"I had the pleasure of referring a mortgage client to Steve recently. The couple was a first-time homebuyer. I knew Steve's thoroughness and patience would be essential to the entire home buying process. Once again Steve didn't disappoint. Long story short, Steve did an amazing job of ensuring they were buying a quality house at a price they could afford. Thank you for taking such good care of Morgan Terry."
"Thanks to Steve Miller for finding our first home in Nashville, Tn. Steve is very knowledgable in the housing markets and openly extended his expertise to find exactly what we wanted. Blessings to you Steve!"
"After buying & selling with Steve I wouldn't trust anyone more! Steve is personal, knowledgeable, & truly cares about his clients needs. He genuinely loves people & seeks to meet their best interest & the exact needs they bring to the table. If you are looking for someone who is no drama, understands the industry, & will take the time to know you & find exactly what you are looking for, give him a call! I've known Steve for over 5 years & happily endorse him!"
"We've used Steve Miller three times - to buy our first home, to "upgrade" across town, and then finally to sell our house when moving out of state. It was always an easy choice because once we met Steve and began working with him, we knew we were in good hands. His knowledge of the Nashville and surrounding markets guided us to solid decisions, his patience as we weighed our needs and our wants for each home was appreciated, and his casual, unimposing demeanor allowed us to trust him throughout the negotiation process. We have recommended Steve in the past and would again to anyone moving within or into the area."
"Steve helped me find my first home! He was patient and took the time to show me every home I was interested in until I found the perfect one for me. Once I finally found the home I was interested in purchasing, he took the time to refer me to trusted professionals to help me through the toughest portions of sealing the deal. Steve is a true, honest professional and I would recommend him to anyone looking to make an investment in your future. First time home buyer or experienced purchaser, this guy will earn your trust and find you a great deal."
"I've bought two homes for investment from Steve and found his work to be reliable and thorough. He wouldn't let me buy just any house and repeatedly made me walk away from homes that he didn't believe would be good rental properties for me. The ones we ended up with have worked out just as we hoped and I couldn't be happier. I will work with Steve again and would recommend him to anyone."
"I met Steve Miller through a co-worker. He was very knowledgeable about the real estate market in Nashville. Steve's expertise and kindness helped our house hunting to go smooth from the beginning to the closing. He kept us abreast with the houses in our range and the ones newly listed, so we wouldn't miss out on any homes in the area we were interested in. I would highly recommend Steve Miller for your real estate transactions."
"I have known Steve Miller for many years and I consider him a good friend. As a professional realtor, my wife and I used his expertise to sell 2 homes and to rent out one other home. Steve has the local market knowledge and his advice turned out to be right on the money. I highly recommend Steve Miller, he will do a great job for you."
"Steve is an awesome real estate agent and I would recommend him to anyone searching for a home in the Nashville or the surrounding areas. He did a professional job of narrowing my house down to houses that only was in the location I was looking for and taking into account the budget and what the square footage of what I was seeking. We went looking on one day and before the trip was complete, we had found the perfect house. I consider him critical in the largest investment most people make."
"Steve is a professional through and through. No matter the stage of your real estate transaction or where you are in the rental process, he will be sure to give you all the information you need to make a sound decision. I highly recommend Steve for any and all of your real estate needs."
"Our house hunting could not have gone any easier. Steve Miller is a great Realtor who makes it his personal crusade to find you the perfect home!!! Steve makes you feel like you are actual people, and not just another home sold. Steve helped us find the perfect home for our growing family. Jim, Melanie, Jack, and soon to be Sophia Bicknell."
"I had the immense pleasure of meeting Steve over a year ago and he committed to helping my husband and me find our home in Nashville, TN. He graciously asked if we would like for him to help us and we said yes. We were new to the Nashville area from a different state and we knew very little about the local housing market. We had very limited expectations at the time, but Steve proved to be true to his word and far exceeded our expectations. He made himself available to us as often as we needed him and checked with us regularly to find out whether we needed his help. He helped us navigate the process of getting pre-approved for our mortgage and worked tirelessly within our time-frame for when we wanted to find a home, close and move. It worked out perfectly! My husband and I were mostly impressed with the way that Steve treated us as though we were members of his family and we never doubted that our best interest was what he was working toward. When we found our home, before we walked inside, Steve met us on the sidewalk and said, "welcome home"! He was right! This was/is our home and we've been very happy since closing and moving in. It has not been perfect, as buying existing homes can be, nevertheless Steve didn't leave us after the close and checks in every now and then to see how things are going in our new home. I would recommend this gentleman to anyone looking to purchase a home anywhere. His real estate knowledge, service, professionalism and personal care has made what might have been a daunting experience one we would go through again. If for any reason we should need a real estate professional in the future, Steve Miller is the only person we would consider to help us navigate the process again."
"Steve Miller is a wonderful realtor and great friend. He helped us with three real estate transactions in six months. He helped sell my mom's property, sell our Nolensville house, and buy our new hip and cool house in East Nashville. Steve doesn't let any grass grow under his feet and I always felt like we were getting the best deal we could possibly get, both as buyer and seller. If you need a realtor, Steve is your man."
"Steve was a blessing! Moving from South Alabama was a challenging feat, but his help made it that much easier. He assured me that we would have a home to come to and eased my worried mind. I couldn't have asked for a better realtor!"


Read a facebook post today of a girl. She was a student at the Medical College I graduated from. Different from me, she stayed on there and continued till she became a Neurosurgeon- perhaps one of the few women neurosurgeons in the whole country. And after reaching the pinnacle of her success- one day, 10 years ago, she quit and she moved countries. From sweltering heat to freezing snows- to Calgary, in Canada. For years she has been on a journey in search of herself and though she has no qualms of leaving a remunerative profession, she does look back. She is now a writer. After years of hibernation in the snow and the cool summers and the flowers and in the lap of nature, she has returned to her motherland- I do wonder why. And everything about the motherland surprises her- the heat, the interference, the internet, the poking nose into other people's affairs- everything.
I seem to be in a similar boat too- I have not returned to my alma mater for any reunion or meetings with classmates since I graduated.My ideal world is where there would be very few of my classmates or college mates. The irony of the situation is that my elder daughter is at the very same institution doing her Masters degree and my husband did his graduation and post graduation from there. I seem to be running away too. I now live in the lap of luxury- materially. I have everything a normal human being would require- freedom to buy and spend on most things I require or don't require- Price tags are just things to pull out of things I buy- not things to look at and debate about whether I need such a costly thing. Apart from the desert landscape, the brown color of everything depresses me. A rainy day fascinates me. Floods intrigue me. The grass is always greener somewhere else.
My farewell party- Cyn asked me what I would miss most about my current job. I said the ability to spend freely and not watch pennies, or dollars for that matter. What would I not miss ? The ability to write freely, speak freely with no religious overtones or undertones, the ability to breathe fresh air, with no dust. Dust free- that would be ideal. And mobility- to use my two legs without having to look at the pedometer and wonder how I haven't made 10K steps yet. It always looks like my day ends with just about 800 steps. I will not miss the sedentary life. People at the party rolled eyes at me- there was one who has been in the country 15 years and was skeptical of my return to my mother country. I may not like it once I reach there. Things may look rosy now but may be too watery there.
Is life about running away all the time ? I am glad my husband is a keeper and hangs on to me for dear life, or I am sure I would run away from him too. Books are a means for me to escape from reality and so is food. Food is such a comfort- there is no hunger that drives my passion for eating. There is food, so it must be eaten- that's the rule I follow.


Duke has some big shoes to fill. His mentor and fellow Boston terrier, Eddie, is a 12-year vet whose animal-assisted therapy services have brought joy and comfort to countless patients in challenging times. Duke, who's still a puppy, will undergo training for the next year under Eddie's guidance with the goal of bringing the same comforting spirit to brain cancer patients in need.
Eddie and Duke's owner, Robyn Callahan, is a licensed independent social worker at the Ben and Catherine Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment and she's seen the impact that her therapy dogs have had on patients firsthand. "I provide emotional support to patients who have been diagnosed with a brain tumor and their families, including individual psychotherapy. We also provide animal-assisted therapy," says Callahan.
"Eddie has been integral in providing emotional support to cancer patients for over 10 years now. But as he ages, his energy levels have decreased so he is only able to do part-time work. That's why I have started bringing Duke along on therapy rounds. He's training under Eddie in preparation to take his place when needed," adds Callahan.
Animal-assisted therapy, or pet therapy, helps patients cope with health problems by reducing stress, improving mood and providing distraction from the pain of their illness. Studies have found that patients who visit with animals have decreased levels of cortisol and increased levels of endorphins. In fact, one study even pointed out that patients who had dogs visit them during radiation therapy found they felt better than those who didn't.
Pets who are trained in this service are typically brought to hospitals or health centers to visit with patients for a period of time. Besides dogs, other animals including cats, birds and even farm animals have been shown to cheer up patients through therapy. One reason this therapy works is based on animal intuition.
"Eddie is fairly intuitive and sensitive to people and has comforted many patients as they've been at the end of life. If someone is crying, he knows to come out and put his head in their lap, stay with them and comfort them. Even though Duke is training right now, he's very good at keeping patients mindful and in the present moment when talking about the unknowns in their futures. And since he's a puppy, he makes people smile," says Callahan.
But it's not just the patients that the dogs impact. "I also find that therapeutic work takes place with the staff. When the dogs visit Swedish Cherry Hill they do their rounds and come back in to visit with the doctors and staff. It actually helps them relieve a lot of stress they are feeling from working with patients with life-limiting diagnoses. It helps calm them, and in turn, affects the way they work with the patients. Everyone looks forward to seeing them on their rounds," says Callahan.
Even though Duke is only five months old, he's learning a lot from his owner and Eddie. "They are special dogs, and Duke is learning commands really well. In the next 12 months, he should be ready to take his exam and be a full-fledged animal-assisted therapy dog," adds Callahan.
Fun facts about Eddie and Duke: They are both named after Hawaiian surfers and can actually smile. Good luck training, Duke! We look forward to seeing you around.
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It is one day late, but better late than never. Did you have an 'yoga' inspired day?
To celebrate this day for one week or infinitely, I ask you to be #YouAsYouAreNow - on or off the mat - by breathing it all in (present moment), and love it all out. Whatever we want to achieve takes time like, yoga, work, relationships, etc.. where as! to be yourself does not.
Only yesterday, I was able to see the thin crescent Moon sitting just above Venus. It looked fantastic, shining brilliantly in the north-east at 5:30am.
Only yesterday, I could listen to this bird sing.
I would love to hear some of your #YouAsYouAreNow moments.
And I want to thank you all, for allowing me to be 'nothing' - out of shape (lol), out of form, out of psychological self-consciousness. I never felt the need to impress, or perform, or be something. I call it 'Love'.
Thank you so much. May the rest of your week be filled with inspiration and #YouAsYouAreNow moments.


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Province to examine Hwy 3 after concrete buckling forces another closure
The province says it will assess a stretch of Highway 3 that has experienced buckling several times over the last five years, including over the Canada Day weekend, according to a ministry spokeswoman.
Julie Kotsis, Windsor Star
Buckling due to extreme heat on Highway 3, west of Malden Road, is shown on July 1, 2018. Westbound lanes had to be closed overnight. The province is now investigating the latest of several heat-related road surface failures along that stretch of Highway 3.	Dax Melmer / Windsor Star
The province will examine a stretch of Highway 3 that has experienced buckling several times over the last five years, including over the Canada Day weekend which forced a temporary closure.
"The ministry will review and assess the condition of the joints on this section of Highway 3 to ensure they are functioning as designed," Ministry of Transportation spokeswoman Liane Fisher Bloxam told the Star in an email.
As temperatures soared on Sunday, two sections of Highway 3 buckled, leading to a closure of the heavily travelled four-lane section of the road in the westbound lanes between Malden Road and Ellis Side Road in Tecumseh and Lakeshore.
Fisher Bloxam said the ministry's contractor made temporary repairs to the damaged portion of the highway by early Monday morning and the road was reopened approximately 10 hours after the damage occurred.
"MTO works with its contractors to monitor and repair the joints or the pavement as quickly as possible," she said.
Fisher Bloxam explained that under extreme high temperatures and humidity, expansion force may cause concrete to buckle. The buckling can also be exacerbated by sand or debris in joints that separate slabs.
Concrete pavement is constructed with joints that are filled with a rubberized sealant, allowing the concrete to expand when needed.
For five years running now, joints in the concrete roadway surface east of Manning Road have buckled when temperatures soared. The roadway heaved in the same lanes in the area just east of Manning Road in May.
At that time, the Ministry of Transportation said it had no concerns about the integrity of the road construction.
Fisher Bloxam said the section of Highway 3 that was affected by the buckling over the weekend was in "good condition" before the recent extreme heat.
Highway 3 reopened after extreme heat buckled road
Feeling the heat: heaved Highway 3 raises traffic safety concerns
Hwy 3 widening still a priority, but depends on Ontario debt — Nicholls
But the ongoing problems with that portion of Highway 3 are cause for concern for Essex County Warden Tom Bain.
"We're hoping the ministry will look into problems with Highway 3 … hoping something gets done soon," Bain said. "There was heat all over the county and no other roads have experienced the same conditions."
He said the heavily travelled provincial highway that traverses the county from Leamington to Windsor is a main thoroughfare for commuters, emergency services, agricultural products and trucks and any shutdown would have major consequences for commerce in the county.
It's not our road, but we suffer the consequences
Bain also said the diversion of traffic caused by any closures on the heavily travelled road would cost affected municipalities in the long run.
"The other aspect that we look at, as far as our local municipalities go, is where does that traffic go?" Bain said, adding that cars and trucks would be detoured onto roads that aren't built to accommodate that volume of traffic or the heavy transport truck loads.
"All of sudden the damage level is occurring on our local roads and they're not built for that," he said. "Municipalities then must absorb costs to repair those roads.
"It's not our road, but we suffer the consequences."
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Buckling due to extreme heat on Highway 3, west of Ellis Side Road, is shown on Sunday. Dax Melmer / Windsor Star
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Provodina este un sat din comuna Herceg Novi, Muntenegru. Conform datelor de la recensământul din 2003, localitatea are 664 de locuitori (la recensământul din 1991 erau 310 locuitori).

Demografie
În satul Provodina locuiesc 526 de persoane adulte, iar vârsta medie a populației este de 38,1 de ani (37,3 la bărbați și 39,0 la femei). În localitate sunt 222 de gospodării, iar numărul mediu de membri în gospodărie este de 2,99.

Populația localității este foarte eterogenă.

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Localități din comuna Herceg Novi

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Vienna Ditto release EP on 22 April 2013 | FESTIVALPHOTO
Vienna Ditto release EP on 22 April 2013
Recorded in a chilly boat, a dank basement and an old temperance hall, Vienna Ditto's debut EP, Liar Liar, is a DIY diary of their first, turbulent, two years. Recorded and produced by the band themselves, the tapes were then rescued and mixed by Umair Chaudhry at Silver St Studios. The result is intelligent yet
memorable, spooky but accessible electronica mixed with dirty guitar riffs – or,
as Radio 1's Huw Stephens puts it, 'Portishead doing a Tarantino Soundtrack'.
The band – comprising vocalist Hatty Taylor and guitarist Nigel Firth – jerked into life in April 2009 when a hastily-recorded demo from their second rehearsal was played on Huw Stephen's Radio One show. An appearance on the BBC Introducing
stage at Glastonbury 2009 followed, as did a Maida Vale session for Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music and an appearance on Channel 4's Hollyoaks Music Show.
Released in November 2009, their debut single Long Way Down gained airplay on
Radio One, BBC6 Music and XFM, and was given glowing reviews in Q Magazine,
Artrocker and The Fly. The band are currently working on their debut album.
"Portishead doing a Tarantino soundtrack"
Huw Stephens, Radio 1
"With Smoky-voiced femme fatale Hatty Taylor on vocals, London-based three piece
Vienna Ditto mix wild-eyed rockabilly riffs with sparse, atmospheric electronica."
"Fantastically dirty... one of the catchiest choruses l've ever heard... made me want to dance round my bedroom with my hairbrush"
Esther Press, The Fly Magazine


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Tory membership down to "over 250,000"
That fact has been revealed during a furore over the rules that state that married couples who took out joint Conservative Party memberships will only have one vote. Christopher Montgomery, a leading activist within the summer's pro-democracy movement, suggests that this 'disenfranchisement' of married couples will hurt David Davis. His suggestion is that husband-and-wives will be more traditionalist in outlook and less likely to support the modernising agenda of Mr Cameron.
Party Chairman Francis Maude issued a "special bulletin" last night to clarify the situation. I attach it for your enlightenment.
Download special_bulletin.pdf
The basic fact appears to be that those couples who haven't paid an amount at least equal to twice the basic membership fee of £15 will not get more than one vote. There are exceptions to this rule for 'foundation members' who have maintained their membership since before 1998 and under-22s who only have to pay £3 for membership (and their vote). These rules governing husband-and-wife memberships are not new rules that Francis Maude has just imposed but existing rules.
Any contest issues of principle can be referred to the Returning Officer for the election - Sir Michael Spicer MP.
To me it does seem wrong that joint memberships should not qualify for a vote but rules cannot be changed once a contest is underway. This is something to look at for the next time.
The reduction in membership from over 300,000 - only four years ago - to "over 250,000" (according to the special Bulletin) is worrying. The decline in membership may reflect (1) the deaths of an ageing membership; (2) resignations from a party that dumped the members' last choice for leader and attempted to take the vote away completely this time round; and (3) the failure to produce very regular member products like the much-once-vaunted Heartland magazine. We'll have to wait and see how much "over 250,000" means in order to understand the extent of the decline. The drop is, nonetheless, a further sign that mass membership organisations are difficult to sustain in the 21st century. This cultural change - part of the Bowling Alone phenomenon - is almost certainly (IMO) the biggest factor. The building of a looser conservative coalition and the use of primary systems of election must be put on the incoming leader's agenda. The creation of a mass membership party is now probably beyond our reach. A mass connections party should not be.
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As I recall, the change made after 2001 was to do with Foundation member status. For the last leadership election there was a problem with people who were Founder members being disenfranchised because although they were never required to pay the minimum subscription they had decreased the subscription level that they had been paying, eg they had been paying £10 a year but dropped it to £5 and so lost their vote.
The rule change was to enable people to retain Founder member status whatever level of subscription they paid, as long as they did not allow their membership to lapse. If they lapsed they would have to rejoin at £15 per person. The change had nothing to do with joint memberships for spouses because there has never been a special rate for joint memberships set centrally.
Posted by: CJ | 23 October 2005 at 20:11
Under the party constitution, all members of a constituency association are members of the national party. Setting a special rate centrally is irrelevant to that.
Posted by: James Hellyer | 23 October 2005 at 20:22
The Party rules, as set out in every piece of literature produced by the Party centrally, argued over at Convention meetings and passed on to Association offices continually states clearly that with the exception of Foundation members and members under 23 the membership fee is £15 per person per year. There have been Associations which have sold membership rates to married couples, to pensioners etc but they are the ones in the wrong and they are the ones disenfranchising their members. Cllr Iain Lindley is bang on the money when he suggests that ire be directed to those Associations which act as the independent fiefdoms of arrogant Chairmen and Agents - not at the Party centrally.
The Party rules are perfectly clear on this issue:
"3.1	The Association shall only comprise Party Members (as defined in Article 4 of the Constitution of the Party) who shall pay subscriptions in accordance with the provisions of Articles 5 and 6 of the Constitution."
(From the mandatory rules of Conservative Associations)
"2.5.3 (Members) shall pay such subscriptions (in the case of individuals) or affiliation fees (in the case of other members) as shall be determined from time to time by the Board having regard to the recommendations of the Committee on membership"
(From the Constitution of the Conservative Party)
The Board has determined that the fee to be regarded as a qualifying member is (when the exceptions above) £15 per year per person. Associations cannot and should not change this.
Posted by: Louise | 23 October 2005 at 21:31
Basic contract law makes the associations the agents of the party. As such the members cannot be disenfranchised if they have acted in good faith. If they paid their money under the impression that they were getting one thing, then the party and its agents not delivering that is the fault of the party and its agents. They - and not the members - should be the ones who are disadvantaged. If CCO cannot even control the terms of membership its agents offer, then it should have dopne something about it before now (i.e. when people could do something about it).
Quite right James, and plentiful grounds for a legal challenge if people decide to take it down that route. But since 'Louise' is being modest, allow me to help out as to her possible credentials: is it Louise Hall, by any chnace, secretary to the Board? If so, hardly a detached observer of the Board's actions, incompetent as they habitually are, and verging on the nonsensical as they sometimes are.
Louise - if you want to set out the Board meeting when it determined the £15 levy after listening to the committee on membership, do. You'll be searching through even this Board's creative minutes for a long, long time.
The Board has a pronounced history of acting ultra vires, and then counting on not getting sued. Maude in particular is rightly terrified that he is about to be sued, and exactly on the straightforward grounds that James H has set out (in addition to half a dozen others). I really wouldn't bet against this election being spun out for a few more weeks because of the haplessness of the Board. Tomorrow's meeting is going to be fun . . .
Posted by: Henry Fitzpatrick | 24 October 2005 at 00:27
Where to start...
I am writing as a long standing Conservative supporter who has never been a member of the party. I am a member of the National Trust, amongst other organisations. In every case where joint membership is offered, it is at an increased subscription to that for single members. Even then, the second member doesn't always get a vote. If I had paid £15 to become a member, I would feel pretty miffed that a couple could get two votes for the same fee. I wouldn't necessarily expect them to pay double, but I would expect them to pay something extra.
As for the suggestion that contract law would allow couples to insist on two votes, it isn't as simple as that. If I were acting as an agent for, say, English Heritage and agreed to sell you the Tower of London, you would find that contract was unenforceable as I had acted outside my powers as agent. You could claim your money back from me (and I might end up in jail for fraud) but you wouldn't own the Tower of London.
The question is, what instructions have CCO issued to Associations. If CCO have told Associations that membership costs £15 per person and Associations have then sold joint membership for £15, the Associations concerned have been acting outside their powers and CCO are under no obligation to give two votes to such couples. An aggrieved couple would have a case against the Association for misrepresentation but they would not have a claim against CCO. However, if the instructions from CCO have led Associations to believe that joint memberships are valid with both members getting a vote, that's a different matter and the members concerned would have a claim against CCO.
I haven't seen the instructions from CCO so I don't know the answer here. I know that some here are of the view that only giving a single vote to joint members who have paid less than £30 will damage Davis. I have no idea whether or not they are right. However, which candidate would benefit shouldn't matter in determining what is right. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the current situation, I would expect the long term position to be that a married couple wanting two votes would need to pay more than a single person. If I join the Party, that would be my vote!
Posted by: Peter Harrison | 24 October 2005 at 01:01
"I would feel pretty miffed that a couple could get two votes for the same fee. I wouldn't necessarily expect them to pay double, but I would expect them to pay something extra."
Except they did pay extra - it's just that extra did not necessarily amount to two subscriptions.
"If I were acting as an agent for, say, English Heritage and agreed to sell you the Tower of London, you would find that contract was unenforceable as I had acted outside my powers as agent. You could claim your money back from me (and I might end up in jail for fraud) but you wouldn't own the Tower of London."
No, because English Heritage workers do not the power to sell its capital assets. However Associations are not analagous to workers. Associations are part of the party, and as such their actions more than those of an agent - they are also those of the principal.
"But since 'Louise' is being modest, allow me to help out as to her possible credentials: is it Louise Hall, by any chnace, secretary to the Board?"
Nope. Sorry to disappoint Henry, I am not Louise Hall - not quite sure why you would automatically jump to this conclusion.
However I have been in the recent past an Association Agent, and in the slightly less recent past an Association Officer and the issue of qualifying membership arises every year at AGMs and various selection meetings and the advice is always the same and is generally accepted apart from a few malcontents who like to come along and cause trouble. The rules and advice are very clear and are plainly issued to all Association offices - if Associations do not abide by them it is they who should be responsible not the Centre.
I am not the biggest fan of Central Office or the Board and wouldn't always defend decisions or proclamations, however this has always seemed to me a very simple issue and has frustrated me for a long time.
I know that some here are of the view that only giving a single vote to joint members who have paid less than £30 will damage Davis.
Technically it's not "a single vote to joint members" but one vote going to the first one registered on the database. This will usually be the husband. Now I haven't seen detailed breakdown, but I suspect that Cameron's lead is (comparatively) stronger with female members than with male members - if anything he could be the one hurt most by this. The vote really should require both joint members to co-cast it (and possibly allow for ticket splitting).
Posted by: Tim Roll-Pickering | 24 October 2005 at 10:16
I accept that some (but not all) of the apparent joint members paid extra. However, if the Party does not have a joint membership rate, there can only be two members if two subscriptions are paid. I think it would be a good idea to have a joint subscription rate that was less than 2 times the single subscription and would allow two votes, but thinking it should be so does not make it so.
I did wonder, after I posted last night, if someone might suggest that my analogy didn't apply and that actions of Associations are also those of the principal. I thought about posting another analogy but decided it was time to go to bed! However, here is an alternative analogy.
Until recently, I was Captain of a Boys' Brigade Company. The Companies are clearly part of the BB - indeed, they ARE the BB. However, if I had attempted to sell Felden Lodge (the BB's national HQ) on behalf of the BB, the sale would have been invalid.
Even more pertinently, the BB is currently a boys only organisation. This is quite clear in the BB's Constitution and Regulations. Some BB Companies have ignored this and admitted girls into membership. If you were right, this would make the girls members of the BB as the actions of the individual Company would be binding on the BB. However, it has been established that legally this is NOT the case. Whatever action is taken by individual Companies, girls are not members of the BB and the actions of the Companies concerned are not binding on the organisation as a whole. They are therefore not covered by the BB's insurance (indeed, the whole Company may not be covered if it is working with girls), the BB does no have to make provision for them at national or regional events, they cannot receive BB awards such as the Queen's Badge and so on.
There has been a similar problem with boys who were below the age limit set in the regulations. Again, some Companies ignored the regulations and admitted young boys. Again, it has been clearly established that legally they are not members and that the actions of the Companies concerned are not binding on the BB.
I believe, if someone tried to test this, they would find that the same situation exists with regard to the Conservative Party. Any actions taken by Associations that go against the Party's Constitution, Regulations or instructions issued by the Party are not binding on the Party.
As I say, I am not judging the rights and wrongs of this particular situation as I don't know what instructions have been issued by the Party.
There's some pretty dodgy legal advice in these comments!
When I signed the form to join the party, I imagine it said something along the lines of "I hereby agree to the terms and conditions of membership". Even if it didn't, it may well be implicit. So it's perfectly reasonable for the party to expect someone signing up for membership to have read and understood what they have signed up for. Unless they have been deliberately or negligently misled...
CCO needs a serious shake-up though. It doesn't sound like an election-winning organisation. And to think it was once the most feared political outfit in the western world...
Posted by: Lancake | 24 October 2005 at 11:36
So it's perfectly reasonable for the party to expect someone signing up for membership to have read and understood what they have signed up for. Unless they have been deliberately or negligently misled...
Were you shown the terms and conditions of membership?
I wasnt shown any terms and conditions of membership when I signed up.
Posted by: James Maskell | 24 October 2005 at 13:17
I couldn't tell you James - probably not - but I didn't ask either. Presumably the party's constitution is available to members.
It's a fair point that someone probably ought to have pointed out to joint members that they do not have the right to vote. I just think it might be more of a moral obligation than a legal one.
I also think the courts would be very unwilling to involve themselves in the internal processes of a political party.
On the flip side, if more people are entitled to vote than the constitution allows, this wouldn't look too good and would be even more open to challenge.
Technically it's not "a single vote to joint members" but one vote going to the first one registered on the database. This will usually be the husband
Incorrect. Under any constituency using BlueChip the first one registered on the database will be the person with the higher surname alphabetically.
Posted by: Cllr Iain Lindley | 24 October 2005 at 16:27
Under any constituency using BlueChip the first one registered on the database will be the person with the higher surname alphabetically.
Except married couples tend to have the same surname.
First name would be the tie-breaker? Say its John and Margaret Smith, John would get the vote...
Should do that at General Elections too - married couples to have only one vote since woman is a chattel as the Conservative Party recognises.
Posted by: Rick | 25 October 2005 at 06:59
James (Maskell) is correct - the higher first name alphabetically would be the first registered person.


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The tie up with Comcast is a substantial step for Netflix, which has similar tie ups with companies like Google, Roku and Apple. However, it has clashed with ISPs. Comcast, in particular, has been aggressive about locking other enterprises from certain devices.
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Where the name Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar came from
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Published 6:00 am Sunday, April 10, 2016
When I conduct a tour of the Lamar Home on North 14th Street, one of the first things people ask is where did the unusual name came from?
Was it a family name passed on, or a friend of the family that was to be honored, or was it someone who had contributed to the United States' formation.
Well, to answer the question, it was Justice Lamar's great uncle who came up with the name, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus.
First, I would like to give you a little background on the Lamar family and their journey from France to England and then to the British Colonies of North America in 1685. This information comes from a biography written about Justice Lamar after his death in 1893 by former University of Mississippi Chancellor, Edward Mayes, who was a son-in-law of the late Supreme Court Justice. This book was written in 1896 and is entitled "Lucius Q.C. Lamar: His Life, Times, and Speeches 1825-1893."
The ancestors of the justice were Huguenots from the Flanders area of France. After the repeal of the Edict of Nates, which had given the Protestant Huguenots some religious liberty, the Lamore family moved to the British North American colonies. They had gone to England in 1663 and would remain there until the 1680s. Peter Thomas Lamore moved his family first to Virginia and then to Maryland. The family had various spellings of their name listed on land records. Some of them were Lamare, Lamaire, de la Maire, Leamire, Lemarre, Lemat, and La Marr.
Lord Baltimore had issued an order that the citizens of Germany, France, and other continental countries could hold land and pass it on to their descendants. This made the Maryland Colony an ideal home for Lamore. Peter Thomas Lamore's grandchildren would fight in the Revolutionary War and distinguish themselves in various battles. General Maximilian Lamar would be killed at the Battle of Saratoga and Major Marcen Lamar would be killed at Parle Tavern. Colonel William L. Lamar would fight in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
John Lamar, who was born in 1769 and married his cousin Rebecca Lamar, would move his family to the state of Georgia. He had a plantation in Putnam County, which was about 8 to 10 miles south of Eatonton, in about 1810. His grandson, later a Supreme Court Justice, would be born there and would have the same name as his father.
John had a bachelor brother, Zachariah, who lived with his brother's family on their plantation. Chancellor Mayes states in his biography that the bachelor Uncle Zachariah was a self-taught man, "who like many of the men in the old plantation times, gave himself up to the ideal world of literature and history, without any further purpose than the enjoyments of that fairyland."
"These honest happy — some might consider them useless — members of society belong to an extinct fauna, but they loved and revered and humored in their day in little circles. This Lamar was one of this sort, perhaps its most striking example.
"Over all his immediate surroundings was cast the glamour of that realm of letters in which he lived. When he led in family prayer, good Methodists that they were, he did not think it inapt to thank God for the heroic examples of Roman or English or American history, for the march of science, or for exemption from crimes and miseries of less favored lands into which his geographical studies had last led him.
"So when son after son was born to the head of the house, this bookish enthusiast claimed the privilege of naming his infant nephews after his favorite of the moment, and the amiable and doubtless amused parents consented. Thus Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, Mirabeau Buonparte, Jefferson Jackson, Thomas Randolph, and Lavoisier Legrand (a grandchild) indicate how his interest shifted from history to politics, and from politics to chemistry."
Justice Lamar's grandfather, John, would be buried in a quiet garden on the family plantation upon his death in 1833. His son Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, who was the second President of the Republic Texas after Sam Houston, would pen the inscription on the slab over his grave (similar to the slab that is over Justice Lamar's grave at St. Peter's Cemetery here in Oxford). It reads, "In memory of John Lamar, who died Aug. 3, 1833, aged 64 years. He was a man of unblemished honor, of pure and exalted benevolence, whose conduct through life was uniformly regulated by the strictest principles of probity, truth, and justice; thus leaving behind him, as the best legacy to his children, a noble example of consistent virtue. In his domestic relations he was greatly blessed, receiving from every member of a large family unremitting demonstrations of respect, love, and obedience."
With family members that had set such an example for Justice Lamar, who was eight at the time of grandfather John's death, how could he not have left his mark on our country.
Jack Mayfield is an Oxford resident and historian. Contact him at jlmayfield@dixie-net.com.
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Israel's relationship with Egypt and Jordan is "fraying," warned the US in a year-old WikiLeaks cable released late Sunday night. "Israel enjoys peace with Egypt and Jordan, but not with its people," said the cable, which was sent from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv in November 2009, in advance of a visit to Israel by Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg.
When Israel assesses US arms sales in the region, it approaches it from a worst-case scenario, believing moderate Arab nations such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia could fall victim to regime change and resume hostilities against Israel, said the cable.
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"It is primarily for this reason that Israel continues to raise concerns regarding the F-15 sale to Saudi Arabia, especially if the aircraft are based at Tabuk Airfield near the Israeli border," stated the cable.
"The United States remains committed to Israel's Qualitative Military Edge and has taken a number of steps to alleviate Israeli concerns over some potential US arms sales in the region," stated the cable.
The US, in the cable, also speculated that Israel continued to raise the issue of F-15 sales to Saudi Arabia as leverage to modify its deal with the US to purchase F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes.
Budgetary considerations have raised doubts as to how Israel can afford these planes, said the cable.
"Nevertheless, Israel continues to press for the inclusion of an Israeli-made electronic warfare (EW) suite, indigenous maintenance capacity, and a lower cost per aircraft into its JSF purchase plans, and has repeatedly raised these issues with the Secretary of Defense," said the cable.
Turning to Lebanon, the cable said, "The transformation of Michel Aoun into Hizbullah's primary Lebanese ally may be the final nail in the coffin of Israel's decades-old relations with Lebanon's Maronite Christians."
With regard to Turkey, Israel was alarmed by the direction of its foreign policy, stated the cable.
Israel believes that Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu could be "punishing Israel for the EU's rejection of Turkey while driving Israel's erstwhile strategic ally into an alternative strategic partnership with Syria and Iran," stated the cable.
"Erdogan's rhetorical support for [Iran's President Mahmoud] Ahmedinejad and his dismissal of the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program is feeding the sense here of impending crisis, although the robust US-Israeli security relationship is profoundly reassuring to Israeli security officials and the general public alike," stated the cable.
Israel's seizure of a ship with a large cargo of Iranian arms on November 3, 2009, provided "tangible proof of Iran's involvement in arming Hamas and Hizbullah," stated the cable.
Syrian intentions are also a source of concern, as Israeli analysts see Syrian President Bashar Assad moving closer to Iran and Hizbullah, even as Syria improves its relations with the West, said the cable.


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Sunny Singh has been the talk of the town with his upcoming movie Ujda Chaman. The trailer of the movie has been well received by the audience for its unique and quirky take on a major lifestyle issue. Sunny Singh opened up about his movie and Ayushmann Khurrana's movie, Bala, having similar storylines that deal with a very common issue that most people deal with - Hairloss.
Sunny shared, "Ayushmann is very senior to me and I admire his work. Today, where he has reached, it's over the years that he has built and I respect him and look up to him. For me, with Ujda Chaman if I am able to take my craft a notch higher, then my efforts shall be paid off."
The actor received a lot of critical acclaim and love from the audiences for his performance in Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety and this time around he is all set to take over the box office with Ujda Chaman. Pyaar ka Punchnama 2 and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety fame Sunny Singh is starring in the upcoming comedy-drama Ujda Chaman. The movie is all set to release on the 1st of November 2019.
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the usual holomorphic Cartan geometries (e.g. all compact complex projective manifolds admit branched holomorphic projective structures). In the same time, this new definition is rigid enough to enables us to classify branched holomorphic Cartan geometries on compact simply connected Calabi-Yau manifolds. This is joint work with Indranil Biswas (TIFR, Bombay).


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Re: True Detective
Reply #105 on: March 10, 2014, 11:04:07 AM
True Detective's first season is an attempt to solve for a void. It contemplates a conundrum with so little hope of being answered that anything not sitting on the plane of the problem is flattened out until it approaches nothingness. You've perhaps heard the theory that objects pulled into a black hole flatten out into dim streaks of what they once were, collections of atoms spread out into things that were but no longer are. That's how the central mystery on True Detective acts for its two main characters: They stare at it so long and race toward it so quickly that they are unable to perceive the atoms that make up anybody or anything else. They're constantly being sucked into a space between spaces.
In both its best and worst moments, the first season of True Detective was an earnest paean to the things that exist in that negative space. It often felt as if the series took this tack thanks to the direction of Cary Joji Fukunaga, who directed all eight of the season's episodes. Like a diligent student of the horror genre, Fukunaga was fond of filling the screen with things that weren't seen, with darkness or emptiness that might contain the monsters at the end of the book, but, more likely than not, were simply the normal, non-supernatural darkness we find ourselves in every night. The season was always at its best when giving rise to possibility, to ideas of elemental corruption that proved more potent than the things that actually arrived. Perhaps, that is why so many cried foul on Twitter when the series' central boogeyman was revealed to be simply some guy with a lawn mower and an ancestral estate that seemed to consist of nothing but negative space.
There were times when True Detective bit off more than it could chew in its first season, but it did so in the way overambitious first-season shows that don't always know their own limitations often do. Particularly in the season's lackluster sixth and seventh episodes—when creator and writer of all eight episodes Nic Pizzolatto dropped the mesmerizing framing device that held the first five episodes together and allowed for many a moment of unreliable narration—the show seemed to be solving its central mystery because it felt it had to, not because it had any particular desire to. It hinted and suggested at grand, overarching explanations for everything that happened, then, again, boiled down largely to one guy (albeit a terrifying guy). This sometimes created the sense that the show was two different stories on two different tracks, a surface one where everything was explainable and a deeper one, where everything was terrifyingly inexplicable. Everything about the show—its mystery, its storytelling technique, its approach to character development—was an iceberg, and it could have felt unsatisfying to have the heroes catch only its tip.
The most frequent criticism about this season has been its lack of "well-defined" female characters. This is a misleading statement. That there are no "well-defined" female characters on True Detective is the point. Both Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) are so trapped in a mire of dead bodies and snuffed-out lives that they are unable to see outside of themselves long enough to realize that the other people in their midst—male and female alike—that are living, breathing human beings who still need them. (This is particularly true when it comes to Marty and his wife and daughters.) Think, again, of that black hole. The closer Marty and Rust get to it, the more everybody else they know is a dim smear they can barely see for lack of light.
What I think these criticisms touch on that was a problem with the series was that it seemed slightly too impressed with its own originality, when it wasn't doing anything (or offering up any characters) that several other series hadn't already offered before. (Nearly everything here, for instance, is being done with just as much—if not more—panache on NBC's Hannibal.) Marty and Rust were riffs on types we've seen since the cop show became a genre, and though Pizzolatto's monologues had a beautiful musicality to them, the characters could never escape comparisons to all who had gone before. Thus, it became far too easy to go casting about for other figures within the series and not find them. The purposeful way that Pizzolatto built the supporting characters' purposelessness was much easier to miss under these circumstances, and one presumes this will be the biggest course correction for season two.
Those complaints also arose, however, because True Detective could be crushingly self-serious. In its weakest hour—its seventh—it was simply a long series of scenes with characters telling each other things without any real humor or verve to lighten the mood. The season was so singularly focused on the evils that men can do—even the ostensibly good ones—that it rarely found time to leaven that tone with other ones. True Detective danced just ahead of being too stupid to believe for most of its first season, and I could understand all of those who looked at the finale and couldn't get past, say, a long, earnest discussion between Rust and Marty about light versus dark, held underneath the stars. No matter how great the actors, no matter how great the dialogue, no matter how great the direction—it was all a little silly. Throughout the series, there were times—even in the best moments—when it felt like True Detective desperately needed Joel and the robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 just offscreen to call it on its own bullshit.
And yet I loved True Detective in its best and worst moments, sometimes in spite of myself, and I think the exemplary finale pulled the story together in a way that befitted those first five episodes more than the two that followed. Part of the reason for this was the stellar execution, and part of it was the fact that this was just a fun, pulpy show to watch even when it turned into The Rust Cohle Explains Things Hour. Most of all, though, I think Pizzolatto, Fukunaga, and their actors were aware at all times that this whole thing was just a little ridiculous, and they rode that craziness to many of its logical conclusions. There were times in the season's best episodes—its fourth and fifth—when it felt like all of the references to the Yellow King and Carcosa were going to lead to Cthulhu himself rising from the deeps, and it wouldn't have fazed me one bit. The show took this material and sank its teeth into it.
Ultimately, what made this season work was its ability to hold its self-seriousness and its ridiculousness in tension for long stretches of time. It seemed to understand that the line between the heinous and the hilarious, particularly in a work of fiction, is not that hard to cross. It wasn't a particularly funny show, though both of its stars had a fine time with the handful of one-liners parceled out to them over the course of the season, but it was a show that was able to take pure pulp material, like the idea of a cult of powerful men that preys upon women and children, and treat it with a kind of gravity that it might not get on a lot of other shows. Some part of True Detective understood that all of this was bizarre and maybe even a little goofy; the rest of it demanded that we look at these ideas with the kind of seriousness we might get out of a more straightforward crime procedural. It was a blend that could prove intoxicating.
This allowed the show to sidle up to the sorts of primal ideas that don't always get talked about in pop culture without somebody winking off to the side to let viewers know they don't have to take them too seriously. In its season finale, True Detective laid its final card down on the table and revealed that it didn't want to be about just this story but about all stories—about light versus dark and good versus evil and maybe even a dash of God versus Satan. It not only talked directly about these issues, but it had the audacity to discuss it via a metaphor about stars. It was the sort of thing that would have gotten laughed out of the room in episode one, but in the finale, it was such a breath of ever-so-slight optimism that it felt strangely earned, as if the series had, by being so grim and self-serious and, yes, ridiculous, become one of the few shows on television capable of talking about these things. It wasn't entirely a detective show; it was like an ersatz reinterpretation of Sunday School Bible stories, filtered through the lens of an incorrigible poonhound and a defeated nihilist.
In the end, that is why I liked the finale of True Detective enough to drag the whole series up significantly in my estimation: The hints of utter rot—mystical, religious, bureaucratic, and otherwise—ultimately boiled down to one man, but that was because that one man was the monster who surfaced. He was the only black hole Marty and Rust could pick out by noticing the absence at his center. (It's telling that the detectives catch the void through a burst of color: notably, green, the traditional color of renewal.) The detective work fell by the wayside, and the heroes descended into hell, not to grab the Devil himself, but the one guy they could find. Yes, it was just the iceberg's tip, but Marty and Rust were able to make the world slightly better by latching onto it. But what that tip stood for—the vast, stately, unspeakable bulk just beneath the surface—was ultimately unknowable and uncatchable, a darkness that was anything you wanted it to be. By embracing both its sometimes punishing self-seriousness and its tendency toward the ridiculous, True Detective found a way to season its grim story of man's inhumanity to man with a sprinkle of optimism. But all the while, it remembers that, limbs churning underwater, Leviathan continues to swim.
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Boy, did we overthink this thing!
Worse was the last character beat. I think maybe True Detective ended with Rust Cohle finding God? Talk me off the ledge.
One of the things I have so enjoyed about True Detective—which, let me be clear, is a show I still really love—is how all-enveloping it is. It's a whole world, and you're in it: the atmosphere, the green, even that ash and aluminum smell. But something about this episode just cracked that open for me, and all of pop culture came pouring in. The house Errol lived in looks so much like the mansion in The Notebook gone to seed. Having no cell phone reception is very every-horror-movie-ever. It's like, the spell wore off and suddenly it was just a TV show.
I think I would be bothered a little less by this if I didn't feel like the finale was in some ways very flabby. (It had something like five endings.)
And while I'm not super into the idea that major characters have to die for a TV show to be serious, it's pretty surprising that Marty and Rust both lived, no?
if you read the whole thing i think it does a good overview of the two dominant opinions on the episode. it's funny how the other dude started coming around towards the end, admitting there's a lot about the final episode that didn't add up to anything.
and since diggler brought up LOST i think it's worth noting that this show suffers from a similar problem of initially presenting a potentially much more interesting show than it actually ends up being.
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Reply #107 on: March 10, 2014, 12:17:46 PM
I wrote a post in here two episodes ago, but removed it because it was too early to say. But now, it's completely obvious. The show was basically "The Philosophy of Nic Pizzolato". Rather than letting the character's lead the story, Pizzolatto used techniques and devices in the last 3 episodes to get it to where he willed it. The whole show was basically an allegory for this type of philosophy. Which isn't necessarily theist at the end, but more along the lines of pessimistic gnosticism, but in a completely forced way. I not only think the show was cheesy in this last episode, but I thought eps. 1,5,6,7 were equally cheesy in the words/devices/character types (TYPES) forced by the author to unfold his ideas. Here's an example:
If anyone saw "The Counselor" by Cormac McCarthy (an author like Pizzollato) and "No Country For Old Men" and adaptation of McCarthy by Coens, those are two completely bipolar ways of letting the truth seep out of its philosophy. Counselor just felt like McCarthy used his characters as his sadistic philosophical peons, while No Country feels like each character is not serving anything more than who they truly are, which is much more full of depth than philosophical masturbation. I'd say True Detective should be placed in the middle of these two, but leaning more towards the former.
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I liked the ending. I'll remember the season as an overall success. I was totally creeped out watching the guy with scars hang around his house and painting schools. Knowing the characters wont be back for upcoming shows really made think one or both not make it out alive. Having Rust survive done more for his character development than anything you could have done.
The episode reminded me of the pilot. After the pilot, there was so much I wanted to learn and know about these characters that finding out who was the killer was of little importance. I think the show cared little about who was the killer was as well. Looking back I realize the show wasn't about a murder investigation. It's about Rust and Marty. It's about their relationship. The murder investigation is almost the B plot.
That's why the criticism about Marty's wife not being a fully formed character were missing the point. Look how little camera time given to Marty with his family compared to the amount of time given to Marty and Rust in the parking lot. Even the short period of time Marty's family is in the room, the camera is on Marty the entire time. We only see him as he starts to break down. We don't see any reactions or emotions from Maggie or the girls cause it's only about Marty.
I'm really excited about the show moving forward. At first, I was disappointed with the anthology format but now can't wait to hear about the next season. I know Alejandro González Iñárritu was originally attached to direct season 1 so maybe he will direct season 2. I can't wait to meet the new characters.
If you think this is going to have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
polkablues
Child of Myth
I didn't hate it. On its own merits, it was a pretty impressive hour of television horror. It is a little jarring, looking back over the season, how eps 1-6 felt like the same show, then episode 7 felt like a different show, and episode 8 felt like another different show entirely. Evidence of Nicky Pizza's inexperience? Yeah, maybe. It's still one of the best seasons of television ever, so big deal. Season two will blow the world's face right off its face.
That said, the season ended with Rust and Marty bleeding on the ground watching the flare light up overhead. That's it. That was the real ending. All that hospital nonsense was just some weird Christian fan-fic that they got the real actors to shoot for some reason, and should be considered entirely non-canonical.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Tictacbk
The Magic Flight
Just Keep Livin'
positive energy;
i admire everyone's optimism, and definitely understand it, but there are few ways that could have been a worse episode. it genuinely felt like fan fiction, enough to the point i wouldn't be surprised if people start writing their own better endings. as said before, it felt like a different show. i would have preferred a disappointing ending that was completely cohesive and similar with the previous episodes to whatever that was. some people tell me i built it up too much for myself, but they didn't feel like the same characters, the logic of prior eps was kind of non existent, all the little details theyve been so careful to stay mindful of were strangely forgotten. that being said, it's still probaly some of the best tv we will ever see, as a whole. redeeming things from the episode? the scene of errol quoting movies and using different accents was genuinely amazing and super creepy. the castle was perfect. so was his lady, i loved the fact that she was just hiding from him when he thought it was going to be a bunch of tied up chicks or something. almost a perfect analogy for how we all felt last night.
The Vision Quest
Discusses the ending & Season 2
I liked the season and the ending, I thought it was tense. But I kept my expectations reasonable while some places online (here too) were massively overthinking this. I like the discussions and debates and I like that tv shows can stir up conversation like this, but there are moments when it's just obvious everyone is hungry to sink into something that is aiming for way less. True Detective worked fine, but I don't think it ever thought it was The Sopranos or even The Wire. Those are major works from birth, with a clear point of view and an artistic individual vision, and they miraculously followed it through the end. Not everything wants to be (or can be) that.
However, as a pulpy expertly made detective story, it felt like more than enough.
Shoutbox Moderator
My disappointment was lessened because I'd realized that it wasn't the show that I mistook it to be after the first five episodes.
I agree with Alexandro for the most part, but it only became a pulpy detective story two-thirds of the way through. Before that it was so good it could have been anything the writer wanted it to be. It could have been Lovecraftian cosmic-horror stuff( btw I love how they persisted with the King in Yellow stiff till the end with Childress yelling "Take off your mask!") or it could have been a 2666 style study of irresolution and the problem of evil.
By the end it turned into a well-made procedural with a Silence of the Lambs ending.
When someone squaders that level of potential it's legitimate to be disappointed.
It also doesn't help that Pizzicato saved his worst writing for the very last scene, that hospital scene was pretty inexcusable. I almost expected them to turn to the camera and go, "You, dear viewer, are the True Detective."
Jeremy Blackman
E: This might have been embedded in that link Pubrick posted. It is now, but they might have put it in later. Strange.
A must listen!
Slate writers discuss True Detective
I've been plugging the Slate Spoiler Special podcast forever with zero response, so you know it's good.
"Hunger is the purest sin"
I'm having an unexpected response to the finale.
I was highly skeptical of the nihilism that characterized much of the first three episodes and many of Rust's ramblings. Turns out the show itself shares that skepticism. It pushed Rust through his nihilism as if it were an extended adolescence. I completely buy his transformative near-death experience; that is something that happens, and this character was ripe for it.
I even didn't mind all the business about stars and the dark and the light. I was reflexively eye-rolling, but at the same time it kind of got me. McConaughey carried it.
Quote from: polkablues on March 10, 2014, 02:49:27 PM
I think this is exactly wrong. Killing them off was the obvious choice. I was certainly expecting it to be a suicide mission after they both somberly put their affairs in order. What Pizzolatto did in essence is execute a character plot twist in place of a whodunnit plot twist, genre convention supplanted by what now seems like an inevitable character transformation.
I totally admire what was done with Rust's character. He was denied a heroic death, forced to face life again and work through all his garbage.
I can't help but be on the show's side after that.
The ending just failed on every level, especially the most basic mundane logic:
It's a completely ridiculous non sequitur when marty brings up that story about the stars right after rust has given the most emotional monologue of the series. It feelt awkward and forced.
Even if he was saying it just to distract rust from having a total breakdown, it still makes no sense that after rust takes the bait and immediately calms down, Marty then inexplicably turns the whole thing into a negative metaphor about dark having more territory. What the fuck is he doing that for?
Is he trying to cheer him up or not? He should be ecstatic that for once the weird shit rusts babbling about is almost in line with his own religious beliefs. He should be shocked that, against all expectations from Marty's previous farewell moment in the episode's 4th ending (this episode was the 'Return of the King' of TV finales with endless endings) where he said don't ever change and gave him the finger, rust actually has changed drastically.
It makes absolutely no sense except as a clumsy set up for Rust's hackneyed retort.
It would've been ok with me if the show ended with Marty and Rust in the catacombs/carcosa.
Quote from: Pubrick on March 11, 2014, 02:39:20 PM
Perhaps that bothered me less cause I've always found the show a bit silly. Definitely wasn't the first time the voice of the author audibly stepped in to vocalize a theme.
I don't think Rust changed much between the hospital room and the final scene. The character has found himself in a punishing situation. Rust is confused that he was denied a heroic death, and he's frustrated/devastated (in both scenes) that he can't be with his loved ones who he just contacted ("I'm not supposed to be here"). I actually kind of love that we see his sour personality mixed with his new cosmic awareness, which certainly must inherit from his old cosmic awareness.
As for Marty not jumping up and down about Rust's epiphany... that actually rang quite true to me. If I were Marty I'd play it the same way. Just be delicate about it, let this be his own thing, let him figure things out, and be supportive in a general way. He also notably doesn't react to Rust crying. In their relationship, this is a time for sincerity and sensitivity if there ever was one.
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El blog de Javier Solana: El ojo y el párpado
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Published: 9 May 2019 by Javier Solana
Washington Post – Anna Fifield & David J. Lynch / China warns of 'countermeasures' against U.S. products if Trump increases tariffs
China warned Wednesday of retaliation if President Trump continues with his threat to further raise tariffs on Chinese goods, setting up a potential escalation in a trade war that had seemed just weeks ago to be nearing its end. A spokeman for the Commerce Ministry stated: "an escalation in trade frictions is not in line with the American or Chinese interests or the interests of the world, and would thus be much to China's regret. But if the U.S. goes ahead with its tariff measures against China, China will have to resort to necessary countermeasures".
The Trump administration has been pushing China not only to narrow its trade gap with the USA but also to develop major reforms on topics such as support for state-backed companies and intellectual property rights. There appeared to be some headway. Nonetheless, Trump tweeted on Sunday that China had attempted to renegotiate the almost-completed deal.
Trade data released Wednesday showed that Chinese export growth was disappointing last month. The value of Chinese exports fell 2.7 % in April compared with the previous year, against market expectations of 3 % growth. While the slump in domestic demand and exploding debt levels are the main cause for China's slowing economy, the trade tensions are weighing heavily on it.
The Atlantic– Yascha Mounk / How Authoritarians Manipulate Elections
When Recep Erdoğan was first elected prime minister of Turkey in 2003, he committed himself to the respect the country's democratic institutions, and to leave office if he ever lost the public's trust. The reality of Erdoğan's rule has been rather more bleak. He systematically grew his powers and purged his opponents from top positions. But even as the dictatorial nature of Erdoğan became clear, Turkey continued to hold multi-party elections.
The tremendous power Erdoğan now holds makes it all the more remarkable that a united opposition was, last month, able to gain an unexpected set of victories in the country's municipal elections: Exploiting anger at Turkey's growing economic crisis, and fielding a new crop of candidates who are both charismatic and conciliatory, the opposition pulled off two highly symbolic upsets, winning control of the country's capital, Ankara, as well as its largest city, Istanbul. For the first time, Erdoğan faced a trade-off, Would he allow the election results to stand, thereby acknowledging the public's growing discontent with his rule? Or would he exploit his hold over Turkey's institutions to have the election annulled, making it blatantly clear to anybody who cared to look that Turkey is no longer a democracy?
For much of the 20th century, the most acute threat to democracy came from the barrel of a gun. When democratic systems collapsed, it was usually because tanks rolled up in front of the country's parliament or presidential palace. But in 21st century, coups became strange. From Russia to Venezuela, the strongmen who have destroyed democratic institutions won high office at the ballot box. Far from openly attacking democracy, they have tended to argue that they, and they alone, truly represent the people. The new crop of authoritarian leaders is much more invested in retaining the appearance of a genuine democratic mandate.
Financial Times– Phil Stephens / Trump's angry unilateralism is a cry of pain
The hardest moment for a hegemonic power is to see its dominance eroded. American president Donald Trump's angry unilateralism aims to be a proof of power, but it's more of a cry of pain for a mythologized past. The same happened in Britain after Second World War; Churchill would struggle to accept the postwar international order that would be leaded by the USA. Now it's America's turn. America's unipolar moment passed as quickly as it surged at the end of the cold war.
Barack Obama's misfortune was that he grasped early on the significance for US interests of these global power shifts, he achieved the right conclusions. If America could not run unilaterally, its interests were best served by leveraging the alliances with other states. Mr. Trump, on the other hand, defends that if the system does not work for the United States, he should break it up.
Among allies like Japan, Korea or the European Union, the US has lost trust. The common denominator in the policies of all these states is to wait until Trump leaves the office, which is mainly a mistake. Mr. Trump is not alone among Americans in his disillusionment with the old order. But the louder the president shouts the less inclined the rest of the world is to listen.
The Guardian– Jessica Elgot, Heather Stewart & Lisa O'Carroll / May buys time with hints at new withdrawal bill vote and exit date
Theresa May has achieved another week as British Prime Minister, hinting she will bring the EU withdrawal bill to parliament before the European elections and promising to meet a powerful backbench committee who have demanded that she set out her timetable for stepping down. "It is the intention to have a further vote, probably a second reading of the withdrawal agreement bill before the European elections take place and hopefully in the much nearer future than that. That is my understanding", Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee, stated.
Members of the 1922 Committee have previously voted down proposals to change the party rules for a vote of no confidence in the Conservative leader, which currently mean they are protected for a year after winning a confidence vote, as May did in December 2018.However, some on the executive have hinted that views could shift if May does not give a more explicit departure date.
Bringing the EU withdrawal agreement bill to parliament without being certain of a majority is fraught with danger. Should the bill be voted down at second reading, it would not be possible to bring it back in this parliamentary session.
The selected pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of Javier Solana and ESADEgeo. The summaries above may include word-for-word excerpts from their respective pieces.
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¿Por qué titular el blog "el ojo y el párpado"?
Marco Aurelio decía:"...sé que con todos tengo que convivir, como convive el párpado con el ojo..."
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