This Warner animated feature is set in Maine in 1957, when a mysterious object falls from space just off the coast of a sleepy seaside town called Rockwell. Amongst the inhabitants are Hogarth Hughes, a young boy who lives his mother Annie (voiced by Jennifer Aniston) who herself works as a diner waitress and rents out their spare room to make ends meet in their father's absence.
That night when wandering out in the woods he encounters a giant iron robot (voiced by Vin Diesel) that loves to eat metal objects. While initially terrified of the creature, Hogarth discovers that it means him no harm and the pair start to form a bond of friendship. However it isn't long before the US authorities are on their tail, led by a ruthlessly ambitious agent named Kent Mansley (voiced by Christopher McDonald). When the latter's car is chewed up by the robot he goes to the Hughes's house to use their phone - and overhears about the kid's discovery of the mysterious being. Keen to follow the lead further, Kent rents out the spare room.
It's up to Hogarth and his friend Dean McCoppin (a scrapyard owner who sidelines in turning his haul into works of art) to hide this lumbering beast from the authorities before they find it and bring in the military to take it out as a perceived threat.
The Iron Giant was a major flop on its release, taking just over $31 million versus a production budget of around $80 million - despite wide and well-deserved critical acclaim. In fact, it's a surefire contender for the most undeserved box office failure of all time.
It's one of those films where everything comes pretty close to perfect. It's visually beautiful, mixing hand-drawn and CGI animation almost seamlessly in an evocation of the somewhat angular pop art style of the time. The action sequences are superbly orchestrated, making maximum capital out of the titular character's great size to exhilarating, scary and funny effect. The pacing is pitch-perfect, giving us just enough breathing space to engage with the characters without letting the action lull for long. There's also a genuine heart here as the metal beast learns about the value of life and need to avoid slipping into violence. Admittedly things can get a little preachy, but at the same time there is a genuinely perceptive look at how societal paranoia engenders violent "get them before they get us" attitudes. This was relevant during the heightened Cold War tensions of the 1950s period represented here, and is just as relevant now in these perpetually on-edge modern times. At the same time there is a genuine affection for the era as shot through the filters of comic books, B movies and beatnik culture. In many ways it's an ideal companion piece to Joe Dante's Matinee, but with a more substantial and satisfying story. The film's moral sweep arching over the vast setpieces is in many ways more Ghibli than Disney, but that's hardly a bad thing.
There are many nuances to the film that I love, from the expressionistic use of light and shadow, through the Spielberg-like mastery of making a lot with little during the setpieces (where often what's not shown is more important than what is), to the well-rounded characters. My favourite of these characters however has to be Kent Mansley as voiced by Christopher McDonald. He mixes in smarmy ruthlessness with just enough bumbling fallibility to give him as weight of threat without making him unbearably scary for younger viewers. Film buffs might also note that his scenes in the house with Hogarth where he turns the screws on the boy to find out what he knows have a sinister air and dark visual language that's satisfyingly reminiscent of Night Of The Hunter.
Two versions of the film are on this Blu Ray - the original version and the signature edition. The latter has just two additional scenes which don't spoil the pacing and flow of the movie but do add a little texture to the story; the first is a diner scene where Dean strikes up a conversation with Annie, the second a dream sequence where he has a nightmare where he envisages the Iron Giant as part of an army of invading robots. It's a notch better than the original version, but not by much; it was such a great film in the first place that it's hard to significantly improve upon anyway.
It's a superb looking presentation with the film's varying colour schemes coming through vividly. The picture is near flawless and grain-free, and even those ever-tricky gradients of darkness in many scenes come through in a rich but clear manner. Great stuff.
A fine presentation with the orchestral soundtrack and the Iron Giant's distinctively heavy movements bringing the proceedings superbly to life.
This excellent 55 minute documentary has Brad Bird narrating over archive footage along with rough cut animations and hand drawn stills from moments in his career.
It starts out by looking at Brad Bird's childhood introduction to Disney animation and internship with the studio. We learn that at the time he came aboard the old masters were retiring and the new executives were, in his view, letting down what Disney stood for - resulting in some heated arguments which ended with him being shown the exit door.
Disappointment then turned to grief as his sister was slain by her husband in a gun incident - a sad moment that clearly did a lot to inform his next chapter in his life: joining Warner's animation wing and signing up to do an adaptation of Ted Hughes's book The Iron Man, which was in itself inspired by Hughes's wife Sylvia Plath committing suicide.
The second half follows the production of Iron Man including the challenges in working to strict time and budgetary constraints, Bird's heated relations with the studio bosses and producer Alison Abbate, and the difficulties in making computer graphics match the imperfections of hand-drawn animations.
It ends on the disappointment as the film bombs at the box office despite overwhelmingly positive test screenings and reviews - a failure due largely to the fact that Warner failed to market the film properly. Things end on a happier note however as the film has since become remembered as a bona fide animated classic. It's a story almost as touching and engaging as the film itself.
Of note, the Blu Ray gets a 12 rating due to Brad using the word "pussies" here.
This interesting commentary reveals such details as how unusual the use of extremes of light and darkness seen here were in animation and how the character of the Iron Giant was developed through the course of the film from a de facto puppy dog that blithely follows Hogarth everywhere through to the darker and more complex figure he reveals himself to be. We see how seemingly superfluous details are used to effectively tell the story - from the scene where Hogarth shows comic books to the titular character as a way to define his inner struggle, to the way in which the non-conforming beatnik figure of Dean is a representation of the message of "be who you choose to be".
There's a pleasing general impression that Brad and the rest put a huge amount of thought into storytelling and tone.
A collection of rough cut scenes complete with introductions by Brad Bird, most of which were removed to condense the story. The best is the last one, featuring Cloris Leachman as Hogarth's teacher.
A look at storyboard artist Teddy Newton, focussing largely on an imaginative (though dropped) sequence chronicling a blind date between Annie and Dean.
A look at the complete Teddy Newton storyboarded sequence of a nuclear attack preparation film (part of which is seen in the finished film). Complete with an incongruously chirpy accompanying song, it's blackly hilarious.
A look at the casting of the various voice actors in the film. Rather brief and insubstantial; with the notable exception of Vin Diesel we don't even get any interview contributions from the actors themselves. A wasted opportunity.
Interview with composer Michael Kamen, talking about crucial sections of the score and the privilege of working with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Short but with an interesting revelation of Kamen's own opposition to the right-wing paranoia that Kent's character represents.
A series of odds and ends about the history and origin of the production, with much focussing on the conception of the titular creature itself. There is some overlap with The Giant's Dream but it does have moments of individual interest, particularly when looking at how the animators gave the Iron Giant expressiveness, and how Brad had to reign in the creative sprawl of the final battle sequence.
A collection of storyboards, animatics and concept art mixed for comparison with clips from the finished product.
A rather glib glorified marketing piece hosted in a patronising manner by Vin Diesel. Pretty skippable and redundant in comparison to the infinitely more candid The Giant's Dream.
A congratulatory letter from Ted Hughes and a few joke animations.
A short doc about the retrieval of the original film artwork, which was stored in Warner's archive under a salt mine in Kansas, along with around three million other pieces of film history. If nothing else, we get a good sense of the vast scale of such an archive.
A brief reminisce about hand-drawn animation, and how its inherent imperfections are somehow more perfect because they contain emotion. Nice, but a very brief 1 minute and 40 seconds.
A pair of trailers round out this exemplary and extensive collection of extras.
If you love the film and already have the DVD then this is a very worthy upgrade. If you've never seen Iron Giant well… then this is an absolute must.


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SESOD: South East Scotland Oak Dendrochronology Project
The South East Scotland Oak Dendrochronology (SESOD) project aims to build the first long oak reference chronology for SE Scotland which represents a large geographic gap in native oak tree-ring coverage. This is part of a larger issue, that native timbers are generally under-represented in the national Scottish record compared to more-readily identified imports and this limits the degree to which any further native timbers can be recognised and dendro-dated.
Fortunately, dendrochronological work on deadwood from the Old Oaks of Dalkeith Park (see photo) is available to provide the anchor in time, ie the recent end of the new oak reference chronology to be produced by SESOD, with Dalkeith data spanning AD1592-2010. However, only a few trees are older than 1700, and more data from 1700 and earlier is sought.
The project director, Coralie Mills is requesting the help of those who know of any buildings or structures in SE Scotland with old timber which may potentially meet the objectives of SESOD. Coralie can be contacted at coralie.mills@dendrochronicle.co.uk
Sampling deadwood, Dalkeith Oaks. Copyright C Mills 2018
Assessment visits will be undertaken to the most likely candidates in 2018-19, the first year of the 3-year project. SESOD will concentrate on locating, sampling and analysing oak timbers from selected historic buildings and structures in the Scottish Borders, the Lothians and Edinburgh, in sites where the timber stands a good chance of pre-dating 1700 and being native rather than imported. This will be easiest to predict in medieval buildings built before the great surge in imported timber to the eastern central belt from around 1450. However, away from the coast and where transport was more difficult, we would expect native timber to continue to be used in the late- and post-medieval periods. This was found to be the case at a townhouse on the High Street in Jedburgh which contained native oak felled in AD1667 (see photo). It was only possible to date it by comparison with oak chronologies from the north of England, where local oak was used well into the post-medieval period. Creation of an oak reference chronology for South East Scotland aims to enhance the 'date-ability' of historic oak timbers in this region.
Jedburgh Townhouse oak floor dendro-dated to AD1667. Copyright C Mills 2018
SESOD will run over three years, from 2018/19, with archaeology grant support from HES, and partnership working with a range of bodies, including Archaeology Scotland and the Forestry Commission Scotland on outreach and educational aspects. It also has the valuable support of the council archaeologists in the region.
This article first appeared in the Archaeology Scotland magazine, Issue 32, Summer 2018.
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Revolutionary Bureaucracy – Solidarity
An article from Solidarity for Workers' Power vol. 7, no. 11 on the nature of the bureaucratisation seen in the Russian Revolution.
Ettore Cinnella - The tragedy of the Russian Revolution: promise and default of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in 1918.
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The unpublished minutes of the three congresses held by the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (PLSR) in 1918 are the main source of this article. Its starting point is the crisis the old Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) suffered during the fall of 1917 and the rise of the Left SRs.
On leaving Russia
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Russian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer, who was deported to Russia, on her being deported from Russia by the Bolsheviks for condemning their persecution of revolutionary workers.
The soviets: the Russian workers, peasants and soldiers councils 1905-1921 - Oskar Anweiler
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A detailed study of the workers', soldiers' and peasants' councils which sprung up across Russia in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
How Lenin led to Stalin - Workers Solidarity Movement
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Good short account of how the foundations of Stalinist terror were laid by the policies of Lenin and Trotsky in the early days of the Russian Revolution.
The Russian revolution and the international proletariat - Maria Koszutska
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This collection of articles, published during August 1918 in the newspaper of the PPS-Left, while clearly supportive of the Bolsheviks, discusses many controversial aspects of their rule: the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the peasantry, the terror, as well as the question of democracy. Koszutska encourages the international proletariat to take an active part in the events, and help guide them on the correct path to socialism, rather than remain critics on the outside.
Socialism in the present day - Alexander Bogdanov
In this text from 1911, published in Vpered, Bogdanov outlines his conception of a socialist proletarian culture, providing the theoretical background for the project of Proletkult.
The latest deception - Gabriel Miasnikov
In this essay first published in 1930 in France, the founder of the Workers Group denounces the bureaucracy that he claims seized power in a "coup d'état" in 1920 at the Ninth Congress of the CPSU(b)—its "latest deception" being its fraudulent appeals for "freedom of criticism" and "self-criticism" after a series of revolts by workers and peasants in the early to mid-1920s—and calls for a restoration of proletarian democracy (as exemplified by the Paris Commune) by democratizing the functions exercised by bureaucratic State institutions (production, distribution, oversight) and replacing them with Soviets ("Councils"), cooperatives and trade unions.
Democratic centralism, the Workers Opposition, clandestine opposition movements, the crisis in the party, Kronstadt and the end of the revolutionary period in Russia - Michel Olivier
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A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to 1927, focusing mostly on the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition.
On the construction of socialism - Nikolai Osinsky (Valerian V. Obolensky)
In this text first published in the journal of the Bolshevik left communists, The Communist, in April 1918, Osinsky attacks Lenin's economic policies (which he attributes to Lenin's erroneous support for the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty) from a "left" perspective that champions working class supremacy in the "organization of production" (in the economic councils, etc.), advocates a policy of rigorous nationalization and promotion of "heavy industry" (coal, steel, railroads), and concludes that economic reconstruction cannot be directed towards Russian "self-sufficiency", but must be oriented towards the goal of the victory of the international proletarian revolution.
Archive of articles by and about the Bolsheviks and its members.
The Bolsheviks and workers' control: the state and counter-revolution - Maurice Brinton
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Louisville football fans won't have to be patient much longer
By Mike Rutherford@CardChronicle Jan 7, 2016, 3:42pm EST
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There is nothing sexy about patience. Important? Sure. Everyone has heard that "patience is a virtue," but there are no movies dedicated solely to the act of waiting for something significant to occur, there are no chapters of books written about idle half hours spent in the lobby of a doctor's office.
With that in mind, it's unlikely that there will ever be a ceremony at UofL to honor the 2015 Cardinal football team. There won't be an ESPN "30 for 30" dedicated to them, plaques won't be concocted to recognize their achievements, and blossoming Louisville fans won't look back at the squad one day as their indisputable favorite.
That doesn't mean what Louisville football did in 2015 wasn't important.
In each of Louisville's first three tilts of 2015, the Cardinals had an opportunity to either win the game or force overtime late in the 4th quarter. All three times, UofL came up just short. Being "just a few plays" away from having three wins under their belt did nothing to change the fact that Louisville had started a college football season 0-3 for the first time since 1984.
"I'm certainly uncomfortable being 0-3, it's not something we're used to, it's a new experience," Bobby Petrino said at the time. "I don't think I've ever been 0-3 before. But what I know is, you keep working hard, keep a positive attitude and good things will happen."
For a program loaded with players and coaches unaccustomed to losing, keeping a positive isn't the simple task it appears to be on its surface. Still, there were no reports of in-fighting amongst the coaching staff, no tweets of discontent from the players, and no announcements of any in-season transfers.
Louisville did what it was supposed to do after its schedule eased up. The Cardinals reeled off five wins in six games, a span which included a 20-13 road upset of a then-unbeaten NC State team. The lone October hiccup for UofL came when an uncharacteristically lackluster third quarter doomed them to a 41-21 loss at No. 11 Florida State.
Before the start of this season, 507 FBS teams since 1980 had started a season 0-3. Of those 507 teams, just 21 had wound up accepting bids to bowl games. With a 38-31 win over Virginia on Nov. 14, Louisville became the 22nd ... and with two games to spare. After toppling Kentucky and hoisting the Governor's Cup for a fifth straight year, UofL was rewarded with a trip to Nashville to face Texas A&M in the Music City Bowl.
The importance of so-called "middle tier" bowl games could be debated for days on end without any signs of progress. Even so, it's hard to argue against the importance of this year's Music City Bowl as it pertains to Louisville's future.
The Cardinals became the first (and still only) team to topple an SEC West opponent in a bowl game, and they did so in front of 5.4 million television viewers, making the Music City Bowl one of the most-watched sporting events of the holiday season. Those 5.4 million sets of eyes watched Lamar Jackson establish himself as not just the future of Louisville football, but a potential breakout national star in 2016.
On his way to carrying UofL to a 27-21 win over the Aggies, Jackson became just the third quarterback in college football history to throw and run for more than 200 yards in a bowl game. The other two? Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, and Heisman Trophy runner-up Vince Young. Whether or not those same individual (and team) accolades are in Jackson's future are yet to be seen, but his first bowl experience certainly laid the foundation for whatever greatness awaits him in the coming seasons.
It took a month of losing, but patient Louisville football fans finally got to celebrate a string of victories. It took 11 games of going back-and-forth, but patient Louisville football fans finally got their undisputed starting quarterback. It took a full season of ups and downs, but patient Louisville football fans are about to be rewarded with a return to college football's national picture.
A version of this column appears in the current issue of The Voice-Tribune


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Q: How to choose if a new cluster is needed for an AWS Fargate Service? I have a cluster with a mixture of services running on EC2 and Fargate, all being used internally. I am looking to deploy a new Fargate Service which is going to be publicly available over the Internet and will get around 5000 requests per minutes.
What factors do I need to consider so that I can choose if a new cluster should be created or if I can reuse the existing one? Would sharing of clusters also lead to security issues?

A: If your deployment is purely using Fargate, not EC2, then there's really no technical reason to split it into a separate ECS cluster, but there's also no reason to keep it in the same cluster. There's no added cost to create a new Fargate cluster, and logically separating your services into separate ECS clusters can help you monitor them separately in CloudWatch.

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'Extraction' Director Talks Chris Hemsworth Stunts
Extraction Director Sam Hargrave Reveals Chris Hemsworth's Impressive Stunt Process
"All the fighting, the running, the action that you see is Chris Hemsworth," he says. "He showed up every day with a smile and he made it fun."
By Nojan Aminosharei Published: Apr 24, 2020
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When Sam Hargrave first met the Russo Brothers direction team on the set of the 2012 Marvel film The Avengers, he was there to don the Cap's iconic helmet and shield as Chris Evans' stunt double. He'd been a stuntman for the better part of a decade, but his entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was the beginning of something else. He continued to play Evans' stunt double on screen, but was also tapped as stunt coordinator for movies all over the superhero spectrum—including Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, The Wolverine, Suicide Squad, and Deadpool 2. He was a fight choreographer for Atomic Blonde, in which Charlize Theron dropkicks her way into the pantheon of action stars in a gruelingly-long fight sequence. He took up the role of second unit director on many of those movies too, and had talked to the Russos, now his mentors and decade-long friends, about making his own directorial debut. They brought him the script written by Joe Russo for Extraction, an action-packed thriller based on a graphic novel. (The Russos helped write the story for that too.)
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In the movie, Chris Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, a mercenary with a death wish and an assignment to extract the son of an Indian crime lord kidnapped by a rival cabal. The movie, which drops on Netflix today, is a frenetic race through the streets of Ahmedabad, India but with an emotional through-line that the Russos wanted to see even in its epic fight scenes. They tapped Hargrave because they know his work intimately, and knew he could bring emotion to his authentic approach to action. The results are a seemingly uninterrupted 12-minute-long fight sequence, authentic Hemsworth tears, and just the kind of pulse-racing our sedentary bodies we need right now.
So to mark the release of Extraction, Hargrave talked to Men's Health to break down what really goes into an epic action sequence, how Chris Hemsworth ranks among MCU actors in the fight scene department, and the time he and his fellow stunt double brother both donned Captain American costumes and duked it out.
The big set-piece of the movie is a nearly 12-minute-long action sequence that you call "The Oner" because it's made to look like one grueling, continuous shot. How much time and work goes into just that one seamless scene?
That particular sequence took us probably four or five months from conception to completion, because it wasn't written that way originally. It was a big chase, exciting on the page, but once we decided to shoot it as an apparent one-take it became something that would be very ambitious to pull off. And so we had to make sure that everybody was on the same page—there were a lot of rehearsals, a lot of location scouts, taking the stunt team to the locations to make sure the action fit the space and fit the characters.
So the preparation was very technical and logistical. And then we had actors rehearsing to make sure they knew all the moves. We wanted to focus on keeping our actors on camera as much as possible, not relying on stunt doubles and quick cuts to hide things. So they needed to be well prepared, and that kind of stuff takes time. We ended up shooting for, I think, 10 days in sequence. It was really gratifying to finish something like that.
The sequence reminded me of another outstanding sequence you choreographed for Atomic Blonde. Both were long and looked seamless, but I was more struck by the controlled messiness of the fighting. It's not modern dance-as-action. Both scenes involved a lot of struggling, getting winded, grabbing at each other, and clawing your way back up. How do you get that kind of authenticity in a fight scene?
Part of the benefit of doing a longer, extended action sequence is that your performers aren't just doing it for four or five minutes before you cut and they get to rest. By the time you get to the end, there's not a lot of acting required—the performers are really tired. So I just tell them to play it real. If they got to take a second, we built in beats. If you watch a UFC or boxing match, there's a lot of resting going on. So part of the balance is to not rest so long that people get bored and tune out, but you still want to be real to that scenario—feel the pain, feel the recovery time, feel what the characters are going through in that moment.
Chris Hemsworth is a paragon of fitness. Did he struggle with any part of it?
To hear him describe the Oner—preparing for it and shooting it—he says it's one of the hardest things he's ever done for a movie. And as fit as he is, fitness is all very relative. If somebody runs a marathon, they may have a hard time lifting. If somebody's an Olympic sprinter, they may not be able to do grappling. Chris is always in shape, it's just the variety and amount of things he had to do—you're running up and down stairs, you're grappling, you're crawling on the ground, you're throwing punches, kicks—they're all very different ways of using your body. Overall, it was just very strenuous, but he trained hard for it. The only things he wouldn't do were the things we wouldn't allow him to do for insurance reasons. The stuntman had to get hit by a car, for example. But all the fighting, the running, the action that you see is Chris Hemsworth. He showed up every day with a smile and he made it fun.
One fight scene makes creative use of a rake. Was that in the script, or added in when mapping out the fight?
No, that was an addition. There was an early comment online, something like, "If Tyler Rake uses a rake to kill somebody, I'm going to lose my mind." So it was actually inspired by a fan of the genre. I thought, "You know, that's actually kind of brilliant." If that's the things that fans are looking for, then we should put it in there.
There's a scene when Chris jumps off a cliff and takes a very long drop into some water below. Did he do that himself?
That was a mixture of a lot of different camera tricks, truthfully. The location we found that had the cliff face that we liked, but the water there was not safe. So it was a blend of Hemsworth, who stepped off the cliff and jumped—quite a big jump, down 10 or 12 feet—down to a mat covered in blue screen. That was blended with a shot of his stunt double, Bobby Holland Hanton, landing into a body of water. But the most impressive thing to me about that whole sequence was the underwater shots. Hemsworth shot that in a water tank on a stage, but he would hold his breath for over two and a half minutes. We were counting it down. At two and a half minutes, we said, "Okay, we've got the shot twice already. Why don't you come on up?" He just seemed to be in a relaxed, meditative state.
Well, that's above and beyond.
That just describes his attitude to the whole project: above and beyond. He was never satisfied with good enough, he always wanted to give his best, and he showed up every day and went above and beyond the call of duty.
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You've works on stunts and fight scenes with a lot of big names. Who takes to it most naturally?
Charlize Theron puts in an incredible amount of work and has a very strong inclination toward action. Hugh Jackman is another one who is very, very talented. Chris Evans—another one of the Chrises—is very good too. I've been fortunate in my career to work with super talented actors, but based on how closely we worked together, the conversations we had, and how much I feel I pushed him, I think Hemsworth takes the cake.
Were there any actors who didn't take to is so naturally, but really put in the work in a way that impressed you?
I think one of my favorite stories of that is probably Scarlett Johansson. She put in the work, she has the work ethic, and in her own solo Black Widow movie, which hopefully comes out soon, you'll be able to see that. She's become a symbol of what a female action hero is, and that's a testament to her hard work and discipline and all the time she puts into it. She's taken it to the next level.
Your brother Daniel Hargrave came on as Chris Evans' stunt double for Infinity War and Endgame after you hung up your cap. But then you put the Captain America costume on one more time for a fight scene in Endgame where Cap goes back in time and fights himself, which meant the Hargrave brothers were duking it out for that scene. How did it feel to work with your brother on that?
That was one of the most amazing experiences in my film career to date. Growing up together back in North Carolina, my brother and I would make short movies together and put together fight scenes. Then he went into the professional baseball world, and I went into my world, into movies. When he got injured and wasn't able to continue playing, I said, "If you want to come try this out, there might be a job available." And to his credit, he put in a lot of hard work and became the best person for the job [of Chris Evans's stunt double]. He earned it.
I was directing the sequence, and my father was there for the four days we were shooting it, so I deciding to come out of retirement, so to speak. I shaved the beard, cut the hair, and went on camera again. It was my full circle moment in the Marvel Universe because I started on the first Avengers film, and now I was wearing that same 2012 Captain America suit. And to do it all opposite my brother, to get to fight with him on camera and to relive those childhood memories on the set of the biggest movie ever made, one that the whole world will be watching—it was just a very special, meaningful time for me.
That scene was pretty pivotal. With all of Marvel's secrecy, did you even know the context of what you were shooting?
There is a lot of secrecy in the Marvel Universe, but there are different levels of access and certain scripts. There's a blue script that some people get. Then there's a red script, that tells you what's actually happening, that only certain people get. And you read the red script while locked in a room with two Marvel security guards out front. I could read those scripts because I was technically a [second unit] director and I needed to communicate to someone like Chris Evans: "This is where we're coming from, this where we're going, here's what you want."
How have you kept all the "red script" spoilers to yourself all these years?
You get practiced at it. You sign your NDA, they said, "Don't talk about it," so you don't. Being a fan of the Marvel Universe myself makes it a little easier. In a way, I wish I didn't know. So you hold onto the secrets because you don't want to spoil the surprise.
Nojan Aminosharei
Nojan Aminosharei is the Entertainment Director of Men's Health and the Special Projects Editor of Harper's Bazaar. He was previously the Entertainment Director of Hearst Digital Media, and before that a Senior Editor at GQ. Raised in Vancouver, Canada, Nojan graduated from NYU with a master's degree in magazine journalism. The late Elaine Stritch once told him, "What the fuck kind of name is Nojan? I'm 89 years old, I don't have time for that shit."


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Living On The Fringe: Sad, Sorry world Of Sokoto's Almajirai
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Around noon sometime in April 2021, Salisu* was sitting under the shade of a mango tree to ease himself off from the Sokoto sun. When this reporter approached him, evidence of hunger and how he had so much longed for food were written on his face. Salisu* looks pre-teen, averagely 6 to 7 years old but confesses that he doesn't know his age, though it has been 6 years since he claimed his parents dumped him in Almajiri school.
Salisu* is from Zabarmawa, part of Sokoto. Ever since his parents came to dump in Almajiri school, he is usually only opportune to go home during the Sallah festival. When asked how many are in the Almajiri school, he only estimated the numbers of his colleagues, saying, "We are up to 150, 120, 100. However, we used to recite the Quran every morning."
"No, mallam doesn't cook for us, my parents bring food, garri for me, at least every week, in a sack. We usually give it to Mallam. Sometimes, they will bring it together with pure water. I only go home during Sallah."
Like Salisu*, Abba* was also hungry when this reporter encountered him. He kept mentioning hunger whenever I posed a question to him, which led me to ask why he was not fasting (observing Ramadan).
Abba reveals he is not fasting because he had eaten nothing for "Sahur" (pre-dawn meal for fasting). He appeared to be in his 20s, and he explained that after leaving Almajiri school, he will start a business and get married, or become a soldier or a security guard.
*Abba
He estimates that they are up to 200 under his Mallam, and what they wear, how they survive is being assisted by some private individuals or NGOs. For Abba*, the more you give Mallam a gift be it food or cash, the more love you earned from him. When asked why he is not going to school despite free education, he said "My father didn't put me there."
Adamu* is a skin-lighted fellow with a piercing look. He said, for now, they are not working, they only fetch water and put it inside the house of Mallam. Adamu* claimed his father is a farmer and his mother, a trader. Adamu* was 10 years old when he was brought into the Almajiri system but now he is 13 years old. Adamu claims to be from Tuluwa part of Sokoto.
Adamu*
"Mallam is not giving food, father sometimes is not giving food and we only rely on begging. During the rainy season, we used to go to the farm of Mallam. Sometimes, the rule is that if you don't go to the farm, you won't be given food."
Most of these Almajiri children nowadays could be seen in public places such as filling stations, malls, motor-parks, and places similar to cinemas with bowls— struggling to survive.
One Almajiri child is seen trying to make an end either by selling the firewood or using it to cook.
Under the Islamic law, child maintenance is the ultimate right of a child; thus, parents are responsible for providing maintenance to children and providing them with appropriate (formal and Islamic) education. Moreover, the Child's Right Act (2003) is the law that guarantees the rights of all children in Nigeria; it is an Act that provides and seeks to protect the rights of a Nigerian child— and other related matters. However, currently, 11 states, all in northern Nigeria, are yet to domesticate the Child's Rights Act. These children, especially Almajiri children are bearing the brunt of this inaction.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), last year, released the "2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria" report, which highlights that 40 percent of the total population, or almost 83 million people, live below the country's poverty line of 137,430 naira ($381.75) per year.
More so, fewer than half of children in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria attend "overcrowded government primary schools, official data from 2015 shows. Almajiri schools help fill the gap and parents pay as little as 500 naira ($1.30) a month in fees."
Issues revolving around the practice of Almajiri, include child destitution, child trafficking and manifestations in child begging.
Meeting Mallam Muhammad of "Makaranta Muhammadiya"
The sun was fiercely gazing at Mallam Muhammad's arena, there were wooden tablets with Arabic inscriptions thereon, and smiling unwashed faces of little children. Also, the grown up Almajiri children can be referred to as "matured Almajiri children".
Mallam Muhammad, Almajiri teacher
Mallam Muhammad is the owner of one of Almajiri schools in Sokoto, named Makaranta Muhammadiya.
"I'm Mallam Muhammad, I believe God give me reward for what I'm doing. I don't know how many boys there are." He says, with his wrinkles showing out his state of joy. He continued: "Their parents used to come to check on them sometimes. After they finish and leave here, they would go and start business. They can only leave here if only God wishes; God is their timer."
Mallam Muhammad Almajiri children's hostel for sleeping with their belongings hanged on the wall.
"I have a farm but I'm not eating it with them. They will come with their own foodstuff. Government doesn't bring food except God. Even if you come (join us), God will give you food." While narrating with so much energy and excitement on his face, he claims that the government doesn't have hands in the system because it has been an old age long practice.
Almajiri System: A Faded Legacy
The Almajiri system of education, which dates back to the 11th century, is an Islamic school system with a long history in northern Nigeria. Under the Sokoto Caliphate, the Almajiri regime was solidified by the Islamic revolt of the 18th century. This educational system focuses on Quranic and Islamic education, with students learning a trade for a living, too. Schools were governed under the Sokoto Caliphate, and teachers reported directly to the Emir of their province.
Teachers, parents, officials, and the community as a whole raised the schools' students. Students will farm and carry food to the school to complement the Almajiri scheme. It was a course in the region's society and culture, similar to Western education, where students were taught the Islamic and northern Nigerian way of life.
Now, most of these children are lacking access to formal education. According to a UNICEF study in 2014, Nigeria has 9.5 million Almajiri children, accounting for 72 percent of the country's out-of-school children. Estimates in 2019 revealed that Nigeria has between 13.2 million and 15 million out-of-school children, the majority of whom are in northern Nigeria.
On the UNICEF website, it is estimated that "In north-eastern and north-western states, 29 percent and 35 percent of Muslim children, respectively, receive Qur'anic education, which does not include basic skills such as literacy and numeracy. The government considers children attending such schools to be officially out-of-school."
It saddens me that most of these children nowadays are carrying their "own crosses". These children could be seen in Northern Nigeria as beggars, embarking on menial works, or be in forced labour. In 2019, the International Labor Organization revealed that nearly half of Nigerian children are enslaved. According to the ILO, at least 43% of the country's children are trapped in child labour, including in private businesses. Most of these children are stuck in different forms of forced labour, despite international conventions prohibiting it.
"Children… are what they called Amana; they are a gift from God Almighty"
While speaking with Barrister Safiyyah Mohammed, a Sokoto based legal pundit and a lecturer from Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, she gave a full breakdown of why the problem keeps evolving.
On the part of the government, she said there are a lot of issues regarding implementation of policies and laws and how to ensure that parents abide by laws set out in our statutes. She said "…we have universal basic education law which provides that children must be sent to school but then we have issues of not being able to keep track of children whether they are in school or sent to other states. So it becomes difficult."
Before speaking on the part of Mallams, Barrister Safiyyah reveals one of the reasons for the non-domestication of CRA to be religious in nature. According to her, she said "There are differences between Western and Islamic culture values, so this has led to concern of non-domestication of CRA Sokoto state and other northern states." She, however, lamented that most of these Mallams are not thinking about the danger of setting up schools without regulations.
"We are bound to have issues because we don't know the qualifications of most of these Mallams."
While speaking on the part of parents, Barrister Safiyyah explained that one of the key issues regarding implementation of policies and laws is the attitude of citizens and attitude of individuals as it plays a major role in how the laws are being implemented and carried out.
She said several decades ago, the way Almajirici was practiced— it was "something noble for a good cause. But the way it is practiced now, parents used it as a way to get away from their responsibilities because when you see the issue of people sending their children to far away places without any means of income, sometimes it is a recipe for a lot of ill in the society.
"Islamic law comprehensively gives children adequate rights. Children under Islamic law are what they called Amana; they are a gift from God Almighty, so they are to be treated in the best of ways. There is nothing that justifies children being sent out for Almajirici and being made to fend for themselves at such a young age." She expressed emphatically and authoritatively.
"Work Done Seems Zero"
In an interview with Zainab Yunusa, a co-convener and assistant field officer with Almajiri Child Right Initiative (ACRI) Sokoto Chapter, she reveals how the organisation has been implementing its mission on the eradication or reformation of the Almajiri system, reiterating some difficulties on the part of the state government.
Zainab and Almajiri Child
Almajiri Child Right Initiative (ACRI) is a non-governmental organization initiated by Mr. Muhammad Sabo Keana, advocating for reformation of the Almajiri system in Nigeria.
According to Yunusa, the organization has been embarking on community sensitization to concerned parents, hosting rallies and conferences, rendering services ranging from medical outreach, food, shelter among others. She revealed the organization has been working tirelessly with the ministry of women and children affairs in tracing, documenting and reintegrating the children back to their parents.
Saddened by the state government's delayed response regarding this issue, Zainab expresses that "the State government cannot be precise when it would end because it has to do with religion and culture… and many mistake it's reformation for abolition. So, work done seems zero."
During the course of this story, all effort to reach the state government and ministry of women and children affairs proved abortive, albeit when the Honourable Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Honourable Bashir Gorau was contacted, he hanged the phone— saying he is not in the right position for that and questions should be channeled to the right authorities.
* names changed to protect identity.
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Op-ed: Common Sense: Not Dead Yet
by Administrator 04/7/2018 | 4:50 0 Posted in Contributors, Opinion
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This is a Maine Examiner contributor opinion piece.
Examples of mindlessness these days are so numerous that a contest for the most absurd media headline would necessarily be limited to a specific date. Among conservatives, there is no doubt that there is also a pervasive liberal bias in major media outlets and a study by Tim Groseclose of UCLA and Jeffrey Milyo of the University of Missouri says there is liberal bias in even the supposedly conservative Wall Street Journal news pages and the Drudge Report.
Ken Frederic is a native of Ellsworth and graduate of UMO.
A long-lost Facebook post first raised my interest in LD1781, "An Act to Encourage New Major Investments in Shipbuilding Facilities and the Preservation of Jobs". It caught my attention because it suggested (or maybe actually said) a Legislator had repeated that mindless and shopworn "Corporate Welfare" talking point. A search of Maine media coverage of LD 1781, showed headlines in the Bangor Daily News, Lewiston Sun Journal, and Ellsworth American, all repeated that "Corporate Welfare" talking point. [In fairness to those papers, following the links shows the headlines apply to guest columns and letters, not editorials. The Portland Press Herald links were plainly labeled as letters.]
Those letters were remarkably similar if not quite identical. Even the protest signs and opposition testimony followed the same template, sometimes rearranging the order of the points. Those were:
Tax breaks are 'corporate welfare'.
BIW is owned by General Dynamics and does not need assistance.
The value of the package was cited at $60M, that is the 20-year value of a $3M/year tax reduction.
The General Dynamics CEO received $21M in compensation "last year", which was sometime between 2013 and 2017, depending on the specific letter.
General Dynamics bought back $14.4B of its own stock (or $13.7B, or $12B)
General Dynamics is the 5th largest DOD Contractor and has $ 31B in revenue, 4 times that of Maine. Another writer claimed $60B.)
Maine could not 'afford' to 'give' General Dynamics money which was needed for education, health care, and other priorities.
BIW should be building Solar Panels, Windmills, and High-Speed Trains, not warships.
Maine needs the money for healthcare, education, combatting climate change, and feeding our starving children.
Some 'testimony' was creative, claiming BIW was responsible for climate change, that the sonar used by its ships were killing Maine children, and that stock buybacks were responsible for the economic stagnation over the last 8 years. One writer urged that Maine or Bath City seize BIW and sell it to a private entity. Another recommended taxing the machinery as well as the real estate at BIW. Yet another asserted that defense spending returned less than half as many dollars to the local economy as spending on education and health.
That LD 1781 passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities is evidence that our legislature was unpersuaded by the templated opposition to the bill. Readers will make individual assessments of whether the opposition arguments were as mindless as they were repetitive. What is not a matter of opinion that Maine is one of the highest tax and least business friendly states in America. General Dynamics is a sophisticated contractor, not married to building ships in Bath and the corporation will not subsidize BIW from their other businesses. If taxation in Maine drives the BIW overhead high enough that the facility cannot compete with yards in other states, General Dynamics will move existing work and stop spending the money to write losing proposals for Bath. Four or five thousand jobs will be lost. There will be no future for BIW unless another buyer is enticed with much larger tax incentives.
Our Legislature made a rational decision and rejected the nonsense opposition to LD 1781. We all owe thanks to legislators for supporting this bill and putting the health of Maine's economy ahead of pandering to a noisy, mindless rabble whose motives are beyond my understanding and, I would propose, beyond their own.
Ken Frederic is a native of Ellsworth and graduate of UMO. He and his wife, Betty Ann, retired to Maine in 2012 after 43 years as a Department of Defense consultant. They now live in Bristol and are active in the community, St. Patrick's Church, and Republican politics.
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(MILLBURN, NJ) -- Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the addition of live performances on Wednesday nights to meet the demand of its popular Brookside Cabaret at … MILLBURN, NJ — Live performances on Wednesday nights have been added at Paper Mill Playhouse to meet the demand of its popular Brookside Cabaret at the F.M. Wednesday-Sunday. The roll played a vital function at the historic mill, squeezing water out of the paper at the early stages of production. The rise of rock and roll did little to decrease the Mills Brothers popularity. Available to stream for 72 hours. The investment amount is SEK 7.5 billion. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt! SCA to build a new paper machine for the production of kraftliner at its Obbola paper mill in Umeå. The paper Mill have been there for over 100 years and I believe there have not been any floods. Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theater with approximately 1200 seats, located in Millburn, New Jersey on the Rahway River.Due to its relatively close location to Manhattan, it draws from the pool of actors (and audience members) who live in New York City.Paper Mill was officially designated as the "State Theater of New Jersey". 11 Feb 2018 - Details about the event The Broadcasters Live on 4pm - 7pm, Sun 11th Feb at The Paper Mill in Darley Abbey The Otherside (Live) 4. Feb 4, 2016 - Set in lush landscaped gardens, The Paper Mill, The Gild, The Bindery and The Foundry are spacious, designer riverfront apartments and townhouses. The new paper machine will start operation in … With warm log fires and an outdoor terrace, it's a family-friendly pub for all seasons. Tickets may be purchased by calling 973.376.4343, at the Paper Mill PlayhouseBox Office at 22 Brookside Drive in Millburn, or online at www.PaperMill.org. Boys With Nicotine Addictions (Live) 3. Offer expires 14 May 2020. (All Fields Required. Follow Callie Rainey on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram . "I'll Be Around" became a hit, then a disk jockey turned the record over. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical based on the 1831 novel of the same name written by Victor Hugo with songs from the 1996 Walt Disney Animation Studios film adaptation.. The opening of the spectacular new cafe and dining quarter, The Paper Mill offers a contemporary urban lifestyle in a heritage setting. The 2020—2021 season continues with Tony Award winner and Paper Mill alumna Laura Benanti, and Tony-, Grammy-, and Emmy-nominated superstar Vanessa Williams. Paper Mill Playhouse has announced a virtual beginning of the 2020-2021 season. Demand for publication paper in Western Europe has declined by approximately 5% per year since 2008. 28 Jan 2018 - Details about the event Live Music With The Silicone Taxis on 4pm - 7pm, Sun 28th Jan at The Paper Mill in Darley Abbey The former owner of a paper mill has been fined £300,000 after a worker suffered life-changing injuries when his head was trapped in a machine. Paper Mill Gas Leak Chattisgarh Updates: Poisonous gas was leaked at Shakti Papers when cleaning work was underway. Wynik na żywo: Cray Valley Paper Mills vs Burgess Hill Town w rozgrywkach Puchar Anglii. LIVERPOOL LIFESTYLE. The former Wansbrough Paper Mill in Watchet (Image: J. The opening of the spectacular new cafe and dining quarter, The Paper Mill offers a contemporary urban lifestyle in a heritage setting. Cutting down the trees and collecting fiber from wood chips was the only way of producing paper. Air pollution permit approved for odorous Michigan paper mill Updated Nov 24, 2020; Posted Nov 24, 2020 A view of Graphic Packaging International in Kalamazoo on April 2, 2020. The Paper Mill Store offers the widest selection of specialty paper, card stock and envelopes for paper enthusiasts and graphics professionals in reams, boxes or bulk, from top paper mills, shipped from our Paper Valley Wisconsin warehouse. 9 – 13°C Mostly Cloudy. The annual production in Obbola will increase from the current 450,000 tonnes of kraftliner to 725,000 tonnes to meet the growing demand for renewable packaging. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. Late Nights In Newark (Live) 5. George Gershwin Alone has had over … We Are Noise Plant 2. Inside the Paper Mill Playhouse lobby, there is a beautiful stone fireplace ablaze on this chilly winter evening, but there is also evidence of an impending British Invasion at every turn. ... Live and genuine customer service from the heart of Paper Valley, USA. With the abundance of natural light and clever use of storage, these homes are functional, yet stylish and timeless. Neutral Gray (Live) Noise Plant played at Paper Mill on November 10th, 2019, here is that. The 2020—2021 season continues with Tony-, Grammy-, and Emmy-nominated superstar Vanessa Williams. This live concert event will include beloved Broadway tunes, lesser known gems, heartwarming tales, and live Q&A with the star. A paper mill in Scotland which closed last year is to be turned into a £60m green energy centre. Play Video. Paper Mill the State Theatre of New Jersey - Business Office is located at 22 Brookside Dr in Millburn, NJ - Essex County and is a business listed in the categories Live Production Theaters, Theatres Stage and Theaters Live Productions. 11:00am-3:30pm, 5pm-9:30pm Out of those people 44 are Republicans and 54 are Democrats while 39 are affiliated with a different political party or have no party affiliation at all. Live: 50 firefighters tackle large blaze at paper mill in Trafford. Paper Mill Playhouse: great theater without crossing the bridge - See 243 traveler reviews, 37 candid photos, and great deals for Millburn, NJ, at Tripadvisor. Live scores, attacks and all other events of Cray Valley Paper Mills vs Merstham. SCA produces kraftliner – paper for transport packaging – at the paper mills in Obbola (Umeå) and Munksund (Piteå). Planning Associates). Monday - Thursday 9am - 6pm Friday - Saturday 9am - 8pm Sunday 9am - 6pm The Paper Mill - Deliveries. Play Video. Find Us. 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How Can You Be Sure Someone Has True Leadership Skills? Look for These 4 Signs
How the pandemic has positively changed leadership as we know it.
By Marcel Schwantes, Founder and Chief Human Officer, Leadership From the Core@MarcelSchwantes
While the pandemic has had negative impacts on small businesses, it has also left an unexpected positive impact on leadership as we know it.
To explore this silver lining, I had the opportunity to connect with several CEOs who shared their insight on how the pandemic has evolved their leadership and, in turn, the future direction of their business. Here is what they had to say:
Enhanced transparency and team engagement
The pandemic has forced many C-level executives to look inward, become more transparent, and more engaged with team members on all levels. For Steve Schulze, co-founder and CEO of Nékter Juice Bar, one of the nation's leading juice bar franchises, this has brought an amplified perspective and understanding of each team members' experiences, challenges, and opportunities for improved success.
"Many of us believe we fully understand our business, and to an extent we do. However, viewing the business through a different or larger lens provides optical clarity of every aspect, perspective, employee emotion, challenge, and executional ability," he explains.
While driving a business through immense change is always done with care and thoughtfulness, adding perspectives from the whole of the organization gives a leader the ability to understand the full impact and implications of decisions.
Strengthened core values and cultural beliefs
The pandemic really affirmed the fact that people and cultural beliefs should be at the heart of every business decision.
According to Tony Libardi, co-CEO and president of Marco's Pizza, one of the nation's fastest-growing pizza brands, "the best leaders use culture to drive unprecedented results. Throughout the pandemic, we relied heavily on our core values and cultural beliefs to guide our decision making which led us to a historic, record-breaking year. For us, it was the importance of rallying around Marco's most important cultural belief -- people first."
As core values continue to take precedence in the post-pandemic era, leaders are better equipped to make strategic decisions to help advance the direction of their brands. "By maintaining our future focus on core values, our culture has the power to unify our system and inspire accountability, innovation, and resiliency."
Brought humanity and authenticity to the workforce
The pandemic forced leaders to embrace vulnerability and showcase a new level of humanity and authenticity in the workforce.
Brad Hillier, CEO of Re-Bath, the nation's premier bathroom remodeling franchise, embraced this change in leadership. "By sharing big company issues, discussing what you're struggling with, asking for help, and being transparent, your team will follow suit -- and together you can work toward creative solutions more effectively and efficiently," he explained.
What team members and other stakeholders are looking for is an authentic and fully accessible human being as a leader. While always central to exceptional leadership, the pandemic created a crash course on how vulnerability and empathy should be guiding principles to your leadership style. "The emotion brought forth by the pandemic was felt by all -- leaders were forced to understand and navigate how that impacted themselves and their teams. This led to self-disclosure and acting with compassion which, in turn, led to better results."
The rediscovery of doing more with less
For Ed Quinlan, president of the world's leading carpet and upholstery cleaner Chem-Dry, the positive change meant leaders being forced out of their comfort zone to do more with less.
"As people reflect on the height of the pandemic and its impact, I've been hearing a lot of anecdotes around innovation and pivots -- personally and professionally -- in order to survive. However, I think one critical detail is being left out, and that's the element of time. Leaders not only had to innovate, but we had to do it overnight, and this trickled into the leadership style of many," shared Quinlan.
Time has not been a luxury during the pandemic and projects that would normally take months, if not years, of rigorous testing, trials, and training had to be streamlined and accelerated. In turn, Chem-Dry was able to roll out a brand new service in record time through efficient leadership -- doing more with less.


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White House announces $20M for rural hospital records
By Julian Pecquet - 09/10/10 09:59 PM EDT
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Kathleen SebeliusJerry Moran: 'I wouldn't be surprised' if Pompeo ran for Senate in Kansas Mark Halperin inks book deal 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE on Friday announced almost $20 million in federal funds to help rural hospitals switch to electronic health records.
The funds will go to 46 Regional Extension Centers serving providers in 41 states. A total of 1,655 critical access and rural hospitals are in the areas covered by the centers.
"The benefits of health information technology can be especially important for patients and clinicians in small and rural health care facilities, yet these facilities face high hurdles as they look toward joining in the transition to electronic information," Sebelius said in a statement. "The funding we are announcing today is a new category of support, aimed specifically at assisting critical access and rural hospitals with their particular needs and challenges."
The funding is part of last year's recovery act.
The list of the new recipients is available here.
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Protestors Confront Mayor Pete Buttigieg After South Bend Officer Shoots and Kills Black Man
By Asher Stockler On 6/22/19 at 10:08 AM EDT
News Pete Buttigieg Police Shooting
Protesters and members of South Bend's black community demanded answers Friday night from Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is running for president, at a rally organized in response to the fatal shooting of Eric Logan, a 54-year-old black resident, by a city police officer.
Local media reports indicated around 150 people turned out for the Justice for South Bend rally, which began with a tense confrontation at police headquarters between demonstrators and Buttigieg, who was flanked by the city's Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski.
Attendees peppered Buttigieg with questions about whether he believed black lives matter and voiced demands to fire the officer responsible, Sgt. Ryan O'Neill.
At one point, a woman confronted Buttigieg about his presidential ambitions, an inconvenient obligation in the days leading up to the party's first presidential debates.
"You're running for president and you want black people to vote for you?" she asked. "That's not going to happen."
Friday night's standoff was spawned by Logan's fatal encounter with O'Neill last Sunday morning. O'Neill was responding to reports of an individual who was possibly breaking into cars downtown. When he arrived on scene, O'Neill claimed, Logan was brandishing a knife and lunged at him with it, which is when O'Neill said he fired his weapon.
Democratic presidential candidate and Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg speaks at the 2019 Blue Commonwealth Gala fundraiser June 15, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. Win McNamee/Getty
Officers in South Bend are equipped with body cameras, but the devices don't automatically turn on unless the lights and sirens of a police car are activated or the car is traveling at high speeds, neither of which was the case in the Logan shooting. O'Neill did not manually activate his camera.
Acknowledging the deficit created by this approach, Buttigieg had his police chief issue an order affirming department policy that interactions with civilians be recorded.
One woman at the rally expressed her anguish about encounters with police, wondering whether or not good-faith compliance with officers' demands could still lead to her death.
"When we get pulled over, do we run or do we stay?" she asked, according to the South Bend Tribune. "Do we grab our IDs or do you wait until you all just kill us too? It's scary. Do you understand we are here today because we are scared?"
Relatives of Logan were also in attendance Friday night, and they tried to convey to Buttigieg the community's long-standing frustrations with the police department, which is overwhelmingly white, despite serving a city with a substantial African American population.
"People are getting tired of you letting your officers do whatever they want to do," Logan's brother said.
A lawyer for Logan's family reportedly plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against O'Neill and the city.
O'Neill has been the subject of complaints about potential racial bias in the past. A former officer once raised concerns after O'Neill allegedly made disparaging comments about interracial marriage. An internal investigation cleared O'Neill of wrongdoing. Two black men in his custody have also sued him over alleged use of excessive force.
In one suit, O'Neill was accused of using his Taser on a man whose arms were already raised and hurling a racial epithet at him. Another man sued over accusations of police brutality. Both lawsuits were dismissed after the appropriate filing fees weren't paid.
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