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Kamala Harris calls in her support for Lamont
By Emilie Munson
Updated 8:27 pm EDT, Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks during a rally in downtown Los Angeles against the Trump administration's immigration policies on June 30, 2018. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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Kamala Harris of California joined her fellow U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut on a conference call Wednesday night to urge Democratic activists and supporters in Connecticut to back Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont in the November election.
"Ned, given his work and his voice, which has been a voice of courage and a voice that is not afraid to stand up for what he knows we have to do, is the kind of voice that we need as a governor of a major state in this country," said Harris, a Democrat. "In that way, the work that you all will do in electing Ned is going to have not only impact to the people of Connecticut but frankly the whole nation because we need these strong voices in the field."
Harris, widely suspected to be considering a 2020 presidential run, is California's junior senator and former attorney general. Harris and Murphy described each other as friends on the call.
Both criticized Bob Stefanowski, Connecticut's Republican nominee for governor, for his support of President Donald Trump, who endorsed Stefanowski Wednesday morning.
"It's right there in front of us: Ned Lamont, a man of conviction, a man who is right for this time," said Murphy, who is also seeking re-election in November. "Bob Stefanowski, who is going to run with Trump and then govern with Trump."
Stefanowski said earlier Wednesday he would welcome Trump to Connecticut to campaign for him because Connecticut could learn from the national economic policies he has implemented.
"Connecticut is facing one of the worst financial crises in the country thanks to policies of (Gov. Dannel P.) Malloy and Ned Lamont," said Stefanowski in a statement. "I look forward to a vigorous debate on my plans to fix Connecticut and rid once and for all, the culture of corruption in Hartford, even if Malloy and Lamont want to do nothing more than play politics."
Harris noted that Stefanowski ran a payday lending company, Dollar Financial Corp. He also worked at General Electric and was chief financial officer of UBS Investment Bank.
"(Lamont's) opponent would be just a very bad story," Harris said. "It sends a message to the rest of the country."
Both Lamont and Stefanowski won their primaries Tuesday night.
Democratic nominees for statewide office with gather in Hartford Saturday at 11 a.m. for a unity event to promote the party's candidates, said Nick Balletto, chair of the state Democratic party, on the call Wednesday.
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It was summer and Hylton McKie had managed to persuade his son that his grandchildren: Efua, Alexander and Sylvester, would enjoy spending two weeks with him in the country. Their grandfather lived in Hanover with Auntie Lorna – far away from Bridgeport in St. Catherine where the children lived.
Professor McKie wasn't sure that he liked the idea of them going so far away for so long. He didn't think that his father and sister would be able to manage this particular undertaking because they weren't very accustomed to children being at their home, and even if he said so himself, these three required a lot of getting used to.
In any event, the children really wanted to go; and so they went to great lengths to achieve that aim. They even promised to behave themselves, and as a result, their parents agreed to let them visit their grandfather for two weeks.
Professor McKie had promised to drive the children to Hanover early that Saturday morning. He planned to stay with them until Sunday afternoon before returning home – just to make sure that none of them changed their mind at the last minute. That had happened once, about five years ago, when the children were just babies. They were all grown up now and didn't think that it would be necessary for their father to wait around, but since they knew he would miss them for the two weeks that they would be away, they didn't mind letting him stay with them for a little while longer. They would even leave most of their toys at home to keep him company.
Unfortunately though, the trip did not begin all that well. Alexander and Sylvester argued about who would sit in front with their father. Finally, Professor McKie decided that Efua would; then two kilometres up the road Sylvester said that he had to go to the bathroom – badly! Professor McKie was very upset because he had told the children to go before they left the house. Anyway, he pulled over into a gas station to fill up the car and to give each of the children a chance to use the loo.
A little later he had to scold Efua for enraging her brothers by constantly making her little sock puppet stick its tongue teasingly at them in the back seat. Things really got boisterous though and Professor McKie had to pull over again to speak sternly to the boys when they began arguing loudly about the music on the radio and trying to coax Efua to change the station.
The children were worried because he looked as if he meant what he said. They promised to behave. They didn't want to miss out on the trip to visit their grandfather, not because they loved Hanover so much as because on Grandpa's farm he had the biggest coconuts and the longest, thickest and sweetest canes and the juiciest mangoes that the children had ever eaten. They anticipated two weeks of being in Heaven.
The family arrived at the farm about three hours later because Professor McKie wasn't in as much of a hurry as his children were. Still, three hours to Esher in Hanover was very good and so they were still in time for breakfast when they drove up the gravel road to the main house.
After receiving the gifts of an additional member for her little family of sock puppets for Efua and a push-cart for the two boys everyone ate a huge breakfast because their aunt and grandfather had prepared a feast of ackee and saltfish, boiled green bananas, cartwheel dumplings and thick slabs of fresh duck bread. They even prepared a pot of steaming coffee. The children wanted to have theirs black like the adults, but they were given orange juice instead.
After breakfast the children rushed outside to play with Manfred, their grandfather's frisky mongrel puppy, and to see how the farm had held up since their last visit. They poked around the place and ended up in a large shed about two hundred metres from the house.
The shed was dark and cool because it had been shut and light only came in from outside when the children opened the door. Alexander fumbled with a light switch that he had noticed just inside the door and the cool room was flooded with the white light of two long fluorescent bulbs.
Inside there were several rows of fresh scented Pine wood shelves nailed to the three walls that formed the back and the sides of the building. Each row was about forty centimetres higher than the row below it; except for the bottom shelf that was a little higher off the floor. There were some mysterious looking boxes and several long planks of lumber packed neatly on the floor under the shelves to the right of the room. Six large drums of pesticide were lined along the wall under the row of shelves to the left. The children knew that they were not to touch those because they had seen on T.V. that they could get into serious trouble if they did.
They weren't interested in the pesticide containers however, because on the shelves above them were endless double rows of the largest mangoes that they had ever seen! These fruits were nearly the size of the pumpkins their father tried to grow in his backyard garden at home. The only reason that the children knew that they were really mangoes was because Grandpa had sent a dozen Tommy Atkins mangoes for them last summer with Uncle Stephen. Those had been the biggest mangoes that they had seen up to that time; but they had been nothing compared to what they saw now!
The smooth skins were beautiful tapestries of purple, fuchsia, green, orange, and yellow. They drew the three children like magnets; and so each child grabbed one and dashed from the shed to hide behind the barn where Grandpa's five cows sometimes slept.
The children were very frightened by what they had done because everything had happened so quickly that they weren't sure what had really occurred. They soon began to argue among themselves about whether or not they had really stolen the mangoes. The boys were inclined to feel that it wasn't really stealing since they were only mangoes and they belonged to their grandfather. Efua felt that it was stealing since they were already picked and washed and put away on the shelves waiting for someone to come for them. She argued that if they had picked them from the tree themselves, or picked them up from the ground, then it wouldn't really be stealing. Alex, remembering how his mango seemed to wink at him suggested that they simply ask their grandfather if they could have the mangoes, but Sylvester vetoed that idea because they had just eaten. The others stared at him quizzically so he went on to explain that the adults would think that they were greedy to want the mangoes after the big breakfast that they had just eaten.
"But we are!" Efua wailed.
"But they don't have to know that," Sylvester argued.
Alexander agreed, reluctantly, with his brother and so the children and Manfred ate the mangoes; more to destroy the evidence than because they were hungry. They didn't enjoy the mangoes very much. They felt far too guilty.
"Why didn't we just put them back?" asked Efua.
"You should have thought of that before," Alexander agreed.
"No body would have killed us," Efua argued, but it was too late because the deed was done.
They had only just finished eating the mangoes, allowing Manfred to lick their hands clean, and crept back toward the house when they heard voices coming their way. It was Grandpa and Daddy and they were going toward the shed!
The children crept closer and hid behind a low wall trying to hear what the two men were saying.
And on and on they chatted until their grandfather invited their Dad in to see the fruit for himself.
"Well you can see for yourself," said Grandpa as he opened the door. He paused, surprised, because the light in the shed was still on! Alexander had forgot to turn it off when he slammed the door behind him as he ran off with his share of the loot.
The children felt terrible and without really meaning to, they found themselves running, screaming, toward the astonished men.
"Why are you making so much noise?" Professor McKie asked.
"We're so sorry!" Efua said, throwing her arms around her father's waist.
"Sorry about what?" he asked, suspiciously.
Sylvester stared at her sourly. He couldn't see the sense in confessing before they were accused.
The children promised to wait and they ran off again before their father could say anything at all.
They spent the rest of the morning exploring the farm. They watched the men drain the fishpond and catch the fish with their bare hands as they flopped around in the sludge. Efua actually managed to impress her brothers when she caught a little fish by herself. They helped to feed the chickens and then wandered down to the river where they waded in the water and pretended to be goat kids as they jumped from boulder to boulder.
They were very surprised, therefore, when Grandpa and Daddy called them in a very angry way later that day.
"Did you take those mangoes?" their father demanded.
"No I mean after that," his father barked.
"No, no. We didn't take any more," the boy insisted.
"No! I mean yes I'm sure we didn't take any more," he said.
"We only took those three," Efua confirmed.
"I really don't know," Efua said in a really small voice.
Efua began to cry and Alexander felt suddenly ill; but Sylvester still had some fight in him.
"We did not steal any more mangoes Daddy," he declared.
The children went inside miserably.
"I wish we could find out before we left," said Alexander.
"Well I'm going to find out," said Sylvester; and flinging his bag down, he ran through the house and away into the back yard; the others following closely behind.
In the meanwhile, Professor McKie didn't realise that the children had run away. He stood by the car with his father and sister and grew even angrier with each passing minute. When he finally went into the house to call them, the children were long gone. They had run to the same spot where they had squatted to eat the stolen mangoes earlier. They needed to think.
"What are we going to do now?" asked Alexander. He was beginning to think that running away hadn't been such a good idea.
"We have to make a list to identify all the possible suspects," Efua replied.
"Are we going to list our names too," Sylvester asked.
"No man. Why are you so fool, fool! We will list the other people," said Alexander irritably. "Do you have any paper?" he asked his sister.
"So now what?" Sylvester was becoming equally exasperated.
"We'll look for clues," said Alexander brightly, thinking of his Hardy Boys books at home. He was suddenly beginning to appreciate the possibilities of the situation.
Efua was impressed; but Sylvester reminded her that they would still be the prime suspects because they hadn't been with their grandfather either and in any case they couldn't find out who was with him unless they asked him and they couldn't do that because they were fugitives. He then suggested that they return to the shed to look for clues there. Having no other ideas they did just that.
The first thing that the children noticed was how muddy the place was. It hadn't been like that when they were there and they wondered how it became that way. The second thing that they noticed was the number of footprints that passed through the mud puddle and seemed to disappear into thin air.
"Probably the real thief had parked his truck here and so when he climbed in there wouldn't be any more footprints…" said Alexander sagely.
"No it doesn't. We could have stolen the mangoes before the truck came. Besides, your feet are as big as any adult's," he said, and both boys laughed uproariously at the girl.
"You don't want us to get out of trouble do you," Efua shouted, stamping her foot in frustration.
Her brothers stared at her. They felt sorry for her because she didn't have as much experience with being in trouble as they did and so she was beginning to crack under the strain.
The children went over the crime scene as carefully as they could and came to the conclusion that practically everyone who lived on the farm except Auntie Lorna and the cows, and themselves, of course, had been at the shed that afternoon. Even Manfred seemed to have been there!
"We'll never find out who did it," Sylvester complained, disgustedly.
"I know, let's set a trap for the thief," said Efua.
Efua sighed and wondered what their father was going to do to them when they finally had to go back to the house. She wanted to cry but she wouldn't dream of doing so in front of the others.
"It couldn't have been the men who came to take the mangoes away could it?" asked Sylvester.
"That's true. And besides, how would they have managed to smuggle three mangoes into our luggage…" Efua began.
"Oh yes. I'd forgot about that," said Sylvester, disappointedly.
"No!" the other two children gasped.
They were truly amazed that Sylvester could have suspected their father! They looked at their little brother in total disbelief.
"Don't bother about us…" Efua began, annoyed.
The children sat leaning against the wall of the shed staring dejectedly at the distant hills when they heard a pathetic whimpering coming from the other side of the building. Soon Manfred come into view and on seeing the children he dropped the large round object which he had been deftly carrying in his mouth, barked happily and bounded toward them.
The children sat very still for a few minutes trying to absorb this turn of events. It looked as if the mystery had been solved! Manfred! He liked mangoes. His paw prints had been seen at the scene of the crime and Manfred would have been able to smell which bags belonged to the children. They were his friends; their father wasn't really, he was always cross whenever Manfred came to beg at the table! This must have been why Manfred hadn't given him a mango too. It was Manfred who had taken the mangoes! If the adults didn't believe this theory then the children would just have to put a mango in the shed and make them hide and watch Manfred steal it.
The children were overjoyed and scrambled toward the yapping dog. They hugged and kissed him and that made him even happier. With Sylvester cradling the mango carefully, vital evidence, he told the others, Manfred frisked about their heels as the children ran inside to tell their Daddy that they had solved the mystery.
Were the children greedy to want the mangoes after they had just eaten such a big breakfast?
Did the children steal the mangoes? Should they have eaten the mangoes before asking their grandfather for them?
Do you think that the children's grandfather would have given them the mangoes if they had asked for them first?
Even if their grandfather did not give them the mangoes would it have really mattered?
Was Professor McKie correct to accuse his children of stealing?
Would you have run away instead of challenging Professor McKie? What would you have done?
How do you feel when an adult is unkind to you?
Is it worse when the person who is unkind to you is an adult or another child?
Are you ever unkind to other people?
10. What can you do to make up to the people to whom you have been unkind?
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Left Behind: Families of Refugees Wait in Limbo
February 20, 2018 By Rafiqul Islam Sarker
Wahid Haider talks about his son's departure to Italy almost seven years ago without regret or hesitation. Haider has not seen Nayeem, now 30 years old, since he left Nankar in search of better economic prospects, travelling through Romania, where he spent several months, before entering Italy.
Wahid, a former chair of a Union Parishad (Union Council) and an influential person in the community, told of how in 2008, the army-led caretaker government demolished his son's shop in Nankar village, along with many other shops, in a drive to push out unauthorized commercial businesses.
Nankar has a population of about 3,000 people, most of them dependent on agriculture. It is in Mithapukur Upazilla (sub-district), south of Rangpur, a northern city some 300 km from the capital of Dhaka, Bangladesh where in the commercial section of the sub-district, prices are as high as $600,000 USD for one acre of land.
Having lost his source of income after the shop was demolished, Nayeem contacted his cousin Ahmed Mustafa in Venice, Italy who had been living there for many years. Nayeem was impressed that Ahmed earned about 1,500 Euro per month as a street vendor and decided to try his luck entering Italy. With help from Ahmed, who managed to sponsor an Italian visa for him based on training in electronics, Nayeem made his way to Italy, making an initial stop in Romania.
To organize this visa and Nayeem's air ticket, Ahmed charged approximately 15,000 dollars, which was paid by Nayeem's father-in-law. Nayeem was barely 20 when he married Zulekha and had two children. Zulekha's father was not cash-rich but owned some land that he agreed to sell at the urging of his daughter, his only child, to finance Nayeem's voyage to Italy.
Nayeem left Nankar some seven years ago. His children are now 10 and 7 years old and they, along with their mother Zulekha, have not seen Nayeem since. But with the money Nayeem sends home through a local bank, Zulekha lives in a rented house in Nankar. In the meantime, Nayeem has been working as a street vendor selling trinkets in Venice. In the summers, he shifts to the beaches for the lucrative tourist season.
He has a legal visa to stay, which requires renewal every six months. But under his current status, he cannot leave Italy to see his wife, children and parents in Bangladesh as he won't be able to enter Italy again.
Nayeem's father Wahid says, "That's not a problem at all. She is a good girl and she can wait a few more years for her husband."
Zulekha might feel differently, but we couldn't reach her to get her views on what this means for her future – an absentee husband with no assurance that he will be able to get permission to visit her and his children in the near future.
Wahid told another story about Imran, a 34-year-old man from a neighbouring village who crossed the Mediterranean on a boat but died of fatigue and dehydration on arrival in Italy some two and a half years ago. His father Alim Uddin, 80, and mother Roushanara, 65, refuse to accept their son's death.
Alim Uddin and Roushanara spoke at their home in Sathibari, an adjoining village of Nakar. "Can you tell me if Imran is well?" Alim Uddin asked.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 199 people have already died this year attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
In 2017, IOM reported that 171,635 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea, with just under 70 percent arriving in Italy and the rest divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain. IOM's Missing Migrants Project (MMP) reported a total of 3,116 deaths in the Mediterranean last year.
Imran was the second of seven siblings – three brothers and four sisters. Agriculture was his family's sole livelihood. He used to support his father by cultivating crops like rice, maize and potatoes on two acres of their ancestral land in the village. But the income wasn't enough to support the family, which consisted of eleven people including Imran's wife and daughter.
In the hope of earning more money, Imran flew to Libya with a valid visa in 2007. As an unskilled laborer, he was earning about $200 USD a month. He worked with a construction company in Tripoli for five years and saved $2,500 USD over that period.
But Imran lost his job soon after the civil war erupted in Libya and he faced a tough situation in the capitol, Tripoli.
"Meanwhile, many of Imran's colleagues left Libya for Italy by crossing the Mediterranean," said Imran's widow Roksana.
Akbar Ali, a man from Sylhet, an eastern district of Bangladesh who lived in Libya, offered Imran a trip by sea to Italy at a cost of $1,000 USD, said Roksana. He agreed and set out by boat in 2012 along with 400 other people from Asian and African countries.
A few days later, "I received a phone call from an unknown telephone number and someone at the other end informed me that Imran had died of fatigue and dehydration on arrival at the Italian port," Roksana said. "He never came home, not even his dead body that we could see and bury."
Imran and Roksana had been married for only one year before he went to Libya. She gave birth to a girl the same year he left. They named her Rebeka Begum. She is now ten years old. Rebeka doesn't know what her father looked like.
Although a widow, Roksana did not leave her father-in-law's house after Imran died. She said, "I could have remarried but did not do so because of my little daughter. Fortunately, my in-laws are good people. Their granddaughter is a solace for them now that their son is gone forever."
Roksana ekes out a living laboring in the fields at Sathibari.
"I've no alternative to hard work in the field," she said. She choked up when she told IPS about another relative from Nankar who after spending four days at sea, was detained by the Italian Coast Guard and was eventually moved to a camp. Later, he was able to get all his papers in order and was granted a permit to stay. He is now visiting his family near Mithapukur and making arrangements to take his wife to Italy.
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I was listening to Maximum Geek 5 on the subway this morning, and was struck with the need to comment on it.
To start off with, damn Jeff and Josh (the two hosts) are some huge geeks! (And this coming from someone who wrote a Palm conduit to post to his weblog.) What I mean is that listening to them takes me right back to my days in the Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo, complete with interrupting each other in the middle of sentences and misquoting Monty Python.
Second, Jeff Kirvin is perhaps the most naive, and I mean that in the nicest way, person I have ever heard speak. While I'ld like to believe that people would pay for content that I could get for free, I just don't have that much faith in human nature, and sadly, my experience seems to bear out my conclusions. I think that at this point in time on the Internet, paying for something is always harder than not paying for it, so you need to add some sort of value to the paying copy.
Which means that the New York Times has completely the wrong idea. It's true that they've cut themselves off from the rest of the web, and are only harming themselves by doing so. (They're a newspaper, why not make the current month pay-to-read, and open up the archives? Surely their main selling point is commentary on what's currently going on!) So, I have the following suggestion for Solo Media: Put up text-only versions of your serials. By "text-only" I don't just mean versions without any formatting, because given the existance of alt.binaries.e-books, and the fact that the first few doc readers couldn't support formatting, having a non-formatted version is clearly not enough of a difference to get people to pay. What I really mean "text-only" is that you should remove all the punctuation, and force capital letters into lowercase as well! It's very rare that people search for a comma, or a semi-colon, and most-if-not-all of the search engines are case-insensitive these days, so lowercasing everything won't hurt your searchability. It will allow people to quickly find which episode memorable text is located in (and approximately where in that episode it is), And it will even give people the flavour of the stuff you're writing, but it will also make it much harder to read, and probably hard enough that it won't be worth the time to try to fix it.
So that's my idea for you guys. Feel free to use it, and spread it around. I hope you like it, and may you grow rich off of it.


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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes charged with seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 role
These are the first charges of sedition against those who allegedly planned an attack on the U.S. Capitol
By Brett Bachman
Published January 13, 2022 4:38PM (EST)
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The founder and current leader of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was arrested Thursday for seditious conspiracy along with 10 of the group's members — the first charges of sedition leveled against those who allegedly planned and executed the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
It's a significant moment that breaks down a key argument leveled by Trump allies — argued most prominently in the Wall Street Journal last week — that the breach was not truly an insurrection because no one had been charged with sedition.
All but one of the individuals charged in Thursday's court filing, 63-year-old Arizona man Edward Vallejo, were already facing charges related to their participation in the riot, according to the Washington Post. So far, 19 Oath Keepers in all have been charged with conspiracy, as well as "aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress." Two of those have pleaded guilty as part of cooperation agreements, while the rest face trials later this year.
Investigators even say many member even admitted to stashing a large number of guns in a nearby hotel room.
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Rhodes, for his part, still maintains that he was outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 but never entered the building.
In interviews with various news outlets, the Yale Law graduate and Army veteran says he was only there to keep the members of his militia "out of trouble," at one point telling the Post that those who did enter the Capitol and commit violence against the law enforcement officers tasked with protecting Congress were "totally off mission."
When approached by a Salon reporter at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas last year, Rhodes quickly became enraged and said "f**k off" before a woman with him joined in by yelling various obscenities. He did not answer any questions about his alleged involvement in the Capitol attack.
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The bulk of Thursday's seditious conspiracy case against Rhodes and other Oath Keepers hinges on evidence of numerous text messages and other communications exchanged between the group both ahead of and during the attempted insurrection.
According to the criminal complaint, on Dec. 22, 2020, Rhodes wrote to a regional Oath Keepers leader that if Biden were to assume the presidency, his group stood ready to "do a bloody, massively bloody revolution against them." Later, he advocated for President Trump to activate the military and institute martial law to stop the transfer of power.
On Jan. 6, Rhodes also admonished another member who posited in an Oath Keepers group chat that Antifa was behind the Capitol breach: "Nope. I'm right here. These are patriots."
The complaint also lists extensive communications between Rhodes and Oath Keepers both inside and outside the Capitol that day. Notably, in none of the texts listed did he ask anyone not to enter the building or leave it once inside.
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In an interview with the far-right NorthWest Liberty News, he said the communications were sent to keep Oath Keepers members "out of trouble" and blamed the charges on a politically motivated Department of Justice.
"I don't do illegal activities. I always stay on this side of the line," he said. "I know where the lines are, and it drives them crazy."
"So they're, they're actively hunting me down, they've got the DOJ running around sending the FBI out to investigate us, Oath Keepers, and they're questioning all of our members across the country — even guys that didn't go to D.C. — about me, and about their relationship with me. And the focus is on trying to build a case against myself and other Oath Keepers to bring us all in jail. But some people aren't satisfied unless we're all in jail."
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Various products and equipment were tested during this evaluation, consisting of an "out of ward" test carried out by a BA student from the University of Reading, followed by an "in ward" test through the installation of the preferred product in two wards at the hospital.
The Econogard monitoring product of choice proposed was that of the "Bed-Ex" Bed Occupancy Monitor Sheet interfaced with an Alert-iT Pager and Bedside Monitor. The Bed-Ex Sheet is made from Tyvek and has a circuit printed on its surface; this works by detecting the proximity of the patient rather than their weight.
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Founded in 2015, as an individual business and later converted to limited liability in 2018. We make it our mission to bring you the latest and greatest fashion. We sell ready made garments for all occasions via website, mail, and email orders too.We take orders for special events, clothing for live stage performances, weddings, pet clothing, especially for dogs and cats such as pet cushions.
We also take special orders for childrenswear, Baby Cots and baby cushions. We are the ultimate one-stop-shop for any generation.
We've expanded in the last five years to become a recognisable and relatable name in such a competitive industry. Our mission has always stayed the same; to provide outstanding quality and value for the modern world. We do Different types of Fashion Styles such as Batik Sarees, shirts and hand printed clothes based interior décor cushion covers. We also do hand printed ladies bags.
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BIZSERVICES UK is a business based in the UK. We pride ourselves on offering 100% natural high-quality products that are affordable to all and supported by our fast, reliable, and efficient service. With our many years of experience, whether you are an independent hotelier or global chain, we know your guests want to enjoy their stay with maximum convenience and satisfaction Our head offices and distribution centre is based in Uxbridge where founder Mr M L R Perera is very much at the forefront of the business. We have an extensive catalogue of products that continues to increase; from 10 toiletry ranges in 2018 expanding in 2019 to 21 ranges offering a wide choice of luxury and economy ranges to suit any décor and guest requirements.
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A masterclass in masterplanning: How you can plan to withstand market impacts in the future
19.07.2022 : Michael Warne
A masterplan is the true mastermind behind a manufacturing facility coming to life on time and within budget. Michael Warne, Principal Architect at Beca talks through the differences between a good masterplan and a great masterplan, and how to prepare ahead for future market impacts.
The world of masterplanning has evolved from hard copy 2D layouts and plans to online 3D images and representations, creating responsive and adaptable digital assets that can be accessed remotely by anyone in the project team. In bygone times, reviewing projects would require multiple people to be on site at one time, but digital tools like a HoloLens can bring a team together virtually, creating a more efficient and productive review process for everyone.
While masterplanning has traversed into the collaborative online, the environment that Beca and our clients operate in has also moved significantly. How does that affect project planning? The uncertain times that we continue to face present unique challenges to complex projects, from industrial manufacturing to transport and infrastructure.
A good masterplan provides an outline for project viability, encompassing costs, building demands, health and safety, storage, logistics and more. A great masterplan is a true visioning tool; creatively designed to flexibly withstand future tumultuous market conditions and to deftly pivot and adapt to macro and micro trends.
How to create a resilient masterplan which can withstand market volatility?
The key to robust masterplanning is also its greatest challenge: always looking around the corner to what's coming next.
Let's think back to 2012; President Obama was re-elected and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games took place in London. Cloud computing hadn't yet made its way into our offices and homes and yet now, following the global pandemic (also unimaginable in 2012), it is core to the way we work, play and communicate.
The world has changed significantly in the past 10 years, especially when it comes to technological advancement and the urgency of climate change.
Masterplanning is about factoring in the state of how such future developments will impact human resourcing, supply chains and consumer demand in the coming decade, and building in the flexibility to adapt project requirements.
The global pandemic greatly impacted on our ability to get out and socialise, directly influencing the type of products manufactured for the home, such as packaged foods and beverages. The consequent reduction in volume supply to hospitality venues was severe. Flexible masterplanning can allow for the future adaption of sites and buildings to flex with the market. Organisations with such plans are best placed to adjust their businesses in this time of great change.
While we don't have a crystal ball, it's possible to make broad projections based on political and social trends.
The fabric of society itself is evolving and with that comes changing human behaviour. Product packaging, for example, has completely evolved in the past 10 years. Many of Beca's clients in the food and beverage sector have had to overhaul their supply chain and manufacturing processes to accommodate the demands of the consumer: more natural ingredients, less plastic and more biodegradable materials.
We recently learned in the 2021 Australian census results that the population has doubled in size in the past 50 years and there are an equal number of Millennials to Baby Boomers, and as such, alternative living arrangements are on the rise. Population has a severe impact on climate change, so how do we build circular economy and environmental resilience into our masterplans?
The "future of work" arriving after the pandemic didn't give us any other choice than to work flexibly, and hybrid home/office arrangements appear here to stay. Statistics show that regional Australia is thriving after the influx of new residents during the pandemic. While it's a positive sign for investment into regional infrastructure, what does it mean for the future of cities. Furthermore, where is better to invest to support the "new normal"?
Considering how such changes impact infrastructure is key to future projections when planning a project.
Now to maybe the most crucial element of determining the viability of a project: financial forecasting. Of course, we wouldn't reach the end of this article without mentioning costs, as we understand it is the backbone of any "go/no go" conversation when it comes to projects.
Mapping out your costs across each project stage will lead to a more stable cost analysis and increased certainty for the future. At Beca, our integrated approach includes the progressive review and management of costs at each project stage, developing a clear cost book as the design progresses, from masterplanning through to concept and into the detail. This can mitigate the knock-on effect of huge price fluctuations of materials and product manufacturing we've seen in the past few years, and the overall effect this has on project viability.
The most important element of financial modelling is solid, reliable data and good data is also imperative to resilient masterplanning. Dependable data is required throughout the lifecycle of a project, and informs the products required, staffing levels, how equipment will feed into the layout and other operational elements.
For example, Beca uses real estate intelligence from site locations and footprints to inform future cost plans. Live data coming from the construction of assets such as buildings, infrastructure, facilities, equipment and installation feeds into our data book of direct costs which then goes into cost plans. To look forward you must also look back, so historic data is retained to be combined with current data for a holistic understanding of the assets. The outcome is a consistent and reliable feedback loop of data.
However, don't get caught out by one of the biggest causes of "budget creep" due to often being overlooked: indirect costs. Budget allocation for elements such as planning, development costs, commissioning, start-up costs and general contingency is crucial to creating a realistic cost forecast to support your project masterplanning.
Great masterplanning can guide your path to a successful, flexible and resilient project design, reducing the possibility of costly facility reworks and updates in the future. Watch this space for an upcoming piece on the macro trends that our Beca architects, engineers and consultants predict will be the biggest disrupters in industrial infrastructure in the coming decade.
Need support visioning your next manufacturing project? Find out more about our Masterplanning capability and Food & Beverage services.
Michael Warne
Principal - Architecture
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Friday's Headlines: Democracy Dies in Deference Edition
By Gersh Kuntzman
Whoopi Goldberg landed on Thursday's wood of the Post for her outrageous anti-street-safety comments,, so naturally she doubled-down, kicking off "The View" with more anti-bike comments that the Post lapped up. Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio clearly didn't want to turn this into a two-day story, and declined to answer substantive questions from the press corps at his Thursday availability — even heaping praise on Goldberg as a "great New Yorker" who was "raising valid concerns" about the bike lanes that de Blasio says he believes in. "Great New Yorker"? Goldberg drives in from her West Orange, N.J. mansion for work every day then believes that arduous journey by luxury SUV gives her the right to tell the mayor how he should manage the streets for the rest of us who have to live here and pay the taxes.
Streetsblog tried to get the mayor to talk more about how Goldberg spread fear and misinformation on one of his prime initiatives, but he wasn't biting. "I do think if someone says, 'I think it may be causing more congestion,' that's a dialogue worth having," the mayor told Streetsblog.
And that's how democracy dies — not in darkness, but in deference (sorry, Washington Post). Instead of telling a powerful person that she was wrong, de Blasio made a political calculation that he'd gain nothing by pissing off a talk show host with a powerful megaphone, even if she lied about his signature issue. But we lose something, piece by piece, when people let lies and fear and misinformation spread rather than confront it at every turn. Perhaps we'll have to wait for Mayor Ocasio-Cortez to set everything right someday.
OK, enough of my yakkin', let's get to the headlines:
Actually, staying on topic … Fortunately there was one person on the planet willing to stand up to Whoopi Goldberg, and that was Amanda Berry, the mother of Madison Lyden, who was killed on Central Park West over the summer because a car forced her into traffic. TransAlt put out a statement by Berry, slamming Goldberg for "complaining" about her commute when commutes like hers are the reason Lyden died. Take some notes, Mr. Mayor.
It's official: The MTA, which Gov. Cuomo says he does not control, announced that it had accepted Gov. Cuomo's plan to not shut down the L train. (NY Post, NYDN, amNY). That said, Emma Fitzsimmons's roundup in The Times didn't add much clarity to the confusion.
Candidates (well, some of them) for public advocate talked about transit (well, more or less) the other day. (City Limits)
Here's a novel idea: Linking subway and bus fare hikes to actual performance improvements. (WSJ, NYDN)
Doesn't this driver know the no-pants ride was last weekend — and it's on the subway? (NY Post)
I was going to give the Home Reporter credit for its story about how there were 17 crashes in Bay Ridge's 68th Precinct in a single day until I got to this line from reporter Paula Katinas: "Despite the success of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative, drivers and pedestrians still face danger when crossing the street, residents said."
The Villager gets on the bike mayor coverage bandwagon.
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I swear, I don't know how you all keep up against these dumbfuck fake progressives.
Robert Lancer


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Thank you so much!!! Loved the way the cake and cupcakes turned out. Just what I had envisioned. And it tasted great too! Thanks again!
The Smurf's cake was absolutely perfect!!! It was so neat, you are so very talented. Burkley wanted to eat the Smurf on top of the cake instead of a piece of cake, it was cute. Thank you so much for making such a perfect and delicious cake once again!!
I've order 3 of Jeana's cakes. They are absolutely delicious! She is a great cake maker. We love your cakes!
I just wanted to tell you how much I loved the cake. It was absolutely perfect and fit the setting so well and not to mention delicious. My favorite was the round cake the pretzels and the heart looked so wonderful. Thank you so much for helping make my wedding day memorable.


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import * as assert from 'assert';
import { DisposableStore } from 'vs/base/common/lifecycle';
import { assertType } from 'vs/base/common/types';
import { URI } from 'vs/base/common/uri';
import { runWithFakedTimers } from 'vs/base/test/common/timeTravelScheduler';
import { ICodeEditor } from 'vs/editor/browser/editorBrowser';
import { LanguageFeatureRegistry } from 'vs/editor/common/languageFeatureRegistry';
import * as languages from 'vs/editor/common/languages';
import { TextModel } from 'vs/editor/common/model/textModel';
import { CodeActionModel, CodeActionsState } from 'vs/editor/contrib/codeAction/browser/codeActionModel';
import { createTestCodeEditor } from 'vs/editor/test/browser/testCodeEditor';
import { createTextModel } from 'vs/editor/test/common/testTextModel';
import { MockContextKeyService } from 'vs/platform/keybinding/test/common/mockKeybindingService';
import { MarkerService } from 'vs/platform/markers/common/markerService';

const testProvider = {
	provideCodeActions(): languages.CodeActionList {
		return {
			actions: [
				{ title: 'test', command: { id: 'test-command', title: 'test', arguments: [] } }
			],
			dispose() { /* noop*/ }
		};
	}
};

suite('CodeActionModel', () => {

	const languageId = 'foo-lang';
	const uri = URI.parse('untitled:path');
	let model: TextModel;
	let markerService: MarkerService;
	let editor: ICodeEditor;
	let registry: LanguageFeatureRegistry<languages.CodeActionProvider>;
	const disposables = new DisposableStore();

	setup(() => {
		disposables.clear();
		markerService = new MarkerService();
		model = createTextModel('foobar  foo bar\nfarboo far boo', languageId, undefined, uri);
		editor = createTestCodeEditor(model);
		editor.setPosition({ lineNumber: 1, column: 1 });
		registry = new LanguageFeatureRegistry();
	});

	teardown(() => {
		disposables.clear();
		editor.dispose();
		model.dispose();
		markerService.dispose();
	});

	test('Oracle -> marker added', async () => {
		let done: () => void;
		const donePromise = new Promise<void>(resolve => {
			done = resolve;
		});
		await runWithFakedTimers({ useFakeTimers: true }, () => {
			const reg = registry.register(languageId, testProvider);
			disposables.add(reg);

			const contextKeys = new MockContextKeyService();
			const model = disposables.add(new CodeActionModel(editor, registry, markerService, contextKeys, undefined));
			disposables.add(model.onDidChangeState((e: CodeActionsState.State) => {
				assertType(e.type === CodeActionsState.Type.Triggered);

				assert.strictEqual(e.trigger.type, languages.CodeActionTriggerType.Auto);
				assert.ok(e.actions);

				e.actions.then(fixes => {
					model.dispose();
					assert.strictEqual(fixes.validActions.length, 1);
					done();
				}, done);
			}));

			// start here
			markerService.changeOne('fake', uri, [{
				startLineNumber: 1, startColumn: 1, endLineNumber: 1, endColumn: 6,
				message: 'error',
				severity: 1,
				code: '',
				source: ''
			}]);
			return donePromise;
		});
	});

	test('Oracle -> position changed', async () => {
		await runWithFakedTimers({ useFakeTimers: true }, () => {
			const reg = registry.register(languageId, testProvider);
			disposables.add(reg);

			markerService.changeOne('fake', uri, [{
				startLineNumber: 1, startColumn: 1, endLineNumber: 1, endColumn: 6,
				message: 'error',
				severity: 1,
				code: '',
				source: ''
			}]);

			editor.setPosition({ lineNumber: 2, column: 1 });

			return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
				const contextKeys = new MockContextKeyService();
				const model = disposables.add(new CodeActionModel(editor, registry, markerService, contextKeys, undefined));
				disposables.add(model.onDidChangeState((e: CodeActionsState.State) => {
					assertType(e.type === CodeActionsState.Type.Triggered);

					assert.strictEqual(e.trigger.type, languages.CodeActionTriggerType.Auto);
					assert.ok(e.actions);
					e.actions.then(fixes => {
						model.dispose();
						assert.strictEqual(fixes.validActions.length, 1);
						resolve(undefined);
					}, reject);
				}));
				// start here
				editor.setPosition({ lineNumber: 1, column: 1 });
			});
		});
	});

	test('Oracle -> should only auto trigger once for cursor and marker update right after each other', async () => {
		let done: () => void;
		const donePromise = new Promise<void>(resolve => { done = resolve; });

		await runWithFakedTimers({ useFakeTimers: true }, () => {
			const reg = registry.register(languageId, testProvider);
			disposables.add(reg);

			let triggerCount = 0;
			const contextKeys = new MockContextKeyService();
			const model = disposables.add(new CodeActionModel(editor, registry, markerService, contextKeys, undefined));
			disposables.add(model.onDidChangeState((e: CodeActionsState.State) => {
				assertType(e.type === CodeActionsState.Type.Triggered);

				assert.strictEqual(e.trigger.type, languages.CodeActionTriggerType.Auto);
				++triggerCount;

				// give time for second trigger before completing test
				setTimeout(() => {
					model.dispose();
					assert.strictEqual(triggerCount, 1);
					done();
				}, 0);
			}, 5 /*delay*/));

			markerService.changeOne('fake', uri, [{
				startLineNumber: 1, startColumn: 1, endLineNumber: 1, endColumn: 6,
				message: 'error',
				severity: 1,
				code: '',
				source: ''
			}]);

			editor.setSelection({ startLineNumber: 1, startColumn: 1, endLineNumber: 4, endColumn: 1 });

			return donePromise;
		});
	});
});

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2:42 PM | April 27, 2018
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Agnes Devictor: Iran Has Deep-Seated Association with Motion Pictures
Agnes Devictor was one of the special guests of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.
Devictor is a professor at Sorbonne University of France. She has worked for the Farabi Cinema Foundation in Iran. She has also organized several programs on Iranian cinema in Europe and published three books about Iranian movies:
What's your take on Iran's film industry?
It was back in late 1980's we discovered the Iranian cinema, like we discovered Eastern cinema for instance. We had no prior information. Since then, we have never stopped loving your cinema. We discovered new directors and even some great classic movies. This is important because it shows to the world that Iran's cinema has deep-seated association with motion pictures. This year there are two Iranian movies in the competition section of Cannes Film Festival. We also have a retrospective of Iranian cinema which was arranged in collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou which is one the most important art centers in Europe. We also got help from the Farabi Cinema Foundation, the National Film Archives, the IRIB and some directors.
Any particular director in mind?
Abbas Kiarostami was just pure genius. He connected us to your cinema through his own unique style and spectacle. There are others as well, such as Kamran Shirdel and Sohrab Shahid Sales. They are part of the history of Iranian movie industry.
With director Reza Mirkarimi at helm of 2018, Fajr Filmfest heralded stronger comebacks from Asia, Europe and Middle East. Whatever one says of Middle East cinema and its power rankings, the region's best and most powerful showcase for cinema is, has been, and for all foreseeable time will be this festival, which ran in Charsou Cineplex and other venues in the Iranian capital until April 27. Vahdat Hall hosted the awards ceremony, which was attended by Iranian officials and international filmmakers and guests, including Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi and American filmmaker Oliver Stone.


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Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 is een pas in 1874 uitgegeven reisverhaal van Dorothy Wordsworth over een tocht van 1000 km door de Schotse Hooglanden met haar broer William Wordsworth en hun vriend Samuel Taylor Coleridge gedurende zes weken van augustus tot september 1803.

Route
De tocht verliep langs plaatsen verbonden met Schotse personen uit de literatuur, zoals Robert Burns, Ossian, Robert Roy MacGregor, William Wallace en Walter Scott. Dorothy beschreef en beoordeelde het platteland en de landschappen.

Wegen
Schotland was in 1803 ontvolkt door emigratie. De Schotten leefden primitief. De wegen waren in slechte staat en gevaarlijk, soms waren het maar paden. De reis werd afgelegd in een open Ierse koets met twee wielen en getrokken door een enkel paard. Vanwege de slechte wegen moest het gezelschap daarom het grootste deel te voet gaan. Dorothy deelde de kwaliteit van de wegen in volgens "uitstekend", "ruw", "zeer slecht" en "verschrikkelijk slecht".

Overnachten
Overnachten deden ze in een herberg of bij een boer op een vuile vloer in een stal zonder ramen of verwarming. Soms mochten ze niet overnachten en moesten ze 's nachts kilometers in de regen naar het volgende dorp.

Eten
Eten bestond uit gekookte watervogels, eieren, roggebrood, haverbrood en gekookte schapenkop. Soms kregen ze geen eten.

Uitgaves
Dorothy schreef twintig maanden aan het reisverhaal. Haar vrienden reageerden enthousiast. In 1822 had Dorothy een verbeterde versie klaar, maar het werd niet uitgegeven. Pas in 1874, twintig jaar na haar dood, gaf John Campbell Shairp het voor het eerst uit. Het boek verkocht goed en er volgde een tweede druk en een uitgave in de Verenigde Staten. In 1894 volgde een derde druk en in 1897 een vierde. In 1941 gaf Ernest de Sélincourt een nieuwe versie uit en hij noemde het haar meesterwerk. In 1997 gaf Carol Kyros Walker bij Yale University Press een versie uit met foto's, kaarten, voetnoten en wetenschappelijk commentaar.

19e-eeuws boek
Reisverhaal
Engelse literatuur (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

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Previously on Movie Curiosities, I gave my thoughts about Marvel's current place in the ongoing superhero film wars. Now it's Sony's turn.
Superhero team-ups have been all the rage since The Avengers. Marvel is prepping the Avengers for a second go-round, DC/WB are struggling to put the Justice League into play, Fox is working on the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and Sony has… Spider-Man. Right now, he's all that's left of Sony's superhero holdings. And one superhero doesn't exactly make a team. But Sony does have other options.
With Spider-Man comes the most colorful, powerful, and iconic rogues gallery in the entire Marvel Universe. In fact, with the possible exception of Batman, I don't think there's been another superhero in all of comic book history with such a wide variety of fascinating villains who could be immediately recognized by most laypeople. As such, it seems logical that if Sony can't make a franchise around a superhero team-up, they could focus on building a franchise around a supervillain team-up instead.
Accordingly, the ads for Amazing Spider-Man 2 have been very heavy on the supervillains. Though Electro is reportedly the main villain, the commercials have not been shy with Green Goblin or Rhino, either. Hell, the trailers have blatantly foreshadowed Vulture and Doctor Octopus for future entries. The movie also features B.J. Novak as Alistair "Spider-Slayer" Smythe and Felicity Jones as Felicia "Black Cat" Hardy. And lest we forget, The Lizard is still alive and well after the last picture.
With this in mind, it's little surprise that Sony is building its franchise toward the Sinister Six. In fact, they've announced development on a Sinister Six spin-off film, as well as a spin-off film for Venom. And all of that is in addition to Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4. A massive franchise extending far into the future, built on Webhead's greatest adversaries. In all honesty, it's not a bad plan. There is, however, one little problem. According to Box Office Mojo…
Spider-Man: $403 million domestic
Spider-Man 2: $373 million domestic
The Amazing Spider-Man: $262 million domestic
(CORRECTION: This review was written under the assumption that these were the worldwide totals.)
Even without adjusting for inflation, that's a pretty clear pattern. Sure, $262 million may not sound like chump change, but try comparing that to the cost of making and promoting these movies and it's a different story. Still, Sony co-chairwoman Amy Pascal reportedly considers the Spider-Man franchise such a cornerstone accomplishment of her tenure that I expect she'd rather quit the business entirely than let the rights relapse to Marvel. However, she may be forced to do one or the other very soon if those returns keep diminishing.
Incidentally, I find it rather amusing that The Amazing Spider-Man — the reboot that was supposed to revitalize the franchise — led to the sharpest drop in ticket sales. Though I'm sure it didn't help that Sony very stupidly released that film smack in between The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises.
Getting back to the point, Sony desperately needs this film to be a hit. Actually, no, even being a hit doesn't cover it — they need a success powerful enough to justify the grandiose, far-reaching plans that they have for this franchise. So they created a supervillain team-up to combat a superhero team-up. Which means that for this film to even meet its expectations, Sony needs a hit on par with The Avengers. Reminder: That's the third-highest grossing film in history, as of this writing.
With this in mind, it's little wonder why Sony advertised the living daylights out of this picture. From Super Bowl spots to viral campaigns to posters in every multiplex, Sony put an insane amount of effort into making sure that every person on God's green earth knew about this film. And then they released it right in between Captain America: The Winter Soldier and X-Men: Days of Future Past. While the former film is still making money and advertising for the latter film is at its strongest. Some people just never learn.
In fact, that could be my nutshell description of Amazing Spider-Man 2: The folks at Sony just never learn. Either that or they're content to keep putting in the least amount of effort.
A lot of my praise and complaints for this film's prequel can be carried over to this film. For example, I praised the film's action and its inventive applications of the web-slinging concept. I'm pleased to say that both of those strengths are in full effect in the sequel. The previous film also did well to bring a kind of POV presentation to those scenes when Spidey is swinging his way through New York. There's only one such scene here in this movie, but it looks fantastic.
However, I had a number of issues with how the film presented Spider-Man's mechanical web-shooters, and the sequel adds another one. See, in the wake of Dr. Curt Connors going nanners and trying to turn all of Manhattan into giant reptiles, Oscorp decided to discontinue their projects with genetically engineered animals for the sake of preserving investor confidence. And we're told point-blank that this includes the genetically engineered spiders. The same ones that turned Peter Parker into a superhuman and produced his webbing, as was clearly shown in the previous film. So if the spiders are gone, and Oscorp isn't making any artificial webbing from them, then where is Spider-Man's webbing coming from now?
Another of the previous film's greatest strengths was in its two main leads. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are still an adorable couple (both on and off the screen), with incredible chemistry and taut comedic timing between them. Which is fortunate, because Gwen Stacy opens the movie with a graduation speech that telegraphs exactly where the Peter/Gwen relationship is going. That complete lack of suspense, plus competition from so many other subplots taking up screen time (we'll get back to that) means that the romance arc is about as thin and transparent as fishing line. Yet Garfield and Stone kept it watchable, because that's how good they are together.
I'm also glad to say that this version of Gwen Stacy is still a fine character in her own right. As with the last film, she's very proactive and intelligent, perfectly capable at what she does. She's not dumb enough to actively go seeking danger, but she never gets complacent and waits around for the hero when danger comes to her. At least until the climax, when she suddenly becomes stupid enough not to try running away at a critical moment.
Speaking of female characters, let's talk about Aunt May. I felt like Sally Field was wasted in the previous movie, and the filmmakers still seem to have a very hard time coming up with anything for Aunt May to do. However, we do at least get a nice scene when Aunt May expresses her frustration with being unable to really be there for Peter, especially now that Uncle Ben is out of the picture. We also see that May is putting herself through nursing school to try and get a better job, and she even gets a chance to help save some people in the climax. This film makes her into a proactive and independent woman who's capable of helping when things go bad, and that's great to see. I just wish that these movies didn't push her so far to the sidelines. Or that she didn't keep falling for Peter's woefully flimsy excuses.
This brings me to the hero himself. Spider-Man (of the comics, anyway) has always been known as a loudmouth who relentlessly spouts one-liners as he fights crime, and the filmmakers continue trying to play into that. And they keep failing. When Spider-Man gave sass to an armed robber in the previous film, it made him look like a bully. When he mouths off to a serial killer driving a massive truck through people and cars on a busy street, it begs the question of why Spider-Man is acting like a douchebag instead of doing more to stop the crime in progress. Which brings me to another point.
At some point in between The Avengers and Man of Steel, the moviegoing public apparently started holding cinematic superheroes to a higher standard. We saw Iron Man holding the alien invaders to a perimeter with Thor trying to bottleneck the portal, then we asked why Superman never tried to do something similar at Metropolis. When Superman and Zod completely trashed a city (killing millions of people in the process, assuming they weren't all evacuated), fans all over the internet lost their shit. Then Superman straight-up murdered Zod, and it was the neck-snap that started a million shouting matches that continue to this day.
Flash forward to Amazing Spider-Man 2. This is the film in which buildings all over Times Square are clearly seen toppling over, and we also witness Spider-Man committing flagrant murder. And in both cases, they dwell on the matter even less than Man of Steel did. In Man of Steel, killing Zod was presented as a terrible solution to an unsolvable problem, and it completely broke Superman (at least until the matter was forgotten in the next scene). Getting back to Spider-Man, for everything that Spider-Man 3 did wrong, it still showed abhorrence for the idea that Spider-Man would ever kill anyone. And this film treats it like no big thing. Bullshit.
(Side note: I also heard a lot of people complain about the product placement in Man of Steel. Well, I'm here to tell you that the product placement in this film is just as blatant.)
On the plus side, there are moments when we do see Spider-Man saving people, acting as a role model and a symbol of hope. These scenes show Spider-Man at his strongest, and I wish the whole movie had kept that level of optimism. But that would mean going against everything this character has come to mean.
Of all the morals that we associate with Spider-Man and Peter Parker, perhaps the most prominent is "with great power comes great responsibility." But this film instead focuses on the second-most prominent moral of Spider-Man: "You can't get everything you want." Not even a superhuman can get everything and save everyone. Peter Parker is emblematic of this, because he is the Job of the Marvel universe. Peter Parker has been made to suffer continuously through fifty years of comic book history, and any good thing that's ever happened to him has inevitably been smashed to pieces (making a deal with the devil to save Aunt May's life in return for retroactively erasing Peter's wedding to Mary Jane is perhaps the most notorious recent example from the comics).
The film explores this through various angles, particularly in his interactions with other characters. Gwen, for example, is given an opportunity to study abroad, forcing her to choose between her passion and her relationship as Peter does. And then we have Cpt. George Stacy, once again played by Denis Leary, who sometimes appears to Peter as a reminder of his promise to keep Gwen out of harm's way. This approach was stupid, especially since the end of the previous film seemed to clearly show that Peter and Gwen were disregarding that promise. Doubling-back on the character's death was stupid, using the character's ghost as motivation for something Peter should be trying to do of his own accord was stupid, and killing the character off in the first place was stupid.
And anyway, where was Uncle Ben's ghost? Was Martin Sheen not available or something?
At long last, we now come to the villains. The primary villain is Max Dillon, played by Jamie Foxx, a dweeby little nobody who eventually becomes Electro. I get what the filmmakers were going for with Max: In theory, he's like an inverse Spider-Man. Like Peter, Max was a dorky non-entity who got treated like crap by everyone in spite of how brilliant he was. And then he gets superpowers. But since Max never gained a sense of responsibility to go with those god-like powers, his pent-up anger and need for attention lead Electro to be a supervillain.
In theory, it's a good idea. In practice, Foxx looks and acts like Jim Carrey in Batman Forever. Both characters are unappreciated geniuses, Max Dillon worships Spider-Man as Edward Nygma did Bruce Wayne, and both characters are presented in such an over-the-top goofy manner that any sympathy for them would be impossible. I'm sorry, maybe it's just me, but when I see a character celebrate his birthday by pretending to talk with Spider-Man, my first reaction is to back away slowly.
What makes matters even worse is that Max's treatment at the hands of other people is eerily reminiscent of Peter Parker's treatment at the hands of Sam Raimi. In fact, Electro is eventually tortured by a mad scientist who could just as easily have been a character in one of Raimi's films. Again, maybe it's just me, but I think that embracing Raimi's style is taking a step backward for this franchise. I had a lot of problems with the previous film, but "it isn't enough like Raimi's movies" wasn't one of them. Frankly, I take much bigger issue with a weak villain who wreaks havoc on New York by way of a massive plot device conveniently provided by Oscorp and telegraphed two hours ahead of time (see also: The Lizard).
Moving on, I find it strangely fitting that Oscorp is acting as the glue for this franchise in much the same way that SHIELD is (or was) the linchpin of the MCU. With that in mind, of course we have to meet Norman and Harry Osborn (now respectively played by Chris Cooper and Dane DeHaan). Norman has slowly been dying of a degenerative disease with a name so mind-blowingly awful to any student of biology that I can't bring myself to repeat it. The point is that Harry was sent away to boarding school while his father wasted away, and Norman calls Harry back to say that the condition is hereditary. Then Norman dies, but whether he'll stay dead is of course anyone's guess.
Yeah, no way he's dead.
Harry gives Peter someone to relate with in regard to his daddy issues. Harry and Peter were both more or less abandoned by their fathers, they're both orphans, and neither of them wants to be like their father (and yes, we learn a lot more about Richard Parker in this sequel, hopefully for the last time). Harry is also someone who Spider-Man can't save, which puts the character in an interesting place. As for DeHaan's performance, I personally thought that his slide to villainy was so much more satisfying than that of James Franco. Of course, it helps that DeHaan had more of an opportunity to chew the scenery, since Green Goblin is one of those roles you can't underplay.
As for Paul Giamatti — who plays the Rhino — he's barely worth talking about because he's barely in the movie. Ditto for B.J. Novak, though at least they both look like they're having fun. That's more than I can say for Felicity Jones, who doesn't seem to have much of any idea why she's in this picture.
Finally, the question that this whole franchise hinges on: Does having more villains make the movie better? In my estimation, the answer is a flat "no." Though this movie does a far better job of juggling its villains than Spider-Man 3 did, it still runs into the problem of too many storylines in too little screen time. Even at two and a half hours, this film still had to juggle the Richard Parker revelations, the Peter/Gwen romance, Electro, Oscorp, and everything else going on. Naturally, this results in plotlines that strain credulity because they aren't established well enough and themes that don't get developed beyond a superficial level.
Perhaps more importantly, this supervillain team-up was made in competition with superhero team-ups, and they're entirely different beasts. Superheroes literally compete with each other when they compete for screen time, which makes it satisfying when they set aside their differences and work toward a common goal. But when supervillains compete for screen time, they only create more plotlines to juggle as the hero goes this way and that to put out fires. Also, the theme of cooperation doesn't work nearly as well when its the villains who work together to take out a solitary hero.
Weighing everything out, I'll give The Amazing Spider-Man 2 the same verdict I gave to its prequel: "Good enough." The film is good enough to justify its own existence, it's good enough to warrant a movie ticket without any of the premiums for 3D or IMAX, and it's good enough to merit another sequel. It's passable, but it's not extraordinary, and that's an important distinction.
"Extraordinary" is what gets people to buy premium tickets. "Extraordinary" is why people rave about a movie to anyone who will listen. "Extraordinary" is what compels people to go see a movie for a second, third, or fourth time. In short, "extraordinary" is what made The Avengers the third-highest box-office earner of all time. That's the level of quality Sony is shooting for, and it's the level of quality that Sony needs, but they're never going to get there if they keep making Spider-Man films that settle for a passing grade.
Getting rid of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman would be a good first step. Just saying.
Andrew Garfield, B.J. Novak, Chris Cooper, Dane DeHaan, Denis Leary, Emma Stone, Felicity Jones, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, The Amazing Spider-Man 2


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Megan Holter: Woman on the Verge
|In Characters, Interview, Page-To-Screen
|By Eleanor Laurence/Cinemax
Comic Image Credit: Skybound/Image Comics
Every series needs some heart and soul—and a healthy dose of snark—to hold the characters and storylines together, right? Megan Holter, Kyle Barnes foster sister, provides all three in Robert Kirkman's Outcast. OutcastCinemax.com caught up with Wrenn Schmidt to find out more about the shared humor between Kirkman and the live-wire character she plays, Schmidt's own take on the role, and how she approached bringing the comic to life.
Cinemax: Did you read the comic books before you got cast?
Wrenn Schmidt: I read the first one. I think the first thought I had was: I look nothing like her. Absolutely nothing like her. Because the character is drawn so differently from me, and everything that was in the dialogue was in the script, for me, it was more about getting an idea of what the world was.
Cinemax: What was it like auditioning with Robert Kirkman in the room?
Wrenn Schmidt: I've seen the Walking Dead, so I know that's a show based on a comic book and that it's a really famous show. But walking into the audition process, I didn't realize. "Oh Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman. That's the guy. He's in the room. That's who that is." And he was so relaxed in the way that he answered my questions. There were actually things in the pilot and the comic that you don't find out what Megan and Kyle are referring to until later in the season, and Robert was really helpful as far as understanding them. He was super down to earth and easy-going. So it was kind of hilarious afterwards to be like, "Oh sh*t. That was the guy."
Cinemax: Did you and Robert Kirkman and [showrunner] Chris Black discuss your character and how you'd bring her to life?
Wrenn Schmidt: I feel like a lot of it was already in the writing. Something I gleaned from the pilot filming process was that the humor Megan uses is also in the writing, and that feels to me most like Robert's voice in some ways. He's very funny, and he has a very dry sense of humor. He just throws it out there. And the more I can just kind of throw it out there, the more it's going to land.
Cinemax: Her humor is very dry—especially around Kyle.
Wrenn Schmidt: She calls him "sh*thead," "weirdo." But that was something interesting, because every time I would underplay it, I'd be like, "Oh, that's what Robert does." I don't know if he would actually feel the same, but I made that connection.
Cinemax: How did you develop a "backstory" for Megan?
Wrenn Schmidt: I just asked Chris and Robert about that. There was something that Robert said about her coming from a well-off family, even though it was clear that she and her husband Mark don't have a lot of money. And we talked about how Megan just doesn't believe in any of the demonic possession stuff. She thinks it's total crap.
Cinemax: Right, she thinks Rev. Anderson's crazy.
Wrenn Schmidt: Oh, she thinks he's a snake-oil salesman. She thinks he's full of hot air.
Cinemax: What do you perceive as Megan's biggest challenge?
Wrenn Schmidt: I'd say, initially, it's Kyle—how to get Kyle out of his shell. That's the first two episodes for her, as well as navigating what it is to be the middleman when you're unfortunately the defacto "go-between" between two people who you really love. And then everything changes for her in the third episode when her own personal demon shows up.
Cinemax: Can you describe Megan in three words?
Wrenn Schmidt: She's strong. She's kind of salty… They're all going to be S words. She's strong, salty, and…she's really empathetic.
For all of her take-charge tough love, underneath it all she gets it. She's still going to go about it her own way, but she gets it.
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EP Review: Future Static bring the noise with sophomore EP Fatalist
Formed in 2016, post-hardcore kids Future Static have been working hard to solidify their place on the Melbourne scene. Fatalist is the second EP from the band, which consists of singer Bri Marsh, guitarists Ryan Qualizza and Jack Smith, bassist Kira Neil and drummer Jackson Trudel.
Of the EP, Marsh said:
"It's a bleak look at dark times that we hope encourages people to start conversation. The whole record is heavier than anything we've written before. Want, our previous EP, reflected on the breakdown of relationships and the cost of letting go. Fatalist is the breakdown of the relationship with yourself, arguably the most important relationship in life. It's about the pain that comes from living in your own head."
Due out later this week, it's a stellar release from the five piece, showcasing powerful vocals and an epic, polished sound.
Recent releases "Choke" and "Dead End" (the latter a past AU Review Track of the Day) make up a healthy chunk of the six strong EP. Opening with the instrumental "Growth", the singles (both excellent) are front and centre, followed by the outstanding "Never Miss", a track that you can practically feel the mosh pit opening up to. It's vicious, fast-paced, and designed to be screamed. Next up is "Adaptive Manipulator", a one-minute burst of sound and fury that honestly feels a little unneeded. The whole thing is rounded out by title track "Fatalist", a real showcase of frontwoman Marsh's vocal talents.
Fatalist is a fury-filled home run for Future Static. We can only imagine the chaos that will unfold when we finally get to hear these tracks live.
Future Static's Fatalist is out today. For more info, head to the band's Facebook page.
Originally published by The AU Review on 01/04/20
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Today, in not-really-news, Rob Ford has a spiffy new ride—a black Cadillac Escalade to replace his aging, light brown van. But the origin story of the mayor's new wheels is nearly as shaky as his old Chevy. The Toronto Star reported it was a (very expensive) gift from brothers Doug and Randy Ford, which Rob reluctantly accepted, but the Toronto Sun quoted the mayor saying, "I saved a lot of money for this." So, Mayor Ford, was it a gift or a purchase? And, most importantly, does it have a good sound system?
He cannot even avoid lying about this. He is truly a piece of work.
Unless he spent city money on it, why should we care? Boring.
Though it sounds like an expensive car, his two brothers paid only around $50,000 each for it. No biggie. People know that workers, unions and the unemployed all have to stretch their budgets and learn to live with less, but why should the mayor set an example? He can afford to live large, it would be dishonest to NOT buy a NON luxury vehicle!
The Escalade: One of the biggest douche-mobiles of all time. A fitting ride for our mayor.
Guy gets a new car and everyone is angry… Get a grip, poliicians have money. Do you think ( pick a Toronto councillor ) hops on her E Bike?
He didn't steal the money or the car. What's the big deal. Let him enjoy his car. The mayor should have a nice ride if he wants one.
So, is this a gift or a corporate donation?
Can anyone give the Mayor of Toronto a $100k man-car?
Isn't there rules against the mayor accepting gifts from people?
Where did the money come from for the Ford-mobile?
Who's taxes is this donation showing up on??
I don't care if it's family, if it's a gift from a Family business … is that allowed??
There's a lot of questions to ask of this Donation/Gift to the Mayor of Canada's city.
I want to see the paper trail.


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