New Delhi: Many national political parties in India did not utilize even half their declared total receipts between 2001-02 and 2005-06 despite one general election and 35 state elections being held in this period, according to an analysis of the income-tax (I-T) filings of seven political parties.
Politicians who do not wish to be named say that the average election expenditure by the candidate of a mainstream party in a Lok Sabha constituency could go up to Rs2 crore.
The tax filings by the political parties show they spent, on an average, Rs75 lakh on every seat they won (the average also includes the amount spent on seats they lost; the number was arrived at by dividing total expenditure by the number of seats won).
The Election Commission, or EC, the constitutional body that conducts elections, caps the expenditure on each Lok Sabha seat at Rs25 lakh and that on each assembly seat at Rs10 lakh.
A psephologist and media expert said political parties are clearly under-reporting the amount they spend on elections, but added that the limit set by EC is low.
"Strictly going by the current inflationary trends, one can say that this limit is low. It does not quite allow the candidate to reach out to every voter in his constituency. For instance, for a Lok Sabha constituency with a population of 10 lakh, given the EC limit, each candidate ends up spending only a little above Rs2 on every voter. Today, almost 80% of the candidates end up exceeding the EC ceiling. However, the problem is that none of the political parties regularly file expense statements. If they had done so, the EC could have increased the limit further," said N. Bhaskar Rao, chairman, Centre for Media Studies, or CMS. To be sure, candidates pick up part of their electoral expenses, but the numbers culled from the tax filings clearly demonstrate the need for more transparency in the way political parties raise and spend money.
Mint reported on 22 September that one-fifth of the country's electorate was paid cash for votes and that in the recent assembly elections in Karnataka, one in every two voters was similarly induced.
The tax filings of seven parties were provided by the I-T department in response to a Right to Information application filed last year by the Association for Democratic Reforms, an Ahmedabad-based activist organization that isn't associated with any political party. The seven are the Indian National Congress; the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP; the Nationalist Congress Party, or NCP; the Bahujan Samaj Party, or BSP; the Communist Party of India, or CPI; the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, and the Samajwadi Party, or SP.
While the first six are recognized as national parties by EC, the SP has been included in the analysis because of its increasing influence and importance in national politics.
Yashwant Sinha, a former Union finance minister and a Rajya Sabha member of the BJP, said there is an "urgent" need to make funding of political parties more transparent. "While corporate houses can donate funds to political parties, most of them don't do so because of fear of persecution in case a rival party or group comes to power. That is why, above-the-table donations are still much less than under-the-table funding."
Sinha's reference to under-the-table funding deals with contributions disclosed neither by the donor nor the recipient. Political parties have been exempt from I-T, subject to certain criteria, since 1979.
Interestingly, till 1996, political parties were not filing I-T returns. They started doing so only after a Supreme Court order on 20 February 1996.
The numbers themselves hide more than they reveal.
For instance, the Congress, India's largest and richest party (with a balance sheet size of Rs228 crore on 31 March 2006, according to I-T filings), derives most of its revenue from the sale of coupons.
In 2005-06, the filings show, revenues from sale of coupons were Rs95 crore, almost 800% more than the year's contributions. In 2004-05, the party received Rs162 crore from the sale of coupons. Congress party's treasurer, Motilal Vora, said the coupons were "general coupons... We sell them generally to different persons."
"All our returns have been filed properly in accordance with I-T laws," Vora added.
In 2005-06, the Congress party spent only 55% of its total receipts of Rs124 crore. The trend of not using all receipts, however, is common to most parties.
Indian laws make it mandatory for public trusts to spend 85% of their surplus for charitable purposes every year to benefit from I-T exemption. There is no such restriction on political parties.
Most political parties do not utilize even half of their total receipts and the unutilized part is ploughed back as reserves into their balance sheets. In 2005-06, the SP spent less than one-fifth of its total income. The amount of profit held back by the party can comfortably meet its expenses for the next four years, even if it does not receive any contribution for the next four years. Similarly, the Congress party, the NCP and the CPI spent only 55%, 66% and 44% of their revenues, respectively.
The BJP, however, spent more than it received, partly because of expenses on subsidized publications. The party is also known for its extensive organization machinery.
"When political parties are holding so much surplus, the same should be utilized for the welfare of society, too. What good is sitting on so much cash when they don't have to give any dividend income. They can return the money to the public through some welfare activities or can also donate to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund," said a tax expert at a multinational audit and consulting firm who did not want to be named.
One political analyst, however, said Indian parties and politicians end up spending a lot more than indicated on their books. "One has to spend a day with them on the field to know how much money they spend on social activities. In some ways, they fill in for the role that schemes for social welfare play in countries like the US. However, all these expenses political representatives incur are often not reflected as party expenditure and hence, accounts of parties might not show a high level of expenses, even though money is being spent," said political analyst Mahesh Rangarajan.
Other experts do not have any problems with the money being spent or not being spent by parties. They just want them to be more transparent.
"I don't think there is any problem with exempting political parties. However, the real challenge is to make their assets more transparent. An effective enforcement mechanism is needed to see if political parties are keeping a list of donors and whether this list is matching with the receipts, besides occasional verification of this information by I-T officers," said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president, Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank.
And, more than looking at the fairness of tax exemptions, it is important to ensure that India moves to a system of election funding where all parties are treated equal, saidD. Raja, national secretary, CPI. "The concept of state funding for political parties has to be accepted and implemented to ensure all parties are on an equal footing."


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file.on('drain', function () {
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const interval = setInterval(function () {
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    if (written) {
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Once the system stops doing that, eventually garbage collection kicks in and releases all of those objects and strings.
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For the kids of Silid Aralan Inc., such an opportunity came in the form of WYAAP's Sulong Workshop. This was our third time this year to conduct the workshop, and this was to be our last session with them. We spent one whole Saturday to learn the value of solidarity, in the proper use of our freedom, and how it should be upheld to safeguard our human dignity. Throughout, they were enlightened about how each person can contribute significantly as long as we recognize that our same advocacies will always trump our divergences. They learned that greater unities can be built upon communication, inner peace, understanding, and love.
I would like to believe that this event is a lesson of solidarity in itself; that these are children, hailing from different backgrounds, different upbringings, different families, who chose to come together one weekend to know how to work better in solidarity. To make the event even more meaningful, our friends from UP Children's Rights Advocates League (UP CRAdLe) and De La Salle University – Student Catholic Action (DLSU SCA) were more than willing to help a hand, highlighting the value of solidarity even more.
Much has already been said about setting aside our differences as persons to conquer the ends we want, but I'd like to believe the challenge being presented here is nuanced: that, because we are the youth, we are encouraged to learn as early as possible about the importance of compassion, understanding, and self-gift to others. We are only just beginning to meet people, and it is ideal that we start soonest so that we view them and their ideas with respect to the dignity they have – the dignity that we all have. At the same time that we are honing our knowledge, we are also honing our principles, and the earlier we start, the more people we get to touch, to understand, to work with towards better solutions for all. It is in this respect that time is definitely of the essence.
This urgent matter only calls for the most hands to pitch in. That is why we express our gratitude to Silid Aralan Inc. and our partners from UP CrAdLE and DLSU SCA for partaking in our event. Indeed, this is the picture we are all trying to paint: the youth helping the youth, and a world whose people are willing to look beyond differences to fulfill a common purpose.
Written by Viktor Austria, current intern at the WYA Asia Pacific office. Interested to partner with WYAAP for a youth program? E-mail us at asiapacific@wya.net.
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"I sense that when you were quite young you had quite a serious accident, possibly involving water. Can you make sense of this for me?"
"Not really. There was something along those lines, but I wasn't really very young at the time."
"Well, something that happened when you were younger than you are now, we can agree on that!... "
"...and what I'm getting is an accident, an illness, something that laid you low for a while or had those around you worried. It's a very strong impression indeed."
'Yes, well if it's what I think it is, it was a car accident. But I was the cause, not the victim. I was about 19 and I hadn't been driving long."
"So, this car accident that I saw in your youth, the sense I get is that this is an event where you learned some lessons, and those lessons are still with you today. Lessons about your sense of responsibility, and the need to mix caution with confidence. I feel this has been an important area of inner growth for you, which could be why I got such a strong impression along these lines... "
In this reprise, the psychic has twice referred to having accurately seen this car accident from years ago. In fact, she mentioned no such thing. When the client thinks back over the reading, or tells others about it, she may well retain the impression that the psychic got this right.
"And this person who's coming through, this is someone who you were very close to for many years, and you had a lot of good times together, isn't that right?"
"Well, if it's the person I'm thinking of, it's my father."
"Oh well in that case you certainly were very close weren't you? So this is making sense to you isn't it?".
"I thought so, and what your father is telling me is that he remembers playing with you on a holiday you had that was near the beach... "
The psychic has quietly shifted from "someone you were very close to" to "your father" but only after the client provided this identification. The psychic's original vagueness (or error, depending how you look at it) is quietly left to wilt on the vine of forgetfulness, and the client is left feeling that the psychic had more or less identified her father before she said a word.


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Did U.S. Technology Gap Push Medical Errors Into 3rd Leading Cause Of Death?
July 14, 2016 Traci Miller
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By Donald Voltz, MD for Health IT Outcomes
Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a U.S. IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest "Can You Top This" except, increasingly, the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks to needless medical deaths, many of these IT snafus are caused by preventable interoperability communication errors, as has been the case for decades.
According to a report released to Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found the U.S. government spent 75 percent of last year's technology budget to maintain aging computers where floppy disks are still used, including one system for U.S. nuclear forces that is more than 50 years old. In a previous GAO report, the news was equally alarming as it impacts the healthcare of millions of American's and could be the smoking gun a study from the British Medical Journal cites regarding medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
The GAO interoperability report, requested by Congressional leaders, reported on the status of efforts to develop infrastructure that could lead to nationwide interoperability of health information. The report described a variety of efforts being undertaken to facilitate interoperability, but most of the efforts remain "works in progress". Moreover, in its report, the GAO identified five barriers to interoperability.
insufficiencies in health data standards
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difficulty in accurately matching all the right records to the right patient
the costs involved in achieving the goals
the need for governance and trust among entities to facilitate sharing health information
CMS Pushing For 'Plug and Play' Interoperability Tools That Already Exist
Meanwhile, in a meeting with the Massachusetts Medical Society, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS acknowledges that, in his organization's interoperability effort, "We are not sending a man to the moon. We are actually expecting (healthcare) technology to do the things that it already does for us every day.
"So there must be other reasons why technology and information aren't flowing in ways that match patient care. Partly, I believe some of the reasons are actually due to bad business practices. But, I think some of the technology will improve through the better use of standards and compliance. And I think we'll make significant progress through the implementation of API's in the next version of EHRs which will spur innovation by allowing for plug and play capability. The private sector has to essentially change or evolve their business practices so that they don't subvert this intent. If you are a customer of a piece of technology that doesn't do what you want, it's time to raise your voice."
Slavitt claims CMS has "very few higher priorities" other than interoperability. It is also interesting that two different government entities point their fingers at interoperability, yet plug and play API solutions have been available through middleware integration for years — the same ones successfully used in the retail, banking, and hospitality industries.
As a sign of growing healthcare middleware popularity, Black Book Research named the top 10 middleware providers as Zoeticx, HealthMark, Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, Extension Healthcare, Solace Systems, Oracle, Catavolt, Microsoft, SAP, and Kidozen. There are also organizations such as the Center for Medical Interoperability which are strong advocates for middleware and EHR integration whose members include most of the largest hospital chains in the U.S., further proof of the level of interest in new technologies.
Medical Errors Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S.
The British Medical Journal recently reported medical error is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer. As such, medical errors should be a top priority for research and resources, say authors Martin Makary, MD, MPH, professor of surgery, and research fellow Michael Daniel, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. However, accurate, transparent information about errors is not captured on death certificates which are the documents the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses for ranking causes of death and setting health priorities. Death certificates depend on International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for cause of death, but causes such as human and EHR errors are not recorded on them.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 117 countries code their mortality statistics using the ICD system. The authors call for better reporting to help capture the scale of the problem and create strategies for reducing it. "Top-ranked causes of death as reported by the CDC form our country's research funding and public health priorities," says Makary in a press release. "Right now, cancer and heart disease get a ton of attention, but since medical errors don't appear on the list, the problem doesn't get the funding and attention it deserves. It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care."
The Root Cause Of Many Patient Errors
Better coding and reporting are no-brainers and should be required to get to the bottom of the errors so they can be identified and resolved. However, in addition to not reporting the causes of death, there are other roadblocks leading to this frighteningly sad statistic such as lack of EHR interoperability. Unfortunately, the vast majority of medical devices, EHRs, and other healthcare IT components lack interoperability, meaning a built-in or integrated platform that can exchange information across vendors, settings, and device types.
Various systems and equipment are typically purchased from different manufacturers. Each comes with its own proprietary interface technology like the days before the client and server ever met. Moreover, hospitals often must invest in separate systems to pull together all these disparate pieces of technology to feed data from bedside devices to EHR systems, data warehouses, and other applications that aid in clinical decision making, research, and analytics. Many bedside devices, especially older ones, don't even connect and require manual reading and data entry.
Healthcare providers are sometimes forced to mentally take notes on various pieces of information in order to draw conclusions. This is time consuming and leads to errors. This cognitive load, especially in high stress situations, increases the risk of error such as accessing information on the wrong patient, performing the wrong action, or placing the wrong order. Because information can be entered into various areas of the EMR, the possibility of duplicating or omitting information arises. Through the EMR, physicians can often be presented with a list of documentation located in different folders that can be many computer screens long leading to vital information being missed.
The nation's largest health systems employ thousands of people dedicated to dealing with non-interoperability. The abundance of proprietary protocols and interfaces that restrict healthcare data exchange takes a huge toll on productivity. In addition to EHR's physical inability, tactics such as data blocking and hospital IT contracts that prevent data sharing by EHR vendors are also used to prevent interoperability. Healthcare overall has experienced negative productivity in this area over the past decade.
The Devil Is In The Data Distribution
There are numerous areas in hospitals that are particularly vulnerable to deadly errors such as acute care settings requiring a complexity of care, time critical interventions, staffing, and the systems that are relied upon to tie these many IT resources together. However, due to the complexities and differences between health data systems, medical professionals are constantly presented with different user interfaces that must be consciously thought about to appropriately gather data as well as capture their decisions and treatment plans.
It is equally important to look at how the data stored in these disconnected, disparate systems is used. Much of the collection of patient, process, quality, and financial data in medicine looks like a large jigsaw puzzle with a number of pieces missing. Raw data and information is fragmented across numerous non-operable EHRs, both within a single hospital or clinic along with spanning geographic ranges. Connecting these pieces has focused primarily on the transfer of the information to those who request it, a manual and error prone process that is further compounded by lack of interoperability.
Dynamic Data Flow Extends Healthcare IT
Extending the power of health IT depends on understanding the idea of data flow which is critical to the management of entire populations of patients, either within a single clinic, hospital, health system, or entire community. We need dynamic data flow connected through smart interoperable middleware pipes so we can improve on the care delivered. The flow of data can be as important, or even more important, than the individual data points and connecting the patient, the data, and the interpretation depends on it.
Data flows contain signals and streams which allow automation and screening to take place. When we think at healthcare information technology from the perspective of data flow, we are not dependent on understanding every possible state or internal details, but can instead focus on the overall flow of the patient through the healthcare system. This allows for the design of complex analysis, automation, and understanding that is not possible with disconnected databases.
"To build a better system for solving medical errors, we need to understand the interdependent parts of the system to create a win for the patient in better care and less redundancy, a win for the healthcare professionals enhancing and optimizing their workflow and a win for the insurance companies who are already investing a great deal of resources into care management," says Thanh Tran, CEO, Zoeticx, Inc.
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In addition to direct patient care, one of the benefits of middleware is it eliminates the need for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) which are built atop middleware platforms and duplicate data, risking HIPAA violations in the process. They also require the synchronization and monitoring currency of the HIE data while creates barriers, including insufficient health data standards, variations in state privacy rules and difficulty in accurately matching the right records to the right patient.
In its annual interoperability survey of hospital and health system executives, physician administrators and payer organization IT leaders, Black Book Research found growing HIE user frustration over the lack of standardization and readiness of unprepared providers and payers. Of hospitals and hospital systems, 63 percent report they are in the active stages of replacing their current HIE system while nearly 94 percent of payers surveyed intend to totally abandon their involvement with public HIEs. Focused, private HIEs also mitigate the absence of a reliable Master Patient Index (MPI) and the continued lack of trust in the accuracy of current records exchange.
Now those using or considering an HIE have a new concern when the interoperability provider goes bankrupt as has Sandlot Solutions. The MCHC-Chicago Hospital Council (MCHC), which operates the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE) had to go to court to keep Sandlot from deleting its files until after the validation of their information was completed and delivered to MCHC. Additionally, several other Sandlot customers were dramatically affected by the same problem at significant cost to all those organizations.
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Hollywood: Sidekicks do NOT need their own stupid sidekicks
September 4, 2012 September 11, 2018 Posted in 3 Tinseltown TuesdayTagged BATMAN FOREVER, Darth Vader, Frost King, Jackie Chan, Mickey Rourke, princess leia, Robin Hood, Thor
Ever look at an overstuffed movie poster and wonder, "Is that tiny figure over on the left a man, a woman or a smudge that didn't get properly PhotoShopped out of existence?"
THE EXPENDABLES 2 is the latest movie to stuff 40 pounds of characters into a 5-pound bag.
Here's the movie poster.
Who's that one guy way in the back, wearing a hat? NOBODY KNOWS, but he made $15.3 million for this movie. Remember that tomorrow at work.
I counted 11 action heroes on that poster, which is 10 more action heroes than you typically need for an action film, even if eight of these guys just got broken out of the Beverly Hills Nursing Home.
Bet you anything the team of screenwriters — if I put a 9 mm to their head and started counting down — couldn't tell you all 11 character names, and the average movie-goer wouldn't notice if you chopped five of them from the film entirely.
This is a common problem, not just for Hollywood but for novels, especially anything involving fantasy and sci-fi, because no self-respecting Jedi or Hobbit goes off on an adventure without at least 23 other people tromping around with them, squabbling with each other when they're not getting captured by Darth Vader and such.
IT IS A MESS.
Now, this problem also happens in comic book movies, partly because of the Comic Book Movie Laws.
Movie No. 1: The origin story of the hero along with the hero's nemesis, the best villain. So: one hero, one villain.
Movie No. 2: The hero gets two sidekicks as he battles TWO villains.
Movie No. 3: The hero juggles an entourage that won't fit in a Greyhound bus while he battles THREE villains.
Movie No. 4: Doesn't happen, unless your name is Joel Schumacher and you're making the mistake known as BATMAN FOREVER. Otherwise, the series dies and reboots.
I just watched THOR again, using the powers of Netflix over the Series of Tubes and such, and it is a fun little popcorn movie.
However, the cast of characters will make your head hurt: Thor, Hannibal Lecter, Loki, Princess Leia's mom, the Guardian, the Frost Giants, that arrow-shooting guy from THE AVENGERS and BOURNE LEGACY, Agent Coulson, the Frost Giant King, Yoda, the shark from JAWS and other people I'm probably forgetting.
In all seriousness: There's a scene where Thor's buddies are walking down the street and one of the SHIELD agents calls it in, saying he just spotted Xena, Robin Hood and Jackie Chan.
This agent is not only sarcastic, but wrong, because he's completely forgetting Thor's fourth sidekick, the fat bearded guy who — and this is shocking — likes to eat a lot.
In this movie, Princess Leia's mom is Thor's love interest, which is like a sidekick, but different, in that Thor makes goo-goo eyes at her. With his other sidekicks, he simply claps them on the shoulder in a manly way, or maybe hugs them — though he hugs her, too. IT IS CONFUSING.
Anyway, the point is, she has two of her own sidekicks: an old Norwegian scientist guy or whatever and some kind of sarcastic girl scientist who is apparently there for contrast, to make Princess Leia's mom look even more smart and beautiful.
You heard me right: The sidekick has sidekicks of her own.
This is all too common and all too wrong.
Every movie and book could be improved by killing off every possible character.
In fact, thinking of "Who could we erase from the page?" is the wrong question. Start by saying, "Who is the ONE essential character?" and work up to the number two, the number three, pi (3.14-whatever) and some imaginary numbers.
Then break the Four Barrier and stop to reflect upon WHAT YOU HAVE WROUGHT, which is a far, far better story than what you started with.
THOR can't exist without Thor (1) and if we need a second character, it's obviously Loki (2). Odin (3) and the Frost King (4) would round out a top four. That story could work. Everybody else could go take a nice long vacation on a desert planet with two suns.
Going the other direction, just for fun: Say goodbye, Xena / Robin Hood / Jackie Chan / Fat Guy sidekicks (minus 4). Not essential to the story at all. See ya to Princess Leia's mom and her two sidekicks (minus 3). Goodbye to Agent Coulson and the arrow man (minus 2). No more Guardian and Odin's wife (minus 2). That's 11 characters out the door, and those actors need not be unemployed: we will send them to star in THE EXPENDABLES 3: STALLONE NEEDS ANOTHER FACELIFT.
IRON MAN 2 had it much worse than THOR, with the villain played by Mickey Rourke getting buried by layers upon layers of sidekicks. I mean, look at this movie poster. All sidekicks, all the time. Villains are so boooring.
Peoples of Hollywood and writers of books, please kill off sidekicks.
Do it with a sharp pen, a 12-gauge shotgun or a red lightsaber — I don't care.
Just do it before they make IRON MAN 3.
40 thoughts on "Hollywood: Sidekicks do NOT need their own stupid sidekicks"
Jocelyn Koehler (@jocelynk414) says:
Don't you see? The sidekicks must have their own sidekicks. It's sidekicks all the way down!
(srsly, for a pretty interesting take on hero/SK social order, see the Disney movie Sky High. lots of referential humor.)
joeynga says:
Agree w/axxman300 in that Bond is solo and it's awesome he doesn't have a sidekick. When you add in too many characters, you remove essentially more action from the mc. Think of all the more ass-kickery that couldn've happened with Thor if the writers did cut those unnecessary characters.
And I also agree with Guy. Batman and Superman NEVER ever together. Ever. Just.Plain.Wrong.
Mayumi-H says:
I disagree on only one point: The Superman/Batman confrontation written by Dini and Burnett was pretty darn awesome. More, perhaps, for seeing how easily Joker dealt with Supes and Lex confronted Bats, but still a ton of fun. 😉
George Fripley says:
I'm not sure I have a witty comment, but I'll make one anyhow…a comment that is…sort of – right. What happened to the good old days where the posse went after the bad guys and role of the side-kicks was to simply get shot, skewered, or just die horribly just to demonatrate how much more fantistic than anybody else the hero was? A bit like the guy in the red tunic who accompanies Captain Kirk down on to the new planet in Star Trek – we all know he's gonna die, but we appreciate his role.
axxman300 says:
I think it all depends on how well developed the sidekick is. Tonto was interesting by himself, and didn't need the Lone Ranger. Robin (who started as a mistake anyway) languished as a worthless character for decades until he left Batman to become his own character.
On the other hand, James Bond, and Spiderman don't have sidekicks. There are side characters like Q, but the audience gets them in small doses. The current Bond doesn't even include Q, and the movies haven't suffered at all.
The problem with Hollywood is they've stuffed the recent Marvel movies with characters in hopes of spinning them off in their own movies. Then there is the marketing bugaboo. It's hard to collect all six decorative glasses if there's only one guy. Same rule applies in the toy isle at Target.
Next year we get a new Superman. He'll go it alone, but they're already talking a Superman/Batman movie to follow. Let's hope they never put that one into production.
Superman and Batman should never, ever be in the same movie. Bah!
Now I'm thinking of Captain Sweatpants… What was that Yiddish children's book about some guy kvetching so the rabbi tells him to take all his livestock into his house? And then let them out…? It's the law of unintended sidekicks.
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Adult Faith Formation: Adult Faith Formation offers lively, interesting, and often challenging encounters with the Catholic faith in the company of a friendly and supportive group who share the desire for a better understanding of Catholicism. Meets Thursdays at 7:00pm. Find more about Adult Faith Formation information here.
Centering Prayer: Centering Prayer is a form of silent contemplation practiced both as a part of a group and in our daily lives. Meets Wednesday evenings at 7:00pm for approximately one and a half hours. Please contact Judi Valori through the church office at (727) 393-1288 if you have any questions. Learn more by clicking here.
Faith Sharing & Small Church Community Groups: Can be formed at St. Matthew's among interested parishioners. Members share how selected scripture passages touch their personal lives. Resources can be provided. All groups are scheduled through the parish office. Contact Phil Coit, Director of Evangelization and Mission.
Learning About The Catholic Faith: For information about these programs and resources, contact Phil Coit, Director of Evangelization & Mission.
RCIA is a process of guidance and preparation for becoming a Catholic, for renewing your Catholic faith, or for receiving sacraments that have not yet been received. See RCIA for further information.
Adult Faith Formation is a friendly and supportive group of people who desire a better understanding of Catholicism. Meeting from Thursdays 7:00pm-8:30pm, we seek answers together with the guidance of lay ministers and clergy. See Adult Faith Formation for further information.
We provide referrals to excellent and authoritative sources, including books, videos, websites, etc., to explore the Catholic faith on your own.
Our Question & Answer service can address your interests and curiosity about the Catholic faith! Contact Phil Coit, Director of Evangelization & Mission.
Light of the World: A parish-based retreat held in the spring and fall that will change your life. Learn more here.
Men's Bible Fellowship: Never studied scripture before? Come grow with us! Meets most Sundays from 12:15 -1:00pm in Trinity Hall. No registration is necessary.
"Through the Bible in 24 Hours" Bible Study: Come for detailed biblical discussion, fun, and laughs. Meets in the church office building's Conference Room at 12:30pm on most Sundays.
SEASONS (Sisters Encouraging and Sharing on Scriptures): All women are invited to grow closer to Jesus through both large and small group interaction. Our friendships with one another blossom as we reach out to others in need, socialize, and share life together. Watch the bulletin for information or contact the parish office about upcoming SEASONS sessions. We meet seasonally (fall, winter/spring, summer) on Monday nights at 6:50pm in Trinity Hall.
Wednesday Morning Faith Share: Meets after the Wednesday morning Mass to discuss the upcoming Sunday readings and share personal joys and struggles in our spiritual journies.


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HorrorHound Weekend 2010: Emil Hyde
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Emil Hyde, Filmmaker
Y Spy: Who are you and why are you here?
Emil Hyde: My name is Emil Hyde, and I'm here at HorrorHound Weekend promoting our film, "The Landlord!"
Y Spy: What is "The Landlord" about?
Hyde: "The Landlord" is a heartwarming tale of a young man who inherits a demon-infested apartment building from his devil-worshipping parents, and with it the responsibility for finding new tenants for the demons to devour, and cleaning up the mess when they're done!
Y Spy: Is this your first time as a director?
Hyde: Yes. This is my first time directing a real movie. We had a few cases where it was just us running around a backyard with camcorders. Those don't count.
Y Spy: What is the difference between then and now?
Hyde: Money. And people.
Y Spy: How much did it cost to make this movie?
Hyde: This movie cost an affordable $20,000 to produce, paid largely on credit cards. The other ones cost about $175.
Y Spy: What is your take on horror?
Hyde: You can't watch a "horror" movie; you're always watching an individual movie. You might be watching our film, which some might call a horror-comedy. I don't know how one can say: "I don't like horror-comedies," when there's probably one out there that's good. I generally don't like remakes, but occasionally you'll get something like the remake of "The Hills have Eyes" that kind of kick ass. There's an audience for the genre, and as for the art itself, there's good films and bad films.
Y Spy: What has the reaction been thus far to "The Landlord?"
Hyde: We started showing it at film festivals in August, and as with any little film that doesn't have the Hollywood bullhorn people were looking at us as if we were trying to sell them a vial of the Ebola virus. But as word got out that it was a really funny film – almost a sitcom version of "Hellraiser" – and not just another backyard zombie film, it's been getting easier and easier to sell.
Y Spy: Would you be okay with making a Hollywood film, considering all its restrictions?
Hyde: You're dealing with some major restrictions when you're working on the independent level. Yes. I'd absolutely take a job doing a Hollywood movie. I'd figure out how to fuck with the system later.
Y Spy: Is there anything coming down the pipe?
Hyde: Yeah, we're working on a couple of projects. One that you'll probably be hearing about soon is called "The Dog Cage." We'll be producing a graphic novel first and a movie later. You should be hearing about that this fall.
"The Landlord" is available now. More information can be found at www.thelandlordmovie.com.
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Nicely made in rigid plastic but utterly bonkers!
Typical economical card box. Big heavy leather ball!
Nicely designed playing pitch. Very unusual bellows construction. Five a side with static goalies. Card pitch, plastic players and goals.
Each player is linked to a rubber bellows on the side of the pitch. Pressing the ball causes air to shoot out of the players base.
Hard plastic figures with air holes in their bases. The pitch surround looks to have been modeled on a boxing ring.
I can only assume that Larry Grayson had a large following in West Germany and they modeled toy footballers on him.
Tiny plastic balls for the game. The word Achtung! never fails to bring back childhood memories of Commando magazines and Victor comics.
If only Jordan had been around to endorse this game.
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Adversary stormers - or forwards as they are better known.
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Smoking in cars with children to become illegal this week
Words: Matthew Hansen
Smoking in car
New laws are set to come into effect this coming Sunday (November 28th) that will make it illegal to smoke cigarettes or vape while in a car with children as part of the Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act.
The law applies regardless of whether the car is parked or mobile, with children termed as anyone who's under the age of 18. If caught, those in the car can face either a $50 fine or a court-imposed fine of up to $100.
Smokefree New Zealand cites research showing that 15 per cent of New Zealand's 15-year-olds are exposed to secondhand smoke in cars. It adds that the 2012-'13 New Zealand Health Survey indicates that children from "more deprived areas" are more likely to be exposed.
According to the 2018 Health Lifestyle Survey, a whopping 95 per cent of New Zealanders support the change. Similar rules have been in place in other countries for years, including Australia.
But that said, there are still fears of non-compliance. Shosha, a vape and hookah specialist, recently commissioned a national study. Interviewing 3700 past and present smokers, it found that driving was "the most common pattern trigger" for eight per cent of respondents.
Addictions Counsellor Leanne French fears that those who smoke and drive with children likely dovetail with the number one most common pattern trigger among smokers from the study; stress. Fifty-nine per cent of respondents said stress was their number one reason for lighting up.
"Triggers are made up of the people, places, things and situations that set off an urge to smoke. Driving has been proven to elevate people's blood pressure, so when you add young children to the mix this can become a much more stressful situation," says French.
"Any parent of young children knows how difficult it can be driving with kids in the car. There's arguing, forgotten things, hunger, boredom, mess making, the chance of them being moody, melting down, and asking endless questions, unless you're the parent of an angel.
"There are also emotional triggers which can make the driver want to reach for a smoke and these include anxiety, anger and even happiness and excitement, children have an inbuilt knack for setting them off at various times.
"Smokers still do need more education and exposure to information to help them understand what the health risks are not only to them, but to their children in order to change their minds more effectively.
"I would suggest they change the car environment, by clearing all smoking items out, including the inbuilt lighter to lessen the automatic nature of the habit. There are also a number of easily accessible online counselling services which can help smokers quit."
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Robert Clinton Alliston Sr
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Celebrating the life of Robert Clinton Alliston Sr
Obituary for Robert Clinton Alliston Sr
Robert Clinton Alliston, Sr.,94, of Eatonton, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, May 24, 2021. A memorial service will be held at Vining Ivy Hill Chapel on Friday, June 4, 2021.
Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., with the service immediately following
at the chapel. The family will gather at the house ofDianne and Doug Veal at 311Grove St., after the service.
Clinton was born on April 20,1927 in Morgan County, GA. At a young age, Clinton and his
family moved to Eatonton. In 1943, at the age of 16, he joined the United States Navy and was
stationed in Pensacola, Florida. After being in the Navy for acouple of years, he returned to
Eatonton to be with his family. After the Navy, Clinton worked in the insurance business and
also with the Civil Service. In thelate 1940's, he took over a dairy farm and became a local dairy farmer. After closing the dairy in the late 1950's, he entered into the field of law enforcement by becoming a security officer at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Ga. for a briefperiod of time. He was then employed by the Eatonton Police Department, then worked for the Putnam Co. Sheriff's Office, serving as a deputy sheriff under
Sheriff John Walton and then Chief Deputy when his brother, John Alliston, was Sheriff. In 1977, he began working as a security officer for Georgia Power atWallace Dam. Several years later,he transferred to Plant Harlee Branch on Lake Sinclair and continued working as a security officer until his retirement from there in 1992. After retiring, he worked part-time for the Putnam Co. Sheriff's Office again as atransport deputy until 1995. Clinton loved working in his
garden and building birdhouses. He also enjoyed fishing and traveling. He and Pat had a placein Bryson City, N.C. for over 15 years and would stay there a good bit after they retired,
enjoying the mountains. Some of his most joyous vacations were visiting family in Tennessee
and Delaware, taking cruises and fishing on the St. John's River inFlorida. Clinton enjoyed getting together with his family and spending time with them and spending time with his little dog,Penny. He always had a slightgrin and wore a hat of some kind and a pair of sunglasses.
Clinton was very sharp witted and quick to come back with a joke. He was preceded in death
by his wife of 37 years, Patricia Alliston; his parents; three sisters; two brothers; a grandson; two nephews and three nieces.Clinton is survived by his fourchildren, Glenda Alliston Salmon
(Frank), Bobby Alliston (Diane), Dianne Alliston Veal (Doug) andTracey Alliston Pitocchelli (Scott) and Penny. He's also survived by four grandchildren, DawnRamsay (James), David Hall (Rae), Melvin Hubert III (Ashlee) and Rachel Spear (Shawn); six great grandchildren; two nieces, Janice Voshell and Vicki Buckworth of Delaware and two nephews, Sonny Alliston of Florida and Jay Alliston of Eatonton.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to a charity of your choice that supports Veterans,
Law Enforcement or your local Humane Society.
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Taking the helm as a new team leader can be intimidating, especially if you are new to the group. Below are some tips that can help make the leadership transition easier.
Newcomers often feel somewhat nervous when joining a team, and the same goes for a team leader. When new to the rest of the group, it is wise to show that you are in charge of things as their leader. You should have a clear idea of the changes you would wish to inject and the direction to want things to head. Communicate your intentions and objectives openly and transparently.
It is wise to start by laying out your 30-day plan even if you do not have any specific opinions; point out what you wish to learn and the areas you want to evaluate. Also, strive to be candid as you exercise transparency, it helps the team to feel comfortable with you. Elaborate about your observation, priorities, and values as you strive to establish a solid strategy on how to set and implement various agendas.
During those first 30 days, you will do a lot of talking. You may find it helpful to ensure that 50% of words you utter constitute a question. Your primary objective is to learn as much as you within the short time possible, and this means you will be asking questions more than giving specific tasks. You should strive to be a "learner" and not a "knower," the latter assumes to have all the answers, and the former will admit not to even if they have experience.
See the new role as a leader as an opportunity to learn and be genuinely excited about it; familiarize yourself with the various activities within the company to know how things are run so that you can better stir the ship. Such a move makes you more approachable and helps build your credibility as a professional worth the leadership position.
For instance, pick one of two members of the team and have a one-on-one conversation about their roles in the company and their ambition and expectations. You may discover untapped talent that has been underutilized. It is possible that the two may open your eyes to the grim reality that there are others like them within the company.
So, try your best and have such conversations with everyone in your team within the first week and try to know their aspirations. Gather as much data as you can that will help you formulate a strategy that will help your team hone is different strengths and skill sets to help them achieve what they want both for the business and themselves at personal and professional level. Here are some good tips on the matter from Icon.
Invest more time in having a hands-on approach, whereby you do the work assigned to your team. The idea is to lead by example, being there to offer guidance by giving first-hand examples of how to handle different challenges. You can also try to switch up things by having one member in your group switch places by another from another grout for about a week. It helps them have a new perspective on how things are done.
They gain new experiences allowing each team member to connect with the other and for all of them to have a collective approach to handling daily challenges. It also, helps them to understand how to use various tools and products to get results. As a leader, you should be on the front lines offering practical guidance, but not too intent on hold their hands but encouraging them to follow your examples.
You should have a good lay of the land within the first 30 days so that you can be in a better position to share your vision and plans for the way forward. Let everyone know and understand the bigger picture to help them know of is expected of them and the direction they are headed. In as much as this is the hardest thing to do when coming in a new team leader, it is worth the effort and implementation because failure to do so may be tough to recover from.
The new position may be an opportunity to further your career and may have come at short notice with you have little knowledge of what to do or the team you are to oversee. Do not second guess your plans if you are confident that they will help in stirring the ship in the right direction and keep it afloat even as you weather the storm of uncertainty during the first 30 days. The first few weeks are the window within which to gather information that will help you know the hurdles you and the team face. The data is what you will use to formulate your plan to address the various issues and share this with the team, being firm and decisive about the expected of everyone and the expected results.
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