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Govt drops plans for BoE to cap LTVs
The Government has dropped proposals that would allow the Bank of England to cap loan-to-value ratios for mortgages.
By Paul Thomas	 4th March 2013 3:54 pm
Last week, the House of Commons approved the Bank of England Act 1998 (Macro-prudential measures) Order 2013. It allows the Financial Policy Committe to issue both recommendations and directions to the Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority to introduce certain macro-prudential tools.
A Treasury consultation into macro-prudential tools closed in December and the Government has been at the centre of a heated debate over the last year on whether to give the FPC the power to cap LTVs.
Chancellor George Osborne and the International Monetary Fund agreed with the principle of an LTV cap but the FPC and Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King argued the power is too political and needs parliamentary approval.
Last week, Treasury financial secretary Greg Clark told the Commons: "It is important to note that the power to make recommendations and give directions is available to the FPC, but that there is no requirement that it should get in the business of micro-managing these sectors."
Labour MP and Treasury select committee member George Mudie said: "One of the macro-prudential tools discussed and dropped was LTV mortgages.
"Most of us were pleased when that was dropped, but it was a runner and was being discussed in FSA circles for some 18 months. I am certain, from watching the industry, that it had a great effect on the industry's decisions, as it was trying to second-guess the FSA."
Building Societies Association head of external affairs Hilary McVitty says: "We have never believed the FPC should have the power to cap LTVs and it doesn't look like it is going to happen.
"There are potential problems if the Government does it by the back door by applying targeted capital requirements on higher LTV loans. It could have the same effect and lead to unintended consequences for borrowers, especially first-time buyers."
The Council of Mortgage Lenders says it would expect a proper debate if an LTV cap is proposed.
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If the cap fits, wear it.
Everybody knows that this is one circle that cannot be squared anytime soon.
One day it will be time-to-converge and when that happy moment arrives, wages and house prices will have reverted to their historical mean(s).
In the meantime, there is no cap on the pain.
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It's shame that there was no cap on Ministers claiming over 100% of their expenses in the past!

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Obama Administration Rejects Scientific Evidence and FDA Advice in Maintaining Restrictions on Emergency Contraception
Continues Barriers for Women Seeking to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy
In a stunning setback for women's access to healthcare services, President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ignored the advice of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ease the restrictions on the sales of Plan B, a method of emergency, or after-sex, contraception. In a rare sign of public dissent within the administration, the FDA commissioner, Margaret Hamburg MD wrote, "I reviewed and thoughtfully considered the data, clinical information, and analysis provided by CDER [Center for Drug Evaluation and Research] , and I agree with the Center that there is adequate and reasonable, well-supported, and science-based evidence that Plan B One-Step is safe and effective and should be approved for nonprescription use for all females of child-bearing potential." This means that the proposal to remove the pills from over-the-counter status, and permit pharmacies to place them on shelves like other safe and effective oral medications, cannot now take place.
The president of Catholics for Choice, Jon O'Brien, said, "We know that conservative pharmacists around the country have treated women condescendingly, expressed contempt and even denied them access to a safe and legal contraceptive for no medical reason. Now, the HHS has overruled the scientifically and medically sound advice from the FDA that it was perfectly OK to remove these pills from OTC status. This is a deeply disappointing decision from an administration that promised us it would follow science and sound medical information in making policy decisions. Increasingly, on issues that women care deeply about, the Obama administration seems intent on taking us back to the future."
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This week in history 29 December – 4 January
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1494 – Death of William Selling (Celling), Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, diplomat and humanist scholar. He was buried at Canterbury Cathedral, in the martyrium of Thomas Becket.
1605 – Burial of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, courtier, naval commander and Elizabeth I's champion, at Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, Yorkshire.
1605 – Death of Arthur Hall, member of Parliament, courtier and translator. He was buried at Grantham in Lincolnshire. Hall is known for his 1581 "Ten Books of Homer's Iliades, translated out of French", the first English translation of Homer's Iliad. Hall was imprisoned at various times on account of debt and works he published, which were either libellous or offensive. He may even have been in prison for debt at his death.
1606 (29th or 30th) – Death of John Davis (Davys), navigator and explorer, near Bintang, off the coast of Borneo. His ship, The Tiger, was attacked by Japanese pirates who killed Davis in hand-to-hand combat. Davis was one of the main Elizabethan navigators and explorers, and the Davis Strait in the Northwest Passage is named after him. He is also known for being the first Englishman to document a sighting of the Falkland Islands. Davis also wrote the 1594 "The Seaman's Secrets" and "The World's Hydrographical Description" (1595).
1494 – Death of John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Lord Chancellor under Edward IV and Richard III, and Chancellor of Oxford University. He died at his episcopal manor in Nettleham, Lincolnshire, and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral.
1546 – Henry VIII signed his last will and testament, authorising the changes which he had ordered to be made by William Paget on 26th December.
1552 – Death of Francisco de Enzinas (humanist name Francis Dryander), Spanish humanist scholar, translator, author and Protestant apologist, at Strasbourg from the plague. He was buried there the next day. He had been a member of the household of Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, for a time, possibly teaching her son Charles, and Archbishop Cranmer paid him as a Greek Reader. While he was at Cambridge, in the late 1540s, Enzinas translated various ancient texts into Spanish before travelling to the Continent in 1549 to set up a publishing house in Strasbourg. There, he published at least nine classical and Biblical translations.
1553 – Death of Roger Barlow, Vice-Admiral of the Pembrokeshire coast and brother of William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester, at Slebech.
1568 - Scholar and royal tutor, Roger Ascham, died after being taken ill on 23rd December. Ascham had suffered from ill health throughout his life, and this was probably down to him contracting malaria. He was buried on 4th January 1569 on the north side of St Sepulchre without Newgate, London, in the St Stephen's chapel.
1594 – Death of Sir Thomas Scott, member of Parliament and deputy lieutenant of Kent. He was buried at Brabourne Church in Kent, but moved to the chapel of Scot's Hall, the family home in Smeeth, after the Civil War. Scott was also a Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of Piracy, Commissioner of Coastal Defence, Commissioner of Grain and Colonel-General of his county's forces during the Spanish Armada. He was also a keen horse breeder.
1600 – Death of Michael Heneage, member of Parliament, devout Protestant, archivist and antiquary, at Hoxton in Essex. He and his brother Thomas served as Joint Keepers of the Records in the Tower of London from 1576, and he also helped Robert Hare, Compiler of Cambridge University's records. Heneage delivered two papers, "of the Antiquity of Arms in England" and "of Sterling Money", while he was a member of the Society of Antiquaries, and he also compiled "Collections out of various Charters, &c., relating to the Noble Families in England".
1535 – Death of Sir William Skeffington, known as "the Gunner", Lord Deputy of Ireland, at Kilmainham in Dublin. He was buried at St Patrick's Cathedral in the city. His nickname, "the Gunner", came from his use of heavy artillery while taking Maynooth Castle in County Kildare. He killed, or had executed, the whole garrison there.
1559 – Death of Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle, while under house arrest in London. He was buried at St Dunstan-in-the-West. He had been deprived of his bishopric due to his Catholic faith, and had angered Elizabeth I by elevating the host on Christmas Day 1558.
1564 – Death of Edward North, 1st Baron North, administrator, at the London Charterhouse, which he had acquired in 1545. North served Henry VIII as Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, Chancellor of the reformed Court of Augmentations and executor of his will. In Edward VI's reign, he was a Privy Councillor but lost this position in Mary I's reign. His Charterhouse was used as lodgings for Elizabeth I and her court for a few days following her accession, and she appointed him Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. North was buried at Kirtling, in the family vault.
1600 – The East India Company, or "Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies", was chartered, i.e. given royal approval, by Queen Elizabeth I.
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1463 – Probable birthdate of Silvestro Gigli, diplomat and Bishop of Worcester, at Lucca in Italy. Gigli was nominated as Bishop of Worcester in December 1498, and enthroned in April 1499.
1511 - Queen Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a son, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, Henry VIII's first son and heir. His birth was met with celebrations throughout England. Unfortunately, little Henry died on 22nd February 1511, just fifty-two days after his birth.
1514 – Death of Louis XII of France, less than three months after his marriage to Mary Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII. He did not have a son, and so was succeeded by Francis I, his cousin's son and the husband of Louis' daughter, Claude. Louis was buried in Saint Denis Basilica.
1537 – Marriage of James V of Scotland and Madeleine de Valois, daughter of Francis I, at Notre Dame in Paris.
1540 – Henry VIII met his bride-to-be, Anne of Cleves, at Rochester. Following the great chivalric tradition, Henry disguised himself and attempted to kiss her, but a shocked Anne did not recognise him as King. It was a disastrous first meeting, and Henry was sorely disappointed that she could not recognise him as her true love.
1556 – Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York, became Mary I's Lord Chancellor.
1492 – King Boabdil surrendered Granada to the forces of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.
1525 – Death of Sir William Uvedale. Uvedale had been created a Knight of the Bath and Knight of the Royal Body by Henry VII, and served Arthur, Prince of Wales, as his counsellor.
1536 – Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial Ambassador, arrived at the dying Catherine of Aragon's bedside in Kimbolton Castle.
1539 - Geoffrey Pole, son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was pardoned after attempting suicide for the third time.
1550 (2nd or 4th) – Death of Sir Christopher Barker, Richmond Herald, Norroy King of Arms and Garter Principal King of Arms, at Paternoster Row in London. He was buried in St Faith's under St Paul's.
1554 – Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger and Sir Peter Carew were summoned to appear before Mary I's privy council. They ignored the summons and continued plotting what was to be Wyatt's Rebellion.
1598 – Death of Maurice Kyffin, soldier and author. He served Elizabeth I as Comptroller of the Musters to the army in Ireland from 1596, and is known for his Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr, a Welsh translation of Bishop John Jewel's Apologia.
1521 - Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem excommunicating reformer, German priest and professor of theology Martin Luther from the Catholic Church.
1540 – Official reception of Anne of Cleves at Greenwich Palace.
1541 – Anne of Cleves visited Hampton Court Palace to greet her former husband, Henry VIII, and his new wife, Catherine Howard, and to exchange New Year's gifts.
1541 – Death of John Clerk, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and diplomat to Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey. His final embassy was to the Duke of Cleves in 1540 to try and obtain an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves. He died in Aldgate, London, and was buried at St Botolph's Church.
1590 – Death of Robert Boyd, Scottish nobleman, courtier and Protestant, at Kilmarnock. He was buried there in the Laigh Church. Boyd supported Mary, Queen of Scots, but could not support her marriage to the Catholic Lord Darnley, and so joined the Earl of Moray's faction, involving himself in the Chaseabout Raid of summer 1565. He managed to escape punishment by reconciling with Darnley. Boyd was also a member of the jury who acquitted the Earl of Bothwell for Darnley's murder in 1567, and supported his marriage to Mary.
1493 – Christopher Columbus left the New World on return from his first voyage.
1519 – Martin Luther met with Karl von Miltitz, the Papal Nuncio, at Altenburg in Saxony.
1568 – Burial of Roger Ascham, author, scholar and royal tutor, in St Stephen's Chapel at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London.
1575 – Death of Sir William Pickering, courtier and diplomat, in London. He was buried in the chancel of St Helen's, Bishopsgate. Pickering had escaped execution for his part in Wyatt's Rebellion in 1554 by fleeing to France and then providing the English government with information on other conspirators. He was pardoned in December 1554.
1578 - Death of William Roper, author of "The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte". Although he had expressed his wish to be buried with his wife, Margaret, in the More Chapel of Chelsea parish church, he was buried in the Roper chapel of St Dunstan's, Canterbury, and his wife's body was exhumed and re-interred next to him. Margaret had been buried with her father's head, which she had rescued from Tower Bridge after his execution in 1535.
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I got the 1492: Conquest of Paradise for Christmas, about his discovery of the New World, a BIG work of fiction no doubt, but hey it's about those times so I'm happy…still got to watch it as yet.
January 21 – The death of Eustace Chapuys, imperial ambassador
January 20 – Mary I's fifth and final Parliament
January 19 – Diplomat Sir Edward Carne and Henry VIII's fourth marriage
This Week in History This week in history 5 – 11 January
This Week in History This week in history 22 – 28 December


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Coming back for round two of Nalukai was truly something that I cherished more after camp than before. Going into the week I extremely underestimated that I'd be leaving being a more self-aware leader, communicator, and person. I was completely blindsided by the impact of the insight I garnered from this year's program. Conversations with mentors new and old, forced me to continue to ask myself questions that dug deeper at what I truly want out of my career and life. These conversations pushed me one step further in my self-discovery, and challenged me to think about what I want in terms of the bigger picture. In retrospect, I was always thinking too small: only looking at the scope of my career while neglecting the encompassing scope of my life.


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Rival Sons – Pressure and Time (CD)
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Rival Sons, play blues-infused rock, but added to the mix are touch's of Motown, soul and a heap load of Californian swagger.
This 2nd full length outing for the band, (The first being Before The Fire, was self-released last year to a very strong response, as was the Self-titled EP released a little later.) kicks off in fine style, the opening track "All over the road" is a blues based stomp, as is the 2nd, sounding a lot like early Rolling stones inspired British blues rock, maximum R"in"B, infact the whole album pays homage to that great era, played with a modern twist. Think of this band as an updated Black Crows and you cant go far wrong.
When the 3rd song kicks in, the title song, "Pressure and Time", the group have hit their stride, high soaring vocals, counter melodies and a simple guitar hook drive this song along.
The centre of attention of most bands is the vocalist and in Jay Buchanan, the band have found their Chris Robinson, yes ! his voice is that good, but dig deeper and the music shines through, encompassing these songs like a warm blanket on a cold night.
The slow songs are sung soulfully, as only a great singer can sing them, and this is evident in "Only One", this is a proper blues, soul, masterpiece. The vocals dominate this song effortlessly, then its straight back into rocking mode for "Get Mine".
I love the next track "Burn Down Los Angeles", its got a great catchy sing-a-long chorus, if you think these boys cant rock, then listen to "Gypsy Heart", it features some wicked guitar work from Scott Holiday. In-fact I had to listen to this cd twice to hear just how good the rest of the band are, you get so carried away with the songs, that you forget about them, Joining Jay and Scott are, Robin Everhart on Bass and Michael Miley on Drums, this band are great songwriters, and its shows on Pressure and Time.
Ive listened to this cd four times now, one after the other, and ive not done that in quite a while.
Classic Rock magazine voted this band as a one to watch in 2011, I think they are better than that.
My Verdict, 9.5/10
The band have just been announced as opening act on the Judas Priest/Queensryche
uk tour, which I think is a big mistake, as I dont feel the Judas Priest fans will give them the time of day, which will be a shame, as they deserve to be heard. They are also making an appearance at this years Sonisphere.
May 21 – Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Music Fest
June 24 – Bilbao, Spain – Azkena Rock Festival
June 26 – Imola, Italy – Sonisphere Festival
July 02 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter Festival
July 03 – Arras, France – Main Square Festival
July 05 – Oslo, Norway – John Dee
July 06 – Kalskoga, Sweden – Putte Parken Festival
July 08 – Weert, Netherlands – Bospop Festival
July 09 – Knebworth, UK – Sonisphere Festival
RIVAL SONS w/ JUDAS PRIEST, QUEENSRYCHE
July 15 – Newport, UK – Newport Centre
July 16 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo
July 17 – Doncaster, UK – The Dome
July 19 – Glasgow, UK – SECC
July 20 – Newcastle, UK – Metro Arena
July 21 – Wolverhampton, UK – Civic Hall
July 23 – London, UK – High Voltage Festival
July 24 – Bournemouth, UK – BIC
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Official website is HERE.
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'Pressure and Time' is the first single from RIVAL SONS' forthcoming new album, PRESSURE & TIME, which is due to be released on June 20th in Europe and July 26th in North America.
The album is available to pre-order now from the Earache Webstore on CD and limited edition audiophile vinyl LP with a free, exclusive A2 poster.
European fans can also pre-order the album now from Play.com with a free limited edition band photo signed by the members of RIVAL SONS themselves.
Watch the trailer for the album here
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Hun var den ældste søster til John F. Kennedy. Rosemary Kennedy fik som 23-årig det hvide snit grundet episoder med voldelige humørsvingninger. Indgrebet fejlede, hvilket efterlod hende den mentale kapacitet af en 2-årig og fratog hende evnen til tale, hvorfor hun sidenhen boede på en institution.

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Yakuza member captured belonging to the Inagawa Group
by Mark Kelly July 11, 2019
The Immigration Police successfully arrested a member of the Japanese Yakuza belonging to the Inagawa Group, which is the third largest Yakuza group in Japan.
The suspect has come into Thailand to hide from his most recent crime which is arson, this is the crime of intentionally lighting a home or a property on fire to destroy items or persons inside the fire.
Apart from the Arson charge, the suspect also has a long criminal record including rape, homicide, and theft. Police Lieutenant General Sompong Chingduang from the Immigration Police reported the arrest of Kasihiko Yamazaki a member of the Inagawa Yakuza Group with a position placed around the middle ranks.
Yakuza is seen as powerful groups of people in Thailand, they are also known for their signature tattoo's covering their body as a symbol of the Yakuza group that they belong to.
Kasihiko is an escaped criminal with currently 12 charges in Japan. Some of these cases include homicide, rape, arson, assault, and more. He has traveled in and out of Thailand for a total of 13 times. His latest case involves another Japanese man who fell victim to Kasihiko.
Kasihiko an herbal business with a Japanese businessman residing in Thailand. The victim later discovered after starting the business that Kasihiko belongs to a Yakuza group in Japan.
After realizing this, the victim did not want to longer be involved or connected to Kasihiko, this is when the victim told Kasihiko that he was not going to pay for the cost of the herbs amounting to about 20,000 THB.
Kasihiko threatened the victim that he was going to burn the victim's brother's home unless he paid the cost of the herbs. The victim still insisted that he didn't want to pay. Kasihiko returned to Japan and burned the home as promised in Akita, Japan.
Kasihiko came to Thailand again on 23 May 2019. The Japanese Government issued an arrest warrant for Kasihiko to the Thai Immigration Police on 28 June 2019. The Immigration Police successfully arrested the suspect in his hiding location. Kasihiko will be sent back to Japan for prosecution.
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I invite you to learn more at itineri.de about the guided tours we offer in Berlin and other German cities. On my website you will also find excerpts from Diari de Berlín (Berlin Diary), a book I dedicated to the inspiring German capital.
I also suggest you travel virtually through a chosen city with my travel photos at En Route. And, last but not least, get to know a bit better the person behind these lines.


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CARL JENKINSON spent the best part of two years in the wilderness at Arsenal - and you wouldn't bet against him suffering a similar fate after this show.
That wads all the temptation Jenkinson needed to gallop onto the ball and let fly - off the outside of his boot, ten yards high and wide of the target.
When a headed clearance looped 30-yards out ten minutes into the second half, Jenkinson stepped up with an almighty swing of his boot..... and the ball sliced behind him.


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Google Search - Did they add secret sauce again?
Just posted an item from a colleague in New Zealand about radio after the earthquake. Did a search about 30 seconds later to see if Beachbreak FM near Christchurch had a website. It didn't, but my search did reveal my blogpost was already number 2 in the Google ranking. Not sure what to think. Suppose the posting had been a mistake? This is maybe a case of things being too fast.
More status reports from David Ricquish of the Radio Heritage Foundation in New Zealand.
Low power local FM community radio stations in Christchurch are struggling to stay on the air and serve their local neighbourhoods with emergency and welfare support.
The Eastern suburbs have already lost one local FM station. Johnny Miller, operator of One-Eyed 107.1 FM in Hampshire Street, Aranui tells us his equipment is damaged beyond repair and his studio and house now uninhabitable. He doesn't know if his local community station can ever return to the air.
Beachbreak FM located at South New Brighton School is reported off the air because there is no power and their antenna hadn't been fixed since falling in the September 4 earthquake. However, if they can get a generator and help fixing up an antenna, they may be able to get the station broadcasting to the Brighton area and into Redcliffs and Sumner with local messages and information.
The status of Burwood Community Radio 88.2 FM about 1km away from QEII Park is unknown as is the status of The Wave 88.3 FM located at the All Saints Church in Sumner.
The brightest news comes from the earthquake epicentre Lyttelton, where local Volcano Radio 88.5 FM was able to return to the air with local messages and upbeat music within a few hours and continues with regular local updates.
In the St Albans & Mairehau area, Power Hits FM 87.8 kept broadcasting with a generator and now has full power and its signal reaches into parts of the eastern suburbs.
Nearby, Oak FM 107.7 at St Albans School remains silent. The studios are in a two story school building and until its cleared by engineers can't be used. It has full power and could be activated immediately to provide welfare and community announcements for the area.
The current status of Rapid FM 88.1 at Waimairi School is unknown and Radio Redwood 87.9 FM is on the air but with automated programming.
Whilst major radio networks are covering the city with AM and FM signals, their own local studios are within the CBD cordon and their broad coverage generally isn't local neighbourhood or suburb based. Local community access radio Plains FM 96.9 is currently silent. Reports from the Eastern suburbs indicate a news and information void as power remains off with no TV or Internet coverage and limited mobile coverage.
be mailed to the Radio Heritage Foundation, PO Box 20024, Newtown, Wellington 6242. Donations are tax deductible in New Zealand.
From David Ricquish, longtime Media Network listener in NZ earlier today (Wednesday).
Studios of every major radio station in Christchurch are badly damaged and not accessible as buildings are unsafe and now inside an evacuated Central Business District. One AM radio mast is unstable and silent. Journalists have died in The Press newspaper building which has collapsed. Power is out to 70% of the city. Cellphone towers are down, batteries finished in most of those still standing. Crowdsourcing is giving fast unverifiable content. Magnitude 4-5 aftershocks roll across the city at roughly 20 minute intervals. Urban S&R teams are on the ground from Australia, large contingent enroute from Los Angeles, others flying from Japan & Taiwan. Singaporean military forces are on the ground helping. A national emergency has now been declared.
Impressed by the Google crisis response pages and the Ushahidi maps. I wonder if the broadcasters there have been using them like ABC did in Brisbane?
was narrated from the island of Barbados in the sunny Caribbean. It contains quite a lot off off-air recordings made by plugging a Sony ICF2010 into the professional Walkman WDM6 that I used to carry everywhere (and still own, although there are better recorders now with Flash memory). I think this programme is a good example of armchair radio listening, taking you to places on the dial you wouldn't normally visit. Its pure theatre of the mind. I just love those long URL's. Forgive us. 15 years ago, URL's were still new to us.
Keep telling my broadcast clients they should say thank you to their viewers and listeners for their loyalty. `it always works, if it is genuine. This variation on an old theme by Porsche is cool. As part of a campaign to get 1 million Likes on its Facebook page, Porsche put around 27000 names of its fans onto a GT3 R Hybrid making these people part of the Porsche success. Very clever.
So what next? Will Porsche ask the 27,000 people mentioned on the bodywork for ideas on which charity should benefit when they auction it off? There seems so many things they could do. Thanks to Leo of Marketing Facts for the tip this morning.
Warner Bros wants to get directly to the consumer and bypass the iTunes store. But I am not sure that people will want to buy a new app for every film.
Yes, the making of looks great on the iPad, but it very dependent on the film. I'd like to see more on Batman or Hot Fuzz. But for 95% of the movies I see, I would want to see it first in Blu-Ray quality to judge if I want the extras. This must cost a fortune to make like this - only a handful of movies are going to make this worthwhile. If your bandwidth is capped, as it is in some countries, this is going to be a problem.
Many UK and US formats that have been adapted for the Dutch TV market have failed miserably. Qi in Holland was just awful - the host, Arthur Japin, had a fraction of the knowledge and wit of Stephen Fry and those taking part were clearly trying to show-off what they knew...no that's not the way it works. Have I Got News for You was also a disaster. So when I saw a poster on the side of the A1 motorway saying that Comedy Central was bringing The Daily Show to the Netherlands for 3 weeks, I must admit to being skeptical. This was especially because the designated host had been involved with the Have I got News for You version in the Netherlands which bombed so badly.
The series has just been and gone. I'm glad they also released them on the web as they happened. And the verdict? Actually, Jan Jaap van der Wal and a team of writers have ended up writing 12 very good shows indeed. Funny. Very critical. But also fair. As good as John Stewart? Yes, I think so. It works because Jan Jaap is laughing with the audience, not at them. Their commentary on the failing of Dutch and commercial broadcasters should get others thinking.
The format is the same; they have clearly learned a lot from the timing and pace of the US show, but Jan Jaap adds a nice Dutch flavour to it all. It is adapted from the original, but it is not a copy. It is written for a different culture. So congrats to co-writers Owen Schumacher, Merijn Scholten, Sander van Opzeeland, Peter Pannekoek and Niels van der Laan. Daniel Arends, Kees van Amstel and Bas Hoeflaak were also good as sidekicks.
The danger is that they try and make the show daily and that they can't write fast enough to keep up the standard they have achieved. Learn from other countries that build series of programmes (13 episodes) and then go dark to write some more. Build it slowly and it will blow the others away. Great that Comedy Central in The Netherlands was willing to take the risk.
OK, it is a marathon video session, but it's actually the story of the rise and fall of shortwave broadcasting and the strategies the US is now employing. I think the BBC World Service is adopting the same strategy, but the BBG actually explains it a lot better. Ken Burman (1'hr 24 minutes) in talking about anti-blocking software is fascinating. I am sure the BBG needs to do a lot more work to figure out the new ways of story-telling on the emerging platforms. But I am in no doubt that this is the way forward.
Data is the new oil. That's why the race is on to speed up the financial markets, to a point where I wonder who is still in control. On Friday 18th February, the joint advisory committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission recommended that the SEC consider new incentives or rules that would restrain market strategies commonly used by high-speed trading firms. About time.
This joint committee was established a few days after a major technical meltdown back on May 6 2010. It was the second largest point swing, 1,010.14 points and the biggest one-day point decline, 998.5 points, in Dow Jones Industrial Average history. It sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting nearly 1,000 points in less than a half-hour.
Now, after several months of investigation by the SEC and the CFTC, they seem to have determined that the so-called "flash crash" occurred when a trading firm let loose a computerized selling program in an already stressed market. According to AP, the firm's trade, worth US $4.1 billion, led to a chain of events that ended with market players swiftly pulling their money from the stock market, the agencies' review found.
Compare that with the news that the world's financial markets took another big step last Tuesday with the announcement that NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse are merging. As the Muckety Map above shows (Click the tools on the left hand side if you really want to play with the map full screen!) the US$10 billion stock deal comes on the heels of a similar deal announced two weeks ago between the London and Toronto stock exchanges. Four months ago, the Singapore stock exchange said it would buy the Australia exchange. Remember that 2007 merger between the NYSE Group and Euronext? Euronext had previously acquired exchanges in Lisbon, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, as well as the London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange.
So as more and more of the exchanges get interlinked, and seem to be trading at ridiculously high speeds, to what extent are humans (especially the regulators and small investors) still any part of the equation? High Frequency Trading is becoming very difficult to regulate. Based on the number of shares traded a day that means we're seeing on average 6,944.444 shares being traded a minute or 115,740,74 shares per second. Personally, I am concerned that this is the makings of the next world economic meltdown. Suppose these connections go down again, surely the impact will now be even worse? This article increased my fears rather than reduced them. This is the next James Bond plot! Thanks to hofste.com for the background research.
I think many NGO's are far more influential than broadcasters now in not just talking but doing. They have a plan. Many broadcasters are like a broken pencil. No point.
I have not really been a fan of LG so far. Bought a phone a few years back and although it has great software and features, it was mechanically poorly constructed and fell apart in my pocket. Now, introducing the LG Optimus Pad designed to be a direct competitor to the Apple iPad. Sleek stuff. Curious to see how Apple is going to react with their iPad2. One point that surprises me is the fact that this iPad seems to have two cameras in it for 3D capture..if I understand the trailer completely.
For the moment I am going to wait and see. And take good note of the what the telecom guys add to the plan. The Motorola iPad likker called the 'Xoom' is still supposed to be launched in the US in a few weeks time on 24th February. Rumoured to cost 800 US dollars, look at the details of the 3G/Wifi plan. There were rumours that you had to buy a 3G plan in order to switch the wifi on! If true, its bonkers. So Xoom is off my shopping list from the start and I don't believe they are going to make the Feb 24th deadline. And the LG ...it is so fresh at Mobile World Congress that I need time to take it all in. It will live of die by the strength of the apps, not just the beauty of the hardware. LG still win the prizes for rebranding. Remember when LG meant Lucky Goldstar and it was a plastics brand that also made toothpaste? I am sure that LG hope you don't.
Just found a bit of nostalgia in a cassette box. 1995 expedition to Quito South America.
Amazing how history repeats itself in international broadcasting. At the start of December 1995 we reported that BBC World Service has to cut back by 5.5 million pounds in 1996. Interview with Caroline Thompson, then with the BBC WS management. 10 languages were threatened at that time. BBC has also been testing a mediumwave transmitter in Slovakia.
We also reported from a field to the East of Quito in the antenna farm of HCJB. Jonathan Marks attended a conference of local broadcasters in Ecuador and took a side trip to meet those behind a station he'd heard in Europe from the early 1970's. They were also testing a 26 MHz antenna. There are two weather problems - either winds or lack of rain. HCJB also build 100 kW shortwave transmitters as well as small FM transmitters.
The sound file is in the vintage vault.
Three and half hours of vintage Media Network.
I think the BBC World Service is a wounded tiger..
It has been forced to refocus faster than planned, but that shift towards video was inevitable. Shortwave audiences are plummeting and with oil at over 100 dollars a barrel (and destined to go higher if Saudi Arabia goes the way of Egypt) it becomes purely a medium for last resort. The BBC said last month that the cutbacks would mean the loss of 30 million listeners to its service. But the closure of the 5 language services only accounts for a tenth that loss. I asked the BBC Press Office for clarification on where the rest came from. They came back with this retort.
Alongside service closures, there are also closures of complete platforms and cuts in our distribution. Here's the press release which gives full details.
The headlines of the audience losses are that we estimate an 11 million loss through cutting shortwave distribution of our Hindi broadcasts; 5.7 million in cutting shortwave distribution of our Arabic broadcasts; 4.5 million loss in cutting medium wave distribution of our Swahili broadcasts; and 1.7 million in cutting shortwave distribution of our Indonesian broadcast. I can confirm that we estimate a 3.4 million loss in audiences from the five services we are closing completely - Albanian, English for the Caribbean, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa, and Serbian. That should add up to 26.3 million. The other 3.7 million of our estimate is spread around the other platform closures outlined in the release.
Bearing in mind the population of these areas, the shortwave audience turns out to be tiny. That comment about Swahili being on medium wave is nonsense..never been on mediumwave. I think they really mean Arabic, and that seems to be unaffected.
SW makes perfect sense to areas as a medium of last resort - Somalia, Burma, Eritrea, Ethiopia- about 8 countries in the world. But elsewhere, keeping transmitters on the air in case the government cuts the Internet has become a luxury few can afford. And in areas like the Middle East, they were never great shortwave listeners to start with. Al Jazeera has done pretty well without making any radio or using HF. Shortwave for Arabic only really makes sense for the camps in Dafur, Sudan.
The BBC WS still has 26 language services and will regroup to fight another battle. It will become stronger if its funding allows it to become a true cross-media broadcaster. And that means using the best mix of media to reach the countries chosen. What's the message, what is the audience using, then select the platform mix.
This programme from the archives looks at Kerbango, the Internet radio that (with hindight) never was.At the last count there were three devices promised on the world market to allow you to listen to internet audio on a separate stand alone device. A few days ago (in Feb 2000), a California based company, calling itself Kerbango, showed the prototype of a special radio to be launched in a few months and which is styled a bit like a valve radio of the 1950's. We asked Marc Auerbach, who's Vice President of Marketing, why their approach is different.
Clement Stokes of Springfield,Durban in South Africa is a regular listener to this programme via the relay on SAFM on their domestic service. Two weeks ago he heard us mention that today we'd be testing one of the new Worldspace receivers. He is particularly curious because he sees the radio advertised in a hi-fi shop not far from his house, although he points out only one South African broadcaster is so far participating in the scheme. The question is simple, does the performance justify the price of more than US $300 . So we explain our findings on the Hitachi KH-WS1, one of four radios on the market in Southern and West Africa designed to pick up the proprietary Worldspace radio system. I still have the radio on my window sill, but the Worldspace feed is dead. Rather expensive FM radio!.
Clever ad. Way over priced product...that's always been Motorola's problem. But their point about Apple is so true.
Thought the comments were kinda fascinating.
Compare the way Loic and Geraldine Le Meur organizes Le Web in Paris with the way IBC organizes their conference and exhibition in Amsterdam. I know which one I prefer. Dec 7-9 2011 at Les Docks.
Fraunhofer, the German labs that develop all kinds of coding technology are probably the best known for their MP3 audio encoding system used to squeeze lots of music onto portable music players in the 90's and 00's. They also developed a way to compress the audio onto the now defunct Worldspace satellite system. So what are they up to now? It seems from this interview on the Fraunhofer stand at the recent IBC in Amsterdam that they are putting video and text into low bandwidth audio transmission systems.
With recent announcements in late January that the BBC and DW are going to drastically reduce the use of shortwave, DRM looks dead in the water. But the technology here would easily work on other platforms - think mobile or new variations on wifi like Wildnet.
The best advice at LIFT11 for those using social media for change did not come from the marketing gurus. They came across to me as rather arrogant "broadcasters" simply shouting their way onto Facebook and Twitter. Some are confusing those who amplify messages with those who really influence.
Tiffany St James is different. She's advised the UK government in the past on social media strategies and I think she's spotted the clever strategies and rising influencers. This has put the UK far ahead of the other European governments in building conversations or indeed the Obama Administration since the elections. Not sure if the massive cuts will maintain that lead, but I think we should acknowledge the good work done so far.
Note that Tiffany's presentation starts 5'28" into this clip which was only roughly top and tailed. The talk was given on Thursday February 3rd 2011.
I worked for a shortwave wireless station for a while and remember that an outburst from the sun could really mess up reception. So it was a delight to see two great talks at LIFT 11 in Geneva which went into great depths about listening to the universe - and explaining why coronal mass ejections are are having a great effect on our global communications, especially as we head towards a sunspot maximum.
and take time out to watch Dr Lucie Green put the sun, sunspots and coronal Mass ejections into a very clear perspective.
Going through the videos of the Fabulous Lift conference that I was fortunate to attend in Geneva these last few days. They are bit buried on the lift-conference site at the moment. Really liked the work that Marcel Kampman is doing.
Had a long talk with Hasan Elahi after his speech at LIFT11 in Geneva. He has an amazing story about how he decided to live in public after being detained by the FBI in Detroit on June 19th 2002 as a suspected terrorist. His challenge was that after it was clear he was nothing of the kind, how could he clear his name when he had not been formally charged. He decided to share (and send) so much data about his movements to the FBI that in fact he overloads them with (useless) data. It reminds me of the way that Western broadcasters would overload jamming systems in former Soviet Union. Give them what they need - and more besides.
Bit too cold for a BBQ today. May be in about six months time.
It's bitterly cold today as I make my way from my hotel in Alexanderplatz in the former East Germany to the conference centre not far from the Zoo in the bit that used to be the West. In fact the building was put up by the Americans. It was formerly known as the Kongresshalle conference hall, a gift from the US, designed in 1957 by the American architect Hugh Stubbins Jr. as a part of the Interbau exhibition. John F. Kennedy spoke here during his June 1963 visit to West Berlin.
I'm here to debate radio's digital future and some of the pathways the non-profit sector could use the spectrum to their own advantage. Impressed by the turnout and the level of discussion, both during the morning and afternoon sessions. Found some members of the audience subscribe to my old Media Network podcasts.


Dryer sheets come in handy for all sorts of things–and now here's a use that will help keep Fido calm during a storm.
Dogs seem to know when a storm is coming, and may begin to pant, cry or pace. It could be the noise of the storm that's upsetting, and for this you can wrap a towel around the dog to cover his ears and comfort him. If that doesn't work, it may the static electricity he's experiencing. For this, there's an easy solution: take a clean dryer sheet and "pet" him with it, gently rubbing it along his back. Fido will thank you!


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Panasonic CF-29 Ruggedised Toughbook is a rugged notebook computer designed using MIL-STD-810F test procedures to meet exhaustive U.S. Military durability requirements, and features vibration and drop plus shock resistant design, full magnesium alloy case with handle, shock-mounted hard disk drive (HDD), durable keyboard, water and dust proof, heat dissipation system based on heat pipe technology, strong and secure port connectors, extra bright active matrix (TFT) color LCD panel that surrounded with dampers and mounted in a shock absorbing magnesium display casing, and comes with new energy battery which lasts 1.5 times longer. CF-29 Toughbook is powered by Intel Centrino Mobile Technology processor.
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Feb. 7 Program: Carol Pencke "The January 21 Women's March in Washington"
On January 21, 2017 hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington DC to register their positions on a variety of political issues. Carol Pencke and many other people traveled from the Seattle area. Carol comes to Rainier Valley Rotary to recount how the event proceeded, and let us know what steps might be coming in the political arena - both nationally and locally.
When: 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Carol is a resident of Columbia City. Since 2000 she's been a consultant to non-profits seeking to have a voice in government policy. Her clients have included The Potlatch Fund, Pike Market Childcare Center, Race Forward, Ms. Foundation For Women, McBooks, Pro-Choice For Washington.


Seventeen years ago a driver at Bill's company was headed south on Route 2 towards Glastonbury. He swerved to miss a paper bag in the road and because he didn't want anyone else to damage a tire running over a bag of beer bottles, he pulled over and retrieved the bag. Instead of beer bottles, he found two tiny black kittens inside. He was late for a delivery, but he returned to the office and left them there. What follows is a very long story, but at the end of the day Bill took them to our veterinarian. They were so tiny he didn't know what they could eat. The vet gave Bill some kitten formula, and he brought them home. They were so close to starvation that their bodies shook as they lapped up the formula. They were so small that I could easily hold both of them in the palm of one hand. It was several weeks before they were big enough to climb the stairs to the second floor of our house.
By Sunday night we had named them. Mimi because she was so sweet and kind, as in Puccini's La Botheme. Maxwell ("Max") because he is a lovable and ungainly like Maxwell Smart.
Yesterday we lost Mimi. Her health had been declining for more than a year, but in the past week and a half the decline became precipitous. There was a sadness in her eyes, and she was happy only when one of us held her. She passed away peacefully a little after 4:00pm. Max is still healthy, but the three of us, including Max, are heartbrokn. Our house feels empty, but Mimi's suffering is over. She lives on in our memories, and we will hold her close to our hearts forever.
Kevin Ho, software design lead at Ideo, created a fascinating tool to explore the 750+ typefaces available on Google Fonts. I'm not a designer,1 and I use only a small number of fonts,2 so I don't need this tool, but I've been fascinated by printing and typography for several decades. I can't stop playing with this fontmap, and I had to share the fun. There's a nice article at Fast Company describing the project and how Ho used two open source algorithms to create it. Maybe future versions of Word will provide a fontmap to explore choices instead of vertical lists.
Almost immediately after I returned, I left for Washington, DC and the annual meetings of the Council of Graduate Schools. When I returned, many items requiring attention had accumulated, and some unusually challenging end-of-the-semester student issues emerged. That's a long way of saying it's been nearly a month since my last post. I hope to begin posting regularly again. We'll see if I manage to do it.
I will be busy this spring, too. In addition to my duties as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of The Graduate School, I'll be teaching my graduate course in population genetics, EEB 5348. I just started rebuilding the course website after losing it due to a server meltdown last summer. I'll have notes for individual lectures on-line again in the next week or two. In the meantime, a compiled version of all of the notes is available on Figshare. If you're a LaTeX geek, a more current version of the notes (in LaTeX, with EPS graphics) is available on Github.


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As I have gone through the documentation and this answer, it seems like we will support only the attributes from the input flowfile of the processor.
I tried adding the header in the below format, in the attribute Attributes to Send as HTTP Headers (Regex) / Attributes to Send . But it didn't workout.
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How can I set a static header which is not part of the flowfile?

A: In InvokeHttp, any user-defined properties will also be sent as headers. Go to the configure screen of InvokeHttp, and on the properties tab, click the + icon in the top right to add a property. Make the name of the property the name of the header and the value of the property the value of the header.

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Getting Sucked Up
–A review of This Is The End
The only problem I had was in not taking this film seriously, because I wasn't supposed to, I guess. This Is The End, starring the latter day rat-pack of Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson, is a delicious comedy that moves so quickly and is so densely packed with ideas, it's hard to believe it's only 107 minutes long. Even the scenes that are gratuitously violent—and there are a few—seemed like breaks for my much taxed yet entertained concentration.
The plot is as follows: Jay and Seth are old friends, actors/comedians or writers, reuniting in LA. At first Jay seems like a slacker visiting his more famous buddy (everyone is playing themselves), but really he's an introvert: he craves down time, video games, weed and junk food. The last thing he needs is to hang out with Seth's pretentious friends, headed by James Franco, the coolest kid on the block, whose party draws a who's who of tweenie Hollywood. So, at the party, the likes of Michael Cera, Rhianna, and Emily Watson are present, being requisitely cool, yet patronizing Jay's outsider vibe cuz he's a friend of Seth. But the truth is they smell a hater. Craig's Robinson's (character?) calls him out, saying Jay is a hipster: someone compulsively "negative" about all the things one is supposed to like if attending parties like this. Actually, Jay is Holden Caulfield transported to the 21st century: he is sensitive, if self-righteous; brave, yet conflicted. Above all, he's an alienated soul. In an ass-backwards sort of way, the cool people have him pegged.
The initial drama (and it seems more like drama than comedy at this point) appears to be that of a friendship going south. Yawn. Not exactly a deep premise for a film about people who seem to still be in their twenties—reminds me of a novel I wrote, to be honest. At the party, Seth, a born politician, tries to make it all smooth, but to no avail. He introduces Jay to James Franco, who becomes insufferably pedantic when Jay fails to idealize his home's artwork. A meeting with the unconvincingly "nice" Jonah Hill is similarly awkward, and before long Jay is looking uncomfortable, desperate to get away from all these sycophants, these successful people. Jonesin' for a cigarette, he implores Seth to join him on a run to a convenience store. As they walk out, it seems like a friendship-tearing watershed is about to happen, and nothing but pre-movie hype, or leaks from the set or promo department would clue anyone in as to what's about to happen.
Next thing we know a glass wall is being shattered, and fleetingly it seems like a movie cut from the cloth of Crash or Falling Down is about to unfold. Moments later, as a series of blue light beams spear down from above and "suck up" handfuls of extras into the sky, it seems more like The War Of The Worlds is the blueprint. Either way the yawning should stop. A chase is on, with explosions all around. Terrified, Jay and Seth rush back to the scene of the party to cue the film's first real joke: the party's still going while everyone is oblivious to the mayhem outside. As Seth jabbers about earthquakes, Jay's mind is spinning, having noticed the cosmic elements of the attack. He tries to bear witness to what he's seen, but inevitably, his weirdness is reinforced by his manic explanations, and everyone looks at him like he's crazy. Predictably, Seth commits the film's first act of betrayal, joining the others in their dismissing of Jay. But soon there is comeuppance as partygoers hear commotion, step outside and face the burning hills of Hollywood. While some may have thought a South Central revolution has occurred, such assumptions are quickly shattered as the earth opens up, swallowing up most of the film's cameo stars. Most hilarious is Michael Cera, who seems to enjoy playing a tweaked out superjerk who gets impaled by a streetlamp.
Horror film rules: those who deny get wasted, except those who also deny but are meant to learn something life-affirming as part of the story. Next, as the rat-pack holes up in James Franco's bachelor pad, reality testing begins. It's OMG time, sprinkled with lots of LOL. First task is to gather food and other supplies, and argue about who gets what. The middle section of the film is a satire upon all things to do with Hollywood and actors, riddled with obscene improv. On the surface, the dick jokes, the homophobic play, and general grossness may seem tasteless or old hat, but the dialogue is inspired lunacy, not so much written as spoken on the fly, as if this was a film made during a slumber party, with the cameras rolling after the actors got high and then stayed up all night. Despite the chaos, a series of themes are insinuated. First is the self-effacing idea that actors are really pussies instead of action figures, and the first lesson observed by all these divas is the importance of not being a fraud. Several scenes follow in which the guys are portrayed as feckless and woefully un-resourceful—unable to share either water or even a Milky Way bar.
Jay is the voice of sanity and the film's moral center, and Baruchel plays this role with remarkable freshness, even charm. He squints, bewildered as his peers flitter in and out of delusion. Jonah Hill says this drama is like a "sleepover"; he's trying to stay positive, "make this fun". Jay introduces to their consciousness the possibility that a Biblical "End of Days" scenario is occurring, and likens the blue beams he's seen to events depicted in the Book of Revelation. The others scoff, all except Craig, who is the next character to manifest a heroic streak. A party/survival scene crasher arrives in the form of Danny McBride, who steals food, water, masturbates on the plants, etcetera. If this is hell, then he's a devil's helper, a Caliban taking his revenge on everyone responsible for his lifelong ostracism, about which he expresses self pity with grim, unapologetic delivery. Franco, whose home Danny is shitting on, is the most offended, so next a theme about how society expels the unwanted is played out. In the midst of this, one of the funniest and most clever scenes involves the return of a cameo star. Emily Watson breaks in, looking for refuge. Initially, she is relieved to find familiar faces, but when she overhears the guys talking about rape in the hallway outside her bedroom, she loses it and becomes something like Hermione on crack, taking out a phallic balloon model (of course) with an axe. On the one hand, this scene is an excuse for a few Harry Potter jokes, but it also depicts another aspect of Jay's outsider morality. In truth, it seems misguided for him to raise the specter of rape, appealing for guys' sensitivity in light of Watson's outnumbered and vulnerable status. They, of course, feel accused rather than enlightened, and an important message is sent—albeit through humor—about empathy being lost amid the noise of defensiveness.
Still, something has been sparked by Jay's consciousness raising: namely, an attention to ulterior, if not unconscious motives. Soon guys are challenging Jay's self-righteousness, questioning his self-proclaimed honor, pointing out that he's been lying about avoiding Seth's company in recent months. Losing his temper, Jay strikes Jonah Hill, whose "nice guy" quality Jay has always hated and distrusted, and storms out. There's a nice, incisive moment wherein Seth turns away, hurt but also hapless, hiding. His habit of passivity is likewise being called out, and thereafter a comic drama about denied rage ensues. The comedy takes the lead, so it seems fitting that this theme is expressed through demonic possession, with Jonah Hill performing the parody, first of Mia Farrow from Rosemary's Baby, and then, naturally, becoming the possessed creature of The Exorcist, hilariously mocking Jay's Hollywood-taught attempt at an exorcism: "Is it compelling, Jay? Really? It's not that compelling!"
These guys have all seen too many movies. Save for Jay, movies are their religion, their only reference points for what is real. As the film nears a climax, Franco's home is destroyed, and the guys are forced into the streets to survive. Craig plays the hero and attacks the "Red Dragon", the ultimate villain whose appearance, Jay has foreseen via Bible passages he's found, strangely enough, in Franco's home. (side note niggle: is it credible that Franco would own a Bible?) But just as he's being devoured by the beast, a blue beam appears, and Craig is saved. The others witness this and rejoice, now realizing how to survive this ordeal. But hasty attempts to "be good" aren't gonna work, no matter how entertaining they may be for the viewer. Heroism, or goodness, must be spontaneous and real. To survive, one must no longer be fake. This leads to another hilarious, not to mention suspenseful finale, in which Franco's pretensions, his arrogance, lead to his downfall. While being "sucked up" (to heaven, they presume), he gloats at Danny McBride as he begins to rise. Immediately, he is punished for this unsportsmanlike conduct, and is dropped back into McBride's lap, left to his mercy. Meanwhile, in order to survive, Jay and Seth must resolve their conflict, their flat estrangement, with quick decisions, inspired action, and genuine brotherly love. Do they survive together, reunite for real? Or, do they go their separate ways? You know the answer. In the end of (the day), this is a movie, and togetherness—love—always prevails.
This Is The End finishes on a cop out note, making a hipster joke out of Jay and Seth's heavenly ascension to the tune of a Whitney Houston song. It's a funny scene, successful in beating back tears that might—emphasize might—have been shed in watching this bit climax the film. Yeah, it's a movie, but it's a guy's movie: in the end, what we do is drink beer, masturbate or fuck chicks (or try to, at least), take a hit of something, say fucked up things, and party til' we drop. BFF.
Merry Christmas Nick
Tagged as Apocalypse, comedy, James Franco, movie review, psychological themes in film, Seth Rogen
Sealed In The Memory
Now let me turn to another movie, similarly unconscious in its approach, but a movie that for me carries much fonder associations. 1971's Melody (or Sealed With A Kiss–original UK title) is like a feral child scampering recklessly over its audience. The film paired then-child stars Mark Lester and Jack Wild, sort of fresh from their mainstream success with the oscar-winning Oliver, made three years earlier. Melody is set in contemporary London, as evidenced by an opening credits montage in which a camera pans over the Thames river, heading south towards a slumish neighborhood wherein the action will be set–probably someplace like Battersea or Lambeth. Viewers are introduced to the two male leads who are participating in something called Boy's Brigade, a marching band. The character of Latimar, played by the angelic-faced Lester, seems sour and out of place. He mutters bitterly about his mother, who signs him up for activities like this without considering his feelings. At the end of the opening scene, said mother comes to collect Latimar and asks if he's making any friends, at which point a boy named Hornshaw (Wild) opportunistically jumps into the back seat of their convertible. The characterization proceeds: the mother gives Hornshaw, a scruffy Jack The Lad type from the other side of the tracks, a sniff of class disapproval. Hornshaw winks precociously, begs a ride, and generally exhibits the rakish charm for which Jack Wild's characters were briefly known in the sixties and early seventies. He is Mick Jagger to Lester's John Lennon. The two boys later become friends, as it seems both are lonesome in their separate and wholly unexpressed ways. Meanwhile, back at the Latimar's somewhat middle-class home, a rather contrived set of scenes follow in which social ambition, class snobbery, anti-Pakistani racism, and homophobia are feebly satirized. More successful, however, and certainly more fascinating, is the Oedipal drama that unfolds here. Latimar's mother, who clings to her son in a manner that is subtly indecent, coos over his interests, especially his artwork, which include his debut efforts at painting a female nude. There is a hint of flushed response in the mother, who becomes tongue-tied and clumsy, breaking a model rocket her son has been working on. Young Latimar is passive and uncomplaining in this scene, yet he inexplicably shows his aggression when earlier lighting his father's newspaper on fire.
Hornshaw, on the other hand, is strictly working class, and as such–it is implied–is spared such neuroses as those which afflict Latimar. Unlike his budding friend, he is not concerned with individuation; the struggle to become his own person despite the self-serving needs of a parent. For Hornshaw, such dramas are past him, if they ever did exist. Apparently orphaned, he seems to be the caretaker for a grandfather figure who is referenced in the film but not shown. His are the demands of day-to-day life–cooking sausages for his grandfather, cleaning up–interspersed with seized freedoms away from home. Thus, at school Hornshaw is a rebel, and not just against common authority. Throughout the film, Wild's character acts out an objection to modern education, questioning the utility of Latin instruction (favorite line: "I couldn't speak to a dead Roman even if I knew the bloody lingo, Sir"); the condescension of student/faculty social activities; the arrogance of state-driven religious instruction. Many of his peers are like him: rambunctious, violent; ever dashing around looking for someone to hit, something to kick at or blow up with a cherry bomb. As a post-mod rocker deprived of a hippy milieu in which to protest, Hornshaw is destined to revolution, even if it's only with a headmaster's stolen cane, or a firecracker thrown into the seat of a teacher's car.
Latimar's revolt is gentler and more romantic. Thrown into the mix is Melody, played by novice actress Tracy Hyde, who is as beautiful and blank-slate looking as Lester. First, it is he that looks upon her like Romeo seeing Juliet for the first time. For several more scenes, we watch as the two children, both likely aged eleven, possibly twelve, meet each others' eyes, gaze, and wordlessly fall in love. Significantly, their first proper scene together features them saying nothing to each other, but instead playing their musical instruments in tandem: a recorder for her, a cello for him. It's also significant that Latimar appears to have abandoned home interests that might be intruded upon by his mother. There are aborted attempts by the two would-be young lovers to connect, but at first it's the pre-teen peer group that blocks them. After all, the boys still think girls are stupid, school dances are fledgling, painfully awkward events, and as one of the female extras laughingly quips, "I thought kissing made babies!"
Today, this kind of ignorance, or sweet innocence if you prefer, would likely seem unrealistic. Kids of this age group today seem far more, uh, knowledgeable than perhaps their counterparts were forty years ago. Back in the early to mid-seventies, when I first saw Melody, I felt like the characters in the film: gleefully mindless, playful and wide-eyed…unknowing. Of course, I had no idea what to make of Melody's various subtexts, whether intended by the filmmakers or not.
The character Melody's drama seems positioned somewhere between that of the boys. Socioeconomically, she seems aligned with the Hornshaw character, as her parents, a shrill, pedophile-fearing mother, and a beer guzzling, oft-absent father (played amusingly by Roy Kinnear), also seem decidedly working class. Not that Melody seems preoccupied with these curious and largely unexplained elements. Indeed, her character seems the most cheerful–that is, the least disaffected–of all the children in the story, which is perhaps one of the reasons Latimar likes her ("my parents are such a misery", he later complains). That said, her cheerfulness transforms later in the film to cool defiance, and of the three main characters, she seems the most sexually mature, despite Hornshaw appearing to be older.
The ultimate rebellion is hers and Latimar's decision to elope, which leads to the climax of the film: an impromptu wedding ceremony, Lord Of The Flies-style, under a railway bridge, with all of the kids in the film acting as witnesses. It seems symbolic, if silly from a practical standpoint, that this wedding takes place during school hours, nearby the school and with all of the kids wearing school uniforms, rather than on, say, a weekend, with everyone in plainclothes. Predictably, the forces of evil–sorry, the teachers–combine with one or two parents, like Latimar's mother, to try and stop this institution and society-threatening event. The attempt of the baddies fails, naturally. The wedding comes off without a hitch. A great, iconoclastic battle between youth and establishment ensues, which youth sort of wins. Teachers get their comeuppance, and Hornshaw gets satisfaction. But the real victory belongs to young love, which is all Latimar needs. He and Melody escape the scene and disappear into the somewhere-in-London sunset, serenaded by a Bee Gees song on the soundtrack.
Melody is like a blissful dream born of sixties zeitgeist and pubescent wonder: one of my favorite examples of sweet, naive filmmaking that captures a bygone time and sensibility. Once gone from my memory except in fragments, I'd rediscovered the film in recent years on You Tube, and later purchased the DVD, complete with the scratched celluloid that betrays not only the film's age, but also its discarded, forgotten reputation.
I wish I could be twelve all over again.
Tagged as Jack Wild, Mark Lester, oedipal dramas in cinema, unconscious
Unconscious Heat
It would not have been understood. My Thanksgiving thoughts, jaundiced as they may be, would have sprinkled awkwardly over the All American ambiance: an afternoon of football, the latest video games, the turkey dinner; the Hollywood movie. I'd stopped by the previous evening for the initial gathering of the clan. My arrival was greeted with good spirits, good-natured yet somewhat edgy verbal jabs. My neo-Hobbit hairstyle would take a hit over the next day or so; so too would my age, now halfway through its forties, but getting an advanced estimate by reps of the younger generation in attendance. It was a loving if unknowing occasion, with tight hugs all around to replace words that might get in the way of the basics. We are all living disparate lives, in truth: there's a sense that everyone is nurturing ambitious ideas inside while being passingly aware of each others' trials. The exceptions are those events that become known through soundbites: the busy working life, the tough job, the grades from the last quarter, and most thankfully–the successful operations. We substitute games for conversation, and play it safe with our vanilla "what's new" overtures. The rooms in which we bond have little room for intimate talk, and in its place we are becoming stranger and ever more bizarre and unconscious in our repartee.
The after dinner mint was the aforementioned movie, much hyped as a comic action film to have us rolling about, guffawing in concert with contemporary pop culture. "We've seen it three times!" boasted one viewer, apparently eager to give it a fourth run. The would-be gem in question, The Heat, received proselytizing laughter throughout from guests predisposed to its appeal. However, it was in my opinion an excremental cop adventure; an exercise in casual misandry disguised as light, if vulgar comedy. As buddy movies go, this flick was not without its social conscience, though it is this very conscience that should cause offense. Sandra Bullock plays a nerdy (but quietly "hot", of course) and careercentric FBI agent saddled with an obnoxious partner, played by Melissa McCarthy. McCarthy's character is a cross between Jabba The Hut and Roseanne Barr, and aimed at audiences who have at least forgotten who Barr is. Bullock is a gifted light comedienne of Mary Tyler Moore pedigree, and the juxtaposition of her act against the antics of McCarthy are tolerably entertaining for about a half hour. After that, the movie's attitude becomes harder to stomach.
About two thirds of the way through, the movie sort of announces that it has something to say about the mistreatment of women, especially in the workplace. This from a script which features, by my rough count, about a half dozen scenes in which men's genitals are either shot at, maimed, or plainly insulted. High minded morals/hypocritical low humor, coupled with staggering inattention to irony: sadly, this is a Hollywood tradition, though I can't remember the last time I watched a movie in which such comic cliches were resorted to quite as often. Then there's an incongruous scene in which McCarthy's character callously brushes off a former one night stand after grabbing the man's face and kissing him aggressively. The joke here appears to be that she is an unlikely manizer. But what else is the point, I wonder?
Now, let us pause. Had I given voice to any of the above opinions at any time during the holiday festivities, then two things would have occurred: firstly, my comments would have been drowned out by the teasing over my use of unnecessarily 50-cent words like misandry (BTW: merely the analogue of the popularly-known word misogyny); secondly, I would have been taken to task for being ill-humored and over-analytical. "It's only a movie," some say, implicitly disrespecting an entire medium. I obviously disagree, and I'd put it to my nay-sayers that if The Heat had instead made light of violence towards women, especially sexualized violence, then each and every one of them would have thought it the cinematic atrocity that it actually is.
But the blinkered political correctness doesn't stop there. Also of note are the racial demographics depicted. By my observation, there are three male characters in The Heat (out of many) who are not portrayed as being either villainous, stupid, or feckless. There is the Latino supervisor of Sandra Bullock's character, a more or less decent, if disapproving man; a charming, if benign African-American character played by Marlon Wayans, who appears to have a crush on Sandra Bullock (this plot point goes nowhere–an indicator of scenes being cut, maybe); and a comic, though street-smart drug dealer, also African American. All the other men: White, Irish, or at least European-looking, are buffoons or villains. Again, if those demographics had been reversed, I'm convinced that many would and should complain, light comedy or not.
Full disclosure: a backdrop of this latter reaction is that I have been largely unexposed to the opposite trends which have no doubt persisted for decades. Though I know from childhood that Westerns have traditionally given a raw deal to Native Americans, for example, I have not followed the racial-profiling trends of action or action/comedy films nearly as much over the last twenty to thirty years. This is mostly to do with taste. Since becoming a discerning viewer, I simply have not patronized action movies with any kind of regularity, so I have not observed the raw deal that minority actors have gotten through movies with titles like–come to think of it–Raw Deal.
Regardless, this issue is a beta element, as psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion would have said–it is meaning drawn from a thin pastiche of life. The bigger issue is that of fragmented discourse in all units of society: across social groups, between branches of government…within families. The first pair of arenas are big sandwiches to bite into. Closer to home, I have to wonder, if privately, what the rules are for the youngest and, in all probability, least conscious of observers. At some point over the holiday, the youngest member of the dinner gathering, an 11 year old who seemingly enjoyed The Heat, learned that he would not be allowed to watch Monty Python's classic Life Of Brian (admittedly, not a "light" comedy) because–get this–it features nudity. I held my tongue. Not my place, and all that. I guess the biases of this society are reflected in such moments, or else implied by a ridiculous movie ratings system. So, imagine the memorandum from studio heads to producers, directors, and writers: "penises can be blown off as long as they are clothed during the process."
Tagged as melissa mccarthy, misandry, misogyny, movie reviews, sandra bullock, unconscious, Wilfred Bion


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