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The Navy may scrap a half-dozen of its largest surface combatants
The U.S. Navy is proposing soon to decommission six of its 22 Ticonderoga-class cruisers. The 1980s-vintage ships, the largest surface combatants in the U.S. fleet, increasingly are suffering structural problems requiring costly and time-consuming overhauls
By David Axe, The National Interest | Published Mar 22, 2019 8:30 AM
The U.S. Navy is proposing soon to decommission six of its 22 Ticonderoga-class cruisers. The 1980s-vintage ships, the largest surface combatants in the U.S. fleet, increasingly are suffering structural problems requiring costly and time-consuming overhauls.
But the Navy's proposal to cancel shipyard work for six cruisers and retire them starting in 2021 could run into resistance in Congress. And not just for the usual political reasons. The Navy has a hard, non-negotiable requirement for a certain number of cruisers.
That's because, among the Navy's 92 large surface combatants, just the 22 cruisers have the space and communications capabilities to perform a vital command role. Every aircraft carrier battle group includes one cruiser that accommodates the group's air-defense commander and his or her three- or four-person staff.
The commander, who usually is the cruiser's skipper, along with their staff oversees air- and missile-defense for the entire carrier group, monitoring the air space and directing missile-armed escort ships to intercept incoming enemy planes and rockets.
"We need an air defense commander with deploying battle groups," Sean Stackley, then an assistant secretary of the Navy, told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces in a 2014 hearing. "Eleven carriers, 11 carrier battle groups, 11 air-defense commanders."
Even the newest Flight III version of the Arleigh Burke -class destroyer currently lacks facilities for an air-defense commander. A Ticonderoga carries 122 missile cells and displaces 9,600 tons of water. A new Burke has 96 missile cells and displaced 9,200 tons.
It's unlikely the Navy can alter the Burkes to handle the cruisers' mission. In 2014, Adm. Ron Boxall, then the Navy's surface-warfare director, told Congress the newest Burkes were highly advanced vessels but lacked empty space. "As we look towards going further, we know we've maxed out that hull footprint," Boxall said.
Until the Navy commissions new, large surface combatants, it needs at least as many cruisers as it has aircraft carriers. Under current planning, the carrier fleet over coming decades could fluctuate between nine and 12 vessels.
The Navy repeatedly has proposed, then canceled, programs to design and build new cruisers. The current plan anticipates the acquisition of the first of a new class of large surface combatant starting in 2025. Unless the Navy can figure out another way to accommodate an air-defense commander, it will need to keep at least 11 Ticonderogas in service through the 2020s.
The cruisers are old and tired. Their hulls have cracked. Their pipes leak. Their SPY-1 radars are unreliable. "I think there is a growing recognition that the material condition of the ships is going to limit most of them to their rated service life," Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain who is now an analyst with the Telemus Group, told Defense News .
Congress in 2014 rejected the Navy's plan to lay up and slowly modernize 11 of the 22 cruisers in order to extend at least some of the vessels into the 2040s. Instead, lawmakers directed the sailing branch to lay up just two cruisers a year for no more than four years and allow no more than six of the ships to undergo modernization at any one time.
Rep. Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat and chair of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, told Defense News he was open to a new cruiser plan. "In previous years, we have put significant restrictions on the retirement and life-extensions to ensure that the fleet maintains a capable cruiser fleet," Courtney stated. "I fully anticipate that the subcommittee will again review tradeoffs as it relates to the cruiser fleet."
So far the Navy has completed or funded the modernization of 10 cruisers. Adding just one more ship to the modernization effort could preserve just enough air-defense-commander vessels to protect an 11-carrier fleet for another decade or two.
The Navy is ready to begin decommissioning the Ticonderogas. It has a plan to preserve a few of them and replace all of them starting in 2025. Congress this time might let it happen. But the timing leaves no margin for error or wartime losses.
This article originally appeared on The National Interest.
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10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know
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10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know was a zine published in Seattle, WA., U.S.A., by Dan Halligan. It focused on punk and rock music, along with DIY culture. The title was taken from a religious pamphlet, and Halligan occasionally claimed that it caused the zine to be misinterpreted.
Format and History
10 Things was published from 1991-2000; there were 22 issues. Each issue was full-sized. Issue #1 was photocopied, issues #2-18 were offset black and white printed (some with color covers), issues #19-22 were newsprint with glossy covers. The last dozen issues averaged 80 pages, with print runs of 3,000. 10 Things was the largest zine in the Pacific Northwest for most of its existence and was available for free in the large cities Washington, Oregon, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska. Each issue included a large number of columns, band interviews, music related articles, music and zine reviews, a cooking column, fashion advice, photography and more. Half of the content was oriented around the Pacific Northwest music community. It was a zine that caused some controversy because of its sometimes critical reviews, but was also laced with a lot of humor.
Articles from 10 Things were featured in the fifth edition of the Zine Yearbook and Ben Weasel's book "Punk Is A Four-Letter Word." Back issues of the zine are cataloged at the University of Washington, where Halligan works as a library manager.
Contributors to 10 Things included Ben Weasel and Mark Hanford (from Maximum Rock'n'Roll), Jen Angel (Clamor and Fucktooth), Luka Stravs (Punktur), and Mike Antipathy (Antipathy).
Today 10 Things is online only as a blog.
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Games like Cross words, math fun questions, jigsaw puzzles, Chess, Sudoku, Rubik's Cube etc. are our own brain bashers and brain teasers. They makes us challenge to us and teach us lesson of life. They teach us to think before we make a move in life, possible outcomes, keeping a time count, staying flexible etc.


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How Did Tom Clancy Die? Date of Death, Cause of Death, Age, and Birthday
February 11, 2021 September 6, 2021 - by TheDeadCelebrity
The novelist Tom Clancy passed away at age 66, respectable.
Tom Clancy was a best-selling American author of war, intrigue, and spy thrillers. His best-known writings are The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears, several made into successful films.
He and his two siblings were born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Catherine Clancy and Thomas Clancy, a U.S. Postal Service employee. After his first wife, Wanda Thomas King, died in 1999, he married journalist Alexandra Llewellyn. He was the father of five children.
How did Tom Clancy die?
Heart Failure caused Tom Clancy's death in 2013.
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5 Toronto Musical Productions You Need To See
August 18, 2020 by IanG
One of the best ways to learn about music is to see professionals in action. Watching and listening to the best at work can inspire you to new heights and set new standards for what can be achieved.
Some of your fondest memories will be about shows you've attended where musicians and artists dazzled your eardrums with delight.
It's not just your style of music that you can learn from but from every style. Singers that have mastered voice control and perfect pitch can be appreciated by anyone who takes an interest in the art of song.
For that reason, we would like to recommend five of the most powerful performances in the history of Toronto musical productions. You can watch these plays at various Ed Mirvish theatres in Toronto to enrich your life with the culture of the arts.
The sheer talent of those that grace the stages of these productions is truly a spectacle to behold. It's well worth paying the money to see these shows in person as they are guaranteed to make memories that last a lifetime.
The Princess of Wales Theatre
This play is one of the all time classics whose music renown and has been celebrated for over three decades. The first performance was in 1989 at The Royal Alexandra Theatre.
The story is about the French revolution and the struggle of many unsung heroes. The music is powerfully gripping and known to bring goosebumps and tears to many who watch the performance. This is part of the reason it attracted some of the world's best performers.
Michael Burgess was one of Canada's stars who played the lead role Jean Valjean in over 1000 performances. Michael Burgess passed away in 2015 however his legendary performances will live on for many years to come.
Phantom Of The Opera at
Ed Mirvish Theatre & Princess of Wales Theatre
This is a tale of a disfigured man who grew up in a circus but was a musical genius with vicious capabilities. Although he is behind the very success of an old opera house, he is nonetheless out of site and mystery for those who aren't aware of his existence.
If you'd like to get familiar with the music, this is a recording with the original Canadian cast:
This production is a spellbinding assortment of musical masterpieces written by the famous Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. The movie was almost as good as the play itself, but nothing compares to live performances making this a must-see for music lovers.
Check out the new Toronto cast for the next season.
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Interestingly enough, a sequel was made to the Phantom Of The Opera, titled Love Never Dies. If you loved The Phantom Of The Opera, you can't go on living without seeing the second.
Don't expect the same music as the first Phantom. There's never anything that will be quite like the first version of a play. Instead, go in with an open mind.
There are some marquee songs that are equally as powerful as the first, but the play definitely takes on a whole new life of its own.
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Another classic tale of a romance that takes place during the Vietnam war. The play is incredibly entertaining filled with tear-jerking moments. The music from Miss Saigon is considered in the top echelon musical plays and warrants your attendance.
Like every other major production, Miss Saigon won't land in Toronto in 2020, but you can stay updated with ticket availability @ Toronto-theatre.com.
Although this play is about Jesus, you don't need to be religious to enjoy the music and lyrical acrobatics that are demonstrated in this production.
You might even find your head bobbing to some of the songs since the story takes place in a 1970s setting. This timeless classic is one story that will continue to be told throughout the years.
NOTE: Due to COVID-19 most 2020 musical events in Toronto have been postponed until further notice.
Subscribe for email notifications and receive updates with news on ticket availability on Toronto musical productions on sites like Toronto-theatre.com
Live performances are the ultimate experiences, however…
Check out the YouTube channel The Shows Must Go On for some of Andrew Llyod Webber's greatest hits. They previously streamed the entire productions live during these months where COVID-19 was at its height.
You might want to keep a watchful eye for any more live shows, should they decide to stream again.
If you're feeling impatient, you're always welcome to learn about the singing lessons Toronto artists have used to build their careers.
Make your appearance on stage at one of the many Ed Mirvish Theaters with the help of Ian Garrett, so we can post a YouTube video here of you too! Until then, practice singing publicly as part of your vocal development in taking your voice to the next level.
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Wexham Park Hospital opens expanded chemotherapy unit
James Hockaday
09:30AM, Wednesday 19 October 2016
A newly refurbished, double capacity chemotherapy unit at Wexham Park Hospital was opened by Slough MP Fiona Mactaggart on Friday.
Following a £440,000 expansion programme, the Eden Day Unit has now doubled in size, containing 16 comfortable reclining chemotherapy chairs opposed to its original eight.
The remodelling also includes new chemotherapy pumps, bright white walls, televisions, a quiet area for patients to relax and read, and a new waiting area for relatives.
The expansion for the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust hospital was paid for by Frimley Health Charity, which received a grant from the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund.
The Eden Day Unit is used by about 25 patients daily, providing chemotherapy and complementary therapies for blood disorders, tumours and cancer.
The unit remained open while the four month expansion was carried out.
After cutting the ribbon, Ms Mactagart, who is herself a cancer survivor, toured the new facility and chatted to patients.
A Frimley Health spokesman said: "It's a good time for Wexham Park at the moment.
"Work's started with the maternity and women's services unit expansion. We've got an emergency department in the pipeline.
"It's an exciting time for the trust."
Wexham Park's lead consultant haematologist Dr Nicola Bienz said: "We first opened the Eden Day Unit at Wexham Park Hospital eight years ago, in less than half the space available to us today.
"It was a great improvement on the very small area we had previously, but still we soon outgrew it.
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"It's a pleasure be a part of this project, which stands a testament to the people who work here."
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Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived At The Sales Function Yet?
Ashwin Ramasamy
Founder and CMO, PipeCandy
You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media.
AI is real this time. It might be a toy. You might have gotten bored of Prisma already. But it's there. But there is also a tendency to paint everything with the broad brush of AI. There is a new category of companies like 6sense, Lattice Engines, PipeCandy, Infer etc. that are loosely clubbed under the category of 'Sales Intelligence'. Some of them have kicked themselves upstairs by calling themselves AI-driven sales platforms.
Be that as it may, has AI really arrived at the sales world?
There is a saying in the world of AI - Don't model the world; Model the mind. When you model the world, which is a very hard undertaking that deserves more than pat on the back, "you" are still modeling. In other words, "you" are still programming. So it's a program, at the end of the day - a very complex program that is indeed a marvel, but a program nonetheless.
A step up is "Machine Learning", where the machine has to learn to update the models the programmer has built in response to the real world signals it observes whereas if you really are doing AI, you are modeling the mind. You give your program a mind of its own and it learns to build models of the world it observes.
For example, we can build a program to track executive hiring in companies as a leading indicator of upcoming procurement events. This is squarely in the domain of programming. On the other hand, we can also pick algorithms that find underlying patterns in historic data on company funding, hiring, and other parameters that impact procurement. The latter is Machine Learning. But then these two are not AI.
You might have heard of this term 'Deep Learning' thrown into good measure when we talk about Artificial Intelligence. However, true artificial intelligence has to be intelligence that develops on its own (as against programmed). In other words, it is what we can call as "unsupervised deep learning".
Staying with the above example, AI-ification of sales means that we should be building programs that not only analyze large data sets to detect historical patterns, but are also intelligent enough to quickly adapt to new data and emerging patterns and evaluate their impact using a set of predictive frameworks. In essence, these are programs that "build" predictive models on their own.
But unsupervised deep learning in the area of sales is a hard problem. Even in highly rational buying situations like in the case of the B2B world, the sales reps and the buyers are conditioned by their earlier experiences. Biases and stereotypes greatly impact decisions. It's hard to find data to detect these stereotypes, let alone model for their interplay.
So, the pragmatic expectation to have is to expect AI to mature in the sales domain to the extent of how AI has evolved to beat a human in chess. In other words, in the narrow domain of sales, AI can evolve to do better job than a sales rep in analyzing narrowly scoped business information and identifying potential opportunities.
For instance, in our own experience, we've seen analytical models recommending retail businesses to retail technology sellers based on esoteric parameters such as geo-location, census and socio-economic information, neighboring businesses - an area where only highly experienced sales reps can intuitively connect the dots.
A technology buying propensity model that we recently developed based on observing prospect company's website helps deliver 5x better campaign responses from prospects (for an A/B testing software company) based on modeling the impact of various parameters like relative traffic growth, funding deployment, technology clusters used, TLD, intent of the website (to convert vs. to inform). It's entirely possible for the model to improve itself based on the prospect responses (and even then, it is still machine learning).
In spite of these promising applications of machine learning techniques in sales intelligence, it is still very much "program the world" kind of AI that then gets improved and not the "program the mind" AI which would be needed to improve sales performance across a variety of industries. In other words, the models have narrow applicability for specific industry domains (based on objective sales nuances of those domains) and do not do well when you take it to other domains or go deep into the realm of subjectivity introduced by human experiences.
So if your sales intelligence vendor claims to be AI-driven check how narrowly they apply AI to help improve your prospecting capabilities. If they can't provide evidences they are giving you a very clever program (which is not bad) but it may not be AI as yet.
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Orlando, Las Vegas top the list of emptiest U.S. cities
Orlando, Fla., is struggling with recession-blighted travel budgets as well as the collapse of the Florida real estate market. Positive signs: After a 5 percent decline in 2009, jobs in the hospitality industry were rising at a 6.8 percent rate by the end of 2010, and construction is flat. istockphoto
March 18, 2011, 12:05 PM UTC / Source: Forbes
By Daniel Fisher
A few years back developers in Orlando, Fla., thought they had it all figured out. With apartments rapidly being converted to condominiums, they started building new apartment complexes to absorb all the renters who didn't want to buy.
Then the economy went into recession, vacationers stopped going to Disney World, and financing evaporated for developers and buyers alike. Result: More than one-fifth of Orlando's rental units are vacant, landing it the top spot on Forbes' list of America's Emptiest Cities.
"There was supposed to be a need for new rental product to replace what was being taken out of the market," said Ken Delvillar, director of apartment brokerage services at Cushman & Wakefield in Orlando. Developers "were trying to look ahead of the curve."
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That mistaken prediction pushed Orlando's rental vacancy rate to 23.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, second only to Dayton, Ohio, among the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas surveyed by the U.S. Census Department. Orlando's high vacancy rate for single-family homes — 8 percent at the beginning of 2010 — pushed it to No. 1 overall.
To construct our list, we ranked cities over all four quarters of last year by single-family and rental vacancy rates, then averaged the ranks to determine the top 10.
Las Vegas comes in second, with its bloated inventory of homes left over from the housing bubble. Sin City's single-family vacancy rate of 5.5 percent at the end of last year — more than 7,000 empty homes in the city proper, according to Census estimates — was among the highest in the country. Rental properties were a little closer to the national average at 13.5 percent. Nationwide the single-family vacancy rate ended the year at 2.7 percent while rentals were at 9.4 percent.
At No. 3 is Memphis, Tenn. The city's 9.4 percent unemployment rate isn't particularly high, but there are thousands of units of deteriorating rental property near the city's center, helping to push the rental vacancy rate to 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the Census Department, down from 21 percent at mid-year.
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"There are several pockets of blight around the city, and as a result, absentee property owners have responded by boarding up their properties," said Mark Fogelman of Fogelman Management Group, a closely held property firm with 5,000 units in Memphis. Those blighted areas exaggerate the Memphis vacancy rate, Fogelman says, which has been stable at 7 percent to 8 percent in most of the city's other submarkets.
Next comes Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., where the single-family vacancy rate surged to 6.4 percent, the highest in the country, in the fourth quarter. Fifth is Dayton, Ohio, where demolishing vacant homes has become a growth industry.
The former auto-parts powerhouse, where the unemployment rate soared into double digits with the decline of longtime stalwarts like Delphi, has an estimated 15,000 units of vacant housing and is demolishing some 400 a year to reduce urban blight.
"I'm taking whole blocks down," says James Kent, a developer who partnered with two nonprofits to hire recently released convicts to deconstruct empty homes and recover their lumber and fixtures for use in new projects. "The population has declined, jobs have declined, and the number of houses exceed what is needed."
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In Orlando, like many cities on the list, the apartment market is split in half. At the top end, so-called Class A complexes have occupancy rates around 90 percent, and owners are beginning to raise rents. Class B complexes are also full, said Delvillar of Cushman & Wakefield. Dragging down the market are Class C properties, many of them built in the 1970s and 1980s, where occupancy rates are in the 60 percent range and landlords have difficulty collecting rent.
Delvillar cited one fixer-upper apartment complex on the market for $2.5 million, down from its last purchase price of $7.5 million. At 60 percent occupancy this complex doesn't have a return on investment right now; rents don't even cover operating expenses. But Orlando's unemployment rate is coming down, and the sun always eventually shines on Florida property markets. At least until the next bubble bursts.
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Farmers sweat to care for cattle in the heat
Cattle at Craig Recker's farm in Dubuque County near New Vienna. Recker says his monoslope building can be a big help in keeping cattle cooler in hot weather.
By Bethany Baratta
Livestock farmers last week were making plans to keep their livestock safe from the summer heat as temperatures were forecast to hit 90 degrees and above throughout the state.
Alle Bailey of Diagonal in Ringgold County said her cattle on pasture have access to shade and fresh water. She said they adjust their chore time to coincide with cooler parts of the day.
"We don't work them or move them in the heat. We check them early in the morning and later in the day. Otherwise, they're laying in the shade and won't get up," Bailey said.
Craig Recker raises cattle in monoslope and confinement barns in New Vienna in Dubuque County.
With larger cattle, almost ready for market, Recker said he was keeping a close eye on his cattle.
"The buildings really help quite a bit for cooling cattle as long as you can get air moving through there," he said. "You still have to be on the ball watching them, though."
Adjusting rations
Choring is a bit different during the heat, he said. He feeds his cattle twice a day during periods of extreme heat and switches up the rations to make up for the hotter temperatures.
He adjusts the rations and splits feeding time to twice a day so the feed doesn't spoil.
Iowa State University (ISU) Extension beef veterinarian Grant Dewell says farmers should evaluate cattle closely and pay close attention to dark-hided cattle, which are more prone to heat stress.
"Special attention should be paid to cattle with increased risk of heat stress including heavy cattle, black or dark-hided cattle and respiratory-compromised animals," Dewell says in ISU's Heat Stress in Beef Cattle pamphlet.
Compared to other animals, cattle cannot dissipate their heat load very effectively at high temperatures, Dewell points out.
Cattle rely on sweating as their primary method to maintain core body temperatures, but high temperatures above 90 degrees accompanied by solar radiation means their large body surface area begins to accumulate more heat than they can disperse by perspiration.
"At this point, cattle switch to respiration (panting) to cool themselves," Dewell says.
The use of sprinklers or misters can also help cool cattle, but that doesn't take the place of adequate supplies of fresh drinking water, he said.
"When installed, sprinklers should be operated intermittently to avoid mud and increased humidity," he said. Sprinklers should be placed away from feed bunks and water tanks to make sure that cattle don't reduce feed or water intake, he said.
For more information on ways to manage heat stress in cattle, go to www.iowabeefcenter.org/news/HeatStressAwareness2017.html.


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A celebration of life will be held Sunday, December 2, from 2-5 pm at the Eagles Hall in Abbotsford.
Sending prayers to you Kristy and Collin and to your families.
Colin, Kristy and Allan and families. May fond memories of your wife/Mom/Sister bring you comfort during this hard time in your lives. My heart and prayers go out to you and you families. I have many fond memories of growing up "at Mill Lake' with Susan.


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Q: Complex: If $|f|<\varepsilon$, then $\frac{1}{\pi}\int_E \frac{|f|}{|z-w|}<\varepsilon$? Is this true?
Let $f:E\xrightarrow{}\mathbb{C}$ be holomorphic on the interior of a compact set $E$, and let $\varepsilon>0.$
If $|f|<\varepsilon$ on $E$, then $$\frac{1}{\pi}\int_E \frac{|f(w)|}{|z-w|} dm(w)<\varepsilon$$ for $z\in E$, where $m$ is the two-dimensional Lebesgue measure.
Important edit: $E$ is COMPACT.

A: Less than $\epsilon$ looks very unreasonable. If $E$ is the closed unit disk, $w=0$ and $f(x)=\epsilon /2$ for all $x$ then the left side is $\pi \epsilon $ which is greater than $\epsilon$.


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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017) Review
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Back in 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was taking the seven seas by storm with its rip-roaring tales...
Back in 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was taking the seven seas by storm with its rip-roaring tales of pirates, ghosts and treasure, and it marked the start of the swashbuckling franchise for Disney. Based on the popular ride at Disney World, Pirates was never supposed to be the big success that it ended up being, and was in fact originally intended as a standalone film, with the sequels only being green-lit once the success of the first film was confirmed.
Arguably, the films steadily declined in quality, and after the general critical panning of the fourth instalment On Stranger Tides (2011), and many of the original cast members no longer appearing, the franchise seemed all but dead. In 2017, it is hardly uncommon to find ourselves with sequels to film series' which had previously been left on the cinematic scrap-heap, and with the promise of returning cast members including Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean is back once again.
Until fairly recently, it's subtitle had been Dead Men Tell No Tales, and indeed it is still named this in much of the marketing materials, but officially it is now called Salazar's Revenge. Conveniently perhaps this name mix-up is perhaps a sign of the very mixed bag that this film ended up being.
It is worth noting, that this definitely isn't the worst Pirates film in the series, and is a vast improvement on both the dreadful fourth, and disappointing third instalments. However it still smacks of "too little too late", and it is generally difficult to care about these characters or this world anymore, despite how hard it tries.
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Once the golden boy of character acting, Johnny Depp's off-screen controversies and on-screen flops of the last few years have undoubtedly brought him out of public favour a little, but nevertheless he is back as Captain Jack Sparrow. Pretty much the only thing which has remained a constant in this up and down film series, it very much feels like he could play this role in his sleep (or perhaps a drunken stupor) now, and those who are still thrilled by the Captain's antics, probably won't be disappointed. However, there is nothing new here, there's no new character arc for him, and no new development. Where perhaps there was once some charisma and charm, there is now just emptiness to this character, so frustratingly one-dimensional that it has gone from entertaining to embarrassing. His tipsy tomfoolery and sozzled slapstick shtick is grating rather than side-splitting, and if the character helming this movie is making you roll your eyes more than you laugh, something has gone wrong.
The new characters of Carina and Henry have evidently been taking lessons from the Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom schools of wooden acting, and are both bland, unlikeable and incredibly one-dimensional. Kaya Scodelario shows some promise as the spirited Carina, however as is so frustratingly the case more than not, the film simply won't let her be a strong independent woman, and burdens her with an unnecessary romantic subplot and some laughable "Daddy issues" which completely takes away from the elements of the character that had the potential to be good. If Brenton Thwaites as Will Turner's son Henry, is doing his best to channel to the monotone and lack of expression of Orlando Bloom, then it is something of a masterstroke, but in reality he probably just isn't that good!
The stories for these Pirates movies could pretty much be written with your eyes closed and it results in another series of uninspired action scenes, attempts at witty back-and-forths, over-the-top CGI and bland, generic villains. Javier Bardem has played some incredible villains in his time, but this performance will not find its way into that pantheon. Whilst he makes for a visually striking bad guy, sadly a lot of his performance is lost in distracting CGI and an unintelligible accent. His motives are flimsy and the "show-down" ends up being incredibly disappointing as a result of this.
At just over the 2 hour mark, this film is mercifully shorter than the incredibly overcooked At World's End, and despite its bland and forgettable plot, it does remain mostly entertaining throughout. The story leads you easily from A to B and if you just want pure entertainment, then perhaps you won't be disappointed. There's some fun set-pieces, including a bank heist which is more than a little reminiscent of the "highway/safe" chase scene from Fast Five, surprisingly! Geoffrey Rush is, as always, the MVP of this film and whilst on screen you can't help but be entertained. Once again, the rousing score from Hans Zimmer never disappoints, and this is one element it is nice to have back again. Unlike some of the returning cast members, which I won't spoil, but I will just say, don't get your hopes up!
Overall, the story feels clumsy and muddled, devoid of charm and with an over-reliance (as always) on Sparrow gurning and stumbling his way through increasingly more ridiculous situations. If you're here for that, then perhaps you could have a good time, but for me, it is time for Sparrow – and this franchise – to walk the plank.
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Tiger Woods grants first interviews since November crash
Tiger Woods goes public
Telling wife, mother about his affairs were low points, Woods tells ESPN
"To say the things that I've done, truthfully to them, is ... very painful," Woods says
Woods gives interviews to ESPN, The Gold Channel near his Florida home
Woods says therapy will continue, but declines to say what type he's received
Elin Nordegren Woods
(CNN) -- Tiger Woods said Sunday that he is focused on "living a life of amends" after "living the life of a lie" in one of his first interviews since a November car crash outside his home unleashed a media frenzy amid rumors of extramarital affairs.
The brief, five-minute interview on ESPN was one of two the professional golfer granted Sunday afternoon at the Isleworth golf club near his home outside Orlando, Florida. The Golf Channel simultaneously aired its similarly brief interview with Woods on Sunday night.
Woods credited inpatient and outpatient therapy for helping him start the process toward making amends.
"It was tough," he told ESPN's Tom Rinaldi of the therapy. "To look at yourself in a light that you never want to look at yourself, that's pretty brutal. ... I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become."
Woods said two of his lowest points in the past four months came when he had to tell his wife, Elin Woods, and his mother about his affairs.
"Those are the two people in my life who I'm closest to, and to say the things that I've done, truthfully to them, is ... honestly ... was ... very painful," he said.
Woods told The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman that his mentor and father, the late Earl Woods, "would be very disappointed in me."
"I wish I could have had his guidance through all of this," he told Tilghman. "Have him help straighten me up. I know he would have done it."
Despite the open nature of the interviews -- both Rinaldi and Tilghman weren't restricted on the questions they could ask -- the notoriously private Woods declined to go into detail about the night of the November car crash, telling Rinaldi that "it's all on the police report."
"Beyond that, everything is between Elin and myself, and that's private," Woods said.
He also declined to specify what treatment he has been seeking, but did say it will continue despite his announcement last week that he will return to golf at the Masters next month.
"I'm excited to get back and play," he told Rinaldi. "I'm excited to get to see the guys again. ... I miss competing. But still, I still have a lot more treatment to do, and just because I'm playing, doesn't mean I'm gonna stop going to treatment."
When asked about what reaction he expects from the fans, Woods said: "I don't know. I'm a little nervous about that to be honest with you. ... It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there. But I also hope they clap for birdies, too."
In closing her interview, Tilghman asked Woods about a bracelet he was wearing.
"It's Buddhist," he said. "It's for protection and strength. And I certainly need that."
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The New York Observer is expanding its coverage of the arts scene with the aid of two new hires. Joining the Observer team is writer Alexandra Peers, who will act as editor-at-large, and art publisher David Gursky.
Before joining the Observer's team, Gursky served as vice president and group publisher for Art + Auction, Modern Painters, Gallery Guide, Museums, Culture +Travel and Artinfo.com while at Louise Blouin Media.


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Bethel Music's Bright Ones will bring its first ever feature film of the same name to cinemas nationwide this spring for a special one-night event. Presented by Fathom Events, families will be able to enjoy the film in over 700 select movie theaters on Apr. 22. In addition to the screening, Bright Ones will be
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This week's featured song story comes to us from Mack Brock. We're excited to share with you the story behind his song "Greater Things." "We wanted to write a song that declared the faithfulness of God. I feel like I never get tired of singing about God's faithfulness, singing about how God never changes, He's
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Multi-platinum selling and GRAMMY® winning group Casting Crowns begins the year with the group's 14th No. 1 radio single with the title track of the newest album, Only Jesus. The single is currently No.1 on the National Christian Audience chart for three weeks. The multi-week No. 1 single, "Only Jesus," was one of the fastest-charting
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Lindy & The Circuit Riders, helmed by worship leader Lindy Conant-Cofer, release their highly anticipated Driven By Love to critical claim. The 15-track collection, available now with Bethel Music's imprint, Heritage Music, sees Conant-Cofer alongside the Circuit Riders empowering the next generation of believers to cultivate a culture of action with CCM Mag calling the
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Grammy® Award winner Chris Tomlin will return to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena for the third consecutive year for "Good Friday Nashville" on Friday, April 19, 2019. Best-Selling author Max Lucado returns as speaker and special guests are Tauren Wells and Pat Barrett. The concert will again include surprise appearances like vocal group Rascal Flatts who performed
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Dove Award-nominated recording artist, songwriter, filmmaker, and award-winning author Andrew Peterson prepares for his second annual Resurrection Letters Tour, with most tour dates booked and tickets going fast (available here). Featuring indie artist Taylor Leonhardt and special guest Skye Peterson, the tour runs April 5 through May 11.
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As one of the most successful and influential Christian artists today, Chris Tomlin is set to kick off one of the biggest years of his career which will include the release of a LIVE album, HOLY ROAR: LIVE FROM CHURCH, on March 15, and a remarkable year of touring that will include many firsts, including


I was looking in the mirror today and thought... "Wow! I've changed!" Not in a bad way, mind you, just in a "time marches on" sorter sense I guess. So I've decided to do a little "Ceci Throughout the Years" post here and put up some pictures.
Currently, I'm quite happy with the me of now. I like the way I look and feel. In fact, I feel like I'm the very me I've always wanted to be. My hair is short and, in my opinion, looks cute. I've tattoos and piercings I've always wanted to get. I'm in total control of being and looking like the Ceci I've always thought would be a perfect... Ceci!
I'm also in awe of the fact that I feel small. I'm not small, per se... but I'm the smallest I've been since high school and I actually feel small. I even feel small with Stephen, which, can be difficult when he's so thin, and yet I do... I feel small.
Any way... here's Ceci: now and then.


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Day 67: Never Let Me Go
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It turns out that saying that you've politely dismissed your couples therapist is like saying you washed your hair once with the special shampoo and now you don't have lice any more: you can say it, but it doesn't mean that it's true.
You see, couples therapists are tenacious creatures. What, you think that you don't need a couples therapist just because you're no longer a couple? How terribly naïve of you!
He said we should have one final session because "it's very important to have closure."
That was our first mistake. That was agreeing to have tea with the gallant stranger in Istanbul who gave you directions to the Hagia Sophia and then ten minutes later you're sitting in his uncle's carpet shop.
Because then, yesterday, during the "one final session," he said that normally closure takes at least four sessions. Also, the next weeks are going to be really hard as we figure out the dynamics of co-parenting while not being a couple. So, really, we need him more than ever now. Hmmm. It kind of made sense.
This was the moment when He-Who-Must-Be-Preserved and I exchanged looks that said, in effect, well, maybe just a small kilim?
Sometimes I think my psychiatrist is just fucking with me. She looks so innocent but I increasingly suspect that beneath that wholesome exterior there lurks a really twisted sense of humor. I also suspect she has own blog called Fucked-up Stuff I Recommend To My Patients With a Straight Face Just To See If They'll Do It.
Today I was talking to her about feeling increasingly alone; about how I feared that I would alienate everyone whom I loved; about wanting someone who could just hold me while I cried. She was moved and her own eyes filled with tears. She said that she was sorry that I was so lonely and I could tell that she really meant it and that she wanted to help me.
Is there a possession you have that reminds you of your parents? she asked me gently. Something tangible, something you can hold, that reminds you of being a child? I shook my head; not really, I said. Not a stuffed toy from childhood, she asked? Err, no, I said.
She paused, nodding.
How would you feel about going shopping for a stuffed toy, she asked me. I sighed and explained that I'd be happy to do it if I thought it would have any effect but that I just didn't think a stuffed toy would give me any comfort.
She asked if when I was a child I had had a transitional object. No, I explained; I had never needed one. We were a co-sleeping family; I shared my parents' bed till I was about ten. And, perhaps for that very reason, I had never had a special stuffed toy that I liked to go to sleep with. I always preferred a warm body over a stuffed toy, I explained.
Well, she says, totally deadpan, there are inflatable warm dolls that you can buy. Maybe that would help.
I'm trying to imagine the expression that crossed my face in response to this suggestion. Amused-repulsed-incredulous?
Yeah, I don't think so, I said.
Why not? She said, again totally deadpan, as if going to bed with an inflatable warm doll is just a normal thing for a 40-year-old woman to do.
Here, I will pause to say that I've also had the thought that Dr. F doesn't make these sorts of suggestions to all of her patients, but only to me, because it's such enormous fun to wind me up. I'm extremely predictable in this way. If you ask me just the right sort of absurd question in a sufficiently deadpan tone, I'll work myself up into a lather explaining to you why what you're suggesting is completely and utterly preposterous.
So, in this instance, when Dr. F asked me evenly, "why can't you just buy an inflatable warm doll and go to bed with it, duck-rabbit?" I was positively stammering and tripping over myself in my eagerness to distance myself from her horrific proposition. I just couldn't get the words out quickly enough.
"Why? Why? God, I mean, ugh, it just seems so, so, so dystopian, you know? It's like, like AI, you know, that movie AI? Where the parents have that creepy robot child, or whatever he is? Or, like, like you know in Her, when he starts a relationship with his operating system? I mean, it, it, it just feels like that to me," I end weakly.
Throughout my rant Dr. F. surveys me impassively.
"Well, you know the reason that they make those movies is because there are already versions of those sorts of surrogates that give a lot of people a lot of comfort."
I am just shaking my head at her.
She sighs. Well, how about hug therapy, she suggests.
Hug therapy? I say, what is that? (I feel pretty sure that I already know exactly what it is and want no part of it.)
"It's where you pay someone and they'll just, you know, hug you for an hour. I know they have it San Francisco …"
This is where I start to get the I-think-you're-fucking-with-me feeling.
"Are you serious?" I ask.
"What do you mean?" she asks, coolly.
"I mean, are you seriously, as a therapist, recommending this to me? Don't you think, as a therapist, that paying someone to hug you is not actually going to alleviate your loneliness in any meaningful way?
She looks completely unmoved by my derisive tone.
"There are studies showing that after cuddling for an hour, your blood pressure is lower, and other symptoms of stress are alleviated …"
"That may be, but I feel that sleeping with an inflatable warm doll and paying some random person to hug me would make me feel so much worse. Like, this is how sad and pathetic I am. I am so sad and pathetic that I pay a professional hugger to hug me."
She's still looking at me with that expression of neutral curiosity that drives me bananas so I just continue ranting.
"Do you really not know what I mean? I mean, I feel like there would be all the same internalized shame that someone must feel paying a prostitute … Except, it would actually be worse (now I'm getting really worked up), because paying someone to hug you is actually more pathetic than paying someone to have sex with you because who can't get a free hug???"
Now she sighs, wearily. Look, I'm not prescribing anything, she says.
OK, I say, with some relief.
We sit there for a moment in silence.
I'm just saying it's an option, she says.
As soon as I get home I Google hug therapy San Francisco and all of the hits that come up direct me to this place, a cuddling service that offers cuddling sessions for $75 an hour (I can tell you right now, readers, that that is much, much cheaper than non-cuddling therapy) founded by one Travis Sigley.
An article about him in the Wall Street Journal notes that "cuddle entrepreneurs" "call Mr. Sigley a pioneer in the field here. The long-haired former psychology student and onetime stripper says he launched his San Francisco business, Cuddle Therapy, because he felt frustrated by restrictions against touch between therapists and their clients."
I've tried out and then deleted as inadequate various sentences here. Because, honestly? Nothing can follow that description of Mr Sigley. Any commentary would be simply redundant. So, instead, I'll just repeat it again for your reading pleasure:
"The long-haired former psychology student and onetime stripper says he launched his San Francisco business, Cuddle Therapy, because he felt frustrated by restrictions against touch between therapists and their clients."
It's an option.
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6 thoughts on "Day 67: Never Let Me Go"
Miss H. says:
((((((((hugs))))))))
profserna says:
I would flounce at that nonsense. You are a good egg to entertain her suggestions. (I think she's testing you).
And here are a lot of hugs:https://www.tumblr.com/search/virtual%20hug%20gif
and more:
http://giphy.com/search/group-hug
rabidduckwit says:
Thank you dear Prof. S for the hugs, and, most especially, for deeming me to be a good egg. I take that as a high compliment. I'm a tough egg in some respects, but I'm neither hard-boiled nor, I hope, rotten.
There's this option apparently, but I suspect the lack of second arm would be both odd and would severely limit the whole hug thing (I guess it's more for cuddling than hugging?) – http://www.allmodern.com/Deluxe-Comfort-Boyfriend-Body-Pillow-BFPB-001-01-L1227-K~DLX1013.html?refid=GX46109959036-DLX1013_9222570&device=c&ptid=98885324716&PiID%5B0%5D=9222570&gclid=CjwKEAjwvPepBRCoqo37teOD1XsSJAC7v6WQCmsQVOzOKPAPFEsNp2-Y-uIVIeYE4v41L8Bv-OE7ThoC-Jfw_wcB
April 27, 2015 at 12:27 pm	 Reply
OH. MY. GOD. And it comes with 2-day shipping!
My first question was: is there a girlfriend pillow? And I believe the answer is "no," at least, one is not available for purchase on this same website. Interesting.
As for your comment that the lack of a second arm would be "odd" and "severely limiting," I am APPALLED, just APPALLED, Alison, by your bigotry.
I'm sure there is some Woody Allen quote about the pleasures of masturbation that could be adapted to the pleasures of one-armed hugging.
I have to add that, to my complete horror, today my facebook feed has an ad for allmodern.com. The ad says "we thought you might like …" and then there is a gigantic picture of the boyfriend pillow.


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"We want to be educational, lighthearted and FUN, which can be an elusive word in local government," said podcast host Ted Skroback. "We're excited to talk about our parks, the city's history and road improvements in the first few episodes and then, we hope people will let us know which topics they would like to hear about in the future."
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Transcript of Episode 0.5
Colorado Springs, nearly 500,000 people, Olympic City USA, Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak. It's a growing city. Our local government has a lot of employees. What exactly do they do? How does it impact my life? This is where you find out Behind the Springs an inside look at your local government.
Welcome, welcome, welcome. I can't believe we're finally doing this after long discussions and planning and uh, here we finally are in the podcast booth. My Name's Ted Skroback. I'm the communications specialist, which always sounds too good for the Colorado Springs City Council alongside of me.
Jen Schrader, I'm communication specialist for the city of Colorado Springs and um also work for Springs TV, which is our video production department. And excited to be here. Woo. We made it.
We finally did it. This is a been an idea that's been tossed around and then, and then recently has come to fruition over the past couple of months here. And I just want to welcome everybody to episode 0.5.
That's right. A big celebration. Yeah.
And also I want to tell you episode one, which you've probably already seen, uh, wherever you're listening, this podcast is up as well. And we'll be talking to a, to about parks in that one. And I want to move over to Jen and just ask you, why are we doing this?
Are we doing here? Uh, well I'll tell you, it's another tool, uh, that we can use to communicate with people in Colorado Springs. We have a lot of tools, springs, TV, like I mentioned, our local government access TV station where you can find city council meetings and all those fun things on. That's one. But of course we're on social media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. We have a great website. Um, there's lots of places to find us, but we know that some people want to get their news and information from podcasts. So we wanted to have one available to make, um, to create kind of a fun platform in a place where people can meet or, Whoa, you said fun. Oh no, that's an elusive or is that a little crazy
crazy when it comes to government fun. And I remember when I walked into your office to pitch you on being a cohost with my crazy self. And I said, the main thing that I want is to hit that elusive word, which is fun in government. And I'm hoping that's what we're going to be able to be able to do with this.
we can do it. We know enough fun employees around here. I know that they can bring it to the table and I think people are gonna be really excited to hear from them and hear more about what they do. And I think there's not many local governments that are doing this, that are, that have this kind of conversation and podcast going on. And so we're excited to join just a couple of others across the country that are trying this out to really get people acquainted with their local government and excited about what's happening in their city.
Insane. To me, we only found two others that are doing it right now. I'm sure there's others. Uh, you know, we do have full time jobs, so there's only so much time that we can look up what other cities and municipalities are doing this, but it only seems like a couple and this is something that, you know, I think Colorado Springs is at the forefront of a lot of different, a lot of different aspects and this is one, especially on the local government level. I really think that we can be trailblazers with this. I think we can bring this to other municipalities throughout Colorado. This could become something that maybe something El Paso county wants to do something at the state level wants to do and just another, like you said, another tool in the toolbox to get you closer with your local government. But we're just going to focus on Colorado Springs.
Yes. And I hope, I hope people do get excited about it because I think we've got great topics coming up. Um, we are, like you said, going to focus on parks to start out with and we're going to hear from our parks director. Um, and a lot of people aren't familiar with what goes into maintaining a park and, um, all the questions that come up about our parks, I think we can answer some of those for folks, which will be really nice. And mostly we just want people to meet everyone from our mayor who has agreed to go on the show.
Unbelievable. By the way, I mean, what a victory that you pulled off for us. It was the biggest upset I've ever seen. We thought by episode eight, nine maybe
we'd be begging Mayor Suthers, but he's gonna he's gonna do it.
there's going to be great and he can shed some light on some of our history, um, which falls under our parks department, which is one of the many topics that we want to tackle. We want to talk about public safety roads, just a lot of the things that matter to people who are here in our community and maybe don't have the information that they need. Um, and we want to hear from you all about, about what you want to hear about too.
Well, I want you to just mention the parks episode that that's already out right now. So if you're already sick of listening to this episode, 0.5
[inaudible],
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I am. I think that, you know, both of us, I know we're similar in that we both have broadcast backgrounds and so that gives us a little bit of cloud here, a tiny, tiny bit. Yeah. Um, but I think, um, our communications backgrounds are what really, I think motivated us to say we need to tell people about all the great stories we're witnessing and hearing and a part of here at the city. And mostly just to introduce residents to the people who work for them, I think is critical. And I think that, I know I'm just speaking for myself, but I think I speak for you ted, is that there is that element of I want to be part of the city to be a public servant. And I think you and I have that, but I think a lot of our folks who are filling potholes and their park rangers and their code enforcement employees, and they're out there doing their jobs every day, even if that's behind a desk and in a computer, it setting whatever they're putting hearts into it and they're really serve as serving our community in a positive way.
Jen Don't dance around the question. Oh, we're talking about your background right now.
Sorry. But that is my background. That's what I, that's why I really wanted to get into local government. I think the public service was the pull for me.
Well, and where are you from? What brought you to Colorado Springs?
I'm from the Denver area. #native, right? Yes. So I'm one gen one ted zero. Cause your Hashtag along Arizona was on, do you have a want wall? Arizona Native [inaudible] Arizona native. But we will still accept you here. We will accept anyone moving here from other places. We love to have you in our community. And especially those folks who are new. I think they can learn a lot too. And I think I'm an example of somebody I've lived here almost 20 years and I still don't know, um, uh, so much. And so I think it's important to just continue to educate yourself about what's going on in your own community.
Well, and like you said, I came up from good old Tucson, Arizona. Uh, I came here about three years ago, worked for the same, uh, news establishment that you did just at different times, right. And, uh, and then moved over to working for city council as their communications specialist, which always sounds too great to be true. And, uh, and you know, we've talked about this before, but I found a, I found that I'm very nerdy about local government and that's why once this job opened up, it was a perfect transition for me to come over to this side. And then the other reason that I had gotten into local news to begin with was to serve communities. I didn't feel fulfilled that way. Now working on this side of things where I'm talking to people at public meetings, I'm talking to people over email, phone calls, uh, the appreciation, uh, that I'm sure you feel as well when you talk to people in the community, being able to answer their concerns, being able to answer their questions, feel like I'm doing a lot more on this side of things and my life is just fulfilled now, you know,
[inaudible]
we really got to get some more sound effects.
It was beautiful. I think the other thing is that people don't realize, they sometimes hear the word government and they do think nerdy and they think I have to be really into the structure of the legislative branch or how it all works. And that's not necessarily true. If you love our parks, that's local government. If you want your road to be paved, that's local government. If you're really into some of the traditions like Pike's peak or bust Rodeo, I mean the cities involved with all those things. So I think some things that you don't normally think of are part of what we do and we want to share that with with folks.
Well and our goals are that you take away two or three small things from each episode and we want to be teaching teaching guys a lot, but it's like drinking out of a fire hose sometimes. And that also a, if anybody's talking too high level, we're going to bring them with an alarm and we're going to make sure that those acronyms are explained and any of this high level, a bureaucratic Babel as I like to call it, we'll be explaining sound effect for that. Yes. A as, as I said, we're going to work on our sound effect game over here and uh, and episode one, uh, you know, may I, I don't want to spoil anything, but it may even have better sound effects than we've already shown in 0.5. So coming up here in the next few months, we're going to go month to month with different, um, uh, different genres or topics that we're going to be hitting month one is parks has generally hit on.
Um, we're probably going to be talking about 2C coming up here soon, uh, streets paving, uh, infrastructure. And then we're going to go on to, um, to discuss public safety as well as maybe homelessness later in the year as well. Um, but for now, we have episode one already up. I can't believe the mayor's going to come on for episode two. That's unbelievable. He can't wait. So make sure you're staying tuned every two weeks. We're going to have a new episode out for you and we want to hear your feedback if you want more, or if you want to hear about a different subjects as we go forward. So we're looking forward to bringing you even more about the city of Colorado Springs. Jen, you ready to do this?
I am the springs. Yes. You're the inside. Look at local government. I'll get that right in. Something.