As above, once all clefts are graded , they are stored into a temperature controlled room which I think is 20*c , along with the handles.
So presuming Gm get a similar split of willow grades where do these clefts come from?
most manufacturers are sourcing there own willow now, I think Gm said they were up somewhere between 70-90%.
Ah yes remember that on the tour. It was impressive the attention to the detail and little things.
Handles are stored in temperature controlled room alongside the clefts to maintain consistency. Also re cleft size, they have the moisture levels of the clefts controlled and checked.
They are rechecked before pressing and if they are not correct the cleft goes back to the kiln/temperature controlled room (someone correct me, but it is def sent back in the process).
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You might be alone, or – every mother's nightmare – your child may be with you, when an armed man tries to carjack you. How can you get everyone safely out of this situation? There are a lot of variables. If you have a concealed carry permit, you may have your gun with you when the attack comes, but should you use it, and if so, when and how? The attack may come as you are getting into your parked car, or it may come when you are already in the car, perhaps sitting at a stop light. Should you respond differently in those situations?
Horror stories, the real kind, are all too easy to find in the news. Just a few weeks ago, a 23-year-old Virginia woman, Ginger Hayes, was abducted from a drugstore parking lot where she was changing her baby's diaper in the back seat while her husband and brother were in the store buying drinks. A man pushed her into the car and drove away. Despite very rapid reporting of the crime, by both her husband and an eyewitness, the police were initially unable to locate the vehicle. The carjacker withdrew money from an ATM using Ginger's card, and made a purchase at a Food Lion store, then drove his captives to a farm field where he beat Ginger repeatedly with a tire rim and then left her and baby Nicholas. Ginger died within an hour; Nicholas survived nearly 10 hours in the sun in 90 degree weather before he was rescued and his mother's body found.
Carjacking is the taking of a vehicle by force (or threat of force) while the victim is in or around the vehicle. It is quite likely that your carjacker will have a gun or a knife to help him make his demands.
One crime-related telephone survey indicated that, of all carjacking attempts, about half succeeded. This is good news – if half of the attempts are foiled by folks without any special training or preparation, you can greatly increase the odds in your favor by making plans in advance for what you would do, or not do.
Two of the world's experts on carjacking countermeasures are Ed Lovette, an instructor at the Gryphon Group International, a security organization based in Melbourne, Florida, and John Peterson, the Senior Instructor at the SIGARMS Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Ed recently gave a class on carjacking countermeasures at the annual meeting of the American Women's Self Defense Association (AWSDA) which was hosted at SIG, and John has published material on this subject in the Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International. Much of the material in this article is drawn from these sources.
Prevention, prevention, prevention. As with any crime, a little advance preparation to make yourself a less attractive target goes a long way toward reducing your chances of having to deal with a crime in progress. Here are some of the things you can do to help prevent a carjacking . . .
Pay attention to where you park. In a parking lot, back into your space so that you will be ready to drive away quickly. Try to park at the end of a row of cars, so you will have more potential routes to leave the area. Park as near as possible to a busy area, such as a mall entrance, rather than in a remote area of the lot. Parking near a light is a good idea if you are going to be returning to your car after dark. Finally, take a good look around the area before you unlock the door and get out of your car. Once out of the car, get the doors locked and the keys in your purse or bag quickly.
When you return to your parked car, use a shopping cart for groceries, even if you could have carried the bags. The cart can be used as a barrier between you and anyone who tries to approach you, and can be shoved to distract them. More importantly, it frees your hands so that you can manage your keys and, if needed, your weapons, whether they be Persuader, pepper spray (OC spray) or a gun.
As you approach your car, keep your head up, and look around. Is there anyone loitering around, without any obvious purpose? Most people in a parking or shopping area are going somewhere or doing something specific; just standing around is not "normal" activity. As you look around, you should be looking for people, of course, but you can also be looking for the places near your car to take cover if you need it. That might be another car, or a concrete pillar, or a corner of a building – anything that can be a temporary emergency destination if you need one.
Don't just look, listen, too. Especially when you have to put your eyes on a specific task such as getting the key into the lock, listen for the sound of footsteps or anything else out of the ordinary that may alert you. And remember to pay attention to your "gut feeling" that you are being watched. or that something just "feels wrong" about the situation even if you can't put your finger on exactly what it is. If you sense that something is not right, don't continue toward your car. Go back to a place where there are other people.
Assuming that you nobody seems to be acting strange, approach your car from the passenger side. This gives you the chance to glance around it, and to walk around it, looking in the car's interior, front and back, before you start to get in.
If you have packages and perhaps a child, there's a strong tendency to shift all of your focus to them as you start getting them into the car. Fight this! You need to be aware of whether anyone is approaching you. Get in the habit of glancing up and around just before, and just after, you put anything, or anyone, in the car.
If you have nothing in your hands, or if you are left-handed and are carrying something in your right hand, you might want to open the driver's door with your left hand. That lets you face the back of the car as you open the door, which is where lurkers are likely to have placed themselves.
Once in the car, don't just sit there. This isn't the time to organize your shopping receipts, pull out a map, or carry on an extended conversation with your toddler.
Which should you do first, lock the door, or start the car? If you are lucky enough to have a car that automatically locks the doors when in gear, you don't have to answer that question, but for the rest of us, the answer is, "It depends." Normally, it is best to lock the doors, so that someone trying to get in won't have a chance. However, if you are aware of a potential threat that is still far enough away, and you can get your car moving fast very quickly, you don't need to take that extra second or so to lock the doors before you pull out.
Start the car and put it in gear.
Pull out of the parking space.
Belt yourself in as soon as you have reached a place where you can safely stop for a moment, or are going very slowly.
What if you have OC spray handy? This can be a great weapon, as no carjacker is going to be able to drive after taking a good solid hit of pepper spray, and OC is easy to deploy against multiple opponents, if your carjacker comes with friends. But OC is a good option only if the carjacker is outside the car, still 7-12 feet away. OC sprayed at very close distances, such as inside a car, is not going to take effect as fast or as powerfully as at the recommended distances.
In some states, it is lawful to protect a car with lethal force, but in most it is not. Are you going to know which kind of state you are in on vacation, or your next business trip? Best thing is to plan NOT to use your gun to protect your car, but only to protect yourself and your family.
Have your priorities straight. No matter how much you love or need your car, it isn't worth your life. Make up your mind that you will give up your car, if necessary. Make up your mind that you will not go anywhere with the carjacker, and most of all, make up your mind that you won't allow him to take your child!
Should you believe him if he says he wants you to come with him so you can get money from an ATM? That is a common combination crime, carjacking plus forcing the victim to withdraw money from an ATM, but there's no assurance that the crime will end there. One possible response to a demand for money could be "I was at the ATM earlier today, and got my limit in cash. It is all in my purse. You can have it." Throw your purse into the car, or some direction away from your child, so that he will have to take some attention off you to get your money. Whether he believes that you have maxed out your daily withdrawal limit or not, he may be satisfied with cash in hand rather than continuing to try to force you.
What if someone manages to get in the passenger side of your car while it is stopped, and you can't just leave because there is a child in the back seat? He probably has a weapon, and is demanding that you drive somewhere. Then you have the choice of either telling him that he can have the car but you will take your child and leave, or fighting. If you choose to fight, one way to get started is to turn with your back to the car door, bring your legs up, and start kicking violently and continuously. If you can reach for a weapon at the same time, this might be a good time to do so, but it is quite possible that the unexpected and violent counterattack will force him out of the car.
Remember, just because someone has a weapon doesn't mean that he is willing to use it at that moment, especially if his plan was to use the weapon only to frighten you into compliance with his demands.
Don't make any sudden moves. Try to speak calmly and firmly.
Tell him you are taking your child with you.
Don't ask if that is ok, and don't wait for him to agree. After you have told him what you will do, just do it.
Repeat steps 1-5 for everything you do. Keep telling him what you are going to do, and just do it until you and your children are safely out of the car.
Don't hand over the keys. Leave them in the ignition, or drop them on the passenger side floor (assuming the attacker is outside the driver's side), or throw them some distance from the car. You want him to have access to the keys, but not by any physical contact with you, and you want to throw a time-consuming change, however small, into his plans for a smooth operation.
Don't wait for him to say that it is ok for you to unfasten your seatbelt, open the door, or get the kids. Just tell him that you are going to do those things, and then immediately do them. Your goal is to separate yourself and your children from the car as fast as possible, so that he can take the car.
Once you and your children are out of the car, head for the cover that you had previously identified. Then you can decide whether to stay there, access your weapon, or move to another location.
If you are in your car when a situation erupts, try to keep you car moving. Don't hesitate to drive away from a carjacker, even if he has a gun. If someone is shooting at you, it is much harder to hit a moving target, even a BIG moving target, than a stationary one. Also, a bullet that hits a moving car is much less likely to penetrate than a bullet that hits a stopped car. You do NOT have to be moving very fast to get these benefits! All of this indicates that, if you are under fire, you best course of action is, usually, to drive away, even if you are armed and could return fire. Of course, you will make decisions at the moment based on the circumstances you find yourself in – no advice can be absolute in life-or-death situations.
Avoid, avoid, avoid. Preventing a carjacking by advance preparation and awareness is much easier than getting out of trouble once it starts.
If you can't avoid, try to drive away.
If you decide not to drive away, separate yourself from your car and keys (and money, if he demands it), so he can have the car.
If there are kids in the car, tell him so; he may be so hyped up he didn't even notice them.
Use your weapon(s) only as a last resort and only if you or your family members are in immediate and unavoidable danger of death or kidnapping.
Did you notice that any response with a gun is a minor part of all the scenarios we've considered? You aren't likely to be able to get the drop on someone who is already pointing a gun at you, so drawing your gun and shooting him, even if you try to distract him first, is unlikely to be a winning strategy. If, however, he doesn't want just the car but wants you or your child, too, that is another matter entirely. Then it is time to do whatever you have to do to avoid going along with his plan. Don't let Ginger Hayes' story become yours.


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While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.
On the one hand, statist ideology must render the violence of the state invisible, in order to disguise the affront to equality it represents. Hence statists tend to treat governmental edicts as though they were incantations, passing directly from decree to result, without the inconvenience of means; since in the real world the chief means employed by government is violence, threatened and actual, cloaking state decrees and their violent implementation in the garb of incantation disguises both the immorality and the inefficiency of statism by ignoring the messy path from decree to result. Yet on the other hand, the effectiveness of governmental edicts depends precisely on people being all too aware of the force backing up those edicts. Hence statism can maintain its plausibility only by implicitly projecting a kind of grotesque parody of the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation: just as bread and wine must be transformed in their essence into the body and blood of Christ in order to play their necessary spiritual role, whilst at the same time they must retain the external accidents of bread and wine in order to play their necessary practical role, so the violence of the state, to be justified, must be transubstantiated in its essence into peaceful incantation, yet at the same time, to be effective, it must retain the external accidents of violence. (This sacralization of state violence explains how proponents of gun control, for example, can regard themselves as opponents of violence whilst at the same time threatening massive and systematic violence against peaceful citizens.) But to ignore or mask the violence upon which socioeconomic legislation necessarily rests is to acquiesce in the unconscionable subordination and subjection that such violence embodies. It is to treat those subordinated and subjected as mere means to the ends of those doing the subordinating, and thus to assume a legitimate inequality in power and jurisdiction between the two groups.
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Jacques Charon (February 27, 1920 – October 15, 1975) was a French actor and director. In 1941 he entered the Comédie-Française where he spent his entire career as an actor and signed about twenty shows. Appointed associate in 1947 and dean in 1972, he also distinguished himself as a director in the boulevard theater.
Son of a department manager at the Louvre Department Stores, he was born in Paris rue des Bons-Enfants, near the Comédie-Française, at his parents' home. He studied at the Lycée Charlemagne. At a very young age, he was already passionate about theatre, going so far as to state that he had learned to read on the posters of the Comédie-Française. When he got good grades at school, his parents allowed his sister to take him to the matinees of the Comédie-Française on Thursdays.
At the age of eighteen, he worked as a knitter, but secretly dreamed of theatre. With the complicity of his sister Geneviève, every Sunday instead of going to Mass, he took drama classes from Julien Bertheau. A month after the beginning of his training he was already hired to play in Forte tête at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Then he entered the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique in Paris in the class of Mme Dussane. He won a second prize for Comedy in the first year in Le Bavard by Carmontelle and Le Distrait by Regnard in the role of Léandre. In 1941, he stayed at the Chantiers de jeunesse.
During the post-WWII period, the French theatre was dominated by Jean Cocteau's circle, including the stage designer Christian Bérard and the actor Jean Marais; the bisexual Gérard Philipe was everyone's favorite leading man. The foremost members of the Comedic Francaise, such as Jean Weber and Jacques Charon, were familiar faces at gay salons.
Jacques Charon was hired at the Comédie-Française on September 1, 1941 (corypheus), he received the nickname of baby who was never to leave him again. He was a boarder on 1 january 1942, became its 410th member on 1 january 1947 and became its dean on 1 january 1972.
He quickly became interested in directing, while preparing the role of Harlequin in Harlequin poli par l'amour, Gaston Baty, occupied by the staging of Bérénice, entrusted him, in addition to his role, with the staging. He then did that of the Don d'Adèle, performed at the Comédie-Wagram. In 1969, six plays he directed were performed simultaneously in Paris and three others toured in the provinces. Jacques Charon was a bulimic of work. When in 1969, Maurice Escande awarded him the Legion of Honor, he told him: "I will not summarize your career in front of your friends, it would be ridiculous and then, it would force me to stay standing for five hours."
Shortly after publishing his memoirs under the title Moi, un comédien, he died of a heart attack on October 15, 1975 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris at the age of 55 and was buried in the Montmartre cemetery (division 29).
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Did you know that March is National Nutrition Month? If you have been letting your New Year Resolutions slide lately, now is the time to get back on track! Salads are a great source of vitamins and perfect to include in your daily meal plans. This Pear Apple Salad with Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing is one of my favorite "fruit salads." I used Mazola® Corn Oil as a base for my dressing, and I found the taste to be very neutral – just what I am looking for in a salad dressing base. It allows the lemon flavor to come out beautifully. Did you know a recent research study found that corn oil helps lower cholesterol more than extra virgin olive oil? It has less saturated fats than other oils. For more information about the study, go to Mazola.com.
You can also include nuts, like walnuts or pecans, in your salad for some extra calories and protein if you are making it your main meal.
Add all dressing ingredients to a blender and pulse a few times until mixed well.
Rinse and drain the lettuce, then toss with the fruit and dressing.
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Mazola; all opinions are my own.
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Great recipe, so simple and fun. Thanks!
I didn't know March was Nutrition Month. When I grow up, I want the job of deciding which day gets to celebrate what food. 😉 Lovely salad — don't often use pears in salads for some reason, but they work so well. Thanks.
Ooh, this sounds so fresh and lovely and light – perfect for National Nutrition Month! This would actually be great topped with a couple seared scallops for a heartier meal, too. Mmmmm.


Hibs captain David Gray has reminded everyone than Paul Heckingbottom still needs time to further improve Hibs despite winning his first three league games.
Celtic inflicted a first defeat of the new boss' tenure at Easter Road after stunning strikes from James Forrest and Scott Brown saw them ease in to the semi-finals of the William Hill Scottish Cup at Hibs ' expense.
Despite that disappointment, Gray insists there is still optimism over the direction Heckingbottom is potentially taking the club.
However, he was keen to stress that more time will see the players take on board more information as the ex-Leeds Utd manager further shapes the team in his image.
"The manager is disappointed, but he is going to take the positives," said Gray. "I thought we were good for large spells of the game and we have had three wins out of three in the league campaign so far.
"We now have just shy of a week to prepare for Rangers [on Friday]. He can get us on the training pitch and really work with us because the games have came thick and fast since he came in.
"I think he would like to get a bit more information into us than he has done so far. To be honest, you don't think much of it once the game starts.
"It is just another manager in the dug out.
The hosts contained the cup holders well enough during the first half of Saturday's last eight encounter, without threatening much themsevles.
Neil Lennon's team stepped it up a gear after the break however, and the outcome seemed inevtiable after Forrest opening the scoring by finding the top corner.
"I think frustrating is the word," said Gray afterwards. "For the first half, or 60 minutes, I thought we were good in the game. We were very compact and difficult to break down.
"We just needed to make some better decisions or have better quality in the final third. If we had that, we could have created a few more chances ourselves.
"Once you go a goal down to a team like Celtic, they make it difficult for you. They keep the ball really well. We started to press and maybe lost our shape a little bit, chasing to get that goal back. That left us a bit exposed.
"We are disappointed not to be in the next round of the cup, but the attention now turns to finishing as high as we can in the league.
"It was a good strike from Forrest from outside the box. From our point of view, we feel we should stop the shot.
"Up until that point, I thought we were very good in the game, very comfortable. Like I say, we needed to be a bit braver on the ball and a bit better with our decision-making and we might have got something out of the game.
"Our short term objective was to get into the top six and the next round of the cup. That was the objective set when the manager came in.


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Russ visits with tenured sales and marketing sales executive Patrick Schneidau, a member of the Houston Exponential staff. They introduce the HX Growth Summit to be held October 10 on the University of Houston campus. This sales and marketing summit for the digital era will include high-profile speakers, networking and other hidden gems.
Russ: Hi, I'm Russ Capper and this is HXTV, the show that champions Houston's innovators and entrepreneurs. Our topic today is sales & marketing in the digital era. My guest is Patrick Schneidau, a tenured Sales & Marketing C-level executive. Patrick, welcome to the show.
Patrick: Thank you for having me, Russ. Glad to be here.
Russ: You bet. So, I have a sales and marketing background from way back in the 'knock on the door' days, but sales has really changed, particularly sales, as marketing has become more important. In fact, sometimes you start thinking, wow, is sales even important anymore? Share your perspective on that.
Patrick: Sure. So, number one, sales is absolutely as important today, if not more, than it was when you were knocking on doors. Really what has changed more than anything else is the advent of the internet. In the past, a lot of sales was outbound, right? You knocked on the door, you picked up a phone, you had to go find the customer. Today, what's really changed more than anything else is the customers are looking for solutions to their problems. It's about capturing that demand and engaging with it so you can get the sales closed. There's a lot of studies out there, depending on who you read, two-thirds or more of the buying cycle from the customers perspective is done before you actually have a conversation with a sales person.
Patrick: Smart marketers, savvy marketers are realizing that and figuring out creative ways to engage with the customer very early on in the sales cycle before a sales person ever gets engaged. And then once they do, it becomes more and more important because the customer is already very educated about the market, the competitive products, and the companies out there. That's why sales is even more important today, because it's harder and harder to differentiate based on the knowledge the customers have today.
Russ: Real interesting. We're here to talk about something special that you're doing right here in Houston, Texas, focused in this area. Tell us about it.
Patrick: We're excited to launch the HX Growth Summit. We're going to hold that on October 10th at the University of Houston. The summit is really going to be focusing on sales & marketing for innovative leaders, people who know they need to update their practices in the digital era.
Russ: Tell us a little bit more. How long is the event going to last, what kind of agenda would one see?
Patrick: It's going to be a full day, from morning to night, with the reception to end. It's going to focus on two things; number one, the agenda itself, the content is really around—the way the innovative companies are really engaging with their customers now, as I talked about, customers typically find them, but then they have to find a way to differentiate and engage. For many of these companies who are looking to bring an innovative solution to market, what they're really trying to figure out is: who is my target buyer? what's the target market look like? what is the ideal customer profile so they can put their limited resources towards going and finding those customers out there. Once they identify that, it's really: how do I engage with the customer? should I do digital marketing? should I do content marketing? Inbound/outbound? account-based marketing?
Patrick: All the terms that you hear that are thrown around, all of them have a particular use case depending on what you're selling and how the customer wants to buy from you. So, we'll cover those topics, and then once you engage with the customer, sales development, nurturing, closing, sales enablement as you start to scale and think about bringing more and more sales people who need to train to sell your solution. All those topics will be covered as part of the summit itself. The second main thing is really around networking. There are so many people that are doing this well in the Houston community, there are so many people that we're going to bring in from outside the Houston community, and we want to make sure the connections both within Houston and outside of Houston happen at the conference. There's going to be a lot of opportunities to network both within the agenda of the summit and with the reception that evening, as well.
Russ: Why out at the University of Houston?
Patrick: There's a hidden gem among the many great programs at the University of Houston, and that's the Sales Excellence Institute. Not many people know this, but it's actually the number one collegiate sales training program in the country.
Russ: Impressive.
Patrick: It is, it's very impressive. What we decided to do is we were thinking about what's the right venue and how we want to connect the community outside of Houston with the community inside Houston. The University of Houston and their Sales Institute was really the ideal candidate for that.
Russ: I want to get into some specific parts of the agenda, but before I do, I'm sure we've already got some people interested. How do they find out more, how do they register?
Patrick: They go to the Houston Exponential website, so that's houstonexponential.org. There's an event calendar there, so just click on that, look for October 10th, in terms of the actual date, and you can register right from there. If you want to go directly to the website, it's houstonexponential.org/hxgrowth18.
Russ: I know you've been doing a good job of recruiting some real top-notch speakers covering some real interesting topics. Share some of that.
Patrick: We're very excited about the speakers that we were able to put on the agenda this year. Our opening keynote is Craig Rosenberg, who is the co-founder of one of the leading sales & marketing advisory firms out of Silicon Valley, a company called TOPO. He's going to talk about how sales & marketing have changed in the recent years. Among the other speakers are Jon Miller, who is the CEO of a company called Engagio, but he was previously founder of Marketo, which many people know in the marketing automation space, a great success story among SaaS companies out there. Elay Cohen, who is the SVP of Sales Productivity at Salesforce, he's now CEO of a company called SalesHood, which helps with sales enablement technology. A lot of great speakers in our lineup.
Russ: Impressive. But, I also know that you really did an excellent job of getting the last and final keynote. Share that.
Patrick: This is very exciting. We have Paul Sarvadi, the CEO of Insperity, as the closing Keynote. Paul is going to be there at the end of the day to tell his story, from being an entrepreneur, starting that company in 1986, and seeing that grow, to almost a four-billion-dollar company today. All the entrepreneurs, all the innovators in the room are going to learn a lot from his journey.
Russ: Paul is still in that very unique club of founders that have remained at the helm all these years. Who should attend?
Patrick: The target audience for it is really anyone looking to bring innovation to the market. That may be a startup founder, a CEO, or those people who are responsible for sales & marketing in some of those startups or scaleups, companies that are looking to really grow. That was number one, and number two, also the people who are in sales & marketing today who want to upscale themselves in terms of the talent that they have, the skills that they need in this new digital era.
Russ: I love the whole aspect of the conference, partly because I was a sales person, and even though it's changed enormously, I liked it what you said at the very beginning that there's still a point where somebody has to persuade somebody to step over the line—
Patrick: Absolutely. That's never changed.
Russ: Yeah, and it's really interesting to me, too, that there's companies like TOPO now that are just totally focused on this. Do they get engaged by lots of the big, high-tech companies?
Patrick: Absolutely. When you think about it, as a company gets past the stage where they think about product market fit, right? They're convinced they have something that people want to buy. Then, really, the next stage of growth is how do I scale it up with sales & marketing? That's when you tend to get larger size investment checks from VCs and investors, and what they're really looking for a that point is how are you going to grow the company? what are you going to do in sales & marketing? There's a lot of opportunity for companies to engage with companies like TOPO in that particular instance.
Russ: Really cool. So, before I let you go, for our audience on more time, give us the date, location, and how to sign up.
Patrick: October 10th, at the University of Houston, at the Student Center there, and go to houstonexponential.org/hxgrowth18.
Russ: Patrick, thank you so much. It sounds real exciting and I plan to be there.
Patrick: Great.
Russ: That wraps up my discussion with Patrick Schneidau, tenured Sales & Marketing C-level executive. And this is HXTV.
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"Why humanity? Not whence we nor whither we, but why we?" asks the back cover of The Harmonics of Unity, a new book by Harold Terry Lindahl. The volume deploys a complexity of words, schematics, and creative images to explain the interactions of art, science, and religion, based on insights from Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and George Ivanovich Gurdjieff.
There might be no better time for an attempt at understanding the why of humanity, as society struggles under the weight of a cascade of just-in-time true or false information bits and the destruction, or reconstruction, of cultural cohesion. According to Lindahl, self-examination and the quest to comprehend larger meanings have been overwhelmed by a technological examination of phenomena. "Nowadays, self-knowledge has been reduced to knowing what I like and don't like, red or blue, Chevy or Ford," Lindahl said.
The Harmonics of Unity posits that the "…haunting resonance of the Gnostic question Whence We Why and Whither We, has recently become tractable. The record is clear, the universe is functioning just as it must, and humanity, through its probative instincts, is scanning geo-bio-cosmic realms for information, just as it must." Its observations are based, in part, on the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the universe is a "closed system" subject to entropy, or the increased loss of energy or vibration rate. As Erwin Schrodinger stated in 1944, "Life feeds on a flow of negentropy," and negentropy results from the processes of life.
The book's artwork – which has the feel of a mashup between math, biology, and an inside look at the cosmos – is meant to convey the dynamics of the human condition. Whether or not they are effective as communication devices, the images are beautiful in their diversity of shapes, textures, and depths.
The Harmonics of Unity is available at Christopher's Books, Farley's, and online booksellers. Workshops, free and open to the public, exploring its themes will be held on March 13, 20 and 27 at 7:30 pm, 312 Connecticut street.


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Donald Trump installs his political people in the Census Bureau….
In another action that other President's from both party probably haven't done…..
President Trump has put two of his political people in the Census Bureau as it runs the 2020 survey that will be the basis of the new US House of Representatives districts …
This has raised eyebrows in the agency and in other places….
Donald Trump does have aversion to telling the truth and has NO problem with having his minions change the facts to fit their bosses view of reality….
We can only hope that in 6 months a new Bide admin will work hard to undo the Trump attempts to change reality…
The Census questionnaires contain information on a LOT of people that is supposed to be NOT shared outside the bureau….
The White House and Commerce Department forced the Census Bureau to take two new political appointees last week whose unexpected arrival has deepened fears at the agency that the 2020 census will be politicized, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Last Monday, Commerce deputy secretary Karen Dunn Kelley informed Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham and his career deputy, Ron Jarmin, that the two new appointees, Commerce aides Nathaniel T. Cogley and Adam Korzeniewski, had been installed in senior roles at the Census Bureau — a move that blindsided both of them, according to a Census Bureau official.
Cogley, a frequent radio commentator who received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 2013 and was the head of the department of government, legal studies and philosophy at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, will be deputy director for policy. Korzeniewski, now a senior adviser for Cogley, once worked as a Republican political consultant for the failed Staten Island congressional run of Joey Saladino, a Trumpy young YouTube star known as "Joey Salads."
On Tuesday, Dillingham issued a statement announcing that Cogley and Korzeniewski were joining the agency. He praised Cogley's "distinguished academic background" and said that Korzeniewski had "exemplary military and public service experience, including prior Census Bureau fieldwork." He also said that "the support of Dr. Cogley and Mr. Korzeniewski will help the Census Bureau achieve a complete and accurate 2020 Census and study future improvements."
But inside the Census Bureau, a technocratic agency long accustomed to carrying out its work without political meddling, the hires were viewed with suspicion. Not only had they occurred while the 2020 census was already well underway, officials didn't view them as particularly qualified for their new positions. The fact that the White House had installed them only raised further alarms.
"No one has expressed any support for the decision" at the bureau for the decision to hire the two new appointees, according to the Census Bureau official. "There's great concern."
"They basically swallowed hard," a person close to the bureau said. "They have no choice, and they must do it."….
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Democratic Socialist Dave says
Anyone who's ever worked for the Census (as I did in 1980) knows how seriously everyone there takes impartiality and non-partisanship (as well as privacy and confidentiality).
Local officials do have the right, after a preliminary count of their jurisdictions has been announced, to ask for a recanvass to see if anyone's been missed. Berkeley, Calif., did so in 1980 and succeeded in reaching the right side (i.e. upper side) of 100,000.
But the emphasis is on thoroughness and penetration on an impartial basis. It's often hardest (for technical reasons) to count the whiter and most affluent, as well as the minority and poorer, parts of the population, and I did both.
Re: "We can only hope that in 6 months a new Bide admin will work hard to undo the Trump attempts to change reality…"
… one could hope, but the damage if any will be done. The states and Congress need to have the figures for each state by the end of 2020, and those numbers will be used to apportion Representatives (and thus Electoral Votes) among the several states, and to draw Congressional District lines within each state.
This Congress will come back in December, a month before any new (or old) President is inaugurated.
So, while a President Biden could if elected address the Trumpification of the Census, he couldn't change the numbers collected under Trump.
CG on Republicans getting ready to make money on a House Majority……It doesn't say that he is being paid in his role a…


Ships calling here sail past modest Melanesian villages to the port of Vila. A walk through the colorful open market leads to the main wharf. The best excursions here include town and island tours, glass-bottom boat tours over the reef, sailing and diving, and snorkeling expeditions.


It's important to know how your body acts when you're healthy, so you'll know when something's unbalanced.
Two weeks ago I awoke with a stomach ache and an unusual pain in the upper right side of the pelvis. My first thought was that I ate something bad the night before, so I asked parents for some medication and headed to school.
Throughout the day my stomach ache got worst got worse. As the day went by, I felt like I was going to be sick, but I clenched my stomach with my arms and pushed through the rest of the school day. By the time I got home, I could barely walk. Later that night I was admitted to the emergency room.
I had some blood work done and a CT scan. After looking at the CT scan results, my doctor hadn't figured out what was causing the pain. There were two possibilities in mind; ovarian cysts or appendicitis. After sending the Xrays to a specialist, the doctors came to the conclusion that I had appendicitis.
I had immediate surgery once I arrived at the hospital, and it only lasted about 45 minutes. I was released from the hospital two days after my surgery. I could barely walk and my entire body was aching. I was instructed by my surgeon to not engage in any physical activity, which meant no marching band for two weeks.
I've found it important to pay better attention to my body. I didn't think anything of a stomach ache on Friday. I didn't think that it was anything serious, but something that seems tedious can turn into something very serious.
It's also important to go to the doctor for regular check ups. Be up to date on all of your vaccinations so that the possibility of getting sick or catching an illness from someone else is slim.


Pain in the lumbar spine does not have to originate from the spine itself. There are many referral structures that can cause low back pain and need to be ruled out as a source of pain (dangerous mimics of back pain). To understand why some of these structures would cause lower back pain, we have to go back to embryology. The structures in the retroperitoneum (the area behind the intestines) are supplied by the same nerve endings as the back structures. Sometimes, the brain has difficulty differentiating where pain comes from in this area. These structures include the aorta, kidneys, pancreas, gall bladder, urinary bladder, ovaries and uterus. Any problem with one of these organs could refer pain to the back.
The most devastating one is an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The aorta is the main artery that brings blood to the lower body. It travels next to the spine in the abdomen and can create dangerous mimics of back pain. Occasionally in individuals older that 60 with high blood pressure or genetic diseases, the aorta can stretch out and pain from this can refer to the back. The danger is that this vessel can rupture and surgical repair can be lifesaving if done in time.
Are you experiencing a potential dangerous mimic of back pain?
Kidney infections are famous for referring dangerous mimics of back pain to one side of the back, where the ribs meet the lower back. This is called costovertebral tenderness and is elicited by percussing at the lowest ribs along side the spine. Severe pain in this region can be an indicator of a kidney infection.
Gynecological problems can refer pain to the back. Endometriosis and ovarian cysts are two good examples. This pain will normally be cyclical with the patient's period. A pelvic infection from any number of causes can also cause pain. Ectopic pregnancy, a surgical emergency, can refer to the back. It is important to get a thorough history of the patient's cycles and activities to help rule this in or out.
Occasionally, diverticulitis can cause back pain. This occurs when small outpouchings of the intestinal wall become inflamed.
Gall bladder attacks can cause lower back pain. Normally, these would be worst after a fatty meal and are crescendo de- crescendo (get worse and then better in a matter of minutes) type of attacks. That is- the pain rises and falls as a crampy type of pain.
Cancer can obviously cause back pain. If a vertebra or pelvis fractures because the bone is weakened, the pain will be like typical fracture pain. X-rays and especially an MRI would differentiate this. Compression of a nerve or the cauda equina will give symptoms associated with these specific structures.
If you have additional questions regarding dangerous mimics of back pain, or would like to discuss your cause of lower back pain in great detail, please contact Dr. Donald Corenman, spine specialist and back doctor serving the communities of Vail, Aspen, Denver and Grand Junction, Colorado.


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This is a site bug rather than a product issue - sorry for the incorrect prefix but one had to be chosen.
Looks like the quick search isn't collapsing to the icon for whatever reason.
Maybe I should get a new style.
I have a UIX license. But Flat Awesome and + is my favourite at the moment. Already bought + so will get it ready and start using that at some point.
Russ kindly helped me with some customisations and I really appreciate it. He's done a great job.
I've since been tinkering with all of the Xen Base options - perfect.
Few things I noticed on the new style.
I think that is from shifting the top breadcrumb option (off by default in XenBase). Can you check under the Breadcrumb style property settings and see if "Shift Top Breadcrumb" option is checked? If so uncheck it.
It was already unchecked, but just to be sure I checked it and unchecked it but neither makes a difference.
Also weird how other top control buttons aren't affected. Everywhere else it seems normal.
It has been reported before, probably why it works on XenBase. FA+ must have a difference in the PAGE_CONTAINER template.
Also, you can disable [PE] Responsive Message Controls add-on, it is included in XenBase by default. Currently showing 2 controls menus in responsive.
Ah - found the cause. Under the breadcrumb property settings uncheck Shift Call to Action option.
I thought that was fixed in a previous version of XB, will have to investigate it a bit more.


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Listen to Cole Swindell's Guilt-Ridden New Single, "Love You Too Late"
by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | November 5, 2018
Cole Swindell will try to score the ninth No. 1 hit of his singing career with the release of his new single, "Love You Too Late."
Penned by Cole, Michael Carter and Brandon Kinney, "Love You Too Late" follows No. 1 lead single, "Break Up in the End," from Cole's third album, All of It, which was released in August.
"Love You Too Late" will officially go for radio adds on Nov. 19. Cole is currently on the road with Dustin Lynch and Lauren Alaina as part of the Reason to Drink Another Tour.
Listen to "Love You Too Late" below.
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A huge shout out to my cousin-in-law (is that a real term?) for getting me on the bandwagon! I kept referring to her as my sister-in-law to SL when I was telling him how she sent me a Shakeology sample that I was dying to try. After calling her my SIL more than a couple times I realized I would never actually have a SIL. SL is an only child and my sister is totally into dudes so the best I can hope for is a BIL.
But seriously, Lori, and all of my CILs are are amazing and are all like SILs and BILs to me!
I opted to try the chocolate flavor because it gives me an excuse to have chocolate for breakfast (I choose right). My sample, one serving packet came with a 30-day recipe guide as well as a great info book on Shakeology. All of these recipes look amazing but I opted for my own version.
I've tried a few other protein powders in smoothies and shakes but this one topped them all. It wasn't chalky or flavorless at all. I actually enjoyed drinking every last drop of my shake. Good thing SL had this beer stein to fit the whole shake in! Totally normal to drink protein shakes out of a beer stein, right?!
Is anyone else on the Shakeology bandwagon?
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The wait is now over, and Grey's Anatomy season 18 episode 7 will be available to watch tonight. Grey Sloan Memorial doctors are back in business after a short break. During the episode, Meredith and Amelia continue to work on their mission to cure Parkinson's in Seattle and Minnesota. But things will get hot. Hamilton is annoyed. Maybe it's because Koracick is still alive, or the cure is taking too long. In any case, Meredith needs to distract herself from the issue. Nick steps up. And who better than Meredith Grey to conduct the procedure on his friend? When things go wrong in the OR, their personal bond will be tested. Grey's fans are looking forward to a new episode of Season 18. Allow www.tvacute.com to offer you all of the necessary information to watch Grey's Anatomy Season 18 Episode 7 titled "Today Was a Fairytale."
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"Today Was a Fairytale "is the title of Grey's Anatomy season 18 episode 7. When Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is the target of Dr. Hamilton's (Peter Gallagher) rage, Nick (Scott Speedman) lets her vent her frustrations by scrubbing in on an operation. Meanwhile, Link (Chris Carmack) and Jo (Camilla Luddington) take their children to a fairytale theatrical play that goes horribly wrong in Seattle. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and Dr. Lin (Lynn Chen), the new plastics head, attend a recruitment event in the hopes of attracting more doctors to Grey Sloan, but they are caught off guard.
Grey's Anatomy Episode 1807 Synopsis: Dr. Hamilton takes his frustrations out on Meredith, so Nick gives her a chance to blow off steam by scrubbing in on a surgery. Back in Seattle, Link and Jo take their kids to a fairytale theater performance that goes wrong. Bailey and Dr. Lin attend a recruitment fair in hopes of attracting more doctors to Grey Sloan but find themselves ill-prepared.
Dr. David Hamilton is played by Peter Gallagher, Dr. Michelle Lin is played by Lynn Chen, and Dr. Jordan Wright is played by Greg Tarzan Davis. Julie Wong wrote "Today Was a Fairytale," which was directed by Debbie Allen.
Grey's Anatomy Season 18 Episode 7 will release on December 9, 2021, at 9:00-10:01 p.m. EDT on ABC. Subscribers to Hulu can watch the show the next day on-demand online or live to stream it on Hulu+Live TV. the show is available on Fubo TV, DirecTV, YouTube TV, and Xfinity, among other platforms. You can also buy or rent episodes on Vudu, iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and Microsoft Store.
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The Thanksgiving episodes of Grey's Anatomy are well-known. They've frequently been among the most memorable moments in the show's run. While there were a few fantastic moments, Grey's Anatomy Season 18 Episode 6 did not make the list of the Greatest Grey's Thanksgiving Day installments. It was some drama, a fear, "framily," and two passionate couplings. Meredith was stuck in Minnesota for the holidays, Nick came to her rescue in the sexiest way conceivable, Link and Amelia played Ozzie and Harriet, and Megan was served a heaping dose of heartbreak. Continue reading to learn more about what was on the menu.
Mer is stuck in Minnesota, where she is being driven to the airport by Nick. Kai is texting Amelia. Mer learns that her flight has been canceled when Nick drops her off. For Thanksgiving, Levi's mother brings him and Nico food. Nico agrees to spend time with her. Bailey is disappointed to be working on Thanksgiving because Dean's father has left Pru behind. Richard is looking forward to working on a day with a lot of problems. Teddy and Owen are staying with Megan and Farouk at the hospital to avoid coming home to cook with Owen's mother and the kids. It's a slow day in the ER, and nothing is happening, which irritates Webber. Mer and Nick discuss their Thanksgiving horror stories from their medical careers.
Scout visits Amelia for Thanksgiving, and she allows him to stay to assist her in the kitchen and since he will be alone. Noah is unwell and unable to breathe when he returns to the hospital. Noah requests that Owen take his children somewhere to distract him from Noah's illness. An ultrasound is performed on the pregnant woman who comes in. Her appendix has been perforated, and surgery is required. Amelia and Link prepare a meal together. They wing it because she doesn't cook. While driving to the cabin, Nick tells Mer about his sisters. He knocks on her door. He shifted his weight. Even if they don't have to remove her uterus, their pregnant patient requests that Jo tie her tubes during the procedure. Nick and Mer converse and eat together, as well as discuss their holiday plans. Amelink feeds the kids food, and several of them inquire about sex. Teddy explains to Megan that she's avoiding Owen's mother because she doesn't want to cope with her reaction to Leo if he wears a dress. Teddy tries to resuscitate Farouk after he codes. They deliver the patient's baby, but the bleeding continues. Hayes informs them that they must do surgery on Farouk in order to save him.
Nico's mother had dinner with Levi's mother and they discuss Nico marrying Levi and having children together. While Amelia enjoys the show, Link and the kids dance it out. Noah's wife is told by Bailey to cry, shout, and let it all out because her husband is dying. Mer and Nick have a relationship. After asking Owen how long it will take for him to die, Noah returns home. Their patient underwent an emergency hysterectomy. Farouk was placed on Ecmo and the transplant waiting list. Bailey weeps for Pru and speaks with Webber. Amelia and Link exchange a kiss. However, she informs him that nothing has changed in her life. They have a sexual relationship. Bailey and Webber express their gratitude to Jo, Nico, and Levi.
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Learning Spanish (Spain or Central American) is a popular past time, and is fourth in the number of non-native speakers (behind English, Mandarin, and Hindustani). It is also the fourth most spoken language by native speakers. For an English language speaker there are many similarities that can help in Spanish language acquisition. There are two popular posts on this subject from Olly and Gabe, respectively:
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The ongoing two-day visit of India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is the third bilateral high-level exchange in two months, and underlines a new vitality in multifarious relations between the two neighbours.
India's foreign minister's visit is aimed at setting the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to the island nation next week. The visit is the first by any Indian prime minister since Rajiv Gandhi's trip in 1987. Mr Modi will be on a multi- city tour in Sri Lanka, visiting the Jaffna province as well as addressing the Sri Lankan parliament.
In the days to come, Sri Lanka shall have to do some tightrope walking to keep the investment flowing in from China, while tilting towards India. Amid the shifting geopolitics of the region, one can safely say that the new government in Colombo has begun course correction by underlining the centrality of New Delhi to Colombo's national interests even as it pursues its economic ties with Beijing, albeit in a possibly attenuated manner.
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Sri Lanka has got a new President and a new government. The nation has voted in the common Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena, and voted out incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promptly congratulated Sirisena, indicating the traditional Indian readiness and willingness to work with the new government.
Indian concerns in and with Sri Lanka can be broadly identified with the 'ethnic issue' and the 'China factor'. As the facilitator of 13-A power-devolution deriving from the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987, India owes to itself, the Tamils of Sri Lanka and that nation as a whole, to help restore ethnic peace and balance in that country.
The Indian sympathies and assistance, if any, for the Rajapaksa government to battle out the LTTE too derived from such a perception. However, the promised peace has eluded Sri Lanka, and that has had its overtones for politics and elections in India, with particular focus on southern Tamil Nadu. More so, it has also had impacted on bilateral relations in more ways than one, particularly in the larger international context of a succession of UNHRC votes on 'accountability issue' deriving from US-sponsored resolution on alleged 'war crimes' in Sri Lanka.


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"For years, all I had were a bed, a desk and a chair," Tom Cruise said. "When I was making a movie, they put me in hotel rooms. Between jobs, I moved back into my apartment, and my lifestyle dropped considerably."
Cruise was not talking about decades of struggle and poverty here. He is only 24, and his years in the room with the chair and the desk began when he was 18 -- when he moved to New York and started looking for work as an actor. New York is filled with young actors sitting on their beds and staring at their chairs and dreaming of the big time, but for Cruise, it happened quickly. He got a day's work on "Endless Love" the 1981 teenage romance film starring Brooke Shields. Then he played the crazy kid in "Taps," opposite two other newcomers, Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton. Then he was steered into a horny teenager movie called "Losing It," but after that came 1983's "Risky Business" and then "Top Gun," which probably will be the box-office champion of 1986. Now here he is, 24 years old, co-starring with Paul Newman in Martin Scorsese's "The Color of Money." To Hollywood's money men, no other young actor is more bankable than Tom Cruise.
"It's a strange thing, being handed so much power, to do whatever you want to do," he said, clasping his hands together and looking at the floor. "I'm offered a lot of movies, but I haven't worked in six or seven months, because I want to sit back and evaluate where I want to go next. My point of view and my values haven't changed. Everybody wants to push and pull me, but I refuse to change my lifestyle."
One day you were eating grilled cheese sandwiches, and the next day you became a famous movie star?
"Don't get me wrong. I want to be in this position. But I get inundated with so much information. I spend the day weeding through it. Charities, benefits, job offers, requests. And I don't want a huge company in front of me. I trust the people who work for me, and I spend time with them, and I want to hear their ideas and keep in touch. A lot of the challenge for me right now is simply to get my life together."
For Cruise, "Risky Business" was the breakthrough, a sensational debut in which he was all over the screen as a guilt-ridden, likable kid who got in lots of trouble. But "Top Gun" put him over the top, using sensational special effects and aerial sequences to tell the story of Navy F-14 pilots fighting to be the best. Cruise played the rash, talented young pilot nicknamed "Maverick" who not only had to prove himself, but vindicate the memory of his father. "Top Gun" has made Cruise the top box-office star of the year, and it's Hollywood folklore that with a hit that big, an actor can write his own ticket for a few years.
Even before "Top Gun" was released, however, Cruise was at work in "The Color of Money," sort of a sequel to the 1961 movie "The Hustler." In "The Color of Money," Cruise plays a kid named Vincent Lauria, who is a brilliant pool player but a complete flake. Paul Newman reprises the role of "Fast Eddie" Felson - who, 25 years ago in "The Hustler," was as hot as Vince is today.
The director of "The Color of Money" is Martin Scorsese, who knows pool halls; he staged a sudden, violent pool hall fight scene in his 1973 film "Mean Streets." The director provides Vince with another Scorsese trademark, a punishing streak of jealousy. Like the Robert De Niro character in "Raging Bull," Cruise is insecure about his hold on a sexy girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and Newman uses that insecurity as a way to manipulate him.
As an actor, Cruise has the qualities to walk the line between leading man and insecure kid. For this interview, he came dressed right out of "Top Gun": cowboy boots, jeans and a brown leather bomber jacket. His hair is short, dark and preppy, and his face is interesting because when he smiles he has a wide-open, almost goofy sincerity. When serious, he can look so intense that you almost suspect the smile is a mask -- that his life has not been as sunny as it seems.
Cruise said he had a lonely childhood, and perhaps his acting is inspired by whatever resources he found to draw on during those years; maybe that's why he suggests greater depth than your average young movie actor. He was born in Syracuse, N.Y., the only boy among four children, and his parents divorced when he was young. Memories of these years were divulged reluctantly. "We stayed with my mother, and she moved around a lot. I went to five different high schools. Thirteen different schools in all. Growing up was . . ." Cruise paused. "I wouldn't go back to those years for anything. Life was always from one extreme to the next. I never really had any friends. I spent most of my time alone, doing different things, especially little plays and skits.
"In high school, I discovered drama. I was a singer, a solo tenor, and I was in glee clubs and choirs, and a teacher suggested I try out for a high school production of 'Guys and Dolls.' I got the role of Nathan Detroit. And onstage, working, playing the role, I felt just really happy. At last I was working in something I understood. See, school for me was really difficult because of my problems with reading. I was dyslexic. Finally, on the stage, I felt I had something I felt good about.
"So, I'd saved up a little money from various jobs, and I had no particular plans for college. I was thinking of spending the money for a trip to Europe. But after I finished appearing in the play, I told my folks, 'I'm going to New York to study to be an actor. I want to see how it goes.' "
And he did, taking the ancient and traditional route, living in poverty, working at odd jobs, attending acting classes, going to auditions.
"My first movie was a hell of an experience," Cruise said with a frown. "I got one day's work on 'Endless Love,' and the director was always grabbing my chest. I wondered, what's going on around here? He did it a couple of times, and I walked away. It was all pretty strange. I was so naive, I didn't understand.
"Then I did 'Taps,' which was a good experience, and then my agents at the time wanted me to do 'Losing It,' which was a teenage sex film. I felt uncomfortable with the subject matter, but the agents said, 'Do it, do it -- it's good for your career.' As it turned out, it was, because I learned a lot of things, including what kinds of movies to avoid."
In the meantime, Cruise said, he had told director Francis Coppola that he wanted to work for him and would take any role -- it didn't matter. Coppola invited him to workshops and rehearsals for the movie "Rumble Fish," which starred Matt Dillon, Vincent Spano and Mickey Rourke, but then Cruise was offered the lead in "Risky Business," and took it. That was probably the turning point in his career.
"A lot of people thought I was crazy to walk away from a Coppola movie to take what looked like another teenage sex comedy," Cruise said, "but I read the script and it was so well-written. So I took a chance."
Then came the sincere but unsuccessful youth movie "All the Right Moves," with Cruise as a small-town Pennsylvania kid who depends on high-school football as his ticket out of town. "The thing I remember about that one," he said, "was the studio's insisting we put in a love scene, no matter whether it had anything to do with the story or not. It seemed so stupid and out of place."
Although "Risky Business" was his only really big box-office winner, Cruise was clearly in the top ranks of young Hollywood stars. "Top Gun" pushed him over the top. "It was the first time I'd played a character who was larger than life," he said, "and it was the first movie where I'd been involved from the early planning stages. Also, I was playing a slightly older character for a change - somebody about my age."
I told him the film had fallen into two parts for me. I liked all of the aerial sequences, with Cruise as the hot, young F-14 pilot, but the scenes on the ground -- especially his love affair with a flight instructor (Kelly McGillis) -- didn't seem convincing.
"Yeah. We had some problems there," he said. "Kelly is a fantastic actress. It wasn't her fault. I just remember scenes like the dinner scene we had together. It just never worked. Our relationship didn't have the dimension the other relationships in the movie had. The script wasn't right from the beginning. It was hard to make people believe a sexy woman like that would, first of all, be a flight instructor, and, second, be interested in a kid like me. It never really felt like a love story."
Was this another case of trying to force a romantic situation where none was really necessary?
But audiences didn't hold the romance against "Top Gun," which has earned more than $150 million at the box office. Now here comes "The Color of Money," with the dynamic teaming of Paul Newman and Cruise. The movie is not, strictly speaking, a sequel, but simply another chapter in Felson's lifelong obsession with pool. The story was clearly Paul Newman's home turf. I asked Cruise how they got along, and whether Newman made things easy for him.
"He didn't go out of his way to make me feel comfortable, or uncomfortable," Cruise said carefully. "He is who he is. I was nervous when I went to make the movie - I'm always nervous at the beginning of anything new - and here was Paul Newman, and I'd seen all of his movies, and you think about the characters he's played - not only the strong and good ones, but also the movies like 'Slap Shot' and 'The Verdict,' with the grungy characters, foul-mouthed and drunk. He's got such a wide range. And when you meet him, he's intelligent, dignified, very elegant. He could have easily intimidated me. But he put me at ease. What he's most concerned about is his rapport with the audience. He wants the audience to connect with him."
So there wasn't any shop talk between the young actor and the great old veteran?
"With acting, there are no tricks of the trade. That's what I think. You learn the basics of creating the character, and you do the best you can. He never said, 'This is how I do things.' He never pulled the wise old guy routine."
So how did you create the character?
"I didn't want Vince to come over as an arrogant young hot-shot. There is always a kind of arrogance in youth, of course, and here's this kid who knows how good he can play pool. His weak point is the woman, the woman of all women for him, and she was the controlling element in his life that he needed.
"Scorsese talked with me about the woman: 'She's those girls at the soda shop when I was growing up, tough girls who hung out and really weren't so tough after all.' For this character I play, apart from pool, his contact with reality is 'The A-Team' and 'Star Wars.' He works in a toy store, and here is this incredible woman he is so possessive about. That vulnerability is what keeps him from being too arrogant."
In "The Hustler," Willie Mosconi did a lot of the shots, but in "The Color of Money" no shots are faked, and the audience can see that you and Newman are really hitting the balls yourself.
"Actually, Newman made his own shots in 'The Hustler,' too," Cruise said. "I think there was only one shot by Mosconi. For this movie, I spent months learning to shoot pool. Mike Siegel, the world straight pool champion, was my coach. There is one scene where the camera goes in a 360-degree circle without a single cut, and I have to clean off the whole table. We shot it 18 times."
Until you finally got it right?
Cruise laughed. "I cleared the table 17 out of 18 times. It was just a case of getting everything lined up at once - the table, the camera, the placement of the camera. You couldn't plan it all in advance, because if one shot was a half-inch off, it changed the next shot."
Have you ever hustled pool for money?
"Once. We shot the movie in Chicago, and I went to the Blues Bar. I won $1.50. I was pretty proud of myself."
And now you have "Top Gun" and "The Color of Money" in the theaters. And you're still living with a bed and a desk and a chair?
"I've moved into a new apartment and I'm remodeling it. And it's a funny thing, the movies. The contractor was there yesterday with his young son, and I was showing him some models of the F-14 fighter, because he'd seen the movie and he really liked it. And the contractor told me that after they went home, the kid said he'd really like to meet that Maverick guy. And the contractor said, 'That was him -- that was Tom Cruise. He was the guy who played Maverick.'
"And the kid said, 'Naw, Dad. Maverick's cool.' "
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Episode 2 of My First First Love picks up right where it left off from before, with all four friends waiting for Tae-O to arrive home from his blind date. After seeing a girl prior to this around campus, Tae-O envisions the girl he's meeting to be exactly like her. Funnily enough, when he gets there, his date happens to be that very same girl.
Still reeling from their first chat together, Tae-O returns home alone to ponder his thoughts. Only, he doesn't get much of a chance to do that as he's bombarded by his four friends that greet him at the door. Oh Ga-Rin receives a call from her Mum during the commotion but swiftly breaks her phone, much to the confusion of those around her. All of the friends tell him they have nowhere to go and beg to stay with him. The only one to not ask is Do-Hyeon. Just as Song-I is about to pluck up the courage to ask to stay as well, Tae-O tells her no, informing his friend there's enough people living at his house now and to go home.
When he's finally alone, he texts who he thinks is his blind date only to receive some pretty angry texts back. It turns out the girl he met wasn't even his date, he just presumed as much. As the plot thickens, Song-I returns back to her old house only to bump into the very same girl that Tae-O has been seeing; she happens to live there now.
After a revealing flashback shows Song-I hiding her crush on Tae-O, we catch up with our protagonist as he goes on the hunt for the girl of his dreams. He eventually finds her too, holding up in an art club room around campus. Her real name is Ryu Se-Hyeon and she explains she never lied o him but did enjoy playing along with the facade.
Back at the library, Do Hyeon tells Song to go back to Tae-O and ask to stay there after seeing her trying to sleep in a library after-hours. After refusing to go to Tae-O, he takes her to his parents' shop instead and sets up a bed for her, just as Song finally gets a call from her Mum. We learn from here that she left after her husband died and she's not coming back anytime in the foreseeable future. Selfishly, she tells her daughter she needs time by herself.
Depressed and walking alone down a bridge, we leave the episode this week with Song-I calling a suicide hotline and trying to connect with the operator down the other end of the line. Unfortunately, this connection rings alarm bells for the operator on the phone, especially as suicide is mentioned. The police show up and arrest Song-I, leaving both Do Hyeon and Tae-O to scramble toward the police station and free her.
With the main characters already established, this week's episode is really focused on Tae-O and his blossoming romance looming on the horizon. Whether this will last though is anyone's guess but for now, the increased drama and teasing glimpses of romance, make My First First Love an interesting prospect going forward.
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