Our refuge is not outside ourselves ~ HELLO, my name is Blog!
Rand's character notes in the afterword of her legendary novel are fascinating.
She actually wrote them several years before the publication of the book itself. Not for any outside reader, but for the clarity of her own understanding.
And what's interesting is, although the notes weren't included in the final manuscript, they're still some of the most important words in the book.
Howard's feeling is a steady, unruffled flame, deep and hidden, a profound joy of living and of knowing his power, a joy that is not even conscious of being joy, because it is so steady, natural and unchangeable. If outside life brings him disappointment, well, it is merely a detail of the battle.
That's not a architect, that's an archetype. And it's a life philosophy worth learning from.
Rand's words implore us to seek refuge inside ourselves. To become free from the threat of external evaluation. And to weaken our ties to peripheral joys.
Doesn't that sound blissful? Doesn't that seem healthier than tricking ourselves into thinking security comes from somewhere outside ourselves?
It's the love we can never lose. The love that belongs to us. The love that nobody would dare take away because it's too deep, too hidden, too natural and too steadfast.
One way to keep that flame unruffled is by asking ourselves the following question.
What do I need to do to water the root of inner joy?
Whatever the answer is, it's not something that can be bought, bottled, bent or beat. It's ours.
And once we take extreme ownership over it, no amount of rejection, disappointment or criticism can touch us.
Are you fanning the flame within, or forever requiring the balloon of external joy to remain inflated?


8"Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.a 10Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chalde'ans, for their iniquity, says the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste. 13I will bring upon that land all the words which I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
17So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people, 20and all the foreign folk among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ash'kelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod); 21Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon; 22all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea; 23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair; 24all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes that dwell in the desert; 25all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; 26all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylonb shall drink.


Senator Elizabeth Warren's hometown newspaper, the Boston Globe, highlights her problems on the left with her claims of having native American ancestry.
Rather than dismiss the criticism against her, the Globe surprisingly documents questions surrounding her heritage and makes the obvious point that the more prominently her name is mentioned as a potential candidate for president in 2020, the more attention will be payed to her questionable explanation about her ancestry.
She's taken flak from the right for years as a "fake Indian," including taunts from President Trump, who derisively calls her "Pocahontas.'' That clamor from the right will only grow with her increasing prominence.
Warren dismisses the questions by saying that she knows she comes from Native American stock because her family told her so. That explanation might have worked when running for the Senate. But you can bet the scrutiny of her heritage will rise tenfold if she enters the presidential race.
The Globe investigated Warren's Native American claims when she ran for the Senate and found that some in her family back in Oklahoma identified as Native American while others had never heard of their connection. The Cherokees, the tribe to which she claims ancestry, said she has never reached out to embrace them and actually stopped identifying as Native American previous to her Senate run.
We all have family legends about our ancestry and ancestors. But claiming to be a minority on a federal form without any proof could have gotten her fired if Harvard had discovered the subterfuge.
This is an issue for her that will not go away. Despite the criticism on the left, it will not likely be a deal breaker with primary voters. But the issue may resonate in the general election, since it goes to the heart to her claims of honesty and integrity.


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Q: Can we prevent duplicate spam questions? Stack Exchange already checks new questions and rejects them if they're exact duplicates.  When this happens the asker gets a message about this.
What it doesn't do is to check for deleted duplicate posts.  So sometimes a spammer will ask the same seed question over and over and over again.  Can the duplicate-checking engine help with this at all?  We don't want to search against all deleted posts (unless the database is super-efficient) because that's a lot of stuff, but maybe we could check against posts deleted via flags, or perhaps posts deleted recently?  (Flag-deletions would be better for fending off long-term spammers, which I've also seen.)
In this case the UI shouldn't tell the spammer that his question is rejected as a duplicate; that'll just teach 'em to modify the question each time, and that's no good either.  Maybe it could "accept" it and then spam-delete it a minute or two later, after the OP has moved on to his next target.  (On our site these seem to be human-powered spammers, not bots.)  Or if that kind of quasi-hellban is a bad idea, maybe there's some better way to clean it up efficiently.  On smaller communities it can take hours for the users to handle this, and once it gets to four spam flags probably only moderators are going to see it (because it drops off the front page at that point).
Naturally, this should also produce extra-strong signal to SpamRam: we deleted that as spam once already and the spammer came back and posted the exact same thing.
As requested, here's a screen shot of one of them.  The pattern is that another user later "answers" with a spam link.

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Can the duplicate-checking engine help with this at all?

Probably yes. Same concept/code, more posts to go through. The duplicate-checking engine should be upgraded so it can include posts with spam flags, low-quality flags, or those that have been recently deleted with a certain period of time. A spam detector could help since it could separate the non-spam from the spam. Then maybe we could include all deleted posts with spam flags, low-quality flags, from users with suspicious behavior, and other criteria only mods know.
But I mean seriously, couldn't SE make a possible spam detector engine and another review queue? When the spam detector engine thinks that a post might be spam, it goes into the spam review queue where people with x rep and above can review. Of course, CAPTCHA and other bot/spam reviewing security might be need to included just in case though.

Naturally, this should also produce extra-strong signal to SpamRam: we deleted that as spam once already and the spammer came back and posted the exact same thing.

If the user keeps on spamming, maybe there should be a automatic message sending system that tells the accused spammer to stop spamming or the mods will shower suspensions on you and a final creepy line at the end that says something like you have been warned.
Of course before the message sends, I suppose the spam detecting engines and mods should first put the accused users on notice. And after too much spam, send a warning. And if that does not work, just delete the user's account and permanently remove the user's post from existence.
Whatever SpamRam is, it better get a much more stronger signal so it can deal with these crazy spammers appropriately.
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When the user clicks Post Your Question, there should be a warning box that says something like:

Are you sure that your post is not spam? If yes, click again to continue. But if it is spam, you will be dealt with appropriately... You have been warned.

Maybe the last line makes the warning a little too creepy but apply this to new users/users who seem to have problems with asking (previous question bans, does not have a good question rating/score, etc.). The warning should be able to make spammers rethink before posting.

Spam.SE!!!! Let's make a site where all people do is post spam so they don't have to bother with the other sites. After like 30 days, the questions are removed so the site is no completely cluttered with spam and the system doesn't go into overload... Probably, the least helpful solution here.

Spam mods? Just hire elect some people to help with spam. Instead of  a blue diamond, they would have a orange diamond or whatever color you mods decide. When spam flags are raised, they rush to the scene and have the ability to delete questions with spam flags. These people should have a great flagging history, can be trusted, and have no suspicious activity in the past.

IP address banning! This is the definition of an IP address:

An IP address (short for Internet Protocol address) is used to identify computers on the Internet. It works like a return address would on a piece of mail.

Usually spammers will try to use multiple devices so they can spam with their one account. This is supposed to help them reach more users just in case they only use one different method of using SE. If the SE system can figure out what the IP address(es) are, SE could try preventing devices with those IP address(es) to be able to access SE (which means creating an account and posting spam, etc.).
But seriously, only use this (if can) if you are sure that the user is a spammer. I mean, we can't just block good guys like me and Jon Skeet and Shog9. That's just abusing the proilege.

A: Although your screenshot says "fooled a mod", closing the question does solve the problem. There won't be a spam answer, and the question gets deleted in 9 days automatically.  This is what happens quite often on  Stack Overflow: many seeding questions appear (recently they tend to be about data scraping) and are processed normally:  closed and then deleted by Roomba. In the absence of a spam answer they are just low-quality questions.
Should a spam answer appear, whoever flags it ought to take a second look at the question itself.

once it gets to four spam flags probably only moderators are going to see it

Which also solves the problem for the most part: the post that nobody sees can wait as long as it's needed for a moderator to check the flag queue.
My point is, the situation as you described it doesn't look that bad. Building extra procedures to guard against the (pretty special) case of duplicate seeding question posts doesn't seem worth the effort.

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This document helps the user to know the steps involved in bringing their Xero data into Easy-Commission. The user has to authenticate Easy-Commission with Xero and bring in the data with single click. The data will be imported into Easy-Commission.
- Easy-Commission is importing Reps, Invoices, Customers, Vendors and Items from Xero. Imported Invoices will be converted as transactions.
Before proceeding with Import process, Easy-Commission needs to be authenticated with Xero account.
Click on the Authenticate Xero button available in the import from Xero page.
Clicking on the "Connect To Xero" button will require the Xero authentication and it will be redirected to Xero login page.
Choose the Xero organisation which is required to import into Easy-Commission.
The Xero import page is providing the following import options.
New Invoices >> This option will import all of the invoices that are invoiced in current period.
Paid Invoices >> This option will import all of the invoices that got paid in current period.
Xero doesn't have Sales Rep object in the system. By checking this option, the import process will bring in the Tracking category from Xero into Easy-Commission and create them as Sales Reps.
>> Click on the "Import Data" button to initiate the import process.
After clicking on the "Import Data" button, the import process will start bring in the authenticated Xero company data to the Easy-Commission Account. The import status will be shown in the import statistics page. The import statistics page can be viewed by click on "Import Statistics" button.
Open the Import>> Import From Xero page in Easy-Commission. Click on the "Import Statistics" button to view the statistics. A link message will also be shown during the import process is running. Clicking on the link will show the statistics page.
The import statistics page contains the information about number of Reps, Customers, Vendors, Items and Invoices that have been imported from Xero, number of errors if occurred any and error details.
Easy-Commission provides an option to delete the inserted records in the Import process. The option is available in the Xero import statistics page. The delete action will remove all the Reps, Invoices, Customers, Vendors, Items and Transactions which got inserted in that import run.
Delete process will not remove the records that are updated during the Xero import. It affects only the newly inserted records.
After clicking "Delete" button, a confirmation dialog will be displayed. Select "Ok" button to proceed with deletion.
Yes, if "Consider Tracking category as Sales Rep in Easy-Commission" option is checked. If the option is checked then Tracking category in Xero will be created as Sales Rep in Easy-Commission.
Yes. Easy-Commission calculates Gross Profit for the imported invoices using the formula Sales Amount - Cost where Cost = Quantity * Unit Cost of Item. Easy-Commission does not look at other cost data such as Purchase Orders or Bills.
Easy-Commission provides a specific "Delete" functionality which will delete all the inserted invoices, reps, customers, vendors and items. The "Delete" option will be available in the import statistics page. Caution: only new "inserted" records will be deleted; records that had their values updated, will not be reversed back to their original values.
Can I import from multiple Xero organisation?
Yes. But before importing of data from different Xero organisation, it needs to be authenticated.
Did Easy-Commission import my Credit card and other personal information from Xero?
No. Easy-Commission doesn't import any of the personal information such as credit cards.
Does Import process bring the Country information from Xero?
Yes. Easy-Commission import the country names from Xero based on the country name matching. If Xero country name matches with Easy-Commission country name then its corresponding code will be updated and shown in the customer page.
Unable to retrieve data from QuickBooks® Online. Please Contact Easy-Commission support. Import from QuickBooks® Online is failed due to Session ticket failure. Please contact Easy-Commission support.
Currently, Easy-Commission does not support the below scenarios.
While importing invoices, Easy-Commission doesn't support Adjustments (prior period invoices get modified in current period, etc), Voiding invoices scenarios.
While fetching Paid invoices, Easy-Commission doesn't consider payments happened through Credit note, Deposit and Journal payments.
Scenarios like making Invoice paid by setting up discounts are not handled.


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Supernatural, Season 4
This year the boys got caught in the middle of a big battle between good and evil – and for that matter between good and good, and evil and evil! All hell is literally breaking loose, the seals that bind Lucifer in Hell being broken, one by one, and the Winchesters are important – not that anyone will tell them why.
Season 4's arc is by far the best of the show so far, building on plot elements from previous years while bringing in lots of new characters and situations. Misha Collins has been a breakout addition to the cast, bringing immense gravity and weight to proceedings as angel Castiel, his magnificently doleful features doing everything necessary to convey how bleak prospects are for those on the side of the angels. Best of all, he dresses exactly like John Constantine, which points up that this year of Supernatural has been the closest anything's ever come to capturing the Vertigo feel on-screen. On the other side of the fence, Christopher Heyerdahl has terrified as arch-demon Alastair, chewing his words as if there's human flesh stuck in his teeth.
For me, Jared Padalecki as Sam is still the weak link. He's too whiny and petulant for such a tall guy, and never really convinces when playing angry, vengeful or tough – but the wife doesn't think so, and like everything originating on The CW, how much girls dig it counts for a lot. On the other hand, Kirk-manqué Jensen Ackles has been superb as Dean all year, as comfortable with giddy insouciance as tortured guilt. His best moment comes when telling Sam about his time "away"; it's the scene that drives the season, Dean's painful honesty answered only by Sam's deadly evasiveness, and he really plants a flag on it.
Establishing the Winchesters at the heart of the apocalypse has undone some of the damage done by the road house episodes of previous years, which made them seem like two largely irrelevant hunters among thousands. Unfortunately, brotherly heart-to-hearts are still all-too-frequent. The problem with a small regular cast is that such interactions become repetitive; the upside is that anything can happen to the supporting characters. It's a worthwhile trade-off.
Despite the strong story arc, there's time for the usual format-breaking, fun episodes (often written by Tick creator Ben Edlund). One sees the boys as amnesiac office drones, and another sends them after a novelist who's unwittingly been chronicling their adventures in lusty purple prose.
Supernatural will never be my favourite show – its main concerns (getting out of Dad's shadow, learning to get on with siblings as you grow up) are too much those of teenagers – but if there's no movie to watch on a Friday night, it always fills the gap.
Supernatural, Season 4, The CW/ITV2.
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Q: How to put image in anchor tag dynamically using javascript I have dynamically created image in javascript. I want img to be placed inside an anchor tag how can i do this?
        var element = document.createElement("img");
        element = cell.appendChild(element);
        element.setAttribute("src", "/Images/Delete.gif");

A: var anchor=document.createElement('a');
anchor.href='#';
var element = document.createElement("img");
element.setAttribute("src", "/Images/Delete.gif");
anchor.appendChild(element);
cell.appendChild(anchor);

i did not test the code, i used my brain as interpreter, so there may be an error in it. but i think you should get the concept.

A: element.setAttribute before you append it as you are redclaring element to what I presume to now be the cell... or don't assign element = cell.append..
var element = document.createElement("img");
element.setAttribute("src", "/Images/Delete.gif");
cell.appendChild(element);

What I suggest though would be:
function insertImage(anchorID, imagesrc){
  var img = "";
  $("#"+anchorID).html($("#"+anchorID).html() + img);
}

I am adding html within html in case there is any text in there you still want to keep.. otherwise negate that second statement of html
You need the jQuery javascript plugin for this to work.. http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery
If you'd prefer not to include a plugin, then:
function insertImage(anchorID, imagesrc){
      var img = "";
      document.getElementById(anchorID).innerHtml = img;
    }

A: You'll need a reference to the anchor tag (node). Let's say that's a. Since A and IMG are very simple html elements, this will work just fine:
a.innerHTML += '';

Or if you want to replace the content of the A tag (instead of add the img), just remove the +:
a.innerHTML = '';

Can't fail. In any browser. jQuery is overkill for something this simple (and would do the exact same underneath).
edit
But it looks you're inserting the img into a cell and not an anchor tag... Or your anchor tag is called cell? In that case, just replace a. with cell. =)


indeed, nothing is more valuable in life or comforting than a companion whose presence you do not even feel, much like you do not get conscious of the presence of your own self,, yet you derive strength and purpose in life being perpetually connected to that companion, trutworthy, intelligent , faithful and reliable, strong and supportive and encouraging, and one who can share your joy and your grief, multiplying the joy and halfing the grief.
A companion such as you describe is worth more than gold. Thank you for reading and commenting.
By God's grace i have one such as that.
Could not have put it better than Mr Indrajit Rathore above!
I think authors who are considered great have this unique quality of being able to state profound facts of life in a very lucid manner.
You put it so well yourself – "profound facts of life." Thank you for this.
a stunning offering. thank you so much for sharing these words!
Such friendship is a treasure to be held close to one's heart.
What a great quote. Nothing like the gift of trust and friendship.


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Oh this Damien Walter post. —On the one hand it is very nice to see well it isn't writing advice per se, but it's nonetheless the sort of thing writing advice needs much much more of, and much much less of "cut the adverbs" and "don't head-hop" and "spelling is important." —What are you writing? How are you approaching it? What are the tools in your toolkit, and how might they be used to solve the problem? What the heck is the problem, anyway, and is conceiving of it as a problem even what you want to be doing? (What if you're focused on the sound of what you're building, and thus that string of adverbs is necessary for the swing?) (What if you're making a point about universality and actively embrace a cacophonic leap from point to point of view?) (What if you're making up a whole new slanguage as you oh but this is getting silly, the point is almost made—)
What if you want to write prose that plays with the grammar of cinema?
So maybe you want to cater to the more widespread literacy in cinematic grammar that Walter notes; it's all about the reading protocols, after all. And maybe you want to mess around in the limen between the words you say and the scene they see; maybe you want to show and not tell. Maybe you want to have a narrative voice as flat and objective as possible because flat objectivity's impossible, and that's one of the points you'd maybe like to gesture toward. —So maybe I have a dog in this fight. The visible world is merely their skin.
But also, that other hand: any time you find yourself making essentialist arguments ("Novels dial the phone like this; movies dial the phone like this"), you need to run your check/wreck protocols, or you'll find yourself stating things that just ain't so merely because they neatly fit your strictures: the primary sin of fanfic, for inst, isn't that it's too cinematic, but almost precisely the opposite: in its attempt to exercise the authority needed to tell a story with someone else's setting and these characters loved widely and too well, fanfic often indulges in interior monologuery far too drearily specific and on-the-nose in an attempt to demonstrate a basic competence with the material. And while I haven't read enough Dan Brown to tell you just how cinematic he is, his failing most commonly mocked (probably because it's the opening sentence of that book, and thus one doesn't need to have read much further)—
Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.
—it's no cinematic sin at all; the hilariously clumsy exposition of "renowned curator" is something only prose could fuck up quite like that.
Many of the sins Walter wishes to lay at the feet of this ersatz cinema are the sins of action-adventure fiction, which prose was committing long before cinema ate the world; which cinema caught, in large part, from the pulps it aped when it was starting out. —There are differences between the reading protocols of this sort of prose and that sort of cinema, sure, and it can be instructive to use the one as a way of looking at the other (in what manner, precisely, is The Wire novelistic? Show your work), but let's be careful not to muddle medium and idiom and mode, while we're at it. (To say nothing of genre.)
The primary difference between prose and cinema (beyond the obvious) is I think in time, and how each handles it; cinema (like theatre before it) no matter how achingly it might strive for universal generalities, must necessarily show you specific people doing specific things in specific places at very specific times. Prose, on its wily other hand, can say: "Monday morning staff meetings were always a chore for Willy" or "For the next week whenever she went to the coffee shop she saw the woman on the corner" or "And then everybody died." —The narrow bandwidth of prose can't begin to approach the wealth of incidental detail that makes up cinematic specificity without enormous slogging effort; most of the tricks and tips one needs to learn to tell stories and have them told with mere words, in fact, those reading protocols we've all had put in place, have everything to do with tricking us into thinking that specificity's been achieved without us noticing (just as a great many of cinema's tricks are all about forcing us to empathize with the saps up on the screen, bridging the vast gulf between their specificities and ours). —Now prose can give up its ability to turn on a dime, go large, sweep it all up, and constrain itself to cinema's pinched and straitened lens (one can do anything one likes, after all), and this is neither a bad nor a good thing: the trick's in how it's done. How conscious is the author of what they're giving up; how mindful of what they might reach for, instead?
And I would agree with Walter in this much, certainly: too many authors who do indeed give up a great many of prose's tricks do so without noticing what they've lost, and what they might be doing instead with what they've got.
(The effect I think's more noticeable when you compare comics and cinema: widescreen, decompressed superheroic storytelling is a far more conscious attempt to down tools half-understood and ape instead the things a more "successful" medium might do, and in this attempt comics is doomed to become nothing but stiffly rendered storyboards for the film we'd all rather be watching.)
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I like this part where you say:
How conscious is the author of what they're giving up; how mindful of what they might reach for, instead?
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On Wednesday 1 December we will be hosting Ask The Leader where Stoke-on-Trent City Council Leader, Councillor Mohammed Pervez will be on-line to answer questions around the proposed budget cuts facing the city.
The on-line meeting will run from 7-8pm and will be available on the front page of Pits n Pots from 6:30pm on Wednesday.
You can also E-mail questions in to asktheleader@pitsnpots.co.uk up until 3pm on Wednesday, after 3pm we can't guarantee that we will be able to deal with them as part of the on-line meeting.
Labour Leadership Debate – I Agree With Tom!
We are but a few weeks away from knowing who gets to lead the opposition against the wave of ConDem Coalition cuts that are heading our way.
I get a vote on the Labour Leadership election courtesy of my union membership and I must admit I have watched/listened/read everything put out by each of the 5 candidates.
I was trawling through some blog sites earlier and I came across Cllr Tom Reynolds site on it he revealed who he was supporting and why.
I have been edging toward Ed Miliband myself but I'm still considering who will get my second preference vote. I'm pretty sure it won't be Ed Balls though.
As Tom's thoughts kind of mirrored my own I thought it would be good to put it out there and ask Labour supporters, union members and other parties supporters who they thought should lead the Labour Party through the next phase of their history.
This blog is a bit of a journey; in starting it I was completely undecided on who I would cast my vote for in the Labour Leadership Contest. I've trawled the websites of the runners and riders, watched the interviews and read their literature and, after much head-scratching I've reached a conclusion.
From my perspective the whole leadership contest has to some a large extent been defined by the absence of two names which I was desperate to see on the ballot paper. Alan Johnson "" the union man with high-level cabinet experience who hardly faltered at the top (and on the occasions I have heard him speak he has been excellent); and Jon Cruddas "" the media tagged "Ëœsenior backbencher' with a fantastic policy pedigree and the perfect type of politics (everything I have read by JC in Compass has been spot on).
When you meet Andy Burnham he comes across as a genuine down to earth bloke with a passion for putting things right in society. I like some of the inclusive social policy he has come forward with, however he's not come forward with much "" only one post on his leadership blog. I like what he has said on trusting the party and being more inclusive in the policy making process, and he offers a much broader commitment to this than the other candidate's elected party chair gesture.
A couple of concerns though. Firstly his media performance: like it or not a party leader must be able to stand up to a grilling. When I saw Andy on This Week (a fairly informal set up) he was mauled by Andrew Neil. How would he come across facing Paxo on Newsnight or Cameron over the dispatch box? Secondly, his campaign has been described as grassroots. If we're honest it's been barely visible because of lack of finance and manpower. If a leadership contender can't inspire the support and donations to fight this battle, how will they engage the public in order to grow the Labour movement and build the electoral coalition we need to succeed in the next election?
Mrs Reynolds decided early on in the leadership campaign that she would be backing Ed Miliband. I wanted to be convinced, and must admit I have been taken with his approach to the economy (e.g. High Pay Commission, interventionist in industry) and his take on what people want from politicians "" ideology and passion rather than just guff. That said I wonder if a milibandwagon has passed Ed's campaign HQ? Denouncing the invasion of Iraq for instance (wasn't EM a policy advisor to Tony Blair back then). Also I'm not keen on his pledge on gender balance for the shadow cabinet, although I admire the principle. The party should appoint people to posts based on skill and potential, rather than on arbitrary quotas. There are enough females of a high calibre in the Labour Movement that the new leader doesn't need to be reminded they are there by having his/her own targets!
I've been very impressed by David Miliband's campaigning machine. I've personally had three calls from his team, a leaflet and he is all over Twitter. Some of this is because of his huge financial backing, but then again two of the calls were from ordinary members of his own CLP that are giving backing to the campaign. Also, if people are donating to the campaign there must be a reason, inspirational leadership perhaps (see B Obama)? Having seen David speak on a couple of occasions though, he's not blown me away. His policy priorities don't get me excited either. There's nothing I'd argue with: fair wages, building the new economy, a greener Britain, its just it all seems a bit cliché and there doesn't seem to be much substance. All in all I think David would be a very capable leader but not necessarily an incredible one. He would manage the media, and take the battle to the ConDems, but would he inspire the reinvigoration of the Labour Movement and the nation?
I must admit I started out with a prejudice against Ed Balls. I know a lot of educationalists that haven't a good word to say about his approach while Secretary of State. Also a lot has been said about the "Ëœbullying culture' that allegedly characterised the latter days of Government, with Mr Balls being Gordon's chief lieutenant. This is a culture which a revitalised Labour Party should be avoided like the plague.
Over the course of the leadership campaign, however, my perception of Ed Balls has changed entirely. He has been by far and away the best candidate at defending Labour's record under attack from the new government. Further he's not denied his key role in the New Labour project. His campaign has been articulated in unpretentious language which I like and he has in my opinion been strongest in the media, particularly in broadcasted interviews. He has got stuck in to his campaigns (watch out for Keep the Post Public), but aside from that his campaigns are similar to David Miliband's "" a little dry and "Ëœbitty'. Ed is a high calibre candidate but I'm not sure he provides the break with the past that we need.
Last but not least the final contender Diane Abbott. Its been refreshing to see Diane in the contest, not because she isn't a white thirty-something man, but because she isn't in the same mould of carbon copy politico's that use a certain type of language and present their arguments in a certain type of way. She's also put across some arguments that haven't had the airing they deserve for some time. However I get the feeling she's playing being controversial and trying to make that her USP. I really like her stance on immigration policy, trident and economy, but then again I find some of her policy banded under "ËœCivil Liberties' unacceptable. I like the prospect of have a highly principled leader, but what happens when her principles are at odd with the will of the wider party? Will she bolt as she has done as an MP? Also I'd question whether someone is a principled politician when they argue against private education and then send their offspring to public school. Aside from that I can't get past the fact she's unelectable.
So cutting to the chase, after balancing everything up Ed Miliband will be getting my first preference and (surprising to me) Ed Balls the second.
Frankly, whoever wins the leadership has a massive task. Tony Blair aspired that while the Tory's were the party of government in the twentieth century, Labour would be in the twenty-first. For that to happen we have to become a movement again rather than just a Westminster party. None of the policy initiatives or rhetoric coming forward from the candidates at the moment will make that transformation. It is an exciting, if worrying, time to be a member. From the new leader a party expects.
Ashley Howells 'Apologises' – But I'm Still Not Happy!
I was incensed to read the comments made by Newcastle-under-Lyme Councillor Ashley Howells in today's Sentinel.
"I am extremely sorry that I made a personal response on Twitter which has been misinterpreted and then sadly misrepresented by others.
"My comments were in response to reading a highly political anti-Coalition Government comment about public expenditure cuts, which alleged that Stoke-on-Trent has been and will be disproportionately affected.
Now while this may seem a grovelling apology to the people of Stoke-on-Trent, to me it is a double edged sword.
On one side, of course I accept his apology for the hurtful, inaccurate, insulting and incredibly arrogant comments he made about the people of the City of my birth.
On the other side his apology left me fuming at his insinuation that he had in some way, been 'misrepresented'.
Our story was picked up and written by my good friend and colleague Mike Rawlins. I had the task of getting the reaction from both the public and our politicians.
Now I realise that our politicos are busy, busy people, but Mohammed Pervez [who works full time too], Ross Irving, Tristram Hunt MP [who was in a meeting when I called] all had the decency to get back to me fairly promptly. Rob Flello MP got back to me the next morning to voice his disgust and relay the hope that someone would refer the matter to the Standards Board.
Ashley Howells has not returned any of the 12 calls that I made to him and the numerous messages I left on his answering service.
At PitsnPots we pride ourselves on our balanced approach and fairness to all.
We give all parties and their politicians/representatives equal treatment, yes even the BNP.
We asked Mr Howells to give us his side of the story, we offered him, as we do with all others a completely unedited interview which would have given him the opportunity to set the record straight.
I am left frustrated that he chose to speak to the Sentinel who picked up the story off this site and I can't help but think that there was a veiled swipe at us in his 'misrepresented' comment.
I may well live Stoke-on-Trent, but I pay a substantial amount of money to Newcastle-Under-Lyme Borough Council in business rates.
I think that puts me in a position whereby I deserve an explanation as to why this excuse of a politician is claiming that this site 'misrepresented' him or his comments.
Ashley Howells has now terminated his Twitter Account. I wonder if this is because he can not trust himself not to say the wrong thing.
Apparently he was once a Labour Party supporter who failed to reach the status of group leader and so defected to the Tories. Maybe he is having a problem justifying the policies of the ConDem government having seen the world through socialist eyes.
My old Dad used to say that all men make mistakes but only true men with integrity admit to making those mistakes.
His apology is of course welcome to all of us 'unfortunate' Stokies, but at the same time it is full of buts, misinterpretations and claims of misrepresentation that attempt to pass the blame and not accept the responsibility.
Why do some people have a problem with holding their hands up and saying 'I screwed up and for that I am truly sorry' – full stop.
Rob Flello MP thought that the matter should be reported to Standards and as someone who contributes to NULBC I am seriously considering whether to report it myself, for no other reason than I think that Ashley Howells has tried to shift the blame and claim that we have in some way treated him unfairly. So much so that he could not speak to us and explain his comments even though we published the matter in it's entirety to avoid claims that we have misrepresented the issue.
Tory councillor for Loggerheads and Whitmore, Ashley Howells has offered the people of Stoke-on-Trent some advice, using his Twitter account he said, Work slim down stop whinging.
Mr Howells 'tweet' was in response to Pits n Pots reader Mark Porter who had used his twitter account to say, 'Cameron ought to come to Stoke to tell the people here why we never get anything but cuts. #condemfail' about David Cameron launching the Big Society initiative in Liverpool on Monday.
We went out and asked the 'lazy Stoke underclass' what they thought of Mr Howells advice that they should 'Work slim down stop whinging'.
I go to work, eat what I want when I want. I'm not obese, I pay my taxes, contribute to my local community and to society. This NUL Councillor obviously has a twisted and unusually biased view of the people of our great city.
Given the fact that Newcastle is only minutes from Stoke, I can't think that there would be much different between the folk of both areas. Maybe he lives in one of those big houses in the Westlands and thinks that makes his opinions more valuable than those of us who live in modest, but not the less important areas of our County. With ideals like that, you have to wonder whether he should be elected to serve the people of NUL. Heaven forbid he should have to help someone un-employed.
I'm disgusted that a man of his standing can make such a generalism about the entire population of Stoke-on-Trent. He might well be a twitter virgin, but there's no excuse for insulting an entire city.
He's done nothing but damage his own reputation.
What a snobby git! I think he should resign for having such outrageous views of his borough's neighbours. These comments have brought Newcastle Borough Council into disrepute. My uncle has been out of work for months due to no fault of his own and he still contributes to society through doing voluntary work. He is trying so hard to get back into work.
What a load of rubbish he talks! I have a full time job, plus work as and when required at the Regent Theatre. Due to having a hectic social life, whenever I get the chance, I go walking in the Lake District. The man should be sacked without hesitation as he is obviously not fit to represent all the communities.
When Mr Howells is not sunning himself in his Andalusian home he is the Managing Director of Stoke-on-Trent based Ashley Recruitment, 'The Quality Agency For Healthcare And Hospitality Staff', who we assume must employ members of what he likes to call the 'Stoke underclass'.
"Oh dear, that's not very good is it? Yes, Stoke has it's problems but I have always found the people dead friendly and completely unpretentious.
I don't think the people of Stoke-on-Trent do themselves any favours by constantly re-electing Labour.
These comments aren't very nice though, especially the obese comments. I can't see there being a greater percentage of people that are obese in Stoke as opposed to Newcastle".
Well, the Tory leopard hasn't changed it's spots!
At this very moment Stoke-on-Trent is coming out of recession with falling unemployment and is looking forward to the future with confidence and low and behold the nasty party rears it's ugly head.
There is no place for the unattractive reality of negative and out of date stereotypes.
While it maybe uncertain exactly who made these comments on twitter, people who use twitter expect casual and informal language to be used but these are abusive and insulting comments about the people of Stoke-on-Trent and are completely unacceptable.
Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council declined to comment saying that it was a personal matter.
We have not yet been able to contact Mr Howells for a statement.
Is Mr Howells right to call people from Stoke-on-Trent 'the lazy stoke underclass'?


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July 3, 2009 Same-sex MarriagePaul Wallin
The Supreme Court of California upheld the controversial proposition 8 on Tuesday, May 26th, but gay rights activists have vowed that they will continue to fight for same-sex marriage in the state. In simple terms, Proposition 8, which was passed by voters in the November election, defines the word "marriage" in California to be a union between a man and a woman. It prevents a union between a same-sex couple to be called a "marriage."
According to a report, in a 6-1 ruling, Chief Justice Ronald George wrote that, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," wrote George, noting the ruling was made after "setting aside our own personal beliefs and values." The court did approve the validity of 18,000 same-sex marriages celebrated before the November vote passing the Proposition.
While the debate over same sex marriage will undoubtedly continue as both sides continue to attempt to sway the court of public opinion in their favor, one thing is very clear: same sex parents and couples need to be vigilant about protecting their rights as partners under the law.
California Family Code section 297.5, states that; "Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law as are granted to and imposed upon spouses." This means that, if same-sex couples have not yet become domestic partners, they should do so to ensure they benefit from all of the legal rights and obligations of marriages.
Same-sex couples should consult with a skilled California family law attorney who has experience with the legal issues faced by same-sex couples. While these steps can seem onerous, it's important that same-sex couples do their homework in order to enjoy as many rights as possible in the temporary legal vacuum left by Proposition 8.


I wanted to ask is the following oft-cited narrative, ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh) is authentic? "Seek knowledge even (if you have to go to) China." Some scholars maintain that it is not a Hadith. Does any reliable book of hadith quote it?
Ahmed narrates from Muslamah who narrates from Ya'qub b. Ibrahim al Asqalani who narrates form Yusaf b. Muhammad al Faryaabi who narrates from Sufyaan b. 'Uyayna who narrates form Al-Zuhri who narrates from Anas b. Malik that the Prophet (pbuh) said: Seek knowledge even [you have to go to] China, for seeking knowledge is a duty binding on every Muslim.
According to the authorities, the narrative is a fabrication. Ibn al Jawzi in his work al-Mawzu'at, 'Allamah Dhabi, in his work Tarteeb-al-Mawzu'at and Allamah Nasir Uddin Albaani in his Silsilah Ahadith Zaheefah commented that the narrative is a fabrication and has no basis in the sources.
 al-Mazoo'aat vol. 1, page 215, Tarteeb-al-Mawzoo'aat page 111 and Silsilah Ahadith Mawzoo'ah narrative no: 906.


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Richard John Kind is an American actor known for his roles in the sitcoms Mad About You and Spin City .
Kind was born to a Jewish family in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Alice, a homemaker, and Samuel Kind, a jeweler who formerly owned La Vake's Jewelry in Princeton, NJ. Together with his younger sister Joanne he grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Richard attended Pennsbury High School with fellow thespian, Robert Curtis-Brown. Kind is a 1974 graduate of Pennsbury High School and a 1978 graduate of Northwestern University where he was in the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is also an alumnus of The Second City Chicago and in Santa Monica.
Kind portrayed Dr. Mark Devanow on Mad About You throughout the show's run, although after he took the role of Paul Thomas Lassiter on Spin City, he appeared on Mad About You with less frequency. He appeared throughout the entire run of Spin City. While these are his two highest profile TV appearances, his first big break on television was as a member of the ensemble cast of Carol Burnett's brief return to sketch comedy, "Carol and Company," which ran for two seasons beginning in 1990 on NBC.
Kind created the role of Addison Mizner in Stephen Sondheim's Bounce, and has appeared on Broadway in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife , The Producers , and Sly Fox . He also appeared as the "Jury Foreman" in the film The Producers .
His voice credits include Larry the Anaconda in The Wild, "Clark" in the "Clark & Lewis Expedition" radio commercials for Horizon Air (with Patrick Warburton as "Lewis"), Molt in Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life, Van in Disney/Pixar's Cars and Cars 2, the narrator for Disney's Go Baby, and Tom the cat's voice in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. He has a recurring role on the Disney Channel series Kim Possible, where he plays Frugal Lucre. He guest stars in The Penguins of Madagascar as Roger the Alligator in the episodes "Haunted Habitat", "Roger Dodger", "Gator Watch", "April Fools", and "The All Nighter Before Christmas" and "Operation: Neighbor Swap". He also plays the role of Gumbo in an episode of Chowder on Cartoon Network. In 2000 he did the voice of Mr. Dobbins in Tom Sawyer.
He also had a minor role as Gary Meyers, an archaeologist who translated the symbols on the Stargate prior to James Spader's character involvement in the 1994 movie, Stargate. He appeared in four episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm between 2002 and 2009 as Larry's cousin Andy. In 2006, he guest starred on Stargate Atlantis as Lucius Lavin, in the episodes "Irresistible" and "Irresponsible," making him the only actor to appear in both the original Stargate film, and in Stargate Atlantis as different characters.
Kind had a recurring role in Scrubs as Mr. Harvey Corman, an annoying hypochondriac, who claimed that having the same name as Harvey Korman did not "get as much action as you may think". He also played a notable role on USA's crime comedy Psych as Hugo, an astronomer who killed a partner for credit for the discovery of a planet ("From the Earth to the Starbucks"), and later on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as a wealthy philanthropist who kills his sister-in-law and niece to protect the money he uses to fund his philanthropic work ("Privilege").
Actor/director George Clooney is a close friend, and was best man at Kind's wedding to Dana Stanley in 1999. Kind later went on to play the part of a casting director in Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Kind also played himself in the short-lived HBO series Unscripted which Clooney executive produced and directed with Grant Heslov.
Kind has performed in radio/audio plays for the LA Theatre Works and the Hollywood Theater of the Ear, and served as a guest panelist on the 2000 revival of the television game show To Tell the Truth.
Kind played a small role on Disney Channel's show Even Stevens where he played the surly Uncle Chuck. He also appeared in an episode of CBS' Two and a Half Men on November 12, 2007, and played Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, Iowa.
Kind also starred in the independent black comedy feature, The Understudy in 2008.
He also played a small role on TNT's hit show Leverage playing the part of a corrupt mayor in the second season two part finale.
In 2007, Kind played a short but memorable role in the indie film, The Visitor, as Richard Jenkins's neighbor, Jacob.
Kind plays the major supporting role of Arthur Gopnik in the Coen brothers' dark comedy film, A Serious Man.
He voiced Bookworm in Toy Story 3. He will also co-star in the upcoming series Luck.
He is currently the spokesman for On-Cor frozen foods.
He played the role of burnt spy Jesse's ex-boss, in three episodes of season 4 of Burn Notice, as Marv.
He had a small role in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, as Christos Andryo, in 2010.
In 2011, Kind guest starred in an episode of the ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine as Rod the Bod.
He is the voice of "Clark" in the "Clark & Lewis Expedition" radio commercials for Horizon Air with Patrick Warburton as "Lewis".
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Our internal research is carried out in a collaboration with the Delft University of Technology, at the Reactor Institute Delft (RID), where we perform different deposition techniques to apply our coatings. PHYSEE has been working closely with the Luminescent Materials for Sustainable Energy Group of Dr. Erik van der Kolk, intensifying the focus on optimizing our patents, accelerating scientific progress and evolving our coatings. Externally we collaborate our research efforts with other partners, who likewise have high expectations of reduced energy consumption levels in today's buildings. In the field of magnetron sputtering, we collaborate with Fraunhofer FEP and NSG Pilkington. We incorporate our luminescent materials in a lamination process with different industrial partners and we are exploring alternative wet-coating techniques with non-disclosed institutes. Up till this day PHYSEE has been able to financially contribute to different research projects, enabling multiple postdocs, PhD's and graduates to execute their research and has connected more than 30 companies from over ten countries through its applied research.
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hen Google employee James Damore wrote a controversial memo on women in tech, he was fired. Now Harmeet K. Dhillon '93 is representing him in a class-action lawsuit arguing the company discriminates against whites and Asians, men and employees whose political views are unpopular. Dhillon also filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Berkeley College Republicans and Young America's Foundation after the University of California, Berkeley, canceled pundit Ann Coulter's speech there as well as speeches by other conservative speakers, or imposed additional conditions on conservative speakers. Dhillon is on the forefront of fighting free speech challenges that she says appear to be aimed at silencing conservatives.
"There is an absolute intolerance for any speech that can be construed by any tortured stretch of the imagination as offensive," she said.
Dhillon found other like-minded "warriors" in law school, including fellow Dartmouth graduate Laura Ingraham '91, now a conservative TV and radio host, and best-selling author.
BeVier cited Dhillon's role as president of the Federalist Society, which invited rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork and other conservative intellectuals to North Grounds, and without incident.
After clerking for Judge Paul Niemeyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Dhillon practiced at firms in New York, London and Silicon Valley before becoming of counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco, then starting her own firm, the Dhillon Law Group Inc., in 2006.
Politically active, she ran for state assembly and state senate as the Republican nominee from San Francisco, was chair of the San Francisco Republican Party for four years, served for three years as the first woman vice chair of the California GOP, and is one of the state's three members on the Republican National Committee.
Dhillon believes that the right to free expression, as in cases like Berkeley's canceled speeches, transcends party lines.


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At Mile 18 of the ING Miami Marathon, 19-year-old Sivan Shachnovitz of Fair Lawn wasn't sure she'd make it another step, let alone to the finish line. Just in time, her grandmother and a family friend bypassed the sawhorses and handed her energy-boosting jellybeans. Her mother and siblings met her around mile 24, walked beside her awhile, and cheered her on to the finish line, where her father awaited. It took her six and a half hours, but she made it the whole 26.2 miles.
Shachnovitz – and her 13-year-old brother Barak, who completed the half-marathon despite an earlier ankle injury – were among 250 marathoners running in support of Chai Lifeline at Miami Beach on Jan. 31. "Team Lifeline" garnered $1.2 million for the international organization, which aids seriously ill Jewish children and their families with programs including the medically supervised Camp Simcha.
A whole contingent of Bergen and Passaic runners and supporters flew down for marathon weekend. In exchange for a commitment to raise at least $3,600 each, or $3,000 each for a family team, marathoners received plane tickets and accommodations at the Eden Roc hotel, including kosher pre-race pasta and post-race victory parties.
Encouraged by Abe Fishweicher, president of Cong. Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, the Shachnovitzes raised a total of $30,000 in pledges and were recognized as top team fund-raisers. Fishweicher and his wife, Renee, came down for the race, as did other Shachnovitz supporters, including siblings Yitzchak, 17, and Batsheva, 10 1/2.
Shachnovitz said she and Barak, a student at YBH in Passaic, are already psyched for next year's run. "But I think next time I'll do the half-marathon," she said with a laugh.
Rothberg's husband, Mordy, was once a Camp Simcha counselor and now is on the board of Chai Lifeline. Many of his colleagues – Jewish and gentile – in the insurance industry contributed to the cause.
Jonathan Tiger, a 33-year-old father of three from Bergenfield, said he ran in memory of his aunt, who passed away from cancer more than 10 years ago. "A couple of my friends from Florida had done it, and exercise is not a bad thing," said the first-time marathoner. "I got the feeling in my legs back sometime this week," he reported with a laugh, one week after the event.
According to Team Lifeline official Raizy Poll, Chai Lifeline began its relationship with the Miami Marathon five years ago. Just 25 runners participated then.
Additional participants from North Jersey included Yoni Schwartz and David Ashendorf of Bergenfield; Rena Rosenberg of Englewood; Benji Weintraub, Esther Greer, Jeffrey Ruttner, Judith Elk, Laura Frayman, Michal Arieh, Rabbi Pesach Sommer, and Tehilah Kaplan of Passaic; and Tova Cohen-Jacob, Brenda Kenter, Dahlia Friedman, Ephraim Feman, Jonathan Stavsky, Shifra Shafier, Tamar and Uri Edell, Avri Szafranski, Tamar Lowe, and Banji and Jack Ganchrow of Teaneck.
Ashendorf said he was most impressed that Jack Ganchrow, a Yeshivat Noam eighth-grader, organized an afternoon prayer service for the runners at the airport.


BARCELONA (Reuters) - Uefa proposals to change part of the Champions League format would be "catastrophic" for soccer but Fifa's plans to overhaul the Club World Cup will be a boon for the sport, LaLiga president Javier Tebas told Reuters on Thursday (March 14).
Accusing Uefa and the European Club Association (ECA) of plotting in secret, Tebas said the body wanted to play European games on weekends rather than in mid-week and expand the group stage to four groups of eight teams, rather than the current format of eight groups of four sides.
"Uefa and the ECA are negotiating behind closed doors so that the others don't know about the reforms which put national leagues in danger," said Tebas in an exclusive interview to Reuters.
Tebas earlier this year made headlines for attempting to switch a LaLiga game between Barcelona and Girona to Miami, a move which was opposed by Fifa.
While he remains committed to taking domestic league games abroad to widen LaLiga's global appeal, Tebas said his priority was stopping Uefa's proposed changes.
"Playing a game in Miami is much less important to LaLiga than the catastrophic reforms of Uefa and the ECA," he said.
"Fifa has been transparent in the last few weeks and changed its position so we support them (in their Club World Cup plans), meanwhile Uefa and ECA are doing the opposite and we are very worried about that and don't support them."
"We always opposed the change of the dates and now LaLiga is preparing ourselves for the break in the season," Tebas said.


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American Movies and the Politics of Idealism (Media Mondays at the JCC)
I want to thank Adam Nayman for the shout-out in his piece on these classes in The Grid. - D.D.
You like the movies? And you want to hear and talk about them? You should check out the eight-part series by veteran critic Kevin Courrier (Critics At Large), Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors: American Movies and the Politics of Idealism. As part of the Media Mondays at the Miles Nadal JCC every Monday, except for February 20th and March 12th, from 7PM to 9PM, Courrier will be connecting the changing zeitgeist from the sixties onwards with the Hollywood films that best encapsulates them. From John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 all the way to Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. No American presidential era will be left unexamined. Like the great new Stephen King book 11/22/63, Courrier starts the course off with one of the turning points in American history - the death of John F. Kennedy. The shooting that happened in Dallas and its portrayal and discussion on network broadcasting will have a large impact on the population and culture and there will be a rippling effect throughout the following eras. News footage and video clips from the eras are examined and, for someone that was born in '88, these clips and background are revelatory. Even though the course is on American idealism there is still something quintessentially Canadian about them. Courrier's tone and demeanor is that of the infectious Canadian friendliness along with a modest authority and a well-researched intelligence. While Courrier's background in journalism and music brings a comprehensiveness as it allows him to bring up many other aspects of the culture. While there is also something personal about the series as this is his selection and he has lived through these times in both Oshawa and Toronto, Ontario. From the two classes that I have attended the lessons have been on par with other zeitgeist film critics like Siegfried Kracauer, Robin Wood and Jim Hoberman. Particular images from films are studied to see how they resonate with a wider culture of the time and the filmmakers that have receive the most focus, so far, are John Frankenheimer and Arthur Penn. All of these classes are for the preparation for a book Courier is writing, which I am sure would be fantastic, but there is just so much more that you get through the classes. If you are in the area you should definitively check them out.
Labels: American Movies and the Politics of Idealism, Kevin Courrier, Media Mondays, Miles Nadal JCC
Vivre le cinéma! Long live Positif! (Cannes Critics Week at the Lightbox)
"You like the movies: you also know that film is an art. It took fifty years for the professors to admit it; in another half-century students will be writing theses that attempt to reconstruct lost masterpieces. But whose fault was it that they disappeared? It is up to us to do something against the merchants of the mediocre." - Bernard Chardère
"It's in the darkness of the theater, again and always, where we will like to be." - Fabien Baumann
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Semaine de la Critique, Manager of Film Programmes Brad Deane, who was responsible for the great series Masks and Faces: The Films of John Cassavetes, organized 50 Years of Discoveries - Cannes Critics Week which will take place from January 18th to the 22nd at the Lightbox. Each critic will introduce one film of their choice that has premiered at the Cannes festival sidebar. Some noteworthy guests include Jonathan Rosenbaum (Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia) who will be introducing Anna Karina's Vivre ensemble (1973) Saturday, January 21st at 7PM, and Fabien Gaffez (Positif) who will be introducing Jean Eustache's Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966) and La Rosière de Pessac (1968) on Friday, January 20th at 6:30PM. As well there is going to be a Higher Learning panel, Film Criticism Today on Friday, January 20th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
For their sixtieth anniversary, there have been a few changes at Positif. First off, Positif recently changed publishers from éditions Scope in Paris to Actes Sud and the Institut Lumière in Lyon. Along with the move they have also slightly altered the magazines formatting and layout; as well the magazine is finally in color! On the subject of the Cahiers-Positif film reviewing one-upmanship at the blog Nightswimming, Edouard S. writes, "The eighties saw Cahiers catching up with Positif and, finally, if Positif is continuing to lead the way, the tendency is that of equilibrium."
What can you find going through the new issues from six-hundred-and-seven to six-hundred-and-nine? The filmmakers that they interview include Almodovar, Sorrentino, von Trier, Refn, Miller, Dumont, Wiseman, Soderbergh, Schoeller, and Ceylan. There are interesting comments on films like how Valérie Donzelli's La guerre est déclarée is "one of the years best French films," or on the filming techniques in Crazy Horse, "On the other hand the camera never places the spectator in a judging or voyeuristic position, it is more one of an admiring accomplice." The Bloc Notes are fascinating as Pierre Eisenreich contrasts scuba-diving with the film-going experience, "the strange feelings, to immerse oneself, and the aesthetic beauty." Michel Ciment writes an erudite and moving memorial for Raúl Ruiz. Positif champions the great actresses Tilda Swinton, Kristen Wiig, and Jessica Chastain. And the books reviews are thorough and vivid. Since these issues three new ones have come out and the films featured on their covers are Shame, Take Shelder, and The Descendants.
What I like about Positif is that you hear about many films first through reading the magazine; where reading the articles creates a palpable desire to then go see the films. It's choices aren't snob and there is an energy and individuality to their writing as they use criticism not as a bases to write synopses but instead as a literary genre - something a lot of English writing disappointingly does not do. Positif is just more in depth, knowledgeable and generous compared to a lot of the film writing going on. While La Maison de la Presse is still three months late (!!!) in getting the new issues (can someone fix this?) and Positif's lack of exposure, to say it quickly, severally isolates their line of inquiry in the world of English language film criticism. Positif continues to explore the contours of the future of cinema, even if sometimes it is at the risk of being out of sync with trends, and at the same time it continues to explore it's history (cf. Positif films) and thematic aspects of the seventh art. It is a benefit to contemporary cinema to have Positif around. People should come to the Lightbox to hear Fabien Gaffez talk.
Labels: 50 Years of Discoveries, Brad Deane, Cannes Critics Week, Fabien Gaffez, Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus, Michel Ciment, Positif, TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Positif Films, since 1952. (two lists)
For anyone interested in the French film magazine Positif, here are two of their lists that are worth highlighting for a better understanding of their approach to film history and their taste. - D.D.
The most striking films of the decade 2000-2009 (Positif, February 2010, N.588)
1. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
2. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2005)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2008)
4. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
5. We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)
5. Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2007)
7. De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (Jacques Audiard, 2005)
7. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
7. Sarabande (Ingmar Bergman, 2003)
7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
11. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
11. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2004)
13. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
13. Coeurs (Alain Resnais, 2006)
13. La Graine et le Mulet (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007)
13. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
13. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
13. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
13. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
20. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)
20. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
20. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)
20. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
24. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2007)
24. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
24. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2003)
24. The Yards (James Gray, 2000)
***** For the thirtieth anniversary of Positif in May, 1982 (N.254-255) the magazine polled its critics on "what were the films that have had the biggest impact on you," since in the inception of the magazine in Lyon, 1952.
1. 2001, A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1957)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
4. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1962)
4. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1961)
6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
6. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
8. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
8. The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954)
8. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
8. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
13. The Searcher (John Ford, 1956)
13. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
13. The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
16. Amacord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
16. L'Annee derniere a Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
16. Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, 1955)
19. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
19. Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960)
19. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
19. Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1953)
19. The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1969)
19. A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1953)
25. Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovski, 1966)
25. Casque d'or (Jacques Becker, 1952)
25. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
25. Written on the wind (Douglas Sirk, 1957)
25. Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda, 1978)
25. Ma nuit chez Maud (Eric Rohmer, 1969)
25. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
25. Persona (Ingmar Bergman,1966)
25. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls, 1952)
25. The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)
35. A bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
35. America, America (Elia Kazan, 1963)
35. Barry Lindon (Stanley Kubrick, 1976)
35. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, 1971)
35. Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, 1972)
35. Moonfleet (Fritz Lang, 1955)
35. Deliverance (John Boorman, 1973)
35. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
35. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
35. Fellini's Roma (Federico Fellini, 1971)
35. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961)
35. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
35. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
35. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
35. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
35. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
35. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
52. The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1975)
52. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962)
52. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
52. Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel, 1966)
52. Le Carrose d'or (Jean Renoir, 1952)
52. Some like it hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
52. Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks, 1960)
52. Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
52. Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955)
52. Incompreso (Luigi Comencini, 1966)
52. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
52. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
52. The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981)
52. La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1972)
52. The Go Between (Joseph Losey, 1971)
52. The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn, 1962)
52. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovski, 1974)
52. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1975)
52. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
52. Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg, 1970)
52. The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
52. Providence (Alain Resnais, 1976)
52. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
52. Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Jacques Tati, 1953)
52. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
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Labels: 2000-2009, Best of the decade, Film Critics, Film Magazine, Most Striking Film, Positif, thirtieth anniversary
A Modern Day Kandinsky (On Jean-Marc Vallée's Café de flore)
Café de flore (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011)
*****Jean-Marc Vallée's Café de flore, which recently played at the Lightbox with Vallée in attendance as part of Canada's Top Ten, is a blessing. When there are so many movies that come out already looking like standardized products, a work as original like Café de flore dispels of convention and in its rebirth leaves only essences and feelings behind. Café also proves the long-standing suspicion that Vallée is actually an auteur as he not only directs the film but he also wrote the screenplay and edited it – look carefully and you can spot him in a signature cameo. After the screening, Vallée mentioned that after completing The Young Victoria (2009), a film that he didn't have total control over, he wanted to make something edgy. And edgy – hell, I would describe it as dangerous! - is what you get in Café as Vallée's powerful imagination is on view.
Like the other great Québécois director Denis Côté (cf. 3 + 4 + 1), Vallée's approach to form is similar to that of Modernist painters and, more precisely, to Wassily Kandinsky's Impressionist-style paintings from his Munich period. The unlikely comparison offers striking similarities. What these two artists achieve is the creation of abstract visual expressions built from stylized forms that are imbued with symbolic meaning. When Vallée cuts the sound and all you see are figures presented in decisive moments showing unrestrained feeling alongside Doctor Rockit's catchy track Café De Flore - the effect is that of ecstasy.
There is something free and lyrical to the rhythm and melody of Café that creates an unreal mood and a self-contained world. When Antoine (Kevin Parent) jumps into his swimming pool and some water lands on his daughter's foot it seems to connote an unexplained spiritual connectedness between the two. Kandinsky was also interested in theosophy, the occult and religion as elaborated in his important essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Vallée's concern with the spiritual bleeds throughout the entire film through representational and abstract forms, the casting and editing, colour and lighting, music and sound. Vallée seeks the essence beneath appearances, where the actions are drowned in style, in hope of sharing unbridled feelings, substance and life. - David Davidson
Labels: Café de flore, Canada's Top Ten, Jean-Marc Vallée
A New Start (Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere)
Title: Road to Nowhere (2011)
Director: Monte Hellman
Studio: Monterey Video
***** "To begin with a proposition: Monte Hellman and Abel Ferrara are the most important working American directors. And if anything could be said to link these two otherwise very different artists, it is surely their lack of neuroticism, their ability, in a culture dominated by the life-denying obsessions of consumerism, to unblinkingly confront the beast in its lair without being captivated by its insidious charm." – Brad Stevens (Cahiers du cinema, N.648)
"They called them minor classics of anguish and despair." – Leo (Stanley's Girlfriend)
One of the biggest disappointments over the past year in the Toronto film scene is that Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere never received a first-run theatrical release or even a one-off screening. This sucks. He deserves better. It was the one film that I and a few others were most looking forward to seeing on the big screen. It has been fifty-three years since Hellman first started making films with Beast From Haunted Cave in 1959. Since then, he has made only ten films, which range from great to masterpieces including Ride in the Whirlwind (1965), The Shooting (1966), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), and Iguana (1988). Many of his projects failed to get off of the ground, while others got compromised. This places him in the tradition of people like Orson Welles, who also faced similar difficulties. Hellman has been on hiatus from feature film-making since Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! that came out in 1989, meaning that audiences have been waiting twenty-one years for this new feature. And what came out in theaters instead? A lot of crap. For example, from this year, there is The Trip, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Transformers 3, New Year's Eve et cetera. Why an ambitious and fascinating movie like Road to Nowhere did not get distributed is beyond me. I heard Entertainment One was going to distribute the film, but that never materialized. Whatever. You can buy the DVD at the Bay Street Video. It will do.
Road to Nowhere is a puzzle film that is full of temporal leaps. It is hard to easily summarize, as you are not always sure whether you are watching events happen for the first time, or if the film crew is preparing a shot, or if the scene is only being acted, or if something is happening alongside all of this. But here goes, Road to Nowhere begins with a young woman Laurel Graham (played with finesse by Shannyn Sosasmon) leaving her partner after they murder a cop. The man then takes a plane and crashes it into a lake. This "true story" is the subject of the film the director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan) and his script writer Stephen Gates (Rob Kolar) are going to adapt for their film Road to Nowhere. But, apparently, the rumor is, through the inquiry of a blogger Nathalie Post (Dominique Swain) and an insurance investigator Bruno Brotherton (Waylon Payne), the deaths are assumed to be a set up for insurance fraud.
Road to Nowhere has some great scenes, the acting is good, and the clothes people wear is really seventies. The Balsam Mountain Inn in North Carolina where the film is predominantly set has a quintessentially American feel, just like the desolate highways in Two-Lane. As well the Tom Russell song Road to Nowhere is just as moving, and central to the story, as the Kris Kristopherson song Me and Bobby McGee was to Two-Lane, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
Road to Nowhere is also Hellman's ode to the films he loves, just like Scorsese's Hugo is an ode to the early French silent cinema of Georges Méliès. In Road to Nowhere, in his hotel room Mitchell lies in his bed with Laurel very comfortably and watches movies, including The Lady Eve, Spirit of the Beehive ("A fucking masterpiece!"), and Bergman's Seventh Seal ("It never so looked so good"). For attentive viewers, sitting on the TV stand is a copy of the Criterion Collection edition of Two-Lane Blacktop. And there is also a Contempt-like director cameo by Hellman as the cameraman while the crew is filming the flying plane. (corection: the cameraman is Josep Civit, not Hellman.)
There is also a focus on the behind the scenes activities that happens during the making of a movie. Like the nights out where people are passionately talking at a bar, the creative difficulties for the directors in orchestrating the crew, or enjoying the other pleasures of being out on the set. When Mitchell discusses his particular approach, it seems like it is coming right from Hellman as elaborated in the most recent interview book on him, Emmanuel Burdeau's Monte Hellman: Sympathy for the Devil (Capricci). While some of the backstage stories shown of Mitchell filmmaking seems like they derive from Hellman's own life as described in Brad Stevens' essential Monte Hellman: His Life and Films (McFarland). This is personal filmmaking. Even to the extent that the residential scene in Los Angeles are even set in Hellman's actual house – similar to what Cassavetes did in Love Streams. And Hellman's dog Moxie is in it too!
Road to Nowhere is continuing Hellman's 2000s work that started with Stanley's Girlfriend, which was part of the omnibus Trapped Ashes from 2006. Stanley's Girlfriend is a short fictionalized account of a young Stanley Kubrick and his friendship with Leo, a filmmaker of an exploitation horror flick The Strangler. There is Stanley (Tygh Runyan), a young Leo (Tahmoh Peniket), and an older Leo (John Saxon), with the femme fatale love interest Nina (Amelia Cooke).The references to Kubrick includes the mention of his "brilliant" racetrack movie, Stanley goes to New York to work on a WWI film (Paths of Glory), and there is footage of his work space full of photographs and props of the unrealized Napoleon project.
Though they don't have the typical Hellmanian scenes of people expressing themselves through gestures or people walking against a desolate landscape, what is unique to Stanley's Girlfriend and Road to Nowhere is the casting of Tygh Runyan as a surrogate for Hellman. Because of his likeability, wit and intelligence Runyan is brilliant in these two films. Through Runyan's youth, and that he is playing a director who is still early in his career, Hellman is able to directly speak out to the audience about his thoughts on his career, unrealized and dream projects ("I want to make a film that lasts twenty-four hours"), and broach contemporary cinema. It is almost like he is creating a parallel career to his own. When Mitchell is watching Leonardo DiCaprio on television, the shot expresses that Hollywood and Hellman are in two separate worlds.
But where was the turn for all of this? I think the key film in discussing Hellman's late career is Better Watch Out!, as this direct-to-video horror film seems to anticipate his latest two projects. Especially as both Stanley's Girlfriend and Road to Nowhere end on a note that owes to the grisly slashers of Sean Cunningham and Tobe Hooper. It is this return to the horror genre that seems important in discussing the late work of the directors that emerged out of the 1970s American New Wave. Which brings to mind the famous Bill Krohn quote, "If our [American] cinephilia is a religion, it's of sublime terror and of alien worlds." Similar to Francis Coppola's Twixt, Wes Craven's Scream 4, Joe Dante's The Hole, and George Romero's Survival of the Dead – it seems like horror is the last escape. When Mitchell snickers, "Well, I don't believe in God", the point is that even amidst the surrounding violence, you can still crack a joke and be serious. With all the injustices and corruption going on in the world, some self-lacerating humor can do us all some good. - David Davidson
Labels: DVD Review, Monte Hellman, Road to Nowhere, Toronto Film Review
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Home Music Bands The Cadillac Three: O2 Academy Newcastle – live review
The Cadillac Three: O2 Academy Newcastle – live review
The Cadillac Three unfortunately fall short of all of the excitement tonight, with a set over reliant on overzealous solos.
Having released their fourth album Legacy earlier this year this trio have been thrilling audiences across the US and now across the UK and Europe since its release. Legacy sees the guys slow things down a little. Whereas before they aired more towards the Southern Rock of ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, they now appear to be edging toward the more country side of things, which is currently gaining huge publicity across in the US.
Tonight they arrive in Newcastle on their second to last date of the year, with fellow Nashville dwellers Brothers Osborne opening the show. This duo have also been gaining huge popularity in the US with their debut Pawn Shop, firmly routed in their country sound they take to the stage to a huge reception from this packed crowd. Opening with Down Home its something of a subdued start but they soon pick up the pace with Rum.
It's a relatively relaxed set in comparison to tonight's headliners but the duo ratchet up the pace for It Aint My Fault, whilst the track is somewhat embellished with huge guitar solos. It's without doubt the highlight of their set. with everyone singing and clapping along its no wonder that song sticks in your head for days on end afterwards. With the crowd suitably warmed up The Cadillac Three make their entrance.
Its an equally subdued start from the trio though with Peace Love & Dixie not immediately setting the crowd alight. Hank & Jesus quickly follows though and gains an ecstatic response, but the likes of Long Hair Don't Care and Bury Me In My Boots appear to fall somewhat flat tonight. The opening few tracks really don't make a huge impression, which is a shame as we've come to expect an enthusiastic and upbeat set from the Cadillac Three.
It does pick up in the middle of their set though with the likes of I'm Southern, I'm Rockin' and Whiskey Soaked Redemption, but for many tonight's set seemed to fall short of the mark. Where these tracks are normally quite to the point albeit containing the odd ferocious and excited guitar solo or slide solo, tonight everything seems to be stretched right out with excessive embellishments.
White Lightning and Dang If We Didn't pull it back toward the very end but because of the overzealous solos the band find themselves running out of time. Whilst it's never great to hear a band play the record almost perfectly live, tonight it would have been nice if they'd stuck a little more to them. Instead we're left somewhat disappointed, there are flashes of brilliance and you cannot doubt these guys as musicians as they're truly excellent but tonight it all fell a little short of the mark.
~The Cadillac Three can be found online here thecadillacthree.com. They're also on Facebook and tweet as @TheCadillac3.
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P.T.F.A. Donation – 13 February 2020
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The newly formed Parent, Teacher & Friends Association (P.T.F.A.) are delighted to be donating a defibrillator to the school, ensuring life saving equipment is on hand when it is needed.
The P.T.F.A. was only formed in November 2019 and following a hugely successful festive fundraising drive, which included stalls, refreshments at the school Christmas production and fundraising with Santa and together with sponsorship and donations raised over £1,500.
Following consultation with the school, the decision to purchase a defibrillator was voted for as an essential piece of lifesaving equipment to have available. The school had identified that the time needed to reach the only other defibrillator in the village (located at Hook Memorial Hall) was insufficient to save lives at the school.
Mrs Ainley said, "We are delighted that the P.T.F.A. has been able to fundraise and donate such a life saving piece of equipment in such a short space of time and are incredibly grateful to all volunteers and everyone who donated to make this possible. No-one likes to think of the worst-case scenario, and now we don't have to."
Mrs Harte, Chair of the P.T.F.A. said, "the whole community has really come together to make this donation possible and I am looking forward to raising more funds and ticking off some much needed equipment for school."
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