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My island home - united we stand
By Salam Zreika - posted Wednesday, 11 January 2006 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
Before Christmas I found myself in the heart of Sydney with thousands of others united together in our fight against racism. It was a beautiful sunny day which should have been spent at one of Sydney's beaches, but not taking any risks just yet, we gathered at Sydney's Town Hall. We marched as one multicultural group of Aussies in the streets of Sydney towards our destination at Belmore Park.
There were no slurs of racism and no acts of violence. In fact if I had a little more courage I would have started singing the national anthem, as it seemed a lot more appropriate to sing it on this occasion than it did the previous week. We gathered together with no political or religious persuasion but with one goal on our mind - to combat the horrors of racism.
It was a day of peace and leadership and my heart was once again filled with national pride.
I expected to see a lot more "Middle Easterners" or Muslims present, but was nonetheless thrilled that the many Anglo-Australians and other Australians who turned up proved that we were not alone in our fight against racism and it was certainly not going to be so easy dividing this nation.
Bob Marley and Crowded House blared through the speakers at Belmore Park as people carried their slogans of "Love not War" and "Racism Sucks". A picture of Alan Jones stood out with "Un-Australian" written beneath his face. Groups of people sung out, "We welcome Muslims not racism" as I was greeted with smiles by many Australians who clearly identified me as an Australian-Muslim. They made sure I got the message clearly, and indeed I did.
Goosebumps prickled my flesh as I listened to Christine Anu's My Island Home echoing out loud, and it was then that I truly felt once again so proud of this country that I was born and raised in and spoke so fondly of.
I listened with intent as celebrities and other people gave their speeches on multiculturalism, racist radio hosts being "un-Australian", and how the previous events shook many of us and taught us about the greater responsibility we had for the fragile social fabric in Australia. They spoke clearly against the demonisation of communities and that there was no room for this division in Australia.
We were urged to meet and greet as many people as possible, who looked or sounded different, and to go away with more friends than when we came. One speaker mentioned that once upon a time we loved thy neighbour, now we fear thy neighbour. Well it's time to break the barriers of insecurity and love thy neighbour again.
I sat in the glaring sun and looked around at the people who collectively condemned the incidents that occurred during and after the Cronulla riots, and wished to participate in ceasing the pain that was hurting the country we all love.
A young boy aged 10 caught my attention as he carried a sign that said: "I am Australian. I am Muslim. And my country is Australia." Another youngster carried a sign saying: "I am a brown haired, brown eyed Aussie." These children who had become caught in this racial mess reminded us that the prejudice that had recently been displayed targeted anyone who appeared dark-skinned or dark-eyed. Those people indicated there was only room for blond-haired, blue-eyed, surfer type Aussies. I asked myself, does every pure bred Anglo-Australian fit that physical description?
We were reminded that we have become too caught up thinking about ourselves and not enough about the future of this country. Do we really want to fall behind the rest of the world caught up in worrying who belongs here and who doesn't? Who looks the part and who doesn't?
Who sounds Aussie and who doesn't? Whatever happened to: "For those who've come across the seas we've boundless plains to share - with courage let us all combine to advance Australian Fair". Our very own national anthem is filled with multicultural pride and yet we refuse to endorse its meaning and apply it to our lives.
The crowd sat mixed together and repeated with passion out loud, "We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands we come - we share a dream, and speak and sing with one voice. I am, you are, we are Australian". I heard my own voice ring out in chorus with the others. This song without doubt was the true meaning of Australia.
The only real disturbance I noted was a young Australian man who although appearing to be a little drunk was adamant to get his message across to the crowd in front of him: "Merry Christmas" he would say again and again, while speakers would attempt to deliver their speeches. Finally at the end we gave in to his persistence and despite cultural, religious or personal beliefs it never seemed more appropriate than that moment to grant this young man his wish. Together with one massive echo we shouted "Merry Christmas" to him. It would have put a smile on anyone's face.
There was one other message that needed to be delivered to the people present at Belmore Park and the rest of Australia. In the midst of all this feeble arguing surrounding the idea of "This is our beach" and "This is our shire" - let us remind ourselves that this land does not belong to you, nor does it belong to me, but to the Indigenous people who came here first, and by God they have surely suffered the most.
Salam Zreika is a freelance journalist. She has written for a community paper called FAIR (Forum on Australian Islamic Relations). Salam graduated from the University of Western Sydney in May 2003, with a Bachelor of Communication - majoring in Journalism. She completed her cadetship with the Northern District Times.
» Just how Aussie do we have to be? - March 7, 2006
» Cartoons used as an abuse of power not humour - February 7, 2006
» Multiculturalism still rings strong - January 25, 2006
» Life's no beach in Sydney - December 13, 2005
» Michelle Leslie - please explain - November 23, 2005
All articles by Salam Zreika


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Q: Picture doesn't show up while my python socket script trying to streaming a picture import PIL
import ImageGrab
import socket
import io
import atexit

def server():
    while True:
        print('wait..')
        conn, addr = server_socket.accept()
        if conn:
            print(conn)
            print(addr)
            connection = conn.makefile('wb')
            break
    print('connecting..')
    try:
        stream = io.BytesIO()
        ImageGrab.grab().save('1.jpg','JPEG')
        stream.write(io.FileIO('1.jpg','r').readall())
        stream.seek(0)
        connection.write(stream.read())
        stream.seek(0)
        stream.truncate()
    finally:
        print('close connection...')
        connection.close()

def onExit():
    connection.close()
    server_socket.close()
    print('exit')

server_socket = socket.socket()
server_socket.bind(('0.0.0.0',8000))
server_socket.listen(0)
server_socket.setblocking(1)

while True:
    server()

I'm using this python script to send a real-time screenshot of my pc so that i can check the screenshot on my phone. But somehow the picture doesn't show up or sometimes only a little part of picture is showed..
Thank you for the help >.<

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"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on October 25, 1996. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter, and directed by David Nutter. "Pilot" featured guest appearances by Paul Dillon, April Telek and Stephen J. Lang.

Offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, retires to Seattle with his family after a breakdown caused him to quit working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Using his incredible profiling skills, Black helps in an effort to catch a vicious murderer who believes he is fulfilling apocalyptic prophecies.

"Pilot" was filmed over the course of a month in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was inspired by the writings of Nostradamus and William Butler Yeats. Airing in the timeslot previously occupied by Carter's first series, The X-Files, the episode received a high Nielsen household and syndication rating and was generally positively received by fans and critics alike.

Plot
At a strip club in downtown Seattle, a patron the club workers call "The Frenchman" (Paul Dillon) pays for a private show with Calamity (April Telek). Watching her dance, he  mumbles passages from poetry and the Bible, hallucinating blood pouring over Calamity, with a wall of fire surrounding her. Later that night, Calamity is found brutally murdered, with her head and fingers missing.

Former police officer and retired FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) moves back to Seattle with his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady) after ten years in Washington, D.C.. Seeing a newspaper headline about Calamity's murder, Frank reconnects with an old colleague, Lieutenant Bob Bletcher, and offers assistance on the case. In the morgue, Frank has visions of the murder and is able to determine cause of death without even looking at the body, as well as other important details.

After questioning one of Calamity's coworkers, Frank obtains a video recording of The Frenchman during his private show. That night, The Frenchman kidnaps a male prostitute and takes him into the woods. The next morning Bletcher calls Frank to another crime scene outside the city, where the male prostitute has been found burnt to death and decapitated. Frank's visions lead him to deduce it is the work of the same killer. Searching the nearby woods, they discover a buried coffin that shows signs of someone having tried to claw their way out of it. As they drive back, Frank tells Bletcher that he works with the Millennium Group, a private investigative group composed of retired law enforcement agents. One of the Group's members, Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn), introduces himself to Frank and mentions something the police overlooked on Calamity's body: needle marks that suggest an injection.

While investigating the area where the second victim disappeared, Frank spots the killer searching for his next victim, but the killer escapes after a foot chase. The next day, Frank presents the video from the strip club to Bletcher's homicide squad, explaining that The Frenchman is driven by an obsession with apocalyptic prophecies to offset guilt about his confused sexuality, specifically targeting sex workers because they represent the threat of a plague in his mind. The detectives view this theory with skepticism and Bletcher reluctantly declines to pursue it. As Frank is leaving, however, he is confronted by Bletcher, who demands to know how Frank can have so much insight. Frank tells him that he can see what the killer sees and get into his head, although he refuses to call it a psychic ability.

Returning home, Frank learns from his neighbor that Jordan has been rushed to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. Watching a nurse draw blood from Jordan, Frank realizes the killer is doing the same with his victims, testing them for the AIDS virus (the plague he is trying to prevent). Returning to the woods with Bletcher and the police, they discover a live victim buried in another coffin, his mouth and eyes sewn shut, as well as Calamity's severed head.

At the police station, Frank tells Bletcher that he decided to leave the FBI after discovering his family was being stalked by someone who taunted him with Polaroids of Catherine, which was the modus operandi of a serial killer he'd previously caught. Being recruited by the Millennium Group motivated him to move to Seattle and start fresh. When Bletcher leaves the room, Frank takes a call that tells him the blood samples were processed through the police department's evidence lab, causing him to realize one of the forensic technicians is the killer. When confronted, The Frenchman attacks with a knife, ranting about the impending apocalypse; he is about to stab Frank when he is shot and killed by Bletcher.

The next morning, Frank presents the recovering Jordan with a puppy. As Catherine prepares to leave for a job interview, Frank opens the mail and discovers an envelope full of Polaroids of she and Jordan, one of which makes clear the stalker has followed them to Seattle.

Production

"Pilot" was written by series creator Chris Carter. Beyond creating the concept for Millennium, Carter would write a total of six other episodes for the series in addition to "Gehenna"—three in the first season, and a further three in the third season. Director David Nutter would also go on to direct several episodes in the first season of the series—"Gehenna", "522666" and "Loin Like a Hunting Flame".

"Pilot" was filmed over the course of a month, which was an unheard-of length of time for a single television episode. The episode was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia in early spring to give it a "gray" and "bleak" look. The decision to film in Vancouver was to give the show the same dark feel as its sister show The X-Files, which had also been created by Carter. The strip club, Ruby Tip, was inspired by a club in Seattle named the Lusty Lady, which is located on that city's main street. Director David Nutter had been a long-time staff member of The X-Files crew. Carter said the episode was "directed beautifully by David Nutter who added to the project in so many ways, even as it came on, things that he saw visually that were able to actually change and make the script more concise". Although "Pilot" did not open with a literary quote as the series would do from the next episode onwards, its plot heavily features the 1919 poem "The Second Coming" by Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

Carter called it a "pleasure" to cast Kate Luyben and April Telek, because they were "good"-looking, which he felt was a refreshing change from frequently casting "character actors" on The X-Files. Luyben would later make an appearance on The X-Files and played a prominent role on Harsh Realm. The idea behind the character "The Frenchman" came from a prophecy by Nostradamus. According to Carter, "the idea that there is something approaching at the millennium, this series being produced I think four years before the end of the century, that we were headed toward something grave and foreboding". The name of recurring character Bob Bletcher came from an attorney Carter had worked with previously. Another name, Giebelhouse was another name Carter had gotten from his childhood years. Carter said "This idea of the hard-boiled detective is a kind of cliché". But felt that the characters came "very real to life", when compared to real law enforcement personnel.

Millennium was given the Friday night timeslot previously occupied by The X-Files, prompting Carter to quip that his earlier series was "being abducted". However, Millennium received higher viewing figures during its first season than The X-Files had done, while the latter show's fourth season, the one airing concurrently to Millennium, saw its ratings reach their highest to that point.

Broadcast and reception

"Pilot" was first broadcast on the Fox network on October 25, 1996; and gathered a total viewership of 17.72 million in the United States. In the "adults 18–49" demographic, the episode earned a Nielsen rating of  9, with a 27 share; meaning it was viewed by nine percent of television-equipped households and 27 percent of those actively watching television. The rating across all demographics was 11.9. The episode's broadcast set the record at the time for the most-watched program on Fox.

Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handeln rated the episode a B, finding it to be "weirdly prescient of the crime dramas we wallow in today". Handlen felt that episode's tone was so "overwrought" as to be "hilarious", but still found the series to be "uncompromising" and "compelling". Handlen also noted similarities to the films Manhunter and Seven in both the episode's plot and the series' premise. Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 5/5, calling it "perhaps the most perfect opening episode to a one-hour suspense thriller ... ever conceived". Gibron also praised the casting of Henriksen and O'Quinn in the series. An Entertainment Weekly preview for the episode noted that some of its scenes were "the grimmest ... in prime-time history". Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode four stars out of five, calling it "bleak and confrontational" though finding that its symbolism was "too boldly stated". Comparing the series to its sister show, The X-Files, Shearman and Pearson noted that Henriksen portrays his role "with a confidence that makes him immediately a more credible character than Mulder or Scully would be for an entire season". Writing for The Register-Guard, Renee Graham called the episode "as lurid a television show as you're ever going to see", adding that it seemed "just too horrific to be enjoyable". However, Graham noted that the episode was "by far the superior show" compared to the similar series Profiler, which aired around the same time.

Footnotes

References

External links

Millennium (season 1) episodes
1996 American television episodes
Millennium
Television episodes directed by David Nutter

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If you want CBBE with bodyslide you need 1st and 2nd file only.
When Installing TrX Sloot Armors Original do not install the "CalienteTools" folder to avoid all the CBBE sliders you don't need.
Simply Install after TrX Sloot Armors, the sliders should be marked UUNP in BS2.


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The Mi-26t is the world's largest heavy-lift helicopter. It is capable of lifting large size cargo items weighing up to 20 tons, either inside the cargo compartment or on an external sling. A combined internal and external load configuration is also permitted, providing the total load does not exceed 20 tons.
Went throught Overhaul in 2015. 1200 or 8 years till next Overhaul.


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Christmas Reviews: Futurama – "A Tale of Two Santas"
Posted by UpOnTheShelf in 2000's, Christmas, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A Tale of Two Santas, amy wong, bender, billy west, Christmas, Christmas cartoon, christmas elves, christmas episode, christmas special, Fry, futurama, Hermes Conrad, john dimaggio, kif, leela, new new york, philip j. fry, Planet Express, prof. farnsworth, robot, robot santa, santa claus, sci-fi parody, turanaga leela, year 3000, zapp brannigan
I'd like to apologize for the early post. I accidentally scheduled it to go up before it was completed. On the bright side it gives me better segue into the review instead of jumping right into it.
So how does Futurama fare on its second Christmas outing? Let's continue.
It's Christmas Eve once again, and the head of Walter Cronkite appears on the news to warn the world of Santa's impending jolly rampage. Prof. Farnsworth has Planet Express HQ barricaded to the extreme so no one can get in or out. Unfortunately he has one last mission for Leela, Bender and Fry – delivering children's letters to Santa.
On their way to his fortress on Neptune, Fry and Leela read some of the letters. Each one is a plea Santa not to visit and inflict pain and terror as he does every year. Once again Fry wishes for the good old days when Xmas was about bringing the family together and not blowing them apart. After landing on Neptune and seeing the squalor the Neptunians, the aliens who used to act as his elves, are living in after Santa shuttered the toy factory, the three come up with a plan to stop his evil deeds forever.
The elves usher the sack of letters into the fortress with the gang inside. Santa, now voiced by John DiMaggio, is busy watching people around the world and marking them down as naughty regardless of what they do. I have to admit, as great a voice actor as DiMaggio is, it's jarring to hear the voice of Santa switch from John Goodman to someone trying to sound like him. Was Goodman too expensive to have return? Was it just easier for DiMaggio to just do an impression? I like consistency in my voice acting, and this is a change I'm not completely fond of.
Anyway, just to get an idea of how Santa judges, he sees the robot mafia beating up a shopkeeper for protection money and judges them as naughty. He also judges the shopkeeper to be naughty, however, because he's not paying them. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he'd come to the same conclusion even if he did, meaning Santa really needs to be taken down a notch.
Everyone pops out of the bag but Leela slams Santa with a head-exploding paradox before he can kill them: his job is to give presents to the nice and destroy the naughty, however most of those he punishes are in fact nice, meaning HE must be naughty and destroyed as well. Sure enough, this causes Santa's head to explode. Before they can celebrate, however, a new head pops out of his body because he was built with paradox-absorbing backups or something like that. He gives chase and while holding back the Planet Express ship, the engines melt the ice beneath him. He sinks and gets frozen up to his head. Everyone is overjoyed that Santa's reign of terror is over and Fry decides to take on the role of gift giver. Bender points out that only a robot would be able to deliver billions of gifts in one night and begrudgingly decides to become Santa himself. What follows is one of my favorite musical Futurama moments where everyone works last minute to prepare for Bender's flight. It's catchy, the lyrics are funny, and Katey Segal has some nice pipes.
Bender arrives at the first home to find that the family there is afraid for their lives. They believe his promise of gifts are nothing but a trick and unleash whatever firearms they have on him. Bender is met with generally the same attitude at every house he visits, even at Planet Express. This is the biggest problem I have with this episode. After hundreds of years of having Santa be viewed as a literal killing machine, did nobody think to spread the news that there's a new kinder non-violent Santa out to spread holiday cheer? It's not like the internet doesn't exist in this universe; it does, though it's a bit like Tron where you get zapped inside virtual reality to do things. All it takes is one message or video sent out to the public and boom, no more worrying about Santa. This massive oversight has even harsher consequences for Bender as the police catch him on a street corner nursing his wounded pride with some liquor and also mistake him for the actual violent Santa. They arrest him, and after a kangaroo courtroom scene, he is sentenced to death for his crimes against humanity.
Knowing the only way to clear Bender's name is to show the real Santa, Leela and Fry fly back to Neptune to take his frozen body back to Earth. Unfortunately they find the planet under the effects of extreme global warming due to pollution from the toy factory and Santa is freed from his icy tomb. After escaping his holly jolly wrath, Fry and Leela flee to think up another way to save Bender. Both are unaware that Santa has stowed away on the ship.
Mayor Poopenmeyer prepares to execute Bender by pulling him apart with electromagnets (because it's the only humane way that isn't boring) but Hermes, Fry and Amy appear in Santa garb pulling an "I'm Spartacus!" in a last ditch effort to make everyone believe they have the wrong Santa Claus.
And Zoidberg shows up as Jesus, just in case someone watching the execution complains about not having enough Christ in Christmas.
The Mayor isn't convinced though, and begins the process of tearing Bender slowly in two. It's horrible, but at least it's not boring. The real Santa barges in, shoots up the place and frees him. Bender thanks him while also pleading for his life, but Santa's not here for revenge. Time is running short, and Santa needs all the help he can get in order to "save" Christmas, so he recruits Bender to join his slaying. As they wreak havoc throughout the world together, everyone at Planet Express huddles together for safety and Fry comes to a realization – this Xmas HAS brought them together, not with love but with fear, and that counts for something.
As the night ends, Santa gives Bender a small present as his way of saying thank you. Bender's disappointed that it's an empty box, but Santa explains: "It might appear empty, but the message is clear – play Santa again and I'll kill you next year!" Then he kicks him out of the sleigh in midair.
Personally I prefer the first Futurama Xmas episode over this one, but "A Tale of Two Santas" isn't without its merits. I like the song in this one more, the moments in the courtroom and leading up to Bender's execution are funny, and the characters are very much in character with Bender only becoming Santa under protest but also with the hope that he'll be showered with praise and rewards for doing so. They even have some fun with the fact that he's possibly, with the exception of the Robot Devil and Richard Nixon's head, the most evil character on the show, as shown in this moment where Santa is asking Bender to join him after breaking him out.
Fry: Don't do it! He's evil!
Santa: I know he is, but that's beside the point.
Other than that, the voice acting inconsistency rubs me the wrong way, especially since they keep DiMaggio as Santa for the rest of the series, the plothole with them not telling anyone before sending Bender out to deliver presents bugs me, and while the moments of mean-spirited comedy were handled well in the previous episode, they're not here. If it were me I would have had the last scene with Bender and Santa happen before Fry and the Planet Express crew huddle together and have Bender come crashing in and joining them, making the ending both darkly humorous and heartwarming. All this still doesn't stop me from watching it at least a few parts from it though, if not the full episode.
There is one other Futurama holiday-themed episode made during the series' second run, but I won't be looking into it because fans like myself agree it's one of the worst episodes of the show. They go for a Treehouse of Horror/Anthology of Interest approach with three different tales relating to the big three December holidays – Christmas, Hanukkah (or in this case Robonukkah for Bender) and Kwanzaa, but the comedy is awful, the songs are forced and forgettable, and it ends with every single one of the characters dying in horrible ways. If I had to choose between that and "A Tale of Two Santas", I'd pick the latter in a heartbeat.
Christmas Reviews: Futurama – "Xmas Story"
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Futurama is one of my favorite television series. The brainchild of Matt Goening, creator of The Simpsons, it enjoyed a brief run on Fox before regaining popularity on Adult Swim reruns, which was how I was introduced to it. After some successful direct-to-video movies, it was revived on Fox for a few more seasons. It has a hard-earned place in the heart of nerd culture for its sense of humor, beloved characters, and crazy world of New-New York, 3000 AD. Early on in its second season, the first Christmas episode, "Xmas Story", premiered in time for the holidays, and I'll be looking at it today.
But first, a brief breakdown of the series up to that point: Our main character, Philip J. Fry, is a 30 year old pizza delivery boy from the year 1999. On New Year's Eve, he was accidentally cryogenically frozen and awoken in the year 3000. He becomes a delivery boy for Planet Express, a delivery company run by his extremely great-nephew, Prof. Farnsworth and works alongside a cyclops alien captain named Leela and amoral beer-guzzling robot Bender as he tries to adjust to this strange new world.
The Planet Express crew – Fry (Billy West), Leela (Katey Segal), Bender (John DiMaggio) and Farnsworth (also West) as well as intern Amy Wong (Lauren Tom), bureaucrat Hermes Conrad (Phil LaMarr) and Dr. Zoidberg (West) – spend a day up at the Catskills enjoying the comedic stylings of Conan O'Brien's head (celebrities and presidents from years gone by are preserved as living heads in jars). After Bender and Conan heckle each other, everyone goes skiing and plenty of slapstick ensues.
While relaxing at the lodge Fry remarks that it's moments like this that puts you in the Christmas mood. The others are confused over this "Christmas" until Fry spells it as "Xmas". It turns out in the future people just call it the abbreviated version of the holiday. Fry is a little sad that this will be his first Xmas without his family, but the gang tries to cheer him up by going to the woods and chopping down an old-fashioned tree. This only exacerbates Fry's homesickness as he learns that pine trees have been extinct for centuries and palm trees are now the go-to Xmas tree substitute.
They fly back to Planet Express HQ and decorate, but Fry is too caught up in his memories of Xmas past to join in the fun. Hermes delivers cards from family members to everyone in the crew but Leela. Leela takes a moment for herself to look at some old pictures from her childhood. All of them are of her without family or friends. She returns in time for Fry to loudly demand some sympathy and she runs off crying. Fry wonders what that was about and Amy reminds him that Leela was an orphan, and the only known cyclops species in the universe. Fry may feel alone this Xmas, but Leela's spent her whole life alone.
Bender catches a touching story on the news about homeless robots getting the alcohol they need to function from soup kitchens and decides to go to one himself – not to volunteer of course, but to help himself to free booze.
Fry, meanwhile, is feeling awful for being insensitive towards Leela and vows to find her the perfect Xmas present to cheer her up. It's getting dark though, and the crew warns him that Santa will be out soon. In one last stark bit of contrast to our Christmas, they reveal Santa is a robot (voiced by John Goodman) originally built to judge who's been naughty or nice and deliver presents, but his standards have been set to beyond Jesus-levels of niceness and he automatically judges everyone to be naughty. Rather than distribute coal, he punishes everyone in extremely violent ways. This doesn't put Fry off, however, and he searches all of New-New York to find a good last-minute gift.
At the homeless shelter, Bender is able to pass himself off as a homeless robot and he guzzles as much alcohol as he can get his hands on. He softens for a moment on seeing a crippled orphan robot Tinny Tim approach bowl in hand like Oliver Twist but is denied after the kitchen runs out. He doesn't give him his alcohol, but he does let him hang out with him for the rest of the episode which counts for something I guess.
Fry tracks down a pet store two minutes before closing and is torn between buying a $500 parrot or 500 lizards that cost a dollar each.
Never mind that Leela already has a pet that poops out free fuel and has the voice of Frank Welker.
Fry decides on the parrot but it quickly proves to be a nuisance and it escapes. Fry climbs on to a clock tower ledge to retrieve it and ends up clinging for his life Harold Lloyd-style. Leela appears to rescue him after the crew told her where he went. As they both walk home, they realize that though they're both alone, they can be alone together. Everything is wrapped up nicely…
"I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE VINE! I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE VINE!!"
Santa appears and is ready to stuff their stockings until they burst for not considering each others' or their coworkers' feelings. Leela and Fry find themselves cornered say their goodbyes. Fry notices that they're standing under mistletoe, making their farewell a bittersweet one…until they're interrupted by Santa's TOW missile heading for them. They're saved at the last minute by the parrot conveniently flying in its path.
They run into Bender and Tinny Tim, who have been out robbing old ladies together under the guise of friendly carolers. Santa calls out Bender for being especially naughty. Bender tries to pin his long roster of crimes on Tinny Tim, and when Santa stops to add the act of framing an orphan to his list they all make a break for Planet Express. They manage to get inside but so do Santa and his reindeer before the chimney can be blocked.
Santa declares everyone to be naughty and worthy of his punishment – except for Zoidberg. He gets a pogo stick. With Santa's belly shaking a bowlful of nitro glycerin and Rudolph's glowing nose as the timer, it seems like everyone is doomed. Zoidberg uses his present to reach the Christmas lights and cut them, electrocuting Santa. They succeed in kicking him and the reindeer into the fireplace and covering it before Santa is blown sky high.
Everyone can relax now that the danger is over and Bender makes Xmas dinner out of a very familiar-looking dead bird. Now I'm not one for mean-spiritedness in comedy, but the following exchange is one of my favorite moments in all of Futurama. Bender serves some of the parrot to little Tinny Tim, but Leela's pet Nibbler gobbles up the entire meal, including Tim's portion. Fry stands up to make an important announcement:
Fry: Look, the food isn't what's important.
Tim: I'm so hungry.
Maybe it's the delivery, maybe it's how they play up Tim's sad little orphan act as much as possible throughout that it transcends tragedy and enters comedy, but it cracks me up every time.
Fry concludes that even though he's surrounded by aliens and robots and Jamaicans, he feels perfectly at home this Xmas. The evening concludes with everyone cheering and singing that classic song "Santa Claus is Gunning You Down".
"Xmas Story" is one of my go-to episodes of Futurama, and a perennial holiday favorite. It does a fun job showing what an alternate sci-fi version of Christmas would be like, all played for laughs of course. I didn't even touch on half the funny lines or scenes in this episode. They go all out on the jokes, even ripping on some beloved stories like A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Gift Of The Magi, but they don't hold back on the heartwarming moments either. If you're not familiar with Futurama, the world and the characters that inhabit it might be a lot to take in, but I hope this gives you more incentive to give the series a chance.
But this isn't the only time Fry Bender and Leela go toe-to-toe with Santa. Join me in the next review to find out who's been naughty and who's been nice.


Recruiting is becoming a digital experience as candidates come to expect convenience and mobile contact. Savvy recruiters now have access to new technologies to forge connections with candidates and strengthen the employment brand.
Talent sourcing and recruitment face tremendous pressure. Talent and skill shortages are widespread. Employees are demanding new careers and career models. And technologies and innovations—including cognitive, artificial intelligence, social collaboration, crowds, and the sharing economy—are reshaping the workforce. Leading companies are turning the open talent economy into an opportunity by embracing technologies and developing new models that make innovative use of on- and off-balance-sheet talent sources.
Attracting skilled resources is no longer simply the responsibility of HR. It now stands as a top concern of business leaders, ranking third in our survey this year.
More than 8 in 10 (83 percent) executives say talent acquisition is important or very important.
Finding talent both on- and off-balance sheet has moved far beyond traditional recruiting to encompass the broader scope of talent acquisition (TA). Once the sole domain of HR, TA now involves multiple teams across the organization. Adding to the complexity, the accelerating pace of technology offers a dizzying array of new solutions, even as the nature and sources of talent markets continue to shift. Current platforms struggle to adapt because many are too old to integrate emerging technologies, capabilities, and needs.
In today's transparent digital world, a company's employment brand must be both highly visible and highly attractive because candidates now often find the employer, not the reverse. To leverage this interest, companies are intensively managing their employment brand, which can "pull" candidates toward them.
The biggest disruptor in talent acquisition today is experimentation with tech solutions and services. With over 70 percent of TA systems coming from third-party providers, vendors are actively seeking to capitalize on these new technologies.3 Many of these are evolving toward cognitive capabilities that build on mobile and cloud technologies, as well as social networks such as LinkedIn. Some of the larger HR systems, such as Workday and Oracle, are building solutions that feed into even bigger systems.
While cognitive TA is currently the domain of mostly small, single-solution start-ups, IBM's AI pioneer, Watson, is now moving into the space with three new technologies: a machine learning platform that ranks the priority of open requisitions; social listening for an organization's and competitors' publicly available reviews on Glassdoor, Twitter, and newsfeeds; and a tool that matches candidates to jobs through a "fit score" based on career experiences and skills. These technologies take pre-existing social data and information and then apply advanced cognitive capabilities to deliver actionable analysis.
Predictive analytics is increasingly important to TA, as sophisticated analytics teams begin to prioritize recruiting workflows, conduct workforce planning, evaluate different recruiting sources, assess quality of hire, and use pre-hire assessments. Companies that are not prioritizing analytics do so at their own risk.
The applicant tracking system (ATS)—which has traditionally been an immense TA filing cabinet—is being reinvented by innovative solution providers. These providers are augmenting the ATS with other TA technologies, including candidate relationship management, video interviewing, and analytics. For example, HR software company Lever has reimagined the ATS to pivot around candidate relationship management, offering built-in, real-time reporting across all pipelines and recruiting functions.
The candidate experience is the first phase of the broader employee experience. Yet only 15 percent of global business leaders surveyed this year believe their companies do an excellent job cultivating and monitoring long-term relationships with potential future talent.
Video is also transforming interviews. AI and a video interview may be better able to identify promising candidates than a traditional interview, saving money and reducing time-to-hire. For example, Hilton used a video interviewing platform to cut its recruiting cycle from six weeks to just five days.8 Video interviewing can reduce pre-hire assessment questions from 200 to just 5 and raises the possibility of one-interview hires.
Organizations employ many sourcing strategies to attract and engage top talent. A company's own employees deliver the highest-quality candidates, with over half of surveyed organizations (51 percent) citing employee referrals as one of their top three channels, followed by professional networking sites (42 percent) and internal candidates (40 percent).13 In 2014, only 12 percent of surveyed global business leaders thought their usage of social tools for sourcing and advertising positions was excellent; this number has more than doubled, to 28 percent.
Our global survey this year found capabilities relative to new sourcing and talent pools to be among the weakest reported. More than half of surveyed global business leaders (53 percent) report weak capabilities in relation to gig and talent economy resources, and only 8 percent rate their companies' ability to manage crowdsourcing as excellent. (See figure 3.) Improving these capabilities will determine which businesses can attract needed talent and which struggle to identify and incorporate in-demand skills.
Many big organizations have embraced shared services for HR, yet when it comes to recruiting, local hiring managers tend to work largely alone with the help of local recruiters or HR professionals. Given the expense, corporate HR is the most likely choice to invest in the talent acquisition products that can make the company stand out. And that's likely to be money well spent. Companies can support this new approach to talent acquisition by starting with a degree of centralization to gain the benefit of scale and efficiency and, more importantly, create a strong and competitively differentiated candidate experience.
First, candidates complete a short online form tied to their LinkedIn profiles—no résumés needed. Second, candidates spend 20 minutes on a series of games that are available on computers, tablets, or smartphones. Working with gamification solution provider Pymetrics, the Unilever TA team developed 13 games that provide insight into various capabilities such as problem solving, personality, and communication style. After completing the games, all candidates receive a personalized feedback report.
Only candidates selected by the Pymetrics program move on to the third step: recording a video interview. Unilever uses HireVue for its video interviewing platform, which digitally assesses and ranks the video interviews to determine candidate fit. The strongest candidates then move on to the fourth step, when they are invited to a Discovery Centre for an in-person "day in the life at Unilever" simulation.
Another large employer in the retail industry was struggling with high employee turnover, a lack of focus on the candidate experience, and overall brand/social presence as it tried to raise the level of talent in the organization. Most of its workers were nonexempt hourly staff. Hiring managers on the line were burdened with high volumes, especially at seasonal peaks; to avoid getting overwhelmed, they were taking people on with little regard to talent development. Potential new sources of talent were left untapped.
The company decided to implement a new human capital management software package to replace its hodgepodge of manual and automated systems. But the software wasn't enough—HR needed to get involved to show line supervisors the importance of managing talent over time, from hiring through orientation and beyond. HR set up a centralized recruiting center to pre-screen candidates for individual stores. It also established a series of standardized processes to make sure candidates didn't fall through the cracks and would enjoy a better and more consistent experience. New employees were set up with learning plans as part of their onboarding, and HR took note of their competencies and career interests.
By centralizing the employee data, HR was able to move the organization toward an "open market" approach to talent and mobility. This helped not just with retaining current employees but with attracting outside candidates, driving a consistent candidate experience across the enterprise that better aligned with the company's talent strategy and desired reputation in the marketplace.
As this large employer found, technology isn't enough to elevate a company's recruiting experience. To help ensure a steady flow of talent into the organization and create an approach that delights candidates, especially with the job market tightening, companies should start with a broader perspective on hiring through the lens of the candidate. They can no longer afford to rely on local managers to represent the company.
Leverage new technologies: The world of recruiting is becoming a digital experience—perhaps leading the pack among the rest of HR processes—as candidates come to expect convenience and mobile experiences. Explore the value of cognitive tools, video, and gaming, especially when they build on social networks and the cloud.
Build a digital employment brand: Everything an organization does in the digital and socially networked world affects candidates' decision to work there. Be sure to monitor and align messaging across sites and experiences.
Create a compelling candidate experience: Put yourself into the candidates' shoes: What is unique about your organization that can add richness to the candidate experience? What qualities both set your company apart and make it more attractive to candidates?
Broaden and expand sourcing channels: Open up talent pipelines to nontraditional sources. Think about how best to source and recruit for the many types of talent needed, both on and off the balance sheet, including full- and part-time employees, freelancers, gig workers, and crowds.
Integrate sourcing: Talent acquisition sourcing should be connected across HR, business, procurement, IT, and other functions. Move beyond silos toward coordinated talent sourcing channels.
Accelerating digital, video, and cognitive technologies and ever-increasing transparency are quickly changing how recruiters find and court skilled employees. Rather than continuing to focus on sourcing and selection, recruiters are now relationship builders and managers. They are looking to enable a positive candidate experience for new employees—a task that requires both new responsibilities and new skills.
Savvy recruiters will continue to embrace new TA technologies and hone their relationship-building skills. Indeed, this is the promise of cognitive recruiting. As AI and other technologies take over the basic, time-consuming tasks of sourcing candidates, human jobs will shift. A recruiter in this new world can add value by building psychological and emotional connections with candidates and constantly strengthening the employment brand.
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Since I have announced that www.torservers.net accepts Bitcoin in the "We accept Bitcoin" thread, I have already received over 200 Euro worth of Bitcoin! I want to use this thread to thank all those who have donated, and to apologize for not yet having added these donations to our list of donations page. I want to revamp the page to give a better chronological view of donations, and rest assured that all your donations will be listed there once I manage to find enough time. I will be on vacation the rest of September, so don't expect this to happen earlier than October. Sorry! Check the twitter feed @torservers to keep everyone up to date on donations.
I also want to use this to properly introduce Torservers. Torservers is a project I started some months ago. The idea behind it is to support the Tor project with operational services. What does that mean?
The Tor software is in development for 10 years now, open source, and 'simply the best'. It is a research oriented project that aims to provide free, anonymous and uncensored Internet access to anyone who needs it. More and more countries are censoring and monitoring Internet access, and journalists, activists and bloggers risk their lives (or lose it...) to get information out (and in). Tor makes it very hard, if not impossible for a single government, to block and monitor user activity. While they do excellent work, they cannot as official project run servers that run the Tor software. That's where we step in.
What we do at Torservers is maintain high bandwidth Tor exit nodes, deal with the technical issues - and especially the legal issues. Before we came, about 25% of all Tor traffic exited through one network (Blutmagie in Germany), and we wanted to change that. So what we are trying to do is bring together people who love the idea and want to support the network, but don't know how to run their own exit nodes, or don't want to do it for legal reasons.
100% of your donations go into operational costs of Tor exit nodes and bridges. Every user of Tor will benefit from more servers - more anonymity and more speed. We are the first instance who are able to provide private bridge IPs to activists/organizations.
This model seems to work very well, and I am in the process of registering a proper foundation (a German "Verein") to back this up. We don't do this for the money, I will pay for the foundation myself, but - besides donations of course - I can use your help in getting the word out, talking to people to make them aware of the problem of censorship (say China, Burma, Iran, Irak, Saudi Arabia, Tunesia, Russia, etc...!), and to spread the idea behind Tor. It would be awesome to find companies and organizations who love the idea and want to sponsor a node. Tor has 50000 daily users from China alone! For me, getting information to and from people in oppressed countries is among the most important tasks of our civilization.
Thank you for all of your efforts. They make a big difference.
I have donated to you in the past and appreciate what torservers.net does for freedom, as I am a user and advocate of TOR. My question is, how do I know for sure that 100% of my donations go to operational costs of the Tor exit nodes and bridges, other than your word? It is nice that you post the Overall Exit Node Traffic and Statistics for each node. I'm wondering if there would be any way to verify the operation costs and veracity of the nodes without compromising the anonymity of your nodes?
From the website they say that the organisation will form a foundation.
I don't know by German law, but here in the Netherlands foundations have often the requirement to publish the finances to its members and/or chamber of commerce (where they can be requested from again).
Thanks. Yes, we will start a foundation for it. I am sorry that I haven't been all good about publishing each single donation and the costs more clearly on the website yet, but this will definitely happen. The current cost is $201 every month for the 100tb.com server, as you can also see on their website. The rest of the costs (hosting, domain name, etc) are not included as I'm covering for them. I will eventually add them to the list of expenses and at the same time add that money as donations from me to make it all transparent.
Especially for Bitcoin donations I'm behind publishing, sorry! The time I can spend on Torservers is limited, and so far most of time went into answering abuse and setting it all up. I'm still not happy with the setup as we should push more than the current amount of data, and that's my priority right now.
Thanks for your faith! I will be speaking on a conference in Dresden in two weeks, if you happen to be German, feel free to come by!
I think answering abuse is also important. Just one question out of curiosity. How much bitcoins are you getting in your wallet? Doesn't need to be accurate, just an estimate. How does this reflect overall donations?
B.t.w. How many people are administrating the servers/foundation?
As an estimate, I think I have received roughly 5000 BTC.
At the moment, the three servers are administrated by myself. I have several people who offer to help with this, but I want to get the foundation in place and "contracts" for administrators. The group of administrators will be close friends of mine to make sure I can rely on them. Ideally, in the future the foundation will be managed by people who don't have access to any of the servers, which makes the process more transparent once they are contacted to help with "more serious cases of abuse".
We will automate and document the process of administration and installation of Tor nodes. For me, one of the most important aspects is to publish everything, so that other people can benefit from our experience. The number of abuse cases for most Tor exits today is unknown, and to have definite numbers (in combination with the throughput) published, and have some scripts to help with that, can be very helpful to both researchers and node operators.
Thank you for the explanation. Wow, 5000-ish btc. That is more than I expected (about 20x more, based on nothing).
Yes, I am very proud of the Bitcoin community to support this project with that amount!
Just a quick update: Sorry, I haven't yet found the time to work on listing the donations properly. Bear with me! I am working on this alone at the moment, and have been busy talking to people about getting the association registered, and my number one priority was to get the Tor nodes working (which turned out to be harder than I thought). There's a lot going on behind the scenes in regard to monitoring etc, I want to put it all on the site once it's done. If you want to help out with anything, let me know (my jabber nick, email etc is on the contact page).
I am also proud to be able to announce that we have tweaked our major server to finally reach an average of 320 MBit/s of Tor traffic as you can see from its stat at http://us1.torservers.net/ . That's exactly what the current plan is covering, and with the most famous and stable exit node "blutmagie" ceasing operation in 2011, it looks like we 'hit the market' just at the right moment.
If you want to meet and missed the event in Dresden, I will be at the Netzpolitische Kongress in Berlin from 12-13th November.
That's 485 dollars worth of bitcoins! Wow!
I traded 4000 BTC for 206 Euro at bitcoinexchange as soon as I got them in early September.
Since you're into providing means for anonymous communications, what do you think about providing Anomos trackers?
I know many people use bittorrent over Tor, and that's not good for the network. The anomos project is a good alternative to the problem, if at least it had trackers!
@caveden: At the moment I don't want to provide filesharing trackers, sorry.
Good idea. Will do it with the next update.
We are still alive and kicking! If you're interested in our progress, check out my twitter account at http://www.twitter.com/torservers or the mailing list archive at http://www.freelists.org/archive/torservers/ .
We are still happy to accept Bitcoin donations of course! At the moment I have ~1000 BTC, and in September as you know I sold 2000 BTC for 100 Euro. If only I had kept it! A Bitcoin address to donate is listed at http://www.torservers.net/donate.html#anonymous .
If you want to know anything else, I'm happy to chat about it. My Jabber details are on the site.
Wouldn't it be much better if some form of tor would be invented that supports paying for the service on a usage basis?
@bitanarchy: See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/two-incentive-designs-tor for some discussion on that. You really don't want to turn the Tor network into a capitalist system, especially when those affected by censorship are usually the people without money. We at torservers think that it is a great way for everyone who has money to support those that don't. We do not use Tor ourselves, because we live in western societies that already protects most of the properties we want to provide for everyone (protection of free speech etc).
I already thought about it, but it's hard to implement I guess.
You can't just embed bitcoin transactions on each data packets. That would be a huge overhead for both networks.
There should be some sort of contract. Like, you pay a certain amount (the relay may specify how much) and the relay grants you a key that you would use to sign each packet. The transfer should cover a good amount of data to be transfered before you have to pay again.
But anyway, if somebody finds a way to implement a payable tor service that would probably have lots of bandwidth since most people don't use all their bandwidth all the time and would be happy to earn a few bitcents from it.


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Malawi government has terminated employment contracts of three public officers including former first lady Callista Mutharika, George Saonda and Chiza Mbekeani who are aligned to the United Transformation Movement (UTM), predominantly breakaway political grouping from the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
Callista – the widow of former president Bingu wa Mutharika and in-law of incumbent President Peter Mutharika – who worked as presidential adviser on safe motherhood, Saonda who served as director of administration in the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology and Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs deputy director of administration Mbekeani have been fired for their involvement in politics.
In June this year, Muhara issued a memo to all heads of government institutions advising civil servants wishing to contest for political office to resign before doing so.
However, the Office of President and Cabinet has not cracked the whip on chief director responsible for safe motherhood and maternal health, Chimwemwe Chipungu, who doubles as DPP organising secretary.
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC), who wrote the Chief Secretary in June demanding action on all civil servants vying for political office, said they are taking the matter to court.
Chipungu has come out in the open to contest for a parliamentary seat for Thyolo South West Constituency on DPP ticket while his deputy at Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health, Clement Mwale, lost to Grezelder Jeffrey on the position of secretary general at the convention, and is still serving as deputy director responsible for training in the Ministry of Health under the Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health Initiative.
Efforts to talk to Muhara on why he is not enforcing his directive to the DPP members proved futile.
UTM stands for Transformation that's what they say – draining the swamp .Now having known that you are Now in Active Politics you should have Resigned honourably – munakawoneka ngati Anthu oziwa Malamulo.Nanga Anthu akusiyanisani bwanji ndi DPP Ngati simukusata Malamulo.As for DPP we all know that they believe they are Above the Law.
Chiza Mbekeani ndi MCP yomwe alibe koma mpaka anamupatsa u deputy director coz he took an injunction against the demos that led to the death of 20 people nthawi ya Bingu. He has been used like a condom. Stupid boy.
Whilst those in power and in control of resources are busy feasting, the poor are getting poorer. If it were not for donors, our health systems and economic empowerment interventions would have collapsed. For those who feel DPP should continue they need to think about legacy. If we tolerate DPP mediocrity, this country will be run down and we will all go down together because when we become a failed state you won't be able to spend your I'll gotten wealth. ..
Mbuzi iwe eti! Then bwanji osangosiya kulemba. Pano ndi pa ma comments!
A Yale professor can't govern ethically. And we lie to ourselves that education is key: it isn't. Munthu kaye, sukulu pambuyo.
Callista amapocherabe ndalama without working ngati nephew wake Chilima? Koma APM is a good man.
Come May 2019, all the fired people will be reinstated. APM will have fled to USA and the rest of the hoodlums will wish they were MCP.
DPP is too jittery. They would shoot at anything that moved were it in the western movies.
Our president is too confused he can approve the erection of the nonentity Mahatma. Our sovereignty has indeed gone to the dogs.