I used to feel so lethargic taking dictations from the teacher as he/she droned on and on (especially after lunch), I would do a lot of on-the-fly editing to reduce the writing work. Being a slow writer also necessitated it. Call me pompous, but the lossless compression (!) would be flawless and generally better grammatically structured. The short cuts had actually become a habit later on and helped hone my writing skills.


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American. Cantorial Soloist at Temple Emanu-El in San Diego, California, composer and singer. "Myrna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Music from the University of Pittsburgh, and was employed as a counselor and youth advisor at the Irene Kaufman Center, as well as being a music specialist at the Beth Shalom Synagogue Sunday School." Albums by Myrna Cohen include: Special Days & Lullabies and Quiet Time, Special Days: Songs for Children, and Swinging Chai. Easy to learn songs for very young children.


Description View of heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey (with bow-tie) with Mike Benton (with straw hat) at Terminal Station, during a visit to Atlanta, Georgia, possibly for an exhibition boxing match against wrestler Cowboy Luttrell at Ponce de Leon Park.
Notes William Harrison Dempsey fought under the name Jack Dempsey. Dempsey held the World Heavyweight boxing title from 1919-1926. He was also known as the "Manassa Mauler" after his hometown of Manassa Colorado.


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Turkey doubles tariffs on some USA imports; Turkish lira rallies Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was visiting Ankara, branded the USA sanctions an "illegitimate policy" on Tuesday. President of Turkey and the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Keylor Navas starts for Real Madrid, no Modric Alvaro Odriozola is also included despite Madrid confirming on Monday the Spain right-back has a minor groin strain. Atletico Madrid UEFA Super Cup , see the streaming information at the bottom of this article.
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Saudi Arabia appears to threaten Canada with 9/11-style attack But the task of approving the export permits fell to the Liberals, who were lobbied by human rights activists to say no. Canada's decrying the arrest of two female activists in Saudi Arabia clearly rubbed that country the wrong way.
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Crude oil futures rise 0.51% on global cues
"While there has been minimal impact so far on Iran's crude production ahead of renewed USA sanctions, Washington's move to apply the toughest ever measures on Iran could result in an even steeper reduction than ... seen during the previous round of sanctions" when its exports fell by 1.2 million barrels per day (mbd) said the IEA.
OPEC also lowered the forecast of world oil demand growth in 2018 by 20,000 barrels per day - to 1.64 million barrels per day.
Crude oil prices are now slightly lower.
The cartel said OPEC production in July, as reported by secondary sources, rose month over month by 41,000 barrels a day to a daily average of 32.32 million barrels.
In another worrying sign, USA energy companies added the most oil rigs since May last week, pointing to indications of US output growth.
However, a revival from lower levels can not be ruled out in the next quarter as United States sanctions on Iranian oil exports are due to take effect in November that may cut two-third of its exports and in turn tighten global supply.
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It also highlighted another uncertainty concerning oil demand.
"If you look at pure economic figures, the impact of the tariff disputes is still quite small, perhaps 0.5 per cent of GDP growth".
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The EIA reported that at 414.2 million barrels, US crude oil inventories are a bit above the five-year average for the season.
"The high crude prices appear to have been taking a toll on demand", said Sukrit Vijayakar, Director of Indian oil consultancy Trifecta.
U.S. oil production from seven major shale basins was expected to rise 93,000 bpd in September to 7.52 million bpd, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said.
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We were happy to see all students take part in today's early Morning Yoga at 6.30am today, led by our yoga partner Jess Goozee from Yoganica - following yesterday's intense day of introspective workshops and mentor sessions with one of our Inspirational Mentors Jeffrey Paine from Golden Gate Ventures and the Founder Institute.
We also welcomed two new students to the group this morning, both based in Singapore and looking to launch new businesses. At Check-In, students shared their Top 3 Priorities for the day - the most common priority being to complete homework assignments from Day 2 and Day 3 and learn three new words in Bahasa, to be shared during the group Check-In sessions moving forward.
To introduce today's theme - Know Your Why - we watched Simon Sinek's TED Talk on How Great Leaders Inspire Action and engaged the group in a discussion around his powerful message: The goal is not to do business with everyone who needs what you have but with everyone who believe what you believe.
In the following two workshops, we looked at Helpful People and Resources and Who Are My Heroes. Drawing inspiration from the Spark Kit, students were asked to identify and list individuals from within their networks and communities who could provide information, knowledge and support to help them move forward in life and work. We also asked them think about who they considered to be their Heroes - exceptional individuals who demonstrate qualities, influence and achievements they look up to.
Students were given the rest of the day off to use their time as they liked. Most worked on their homework and took further time to speak with Jeff before he flew back to Singapore. They later ventured out to work at nearby wifi cafes and explore other areas around Bali.
Following yesterday's back to back sessions, students were feeling energised, motivated, purposeful and with more focus this morning. After speaking with Jeff, many felt they had learned alot and had more reassurance about the way forward.
Some students struggled with Daily Journaling, faced with resistance in not knowing what to write or not feeling the writing was of acceptable quality.
Simon Sinek's talk was not new to everyone but his message serves an important need to be reminded of why we wake up and push on each day.
In thinking about helpful people, resources and influential figures, it became clear that we don't always take the time to consider and leverage the resources that are available to us. This prompted students to think differently about how they approach social media, new connections and conversations as tools for learning and growing, in life and work.
Adopting new practices like Daily Journaling can feel challenging and pointless at first but don't over think it; allowing time for brain dumping and mental rants can serve the subconscious a greater purpose that may only be understood later.
In today's world of instant communication and real-time connection, we often underestimate the value and possibilities of the relationships we have. But taking the time to think about the people in our networks and communities allows us to realise the abundance of accessible resources and support we all have.


I've also finished the review of Rosmarie Waldrop and Mark Ford but I'm holding it until at least April so as not to pre-empt hard copy publication (in PN Review).
*The intention is to go past Galen (22 vols in Kühn´s 1829 edition) but of course Galen worked very fast because dismembered gladiators go off so quickly in the sun.
I visit a lot of US blogs that are engaged in a wide-ranging debate about poetry and poetics and culture. E.g. R Silliman, M Scroggins, P Lu, S de Deo, B Watten, L Jarnot, K S Mohammad, G Huth, E Tabios, JP Kervinen to name a few good ones. And their focus is naturally US poetry though the philosophy might be more international. Now the question is, do you know of any UK Blogs with a focus on UK poetry that are operating anything like this kind of wide-ranging but detailed debate? I expect there must be some around, but I don't happen to know them - the good ones I know are mostly quite unambitiously anecdotal (great book, terrible news, what's on my hifi). I would really like to know which your favourites are.
Possibly it's significant (but only if my perception isn't totally skewed) that I didn't want to undertake that kind of blog myself - I thought it was just me being me, but maybe it's a national reluctance? Or maybe the moment you try and stand back and take a broader conspectus, you find yourself gravitating towards talking about US poetry because that's where the cultural sharp end in English-language poetry tends to lie? Not a thought that would ever have bothered Andrew Duncan (brilliant but dormant pre-blogging site - the link's over on the right). Or do we just go about things differently? Or do we enjoy dipping our toes in the US openness but still retain a Marvellian thought: "I still my silent judgment keep"? It seems like a damaging one.
As Google searches for "UK poetry blogs" still bring visitors to this ancient post, I thought I'd add an update. About a week after I wrote this post Edmund Hardy started up Intercapillary Space, a co-operative UK poetry blog to which I still contribute regular posts. Obviously I think it changes the picture to some extent - at any rate, I think it's a great publication - but for one reason or another, it has never become a forum for discussion about poetry. People generally don't comment on anything we write; something about the format discourages interaction. Maybe it feels impersonal. Anyhow. There are a lot of good UK poetry sites around now, not necessarily blogs but web-places. The best list (because it tells you a bit about each link) is http://www.modernpoetry.org.uk/blinks.html.
Small beech trees don't drop their leaves. Perhaps that's too much of a personification. Let's try again: within a region of 5m or so from the base of the plant, the leaf-fall mechanism doesn't operate. If a beech is pruned so that its growth always lies within this region (which is known as a "juvenile cone"), then it will retain its leaves through the winter, and that's what happens in a beech hedge.
So because I was used to seeing beech leaves in winter, I didn't at first pay much attention. Then it began to occur to me that this year something was different: why had I gone all through the winter without stopping to notice the shaggy silhouette of tree-lichens against the white sky?
Basically, a lot of beech leaves just haven't come off the trees, and these are mature trees, it's not just within the juvenile cone. I supposed it was due to a hard early frost that killed the leaves before the tree instructed them to fall (leaf-fall is triggered by hormones and is a sign of life, not death). This is perhaps a frequent sight in colder counties, but I don't remember seeing it here before.
The dead leaves are shrivelled and a uniform russet. They are only a remnant of last years' crop, but they are quite evenly distributed through the crowns, and they make pretty, drifting mobiles among the bare walks.
They're also like airy raisins such as you eventually discover scattered on the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard.
se hace una mancha de cal.
I left work late on Friday night, and walked along the corridor with the caretaker, switching the lights off.
Thank God the week-end's here. - time to boogie on down, eh?
or getting stuck into the proof-reading? Or whatever you do?
That seemed closer than she could have imagined.
Earlier in the day I'd picked up some new glasses, worried about my dodgy driving. Around 21:30 I went outside to bin some stuff, useless scraps of unused carpet and old calligraphy ink-bottles. I was wearing the new glasses and I saw clear pinpricks in the sky. It was the first time I'd seen them for ten years. The sky had grown all mothy, I realized.
I'd never been interested in stars, but it made me think of something. It was a cold, clear, frosty night.
Well, what else was I going to do? Why the hell not?
I slithered muddily through the thicket and out along the shuntings, and was most unpleasantly disturbed to hear behind me the hasty steps of someone else coming the same way. I crunched along with as much noise as possible, to indicate how right-minded I felt about being here. So did he. I got out into the wide gravel and veered off to one side and halted. For a moment he seemed to be coming my way, but no, the long shadow went past and away and the steps dwindled. God knows what he was doing here but he must have crossed over the river using the rail bridge, which isn't something I'd fancy doing myself because it's high, long and narrow. Perhaps he was scared shitless too.
My nerves shaken, I wanted to find a spot with horizons all round but somehow occluded from passers-by. I ended up on the ballast at the top of a steep bank. The grass was already creaking with frost. I hadn't thought to bring anything to sit on. The clip-on reading-light was too dim to read the star-maps. But I was warm and began to look about.
The whorl of stars around the pole was upside-down. Eventually I followed the line from base to lip of the Big Dipper and found Polaris. I only knew the Dipper and Orion, so I turned round and looked at Orion. I took off my distance glasses and peered at the tiny names on the map. Gradually I began to make a chain of bright stars. It began with Sirius in Canis Major in the SE - I made a big triangle with Procyon in Canis Minor and Betelgeuse on Orion's shoulder, then I topped it into a diamond with Castor and Pollux in Gemini. Gemini! That was a zodiac sign, wasn't it? Where were the rest of them? Meltwater seeped into my jeans from stone and bramble.
I tesselated another triangle which took me out to Capella in Auriga, This, I learnt, was looking away from the centre of our galaxy and out towards its far end. It was a strange feeling; like for the first time in my life I could see where I really was; at the same time, "where I really was" turned out to be a movie, rather a long one (maybe Serge Leone) but I could still feel the tension. I was hooked.
My eye snaked off through Perseus and got to where I'd wanted to get to, that big W or M that I'd admired distractedly in my youth, without ever knowing its name. I had to leave the equatorial map and go back to the circumpolar one, but now I knew: it was Cassiopeia. Then westwards again towards the Pleiades - and what was that? It was the big red eye of Taurus, Aldebaran, and for ten seconds it wasn't me watching, it was me being watched.
I went home and packed up the star atlas for Lil again. The next two nights were cloudy.
And now that five-and-fifty years were gone, she spoke of the dead man as if he had been her son or grandson, with a kind of pity for his youth, growing out of her own old age, and an exalting of his strength and manly beauty as compared with her own weakness and decay; and yet she spoke about him as her husband too, and thinking of herself in connexion with him, as she used to be and not as she was now, talked of their meeting in another world as if he were dead but yesterday, and she, separated from her former self, were thinking of the happiness of that comely girl who seemed to have died with him.
My essay on The Old Curiosity Shop, perhaps not quite finished, is here.
Carting along the river at night it was cold and breathy, he dragged over gates and held on traipsing his toe-caps through dewy white kex-fields of reed and hemlock, butted on hidden slabs and went in among the alders. It did not seem that anything was wrong. Bowling along the alders hand to hand the meadow came to a neck and the bank steepened.
Then he was warm enough to stop. Beneath was the full moon, swimming through the ripples as it meant to for several hours and he suddenly felt terrified at the loneliness and breathed it under the branches like a wrong, winking eye.
that any touch 'ld grieve her.
than we won't never leave her.
what shall we think of, g says repeatedly, mad keen to play 20Q.
no-one can think of anything to think of. finally g thinks of a donkey.
are donkeys comforting? he wonders aloud.
can donkeys swim? we all think so, but no-one has ever seen a donkey swim.
are there any songs about donkeys? i google and say yes.
A mule isn't a donkey, I start to lecture. I know, says g, but now it's on question 25 and i just can't be bothered any more.
My mind's still on the trees of Frome, so I decide to think of Aesculus flava (yellow buckeye). You don't see buckeyes around much in England, but someone sacrificed all their daylight to one on Locks Hill; synapse of peach-coloured leaves in the wind. It turns out that one of g's mates lives in that house.
The only tree in the 20Q machine's database is "christmas tree".
who's that? ask him if he's had a drink since the party!
no i wasn't - I was just outside on the steps and i saw him come out of the dark all bloody.
who said there were any regrets?
it certainly does contain liquid!
john it's asking is it a mussel!
I live in a town called Frome which is in Somerset which is in SW England which is in the UK.
Somerset people know that the name Frome is pronounced to rhyme with "groom" (and not with "loam"), and this is a sure way of identifying in-comers who are only rawly arrived from London.
Frome once had a flourishing LETS scheme (it was that kind of alternative sort of place, if that's what you wanted to see). The units of exchange were called Fromes. Things went well as people helped to dig out each other's ponds and if they were on invalidity benefit signed up for Shiatsu or learnt the piano. Eventually someone decided that this was an unimaginative name for the local currency, so they changed it to Shuttles and the scheme promptly collapsed.
When I ran an e-zine called Fromebase (for two whole hours, spaced a year apart) I loved the unresolvable pronunciation of the masthead. The e-zine existed solely for the shimmer of its polyphony and I could never think of anything to put in it.
"Frome" is a common name of English rivers, and perhaps it means "swiftly-flowing". Our river is one of the two rivers Frome that flow into the Bristol Avon - the north-flowing one that joins the Avon at Bath, not the south-flowing one that comes down from the Cotswolds and has its confluence somewhere underneath the pavements of central Bristol.
People tell you not to bathe in rivers (they're full of agricultural run-off) but in hot weather kids & alternative people head for the river and swim and get stoned. It's safer, anyway, than cliff-jumping into flooded quarries. In England as in the US, rivers (unlike coasts and mountains) tend to connote blue-collar neighbourhoods. Even the tiny river in Frome tends to wind along the back of industry and to be a scruffy and teenage kind of place full of leaking tanks and other bits of gear that don't show on the postcard's swept brow with its hanging baskets and medieval streets.
You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.
It was just the opposite of what I believed, but since this is Chekhov I've pondered those words and now I kind of believe them alongside their opposite.


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Experts split sharply over experimental Alzheimer's drug
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer's disease made its case to scientists Thursday but left them sharply divided over whether there's enough evidence of effectiveness for the medicine to warrant federal approval.
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, sits for an infusion while participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
An estimated 5.8 million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer's dementia in 2019.;
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, rests his arm during his infusion while participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, smiles as he makes a peanut butter sandwich for lunch at his family home in Jamestown, R.I. Flagg is participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, works on a word puzzle while sitting with his wife Cynthia, right, at their home in Jamestown, R.I. Flagg is participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, makes a peanut butter sandwich for lunch at his family home in Jamestown, R.I Flagg is participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, receives the contents of an intravenous bag while participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Charles Flagg, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, makes a peanut butter sandwich for lunch at his family home in Jamestown, R.I. Flagg is participating in a study on the drug Aducanumab. New results were released on the experimental medicine whose maker claims it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Excitement and skepticism have surrounded aducanumab since its developers stopped two studies earlier this year because it didn't seem to be working, then did a stunning about-face in October and said new results suggest it was effective at a high dose.
During Thursday's presentation at an Alzheimer's conference in San Diego, the developers convinced some experts that the drug deserves serious consideration. But others were dubious. Changes made during the study and unusual analyses of the data made the results hard to interpret. And the newly released results showed the drug made only a very small difference in thinking skills in one study and none in the other.
Alzheimer's patients and families are desperate for any help, no matter how small, adding pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to approve something. But with conflicting results, "I don't see how you can conclude anything other than that another trial needs to be done," said the Mayo Clinic's Dr. David Knopman, who was involved in one of the studies.
Laurie Ryan, a dementia scientist at the National Institute on Aging, agreed: "We need more evidence." Other doctors who consult for the drug's developers cheered the results. Dr. Paul Aisen, a dementia specialist at the University of Southern California, said they were "consistent and positive" in showing a benefit at a high dose — "a truly major advance."
Aducanumab aims to help the body clear harmful plaques, or protein clumps, from the brain. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen is developing it with Japan's Eisai Co. In afternoon trading, the companies' stocks were up roughly 4%.
The stakes are high for approval or denial. More than 5 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide have Alzheimer's. Current drugs only temporarily ease symptoms and do not slow the loss of memory and thinking skills.
But approving a drug that isn't truly effective could expose patients to financial and medical risks and give other drugmakers less incentive to develop better treatments. The makers of aducanumab undertook two studies, each enrolling about 1,650 people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia from Alzheimer's.
Those with a gene that raises their risk of the disease were started on a lower dose because they are more likely to suffer inflammation in the brain from medicines that target plaque. But as the studies went on and concern about this side effect eased, the rules were changed to let such patients get a higher dose.
A Biogen vice president, Samantha Budd Haeberlein, said more people got the higher dose in one study, and that helps explain why it succeeded and the other one failed. But the new analyses were done on partial results, and with methods not agreed upon at the outset, which makes any conclusions unreliable, independent experts said.
Also, the drug's benefits may have looked more impressive than they really were because patients in the placebo group worsened more in the positive study than in the one that failed. "It's hard to know exactly what happened here," said Dr. Howard Fillit, chief science officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. "I don't see how the FDA could approve it."
Questions also arose about the size of any benefit. The drug did not reverse decline, only slowed the rate of it compared to the placebo group by 22% in one study. Yet that meant a difference of only 0.39 on an 18-point score of thinking skills.
"It's a very small amount," Fillit said. Still, Maria Carrillo, chief science officer at the Alzheimer's Association, said it was "the largest reduction that we've seen to date," adding: "It may mean that they remember their loved ones a little longer."
The drug "is worthy of significant, rigorous exploration" and review by the FDA, she said. "This is an important moment for the Alzheimer's community." Some doctors and patients who helped test the drug are convinced it helped.
One was Charles Flagg, 78, a retired minister from Jamestown, Rhode Island, who received aducanumab until the studies were halted in March. Since he was taken off the medicine, "his cognition, his alertness, his interactions have definitely diminished," said his wife, Cynthia Flagg.
Biogen stressed the need for an effective treatment and suggested that delaying access to a drug that may work could deprive many people of help while further study is done. Dr. John Ioannidis, a Stanford University expert on research methods, said patients' need should not drive the FDA's decision.
"If we go down that path, we're likely to introduce a lot of ineffective treatments for diseases that are really common," he said. "It would be a complete mess."
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Fri, 06 Jan, 2023 - 12:00
Lord Mayor of Cork presented with the new 2023 fully electric Lord Mayoral car
Last year, the previous Lord Mayor, Cllr Colm Kelleher made history by becoming the first Lord Mayor of Cork to be chauffeured in an electric vehicle.
The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Deirdre Forde was today presented with the 2023 Lord Mayoral car, a fully electric Ford Mustang Mach-E Extended Range AWD, by Pádraig Duane of Henry Ford & Son Ltd. Picture: Brian Lougheed
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The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Deirdre Forde has been presented with the 2023 Lord Mayoral car - a fully electric Ford Mustang Mach-E Extended Range AWD.
This is the second consecutive year that an electric vehicle is being used to support the Lord Mayor of Cork's duties in line with Cork City Council's 2019 – 2024 Corporate Plan which sets out the council's plans to lead in the creation of a more sustainable city.
Ms Forde was presented with the brand new SUV by Pádraig Duane of Henry Ford & Son Ltd today.
The presentation of a new vehicle to the Lord Mayor is a long-running tradition in Cork.
"I want to express my gratitude to Pádraig and the team at Henry Ford & Son Ltd for continuing the tradition of supplying the official Lord Mayoral car," Ms Forde said.
"This is the second year that the Lord Mayor's car is fully electric, something I believe is vital in highlighting the council's commitment to climate action and making the city a more environmentally sustainable city."
The Mustang Mach-E fully electric SUV has a range in excess of 600km and will be charged on site in City Hall.
Driving the Mustang Mach-E leads to around a 50 percent cut in running costs compared to driving a petrol or diesel engine in a similar-sized vehicle.
"We are delighted to continue for 2023 the long tradition of providing a Ford car for use by the city's Lord Mayor," Pádraig Duane, fleet business manager at Henry Ford & Son Ltd, commented.
"With its distinctive number plate – always the first car to be registered each year in Cork, the Lord Mayor's car has become a common sight in and around Cork city and, indeed, in the wider county.
"And certainly, the sleek new Mustang Mach-E, all electric premium SUV, is a truly eye-catching and very apt car to continue the tradition, with its zero emissions capability: maximum Euro NCAP safety and green performance ratings.
"The Lord Mayor's Mach-E is the latest extended range AWD model giving maximum flexibility with a range of more than 600km from a single charge."
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Adapted from "Captain David J. Veazey, U. S. Naval Reserve" [biography, dated 6 September 1960] in Biographies, 20th century collection, Navy Department Library.
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David Julian Veazey
David Julian Veazey was born in El Paso, Texas, on 19 June 1913, son of Mrs. Norman E. (Edna Earl Cooke) Veazey and the late Mr. Veazey. He attended Memphis Technical High School, Memphis, Tennessee, completing the Electrical Engineering Course there, and in March 1931 enlisted in the US Naval Reserve as a Seaman, first class. Promoted to Radioman, second and Radioman, first class, he was commissioned Ensign on 14 October 1935, and subsequently advanced to the rank of Captain in the US Naval Reserve, with date of rank 1 July 1956.
While in inactive status in the Naval Reserve, he served as Chief Radio Engineer, Memphis Police Radio System, for eight years, and for three years was with RCA Victor Division, RCA Staff, Police and Emergency Communications Department, Camdon, New Jersey. The last four years he served as Radioman in Charge of Unit 1, Section 5, Inactive Reserve, receiving a Special Order Discharge to accept a commission as Ensign, USNR.
After being commissioned in October 1935 he was assigned as Commanding Officer of Unit 1, Section 5, Reserve Radio Station, Memphis, and before being called to active duty in March 1941 participated in flood emergency service in Memphis on 28 January 1937. He was commended by the U . Coast Guard for communication assistance during that emergency.
His first active duty, March 1941 until September 1943, was at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, where he served as Aircraft Radio and Radar Officer, with additional duty as Radar Officer in PBY Squadron on convoy and escort duty in the Gulf of Mexico, during the early period of World War II. He was then assigned to the USN Radar School, Corpus Christi, Texas, and upon completion of the course in November 1943, he reported to the Navy Department, Washington, DC. There he was assigned duty as Head, Radio Navigation Branch, Electronics Division, and remained on duty in that capacity throughout the last two years of the war.
From January 1946 until July 1947, again in inactive status in the Naval Reserve, he was Commanding Officer, Electronic Warfare Company, at Oaklyn, New Jersey, and again was attached to the Staff of RCA Victory Mfg. Company. Recalled to active duty in July 1947, he returned to the Navy Department, Washington, to serve in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, under the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air and Logistics) in the Airborne Radar and Electronic Warfare Program. There he planned and managed the AEW-CIC Constellation Program during the period ending in July 1952.
For three years he was assigned as Test Coordinator at the US Naval Air Material Test Center, Point Mugu, California, and in July 1955 returned to the Navy Department, where he served this time as Deputy Director, Plans and Programs Division (Fleet Ballistic Missile Program) of the Bureau of Ordnance. Re-designated when combined with the Bureau of Aeronautics in January 1960, the Bureau of Ordnance became the Bureau of Naval Weapons, and Captain Veazey was assigned duty as Assistant for Communications to the Director, Technical Division.
Captain Veazey has the Naval Reserve Medal with Star; the American Defense Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; and the National Defense Service Medal.
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On a cool May day in 1758, a 10-year girl with red hair and freckles was caring for her neighbor's children in rural western Pennsylvania. In a few moments, Mary Campbell's life changed forever when Delaware Indians kidnapped her and absorbed her into their community for the next six years. She became the first of some 200 known cases of white captives, many of whom became pawns in an ongoing power struggle that included European powers, American colonists and indigenous peoples straining to maintain their population, their land and way of life.
While Mary was ultimately returned to her white family—and some evidence points to her having lived happily with her adopted Indian tribe—stories such as hers became a cautionary tale among white settlers, stoking fear of "savage" Indians and creating a paranoia that escalated into all-out Indian hating.
From the time Europeans arrived on American shores, the frontier—the edge territory between white man's civilization and the untamed natural world—became a shared space of vast, clashing differences that led the U.S. government to authorize over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its indigenous people. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492.
In 1782, a group of Moravian Protestants in Ohio killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians, illustrating the growing contempt for native people. Captain David Williamson ordered the converted Delawares, who had been blamed for attacks on white settlements, to go to the cooper shop two at a time, where militiamen beat them to death with wooden mallets and hatchets.
Ironically, the Delawares were the first Indians to capture a white settler and the first to sign a U.S.-Indian treaty four years earlier—one that set the precedent for 374 Indian treaties over the next 100 years. Often employing the common phrase "peace and friendship," 229 of these agreements led to tribal lands being ceded to a rapidly expanding United States. Many treaties negotiated U.S.-Indian trade relations, establishing a trading system to oust the British and their goods—especially the guns they put in Indian hands.
In the early 1800s, the rise of the charismatic Shawnee war leader, Tecumseh, and his brother, known as the Prophet, convinced Indians of various tribes that it was in their interest to stop tribal in-fighting and band together to protect their mutual interests. The decision by Indiana Territorial Governor (and later President) William Henry Harrison in 1811 to attack and burn Prophetstown, the Indian capital on the Tippecanoe River, while Tecumseh was away campaigning the Choctaws for more warriors, incited the Shawnee leader to attack again. This time he persuaded the British to fight alongside his warriors against the Americans. Tecumseh's death and defeat at the Battle of the Thames in 1813 made the Ohio frontier "safe" for settlers—at least for a time.
In the South, the War of 1812 bled into the Mvskoke Creek War of 1813-1814, also known as the Red Stick War. An inter-tribal conflict among Creek Indian factions, the war also engaged U.S. militias, along with the British and Spanish, who backed the Indians to help keep Americans from encroaching on their interests. Early Creek victories inspired General Andrew Jackson to retaliate with 2,500 men, mostly Tennessee militia, in early November 1814. To avenge the Creek-led massacre at Fort Mims, Jackson and his men slaughtered 186 Creeks at Tallushatchee. "We shot them like dogs!" said Davy Crockett.
In desperation, Mvskoke Creek women killed their children so they would not see the soldiers butcher them. As one woman started to kill her baby, the famed Indian fighter, Andrew Jackson, grabbed the child from the mother. Later, he delivered the Indian baby to his wife Rachel, for both of them to raise as their own.
Jackson went on to win the Red Stick War in a decisive battle at Horseshoe Bend. The subsequent treaty required the Creek to cede more than 21 million acres of land to the United States.
From 1830 to 1840, the U.S. army removed 60,000 Indians—Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee and others—from the East in exchange for new territory west of the Mississippi. Thousands died along the way of what became known as the "Trail of Tears." And as whites pushed ever westward, the Indian-designated territory continued to shrink.
Annuities and provisions promised to Indians through government treaties were slow in being delivered, leaving Dakota Sioux people, who were restricted to reservation lands on the Minnesota frontier, starving and desperate. After a raid of nearby white farms for food turned into a deadly encounter, Dakotas continued raiding, leading to the Little Crow War of 1862, in which 490 settlers, mostly women and children, were killed. President Lincoln sent soldiers, who defeated the Dakota; and after a series of mass trials, more than 300 Dakota men were sentenced to death.
While Lincoln commuted most of the sentences, on the day after Christmas at Mankato, military officials hung 38 Dakotas at once—the largest mass execution in American history. More than 4,000 people gathered in the streets to watch, many bringing picnic baskets. The 38 were buried in a shallow grave along the Minnesota River, but physicians dug up most of the bodies to use as medical cadavers.
That fateful cold morning, Chivington led his men against 200 Cheyennes and Arapahos. Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle had tied an American flag to his lodge pole as he was instructed, to indicate his village was at peace. When Chivington ordered the attack, Black Kettle tied a white flag beneath the American flag, calling to his people that the soldiers would not kill them. As many as 160 were massacred, mostly women and children.
At this time, a war hero from the Civil War emerged in the West. George Armstrong Custer rode in front of his mostly Irish Seventh Cavalry to the Irish drinking tune, "Gary Owen." Custer wanted fame, and killing Indians—especially peaceful ones who weren't expecting to be attacked—represented opportunity.
Expecting another great surprise victory, Custer attacked the largest gathering of warriors on the high plains on June 25, 1876—near Montana's Little Big Horn river. Custer's death at the hands of Indians making their own last stand only intensified propaganda for military revenge to bring "peace" to the frontier.
Anti-Indian anger rose in the late 1880s as the Ghost Dance spiritual movement emerged, spreading to two dozen tribes across 16 states, and threatening efforts to culturally assimilate tribal peoples. Ghost Dance, which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs, called for a rejection of the white man's ways. In December 1890, several weeks after the famed Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was killed while being arrested, the U.S. Army's Seventh Cavalry massacred 150 to 200 ghost dancers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
For their mass murder of disarmed Lakota, President Benjamin Harrison awarded about 20 soldiers the Medal of Honor.
Three years after Wounded Knee, Professor Frederick Jackson Turner announced at a small gathering of historians in Chicago that the "frontier had closed," with his famous thesis arguing for American exceptionalism. James Earle Fraser's famed sculpture "End of the Trail," which debuted in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, exemplified the idea of a broken, vanishing race. Ironically, just over 100 years later, the resilient American Indian population has survived into the 21st century and swelled to more than 5 million people.


Anyone who had been holding out hope that the completion of the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III would signal the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency has had a pretty rough 24 hours. The banner headline for Monday's print edition of The Washington Post sums it up: "Mueller finds no conspiracy." Although the full report—unreleased—may not be as friendly to the Trump administration as Attorney General William P. Barr's four-page summary, President Trump seems to have survived Mueller's report. For all the time and money spent on the investigation, it ultimately failed.
Or so it seemed to some Americans convinced that members of the Trump campaign and administration, right to the very top, committed crimes and impeachable offenses. But the Mueller investigation was far from a failure. It only looks that way because we are so wedded to viewing alleged political wrongdoing through the lens of Watergate.
Seen through the lens of another scandal, the Iran-contra affair, the Mueller investigation looks very different: It produced impressive documentation of malfeasance, including numerous indictments.
In both instances, an irreproachable special prosecutor assiduously documented evidence of lawbreaking throughout a president's inner circle, sent people to prison and left a detailed, damning record for history. And while Ronald Reagan and his vice president, George H.W. Bush, escaped indictments—just as Trump seems to have escaped a finding that he obstructed justice—very few people think the Iran-contra report vindicated Reagan.
Hemmer is an expert on the history of American politics and media. As an assistant professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center, she works on a wide-ranging set of projects, both scholarly and public.


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Los Angeles' Premier Sports Facilities Are Game-Changers for Meetings
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Courtesy of Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
Los Angeles, "The City of Angels," has had a heavenly run when it comes to premiere sports events in the last two years, from the World Series to the Super Bowl—held in the new $5 billion SoFi Stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Chargers and NFL World Champion Rams—with the Summer Olympics on tap for 2028.
"Over the past several years, there has been tremendous investment made in our city's venues and infrastructure—and this is on top of the incredible resources our city already offered," said Kathryn Schloessman, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission. "Since adding SoFi Stadium to our impressive portfolio of venues, we have been able to bid on, and secure, the right to host these events over the next several years—the MLB All-Star Game, the College Football Playoff National Championship, WrestleMania, the U.S. Open, the Olympic and Paralympic Games—and we hope to be awarded the FIFA World Cup."
We checked in with Discover LA, the destination's DMO, who provided a snapshot of their star sports facility performers. Following are five that are primed for meetings and events, from mega get-togethers to smaller gatherings that can utilize specific parts of the buildings while still feeling like all-stars.
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One of L.A.'s most impressive new venues and host of Super Bowl LVI, SoFi Stadium is open to special events in several premium spaces throughout the site.
The Concourse Spaces and Patio Club, for example, invites attendees to mingle in the enviable California weather with a variety of versatile outdoor venues.
For more private events with an exclusive feel, the Pechanga Founders Club, Chairman's Club and Google Cloud Club offer modern design and luxury finishes.
With the field as the backdrop of several SoFi Stadium event spaces, it's a truly unique venue for delivering special events and receptions.
[Related: Super Bowl LVI and LACC Career Academy Showcase CSR Potential in L.A.]
SoFi Stadium. Courtesy of Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
For more than 60 years, the Chavez Ravine's Dodger Stadium has welcomed fans from all around the globe, charming them with its breathtaking views and storied past, from Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax to the star-studded lineup that won the 2020 World Series.
This treasured Los Angeles landmark is also the perfect setting for special events, with many event spaces in the stadium available to book on non-gamedays, including the sleek Champions Club, casual midcentury-modern Baseline Clubs, the San Manuel Dugout Club right behind home plate, the Retired Numbers Plaza with a spectacular view of the field and the skyline, or even the field itself.
Dodger Stadium. Courtesy of Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
Banc of California Stadium
Home to the Los Angeles FC men's professional soccer team, Angel City FC women's professional soccer team and some of L.A.'s biggest concerts, Banc of California Stadium is also a state-of-the art event venue and catering facility with the ability to host a variety of private and public events, ranging from corporate meetings and tradeshows to concerts and weddings.
The stadium offers a variety of indoor and outdoor event spaces, including four premium club and catering spaces, stylish bars and catering spaces, outdoor event decks and 35 suites.
In total, the seating capacity is 22,000, with highlights that include the luxurious Founder's Club, the sublime Sunset Deck and the field.
Banc of California Stadium. Courtesy of Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
Maybe the most storied sports facility—among many—in Los Angeles, if not the world, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will become the first stadium to have hosted the Summer Olympics three times when it is the main stage for the 2028 Games.
A historic L.A. landmark in Exposition Park, and also a National Historic Landmark, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum invites groups to host meetings and special events ranging from corporate meetings to large conferences.
The Coliseum offers several venues available for private booking, including the field and historic Peristyle, which can be lit via the Olympic Cauldron for a guest experience of a lifetime.
[Related: Eco-Friendly Meetings in California Pave the Way for a More Sustainable Events Industry]
A unique smaller location to host meetings and events such as luncheons and receptions is Crypto.com Arena, formerly known as STAPLES Center, the site of Los Angeles Lakers and Sparks championships, as well as Los Angeles Kings Stanley Cup triumphs.
Located in Downtown L.A.'s electric, meetings and events beacon L.A. LIVE complex, facilities here offer a private, comfortable environment and feature cutting-edge technology. Several meeting room options are ideal for board meetings, presentations, seminars and more.
L.A. LIVE complex. Courtesy of Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
Read more about meetings and events in California.
This article was produced in collaboration with Visit California.


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The tomato salad is called here in Malaga "PIPIRRANA" but most of people called "ENSALADA DE TOMATE".
The raisin soaqued in licuor are called "pasas en aguardiente" because they are dried grape, tha you put in anis, or brandy as you like.
The andalusian olives, we called here "aceitunas partidas" or just "aceitunas" or "olivas"
The tomato bread sauce, we called here in Málaga "porra" but in other province are called "salmorejo"
every man calls his friend "tio" -- which is uncle... but also like "buddy"
so tomorrow morning is " mañana de la mañana "
but there are also words for young and old birds... which i have forgotten now.
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US Billionaire taunts ex-wife by putting up giant photographs of himself and new wife on a tall building after their messy divorce (Photos)
By OAKTVOMG On Mar 14, 2019
American billionaire, Harry Macklowe,82, who recently married his long-term mistress Patricia Landeau, appeared to take a swipe at his ex-wife of 58-years Linda Macklowe, 80.
The Real Estate Mogul who got married Patricia last week celebrated their big day by installing portraits of himself and his new wife on the side of the building at 432 Park Avenue in New York.
Mr. Macklowe told the publication he had erected the Park Avenue installation to represent his pride in his relationship and achievements, but many saw it as a dig at his ex, Linda, after their bitter divorce.
"Our smiling faces will be on a building that I built — and I am proud of my wife, my life, my friends and colleagues," he said, adding it "gives me a great thrill" to "share this moment of joy and happiness".
Mail reported that Linda, 80, filed for divorce in 2016, after learning that Harry had been putting Patricia, who is in her early 60s, up for at least two years in another property.
Over the years, the pair who have two adult children, fought constantly over the division of their assets, including a $997 million art collection and their property portfolio until they recently reached a settlement, although the details are not known.
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Helical strake testing suggests path to VIV solution
Vibration in subsea risers caused by vortex shedding is a challenge to operations in deepwater. Proper management of vortex induced vibration requires a balance between acceptable movement and the cost of suppression. To address the questions involved in planning configurations for marine risers, and to investigate the impacts of typical conditions affecting VIV, two programs were conducted consisting of tests along a tubular (just under 100 ft long) that was towed under a rotating arm at high speeds to simulate conditions similar to those a deepwater riser may encounter.
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Don W. Allen
VIV Solutions Inc.
Stergios Liapis
Shell Exploration and Production
Vibration insubsea risers caused by vortex shedding is a challenge to operations in deepwater. Proper management of vortex induced vibration (VIV) requires a balance between acceptable movement and the cost of suppression. To address the questions involved in planning configurations for marine risers, and to investigate the impacts of typical conditions affecting VIV, two programs were conducted consisting of tests along a tubular (just under 100 ft long) that was towed under a rotating arm at high speeds to simulate conditions similar to those a deepwater riser may encounter.
The test results reveal a number of phenomena regarding the performance of helical strakes. Among the most important are:
While strakes provide significant additional damping, they offer the most benefit when placed at locations corresponding to the maximum velocities encountered by the tubular
Strakes placed at low velocity locations, at the expense of high velocity locations, still contribute to VIV suppression but mostly by adding damping
It is not critical to cover 100% of each joint or region (i.e. 100% density) though suppression performance improves with increased coverage density
While strake alignment is desirable, it may often be unnecessary since the degradation in strake performance from misalignment can be fairly small
Relatively low to moderate amounts of uniform marine growth cause very little degradation in strake performance of an isolated tubular (this is not necessarily true of tandem tubulars or arrays)
For triple start strakes with a fin height of 0.25D, pitch lengths of both 12D and 17.5D were quite effective with only small differences in their performance, thereby indicating that strake performance is relatively insensitive to pitch lengths in the range of about 12D to 18D
Strakes increase drag above that of a bare cylinder.
All of the experiments were conducted in the Rotating Arm Basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock, Maryland. The basin is a circular indoor basin approximately 260 ft (79 m) in diameter and 20 ft (6 m) deep. Models are towed in circular paths through still water by a rotating arm. A 2.5-in. (6.3-cm) diameter test pipe was placed under the arm, supported by a truss assembly, for these tests.
The test pipes at each end were supported by an assembly that allowed the ends to rotate while allowing the test pipes to be pre-tensioned the same value. However, the variation of drag on the various models tested produced different tensions during testing. The tensions were measured at each end and the accelerations were measured at four locations along the pipe axis.
Rotating arm setup.
Aluminum connectors were made to fit inside the main joints (as an inner sleeve) and bolted to the fiberglass to connect adjacent joints. Helical strakes were modeled by gluing strips of Buna-n rubber onto the pipe surface. The strake cross-sections were rectangular, ranging from a base width to height ratio of 0.85 to1.0 (square) with most of the cross-sections square.
For these experiments, the rotation of the arm ensures that the test cylinder experiences higher velocity at the outer end than at the inner end. This means that the vortex shedding frequencies are higher at the outer end than at the inner end since vortex shedding frequencies are proportional to velocity. Since the fundamental natural frequency in bending for a long tubular is relatively low, there is a range of bending modes that may be experienced by the test cylinder (these modes are typically categorized as those that are in-line with the flow and those that are transverse to the flow; however, the primary focus here is on the transverse bending modes since those modes usually cause the largest fatigue damage and respond with larger displacements than the in-line modes). The relative flow at the outer end of the test cylinder excites higher modes than the relative flow at the inner end of the cylinder.
Deepwater ocean tubulars can experience a similar phenomenon due to changes in ocean current magnitude with depth.
It is important to understand this concept since a vortex suppression device will only suppress vortex shedding excitation locally. The response modes and frequencies are further complicated because helical strakes not only change the cylinder vibration amplitude but they can, and usually do, also change the cylinder vibration response frequency (frv). An effective helical strake will reduce frv, which can thereby reduce the vibration mode and the bending stress on the cylinder. Thus, effective helical strakes can improve the fatigue life of the cylinder in two ways: By reducing the response amplitude; and by reducing the response frequency.
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During our research, we discovered that Bollywood's hottest young actor Tahir Bhasin recently spent two months in Budapest shooting for highly awaited action-thriller film 'Force 2' which he stars in with John Abraham and Sonakshi Sinha (it hits theatres November 18). Bhasin made his official film debut with Mardaani, which earned him rave reviews, a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and marked him as a rising star in Bollywood.
1) The trailer for the movie has some brilliant shots of Budapest. Can you tell us where these were filmed?
A lot of the filming for 'Force 2′ took place near the Parliament building in central Budapest – you'll easily be able to spot its huge dome which dominates the view in the trailer – as well as the picturesque, iconic Széchenyi Chain Bridge that straddles the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest.
Other spots that the trailer showcases are the Liberty Bridge and the pedestrian-friendly cobbled streets along the Danube, where you can find quirky Art Nouveau landmarks, ornate historical sites and charming cafés. The rooftop chase scenes were shot at the Budapest Stock Exchange.
2) What was it like filming in Budapest?
Budapest is incredibly beautiful, as the picturesque mix of Baroque, Gothic and Art Deco buildings add a distinct Eastern European edge to the skyline.
As an actor and an avid backpacker I was awestruck and charmed by its streets , the cafe culture, the architecture and multicultural past.
Before we started to shoot, I used to take quite a number of long walk tours around Budapest along with students of history and architecture to get to know the character of the city, as it helped to get to know the streets where Shiv – my character in Force 2 – would have spent most of his time.
3) was 'force 2' filmed in any other parts of Hungary?
Yes, one of the most exciting chase scenes in the film was shot entirely during a day at Szentendre, a very picturesque village around 20 kilometres north of Budapest.
It is a little village with a Mediterranean feel, and is a very popular tourist destination due to its historical atmosphere, museums, cafés and colourful Baroque homes. During filming, I learnt that the town's original founders were Serbians, who were fleeing from the Turkish occupation of their country. Even the Serbian Orthodox Church moved their seat here around the year 1690, hence the Serbian influence on the town's architecture and cultural life is quite evident.
4) Are Hungarians aware of Bollywood? how did they react when they saw you filming?
Yes, they were very aware of Bollywood – more so now, after we filmed there. Locals in Budapest were enamoured by the many stunt bikers and action vehicles on set; in fact, they often imagined the film as Korean or Iranian, as they did not associate such a large stunt team with the song-and-dance image Bollywood has overseas.
The great thing about shooting the film in Hungary was that we had a crew of 150 international film technicians, and over 100 of them were locals, so there was great pride in being part of an international collaboration for a film made for an Indian audience.
5) What was your favourite experience in Budapest?
I loved taking solo walks during my days off, during which I would often wander through the Castle district, which is studded with Budapest's most important medieval monuments and museums. Undoubtedly the most spectacular of these impressive structures is the 18th-century Budapest Castle, a massive 200-roomed palace that, like much of the city, is spectacularly illuminated at night.
Another highlight is the late 19th-century Fisherman's Bastion, a rampart which, during the Middle Ages, was defended by a guild of local fishermen. Built behind the lovely Matthias Church, its Neo-Romanesque towers, colonnades and embrasures have been completely restored.
6) What are some experiences that travellers to the city should not miss out on?
7) Any local restaurants that you recommend?
Cafe Ruszwurm, which is one of the oldest traditional cafes and confectioner's in Budapest.
8) DDLJ put Switzerland on the map for Indian travellers. Do you think Force 2 will do the same for Budapest?
Well, it has already had an impact within the industry as after Force 2, two films from Bombay that are currently under production are shooting in Budapest.
(Laughs) Regarding the DDLJ analogy, if a project I was involved in can inspire people to explore and travel to a different part of the world, it would be a great sense of achievement. Right now, I really look forward to people getting to the theatres first.
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MARVEL AVENGERS snapback Cap
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Cleveland Cavaliers Chainstitch NBA New...
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VEGETA Dragon Ball navy/yellow Trucker Cap...
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RYDER CUP 2018 Jersey 9Forty New Era...
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ROAD RUNNER Looney Tunes Camel/black...
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MICKEY MOUSE Disney blue/camel Trucker Cap
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Valentino ROSSI Monster Energy black cap
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New York YANKEES MLB Twine New Era maroon cap
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Toronto Raptors Chainstitch NBA New Era cap
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Marc MARQUEZ MotoGP trucker red white cap
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Ferrari Quilted SF Racing red cap
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CHUNLI Street Fighter Royal/Yellow Trucker...
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Lewis HAMILTON MERCEDES AMG Replica Team /...
Petronas Mercedes Benz Amg Team Replica Team Cap is by Lewis Hamilton. It is white, curved and adjustable visor for adults.
ASTON MARTIN RED BULL Racing Cap
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Los Angeles DODGERS Dry Switch MLB 9FORTY...
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POKEMON CHARACTERS black trucker Cap
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Posted on January 13, 2022 January 13, 2022 by Christian Twiste
The Canadian power trio's fourth album was a turning point in their career and their most commercially successful effort at the time. It is also perhaps their most prophetic. Long before our digital age, 2112 is a story of a world controlled by computers, where creativity and individuality is crushed by an all powerful government, and music itself doesn't truly exist.
We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
All the gifts of life are held within these walls"
So begins Rush's seminal concept album, 2112. Released on April 1, 1976, the 20-odd minute track and the album itself, rounded out by five additional songs on the "B" side, marked a milestone in the legendary progressive rock band's career. This was their official transition from early 70's inspired, Led Zeppelin-like hard rock to the more innovative and progressive sound they would perfect with "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," "Red Barchetta," and many other classics. It was also a make or break moment for the young band: Their previous three efforts, Rush, Fly By Night, and Caress of Steel, earned them a small cult following, but hadn't performed as well as the record company would've liked. Coupled with poor reviews and declining ticket sales, the record company threatened to drop the band and wanted the trio of Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson to craft shorter, more radio-friendly songs, but thankfully for us all, they decided to throw down the gauntlet and release a complex, 20-minute science fiction masterpiece.
As Mr. Lifeson described it, "I remember having these conversations about, 'What are we going to do? Are we going to try to make another mini-Led Zeppelin record or are we going to do what we are going to do and continue forward and whatever happens, happens?'…We fully intended to go down in flames but we were prepared to do that." The band members were quickly proven correct in pushing ahead with this daring effort: Upon its release, 2112 received their most favorable reviews to date and almost immediately outsold their previous albums, peaking at number five on the Canadian Albums chart and 61 on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes. Rush embarked on a tour of Canada, the United States, and Europe for the first time to support the release. All told, it sold some 3,000,000 copies in the US, is listed on the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and ranked second in Rolling Stone's readers poll of Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time. At the same time, when you consider the source material, the density and diversity of the music, and the galaxy-spanning tale the song tells, the success of 2112 was certainly not assured.
To my knowledge, there aren't many albums that credit the "genius of Ayn Rand" or that take cues from the work of the objectivist philosopher in the liner notes. 2112 is deep and heady stuff whatever your political persuasion, combining a sweeping story and prophetic lyrics with brilliant musicianship: In the distant future, the galaxy is ruled by the Solar Federation, whose priests rely on computers to manage the "brotherhood of man" with "equality their stock in trade." These priests take care "of everything, The words you hear, the songs you sing, The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes." Art, creativity, and individuality itself are outlawed as the Solar Federation enforces a "nice contented world." Against this backdrop, a young man finds a guitar in a cave. He has no idea what it is, saying "what can this strange device be," but he quickly discovers that it creates music, "When I touch it it gives forth a sound, Its got wires that vibrate and give music." The young man quickly becomes enamored of the power of song, how the guitar "sings like a sad heart" and "joyously screams out its pain" through "Sounds that build high like a mountain" or "notes that fall gently like rain."
Unfortunately for him, the young man is also dangerously naïve. He believes that the priests themselves will rejoice in his discovery, what he describes as "an ancient miracle" and one which he thinks can benefit the entire world, but when he brings the guitar before them he learns music has been intentionally censored and suppressed. "Yes, we know, It's nothing new, It's just a waste of time," the priests inform him, backed by a pounding instrumental. "We have no need for ancient ways." The guitar is merely "another toy, That helped destroy, The elder race of man" and "it doesn't fit the plan." The young man is dumbstruck. "I can't believe you're saying, These things just can't be true, Our world could use this beauty, Just think what we might do." The priests are unmoved however, destroying the guitar and exiling the young man from their presence, asking "Just think about the average, What use have they for you?"
The young man returns home and has a strange dream about the elder race of man. He awakes, despondent and alone, only to end his own life. Inspiring or uplifting it certainly isn't, yet there is something compelling about the young man's struggle against conformity and his faith in the power of music even though it was a recent discovery for him, one which ultimately results in his own suicide. You get the sense that the music is still out there in this dystopian world, waiting for someone else to discover it at some indefinite point in the future, and perhaps that person will be strong enough to lead the revolution. Otherwise, there is a beauty and a tragedy to the transformative nature of music and art, one that becomes all too real as you listen to the song. The priests are backed by pounding, almost industrial sounds, clearly suggestive of their dominance and malevolence. The young man is supported by softer, sometimes acoustic melodies, creating a contrast that makes the fundamental conflict real even if there were no accompanying words.
When 2112 was released in 1976, however, computers were a largely unknown quantity, a curiosity more than an ever present part of most people's lives. The fact that they might run the entire world one day was by no means obvious or assured, turning the song into something of a prophecy 46 years later. Today, technology infects everything in ways both seen and unseen. It is the primary means of both our work and much of leisure. It works behind the scenes in the cars we drive and the planes we fly in, controlling these machines far more than most people realize to the point where the gas pedal is no longer directly linked to the engine, anymore than the steering is the wheels in most modern cars. It manages just about every aspect of a modern business, from manufacturing to inventory to shipping to accounting. When Amazon Web Services go down, thousands of businesses and millions of individual operations cease functioning entirely. There is no workaround or back up plan. Computers are the plan.
More insidiously, it facilitates almost all of our communications for both business and pleasure, connecting the world even as a small number of companies control the entire process. These companies now have the power to monitor and manage what we say, and ultimately what we think. This was unimaginable in 1976, but it's reality today: Facebook and Twitter, among others, have complete authority to shut down your speech, ban you from their platforms, and consign you to the backwaters of culture. Amazon, Apple, and Google also have complete control over what apps you can access on their devices and through their stores, even what sites or apps you can build on their servers in the first place. So far, the courts have ruled that your fundamental rights do not apply in their sphere. Your individuality and creativity, your freedom of thought and association, your music if you will, do not exist unless they deign to allow it. Personally, I believe this situation is unsustainable, but also think neither the companies nor the government will let go of this power willingly or easily.
This incredible rise of computers has had another, perhaps even more insidious, application: It has empowered and given rise to a new era of technocratic governance, where an entire class of people has come to believe they can model the future, make predictions, and manage our lives, just like the priests of the Temple of Syrinx. Computer models that are treated like the crystal balls of yore are ubiquitous now. Whether or not they are rarely accurate in practice, they are purported to predict the future of everything: The pandemic, the economy, the social sphere, even our collective behavior over time. This is true even as the underlying working of these models remains incredibly opaque and rarely published in public for analysis. Regardless, the media, the government, and other experts present their output as fact, using it to justify their plans, which more often than not require the populace to cede them even more power and give up even more freedom. These models are so pervasive, they are now being used to justify major changes to the very structure of our republic. For example, Stephen Marche, writing for The Guardian, openly cites projections by the University of Virginia that claim 30% of the population will control 68% of the Senate and eight states will contain half the population by 2040. They project this even as the population of progressive states is declining right now and might well accelerate, meaning no one knows what the population will look like 20 years in the future, whatever some model says. That simple fact, however, doesn't prevent Mr. Marche's conclusion that our system of government is outdated and no longer viable.
This trend has given rise to a new word, clearly imagined by Neil Peart in 2112: Technocracy. Technocracy is a form of government where the decision makers are chosen based on their purported expertise. This notion is at odds with traditional representative democracy, where officeholders are elected by the people to make decisions on their behalf. The application of technocracy to our government is relatively new, but the idea goes all the way back to Plato and his conception of a government run by benevolent Philosopher Kings, empowered to manipulate the populace as they saw fit to ensure a smoothly functioning society. In Plato's world and in all subsequent notions of government by the experts, the people have no rights, their freedoms exist entirely at the government's whim and the technocrats' belief in what is best. Your individuality can be crushed at any time if they, in their infinite wisdom, felt it was in society's interest.
Today, we have the computers, the technocrats control key aspects of our lives, and are armed with models showing why they should control much more. In short, a true Temple of Syrinx is not far off, even if it takes a while for them to actually outlaw music and smash your guitar. Can you get more prophetic for a masterful song written in 1976? It certainly doesn't hurt that the music and musicianship are nothing short of brilliant, either. Neil Peart succumbed to brain cancer two years ago, but his legacy lives on, echoing through the ages.
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