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The Last Jedi Is The Batman v Superman Of Star Wars
To suggest a kinship between Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Batman v Superman is sure to rile up fans and detractors of both tentpoles equally, but may actually be the key to understanding why the pair have proven so divisive; and tell us the real problem with the so-called "fan-critic" divide.
If you were wanting to compare Episode VIII to one of the Batman films, the obvious parallel would be The Dark Knight. It's a sequel, the second of a major reboot, that's altogether bigger than what's came before that takes a mature look at its well-established heroes and why they really do what they do. And nobody would disagree that Adam Driver's Kylo Ren is the best blockbuster villain since Heath Ledger's Joker. But when you break it down, there's an unexpected film in the Caped Crusader's pantheon that it's closer to.
On paper, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice would have been The Dark Knight of the shared universe era. A deconstruction of both its titular heroes – a highlighting of their fundamental dichotomy – full of icon-shaking turns, it aimed to expand the proto-DCEU and provide a grown-up experience but instead wound up one of the most divisive films of the 2010s: seemingly for every fan claiming it a masterpiece of cinema, there was a detractor ready to decry it a genre folly. Now, why does that sound familiar? Since its release, The Last Jedi has become marked out as the most-divisive entry in the saga, with effusive reviews made to seem all the more positive thanks to an extreme fan backlash. Considering it too was coming from a high-reaching place, the similarities already begin to come to light.
To make clear, we're not going to be comparing the films on any subjective or artistic level, rather take in how The Last Jedi and Dawn of Justice have, against all odds, ended up in the same area of the pop culture discussion – and why this is very important for mainstream cinema going forward.
HOW BATMAN V SUPERMAN AND THE LAST JEDI ARE SO SIMILAR
From conception, both films were strange beasts. They're auteur projects, driven by their directors: Zack Snyder was following up his own Man of Steel with a story of his own devising written by past and future recurring collaborators David Goyer and Chris Terrio, with regular producer Deborah Snyder on hand; Rian Johnson directed a screenplay he himself wrote built on a daring pitch to Lucasfilm, working alongside producing partner Ram Bergman. By all accounts, they were gifted a rare degree of freedom by their brand-concerned higher-ups at DC and Lucasfilm respectively, with both getting final cut (albeit to a studio-mandated runtime).
But, above all, they were ambitious films. Neither was happy just playing in the nostalgia sandbox like J.J. Abrams in The Force Awakens or Bryan Singer with Superman Returns but wanted to advance and explore the themes, world and characters. They deconstructed Luke Skywalker and Superman, Darth Vader (by way of his grandson Ben Solo) and Batman, but on a grander scale the tropes of the franchise. What makes a Star Wars/Batman/Superman movie? What do these heroes really mean to people, and how does their multi-decade legacy stand today.
More granular, there are obvious narrative parallels. Both are an above-average two-and-a-half hours long (The Last Jedi is just a minute longer than Dawn of Justice), with a recognizable blockbuster style presented in a manner approaching epic – they've been compared to Lawrence of Arabia and Shakespearean tragedies respectively. There's a central scene with a shocking twist that purposely challenges everything the audience thought they knew without ever truly upsetting, a hero death at the end that is more about the nature of the sacrifice to their arc than it is the act itself, and all this alongside character realignment from the previous film and what we'd seen long before.
That last point is particularly important given the position in the franchise. Each movie is the middle of a planned trilogy that runs alongside other new movies set in the universe and exist contextually against forty years of the heroes on the big screen. Yes, the positioning within the story is different – Man of Steel was a standalone, new generation and Batman v Superman more overtly setting up the future, while The Force Awakens and The Last Jediare more conscious of the series' entire scope – but it's a similar pivot point all the same.
Of course, the end results are completely different. Even those who love/hate both would never say the movies feel like obvious bedfellows. But it is nevertheless in the post-release reactions where the films' comparisons – and their telling distinction – really comes to light.
THE LAST JEDI AND BATMAN V SUPERMAN HAVE OPPOSITE FAN-CRITIC DIVIDES
There's always been a perceived divide between fan and critical opinion (in the days following The Last Jedi's release, a clip of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert defending the mildly-reviewed Return of the Jedi upon release has gone viral) but it's escalated in recent years. The nexus point may well be Batman v Superman – the cast were already claiming their film was for fans not reviewers before the embargo was even up, and the backlash to its Rotten Tomatoes score brought up cries of critics being paid off – but it's only grown with The Last Jedi, where those same allegations have abounded.
The big difference is where the line is drawn: with Dawn of Justice, it was the fans who were defending a movie torn down by critics; for Star Wars, the critics are the ones trumpeting the film. This reflects Star Wars' appeal, yes, but also Johnson's/Snyder's handling of their similar movies. The former stayed within the familiar structural elements, with his movie building on what was established; the latter built on his own, already divisive style.
Now, it must be said that none of this is quite what it seems; these aren't equally matched sides. Much has been made of how The Last Jedi's 55% audience score is fake (despite Rotten Tomatoes, still reeling from a DC-based fracas last month, claiming otherwise), which suggests more like than dislike, although the same can be said to be true of Dawn of Justice; the defenders are more vocal but the box office failure of Justice League in the wake of smash hit Wonder Woman shows they're not strong in numbers. When taken rationally, everything is less intense, with extreme sides distracting from a heavily-populated middle ground (evidenced by other scoring methods). Things are skewed further when the reasons to champion or takedown a project become political: the moment it's about SJWs or Trump, the art object at question ceases to be the center of discussion. Still, there is a marked divide in how these films are regarded, to the point it's the chief discussion.
The real clarification, though, is that critics are frankly more predisposed to Star Wars. Odds are a good chunk of people writing professionally about film today grew up with the originals or prequels, having this generation-defining series lead them into the wider world of film, and as a result are more open to its nuances and changes to the form. This isn't exclusive, sure, but it's much more likely to have led a viewer to a career in movies than reading Batman or Superman comics. Conversely, by that logic, common critical understanding and expectations of those two heroes comes primarily from the films, to which Snyder's entry was a vast departure from (especially in comparison to what's in print).
As both films being discussed aim to subvert expectations with big shockers, that can totally alter how they're read. This is an often unspoken aspect of the fan-critic divide, but the fact is some of these films need a fan entry point. We're, of course, ignoring all other artistic factors here, but that can explain the extreme divide, and how audience scores for the two movies tend to fall in a comparable ballpark (on Rotten Tomatoes they're just over ten points out).
What's interesting about the ensuing backlash, though, is how the discourse is incredibly similar. Of course, with professional writers being on one side that leads to a differing approach, but the arguments and vernacular line up. Chiefly is "you didn't understand it" as the buffer to addressing criticism of alleged greater problems. Fans used it to defend the plot structure and fight resolution of Batman v Superman, critics to back up how The Last Jedi is paced and its epic finale, but above all it's used to protect the "moments". Both sets of detractors, regardless of background, will claim there are key moments in both films "no one" can defend – Granny's peach tea or Leia Poppins – and yet that's exactly what both sides do.
It's not exclusive – there are pieces of all manner about both films that provide interesting arguments in all directions – but the popular discussion for both centers on assumptions about what the majority liked/didn't like. This means people are reacting not to the views of others, but what they think the views of others are. The problem wasn't that Batman killed, it's that Batman was a sadist. The problem wasn't that Holdo was woman, but that her plan didn't have any purpose. It's not that either film was a deconstruction in theory, it's that they handled it in ways people felt fundamentally distasteful. The irony is not just that the tables of criticism have been flipped, but that the arguments stay the same.
And this is where the comparison becomes important, because this goes much bigger than two blockbusters.
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE LAST JEDI AND BATMAN V SUPERMAN'S SHARED LEGACY?
There is still the concern of legacy. How will The Last Jedi be regarded long-term? Will it stand as an original trilogy-rivaling triumph as the common metrics suggest, or a subpar prequel comparison point? That can never be truly predicted, although the number of "better the second time" stories on social media do highlight the reasons for critical appreciation and hint at a growing acceptance of the controversial turns (again, speaking to Star Wars' bigger cultural position). That it's the establishment defending the film will mean a lot, as that's a discussion voice that will take a long time to shake (reviewers were on The Phantom Menace's case as early as fans, and have similarly continued to hurt BvS). Although, when we come to that point, it's clear we're dealing with something bigger.
The real legacy of this discussion is not tied to either of these films, rather what they show of the ongoing evolution of film discourse itself. As already stated, the fan-critic divide has always there, but over the past few years, the way movies are treated has become more aggressive and extreme. For so many, a new film has to be the best and/or worst with no middle ground, reflecting a sports-like culture that's taking over; we have panel talk shows that treat box office and Rotten Tomatoes scores as results, fans with defined "team" loyalty, and above all a pervasive desire of clear victory. And everyone plays into it.
That's why The Last Jedi and Batman v Superman, which have got such obliquely similar reactions despite the product being so different, are so deserving of comparison; they highlight just how embedded this polarized view to critique has become. Professional critic or paying audience, the emotion and verbiage is the same. This is in part because those party lines aren't exclusive – critics are fans, after all – but it also shows how the discussion is two sides of the same coin, with a shared, semi-oblivious rigidity that needs to be overcome; it's not a fan-critic divide, it's a collapse in communication.
At the moment, everything feels like a reactionary spiral. Hate makes those who love a film love it more, which further emboldens the haters. Indeed, most pieces on the quality of both films after initial reviews double as cultural reactions; it's not enough to explain why you were mixed on Batman v Superman or The Last Jedi, you need to position yourself in the discussion and explain why the common parlance is wrong. This isn't just reserved for big franchises either; just a week after Episode VIII, the same thing is happening with Bright, where mostly negative reviews are almost creating a more appreciative fanbase and setting up angry divides.
The future of this debate is really unclear, but something needs to change before it escalates. Above all, what needs to be accepted by those on all sides of the discussion is that it's not the result of one type of fan, or even just the nebulous idea of fandom; it's ever-present.
The extent of The Last Jedi's ongoing impact and potential legacy are still unclear, but from this early stage the Batman v Superman parallels are unavoidable. Luke was right: it really didn't go the way we thought.
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Aftermath: Plugstreet Wood 1920
The village of Ploegsteert – 'Plugstreet' to the British troops during the Great War – was at the southern end of the Ypres battlefields and was dominated by a huge expanse of woodland: Plugstreet Wood. The area saw fighting in the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 but then settled down to static trench warfare and rapidly became known as a 'nursery sector' where units fresh from England could acclimatise to the conditions of trench warfare. Many famous people served here in WW1: author Henry Williamson in 1914, war poet Roland Leighton in 1915, and Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden in 1916. The wood was overrun in the Battle of the Lys in April 1918 and finally taken by the Hull Pals in September 1918.
This image – another of the Nightingale stereo-cards – dates from 1920 and is taken on the Ploegsteert-Messines road, just south of Hyde Park Corner. The trees on the left are the western side of the wood and show what state it was in by the end of the war. The buildings ahead are close to the site of Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, opposite which today is the Ploegsteert Memorial. The rising ground in the distance is Hill 63, beyond which was Messines and the Messines Ridge. Although not a lunar landscape like the ground immediately around Ypres, the photo once again gives an insight into the desolate state of the battlefields at this time.
This entry was posted on 21/05/2012 by sommecourt. It was filed under Aftermath, Battlefields, Belgium, Flanders, Great War, Western Front, WW1, Ypres and was tagged with Aftermath, Battlefields, Flanders, Plugstreet, WW1, Ypres.
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Thanks for this. The road looks so forlorn.

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Job seekers take support groups at faith value
By JAY LINDSAYThe Associated Press
BEVERLY, Mass. - Her fellow job seekers offer groans as Diane Castro recalls the day she was laid off: The fear of being summoned to the front office. The phones in nearby cubicles going off like grenades. Finally, a ring at her desk.
Every member of the unemployment support group meeting has their own story to share and encouragement to give. In twice monthly gatherings, they exchange tips on writing resumes, developing new contacts and making ends meet.
They also pray.
"Father, we pray you would strengthen our faith and help us to wait on you," Castro said as heads bowed around her. "It can be so hard sometimes to be patient."
Castro's group is one of several church-related unemployment support groups that have formed around the country as the jobless rate reaches heights not seen for decades. On Thursday, the government reported a 9.5 percent unemployment rate for June, the worst in 26 years.
Job seekers can't use God as a reference, and studying Scripture might seem unrelated to grabbing a prospective employer's attention. But church support group members say the meetings aren't just about helping people find the next job; they're also about refining and strengthening their faith along the way.
"The help available and the assistance on a spiritual level is amazing," said Walter Baker, a retired human resources executive who leads a four-month-old group at Grace Community Church in Auburn, Wash.
Baker and Castro welcome the nonreligious to their groups, though very few people without faith have attended.
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Emeritus Associate Professor Mohamed Adhikari
Emeritus Associate Professor Mohamed Adhikari received his PhD from the University of Cape Town. After nearly three decades of research on various aspects of coloured identity and politics in South Africa he recently started working in the area of genocide studies, with a particular focus on settler colonialism and genocide.
Select publications:
Against the Current: A Biography of Harold Cressy (Cape Town: Juta, 2012)
The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010)
Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2009)
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community (Cape Town: Double Storey Books and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005)
James La Guma (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman Pty. Ltd, 1996)
Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:
"'A Total Extinction Confidently Hoped For': The Destruction of Cape San Society under Dutch Colonial Rule, 1700-1795", Journal of Genocide Research 12: 1 (2010), pp. 19-44.
"'We Have Been Reduced to Nothing': The Extermination of the Cape San (Bushman) Peoples in the 18th and 19th Centuries' (Translated into Hebrew), Zmanim90: 4 (2010)
"Hotel Rwanda: The Challenges of Historicising and Commercialising Genocide", Development Dialogue 50 (2008), pp. 173-96.
"'Streams of Blood and Streams of Money': New Perspectives on the Annihilation of the Herero and Nama Peoples of Namibia", Kronos 34 (2008), pp. 303-20.
"From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-modernist Re-imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa", African Historical Review 40: 1 (2008), pp. 77-100.
Current research projects:
Mohamed is currently working on two projects: (i) a long term enterprise investigating the relationship between European settler colonialism and genocide, and (ii) a collaborative study with over a dozen other scholars in various parts of the world exploring the dynamic of conflict between hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers, and asking why such clashes have almost invariably led to genocide.
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Article: Industrial Relations Skills - The next shortage
AUTHORAbhijit Bhaduri
WEDNESDAY17DEC 2014
Industrial Relations Skills - The next shortage
A dangerous vacuum is brewing as a whole generation of HR leaders has emerged from B-Schools lately with no stints in IR
In the pre-liberalization era, people who planned to pursue HR would start their career on the shop floor. In the job interviews, students would be tested on their knowledge of labour laws
The Make In India campaign is an opportunity to rethink Industrial Relations. But where is the next generation of IR professionals?
Those initial years were formative in many ways. In the early years of my career, I lived inside the factory premises. That meant I was at work almost all the time. On the first day, my colleague told me that the vacancy had come about because my predecessor had quit after he had been stabbed during an altercation! It was not unheard of for the IR manager to be manhandled or hurt. This was a factory in the outskirts of Kolkata and the workers had returned to work after a long strike. The atmosphere was still tense. I had a degree in Law that I thought would come in handy.
Earning the trust of the factory workers and the union representatives was the hardest part of the job. The workers would not even acknowledge my existence when I went to the shop floor. My manager told me that I had no choice in the matter. I would have to figure out how to connect with the employees.
I thought of visiting the workers colony, which was just outside the factory one evening. As I stepped out of the factory gate, I saw some teenagers playing football in the open field nearby. I could not help admiring the skills of the players as they weaved and dodged their way through the field. This became a daily ritual. One day, I got invited to play with them. I told them I was no good at any sport. They said they would coach me. Thus began my first lesson. It was only Human Relations and not IR that mattered. The kids invited me home after the game and introduced me to their parents who were employees of the factory. When I met them at work the next day, it was different.
I worked in that factory for a couple of years after that. It is not that I never had problems with the workers. The negotiations were always hard. I could not see them purely as workers doing collective bargaining. They were people first. The union leaders also expressed their discomfort in making unreasonable demands because they were not dealing with an IR manager, but a human being sitting across the table.
That stint taught me some of the most powerful lessons that have shaped my views about the world of work. I learned important lessons in building trust with my co-workers. Later in my career as the head of HR, once again I had the opportunity to manage industrial relations across multiple factories. This time I had the support of a very competent team. But the lessons I had learned in my early years shaped my world view. I learned once again that whether it was with blue collar employees or white collar, and whether it is called Industrial Relations or Employee Relations and whether the factory was in India or in another country, it was always about learning how to work with people. It was always about Human Relations.
It is funny how our view of what it takes to succeed changes over time – especially if you are at a B- School. In the pre-liberalization era, people who planned to pursue Human Resources would start their career on the shop floor. The job interviews would inevitably focus on testing the students on their depth of knowledge in labour laws. Trade Union leaders like Datta Samant would hit magazine covers as often as the movie stars – even if it was for the wrong reasons.
The first job for most of the HR professionals in those days would be at the factory. The manufacturing location would inevitably be far from the city since the government tried to incentivize the industries to generate employment in "backward areas". The newly minted HR professional would go off into the boondocks to serve his or her time at least for the first few years until they got a chance to get to a role in the Corporate Office.
Today the vast majority of the students do not voluntarily choose to start their careers with a stint in Employee Relations. That I believe is an opportunity lost. There is a whole generation of HR leaders that have emerged from B-Schools in the nineties and beyond who have not had stints in IR. There is then a dangerous vacuum brewing.
With the Make in India campaign, we will once again see the rise of the manufacturing sector in India. The ease of doing business is "essential" to ensure that the Make in India campaign is successful. The government has already talked about using a computerized system to decide which inspector would get to inspect which factory. There is a new workforce that views the workplace differently and is motivated in ways very different from the way the previous generations did. This is an opportunity to rethink Industrial Relations. But where is the next generation of IR professionals going to come from?
Maybe some non-unionized group of employees will decide to start collective bargaining. Some of these may be white collared employees. Maybe the virtual employees or the temporary workers will one day come together to seek some change in policy. It need not only be a negative incident. Maybe the team at work comes together to make some choices collectively. All these are opportunities, but they are also disruptors. New industries have come up. Temporary employees are a rising percentage of the workforce in many sectors. Governance and regulatory frameworks are getting tighter. All this needs a new breed of IR professionals.
There are industries that are already experiencing what it means to have a talent shortage as the baby boomers retire and not enough students are enrolling in the colleges that teach these courses. Global oil and gas companies forecast a shortage of petroleum engineers. Employee Relations could well be on its way for such a scenario. If talent is the new oil, we are certainly going to see a shortage of people who have the skills to get the best out of them in the new world.
Topics: Skilling, #IndustrialRelations
Abhijit Bhaduri
Abhijit Bhaduri is columnist, author & coach to senior leaders. He is the author of two bestsellers: The Digital Tsunami & Don't Hire the Best
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Home » » Mexico City: CJNG May Have Used CDMX Police Officers To Gun Down Jacobo Razón Avayou
Mexico City: CJNG May Have Used CDMX Police Officers To Gun Down Jacobo Razón Avayou
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) employed agents from the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) of Mexico City to kidnap and then murder a member of the Jewish community.
The cartel paid 20 thousand pesos to each agent.
Investigations by the CDMX Prosecutor's Office reveal that Eugenio Manuel Fernando Salazar Treviño, "El Cartuchos", alleged operator of the CJNG, ordered the "abduction" of Razón, who was intercepted by the police when he was driving to the FGR to file a complaint.
According to the investigation, at the time of being kidnapped, Razón spoke on the phone to Avi Raphael Sitton, a real estate businessman who lived in Cancún and for whom he worked.
On November 24, at 8:30 a.m., Jacobo Razón Avayou left his house in Huixquilucan in his black Hyundai Accent.
That morning, on the way to the FGR, Razón didn't notice that a black Mazda with license plates JFR4494 was following him closely.
At 8:49 a.m., a C5 camera recorded the moment when a patrol car with license plates MX-728-P2 caught up with Razón's car on Avenida Stim, at the intersection with Paseo de Laureles, in the Bosques de Reforma neighborhood.
Former agent Sánchez Reyes and his girlfriend got out of the Mazda and approached the patrol car and the victim.
The Directorate of Internal Affairs of the SSC reported in an official letter that agents Ricardo Daniel Torres Vázquez and José Pedro Aguilar Sánchez had the patrol under their protection, while their colleague, Rubén García Arista, had been in charge the day before.
Aguilar Razón was taken to a cabin that Sánchez Reyes had rented in a place called Cabañas y Eventos Taati Keri, at kilometer 2 of the Picacho Ajusco highway, in the Tlalpan colony.
'The gangster'
On November 26, at around 5:51 p.m., Sánchez Reyes met "El Cartuchos" outside the Italianni's restaurant at 222 Plaza Reforma.
At the end of the meeting, the former police officer sent a message to his girlfriend Joselín to ask her to get two caps, one for him and one for her.
At 8:25 p.m., the capo sent a voice message to the former agent to explain on the spot all the details of access to the building, the parking lot included, as if he had been there before.
I see everything complicated, because there is no access to the car, access to the car is closed, there is a container there, I have to go through reception, "said Sánchez Reyes, who was already accompanied by his girlfriend.
Oblivious to the environment, the former agent still sent him a photo of the censor that he had in his hand to ensure that he was referring to that device and asked again for the apartment number.
At 9:45 p.m., Sánchez Reyes found what he was looking for in the apartment: "Mission accomplished sir. I have it!" He exclaimed in a voice message.
Sánchez Reyes made a mistake that he would pay dearly for. Despite the fact that he was a police officer, the 37-year-old subject believed that painting the car white, with brush strokes, it would be enough to drive daily without being detected.
The evidence led the Prosecutor's Office to ask a judge for permission to intercept the telephone calls of "El Cartuchos" and various agents of the Yaqui sector.
On December 18, Joselín Nava Montañez, the girlfriend of Sánchez Reyes, was arrested for drug dealing and bribery.
The gangster operated from the Narvarte colony
Fernando Salazar negotiated from the Narvarte neighborhood the sale of drugs and weapons in Mexico City.
Telephone conversations that were intervened with judicial authorization show that Salazar placed Uzis submachine guns and Smith & Wesson 380-caliber laser equipped pistols, among others, on the black market, at prices ranging from 25,000 to 50,000 pesos.
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Talk about Mexican curupt police working together with CJNG. No wonder no one trusts the police.
no name April 11, 2022 at 2:37 PM
Poor translation. Especially at the end of the article. Try harder and do better. Thanks
Yes I too noticed its like two articles in one. I stick to the beginning paragraphs. Cops getting paid by the cartel to get someone for them
JamesBrown April 11, 2022 at 2:52 PM
Why was he identified as a Jew?
The guy that wrote the article has a brain tumor, added New for the fun of it.
I hate my spell check app, it corrects words, when it should not I meant to say Jew not New.
Lengua April 11, 2022 at 6:11 PM
Joselin has a "toned lower body" by the look of the pic of her and Sanchez Reyes kissing...Maybe wearing Spanx? Admiration either way
Ms. H April 11, 2022 at 6:49 PM
My dearest, darling Sol, I mess our long walks on the beach and calling you little terms of sweet endearment. Is it true you are the master of rainbows? Missing you forever and pining for you in my heart and loins. Love you, yours forever and always. Actually Sol, just wanted to say 'word up' and hope all is well in your world. Tell your family I said hello. Any word from Sosa, haven't seen the boy for awhile now. I liked his words and stuff. No jailhouse love you guys, settle down.
Sol Prendido April 12, 2022 at 6:53 AM
Sup playgirl. It's obviously been awhile. Can't say I've heard from Sosa lately. He has brought us some good intel. Last I heard all federal inmates went into lockdown for whatever reason. Don't mind the clown haters. I'm slowly getting rid of them all. I've already got my eye on the next bright bulb. 😝
Sol is the sunshine that lights up Miss H hearts, those long walks at the park are cherish. Without Sol things would feel cold as Finland or Norway.
7:24, have I ever told you that you are the wind beneath my wings? You are the reason why I wear fancy pants and just got vajazzled. You make Borderland Beat smell dreamy.
2:20 you are poetic my dear Miss H.,Did you payoff your home? Perhaps paid off your car? Something good recently happened to you? Now instead of Black Hair, it's brunette.
I did not know you like to take long walks with our famous Sol.
He not only churns out articles, he is a handyman.
My cat (Edgar Allen PAW) purchased me a new flannel nightgown for Valentine's Day.
Driving Miss H.
No wonder we have not heard from Edgar Alvarado the guy with the mirachi hat, he bought you a night gown from Victorias Secret.
SIR April 12, 2022 at 8:30 PM
6:14 that kitty works too much...
Nightgowns on the dollar store cost 1 dollar...
Mexican cops are the worse!!
SOSAP7 April 11, 2022 at 6:56 PM
This article is all 9ver the place man
Joey April 11, 2022 at 7:40 PM
Give me more of these novellas same time tomorrow right? What about the Jew I never saw that coming
the best part of this article is their hideout the "Cabañas y Eventos" place, I know where that is
Cabañas = no-tell motel for hookups with ho's
Eventos = hookups with ho's
SIR April 11, 2022 at 10:31 PM
7:49 it is not the jew or the jewish, it is the many corrupt foreign corporations trying to cheat México and the mexicans of billions of dollars through corrupt practices and kickbacks
This article was going good until the author of the article convoluted it.
Reminds me of another writer, that said The same bullet killed a gang member, then says the same bullet killed a lady walking to the store, the same bullet killed a dog.
Some author write good books and some write like a French movie...where they leave the plot out.
SIR April 12, 2022 at 10:49 AM
8:15 wait till the meaty part some
call "la sin hueso" gets to you by ricochet
Most cops in Mexico City are Curupt. Think of them as CJNG members but in Police uniforms.


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Detroit: Six ways 'shrinking' cities try to survive
By Tom Geoghegan
BBC News, Washington
duration 21 July 2013
Detroit's bankruptcy can in part be traced to the loss of more than a million residents. So how have other "shrinking" US cities coped?
The problems that have led Detroit to bankruptcy are multiple - industrial decline, huge pension bills, over-borrowing and poor management among them.
But losing 1.2 million people since the 1950s would send any city into crisis. As the jobs and the inhabitants went elsewhere, the city was left with plummeting tax receipts, rising crime and derelict streets .
Other cities in the Rust Belt have also lost huge proportions of their populations. What have they done about it?
1. Demolish derelict buildings...
Some cities have developed a demolition industry, mindful that abandoned homes fuel vandalism, blight neighbourhoods and deter new arrivals.
Youngstown, Ohio, has lost 120,000 residents since the 1950s, now down to 66,000 people. In the last six years, it has pulled down 4,000 homes, says councillor Janet Tarpley, who represents the sixth district, where much of this demolition has taken place.
"Crime has been reduced since we have been tearing down homes," she says. "Some of them were being used to launder stolen goods and run prostitution and drugs rings. Squatters were moving in and just staying. So the quality of life has improved for many residents."
The area looks a lot better than it did in 2008 when she took office, says Tarpley, who knocks on doors and tells residents to cut their grass when it looks unsightly. Those who don't comply get a visit from a council lawnmower and have to pay the costs.
But the large-scale demolition has its critics. For a start, it's expensive - about $10,000 (£6,550) a house. And some residents say it has wiped out neighbourhoods and prevented property developers from investing. "Trees don't pay taxes" is the mantra of some opponents to demolition.
2. ...and sell the land for $25
Imagine you get a knock on your door and someone is offering you all the land next door - for just $25 (£16).
That's what has happened in Flint, Michigan, where the population is half what it was 50 years ago. In 2002, Flint-born Dan Kildee, now a congressman, set up a system there called land banks, which take ownership of derelict private properties.
"There's an abandoned house on a street," he explains. "We get that property through tax foreclosure, when the owner stops paying taxes. Instead of auctioning it off to somebody on the internet, we put it in the land bank.
"And because we have too many houses in a city that's lost lots of population, we bite the bullet and demolish this abandoned structure that's obsolete. We knock on the door of the next door neighbour, who's been paying a heavy price of living next door to this abandoned house. And for just $25, we sell that next door lot after it's been cleaned."
So instead of having a family home next to a big, empty reminder of what was once there, he says, there is a house with 80-foot (24-metre) grounds, upon which the family may build a garage, a playground or a driveway. "It's a productive part of the landscape."
3. Accept that smaller can be better
"That's a very tough thing for Americans to get their head around," says Kildee, who in 2010 co-founded the Center for Community Progress, which helps rebuild urban neighbourhoods.
"The very psyche for the American people was based on westward expansion, our manifest destiny. Growth and prosperity were the same thing.
"But that means very little to a person living in a city that has lost population and is not likely to regain it. We need to rethink how we define prosperity."
4. Build institutions
Pittsburgh is widely held up as a success story in reinvention, hosting the G20 summit in 2009, but it's cashing cheques that were written 50 years ago, says Professor Michael Madison from the University of Pittsburgh.
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development (the ACCD) was formed in the 1940s, when some leading steel industry players joined with the city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to address some of the city's most pressing environmental and infrastructure issues.
For instance, they banned coal-burning furnaces in homes, to clear the air of smoke, and they created the Port Authority.
"There was a collaborative spirit back in the 50s and they knew that Pittsburgh would have to reinvent itself. They didn't know how but put in motion something that we are still benefiting from today," says Madison.
The city's two world-renowned universities, and its $10bn medical centre, also received significant sums of money in the 1950s and 60s.
Other cities should identify legacy institutions from the industrial era that could provide some skeletal backbone to future prosperity, he adds.
5. Don't be trapped by history
Pittsburgh was known as the Steel City so the steep decline of its steel industry was a huge blow to its identity.
A community needs a dynamic relationship with its history and to take advantage of the strengths of its history without being captive to it, says Madison.
"Pittsburgh needed to put a healthy and respectful distance between its modern self and its 20th Century steel self. Everyone loves the steel history but accepts it's not going to come back."
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6. Entice the right jobs
When the steel industry collapsed, the instinct of economic leaders in Pittsburgh was to reach out to other industries that could replace these kinds of jobs on a large scale, says Madison. The goal was more big factories making televisions or cars, a magic bullet solution.
But these are very competitive industries and most of the investment in these areas has gone to Asia or cheaper parts of the US, he says.
"It took Pittsburgh a while to realise that's a high-stakes strategy and we kept losing," says Madison. Instead it began to focus on service industries, the universities, the medical centre and hi-tech business, and growing jobs locally rather than importing them.
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Roelof Krol (Amsterdam, 23 september 1911 – aldaar, 10 juli 1972) was een Nederlands cellist en dirigent.

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How many states did Reagan win in the 1984 election?
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Who did Ronald Reagan win against in the Presidential election of 1980?
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Sports radio announcer
Car salesman
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What state was Ronald Reagan from?
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How did Ronald Reagan die?
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The Second Hotel Vancouver
Monday, January 18th, 2016 — 10:48am PDT
It's one of Vancouver's lost landmarks and all that remains are pieces of its opulent interior, which can be found in antique shops or repurposed home decor, occasionally unbeknownst to the homeowner. From 1916 to 1949, the Second Hotel Vancouver stood on West Georgia Street between Howe and Granville. Built in a grand Italianate revival style, it was considered one of the great hotels of the British Empire.
1917. Second Hotel Vancouver. Georgia and Granville. Photographer: Philip Timms. Archives# CVA 677-21.
The First Hotel Vancouver
The first Hotel Vancouver, that opened in 1888, was rather utilitarian at first. It was also on the corner of Granville and Georgia. According to Fairmont, it was "a five-story, brick structure that looked and functioned much like a farmhouse." In 1893, new Van Horne Wing on Granville was built, and another wing was added in 1904.
1890s. Georgia and Granville. First Hotel Vancouver. Archives# M-3-8.3.
In 1910 the CPR excavated on Howe Street and in early 1911 built Honeyman and Curtis's Annex. Meanwhile, at the end of 1910 the new CPR architect W S Painter obtained a building permit for $2,000,000 for an 'Addition to hotel'. In January 1912 it was reported that a $1,000,000 14-storey replacement hotel would be built for the CPR. It wouldn't just fill the Granville and Georgia corner, it filled the block all the way back to Robson and Howe. [Source: Changing Vancouver]
The Canadian Pacific Railway built the hotel, with tiers that stepped up to a central section, from 7 to 10 and finally 16 storeys, with architect Francis S. Swales between 1912 and 1916. It was the most remarkable and expensive building that the city had seen, according to Changing Vancouver. "When completed the hotel, it is said, will have the largest ground floor corridors of any hotel in existence."
Features included arched windows, castle-like turrets and a 14th floor that was adorned with eight-foot tall terra cotta moose and buffalo head sculptures. Gargoyles, Canadian-style. The hotel was big, with 700 rooms, several dining rooms, two ballrooms, a billiard room, shops and offices. And it was a study in elegance, from its three-storey entrance portico to its renowned rooftop garden. [Source: Vancouver Sun]
1914. Upper floors under construction. Archives# Hot P55.3.
1923. Photographer: Philip Timms. Archives# CVA 677-951.
1929. Photographer: Leonard Frank. Archives# Van Sc P63.5.
1910s. Driveway of the Second Hotel Vancouver. Archives# CVA 677-534.
1927. Georgia and Hornby. Archives# Str N202. Click to see 2016 view.
It was where dignitaries and stars of the silver screen stayed in Vancouver, and where locals enjoyed rooftop dining and dancing.
1920. Corner of Georgie and Hornby. Archives# CVA 371-884.
Just imagine Georgia and Granville back then: The Hudson's Bay Building, Birks Building, Vancouver Block, and the Hotel Vancouver. Attached to the hotel was the Vancouver Opera House, later the Lyric Theatre, and the Orpheum down the block.
(Left) 1917 Photographer: F. Gowen. Archives# CVA 677-170. (Right) 2014 Photographer Steve Vanderwoerd. View from Robson Street. Click to view large.
"It was beautiful and grand," Dal Richards, Vancouver's late, great, King of Swing, once told the Vancouver Sun: "They had a Crystal Ballroom, adjoined by what they called Peacock Alley, which was a broad entrance hall that went down the full length of the ballroom. It had antique furniture, oriental rugs and all that sort of thing, brass railings. Below that, in the lower level, dancing all year was done in what was called the Spanish Grill. That was the nightclub of the hotel, that's where the orchestras played."
If it had survived, this Hotel Vancouver would now be the place to stay in town, a heritage hotel to rank with The Empress in Victoria or The Palace in San Francisco. But it was killed by the falling fortunes of its owner, the Canadian Pacific Railway. [Source: Vancouver Sun]
On May 24th, 1939 the second Hotel Vancouver closed, turned into a government administration building during World War II, while the third was opened.
1939. View of the Second from the Third (current) Hotel Vancouver along Georgia. Archives# CVA 1376-154.
1916. The Second Hotel Vancouver's rooftop garden. Photographer:Canadian Photo Co. Archives #PAN N120A.
1939. View down Georgia of Birks Building, Second Hotel Vancouver, Third Hotel Vancouver. Photographer: Leonard Frank. Archives #LP 159.
1949. View of the demolition of the Second Hotel Vancouver from what is now the art gallery. Hudsons's Bay Building, Birks Building, and Vancouver Block in the background. Photographer: Walter E. Frost. Archives #CVA 447-60.
Architectural historian Harold Kalman says in the The History of Metropolitan Vancouver: "Delayed by the Depression, it was rushed to completion in 1939 for the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The rival CPR co-operatively closed its own, earlier, Hotel Vancouver (two blocks east), lent the name, and entered into a joint management contract."
1969. Looking at a vacant Georgia and Howe from the Hotel Georgia. Click to see 2016 view. Photographer: Ernie H. Reksten. Archives# 2010-006.091.
In 1949, the Second Hotel Vancouver was torn down. Nothing, except for a parking lot, would occupy that valuable piece of prime Vancouver real estate until the TD Tower and Eaton's Centre were built in the 1972.
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Dana Dunham says:
I have a desk and chair, art-deco 1937-39, number #52. I'm looking for photo's of art-deco desks that may have been in Hotel Vancouver.
Dana Dunham
Alan Cumberlidge says:
I have noticed the narrow building at the SW corner with the tall smoke stack. I wander if that was one of the local power station and central heat. Alan C.
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June 16 - Do we stay or do we go?
1)	Jed has to decide whether to stay or go when Hannibal is injured evading the man they double crossed.
2)	Two young orphans take a big decision – do they stay or go they go?
3)	The way I heard it – Heyes had Preacher spin a chilling yarn about the Kid's bloodthirsty past.
4)	Lom decides not to go – but to stay and fight our boys' corner convincing the Governor of their alibi.
5)	Kid Curry is tired of life on the run. When he's given a deadline – will he stay on alone or will he go with Heyes?
6)	After losing his folks, young Heyes can't stay in Kansas – he needs to get Jed to his uncle and to safety.
7)	A very sick Heyes wavers between wanting Kid to stay nurse him – and wanting him to just go away.
8)	Despite her efforts, the lonely floozy cannot persuade Kid to stay when he decides he should go.
Those pesky ex-outlaws rummaging around in your fridge collecting champers and chocolates for the cuddle rounds to all the ladies who wrote can be so distracting.
Now, the boys have already set off to thank - demonstrably - all the ladies 'poured' out the refreshing 'rain' of their creativity last month.
for a touching tale of a gal a little stricken in years - not that any of us would know what that feels like - telling her tale to chivalrous Kid.
for raising our anxiety levels as Heyes gets a hard time.
Congratulations Remuda and Wichita Red!
for such very different stories!!
Congrats to both of you, Remuda and WichitaRed!
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