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August 30, 2017 by gozzter
Let Virtue be as Wax
We are all products of our era, and often unbeknownced to us, our language is to blame. Words become signposts that reassure us that we know where we are headed. Where we came from. And yet they can be as lost as us –especially in the domain of sexuality. Even the word 'sex' itself –a seemingly self-defining concept- can be misleading. It's origin, commonly attributed to the Latin verb secare –to divide, or cut- presumably to explain the physical difference between men and women, does not necessarily entrain the psychological divisions. Or behaviour.
To paraphrase Socrates at his trial, the unexamined word is not worth using. That 'sex' and 'sexuality' were so inconsonant I had not suspected. Sex, quite obviously, is a physical assignation; sexuality on the other hand, is the more psychologically -the more erotically- imbued preference. Indeed, the concept of heterosexuality did not exist as such in the past. Nor did homosexuality as an article by Brandon Ambrosino in the BBC News pointed out: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170315-the-invention-of-heterosexuality?ocid=ww.social.link.email 'One hundred years ago, people had a very different idea of what it means to be heterosexual.' In fact, 'The 1901 Dorland's Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an "abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex." More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster's dictionary similarly defined it as "morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex." It wasn't until 1934 that heterosexuality was graced with the meaning we're familiar with today: "manifestation of sexual passion for one of the opposite sex; normal sexuality."' It would seem that 'all of our sexualities are "just there"; that we don't need an explanation for homosexuality just as we don't need one for heterosexuality.'
'"Sex has no history," writes queer theorist David Halperin at the University of Michigan, because it's "grounded in the functioning of the body." Sexuality, on the other hand, precisely because it's a "cultural production," does have a history. In other words, while sex is something that appears hardwired into most species, the naming and categorizing of those acts, and those who practice those acts, is a historical phenomenon.' Or, to put it another way, '[…]there have always been sexual instincts throughout the animal world (sex). But at a specific point on in time, humans attached meaning to these instincts (sexuality). When humans talk about heterosexuality, we're talking about the second thing.'
And as well, '[…] sexual desire was situated within a larger context of procreative utility, an idea that was in keeping with the dominant sexual theories of the West. In the Western world, long before sex acts were separated into the categories hetero/homo, there was a different ruling binary: procreative or non-procreative.' So sexuality is the desire and although the act may be categorized as procreative (different-genital intercourse), or non-procreative (it doesn't matter), with erotic desire -in the past at least- the intention was not further categorized. It was the act that was noticed. The act that was labelled. 'Something […] happened with heterosexuals, who, at the end of the 19th Century, went from merely being there to being known. "Prior to 1868, there were no heterosexuals," writes Blank [the author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality]. Neither were there homosexuals. It hadn't yet occurred to humans that they might be "differentiated from one another by the kinds of love or sexual desire they experienced." Sexual behaviours, of course, were identified and catalogued, and often times, forbidden. But the emphasis was always on the act, not the agent.'
And yet nowadays, we seem to require labels –as if the words were themselves expositors and not mere descriptors. 'Debates about sexual orientation have tended to focus on a badly defined concept of "nature." Because different sex intercourse generally results in the propagation of the species, we award it a special moral status. But "nature" doesn't reveal to us our moral obligations – we are responsible for determining those, even when we aren't aware we're doing so.'
The difficulty of negotiating this landscape had occurred to me long before I read the article, however. A few years ago I walked over to a downtown bus stop, tired after having a rather long day at work. I'd left the office early, and I thought I was the only one there until I noticed two teenaged girls sitting on the little bench in the bus shelter in passionate embrace. I didn't want to embarrass them, but I did feel the need of sitting down. Unfortunately they had both put their backpacks onto what little remained of the seat on either side, so I thought I'd wait until they'd finished, as it were. I kept glancing at them, but their fervour seemed unending and I eventually resigned myself to standing.
Suddenly a head disentangled itself from the osculatory machinations and stared at me accusingly.
"Got a problem, mister?" it asked, while a hand deftly extricated a piece of overly-chewed gum from its mouth.
I blushed, but did manage a conciliatory smile hoping to defuse the tension. "Sorry," I said, when I could find the words, "I didn't mean to disturb you, but I was hoping I could sit down…"
The other head opened its eyes at the sound of my voice and managed an embarrassed smile while convincing its hands to leave her friend and move the pack from the seat. "We didn't mean… We didn't know anybody was standing there…"
The first head dropped its eyes to the pavement in obeisance. "Yeah, I didn't mean to be rude…" She picked her eyes up again and sent them softly to my face before she looked at her friend. "It's just that, like, some people get… You know, like, upset when they see us kissing."
"Yeah, as if we were, like, tards, or something," the second girl said as they both moved over on the bench to make room for me.
The word tards seemed to offend the first girl. "She just means that, like, some people go strange when they see us being so… involved, I guess." She looked at her friend and whispered something I couldn't hear. "Like we're pervs, or whatever," she continued, after elbowing her gently.
"Yeah, the other day, one old guy walking by even, like, spat on the sidewalk when he saw us cuddling."
"Yeah, as if he never cuddled with his partner…" the first girl giggled.
"He probably never had a partner, Joni!"
Joni shook her head. "Maybe not, but I don't think he was, like, jealous or anything, do you?"
Her friend smiled. "He was just looking for a label, sweetheart. Some are easier to find, I guess."
Tagged BBC news, Brandon Ambrosino, cuddling, David Halperin, Hanne Blank, heterosexuality, homosexuality, labels, language, queer, sex, sexuality, signposts, University of Michigan, words
Sometimes the Twain Should Meet
That we are, each of us, different is a given; that societies and the cultures they produce are different, is also self-evident. But that any one individual picked at random should be representative of that difference is another matter. We humans tend to be bicameral when and if it suits us. For example: my Asian friend is clever and devious, so most Asians are probably clever and devious (inductive reasoning); but at other times: everybody knows the French are rude, so perhaps I should not hire that French person (deductive reasoning).
How much credence can we put in either type of reasoning when it comes to judging world views of different cultures? There was an interesting article in BBC News about this a while ago: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways And as you can imagine, the issue is complex: 'From the broad differences between East and West, to subtle variation between U.S. states, it is becoming increasingly clear that history, geography and culture can change how we all think, in subtle and surprising ways – right down to our visual perception. Our thinking may even have been shaped by the kinds of crops our ancestors used to farm, and a single river may mark the boundaries between two different cognitive styles.'
'[…] our "social orientation" appears to spill over into more fundamental aspects of reasoning. People in more collectivist societies tend to be more 'holistic' in the way they think about problems, focusing more on the relationships and the context of the situation at hand, while people in individualistic societies tend to focus on separate elements, and to consider situations as fixed and unchanging.'
For example: 'An eye-tracking study by Richard Nisbett at the University of Michigan found that participants from East Asia tend to spend more time looking around the background of an image – working out the context – whereas people in America tended to spend more time concentrating on the main focus of the picture.' So, '[…] this narrow or diverse focus directly determines what we remember of a scene at a later date.' But because things like these seem to be so widely dispersed in a population, is it a genetic difference, or merely a learned, culturally favoured response? 'Alex Mesoudi at the University of Exeter recently profiled the thinking styles of British Bangladeshi families in East London. He found that within one generation, the children of immigrants had started to adopt some elements of the more individualistic outlook, and less holistic cognitive styles. Media use, in particular, tended to be the biggest predictor of the shift. "It tended to be more important than schooling in explaining that shift."'
The article goes on to suggest several theories as to why the so-called East-West differences arose in the first place -everything from epidemics, to types of crops grown by different populations, but the problem still remains: the differences lie on a spectrum –'broad trends across vast numbers of people'. And yet even so, especially in small interpersonal discussions –dare I say 'arguments'?- we are very likely to use whatever generalization makes our point.
But, for many of us, that tends to preclude any semblance of critical analysis. It's far easier to succumb to the prevailing opinion without questioning the reasons for its presence, let alone its validity. And it's not just the so-called East/West divide –the potential seems to arise whenever any culture examines another. Perhaps an example that stands out clearly in contemporary life, is that of the hijab –the headscarf. Sometimes the objections are couched in religiosecular terms of course, but they often boil down to simple perspective –Weltanschauung.
Aaisha, a Muslim friend of mine recently decided to wear the hijab, and although there were no prohibitive policies or objections from her bosses at work, she encountered resistance from a source she had not anticipated –her co-workers.
Some of it was just petty –"Why would you want to cover your hair?" one woman said to her, adding "It's so beautiful" no doubt to take the sting out of her rudeness. But the woman had never complimented her hair before, so it rang hollow to Aaisha.
And then she told me about another, a man who had just joined the company a few months before and who seemed quite uncomfortable with hijab and glared at her whenever he passed her desk. Finally, she decided to talk to him about it.
"You keep staring at me, Jeffrey," she said, smiling confidently as she walked up to his desk. "I get the impression you're unhappy about something."
He acted surprised at first, and then his scowl returned and he pointed at her head. "You didn't used to wear that scarf, Aaisha," he said, trying to keep his tone friendly.
Her smile broadened and she pointed to his tie. "I don't remember you wearing that tie before, either, Jeffrey."
He blinked uncomprehendingly. "It's just a tie. I wear different ties all the time…"
She didn't skip a beat. "It's just a hijab," she said, obviously proud of the word and pointing to her head.. "And you may have noticed, I also wear different ones all the time…"
His eyes narrowed and his forehead wrinkled. "A tie is different, Aaisha…"
She waited for him to continue, but he seemed to think his answer was complete –and for him, it probably was. Finally, she decided to ask the obvious question. "Oh…? And how is it different?"
He actually rolled his eyes at the stupidity of the question. "It's what men are expected to wear to work."
The smile never left her face and she pointed to another man at the next desk. "John never wears a tie…"
Jeffrey shrugged. "We're different, that's all… And anyway, I'm my own person."
Aaisha stood there, for a moment, and then blinked. "And so am I, I guess…"
Jeffrey seemed surprised at her answer, then shook his head. "Nobody makes me wear the tie…"
At this point, Aaisha laughed. "And nobody makes me wear a hijab, Jeffrey."
He didn't seem to know how to react. "But… Well, how about your husband?"
She shook her head, still smiling. "I'm not married… And my father and brothers are still back in England -just in case you want to involve them," she added with a laugh.
Jeffrey began to sense he was losing the argument. "It's a family tradition -and also a society thing- Aaisha. My father always wore a tie to work –and his father before him…" But his voice was less confident.
Aisha sighed. "Should I tell you about my mother, and her sisters? They all wore the hijab back in London –and not because they were forced to, they'd be quick to tell you. They just felt more a part of the community wearing hijab, so it, too, was a society-thing as you called it…"
He blinked, but slowly. "Your society, Aaisha, not ours!"
The smile returned, and she nodded her head towards John again. "And what about John? Does he belong to another society, as well? We're all immigrants, Jeff; we're all other if you go back a generation or two. And thank god we don't all have to dress the same," she said, touching the sleeve of his fraying shirt with her hand and winking coyly at him.
And for the first time, he smiled at her.
Tagged Alex Masoudi, Alex Mesoudi, BBC news, British Bangladeshi families in East London, critical analysis, deductive reasoning, East/West divide, Family, generalizations, headscarf, hijab, inductive reasoning, Muslims, neckties, Richard Nisbett, tradition, University of Exeter, University of Michigan, Weltangschauung


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import TradableResource from "./TradableResource";

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Show up for Bonner County's future
Let County Planners know you want our waterways and way of life protected
By Jennifer Ekstrom
It's said that the world is run by those who show up. Well, this is it, folks. It's time to show up if you care about the future of Bonner County.
If you're concerned by recent county decisions to rezone Selle Valley, build a subdivision in the Coolin wetlands or by the efforts to restrict public access in favor of new homes at Camp Bay, this planning process is for you.
Our Bonner County Planning Commission is working to quickly finalize revisions to the "Goals, Objectives and Policies" of our Comprehensive Plan. The Goals, Objectives and Policies are the teeth of the Comprehensive Plan and will guide upcoming potential changes to our County Codes. Our County Land Use Codes are the law of the land here in Bonner County, which is why it's critically important that the Goals, Objectives and Policies reflect our local sentiments on issues like protecting our wonderful lakes, wetlands, waterways and the rural character of our county.
There is a critical flaw in the current planning process — all of the updates are being done without collecting current data about our community. Because of this, the Planning Commission intends to launch a full review and update of the Comprehensive Plan (including data collection) shortly after completing this revision of the Goals, Objectives and Policies. A full review and update will likely take 18 months to two years to complete, and, in the meantime, the partial update will provide the groundwork for codes to change and development decisions to be made based on old data and old sentiments.
The wise thing to do would be to put the brakes on the current process, rather than make rushed changes that could ultimately undermine our rural way of life and permanently damage our environment. Our Planning Commission could simply decide to update the Comprehensive Plan the right way — by taking more time to include robust public input and updated data.
Our Planning Commissioners are all volunteers and, while they deserve to be commended for their hard work and public service, their work needs to reflect the needs of their communities. Our Planning Commissioners were told by former Planning Director Milton Ollerton to put a huge cart in front of the horse and send it straight to the race track. According to state law, Planning Commission members can set their own processes and timelines, but are pressed to get this done in short order and they agreed. But there's still time to stop this.
The changes the Planning Commission have been working on have very recently been made public and can be found in PDF format on Bonner County's website (bit.ly/3z10koJ). Our community deserves to be engaged in the process more thoroughly, with open houses and workshops designed to help us understand the implications of the changes, and with opportunities to give input after gaining sufficient understanding. Concerned community members should ask our Planning Commission to take its time and get this right.
Community input will be accepted at upcoming Planning Commission workshops onTuesday, Aug. 2; Tuesday, Aug. 16; and as late as Tuesday, Aug. 30.
It's best to attend the earlier workshops so commissioners will have time to consider your input before submitting their recommendations to the Bonner County Board of Commissioners. They are currently scheduled to submit those recommendations on Aug. 30, though they could decide to extend the timeline. Written comments can be sent to [email protected], and should be sent by Saturday, Aug. 20 in order to be included in the staff report.
Show your love for Bonner County and let our commissioners know you value our precious waterways and landscapes, and want to protect them now and for future generations. Ask that they suspend their process to update the Goals, Objectives and Policies, and thank them for their efforts. Ask that any current or future planning process utilizes current data, the best available science and robust community input. Ask that they ensure our lakes, rivers, streams, shorelines, wetlands and rural way of life are securely protected for our lifetimes and for future generations.
Jennifer Ekstrom is North Idaho Lakes Conservation associate at Idaho Conservation League. For more information, contact her at 208-318-5812 or [email protected]
Tags: Bonner County comprehensive planiclidaho conservation leagueJennifer Ekstromplanningrural planningThe Idaho Conservation Leaguewater quality
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Евстафий Каетан Владислав Сапега  (; 2 августа 1881, Верхняя Белка под Львовом — 20 февраля 1963, Найроби) — польский государственный деятель, князь, министр иностранных дел Польши (1920—1921), консервативный политик, депутат сейма.

Биография
Представитель ружанской линии польского княжеского рода Сапег герба «Лис». Второй сын Яна Павла Александра Сапеги (1847—1901) и Северины Марии Уруской (1860—1931).

В 1900—1904 годах изучал лесоводство в Цюрихе (Швейцария), где получил диплом инженера. В 1909 году после свадьбы с Терезой Изабеллой Любомирской поселился в Гродненщине. В 1916 году он был председателем Главного опекунского совета в Варшаве. Тогда стал близким соратником Юзефа Пилсудского. Был сотрудником Национального Комитета по жертвам во Временном Государственном Совете Царства Польского.

В ноябре 1917 года Евстафий Каетан Сапега в качестве представителя Регентского Совета ездил в Швейцарию, где безуспешно пытался привести к соглашению с Национальным Комитетом Польши. В ноябре 1918 года возглавил Комитет Обороны Восточных Кресов. Был одним из инициаторов государственного переворота в Польше в ночь с 4 на 5 января 1919 года с целью свержения правительства первого премьер-министра Енджея Морачевского. Был арестован и находился под домашним арестом. После освобождения он сформировал собственный отряд кавалерии, в котором служил как обычный улан. Принимал участие в Советско-польской войне.

16 июня 1919 года он был назначен послом Польши в Великобритании. 4 июня 1920 года Евстафий Каетан Сапега вместе с Эразмом Пильцем от имени Польши участвовал в подписании Трианонского договора. 23 июня 1920 года новый премьер-министр правительства Владислав Грабский назначил его на должность министра иностранных дел Речи Посполитой. 19 июля 1920 года на памятной встрече Совета Обороны Государства выступал за то, чтобы Юзеф Пилсудский был оставлен на посту Главнокомандующего польскими вооруженными силами. При поддержке Ю. Пилсудского Е. Сапега сохранил пост министра иностранных дел в следующем коалиционном правительстве по руководством Вицента Витоса. 19 февраля 1921 года подписал перемирие между Польшей и Францией, 3 марта — с Румынией. Он был представителем Польши на переговорах с Литвой в Брюсселе 6 мая 1921 года. На этих переговорах он представил литовской делегации проект Пилсудского о создании в Литве кантонов по образцу Швейцарии, которые были находились в тесном государственном союзе с Польской республикой. После провала его политики в Горной Силезии и нажимом национал-демократов Евстафий Каетан Сапега 20 мая 1921 года вынужден был уйти в отставку.

В 1928—1929 годах он был депутатом Сейма от Беспартийного блока сотрудничества с правительством. В 1930 году написал трактат «Konstytucja racji stanu». Он был одним из самых активных сторонников сближения Юзефа Пилсудского с кресовым земянством («Żubry Kresowe»).

22 сентября 1939 года после вторжения советских войск на территорию Польши Евстафий Каетан Сапега был арестован в своём имении под Гродно. Был заключен в Лубянскую тюрьму в Москве. Советский суд приговорил его к смертной казни за деятельность против СССР. Смертная казнь была заменена на 10 лет заключения.

В 1941 году Сапега был освобожден в результате Соглашения Сикорского-Майского, его эвакуировали из СССР в Тегеран. В 1941 году уехал в Найроби в Кении.

В 1955 и 1959 годах президент Польши в изгнании Август Залесский дважды назначал его своим преемником в должности президента. 7 августа 1959 года был награждён Августом Залесским Орденом Белого Орла.

Семья и дети
17 июня 1909 года в Пшеворске женился на Терезе Изабелле Любомирской (17 декабря 1888 — 13 июля 1964), дочери князя Анджея Любомирского (1862—1953) и графини Элеоноры Терезы Ядвиги Хузаржевской (1866—1940). Их дети:

 Ян Анджей (26 апреля 1910 — 7 августа 1989), женат с 1934 года на Марии Здзеховской (1910—2009)
 Элеонора (10 ноября 1911 — 18 октября 2000), муж с 1939 года Криштоф Пётр Павел Чарнецкий (1904—1977)
 Леон Ежи (10 июля 1913 — 7 декабря 1990), 1-я жена с 1937 года София Августина Ирена Шембек (1906—1978), 2-я жена с 1979 года Рената Кернбергер (род. 1937)
 Евстафий Северин (7 августа 1916 — 2 марта 2004), женат с 1945 года на Антонине Марии Семеньской (1922—1996)
 Эльжбета (род. 24 августа 1921 — 1 мая 2008), польская художница

Источники
 Polski Słownik Biograficzny (Band 34)

Ссылки
 Anna Amanowicz. HISTORYK RODU
 Eustachy Kajetan ks. Sapieha-Rożański h. Lis
 Генеалогия рода Сапег

Евстафий Каетан Владислав
Министры иностранных дел Польши
Участники Советско-польской войны (Польша)
Послы Польши в Великобритании
Иностранцы — заключённые ГУЛАГа
Репрессированные в СССР

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The Clarendale at Indian Lake held a Wine Tasting & Dinner Event at Avanti Gourmet. Guests enjoyed a sampling of wines and a presentation from Pour Vous's wine expert, Ted Tieves. The wine tasting was followed by with a delicious Italian dinner and discussion of retirement lifestyle options that will be available at the Clarendale.


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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"sync/atomic"

	"github.com/kataras/iris/v12"
	"github.com/kataras/iris/v12/mvc"
	"github.com/kataras/iris/v12/websocket"
)

func main() {
	app := iris.New()
	app.Logger().SetLevel("debug")

	// load templates.
	// app.RegisterView(iris.HTML("./views", ".html"))

	// render the ./browser/index.html.
	app.HandleDir("/", iris.Dir("./browser"))

	websocketAPI := app.Party("/websocket")

	m := mvc.New(websocketAPI)
	m.Register(
		&prefixedLogger{prefix: "DEV"},
	)
	m.HandleWebsocket(&websocketController{Namespace: "default", Age: 42, Otherstring: "other string"})

	websocketServer := websocket.New(websocket.DefaultGorillaUpgrader, m)

	websocketAPI.Get("/", websocket.Handler(websocketServer))
	// http://localhost:8080
	app.Listen(":8080")
}

var visits uint64

func increment() uint64 {
	return atomic.AddUint64(&visits, 1)
}

func decrement() uint64 {
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}

type websocketController struct {
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Banks extort $5.4 billion in overdraft fees last year from poor people — outraged?
In a year when American financial behemoths rake in a record $171.3 billion in profit, the big three — Wells, JPMorgan, and BofA— chose to shake down poor people for a whopping $5.4 billion in overdraft fees.
In 2017, that works out to about 183 million charges of $35 a pop. That's a 270 percent increase from the $1.97 billion reported in a 2006 FDIC study. A study in the UK last year showed that bank overdrafts were 8 times more costly than payday loans.
Scandal-ridden big banks likewise charge exorbitant fees from our state and local governments. Big banks have been caught red handed in bid rigging, bribery, and myriad other scams to take money from states and municipalities.
Meanwhile, in the first quarter of 2017, the 10 largest bank holding companies in the US plowed over 100% of their earnings into share buybacks and dividends to prop up share prices and fatten their bonuses. That money was not used to expand lending.
As Matt Taibbi asks, why do gangster banks keep winning public business? The time is now to cut off these behemoths from the spigot of public money. A Public Bank would cut out these middlemen, eliminate their fees and steep interest rates, and return control of their own money to the people.


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Q: compare two columns in two files "awk" I would like to compare two files for both $1,$2 column in awk. If same print all from second file and if  not same print all from first file.
1st file:

a 1 2
b 2 3
c 3 4

2nd file:

a 1 2 ko lo to
b 2 3 to ho ro

result:

a 1 2 ko lo to
b 2 3 to ho ro
c 3 4

So I would like to add lines from 1st file which are not match to second file.
I wrote:
 awk -v OFS="\t" 'FNR==NR{a[$1]=$2=$3;next} {if (($1,$2) in a) print a[$1,$2,$3]; else print $0}'

but it is not work :-(
Thank you.

A: awk to the rescue!
$ awk '!a[$1,$2]++' file2 file1

a 1 2 ko lo to
b 2 3 to ho ro
c 3 4

this won't preserve the order though (it will print file2 contents first).  Another alternative is
$ awk    '{k=$1 FS $2}
  NR==FNR {a[k]=$0; next}
          {print (k in a?a[k]:$0)}' file2 file1

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Sketching in Lanzarote: Day 11. Sand EVERYWHERE!
[by Lynne Chapman, from England, in Lanzarote] This was a day of two halves again. In the morning, we visited another of Manrique's projects: his house on the lava field at Tahiche. Then, after lunch, we went for a walk along the beach beneath the Famara Cliffs (which I painted earlier in the trip). It was VERY windy, so apart from a few kite-surfers, we had this spectacular spot more or less to ourselves.
A few more minutes, and there was more sand than paint on my palette! I soldiered on, but very soon it was ridiculous. We realised that we too were covered in sand - it was all in our clothes and encrusted into our hair.
So we beat a retreat. At least I got more or less finished and the majority of the sand brushed off once it was dry.
If you missed the earlier posts, you can see the rest of my sketches from the trip here.


We introduced Hajime Asaoka in our feature article from Baselworld 2014, waxing lyrical about his Project Tourbillon. This year, we caught up with the taciturn watchmaker and present here his latest creation. Finally, a series production watch, created in the spirit of Philippe Dufour's Simplicity. But not quite.
Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami. Precious little information is available on this watch. Case diameter is a modest 37mm.
Asaoka-san himself is somewhat shy, quiet man, preferring to keep to himself. At his booth in Baselworld 2015, he spent more time staring at his phone, probably playing games, than actively promoting and showing his new creation. I passed by his booth, trying to catch his attention to see his new watch, but I felt ignored. It was only when my friend Masanori Kondo made the approach, and spoke to him in Japanese, that I made progress. He acknowledged that he did indeed know me, and appreciates the article I wrote here on his Project Tourbillon last year.
Hajime Asaoka. Despite the rather bold, perhaps slightly outlandish shirt and pocket square, this man is shy to a fault, preferring to stare at his phone rather than engage with non Japanese speaking journalists who pass-by.
He did not appear to have any press material, and it seemed to me that he was perhaps not interested in promoting or even selling his watches. I got further material for this article from another good friend and celebrated Japanese watch journalist Masayuki Hirota. Many thanks to Kondo-san and Hirota-san for the great help. I also consulted the article written by another friend, Ken Hokugo linked here.
Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami. The dial is multi part, with an applique marker 12 in art deco style. The outer hour-minute chapter ring is separate from the black dial fillet, and the subdial and its seconds chapter ring also separate. The fillet inner dial, shown black here is a very thin piece made of ESD. The subdial is in maillchort. The red seconds hand is also in ESD and the other art deco styled hands are in maillechort.
After last year's major announcement of a ground up, very special tourbillon which we featured here, he focused his energies on a simple, three hand, time only watch. This seemed to be in the tradition of Philippe Dufour, who cut his teeth making the world's first Grande Sonnerie for a wristwatch, then the complicated differential driven Duality before heading for the commercial jugular with his Simplicity. However, Dufour's focus with the Simplicity was to make the best finished, most traditional (Valee de Joux tradition) wristwatch he could muster? He intentionally chose this as he has already proven himself with the ultra complications. In Asaoka's case, it seem similar. Having demonstrated that he can build a tourbillon from ground up, he seemed intent to explore what he can do with clever machining, and use of innovative material in his version of a simple watch. He curiously named the watch, Project Tsunami and as we understand it is slated for series production and features a huge 16mm diameter balance wheel in titanium.
The movement of the Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami. The huge balance wheel, some 16mm in diameter occupies more than half the real estate of the movement.
The case itself is rather handsome, machined by a workshop in Tokyo, the case is hand finished by Asaoka. It is also interesting to note that Asaoka chose to work with a machinist shop who have no previous experience in making watch cases.
Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami, simple, 3 hand watch, with a distinctly art deco feel.
The construction of the dial is of particular interest. The dial design is reminiscent of the Project Tourbillon of BaselWorld 2014, re-using some of the design elements. The dial is a multi-piece dial, and quite complicated in itself. The center of the dial is made of Extra Super Duralumin (ESD), also known in the industry as 7075 or aircraft grade aluminium. This enables Asaoka to make a thinner part of the dial. This is to create the illusion of a thinner watch. To accommodate the space constraints in the movement which resulted from the balance wheel being so large and still fit into a 37mm case, the wheel train had to be modified. Specifically, the canon wheel is offset from the normal, causing it to be slightly thicker in the middle. The thinner dial fillet in the middle help alleviate the thickness.
The subdial is in maillechort, and makes a contrasting visual to the black ESD center of the dial. The outer edge of the dial which forms the hour and minute chapter ring is yet another material which provides the dial system with rigidity needed. Note also that the dial is done in a bombe style, slightly convex to give the illusion of a thinner watch.
Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami display shows the movement in its entirety. Note the third wheel is visible below the balance wheel at approximately 6 o'clock in the photograph. This wheel is shaped like a traditional Swiss Topping tool. As an aside, this topping tool design is used by Peter Speake-Marin as his logo and trademark.
As mentioned, the movement is in-house designed and constructed. The plates are in maillechort, and finishing is quite nice. The plates are nicely anglaged on the edges, and polished. Circular graining (perlage) is visible on the main plate. And the wheels all are extensively and beautifully finished. The teeth of the mainspring barrel, shown above at about 1 o;clock itself received considerable attention. Each tooth profile is classical, and it appears that they are polished. The jewels used are large, very beautiful and appear to be flawless.
The huge balance wheel of the Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami. Measuring some 16mm in diamter, it takes up most of the real estate in the movement. Please excuse the smudge on the glass which appears on the upper right edge of the picture.
The movement beats at 18,000 bph, a very traditional beat rate. For movements with large balance wheels this is a very common and wisely selected rate. Power reserve is also a very regular 40 hours.
The watch is not a limited edition, and the current recommended retail is €25.000 worldwide, and a Japanese domestic price of ¥2.5million.
Hajime Asaoka Project Tsunami on the wrist. Very comfortable. Background is another magnificent hand made product – a brief case by Goyard.
We thought Asaoka-san showed great promise in our article on his watch which we published last year. He was then a candidate to the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) in 2014, but have since been confirmed as a member. He exhibited as a member of AHCI this BaselWorld. He makes a strong proposal for a Japanese made, high end watch. The subject of this review takes his point even further.
Perhaps the Swiss industry is under threat. From the north, the Germans have been laying seige for close to 20 years, not only making claim but taking some of the honours of being the best in haute horlogerie.
From the east, big boys like Seiko are inching in as well. Through their brand names Grand Seiko and Credor already have started making waves, signifying the Japanese are knocking at the doorstep of the Swiss in haute horlogerie. The Credor Eichi gives credence to a high end, time only watch. Citizen took another route for its assualt of the Swiss Watchmaking industry by acquiring La Joux Perret and Arnold & Son.
Now Asaoka, being an independent watchmaker demonstrates he is also able to throw the guantlet with the various tourbillons and his new Project Tsunami. The hint of a Japanese watchmaking tsunami is perhaps a bit stretched for an independent to aspire to. But it is high time, the watch making and collecting world sits up, and pays attention to watches made outside of Switzerland.
We have not seen the concluding chapters of the Asaoka story yet. Even for Project Tsunami, we are still awaiting further information and details on this watch, like full specifications, limitation numbers and retail prices. Watch this space, and as we gather more information, we will publish it.
Postscript photography note: we noticed a hard sheen on the watch, which is perhaps due to the flash lighting that we used, but probably not caused by as we use the same Profoto studio flash in all our photographs.


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First up was fresh green salad with sesame sauce & a tasty rich monk fish liver. The sashimi was pretty average but the trout stood out in its freshness & juiciness. The fried fish was expertly done with a nice crisp skin, as was the saba fish with its sweet-sour plum sauce. Out of the five types of #sushi, we found the fourth crustacean one the best and the second one too salty. The meal ended nicely with a light but flavorful mushroom soup & delicious japanese ice cream.
Thick slab of aburi slices of fishes on top of a bed of fluffy Japanese rice, is my kind of dinner. And that melt-in-the-mouth beef aburi sushi, certainly hit all the right notes. Thanks Bernard once more.
The only place to go, for a quiet dinner, and superb food. Take this grilled Ebi mentai ($25). Chunky tiger prawns and mushroom, grilled to perfection on a scallop shell. The mentai sauce, well-flavoured without being too jelly, and honestly being singaporean, anything mentai is always a sure win. Not to mention, Bernard is generous when it come with portions.


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Why Grounding The 737 Max Hits Southwest Airlines Particularly Hard
The company keeps fares low by using just one kind of plane. But the next generation of the 737 isn't flying right now.
By Shelly BrisbinOctober 25, 2019 11:58 amBusiness & Your Money, Transportation
Bill Abbott /Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
A Southwest Airlines 737 Max
Perhaps no airline has a greater stake in the fate of the Boeing 737 Max than Texas-based Southwest Airlines, which bought 34 of them before the plane's design issues made national headlines following two fatal crashes.
Darryl Campbell has been writing about this issue for The Verge. He says a bit of code in the airplane's software kept pilots from being able to control the planes in emergency situations.
"Boeing didn't even tell them how it worked so they didn't know what was going on," Campbell says. "By the time they could figure out what to do, it was too late."
After the two incidents, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all 737 Max planes. The grounding has continued for seven months, so far. Campbell says the FAA is making sure the fixed coding inside the plane is fully tested before allowing the planes to take to the skies again.
"The FAA really is wanting to make sure it doesn't fumble their reputation again," Campbell says. "This has been the longest grounding of a commercial airliner in history so it seems like they're definitely not hesitant about taking their time."
Southwest Airlines has built its entire business model around the Boeing 737, Campbell says. By using one type of airplane, Southwest saves on labor, training and operational costs, which allows them to offer their tickets at a lower price. The grounding of the 737 Max happened while Southwest was conducting a major update to its fleet of planes.
"They've committed to having 72 of these planes by the end of next year, so it really was a part of their future plans and now they're kind of stuck in an upgrade cycle and there's no good alternative for them," Campbell says.
Although the company's third quarter adjusted earnings were better than expected this year, Campbell says Southwest's real test will come next year., This is because when a third of its operating fleet is expected to be comprised of 737 Max planes, as the company adds new routes to Hawaii and the Caribbean.
"They're just not able to cover those with some of the planes on hand," Campbell says. "Either they have to start using these less efficient, smaller aircraft routes which eats into your revenue, or they just have to, if the airplane gets back into service, they have to just hope that all these people aren't gonna say, 'Well, I've heard about these planes. It sounds real bad and I don't wanna get on them.'"
American Airlines, also based in Texas, owns grounded 737 Max airliners, too. Campbell says because it operates a mixed fleet, American isn't as affected by this issue as Southwest. But American estimates it will lose $140 million more than expected, because of the groundings.
"These costs are ballooning," Campbell says. "Airlines are having to scramble for it, and I think American is in a relatively better position only because they don't have that low cost carrier model of just flying the single airplane type."
Campbell says other than suing Boeing for damages, Southwest doesn't have a lot of wiggle room. If the company decides to purchase a different type of airplane,, like the Airbus A320, it would have to hire new pilots and buy new flight simulators. And that would break the Southwest business model.
"It really is expensive to do one of these switches," Campbell says.
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Sometimes you get what you want. If you have been a fan of the previous entries in the Final Destination series, the fifth entry is ready to prove that this franchise hasn't given in to death just yet. A sequel …
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The online discussion of Final Destination 5, hitting theaters this Friday, has been largely dominated by complaints that this fifth film tells the exact same story as the previous four entries. And indeed it does: this time inserting a young …
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With director Steven Quale's Final Destination 5 opening this weekend, we've been provided with 5 clips from the film. Since we all know what a Final Destination movie is about, I'm not going to try and explain the story. The …
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New Trailer for FINAL DESTINATION 5
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The new trailer for Final Destination 5 has gone online and as always, every thing can be boiled down to "Go to mundane location, bad things happen." The Final Destination franchise preys on our fears that we could die from …
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The first trailer and poster for Final Destination 5 have gone online. This time the big disaster is on a suspension bridge. As always, those who don't have the courtesy to die in giant disasters get hunted down by the …
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Press attention is what our clients want. But ethics matter—and all publicity is NOT good publicity. Lying hurts everyone, including the liar. Think of it on a personal level. Once you've been lied to, it shatters your faith and the next time around you find it harder to trust—and you may not want to have anything to do with the liar again. Lying is deliberate and when it backfires, the liar often looks worse than if they had told the truth.
When I see Trump's alternate facts, I question how he is being counseled by White House press secretary Sean Spicer and strategist Kellyanne Conway, who both have years of experience. When each of them are on the podium defending or explaining the president's promotion of alternate facts, I am reminded how critically important it is for leaders to have and hold onto good PR counsel.
Ethics has always been at the foundation of public relations. As professional communicators, we also counsel at the top levels of organizations on far more, including strategy, issues management, risk and crisis management, leadership, organizational culture and policy, and of course, ethics, among many other things. Our influence is significant and our ethics important, as we work with people throughout our client organizations. Having top communicators with anything less than the highest ethical standards can be detrimental to a company's success.
Besides ethics, communicators innately know every company, no matter what they sell, is in the relationship business. Good products, services, and sales channels are important, but in this competitive business world, relationships are the fundamental to creating a lasting connection between a company and its customers. Good PR people are always thinking of clients' public reputation and relationship with their audiences.
Even though we see that lies beget coverage for the president, the long-term results of such behavior can be devastating. Results are severe for dishonesty in business. Shareholders simply don't trust a CEO who lies, and a plummeting stock price and destruction of stockholder value often ensues when the lie is discovered.
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You have an unusual talent. What you said has made a vast difference for me in my career. Thank you.
I'm just so moved by the entire experience and feel peace in my heart. Jodi connected with my loved ones in heaven and told me things about them no one else would know. It was a beautiful experience!
Jodi, you answered a question I had tonight on Jim Harold's campfire show. I wanted to thank you for the great advice!!!
Thanks again!!! I just love your vibe, so warm, upbeat, and positive!
I found your blog through a mutual FB friend. I just had to say how much I appreciate reading this- I recently lost my dad 9 months ago and am doing my best. I struggle from time to time and lately I have really been missing him….Your blog made me cry in relief, brought out some grief, but also gave me that tears of joy feeling, …it is the closest affirmation I've found that my father is ok, and I'll be ok. Thank you doesn't seem sufficient, & I wish I was more eloquent, but thank you.
Thank you…simply Thank you. I had wanted to receive a reading from the "real thing" for a very long time. I first saw you on Twin Cities Live and realized immediately that your talent was truly genuine. I did a great deal of research on-line before deciding to reach out to you and discovered that you appeared to be very different than others in your field. Now after meeting with you, my high expectations have been far surpassed. You were not only spot on about understanding my spirit, but you used our time to assist me to become the best person that I could be. Thank You for all that you have given me.
What a wonderful, beautiful, emotion filled, informative class last night at Champlin Park HS. I learned a lot and realized I was more psychic than I thought and will use the protection techniques. Glad I could attend!
I've had readings before and they were good but nothing like the one I just had with Jodi Livon. Her accuracy was flawless. The experience changed my life. Thank you!
My wife really wanted me to go with her to one of your events. You surprised me with your accuracy and with your knowledge of the paranormal. You talk about things that are odd but true and people relax. You know what you are doing Jodi and are good at it. Watching you put my skepticism to rest.
My big brother and I were very close. He died when he was just 10 years old and my family has never gotten over it. My sister and I went to one of Jodi's talks and we were surprised when Jerry came through Jodi. Jodi knew how he died and his pet name for me. I never told anyone that name. My sister and I still miss Jerry but something changed for us that night. We appreciate what Jodi does, she is very talented and caring.
I've never been a believer in this psychic thing but Jodi said dozens of things about my life and my dad during my reading she would have no way of knowing. She nailed it.
The best thing about my reading with Jodi is I felt like a light bulb after the light bulb going off. I think some mediums try to tell you what you want to hear, but with Jodi- she really told me the things I needed to hear. Thank you so much!
Wow, how an hour can change a person's life. Thank you Jodi!
Thank you so much for my reading today. As I have reflected on your words the last few hours, I feel a renewed sense of joy I haven't felt in a long time about where I'm heading… I'm still a little speechless…. Thank you!
I left your talk so uplifted & feel immensely lighter today. Hoping that many of your suggestions/insights will continue to keep my attitude a bit lighter. Thank you so much for a wonderful evening!!
Jodi Livon is an incredible addition to our cast of regular guests on Twin Cities Live. She is not only incredibly gifted as a medium, but has the unique ability to connect with viewers through the television. She is warm, genuine and positive; all attributes that make people want to watch her on television. Jodi is also kind and thoughtful, characteristics that make the idea of psychic gifts approachable and relatable. There's not a single regular guest on Twin Cities Live who receives a bigger response from viewers than Jodi Livon.
Jodi Livon has been a regular guest on Twin Cities Live since 2009. Why do we love her? Because she brings a special spark and sizzle to the show. We regularly see ratings jump during Jodi's segments. Jodi is excellent at making her segments relatable to a diverse audience. She is constantly looking for ways to push the limit and capture the viewers attention. But what I respect most about Jodi is the way she handles herself with grace and professionalism on and off camera. Jodi is the real deal…and Twin Cities Live viewers can't get enough of her!
I'm a skeptic but was publicly amazed by Jodi's intuitive skill. On live television, with no prior knowledge of my situation, Jodi was able to connect to a health problem that I'm dealing with and also offer reassurance about my future. Her presence and ability to communicate are astonishing! I'm a believer now.
I had the pleasure of interviewing a lady named Jodi Livon back in August. She is a warm, engaging and remarkably talented medium. Her upbeat and sparkling personality made her a standout guest. We loved her! She has written her first book, The Happy Medium published by Llewellyn Worldwide. It is launching Jodi into an orbit of recognition that I believe will grow into a major career in a new generation of psychic mediums.
Jodi Livon has been a regular guest doing psychic readings on TWIN CITIES LIVE on KSTP-TV in Minneapolis since August of 2009. She is a natural on TV – warm, engaging, and with a genuine presence our viewers frequently comment on. We see a steady uptick in our ratings when she appears on our show, and get great viewer feedback! She's a pleasure to work with and brings great ideas to the table to help improve her appearances on our show.
Jodi, thank you again for your words of insight and support. Things were bumpy at first, but REALLY turned around and I just kept replaying what you said to me and it helped. I couldn't control the chaos around me but I could control my attitude and reaction to it, and that's what made all the difference. I wanted to let you know that you were forefront in helping me to stay positive and be a change for the better. More than once you've planted something positive in my head that made my life better because it changed my attitude. You rock (and you make a difference in people's lives so I hope you see the value in YOU).
By nature, I am skeptical. I learned within minutes of meeting Jodi Livon that she has tremendous skill as a medium. She knew details about my deceased sister's personality that even I had forgotten.
I had my first reading yesterday (Aug. 12, 2013). Jodi was amazing, providing info about me that erased all of the previous skepticism I had. This is going to have a profound impact on my life. Thank you and bless you, Jodi.


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Have A Good Night: South Korean movie roundup: Train To Busan; Tunnel; The Age of Shadows; Asura; The Handmaiden
October 27, 2016 at 2:09 am 1 comment
Gong Yoo, bloody but unbowed, Train To Busan, 2016
Park Chan-wook's new joint, The Handmaiden, dropped this week in US theaters (although it was released in Asia this spring) and it's the latest in a long string of South Korean genre films released in the US this fall. One thing I wasn't able to do this summer was to see any South Korean films in theaters. For the most part foreign films screened in Taiwan are only subbed in Chinese, not English (unlike foreign films in Hong Kong, which thanks to British colonialism are subbed in both English and Chinese). So with the exception of some films screened at film festivals, Korean-language films in Taiwan were linguistically inaccessible to me. Because of that, I saw no South Korean films for almost three months.
Help! Gong Yoo, Train To Busan, 2016
Luckily, since my return to the States there've been plenty of South Korean movies released in US movie theaters. I was happy to find that Train To Busan was still playing theatrically when I got back to the US in August. Although ostensibly a zombie apocolypse flick, it's also a melodrama, teen romance, road movie, and critique of capitalism all rolled into one thrilling ride. Gong Yoo (Coffee Prince; The Suspect) is excellent as Seok-Woo, a divorced hedge fund manager who finds himself and his young daughter on a high-speed train full of the undead on a harrowing ride from Seoul to the southern city of Busan. He conveys an appealing sense of vulnerability and self-doubt through his rangy frame and expressive face. The narrative builds swiftly and efficiently, setting up the basic premise (South Korea is being overrun by zombies created by corporate malfeasance), defining the main characters (including Seok-Woo and his daughter, a tough Busan man and his pregnant wife, two elderly sisters, a young couple in love, and a greedy CEO), and establishing the film's framework (a group of survivors trapped on a speeding train full of voracious undead). Though the film doesn't stray far from its genre conventions, the depth of emotions between the characters, the intense and effective bursts of violent action, and the film's overwhelming sense of dread as the train hurtles toward its unknown fate all add up to a deeply satisfying cinematic experience.
Ha Jung-woo, trapped, Tunnel, 2016
Following Train To Busan was the disaster movie Tunnel, starring the redoubtable Ha Jung-Woo, one of the best actors working in South Korea right now. Ha plays Jung-Soo, a regular guy whose life is changed forever when he's trapped in a collapsed tunnel on the road home to his wife and young daughter. Based on a true story, the movie follows Jung-Soo's ordeal as he struggles to survive while buried beneath tons of wreckage and along the way incriminates the corruption and incompetence responsible for the tunnel's collapse. Good thing I watched this one at home on a press screener rather than in a theater since I probably would've died from fright and claustrophobia if I'd seen it on the big screen.
I spy Han Ji-Min, The Age of Shadows, 2016
Kim Jee-Woon's outstanding 1930s spy thriller The Age of Shadows also released in the US this fall. Shadows is set during the Japanese occupation of Korea and follows two men, Kim Woo-jin (Gong Yoo), a member of the underground resistance to the occupation, and Lee Jeong-chool (Song Kang-Ho), a Korean policeman who supports the Japanese. Lee Byung-Hun makes an extended cameo as the leader of the resistance but it's Gong and Song who carry the film through their excellent performances. The film, a high-budget co-production with Warner Brothers as well as South Korea's Academy Award entry, is a slick and well-made production that breaks little ground conceptually or aesthetically but which demonstrates Kim's continued mastery of a variety of genres including the Western (The Good, the Bad, the Weird), the gangster film (A Bittersweet Life), the revenge film (I Saw The Devil) and the horror film (A Tale of Two Sisters). The action scenes are fast, effective, and economical, and the narrative, though dense and somewhat confusing at first, resolves clearly at its conclusion. One extended sequence on a train full of spies and police, with the betrayals, lies, and mendacity layered on thick and fast, builds expertly to its explosive resolution.
Song Kang-Ho, framed, The Age of Shadows, 2016
Kim brings out the best in his actors and in Shadows Kim draws out an impeccable and nuanced performance from Song as the Korea policeman collaborating with the Japanese occupiers (represented by Om Tae-Goo as the archetypal evil Japanese villain). Song effectively conveys the state of mind of a man slowly experiencing a moral epiphany and his character arc is compelling and convincing. Following his turn in Train To Busan Gong Yoo is also outstanding here in a similar role as man tested far beyond his normal bounds, expressing a notable vulnerability and empathy.
Face-off, Hwang Jung-Min and Jung Woo-Sun, Asura: The City of Madness, 2016
Following The Age of Shadows was the release of Asura: The City of Madness, a bleak little movie that exposes the very worst of human nature. The film is an intense and brutal examination of top to bottom corruption in the fictional city of Anman, with all concerned trapped in an existential prison of despair, greed, and violence. Relentless and unflinchingly brutal, the film is a blood-soaked extravaganza of violence and betrayal.
Jung Woo-Sun stars as Kan, a cop who serves as the hatchet man for Anman's corrupt mayor, Park Sung-Bae. Park is played by South Korean superstar Hwang Jung-Min, who in recent years has successfully played a range of roles including family men, hoodlums, cops, and criminals. Here he takes the Francis Ng role as Park, the flashy psychopathic mayor. Ju Jihoon plays Kan's best friend and partner who goes to the dark side. Kan himself is a conflicted character caught between the corrupt mayor and a ruthless prosecutor who is trying to bring down the venal politician. Jung Woo-Sun scuffs up his handsome face with cuts, scars, bruises and stitches in an effort to conceal his leading-man good looks. He's compellingly intense in this film, unlike in his past films as a romantic lead. I've found him somewhat stiff in many of his past performances and didn't think he had it in him to be so fierce but in Asura he nails it. Here he makes good use of his 6-foot-plus frame and uses his imposing physicality to loom over and threaten his adversaries. At the same time he conveys the frustration and impotence of a man unable to escape an endless web of deceit, treachery, and backstabbing.
Pissing contest, Asura: The City of Madness, 2016
South Korean movies are known for pulling no punches when it comes to gore and violence and Asura is no exception. The film includes scenes of people pushed out of and run over by cars, death by multiple stab wounds, blood pulsing out of gunshot wounds, severed fingers, slashings, beatings, knifings, choppings, and the shooting of injured or helpless people—the list is endless. While A Bittersweet Life had many of the same types of violence the story and characterization was much richer and the film's main character gradual revealed a moral center. In Asura everything has gone to hell and the characters exist in a universe devoid of morals, ethics, or empathy. Only the main character has any redeeming qualities, as demonstrated by his devotion to his dying wife, but even that is relationship is full of despair and hopelessness. Cynical and bleak, Asura ups the ante as an extreme entry into the already intense pantheon of South Korean gangster movies.
All in the family, The Handmaiden, 2016
Which brings us to The Handmaiden, Park Chan-Wook's adaptation of Sarah Waters's 2002 novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England. Park transfers the story to 1930s Korea during the Japanese occupation (incidentally, the same period as The Age Of Shadows). The story follows the exploits of Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-Ri), a young grifter who is planted in the household of Lady Hideko (Kim Min-Hee) in order to facilitate Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-Woo), another con artist who is intent on swindling Lady Hideko out of her inheritance. But as with all best-laid plans, things go awry.
Ha Jung-Woo is excellent as usual, exuding an unctuous intelligence that makes his slick and sneaky character almost sympathetic. Kim Min-Hee as the Lady Hideko is also particularly good in her role as the duplicitous noblewomen with the wads of cash that everyone wants. Kim Tae-Ri as the titular handmaiden is also fine, although her screechy laughter will win no awards. But there's a severe dissonance in the film's execution that keeps it from being completely successful.
So much of this movie is outstanding—the clever narrative structure, the acting, the high-gloss production—but director Park can't help using a bludgeon when a scalpel will do. Perhaps as expected from the director of Oldboy, when given the choice between delicacy and bombast Park's direction veers towards sensationalism and heavyhandedness. There's an odd and jarring dissonance between the subtlety, wit, and precision of much of the film and its overwrought and clumsy scenes of sex and violence.
Girls on film, Kim Tae-Ri and Kim Min-Hee, The Handmaiden, 2016
This is particularly evident in several gratuitous lesbian sex scenes that overdo it to the point of parody. In other parts of the film Park makes several scenes very sexy, including a teasing interlude revolving around a bathtub and a thimble, and another involving corsets and long rows of satin buttons. But just in case we don't get it, the actual sex scenes, which are supposed to be hot and seductive, are reduced to extended sessions of naked chicks panting and moaning, including gratuitous softcore tittie shots and faked squeals and giggles. Although it gestures toward feminism, in some ways the film doesn't feel very feminist at all. There's a liberatory joy in several of the scenes where Hideko and Sook-Hee defy the patriarchal conventions of their situation, but other parts of the film just feel like a dirty old man leering at the girls' boobs and crotch. You know it's a male filmmaker when there's a vag-cam shot. Park Chan Wook, why you gotta go there? Feminist filmmaker Lizzie Borden (Born In Flames; Working Girls) once famously stated that she tried to never film a woman's body in a sex scene that the woman herself couldn't see, in order to counteract the objectification inherent in the male gaze. Park goes to the other extreme here, framing the women for maximum ogling and visibility to the viewer.
Going there, The Handmaiden, 2016
I'm wondering how this reads to queer viewers—is it empowering to see explicit queer sex portrayed this way on the screen or are these scenes made for the benefit of the scopophiliac Asiaphile male viewer? In other words, do queer women find these scenes hot or do these scenes just pander to orientalism and Western male fantasies of Asian girl-on-girl sex? Given the clumsiness and unoriginality of their execution, I'm leaning toward the latter.
True to form, Park also turns up the torture porn, including shots of severed fingers and pickled body parts in jars, but then subtlety has never been Park's strong suit. Why show one instance of dismemberment when you can make it three, including loud, crunching sound effects? Then please show us the body parts being swept into a trash can for good measure. These scenes leave very little to the imagination, which is very jarring compared to the clever exposition present in the rest of the film. As with the sex scenes, the sudden lurch from subtlety and precision to bad slasher film aesthetics took me out of the viewing experience, and not in a good way.
So that's a bumper crop of South Korean films released here in the US in 2016, and that's even not counting The Wailing, the creepy, off the chain black comedy/supernatural thriller from Na Hong-jin (The Yellow Sea; The Chaser) that came out last spring. I'm happy to have been able to see them all, despite my SK movie hiatus this summer. It's been a good year–here's to more to come in 2017.
Special shoutout to Anthony Yooshin Kim for helping me formulate my thoughts on this post.
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Last month I wrote about how difficult it's been this year to get on a rhythmic routine.
I'm happy to announce We are FINALLY getting there!
We're not THERE yet, but we are definitely closer. Of course, it's probably more because we sort of hit the reset button when I was knocked out with a cold. The twins were feeling a little under the weather also and decided to latch on to my sick week. Which was actually the best thing that could have happened. Sometimes taking a break from things for a week is exactly what's needed whether planned or unexpected.
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Werner Enterprises, Inc. (WERN): Hedge Funds Are Snapping Up
Nina Todic
Insider Monkey December 13, 2019
Insider Monkey has processed numerous 13F filings of hedge funds and successful value investors to create an extensive database of hedge fund holdings. The 13F filings show the hedge funds' and successful investors' positions as of the end of the third quarter. You can find articles about an individual hedge fund's trades on numerous financial news websites. However, in this article we will take a look at their collective moves over the last 4 years and analyze what the smart money thinks of Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN) based on that data.
Is Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN) the right investment to pursue these days? Hedge funds are turning bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund bets inched up by 3 recently. Our calculations also showed that WERN isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). WERN was in 18 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of September. There were 15 hedge funds in our database with WERN positions at the end of the previous quarter. Video: Click the image to watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.
5 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds
So, why do we pay attention to hedge fund sentiment before making any investment decisions? Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the Russell 2000 ETFs by 40 percentage points since May 2014 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter. Even if you aren't comfortable with shorting stocks, you should at least avoid initiating long positions in stocks that are in our short portfolio.
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John Overdeck of Two Sigma
We leave no stone unturned when looking for the next great investment idea. For example Europe is set to become the world's largest cannabis market, so we check out this European marijuana stock pitch. One of the most bullish analysts in America just put his money where his mouth is. He says, "I'm investing more today than I did back in early 2009." So we check out his pitch. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. We also rely on the best performing hedge funds' buy/sell signals. Let's take a gander at the recent hedge fund action surrounding Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN).
What does smart money think about Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 18 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 20% from the previous quarter. By comparison, 17 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in WERN a year ago. With the smart money's sentiment swirling, there exists a few notable hedge fund managers who were upping their stakes meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
Among these funds, AQR Capital Management held the most valuable stake in Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN), which was worth $39.6 million at the end of the third quarter. On the second spot was Royce & Associates which amassed $16.2 million worth of shares. Citadel Investment Group, Arrowstreet Capital, and Two Sigma Advisors were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position 12th Street Asset Management allocated the biggest weight to Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN), around 0.33% of its 13F portfolio. Quantinno Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 0.2 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to WERN.
As industrywide interest jumped, some big names were breaking ground themselves. Arrowstreet Capital, managed by Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell, created the most valuable position in Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN). Arrowstreet Capital had $10.3 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Noam Gottesman's GLG Partners also made a $4.2 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Matthew Hulsizer's PEAK6 Capital Management, Hoon Kim's Quantinno Capital, and Alec Litowitz and Ross Laser's Magnetar Capital.
Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN). These stocks are The Chemours Company (NYSE:CC), Saia Inc (NASDAQ:SAIA), Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:LSCC), and Tilray, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLRY). This group of stocks' market values are closest to WERN's market value.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position CC,29,273189,1 SAIA,13,66696,4 LSCC,24,232643,4 TLRY,11,19410,0 Average,19.25,147985,2.25 [/table]
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 19.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $148 million. That figure was $113 million in WERN's case. The Chemours Company (NYSE:CC) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Tilray, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLRY) is the least popular one with only 11 bullish hedge fund positions. Werner Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:WERN) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. This is a slightly negative signal and we'd rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Unfortunately WERN wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks (hedge fund sentiment was quite bearish); WERN investors were disappointed as the stock returned 4.4% during the first two months of the fourth quarter and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as 70 percent of these stocks already outperformed the market in Q4.
Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.
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Lamargelle-aux-Bois est une ancienne commune française du département de la Haute-Marne en région Grand Est. C'est une commune associée de Vals-des-Tilles depuis 1973.

Géographie
Très proche de la Côte-d'Or, le village est traversé par le sentier de grande randonnée 7.

Toponymie
Anciennes mentions : Margella en 1228, La Margelle en 1400, Lamargelle en 1793, Lamargelle-aux-Bois en 1925.

Histoire

Carte de Cassini

La carte de Cassini ci-dessus montre qu'au XVIIIe siècle, le nom de la commune actuelle n'existait pas. Trois paroisses distinctes étaient présentes dans le secteur.
 Au nord-est, le village de La Margelle qui s'est appelé par la suite Lamargelle, puis La Margelle-aux-Bois en 1935.
 A l'est, le village de Chalmessin situé sur le rive gauche de La Tille, à proximité de sa source. Un moulin à eau symbolisé par une roue dentée Le Fourneau de Vossin Vologes devaient servir au travail du fer. Son nom est évoqué de nos jours par la Combe du vieux fourneau.
 Plus à l'est, le village de Musseau situé sur la rive droite de la Tille de Villemoron avait son église et son château. Le moulin de Musseau est représenté sur la carte.
 Au sud, deux hameaux étaient rattachés à la paroisse de Chalmessin, Villemervry sur La Tille et son moulin de Vossin, et Villemoron, sur La Tille de Villemoron, qui avait aussi son moulin à eau.
En 1789, ce hameau dépend de la province de Champagne dans le bailliage de Langres.

Passé ferroviaire du village

De 1883 à 1963, Lamargelle-aux-Bois, qui se nommait alors La Margelle et qui était alors une commune à part entière, a été traversée par la  ligne de chemin de fer de Poinson - Beneuvre à Langres, qui, venant de la gare de Vivey-Chalmessin passait au nord-ouest et ensuite se dirigeait vers le terminus de la ligne, la gare de Poinson-Beneuvre.A une époque où le chemin de fer était le moyen de déplacement le plus pratique, cette ligne connaissait un important trafic de passagers et de marchandises. À partir de 1950, avec l'amélioration des routes et le développement du transport automobile, le trafic ferroviaire a périclité et la ligne a été fermée en 1963. Les rails ont été retirés. Quelques tronçons de l'ancienne ligne subsistent encore de nos jours utilisés comme sentier de randonnée ou chemin d'exploitation agricole.

Le , la commune de Lamargelle-aux-Bois est rattachée sous le régime de la fusion-association à celle de Chalmessin qui devient Vals-des-Tilles.

Politique et administration

Démographie

Lieux et monuments
 Église Saint-Martin, reconstruite au , une partie de la nef date du .
 Arboretum des Charmettes, il se compose d'environ 400 espèces d'arbres et d'arbustes.

Notes et références

Ancienne commune en Haute-Marne
Commune associée en Haute-Marne


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Architectural Technology student project to benefit tenants.
The final year project of a mature student from Preston could help to improve living standards for social housing tenants in the city.
Samantha Starkie has drawn up plans for a new development in the area as part of her studies for a degree in Architectural Technology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).
Homes would be designed to the German 'Passivhaus' building standards, which use a 'fabric first' approach to create very low energy buildings. The plans would see the regeneration of a brownfield site located on the corner of Grimshaw Street and Queen Street turned into 50 new dwellings centred around a communal garden, designed to help create a sense of community.
The development would utilise modular construction methods to enable better quality control over the construction period with less disruption to the local area. Homes would become available more quickly due to a faster build process, meaning revenues can be generated earlier for investors.
Samantha said: "For my final project I wanted to show how the use of these techniques can bring many benefits to tenants, through a drastic reduction in heating costs while increasing thermal comfort and well-being. This approach would help reduce the number of families in Preston trapped in fuel poverty.
For my final project I wanted to show how the use of these techniques can bring many benefits to tenants, through a drastic reduction in heating costs while increasing thermal comfort and well-being.
Samantha, who is a trained illustrator and previously worked as a medical artist in hospitals, has always had an interest in architecture, inspired in part by watching her dad work as a joiner.
After raising her two sons, James, 18, and Robert, 16, she was inspired to carve out a second career and enrolled onto the course at UCLan.
"It's been very much a family affair, with my sons studying for their A-levels and GCSEs, while I have been working to complete my final year's work. We've all been going through similar experiences and have been able to support one another along the way," she says.
Samantha's work will be on display at UCLan's Preston campus from 9-16 June as part of the Lancashire Arts Festival Degree Show.