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Q: Setting a cookie with max age; max age is lost So.. I have this unit test:
func TestCookieVoodoo(t *testing.T) {
    req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/", nil)

    cookie := http.Cookie{Name: "potato", MaxAge: 1000}

    req.AddCookie(&cookie)

    cookieCopy, _ := req.Cookie("potato")

    println(fmt.Sprintf("Cookie orig: %v", cookie))
    println(fmt.Sprintf("Cookie Copy: %v", *cookieCopy))

    t.Fail()
}

When running it, the output is:
Cookie orig: {potato    0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC  1000 false false 0  []}
Cookie copy: {potato    0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC  0 false false 0  []}

Why does it loose the max age? (same thing happens when setting other cookie fields) Thanks

A: Because the Request.AddCookie only add key and value to the cookie string. the function is:
func (r *Request) AddCookie(c *Cookie) {
    s := fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", sanitizeCookieName(c.Name), sanitizeCookieValue(c.Value))
    if c := r.Header.Get("Cookie"); c != "" {
        r.Header.Set("Cookie", c+"; "+s)
    } else {
        r.Header.Set("Cookie", s)
    }
}

why?

*

*this is the definition of cookie-string  in RFC 6265

*the Max-Age and other fields of cookie is used by client not server. they are config of client. for example: if the the cookie exprires, client doesn't send key=value to server. So the fields are ignored in request

A: If you look at the AddCookie code you can see it attaches a Cookie header to the request in the form <Name>=<Value>, or appends to an existing Cookie header ignoring all other fields of the Cookie struct except for Name and Value.
The Cookie header only has the notion of a Name and a Value, more information about the Cookie header can be found here.
A Set-Cookie header on the other hand would preserve all the fields of the Cookie struct, but this would typically set on an HTTP response. So it wouldn't really make sense to set this on your http.Request.

A: Looking at the Go implementation of AddCookie it is only taking the Name and Value fields.
I believe this is because the MaxAge is valid when sending a cookie in a Response but irrelevent when making a Request. Any cookies the client receives to submit with a request (as in your case) should be validated; valid cookies are then added with AddCookie and only their Keys and Values will be submitted with the request.

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Dragony Reveals Third Single & Official Video for "Legends Never Die" New Album, 'Viribus Unitis', out this Friday, January 15 via Napalm Records
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Austrian symphonic power metal heroes Dragony are about to release their epic new full-length, Viribus Unitis, this Friday, January 15 via Napalm Records, and today, unveil their third single, "Legends Never Die". Prepare for "the most Austrian metal album of all time"(Stormbringer.at), as we return to the days when the country was ruled by emperor Franz Joseph and his wife, empress Sisi. But forget everything you've heard and read so far! According to Dragony and their upcoming opus Viribus Unitis, history took a completely different turn.
After setting the stage with their first offering, "Gods Of War", featuring special guest songwriter Tommy Johansson (Sabaton) and Tomas Svedin (Symphony Of Tragedy), followed by glory metal hymn "Golden Dawn", Dragony now unveil their third single, "Legends Never Die": History is (re-)written in this contemporary-sounding closer! With its catchy chorus, everything is set for the grand finale. Along with rapid riffing and keys on point, the song serves as an epilogue to the story of Viribus Unitis, looking at the way the legends of the Habsburg rulers were created and have been adapted and re-told throughout the years.
Singer Siegfried Samer on "Legends Never Die": "Legends Never Die" can be regarded as the epilogue to the storyline of Viribus Unitis, that culminates in the final, epic battle in the song "Battle Royale".
In "Legends Never Die", we take a step back to look at the story we just told from an outside perspective, and remind ourselves and the listener that eventually, most history can be turned into "just a story", and that even though all empires fall one day, all men must die, and all times – good and bad – must pass, at the end of the day, the memories of those persons and events that influenced us, regardless of whether it was through politics, through philosophy, through music, literature or through other forms of art, will always stay with us and are thus immortalized; and that the stories that may be told about these legendary persons and events, just like these "legends" themselves, never truly die."
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By Quentin on December 13, 2017 in Hail Varsity, Illustration
As it became increasingly apparent that Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos was going to hire former Husker quarterback Scott Frost as the football team's next coach, the Hail Varsity team started planning how to put Frost on the next issue's cover. The first plan was to shoot a portrait of Frost in his new Nebraska gear with the stadium in the background. With only one week between the announcement of the hiring and our print deadline, we thought odds were 50/50 of getting one-on-one access with the very busy new coach. We needed a backup plan.
I'd seen an ESPN magazine cover recently that I liked conceptually. For their issue that hit newsstands around Thanksgiving, they created a photoillustration of Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz as a larger-than-life float in a parade. I began thinking of ways to put Frost on a conceptual Hail Varsity cover without having access to shooting a unique portrait of him. I wanted to merge the two feelings Husker Nation had about the hire: Scott Frost is a superhero (see his 12-0 record this season at Central Florida) and Scott Frost is the Christmas gift all Nebraska fans wanted this year (see every letter addressed to the North Pole with a Nebraska postmark this year). Mash the two together, and a freshly unwrapped Coach Frost action figure seemed to fit the mold. So, I drew a thumbnail of the concept.
Realizing my initial thumbnail didn't actually look like anything, I tried again.
Now we had an idea and a week. We had to start executing. I called my very talented friend, Omaha illustrator Tim Mayer. As someone who draws them for a living, I thought he may have some good advice on how to make a superhero. He floated the idea of 3D printing, which sounded awesome but seemed liked it would take more than the one week we had. We decided not to reinvent the wheel, and we hit he toy isles of big box stores to look for inspiration and, with some luck, a model that could transform into Frost.
Tim initially looked at a 24-inch tall Superman figure. Frost has the figure of a man who may duck into phonebooths in the event of trouble, but this one was too big for our needs. We wanted a classic-sized figure, in a plastic and cardboard case. We looked at smaller superheroes like The Hulk and The Flash, and other versions of Superman. They were all too strong and bulky or had emblems embossed in the plastic of their uniforms. We needed to find an earthly superhero, one who wore khakis and didn't have a logo melted into his chest. We needed a WWE wrestler.
We sifted through stacks of them before finding the perfect guy: Dean Ambrose. He was wearing jeans instead of lycra, shoes instead of rocket packs and his belt didn't have any grappling hooks or gernades attached. Tim thought his shirt and pants would be easy enough to paint over to transform him into Frost. So, Tim got working on the make-over, as I started building some new packaging based on the visual vocabulary of action figure desgin.
Over the course of about 48 hours, it started coming together.
Frost's hairline is unique to men from the planet Krypton, so poor Dean lost his head to make room for Clark's.
An early draft that still needs to be comic-booked up.
Tim nailed the paint job, and added a hat.
Packaging coming together.
Sweat the details. The accessories that come with action figures are always the best part.
Ready for his plastic and cardboard coffin.
From there, it was a matter of finding the right setting for the cover photo. Hail Varsity publisher and photographer Aaron Babcock spotting the perfect spot, under my tree.
After we nailed down the cover picture, it was time for Lil' Frosty to break out of the box and pose for some photos.
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Po raz pierwszy na arenie międzynarodowej pojawiała się 6 grudnia 2003 roku w Kühtai, gdzie w zawodach FIS Race zajęła 48. miejsce w slalomie równoległym (PSL). W 2005 roku wystąpiła na mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Zermatt, gdzie była trzecia w gigancie równoległym (PGS). Jeszcze dwukrotnie startowała na imprezach tego cyklu, największy sukces osiągając podczas rozgrywanych trzy lata później mistrzostw świata juniorów w Valmalenco, gdzie zwyciężyła w PSL. W Pucharze Świata zadebiutowała 6 lutego 2005 roku w Winterbergu, gdzie zajęła 39. miejsce w PSL. Pierwsze punkty wywalczyła 10 października 2005 roku w Sölden, zajmując 18. miejsce w PGS. Pierwszy raz na podium stanęła 28 stycznia 2007 roku w Nendaz, wygrywając rywalizację w PSL. Wyprzedziła tam dwie Austriaczki: Heidi Neururer i Doresię Krings. W sezonie 2017/2018 oraz 2018/2019 zajęła drugie miejsce w klasyfikacji generalnej PAR i w klasyfikacjach obu konkurencji równoległych.

W 2010 roku wystąpiła na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Vancouver, zajmując czwarte miejsce w gigancie równoległym. Walkę o podium przegrała tam z Marion Kreiner z Austrii. Na rozgrywanych w 2014 roku igrzyskach w Soczi plasowała się poza czołową dziesiątką. Była też między innymi czwarta w slalomie równoległym podczas mistrzostw świata w Kreischbergu, walkę o podium ponownie przegrywając z Marion Kreiner. W 2018 roku wywalczyła srebrny medal w PGS na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Pjongczangu. W zawodach tych rozdzieliła Czeszkę Ester Ledecką i swą rodaczkę, Ramonę Theresię Hofmeister. W 2019 roku, na mistrzostwach świata w Park City zdobyła złoty medal w gigancie równoległym. Dwa lata później obroniła tytuł mistrzowski podczas mistrzostw świata w Rogli, ponadto zdobyła brązowy medal w slalomie równoległym.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej PAR
 sezon 2004/2005: 80.
 sezon 2005/2006: 44.
 sezon 2006/2007: 14.
 sezon 2007/2008: 19.
 sezon 2008/2009: 11.
 sezon 2009/2010: 21.
 sezon 2010/2011: 20.
 sezon 2011/2012: 14.
 sezon 2012/2013: 16.
 sezon 2013/2014: 8.
 sezon 2014/2015: 6.
 sezon 2015/2016: 12.
 sezon 2016/2017: 15.
 sezon 2017/2018: 2.
 sezon 2018/2019: 2.
 sezon 2019/2020: 3.
 sezon 2020/2021: 4.

Miejsca na podium w zawodach
  Nendaz – 28 stycznia 2007 (slalom równoległy) – 1. miejsce
  Carezza – 14 grudnia 2013 (slalom równoległy) – 3. miejsce
  Rogla – 31 stycznia 2015 (gigant równoległy) – 3. miejsce
  Winterberg – 14 marca 2015 (slalom równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Cortina d'Ampezzo – 15 grudnia 2017 (gigant równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Bansko – 26 stycznia 2018 (gigant równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Bansko – 26 stycznia 2018 (gigant równoległy) – 3. miejsce
  Winterberg – 17 marca 2018 (slalom równoległy) – 1. miejsce
  Rogla – 19 stycznia 2019 (gigant równoległy) – 1. miejsce
  Pjongczang – 16 lutego 2019 (gigant równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Secret Garden – 23 lutego 2019 (gigant równoległy)  – 3. miejsce
  Secret Garden – 24 lutego 2019 (slalom równoległy)  – 3. miejsce
  Winterberg – 23 marca 2019 (slalom równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Bannoje – 7 grudnia 2019 (slalom równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Cortina d'Ampezzo – 14 grudnia 2019 (gigant równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Piancavallo – 25 stycznia 2020 (slalom równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Blue Mountain – 29 lutego 2020 (gigant równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Blue Mountain – 1 marca 2020 (gigant równoległy) – 3. miejsce
  Cortina d'Ampezzo – 12 grudnia 2020 (gigant równoległy) – 2. miejsce
  Carezza – 17 grudnia 2020 (gigant równoległy) – 3. miejsce
  Bad Gastein – 12 stycznia 2021 (slalom równoległy) – 3. miejsce
  Berchtesgaden – 20 marca 2021 (slalom równoległy) – 2. miejsce

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na stronie FIS

Medaliści Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2018
Niemieccy snowboardziści
Niemieccy medaliści olimpijscy
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2010
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2014
Urodzeni w 1988
Medaliści Zimowej Uniwersjady 2011
Medaliści Zimowej Uniwersjady 2013
Medaliści Zimowej Uniwersjady 2015

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Thanks very much

A: Yes, putting yourgridview.databind() in the following if statement will help you stop repopulation of your what ever databound controls. Use this always if want you want the controls populated at the first load of the page only. Or please elaborate your question more
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Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013 - 10:30
.9.12.2013
A Chinese Long March 4B launched the CBERS-3 satellite on Monday, marking the fourth cooperative mission between China and Brazil. The launch took place at 03:26 UTC from the LC9 Launch Complext at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. CBERS-3 will operate on a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 778 kilometers.
CBERS (China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite) is a cooperative program between China and Brazil, following an initial agreement in 2002.
The CBERS-3 spacecraft – with a mass of 2,100 kg - consists of a hexahedron shaped structure divided in service and payload modules.
In its orbital configuration, the Z axis is pointed towards the Earth's surface utilizing "3-axis stabilization", with cameras and antennas mounted on the +Z side panel.
The spacecraft's solar panel is mounted on the -Y side panel and rotates around the Y axis, while the antennas, thrusters and attitude sensors – such as the sun sensors and infrared Earth sensors – are mounted on other panels.
The Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem (AOCS) includes star sensors, sun sensors, infrared Earth sensors, gyros, GPS receiver, a control computer, momentum wheels and a hydrazine propulsion system.
Thermal control is achieved by passive means, using thermal coating and multi-layer insulation blankets. The EPS (Electrical Power Subsystem) uses triple-junction GaAs solar panels, a shunt regulator, battery charge control, a battery discharge regulator, DC/DC converters and NiCd (Nickel Cadmium) batteries.
The EPS can provide 2.30 kW to the spacecraft.
The On-Board Data Handling (OBDH) subsystem consists of a main computer and seven remote terminal units to provide onboard data handling and the spacecraft monitoring and control functions.
The S-band antenna provides two-way communications with the ground and offers near omni-directional coverage. The payload image data are downlinked in X-band by two TWTA transmitters.
CBERS-3 carries four cameras – MUXCam, PanMUX, IRS and WFI - in the payload module, with improved geometrical and radiometric performance.
MUXCam is an INPE instrument designed and developed in Brazil, with an objective to provide imagery for cartographic applications.
MUXCam is a multispectral camera with four spectral bands covering the wavelength range from blue to near infrared (from 450 nm to 890 nm) with a ground resolution of 20 m and a ground swath width of 120 km.
The MUXCam instrument consists of three elements of hardware known as RBNA, RBNB and RBNC.
The RBNA provides image acquisition and is composed of an optical system (entrance mirror and lens assembly), optical housing and the focal plane assembly.
The RBNB consists of the electronics responsible for the thermal control, focus adjustment and the internal calibration system control. The RBNC subsystem generates the reading clocks, processing the analog outputs to digital signal, and data encoding into a serial data stream.
The CCD detector is a 4-line array, each line has 6000 pixels of size: 13 µm x 13 µm. Spectral thin films, deposited over a window that covers the photosensitive elements of the CCD, are responsible for the separation of the four spectral bands.
Provided by China, the PanMUX (Panchromatic and Multispectral Camera) is a CCD pushbroom camera that provides panchromatic images and sports focal plane adjustment and on-orbit calibration capabilities.
The IRS (Infrared System) – or IRMSS-2 (Infrared Multispectral Scanner-2) – is an imager with four spectral bands. It was developed via the heritage of China's Infrared Multispectral Scanner, as used on previous missions.
The WFI (Wide-Field Imager) – also referred to as WFI-2 – is an advanced version of an instrument flown on CBERS-1, and CBERS-2, featuring four spectral bands with a ground resolution of 64 m at nadir and a ground swath of 866 km.
The WFI instrument on CBERS-3 also provides an improved spatial resolution in comparison with the previous WFI sensors on board of the CBERS-1 and CBERS-2 satellites.
This camera will be used for remote sensing of the Earth and is aimed to work at an altitude of 778 km. The optical system is designed for four spectral bands covering the range of wavelengths from blue to near infrared.
Beside the cameras, CBERS 3 also includes the DCS (Data Collection System) and the SEM (Space Environment Monitor). The DCS is provided by INPE and the SEM is provided by CAST (Chinese Academy of Space Technology).
This was the 200th orbital launch by the Chinese, and their 188th success. It also marked 14th orbital launch by China in 2013 – with five of the launches taking place from Taiyuan.
The Launch Vehicle:
The feasibility study of the CZ-4 Chang Zheng-4 began in 1982 based on the FB-1 Feng Bao-1 launch vehicle. Engineering development was initiated in the following year. Initially, the Chang Zheng-4 served as a back-up launch vehicle for Chang Zheng-3 to launch China's communications satellites.
After the successful launch of China's first DFH-2 communications satellites by Chang Zheng-3, the main mission of the Chang Zheng-4 was shifted to launch sun-synchronous orbit meteorological satellites. On other hand, the Chang Zheng-4B launch vehicle was first introduced in May 1999 and also developed by the Shanghai Academy of Space Flight Technology (SAST), based on the Chang Zheng-4.
The rocket is capable of launching a 2,800 kg satellite into low Earth orbit, developing 2,971 kN at launch. With a mass of 248,470 kg, the CZ-4B is 45.58 meters long and has a diameter of 3.35 meters.
SAST began to develop the Chang Zheng-4B in February 1989. Originally, it was scheduled to be commissioned in 1997, but the first launch didn't take place until late 1999. The modifications introduced on the Chang Zheng-4B included a larger satellite fairing and the replacement of the original mechanical-electrical control on the Chang Zheng-4 with an electronic control.
Other modifications were an improved telemetry, tracking, control, and self-destruction systems with smaller size and lighter weight; a revised nuzzle design in the second stage for better high-altitude performance; a propellant management system for the second stage to reduce the spare propellant amount, thus increasing the vehicle's payload capability and a propellant jettison system on the third-stage.
The first stage has a 24.65 meter length with a 3.35 meter diameter, consuming 183,340 kg of N2O4/UDMH (gross mass of first stage is 193.330 kg). The vehicle is equipped with a YF-21B engine capable of a ground thrust of 2,971 kN and a ground specific impulse of 2,550 Ns/kg. The second stage has a 10.40 meter length with a 3.35 meter diameter and 38,326 kg, consuming 35,374 kg of N2O4/UDMH.
The vehicle is equipped with a YF-22B main engine capable of a vacuum thrust of 742 kN and four YF-23B vernier engines with a vacuum thrust of 47.1 kN (specific impulses of 2,922 Ns/kg and 2,834 Ns/kg, respectively).
The third stage has a 4.93 meter length with a 2.9 meter diameter, consuming 12,814 kg of N2O4/UDMH. Having a gross mass of 14,560 kg, it is equipped with a YF-40 engine capable of a vacuum thrust of 100.8 kN and a specific impulse in vacuum of 2,971 Ns/kg.
The Launch Center:
Situated in the Kelan County in the northwest part of the Shanxi Province, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) is also known by the Wuzhai designation. It is used mainly for polar launches (meteorological, Earth resources and scientific satellites).
The launch center has two single-pad launch complexes, a technical area for rocket and spacecraft preparations, a communications centre, a mission command and control centre, and a space tracking centre.
The stages of the rocket are transported to the launch centre by railway, and offloaded at a transit station south of the launch complex. They are then transported by road to the technical area for checkout procedures.
The launch vehicles are assembled on the launch pad by using a crane at the top of the umbilical tower to hoist each stage of the vehicle in place. Satellites are airlifted to the Taiyuan Wusu Airport about 300km away, and then transported to the centre by road.
The TT&C Centre, also known as Lüliang Command Post, is headquartered in the city of Taiyuan, It has four subordinate radar tracking stations in Yangqu (Shanxi), Lishi (Shanxi), Yulin (Shaanxi), and Hancheng (Shaanxi).
Quelle: NSC
Chinese-Brazilian Satellite Destroyed after Long March Rocket Fails
The CBERS-3 satellite at the China Space Center. Credit: Photo courtesy of INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
PARIS — The Chinese-Brazilian CBERS-3 Earth observation satellite was destroyed Dec. 9 following a failure of a Chinese Long March 4B rocket launched from China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) announced.
AEB said the CBERS-3 satellite, built mainly in Brazil, appeared to have been in good health as the rocket launched, but that it likely fell to Earth when the rocket failed.
"Preliminary indications are that the satellite has returned" to Earth, AEB said. "There was a malfunction of the launch vehicle."
AEB said that China and Brazil nonetheless are determined to pursue the CBERS program, which began in 1999 with the launch of CBERS-1. CBERS-2 was launched in 2003, and CBERS-2B followed in 2007. Work on a CBERS-4 satellite would start immediately, AEB said.
The Long March 4B rocket debuted in 2009. It has launched 19 times since then, with the Dec. 9 launch its 20th.
Quelle: SpaceNews
China's remote-sensing satellite fails to enter orbit
China's high-resolution remote-sensing satellite Ziyuan I-03 failed to enter orbit after its launch earlier Monday, military sources said.
"The rocket malfunctioned during the flight, and the satellite failed to enter orbit," said the sources, adding that Chinese and Brazilian experts are analyzing the cause of the failure.
The satellite, jointly developed by China and Brazil, was launched at 11:26 a.m. aboard a Long March 4B rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
Quelle: ChinaNews


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Peter McCutcheon and I performing a ballad
I'm still on about this topic having attended a memorial service (void of any religious connotation or indeed coffin — I am a Cohen). It was a moving affair with a "who's who" of music in Melbourne in attendance. I hadn't seen many of the musicians in a while and some of them seemed to have aged less gracefully than others. It did occur to me that they were likely thinking the same about me. I met Wilbur Wilde who graciously introduced himself to me and seemed to know all about the band.
Schnapps' tenor saxophone player, William Leonard Horowitz, presented a musical history of Peter's life, peppered with amusing anecdotes. Peter had performed on literally just about every live Channel Nine program, going way back to the Bert Newton show and much more. He'd played on well-known Australian movies all the way down to the "Pot of Luck" live talent show (and yes, Young Talent Time too).
I was just looking at my iTunes library and noticed a ballad, מהרה ה׳ by Shwekey, which I had performed with him four years ago. Remember, Peter was close to deaf, and there was no chart, and we hadn't played this in a while. Please excuse my mistake at the end [ … my head was somewhere else. It was my daughter's wedding and I sang and danced live … not easy]
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Author pitputimPosted on May 16, 2018 Categories Music, NostalgiaTags Peter McCutcheon, Schnapps Band, Shwekey, מהרה1 Comment on Peter McCutcheon and I performing a ballad
Vale Peter Ian McCutcheon
My career with the Schnapps band began some 35 years ago. I didn't run the band then but was brought in as the singer when the wedding was Frum. In those days the lineup and style was different. Norman Czarny ז׳ל was the accordionist and his particular sound was distinct. When Schnapps back then began to wind up, I took over the band and remodelled it, bringing in a more regular line up. Whilst Norman could read music, Schnapps in the old days used to 'know the songs' and play from memory. I didn't have that luxury and needed to find musicians that were both excellent readers, and able to adapt to the genre. I encouraged re-interpretation, spontaneity and soloing. Alas, whilst I wasn't a good fiddle player, I was blessed with a good ear and could not tolerate a musician unless they were absolutely top shelf.
Peter on the far right of picture
My trumpet player suggested that the best person to anchor the band on keyboards was Peter McCutcheon. Peter was known visually and personally to those who watched the well-regarded Hey Hey it's Saturday live show and especially its Red Faces segment. I spent lots of time preparing for my first transition Gig, trying to better organise the existing repertoire. I recalled how Schnapps would sometimes struggle to find the right tune amongst a heap of one or two page scores. After coming up with my system, the stage was set.
I was nervous and although I don't remember the reason, I felt I needed to call Peter before the gig. So, one morning, about 10am I called Peter's house. The phone call was some 5 minutes duration. At first Peter seemed stilted, but I attributed this to musicians tending to be late risers. Some years later (perhaps 8 years), when Peter was ensconced as the pianist and Schnapps was getting regular work, he casually mentioned to me at a Wedding we were doing, that I had called him on Xmas morning! Of course, for me it was just the next day, and I wasn't duly sensitised to consider not ringing on that morning! He noted, gently and using his dry wit, that it was a bit of a strange encounter for him. He was such a giant of spirit though, that he was sensitised (despite not having yet done a gig) to realise that I practiced another religion and was simply clueless as opposed to bulldozing through sensitivities. Suffice it to say that I was mortified when he brought this to my attention years later. With a smile on his face, those band members within ear shot had a healthy chuckle. By now, Peter knew my character and was sure that I had not intended anything.
Peter was like a musical computer. Some musicians are jazz oriented; others are Rock oriented, and others are great classical pianists who have marvellous reading skills. I used to marvel at the interpretation of songs that Peter would create. He mentioned that he always intended to have a most diverse musical experience, and as I recall he had worked in a Bavarian restaurant for a several years. As I settled into my role as band leader and singer, I allowed myself to bring, through my voice and fiddle, my own overlays onto songs. I used to stress to the band members that though many of the tunes we played were rather simple, and had simple Concert Melody/Chord charts, I wanted them to "let go" and wander through the tapestry of the progressions.
Peter was a great reader of music. I was most jealous. He was literally like a computer. Sometimes a 'must play' song materialised in the middle of a wedding. The band members were gentiles, except for me. They didn't know the song. I turned to Peter to write the song out. Little did I realise that as I sang the tune into his ear, while he was perched over his keyboard with a pencil and blank score, he would translate my voice into a perfectly formed chart. On the odd occasion where he would need to rub something out, that was mostly due to me not intonating properly or not remembering the song routine well enough. His skill in this regard, in real-time, was mind-blowing. Other musicians would sometimes watch on from the side, and when I shook my head in amazement, they would shake theirs as well, mumbling "he's a monster".
Musicians are a strange lot. They range from the bohemic to the fastidiously rigid. They mostly wear their hearts on their sleeves, and are notorious for being "too precious" over what I thought were the most trivial of matters. Sure, it's a right royal pain to come to a venue with your heavy gear, only to be told by some over officious attendant that you had to park your car further away and could not park near the loading bay. I got used to frustrated musicians, with furrowed brows mumbling inanities and hurling invective because of a logistic problem. It was in my interest to calm the musicians down. A happy musician is a well-performing musician. Incredibly, irrespective of what the logistic or other issue was which may have interfered with a smooth set up on stage, Peter never showed the slightest inkling that he was annoyed, let alone affected. In early days one took this for granted. After a while, it was plain that his great nature as a human being meant that he rose above these impediments. He appreciated that the band leader had much stress at this time and was professional enough not to add to that pressure. The most I ever heard from him was after a few decades. One venue was notoriously difficult. They seemed to delight in placing more and more ridiculous impediments in front of professional musicians. I was fed up myself. One day, Peter mentioned that he could not play at that venue unless his gear was delivered earlier on stage. In fact all musicians felt this way, only Peter was one of the last to say so, and he never did this bombastically.
Especially in the early days, there were some venues/caterers whose food may have been kosher, but the kitchen therein wouldn't have survived a health and safety audit. One Sunday we had a midday gig. The Saxophone player had already crossed words with the caterer (who was notorious). The caterer had made the musician feel like a little boy and was ordering him around. When the food arrived, and it was always 2 minutes before we were due to go back on stage, it was an experience in crazed ׳wolfing׳ down the already frazzled foodstuff on the plate.
Peter and (a half asleep) me
After the first course, some of the band members were feeling ill. By the time the main course had been consumed, the singer for the secular music was running from the stage to the toilets and back. The rest of the band had stories to tell about 'the day after'. I vividly recall sitting down at the next gig with the musicians relating how their stomachs had been abused. Only one musician, Peter, had no problems. We called him 'garbage guts'. He could eat anything. Indeed, he would go back for seconds of a dessert buffet with a plate that initiated engorgement by just looking!
Chuppas are a focus for musicians. We don't have many instruments. It is usually very quiet and any mistake is certainly noticed (by those blessed with a degree of musical ear). We have certainly done our fair share of these, ranging from the grandiose Chuppa where we did have 5 Musicians or more serenading each separate entry, through to the more usual variety where it was just Peter on Keyboard and me on Violin (and sometimes Voice).
Peter setting up for a Chuppa
Sometimes there is a special request for an obtuse or not well-known tune as the Kallah circumnavigates the Chosson, or similar. I recall one event in a swish hotel with all the guests decked out in their evening wear. Peter arrived and we had zero time to look at the score. It was, as I recall some 4 pages long and had changes in tempo with brief 1 or 2 bar interludes to boot. I always relied on Peter to cover my less than wonderful Violin playing, and on this occasion, I didn't know the tune off-hand and so I was reading as well. I had an advantage in that I knew the feel and the changes. To say I was nervous was an understatement, even if I had imbibed a couple of quick schnapps beforehand. As usual Peter was perfection personified. Every nuanced change, be it from me leading in a little early on my violin, or motioning with my head or indeed using other gesticulatory cues were picked up while at the same time Peter's left and right hands glided across the keyboard.
We even had fun at "Adass" gigs
When I did Jewish dinner music, I had a penchant for re-interpreting old, but beautiful songs. Even the decidedly aged "Amar Rabbi Akiva" became a Phrygian jazz experience. I only had to gently intimate a "feel" and Peter would be "onto it" immediately, adding his lavish chords and arpeggio runs. Just to mind: one crowd favourite for many years was "Al Kol Eleh" or
"Uncle Ayley" as my band called it. The ending was something that just came to be and was our unique blend. One evening, my voice was in fine form and we must have gone up a half a tone at least six times. Peter just smiled as I indicated "up" yet again, and accompanied me with his usual aplomb.
How many times did the great Schnapps band accompany visiting world stars, including Avraham Fried, the Chevrah and many more. We don't forget the functions where there was also a youth choir. On the latter, Peter wrote some beautiful charts. I remember (at my suggestion) he converted the legendary Pirchei song, "Eleycho" into 6th Chords and the Asian feel was just magnificent (I'm sure some ears thought it was "wrong" though).
Chanuka in the Park. It was rarely easy to get into the venue, let alone get out. I just remember when we had to support Lipa Schmeltzer one time and the late Piamenta flautist. Let's just say the charts were "challenging". Peter never complained. He was the consummate professional.
It is easy to write about Peter. Just over two weeks ago I organised a lunch at Spot On for the immediate band members and Peter. Peter, who had a bout of prostate cancer several years ago, and recovered, suddenly found his body wracked with cancer. His rather emaciated figure emerged from the car and I found it terribly sad to see him in this situation. We had a wonderful meal, laced with GlenSomething and some great wine. When the time came for it all to end, Peter's eyes welled up with tears. I don't think I had ever seen him teary. I can't repeat the collective noun he used for the members of the band, but he effectively said
It's hard for me to imagine that I'm not going to see you guys again
I retorted that he should be positive (cheap words from me) and allow the new treatment to perform a miracle. Peter knew what was coming. I did have an opportunity 2 or 3 days before he passed away, a few short weeks after, but decided that I didn't want to see him struggling for air, in and out of drug induced sleep.
Peter was not a religious man, but gave enormous respect to those who were sincerely religious. Melbourne has lost one of its finest musical figures and I have lost a wonderful friend and colleague.
The Hey Hey it's Saturday team, led by Daryl Somers, produced a nice facebook post about Peter, and published a video tribute which can be seen here.
PS. I will let you in on a secret. Peter had congenital deafness (no, nothing to do with the band volume). For approximately the last ten years, he played "deaf". He could hear the bass and drums, and followed the charts as need be. That sort of challenge can only be overcome by Peter Ian McCutcheon, of blessed memory.
ברוך דיין אמת
Author pitputimPosted on May 15, 2018 Categories Nostalgia, UncategorizedTags Hey Hey it's Saturday, Peter McCutcheon, Schnapps Band1 Comment on Vale Peter Ian McCutcheon
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You can't judge honey by looking at the bee."
Do you watch "Fixer Upper?" I love the creativity of the homes that Joanna Gaines and her husband refurbish. Wish Joanna would come decorate my house.
The program's financial premise is that Chip and Joanna locate "the worst house in the best neighborhood" in Waco, Texas, redesign structures and tear down walls, repaint and remodel, and provide the homeowner with a fantastic "new" house.
Now let's talk bond ratings. Compare a AAA bond, which is the best debt you can buy, to the best house in the neighborhood. When you purchase a AAA bond, you're getting the highest-rated, safest bond available.
Sometimes there's not much difference between a BBB- (lowest investment grade rating) and a BB+ (highest non-investment grade rating), especially on short-term debt. Investing in a non-investment grade bond can add as much as or more than a one percent return per year. Naturally, the purchase must match with an investor's age, financial goals and risk tolerance.
The difference between a BBB- bond and a BB+ bond can often be attributed to various factors having to do with the rating agencies and less to do with the companies issuing the debt. Thus, sometimes you can be taking investment-grade risk and making junk-bond return. Of course, the opposite can be true. Buying a bond with an investment-grade rating doesn't assure you of risk-free return. Remember 2008? But if you've done your homework on the fundamentals of the company issuing the debt, upper level non-investment grade bonds can potentially be a solid investment, if it's an appropriate purchase for your individual portfolio.
Margaret R. McDowell is the founder of Arbor Wealth Management LLC (850.608.6121 – www.arborwealth.net), a fiduciary, "fee-only" registered investment advisory firm near Destin. This column should not be considered personalized investment advice and provides no assurance that any specific strategy or investment will be suitable or profitable for an investor.


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Movie Review: Wild
By Jon The Blogcentric on 9 February 2015 | 1 Comment
Wild is about Cheryl Strayed (played by Reese Witherspoon) who goes on a hiking trip in 1995 to heal herself from her troubled past.
Before you label Wild a 'Reese Witherspoon movie,' you have to see it from start to end. You'd be surprise that it's not your typical movie from her. It's more.
The story begins in 1995 with Cheryl Strayed, a young twentysomething, about to start a hike down the Pacific Crest Trail. This comes right after her divorce from Paul, her husband of seven years. One of the many troubles in Cheryl's life. Cheryl looks to hiking the trail as a chance to reshape her life and gain inner strength. But at first, you will think Cheryl doesn't have what it takes to do this long hike. It's an 1,100 mile journey and on top of it, Cheryl is struggling to simply put on her 40-pound backpack, never mind walk with it. And on uneven terrain that includes mountains? Can she do it? Even her best friend Aimee feels she can't do it.
The hike starts with great difficulty. Walking with the heavy backpack, she has difficulties on the first day such as not even hiking ten miles, being without cooking fuel and being unable to set up a tent properly. The days get stronger over time but it's still very gradual as the second day she's made aware of the type of wild animals she would have to deal with.
Over time she would have to find help. On the third day, she asks a farmer for help. He offers to take her to her house but she's nervous about it, especially since she sees a gun in his car. She later learns he's a married man and the couple offer her to stay overnight. Over time she meets other people that offer her help from a father and his teenage son to full families to people at various camping goods stores and retailers to hippies in a local California town who pay tribute to Jerry Garcia upon his recent death at the time to three college guys out having a fun hike together to even hikers that also plan to do the trail but eventually fail. Not all were helpful. One was a journalist for a magazine who just took pictures of her and interviewed her. Another was a group of snowboarders on a mountain top who just leave her. Another was a pair of threatening-looking men she met at a well only to be encountered by the bowhunter later looking like he would want to do something harmful to her. Fortunately it doesn't happen as his colleague tells him to return.
However it's the alone times of the hike that are the most crucial. In between the times she signs a name on the hike log that includes using a quote or line of poetry from a famous poet, Cheryl is all alone and has the moments of her past come back to her. Moments like a childhood with an abusive father her mother leaves taking her younger brother and her at age 6, going through high school while her mother was returning to complete her graduation, marrying Paul a successful restaurant owner while young, learning her mother has cancer and her dying sooner than expected, having her mother's cherished horse put down, leaving Paul and hitting the inner city of Portland where she adopts a drug habit and even has an abortion. Those are the memories Cheryl is trying to wrestle with in her hike. Her cheap therapy hasn't helped but maybe this hike will.
The thing with this film is that it's not just to show the trip Cheryl took but also the flashbacks to the moments of her life that both trouble her and define her. We don't just see the bad memories she's dealing with but we feel them too. We may first just see Cheryl right after she finished her divorce at the beginning but as the trip progresses, we start feeling her situation. We learn of the bond she had with her mother and why her death hurt her terribly. We learn of how her marriage to Paul fell apart. We learn of her drug abuse. We learn of her abusive father she hasn't seen since she was a small girl. We learn of the cheap therapy she tried at first but didn't work. We learn of her no-so-close relationship with her brother. Over time, we see why Cheryl wants to use this trip to heal herself and it comes to appear as the right thing for her to do.
The film gives a good sense of inner strength Cheryl acquires over time with the hike. At first Cheryl appears to be a completely amateur camper who can't get her backpack on right, can't put up a tent well and can't cook a proper dinner outdoors. You think she doesn't have a chance in completing it. You'd think even more so when she comes across threatening creatures like rattlesnakes and cougars along the way. You'd also think that way in seeing she can't even cover ten miles a day during the beginning of her trip. Sometimes you think she might become a victim of crime as there would be some threatening people she'd encounter, especially that bowhunter. Nevertheless she gets stronger with each and every mile.
However the film also succeeds in conveying the popular saying 'the journey is the destination.' It shows Cheryl being enriched by her experience while mentally fighting her troubles of the past. That's not just acquired from her hiking but also from the people she meets. It's people like the farmer who first appears threatening but becomes helpful along with his wife, like the hippies she encounters upon the death of Jerry Garcia, like the men at the store who help her reduce her packing, like the various hikers she comes across, and people like the grandson who sings 'Red River Valley.' There are many people that enrich her experience. Even those that seem insignificant like that journalist on the road or the three young college boys hiking together and goofing off appear to give some extra richness to her experience. Even the quotes from various authors and poets Cheryl puts in the logbooks add to the richness of the journey.
Another key aspect the film focuses on is people's attitudes, especially in dealing with the hardships of life. We see Cheryl as she went through a self-destructive path after her mother died and needed a way out. She took the Trail in hopes that it would help her recover. We also see her mother who had also been through hardships of her own but still holds her head high. That scene where she says she doesn't regret marrying Ronald because she had her and Leif. You think people that are constantly positive are naive and foolish but she shows strength in positive thinking. Even seeing her on her deathbed laughing how she finally gets a 'room with a view,' it takes a special kind of person to hold their head high during difficult times. I think it was because of her mother's positive attitude that Cheryl knew she couldn't be a victim anymore and needed to heal herself. That's why she took that hike. Interesting how there are some people like Bobbi who just have that ability to stay strong in hard times and there are people like Cheryl who need to acquire that inner strength.
Without a doubt, the film belonged to Reese Witherspoon. This is not the typical Reese Witherspoon movie. This is Reese playing someone completely different from roles she's played before in the past and it's a role with immense depth. Even playing Cheryl at various ages in the film. She comes out shining. Even though this appears to be a one-person film, it's Laura Dern who does an excellent job as Bobbi and even steals the film at times. She makes being positive in difficult times look smart and strong instead of naive and foolish. Thomas Sadoski did good playing Paul but his role could have been developed more as could have the role of her brother Leif played by Keene McRae and the role of best friend Aimee played by Gaby Hoffman. The various supporting performances were also excellent and added to the film. Even the briefest of performances.
Jean-Marc Vallee does it again. He really made a name for himself last year with the Dallas Buyers Club and he adds to his reputation here. He succeeds in making it the personal story of Cheryl's it's supposed to be while adding to the environment of the story. Nick Hornby did a very good job of writing out the story from Cheryl's memoirs keeping in the key parts of her hike and of her life. The film made a wise choice in keeping the story mostly score-free and let the sounds of the wild and even the chill of silence add to the story. That scene of the bowhunter appearing to either want to rape or murder Cheryl wouldn't have worked as well with a score. The inclusion of the Simon and Garfunkel song 'El Condor Pasa' is an excellent addition. It's almost like it becomes Cheryl's own personal anthem. Also noteworthy are the contributions by Strayed herself where she's the associate producer and even plays a woman in a truck in the film. Her daughter Bobbi Lindstrom even plays Cheryl as a child.
Wild is a bit of a melodrama but it's not the least bit boring. It's a very deep, very enriching story of one woman using a hike to fight her inner troubles. We not only witness her gain inner strength from it, we experience it.
Posted in: Entertainment - Film and Movies, Movie Reviews: 2014	| Tagged: Cheryl, Crest, Dern, Gaby, Hoffman, Hornby, Jean-Marc, Laura, Nick, pacific, PCT, Reese, sadoski, Strayed, Thomas, Trail, Vallee, Wild, Witherspoon
Philip Seymour Hoffman: 1967-2014
I wasn't planning on posting this. Actually I was planning my next blog to be another Best Picture review. Instead I post this because of how shocking it is. And of how much I admired him and his works.
Philip was born in Fairport, New York (just outside of Rochester) on July 23, 1967, one of four children to family court judge Marilyn O'Connor and Xerox executive Gordon Hoffman. His parents divorced when he was 9. Hoffman's past-time in high school was wrestling but switched to acting after a neck injury caused him to quit. Talent was noticed at a young age as he was selected at 17 to attend the 1984 theatre school at the New York State Summer School Of The Arts in Saratoga Springs. He graduated from Fairport High School in 1985 and attended the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer program. He would go on to attend New York University's Tisch School Of The Arts and graduated with a BFA in 1989. Soon after he had a bout of alcohol and drug addiction which we would attend rehab for shortly after and eventually overcome.
He made his acting debut on television acting in a 1991 Law & Order episode. His first film role came in 1992's Scent Of A Woman. Minor roles in film continued for Hoffman over the next few years. In 1995 he joined the LAbyrinth Theatre Company where he staged and performed in numerous productions. However his breakthrough came in 1997 when he had a scene-stealing supporting role as Scotty J. in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. Hoffman would act in three more Paul Thomas Anderson movies: 1999's Magnolia, 2002's Punch Drunk Love and 2012's The Master. Over the next few years, Hoffman's reputation as an actor would grow with more excellent performances in independent films like The Big Lebowski, Happiness, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and State And Main. He also showed he could act well in popcorn films like Patch Adams and Almost Famous. In theatre, he would earn a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in 2000 for playing Lee in the readaptation of Sam Shepard's True West.
Further excellent performances continued for him in films like Love Liza (which was written by his brother Gordy), Owning Mahowny and the TV miniseries Empire Falls. He also continued to do come off well in box office fare like Cold Mountain and Along Came Polly. Theatre accolades would continue with his second Tony nomination coming in 2003 for his supporting performance in Long Day's Journey Into Night. However big critical acclaim in film. kept on alluding him until 2005's Capote. There he was to play Truman Capote in a biopic directed by former Tisch classmate Bennett Miller. He was even said to act in character even after scene shooting ended. It was there where Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. And Miller received his first and so far only Best Director nomination.
Things became better for Hoffman commercially as he would play villain Owen Davian in Mission Impossible 3 months later. In 2007 he received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in the independent comedy The Savages and Best Supporting Actor for playing Gust Avrakotos in Charlie Wilson's War opposite Tom Hanks. It's his role in Charlie Wilson's War that would earn him his second Oscar nomination. Hoffman would return as an Oscar nominee the following year in the Supporting Actor category again as Fr. Brendan Flynn in the film adaptation of the Broadway play Doubt opposite Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
Hoffman would continue acting in film, both independent and commercial. He would also continue acting and directing in theatre. He wouldn't get too much notice or acclaim over the next two years but his work continued to be consistent. He would again steal scenes in 2011's The Ides Of March and Moneyball as frumpy Coach Art Howe. 2012 was another big year for Hoffman as it would be acclaim in both his theatre and his film acting. On stage he blew Broadway crowds away during the summer with his performance of Willy Loman in Death Of A Salesman and played controlling yet charismatic religious leader Lancaster Dodd in The Master. 2013 would give him more exposure to the commercial movie crowd as he entered into the Hunger Games trilogy as Plutarch Heavensbee in 2013's Catching Fire. He had already finished playing Plutarch in the first Mockingjay film and had just finished most of the shooting for the second as of February 1st.
Outside of acting, Hoffman shied away from the spotlight. In 1999, he statrted dating Mimi O'Donnell. It would prove to be a permanent union and both he and Mimi had three children. He was open about his past alcohol and drug abuse from which experienced upon graduating from Tisch. He said of his experiences: "I abused anything I could get my hands on and I liked it all." He recovered successfully and would describe himself as a teetotaler from his past experience but a relapse would eventually happen. In May 2013, he openly confessed to abusing heroine and prescription pills and checked himself into a rehab clinic for ten days.
On Sunday February 2nd, Hoffman was found dead by playwright and friend David Bar Katz in the bathroom of his Manhattan office apartment. A hypodermic needle was found in his arm according to the police. Heroin was also found in the apartment. He was 46 years old.
I hate to bring up the topic of tabloid gossip at a time like this but that topic is unavoidable. Especially when a famous actor dies in such a way. There's no question in the weeks and months after, there will be a lot of questions about this. There will be some journalists who will want to interview Mimi O'Donnell or close family relatives about this situation. Cast mates of past movies will also be questioned. Even the rehab clinic Hoffman has been attending since his relapse will face its fair share of journalists. I myself am shocked to hear of that. Years ago I read his IMDB profile and it said he does not drink alcohol because of his past experience with alcoholism. I was happy feeling that there was an actor that can be free from scandal. I never knew about his relapse. This is especially surprising since you normally hear about such deaths of actors hugely in the public eye. And Philip was the opposite. He was mostly private, rarely attended A-list events, had friends who were mostly in theatre rather than in the Hollywood business, had an unmarried relationship to the same woman since 1999 and raised his kids quietly. I guess we'll only know the whole story in the future.
One thing to say is I don't want to focus on the surroundings of his death. Even though I feel like asking 'What happened,' I'll keep my mouth shut for now. One thing I will say is that I will always admire Philip Seymour Hoffman for the actor that he was. I'm able to separate myself from actors as actors and actors as people. Whenever I admire actors, I admire them for their acting jobs. They'd have to give me a good reason for me to admire their lifestyle. Anyways Philip Seymour Hoffman was an excellent actor. He really knew how to embrace the character both physically and emotionally. He was more than a top character actor, he knew how to make the roles multidimensional. I've seen many of his performances and he never let me down once. He always delivered.
I've always considered Philip to be one of the best actors of my generation. I also must confess I was secretly predicting and hoping that Philip would be the next Tom Hanks. It just showed how naive I was to the present acting system. There was a time when an actor had the ability to be both a master of their craft and a top box office draw. That was common form the 30's to the 60's. Then there was a time in the 70's when the big money-winning movies and the serious films had a gap between them that really widened in that decade. With that came a bigger gap between the on-screen craftmasters and the money-winning A-listers. That was especially noticeable in the 80's. The reason why Tom Hanks was so beloved was that he was one of those rarities who was able to deliver in their craft and bring in top box office dollar.
I felt that Philip had the potential to do just that. I just wasn't aware at the time of the types of actors that were able to win over the box office dollars. Turns out it's back to being a looks thing again. Especially in the wake of the Twilight movies. I should know that 5′ 10″ and slightly pudgy won't make you an A-lister. In fact one New York journalist summed up the physical appearance of Hoffman as: "a stocky, often sleepy-looking man with blond, generally uncombed hair who favored the rumpled clothes more associated with an out-of-work actor than a star." That was just his nature. He was more interested in being an actor than a star.
Like I said Philip never let me down. Whether it was a role in a popular popcorn movie or if it was in a serious independent production, Philip always delivered. Even his co-stars would vouch for that. I believe that's the legacy Philip will leave behind. Character acting performances that he didn't just play but embodied and he knew how to grab your attention. I will always admire him for that.
Rest In Peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. And thank you for captivating us over the years.
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WIKIPEDIA: Philip Seymour Hoffman. Wikipedia.com. 2014. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman>
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Movie Review: The Master
By Jon The Blogcentric on 26 November 2012 | 2 Comments
The Master looks like it's meant as a depiction of a religious leader of a controversial religion. The question is how true is it? And does it succeed in getting the message across?
Freddie Quell is a Navy veteran who returns home from World War II with an uncertain future and unsettled behavior. How unsettled? He gets violent at the drop of a hat. He's an easy drunk whose favorite drink is a personal mix of alcohol and other various chemicals. He's sexually obsessed with sex to the point he masturbates frequently and loves making women out of beach sand just to seduce. Life back in the US is not easy for him to get back to normal. He loses his job as a photographer after starting a fight with one of his customers. He loses a farming job after one of the elderly farmhands gets poisoned from his drinking concoction. Is there any chance for him?
One day he stows away on a ship but it's not just any ship. This ship is a yacht owned by Lancaster Dodd, a religious leader of a philosophical movement called 'The Cause'. Dodd allows Freddie to watch the marriage of Dodd's daughter as long as he makes his mysterious brew for him. Dodd sees a way of getting Freddie into the movement. Dodd asks some deep questions about Freddie and his past, called Processing, which he hopes to heal Freddie's traumas. Freddie tells Dodd some dark truths about his past and Dodd doesn't flinch like most. Freddie is blown away by Dodd while Dodd takes a liking to Freddie. Dodd agrees to make Freddie part of The Cause and Freddie becomes an active member in it recruiting other people.
The one problem is that members of The Cause are hoping to improve Freddie's irrational behavior and he shows no signs of improvement. One example is Freddie assaults a man at a hotel some time after he questions Dodd for his beliefs. Dodd's wife Peggy tries to make a deal with him that he quits drinking if he wishes to stay. He agrees but shows no intention to quit. Freddie even criticizes Dodd's son for rejecting his father's teaching but the son believes he makes it up as he goes along. Dodd is later arrested for practicing medicine without a license and Freddie is arrested for assaulting the officers pursuing Dodd. The time in the jail cell is hard as Dodd and Freddie are in opposite cells. Dodd tries to calm a violent Freddie down but Freddie questions him in a tirade and accuses him of being a fake. Both trade insults in the end. Freddie and Dodd reconcile upon release but those in 'The Cause' become more suspicious of him.
Freddie continues with The Cause and its exercises but becomes more frustrated when the results don't work. Freddie helps Dodd in spreading the word on the street and on the radio. However things turn nasty when Freddie assaults a book publisher who criticizes Dodd's book. Dodd himself event becomes temperamental around critics of his books.
Already there are strong signals that Freddie is ready to leave The Cause. It came when Dodd gave his colleagues an exercise of motorcycling in the desert to an object in the distance and Freddie cycles away. Freddie returns home to rekindle his relationship with Doris, his girlfriend he wrote to during the war, but learns she married and started a family in the seven years since she lost contact with Freddie. However Freddie has a dream of Dodd telephoning him in a movie theatre and telling him he's in England and Freddie must join as soon as possible. Freddie goes to England and finds Dodd with wife Peggy. Peggy believes Freddie should leave The Cause since he's made no improvement. Dodd agrees but still taking a liking to Freddie and gives him an ultimatum: stay and devote his whole life to The Cause or leave and never come back. Freddie leaves and is left to follow his own path.
The film appears to be a depiction of the Church of Scientology and its leader L. Ron Hubbard. There are a lot of similarities to it: Hoffman's resemblance to Hubbard and the film set in 1950, the same year Hubbard set up his church. Anderson will admit that Lancaster Dodd is a lot like L. Ron Hubbard but not intended to be a direct depiction of him: "This is not the L. Ron Hubbard story." Some people in the Church Of Scientology had spoken concerns of the film. Anderson even screened the film for Tom Cruise who had acted in Anderson's Magnolia and had concerns of his own. Nevertheless there has been no talk of lawsuits from the Church of Scientology. Whatever the situation, I can't say because I never attended the Church of Scientology in my lifetime.
Once again Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs an excellent effort. Ever since he burst onto the filmmaking scene with Boogie Nights, he was continued to impress with Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood and now again with The Master. One thing Paul Thomas Anderson succeeds in doing again is captivating a svengali-like character. We've seen it before in There Will Be Blood where he was able to capture Daniel Plainview and his desire to use and manipulate his way to the top and ultimately face a downfall. We see it here again in Lancaster Dodd who succeeds in being the one in control and convince his followers to his sayings, even if they know they're a lie. Philip Seymour Hoffman does his own part in making this svengali-like character come to life. He fills the character up with the charming controllingness very common in many svengali-like figures or leader-like characters. That's a common trait of Philip Seymour Hoffman to embody the character completely. He's done it in the past to exceptional results and he does it again here.
Just as good at capturing a character is Joaquin Phoenix. He did a good job of playing a very lost character: a navy officer returning from World War II disturbed and uncoothed in behavior. This movie is just as much about the controlled as it is about the controller and Joaquin did a great job in holding his own well despite the easy upstagings of Hoffman. Also good at stealing the scene was Amy Adams. She did an excellent job of playing the wife who was both a controller and the controlled. Another standout effort of the film was the original music of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. He has done music before for There Will Be Blood and he does another excellent work.
As for the movie, it wasn't that big of a hit at the box office. That's one of the difficulties of films around the Oscar period from now leading up to the beginning of the new year. Most of the top contending movies for the Academy Awards consist of movies with standout efforts in acting, directing and scriptwriting. However they face the difficulties of trying to win a crowd at the box office which is loaded with mostly commercial fare and the stuff to attract big crowds. It's trying to compete for that attention amongst the noise. The Master hasn't been so fortunate. It has only made $15 million at the box office. That's part of the trials of putting serious fare out.
The Master is a very intriguing movie resembling a popular religious movement and its founder. It could shed a light on the movement and even capture what the founder may be like but it does more, and that's its best quality.
Posted in: Entertainment - Film and Movies, Movie Reviews: 2012	| Tagged: Adams, Amy, Anderson, Hoffman, Joaquin, Master, Paul, Philip, Phoenix, Scientology, Seymour, Thomas


Brazil's battle with Facebook over its encrypted messaging app, WhatsApp, continues to rage.
A Brazilian judge ordered telephone companies to cut off access to WhatsApp in the country after Facebook declined to provide chat logs related to a criminal investigation, Globo reports. Because WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, Facebook cannot access users' messages and therefore cannot provide the court with the requested data.
However, the block was lifted several hours later by Brazil's Supreme Court, which questioned whether the lower court's order to ban WhatsApp was reasonable and proportionate.
Previous WhatsApp bans have been ordered to last as long as 72 hours, but access has been typically restored more quickly. During this ban, telephone companies were ordered to block WhatsApp indefinitely, but the higher court's decision undid the ban within a matter of hours.
But the Supreme Court's ruling may make it more difficult for magistrate judges to shut down WhatsApp whenever they can't access the evidence they're looking for. The ruling suggests Brazil's highest court favors an open internet, even if that means embracing encryption. It's good news for Facebook, which is testing end-to-end encryption in its Messenger app for users in Brazil and around the world.
While WhatsApp was banned, other encrypted messaging apps remain available in Brazil. However, WhatsApp is hugely popular in Brazil, with over 100 million users, so cutting access to the app has a severe impact on the nation's communications. Users have been able to circumvent previous bans by using a VPN service, and other circumvention techniques are outlined here.
This story was updated at 2:20 p.m. to reflect that the ban has been lifted.


It's safe to say that Meek Mill season is upon us. For consecutive weeks, the Philly rapper has been preparing for the release of his long-awaited new studio album. It started with his Meekend Music EP and followed with a video for "Litty" and the announcement of an upcoming tour with Yo Gotti. After receiving word that Meek's new album Wins and Losses would be arriving this summer, Meek Mill debuted his new single "Glow Up" earlier this week.
He's back today to share the official music video for the Honorable C.N.O.T.E. produced banger and in it, Meek and his Dreamchasers crew celebrate life in the Dominican Republic. The trip doubled as vacation getaway with his team and a celebration of his 30th birthday.


OK, I felt pretty OLD shuffling into a free seminar on Social Security benefits. Hot Rod twisted my arm to attend. "We should know what we are entitled to," he nudged.
So, I joined Hot Rod for the seminar, more to be a supportive spouse than to participate.
I was way wrong. I learned that Social Security doesn't stink. And, if you plan well, guess accurately and die at the right time, Social Security can be a multi-million payout. In any event, there is a benefit there. You can capitalize on it or blow it.
If you are over 50, and a betting man or woman, I would bet that Social Security will be available to you in some way shape or form. You paid into it. It's there. Granted, it may not be there for our kids. However, you might as well take responsibility for your benefits. If some major – and I believe unlikely – change in government dissolves the program, it probably won't disappear all at once. 25% of all families in the US receive some sort of Social Security benefit every month.
At Full Retirement Age (FRA), you can collect maximum benefits and continue to earn income without penalty or additional tax burden. If you are born before 1960, that would be no older than 67 years old. Check out the Social Security website for your FRA. You may be eligible for partial benefits now. Note that there's a lot of information online, but there are so many ways to piece the puzzle together. And, getting help from your local Social Security Administration makes a trip to the DMV look like a Disneyland vacation by comparison. Just sayin. It may be a good idea to wait to cash in benefits. But there is more to the story.
Your PIA is your Primary Insurance Amount, or monthly benefit. The goal of a sound Social Security benefit strategy is to maximize your PIA. Factors that impact your PIA include your age, how long you and your spouse live, you and your spouse's age and income, your expenses, all impact your PIA. Your current portfolio, income, income tax levels, intention to keep working or stop earning, and even health risks play into the equation. If you have a terminal illness, you are going to adopt a different strategy than someone who is healthy, thin, and has never smoked. There are over 500 ways to calculate your benefit plan.
Note that one of the reasons that marriage equality is so important is that only marriages between a man and a woman qualify for spouse benefits in many states. Divorced people may be eligible for additional benefits, if they were married for more than 10 years. Knowledge is power. It's helpful to proactively explore your options before age or a health issue creates a financial crisis.
As a business owner, pay yourself. Pay yourself well. If your company is a Sub S Corporation, you are required to pay yourself a salary. You can also take draws. But here's the thing: You have to pay in to get a substantial pay out, as your pay – subject to payroll tax deductions – determines your PIA.
Social Security payments, once energized, are not subject to fluctuations in the market. If you, like me and lots of others, lost a chunk of assets when your portfolio tanked after the 2008 financial crisis. Those balances may be bouncing back now. However, another stock market slide is inevitable and it could happen at just the wrong time in your retirement. The "annuity" nature of your Social Security benefits could add consistency to your retirement income. And your plan is not always written in stone. There are ways to change your mind about your payments, though there may be penalties and tax implications.
Meet with your accountant and financial planner and discuss at least a few of the 500+ ways to strategize your Social Security and retirement planning. Get bossy. If they don't understand how it works, find someone who does.
There's lots to know. You probably won't plan your Social Security strategy perfectly. But a plan is so much better than just letting the clock run on and missing the mark by a country mile. Thanks to John and Mike Truman at Truman & Associates in Springfield, MO. They provided terrific information and the stats I referenced above. Also, they recommended following Alicia Munnell, PhD, a specialist in fixed income and retirement financial strategy. Thanks, fellows!
PS…I believe in business. Your own profitable business expands peace and prosperity across the universe. My commitment is to help you fix the financials, build your business and find true freedom. Business Uncomplicated. Life Unleashed. I'm updating my website, our products and access to each other. No secret levels. No holds barred. Just you and me, making dreams come true. Stay tuned!!


Posted 12 September 2017 by Bill & filed under Uncategorized.
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