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Top NSC Official Told Secret Impeachment Panel Nothing Improper Transpired During Trump-Zelensky Call
A former top national security adviser to President Trump told a secret impeachment panel that he believed nothing improper occurred during a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky, according to a transcript released over the weekend.
NSC official Tim Morrison, who was on that phone call, expressed this narrative-killing opinion to the Democratic-led House Intelligence Committee last month - which would have undermined recent public testimony by several US officials who said that President Trump abused his office when he asked Zelensky to investigate former VP Joe Biden and matters related to the 2016 US election.
That said, Morrison also testified that US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, was involved in an effort to encourage Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden - though he could not say whether Trump was involved in those efforts.
He was uncertain of Trump's involvement in Sondland's efforts. "I'm still not completely certain that this was coming from the President," Morrison testified to House Democrats. "I'm only getting this from Ambassador Sondland."
During a closed-door deposition as part of the House impeachment inquiry, Morrison was asked, "In your view, there was nothing improper that occurred during the call?"
"Correct," he answered as he was testifying under oath. -Epoch Times
Morrison replaced former NSC official Fiona Hill, who resigned from her position on July 19, days before the infamous Trump-Zelensky call. He says that the word "Burisma" never came up during that call, referring to the Ukrainian natural gas company which employed Hunter Biden on its board while Joe Biden used his position as Vice President to have a prosecutor fired who was investigating the company.
Trump asked Zelensky to investigate this, as well as allegations that Ukraine was involved with the hacked DNC server as well as the only firm allowed to look at it, Crowdstrike.
Morrison also testified that the Trump administration withheld foreign aid from Ukraine due to Trump's general skepticism toward foreign aid, and a "concern that Ukrainians were not paying their fair share, as well as concerns [that] our aid would be misused because of the view that Ukraine has a significant corruption problem."
Morrison was asked more about the phone call.
"You were on the call. Do you remember whether the name Burisma came up on the call?" "No, I don't believe it did," he said.
The answer is significant, as a junior NSC official, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, testified to the House Intelligence Committee that Zelensky brought up the word "Burisma." However, Morrison said that he has the "final clearing authority" on the July 25 call transcript.
"Do you remember whether anyone suggested edits adding the word Burisma to the [memorandum of conversation]?" Morrison was asked. "I do not," he responded. Vindman testified that he suggested to edit in the word "Burisma."
But when asked about Vindman's suggestions, Morrison said he approved all of them.
"Had I recalled or had it in my notes that was mentioned, yes, I would have agreed to the edit," he said of the word "Burisma." -Epoch Times
Morrison also told Congressional investigators that he questioned Vindman's judgement and that other NSC officials shared those concerns.
"I had concerns about Lieutenant Colonel Vindman's judgment. Among the discussions I had with Dr. Hill in the transition [period] was our team, my team, its strengths and its weaknesses. And Fiona and others had raised concerns about Alex's judgment," he recalled.
"I had concerns that he did not exercise appropriate judgment as to whom he would say what."
When asked about rumors that Vindman might be leaking information to the press, Morrison said "It was brought to my attention that some had—some of my personnel had concerns that he did [have access to things he was not supposed to see]."


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Deodar Road is a street in Putney, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. There are no other streets named Deodar Road in Great Britain. It was formerly the site of a mansion called The Cedars and a terrace of houses built in 1853. This was on the site of Copthall, a villa rebuilt in the 1620s. Next to this was a mansion, Putney House, built in the 1680s; it was converted into a College for Civil Engineers in 1839 and demolished in 1857. When the railway and bridge crossing the Thames was built (1887-9) by The London and South West Railway it more or less went straight through the terrace of houses. The area fell into decline and the Cedars was demolished about 1890. The road was named after The Cedars; the Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara. It was previously called Ranelagh Road. The odd numbered houses back on to the river.

Notable buildings and residents
Number 78, Thornhill House, is Grade II listed. It was built about 1890 by the Kensington builder, Mr Wakefield, who incorporated fine panelling, staircase and wall-paintings from Wandsworth Manor, which dated from the late 17th century, and was demolished in 1890. Some panelling and flooring is thought to have come from the Tivoli Theatre of Varieties on the Strand, London, which was demolished in 1916. Other internal decorations were added by his grandson, Norris, who had worked with Edward James in the 1930s at Monkton House.

Number 79 has a blue plaque to commemorate Sir Sidney Nolan OM AC CBE RA, (1917-1992), one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century, who lived here from 1960 to 1979. Earlier number 79 was the home of Freda Skinner, (1911–1993), sculptor and woodcarver.

Joan Howson (1885–1964), a British stained-glass artist lived at number 61 together with Caroline Charlotte Townshend (1878–1944) who was also a stained-glass artist. They converted the house as a studio and workshop. Joan's parents, Ethel and George John Howson, MA., lived at 79. After the war she was living at number 81 and then at number 79.

Margaret Edith Rope (1891–1988) moved to 61 Deodar Road in about 1926 with her sister Helen (1900-1941). She moved to 81 Deodar Road during the War, but when that house was bombed she moved to Storrington, Sussex. She returned to live at number 89 after the War, where she had a studio, workshop & kiln which was also used by Rachel de Montmorency (1891-1961).

They were neighbours to Edward Woore (1880–1960), also a stained-glass artist, who lived at number 66.

Roy Plomley OBE (1914–1985), broadcaster, lived at 91 Deodar Road.

Ellen Mary Rope (1855–1934), a British sculptor who shared her studio at number 66b with her assistant and niece, Dorothy Anne Aldrich Rope (1883-1971). She was niece of M. E. Aldrich Rope.

The writer Edna O'Brien and her son the author Carlo Gébler, lived at number 87.

The authors Nell Dunn and her husband Jeremy Sandford lived at number 57.

Number 65, Swan Studios, was the studio of stained-glass designers Colwyn & William Morris.

The author and playwright Alan Herman (1916-1995) lived in Deodar Road.

Ronald Alley, Keeper Modern Collection, Tate Gallery, lived at number 61 with his wife the sculptor Anthea Alley.

Peter Zinovieff (1933-2021), a British engineer and composer, lived in 49 Deodar Road. In the late 1960s, his company, Electronic Music Studios (EMS), made the VCS3, a synthesizer used by many early progressive rock bands.

The stained-glass artist Margaret Traherne (1919-2006) lived in Deodar Road in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Australian born composer Jennifer Fowler lives at number 21.

Hurlingham Yacht Club moved to 43A Deodar Road, under the railway Bridge, in 1928.

Number 109-115 was formerly known as Riverdale House, dating from the 1850s; it is on the Council's Local List of buildings of architectural and historic interest and is the only building surviving from before the railway line.

Number 95 was formerly the site of Hurlingham Private School.

Notes and references

External Links
Deodar Road Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy

Blue plaques
Putney
Streets in the London Borough of Wandsworth

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Q: How to retrieve row count in a RETURN QUERY statement with postgres? I need to get N records from a table and the query I need to execute might return less record than N. Therefore, I'd like to execute the query multiple times until I have exactly N records. I was messing around with table functions and I had something like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION make_dataset(n INTEGER)
RETURNS SETOF data
AS $$
BEGIN
  WHILE $1 > 0
    RETURN QUERY SELECT * FROM data LIMIT $1;
    -- How to update n from the amount of rows returned by the above?
  END LOOP;
  RETURN;
END $$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;

However, I don't know how to update n based on the amount of rows returned by the query. Is there any way to achieve this?
Note: The query has been simplified for brievety. It's not a SELECT * and might return less row than expected, hence why I'm looking at table functions with a loop.

A: Use GET DIAGNOSTICS.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION make_dataset(n INTEGER)
RETURNS SETOF my_table
AS $$
DECLARE i integer;
BEGIN
  WHILE n > 0 LOOP
    RETURN QUERY SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT n;
    GET DIAGNOSTICS i:= ROW_COUNT;
    n:= n- i;
  END LOOP;
  RETURN;
END $$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;

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A is the correct answer. "Il m'aimait" shows an ongoing state, and translates to "he used to love me." Also, this past tense is what most people use in conversational speech. Whereas option B is the simple past conjugation, which translates to "he loved me" and is mostly used in formal speech and writing.
Why was it said at one point that "the sun never sets on the British Empire"?
The British Empire at its peak held colonies in every continent. This saying reflected the empire's dominion by highlighting the fact that when the sun would set in one colony, the sun would be rising in another, because of its geographically extensive territories.
Were where you last night? The above question is either right or wrong. Please explain if a mistake was made in the spelling and why.
The above question is wrong. The question word "where" is always used when locating a subject, therefore it should have been used first. Were is the past tense of "be" and should have followed the question word. Correction: Where were you last night?
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Update on DEC's Spruce Grouse Recovery Efforts
DEC Wildlife Staff is involved in a spruce grouse translocation project to help boost numbers of the state-endangered spruce grouse and to improve genetic diversity of the remaining population in New York.
To meet the goal of maintaining their population in NY over the next 100 years, wildlife staff believe they will need to release 250 adult individuals from outside populations into NY over the next five years and manage habitat at several sites. » Continue Reading.
Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Parkway Free Days
Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Parkway will be open for free on the first two weekends in November and on Veterans Day, November 11th.
Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Parkway climbs 5.5-miles from the entry gate to a parking lot just below the summit. There are three separate overlooks along the parkway — the Narrows, Lake George, and Eagle's Eye — from which to enjoy the scenery of the Adirondack Mountains and Lake George. » Continue Reading.
Wild Center Awarded Grant For Climate Change Education Space
The Wild Center has been awarded a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create an exhibition space that helps re-frame how science museums present and interpret climate change.
Set to open June 2021, the exhibit titled Solutions: Voices from the Frontlines of Climate Change is expected to present practical, regionally-relevant climate solutions that illustrate the opportunity of climate resilience to The Wild Center's 100,000+ yearly visitors. » Continue Reading.
Winners of 'WomenHuntFishNY' Fishing Photo Contest
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced the winners of the angling segment of the WomenHuntFishNY photo contest, held this summer. After sifting through almost 4,000 photo entries, DEC staff chose 14 winners and runners-up. » Continue Reading.
Poetry: Night Songs
by Annette Pisano-Higley
Night Songs
I waken, alert,
To the songs of the dark night,
Hunkering shadow-shaped coyotes,
Mimicking, throwing plaintive howls,
Against the stark, crying vibrato
Of sleek, red-eyed jurassic loons,
They worship in tandem,
Pledging love to the spectral moon,
A timeless nocturnal duet.
Tall conifers and sleeping mountains harken,
Sheltering those calls, echoing, echoing,
Magnified across still, silver water,
Lonely sounds, proud, primitive, wild,
Undaunted,
Triumphant melodic affirmations of survival,
Of life bravely continued,
"We..are..still.. here…", they sing,
"After all!"
Read More Poems From The Adirondack Almanack HERE.
The Adirondacks Around The Web This Week
New York Forests – But Not Biofuels – Factor in Climate Plans
Forever Wild And Cutting Small Diameter Trees
Warming Threatens Iconic Adirondack Bird Species
30th-Anniversary Edition of 'Forest and Crag' (Phil Brown)
Opinion: We Need Visitor Management, Not Permits
Adirondack Stewards Fight Invasives, Face Harassment
Adks 1 of 5 Wellness Destinations Featured by Nat Geo
Proposal to Block Off Portions of Erie Canal Draws Fire
Plastic Pollutes the Adirondack Park (Adk Explorer)
Assessing A New Model For Hiking Trail Construction
» Continue Reading.
NCCC to host Domestic Violence Survivor Night
North Country Community College is set to host a Domestic Violence Awareness and Survivor Night on Monday, October 28th, from 6 to 8 pm, at its Malone Campus.
The goal of the event is to help break the silence surrounding domestic violence. Attendees are encouraged to share stories of surviving domestic violence, volunteer to read a survivor's story or simply show support by being present for others to share their story. » Continue Reading.
This Week's Big Adirondack News Stories
New Invasive Intercepted at Lake Champlain
Paul Smith's Awarded $100k for Esports
High Court OKs Snowmobile Trail Along Wild River
Blue Mountain WF Comments Sought
Tahawus Rail Line May Be Scrapped
Placid Hotel Hearing Draws Crowd, Concerns
Historic TB Sanatorium Sold in Saranac Lake
Glens Falls Tweaks Protest Regulations
State, Protect Disagree on Tree-Cutting Limits
New Invasive Intercepted at Lake Champlain Boat Launch
In early September, The Lake Champlain Basin Program's boat launch steward Matthew Gorton was conducting routine boat inspections at the South Hero John Guilmette. There to help prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species, Gorton noticed an unusual looking plant hanging off a trailer backing into the Lake.
While Lake Champlain is host to 51 known nonnative and invasive aquatic species, Hydrilla verticillata has not yet been found there. The watercraft carrying the plant was last in the Connecticut River, a system in which the highly invasive plant hydrilla is well established. » Continue Reading.
Current Adirondack Outdoor Conditions (Oct 24)
This weekly report of outdoor recreation conditions in the Adirondacks is compiled each Thursday afternoon and updated on Friday.
Contribute Your Knowledge: Add a comment below, or send your observations, corrections, updates, and suggestions to adklmanack@gmail.com.
Learn and practice the seven Leave No Trace principles. Plan ahead and prepare. Carry out what you have carried in. Do not leave gear, food, or other items at lean-tos and campsites. Take the free online Leave No Trace course here.
BE PREPARED! Start slow, gain experience. Carry proper safety equipment and weather protection and bring plenty of water and lights, and a map. When on the trail, stay together, monitor the time, and be prepared to turn back. Be prepared to spend an unplanned night in the woods in cold temperatures. Accidents happen to the most experienced people. Always carry food, a space blanket, emergency whistle, first aid kit, fire making tools, extra clothing layers and socks, a map and compass, and the knowledge to use them. Inform someone of your itinerary and before entering the backcountry or launching a boat check the National Weather Service watches, warnings, and advisories here. Follow Adirondack weather forecasts at Burlington and Albany and consult the High Elevation, Recreation, or Lake Champlain forecasts.
October 24th, 2019 – SPECIAL NOTICES » Continue Reading.
Paul Smith's College Awarded $100k for Esports
Paul Smith's College has accepted a $100,000 gift to fund the creation of an on-campus training and competition space for Esports, featuring "state-of-the-art gaming equipment and spectator seating."
The gift comes from Stewart's Shops/Dake Family and the facility will be named "The Stewart's Shops/Dake Family Esports Lab." It's expected to serve as home field for the college's esports club, which quickly brought on 70 members since its formation this spring. On-campus tournaments are expected to be hosted in the space. » Continue Reading.
Warren County Historical Society Open House Nov 7th
The Warren County Historical Society is set to hold its annual Open House on Saturday, November 9th from 11 am to 2 pm at its headquarters and museum on 50 Gurney Lane, in Queensbury, NY.
The Society's new permanent exhibition, "Warren County 360: Celebrating Place and People," will be featured, along with a display of Warren County postmarks and post office history, as well as a "Hands-On-History" station. The Book and Gift Shop will be open for shopping, and refreshments will be provided. » Continue Reading.
Twitchell Lake History: 'A Melancholy Occurrence'
"Melancholy Occurrence" was a fairly common expression for a tragic event in the middle of the 19th century. A search of historic newspapers revealed the phrase was used some 250 times from 1820 to 1870. Several of these were murder cases, such as the son of the Spanish Consul being stabbed through the heart with a cane sword by an angry neighbor. But most were unexpected events such as a fatal strike by lightening, a young fire victim, or a drowning.
One occurred at Twitchell Lake. In a December 3, 1856 article titled "Melancholy Occurrence," The Lewis County Banner reported that Briggs Wightman stepped onto ice while hunting, crashed through, and drowned. Adirondack Guide named Amos Spafford (1824-1897) came out on the north shore of Twitchell Lake and observed a hat and a gun lying next to a large hole in the ice. » Continue Reading.
Artists Sought for Wintry Mix Art of Ice and Snow Exhibit
View, the Center for Arts and Culture in Old Forge, is seeking artists to submit work that celebrates beautiful and magical winters in the Adirondacks for View's upcoming Wintry Mix: Art of Ice and Snow exhibition.
This year's Juror is pastel artist Diane E. Leifheit. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, and she is a member of the Adirondack Pastel Society, Saranac Lake ArtWorks, and The Strand Art Center Cooperative Gallery. Her work can be viewed on her website. » Continue Reading.
Lost, Injured Adirondack Hikers Spur Rescues
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents in the Adirondacks. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people from the Adirondack backcountry.
What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of recent missions carried out by Forest Rangers in the Adirondacks. » Continue Reading.
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The Dutch Could Rethink Their Super Liberal Policies On Pot
Bruno Waterfield,
Nov. 20, 2012, 12:55 PM
A London tourist smoking pot in Amsterdam.
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Ivo Opstelten, Holland's justice minister, has informed the Dutch parliament to set out a major rethink of the country's liberal policy on soft drugs which allows cannabis to sold and smoked in specially licenced cafés or "coffee shops".
He cited a government study that found that marijuana containing more than 15 per cent of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the psychoactive drug naturally occurring in cannabis, is so dangerous it should be classed alongside heroin and cocaine.
"Hard drugs have no place in the coffee shops and in the future they will only be able to offer cannabis with a THC level of below 15 per cent," he told MPs.
The Netherlands has around 500 cannabis cafes where people can buy up to five grammes (0.18 ounces) of marijuana for their personal use.
THC is the chemical compound in marijuana which gives users a "high" and in the large quantities found in specially hybridised cannabis plants it has been blamed for causing addiction and psychotic reactions.
The decision to "quickly" ban strong cannabis will be a major blow to the country's cannabis cafés because around 80 per cent of the marijuana sold is grown in the Netherlands has a THC content of between 15 and 18 per cent.
Mark Josemans, the spokesman for the Maastricht coffee shop owners association, accused the Dutch government of pushing cannabis users into the arms of illegal drugs dealers and compared strong marijuana to rum, a distilled alcohol that drinkers do not consume like beer.
"Weak weed in the coffee shops, strong weed on the streets - then the choice is pretty clear. It makes it harder for society," he told the Volkskrant newspaper. "A user smokes less, just as people don't drink rum out of a beer glass."
The government is acting on research by the Trimbos Institute, a Dutch mental health charity, last year which found that the popularity of the strong hybrid cannabis, developed and grown in Holland, is pushing out milder imported marijuana.
"Buyers ask for the most popular and the strongest weed," it concluded.
The ban on strong cannabis in the Netherlands, the country that pioneered the liberal approach, come less than three weeks after voters in the US states of Colorado and Washington approved measures that legalise marijuana use.
The Dutch decision to be tougher on cannabis also came as Jacqui Smith, the former Labour home secretary, admitted that her decision to upgrade cannabis to a Class B drug was a mistake, arguing that education would have been a better option than a higher level of criminalisation.
When announcing the ban, Mr Opstelten relaxed a mandatory plan announced earlier for membership scheme involving a "wietpas" or weed-pass that would prevent foreigners buying cannabis in coffee shops.
It will be up to local authorities to decide how to introduce new rules allowing Amsterdam's 220 cannabis cafes to continue sales to the estimated 1.5 million tourists who use them every year.
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Lands Department. When Mr. Atlee Hunt visited the Possession, Mr. Richmond made to him certain complaints about Captain Barton,' the Administrator, having destroyed certain official papers, and altered others. We are not informed of what Mr. Hunt's view was as to the ground-work of Mr. Richmond's statement concerning Captain Barton. But we are told that Mr. Richmond, after having made this charge, was immediately suspended by Captain Barton, who then called a meeting of the Executive Council, and, for some reason or other, appointed two extraordinary members to confer with the others on that very occasion. The* Ministry have told us that there was no unanimity* amongst the members of the Executive Council as to confirming the suspension of Mr. Richmond. We have a right to know whether that was the reason for the appointment of the two extraordinary Executive Councillors. According to the replies I received to-day from Senator Playford, the Executive Council consists of Captain Barton, Judge Murray, Mr. A. Musgrave, the Government Secretary, Mr. D. Ballantine, the Treasurer, and Mr. J. Richmond, the Chief Surveyor.
Senator Sir Josiah Symon - Is he the Mr. Richmond who was suspended?
Senator HIGGS - Yes. Mr. Richmond was not permitted to be present at the meeting of the Executive Council, because he had made this charge against Captain Barton. Captain Barton, however, attended the meeting, and presumably voted to confirm the suspension of Mr. Richmond, who, it may be mentioned, was suspended for disloyalty in making a charge against his Administrator. It appears that the Executive Council refused to allow Mr. Richmond to bring forward evidence to prove the truth of his charge about the destruction of official papers, and the alteration of others. This, action, on its part, goes to show, I think, that there must have been a great deal of truth in the charges of maladministration made bv various persons, including Mr. Craig. Here is a chief officer, and a member of the Executive Council, suspended for disloyalty, because he informed the Secretary for Externa] Affairs, who was sent up specially to investigate the administration of the Possession, in what respect he thought it was being badly administered. What happened? Mr. Richmond was suspended, and, we presume, deprived of his salary ? He requested Captain Barton to permit him to visit Australia, but leave was refused. He is, therefore, confined to the Possession. If he were to leave, probably he would render himself liable to absolute discharge from the Public Service. He is kept in the Possession while his case is hung up, and we know that in the Commonwealth it is hung up - and unnecessarily hung up, I think - for a period of two months. I am satisfied1 that the Minister of Defence will recognise the injustice of keeping a cloud over an officer of Mr. Richmond's apparent ability. I was informed this morning that the Richmond case was referred on the 26th September last to a Board of Inquiry, consisting of the Public Service Commissioner, the Secretary to the Treasury, and the Secretary to the Attorney-General ; and that they asked for further information, which was handed to them on the 17th November, being the very day on which I handed in the notice of questions asking whether it was. true that Mr. Richmond had laid1 charges against Captain Barton, and had been suspended. Is it merely a coincidence that this further information was handed to that Board of Inquiry on the 17th November? Surely if the Public Service Commissioner could spare the time to investigate this case, it ought to have been dealt with long, ago, because all the Board could do, I should imagine, would be to look into the papers. They could not call evidence unless they visited the Possession, and they could hardly call upon men to come down to Melbourne. The duty of the Board, therefore, was to go through the papers and furnish a report, and if they wanted further information, it should have been supplied at once. If the Public Service Commissioner could not spare the time to take part in the inquiry, then he should not have been appointed to the Board. I imagine that he has a great deal too much work to do to be able to spare the time to indulge in an inquiry of this kind. Would it not have been far better for the Ministry to have appointed a Victorian Stipendiary Magistrate to go into the case with the two secretaries if the latter had time to spare to make the investigation? lt seems to me a most singular thing that Mr. Hunt did not act in the matter. He went to British New Guinea to investigate its administration, and it was fo him that the- charge was made by Mr. Richmond. Why did 0 -- not take part in the inquiry ? Was it because he happened to be a friend of Captain Barton? In that case, of course, he would have been quite justified in not taking part in the inquiry, because he might have felt that he would be unconsciously biased. However, I think that Mr. Hunt is somewhat to blame in this matter. Ministers have too much time taken up>. and necessarily taken up, in dealing with questions which are daily coming before Parliament, and, therefore, have very largely to trust to their secretaries. Mr. Hunt, as Secretary of External Affairs, should have endeavoured to get this inquiry pushed on, and a settlement arrived at. Imagine what Mr. Richmond's feelings must be to be held up in Papua under suspension ! In justice to him the case ought to be investigated at the earliest possible moment. I submit that it was very unfair for Captain Barton to suspend Mr. Richmond for disloyalty. Where was the disloyalty # shown? If he had in his possession evidence to prove that the Administrator had done wrong, it was his duty to furnish Mr. Hunt with the information. No offence was committed in furnishing the information, and certainly Captain Barton had no ground for suspending Mr. Richmond on a charge of disloyalty. If, as is admitted, Captain Barton suspended Mr. Richmond, and was present when the Executive Council confirmed his suspension, I think that he ought not to be administering the affairs of the Possession. He is now Acting Administrator. It appears that he belongs to what might be called the old regime, arid is not properly in touch with the system of government which would bring prosperity to the Possession. I hope that the Minister will have Mr. Richmond's case investigated at the earliest possible moment. I trust that the Government will appoint some gentleman in Australia to administer the affairs of the Possession. We ought to be able to secure the services of an Australian who is in touch with Australian public opinion, knows something about the treatment of natives, and therefore is not likely to be unnecessarily alarmed at something which might happen to him when he got to the Possession. I am quite satisfied that the officers who come from the old country to New Guinea have an inordinate fear of what might happen to them through mixing with the natives. We in Australia - especially those who have lived in country districts, and had some acquaintance with the aborigines - know that if aboriginal natives be properly treated, there is no reason to fear dangerous reprisals on their part. The whole history of native races, and all the writings of Cook, Batman, Stuart Russell, and other Australian discoverers and explorers, go to show that aboriginal natives, if properly treated, are amenable to discipline.
Senator Pulsford - It is quite pleasant to hear something good about a coloured race.
Senator HIGGS - Although the honorable senator thinks it necessary to make that observation, we are all, I think, more or less troubled as to what it is our duty, as a,n alleged civilized people, to do concerning the native^ races in various parts of the world. Those of us who think it is necessary to exclude Asiatics from Australia entertain that feeling as strongly as any one.
Senator Sir Josiah Symon - What the honorable senator says, quite consistently, is that they may be excellent people in their own places. There is nothing wrong in that.
Senator HIGGS - Exactly. I objected to the Commonwealth taking over British New Guinea. I foresaw some of. the trouble that would arise. But we have got it, and we must govern the Possession as well as we can. i should offer no objection to a fair contribution from the Commonwealth for the purpose of instructing the natives, and enabling them to live better and fuller lives. At the same time, I quite agree that £42,000 per annum is a very large sum of money for a small' place. There are not more than 500 or 600 white people there. We should have a larger return for the money spent, especially in view of the results achieved by Sir William McGregor with a much smaller revenue. I believe that it would be good policy for the Commonwealth Government to appoint some Australian, who knows the Australian feeling with regard to the natives, to administer the affairs of the Possession.


If pink shirts were enough to stop bullying, it would have already happened. It's time to get underneath to the actual root issues and rewrite the story.
But what IS underneath? If we can address those issues in our schools we have a hope to seeing bullying a thing of the past.
The first issue underneath is that we are surrounded yet alone. The problem is isolation. When we as humans are not seen and understood by others, our minds actually become dis-regulated. We start living from our "back brain" (reptilian brain) and relate to others from a defensive stance. We misread signals and view others through our distorted perception of not being understood. As you can imagine, this is a scary foundation. On the other hand, when I reveal who I am or share a part of myself to those well-attuned to me, meaning their body language shows genuine concern and listening, the wires in my brain actually rewire! Listening and attunement rewrite people's stories! If we want to stop bullying in our schools then emotional safety needs to be our first priority. The more safe students feel with one another, the less bullying you will see. HOW do you create that? My company's whole mission is about creating that! We can help if you're interested. Think about how can you create opportunities for your students to learn to hold space for one another's stories? Go deeper than just tolerance and acceptance which speak to behaviour only. How do we get students to the heart of holding space for others?
The second issue underneath is the problem with anxiety and shame. Most anxiety is shame in disguise, "I'm not enough to handle this situation." What's beautiful about acknowledging this is that this is the emotion that unites us all. Who doesn't feel like they are not enough on occasion? Who hasn't felt the sting of shame? Bringing this to the fore front creates common ground and empathy for others. We need to address the elephant of shame and anxiety loses its power. Can you think of ways you can create an openness in your class where shame is named and therefore tamed?
The third issue underneath is the lack of accountability for how we create one another with our words. Words create people. We often focus on behaviour only: "Be nice", "Use kind words", but we don't address how to SEE others through new lenses. More than ever, we need to create environments where students understand that they create one another with their words in the same way paint creates a picture on a canvas. Labels are powerful. The stories those closest to us tell us about ourselves become the story we believe about ourselves. Implicit memories of words spoken over us form our inner world that predict what we think will happen in different situations. "I knew they would hurt me", "I knew I would fail". These beliefs came from implicit memories that created a self fulfilling prophesy. What is something you can do to cultivate a culture of life giving words in your school? I will give you an example of what I recently did with a group of students in a school. I had children partner up and sit across from someone in the class they didn't know well. I then passed out post it notes. I gave the instruction to really SEE the person across and write something down the "gold" they could see in the other person that would build them up. When they were finished writing, I asked them to put the post it on their partner. But it went further. I continued, "Not only is it our role as a community to treasure hunt the gold out of people in our class, but it's also our duty as a community to GUARD the gold in one another." This means continuing to see that gold in one another and call one another up to it in moments of weakness or discouragement. How powerful if we did this!
The last issue underneath is the need for us to encourage release of negative emotions. For example, offering forgiveness instead of revenge. We need to teach our students how to release negative emotions. Forgiveness doesn't mean saying what was done to wrong us is ok, it's setting ourselves free from hatred that only feeds into revenge mindsets that continue to feed into bullying. How many kids really wake up in the morning and think, "I'm going to be a real jerk today?" Of course they don't. Many bully because they feel justified in doing so: "You hurt me so I hurt you", "You're different so that gives me permission to treat you differently." Hurt people hurt people. What are some releasing activities you can do with your students to build them as a collective team and release negative energy? What will cultivate love, joy and peace in students? How would this impact a healthy self love that could spill onto others?
All of this steps use play, joy, celebration and connection. And it WORKS! I would love to come do a workshop with your teachers on my unique method I've built over 20 years.
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The fundamentals of storytelling and how 'Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum' fails to incorporate them
November 4, 2018 by T.J. Fisk
Tonight Doctor Who gave us The Tsuranga Conundrum. It stands out from every episode aired so far this series in one main regard: it's bad and doesn't function on any level. As usual the main cast of the show are able to elevate the material they're given, however today they had very little to work with.The main thing that stands out about the episode is the baffling storytelling choices. I don't mean that the choice of story chosen to tell is baffling, but that the way in which it was told is broken. I should also say that I do recognise that Doctor Who is a family genre show. It is at often times, including this episode, intentionally very silly. I hope that no one dismisses the points I explore because "Doctor Who is just a kids show" or "you aren't supposed to take it this seriously." I would instead assert that even trash TV (I'm not talking about Doctor Who here) has shows that understand the fundamentals of storytelling craft, whatever they might lay on top of that framework. That's why some trash TV is eminently watchable and some is not.
Generally speaking in conflict driven fiction the protagonist(s) have a goal and there are antagonist(s) or an antagonistic force preventing the protagonist(s) from achieving this goal. As the narrative unfolds the protagonist(s) will make gains towards their objective, but also suffer setbacks which they'll have to make hard choices to survive or recover from and often these choices will result further setbacks down the road. By the end of the narrative they'll have learned something about themselves, or their quest, that allows them to complete it. Or in some rarer cases they'll have a critical flaw they don't overcome, or learn the wrong lesson, or the antagonists are the ones that learn, and thus the protagonist(s) fail to achieve their goal.
In The Tsuranga Conundrum the goals and antagonistic forces are clear. The Doctor and her companions want to get back to the planet where the TARDIS is parked, however they're on a medical transport that cannot divert its course (the ship is automated and will explode if messed with and there are some patients who need to reach their destination) and there is also a creature (called a Pting) on board that is eating the ship and left unchecked will result in the ship's destruction. They have a clear goal and the potential obstacles are obvious.
The initial conflict of needing to return to the planet with the TARDIS on has a simple resolution: once they reach the space hospital they'll be flown back. So that unfolds off screen after the episode has ended. The other conflict, the Pting eating the ship, is resolved by The Doctor removing the bomb in the ship, placing it in an airlock, waiting for the Pting to eat the bomb and then flushing them both out the airlock together. The Pting is discovered to be attracted to energy and essentially invincible: so its attraction to the bomb and its ease in absorbing the explosion all make sense within the rules that this episode establishes. The Doctor even mentions that the energy absorbed by the Pting will keep it well fed for a while just so the audience doesn't ask why the Pting won't be a problem again once they make the return trip off screen.
The problems in the episode come from the lack of obstacles within this story. When the Doctor removes the bomb from the ship she makes some stressed faces and the score and character reactions tell us we should feel tense, however nothing goes wrong in the process of the bomb removal. It takes a minute, but no obstacles have to be learned about to be overcome, it simply happens. The Doctor doesn't make any hard choices that have compromising effects down the road. Before its expulsion the Pting is supposedly a problem because it keeps eating vital systems around the ship. Once compromised these systems only seem to result in the lights flickering and the occasional part of the ship being jettisoned. Neither of these things actively prevent the acquisition of any of the required elements involved in resolving the conflicts. The Doctor isn't prevented from reaching the airlock because the damaged parts of the ship stop her in her tracks and the flickering lights don't seem to have any effect on tracking or failing to track the Pting.
There are a few other plot threads beyond the main conflicts. On board is a man about to give birth and an old General with medical problems. We're told that the damaged systems on board will make it difficult for the man to give birth, but then he just successfully gives birth. Yes, there is a drawn out scene of people looking stressed and doing things we don't understand to make it happen, but like with the Doctor's bomb disposal we're told it's difficult, but no one makes any hard choices. Eventually the ship is unable to fly its course automatically, so the old General steps up and the strain of piloting the strip causes her medical problems to take her life. Now, this seems to be a consequence of hard choices made in the plot, so for now I'll put a pin in this topic and return to it later. I'll just carry on with my general point from this paragraph: we're told what she's doing is hard, she looks stressed and then she does it.
Another odd plot point is that companion Yaz is assigned by the Doctor to capture the Pting. Yaz is given a blanket that allows her to touch the Pting. The ship is equipped with some non-lethal stunning weaponry that fires electric looking beams of energy. Yaz uses this to stun the Pting. She then gathers it up in the blanket and throws it down a corridor to keep it out of trouble. It's weird that a being that can absorb huge explosions can be stunned by some form of minor electrical energy, but what's weirder is Yaz throwing the creature down a corridor to keep it out of harm's way. Why not just keep stunning it until it's time to let it absorb the bomb? At no point does the episode establish that the stun weaponry has a limited charge or a similar limitation.
In genre fiction one must establish rules. What does this technology do? What are its limitations? You want your protagonists to have opportunities and tools, but not be overpowered. How they get around those limitations or use them to create new opportunities is part of the storytelling. It creates more hard choices and leads to more consequences. A lot of the writing shortcomings I've just criticised over the last few paragraphs have interrelated fixes.
Firstly, have things (the bomb) out of reach due to the damaged ship. Maybe the characters have to go through sections without air, thus requiring a space suit. Maybe the Pting has eaten all the suits but one, so only one person can go. So The Doctor goes to get the bomb alone. Meanwhile Yaz has to take the Pting out of commission. All that is on board that fits the task is some futuristic heart paddles which The Doctor has to rig up to fit the task (before she sets off for the bomb's location obviously). As they're not designed for the task they'll blow out after the first and only usage. (Perhaps this results in damaging other equipment attached to the same power system, which is what makes the equipment for a safer birth procedure harder.) Yaz will have to wait until the last moment to stun the Pting so that the Doctor has enough time to get the bomb before the Pting destroys the ship. Whilst they wait the Pting damages more systems until only one airlock is working and it's an impractically long way away from the Doctor. Due to more and more systems being destroyed, Yaz is forced to stun the Pting immediately. Then the Doctor gets to the bomb, but it cannot be removed as the power is down in that section as a result of the rigged up heart paddles overloading the power in some areas. So the Doctor has to wait for that to be fixed at the other end of the ship, whilst next to a bomb, waiting for the Pting to inevitably wake up, this time with no defence against it! Then it does awake! It makes a beeline for where Yaz and the gang are! So now the Doctor has to remove the bomb double time! She succeeds, but now the Pting is after her and the bomb! It nearly catches her on her way back to the airlock and ruptures her suit in the attack! Now she has to abandon the space suit as it'll slow her down and she'll run out of breath! The airless corridors are too long for her to hold her breath! So she has to go outside the ship and get to the working airlock from the outside before she dies in the vacuum of space! She gets back in! But she's hurt from the ravages of open space and so she faints! The Pting eats the bomb and is about to exit the airlock! Thankfully all the companions arrive, they bluff the Pting with the fried heart paddles long enough to pull The Doctor out! They shut the airlock and blow the Pting out into the abyss!
With the possible exception of the suit-free space walk, there's nothing here that's not within easy budgetary possibilities based on the episode we were given.
Based on what I said earlier you might be wondering why I also describe the General's death and the pregnant man's respective plot threads as being poor or dysfunctional. After the General dies her brother immediately steps into the pilot role and any potential consequences are immediately negated. It's also the fact that the way the pregnant man and the General are introduced is odd. They don't function as protagonists or deuteragonists along with the Doctor and her companions because their ability to interact with and affect the main story doesn't become a reality until the near the end. They're introduced as background characters well beforehand, but they don't intersect with events. They're like the characters in video game RPGs that you talk to if you want to access side missions, but they won't come into effect until you talk to them. So you have no narrative reason to feel connected to their stories, but in additions to this you have no reasons to care about them at all anyway.
Not everyone needs a story to be a tightly wound and well plotted thing. It's a perfectly reasonable reaction for people to enjoy a piece of fiction if they just like the characters they're spending their time with. The problem is The Tsuranga Conundrum assumes we care about these people, it doesn't tell us why we should care about them. They aren't provided any real personality traits and they aren't given a metaphorical cat to save. Another approach would be to have the regular characters we already care about have affection for the newer characters. The pregnant man does ask Graham and Ryan to act as emotional support whilst he gives birth, but he also declares the only reason why is because they're men and he wants male support specifically. Ryan gives says some inspirational things to the man to encourage him, but he could have been saying these things to anyone. There was nothing personal and specific about the speech. In fact it tied into a threadbare plot concerning Ryan's feelings about the death of his mother and the following abandonment by his distraught father. Ryan was just exorcising his own demons here, not connecting genuinely with the pregnant man. The General is only given a personal connection to her brother, who we also have no reason to care about.
On the other hand, despite all my criticisms, worse scripts have become good TV episodes and movies. What pushes The Tsuranga Conundrum into the territory of being truly awful is its direction and editing. The direction in this episode is generally quite off-kilter. The 180 degree rule is broken frequently. There are excessive close ups even for a TV show. The blocking even undercuts a joke about Poirot when the camera angle and movement doesn't fully display the visual element of the joke. The worst directing issue of all is the sheer lethargy of how the scenes unfold. The camera shakes a lot and the cuts are frequent (which is how the 180 degree rule is often broken). There's nothing wrong with a slow burn tension piece, which this is intending to be, but it feels like the director is trying to borrow the directorial techniques of J.J. Abrams without understanding them. Abrams will edit rapidly and shake the camera to create a sense of movement that gives the action a sense of propulsion even when little is happening: think of Kirk and Bones running through the corridors of The Enterprise in Star Trek when all that is happening is Kirk needs an injection and wants to talk to the Captain. The editing, pounding music and exuberance of the acting gives it such propulsion. However the tension in this episode of Doctor Who should be about the slow dread of death as it crawls towards you. The fear not of dying, but of being in a situation where death is becoming more and more certain, but you have too much time to think about it, but not the ability to immediately prevent it. The more functional directing choice would be to use longer takes as to stay with every individual emotion of the characters as they worsen. If we care about the characters and they're terrified and feeling powerless, we will feel the same way.
I did note that the score for the episode was also lethargic, positively dreamlike even. I actually quite liked it. It read as an attempt by a composer trying to give something entirely lifeless more of an identity. If it's going to be lifeless and nonsensically plotted, I might as well have the music give it the feeling of a non-sequitous dream.
As I round this out I'd just like to mention a couple of bizarre creative choices that weren't related to my core criticisms. The first is there was a character in the first act called Astos who the Doctor spends a good ten minutes with. He's the primary medical doctor on the ship and is the one that provides The Doctor with information about what's going on and why they can't just drop her off at the TARDIS immediately. This is done as a big dialogue delivered exposition dump (what happened to show, don't tell?) He then gets killed when a part of the ship detaches itself. This is the end of the first act and is the event that announces (to the characters anyway) the arrival of the Pting threat. So his death doesn't actually affect the plot in any way either, but also makes the time spent with him odd. I wonder if this was an attempt at a Psycho styled twist of killing a seemingly important character, but it doesn't work because we also don't care about him. In fact leading up to this his refusal of the demands of The Doctor (which are well justified) are blocking the initial plot (returning to the TARDIS) from progressing: that is until a new plot literally crashes into the ship once it's needed. This entire section of the episode is driven by The Doctor being uncharacteristically selfish and arrogant (even for The Doctor) just to provide an in-universe reason for Astos to do his laborious explain of what's happening. The Doctor realises she's being awful and then her arrogance never returns to the story in any way.
The second unrelated bizarre creative choice is how the episode opens. As we enter the story The Doctor and company are on a scrap planet and The Doctor is looking for junk for her technology loving hobbyist ways. In and of itself I do like this scene and it adds a nice piece of context to The Doctor's life. On the other hand, within this particular story it creates some dissonance. In the scrapheap The Doctor and co encounter a "sonic mine" which goes off and immobilises them until they're rescued by the medical ship off screen (also in real life it's the "sonic" part of actual existing mines that make them incredibly lethal, but whatever). The Doctor has a brief line saying that some unspecified cruel people just leave those about the place just because. This sonic mine issue never comes back up again nor these cruel people leaving them. It does provide The Doctor and her companions with some temporary injuries (some limping) that as you have already guessed: does nothing to hinder their progression towards their goal. It's a frequent occurrence on Doctor Who that the TARDIS detects an emergency or some unspecified danger about to emerge somewhere and then forcibly lands The Doctor in that location for them to investigate. Why isn't that how this episode begins? I understand that the TARDIS needs to be cut off from the action to prevent its use in the narrative as an escape vessel, but why not have it just fall out of the ship that's detaching its own parts?
I chose these two asides as a way to round out this piece because they're both microcosms of why The Tsuranga Conundrum doesn't function. Everything that happens stretches out the action without consequence whilst creating a series of logical issues that detract from the overall experience, all whilst attached to plot elements that are never heard from again.
I'm sorry this was so long, there was a lot more to unpack here than I realised when I first began typing. When the fundamentals of writing go this wrong there is a lot of work to be done in assessing it all. I didn't even get into the sonic screwdriver being disabled and it not mattering, nor two of the guest characters who were even more inconsequential despite the episode insisting they had a story.
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Attack on guest house in Afghan capital kills at least five
A standoff with police ended about five hours later as ambulances raced out of the area.
FILE: A standoff with police ended about five hours later as ambulances raced out of the area. Picture: AFP.
Afghanistan unrest
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KABUL - At least one gunman attacked a guest house popular with foreigners in Kabul on Wednesday killing at least five people, including an American and two Indians, in a bold assault that showed Afghanistan still faces security challenges.
Authorities cordoned off the area around the Park Palace guest house in Kabul's Kolola Pushta, a diplomatic enclave in the Afghan capital that includes a number of guest houses used by foreigners, immediately after the attack began at about 16:00 GMT.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, although similar brazen assaults in the past have been carried out by the Taliban and the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.
The brutal assault was reminiscent of two attacks by Taliban fighters in Kabul last year, one on a restaurant and another on a hotel.
Kabul Police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi told reporters early on Thursday morning that at least five people had been killed and five wounded in the attack.
A spokeswoman for the US Embassy confirmed that one American was killed in the attack.
At least two Indian nationals were also killed and three who had lived at the guest house were rescued and sheltering at the Indian Embassy, a diplomat said.
Rahimi said at least 44 people who had been trapped inside the guest house - some there for a concert, others who had been having dinner - were rescued by police and special forces.
He also said he could verify that there had been just one attacker, although initial reports from police indicated several gunmen were involved.
"The attack did not start with an explosion at the main gate or killing of guards - whatever it was it started from inside the hotel," Rahimi said.
Kolola Pushta, home to several international guest houses and hotels, is near both the Ministry of Interior and the Indian Embassy.
Taliban gunmen killed nine people - including three children - in the upscale Serena Hotel in Kabul last year.
Two months earlier, attackers stormed into a popular Lebanese restaurant in the capital and gunned down 21 people, including three United Nations staff and a senior IMF official.
Earlier on Wednesday, gunmen opened fire at a meeting of Muslim clerics in the southern province of Helmand, killing at least seven people, police said.
The Ulema Council, the highest religious authority in a deeply conservative country, had repeatedly announced its support for security forces fighting the hardline Islamist Taliban insurgents.
The Taliban have stepped up attacks since most foreign forces pulled out at the end of last year.
Ousted from power in 2001, the Taliban have been fighting to bring down the U.S.-backed government in Kabul.
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Pamela Read (Ball) Elliott was born in Winchester, MA on May 23, 1944 to Patricia (Mudgett) and Littleton Ball. In September 1961 she married Ray Elliott in Brownfield Maine, and they raised five children in Sandwich. Pam was active in the community from the Ladies Aid Society to the Community Church of Sandwich and the Sandwich Historical Society. She worked in Special Education for 30 years, most of which at Inter-Lakes High School in Meredith, NH.
When you think about the 'Women of Sandwich,' you think of Pam Elliott with her dedication, spirit, and energy wherever she was. How we miss her smile! Pam loved the town of Sandwich and was deeply involved in the community in all aspects. Pam was a mentor to people of all ages and was an advocate for children. She was a Girl Scout leader, a Sunday School teacher, and a member of the Sandwich Woman's Club, Sandwich Historical Society and Sandwich Fair Association. She also helped organize the Quimby School reunion and Sandwich Fair parade for many years. She ran the Doris L. Benz Community Center and was involved in Old Home week. Where Pam was involved – the work got done!
Pam was involved in everything Sandwich. She raised five children while being a wife, mother, and special education teacher's aide at Inter-Lakes High School where she was involved with The Boosters Club, after prom chem-free party and after school programs.
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Architecture, Art, Frankfurt, Sustainability
Frankfurt Main riverbank development and the ECB tower(s)
Like Amsterdam with its developments along the IJ, Frankfurt is modernising the Main riverbanks. On either side of the river a boulevard stretches with trees, lawns and benches between a number of bridges. From these bridges the Frankfurt skyline is a very intriguing sight. A large percentage of the banking sector of this financial hub is housed in these towers. Adjacent to the high-rises are church spires and many ugly modern buildings which regretfully, but necessarily, were built after the destructive bombing in 1945.
View of the skyline
The Main with view towards the ECB
The Main river flows on from this skyline and curves to the East where your eye is drawn to the lonely silhouette of the paired towers of the European Central Bank (ECB). An immense sculpture, this landmark connects the eastern city with the centre. A lonely, but majestic, balancing act with the many towered central skyline.
A few of the models of the ECB building shown at DAM
More of a work of art than just a building, the ECB rises out of the Grossmarkthalle, the former wholesale vegetable and fruit market, designed by Martin-Elsässer and built in 1928. The architects from Coop Himmelb(l)au won the tender for the design of the new ECB-building after a long bidding process which started back in 2002. The building itself was officially opened 13 years later in 2015. At the Deutsche ArchitekturMuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt a large number of models were put on display recently which show how the shaping of this project took place, from initial design to eventual realisation, and why this fine tuning took so many years to complete.
Reflection of the Grossmarkthalle
Included in the building's terms of reference were the wish to be 30% more energy efficient than required by the city laws at the time, and to leave the Grossmarkthalle reasonably intact and within the sightline from the river. Another requirement was that the basement area would remain a fitting memorial to commemorate the prisoners held captive here before being transported to their deaths in concentration camps during the Nazi era. I wrote about that in an earlier post here.
ECB arising from the Grossmarkthalle
The architects have done a great job. The result is two, slightly twisted, towers attached to each other, erupting from the structure of the Grossmarkthalle.The building reflects the mood of the weather, greying on a rainy day and reflecting bright blue with drifting clouds in sunny skies.
One of the exchange/meeting floors
Walking into the ECB gives the feeling of being in a futuristic train station. The huge central entrance hall, and the spacey exchange platforms on higher floors, allow employees to interchange between the north and the south tower and to meet each other for some business, a refreshment and a chat in the process. The ECB has a number of sustainable concepts integrated into the final building, including geothermal heating and cooling, use of rainwater and re-use of heat generated in the server area for the heating system. Read more about it here. The cellars have indeed been kept intact as a memorial to the dark past.
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Board index The Academy Awards The 9th Decade 87th Predictions and Precursors
New York Film Critics predictions
For the films of 2014
Okri
Re: New York Film Critics predictions
Postby Okri » Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:08 pm
Mister Tee wrote: So, looking over these: most everyone got 5-7 on the nose, and had the other winners in the alt. column. Big exception: cinematography, a big goose-egg here.
I got four, but I'm giving myself double credit for predicting the three actresses correctly (as per Tapley, anyway)
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Postby Mister Tee » Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:01 pm
So, looking over these: most everyone got 5-7 on the nose, and had the other winners in the alt. column. Big exception: cinematography, a big goose-egg here.
FilmFan720
Postby FilmFan720 » Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:13 am
Big Magilla wrote: Swinton was heartbreakingly brilliant in Only Lovers Left Alive, but it's a co-lead performance so I don't know about shoehorning her into support. The blogosphere is pushing her for Snowpiercer, which I haven't seen, in that category. Her part in The Grand Budapest Hotel seems too small to merit consideration but then the NYFC did name Jack Nicholson Best Actor for his cameo appearance in Broadcast News in 1987 along with his lead roles in Ironweed and The Witches of Eastwick.
Yeah, I know she's a lead in Only Lovers Left Alive...I was more thinking that they would honor her for Snowpiercer, especially in conjunction with Grand Budapest Hotel (which I feel they may like more than expected) and then throw that performance in. who knows, though!
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Postby Sabin » Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:36 pm
Let minute update for Chris Rock winning Best Screenplay for Top Five.
Best Picture - Boyhood (r.u. The Grand Budapest Hotel; Mr. Turner)
Best Director - Richard Linklater, Boyhood (r.u. Alejandro G. Innaritu, Birdman; Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner)
Best Actor - Michael Keaton, Birdman (r.u. Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner; Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game)
Best Actress - Julianne Moore, A Map of the Stars & Still Alice (r.u. Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant & Two Days, One Night; Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl)
Best Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons, Whiplash (r.u. Edward Norton, Birdman; Ethan Hawke, Boyhood)
Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette, Boyhood (r.u. Jessica Chastain, Interstellar & A Most Violent Year; Carrie Coon, Gone Girl)
Best Screenplay - Top Five (r.u. The Grand Budapest Hotel; Birdman)
Best Cinematography - Birdman (r.u. Mr. Turner, Selma/A Most Violent Year)
Best Foreign-Language Film - Ida (r.u. Leviathan; Force Majeur)
Best Documentary - Citizenfour (r.u. Life Itself; National Galler)
Best Animated Film - The Lego Movie (r.u. The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Big Hero 6)
Best First Film - Nightcrawler (r.u. Dear White People, The Babadook)
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Postby Okri » Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:56 pm
Film: Birdman
RU: Boyhood, A Most Wanted Man
Director: JC Chandor
RU: Innaritu, Linklater
Actor: Keaton
RU: Redmayne, Cumberbatch
Actress: Moore
RU: Cotillard, Mbatha-Raw
Supporting Actor: Hawke
RU: SImmons, Norton
Supporting Actress: Arquette
RU: Russo, Stone
Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
RU: Birdman, Selma
Cinematography: Mr. Turner
RU: Birdman, Ida
Foreign Language Film: Force Majeure
RU: Leviathan, Ida
Best Documentary: Citizenfour
RU: Tales of the Grim Sleeper, National Gallery
Postby Mister Tee » Sun Nov 30, 2014 3:58 pm
Big Magilla wrote:
Mister Tee wrote:
Eric wrote: FWIW, Citizenfour is far from Laura Poitras' first film.
Thanks, Eric. I was taking the word of people at other sites. Will adjust.
Your replacement runner-up is called The Babadook, not The Badabook
I think I might have known that and typo-ed -- but it's such a nonsense word, who knows? (Whenever I look at it, I think of "gabagool" from The Sopranos)
Postby Big Magilla » Sun Nov 30, 2014 3:47 pm
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Postby Eric » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:47 pm
FWIW, Citizenfour is far from Laura Poitras' first film.
Swinton was heartbreakingly brilliant in Only Lovers Left Alive, but it's a co-lead performance so I don't know about shoehorning her into support. The blogosphere is pushing her for Snowpiercer, which I haven't seen, in that category. Her part in The Grand Budapest Hotel seems too small to merit consideration but then the NYFC did name Jack Nicholson Best Actor for his cameo appearance in Broadcast News in 1987 along with his lead roles in Ironweed and The Witches of Eastwick.
FilmFan720 wrote: S ACTRESS: Tilda Swinton, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive and Snowpiercer (ru: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year and Interstellar ; Patricia Arquette, Boyhood)
Interesting idea. Swinton is two-time runner-up, in '01 and '09 -- in '09, she was barely edged out by Streep -- and NY has shown some tendency to honor people with that credential (like Jennifer Lawrence last year, or Hope Davis in '03). I'd have to think it'd be mostly on the basis of Only Lovers Left Alive (which I haven't seen yet) -- she was a bit over-the-top (though memorably) in Snowpiercer, and barely in Grand Budapest.
Postby FilmFan720 » Sun Nov 30, 2014 1:03 pm
I see things a little different than all of you:
PICTURE: Birdman (ru: Boyhood; Selma)
DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater, Boyhood (ru: A.G. Inarritu, Birdman; Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
ACTOR: David Oyelowo, Selma (ru: Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner; Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game)
ACTRESS: Julianne Moore, Still Alice (ru: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl; Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night)
S ACTOR: Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher (ru: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash; Edward Norton, Birdman)
S ACTRESS: Tilda Swinton, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive and Snowpiercer (ru: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year and Interstellar ; Patricia Arquette, Boyhood)
SCREENPLAY: The Grand Budapest Hotel (ru: Birdman; Selma)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mr. Turner (ru: Selma; Birdman)
FOREIGN FILM: Ida (ru: Force Majeure; Two Days, One Night)
DOCUMENTARY: CITIZENFOUR (ru: Life Itself; Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me)
ANIMATED FEATURE: The Tale of Princess Kaguya (ru: The LEGO Movie; Big Hero 6)
FIRST FILM: Nightcrawler (ru: Dear White People; The Babadook)
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Postby anonymous1980 » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:31 pm
Picture: Boyhood
(RU: Birdman)
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu, Birdman
(RU: Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner)
Actor: Michael Keaton, Birdman
(RU: Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Actress: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
(RU: Jenny Slate, Obvious Child)
Supporting Actor: JK Simmons, Whiplash
(RU: Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice)
Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
(RU: Rene Russo, Nightcrawler)
Screenplay: Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
(RU: Richard Linklater, Boyhood)
Cinematography: Dick Pope, Mr. Turner
(RU: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman)
(RU: Ida)
Documentary Feature: Citizenfour
(RU: Life Itself)
Animated Feature: Song of the Sea
(RU: The LEGO Movie)
First Film: The Babadook
(RU: Nightcrawler)
Postby Big Magilla » Sun Nov 30, 2014 7:07 am
It's hard to argue with Tee's predictions, but with slight variations just for the fun of it:
NY Film Critics 80th Anniversary predictions:
Film: Boyhood
(ru: Birdman, Mr. Turner)
Actor: Michael Keaton (Birdman)
(ru: Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler))
Actrss: Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
(ru: Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything))
Sup. Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
(ru: Edward Norton (Birdman), Ethan Hawke (Boyhood))
Sup. Actress: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
(ru: Rene Russo (Nightcrawler), Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year))
Director: Richard Linklater (Boyhood),
(ru: Alejandro G. Innaritu (Birdman)Mike Leigh (Mr. Turner))
Screenplay: Alejandro G. Innaritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris & Armando Bo (Birdman),
(ru: Richard Linklater (Boyhood)), Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel))
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman),
(ru: Dick Pope (Mr. Turner), Bradford Young (Selma/A Most Violent Year))
Foreign Language Film: Ida
(ru:Force Majeure, Leviathan)
(ru: 20,000 Days on Earth, Life Itself)
Animated Feature: No idea
First Film: Nightcrawler
(ru: Dear White People, The Babadook)
Postby Mister Tee » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:50 am
Monday morning we'll be underway. My stab at what will happen -- I do a winner and two alternates, just because.
(And, a reminder: NBR follows only a day behind)
(ru: Mr. Turner, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
(ru: Scarlett Johansson (Under the Skin), Marion Cotillard (The Immigrant))
(ru: Edward Norton (Birdman), Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher))
Director: Alejandro G. Innaritu (Birdman)
(ru: Richard Linklater (Boyhood), Mike Leigh (Mr. Turner))
Screenplay: Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
(ru: Alejandro G. Innaritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris & Armando Bo (Birdman), Richard Linklater (Boyhood))
(Anderson's been a runner-up three times in NY; they'll want him to win this time)
Cinematography: Dick Pope (Mr. Turner)
(ru: Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman),Bradford Young (Selma/A Most Violent Year))
(ru: Ida, Leviathan)
(ru: The LEGO Movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya)
(unconfirmed if Song of the Sea is NY eligible; if not, move Princess Kaguya up to the win spot)
(some think Whiplash is a first feature, and it would win if it were; but I don't think it qualifies)
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Album Review: Chance The Rapper – The Big Day
With the album coming out late on Friday, he is still predicted to debut at #1 with about 110k-125k first week. Chance's "Hot Shower" is leading on the streaming platforms, sitting Top 5 at Apple Music and holding the #7 spot at Spotify. This is actually sad, and a reflection of today's poor taste in music. Out of all the great music on Chance's album, the general perfect picked the one song where he dumbs down his lyrical content to match today's mediocre rap styles of DaBaby.
It's been some time since I've blogged, but to be honest, there hasn't been much that has caught my attention lately.
But this Chance album has GOT ME!
Chance has released his debut album and it was well worth the wait. Filled with top notch features, melodies, and most importantly REAL RAP! It is so very refreshing to hear an album that celebrates what the everyday man can really appreciate. He talks about rededicating his life to God, finding true love with his wife, loving his brother, and more. These topics are so different than your everyday rapper now.
Other features on the album was the quite impressive Nicki Minaj. With not 1 but 2 verses on the album, she offered up some of the best verses that she has had in years. There are many songs that provide the long missing R&B vibes of the 90s, some provided by legendary divas SWV and En Vogue. Megan The Stallion's feature on "Handsome" was a surprise, and like "Hot Shower", it wasn't too impressive. Her bars are very amateur and repetitive. I'm anxiously awaiting the day that she elevates her skillset and has the lyrical content that matches her flow.
Overall this is an impressive body of work, and I look forward to see how it fairs at the Grammys. It's very deserving of more Grammys.
Standout tracks
Sun Come Down
Zanies and Fools
I Got You (Always And Forever)
Found A Good One (Single No More)
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