whether the decoder supports audio with the given channel count.
   */
  @TargetApi(21)
  public boolean isAudioChannelCountSupportedV21(int channelCount) {
    if (capabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("channelCount.caps");
      return false;
    }
    AudioCapabilities audioCapabilities = capabilities.getAudioCapabilities();
    if (audioCapabilities == null) {
      logNoSupport("channelCount.aCaps");
      return false;
    }
    int maxInputChannelCount = adjustMaxInputChannelCount(name, mimeType,
        audioCapabilities.getMaxInputChannelCount());
    if (maxInputChannelCount < channelCount) {
      logNoSupport("channelCount.support, " + channelCount);
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  private void logNoSupport(String message) {
    Log.d(TAG, "NoSupport [" + message + "] [" + name + ", " + mimeType + "] ["
        + Util.DEVICE_DEBUG_INFO + "]");
  }

  private void logAssumedSupport(String message) {
    Log.d(TAG, "AssumedSupport [" + message + "] [" + name + ", " + mimeType + "] ["
        + Util.DEVICE_DEBUG_INFO + "]");
  }

  private static int adjustMaxInputChannelCount(String name, String mimeType, int maxChannelCount) {
    if (maxChannelCount > 1 || (Util.SDK_INT >= 26 && maxChannelCount > 0)) {
      // The maximum channel count looks like it's been set correctly.
      return maxChannelCount;
    }
    if (MimeTypes.AUDIO_MPEG.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_AMR_NB.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_AMR_WB.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_AAC.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_VORBIS.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_OPUS.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_RAW.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_FLAC.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_ALAW.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_MLAW.equals(mimeType)
        || MimeTypes.AUDIO_MSGSM.equals(mimeType)) {
      // Platform code should have set a default.
      return maxChannelCount;
    }
    // The maximum channel count looks incorrect. Adjust it to an assumed default.
    int assumedMaxChannelCount;
    if (MimeTypes.AUDIO_AC3.equals(mimeType)) {
      assumedMaxChannelCount = 6;
    } else if (MimeTypes.AUDIO_E_AC3.equals(mimeType)) {
      assumedMaxChannelCount = 16;
    } else {
      // Default to the platform limit, which is 30.
      assumedMaxChannelCount = 30;
    }
    Log.w(TAG, "AssumedMaxChannelAdjustment: " + name + ", [" + maxChannelCount + " to "
        + assumedMaxChannelCount + "]");
    return assumedMaxChannelCount;
  }

  private static boolean isAdaptive(CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return Util.SDK_INT >= 19 && isAdaptiveV19(capabilities);
  }

  @TargetApi(19)
  private static boolean isAdaptiveV19(CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return capabilities.isFeatureSupported(CodecCapabilities.FEATURE_AdaptivePlayback);
  }

  private static boolean isTunneling(CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return Util.SDK_INT >= 21 && isTunnelingV21(capabilities);
  }

  @TargetApi(21)
  private static boolean isTunnelingV21(CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return capabilities.isFeatureSupported(CodecCapabilities.FEATURE_TunneledPlayback);
  }

  private static boolean isSecure(CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return Util.SDK_INT >= 21 && isSecureV21(capabilities);
  }

  @TargetApi(21)
  private static boolean isSecureV21(CodecCapabilities capabilities) {
    return capabilities.isFeatureSupported(CodecCapabilities.FEATURE_SecurePlayback);
  }

  @TargetApi(21)
  private static boolean areSizeAndRateSupportedV21(VideoCapabilities capabilities, int width,
      int height, double frameRate) {
    return frameRate == Format.NO_VALUE || frameRate <= 0
        ? capabilities.isSizeSupported(width, height)
        : capabilities.areSizeAndRateSupported(width, height, frameRate);
  }

}

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Unclassified Documents Show Obama Intel Agency Secretly Spied On Americans For Years
Authored by John Solomon and Sara Carter via Circa.com,
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.
More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA's so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.
The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump was elected less than two weeks later.
The normally supportive court censured administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an "institutional lack of candor" and that the improper searches constituted a "very serious Fourth Amendment issue," according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26, 2017.
The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans.
Circa has reported that there was a three-fold increase in NSA data searches about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person's identities in intelligence reports after Obama loosened the privacy rules in 2011.
Officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice have argued their activities were legal under the so-called minimization rule changes Obama made, and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses.
The intelligence court and the NSA's own internal watchdog found that not to be true.
"Since 2011, NSA's minimization procedures have prohibited use of U.S.-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collections under Section 702," the unsealed court ruling declared. "The Oct. 26, 2016 notice informed the court that NSA analysts had been conducting such queries inviolation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed to the Court."
Speaking Wednesday on Fox News, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said there was an apparent effort under the Obama Administration to increase the number of unmaskings of Americans.
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The NSA acknowledged it self-disclosed the mass violations to the court last fall and that in April it took the extraordinary step of suspending the type of searches that were violating the rules, even deleting prior collected data on Americans to avoid any further violations.
"NSA will no longer collect certain internet communications that merely mention a foreign intelligence target," the agency said in the statement that was dated April 28 and placed on its Web site without capturing much media or congressional attention.
In question is the collection of what is known as upstream "about data"about an American that is collected even though they were not directly in contact with a foreigner that the NSA was legally allowed to intercept.
The NSA said it doesn't have the ability to stop collecting 'about' information on Americans, "without losing some other important data. " It, however, said it would stop the practice to "reduce the chance that it would acquire communication of U.S. persons or others who are not in direct contact with a foreign intelligence target."
The NSA said it also plans to "delete the vast majority of its upstream internet data to further protect the privacy of U.S. person communications."
Agency officials called the violations "inadvertent compliance lapses." But the court and IG documents suggest the NSA had not developed a technological way to comply with the rules they had submitted to the court in 2011.
Officials "explained that NSA query compliance is largely maintained through a series of manual checks" and had not "included the proper limiters" to prevent unlawful searches, the NSA internal watchdog reported in a top secret report in January that was just declassified. A new system is being developed now, officials said.
The NSA conducts thousand of searches a year on data involving Americans and the actual numbers of violations were redacted from the documents Circa reviewed.
But a chart in the report showed there three types of violations, the most frequent being 5.2 percent of the time when NSA Section 702 upstream data on U.S. persons was searched.
The inspector general also found noncompliance between 0.7 percent and 1.4 percent of the time involving NSA activities in which there was a court order to target an American for spying but the rules were still not followed. Those activities are known as Section 704 and Section 705 spying.
Review | The NSA inspector general's highly redacted chart showing privacy violations.
The IG report spared few words for the NSA's efforts before the disclosure to ensure it was complying with practices, some that date to rules issued in 2008 in the final days of the Bush administration and others that Obama put into effect in 2011.
"We found that the Agency controls for monitoring query compliance have not been completely developed," the inspector general reported, citing problems ranging from missing requirements for documentation to the failure to complete controls that would ensure "query compliance."
The NSA's Signal Intelligence Directorate, the nation's main foreign surveillance arm, wrote a letter back to the IG saying it agreed with the findings and that "corrective action plans" are in the works.


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Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said "This happened in a darkened area of the airport. We are going to take a harder look at the lighting in the areas where this happened."
At the time, the two aircraft were in a hangar in a secure part of the airport. This makes the second time in past two years that graffiti taggers have tagged aircraft at this airport. Back on July 7, 2013, graffiti taggers tagged the words "R.I.P." and "Flame" on the fuselage and tail of a Learjet between 2 and 2:25 AM. Police believed at the time, the tagging was gang-related. No one has been arrested for this crime.
Officials report this recent tagging included symbols, names and nickname. The three jets were tagged on their fuselages, tail wings and wheel flaps with URA, 872, URAF, MarkB and GLOK$. Preliminary damage estimates in the tens of thousands of dollars.
The police were quick to blame the lack of police staffing at the airport as the problem. However, both incidents had to due with a lack of security cameras in that part of the airport. The Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association (LAAPOA) which represents the police officers and firefighters of the Los Angeles Airport Police Department in a press released said the lack of police presence at airport perimeters has exposed vulnerabilities in security..... had a regular police patrol been in the vicinity, the suspects could have been stopped before they entered airport property".


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Victor Elliot Powell is a professional photographer with 38 plus years of photographing notables such as the Barack and Michelle Obama, Harold Washington, George and Barbara Bush, and the last five Presidents of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Incorporated., just to name a few. His stellar photographic career of working with many top corporations and covering major events make him a well know name in the photography community. Adding transformational author to his list of accomplishments may seem to be a departure from his core area of expertise, but is an extension of what he shares that enable him to produce great photographic results. In his younger years, Victor was pretty shy and spent much of his time people watching. Little did he know that those years of people watching gave him keen insights into people beyond the superficial. This insight and understanding provide the perspective that he uses in his photography. He photographs his subject in a way that brings their inner selves (their Being) to the surface. Victor's, "Anybody can get what you look like. We capture what you feel like." approach, created portraits that were the best reflections of his clients. Seeing the responses from his subject as he shared his newfound passion for Being during his sessions was the beginning of his realization that this concept and his story mattered and needed to be out in the world. As the son of a lawyer, Victor mirrored his father's way of thinking becoming very mind driven, needing to know the why of everything before proceeding on a task. His journey from paralysis-by-analysis thinking, to walking a path of infinite possibilities was a major departure from that mind set. This sent him on the quest to find the awaken state where he discovered the joy of being. After hitting the wall of," There must be more than this", Victor began a journey that thrust him to a reality that exist so far beyond his mind, that he had to abandon everything he thought he knew to take the trip. Taking the first step was the easiest and the hardest at the same time. Easy because there was really nothing to be done but decide to step. And hard because in a mind controlled existence, moving into the unknown is almost impossible. For Victor, learning to trust a knowing beyond thought was his most important task and the key to all of the unfolding that would follow. Each next step seemed to happen, just as it should, with all of the supporting elements appearing right on time. The next book, person, or ah ha moment appeared as if they were following a predefine procedure or script. Victor soon learned, that his belief in his journey was the fueling source (writing the script) that brought him what he needed when he needed. (Even though he did not know that at that time) Victor's journey moved even faster once he released the last bit of mind control. At that point, his mind became a willing partner in this process and created the harmony of mind, body spirit. Everything was now in place to move him into the infinite possibilities of life where he journeyed from nowhere to now here. Victor now lives a life of Just Being as his driving force. He seeks only that which shows up through the process of being open to the infinite possibilities of life. He shares this through his work, life, and deeds, as a living example of Being in action and expression. Just Be… is a motivational guidebook and possibility facilitation tool that takes you on a journey of discovering that everything you think you need, you already have. Being is a journey not a destination, so Victor lives that belief to the fullest. Though the pages he shares his experience to help you to find that sense of Being that lies passive within you. Once found, it becomes your next life experience and the beginning steps of your journey to discover the joys of living life through the process of Just Being.


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Pixie Lott facts for kids
Victoria Louise Lott
12 January 1991 (1991-01-12) (age 28)
Bromley, London, England
Pop, electropop, dance-pop, R&B, soul
Singer-songwriter, actress, dancer
Vocals, piano
Mercury, Interscope
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Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott (born 12 January 1991) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her first single "Mama Do" was released in June 2009. It went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single "Boys and Girls", also went to the top of the UK charts in September 2009. Her first album Turn It Up was released in September 2009. It reached number six on the UK Albums Chart. The album had Top 20 singles. Over a million copies of the album were sold. Her second album, Young Foolish Happy, was released on 14 November 2011. "All About Tonight", the first single from that album, entered the charts at number one on 17 September 2011. It later became her third UK number one hit.
Many good things are said about her live performances and style. In July 2010, Lott was a guest judge for the auditions for the seventh series of The X Factor in Cardiff. She replaced Dannii Minogue, who was on maternity leave.
Lott released "Boys and Girls" as her first US single on 24 August 2010. The release happened at the same time as her first movie, Fred: The Movie was shown on television. In January 2010, Lott was named one of 2010's "Faces to Watch" by the American magazine, Billboard.
Early and personal life
2008–09: Early career
2009–10: Turn It Up
2011–present: Young Foolish Happy
Pixie was born in Bromley. She lived in Petts Wood and then Bickley. All three are suburban areas of south-east London. Her mother gave her the nickname "Pixie" because she was born "such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy". She started singing in her church school and when she was five she went to the Italia Conti Associates Saturday school in Chislehurst. She later went to the main school – Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts – at 11. While there, she was got a scholarship. At the age of 13, Lott moved with her family to Brentwood. During her time as a student she was in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, and in BBC One's Celebrate the Sound of Music in 2005, aged 14, as Louisa von Trapp. At the age of 14, she was part of the chorus on Roger Waters's opera Ça Ira. Lott did not go to school much during this time because she was making her album but says she got straight 'A' grades in her GCSEs.
She was voted No. 45 in 2010 and No. 31 in 2011 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women list.
She says Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston had large effects on her style of singing.
In 2006, at the age of 15, she sang for L. A. Reid. He then signed her to the Island Def Jam Music Group. After a change of managers many different record labels wanted her to sing for them. Lott left the Island Def Jam Music Group. She began working with Mercury Records in the UK and Interscope Records in the U.S. She formed a publishing deal, as a songwriter, with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in December 2007. This was as the same time that she was writing and recording tracks for Turn It Up.
Lott played her first festival concert in the Big Top at the Isle of Wight Festival 2009. This took place during her first full British tour. She was on tour to support The Saturdays on The Work Tour.
Pixie Lott performing at the launch of Blackpool Illuminations in Blackpool, Lancashire on 4 September 2009
Lottt released her first single, "Mama Do", on 8 June 2009. The video was directed by Trudy Bellinger. It was released to MySpace. The video had over three million views on YouTube. It entered both the iTunes chart and UK Singles Chart at number one. The song had over 50,000 sales when it entered the charts. Lott said she was shocked at how well the single did. The song was also recorded in Simlish for Electronic Arts' The Sims 3. It spent one week at number one. The song was in the top fouty for eleven weeks and spent eighteen weeks in the top seventy five. The single also did well outside the UK. It was in the top forty in eleven other countries. It was number eight in Denmark and number ten in France. The single was hit "silver" by the British Phonographic Industry on 28 August 2009 after it sold over 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom. On 15 August 2009, Lott performed at Asia's very first MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia concert. Other groups at that concert included Hoobastank, The All-American Rejects, Kasabian, Boys Like Girls, Estranged and Raygun. Lott's second single "Boys and Girls" was released on 6 September 2009. It became No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 13 September 2009. During the week that it became number one, the single sold just under 50,000 copies. It spent nineteen weeks in the top seventy-five and eight weeks in the top forty. The music video for the song was directed by Diane Martel. The song was released was also released as her first single in the United States.
Lott's third single from the album was "Cry Me Out". It was released on 23 November 2009. The music video was directed by Jake Nava. He had also directed videos for Beyoncé, Leona Lewis and Shakira. The video was made in Cuba. The fourth single, "Gravity", was released on 8 March 2010. Its video had already been shown on Channel 4 on 6 February 2010. Lott won two MTV EMA Awards for "Best UK & Ireland Act" and "Best Push Artist" (best break through artist). Lott won a Cosmopolitan 2009 Ultimate Women Award for Ultimate Newcomer. In 2009, Lott won The Caron Keating Breakthrough Talent Award at The Variety Club Awards.
"The Way The World Works", from Lott's first record was used in the U.S. medical drama Private Practice. Lott was chosen as the face of Nokia's "Illuvial Pink Collection" mobile phone. Lott was nominated for British Breakthrough Act, British Female Solo Artist and British Single at the 2010 BRIT Awards. She was also the opening act of Rihanna's Last Girl on Earth Tour in the UK 7–26 May 2010. Lott also performed at the V Festival in August 2010.
The fifth single from Lott's album, "Turn It Up", was released on 7 June 2010. Lott recorded a song for the movie Street Dance 3D. The song was "Live For The Moment". It was also on the soundtrack for the movie. On 23 May 2010, Lott performed at the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Bangor, North Wales. On 4 July 2010 she performed at T4 on the Beach in Weston-super-Mare.
Lott has written a song for Alexandra Burke's first album, Overcome. The song is "You Broke My Heart". She also wrote a song for Girls Can't Catch named "Happy Alone". This song was a free Christmas download on their website. She also has written two tracks on Lisa Lois's album. Lois was the Dutch X Factor's winner. These two songs were "No Good For Me" and "Promises, Promises". They where the first and second singles from that album.
Lott was cast as Judy, Fred Figglehorn's love interest, in the movie Fred: The Movie. The comedy was released on America's Nickelodeon network on the 18 September 2010.
Lott's second album, Young Foolish Happy was to be released on 7 November 2011. It was actually released on 14 November 2011. On 17 September, Lott said that the album would have collaborations with Stevie Wonder and John Legend. The first single from the album, "All About Tonight", was played on BBC Radio 1's The Chris Moyles Show on 11 July 2011. The single was released on 4 September. It started at number . This was her third UK number 1 single. The second single was "What Do You Take Me For?". The rapper Pusha T also performed on this single. Its music video was first shown on 6 October 2011. The single could be downloaded on 4 November 2011.
Lott was a contestant in the 2014 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
2010 Fred: The Movie Judy First acting role
2009 MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 Best UK & Ireland Act Won
Best New Act Nominated
Best Push Artist Won
The Variety Club Awards Breakthrough Talent Award Won
Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women 2009 Ultimate Newcomer Won
Q Awards 2009 Breakthrough Artist Nominated
MP3 Music Awards 2009 Best New Act Won
Virgin Media Music Awards Best Newcomer Won
UK Festival Awards 2010 Festival Fitty of the year – Girls Nominated
2010 BRIT Awards Breakthrough Artist Nominated
Female Solo Artist Nominated
British Single ("Mama Do Uh Oh") Nominated
Meteor Ireland Music Awards Best International Female Nominated
BT Digital Music Awards Best Female Artist Nominated
Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2010 Sheer Infusion Newcomer Nominated
NME Awards 2010 Hottest Woman Nominated
2011 Virgin Media Music Awards Hottest Female Won
2012 BRIT Awards British Single ("All About Tonight") Nominated
Turn It Up (2009)
Young Foolish Happy (2011)
2010 – The Crazycats Tour
2010 – Rihanna – Last Girl on Earth Tour (UK Dates)
2009 – The Saturdays – The Work Tour (Selected Dates)
Lott performing "All About Tonight" at Hanley Park Festival in Stoke-on-Trent, England.
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You Can Thank This Hedge Fund Manager When Your Kid Gets Measles
Bess Levin
"Treason": Why A.G. Sulzberger Took on Trump in the Wall Street Journal
E. Jean Carroll Accused the President of Sexual Assault—and the Media Didn't Seem to Care
Trump Walks Back China Tariffs, Woos Kim Jong Un at Whirlwind G20
Warren Report
How Silicon Valley Has Changed Hurricane Coverage
Evolving technology has revolutionized the way journalists report. (A version of this column originally appeared on Poynter.org.)
James Warren, Chief Media Writer, Poynter.org
In this NOAA handout image, the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captures this infrared image of Hurricane Harvey just prior to making landfall along the Texas coast.Photo by NOAA via Getty Images.
Long before CNN morphed into Trump TV, Jeff Flock was its most estimable and high-profile chronicler of natural, if not political disasters. There he was, the indefatigable and steady presence in a flapping nylon windbreaker or billowy parka, perhaps grasping a Florida cypress tree or North Carolina light pole for dear life.
So knock on wood that Flock, now a Chicago-based FOX Business Network stalwart, is thrown back into his old specialty that began with Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. For a cable junkie, it's like Floyd Mayweather coming out of retirement, albeit for a tragedy, not a farce. And for those searching to understand the changes in media coverage symbolized by Hurricane Harvey, he's a goldmine.
"Nasty flooding," said a man Sunday who knows about nasty flooding and is dispatched to Houston.
As for what we're now consuming from journalists, technology makes all the difference, he says. Small live packs, like the LiveU units he using at Fox, "enable you to move around and see what's really going on and transmit that in real-time. In old days we'd have to hunker down with a big satellite truck out of the wind. Usually that meant you were at a hotel and on a beach."
Now, as one can see, there's greater flexibility among journalists. The TV folks, especially, can move around Houston and report in ways they couldn't once upon a time in similar conditions.
"The other thing is that technology has essentially made a photographer/reporter out of the whole populace," said Flock, one of CNN's first reporters in 1980. "We now get as many compelling pictures out of the general public as we do from professional journalists (that pic of elderly folks in a nursing home in waist deep water is pretty amazing, for example)."
It's that transformation (which can also bring unedited chaos) that, Flock said, may well make it far easier to understand how bad the situation is than was the case in the early days of 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Or with 1988's Gilbert, then the most powerful hurricane recorded in the Atlantic basin, replete with 185-mile per hour winds.
Remember, he notes, that it actually took a while before Katrina's true scope was perceived ("You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie," President George W. Bush said famously to FEMA administrator Michael Brown). "It will be harder to be slow on the uptake with this one," Flock said.
So it was no surprise that Harvey was above-the-fold front-page news throughout Texas. (Poynter) "State of Destruction" was the succinct banner of the Houston Chronicle. A Houston independent journalist's weather website was a must-read for many (Poynter); the Weather Channel warned of catastrophic flooding to persist (Weather Channel); and the power of old-fashioned still-images remained powerful in one long montage. (Texas Monthly)
There were appropriate first-person tales of journalists themselves, such as that of New York Times reporter Clifford Krauss ("the home that I saved my entire career to buy is flooding fast…"). And there were numerous references to the Houston TV reporters who continued their coverage despite the need to abandon their stations. (Poynter)
The three most prominent national newspapers — The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal — ditched their paywalls so readers could consume their coverage for free. Amid its strong coverage, the Houston Chronicle made its eNewspaper available for those with print delivery issues since Harvey, it noted, "may result in hazardous road conditions causing a delay to delivery of newspapers."
But one was also reminded that there were other things going on in the world and that the news-making decisions of many outlets were different than the cable news channels and national papers such as The New York Times and Washington Post. As usual now, cable news largely focused on the one story (though MSNBC returned to its normal Sunday night features fare via a two-hour documentary on the late Princess Diana).
By and large, it was the proportionality of their hurricane coverage that was strikingly different. They didn't discount its importance; they merely reflected other concerns of their consumers, who aren't all glued to cable news, especially during the waning days of summer, as I was also reminded anecdotally at a neighborhood block party in Chicago.
By late Sunday afternoon, the Miami Herald was giving far greater play to local baseball star Giancarlo Stanton hitting his 50th home run. (Miami Herald) The hurricane coverage at that moment was merely the 16th story on its site, reporting an elite squad from Florida heading to help. Such local angles drove the Detroit Free Press' "Hurricane Harvey, Houston floods hit home for Lions' Glover Quin," a story about a football player's response to events back home. (Free Press)
KPIX, the CBS station in San Francisco, led with several thousand marching in Berkeley in a "March Against Hate." Curiously, it was the same with the The Oregonian.
Most prominently featured in late afternoon on The Arizona Republic site was a tale on Labor Day weekend getaways in Arizona.
Watching early television Monday in Chicago, the disjoint was manifested in local television outlets whose total local audience far outpaces the three major news channels (just one show, the WGN Morning News, beats them all easily).
CNN, Fox and MSNBC were dominated by either Harvey or Trump coverage (Morning Joe went heavy on the Friday-night "news dump" of Trump signing a transgender military ban, pardoning the notorious former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and dumping combative aide Sebastian Gorka). CNN quickly made a big Harvey question all about — who else? — Trump ("Trump faces the natural disaster test") as historian Doug Brinkley was beckoned to speculate.
But the likes of WGN (Tribune, soon Sinclair), WLS (ABC), WMAQ (NBC) and WBBM (CBS) in Chicago included a far greater variety of mostly local stories, sports, traffic and weather. Harvey didn't come close to dominating coverage. If it's not of immediate personal concern, people are engaged with many other matters, especially as vacation season winds down.
And while Breitbart News, which has been one of President Donald Trump's favorite windows on the world, had a conspicuous tale on "Harvey havoc," the site back under the control of dismissed Trump aide Steve Bannon gave far bigger play to some seeming political score-settling:
"Projecting weakness: President Trump allows inner circle to publicly disparage him as globalists march."
Amid the destruction in Houston and elsewhere, it was a definition of the fake news reviled by Bannon and his onetime West Wing patron.
CBS upends Aussie media moguls
"U.S. media company CBS Corp. plans to acquire Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings Ltd, beating out a bid from Australian media moguls Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch for the company after it went into receivership." (The Wall Street Journal)
"The purchase marks a significant step for the U.S. company, which is expanding its international business by agreeing to new content licensing deals with foreign broadcasters and launching its own streaming services overseas." (The Financial Times)
Good local enterprise
The Chicago Sun-Times disclosed that one-third of the City of Chicago workforce earned more than $100,000 last year. (Sun-Times)
Thirty-six earned more than Mayor Rahm Emanuel's $216,210, including (my favorites) two undercover police sergeants who each earned more than $250,000.
What does Facebook hiring mean?
Facebook hired former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd to help manage how the giant can offer more "transparency" in its decision-making. (Recode)
Facebook still isn't producing content, with its media folks having two apparent tasks: Find even more media companies to provide actual content and to convince a larger world that it means well.
For the moment, as with the hiring of former TV reporter-anchor Campbell Brown, it's hard not to wonder if the Spayd move is by and large window dressing. But, perhaps, it turns out to be much more, at least somewhere down the road.
Help in figuring out data plans
If you're a normal human being, even with a graduate degree or two, you might still be forever confused by wireless pricing solicitations and plans. Check out USA Today's tech podcast where Jefferson Graham interviews colleague Robert Pegoraro when it comes to Verizon's new unlimited data plans.
What's the best plan for you to get? It depends on how much data one uses, with most people able to do just fine with five gigabytes. Pegoraro thinks that for the average user, Verizon can be a good deal but that the good deal is "really well-hidden" in its offerings and is way cheaper than its unlimited offering. Among unlettered plans, he's partial to T-Mobile.
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Duncan hears the news of the Thane of Cawdor's execution, of how he repented his crimes and died a noble death. When Macbeth and Banquo finally return, Duncan greets them as heroes and declares to Macbeth the reward for his deeds. He also announces that his son Malcolm shall be made heir to the throne, to which Macbeth notes that only Malcolm is in his way of the throne now. Plans are made for Duncan to dine at Macbeth's castle that night and goes ahead of everyone to inform his wife of the impending arrival of the king and what has transpired that day.


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How John A. Macdonald Helped the First Nations
Alberta, First Nations History, Politics, Saskatchewan / August 24, 2018 by Hammerson Peters / 3 Comments
On Saturday, August 11, 2018, the City of Victoria, British Columbia, removed a bronze statue of Canada's First Prime Minster, Sir John A. Macdonald, from the grounds outside City Hall. According to Victoria's Mayor Lisa Helps, the decision to remove the statue was part of the city's ongoing reconciliation program with the local Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. Sir John A. Macdonald, Helps explained, was one of the chief architects of Canada's residential school system- an institution which resulted in the suffering of members of various First Nations, including the Esquimalt and the Songhees.
A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Helps' decision to remove the statue has been roundly criticized by many who object to what they see as an attempt to erase Canadian history, and who maintain that it is irrational to judge figures from the past by today's moral standards. Supporters of the decision, on the other hand, argue that the injustices that Macdonald inflicted upon the First Nations outweigh the contributions that the Father of Canadian Confederation made towards the betterment of the nation he helped found, thus justifying the removal of statues erected in his honour.
Many supporters of the decision to remove the statue might be surprised to learn that John A. Macdonald, despite his flaws, helped to save many of Canada's First Nations from a terrible fate.
The Whisky Trade
A Blackfoot elder.
In the mid 1800's, the western Canadian plains were dominated by the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy, an alliance comprised of the Siksika, the Peigan, and the Kainai First Nations. The Blackfoot were a warlike people notorious for slaughtering trespassers who dared to venture into their territory. They were also great hunters who subsisted almost entirely upon the buffalo, which roamed the Great Plains in enormous herds.
In the 1840's, the American Fur Company (AFC), a major American fur trading enterprise which competed with Canada's Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), expanded into the Upper Missouri region on the border of Blackfoot territory. In 1846, they established a fur trading post called Fort Benton on the banks of the Missouri River in northern Montana, in the heart of South Peigan territory. They began to trade with the Blackfoot on whose lands they encroached, selling muskets, steel tools, and wool blankets in exchange for buffalo robes. In a few short years, Fort Benton rose to become the economic centre of the Great Plains.
Fort Benton, Montana, circa 1880.
Similar to the Hudson's Bay Company, one of the commodities that the AFC sold to its native customers was diluted liquor. Many of the South Peigan, as it turned out, had an enormous affinity for alcohol, and over time many of them were drawn into alcohol dependency. Cognisant of the negative effect that alcohol had upon their Blackfoot clients, the AFC was careful to limit its sale, but kept the commodity on its shelves in order to compete with the HBC.
By the 1860's, the fur trade was in decline, and in 1865, the AFC sold Fort Benton to the U.S. Army. Almost immediately, a number of small fur trading companies formed to fill the vacuum. Unfortunately, many of these smaller companies cared far less about the welfare of their Blackfoot customers than the larger company that they replaced. In an effort to compete with one another, they exploited the Blackfoot's proclivity for alcohol, selling enormous quantities of liquor to them without restraint. While the quantity of the alcohol these independent traders sold was greater than that of the AFC, its quality was often much worse. Instead of selling diluted rum or brandy, these traders peddled a cheap, dangerous concoction of American whiskey, red ink, turpentine, tobacco, and river water, sometimes supplemented with a dash of toxic strychnine.
The combination of dishonest business practices and a surfeit of whiskey bred the perfect environment for violent conflict, and in no time the whiskey traders and the Blackfoot were at each other's throats. The many bloody altercations between white frontiersmen and South Peigan warriors that characterized Montana in the 1860's were dubbed the "Blackfoot Wars".
Depiction of U.S. Cavalry, 1876
When a number of Montanan farmers were murdered by Blackfoot braves, the United States Army stepped in. Rather than resolve the conflict diplomatically, the U.S. Army decided to discipline the Blackfoot through violence. This heavy-handed approach was characteristic of the United States' relationship with unruly or uncooperative American Indians; that same decade, the U.S. Army had fought bitterly with the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux, and Apache Indians in what are collectively known today as the American Indian Wars. Ultimately, the U.S. Army's involvement in the Blackfoot conflict culminated in the Marias Massacre of 1870, in which a U.S. Cavalry squadron slaughtered a band of 200 friendly South Peigan, most of them women, children, and elderly men, on the banks of the Marias River.
In order to avoid conflict with the U.S. Army, many South Peigan bands fled north into British territory, where they knew the blue-coated "Long Knives", as they often called sabre-wearing U.S. Cavalrymen, would dare not follow. A handful of enterprising Montanan whiskey traders decided to follow their clients into Canada and establish trading posts across the border, in what is now Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Like their American precursors, the traffic of these so-called "whisky forts" had a devastating effect on the Blackfoot people, transforming a powerful Confederacy into a nation of starvelings and alcoholics who would do anything for a cup of firewater.
John A. Macdonald's Response
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister.
Following Canadian Confederation in 1867, John A. Macdonald endeavoured to make Canada a great nation stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In order to accomplish this, he knew that he would have to convince the Province of British Columbia to accept the terms of the Canadian Constitution, and in order to do that, he would have to connect British Columbia with the easterly Dominion of Canada via a massive transcontinental railroad. In order to build this railroad, the Dominion of Canada would need to own the land in between British Columbia and the Dominion- a vast, wild territory controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company, known for centuries as Rupert's Land (present-day Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories). In 1870, Macdonald's government, with the permission of the British Crown, purchased Rupert's Land and dubbed it the
North-West Territory.
When John A. Macdonald learned of the American whisky trade that was taking place in the North-West Territory, he knew he had to put a stop to it in order to assert Canada's sovereignty there. Throughout much of the 19th Century, the concept of Manifest Destiny- the idea that the United States was destined to expand across North America- had a strong influence on American foreign policy. The United States had acquired Louisiana from the French, Oregon from the British, Texas from the Mexicans, and Alaska from the Russians, and since the end of the American Civil War, had shown an interest in expanding the American Empire into Rupert's Land. If Canada failed to assert its authority on this western frontier, the North-West Territory would almost certainly fall into the hands of the United States.
Members of the North West Mounted Police on patrol.
The Prime Minister knew that the only way to achieve this end would be to dispatch a force of mounted riflemen to the North-West Territory to quell the whisky trade. This force could not be strictly martial in nature, however; these riflemen would also have to contend with the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy on whose land they would encroach, and unlike the Americans, the fledgling Dominion of Canada could not afford to wage wars against hostile Indians. It was clear to John A. Macdonald and his Cabinet that the only way to combat the whisky trade, come to a peaceful arrangement with the Blackfoot Confederacy, and ultimately bring law and order to the Canadian west, thus paving the way for a transcontinental railroad, was by dispatching a force of mounted policemen to the western prairies. And thus the concept of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) was born.
For several years, John A. Macdonald, who was notorious for his procrastination, delayed the formation of the NWMP, afraid that the Dominion of Canada was still unable to afford it. Finally, after receiving word of the Cypress Hills massacre, which saw scores of Canadian Assiniboine slaughtered at the hands of American wolfers, Macdonald authorized the formation of the North West Mounted Police.
The Early Accomplishments of the NWMP
In 1874, the North West Mounted Police rode from Manitoba to the southwestern edge of the North-West territories. There, through tact, courage, and candour, they brought an end to the whisky trade and established a good relationship with the local Blackfoot.
If it weren't for John A. Macdonald, the North West Mounted Police would likely never have formed, and what is now Alberta, Saskatchewan, and much of Manitoba would probably have fallen into the hands of the United States. One can only speculate as to the tremendous damage the whisky trade would have wrought upon the Blackfoot people had it not been suppressed by the NWMP, and on the atrocities that would have occurred had the blue-coated troopers of the American Cavalry dealt with the Peoples of the Canadian Plains instead of the red-coated Mounties.
Considering all this, does the Father of Canadian Confederation deserve a second chance in the eyes of Canadians? Or does he deserve to have his statues torn down? Let us know in the comments below.
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Okja's Steven Yeun and Giancarlo Esposito Gave Us Great Advice on How We Can Change the World
Here are some things they want us to remember, Candy Girls.
BY Ayessa De La Peña | Jun 22, 2017
IMAGE Chung Sung Jun/Getty Images for Netflix
The youth is, no doubt, the hope of the future. This is why we're happy that more and more teens are doing great things to have their voices heard, especially in these troubled times, and change the world little by little as a result, just like Malala Yousafzai and Joshua Wong. Those are just few faces of activism that we see in the news and in social media.
In the Netflix original movie Okja (we're going to tell you all about it later, we promise!), viewers are shown another face of activism we may or may not have seen before. This film is about Mija's (Ahn Seo Hyun) best friend Okja—a genetically modified creature meant to be raised for consumption—who's taken back to New York by the corporation that "made" her to be turned into meat products, like bacon, sausages, and jerky. The young girl, of course, goes on a quest to save her friend, meeting members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) on the way, and they vow to help her bring Okja back home to the mountains of South Korea.
It's both inspiring and scary to watch the ALF go on a rollercoaster adventure with Mija just to fight for what they believe in. There are even moments when they resort to extreme measures just to meet their goals. We know they could avoid getting violent, but we also know that there are just moments when you can't avoid it, especially when force is being exercised upon you.
Below: The Animal Liberation Front in Okja played by Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Daniel Henshall, and Devon Bostick.
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So during our roundtable interview with Okja actors Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) and Giancarlo Esposito (The Maze Runner: Death Cure), we just had to ask them about this face of activism shown in the movie along with the best way they think young people today can express their thoughts so they're heard by the right people.
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Steven, who played K in the film, emphasized how it's important to know what works for you because, nowadays, there are so many ways for us to express ourselves.
"There are so many ways to express [your thoughts]. I think, activism comes in many forms, too. I don't know how to comment specifically on the best way, but I think the best way is to do what's of you naturally. If that means you want to stand up, fight, and say the loudest version of what you believe, that's cool. If you want to be a little bit behind-the-scenes and say 'I want to express myself in this way,' then that's cool, too," he told us.
"I don't know how to comment specifically on the best way, but I think the best way is to do what's of you naturally." —Steven Yeun
But while doing so, he says, we have to remember one very important thing. "What we have to remember overall is that it is empathy that will save us. It is compassion that will save us, because it is the only thing that matters at the end of the day," Steven explained.
"Like what Tilda [Swinton] said, the expression of evil is truly a lack of empathy. And you do see evil in this place and time that you're living; it's because they can only see from their myopic point of view, so they just think, 'Why isn't anybody doing as well as I am?' Then they oppress [people], but [ultimately] I think it's very important that you do you."
"What we have to remember overall is that it is empathy that will save us. It is compassion that will save us, because it is the only thing that matters at the end of the day." —Steven Yeun
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Giancarlo, who plays villain Frank Dawson in Okja, on the other hand, gave us a few helpful steps in making a stand. He said, "Activism [means] to act, to act out, to do something, to speak out. I think that [in Okja], we have an organization, the weekend warriors, they go and do things because they have to, and so you could also say that they do violent things to prevent violence from happening to animals.
"But you asked how young people could exercise their right to speak out and stand up. Like my mom used to say, you can get more with sugar than you can with salt. So how do you do that? How do you do that in this world where you feel compelled to find your voice?"
"First you find your voice. Then maybe young people can actually speak out and find a way to do it with grace. Find a way to do it with compassion. Be forceful. Be honest." —Giancarlo Esposito
He then proceeds and explains that adults also have a role in how young people find it in them to speak up about important matters in society.
"But how do they get to feel like they're worthy of speaking out? Well, they need to be empowered. So we need to empower each other and say it's okay, so we complain that the world is the way it is [because] we allow corporations and governments to tell us how it should be and to set the parameters for what our lives should be. We allowed and empowered those people to tell us how we should live our lives," Giancarlo continues.
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"So how do we take that [power] back? We empower our own people, to speak out, make a change, and do it with love and compassion and drive and commitment. Of course, that takes a lot of sacrifice but that's how things will change."
"So how do we take that [power] back? We empower our own people, to speak out, make a change, and do it with love and compassion and drive and commitment." —Giancarlo Esposito
While it is important for us to be heard, we love how these two actors emphasized on what really matters above all else: that we treat each other with respect. As we all know, we won't always have the same views and opinions as our families, friends, and the people around us. It's just how things are, because we're wired differently. So we might as well respect each other along the way because, at the end of the day, we're all citizens of this world, one world, and we all just want to live our lives peacefully.
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Well, here it goes. The beginning of my new car blog. The beginning in a adventure to document my newly found passion for automotive repair and rebuilding. The aims of this blog are to document and share my own projects, experience, thoughts and insights to the automotive world at large. I'm about to turn 38 years old and have learned a lot over the last ten years trying to save money tackling my own automotive repairs and diagnostics. There have been so many great people providing excellent content via you tube and other sites that I though I might as well contribute back to the knowledge pool.
My first attempt at rebuilding a engine was a 1993 Geo metro. I purchased it for $200 from a local Craig's list ad. It was not running and covered in dirt and cobwebs. There was a large black widows nest with sacks of babies too. I had no clue what was wrong with it, what I got myself into or If id be able to fix it. My brother was nice enough to help me tow it home with my 2007 dodge grand caravan. We strapped a cheap tow strap to it and towed the Geo metro 100 miles to my home. Looking back it was probably not the safest way to tow a car and now I would do it much different.
After getting the 1993 Geo metro safely home I took some time to clean it up a bit and started diagnosing why it would not start. First thing was to purchase a new battery. With the new battery installed The electrical systems powered right up and the small 3 cylinder engine would crank no problem, yet it would not start After searching many forums I found a basic list of things to look for.
The first thing was fuel. Check to see if the engine is getting fuel. So I found the location of the fuel line in the engine bay and disconnected it to see if there was any fuel. I honestly had no clue what the f I was doing but I guess everyone has to start somewhere. I placed the line in a empty milk jug and had my son turning the key so I could inspect and see if any fuel came out. No fuel. So next I decided that the fuel pump was probably the culprit so I researched how to change the Geo metro's fuel pump. In order to locate the fuel pump in the Geo metro you need to drop the gas tank. This was a first for me. Over all it proved to be a moderately simple task. With the Geo metro fuel tank out I removed the fuel pump and discovered that the tank was full of rust and the fuel pump was definitely inoperable. I didn't even need to test it. So I ordered a new fuel pump and started to do some research on how to clean a rusty Geo metro gas tank. After more research I came to the idea of filling the tank with vinegar and bb's from a bb gun. This actually worked quite well after letting the vinegar soak in the tank for a bit. The difficult part was removing all the bb's. None the less it was much better and I installed the new pump, replaced the fuel filter, and put bolted the tank back onto the body of the car. Turns out this was the problem and the car started right up after a few cranks.
To do this test, you will need an assistant to help you. It is best to perform this test with the engine warm, but if it will not start, then you have no choice but to test it cold. First off, you need to remove the coil wire and then remove all the spark plugs. Be sure to mark your wires so you do not get confused. Find the appropriate adapter in your compression test kit to match the spark plug thread and insert it into the #1 cylinder. You just thread it right into the cylinder by hand until it's snug. After you have the tester inserted, make sure your car is out of gear or in Park and the parking brake is set. Have your assistant hold the gas pedal all the way to the floor (WOT – Wide Open Throttle) and begin cranking the engine over for a count of 5 to 7 seconds. Record your readings from the gauge and repeat this on all cylinders.
Now add one teaspoon of engine oil into the cylinders and repeat the compression test one cylinder at a time. This will give you the "wet" readings and determine if you have worn rings. The compression readings should be no less than 156 PSI on all cylinders and they should not vary much between the other cylinders. A really healthy engine will have around 200 PSI of compression. Please note that these engines will run with lower compression numbers, but will not run correctly or get the expected fuel mileage.
That was the problem. Bad compression. I was a little bummed because I really wanted to drive the car and use it for work delivering pizza. So back to the drawing board. After a bit of research and contemplating what the best option would be I decided on a complete engine rebuild. This would be my first engine rebuild. I had never done anything like this in my life. I spent a lot of time researching the parts I would need and placed the orders. I purchased most of the parts on eBay. Then I got started carefully dissembling the small 3 cylinder engine. I labeled all the wires and took quite a few pictures. I put organized all the parts so I would remember the order in which I removed them. In hind sight after dealing with Some BMW's I realize how easy to understand the wire harness in the Geo metro is and my worries were over warranted. I had a lot of fun though and learned quite a bit about how a car is assembled. I learned every inch of that engine bay.
Between work and the kids the rebuild took me about 1 month I think. Again this was about 2 years ago so I can't quite remember. I ended up replace the piston rings, honing the cylinders, had the cylinder head resurfaced, learned how to lap new valves into the head, replace the valve seals, install the crank shaft and check for clearances. I Installed a new oil pump, water pump and numerous other new gaskets too. It was like a new engine. I replace a few other things that I probably didn't need to also like the starter and axles but It was worth it. The one thing that I messed up and forgot to replace was the small pilot bearing that the clutch uses. I guess I missed it during reassembly. When I was done It started right up and was running like a champ. I felt so accomplished and in awe that I could learn how to do all this work with google and you tube. I ended up driving that little car over 100k miles before I sold it. I was delivering pizzas in it so I was driving over 100 miles every day. Never had any issues besides a squealing pilot bearing and some basic maintenance. It was a really fun little car. I wish I would not have sold it but it was a bit dangerous driving on the highway or with my kids in it. It was like a tiny tin can. I had a couple incidents that were to close for comfort. When I sold it the 1993 Geo metro had over 400k miles on it. I still miss that car.
A damaged valve in the cylinder head of the 1993 Geo metro.
1993 Geo metro cylinder head after cleaning.
1993 Geo metro engine rebuild crossing 400,000 miles. 100k on my first engine rebuild.
I'm so thankful to the many people who put their knowledge out there for people to absorb and learn from. They have helped me save so much money over the years and now I hope to give back some and hopefully help or inspire others to learn and try their own automotive work. I'm still a novice and enjoy the process of learning new things. The Geo metro was a launching pad for wanting to learn more about engines and faster cars. My latest project is a 1985 BMW 325e I purchased for $1000. It was also not running and the suspension had been cut so it was in bad shape. I replaced the fuel pump, and crank sensor. Luckily I managed to get it fired up and driving. Subsequently I purchased a 1989 BMW 535I E34 as a parts car. The plan is to swap the slower m20b27 engine in the 1985 BMW 325e e30 for the more powerful m30b35 engine in the e34 535i. Im still debating on what to do and how to do it. Still doing research but I will be posting more about this project, other learning experiences I've been through soon.
1989 BMW 535i e34 Parts car. Purchased this car for the m30b35 engine.