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Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies with Maturity Model
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1 Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies with Maturity Model Mauricio Solar, Hernán Astudillo, Gonzalo Valdés, Marcelo Iribarren and Gastón Concha Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Chile {msolar, hernan, gvaldes, miribarren, Abstract. Evaluating readiness of individual public agencies to execute specific e-government programs and directives is a key ingredient for wider e- Government deployment and success. This article describes how the egov-mm model was used to over 30 many Chilean public agencies and to identify specific areas in which each of them should focus improvement efforts. egov- MM is a capability maturity model, patterned on similar models from the IT and organizational domains; it recognizes 4 leverage domains, 17 key domain areas (KDA) and 54 critical variables, identifies capability levels for each critical variable and KDA and proposes a synthetic maturity level for institutions. The 9-agencies pilot study and the 30-agencies massive study indicate that, in Chile today, the best developed areas are IT-related and mirror exactly those that are pre-requisites for the goals of the 5-years Digital Strategy, and the least evaluated are related to internal processes and human capital management. Keywords: e-government, roadmap, capability, maturity model. 1 Introduction The egov-mm model (e-government Maturity Model) [1] resulted from a project to build and apply a model to measure public institutions readiness to manage and implement e-government. The project was executed by the Informatics Department of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile) for the Executive Secretariat of Digital Strategy of the Ministry of Economy of the national Chilean government. egov-mm allows evaluating a public institution against the best international practices in the area of egov, including formulation of organizational strategies, management of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), operative management, and capabilities of the organization and its human resources. It also proposes concrete roadmaps for capability improvement, i.e. directives about where the organization financial and human resources should be canalize to improve its capability to carry out egov initiatives.
2 2 Mauricio Solar et al. The egov-mm model [1] considered several information sources in its initial formulation: Models that provide the standard structure of CMM [2, 3]. Models that show scopes and levels for maturity and capability [4] directly related to egov (e.g., interoperability and financial analysis of ICT investments in the public sector) [5]. Models of specific intention that provide scopes and levels of maturity and capacity on subjects related to egov (e.g., enterprise IT governability and architectures) [6, 7]. Best egov practices (for implementation, measurement and evaluation) identified from the growing presence of national state-of-the-art experiences and international experiences (namely, from UK, the USA, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Korea, Ireland, New Zealand and Brazil) [8]. The model was piloted with seven (initially 9) public agencies, and a tuned version was generated that incorporates the participants feedback and an egov implementation roadmap for each evaluated public agency. An associated selfassessment Web tool was also built and similarly validated. The refined model was then used to evaluate thirty public agencies; this sample was chosen with systematic random sampling modified to include public agencies of all maturity levels, sizes, and coverage. Section 2 describes the egov-mm and its main characteristics, objectives and benefits; Section 3 explains how an organization maturity is evaluated; Section 4 presents the pilot results; Section 5 presents the validation via massive application to 30 public agencies; and Section 6 summarizes and concludes. 2 General Structure of the egov-mm The egov-mm is structured around three main elements: Information Criteria, ICT Resources, and Leverage Domains. There are four leverage domains, which group 17 Key Domain Areas (KDA) and 54 Critical Variables (see Fig 1). 2.1 Capability and Maturity Levels Capability Level (CL): The capability is a measurement of the state of each KDA that contributes to support the organization development. The capability of a KDA is determined using the CL of each of its Critical Variables, i.e. what is really evaluated it is the capability of these variables to satisfy certain requirements. The capabilities of the critical variables are weighed according to their importance to give a final KDA CL. Maturity Levels (ML): The CL of a KDA and its critical variables determine the organizational ML. The ML is a property of the organization as a whole; each ML corresponds to a predetermined configuration of KDAs in predefined CLs. The model allows, once the current ML is assessed, to identify the states required to advance to a higher level and propose a roadmap to improve the organization.
3 Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies 3 Figure 1. Hierarchical structure of domains, areas and variables. 2.2 Model Contributions and Benefits The model is a diagnosis element for public agencies, with several purposes: Identify the fundamental areas in the development of an egov strategy. Establish the technological CL in scopes relevant to the delivery of services to citizens. Determine the ML of the organization s technology management. Articulate a development strategy of its capabilities for continuous improvement of its maturity degree (roadmap).
4 4 Mauricio Solar et al. The main benefits already identified in the egov-mm model application are: It is a reference framework to identify the areas that support an egov strategy, based on internationally recognized best practices for IT management (as summarized in a state-of-the-art [8] executed as part of the same project). Additionally, the model incorporates locally arisen best practices, and combines ideas and knowledge of egov development specialists. It can be applied to improve both interoperability practices and technology management capabilities. Having an ordered set of good practices and an evaluation methodology yield a support tool for strategic and tactical management. The egov-mm incorporates the business requirements and the information to support, which themselves demand associated IT resources that, when applied to the Leverage Domains, should give necessary criteria to fulfill the business goals. It has a methodology to determine an improvement roadmap; besides the 4 leverage domains, 17 KDA and 54 critical variables, the model incorporates organizational capabilities and maturity. Each KDA critical variable has minimum required values for higher maturity levels, marking improvement roadmaps for the organization. It is operationalized with a Web tool for self-assessment of critical variables, regarding the capabilities of each institution to carry out egov initiatives. The tool and the information it requires are available for public agencies, and can be evaluated periodically to monitor improvement of capabilities and maturity levels. It allows integrating the key issues for efficient technology management at each institution, combining the organizational, process, human capital, and technology domains, to get a global view of egov development for all government agencies. It provides data to formulate technological projects and to base budgetary requests on an institutional perspective. 3 Model of Capabilities and Maturity One goal of the egov-mm is to generate roadmaps for progressive evolution of capacities and maturity. To this end, first we describe the generic model used to define the capacity levels for each model variable; then we describe the relation between variables capabilities and their respective KDAs; and finally we describe how the organization maturity is determined from its KDA capabilities. 3.1 Generic Capabilities Model For each KDA there is a measurement scale from 1 to 5, associated with a generic qualitative capabilities model that ranges from initial capabilities to integrated capabilities ; the values are:
5 Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies 5 Level 1: Initial capacities The KDA is approached ad-hoc and reactively, and individually case by case. There is evidence that KDA has been recognized and needs to be approached. Level 2: Developing capacities (repeatable but intuitive) A regular intuitive pattern is followed itself to approach the KDA; different people use similar procedures for the same task. There is no formal training or procedures spreading, and the responsibility to follow them falls to each individual. Level 3: Defined capacities Procedures related to the KDA are defined, documented and communicated. There is informal training to support particular initiatives related to the KDA. The procedures are not sophisticated, but are the formalization of existing practices. Level 4: Managed capacities It is possible to monitor and measure fulfillment of procedures, and to take action when the KDA apparently is not working properly. Established standards and norms are applied through the organization. Tools are mainly automated. Level 5: Integrated capacities (Optimized) Procedures have become best practices, and continuous improvement is applied. ICT is used in an integrated manner to optimize the KDA. Use of standard or world-wide tools helps to optimize the KDA. The capacity levels of each KDA are built from the levels of their variables. For each level, several aspects are considered (incrementally in each level): awareness; human capital training; communication; procedures and practices; compliance of standards and norms; tools and automation; and involvement and responsibility. 3.2 Relationship between Capability Variables and KDAs The capability level (CL) of a KDA is generally the average of the CLs of its critical variables. To accommodate egov strategies or country development levels with different variables relevance, weights are used for each variable group. Thus, the CL of a KDA is the weighted average of the CLs of its variables Vi (see Eq. 1). CL KDA = Average[CAP(V 1 )*P 1, CAP(V 2 ) *P 2,,CAP(V n ) *P n ] (Eq. 1) The weights P i used in the first model applications (pilot and initial massive application) are shown in Table Organizational Maturity Model Maturity is a property of the organizational unit as a whole, and the maturity level (ML) is obtained from the KDA capacity levels that the unit has. Thus, each ML:
6 6 Mauricio Solar et al. Frames a set of KDAs for a given CL. Establishes equivalence among egov implementation maturity of units. There are several options to determine an organization maturity, namely: 1. Minimum CL among all KDAs 2. Average CL of all KDAs 3. Predetermined KDA configuration, using a set of values for all KDAs in model. 4. Configuration of high-priority KDAs, using a set of minimum values for all KDAs in the model. Table 1. Variable weights of the egov Strategy KDA KDA Variable Weight Vision, Strategies Strategy Alignment 15 and Policies High Level Commitment 30 Communication to involved 25 Resource allocation to egov Enterprise Architecture Strategy IT Management and Organization Definition of Implementation Strategy 30 Alignment with Reference Models 20 Strategy of Services Reuse 20 Business Architecture IT Organization Planning 15 IT Infrastructure Planning 25 Organizational Structure Definition 30 IT Processes Map The last criterion (Configuration of high-priority KDAs) was adopted in egov- MM. The organization ML is determined (Eq. 2) by a set of values for all KDAs in the model (see Table 2). ML1 = Conf1(CAP(KDA1),,CAP(KDAi)) (Eq. 2) ML5 = Conf5(CAP(KDA1),,CAP(KDAk)) This mechanism was selected for egov-mm for its flexibility to allow graduating progress according to specific egov strategies, since it only requires to fix a minimum set of KDAs that are important for a given ML; development criteria and rates for other KDAs are left to the organization. The actual criteria to use can be extracted from domain specialists or agencies leaderships; e.g. from phrases such as: Maintaining enterprise architecture is an advanced issue, which allows aligning business objectives and computer networks and thus should not be requiring nor evaluating for lower MLs It is very important to start by aligning the IT, egov and of business strategies this should be required even for lower MLs.
7 Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies 7 4 egov-mm Pilot Study This section presents the results of applying the egov-mm and its self-evaluation tool to a small set of public agencies as a validation mechanism; it describes the main sample characteristics, the pilot methodology used, the results of capacity measurement for the sample, and the relevance of the variables. egov Strategy Table 2. Example of organizational ML with a set of high-priority KDAs Maturity Level (ML) KDA Variable ML1 ML2 ML3 ML4 ML5 IT Governance Processes Management Organization and People Capabilities Vision, Strategies and Policies Enterprise Architecture Strategy 2 3 IT Management and Organization IT Architecture 2 3 Portfolio and Risk Management Change Management 3 3 Asset Utilization Business Processes Management Performance Management Services to Citizens and Business IT Service Delivery Norms Compliance Quality Assurance Interoperability Practices Infrastructure and e-gov Tools Knowledge 3 3 Human Capital Sample and Pilot Study Methodology Nine public agencies were initially selected for the pilot study, using three criteria: 1. It should include institutions at maturity level 3, as estimated by their capabilities in two easily-verifiable areas: basic infrastructure (connectivity, processing infrastructure, security), and online services implementation. 2. It should have at least 3 public agencies per level. 3. A maturity level should be chosen that allowed to validate that the model can predicted the real situation, even if it included additional areas and indicators. Of the nine selected agencies, one declined to participate, and another one accepted but did not send any representatives to the assessment workshops. To maximize participation and yet simplify execution, the assessment was supported with upper management involvement, conducted as a guided selfassessment, and prepared with qualification workshops segmented by knowledge area, to limit KDA subgroups for each audience. Three profiles were defined for the institutions representatives: (1) Operational Management (Director or Assistant director); (2) IT Management (Assistant director or IT Unit Head); and (3) Human Resources Management (HR Head).
8 8 Mauricio Solar et al. 4.2 Pilot Study Results At the workshops guided self-assessment, participants responded questionnaires for their specific knowledge areas, and gave the results shown in Tables 3 and 4. Capabilities: Table 3 shows the KDA capability values for each participant institution. Six of the participants evaluated all 3 profiles (but one gave incomplete answers). Two issues deserve comment: The highest average capability values (shaded soft) are for IT Architecture and Interoperability Practices. Since this contradicts our (admittedly impressionistic) field observations, we surmise that the capability concept was not fully understood and/or the questions did not cover well the capability level. The lower capability levels (shaded dark) are Performance Management, Services to Citizens and Business, Norms Compliance and Human Capital. These values seem realistic, again based on our field observations. Table 3. Capabilities of Key Areas for the pilot public agencies Areas MIN TGR INP SEN SERC SAG ISP Average VU CE OTEC egov Strategy Vision, Strategies and Policies Enterprise Architecture Strategy IT Management and Organization IT Governance IT Architecture Portfolio and Risk Management Change Management Asset Utilization Processes Management Business Processes Management Performance Management Services to Citizens and Business IT Service Delivery Norms Compliance Quality Assurance Organization and People Capabilities Interoperability Practices Infrastructure and e-gov Tools Knowledge Human Capital Average per Organization Relevance of Variables: Besides the guided self-assessment, a survey was conducted to determine the relevance level of the variables included in the model. The results (see Table 4) show that, on average, 80% of the variables were considered as of high or very high relevance (levels 3 and 4). If a weighted average is used that considers
9 Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies 9 the percentage of variable presents in each of the 3 scopes, this value grows to 89%. Most remarkable is the case of the IT Management scope, where only IT Unit Heads participated and who gave a relevance perception of 96%. Table 4. Relevance of variables per area according to pilot-participating experts Frequency Relevance Level Operational Management IT Management Human Resources Total Percentage 4% 14% 29% 53% % answer 3 & 4 82% Total Percentage 1% 3% 22% 74% % answer 3 & 4 96% Total Percentage 7% 12% 15% 66% % answer 3 & 4 80% Weighted Total 89% 5 Larger Study Results The egov-mm was refined with the pilot study results, and was validated with a larger set of 30 public agencies. Table 5 ranks the evaluated institutions. Fully half of them are at maturity level 2, and only a single leading agency is at level Ranking of Public Agencies An organization maturity level is determined by the KDA with smaller capacity; e.g. an institution with 16 of 17 KDAs with a good capacity level but one KDA with level 1, has a maturity level of 1. To allow readers to identify these situations, Table 5 has an extra column with the percentage maturity, the sum of all its KDA capabilities divided by its total capability. Table 5 also shows that the groups with maturity 1 and 2 are institutions that with little additional work can increase their organizational maturity; e.g. INP and Customs are about to reach level 2, and Housing Sub-ministry is close to level Analysis of Key Areas Table 6 indicates the average capacity value of each KDA in the sample of public agencies that participated in the larger study. The mean level of organizational maturity of the evaluated public agencies was 2 (of a maximum of 5). A key finding was that the average value in 16 of the 17 key domain areas is below level 3.
10 10 Mauricio Solar et al. Table 5. Maturity ranking for the sample M a t u r i t y Institution Percentage Absolute SII (Tax service) 74% 3 Housing 58% 2 TGR 55% 2 AGCI 54% 2 SAG (Agriculture) 53% 2 SERNAC 53% 2 Navy Ministry 53% 2 FONASA 52% 2 SSMSO 52% 2 CSE 51% 2 ISP 49% 2 SML 49% 2 JUNAEB 48% 2 SUBTEL 47% 2 SEC 45% 2 SUSESO 42% 2 SENCE 54% 1 INP 51% 1 Customs 49% 1 DGAC 48% 1 SERCOTEC 46% 1 ONEMI 44% 1 CNE 41% 1 Sernapesca (fishing) 40% 1 Airports 39% 1 Labor Ministry 39% 1 Gendarmería 38% 1 Subs. RR.EE. 38% 1 Planning Ministry 36% 1 SUBDERE 33% 1 Average 48% The best developed areas are: Interoperability Practices and IT Architecture, which are explained by the emphasis of the Chilean Digital Strategy in the last few years, whose goals are to advance towards integrated egov and to generate norms for its implementation. Services to Citizens and Business, which are explained because egov strategy has privileged putting public agencies and transactions online, and hence the development of technological channels to serve citizens services requests. The least developed areas are: Business Process Management, a subject that has been insufficient and unequally developed, depending on each agency modernization strategy. Only in the last few
11 Identifying Weaknesses for Chilean e-government Implementation in Public Agencies 11 years has been emphasis on improvement of the management processes themselves, via legal initiatives about IT incorporation in administrative processes. Knowledge, which is an important challenge egov development field. Currently there are only embryonic initiatives to use systems that empower collaborative work and knowledge transfer; major advances are required. Human Capital, with a need to incorporate, train and formally develop both people and competences, required for sustainable systemic, processes and technological management of the complexity level required for integrated egov. Table 6. Average capability of Key Areas KDA Average capability Interoperability Practices 3.10 Services to Citizens and Business 2.70 IT Architecture 2.67 IT Service Delivery 2.63 Infrastructure and egov Tools 2.60 IT Management and Organization 2.47 Performance Management 2.43 Asset Utilization 2.37 Norms Compliance 2.33 Quality Assurance 2.30 Change Management 2.30 Vision, Strategies and Policies 2.23 Enterprise Architecture Strategy 2.20 Portfolio and Risk Management 2.20 Knowledge 2.10 Business Process Management 2.07 Human Capital Conclusions The egov-mm was initially deployed with a pilot study, and its results were used to refine the model and associated assessment Web tool. An associated survey found that 80% of the used variables were considered highly or very highly relevant, a level that rose to 96% for IT Management. The refined model was applied to 30 public agencies. It found that all but one of the 30 agencies are at level 1 or 2, and that the most developed KDAs are Interoperability Practices, Services to Citizens and Business, and IT Architecture ; the less developed are Knowledge, Business Process Management, and Human Capital. An explanation for these findings is that, for the last 5 years, the Chilean Digital Strategy has emphasized Web presence and online services, both issues that demand improvement in IT infrastructure but not necessarily in underlying processes. Clearly, efforts to introduce IT in business processes have not been coupled with efforts to formalize internal processes and to develop the required human capital. This result is
12 12 Mauricio Solar et al. perhaps country-specific, but nonetheless illuminating on the model measurement power and of the real effects of government policies and priorities. Another finding was that several agencies (e.g. INP, Customs, and Housing) are quite close to reach a higher maturity level, and are being held down only by isolated and (now) well identified areas, which can (now) be targeted for improvement. Thus, egov-mm is not only a diagnostic tool, but also a generator of improvement roadmaps. Government has a methodological and technological tool to measure status and improvement of egov implementation by specific public agencies. References 1. Iribarren, M., Concha, G., Valdes, G., Solar, M., Villarroel, M., Gutiérrez, P., and Vásquez, A. Capability Maturity Framework for e-government: A Multi-dimensional Model and Assessing Tool. in M.A. Wimmer, H.J Scholl and E. Ferro (Eds.): EGOV 2008, LNCS vol. 5184, , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, (2008). 2. Software Engineering Institute: CMMI for Development v1.2. USA (2006). 3. Andersen, K.V., Henriksen, Z.H.: E-government Maturity Models: Extension of the Layne and Lee Model. Government Information Quarterly 23, , (2006). 4. Cresswell, A., Pardo, T., Canestarro, D.: Digital Capability Assessment for e- Government: A Multidimensional Approach. LNCS vol. 4084, pp , (2006). 5. Layne, K., Lee J.: Developing Fully Functional e-government: A Four Stage Model. Government Information Quarterly 18, , (2001). 6. Wimmer, M.A., Tambouris, E.: Online One-Stop Government: A Working Framework and Requirements. Proc. of the 17 th IFIP World Computer Congress, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (2002). 7. Esteves, J., Joseph, R.: A Comprehensive Framework for the Assessment of e- Government Projects. Government Information Quarterly 25, , (2008). 8. Valdes, G., Iribarren, M., Concha, G., Solar, M., Visconti, M., Astudillo, H., Villarroel, M., Gutiérrez, P. and Vásquez, A. Identifying relevant National e-government Implementations for an Emerging Country: A Selective Survey, in E. Ferro, H.J. Scholl, M.A. Wimmer (Eds.): Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Electronic Government, EGOV 2008, Trauner Verlag Druck Publisher, Torino, Italy, , (2008).
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My goals? Nothing fancy, deep, or profound. I just tend to try to be happy. Figure out what makes me happy, and do it, then repeat the process until said activity becomes dull or meaningless. When I'm bored, I'll do jumping jacks until I'm winded, and then contemplate the finer things in life, such as alcohol, American Football and curvacious women.
Oh, and I'm a student at The Ohio State University and about to graduate this Summer. I'm going to be working in the IT field better known as nerd work.
Not likely to happen, though. Geese are tricky, and prefer to avoid a direct confrontation with an angry, boot-wielding heroic human.
Shows: Eastbound and Down.
Music: 90's music please.
Food: Meat and condiments.
2. Chipotle.
3. Ron Swanson.
4. Charles Bukowski.
5. My cat, his name is Rampage.
6. Twitter.
● The future, think futurism not planning. I do the latter too.
● Why did I come into this room? What was that thing I wanted to get?
● Time travel, wouldn't it be grand?
● What is for dinner? Do I have beer at home?
● It was my keys! My keys are in that room!
● stuff and junk.
That sums it up.
mondays are kind of typical, but fuck mondays.
I only state this because I read the profiles on this site, and stuff. It is disheartening. The majority of you are fackin idiots, sorry to be the one to break it to you.
I don't say this because I think my own intellect is of some sort of special status, it isn't. It's average. I've been around smart people, so I know the difference. All I'm saying is that, for whatever reason, this site is full of idiots. Morons. Women taking pictures from carefully decieving angles, bending over and showing cheap thongs, spewing cliches, and generally butchering the english language in the attempt to be as shallow as humanly possible.
GAaaaahhh argghhhh garb garble
stop. just stop. give love a chance. *plays harp*
So I'm looking for the minority it seems, and hopefully I won't sound arrogant in saying so to those particular individuals because I assume that they will feel similarly.
....I can also lift 40lbs, effortlessly.
Sharp wit, light hearted, laughs a lot, attractive, non judgemental, open minded, independent, feminine, articulate, and creative.
Also a fan of women who can cook. My own cooking is piss poor, so if you can whip up a meal so delicious that I would want to rub it in my hair, I'm more than likely to be partial toward you.

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Ed Stokes is a Music Producer and Engineer. He has BA (Hons) degree in Contemporary Music Production at The Academy Contemporary of Music (ACM).
He has previously had experience in a range of studios Metrophonic Studios in Surrey and Novacane Studios in London. He is currently working on projects for artists around the UK making a name for himself in the industry. On Youtube he has collaborated with the likes of Conor Maynard and Betsy-Blue English (OTY) and regularly releases videos of both covers with other Youtube artists and original work. In 2015 he completed his first full album as a producer, 5 singles in which one went into the iTunes Singer Songwriter Charts and all the others including this one have been on UK Radio.
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PNG political party officially out of coalition
The second biggest party to emerge from Papua New Guinea's 2012 election is now officially out of the government coalition.
The second biggest party to emerge from Papua New Guinea's 2012 election is now officially out of the government coalition.
The Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has written to Don Polye to notify him that the Triumph Heritage and Empowerment Party, known as the THE Party, is no longer part of the coalition.
Johnny Blades reports on the sidelining of one of PNG politics' major players:
Since his sacking as Treasurer in March, Don Polye has been a vocal critic of the Prime Minister. The fallout descended quickly into a war of words but until now it was unclear whether Mr Polye's party was still in the government benches in parliament. However, floating around the middle benches himself, the Kandep MP continued to criticise Peter O'Neill over various executive decisions such as taking out a controversial 1.1 billion US dollar loan without consulting parliament. Mr Polye has also been keeping the heat on the Prime Minister to clear his name in regard to the major fraud case in which he allegedly approved illegal state payments of around 30 million US dollars to a law firm, a case which is still with the courts. But despite uncertainty over his role in the fraud saga, Peter O'Neill still enjoys the support of a huge majority of MPs and has been able to lure a number of MPs from Don Polye's party over to his People's National Congress, which has over 40 percent of PNG's 111 MPs. However Don Polye claims that his party is intact and still has fourteen members.
DON POLYE: You probably would have read that five of them have moved across to the People's National Congress side. In fact, that's practically what you've heard, politically. But really, legally, under the OLIPAC (the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates) and the THE Party constitution, all these members are still intact with the Triumph Heritage and Empowerment Party.
The THE Party had the distinction of being the party with the most female MPs in the parliament since the 2012 election, with two of only three women MPs in the 111-seat parliament. The THE Party had evidently deployed greater efforts than other major parties to support female candidates to get into parliament, which is no mean feat in a country like PNG. One of those MPs, the Governor of Eastern Highlands, Julie Soso, appears to be sticking with Don Polye as his party is sidelined from government. However the other female MP, Delilah Gore of Sohe, left the THE fold earlier this year to join the PNC, and she is now Community Development Minister. As many as five of Don Polye's MPs have signaled they will remain loyal to him, although at least half a dozen others are unwilling to stick with him. One of the defectors is East New Britain's Leo Dion, who was effectively given the role of Deputy Prime Minister by virtue of being in Don Polye's party during the formation of the coalition government in 2012. Mr Dion says leaving the THE Party wasn't an easy decision.
LEO DION: There has always been instability within the government, and when you have instability, you don't have any progress, do you? Every decision that I made is not done for personal reasons. It's done on a moral... good reasons, for the constituents, the people who have voted me in, as well as the government of the day.
Leo Dion says that PNG is a democracy and you can't force MPs to join the opposition. Yet the growing concern is that MPs can be forced to join government by making access to lucrative district service improvement funds dependent on it. It's something that PNG's Registrar of Political Parties and Candidates, Alphonse Gelu, says has become a pattern and must be addressed for the sake of PNG's democracy.
ALPHONSE GELU: If we are really serious about being a vibrant, parliamentary democracy, we must change this practice.So it is something that we need to change. We need to change this practice and I think from the political level down to the bureaucratic level, the bureaucracy that is responsible for the disbursement of these funds should not hold any members of parliament to ransom by not disbursing those funds.
Alphonse Gelu recently described the decimation of the opposition to 3 MPs as a major concern. It's also been raised as an issue in parliament by the MP for Sinesine-Yongomul. Kerenga Kua, who was removed as Attorney General by Peter O'Neill almost three months ago, warned of the dangers of not allowing for voices of dissent in PNG's democracy. He has called for an inter-departmental committee to investigate the decimation of the parliamentary opposition.
KERENGA KUA: Is it because of the personality of the leader of the opposition? Is it because of the inability of the members of opposition to work together as a team? Or is it because the DSIP [District Service Improvement Fund] is operated and disbursed with the opposition being penalised? What is it, we need to know. All of us have a vested interest to remain in government, but we also need an opposition because the system requires it."
However, the Governor of the National Capital, Powes Parkop, told the house that the government allows for scrutiny within on the National Executive Council. He cited Israel as an example of a country with a functioning democracy where there is no opposition as such to government. Meanwhile, criticism of his government by the likes of Don Polye and Kerenga Kua has been dismissed by Peter O'Neill as sour grapes over him sidelining them. However the standing of both ousted Ministers among sections of PNG's public remains strong and their criticism is resonating on social media too. The upshot of the ousting of Don Polye is that unless his group chooses to sit in parliament's middle benches, the opposition may finally be bolstered in terms of both MP numbers and political clout. The vocal opposition leader Belden Namah and his popular deputy Sam Basil would gladly welcome the addition. The government has a unified front but machinations behind the scenes suggest that various players in government are biding their time before making their own bid for power. A small window for motions of no-confidence against the Prime Minister is approaching and a move against Peter O'Neill cannot be ruled out, especially given the fact that he has powerful enemies across the parliament benches.
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I am looking for someone who likes adventure.
I just listed ten of my favorite books on FB as fast as I could and this was my list:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Technologies of the Self by Michel Foucault
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Physics as a Metaphor by Roger Jones
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Commodify Your Dissent - Salvos from the Baffler edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland
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Bad weather forces Eurostar to scrap half Thursday's trains
About half of Eurostar train services between Paris and London, and London and Brussels, will be cancelled on Thursday because of bad weather, a spokeswoman told AFP.
Seven return trains between London and Paris will be cancelled, and five between London and Brussels, the spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Cancellations will affect trains scheduled early in the morning and late in the evening, the company said.
"Travellers who wish to complete their journeys are invited to arrive at their departure station as normal where they will be allocated a seat on the next available service," the company said in a statement.
Eurostar said precautionary speed restrictions resulted in delays of around 90 minutes to its service on Wednesday, causing the cancellation of six trains between London and the two cities.
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On Rankeillor Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley lay in bed, talking about future plans after college. Emma asks Dexter where he thinks he'll be when he's forty, and Dexter replies that he hopes he is rich or famous -or both. Emma, a native of Yorkshire, thinks that being famous sounds morbid. Emma wants to change the world somehow. Emma dreams aloud about the future, about Dexter having had three divorces and no children. But Dexter wants an uncomplicated life of success, and he is worried that the one-night stand with Emma will have bad repercussions. Though they have known each other for four years, they really don't know too much about each other. In fact, Dexter has believed Emma's name to be "Anna" until that evening.
Emma is working for Sledgehammer Theater Cooperative on the play "Cruel Cargo", about slavery. Emma works with a kid named Sid, who hates the job, and is very nervous about the production. The year between graduation and the theater is spent with false starts and chance encounters with Dexter here and there. Dexter had opted not to stay in China, but to travel for a year to various party towns. She and Dexter write to one another as they go. Emma now desires to be an actress, and to be in bed with Dexter.
Dexter, meanwhile, is in Rome, teaching English and chasing girls, including his own students, one of which is named Tove. Dexter goes to meet his mother, Alison, at a cafe in the Piazza della Rotunda. Dexter's father, Stephen, is in the hotel with heat sickness. Alison asks her son about his love life, and wonders whatever happened to Emma Morley. She also wonders about his future, and Dexter says he plans to stay in Rome until October. Alison asks his son if he intends to pursue journalism or photography, and when he plans to settle down. Dexter doesn't see the need to rush. Alison is drunk, and Dexter doesn't know why, and she says she will tell him the following day.
Emma is in India, near the Taj Mahal, working at a Tex-Mex restaurant headed up by Scott McKenzie. Scott introduces a new member of the team, Ian Whitehead, and asks Emma to show him the ropes. Ian asks Emma out, but Emma declines. In a letter to Emma from Dexter, Dexter tells her he thinks she is afraid to be happy. Dexter tells her in the letter to meet him at the Taj Mahal on August 1. Dexter has the need to see Emma, but he can't figure out why.
Emma is still working at the Tex-Mex place with Ian and Scott. Scott is moving on to head up a new chain of contemporary Italian places, and has to appoint a successive manager before he leaves. Emma is given the job, but wants the night to think it over. Emma feels as if her life is going nowhere. Two years since college, she has done nothing. But her depression is momentarily stopped when Dexter shows up with what appears to be his current girlfriend. Dexter is happy to see her, and wants to buy Emma a drink, but Emma can't because she is working.
Dexter has been working at Redlight Productions for a weekend magazine program on television, about youth culture, drugs, diseases, music, and so on. He has abandoned the idea of being a photographer because he thinks it would have been too much struggle. Dexter and Emma meet up again later, and Dexter explains that the girl he was with wasn't his girlfriend. The two catch up. Dexter has been drinking more and more, and Emma hasn't had any movement in her love life. She has given up on the idea of being in a relationship with Dexter. Dexter thinks she should come to work for Redlight, and offers to marry her when she is 40 if she is still single. Emma doesn't want to be married.
Dexter and Emma devise rules for their meetings, such as no nudity, sleeping in separate bedrooms, and so on. They are currently headed to Greece on vacation together. Dexter has become a TV presenter, and he has become easily recognizable to people. He finds he enjoys being on camera. In Greece, Dexter claims to have only been able to find a single room for them. Dexter discovers he is still very attracted to Emma. They head out to the beach, only to discover belatedly that it is a nude beach. Dexter wants to go nude, but Emma is reluctant. Back at the room, Emma sees Dexter nude while showering. He watches her get dressed.
Emma decides the two should tell secrets to the other about themselves, or they will run out of things to talk about in eight days. Dexter reveals he once mistakenly kissed a guy while drunk at a club. Emma reveals she wrote poetry about Dexter in college. That night, after dinner, they go skinny-dipping in the ocean. Dexter tries to get Emma to have a fling with him, but she will have none of it. While they are swimming, Dexter's clothes are stolen, but his wallet remains on the beach. He is angry because his underpants were expensive.
Dexter's fame continues to grow, and he is back in the United Kingdom, in England. He and his former roommate, Callum O'Neill, are at a club. Callum is a self-made man, getting wealthy from refurbishing computers. He drinks very little and does no drugs at all, which is a rarity at the upscale club they attend. Dexter drinks copiously and does drugs frequently. Dexter meets a girl named Tara, whom he at once moves to seduce. Dexter suddenly finds himself thinking of Emma, and how much he wants to see her. Back at his room, Dexter no longer wants Tara, who is much older than he thought without the effects of the drugs.
Emma is living in Earl's Court, drinks moderately, and looks after her health. She is now twenty-seven and wonders if she is getting old. She is closer with her family, and has a postgraduate degree in Education so she can teach. Dexter, meanwhile, goes to visit his parents. Dexter's father, Stephen, can smell the alcohol on his breath, and is not amused. He sends Dexter to the garden to see Alison, who is suffering from cancer and has lost her hair to chemotherapy. Dexter brings along a gift of paperbacks for his mother from Emma, and his mother is happy to talk about Emma. His mother disapproves of the way Dexter conducts his show, for example, telling viewers to find Britain's ugliest girlfriend. She wants him to do something good. Dexter helps her to her room to nap, and he also goes to nap.
Later in the day, Dexter and Alison talk some more. She tells her son that he has it in him to be an exceptional young man, and she is worried he isn't very nice anymore. Dexter's father drives him to the train station afterwards, but tells him if he ever returns to the house in such a state, he will not let Dexter inside. Dexter is speechless.
Ian Whitehead has become a standup comedian, but the fame and fortune have not yet come to him. He meets Emma at the Convent Garden branch of Forelli's. This is their second date. Emma has had her first job interview for teaching, and Ian is very happy for her. Emma and Ian get drunk, and they pay for dinner and leave. Emma decides to spend the night with Ian. All the while, Dexter calls Emma, but Emma is not home.
Ian and Emma are in a relationship. Emma is a school teacher at Cromwell Road Comprehensive School, and tonight she is overseeing a production of "Oliver!". Dexter, meanwhile, is preparing to begin his own television show, one that will be broadcast live. He is feeling nervous, and wishes Emma was around to talk to, but she is not available the way she used to be, and Dexter is resentful of this. At the school, Emma has to moderate a fight between two cast members. Dexter does the show drunk, while Emma's show is a resounding success. Dexter's cohost, Suki Meadows, steals the show, and she and Dexter agree to work together better for the next show.
Chapter 1 - 8 Analysis
The one-night stand that Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew share is anything but one night, and anything but ordinary. It is the beginning of a twenty-year friendship that will ultimately blossom into real romance. For the moment, Emma and Dexter are two normal, average twenty-something kids. Emma is a wide-eyed dreamer who wants to change the world, even if it is only a part of the world that she changes. Dexter, in typical fashion, wants a quiet, uninterrupted life, and to be famous in the process. Emma believes that being famous is a bit of a morbid thing, and Dexter can't imagine being anything ordinary. The feelings that Emma and Dexter have for one another linger, but they cannot order them to be with one another for the next several years.
The tragic is also typical among Emma and Dexter. They are truly two normal kids who want to grow up and do wonderful things with their lives, but that is also the tragedy: youthful dreams are immeasurable and uncontainable. The reader, no matter what age, will sympathize with the aspirations of Emma and Dexter.
While Emma attempts to get her career underfoot, Dexter spends the next year traveling the world and chasing girls, ultimately ending up in Rome. His relationship with his parents seems to be slightly fractious, as they press Dexter to commit to something and to get his life on track. But Dexter is still drifting, still searching for something -but what, he doesn't know yet.
Emma, meanwhile, failing to achieve all of her dreams, believes she is already a failure. Immediately, she has given up on herself and her dreams, believing that her life has come to nothing. Just as quickly as young adults can dream about the stars, so too do they fall as quickly. As Dexter continues to travel over the next few years, he and Emma continue meeting up; they are growing apart, and they are growing closer as well. Eventually, both Emma and Dexter end up settling for two jobs. Emma's can be considered normal and mainstream -a teacher- while Dexter ends up hosting a popular late-night television show. With that show come the fame and wealth and popularity that Dexter is craving, but his dependency on drugs and alcohol put his reputation in danger from the first show.
While Dexter is struggling to get his bearings straight, he looks around at his former classmates, such as Callum, who are becoming successes in their own right. Callum, for example, doesn't do drugs or drink, and he has made a small fortune refurbishing computers. Hardwork and determination have paid off for Callum. It is a model for Dexter, but Dexter rejects it in favor of pleasurable and quick pursuits, for he has the stars within reach.
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text: The funniest, silliest moments from ''Series/{{The Mighty Boosh}}''!!Examples* In the power of the crimp, Lance Dior and Harold Boom tell Vince that the future is out, and that they must look to the past for inspiration. --> '''Vince:''' How far back? 70's? 60's?--> '''Howard:''' (hopefully) 50's?--> '''Vince:''' Don't be ''ridiculous'', Howard!* Howard and Vince discuss heroes:--> '''Howard:''' What would Mick Jagger do?--> '''Vince:''' He'd probably just do this (does chicken dance)* Bollo recounts his childhood:--> '''Bollo:''' That is Chinko. He was my friend. As children we played together in forest. My father warn us, "No go too far, for there are hunter at edge of forest." But Chinko curious. He always say, "Bollo please, please can we go to edge of forest?" over and over and over. And so finally, one day (pause) I chopped his head off. [[MoodWhiplash Cup of tea, anyone?]]* The Hitcher. --> Oooooo, I'm a cockney nutjob! E' slashes one way! E' slashes another! E' even slashes diagonal! E's like connect four, in DAGGER terms!** The Isadora Duncan conversation in the radio show, especially Howard miming Duncan being strangled by her scarf caught in a wheel; as well as the BrickJoke: as Howard is driving off without Vince, Vince shouts "Howard! Howard!" and it turned out it was just his scarf caught in the wheel.* Old Gregg.--> Do you like bailey's? I got some. I can give you Bailey's. Mmmmmm creamy!* Nu Rave: Combining elements of the past and the future to make something not quite as good as either...* This gem, from 'Call of the Yeti':--> '''Howard:''' Roaring fire. Cup of tea. What more do you need eh?--> '''Vince:''' MTV.--> '''Howard:''' Listen, Vince, what can you hear?--> '''Vince:''' Your cells dying.** From the same episode:---> '''Howard:''' Hi, It's me, Howard Moon, we spoke on the phone this morning?---> '''Kodiak Jack:''' The Hwat?---> '''Howard:''' You know, the telephone?---> '''Kodiak Jack:''' Ohhhh, the talkie stick, your voice got trapped inside it this morning* From the 'Live Future Sailors' tour: --> I am Sunflaaaaash. I am from the futaaa.** And:--> It's mixture of chinese and chav. I call it chavese* [[TakeThat "CRIMPETY CRIMPETY FUCK YOU."]]* The ''entirety'' of Nanageddon, but a few gems stand out.--> '''Howard:''' Killed a swan today. Did a shit on it. (beat) ''Right'' on it.** And:---> '''Naboo:''' You've gone too far this time. I'm going to have to turn my back on you. ''[revolves on the spot, while a guitar riff plays]''---> '''Vince:''' Aw, come on Naboo!---> (beat)---> '''Naboo:''' ''[faces Vince and Howard again, while the guitar riff finishes]'' Let that be a lesson to you.*** This happened a couple of times, the earlier one went something like this:----> '''Naboo:''' You know what's coming. Bollo, hold his arms.----> '''Howard:''' No, don't be silly Naboo! no you don't have to do this! Vince! Vince! Vinceeee! Nooooooooooooo!----> (Naboo turns his back on them, while Howard sobs hysterically)* Howard's elbow patches. That is all* Women like trumpets and bookmarks!* "When an young... ah, kitten, and he in a bag, and I make him go, and I ''flat him out''!" Such a CrowningMomentOfFunny, in fact, that Julian and Noel themselves could hardly keep straight faces.** Also from that scene: when Fossil asks for the two cavemen's paperwork, one of them simply picks up a piece of paper from Fossil's desk and gives it to him.--->'''Fossil:''' That's my own mail.* Topshop!** '''''[[NoIndoorVoice ARE YOU STILL HERE?!]]'''''* From 'Bollo':--> '''Howard:''' (after Vince tries to rescue him and fails) Well, I appreciate the gesture, but it was a bit of a wasted journey wasn't it? did you bring anything? Like a gun. Or a fork?* Howard envisaging seeing his name in a newspaper:--> '''Howard''': Howard Moon, colon, explorer.--> '''Vince''': COLON EXPLORER? That's got a slightly odd ring to it, don't you think?* Mention must be made of the episode where Howard gets kidnapped by a mysterious sea monster with webbed hands and a "mangina" who lures him back to his cave and shows him his watercolour paintings. They sing a song about playing "Love Games" and Gregg tries to get Howard, his "fuzzy little man-peach" to marry him.--> '''Old Gregg''': I did home economics. I got an A+ . I made a crumble. My teacher said mine was the best one.* The hash cakes bit:--> '''Naboo''': Quick thing about hash cakes, have just one, wait an hour, see how you feel. Don't have fifteen at once, because you will see the devil, and he will try and tear your heart out through your kneecaps. * Howard tests out his pitch for the Survivor Patch.* When Howard has his first ever kiss... with Vince. Howard thinks he has fallen in love, but his feelings go away when he spots the girl he has a crush on. Vince feels personally hurt, until [[RealLifeRelative some random girl]] comes in and says hi and he gets over it. Then they jump on the bouncy castle. [[CrowdSong "Bouncy bouncy, Ooh such a good time!"]]* On the way to Naboo's party, the head shaman Dennis encounters a gang of [[LowerClassLout chavs]]. Anyone who lives/lived in an outer London borough will get a laugh out of the chav stereotypes, but the real laughs come from Dennis' bemused interactions.--> '''Chav''': Yeah yeah, lend me a pound, I know your sis-tah.--> '''Dennis''': Yes, I do not have a sister.--> '''Chav''': Don't back-chat me bighead, or I'll bust you up.--> '''Dennis''': This "bighead" business, I don't understand. I actually have a relatively small head for a man of my stature.* Howard's last Arctic journal entry:--> '''Howard''': So alone. Wind my only friend.--> '''The Wind''': ''I hate you.''--> '''Howard''': Shut up, Wind!* "Argh! I've got ''bunches''!!"* The ''Electro'' episode. This exchange between the Spirit of Jazz and Howard.--> '''Spirit''': Ow, chicka chicka ow... ''oww''! Man, my hat's on fire! Are you blind?! Why didn't you tell me?!--> '''Howard''': Sorry. I thought that was your look.--> '''Spirit''': No, it ain't my look! Spoiled my exit now. Tryin' to do you a favour.--> ''He exits, then walks back past Howard thirty seconds later.''--> '''Spirit''': Ain't no door back there. It's a toilet.* Bob Fossil's unhinged explanation of why he can't give Howard and Vince a gig at his club.--> ''This is the Number 2, OK? He runs a coffee shop. And this is the Number 9. And 9 is a customer, right? And one day 9 goes in and 2 goes, "I don't have a coffeehouse no more. I have a knife fighting academy." And Number 9 goes, "I want coffee!" And Number 2 goes, "No, I'm gonna slice you! AND LEARN HOW TO SLICE OTHERS." And 9 goes, "I can't, I gotta get out of here!" And 2 goes, "I LOCKED THE DOOR."''* An exchange between Bollo and Tony Harrison from a deleted scene (from memory, may not be entirely accurate)--> '''Bollo:''' I'll crush you!--> '''Tony:''' With what?--> '''Bollo:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder With my hands!]]--> '''Tony:''' (worried) Right...* "Some say Old Gregg painted his pubes yellow so he can read in the bed."* "I'M [[CardCarryingVillain EVIL]], BRIXTON! I'M....I'M A KNOB!!"** THAT'S THE END OF THE SHOW. NOW ALL ''FUCK OFF''.** "If there's any little kids here, it's S-T-U-M-P, [[CrossesTheLineTwice STUMP-FUCKING]]. Get it right when you tell your mates in the playground tomorrow!"* The Hitcher and Naboo meeting in the live show.--> '''Naboo:''' Who are you?--> '''Hitcher:''' They call me....The Hitcher (does pose)--> (Spotlight goes on him and short jazzy tune plays)--> '''Naboo:''' Is that your theme tune?--> '''Hitcher:''' No it fucking ain't.* "I love the Chosen One! I stick my fingers up his -- " "THAT'S ENOUGH MUSIC FOR TONIGHT."* From the radio version of 'Tundra'--->'''Vince''' (playing a xylophone, sings): Shoot your face off! (xylophone) SHOOT YOUR FACE OFF!** The entire "What would you do when faced with a polar bear?" scene.--> '''Howard''': What do you see next?--> '''Vince''': Stocky Jesus.--> '''Howard''': Stocky Jesus?--> '''Vince''': He's like Jesus, but fatter.* Vince's argument for keeping a dead bat that's tangled in his hair:--->'''Vince''': I'll make a feature of it!* In "The Chokes" we're introduced to avant-garde filmmaker Jurgen Haabermaaster. One of his earliest films is ''"The Doctor and the Pencil"'', an [[LeFilmArtistique exploration of pain and rage which is also playful and comedic]]. [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible The film is shot in grainy black-and-white, is roughly thirty seconds long and mostly consists of a man in a creepy doctor costume and a man in a creepy pencil costume screaming at each other.]]--> '''Jurgen''': Ha ha ha... so playful.* Howard "getting into the climbing mindset" in the radio version of "Mutants". You think he's grunting because he's scaling a cliff to get to Fossil's secret laboratory... when really he's being carried up by Joey Moose in a little papoose.** Meanwhile Vince is asked to stay at the bottom of the cliff and serve tea to a group of old soldiers...-->'''Soldier''': Can I have a latte?-->'''Vince''': A latte?! What is this, Vince Noir's Moonlight Cafe?** The Colonel's incredibly long and rambling story that he tells at the bottom of the cliff.* "I'm wearing two eyepatches; I can't see crap!"* When Howard is talking to Mr. Fossil about the thief who is stealing animals from the zoo, he explains that he needs to get into the thief's "psychological mindset."-->'''Fossil''': Psychological mindset? Hey, Vince! Psychological mindset! Get a load of this guy. You sound like my goddamn shrink, always goin' on, "Tell me about your mother." Well, tell me about your mother, huh? So my mom used to hide in her bunker at breakfast, and throw eggs at me and call me "wimp wamp!" And my dad used to dress up and scream at us, "I'm a Chinese bear, walkin' around the wig-hut!" Yeah!* This classic line from Mr. Fossil: "Don't talk to me, Moon. Or else I'll fly up the wall and spend money on it!"* Tony the Prawn. His black eyes stare into your soul.* This exchange:-->'''Vince''': ''What are you doing?!''-->'''Howard''': I'm putting drops in its eyes.-->'''Vince''': Those aren't its eyes! They're its gills! I'm telling you, if you put drops in those, it's gonna open up like a duffel bag.* From the radio version of Jungle:** Bruno Mindhorn.** Vince's insistence on his outfit, calling himself "Mowgli in flares". Howard tells him he looks like a Camden leisure pirate.* Fossil trying to get his way around a father whose son he fed to a lion at the end of 'Stolen'. The father threatens to report him to the police for the callous murder, and Fossil retorts that he'll be all over him "like a nun sandwich" if he does that.-->'''Fossil''': Your logic makes me feel like a dick!* At the end of the radio version of Hitcher, Vince, Howard, Fossil and the People of the Box are inside the Hitcher's box. Fossil leads them through a door, which the People say is forbidden because the door leads to a living nightmare. Fossil won't have any of it, so he opens the door, and it's just a garden there. And then his brother arrives and tells him he's late for transporting Tony the Prawn. And then the rest of his family arrives...-->'''Fossil''': Mother F! This place is a living nightmare! ''Everybody, back in the box!''


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Al Pacino, Barry Levinson & Buck Henry Adapting The Humbling
by Ethan Anderton
December 16, 2009
Source: NY Times
After this year's Summer of Death, losing a filmmaking legend like John Hughes got me thinking about how difficult it's going to be in the coming years as more legendary actors, writers and directors responsible for the films I've grown up loving (or discovered recently) start passing away. However, three legendary artists are still alive and kicking as the NY Times reports that Al Pacino, director Barry Levinson and writer/actor Buck Henry are teaming up to adapt Philip Roth's novel The Humbling, the story of a deteriorating and increasingly irrelevant actor who finds the possibility of renewal in a younger woman.
Pacino is the one who purchased the rights to the book (his first time optioning one) so that Henry (who wrote The Graduate) could adapt the screenplay for Levinson (who directed Rain Man) to bring to the big screen. It's sad to note that Pacino's taking on the role of an increasingly irrelevant actor is somewhat a matter of art imitating life with his more recent career choices (88 Minutes, Righteous Kill) have done little to entertain or inspire audiences into believing in him again. Of course, while he may not have had any great roles in recently, Pacino has already established quite a legacy and has nothing to be ashamed of in the least.
I'm already looking forward to Pacino's next great role, and this may be it. With Henry and Levinson as the talent behind the page and the camera, it's definitely got the potential to be the performance of a lifetime.
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EXTRACT ABSTRACT DEDUCT: 20 CUBE VARIATIONS MADE BY REUVEN BERMAN KADIM BETWEEN 1976-1978 by Public School
EXTRACT ABSTRACT DEDUCT: 20 CUBE VARIATIONS MADE BY REUVEN BERMAN KADIM BETWEEN 1976-1978 by Public School
Published by Public School Editions
5" x 7", 24 pages, single colour risograph printing throughout, comb bound, 2014
'Rueven Berman Kadim was born in Philadelphia in 1929, and lived and studied in Los Angeles until he settled in Israel in December 1950. Inspired by artists such as Joesph Albers, his shaped acrylic paintings, most of them hard edge compositions of tantalizingly crucial composition and amazingly accurate technique, seem dictated by irrefutable logic.
In 1976 Berman exhibited 20 large black and white paintings on plywood, identical in shape, colour and measurement, called 'the Cube Variations' at Tel Aviv Museums of Art. Berman has based this series on a selected mechanical perspective drawing of a transparent cube, translating the contour line of the drawn cube into a literal shape of the painting, or, as he has termed it: 'a three dimensional silhouette''


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