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Help Your Relocating Employees & Their Families Succeed
Apr 3, 2018 | Relocation
When your company decides to relocate an employee, a lot is at stake. You risk lost productivity and lost money (relocation costs typically range from $72,000 to $1 million) if the move doesn't succeed. And there's a very real chance that it won't. Brookfield Global Mobility reports that relocations have a 54% failure rate, and Right Management reports that 40% of relocations have failed. Either percentage you look at, that number is mighty high.
Now consider that the No. 1 reason employees are reluctant to relocate is family resistance. A 2015 survey found that 60% of all relocating employees experienced some family pushback to the move.
This statistic doesn't surprise me. As a language trainer, I've taught hundreds of people who have relocated to the U.S. for their jobs. Most of them work in engineering, tech, finance or management. Back when they were studying these subjects in school, most of them never pictured relocating abroad. So they didn't study language or culture. But then they come to a turning point.
Most People Do Not Anticipate Relocating to Another Country for Their Job
"There's an opportunity to work in our U.S. office," their companies tell them. "We think this would be a good step in your career."
Of course, they want to seize this opportunity. But with that decision comes big challenges — not just for the employee, but also for their spouse, their kids and even extended family members.
If you're involved in relocations, it's important to pay careful attention to the challenges employees' families face, because they can make or break the success of a move.
It's Hard to Leave Your Comfort Zone When You Relocate
I recently assessed the needs of a wife who decided to relocate with her husband to the U.S. He works for a Japan-based Fortune 100 company, and they were relocated to Texas for a minimum of two years. She said she wanted to take advantage of this time. When a large number of employees are relocated, they often form the same networks and social groups they had in their home country. In other words, they're still living in Japan — but doing it in Dallas. There's nothing wrong with this, as it's human nature to flock to your comfort zone or to want to be with people like yourself. I did the same thing when I lived in Spain (and learned very little Spanish during this time, might I add).
But I wouldn't recommend this route. The company sent those employees to the U.S. to learn, collaborate, grow and bring back new ideas and stronger relationships. If the transferred employees don't integrate, then isn't the point of relocating them a moot one?
They need support to do this, though. It's incredibly difficult to dive into a new culture speaking a language that you're not used to using on a daily basis – and exhausting! The first months I lived in Mexico, working so hard to understand what was being said to me and form coherent sentences in return left my brain fried at the end of each day. A native French-speaking friend of mine recently started working for an American company in Chicago. She had been working in Dallas for five years at a French company, where she mostly spoke French, even though she was living in the US. After the first week of work in Chicago, she called me, exhausted, and exclaimed: "I've never had to work in English before now! And I've been in the U.S. for five years!"
A Fluency Coach Can Help With More Than Just Language
A fluency coach or private English tutor can be a huge help in getting the employee and his or her family settled in. This person can come to the home or office for two hours a week – assisting with questions about schools, community, how to get involved, grocery stores and vacation spots, all while increasing the family's confidence and skill in the new language.
That's important, because confidence and practice are the most common things that hold someone back from speaking their second language. They may have had great formal training, but now they simply need time to practice the language and get comfortable. This affects every aspect of their workday: how much they speak in meetings, how much they understand in meetings, how they collaborate, how long it takes them to respond to an email.
We even had one gentleman from Spain who wanted to take advantage of all the space in Texas ask us where to buy a horse for his son! Now this gentleman was really adapting to the local culture! And, of course, we hooked him up. One of our local language teachers knew exactly whom to call and how to introduce our client to local ranchers and horse owners. It's these personal touches that can make or break a relocation. Happy family = happy employee!
Another interesting example of what helps a relocation succeed: I learned from Cartus that in Brazil you can't get a driver's license without being fluent in Portuguese. But it wasn't possible to get their relocating employees fluent (300-plus hours of one-on-one lessons!) before moving them to Brazil. So they had to spend $10,000 per month to hire drivers for each employee. For the employees, their drivers came to play the role that language instructors often fill: a valuable source for assimilation, knowledge and support. Employees practiced the language with their drivers and got important insider information about the city and specific neighborhoods. The drivers' support made the the decision to relocate more manageable and successful, albeit at a huge cost.
Think of a language coach this way: A guide to not only the language, but the community and the culture. And it won't cost you $10,000 a month, either. Most language coaches cost $5,000 to $10,000 per year. That's a small investment to keep your much larger investment from being wasted.
Dawn Mugavero, from Toyota Global Mobility, summed it all up well at a recent Texas Relocation Network event: "Now that we've moved to Texas, the real work begins. It's not just getting everyone to the new location, but also ensuring their satisfaction in the years to come."
How are you supporting the happiness and confidence of your relocating employees? Contact us for a free consultation to learn more about language training and cultural support from Fluency Corp. Who knows? We might be helping you buy a horse someday, too (in the local language, of course!).
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What is Evidence?
We have many clients who, when facing criminal charges, tell us that there is no evidence against them. Here is an example:
In a case of sexual assault, an examination of the prosecution brief of evidence reveals that there is a statement by the complainant, being the person who alleges the sexual assault. There are no other witnesses to the alleged incident.
Many clients think that in such a situation, there is no evidence against them. Actually, the statement of the complainant is evidence, and if accepted by a jury or magistrate, of itself is sufficient for the accused to be found guilty.
What our client really means is that there is no additional evidence against them. There is no eye witness accounts, forensic evidence like fingerprints or DNA, CCTV footage, circumstantial evidence or witnesses who give evidence of prior or subsequent conversations with the accused.
This additional evidence supports or corroborates the evidence of the complainant. However, the lack of it does not mean there is no evidence against the accused. In fact, it is common that cases are based on the evidence of the complainant alone. Sexual assaults are most often alleged in circumstances where only two people are present.
Many episodes of alleged domestic violence cases are similarly based on the sole account of the complainant. Assaults, road rage, thefts and many offences against the person fall into the same category.
Criminal lawyers often call these "one on one" cases. That is the sole evidence in the case is that of the complainant against that of the accused. Do not forget that what the accused has said about the case can be used as evidence – as previously discussed, the record of interview with police is evidence in the case.
So it is a mistake to think that there is no evidence against you if the only evidence is that of the complainant. The task for the prosecution is always to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. True it is that the task is more difficult in one on one cases, but Courts and juries are often satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt on the evidence of the sole witness being the complainant.

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In the summer of 2015, when the Argentine conductor Mariano Chiacchiarini appeared in Lucerne as a guest at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, he turned out to be a gifted tango dancer away from the concert stage. Now he can give vent to this passion on the podium. Together with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI, he will create a thrilling tango night with music by his legendary compatriot Astor Piazzolla. Using influences from jazz and classical music, refined harmonies, and new playing techniques, Piazzolla expanded the traditional tango argentino, making music that took it out of the nightclubs and into the concert hall. And he composed such works for orchestra as the "grand tango" Tangazo and his powerfully blazing Bandoneon Concerto. Michael Zisman, the Swiss bandoneon virtuoso with Argentinean roots, will perform this piece with a feeling for its rhythmic drive as well as for the thoughtful moments of this score. In addition, there will be such evergreen Piazzolla hits as Oblivion, Adiós Nonino, and Libertango, likely his best-known work.
Mariano Chiacchiarini, who was born in 1982, studied orchestral and choral conducting at the Universidad Católica Argentina in his native Buenos Aires and then continued his training as a conductor with Michael Luig at the Cologne Academy of Music and Dance. He has been awarded numerous scholarships and took first prize at the Martini Conductors' Competition of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2008. He has led the Ensemble Garage, which is based in Cologne, since 2009 and the Orchester '91 in Hamburg since 2011. In 2010 he started his tenure as Music Director of the University of Trier. Since 2014 he has been one of the regular guest conductors of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Argentina. He has had master classes and assistant positions with such figures as Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Iván Fischer, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, and David Zinman. Mariano Chiacchiarini, who has gained significant experience working with such acclaimed ensembles as the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Lyon, WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Modern, and the Ensemble Musikfabrik, has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Young Euro Classics, and the Ultraschall Festival in Berlin, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. In 2011 he took part in the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Sonntag aus Licht. Chiacchiarini has worked as an assistant conductor several times at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY as well as in the "40min" series. He conducted the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra in The Big Wig project by the Swiss jazz singer Andreas Schaerer, which was also released on CD in 2017, both in Lucerne and on tour throughout Switzerland and Germany.


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A project aimed at protecting "stone" crabs living in the Cham Island area of Hoi An city, situated in the central province of Quang Nam, has recently been approved by local authorities.
Implemented by the Management Board of the Cham Island Marine Protected Area (MPA), the three-year project plans to save the crab (gecarcoidea lalandii) whose numbers have been in sharp decline due to over-exploitation caused by the growth in tourism.
Although marine animals, the crabs live in spring and small rocky caves jotted along the island and baby crabs are delivered in the sea, between May and August, f-rom whe-re they make their ways back to the island.
Its tasty, creamy meat has turned the dark purple crab into a local delicacy. Playing an important role in local livelihoods, crabs can be found on sale in iron baskets in front of every house, together with dried fish or squid.
Due to its popularity, the crab has been faced with over-hunting due to rising tourist numbers following the UNESCO decision to recognise the Cham Island as a World Biosphere Reserve in 2009.
Due to the significant role that crabs play in the local ecology, tourism and socio-economic development, local authorities banned crab hunting in 2009, despite which crab numbers have still not fully recovered.
According to Chu Manh Trinh, f-rom the Management Board of the Cham Island MPA and head of the crab protection project, experts plan to cre-ate a map indicating crab protection areas as well as a "crab bank", set up in an area of the island with a suitable ecological environment in which crabs could multiply.
"In the 'crab bank' we will apply ecological breeding technologies in order to assist the crabs to lay eggs and increase in number within a natural environment," Trinh said.
Additional regulations on crab hunting will also be designed by which locals will be allowed to hunt crabs, with shells f-rom 7-10cm in size, f-rom the first to the sixth lunar month while raising local awareness on efficient crab protection.
The VND2 billion (nearly US$100,000) project will receive financial assistance f-rom the Global Environment Fund and the Hoi An city budget.
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Ministry sets tab for conserving relics at 526 mln USD over five years (20/04/2011)
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Message f-rom Hoi An: "We are always beside you" (10/04/2011)
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It is peacefulness that makes Hoi An develop (04/03/2011)


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This weekend will see the launch of the Windband CD of Andy's music.
Featuring the Maidstone Symphonic Winds conducted by Jonathan Crowhurst.
World Premiere in Sandbach of "Belles of London"
The Saxophone Orchestra from the Love Music Trust will be performing the World Premiere of Barbara Thompson's "Belles of London" as part of the Sandbach Concert Series event on Wednesday, 22nd February. The venue is St. Mary's Church Hall and starts at 7pm.
The concert also features a spotlight section on young artists from the region as well as a concert by the Saxophone/Clarinet, Violin/Viola and Piano trio, Trifarious.
Andy will be hosting the first JazzSmart event in the Northwest, to be held over the weekend of 11th/12th February at The Manchester College, Piccadilly, Manchester.


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One Buc Mailbag: Competition Heats Up
As the Bucs get closer to the regular season, questions about the depth chart and 53-man roster become more pressing.
Senior Writer/Editor
Each week during the offseason, Senior Writer/Editor Scott Smith will dip into the inbox to answer questions from Buccaneer fans. This week, we look at rookie LB Kwon Alexander's potential role in sub packages, DE Jamal Young's future and players who could make the roster due to special teams prowess.
Fans can submit questions for upcoming mailbags via Twitter to @ScottSBucs (#BucsMailbag), through a message on the Buccaneers Official Facebook Page or via email at *tbbsocial@buccaneers.nfl.com. The One Buc Mailbag runs every Thursday and is not necessarily meant to reflect the opinions of the team's management or coaching staff.*
1. Kwon Stays On?
@ScottSBucs ia kwon going to stay on in subpackages?
— Alec hallman (@Althepostman) August 18, 2015
That is a great, great question, Alec. Casey might grab it during our broadcast Thursday, but I'd like to take a shot at it here, too.
Let's set the scene. The Buccaneers entered training camp with a starting linebacker trio of Lavonte David on the weak side, Bruce Carter in the middle and Danny Lansanah on the strong side. The Kwon to which Alec refers, of course, is Kwon Alexander, a fourth-round pick out of LSU who has been turning heads ever since he arrived in Tampa.
The Buccaneers first envisioned Alexander as an outside linebacker in their 4-3, and since David is about as entrenched as an NFL player can be in his position, the logical move was to let the rookie compete for the SAM job with Lansanah. However, noting that Alexander played well in the MIKE role in nickel packages during OTA practices, the Bucs' coaching staff decided to give him a longer look at that job, including in base defenses, in training camp. That's the only position Alexander has been working at since camp started.
After several good weeks on the practice field and a strong showing in the preseason opener, Alexander got another boost from the coaching staff: He's been getting a chance to run with the first team at MIKE linebacker all week.
Now, we should emphasize, as Alexander himself did on Monday, that running with the ones in camp this week is not the same thing as winning the job outright. As of Thursday, the Buccaneers haven't made any changes to their depth chart. However, the longer Alexander stays in that position, the more credence we have to put in that possibility. In addition, Carter has recently begun practicing at SAM linebacker, an indication that the team is at least considering different combinations than the one with which they opened camp.
Alec's question, if I'm reading it right, begins at this starting point, with the notion that Alexander stays in the starting spot at MIKE. So now the question is, if he's on the field for base-defense snaps, does he come off when the Bucs go to a nickel and replace one linebacker with an extra cornerback.
My strong guess, Alec, is that he would stay on the field with Lavonte David. Remember, as I pointed out above, Alexander first caught the coaches' eyes as a MIKE in the nickel package specifically. He was good at that. Generally (though not absolutely always), it's your SAM linebacker who comes off for nickel sets, which is why the great Buc defenses of the mid-'90s to the mid-'00s had such a revolving cast at that position. The team didn't want to invest as much into a player that was on the field for 50-60% of the snaps as they did for the MIKEs and the WILLs, who played all the snaps. That defense first started to emerge in 1996; from that point on, here were your starting SAMs: Lonnie Marts (1996), Rufus Porter (1997), Jeff Gooch (1998), Shelton Quarles (1999-2001), Alshermond Singleton (2002), Ryan Nece (2003), Ian Gold (2004) and Ryan Nece again (2005).
Alexander appears to have what you want in a nickel linebacker, in that his coverage skills are as strong as his run-stopping ability. Gerald McCoy said on Tuesday that he hasn't seen a linebacker who can run like Alexander since he first laid eyes on David in 2012. If you want to dial up a third-down blitz out of the nickel, both Alexander and David could do that. Those two could make for a pretty potent combo in the nickel, honestly.
Again, however, let's remember that the competition is still going on for the MIKE and SAM starting jobs, let alone the nickel.
2. Young Addition?
@ScottSBucs I missed #BucsLive today but I was wonderin if you think there's any chance Jamal Young can make the team. #WouldMakeAGreatStory
— Wes Lehman (@WesLehman) August 19, 2015
Good hashtag, Wes. It would indeed make a great story if Jamal Young were to make the Buccaneers' roster. Honestly, it would be a great story even if it took him a little bit longer and he had to spend some time on an NFL practice squad or make it into another training camp or two. After all, we're talking about a guy who was signed directly from a junior college (rare) and who had spent four years running track collegiately before ever picking up football.
Until we had Pro Scouting Coordinator Rob McCartney on the show on Tuesday, I wasn't aware that Young actually reached out to the Buccaneers, instead of the other way around. I guess it's fair to say that Tampa Bay didn't have a lot of scouts at Jones County Junior College games in Ellisville, Mississippi. Young had a really good reference in his back pocket, though; his coach at JCJC was none other than Ray Perkins, who was the Buccaneers' head coach from 1987 through most of 1990.
Young isn't huge for a defensive end (6-3, 240) but, I mean, we're talking about a guy fast enough to run track at Southern Miss. That sounds to me like an undersized edge rusher; he's similar in size to T.J. Fatinikun, who is second on the Bucs' depth chart at left defensive end and who could definitely be part of the edge-rushing rotation this fall.
Casey and I actually did talk about Young and the whole defensive end position during the show on Wednesday (you can catch up on it here). We were going through the depth chart and discussing possible bubble guys, and I stated the opinion that the Buccaneers would keep as many NFL-caliber pass-rushers as they could find. I really believe that. That's a position I think the team will always go heavy on if it has a surplus of talent.
Would Young fit into that category, just a few months into this rather large jump from juco to the NFL? It's possible. My understanding is that he's really fast (of course) but also raw and still learning pass-rush moves that will fly at this level. He seems (on paper) like the kind of prospect who would need a little more time to develop.
A couple undrafted free agents make the Bucs' roster every year. I'd be shocked if that didn't hold true in 2015. Somebody who came in as a virtual unknown is going to make it, maybe even somebody from a more obscure background like JCJC or Heidelberg (WR Donteea Dye) or Jacksonville University (P Karl Schmitz). The odds of any one particular player in that group making it aren't that high, however. I think I'd be going out on a limb if I predicted that Jamal Young, specifically, would be that guy.
But that's not what you asked, is it Wes? You wanted to know if there was "any chance" Young makes the team. To that I say, yes! There's a chance. And if you expand your definition of "making the team" to include the practice squad, then the chances go up quite a bit. Let's see what happens over the next three weeks.
Training Camp, August 19
Photos from the Bucs' training camp practice on August 19.
3. Scott - I always hear coaches say that the best way for young players to make the team is to be good on special-teams. So tell me a couple guys who are going to make the bucs roster just because of special-teams. Thanks. Darren, Brandon Bucs fan since the '90s (via email to tbbsocial@buccaneers.nfl.com)
Um, the kicker, the punter and the long-snapper?
Okay, I'm sorry, I know that's not what you meant. Just couldn't help myself. Darren had a couple other questions about Charles Sims and Tim Wright, but I decided to edit those out and just do this one. Sorry, Darren. One out of three ain't bad, right?
Darren is obviously referring to non-specialists who make their hay on return and/or coverage units. Sometimes those guys forge a whole NFL career around that part of the job, other times they get their foot in the door on "teams" and then go on to bigger things on offense or defense. In 1997, undrafted free agent Shelton Quarles made the Bucs' roster and went on to record a team single-season record 31 special teams tackles. That was pretty much his whole job, even though the Bucs thought he had a future at linebacker. Quarles nearly won the SAM job in 1998 but was slowed early by injuries; he won it outright in 1999, spent three years at that position and then converted to middle linebacker in 2002 and made the Pro Bowl. Former Buc fan favorites Kenny Gant and Curtis Buckley are examples of the other type of special teamers, who make that their bread-and-butter.
There are two very obvious choices to answer your question, Darren: Russell Shepard and Kaelin Clay. Shepard has played two seasons for the Buccaneers after coming into the league in 2013 as an undrafted free agent with the Eagles, almost solely based on the fact that he is a fabulous cover man on special teams. I don't care how many rookie receivers were currently in love with, you cannot count out Shepard making the team again and filling the same role. Clay, meanwhile, is the front-runner for the kickoff and punt return jobs and probably wouldn't have a big role on offense right away even he makes the 53-man roster.
Those are the easy ones, I have to admit. How about a couple more. I've said more than once that I love the Bucs' linebacker depth this year and that I expect that position to be the core of the special teams unit. Well, in the preseason opener, linebacker Larry Dean tied Shepard with two kick-coverage stops. Dean came aboard in April as an unrestricted free agent after three seasons in Minnesota and one in Buffalo. During that time, he was pretty much a wrecking ball on special teams, while playing only occasionally on defense.
Jason Williams and Orie Lemon would be similar choices, but I don't want to go all linebacker, and I wonder if one or two of those guys will cancel each other out. The Bucs have nine LBs at the moment, and it seems like all of them could help significantly either on defense or special teams, but it would be hard to devote that many spots on the 53-man roster to that position.
So how about cornerback Isaiah Frey? When you're trying to figure out the last five or six spots on the 53-man roster, you'd like those guys to have some value both on special teams and at their respective positions. Frey has been battling with Leonard Johnson (and now Sterling Moore) for the nickel back job, and he's very familiar with Lovie Smith's defense. There's value in that. Frey also ranked fifth on the team last year in special teams tackles despite not arriving until late October.
4. Straight Outta…Time to Go to the Movies?
#BucsLive has @ScottSBucs seen Straight out of Compton? What did he think.
— Dan R (@RealDanRoy) August 19, 2015
Not yet, Dan, not yet. But I'm really looking forward to it. I've heard good things. I don't get to very many movies at this time of the year, but that's definitely the next one I'm seeing.


This is S.D. hike. We are starting at Cactus Canyon.
Here we are in another canyon. To be paved?
The swing works, for now.
Going thru some homeless campsites. Nobody's home.
Made it to the Al's bench.
Nothing happened here till now. Wit was here 9/29/14.
Swinging bridge is more fun.
Another library. This one is with a nice chair.
We are in a secluded canyon with interesting homes.
Hersch is trimming some sidewalk brushes.
We don't have tools to trim this front yard.
This is our lunch spot, Lucha Libre.
Champion Wayne, he slammed two fish tacos.
Here is our group picture at the old cemetery.
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To the members of the priestly community of Lubra.
As soon as the priests of mNga' zhabs have seen the letter stating that they should assemble, they must come.
From the subedār and Khams gsum of Kag, in Kagbeni. The 16th day of the first month.
This letter is from the headman of Kag, the noble Tshenden. The subject is as follows. Concerning the mahasul tax. Four people, headmen and Important Men from each of the [total number of] counties comprised by the Six Communities: Khyenga, Dzar, Purang, Chongkhor, Dzong and Putra, must go on Monday. This has been sent from Kag on a Thursday.
Friday, the 23rd day of the 10th month in a Wood Horse year. Concerning Khamsum of Kag: this document is written by the Noble Khams gsum, headman of the community of Kag and the 18 communities of mNga' zhabs Baragaon. The subject is as follows.
If the letter sent on the 10th day of the 1st month was sent by Khams gsum himself, Ngazhab shall collectively seize Khams gsum. But if it turns out that it was sent not by Khams [gsum] but by the community of Kag following a discussion between the people and the headman of Kag, the Noble Khams gsum (i.e., not the same Khams gsum) shall pay a forfeit of 500 rupees, with no excuses. The Noble Khams gsum, the headman, sets his signature of his own free will to confirm this decision. The Important Man dGra 'dul of Kag signs; the Middle Kami of Kag signs; (Indistinct Nepali text follows.) The younger Kami of Kag signs; Tshe ring, Important Man of Kag, signs.
The point of p. 3 by the fact that both protagonists are named Khams gsum. One of the two, the "Noble Khams gsum", a headman of Kag, has apparently been accused of issuing a letter in the name of Kag on the tenth day of the first month, signing it in his capacity of headman.
The letter is evidently contentious, since it has provoked a sharp response from the Baragaon Assembly. Noble Khams gsum has become nervous at this turn of events and denied sending this letter, arguing that the author in question must be his namesake in Kag. If the forthcom- ing investigation reveals that he was indeed the letter's author, the 500 rupees he has declared himself willing to pay is presumably a punishment for falsely appropriating the authority of his community.
The relationship between the three pages is not apparent.
p. 1, l. 3. su bhi dhar: Nepali subedār, see glossary. The meaning of the term in this context corresponds to the second definition given by Turner, viz. officer in charge of a police-station.


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TunnelBear Adds Privacy Protection, Always On Security For PC And Mac
Windows/Mac: Tunnelbear, one of our favourite VPN services for accessing blocked content overseas, just updated to roll in new security tools that protect your privacy and stops everyone from tracking you. It also helps you get around location restrictions on streaming media.
The new Tunnelbear takes a page from our favourite privacy-protecting browser extension, Disconnect, and now gives you control over the tracking cookies, scripts and other elements on the sites you visit, and whether they're active or disabled. You can see what's on every site browse to, disable trackers and buttons or widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and more. Even third-party applications are blocked — or allowed, whichever you prefer.
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Oxford Film Festival Take 5 With...: Take 5 with "Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Col. Bruce Hampton"
Take 5 with "Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Col. Bruce Hampton"
As we gear up for the 10th anniversary Oxford Film Festival, we wanted to introduce you to the filmmakers and their films you will experience on Feb. 21-24, 2013. Meet Michael Koepenick, director/producer/editor of "Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Col. Bruce Hampton."
Find out why Billy Bob Thornton, Dave Matthews, and members of Phish, Widespread Panic, and the Dead are big fans of Colonel Bruce Hampton.
The biggest lesson learned is that you really can have too much of a good thing when you are trying to make a documentary under 90 minutes long.
The best part in getting this film made is to have it finished and seen by audiences after over a decade of too many trials and tribulations.
This is my first feature length documentary as a filmmaker. I have been an editor since 1987 and have done countless short form TV spots, promos, interstitials, and a few long form television shows and indie features as well. I formed Guillotine Post in 1996 and have been operating it ever since and we recently started Guillotine Pictures to pursue musical documentaries and other creative projects.
We are just finishing our first DVD duplication run and are pursuing independent distribution through iTunes and on-line orders in our first phase. Later we hope to attract someone who can really get it out to the world and market it appropriately.
Who knows what the future may hold for Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton?
I'm currently pursuing a documentary on the life and times of Otis Redding and another on the Indigo Girls and their late '90's theatrical production of Jesus Christ Superstar: A Resurrection.
I also regularly edit spots and promos for broadcast television and for corporate clients.


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Dr. J. Nathan Corbitt
Co-founders of BaB Retire
Philadelphia, PA-In 1997, BuildaBridge(BaB) International opened up its doors as one of few organizations intentionally engaged in using the arts for resilience and healing in communities with vulnerable populations.
Now 20 years later BuildaBridge co-founders, Drs. J. Nathan Corbitt and Vivian Nix-Early plan to retire from their senior leadership positions to leave their legacy to the newly onboarded Executive Director, Ami Yares and the board of directors.
As I contemplate the 20 years since Nathan and I founded BuildaBridge, I am thankful for the many people and organizations that have helped BuildaBridge have a significant impact – an impact that has transformed the lives of vulnerable children and families as well as improved the ways our artists and partner organizations work with people. During our tenure as founding leaders, BuildaBridge has trained over 1,800 artists and engaged 2,000 volunteers who have given over 160,000 hours of service to directly impact the lives of more than 9,900 children and adults in 26 countries – through art-making,
said Nix-Early regarding her experience with BuildaBridge.
BuildaBridge International (BaB) is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that offers trauma-informed, arts-based programming around the globe. It seeks to impact people groups who struggle with poverty, homelessness, human trafficking,abuse and displacement due to war, famine and political persecution. BaB accomplishes this through direct service and through training artists in their own communities to empower those with greatest need, to facilitate their resilience in order that live with hope and a vision for their lives. Recently, a team of BaB board members and artists-on-call completed a trip to the Netherlands to survey organizations serving refugees in order establish future partnerships in Europe. The Philadelphia Refugee Project and Orchestral Dialogues are thriving under the leadership of Dr. Janelle Junkin and Stevie French.
"It's all good. What began as a service project with a small team of visiting and local artists to Costa Rica led to a vision for engaging creative people in service to others. I am always amazed at and will always remember the courage, empathy, and creative responses, very often in cross-cultural contexts and crisis situations, of so many wonderful committed people to see hope come alive, Corbitt reflects. We are very excited about the new leadership of Ami Yares, and the continued service of Janelle Junkin and Stevie French, along with an active board who is guiding the transition to the future."
Nix-Early and Corbitt will remain active members of BaB by assue, the co-founders both served as academic administrators and professors at Eastern University. Corbitt specialized in Cross-Cultural Studies and Nix-Early is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified music therapist.
Beginning December 1, 2017, Drs. Corbitt and Nix-Early will turn their responsibilities as President and CEO and COO over to the new executive director Ami Yares who will continue the work of the organization.
For more information contact info@buildabridge.org.
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Q: iMacros Eval inside a script and Loop not working I found this solution to open from a batch file the chrome  browser and run the Imacros .iim file.
https://wiki.imacros.net/Webextensions#Command_Line_Support
I need help on 2 things

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*How I need to write the EVAL inside the script, because now I Have an error.

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now is running 1 time only, don't loop the csv.

Launch iMacros

I am using (FCI): iMacros for CR v10.1.1 'PE', CR v105.0.5195.102 (_x64), Win10_x64. ('CR' = 'Chrome' / 'PE' = 'Personal Edition')


Alfred D. DeSantis, Jr., 77, of 717 East Market Street, Danville, PA, passed away early Sunday morning, January 26, 2014 at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. He was born March 9, 1936 in Riverside, PA, the son of the late Alfred D., Sr. and E. Mae Oberdorf DeSantis.
He graduated from Danville High School in 1954. Al was a veteran of the United States Navy from 1954-1958 serving in the USS Ranger.
He was employed by Merck & Company, Riverside and also by the Danville State Hospital, where he retired in 1991.
Al was a lifelong Danville area resident who was very devoted to his community, especially 2nd Ward. He was very active in leadership roles leading up to his position of Fire Chief of the Washington Fire and Hose Company "Washies" of Danville PA. He was also a member of the other fire companies in Danville. Al was a past Danville Fire Chief serving on the Danville Fire Board. He was the Vice President of the Firemen Relief Association for many years. He also served on the Planning Commission and the Hazard Mitigation Commission for the Danville Area Emergency Preparedness. Al was also a member of the VFW, the Danville-Mahoning Lodge #224, a lifetime member of American Legion Post 40 and a lifetime member of the Danville Elks.
Al was an avid Penn State football fan and was a computer enthusiast. He was very well known for his friendliness in the community. His greatest enjoyment was socializing with his friends and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Beatrice E. Snyder DeSantis. Also surviving are four sisters; Betty Ann Huber and her husband Charles and Carol J. Lewis and her husband Dennis; all of Danville PA and Gloria D. Young and her husband Keith; and Barbara K. White and her husband Robert; all of Bloomsburg, PA. Also surviving are 10 nieces and nephews.


Debris, leftovers, the aftermath of other efforts, materials only partially identifiable—like the scene after an accident or disaster, only too clean for that, too controlled. And not the kind of unidentifiable that happens in real life after the car crash or flood, not the kind with real loved ones and family. This is the kind that happens on a primetime drama—the kind where nothing graphic is ever shown or seen, nothing vulgar, and if it is, it is theatrical enough that we know it isn't real, it couldn't be, not like this. It is too clean because it is contained. We can see its edges, we can see where it ends.
This un-identification deals in senses, or things already known. Specificity without. . . . It doesn't matter that we don't have more, that we don't know. Broken pieces of wood and dust and dirt don't have much more to offer anyway. Here they are the filler, the stand-in, and the placeholder. They are the articulation of their representation, an acknowledgment of what they do now rather than what they used to be. To know more about their past is both pointless and beside the point.
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The death knell of American industrialism manifests and mirrors its legacy, starting with a bang and gradually fading to nothing. Death Knell frames the codependency of process and product by showing a vehicle's remains with documentation of its dismantling recorded on hundreds of contact microphones. Destruction encompasses the reversal of thousands of years of progress; it can be methodical, meditative, or aggressive.
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More recently, and in small ways throughout, there have been subtle introductions of dimensionality or shadow or light––the optical mixing of paint through thin layers or the juxtaposition of dark and light. I think of that not as an inhabitable space, but rather something textural and shallow like the weave of a fabric. It's still space, there's dimensionality to that, but it's not the most alluring or deceptive kind of space that draws you in.
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Q: $\sigma$ algebra of collection of random variables Im doing a course on measure theory and I'm stuck on one of the exercises.
Take $\{Y_{\gamma}:\gamma \in C\}$ as an arbitrary collection of random variables and $\{X_{n}: n \in N\}$ to be a countable collection of random variables
I now want to show that $$\sigma \{Y_{\gamma} : \gamma \in C\}=\sigma\{Y^{-1}_{\gamma}(B): \gamma \in C, B \in Borel\}$$
So i need to show that both $\sigma \{Y_{\gamma} : \gamma \in C\}\subset\sigma\{Y^{-1}_{\gamma}(B): \gamma \in C, B \in Borel\}$ and $\sigma\{Y^{-1}_{\gamma}(B): \gamma \in C, B \in Borel\}\subset\sigma \{Y_{\gamma} : \gamma \in C\}$ hold.
I know that for a single random variable X you have $\sigma(X)=\{X^{-1}(B): B \in Borel\}$. How do I expand this for the collection of random variables?
I then also have to show that if $Fn=\sigma\{X_{1},...,X_{n}\}$ and $A=\cup_{n=1}^{\infty}F_{n}$ then $$\sigma(A)=\sigma\{X_{n}: n \in N\}$$
Can anyone help me with this?

A: $\def\Bor{\mathrm{Borel}}$
Write $\mathcal A = \sigma\{Y_\gamma^{-1}(B) : \gamma \in C, B \in \Bor\}$. Then every $Y_\gamma$ is $(\mathcal A, \Bor)$-measurable (as $Y_\gamma^{-1}(B) \in \mathcal A$ for each $B\in\Bor$), hence $\sigma\{Y_\gamma : \gamma \in C\} \subseteq \mathcal A$, since the former is the smallest $\sigma$-algebra making the $Y_\gamma$ measurable. On the other hand, all $Y_\gamma$ are $(\sigma\{Y_\gamma:\gamma\in C\}, \Bor)$-measurable, then for $B \in \Bor$ we have $Y_\gamma^{-1}(B) \in \sigma\{Y_\gamma:\gamma \in C\}$. This shows that $\mathcal A \subseteq \mathcal \sigma\{Y_\gamma : \gamma \in C\}$, and hence equality.
For the second claim, let $\mathcal B = \{X_n^{-1}(B) : n \ge 1, B \in \Bor\}$. We now from the first part that $\sigma (\mathcal B) = \sigma\{X_n : n \ge 1\}$.
But as $X_n$ is $F_n$-measurable
\[ \mathcal B = \bigcup_{n \ge 1} \{X_n^{-1}(B) : B \in \Bor\} \subseteq \bigcup_{n \ge 1} F_n =A \subseteq \sigma\{X_n : n \ge 1 \}. \]
This implies
\[\sigma\{X_n : n\ge 1 \} =
 \sigma\mathcal B \subseteq \sigma A \subseteq \sigma\{X_n : n \ge 1\}. \]


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On Blu-ray: Paul Newman is Detective Lew Harper in Harper (1966) and The Drowning Pool (1975)
Paul Newman took a crack at playing a gumshoe for the first time in Harper (1966), following that success years later with the sequel, The Drowning Pool (1975). This pair of films was inspired by Ross MacDonald's novels about the detective Lew Archer, which was changed to Harper for the adaptations. Now available on Blu-ray from Warner Archive, the films work individually, but are more fascinating as a double feature which shows the change over the nine years between them.
In Harper, Newman embodies a familiar detective archetype: a man who is good at his profession and lousy in personal relationships. He takes a job to find the millionaire husband of an invalid wife (Lauren Bacall). She assumes he has run off with another woman and claims she just wants to know the details. He enlists the help of the man's daughter (Pamela Tiffin) and pilot (Robert Wagner), in addition to slogging through the complex lives of a washed-up movie star (Shelley Winters), a junkie lounge singer (Julie Harris), and the eccentric leader of a dubious religious order called the Temple of the Clouds (Strother Martin) in search of answers. Throughout it all, he tangles with his estranged wife (Janet Leigh) on the phone, failing to take her contempt for him seriously.
Harper's biggest draw is its astonishing cast. There's always the risk of overcrowding with a mob of varied personalities like these, but all are well-suited to their roles. Each of them get the chance to shine in their own way and just as importantly, they all fit together. Newman takes a light tone as he trips through their sordid lives, seeming to laugh at it all, but aware of the danger they pose. It makes for an interesting tone, where you watch with a tight gut and a grin of mild terror.
Harper's tone reflects the times, free-wheeling, but ill-at-ease, hopeful, but with a taste of cynicism. When Newman returned to the character nine years later in The Drowning Pool (1975), the weariness of the post-sixties, post-Watergate era had settled in. As the wealthy former flame who hires Harper out of concern that her infidelity to her husband will be revealed, Joanne Woodward perfectly expresses that exhaustion. Harper finds himself drawn deeper into family power struggles and complicated relationships, which play out in a more brutal fashion than in the first film.
As Woodward's teenage daughter, Melanie Griffith stands out as a young woman whose sexual confidence would be admirable if she didn't seem to be working so hard to implicate older men in pedophilia. Much like her similarly free-spirited character in Night Moves, propriety is simply not this girl's world view, which makes her more dangerous than the adults that maneuver around her. It also makes her more resilient as shown by Woodward's decline when her own flirtation with impropriety becomes increasingly degrading.
Special features on the Harper Blu-ray included a theatrical trailer and commentary by the film's screenwriter William Goldman. The Drowning Pool disc has an interesting vintage featurette: Harper Days Are Here Again and a theatrical trailer.
Many thanks to Warner Archive for providing a copies of the films for review. To order, visit The Warner Archive Collection.
Labels: Joanne Woodward, Lauren Bacall, Movie Reviews, Paul Newman, Warner Archive
Streaming Diary: Buster Keaton, Christopher Plummer and More Stream Free Via The National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada is a wondrous organization, giving opportunities to innovative, talented filmmakers and preserving decades of fascinating work. Many of the films supported by the group are available to stream on its official website, several for free (some limited to residents of Canada) and some for a membership fee.
I have spent many jawdropping hours browsing this site. It is an amazing resource and a great place for classic film fans to find new treasures. Here are some of my favorite titles available for free viewing (all titles link to the film's streaming page):
The Railrodder (1965)
It is delightfully poetic that one of Buster Keaton's last films would be silent. This travelogue, meant to boost Canadian tourism, is also one of the comic's best late career performances. He plays an Englishman who jumps into the Thames and walks across the Atlantic Ocean floor to the shores of Canada. There he hops on railway track speeder and races across the country, taking in the sights with that familiar stone face and air of nonchalant efficiency. It's a gorgeous, peaceful film, full of lovely scenery and the silent charms of one of the best movie comedians, still in great form and executing clever gags. He even gets to wear that legendary pork pie hat again.
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
A great companion piece to The Railrodder, this documentary about the making of the film, with a little biography mixed in, amusingly runs twice as long as the short. In addition to showing lots of behind-the-scenes action, it's a revealing document of Keaton in his later years, where he had finally found some contentment and still had a fully intact sense of humor. He comes off as a genuinely nice guy and is just as entertaining being himself as he ever was in any part he played. It's great fun to watch him with his wife Eleanor, who lovingly, but briskly berates him for tuning his ukulele strings too low and later shouts at a television baseball game with her equally enthusiastic husband.
30 Minutes, Mister Plummer (1963)
This short, narrated and directed by Anne Claire Poirier, and set in the milieu of the Shakespearean Theater in Stratford, Ontario, does not feature as much of Christopher Plummer as the title suggests, but nevertheless offers a few interesting glimpses of the actor in his early years. It's fun to watch him sit in front of his dressing room mirror, attaching an enormous nose for a performance of Cyrano de Bergerac and priceless to observe him smoking a cigarette while chatting with a large, black crow perched on his shoulder. Stage director Michael Langham and fellow thespians Kate Reid, Len Birman, and Martha Henry also make an appearance. Plummer's daughter Amanda, who was six-years-old at the time, also appears briefly, early in the film.
Plummer is also interviewed in The Performer (1959), a documentary about Canadian artists available on the site (he appears around 37:00). In an funny, acidic moment, he is taken to task by the interviewer for leaving Canada for Broadway after raving about the theater scene in his home country. Don't miss the fantastic scene featuring pianist Oscar Peterson and his combo.
Norman McLaren drawing directly on film, 1944 (Image Source)
Experimental filmmaker Norman McLaren is perhaps most famous for his Academy Award-winning short Neighbours (1952), but there is so much more to this boundary-pushing artist. He was a masterful abstract animator and stop motion artist, in addition to creating works that brilliantly captured the spirit of dancers and other performance artists.
There are several McLaren works on the site. Recommended: the moody dance piece Pas de deux (1968), playful animations Boogie-Doodle (1941) and Synchromy (1971), and the slapstick shorts Opening Speech (1961, starring the filmmaker himself) and my favorite McLaren film: A Chairy Tale (1957), which features a chair animated by Evelyn Lambart and the music of Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal.
Claude Jutra in A Chairy Tale (1957)
There's so much more to explore on the NFB site, from short and feature length films, to documentaries and animation. If you like these films, I recommend taking the time to browse the rest of the site.
Labels: Buster Keaton, Christopher Plummer, National Film Board of Canada, Norman McLaren, Streaming, Streaming Diary
On DVD: Monica Vitti and Tony Curtis in The Chastity Belt (1967)
Imagine Tony Curtis and Monica Vitti dressed in period garb, covered in leaves and wrestling with each other on the forest floor. If the thought amuses you, then The Chastity Belt (1967), also known as On the Way to the Crusades I Met a Girl Who…, is bound to do so as well. Curtis was always at his best playing vain, silly characters and Vitti shines when she has the opportunity to face serious situations with a "what can you do?" insouciance. Here the pair plays to those strengths, so while it doesn't add up to a cohesive whole, this free-wheeling flick, now available on DVD from Warner Archive, has its moments.
Vitti plays a gamekeeper's daughter and Curtis a newly anointed knight she adores. She resents that he wants to take her, rather than allowing her the opportunity to giver herself to him, but eventually they are married. On their wedding night he is summoned to immediately return to fighting in the Crusades. Intent on preserving his bride until they may consummate their marriage, he snaps her into a chastity belt against her will. Vitti spends the rest of the film chasing her groom, so that she may get the key and free herself.
Monica Vitti and a dog that she resembles
The Chastity Belt is a costume pic frolic in the bawdy spirit of Tom Jones (1963). Filmed in Italy, but with an eye on US distribution, it always feels on the edge of being as bawdy as it wants to be, with just a glimpse of nudity and a taste of sensuality, but more slapstick than anything else. It is a jumble of moments, but some moments can be very good, and like the scene where Curtis flashes a group of nuns as he races by on a bed pulled by a donkey, it is at its best when it gets a little racy.
While it taps into a lot of the counterculture and free love sentiment of the day, in many ways we are at the wrong cultural moment to draw even retro amusement from The Chastity Belt. The film takes light amusement from Vitti being kidnapped, harassed, attacked, stripped naked, wrapped in rope and called "it". She is told by a supposed wise man that women don't have souls, by Curtis that she is his to take, and her father gladly leaves her to the knight as if he is lending him a cup of sugar. However, you can also see the tide turning when after all she endures, Vitti dons a glam, jewel-studded suit of gold armor and starts taking things into her own hands.
Tony Curtis and a horse that resembles Monica Vitti
Vitti and Curtis are an odd romantic pair, but well-matched when it comes to humor. Neither of them seems to take anything too seriously and they both know what to do with the array of physical goofing and visual gags the script throws at them. If you look at it as lively fluff, it's a good time.
The picture quality is marvelous, displaying the gorgeous leads in their colorful costumes beautifully. With the open air feel of the location shots, it can sometimes have the feel of a bunch of hippies frolicking in the country in flowing finery. It is possible that, at least to a degree, that was the intent.
Many thanks to Warner Archive for providing a copy of the film for review. This is a Manufacture on Demand (MOD) DVD. To order, visit The Warner Archive Collection.
Labels: Monica Vitti, Movie Reviews, Tony Curtis, Warner Archive
Classic Film on Podcasts: 6 Great Episodes
I subscribe to an overwhelming number of podcasts, covering a wide range of subjects, and of course that includes classic movies. As much as I am always scrambling to keep up with new episodes, every once in a while a show will stick with me and maybe even inspire me to listen again. I want to start sharing these episodes as I come upon them, because there's so many podcasts out there that I know it can be difficult to weed through it all and find the best of the bunch. Expect more posts like this one!
Do you have a favorite podcast that would be of interest to classic film fans? Do you have a movie-themed podcast? Then please share in the comments!
All podcast titles lead to the show's webpage, specific show titles link to the episode discussed:
I Blame Dennis Hopper: The Podcast
Alicia Malone
Illeana Douglas is well known to many classic film fans as a true cinema devotee and student of film history. Much like her book I Blame Dennis Hopper, her podcast is full of love for, and insightful critical appreciation of the movies. Primarily an interview show, many episodes touch on different aspects of classic film,but my favorite by far is Douglas' interview with television host and writer Alicia Malone. I think a lot of movie fans will be able to relate to her tales of childhood movie obsession, collecting VHS tapes, recording intros off TV, and the terribly lonely feeling of being the only kid in school who adores classic film. (also listen to episodes with Beverly Gray, Ben Mankiewicz, Eddie Muller, Peter Bogdanovich, Beverly D'Angelo)
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Wilhelm Scream
This slickly produced podcast about different aspects of sound often touches on issues of interest to classic film fans. My favorite is the episode about the most famous movie scream ever recorded and the cult that has risen up around this split second snippet of sound.
Danny Peary
My favorite thing about Cult Movies author Danny Peary is his complete lack of pretension and snobbishness when it comes to film. While he looks at the medium with a highly critical eye, he understands that great cinema can come in any form. That attitude is what has made his books, including the popular Cult series, among the most successful in the film arena. He brings that spirit to this lengthy, wide-ranging conversation on the podcast Supporting Characters, in which he covers many aspects of film, the cinematic culture in which he grew up, and his books. This is simply a great audio document to have available for film fans. (also listen to the episode featuring Molly Haskell.)
The Hilarious World of Depression
This podcast focuses on comedians dealing with depression, but its episode featuring Dick Cavett is a can't-miss treat for classic film fans. In addition to poignantly discussing his struggles with the disease, he talks about his experiences with celebrities like Groucho Marx, Marlon Brando, and Judy Garland.
Ticklish Business
Karie Bible
Film writer Kristen Lopez (full disclosure: she has been my editor at ClassicFlix) hosts a lovely podcast featuring film reviews and interviews with various personalities of interest to classic film fans. I especially enjoyed the episode in which she interviewed Hollywood Forever Cemetery tour guide Karie Bible, who is perhaps best known for many years playing the role of the mysterious woman in black, a tribute based on a real Rudolph Valentino fan who so garbed would place a rose on the actor's grave each year on the anniversary of his death. Here she shares her experiences guiding classic film fans through this famous cemetery.
Studio 360/featuring Aisha Harris of Represent
Rethinking Gone With the Wind
While she has attended the TCM Classic Film Festival, Represent podcast host and Slate writer Aisha Harris devotes most of her energy to thoughtful analysis of current pop culture. Every once in a while discussion about a classic enters the mainstream again though, as happened when theater owners, exhibitors, and critics began to examine Gone With the Wind (1939) through the current cultural viewpoint and rethink how it should now be presented to the public and whether sometimes it shouldn't be screened at all. This is actually a guest appearance that Harris made on the Studio 360 podcast, which she posted on the feed for her show, but I wanted to highlight her own podcast because it is so good and worth a listen as well.
Labels: Podcasts
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