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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
John Bickle (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, Oxford UP, 2009, 635pp., $150.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780195304787.
Reviewed by Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania
This volume brings together twenty-four chapters in philosophy and neuroscience, spanning a gamut of topics from reduction and mechanistic explanation to the neurophilosophy of subjectivity. The primary philosophical authors sometimes have cross appointments in cognitive or neural science and sometimes team up with practicing scientists. As the editor explains in his brief introduction, he selected philosophical authors who had shown some engagement with actual neuroscience and imposed only two conditions on them: that they "make direct appeal to data and evidence from some recognized field of current neuroscience," and that they "consider collaborating with a neuroscientist" (seven actually did) (p. 4). He did not provide topical constraints but asked his authors "to cover whatever they thought most interesting" (p. 5). The resulting volume is a survey of the interests of its authors, who sometimes provide context and framework for a specific issue in neuroscience and its philosophical connections and sometimes simply summarize their own recent work.
The editor chose the title Philosophy and Neuroscience in order to accommodate two somewhat different relations between philosophy and neuroscience. The majority of the essays are instances of what the editor describes as "philosophy of neuroscience," that is, of "philosophical reflections on neuroscience's emerging foundational questions" (p. 3). Philosophy of neuroscience is, in this regard, like philosophy of physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, or economics. It takes a living body of science as its starting point and addresses methodological, theoretical, and conceptual questions that arise from ongoing empirical and theoretical practice. This sort of philosophy of science goes back to the day when philosophers regularly engaged directly with science and contributed to its literature, that is, back to Aristotle, and it continues up through William James and C. L. Hardin and a host of present day practitioners, including many of the authors in this volume. The second type of approach covered by the title is ""SpellE">neurophilosophy," which, in the words of the editor, now stands for "the application of "SpellE">neuroscientific discoveries to traditional philosophical concerns" (p. 4). The origin of this sort of philosophy depends on one's perception of when ""SpellE">neuroscientific discoveries" first occurred, and so might go back to ancient theories of the senses in relation to knowledge, or to Descartes' appeal to the phenomena of the phantom limb in his discussions of knowledge, or to Helmholtz's epistemological writings that drew on his work in the physiology and psychology of color and spatial perception.
Within these categories, the first fourteen chapters fit into philosophy of neuroscience and the subsequent ten chapters count as neurophilosophy. The fourteen are loosely divided into four parts: explanation, reduction, and methodology; learning and memory; sensation and perception; and neurocomputation and neuroanatomy.
The chapters on reduction and methodology most strongly connect with recognized topics in the philosophy of science. William Bechtel's chapter makes a good starting place, as it introduces a further distinction among brands of neuroscience and relates it to attitudes toward reduction. Specifically, Bechtel distinguishes between the majority of neuroscientists, who take a "cellular and molecular" approach, and a smaller group that focuses on "systems, behavioral, and cognitive neuroscience" (p. 13). He also identifies two groups of philosophers of neuroscience, who are reductionist but who align themselves with one or the other model of reduction according to their views of how reduction will play out. The "ruthless reductionists" foresee a direct reduction of mental function to cellular and molecular processes; they include the volume's editor, Bickle. Members of the second group (more numerous in Bechtel's estimation) are attracted to systems neuroscience as a framework within which to engage in a "mechanistic reduction" that relates systems and behavioral level description to a potential hierarchy of levels of analysis, eventually ending with cells and molecules (p. 14). By contrast, the ruthless reductionists (true to their origins in Quinean neurophilosophy) don't believe that there are systematic results at the higher cognitive and behavioral levels to be reduced. Bechtel favors the systems view along with mechanical reduction via multiple levels, although he believes that, within the population of actual neuroscientists, this outlook is in the minority.
Sarah Robins and Carl Craver apply the ideas of mechanistic explanation to the phenomena of biological clocks. They focus on an allegedly new analysis of mechanisms in psychology and neuroscience. As they observe, the term "mechanism" in contemporary neuroscience does not connote a classical machine, or a "heroic simple" machine, or a machine "that works according to the principles of Newtonian mechanics" (p. 42). Rather, a mechanistic explanation invokes the organization and activities of constitutive parts in explaining how a process is carried out.
Here they simply reflect the common usage of the notion of "mechanism" in psychology, physiological psychology, cognitive science, and the philosophy of psychology, in which complex processing mechanisms came to be emphasized in the explanatory scheme during the 1960s, with possible physiological realization also envisioned. An early summary of the relevant scientific research, with appeal to "complex mechanisms" and their physiological realization, may be found in Peter Lindsay and Donald Norman's Human Information Processing (New York: Academic, 1972). While complex systems had long been posited in the analysis of psychological capacities, going back to Descartes' animal machines, philosophers were quick to pick up on these newly prominent conceptions in psychology, as did Jerry Fodor (1968), Robert Cummins (1975), and John Haugeland (1978).1 (Fodor of course futilely promoted the irrelevance of physiological mechanisms to his complex psychological mechanisms, but that does not take away from his invoking complex, decomposable, psychological mechanisms.) The chapter by Robins and Craver contributes a detailed analysis of a particular type of complex mechanism (a biological clock) that can be described at a functional level and ultimately related to neurophysiological mechanisms.
Alcino Silva and Bickle revive the idea of the scientific study of science, or what they term the "science of research" (p. 91). They focus on two "puzzles" about contemporary research. One is the "inefficiency" of "institutionalized science," by which they mean the low number of citations accrued by most research articles. In a well-known citation index, only about half of articles with the keyword "cognition" received more than two citations, as did only about a third of those with keywords "learning" and "memory" (p. 94). (They don't say whether they excluded newly published articles from these numbers.) The other is the "puzzle" of why multi-level reduction remains the goal in the philosophy of neuroscience, as opposed to Bickle's conception of direct molecular reduction. The authors present a hypothesis, called the "convergent four," to describe criteria that they claim are "jointly sufficient for fully establishing causal hypotheses in actual, current scientific research" (p. 100). The four are: observation; negative alteration (decreasing the magnitude of a putative causal factor); positive alteration; and integration (what Watson and Crick did for DNA, or Hebb for cell assemblies). They illustrate the four with a case study that speaks in favor of molecular and cellular reduction for memory consolidation, and they compare the four to previous proposed causal tests, such as J. S. Mill's methods. Finally, they claim that low citation scores result from the fact that much research simply adds support to an already well-established relation that falls under one of the four; greater attention to the four allegedly would allow researchers to determine where new work needs to be done and thus generate novel research articles that garner higher scores on citation indices.
Anthony Chemero and Charles Heyser describe "object exploration" techniques used in research with rodents. From four empirical studies, they conclude that the relevant notion of an explorable object demands a "wide brain-body-environment system" (p. 86). They contend that such a system cannot be reduced, explanatorily or ontologically, to neuroscience; rather, neuroscience is only part of the picture and must be supplemented by environmentally embedded or "extended" cognitive systems.
The remaining articles on the philosophy of neuroscience take up specific problems or concepts in learning, perception, and neurocomputation. Colin Allen, James Grau, and Mary Meagher examine results that demonstrate spinal cord learning and that in some ways challenge the notion that higher cognitive concepts must be used to describe learning more generally. Alex Rosenberg contends that results from neurogenomics on memory consolidation in Aplysia (sea snail) and C. elegans (nematode worm) cast doubt on symbol-crunching models of cognitive representation by suggesting that actual neural mechanisms only probabilistically approach the clean syntax of such models. He concludes that without its vehicles, original and also derived intentionality must be jettisoned. Machamer in effect counters by showing that much neuroscience of learning is built on behaviorist models and contending that such models cannot explain how neural nodes in associationist nets gain content.
In the section on sensation and perception, Valerie Hardcastle and Matthew Stewart ask whether fMRI counts as a modern cerebroscope for detecting whether a person is actually in pain. They provide a brief tutorial on fMRI and speculate that use of the technique may lead to physical, as opposed to phenomenal, criteria for someone's being in pain. Mazviita Chirimuuta and Ian Gold review results that tell against the notion of static receptive fields in the visual cortex, as associated with the names of Hubel and Wiesel, and in favor of a dynamic notion of receptive field that is tied to the environment. The other two chapters contain critiques of "enactive" sensorimotor conceptions of perception. Brian Keeley compares Aristotle, Johannes Müller, and Alva Noë on the relation between sense organs and sensory modalities, contending that the latter goes too far in detaching modality from organ. Charles Wallis and Wayne Wright maintain that extreme forms of enactivism are conceptually flawed and not well supported by the empirical research on which their claims purportedly are based. They remain sympathetic to less extreme urgings of the importance of action for perception.
The three articles on neurocomputation summarize results by their authors. Rick Grush presents his emulation theory of representation; Chris Eliasmith describes his neural engineering framework for theoretical or computational neuroscience; and Chris Cherniak reviews some results on neural wiring and computational complexity, connecting his findings with the anthropic principle in modern physics.
The subsequent two sections contain four chapters on aspects of neuroethics, namely motivation (Anthony Landreth), decision-making (Patricia Churchland), emergentism and the enhancement debate (Eric Racine and Judy Illes), and what's new in neuroethics (Adina Roskies). These sections also include chapters on phantom limbs and other aspects of bodily perception (William Hirstein), delusional experience (Jennifer Mundale and Shaun Gallagher), and the use of animal models of emotion in analyzing neuropsychiatric disorders (Kenneth Sufka, Morgan Weldon, and Colin Allen).
In the final section, on neurophilosophy, Kenneth Aizawa and Carl Gillett examine massive multiple neural realization and its implications for reduction in the case of molecules in ocular photoreceptors. They argue that there is great variation in the realization of functions at all levels but that this does not argue against inter-level theoretic constraints and indeed is consistent with a co-evolutionary strategy for research across levels. Owen Flanagan reflects on the aftermath of his publishing an earlier article examining fMRI images of a meditating Buddhist monk's brain. Pete Mandik discusses some of his Churchland-inspired work on consciousness and subjectivity, emphasizing that neural models, such as opponent-processing color systems, can yield novel predictions about qualitative experience.
The title of this volume, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, invites reflection on the modern notion of the handbook. When Helmholtz published his Handbuch der physiologischen Optik (Leipzig: Voss, 1867) in the 1850s and 1860s, the standard for the Handbuch was clear: it should provide a comprehensive overview of the main findings and theoretical viewpoints in physiological optics, that is, in the scientific theory of vision. This should include a background section on ocular anatomy, and a thorough treatment of the main divisions of the subject: the dioptrics of the eye; the sensations of vision, including color vision; and the perceptions of vision as organized in space and as dependent on eye movements, binocular vision, and underlying psychological processes. There should be a comprehensive literature review and a description of the history of thought for each of the more particular topics within the broad divisions.
Such a comprehensive treatment soon was beyond the abilities of single individual, and the third edition of Helmholtz's Handbuch was published by a committee, who provided addenda to Helmholtz's original chapters and appendices on added topics. In 1934, Murchison published a Handbook of General Experimental Psychology (Worcester: Clark UP) that covered ""SpellE">adjustive" processes (motivation, emotion, and learning) and "receptive" processes (sense perception) in twenty individually authored chapters. These chapters surveyed the literature in roughly the first three decades of the twentieth century. In 1951, Stevens edited his Handbook of Experimental Psychology (New York: Wiley), which covered the main divisions of the subject, from physiological mechanisms to human performance, in thirty-six separately authored chapters. These surveyed the literature in roughly the two previous decades. Such handbooks provided advanced introductory treatments of a subject matter for upper-level students and for working professionals.
The present handbook does not aim for this sort of comprehensiveness, either in its treatment of topics or in its approach to the literature. For instance, the methodological chapters either focus on the debate over multi-level vs. ruthlessly molecular and cellular reduction or treat a specific experimental paradigm, object exploration. These topics are worthy of discussion and the case study on object exploration gets down to brass tacks. Still, one might have hoped for additional methodological questions to be addressed, including the logic of using fMRI to study systems-level functionally characterized processes, and a more general discussion of brain recording methods and their application. The logic of other methods in neuroscience, such as inferring normal function from brain-damage caused deficits, also would warrant discussion. Further, the very division between systems level neuroscience and cellular/molecular neuroscience might have been explored more fully in relation to various subject areas, including sense perception and emotion. Indeed, the lack of a section devoted to neuroscience and emotion is noteworthy. The editor tacitly justifies the lack of systematicity in the division of topics by explaining that "philosophy and neuroscience is a field that continues to define itself" (p. 5). In the end, the volume is more like a collection of the research of a selected set of authors than the construction of a handbook intended to survey a field. This characteristic shows up in the citations of most of the chapters. The chapters in philosophy of neuroscience cite few philosophical authors writing on neural specifics of the brain-mind relations except for themselves, Bickle, Bechtel, the Churchlands, and Craver. There is no attempt to provide an overview of the literature in philosophy and neuroscience, something that might have been deemed comparatively feasible in a young field.
It may be that, in relatively new fields, it takes more than one try to achieve an appropriate balance. Thus, when Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar, and John Lycett published their 2002 textbook on Human Evolutionary Psychology (Princeton: Princeton UP), they in effect equated the field with the massively-modular, evolutionary-environment-of-adaptedness-evolutionary psychology (MMEEA-EP) approach that its originators (Tooby and Cosmides) believed should define that field. This had the effect of appropriating the name of a whole field for one theoretical position within the field.2 By the time Dunbar and Barrett edited The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007), they apparently saw the need to take a more balanced stance, and they adopted Cecilia Heyes's notion of an "evolutionary psychology in the round,"3 which went far beyond the emphasis on mating and attractiveness of the MMEEA-EP approach arising from social psychology and sociobiology, to engage the extant literature in the evolution of cognition and mind and to connect with evidence and theorizing from paleoanthropology, archaeology, geology, anthropological genetics, comparative psychology, and more.
More generally, it is surprising in a philosophical handbook not to find a chapter on the history of neuroscience and physiological approaches to psychology, in philosophical connection.4 Bechtel admirably endeavors to supply a small portion of this history, but as this occurs in the midst of his systematic attention to other issues it is necessarily sketchy. In Bechthel's accounting, molecular and cellular neuroscience begins about 1962 through the work of Frank Schmitt. Systems neuroscience emerges from brain physiology going back to the nineteenth century, behavioral neuroscience takes up the torch from physiological psychology in the 1980s, and cognitive neuroscience arises in the late 1980s. Taking the early part of Bechtel's focal period, other events would have been worthy of note, including the founding of an interdisciplinary Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1953 at the University of Pennsylvania, Roger Sperry's appointment as Professor of Psychobiology at Cal Tech in 1954, and the publication in 1958 of papers from an interdisciplinary seminar bringing together "anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and behavior" at Wisconsin in the 1950s, as well as the ocurrence of other nationally organized seminars studying the relation between the biological and biochemical sciences and mental health (including normal mental processes).5 Psychobiology, psychophysiology, and physiological psychology were terms invented in the nineteenth century and which named approaches that were taken throughout the twentieth century. These approaches are part of the history of what are now called the neurosciences, and that history should include figures such as Karl Lashley, Frank Beach, Harry Harlow, and Karl Pribram (to name only a few of those active in the middle third of the twentieth century). Assuming, of course, that the history of neuroscience is not to be defined as the history of scientists who called themselves neuroscientists.
The volume is to be commended for collecting chapters that address issues of reduction, intentional eliminativism, enactivism, and the extended mind, as well as several nuts-and-bolts case studies in the practice of neuroscience. Depending on one's specific interests, there is more or less to find. It is a good starting place especially for those interested in current controversies in the neuroscientific reduction of memory consolidation.
1 Jerry Fodor, Psychological Explanation (New York: Random, 1968), esp. ch. 3; Robert Cummins, "Functional Analysis," Journal of Philosophy 72 (1975): 741-64; John Haugeland, "The Nature and Plausibility of "SpellE">Cognitivism," Behaviorial and Brain Sciences 1 (1978): 215-26.
2 A similar manipulation of names occurs in the present volume, when psychophysics is said to be "a "SpellE">subdiscipline of visual neuroscience" (p. 205). Presumably, in this scheme, psychology and cognitive science are to be reckoned as subdisciplines of neuroscience more generally.
3 Cecilia Heyes, "Evolutionary Psychology in the Round," in The Evolution of Cognition, ed. Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), 3-22.
4 In his introduction, Bickle dates the beginning of the philosophy of neuroscience to P. S. Churchland's Neurophilosophy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986), stating that this work "codified certain fundamentals," such as a focus on theories "in psychology and the neurosciences" (p. 3). In fact, Churchland's work is noteworthy for its lack of attention to actual theories in scientific (as opposed to a mythical "folk") psychology and for its mischaracterization of the theories on memory that it does discuss, on which see Hatfield, "What Can the Mind Tell Us About the Brain? Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint," in Perception and Cognition: Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009), 429-50. More generally, philosophical authors informed on neurophysiology and psychology predate Churchland.
5 Harry F. Harlow and Clinton N. Woolsey (eds.), Biological and Biochemical Bases of Behavior (Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 1958), jacket cover and preface.


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Those who know me (personally or professionally) have probably noticed that I'm an impatient person. This is both ironic and predictable: like other Generators (in Human Design), my Strategy is to WAIT to receive. So… I'm designed to be receptive (which is in alignment with the divine feminine principles of wisdom, ordering, and receiving). What all Generators want is satisfaction – more than peace (Manifestors) or success (Projectors) or even happiness (Reflectors). We want to be satisfied in our work, at home, and in relationships, and when a Generator is not being her true self, operating according to her design, she rapidly gets frustrated. That is also a default setting, and one we all struggle with as Generators.
Now, if a person is attuned to frustration, or focused on frustration, then s/he will keep creating situations that involve frustration. It's part of that intolerance/addiction/allergy trifecta. As my first nutritionist said, if the person doesn't know what s/he is allergic to, he first checks their cravings. The system maintains a creative tension between wanting and not-wanting. The same tension exists with the situations and issues that drive us nuts on a psychological level. It's always worth noticing what triggers you to a state of rage, or frustration, or grief, or whatever your mental/emotional default might be – and to resolve those buttons so that you no longer have to waste your time and energy with nonproductive reactions, and can be restored to choice. That's what Geotran is all about: restoring your choice instead of being at the mercy of automatic patterns, habits and addictions, which can be yours or another's.
Now, being impatient or tending to frustration is neither better nor worse than any other negative pattern, such as rage, lack, loss, sorrow, or whatever. It's part of my grain, and I'll probably be working with it or the rest of my life. At the same time, it's not helpful or productive, and it is stressful. The cascade in the mind and body produced by stress is definitely bad for the physical health and for the psycheas a whole (meaning how and what you think, feel, believe, and desire). A small amount of stress can push us into productive action; however, we quite quickly reach the point where toxic stress leads to exhaustion and adrenal breakdown, one of the key components of 'mystery ailments' like Epstein-Barr and other auto-immune problems.
I constantly get to remind myself that God is not the principal in a Catholic School, withholding some plan or blessing 'for my own good', or to make a point, or to strengthen my character. God can useapparently negative circumstances, but never imposesthem. The reality is that there is a higher perspective with longer-term plans and more imagination than I can easily picture, and there are actually good reasons for some apparent delays. If I can keep that in mind, I don't get frustrated quite as quickly, nor do I bring on as much stress. When I look back from a safe distance, I realize that often the end result is better than I could have achieved by myself, or than I could receive by pushing the river upstream.
I just want that good result NOW.


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The colour scheme for this beautiful room, added on in 1851, was taken from the portrait over the fireplace fondly known to the family as "pink boy". He was an earlier John Spedding of Armathwaite Hall who died young and the artist, Thomas Hudson, was the master of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
On either side of the large bay window are portraits by George Romney of Josias and Maria Morley, Yorkshire ancestors. John Constable was a friend of the family both in Suffolk, where John Spedding took his sons to Dr Malkin's school in Bury St Edmunds, and at Hampstead, where he was a neighbour of John Spedding's brother Anthony. Constable's small oil painting of Heath House, where Anthony lived, is on display in this room.
Adjacent to the Music Room, the Little Drawing Room contains a fascinating collection of family military and other memorabilia, including a particular Burmese collection. This room was generally used as the private room of the ladies of the House, particularly in the summer. Some of their sewing-boxes and china are kept here as well as early photographs of members of the family and staff.
Several members of the family have served in the army, and their military careers can be traced through their medals. A less martial figure is the portrait of John James Spedding (1856-1909) great-great-grandfather of the present owner. He commanded, at the same time, both the Border Regiment Rifle Volunteers and the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. When asked with which regiment he would go to war, he replied that the possibility of going to war had never occurred to him!


TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - October 08, 2015) - Primero Mining Corp. ("Primero" or the "Company") (TSX: P) (NYSE: PPP) today announced the appointment of Tamara Brown as Vice President, Corporate Development, effective October 16, 2015. Ms. Brown will succeed David Sandison.
Ms. Brown has held the position of Vice President, Investor Relations with Primero since the Company's inception in August 2010, and brings to the role a wide range of experience from professional engineering, investment banking and capital markets. Ms. Brown holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Curtin University in Australia and has completed the Chartered Business Valuator program at York University.
"I am pleased to announce Tamara's appointment to the role of VP, Corporate Development," said Joseph F. Conway, Chief Executive Officer. "Her many years in the mining industry, particularly those focused on capital markets, corporate strategy and M&A, make her ideally suited for this role. It is also important that David has agreed to stay on as a Senior Consultant to assist with the transition of the Corporate Development function and other corporate activities until his retirement from Primero early next year. We greatly appreciate David's years of dedicated service to Primero. His efforts have laid the building blocks for Primero's future successes and helped shape the Company into the emerging mid-tier gold producer that it is today. We wish him the best in his future personal and business endeavours."
Ms. Brown will retain oversight of the Investor Relations and Corporate Communications functions for an interim period to ensure a seamless transition of responsibilities.


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When I first started thinking about my favorite Disney comedy, only one movie popped into my head, even though I hadn't seen it in years.
A quick visit to Amazon ($1.99 video on demand--sweet!) reminded me exactly why I liked the movie so much. This 1968 fantasy about a Volkswagen Beetle with a personality of its own is funny, sweet and absolutely charming.
Down on his luck race car driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) can't win a race to save his life. Through a strange series of events, he acquires an old VW from crafty auto dealer--and racing rival--Peter Thorndyke (delightfully evil David Tomlinson). Soon, Douglas discovers there's more to this little Bug than just pistons and bolts as the car starts accelerating and steering of its own accord. Douglas dismisses the car's antics as nothing that can't be fixed with a few tools, and commences to get it in racing shape with the help of his best friend Tennessee (goofy, muffin-faced Buddy Hackett). Then, suddenly, Douglas starts winning. But, is it because of his skills as a driver....or does this magical Beetle (which Tennessee has named Herbie) have his own ticket to ride?
Disney dished out a lot of benign, cookie cutter comedies in the 1960s and '70s, but none that could match the fun of The Love Bug. It's not a laugh-out-loud comedy, although there are a number of decent chuckles during the racing sequences, especially those tied to Herbie's extreme dislike of Thorndyke. Mostly, it's a movie that makes you smile, whether at the absurdity of a car that thinks it's human, or at the sweet romance that blossoms between Douglas and Thorndyke's plucky assistant Carole (Michele Lee). The movie makes you feel good--and it reminded me I need to stop waiting so long between viewings.
This is part three of my 30-day Disney movie challenge. In tomorrow's installment, "the best doggone dog in the west" stars in my favorite Disney drama.
I stood alone in the tall grass of that Missouri farm, a large pond to my right, a rebuilt barn chock-full of messages and memories to my left. Behind me in the distance was a carefully maintained farm house painted bright red with white trim. As a child, its famous former resident once marveled at how beautiful the front yard was. Nearby, a century-old cottonwood tree shattered by a lightning strike remained, tall, resolute and very much alive despite the random harshness of nature. It takes more than a bolt from the blue to destroy dreams.
This was a special place to be on that hazy Friday afternoon, because here was where it all began. As the story goes, it was this idyllic Midwestern town that, in the early years of the 20th century, inspired a young boy's creativity and sent him down a path to build a pop culture empire. His name would one day be synonymous with family entertainment, magic and mice.
Welcome to Marceline, Walt Disney's boyhood home.
Walt's family moved to Marceline from Chicago in 1906, when he was just four years old. Though the family lived there only four more years, Walt would always claim Marceline as his hometown. "More things of importance happened to me in Marceline," he once said, "than have ever happened since, or are likely to in the future."
Walt may have spent more of his youth down the road in Kansas City, but it was Marceline that made the biggest impression. Kansas City was where an older Walt would work, starting with the paper route his father owned and ending with a bankrupt animation studio. That couldn't compare to this slice of small town America, the place a young boy caught his first fish and discovered his lifelong passion for trains. For the rest of Walt's life, Marceline would always conjure up images of green rolling hills, horse farms, gentle streams and quaint main streets.
Visit Marceline today and you'll find Walt everywhere, from the elementary school and public park that bear his name to the house where he and his family lived. In an appropriate homage to the man, the Walt Disney Hometown Museum is a renovated train station. During its heyday, this station was an important rail stop on Missouri's Santa Fe line. As you enter the museum, you can still see the ornate, fully-functional grandfather clock that kept the official time for the railroad. It's said that, back in the day, whenever Mr. Zurcher sold a watch at his store around the corner, he would first walk over to set the timepiece to the station clock.
Kaye Malins knows all the stories and happily shares them with visitors to Marceline. She runs the museum and, appropriately, lives in the house once occupied by Walt and his family. To spend any time with her is to hitch a nostalgic ride on the way-back machine to Walt Disney's Missouri. To spend the better part of a day with her, like I did, is to receive a true gift, especially if you're a Disney geek with an appreciation of history.
The museum collection contains over 3,000 items, including a wide range of photos and memorabilia representative of Walt's childhood through his return visits to Marceline in the 1950s and '60s. Among the treasures are the diaries and family letters of Walt's sister Ruth, who Kaye came to know before Ruth's death in 1995. "Ruth never threw anything away," said Kaye. As proof, Kaye showed me a vintage RCA television from the 1950s. She learned about the TV when she was collecting items from Ruth's son, Ted Beecher. As Kaye explained, "I'm archiving everything and here's a receipt for a television set about the time Disneyland opened (in 1955). And I go, 'Ted, what is this?' He said, 'Well, my mother didn't like crowds, so Uncle Walt sent us money to buy a new television set to watch the opening of Disneyland on. You want the TV?' It was out in his shed."
Another great historical item is an iron drafting table from Pesman-Rubin, the Kansas City ad agency where Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks worked briefly in 1919. It was the first artist job for both men and marked the beginning of a working relationship (and sometimes strained friendship) between the two that would last decades. The drafting table was almost certainly used by both of them and is an important artifact from their early creative careers.
And then there's the desk.
Preserved under glass is a student desk from Marceline's Park Elementary School, which young Walt Disney attended. Carved in two places on the surface are the letters "WD." In later years, Walt said he couldn't specifically recall carving his initials in the desk, but he did concede it sounded like something he would've done. Apparently, no one else with the initials W.D. ever came forward to admit the deed, so the story sticks. This was Walt's desk.
Was this Walt Disney's school desk? We think so.
Not far from the museum, next to the Walt Disney Municipal Swimming Pool, are the remains of the only Disneyland attraction to ever be transplanted to a non-Disney location. In 1966, to help make room for what would become It's a Small World, Walt Disney removed the Midget Autopia, a kiddy version of the classic Autopia car ride. He then donated the track and all the vehicles to Marceline. The town continued to operate the ride until the early 1970s, when maintenance and operation costs became a problem. The track still remains, as do a handful of cars that weren't already cannibalized for parts. Marceline even donated a vehicle back to Disneyland to display as a trackside statue on the current version of the Autopia in Tomorrowland. Kaye hopes to one day restore and relocate the Midget Autopia to an area adjacent to the museum.
Day or night, you can come and go as you please to Walt's Barn. You'll find it just a short stroll away from the house where the Disneys lived, on land currently owned by Kaye and her family. The barn has no turnstile and it costs you nothing to visit. The Malins maintain the barn and its grounds out of their own pockets and want nothing in return other than respect for the property. "It just seems like the right thing to do," says Kaye.
But, be sure to bring a Sharpie. You're expected to leave a message.
The barn is a replica of the one Walt built at his 1950s home in Holmby Hills, California, the site of his beloved Carolwood Pacific model railroad. The Carolwood barn was itself built based on the blueprints for the barn Walt knew on the farm in Marceline. The new Marceline barn was built in 2001 to coincide with Walt Disney's 100th birthday celebration. And it was then that a curious thing happened. As Kaye explains, "There's a beam in (the barn) that was at Disneyland for people to autograph. And then the company sent it back to be installed in the barn. And people started seeing it and leaving their own autographs and messages. We thought, well, we might as well embrace it and make sure it happened right. It's just the dearest thing."
Inside the barn on every board and beam are hundreds, possibly thousands, of signatures and personal comments that have been left by visitors over the years. Some people just jot down their names and the dates they were there. Others compose tributes to Walt. A few noteworthy names have drawn pictures in honor of Marceline's annual celebration of cartoon art, Toonfest. Pixar director/animator Pete Docter sketched one-eyed Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. Cartoonist Tom Wilson drew his comic strip creation Ziggy. Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter roughed out a picture of Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. On my visit, I took it as a good sign that there was an empty space next to Tony's drawing. I wrote a note to Walt, thanking him for his inspiration, and signed it. I felt in pretty good company.
If Walt's Barn is a place to share your thoughts and dreams with others, then the Dreaming Tree is made for quiet introspection. The old cottonwood tree is at the other end of the footpath leading to the barn and was a favorite spot for Walt and Ruth to play and while away the hours as kids. Even as an adult, Walt enjoyed spending quiet moments beneath the tree on his return visits to Marceline. The tree lost some of its grandeur from a lightning strike a few years back, but none of its symbolism. It still stands as a stalwart reminder of the innocent and compelling power of a child's imagination. If it could inspire magical ideas and tap into the nostalgic memories of Walt Disney, what could it do for you? A session or two under the Dreaming Tree might not motivate you to build your own fairy tale castles, but there's nothing wrong with just spending a lazy spring afternoon sitting on the grass below it, inspecting the bugs and watching the birds fly by.
It's been almost a year since I visited Marceline and Kaye reminded me recently that I need to come back. I think I'll take her up on the offer soon. Whether to immerse myself in Disney history or just take a break from the hectic pace of modern life, Marceline is worth the trip.
The Walt Disney Hometown Museum reopened this month following its annual winter hiatus. For museum hours and additional information, go to www.waltdisneymuseum.org. When you visit the museum, make sure to tell Kaye and her mom Inez that I said "Hi!"


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Most of her early purchases were bought using Owner Financing. This is a strategy that seasoned investors like Judy use to buy houses without using banks. Listen as she talks about the differences in owner financing today as compared to back in the 1980's, it's amazing. Judy tells about her history doing deals when interest rates were at 18% and using wrap notes to sell houses. At the time of this interview, Judy has 35 personal listings on the MLS and she is managing over 1000 rental units, Unbelievable.
Judy has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hampton Roads Realtors Associating for changing the face of the community and she is Woman of the Year for the National Professional Association of Women 2011-12 for her contributions to the community and to the profession. Her Mission remains to help her community & families with children through here real estate work, church and charities. To promote organ donation in hope of curing cancer & childhood diseases through research such as St. Jude Children's Hospital & Mayo Clinic.
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The Information Security Policy Framework, which includes Information Security Principles and detailed Information Security Policies and Procedures, is available to all employees. In the past year, a number of policies have been updated, including major amendments on the security of electronic communication, and client access to the bank's infrastructure policies. Chief Business Information Security Officers within each business division are ultimately responsible for the operational aspects of ensuring compliance with the Information Security Principles.
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Giving Up A Bad Habit & Emmy Night Fashion!!
Okay, this is not something I want to brag about, BUT I am really proud of myself.........I am one week SODA-FREE!! That's right, I have been able to go an entire week without drinking any soda and actually able to increase my water intake.
How to I feel? Well the first few days my stomach stayed in knots. My body craved the carbonation and sugar sooooo bad, but as I sit on day 7, I can honestly say my body is beginning to calm down. I am hoping that in another week my mind will stop craving soda, and then I think things will get easier.
In the spirit of reclaiming my health, my new goal I am working at this week is NO EATING after 9:00 p.m. It seems that I eat really well from early AM - 7:00 p.m. and then I feel famished and eat too many calories. So here is to NO EATING AFTER 9 p.m.


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Curtis Hanson directs Kim Basinger in LA Confidential
For our Saturday movie date this week, we're marking the twentieth anniversary of LA Confidential, which opened in September 1997, with a belated tip of the hat to its director, Curtis Hanson, who died last year sooner than he should have. You expect feature films to have problems with Jane Austen or Henry James, but what's depressing in recent times is the way they seem to have difficulty even managing their own relatively straightforward genres. By way of example, a week or two before LA Confidential was released, a thriller opened in which barely anything made sense: Mel Gibson's Conspiracy Theory started off perfectly fine with a paranoid cabbie, suddenly lurched into Manchurian Candidate territory, and wound up with one of those villains who has innumerable opportunities to kill Mel but never does because he prefers toying with him - which only movie baddies do. Like so many films, it's a compilation album of bits which work fine in other pictures.
So it came as something of a surprise to find Brian Helgeland, who wrote Conspiracy Theory, doing such a fine job twenty minutes later with LA Confidential, adapted from a then very recent source, James Ellroy's dense hallucinatory crime novel of the early Fifties - and directed by Curtis Hanson, who'd spent the Nineties doing amiable formula stuff like The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. You miss Ellroy's chopped-up pseudo-bop voice for about 40 seconds, but there's Johnny Mercer singing "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" over the opening titles, which is a droll choice. In great thrillers - Double Indemnity, say - Los Angeles itself and its particular social cartography are a kind of character in the plot, which is why Michael Winner's decision to relocate The Big Sleep to Surrey didn't work out for him. When the title's LA Confidential, you need a sense of place even more, and Hanson delivers, from the grubby glamour of Dante Spinotti's cinematography to the voluptuous menace in Jerry Goldsmith's fine score, in which even the arrival of literal rodents is accompanied by the string section.
It's Christmas Eve in the City of Angels: Dino's on the hi-fi, a husband batters his wife under the Yuletide lights, and down at the precinct the LAPD does much the same to a bunch of hapless Mexicans. Some of the dramatis personae here are real: Mickey Cohen, the boxer turned mobster whose incarceration prompts a run of gangland slayings by would-be successors; Johnny Stompanato, the thug with the classy dame who wound up starring in the city's starriest (pre-OJ) murder trial. James Ellroy knows this world well: his dad was Rita Hayworth's accountant, and his mom's murder has been unsolved for six decades. But most of the characters are his own, especially the three cops: Bud White, a thick-set, seething street tough; Edward Exley, a bespectacled pencil-necked rookie despised by his comrades; and Jack Vincennes, a morally relaxed dandy who serves as paid adviser to a "Dragnet" knock-off on TV by day and plays LA's celebrity crime-stopper by night.
The film introduces almost all its characters as types - a suggestion here, a gesture there, and we assume, having seen so many cop thrillers, that we know them already. At which point, ever so unobtrusively, they begin to trade places. Just as the film blends real events with fiction, so its cast mixes familiar Hollywood faces with complete unknowns. For a Hollywood production set in Hollywood's back yard, Hanson went to the furthest reaches of the British Commonwealth for half his principals: the Antipodeans Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce play White and Exley, respectively; James Cromwell, last seen as Babe's farmer, is the weather-beaten police captain, Dudley Smith. Hot off The Usual Suspects, the enigmatic Kevin Spacey plays Vincennes, hovering suavely on the brink between self-satisfaction and self- loathing. "Why'd you become a cop?" asks Exley.
Vincennes pauses, gazes across the room and says blankly, "I don't remember." As often with Spacey, you're not quite sure what's going through him at that moment, even as the plot conspires to give him a chance to remember.
Danny DeVito is a sleazeball gossip peddler, Kim Basinger is a novelty whore, and perhaps the most pleasurable aspect of the entire movie is that billing is irrelevant: in contrast to the usual so-called "ensemble" pictures in which the cast are picked off in order of increasing check size, it's startling to be confronted by a film that stacks up a Hamlet-scale body count while disdaining the conventions: You have no way of knowing who'll make it to the end. If there's a character who embodies (so to speak) the film it's the one who could so easily have brought the whole edifice crashing down. Kim Basinger plays Lynn Bracken, the aspiring actress who caught the bus to Hollywood and wound up a hooker. "It's still acting," she points out, which is true enough and a point that the typical bored dead-eyed trollop might bear in mind. But it's especially so in Lynn's case: She works for the Fleur de Lys, which specializes in girls who've been "cut" (as in plastic surgery) and coiffed to look like your favorite movie stars. Lynn is the lookalike for Veronica Lake, the in-house Veronica Lakealike.
Of course, she doesn't look like Veronica Lake so much as a sad, shop-worn Kim Basinger. But Basinger is terrific as a hard-edged, half-defeated romantic fantasist. As yet another man crosses her threshold, the turntable plays Gershwin - "They're writing songs of love/But Not For Me" - and somehow what should be an overly crass statement of the obvious instead hints at other outcomes. Basinger as Bracken as Lake gets to the heart of LA Confidential, a meditation of the burrows of deceit that hollow out Los Angeles. In a company town where the industry is the production of make-believe, why wouldn't that seep out from the factory to infect reality? The film doesn't answer that philosophical conundrum, but, in one of several ingenious diversions along the way, it does use it as the basis for an excellent Lana Turner joke.
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James O'Sullivan • Sep 25, 2017 at 11:36
It's amazing how Mark - and the commenters - are able to discuss the plot without saying "spoiler alert." One of the most unexpected plot twists I've ever seen. If you haven't seen this film, do not die before doing so. Great entertainment.
Bob Belvedere • Sep 25, 2017 at 09:52
-Those involved in the creation of L.A. Confidential deserve special kudos for taking a damn fine, but very complicated book and turning into a feature-length film. James Ellroy's books really cry-out for the mini-series treatment, so this crew pulled-off the nearly impossible.
-It should be noted for the record that the late, great Jack Webb was nothing like Jack Vincennes.
Ted Marolf • Sep 24, 2017 at 17:20
Twenty years ago I was working for a small alarm company in Costa Mesa, CA. The owner would sometimes take a salesman to lunch when he was looking for something to do. He was about 79 years old at the time and he would reminisce about his time working at LAPD, and particularly his tenure in the intelligence department. Two things stand out in my memory of those stories - a description of the fun he and his partner had doing their job..."We were kings!"...and a rather involved account of how he and his partner - who later became an LA Superior Court judge - were tasked with assassinating Mickey Cohen. They worked six months on getting it done and just when they were going to pull the trigger, so to speak, they were pulled off. I was dubious to say the least, but when we got back to the office, he showed me a beautiful color magazine/book about "LA Confidential - the Movie" with the simple comment - "That was my life". The next day he brought me a xerox of an LA Times clipping with photo of him, his partner and Mickey Cohen as they were bringing him in on the charge of "cursing at a woman in public". Jerry Wooters, his compadres of the era would say"had the balls of a lion". I wish I would have paid better attention.
Kathy Shaidle • Sep 24, 2017 at 10:04
PS: What IS it about Los Angeles? Admittedly my first hand knowledge of the city is limited to a very short business trip 20 years ago. But according to The Movies, the city -- The Movies' own city -- was doomed and cursed from the start. There's no other city I can think of that has that apparently factory installed atmosphere of corruption and pending doom. As if, in a reversal of the natural order of things, its been _rotting_ rather than growing since it's birth, but in VERY slow motion, and throwing off deceptively pretty sparks while it does so.
When I recommend this movie, I'm sure to advise: "Listen to EVERY single line of dialogue, no matter how seemingly trivial; you'll thank me later..."
William Stroock • Sep 23, 2017 at 20:45
Always loved the names, Ed Exely, Bud White, etc etc.
George Pazin • Sep 23, 2017 at 20:22
I had forgotten that Hollywood once made entertaining action movies that didn't require costume clad superheroes...
This movie has long been one of my favorites. I thought the big 3 were all terrific - well written, cast, and acted - and loved the way the three wove through each others' work and personal lives. Hearing the name Rolo Tomasi will always make me smile, just so clever. And James Cromwell was just superb: "Hush, hush..."
This movie is like Shawshank Redemption and a few others: if I stumble across it while flipping channels, I usually finish watching it. That's one of the highest compliments I can think of after seeing a movie.
Donald Weatherwax George Pazin • Sep 24, 2017 at 15:17
Well put, George. This film's in the "Shawshank category" for me too. The script is great; obviously it had plenty to work with, but trimming it, constructing a new ending, etc., had to have taken a lot of labor. The Australia-steeped casting is spot on -- never mind Guy Pearce doing his thing (this and Memento are my favorites of his), or Cromwell playing brilliantly against type (he has the worst politics of any actor here; sometimes I like to think he's just acting). But Russell Crowe just owns Bud White. Not since Mel Gibson's Riggs have I seen an Aussie actor connect so well with American audiences playing a Yankee cop. By the end of the film, all Crowe had to do was smile at that D.A. -- not saying a word, just letting him talk -- and all around me in the theater, I could feel the audience just cringing at what was surely coming next. And unlike Gibson, Crowe didn't have a trio of imported Australian hits (Gallipoli, The Road Warrior, The Year of Living Dangerously) to preload his U.S. fan base. Without this film, Gladiator doesn't happen.
But the old-school filmic storytelling, almost a lost art nowadays, is what sets <>>L.A. Confidential apart. Certainly director Curtis Hanson never did a better job. Somehow, in a remarkably complicated film with dozens of period characters and settings, Hanson makes sure the audience is never confused for long. For my money, "Rollo Tomasi" is right up there with "Keyser Söze" in terms of a possibly nonexistent person nonetheless driving the plot forward. A classic that still holds up today.
Ken Coffman • Sep 23, 2017 at 18:34
What I like about this film is the role models. What does it mean to man up and face the consequences? Flawed men rise to the occasion to be heroic. There are no medicated metrosexuals in sight.
George Pazin Ken Coffman • Sep 23, 2017 at 20:23
An excellent observation, well said, Ken.
Michael Welsh Ken Coffman • Sep 24, 2017 at 13:45
Actually, there is that one character, the unctuous District Attorney Loew, who fits the metrosexual bill. He even grooms himself in the mirror.
But, not coincidentally, he ends up soiling himself as White dangles him out of his own office window in an entertaining "good cop/bad cop" routine.


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The HTC One mini has a software suite that's identical to the HTC One. This means you'll see Android 4.2.2 loaded out of the box, along with HTC Sense 5.0 and any carrier-specific applications. Some applications that were included on the HTC One, such as the TV app, haven't been included as the hardware isn't there to support it, but largely the experience is identical.
Many aspects of Sense 5.0 have been refined from the previous versions seen last year, including a design that fits better with the current Android UI, and speed improvements throughout the OS. While the UI has been tweaked, the skin is still 'heavy' in the sense that nearly every included app (bar Google's) has been skinned. This sort of skinning irritates me, because a lot of the time the skin adds no new features, or the design changes actually make the app harder to use.
Luckily HTC's Sense skin isn't as intrusive as Samsung's TouchWiz, or LG's UI on the G2, and the keyboard is one of the best custom keyboards I've seen on an Android phone. The notification pane and lockscreen are basic with a few additional features, and HTC has refrained from including any gimmicky features such as eye scrolling and touchscreen hovering.
BlinkFeed is perhaps the biggest addition to HTC's software offering, and its inclusion has divided many people I've talked to. The news and social aggregator sits permanently affixed to the first homescreen, delivering a stream of updates alongside the time and current weather. BlinkFeed is extremely customizable, allowing you to select which news categories you'd like to hear from, including technology news, politics and entertainment. You can also include Facebook and Twitter updates, photos from Instagram and Flicker, plus apps included on the phone.
Personally I like BlinkFeed, as it gives me a quick overview of the day's news from the categories that I like to read. When I'm on public transport it's a great way to pass some time by reading updates, and the content that's aggregated is usually of high quality. Although BlinkFeed can't actually be disabled, anyone who doesn't want to use it can select a different homescreen as the default one, which will deliver you apps and widgets first and foremost.
Another area of the One mini's software that HTC has spent a lot of time on is the gallery. There is a standard Album mode where you can view individual photos, but more interestingly there is an Events mode. Here, photos are organized by day, and a video slideshow is rendered in real-time for each set of photos for a quick 30 second snapshot of what happened. It's not the best mode for viewing individual photos, but if you've been on holiday for example, this mode will compile a quick slideshow you can share with friends or family.
The One mini's software is acceptable as far as Android skins go, and there's some interesting features that may enhance how you use the phone. However it's also easy to overlook what HTC has included, meaning for better or worse you'll be left with a simple, comprehensive skinning of Android 'Jelly Bean'.
The HTC One mini is an interesting proposition. For $600, you can grab an unlocked HTC One, and for $500, you can get a HTC One mini, so by opting for a 4.3-inch display, you're saving yourself $100. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as going for a smaller display: you're also getting a SoC downgrade from a Snapdragon 600 to Snapdragon 400, with less RAM, less storage and less connectivity features; plus a camera that lacks stabilization, and a smaller battery.
Without considering other phones on the market, the HTC One mini is a very solid device for its class. The 4.3-inch Super LCD 2 display is very high quality, the build quality is top-notch despite not reducing the size of the phone significantly, and the Snapdragon 400 provides enough performance for everyday use. HTC's Ultrapixel camera is still somewhat a disappointment, but software tweaks could improve it in the future.
The problem I have with the One mini is that through spending an extra $100 to buy the full-sized HTC One, you're getting a range of improvements across the board which are more than worth the extra cost. The HTC One is also only 5mm wider and taller, making the mini not that much smaller, so unless you're extremely attached to the idea of a 4.3-inch display, the mini isn't the HTC device that should be on your radar.
Pros: Aluminum design is solid and premium, complemented by fantastic Super LCD 2 display. Decent (but not high-end) performance from the Snapdragon 400.
Cons: As neither a premium nor cheap 4.3-inch device, the HTC One presents better value for money. The "Ultrapixel" camera is still disappointing, more so without OIS.
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One of the world's leading architectural firms is set to revive a decrepit corner of Warsaw as part of a project funded by EPP and Echo Investment. Already known for cutting edge designs such as Lego House (Denmark), Two World Trade Center (USA), and Google HQs in LA and London, BIG, an architectural studio founded and fronted by the award-winning Bjarke Ingels, revealed their plans for Poland at March's MIPIM real estate fair held in Cannes.
At the center of this development will be the historic Dom Słowa Polskiego building, a printing house that grew to become the largest in Poland during the communist period – throughout the 70s, approximately 27 million books, 510 million newspapers and 195 million magazines rolled off the presses here each year. Finally liquidated in 2010, the plot had since fallen into steady decline.
Covering a usable area of 230,000 sq/m, the project envisions the full renovation of Dom Słowa Polskiego, with modernist 1950s details such as its skylights and spiral staircases restored to their prime, and the introduction of an "archipelago of inter-connected gardens and public spaces." Fully integrated into the fabric of the city, the finished concept will also see a section of ul. Wronia covered with a glass ceiling and the ground level in-filled with bars and restaurants. "When designing Towarowa 22," says Bjarke Ingels, "we drew from the rich cultural history of Warsaw to create a contemporary neighborhood with a lasting value for the future." As such, further innovations will include a theater, a Museum of Print, and a cinema facility with the capability of hosting major premiers and film festivals. As things stand, much paperwork still needs to be filed, however, Echo are hopeful that the masterplan will be adopted and the relevant building permits issued in the near future. Should that happen, building work could begin as early as next year with the one-stage project taking around five to six years to fully implement.


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Published on November 5th, 2018 | Updated on November 5th, 2018 | By FanFest
This post contains spoilers for episode 9×05 of The Walking Dead. Read at your own risk!
Well, folks – the Little Asskicker is not so little anymore and it is absolutely brilliant. The final moments of last night's episode of The Walking Dead, "What Comes After", gave the series its biggest time jump ever, introducing viewers to an older (and still ass kicking) Judith Grimes. It's by far the most game-changing move the series has made and having this new beginning occur on the heels of Rick Grimes' exit provided the perfect fresh start for both the series and the fans. Let's take a look back at the scene and talk about what it means for the future of The Walking Dead.
In a scene very reminiscent of how we first met Tyrese and Sasha's group, the episode's final moments open up on a new group of survivors who we know to be Walking Dead comic characters Magna (Nadia Hilker), Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), Luke (Dan Fogler), Connie (Lauren Ridloff) and Kelly (Angel Theory).
The group has found themselves in quite a pickle with a herd of walkers, and as the herd encroaches in on them, they take up a circle formation – a strategy that was a favorite of one Rick Grimes.
And just all hope seems lost, shots ring out, clearing a path for the group to make their exit and a young voice yells out to them.
When they encounter a young girl in the woods, she picks up Rick/Carl's iconic sheriff's hat off the ground and completely changes the course of the series, introducing herself as Judith Grimes.
Judith Grimes will be played by Cailey Fleming.
We've got a time jump, people! Me, immediately after meeting older Judith:
Can we also take a second to recognize Judith's entire look? Not only does she look like Sarah Wayne Callies, who played her mom Lori, but she's got Rick's gun, a small katana, and the hat. She is the perfect embodiment of the entire Grimes family.
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The scene was a completely surprising addition to an already action-packed and heavy episode and one that is sure to thrill fans about what's to come. Despite the season starting off with a time jump, having a second one and introducing an older Judith truly feels like a fresh start and a new beginning. It's the perfect way to continue Rick's story and keep his presence around without the actual character himself.
[row]"When people come back for episode six, they're in for another new beginning…we'll see these new characters [and how] the world has changed and not only in just the way it will look, but in the relationships of all these characters and the history that has transpired between the end of Rick's story [in] 905 and the start of 906. A lot of time has passed," Scott Gimple told The Hollywood Reporter.[/row]
On Talking Dead, Melissa McBride (Carol) revealed that roughly six years will have past in the time jump, so, it's even more exciting to think about what other advancements are on the horizon. When episode six returns, not only are the characters going to be much more evolved, but so will Alexandria, the other communities they've built, and the walkers. While none of them are aware that Rick Grimes is still alive, the preview for the episode showed that they are very much keeping his vision for the future intact. It also reveals once again that the show's new Big Bad, The Whisperers, are making their grand entrance. Check it out below!
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As debate starts at City Hall on a proposed four-year budget plan, some Calgarians worry the added costs will leave them behind.
Calgary leads the nation in economic growth, salaries and population increases, and now the city's budget calls for big hikes in taxes and fees to pay for it all.
Troy Johnson spent his adult life providing for those in need, but the likely tax increases leave him wondering who will look out for him.
"Us folks in the front line working with disabled folks in Calgary, due to government cutbacks on funding and what not, (mean) every penny is super important for us," said Johnson.
"We just have to really put a lot of work into our budgeting, and make sure we can make it through every week and every month."
Budget plans include a 4.7 per cent tax increase for each of the next four years.
They also call for significant increases in utilities, including water and waste/recycling fees.
By the end of 2018, the average homeowner will have paid an additional $900 to the city.
However on Monday, councillors claimed it's a tight, no-frills budget.
"It's been a part of the conversation that we've had on council throughout this whole process, how do we keep the taxes as low as we possibly can while also maintaining some services for those same Calgarians who need them?" said Evan Woolley, councillor for Ward 8.
Calgarians could also pay more for annual transit passes. Tammy Poirier appeared before city council on Monday calling for a freeze on low-income passes.
"Right now with the rent and food increase, it's going to be impossible for me to be able to afford my bus pass and to get around," said Poirier.
Disability Action Hall said projected increases may be small, but to many struggling below the poverty line, it could mean staying home and doing without.
"We want to see those low-income transit passes frozen until September 2015 when the data is there to actually make an educated decision on financial impact," said Colleen Huston with Disability Action Hall.
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