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U.S. House Poised to Add Civil Penalties to National Labor Relations Act
By Jim Paretti, Maury Baskin, and Michael J. Lotito on
With supporters of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act unable to advance the legislation under the regular rules of the Senate, they are now attempting to move pieces of the legislation by way of special rules relating to the federal budget. Legislative language released on September 8, 2021 indicates that provisions in the PRO Act imposing civil penalties for unfair labor practices (ULPs), and the creation of new ULPs, will be included when the House takes up "budget reconciliation" in the near future.
By way of background, the PRO Act represents the most dramatic re-write of federal labor policy in a generation, containing more than 50 substantive changes to federal labor law ranging from overturning state right-to-work laws to reclassifying independent contractors as "employees" for purposes of union organizing laws. The U.S. House previously passed the bill by a narrow margin earlier this year. To date, however, the measure remains stalled in the U.S. Senate, where 60 votes are required to pass the measure as a whole.
Enter "budget reconciliation," which refers to a measure relating to federal spending which can be passed with simple majorities of both the House and Senate. Congress is currently working to advance President's Biden's $3.5 trillion spending plan (the so-called "soft infrastructure bill") by way of these expedited procedures.
PRO Act supporters in the House have included the legislation's civil penalties provisions into budget reconciliation in an attempt to get this portion of the legislation passed with only 51 votes in the Senate (which would require all 50 Democratic senators to vote for the bill, with Vice President Harris casting the 51st tie-breaking vote).
The creation of new civil penalties under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or "the Act") would fundamentally change its nature from a "make whole" remedial statute into a punitive one. As introduced, the reconciliation bill would add fines of up to $50,000 per violation for ULPs under the NLRA. Where an employer commits a ULP by discriminating or retaliating against an employee for engaging in protected activity, or where an employee is discharged or suffers "serious economic harm," these fines would be doubled to $100,000 per violation if the employer has committed a similar ULP within the last five years.
The PRO Act provisions contained in budget reconciliation also effectively create new ULPs beyond those contained in the Act, prohibiting an employer from: (a) permanently replacing a striking worker; (b) discriminating against a worker who has unconditionally offered to return to work based on participation in a strike; (c) locking out employees; (d) misrepresenting to an employee that they are not covered under the Act (e.g., misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor rather than an employee, or misclassifying an employee as a "supervisor" under the Act); (e) requiring employees to attend captive-audience meetings during a union organizing campaign; and (f) entering into or enforcing any prohibition on joint, class, or collective action. This last provision would essentially ban the use of arbitration in employment cases for unionized and non-union employers alike.
Liability for violation of any of the above would extend to any director or officer who directed or committed the violation, had established a policy that led to such a violation, or had actual or constructive knowledge of and the authority to prevent the violation and failed to prevent the violation.
The House is expected to take up this legislation in the near future, although as of this writing it is unclear what final form the reconciliation bill will take. Even less clear is its fate in the Senate. Thus far, there does not appear to be unanimous Democratic support for President Biden's $3.5 trillion package generally, and, as noted above, the PRO Act itself does not yet have even 50 supporters.
With regard to civil penalties, the picture is even murkier. Under the arcane rules relating to budget reconciliation, provisions that change substantive policy but have merely incidental budgetary impact are not eligible for inclusion. Senate PRO Act opponents are expected to move to strike the civil penalties provisions from the budget bill, but ultimately the ruling of the Senate Parliamentarian will determine whether these provisions are permissible. While there is limited precedent for increasing existing statutory penalties by way of reconciliation (for example, monetary fines for OSHA or FLSA violations), there is no precedent for imposing an entirely new and transformative penalty scheme by way of budget rules.
WPI has anticipated these proposed changes to the NLRA, evaluating whether they are or are not appropriate under Senate budget rules. At the end of the day, the judgment of the Senate Parliamentarian will decide whether or not budget reconciliation will result in the most dramatic changes to our labor laws in history. WPI will continue to be involved in this important conversation.
Information contained in this publication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or opinion, nor is it a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney.
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BUSTED ON HOT MIC!!! CNN Caught Revealing Plan To Sabotage Trump On Live TV- WE KNEW IT!
As reported previously, CNN's Jim Acosta was an utter embarrassment at the North Korean summit, shouting out questions at President Trump and Kim Jong-Un. He just would not quit. Kim ignored him and President Trump actually answered his questions, which is far more than he deserved if you ask me. And it gets even worse. Acosta was caught on a hot mic bragging that he purposefully disrupted the historic peace summit in an act of pettiness that just boggles my mind. It was done out of revenge for not being allowed to sit in on their denuclearization meeting. Just juvenile. He really needs to have his press credentials pulled permanently.
Acosta justified his actions this way, "Hey if they're not going to let me in the f***ing meeting, that's what happens… That's the way it goes, baby." That should earn this hack a final kick out of the door at the White House and to be told not to ever bother coming back. Breitbart's Joshua Caplan posted the audio on Twitter. Acosta didn't even bother denying he said it… it's obvious he made the comments. Disgusting.
As I said the other day, while the world collectively held their breath during the historic signing of the denuclearization agreement between Trump and Kim, Acosta shouted out: "Mr. President, did we agree to denuclearize?" Trump answered and Acosta had the nerve to shout an even more insulting question… "Did you talk about Otto Warmbier, sir?" Trump did discuss human rights with Kim, but the media spun it as if he didn't. After that outburst, Acosta stepped way over the line and yelled at Kim, "Mr. Kim will you give up your weapons, sir?" No answer and I'm not surprised by that either. Why should Kim bother to answer some rude American reporter?
CNN's Jim Acosta caught on hot mic justifying shouting questions at Trump-Kim summit: "Hey if they're not going to let me in the f*cking meeting, that's what happens… That's the way it goes, baby." pic.twitter.com/e8drJAMUyf
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) June 12, 2018
President Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, had plenty to say about Acosta's disgraceful behavior. He tweeted that Acosta's press credentials should be revoked. Amen to that! Acosta violated the first rule of journalism; he is far more interested in making himself the story than reporting on it. Parscale has nailed Acosta before and rightly so. He also said that Acosta's press credentials should be stripped after he trolled President Trump when he was interacting with children during the White House Easter egg roll. "I think the White House should pull his credentials because he yelled questions, as he continues to do at inappropriate times, while the President was coloring books with children," Parscale tweeted in April 2018. "Disrespectful, and would have never been allowed previously."
Acosta has been a flaming embarrassment from the beginning. He's always harassing White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during her press conferences and he tries to embarrass President Trump every chance he gets. You don't see real reporters acting like this. None of the people from Fox News act like this. Every time it happens, it's some leftist media hack. CNN's Jim Acosta, April Ryan and a number of others hate President Trump so much that they are determined to make a newsworthy spectacle every time they get an opportunity. These are politicized media attacks and should not be allowed. Remember that Acosta was the one that got President Trump to label CNN as fake news in the first place.
From BizPac Review:
"Since President Trump took office, Acosta has repeatedly hijacked high-profile meetings and White House events in his desperate bid to become the day's viral YouTube sensation.
"In June 2017, Acosta played the "You-Ignored-Me" card when he accused WH press secretary Sarah Sanders of not calling on him even though there were many other media outlets at the press briefing besides CNN.
"In December 2017, Sanders shut Acosta down when he repeatedly interrupted her as she was trying to reply to his question.
"Like his CNN colleague April Ryan, Acosta has thirstily raised his public profile by attacking President Trump and his aides and using the WH press briefings to draw attention to himself.
"In January 2017, Acosta rudely interrupted President Trump during one of his first press conferences since taking office. Trump shut down the CNN clown in epic fashion when he quipped: "You are fake news!""
Jaws drop when Jim Acosta busts up historic moment for peace with disgraceful inappropriate questions https://t.co/Vn4fHBqKbh pic.twitter.com/ZvFP7pXDnv
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 12, 2018
Acosta hit back at President Trump's 2020 campaign manager's call for his press credentials to be revoked, saying the practice happens in "dictatorships…not democracies." "Dear Brad.. dictatorships take away press credentials. Not democracies," Acosta tweeted at Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale on Tuesday. First off, we are a Republic. Second, you are allowed into the White House press pool at the President's discretion and it has always been that way. The reason you haven't seen credentials revoked in the past is you haven't seen this kind of rude behavior before. Yes, there is freedom of the press, but that does not mandate that a hack like Acosta be allowed to cover White House press conferences. If he can't act even remotely professional, he should be barred from attending.
Acosta also defended his decision to shout a question at North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un while in Singapore and said the world would have thought less of the White House press corps if reporters stayed silent. "I couldn't think of anything else to ask North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, but whether he's going to give up his nuclear weapons," he said Wednesday on CNN. "There's a dictator right in front of you who has nuclear weapons. Why on Earth would you not ask that question?" he asked.
"The question I have is, if you play the same video of him walking past us with President Trump, and you turn the sound down, and the reporters covering this trip didn't ask any questions, what would the rest of the world have said about the White House press corps, if we hadn't asked any questions of Kim Jong-Un when he was right in front of us?" he asked. "He's threatened to vaporize parts of the United States. My goodness, I could not have thought of anything else better to ask at that moment than that question."
There is a time and place to ask those questions and a peace summit is not it. The world sees a reporter like Acosta and then think that all Americans are rude like he is. They aren't and he makes all of us look bad. President Trump is about to drop the hammer on this guy – pull his credentials and send him packing. The rest of the CNN gaggle can join him.
Jim @Acosta should immediately have his press credentials suspended. He is an absolute disgrace! @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/EY18ZeIq2h
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 12, 2018
I agree, no ethics no press pass.
Trump's CM: CNN's Jim Acosta should be stripped of press credentials after outburst https://t.co/qCCs5G11XA
— 🇺🇸Trumplican Todd🇺🇸 red-pilled.com (@Barnett20Todd) April 4, 2018
Here's Jim Acosta yelling at Trump about DACA while the president colors with Barron, Melania & children gathered at the White House pic.twitter.com/JCPsaREe8A
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 2, 2018
Dear Brad.. dictatorships take away press credentials. Not democracies. https://t.co/TqgCHOW0t6
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 13, 2018
Maybe it is time for Jim Acosta to get a suspension for breaking protocol. He continues to embarrass himself and @CNN. Pull his credentials for each incident. https://t.co/WHC9nlIo75
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) April 2, 2018
"There's a dictator in front of you who has nuclear weapons, why on earth wouldn't you ask that question?" Chief White House Correspondent @acosta on why he asked Kim Jong Un if he would give up his nukes https://t.co/beqITLLi4Z pic.twitter.com/ZzylwQ8itE
— New Day (@NewDay) June 13, 2018
Check Out The Video President Trump Showed Kim Jong-Un That Changed His Heart Forever
Finally! Trump Is Done With DeNiro – Uses Presidential Power To Send Hateful Actor HUGE Surprise


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//    0000010: 6b 6c 6d 6e 6f 70 71 72   73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7a  klmnopqr stuvwxyz
//    0000020: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37   38 39                    01234567 89
//
// but it's also possible to configure:
//
//  * Line numbering
//  * Line width
//  * Format
//  * Case of hex decimals
//  * Presence of the ASCII annotation in the right column.
//
// This mean you can do exciting dumps like:
//
//    0000000: 0001 0305 1f0a 0962  .... ...b
//    0000008: 6364 6566 6768 696a  cdef ghij
//    0000010: 6b6c 6d6e 6f70 7172  klmn opqr
//    0000018: 7374 7576 7778 797a  stuv wxyz
//    0000020: 3031 3233 3435 3637  0123 4567
//    0000028: 3839                 89
//
// or even:
//
//    0000000: 00 01 03 05 1f 0a 09 62   63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6a
//    0000010: 6b 6c 6d 6e 6f 70 71 72   73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7a
//    0000020: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37   38 39
//
// with hexy!
//
// Formatting options are configured by passing a `format` object to the `hexy` function:
//
//    var format = {}
//        format.width = width // how many bytes per line, default 16
//        format.numbering = n // ["hex_bytes" | "none"],  default "none"
//        format.format = f    // ["fours"|"twos"|"none"], how many nibbles per group
//                             //                          default "fours"
//        format.caps = c      // ["lower"|"upper"],       default lower
//        format.annotate=a    // ["ascii"|"none"], ascii annotation at end of line?
//                             //                          default "ascii"
//        format.prefix=p      // <string> something pretty to put in front of each line
//                             //                          default ""
//        format.indent=i      // <num> number of spaces to indent
//                             //                          default 0
//
//    console.log(hexy.hexy(buffer, format))
//
// In case you're really nerdy, you'll have noticed that the defaults correspond
// to how `xxd` formats it's output.
//
//
//== Installing
//
// Either use `npm`:
//
//    npm install hexy
//
// This will install the lib which you'll be able to use like so:
//
//    var hexy = require("hexy.js"),
//        buf  = // get Buffer from somewhere,
//        str  = hexy.hexy(buf)
//
// It will also install `hexy.js` into your path in case you're totally fed up
// with using `xxd`.
//
//
// If you don't like `npm`, grab the source from github:
//
//    http://github.com/a2800276/hexy.js
//
//== TODOS
//
// The current version only pretty prints Buffers. Which probably means it
// can only be used from within node. What's more important what it
// doesn't support: Strings (which would be nice for the sake of
// completeness) and Streams/series of Buffers which would be nice so you
// don't have to collect the whole things you want to pretty print in
// memory. `hexy` is probably most useful for debugging and getting binary
// protocol stuff working, so that's probably not an too much of an issue.
//
//== History
//
// This is a fairly straightforward port of `hexy.rb` which does more or less the
// same thing. You can find it here:
//
//    http://github.com/a2800276/hexy
//
// in case these sorts of things interest you.
//
//== Mail
//
// In case you discover bugs, spelling errors, offer suggestions for
// improvements or would like to help out with the project, you can contact
// me directly (tim@kuriositaet.de).

var hexy = function (buffer, config) {
  config = config || {}
  var h = new Hexy(buffer, config)
  return h.toString()
}

var Hexy = function (buffer, config) {
  var self = this

  self.buffer    = buffer // magic string conversion here?
  self.width     = config.width || 16
  self.numbering = config.numbering == "none"  ? "none" : "hex_bytes"

  switch (config.format) {
    case "none":
    case "twos":
      self.format = config.format
      break
    default:
      self.format = "fours"
  }

  self.caps      = config.caps      == "upper" ? "upper" : "lower"
  self.annotate  = config.annotate  == "none"  ? "none"  : "ascii"
  self.prefix    = config.prefix    || ""
  self.indent    = config.indent    || 0

  for (var i = 0; i!=self.indent; ++i) {
    self.prefix = " "+prefix
  }

  var pos = 0

  this.toString = function () {
    var str = ""

    //split up into line of max `self.width`
    var line_arr = lines()

    //lines().forEach(function(hex_raw, i){
    for (var i = 0; i!= line_arr.length; ++i) {
      var hex_raw = line_arr[i],
          hex = hex_raw[0],
          raw = hex_raw[1]
      //insert spaces every `self.format.twos` or fours
      var howMany = hex.length
      if (self.format === "fours") {
        howMany = 4
      } else if (self.format === "twos") {
        howMany = 2
      }

      var hex_formatted = ""
      for (var j =0; j< hex.length; j+=howMany) {
        var s = hex.substr(j, howMany)
        hex_formatted += s + " "
      }
      str += self.prefix

      if (self.numbering === "hex_bytes") {
        str += pad(i*self.width, 8) // padding...
        str += ": "
      }

      var padlen = 0
      switch(self.format) {
        case "fours":
          padlen = self.width*2 + self.width/2
          break
        case "twos":
          padlen = self.width*3 + 2
          break
        default:
          padlen = self * 2
      }

      str += rpad(hex_formatted, padlen)
      if (self.annotate === "ascii") {
        str+=" "
        str+=raw.replace(/[\000-\040\177-\377]/g, ".")
      }
      str += "\n"
    }
    return str
  }

  var lines = function() {
    var hex_raw = []

    for (var i = 0; i<self.buffer.length ; i+=self.width) {
      var begin = i,
          end   = i+self.width >= buffer.length ? buffer.length : i+self.width,
          slice = buffer.slice(begin, end),
          hex   = self.caps === "upper" ? hexu(slice) : hexl(slice),
          raw   = slice.toString('ascii')

      hex_raw.push([hex,raw])
    }
    return hex_raw

  }

  var hexl = function (buffer) {
    var str = ""
    for (var i=0; i!=buffer.length; ++i) {
      str += pad(buffer[i], 2)
    }
    return str
  }
  var hexu = function (buffer) {
    return hexl(buffer).toUpperCase()
  }

  var pad = function(b, len) {
    var s = b.toString(16)

    while (s.length < len) {
      s = "0" + s
    }
    return s
  }
  var rpad = function(s, len) {
    while(s.length < len) {
      s += " "
    }
    return s
  }

}
/*
var fs = require('fs'),
    file = process.argv[2]

var data = fs.readFileSync(file)
//console.log(hexy(data))
var format = {}
//format.format = "fours"
format.caps   = "upper"
format.annotate = "none"
//format.numbering = "none"
format.width = 8
console.log(hexy(data, format))
console.log("doen")
*/

exports.hexy = hexy


An engineer by training, Dr Chin Kian Keong has been with the Land Transport Authority since its founding in 1995. Over the years, he had been involved in the development of various road and traffic management systems. These include the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system and various Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to better manage traffic safety and efficiency. He became a Group Director in 2007 and is now the Chief Engineer, Road & Traffic. He has presented and published many papers over the years, and had lectured as an Adjunct Professor at the local universities' Masters programme in transportation.


Trampled By Turtles, one of Minnesota's most popular bands, will visit Aberdeen for the first time this weekend, performing Saturday night at the Eagles Club, 316 S. Second St.
Also performing will be the Funken Grassholes. The music starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $15. Attendees must be 18 or older.
The five members of what would become Trampled by Turtles formed in 2003 in Duluth, Minn.
The band had four self-released albums before last year's "Palomino," the first release on the Thirty Tigers/RED label. That album made its debut at No. 1 on Billboard's bluegrass chart.
Last year, for the first time, Trampled by Turtles played at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
"They're even getting their own star at legendary Minneapolis club First Avenue, where they can regularly sell out two consecutive nights at the 1600-capacity venue," according to the publicity material.
Tickets are available at CD Exchange and Pauer Sound.


We're please today to be talking with Sharon Hart-Green about her debut novel, Come Back for Me.
Artur Mandelkorn is a young Hungarian Holocaust survivor whose desperate quest to find his sister takes him to post-war Israel. Intersecting Artur's tale is that of Suzy Kohn, a Toronto teenager whose seemingly tranquil life is shattered when her uncle's sudden death tears her family apart, leading her into a troubled relationship with a charismatic musician. Their stories eventually come together in Israel following the Six-Day War, where love and understanding become the threads that bind the two narratives together.
I saw it set in the hollows of his eyes: he was a man whose past had died. Along with everyone else who was part of it.
COME BACK FOR ME is a panoramic novel that crosses continents and spans several decades. Plot-driven and rich in characterization, it's been described as a book that's hard to put down.
A lot! I learned that by listening carefully to suggestions from outside readers and editing partners, I can become a better writer.
The first draft of my novel was started about seven years ago. However, that draft was totally different from the finished novel I have in my hands today. It took three or four substantive revisions (and a major structural change) before I finished the novel.
On a good writing day, the process of creating something out of nothing is truly magical. But (alas) those days are few and far between. Most of the time, I write and delete, write and delete. As a rule, I do not enjoy plotting in advance, but prefer that my characters take me with them to places unknown and unplanned. To me that element of surprise is the best part of writing!
I have always been intrigued by the fact that there are individuals who have endured unspeakable horrors in their lives, yet have managed to go on and lead productive lives. Many novels have been written about those who have been psychologically destroyed by tragedy. I wanted to write about individuals who seem to be able to transcend their own suffering. What is their secret?
My best thinking often takes place when I least expect it: in the shower, in the car during a traffic jam, or just before falling asleep at night. I suppose it must have something to do with letting one's thoughts run free. Creativity is a strange brew of opposites: hard work and letting oneself be free to do nothing but daydream.
Share something people may be surprised to know about you.
Before I pursued an academic career, I was involved in theatre and acted in several plays when I was still a teenager. In fact, I was in a play in Toronto with Gilda Radner. Her kindness to me (someone much younger and less experienced) is something I will never forget.
Write a little bit every day, even if you despise what you put down on the page. You can always edit it!
I'm working on a novel about a young man with mystical inclinations who is searching for love.
I think that the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer had the greatest influence on me. To me, his novels and short stories possess that rare combination of compelling storytelling, inventive prose, and deep insight into the human condition. Although he has set the bar extremely high, it is something I strive to achieve in my own writing.


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Lou Jones is a photographer, social documentarian, author and mentor. He has completed assignments in 49 countries and 48 out of the 50 United States, photographing royalty and the third world, the sacred and profane. He has worked with institutions like Amnesty International, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, the American Friends Service Committee, the Massachusetts Association for the Blind, and the Barr Foundation. He has photographed Miles Davis, Willie Mays and Roger Clemens, Orson Welles and Matt Damon, twelve Olympic Games, Queen Elizabeth, and inmates on death row. He is the author of five books: Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row, Northeastern University Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996; Travel and Photography: Off the Charts, Focal Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA/Oxford, UK, 2006; Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery, New England College Press, Henniker, New Hampshire, 2008; Speedlights and Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed, Focal Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA/Oxford, UK, 2009; St. Petersburg, Russia, Blurb, 2010. He has received numerous awards such as the Professional Photographers Leadership Award from the International Photographic Council (United Nations), and the CONTACT award from the Boston Photography Collaborative. He was a Travel Photographer of the Year finalist. His first book, Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row, chronicled his six-year odyssey documenting men and women on death rows in the USA. For this he received the Ehrmann Award from the Massachusetts Citizens against the Death Penalty. His most recent photography book, Saint Petersburg Russia, was recently nominated for Blurb's 2011 Photography Book Now People's Choice Award. His work has been exhibited in schools such as Harvard, Phillips Exeter Academy, Texas Tech University, with major shows in collections at the Smithsonian Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the DeCordova Museum, and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
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Robbie Kuykendall and Aubrey Howers are doing the spring planting of the planters May 16 on the Downtown Mall. Even though that's right before graduation weekend, John Mann, the guy in charge of landscaping for the city, says the date they really pay attention to is May 15, after which tender plants presumably won't be susceptible to frost— never mind that May 13 frost warning this week. The planters are restocked in fall and spring. Big for this season? "People really like the tropical look," says Mann.


This post is about Bunny Trouble by Hans Wilhelm and includes a free printable. This is an Easter season story about a soccer-loving bunny named Ralph. Ralph is more interested in soccer than work, and almost lands in a farmer's stew. His sister helps him home, with lots of Easter eggs.
This is a story with a point, and is fun and colorful. The book will interest boys. Clever thinking rescues Ralph from ending up as the farmer's dinner! We enjoyed this book at our house year after year.
Here is my free PDF (photo below) with a work page, answer key, story writing prompt, and writing frame pages. The work pages are easy with circle the picture answer. Select different pages to use with different ages of children.
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Protecting your eyes should not be compromised. If you feel you have weak eyes, you should visit an optician to get your eyes checked. The optician can suggest you on how you can maintain eye health. So, then if you want to get a new pair of glasses, visit an optometrist in your locality.


My seven-year-old daughter has been keeping several of my ApologetiX CDs in her room and, as a lover of loud music who fixates on one song at a time, repeat-plays whichever song for an hour or more.
I couldn't be more thankful that she is listening so intently and repeatedly to God's word. You have a ministry that will receive recognition in Heaven greater than mere riches. Thank you for helping my children learn about Him!


IBDB has a real-time SMART Grade of A (Strong Buy).
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The Columbiana Police Department is currently staffed with a Chief, 2 Sergeants, 17 officers, 10 dispatchers, and 20 Auxiliary officers. The Columbiana Police department is the primary law enforcement provider for the City of Columbiana, Ohio with a jurisdictional area of 6.2 square miles which includes a household population of 6,384.
The Columbiana Police Department dispatches for the Police Department, City Fire and EMS Departments and also acts as a Columbiana County 911 PSAP. The 911 PSAP is the primary answering point for all calls that originate in the City of Columbiana, the Village of Leetonia, and Fairfield Township. Secondary answering point services are provided on an overflow basis to the rest of Columbiana County as needed.
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Over the last few decades, there have been major changes in the manufacturing industry as a whole – some positive, some negative. A recent alarming trend is the increase of counterfeiting which threatens the global supply chain. Is the criminal underground solely to blame? Or has the manufacturing industry unknowingly but directly contributed to this growing gray business?
The main cause of this growth is the digital age; the Internet has turned counterfeiting into a low risk market by allowing these groups an unlimited access to the global market, low cost communications and free access to information of proprietary or confidential nature. But most of all, the Internet allows for anonymity.
Given the emergence of the above seven reasons, supply chain managers should not be surprised by the manifestation of counterfeiting. The efforts to protect intellectual property have been largely ineffective due to organizations all too eager to share their standard operating procedures, transfer tooling and share quality manufacturing training ideas.
Conduct due diligence for facility security, inventory accountability and proper destruction of unsalable items?
Consistently audit external facilities that operate within our supply chain?
Ensure all retired but tangible assets are properly destroyed?
Do existing processes and procedures allow trusting the verification?
Companies that are unwilling or unable to meet these criteria will remain vulnerable to and enable the counterfeiters to continue their 'gray market' production.
Today, there is a large cache of tools, practices and countermeasures available for use by manufacturers, especially for those firms operating in such places like China, Brazil, India and Paraguay. However, the industry as a whole will continue to struggle against counterfeiters until it correctly weighs the knowledge and unique outlook of supply chain counterparts.
The lack of a single entity or legislation to provide complete supply chain line protection has led many companies towards technology experts to assist in brand protection. In return, manufacturers are allowing these technical experts inside knowledge to their best practices to integrate authentication solutions. Clearly, we can see the dangers in continuing this activity.
Technological experts can and often do present a case for adopting ACF (anti-counterfeit) technologies. There is still resistance to this as many supply chain directors claim that visibility is detrimental to their success. Suppliers, vendors and distributors as well are reluctant to collaborate. This fear has been long doormat: a belief that sharing will diminish their value to the manufacturer and lose business.
Welcome the threat. Campaign for the implementation of a zero-tolerance policy for violations by employees and or suppliers.
Protect Intellectual property by increasing control of production materials throughout the entire supply chain.
There are a number of available anti-counterfeit technologies available for companies. Of course, even with these technologies due diligence for the best product for your company must be performed. The due diligence should be based upon projected risk of the brand profile, active trade channels and target markets. These options must be capable of full integration with company's operations, upstream and downstream – sensory authentication, digital authentication and track and trace systems.
As with any solution, these have strengths and weaknesses. Sensory authentication can be vulnerable to duplication by counterfeiters. Digital authentication adds a layer of security but must be used in conjunction with a corresponding device. Track & trace solutions require the largest investment as it has a multi-layer approach to security of product. This solution is mostly used by pharmaceutical companies.
Even before we bring in the technology experts perhaps a consultation with a brand expert is in order. These specialists can provide objective risk appraisal and advice on proper equipment and project delays such as unforeseen costs.
As counterfeiting continues to grow as a 'gray market' supply chain leaders must invest in brand protection such as auditing SOP's to revising distribution practices and implementing ACF solutions.
Remember, no single company, technology practice or program can or will lessen this risk to the supply chain. Only cooperation and collaboration from all – manufacturers, suppliers, vendors, distributors and legislators – will present a workable solution.
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'The Bridges of Madison County…
'The Bridges of Madison County' Gets the Broadway Treatment
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale from the original Broadway production of "The Bridges of Madison County."
Photo by Joan Marcus.
by Jane Schorer Meisner
Before theater veteran Bartlett Sher directed The Bridges of Madison County on Broadway in 2014, and before its 1995 run as a movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, the love story was a slim book penned in two weeks by an unlikely first-time Iowa novelist, college business professor Robert James Waller.
Through each beloved incarnation the tale has garnered widespread accolades. The book was on the New York Times best seller list for about three years. It sold more than 12 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages. Actress Streep was nominated for an Academy Award® for her role as Francesca in the film.
Decision-making involving matters of the heart is excruciatingly difficult"
The musical, which played at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theater and starred Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, won two 2014 Tony Awards®, including Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations by composer Jason Robert Brown. Now, the national touring production, which plays the Ahmanson Theatre from December 8, 2015 through January 17, 2016, offers the romantic tale from a perspective that is much different from the book or the movie.
It's still the story of a housewife who has a hot affair with a nonconformist traveling photographer, Robert Kincaid, while her husband and kids are gone for a few days. She passes up a chance to run away with him, choosing instead to stay with her family and forever pine for Robert.
The story continues to pull at the heartstrings. But the musical offers an entirely fresh perspective with greater involvement of Francesca's husband and children, as well as the Winterset, Iowa townspeople, who are often onstage, watching. Parts of the story—including the ending—had to be transformed for the stage production because of the medium, said Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, who wrote the musical's book. "In the movie, you watch Francesca watch the windshield wipers, and Clint Eastwood is standing all soggy-haired on the other side of the street," she said. "That's not something you can do in the theatre." There are no flashbacks or fast forwards in the musical. "This is a straightforward march from the time the family leaves the farm to go to the fair to the rest of their lives," said Norman.
For Norman, the musical is about anytime anyone has had to walk away from a deeply moving experience and back into prior commitments. "The community is crucial in the telling of the story, as are Francesca's husband and children," said Norman. "That's not something the book went into at all, and it's not something the movie dealt with at all."
Composer Brown describes the process of writing an ending for the production as a challenge. "The question was where do we leave Francesca and Robert?" he said. "In a lot of ways, Francesca's story goes on for a very long time after Robert leaves. We just didn't know how much of that we wanted to show and how much of that we wanted to experience with her. I think we found the right balance, but it took a while."
In a rare interview, author Waller recently said he originally had no intention of publishing his romantic tale, but a friend who was a former editor insisted on sending it to an agent. While Waller calls Bridges "a story that came to me, that's all," he acknowledged that "apparently there is something universal within it," perhaps because "decision-making involving matters of the heart is excruciatingly difficult." He added, "There is something ineffable about the story that escapes even me, and a wide variety of people—young and old, truck drivers and construction workers and lawyers and university professors—love the story." He marveled at their diversity: "The youngest reader I heard about was 14, and many in their 80s read it, along with all the other demographics in between."
Waller has never second-guessed Francesca's decision to stay with her family rather than to run away with her lover. "I believe she did the right thing, not so much to spare them gossip, but to spare them everlasting heartbreak," Waller said. "Deep inside himself, over the years, Robert Kincaid knew she made the right decision, for he would have done the same in her position." However, "I did not know until the book was nearly finished what decision Francesca would make." Regardless of their age, profession, or background, fans of all iterations of The Bridges of Madison County have the opportunity to fall in love with Francesca and Robert all over again as the two-time Tony Award-winning show sets out on its national tour.
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If economics had been the determining factor of membership of the club, countries like Greece, Cyprus and even Spain and Italy, would not have been allowed membership. Similarly, now that the issue of the currency to be used by an independent Scotland has finally caught the attention of both sides of the debate, it is obvious politics will be more important than economics because the currency is not simply a medium of exchange.
If Scotland votes Yes in the referendum, it will mean the re-establishment of the country as a nation state after 300 years of a Union which, according to one's viewpoint, has been either a great success or an equally great failure. The currency to be used is a priority because no country can operate without some means of conducting trade with other countries or conducting the most basic business of everyday life, within its own boundaries. Like every other "new" state that has been established since the end of World War II, Scotland will have the choice of which currency to use. Not every country has chosen the same path, although every country has had to choose some path, and while some have chosen to use the currency of another country for the sake of some perceived advantage or convenience, the majority have chosen to establish their own.
In light of the confusion contained in what has passed for debate on the issue, much of it created quite deliberately, it is as well to set out the choices facing an independent Scotland. Like every other newly independent state, Scotland will have several options, including being able to continue to use sterling but will have absolutely no control over monetary policy, which will be determined by the Bank of England, without any consideration of the economic conditions prevailing in Scotland. The claim therefore, that Scotland would be forbidden to use sterling is a nonsense, but the consequences of taking such a road are perfectly obvious. Similarly, Scotland could use the euro on the same basis. The No Campaign has tried to argue that Scotland, if it retained membership of the EU, would be forced to join the euro but the mechanism does not exist to enforce euro membership.
Each "new" applicant for EU membership (it is still not settled whether or not Scotland would be considered a "new" applicant) must give a commitment to join the euro but a condition of membership is a transitional period of at least two years, in the new Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) but somehow, the EU has allowed the curious situation to prevail, where no compulsion to join the ERM exists. Poland has twice postponed entry to the euro and, while membership of the single currency was seen as an attractive prospect a few years ago, the mood in the country has changed considerably as the Polish economy has improved, at the same time as the single currency has faced increasing difficulties. No sensible argument can be made for euro membership either in the immediate or medium term and, the determination of Germany in particular, to have even greater concentration of control inside the euro zone, makes membership in the long term a particularly unattractive option, unless to those who favour a federal united states of Europe.
That leaves Scotland with the option of a formal currency union with the rUK or its own currency. Let us look at the former first, as there is more confusion surrounding this option, than any other. The preferred option of the SNP is a formal currency union with the rUK and, particularly in the past few days, they have made an increasingly strong argument in favour of this union. The No Campaign and the Treasury have made an equally strong argument opposing such a union and the strident tone of their opposition is such, that one has to wonder why Scots would find anything attractive in a continuing union with the rUK. The Chancellor in particular, has taken every opportunity to threaten Scots with the most dire consequences if they vote Yes next year. The SNP argue that it would be in the interests of both an independent Scotland and the rUK, to have a formal currency union, pointing out that the balance of payments of the rUK would benefit by over £40 billion per annum, that cross-border trade between both sides would continue uninterrupted and costs would be minimised. The most important aspect of this option for the Scottish Government is that they claim that Scotland would have control of fiscal policy, thereby allowing a Scottish government the freedom to initiate the kind of economic policies which would create economic growth and employment. A currency union based on sterling, is made to sound so attractive for both sides by the Government, that it is worth asking why either side would choose to change the relationship at some time in the future. Their commitment to a sterling zone does not suggest they would want to move towards ever having complete control of the Scottish economy.
John Swinney, on behalf of the SNP, welcomed those conditions but claims that a Scottish government would still be free to follow economic policies, including taxation, to create growth and prosperity in the Scottish economy thereby "creating the fairer society we all seek.". It is difficult to see how an agreement between two parties, as laid out by the Fiscal Commission, can allow one of those parties the freedom to follow its own economic policies, at one and the same time.
John Kay, an economist who at one time served on Alex Salmond's committee of advisers, has been moved to ask, "It makes one wonder what independence means". Tods Murray, in their recent paper on the currency said, "If an independent Scotland keeps the pound, there needs to be an appreciation that at best, Scotland will have limited control over monetary policy. The Bank of England could impose checks and balances on Scottish fiscal policy, debt, deficit, taxation and public spending which could amount to a loss of fiscal autonomy." Jim Cuthbert, a well respected economist, in his paper "The Mismanagement of Britain", calls on the Scottish government to reverse its policy on sterling in light of the current dangers faced by the pound and avoid Scotland being exposed to the "high likelihood of a potentially catastrophic crisis in the not-too-distant future." He goes on to say, "meaningful independence is not attainable within the UK monetary union" and "Independence could potentially insulate Scotland from the worst effects of the impending economic crisis".
The MPC is accountable to the Government for the remit set out in this letter. Any changes to the remit will be set out in the Budget.
That does not leave much room for interpretation and one Scottish representative is hardly going to make any impact on a committee which is a creature of the Government of the UK and whose remit is to achieve the Government's target on inflation. What also requires some explanation is the faith being placed in an organisation whose record of setting interest rates over the past thirty years, leaves much to be desired in terms of the effects it has had on the economic growth in Scotland. Between 1995 and 2002, Scottish economic growth was 1.9% per annum as opposed to the 2.7% achieved by the rest of the UK over the same period. Any objective analysis would be hard pushed to find any period during the past thirty years, where the economic policies and interest rates set out by successive UK Governments, favoured Scotland. In every year over the past thirty years, economic growth in Scotland has been 0.5% lower than the growth rate in the rest of the UK.
A nation's currency is much more than a store of value, it is a measure of the status of a nation state and can even be viewed as an object of pride. The German, Swiss and Dutch currencies have all been used as reserve currencies in the past and many Germans and Dutch now bitterly regret having lost their own currencies for the sake of the euro. The success of Norway and Switzerland in managing their currencies is a measure of just how small countries can manage their own financial affairs for the benefit of their own societies. As those countries which were once part of the Soviet Union or were part of the eastern bloc such as Poland, become more successful, they become less and less inclined to give away their new found independence by joining the euro.
Why does New Zealand, a country with a population of 3.5 million insist on having its own currency, when there are economic arguments for having a monetary union with Australia? Canada, with a population of 33.5 million, exports over 82% of its goods and services to the USA and over 54% of its imports come from the USA, ratios which are far in excess of those that Scotland has with the rUK and the EU, but she guards her independence jealously, including her currency. The population of the USA is ten times that of Canada and all the arguments about being in bed with an elephant apply just as much as they do for the relationship between Scotland and the rUK. There are 221 currencies in the world with just over 60 in some form of currency union, either formal or informal but only 11 countries have the much vaunted AAA status. These include the following, Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland.
How many large countries are included in that list?
An independent Scottish currency may cause a level of nervousness in the early stages of independence but with careful management and Scotland's reputation for financial probity, together with our natural resources and international trading record, that nervousness could work to our advantage. It is the only option which will allow a Scottish government the degree of economic control necessary to diverge from the history of mismanagement of the Scottish economy since the end of World War II. If sovereignty means anything at all to the Scottish people, control of their own currency is a prerequisite.


By day Dinosaur, Colorado is a regular American municipality, but underneath the surface there are remarkable things going on. Some of the departed decline to stay in their graves in this city. Skeptics don't believe in the local spirit descriptions, but frightening things sure go down here in Dinosaur in the night time.


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Awards12-Year MLB veteran named NBC Graduate of the Year
WICHITA, Kan. – The National Baseball Congress is proud to announce the 2019 NBC Graduate of the Year, Jed Lowrie. The NBC Graduate of the Year Award has been awarded to former NBC players since 1975. Lowrie was born in Salem, Oregon on April 17, 1984 and lived in Salem his entire childhood.
In the summer of 2003, Lowrie played for the NBC affiliated Matsu, AK Minors in the Alaska Baseball League. While playing for Stanford University in 2004, Lowrie was named the PAC-10 Conference Player of the Year. Also in 2004, he won the gold medal at the University World Championship in Tainan City, Taiwan with the United States team.
In 2005, the Boston Red Sox drafted Lowrie as the 45th overall pick in the MLB First-Year Player Draft. The infielder made his MLB debut with the Red Sox on April 15, 2008. He went on to bat .258 with 67 hits and 46 RBIs.
After four years in the majors with Boston, Lowrie was traded to the Houston Astros. After a single subpar year, he joined the Oakland Athletics, where his dominance emerged.
In his two years with the Athletics (2013-14), Lowrie recorded total 300 hits, 80 RBIs, 139 runs and 21 homeruns. The Athletics advanced to the American League Divisional Series in 2013 and America League Wild Card game in 2014.
Lowrie spent the following year with the Astros once again, his numbers suffering due to a torn ligament in his thumb. In November of 2015, Lowrie was traded to the Athletics where he would work his numbers up in the following seasons.
In 2018, Lowrie hit for a .267 average, 159 hits, 23 homeruns, 99 RBIs and 78 runs scored. His performance earned himself a spot on the American League All-Star team in 2018. The Athletics found themselves in the playoffs yet again in 2018, but were eliminated in the American League Wild Card game.
In January of 2019, Lowrie signed a two-year contract with the New York Mets. He has been on
the injury list since the beginning of the season with a knee injury.
In his 12 years in the major leagues, Lowrie has 104 homeruns, 509 RBIs, 1043 hits and a .263
career batting average.
The NBC is proud to add Jed Lowrie to the list of former NBC players who have excelled at the
next level as the NBC Graduate of the Year Award.
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It's been awhile since I last brewed. Today is going to be a bit of an experimental beer using a yeast I've never used before, Inland Island Brett Morpheus yeast. The base beer is Dallas Barlow's Rye Saison recipe with some minor tweaks. I'm considering putting a portion of this beer on fruit, but won't decide on that until primary is done. I'm hoping for some interesting brett funk in this beer. This yeast is known for producing "significant acidity" which is likely in the form of acetic acid. I'm going to try to keep this in check by not aerating prior to pitching. Here's some info on the yeast from Inland Island, followed by the grain bill for today.
Water - 8 gallons carbon filtered tap water with 3 gallons distilled.
Mash at 152F, 90 min boil, ferment at room temp.
Fermentation is cruising along. I saw visible signs of fermentation within five hours of pitching so I was expecting a very vigorous fermentation. It got going, but it seems to have leveled out and is just chugging along now. There was never any sign of needing a blowoff hose. Aroma off the airlock is nice with lots of hops and no hints of acetic acid.
I'm posting here as this info used to be at a different URL which appears to be dead, so just in case, so that it isn't lost. Assuming this information is correct and referring to the same strain available from Inland Island, this beer probably won't sour much due to the high hopping rate. Still, hoping for an interesting beer.
Belgian microbrewery, uses its own unique yeast strain.
Alvinne brewery not only unique for its beers, but also their yeast strain is quite special. Moen, Belgium – Alvinne opened in 2004 and moved in 2011 to a new production facility in Moen, a small village near the city of Kortrijk. The brewery is situated in an industrial building with a long history. The target audience is the passionate beer lover from all over the world. The mission statement is to deliver world class & innovative beers, pushing the classical barriers and by only making use of malt ingredients, water, hops, yeast and the flavor of used wooden casks. Brewing about 15 different beers, a clear positioning of the portfolio became necessary. The Classical collection, with the Morpheus branding, holds the 3 basic beers of the brewery, accessible for a wide audience. Apart from this range, there is an Oak collection (barrel aged beers), Seasonal collection (cherry beer, Christmas beers) and the famous Sour collection.
The Alvinne team consists of 3 enthusiastic people (from right to left): Davy Spiessens: brewmaster, Glenn Castelein: 2nd brewer, PR and Marc De Keukeleire: yeast and hygiene management. Marc joined the brewery end of 2009 and brought in his passion and baby: his own cultivated yeast strain.
Marc ("the yeast whisperer") has a Master degree in food science engineering with a specialization in dairy. For years, he has been vacationing in the French Auvergne. This is the place to be for cheese lovers. It is there where the best French AOC cheeses like Saint Nectaire, Bleu d'Auvergne have their origin. It was in that particular mystic area of France, with its old volcanoes, where Marc found his yeast, or must we say, the yeast found him?
He created his own recipe for growth of yeast, and trapped his strain in the open air of the Auvergne. Of course, some unwanted yeast strains were growing in the beginning, but after years of careful selection only the most interesting ones prevailed. What is the criteria for great brewing yeast? First of all, it must be capable of fermenting maltose, the sugar that is found in malt. Furthermore, it doesn't produce off flavors and it is alcohol tolerant.
Pilot tests were utilized to confirm the above properties of the yeast culture with pleasing results. By January 2010, all of the sour range of Alvinne beers and some selected other beers were fermented with the Morpheus yeast culture.
Almost none of the microbreweries around the world have their own unique yeast. Most breweries use commercial yeast. Alvinne owes a much of its uniqueness to this yeast. For the big traditional breweries that have existed for several generations, the yeast is their treasure and kept safely in yeast banks under -70°C circumstances, in order to have a backup if things go wrong. Alvinne, of course, keeps a backup, safely put away in these super deep freezers.
The University of Leuven is known for its brewing yeast knowledge, so it was there the Morpheus yeast was analyzed. They found 2 Saccharomyces Cerevisae strains and lactic bacteria (see pictures on the left). Saccharomyces Cerevisae is the standard yeast type we know for brewing ale. Lactic bacteria is commonly used in dairy applications, but also in sour beers, but unwanted in "traditional" ales. Both are kept together in a medium that Marc calls a "matrix". Finding a protocol to keep the matrix alive and active was the next challenge. Fermenting with lactic bacteria and yeast together is called a mixed fermentation. The brewery is geographically situated in the heart of the historically "mixed fermentation" area in Flanders, Belgium.
Because of the mixed culture, they can brew both traditional fermented beer resulting in a traditional ale; or mixed fermented beer, resulting in a sour beer. The Morpheus yeast has a very high alcohol tolerance. The traditional ale Cuvée de Mortagne has an alcohol level of about 14% ABV. Few yeast strains can tolerate that amount of alcohol. Thanks to the Morpheus yeast, Alvinne is recognized as the worldwide innovator for the mixed fermentation sour beers. There are a complete range of sour ales now.
Enjoy the "probiotic", super healthy sour ales!
Checked the gravity today and it's at 1.005. aroma is a little sulfury so I moved it into the ferm chamber to warm things up a bit. Other than the sulfur, it's a pretty nice beer.
Sulfur notes seem to have completely disappeared. There's still a lot of yeast in suspension so I'll probably start dropping the temps soon.
So this beer has just been chilling out in my basement. I pulled a sample tonight and it's pretty tasty. It has a pretty crazy pellicle. I'm not getting much acidity, definitely no acetic character that I can detect. It has some classic "Belgian" character, but it's not over the top. The year has dropped out quite a bit, but there's still some haze. I'm strongly considering putting at least half on tart cherries from my cherry tree.


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RBS 70 man-portable air-defence system | Credit: Saab
Swedish defence company Saab announced 14 March that the company has received an order to deliver the Mk II missile for RBS 70 man-portable air-defence system to the Army of the Czech Republic.
The order was placed by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), responsible for acquisitions for NATO members. The Czech Republic is a user of the RBS 70 as well as the new RBS 70 NG system, both systems are compatible with the Mk II missile.
Görgen Johansson, head of Saab business area Dynamics said, "Through the order from NSPA, we see NATO's continued interest in our missile systems. The Mk II missile is a capable missile with an altitude coverage of 4 km and a range of 7 km."
The deliveries of the Mk II missile will take place in 2019.
Swedish defence company Saab has received orders for the RBS 70 NG ground-based air defence system and the Giraffe 1X radar from the Latvian...
Germany approves sale of RCH 155 howitzers to Ukraine
The German government has agreed to the sale of 18 RCH-155 self-propelled howitzers, following a Ukrainian request two months ago. German newspaper Welt am Sonntag...


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Hansel and Gretel harmless fun, but not for kids
Paul Peterson | Feb 07, 2013 | Comments 0
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There are times when you hear a title and it just sounds like a sure fire hit. I remember the first time I heard someone utter the phrase "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle". I was blown away. Brilliant.
I had a similar experience when I heard there was a series of films coming out with titles like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Cool right?
Great titles.
Regrettably, Abraham Lincoln was terrible. Way too violent and just didn't capture my imagination. For the record, these aren't the same movies. Just part of someone's brainchild – different director, different writer, better movie. I don't know how they got Jeremy Renner to star in this given that he's "it" right now. My guess is that they locked him up before it became law in Hollywood that every action film had to have a Renner sighting. Mission Impossible, Avengers, Bourne.
Further research proves that's exactly what happened. Originally, this film was scheduled to be released in December of 2011 but the studio kept rescheduling and in fact, cutting the heart out of it, in favor of a more kid friendly version.
It's fun.
It's not terribly violent.
The witches are pretty scary. In fact, the witches are great, and dark and nasty.
Our story so far.
Hansel and Gretel have lost their parents and are on a tear through the forest for Revenge? Redemption? Candy? It's not clear.
What I know is this is a lot of fun. It's not a great movie and it may even be hard to sell it as good. But Tommy Wirkola, who helmed this huge gory cult hit with Dead Snow about Nazi zombies (before zombies were au courant) has a way with exploding heads.
Its hard to believe this is the toned down version of this. There's a lot of guts and gore. The story is actually pretty good.
The witches are black witches and need the heart of a white witch for immortality. Well, as it turns out. wouldn't you know…
Spoiler alert: I'm about to reveal one of only two plot points that have any relevance in the movie.
Well, never mind.
Let's just say that there's more to her than meets the eye.
It's only 90 minutes and while critics have almost universally panned this film, I thought it was fun.
Gemma Arterton, who plays Gretel, is sexy and fun and owns the screen.
Renner seems to understand just how goofy this role is compared to where he's been, or in this case going to go, and I just like him as an actor.
Look, the story is 200 years old, it's been made into a film at least four times and there's already another one in the works.
Just have fun. Not really kid friendly. I wouldn't recommend for the under 8 crowd or anyone who understands string theory physics.
For the rest of us, game on.. Hansel and Gretel is harmless fun and helps beat the February blahs.
As always, other opinions are welcome, but wrong. That's it for this week. The cheque's in the mail and I'm outta here. Paul
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Self-Regulation Snap Shot #5: A Focus on High-School Aged Youth
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Adult caregivers such as parents, teachers, coaches, and other mentors play a critical role in shaping and supporting self-regulation development from birth through young adulthood through an interactive process called "co-regulation."
This is one of six snapshots focused on different age groups based on a series of reports on Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress prepared for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). This snapshot summarized key concepts about self-regulation development and intervention for high-school aged youth. It is designed to be a helpful resource for practitioners and educators interested in promoting self-regulation for this high-school age group. Visit the Toxic Stress and Self-Regulation Reports page for more information.
Self-regulation skills developing in high-school aged youth:
Goal setting and commitment
Maintaining orientation toward the future
Planning and organizing time and tasks to achieve goals
Effective decision-making in the context of strong emotion and peer influence
Complex problem-solving considering consequences and others perspectives
Recognizing and accepting emotions
Tolerating distress
Using healthy coping strategies to manage stress
Using empathy and concern for others to guide goals and decisions
Key considerations for promoting self-regulation in high-school aged youth:
Encourage a positive school climate for all students
Provide self-regulation skills training focused on emotion regulation in the context of relationships through existing youth development or mentoring programs
Train teachers and youth program staff including mentors to teach, model, reinforce, and coach self-regulation skills
Develop parent and teacher education supports that address co-regulation
Identify ways to support the self-regulation capacity of parents, school staff, and youth program staff including mentors
Murray, D.W. and Rosanbalm, K. (2017). Self-Regulation Snap Shot #5: A Focus on High-School Aged Youth. OPRE Report #2018-14, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The act of managing thoughts and feelings to enable goal-directed actions.
Co-Regulation
The supportive process between caring adults and children, youth, or young adults that fosters self-regulation development.
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Adult caregivers such as parents, teachers, coaches, and other mentors play a critical role in shaping and supporting self-regulation development from birth
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The Sense of Space for Urban People (KIM Joon, 2007)
Reviewed by Darcy PAQUET
The intimacy of the city
The title of this 7-minute animated short is helpfully self-explanatory. With monochrome drawings on paper, director Kim Joon sets out to re-create the feeling of living within a densely populated city. More specifically, she is exploring the sense of space experienced by residents of high-rise apartments, where scores or even hundreds of people live a good portion of their lives in close proximity, within stacked, symmetrical rooms. Kim's drawings are ambitious, despite their simple lines, and she is surprisingly successful at realizing such an abstract goal.
The work is a mixture of dreams and reality. We open with the image of a woman in an apartment elevator; the realistic sound effects grounding us in the impressions of everyday life. We next see her lying in bed, and after a moment she reaches for a book. Then, as a peculiar mixture of sound effects and music fill the soundtrack, our perspective shifts. As if seen from a floating camera, we move through windows, outside into the air, where the rectangular patterns of the apartment complex are visible, and then in again through the walls and doorways of other homes. We see one or two people standing at their windows, but mostly people are asleep, blankets pulled up to their chests. We move through living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and bedrooms, in a smooth, repetitive and somewhat soothing motion.
The squeak of an opening door brings us back to reality, and once again we see the woman in bed with her book. The interlude is brief, however, and the image falls away from us, to be replaced by other sleeping figures behind a seemingly endless row of windows. In one moment, the background is stripped away, so it looks as if the sleeping figures are floating upright in the air. Sure enough, as the background returns we see them float out through the window, and they tumble slowly through the air in the space between apartment blocks. It's a beautiful image.
Pop culture representations of urban life, particularly in the West, seem to imply that when large groups of people live crowded together in identical homes, they become dehumanized. But director Kim's figures sleeping in adjacent rooms, and rotating through the air together aren't diminished by their surroundings. Quite literally, they are unrestrained and free. The close proximity of so many people leading different lives and dreaming different dreams, if anything, seems to humanize the space of the apartment.
Finally, it is morning, and we have returned to our protagonist's apartment. She gets up, then we see her get into the elevator, dressed to go outside. As she wraps a scarf around her neck, one man in the crowded elevator looks up at something. One by one, the other people in the elevator also look up, and the film's final image is of this group of people, pushed together in an enclosed space, looking up in unison at something we don't see. It's an enigmatic ending, vague and suggestive, but we are left with a hint of optimism.
Darcy PAQUET is the founder of the website Koreanfilm.org and the author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves (2009, Wallflower Press). A former correspondent for Variety and a contributor to the film magazine Cine21, he currently works as a consultant for the Udine Far East Film Festival in Italy and the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain. He also recently appeared as a supporting actor in Im Sang-soo's The Taste of Money (2012). A native of Massachusetts, Darcy has been living in Seoul since 1997.
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