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"You're Nicked!" The Sweeney... Its influence and the story of its longevity...
With the release of new The Sweeney movie in cinemas, now seems like a good time to look back at this ground-breaking series as before this, the police on television seemed from another universe let alone another age. The 1950's and 60's had brought Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars to the screen and influential in bringing Z Cars to fruition was Troy Kennedy Martin, but at this time his brother Ian was working for ABC Television on the military police drama Redcap starring John Thaw as Sergeant John Mann in one of his first ever television roles.
By the end of the sixties had seen a move to a more modern fresher style of police show with LWT's New Scotland Yard being a case in point, it ramped up the action by making the series tough and grittier then any before it with Dennis Waterman later to play George Carter in The Sweeney appearing in the earlier series. Though it influence could be felt, allowing shows to push boundaries and show crime as it is and was, tough and sometimes more violent. Where as people had expected entertainment from LWT, this was a departure from it.
But The Sweeney doesn't also have police shows from this side of the Atlantic to be thankful for, since the mid to late 60's show like Ironside, Cannon, Hawaii Five-O and The Streets of San Francisco were all being broadcast on a regular basis by the BBC and ITV. Their look was totally different to the grey Britain which was being shown on the news at that time, the key difference was their filming style which made them into mini-movies each and every week. Though much of the attitude could drawn from Hollywood, during the the early 70's both Dirty Harry and The French Connection had taken the police to a new level, men taking risks to get results even with physical contact. The world away from Dixon's cuff around the earhole it seemed, but realism is what audiences wanted, almost the anti-hero getting results at any costs. For British audience this had been displayed in 1971's Get Carter, although dealing with the underworld of criminality, this showed audiences what was going on now, even under their feet.
By 1973, there was a seed of an idea and Ian Kennedy Martin wrote a one off drama for the Armchair Cinema strand to be broadcast in 1974 called 'Regan' focussing on Detective Inspector Jack Regan, an officer originally from Manchester who had joined the Met Police several years before joining the Flying Squad. His solving of a case of a policeman killed by a gang of criminals takes up the original drama with Regan using his tough approach to get the results both for himself and also for the family of the dead officer.
Though from this the seed of an idea took place for Regan to enter into the schedules, the development from one off drama to first series was not to be a smooth one. Ian Kennedy Martin who had wrote 'Regan' wanted the series to be a lot more studio based with more dialogue and less action sequences as was seen in such shows as Van Der Valk at that time. But Ted Childs the producer thought in the opposite way, that having a lot more filmed sequences would give a more gritty edge and the public's appetite for more action would count for something. This was Yang to Van der Valk's slower Ying, allowing The Sweeney to be fast paced and to be more matched to what the real Flying Squad were dealing with on a daily basis. The writers also used the real life experiences of the Flying Squad and used it in the series as well the criminal underground themselves, with each side becoming unofficial advisers of the series. Allowing procedure to be followed in the right way, similar cases to be used in episodes plus also their homes lives to be put onto the screen. Thus it becoming like a confessional for the officers, with the criminals they could secretly advice about how they would go about entering a place or what car they would use a getaway vehicle and their own attitude to a job as well.
When the first series was broadcast between January and March 1975, the promotional episode shown to the the press was "Thin Ice", this was a lightweight episode and more humorous then subsequent episode during the run itself. Though much of the first series deals with the relationship between Regan, Carter and their superior officer Frank Haskins. The tension shows as Haskins thinks it would be better if Carter was split away from Regan because of his potential to rise up the Met Force. Haskins own relationship with Regan is a frosty one with him wanting Regan to use conventional methods of policing to get results, but over time Haskins get used to these methods and admits they get results no matter how unorthodox they appear to be.
By the second series, with Carter's wife Alison being murdered in the episode "Hit and Run" his character changes as he becomes more and more like his boss, by wanting to get results by any means how. Though during the second series, the episode "Faces" with an anarchist group undertaking robberies, is very similar to the German anarchists 'The Baader-Meinhof Gang' who had been doing similar things in Germany at that time. It shows The Sweeney took from the news the contemporary issues of the day and used them for their own effect and storylines. But also Patrick Mower and George Layton turned peformances as two cocky, Australian rogues in the episodes "Golden Fleece" and "Trojan Bus" as well. The latter coming about because the characters becoming so popular with the viewers, they were written another episode during that series let them appear again.
Each of the episodes took about eight weeks to film, with two weeks for location scouting and casting, two weeks shooting the episode, four weeks editing with the first two overlapping the shoot itself, two weeks sound editing and two and half days redubbing audio. Over ten working days itself, per day about five minutes of edited screen time would be shot with ten locations being used per episode and one a day being used. Two days would spent on shoot ten minutes of edited screen time on the office set at Euston Films headquarters at Collet Court, Hammersmith. Usually areas around Fulham, Notting Hill, Earl's Court plus Kensington and Chelsea would be used the most to film outdoor scenes. But from Wexham in Buckinghamshire, Twickenham and Wokingham, The Sweeney went all over London and the South East for locations during its run.
By 1976 the show was a constant rating winner and the show looking for new and different types of crimes to feature in episodes such as "Taste of Fear" taking a psychopathic criminal and using his experiences to turn to crime, plus "Tomorrow Man" featuring the clash of more modern technological ways of solving crime up against Regan's more traditional approach to come under scrutiny. Plus it was attracting some best acting talent that Britain had to offer, with performances from John Hurt, Hywell Bennett, Warren Clarke, Diana Dors, Maureen Lipman and even Janet Ellis with her modesty covered by only a German paratroopers helmet. It was an outlet for these talents to star alongside John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, making each episode special for their appearances. Though with the show's popularity came criticisms that it was too violent from the likes of Mary Whitehouse and that it was promoting violence and the criminal element to superstar status. For all this the show continued strongly and came into the final third of its life.
In 1977, a feature length Sweeney movie released to capitalise on the successes of the programme. In a reworked plot of the Profumo affair, fellow Euston Films actor Barry Foster more famous for playing Van der Valk took on the role of a con artist along the same lines as Stephen Ward who role in the real life affair forced John Profumo to resign. But for this John Thaw won the Best Actor award at the London Film Awards of that year, plus the movie itself though was scene as moderate success compared to the television series. But it lead to a sequel a year later where Regan and Carter go to Malta to investigate a criminal gang who were based there who came back to the UK to rob banks all over London to fun their luxurious lifestyles. Again this movie was seen with mild success, lead to attention to be switched to the television programme for the fourth and final series.
Around 1978 when the show came back for a fourth series, it was felt by the stars and the audience although it was still bringing in huge audience figures with even one repeat getting over 18.3 million people watching though it may have been helped by a one day strike at the BBC on the day it was broadcast. With the episode "Messenger of the Gods" being seen by fans of the show as being tongue-in-cheek, a parody of its self. It seemed like the right time to bow out after nearly five years on the air, with John Thaw taking the decision to leave first. Thoughts were given to if the show could continue with Dennis Waterman as the lead and a new actor as his sidekick, thus giving Carter a promotion. But Waterman thought without there was no Sweeney and took the same decision to leave the programme, with both its principal actors gone, it soon became apparent without them both that The Sweeney couldn't continue. So on the 28th of December 1978, the last ever episode was broadcast, called "Jack or Knave?" where Regan is arrested over allegations of corruption within the squad, seemingly his behaviour in getting the right results coming home to roost. However Regan is exonerated over these charges, but going through this he finds that he's had it with the squad and eventually resigns in disgust, thus ending the series. Leaving the viewer to wonder what will happen to Regan now.
Though during the final series, one of the memorable episodes involved two of light entertainment's biggest stars, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Now Thaw and Waterman had appeared on their Christmas show on the BBC in 1976, so when Morecambe and Wise had signed for Thames in 1977 following the filming of their Christmas show of that year. They were invited to guest star in The Sweeney, not as a cameo but as a major part of the episode "Hearts and Mind", this would be last ever episode filmed but broadcast in November 1978. Their appearance during the episode makes for a strange atmosphere, with the usual style of the programme taking on a lighter edge to balance the episode, culminating in the final chase sequence where Morecambe and Wise are chased by the villains leading to Eric chucking boxes of frozen fish off the back of a truck to try and slow them down. This could be said that it was the swan song for the series by having two such big stars appearing and finally The Sweeney had been excepted into nation's conscientiousness.
The influence of The Sweeney has been such that other shows have taken their influence from it such as Life on Mars, with Gene Hunt seemingly trying to live The Sweeney lifestyle and approaching his police work much like George Regan, although the action takes place in 1973, the creator Tony Jordan has regularly said that The Sweeney was a massive influence on the writing of the show and also the look as well. But 1977, the BBC launched a rival called Target. Starring Patrick Mower, who had appeared in previously in The Sweeney played Detective Superintendent Steve Hackett, like The Sweeney the show relied on action, though it was said at the time that Target didn't have as much humour and lot more violence, but by the second series this was toned down. Where as the action in Target took place in Southampton compared to The Sweeney, it gave it a different angle. Though Target only lasted two series, it proved that other broadcasters wanted to make their own versions to try and knock The Sweeney off its pedistool.
Repeats of the show on many channels, has kept the legacy alive. Allowing new fans to see why the programme was so popular, plus with DVD and Blu-Ray, the release of new remastered versions brings to the screen an age of television which has been kept for the ages. Thanks to Network DVD, this is now possible with their release on DVD and Blu-Ray of the remastered version of Series 1. Bringing a crispness in quality adds to the programme's depth itself, making the action clearer and the sound sounding better then ever before. But 2012 has also brought The Sweeney to the big screen as well, starring Ray Winstone and Plan B (Ben Drew) as Regan and Carter, transports the action to modern day London, a London seemingly with the same problems of the 1970's. The film takes the same style of the original show itself and not like other television shows which have been adapted for the big screen, takes the show and makes it feel new and fresh. By relying on modern techniques, adds to the film's quality. With the action being bigger for the cinema screen, the film's director took the lead from Top Gear for the film's major car chase sequence by getting the same crew who film the programme to film the sequence with Jeremy Clarkson advising on how the sequence could be done with the British Rally Champion Mark Higgins taking part in the action doubling for Ray Winstone behind the wheel of a Ford Focus and the villians driving a Jaguar FJS, much in keeping with the original programme with Regan and Carter chasing a Jaguar driven by the villains.
The love for The Sweeney by the film's director Nick Love, who had previously filmed The Football Factory, Outlaw and also The Firm is evidence throughout the film. By taking the original characters created by Ian Kennedy Martin, he shows his appreciation for the TV programme and as such The Sweeney, up against a world of American action movies, that it can hold its own very well.
Even after nearly thirty-five years after the television programme, The Sweeney shows that no matter the time and place, it nicks the attention much like Regan would collar a villain...
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Consumer magazines' advertising woes continued in the first quarter of 2013, with ad pages slipping 4.8 percent versus the year-ago period on declines in nine out of the 12 top categories, according to numbers released today by MPA—The Association of Magazine Media.
Most ad categories were down as publishers have grappled with the shift to digital media, including Drugs & Remedies (down 6.7 percent), Apparel & Accessories (down 5.5 percent) and Media & Advertising (off 14.4 percent). Measured by ad revenue, the industry looked a little healthier, with ad revenue edging up 0.5 percent, the first increase in about two years.
Some of the biggest decliners were National Geographic Traveler (down 56.9 percent), Brides (down 49.9, having reduced frequency from monthly to bimonthly), Road & Track (down 42.6 percent, but published two issues in Q1 2013 versus three in Q1 2012) and Maxim (down 36.1 percent), which just put itself on the block. Thought leader and news magazines were also hit particularly hard, with Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, Forbes, The Atlantic, Time, The Week and New York all posting double-digit ad page declines.
MPA CEO and president Mary Berner said without the inclusion of digital data, the print-only Publishers Information Bureau numbers didn't fully represent the magazine industry's health. "I think you have to look at PIB data in context and with caution," she said. "It's as good as we've got right now, but it's only part of the story."
Berner added that the MPA is working to integrate digital advertising numbers into the PIB reports.
Publishers whose bread and butter is high-end fashion, beauty and luxury advertising fared better. (Indeed, Toiletries and Cosmetics, currently the No. 1 advertising category, increased 9.6 percent in pages in Q1, according to Kantar Media, which collects the data for MPA.)
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The $18bn worth of sustainable finance instruments floated in the nation last year marked a retreat from previous highs but, with most of the bonds issued from July onwards, the recovery is under way, according to the IFC, which is anticipating a more-than-$100 billion sector in emerging markets over the next three years.
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China's green bond market slowed in the first six months of last year as the authorities focused instead on Covid-19-related financial instruments but a second-half recovery saw the nation again positioned as the number one 'emerging market' economy in sustainable investment terms.
That was one of the findings of the latest edition of the Emerging Market Green Bond Report published by World Bank private-sector arm the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and French asset manager Amundi.
According to the third edition of the publication, published this month, China issued $18 billion of green bonds last year, most of them from July onwards, as East Asia and the Pacific regions dominated a $40 billion emerging market segment.
With China having posted more than $30 billion in green bonds in "previous years," according to the IFC report, the fall was put down to the need to mobilize funding to drive an economic recovery from Covid-19 in the first half of the year.
The study is predicting emerging market green bond issuance worth $100 billion over the next three years, against a whole-world backdrop of $1 trillion of green bonds issued since 2007, thanks to $280 billion worth of issuances last year.
The IFC said Egypt, Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia were among seven 'emerging nations' to issue their first green bonds during 2020, as 101 entities launched 174 bonds with a total value of $40 billion. Other large providers of the sustainable finance instruments included Chile, Brazil and Indonesia, the IFC said in a press release published to publicize the report.
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Conquer the Great Firewall: 5 VPNs with Servers in China
We've all heard of the Great Wall of China, a truly breathtaking feat of engineering.
However, there's a less publicized yet equally imposing wall across China.
Rather than being made of stone, it's a firewall.
The Great Firewall of China creates a digital barrier. It keeps people from seeing certain websites.
When people think of the Great Firewall of China, they usually think about China's ban on websites such as Facebook, Google and Twitter from within its borders.
But there's another layer to this firewall: It also keeps people outside of China from accessing certain Chinese content.
Luckily, we have a solution for this: Use a VPN to access a Chinese server.
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The Basics of Using a VPN to Get Past the Great Firewall
Most of the time, you can access a Chinese website from outside China. You just might not be able to see all the content on that site. For example, you can go to Youku, but certain videos are blocked if you're not in China.
If you're a Chinese native traveling abroad or a foreigner looking to access Chinese content… there is a way in. Download a VPN, or virtual private network, and you can surf the Chinese web to your heart's content.
A VPN takes the necessary steps to protect your anonymity from the Chinese government. How? It sets you up with a Chinese IP address so it appears that you're surfing the web from within China. This way, you can access websites that only people in China can see!
If you plan on browsing Chinese sites regularly, you'll probably want to select an annual VPN subscription. If you pay for a year upfront, each month will end up costing less.
Now you know the basics of how a VPN can grant you access to Chinese websites so you can watch Chinese TV, listen to Chinese songs and learn the language online. These restricted websites are especially useful for Chinese-language learners who want to access authentic materials!
How to Troubleshoot Without Pulling Your Hair Out
Technical problems aren't so uncommon with VPNs, but they're pretty simple to fix. So don't freak out! If you run into technical problems and it's not your internet connection, try these simple tips to work out the kinks.
First, make sure you're using a browser that works with your VPN and that both your browser and VPN are updated. Outdated versions of browsers can throw off a VPN's effectiveness.
One of the most common issues with a VPN is a rejected connection. To see if this is your issue and correct it in a jiff, access the administrative tools under the control panel. Check the "services" icon and check that all the required services are on.
You can also try pinging the VPN server with your IP address to make sure that a TCP/IP connection is present. If your ping works, ping it again, but do so using the server's fully qualified domain name instead of the IP address.
If the second ping is unsuccessful, there's a problem with the Domain Name System (DNS).
For Windows XP users, you'll want to check for authentication problems by right-clicking "connection" and selecting "properties."
From there, you should navigate to the "security" tab, hit the "advance radio" button and go into "settings" to view the authentication options.
Windows Authentication and RADIUS are the best authentication possibilities. Just make sure RADIUS is compatible with your VPN.
That takes care of the most common issues that can come up. No need to tear your hair out—just sit back, take a deep breath and adjust your settings.
Do you feel prepared? Then it's time to choose your VPN!
The 5 Best VPNs to Access Chinese Servers and Surf the Chinese Web
There are plenty of VPNs out there. But choosing a VPN with Chinese servers is actually a tad tricky.
Not many VPNs have servers in China. Even popular VPNs such as TorGuard have removed their servers in China. That means there are fewer to choose from than you may think!
Don't waste your time searching for a VPN that will help you access Chinese content. Here are the best out there.
If you want to watch Chinese videos that don't need a VPN to enjoy, you can try out FluentU.
FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.
You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks. Click here to check out the website or download the iOS app or Android app.
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FluentU's annotated subtitles, interactive vocabulary lists, flashcards and more make it possible to study Chinese using authentic content. It's a great choice whether you're using a VPN or not. Try it out with a free FluentU trial!
EarthVPN
Available: iOS and Android
It's hard to beat EarthVPN's prices! If you pay monthly, you'll pay the low price of $3.99. If you pay for a year upfront, it breaks down as $3.33 per month.
EarthVPN supports three devices at once and a seven-day money-back guarantee. It also offers 24/7 technical support, which will come in handy if none of our troubleshooting tips do the trick. Users also say it's very ease to use on every device.
However, with some connection problems and lower speeds, it has a few cons when it comes to performance. Most of the problems are related to poor connection, but if an occasional dropped connection doesn't bother you, you're golden.
Want to download the app? In the iTunes and Google Play stores, EarthVPN is actually listed as OpenVPN, so don't be thrown off!
HideMyAss!
HideMyAss! costs between $4.99 and $11.99 per month depending on your plan. It also offers a 30-day money back guarantee, which can put your mind at ease when choosing this VPN.
HideMyAss! is known for being fast and for offering five simultaneous connections for all your devices.
You even have the choice to schedule IP address changes with this VPN. The more often you change your IP address, the more secure your information is. HideMyAss! may have a silly name, but it doesn't play around when it comes to your privacy.
HideMyAss! also has almost 1,000 servers in over 190 countries. If you like accessing online media all over the world, your options will practically be limitless with this VPN!
Ivacy is one of the most popular VPNs for users trying to access Chinese websites. If you purchase Ivacy for one month, you'll pay $9.95 per month. The cheapest option is to sign up for two years upfront, which comes out to only $2.25 per month! It also comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Ivacy won the 2019 Fastest VPN Award by BestVPN.com. Some VPNs can slow down your computer when they're turned on, so if keeping everything speedy is important to you, Ivacy is the way to go.
You can connect up to five devices to your VPN. Ivacy doesn't keep logs, but it does track one thing: the number of times you try to connect to a server. Ivacy hopes that by doing so, customer support can help you when you go to them with questions about troubleshooting.
You'll pay $12.99 for one month of Hotspot Shield, but only $3.49 per month if you purchase three years upfront. The service also offers a 45-day money-back guarantee.
Hotspot Shield implements military-grade encryption, meaning your data is safer than ever. It also includes an automatic kill switch. This means that if your VPN connection drops suddenly, Hotspot Shield will shut down your internet connection to ensure no one can see your IP address.
If safety is your main concern, Hotspot Shield could be your ideal fit. Plus, you can use it on up to five devices at once!
Like most of the VPNs on this list, PureVPN lets you connect to five devices simultaneously and offers unlimited bandwidth.
PureVPN also features split tunneling, which allows you to pick when you want your searches to run through your internet service provider and when you want to run them through your VPN.
You also get 24/7 tech support, meaning you have a whole team of experts at your disposal. Not all VPNs come with their own in-house tech support, which makes this a valuable feature.
PureVPN costs $10.95 for one month and $3.33 per month when you sign up for a full year. They even have the option to pay via cryptocurrency!
What's most important to you in a VPN? Speed? Privacy? Cost?
Wherever your priorities may lie, one of these five VPNs will be your perfect fit for accessing VPN servers in China.
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Q: About twin primes and their happy mothers. Let's say that a positive integer $n$ is a happy mother if $6$ divides $n$ and $(n-1,n+1)$ is a pair of twin primes. Is the difference between two consecutive happy mothers necessarily a happy mother itself?
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A: No; the numbers $312$ and $348$ are consecutive happy mothers, but their difference $36$ is not.

A: No, $30$ and $6$ are happy mothers, but $24$ is not.

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I apologize for being so absent for so long with these blog posts. Like many of you, the first three months were pretty rocky around here. I'm grateful for the hopeful earth that continues to push up green shoots even in the troublesome times.
At the beginning of Lent, I began a daily series of inspirational posts at my other site, Community of the Incarnation. They were mostly related to the season of Lent, but I've decided to continue with less of an emphasis on the church year and more of an emphasis on simply living with a conscious intent.
The posts are short, less than two hundred words, and focused on one idea.
One of the things that happened to me in March was landing in the hospital for two days with something called Transient Global Amnesia, an interesting title and an interesting experience. In short, I'm fine, my brain is fine (well, sometimes that debatable) as is my heart. I simply shorted out.
So I'm in catch-up mode. And careful mode. And really focusing on what's important. In other words, simplifying.
I'll still post on this site, but less often, and probably more related to my writing projects. Or something.
Life, as is so often said, is a process.
I hope you'll find me on the Incarnation site and join me for a few moments each day sitting still and re-collecting. I certainly need it. Maybe we all do.
Lent's a lot like this arched stone tunnel. You don't know for sure where it's taking you until you get to the end and turn the corner.
Most of you know the saga of moving our big office into a little office so son could have the big office for a bedroom so I won't go into that except to say that while Cliff and I work very well together, he's needed more time on the PC for his online classes and I've needed a place to set myself apart and look out a window.
It finally occurred to me to move my quiet writing corner into the bedroom. It's a big bedroom. And we sleep here and dress here but that's about it except it's also my home gym. Which I use far less than I need to and which doesn't take up much space.
My epiphany was to bring one of the larger wooden TV trays and put it in front of a south-facing window near an electrical outlet, and here it is I've set up. My bedside table also works as a book stand; my laptop as both a writing tool and a research tool, thanks to wireless all through the house, and I even have room for a teacup.
Today I'm looking out on about ten inches of snow and more to come. But with ten inches of snow, it's pretty peaceful looking out there. My place in the world is peaceful and yet I'm surrounded by family. How good is that….
I finished revising an essay for publication since I've been here and I created a screenplay out of a short story I'd written a couple of years ago. I just like being here. It feels like a writing corner with far fewer distractions that in the official office.
Funny how easy things are when you give up on things being the way you think they're going to be and see how you can live with things being the way they are.
So here's the URL again for the Lenten readings in case you missed it last time: http://cotikc.wordpress.com.
May all your days be as peaceful as an empty stone hallway, or an undisturbed drift of snow, before you make that turn into whatever is there, ahead.
What do we mean when we use the word soul? What is the indescribable quality we intend to convey? Humans have souls; music has soul; summer's soul now slips into quiet sunsets.
In The Meaning of Meaning, a seminal book on language and thought first published in 1923, C.K. Ogden argues that words, in themselves, have no meaning. Rather they are symbols of thought. Oh! Of course: why hadn't I thought of that – me, the curious seeker who turns to her American Heritage Dictionary for entomological insights whenever possible. I'd searched for meaning, but without realizing I'd also searched for thought. My actions led me to thought but my thinking named it meaning.
It's like reality: reality is what we are taught to see and taught to name and in that naming make sense of the unknown. But if words are only symbols of thoughts, we're still rambling in the shadows.
Take hummingbirds, for example. They're a pretty concrete, abet fast, reality. Last evening, as I sat on the back porch, a hummingbird zipped past. They don't often come this close to the house – I've put the feeder back in a shaded corner where some white, sweet-smelling flowering vines tumble over the fence from the neighbor's yard. But this evening, one of them came across the yard for a brief hello.
In Mexico, where I once lived, an Aztec myth said that when a warrior dies, his soul becomes a hummingbird. And I wondered at the thought process that made a hummingbird the soul symbol for the people of Mexico.
I remember standing outside one evening, watching across a gully to another hillside as the sun disappeared from the arc of horizon. A hummingbird zipped up and circled me, flitting from red bloom to red bloom on my silk dress. Mistaken for a flower as the fabric ruffled in the breeze, I froze, not wanting to betray my own humanness. The hummingbird inspected me, zip, zip, zip, all around, coming to pause for half a moment of fierce inspection in front of my face. I still didn't move although I did feel delighted in the other-worldly sort of tap on the shoulder.
That same curiosity and fierceness seems to characterize the hummingbirds in my yard here in Kansas City.
Here, they like perching in the willow. Perhaps because even while sitting still, they're still able to move with the breezes. But they're also territorial. If a cardinal or finch comes to sit and admire the graceful drift of a willow branch, the hummingbird will dart at them and drive the intruder away. Dart; dart; Leave!!
But I was not an intruder as I sat in my screen-sheltered porch. I'd gone to sit and ponder this journey I have no name for and the struggle to find the words to frame it.
What was I to learn from this visit?
Perhaps that a warrior defies the odds, regardless of the challenge. If I do not have the words today to define my passage, I may tomorrow. If I am bowed by the responsibilities of writing, I will ride a new wave tomorrow. Or the next day.
If that's a warrior's soul that's come to visit, perhaps I could say that defeat isn't an option. That whatever the challenges, the answer is again and again and again to keep going, darting or inching, to the answer or resolution.
And perhaps that's the reality of souls: unwilling to give up, willing curiosity, willing courage.


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Letters to the editor for Friday, September 27, 2013
On September 16, a reader mentioned the Nazi Holocaust and the inaction on the part of the allies. He was right.
Of course the official reaction of the allies was disbelief. The US and UK governments felt that even Hitler wouldn't do anything that severe. He did, and the allies only belatedly acknowledged it.
Of course Hitler wasn't the only person doing this. One of our allies, Stalin did it as well. Although Hitler and Stalin were bitter enemies, they ran their countries the same way, to the point of copying each other.
What was the Holocaust but one of Hitler's purges.
And let's not forget that Hitler and Stalin were allies until Hitler double-crossed Stalin. The UK and France let Stalin take all they could, because they knew Hitler would double-cross him. He would be an ally in defeating Hitler. Stalin was allowed to keep all the land that he stole. Still, the Holocaust did exist, and since we were at war against Hitler, we could have done more, sooner.
Syria as the reader mentioned used poison gas against some of its citizens. Unfortunately, the fact that we don't like a country's government doesn't give us the right to remove it.
North Korea's government is far worse than Syria's. There is no talk of invading. Stay out of the fighting. Mediate, but we can no longer play "World Policeman."
Ken Mitchell
I have a solution to people texting and talking on the phone while driving. Give the police the authority to take the phone. Issue the ticket, issue a receipt for the phone, and tell the person you will get it back in court when you appear.
If a person has a phone, then nothing will stop them from using it as long as they have it. Everybody thinks they won't get caught.
Personally, I am tired of watching people swerve all over Interstate 84 every morning while using the phone. I don't want to be a victim because of their stupidity.
As a member of the Orange County CSEA, I would like to set the record straight. The leadership of CSEA did not call for a vote on our union's endorsement. There are many members of this union who do not agree that Roxanne Donnery will be an asset to Orange County government and our county workforce.
As a public sector worker I know I am lucky to have a good job with benefits. I also know that unless we grow our economy — which only Steve Neuhaus has experience in doing — we are all in trouble.
Steve Neuhaus is the only candidate for Orange County executive who has a record of job creation and executive experience. Neuhaus will work across party lines with the Orange County Legislature to ensure our county grows — strengthening the public and private sectors. He will be an advocate for us all because he is a uniter not a divider.
Please join me Nov. 5 to vote for Steve Neuhaus for Orange County executive.
Dominick Greene


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Hăghig (in ungherese Hídvég, in tedesco Fürstenberg o Fürstenburg) è un comune della Romania di 2.211 abitanti, ubicata nel distretto di Covasna, nella regione storica della Transilvania.

Il comune è formato dall'unione di 2 villaggi: Hăghig e Iarăș.

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