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Sunday, February 28, 2010
One of Rob's regrets? Turning down a role in "There Will Be Blood"
"Breaking Dawn" was the longest book in the "Twilight" series, but Robert Pattinson doesn't "really mind either way" whether its film adaptation should be one long film or two.
"If they can make it one script… It depends. l wouldn't know where the first one would really end and the second one would begin. I mean, either way, there's [more] movies to do, and people like them," said the 23-year-old English actor, who plays Edward Cullen in the movie franchise.
Pattinson made the comments during an interview with HitFix as he's promoting forthcoming drama "Remember Me," co-starring Emilie de Ravin, due in theaters March 12.
As previously reported, "Twilight" colleague Kristen Stewart said that she thinks "the story absolutely warrants two films. But I think you could do it with one. It just depends." She also told HitFix in a video interview that it wouldn't be a bad idea to make "Breaking Dawn" in 3-D, either.
Pattinson not only spoke on films to come, but also ones that passed him by. When asked if he's ever been offered a script or role that he turned down for feared of not pulling it off, Pattinson revealed that Academy Award-winning "There Will Be Blood" "will always be one of my biggest regrets."
"I remember reading the script and thinking it was the best script ever. I just couldn't do it. And I was so pissed off afterwards. I was gonna go into the audition, but I was just, like, I can't do it," he laughed. "Also 'The Assassination of Jesse James [by the Coward Robert Ford]' -- that was the other. I don't know why I've pussied out of these things. I wouldn't do it ever again."
Lucky for him, Pattinson has at least a couple projects to keep him busy, with "Bel Ami" currently lensing and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" due June 30.
On the set of "Remember Me"
If you don't mind paparazzi video, Poptv just made a video (22 minutes) of Rob on the set of Remember Me
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Rob talks Remember Me, Bel Ami, and what makes him happy
Yesterday, press junkets were held for Remember Me with Robert Pattinson, Emilie De Ravin, and Chris Cooper for the upcoming romantic drama Remember Me. Since Rob was there to talk about Remember Me, information about Twilight was limited.
Was there a time where you were sitting with Alan Coulter and the producer and something clicked for you? Can you talk about why you were attracted to this character, and about taking that step to produce?
Robert Pattinson: Well, the producing thing. (laughs) I'm kind of embarrassed about the producing thing because I wasn't really acting like a proper producer. I only really came on after the shoot just to kind of help Alan and Nick make sure that the product was what the product in which we all wanted to make in the end. It was the summer after the first Twilight thing. I read it then and I met with Alan and Nick. I thought they were really great, and I talked to them for hours about it. I think basically what I commented to them about was, what shocked me was I was reading a ton of scripts and it just didn't fall into any, the way the dialogue was written and the plot was structured, it didn't fit into any kind of normal category. It didn't seem very formulaic. I had just read tons and tons of formulaic scripts in one genre or another and it was just such a relief to find that. There was also something about Tyler, the way he reacted to things seemed very relatable to me, and I hadn't seen another character like it in like 100 scripts. So that's why when the period came up between New Moon and Eclipse, we only had two months, you can't really do that much, it's difficult to find a movie which can fit in such a short period. It seemed like the perfect fit.
He's a rebellious character, especially against his father. Were you attracted to that idea?
Pattinson: I mean, I don't know if it was so much about just the rebellion that interested me. I liked how it seemed like Tyler didn't really know what he was rebelling against. It seemed like no matter what his father was like, no matter what everyone around him is like, he'd still be rebelling. There was one interesting thing, I liked how he wasn't fighting against everybody, he only chose to fight against his father. I think it was a pretty broken family to begin with, and I think he just takes out all of his rage on his father because his father is the only one who can take it. I mean if he tried to attack his mother, she'd probably end up killing herself or something. She's too wounded to be able to take that. I don't think it's particularly typical rebel. It just comes in fits and starts all the time, so I think he's kind of faking it. I think what he's really rebelling against is himself.
Were there any scenes that were cut from the movie that you wished stayed?
Pattinson: I don't know, I haven't seen the final cut. (laughs)
What was your favorite scene to film, then?
Pattinson: I like the scene where Tyler confronts his little sister's bullies. Basically because I kind of fancy which I would have myself just kind of being the tough guy. Actually there was more of a take that was cut out, or they didn't use. When I pushed the little girls desk that was bullying her, and the first take I pushed it too hard and she fell on the floor and the desk on her. She looked absolutely terrified after, and it just became this turn into a psychopath. (laughs) And they had to cut it out, because they were like "you wouldn't just go to jail for vandalism, you'd go for child abuse." (laughs) That would really change the story. That was quite fun.
Both characters seem to really be embracing life, and I think audiences will really come away with that. What do you think is the overall feeling around love. What will people learn from watching this film?
Pattinson: I think one of the things, which I always liked about it, is that he doesn't. Like when you meet someone who you feel whatever for, it doesn't necessarily mean that that's a finish line, and that's like "oh you'll be alright now afterwards." I think that worked in the relationship with Allie and Tyler. I think it's to show that its sort of ok to have, if you just have one moment of happiness, where you can feel that you're happy, even if it just lasts for a minute. It's worth a lot. Because I think people now, everyone does all of these things because they think they should be happy like all the time. Doing therapy, and taking anti-depressants and all of these things. If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.
What makes you happy?
Pattinson: I don't know. It's like these weird little things. It's like what I was trying to put across in the movie, when funny little things happen, it's not just meeting Allie, it's all of these things kind of melds together and it hits you from left field, and you're just like "oh yeah, I'm happy" (laughs)
This movie is so steep. The locations are amazing in the film, and it feels so authentically New York. What's interesting to me is so much of the cast aren't New Yorkers and don't have a New York accent, and you're Brooklyn accent is on point. I wonder if, working on that, what kind of research you did, or if you knew a lot about New York in 2001. And what it was like to film in the streets of New York?
Pattinson: My sister lived in New York for like 5 years and I used to go visit her all the time. I don't know. When I read the script there seemed to be a sort of voice that was just there as soon as you read it. I've never had a dialect coach or anything. Ironically I've only had a dialect coach for this film I'm doing now, which I'm doing now in an English accent. (laughs) I guess I've forgotten how to do an English accent.
But what was it like for you to film in Queens, at NYU, what was that like?
Pattinson: It was nice. Obviously it was great for doing stuff at NYU, you're filming at NYU, which is perfect. I like this bar, I went in there a few times before we starting shooting. That's not really research. (laughing) Oh yeah I just went to a couple of bars. (laughs)
So that was a sum total of your New York research?
Pattinson: (laughs) No, I mean it was nice. I was sort of staying, it's difficult to go out and stuff there at the time. I've gone out more in New York since. There's funny little things which happened, experiences which I had in New York which were put into the script. Like a friend of mine, the whole fight in the beginning, how that was all set up, it happened to a friend of mine the day before we did the rewrites to the script. We were down in Alphabet City, and this guy jumped out of the car with a little mini baseball bat and just hit my friend in the face. The whole thing. It was literally the day before. The whole thing was put into the movie. (laughing) Annoyingly, I didn't react in the same way. (laughing)
You ran?
Pattinson: (laughing) I didn't see what was happening until it was too late. (laughs) Even when the police asked me, they asked all the people around to give a testimony. The police looked at me and was like "oh it's alright you don't have to give one", and it was because of the Twilight thing. I was like "no, I want to give a testimony!" (laughing) "I want to be a witness!"
Alan spoke a lot about your focus that you had to maintain while shooting because of the constant paparazzi attention and the screaming fans. What was that like for you to shoot such an emotional movie under the eye of people Twittering about it, and people screaming at you?
Pattinson: It's like the first two weeks were kind of crazy, because I was all around NYU and Washington Square park and there'd be tons of people around anyway. I think it was annoying people as well, that all of these crowds came and disrupted peoples days, so that was really difficult at the beginning. But, I think after that you just get used to it. You just block certain things out. I was trying to figure out a way to use the sort of rage that was built up, but you couldn't really use it for that character. If the same thing had happened during this movie that I'm doing now, it would have been perfect and I could have gone around hitting paparazzi and stuff and it would have been great because I would have been staying in character. (laughs) But it didn't really work for Tyler, he's not that kind of guy.
Do you see yourself trying to sort of make a big gap between Twilight and everything else you do so people realize there this…something so different from the phenomenon that everybody focus on?
More to you…
Pattinson: No, I don't really focus on trying to do it, I don't think. I pick scripts the same way, I think, that I've always done. I barely like anything, and so it's kind of easy to pick your jobs. The things which I'm signed onto now are all completely different. Like I'm playing a white Comanche in one thing and the parts completely in Comanche. Bel Ami is, I thought there was a kind of irony in Bel Ami as well, because a lot of the women are attracted to this character and then he kind of screws them over and steals their money and stuff. (laughs) Which I thought was quite funny compared to the Twilight character. (laughing) It's kind of the polar opposite. It wasn't intentional, I just thought Bel Ami was very funny, and it's a very interesting character. With Remember Me, I'd never done a simple story before, and it's not that simple, but its playing a normal guy and trying to relate to things on a normal level it's kind of relief in a lot of ways.
It reminded me of James Dean on a slight, with the rebel without a cause. Did you think of him in sort of a classical way? When you said he's rebelling against himself, that this is just someone who's just someone who's sort of in a fury about the way the world is.
Pattinson: I think it's a fairly typical state to be in. I think there's that element, but I was also interested in the kind of, in Tyler there was a lot of elements of sort of arrogance things about him, which I thought were quite interesting. To have a loss in your family, and then I think a lot of the fighting in his family is because he feels like the attention has kind of gone off of him a bit. You have these petty things, which turn you into this iconic rebel or whatever, and it's just based on these silly things, kind of like almost despicable emotions that you have about it. I tried to make that apparent in Remember Me. There's a reason why James Dean stereotype is so common, especially in actors, I think. I think its pretty real. It's also an ideal for young guys I think. I think, anyway. Because as soon as you stop struggling against something, what have you got to do? That's the whole point being young, struggling against things.
Your chemistry with the younger sister character was so strong. Can you talk about what you had to do, and if there was anything different you had to do finding that with a child actor?
Pattinson: She did everything; I mean completely. On the first day I met her. Me, Alan, and Emilie were sitting around discussing our scenes together and she hadn't really said anything, and I kind of asked just to be nice. I was just like [ducking his head down and talking just above a whisper] "so, you know what do you think about it?" And she's sitting there with her pencil and engaged in this whole diatribe of her characters back story and everything, and in the most interesting way. And she'd be writing notes, about all of the stuff we were saying, like quoting what we were saying. She's phenomenal. She's going to be a massive actress, I think. She's the best improviser I've ever met. You can literally say anything to her, and she'll completely stay in character. Even if the camera is not on her, she'll stay completely in character the whole time. Also, she's no actressy as well. She's kind of like one of those weird, hyper-intelligent, hyper-mature kid. Then I saw her with her little friends and just like a little girl when you see her with her friends. I just don't understand how that happens at all. She's so easy to act with, you don't have to do anything, just look at her. It's the first time since the day I began acting where I just feel completely unselfconscious, because I could feel that she wasn't at all and it rubs off on me. I love when she was like "you're so retarted" (laughs) That's just an 11 year old girl thing to say.
How was it to work with Emilie?
Pattinson: She's great, yeah. And completely different to what I…what I thought was going to be cast.
Are you a fan of LOST?
Pattinson: I've never seen it
What are your thoughts on the Breaking Dawn being two films?
Pattinson: I really don't mind either way.
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8 Movie Clips from Robert Pattinson's REMEMBER ME
With Robert Pattinson's new movie Remember Me getting ready to open on March 12, we've been provided with 8 clips from the film. If you're the type that loves watching as much footage before a movie comes out, you'll love these clips. Saying that, I always think movies are better knowing as little as possible, so if you can resist the urge, avoid watching them. I just wanted to give you the option.
And while an embargo prevents me from saying too much about Remember Me, I think it's safe to say I really enjoyed the movie. I walked in knowing nothing about story except who was in it, and the movie really drew me in and surprised me in a lot of ways. The only thing I really want to stress to all of you is avoid every review and spoiler online. If you know too much walking in, the twists and turns won't mean as much to you. I didn't know anything in advance and am happy I had that experience.
Hit the jump to watch the clips and read the official synopsis:
Remember Me also stars Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, and Chris Cooper. Allen Coulter directed the film and William Fetters wrote.
Here's the synopsis:
In the romantic drama Remember Me, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has had a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family. Tyler didn't think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through, until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her. Through their love, he begins to find happiness and meaning in his life. Soon, hidden secrets are revealed and tragedy lingers in the air, as the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.
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'Remember Me' Press Junket - Day 2
A few more from Day 1:
@rosamund_: Today, in a hotel room, RPattz told me he wants a long, happy marriage like his parents (lovely moment ruined by three watching publicists).
@katespencer: 1 more RPattz moment:joked that he researched NYC by going 2 a bar.Made entire room laugh.Also said he got used 2 pap/fan mobs. #rememberme
@patrickstoner: I asked Rob Pattinson if he ad trouble finding the insecurity needed for role; he said, "Oh, Pat, I think I'm 95 % insecure." #r-patz
@patrickstoner: Rob Pattinson's costar (Remember Me), Emily de Raven, says the paparzzi were so intrusive on location that they created a shell around them
@iamBenLyons: Thank you all for the Rob Pattinson questions. Great stuff, I really appreciate it. Be sure to watch @THEDAILY10 tomorrow to see the intvw
@iamBenLyons: @Rob_Tyler_RM yeah I have interviewed him many times over the years...nice dude and seems to handle the "crazy" part of his job just fine...
@mannymovies: Had great interviews with REMEMBER ME folks...Robert Pattinson is a sweetheart...for risk of sounding like a tween but he's adorable...soft hands :) Pierce Brosnan is also very sweet...and the film is a love story with far deeper consequences...I can't reveal the all important plot twist...I don't want to ruin it for y'all
@patrickstoner: Brosnan says the conflict scenes with Pattinson in Remember Me were carefully pre-prepared so they could do them in short takes. #r-patz
@stayfabulous: Robert was wearing a white t-shirt, jeans ,his hair was perfectly tousled and he kept running his hands thru it during the interview..lovely
@colliderfrosty: At the remember me junket. Just got something rob fans will like. Getting ready to post before interviews
@patrickstoner: Rob says it took a while to blank out the constant exposure but he's now learned the mental trick and can ignore the madness. #r-patz
@andreamineocnn: R #Patz just walked by his hair was sticking straight up - looked good
@stayfabulous: When I asked Robert Pattinson about doing double duty as star and exec producer of #RememberMe & if he's a "good boss". He said...
@stayfabulous: He laughed (adorable) ran fingers thru his hair (dreamy) and said..."He didn't fancy himself a proper boss".still laughing (still adorable)
@SharonFJohnson: I just interviewed Robert Pattinson for "Remember Me." He was a fantastic interview. Once he knew cared about the film he gave me so much!
@SharonFJohnson: I just intv'd Robert Pattinson 4 "Remember Me." He's a fantastic intv. Once he knew I cared about the film he gave me all needed. Nice guy!
@SharonFJohnson: He is very real, smart and yes handsome. RT @jvanr1708: @SharonFJohnson can you please tell me if he is more breathe taking in person?
@colliderfrosty: Still doing interviews. Will make sure clips are running good soon. Just spoke to rob. Got some good questions in. Fans will like.
@andreamineocnn: Just out R#Patz so sweet says he hasn't seen any of 'Eclipse' but will be different b/c of director
@andreamineocnn: R #Patz says there are places he can go to sort of hide. Says he's happy less stress this year
@andreamineocnn: R #Patz was wearing a white T & jeans kept running his hands thru his hair it would stick up very cute
@andreamineocnn: asked R #Patz : tell me something about yourself that fans don't know. He couldn't.
@andreamineocnn: #Patz says really doesn't watch his own work only watched F Moon b/c he wasn't in it alot
@andreamineocnn: Before intvu #Patz asked me how I was dealing with all the New York snow. Sweet
@iamBenLyons: Rob told me if he could visit any country in the world that he hasn't been to, it would be Fiji...and that he reads his fan mail!
@SharonFJohnson: Ah, laid back but inquisitve & thoughtful. RT @TwiSagaReality: @SharonFJohnson haha I meant is he more laid or always figuring things out.
@kelligillespie:Robert Pattinson charming as ever & candid about family, fame & acting. More from interview & video in coming week
@kelligillespie: "Remember Me" filmmakers say hundreds of fans watching rpattz make movie were more respectful than paparazzi!
@andreamineocnn: #Patz stood up to shake my hand when I walked in the room to interview him. This rarely happens. Tweeted F Moon - was a bit busy 'New Moon'.
@HotTopicsTV: Rob was super nice as expected... Although it looked like he hasn't washed his hair in days. Haha
@HotTopicsTV: Rob said he doesn't know how people like JLo do it.
@ga_brielle: He is adorable. Also incredibly charming!
@ga_brielle: Rob smelled amazing. lol the BO rumors are false.
@ga_brielle: Fave Rob moment: He said he did New York accent research for RM by going to local bars. Had the entire room cracking up..including him!
@ga_brielle: I agree. Rob was very charming and hilarious. :
@HotTopicsTV: @Gappiie here's something you may not know. He said he prob won't be making a record anytime soon while he's doing movies
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
What Does Robert Pattinson Think of Breaking Dawn Times Two?
Do you really want to see more Robert Pattinson? Are you sure?!
We kid, but something tells us the prospect of more Pattz may be a big part of your mass desire for Breaking Dawn to be a two-parter. While the fourth and final installment of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has plenty going on—weddings, babies and, of course, a final showdown or two—the official decision to break it down into a pair of movies has yet to be made.
Kristen Stewart told us earlier this month that she's with you! She thinks the book "absolutely warrants" a double-feature and "it would be hard to cram all of it into one movie."
But what does the world's hottest sparkle vamp think?
Unlike other things, Pattz isn't allergic to the idea. In his true, laid-back fashion, he's just going with the flow.
"I don't mind either way," he admits to E! News during the Remember Me press junket in New York City on Saturday.
Two movies would mean extended action sequences (yeah, that kind of action) with K.Stew, so we have to imagine he really wouldn't mind.
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@katespencer Just interviewed Robert Pattinson. Sweet, soft spoken, and hair in full effect. The room melted. #fb
@BreanneNYC: I can officially confirm that Robert Pattinson messes with his hair even more than imagined. I know you're swooning.
@laurenkaye I've now witnessed Robert Pattinson run his hand through his hair in person. And his giggle made my heart skip a beat.
@mikeavila: I'm willing to bet my intv with Robert Pattinson was the only one he did all day where Rocky Balboa was mentioned more than Twilight.
@mikeavila: In fact, the T word was not mentioned once in my chat with him. And I'm strangely pleased with myself for that.
@mikeavila: Pattinson talked about playing a normal guy (for once) in Remember Me, boxing movies, playing a Comanche in his next film, and...
@mikeavila: ...Asked me if I culd set him up w/a nice girl who hangs out on Twitter. Any1 interested??
@ga_brielle: Saw Remember Me last night. Must see. Do not read reviews just go see it. Breathtaking. Also did roundtables today with Rob, Emilie, etc.
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The messaging and social media app Telegram was designed to give its users a level of security above regular texting. It's globally accessible, offers end-to-end encryption for chats and video calls, and it now claims over 700 million users. But an article in Wired says that the app has now become a breeding ground for major doxxing attacks all around the world. Peter Guest wrote that story and joins us now to explain. Welcome.
PETER GUEST: Hi there.
CHANG: Hi. OK. So can we just first define doxxing? Like, how would you put it?
GUEST: So doxxing is just the practice of sharing someone's private information on the internet - so their home address, their workplace, their phone number, some identifying information - usually as a way to intimidate them.
CHANG: And can you explain why this works so well on Telegram specifically?
GUEST: So Telegram, as you said at the top of the show, is something between a messaging app and a social media platform. It means that you can move quite seamlessly from sending and receiving anonymous private messages to then broadcasting them via channels. So anyone can set up a channel, and those can have tens, hundreds of thousands of followers. So what you can do on Telegram - if I run a big channel, I can use my followers to crowdsource information about somebody that I want to expose. They can send me information anonymously. I can collect that information, cross-reference it, then broadcast it right back into the same channel to hundreds of thousands of users.
CHANG: And you mention a lot of different specific examples of these doxxing attacks taking place all around the world in your story. Can you tell us about one example in particular?
GUEST: So the example that really drew me in to the story was Myanmar, where there was a military coup d'etat in February 2021. And since then, the military junta that runs that country has pursued its perceived enemies, and that's included using informants online to identify and expose people. That's been going on for a while, but it really escalated this year. So there was a silent strike. Effectively, businesses and individuals said, we'll stay home. We'll shut. We'll leave the streets deserted. And in advance of that, several military-supporting Telegram channels started asking their followers to identify businesses and individuals who said they were going to join the strike. So these got posted in these channels, addresses and names. And within hours, in some cases, the premises were raided by police. People were arrested. They ended up in jail.
CHANG: Wow. Well, I'm curious. What's been Telegram's response to your reporting so far?
GUEST: So Telegram is a fairly secretive company and hasn't historically engaged in any kind of deep way with journalists or civil society.
CHANG: They're based in Dubai, correct?
GUEST: So their structure is part of the reason why they are so complicated to cover and regulate. So as far as we know, they were founded in Russia. The software was developed in Germany. The headquarters are in Dubai. But the legal registration is in the British Virgin Islands.
CHANG: Wow. You know, I'm wondering about the original purpose of Telegram. I can imagine that one of its initial appeals was that it had this ability to protect messages from the eyes of the government. But now it's, in some cases, as you point out, being used as an instrument of the government to intimidate individuals.
GUEST: So I think Telegram has become an incredibly consequential platform in authoritarian countries. It has been used by people in those states to avoid censorship and to organize protest movements. You know, it's infuriated the censors in Russia for years. And that's a great thing. But I guess that's perhaps why there's a little bit of a sense of betrayal here that it's become an enormously dangerous place and a venue for these abuses. And certainly from the side of activists, they feel like Telegram is not supporting them. It's not listening to them, and it's not doing anything to make these spaces safer for them.
CHANG: Right. That was Peter Guest with his reporting that was recently published for Wired. Thank you very much for joining us today.
GUEST: Thanks for having me.
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Software and systems giant Oracle (IW 500/38) was fined $2 million Thursday to resolve charges that its India subsidiary kept a multimillion-dollar off-books slush fund.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it had filed charges in San Francisco District Court accusing Oracle of violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by not preventing the subsidiary from setting up the $2.2 million fund.
The money, which came out of the receipts from sales to Indian government agencies over 2005-2007, "was eventually used to make unauthorized payments to phony vendors in India," the SEC said in a statement.
The SEC did not allege that bribery had taken place but suggested it was the possible purpose for payments to these ostensible vendors.
"In fact, none of these storefront-only third parties provided any services or were included on Oracle's approved vendor list," it said.
"The third-party payments created the risk that the funds could be used for illicit purposes such as bribery or embezzlement."
Oracle neither admitted nor denied the allegations, but the SEC said it voluntarily disclosed the problem, had cooperated with the investigation and had fired employees involved in the misconduct.
But the company was fined for poor internal controls and poor supervision of is India subsidiary.
"Through its subsidiary's use of secret cash cushions, Oracle exposed itself to the risk that these hidden funds would be put to illegal use," said SEC San Francisco official Marc Fagel.
"It is important for U.S. companies to proactively establish policies and procedures to minimize the potential for payments to foreign officials or other unauthorized uses of company funds."
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Me, Myself and I: Cloning People
Dear Rabbi,What is the Jewish perspective on cloning people?
Before discussing the Jewish perspective, I'd like to briefly explain what cloning is and how it is done. Cloning is the reproduction of an organism whereby all the genes of the clone are identical to the original organism, unlike normal male/female reproduction where the genes are a fusion of both parents. Cloning is not necessarily unnatural — bacteria, algae and some yeasts, as well as dandelions and aspen trees reproduce by cloning. In fact, human identical twins, that originate from the division of a single fertilized egg, are genetically identical and are another example of cloning in nature.
A recent breakthrough in the area of artificial or induced cloning occurred in 1996 with the introduction of "Dolly", the first animal cloned from an adult mammal. A skin cell from one sheep, containing a nucleus with a full set of genes, was fused with an unfertilized egg of another sheep whose nucleus was removed (somewhat like a donut). The result, an egg from sheep #2 with the genes entirely from sheep #1, began dividing and was placed in sheep #3. The embryo developed normally, and Dolly, an exact replica of sheep #1 was "born". Amazing! (Who says counting sheep puts one to sleep!)
The fact that Dolly, a large mammal, was cloned from a fully-grown adult animal raises probing and interesting ethical and legal questions from a Jewish perspective about the prospect of cloning. Is it right to play G-d? Does a clone have a soul? Is my clone me, my twin or my child? [The latter question has halachic ramifications regarding the laws of inheritance, levirate marriage (yibum) and more.]
Regarding the question of whether man has the right to play G-d, as in many instances of genetic engineering, some claim that it is wrong to play G-d. The Jewish perspective, however, is that since man was created in the image of G-d regarding intelligence, morality and free will, he is intended to be G-d's partner in creation. To that end, G-d intentionally left the world incomplete in order to involve man in its betterment and refinement. Therefore sickness, poverty and other suffering need not be accepted passively. On the contrary, it is G-d's will that man intervene to improve the world.
From the Jewish perspective then, not only is it not wrong to play G-d, but we are actually supposed to play G-d to the extent that doing so will benefit and improve the world and humanity. Given man's license as partner with G-d to create and innovate, if and when human cloning occurs, the highest rabbinical authorities will have to examine the benefits and detriments of cloning to determine whether it would be acceptable ethically and according to Jewish Law.
Does a clone have a soul?
Some opinions answer in the negative, comparing a clone to a golem(a human-like being), such as the well-known golem made by the Maharal of Prague. Before refuting this comparison let's examine the idea of creating a golem as it appears in our traditional sources.
The Talmud refers to Sefer Yetzira (Book of Creating), attributed to our patriarch Avraham, which teaches that different combinations of the 32 Channels of Wisdom, the 10 Sefirot (Divine Attributes), and the 22 Hebrew letters can be used to create beings, just as G-d did in creating the universe. The Talmud relates that Rava used Sefer Yetzira to create a person. Similarly Rav Chanina and Rav Oshiya would study Sefer Yetzira every Friday to create a calf which they would eat for their Shabbat meal. Sefer Yetzira is an accepted part of the Jewish tradition and was studied by such luminaries as Rav Hai Gaon, Ramban, the Arizal, and the Gaon from Vilna.
The Maharal, a great Jewish 16th century thinker, allegedly created a golem to protect the Jews of Prague from anti-Semitism. Some say that G-d's name was written on the golem's forehead, while others claim that the golem was activated or de-activated by adding or removing the alef from the word emet on his forehead (Hebrew for "truth" and without the alef means "dead"). The golem was left in the attic of the Maharhal's synagogue and recent accounts tell of Nazi soldiers fleeing in horror after having broken into the attic.
We find a question in the Responsa about whether a golem is human and may be included in a minyan, and the answer is "no". The golem has no internal organs or blood, and therefore it is not forbidden to "kill" a golem, just as the Maharal de-activated his golem. Furthermore, a golem cannot speak, which, according to Judaism, indicates that it has no (human) soul.
A clone, on the contrary, is created biologically, has normal body functions (like a pumping heart and circulating blood), most likely has the power of speech, and therefore presumably has a human soul, just like me.
Is my clone me, my twin or my child?
A clone is genetically identical to the gene donor, unlike normal male/female reproduction where the genes are a fusion of both parents. Therefore my clone, while sharing my genes (we wear the same size), is really the result of the fusion of my parents' genes. In this way my clone cannot be considered me; rather he would be more like my identical twin, just as in nature identical twins share the same genetic material. However, since my clone was created from my genes, from my body, and later gestated and birthed by my wife, perhaps he is to be considered my child.
This question of whether my clone is my twin or my child has halachic ramifications regarding inheritance. If my clone is my twin, he will not inherit together with my other children, his "siblings". However, if he is my son he will inherit. This will also apply to the mitzvah of yibum. There is a mitzvah that when one's brother dies without children he marries the widow (if they both agree) in order to perpetuate his brother's line, or do the mitzvah of chalitza and doesn't marry her (which is what is done today). If his clone is a twin, the clone will have to perform yibum or chalitza (after waiting for his bar mitzvah!). If the clone is a son, he exempts his mother from the mitzvah altogether, even if his father had other brothers, since his father had a child.
This also raises the question of who is the clone's mother. For example, in a case where a woman is cloned, having her genes inserted in another woman's egg which is then gestated and birthed by a third woman (similar to the case of "Dolly"), there are four possible mothers: woman #1, the mother of the cloned woman (who is the original source of the genes); woman #2, the gene donor; woman #3, the egg donor; and woman #4, the gestation donor.
Since Judaism follows matrilineal descent, the question of who is the clone's mother will have bearing (sorry) on whether the clone is Jewish. Whether genetic or physical birth factors (or both) are what determine if the child is Jewish is a discussion for another forum, and please do not draw any conclusions from this article.
This week's article concludes a longer-than-average length treatment of a subject in this particular forum. However, I think we have not heard the final word regarding cloning. In the meantime I'd like to share a thought-provoking and somewhat humorous email we received from a reader in reaction to this topic, which addresses the question if it's okay to "play G-d":
I mean no disrespect when I say that there is a potential problem with cloning man toward becoming self-sufficient and losing the very dependence he has cherished in the past with G-d. This story illustrates a problem in its infancy:
One day a group of scientists came before the Almighty and said that they had all the knowledge and ability to create man, and they said, "We no longer have any need for You since we have arrived in our own time to match anything You have done in the past concerning the making of a human. We can take your place because we have the ability to duplicate your power and knowledge." Scientifically they had the knowledge to clone a human so they were feeling pretty self-sufficient.
They went on to say that they would do this with their own test tubes and equipment to make humans perfect and the only thing left would be to take some dirt and commence with the exercise. The Almighty said, "Hold on a moment; get your own dirt."


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The purpose of this article is to openly discuss our most recent product and why we chose plastic over any other material. The bottle is 100% recyclable, but we have received many valid concerns from our amazing Hueligan community about our decision-making process and we feel that you deserve to understand exactly why we chose to use plastic in the packaging of our Ready-to-drink Huel.
Although there is a negative element to using plastic, there's also a huge positive here about bringing more people on our journey to get more people eating less meat. If we can take two steps forwards but one step back, we are still going in the right direction.
Our mission is to make nutritionally complete, convenient, affordable food, with minimal impact on animals and the environment.
In industrial countries we consume 88kg of meat per person on average and this is set to rise further and further. The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector. It is also a major source of land and water degradation.
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year – approximately 1.3 billion tonnes – gets lost or wasted.
Our Ready-to-drink (RTD) version of Huel is an instant nutritionally complete meal. Currently our main product is our Powder, where you add three scoops to water, shake and go. However, this process is alienating to many.
Currently we estimate that less than 1% of the UK have tried Huel.
Our RTD bridges this gap and opens up complete nutrition to a wider audience to benefit from. An audience that, by using Huel more, can reduce their impact on the environment further compared to consuming other, non-plant-based, non-dried food products.
There are many environmental considerations that have to be taken into account, and we work hard to consider all we can. This comes down to two main factors.
If we all do a little we can make a big difference.
Huel RTD can last for 3 months at ambient temperature. This will greatly reduce food waste when compared to the foods that many consume on a daily basis. By reducing food waste this is reducing the amount of fresh food that needs to be grown to fill the void of this food waste, thus reducing carbon emissions and water usage.
Plastic packaging is just one piece of the puzzle, and it's important we take everything into account, not just plastic usage. By reducing carbon emissions, land usage, water usage, acidification and eutrophication, we could help tackle the problem of climate change. If we focus too much on plastic usage, and we don't address energy efficiency or reducing our carbon footprint, then we will be in trouble.
What we're trying to do at Huel is make plant-based options more accessible for everyone. If everyone had one plant-based meal a day, we could have a massive impact, and choosing Huel can help with that considerably.
To create an RTD, the packaging needed to hit a lot of criteria:
*Rancidity is where some fats oxidise when exposed to air, light or bacterial action and not only results in an undesirable change in flavour but can negatively impact cardiovascular health.
There was a huge variety of packaging options considered. We spent months making the decision and tried to work with well over 100 suppliers. Some of these options are listed below with their pros and cons:
Aluminium can
Cardboard bottle
Tetra Pak
Recycled plastic
The bottle is plastic, yes. However, it is 100% recyclable.
We have chosen this particular bottle as it allows us to give the product a longer shelf life, thus decreasing waste. Without using plastic, we would not be able to use aseptic processing, which is vital in ensuring that food is packaged into sterilised containers and reduces contact with unwanted bacteria.
We were extremely limited by what manufacturers could offer us. If a factory could technically produce Huel RTD, they then were not able to accommodate us on their factory line. We spent months speaking to over 100 suppliers, but there are very few factories that produce a product like Huel. Compromises had to be made by both sides so that we could start producing a product that ultimately has far less impact than the other foods people are eating for convenience. As we have already said, without using plastic, we would not be able to use aseptic processing, which is vital in ensuring that food is packaged into sterilised containers and reduces contact with unwanted bacteria. Factories would not allow this to happen as they insist on the use of aseptic processing for a product like Huel RTD.
Our product is aseptically filled to give it a long shelf life and therefore reduce food wastage. As mentioned above, there is only one factory in the world that could aseptically fill aluminium, but they do not have the equipment to produce Huel. There are a limited number of manufacturers even capable of making a product like Huel.
Tetra Pak isn't widely recyclable; currently only 25% of Tetra Pak drinking cartons are recycled. As we pointed out earlier, a material is only as recyclable as the availability of places to recycle it. There's no point putting a product in the recycling and hoping for the best.
In reality there isn't enough available to provide a 100% recycled plastic bottle. There are a few reasons for this:
The majority of black plastic packaging is coloured using carbon black pigments which do not enable the pack to be sorted by the optical sorting systems being used widely in plastics recycling. However, this is generally in reference to the plastic used in food trays for ready meals. The lid to Huel RTD is made from PET and is fully recyclable.
There are a huge number of competitor products out there whose heart is not in the right place. If we had waited for cardboard or other packaging solutions to be invented or made usable by our factories, then we would have been even further behind in this competitive market – this project already took well over 2 years to complete. If we can release a product that is pretty damn good – super nutritious, highly convenient and affordable in packaging that is 100% recyclable – then we can own the market share, be one of the biggest producers of a nutritionally complete RTD and then continue to strive for better as we always have. Our heart is in the right place. Others' are not, but we pledge to strive to continue to work on this.
This is v1.0 and it's already 100% recyclable. Imagine what we can do with v2.0.
Environmental impact comes down to so, so much more than just packaging. Since Blue Planet earlier in 2018, the world has mobilised in the fight against plastic waste and the effect it has on the ocean in particular. Seeing the nation and governments and brands take such a strong stance on the environment is a huge win and needs to be celebrated. However, is it in detriment to the other factors of sustainability?
As pointed out earlier, it's important we take everything into account, not just plastic usage: carbon emissions, land usage, water usage, acidification and eutrophication. It's been regularly shown that eating a vegan diet is the "single biggest way" to reduce your environmental impact on earth. It's also been shown that by removing meat products and dairy products, particularly beef, from your diet, you can reduce your carbon footprint by 75% and it would reduce global farmland usage by 75% if everyone did the same.
In fact, the impact of the lowest-impact animal products typically exceeds those of the highest-impact vegetable substitutes. For example, this means that using any plant milk, from any corner of the earth, is better than cow's milk in terms of environmental impact.
As we highlighted earlier, at Huel we want everyone to have access to a range of plant-based options, and RTD is an important one of these. We could really help drive positive change if we all had one plant-based meal a day. With Huel, this is easier to achieve. There is no point focusing purely on plastic and neglecting carbon emissions from vehicles and wastage from spoiled food.
If we made changes to our RTD bottle or used another material to contain the product, the decision would be made purely because plastic usage is a popular topic now and so we could put a marketing spin on it. However, ultimately it would be made for the wrong reasons, and that isn't what we do at Huel. We make considered choices.
Take our pouch, for instance. This is not currently recyclable, but we could make it recyclable and biodegradable tomorrow. However, we don't because the total impact would be greater. Biodegradable pouches are weak and can't currently hold 1.7kg of Huel. This means that more would break in transit and thus result in spoiled food and increased carbon emissions from transport to send a replacement if it reached a Hueligan in this condition. We could do a 'recyclable' pouch. The problem then is the infrastructure; yes, it could be 'recycled', but if not many places recycle it, then what's the point? It's an empty gesture which has marketing spin all over it.
We are not intending to stop selling our Huel Powder. Huel Powder is more nutritious and better for the environment as well as being more cost-effective per meal. We expect that when people are at home they will continue to use Huel Powder, but when they are on the go, an RTD is a better solution. RTD is a gateway to a new audience that would never consider adding powder to water, shaking and drinking but might consider drinking something off the shelf for breakfast or lunch.
Consider the alternatives for those people. A staggering 89% of people in the UK skip one meal a day and many rely on convenience food options. RTD needs to be compared against the things that people may choose in a rush or on the go. Think packaged sandwiches, crisps or a drink in a standard plastic bottle or coffee cup. Not only would RTD be considerably healthier than most of these options, it is likely to be better for the environment too. We estimate our current penetration in the UK market as less than 1%. An RTD will open this up to a wider range of people and thus increase the number of people using Powder too.
From the outside looking in, it could be easy to think that all our decisions were made with total disregard for the environment, that packaging wasn't given a second's consideration. As you can see from the above, this simply was not the case.
We will get better over time. v1.0 RTD is already 100% recyclable, but that doesn't mean we're done. We will continue to push forwards, particularly with the packaging of our product. Look at the first Apple computer that was released and the latest computer now – in terms of innovation there is no comparison. Our heart is in the right place, and we are strongly focused on our mission. So it's better if we lead the category rather than a conglomerate creating their own.
We aim to be using a minimum combination of 50% rPET and bio-PET by the end of 2020, so long as we can source enough recycled material. This is a journey that we will work closely with our suppliers on and need them to come with us too. As soon as biodegradable material is ready, we will make the switch.
To put that in perspective, Innocent Drinks – a company many would say is very ethically minded – are 20 years old and use 50% recycled plastic and 15% bioplastic. We will be also able to reach that level within 2 years of launch. Many other brands don't do anything.
So we pledge to be using 50% recycled or bioplastic within 2 years.
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June 1, 2012
Philosophy professor to present paper at conference today
Bruce Glymour, interim department head of philosophy, will present at the POBAM – Philosophy of Biology at Madison – conference today in Madison, Wis.
Glymour's presentation is "Some perplexities arising from temporal variation in fitness." The paper discusses difficulties in integrating ecological and population genetic models when fitness is governed by a nonstationary stochastic process.
The conference began Thursday and ends Saturday.


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In the depths of a landmark that's been around since the Gold Rush lies this subterranean speakeasy just a few blocks from One Market Center. An evening spent down in this cavernous, dimly lit cocktail lounge will transport you to the past as you sip on drinks inspired by the people, places and things that made up the newspaper business of the 50's and 60's.
For the spontaneous, head straight to the bar and grab a drink from a suspender-clad bartender slinging drinks bearing playful names with a historical twist. Order up a Stockholm Swizzle, a Spanish Fly or try out the Lieutenant Governor that gives typical whiskey drinks a run for their money.
A reservation gets you a table along the wall lined with red velvet booths and white leather chairs pulled right out of a scene from the 50's. Sit amongst old-school typewriters, printing presses and read newspaper clippings from San Francisco's past while you wait for your next cocktail.


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Making vegan food the whole family can enjoy seems like a daunting task. No more! The Vegan Dad Cookbook contains over 120 recipes that take kids' food beyond the veggie dog. From brunch to dinner, Vegan Dad has you covered with dishes from around the world as well as good ol' fashioned comfort food. This book provides the answer to that daily question, "what's for dinner?"
Downloads of the cookbook are available at Lulu.com for $10. The book is 144 pages, full colour, indexed (the best I could), and contains selected recipes from my September 2007 to June 2008 blog postings. If you would like to purchase a copy but don't have a credit card, send me an email at the address listed in the bottom right hand column of the blog.
Please note that the .pdf file is formatted for 2-sided printing.
(I decided against the paper copy because it would have cost about $5o.)
Here is a pic of the copies I printed and bound for my family.


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Cork Yogis' Lara Sengupta one year on Woocommerce, plus Pinterest Ads, YouTube Ads, getting organised and more (episode 124)
Lara Sengupta is the founder of Cork Yogis, selling ethical yoga products including cork yoga mats! They launched in April 2016 and just over 1 year in now turnover £3-4K per month.
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About the business
- eCommerce Business Structure – Online Only
- Product Range Scale – fairly niche
- Selling on Woocommerce and via Amazon and eBay
- In the UK, selling worldwide both B2C and B2B
Getting Started
A couple years ago, Lara was in a job that she hated, so despite not having a business background, she began playing around with the idea of starting her own business. She's always been inspired by social enterprise companies such as TOMS shoes, so she wanted to start up an eCommerce business that had the same sort of ethics and that had a mission that inspired her.
She spent six months thinking it through, talking to people, and trying to convince herself that it wasn't going to fail as soon as she launched it. The business wasn't going to launch itself, so she just did it.
Listen to learn why if you're going to start a business it has to be something you care about, and how Lara's passion for yoga helped her develop her range of products.
The Product
When you're in a yoga class and your hands start to sweat, you start losing your grip and sliding. With Lara's cork mats, the grip actually increases as you sweat. It's also a natural surface. Given the ethos of yoga, it is strange that yoga is practiced on plastic mats. Using a natural surface like cork is better for the yogi's energy and mindset. Cork mats are also antibacterial, and they roll up nicely just like a regular yoga mat.
Listen to learn how Lara's first batch of yoga mats weren't what she was expecting, and how she used that to her advantage.
The Team
Cork Yogis has two team members right now, Lara and her partner Chris, who does all the technical marketing duties and designed the website. They are planning to recruit a salesperson in the coming months to help them reach out to yoga studios.
Yoga studios are starting to sell products to their yogis. It's a hard sell to get the studios to throw out their own yoga mats for Lara's cork mat, but it's a much easier sell to get studios to put cork mats out for their yogis to purchase.
Listen to learn why Lara has declined to take on studio sales herself.
The Most Awesome Thing Right Now
Right now, the size of Cork Yogis is the most awesome thing. They are turning over a decent amount each month, but since there are only two of them, they still have fluidity. If Lara comes up with an idea today, they can implement it tomorrow. They are small enough to be able to test new things to see what's working and embrace opportunities.
Cork Yogis started off with the classic Google adwords and Facebook advertising, but it hasn't worked well for them. It gets the brand out, but hasn't led to conversions. The best marketing for them right now is content marketing by getting their products out to fitness bloggers. They've also been using Youtube and Pinterest advertising.
Listen to learn why Pinterest is their perfect audience.
Pinterest Advertising
The market on Pinterest is much less crowded than on Facebook and Instagram. It's also much more visual. People go on Pinterest to buy and to find things that inspire them.
Instagram is very aspirational — 'This is the sort of person I want to be in five years' — while Pinterest is very much in the now. People are creating things now, they want inspiration now, and they want to buy things now. It's a different audience.
Making Ethical/Social Enterprise Companies Work Financially
After working with a charity in India, Lara wanted to create a female-founded business that gives back to women and empowers women worldwide. Social enterprises are harder to sell than regular businesses when it comes to investments and getting other business people to take them seriously.
Cork Yogis went through a stage where they were actively seeking investment, and they ended up walking away from that in the end because it wasn't right for them. Investors wanted to turn it into a business that wasn't giving back much. Instead of diluting their company to please the investors, Lara decided that either they liked it or they didn't, and she was going to concentrate on the people who did like it rather than the people who didn't.
Listen to learn more about how Cork Yogis' message is inspiring people, and how passion must drive it.
Selling on Amazon
The back end of Amazon is like a maze. It is so difficult to use that Lara had to hire an Amazon specialist to do her listings, and it took two weeks to put four products up for sale. If you want to do Amazon, it's like a fulltime job. There are many rules and regulations, but once you've got it, it really works because people are on Amazon to buy. It's also good for brand awareness.
Lara's To-Do List
This month, Lara is focusing on Youtube and Pinterest adverts that direct to the website. Next month, she's focusing on recruiting a salesperson to target studios.
Listen to learn how dividing goals up by month helps reduce stress levels.
eCommerce Book Top Tip
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
eCommerce Traffic Top Tip
- SEOs that direct to your website to get organic traffic
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Tool Top Tip
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Start Up Top Tip
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Adobe has acknowledged what InDesign users have been pointing out since mid-June–that versions CS5, CS5.5, and CS6 will cause a system and/or application crash on the new 2012 models of Apple's MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and Retina MacBook Pros, under certain circumstances, such as when the program displays a warning dialog box.
"Adobe was recently informed that InDesign customers using the new Retina MacBook Pros are experiencing problems," said Chris Kitchener, InDesign product manager. "As with any software compatibility issue with brand new hardware, we are still in the process of fully understanding the problem. We are talking with Apple and working so we can resolve the matter just as soon as we can."
According to Adobe support technician Scott Worthington, who has publicly been tracking the case on the Adobe forums since June 27, "At this time it appears the update is removing an API we use to control our use of system icons. At present the solution appears to be to rollback the update for the software to continue to function as expected.
The problem appears to originate with the new Retina MacBook Pros, the new non-Retina Macbook Pros, and the new MacBook Airs that feature the new Intel Ivy Bridge processors, and are running OS X 10.7.4.
On June 15, an Adobe InDesign forum contributor with the nickname "arminvit" reported that his copy of InDesign CS5 crashed on his 2012 MacBook Pro when he tried to delete a page with content and when packaging files. He also observed that another, older computer, running 10.7.3 did not crash under the same circumstances.
This kicked off an avalanche of forum posts spanning nearly a month that has gained some acknowledgment from Adobe about the problem, but no fix yet in sight.
Adobe blames Apple OS change
Meanwhile, similar posts cropped up on the Apple forums as well. For users who can roll back to OS X 7.4.3, the problem could be solved, at least for now. But those that bought their brand new systems with 10.7.4 already installed do not have that option.
Adobe technician Scott Worthington first replied to forum users on June 27, saying that Adobe is looking into the issue, but offered no further comments until July 6, when he told users, "At this time it appears the update is removing an API we use to control our use of system icons," Worthington wrote. "At present the solution appears to be to rollback the update for the software to continue to function as expected."
While there are always some glitches with new software versions, and how they work with the current or future operating systems, Adobe's own Known Issues page does not list this problem at this writing.
This raises the question of what that means for the impending release of Mountain Lion. While Worthington declined to speculate whether the Mountain Lion upgrade to the Apple operating system would fix the problem, he did say that, "At this time, I cannot tell if it will persist in Mountain Lion. The API's apparent removal really impacts the behavior in this situation."
Apple offered no immediate comment on the issue.


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There is a lot more to goal setting than just picking a goal and moving forward.
While that is important, it's also important to ensure that you are setting the right goals at the right time so that you can truly be successful. In order to ensure that you are setting the right goals for yourself, answer the following questions:
Are You Setting Specific and Realistic Goals?
It takes a little research to ensure that a goal is realistic. If you're not sure if something is actually achievable then you've not done enough research. Once you've set a goal that is indeed realistic, then you need to be specific enough in your description of it so that it's also easy to take the goal and work backwards to create a schedule of actions needed to succeed.
Are Your Goals Multifaceted?
Focusing on only one part of your life is a bad idea. People live multifaceted lives and need to make goals for all areas of their lives in order to feel successful. If you have a wonderful business and career but your personal life suffers, then no matter how successful you are, you will not feel successful. Something will always feel as if it's missing from your life if your goals aren't included. Therefore, make sure your goals include something from each aspect of your life.
Is Your Scheduling Representative of Real Need?
Once you create the schedule for yourself to reach each goal that you've set, you need to truly consider how representative it is of reality. Say your goal is to be healthy and reduce your cholesterol by 10 percent in six months. But, you haven't set aside the time needed to exercise and eat right. If you don't schedule in the time needed, you won't succeed because something will always be in your way taking time away from you. It will be very frustrating to practice your schedule because it doesn't represent reality.
For instance, if you are going to exercise 30 minutes per day, setting aside only 30 minutes isn't going to be realistic. You'll probably need to set aside an hour to account for getting ready as well as cooling down or getting cleaned up to go back to work.
Are You Learning from Failure?
Many times when setting goals and schedules, instead of learning from failure, people give up. Using the example above, once you implement your schedule to reach the goals that you have set when you notice there are things you've forgotten to take into account, don't give up. Learn from the failure and change the schedule to be more realistic.
You might find that in practice you have to rewrite all your goals and your schedule, but this is perfectly acceptable. Many people believe failure is something negative, but the truth is, if you don't fail sometimes you're not going to learn much and it's likely your goals are too easy.
Do Your Goals Represent Your Needs and Wants or Someone Else's?
A lot of people set goals that represent what someone else wants instead of what they want. This can really cause a lot of bad feelings and resentment which can derail the best-laid plans. As you set your goals for your life, ask yourself if they're really what you want for yourself or what someone else wants for you. Ask yourself if you're okay with any goal you make being for someone else before you embark on your journey.
It's okay to do things because of someone else, but it's important that you are honest about that and make some goals for yourself too that don't involve anyone else's needs or wants.
Are You Checking in Often to Stay on Track?
Schedules are very important to the success of reaching any goal in life. To-do lists pale in comparison to a well-laid-out calendar of tasks and activities that get you from point "A" to point "B".
Ensure that you look at your schedule every morning and every night and note when you succeed in sticking to your schedule and where you don't. Noticing a pattern of activity can be helpful in fixing a poorly written schedule as well as staying realistic about whether or not you're sticking to the plan.
Are Your Goals Focused Positively?
When writing a goal it's important to write them in a positive way, or at least a way that feels positive to you. In the quest to improve your life, try writing down a goal and then changing the words to sound more positive to see if it isn't more motivating.
For instance, "losing weight" seems like a good goal, but for some people, it might signify deprivation. So instead, the person might frame the goal as "improving my BMI by 10 points" or "improving my cholesterol by 10 percent."
Do You Have Too Many Goals Set at One Time?
Just as setting too few goals can be a problem, so can setting too many. Everyone has a personal life and a career life and points in between. If you have set goals in too many areas of life at once, you might tire yourself out and get overwhelmed. Instead, pick one personal goal, and one other type of goal to focus on until you reach them, and then you can add more goals as time goes on. You don't need to do everything today. Slow and steady wins the race is a good motto to hang on to.
Setting the right goals for yourself takes some thought and consideration. Don't try to set all your goals in one day – instead, set some goals in different stages and in different areas of your life and give a lot of thought to why you're making the goal in the first place.


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Yes, the type of brick can affect the cleaning process. Different types of bricks have varying characteristics, such as porosity, texture, and colour, which can impact the cleaning approach and techniques used. Here are some examples:
Soft Bricks: Soft bricks, also known as "soft-fired" or "pressed" bricks, are more porous and delicate than hard bricks. Aggressive approaches, such as overly high temperature water, high-pressure water or abrasive chemicals, can easily damage or erode them. Therefore, a gentler cleaning service , such as low-pressure washing or specially formulated chemical-free methods, may be required to avoid causing damage to soft brickwork.
Hard Bricks: Hard bricks, also known as "hard-fired" or "fired" bricks, are denser and less porous than soft bricks. This style of brick can withstand more aggressive cleaning services, such as high-pressure water or chemical cleaners. However, avoid overexerting pressure or overly harsh agents that may affect the brick's surface finish or colour when brick cleaning at a house or on exterior walls.
Textured Bricks: Textured bricks, such as those with raised patterns, grooves, or crevices, can trap dirt, debris, or cleaning solution, making it more challenging to clean them thoroughly. The best brick cleaning companies use special techniques, such as brushing or using a low-pressure spray, to reach the crevices. This style of brick cleaning is often required to clean textured bricks and restore their appearance effectively.
Coloured Bricks: Bricks with natural or applied colour coatings, such as painted bricks or glazed bricks, may require tailored cleaning services to avoid damaging or fading the colour. Harsh cleaning products or abrasive cleaning techniques may strip off colour or affect its vibrancy, requiring a gentler approach or using colour-safe cleaning solutions. We'll ensure atmospheric pollutants don't diminish the original colour of your brickwork, and we'll return your walls to a very high standard.
Historical or Heritage Bricks: Historical or heritage bricks may require special care during cleaning to preserve their original condition and historical significance. Brick cleaning that is too aggressive or modern may not be suitable for these bricks, so it is best to hire a specialist to clean this brick style. Whether you are responsible for an Edwardian house or a building consisting of old stone, we'll do a great job with an appropriate cleaning method.
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Assessment: Our team begins by conducting a thorough evaluation of the condition of the bricks and identifying the type of contaminants present, such as dirt, grime, algae, moss, or other stains. This assessment helps us understand the extent of the cleaning required and determine the most appropriate approach for cleaning.
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Surface Preparation: Before cleaning, we take necessary precautions to protect the surrounding areas, including nearby plants, windows, and other delicate surfaces. We may also cover vulnerable areas with protective sheets or tapes to prevent damage.
Cleaning Process: Our technicians carefully clean the brick surfaces using the selected equipment and cleaning agents. They use appropriate techniques and settings to ensure thorough cleaning without causing any damage to the bricks. They pay special attention to areas with stubborn stains or contaminants and may use gentle brushing or agitation methods to achieve optimal results.
Rinse and Inspection: Once the cleaning is complete, we thoroughly rinse the brick surfaces to remove any residue from the cleaning agents. Our professionals inspect the cleaned areas to ensure we achieve a high standard of cleaning and that the bricks are clean and restored to their original beauty.
Post-Cleaning Care: Depending on the condition of the bricks and the type of contaminants, we may recommend additional treatments, such as applying a protective sealant to the bricks to prevent future staining or growth of contaminants.
Following this detailed step-by-step approach ensures that our brick cleaning process is thorough, effective, and safe, delivering exceptional results for our clients' brick surfaces.
It is possible to clean brickwork with pressure washing, but this method can damage brick and mortar. This work is best left to trained professionals who understand the appropriate pressure levels, distance, and angle to use, and you should only ever use harsh chemicals with care. As a brick cleaning company with experience in pressure washing for brick cleaning, we aim to provide you with the most dependable cleaning service, and we consider the many factors which build up on your house or property.
While some sources say using a moderate amount of washing-up liquid when cleaning bricks is okay, you should be cautious about this approach. If so, mix the dishwater liquid with water and salt to create a paste. Leave this paste on the wall for 10 minutes, and rinse off.
Of course, some brickwork requires specialist cleaning solutions designed for brick cleaning. If so, our brick cleaning services provide you with a tailored response to your problem. Whether it is residential or commercial buildings, removing graffiti, organic matter or carbon deposits, our brick cleaning service transforms a property's brickwork for a fair and reasonable price.
The frequency of brick cleaning depends on various factors, but regular maintenance and cleaning prevent dirt and grime build-up. Consulting with a professional brick cleaning company is advisable to assess the condition of the brickwork and provide recommendations. However, a sensible frequency for brick cleaning is typically twice a year, but this may vary depending on location, environmental exposure, contaminants, and desired appearance.
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Tripleclean Gang is equipped to remove a wide range of dirt and stains off brickwork. This includes ordinary stains such as filth, moss, algae, soot, and air pollution, as well as more difficult stains such as paint, graffiti, and efflorescence (salt deposits).
Brick cleaning should not harm your property if done correctly. Before choosing the safest and most effective cleaning procedure, Tripleclean Gang carefully assesses the condition and type of brickwork. This ensures that we clean without damaging your bricks or mortar.
Chemical cleaning can potentially damage masonry and have an impact on the surrounding environment if handled incorrectly. Tripleclean Gang, on the other hand, uses biodegradable, environmentally friendly cleaning chemicals. Furthermore, our staff has received extensive training in the right application and safe handling of these items.
The procedure of renewing the external part of mortar joints in brickwork is known as repointing. If the mortar is badly corroded or broken, we may consider repointing following cleaning at Tripleclean Gang. This improves the aesthetic of your brickwork as well as its structural integrity and weather resistance.


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