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Entry Point North Belgium passes with flying colours
skeyes recruits and educates new staff thanks to training through a joint venture in Brussels
Last year skeyes entered a joint venture with Entry Point North, one of the largest global ATS (Air Traffic Services) academies. On 3 September 2018 the first 'school year' of the new Entry Point North Belgium training centre was kicked off. Now that the school year has come to an end, Entry Point North Belgium presents an excellent report.
Since September 2018, three basic training programs for future air traffic controllers have been started at Entry Point North Belgium, in which 29 candidate air traffic controllers participated. 25 of them are still in training, four did not pass. Also one staff member of Defence and one of Luxembourg air traffic controller ANA Lux participate in the training.
Additionally, in September 2018 the four Belgian basic training programmes that already commenced at Entry Point North in Sweden before the opening of Entry Point North Belgium were still in progress. Of the 57 applicants who participated in these training programmes, 49 were still doing their training in Sweden at that time. Since then, 17 succeeded, 8 did not pass and 24 are still in training.
In addition to the basic training which is needed to obtain the air traffic control licence, air traffic controllers also receive continuous training throughout the span of their career in the form of refresher, conversion and development training. A total of 10 refresher and conversion training courses have been attended by 313 air traffic controllers in the past year. 117 ATCOs participated in 6 development courses.
Technical personnel have also taken part in training at Entry Point North Belgium: a total of 48 staff members participated in seven basic training courses and a total of 20 staff members participated in two development training courses. Seven collaborators of ANA Lux also participated in one of these technical training courses.
Of course, training these students would not be possible without teachers: no less than 99 skeyes staff members acted as instructors, occasionally or on a regular basis, supported by training staff from Entry Point North in Sweden.
Anne Kathrine Jensen, Entry Point North CEO: "The joint venture with skeyes and establishing a new hub in Belgium were both well-considered choices of Entry Point North. It is now clear that we have made the right decision. Our worldwide expertise and the quality of our trainings, combined with the know-how and experience of our colleagues at skeyes, have turned Entry Point North Belgium into a very effective and high-standard training centre within just a short period of time, not least due to the massive effort by the local staff in Entry Point North Belgium. This is supported not only by the results, but also by the interest from other countries."
Johan Decuyper, skeyes CEO: "Our joint venture offers high-standard trainings within Belgium again. That allows us to not only expand our training capacity to its full extent, but also to recruit a maximum number of air traffic controllers and technical staff. Another 21 candidate air traffic controllers will start training before long and in autumn we will issue a new call for candidates. With more than 500 candidates having applied for this training, we are not at all worried about waning interest in the job."
Furthermore, on 26 August of this year a specific training will start off for five students from Dutch air traffic controller LVNL.
CEO skeyes Johan Decuyper and CEO Entry Point North Anne Kathrine Jensen


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Campus Free Speech
Republicans Don't Support Campus Free Speech When It Concerns Bill Ayers
Campus censorship: It's not just for far-left social justice warriors (and never has been)
(Fox News)
Campus censorship: It's not just for far-left social justice warriors (and never has been). Some Republican politicians are perfectly willing to set aside their support for free speech when the speaker in question is a source of conservative ire.
I'm speaking, of course, about Bill Ayers.
Ayers, a former 1960s radical, is considered a domestic terrorist for his participation in Weather Underground's activities, though all charges against him were dropped decades ago. He now teaches and lectures about social justice.
His recent visit to Pennsylvania State University triggered the exact sort of hand-wringing about the limits of free speech that one frequently hears coming from the left. According to newsinpenn.com:
About a half-dozen senators and representatives took their outrage to [Penn State President] Barron in two separate hearings Tuesday, many even while saying they understood the decision to bring in Ayers was not the president's call.
Rep. Mike Vereb, R-Montgomery County, expressed shock that any group of students could look at Ayers as a guy "we should have in here to inspire us or get our education."
Sen. John Rafferty, R-Montgomery County, bemoaned the fact that Ayers, whom he called "an unrepentant engineer of standing against everything… this country was founded on," was paid to speak instead of World War II veterans or leaders of the American Civil Rights movement. …
Sen. Randy Vulakovich, R-Allegheny County and a former police officer, raged that Ayers' appearance was "an affront to policemen, to veterans… and the rule of law.
Barron shielded himself with the armor of free speech. …
But several lawmakers persisted in asking Barron to do more.
Rep. Jeff Pyle, R-Indiana County, asked if students – or their parents – can ask for refunds for a portion of student activity fees used to support programs they want nothing to do with.
"At what point do you step in?" asked Sen. Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland County, raising the specter of groups that that are potentially far more dangerous right now seeking an audience on campus.
At no point does the president of a public university step in to prohibit students from bringing a controversial speaker to campus. This is exactly what college is for—the opportunity to interact with perspectives that challenge one's own, that present different, even disturbing, ideas. Unfortunately, too many people on both the left and the right see the public square as a place where only friendly ideas should be allowed.
In this case, I speak from personal experience. I met Ayers in 2010, when he visited the University of Michigan during my senior year of college. I interviewed him for a long piece I was writing for the student paper, The Michigan Daily, about the history of radical activism on campus. Upon meeting him, was I instantly persuaded that all of his ideas were good? Of course not. Nevertheless, I found him to be a fascinating figure with a well-informed perspective on the subject I was researching. I value having had the chance to speak with him—I daresay I'm a smarter person because of it.
We must resist efforts to deprive students of similar opportunities, whether they come from thin-skinned hypocrites on the right or the left.
(I dug up my Daily article on Ayers and activism; it's here. Fun fact: Immediately after it was published, I submitted it as a clip for my Reason internship application. I got the job.)
NEXT: How Texas Became Western
Robby Soave is an associate editor at Reason.
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Show Comments (181)
Timon 19
March.25.2015 at 2:52 pm
That is one confusing headline.
Warren's Strapon
And opening couple of paragraphs.
Some Republican politicians are perfectly willing to set aside their support for free speech when the speaker in question is a source of conservative ire.
I'm speaking, of course, about Bill Ayers.
Bill Ayers is a Republican politician?
The R's listed strongly criticized Ayers, but they did not actively work to block him from speaking.
That is a pretty big difference, the D team actively blocks and gets speakers canceled, the R team criticizes others. I'm no fan of the R team, but to say they're as bad as the D team on free speech in the 21st century is absurd.
This article reads to be as a suppression of the free speech it claims to support. Are R team members not even allowed to criticize now?
Monty Crisco
Exactly. What a gay article. Way to go, Robby – you found so vile an individual that R's don't want to listen to him, but hardly does this rise to the level of uniform support for suppressing free speech that the Dems ROUTINELY engage in EN MASSE (campaign finance, anyone? Hate speech laws, anyone? A side of campus speech codes with that?).
Dumb article. Ayres is a dick. But I don't have to listen to him. Really reachin' on this one, Robby. Richman-esque.
March.25.2015 at 11:12 pm
It's not Ayers speaking that bothers the vast majority of Republicans, it's the fact someone as extreme left as Ayers is given complete freedom to not only speak but even teach while even moderately right leaning Republicans are either forbidden to speak or if "allowed" they are prevented from doing so.
Suicidy
It is truly vile that Ayers is in any way a respected educator. He should have spent most of his life in prison. Or at least unable to find any kind of a decent job. This is just more proof of how evil progressives truly are.
Wasn't the Weather Underground violent?
It's perfectly clear. Republican politician, Bill Ayers, doesn't support free speech on campus. All other GOP politicians do.
jay_dubya
Grammatical corrections – the highest form of internet discourse
Vincent Milburn
March.26.2015 at 9:13 am
I literally L'd OL at this.
It should also be made clear that neither Ayers, not other Republicans, support subversively radical speech in the form of inappropriately deadpan email parodies sent out in the "name" of well-connected academic department chairmen. See the documentation of America's leading criminal satire case, including the remarkable trial testimony of several New York University officials, at:
http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/
retiredfire
Talking about a case where someone set up am internet identity of someone else and then made derogatory comments, as though the person he was representing himself as, had said them.
When he was held accountable, he said it was just a joke – that's the "satire" reference above – but it was clear what the intent was, to denigrate the one, whose identity was stolen.
Give Rico a break, guys. Bet he's still giddy from his recent vindication.
Episiarch
By giddy you mean still drunk, right?
I would never make such a scurrile accusation.
Yeah but I would.
Pl?ya Manhattan.
I thought it was a compliment.
Bobarian (sexbot hand model)
his recent vindication
Did he finally get that master's?
Mickey Rat
The title is a grammatical abomination.
An abortion, even.
Swiss Servator... Switzy!
Shitestirrer!
All is forgiven, Switzy. However I would gladly accept a pint as compensation for the epic trolling you did on me.
Robby Soave
I changed the title. Thank you all for your kind feedback.
Almanian!
We do it out of love, Rico – out of love
You should've made it even more ambiguous. Giving in to commenterrorists never ends well.
If he gives into the commenterrorists, they win.
AND YOU'RE A TOWEL, EPISIARCH!
I've been wondering around on my own for the past few weeks. You know, helpin' people out with towel safety and proper towel use. It's important!
Hey, anyone wanna get high?
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Catatafish
You're the worst character ever.
It's different if they're freedom commenters that we support, of course.
Forget it, ProL – it's HyR Town…
A CIRCUMCISED, DEEP-DISH, MESSICAN, GAI abortion at that…
I'm sorry I started this, Robby.
Actually, no I'm not. It's great fun to watch the commentariat just…go like that.
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Not to me! I just wonder how he would be treated by Democrats when considering the, exact, actions of the Weather Underground are discussed. Weren't they violent?
HazelMeade
I'm tempted to say that what's good for the SJWs is good for the gander.
But, to be fair, whatever Bill Ayer's crimes are, he's legally a free man and is entitled to the same rights as everyone else.
And I too believe in a society where people are free to express offensive views. I do not wish to emulate the intolerance of the social justice crowd.
Yeah, that's tempting, but that means abandoning the moral high ground. I think the proper response to this is to let the event go on. Allow, but don't encourage protests against him. No safe space or alternative event bullshit. Then invite a series of liberty-minded speakers.
It's sad to see the nominally braver party reduced to SJW-levels of pants-wetting hysteria.
"nominally braver party"?
MJGreen
I'm not sure if a group of Republican politicians is "the nominally braver party." Pants-wetting hysteria is not a new look for them.
You're right, guys. Now, where's that edit button?
Zunalter
I miss the days when someone like Ayers would be on a blacklist. Marxism is inherently treasonous.
I'm gonna quibble – these lawmakers are douchebags, but in the comments listed, I don't see anyone saying "ban him". i see them questioning if he's "the right sort of person". I didn't see any protests, sit ins or reduced funding for the univ.
the closest thing was the oblique question about whether students might request their activity fee be reduced.
So, no, not at all like the shrieking and actively chasing away people BEFORE they even speak that we see from the SJW types.
Again – quibbling. These people are assholes, too – but for me, the SJW types are way bigger assholes much more committed to inflicting actual pain. These dicks? Whatever – words.
This is a fair point–questioning the propriety of a shithead speaking is one thing, suggesting or even implying that government should block his speech is another thing altogether.
sarcasmic
I don't see anyone saying "ban him".
Good catch. And I think it's more than quibbling. There's a big difference between expressing distaste for a speaker, and demanding that they not be allowed to speak.
LynchPin1477
OK, but when the guy holding the purse strings is "Just asking the question", are they really just asking questions?
Which is the problem with government officials running their mouths.
Which is the problem with government officials running their mouths public universities and non-secondary schools, among other things..
Particularly when they are taking these "questions" to the president of the university and one of those questions is "At what point do you step in?"
Sure, there's a log in the social left's eye, but what about the motes in these Republican's eyes?
Like I said, "They're dicks, too".
these were politicians attempting to dance over the line of their own authority.
there is of course a difference between the sort of ridiculous SJW activism we see organized by students and these types of closed door meetings between university presidents & senators – the latter is much, much more dangerous to free expression.
Apparently not. Ayers actually spoke at the event. Unlike a shitload of right wingers who were chased off by SJW's.
Exactly. The fucking reaching that Soave is trying to do to paint the right with the moral equivalency brush is going to cause him to pull and abdominal muscle.
Honestly I think the only difference is that the Republicans lack the power that the SJWs have to run people off.
If they had the power, I do not imaging that they would hesitate to use it.
right, but punishing someone for a miss cleo moment of cynicism isn't precisely the same thing as having evidence to back up the premise of this article.
OT: I stumbled across Kennedy's show last night while channel surfing. It sucked. The end.
What was she wearing?
A shirt that made her arms look fat.
Meow!
BardMetal
Fat arm fetishist? Is this a thing?
Xeones
Paging John…
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Hoop earrings and hipster glasses, I'd wager.
Hyperactivity.
I know. I have a semi just thinking about it.
"half-chub"
That's for applause substitutes, Epi!
bacon-magic
Oh come on! It's not that bad…at least she's throwing out a different viewpoint.
RAHeinlein
Kennedy, while ranking high on my list of those with whom I'd like to have a drink, is too punch-drunk on herself to produce a decent program. She still "acts" like a VJ, and the intellectual content is approaching zero.
GregMax
March.26.2015 at 10:45 am
Liked the "independents" . . . absolutely HATE this current version of whatever the hell hair and makeup magic they've done.
She's being such a douche. Stopped watching soon after it morphed.
I got the job
Yeah but do you get a living wage?
He gets paid in hookers and blow.
And orphans and monocles?
Put that hooker down. Hookers are for closers only.
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CampingInYourPark
Nobody should have the right to complain about someone freely speaking their mind on campus!
+ nice
you get that these were politicians attempting to use the influence of their office in this capacity, right?
If Obama held a press conference tomprrow and said: "Glenn Beck shouldnt be allowed to speak to students" would you treat it as flippantly or would you be howling about the progtards and the peacenazis?
JWatts
No one blocked him from speaking nor even tried to block him. The contrast is with members of the Left who have managed to scare off or outright block various Rightwing speakers from speaking.
Rep. Mike Vereb, R-Montgomery County, expressed shock that any group of students could look at Ayers as a guy "we should have in here to inspire us or get our education."
These expressions…don't look accurate
Warty
Bitches need more Areopagitica.
Thanks for bringing that up, Warty. I've always found Milton dreary, but this deserves a read.
It's important, but it's such a slog to read. I was reminded of it because I read Brendan O'Neill restate it quite effectively here.
I met Ayers in 2010, when he visited the University of Michigan during my senior year of college.
Are you trying to tell me that you do not in fact have a Masters from the Columbia School of Journalism?
Also, it doesn't sound like anyone tried to censor him.
They were expressing displeasure that such a shitbag was being paid to speak at the school.
Yeah, I don't understand the complaint about the GOP expressing displeasure equates to "suppressing free speech".
Ayers will still got paid, and the speech went on.
How many times has the left ACTUALLY BANNED people from speaking it didn't agree with?
We could just start with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and go from there.
Dances-with-Trolls
Puts me in mind of something that Ace of Spades wrote today:
What I believe is that the left invokes General Principle and a Controlling Rule when it takes an unpopular position, claiming there are no exceptions to the rule.
The rule may be stern and unforgiving, the left tells us, but the rule is the rule, and society will fall if we admit exceptions to it.
It is only later, when the left wishes to spare one of its own from the stern application of the Controlling Rule that they suddenly inform you, "Oh well there are some exceptions here and there, you know."
When the Rule supports the Left, they invoke the Rule, and claim there are no exceptions possible in it; when the Rule runs against the Left, they start telling you that the Rule is cruel and senseless, unless it is supplemented by lots of humane Exceptions and Caveats.
In other words: They are always dishonest
BAM! THIS ^!! And Robby fell right into it….
Can't imagine if anyone in this commentariat would hesitate even a second to jump on an R that ACTUALLY tried to ban someone or keep someone from speaking.
The left of course does this everyday.
Shorter version:
Principals over Principles
OldMexican
Upon meeting him, was I instantly persuaded that all of his ideas were good? Of course not. Nevertheless, I found him to be a fascinating figure with a well-informed perspective on the subject I was researching.
What an interesting assertion. If one concedes that knowledge is grounded in truth, then the fact that Ayers is well-informed should translate to more reasonable ideas, that is valid conclusions, rather than the reverse. So either Ayers is NOT well-informed like you state (being instead just another clueless little red Marxian) or he's completely insane.
Or, you know, sometimes the truth can be hard to figure out and there is room for subjectivity.
Not that I'm defending Ayers. But come on.
Re: LynchPin1477,
Which is more likely, that he's an unrepentant ideologue unwilling to see the truth, or someone who has a more nuanced view of the world?
ThatSkepticGuy
Except that most of us go about trying to figure out that "truth" without using bombs and guns in the hope of installing a totalitarian dictatorship complete with death camps (a stance Ayers has not changed, incidentally).
What about just evil?
The Laconic Esq
Or he's just, you know, fallible.
Let's hear it for Creationism and Eugenics!
Let's not deprive, I say.
Francisco d'Anconia
Some Republican politicians are perfectly willing to set aside their support for free speech
You mean Republicans and Democrats are barely distinguishable?
I might have heard that somewhere before?
Yeah – meant to comment on that – "since when have Repulicrats 'supported free speech'?"
That was my first thought as well. It's not that they aren't any less censorious fucks, just that they don't have the cultural power they once did.
Azathoth!!
Except, of course, that no republicans suggested banning Ayers.
As I also noted above…
But TEAM RED is not known, in my experience, for vociferously supporting free speech. Not at all.
How many Republicans have proposed constitutional amendments on flag burning? Westboro church protests? Porography? How about this little number…
The republicans are in favor of free speech. Free speech they agree with. JUST LIKE DEMOCRATS.
ITs the Obama admin that has started Operation Chokepoint to stamp out porno, dude…
It was the Bush admin who put the 1000 foot protest barrier around the President.
Only because all those Code Pink hippies are so smelly.
That may well be true, but this clearly isn't one of those cases.
Generally, it requires a bright light and strong magnification to distinguish the differences between their pols.
wadair
In my experience, the more radical the ideas of the radical–the more likely a reasonable person is to discount those ideas. So go ahead and bring in Ayers.
This is not to say that lefty radicals are to be balance by righty radicals. No, radicals are balanced by thoughtful speakers with balanced ideas. But the radicals make us think, and thinking is almost always a good outcome.
The SJW crowd is made up of wussies so afraid of their own shadows that ideas outside of their own radical views scare them. They should be punished for their petulance by listening to Pat Robertson, the full collection.
Fist of Etiquette
You know who else bombed the US military?
The U.S. military?
The JOOOZ!
Mr. Soul
the US Military?
Milo Minderbinder?
Look, what's good for the syndicate is good for the country.
Gomer Pile?
Dr. Fronkensteen
The Germans at Pearl Harbor?
Beautiful Bean Footage
AND WAS IT OVER THEN??
HELLLLLLL NO!
Gary Busey's and Tommy Lee Jones' characters in "Under Siege"?
Bob Hope?
The Pyschlos?
Bill Dalasio
Ayers, a former 1960s radical, is considered a domestic terrorist for his participation in Weather Underground's activities, though all charges against him were dropped decades ago.
I think the right calling all this attention to the guy ultimately deprives him of the obscurity he so richly deserves. That said, the argument that the charges against him were dropped is a little disingenuous. It's not like they found out the guy didn't do anything. Prosecutors simply overstepped their boundaries in establishing the fact that he was a terrorist. But, that doesn't change the fact that he was, in fact a terrorist.
Heroic Mulatto
His usefulness to Obama depleted, Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion.
It's almost as if the Obama administration wanted to return those five Taliban commanders and merely used Bergdahl as the mechanism. But hey, no president would do such a thing.
Certainly not the most transparent president in history.
I still think it was good to bring him home.
1) He's been charged but not convicted.
2) Even if convicted, innocent until proven guilty, meaning that at the time of the exchange he was technically innocent.
3) Technicalities aside, better that he be brought home, tried, convicted, and punished according to American military justice for breaking American military law, as opposed to whatever the Taliban count for.
4) When it comes to "leave no one behind", probably best to err on the side of caution than to start making exceptions for suspicious activities.
I'm not military, but from what I understand "leave no one behind" is pretty important.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not military, but fuck Bowe Bergdahl, and fuck Obama and his hacks for orchestrating this wretched, horrid trade for the useless traitor.
Could not agree more.
PapayaSF
"Leave no one behind" never meant trading five top enemy commanders for one enlisted deserter.
Not an Economist
Yeah, there was a Rose Garden ceremony with Bergdahl's parents where Obama said Bergdahl served honorably when there was a fair amount of evidence he had deserted already. And trading five Taliban commanders for him and acting like it was a good trade for us wasn't exactly good PR.
No. They just couldn't get out of prosecuting him.
TimothyLane
So aside from being a violent revolutionary, what qualifications does Ayres actually have? And why shouldn't he be banned if conservative speakers (or even politically incorrect non-conservatives such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali) are? Do you think such bans should only go one way, given that bans by politically correct liberals are routine in academia?
Tu Quoque HARD, baby! Do it!
Well, if those unacceptable to PC liberals are excluded, and no one else, what do you think the long-term consequence will be? Obviously, it means people making sure they say nothing to disturb the politically correct. That isn't free speech, and a lot of libertarians (John Stossel impresses me that way) seem unable to realize the implications.
He's a trusted advisor to the President! That's a lot of qualification. /sarcasm
thestarsbegintofall
It's hilarious watching Barron hide behind free speech while he and his administration so readily repressed Students for Concealed Carry while I was there just last semester. While I agree Ayers should be allowed to speak, other controversial topics should receive the same treatment. Btw, Penn State's College Repubs are pretty libertarian. Here's an article by the old president. http://onwardstate.com/2015/03…..on-campus/
creech
It might be instructive for CYR or Students for Liberty chapters at PSU to ask the administrators of the Student Fee to list the honorariums paid speakers this year and then see if libertarians are getting a fair shake or not? I wonder what Ayers was paid vs. what, say, the Jacket would be paid?
Barnstormer
"… This is exactly what college is for?the opportunity to interact with perspectives that challenge one's own, that present different, even disturbing, ideas…."
I thought college was about math and science and stuff like that. It is school, isn't it?
Gilbert Martin
Exactly how does GOP Congressmen and Senators griping about someone being invited to speak at a University constitute something equivalent to University administrations actually disinviting people to speak due to pressure from liberal students and faculty?
its sophomoric Reason, case closed
title says "republicans" implying all, the article of course back tracks and says "some"
Notorious G.K.C.
Yes, the 1st Amendment protects Ayers as much as anyone else.
Let's look at some of Rico Suave's comments:
If by "considered a domestic terrorist," you mean "proudly avowed it in his memoirs," then yes – while I haven't read the book, I used the Amazon search feature to find instances of the word "bomb" and got lots of results:
http://www.amazon.com/Fugitive…..bill+ayers
And don't forget his NY Times intereview, published Sept. 11, 2001:
""I don't regret setting bombs," Bill Ayers said. "I feel we didn't do enough.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09…..-with.html
Vulgar Madman
Yeah, the "former" part jumped out to me.
But . . . but . . . he's an ACTIVIST!
"Immediately after it was published, I submitted it as a clip for my Reason internship application. I got the job.)"
Hopefully someone gets their ass fired for it.
By the way, you fucking toady, there's no comparison at all to be made for thugs stepping in forcibly preventing people from engaging in free speech and a bunch of people signing a piece of paper announcing their disgust at the continued employment and idol worship of a fucking terrorist and murderer.
AD-RtR/OS!
When your icon is Bill Ayers, you are beneath contempt.
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It's the "terrorist" they object to, not the "left".
M.V. Flores
Besides ingesting LSD and living in fantasy land he was able to come up with brilliant campaigns like THE DAYS OF RAGE in Chicago expecting 200,000 people to show up to "fight in the streets of Chicago" Less than 200 did. They decided what the hell and proceeded to physically attack people in the streets, putting one in a wheelchair for life.
That was when they came to the attention of the KGB who through Cuba contacted them and welcomed them to receive "training". Cuban Intel was being run by the Soviets and the plan was wait for a sign to strike. A sleeper agent. He had proven he had no problem hurting unarmed people.
So they went "underground" in America. Which meant no more talking about the war.
While they were waiting for their orders, baking and mowing the lawn the true heroes of the anti-war movement arose.They were called The Vietnam Veterans Against The War.
Before them, at any point in a march or picket we could be attacked. That stopped when they showed up. Once the violent melees stopped, whole families would show up to protest.
When Ayers and Dohrn his girlfriend at the time tried to recruit me, I said, "How do you know that when the war ends, you won't go work for your father's law firm and I'll be sitting in jail for life?"
I was pretty smart for a 17 year old to say that. And right.
TxJack 112
Ayers is a worthless piece of dirt but as an American citizen he has same rights as anyone else. The attempts to stop him from speaking is another example of the hypocrisy on both sides of the fence. However, progressives are more often the offenders with all of their PC crap. The government has too much power and it sickens me when either side tries to use the government to impose their views on others. Let Ayers talk as Megyn Kelly did. He comes across as an arrogant ass which is exactly what he is.
BBerry12
Ayers should not be in a position to give speeches anywhere. He is a terrorist who should be spending the rest of his days rotting in a cell down the hall from Ted Kaszinski and the blind sheikh.
El Tuco
First Amendment is one thing, common sense discretion is quite another. Would it be a reasonable exercise in higher education to give, oh say, Charles Manson (were he free to do so) a platform from which to spew his insanity? Airing divergent opinions is an intellectually healthy thing, but affording a stage for someone who's only claim to infamy was violent acts of terrorism seems beyond the pale of being of any educational value.
Don'tTreadOnMe
^Here, here. The fact that he was given a forum for his speech says a lot.
Neoconwatch
Moral decrepitude. Ayers should be dead.
Ayers is a scummy Radical supporter of the kind of government that murdered a hundred million people in the 20th Century. I have scant patience for fans of Communism, and none for the '60's radicals, most of whom had heads of solid biscuit. The few exceptions are, if anything, worse. They either should have known what they were supporting, and turned a blind eye because they wanted to be "hip", or they knowingly supported governments that ran of mass murder.
What I want to know is; if this prat's visit in any way paid for with public moneys? Because if so, the Conservatives who are complaining are spot on.
We really need to stop conflating "Censorship" with "Declining to pay for".
OTOH, if a campus group funded exclusively by voluntary donations wants the idiot to address them, of well. College students fall for all kinds of claptrap, and unless his participation in acts of violent lawbreaking can be proved at this late date, there's not legal grounds for doing what I'd like to (shoot him).
Freddy B
As a day to day recovering red teamer (My name is Bill and I use to believe in government), I've found it much easier when discussing the political parties to think in terms of them as pedophiles. Pedophiles are certainly not all the same, they each have their own heinous acts of violence they like to perpetrate against their helpless victims. I suppose you could take the time to measure to which degree each pedophile committed such and such act, you could even argue about which pedophile, did which act to a worse degree, and which pedophile harmed their victim more. But are those really the most important conversations to have about pedophiles? It seems to me the most important conversation is how to remove pedophiles from our lives, not whether or not the one in the blue shirt or the red shirt is marginally better or worse when committing a particular act of violence.
I suppose I'm saying that I feel dirty when I start talking about equivalency between the various violent acts of politicians.
Ryius
Bill Ayers is strongly anti-American, friend of Obama, and should not be allowed to teach kids his warped, twisted view of American history and politics. The problem with academia, period, is that no one that isn't a left wing nut gets to teach. The left has a monopoly in the academic world. Liberals go where there is no chance of them getting fired and they hire their buddies to make sure no one else has a chance.
This article is just annoying and hysterical. I'm not seeing the censorship. I'm just seeing outrage. Which is deserved. BFD.
pcrudy
I guess it won't be long before we get a panel discussion, "Why NAMBLA is right." with video appearances by Jerry Sandusky…..and a defrocked priest…..'
Real American
The reason Ayers is "considered a domestic terrorist" is because he committed domestic terrorism. He just got away with it due to police bumbling. He shouldn't be rewarded with a teaching position, tenure or paid public appearances. The man is objectionable and not simply because of his views.
FreddyB
(Not Freddy [space] B, although maybe not that different.)
I'm less inclined to defend "free speech" when I'm paying for it. He can say anything he wants on his own dime, tho.
So how exactly did Republicans show they don't support campus free speech? They criticized the university bringing Ayers and suggested finding a way to reimburse tuition dollars spent on bringing Ayers. However, they didn't stop him from speaking. It sounds like that combated an evil man's speech with more speech, which is exactly the point of the 1st Amendment.
April.6.2015 at 9:42 am
This country has been, since its beginning, about the best hope for free speech. But the continued move to the left has pushed free speech to be lop sided toward the left. I see no other way, but to push back. The most obvious can be be witnessed with the Scopes monkey trial where the left only wanted a balanced presentation of evolution. But the balance slowly evaporated. The same goes for global warming, now morphed into climate change. The political pressure from the left is monumental, because so many of them hold positions that control who gets traction on the issue. Those in disagreement either shut up or lose their job. Most of those on my side of the political spectrum have not pushed back. Pushing back is long passed due.

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Empire biscuits are one of those special bakes that stay with you from the moment you take your first bite. How the biscuit crumbles, the jam oozes out the sides and sticks to your fingers and the icing thickly coated across the top leaves your teethmarks in its sugary shell. Of course, the best part is the jelly sweet on top, saved for last. The merits of a good empire biscuit are based on what colour the sweet is – red and black the most superior of course.
As a child I had a system for eating an empire biscuit, largely to savour it for as long as possible once it was removed from the paper bag. I'd twist the two biscuits apart and eat the bottom one first, enjoying the sweetness of the sticky bright pink factory jam which bared no resemblance to the jars in the cupboard. Then came the iced biscuit, the jelly sweet removed and more sugar would hit, heat creeping across my nose at the sweetness of it all. And finally that sweetie would be popped in my mouth and the process would be complete. These days I don't have the patience I had as a child and when I choose an empire biscuit from the cafe at work, I devour it in one go for a pre-lunchtime sugar hit. I sometimes pick one up for my breakfast on especially unorganised days.
Yet due to my Veganuary challenge, the dinner plate sized biscuits so conveniently located in relation to my desk were out of bounds and so I sought refuge in the internet for a vegan version. Aimee's recipe for crumbly jammy dodgers looked like the perfect starting point and so on a snowy Saturday, I made these pretty little biscuits topped with all my favourite coloured Jelly Tots, which are accidentally vegan. You could use the classic glace cherries if you wish, which is how my Mam makes them, but if you're sticking to a vegan diet, some may contain red dyes that contain some questionable ingredients.
To make the biscuit dough, beat together the vegan butter and caster sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer for around 2 to 3 minutes until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla paste and flour, then slowly beat to combine to a soft dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and chill for 30 to 45 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200oc/180oc fan and line two baking sheets with greaseproof paper. On a clean, lightly floured work surface, roll the dough to the thickness of a pound coin. Using a 4cm round cutter, cut out as many biscuit shapes as you can, rerolling the scraps until all the dough has been used up.
Arrange the biscuits on the baking trays then place in the oven to bake for 10 to 12 minutes until lightly golden around the edges. Cool on the trays for five minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Once the biscuits are cold, match up the biscuits then place a dollop of jam on the underside of one biscuit and top with another the right side up. Repeat with the remaining biscuits until the jam has been used up.
To decorate, mix together the icing sugar and the boiling water to a smooth yet slightly thick icing. Dollop onto the top of each empire biscuit and smooth to the edges with the back of a spoon. Top with a jelly tot then leave the biscuits to set. Store in an airtight container for up to five days.
Thanks Erin! I know, I was surprised myself. Taking on this vegan challenge has been pretty eye opening!
Yummy…saving this recipe to give it a try.
Thanks Kaydeon, I hope you enjoy them!
Omg these look and sound heavenly!
These look so yummy! I will have to try these out. My hubby wants to be vegan, I will make him these!
Thanks Janice! I went vegan during January and it was quite a good experience, especially when you can still make and eat biscuits like these!


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Filon Ktenidis (Φίλων Κτενίδης; 1889 – 13 July 1963) was a Pontic Greek playwright, accountant, journalist, medical doctor and the founder of Panagia Soumela in Kastania, Vermiou in Greece.

Biography

Early life and education
Born in 1889 in Trapezus, Pontus, he spent his childhood days in Kromni. In 1906 he graduated with excellent grades at the Frontistirion (High School) of Trapezous.

Career
In 1906-1909 he began work as an accountant.  Αt the same time he was a contributor to the Trapezuntine newspaper Ethniki Drasi (National Action).

In 1910 he published his own fortnightly newspaper, Epitheoro, and was expelled by the Neo Turks and fled to Athens, where he enrolled in the University's Medical School.  In 1912-13 he volunteered in the Greek army and took part in operations in Epirus and Macedonia (Greece). In 1914-1915 he returned to Trapezus to offer his voluntary services as a medical doctor, to the people of the outer Greek regions of Trapezounta.

With the entry of the Russian troops to Trapezus in 1916, he traveled to the Caucasus where between 1915 and 1917 he worked as a medical doctor in a Russian military hospital. In 1918 he became the President of the National Council of Pontos in Krassnodor, Russia. Ιn 1922 he returned to Thessaloniki where he practiced as a medical doctor. He was the author of 17 well known Pontian theatrical plays. He served as an MP after the 1935 legislative elections in Greece.

He died in July 1963.

References

Sources
«Εεγκυκλοπαίδεια ποντιακός ελληνισμός» (12 τομοι)

External links
 Filon Ktenidis

1889 births
1963 deaths
Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece
Expatriates from Greece in the Russian Empire
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People from Trebizond vilayet
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Last night was the 237th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. A couple of years ago patriot activists launched an all-out assault campaigning for a different government. TEA Party citizens joined with me in the struggle to win November 2, 2010 with an extreme makeover of congress!
Congratulations to all these House members, plus a great reelection Senator Jim DeMint! Election eve I told Trey Gowdy that to put the vote in perspective Jim DeMint had beat him in my own precinct, Anderson Mill Elementary School, by 19 votes. Puzzled? You must remember that DeMint and Gowdy were not running for the same seat, so Trey smiled at me savoring the magnitude of his victory for the House of Representatives – so very close to the popular Senator Jim DeMint!
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Congressman Tim Scott of South Carolina is one of two black Republicans elected along with Florida's Congressman Allen West. They joined Republican conservatives to change the way business is done in Washington.
It's not like TV and completed at the end of the show. May the one, true Almighty God grant them wisdom beyond their years to makeover the Nation's Capitol – reclaiming the republic.
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I'm looking for an authentic "draft horse" candidate for president who is willing to pull with congress to safely get America out of EXTREME danger in the foreign and domestic arenas. No "pony show." Tea Party people are patriots not idiots. They demonstrate and voice the outrage WE THE PEOPLE have to reclaim a smaller and fiscally responsible government that clings to the Founding Documents and the Founder's words. Hang out with the TEA Party people, John. You will probably find out you have more in common than you might suppose.


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Mischief, Mayhem, in Tyler We Trust: A Textual Analysis of Personality Disorders as Depicted in the Film Fight Club
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Psychological disorders are widely represented in films, as well as in other media texts such as novels, television shows, etc. One film that portrays more than one example of a psychological disorder is Fight Club, a Twentieth Century Fox movie released with an R rating in 1999. Directed by David Fincher; and produced by Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, and Ross Grayson Bell, the movie mainly introduces Dissociative Identity Disorders (also known as Multiple Personality Disorders), but also hints at insomnia and depression. The movie is adapted from the book Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk. Fox marketed the movie using a "myriad of merchandise, including posters, the soundtrack, and even email addresses (yourname@fightclub.com)" (CNN). The movie's production budget was set at $63,000,000 with the movie grossing $37,030,102 (Daily Box Office). The characters of the movie refer to themselves as the "middle children of history" with the feelings of having no purpose or place in life. They convey that they have no history-making events or real set goals and/or destiny to look forward to. They were brought up by society to believe that one-day they would be rich, famous and loved just as those depicted on television. This is symbolic of society during the surrounding time of the movie's release. It is prevalent in modern society to strive to become someone/something that one sees in the media. The movie is directed towards Generation-X, but the "...hope was that the film would demonstrate the themes of the story to a larger audience. It would offer more people the idea that they could create their own lives outside the existing blueprint for happiness offered by society" (Palahniuk). This message was one that demanded that its viewers put all that drives them aside, and rethink what they had been taught from childhood. After the film's release, instead of delivering the message that was intended, it was met with criticism and misunderstanding. This was due partly to the fact that it was scheduled for release shortly after the Columbine shootings. The movie became an easy target for those upset by the blatant violence which surrounded the Columbine incident. Although Fight Club is a film full of violence it is in reality one that promotes anti-violence, and points out to the audience the human impulses that cause violent behavior. Ironically, despite all of the media scrutiny of the movie, in the entirety of Fight Club only one person dies. From the opening credits, which take you through a journey of the construction of the brain, one can see that the movie will take them on a roller coaster ride of confusion. To get a full understanding of the movie you have to watch it more than once because the way that it presents itself is like a mental puzzle for the viewer. The main character remains nameless until near the end, going by simply narrator, according to the ending credits. Edward Norton was perfectly cast in this role. About halfway through the movie, narrator finds books referring to the anatomy of a man named Jack, at which time he starts referring to himself as Jack in the third person (e.g. " I am Jacks broken heart..."). My intent is to analyze the depiction of psychological disorders portrayed in the movie Fight Club.
"People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden..." narrator (Edward Norton) begins the movie with a narration mentioning a theater of mass destruction and some group called project mayhem that has set bombs around the city to detonate and destroy. Narrator makes a foreshadowing remark stating "I know this because Tyler knows this" which leads the audience to believe that maybe they are connected in a way that we don't yet understand. Narrator/Jack then leads us into the movie by stating that he realizes all of what is happening has something to do with a girl named Marla Singer. We see Narrator/Jack at a support group for men with testicular cancer; he starts attending support group meetings after seeing his doctor in order to get some medication for his insomnia. Narrator/Jack then takes us back and explains that he hasn't slept for six months, and that nothing seems real, everything is far away and a "copy of a copy". He states that with insomnia you are never really asleep but you are never really awake either. Most adults need roughly eight hours of sleep at night to function properly, although the exact amount of time needed depends on the person, if a person wakes feeling rested then they are probably getting enough sleep (Hamilton). Psychological disorders can lead to insomnia and that seems to be the case in Fight Club (PsychNet-UK).
Going on the advice of his doctor, Narrator/Jack starts frequenting the support groups where he meets Bob, and with Bob learns that he can cry which gives him the emotional release he needs to be able to sleep. Bob could be seen as a father figure whom Narrator/Jack has been lacking since the age of six, who by consoling Narrator/Jack lets him know that it is "ok to cry". Narrator/Jack becomes addicted to the feeling of freedom that emotional release gives him. He believes that he needs the groups to cry and therefore find his peace of mind. Marla is introduced as another "faker" touring the groups, causing conflict when Narrator/Jack finds he cannot cry with another "faker" present. He tries to compromise with her and split up the groups, so as to be able to find his freedom and emotional release again. They agree on different nights, and the movie progresses to him sitting on an airplane, where he is starting to have violent thoughts and he begins to daydream hoping for a mid-air collision. We see him wake up with Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden sitting next to him going over the exit procedures for the plane. Tyler gives the impression that he lives life to the fullest, and appears to be the complete opposite of Narrator/Jack. When Narrator/Jack returns home after his business trip, he stands below his condo, which he "loved" and watches as it and all of his beloved material possessions, which made him feel complete burns away. Narrator/Jack thought that he needed all of his expensive material objects to feel complete; because where others obtained these objects for necessity he used them to measure his self-worth. "Sociologists call the process of actively creating meaning in this way the 'social construction of reality'. This means that, while reality exists, we must negotiate the meaning of that reality" (Croteau & Hoynes 7).
Left with no place to go, Narrator/Jack first calls Marla but quickly changes his mind at the last moment and contacts Tyler instead. They go out and have some drinks after which Tyler tells Jack that he can stay with him. After agreeing to move
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Friday Review: Piku (The Movie)
Release: 8 May 2015 (Worldwide)
Director: Shoojit Sircar
Actors: Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Moushumi Chatterjee
Music composer: Anupam Roy
Cinematography: Kamaljeet Negi
***Disclaimer – This post maybe a little lost and rambly as I'm still in movie mode. 😀 ***
I'm still undecided on what to make of the movie Piku. It is about nothing and yet is about so many things. I'm still mulling and thinking about it all.
Piku is about Piku, a 30 something girl who is short tempered, blunt, out and loud spoken, stubborn, irritable and a hand-full to manage. She is also soft hearted and caring though.
Piku lives with her 70 year old father who has constipation. His day to day life revolves around his stomach and the toilet. His wife had BP issues before she died, hence he also has a BP OCD. A cranky curmudgeon, he has his awesome moments too.
When the old man falls sick and demands to go to Calcutta, Piku takes leave to go with him. Her fathers idiosyncrasies lead them to take a road trip rather than travel by air or train.
Rana owns a transport company where the drivers refuse when Piku asks for a cab. She is a difficult customer and no one wants her. Left in the lurch, Rana volunteers to drive Piku, her Dad and his man Friday to Calcutta. Rana, of course does not know what he is signing up for when he turns up to pick them up.
It is at about this point that the movie starts to pick up a pace. The first part of the movie is all about setting up the characters of Bhashkor and Piku as this sanki, dysfunctional father and daughter pair.
Travel, as it often does, opens new facets of Piku for Rana and he gets to know her better. The instances of stalemates and clashes on the journey get him to understand Piku better and he builds a rapport all his own with Bhashkor.
The movie explores the mind of a girl who wants to live life on her terms but also wants to take care of her father. A girl who has not married because no man wants to marry a girl with a 70 year old child.
Pike believes that parents take care of us as children and we have to take care of them when they become children again. She is frustrated and yet loves her father a lot too.
The movie is a piece of everyday life. A glimpse into our dysfunctional families and lives. Our relationships, extended families and the joys of being together.
There are no dance numbers and no running around the tree scenes. Romance is not the hero of this film, constipation is. The music is a part of the movie and is nice on the ears. I particularly liked the Journey Song and Lamhe Guzar Gaye.
Amitabh Bachan has done an excellent job of being a constipated old Bengali man, though at some points he overdoes it and the stomach just seems too big and artificial. Deepika Padukone has acted well and seems to be proving repeatedly lately that she can act. Irrfan Khan was as always good. Moushumi Chatterjee though was the treat for me, she's still got that bubbliness I remember of her acting.
This movie is a no-brainer feel good movie with a non-sappy end. There's no 'And they lived happily ever after' here. Yet if you look below the surface, Piku has a lot of layers and take-aways.
Definitely worth watching!
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Movie Review: O Kadhal Kanmani or OK Kanmani
Release: April 17, 2015 (India)
Director: Mani Ratnam
Actors: Dulquer Salmaan, Nithya Menen, Leela Samson, Prakash Raj
Music composer: A. R. Rahman
Cinematography: P. C. Sreeram
After Mani Ratnam's last movie Kadal which Che didn't like and I didn't land up watching, I was looking forward to this one. With O Kadhal Kanmani it would be decided which way Mani Ratnam's career was going. Was he going to make a comeback into movie greats or fade away into the world of wannabes.
OK Kanmani is at the surface a simple love story. Boy meet girl in dramatic circumstances. He then next sees her at his best friends wedding and love blossoms, only it's still in budding stage. A few dates follow and next thing you know they are living-in.
Yep, living-in is the new normal and we now talk about it openly in our movies. All is well until the boys brother and sister-in-law visit. Then girl gets told off for living in sin and boy is living in denial or the belief that his brother and S-I-L know nothing.
Girl turns out to be a heiress and her mother puts boy behind bars in Arthur Road Jail to see if he is good enough for her daughter. Suddenly in the midst of all this both girl and boys dreams materialise. Girl gets opportunity to study in Paris and boy gets job posting U.S.
They have to choose, either dreams or love. But there is also so called mid path. Boy tells girl he wants her to chase her dreams, to do all she wants, go where she wants, and all that spiel but only after she marries him.
So, they get married, go their separate ways, and then come back together and make babies. The perfect love story if you leave every iota of your intelligence at home. Hey, I'm not being insulting, I'm serious. I enjoyed the movie, but then again, I didn't have high expectations, I wanted a random entertainer and most importantly I don't speak Tamil. 😀
Me Likey:
(Those few things I liked.)
I enjoyed the music, and some songs like Kaara Aattakkaara and Mental Manadhil I'm still humming. I also enjoyed Malargal Kaettaen and Parandhu Sella Vaa was a very interesting mix of music.
Dulquer Salmaan was a sight for sore eyes. A cutie who constantly oozed sexiness. Nithya Menen was the female equivalent of that. The character that I liked the most though was Prakash Raj. With each movie of his I watch lately I'm falling in love with the man a little more.
Irky Things:
(That which irked me a lot.)
1. This funda of getting married before you can doing anything, especially anything fun. After the live-in scenes, I was starting to think that finally here was a movie that wouldn't culminate in wedding bells. But no, no such thing happened. Instead they reinforced that societal requirement of signing a sheet of paper.
2. One of the supporting characters has Alzheimers and the movie was doing a good job of showing that it was about and the love and care an Alzheimers patient needs, until suddenly you realise that's just a part of the story to allow the hero and heroine to have more time for cliched yucky dialoguebaazi where they exchange sappy dialogues.
3. There were others too but I'll round off this list with sappy cliched dialogues. The 'Will you take care of me when I'm old' type dialogues have been done to death and should be put to death soon. Especially in a movie where initially the girl and boy come across are strong characters that do not believe in marriage.
(The short and sweet of it.)
All said and done, the movie had it's moments and I enjoyed it. There were a lot of scenes that made me smile and even laugh. I also so wanted to pinch Dulquer Salmaan's cheeks and say 'choo sweet' many a time. 😀
Mani Ratham it seems has not lost his touch completely, but he definitely needs to find more of it before he can make Roja or Bombay again.
Did you watch it? What did you think of it?
Catching Up with the Oscars – 2
Continuing on our Oscar run, we watched three more; my favourite – Hugo!!
*****/5
This one's just amazing. It blew my mind and I saw it in 2d. Can't wait to see it in 3d. The characters are sketched very well, there's a balance of positive and negative in each character. They all seem real and believable and loveable.
The movie is about Georges Méliès, a man who saw dreams that were way ahead of his time and made movies of them. A lot of the movie is based on the true life of Georges Méliès.
I've seen a few Scorsese's movies but this one just takes it to an all-new level!
****/5
This movie I'd like to watch again. There's a lot of little things I'm sure I missed out on. The story is about a writer Gil who goes back in time to Paris in the 1920's. Here he meets the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Picasso… The movie goes to and fro from the present to the 1920's as Gil makes sense of his life. It was nice to see Paris through the late 1800's to present day…
***/5
I needed to watch this movie again since I slept half away through it the first time. 😀 The sleep didn't have to do with the movie though 😛 just a tired me.
On second watch – It was an OK movie but it did bring out interesting situations and people dealing with it. The equation between father and two daughters as they to know each other is well done. An OK movie.
We're just done with the Oscar's so we've been trying to catch up with some of them. Here's the one's we've seen until now.
In the time of digital hi-fi si-fi 'The Artist' stands out. A black and white silent movie it steals the show. The story is about the relationship between a top silent actor and a up-coming actress. The movie is set in the time when cinema was transitioning to talkies and deals with how life changed for artists back then. It's a beautiful movie and the actors have done an amazing job. I which actors today would emote as much as this. This is a MUST WATCH movie!!!
I've played baseball in school as a kid but what can I say, I'm Indian so I never really understood the craze for the game in America. And then I watched Moneyball. The movie brings new perspective to the game. I was hook though the movie wondering what Beane would do. Worth watching!
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
For some very weird reason that I can't recollect right now we decided to watch this old 1964 Oscar movie. It's a funny movie no doubt but we gave up half the way. At some point it felt like a drag. Have you watched it? What did you think of it?
Movie Review: Bol by Shoaib Mansoor
Bol is one of the movies I've watched recently and really enjoyed. This is one movie you must watch.
Bol is the story of a family in Pakistan – a father, a mother, 7 daughters and a transsexual son. Through the story Shoaib Mansoor explores various angles of life in Pakistan and Islam. The movie released in June, 2011 and became the highest earning movie in Pakistan in its first week of release.
The need of a son – the girl child just isn't good enough
The family has 7 daughters because the father wants a son. He doesn't think its right for a woman to work outside the house and hence keeps trying to have a son. He finally gets a transsexual son Saifi, who he is ashamed of and keeps hidden away. The women in the family love Saifi but to his father he is only a reminder of his failure. The daughters are shown to each have talents and are good at what they do – but their talents are never recognized by the father only because they are women.
Shoaib brings out the inequality between men and women at various times. The father is allowed to do just about anything but he has rules for 'his' women. They are not allowed a life outside the confines of the house. They are required to show him respect and loyalty but these rules don't apply to him. He does not require to earn more to feed the children he is producing by the year, rather they have to find a way to live in what he gives them. Finally after a few children born dead the eldest daughter intervenes and gets her mother operated. The father being a Hakim or doctor does not see what his wife is going through with each child birth, he believes ardently that God Giveth so he Provideth.
Twisting Islam
The teachings of Islam are questioned in the movie. The father, a Hakim and a learned man quotes scripture in all he does but he twists the meaning to suit his requirement at that time. He does not approve of his daughter marrying a Shia Muslim but goes ahead and marries a Kanjar (dancing) girl in his need for money. The way the common man blindly believes in religion is also shown when the Hakim marries Mina the dancing girl. The Kanjar offers the Hakim money to impregnate his daughter but even though its not required the Hakim marries Mina to reduce his guilt of infidelity and promiscuity.
Transsexual Pathos
Saifi, the transsexual son does a good depiction of the pathos of being born different. He is loved by the women even though they are not happy with him being a transsexual but his father sees him as a mistake, a hit to his ego and a personal insult that he is not good enough. Saifi in trying to win his fathers heart finds work painting trucks but is raped one day while the master isn't around. He comes home and tells his family who are stricken but to his father this is his fears coming to life. Rather than console the traumatized child, the Hakim sees his image being blacked in society and kills his son.
Modern Vs Old Pakistan
The movie shows two generations and types of people. The young and the old. The liberal and the conservative. Shoaib shows the way the thinking is changing in Pakistan. The movie itself speaks a lot about the people of Pakistan today and what they want as their future.
An apt name for the movie 'Bol' or speak in Urdu as it speaks at so many levels. This movie like I said earlier is a must watch!
Starting the Year At The Movies
This year just like the books I've read I'd also like to list and rate the movies I've seen. Over the years I've watched a lot of movies but can never remember them all. This would be a good way to document them.
This year started with the Movies – we watched 3 movies back to back on 1st Jan – The Adventures of Tin Tin, Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Mission Impossible.
The Adventures of Tin Tin
I watched this in 3D and absolutely enjoyed it. I can't wait for the sequel. I've always loved Tin Tin and enjoyed the cartoons that would come on TV. I even have them on VHS tape 😀
Tin Tin in the movie turned out to be a great looker but I felt Captain Hadock had something missing. Maybe it was his nose that I didn't like.
The movie is packed with action and there isn't a boring moment.
We discovered something accidently too – for a 3D movie the front row seats are the best!
I enjoyed this movie though I think I'd need to watch it again to grasp all the nuances. Be warned this movie needs your full attention or you won't be able to tie up the loose ends.
It's a detailed story of finding the traitor in the highest levels of the British Intelligence. There are 4 suspects and it's a tale of elimination to arrive at the traitor.
A Must Watch!
Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
As always Mission Impossible is a full action masala. movie The movie is made well and should be watched on big screen. The visuals are stunning.
I was very excited about seeing the Burj Khalifa scenes and they didn't let me down.
A good watch if you're looking for a mindless masala movie. 😀


While doing research for Luke Barnes and his Fine-Tuning with WLC, I came across another interesting titbit. My complaint in the referenced article is that Barnes' arguments are being used by what could be called "old universe creationists" or "big bang creationists". The example of this happening, rather unsurprisingly given the rubric, involves William Lane Craig (WLC). However, the phenomenon of using Barnes' work to support an apologetics-style argument for god is not restricted to our old friend WLC.
Eric Hatfield of The Way 21st Century uses Barnes, for example, as does Eric Hatfield (aka UnkleE) of Is there a God? (blog), Barry K Arrington of Uncommon Descent, Dr Jonathan D. Sarfati from Creation Ministries International, Dr Quirino Sugon Jr. from Monk's Hobbit (Rebuilding the Faith and Nation) – and yes that is his real name, I'm not making this up – and Ashly Camp of True Origin (in his list of "1342 Articles Supporting Biblical Creation" – of which Barnes wrote two).
And then there are his mentions in the news. Barnes was recently happy to note that one of his images was used in a quite reasonable article at The Economist. And he was actually quoted in one at Inside Science. He mentions this on his blog, but I didn't find my way to the article via that particular mention (which I only found when I went looking for it). I found it (via a search engine, I hasten to point out) at Uncommon Descent, a website dedicated to serving the "Intelligent Design Community".
Remember that my concern is that some people might be entering academia with the intent of supporting forms of creationism. Luke Barnes may or may not be one of them, but he certainly doesn't seem to put any effort into explaining his position in such a way as to prevent misuse of his conclusions (and this might be because he considers the god conclusion not to be misuse – or maybe another reason that I'll get to below).
Uncommon Descent is maintained by a Christian bankruptcy lawyer, Barry K Arrington, and has an article on pretzels – or rather the "pretzels people make of themselves to deny fine-tuning of the universe for life". It is in this article that Barnes is mentioned. This article just happened to be the one that popped up when I was snooping around, trying to ascertain whether Barnes had links to creationists. However, the folks at Uncommon Descent have mentioned Barnes quite a few times, with one contributor (Salvador Cordova) even professing to be a fan.
This is a rabbit-hole that is worth ducking down for a moment.
Cordova quoted Rod Sheldon on the topic of curvature of the universe and the content, to me as a non-expert, appears to be rather uncontroversial. Sheldon just says that the universe looks remarkably flat when triangulation is carried out using sufficiently distant objects (bright ones, like quasars and galaxies) and that some observations suggest features of the universe for which Dark Matter has subsequently been theorised to explain. If anything is particularly controversial in what Sheldon has to say, noting that he says it all in rather layman-like terms, it is the suggestion that inflation creates more problems than it solves – but Barnes doesn't even mention this in his response. However, it's not really the content of Barnes' reply that interests me, nor whether Sheldon's comments are truly worth worrying about. In modern parlance, it's not the data but the metadata that is interesting.
Cordova posted the Sheldon piece on 30 January 2014. Barnes posted his comprehensive response to that article on 1 February 2014. The question this raises is why Barnes should be so interested in an article posted on a website dedicated to serving the Intelligent Design community? Interested enough to read that article, presumably within a day of it being posted, and respond within two days.
However, their personal loopiness is irrelevant given that the mention of Barnes by Uncommon Descent (in the pretzel instance) was embedded in a quote taken from an article at "RealClearScience". RealClearScience is an organ of RealClearInvestors and Crest Media, who own RealClearPolitics and RealClearReligion and a few other closely linked news aggregators. The RealClear group might also be a bit loopy, being dedicated to addressing the "bias in media against conservatives, religious conservatives, [and] Christian conservatives" – and noting that their science feed includes a recent blog listing "Great Theological Quotes on Science" – but they are mostly just aggregators, or perhaps "filters", providing the sort of news that they think their target audience might like. The article they aggregated in this case came from Inside Science, the same one that Luke Barnes mentions at his blog. One could wonder why the folks at Uncommon Descent mentioned RealClearScience at all and didn't just refer to the original article, but perhaps there are some kudos involved in mentioning an article that has made its way through the "anti-bias" filtering process.
The Universe we live in is characterized by certain parameters that take specific values so that life on Earth is possible. For example, the age of the Universe must be large enough to allow for the formation of galaxies, stars and planets. On more microscopic scales, certain fundamental parameters of the Standard Model of the strong and electroweak interactions like the light quark masses or the electromagnetic fine structure constant must take values that allow for the formation of neutrons, protons and atomic nuclei. At present, we do not have a viable theory to predict the precise values of these constants, although string theory promises to do so in some distant future. Clearly, one can think of many universes, the multiverse, in which various fundamental parameters take different values leading to environments very different from ours. In that sense, our Universe has a preferred status, and this was the basis of the socalled anthropic principle (AP) invented by Carter. The AP states that "the observed values of all physical and cosmological quantities are not equally probable but they take on values restricted by the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the requirements that the Universe be old enough for it to have already done so". There are many variants of the AP, but this definition serves our purpose quite well. At first sight, one might think that it is a triviality, as the statement seems to be a tautology. However, we can move away from the philosophical level and ask whether the AP can have physical consequences that can be tested? This is indeed the case particularly in nuclear physics, as I will argue in this review. But it is worth mentioning that anthropic reasoning has been used in some well cited papers, I name here Weinberg's work on the cosmological constant and Susskind's exploration of the string theory landscape. The influence of the AP on string theory and particle physics has been reviewed recently in [A. N. Schellekens, Rev. Mod. Phys. 85, no. 4, 1491 (2013)]. But let us return to nuclear physics. A prime example of the AP is the so-called Hoyle state. In 1954, Hoyle made the prediction of an excited level in carbon-12 to allow for a sufficient production of heavy elements (12C, 16O,...) in stars. As the Hoyle state is crucial to the formation of the elements essential to life as we know it, this state has been nicknamed the "level of life". See, however, [H. Kragh, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 64, 721 (2010)] for a thorough historical discussion of the Hoyle state in view of the anthropic principle. Independent of these historical issues, the anthropic view of the Universe can be nicely shown using the example of the Hoyle state, more precisely, one can understand how the abstract principle can be turned into a physics question. The central issue is the closeness of the Hoyle state to the threshold of 4He+8Be that determines the resonance enhancement of carbon production. In Fig. 1 I show the possible response of this resonance condition to the change of some fundamental parameter, here called g. If for a wide range of this parameter, the resonance condition stays intact (left panel), more precisely, the absolute energies might shift but the Hoyle state stays close to the energy of 4He+8Be. In such a case, one can hardly speak of an anthropic selection. If on the other hand, the two levels split markedly for small changes in g as shown in the right panel, this would correspond to a truly anthropic fine-tuning. In Nature, we cannot investigate which of these scenarios is indeed fulfilled as all fundamental constants take specific values. However, with the powerful tool of computer simulations this has become possible and this issue will be discussed in the remaining part of the review.
Also of interest is that a paper by Luke Barnes is referenced in Meissner's paper.
What is this hugely unwieldy paragraph actually saying? One of the problems is that the author is not a native English speaker, so it's possible that some wording can be a little off-kilter. Like, for example, the first sentence which infers design intent. The problem is that while I might be willing to accept that Meissner didn't intend to make this inference, this largesse on my part doesn't prevent those who want to read such inferences into scientific literature from doing so.
I'm certainly not the first person to react to this, for instance the Sensuous Curmudgeon has reacted to a different strand of this story, which came via PhysOrg.
What I find to be salient here is not so much that what Meissner is saying is wrong (if generously interpreted), but how it can be misused (if, shall we say, "creatively" interpreted).
What exactly is this anthropic principle that Meissner is talking about? If you follow the link to Wikipedia or do a little digging on your own, you will find that there is not just the one anthropic principle. There are at least two weak anthropic principles, at least two strong anthropic principles, a modified anthropic principle, the strong self-sampling assumption variant, the final anthropic principle, the participatory anthropic principle and the completely ridiculous anthropic principle.
It seems to me that we can look at the "anthropic-ness" of the universe in two basic ways. The first is to do the same as Luke Barnes' creationist friends (be they intentional friends of his or not) – look at the universe and say "wow, if things were only slightly different, then we would not exist" and then draw your preferred conclusions from that. The second is to consider the fact that when we are trying to work out what happened in our cosmological or biological past, the only theories we can seriously entertain are those theories which don't preclude our existence. In other words the anthropic principle can be used as a filter to exclude those theories which would make the existence of intelligent life in this universe and the development of humans impossible (while noting that such a filter will not exclude theories in which such outcomes are only very highly unlikely rather than impossible).
It'd be great if Luke Barnes could clarify precisely what perspective he is taking on this issue, but it might affect his longer term aspirations.
And, you might wonder, what exactly might those aspirations be? Well, in doing my research I began to notice something that kept cropping up with Barnes. Templeton. He has now attended at least two seminars funded by Templeton and he has repeatedly indicated a leaning towards Templeton winners – for example he refers to Martin Rees (2011) quite a bit and also Paul Davies (1995). Of course, one could be generous and say that these are esteemed members of the scientific community working in Barnes' area; Rees is an astronomer like Barnes and Davies is a physicist who is linked to cosmology. It'd be a surprise if such Barnes never mentioned such notables, but they just seem to pop up quite a bit in Barnes' world.
My suspicion, as ungracious as it might be, is that Barnes has hit on the idea of winning a Templeton prize. This is, in fact, a great idea – even for a non-theist or atheist, so long as you have no self-respect – because the Templeton prize is intentionally more rewarding, at least financial terms, than the Nobel prize – and possibly much easier to win as a scientist. All you need to do is ostentatiously support the efforts of apologists and theologians, while maintaining the mantle of serious scientist, all the better if you can look like you might be an unbeliever, and all that sweet, sweet cash could soon be flowing your way.
Of course, I don't claim to know that this is Barnes' plan. But, if in the future he does win the prize, remember that you read it here first.
Heading down another rabbit-hole, I also found it interesting that Barnes should take it upon himself to respond to Jeffrey Shallit after he (Shallit) wrote a piece criticising a creationist. Less than four hours after the article was posted, Barnes was already responding in defence of Joseph Esfandiar Hannon Bozorgmehr. Another amazingly swift response. Why so eager to leap in, Luke?
This was of course, not his first foray into biological creationism.
I am now kicking myself that I did not post this article a week ago, or two weeks ago. While I've had this on the boil, I've been regularly checking Barnes' site to see if he has posted links to his presentations at the Templeton-sponsored St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology.
Today when I checked, however, I saw his latest post (15 September 2015) which encourages people to check out a piece written by his co-author, Geraint Lewis. Co-author of what, I hear you ask?
Presumably a paper, together with a third astronomer, Pascal Elahi, that will emerge from a grant titled Galaxy Formation and the Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life.
Ah, same old same old, I hear you say. But no, that's not my point. My point is that this grant, as detailed on their pages at the University of Sydney (Luke Barnes, Geraint Lewis and Pascal Elahi), is sourced from Templeton World Charity Foundation/Research Support.
Let me just add John Barrow to the list of people mentioned off-hand by Barnes who have co-incidentally won a Templeton Prize.


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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott at Bonus Arena
Music, Tue 21 - Wed 22 Apr 2020
Bonus Arena
The Beautiful South stars Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott are embarking on a UK tour to coincide with the release of their new album, *Wisdom, Laughter and Lines*.
This record is the second from Paul and Jacqui following the critically acclaimed *What Have We Become*, which saw them return together on record for the first time since the multi-million selling days of The Beautiful South, who in the 1990s and early 2000s released a string of critically-acclaimed records.
Paul also had resounding success with The Housemartins and was responsible for writing hits such as 'Rotterdam', 'Don't Marry Her' and 'Perfect 10'.
www.whathavewebecome.net/
Tue 21 - Wed 22 Apr 2020
Sat 18 Jan For a Special One-Off Show: Holy Holy in Hull
Sat 18 Jan Holy Holy
Mon 20 - Tue 21 Jan Kaiser Chiefs
Fri 31 Jan Circus of Horrors: The 25th Anniversary Tour
Fri 7 Feb Song For Hull 2020
Sat 15 Feb Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny
Bonus Arena,
Myton Street,
HU1 2PS


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5 key themes from HIMSS and ViVE: Value-based care, digital transformation woes, and more
March was busy for Bright.md and others in the health IT space, with both HIMSS and ViVE bringing leaders in the industry together in Florida. We were thrilled to have a presence at both to discuss the value of asynchronous telehealth and the critical role this care continues to play in organizations' digital transformation efforts.
In addition to digital transformation, speakers at both conferences covered many topics like interoperability and the importance of data sharing, consumerization of care, health equity, and more. Check out our round-up below of the top news and key themes to keep an eye out for this year from HIMSS22 and ViVE 2022.
Value-based care. There's a new emphasis being placed on value-based care as telehealth's popularity continues to hold strong post-pandemic. According to David Chou, CIO for a public academic health system and author of this HealthcareIT News piece, now is the time for CIOs to shine and "lead the way in developing a set of tools that can deliver care anywhere, anytime," he wrote. Virtual care options, map route optimization, and remote patient monitoring are all areas to explore.
Interoperability. Physicians need data aggregated across multiple sources to best create a holistic view of a patient, wrote FierceHealthcare's Rebecca Torrence in her coverage of HIMSS22. Interoperability has been a "hot topic" for a while, with the industry increasingly turning toward digitals solutions for everything from patient data to claims and billing. Although recent regulations have helped progress efforts towards interoperability that were once slow-going, the transition to value-based care models—as outlined above—is demanding an even greater push for open data exchange.
Consumerization of care and retail health. Executive moves are being made within the industry, prompting MedCity News writer Stephanie Balm to note the impact of consumerization on healthcare. As system execs leave for companies like Amazon, Balm writes the influence of the retail giants are part of the push to transform healthcare. The relationship between technology and care quality is growing stronger, as providers look for ways to streamline tasks while retail giants want to deepen their understanding of the industry.
On Twitter, CEO of Damo Consulting Paddy Padmanabhan summed up this ViVE22 key theme as well. "Consumer behavior change is driving digital health," he wrote. "Amazon and Walmart are real players in the emerging health care model of the future. Everyone has a story about how they are uniquely addressing consumer expectations."
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Digital transformation…or lack thereof. The last two years have welcomed a rapid growth of virtual care options, including remote patient monitoring, text applications, and asynchronous telehealth. But, the adoption and acceptance of these applications hasn't exactly been linear, writes Dr. Caroline Yang for MobiHealthNews. Yang covered a HIMSS22 session in which panelists discussed findings from the HIMSS22 State of Healthcare report. All panelists agreed that although priorities may be different, technology alone isn't a "sufficient solution" for digital transformation. Instead, there needs to be active buy-in and engagement of all stakeholders.
According to the study cited, which polled 250 health executives globally, 99 percent of respondents said digital transformation was a priority. However, the majority of respondents said they were still "stuck" in the planning and pre-implementation phases. In addition, 60 percent said their organization doesn't have the structure in place to support digital transformation.
Digital health maturation and health equity. Lastly at ViVE, healthcare executives discussed widespread adoption and scaling of virtual health since the onset of the pandemic. According to speakers, the industry has moved past the point of these ideas as simply concepts limited to academic medical centers. Instead, digital health implementations are leading to real-world results with regard to care access and health equity. Leaders at ViVE also recommitted to improving health outcomes for those in underserved and rural communities, including work like improving health outcomes for pregnant women to efforts to address specialist access in underserved, rural communities.
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Q: Is it possible to create an alias for an enum in C / Objective-C? Example:
I find the enum UIViewAnimationCurve is too long. I want to write CurveEaseIn.
So I attempted to create an alias:
typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, CurveEase) {
    CurveEaseInOut = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut,
    CurveEaseIn = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseIn,
    CurveEaseOut = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut
};

When I use my new enum in places where I need to specify UIViewAnimationCurve, I have to cast it otherwise Xcode throws warnings like:
Implicit conversion from enumeration type 'enum CurveEase' to different enumeration type 'UIViewAnimationCurve' (aka 'enum UIViewAnimationCurve')

I also tried:
typedef NS_ENUM(UIViewAnimationCurve, CurveEase) {
    CurveEaseInOut = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut,
    CurveEaseIn = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseIn,
    CurveEaseOut = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut
};

Notice the UIViewAnimationCurve as type of the enum. This gives the error:
Non-integral type 'UIViewAnimationCurve' (aka 'enum UIViewAnimationCurve') is an invalid underlying type

So it seems I am stuck with NSInteger as the type. But is there any way to trick the compiler into accepting CurveEase without doing a cast, and without suppressing warnings?

A: What about typedef UIAnimationCurve CurveEase ?

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