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Culture is one of the elements of the country that influences how Mexico is perceived in the world. Home to hundreds of unique indigenous cultures, renowned artists and celebrated authors, Mexico has finally seen the creation of a Ministry of Culture to help boost cultural awareness both nationally and internationally.
In 2015, the Mexican Senate approved the new ministry after three special cultural committees proposed to create a body to oversee cultural policies and funding. Up until now, the country's cultural decisions were made within the body of the Public Education Ministry.
What is sought with the new ministry is that "with more order in the sector and better coordination, more resources will arrive, not bureaucracy, but that culture will begin to be seen differently in our country," said Zoe Robledo, from the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD.
The senator added that culture is not only for attracting tourism and investment, "but it is one of the elements of the country that influences how (Mexico) is perceived in the world."
National Council for Culture and Arts (Conaculta) was created to coordinate cultural and artistic policies, organizations, and agencies. Also, it is dedicated to promote, support and sponsor events that foster culture and arts.
The immediate precedent of Conaculta was the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Public Education; However, it became independent by presidential decree in 1988, annexing all institutions, departments and agencies from other ministries with mandates of a cultural nature.
Among the reasons that led to its foundation is its role in stimulating and encouraging both artistic and cultural creation, ensuring full freedom of creators. In the same way, it was considered that Conaculta should encourage artistic expressions of social groups from different regions across the country in order to promote, preserve and enrich historic, artistic and cultural heritage of the nation.
Foundation: December 7, 1988
Mission: Conaculta is the institution responsible for fully preserving Mexico's cultural heritage in all its artistic and cultural manifestations and also stimulating programs towards its creation, development and diffusion.
The actions of Conaculta are designed to maintain a professional commitment that benefits all of Mexican society to the promotion and dissemination of the artistic and cultural sector.
Vision: To become the most relevant national institution in the cultural and artistic sector. To stimulate artistic and cultural creation by ensuring full creative freedom. This, in acknowledgment of the fact that it is the duty of the State to promote and disseminate national identity and heritage.
To elevate the presence of Mexican art and culture through projects, exhibitions, cultural events, and cinematography.
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France's Royal Reactionary Gets Down and Dirty
By BRUCE CRUMLEY/PARIS Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Right wing French politician and presidential hopeful Phillipe de Villiers was roundly denounced last week after his dubious claims that much of the workforce at Charles de Gaulle airport had become infiltrated by Islamic radicals — which, in some ways, was exactly his intention. At a time when mainstream political leaders like interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy are embracing anti-immigrant positions and xenophobic National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen finds his popularity growing, de Villiers was clearly hoping that his sensational claims would raise the profile of his Movement for France (MFF) among the country's hard right voters, which comprise roughly 20% of the national electorate.
The MFF's immigration-hostile, anti-European platform has traditionally attracted the more affluent, genteel brand of reactionary — matching de Villiers' own snobbish aristocratic background. The scion of a posh family whose blueblood ancestors once lorded over parts of his native Vend�e region in western France, the chateau-owning de Villiers initially attracted more pragmatic royalists and upper-class rightists than he did hardened reactionies. Long unwilling to taint himself with the snarling language and mean-spirited policies favored by the National Front, de Villiers has often been belittled as "Le Pen Lite." He's clearly looking to change that — and not just with his trademark warning of a nefarious "Islamization of France." With Le Pen uncharacteristically quiet and politically dormant since reaching the run-off in the 2002 presidential race, de Villiers' has been busy trying to win National Front voters over with depiction of Le Pen as an old, spent force — and himself as an experienced legislator capable of bringing the extreme right's ideals to power at long last.
In his new book titled The Mosques of Roissy, de Villiers charges that the defiantly fundamentalist employees at de Gaulle represent a ticking terror time bomb within the heart of one of the world's busiest airports. As proof, his book reproduces a dire report by France's police intelligence unit responsible for identifying and tracking extremists. The problem, security officials say, is the document de Villiers has brandished is bogus — containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected of Islamist ties — and who may now go underground.
But if de Villiers figured he could elbow past Le Pen as the extreme-right's new, more photogenic face, he was wrong. Swept back to center stage and his traditional role as the national Cassandra, Le Pen has found supporters flocking to him anew in the wake of the suburban Muslim riots of November, and two months of violent youth protests over labor reform this year. Able to claim he'd long denounced the mass immigration and bleeding heart permissiveness he has blamed the rioting and demonstrations on, Le Pen has been effective in mocking de Villiers as a calculating opportunist — or, as his daughter and potential successor called de Villiers, a political "vulture."
Still, any extreme-right voters feeling flattered by the all attention being paid shouldn't celebrate just yet. Barring any renewed bursts of urban violence that could send masses of frightened conservatives into the National Front's camp, political analyst Dominique Reyni� says the triangular split between Le Pen, de Villiers and presidential frontrunner Sarkozy could actually hurt the right's prospects. If Le Pen and Sarkozy were to savage one another ahead of the first round of presidential voting, after all, it could lead embittered backers of whichever candidate doesn't make the run-off to withhold their votes in the second round — or cast them for the probable Socialist finalist out of spite. "In either scenario, the short-term winner of a split is the left," Reyni� says.
In the even longer run, however, it may be that the biggest loser in next year's voting, likely to be de Villiers, will be turn out to be in a good position for the next election, in 2011. "De Villiers strategy is that Le Pen drags Sarkozy down in 2006, before being forced to leave politics due to age," says Reyni�. "To de Villiers mind, that leaves him uncontested leader of the hard- and extreme-right, and with Sarkozy defeated as the standard-bearer of dejected mainstream conservatives." It's a long shot, of course, but de Villiers may not have any other kind.

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Based out of Los Angeles CA, KAA Design is an award-winning, leading-edge, residential design firm led by Founding Partner Grant C. Kirkpatrick, FAIA, and Partner Duan H.M. Tran, AIA. With a talented team of over 30 experienced multidisciplinary designers, the firm brings a unique level of specialization towards design-forward endeavors.
KAA Design's work is the result of an intimate and highly collaborative design process alongside each discerning client. With an integrated architecture and landscape architecture expertise, the firm brings a design philosophy that is founded on the importance of marrying each client's program and lifestyle with the unique characteristics offered by the site.
To enhance the client's design experience, the firm utilizes a design technology platform that leverages several high-end visualization tools such as 3D print modeling, photorealistic renderings, video animations, and virtual reality during the process.
Over the past 30 years, KAA Design has won numerous AIA awards in the categories of design. The firm's work has also been extensively published in several media outlets including Architectural Digest, Interiors, Luxe, Ocean Home, House Beautiful, Coastal Living, Sunset Magazine, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The Robb Report. Several monographs have been published on the firm's design philosophy and work, most recently California Contemporary.
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A third generation Californian, Grant Kirkpatrick, FAIA, draws his energy and inspiration from his home state's optimism and progressive ideals. Since its founding over 30 years ago, Grant has been the visionary force behind KAA Design Group and he and his team strive everyday to elevate the human spirit through the benefits and authenticity of warm contemporary residential design.
Raised in Palos Verdes, Grant earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California and became a licensed architect at age 24. His entrepreneurial spirit and passion for design led him to found KAA Design just a few years later in 1988. Since then, the firm has completed projects for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Christie's auction house, Hugo Boss stores across the nation, master plans and renovations for the Jonathan Club, Santa Monica Beach Club, and Manhattan Country Club, and other award-winning commercial and hospitality projects. The firm now focuses exclusively on custom homes, having notably worked with high-profile clients like Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Kirk Kerkorian, Matt Damon, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and The Pritzker Family, among others. Coastal retreats, city-view estates, and distinctive vacation properties for a broad range of passionate clients round out the firm's impressive portfolio.
Community service and academics are a core part of Grant's practice. He serves as the Board Chair for non-profit ArtworxLA and on the Board of Councilors for the USC School of Architecture. Grant teaches at the annual XED Executive Education Program at USC and frequently lectures on topics surrounding Southern California residential architecture. In 2021, Grant was awarded the USC Architectural Guild Distinguished Alumni Award along with 4 other extraordinary individuals. His community involvement has included numerous industry appointments such as two-terms as a planning commissioner for the City of Manhattan Beach, membership on the Bel-Air Architecture Review Board, and juror for the Santa Barbara AIA Design Awards.Over the past three decades, KAA Design has won numerous AIA awards, the "Good Design is Good Business" award from Architectural Record, the 2009 PDC Stars of Design award for Architecture, Azure Magazine's "Best Product" award, as well as several Los Angeles Design Council, LA Business Journal, and City of Beverly Hills Architecture awards. The firm's work has been extensively published in over 30 design magazines and books including Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Coastal Living, Sunset Magazine, and The Robb Report.
Outside day-to-day operations of KAA Design, Grant has developed a comprehensive line of outdoor furniture for Design Within Reach and a line of prefab homes. He enjoys spending his time off tending to his vineyard in Central California. Grant and his family are longtime residents of Manhattan Beach.
As a Partner of the firm, Duan's vision and leadership extend to both management and project design. His focus on firm wide initiatives related to its organizational growth, business development, and long term strategic planning, guide the firm's ability to leverage its over 30-year history with a nimbleness required to retain its position on the frontlines of an ever changing industry and clientele.
Duan also maintains a leading presence on all aspects of design for many of the firm's most notable projects and discerning clients. With an artistic sensibility rooted in modern composition and form, he enjoys exploring the intersections of his ideals in collaboration with an engaged and passionate client through the process of designing their home. Several of his projects have been recognized by the AIA, as well as having been featured in several regional, national, and international publications including Architectural Digest, Luxe, and the Robb Report.
A native Ohioan, Duan received his undergraduate degree from Miami (OH), and graduate degrees in both Architecture and Historic Preservation from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining KAA Design, Duan's professional career included several distinguished residential and hospitality firms in both Ohio and Washington DC.
Duan is a licensed Architect and member of the AIA. He is also a member of the prestigious Leaders of Design Council, the Board of Directors for A+D Museum in Los Angeles, and Advisory Board for Miami (OH)'s College of Creative Arts. Duan has also been invited to serve on several academic design juries, as well as a guest panelist for several design and industry media events.
Outside of the office, Duan and his wife enjoy finding time to travel, all awhile keeping up with their three active daughters in Culver City.
Originally from South Florida, Steve received his Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University in 1984, and worked with Perez Associates in New Orleans before relocating to Los Angeles, where he would join KAA Design Group in 1988.
Steve approaches architectural design with passion, patience and inter-disciplinary rigor. As the firm's Design Coordinator, his design expertise and familiarity with KAA's over 30-year history of custom residential projects make him uniquely suited for direct involvement in all of the firm's work, overseeing design and construction documentation on a diverse portfolio of projects.
Steve believes that the successful realization of quality architecture depends on both clear communication of the design concept, and a comprehensive understanding of the construction process. Steve works collaboratively with the project teams to ensure that the project's original design vision is realized in every nuance. In this role, Steve endeavors to leverage current technology while ensuring the highest standards of quality control on all projects.
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Lisa Copeland was made in Korea, imported to the United States and raised as a Nebraskan. She received her Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and a Master's in Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management.
Lisa joined the firm with over 15 years of experience as a Chief Financial Officer providing strategy, leadership and financial risk management. Prior to joining the firm, Lisa worked in the banking, construction and real estate industries. She served as a former bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and a Business Integration Consultant for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). She has traveled extensively throughout her career and spent a year working abroad in Zurich, Switzerland.
Lisa oversees the firm's operational and financial reporting and processes, provides long and short term financial planning and budgeting, develops the firm's financial strategies, and provides risk management for all of the KAA Design Group's entities. Her passion for finance and accounting has led her to participate and assist in forming a CFO Roundtable group which is comprised of other local design firms within the Los Angeles area with the united goal to create Best Practices within our industry.
Meghan grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, surrounded and inspired by vernacular, modernist, and historic university architecture all set within beautiful scenery. Constantly seeking to observe and create, she's pursued a number of interests across the design spectrum – art, product design, furniture, woodworking, ui/web and graphic design, architecture – as well as archaeology and science.
She received Bachelor degrees in both Industrial Design and Art & Design from the NCSU College of Design in 2002. Finally embracing that her childhood tendencies to sketch, build balsa models, and draw floor plans were signs of a unifying passion across design disciplines, she returned to NCSU and received a Master of Architecture in 2007. She is a licensed Architect in the State of North Carolina, a member of the AIA, and certified by NCARB.
Meghan moved to California and joined KAA Design in 2011, where she has contributed to the design and construction of a number of custom residential projects. In addition to her role on projects, she oversees the BIM and design workflow initiatives within the firm and promotes mentorship and collaboration. She was a Speaker at the 2016 AIA National Convention in Philadelphia, with a presentation on integrating BIM into the design process. Meghan brings a big picture perspective as well as attention to detail to every project, and constantly strives for design excellence.
Michael was educated at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland, where he received his Bachelor's degree in Geography and Regional Planning. His enthusiasm for landscape architecture was cultivated while serving as curator of plants records at the campus arboretum. This burgeoning interest in landscape design led him to seek a Masters in Landscape Architecture, which he received from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. As a professor at the University of Southern California, Michael's passion for Southern California landscapes and blurring the boundary between architecture and landscape was galvanized.
McGowan joined KAA in 2011, overseeing the design and implementation of a broad range of custom residential, commercial and institutional landscapes. In addition to his design work on numerous estate residential landscapes, some of Michael's notable projects include: The Eastern Columbia Building, TreePeople Center for Community Forestry, Santa Monica Village and One Santa Fe.
Michael often attends student jury critiques, and is a member of the California State Polytechnic University, Department of Landscape Architecture Professional Advisory Board. He is also an avid screen printer, inspired by the attention to detail of Japanese woodblock printing, and the exploration of new printing techniques extant in today's street art.
Since relocating to Southern California and joining the firm in 2001, Todd has served as Job Captain and Project Manager on a broad range of KAA projects. Originally from Connecticut, Todd has enjoyed the unique design opportunities offered by Southern California living, and has collaborated on numerous noteworthy beachfront homes and estate properties.
Though certain of a life-long career in architecture, Todd has pursued a diverse design education earning a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. Before graduating in 1999, Todd further expanded his studies as a member of RISD's year-long European Honors Program based in Rome. Todd also worked in Boston on a range of historic and traditional residences further enhancing KAA's cross-disciplinary approach to design.


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John Shirley @JohnShirley2023@mastodon.cloud
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Writer, chiefly of novels in several genres, and story collections; also nonfiction; movie and animation scripts, song lyrics. Speaker (TEDx and elsewhere). Futurist. Blogger. Interests in science, spirituality, the arts. Writer of science-fiction, horror, techno-thrillers, thrillers, westerns. One of the original cyberpunk novelists. Vocalist, records albums, eg "Escape from Gravity" with Jerry King. Has worked in TV and movies: Co-wrote The Crow. New novel: STORMLAND. https://john-shirley.com
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I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR FORTHCOMING OCTOPUS OVERLORDS. Because we humans don't deserve this planet.
In this novel by Ray Nayler, "...Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future."
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I'm going to "meet" Mike Watt, bassplayer for Iggy on many things...and bassist of Firehose and the Minutemen...when he interviews me on Feb 3 for his podcast. He's interested in my album with Jerry King, ESCAPE FROM GRAVITY. And other things too. If you don't know of him, Mike is that super intense bassplayer you see in videos of Iggy and the Stooges reunion shows. With James Williamson. To see Mike's awards check wikipedia.
https://cloudoverjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/escape-from-gravity
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There's a Hindu legend about astral parasites called the Akishra. Ghostly, unseen worms, they grow big as boas; they feed on addicts: Alcoholics, drug addicts, gambling addicts, even gluttons. You can have several on you, like those chains that Marley could not feel in life, and not know it. As a former drug addict, to me they're a symbol of addiction dynamics--they grow as the addiction does. I used it in my novel (as a symbol and a plot point)...
https://www.amazon.com/Wetbones-John-Shirley/dp/1504021789/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674783054&sr=8-1
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"He" has many faces...
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Punk rock history, do not miss this punk rock memoir by Lora Lafayette. Like punk rock, it's a mix of funny and nightmarish and inspiring. https://bookshop.org/p/books/possums-run-amok-a-true-tale-told-slant-lora-lafayette/17313765?ean=9781634059930
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Once a young woman was in the punk rock scene in Portland OR. Her and her bff had horrible & wonderful adventures there, on and off drugs, then traveled to LA and Europe, also on and off drugs, to have more horrible and wonderful adventures. Then the young woman crumbled into a mental hospital for a while. Lately she won a poetry award & wrote an acclaimed memoir, POSSUMS RUN AMOK. And it's a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/possums-run-amok-a-true-tale-told-slant-lora-lafayette/17313765?ean=9781634059930
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Boston's 'Embrace' holds fast to the whitewashed view of MLK
"First of all, one would not immediately know that the statue, a work of public art that is meant to be an homage to King, and by extension to his activism, depicts the Rev. Martin Luther Jr. and Coretta Scott King at all. The sculpture appears to not have any indication of race; these could be anyone's hands."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/20/boston-mlk-statute-embrace-whitewashed/
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I found one of my baby pictures. I must say I was adorable:
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RIP DAVID CROSBY. A friend of mine has died. David Crosby. Of the Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash, and solo artistry. Everybody knows about his history so I guess it doesn't blow his anonymity to say that we went to NA and AA meetings together. He helped me with my recovery--he was an appreciator of my books. Anyway, another old friend who's died before I got a chance to reconnect. Let that be a lesson.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-crosby-dead-obituary-1234664235/
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One of the great New Wave science fiction writers, Norman Spinrad, is my old friend and I'm so glad to see he's back in the field with a cover story in Asimov's. Rudy Rucker in the same issue! #scifi #sff #sciencefiction
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We watched the movie THE WOMAN KING with the great Viola Davis. One of the best movies I've seen in several years. It's about the woman warriors in Dahomey in West Africa in 1823. It's action filled but a fine drama too. Is it historically accurate? Not particularly. Though the slave trade was much as depicted. The Agojie women warriors were quite real, though. They didn't likely have this martial arts style of fighting, but they were badass. Here's an image of one from the period.
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Years ago a cyberpunk trilogy came out, which has recently been noted for its prescience. This science-fiction thriller predicted certain technologies--like the ones behind deepfake videos and a particular use of drones that's come true but it's main theme was *political*. It described a 21st century descent into neo-fascism; white supremacy gaining power partly through media distortion. It described an American theocracy. It's still in print. The author was...
https://store.doverpublications.com/048681789x.html
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"Susan Schulten explores the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today."
Apparently she believed in creationism-- in those days it was just a sort of assumption--but apart from that, how wonderful are her MAPS OF TIME.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time
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Looking for something else I stumbled on this photo piece about unusual bird's nests. Some I knew about, some I didn't. I admire bird's nests and as many I follow here are bird fanciers...Is there a sort of bird for every personality a human can be? Some are robins, some are vultures? Some are pigeons, some are hawks? A native American once told me I was a hummingbird. At that time in my life, it was an apt description. Now I'm trying to go full owl.
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/strange-structures-built-by-birds/?utm_source=social+media&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=bion
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#quilt #quilting From my favorite website, Public Domain Review:
Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" Quilt (1876–ca. 1883)
Two years after a naked-eye comet pierced the blanket of night in the spring of 1874, Ellen Harding Baker (1847–1886) began a near decade-long project to bring the stars farther down to Earth: an appliqué quilt depicting the solar system, complete with a green-tailed comet, its slingshot course plotted around the Sun.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solar-system-quilt
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Today is Friday the 13th and...
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"Northern California statue of meat-packing magnate beheaded"
Will angry meat-packing-magnate fans call it "Vegan terrorism"?
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Security on screen
Queensland Rail is one of Australia's largest transport companies. It operates around 200 commuter and regional services along 7,000km of track for over 440,000 customers a year.
Queensland Rail wanted to improve security for passengers and staff by streaming live video in the event of an incident. The solution needed to overcome the poor mobile network coverage in some parts of Australia, while optimising quality for data-hungry applications such as high-quality CCTV.
A video link, triggered by a passenger-activated alarm, gives instant access to the control room, so that security can look into the train carriage and deal with any incident.
Nomad's technology uses the three main mobile carrier networks to guarantee a higher level of network coverage and better bandwidth availability.
Queensland Rail, Australia
While the broadband service was originally set up to improve safety, passenger feedback highlighted the need for connectivity while travelling too. Embedded software decides what traffic takes priority – so camera footage takes precedence over passenger WiFi.
The improved train connectivity has led to better security on Queensland Rail trains and improved its reputation as a leading-edge rail operator. And with Nomads communication platform, Queensland Rail also has the potential to easily add applications such as remote train announcements, timetable updates and condition based monitoring. It also offers Queensland Rail the ability to generate revenue from advertising.


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Texas Rangers Transactions
Fielder, Choo to d.l.; Fielder possibly done for season
Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo have been placed on the d.l., and Prince could be done for the year
By Adam J. Morris Jul 20, 2016, 6:16pm CDT
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The Texas Rangers have placed Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo on the disabled list today, and have called up Delino DeShields and Hanser Alberto to replace them on the active roster.
Choo is on the disabled list due to his ongoing back issue, though indications are that he is expected to miss just the 15 minimum 15 days.
Prince, however, had an MRI that revealed a herniated disc in his neck, similar to what he dealt with in 2014, and season-ending surgery is an option, according to the Rangers.
Choo has missed significant time this season due to a variety of ailments, and so his absence will likely mean that the Rangers will continue to use Ryan Rua in left field and Nomar Mazara in right field, though DeShields could also get some outfield starts. This does, however, reinforce the belief that Mazara isn't getting sent down, despite his recent slump.
The Prince news is more significant, as it means the Rangers lose the player who had been getting the bulk of the DH at bats this season. It sounds like Profar is expect to effectively replace Prince's at bats, which is why Joey Gallo isn't getting called up -- the Rangers want Alberto and DeShields to fill bench roles, and Gallo would only get called up to start. Given how Prince has hit this season, replacing his at bats with Profar is probably a net positive.


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Languages and Culture
Abbreviation: J. Lang. Cult.
DOI: 10.5897/JLC
Published Articles: 129
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Complex gendered identity in Africa: Postmodern perspectives from Igbo and Yoruba Languages and Cultures
Opeyemi T. Agoyi
Department of Linguistics and Languages, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria.
Ucheoma C. Osuji
Department of Philosophy, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria.
Article Number - 15322A968480
Vol.13(1), pp. 1-12 , January 2022
https://doi.org/10.5897/JLC2021.0557
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The showings were found during a regional project generation program performed in June 2018.
Midland Exploration (TSXV:MD) and Altius Minerals (TSX:ALS) have announced the discovery of new copper-molybdenum-gold-silver and gold showings in James Bay, Quebec.
According to the Midland release the showings were found during a regional project generation program performed in June 2018. The showings are divided between four new projects: Lothlorien, Galadriel, Celeborn and Fangorn.
The new Galadriel showing was found about 50 meters to the west of Pamela. All four grab samples collected on Galadriel returned high-grade copper-molybdenum-gold-silver values, up to 7.19 percent copper, 0.70 percent molybdenum, 4.3 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 61 g/t silver.
Click here to view the full Midland Exploration (TSXV:MD) and Altius Minerals (TSX:ALS) press release.


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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.


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Qatar Airways inks new codeshare pact with LATAM Airlines
Oct 15, 2019: Qatar Airways has announced an expanded codeshare agreement with LATAM Airlines Brazil, with immediate effect. The bilateral codeshare will provide Qatar Airways passengers with connections to destinations throughout Brazil and South America including Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba, Lima and Bogota to name a few. LATAM passengers will also be able to […]
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Oct 15, 2019: Qatar Airways has announced an expanded codeshare agreement with LATAM Airlines Brazil, with immediate effect. The bilateral codeshare will provide Qatar Airways passengers with connections to destinations throughout Brazil and South America including Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba, Lima and Bogota to name a few.
LATAM passengers will also be able to travel on Qatar Airways' flights between Sao Paulo (GRU) and Doha (DOH), offering onward connections to more than 25 destinations in the Middle-East, East Africa and South Asia, including Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore.
Qatar Airways first began flying to Brazil in 2010 with a service from Doha, Qatar to Sao Paulo, Brazil that connects onwards to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In August 2017, Qatar Airways announced a unilateral codeshare agreement with LATAM Airlines Brazil, expanding Qatar Airways' virtual network in Brazil.
Qatar Airways group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker said, "We were delighted to welcome LATAM's board and senior management to Doha and to have had such productive discussions about how we can continue to work together to benefit our millions of passengers and cargo customers. Since 2017, Qatar Airways has witnessed the significant benefits that codeshare cooperation has brought, providing passengers with unrivalled service and a seamless connection between South America and the Middle-East and Asia. The expansion of the codeshare agreement between Qatar Airways and LATAM Airlines Brazil will provide even greater connectivity for passengers of the World's Best Airline and the Best Airline in South America."
LATAM Airlines Group CEO, Enrique Cueto, said, "We thank Qatar Airways for inviting us to Doha to hold our board meeting and visit its state-of-the-art facilities. We had productive meetings and had the opportunity to learn about the products and services that make it one of the world's leading airlines for customers.
Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive and Enrique Cueto, LATAM Airlines Group CEO
A multiple award-winning airline, Qatar Airways was named 'World's Best Airline' by the 2019 World Airline Awards, managed by international air transport rating organisation Skytrax. It was also named 'Best Airline in the Middle East', 'World's Best Business Class' and 'Best Business Class Seat', in recognition of its ground-breaking Business Class experience, Qsuite.
Qatar Airways is the only airline to have been awarded the coveted "Skytrax Airline of the Year" title, which is recognised as the pinnacle of excellence in the airline industry, five times.
Qatar Airways currently operates a modern fleet of more than 250 aircraft via its hub, Hamad International Airport (HIA) to more than 160 destinations worldwide. The airline has added a number of new destinations to its extensive route network in 2019, including Izmir, Turkey; Rabat, Morocco; Malta; Davao, Philippines; Lisbon, Portugal; Mogadishu, Somalia and Langkawi, Malaysia.
LATAM Airlines Group serves 143 destinations in 25 countries, providing international connectivity to many of South America's unique destinations.


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HomeNewsGoogle employees who refuse vaccinations will be fired, report says
Google employees who refuse vaccinations will be fired, report says
Google CEO, Sundar Pichai
Google has reportedly told employees that those who fail to comply with company vaccine policies will ultimately lose their jobs.
An internal memo, obtained by CNBC, told staff that they must upload documents proving vaccination status.
Those who did not would be placed on unpaid leave and later sacked, it said.
Google has been pushing for an eventual return to the office – which has been repeatedly delayed – and expects those attending buildings to be vaccinated.
When contacted by the BBC, Google did not deny the accuracy of the US news channel's report on the leaked internal memo.
A spokesperson said: "As we've stated before, our vaccination requirements are one of the most important ways we can keep our workforce safe and keep our services running.
"We're committed to doing everything possible to help our employees who can get vaccinated do so, and firmly stand behind our vaccination policy."
CNBC's report said the memo, sent earlier this year, told employees they had until 3 December to send Google proof of vaccination or to apply for an exemption on medical or religious grounds.
Those who did not do so by 18 January next year would be put on "paid administrative leave" for 30 days, the memo said, followed by unpaid leave for up to six months.
After that period of "unpaid personal leave" they would lose their jobs.
Compulsory jabs
The approach to office working is mixed among the tech giants, and complicated by US regulation and a quickly-changing scenario.
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has told all employers with 100 or more staff that they must make sure each of their workers is either vaccinated or tested for Covid-19 once a week – a move that Google has indicated would cover almost all roles at the company.
That was due to come into effect on 4 January, but was quickly challenged in court, and has been suspended pending a court ruling.
However, Google said in July that anyone working in the office should be vaccinated, not just tested.
Those who have – or are able to find – a 100% remote-working role are not affected by the rule.
But it has also said that it expects most employees to be in the office for at least three days a week, rather than continuing to work from home. It has also said it will cut pay for US employees who continue to work remotely.
Other tech firms have taken a different approach.
In May, Twitter said staff could work from home "for ever" – with some caveats about suitable roles.
The following month, Facebook followed suit, saying employees could request to continue to work from home after Covid rules were lifted. Microsoft has also made remote work a permanent option.
Apple, like Google, has said it expects employees to be in the office at least three days a week – a move that resulted in strong resistance from some employees.
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Le massacre de la Saint-Brice se déroule le , jour de la fête de saint Brice, lorsque le roi anglais Æthelred le Malavisé ordonne le massacre de tous les Danois du royaume d'Angleterre.

Contexte et déroulement

La Chronique anglo-saxonne rapporte sous l'année 1002 que le roi Æthelred le Malavisé craint que les Danois établis en Angleterre ne complotent pour le tuer et s'emparer du royaume. Il ordonne par conséquent leur massacre, qui prend place le jour de la Saint-Brice, c'est-à-dire le 13 novembre.

Une charte émise par Æthelred en 1004 offre une description des événements qui se sont déroulés à Oxford deux ans plus tôt. Elle raconte comment les Danois de la ville se réfugient dans l'église Sainte-Frithuswith pour échapper à la mort. Les habitants de la ville sont incapables de les en déloger et finissent par mettre le feu au bâtiment pour les tuer.

Il est impossible d'estimer le nombre de victimes du massacre. L'historien Levi Roach note qu'il serait inapproprié de parler de nettoyage ethnique au sens moderne du terme. Les Anglais ne disposent clairement pas des moyens nécessaires pour mener à bien l'éradication de toutes les personnes d'origine danoise vivant dans le pays, et ce n'est probablement pas l'intention de l'ordre d'Æthelred. Ce dernier semble viser plus spécifiquement les mercenaires auxquels le pouvoir a fait appel lors des années précédentes pour lutter contre les raids vikings.

Une tradition tardive veut que la princesse danoise Gunhilde ait fait partie des victimes du massacre, ce qui aurait incité son frère Sven à la Barbe fourchue à envahir l'Angleterre par vengeance dans les années suivantes. Dans la mesure où ce récit n'apparaît qu'avec Guillaume de Malmesbury, qui écrit un siècle après les faits, Roach suggère qu'il faut le considérer avec prudence.

Possibles traces archéologiques

Deux fosses communes découvertes dans les années 2000 pourraient être liées au massacre de la Saint-Brice. La première, sur le site de l'actuel St John's College de l'université d'Oxford, contenait  et la seconde, à Ridgeway Hill près de Weymouth dans le Dorset, en contenait une cinquantaine.

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what did you write yours on?
we hav to write it on a career we're interrested in, so i'm gunna write mine on mechanical engineering.... anyone know of any websites containing info on mechanical engineering, such a: what they do, what kind of experiance is needed, what schooling is needed, salaries for them, etc.
PM Calesta, he's a ME.
wrote mine on Mugen! the funny thang is the teacher had no clue what the hell it was and where to find sources so it was all plagerized! hahahaha!
thanks man, those links will be a big help?
hey calesta were you involved with UT sae stuff. i went down there the other day and they all seemed kinda stuck up.
I used the shop, but no I wasn't in SAE. I didn't like working with those guys... but I did like using their tool box and impact tools. A lot of them area good friends of mine, but I never got involved.
I was president of ASME for a year, and was deeply involved with the organization for about 4 years... it's a much nicer bunch upstairs. They should still be in 2.104, just to the right after you get inside the main entrance of ETC. I've heard that there's some funny politics going down within the group these days though, so I don't know what you'll find. Check it out!


Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that the central government plans to introduce electric vehicles (EVs) on a mass scale within the next three years.The Minister of State (Independent Charge) Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy, and Mines was speaking at the 2017 annual session of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here. According to the minister, the move will support the central government's efforts to phase out petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Goyal elaborated that for mass introduction of EVs, the central government will build charging infrastructure and start battery swapping programmes.On the central government's UDAY scheme, the minister pointed out that it is "not only about financial re-engineering of discoms but also inculcating financial discipline". The scheme he explained will work by capping lending to inefficient discoms. The minister asserted that the scheme has "zero financial implications" on the central government with "no subsidies or write-offs to discoms".
Speaking at the session on 'Changing Energy Economics and India', Goyal stated that 100 GW (giga watts) of "stranded and stressed assets" have been revived through policy reforms and resource mobilisation. The minister disclosed that electric power demand in the country has increased by 6.5 per cent during the last fiscal, even as "India became power surplus for the first time".Goyal revealed that India has seen a 370 per cent growth in renewable-based generation capacity in the past three years. The minister added that well-organised and transparent competitive bidding processes have driven tariffs for solar and wind below Rs 3 per unit and that the central government's aim is to ensure electric power is supplied at Rs 3 per unit irrespective of source in the medium term.


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Recollections from hundreds of executions in Texas
MICHAEL GRACZYKJune 27, 2013 GMT
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — About once every three weeks, I watch someone die.
Beginning in 1984 when I arrived in Texas for The Associated Press, I've been just a few feet away as one convicted killer after another took a final breath in the Texas death chamber in Huntsville, where the state's 500th execution in modern times took place Wednesday.
I really don't know how many I've seen. I lost count years ago and have no desire to reconstruct a tally.
While death penalty cases are not the only assignments I cover, those certainly leave the strongest impressions.
One inmate, Jonathan Nobles, sang "Silent Night" as his last words as he was receiving the lethal injection. He got to "Round yon virgin, mother and child" before gasping and losing consciousness. Christmas, for me, never has been the same.
When I walked into the death chamber to witness Bob Black's execution, he called my name, said hello and asked how I was doing. What do you say to an otherwise healthy man seconds away from death?
J.D. "Cowboy" Autry was the first lethal injection I saw, in March 1984. A female friend of his who was a witness loudly sobbed about his "pretty brown eyes." Moments later, Autry's eyelids popped open as he died, revealing for a final time his brown eyes.
Autry's case was a memorable one. Six months earlier he was on the gurney with the needles in his arms when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a last-minute reprieve. To make sure no one had to make the final walk twice again, the prison stopped taking inmates to the death chamber until all appeals were resolved.
I remember Charles Rumbaugh's mangled hand, the result of being shot by a federal marshal he attacked in a courtroom. Henry Lee Lucas, who avoided execution when it was determined he hadn't really committed the hundreds of murders he had copped to, always had orange-tinged fingertips from rolling his own cigarettes. The arms of Angel Resendiz, the notorious "Railroad Killer," were scarred by repeated self-inflicted razor cuts. Markham Duff-Smith, who insisted he didn't kill four relatives, made a death chamber confession.
The death chamber, for 50 years home to the electric chair, has undergone its own changes. The gurney, once on wheels, is a permanent pedestal-like structure bolted to the tile floor. The simple horizontal bar between the inmate and the viewing area was replaced by a thick transparent plastic wall after a needle popped out of Raymond Landry's arm, spraying the lethal drugs toward me and other witnesses.
The first executions were carried out just after midnight. Years later, death warrants were set to take effect at 6 p.m., more convenient for lawyers and judges and less costly in prison overtime.
Some executions came with raucous public demonstrations outside. When Ronald Clark O'Bryan, known as "The Candy Man," was executed for lacing his son's Halloween candy — a Pixy Stick — with cyanide so he could collect on an insurance policy, dozens of students dressed in Halloween costumes filled the streets. One carried a giant Pixy Stick replica that looked like a barber pole.
One convict, Ponchai Wilkerson, spit out a hidden handcuff key in his mouth as he was about to die. A Houston judge added a smiley face to his signature on Robert Drew's execution warrant. Carl Kinnamon gave a long final statement in hopes of delaying the procedure until his death warrant expired. He thanked me and others for covering his case, then tried to wriggle out of the leather restraints.
The final statements — which some victims' relatives have criticized as providing prisoners with an opportunity their slain loved ones never had — have included songs, poems, prayers and Bible verses. Some inmates have spouted profanity. At least two prisoners thanked the Dallas Cowboys for brightening their lives.
Patrick Knight held a contest dubbed "Dead Man Laughing," encouraging people to send him a joke to tell from the chamber. He said he got 1,300 responses. The "joke" turned out to be Knight's claim that the person being executed wasn't really Patrick Knight. But fingerprints confirmed it was.
Richard Hinojosa repeatedly invoked "Yahweh" during his final words as thunder boomed and lightning crackled outside, adding an eerie backdrop to the proceeding.
Johnny Frank Garrett thanked his family for loving and caring for him, then added: "And the rest of the world can kiss my ass."


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How Long Does Adderall Stay in Your System?
Prescription Drug Abuse
Xanax / By Michael Smith
Adderall has a half-life of 9 to 14 hours, which means that, after this time, only about half of the drug remains in the body. Adderall will completely clear from a person's system in 3 days. However, this can vary based on several factors.
Testing can be conducted using urine, hair, saliva, and blood. Detection times for Adderall varies depending on the source that is analyzed:
Urine, Adderall can be detected for up to 4-7 days.
Saliva, Adderall can be detected 20 minutes after use and up to 48 hours.
Hair, Adderall can be detected about one week after use and up to 90 days.
Blood, Adderall can be detected 12-24 hours after use and can be identified for 24 hours.
What Is Adderall?
Adderall is an amphetamine and central nervous system stimulant. It is commonly used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a condition in which people find it difficult to focus on a single task and may act impulsively. Individuals with ADHD use the medication daily on a fixed therapeutic regimen, and it induces a calming effect, allowing them to concentrate on tasks at hand.
Because it is a stimulant such as meth or cocaine, Adderall boosts dopamine in the brain, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, reward and attention. When stimulants are introduced into the body, they increase the amount of dopamine, but they also impair the body's ability to make its own dopamine after extended use and can cause many side effects.
How Is Adderall Misused?
Like many psychoactive drugs, Adderall can be misused and become addictive. When used in a way other than as directed, Adderall can rapidly increase the amount of dopamine in the brain and produce feelings of euphoria. To continue achieving this effect, the amount of medication used must be increased over time as the brain adjusts to the drug's presence and reduces its response accordingly (tolerance). This effect can initiate a cycle of abusing Adderall that eventually results in full-blown physiological dependence.
Factors that Influence How Long Adderall Stays in Your System
Body composition can influence the length of time it takes for a person's body to eliminate Adderall. Height, weight, body fat percentage and muscle mass all play a part in this timeline. Surprisingly, a person with low muscle mass and high body fat will probably clear Adderall faster than someone with high muscle mass and less fat, because having more muscle means an individual has more water in their body. Because the ingredients of Adderall are hydrophilic (having a tendency to mix with or dissolve in water) this allows it to circulate in the body for a longer period.
pH Levels
The pH levels in the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts may influence how long Adderall remains in the system. If a person has a high pH level, the kidneys will take longer to process Adderall. Those will a lower pH level are likely to eliminate the drug more rapidly because the drug is able to remain in a hydrophilic state. These levels may be affected by the consumption of food and drinks.
Food Intake
Food consumption can affect how rapidly the body is able to eliminate Adderall. When food is in the system, the body will be working to breakdown the food as well as the medication, meaning it may take longer to complete both processes.
Organ Function
Organs such as the liver and kidneys play a vital role in ridding the body of many potentially toxic substances, including Adderall. When an organ does not function optimally, these metabolic processes are slowed. If kidney function or liver function is not normal, the drug may stay in the system longer than it should—or even be recirculated.
Dosage Amount
The drug dosage can also significantly affect how long it takes to clear the system. The more Adderall someone has consumed, the longer it will take for the body to eliminate it since there is more of the drug in the system to metabolize.
The bodies of those who have been using Adderall regularly for an extended period will probably take longer to clear it in comparison to persons who have only used the drug occasionally. When the drug is used daily, it can accumulate in the body, and, in turn, it will take the body longer to break down all of the drugs in the system.
Treatment for Adderall Abuse
The longer a person has been misusing Adderall, the more intense an addiction can become. Withdrawal symptoms that manifest shortly after discontinuing can make it very difficult for users to quit on their own.
Fortunately, Adderall abuse and addiction is very treatable, and there are many effective options available. Midwood Addiction Treatment offers a comprehensive approach to substance abuse that includes behavioral therapy, counseling, group support, aftercare planning, and much more.
If you need help overcoming an addiction to Adderall, please contact us as soon as possible. Discover how we can help you free yourself from the chains of addiction and recover for life!


Originally the site of the Joe Jr. Mill, the company town of Uravan was established in 1936 when U. S. Vanadium Corporation moved its plant there. At one time, over 800 people lived along the tree-lined streets enjoying housing, schools, medical facilities, tennis courts, a recreation center and pool provided by the company.
Since 1983, Umetco Minerals corporation has been involved in a 15 year, $70 million reclamation project. Tailings above the mill have been stabilized and covered and process wastes from the evaporative ponds have been removed. A groundwater cleanup program is also underway. When the project is completed you will see the canyon almost as it was before milling operations began.
I would like to make this site an online memorial to the town of Uravan where thousands of people once lived. Though most physical traces have been erased between the canyon walls, It's memories will live on here and in the hearts of the former residents.
Pictures of Uravan, people, and the area.
Poems and Music about Uravan and the surrounding area.


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Some 'Magnificent' Exclusives
Best Buy's 'The Magnificent Seven' Steelbook UHD Blu-ray
Sony Pictures' The Magnificent Seven was the only major new release Dec. 20 with exclusives at each of the three big retail chains.
Target offered the Blu-ray with an exclusive bonus disc containing "Seven Tales of Making The Magnificent Seven." Best Buy offered the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack in exclusive Steelbook packaging. And Walmart offered a special DVD of the Western remake with a Vudu digital copy of another Western movie, Silverado.
For Warner's Sully, Walmart offered a special DVD with the bonus features stripped out.
For the animated Storks, Target offered a free six pack of Orville Redenbacher popcorn with the purchase of any version of the film on disc.
Target also had select iTunes gift cards for 20% off with the purchase of another card at full price.
New on Disc: 'The Asphalt Jungle' and more …
The Asphalt Jungle
Stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe.
1950. The granddaddy of meticulously high-scale robbery pics remains as vital and robust as ever, though gender-wise, there's nothing too daddy-ish about the way Marilyn Monroe wears a jumpsuit here in the role that jump-started her career.
Extras: Includes the 1983 documentary Pharos of Chaos about actor Sterling Hayden; it also includes featurettes with noir maven Eddie Muller and cinematographer John Bailey, plus brief archival material of John Huston discussing the film and an almost hour-long documentary of him on Canadian TV promoting the much subsequent Wise Blood. Scholar/academic Drew Casper's commentary shared with an edited-in James Whitmore is carried over from the DVD.
The Best of Cinerama
Flicker Alley, Documentary, $39.95 Blu-ray/DVD, NR.
1963. For an assemblage whose reason for being at the time was mostly to fill a temporary dearth of product, The Best of Cinerama (culled from five preceding travelogues dating back to 1952) plays so spectacularly well that if you need a "demonstration" disc to help show off the home system for which you forfeited your kids' education, this could be the one.
Extras: Includes a commentary by Cinerama historian David Coles, a pair of 70mm featurettes about Shell Oil and NASA restored and saved from oblivion, heavy samplings of Dimitri Tiomkin music, a lengthy — and magnificent — photo montage of the process's scores of pioneers, and a chronological theater-by-theater review of all the Cinerama theaters that opened worldwide up until about 1960.
Invigorating Sales Is Key Goal for 2017
Well, it's been an interesting year again, hasn't it? Last year ended with disc sales way down and everyone looking to electronic sellthrough as our industry's great hope. This year is ending with disc sales remarkably robust and lots of excitement over the new Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc format. Meanwhile, EST sales growth has slowed to the single digits and studio heads are scratching their heads and wondering whether the novelty of early release windows has worn off.
The EST situation certainly is a pickle. It was never a huge segment of the business, primarily because of waning interest in ownership as well as the economic model. We have become a nation of streamers, first with music and now with movies and TV shows; we don't necessarily want to own things, just borrow them for a while. Compounding matters is the inherent difficulty in getting consumers to spend even $10 on a movie when the same amount of money buys them an entire month of unlimited Netflix access.
On top of that, there's the lack of something real — a download simply doesn't have the appeal of a physical product you can look at, touch and display.
Now, I happen to think there are ways to invigorate EST sales and looking ahead to 2017 I think we are going to make substantial progress. I foresee a new platform to replace the fractious UltraViolet as well as more wow-factor Digital HD releases like Suicide Squad (the digital edition came with both the theatrical and new extended cut of the film, and that's just the beginning).
Meanwhile, I also predict a renewed effort by the studios to nurture relationships with retailers, both physical and digital. The disc business needs to be carefully tended, and as studios have focused their efforts on EST they have perhaps paid a little less attention to retailers than they should. Data analytics is a wonderful thing, but so is the personal relationship, the phone call instead of the group email or text. Two decades ago, retailers were stunned when studios effectively shoved VHS out the door. Looking back, it could, and should, have been a much slower, and potentially more lucrative, death.
At the same time, distribution channels must be broadened and the search for marketable, ownable content widened. Defying conventional wisdom, Sony Pictures scored big with "House of Cards" even though it had already streamed on Netflix. How many other opportunities like this are out there?
It's time, high time, to get down to business.
It's Usually Unusual
The industry settled into its usual pattern as 2016 ended, with the Hall of Fame dinner honoring inductees. But again 2016 was by no means a "usual" year. The industry is facing more challenges and changes to its business model.
We've got yet another new format debuting: 4K Ultra HD with high dynamic range. It's a format that could breathe new life into the physical disc, which is the best way to view four times the resolution of HD, with HDR, which produces brilliant highlights, vibrant colors and greater contrast on compatible displays.
We've got the growing dominance of subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix eating into consumers' entertainment time.
We've got new forms of entertainment, notably virtual reality, which could alter the very nature of personal entertainment.
It's always unusual.
But what stays the same is the quality of people who work in this industry, recognized this month by the annual Press Play: Variety Home Entertainment and Digital Hall of Fame, which honored Universal Pictures Home Entertainment president Eddie Cunningham, actor and filmmaker Jon Favreau, and Epix president and CEO Mark Greenberg, as well as virtual reality evangelist Chris Milk and Google Play, which has been a big player in digital delivery.
"Home video, home entertainment and now digital have been a huge part of my career," noted Favreau in accepting his award.
It's remarkable that this more-than-three-decades-old business is still a vital part of the entertainment industry.
And it's notable that we are once again facing a consolidation in the industry. Just as the video store chains gobbled up smaller stores and chains in years past, Amazon is using its technology and marketplace prowess to assemble a panoply of OTT services under Amazon Channels.
Analyst Michael Pachter sees Amazon Channels as the new pay-TV, a successor to the cable market that has lasted for decades. It's a development that is both familiar and new, a new way of organizing the home entertainment market that seems to follow some of the usual patterns.
A 'Squad' of Exclusives
Amazon's 'Suicide Squad' with Harley Quinn figurine
There were plenty of retailer exclusives available for Warner's Suicide Squad Dec. 13.
Best Buy offered the DC Comics superhero movie with two different exclusives: a Blu-ray combo pack with a graphic novel, and the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray iwith Steelbook packaging.
Target offered the Blu-ray combo pack with exclusive 64-page Digibook and lenticular packaging. Target also had exclusive Batman Funko POP! figures for $8.99 each.
Walmart offered one of its typical Warner DVDs without any bonus materials.
Amazon.com offered two deluxe gift sets of the Blu-ray combo pack with special box art. One set came with a Harley Quinn figurine and was listed at $116.99 on the first day. Another version of the gift set came with a Deadshot figureine, listed at $99.99.
Target offered a $5 savings with the purchase of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children on disc with the book upon which the movie is based.
Target also advertised an exclusive edition of the DVD that contained a bracelet, although all retailers had the bracelet edition of the movie, at the same price as the regular DVD.
New on Disc: 'T.A.M.I. Show/The Big T.N.T. Show' and more …
T.A.M.I. Show/The Big T.N.T. Show (Blu-ray)
Shout! Factory, Music, $29.98 Blu-ray, NR.
1964/66. The T.A.M.I. Blu-ray presentation looks slightly more vital than previous releases, despite the source limitations, while The Big T.N.T. Show half of a nicely conceived twofer is its home market premiere.
Extras: T.A.M.I. carries over the DVD's wonderful joint commentary by director Steve Binder and rock journalist/historian Don Waller. T.N.T. has some solid bonus interviews.
Pretty Poison (Blu-ray)
Twilight Time, Drama, $29.95 Blu-ray, 'R.'
Stars Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph.
1968. A still-twisted tale cast to the hilt thanks to leads Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison was belated critical success that gets a nifty Twilight Time assist.
Extras: The Blu-ray includes two commentaries: one with director Noel Black carried over from the old DVD, and a new one with film historian Lem Dobbs, Poison producer Lawrence Turman and Twilight Time's Nick Redman.
The Secret Life of Retail Exclusives
Target's 'The Secret Life of Pets' décor pack Blu-ray and Walmart's 'Jason Bourne' deluxe Blu-ray photo packaging
Retailers broke out the welcome mat for Universal's The Secret Life of Pets and Jason Bourne.
For the animated The Secret Life of Pets, Walmart offered the Blu-ray combo pack in a gift set with three character clip-ons. Target offered the Blu-ray with a "décor pack" consisting of a photo frame and four wall decals. Best Buy offered a free plush dog ($9.99 separately) with the purchase of the Ultra HD Blu-ray.
For the action sequel Jason Bourne, Target offered the Blu-ray combo pack with an exclusive bonus disc containing 30 additional minutes of bonus content. Walmart offered an exclusive deluxe edition of the Blu-ray with collectible packaging and a photo book. Best Buy offered an exclusive 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray boxed set of the five "Bourne" films.
Target's website touted an exclusive Steelbook blu-ray of The Secret Life of Pets, which was listed as out of stock online and at stores.
Target offered an exclusive DVD of the first season of the Netflix series "Master of None" at $14.99.
New on Disc: 'Time After Time' and more …
Time After Time (Blu-ray)
Warner, Sci-Fi, $21.99 Blu-ray, 'PG.'
Stars Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen.
1979. Debuting director Nicholas Meyer, who also penned the screenplay, presents a surprisingly sweet time travel fantasy dealing with novelist H.G. Wells's pursuit of Jack the Ripper into 1979 San Francisco.
Extras: A commentary is carried over from the old DVD.
Two Women (Blu-ray)
All-Region Import
Cult Films, Drama, $20 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleanor Brown, Raf Vallone.
1960. Given its reputation for, among other things, having won Sophia Loren the Oscar while establishing her as an international superstar, Vittorio De Sica's Two Women has been insulted by wretched prints over the years, so while the visual result of this Blu-ray import is on the high side of passable with some room for improvement, the overall release is borderline exceptional thanks to some surprising bonus extras.
Extras: The supplements are a treat. There's a 54-minute interview with Loren, and the wonderful 2009 documentary Vittorio D., which in 93 minutes substantively covers De Sica's career as actor, family man, gambling addict, occasional political activist and director. A fairly amazing lineup of interviewees includes Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Paul Mazursky, Leonard Maltin, De Sica children from two marriages, John Landis, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Ettore Scola and Lina Wertmuller.
'Pete's Dragon,' 'BFG' Unleashed at Retail After Busy Shopping Weekend
Retailers didn't give much attention to the new releases Nov. 29 in light of lingering traces of the busy post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend.
Just about the only promotion among the new titles came at Target, which offered $5 off the purchase of both Disney's Pete's Dragon and The BFG on disc.
Target, like most of the big retailers, had many displays tailored to deep-discounted catalog titles.
Best Buy offered buy-one-get-one-free deals from a selection of Sony Pictures titles. Best Buy also touted 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray deals, with $10 off the purchase of two, and $20 off the purchase of three.
Preorders with Blu-ray Steelbooks at Best Buy include Warner's Suicide Squad and Sony Pictures' The Magnificent Seven.
Walmart had the exclusive DVD of National Geographic's No Man Left Behind at $9.96.
New on Disc: 'One-Eyed Jacks' and more …
One-Eyed Jacks
Criterion, Western, $29.95 DVD, $39.95 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens.
1961. Marlon Brando's sole outing as director is the link between the traditional Western with lush old-school Hollywood production values and the grittier and meaner riffs that Clint and Sergio began playing later in the 1960s as agents of permanent change.
Extras: A great supplement on this Criterion must-own is film historian Toby Roan's concise and digestible explanation of the picture's byzantine production history. This rewarding package also includes a visual essay by David Cairns, whose concentration on aesthetics complements Roan's counterpart about the film's production history; Brando audio tapes that illuminate how a film that began in one direction quickly went in another; and an essay by critic Howard Hampton.
It's Always Fair Weather
Warner, Musical, $17.99 DVD, $21.99 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, Dolores Gray.
1955. The decline of the movie musical in the 1950s is the main reason It's Always Fair Weather got hit with stormy box office — and not the fact that it's widely acknowledged as being cynical and downbeat, notwithstanding its good reviews at the time or the size of its subsequent cult. The Betty Comden-Adolph Green satire is almost as on point about encroaching television as it was about the talkie transition in Singin' in the Rain.
Extras: Blu-ray bonus materials carried over from the old DVD include a deleted "Love Is Nothing But a Racket" number; a making-of featurette; a deleted Michael Kidd number; some raw footage from "The Binge" scene; two promotional segments from ABC-TV's short-lived "The MGM Parade"; and two early Scope cartoons, one of them with Droopy.


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HomeNewsHoliday activities continue at Riverside Park after Santa parade
Holiday activities continue at Riverside Park after Santa parade
By Stephen Petrick
Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 2022
More details are coming in about how Bancroft will mark the holiday season.
The Santa Claus parade is set for Saturday, December 3. Groups will meet at the MTO building parking lot to begin the route downtown, via Monk Street, at 2:30 p.m. The parade wraps up after it turns east from Hastings Street and moves towards Riverside Park.
Activities will continue at Riverside Park up until 7 p.m. There, families can receive a free digital photo for making a donation to the Kids-In-Need Toy Drive. And those who donate food items for North Hastings Community Cupboard can receive a S'mores Kit.
Special guests at the event will include Rocky The Rockhound, Sparky the Fire Dog and, of course, Santa Claus.
A tree lighting ceremony and carol sing is planned for 6:45 p.m.


Never underestimate the ability of Martinsville Speedway to inject a healthy dose of controversy into a championship battle.
Sunday's race left Martin Truex Jr. furious, vowing that Joey Logano would not win the title. Logano emerged from the race with a win, a new grandfather clock and a pass to the championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He might also have a huge target on his back.
Truex pursued Logano closely over the final 10 laps of the race. Again and again, Truex got to Logano's back bumper, trying to find some way to get around the No. 22. They raced side-by-side for several laps until Logano surged back ahead. With two laps left, Truex finally passed Logano back. However, Logano was still close enough on the final lap to move the No. 78. To the surprise of no one, Logano moved Truex out of the way going into Turn 3. The two racers wound up side-by-side one more time, and Logano prevailed in a sliding, smoking finish that nearly saw both drivers wipe out on the way to the finish line.
Indeed, nobody should have been surprised. But apparently Truex was, and he had a message for Logano after the race.
"He won the battle, but he ain't winning the damn war," Truex said. "He ain't. I'm just not gonna let him win it. I'm gonna win it. We should be in Victory Lane right now. But that's just the way it went today, didn't work out.
Truex has a right to be upset, but it is worth wondering why he waited until the penultimate lap to complete a pass on Logano. The No. 78 was faster than the No. 22, and he had plenty of opportunities to move Logano out of the way. In fact, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, and Denny Hamlin were closely following the two leaders during the closing laps. It was surprising how much restraint Truex showed with the race on the line.
The most plausible explanation is that Truex knew the race was going to be close and was trying to race Logano cleanly, hoping Logano would do the same. Truex, however, should have known better.
Logano has never approached the playoffs with a give and take mentality. Logano's overarching strategy for the postseason is win by any means necessary and worry about the consequences later. That philosophy might not sit well with Truex, but that is always how Logano will react when race wins, especially ones with championship implications, are up for grabs.
"Miami, just thinking about Miami," Logano said after the race. "Thinking about how we can win a championship with this car.
It was one heck of a race, and Logano's pathway to Homestead is clear. But what happens if Truex also advances to Homestead? There is no way that he will show the same restraint towards the No. 22 that he showed at Martinsville. Truex getting eliminated from the playoffs might be even worse for Logano. If Truex goes to Homestead with nothing more to lose, he could easily prevent Logano from winning the championship.
Nobody has forgotten Logano's feud with Matt Kenseth in 2015. At Kansas Speedway in the second round of the playoffs, Logano made the decision to put the bumper to Kenseth in the closing laps of the race. The No. 22's dump and run gave him an extra win and essentially put Kenseth out of title contention. So, Kenseth retaliated at Martinsville two weeks later by crashing Logano. Logano was angry about the incident at the time and had every right to be, but it never seemed to occur to him that he could have avoided the whole mess by not spinning Kenseth in the first place.
In fairness to Logano, Sunday's race was not the same as the Kansas incident. Logano never spun Truex out. He only hit him in the bumper enough to move him out of the groove and get alongside the No. 78. The difference between moving a driver, as opposed to dumping him, is huge in terms of hard versus dirty racing. In that regard, Logano might have learned something from the 2015 playoffs.
That said, while Logano's move was not dirty, it was also not equitable. Perhaps Truex should have raced Logano with more urgency. Perhaps he should have been more willing to move Logano out of the way. If Truex could go back and do the race over again, he probably would be more aggressive. But as the race was happening he made the choice to avoid contact with the No. 22 each time he attempted a pass. That might not have been the right choice, but that was what happened, and Logano responded with a bump and run on the first opportunity he got.
High-contact short track racing is part of NASCAR's grassroots history. But there is another important element of stock car racing that goes back just as far – I'll race you how you race me. It is a basic rule of NASCAR's self-policing style of competition. It is also a rule that has never meshed well with Logano's "win now and worry later" approach, and one that he chose to violate at Martinsville.
Sunday's race could have finished without Logano and Truex making contact. Maybe Logano would have still won, maybe not. What we do know is that Logano did win, but by doing so he changed the nature of how he and Truex will race each other going forward. Specifically, Truex chose not to escalate the level of aggression with which he races Logano. Yet Logano made the choice to do exactly that, just like he did with Kenseth three years ago. And as everyone remembers, Logano did not win the championship in 2015.
Going forward, Truex does not have to wreck Logano to follow through on his threat. But there are a lot of things Truex can do short of wrecking the No. 22 that will take Logano out of the championship hunt. And if Logano does lose the title at Truex's hands, he will have to take responsibility for the way he raced the No. 78 at Martinsville.
An aggressive move won Logano the battle, but if Truex follows through, Logano may lose the war once again.
"Truex should have known better; " what a sad commentary on Logano , what a pile of horseshit!
Somehow I recall Truex using a gentle tap with his bumper to get past Logano several laps earlier. But that was OK and Joeys' wasn't? Dome on people! He didn't wreck him like Hamlin di to Chase, he just moved him up. classic short track.
Joey essentially knocked 3 SH R cars out of the championship race unless one of them can win a race. What would Tony or Harvick or Dale St have done that last lap of they were Joey. I think we all know without a doubt.
That move was classic Martinsville short track racing. Joey did what he had to do and Truex has every right to be upset. That's been NASCAR racing since the beginning. Truex's biggest mistake was not making the move on Logano sooner. If he had bumped him out of the way a few laps sooner, Truex would have drove away with the superior car. You just can't wait till turn 1 of the white flag lap when they can get you back in three. Anyway, that was another instant classic at Martinsville.
Joey Logano did what he had to do at a place and in a race that all but requires some aggressive driving to win. He did what he was EXPECTED to do. Martin Truex left angry, but who wouldn't be? He lost a race he had in the bag less than a lap from the finish. He's certainly going to be pissed; it's the heat of the moment. My guess is that by the drop of the green flag next weekend, Truex will be focused on the task at hand, not revenge. That said, if he finds himself being blocked by the #22, I suspect he'll have no qualms about settling the score. That's just racing.
BRYAN, stop with the SAINT MARTY act. Look up a few years ago…2 I believe. I don't recall the track. Here is what happened…Logano drove past Marty…Marty was racing the high line…Logano sped past him, Marty lost control…I don't remember if that kept him out of the race. All I remember is Marty and his goon with no class crew chief and the roommate went on a TWITTER rant calling him everything, even thought it clearly showed Logano did not touch Marty, but that did not stop them from being whiny about Marty losing control over his car. Point is, Logano breaths and they will try and hit the right notes with the "haters" Marty was a master today, making himself the victim. Point is..Logano raced and raced as he should have..the personel bs people are trying to make of is hype with no truth. Just some background on Saint Marty, the victim. Is he part of the METOO movement? Kinda of sick of this, if it was anybody but a Penske driver…PFFT..great racing. And saying this caca about a short track is embarrassing. IMO.
I hope Truex takes out the smiling jackass aon the last lap of the Miami race. Poetic Justice.
What is equitable in a race? I love how this conversation always comes up ONLY when it is a Penske driver. The competitive drivers today and any other Martinsville race or short track employ the same tactics. Bump and run. Chrome horn..whatever you want to call it. Marty did it the whole race. It seems the media is chastising Logano for "going for it". Again they all did it the whole race. Logano did what was done for decades and now because it is Logano he is the bad guy? Marty 18 laps lead. Logano 309 laps lead. Seems people lean towards the overtly whiney TOYS drivers with condolences, and focus on them, always. Marty had that lead for what 30 seconds at best, and it is the tragedy of the century because Logano gave him a little tap? While for years the ones whining would kick him around the track for sport and admit it. DALE JR. I am speaking of you! At least you admitted many years ago! Sick of the hypocrisy and double standards. Why is the revenge bs always for the whipping boys of the media, and the other drivers are always wronged by those dastardly Penske drivers? The narrative is astounding. Hypocrites.
Well said, KB. The fan base has become so hypocritical: their favorite driver can move people all day long, but let him get moved once, and the calls for revenge commence. Unbelievable.
This is exactly what people say they want to see more of….short track racing….beatin' and bangin'….boogity, boogity, boogity bull sh*t. As has been stated, he didn't take him out…it looked like a normal short track racing finish. But of course Truex is pissed…I would be. This conflict is the best thing to happen to the gate receipts at Texas since Kenseth took out Logano. There is finally some 'water cooler conversation' material. Fans have favorites…good…it helps sell T-Shirts. The only people that won more than Logano on Sunday was Nascar itself.