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Mnementh said: totalwar23 said: http://kotaku.com/nintendo-answers-and-avoids-our-switch-questions-1791402953 Things of concern: How if at all does the Switch connect to Wii U and 3DS owners' existing accounts? We have nothing to announce at this time. Will the Switch be compatible with existing Virtual Console purchases? We have nothing to announce at this time. Will...
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The Nintendo Switch will have paid online. And it's all your fault.
Well, somebody's poor. If the service is worth it, then it's worth paying for it. Nintendo's online service is to the best of my knowledge, very sub par. Charging for a shitty service is no one's fault but Nintendo....
Nintendo stock down 6% following Switch presentation
The price actually got me to wonder why is the Wii U still $299.99 after all this time? Nintendo - all of the bad aspects of Apple with few of their strengths....
in General Discussion on 08 April 2011
I'm a member of the Armed Force and my C.O. just explained to us today that they will stop paying us after the 8th. I had no clue this was going to happen. It's the first Goverment S/D that the military doesn't get pay. Wonder how they'll explain this to the people who are fighting overseas?...
AT&T buys T-Mobile for $39 Billion.
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I picked T-mobile as my carrier solely because I didn't want AT&T as my carrier. As of this moment, I am an idiot....
Nuclear Power. What's Your Opinion?
Joelcool7 said: totalwar23 said: Uh, well you need power to run the pumps. The earthquake/tsunami knocked out the diesel generators. No power, no...well, nothing. That brings up the fact that the pumps are there to circulate water through the fuel cell assemblies, which is enclosed in a shield tank. It's going to be pretty hard to move the reactor vessel and submerged it into...
Joelcool7 said: To be honest I am wondering why their aren't more fail safes in place. The news report said their was a back up pump that failed. Why is their only one back-up pump? Another thought, why isn't the reactor and containment facility not built over water? Say you build it above a massive pool. That way if anything goes wrong, submerge the reactor in the pool and their yah go. As...
Rath said: totalwar23 said: Rath said: Probably should be avoided on the Ring of Fire, as the Japan situation has shown that Earthquakes cause problems. In east America, Europe and Africa it's a good idea though. Well, the reactor problem is just one of many problems caused by the earthquake, which, as I said, am optimistic that it can be contained. If it is as bad as TMI, then it...
Rath said: Probably should be avoided on the Ring of Fire, as the Japan situation has shown that Earthquakes cause problems. In east America, Europe and Africa it's a good idea though. Well, the reactor problem is just one of many problems caused by the earthquake, which, as I said, am optimistic that it can be contained. If it is as bad as TMI, then it can definitely be resolved without...
Well, given the situation happening in Japan, I am curious as to people's attitude towards nuclear power (and knowledge as well) and their stance towards building more reactors as the alternative energy of the future. Personally, I am in support of nuclear power (I'm actually studying reactor operation right now) and believe the reactor problem in Japan can be contained without a major effect on...
Retailers threaten to ban Steam games!
in PC Discussion on 11 November 2010
Good. Everytime I look at a game at a retail outlet, I have to constantly look in the back to see if it's Steam integrated or not....
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mirgro said: MontanaHatchet said: mirgro said: MontanaHatchet said: I love how Mirgro went from calling them peaceful unarmed protesters to admitting that they were mad, violent, and armed with deadly weapons. Or something to that effect. Maybe you need better reading comprehension, cause I love how you always misread things. I have never called them peaceful and unarmed. I have...
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All I can say is F@ck Valve and F@ck Steam. I rather have GFWL than the shitty DRM that is Steam. Valve is pushing me closer and closer to pirating games locked with their crap. Why can't companies also use other DD platforms, too, like Impulse?...
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shio said: Israel deploys Subs with Nuclear Missiles in Persian Gulf Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline. The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organisation in Lebanon, could hit sites...
shio said: totalwar23 said: shio said: badgenome said: shio said: I was wrong that the population of Gaza Strip declining, however it is still much worse than ever. 45% of the population in Gaza Strip are kids of 14 years or younger!! Their parents are killed by the israeli government or die due to the extremely harsh conditions of hunger, no medical help,...
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LIST CANDIDATE: THE VISITOR (1979)
December 3, 2013 Ben Sunday	2 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Giulio Paradisi
FEATURING: John Huston, Paige Conner, Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Shelley Winters
PLOT: Years ago, a cosmic menace known as Sateen escaped his alien captors and wreaked havoc across the stars. The forces of good and their army of birds vanquished him, but not before he reached Earth and impregnated multiple human women. The children born from those couplings would become mutants, telekinetic beings with the power to rule the world encoded in their genes. Much later, the mysterious being known as the Visitor (John Huston) dreams of a towering figure in black trudging across otherworldly sands. The figure turns into a young girl, and through this vision the Visitor realizes that Sateen's abilities have resurfaced on Earth within eight-year-old Katy Collins (Paige Conner).
Katy's hapless mother Barbara (Joanne Nail) recognizes the evil growing inside her daughter as well, as does the cabal controlling Barbara's boyfriend, Raymond (Lance Henriksen). Seduced by his employers' promise to fund his pro basketball team, Raymond agrees to impregnate Barbara with a second child in order fulfill their plans for world domination. Will Raymond succeed and help bring the world to its knees, or will Barbara exercise her right to choose (not to be an incubator for mankind's destruction)?
Also, will the Visitor ever intervene, or will he spend most of his time wandering aimlessly to theme music that is a bit too dramatic and funky for a man who takes forever to walk down a single flight of stairs? And why is Jesus blonde and surrounded by bald children? The answers will surely surprise you, because if nothing else The Visitor is a story that nobody could ever see coming.
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: One might read a summary of The Visitor's plot about a possessed little girl and dismiss it as a rip-off of The Exorcist—which it is—but what's really special about Giulio Paradisi's film is that it also rips off Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Birds. In a story where the Satan's origin as an interstellar felon merits only the briefest attention, director Giulio Paridisi combines a range of ideas from across the spectrums of sci-fi, horror, and religion with such inspired fervor that he could almost be accused of originality. Yes, this is a film that steals parts of very recognizable movies and puts them together with the grace of a child forcing LEGO bricks into a jigsaw puzzle, but the uneven hodgepodge born from The Visitor's plagiarism is utterly unique in its weirdness.
COMMENTS: From an overqualified cast whose presence could've only resulted from blackmail to a plot that immediately requires you to accept that Jesus Christ lives in outer space, very little about The Visitor makes sense. As with many of the so-bad-they're-weird films, though, that incoherency is the source of the film's charm. To sit down and explain The Visitor, either by rationalizing its production choices or clarifying its plot scene by scene, would reduce it by turning it into something knowable and common rather than the masterpiece of the bizarre that it is.
The best way to describe The Visitor is to instead just recount a few of its many insane twists, all of which are delivered with the abruptness and enthusiasm of someone making it up as he goes along. This is a movie that casts celebrated director John Huston as a second-fiddle messiah known as the Visitor, whose efforts to stop the possessed Katy Collins soon detour into posing as her babysitter and losing to her in a game of Pong. The threat posed by the girl lies in her telekinesis and a murderous pet hawk whose presence and ability to open doors is never questioned, at least until a maid played by Academy Award-winning actress Shelley Winters kills the bird with her bare hands. However, even more dangerous than Katy is the prospect of her mother, Barbara, giving birth to a son. That second child promises to usher in the end of times, but luckily Barbara lives in post-Roe v. Wade America. After getting pregnant she averts the apocalypse with a timely abortion, leaving the Visitor and his conscripted army of pigeons to take care of Katy and save the day once and for all. Of course, one may wonder why the Visitor didn't simply take care of Katy as soon as he arrived on Earth, but the answer is clear. That would mean denying us a pretty awesome movie.
After leaving the film's premiere, Huston reportedly walked up to director Giulio Paradisi and said, "You know what, I had no idea we were making that kind of movie. Congratulations." Therein lies the wonderful essence of The Visitor, an undertaking so strange that even the people making it could not understand it. It veers from one crazed idea to the next without a care in the world. The results are inscrutable, but within that inscrutability lies a kind of magic. Ultimately, it's a movie that proves that, when you don't need to justify yourself, anything is possible.
Drafthouse Films is re-releasing The Visitor to theaters through January 2014, with a new DVD release to follow.
"…too messy and weird to have hit back in the day but too inventive and accomplished to have been rotting for so long."–Alan Scherstuhl, The Village Voice (2013 re-release)
1979Giulio ParadisiHorrorInternational cast and crewJohn HustonLance HenriksenShelley WintersSo bad it's weird
CAPSULE: IT'S IN THE BLOOD (2012)
October 29, 2012 Jason Ubermolch	Leave a comment
DIRECTED BY: Scooter Downey
FEATURING: Lance Henriksen, Sean Elliot
WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: It's not weird. Or at least it's not as weird as horror movies like Don't Look Now , The Cabin in the Woods, or High Tension, which are genuinely disconcerting and have truly bizarre plot twists. But, this movie does have a surprisingly not-creepy incest subplot, so maybe that counts as a little weird…
COMMENTS: …when I say a not-creepy incest subplot, it's because the siblings involved are just adoptive siblings. The protagonist of It's in the Blood is October (Elliot) is one of them, and he is deeply psychologically disturbed. For instance, you can tell how many days have passed in the movie because October cuts a line into his shoulder every morning; judging from all the scars on his chest, he's been doing this for quite a while. His adopted sister, Iris, is dead. Traumatically so: raped and murdered by the town's creepy deputy sheriff. Both October and Russell (the father by blood to October and by adoption to Iris, played by Lance Henriksen) witnessed the murder, which gives them unresolved psychological issues to fail to communicate about. If you're worried that I'm giving away a twist ending, I'm not: all of this is pretty firmly established in the first quarter of the movie. Where this movie aspires to weirdness is in the circumstances under which October and Russell re-establish their relationship. They go off on a hike together, only to be harried by a legion of faceless forest spirits. These spirits are eerie, menacing, and occasionally genuinely frightening, and there's an attempt to connect them with the memories that haunt both men. Will father and son emerge from their ordeal physically and psychologically triumphant… or just dead? The film as a whole fails, though, in three main categories: as a horror movie it fails to deliver anything but the occasional quick thrill; as a family drama, it fails to connecting with the characters in the film to the point where the viewer really cares about their reconciliation; and as a weird movie, it fails to do more than scratch the surface of the bizarre.
It's in the Blood is in the process of preparing a Video-on-Demand version but there is no firm release date yet—we will update this space when a date is confirmed. (UPDATE: released on 11/7).
"…brings more to the table in terms of originality, frights, and true emotion than most horror films… one of the finest and most unique independent horror films in recent memory."–Brad McHargue, Dread Central
DISCLOSURE: 366 Weird Movies was provided with a screener copy of It's in the Blood by the production company.
2012DramaHorrorIncestLance HenriksenScooter Downey
86. DEAD MAN (1995)
"Do what you will this life's a fiction,
And is made up of contradiction."
–William Blake, Gnomic Verses
DIRECTED BY: Jim Jarmusch
FEATURING: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Robert Mitchum, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Mili Avatal, Gabriel Byrne
PLOT: Mild-mannered accountant Bill Blake heads west to take a job in the wild town of Machine, but when he arrives he discovers the position has been filled and he is stuck on the frontier with no money or prospects. Blake becomes a wanted man after he kills the son of the town tycoon in self defense. Wounded, he flees to the wilderness where he's befriended by an Indian named Nobody, who believes he is the poet William Blake.
William Blake, the namesake of Johnny Depp's character in Dead Man, was a poet, painter and mystic who lived from 1757 to 1827. Best known for Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, he is considered one of the forerunners of English Romanticism.
Jarmusch wrote the script with Depp and Farmer in mind for the leads.
Elements of the finished script of Dead Man reportedly bear a striking similarity to "Zebulon," an unpublished screenplay by novelist/screenwriter Rudy (Glen and Randa, Two-Lane Blacktop) Wurlitzer, which Jarmusch had read and discussed filming with the author. Wurlitzer later reworked the script into the novel The Drop Edge of Yonder.
Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum coined the term "acid Western"—a category in which he also included The Shooting, Greaser's Palace and El Topo—to describe Dead Man. Jarmusch himself called the film a "psychedelic Western."
Neil Young composed the harsh, starkly beautiful soundtrack by improvising on electric guitar while watching the final cut of the film. The Dead Man soundtrack (buy ) includes seven solo guitar tracks from Young, plus film dialogue and clips of Depp reciting William Blake's poetry.
Farmer speaks three Native American languages in the film: Blackfoot, Cree, and Makah (which he learned to speak phonetically). None of the indigenous dialogue is subtitled.
Jarmusch, who retains all the rights to his films, refused to make cuts to Dead Man requested by distributor Miramax; the director believed that the film was dumped on the market without sufficient promotion because of his reluctance to play along with the studio.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: Nobody peering through William Blake's skin to his bare skull during his peyote session? Iggy Pop in a prairie dress? Those are memorable moments, but in a movie inspired by poetry, it's the scene of wounded William Blake, his face red with warpaint, curling up on the forest floor with a dead deer that's the most poetically haunting.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Dead Man is a lyrical and hypnotic film, with a subtle but potent and lingering weirdness that the viewer must tease out. It's possible to view the movie merely as a directionless, quirky indie Western; but that would be to miss out on the mystical, dreamlike tinge of this journey into death.
Original trailer for Dead Man
COMMENTS: Dead Man begins on a locomotive as a naif accountant is traveling from Continue reading 86. DEAD MAN (1995) →
1995Billy Bob ThorntonBlack and WhiteCrispin GloverCriterion collectionDeathDreamlikeGabriel ByrneGary FarmerIggy PopJim JarmuschJohnny DeppLance HenriksenMinimalistMysticalNative AmericanNeil YoungPoetryPostmodernRecommendedRobert MitchumWesternWilliam Blake
LIST CANDIDATE: DEAD MAN (1995)
February 10, 2010 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	3 Comments
NOTE: Dead Man has been promoted to the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies ever made. Commenting is closed on this review, which is left here for archival purposes. Please visit Dead Man's Certified Weird entry to comment on this film.
PLOT: Mild-mannered accountant Bill Blake heads west, becomes a wanted man after he
shoots a man in self defense, and, wounded, flees to the wilderness where he's befriended by an Indian named Nobody who believes he is the poet William Blake.
WHY IT'S ON THE BORDERLINE: Dead Man is a lyrical and hypnotic film, and one that comes about as achingly close to making the List on the first pass as is possible. The quality of the movie is no obstacle to its making the List, but the weirdness, while there, is subtle and must be teased out by the viewer. There is a mystical and dreamlike tinge to Blake's journey into death, but the strangeness is almost entirely tonal; Jarmusch's artiness aside, it's possible to view the movie as a rather straightforward, if quirky, indie Western.
COMMENTS: Dead Man begins on a locomotive as a naif accountant is traveling from Cleveland to a the western town of Machine to begin a new life. We see him on the train playing solitaire or reading a booklet on beekeeping. He looks up to survey at his fellow passengers, who meet his glance with indifference. The train's whistle blows as the scene fades to black, accompanied by twanging chords from Neil Young's guitar (sounding like abstract, electrified snippets stolen from a Morricone score). The scene repeats and fades back in again and again, each time with the traveler glancing around the compartment to find his companions slowly changing: their dress becomes more rustic, their hair longer and more unkempt; female passengers become less frequent, firearms more common; the indifference in their eyes turns into quiet hostility.
Dead Man tells the story of an innocent who becomes a refugee after being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's a standard story, but the way Jarmusch tells can be strange indeed. This opening scene sets the rhythm for the movie: it proceeds in a series of slow pulses punctuated by fadeouts and anguished bursts from Young's guitar, and it slowly shifts locale from the civilized to the wild. The continual fading out and Continue reading LIST CANDIDATE: DEAD MAN (1995) →
1995Billy Bob ThorntonBlack and WhiteCrispin GloverDeathDreamlikeGabriel ByrneIggy PopJim JarmuschJohnny DeppLance HenriksenMinimalistMysticalPoetryWestern
RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: POWDER (1995)
December 7, 2009 Pamela De Graff	Leave a comment
DIRECTED BY: Victor Salva
FEATURING: Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen
PLOT: A supernaturally gifted teen misfit fights against the grain when he is forcibly integrated into a backward community.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A strange blend of fantasy and drama, Powder has shadings of The Enigma of Casper Hauser (1975), Carrie (1976), and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).
COMMENTS: In a situation reminiscent of Casper Hauser's enigma in the 1975 film, Jeremy Reed (Flanery) is discovered sequestered in his grandmother's basement upon her death in a podunk Texas town. A bright, sensitive boy, he has been raised without contact with the outside world, with which he is acquainted only through books. He happens to be albino, and not just like Edgar Winter—he is mime white.
Additionally, he is hairless. Because of his unsettling appearance he attracts the unbecoming nickname "Powder." He also attracts static electricity. His father rejected him because of his appearance; his grandparents sheltered him. Contact with the outside world is novel and very troublesome for Powder, and for those who meet him.
The film opens with his premature birth after his mother is struck by lightning. This turns out to be foreshadowing: concepts of electricity and energy are dispersed throughout the film. Powder's body exudes an interactive electromagnetic field. Wristwatches run backward when he's upset, televisions overload with static, electronic devices run haywire. In a discussion with his teacher, the instructor tells Powder that Einstein allegedly said he wasn't sure death exists, because energy never ceases to exist, and that if man ever reaches a point where he can use all of his brain, he would be pure energy and not need a body. This catches Powder's attention.
Powder is still a minor, and not exactly the picture of conformity. Ideally, he needs to be in a progressive, tolerant environment; so, of course, the local authorities lock him up in a violent rural boys' home that's more reform school than orphanage. As one can imagine, he is welcomed with open arms by the crude, hostile ruffians. Well, not exactly; they harass and torment him incessantly, with murder in their collective eye.
While he is a ward of the state, two staffers played by Steenburgen and Goldblum try to help him. Powder takes aptitude tests. His unusually high scores indicate that he has a profound intellect, but nobody believes it. His test results are challenged by a panel of hostile state goons. Meanwhile, the bullies in the state boys home discover that he can defend himself with telekinetic electromagnetic powers.
Like a faith healer, Powder cures a dying woman. This development adds a religious element to the film that complicates efforts to comprehend Powder's true nature. While his in vitro exposure to lightning bestowed him with electromagnetic powers, he has other abilities as well, including psychic ones. Difficult to classify and out of his element, Powder is like a stranded alien.
As Powder and the confused, disturbed locals continue to clash, the chasm between them grows wider. Many are awed by and fearful of his unusual talents. All Powder wants to do is go home and live in seclusion. He escapes the group home and tries to return, but his family property has been foreclosed upon. Some town officials encourage him to run away, others want him back in the boys' home.
Near the end of the story there's a suggestion that Powder is just too unique for this world; he's portrayed like a Christ figure. It is dubious that this is really what the filmmakers had in mind. Powder is a science fiction fantasy about nonconformity and social rejection, not a religious allegory.
Like the title character of Brian De Palma's Carrie, Powder is gifted and different, ostracized and misunderstood. Powder, however, does not take a spectacular revenge based on his seething resentment. Instead, he strives and strives to escape somehow, always trying to find a away to transcend his dilemma.
The conflicts, uncertainty, tension and turmoil come to a flashpoint when a huge thunderhead approaches the town and Powder rushes into the storm. In a spectacular cinematic sequence, many uncertain elements of Powder's riddle merge in an unexpected way that is unconventionally conclusive and magical.
"Imagine Edward Scissorhands under the control of a mainstream director rather than someone offbeat and eccentric like Tim Burton. The result would have been just another motion picture about a prototypical misfit trying to find his niche — a movie with a lot of manipulation and too many easy answers. Powder is such a film."–James Berardinelli, Reel Views (contemporaneous)
1995DramaFantasyJeff GoldblumLance HenriksenMary SteenburgenNonconformityScience FictionSean Patrick FlaneryVictor Salva

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Ethnicity and class formation
Peut, AM 1983 , 'Ethnicity and class formation', Research Master thesis, University of Tasmania.
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Theoretical analyses of social inequality often regard ethnicity as a complicating factor, external to processes of class structuration. This has frequently resulted from the attempt to separately analyse various 'dimensions' of inequality, a tradition deriving largely from Weber's distinction between economic classes and status groups. Since ethnic groups are treated by sociologists working within the Weberian tradition as a kind of status group, they are viewed as a mode of group formation which competes with the formation of classes as coherent social entities.
Ethnicity is viewed as a complicating factor precisely because it is often significant in various structures of inequality. Its importance in processes of labour market segmentation, which produces jobs characterised by widely differing wages, conditions of work and career paths, is supported by evidence of the concentration of certain ethnic groups in specific occupations. The thesis argues that these processes of segmentation affect class composition and the internal structure of classes through the introduction of new productive positions and the alteration of existing ones. Consequently, ethnicity is empirically significant in some processes forming the structure of class.
A suggested solution to this theoretical problem is the integration of subjective and objective aspects of class. The view that objective structures are created and maintained regardless of the consciousness and activity of participants is rejected. Rather, consciousness is viewed not only as the product of objective social location, but also as creating and changing objective structures. This allows for the incorporation of ethnicity into explanatory accounts, since ethnicity is referred to primarily with respect to cultural attributes. This includes both the attitudes, norms and values of ethnic group members, and assessments of ethnit groups by others.
The thesis investigates the ways in which ethnicity has been operative in historical processes whereby the labour force in Australia has been supplied, especially in the post-war years. In addition, the generation of new positions in the production process, and the way in which workers have been allocated to them, have also been processes in which ethnicity has been operative. These considerations allow the development of a proposed analytical framework which can be used to examine processes of class formation.
The way in which ethnic factors, interacting with various structural mechanisms, are operative in the crucially important stage of initial allocation of workers to positions, is illustrated by an examination of the labour market experience of Vietnamese migrants in Hobart. The study does not test the argument of the thesis, but rather is concerned to illustrate the theoretical position adopted. The limited evidence available in the study adds weight to the concern to include ethnicity in accounts of processes of class formation. Further research is required in order to more fully test, modify and extend this argument, and proposals for this are offered.
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Ethnicity, Labor supply
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Bin Zayed Group issue statement on Newcastle United takeover as they 'finalise' deal
The Bin Zayed Group have issued a fresh statement on their efforts to takeover Newcastle United.
By Miles Starforth
Monday, 08 July, 2019, 14:35
The Dubai-based group claimed that it had "agreed terms" on a £350 takeover in late May.
However, since then there has been silence from Sheikh Khaled's group – and the club, which was put up for sale by owner Mike Ashley in October 2017.
And fans of the managerless club – Rafa Benitez left on June 30 when his contract expired after talks with Ashley broke down – have voiced concerns over a perceived lack of progress.
The group has today issued a statement through Peter Redding, a Dubai-based journalist.
It read: "Both parties have worked diligently in finalising a deal, none more so than ourselves. We have completed every aspect required in a takeover process. Press claims of no bids or Premier League approval processes are simply untrue.
"The current owners have cooperated amicably throughout this process, and if a deal is not forthcoming, it will not be due to lack of effort from both parties."
St James's Park.
Redding later added: "The quote is official from the CEO. It was deemed preferential to release through social media. Media sources will then pick it up, more importantly fans would initially."
Newcastle are the only club yet to make a signing this summer. The club last week sold forward Ayoze Perez to Leicester City for £30million, while striker Salomon Rondon – who spent last season on loan at United – is not expected to return. Manchester United are set to bid for midfielder Sean Longstaff.
Mike Ashley.


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use major/minor on glibc and non-glibc systems.
so it should be okay to always include it when __GLIBC__ is defined.
unnecessary. Do you mind if I apply with those two changes?
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Facebook has removed 559 Pages and 251 accounts that consistently broke its rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behaviour related to...
San Francisco: Facebook has removed 559 Pages and 251 accounts that consistently broke its rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behaviour related to upcoming US mid-term elections.
Many were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and posted massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages to drive traffic to their websites, the social networking platform said late on Thursday.
"Many used the same techniques to make their content appear more popular on Facebook than it really was. Others were ad farms using Facebook to mislead people into thinking that they were forums for legitimate political debate," Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy at Facebook, said in a statement.
The action is part of Facebook's new policy against Pages, Groups and accounts created to stir up political debate -- including in the US, the Middle East, Russia and the UK.
Topics like natural disasters or celebrity gossip have been popular ways to generate clickbait.
"Today, these networks increasingly use sensational political content -- regardless of its political slant -- to build an audience and drive traffic to their websites, earning money...," informed Oscar Rodriguez, Product Manager at Facebook.
According to media reports, Facebook has also disabled accounts operated by a Russian company called SocialDataHub that the social network says scraped user data from its platform.
"As part of our efforts to protect people's security, we have recently removed Social Data Hub (SDH), a Russian-linked social media firm, because they were scraping people's information," a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying in The Verge.
"This is a violation of our terms of service, and we've disabled more than 66 of SDH's accounts, profiles, Pages, and apps from our service -- and we expect to find and disable more," the spokesperson added.
In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users' accounts by stealing their "access tokens" or digital keys.
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Q: Reducible finite order mappings classes and their action on the Thurston boundary Let $S$ denote the closed oriented surface of genus $g\geq 2$, and $\text{Mod}(S)$ be the mapping class group of $S$. Let $f\in \text{Mod}(S)$ be a finite order reducible element i.e. $f$ has a representative $\phi\in \text{Homeo}^+(S)$ such that $\phi^k=$ identity for some $k>1$ and $\phi$ preserve a multi-curve in $S$. There is a natural action of the cyclic group $\text{Mod}(S)$ on the Thurston boundary $\mathcal{PMF}(S)$. Is the set
$$\text{Fix}(f):=\{[(\mathcal{F},\mu)]\in \mathcal{PMF}(S)|\, f.[(\mathcal{F},\mu)]=[(\mathcal{F},\mu)]\},$$ always a finite set?

A: No. If $f$ is the identity mapping class then $\mathrm{Fix}(f)$ is all of $\mathcal{PMF}(S)$.
More generally, if $f$ is periodic the quotient $X = S / f$ is an orbifold.
Therefore we can take any projective measured foliation on $X$ and lift it back to $S$ to obtain a projective measured foliation on $S$ that is invariant under $f$. However, since $f$ is reducible, $X$ is not a triangle orbifold and so $X$ has infinitely many different projective measured foliations.

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What is?
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*EA bootstrap* is an open source platform for quickly and professionally R&D new expert advisors for Forex.

Written as a Ruby API, *EA bootstrap* provides an environment for quickly building hybrid Expert Advisors and static/dynamic indicators with multiple time-series.

All-in-one, expert advisors can perform calculations on entire time-series (just like R, S-plus, and Matlab traders do) as well as tick-by-tick (just like MetaTrader traders do) in the same program.

Strategies covered
==================

The main line is to give foundation to build, evaluate and test any kind of strategy, from Modern Portfolio Theory's Buy and Hold up to High-Frequency Trading.

This is possible because EA bootstrap has an hybrid approach for simulation in two phases:

1) Vectorized

2) Begin-Tick-End.

Vectorized phase enables one to calculate the whole time-series, just like R, S-plus, and Matlab traders do.
The second phase, begin-tick-end, features a loop ranging all the ticks in the time-series, just like MetaTrader traders build their strategies.

Links with other technologies
============================

Currently, *EA bootstrap* has total integration with the statistical software R at any development phase.
All R libraries and functions are be available from EA bootstrap.

Moreover, *EA bootstrap* may link seamlessly in the future with
- S-plus
- Matlab
- Octave
- Mathematica

Event profiler
==============

*EA bootstrap* comes with an _event profiler_.
An event profiler helps understanding, at a first glance, which opportunities an expert advisor is finding and how it is performing.
Correcting biased strategies and getting new insights so comes to be easy to spot.

Position sizing
===============

Well known position sizing methods are also built-in, ready-to-use in EA bootstrap:
- Kelly criteria;
- Optimal F;
- Secure F;
- Fractional F;
- Dynamic Position Sizing;
- Fixed percentage.

Post analysis
=============

Post-analysis are performed in a spreadsheet generated after EA bootstrap's execution.
It has basic statistics, performance, sharpe index, MFE points distribution, and others.

Parameter optimization
======================

*EA bootstrap* comes with an optimizer in order to search for the best parameters for the created expert advisor.
It is possible to optimize measurable functions, like
- Expected Return;
- Profit / Loss ratio;
- Maximum Relative Drawdown;
- Maximum Absolute Drawdown;
and others.

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Salary: £21-£27k + Van + Laptop + Tools + Smart Phone.
Term: Permanent position becoming available.
We are a supplier of a bespoke phone system. We act as a supplier/developer and we are involved in the installation, maintenance and support of voice and data products across the UK.
Due to continued success there is now a requirement for an experienced field engineer to join the team.
Ideally the successful candidate will be installing and supporting both Asterisk bespoke based IP systems range of business phone systems. Ideally the candidate will have experience with IP networking, VOIP, broadband & SIP trunking. The role is a mixture of support and installation with some nationwide travel approximately 3 days on site(a week). Experience is essential in site surveys and management of installation of the system from start to finish.
The successful candidate will be professional and have strong customer communications skills. A minimum 2-3 years experience in telephony is a necessity. It is essential that the candidate 'leads from the front' and is proactive. They must be well presented and flexible in working as there is potential for being part of the "On Call" rota. A full UK driving licence with a maximum of 3 penalty points is a requirement for this role.
A minimum of 2 to 3 years' Installations/Support experience in a similar role supporting IP based PBX Systems.
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Q: Linear equation word problem "Separate $147$ into two numbers so that the larger number exceeds three times the smaller by $27.$"
I'm supposed to use only one variable, to devise an equation consistent with the above information, then solve for the larger and smaller numbers that add up to $147$.

A: Call $x$ the larger number; then $147-x$ is the smaller number.
Since the larger number exceeds three times the smaller number by $27$, We have the equation $$x = 3(147-x) +27$$
 $$\text{or}\,4x = (3\cdot 147) +27$$
 I'm assuming you can solve the above equation for $x$, the larger number, and then the smaller number will be $147 - x$.


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P&I Rules and Exceptions > Part One: An introduction to The Swedish Club and the background of Protection & Indemnity (P&I) > B. Protection & Indemnity (P&I) Insurance > B.2 The International Group
The International Group of P&I Clubs, in this commentary referred to as the Group, is formed of 13 P&I Clubs: two operated from Norway, one from Japan, the U.S.A. and Sweden, and the remaining eight based essentially in England.
The Group exists to arrange collective insurance and reinsurance for the participating clubs, to represent the views of shipowners and Charterers who belong to those clubs on matters of concern to the shipping industry and to provide a forum for the exchange of information.
The Group appoints a number of subcommittees to deal with issues of major and common interest. Information and recommendations are shared between the clubs and used in the best interest of their Members.
Together, the Group Clubs insure over 90% of the world fleet. Therefore, the Group speaks with great authority and provides an effective voice for its Members, particularly with regard to new conventions and legislation affecting the liabilities of shipowners and Charterers and their insurance. It carries out this function in relation to inter-governmental bodies such as the IMO and UNCTAD, as well as in relation to national governments. The Group has its secretariat in London.


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Current Events /
Dreams and Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun
Steve Lopez
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For nearly ten years as a columnist with The Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez has traveled Southern California sifting for gold. When asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" Lopez responds, "I wake up and roll out of bed and bump into column ideas everywhere." Ideas come from readers, from the news, from driving down the road or walking down the sidewalk, from getting a haircut or going to a ballgame.
The greater L.A. area is a place where $50 million mansions are just a short limo ride from cardboard-box colonies. Action heroes and billionaires run for office with neither a plan nor a clue. You can get a fake driver's license or a medical marijuana card faster than you can drive six blocks. There's drama every day, a story in every block. Dreamers and schemers are found around every corner. And Lopez puts a spin on it all that makes the reader cringe, laugh and even think.
Dreams and Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun is a collection of Lopez's most controversial, irreverent, troublemaking, and heartwarming columns. He writes through the eyes of the region and its people, unflinchingly taking on the movers and shakers, and poking about in places where other reporters wouldn't dare go. This collection offers an entertaining and insightful look into the workings of modern-day life that will delight not only people who know the players and locations well, but will resonate with people anywhere because the people, politics, and situations that catch Lopez's eye are universal.
Steve Lopez is an award-winning columnist for The Los Angeles Times. His book The Soloist, a New York Times Bestseller, won a Pen USA Literary Award and was the basis for a DreamWorks film starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
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Final Choices: Seeking the Good Death
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As we have already reported, Microsoft is getting ready to end support for the almost 10-year-old Windows 7 operating system. As spotted by TechCrunch, the company has already pushed its first patch which includes the popup informing users of the deadline on January 14th, 2020. However, users should begin receiving notifications on April 18th, giving them plenty of time to consider other options.
Should they continue using the operating system after that time, he or she will be forgoing on security updates and will be at a much greater risk of malware and cyberattacks. Microsoft strongly recommends them to buy a new PC with Windows 10 pre-installed, but those who already have computers that work fine should be able to upgrade relatively easily.
For businesses, Microsoft will also provide them an option to continue receiving security updates and technical support after the expiration date for an annually fee, which will gradually increase overtime. That said, upgrading to Windows 10 would likely be more cost effective, and the company is even willing to assist businesses in upgrading and making sure that all applications work just fine.
Interestingly, Windows 7 still holds a major cut of the desktop market according to Net Applications, as noted by TechCrunch. With the operating system quickly becoming obsolete, it shouldn't be long before that number begins to rapidly shrink.
What will you do when Windows 7 reaches its end of support?


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Location within Greater London
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12,072 (2011 Census. Ward)[1]
OS grid reference
TQ325845
London borough
Ceremonial county
Postcode district
Dialling code
Islington South and Finsbury
Canonbury is a residential area of Islington in the London Borough of Islington, North London. It is roughly in the area between Essex Road, Upper Street and Cross Street and either side of St Paul's Road.
In 1253 land in the area was granted to the Canons of St Bartholomew's Priory, Smithfield, and became known as Canonbury. The area continued predominantly as open land until it was developed as a suburb in the early nineteenth century.[2]
In common with similar inner London areas, it suffered decline when the construction of railways in the 1860s enabled commuting into the city from further afield. The gentrification of the area from the 1950s included new developments to replace war-damaged properties in Canonbury Park North and South as well as restoration of older buildings.
Canonbury is traditionally an area of Islington, and has never been an administrative unit in its own right. For this reason it has never had formally defined boundaries, but approximates to the area between Essex Road, Upper Street and Cross Street and either side of St Paul's Road. The Canonbury electoral ward within the London Borough of Islington extends as far east as Southgate Road.
East Canonbury is the south-eastern corner of the district, bordering on the Regents Canal. Parts of this area were transferred to the district from the London Borough of Hackney in a boundary adjustment (along the line of the northern towpath of the canal), in 1993.[3]
In the east is the Marquess Estate, a 1,200 dwelling council estate, completed in 1976 on 26 acres (110,000 m2), and designed by Darbourne & Darke.[2] A dark red brick, traffic free estate, it was praised as an example of municipal architecture, but acquired a bad reputation and has since been extensively redeveloped to improve security for residents.
Canonbury Tower – The manor house of Canonbury was constructed by William Bolton of St Bartholomew's Priory between 1509 and 1532. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was granted to Thomas Cromwell. In the 1590s the manor house was rebuilt by Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of the City of London, including the construction of its tower. The tower has been occupied by many historical figures, including the philosopher and Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, and the Irish novelist and playwright Oliver Goldsmith. The Tower Theatre Company was based here from 1953 to 2003. It is currently used as a Masonic research centre.
Canonbury Square – Developed between 1805 and 1830, it includes a variety of distinct styles. In 1812, when few properties had been built, the New North Road turnpike, now known as Canonbury Road, was constructed and bisects the square. Many significant figures from the arts and literary worlds have lived on the square, including the writers George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, and the actor Samuel Phelps.
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is in Canonbury Square.
John Spencer Square – A residential garden square named after Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of the City of London, former residents include Barbara Castle, Labour politician and former Secretary of State, and English constitutional historian David Starkey.
New River Walk – The New River, an aqueduct built by Sir Hugh Myddelton to supply fresh water to London, was completed in 1613. The walk is in two parts, with a break at Willowbridge. The southern section received an early National Lottery grant, and has a back-pumping scheme which simulates the water flow of the original aqueduct.
Arlington Square – voted one of the UK's best garden squares.[4]
Literary and artistic connections
George Orwell moved to 27b Canonbury Square in the autumn of 1944 – he and his wife having been bombed out of their previous flat, in Mortimer Crescent, on 28 June 1944.[5] Evelyn Waugh lived at 17a Canonbury Square from 1928 to 1930.[6] Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas story about a lamplighter in Canonbury, which features the Tower.[7] Leslie Forbes, the travel and detective story writer, and amateur historian Gavin Menzies both live in the area.[citation needed]
St Paul's Church, now a school
St Paul's, at the junction of Essex Road and Balls Pond Road, was designed in 1826-28 by Charles Barry for the Church of England.[8] Its parish was merged with St Jude, Mildmay and since 1997 the building has been used as a Steiner school.[9][10]
St Stephen's Church, Church of England, is on Canonbury Road and was built in 1839.[11][12]
Groups in Canonbury
Gardens of Canonbury Square
Greenpeace UK – offices based at Canonbury Villas.
The Canonbury Society aims to conserve the special character of Canonbury by monitoring development.[13]
Islington & Stoke Newington (T.S Quail) Sea Cadet Unit
The Islington Society was founded in 1960 to safeguard and improve the quality of life in Islington. It focuses on the built environment and public transport, but also takes a special interest in public services and open spaces.[14]
Canonbury forms part of the Islington South and Finsbury parliamentary constituency. The constituency's MP is Labour politician Emily Thornberry. The Islington councillors representing Canonbury are Alex Diner, Clare Jeapes and Nick Wayne (Labour).
The 2011 census showed that the population of Canonbury ward was 72% white (53% British, 15% Other, 4% Irish), and 6% Black African.[15]
Transport and locale
Neighbouring areas of London.
Holloway Highbury Newington Green
Barnsbury
Islington Hoxton De Beauvoir Town
A map showing the Canonbury ward of Islington Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.
Essex Road
Highbury & Islington
London Buses routes 4, 19, 30, 38, 56, 73, 236, 263, 341, 393 and 476 serve Canonbury.[16]
Compton Road
Canonbury Road School, now Canonbury Primary School, opened in 1877.[17] It is a Community primary school taking boys and girls from 3 to 11 years of age. In 2010, the school was placed in special measures.[18] By 2013, when Ofsted inspected Canonbury Primary School it was rated as a Good school.[19] In 2013, there were 460 pupils on the school roll.[20]
Founded as a charity school in 1710, St Mary's Church of England Primary School has, since 1967, been situated on Fowler Road in Canonbury.[21] When Ofsted inspected the school in 2012 it was rated as a Good school and there were 178 pupils on the school roll.[22]
The North Bridge House Senior School & Sixth Form is located in Canonbury.[23]
Notable residents
Canonbury Tower
Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal, lived in Canonbury Tower from 1533 until his execution in 1540 by order of King Henry VIII
Sir Francis Bacon, King James I's Lord Chancellor, lived in Canonbury Tower, 1616-1626
William Babell, musician, died here in 1723
Ephraim Chambers, encyclopaedist, lodged at Canonbury Tower
George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith, actors and writers, lived at 5 Canonbury Place
John Newbery, publisher of children's literature, lived in Canonbury House
Francis Ronalds, inventor of the electric telegraph, lived at 11 Canonbury Place as a child[24]
Edmund Ronalds, chemist, was born at 48 Canonbury Square and later lived at the east end of Canonbury Place[25]
Thomas Field Gibson, Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was born at 2 Canonbury Place[26]
Molly Hughes, educator and author, chronicled her childhood in Canonbury in A London Child of the 1870s growing up in a house that "stood at the corner of two roads" with a view down the length of Grange Grove
George Orwell, writer, lived at 27b Canonbury Square
Evelyn Waugh, writer, lived at 17a Canonbury Square
Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, painters and designers, lived at 26a Canonbury Square
Professor Sir Basil Spence, architect, lived and worked at 1 Canonbury Place from 1956 until his death in 1976. He is commemorated with a blue plaque[27][28]
Dame Flora Robson, actress, lived in Alwyn Villas
Louis Macneice, poet, lived at 52 Canonbury Park South from 1947 to 1952 and is commemorated with a blue plaque
Barbara Castle, politician, and Ted Castle, journalist, lived in John Spencer Square
Alan Davies, actor/comedian
Spider Stacy, founding member of the Pogues
Harry Randall, music hall and pantomime comedian lived at 4 Canonbury Grove and 2 Alwyne Place
Cate Blanchett, actress lived at 7 Canonbury Grove
Chester P, UK hip-hop artist, member of Task Force and M.U.D. Family
Dame Stella Rimington, head of MI5, lived at 7 Canonbury Grove, in Alwyne Road and in Alwyne Place
Sir John Mummery PC, DL, a Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir Nicholas Barrington, ex UK High Commissioner to Pakistan
William Greaves, co-founder of Capital Kids' Cricket lived at 13 Canonbury Grove
Charlie Weaver, member and front man of Lonsdale Boys Club
Sir John Tusa, broadcaster and arts administrator[29]
Kenneth Griffith, actor, producer, presenter and historian, lived at 8 Alwyne Place, which he named Spion Kop
Dido (singer) used to live at 1, Willow Bridge Road.
Keira Knightley and her husband James Righton moved into Canonbury in 2014[30]
Kit Harington, actor moved into Canonbury in 2015.
James Bay (singer), moved to Canonbury in 2016.
Gareth Morris, principal flute, Philharmonia and New Philharmonia Orchestras (1948-1972) also principal flute professor of Royal Academy of Music (1945-1985), resident of 4, Alwyne Place from 1945 to 1987
Allegra Stratton, Downing Street Press Secretary from 2020 to 2021, and her husband James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator[31]
Alwyne Villas
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^ Statutory Instrument 1993 No. 1417 accessed 3 May 2007
^ "Keep Britain Tidy reveals nation's 10 most popular parks | Horticulture Week".
^ Orwell, Collected Works, I Have Tried to Tell the Truth, p.283
^ Eric A Willats, Streets with a Story
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^ "St Jude and St Paul Mildmay Grove". Diocese of London. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ "St Paul Steiner school". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ "St Stephen, Canonbury Road, Canonbury". London Churches in photographs. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ "St Stephen's Canonbury". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ "Welcome to the Canonbury Society". The Canonbury Society. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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^ "Buses from Canonbury" (PDF). TfL. 30 June 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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CHICAGO and GERMANTOWN, Wis. (Oct. 19, 2020) – FourGen Holdings, Inc. (FourGen) announced that it has acquired Electrical Energy Experts, LLC (EEE), an electrical testing and high voltage maintenance service firm located in Germantown, Wisconsin. The acquisition was finalized on October 16, 2020.
The purchase of the electrical testing company fits into FourGen's strategy of diversification within the electrical industry. The combination of resources will help both companies better serve the needs of their customers in Wisconsin and Illinois.
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HomeBritish IndiaIndia's stolen treasures - Major-Gen. Charles Stuart 's vast collection at the British museum - 07
India's stolen treasures - Major-Gen. Charles Stuart 's vast collection at the British museum - 07
This sandstone sculpture of Harihara (Vishnu 'Hari; and Shiva 'Hara') dates to about AD 1000. It is likely to have come from Khajurahao, Madhya Pradesh. Most of the Hindu and Jain temples at this site were constructed between c. 900-1150 by the Chandela dynasty, their ministers and Jain merchants.
sandstone Harihara circa 1000.rediff.com
Above image: As details of its acquisition are not available; when and from where this the Harihara sculpture was collected is a subject of debate. Further vey few of Stuart's documents have survived......
Gen. Charles Stuart's amazing vast collection of antiquities forms the basis of the British Museum's ancient Hindu and Buddhist sculpture collection from the Indian subcontinent. Now they are known as the Bridge Collection. A lot of Hindu idols more than 80% were personally collected by Gen. Stuart who lived like a Hindu . To him the Christian missionaries were ''disseminating through the public mind the seeds of distrust and disaffection.'' Stuart employed two Brahmins to take care of his collection.
After Gen. Stuart's death and that of his brother George Bridge, Bridge's relatives donated the collection of sculpture to the British Museum in 1872. Prior to that his collection was sold at two auctions in London -- in 1829 and 1830. John Bridge (1755-1834; partner in famous jewelry firm Rundell, Bridge and Rundell) bought most of the sculpture Bridge established a private museum in his house in Shepherds Bush, London. After his death and that of his brother George Bridge, Bridge's relatives donated the collection of sculpture to the British Museum in 1872. The museum officials feel that the vast collection under one roof will benefit the public a lot and help them compare and contrast cultures and understand our interconnectivity
Maj. Gen. Charles Stuart (c. 1758 - 31 March 1828) bmimages.com
Above image; Gen. Charles Stuart and his collection of Indian idols, etc. native of Ireland he came to India as a young man, and spent the rest of his life there as an East India Company soldier. Living in India from about 1777 to his death in 1828, Stuart spent much of his time collecting a variety of Indian sculpture of beauty and workmanship dating back to several centuries. they were collected from places such as Bihar, Bengal, Orissa and Central India. He opened the collections in his house in Wood Street, Calcutta, to the public. It also contained weaponry, costume, prints, natural history specimens and a library
Nick-named Hindu Charles Stuart (c. 1758 – 31 March 1828), he was an officer in the East India Company Army who embraced the Hindu culture and led his life more as Hindu than an Irish man. So engrossed, he read a lot of books on Hinduism and did research on his own. He wrote books and several newspaper articles raising the virtues of Hindu culture and tradition to improve their quality of life in terms of mental health and peace of mind.
He advised the Europeans settled in India to follow the tenets of Hinduism. In the biography of Stuart by V. C. P. Hodson, the author mentioned "had studied the language, manners and customs of the natives of this country with so much enthusiasm, his intimacy with them ... obtained for him the name of Hindoo Stuart". His name is mentioned in the book White Mughals (2002) written by famous Indian historian and author William Dalrymple'
What is quite surprising is he became an ardent Hindu in every aspect and never had he failed to adopt the daily religious commitment of the Hindus such as taking bath in the morning in the river Ganges at the ghat of Calcutta (Kolkata), Hindu worship protocols, rituals, etc. While off duty he would visit places near-by and carefully acquired a vast collection of Hindu gods' idols, icons, etc.
Archie Baron, another historian, taking about Stuart and the way he follows Hinduism mentions in his book An India Affair, stepping into ''the mysterious world of Brahminical Hinduism which makes 'Hindoo Stuart' a rarity even among White Moghuls.... His Hinduism was on open display to the whole of Calcutta. As far as one can tell, this does not seem to have set back his career".
Surprisingly, his religious practices, quite strange to the Europeans, never had an impact on his line of duty. Being resolute and determined, he advised the Indian soldiers to have moustache and wear Indian dress quite suitable to hot tropical country like India. In his newspaper articles written in the 1800s he advised the European ladies to adopt to saris. As for his dress, he quickly adopted to Indian dress style.
A strong advocate of Hinduism to lead moral and contended life in a civilized society, he came down heavily on the Christian missionaries and their assault on other cultures. in his book he mentioned, .......the dangers of the "obnoxious" missionaries and of attempts to convert Indians to Christianity, a process he describes as "impolitic, inexpedient, dangerous, unwise and insane". He asks "if their religion is insulted what confidence can we repose in the fidelity of our Hindu soldiers?" What he mentioned was quite true in the case of 1857 great rebellion . religion was one of the factors besides others.......
Stuart, however never stopped being a Christian and he wanted to be buried in an Anglican cemetery, albeit along with his favorite idols- lord Krishna and others. The god took the avatar ''for the benefit of mankind which he believed was "not very inconsistent with Christianity." he lived in Kolkata for more than 50 years.
Tomb of Major-General Charles Hindoo Stuart,bcmtouring.com
Maj. Gen Charles Hindoo stuart, South park comedy, Tomb. alchetron.com/
Above image: Charles Hindoo Stuart's tomb at the South Park Street Cemetery in Calcutta, West Bengal. He is commemorated under that appellation on the plaque. Stuart died on 31 March 1828 and was buried with his deities at the Cemetery; his tomb was built like a simple Hindu temple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(East_India_Company_officer)
https://www.rediff.com/news/special/give-us-our-gods-back/20180711.htm


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Barrack Obama Announces Suspension Of South Africa From Trade Benefits
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Guruboi Jan 12, 2016 ( Post 1 )
U.S. President, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, said America would suspend duty-free benefits for South Africa on March 15, a move that could cost South Africa up to seven million dollars.
He said this in Washington, adding that the suspension was because South Africa failed to meet the requirements of a trade deal.
He noted that "I have determined that South Africa is not meeting the requirements and that suspending the application of duty-free treatment to certain goods will be more effective in promoting compliance."
The suspension was seen by analysts as a move to put pressure on Pretoria to loosen its restrictions on U.S. farm exports, especially poultry products.
Obama said South Africa had earlier said it was concerned that an outbreak of avian flu in the U.
S., which killed nearly 50 million birds, could pose animal and human health risks to its economy.
South Africa's trade ministry has not responded to the comment.
It, however, said last week that it was close to striking a deal over farm produce trade with Washington that would see it retain the benefits of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
Bart Stemmet, NKC African Economics analyst, said that Obama's proclamation was likely the stick to go with this warning to lift restrictions.
He expressed the hope that the local authorities would also heed to it.
Stemmet said he expected a deal to be struck before the March deadline, because Pretoria cannot afford the financial damage a removal from AGOA would have on an already struggling
economy.
"We are confident that the suspension will ultimately be avoided.
AGOA is a U.S. trade agreement designed to help African exporters. (Reuters/NAN)
Gate Jan 12, 2016 ( Post 2 )
Barrack Obama and his sly methods.


Viktor Wynd's cabinet of dearh in The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities.
Viktor Wynd launched his Little Shop of Horrors onto an at once expectant and grateful public in 2009. Hovering halfway between theatre and sculpture, shop and museum, academic institution and art gallery, it is, like its founder, both an installation and a performance.
The Shop was just one of many elements of Wynd's remarkable social sculpture, The Last Tuesday Society, an organisation that currently boasts some 18,000 members, sells over 13,000 tickets a year to 'a veritable feast of experiences and productions' - events that range from 'evenings of loss' to literary salons and masked balls - and has over 3,000 daily visitors to its website.
The Museum will be divided into two parts: the Upper Galleries, with up to two art exhibitions a year, and the double-vaulted basement Wunderkabinett, displaying the permanent collection in custom-built and salvaged museum and jewellery cases. For the opening, Wynd is inviting a number of high profile and completely unknown contemporary artists to subvert the permanent collection, responding to the notion of The Infected Museum, while upstairs a selection of work from the permanent collection, together with loans from private collections, will highlight the English Surrealists and Crypto-Surrealists, from Leonora Carrington to Austin Osman Spare.
A packed schedule of talks and demonstrations, ranging from aquarium husbandry to taxidermy, will allow visitors to plunge deeper into the world of curiosity, whilst sipping cocktails and nibbling snacks prepared by the museum café and bar. The events programme will be co-curated by Viktor Wynd, Mark Pilkington and Amber Butchart. For the more adventurous, The Lion Room - tucked deep in the bowels of the lower galleries - is available for private hire for dinners and intimate encounters for up to ten people. Seated on deep velvet banquettes, guests will dine off a sarcophagus holding a 19th century human skeleton, surrounded by erotica and overlooked by a caged lion skeleton and a disturbingly powerful Mervyn Peake painting.


The first and the only exhibition of the Museum of Illusions in Serbia, with more than 70 exhibits, has opened in Belgrade.
In the very heart of the capital, right next to the Terazije tunnel, on three floors in 11 Nušićeva Street, the most unusual museum has opened its doors to visitors who can take photographs, laugh, and talk to their heart's content. So, what is not allowed in other museums is allowed in the Museum of Illusions. It is hard to imagine that a black rubber wheel observed t from a specific angle would look like a green ball, that a glass may be round from one angle, and rectangular from another, that the tallest man standing in one corner of a curved room would appear the shortest person in the room, vice versa: the shortest man in a different corner seems the tallest.
Optical illusions lurk all around. When in front of the "bottomless pit," you can see thousand copies of yourself from virtually all angles , or recognize another person's head "served" on a plate.
Museum of Illusions spreads over 400 square meters and offers an intriguing visual, sensory and educational experience – a true adventure for all generations. Through attractive and entertaining tricks, visitors learn a lot about sight , perception, human brain and science, and can understand why our eyes see things that the brain does not understand – says Danijela Tomasevic, director of the Museum.
Some exhibits are on loan from a foreign franchise, and mostly hail from the United States and Great Britain, while others are specific to this museum.
– We have also got a smart playroom, which offers proper brain fitness through various didactic concepts and the so called 'Quandaries'. The museum store offers souvenirs and fun didactic toys for all ages, which enables each visitor to experience the wonder of discovery and take home a part of this treasure throve, thus ensuring them that they have really been there, and that the experience was not one great illusion – explains Tomasevic.
Adult's entrance fee is 600 dinars, children's 400 dinars, and free of charge for children under five. A family card that includes parents and two children over five years of age costs 1.500 dinars – says Tomasevic and adds that a similar museum in Zagreb regularly attracts a substantial number of visitors.


I made it to college before I realized that I was trumped by third-graders reenacting this.
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Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
With this review, I'm two thirds of the way home. It occurred to me that I (and probably many others like me) have not seen the original cut of any of the original trilogy. Lucas and his team of spineless, submissive boffins have been tinkering with the films practically since they were released. So, I'm reviewing the versions on the recently released Blu-ray boxset. As with nearly all of these changes, they stick out like a housebrick in your morning cornflakes, so I'll set aside a paragraph to comment on any changes that improve, or more likely, denigrate the film. Anyway, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
It has been scientifically proven that one cannot say anything new about Star Wars. It's got to the point where even commenting on the fact that you can't say anything new about Star Wars is passé. It had a huge impact on science fiction, blockbusters and special effects, the tremors of which can still be felt today. It's very difficult to review Star Wars with fresh eyes. This trilogy was an intrinsic part of my childhood, probably the first films I loved and re-watched over and over again. Fret not though. This shall not be a chin-stroking retrospective nor an awkward, indulgent fanwank. This is just what I think.
"Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."
Simple farmboy Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is trapped working for his aunt and uncle on the desert planet of Tatooine. However, this changes when he comes into possession of two robots, named R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and C3PO (Anthony Daniels), who lead him to a mysterious old man named Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness). Along the way, Luke and Obi-Wan encounter roguish smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his right-hand Wookiee, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). The group end up going on an adventure to save a princess (Carrie Fisher) from the clutches of the evil Empire and their intimidating employee, Darth Vader. The story is as classic as they come. Typing that synopsis made me realise that it actually sounds a bit lame, but in practice it's cinematic gold. The actors are all fine, but Harrison Ford is the standout. This is a star-making turn and you can see why the guy is still working in Hollywood today. The dialogue at times is shoddy as fuck, with Lucas famously being told by Ford: "George, you can type this shit, but you sure as hell can't say it!"
A New Hope blends so many elements together it's a wonder it works at all. The film shares DNA with a vast array of things, from old samurai movies and World War II dogfights to Saturday morning serials like Flash Gordon. To me, the backbone that holds all these elements together is the strong characterisation. You actually care for these characters. You empathise with Luke, being stuck on his rock of a home planet when his friends have moved on. The film is brave enough to have you dislike certain characters initially. Hell, I don't particularly like Luke in this film, at least for the first half. He's a bit of a whiny ponce with a silly haircut. Luckily, he does become likeable. Even fan-favourite Han Solo comes across as a bit of a douche the first time we meet him. We see he's got a dark side to him when he shoots the bounty hunter Greedo in the Cantina.
Speaking of which, those changes. I don't know why Lucas is doing this. Some of the computer tinkering is to fix stuff you wouldn't even notice was there. For instance, some time ago, Lucas actually paid someone or a team of someones to CGI the Death Star crews badges onto the correct side of their uniforms. Some of the most out of place stuff though is in Mos Eisley, where added CGI creatures are pasted into the frame. There's even an awkward non-comedy bit with two robots that is so fucking unnecessary, it hurts my brain. There's even added nonsense in the Blu-ray release where some rocks have been CGI'd in front of R2 when he's hiding in the canyon. Check out the original here, and the new version here. Who is that bothered by rocks? It doesn't make any sense. I can understand updating certain effects (sort of) but this needless altering is incomprehensible. Especially considering the fact that all this stuff drags me out of the film.
The funny thing about Star Wars is that its so ingrained in our collective memories, we have sort of forgotten it is a slightly hokey '70s sci-fi that has had its formula imitated, expanded upon and bettered by films since. After a lengthy discussion with one of my friends about Star Wars, we concluded if we ever had kids (not together, that'd be weird) we'd make sure they saw the original Star Wars trilogy first, before something like the Lord of the Rings films. Kids just wouldn't be as blown away with lightsabers and the Death Star exploding if they'd seen the epic battle of Helm's Deep or a fully-fledged CGI character like Gollum. However, there are some things about Star Wars that will always have an impact like the classic story, the characters and the amazing John Williams score. I still get chills during the final Death Star assault when Luke hears Obi-Wan's voice, the Force theme swells and he switches off his targeting computer.
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope."
Practically every frame of A New Hope is iconic. It's unfortunate that practically every comedy TV show or film still feels the need to reference it to this day. However, all the shite Big Bang Theory jokes in the world cannot dull the original brilliance of the first Star Wars film. It's the rarest of things to me- a childhood favourite that still holds up now. It's a fantastic film, I just hope that in a decades' time when we all have on demand films projected onto the inside of our eyelids, Lucas won't have replaced Han Solo with a Gungan or decided that the Cantina scene needed another musical number.
I have to give it my rarely seen rating of the yellow five stars i.e. a personal favourite to which giving the normal red five stars seemed like an insult.
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