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Scope - May 2022
Role of the Committee
The Committee is an important part of the regulatory framework for the electricity and natural gas supply industries and the water and sewerage sector. It ensures that groups representing customer interests are informed as to developments in these industry sectors and that the Regulator is informed of issues from the perspective of those groups.
Committee's Objectives
The key objectives of the Committee are:
to provide a forum for dialogue between the Regulator's Office, other regulatory bodies such as the Ombudsman, ACCC, health and environmental regulators and customer groups on issues affecting electricity, gas and water and sewerage customers. Customer groups may:
voice concerns;
advise of customers' needs and views;
raise issues; and
provide feedback;
to provide the Regulator with input on issues affecting customers in these industries;
to facilitate consideration of customer concerns in decision making by the Regulator and regulated industry bodies;
to be an active body in the discussion of customer issues; and
to advise the Regulator on specified aspects of the administration of the ESI Act, the Gas Industry Act and the W&SI Act.
Committee's Outputs
The following are the desired outputs for the Committee:
Committee members are informed of recent developments and emerging issues in relevant industries and of the Regulator's current and forthcoming activities;
the Regulator and relevant regulated industry bodies are informed of the views, comments and suggestions of Committee members to assist them in performing their statutory roles;
the Committee provides a forum in which residential and business customers' interests are effectively represented;
the Committee makes a substantial contribution to the development of regulatory instruments and technical and customer service standards; and
members perceive the Committee as being of value to their organisations.
The Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 (ESI Act), the Gas Industry Act 2019 (Gas Industry Act), and the Water and Sewerage Industry Act 2008 (W&SI Act) each provide for the respective Minister or the Tasmanian Economic Regulator to establish advisory committees to advise on matters related to the administration of each Act.
Separate electricity and gas customer consultative committees were established in 1998 and 2002 respectively, and these were combined to form the Energy Customer Consultative Committee (ECCC) in 2002. The role of the ECCC was expanded to include advice to the Regulator on customer issues relating to the water and sewerage sector in 2009, and the name of the committee was changed to the OTTER Customer Consultative Committee (the Committee).
Since the commencement of the Gas Industry Act on 3 February 2021, the Regulator has had the power under all three industry Acts to establish advisory committees and appoint members, alongside an equivalent ministerial power.
The Regulator has appointed organisations rather than individuals as members of the Committee. This is to ensure accountability of members to constituent customer groups and to facilitate consultation. Organisations nominate specific persons to represent the organisations at Committee meetings. Organisations may nominate a proxy to attend meetings in lieu of the nominated representative, subject to approval by the Chair of the Committee prior to the meeting.
The Chair of the Committee is the Regulator or its nominated representative.
The following organisations have been appointed to the Committee for a three-year term from 24 May 2022:
Tasmanian Small Business Council
Tasmanian Council of Social Service Inc
Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Local Government Association of Tasmania
Property Council of Australia (Tasmanian Division)
Council of the Ageing Tasmania
Tasmanian Renewable Energy Alliance
Salvation Army (Tasmanian Branch)
Section 12 (Advisory Committees) of the ESI Act provides:
(1) The Minister or the Regulator may establish an advisory committee to advise the Minister or the Regulator (or both) on specified aspects of the administration of this Act.
(2) The members of an advisory committee established under this section by the Minister are appointed and hold office on such terms and conditions as the Minister determines.
(3) The members of an advisory committee established under this section by the Regulator are appointed and hold office on such terms and conditions as the Regulator determines.
Section 12 (Advisory Committees) of the ESI Act includes the following provisions.
Section 18 (Advisory Committees) of the Gas Industry Act includes the following provisions.
(1) The Minister or the Regulator may establish an advisory committee to advise the Minister or the Regulator, respectively, on specified aspects of the administration of this Act.
(2) The members of an advisory committee established under this section by the Minister are appointed and hold office on the terms and conditions that the Minister determines.
(3) The members of an advisory committee established under this section by the Regulator are appointed and hold office on the terms and conditions that the Regulator determines.
Section 8 (Minister or Regulator may establish committees) of the W&SI Act includes the following provisions.
The Minister or the Regulator may establish committees to provide information and advice to the Minister or the Regulator on matters related to the administration of this Act.
The members of a committee established under this section by the Minister are appointed and hold office on such terms and conditions as the Minister determines.
The members of a committee established under this section by the Regulator are appointed and hold office on such terms and conditions as the Regulator determines.
Section 24 (Advisory Committees) of the W&SI Act includes the following provisions.
The Regulator may establish advisory committees to advise the Regulator on specified aspects of the administration of this Act.
The members of advisory committees are appointed and hold office on terms and conditions approved by the Treasurer.
Customer protection is covered by a number of provisions in the ESI Act, Gas Industry Act and the National Energy Retail Law as applied in Tasmania by the National Energy Retail Law (Tasmania) Act 2012. Subsection 6(2) of the ESI Act and subsection 7(2) of the Gas Industry Act provide that one of the Regulator's objectives is to protect the interests of consumers of electricity and gas. An objective of the W&SI Act is to protect the long‑term interests of customers.
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Ken'ichi Tanimura (; * 26. Januar 1995 in Morioka) ist ein japanischer Fußballspieler.

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Tanimura erlernte das Fußballspielen in der Schulmannschaft der Morioka Commercial High School. Seinen ersten Vertrag unterschrieb er 2013 bei Montedio Yamagata. Der Verein spielte in der zweithöchsten Liga des Landes, der J2 League. Im Juli 2014 wurde er an den Drittligisten Gainare Tottori ausgeliehen. Für den Verein absolvierte er sechs Ligaspiele. 2015 wurde er an den Drittligisten Grulla Morioka ausgeliehen. Für den Verein absolvierte er 84 Ligaspiele. 2019 wechselte er zu Morioka Zebra.

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College Should Be a Right, According to 'College Behind Bars' Director Lynn Novick
The director of the Emmy-nominated series "College Behind Bars" discusses how politics and the pandemic are affecting students in prison.
Kristen Lopez
Students in the Bard Prison Initiative
Former incarcerated student Jule Hall knows the power of prison education.
"When I was in BPI [Bard Prison Initiative], I saw guys who were into everything negative, but when they got to BPI they became some of the most articulate and engaged people," Hall said in an interview with IndieWire.
The Bard Prison Initiative isn't just changing how we see college in prison, but how we see the incarcerated people themselves. The PBS and Emmy-nominated documentary "College Behind Bars" seeks to showcase the students of BPI as well as the need for more prison college programs throughout the country.
"We all have these preconceptions and assumptions about people," director Lynn Novick said — and she was no different.
The journey to bring "College Behind Bars" started in 2012, when Novick and producer Sarah Botstein were invited to give a lecture for BPI students. Neither had been in a maximum security prison before and were initially left shocked by the sophisticated responses from the students.
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"I'm embarrassed to say that surprised us and it shouldn't have," she said. "We had no idea that this kind of conversation, this kind of discourse and seriousness, was happening in a prison."
In 2013 Novick went a step further and went on to teach a BPI class in documentary and history, eventually working with Botstein to turn a lens on the students and the program. Add an additional year of getting clearances from the New York Department of Corrections, the governor's office, Bard, and the students themselves and it wasn't until 2019 that audiences were able to see the finished product.
For Hall, he was immediately on board with the production because "I knew [there] was something special going on that the world didn't know about," he said. But Novick had to work to earn the trust of her subjects. One way was to intentionally parcel out information about why her subjects were in prison. "People that we really respected would say, 'Well, you have to explain.' These are people who are incarcerated, so everyone's going to want to know what they did," she said.
But she and Botstein never wavered. Instead, they wanted to show the subjects as people. So instead of asking "What are you in for," the questions tended to focus on school. "What are you studying? What's your major?"
Not that Novick and Botstein avoided the issue. Novick said she knew in the context of the film they'd have to reveal why everyone was in prison, but they put the impetus on the subjects themselves. They also understood students who refused to participate in filming at all, especially considering most BPI classes, or cohorts, are 12 to 15 students.
"It's a pretty intrusive process and you're already talking about people who are marginalized and vulnerable, and I would say, to some degree, apprehensive about the media and how they've been portrayed," she said.
That's another reason why the group was sensitive to the reveal of criminal activities. Novick said reporters interviewing inmates tend to focus on the crime before getting to know anything else.
Students at Bard Prison Initiative
In a series all about upending misconceptions, the biggest one "College Behind Bars" tackles is whether prisoners deserve an education. Neither Novick nor Hall could have foreseen a global pandemic happening but, if anything, the current health crisis has put into stark relief the question of what constitutes a college education and, more importantly, who deserves access.
From a financial perspective it makes sense to educate the incarcerated, with every $1 spent on prison education saving the American taxpayer $5, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In a similar study conducted by the Vera Institute it was also found that educated inmates were 43 to 72 percent less likely to return to prison.
Hall explained that when people feel empowered — whether that's through work, education, or a greater understanding of themselves — there's a desire to take that back into a community and help.
"My college education, in some sense, benefits me, but it benefits society at a greater degree," Hall said. "There [are] a lot of misconceptions and misinformation now [that] I will argue are entirely related to politics and not the interests of society."
Novick finds it mind-boggling that questions of who deserves an education are still being discussed. "Why is [college] something that we consider to be a privilege? It should be a right. Everyone should be able to develop their potential to the best of their capacity," she said.
But COVID-19 is also making itself known in the prison-industrial complex. Not just in the number of sick and dead inmates, but in those seeking higher education. "COVID is pushing us into spaces that we never understood or imagined," Hall said.
He said a big benefit of the BPI program was engaging with professors and other students, both of whom are restricted or limited to Zoom currently. On top of that, and as the documentary shows, working technology is also a huge problem for incarcerated students.
"Where one [correction] institution has internet capabilities […] another institution is just doing mailings," he said.
On top of that, the growing social unrest with regard to police officers and minorities brings up questions about the documentary's inability to get any prison guards on-camera due to a refusal from the guards' union. Novick said she wishes she could have presented their perspective.
"Off the record, while we were filming officers would talk to us all the time," she said. "Some of them really support the idea of prison education and some of them don't."
She said it's unsurprising that many guards don't believe in educating inmates since college prison programs have been so sporadic.
"They've been inculcated in a kind of mindset that these are the worst of the worst," she said. Her hope was that she could include these different views, if only to show that prison guards aren't necessarily a monolith. "It's impossible to be there and to not be aware of what you're seeing, which is a prison that is mostly populated by Black and brown people being guarded by mostly white men," she said. "It's inherently dehumanizing. It's a horrendous system and it was designed as such."
"College Behind Bars" is streaming now on Netflix.
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NOC Interview: 'Small Axe' Star Sheyi Cole Talks 'Alex Wheatle'
With his bold and multifaceted Small Axe anthology, Steve McQueen has made the films of the moment. Three of the five films — Lovers Rock, Mangrove, and Red, White and Blue — have premiered to a great reception at the NYFF. The films capture vividly the lives of London's West Indian community in the 1970s and '80s and their force of will against systemic racism and discrimination. "I dedicate these films to George Floyd, and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere," the director said in May.
Mangrove, one of the films featured in the anthology.
Alex Wheatle follows the true story of award-winning writer, Alex Wheatle (Sheyi Cole), from a young boy through his early adult years. Having spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home with no love or family, he finally finds not only a sense of community for the first time in Brixton, but his identity and ability to grow his passion for music and DJing. When he is thrown in prison during the Brixton Uprising of 1981, he confronts his past and sees a path to healing. Sheyi Cole stars opposite Jonathan Jules. Alex Wheatle was co-written by Alastair Siddons and Steve McQueen.
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I had the immense pleasure of getting to sit down with Sheyi Cole, the star of Alex Wheatle, to talk his rising career, as well as the importance of covering the histories of Afro-Caribbean communities in London. The first three films of the anthology (Mangrove, Lovers Rock, and Red, White and Blue) are available now on Amazon Prime, while Alex Wheatle premieres this Friday, 12/11, followed by Education on 12/18. You can find my full conversation with Sheyi below.
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A helping hand for working robots
by DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
Prof. Dongwon Yun(Left) & Junmo Yang, Integrated M.S & Ph.D course student(Right). Credit: DGIST
Until now, competing types of robotic hand designs offered a trade-off between strength and durability. One commonly used design, employing a rigid pin joint that mimics the mechanism in human finger joints, can lift heavy payloads, but is easily damaged in collisions, particularly if hit from the side. Meanwhile, fully compliant hands, typically made of molded silicone, are more flexible, harder to break, and better at grasping objects of various shapes, but they fall short on lifting power.
The DGIST research team investigated the idea that a partially-compliant robot hand, using a rigid link connected to a structure known as a Crossed Flexural Hinge (CFH), could increase the robot's lifting power while minimizing damage in the event of a collision. Generally, a CFH is made of two strips of metal arranged in an X-shape that can flex or bend in one position while remaining rigid in others, without creating friction.
"Smart industrial robots and cooperative robots that interact with humans need both resilience and strength," says Dongwon Yun, who heads the DGIST BioRobotics and Mechatronics Lab and led the research team. "Our findings show the advantages of both a rigid structure and a compliant structure can be combined, and this will overcome the shortcomings of both."
The team 3-D-printed the metal strips that serve as the CFH joints connecting segments in each robotic finger, which allow the robotic fingers to curve and straighten similar to a human hand. The researchers demonstrated the robotic hand's ability to grasp different objects, including a box of tissues, a small fan and a wallet. The CFH-jointed robot hand was shown to have 46.7 percent more shock absorption than a pin joint-oriented robotic hand. It was also stronger than fully compliant robot hands, with the ability to hold objects weighing up to four kilograms.
Anthropomorphic robot hand. Credit: DGIST
Further improvements are needed before robots with these partially-compliant hands are able to go to work alongside or directly with humans. The researchers note that additional analysis of materials is required, as well as field experiments to pinpoint the best practical applications.
"The industrial and healthcare settings where robots are widely used are dynamic and demanding places, so it's important to keep improving robots' performance," says DGIST engineering Ph.D. student Junmo Yang, the first paper author.
A highly dexterous robot hand with a caging mechanism
More information: Junmo Yang et al, Shock Resistive Flexure-Based Anthropomorphic Hand with Enhanced Payload, Soft Robotics (2021). DOI: 10.1089/soro.2020.0067
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UK defence and security electronics system specialist SEA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Daronmont Technologies.
The MoU means the two companies will bring advanced combat and communications systems to specifically address RAN requirements outlined in the Future Submarine and Hunter Class Frigate programs.
Initial activities will see the establishment of a specialist cell at Daronmont's facility in Adelaide next year that will be populated by SEA training and simulation capabilities.
The company will also to bring to Australia its open-architecture communication system and vendor-independent weapons launcher system to meet Future Submarine and Frigate requirements.
"SEA's objective is to bring the best of today's technology to Australia to enable world-leading future naval combat and mission systems development," Steve Hill, Managing Director SEA, said.
"The inherent synergies that have been identified between SEA and Daronmont – including our collective experience and capabilities - means that we have high confidence in our ability to deliver leading-edge technology solutions combined with recognised indigenous experience in Australia.
Daronmont CEO Ben Norris said that the new partnership has potential to significantly enhance the quality of locally-sourced industry content and components for both the Sea 1000 and 5000 programs.
"Daronmont is excited by the opportunities for technology transfer and local capability growth that will be enabled through the MoU with SEA in the short term, as well as the longer-term potential to develop Sovereign Industry Capability in SA," Norris said.
"Congratulations to SA's Daronmont Technologies and the UK's SEA on their strategic partnership to work collaboratively on major Australian naval shipbuilding projects," Defence SA Chief Executive Richard Price.


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When budget isn't your first priority there's a world of outrageous beds out there. Want somewhere to keep your champagne cool? Check. A mattress to stop you snoring? Check. Ports for your iPod? Multimedia system? Ventilation system? Check, check, and check. There's even a $US1.6 million magnetic floating bed if you have serious money to burn.
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Whether you've tied the knot or just taken the plunge to move in together, that first bed is pretty major move. The trouble is that you're probably saving like nobody's business to afford a deposit for a home.
Now might not seem the time for a major purchase, but at the same time, nothing marks commitment and a fresh start like a new bed. And nothing marks the start of a great relationship like moving out of that queen-size into a king or super king.
The ideal bed for a new home needs to take into consideration space - you're unlikely, after all, to be living in palatial surroundings in a first home together - budget and storage.
But moving in together might also mark a time when you want to settle down and start a family. While some companies have developed beds to help you sleep during pregnancy, there are a heap of websites devoted to telling you how your sleep patterns can change during pregnancy and even some that can help you arrange the furniture in your bedroom to help you get pregnant.
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Moving into a "big kid's bed" will mark a special time for a child, while creating a special and individual bedroom lets them develop their personalities.
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Health and sleep go hand-in-hand and a whole industry has sprung up urging us to eat the right things before we turn in, choose the right naturopathic remedies for a great 40 winks, or choosing the right bed to avoid or alleviate back pain.
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Q: LocalDate and LocalDateTime depend on ZonedDateTime Why are the methods:
public ZonedDateTime atStartOfDay(ZoneId zone) from class LocalDate
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public ZonedDateTime atZone(ZoneId zone) from class LocalDateTime
adding dependencies to ZonedDateTime?
They look like "util" methods from ZonedDateTime and are in fact creating dependencies from classes (LocalDate and LocalDateTime) that shouldn't know anything about time zones. Also, there are a lot more "util" methods that could be added to those classes to "help" with time zones.
Is this the best approach in terms of architecture?

A: While I didn't design those classes and am no mind reader, here's my guess. A major design goal of java.time was the fluent API, the possibility of chaining method calls in a way that feels natural. You may do for example
    LocalDate.parse("12/6/2000", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d/M/uuuu"))
            .atStartOfDay(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"))
            .toInstant()
            .toEpochMilli()

Such method chaining requires that the LocalDate object returned from LocalDate.parse() accepts the call to atStartOfDay. Think how the code would look if instead you would have to use a static method in ZonedDateTIme:
    ZonedDateTime.ofStartOfDay(LocalDate.parse("12/6/2000", DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d/M/uuuu")),
                    ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata")))
            .toInstant()
            .toEpochMilli()

It's severely harder to read. Putting the method into an utillity class instead would not help, the code would still be quite similar.
I do get your point: a cost of the fluent API is that LocalDate depends on ZonedDateTime, a dependency that cannot be explained/justified within the domain alone.

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Deter the dragon
China must realize it has gone too far in denying travel permission to a senior military officer, says N.V.Subramanian.
By N.V. Subramanian (30 August 2010)
30 August 2010: The latest Chinese move on the controversial visa denial to the Northern Army Commander, Lieutenant-General B.S.Jaswal, will perhaps lead doves in the Indian foreign office to extend the olive branch to China. They had better not be hasty. After days of silence, the Chinese media said today that Sino-Indian military ties won't be "compromised" by such incidents. Rong Ying, deputy director of the China Institute of International Studies, was quoted by China Daily as saying, "The relations and trust between the two countries are very powerful."
Because China is an opaque totalitarian state, it is difficult to determine which individual or institution is/ was responsible for which action. In the Jaswal affair, where the Chinese envoy to India pleaded ignorance, it is fair to surmise that the PLA turned him down. Indian media reports suggest Lieutenant-General Jaswal was generally hard-line on China and unusually for the army made his views known rather publicly. This was very likely reported back and while the Chinese politicians might have weighed all the consequences of refusing Jaswal, the PLA adamantly may have said no.
Analysts in India say that Chinese polity is hardly monolithic and that Delhi must factor for the moderate and hawkish elements in China. The national security advisor, Shiv Shankar Menon, and other former diplomats like him also give assurances of the nil possibility of armed conflict between India and China on account of China's obsessive pursuit of its "rise". This writer has a slightly different perspective on both issues.
Yes, Chinese polity is hardly monolithic. The late-eighties market reforms have produced further divisions. But it is also important to understand that China is extremely insecure about the Xinjiang, Taiwan and Tibet questions. India is intimately linked to the Tibet question because of the presence of the Dalai Lama and just over a hundred thousand Tibetans in this country and the historical, cultural and religious links between India and Tibet. Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, etc, are all connected to this Tibet fear of China.
When it comes to the territorial issue of Tibet (or Xinjiang or Taiwan, for that matter), the most hard-line voice prevails in China. It is the same vis-a-vis India versus Pakistan in Pakistan, as was analyzed in an earlier commentary in this magazine. So while the Chinese polity may not be monolithic, on Tibet, the PLA which is the most hard-line gets the upper hand on dealings with India. It might also be said that the PLA has a decisive say on anything related to disputed territories in India where its interests are wedded, for example in Jammu and Kashmir. Therefore, it is reasonable to suppose that the PLA said no to the Jaswal visit, as analyzed some paragraphs above, and its line carried the day.
Now to the assurance given by Menon & Co. about nil chances of hostility with China: but how can anybody tell? Nehru felt the same and was crushed by 1962. Why give the Chinese the chance to be adventurous? This writer's biggest fear is that India slacks up on its strategic military preparations apropos China once the Chinese make pacificatory noises after provoking some row or the other. The idea on the Indian side should be to be so overwhelmingly prepared that the Chinese entertain no notion of manufacturing trouble.
How this is done on a crude military level is obvious. We should have more than enough joint power embedded with tactics and strategy to punish the PLA in Tibet -- and at a minimum be able to do a 1962 in reverse. In the Indian Ocean, our naval supremacy should be complete, including with the capacity to deny the waters to China. We should also have the nerve backed by capacity to carry the threat of war into the South China Sea and to intimidate its rich eastern seaboard. All of this should be doubly insured with thermonuclear sea-based intercontinental deterrents.
Peace is only going to be possible with China if it is made to realize it cannot afford a second war with India. It should be demonstrated to China that India has learnt the lessons of 1962 and cannot be walked over again. There can be no excuse for not heavily militarizing against China. China must have to be deterred not only for itself but for its rogue nuclear-terrorist all-weather ally, Pakistan, which it has let loose against India.
It is China that provoked the visa row. It must know it has tested India's patience enough.
N.V.Subramanian is Editor, www.NewsInsight.net, and writes internationally on strategic affairs. He has authored two novels, University of Love (Writers Workshop, Calcutta) and Courtesan of Storms (Har-Anand, Delhi). Email: envysub@gmail.com.


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Sverige skickade en delegation till tävlingarna i paralympiska sommarspelen 2008 i Peking. Sveriges Television sände för första gången viktigare tävlingar direkt från paralympiska spel.

Medaljörer

Guld
Jonas Jacobsson, sportskytte, 1. luftgevär, 10 m stående 2. frigevär 50 m, 3x40 skott 3. frigevär 50 m liggande
Anders Olsson, simning, 1. 100 m frisim (klass S6) 2. 400 m frisim (klass S6)

Silver
Josefin Abrahamsson, bordtennis, klass 8
Johan Andersson, rullstolstennis, singel, quadklassen
Stefan Olsson/Peter Wikström, rullstolstennis, dubbel, quadklassen

Brons
Viktoria Wedin, sportskytte, luftgevär, 10 m liggande
Fredrik Andersson, bordtennis, klass 9/10
Herrlaget i goalball
Anders Olsson, simning, 50 m frisim (klass S6)

Bordtennis
Tävlande: Anna-Carin Ahlquist, Göteborg, Josefin Abrahamson, Malmö, Marleen Bengtsson Kovacs, Köpenhamn, Ingela Lundbäck, Luleå, Fredrik Andersson, Falköping, Ernst Bolldén, Hudiksvall, Linus Karlsson, Grästorp, Örjan Kylevik, Sköllersta och Simon Itkonen, Örebro.

Resultat

Damer
Josefin Abrahamsson tog silver i klass 8, efter förlust i finalen mot Thu Kamkasomphou, Frankrike, med 3-0 i set (1-11,13-15,5-11).

Herrar
Fredrik Andersson vann bronsmatchen mot holländaren Gerben Last med 3-1 i set (11-9,11-7,6-11,11-9)

Bågskytte
Tävlande: Ann-Christin Nilsson, Sörberge, Zandra Reppe, Östersund, Anders Grönberg, Björklinge och Håkan Törnström, Karlskrona.

Resultat
Inga svenska deltagare vidare till kvartsfinalerna.

Friidrott
Tävlande: Madelene Nordlund, Umeå, Nathalie Nilsson, Osby, Gunilla Wallengren, Hålanda, Aron Andersson, Nacka, Per Jonsson, Bollnäs och Henrik Rüffel, Saltsjö-Boo.

Goalball
Damlaget: Malin Gustavsson, Göteborg, Åsa Alverstedt, do, Maria Juliusson, Stockholm, Anna Nilsson, do, Josefine Jälmestål, do, Sofia Naesström, Hammarby IF Goalballförening.
Herrlaget: Jimmy Björkstrand, Malmö, Stefan Gahne, Stockholm, Niklas Hultkvist, do, Oskar Kuus, Farsta, Fatmir Seremeti, Trelleborg, Mikael Åkerberg, Farsta.

Resultat

Damer
De svenska goalballdamerna slutade på fjärde plats, efter att ha förlorat bronsmatchen mot Danmark med 3-2

Herrar
Herrarna vann bronsmatchen mot USA med 5-2.

Judo
Tävlande: Elvira Kivi, Trollhättan och Nicolina Pernheim, Västra Frölunda.

Resultat
Elvira Kivi slutade på femte plats i 63-kilosklassen. Nicolina Pernheim femte plats i 70-kilosklassen. I judo finns det två tredje platser.

Ridsport
Tävlande: Lotten Aronsson, Nygård, Gabriella Löf, Burgsvik och Carolin Rutberg, Sorunda Ridklubb.

Rullstolsbasket
Svenska landslaget i rullstolsbasket deltar. Tävlande är bl.a. Enoch Ablorh, Dallas, Texas, Joachim Gustavsson, Rimbo, Hussein Haidari, Spånga, Peter Kohlström, Årsta, Joakim Lindén, Björkvik, Patrik Nylander, Järfälla och Tomas Åkerberg, Svärtinge.

Sveriges spelschema

Sverige gick inte vidare till slutspel.

Rullstolstennis
Tävlande: Stefan Olsson, Sundborn, Peter Wikström, Sollentuna, Johan Andersson, Virsbo, Christer Jansson, Solna TK.

Resultat
Johan Andersson förlorade finalen i quadklassens singelspel mot Peter Norfolk, Storbritannien, med 2-0 i set (6-2,6-2).

Dubbelparet Stefan Olsson/Peter Wikström tog sig också till final, men förlorade mot fransmännen Stephane Houdet/Michael Jeremiasz med setsiffrorna 6-1, 7-6 (7-5 i tie-break).

Segling
Tävlande i två-persons kölbåt (SKUD18): Carl Gustav Fresk, Stocksund och Birgitta Jacobsson Nilén, Enskededalen.

Simning
Tävlande: Anders Olsson, Hagfors, Jennie Ekström, Vara, Christoffer Lindhe, Ulricehamn och Lalita Loureiro, Lund.

Resultattabell

Damer

Herrar

NR= Nationsrekord, dvs svenskt rekord.
VR = Världsrekord

°Kommentar till klassificeringen: Generellt gäller principen ju lägre siffra desto svårare handikapp. 1–10 anger olika grader av rörelsehinder. Bokstäverna anger simsätt. Om det är för få tävlande i en klass kan simmare flyttas upp en klass. Så var till exempel fallet med Jennie Ekström i medley där Hon i normalfallet tävlar i klass SM3 och därför mötte ett betydligt svårare motstånd än vanligt.

Sportskytte
Viktoria Wedin från Sundsvall och Jonas Jacobsson från Kolmården är var för sig regerande världsmästare, och tävlar även detta år för Sverige.

Ytterligare tävlande är Lotta Helsinger, Sundsvall, Håkan Gustavsson, Skee och Kenneth Pettersson, Falun.

Resultat

Damer
Viktoria Wedin tog bronset i luftgevär 10 m liggande med totalpoängen 704,1, efter särskjutning med resultatet 10,7 mot 10,6.

Herrar
Jonas Jacobsson tog guld i grenen luftgevär, 10 m stående, med totalpoängen 700,5 i finalen och slog därmed även världsrekord. Jacobsson vann också grenen frigevär 50 m, 3x40 skott, där han på nytt slog världsrekord, denna gång med 1264,3 poäng. På fredagen bärgade Jacobsson sitt tredje guld med 695.8 poäng.

Se även
Paralympiska sommarspelen 2008
Sverige i paralympiska spelen
Sverige i olympiska sommarspelen 2008

Referenser

Sport i Sverige 2008
Nationer i paralympiska sommarspelen 2008
2008


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Home Private Equity Iron Path Capital Adds Seasoned Specialty Chemicals Executive Ted Clark to Team
Iron Path Capital Adds Seasoned Specialty Chemicals Executive Ted Clark to Team
NASHVILLE, Tenn. & CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Iron Path Capital, a private equity firm focused on healthcare and specialty industrials, today announced the addition of Ted Clark as a partner to lead investment initiatives with a focus on high-quality businesses in the specialty industrials sector. Clark joins Iron Path after stepping down as EVP and chief operating officer and transitioning to an advisory role with H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL), a global specialty chemical company founded in 1887. Clark joined H.B. Fuller following its 2017 acquisition of Royal Adhesives and Sealants (a platform Clark founded with Quad-C Management in 2003), where he served as president and CEO.
"Before joining H.B. Fuller, I spent nearly 15 years working with world-class private equity firms including Quad-C, Arsenal and American Securities," Clark said. "I was attracted to Iron Path because of its unique strategy in the lower middle-market, its highly capable team, and its differentiated approach to private equity partnerships. I'm excited to lead deals in specialty industrials to help founders and management teams scale great businesses."
Scott Mraz, Iron Path Capital co-founder and managing partner, commented: "Rob and I have worked with Ted on several investment initiatives over the last two decades. Ted is a very accomplished operating executive with a unique blend of strategy, M&A execution, and people development capabilities."
Iron Path Capital was founded in 2021 and has grown to nine investment professionals. The firm has made three platform investments in Emergence Health (urgent care), Versant Diagnostics (anatomic pathology) and Capitol Pain Institute (interventional pain management). Iron Path is a private equity sponsor focused on control buyouts in lower middle-market companies across the healthcare and specialty industrial sectors.
Rob Reistetter, Iron Path Capital co-founder and Managing Partner, added: "We are building a differentiated firm with a unique blend of talent from private equity, M&A, consulting, and operations backgrounds. As a seasoned operating executive with an extensive background in business building and M&A, Ted augments our firm's capabilities and makes Iron Path Capital a preferred partner for founders and management teams in the lower middle-market."
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Iron Path Capital is an operationally focused private equity firm focused on lower-middle-market investments across the healthcare and specialty industrial sectors. With offices in Nashville, TN and Charlottesville, VA, Iron Path Capital supports its partners with capital, operating expertise, business development, and industry relationships to achieve significant scale. Iron Path Capital selects companies with stable cash flows, superior management teams, strong performance trajectories, and multiple vectors for growth, both organic and through consolidation. For more information, visit ironpathcapital.com.
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My faith was re-established. My faith was renewed. I was baptized as a baby, but I made the decision to declare my faith publicly at Echo.Church when I was 27 years old. That is where God spoke a purpose greater than what CREA+ELLE started to be.
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The glacial lake of Minnewanka is fed by Cascade River. The name has been given by the people of First Nations Stoney and means Lake of Spirits. They gave the name since they believed that there are spirits in the lake. However, this lake is not at all spooky. I went for day time hiking and found that it has a spot for picnicking. If you want to be in the water, avail the cruise tour that is available.
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Kwon, a South Korean national, had made his way from Singapore, where he was living while running the blockchain platform Terraform Labs, to Dubai and finally to Serbia, a spokesperson for the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office told CNN on Tuesday.
The office became aware that Kwon was in Serbia in November and was tracking him, according to the spokesperson, adding that it was seeking assistance from the Serbian government to arrest and extradite him.
In September, a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for him, after he was accused of fraud by investors in the wake of the collapse of his company.
Kwon has been charged with fraud and breaches of South Korea's capital markets law. He said in October that he didn't believe the charges were legitimate, adding that they were "politically motivated."
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The collapse of the two linked coins kick started the so-called "crypto winter," from which the industry was struggling to recover even as it experienced another huge blow from the fall of crypto exchange FTX in November. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after US prosecutors filed criminal charges against him.
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The cam plastometer is a physical testing machine. It measures the resistance of non-brittle materials to compressive deformation at constant true-strain rates. In this way, it can be compared a bit to the Gleeble®. In the early days, the machine operates at relatively low strain rates, but over time it has been enhanced and currently it can operate over a wide range of strain rates

The machine is patented under the name of "United States Patent 4109516".

In the machine, deformation compressive forces are applied to a specimen by two flat, opposing platens which impact a flat, rectangular specimen. The deformation forces can be varied during operation, to simulate actual conditions which occur during industrial pressing and forming operations. The plastometer is also capable of torsional testing of specimens".

The cam plastometers are expensive and there are only a few of them in the world.

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using System.Windows.Input;
using TradeHub.UserInterface.Common;
using TradeHub.UserInterface.Common.Value_Objects;
using TradeHub.UserInterface.ServicesModule.Commands;
using TradeHub.UserInterface.ServicesModule.View;

namespace TradeHub.UserInterface.ServicesModule.ViewModel
{
   public class TradeHubServicesViewModel:DependencyObject
   {
       #region Services status dependencies properties region
       public static readonly DependencyProperty MarketDataEngineServicesStatusProperty =
           DependencyProperty.Register("MarketDataEngineServicesStatus", typeof (string), typeof (TradeHubServicesViewModel), new PropertyMetadata(default(string)));

       public string MarketDataEngineServicesStatus
       {
           get { return (string) GetValue(MarketDataEngineServicesStatusProperty); }
           set { SetValue(MarketDataEngineServicesStatusProperty, value); }
       }

       public static readonly DependencyProperty OrderExecutionEngineServiceStatusProperty =
           DependencyProperty.Register("OrderExecutionEngineServiceStatus", typeof (string), typeof (TradeHubServicesViewModel), new PropertyMetadata(default(string)));

       public string OrderExecutionEngineServiceStatus
       {
           get { return (string) GetValue(OrderExecutionEngineServiceStatusProperty); }
           set { SetValue(OrderExecutionEngineServiceStatusProperty, value); }
       }

       public static readonly DependencyProperty PositionEngineServiceStatusProperty =
           DependencyProperty.Register("PositionEngineServiceStatus", typeof (string), typeof (TradeHubServicesViewModel), new PropertyMetadata(default(string)));

       public string PositionEngineServiceStatus
       {
           get { return (string) GetValue(PositionEngineServiceStatusProperty); }
           set { SetValue(PositionEngineServiceStatusProperty, value); }
       }
       #endregion
       #region Commands Area

       public ICommand RestartMdeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand RestartOeeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand RestartPeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand StartMdeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand StartOeeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand StartPeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand StopMdeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand StopOeeCommand { get; set; }
       public ICommand StopPeCommand { get; set; }

       #endregion

       public TradeHubServicesViewModel()
       {
           //subscribe to service status events
           EventSystem.Subscribe<ServiceStatus>(ServiceStatusListener);

           //start the services
           StartAllServices();

           //initialize commands
           RestartMdeCommand = new RestartMdeCommand(this);
           RestartOeeCommand=new RestartOeeCommand(this);
           RestartPeCommand=new RestartPeCommand(this);
           StartMdeCommand=new StartMdeCommand(this);
           StartOeeCommand=new StartOeeCommand(this);
           StartPeCommand=new StartPeCommand(this);
           StopMdeCommand=new StopMdeCommand(this);
           StopOeeCommand=new StopOeeCommand(this);
           StopPeCommand=new StopPeCommand(this);

       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Start Mde Service
       /// </summary>
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       {
           ServiceParams service=new ServiceParams(){CommandType = ServiceCommand.Start,ServiceName = "TradeHub MarketDataEngine Service"};
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
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       /// </summary>
       public void StartOeeService()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Start, ServiceName = "TradeHub OrderExecutionEngine Service" };
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);

       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Start Pe service
       /// </summary>
       public void StartPeService()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Start, ServiceName = "TradeHub PositionEngine Service" };
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Stop Mde Service
       /// </summary>
       public void StopMdeService()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Stop, ServiceName = "TradeHub MarketDataEngine Service" };
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Stop Oee Service
       /// </summary>
       public void StopOeeService()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Stop, ServiceName = "TradeHub OrderExecutionEngine Service" };
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Stop Pe Service
       /// </summary>
       public void StopPeService()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Stop, ServiceName = "TradeHub PositionEngine Service" };
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Restart Mde Service
       /// </summary>
       public void RestartMdeService()
       {
           ConfigurationView view = new ConfigurationView("Market Data Engine");
           view.ShowDialog();
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Restart Oee Service
       /// </summary>
       public void RestartOeeService()
       {
           ConfigurationView view=new ConfigurationView("Order Execution Engine");
           view.ShowDialog();
           //ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Restart, ServiceName = "TradeHub OrderExecutionEngine Service" };
           //EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Restart Pe Service
       /// </summary>
       public void RestartPeService()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { CommandType = ServiceCommand.Restart, ServiceName = "TradeHub PositionEngine Service" };
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
       }

       /// <summary>
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       private void ServiceStatusListener(ServiceStatus serviceStatus)
       {
           if (serviceStatus.ServiceName.Equals("TradeHub MarketDataEngine Service"))
           {
               MarketDataEngineServicesStatus = serviceStatus.Status;
           }
           else if (serviceStatus.ServiceName.Equals("TradeHub OrderExecutionEngine Service"))
           {
               OrderExecutionEngineServiceStatus = serviceStatus.Status;
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           else if (serviceStatus.ServiceName.Equals("TradeHub PositionEngine Service"))
           {
               PositionEngineServiceStatus = serviceStatus.Status;
           }

       }

       /// <summary>
       /// Method to start all services status at the start up
       /// </summary>
       private void StartAllServices()
       {
           ServiceParams service = new ServiceParams() { ServiceName = "TradeHub MarketDataEngine Service",CommandType = ServiceCommand.Start};
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
           service.ServiceName = "TradeHub OrderExecutionEngine Service";
           EventSystem.Publish<ServiceParams>(service);
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Fractured Humorous by Edwin Torres
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Edwin Torres has collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating performances that intermingle poetry with vocal & physical improvisation, sound-elements and visual theater. He has received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art, The Poets Fund and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has taught workshops at Naropa University, St. Marks Poetry Project, Bard College, Mills College and Miami University among others. His work has been published in many anthologies, and his CD, Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars Records), is in the sound archives of The Whitney Museum for American Art. He is co-editor of the poetry journal/DVD Rattapallax. His books include In the Function of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books), The Popedology of an Ambient Language (Atelos Books), Fractured Humorous (Subpress), and The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker (Roof Books). His recent project is a collaboration with Spanic Attack (www.spanicattack.com) called NORICUA, a noh-boricua inspired non-movement gaining worldwide momentum, whose non-ideologies have been performed in the Bronx, Berlin, Loisaida and Puerto Rico.
Equal parts Joycean experimentalist, Nuyorican performance poet, New York School-style emoter and graphic concrete poet, Torres has been developing one of the most elaborate poetic hybrids around. In sets of time and site-specific poems ("Alaska:: five days/ with poets in snow"; "Berlin:: three days/ with pen on mayakovsky lane"; "Fracture:: one month/ with broken arm in bed"), Torres acts as Pied Piper to an incredible profusion of verbal and graphic tics across his perceptual continents. And as the title suggests, puns are the main lexical fault lines or, as one poem is titled, "Torresian Revelation[s]." The perhaps unfortunately titled "Through the Looking Ass" begins with typical Torresian jive: "Waterbug boogaloo, picture screws/ backpack jonesy, poison toothy/ glitchy position … hanging fringe/ along the organ (groan) & (purr)." But the beat spittoon of the first stanza resolves miraculously into stark economic circumstance: "Repairs: momentary disaster equals long term comfort/ Bathroom tiles seeking freedom/ are scattered on my floor, by the toilet/ a hole in my wall–as big as a cat." "Diana:: one day/ with sister in boston" is divided into 19 short sections, each titled with ideogrammatic tags from "Green Breeze" to "Blessing," resulting in a strange soup of domestic discomfort: "A can of Goya beans for an older daughter/ wedged inside her pillowing sleep." Overall, when compared to Torres's previous published work–three or so books (including Lung Poetry and SandHommeNomadNo") and the CD "Holy Kid"–this collection contains many more short lyrics exploring overtly emotional territory ("Explanatory Friday night: wigging out/ for mom") but with bracing Torresian torque. This book will allow more readers happy access to "the lockspur diction quelled of boys." (Dec.)


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Quote from: 1SO on July 01, 2014, 11:24:52 PM
The Moonlighter
If it wasn't for Ward Bond showing up halfway in with a robbery idea, this thing would never have made feature length, and at 77-minutes it's still mighty short though not swift.
This is so accurate and you word it better than I did. It felt like they just threw ideas together to try to put a movie together. This also reminded me that, for a 77 minute movie, there was an Intermission slide! What!? Having just finished Hondo (also sub 90 minutes), there was an Intermission slide in it too!
Do we think the intermissions are there to give viewers eyes a break from the 3-D? It seemed so weird to me given how short the films were.
"The life we build, we never stop creating."
Quote from: 1SO on March 05, 2019, 03:23:01 PM
Quote from: Corndog on March 05, 2019, 11:54:52 AM
And I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. Does he die at the end or just ride off? The ambiguity is intentional I'm sure.
Which way are you leaning? When I was young, I was certain he was alive. Now I'm just as certain he's dead.
Sure as shooting, he's a gonner.
Antares, I really like your description.
Westward the Women
Last month when I marathoned William A. Wellman, I passed on this one because I already had a full plate, figuring if there was the Western Marathon I would come back to it. Well, thank you Sandy for hosting and giving me one of the best films I'll probably see this year. A viewing which benefitted from not being crammed in with a number of other titles because it's the kind of film you want to sit with for awhile and admire just how well made it is.
...What keeps it from being dreary is watching the women harden and learn along the way until the men become unnecessary. You see the journey wear people thin and toughen them up. This makes the ultimate destination even more interesting because the ranchers aren't getting a bunch of dainty ladies, but partners who can take the reins and work the land just as well.
SOLD! This is a movie I want to see!
Happy to oblige with the hosting, 1SO. It's one of my favorite threads to follow along with.
Hondo (John Farrow, 1953)
It feels like it's been quite a while since we've seen a movie with John Wayne in it in this marathon, so I'm certainly glad to have his presence back all things considered. One of the many things I wanted to achieve from this marathon was a more well formed opinion on such legendary contributors like John Wayne and other actors/directors famous within the genre. We've had a decent sample size to this point, but I'll still hold off a final opinion with many more entries yet to come, but overall I think Wayne lives up to his larger than life billing. He has a way with his performances which makes him feel more at home in these settings than any other actor I've come across. But that doesn't necessarily mean I think he's the best actor either. That's something altogether different.
Hondo Lane (John Wayne), an Army dispatch rider who has lived his life in the west, comes upon the ranch of Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page), who is skeptical of this stranger while her husband, she claims, is away for the time. Hondo soon becomes welcome on the ranch, which is in Apache country, after he ingratiates himself with Angie and her son, and it becomes more and more apparent that Angie's husband is dead and never coming back. Hondo warns that the US treaty with the Apache has been broken, and she and her son are in danger, creating a tenuous relationship between the Lowe's, Hondo and Vittorio (Michael Pate), the Apache chief who has been friendly with both in the past.
I was struck by the similarities (and differences) between this and Shane. This film is in fact quite different, but both Hondo and Shane was west-wise characters who come to support and in some ways protect friendly ranchers during a difficult time. Shane is a far superior film however, mostly owing to its ambition and story being much more well-rounded and fulfilled. The problem I found with Hondo was its slightness, which would be an issue easily overcome if the character of Hondo had a little more mystique or flare to him. Instead, he's just another John Wayne character, a role which Wayne himself brings very little too. How often can he simply play himself and get away with it? Shane has plenty of twists and turns in its story, while Hondo speeds through and is over before you know it.
Geraldine Page is great here, however, and hers is a story I'm very much interested in, but by focusing so much on Hondo and what he brings to the table, her fortitude and denial and largely overlooked, which is a shame since it ought to be the feature of the story, along with her relationship with her son. To be honest, I was very worried reading the synopsis of this film prior to watching, fearing Wayne would merely be the "protector" for a weak woman incapable of survival without a man in her life. While that scenario is partially true, Page adds much more depth and strength to Angie than I was expecting.
It should be noted, I guess, that like The Moonlighter before it, Hondo was also a gimmicky 3-Dimension film during its time. While I of course didn't view it in 3-D, there is an obvious use of the technology during a knife fight where the knife is repeatedly thrust directly at the camera. It's a shame that even way back then, filmmakers would stoop to gimmicks to get people in the theater seats, but it's such a small part of the film it's really just a footnote in a film that otherwise is quite slight and disappointing. The crisp bluray copy I watched was beautiful. I wish more older color films would get the treatment, but it also didn't have the sweeping landscape shots something like Shane featured in its use of color. A rather forgettable entry, both for Wayne and the marathon in general.
★★ - Didn't Like It
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Quote from: Corndog on March 07, 2019, 02:56:03 PM
There's a lot of discussion about whether we can or should separate an artist from his art. Right now it's because of a recent documentary about Michael Jackson and the crimes he was able to commit because the money we spent on his music indirectly went on to protect him from his crimes. I have trouble saying positive things about James Woods' performances because he's a destructive jerk, and I learned years ago that any set he was on was a set you didn't want to work for. In his hyper-twitchy 80s and 90s he was my favorite actor and he stars in one of my Essentials (Indictment: The McMartin Trial). I can spit on his reputation now because when's the last time James Woods was doing good work?
I come across people who cannot look past John Wayne, which came up recently when an interview for Playboy magazine resurfaced, and I respect that. However, I think Wayne's beliefs were more typical of his time. (Someone wrote, "find me someone born that long ago who isn't a horrible racist by modern standards.) I also find contradictions between Wayne's image and his private life, (as well as private life stories that strengthen his negative persona.) That could make me a Wayne apologist. I think it's not simple to reach an agreeable opinion on John Wayne's body of work. I like that you do separate art from artist in this case. Do you find yourself struggling with that?
Onto Hondo...
I had to start with either that or that terrible 3D image of the knife.
The problem I found with Hondo was its slightness, which would be an issue easily overcome if the character of Hondo had a little more mystique or flare to him. Instead, he's just another John Wayne character, a role which Wayne himself brings very little too. How often can he simply play himself and get away with it? Shane has plenty of twists and turns in its story, while Hondo speeds through and is over before you know it.
When you brought up Shane, I thought of that as a full western barbecue and this had all the flavor of some of the sauce that dripped onto the floor. This was a rare John Wayne performance where I sensed he didn't want to be there. No good direction and none of the legendary reputation that kept him engaged in the later works, which are overall not good aside from him.
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Good Day For a Hanging (1959)
"Eddie is just a boy. Tom was killed by a hardened criminal."
"Since when is a young rattlesnake any less poisonous than an old one?"
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
"Anybody can be killed... any day."
"Anybody is me! Any day is tomorrow!"
I thought I was being clever watching two Fred MacMurray westerns from the same year. Neither film catches much fire and ol' Fred also brings a low flame of charisma, going for a rugged sternness. That's not to say there isn't something worth mentioning. With Hanging, it's the possibilities within the story. A bank robbery goes wrong and the marshal is killed. Fred believes the gunman was the thief he wounded (Robert Vaughn), who also happens the be the bad boy his daughter hasn't moved on from. I like that it's not clear if Vaughn did the killing. Is Fred out of justice or trying to show his daughter that this guy is no good? Like many good morality westerns, there's the thinly veiled metaphor for bigotry, but it doesn't know how to bring that out to full or even impactful effect.
With Fugitive, the interest is more superficial. Watching the film, I noticed a number of interesting frames. Interesting, but more distracting than successful. There's a good long take where Fred moves forward and backwards in the frame while other talk about him. The camera always seems to point to him, no matter where he stands. There's another cool shot where the camera is down low as a man with a rifle holds it across his body and cocks it. Problem is, the shot begins with the guy walking his crotch into the frame and parking it there while we hear the dialogue. After, I noticed MartinTeller has interest in this film, which lead me to discover the director is Paul Wendkos, whose noir The Burglar is something MT and I disagree in the extreme, largely on Wendkos' style.
BOTH FILMS: ★ ★ ½
Some will tell you there's Forty Guns (1957) to look forward to, but the rest of that film works against her. Sadly, neither gives her as much to chew on as The Furies.
Not me, here's a link to my review of that awful film...http://forum.filmspotting.net/index.php?topic=11767.msg715007#msg715007
Masterpiece (100-91) | Classic (90-80) | Entertaining (79-69) | Mediocre (68-58) | Cinemuck (57-21) | Crap (20-0)
but it also didn't have the sweeping landscape shots something like Shane featured in its use of color.
Every time I watch Shane, I say to myself..."This is what an Ansel Adams photograph would look like in color." The Technicolor cinematography in that film is beyond compare.
I can spit on his reputation now because when's the last time James Woods was doing good work?
He was good in his short stint on Ray Donovan.
When you brought up Shane, I thought of that as a full western barbecue and this had all the flavor of some of the sauce that dripped onto the floor.
I like this, nice description. I may have to steal this sometime in the future.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 9/10
It really feels like the best of both of the previous films put into one. Each scene contains one or a combination of the three characters, all of whom I enjoy spending time with. And each scene feels like we're building on the epic story. It's a slower build... the slowest of the three really, but satisfying. There's always a cool reveal or a neat twist to punctuate each scene. And the score here provides more soul than anything before. It starts and stops very abruptly sometimes which takes some getting used to, but this film would be nothing without it to I'll take what I can get.
I appreciated Tuco more this go around that I ever had before. Especially early on, he has the funniest lines. Not much else new to report, it's about the same as I remember it.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 90/100 – If I only had to rate the first hour and fifteen minutes, plus the final fifteen minutes, I would be hard pressed not to give it a perfect score. On this viewing I really paid attention to Leone's gift for framing his shots. He was only rivaled by Kurosawa, as both had vision that transcended other directors, and made them in my eyes, artists. It's true that the western was a dying genre, and for the most part, it was on life support. But I do believe that it was accelerated along in its demise due to Leone making the two greatest westerns back to back. There was never going to be anyone else talented enough to reach the strata that could attain peer level on either of those two masterpieces. This being a re-watch, probably my fifth or sixth time, I did notice the vast difference in the added vocal tracks of Eli Wallach & Clint Eastwood, on the re-inserted scenes which found their way on the cutting room floor, for the American release. I'm kind of amazed that whoever did those tracks, didn't added a bit of bass boosting to Wallach's, and the opposite boost in treble to Eastwood's. They both sounded aged in the delivery of the lines, and both could have used some equalization help to make the tracks less haggard in sound. On this re-watch, I did have a bit of a problem with the pacing, as I found myself fast forwarding through some of the film's middle section. This section has always been an issue with me, because there are two scenes, which really don't add anything to the story, and always slow the action down to a crawl. The first is the scene with Tuco's brother, the priest. It should be there to add some exposition to what made Tuco become the man and outlaw he grew up to be. But it just serves as a way for the brother to admonish him, for not being at their father's side at the time of his death. The second scene, is probably one of the favorite scenes for most viewers, but has always made me yawn, the bridge. First, Blondie and Tuco get off their horses, and Tuco looks at his tattered map, proclaiming that they only need to cross the river, to get to their destination. It's quiet; they start to walk a few paces and are then halted by Union soldiers. They are then taken a few more steps, past a small tree to the left, and the shot opens up to reveal an entire army of soldiers and artillery over the expansive vista of the river. They've taken maybe twenty steps from the dismounting of the horses, to this spot, and should have been able to see the army ahead of them. They've both just spent time in a Union prisoner of war camp, they know the Union army is nearby, and they don't tread warily at this point? What follows is about twenty minutes of exposition, by a Union captain, as to why both armies are there, and why it would be beneficial to both armies, if the bridge wasn't there anymore. All, just so Leone can blow up the bridge, which as a special effects scene is dazzling, but not necessary to the storyline. I still love this film, but with each successive viewing, it tries my patience more and more. Ironically, the next film, Once Upon a Time in the West, another investment in extended personal time, just seems to breeze by.


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Nearly every boy wants to get their hands on one of the best RC Cars if not any RC car. Remote controlled vehicles are becoming more popular and more varied as time goes on. For instance one of the latest and newer remote controlled toys, which are very commonly used by adults as well, are the drones. But sometimes the classics are hard to overcome and still more popular.
Especially compared to quadcopters or drones, a simple remote controlled car can be a lot easier and more fun to handle. Kids of nearly all ages can have fun with RC cars whereas other vehicles become very technical and a lot more expensive for that reason as well. Because these cars are made to race and drive on the roads, it is important to look at higher quality RC's so that a bump against a wall wont instantly destroy the toy. Below you will find the best rc cars list to help you choose and find the right model for your child.
What Type of RC Cars Are There?
There are huge varieties in todays models of RC cars. Toys vary from model to model whether you want to have something more basic, for younger children to adults. Then you can also go all the way up to professional cars to simple toys. Most professionally used RC's are fuel powered. Below you will however find a list of battery driven cars. When it comes to kids, these are simply easier and cheaper as well as safer to use.
Obvious benefits of landing on a page that only shows the best rc cars, will help you discover models that possess certain basic qualities. The qualities we make sure our listed rc cars have are such as resistance, child safety and fun factor as well as customer satisfaction. Ideally you have a car which has a remote control that has a wide range, possibly exchangeable parts and other great features such as water resistance and general quality checks (e.g. battery safety).
The issue or downside with some rc cars could be that they use standard triple A batteries. So unless you have rechargeable batteries, they will burn through these quite regularly and this can become somewhat expensive over time. Other downsides depend on the price ranges. It is hard to know what type suits your child best and therefore buying the simplest model can be very boring and remain untouched, whereas the most expensive model could be too advanced for a child.
Most of the featured RC Cars are mainly for the enjoyment of driving it around a little. But some of the featured models, as well as this one, are for serious racing, as well as fun of course. But when you have the power to go as fast as 40km/h it's hard not to use that speed. When racing this fast accidents can happen and wheels may fall off. But luckily the Metakoo Storm comes with a spare one.
Testing the capabilities and building ramps for this car is what it's waiting for. When you see what it can absorb and do, the price is easily understandable as well!
When it comes to speed, this is the fastest model on the list. With a staggering top speed of 40 km/H which converts to around 25 miles per hour, you really have to watch out not to go full speed or you might lose sight of the car. But the features don't stop there! On top of it's significant speed, the RC car also comes with rechargeable batteries included as well as a USB wall adapter.
Obviously by the look of the wheels you'll probably have figured out that this model can race on almost any ground due to the trafficability and big wheels. It also has different gears so don't worry about getting stuck in the mud or wanted to race off.
If you're planning on using the RC car for races and want to test your skills with others, then this may be a great model to choose for a very simple reason. A lot of times remote controls start to act up when there are too many transmitters around and your car can start to be controlled by other remotes and vice versa. This remote has a strong anti-interference.
Additionally the handling of the car is extremely precise and taking sharp corners as well as breaking and accelerating is better than on most cars. Due to the four wheel independent suspension you can really test the boundaries of racing and maneuvering.
Even a simple toy version of a Lamborghini is a great gift for any kid. Lamborghinis are simply incredible vehicles. But why limit a child with only looking at a toy or moving it physically about when you can get them a fully functioning RC model to race with.
The Holy Stone replica of the car features awesome LED lights so you can even drive it around at night and still have a clear path in front of you. The coolest features of a Lamborghini always has and will be the ways their doors open upwards. This can also be done with the RC model. It's incredibly detailed so watch out not to race it into any obstacles.
The Rover Revolution, looks like it's from another planet. It's not named the "wireless spy vehicle" for no reason. You'll find that this incredibly awesome toy can actually be controlled through an app on a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet. Additionally it has a mounted camera which also works at night. The camera itself can be turned 360 degrees and you have a total of 150 feet range to move it around.
But the fun doesn't stop there! This wouldn't be our favorite model for the above mentioned features. It also has a two way microphone so you can hear what's going on as well as speak for others to hear you. Finally you can share images and videos directly to Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. See what others think about this model on the comment section on Amazon!
Monster trucks are always a pleasure to watch, whether on the TV or in real life events. So owning a small replica to reenact the stunts you see on the screen is an incredible pleasure. Most monster truck RC cars are usually fairly slow and focus on being able to drive over things. But not this one. It has a staggering speed which goes up to 15 mph!
There are very limited chances a child won't enjoy this toy. The only minor downside to it is that it is powered by AA batteries and a total of 6 of them as well as 2 AAA batteries.
A lot of times RC cars are limited on where they can drive and which hurdles they can overcome. However it seems that for the Top Race Rock Crawler, there is not a single obstacle it can't overcome. If you're more of an off-road kind of guy and like to test the limits of gravity, then you'll have a lot of fun driving this car around.
Due to the 4-wheel drive and the amazing anti collision structure, combined with the oversized monster truck resembling wheels, nothing will stand in its way. In total you will need 7 AA batteries to control this vehicle.
Anybody that is a fan of luxury cars is most likely familiar with the Mercedez Benz SLR Mclaren. Of course only very few of us have the actual chance to ever buy one, let alone drive one. But some wishes due to come true (in smaller sized).
This replica is officially licensed by Mercedes Benz themselves so it is extremely detailed as well as an exact model of the real thing. The paint is high gloss and of course the suspensions are all independent. This model is run by tripple A batteries, so it would be wise to get some rechargable ones if you expect to use this a lot.
If you're a fan of speed and want to leave the wheels of your RC car feeling hot, then this is by far the best model you could possibly choose. It can reach a staggering speed of over 15 miles per hour! But the quality doesn't stop at its speed. It comes with a rechargable battery of course and the suspension is a nother level.
All wheels are attached to independent suspensions with shock absorbant springs. If you're worried about which floor you need to drive on, the roads won't cause any issues as the wheels are also capable of driving on virtually any ground due to the high grip.
If you want to make sure that your child get's to play with the RC car as well, you might not want to get your hands on this model. The simple reason being, once you see what it can do, you will play with it yourself and have a hard time giving your child a go. Besides looking incredibly unique, this RC car will let you control it through IOS or Android devices.
So besides having the handiest remote control, you can also record and take images of whatever the car sees in front of it. Additionally you have a long lasting (around 30 minutes) battery which can easily be recharged. However you need to make sure not to leave it charged over night for safety measures.
There's a lot more of these cool toy reviews where that came from. For instance take a look at these! Love spending time outside, then why not get some more handy things for your garden such as an awesome grill and a garden shed to store it all away when play time is over?


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Published: August 9th, 2005
In the period following its merger with Veritas Software, Symantec Corp. is emphasizing the ties that bind e-mail security management with storage capabilities, but one user hopes the relationship will one day lead to simpler management across
the architecture.
The US$13.5-billion merger, which was announced late last year and closed in July, was supposed to be a marriage of security to storage. Veritas CEO Gary Bloom felt obliged at the company's annual user conference this summer to address criticism from the financial community that the two firms don't understand each other's technology, and described the merger as "a straightforward deal that everyone seems to understand except Wall Street."
In the same vein, Symantec said Tuesday that it can offer a complete E-mail Security and Availability Solution – a combination of Symantec and Veritas products that can secure e-mail from its receipt at the client level right through to its storage on the backend. The company isn't announcing any new products but aims to point out the integration opportunities across the product sets.
"While all the pieces have existed before, I don't think many customers have looked at it as: this is how I can implement my security and availability solution," said Chris Miller, director of product management for Symantec. "They've never really looked at it in this broad way before. There are customers that are using e-mail security and some of them are using archiving, but they're not aware of the cross benefits."
Direct Media Inc., a marketing services company, uses Symantec Mail Security as well as Enterprise Vault to manage its e-mail, which runs on a Microsoft Exchange server environment. The company operates nine offices across the U.S. and one in Oakville, Ont., and manages its e-mail from its headquarters in Greenwich, Conn. The company has 250 users and its remote employees connect to the head office via a virtual private network (VPN) or through Citrix remote access.
The firm's e-mail stores are used in part to hold clients' marketing campaigns and information that could be useful for future campaigns. Kevin Ladd, director of infrastructure, said his firm will move up to Enterprise Vault 6.0 in the near future and is currently running an older version. While he said he's satisfied with Symantec's ability to effectively clean and filter e-mail, he'd like to be able to achieve better integration with the storage backend.
Symantec scans incoming mail to filter out malware or unwanted content but "it doesn't go through and crawl into the Vault and make sure that everything that's been in there previously (is OK)," he explained.
"One of the things that we could do is have it search through there with a new subset of rules and make absolutely sure that there are no malicious e-mails in there. . . . We can't do that now. We hope to do that type of integration."
The same holds true for filtering out unwanted words or phrases, he added. "If we're going to set rules for inbound e-mail and we don't want anything with the word 'potato' in it, we want to make sure there's nothing with the word 'potato' in the Vault too. We want to be able to integrate across the two."
This type of integration is a goal for Symantec, said Miller, and the company has been gearing up for a closer relationship between security and storage since the merger.
"One of the key drivers behind the merger was the view that it's not about information security, it's about information integrity," he said. "It sounds a bit corny, but we want enable our customers to be fearless. The real security comes from knowing that if a problem occurs, your recovery can occur very, very rapidly for very low downtime."
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