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Severn View Primary Academy
Severn View Primary Academy is now closed.
During the period January to August 2021, AET worked with the South West Regional School Commissioner's team, Gloucestershire County Council and DfE colleagues towards the orderly closure of Severn View Primary Academy. The final decision was made by the Minister of State for the School System, Baroness Berridge, with mutual agreement from all parties.
The academy was a very small school and had had a declining number of pupils for many years. All children have now transferred to other nearby schools and we wish all our departing families and their children well in their new schools.
AET would like to offer our thanks and appreciation to the staff and parents at Severn View Academy for their understanding, patience and support throughout the closure process.
The land and buildings of the school are owned by Gloucestershire County Council. Any enquiries about the future use of the site should be directed to Stephen.Bradley@gloucestershire.gov.uk.

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El Mercado Kirkgate de Leeds (pronunciado /ˈkɜrɡət/) es un mercado en Leeds, Yorkshire del Oeste, Inglaterra situado en Vicar Lane. Es el mercado cubierto más grande de Europa. Actualmente posee unos 800 puestos que atraen más de 100,000 visitantes por semana

Ubicación

La fachada principal del mercado se encuentra en Vicar Lane y la fachada sur en Kirkgate. Al este se encuentra la estación de autobús de Leeds, mientras que al norte se encuentra un aparcamiento al aire libre, que pasaría a formar parte del futuro Eastgate Quarters, en caso de que aquel proyecto cristalice. Al sur del mercado abierto se encuentra el aparcamiento en altura operado por la National Car Parks (NCP). Cruzando Vicar Lane, el mercado está conectado con la calle comercial peatonal Briggate a través de la galería comercial acristalada Victoria.

Acceso
Autobuses locales y regionales que salen del centro de ciudad, así como líneas nacionales de larga distancia, hacen parada en la estación de autobús de la Ciudad de Leeds , detrás del complejo comercial. Las principales líneas de autobús de Leeds paran en varios puntos dentro del intercambiador de autobuses del que Vicar Lane forma parte .La línea de Corn-Exchange está situada en las inmediaciones. El LeedsCityBus conecta el mercado con la estación de la ciudad..

Historia

Orígenes
El mercado abrió en 1822 como mercado al aire, y entre 1850 y 1875 se cubrieron las primeras secciones del mercado tras desplazarse este desde su anterior emplazamiento de Briggate. La sala central del mercado, construida paralelamente a la calle Duncan, estaba rodeado por tres de sus lados por carnicerías y pescaderías principalmente. Dentro de la sala, se erigieron puestos para la venta de fruta, verduras, y productos lácteos, siendo el balcón reservado para la mercancía elegante. El mercado del sur, limitando con las calles Hunslet y Meadow Lane, era utilizado por carniceros, tiendas de bienes variados, puestos abiertos, nueve mataderos y dieciocho casas.

El proyecto para un mercado en Kirkgate fue revelado por vez primera por el comisionado del burgo, a imagen del Crystal Palace de Joseph Paxton en elLondres Hyde Park de Londres. El desarrollo comenzó en el actual emplazamiento en 1857. Posteriormente, en 1875, se adquirieron más tierras al sur y al este para la ampliación del mercado.

La bolsa de cereales (Corn Exchange) y los primero y tercer White Clothe Hall estaban todos en las inmediaciones, creando un área mercantil en el centro de la ciudad. El tercer White Clothe Hall se mudó a Queen Street en 1865, acabando con esta área concentrada de comercio.

Expansión temprana
En 1894, se creó el ala de pescaderías - una fila de pescaderías en una zona refrigerada del mercado. Entre 1891 y 1895, una cúpula de cristal tratado se añadió a la sala de mercado. Un mercado especializado en carnes y un matadero fueron desarrollados en 1899. El coste de estas tres ampliaciones ascendió a algo más de £25,000.

Marks & Spencer

En 1894, el mercado Kirkgate conoció la fundación de Marks & Spencer que abrió en el mercado de Leeds como bazar de baratijas. La herencia Marks & Spencer está marcada por el Reloj del Mercado de la sala 1904 que porta el nombre de los grandes almacenes. Este reloj estuvo inaugurado en 1984 para celebrar el centenario de Marks & Spencer. En 2012 Marks & Spencer regresaron al mercado Kirkgate , abriendo un puesto junto al reloj de centenario.

En 1904, Marks & Spencer reubicaron su sucursal de Leeds en el entonces recién inaugurado Cross Arcade (ahora parte de la galería comercial Victoria).

En 2009, más de 60,000 reliquias históricas relacionadas con Marks & Spencer fueron trasladadas desde Londres a la Galería de Centenario en el Edificio Parkinson en la Universidad de Leeds.

Un nuevo pabellón ornamentado

En 1893, Leeds alcanzó el estatus de ciudad, lo que suscitó un creciente deseo entre los miembros del ayuntamiento por construir edificios civiles acordes con ese estatus. El área alrededor del mercado estaba formada por mataderos y barrios marginales, haciéndole parecer insalubre. Se lanzó un concurso de diseño para encontrar un arquitecto diseñara una suntuosa nueva sala para el mercado. Se fijó para el ganador un premio de £150 que (tras alegaciones de corrupción en el concurso) fue otorgado a Joseph y John Leeming de Londres. A pesar de los dimes y diretes acerca del premio, los planes siguieron adelante y la empresa presupuestó £80,000 para construir la sala nueva.   J Bagshaw e Hijos de Batley fueron designados como ingenieros del proyecto.

Se generó aún más controversia cuando, en mayo de 1901, muchos comerciantes dentro del mercado fueran avisados con tan solo una semana de antelación para que vaciaran sus puestos con el objeto de permitir el comienzo de las obras. Los comerciantes exigieron una indemnización por las pérdidas que les fueron acaecidas.

La nueva sala fue abierta en 1904, habiendo costado £116,700, un poco más del presupuesto original de £80,000. Una ceremonia en julio de aquel año, presidida por G. W. Balfour, miembro del parlamento británico por Leeds Central y Presidente de la cámara de Comercio, marcó la inauguración de la nueva sala.

Segunda Guerra Mundial
A pesar de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que trajo problemas como el reclutamiento militar obligatorio y los bombardeos (a pesar de que estos últimos rara vez acaecieron en Leeds) los mercados continuaron a funcionar aunque de manera reducida.Se construyeron refugios antiaéreros para los comerciantes en el mercado y se establecieron unas Precauciones ante bombardeos (Air-Raid Precautions) el servicio estaba operado por más de 100 voluntarios del mercado. El Ministerio de Alimentación operó oficinas en el mercado para establecer el racionamiento.  El 14 de marzo de 1941 el mercado sufrió daños en un bombardeo sobre Leeds. El daño fue limitado y el mercado siguió con su tarea.

Desarrollo de Pos-guerra
Después de la guerra, el Comité de Mercados propuso una inyección de £55,000 para el mercado. Se proporcionaron nuevos almacenes así como un mercado al aire libre y un aparcamiento. Se construyeron veinte nuevas carnicerías, las tiendas más antiguas fueron remozadas y varios edificios más antiguos fueron derribados.

Años 50 y 60. Desarrollo y apertura de infraestructuras competitivas.
En 1956 se llegó a la conclusión de que mejorar las tiendas para adaptarlas a las normas modernas de higiene no resultaba práctico, de modo que se construyeron tiendas nuevas, creando el ala de los carniceros y el ala de la pesca y la caza.

En la década de los cincuenta, el mercado contaba con más de 400 vendedores y más de 100.000 compradores acudían al complejo cada sábado. Para aliviar el problema, el concejo compró terrenos en Pontefract lane, en Cross Green, que acogerían un nuevo mercado mayorista. Este mismo mercado fue clausurado en el 2009 debido a sospechas de que se vendía en él mercancía falsificada.

Con la apertura del Merrion Centre en la década de los sesenta, más pequeño que el Kirkgate, este tuvo que competir con aquel. En los últimos años, Merrion se encuentra en proceso de declive, mientras que Kirkgate Markets ha recuperado su puesto de liderazgo en el centro de Leeds.

Incendio de 1975

El 13 de diciembre de 1975 se declaró un incendio en el mercado. Nunca se determinó su causa, aunque se ha especulado sobre varias causas, incluyendo un fallo eléctrico o un radiador de parafina sobrecalentado.
Todos los intentos por parte de los bomberos para sofocar el fuego fueron infructuosos. Para el momento en que los más de cien bomberos habían conseguido extinguir las llamas, la mayor parte del techo se había derrumbado. La sala ornamentada de 1904 quedó prácticamente incólume ante el fuego, así como una pequeña parte de la sala de 1875. Sin embargo se estimaron unas pérdidas de más de £7 en las otras salas. Aquellos vendedores que habían perdido sus puestos fueron reubicados en otros puntos del centro de la ciudad, hasta que se construyeron nuevas salas en substitución de las destruidas. Después de tan solo tres días de cierre, las partes indemnes del mercado procedieron a su reapertura.

Reconstrucción 1976-81

Tras la destrucción de la mayor parte del mercado en el incendio de 1975, importantes trabajos de reconstrucción tuvieron que ponerse en marcha para poder reacomodar a los comerciantes desplazados. Poco tiempo después del incendio, en 1976, el primer edificio fue abierto en la esquina Nordeste del complejo.Contrariamente al salón ornamentado de 1904 o el edificio de piedra de 1875 (del cual no quedó gran cosa), la sala de 1975 era una sala abierta de gran tamaño, construida con hojas de acero y con cubierta de estructura reticular. En 1981 abrió el segundo salón , construido exactamente en el mismo estilo que el primero en la esquina nordeste del mercado. Ambos aparentan unidad desde el exterior, aunque estén interiormente separados por un muro divisorio.

propuestas de nuevo desarrollo de 1986
En 1986 el ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Leeds realizó una proposición en la que estaban involucrados promotores holandeses MAB(UK) y la Norwich Unioin como máximos inversores. El proyecto incluía conservar los edificios de 1875 y 1904, substituyendo el resto por un único mercado, nuevas tiendas, una nueva estación de autobuses y un aparcamiento de varias plantas. El proyecto resultó impopular entre la población local y acarreó la oposición de la asociación de comerciantes de mercado y de la asociación cívica de Leeds. Pese a estos reveses, el ayuntamiento otorgó la licencia al proyecto, impulsando por varios medios. Finalmente, el proyecto quedó rechazado en 1990, tras la oposición de la secretaría de Estado para el medio ambiente

1991 Rehabilitación

Following this refurbishment Kirkgate Market was upgraded from a Grade II to a Grade I listed building.[8]
Tras el rechazo a las propuestas de 1986, se buscó una nueva solución. El ayuntamiento de Leeds, de nuevo contando con la Norwich Union como promotora, propuso una rehabilitación más modesta, que fue rápidamente aprobada. Las obras se iniciaron en 1991. Se restauraron las fachadas exteriores de piedra, el hierro fue reparado y se construyeron nuevas tiendas. Se restituyeron los ornatos de hierro en las entradas de acuerdo a los modelos originales. Las plantas superiores, antaño infra-utilizadas, se rehabilitaron para albergar modernas oficinas. En pabellón de 1904 fue restaurado en línea con su estilo original, construyéndose nuevos puestos de acuerdo a ese estilo. Se mejoraron los servicios existentes, modernizándolos con nuevas instalaciones eléctricas y de agua, y aportando instalaciones nuevas anti-incendios y de seguridad. El drenaje y la ventilación del edificio también fueron mejorados.

La rehabilitación hubo de ser retomada en 1992 tras declararse un incendio en una de las cúpulas de la calle Vicar Lane en el extremo del pabellón de 1904, resultando en la necesidad de la reconstrucción de dicha cúpula.

Remozado de 1995

El mal estado originado por el incendio en el pabellón de 1875 se hizo aún más patente en la década de los 90. Hacia 1995 se iniciaron los trabajos de restauración tanto del hierro como de la piedra, manteniéndose el estilo Victoriano original.

desarrollos de 1996
En 1996 se rehabilitó el mercado al aire libre con la creación de nuevos puestos, así como de una plaza central. Alrededor de estas mismas fechas se creó una estación de autobuses en su extremo este y un aparcamiento en altura al sur del mercado al aire libre.

Eastgate Quarters y propuestas de 2010 para el desarrollo futuro

El ayuntamiento de Leeds ha venido proponiendo la reducción de tamaño del mercado Kirkgate para que sea complementario del nuevo centro comercial propuesto Eastgate Quarters, que será construido en las inmediaciones del mercado. Las propuestas de reducción se han topado con la oposición de los comerciantes. Más aún, en marzo de 2010 [9] se fundó un nuevo grupo, Amigos del Mercado Kirkgate de Leeds, entre cuyos objetivos [10] se encuentra defender al mercado y promocionarlo. En los últimos años, este grupo ha organizado una petición, muchas iniciativas y encuentros públicos en favor del mercado.

Edificios
La fachada existente data de 1904. El fuego destruyó las salas traseras en diciembre de 1975, y éstas fueron reconstruidas poco después, otorgándoles un aire más moderno, con planta abierta, aunque sin el carácter que poseía el edificio de 1904. En la parte trasera existe un mercado al aire libre. Atrapado entre el edificio de 1904 y las salas más modernas, se encuentra el edificio más antiguo, que data de 1875 y que contiene tanto el ala de carnicería como el ala de pesca y caza. El edificio de 1875 no es una sala abierta, como los demás, pero actúa a modo de galería comercial, comunicando el edificio de 1904 con los más modernos de 1976 y 1981.

Sala de 1875

El edificio de 1875 se encuentra entre la sala de 1904 y las posteriores de 1976 y 1981. Al norte de este edificio se encuentra el área de carnicería, que conduce al edificio de 1976. Al sur, se encuentra el área de caza y pesca, que conduce al edificio de 1981, entre ambos, se encuentran varios puestos a los que puede tenerse acceso desde la parte trasera del edificio de 1904. Al edificio de 1875 solo puede accederse desde alguno de los otros cuatro, al no poseer entradas directas desde la calle. Las únicas partes del edificio de 1875 que pueden percibirse desde el exterior son las cubiertas. Antes del incendio de 1975, el edificio era mucho más amplio, produciéndose el derrumbe de la mayor parte de este, lo que explica la sensación de discontinuidad que el edificio produce hoy en día.

Sala de 1904

La sala de 1904 es la más ornamentada de todas y está situada en la parte frontal del complejo. Posee un techo de cristal y se halla rodeada por un balcón , que recorre todo el perímetro del edificio. Tanto techo como balcones se apoyan sobre pilares de hierro colado. El exterior está profusamente decorado.

Sala de 1976

La sala de 1976 se haya conectada con los demás edificios a través de la galería de los carniceros. Vino a reemplazar las anteriores construcciones que quedaron destruidas por el incendio de 1975. Se trata de una amplia sala de un único espacio, construida con acero laminado y cubierta con estructura de acero reticulado. A diferencia de las salas anteriores, no posee pilares intermedios. Vista desde el exterior, es indistinguible del pabellón de 1981, aunque ambos están separados mediante un tabique intermedio. Existen varios tipos de puesto en esta sala. En febrero de 2015 se cerró esta sala para su rehabilitación, que está previsto concluya en noviembre de 2015, muchos comerciantes se han desplazado temporalmente a otros emplazamientos.

Sala de 1981

La sala de 1985 está emplazada en la esquina sudeste del complejo y es casi idéntica a la de 1975, de la que se encuentra separada por un tabique. Al igual que la sala de 1975, está ocupada por una amplia variedad de puestos.

Mercado al aire libre

El mercado al aire libre es accesible a través de los pabellones de 1976 y 1981. Contiene tres áreas de puestos, cada una caracterizada por un color de techo diferente (azul, rojo y amarillo) y una hilera de puestos con techo de color verde al fondo. El mercado al aire libre está rodeado por vallas que se pueden cerrar con llave. Existe gran variedad de tipos de puesto, Hacia el fondo el mercado se haya ocupado por fruterías y verdulerías mayormente, aunque existen en las otras áreas puestos de electrodomésticos, ordenadores o ropa.

Véase también
 Arquitectura de Leeds
 Compras en Leeds

Notas

Mercados de Inglaterra

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BIRDS OF PREY (2020) Discussion
So part what if you consume? Most recently, I recently had a thin, thin slice of Pumpkin Pie. Oh, is this dessert, for from a dinner or did you have this independently? I had this independently. I went to our previous discussion guests, Sophia's house, and Sophia, but your friend, my friend, and she had her parents had bought a humongous Pumpkin Pie from Costco, of which they'd managed to devour half of. Well, I guess it's from Costco, so naturally I just think this is costco wholesale we're talking about. So, but, like you know, you approximate diameter, like was it a foot and a half? Jeez, ause, I know it's a big it's a big fucking pie and you decided to have just but a thin slice of that. I wasn't that hungry. It's Pumpkin, your favorite kind of Pie. No apple part. Your were burrows of a feather. Apples my favorite. Also Bird. Have you ever feather? Birds of prey seems like a good transition for our movie of the day, birds of weight right. No, you need to what have you eaten? You didn't tell me. I know I wasn't ready to move on. I just had UN Burrito from I sounded exotic. What was that? That French? Let me try, let me, let me translate a Burrito. Oh, okay, I'm in Ogden Utah and I thought I would test out the yeah, the Hispanic cuisine from this region of the country. You just said that with an Italian accent. Okay, ready for the show? Yeah, let's let's cue the intro. Welcome back to craft services, where we talk about movies. Each week we discuss a different film and we hopefully have an interview with crew member of that film to talk with us about their experience. We had Evan Schiff, editor, come in to talk with us about his work on birds of prey. What a delightful man. You should check that episode out. It's our last episode. It's a pretty good one and try and I'm just gonna jump right in and give us anopsis of this movie. That's all right, least do. I've been patiently waiting. After splitting with the joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, free huntress and a Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime Lord, also known as the black mask, and they didn't mention the little girl. What's her name? Fuck brain blast, Perth, cassandrew Kane booth. Yep, you got it first try. Well, Trent, do you want to know the budget for this movie? Tell me. Well, I'll have you know it was. It cost it anywhere from eighty two to a hundred million dollars, just somewhere somewhere in that range. Even even those responsible don't really know. I think. I think it's because of tax credits and things like that. So, like I think might have crossed because of aliizing. Advertising isn't included. And don't they say that advertising is like half of the budget? It's a really...
...twice whatever. The if for big blockbuster movie generally, whatever it cost to make is how much it cost to advertise couch in. If that were the case here, which I doubt it was, because there was relatively limited advertising, then that would mean they either barely broke even or lost money. What did what did it what did end up making at the box office? Trent, tell me two hundred and one point nine million dollars from people paying money to see the movie. I think it's worth noting that this was one of the last movies to have a theatrical release before everything Sun Times. Part Fun fact that this was the last movie I saw in theaters. This is the last movie I saw in theaters. Did you see at the are you cinema on records? I did. It's like I did. I saw it with my friend Sophia. Yeah, I know your friend. Yeah, part of we so much in common. You also are friends with Sophia, yet we have an equally important relationship to her. Moving on, let's share the production history. Kathy ant the director. She was the first Asian person, the first female Asian person, to direct a superhero film, and then I did. That got me thinking what other Asian people have directed superhero films, and then Angley came to mind, and I'm not sure if there are any other examples, but he'd made the hulk movie right, which everybody loved. Part that's funny say that because it's like kind of universally like just spines. So was that like ironic? Moving on. Okay, the penguin was intended to appear in the script at one point, but was dropped to preserve his GC cindied universe debut in the Batman with Robert Pattinson. Do you know what. That's coming out supposedly October of next year, but I mean, and we'll see, they already had to shut down. They started production like a week ago or two weeks ago and had to shut down because Robert Pattinson got covid. Damn what. How much of the shooting have they completed prior to I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think something like anywhere between a third and a half. Well, obviously enough to cut together a trailer. Yeah, I think it started in March Ish. So are we know it? Definitely? No, it definitely didn't, because that's when I had down for yeah, no, never mind, but yeah, it's schedule. It's scheduled to come out October, like a Halloween issh release date. Well, anyways, Barbara Gordon, backgirl, a founding member of the team in the comics, was removed from birds of prey due to her upcoming standalone film, which I didn't even know existed until I read this Wi comedia information. But the screenplay is written by the same person who did birth of pray, Christina Hodson Joss Whedon, was originally supposed to do a Batman move or batgirl movie, like right and direct it. Then he bowed out of production and then, I guess, birds of birds of prey got good enough reviews that they put Christina Hodson on it, which I much prefer. cinemotigrapher, Matthew Lit Batique. He did the key, he was the DP for this film and, most notably, he has done every are on Aaron Oski film since one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight, through his through mother, his most recent release, and he also shot Bradley Cooper's directorial debut. Stars born and iron man really like the two thousand and eight one. HMM. Oh well, wikipedia failed to mention that, so blame whoever, whoever wrote the article. Screw you, Mr Wikipedia or Mrs Wikipedia or Miss Wikipedia. Of Apologies. The working title for this film was Fox force five. Do you know where that's from, parth, I'm sure you do yours. Is that a pulp fiction reference? It's a pool fiction reference. Yeah. Do you know the thing...
...about Fox force five? Like being like the like a vague description of kill bill and have people? Yeah, and I know the universe. Yeah, the TCU, the Tarantino Cinematic Universe, Chads, the hull sky of the John Wick fame served as a second unit director for Reshoots, his company eight eleven, having already been involved in the development of the action scenes. More News. Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn will appear in the suicide squad such release in September. Two Thousand and twenty one, directed by James Gunn and I was surprised to find out that a dress Alba and John Cena are in it, and Kathy Yam said that she would be interested and directing a sequel that would explore Harley Quinn's relationship with poison ivy. All of this was surprising to me, especially part. Did you see? The two thousand and sixteen suicide squad fucking sucked. Yep, we'll put but the best part of it was probably Margot Robbie and they really ran with it. YEP, for their cash cow right now, or like. Will Smith was good too, but he, he. I think everybody was well cast. It was just lots of behind the scenes problems. Oh movie. I thought the script wasn't excellent, but are there behind the scenes problems? I don't know about. Basically, Batman versus Superman got a bad rap for being too dark and whatnot. So then they if you look at the first suicide squad trailer, it's a really dark trailer and a the movie was really being rushed into production. David are, the writer director, only had six weeks to write the script. That's madness. Yeah, and then, on top of that, while they were shooting, there is basically a mandate by warner brothers for reshoots to make the movie more funny and more like lighthearted and whatnot. Then they basically had a trailer. There's a there's a trailer of suicide squad with that set to Bohemian rhapsody. That got pretty good reviews, like a good reaction. So Warner Brothers had the normal people editing it and then also hired the trailer company to edit a version of the movie. And then, basically it's some it battled it out and whatnot. So the movie is like a Frankenstein's monster of the original intent, which was already rushed and from studio interference. Yeah, and I mean Warner Brothers wasn't doing like Super Hot. I think they're doing. They're in a much better place right now with their properties. But wait, why? What does come out, since that is boost their more out wonder woman aquaman made a billion dollars. That's absurd. They've got a Batman movie coming out, they've got wonder woman to coming out, they've had Shazam come out. That was what they're doing. Just fine. So now they're doing fine. But yeah, we're brothers behind the Suis guns, suicide squad, the soft yeah, I'll DC. Movies are owned by Warner Brothers. They have the lessons to it. Are Are they going to acknowledge because Marga Robbie's and in this one too, so is. Are they just like, oh, wow, she's in, she's found another group of misfits and they're gonna they're going to battle a large presence and probably when it's I mean, I'm okay with this. It's supposed to be. Each filmmaker gets to do their own movie and the continuity isn't something to really be worried about, which I'm in favor of because I feel like a little it'll lead to more interesting movies. When I saw suicide squad in two thousand and sixteen, as you may remember, the ending scene is like the joker, like busting Harley Quinn out of...
...jail. If my memory doesn't deceive me and I thought that. I thought that them to run and around Gotham cause in trouble would be the spinoff. But jared LETTO was poorly received. So, yeah, I don't I don't think he was invited back. No, he was not all on rotten tomatoes. The film holds an approval rating of seventy eight percent and on Amazon, six percent of the reviews or one stars. That part is called the transition. Let's read some one star reviews. Classic Trent titled Ug Oh Hollywood, Tiss, Tiss, Tisk. Once again lately, that's redundant. Instead of working towards all humans being equal, part this one is about to be political. Brace Yourself. This movie portrays men is idiots and women as superior. I mean, that could be true, but aren't we striving for a quality? Question Mark. Second one another DC flop in parentheses, but in my opinion, joker rocked. Was Really Hoping I'd have something nice to say, but this is one of the worst movies I've seen in my in a very, very long time. Just glad I didn't waste my money and time in theaters. This guy instead bought the DVD and probably paid more for it, but whatever. Chiefly made, poor scripting and doy very can't be sets in costumes. Yeah, I know it's the comics and a style, but seriously, nothing new or nice to say. So I'm going to follow my mom's advice and not say anything mean, even though he just said, like you know, a bunch of means titled Do Not Watch this part. This is I'm excited. You're ready. It's about this person. Feel strongly worst movie I have ever seen. I would rather have the coronavirus then watch this movie. Ouch, Ouch, not a glowing review. Nope. Tell me about your initial feelings on the film. Well, I saw it this again. This is the last movie I saw before theater shut down and I ended up watching it on my own and I really enjoy this movie. I think it's messy in the first half. I agree that on second half is better, but but that seems to be a general consensus with the movie. I think it tries to be a little bit too clever for its own good, but I really enjoy I think it's a solid I think it's it's a really solid directorial effort from Cathy Yan. It's I'm really happy to see a superhero movie where it feels like a filmmaker is behind it. I like the action sequences a lot. There's clearly a lot of effort and care put into them. And Yeah, solid movie, not not not like amazing, Holy Shit, best movie I've ever seen, but I don't think that's a fair thing to put onto that. anyways, yeah, I had a I had a similar reaction. I remember thinking as I was leaving the theater, I was like what like? I'm a content viewer. I paid seven dollars for my ticket and boy, Oh boy, did I get my money's worth. That was that was ninety minutes of of an action movie and I enjoyed it. I agree that it's strengths are in the action sequences, most notably like the the ruler skating car chase and and and the and sequence on the boardwalk and like the the the fight on amusement mile, when when the ladies team up.
But yeah, I mean like to that that sort of brings us with that that goes into production, design and direct directorial, you know, whatever it's. I think it's a goodlooking movie. I think that, again, there's a lot of it feels like there's somebody behind the camera, which with a lot of these superhero movies it kind of feels like they can be on autopilot a little bit, and so I appreciate that there was a lot of care put into the production design, the look of the movie, the way the camera moves, the way that it's edited. It felt very intentional. I agree with you that in watching other superhero or marvel movies, they can often feel kind of like cookie cutter, and in that it's like it's like objectively fine but not really exploratory in any way. And so there's yeah, just like there's no. They're all kind of shot and edited the same way. Yet nothing about them is is experimental. It's a safe bet. It's but yes, I think that this movie took more risks than most, especially in its structure like that. That the a chronological miss and like the Harley Quinn basically narrating like the first half. How did how did you feel about that? By the way, I was fine with it. I found Margot Robbie, I really like. Margot Robbie, is my favorite actress working right now. I mean, I don't disagree. I mean she she holds this movie on on her shoulders, much like she did suicide squad. And I think that she was going to be inseparable from that character of moving forward. Yeah, and I think she's like just on her own, really smart person in the business. She's the one that really pushed for this movie. Yes, she was the produced he pushed. She pushed for it to get an R rating. She you can see, she puts a lot of work into the physical aspects of the characters and I think, I think she's just awesome through through. So I having said that, I thought in suicide squad she was a little annoying, but in this movie they managed to get the balance of annoying versus, you know, kind of heartfelt. Yeah, I think in suicide squad she was just supposed to be like the Zany, sexy crazy one. Yes, yes, she was definitely objectified, but in this movie I think she functions well as the centerpiece surrounded by like other complimentary accessories. Yeah, and I was surprised. I always thought Harley Quinn was a weird person to put as a standalone thing. I mean, I know she has her own comics, but she always felt to me like an extension of miss the jail, like like like a little bit of a side character. But well, I'm happy that she's been being that she's only brought into an existence, as you know, like the why of a main character, making her a side character. Yeah, but I mean, having said that, I think I was proven wrong. I think it's really I think they do some interesting stuff. I really like how much it is about me. It's not like so deep, but it is about getting out of an abusive relationship and I like getting into the emotional head space of Harley Quinn. Yeah, I agree. She's being able to explore the I mean there was really no that. No one was front and center in suicide squad, right. Yeah, no, it was a it was much more of a team movie than this is. This is the first two thirds. This is Harley Qune in the Harley Quinn movie. Yeah, yeah, which is why it was re retitled Harley...
Quinn birds of prey. I also think part of that is that people were going to the theaters and seeing birds of prey and being like no idea what that is, since there's no IP mentioned. And then, but when you go and you see a character from the batsman universe, one a ticket please. Is Dracula watching this movie? Yeah, he yeah, I am the count that's my imitation. I like to count. So tell me what you thought about like the other members of the gang, we got the Black Canary, we've got the huntress, also known as the the Cross Bow Kila, and then you've got Rosie Perez and the COP, and then there's Cassandra Kane, Yep, this small woman, also known as a girl, a child, a child. Yeah, I like all of them, except for the COP. I think she's just kind of boring. Yeah, she's got the by no fault of the actress. I think it's like my job with what she's here on the podcast. We like exactly. Please, come on. She I mean, I like genuinely. I think she does a good job with what she's given. It's just she's not given all that much. It's just not written to be the most interesting thing. I think huntress gets a lot of fun stuff. I think it was wise decision to not make her feel like she's a Badass, to make her sort of insecure a little bit. I like that. Yeah, I agree that her best personality trait is that like she's awesome and like everyone knows it but her, and so she's like super socially awkward and it felt like she was interacting with. I mean it's kind of true, being that her family was, you know, massacred and then she was raised by I don't know, like fucking Ninja's or they were just like assassins, who knows? But he didn't have a lot of girl time. And now seeing her thrown into the deep end of womanhood, it's funny. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ramona Flowers, chef's kiss. Speaking of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, her her partner, Ewan McGregor, plays black mask. Wait, they're they're they're an item. Not only I not only are they an item, the man and wife. They know, not yet at least, but he was. They starred in season three of Fargo and Ewan McGregor was married to a woman, to a woman for like twenty plus years, and then divorced her for Mary Elizabeth winstead, kind of like Noah bomback did with with Jennifer Jason Lee and and in Gret and Greg Orwig A. Having said that, you and McGregor is pretty awesome in this movie as like the worst. Oh, you're saying for playing a bad person. He does it well, yeah, no, I mean, like I I have always loved you and McGregor from Star Wars. He's Obi Wan Goddamn Cannobie, come on, exactly. I mean he's a great actor and everybody knows that, but I've never seen him in anything besides Star Wars. In that he is in a movie called beginners, I believe is the titled Title. He's in a Roman Paul antscreen movie which I haven't seen. Hunch, she's so pretty good. He did some head stuff, just hutchy subject, you say, boy, but Um, yeah, no, I think everybody's well cast in the movie. I think it's a fun movie. Yeah, one of something I was confused about police. So watching the movie this morning and you know...
...the part where Black Canary, she's the singer, she does a scream thing and it's basically revealed she has a super power, and I was like, okay, this is superhero movie, so that's okay. But then I did some thinking. I was like, no one else in this movie has a superpower and everyone shit, I never thought about that. Isn't kind of weird? Yeah, that is kind of where. I never even realized that. So yeah, another thing I noticed was that you know how Gotham is a city. HMM, Gotham city, the white as it's known, the license plates in this movie just like Gotham, and that, well, well, God, Gotham City is within Gom state. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Okay, fine, yeah, I'll let you have this, or at least I don't know. If I don't know, I know that there's a difference between Gotham and Gotham city as a Batman Fan, but I'm going to sound really stupid if that's not true, but I'm pretty sure it is. But Yeah, oh well, speaking of Gotham city, I really like the way it portrays Gotham city, I think. I think a really cool part of this sort of d what's now become more of a decentralized cinematic universe, is that each filmmaker pretty much gets their own chance to have their own take on the esthetics of everything, and I really enjoyed this one. Yeah, this, this one's really colorful and nice and there's a lot of, you know, colorful characters laying around. This was the black mass first appearance in film and I found it, I don't know, kind of odd, just in the way they like none of the other super villains, I mean the joker, are mentioned when the black mask, for starters, seems to be very off to the side, being that it's taken him this long to even be, you know, included. But I mean I think you and McGrady did a great job, but I think I'm all right with other villains not being mentioned. No, no, no, I was just saying that the black mask as a character, is it, Oh yeah, isn't as interesting as some of some of the other me Batman. Arguably his the best set of super villains. I would say in arguably he has I don't know of any other character who has as many spinoffs for their villains that are all like pretty good. I think the only comparison would be the spider man villains, which you don't have. I just like Spider Man's villains. Spider Man's villains are like generally like assholes. They're just like robbing places, like like Sandman just wants to rob a bank, you know, like. No, I agree that the Batman characters are like, I mean the Batman Universe is is darker, and so they have like more I don't know, like I think they have more interesting motivations and whatnot. I concur, but I think if you go up to people on the street and you ask them to name like Super Villains, some of them would probably be from from spider man. Oh, one hundred, one hundred percent. He's definitely second in line. Yeah, what do you think of the soundtrack? M The only thing that really stuck with me was Baracuta playing during the fight sequence, which I thought was well...
...suited, but most of it was just, I don't know, like remixed versions of popular songs. I found it a little bit much. I felt like there wasn't I don't know whether it was a studio mandated decision to have because they had to sound traveler songs. Yeah, so I don't know if it was a mandate by Warner Brothers to have all those songs in the actual movie or if that was a stylistic choice, but I felt like having every single action sequence being set to a song. Yeah, yeah, it was it. I was just a bit much. Yeah, like it gave me a little bit of a headache in theaters when I watched it all. It was definitely it certainly wasn't understated. No, what do you think of the CGI? Hyaena? Kind of Wonky, but I don't mind it. It's fine. Yourself. You I mean no real complaints here. It's definitely what's the word? It is like kind of makes sense as like a quirky sidekick to Harley Quinn like that, that that fits her character. But it was certainly CGI. And not only do to you know me having eyes, but I don't think Hyaena's have ever been used on a film set. Yeah, there's no other hyenas to my knowledge, but I mean, I think that's pretty much all I have to say about this movie. But what do you think about are you excited to see further adventures of these people? I don't think we'll be hearing from any of the side characters again, even though in the end the only official birds of prey are Rosie Perez, the huntress and the Black Canary. So it's kind of funny. It's kind of ironic that the title doesn't even include the main character. You know, it'd be like if if, in the avengers movie, like iron man wasn't a member of the avengers. Yeah, I guess, thus the rebranding. I'm excited for at least what Marta Robbie has in store, because I love James Gunn and all that he's done. Pretty much so at least Dick directorially. So I'm excited for her in the suicide squad and I hope, I really this movie underperformed, so I don't know what the future is, but I really hope Cathy Yan gets the chance to do another movie because she's really good at directing action sequences and she gets people that like actors that obviously put a lot of their own work into it, and it goes a long way. I think I agree with you on that, especially because my main objection to this film is that I think it's stories spread too thin. Like, yes, I think it could have been like FIF divided a shorter. I think it's divided between too many characters, especially with them trying to give the origin story of the huntress. But it's kind of like a weird imbalance because you're also introducing the Canary and and Rosie Perez and the little girl, but like we're not talking about their background, and so it's like you have different tiers of how much we care about these different characters who are like all considered equals. But that makes me look forward to the potential of a Harley Quinn and poison ivy movie, because one like a like. I mean, Uma Thurman was the...
...last person to play poison ivy and it was, you know, in the Joel Schumacher Batman and Robin and so it was pretty over the top and cartoonish. But I think a, I don't know, a more realistic depiction of that could be interesting, especially because I was reading earlier than how Margar Robbie was talking about how Harley Quinn doesn't function like with a standalone movie and she's best when surrounded by other characters, and I think that that would work best as like a team up movie. You know, yes, one hundred percent I agree. So is it time to slap a label, a rating even? I would say so. You have the floor, sir. I'd give this a seven, point five out of ten. Solid movie. It's it's solid movie. I think, better than average superhero movie, which is why it's not a seven out of ten. And but like it's got a it's got a few it's a little too clunky at the beginning and, like you said, there's there's different sort of tears of how developed certain characters are, but they're all supposed to be the same team, so there's like kind of imbalanced there. But yeah, solid movie. Seven point five out of ten. You want to know somebody, I think it's worth mentioning that we haven't that we've completely ignored. please. The like the animated opening. Oh yeah, I thought that was very suitable for like the genre or not. I liked it. I like to to the tone. Thank you, and like the mood of the film. And I also thought it was a smart way to include the joker, jared Letto. Yeah, and they showed like a classic like he's animated this though, like he's the classic design of the Joker to yes, and also I'm just like so infatuated with like the different character designs of Harley Quinn. I just think she has like some of the the best outfits, like even in the the cartoon opening, how, you know, there's the her original design with like the how do I describe it? Like the elaborate red and black outfit? Yeah, yeah, with like the the Sphas and such, and then, you know, when she's into the police station and she's yeah, yeah, and and she's wearing like the hat and the scarf and and the black jacket, like that is a that's an allusion to an earlier design. And then her like her modern garb, I very much enjoy also, and now she has a new outfit in the suicide squad and it looks really good. Describe it to me. It's like a modernish tactical version of her, like comic or I mean if she came from the animated show. But it's like a modern take on that. But right, she was a comics before she was in the animated show. No, I think you're wrong here, Trent. I'm again going to have to disagree with you. She was created by Paul Deaney and Bruce Tim in Batman, the animated series, and there and then spawned off into her own comic stuff because of the popularity of the character. For Real, I'm not kidding. I did you just read that or or did you just like recite that from...
...memory? Well, I mean I knew that because I'm a big fan of the show, and I mean Batman and spider man are my two favorite superheroes, which is nothing spectacular. But like so I've I I think Batman has the largest amount of good adaptations and all mediums. And Yeah, the animated show top Tier Television and she comes from that. Despite my equal shallowness, I have to agree with you on favorite DC marvel superheroes respectively, despite that being kind of a basic, a basic response. But I will give this movie a seven, just for diversity, largely due to the I mean maybe it deserves higher, because I like actively avoid new marvel releases and I went out of my way to see this one because Margot Robbie joyed me in the seven point five gang. All right, ptarth, you talked me into it. Seven point five. Yeah, I love Margarot Robbie and suicide squad and I'm glad to see that she's carrying the torch even further, being that it seems like she will be continuing the character in one, if not two, movies. So no complaints there. Yeah, so I guess that was it for birds of prey, also known as Harley Quinn and the Fantabilis mancipatition. Well, it's birds of prey or the birds of prey and the fantabulist emancipation of one Harley Quinn or Harley Quinn Colon birds of prey and here on. and which title do you prefer? As I like the first, I just call it birds of prey, being that that is applicable to both, but I love long movie titles. Yeah, it's Corky, it's funny. Sure, tell us, tell us about the next episode. Do you know what next episode? I have some insider information. You are you are a cohostless fucking program parth, you better. Yeah, we have a very special, special episode. We since the release of tenant, we decided we would talk about Christopher Nolan's breakout film, Memento, and with us we got to have the esteemed actor Steven Tobalowski, talk with us. He was he plays Sammy Jenkis in Memento and what a nice man, more importantly, he was. He was really fantastic and I gave some of the craziest stories I've ever heard on this podcast. Yeah, he told not one but two neardeath experience stories. So, yeah, if you want to hear someone talk about how they died almost tune in next week. All right. Well, I guess that's it. See you guys.
MEMENTO (2000) Discussion
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MEMENTO (2000) with Actor Stephen Tobolowsky
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Disney Has challenged heteronormativity, but there is still fuss about a gay princess?
By Karen Heileman | December 2, 2020
What makes a classic Disney princess movie? A singing Disney princess, a fun side-kick, or a beautiful animation? All of the above, thrown in with a prince-saving-the-princess narrative, love being the prime goal, and this love being between a man and a woman. Although the Walt Disney Company has gone a long way in challenging this heteronormativity and cliché- fairytale portrayal, it needs to move into the 21st century and create a gay princess
Let's move back to the start of Disney princess movies: the very first one was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs released in 1937. As in many fairytales and Disney movies, a common theme here is the saving of something valuable. In Snow White and in many movies that followed, the ability to save a loved one or a kingdom is commonly given to the male character. Snow White is therefore presented as a naive stay-at-home woman whose main hobby is cleaning which reinforced the gender roles of the 1930s. This stereotypical image of a woman also appeared to tolerate the toxic dynamics between Snow White and the seven dwarfs. As she takes on the role of being their servant, their mother, and someone these old guys find attractive, the movie can definitely be called sexist.
Luckily, this stereotypical portrayal has changed over time and as women's rights developed, so did their portrayal in Disney movies. Though it was not until the dusk of the 20th century, in 1998, that Disney went from portraying Snow White as someone who needs saving, to smashing gender roles by giving the world "Mulan." Disguised as a man, Mulan takes her father's place in the Chinese army to fight the Huns. She doesn't only manage to save herself without the help of a guy, but she manages to save her entire kingdom. Her love interest is also a side-issue to the story which was a start of creating strong princesses who put their determination and dreams first. Eventually, this led to the makings of "Brave" and "Moana," that manage to be good stories without even feeling incomplete for not having a prince.
Moving from Snow White to Moana, Disney sure made a jump. It jumped as far as to eventually end up in the year 2020, a year when many perform social-distanced Disney movie marathons while longing for the first gay princess. Others, however, strongly criticize such new adaptations during a time when the ancient movies turned into childhood classics. Being a classic like the 1937's Snow White implies both a status quo and a loosening-up from that. Loosening-up has meant creating new versions of classics like The Little Mermaid. Among other factors in the 2021 version, it served the purpose of slowly eliminating racist features like overly white representation in movies. But what about movies that seem to be completely a product of our modern world? Are they at some point erasing the original fairytale that Disney often draws inspiration from
Many fairytales sure contain a hero-prince or a fight-for-love story, but like in Disney movies, these are not key ingredients: it seems to be about heroism and magic, but most importantly, they teach a moral. So spreading a moral in a story is arguably maintaining its fairytale essence. This leaves everything else subject to change, which Disney has done over the last decades: in many cases it has moved away from the love-interest centered prince-saving-the-princess narrative.
However, it still sticks to the princess and prince narrative. Many people have called on Disney to challenge this heteronormativity, for example by creating the Twitter hashtag #GiveElsaagirlfriend, wanting the creators of Frozen to make Queen Elsa the first openly gay lead role. Others, however, argue that Elsa represents emancipation, so should therefore not have a partner of any gender (Hanna). Needless to say, there is constant discussion about a gay princess. In a time of increased LGBTIQ+ representation in TV shows like Modern Family, Glee, or Orange is the New Black, this seems long overdue. Other people however argue that it may get too much backlash. In fact, not only a few single people oppose a gay princess, but countries like Russia have banned the new Beauty and the Beast for the fact that LeFou is to be crushing on Gaston (Lindy). Other people argue that a Disney movie should not be ground for political discussion (Lindy).
However, a multi-billion dollar company without a doubt has power and therefore an obligation. It had the power back in the 1930s and for decades to follow to present women in a stereotypical way and it just recently got rid of these stereotypes. When will it use that power to give the world a gay princess? It can't possibly take another six decades to do so. Having an LGBTIQ+ princess gives representation and further challenges norms. Though some countries may oppose this, it comes down to the kid that wants to see a princess be kissed by a princess because that's what they look up to. Additionally, as Disney creates views of the world, it would be comforting to think that children grow up with movies presenting the side of our world where you can be anything. Who knows who else will follow from there?
It's also not like Disney would abandon certain old portrayals in new movies or store away childhood movies, even if they are as sexist as Snow White. And they shouldn't. They are part of the narrative as well and help us to remember the past. But the last thing this world needs more of is clichés. Creating new and different movies would help neglect that and diminish any "fuss" there has ever been.
Hanna, Aoife. "Brits Are Backing A Gay Disney Princess So Here's Why It's Gotta Happen ASAP." 20 August 2018. Bustle. 26 November 2020.
Lindy. "Will There Ever Be an LGBTQ+ Disney Princess?" 10 November 2018. Medium. 26 November 2020.
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Hydrogen station explosion could set back confidence
Following an explosion at its hydrogen refuelling facility in Kjørbo, Norway, last week, fuel producer Nel has recommended the closure of fuelling stations while it carries out an investigation.
The incident at the Uno-X station saw three people injured, none seriously, and could start a rocky period for the fuel type - especially in Norway, where it is competing with the well-established electric vehicle (EV) market. The explosion caused a fire that took authorities over two hours to bring under control.
In Norway, the whole hydrogen refuelling network is currently unavailable. Toyota Norway has temporarily stopped deliveries of hydrogen vehicles, although they remain on sale. This is to minimise any inconvenience to customers. Toyota Norway has also decided to offer replacement cars to customers until the situation has been resolved.
Four Nel hydrogen fuelling stations in Germany have also closed as a precaution.
Safety priority
'For H2 Mobility, the safety of our customers and the station staff is the top priority. For this reason, we took all stations of the manufacturer Nel in Germany off the grid on 10 June as a preventive measure.' H2 Mobility Deutschland said in a statement. The programme is a joint venture by hydrogen heavyweights Air Liquide, Daimler, Linde, OMV, Shell and Total with the task of accelerating the expansion of the hydrogen infrastructure in Germany.
The Norwegian site that suffered the explosion included a containerised, pressurised alkaline electrolyser that produces hydrogen in part from solar power.
'Based on further investigations, we can say with certainty that the leak started in the high-pressure storage unit, and we are now carrying out investigations to understand the detailed mechanisms of the leakage as well as what caused the ignition,' says Geirmund Vislie, Vice President Consulting of Gexcon, a safety consultation company.
Together with the authorities, Nel and Gexcon are conducting an off-site examination of the high-pressure storage unit, which comprises tanks and components from third-party suppliers as well as various components designed by Nel itself.
Hydrogen issues
While hydrogen is seen as a credible alternative to the EV market, there have always been safety concerns. The fuel is highly combustible and it is this that many consumers feel would put them off purchasing a fuel cell vehicle (FCV).
The explosion in Norway will add to these fears and could put back efforts to convince drivers that hydrogen is a credible propulsion technology in the future. While not as developed as EVs, carmakers are exploring the technology with a view to releasing FCVs in the next decade, while both Toyota and Hyundai already have vehicles on the market.
There has not been a comparable issue with an electric vehicle outside any mechanical problems, which will cement in the minds of many its safety credentials. The incident could set back confidence in hydrogen for quite some time.
However, the revelation that the hydrogen unit itself did not explode, and it was a leak instead that caused the incident, should put some fears at rest. A similar situation could have occurred with the leak of petrol, in either liquid form or vapours. Until the investigation has been concluded, however, it is unlikely the stations in Germany will reopen.
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How to Get a Girl Pregnant is a wonderfully candid and humorous memoir by Karleen Pendleton Jiménez published by Tightrope Books in 2011. The book is Karleen's confession of desire, humility, and a search for perfection.
And now made possible with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation and LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) a selection from the memoir is being made into a pilot web series by author Karleen and award-winning animator Barb Taylor. This collaboration reunites the two artists who worked together previously on the successful short film Tomboy.
Karleen has wanted to have a baby for as long as she can remember. But one crucial element was missing in the life of the butch Chicana lesbian — the sperm. We follow Karleen's challenges, adventures, successes, failures, humiliations, and triumphs while attempting to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother. Though at times lighthearted, such as when Karleen considers all of the potential options for fertilization — some anonymous, some not — it is a weighty topic, and one that will change her life forever.
The book was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and chosen for the 2013 Over The Rainbow List by the American Library Association.
A trailer for the web series will be available by mid-March. Plans are underway for further funding to finish the series by Fall 2018.
Karleen recently completed the short film Butch Coyolxauhqui (2016) looking at queer body image, fatphobia, and reclamation. Karleen has written three books: Are You a Boy or a Girl? (2000), How to Get a Girl Pregnant (2011) and Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes (2016). The first two were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. She is the screenwriter for the award-winning animation short Tomboy. Her short stories and personal essays have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including "Downtown" in Queers Were Here: Heroes and Icons of Queer Canada (2016), "Letter to My Queer Family," in Women Writing Letters (2015), "'Tell Them You're a Mexican,' and Other Motherly Advice" in Mother of Invention (2013), "A Beautiful Creature" in Persistence: Still Butch and Femme (2011), "Little White Children: Notes From a Chicana Dyke Dad" in Who's Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting (2009). She is currently teaching at Trent University.
Animator Barb Taylor has created a number of award winning short films and innovative digital stories. Her film Tomboy which explores bullying and gender expression was the recipient of the CBC Canadian Reflection Award, Inside Out Up and Coming Artist Award and Audience Award Reeling Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Chicago among others. Barb is currently completing a hand painted animated short Bobbi & Sheelagh, a portrait of a young woman who overcomes her fears when she meets a mythological creature. In early 2016 Barb was artist in residence at Clones Art Studio in Ireland to research the character Queen Maeve. Previous work includes the short animated film Peaceosaurus created in conjunction with the York University Children as Peacemakers program. Barb is the recipient of the Corus Innovation Award for the creation of a tween online radio station and a Webby Honoree for her work on the CBC Massey Lectures' website based on Lawrence Hill's book Blood the Stuff of Life. She has extensive experience in broadcasting as manager of national radio websites for both Corus Entertainment and CBC.


PostgreSQL 9.4 will be reintroducing Hstore as the column type of choice for document-style data. This supersedes PostgreSQL's JSON support which was introduced in version 9.0. Being a string-based representation, JSON is significantly slower than the binary structure of HStore. And with the addition of Boolean and integer support, the new Hstore is semantically equivalent to JSON. In practical terms this allows two-way conversions between the formats using just a casting operator.
The original HStore format dates back to 2003 when it was introduced merely for storing key-value pairs. Prior to this version it wasn't possible to use it for the efficient storage of tree-like structures like those found in JSON.
Early performance tests are promising. According to a presentation by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, PostgreSQL's new Hstore format beat MongoDB on a data loading test 76s to 8 minutes. For reads using finely tuned indexes, they managed to run tests at 0.672 ms compared to 1 ms for MongoDB. These results are self-reported and will need to be verified by outside researchers.


Your reception and office are the face of your business. It makes an important impression on employees, clients and business partners. A clean, welcoming office is conducive to productivity and creativity. So, you need a reliable office cleaning service.
These are some basic things to look for prior to moving to other considerations. Liability insurance protects you against costs that may be incurred in the case a cleaner becomes injured at the workplace.
Certification, Federal Police and Working with Children Checks help to ensure the quality and security of your service.
Professionals in the field need to have several satisfied clients. The happiness of current and former customers stands as evidence of their quality. Make sure the testimonials are genuine and not just marketing posts!
Choose a office cleaning service that caters to your specific needs. Service providers should give potential clients a detailed work specification document. This outline provides all the tasks that cleaners are will complete and the cost for carrying them out.
Keep in mind, the price isn't the most important consideration when going for office cleaning services, but it can help you decide between a few service providers that are otherwise similar. Look for the best price to quality ratio rather than the biggest bargain. Cleaning services that are excessively cheap may come either with hidden costs or below-par quality.
Can your next office cleaning service be flexible and offer what you need? Whether your office is small or the company employs hundreds of people, every business has highly specific cleaning requirements.
So, cleaning needs to be customised. Flexible and reliable cleaners can work according to your schedule. You'll be the one to specify how often the office is going to be cleaned and what the cleaning service itself is going to entail.
Don't underestimate the importance of honest communication. This is incredibly important when choosing a service provider. Make sure that the cleaning company you intend to partner up with understands your needs and is ready to communicate thoroughly to maximise your benefits.
A courteous and friendly approach is a prerequisite for complete satisfaction with the partnership. Make sure that the company rep is ready to listen to you and that all your needs are understood perfectly.
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Justin Bendell has previously published short fiction with Mystery Tribune. He is the editor of Manzano Mountain Review and co-host of Point Blank, a crime fiction podcast. In what follows he takes a close look at On The Beach By Nevil Shute.
Written in 1957 by British-Australian author Nevil Shute (1899-1960), "On the Beach" is a post-apocalyptic novel, which details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne after a preceding nuclear war and the subsequent arrival of deadly radiation: The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963, after World War III has devastated most of the populated world.
If half the world was destroyed by atomic war and a massive wall of radioactive dust was headed your way, how would you spend your last few months? This is the premise of Nevil Shute's post-apocalyptic classic On the Beach.
On the Beach is one of several post-apocalyptic novels that came out in the wake of the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during a time when the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was reaching fever pitch.
Published in 1957 by William Morrow (reprinted by Vintage International in 2010), the novel chronicles the last eight months in the lives of a cast of characters living in Melbourne, Australia after World War III has decimated life on most of the planet.
In recent decades, the post-apocalyptic milieu has introduced zombie hordes (The Walking Dead ), baby-eating highwaymen (The Road ), and slave-driving warlords (Mad Max ). If you pick up the book expecting Mad Max, you will be disappointed, as On the Beach may be the quietest post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read.
The main character is Commander Dwight Towers, a U.S. Naval Officer stationed in Australia. He has a wife and kids in Mystic, Connecticut and he holds onto the fantasy of their continued survival like a talisman. He works closely with Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes, an Australian Naval Officer serving at liaison on the USS Scorpion. Holmes has a wife and newborn child. One of their close friends, Moira Davidson, is an unattached young woman who they set up with Commander Towers.
On the Beach may be the quietest post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read.
At first, I was perplexed with how much of the book's attention is centered on domestic affairs in suburban Melbourne. Once I fell into the quiet rhythm of this novel, I began to understand its power. This book shows how regular folks react to a cataclysm of world-ending proportions.
World War III started with a bang. Albania bombed Italy. Egypt bombed England and the United States. The United States bombed Russia. Russia bombed China. Thousands of cobalt-salted hydrogen bombs pocked the earth and untold amounts of radiation devastated human life. But not in the Southern Hemisphere. The populations of South America's Southern Cone, South Africa, and Oceania have gone unscathed, but for how long? This is the calm, clear end of things, and from page one, we know the fallout is coming.
In the meantime, folks go on with their lives. They relax at the beach, tend to their gardens, stock up on milk, drink brandy, go to work.
Once I fell into the quiet rhythm of this novel, I began to understand its power.
The novel lures the reader and keeps them engaged with two dramatic questions: who or what is sending radio signals from the radioactive wasteland formerly known as Seattle, and when will the radioactive cloud arrive to Australia?
They inspected San Francisco from five miles outside the Golden Gate. All they learned was that the bridge was down. . . The houses visible from the sea around the Golden Gate Park had suffered much from fire and blast; it did not look as if any of them were habitable.
As for the fallout, scientists expect the radiation to reach Australia by late summer. The reader knows this from the outset, and this timer is important for keeping tension in a novel where not much happens.
Atmospherically, On the Beach is a noir novel. It may be set in sunny Melbourne, but a sense of foreboding fills all cracks and facets. It is also an existentialist novel. It explores the individual reacting to a world where god is dead, and all meaning is absent save the meaning we make ourselves.
Though the story is slow, I don't think pacing is a problem until Shute shoehorns a high-octane racetrack scene into the third act. The race is a last hurrah or sorts, and I presume it serves as a metaphor for the mortal coil. For the drivers, to finish the race is to finish their lives before the fallout finishes it for them. Nonetheless, the scene felt forced.
The power in the novel has little to do with cataclysmic violence, or with a riveting plot.
This is a story of middle-class Australians, plus one American, and how they react to the end of the world. They find value not in anti-social violence. Instead, they are drawn inward to what comforts them: their personal passions, the people they love. This quiet realism is what makes the book so powerful, and impossible to forget.
Recommended for folks like end-of-the-world tales but prefer an introspective human story to zombie blood splatter.


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Financial institutions need to take a greater role in combating elder abuse: lawyer
By Jackie Keast on November 4, 2015 in Consumers 1
Banks and financial institutions are at the 'coalface' of identifying and stopping financial abuse and have a significant role to play in its prevention. However, a lack of training and awareness around the issue meant they were failing their elderly customers, an expert lawyer has told Australian Ageing Agenda.
Kirsty Mackie, principal of KRM Legal and chairwoman of the Elder Abuse Committee of the Queensland Law society, said she had recently noticed alarming trends in how banks were responding to financial abuse, offering incorrect legal information and failing to act on requests from enduring powers of attorney.
Ms Mackie said one of her clients had recently discovered her brother was financially abusing their father, who has dementia, by obtaining his signature on blank withdrawal slips. The client then, as her father's enduring power of attorney, instructed the bank not to accept any such further transactions.
However, the client was told: "Demented or not, we will only deal with your father as he is the account holder. We will not deal with you." Pressed further, the bank manager said it was against policy to follow the decisions of a power of attorney unless the document was registered.
Kirsty Mackie
However, Ms Mackie pointed out that in most states of Australia, there is no legal requirement to register a power of attorney document. Further, industry guidelines from the Australian Bankers Association, of which this bank was a member, state that banks have contractual obligations to follow their customer's mandate, including recognising and responding to requests from an enduring power of attorney or administrator.
"The frontline staff just aren't being trained properly," said Ms Mackie. "There's some fundamental errors going on that they could take some steps to address."
In another case, a client noticed that his 92-year-old father, who had fluctuating capacity, had unusually withdrawn nearly $150,000 from his bank account in one month. He discovered his father had recently befriended a young woman in her 20s whom he was gifting cash, and upon further inquiries to police, found out the woman was a prostitute living with known fraudsters. He approached the bank branch to put a stop to these transactions, but was told he had 'no authority' to do so, even though he was his father's enduring power of attorney. The son is now faced with taking the matter to tribunal.
"That shouldn't happen. They shouldn't have to take that extra step. The bank should listen to them; the enduring power of attorney has the same rights as the account holder and if they raise financial abuse, then the bank has an obligation to investigate it," Ms Mackie said.
She said issues with financial abuse will only increase as the population ages, and banks have a corporate responsibility and community obligation to engage with the issue. Ms Mackie said while banks cannot be expected to act as lawyers and test for capacity, there is enormous responsibility to act in their client's best interest, and that if they see unusual transaction patterns, they have an obligation to investigate.
In the same way that banks protected credit card owners from fraud by monitoring signs of unusual spending, she said banks had a role to play in protecting an older person from abuse.
Work with the community
Ms Mackie said elder abuse was "everyone's business…. whether it's council workers or bus drivers, or bank tellers or retail shop assistants" and that the issue needs a whole-of-community approach.
In this vein, Ms Mackie said she hopes to see financial institutions engage further with the elder abuse sector into the future, and said that banks' policies on the issue would be best assisted and drafted if they worked collaboratively with those in the field. She said policy also needs to be constantly reviewed, as with modern technology, new ways of committing financial abuse were always emerging.
Problems with legislation
Ms Mackie concedes that some of the issues that banks have with power of attorney may be due to the difficulties in verifying the document due to variations between states, and called for a national approach to legislation.
Her comments echo recommendations from a study released earlier this year by the University of Western Sydney, The Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre and Council of the Ageing NSW, which called for uniform federal legislation and a national register to allow banks to more easily verify the documents, stating problems with documents were facilitating financial abuse.
"I think the general misunderstandings of powers of attorney are very widespread. That's not helped by every state having a different system and different form," Ms Mackie said.
She said targeted training for staff focused at a state-based level was required.
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One Response to Financial institutions need to take a greater role in combating elder abuse: lawyer
Susanne Macri November 4, 2015 at 1:38 pm #
There is huge confusion around Power of Attorney & Enduring Power of Attorney, added to the complexity is that the regulatory framework differs from State to State.
The same confusion around Guardianship & Enduring Guardianship is also an issue for the industry.
There needs to be greater education & reform to ensure older Australians are are not abused &/or taken advantage of .Susanne Macri AM
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A team of scientists from the National Academy of Sciences and university representatives visit the Kumtor Mine
With the introduction of external management, Kumtor Gold Company CJSC (KGC) is actively searching for new technologies and know-hows that could improve production processes at the mine. Earlier, a forum "Development of Science and Education – Perspectives" was held in Bishkek upon initiative of the Company, participants of which discussed issues of interaction between research institutes, universities and enterprises. And now the first group of representatives of research institutes and universities visited the mine.
Kumtor will support young scientists of Kyrgyzstan. We will give them the opportunity to implement joint projects that will have a practical effect, and not for the sake of dissertations," said Tengiz Bolturuk, External Manager of the KGC.
The scientific community has something to offer to the mining sector of the republic. Despite the lack of funding, truly unique developments are underway in the republic. Now, with the support of such an industrial giant as Kumtor, the path from an idea to a working device will be significantly shorter. For example, the Institute of Communications and Information Technologies of KRSU is working on an electronic system that will significantly simplify the work of operators of pit excavators.
In order to preserve the unique glaciers, the Company is now preparing to launch underground mining of the deposit. Specialists of the Institute of Machine Science and Automation of the National Academy of Sciences are ready to help with this. According to senior researcher Ermamat Absamatov, a few years ago, the Research Institute patented a technology that will significantly reduce the cost of mining operations.
"The drilling and blasting method is a cyclic method of sinking, when drilling is done first, then blasting, then airing and hoeing, while our method offers an explosion-free technology that will allow you to simultaneously develop, load and divert, that is, there are three operations in one in this technology," explains Ermamat Absamatov.
During the visit, the scientists were convinced that the Mine, headed by the Temporary External Manager Tengiz Bolturuk, is working smoothly, in normal mode and in compliance with safety regulations, the mood of employees is set on continuing work. The guests got acquainted with the main production stages of ore extraction and processing, visited the open pit and gold mill. According to the participants of the trip, they were inspired by the atmosphere of a unique industrial enterprise, charged with new ideas and positive energy for their further implementation.
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Home Academic Analysis It's hard to find a case for a cut in petrol tax...
Cutting petrol tax to bring down the cost of living used to be the political version of a joke. Failed US presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton both tried it in 2008. Their bipartisan advocacy of a "summer gas tax holiday" was derided as dumb, a turkey and a "metaphor for the entire campaign".
When 230 economists released a letter opposing it in 2008, Clinton said: "I'll tell you what, I'm not going to put my lot in with economists".
Her opponent for her party's nomination, Barack Obama, labelled it a gimmick and went on to win both the nomination and the presidency.
But it isn't being treated as a joke now. There's talk about it in the US, New Zealand has just cut in its fuel excise 25 cents to ease cost of living pressures, and Australia is considering a budget measure along the same lines.
What has happened to the price of petrol is shocking. In capital cities the unleaded price is about A$2.18, up from $1.60 at the start of the year. That means that whereas it might have cost $80 to fill up a Toyota Corolla at the start of the year, it now costs one third as much again – $109.
If you fill up fortnightly, as many people do, the extra impost is greater than if the Reserve Bank lifted its cash rate by 0.25% and pushed up the cost of payments on your mortgage.
As petrol prices rise, will carbon emissions come down?
If you own an SUV, by now Australia's biggest selling type of new car, the extra impost will be greater. And (as with interest rates) there's every chance petrol prices will climb further.
In New Zealand, where petrol costs more than NZ$3 per litre (A$2.80) the government has cut petrol excise by 25 cents per litre for three months, in the hope that by then the worst effects of the Russia-Ukraine war will have passed.
Australia taxes petrol lightly
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that even with the cut, New Zealand petrol prices will still be way above Australia's. That's because, like most developed nations, New Zealand charges more in tax for using roads than does Australia.
Until the cut on Tuesday, New Zealand petrol excise was a touch over NZ$0.77 per litre (A$0.72) compared to around A$0.43 in
Low by international standards
Retail unleaded price (Australian cents per litre)
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The goods and services tax charged on top of that in both nations brings the NZ excise to about NZ$0.89 per litre (A$0.83) compared to Australia's A$0.48.
If these figures sound low, it's because the price of petrol has soared. One of the peculiarities of taxes that are set in cents per litre (climbing only with inflation) is that when the petrol price jumps, the tax as a proportion of the total price shrinks.
N ew Zealand prices exceed NZ$3 per litre.
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A year ago fuel excises accounted for 40% of the cost of New Zealand petrol, and 35% of the cost of Australian petrol. At 28% and 22%, they've become self-cutting.
If we abolished fuel excise altogether, cutting the Australian unleaded price 22%, we would only bring the price back to where it was five weeks ago.
And then (as I imagine will happen in New Zealand after three months) the government would find it hard to reintroduce it.
It is finding it difficult to end the $1,080 low and middle earner tax break that was meant to finish two years ago.
The mess it has got itself in by hinting that it will cut the excise and by not ending the A$7.8 billion per year low and middle earner offset hint at a way out.
The offset is poorly designed. It is paid out as a tax refund after the end of each financial year, making it the opposite of the "stimulus measure" Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said it was when he last extended it. If he extends it again for the coming financial year, it won't get paid out until the second half of 2023.
This pointless $1,080 tax break should have ended years ago – but has become hard to stop
The petrol component of the fuel excise brings in A$5.8 billion per year. The government might be able to hang on to that and use the A$7.8 billion that would have been spent on the offset to support people now when they need it and when petrol prices are high, rather than a year into the future when they might not be.
The A$7.8 billion would be directed to Australia's lowest earners, the ones who are being hit hardest by the horrendous petrol prices. Low earners (the bottom 40%) on average spend more than 3% of their income on petrol. High earners spend less than 2%.
Support shouldn't be tied to petrol use
The direct support to low earners should be delivered in cash rather than as a subsidy to petrol prices. Recipients would be able to spend it on petrol should they need to, but would be able to spend it on other things.
If it was delivered as a petrol subsidy it would go disproportionately to the highest earning households for whom high petrol prices are a mere annoyance. High income households spend more on petrol in absolute terms (on average 50% more) than low income households.
High petrol prices hurt, but cutting excise would harm energy security
If it is delivered as cash rather than a petrol subsidy it won't blunt the push that high prices give for people will switch to more efficient cars and use petrol less by doing things such as working more from home.
It's hard to find a case for a cut in Australia's petrol tax, but it is easy to create a mechanism to help the people high prices are hurting. The budget is due in a fortnight.
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"I'm so glad these songs at last get to be heard – ragged and raw, done and undone, whatever, they were loved and not at all Lost after all." Patrick Fitzgerald, 2014
"Over a wasted, civil war-style landscape comes a vocal that sounds like some daughter of Tim Buckley intoning a lament for the dead - I know nothing about Lost Girls; all I know is the world should know more about them." Needle's Eye review, NME, 1999
In 1997, Patrick Fitzgerald had left Kitchens of Distinction, his band of 10 years, and Heidi Berry had left 4AD for whom she had recorded three albums following being invited to sing on the This Mortal Coil album 'Blood'.
Following a speculative phone call, they got together in 1998 to work out their frustrations and re-imagined what they could do. And over the next few months songs came together. They played some live shows, including supporting John Martyn, and the duo of Lost Girls became a five piece group with the addition of Ashley Wood on guitar, drummer Dave Morgan (The Loft, Primal Scream, Rockingbirds) and bassist Kim Smith.
They reworked the songs as a group and put them out to tender and waited...
A single, Needle's Eye, was self-released in 1999 but otherwise the recordings sat gathering dust... until now!
Dusted off and brightened up, the long-lost Lost Girls album is released as a double album featuring all 21 recordings made by the duo including the originally intended album and bonus material.
1 All Fall Away 5:44 £0.99
2 NYC 4:31 £0.99
3 Japanese 7:00 £0.99
4 Hold Me Down 3:50 £0.99
5 Hovercrafts 4:03 £0.99
6 Abduction 4:15 £0.99
7 Forgiven 5:50 £0.99
8 Opiated Self-Help Song 5:12 £0.99
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Panda Express an American-Chinese food chain is entering in India
India: Panda Express is planning to enter in India in partnership with Mumbai based JSM who has earlier brought other international chains like California Pizza Kitchen, Hard Rock Café, and others in domestic market. The master franchise agreement has been signed with the Panda Restaurant Group who runs Panda Express. Panda Express serves American-Chinese cuisine and its closest competitors are PF Chang's, Noodles & Co and Pei Wei.
The first few outlets will operate in near about six months, in the major metros and in the coming five years they have plans to open around 50 outlets. The Panda Express started its business in year 1983 in California and is counted as one of the largest Chinese restaurant in the US. Mumbai based JSM is backed by PremjiInvest fund of the Wipro founders and was founded in the year 2004 by Singh and Sanjay Mahtani. It runs nearly 30 outlets of eight different brand like The Big Kanuha, California Pizza Kitchen, Pinkberry, Hard Rock Café, Ginger Tiger, Asilo, Shiro, and Plus91. The plans are to open self-serviced outlets so that the operational cost will be low.
According to TechSci Research, the food services market in India is growing at a significant pace as the consumers are getting more brand conscious which is attracting the foreign players to the Indian market as the international brands are realizing the potential of Indian market. The dining food services segment is the biggest contributor in the Indian market and entry of international players will help the segment to retain its dominance in the coming years as well.
According to a recent report published by TechSci Research, "India Food Services Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2020", the market for food services in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 12% through 2020. Growth in the market is anticipated primarily on account of higher disposable income, improved standard of living and changing preferences of consumers. In addition, expansion of brands into tier II and tier III cities, is also a major factor which is expected to drive growth in food services market of the country over the next five years. In 2013, the market was dominated by unorganized and non-branded players, however, with growth of various foreign and domestic brands, these players are expected to lose their market to organized branded players. Segment-wise, dining food services segment was the largest contributor in India food services market in 2014, on account of the large number of dining restaurants in the country. The segment is expected to retain its dominance in the market over the forecast period as well.
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