Ije bonaeya hal geudaereul should I do?
Dasi utge hae jul dareun saram should I do?
I am glad Even the painful farewell. I am glad Don't forget the happy memories we that it was you shared If the tears fall because it is so Even if you find another person that painful to endure makes you smile Don't forget the happy memories we shared Even if you find another person that makes you smile Even the painful farewell. my eyes overflow with tears When you walk away one step further. now I The thing that I could do with all my have to send you away sad tears. even if I reach out my hand . more tears are falling As you move away to a place where I can't reach you. I am glad that it was you that it was you My love that I can't reach. Even if you find another person that Even if love is so deep and the heart makes you smile hurts so much Even the painful farewell. good bye The only person that can make me laugh is you What Should I Do .Park shin hye Hangeoleum mankeum geudael bonaemyeon nunmulina Hangeoleum mankeum geudaega gamyeon deo nunmuli heulleo wa Soneul bbeodeodo sonnaemileodo daheulsu eopneun goseuro Geudae ganeunde japji motago nan ulgoman itjyo Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo geudaega ddeonaganeyo Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo naldugo ddeonaganeyo Saranghaeyo saranghaeyo mongnoa bulleobojiman Geudaen deutji motaeyo gaseumeuroman woechigo isseuni Haruonjongil jiwobojiman ddo ddeoolla Haruonjongil ibyeolhajiman ddo dasi ddeoolla Soneul bbeodado sonnaemileodo aneulsu eopneun goseuro Geudaen gatjiman chatji motago nan ulgoman itjyo Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo jaggu geudaeman boyeoyo Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo nan geudael saranghaneunde Mianhaeyo mianhaeyo naemali deullisinayo Dasi dolawajwoyo geudae animyeon nan andoeniggayo Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo nan ojik geudaebbuninde Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo geudaega ddeonaganeyo Eoddeokajyo eoddeokajyo naldugo ddeonaganeyo Saranghaeyo saranghaeyo mongnoa bulleobojiman Geudaen deutji motaeyo gaseumeuroman woechigo isseuni English translate When I let you go one step further.
I cry out to you But you can't hear me. I love you. because I am only shouting in my heart All day long I try to forget you. I can only cry What should I do? What should I do? You're leaving What should I do? What should I do? You're leaving me I love you. but I think of you Although you went to a place where I can't hold you. if it's not you. I cry out to you But you can't hear me because I am only shouting in my heart Kim Dong Wook .My Heart Is Cursing Romanji Saranghandan maljocha motanigga Nunmuli teojyeo Jagguman geudaereul chatneun Geuriumi heureugo heureunigga Naemam dallaedorok Gasicheoreom moke geollyeobeorin Jogeum deo useoyo seulpeun geu malman Sesangi geudael jiltuhadorok Harujongil gwitgae maemdolgoman Jagguman geudael bureuneun itjyo naemami Saranghaeyo geudael saranghaeyo Yoksimdo naeji motalteni yeongwoni Gaseumi yokae Geudae nal boji anneundedo Saranghandan maljocha motanigga Sucheonbeonssik geudael bureugo Nunmuli teojyeo bulleobwado moreujyo Geuriumi heureugo heureunigga Hangsang geujarieseo geudael Gasicheoreom moke geollyeobeorin gidaryeodo moreujyo seulpeun geu malman Babocheoreom geujeo baraboneun Harujongil gwitgae maemdolgoman motnan sarangeul itjyo Geudaeneun moreusijyo amuri Wae hapil geudaejyo bulleodo Geudaereul saranghage dwaetneunji Gogael jeoeodo anirago haedo Imi geudael notji motaneyo Gaseumi yokae . but I think of you again All day long I try to say goodbye. I can only cry What should I do? What should I do? I can only see you What should I do? What should I do? I love you only I am sorry. can you hear me? Please come back to me. I love you. even if my hand reaches out for you I can't find you. I can't go on What should I do? What should I do? I only have you What should I do? What should I do? You're leaving What should I do? What should I do? You're leaving me alone I love you. I am sorry.I can't catch you.
English translate Even if I shake my head. you to my throat like a thorn don't know And remain in my ears the whole day My foolish love that simply looks at Why does it have to be you you like an idiot Why did I have to love you You don't know. I love you because I can't even say I love you Forever My tears burst Even if you don't look at me because my longing for you flows and Even if I say it a thousand times. Smile a little more because my longing for you flows and So that the world would be jealous flows So that my heart that keeps calling for Only that sad phrase has been struck you to my throat like a thorn Would not be able to become greedy And remain in my ears the whole day My heart curses at me I love you. So that you can comfort my heart because I can't even say I love you That keeps looking for you My tears burst. No matter what Without Saying Hajimal geol geuraesseo Wae ireoke apeunji wae jagguman moreuncheok haebeorilgeol apeunji Anboineun geotcheoreom Neol bolsu eopdaneungeon bolsueopneun geotcheoreom Nega eopdaneungeo malgo Neol aye bojimalgeol geuraetnabwa Modu yejeongwa ddokgateungeonde Domangchil geol geuraesseo Maldo eopsi sarangeul alge hago motdeuleuncheok geureolgeol Maldo eopsi sarangeul naege jugo Deutjido motaneun cheok Sumgyeol hanajocha neol damge Deuleul su eopneun geotcheoreom haenotgo Aye ne sarang deutji aneulgeol Ireoke domangganigga Maldo eopsi sarangeul alge hago Maldo eopsi sarangi nareul ddeona Maldo eopsi sarangeul naege jugo Maldo eopsi sarangi nareul beoryeo Sumgyeol hanajocha neol damge Museunmaleul halji damun ibi haenotgo Honjaseo nollangeot gata Ireoke domangganigga Maldo eopsi nunmuli heulleonaeryeo Maldo eopsi sarangi nareul ddeona Maldo eopsi gaseumi muneojyeoga Maldo eopsi sarangi nareul beoryeo Maldo eopneun sarangeul gidarigo Museunmaleul halji damun ibi Maldo eopneun sarangeul apahago Honjaseo nollangeot gata Neoksi nagabeoryeo baboga Maldo eopsi waseo doebeoryeo . deny it Smile a little more I can't let you go With a happy smile My heart curses at me. you flows don't know Only that sad phrase has been struck Even if I wait at the same spot.
and that you're not here anymore otherwise. like I couldn't see it Without a word.Haneulman bogo unigga breath Maldo eopsi ibyeoli nareulchaja Then you ran away Maldo eopsi ibyeoli naegewaseo Without a word. love hurts me Made me fill myself with your every Promise – Lee Hong Ki ft. my heart is broken Without a word. love abandons me it Wondering what to say next I shouldn't have heard your love in the My lips were surprised first place Without a word. love abandons me Naemami nollangeot gata Wondering what to say next Maldo eopsi waseo My lips were surprised Maldo eopsi watdaga It came without a word Maldo eopsi ddeonaneun Why does it hurt so much? Jinagan yeolbyeongcheoreom jamsi Why does it hurt continuously? apeumyeon doenabwa Except for the fact that I can't see you Jageun hyungteoman namgedoenigga anymore. love leaves me like I didn't hear it. love leaves me Junbido motago neol bonaeyahaneun Without a word. Without a word. you made me know down what love is Without a word. Jung Hwa Young Romanji I will promise you du nune neoman damgo salagalgge I will promise you du pale neol ango salagalgge Achime nun ddeo jamdeun sunganggaji neo hanaman geurilgge Saranghae i mal itjima I Love you Forever Deoun yeoreum nale geuneuli doejulgge bioneun nalen usani doejulgge Geotdaga jichil ddaen jageun uijado doejulgge useul ddae ni gibbeum Dubaega dwaege hamgge useulgge nunmul heullil ddaen sugeoni doel neol daggajulgge I will promise you du nune neoman damgo salagalgge I will promise you du pale neol ango salagalgge Achime nun ddeo jamdeun sunganggaji neo hanaman geurilgge Saranghae i mal itjima I Love you Forever . tears starts falling Without a word. I waited for love love Without a word. you gave me your Without a word. you gave me your I shouldn't have looked at you in the love first place Made me fill myself with your every I should have run away breath I should have pretended I wasn't Then you ran away listening Without a word. it'll be just the same like English translate before I shouldn't have done that. like I couldn't hear Without a word. you made me know I should have pretended not to know what love is like I didn't see it.
I will laugh with you I will become the towel when you cry to wipe you tears I will promise you to live with only you in my two eyes I will promise you to live with only you in my two arms From the time I open my eyes and till I sleep I will only yearn for you I love you don't forget these words I Love you Forever *We are like Coffee and Doughnut Giving me happiness you are my special Day by day you are running low on energy Emergency Breathing life into you.GELL why here I will promise Just do it Girl I love you.GELL why here I will promise Just do it Girl Saranghandaneunde museun mali pilyohae GwangGwang georineun woenjjok gaseumeuro daedapalgge One step Two step Three and Four ni gyeote cheoncheoni dagagalgge Gidariran mal ssawi ibe samji mot ae I will take you I will promise you du nune neoman damgo salagalgge I will promise you du pale neol ango salagalgge Achime nun ddeo jamdeun sunganggaji neo hanaman geurilgge Saranghae i mal itjima I Love you Forever English translate I will promise you to live with only you in my two eyes I will promise you to live with only you in my two arms From the time I open my eyes and till I sleep I will only yearn for you I love you don't forget these words I Love you Forever I will become the shade in the hot summer I will become your umbrella when it rains I will become the small chair when you become tired from walking So that your happiness will be doubled. what more do I need? . your sweet scent The love I hid every single day On the day we are together I will show you all I will promise you that wherever I am I will only remember you I will promise you that whatever I am doing I will remember you Forever I will live with this new path in my life I love you don't forget there words I love you forever *Yes A.N.N.*Uri saineun machi Coffee and Doughnet gatji Nage gibbeumeul jeonhaejun neoneun nae seupyesyeol HaruHaruga Energy bujokadamyeon Emergency Naege saengmyeongi buleojul dalkoman geudaee hyanggi Maeil hana hana ggok sumgyeonoheun nae sarangeul Hamgge haneun naldongan modu boyeojulggeoya I will promise you eodie itddeon neoman gieokhalgge I will promise you mwol haedo neomaneul gieokhalgge Yeongwoni neoreul saegil i gaseumman pumgo sala galggeoya Saranghae i mal gieokhae I love forever *Yes A.
must Uril himdeulgehaedo saranghae be waiting for you this much saranghae Even though it hurts so much. push you Ddaddeutan neoe nunbichi one step away ddaddeutan neoe sarangeun Each time. my Naegyeote neoman isseumyeondwae heart can't seem to let you go . Ddaeroneun sarangi hogeun nunmuli I must be loving you this much. must isseo be waiting for you this much Geumankeum saranghanabwa Even though it hurts so much. but my heart kept Neolhyanghae jikyeoon sarang ijeneun calling your name da malhalsu itdago I take one step towards you. I neol ddeonalsueopnabwa don't think my heart will change Sarangeun hanaingabwa naemameun The love that I've kept only for you. my geumankeum gidarinabwa heart can't seem to let you go Geutorok apeugehaedo naemameun I think there must be just one love. I told myself Sarangeun hanaingabwa naemameun it wasn't love byeonchiannabwa I deceived myself. but you are still Neol saranghae growing up in my heart.My thumping left heart will answer you One step two step three and four I will slowly move closer to you I can't tell you to wait for me because I will take you I will promise you to live with only you in my two eyes I will promise you to live with only you in my two arms From the time I open my eyes and till I sleep I will only yearn for you I love you don't forget these words I Love you Forever Still / As Ever – Lee Hong Ki Romanji Yeojeoni saranghanabwa yeojeoni Sarangeun anilgeorago heoldaero gidarinabwa anilgeorago Meorireul sogyeoboado gaseumeul Maebeon sokyeowatjiman sogilsuneun eopnabwa naemameun jaggu neoreul bureugo Sarangeun hanaingabwa naemameun Hangeoleum buditchyeobogo byeonchiannabwa hangeoleum mileonaebwado Neolhyanghae jikyeoon sarang ijeneun Geureolsurok neon naeane da malhalsu itdago keojyeogago isseo Neol saranghae Geumankeum saranghanabwa geumankeum gidarinabwa Geutorok apeugehaedo naemameun English translate neol ddeonalsueopnabwa I didn't think it was love. you grow in my heart Dalanalsurok naeane keojyeogago I must be loving you this much. I byeonchiannabwa can now finally tell you Neolhyanghae jikyeoon sarang ijeneun Your warm eyes. Your warm love da malhalsu itdago Flying away farther.
at times tears don't think my heart will change Even though it's hard. I The love that I've kept only for you. look Nado mollae gaseumi ddo and smile at me dugeungeoryeo Even I do not know that. I love you can now finally tell you I only need you by my side I love you Lovely Day by Park Shin Hye Romanji I wanna love you I wanna with you Geudaedo neuginayo nae mameul Salmyeosi nal ggaewojwoyo My Naegewayo jogeum deo dagawayo sunshine nae mameul gajyeoyo Donghwa sok gongjucheoreom Everyday lovely day maeil soksakyeo nuneulgamgo gidarilgeoyeyo julgeyo Nun ddeumyeon nae gyeote hamge kaendiboda dalkoman sarangeul hal love shot julgeoyeyo Donghwa sok wangjacheoreom nareulbomyeo useojulgeojyo Wanna love you wanna with you Nado mollae du nuni neoman geurigo Annajullaeyo lovely day nae mameul Ddo mollae dugeungeorin gaseumi neuggyeobwayo sorichineyo Yeongwoni hamgge hae Rallaralla rallaralla maeil I wanna love you I wanna with you haengbokman julgeoya Geudaedo neuginayo nae mameul Kaendibosa salkoman sarangeul Naegewayo jogeum deo dagawayo julgeoyeyo nae mameul gajyeoyo Everyday lovely day maeil soksakyeo English translate julgeyo kaendiboda dalkoman sarangeul Wake me gently. but my can now finally tell you heart can't be fooled I love you I think there must be just one love. I My brain might be fooled. My sunshine julgeoyeyo Just like princess in the fairly tales. I I must still be loving you. please stay by Ddadeusan haetsalgateun neoe miso my side. I will close my eyes and wait Mabeome jumuneul geoleo syallalla When I open my eyes. in my eyes Du nune areutgeoryeo ijeneun there's only you malhaebollaeyo And don't know that my heart is .I think there must be just one love. I Sometimes love. love shot nareul deulchugin Just like prince in the fairly tales. I love you. I must still don't think my heart will change be waiting for you The love that I've kept only for you.
the sound of my heart I wanna love you I wanna with you beats Can you feel it. come a little bit closer whispering to you again and take my heart away Sweeter than candy. .. gu nyo ga sa rang han sa ram op get da ji i rok e gu nyo gyo te so i sul pu nya jul su I so heng bok ha sa rang i ra a mu got do ba ra ji an a. ne ga tek han sa ra mi ra so a pum ka ji do heng bok het don gol han bo ni ra do do ra bwa ju myon nan gu go lo heng bok he. ne ga won he jal he jwot don gol gu gom a nu ro heng bok het don gol han bo ni ra do u so ju myon gu mi so ro heng bok he. my feeling Come to me.. lovely day please try to feel my heart Reading the magic spells syal la la Together forever Your smile appeared like the warm lalalala lalalala everyday I will bring sunshine only happiness My heart is throbbing again Sweeter than candy I will give my love Now said to me to you Song For the Fool by Park Sang Woo nan ba bo ra so gu ron ga bwa a pug e he do gwen chan hun ga bwa mot nan sa rang i ra no lyo de do o jol su om nun ba bo ra so.. I will give my Wanna love you wanna with you love to you I will hug you tight. come a little bit closer I wanna love you I wanna with you and take my heart away Can you feel it. my feeling Everyday lovely day everyday I will Come to me. on je dun so ne mi nyon da hul gu go se on je dun bu lo ju myon du lil gu go se pyon ham ob shi gu go se i so jul ge gu nyo sa rang ha ni ka..throbbing.. I will give my Everyday lovely day everyday I will love to you whispering to you again Sweeter than candy.
. gu nyo ga sa rang han sa ram op get da ji i rok e gu nyo gyo te so i sul pu nya jul su I so heng bok ha sa rang i ra a mu got do ba ra ji an a. na de shin ji kyo jul sa ram ol te ka ji jam si man gu nyo gyo te so i sul pu nya ba ra bwa do heng bok han sa rang i ra a mu got do pi lyo chi an a... on je na gi de o su swil su it do rok on je na ga tun mo su bu ro i sul ge in sa do ob shin al to na gan de do gam sa ha myo bo nel ge. nan ba bo ra so… English translate Maybe this is because I'm a fool It is okay even when I get a hurt Even when others say that is useless love It's doesn't matter because I'm a fool I was nice to you because I wanted to I was happy for just that if you smile just one I'm happy just with you're smile Until the day when her love will come I will just stay next to her like this Since it is a happy love for me just giving I don't want anything else from her I will be there wherever you reach out Without a change I will be there Because I love you Because it was the love you choose Even the pain was happiness If you look back at least once I'm happy just for that Until the day when her love will come I will just stay next to her like this Since it is a happy love for me just giving I don't want anything else from her I will be there wherever you reach out I will be there wherever you call out .. on je dun so ne mi nyon da hul gu go se on je dun bu lo ju myon du lil gu go se pyon ham ob shi gu go se i so jul ge gu nyo sa rang ha ni ka.
Without a change I will be there Because I love you ~ Until the day you meet the person to protect you instead of me For a while I will stay next to you Because it is a happy love just looking at you I don't need anything else So that you can rest anytime I will remain the same for you Even if you leave me without goodbye I will send you away thankfully Because I'm a fool… .


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Family Feeling 09/17/1970 UK 13
All in the Family 09/24/1970 UK 8
First of the Many 10/01/1970 UK 6
The Normal Front 10/08/1970 7:45 pm BBC1 UK 5
Birthday Boys 10/15/1970 7:45 pm BBC1 UK 8
The Peter Pan Syndrome 10/22/1970 UK 8
A Little Learning 10/29/1970 UK 7
A Spot of Natural Expression 11/05/1970 UK 9
A Man's Man About the House 11/12/1970 UK 8
A Kind of Love-in 11/19/1970 UK 4
Time to Go Home 11/26/1970 UK 4
Love Thy Neighbour 12/03/1970 7:45 pm BBC1 UK 7
Feminine Company 12/10/1970 7:45 pm BBC1 UK 7
Pet Ideas 09/16/1971 UK 8
House Guest 09/23/1971 UK 7
Partners in Crime 09/30/1971 UK 11
Economy Class 10/07/1971 UK 15
Not in Front of the Children 10/14/1971 8:00 pm BBC1 UK 10
Name This Child 10/21/1971 8:00 pm BBC1 UK 13
Gently Does It 10/28/1971 8:00 pm BBC1 UK 14
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The TV talking heads weren't.
In his laudatory statement about the Arizona senator's passing, of course Barack Obama didn't bring up the houses. But in 2008, when a Politico reporter asked the Arizona senator how many houses he owned, and in a awkward manner, McCain replied that he didn't know. He suggested that the reporter check with his staff.
Watch Obama–the pertinent section begins at 1:38–mock McCain for being an out-of-touch elitist over the houses gaffe.
The correct number was eight, if you include the homes owned by McCain's wife.
Obama still owns that mansion, purchased with guidance from Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko. And he now owns a second mansion, this one with – wait for it – a wall, in Washington.
CNN didn't begin its piling-on against prominent Republicans with the rise of Donald Trump, its Jeanne Moos sardonically reported on the McCain computer kerfuffle during the '08 campaign.
Let's add some context here. Over seven decades after the defeat of the Axis powers there still are American troops stationed in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Only extremists from both sides of the political aisle are calling for their removal.
McCain never spoke of an "occupation." Obama pulled out our troops from Iraq in late 2011 and bragged about it in during his reelection campaign. Three years later ISIS seized nearly one-third of Iraq. Then Obama dispatched combat troops to Iraq again. About 5,000 of them remain.
Obama, as he is about so many other things, was wrong about Iraq.
The TV talking heads weren't.
In his laudatory statement about the Arizona senator's passing, of course Barack Obama didn't bring up the houses. But in 2008, when a Politico reporter asked the Arizona senator how many houses he owned, and in a awkward manner, McCain replied that he didn't know. He suggested that the reporter check with his staff.
Watch Obama–the pertinent section begins at 1:38–mock McCain for being an out-of-touch elitist over the houses gaffe.
The correct number was eight, if you include the homes owned by McCain's wife.
Obama still owns that mansion, purchased with guidance from Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko. And he now owns a second mansion, this one with–wait for it–a wall, in Washington.
CNN didn't begin its piling-on against prominent Republicans with the rise of Donald Trump, its Jeanne Moos sardonically reported on the McCain computer kerfuffle during the '08 campaign.
Let's add some context here. Over seven decades after the defeat of the Axis powers there still are American troops stationed in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Only extremists from both sides of the political aisle are calling for their removal.
McCain never spoke of an "occupation." Obama pulled out our troops from Iraq in late 2011 and bragged about it in during his reelection campaign. Three years later ISIS seized nearly one-third of Iraq. Then Obama dispatched combat troops to Iraq again. About 5,000 of them remain.
Posted on August 26, 2018 August 26, 2018 by John RuberryPosted in opinion/news, politicsTagged barack obama, Da Tech Guy's Magnificent Seven, DaTechGuy's Magnificent Seven, history, iraq, iraq war, isis, islamic state, john mccain, John Ruberry, obama, Tony Rezko.
Obama is a commie slug. McCain was a commie slug. Tell me how they differed.


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Hello, I'm Charne Saljiu.
I'm a Year 10 student at Epping Secondary College and I'm currently undertaking work experience at Melbourne Books. Melbourne Books is about to publish the anthology Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 and I had the opportunity to read four pieces from this book earlier this week, written by young up-and-coming writers.
My favourite piece to read was 'A Different World' by Freya Cox. I liked the way she described certain actions and emotions to make it really heartfelt and dramatic. I also liked how she chose to involve my favourite children's book to relate to the situation. My least favourite piece was 'The Sphinx's Family' by Jason Cleary-Gorton, which I found quite interesting but struggled to follow the timeline of occasionally, as the story moves between a number of situations quite quickly at certain points. Other pieces I read were 'Boy Trouble' by Jessica Yu and 'Lines Before Falling Asleep #36' by Dominic Symes. These pieces were also enjoyable, though 'Boy Trouble' I had some difficulty getting into.
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Freya Cox, 'A Different World'
I enjoyed this short story. I liked how it got straight to the point, and the author's use of words made it really dramatic. Stories like these really engage me because similar heart-warming situations probably occurred during WWII but the horrors overwhelm them. I like that Fraulein Muller was determined to find the children and give them a book, although it made me quite sad that she gave them 'Peter Pan', a story about children who never grew up, because unfortunately those children will also never grow up.
Jason Cleary-Gorton, 'The Sphinx's Family'
This story was quite long and there was a lot of information you had to take in straight away. Some parts got confusing, such as how the story moved quickly between different times and started with the end before coming back to it later. Although some of the time jumps and plot twists got me quite confused, it was still an interesting story.
Dominic Symes, 'Lines Before Falling Asleep #36'
I like the author's describing words. Reading this poem made it seem as though you were there yourself. Even though I didn't really understand the main message of this poem, I quite liked it.
Jessica Yu, 'Boy Trouble'
I wasn't sure about this short story, though I did enjoy it. I felt as if it went on for a long time, and it took me a while to really get into. When reading the title I wouldn't have guessed that the 'boy trouble' was about a mathematics teacher. The way Rabbit Girl explains what happened was quite casual and I would've liked to learn about what happened to Rabbit Girl's teacher in the end after he goes on leave.
If I could choose a theme for a writing competition, it would be 'romantic horror'.
My overall impression of young Australian writers and their work is that they're extremely creative and have so much to offer readers to enjoy. After reading work by other young writers, I would certainly encourage my friends who are really good writers to enter these competitions. Who knows, they could end up in AWAW 2017.
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While vacationing for their first time in the Okanagan, Anna and Farzad decided to stop by the Freedom Flight Park to have their first tastes of free flying. Being avid kite surfers they had good knowledge of meteorology and thermal activity. Farzad performed a textbook takeoff as a paragliding passenger, running into the air like Wile E. Coyote! Anna flew with Terry on a hang glider in the clear blue skies with a perfect landing on the airstrip. Smiles were in abundance both in the air and afterwards on the ground!


Diary of a Mundane Astrologer: The failed coups of summer 2016: Are Trump and Erdoğan cosmic cousins?
The failed coups of summer 2016: Are Trump and Erdoğan cosmic cousins?
In the end, strongmen require loyal subjects who will follow them no matter what their flaws; both Trump and Erdoğan possess that kind of pull, but there's always a breaking point.
Parallels abound in the media between Donald J. Trump and a host of "strongmen" who find their way into powerful places, but move over Hitler, Mussolini and Putin, the new—and perhaps most salient—astrological parallel for a would-be Trump presidency is with Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Friedman goes on to catalog the gradual way Erdoğan has dismantled important aspects of the Turkish democracy in his years in power, turning his term-limited elected office into a life-long position, harassing and disabling the press and any real or imagined rivals, using his power to foment hatred against the Kurdish minority, reinstating religious-based laws in this secular society, and so on.
From what we've seen of Trump's campaign, the potential parallels are many: Trump is clearly willing to pit groups of people against each other for his agenda; we know he hates the "dishonest media," preferring to be his own P.R. man on Twitter; and we know he's got a thing about squashing those he deems enemies like bugs.
Even if you like Trump's "America first" ideas overall, the rest of the package is tough. Erdoğan started out in Turkey as a popular leader who helped their economy and so on—unfortunately, things went sour and Turkey's much-celebrated democracy is in peril.
The parallels to strongman Erdoğan, who threatens to reinstate Turkey's death penalty for those he suspects in the coup attempt against his government, are pretty chilling. The hallmark of a strongman ruler is the individual's deeply held belief that his personal interests are at one with the interests of the nation he rules. As we'll see, both Erdoğan and Trump fit this mold, astrologically, and both are now facing a convenient "coup" that helps them consolidate their power.
First, Erdoğan: to the cheers of Turkish protestors who were "encouraged" to show up for the display, Erdoğan has been aggressively rounding up a host of potential enemies who may or may not have had anything to do with the July 15th coup attempt.
Second, Trump: thanks to New Jersey's Chris Christie's "kangaroo court" call-and-response rant with the whipped up audience ("Lock her up!"), the Trump camp has spun an eerily similar narrative, claiming the right to prosecute and dispose of his chief "enemy" Hillary Clinton. Based on the quotes above from Trump loyalists, the narrative has already spun off in violent directions.
Bottom line, positioning themselves as the strongman over their opponents is the modus operandi of both Erdoğan and Trump. Trump, of course, experienced a staged "coup" attempt by former primary rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last night at the Convention, but as commentator Bob Schieffer pointed out this morning on CBS News, Trump likely knew what Cruz was planning.
If Schieffer is right, allowing a former rival to issue a non-endorsement on the main stage amounted to a Trump-sanctioned coup attempt. This could be interpreted as a display of political grace on Trump's part, except we know the resulting "Boo's" in the audience will have legs. Already there's a backlash: Trump tweet-boasted that Cruz was "booed off the stage;" one Texas delegate says Cruz needs to "put his big boy pants on," and Rep. King is accusing Cruz of being "narcissistic." Much more to come, undoubtedly—Cruz will get his Trump comeuppance.
Let's consider the biwheels for the parallel coup attempts.
Biwheel 1: (inner wheel) Natal, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, February 26, 1954, 4:25 a.m. ST, Istanbul, Turkey. Source: Astrodatabank, rated "C" (source unknown).
Interchart Grand-Square: Coup Saturn (Rx, Sagittarius) conjunct Natal Mars-Moon (Sagittarius) opposes Natal Jupiter (Gemini); all this is squared by Natal Sun-Mercury-Venus/Coup Neptune (Pisces) opposite Coup Jupiter-Node (Virgo). Despite some overly-wide orbs, Coup Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune hold this chaotically tense configuration together, drawing Erdoğan's personal points (Sun-Moon-Mercury-Mars-Venus) into the broader social/military (Virgo) situation and reflecting on his personal, emotional investment in maintaining authority (Saturn-Jupiter). The emphasis on mutable signs here echoes Trump's strident Gemini-Sagittarius energies (which are caught up in the same grand square dynamics).
Out of control mutable energies (two interacting Saturn-Neptune-Jupiter t-squares) tend to seek out "law and order," and the overall Grand Square created the pressure cooker energy needed for a dramatic, violent unfolding of events (Saturn-Mars). The coup may not have failed if Saturn were transiting direct, so it's not surprising that Erdoğan rushed to round up potential enemies and impose emergency/martial law (today) before that happens in August.
Wide Interchart T-Square: Coup Uranus (Aries) opposes Natal Neptune (Libra) and this axis squares Coup Pluto-Natal ASC-Node (Capricorn). With Pluto transiting his 12th house of "hidden enemies," applying to his Ascendant, it's no wonder Erdoğan feels vulnerable; if the threat of violent victimization (Uranus in Aries opposite his elevated Neptune) didn't manifest, he could well have magnetized such a situation to himself with outsized fear and perhaps, paranoia (a Plutonian delusion common to many strongman types). With volatile Uranus in his 4th house of inner security, squaring his Node at the Ascendant, he may have to round up the entire country to feel safe. Even that may not be enough. Will we have another Syria? A story for another day.
Biwheel 2: (inner wheel) Natal, Donald J. Trump, June 14, 1946, 10:54 a.m., DST, Jamaica, New York. Rated: AA (bc in hand); (outer wheel) Radix, Ted Cruz Speech at RNC, July 20, 2016, 9:00 p.m. (approximate) DST, Cleveland, Ohio.
Speech Sun conjoins Trump Saturn-Venus (all Cancer), semi-sextiles Trump Mars-ASC (Leo), squares Speech Uranus (Aries) and inconjoins Trump Part of Fortune (Aquarius); Fire Grand Trine: Speech Uranus trines Trump Moon (Sagittarius) and Trump Mars-ASC (Leo). We can take the Speech Sun to represent Ted Cruz here, so suffice to say, his presence got under Trump's skin (hitting Trump's Venus-Saturn semi-sextile volatile Mars-ASC).
If Trump did think Cruz was going to endorse him, this speech was a shock (Uranus) that angered him (Mars-ASC) and ignited his fiery Sagittarian emotional nature (Moon). Perhaps the most upsetting feature of Cruz's speech to Trump was this element of surprise—Trump prides himself on being unpredictable (Aquarius Part of Fortune), and here the tables were turned on him.
For his part, Trump did upstage Cruz by showing up with family members at the offending moment in the speech—eerily similar to the way he somehow managed to fly over Cruz's outdoor rally at a crucial moment earlier in the day. Saturn in Cancer holds grudges, so the story will live on.
Granted, this interpretation applies to a natal chart, but even in an interchart grand-square, the importance of emotions and the force of will remain. Here, Trump's ambitions (MC), his incredible knack for being in the right place at the right time (for his agenda—Part of Fortune), not to mention the carefully managed, "in control" image he projects to the world (Mars-ASC), all feel threatened. Under a frustrating configuration like this, it's never surprising when the native lashes out—it's either that or repress an internal volcano.
Wide Interchart Grand-Square: Speech Node-Jupiter (Virgo) opposes Speech Neptune (Pisces); this axis square Speech Saturn opposed to Trump Uranus (Gemini). Even though both oppositions have generous orbs, this configuration is knitted together nicely by the sheer weight Gemini Uranus holds in Trump's natal chart (as a powerful, unpredictable part of his 10th house Gemini Sun-Node-Orcus-Uranus stellium, opposed to his strident Sagittarius Moon and disposed by his Sun's ruling planet, Mercury). Jupiter is transiting Trump's 1st house, so the candidate is feeling his oats in this convention, but he's also feeling the nebulous threat posed by Neptune transiting his 7th house of "open enemies." Will he "round them up," figuratively, with ever-more-volatile rhetoric?
Speech Venus-Mercury (Leo) trines Speech Saturn (Sagittarius); Speech Pluto (Capricorn) opposes Trump Saturn/Venus (midpoint, Cancer), squares Trump Chiron-Jupiter (Libra) and inconjoins Trump Uranus (Gemini). Pluto's dreadful baggage is hitting Trump's chart where he lives and maintains influence—his sociable, "Old Boy's Country Club" 5th-11th axis. With Pluto's square to his natal Jupiter (ruling his 5th) and Chiron, it's possible Cruz's speech could negatively impact Trump's powerful relations—perhaps inspiring an exodus from some quarters—this will be an interesting possibility to follow. Who would he turn to for support if some of the more "reputable" figures head for the door? This could open the way for alliances with more extreme voices than we've been seeing (if that's possible).
So, in answer to the title question of this post, are Trump and Erdoğan cosmic cousins of sorts? Despite obvious differences in their charts, both charts reflect aggressive, ambitious spirits with strong angular placements. Having more mutable placements, Erdoğan is perhaps less sure of himself than Trump, but both men are convinced the world is full of enemies to be overcome. This fact has made Erdoğan's fear of losing ground a real centerpiece of his political career and has confused his personal ambitions with public interests. This is not unusual with the strong Pisces points in his chart—boundaries between "Me in here" and "Them out there" are permeable. Interestingly, both men have Uranus either in the 7th (Erdoğan) or ruling the 7th (Trump).
For his part, Trump identifies an enemy with laser precision (Uranus) and launches his full-Moon, over-the-top style attack; we've seen this repeatedly throughout the campaign. One well-chosen, demeaning nickname repeated often enough becomes the narrative—true playground-bully tactics. He isn't going to let up on Hillary Clinton until he's forced to; the danger, as pointed out earlier, is in the mob mentality his relentless screed is producing.
By framing his personal attack on her as a prosecution of her so-called crimes against the country, he, like Erdoğan, is conflating personal and collective security interests and acting out the negative side of his Venus-Saturn in Cancer—again, this mixture is one hallmark of a classical strongman character. Not surprisingly, Trump has his deep insecurities as well (a mutable full Moon and Venus-Saturn conjunction need constant reassurance)—just how many public character assassinations (or worse) will it take to fill his need?
In the end, strongmen require loyal subjects who will follow them no matter what their flaws; both Trump and Erdoğan possess that kind of pull, but there's always a breaking point. The Cosmos has a way of catching up with would-be strongmen leaders; unfortunately, the collective is ever-fascinated with the bravado (and the dark sides) of these characters, and like the proverbial "frog boil," before we know what we've gotten ourselves into, we're cooked.


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Q: Is it Possible to get itunes like xml/json data from android market for each App Itunes provide URL or all apps in App-store like to get details in JSON/XML Format
http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=[appid]

There is no any API for android market i have got online. i tried to get details from these html pages using java script by fetching android market query
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.[companyname].[app name]

but it is not getting fetch all the relevant data as iTunes. Is there any way i can fetch all data from android market app page html code or any API available for this?

A: May be it's help to you http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/
By the way, last rumors, Google has renamed Android Market to Google Play.

A: To expand on devzorg's answer, - yes http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/ will give you the application data you seek. And no - the format isn't (quite) valid JSON, although it is close afaik. The example snippet below (from an AppsResponse using the Android Market Library) won't pass JSON validation on jsonlint.com until you add quotes to all the variables and a set of external parens.
app {
  id: "v2:com.geodesic.munduTV:1:30818"
  title: "Mundu TV- Mobile TV, Live TV"
  appType: APPLICATION
  creator: "Geodesic"
  version: "3.4.4"
  rating: "3.6129606"
  ratingsCount: 2253
..
}

A: Unfortunately Google Play (previously known as Android Market) does not expose an API like the Apple App Store, officially named iTunes Search API.
To get the data you need, you could develop your own HTML crawler, parse the page and extract the app meta-data you need. This topic has been covered in other questions, for instance here.
If you don't want to implement all that by yourself, you could use a third-party service to access Android apps meta-data through a JSON-based API.
For instance, 42matters.com (the company I work for) offers an API for both Android and iOS, here more details:
https://42matters.com/app-market-data
The endpoints range from "lookup" (to get one app's meta-data, probably what you need) to "search", but we also expose "rank history" and other stats from the leading app stores. We have extensive documentation for all supported features, you find them in the left panel: https://42matters.com/docs/overview
I hope this helps, otherwise feel free to get in touch with me. I know this industry quite well and can point you in the right direction.
Regards,
Andrea

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Syriza Succeeds in Greece by Mainstreaming the Anti-Austerity Movement
February 11, 2015 by Source
What US progressives can learn
By Kate Aronoff / Waging Nonviolence
On January 25, Syriza — a previously marginal, left-leaning coalition party in Greece — made history by winning the country's general election. Winning 149 of 300 parliamentary seats, the party fell just two votes shy of an outright majority. Syriza's leader, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, became prime minister at the head of a coalition anti-austerity government, beating out the conservative New Democracy party and its now former prime minister, Antonis Samaras.
Many have attributed the party's meteoric rise to power as a product of the brutal austerity conditions imposed on Greece by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in their 2010 bailout of the country. Such measures have destroyed a quarter of the country's GDP, and driven youth unemployment to an astounding 50 percent. At this point, the country's non-working population outnumbers the employed as national debt continues to skyrocket.
[Syriza] has made a public alliance with the Spanish populist party Podemos, or "We Can"
Syriza has offered Greece a hopeful alternative, focused on getting people back to work, "transforming the political system," and meeting basic needs. The party plans to immediately implement programs to guarantee housing and electricity as well as provide free medical and pharmaceutical care for the unemployed, among other measures aimed at reconstituting the country's social safety net — left to crumble under austerity. In Brussels, they also plan to push for a renegotiation of the country's debt, an infusion of capital for a "European New Deal," and quantitative easing. In confronting the Eurozone and the IMF, the party has grown into rather than shrunk from its radical-left, anti-capitalist roots. Speaking with the Guardian, Tsipras noted, "This crisis is not coincidental. It's a structural crisis of capitalism and of its neoliberal model."
Together, these two sister movements from the Mediterranean are looking to alter the course of European political, economic and social life, maintaining both left-patriotism for their respective nations and a defiant internationalism.
Syriza's success, however, is about more than just material conditions. Emerging from various splits in Greece's communist left, as well as the alter-globalization and anti-racist movements, the party jolted from relative obscurity by mobilizing a younger, more populist base alongside trade unionists and older middle-class Greeks shaken by the country's financial crisis. The party has made a public alliance with the Spanish populist party Podemos, or "We Can," a largely decentralized formation out of that country's Indignados movement that, of late, has surged in popular opinion polls and predicts a strong turnout in the Spanish general election later this year.
Together, these two sister movements from the Mediterranean are looking to alter the course of European political, economic and social life, maintaining both left-patriotism for their respective nations and a defiant internationalism. Syriza's tagline is "Greece goes forward — Europe is changing." From their outset, each party has been staunchly anti-austerity, providing a political vehicle for both leftists and, perhaps more importantly, ordinary Greeks who felt abandoned by the political leaders who dumped them headfirst into a painful crisis.
In an interview with Jacobin, Syriza central committee member Stathis Kouvelakis describes his party's success in terms of its transition from "a party of members [rather than] a party of activists or active members, a parti d'adhérents rather than a parti de militants." In multiple publications and TV appearances, both Tsipras and Pablo Iglesias, Podemos' former TV personality spokesman, have emphasized the need to reach beyond traditional left bases among educated workers, student radicals and intellectuals, being realistic about the extent to which the left has been defeated in the court of public opinion — in other words, "mainstreaming" the movement. There are plenty of lessons to be taken from Syriza's victory and Podemos' rise to power, but striving to speak to people rather than politics might be chief among them.
"Our enemies," Iglesias advises, "want us small, speaking a language no one understands, in a minority, hiding behind our traditional symbols." These enemies, he continues, are "delighted with that, because they know that as long as we are like that, we are not dangerous." This may be a lesson, then, that now — more than ever — is the time to get dangerous.
Kate Aronoff is an organizer and freelance journalist based in Philadelphia, PA. While in school, she worked extensively with the fossil fuel divestment movement on the local and national level, co-founding Swarthmore Mountain Justice and the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network (DSN). She is currently working to build a student power network across Pennsylvania. Follow her on Twitter @katearonoff
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Q: JavaScript: Add sum of even value elements to each odd value element in an given array; show the new array I need to write a code that adds the sum of even value elements to each odd value element in a given array and then show the new array.
Example:
array = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
Requested sum is 20. The new generated array should look like:
array = [2, 23, 4, 25, 27, 8, 29]
What I have done so far:
let oldArray = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];

const sumArray = arr => arr.filter(i => !(i % 2)).reduce((a, b) => a + b);
let newArray = oldArray.map (i => i%2 == 1 + sumArray);

console.log(newArray);

A: Take a look at this:

let array = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
console.log(array.map(x=>x%2==0?x:x+array.reduce((a,b)=> a + b*((b+1)%2) )))

It's logging an array built on the original array: if the element is even, you leave it that way. If not, you add the sum of the even numbers. How do you do this? You add the element multiplied by the rest of the division of this element added to 1 by 2.

A: let array = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
let newarray = [];
let sum = 0;
for(let i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
if(array[i]%2 === 0) {
sum += array[i];
}
}
for(let i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
if(array[i]%2 === 0) {
newarray.push(array[i]);
}
else {
newarray.push(array[i]+sum);
}
}


During the last couple weeks of October the DNR Construction Crew was busy at the Eastport Landing boat launch. This was just a tiny part of the work the crew did on October 27, but it's the part I happened to be there to watch. At this point they were ready to put the dock back in place on top of the newly-laid ramp. In this sequence, they hooked up the dock, dragged it around the circle drive, pushed it out into the water, and got it settled. Then they scooped up water from the lake and poured it over the ramp to wash off the leaves and sand. The dock is ready to use, although the approach is fairly soft. There's more work to be done there and on the parking lot.
As always, click on a photo to see a larger version. WordPress has designed a new gizmo, and if it's working right, once you click on one photo you'll be able to continue to click through the sequence to your heart's content.


So I have just gotten a Lenovo Y700, installed OS on SSD etc... now I don´t have the Power Management tabs for the keyboard or mouse... so whenever I close my lid the laptop goes to sleep.. standard... BUT when I open it... it won´t let me wake it using keyboard or mouse.. I have tried everything and it is really starting to annoy me..
You do not have permission to enable or disable device wake.
Oh really I am sorry to hear..
I have a new 2 in 1. After putting it to sleep, it will not wake up. There are no lights on or flashing after plugging in power brick.
Some members advised waiting until the batter was fully discharged. It has been four weeks, but can not turn computer on.
I can not download anything to change the BIOS or make any other change. Advice?


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Ministry of Truth: "our film was a load of old toss"
20 October 2007 politics and lifebbc, media, politics, standards-boardJames Graham
I suppose honesty is a virtue:
I'm getting into exactly the kind of debate that would fill an LSE lecture hall and keep the public watching Rebecca Loos make a pig ejaculate.
The path we chose was the academic's polar opposite without the farmyard.
So there you have it. The limits of the Ministry of Truth's ambitions was to make a programme with the news values of the basest example of reality TV anyone could think of, in the name of populism. And even then the best slot they could get was 11pm on BBC2. Wonderful.
The Ministry of Truth: worse than I imagined
I've just spent the morning watching the BBC's Ministry of Truth programme. Surprisingly, it is even more loathesome, and unexpectedly sinister, than I imagined it would be.
First of all, let's take the name. As well as being half-inched from Unity's blog, it is taken from Orwell's 1984. "Minitrue" of course is anything but and is the main purveyor of newspeak.
Oddly the documentary namechecks Derrida, banging on about the dreadfulness of postmodernism and its influence on modern politics but doesn't discuss Orwell and indeed indulges is a bit of truth manufacturing of its own.
The programme manufactures a reality in which politicians are all vacillating, gutless clones who don't, quote, "have the balls" to introduce Symons' Bill and a public which is universally and uncritically behind the Bill. The programme has a chorus of Vox Populi, a group of talking heads which includes a builder, a bridge player, a transvestite, a musician (Captain Sensible, whose claim to be a musician is a bit of a fib itself), a taxi driver, and so on. All their quotes sound heavily scripted, suggesting that Symons couldn't trust them to say the right thing unaided.
Meanwhile we have the 'basics' of democracy spelt out to us by a bunch of schoolkids (subtext: out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom; how could you disagree with the gorgeous telegenic kiddie-winks?). When Adam Price fails to secure a ten minute rule bill slot, it is suggested that this is a sinister plot by the main party whips. When he tables his Bill, it is greeted with cutaways of "ordinary" people clapping him in encouragement. The politicians disagreeing with the Bill are all shown corpsing, having the veracity of their claims instantly rebutted and walking out of the interviews. All the 'experts' and politicians agreeing with the Bill are allowed to make their points uninhindered and without any rebuttal from the other side. Orwell's Minitrue would have struggled to produce a more one-sided piece of propaganda. This is more fundamentaqlly misleading than the BBC making programmes about climate change or including "nodding" cutaways, not to mention the fact that license fee payers' money has been used to launch a full blown campaign; how come it was allowed to be put on air at all?
Regarding those aforementioned 'basics' they are based on a wholly false prospectus:
We, the people, are sovereign.
We grant this sovereignty to our elected representatives in Parliament.
Whilst representing our sovereignty, our elected representatives have fundamental obligations to be honest, transparent and accountable to us.
We are entitled to formal, legal, independent courses of action for a breach of these fundamental obligations.
As Unity and Dan Leighton point out, under our present constitution the people are NOT sovereign. Personally however, I'm prepared to give Symons a bit of leeway here as I certainly believe they should be. It is the second paragraph that is more problematic because we don't grant our sovereignty to our elected representatives in Parliament, and nor should we. Parliament, including its unelected members, is sovereign. If we were to have popular sovereignty, we would invest it in a written constitution. This is confusing sovereignty for mandate.
What that means is that the subsequent two paragraph don't follow. The only people that elected representatives, under this argument, should be accountable to are the people who elected them. I didn't elect my MP in the last election, therefore I didn't grant him any sovereignty. Therefore he has no obligation to be honest or transparent to me. What happens to my sovereignty under Symons' model is a complete mystery. Given his black and white view of reality, perhaps I simply made the "wrong" decision? Bizarrely, he even highlights the fact that 40% of the public don't vote while not recognising that under his own argument those people have no moral right to expect Parliament to be open and accountable to them: in fact he uses the fact that they don't vote to justify the need for his law!
Even worse, his own Bill actually contradicts this set of principles, because having established that the people are sovereign and that sovereignty is invested in Parliament, in his law he asserts that a judge should be able to usurp that sovereignty. That's utterly perverse.
Symons goes through the objections to the Bill one by one and explains how they are fallacious. In doing so he shines a light on what is really wrong with our democracy. His argument boils down to the fact that his law is needed because self-regulation doesn't work, and that self-regulation doesn't work because the executive has a stranglehold over Parliament and is thus in effect judge and jury in all complaints about itself.
Now I ask you: if the problem is that we have a weak Parliament and an over-weaning executive, how is the solution a law that further divests Parliament of power? Surely the solution is to give Parliament more power, particularly if you are asserting that it is the purveyor of popular sovereignty?
Interestingly, there is now cross-party agreement that Parliament should indeed be more powerful, even if we don't all agree on the measures. I would assert for example that the only meaningful way to get a stronger Parliament is to have proportional representation. Yet Symons doesn't explore this possible solution to his problem at all. The clear implication of the programme is that he merely assumes that is the obvious outcome of any political system and is not worth bothering with.
The bizarrest part of the film is when he notes approvingly of the police investigation on honours as an example of the system working, despite the fact that no charges have been brought forward and yet no-one seriously believes that there is no link between people making loans to political parties and receiving peerages. In short, this law hasn't actually achieved anything except, perhaps, to make people even more cynical about politics.
Indeed, the two questions he does not ask at all in the programme are "How would this Bill work in practice?" and "What, if any, would the unintended consequences be?" – possibly the two most important questions any legislator must answer before passing a law. I explored both of these points in more detail earlier in the week so I won't repeat them now. But I would ask any supporter of this idea to look at what's happened to local government since similar legislation has been introduced and tell me that it has been a positive development.
If you want a more honest politics, fight for an electoral system that offers real choice between both parties AND candidates and one that will lead to a Parliament which reflects the votes cast. Honesty is about a whole lot more than people telling lies: don't believe the liars who tell you otherwise.
Ministries at War!
My post yesterday about the other Ministry of Truth has provoked a response from the original Ministry of Truth. Pleasingly, it would appear that Unity and myself broadly agree both on this documentary in particular and the BBC's Why Democracy? season in general.
Meanwhile, it appears that Michael Howard has withdrawn his consent to appear in the film. The First Post (which appears to have turned into a Metro-style gossip and boobs scandal rag since I last looked at it) has the details, along with this disgraceful article which sums up exactly what is wrong with this dreadful proposed bill.
Two points which emerge from this First Post article. Firstly, it emerges that the documentary makers have found a sponsor for the Bill, so Unity's description of it being a fake bill is sadly mistaken. Secondly, one of the people they did find to support it was Neil Hamilton, and individual whose dishonesty has been demonstrated time and again, at least once in court. What does that tell you?
Ministry of Truth? Why is this lying liar lying to us?
9 October 2007 politics and lifebbc, media, politics, standards-boardJames Graham
Who is the Ministry of Truth? I used to think the answer to that was simple: it is Unity (whoever the fuck that is). It turns out however that there are two Ministry of Truths. The other Ministry of Truth has been running this advert on Messagespace for the past few days. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with Unity (I'm guessing here, but somehow I suspect that if this was one of Unity's projects, he'd mention it on his own blog). It's a good job I didn't start this rant last night though because at that point I hadn't realised that there were two MoTs and was set on saying very rude things about him.
What's my beef? MoT2's big idea, which we are apparently to learn more about this Thursday on BBC2, is to introduce a law that would make it a criminal offence for MPs to lie. His Misrepresentation of the People Act, would make the following illegal for an elected representative to do:
1. Publish a statement, promise or forecast which he knows to be misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular, or
2. Dishonestly conceal any material facts whether in connection with a statement, promise or forecast published by him, or
3. Recklessly publish (dishonestly or otherwise) a statement, promise or forecast which is misleading, false or deceptive in a material manner.
What's wrong with demanding that MPs don't lie you might ask? Well, nothing per say. But there are several strong reasons for having Parliamentary privilege. It allows John Hemming to wage his crusade against CAFCASS for example. It protects elected officials against the worst abuses of people such as Alisher Usmanov or Robert Maxwell, rich men who use their chequebooks to preserve their reputations. It stops Parliament from collapsing into a heap of claim and counterclaims, with MPs suing each other for every utterance.
Sound unlikely? Well, consider what has happened in local government over the past decade with the introduction of the Standards Board. Take Colleen Gill for example, hauled up for doing little more than stand up for the interests of one of her constituents. Or Steve Hitchens, subject to a three and a half year investigation in which he was cleared, but which cost Islington Council £1m and arguably cost him his council seat on the "no smoke without fire" principle. Or even the Ken Livingstone experience, who was to be suspended for calling a journalist a concentration camp guard.
What do all of these cases have to do with a law about lying politicians? Everything, because while the act of lying was not in question in each of these questions, their propriety very much as an issue. What we've seen since the Standards Board was introduced has been the infantilisation of local politics, with councillors filing complaints against their political rivals on a whim purely for political advantage. That fact that so many of them amount to so little is irrelevant as the intention is to cause instability and spread innuendo. The "Misrepresentation of the People Act" would almost certainly have the same effect. It would be simply too tempting to haul a Government Minister up through the courts. Subsequently, it would be all too tempting for Government Ministers to spend even more of their energies in not answering questions, something which is already a daily reality in Parliament.
Beside the enrichment of lawyers, it is hard to see how this law could ever result in an actual conviction. Remember the experience of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act. Naive souls such as Paul Staines though that it would be possible for PC Plod to rummage through a few Downing Street computers, hassle Ruth Turner a bit and trump up charges against Lord Levy and Tony Blair. But even where we have what looks like extremely strong circumstantial evidence, the law simply ain't that simple. For as long as we uphold the principle of innocent before proven guilty it is extremely difficult to get a conviction on what amounts to a conspiracy between two individuals who will both go to prison if they testify, and then it is just one person's word against another's. You need hard evidence and such evidence is rarely in abundance.
Consider therefore, the Misrepresentation of the Peoples Act's get out clauses:
It shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under section 2 of this Act to show that at the time of the offence he –
1. did not know, or could not have been reasonably expected to know that his act or conduct would create an impression that was false or misleading, or
2. had no part in causing or permitting the publication of the statement or any part thereof, or
3. could not reasonably be expected to have known that the statement to which the charge relates was inaccurate or misleading, or
4. took all due care to ensure the accuracy of the statement, or
5. acted in the interest of National Security.
Now, how on Earth would you secure a conviction with all those escape clauses. Once again, you'll need the sort of orgy of evidence that only the most careless of people would ever leave; signed and dated statements along the lines of "today I'm going to lie to Parliament! The foools! Bwah-hah-hah-hah!!!"
As with the Honours case, the police would be bound to investigate. But this is ultimately unenforceable law. And all unenforceable law does is leave a trail of innuendo and suspicion. It won't clean up politics; merely confirm in people's eyes that it is unreformable.
None of this is to say that Ministers who are found to mislead the House should not be sacked. But the real issue isn't ultimately about lying; its about taking responsibility for actions. One of the worst things about this Bill is that while you could theoretically get a conviction out of Gordon Brown for claiming that the opinion polls had nothing to do with his decision to call of the election this weekend, you wouldn't have a hope in hell of convicting Tony Blair for invading Iraq on a false prospectus. Why? Because while Brown's actions were a fairly glaring gaffe, Blair's capacity for self-delusion was limitless. Under this law, the self-deluded are morally superior to the most profane merchant of white lies. The better you are at lying, the more upstanding you become. It is ultimately about putting the Eleventh Commandment on a statutory footing.
And if I really wanted to be pedantic, I would point out that the Bill only refers to "representatives". It would therefore remain perfectly legal to lie in the House of Lords. This is a serious point because you would instantly see Governments use that chamber to put out difficult statements. This would certainly undermine the primacy of the Commons.
But it is the sheer hypocrisy that really bugs me. We may indeed have laws against fraud and other forms of lying in the marketplace, but when the media lie – defamation laws notwithstanding (and they want to weaken those – as do I for the record) – there is no law to imprison journalists or prevent them from continuing their chosen profession. Indeed, from what I've seen of MoT's programme we are to be greeted with a highly partial version of the Truth on Thursday. If the "Beginners Guide" is any indication, any opponent of the Bill will be presented corpsing to camera in a comedic fashion and having their every statement countered, while the supporters of the Bill are given generous air time. Indeed, just by looking at the previews, it seems that the film maker has a bit of a problem with the "truth" himself. His proposed legislation is not an Act and it is misleading to imply that it has already been made law in this way. Lord Falconer has not been the Lord Chancellor for some months now; stating he is seems like a "recklessly dishonest" statement to me. Why are these lies acceptable?
Ultimately, you can't legislate on the hearts and minds of people. If you want to clean up politics, then sort out the dominance of people like Ashcroft, introduce PR and radically decentralise. These are all long touted solutions, but they don't get documentaries on BBC2 because they don't lend themselves quite so simply to irreverent wacky film-making that can play fast and loose with the facts. Pretending that MPs' jobs and responsibilities are no different from the average market trader is simply pernicious. I have no doubt that they will be successful at getting lots of people to sign up to this dreadful idea; fortunately this is one of those few areas where MPs' self-interest and national interest coincide.


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So anyone who knows me, knows that i have a big big passion for animation, and in particular - Hayao Miyazaki. I was heartbroken when i found out Miyazaki was retiring with his last film, "The Wind Rises", but then realised...who am i to be heart broken! This man has given me so much with his films, and for that i am grateful. I can't even imagine how stressful and demanding the animation industry is, and to achieve greatness with such grace is just amazing. I can think of no other artist or writer that has come close (in my eyes) to the beauty that is Miyazaki's film collection. The morals and values behind every story are so pure and beautiful, and there is something for both adults and children. The artwork and sound is literally breathtaking.
The above still is from his newest feature length film, The Wind Rises. This film is completely different from all his previous films. Instead of exploring the world of demons, magic and spirits, this film has a more serious and realistic note, based on a true story of a young, gifted airplane engineer, Jirô Horikoshi, that dedicated his life to his biggest passion.
I didn't get to see this film at the cinema, the same as all of his other films (alot of them were made before i was even born!) and i wish i had. It would have been absolutely stunning on the big screen! I did however order the collectors edition and then awaited its arrival.....nervously!!
I was really apprehensive before i watched it. would it live up to Miyazakis standards....?
I seriously, SERIOUSLY suggest, if you haven't already, that you watch at least one of his films. Whether you want to sit down with your little ones and enjoy a heart warming family film then go for My Neighbour Tororo, or Ponyo. Or if you want to watch something a bit more thrilling and grown up, i suggest Princess Monoke or Howls Moving Castle. And i promise you - you won't be able to stop there!!


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'Food On The Edge London' – 20th May, 2019
Food On The Edge 2019 is Launching This Month at Robin Gill's Newly-Opened Restaurant, Darby's
Food On The Edge London and the international launch of Food On The Edge 2019 takes place in London on Monday the 20th of May in the newly opened 'Darby's' by London-based Irish chef Robin Gill.
Food On The Edge (FOTE) is an annual global food symposium which takes place annually in Galway, Ireland, with the aim of generating debate, discussion, and thought leadership on the future of food both in the industry and on the planet.
Food On The Edge London guest speakers include Tom Brown, Skye Gyngell, Pierre Koffmann and Doug McMaster. Signature snacks will showcase quality Irish food, and will be prepared by London-based Irish chefs Robin Gill, Kevin Burke, Anna Haugh, Aidan McGee and Shauna Froydenlund, who will also speak briefly about being Irish chefs in London.
JP McMahon will use FOTE London as a platform to officially reveal the confirmed speakers for FOTE 2019 in October, and announce the main theme for this year's event: Migration – looking at how food travels and how that affects people's perception of food – as well as touching on previous FOTE themes which will carry into this year such as 'The Future of Food', 'Food Stories', 'Conversations' and 'Action and Reaction'.
JP McMahon said, "We are delighted to bring Food On The Edge to London and really appreciate Robin and Sarah hosting us at Darby's. This year we introduce the theme of 'Migration' – migration of produce, people and food culture – so it is fitting that we will celebrate Irish produce and Irish chefs in London. Given our geographical proximity, migration has always been, and will continue to be, a feature between Ireland and the UK."
FOTE 2019, the two-day programme of 15-minute talks, panel discussions, masterclasses and networking activity, with an artisan food village showcasing the best of Irish and West of Ireland food produce, will take place on the 21st and 22nd of October in Galway city, with the venue to be announced.
Early Bird Tickets for FOTE are available at a reduced rate of €350 until the end of June which includes admission on both days, lunches, and entertainment on both nights. Instalments plan payments are also available.
Gather & Gather will be a principal partner of the event again this year, and the FOTE team are delighted to announce Fáilte Ireland as a principal partner for FOTE 2019. San Pellegrino, who have been on board since day one, are returning as major sponsors along with new major sponsors, Galway Bay Brewery.
For more information see www.foodontheedge.ie. Check out @FoodOnTheEdge on social media and follow the official hashtag #FOTE2019 for regular updates.
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ILM revisits and remixes its iconic digital creatures for the return visit to the land of dinosaurs in Jurassic World.
Though barely a drop in the bucket on the geologic scale of time in which scientists discuss real-life dinosaurs, a lot has changed in the creation of the digital versions in the 14 years since moviegoers last visited the world of Jurassic Park.
And the visual effects artists at Industrial Light & Magic have tapped into new animation, lighting and rendering capabilities to give Jurassic World, due in theaters June 12, a new breed of greatly improved digital dinosaurs.
Director and co-writer Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) wanted to recapture the spirit of director Steven Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic Park film but also give it a contemporary spin. In the new movie, which stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, the theme park tries to reverse declining attendance by creating something bigger and more spectacular: an entirely new species of incredibly vicious dinosaur called Indominus rex.
"It's a hybrid of Tyrannosaurus rex and some raptor and they used other species to fill in the gene sequence," says visual-effects supervisor Tim Alexander, whose previous credits include Rango. "But the big reveal of the Indominus is that it's part raptor."
Indeed, the other raptors initially side with Indominus — until it goes astray.
Inevitably, the design process for Indominus rex was very long because of the creature's uniqueness. The Indominus is larger and faster than the T. rex, measuring 40 feet by 20 feet and capable of running as fast as 30 mph. It not only has a fierce bite but also can pick up objects, which the T. Rex with its stumpy hands can't do. Plus, it's got a very hard skin, which makes it nearly bulletproof.
"We designed her head slightly smaller so she could primarily use her hands and tail," Alexander says. "But it was important to make her a real dinosaur. They didn't want people to worry about her looking like a strange mutation."
Animation supervisor Glen McIntosh — no stranger to the franchise having been lead animator on 2001's Jurassic Park III — and his crew analyzed the creature's weight and movement at great length. Realistic animalistic behavior was important and the animators often used picture-in-picture comparisons while working.
And, as a result of advanced tech, there is a full skeletal and muscle structure underneath the skin of each dinosaur.
"As they step forward, you're going to see muscles flexing, skin sliding," Alexander says. "We're doing extreme close-ups on eyeballs, mouths; and the detailing on the skin, the teeth and in the mouth is way beyond what we've done in the past. But obviously because it's been 14 years since the last film, we had to rebuild them all. We had to decide how to change them or change them back to what the fans liked from the first film, because that's what most people know."
The four raptors have distinct colors, markings, behavior and even names — Blue, Charlie, Delta and Echo — because that's how they were genetically encoded.
"We looked at all three films when we designed the raptors because they're all different," Alexander suggests. "We reverted to more of the JP 1 design but Delta harkens back to more of the JP III design with extra nodules toward the front of the nose and past the eye ridges. The heads are all different as well."
ILM used motion-capture on the four raptors because they're more human size, so they were able to cast people to act out the movements and then applied the data to the animation. "That gave us a unique look to the raptors and then, on top of that, we did some key-frame animation for tails and actual foot plants on the ground," Alexander says.
In addition to new rigs, along with new skin and muscles systems, ILM took advantage of HDRI lighting reference.
"For the Indominus rex, that's important because she's lighter in color — she's somewhat albino," Alexander says. "She reacts strongly to different lighting environments and so she takes on the color of the environment because she's so neutral."
ILM also created a virtual environment for the theme park Jurassic World, with Main Street and the lagoon in the center and the Mosasaurus and T. rex Arenas surrounding that.
They also designed a petting zoo, a water park, hotels with swimming pools, a golf course and a monorail system.
"In the past, putting interaction into plates has been a very difficult thing to do, so we repopulated it with plants and bushes and grass and smaller trees that Indominus rex could step on and break down and crush," he says.
This occurs in an early sequence called "Asset Containment," in which the Indominus rex escapes and, after being pursued, picks up a man and throws him into the water. It then picks up another man and chews him up.
For the final fight, ILM used a combination of special effects and CG for buildings getting destroyed, light posts going down, fires going off and raptors getting thrown around and burned up as the two big dinosaurs push each other into buildings.
"We actually shot quite a bit of destruction on set and then added more digitally later. It's lot of cool mayhem," Alexander says.
Bill Desowitz is owner of Immersed in Movies (www.billdesowitz.com), author of James Bond Unmasked (www.jamesbondunmasked.com) and a regular contributor to Thompson on Hollywood and Animation Scoop at Indiewire.
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RALEIGH, N.C. : July 22nd, 2015 - Telephone companies should be using FCC-approved technologies to block unwanted robocalls at the request of consumers, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Wednesday.
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