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Listen: John Williams Debuts 'Helena's Theme' from 'Indiana Jones 5'
Time to get a first listen at something special - a whole year in advance. I'm sure everyone knows that there is another Indiana Jones movie due out next year, currently only titled Indiana Jones 5, set for release at the end of June 2023 next summer. There's only one official photo out for it so far, and not much else - not even a plot synopsis or logline or even hints at what the story will be (though there are set reports saying it involves time travel). While we wait for a teaser trailer, something else has been revealed. Legendary film score composer John Williams is currently working on the score for Indiana Jones 5, and has stated he will likely retire after finishing this legacy sequel. During a recent performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (where Williams performs on a regular basis) he revealed "Helena's Theme". Helena is the character played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge in this next one, described by Willaims as "adventurous" and "a femme fatale" starring opposite Harrison Ford as Indy. Someone recorded and posted it - listen in below.
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› Posted on September 6 in First Look, To Watch | 2 Comments
Introducing - Our Latest Membership Banner Art by Edgar Ascensão
"I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory… It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters." –James Wan. In 2021, FirstShowing launched a program for membership to support the site and help keep it running for years to come. Thank you to all those who have joined as a member so far. The truth is we don't have much to offer in return, because all of our effort and all of our work goes into what you see on this site already. We want to offer everything for free, nothing will be hidden behind paywalls or membership rewards. It's all right there. We need your help to continue to cover the costs of running a server and managing the day-to-day work that keeps this place going. Last year we revealed banner art for the member page, and now we have a fresh new design to reveal. This latest 2022 banner artwork is created by Portuguese designer Edgar Ascensão (we've been fans of his for a while) and it's another superb design featuring many beloved movie characters. Get a closer look at the new art below.
› Posted on July 29 in Feat, First Look, General | Comments
First Teaser for Studio Ponoc's New Animated Film 'The Imaginary'
"Birds no one's ever seen… Flowers no one's ever seen…" The next new film from Studio Ponoc! This is the animation studio in Japan that is known as the successor to Studio Ghibli - they already released Mary and the Witch's Flower, Mirai, and Modest Heroes in the last few years. Their next feature film is titled The Imaginary, adapted from the best-selling book "The Imaginary" by A.F. Harrold and Emily Gravett. The story is about a boy named Rudger, created in the mind of a your girl. Rudger and his new friends in "The Imaginaries Town" embark on an adventure no one can see at the risk of the futures and fates of those they love. This sounds quite lovely. No voice cast has been announced yet, and nothing else has been confirmed other than the title. It's being directed by Yoshiyuki Momose, who Isao Takahata once called "the one who will evolve animation", and is the culmination of his 50-year career. Not much footage but looks good so far.
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› Posted on December 8 in Animation, First Look, To Watch, Trailer | 2 Comments
Introducing Our 2021 Membership Banner Art Made by Liza Shumskaya
We love cinema, you love cinema, let's all celebrate our love for cinema! A few months back we launched a FirstShowing membership program with Steady (check it out - become a member) in hopes of stepping forward into the future with the direct support of our readers. So far, a fair amount of readers have become members and your support means everything to us. This funding helps us keep our servers running, and the lights on. Our membership page on Steady has a space for an image, so we commissioned one of our favorite cinema designers - a Ukrainian artist named Liza Shumskaya - to create an image celebrating our love of movies. And the result is this wonderful tribute to the power of cinema: to bring us all together and to make us laugh and cry and smile. We are excited to unveil this exclusive art as we head into the fall movie season.
› Posted on August 16 in Feat, First Look, General | 1 Comment
First Look Trailer for Crazy Polish Film 'Bird Talk' by Xawery Żuławski
Time to let loose!! Take a look at this. A first look teaser trailer has dropped for a crazy Polish film called Bird Talk, made by Polish filmmaker Xawery Żuławski shooting an unrealized script by his father, the late master Andrzej Żuławski (who passed away in 2016). The film initially premiered in 2019 at a few film festivals in Europe, but is just now showing up in the US. The Museum of Moving Image in NYC is hosting a screening later this month of the film as part of their First Look 20/21 screening series this summer. It tells the story of brothers, couples and friends, all trying to find a place in contemporary Warsaw. Intellectuals, teachers, musicians and painters, all barely making ends meet, but nevertheless intent on improving their country. Starring Sebastian Fabijański, Eryk Kulm Jr., Jaśmina Polak, Sebastian Pawlak, Żaneta Palica. MoMI describes the "frenetic, verbose" film as having "a headlong, anarchic spirit that honors the elder Żuławski's legacy while also feeling entirely of the moment." Sounds like thrilling provocative cinema.
› Posted on July 26 in First Look, Indies, To Watch, Trailer | 1 Comment
PosterSpy is Releasing This Gorgeous 'The Art of Movie Posters' Book
Movie poster fans, this one is for you!! Our friends at PosterSpy.com are about to launch their second art book featuring a remarkable collection of art and details from many illustrators / creators from around the world. Their new book is called The Art of Movie Posters, and it's not just a collection of art, but also a behind-the-scenes look at the process and how posters are made. Jack Woodhams, founder of PosterSpy, states: "I'm delighted to finally release a new book full of incredible art by valued members of the PosterSpy community and beyond… When trying to figure out the type of book this would be, it was clear from the start that I wanted to showcase sketches and include personal artist commentary, ensuring the book is not only great to look at, but one that can educate and inspire too." It will sell for about £45 (~$62 USD), but you can pre-order it online now for -£10 less and it will begin shipping at the end of the summer. And yes, it ships worldwide and features talented artists from around the world. Get a first look at the new book below.
› Posted on April 15 in Artwork, First Look, Movie News | Comments
First Teaser Trailer for Japanese Remake of Sci-Fi Horror 'Cube' Film
"Perhaps you will be trapped next." Shochiku has released a fun teaser trailer for the new Japanese remake of the classic indie sci-fi horror film Cube, using the exact same name all over again. This new Cube is also executive produced by Vincenzo Natali, who made the original in 1997. The Japanese website contains all kinds of cryptic text that connects with the concept of "people wake up in a mysterious cube room and have no idea what it is or does." For example: "No one can resist the overwhelming order that Cube brings. We who made this work were like entering Cube. (Because I shot it in the same place all the time) And I will face myself. Is it hope or despair that lurks in the abyss of myself? Soon, you too are in Cube. No, it may already be inside." The film's cast includes Masaki Suda, Takumi Saitoh, Masaki Okada, Kôtarô Yoshida, and Hikaru Tashiro. This is only a teaser but I'm already sold. The original is superb and this looks good.
› Posted on February 16 in First Look, Horror, To Watch, Trailer | 2 Comments
First Look: Meet Miguel from Pixar's Day of the Dead Musical 'Coco'
Is this Pixar's first musical? Yes, but not quite. EW.com has debuted a first look photo from Pixar's Coco, their next big original movie coming out in 2017 (the other one Pixar is releasing is Cars 3). Coco is a film set around the Mexican holiday the Day of the Dead (or Dia de Muertos), and is about a young boy. In the photo, we can see him holding a guitar playing a song while some colorful confetti kicks up around him. Anthony Gonzalez voices Miguel, and the all-Latino voice cast includes Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt and Renee Victor. Coco isn't exactly "a break-out-into-song musical," but rather, one "set against the backdrop of musical performance." Reminds me of the fantastic Kubo and the Two Strings. See below.
› Posted on December 27 in Animation, First Look, Pixar | 3 Comments
First Look: New Batmobile from Zack Snyder's 'Justice League' Movie
Big news today! Warner Bros has already started the marketing for Zack Snyder's Justice League, which is already filming in London to make its release in November of 2017. Photographer Clay Enos revealed a photo from the set of the new Batmobile (seen below in full) and a small handful of movie bloggers were invited to visit the set last week. In an unprecedented move, the studio has allowed the bloggers to reveal everything they saw and post many of the quotes from their on-set interviews. Nothing major has been uncovered except that they all seem convinced that Justice League might actually be pretty good, despite the mixed reaction to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice this March. Until we see more, check out the shot.
› Posted on June 21 in DC Movies, First Look, Hype | 9 Comments
First Look Photos: Antoine Fuqua's 'The Magnificent Seven' Remake
Ready to meet another line-up of Magnificent Seven? Sony has released four new first look photos for the upcoming remake of The Magnificent Seven, directed by Antoine Fuqua. The new "seven" this time are: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Martin Sensmeier. The first shot below shows all of them lined up together, but the main two characters are Denzel and Pratt, who also have some photos together. I don't have a problem with the cast, I have a problem with remaking a remake and doing this story all over again. They already remade Kurosawa's Seven Samurai into the original Magnificent Seven and it's a damn fine film, no need to repeat that all over again, but that's Hollywood. Seven gun men come together to help a poor village fight thieves.
› Posted on April 19 in First Look, Hype, Photos | 11 Comments
Gorgeous Posters + Photos from Park Chan-wook's 'The Handmaiden'
The official selection for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival was just announced, and one of the films playing there this year is the latest work from Park Chan-wook, who was last at Cannes in 2009 with his film Thirst. Park Chan-wook has been adapting a novel called Fingersmith into a Korean version of the story, titled The Handmaiden (or Agassi in Korea), about a Japanese heiress that falls in love with a petty thief who works as her personal servant. The cast includes Ha Jung-woo, Kim Min-hee, Jo Jin-woong and Kim Tae Ri. I'm looking forward to seeing this in Cannes. In the meantime, these posters are gorgeous, truly stunning and I hope they bring more attention to this film over the next few months once it premieres.
› Posted on April 14 in First Look, Indies, Photos, Posters | 1 Comment
First Look Photo: Scarlett Johansson in the 'Ghost in the Shell' Movie
Hello, Major. Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks have revealed the first official photo from the upcoming Ghost in the Shell movie, marking the beginning of production with this debut. Here's the really cool part - Ghost in the Shell is filming down in New Zealand, using some of the same crews and stages as The Hobbit. Not only that, but they're working with Weta Workshop to design many elements of this sci-fi adaptation. Scarlett Johansson stars, and is seen in the first photo. The cast also includes Michael Pitt, Michael Wincott, Pilou Asbæk and Takeshi Kitano. "The production will broaden the perceptions of the diversity of New Zealand's locations by showcasing a science fiction urban setting in New Zealand." Photo in full below.
› Posted on April 14 in First Look, Hype, Sci-Fi | 26 Comments
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) calculates your primary insurance amount (PIA), upon which your retirement benefit will be based, using a formula that takes into account your 35 highest earnings years. At your full retirement age, you'll be entitled to receive that amount. This is known as your full retirement benefit. Because your retirement benefit is based on your average earnings over your working career, if you have some years of no earnings or low earnings, your benefit amount may be lower than if you had worked steadily.
Retiring at full retirement age Your full retirement age depends on the year in which you were born. If you retire at full retirement age, you'll receive an unreduced retirement benefit. Your age at the time you start receiving benefits also affects your benefit amount. Although you can retire early at age 62, the longer you wait to begin receiving your benefit (up to age 70), the more you'll receive each month. You can estimate your retirement benefit under current law by using the benefit calculators available on the SSA's website, ssa.gov. You can also sign up for a my Social Security account so that you can view your online Social Security Statement. Your statement contains a detailed record of your earnings, as well as estimates of retirement, survivor, and disability benefits. If you're not registered for an online account and are not yet receiving benefits, you'll receive a statement in the mail every year, starting at age 60.
Note: If you were born on Jan. 1 of any year, refer to the previous year to determine your full retirement age.
You can begin receiving Social Security benefits before your full retirement age, as early as age 62. However, if you begin receiving benefits early, your Social Security benefit will be less than if you wait until your full retirement age to begin receiving benefits. Your retirement benefit will be reduced by 5/9ths of 1 percent for every month between your retirement date and your full retirement age, up to 36 months, then by 5/12ths of 1% thereafter. For example, if your full retirement age is 66, you'll receive about 25% less if you start benefits at age 62 than if you wait until your full retirement age (30% less if your full retirement age is 67). This reduction is permanent — you won't be eligible for a benefit increase once you reach full retirement age. However, even though your monthly benefit will be less, you might receive the same or more total lifetime benefits as you would have had you waited until full retirement age to start collecting benefits. That's because even though you'll receive less per month, you might receive benefits over a longer period of time.
The following chart illustrates how much a monthly benefit of $1,800 taken at a full retirement age of 66 would be worth if taken earlier or later than full retirement age. For example, as this chart shows, this $1,800 benefit would be worth $1,350 if taken at age 62, and $2,376 if taken at age 70.
You can work and still receive Social Security retirement benefits, but the income that you earn before you reach full retirement age may temporarily affect your benefit.
Your eligible family members will receive a monthly benefit that is as much as 50% of your benefit. However, the amount that can be paid each month to a family is limited. To find out more about Social Security Retirement Benefit Basics, contact us for a free consultation.


Scarborough Presbyterian Church takes part each year in the Midnight Run program, one that aims to "forge a bond between housed and homeless people by establishing a foundation of sharing and caring" while creating "a human exchange, rather than exchange of goods", according to the MidnightRun.org web site.
Several times a year, members of SPC donate food and essential goods, cook a hot breakfast and deliver it all to homeless in New York City. Adults and children alike volunteer to set up tables, serve the homeless and clean up afterwards in a true community of fellowship.
As anyone who ever took part in a Midnight Run will tell you, what resonates beyond all else is the personal connection between SPC members and those they serve. Warm conversation and a friendly smile are as readily received as the breakfast and toiletries that are distributed.
Please view our church calendar to find out when the next Midnight Run takes place.
In the fall of 2009, several things happened serendipitously: Teens at church wanted to do a fashion show, the annual rummage sale was underway, and the Social Creed of the 21 st Century – newly adopted by the PC(USA) and NCCUSA -- - called for sustainability and less waste as one of the Church's pledges to the future. In true SPC style, we launched an event that combined all three: The Project Greenway Re-Fashion Show!
Project Greenway takes place every November at Scarborough. It is a fashion show with a modern twist. Every item worn on the runway is redesigned, re-styled and recycled from old clothing or other used (or rummaged) materials. Designers and models hail from all over the community and compete in two age categories: Under and over 19 years of age. Children learn to use sewing machines, everyone cleans out closets scavenging for inspiration pieces, and a different local charity is the beneficiary of all the ticket proceeds every year.
Some of the charities sponsored by Project Greenway include Career Closet of Briarcliff, New Beginnings, Cardinal McCloskey's Hayden House of Ossining, and Kids' Club of Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow. Partnerships that have evolved over the past ten years with the Ossining Children's Center and Westchester Community College's Fashion Design program have added to its scope and runway roster.
Anyone can enter with a recycled design, made from almost anything, so it's a special evening full of surprises and fun! The runway show is always followed by a wine and cheese reception (with lots of goodies donated by local markets and caterers). It's a true community event that's growing every year, and we're proud that Project Greenway Re-Fashion Show has found its home base right here at Scarborough Presbyterian Church!
Scarborough Church participates in the Briarcliff Ossining Ministerial Association, an ecumenical/ interfaith group made up of local clergy. In 2013, after many meetings with community leaders, police, political leaders and others, BOMA launched the Ossining Homeless Program to house the homeless of Ossining during the coldest months of the year. The first year, BOMA only provided three weeks of shelter, but in 2017-2018, we provided overnight housing in our area churches from December 3 through the end of March. In 2018-19 it will be much the same schedule.
The program is based on a similar one in the Mount Kisco/Bedford area. Meals and a floor to sleep on are provided. All help is volunteer help except for one paid supervisor who stays overnight with the group. We average housing 10-15 people a night. Scarborough Church took two weeks this year.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the minister Tim Ives: 914-941-1142/ 914-645-1482/ timives4932@gmail.com.
We house an Alcoholics Anonymous group at Scarborough Church on Sunday and Wednesday nights at 7 pm. This is a group that is totally separate by design. We are happy to sponsor this group, but their work and mission is theirs and they should be contacted directly if you want to get involved.
The Ossining Food Pantry has served hungry and food-insecure Ossining and Briarcliff Manor families each week for the last 30 years from its home at Trinity Episcopal Church, 2 miles north of Scarborough Church on Route 9.
Scarborough Church has supported OFP from its inception with money to purchase food as well as bags of groceries our worshippers bring on each communion Sunday. Our members have also served on its board, planned its annual fundraisers, delivered and sorted many tons of groceries, and worked directly with needy families.
These two singing groups rent space at SPC and members of the church participate in both with others.
Scarborough Singers meet on Mondays at noon. Contact Claire Payne for more information.
The Hudson Bells meet on Thursdays at 9:30am. Contact Kathy Davis for more information.
Occasionally, SPC holds its sometimes annual Rummage Sale on the grounds of the church.
Members of SPC donate gently-used goods – such as clothing, toys, jewelry, kitchenware, boutique items, books and athletic equipment – and volunteer to set up, break down and man the different posts on the day of the sale.
Most importantly, our church family meets and interacts with members of the community, sharing our beautiful church while also providing quality goods at affordable cost. Funds generated by the Rummage Sale go to the ongoing ministry of the church.
Make sure to check out the church calendar to find out the date of this year's Rummage Sale and join us for a worthy cause and a day full of fellowship and fun!
Perhaps the most joyous of all our church services each year takes place on Christmas Eve.
The sanctuary is candlelit and garnished with greens and poinsettias of the season, helping to create a warm festive atmosphere for members and visitors alike.
After a holiday message from Pastor Tim Ives, the children of SPC present the annual Christmas Pageant which – in the name of the holiday miracle – is the Best Christmas Pageant Ever each and every year!
The service concludes with everyone standing and circling the sanctuary, singing Christmas carols while holding candles – family bonded by fellowship in the most beautiful of settings – before setting out into the chilly holiday night.
The congregation of Scarborough Presbyterian Church understands itself to be steward of the whole property of the Church, which is to be held in trust for future generations. It is a part of that trust to serve the needs of the Church and our broader community through use by non-profit and appropriate for-profit organizations. Family celebrations are also welcome.
In that spirit, we make available, for a fee (which are set by our Buildings and Grounds Committee) certain areas on the property. These include the Sanctuary (for weddings and other appropriate celebrations), the chapel, the 'Big Room' in Fellowship Hall, and the conference room in the Carriage House.
If you would like to inquire about the use of any of these spaces, please email the office at office@scaroboughchurch.com or call the office (914-941-1142) during daytime office hours.


I think the fact that this vintage Tom and Jerry short takes place in an archetypal creepy castle on a stormy night, and features a Dr. Frankenstein-esque mad scientist (who incidentally appears to be on both helium and speed) qualifies it as prime Halloween season viewing.
I love a good collection of outlandish lab equipment, and boy does this castle deliver in that department.
Also of note, a brief scene involving a large tome entitled LOVABLE CATS (which is, unfortunately, not in print).
What was your favorite old Halloween cartoon?
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Disney's Halloween Treat had clips of all these and it was my favorite as a kid. Just watched it last year and still loved all of it.
Garfield's Halloween, it's legit creepy!
Oh my gosh, Phairhead…that creepy 100 year old man in the end! I LOVE that Garfield special. Must watch again this year.


For those of you that have not been to CES, you should know that everywhere you go there is a line and a wait. You wait for your bags, then a cab, then to check in, then to get food, then to cram into a tram, and the line goes on and on. Did I let this bother me? NO. I used this precious time to do, really, all I could do…PEOPLE WATCH! And let me tell you, that people are addicted to these little things called smart phones.
In the line for a cab I decided to count how many people were on their smart phone and tallied 57. These people were not interacting with their fellow man, not looking at the beautiful woman, definitely not minding their luggage, and most importantly were neglecting to move forward when they should, thus holding up the line! These people were so out of touch with their surroundings and engrossed in what they were doing that they literally were tripping over their luggage. What a funny sight to see. When I shared my observations with my boss he replied "Huh, what?" as he looked up from his smart phone. I said "Never mind".
The point is that more and more Americans are using smart phones each and every day, and the ones that aren't using them wish they were. Thus, they desire this digital crack and inevitably get one. And what are we doing on these addictive devices? Anything and everything! We are looking for any excuse to use these devices to maximizing every dull minute of our existence! These dull minutes are very common in our society as we wait in line at the bank, post office, airport, check out line, deli, fast food line, etc. Is anybody guilty of using their smart phone while waiting to make that left turn? How about in morning traffic? I know I am.
So as a smart business owner, you are observing these societal trends, right? You are always looking for ways to reach the masses, right? Have you done all you can to reach these smart phone users? Have you thought about how an app might drive more clients/customers through your doors? Have you considered that getting smart with smart phones might impact our bottom line in 2012? If you haven't than you should.
As the current TV commercial says "How smart is your smart phone?" There is a multitude of ways to implement smart phone technology and apps into your marketing plan for 2012. For example, Outback Steakhouse has an app that uses your phones GPS to pinpoint your exact location and send you the distance, phone number, and directions to their nearest restaurant. The Redbox app shows you the nearest Redbox to your location, and lets you reserve and pay for your movie all on your phone. These are just two example of how smart businesses are implementing smart phone technology. You too can be innovative and implement smart phone technology into your marketing plan for 2012! At Technetium we have worked with a variety of companies on their mobile strategy and would be glad to answer any questions you may have.


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New Lanark, Briggait & Comrie benefit from Lottery cash
New Lanark, the Briggait & Comrie have been named by the Heritage Lottery Fund as its latest recipients of grant funding.
Foremost amongst the trio of awards is a £1.5m grant to convert the category A listed Double Row, a block of millworkers housing in the world heritage site of New Lanark, into seven new tenement flats with an eighth turned into an interpretation space to help visitors understand the history of the site.
Lorna Davidson, New Lanark Trust Director commented: "We are thrilled to receive this significant grant award from the HLF which will enable us to realise our long-standing aspiration to complete the restoration of the former millworkers' housing within this internationally important site. Built in the 1790s, the Category A listed Double Row has been vacant since the last family moved out in the 1970s and is now in a poor and deteriorating condition. This project will ensure the building's survival and fulfil the Trust's vision to maintain the historic village as a living, working community with a resident population."
Elsewhere the Briggait,a converted Victorian fish market in Glasgow will be turned into a centre for dance and the arts after netting a £755k grant and the last remaining WW2 camp near Comrie will be turned into holiday rental accommodation courtesy of £338,500.
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Tim Aistrope
Conspiracy, misinformation and public diplomacy
in Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy
ABSTRACT / EXCERPT
This chapter examines the practical manifestation of the War of Ideas strategy in United States (US) State Department public diplomacy, as well as more recent counter-radicalisation efforts under the Obama Administration. It does so by focusing on several programs involved in direct engagements with anti-Americanism and extremist ideology: the Counter-Misinformation Team, tasked with debunking instances of misinformation and propaganda, and the Digital Outreach Team (DOT), which engaged online with Muslim people thought vulnerable to radicalisation, as well as attempting to discredit jihadi recruiters. I show that the Arab-Muslim paranoia narrative flowed through into this public diplomacy effort and infused it with the same delegitimising dynamics identified in the War of Ideas doctrine, undermining the purported aim of engagement with Arab-Muslim people.
Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy
Conspiracy theory; anti-Americanism; War on Terror; foreign policy; public diplomacy
Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
Part I: Conceptualising conspiracy theory
Chapter 1: The paranoid style in international politics
Chapter 2: Conspiracy culture
Part II: Conspiracy discourse in the War on Terror
Chapter 3: Strategies of deterrence and frames of containment
Chapter 4: The War of Ideas
Chapter 5: Conspiracy, misinformation and public diplomacy
Redefining security in the Middle East
Editors: Tami Amanda Jacoby and Brent E. Sasley
For over five decades, the Cold War security agenda was distinguished by the principal strategic balance, that of a structure of bipolarity, between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR). This book seeks to draw from current developments in critical security studies in order to establish a new framework of inquiry for security in the Middle East. It addresses the need to redefine security in the Middle East. The focus is squarely on the Arab-Israeli context in general, and the Palestinian-Israeli context in particular. The character of Arab-Israeli relations are measured by the Israeli foreign policy debate from the 1950s to the 1990s. A dialogue between Islam and Islamism as a means to broaden the terrain on which conflict resolution and post-bipolar security in the Middle East is to be understood is presented. The Middle East peace process (MEPP) was an additional factor in problematizing the military-strategic concept of security in the Middle East. The shift in analysis from national security to human security reflects the transformations of the post-Cold War era by combining military with non-military concerns such as environmental damage, social unrest, economic mismanagement, cultural conflict, gender inequity and radical fundamentalism. By way of contrast to realist international relations (IR) theory, developing-world theorists have proposed a different set of variables to explain the unique challenges facing developing states. Finally, the book examines the significance of ecopolitics in security agendas in the Middle East.
The international politics of the Middle East
Author: Raymond Hinnebusch
This text aims to fill a gap in the field of Middle Eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It begins with an overview of the rules and features of the Middle East regional system—the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. The book goes on to analyse foreign-policy-making in key states, illustrating how systemic determinants constrain this policy-making, and how these constraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on the particular domestic features of the individual states. Finally, it goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The study assesses the impact of international penetration in the region, including the historic reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union, and explains the process by which the region has become incorporated into the global capitalist market.
The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change
Author: Eşref Aksu
This study explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance. What is dealt with here is both the UN's changing raison d'être and the wider normative context within which the organisation is located. The study looks at the UN through the window of one of its most contentious, yet least understood, practices: active involvement in intra-state conflicts as epitomised by UN peacekeeping. Drawing on the conceptual tools provided by the 'historical structural' approach, it seeks to understand how and why the international community continuously reinterprets or redefines the UN's role with regard to such conflicts. The study concentrates on intra-state 'peacekeeping environments', and examines what changes, if any, have occurred to the normative basis of UN peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. One of the original aspects of the study is its analytical framework, where the conceptualisation of 'normative basis' revolves around objectives, functions and authority, and is closely connected with the institutionalised values in the UN Charter such as state sovereignty, human rights and socio-economic development.


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Francesc Antich i Oliver, né le  à Caracas, est un homme politique espagnol, membre du Parti socialiste ouvrier espagnol (PSOE), actuellement sénateur pour les Îles Baléares, dont il a été président entre 1999 et 2003, et de 2007 à 2011.

Biographie

Enfance et jeunesse
Au cours de son enfance, il quitte le Venezuela et revient à Algaida, sur l'île de Majorque, dont ses parents sont originaires. Il étudie ensuite le droit à l'université des Îles Baléares, et devient avocat. En 1987, il est nommé directeur général du conseil municipal du logement de Majorque, puis il est promu deux ans plus tard directeur général de l'Urbanisme de la mairie de la ville.

Débuts en politique
Il adhère dans un premier temps au Parti socialiste de Majorque (PSM), une formation nationaliste de gauche, avant de rejoindre la Fédération socialiste baléare-PSOE (FSB-PSOE).

Élu maire d'Algaida aux élections municipales de 1991, il est reconduit quatre ans plus tard, devenant dans le même temps membre du conseil insulaire de Majorque. Il devient député régional au Parlement des îles Baléares en  pour la circonscription de Majorque en remplacement de Francesca Bassa. Il est ensuite nommé conseiller à l'Environnement du gouvernement insulaire de Maria Antònia Munar.

Il finit par démissionner de la mairie en 1997. L'année suivante, il se présente aux élections primaires organisées au sein du Parti des socialistes des Îles Baléares-PSOE (PSIB-PSOE), et s'impose face au secrétaire général Andreu Crespí, ce qui fait de lui le candidat socialiste à la présidence du gouvernement pour le scrutin de 1999.

Premier mandat à la tête des Baléares
Bien qu'arrivé en deuxième position, avec 22 % des voix et 23 élus sur 59, il réussit à former une coalition gouvernementale de 31 sièges avec les régionalistes de l'Union majorquine (UM), le PSM, et divers petites formations de gauche. Le , Francesc Antich est investi président des Îles Baléares, étant alors le premier socialiste à occuper ce poste.

Durant ce premier mandat, il développe de nouvelles politiques en matière de santé, d'éducation et d'environnement. Il prend la décision controversée de créer une  sur le tourisme, destiné à financer les investissements de réparation des dommages causés à l'environnement des Îles par le tourisme de masse.

En 2000, dans le cadre du XXXV congrès du Parti socialiste ouvrier espagnol (PSOE), il apporte son soutien au jeune candidat réformateur José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, qui l'emporte avec seulement neuf voix d'avance. Il est lui-même élu peu après secrétaire général du PSIB-PSOE.

Il échoue, trois ans plus tard, à conserver le pouvoir face au Parti populaire (PP) qui remporte 44,7 % des suffrages et 29 députés, puis s'associe avec les régionalistes de Formentera pour atteindre la majorité absolue. Dans un premier temps, il devient porte-parole du groupe PSIB et chef de l'opposition à Jaume Matas, avant de passer à la vie politique nationale en 2004.

Député au Congrès espagnol
En effet, à l'occasion des élections générales du 14 mars, il est élu député des Îles Baléares au Congrès des députés, où il prend la présidence de la commission commune aux deux chambres des Cortes Generales pour les relations avec le Tribunal des comptes, tout en siégeant au sein de la commission constitutionnelle et de la commission de l'Environnement. En 2006, il est désigné rapporteur du projet de réforme du statut d'autonomie des îles Baléares.

Second mandat à la tête des Baléares
De nouveau candidat à la présidence des Îles Baléares aux régionales de 2007, il se classe une troisième fois en deuxième position, avec 27,1 % des suffrages exprimés et 20 élus sur 59. Il passe alors un nouvel accord avec les régionalistes majorquins, les écologistes et les régionales d'Ibiza, qui lui permet d'atteindre 30 sièges, soit l'exacte majorité absolue. Francesc Antich est réinvesti président des Îles Baléares le . Mise en cause dans des affaires de corruption, l'Union majorquine se retire du gouvernement fin 2009, sans empêcher son maintien au pouvoir.

Sénateur après la défaite de 2011
Il se représente aux élections régionales de 2011, mais le PP, cette fois conduit par José Ramón Bauzà, s'impose sans difficulté avec 46,3 % des suffrages et 35 députés sur 59, la plus forte majorité de l'histoire démocratique de l'archipel. Il annonce peu après sa volonté d'abandonner son mandat de député régional, après le débat d'investiture de Bauzà, et d'être élu au Sénat par le Parlement, puis de quitter la direction du PSIB-PSOE en 2012. Il est officiellement élu à la chambre haute des Cortes Generales le  suivant. Il est reconduit dans son mandat de sénateur le .

Le , il est élu membre de la direction provisoire du PSOE, présidée par Javier Fernández et constituée à la suite de la démission de Pedro Sánchez.

Alors qu'il quitte le Sénat en , Francesc Antich devient avocat du patronage municipal du logement et de la réhabilitation intégrale des quartiers de Palma. Il prend la présidence de l'autorité portuaire des Baléares (APB) en  sur proposition de la présidente régionale Francina Armengol. Il sollicite sa démission pour raisons de santé en .

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 Président des îles Baléares
 Élections au Parlement des îles Baléares de 1999, 2003, 2007 et 2011
 Gouvernement Antich I et II

Personnalité politique espagnole de l'époque démocratique
Député du Parlement des îles Baléares
Député des îles Baléares
Président des îles Baléares
Personnalité politique de Majorque
Sénateur désigné par le Parlement des îles Baléares
Sénateur espagnol de la Xe législature
Sénateur espagnol de la XIe législature
Sénateur espagnol de la XIIe législature
Sénateur espagnol de la XIIIe législature
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"Status Quo Of Police Harassment": Ferguson Police Arrest Reporters For Reporting
Looks like police in Ferguson, Missouri, took it upon themselves to suspend the First Amendment Wednesday night.
It seems two reporters, Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post, were working at a McDonald's, which has been used as a staging ground by reporters covering the ongoing unrest following the Aug. 9 police shooting of an unarmed African-American man. According to their accounts, the two were accosted by police, some in militaristic riot gear, demanding identification and ordering them out. These officers refused to provide their badge numbers or names or a reason for the order and grew angry when one of the men attempted to take a video.
Both reporters were arrested. Reilly says a cop intentionally banged his head against the glass on the way out of the restaurant, then gave him a facetious "apology."
The two were transported to a lockup. No mugshots were taken, no fingerprints collected, no paperwork done. After some minutes, they were released. The men were told they'd been arrested for "trespassing."
At a McDonald's. Where they were customers.
"Apparently, in America, in 2014," tweeted Lowery, "police can manhandle you, take you into custody, put you in cell and then open the door like it didn't happen."
Actually, both men had been treated with a heavy-handedness and official contempt that are apparently all too familiar to black people in Ferguson — and to black and poor people of whatever tribe all over America. In arresting reporters for reporting, Ferguson police raise a pressing question: Just what are they trying to hide?
The same night Reilly and Lowery were handcuffed, after all, a local alderman who had posted video of the protests to social media was arrested. All last week we had reports of news photographers being ordered to stop taking pictures and reporters being tear-gassed. One officer reportedly took a TV camera and pointed it to the ground. Add to this police refusal until six days after the incident to name the officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, and the picture that emerges is not one of transparency.
At least three witnesses have now disputed the official version of what happened, the tale of how Brown inexplicably shoved a police officer back inside the officer's car, and they wrestled for the officer's gun. One witness, Dorian Johnson, says he was walking in the street with Brown toward Brown's grandmother's apartment when the officer, who was in his car, commanded them to "get the eff" out of the street. The street in question, to judge from television images, is a quiet one. We're not talking Broadway at rush hour.
Johnson says the officer reached out of the car and grabbed Brown and the struggle ensued, the two men wrestling through the car window as a shot was fired. Then the officer got out. Another witness, Tiffany Mitchell, says Brown had broken away and was facing the officer with hands up when he was shot.
Let us hope that between the time of this writing and the time of your reading, the fighting in the streets of Ferguson is done. It makes no sense to compound tragedy with tragedy.
But let us also understand: The mere restoration of order is not the same as peace. If events in Ferguson prove nothing else, they prove the status quo of police harassment and no accountability is untenable and intolerable. And what happened to these two reporters should be instructive to those whose reflex in such matters is to accord police the benefit of even overwhelming doubt.
Such people might want to reconsider. If this is how some cops behave when the whole world is watching, can you imagine what they're like when the whole world is not?
By: Leonard Pitts, Jr., Columnist, The Miami Herald; The National Memo, August 18, 2014
August 19, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Ferguson Missouri, Media, Reporters	| African Americans, Dorian Johnson, Journalists, Law Enforcement, Michael Brown, Ryan Reilly, Tiffany Mitchell, Wesley Lowery | Leave a comment
"Building A Public Case": The Ferguson Police Chief's Statement Is Only Making Things Worse
Five days after a police officer fired multiple rounds at and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, we now know that the officer's name is Darren Wilson. Thanks to Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, we also know that officers believe Brown had just strong-armed a convenience store clerk for a $48.99 box of Swisher Sweets cigars. Jackson provided the incident report from that robbery to reporters in Missouri this morning. He took no questions, suggesting reporters take some time to "digest it."
Having read it and re-read it and digested it, I find the Ferguson police department's behavior over the past week even more baffling than I did before.
For the sake of argument let's assume (a huge assumption) that the Ferguson police are not trying to build a public case for Wilson's innocence by assassinating a dead man's character.
Why did it take five days for them to release this information, none of which has anything to do with the circumstances of Brown's death?
What happened to the box of Swisher Sweets?
Per Matt Yglesias, if Brown was a suspect in a robbery, why wasn't his accomplice Dorian Johnson arrested and charged rather than allowed to escape and appear in multiple television news interviews?
Was Johnson lying when he claimed that Wilson approached him and Brown not to question or arrest them for robbery but to tell them to "get the fuck onto the sidewalk"?
We don't know because Jackson says he "cannot discuss the investigation about the attempted apprehension of the suspect in that strong-arm robbery. That goes to the county prosecutor's office."
I'm sure there are more questions. This is just for starters. But it smells very bad when a police department refuses to release any information about a deadly officer-involved shooting, unleashing five days of madness, and then reverses course to assure the public that Brown was a menacing, cigar-stealing thug.
I've seen a number of people online entertain an obvious but important hypothetical series of events like the ones in Ferguson, only with races reversed. Among the reasons such a scenario is so hard for so many people to fathom is that we instinctually believe protests would be unnecessary if a black officer killed a white kid because justice would be meted out swiftly and transparently.
Do a quick Google search for news stories about a black police officer killing a white teenager and the internet will spit back dozens of stories about precisely the opposite scenario. Michael Brown after Michael Brown.
But you'll also find the Orange, Texas case of Captain Robert Arnold, a black Ranger who wrongfully killed James Whitehead, a white former Marine. Whitehead barked racial slurs at Arnold, who was responding to an altercation at an auto parts store, but the police insisted the slurs had nothing to do with the use of force. Arnold's name was released to the press immediately. He was placed on administrative leave following the shooting. A Grand Jury said it lacked sufficient evidence to recommend a prosecution, but Arnold was nevertheless suspended indefinitely because, as police chief Sam Kittrell told Arnold in a letter, "alternative measures on your part would have prevented the necessity of the use of deadly force."
Perhaps the investigation into the Wilson shooting will proceed just as smoothly from this point forward. Perhaps Jackson will have compelling answers to the above questions next time he meets the press. But nothing we've seen so far inspires much confidence that either of these things will happen.
UPDATE: We now have an answer to question number four, above. According to Police Chief Jackson, "The initial contact between the officer [Darren Wilson] and Mr. Brown was not related to the robbery." Wilson approached Brown and his companion "because they were walking down the middle of the street, blocking traffic."
In other words, Wilson didn't know about the robbery at all when the encounter began. Which calls the incident report's legal relevance to the circumstance of the shooting into question. If the altercation began under totally different pretenses, why try to connect the two? One reason would be to build a narrative that's consistent with Wilson's story. If Brown had just committed a crime, and was willing to tussle, and Wilson thought he was dealing with a couple of harmless jaywalkers, then it's easier to believe that Brown was combative and Wilson was caught off guard. Both things need to be true if we're to believe Wilson's version of events—that Brown assaulted him, lunged for his gun, and was subsequently shot.
By: Brian Beutler, The New Republic, August 15, 2014
August 16, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Civil Rights, Ferguson Missouri, Law Enforcement	| Darren Wilson, Dorian Johnson, Michael Brown, Orange Texas, Robert Arnold, Sam Kittrell, Thomas Jackson | Leave a comment


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Home Biography Noah Cyrus
Noah Cyrus is an upcoming American musician who recently shot to fame with "We are what" an iconoclastic anthem that went viral on social media. Noah has a stellar family background. Her father is Billy Ray Cyrus, America's most famous country singer. Her sister is the Hannah Montana fame pop sensation Miley Cyrus. Noah already has several hit singles to her credit. She has taken the music world by storm with by exploring impactful themes complimented with a unique voice. Her siblings are Miley Cyrus and Trace Cyrus.
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She debuted in the TV show Doc and played recurring small roles for six seasons of Hannah Montana. Post this, she ventured into singing. Her first album was written inspired from her own heart wrenching breakup story. During her free time, Noah loves to ride horses and has won several awards in the same. The young artist is also a member of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She posed for one of their advertisements expressing her condemnation over animals being used for experimentation purposes in schools. Noah is a practicing Christian.
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Jeepers Creepers 2 is a 2003 American horror film written and directed by Victor Salva, produced by American Zoetrope, Capitol Films, Myriad Pictures and released through United Artists, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer division. The film is a sequel to the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers. Francis Ford Coppola executive produced the film.
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Directed by Victor Salva. With Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa. Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
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Jeepers Creepers 2 had a lot to live up to because the first movie in the series was great. Unfortunately it fell for some common horror tropes like a bunch of teenagers acting stupid. That being said, it was still highly enjoyable. The Jeepers Creepers lore says every 23 years the beat returns to feed on people.
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Victor Salva's "Jeepers Creepers 2" supplies us with a first-class creature, a fourth-rate story, and dialogue possibly created by feeding the screenplay into a pasta maker. The movie basically consists of a half-man, half-bat that whooshes down out of the sky and snatches its prey.
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Released in 2001 after a flock of brain-dead, self-referential slasher movies had reduced Scream's clever postmodernism to the sort of tired cliché it wittily dissected, Jeepers Creepers marked a mostly welcome return to horror-movie basics. The film fell apart in its second half, but first it established writer-director Vincent Salva as a budding master of the genre.
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Jeepers Creepers 2 is a 2003 horror film directed and written by Victor Salva. The film is a sequel to Jeepers Creepers. The film also gained an interquel, Jeepers Creepers 3 in 2017. It's never indicated in the first movie when during the Creeper 's 23 day feeding cycle is taking place, but the sequel occurs on the last day.
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Jeepers Creepers opened in 2,944 theaters and took in a US gross of $37.9 million; it later made $21.3 million internationally, making a total of $59.2 million worldwide. It broke the record for the highest ever Labor Day opening weekend four-day gross, holding the record until the 2003 release of its sequel, Jeepers Creepers 2.


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Q: Can not establish a pipe between processes I am trying to create a pipe between parent and child processes:
def launch_process():

    parentStdin, childStdout = os.pipe()
    childStdin, parentStdout = os.pipe()

    pid = os.fork()
    if pid:
        os.close(childStdout)
        os.close(childStdin)
        self.set_configuration()
    else:
        os.close(parentStdout)
        os.close(parentStdin)
        os.dup2(childStdin, 0)
        os.dup2(childStdout, 1)
        os.execvp("echo.py", "")
        raise RuntimeError

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pipein = os.fdopen(parentStdin) #I saved both parentStdin and parentStdout variable as global
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    time.sleep(3)
    os.write(parentStdout, ("command").encode())
    line = pipein.readline() #the program stops here
    print(line)

This code can launch a child process but pepin.readline() blocks running without any result. What's wrong?
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while True:
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    print(value)
    sys.stdout.flush()

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As part of the KPCB 12-200 Meet-Up series, KPCB's Marketing and Communications Partner, Christina Lee led a panel to discuss the value of internal communications with Keith Burton, Partner at corporate communications firm Brunswick Group, Dani Dudeck, VP of Communications at Zynga, and Erin Hosilyk, Director of Communications at LinkedIn.
Clip 1: Why Are Internal Communications So Important?
At many organizations, internal communications are an afterthought, something PR and communications professionals are informally expected to do in addition to their official duties. However, internal communications are increasingly important and strategically critical to a company's success.
Erin Hosilyk, Director of Communications at LinkedIn, discussed what it was like to build LinkedIn's internal communications function from the ground up, starting three weeks after LinkedIn's IPO.
Erin Hosilyk discussed how she and her team at LinkedIn use the company's all-hands meeting as their premier internal communications tool. She highlighted the importance of up-to-date communications, relevant, company-wide content, and, above all, transparency.
Keith Burton, Partner at corporate communications firm Brunswick Group, discussed the importance of creating transparency for employees in parallel to companies' public disclosure obligations. He also discussed the effect that services like Glassdoor and Secret have on companies' ability to keep internal information from leaking.
The panelists discussed how to use internal communications strategies to empower employees and create employee brand ambassadors. Erin Hosilyk, Director of Communications at LinkedIn, discussed how she helps employees across the organization make their voices heard internally.
Clip 6: What Role Does Internal Communications Play During a Crisis?
Internal communications plays a critical role during company-wide crises. The panel zeroed in on the importance of employee ambassadors, transparency, consistency, and reaching out to employees early on in the crisis process.
Erin Hosilyk, Director of Communications at LinkedIn, talked about the value communicators add by connecting different parts of the organization and Keith Burton, Partner at corporate communications firm Brunswick Group, highlighted the critical advisory role communicators play in informing executives' point-of-view.


Analysis of the pre-election campaigns during the 2017 local elections in Georgia highlights that political debates transformed into the competetion of masculinities, which had to prove the winner based on the masculine hierarchies.
Politics of Exclusion: What is Required from a Female Politician?
Project "Read Politics" analyzed schemes of arguments the voters used to discuss female politicians during 2017 local elections: how they justified or rejected involvement of women into politics.
"For the sake of strengthening of women's political participation, it is very important to guarantee that women do not appear in the party lists only before election period".
2017 local elections in Georgia proved that women's and gender issues are in view of political agenda, but political campaigns still follow traditional, masculine ways to do politics.
Natia Gvianishvili: "Politicians Should See Women as Voters too"
"What I always expected from a female politician was more sensitivity towards the gender related issues. This expectation turned our to be very naive."


The Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Shinano began life as the third Yamato class battleship. However, after the devastating carrier losses in the Battle of Midway she was completed as a flattop, the largest ever built until the USS Forrestal in the late 1950s. Possessing only a small air group of her own, Shinano was intended to be used as a carrier task force support vessel. Her battlewagon ancestry and armored decks were presumed to give her the ability to absorb massive battle damage, enabling her to provide forward support the attack carrier forces with fuel, stores, and extensive machine shops.
She never got the chance. On November 29, 1944, while in transit for final fitting out from Yokosuka to Kure, Shinano's starboard side was slashed open by six torpedoes from the submarine USS Archerfish. Had she been completely finished Shinano would probably have survived even this massive damage, but her full interior compartmentation had not yet been installed. After lingering for some six hours she went down suddenly, taking with her over 1,400 of her crew who had assembled on her flight deck waiting to be evacuated. She was just 20 hours into her maiden voyage.
A recent release, Revell Germany's Shinano is definitely not a new molding. As with other Revell 1/1200 MINISHIPS like the Yamato, Enterprise, Hornet, and Missouri, it has been released variously over the years by Casadio (also called "Mini-Ships") Almark, Sablon, ESCI/ERTL, Model Products Corporation (MPC), and probably others. This early 1970s model is a simplified, snap-together kit engineered for quick building. Because of the lack of information available on the Shinano I can't comment much on its accuracy, but it looks reasonable. The hull is recognizably a Yamato class, and the outline does mostly match the handful of surviving photographs. It has a stolid, chunky look reminiscent of Tamiya's original 1/700 scale offering from the 1960s. The only changes Revell has made over previous issues of the kit were new box art and some decals for the flight deck.
Though simplified, the kit has a number of thoughtful design features. One is the lowered aft elevator through which you can see a little of the hangar deck. I also liked the open hangar deck side doors, a feature absent even on most larger scale model carriers. Realistically, these enable the viewer to actually see completely through the hangar deck in places. Very cool. There are also some open panels (intakes?) on the island outboard sponson which add a sense of depth and complexity to the model. Even the bridge windows are see-through! These touches do a lot to offset the model's toylike appearance. Raised porthole and scupper details seem a little heavy, but at 1/1200 I suppose they would be nearly invisible if done in-scale; the more delicately rendered flight deck details nearly disappeared once painted.
The model was snap-together simplicity, and it went together easily for the most part. I had a bit of difficulty getting the flight deck to lie flat onto the hull, but widening the large locator holes took care of this. Parts had a lot of flash, but that's not unusual for such an old molding. After clean up, I filled in the locating holes for the aircraft on the flight deck. Though the unfinished ship never carried them, the model comes with a small air group. Unfortunately the planes provided are not very realistic, unrecognizable as any specific type. I glued them to the flight deck from the underside, so the pegs in them filled those awful locator holes in the flight deck above.
The numerous triple 25mm guns are molded directly onto the galleries, but don't look bad. The larger 127mm guns, molded as separate units, are simplified but acceptable in this tiny scale (the model is less than 9 inches long). Strangely, the aircraft handling crane is a duplicate of that found in the battleship Yamato kit – completely wrong for Shinano. Amusingly, there is also a crane included that the guys at Casadio apparently recycled from their USS Missouri kit! This isn't really a problem, though, since the flight deck cranes on Imperial Navy flattops were retractable and weren't always in view anyway. The ship's boats, also identical to those in the Yamato kit, are pretty good.
This was an out of the box build, so it went together quickly. Even with flash clean up, assembly took maybe half an hour, if that.
The reason I chose to build this simple Shinano kit was for the fun paint job. I had read that, strange as it may seem, the flight deck of the Shinano was a very un-military shade of pink! (The box art from the old Tamiya 1/700 scale model actually depicts this.) According to Lynn Lucious Moore's "Shinano: The Jinx Carrier" (US Naval Institute Proceedings, February, 1953), the steel flight deck was covered with, "...a thin, shock-absorbent latex-sawdust..." composition. The origin of the wood is unclear, but Japanese red cedar (sugi) or Japanese red pine (akamatsu), both common in Japan, would account for the pinkish color noted by observers. The deck would have undoubtedly have been camouflaged before she entered service, but it had not yet been done when Shinano was sunk on her way to final fitting out. The improbable color is well attested by several eyewitnesses, both former crewmen and civilian workers. The original Japanese source for this information (a well known industrialist) had been a civilian worker on the Shinano in 1944; his potentially embarrassing revelation was at first quite controversial in Japan, but eventually other observers came forward confirming his unusual story.
Pink and green…I just had to give that outlandish scheme a go! The hull colors were, fortunately, readily available from White Ensign Colourcoats. Based on the trials photo I sketched out and applied the pattern using White Ensign IJN06 Type 2 Camouflage Green and IJN07 Type 21 Camouflage Green. The greens turned out to be vivid and attractive, a stunning departure from the usual. For the flight deck I mixed my best-guess version of mauve/pink. No airgroup was ever embarked, but a few landing tests were conducted, so I felt justified in adding "temporary" white lines to break up that plain deck. Since the kit decal sripes seemed too wide, I substituted 1/64 inch white dry transfer lines from Woodland Scenics.
I'm not a big fan of snap together models, but I have liked this little kit since I first built the MPC version of it when I was a kid. It is simplified and a little basic, but it builds quickly into something that looks reasonably like a Shinano.
I can honestly say that this is the best looking pink and green aircraft carrier in my collection!


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Q: Git Pull using http://username:password@server still asks for credentials? I have the following script that loads credentials from a file and pulls using the credential-embedded URL format.
$remote = "http://server/repo.git"
$credential = Import-CliXml -Path 'gitcreds.xml'
Write-Host "Using credentials for $($credential.UserName)"
$url = $remote
$url = $url.Replace("http://","http://$($credential.UserName):$($credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password)@")
$url = $url.Replace("https://","https://$($credential.UserName):$($credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password)@")
Write-Host "Pulling from $($url)..."
git pull $url -f -q --progress --recurse-submodules

And I'm using this to generate the credential file:
$credname = Read-Host "Name for the credential file? (include .xml)"
$credential = Get-Credential
$credential | Export-CliXml -Path $credname

The debug line which outputs the updated $url looks exactly like I would expect (Pulling from http://gituser:password@server/repo.git...), but I'm still getting a Windows credential prompt.  Why is it happening and how can I avoid it?


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Posts tagged with "Kevin Daly Architects":
Kevin Daly Architects wins competition to design Houston Endowment headquarters
Los Angeles-based firm Kevin Daly Architects (KDA) and Mexico City studio PRODUCTORA were chosen alongside TLS Landscape Architecture to design the new, $20 million headquarters for Texas philanthropic giant Houston Endowment. The trio's vision of an airy, light-filled superstructure was unanimously selected out of 120 submissions, and three powerhouse shortlisted firms this summer, in an international design competition. Set to be located just outside of downtown Houston in Spotts Park, the building will give the organization a cohesive, more accessible space to host people from the nonprofit, private, and philanthropic worlds in their aim to create positive change in the city. The architecture, with its elongated flat roof canopy and striated glass facade, will effectively shade employees and visitors from the harsh Houston climate while also reducing solar heat gain on-site. Nature will also play a big role in the Buffalo Bayou-adjacent development; the large oak trees that surround the future headquarters will be mirrored within the building via interior vegetation. "The living canopy of Houston was a huge influence on the team," said Kevin Daly, principal of KDA in a statement, "the tradition of buildings that balance the being 'a part of' and 'apart from' the living landscape of the city was inspiring. We wanted to establish a continuity between the park setting and the vocabulary of the building." Founded in 1937, Houston Endowment provides upwards of $75 million each year to strengthening the greater Houston community by building civic assets and donating to the arts, education, healthcare, immigration, and environmental sectors. It's the largest organization of its kind in the state of Texas and currently works out of the 64th floor of JP Morgan Chase Tower in downtown Houston. The change to Spotts Park, when the new structure by KDA is complete in 2022, will be a monumental shift in the way the 82-year-old private nonprofit does business. Ann Stern, president and CEO of Houston Endowment, said the building will help the institution attract new audiences and better communicate the work it does with its community partners. "We wanted to bring outstanding architecture to Houston to complement Houston's notable architectural wonders, and this design successfully communicates openness and transparency while also providing a tranquil and inviting presence."
Design, Bitches and more win 2018 AIA|LA Residential Architecture Awards
The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles chapter (AIA|LA) has announced its 2o18 Residential Architecture Award honorees. The 23 collected projects run the gamut from new, high-end mansions to affordable housing complexes and restored historic homes. With honors for Bestor Architecture, Griffin Enright Architects, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Design, Bitches, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, and others, AIA|LA has honored a who's who of the region's top design firms. See below for the full list of honorees and check out the AIA|LA website for more information and other awards programs. SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (up to 2,500 square feet) Merit Callow Residence, Altadena, CA, Corsini Stark Architects Citation Saddle Peak Residence, Topanga, CA, Sant Architects Tilt-Shift House, Los Angeles, CA, ANX/Aaron Neubert Architects SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (up to 5,000 square feet) Merit Callow Residence, Altadena, CA, Corsini Stark Architects Birch Residence, Los Angeles, CA, Griffin Enright Architects Citation Venice House, Venice, CA, Rios Clementi Hale Studios Croft Residence, Los Angeles, CA, AUX Architecture, Brian Wickersham Y Chalet, Faraya, Lebanon, PARALX Honor Waverley, Palo Alto, CA, Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects Bridge Residence, Los Angeles, CA, Belzberg Architects Brise Soleil, Beverly Hills, CA, Studio William Hefner Barrington Residence, Los Angeles, CA, Eric Rosen Architects Multifamily Residential (up to 20 units) Citation Bluplex, Culver City, CA, Yu2e Multifamily Residential (50 units and up) Citation Otis College of Art and Design Campus Expansion, Los Angeles, CA, Ehrlich | Fisher UCSB San Joaquin Housing, Santa Barbara, CA, Kevin Daly Architects UCSB San Joaquin Housing, Santa Barbara, CA, Lorcan O' Herlihy Architects Adaptive Reuse | Renovation | Historic Preservation Honor Mayumi, Culver City, CA, ShubinDonaldson Merit Harvey House, Palm Springs, CA, Marmol Radziner (original design: Buff & Hensman) Three Schindlers Redux, Inglewood, CA, Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects Silvertop, Los Angeles, CA, Bestor Architecture (original design: John Lautner) Citation Garden House, Atwater Village, CA, Design, Bitches The Salkin House, Los Angeles, CA, Bestor Architecture Writer's Block, Arts District, Downtown Los Angeles, CA, CHACOL, Inc. Affordable Housing Merit Anchor Place, Long Beach, CA, The Architects Collective
Howeler + Yoon and substance are among winners of AIA Small Project Awards
Big ideas start with small changes. This is definitely the case for the 11 outstanding projects that were just honored for their design excellence in small project design as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) just announced its 2018 Small Project Awards winners. The awards are given in three categories: architectural objects or environmental art that cost up to 150,000 in construction (Category 1), small project constructions that cost up to 1,500,000 in construction (Category 2), and projects under 5,000 square feet (Category 3). The theme this year is "Renewal." Here are a few of the Small Projects award winners: Howeler + Yoon Architecture designed Shadow Play, a hovering canopy formed from triangulated modules. Located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, Shadow Play is a cluster of shade structures that casts geometric shadows that transform the streetscape and how pedestrians congregate in the public space. The canopy's design maximizes the shaded area but also allows for apertures that bring breezes underneath, making it an ideal space to sit and relax. substance architecture designed the Principal Riverwalk Pump Station in Iowa, which also received the award. The design includes two objects–a Pump House that responds to the neighboring Café Pavilion with similar materials of black zinc and steel, and a Gate Valve Platform that combines translucent glass atop and a solid concrete base. According to the AIA, "The creation of this facility has literally led to the renewal of Des Moines' Historic District and, in concert with the Café Pavilion, it frames a popular public space along the river." Kevin Daly Architects was recognized for a low-cost, low-impact prototype backyard home. The 500 square foot parcel dubbed BI(h)OME has an innovative facade made of a paper honeycomb inside layers of ETFE, making a lightweight but sturdy structure that creates a pleasing aesthetic. The prototype is recyclable and customizable, and aims to serve as a housing option for 500,000 single families in Los Angeles, a city that struggles with a "shelter crisis." Sawmill, designed by Olson Kundig, is a family retreat standing in the high desert of California. In response to the harsh climate and the remote location, the net-zero home utilizes recycled but durable materials and employs strategies to reduce environmental impact and minimize operating costs. Cutler Anderson Architects' design of Studio / Bunkhouse blends in with the wooded site in Washington. The 80 square feet compact, multi-purpose toolbox is set at the top of a waterfront bluff and complemented by the jury for the ability to work with limited power-tools within the challenging site. Other winners include Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for The Grand Lake Poolhouse, FXCollaborative for their Chapel at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, and Edward Ogosta Architecture's design of Rear Window House. For the past 15 years, the AIA Small Project Awards program sets out to promote value and design quality in buildings, no matter their size. The complete list of the awarded projects can be seen in the link.
LOHA, SOM, and Kevin Daly Architects collaborate on new student housing at UCSB
The University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) new San Joaquin Villages by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA), Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM), and Kevin Daly Architects (KDA) opened to student residents during the fall 2017 semester. The expansive project brings over 1,000 student beds and a string of campus amenities clustered around open courtyards to the housing-starved university's North Campus. The village master plan was created by SOM, which also completed the new Tenaya Towers—a pair of six-story housing blocks—to create 65 new, three-bedroom, two-bath apartments. For the project, SOM designed a pair of parallel towers that are oriented east-to-west that are studded with projecting balconies to help maintain passive airflow and enrich student life. SOM also added a new freestanding pavilion to a plaza located between the two towers that will contain study spaces and a recreation room. In addition, the towers are outfitted with rooftop terraces overlooking the public spaces below. The project also includes a new dinning commons by architects KieranTimberlake. The project site was reworked by landscape architect Tom Leader and Sherwood Design Engineers—which provided civil engineering and site design—to redirect stormwater runoff into new biofiltration planters and bioswales that will purify the captured water before draining it into adjacent wetlands. The adjacent North Village site is carved up into four principal parcels, with LOHA and KDA each taking two sites to create a patchwork of low-rise, interconnected housing blocks. The intentionally utilitarian accommodations are linked by acrobatic exterior circulation and shared student amenity spaces, like a handsome laundromat outfitted with operable awning windows and a spare, wood fin-clad organic market. Together, these areas bring 107 three-bedroom, two-bath apartments to UCSB. Lorcan O'Herlihy, principal at LOHA, said, "UCSB dormitories have typically pushed circulation to their exterior envelope, with an inert central courtyard accessible only from within the building. [Our] design inverts this circulation scheme, [creating] a reductive exterior edge with an open, lively interior courtyard containing all building circulation, encouraging movement throughout the complex." The grouped structures are made up of shifting, canted geometries and are clad alternately in corrugated metal panels, wood fins, and stucco along the exterior, campus-facing areas. The LOHA-designed blocks feature painted plaster walls along the courtyard exposures. Social hubs—including reading rooms, social spaces, and dining facilities—float around the complex, projecting from second-floor perches in some instances, tucked snugly below elevated walkways in others. The units themselves are designed with passive ventilation in mind, and windows are wrapped in both vertical and shaped aluminum sunshades, depending on the orientation and structure. Overall, the multifaceted project updates campus housing, deeply embedding shared social experiences into campus life through simple ornamentation and permeability.
West Coast-East Coast collaboration results in contextual campus addition at UCLA
Kevin Daly Architects recently completed an addition to UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music that sets a new framework for the school's future growth and presents a new face for the music building. The Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center is the second addition to the 1950s structure that was previously augmented in the 1980s. Sited within UCLA's campus of over 200 buildings, the project was regulated by campus design standards that define a material palette consisting of a "UCLA blend brick," along with buff stone, terra-cotta, and concrete. According to UCLA's Physical Design Framework, these are "enduring materials that express a quality of permanence and durability." The standards reference the first four buildings constructed on campus nearly 100 years ago, in a red brick romanesque revival style. A terra-cotta rainscreen system was ultimately specified for its performative qualities, which helped the building achieve UCLA's required energy standards – a significant 20% better than state energy codes. Open joints in the finish material promote natural ventilation and solar shading. This assembly provides higher R-values throughout the exterior facade by allowing for a continuous layer of insulation, and helps to eliminate air infiltration. The cladding system also allowed for a relatively standard CMU exterior wall construction. KDA collaborated across the country with East Coast-based terra-cotta manufacturer Shildan to produce the custom facade material. Kevin Daly, founder of KDA, described this design process as a "collaboration to get [a] contemporary material to fit within a historic campus." Bricks from UCLA's campus were sent to the Mount Laurel, New Jersey company who color matched them to their standard color palette.
Facade Manufacturer Shildan Group (terracotta)
Architects Kevin Daly Architects
Facade Installer Rainbow Glazing
Construction Manager Shildan Group
Date of Completion 2015
System Terracotta rainscreen over insulated CMU shell
Products Alphaton Terracotta Rainscreen & Baguette Terracotta Sunscreen Systems (Shildan); Aluminum curtainwall system (Arcadia); Steel glazing system at acoustical windows (Arcadia); Ombra Honeycomb insulated glass unit insert (Pulp Studio)
Daly said their desire for this project to produce a more natural effect pushed Shildan to do something slightly different than what they normally do: "In a lot of the industry, the focus is to produce super consistent results, so that by the time you wrap the building with material, the end matches where you began. We wanted to do something different. We wanted to introduce a slight variation that was consistent enough to look like it was all from one palette, but at the same time was not a factory-produced tightly controlled material." In response, Shildan developed a custom fabrication process that produced this variation. Six tile styles were created with various glazing and firing techniques on two standard color finishes. The panels, made from 35% recycled content, were selectively left in the firing process longer than typical, while others were fired under slightly different temperatures, introducing variation to the material qualities of the panels. A number of mockups developed some basic ground rules for the design team based on campus guidelines. KDA worked with available terra-cotta samples to demonstrate their idea before developing the mockups into full-scale test systems. The desire to produce variation in terra-cotta is not unique, but the methods employed at Ostin are notable. At Lawrence Public Library, Gould Evans introduced variation to their facade by designing a combination of grooved and smooth panels, specifically controlling the panel texture. At UCLA, KDA's facade produced variation through the materials manufacturing process and by a panel rotation, casting shadows over the facade for an additional natural layer of perceived color variation. Focusing on the contextual specificity of their project within the historic campus setting, KDA introduced an additional level of detail to the facade. Grooves etched into the terra-cotta panel register course lines found in standard brick on campus. A louvered screen at Knusten Hall, which faces the music center from across a public plaza, provided the basis for a significant sunshading system marking the west facing main entrance. Fixed in place diamond-shaped terra-cotta baguettes framed off a secondary steel structure spring from an expansive curtainwall. The system is saturated in UCLA's classic "buff" limestone color. The curtainwall system features what Daly calls a "transparent shading system," integrating an extruded polycarbonate honeycomb material into the insulated glass layers to provide an extra layer of solar protection. At the corners of the faceted building, a reverse mitered edge trim out of painted aluminum protects the open end of the terra-cotta panels, while "fins" set proud of the undulating facade surface help articulate the texture of the facade by casting shadows registering the varied angles of the panels onto the building. The interior acoustical spaces provide a unique cladding design that was driven by economy and the desire to create a dynamic environment. KDA worked with Newson Brown Acoustics to develop a design that utilizes three repetitively cut douglas fir and spruce shapes. These panels were re-assembled into layers to produce a complex surface patterning which was flexible enough to expand or contract the quantity of exposed absorptive acoustical material.
Gimme Shelter: Inaugural A+D Museum exhibition promises to rethink Los Angeles housing
Opening August 20, Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles, the inaugural exhibition at the A+D Museum's new Arts District space presents works by architects and designers that challenge and improve upon L.A. housing typologies. The single-family house has long been the touchstone for experimental architecture in Los Angeles, from the Case Study Houses to Gehry's own home in Santa Monica, replete with (now-removed) domesticated chain-link fencing. But as the cost of real estate puts pressure on residential architecture, new solutions for single- and multi-family housing are desperately needed. Curators Sam Lubell and Danielle Rago invited local practices to develop proposals for the Wilshire Corridor and along the Los Angeles River, these include Bureau Spectacular, LA Más, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, MAD Architects, PAR, and wHY Architecture. (Editor's Note: Both Lubell and Rago are regular contributors to AN, and Lubell is AN's former West Coast editor.) Works by Kevin Daly Architects, Michael Maltzan Architects, Bestor Architecture, OMA, R&A, and Koning Eizenberg, will also be on view. AN spoke with the curators. The title is Shelter, the absolute basis for architecture, but what does it mean to "rethink how we live" and why is this reassessment so pressing right now? Sam Lubell: LA is going through monumental changes, re-embracing density, transit, and the public realm while facing unprecedented challenges around affordability, the environment, and congestion. But while the city has always been a center for residential innovation, most residential architecture here today does not properly respond to the changes taking place. We're hoping to help spur a dialogue about reshaping our housing and our lifestyles to today's realities. It's a great line up of practices in the show. What were your criteria for selecting participants? Danielle Rago: The show features [six new proposals] by Los Angeles design practices—each occupies a different position in the field of architecture. Yet, we believe all approach residential design in interesting and innovative ways. SL: We also wanted a mix of emerging and established firms, and practice-oriented and research-oriented firms. We think it's a great mix, full of energy, creativity, and some surprise. How did the designers address some of Los Angeles' hot button topics: density, affordability, accessibility, and sustainability? SL: The designers have done an excellent job addressing several of these issues. wHY, for instance, tackled both density and affordability by proposing new configurations of development in underused, residual public spaces along Wilshire Boulevard. LOHA tackled environmental issues by creating homes that utilize the aquifers near the L.A. River to capture and store water. And MAD has created a new type of outdoor living within a dense cluster of interconnected, extensively landscaped towers. DR: The invited teams all investigated one if not more of these pressing issues currently affecting Angelenos. LA Más' design addressed density and affordability by reconsidering the granny flat as a new model for low-rise high-density development in Elysian Valley along the L.A. River. PAR responded to increasing density and new transit offerings on the Wilshire Corridor with their proposal for a courtyard housing tower, where each unit maintains a visual connection to nature. And Bureau Spectacular investigated environmental challenges through the study and re-application of vernacular domestic architecture in L.A.
Name Changers: Los Angeles Architects Get New Identities
What's in a name? It seems that every time we get used to an architect's name they go ahead and change it. We're still confused by the name Ennead Architects (formerly Polshek Partnership), and we can't get our heads around monikers like Rogers Stirk Harbour (formerly Richard Rogers Partnership) and Populous (formerly HOK Sport). Not to mention the headaches when firms like AECOM swallow the likes of Ellerbe Becket and EDAW. The latest on the new name train are some of LA's brightest firms. Daly Genik Architects is now Kevin Daly Architects. And wHY Architecture is now why design. The former came as a result of shuffled leadership—partners Kevin Daly and Chris Genik parted ways amicably. The latter is a branding change to broaden the firm's scope beyond architecture. Both have completely new web sites. And both, no doubt, will puzzle us all until we finally come to terms with the inevitability of change.


Parkinson's disease causes symptoms that can increase the risk of injuries for seniors during bathing. Fortunately, you can decrease these risks by using the following bathroom safety tips, brought to you by the Henderson Parkinson's care experts at Home Care Assistance.
Postural instability is a common Parkinson's symptom that appears in the mid-to-late stages of the disease. This can cause your loved one to have difficulty with maintaining his or her balance when standing upright. Using a shower chair is better than a bench because it has a back that can help prevent your loved one from falling backward in the shower.
As Parkinson's progresses, your loved one may experience rigidity and balance problems that can make it difficult to safely turn around in the shower or reach certain areas of the body. A handheld shower hose will enable your loved one to enjoy greater independence during his or her personal hygiene routine. Additionally, limiting the amount of movements your loved one must make during the shower reduces the risk of falling.
Bar soap often leaves a slippery film on the shower or bathtub floor, which can increase your loved one's risk of losing his or her balance. Bending over to pick up a dropped bar of soap may also be difficult due to stiff muscles. Instead, choose soap on a rope or a liquid soap dispenser designed for people with limited movement.
Bradykinesia, or slow movements, are another hallmark symptom of Parkinson's disease that can interfere with your loved one's safety while bathing. Due to the delayed movements, your loved one may not be able react in time if the water reaches a scalding temperature. For this reason, it is best to adjust the hot water thermostat to a comfortable temperature that is not hot enough to cause injury. Using cooler water can also help prevent dizziness and fatigue, both of which could lead to a fall.
Another way to increase your loved one's safety while bathing is by hiring a professional caregiver from Home Care Assistance. Our caregivers are expertly trained in Parkinson's care and can not only help with bathing, but also cooking, exercise, grooming, and many other daily tasks. For more information on how at-home care in Henderson can help keep your loved one safe, call one of our experienced Care Managers at (702) 527-7723 to schedule a free in-home consultation.