"A distraught client emailed me the day after Jody [Sherman] died. So many people were hurt by the news–whether or not they knew him. I tweeted, emailed, reached out to friends. I wrote to Parker [Palmer].
My request was simple: Help me help them. We decided the best way to respond was to embody what we believe: that speaking about the existential difficulties, being authentic even in our collective guilt, pain, and fear, is–as Parker coined it in Let Your Life Speak–Leading from Within. We would have a conversation about the ways in which this merger of self and work exacerbates the pain as well as Parker's notion of the Tragic Gap. We'd invite others to join us.
The conversation is sponsored by Cojourneo and the Center for Courage and Renewal and will be in person on April 19 at 2 p.m. at Naropa University in Boulder.


I pray that this email finds you rejoicing in the hope of your calling. Every fall church life is in full swing. This year is no different. There are lots of opportunities to grow in Christ and serve our community.
Once again we will be taking directory photos this coming Sunday. Pictures will be taken in Dexter's gym before service (930-1030am) and after service (12-1pm).
We are pumped to begin partnering with Compassion Connection. (check out their website here) We are gearing up for a December pop-up clinic in Gresham. Presently, we are looking for someone to run point for this awesome community service opportunity. Please email Noel to volunteer and for more details.
Please email Noel if you would like to participate in our next child dedication.
We will be having our next baptism class on October 14th directly following our service in the Orchard room (about 30 minutes). This class is for people ready to go public with their faith and for folks interested in learning more about baptism.
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The H&T Group has reported another positive year with gross profit increasing by 15.4% from £47.5m to £54.8m.
The group states this growth, for the year ended 31 December 2016, was driven by the higher gold price improving revenues from pawnbroking scrap and gold purchasing together with the growth in the personal loans and other services segments.
In addition, the combination of delivering a good operational performance for the year and the benefit of a rising gold price increased profit before tax by 42.6% to £9.7m.
On the retail side, during the year the company closed eight underperforming stores and expects a small number to close in 2017. The Group's store estate now comprises 181 – 126 o which are H&T Pawnbrokers stores, 24 Est 1897 second-hand jewellery retail stores, and 31 of the company's new H&T Money brand stores.
Retail sales grew by 3.4% to £30.5m (2015: £29.5m) and gross profits 8.7% to £11.2m (2015: £10.3m). The Group had two focus areas for the year: improve margins and improve inventory management. It reports that progress has been made on both of these objectives, particularly in H2 2016. During 2016 the store inventory increased by £5.0m as it completed the implementation of the planograms across the store estate.
Despite store closures, gross profits from Pawnbroking were flat and retail was 8.7% up on 2015. The higher gold price has resulted in increased profits of £6.0m (2015: £2.4m) from gold purchasing and pawnbroking scrap activities.
Total direct and administrative expenses for the group increased by 11.8% from £39.9m to £44.6m, principally as a result of investment in staff to support business volumes and new initiatives. The board considers the continued investment in people and systems to be vital in repositioning the business to take advantage of the market conditions.
Elsewhere, the Group has delivered significant growth in gross profits from the Personal Loans, FX and Buyback products which collectively increased by 59.2% to £7.8m. It has also improved the effectiveness of its online channel delivering 133.3% growth in the online Personal Loans with 68.4% of online applications coming through mobile devices. The Group plans to develop this further during 2017 having established a range of brokers who introduce applications to the company.
The Group delivered profit after tax of £7.6m (2015: £5.4m) and diluted earnings per share of 20.88 pence (2015: 14.86 pence). Subject to shareholder approval, a final dividend of 5.3 pence per ordinary share (2015: 4.5 pence) will be paid on 2 June 2017 to those shareholders on the register at the close of business on 5 May 2017. This will bring the full year dividend to 9.2 pence per ordinary share (2015: 8.0 pence).
The Group's financial position is strong with net debt of £5.4m at 31 December 2016 (31 December 2015: £2.1m) and headroom of £15m on its borrowing facilities.
John Nichols, chief executive of the H&T Group, comments: "The Group has delivered a strong financial result in 2016 with a solid operational performance assisted by a higher gold price. We are particularly pleased with the growth in our loan books and the increasing significance of FX and Buyback.
The Group's strategy going forward is to serve a customer base whose access to mainstream credit is limited and for whom small-sum loans can help to address short-term financial challenges. The Group will continue to deliver this strategy by developing a range of lending products, both secured and unsecured, offered in store and online.


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Why are major cities in China witnessing anti-government protests?
People from major cities like Shanghai and Beijing are speaking out against the government's 'Zero Covid' strategy, under which even a few cases of coronavirus lead to strict lockdowns. While the strategy has been in place for a while, here's why the protests are blowing up now.
By: Explained Desk
New Delhi | Updated: November 28, 2022 11:35 IST
Students take part in a protest against COVID-19 curbs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, seen in this still image taken from a video released November 27, 2022 and obtained by REUTERS.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in China, with over 40,000 daily cases being reported on Saturday (November 26), unprecedented public protests are being witnessed despite heavy censorship and the government's attempts to manage the situation.
People from major cities like Shanghai and Beijing are speaking out against the government's 'Zero Covid' strategy, under which even a few cases of coronavirus lead to strict lockdowns, PCR tests, and restrictions on travel and day-to-day movement.
This policy has been in place since the pandemic began in 2020, even while other countries have largely moved away from harsh lockdowns. So why are protests taking place in China now, and what has changed?
The trigger in Xinjiang
It is believed the current protests are a result of the public's long-term dissatisfaction with the policy – which has come to the fore because of a recent incident. On Thursday (November 24), a fire killed 10 people in a high-rise building in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang region in northwest China. Crowds took to the street on Friday evening, chanting "End the lockdown!" and pumping their fists in the air, according to the AP. In Urumqi, some people have been locked down for as long as 100 days.
People hold signs and light candles during a vigil held for the victims of the Urumqi fire, in Shanghai, China November 26, 2022, in this picture obtained from a social media video. (Gao Ming/via REUTERS)
The crowd's anger was heightened by the belief that the forced lockdown led to a greater number of deaths and difficulty in evacuation. Chinese officials have denied this, and during the weekend, Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary Ma Xingrui called for the region to step up security maintenance and curb the "illegal violent rejection of COVID-prevention measures".
Interestingly, Xinjiang is also where a significant Uyghur population (an ethnic minority in China) resides. Many international organisations and governments in the West have alleged over the years that the treatment of Uyghurs amounts to a severe human rights violations at the hand of the Chinese government. Therefore, protests in Xinjiang are especially risky.
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However, most protesters in the videos that have surfaced were members of China's dominant Han ethnic group. Posts on Chinese social media were quickly deleted, which Beijing often does to suppress criticism.
It was soon reported that by the weekend, protests in China spread to its largest city, Shanghai. Demonstrators gathered at one of Beijing's most prestigious universities. Candlelight vigils for the Urumqi victims took place at universities in other cities as well.
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Videos from Shanghai showed crowds facing the police and chanting "Serve the people", "We want freedom", and "We don't want health codes", a reference to the mobile phone apps that must be scanned for entry into public places across China. Residents gathered on Saturday night at Wulumuqi Road – which is named after Urumqi – for a candlelight vigil that turned into a protest by Sunday.
The crowd held up blank sheets of paper – a protest symbol against censorship. Later on, they purportedly shouted, "lift lockdown for Urumqi, lift lockdown for Xinjiang, lift lockdown for all of China!", according to a video circulated on social media. At another point, a large group began shouting, "Down with the Chinese Communist Party, down with Xi Jinping", according to videos accessed by the AP.
Other cities that have seen public dissent include Lanzhou in the northwest, where residents on Saturday upturned Covid staff tents and smashed testing booths. Protesters said they were put under lockdown even though no one had tested positive.
Shanghai police used pepper spray against about 300 protesters, according to a witness. Nanjing in the east, Guangzhou in the south and at least five other cities showed protesters tussling with police.
So why has China continued with the 'Zero Covid' strategy?
China defends the policy as life-saving and necessary to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, and to a degree, it has achieved success. The death toll and spread of infection have been lower in China when compared to other major countries.
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On the flip side, public frustration has also accumulated. Further, anti-virus controls have periodically shut down Shanghai, one of the world's busiest ports, and other industrial centres. Millions of families have been confined to their homes, depressing consumer spending, and the economy has been impacted due to these shutdowns.
Dan Mattingly, assistant professor of political science at Yale University, told the AP, "This will put serious pressure on the party to respond. There is a good chance that one response will be repression, and they will arrest and prosecute some protesters." Still, he said, the unrest is far from that seen in 1989, when protests culminated in the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square.
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Q: What is causing git am to fail when format-patch included an unchanged line as a changed line? After using git format-patch the following snippet appeared in my patch files.
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Both the added and removed lines ended with a crlf line ending. This was also the first line of the file both times I encountered this issue.
When I attempted to use the patch file with git am --ignore-whitespace *.patch the patches with segments similar to the above would fail. I was able to easily get around the issue by removing the sections containing the unchanged changed lines, but was hoping that somebody could at least explain what could have happened, as I don't think that should have shown as a changed line in the first place and I also don't understand why applying the patch would fail since I wouldn't expect it to matter what the old and new lines were.

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La Liguilla de Promoción de Chile es un minitorneo de fútbol jugado en Chile con el objetivo de obtener 2 cupos para la Primera División del siguiente año, en el cual enfrentan a 2 equipos de la Primera División, con 2 equipos de la Primera B, con el propósito de permanecer o ascender de categoría para el siguiente año. Esta Liguilla se inició en 1976 y que duró hasta 1999, pero volvió en el 2005, luego del periodo del descenso programado de 3 años para la Primera División y Primera B, y que se mantiene hasta la actualidad.

En el 2009, esta liguilla también fue aplicada a la Tercera A y Tercera B, en las cuales, y a diferencia de la Liguilla del fútbol profesional, 2 equipos de Tercera A enfrenta a 2 equipos de Tercera B, para disputar 2 cupos para la Tercera A del siguiente año.

En el 2012, esta liguilla también fue aplicada a la Primera B y Segunda División, en las cuales, y a diferencia de la Liguilla de Promoción entre Primera División y Primera B, hay una llave de Promoción entre Primera B y Segunda División. En esa Promoción que se aplica desde el año 2012, enfrenta al penúltimo de la tabla acumulada de la Primera B, con el subcampeón de la Segunda División (sin importar que ese subcampeón, venga de la Tercera División (ya sea el campeón o el subcampeón de esa categoría), para disputar un cupo para la Primera B del siguiente año. Si el equipo que venga de la Tercera División y pierde la final de la Segunda División, gane esa llave al equipo que termine penúltimo en la tabla anual de la Primera B, logrará ascender automáticamente a la Primera B para el siguiente año. De lo contrario, ese equipo permanecerá en la categoría en que participa actualmente, para el mismo año mencionado.

En este contexto, la Liguilla de Promoción es de esta forma: Primera División vs Primera B por la ANFP (cuya Liguilla es desarrollada actualmente) y Tercera División vs Tercera B por la ANFA (cuya Liguilla duró hasta el año 2010).

Historial de la Liguilla de Promoción de la ANFP

Liguilla de Promoción entre Primera División y Primera B

Llaves Ganadas Liguilla de Promoción entre Primera División y Primera B

 Llaves Ganadas Por Primera División: 37
 Llaves Ganadas Por Primera B: 17

Curiosidades

 La única liguilla de promoción que fue ganada por los dos equipos de Primera B fue la de 1999, en ella ascendieron a Primera División: Everton y Provincial Osorno quienes derrotaron a Deportes Iquique y Cobresal respectivamente.

Liguilla de Promoción entre Primera B y Segunda División Profesional

Historial de la Liguilla de Promoción de la ANFA

Llaves Ganadas Liguilla de Promoción entre Tercera División y Tercera B

 Llaves Ganadas Por Tercera División: 3
 Llaves Ganadas Por Tercera B: 0

Véase también
 Temporada 2012 del fútbol chileno
 Apertura 2012 (Primera División Chile)
 Clausura 2012 (Primera División Chile)
 Torneo 2012 (Primera B Chile)
 Torneo 2012 (Segunda División Chile)
 Torneo 2012 (Tercera División Chile)
 Torneo 2012 (Cuarta División Chile)
 Copa Chile 2012
 Canal del Fútbol
 Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional

Campeonatos de fútbol entre clubes de Chile
Primera División de Chile
Primera B de Chile

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This contradicts earlier news reports that Lerner was apolitical. Or, at least, indicates that even if she's not devoted to partisan issues per se, she may have philosophical beliefs about government that inform and animate her decisions. "Apolitical" does not necessarily mean unbiased.
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New summary of briefs of McCutcheon and the RNC here.
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See the complaint in Hotze v. Sebelius, 4:13-cv-1318 (S.D. Tex.) here. It was filed yesterday; I have not yet reviewed it.
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The lawsuit specifically challenges the federal aggregate contribution limits enacted as part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as "McCain-Feingold." While Congress has already imposed strict limits on the amount a person may contribute to any single candidate, political party, or PAC, the aggregate limits impose an additional, overall cap that functions to prevent a person from contributing small amounts of money to "too many" candidates or groups. McCutcheon's brief persuasively argues that the FEC cannot justify the aggregate limits either as an anti-corruption measure or as a method of preventing circumvention of the base limits, which is already foreclosed by numerous specific provisions, for example prohibiting undisclosed earmarks and contributions in the name of another.
The aggregate limits are therefore at odds with the First Amendment. They are entirely unnecessary in light of the base contribution limits and maze of additional federal regulations, yet seriously infringe the associational rights of Americans to support as many candidates and political committees as they wish without government interference.
McCutcheon is represented by Jerad Najvar of Houston-based Najvar Law Firm, DB Capitol Strategies in Washington, DC, and Michael Morley, election law and appellate litigator. The RNC is represented by the Bopp Law Firm and Stephen M. Hoersting.
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VinFast announces US headquarters in Los Angeles
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Operations at VinFast's automotive manufacturing complex in Hai Phong, Vietnam are 90% automated. The facilities are capable of producing up to 250,000 cars and up to 500,000 electric scooters a year. (Photo courtesy of VinFast)
By Kevin Smith | kvsmith@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune
PUBLISHED: November 16, 2021 at 3:50 p.m. | UPDATED: November 17, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.
Lured by a $20.5 million state tax credit, Vietnamese automaker VinFast has announced its U.S. headquarters will be located in Los Angeles — a move that builds on the company's initial $200 million investment in California.
Combined, those investments are expected to create up to 1,000 jobs statewide over the next five years.
The 15,000-square-foot facility, at 12777 W. Jefferson Blvd. in the Playa Vista area of L.A., will include a management team with plans to hire more than 400 workers there and at its regional office in L.A. over the next several years.
VinFast was one of the few foreign businesses awarded the California Competes Tax Credit given by the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development.
The company's $20.5 million tax credit is the largest CalCompetes tax credit ever awarded to an automomaker and one of the top 10 largest awards given to any company in the program's nearly 10-year history.
VinFast's VF e35 is one of two cars the Vietnamese automaker will display at this month's LA Auto Show. (Photo courtesy of VinFast)
VinFast is also investing in regional offices, a call center and a network of storefronts to help introduce the brand and products to U.S. customers and expand investment plans in the future.
The automaker has a research and development office in San Francisco with 50 employees and it expects to open 35 U.S. California showrooms and service centers this year, according to Just Auto, an online news and research portal for the auto industry.
VinFast sold about 30,000 vehicles last year, the company said, and earlier this year it forecast sales of more than 45,000 units in 2021.
Founded in 2017 by billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong, Vinfast began delivering gasoline autos to Vietnamese consumers with BMW-licensed engines in 2019. Vuong, who is also chairman of parent company Vingroup, said late that year he would back the company's U.S. ambitions with $2 billion of his own fortune, according to Bloomberg.
Van Anh Nguyen, CEO for the company's U.S. operations, said California — and Southern California in particular — are rapidly becoming the epicenter of advanced transportation, thanks to "forward-thinking ideas, an abundance of talented workers and the passion for making transportation electrification a reality."
"We are excited to make Los Angeles the permanent home of VinFast US," Nguyen said in a statement.
The company is gearing up to unveil two electric SUVs at this month's LA Auto Show as the company makes its initial push into North America's fast-growing EV market. The show runs Friday, Nov. 19 through Sunday, Nov. 28.
VinFast's VF e35 and VF e36 are equipped with a variety of smart features, including lane assist, collision warning, driver monitoring, fully automated parking, voice assist and e-commerce services.
Pre-orders for the vehicles will begin in the first half of 2022 with deliveries expected by year's end, company officials said.
The company's smart EVs are in tune with where the industry is headed.
In a recent executive order, President Joe Biden set a goal for half of all new auto sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. California is mandating all new vehicle sales be zero-emission by 2035.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said VinFast is welcome, noting that L.A. is "a place where companies come to test, prove and launch new technologies."
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"We are so proud to welcome VinFast to our city as we continue leading the way to a better-connected, cleaner, and more sustainable transportation future," Garcetti said in a statement.
Established in 2017, VinFast owns an automotive manufacturing complex in Hai Phong, Vietnam, where operations are 90% automated. The facilities are capable of producing up to 250,000 cars and up to 500,000 electric scooters a year.
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A roundtable chat with Sally Hawkins and Miranda Richardson of "Made in Dagenham"
November 22, 2010 / Bob Westal
As the press day began for director Nigel Cole and writer William Ivory's amiable historical comedy, we assembled entertainment writers believed we'd be doing separate roundtable interviews with the film's best known actresses. When Sally Hawkins and Miranda Richardson entered the room together to promote "Made in Dagenham," about a 1968 strike by female workers at a Ford plant located in a grimy London suburb, however, it was easy to be a little overwhelmed. Either one of them is worthy of a Russian novel's worth of questions and our time would be limited.
Like so many first-class English actors of her generation, Miranda Richardson is known for her ability to play all ends of the dramatic spectrum. In England, and certain geekier quarters of the U.S., she's still extremely well known known for her work alongside Rowan Atkinson and Stephen Fry as "Queenie" (i.e. Queen Elizabeth I) and assorted other characters on Richard Curtis and Ben Elton's historical cult-com, "Black Adder." Younger geeks, however, might know her better as magical tabloid journalist Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter films. On the more realistic end of the spectrum, she has also done magnificent work playing a ruthless IRA operative in "The Crying Game," a maltreated housewife in an Oscar-nominated role in Louis Malle's "Damage," a widely praised turn in the Oscar-winning "The Hours," and a widow investigating her husband's death on AMC's recently canceled suspense drama, "Rubicon." On the other hand, she's also portrayed the character of Mrs. Santa Claus opposite Paul Giamatti's Santa in "Fred Claus." Despite some resemblance, both physically and in terms of talent, she is not part of the famed Redgrave acting dynasty and no relation to the late Natasha Richardson. She is, in fact, the only actor in her family, which perhaps makes her all the more impressive.
Although Sally Hawkins has appeared in some 34 movie and TV productions since 1999, she broke into the consciousness of most of her fans with her Golden Globe winning performance in Mike Leigh's 2008 "Happy-Go-Lucky," in which she dominated the film as a relentlessly happy and, strangely enough, rather bright, elementary school teacher. It was probably an ideal role for a woman who really does come across as cheerful in person, with an approachable demeanor that certainly seems to fit the child of two children's books authors. Currently starring on Broadway in a new production of George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession," Hawkins has continued to mix starring roles with a number of smaller supporting appearances, including a turn in Cary Fukunaga's highly-anticipated new version of "Jane Eyre." Her next leading role is as Irish radical politician and activist Bernadette Devlin in "The Roaring Girl" — assuming the real Devlin is not successful in her efforts to prevent the film from being made.
After some very brief talk about Sally Hawkins recently healed broken collar bone, a film set injury, the first question was about how the two actresses researched their roles. Hawkins plays Rita O'Grady, a Ford seamstress who is selected by her shop steward (Bob Hoskins) to spearhead a job action which eventually leads to Great Britain's first law requiring equal pay for equal work. While Hawkins' character is a fictional creation, inspired by a number of real women, Richardson plays real-life English Labour Party legend Barbara Castle. The first woman to sit on the English cabinet became a major player in the long and contentious strike.
"I did meet three of the women, very early on in my preparation period," Sally Hawkins said. "I went on a couple of trips to Dagenham to, first of all, see the factory. It's still there, this monolith, this old skeleton. It was quite sad because that's what Dagenham is built around. In recent history, when it closed down, it had a not good effect on the community there. They are just very normal women who all still live in Dagenham and are still friends. Very funny, bright women who went back to their lives. Rita was one of many and it was important to get that sort of voice right, that they weren't political animals. They didn't have any experience in being on a political stage or holding their own amongst the men, the management in the trade union. They were sort of learning on the hop, as it were."
"Real-life character, so: duty, responsibility. I was aware that [Barbara Castle] meant so much to many people," Miranda Richardson said. "You just have to get on with it. I read a biography, looked at photographs, newsreel footage. I worked with the wonderful Penny Dyer, a dialect coach, to try and just ground her speech rhythms. Of course, hair and make-up and costume is all part of that deal. She had a very particular look. You have to honor that and make it work for you. So, that was it, really. In the silence of reading about her, and looking at photographs, staring at them, trying to make them sink in, I just thought she was the most wonderful woman. I would have liked to have met her and gone out on the town with her. I think she would have been enormous fun."
"Unlike these ladies, she was politicized from a very early age," Richardson continued. "Debate was encouraged 'round the dinner table. She went with her father to rallies and she understood where people were coming from, and what they wanted and how they expressed themselves. She was a passionate, humane woman who brung herself up, as they say, out of her class, [who] achieved above and beyond what was expected. [Castle] never lost touch with her roots and was a force of nature as far as I'm concerned. She's fantastic. She was somebody who could drink and smoke and hang out and debate. She just wanted to engage and expected people to engage with her."
"Thank God she was around," added Sally Hawkins.
"Thank God she was around," agreed Miranda Richardson. "She loved women and men equally, it seems to me."
"You got that?" Sally Hawkins asked. The question was left hanging as another query was posed about what it was like being on the set with the female-dominated cast assembled by director Nigel Cole, whose best known prior film is the similarly female-centric comedy, 2003's "Calendar Girls" with Helen Mirren.
"Lovely, lovely atmosphere" said Richardson.
"Yeah, it was," Hawkins agreed.
"Quite a few women on the crew as well," Richardson continued. "Which makes my heart leap when you see women doing jobs which have been heretofore mostly the guys, and there's no reason why they don't do them. It's just they're letting more women do those jobs and more women want to take those jobs in the industry."
Hawkins expanded. "I did sort of stop and think, 'Isn't it wonderful that there are all these incredible female [actors].' It's a female-led production, and it's so rare. There was so much passion behind it and I was so incredibly proud to be a part of that. Like Miranda said, for a long time it has been a male-dominated industry, but I think it is changing and we have got a long way to go. I think that's probably the case in many industries. We all have experience of that."
What about working directly with Nigel Cole?
"He truly is a feminist," said Hawkins.
"He's very cuddly," Richardson elaborated. "He's very cozy. It's not difficult to be on set with him. He's not deeply frightening. He really isn't."
"He cares," Hawkins said.
Richardson made a pantomime hugging gesture. "I think of him as doing that. He does that on set."
"He's got very long arms, he embraces you." Hawkins said.
The next question included some news for those of us who might have assumed that equal-pay-for-equal-work is a 40-years settled issue. It might be agreed upon in theory, but in reality there are significant disparities overall that are higher in certain industries. Did Hawkins and Richardson expect the film to help reopen the issue?
"That would be phenomenal. That would be great," Hawkins said. "We can always learn from history, whether it's recent history or far back in history. This is history we can touch, still. Yes, there has been a lot that's been done and a lot has been put in place. Thank God that these women were around doing what they did because there would have been no equal pay up to 1970. Thank you, Barbara."
But haven't things actually regressed somewhat, perhaps?
Hawkins continued. "Yes. It does go like that if we stop talking. We don't talk about money. Definitely in the U.K. we're guilty of that, probably more than in the U.S., just because [Americans are] more vocal about things generally. There's certain things being pushed through congress now and… we're having to look at the issues and readdress certain loopholes that have kept women in a certain place and kept that pay gap wide. That's frightening. Do we have to keep looking at these issues and make sure that we're talking about them all the time to make sure that we get what we're owed? Well, yes we do."
"I think it's quite interesting, the self-esteem aspect of it," Richardson added. "I haven't got historical facts at my fingertips and, I'm sorry, I'm just not operating like that," the actress added, getting some chuckles from the table. "But just what the ramifications are of allowing that to happen, if I can use those terms, where at any given workplace somebody knows that that is going on and they keep quiet about it, rather than saying 'This isn't right' for fear that they will be opposed, for fear that nobody will be on their side. Or it's just like 'I'm not quite worth what the guys are worth.'"
"It's even something that I used to grumble about," Richardson continued. "When I was working with a predominantly Oxbridge team on 'Black Adder.' There's the famous thing where guys don't feel that women can be as funny, certainly in stand-up routines. [Also], even though they've been colleges for women, Oxford and Cambridge, for a long long time now, there's a kind of twisted awe. 'Yes, they're marvelous. The girls have done absolutely marvelous, but just not quite as good as the boys.'"
"You proved them wrong in that show, I would say," Hawkins said, correctly.
"Listen," Richardson responded to the compliment. "They chose me, for whatever reason, and I wasn't looking particularly good that day."
"It was one of the reasons why I wanted to act, seeing you on that show," Hawkins added.
Shrugging off the flattery, Richardson returned to the topic of workplace sexism. "It's always there; it's always lurking. If somebody thinks it's the way things are and is not told differently, then things go on the way they are for a long, long time. It takes a whole load of individuals to keep saying 'no.' It's a difficult thing to do because you're unpopular. It's horrible."
"It's scary, but like you say, you have a responsibility to speak up in those situations and not accept [injustice]. But their strength is in their numbers and the fact that they were together. As soon as one and then a few of them started to [get involved], then it went like wildfire, across the country, across the U.K. and then ended up having an knock-on effect on the big boys in the U.S.," Richardson said.
Then I asked about the mostly seamless blend of comedy and pathos in "Made in Dagenham," asking the two performers about how they approached the funny parts and the not-so-funny parts.
"I guess it's in the writing, isn't' it? For my part, I just thought Barbara's speeches were very authentic. I wasn't thinking 'funny,' on the day," Richardson said, adding that, isolated with just a few less than sensitive subordinates, Minister Castle was akin to a "Queen Bee with no hive apparent to look after. [The humor] just comes out of it. Situation comedy, really is what it is, so you don't have to act funny."
"People are funny, whether they're aware of it or not" Hawkins added. "Like Miranda says, you sort of focus in on the character. When you're objective about people, their situations, what they get sort of worked up about, and how they deal with life, people together and different characters together, that creates comedy. It's on a level that is tragic. Life is both funny and tragic at the same time. It's only when you're sort of at the back-end of something that sort of stumped you momentarily, or not, is when you realize how funny it was."
The next question addressed the highly diverse nature of Sally Hawkins' work after her widely beloved breakthrough in "Happy-Go-Lucky," which includes smaller roles in more somber films like "Never Let Me Go." The upshot being that acting is a very feast-or-famine kind of a business and, even though Hawkins is in her feast phase right now, it's not like all of her movies are being made back-to-back.
"I'm drawn to good writing. But it is the people that surround it, or wanting to work with that director or that actress or that actor. Having people that you admire just inspires you. I love delving into different characters. Keep challenging yourself and keep learning." And then, showing a bit of her "Happy-Go-Lucky" joyful self-deprecation, she made fun of the fact that what she was saying was a bit of an actor's cliche, though Miranda Richardson was quick to remind us that often cliches are cliches because they are true.
"No, it is how it is. They don't come along one a minute, the stonking on every page thing. Sometimes it's good to do, 'Alright, well it doesn't look like much.' But it is. It's juicy."
"You want it to be something you sink your teeth into," Hawkins added.
The next question asked if Hawkins felt any pressure to win an Oscar for her performance in "Happy-Go-Lucky." The answer, alas, is that there wasn't one — not even a nomination, just a bunch of critics group Best Actress awards, not to mention a Golden Globe. The questioner expressed shock, which is actually understandable. Given the caliber and acclaim of the performance, it actually is hard to believe Hawkins was not at least nominated for an Oscar. Still, winning the Golden Globe isn't nothing and it was framed as an upset over the favorite for the "Comedy or Musical" Golden Globe, Meryl Streep for "Mamma Mia!."
"It was like the Oscars for me. I didn't think it could get much better than that," Hawkins said. "Comparatively, it's a small, low budget film in North London, for no money. Suddenly you're on this huge scale. Of course you have your own expectations of yourself and then you think, 'Oh, God.' But then you have to take it all with a pinch of salt. After it, you come back home a little shell-shocked by the whole thing. As long as you just know it will all die down again, it will calm down. I've been quite lucky that I'm not chased by paparazzi. Thank God. I'm not that type of actor. I'm not, God forbid, a celebrity in that way. You just have to make sure you focus on the work. It's not about you, really. If people love what you do and love the films that you're in, that's all you want as an actor."
Then, finally, came the inevitable "Harry Potter" question for Miranda Richardson, despite the fact that her character doesn't really appear in the novel. Would the deeply dishonest magical yellow journalist Rita Skeeter again be seen, perhaps wielding a wand as well as her poisoned pen, in the final two installments of the film series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"?
"Very, very briefly. But pithily. I hope I'll leave my mark," Richardson concluded.
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Story "Obtained by Frank La Flèche" by James Owen Dorsey (1890: 360). The story is told in Omaha language.
The Dakota went on the war path. As they went, two went out as scouts. They heard a person singing.
They crawled up on him together. When they arrived very close, they peeped. Behold, he was a big wolf.
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