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From the Archives: Code Name: The Cleaner
Filed under: Talking Movies (Reviews) — Fergal Casey @ 11:21 pm
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Beau Starr, Blood Ties, Brett Ratner, Callum Keith Rennie, Cedric the Entertainer, Charlie's Angels, Code Name: The Cleaner, Desperate Housewives, Due South, FBI, George Clooney, Gina Holden, IMDb, Intolerable Cruelty, Jamie Lee Curties, Lionel Richie, Lucy Liu, Nicolette Sheridan, Rush Hour, Talking Movies, True Lies, WGA
From the pre-Talking Movies archives.
A strong contender for turkey of the year, this 82 minute long 'comedy' manages the staggering feat of raising no laughs, not even a giggle or a titter during its entire (and mercifully brief) running time. The one joke about Lionel Richie that seemed mildly amusing in the trailer becomes totally flat when delivered in context by our amnesiac hero Jake, played by the extremely dubiously monikered Cedric the Entertainer. This is an incredibly joyless exercise which the mind struggles to explain except as a victim of the writer's strike which prevented some comedy writers from adding the gags to a rejected thriller script before filming began, except that would make sense for a film released this time next year but not for one released now. This film is so predictably structured it could be taught as a model of uninvolved storytelling, the secret motive is revealed here, a character betrays another here…. You will become so bored that you begin to wonder what an ambitious writer could have done with such a set-up if they'd chosen to go for a full on paranoid thriller. But I digress, we must deal with what we have before us, not the lost opportunities.
What we have is not pretty. Cedric the Entertainer stole 2003's Intolerable Cruelty from George Clooney. It is thus baffling just why he would appear in a picture that reduces black culture to the mix of casual misogyny, objectification of women and farcical macho posturing of 'ghetto' rappers that drives Bill Cosby among others so wild. Desperate Housewives star Nicolette Sheridan gets precious little screen time as she is there only to do a 'sexy' dance in lingerie to get information from her 'husband' Jake. How does it compare to the similar scene between Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnie in True Lies? Not even close. Lucy Liu similarly is introduced in sexy slow motion to allow Jake to drool over her 'fine ass'. All this is quite startling for supposedly egalitarian 2007 and is only partly redeemed by Liu's belated transformation into an ass-kicking FBI agent which allows for an absurd finale in which everyone, apart from mere janitor Jake, develops Charlie Angel's style martial arts skills.
Boredom can be somewhat staved off by playing spot the obscure TV actors. But that's really only a game suitable for walking IMDbs such as this reviewer who noticed that Nicolette Sheridan's receptionist is the receptionist from Canadian vampire show Blood Ties. Canadian character actor Callum Keith Rennie features prominently as a bent FBI agent and comes out with some dignity intact. Not much mind, but a lot more than his one-time Due South co-star Beau Starr as one of Jake's fellow janitors. Brett Ratner, the auteur behind the Rush Hour trilogy, produced this dreck. Brett, just…stop. Okay? Please??
Any Other Business: Part XXXVI
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 12:59 pm
Tags: BAM, Brideshead Revisited, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Catch-22, Cathy Gale, David Michod, Ellen Kuras, Friedrich Bagel, George Clooney, Honor Blackman, Hulu, IMDb, John Steed, Joseph Heller, Julie Stevens, Luke Davies, Mr Teddy Bear, Patrick MacNee, RTE 1, SJ Perelman, The Engineer, The Guardian, True Movies, Venus Smith, Yossarian
As the title suggests, so forth.
Catch-22: it's not the best one Hulu have
It was all Friedrich Bagel's fault. It was he who sent a link to a Guardian piece raving that George Clooney had broken the curse of the unfilmable novel. But why talk about filming an unfilmable novel when it's a TV series? You might as well call Brideshead Revisited a triumphant 13 hour movie adaptation. Only in early 1970s France or the increasingly addled BAM would that make pretend sense. And why give the imaginary credit to Clooney? He directs as many episodes as Ellen Kuras and he's barely in it as an actor, while every episode is written by the series developers Davies and Michod. And they sort of write the same episode again and again. A little comedy gets thru each week, but what a slog to get to it. And then the same 'shock' ending, week after week. Things got distinctly SJ Perelman:
The murders follow an exact, rigid pattern almost like the ritual of a bullfight or a classic Chinese play. Take 'Veiled Lady' in the October, 1937, number of Spicy Detective – Dan is flinging some woo at a Mrs Brantham in her apartment at the exclusive Gayboy Arms, which apparently excludes everybody but assassins:
"From behind me a roscoe belched "Chow-chow!" A pair of slugs buzzed past my left ear, almost nicked my cranium. Mrs Brantham sagged back against the pillow of the lounge… She was as dead as an iced catfish".
Round up the most young actors you can find who look alike and then dress them all alike and don't flesh any of them out and leave the audience baffled, until they realise that if someone finally gets individuated a bit as we head into the last 20 minutes of an episode that means they're about to die and it will probably be Yo-Yo's fault. As The Engineer said after it was all over: "You don't have to watch it if you ask not to watch it because it wasn't very good, but if you ask not to watch it because it wasn't very good, you've already watched it. Catch-22. It's the best one they have."
The Avengers begins with Honor Blackman
It has been a disconcerting experience watching True Movies' extremely scrambled late night re-runs of The Avengers. I had only ever seen a handful of Cathy Gale episodes late at night on RTE 1 over 20 years ago. As True Movies jumped between episodes and seasons of the first three years of the show it became evident that it was something of a miracle this ever became the classic show it did. It is only when Honor Blackman shows up for season 2 episode 1 'Mr Teddy Bear' that things really start to click, and then she keeps disappearing in favour of Julie Stevens' Venus Smith and her wretched musical numbers, or the second iteration of Dr King who is no more interesting than the first. And let's not forget that the show was supposed to be about Dr King! A nigh unwatchable first iteration Dr King episode didn't even feature Steed. It is unfathomable using IMDb to straighten out the running order to see that the writers apparently didn't realise they'd lucked into gold with Steed and Gale. I've rarely seen such huge swings in quality between episodes; from touches like a man at an auction being shot on "Going… Going… GONE!" to overwrought gibberish about a mole hunt with Steed being accused while everyone ignores the world's most obvious mole spending money like water beside him. All the while the chemistry between Steed and Gale defines the show as The Avengers.
Miscellaneous Movie Musings: Part XIX
Tags: Boxofficemojo.com, IMDb, Inglourious Basterds, Morgan Friedman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, West Egg
I will show you how to adjust for inflation
(In the spirit of Wolfgang Schauble) Will this nonsense never end? IMDb once again showcases an American website shilling for a major corporation flagrantly lying. Adjust for inflation! It's not that hard. Go to boxofficemojo.com. Type in Inglourious Basterds in the search box, and when it pops up, click on it, and then copy its opening weekend figure. Now go to westegg.com/inflation/ and paste that figure, then set 2009 as the initial year and leave 2018 unchanged as the final year. The inflation numbers for 2019 aren't available yet, you see. The opening weekend was $38,054,676 in 2009, which comes out as $45,546,434.47 in 2018 terms. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just made $41,082,018 on its opening weekend, which as you can see is less than $45,546,434.47. But of course if you don't adjust for inflation then you have a 'story' to run. It's a good story, it's just a pity it's not true.
Contours of the Decade: Au Francais
The low-level meltdown continues vis a vis constructing a Films of the Decade list. Frankly there is a strong possibility that there will be no Talking Movies Top 10 Films of the 2010s. The vistas start to open up wide and appalling in all directions when you start to think about it. Films in French sets you time-travelling back to 2010 and considering what came since then: Gainsbourg, Of Gods and Men, Little White Lies, Incendies, The Monk, Monsieur Lazhar, Goodbye First Love, Cafe de Flore, Therese Desqueyroux, Populaire, Something in the Air, Paris-Manhattan, Bastards, Tom at the Farm, Love is the Perfect Crime, The Blue Room, Stranger by the Lake, Paper Souls, Goodbye to Language 3-D, Mommy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Eden, The Childhood of a Leader, Things to Come, It's Only the End of the World, Les Combattants, The Past, Personal Shopper, 120 BPM, Maya, Jeune Femme. Where to begin? Where to end?
Who cares what critics say anyway?
Tags: Citizen Kane, Ghostbusters, Hillary Clinton, IMDb, Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com, Rotten Tomatoes, The Shawshank Redemption, Transformers 5, Twitter, Uproxx.com, Vertigo, websitebuilder.org
Uproxx.com had a much-discussed piece recently arguing that critics should not have to watch and review films like Transformers 5, because it's bad for them to see a film they're going to hate, dulling their palate, and not much use to anyone else either; as critics constantly carping about unstoppable cinematic behemoths gives the impression of rarified and tiresome elitism.
In that light it's interesting to see that websitebuilder.org have an interesting new infographic
Click here for the link: https://websitebuilder.org/resources/online-reviews-infographic/
How do people make decisions on how to spend their money when they go to the cinema? It turns out that it's not Rotten Tomatoes, the bane of many a studio executive and film director, but rather IMDb that is the most trusted source online. In fact, Rotten Tomatoes comes 5th in the ranking of importance in this infographic, behind even the late Chicago Sun-Times' man legacy website RogerEbert.com. To wit, audiences do not care what critics on the most discussed critical aggregator say about new movies nearly as much as they care what other punters say about new movies. This is assuming IMDb's ratings are driven mostly by punters not pundits, which is reasonable given that IMDb's Top 250 is topped by The Shawshank Redemption, not Vertigo or Citizen Kane. This leaves film critics somewhat at a loose end…
Intriguingly Twitter meltdowns, like the official Ghostbusters account endorsing Hillary Clinton as a gesture against the imaginary patriarchy who weren't going to its film last year, might also be even more spectacularly counter-productive than you'd think. The infographic from websitebuilder.org has it that if a retailer responds properly to a negative review on social media or online ratings site there is a 33% chance that the negative review will be deleted or changed into a positive. Or, you know, a major studio could just let someone start a Twitter war, shouting abuse at the very people they are meant to be politely asking for money, and see how that works out for the bottom line…
The takeaways must be that word of mouth is stronger than ever, but now in an online form, that critics are definitely not gatekeepers anymore, and that studios need to be very careful about how they respond to the ever proliferating trolls online for fear of digging holes even deeper.
RIP Barry Norman
Tags: 100 Best Films of the Century, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future II, Barry Norman, BBC, DCU, IMDb, John Wayne, Mel Gibson, Old Hollywood, Sight & Sound, The Helix, Woody Allen
I was saddened yesterday to hear of the death of former BBC film critic Barry Norman. I can't add to the obituaries, all I can contribute is a personal note on what I think he meant to me and other film fans of my generation.
Barry Norman for a whole generation was the archetypal film critic. His avuncular remarks from his comfy chair in the studio that morphed with changing fashions over the decades let you know exactly what films were worthy of recognition and championing in the ongoing narrative of cinema. His retirement from the BBC in 1998, volubly aghast at what Hollywood was purveying as their stock in trade, seems like a merciful escape for him now that some American film critics are writing serious thinkpieces about their duty to avoid reviewing much of Hollywood's current (even worse) stock in trade lest it destroy their critical palate. I watched Film 98 and its previous incarnations religiously, and howled in outrage every summer as Norman buggered off on his holliers just as we all most needed his guidance on what blockbusters were worth watching.
Norman was famously unimpressed by the ego and entitlement of famous actors and directors, from John Wayne to Mel Gibson, and would never have stooped to the recycling of breathless press releases gushing about the all-time record box-office grosses just achieved by … (never of course adjusted for inflation, for painfully obvious reasons) that drives so much of online film commentary. Instead he took the long view, a very long view indeed. His 1992 book 100 Best Films of the Century ostentatiously dwelt mostly in the past; a duty given the tremendous present bias that afflicts our culture; with only 5 films being made after 1980. I read it an impressionable age, and when revisiting it after a decade was aghast/amused/astonished to discover I had been parroting many of Norman's contentions under the genuine belief they were my own opinions.
Not of the individual films, I hasten to add, but the broad sweep of cinema as outlined in his contextualising introduction to his picks. Some of the lines about certain films still resonate, Apocalypse Now being the best example; I read his piece on it before seeing it, yet frame in my mind in his terms. Barry Norman was such a fixture that something similar happens with Back to the Future II. I didn't see it in the cinema, but I think of his review on BBC and the scene he picked to illustrate it whenever I see that scene in the movie. What he talked about on Film affected what I thought was worth watching, even if I disagreed. He valorised Woody Allen for years, and I never got it; but I eventually investigated 1970s Woody and thus began to appreciate the body of work. Alas, I never made it to the Helix in DCU years after he'd stopped presenting to see him speak on some of his favourite Old Hollywood films, but I still have his book, and helpfully someone on IMDb has used it to create a watch-list of Norman's picks: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055207230/
The Birth of a Nation, Battleship Potemkin, The Gold Rush, The General, Napoleon, All Quiet on the Western Front, Frankenstein, Duck Soup, It Happened One Night, The 39 Steps, Top Hat, Modern Times, La Grande Illusion, Oh, Mr. Porter!, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Vanishes, Pygmalion, La regle du jeu, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Ninotchka, The Grapes of Wrath, The Thief of Bagdad, The Bank Dick, His Girl Friday, The Lady Eve, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Bambi, To Be or Not to Be, Double Indemnity, Laura, Les enfants du paradis, I Know Where I'm Going, It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Sleep, The Best Years of Our Lives, My Darling Clementine, A Matter of Life and Death, Great Expectations, Bicycle Thieves, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Red River, The Red Shoes, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Whisky Galore!, The Third Man, Orphee, Rashomon, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, The Lavender Hill Mob, The African Queen, Jeux Interdits, High Noon, Pat and Mike, Singin' in the Rain, Genevieve, Shane, Seven Samurai, On the Waterfront, La Strada, Bad Day at Black Rock, Pather Panchali, Richard III, The Searchers, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Nights of Cabiria, Paths of Glory, Some Like It Hot, Psycho, A Bout de Souffle, Lawrence of Arabia, The Leopard, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Z, The Wild Bunch, M.A.S.H., The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Cabaret, The Godfather, Mean Streets, Sleeper, The Godfather: Part II, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Gregory's Girl, E.T, Ran, Hannah and Her Sisters.
While some people may worship at the protean altar of the crowd-sourced IMDB Top 250 or the too cool for film school hipster fashions of the Sight & Sound poll this will always be for me the North Star of cinema. An unapologetic focus on Old Hollywood, foreign films picked because they made a huge impact not because you need to fill a quota, the silent era dismissed in just 5 films rather than (as Sight & Sound's polled experts are wont) pretentiously behaving akin to a lover of the theatre who bemoans everything since the Greeks, and the recent past put on hold to see how it sets before celebrating it: only 5 films since 1980 in a list compiled in 1992, and only 12 films admitted from the 1970s. Norman never pretended the present moment was uniquely awesome.
Barry Norman's legacy is to forever be the voice in your head which asks, "Yes, this film is fun, but will it endure?" In a way every Irish film critic of my generation, professional or dilettante, will have internalised for life Barry Norman's scepticism of commercial success being equated with artistic quality as well as his sardonic "…And why not?"
Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie
Filed under: Talking Movies (Reviews) — Fergal Casey @ 3:56 pm
Tags: 3-D, Across the Universe, Bob Dylan, Born This Way, Britney Spears, Ce Loo, Don't Stop Believing, Firework, Glee, Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie, I Want to Hold your Hand, I'm a Slave 4 U, IMDb, Inertia Creeps, Journey, Julie Taymor, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Massive Attack, Mr Tambourine Man, Nadine O'Regan, New Directions, Ode to Joy, Ryan Murphy, The Beatles, Ugly Betty
Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie is less concert film, featuring most of the cast of Glee performing in character, and more socio-political manifesto by Ryan Murphy.
The film opens with backstage interviews with the Glee cast. Oddly some of them stay in character and some don't. Their character names then flash up on screen during their on-stage introduction and Artie stays in his wheelchair just to hammer home that they're performing in character as New Directions, sort of. If the film wants to refer to the performers by character name, I'm happy to oblige and save myself a visit to IMDb. Proceedings begin, of course, with the trademark god-awful cover of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing'. The words 'of course' apply to most of the numbers. This is a greatest hits package of songs that the show has affixed to particular characters, all of whom get the chance to step up and strut their stuff.
Miss Holliday cameos for one Ce Loo song, but Mr Schuster is conspicuously absent. Puck, Mercedes and Artie all get to show off with solo songs but the most notable turn is Britney's energetic performance of 'I'm a Slave 4 U', which is outrageously sleazy, and leads to the thought that 3-D works well for horror and animation but is perhaps also something that could enhance musicals. Not that it works particularly well here, the choreography is too basic for there to really be anything to show off, but there are moments when it adds something. But while they fail to exploit the third dimension these are good performances – Mike Chang can dance! As indeed can the other secondary characters. But then the lead characters can really sing. Rachel belts out 'Firework', and, as Nadine O'Regan has noted, Katy Perry's lungs resemble those of a blue whale.
Regrettably this is not solely a concert film. There are endless inserts following three Glee fans. Apparently Glee cures Asperger's, makes dwarves (their term) popular and enables gay students survive high school. Apparently I hallucinated three hilarious pre-Glee seasons of Ugly Betty valorising a hopeless nerd, celebrating difference and positively depicting a fabulous high school student… Lady GaGa's 'Born This Way' is the show-climaxing statement of socio-political intent, but Glee cannot sustain this solving-all-the-world's-problems-with-a-soft-shoe-shuffle pomposity – what could? Glee is just a TV show with glaring limitations. It's a blender which flattens all music. Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy', Dylan's 'Mr Tambourine Man' and Massive Attack's 'Inertia Creeps' would all emerge sounding the same, as deeply over-produced pop. I previously criticised its lack of ambition beside Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, and here Kurt performs 'I Want to Hold your Hand' – precisely as Taymor reinterpreted it! Even their innovations are derivative!!
This is a genuinely enjoyable concert, but the documentary segments are actually mildly disturbing…
(P.S. Stay on after the credits for another signature song…)
Ride the Lo-Fi Country
Filed under: Talking Music — Fergal Casey @ 7:08 pm
Tags: 8-track, Arcadia, Ash, Auf Der Maur, Blur, Bryan Ferry, Cassette, CD, IMDb, Jonathan Franzen, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Parklife, PhD, Pixies, The Beatles, The Chemical Brothers, The Corrections, The Doors, The Goon Show, The Lightning Seeds, The Stone Roses, Tom Stoppard, University Observer, YouTube
My beloved 1993 CD player died yesterday, forcing me to turn to its sister tape player for the first time in years, and muse over living lo-fi in a hi-tech world…
Not only is my beloved 2004 Auf der Maur album stuck in the CD player with no means of escape, I can't listen to her new CD (which I just bought) on the thunderous speakers which echo around the room, instead I have to settle for throwing it into the laptop and listening to the tiny volume that it delivers in comparison. Small wonder that I've instantly turned to my long-neglected tape collection to still use the speakers and their great potential for noise. As a result I've spent the last two days listening to the Stone Roses, Bryan Ferry, The Beatles, and the Chemical Brothers. And that was just picking the tapes that were at the top of the pile. I know that somewhere in the dusty stash is The Goon Show not to mention the Pixies, Lightning Seeds, Bowie, Ash and The Doors. And then there's all the tapes I've forgotten I even made, which is going to be a treasure-trove of 1992-2004 time capsules for me to dig through.
But this has happened when I've just seen Tom Stoppard's dazzlingly clever and utterly hilarious Arcadia which is nonetheless a simple enough play to stage, and as I'm ploughing my way through Jonathan Franzen's epic family drama as state of nation saga The Corrections which is modern in style and content but very old in its ambitions, and as thoughts, possibly blog-worthy, possibly not, about each mull around in my mind. These pieces of work are very old-fashioned, lo-fi, if you will, but still impressive, just as the music I'm blaring from my tapes is fantastic, regardless of the ancient method of its delivery. It's brought home to me just how at ease I still am at living a lo-fi life in a hi-tech world, how what's dismissed as 'obsolete' is really often just 'different', and how the obsession with instant gratification can blind us to the qualities of older forms and the greater rewards provided by work that demands more active engagement. After all, filling out an 8-track led to Parklife…
I write a weekly blog but posting it can be the only time I venture on-line each week, as I write on a lap-top with no internet connection, about films which, for the most part, I have seen once in the cinema and then analyse from memory. This to me is normal, but I can imagine other people being crippled without access to IMDb or YouTube, just as I can imagine few people would be able to understand that I improvised dictation of nearly a year's worth of articles down the phone to my co-writer for the University Observer, and wrote nearly half of my PhD thesis long-hand and had it supervised in that way.
I still am lo-fi, it's just the world that upgraded.


I think I am on the right track at resolving the Copper Art Clay breaking mystery. From looking at my pieces, I'd say that they weren't fired enough, that is, that the metal wasn't sintered because there was not enough heat.
Ok, my first try at copper clay turned out to be a total disaster. I am still trying to figure out why the couple pieces I fired split and broke when I quenched them!


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The Biggest Industries In New Zealand
New Zealand has the world's 53rd-largest national economy by nominal GDP.
Agriculture is a major industry in New Zealand.
New Zealand is an island located in the Southwest region of the Pacific Ocean. Wellington is the capital city of the country. New Zealand has the 53rd largest economy globally regarding nominal GDP. New Zealand has a market economy, and the service sector makes up a large portion of the GDP. In 2013, the service sector contributed to 63% of the GDP. The economy is dependent on international trade with other countries. The biggest industries in New Zealand include the Agricultural and horticulture sector, mining, and fishing industries.
The agricultural sector is the largest industry in the country. Pastoral farming and horticulture make up the most of the agricultural sector. Beef cattle rearing is practiced in Northland while dairy farming is the main activity in the wetlands of Taranaki, Northland, Southland, Manawatu, and Waikato areas. Sheep farming is also practiced in many of the rural areas in the country, and the sheep are used for wool production and meat. Raw wool and wool products are exported. New Zealand produces 2.2% of the global milk output ranking it the 8th among the world's largest milk producers. The biggest milk processor in the country is Fonterra, and it processes about 95% of the milk from the farms. Other big dairy companies include Synlait, Westland Milk Products, and Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company. The cattle in the country feed on grass though they are fed hay during winter. Deer farming has become popular through the years with the number of deer and deer farms growing. Venison is one of the country's exports with New Zealand exporting the largest amount of farmed venison. Pigs and goat farming is also practiced but in smaller quantities. New Zealand is known worldwide for canned corned beef.
Horticulture in New Zealand makes up a big part of the agricultural sector. Most of the horticulturists major on fruits like peaches, plums, nectarines, drupe, cherries, and apricots. Cherries and apricots are grown in Otago and are mostly exported while the plums, nectarines, and peaches are grown for local consumption. The kiwifruit is the horticultural product with the highest export value in the country. New Zealand accounts for about a quarter of the world's kiwifruit produce. Blackcurrants, grapes, and berries are also grown in the country. Grapes are grown in Gisborne, Hawke's Bay and Marlborough, citrus fruits in Auckland, Gisborne, and Northland, and blackcurrants in Waikato, Tasman, Auckland, and Canterbury. The grapes produced are also used in the local wineries to make wine for export. Avocados are grown in the Bay of Plenty and Northland. In 2007, fresh fruit exports amounted to about $882 million while processed fruits amounted to $77 million. Wheat is grown in Canterbury for local consumption, and the by-products from the wheat are used as cattle feed. Barley is grown for malt and cattle feed, and it is at times exported depending on the market price. Apart from fruits, the other large horticultural export is fresh vegetables. A variety of vegetables are planted for both local use and export.
Forestry, though a small sector globally, contributes to 4% of the national GDP in New Zealand and timber accounts for a percentage of the exports in the agricultural sector. Plantation forests are located all around the country as the natural forests had started getting depleted. Australia imports a big chunk of timber from New Zealand which is mostly used by the paper-making industries. Other importers include the US, Japan, China, and South Korea.
New Zealand is rich in natural resources, and it has deposits of iron ore, silver, coal, gold, and limestone. The country ranks 22nd globally in iron ore production and 29th in gold production. The mineral produce in 2006, excluding oil and gas, totaled $1.5 billion. Silver, ironsand, and gold constitute the primary minerals in the country. In 2017, the mining industry contributed to 1.3% of the GDP. The coal mines in the country are located in Taranaki, Waikato, Southland, West Coast, and Otago. State-owned Solid energy is the biggest coal mining company, and about 80% of the coal reserves can be found in Southland. Gold was first discovered in the country in 1852, and this led to a gold rush in the 1860s. The amount of gold mined in New Zealand accounts for slightly under 1% of the global gold production. The gold mines can be found on the West Coast, Otago, and Coromandel. Ironsand is sand that is rich in iron. Ironsand is mainly used in the New Zealand Steel Mill based in Glenbrook. The Waikato North Head ironsand mine supplies the steel mill while other mines are located at Taharoa and the ironsand mined there is for export.
Fishing is one of the major industries in New Zealand, and their fishing territory is about 2.5 million square miles. The fishing zone is ranked sixth in size globally. Trout is one of the common fish caught in the country, and the fishing exports in 2006/2007 amounted to about 441,000 tones. There is fish farming in the country which began in the 1980s and oysters, salmon, and mussels are bred in the fish farms for export which earned the country a total of $226 million in 2006/2007. Seafood was ranked the fifth largest earner among the country's exports. By 2000 New Zealand had begun exporting 90% of the fish caught in the country.
New Zealand's Economy Today
New Zealand is a developed country, and its economy ranks first globally in social progression. The rate of corruption in the country is low. In the former years, New Zealand's income levels used to be at par with and even above some of those in countries located in Western Europe but that changed after the 1970s. New Zealand's economy faced a hard blow in 1973 when Britain, its largest export market, decided to join the European Economic Community. Despite recessions, New Zealand's economy is still doing well. The unemployment rate in the country has been fluctuating since the 1970s with times when it is high and when it goes back to low, and it stood at 5.4% in 2014
What are the Biggest Industries in New Zealand?
The agricultural sector is the largest industry in New Zealand. Horticulture, forestry, and mining are other large industries.
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This may be the story to top all trifling financial aid stories.
After a blind item was posted to the blogging site Medium, about embezzlement of student's financial aid at Howard University, six university officials were fired for what the university deemed "misappropriation of financial funds". The incidents are said to have taken place between 2013 and 2017. The identities of the six individuals fired were not released due to employee confidentiality.
It didn't take long before more truth came to light as a HU student, Tyrone Hankerson Jr, who worked in the financial aid office was found to have embezzled almost half a million dollars in funds.
A whistleblower, whose named was changed to "Chase", found several inconsistencies in the school's financial records. Those inconsistencies appear to point to unusually large grants and stipends that were given to two employees, Associate Director of Financial Aid, Brian Johnson and Hankerson, a student employee, under suspicious circumstances. The men are said to have received nearly $200,000 and $429,612 respectively.
Mess, mess all around. It is unclear what could happen to school president Wayne Frederick who came under fire earlier this year when comments he made regarding a student's "tone" in voicing her displeasure with housing at HU went viral.


The Walton Foundation recently caught up with five mountain bikers promoting the sport among women in Northwest Arkansas.
Kyla Templeton, Lindsay Custer, Lindsey Richter, Tandie Bailey, and Kelsey Miller are each taking the sport to new heights, shredding the region's trails and breaking down barriers along the way. This feature is nothing short of inspiring!
"Learn More" and head over to the Walton Family Foundation blog for the full feature!


MOBILE HOME IN SENIOR PARK 55+ CENTRALLY LOCATED TO ALL BIG BEAR HAS TO OFFER! Built in 2010 and only used for a vacation home, this home is practically new! Two bedrooms and one full bathroom, w/d hook ups for full size w/d in laundry closet. Open kitchen to living room. Coming completely furnished. Privacy fencing and nice yard to relax and entertain. Pet's are allowed with some restrictions. Space rent includes snow removal. Space rent is $640 per month; trash $16.67; sewer $30.18 and is added to statement. Electric and water are metered and added to your statement. Gas and cable you need to go direct. Small to medium pets are allowed. This home is located a few homes away from the little park they have. Must see!


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Meeting Information: Saturday, March 19th, from 9 am to Noon
Al Geller: Finishes, Decorative Foil, and Design
At Levi Mize Woodcraftsman's Shop
162 Aviador Street #17+18, Camarillo, CA 93010
Aviador Street is N. of the Camarillo Airport and is reached from the Central Ave. exit off of US 101: go S. and turn left on Ventura Blvd. then right on Aviador St. About three-quarters of the way to the dead end, on the left is a long building. Levi's shop is the last two doors on the left on the S. side of the building. Please park directly in front of or behind his shop or against the curb on the N. side of the building and not in front of other shops.
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At the February 26th meeting over 40 members and friends were treated to a superb demonstration of "Small Scale Turning" by Bonnie Klein. A description and photos are on a separate Demo page. At the end of the program Bonnie gave away the small treasures she had made to those in attendance. The winners of the drawing were Ron, Angela, Harvey, Martha, Darrel, and Stephen. More information about Bonnie's work and the special lathe and threading tools she uses can be found on her web site atwww.BonnieKlein.com. Our member Herm Ross has volunteered as a Mentor to help our members set up for threading boxes, so contact him before you begin purchasing jigs and make sure you are getting the correct parts for your lathe.
We also collected many avocado bowls that we have made for Tim Albers and Mission Produce. Tim has purchased a midsized Vicmarc variable speed lathe for the club for our use for demonstrations and events like the Ventura County Fair. Thank you to Tim and Mission Produce for sponsoring us. Remember to bring the rest of the avocado bowls that you have been working on for this year's project.
Two new members joined in February: welcome to Charles Booker and Gary Kennaley, both from Ventura. Name tags for the 7 members who have joined since late last year have been ordered and these will be ready at the next meeting. If you haven't paid your $25 dues for 2005 yet please send them to our Treasurer Ron Lindsay immediately. The new printed membership directory will be available at the March meeting and you don't want your name to be missing!
Our next meeting is one week earlier than usual so remember to attend on the 3rd Saturday not the 4th, i.e. March 19th. President Al Geller will present his work with different finishing techniques and also discuss the use of metallic foil as a decorative surface enhancement. He will also discuss concepts of design elements that he thinks about when he begins to work on a new piece. Some examples of Al's work are in the Geller Gallery section. The Challenge for the March meeting is to make a miniature (3″ or smaller) turning. Now that you have seen how Bonnie does it we should have lots of examples for the Show-N-Tell session.
Up Coming Events: On April 2nd the Glendale Woodturners Guild is featuring Mike Mahoney for an all day demonstration. The information flyer has been sent to our membership list and more information can be found at the GWG site or from Pete Carta at VP@woodturners.org. At the March meeting we may try to put together a car pool of our members to attend this special event. Our meeting on Apri16th will feature member Art Waldinger discussing photographing your work. Art is a profession photographer and will be taking photos of your work to use in our gallery section. On Sunday, May 15th, Andi Wolfe will be presenting an all day demo for us. Sign up now (call Al Geller or sign up at the March meeting) if you plan on attending as we will be limiting the number of attendees to no more than 45 people.
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad is presenting another B. Tech. course in Artificial Intelligence that will be accessible to the understudies starting the coming scholastic year (2019-2020). It is the main such undeniable B. Tech. program to be offered by an Indian college. Indeed, even globally, just select foundations like Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are as of now offering comparative courses, guaranteed IIT Hyderabad in a public statement.
Remarking on the new course, Prof U.B. Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad, stated, "The fundamental point is to make a total biological community for Artificial Intelligence Academics and Research at IIT Hyderabad. This includes B.Tech., M.Tech. what's more, extraordinary Minor Programs in AI. Besides, the R&D will be emphatically weaved with scholastics."
The B.Tech. in Artificial Intelligence course will incorporate investigation of calculations, flag preparing, apply autonomy and scientific establishments. It will likewise concentrate on application verticals, for example, human services, farming, savvy portability, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. IIT Hyderabad takes note of that moral effect of AI and related advances on territories, for example, protection, predisposition, and related issues will likewise educated to the understudies.
The organization trusts that the new program will enable the understudies to wind up pioneers in the field and help take care of the developing demand for man-made brainpower and machine learning specialists in the business.
"Artificial intelligence arrangements are especially encouraging for India (given the accessibility of an extensive corpus of information) where it can have a noteworthy positive effect on a few basic areas, for example, human services, harvest and soil the board, climate forecast, reconnaissance and security, and resistance. Be that as it may, the interest for experts prepared around there far surpasses the present supply. The BTech program in AI is a stage toward tending to this exceedingly skewed interest supply situation," said Dr. Sumohana Channappayya, Dean (Research and Development).
The Samsung Galaxy M10 is the first of two smartphones from the company to feature a notched display. The design of the smartphone is impressive, and the dual-camera setup allows you to take wide-angle shots, which we found to be fun. Good battery life and dual-VoLTE standby are other useful features, but the Samsung Galaxy M10 is let down by performance thanks to its dated SoC, along with slow charging, and no fingerprint sensor. While the device is an important entry-level option from Samsung, it doesn't quite impress as much as the Galaxy M20.
Only days after the V15 Pro appeared in Indiawith a spring up selfie camera, another model called has been spilled with moniker Vivo S1. The new telephone is tipped to come as a less expensive choice against the Vivo X27 that is relied upon to land on March 19. Key determinations of the Vivo S1 incorporate a full-HD+ show and an octa-center MediaTek Helio P70 SoC. The new model is likewise supposed to have a triple back camera setup and a spring up selfie camera module - like the Vivo V15 Pro. The Vivo S1 is likewise said to accompany a sticker price of around CNY 2,000 (generally Rs. 20,800).
Chrome Canary Now Allows Webpages to Render in Dark Mode Google has been working on a system-wide dark mode in Android Q, and that includes the Chrome browser as well. Though we had reported earlier that Google has been testing dark mode on the browser, it now seems that the mode is not just limited to the browser interface, but also the pages it renders. Does it really work? Well, you can try it out for yourself by downloading Chrome Canary from the Google Play store on your Android smartphone.
Xiaomi Mi 9 camera better than all Phones The Mobile World Congress is upon us and it's shaping to be one of the most exciting ones in recent years. But the first flagship for year 2019 is now out and it's not coming from Spain but China instead as the Xiaomi Mi 9 just landed. The Mi 9 is the company's first smartphone to pack Qualcomm's latest chipset - the Snapdragon 855. The new processor and graphics are pretty exciting even if 5G isn't part of the package.


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As all my loyal readers will no doubt remember, I hit a rather annoying snag way back when that forced me to switch back from Linux to Win2K. I fixed that a while ago, but since then I've spent all of my time on Linux trying to get FreeVO installed and configured to work with either of the TV cards (installation of one of which is what triggered the snag).
Tonight, not really in the mood to write, I'm thinking of booting into Linux and seeing if I can't get to a point where I can work day-to-day in the Linux environment w/out needing to boot into Windows for anything save the odd voice dictation session.


with the desire to fabricate utopias. These structural elements form a big picture, which is destined to remain incomplete in its entirety. A transforming society needs and must seize on possibilities for change, which enable collective conceptions of the future.
How To Live Together explores the conditions and prospects of living together in terms of individual and social dimensions. Key factors of this survey exhibition not only include dynamics and shifts at the political and economic level, but also changing social relations. The works of more than thirty international artists from different generations are based on personal experience and, at the same time, point to changing relations between the private and the political, between stagnant and accelerating contemporary circumstances, reality and utopian ideals. The diverse models of living together presented, reveal how society is more than just the sum of its individuals.
From August Sander's portraits of society to Tina Barney's depictions of social elites to Cana Bilir-Meier's cinematic exploration of the forgotten stories of migrant workers, How To Live Together shows that the stranger, the other, is something people are made into. Universal human feelings including love, fear, faith, and longing for peace, are addressed by Goshka Macuga's android, which launches an appeal to humanity while simultaneously calling for traditional role models to be overcome. Inspired by the debate on Brexit, Wolfgang Tillmans' campaign marks a counter-movement: involvement in civil society – based on solidarity and on what interconnects us – gains heightened importance.


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Oz go Backwards to go Forwards… or Sideways… or Backwards Again?!
Australia have gone all retro-England on us with their latest ODI squad selection. Potential but inconsistent T20 performers Chris Lynn, D'arcy Short and Ben McDermott have all been ditched to make way for the likes of less explosive but more reliable players such as Shaun Marsh and Usman Khawaja. Though Marsh has done well in the IPL, you can't help but think that Australia have pushed the panic button… and kept pressing! The selectors can't seem to make their mind up about Peter Handscomb and one innings from him in the Big Bash seems to have confused them even further. All this fuels pressure on their bowling attack to limit opposition to totals that were the norm five years ago but not today.
Could it all click for Oz at this summer's World Cup or will their fall continue?
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Author Planet PaulCategories Cricket, ODI CricketPosted on January 6, 2019 January 6, 2019 Leave a comment
Extras: An Ashes Tour Themed Question Filled Extras!
Bye: Is Mason Crane the first player to make his Test debut in a city with which he shares his middle name?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/660889.html
Leg Bye: Have the following players misunderstood an instruction to have Don Bradman like averages?
Tom Curran: 100.00
Jake Ball: 114.33
Mason Crane: 193.00
Yet Craig Overton (37.66) doesn't average over a ton. Go figure!
No Ball: Will Chris Lynn ever be fit?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21998811/chris-lynn-injury-raises-glenn-maxwell-question
Wide: After returning figures of 0-108 in Melbourne, has Jackson Bird played his last Test?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/215152.html
Author Planet PaulCategories Cricket, Extras, ODI Cricket, Test CricketPosted on January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018 Leave a comment
Telegraph Fantasy Cricket: T20 Blast 2017
Telegraph Fantasy Cricket run an exclusive T20 Blast competition, separate to the County Championship/One-Day Cup combo. It would make more sense to me for them to have three separate competitions, each with a winner as well as having an overall winner.
Anyway, three players from my CC/ODC side make it into my T20 side. They are Riki Wessels, wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick and Basil's grandson Brett D'Oliveira. D'Oliveira is an opening batsman who bowls and is listed, fairly enough, as an all-rounder in the CC/ODC game but is down as a bowler in the T20 comp.
I've very deliberately (Wessels aside) selected players that aren't in many people's teams. It's no good having the same players as everybody else because you simply don't gain any advantage. To be successful at fantasy sports, it's imperative that you identify and select players not picked by many but who will go onto put in the performances.
Mark Cosgrove and Ryan Higgins are listed as batsman but Higgins in particular, after a good showing on First Class debut recently, should contribute with the ball.
Dominic Sibley (T20 bat ave: 49.40) hit the headlines with a double hundred in the County Championship in 2013 aged just eighteen and has become a dynamic batsman at the top of the order for Surrey.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2013/content/story/674737.html
California born bat Cameron Steel has come to the fore for Durham this year and should be provided with an opportunity in the shorter form of the game on the back of his CC/ODC efforts. He bowls a bit of leg-spin too.
https://sillypointcricketsite.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/century-for-steel-stars-stripes-and-steel/
Ex-England men Stephen Parry (Now a CC regular) and Jade Dernbach lead my bowling attack. Dernbach is a player despised by many and therefore ignored by a number of Telegraph selectors but if not for injury he would likely have qualified for next year's North v South encounters. Chris Liddle is also a fly under the radar pick. A journeyman pro and holder of an unhealthy First Class average, his limited overs stats are respectable though and he could be a surprise performer. Like Dernbach, he wasn't far away from automatic North v South selection.
My captain is another 'to be scoffed at by many' selection. What Moises Henriques was doing batting at four for Australia at the 2017 Champions Trophy as Chris Lynn sat on the bench nobody knows. Well actually, it was because he bowls a bit of dibbly dobbly and at domestic level he's an intelligent and belligerent batsman who will not be representing Surrey for the first time.
I will reiterate my key tips from previous posts for selecting a fantasy cricket team:
Select batsman that bowl
Select bowlers that can bat
Select players that aren't in many people's teams
I'm advocating faith when it comes to selection for my CC/ODC team but transfers will be a crucial part of the T20 comp come Finals Day. Don't be left with few players playing additional matches. When the crunch comes ensure that your side is full of players participating for silverware!
Author Planet PaulCategories Cricket, First Class Cricket, List A Cricket, T20 Cricket, Telegraph Fantasy CricketPosted on June 24, 2017 September 29, 2017 1 Comment
Stoined!
Admittedly he wasn't the headline but scroll a little way down in this article and you'll find me politely suggesting that Marcus Stoinis was due a recall to the Australian squad.
https://sillypointcricketsite.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/another-string-to-australias-bowe/
That was all of six days ago and since then he's hit a match winning 40 not out from just 23 deliveries for Melbourne Stars against Perth Scorchers.
Well guess what happened today?
The ever reliable The Guardian or The Australian Cricket Newspaper as I call it, advises that Stoinis is indeed the recipient of a recall to Australian colours.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/16/injured-mitchell-marsh-ruled-out-of-australias-third-odi-in-perth
Stoinis has been drafted in as cover for Mitchell Marsh in the ODI series against Pakistan. Marsh was dismissed first ball in the most recent match of the series as the tourists levelled the score at 1-1 with three matches to play. As well as Mitchell Marsh being injured, Chris Lynn has been sent home for scans and you just get the feeling that injury upon injury are going to cost Lynnsanity a regular place in the Ozzie line-up.
Disclaimer: I know that it's a crap headline but other than Stoinis Join Us I was struggling for alternatives!
Author Planet PaulCategories Cricket, ODI Cricket, T20 CricketPosted on January 16, 2017 January 16, 2017 2 Comments
Follow the Yellow Brick Road!
In a sign of the times, Australia's cricketers have a T20I scheduled into their calendar less than 24 hours before the commencement of a Test match. Said matches will take place on different continents with the three-match T20I series being played in Australia and Australia'a Test side on tour in India.
Australia's Test squad will be as strong as it can be so there will be opportunities for some unfamiliar faces in the T20I squad. The series will take place not long after the conclusion of the 2016-17 Big Bash so Silly Point thought it was worth having a look at some of the contenders for the vacancies in Australia's T20I squad.
Please be aware that I'm not naming a squad as such and players like James Faulkner, Travis Head and Chris Lynn are amongst those that I consider almost certainties (Assuming that they don't get a Test call-up of course). It's more players that would be coming in out of the international cold that I'm listing here.
Those who've played before, whether it be T20I, ODI or Test:
Michael Beer: No I haven't been drinking! Two Test cap Michael Beer has been consistently economical when opening the bowling in the Big Bash and a call-up would be well merited.
Ben Dunk: Slam funk da Ben Dunk. He bats, he bowls, he keeps wicket. Won three T20I caps in late 2014. Could a recall for versatile Dunk be on the cards?
George Bailey / Aaron Finch: Both only recently jettisoned from the ODI squad but this fixture clash could provide an opportunity for these two to make a swift return to the international fold and possibly for one of them, as captain.
Callum Ferguson / Moises Henriques / Nic Maddinson: All players that've failed miserably in the Test arena in recent times but who will be hoping to get chances to redeem themselves in the pyjama plays.
Brad Hogg: With senior members of the bowling unit in India, could a recall for Hogg, who'll turn 46 before the series begins really happen?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5681.html
Tim Paine: A man with an ODI century and Test best 92 to his name, Paine previously couldn't find consistency at international level (Injuries didn't help) but has been prolific throughout Big Bash history.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/engvaus2009/engine/match/350048.html
Rob Quiney: Had a bit of a horror show during his brief Test career which included a pair in his second Test though he did bowl ridiculously economically. That Test batting average of 3.00 may well have cost him caps in limited overs cricket but his run-scoring in the current Big Bash demands selection.
http://www.melbournestars.com.au/players/rob-quiney
Cameron White: An unfulfilled talent at international level, White's chances may depend on how keen Australia are to win or how much they see this as an opportunity to blood youngsters.
A few other names that may come into consideration: Sean Abbott, Fawad Ahmed, Scott Boland, Clint McKay, Marcus Stoinis and AJ Tye.
Those who haven't played before:
Tom Cooper: Last played for Netherlands in March of last year. Surely wouldn't say no to a call-up from the country of his birth.
http://www.bigbash.com.au/video#videoId=5278578932001
Michael Klinger: Yes he's 36 but Australia aren't opposed to selecting ageing debutantes and if they do select a number of uncapped players, Klinger's experience albeit at domestic level may count for something.
Ben McDermott: Would be a selection basically based on one innings and he looked rather pot luck early on against spin but who knows?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/match/1023627.html
A few other names that may come into consideration: Ben Dwarshuis, Daniel Hughes, Kurtis Patterson, Jhye Richardson and D'Arcy Short.
http://www.bigbash.com.au/#gender=men
Author Planet PaulCategories Cricket, ODI Cricket, T20 Cricket, T20I Cricket, Test CricketPosted on January 14, 2017 February 17, 2017 3 Comments
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The South Carolina Dispensary system was a state-run monopoly on liquor sales in the United States state of South Carolina which operated from 1893 to 1907 statewide and until 1916 in some counties. The system was the brainchild of Governor Benjamin Tillman, a farmer from Edgefield known as "Pitchfork Ben," who served as governor from 1890–1894 and as a U.S. Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. This experiment had never before been tried at the state level, and proved to be the last time a state would require all liquor sold within its borders to be bottled and dispensed through state-run facilities. The South Carolina Dispensary system came to be known as "Ben Tillman's Baby".

Demand for prohibition
Heath and Kinnard (1980) analyzes the background and motivation of the prohibitionists in South Carolina and the five referendums on prohibition between 1892 and 1940. After the prohibitionists won the 1892 referendum, Ben Tillman convinced the state legislature to adopt the dispensary system, whereby the state received the profits from the sale of liquor and tightly controlled it at the same time. Although the prohibition forces won subsequent referendums, the state was reluctant to close down the dispensary system because of the revenue it generated. Religious reasons as well as proximity to Charleston (the farther away the county, the more likely it was to vote for prohibition), were the two major reasons for supporting prohibition, or otherwise, in South Carolina.

Prohibitionist sentiment, supported by Baptist and Methodist ministers, grew rapidly in the 1880s. In 1889 a bill proposing prohibition of alcoholic beverage was introduced in the S.C. House and failed to pass by a margin of only eight votes. In 1890 the House passed a measure that was ultimately defeated in the Senate. Most observers thought South Carolina would have become a "dry" state if not for the advent of the dispensary system. After Tillman and his poor farmer coalition ("wool hat boys") came to power in 1890, the dispensary system became his answer to the liquor question. The South Carolina General Assembly established the state dispensary system in a rush vote at 5:30 A.M. on the last day of the session, December 24, 1892. The sentiments of the "wets", or anti-prohibitionists, was that the system was better than prohibition, as liquor was still legal, whereas the "dries", or prohibitionists, saw the system as a step towards prohibition, but outright prohibition is what they ultimately wanted; neither side was happy with the new law.

The Dispensary in operation
The monopoly the state created was complete; wholesale and retail sales were controlled by the dispensary system through a state board of control, which consisted of the governor, comptroller general and attorney general. Day-to-day administration was in the hands of a state commissioner appointed by the governor. The commissioner was charged with procuring all liquors that were to be subsequently bottled by the state dispensary and sold to county dispensaries. Preference was to be given to local brewers and distillers. Liquor bottled by the state dispensary was the only liquor to be sold legally in South Carolina. From 1893 to 1900 the bottles used by the dispensary had an embossed design featuring a palmetto tree with crossed logs under the base of the trunk, and from 1900-1907 an overlaying and intertwining S, C and D "script" design replaced the tree design. This was largely because prohibitionists objected to having such a prominent state symbol as the palmetto tree embossed on liquor bottles. The script, or monogram design, remained on dispensary bottles until the end of the system in 1907.

End of the Dispensary
The corruption of the Dispensary as a political machine alarmed Progressive-era reformers, along with the church element that wanted complete prohibition. The General Assembly passed the Bryce law in 1904 that allowed for counties to choose whether they would allow for the sale of alcohol. Many of the Upstate counties voted to ban the sale of alcohol and it was not too long before the General Assembly discussed the viability of the Dispensary itself. In 1907, the Carey-Cothran law was passed that abolished the State Dispensary and provided for the establishment of dispensaries in every county that chose to remain wet.

The counties that operated dispensaries grew prosperous from the revenues generated by the sale of alcohol, but prohibitionist sentiment was irresistible and in 1915 the dry counties sought to end the sale of alcohol throughout the state. A referendum held in the state on the question of prohibition saw two-to-one support from the voters, and the General Assembly subsequently enacted a law in 1916 to ban the sale of alcohol and limit importation from other states.

Bottle varieties
For the most part, all that remains of the S.C. Dispensary are the (mostly empty) bottles that were made simply to contain alcoholic beverages to be sold and consumed, with no regard to the aesthetics of the bottle or design. The bottles are treasured by collectors not for their beauty of design or color, but more as a link to an intriguing era in history.

Today, many bottle collectors enthusiastically seek S.C. Dispensary bottles, which have become fairly scarce in terms of common varieties. A few varieties are exceedingly rare and are worth $20,000 or more to avid collectors willing to pay the price for them. Some very rare specimens bring just under $30,000, under the right conditions.

The most common type of S.C. Dispensary bottle is the "jo-jo" flask, which is a flask with flat panels front and back, rounded shoulders, and a rounding towards the base. These were made and used throughout the life of the dispensary system. Another type of flask, the union flask, was used until the turn of the 20th century, and none were made with the monogram design. Unlike the jo-jos, which all bore the legend "SC Dispensary", unions bore both this and "South Carolina Dispensary". Half-pint, pint, and one quart cylindrical bottles were also made and used.

Stoneware jugs were produced in two major variants. They consist of ones made in Edgefield District, South Carolina and ones made in Virginia.

The South Carolina variations were made in half-gallon and gallon sizes, all were made from local clay with the palmetto tree and S. C. Dispensary stamped by hand after being wheel turned. In June 1893, the state purchased 2,118 half-gallon jugs and 2,046 one-gallon jugs from J. G. Baynham of Trenton at a total cost of $217.35. The half-gallon jugs were 3.5 cents each and the one-gallon jugs were 7 cents each. The vast majority were made by Baynham, but the Hahn(or Horne) family assisted with some of the production.

A fine example of one of these jugs can bring $7,000 to $9,000.  A lot of factors go into making it a "fine example".

The Virginia stoneware jugs were not wheel turned but made with a Jigger-Mold or similar process.  The three main varieties of these and all known specimens are stamped with a blue state emblem and the dispensary name under a clear silica/glass glaze. These will bring $2,500 to $3,500 depending on condition and variation.

There are fakes on the market of both variants and a couple of the glass bottles.

There are other non-typical bottle types, and some bottles which were not embossed, being marked as a dispensary item by label only. A much sought after item is the two-ounce capacity souvenir commemorative dispensary bottle made for the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition in Charleston, S.C. which was held in 1901-1902. With different glass color varieties, glass manufacturers, and design nuances, there are many varieties of S.C. Dispensary bottles to be collected. Each S.C. Dispensary bottle is unique due to being blown in a mold by a glassblower, as the Owens AR automatic bottle-making machine was not yet in widespread use.

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References

 Niels Christensen, Jr. "The State Dispensaries of South Carolina," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 32, (Nov., 1908), pp. 75–85 in JSTOR
 John Evans Eubanks. Ben Tillman's Baby: The Dispensary System of South Carolina, 1892-1915. (1950)

 Heath, Frederick M. and Kinard, Harriet H. "Prohibition in South Carolina, 1880-1940: an Overview." Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 1980: 118-132.  Retrieved March 23, 2017.
 Francis Butler Simkins. The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. (Duke U.P. 1926) ch 8 online edition

External links
SC Statehouse Biography of Governor Ben Tillman
SCIway Biography of Governor Ben Tillman
ASME Manufacturing of bottles
SC Dispensary bottles
 Hamm, Richard F. Dispensary. South Carolina Encyclopedia

History of South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman
Prohibition in the United States
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Constructing identities online- an exploratory study of Saudi youths' strategies
Alenezi, M, Kebble, PG, Fluck, AE ORCID: 0000-0003-1301-4615, Yang, Yang and Bown, A ORCID: 0000-0003-3735-7006 2018 , 'Constructing identities online- an exploratory study of Saudi youths' strategies' , Arab World English Journal, vol. Specia, no. 4 , pp. 242-259 , doi: 10.24093/awej/call4.19.
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Language is used not only for communication but also for enacting multiple identities to reveal information about oneself such as who we are, where we come from, who we believe in etc. This is done by means of using a tribe, gender, region or a country specific dialect, accent, sociolect, vocabulary or phrase to identify oneself with a specific tribe, gender, social class or ethnic group, a region or a nation. Greetings such as-'Assalamualeikum' ('peace be with you'), 'God bless', 'Shalom' ('peace') are used by people to identify oneself with a particular faith (Muslim, Christian and Jewish respectively). Thus, language use serves here as a means of constructing religious identity. Region and tribe specific dialects, accents and sociolects are also used to construct regional, social class, ethnic or tribal identities. This process of identity construction occurs both in the real world as well as in a virtual reality on-line, where people can either take their real identity with them or construct an on-line identity that can be as divergent as they wish. As on-line communication gains significance in everyone's life, research on the nature of this communication is required to uncover various underlying issues governing this type of communication. In this respect, the present study aimed to explore the strategies and ways in which language and other means were used by Saudi Arabian youths to construct and enact their various identities such as gender, social class, tribal, regional, religious etc. To this end, a social networking website was designed and Saudi youths (aged between 18 to 30 years) were invited to participate by posting and chatting online on the website. Of such posts, around 300 comments were selected for the content analysis. The analysis of these comments posted by 71 Saudi females and 85 males over two months revealed that Saudi youths used their language on-line to construct and enact their gender, tribal, regional, religious identities. Participants were seen to be using their tribe, region, gender, religion and Arab culture related words and phrases to construct and reveal their tribal, regional, gender, religious and cultural identities consciously and unconsciously.
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Boston Celtic punks Dropkick Murphys are well-known pro-union boys. So when notably anti-union politician Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin walked out at the Iowa Freedom Summit to the band's signature take on Woody Guthrie's "I'm Shipping Up to Boston", the band were none too thrilled.
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US Grand Prix "Will Happen" This Year Says Ecclestone
Christian Sylt Senior Contributor
I cover the theme park industry and the business of Formula One
Formula One's chief executive Bernie Ecclestone says that the United States Grand Prix in Texas will take place in October despite the race facing a $5.5 million cut in state funding.
The future of the race, which is held at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) track in Austin, the capital of Texas, has been in doubt since November when it came to light that its funding would be cut.
The track's parent company is controlled by its chairman Bobby Epstein and auto magnate Red McCombs. It has received $25 million of public money annually since the US GP premièred in 2012 but last year the state of Texas used a new method to calculate the economic impact of the race. As the end result was lower than before the state funding reversed and the race was put in jeopardy.
The US Grand Prix was widely considered to be the most thrilling race of 2015 and crowned Britain's Lewis Hamilton as the F1 champion. It was seen by a crowd of 101,667 despite the race weekend being plagued by torrential rain.
AUSTIN, TX - OCTOBER 25: Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP celebrates with the team in... [+] the pit lane after winning the United States Formula One Grand Prix and the championship at Circuit of The Americas on October 25, 2015 in Austin, United States. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
In November Mr Epstein shed light on the impact of the funding cut when he said "I think we're screwed...The state clearly made promises. I think we made a deal, and we lived up to our end of the deal." He added that the "big question" is "is the race coming back?"
Later in the month Mr Ecclestone revealed to local Austin newspaper the American-Statesman that he has given COTA more time to pay its annual F1 race hosting fee to cope with the decrease in state support. "They get money from the state, and the money from the state is late, so that's why they are late," said Mr Ecclestone.
The uncertainty over whether COTA can afford to stage the US Grand Prix led to the race being listed on the 2016 F1 calendar in December as being 'subject to confirmation'. Since then it is understood that Mr Epstein has been attempting to put measures in place to ensure that the race gets the green light. Mr Ecclestone says he is sure it will.
"I think Austin will happen this year. Epstein is confident. He knows the money is coming," Mr Ecclestone told Forbes.
State funding is crucial to F1 race organisers as they generally do not get any revenue from the corporate hospitality and advertising banners at the track. This is paid to F1 Group subsidiary Beta Holdings with the revenue from television broadcasts paid to F1's operating company Formula One World Championship (FOWC). The race organisers' sole source of income from F1 is usually ticket sales and this only tends to pay for the running costs with the annual hosting fee then covered by investment from governments. Making matters harder, an escalation clause in the race contracts boosts hosing fees by up to 10% annually.
COTA was believed to be one of the most secure races on the F1 calendar as the state of Texas had committed to paying the $25 million hosting fee directly to FOWC as Forbes revealed in December. This commitment was made in 2010 when the state's former Comptroller Susan Combs wrote to Mr Ecclestone to say that in "2013 through 2021, we will be sending $25 million dollars to FOWC by the end of July 31st of each year preceding the actual race event."
AUSTIN, TX - OCTOBER 25: Daniel Ricciardo of Australia and Infiniti Red Bull Racing drives during... [+] the United States Formula One Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas on October 25, 2015 in Austin, United States. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
However, since then, control of the budget has shifted to the office of Texas' new governor Greg Abbott who took over in January last year. Even though the letter to Mr Ecclestone did not include any caveat that the terms were subject to change in future, Mr Abbott overturned it and the future of the US GP was put in jeopardy. This year's race will be its fifth anniversary so stands to be the biggest yet. It is on track to go ahead but only time will tell whether the state support will accelerate.
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A project in Uganda is using music and video to promote conservation and poverty alleviation, thanks to a creative partnership.
It took us 14 hours to reach Bwindi Impenetrable National Park from the Ugandan capital, Kampala – twisting along the snake-like Ruhija-Bwindi road.
We were travelling with the musician Wesa Kawesa and his production team, heading for the Gorilla Resort Camp at Buhoma – and by the time we arrived, night had fallen and the whole group was exhausted. Our beds for the night were in tents pitched on the edge of the forest, home to the mountain gorillas we wanted to protect.
The trip had been set up by the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (U-PCLG) as part of the "Linking great apes conservation and poverty alleviation" project, which is funded by the Arcus Foundation and by UK aid. The idea was to introduce Kawesa (and his film crew) to Bwindi and provide inspiration for a song and video about great ape conservation and poverty alleviation – one of a range of alternative communication activities being developed as part of the project.
Great apes are iconic species that are highly valued by the international community and are a high priority for international conservation. They are found in areas which coincide with some of the poorest parts of the world, as is the case in Uganda.
Bwindi is home to an estimated 400 endangered mountain gorillas. Located in the Albertine Rift Valley, it is considered to be part of one of the most biologically rich ecosystems on Earth, with a large number of endemic species, and it is in one of Uganda's most important forest area for the conservation of biological diversity.
The 'imagine' song project
Drawing on the idea that music can reach across ethnic and social boundaries, U-PCLG decided to develop a song as a way to communicate a conservation and development message. As the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said: "Music is the universal language of mankind".
Working with PCI Media Impact, a not-for-profit organisation that uses alternative media to inspire positive social and environmental change, U-PCLG wanted to use the song to raise awareness about the need for equal and fair distribution of the costs and benefits from conservation activities in the park. The project will also look at a range of other communication channels including radio talk shows, comic strips and training for journalists.
Wesa Kawesa
U-PCLG had approached Kawesa – a gifted musician, author and motivational speaker, who has previously written soundtracks for award-winning movies such as The Last King of Scotland – to compose the song. It organised the trip to Bwindi to give Kawesa and his crew the chance to find inspiration and capture some of the unique and genuine Bwindi experience for the video.
On the first morning in Bwindi, the production team was up by 7am to catch the sunrise. But much to his surprise, one of the cameramen found his camera had become frozen, and would not take any pictures or video.
Once the batteries had warmed up, the group set off for the forest. Jackie, one of the musicians, looked ill-equipped in her high platform shoes, short leopard dress, and full make-up. But accompanied by two Uganda Wildlife Authority guards, she was determined to conquer the impenetrable.
As a musician and songwriter, Kawesa was keen to witness at first hand the impacts of the existing model for sharing revenues from gorilla tourism between government, hoteliers, travel and tours companies and the local communities, particularly the Bakiga and the Batwa pygmy communities, and see how this model affects their livelihoods.
We met with 23 members of the Batwa tribe and visited their former forest home, where the hunter-gatherers lived in caves and trees alongside the primates, before their relocation following the creation of the national park in 1991. Their strong culture and desire to continue living in harmony with the gorillas was clearly expressed in the songs that they performed for us.
Thanks to a local student who helped with translation, we were able to hear the community's dissatisfaction with the current revenue sharing arrangements. They told us, for instance, that in October of this year, they had received Uganda shillings 30,000/- (US$11) as their share of the park entrance fee, shared among the 23 members of the Batwa settlement in Buhoma.
This was clearly not enough to cover even their basic needs, such as having access to clean water, and being able to pay for health related costs and school fees.
Sharing the song
The song, which is currently in production, is expected to reach thousands of people, from the local communities living around Bwindi to policy-makers and other key audiences. It will be used to raise awareness about Bwindi, the communities living around it, and issues surrounding the costs and benefits from the national park.
By creating a conservation song, the project hopes to make conservation 'cool' and, through radio, TV and digital technologies, reach larger audiences. A music video is also being produced and will be distributed to local television and radio stations around central Kampala and western Uganda.
Although music is a good communication tool, it can only be effective if the message is clear and reaches the right audiences. We will, of course, be monitoring our success and will continue to share information about this project on this blog, in particular regarding the impact of the song once it has been distributed, and the other communication activities planned – such as the comic strips and radio talkshows.
By using new and unconventional forms of communication, we expect a lot of learning along the way.
Watch the conservation song: Imagine Bwindi.
Hellena Nambogwe (hnambogwe@gmail.com) is an environmental educator working with U-PCLG and PCI Media Impact as a communications coordinator for the 'Great apes conservation and poverty alleviation project'
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Zika in Perspective (not so scary)
February 3, 2016 February 3, 2016 ~ Nathan Lauster
Having a baby is scary enough, for oh-so-many reasons. But the recent Zika virus explosion has made it even scarier. How scary should it be? The Washington Post has an article on the difficulties of confirming Zika-related microcephaly cases in Brazil. As of last week, 4,180 cases had been reported since October, but few had been confirmed by experts. So a sample was explored in depth, and…
After experts scrutinized 732 of the cases they found that more than half either weren't microcephaly, or weren't related to Zika.
To be precise, just 270 cases of the 732 examined seem to be confirmed as related to Zika or something similarly infectious. If that ratio holds, of the 4,180 cases reported since October, only about 1,542 will prove substantiated. A bit less scary… but still a big number.
Except, in the context of Brazil, that's actually not a big number at all. I can't readily find births data covering the period from October, 2015 to the present. But I can easily find data on how many infants there were in Brazil in 2010. Not a perfect proxy, but close enough for a rough estimate. There were 2,713,244 infants, implying at least that many births. Now THAT is a big number, and a good reminder that Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world, just two spots behind the USA.
The estimate from 2010 is a year's worth of births, of course. To make that comparable with reports from October, let's make a heroic assumption that we've got about four months worth of reporting in (October through January). So how many Brazilian babies would likely be born in four months time? 904,415. Still a very large number. What percentage of those babies look like might have Zika related microcephaly?
I get somewhere between 0.17% (using the ratio of confirmed cases) to 0.46% (using reported cases). That's between 1.7 cases per 1,000 births to 4.6 per 1,000 births. Less scary.
But again, everything is scary to prospective parents. What helps, perhaps, is perspective. The pre-existing infant mortality rate in Brazil is estimated to be 19 deaths per 1,000 births (according to Population Reference Bureau data). By contrast, the infant mortality rate in the USA is an estimated 6 deaths per 1,000 births, and for Canada, 4.8 deaths per 1,000 births.
These kinds of statistics lead me to ask: why don't Canadians have a travel warning issued for pregnant women (or for mothers of infants) visiting the USA? After all crossing the border to spend a year in the USA would appear to add an additional risk of dying of an extra 1.2 deaths per 1,000 births. This is pretty close to the low end 1.7 cases of Zika-related microcephaly per 1,000 births we might be seeing in Brazil.
Not really so scary after all.
Of course there are two caveats here. 1) It would appear this is just the start of the Zika outbreak, and knowledge about its size and ultimate effects remains in flux, as witnessed by the shifting case count, and 2) We shouldn't really equate the risks of microcephaly (Zika-related or otherwise) with the risks of infant mortality, as suggested by this CBC report.
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List your book for sale by clicking on the "Sell Yours Here" icon if you want to get rid of your texts. Follow the prompts to set up a Marketplace account. You can list your book for sale and describe its condition. Amazon will then recommend a price point for your book based on its condition and the lowest priced book already listed. This will give you a more specific price range for the value of your particular book.
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Roxana Wells is a teacher and writer living in South Korea. She enjoys writing about education, travel and food. Her work can be found in many publications, including "Italian American Magazine," "San Diego Family" and "The Ogden Independent." Wells holds a Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies from the University of Richmond and a master's degree in elementary education from Utah State University.
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