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Mysteries of Light
Mysteries of Light: The Films and Videos of Heidi Phillips
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Winnipeg Cinematheque
Heidi Phillips sifts and searches through old films and found footage, lifting imagery and sound to recycle into her own layered and loosely structured narrative works. Increasingly, she is using old technology such as radios and television sets as sculptural objects within the space. Her use of moving images has progressed into a more tactile approach with the physicality of the film medium itself. These found-footage and hand-processed films entice the viewer into an alternate reality where sailboats have character and disembodied arms have hope. The program will conclude with the premiere of Phillips' latest film series based on 8mm found footage bought from "Klass 'A' Auctions" in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Tribute to Scissors
Isolating Landscapes
Discovering Composition in Art
The Last Harvest
Examining the Luminous Mysteries in the Films of Heidi Phillips
It should seem fairly clear by now that there has been a growing trend amongst film and video artists to explore questions of spirituality (and pseudo-spirituality) in their work. At the same time, it seems that very few experimental filmmakers are exploring the relationship between film and Christianity despite the fact that many of these films stem from the feeling that there is something missing from their lives, a void that cannot be filled with blatant, unrelenting consumerism nor internet communication.
In many of the films presented in Mysteries of Light, Phillips articulates this feeling of spiritual emptiness while providing an antidote; a remedy that most of us are reluctant to hear. However, why should we be turned off by the idea of discovering and developing a personal relationship with G-d? The personal has always been an intrinsic part of experimental film and so it is in Phillips' version, where images have a weight and sincerity that precludes ironic dismissal. In addition, Phillips` films aren't dogmatic – they are full of mystery and they do not attempt to provide us with easy answers.
Although Phillips early work lacks the subtlety necessary to deliver the richness of the message – at least to this atheist viewer – her newer works leave the message ambiguous enough to make her themes more universal, and therefore, more appealing to a broader audience. After all, most of us will empathize with her feelings of isolation, loneliness and emptiness. After obsessively re-printing, the mostly found images in Phillips' films begin to take on a new life. Through the juxtaposition of images, abstraction and repetition to the point of religious ritual, a new narrative dealing with intense spiritual struggle is formed.
On the other hand, not all of Phillips` films are doom and gloom or attempts at our Salvation. In fact, her works often have a subtle sense of humour. Consider Phillips` Silverscope film Compositions in Art (a film made for the 25th anniversary of the Cinematheque). This film uses a film of the same name as source material and leads us through her "good compositional" choices. The film itself is made through darkroom experimentation with the composition choices appearing to mimic (and seemingly mock) the instructions given in the original soundtrack.
Spin is another film that delicately balances content and form. The film can be seen as a reverse "Cinefuge" technique in many ways. The "Cinefuge" technique was developed by Toronto Super 8mm guru John Porter and the technique consists of Porter spinning the around himself in clever ways. Due to the nature of the techniques, Porter's films are necessarily self portraits. In contrast, Phillips' "Cinefuge" technique involves strapping a camera to herself and spinning her niece and nephew around providing us with a portrait of her niece and nephew, in addition to providing us with a glimpse into their relationship.
One of the things I have long admired about Heidi is her willingness to takes risks and chances with her work, both in terms of techniques and in terms of exploring a subject matter that is not considered in vogue at this time. These risks have led her to create a diverse and interesting body of work. This retrospective demonstrates the clear development of a promising filmmaker. There is no mystery as to why this show of work is well deserved.
– Clint Enns
From Uptown Magazine July 28, 2011
'It's not reality, it's its own thing'
On the eve of her career retrospective, award-winning local filmmaker Heidi Phillips talks to Uptown about her otherworldly approach
Winnipeg experimental filmmaker Heidi Phillips' short, Selection of Composition, indirectly but nicely encapsulates what makes artists artists: it's about what choices make up their — in this case — pictures.
Take Phillips' love of the grain, the jerkiness and the black-and-white or Kodachrome colour of old footage, evoked in her 2010 short, Spin.
"It just has a feeling of memory and of the past," says the unassuming, bespectacled Phillips, struggling to articulate her very intuitive approach to her art.
Memory and its close cousins — dreams, the subconscious and the mysterious — are addressed directly in the program Mysteries of Light, a retrospective screening on Friday at 7 p.m. at Cinematheque. Premiering will be Phillips' latest film series, based on old 8mm found footage from Saskatoon.
Phillips, 31, has had her work screened everywhere from Toronto to Germany. In June she won the Manitoba Film Hothouse Award for Creative Development, funded by the Province of Manitoba, and her ghostly horror short, The Last Harvest, was effusively praised earlier this year on leading underground film website Bad Lit .
The recognition notwithstanding, Phillips remains a shy figure of few words.
"I don't like to be too specific about my films," she says, wary of limiting their meaning and potential for interpretation.
But she agrees Cinematheque's website is accurate to describe her work as creating "an alternate reality." One example is the short, Revival, featuring the surreal image of what appears to be floating, disembodied arms.
"It's not reality, it's its own thing," Phillips says of her characteristic aesthetic, which marries grainy, dreamy, sometimes almost ethereal B&W images with eerie, insinuating, even unsettling sound effects and pseudo-scores.
"As long as people don't think that by 'alternate reality' it means aliens or something."
Phillips is also notable for treating the topic of religion, as in the short, Direction, in which a woman speaks of seeing God in nature.
"I have a personal interest in faith but it's not really intellectual," Phillips explains. "I'm more interested in the kinds of feelings involved and I like to evoke those on film."
The otherworldly subject dovetails with the filmmaker's own aesthetic sensibilities, highlighting the very process and physical properties of film within her films.
"I think Hollywood movies are very funny in the way they try to pass off spectacles as 'realistic.' There's so much behind the finished images we're presented with, and it's those processes and textures that I like," she says.
The balance Phillips is attempting to strike in present work is between a more non-linear, surreal approach and creating some semblance of narrative framework; The Last Harvest, for instance, uses horror film tropes to tell a loose ghost story.
"We just sort of went out and shot that — I didn't use scripts or shot lists, but now I can see why people do," Phillips laughs. "My process can be a disaster when any planning is required.
"But ultimately, I'm more interested in seeing where things go."
– Kenton Smith
From CBC July 30, 2011
Hothouse Flower: Cinematheque celebrates award-winning filmmaker Heidi Phillips
Heidi Phillips makes experimental films and videos. Take her 2010 short Spin. What in anyone else's hands would look like a home movie – footage of toddlers playing in a backyard – becomes a kinetic whirl of youth, joy and curiosity. Or Revival (2009), in which weird found footage of helicopters becomes a metaphor for transcendent yearning.
Winner of the 2011 Manitoba Film Hothouse Award, the Winnipeg artist will be honoured at Cinematheque on July 29th with a retrospective showing of her work, ranging from a 1999 student piece to a premiere of her latest project. Like many avant-garde filmmakers, Phillips uses dark and light, sound and rhythm to examine the nature of her medium, but she also creates amazingly evocative spaces for feeling and thought.
Phillips has been gaining a national and international reputation lately (at Toronto's Images Festival, Montreal's International Festival of Films on Art, the European Media Arts Festival in Germany), but there's something stubbornly Winnipeggy about her work. She favours low-fi technologies – her films are filled with images of old radios and televisions – and a DIY approach. Her three-minute short Tribute to Scissors is just that: a tribute to scissors and the cool things you can do with them (like making cut-out snowflakes or paper-doll chains).
Phillips also loves the bargain-hunting Value Village vibe that's seen in so much of our city's art. She makes use of scavenged footage that she finds at thrift stores, auction houses and people's basements. Phillips then manipulates the footage, scratching, scuffing, burning, bleaching and otherwise roughing it up to give it a tough, gritty beauty.
The Last Harvest (2010), kind of an art-house ghost story, embodies the common Winnipeg fascination with the overlooked and the discarded. A young man walks through an abandoned prairie farmhouse, its once hardworking rooms silted up with grey decay and melancholy layers of memory.
One recurring and deeply personal strain in Phillips's work is her examination of religious faith. In Directions (2005), interview subjects give street directions for the routes they take to church, at the same time suggesting the unexpected turnings of their spiritual paths. Skydive (2011) combines grainy footage of parachute drops with voiceover narratives describing leaps of faith.
Phillips herself continues to jump into the unknown, which is why it will be interesting to see what she does with her Hothouse creative development money.
– Alison Gillmor
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Dr. Abel (ドクター・アベル Dokutā Aberu?) is a non-playable character in the Tekken fighting game series. He is the mad scientist responsible for the resurrection of character Bryan Fury.
Dr. Abel was a brilliant but mad scientist, whose inventions were often trumped by those of Doctor Bosconovitch's. As a result, he became a rival and enemy of both Doctor B. and his creations. He destroyed Jack-2 and attempted to destroy Gun Jack and kill Jane, but he failed. He reanimated Bryan Fury before Tekken 3 and then later worked for the Mishima Zaibatsu as a scientific adviser before apparently being killed by Bryan in Tekken 4.
Tekken 2
Though he does not actually make an appearance, it is assumed that he is the one that fires a beam from a satellite in space that destroys Jack-2.
Tekken 3
He is mentioned in Bryan's backstory and appears in both versions of Gun Jack's ending, where he attempts to do to Gun Jack what he did to Jack-2; however, he fails due to Gun Jack generating a force field that protects himself and Jane from the blast.
Tekken 4
Abel is shown on the second page of Paul Phoenix's epilogue, where it states that after Paul gained control of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Abel's total control over Paul leads him to a life of depravity.
He also shows up in Julia Chang's ending. He informs Julia about her GENOCELL program and how it can help the Mishima Zaibatsu's Devil-Human Integration Program. He tells her to join them in their research and Julia, believing it will lead to the end of mankind, successfully erases all of the GENOCELL data along with the Devil-Human Integration data. Angered by Julia's refusal and actions, Abel pulls a pistol on her and fires at her multiple times, but Julia evades every bullet and escapes.
His most important role in Tekken 4 is in Bryan Fury's "Story" mode, where he appears in Bryan's Prologue and Epilogue. With his life reaching its end, Bryan knows that Abel is the only one that can help him. However, Abel abandoned him two years ago when he was recruited by the Mishima Zaibatsu to be its top scientific adviser. Bryan enters the fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament so that he can command Abel to modify his body. In his epilogue, he approaches the shocked Abel and knocks him across the room before he himself falls to the ground, unconscious. It is unknown whether or not Abel survives this.
Tekken 7
Before his presumed death, Doctor Abel had been creating a satellite death-ray, which was used by Heihachi to destroy both Kazuya and Akuma at G Corporation's Rooftop. However, both Kazuya and Akuma manage to survive, with Kazuya, in a few hours later destroy the death-ray with his Devil Blaster.
Character Relationships
- Doctor Bosconovitch - His rival. Abel resented him for being a more accomplished scientist.
- Jack robots - He partially destroys Jack-2 and attempts to finish the job several years later, when it has been remade as Gun Jack. Abel tried to kill Gun Jack and Jane but they survived as they made a force field to protect themselves.
- Jane - He tried to kill her but she survived because Gun Jack made a force field to protect them.
- Bryan Fury - He reanimated and cybernetically enhanced Bryan before the events of Tekken 3. He was also apparently killed by Bryan after the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4.
- Julia Chang - He wanted to use her re-forestation project, GENOCELL, to successfully merge devil cells with human cells. In her Tekken 4 ending, she stops him once she realizes his intentions.
- Heihachi Mishima - Abel worked for him and the Zaibatsu as a scientific adviser, before he was apparently killed by Bryan.
- Roger & Alex - It was rumored that Dr. Abel had captured them some time after Tekken 2 and was keeping them in his laboratory.[2]
- Julia's Tekken 4 ending is the only instance where his voice is heard.
- Since Doctor Abel did not appear in Tekken 6, a Legend ranking Jack-6 was named after Dr. Abel.
- It is possible that Doctor Abel was experimenting on Steve (as seen in Steve's Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ending) when the latter was a child before the events of Tekken 4.
- His name was captioned on the screen when he was first seen in-game in Gun Jack's ending in Tekken 3.
- In the files of Tekken 4, there is a cut voice clip of the announcer saying his name, along with other cut characters and prototype names.[3]
- ^ http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/tekken3/profile.php?id=bryan
- ^ Tekken Chronicle, p. 70
- ^ https://youtu.be/eYvM8JeeO_o?t=125

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Green Spiral Tours is a "family nature school" designed to connect families and nature through free and affordable field trips. Trips spiral the calendar and include green building tours, playground explorations, food and farm trips, adventure trips like kayaking and hiking, and cultural explorations like sustainable field trips to neighborhoods across town. Based on five years of field trip experience, I believe that Saint Louis has a depth and density of green building, some of the best playgrounds in the country, and that farmer markets are business incubators worth supporting. Green Spiral Tours is developing a plethora of tools to help people explore their place on the planet, including maps, apps, games, internship programs and tour guides for field trips. Just need a tiny bit of seed money to bring these products to market. Demographics in the Green Spiral email list include a wide variety of people, but generally, the target market is young families and the general public who is interested in all things green. These are people who have asked to follow Green Spiral on field trips to learn about green and sustainable places around Saint Louis. The goal is to test a few products in a small way to see if there is enough public demand to make any one of them financially viable.
$500 seed money to prototype game & map on Environmental Missouri based on Don Corrigan's book (currently collaborating with Don on this project). $250 to print & distribute Green Building Tours map (currently collaborating with several architects and builders on this map). $250 to develop Great playground map of Saint Louis or maybe, a Farmers Market Passport map.
Total project costs $1000
Amount looking to raise through donations $1000
It's good for people to travel across town to another neighborhood and gather new ideas. Ideas are brought back to home schools and home communities.
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Today, B'nai B'rith International will host a welcome reception for 15 of Israel's top biofuel researchers as they kick off a week-long scientific dialogue in the United States. The visitors, winners of the U.S.-Israel Bio-Energy Challenge, will begin their program with a briefing at the White House, followed by the event at B'nai B'rith headquarters.
Sponsored and coordinated by two not-for-profit organizations, The Israel Energy Partnership (TIEP) and the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation (USISTF), the U.S-Israel Bio-Energy Challenge fosters a scientific exchange between Israeli experts and their counterparts in U.S. government agencies and private industry. The goals are to build bilateral energy cooperation between the two countries and to spur research and development on alternative fuels that can replace fuels derived from imported oil.
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Got this from Chico's blog (which he got from mokong's blog :D)
1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and click on "Random Article". The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to http://quotationspage.com/ and click on "Random Quotes". The last few words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/ and click on "Interesting photos from the last seven days". The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. And in case you decide to post the final product, even if we're just doing this for fun, don't forget to acknowledge whoever owns the original image!
4. Use Photoshop to put it all together.
5. And voila, you've got you band's CD album cover!
** – Go to Randomlinks or click http://www.randomwebsite.com/. The first ten links you end up in (minus the .com's) are your 10 song titles.
and here's mine:
Band Name: Argentine Primera Divison
Album Name: See All Of Us As One
Track List:
1. In A Mood
2. I Am Ms Cruelty
3. Sin Wagon
4. Gorilla Mask
5. Strange Froot
6. Meso
7. Hcibib
8. Seven Peas
10. David Gagne
(Thanks paul for the suggestion of track list)
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Wenatchee business brings its egg-carton expertise to Tacoma.
Treva Lind
At a large factory in Wenatchee, far from its founder's roots in China, Fibro Corp. is building a better egg carton.
It starts with a simple slurry of recycled newspaper and water inside a big vat. The slurry flows into large presses where 10 high-tech machines stamp the containers into shape while simultaneously drawing out the moisture. The process yields some 200,000 cartons per day across three shifts.
After production, the high-strength cartons travel to an adjacent room to receive logos, nutritional information and bar codes linking them to clients such as QFC, Fred Meyer, Wilcox Farms, Trader Joe's and Oakdell Egg Farms.
Look a little closer and you'll notice these aren't your grandmother's egg cartons. Although made from the same recycled material, the cartons have a smooth, paper-like finish that allows even the tiniest lettering or decoration to be printed directly onto the carton and remain legible. Fibro Corp. achieves this level of quality through innovations built into the next-generation machines it designs and manufactures for its own factory.
Since establishing the Wenatchee plant in 2012, the company has seen such explosive demand for its products — it also makes those molded cup carriers and carrier/tray combinations common at fast-food places — that it is now expanding into the former Parker Paint factory in Tacoma. It will move its headquarters there and hire 200 employees to handle production of egg cartons and other containers, and eventually assemble the carton-making machines themselves for export. It's also where the company will add a research division to do ongoing improvements to the production machines and diversify the types of molded-pulp products.
Fibro Corp. will continue employing about 50 workers in Wenatchee to make egg cartons at high volume. Demand from one large customer such as Fred Meyer can by itself consume all of the Wenatchee facility's production capacity, says Fibro VP Sharon Zhang, who oversees factory operations.
The smooth, sturdy cartons are the brainchild of Sharon Zhang's father, Paul Zhang, an electrical engineer who is president of Fibro Corp. Around 1992, Paul and his wife moved from Shenyang in northeastern China to live in Los Angeles and start Kaite Group North America, part of the family's Hong Kong-based conglomerate Kaite Group Ltd. with business lines in pulp, paper and machinery in Asia. Started by Paul's parents, Kaite Group also owned a paper mill and power plants in China. About a year after her parents came to the United States, Sharon joined them in California, where she studied interior design and international business. After college at Cal State Fullerton, she started helping in the family business in America and China.
Roughly 10 years ago, Paul was in an American grocery store when he noticed an egg carton with a wrinkled surface. An inveterate tinkerer, he started thinking about how to improve it. The family purchased for production in China a traditional carton-manufacturing machine that was two stories high and more than 600 feet long. The company used it to make egg cartons from recycled paper.
The older machine formed cartons that remained wet before they entered a giant oven for drying. Looking for ways to improve the process, Paul asked, "What could be done to make the fiber product more like paper — smoother, better for print?" Sharon recalls. He sent queries to his Chinese engineers to develop a better integrated, automatic control system, which ultimately led to development about six years ago of a more compact machine now used in Wenatchee.
Paul zhang's principal innovation incorporates steam for a heat press system while also removing excess water to compress and dry cartons at the same time. Sharon says her father compares the new process to laundering and drying clothes to make them wrinkle free. If shirts from a washing machine are dried completely in a dryer and left in the machine, most will come out wrinkled. And ironing doesn't render a crisp surface without steam. But if the clothes retain some moisture when removed from the dryer, they can be dried at the same time they're being pressed and achieve an ideal finish.
For a few years prior to launching the Wenatchee factory, Kaite Group imported waste paper from the United States, turned it into egg cartons in Asia and then shipped the cartons back for sale in America. In the past two years, the family has sold some major operations in China, including the paper mill and two power plants, seeing more opportunity by supplying cartons to the entire U.S. market. The company still makes egg cartons in China but sells them in China, other Asian markets and Australia. The Fibro plant focuses solely on North America.
"We still will have some business in China, just less," Sharon Zhang notes. "We're undecided what will stay."
Meanwhile, Paul Zhang spends more time in Washington state these days, setting up the Tacoma site and remotely running the remaining China businesses. And he remains the driving force behind machine-technology upgrades. Among the new functions to be added at the Tacoma plant are research and development, with a focus on continuous improvement in the quality of the carton-making machinery. On the Wenatchee factory floor, Sharon says, Fibro already operates a fourth-generation machine.
"The main purpose for bringing R&D to Tacoma is my dad believes in new technology," Sharon says. "Where there is new technology, it will be a good product, and a good product will sell itself. We don't have a sales department. When our product goes out, it pretty much sells itself."
At a conference table in Wenatchee, Sharon runs a finger across the strong edges of a Fibro egg carton and compares it to a competitor's container, which sags a bit when picked up off the table. She says the Fibro product possesses a higher density, so it's stronger, "but, on average, it's 10 grams less weight than the competitors' [cartons] because we use less material." The side tabs are stronger, she adds, which provides for more secure latching.
The company uses recycled paper, nonchemical sizing (to resist moisture) and water to make its cartons. It sells them throughout most of Washington as well as in California and the Portland area. Shipments have gone to customers as far away as Iowa and Hawaii.
Traditional, rougher-surfaced cartons usually require the application of stickers with printed labels and bar codes for reliable electronic scanning. Fibro cartons accept paper labels, too, but Fibro guarantees that 99 percent of the bar codes it prints directly onto cartons will be read accurately. Sharon says the cartons stack more easily and don't stick together when plucked by machines clients use to fill them with eggs.
The zhangs started Fibro Corp. in a leased 38,000-square-foot industrial building in Wenatchee because of the area's low-cost electricity from hydro power. From the time it shipped its first product in 2013, the factory has been a great success and the company acquired acreage nearby to expand. But the Wenatchee operation faced several challenges, including its distance from customers, a shortage of workers and the high cost of running power to the new property.
The family decided to expand production to Tacoma because of logistical shipping advantages and easy access to labor. Fibro plans to produce a variety of molded-fiber products, such as cup holder trays, school lunch trays, premium apple containers, retail packaging and even medical instrument trays, Sharon Zhang says. Other products could include pulp-based hospital bedpans with water-resistant coating, fresh mushroom packaging and plant pots that can go directly into the ground to degrade naturally.
By year's end, Fibro will move assembly of its fiber-molding machines from China to Tacoma, Sharon says. Assembly of the machines in Tacoma will require mechanic-level workers and allow the company to stamp these products "Made in U.S.A.," which, she says, will be a major advantage when it starts exporting.
"That will be easier to sell," she says. "Right now, a lot of customers demand U.S.-made products."
Another obstacle to operating in China is the rising cost of operating there. "Producing in China is not as cheap as it used to be," she explains. "We wanted to exit the China market. The problem right now is China is changing a lot, facing a lot of economic and labor problems. They're losing the low-cost labor advantage."
As egg consumption, no longer considered a dietary no-no, continues to grow in the United States, egg-carton orders should rise commensurately. So Fibro plans to expand aggressively in North America and across the globe. In the next five years, it expects to set up at least five new plants across the country. With few competitors, Sharon reports heavy demand for Fibro's product. And with customers becoming more environmentally conscientious, she says they tend to choose cartons made of recycled materials over plastic foam.


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Folks who work in factories, as a rule, are not stupid. Just about every one of them I have met – and I have met thousands of them – understand that profits are a good thing and continuing, growing profits are not only good for the owners, but a necessity to keep things going. They also understand that management people want to make good money (just like they do) and they are aware of the fact that most salaried folks earn the right to make more money than the hourly folks by suffering through more time in school, working longer hours and putting their jobs at risk by taking responsibility for decisions.
So here we have the curious events at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga yesterday. The United Auto Workers union tried to organize the place but in what has to be the oddest organizing effort in union versus management history, management generally supported the UAW, but the workers rejected the union. This, of course, provides solid evidence in support of my assertion regarding worker intelligence, but calls into question whether the same can be said of management.
Generally speaking, when two parties have opposing goals in an important matter, it is a good idea to have someone tough, smart and capable looking out for their interests. The guy buying a house and the guy selling it area pretty good example. The seller wants the highest price possible – the buyer, the lowest. That's why there are legions of realtors, lawyers and lots of laws camped between them as they battle through their conflict,, all sucking money from both parties – waste to both of them since it is money that neither side will get – but worth it to both sides to keep them from losing even more money to their adversary.
If the two parties are parent and child, however, and the intent is to give the house to the kid, their goals are in alignment and all of that is unnecessary in the eyes of both of them. Oh, the lawyers still weasel their way in to handle the paperwork because that is just what lawyers do, but the amount of the non-value adding waste to both sides is at the barest minimum they can make it.
Likewise, the UAW – or any union – is nothing but pure non-value adding waste. It sucks money from the business that none of the stakeholders who have earned it will get. Probably a good idea when management is driven by the old Jack Welch 'maximizing shareholder value is all that matters' philosophy. In such a company the employees and the managers have very conflicting objectives and the employees wanting the union to look out for their interests makes sense.
The union is a complete waste of money, however, in an enlightened, lean company that is driven by a goal of maximizing value for all of the stakeholders – shareholders and employees, as well as suppliers, customers and the community. In such a company any barrier to the communications and collaboration between folks who make their living on the floor and those who make theirs in a cubicle is a bad idea and a waste of everyone's money.
So what's going on in Tennessee? It seems the workers are the smart ones, or maybe they are the naïve. They seem to think their goals and management's are pretty well in alignment. They don't seem to think they need protection from a management that is out to do them wrong. Or maybe they are just smart enough to know that if management is out to abuse them, there isn't really that much the UAW can do for them in the long haul; or maybe they are just independent folks who are confident in their own ability to deal with management if such a thing were to happen.
Management down in Chattanooga is a little harder to understand. Maybe they have plans to do their employees wrong and have the decency to want them to be prepared for an inevitable attack. Perhaps they are so bad at communicating and collaborating that they don't know of any other way to deal with their employees than through a union. Maybe it's just a German thing – since all of their German pants have works councils as a matter of law, they just assume that is the one and only way to run a business.
In any event, it is abundantly clear that Volkswagen management has absolutely no comprehension of lean, of the Toyota Way. They have no idea of just how important a culture of trust, empowerment and open communications is to their chance of success. Whatever the reason, any management that wants to add the waste of a union to their business is hopeless: Either they are driven by a failed management theory, or they are woefully ignorant of what it takes to succeed with the new theory.


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The American College of Greece Awards AHI President Gene Rossides Honorary Degree
WASHINGTON, DC—On June 25, 2005, the President of The American College of Greece, Dr. John S. Bailey, conferred upon American Hellenic Institute President Gene Rossides the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws during its commencement ceremony held at the Stadium of "Peace and Friendship" in Piraeus.
Mr. Rossides was honored for his "life's work and dedication to principle and hard work for noble causes amidst the ambivalence of modern political discourse and action…his long and varied career in sports, law, politics, and political as well as community action which serve as an inspiration to younger generations of Americans and Hellenes and for all people of good faith and good intentions."
Mr. Rossides, in accepting the award, stated: "This award is particularly welcomed because it recognizes the important work of the American Hellenic Institute and its members and staff."
In presenting Gene Rossides with the honorary degree, Dr. John Bailey gave the following citation:
"You were born in Brooklyn, New York, of Greek American parents who instilled in you a love for both America, the land of your birth, and for your Hellenic heritage. You went on to brilliant studies at Columbia University, in New York City, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia College in 1949 and then, in 1952, a Juris Doctor degree at the internationally renowned Columbia Law School.
During your studies, you achieved something few young people ever manage: academic excellence combined with a brilliant athletic career. You served for four years as starting quarterback of the Columbia Lions famous team under the guidance of coach Lou Little, achieving feats that even today, more than fifty years later, are hard to replicate, and have become part of American football lore.
After graduation you practiced trade and tariff law at the renowned firm of Rogers & Wells, one of the most prestigious in the world, and became an expert in this critical specialty. You served justice in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, and in 1969, the President of the United States appointed you, and the United States Senate approved your appointment, to the position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where you served until 1973. By becoming the first Greek American presidential appointee ever to be confirmed by the United States Senate, you became a symbol for the great achievements of generations of Greek immigrants and their offspring.
As Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, Trade and Operations, you oversaw critical operations especially in combating narcotics and international narcotics trafficking, which is one of modern society's greatest menaces. You also ably discharged your duties as supervisor of the US Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the United States Customs Service, while making significant contributions to the fight against unfair trade practices and in taxation policy.
Your love of justice and of your heritage made you take a leading role in the long and hard effort to achieve a just resolution to the invasion and continuing occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey. Immediately following the invasion of 1974, you formed the American Hellenic Institute and based your efforts on the blatant illegality of the act and the measures that you felt had to be taken by the United States in light of that illegality. It has been a long and difficult road, which has led you to challenge repeatedly the tendency towards accommodation with a status quo imposed by a brutal act of war.
Since its founding, the American Hellenic Institute has expanded its activities to become a focal point for cultural, social, intellectual, and public policy activity for thousands of Greek Americans across the United States. Also, AHI has contributed greatly in cementing good relations between Greece and the United States, relations based not only on common interests, but also on a common cultural heritage, and common sacrifices for the defense of liberty and democracy in the world.
And so, Eugene T. Rossides, by virtue of the authority vested in my by the Board of Trustees of The American College of Greece, I hereby confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, admitting you to all the rights, privileges, dignities and immunities thereunto appertaining. In witness thereof, I invest you with this hood and present you with this diploma."
Attached please find a photograph of Mr. Rossides receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
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The American College of Greece Awards AHI President Gene Rossides Honorary Degree


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You need to pay attention to the signs that are posted when you are looking for a parking spot. They may say no parking at any time, parking from 8am to 6pm, 30 minute parking or parking for state police only. Ryan Law shows up at the court house for a impact panel and parks his car in the spot that says police only. Not only that he lights one up and proceeds to smoke pot in his car that is parked in the police only spot. No surprise, he gets arrested with 30 grams of pot in his car.
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In the contest for Lee County treasurer, we are fortunate to have a candidate who, not only has experience in the treasurer's office, but has been successful in the private business sector. She brings the citizens' point of view to the office. Please join me in voting for Janet Strunk.
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Members of Timberline participated in this year's "Back to School Giveaway" where school-aged children who needed a little help filling their backpacks with the needed school supplies could come pick up what they needed. Everything from colored pencils and paper to notebooks and backpacks were on hand.
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The beeb are launching a podcast series as part of the Tomorrow's World season.
"We love science and think young adults do too. Podcasts are a popular, easy way to let people dive into surprising ideas and challenge themselves, whether that's on the bus in the morning or before bed at night." – Chris Sizemore, Commissioning Editor for digital, Tomorrow's World
This science and technology podcast delves into the most urgent questions the world is currently facing, the beeb note, and uses cutting-edge science to explore how we may live our lives in the future – and how we can help shape that future through the decisions we make now.
Over twelve weeks, from today, (Oct 12th) new presenters Britt Wray and Dr Ellie Cosgrave will take science out of the lab and into people's homes through exciting debate and expert opinion. Cutting-edge inventors, scientists and leading experts from the likes of NASA, The Francis Crick Institute, and many others, will provide captivating insight into the latest scientific and technological developments, helping us understand just how science is changing our lives.
The podcast investigates how science can help us solve issues including 'Should robots have human rights?', 'How would we combat even more aggressive and unknown outbreaks of disease that could be imminent?' and 'What does the future of the internet look like? And to what extent could the world around us be a simulated reality?'
The Tomorrow's World podcast are available from bbc.co.uk/podcasts, BBC iPlayer Radio, iTunes, YouTube, or your regular podcast provider.
Tomorrow's World is a season of science and technology programming, created in partnership between Science Museum Group, Wellcome, The Open University, the Royal Society, and the BBC. The season takes science out of the lab and into people's homes, as we explore how science is changing people's lives, reshaping the world, and rewriting the future.
The campaign connects audiences with the brightest minds and institutions in science and technology, producing more than 40 hours of television, a range of programmes across the BBC's radio networks, a podcast, and a series of interactive science experiments.
"Our Tomorrow's World podcast combines mind-blowing science, the charisma, rapport, and expertise of fresh presenters Ellie Cosgrave and Britt Wray, and immersive, high-end sound design – giving listeners a sense of what the future might sound like." – Chris Sizemore, Commissioning Editor for digital, Tomorrow's World


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Intellectual Property and the Future of @Home Manufacturing
Like it or not, the ability to pirate physical objects and functional electronics is nearly upon us. In this article we devote some time and space to thinking about that possible future, and what might be done to avoid it. Additive manufacturing makes the entire design process "think it up, design or scan it, create it on-site." So where does the "research to make sure you're not conflicting with anyone elses existing intellectual property" step come into play? Before or after you hit the print button?Read the full article on MAKE
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Perhaps, youll see that a person was promoted to head a department in an organization in which you may be able to make a contribution. Or a contact in you network will connect you with someone who works for a company you might have an interest in. Sometimes in your job research youll uncover a company that is experiencing problems in an area in which you have a wealth of experience solving. Your resume letter should communicate enough information about your background and accomplishments that a full resume is not necessary. The overall goal of the resume letter is to motivate the person receiving the letter to agree to a short meeting.
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Make sure in the close of your cover letters you let them know you will be following up. It is very difficult get through to most HR departments in todays world. HR people are swamped. If you can get through on the phone, follow up and tell HR you are following up because you told them you would. If you cant get through on the phone, follow up the old fashion way - a letter. You would be surprised how few letters HR gets anymore. Because of that, they typically read those they do get. This goes for hiring managers too.
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Wiseguys Sports Bar & Grill is Lake Placid's best places to go when wanting to watch your favorite team play. Not only do we have an ample amount of TV's, but we also have some of the juiciest hamburgers, hot sandwiches, and delicious wings in the area.
Wiseguys is here to provide our guests with an entertaining night complete with delicious food, cold drinks, and all the sports you could want. Stay late and enjoy live music from local bands and live DJs. Our full-service bar is here to provide you with cold brews and choice cocktails. Our kitchen will be pumping out our infamous wings, juicy hamburgers, chicken wraps, and of course, the Cuban sandwich.
Come to Wiseguys Sports Bar & Grill where you will always be greeted at the door and keep you entertained all night.
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My life seemed perfect enough. I had loving parents, decent grades, and friends. Gazing up at the moon one cold and dark evening, I thought to myself that nothing in my life could go wrong. Except that I could only wish that my life was perfect. Truth being, I had to deal with rounds of panic attacks weekly, which got pretty tiring after a few months. I just prayed that this wouldn't interrupt tonight. I had had a crush on a girl named Julia for quite a while now. She was sweet, quiet, kind, and a lesbian like myself. We were having a "date night" together, which meant us hanging at her house, baking and watching movies. The thing about my attacks was that they happened out of nowhere, and she's never seen them happen before, so I had to be careful.
I had arrived at her place and a few hours already passed like it was nothing. We baked some cookies and watched Up together, wrapped up in fluffy blankets.
"Wanna watch Tangled next?" she asked me. I nodded, and she went downstairs to get it. I was too caught up in the moment to notice that the worst was happening: yet another attack. I suddenly and defensively curled into a ball as I started to lose control of myself. My body shook to a point to where it was almost vibrating and I couldn't move. My chest heaved and pangs struck my heart. My breath choked once more and I was in tears. Julia came upstairs a few moments after it started and flew over to me, worried.
"Harper! Are you okay?" She put the blanket back over me and started to rub my back until my breathing calmed again. I used my remaining strength to look up at her, her eyes laced with fear. Tears were still streaming down my face while I muttered a string of apologies. She ran her fingers through my hair rhythmically, telling me that everything was going to be okay.
It took a little while for me to calm down completely, but Julia was helping me and cheering me up the whole time. Soon enough, we were both giggling and smiling, but I needed to head home. She gave me some of the cookies to take home and walked me out to the driveway.
"Hey, I'm still sorry about that whole thing," I said to her.
She almost immediately shrugged it off. "It's okay. We still had an amazing time together." She smiled with genuine joy towards me.
"Yeah, we did," I smiled back at her. Before I could even grasp what was happening, she leaned forward and kissed me. Right on the lips.
"See you at school, loser!" She was walking back into her house while I made my way to my car and sat behind the wheel for a few minutes, absorbing her soft lips on mine.
And for once in my life, I felt like everything was perfect.


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Am I missing something or can you actually not remap the WASD keys? Left handed gamer here wondering what Avalanche are thinking if that is the case. The keybinding options seems to be messed up.
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As far as I am aware, these cannot be remapped which is really weird. The key changing is a bit of a mess and hopefully, Avalanche will sort this out in a patch but there is still no sign of a patch as yet.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Hell of a Front
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- Tom PainterFebruary 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM
Remote sensing not showing blowing dust -ReplyDelete
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is the dust that can be seen in the visible modis image at http://wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/2011/02/modis-images.html
The other plumes are fairly faint, so their algorithm isn't picking them up. They can be seen, however, in the modis image and in cameras.
That being said, this is a pretty wimpy event. A nice case where the land-surface is "capped."


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New Extramural Research Funding Highlights FY18
Gastroenterology and Hepatology:
Don Rockey, M.D.
A Molecular Approach to the Pathogenesis of Portal Hypertension
NIH/NIDDK, October 4, 2017
General Internal Medicine:
Patrick Mauldin, Ph.D.
South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative
Health Sciences SC, October 17, 2017
Infectious Diseases:
Susan Dorman, M.D.
Novel Biomarkers to Shorten TB Treatment
Rutgers University, January 22, 2018
Susan Dorman, M.D.
Tuberculosis Trial Consortium of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (TBTC)
Department of Veterans Affairs, May 22, 2018
Susan Dorman, M.D.
Accuracy of the Xpert Ultra for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
NIH/NIAID, February 15, 2018
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text: So guys i have one question i would like to as you. Have you unlocked a chest in companion app, but when u went into to game to open it, it wont open. I just stand infront of the chest and hit "e" like crazy and nothing happens. I dont get any massage that i should use the companion app to unlock. It seems like the chest frezzed or something. I think it might have to do with the fact that when i completed the mission i got a message that i can unlock the chest but for some reason my assassin's got killed all though i got the massage mission completed. I would really apreciate if some of u have an answer since i only need to open this chest and complete all challenges in the pantheon :).


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There might not be any sweeter sound at the end of a hot hike then that of running water .
A hot June day hiking down the Barker Valley Spur Trail ended on such a high note. The sound of running water put an extra hitch in my step and I was rewarded by a small beach and this amazing scene.
I think it took me less then 30 seconds to drop my pack, take off my shoes, and dive into the cool pool for a swim.


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That looks a lot better.
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And after .
That looks a lot better.
This Spring I have been lucky with the weather and working on some lovely gardens
Nice board cut into the grass.
Add a nice brick boarder, that looks about right, now for the hard work.
A few hour's later and its looking good and once I have finish off the inside area, I will look absolutely pukka.
Nice job today, widening the boards for one my customers.
We disided on the new shape and then it was to for a bits of hard work.
Looking very nice and after it's been dug over and a few plants added, you will never notice, it was never there.
But was worth the effort and looked great when all finished.
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To export data from Cloud SQL for use in a MySQL instance that you manage, see Exporting Data.
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- Use the correct flags when you create a SQL dump file
- Compress data to reduce cost
Don't use Requester Pays buckets
You cannot use a bucket that has Requester Pays enabled for imports and exports from Cloud SQL.
Use the correct flags when you create a SQL dump fileIf you do not use the right flags when you export your data to a SQL dump file, your import might be unsuccessful. For information about creating a SQL dump file for import into Cloud SQL, see Creating a SQL dump file.
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Maybe it is just me but I don't have any sympathy for people (including businesses) that are still running XP. Jeez, update your damn OS folks.
We apologize for the inconvenience. It does appear that there was a hiccup with an update pushed out causing Windows XP machines to lose Internet connectivity. An update was just released that should address the issue, what I will need you to do is: To get XP users Internet connectivity (temporarily), please disable the Web AV component of your protection policy for your managed computers.


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Once again, the internet is abuzz with allegations of delegate stealing, fraud, and chicanery on the part of the dearly beloved GOPers–in Arizona. The previous 7 posts on this blog tell that tale. And frankly–I am annoyed, right now. Very annoyed, and with good reason. I and others have been begging, pleading, cajoling for months now to get people to quit yakking and start acting. And I have been spending a considerable amount of time giving people the tools and knowledge to act.
And like typical people–everyone reads, some comment, many share–and then everyone sits back and passes the popcorn, and expects someone ELSE to do the work.
This Post Is Different. This Post Is A Call To Action.
Whereas, we have a perfectly functional political party, complete with huge databases and a solid infrastructure, and
Whereas, this party is governed effectively by precinct level members, and
Whereas, many of those seats are OPEN nationwide, RIGHT NOW,
Anyone who is currently whining for a third party, or whining about the uniparty screwing voters, or whining about the evil politicians shutting us out of the process THAT HAS NOT GONE TO A GOPER MEETING AND ENQUIRED ABOUT GETTING A VOLUNTEER POSITION EITHER IN A PRECINCT SEAT, OR ASSISTING A PRECINCT SEAT HOLDER, SHOULD SIT DOWN, AND SHUT UP.
SOME of us are busting our tails every waking hour, posting on blogs (like this one), building websites, collecting information for people, and FIGHTING FOR OUR PARTY AND OUR NATION'S POLITICAL SYSTEM. We decided to stop complaining and do what voters are SUPPOSED to do–get involved in the party to clean it up.
The basic information on conning GOPers into letting you into a position of power are right on this blog. I am awake and busting tail 18 hours a day to provide more information, answer questions, and motivate people. There are others like me, doing the same.
But all our efforts don't mean a danged thing if the rest of those who CLAIM to actually give a flying frog don't get off their tails and join in.
If You Are Not ACTING On This Matter–STOP WHINING WHEN THINGS DON'T GO OUR WAY.
Just as there is no delegate fairy that delivers nice, loyal delegates to good candidates, there is NO POLITICAL PARTY FAIRY waiting in the wings to magically clean out the GOP and get them to listen to the people who they supposedly represent.
Think of it like this:
If you own a business, and you're there regularly and checking up on your employees, then your business runs well, and the odds your employees will cheat you, steal, or otherwise misbehave, are small.
On the other hand, if you are an absentee business owner, and you just sign paychecks and visit your business every 2 years–YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE PISSED OFF WHEN YOU FIND YOUR EMPLOYEES AND YOUR MANAGERS ARE ROBBING YOU BLIND, SCREWING YOU OVER, AND DOING WHATEVER THE HELL THEY PLEASE.
Why in the WORLD would the party big guys listen to us at this point? We give them no reason to worry about our opinion.
- Many people still donate to them, no matter how loudly they may complain when doing so, and if we don't donate–thanks to Citizen's United, they are getting more money than ever anyway.
- As this is a uniparty, even when we get mad enough to vote a few people out, they don't suffer.
- Because WE DROPPED OUT OF THE SYSTEM AND STOPPED DOING OUR PART, they voted in rules to make sure that ONLY THOSE WHO DO THEIR PART, HAVE VOTING POWER. And frankly–that is ONLY FAIR. We whine about people on welfare getting "free stuff" all the time. We also whine about people who are only takers and have no "skin in the game" having a voice–AND A VOTE. But yet, we expect the political party system to allow "freeloaders" to run the show?
- Why should someone who never even bothers to show up for one meeting a month, or volunteer an hour or two a month to educate other voters, think they should be listened to by anyone, ever? Would you listen to some stranger that happens to show up at the door of your house to tell you how you should redecorate? If so, you're a very interesting type of person.
Now if we had to pay annual membership dues to be in the party, then we'd have every right to sit on our collective asses and complain–because the dues in that case would be our effective "voice". The dues would be used to PAY people to run the party at all levels.
But we don't pay dues. And 99% of us don't volunteer time, or donate. All we do is vote every few years and forget about what happens in between times, unless we get annoyed.
THIS IS WHY THE PARTIES ARE NO LONGER WORKING FOR US. We have shown them, by staying home and ignoring them, that we don't care enough about how our system works to even figure out the rules. And the big corporations and super PACS are right there giving them plenty of money. Now that the corporations have Citizen's United, unless everyone gets off their collective asses and gets involved, we will have NO voice at all, just when we need one the most.
I Am As Guilty As Anyone.
I got complacent, I got lazy, I preferred to sit in the comfort of my home and complain. But unlike the vast majority of people, I saw the disenfranchisement of Colorado voters last year as a major wake up call, and began to act. And when my first actions weren't enough, I got more aggressive and proactive–right up to the point of becoming a state delegate, phone banking for Trump, and starting this blog.
Well guess what–running a political revolt alone is a little bit tough, people. At this point, I'd rather have 50 people write and tell me they took my advice, went to a GOPer meeting, and got a precinct seat than get 50,000 Facebook likes and retweets on twitter. And if the tone of this post annoys you–too bad.
I'm not going to bother ranting again. And I'm also not going to go pout in a corner, or stop posting information and knowledge for anyone to use as they see fit. And I'm not going to put the website on hold, or stop volunteering for Trump.
But it sure would be nice to know that even 50 people, even ONE PERSON IN EACH STATE, decided to get off their tail and get busy also.


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Beach Sweep Mellon Udrigle, Laide, Scotland.
Mellon Udrigle near the west coast scottish village of Laide has a stunning red sand beach. On New Years day 2009 I arrived at dawn to find a heavy sea breaking beneath a grey moody sky. The water glowed turquoise beneath it and I exposed my shot for some ten seconds as the breaking wave retreated. I regard this as one of the finest shots I have taken and consequently it also appears on my best dozen list.


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The Farm is a Skimm Reads pick in the Daily Skimm Newsletter! Here's what they had to say about it:
"Imagine an all-expenses paid luxury spa retreat for women. The catch? You have to carry someone else's baby to be there. This one's like "The Handmaid's Tale" meets Liane Moriarty ("Big Little Lies" author)."
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[OP-ED]: For Donald Trump it is all a big joke.
Yes, the President-elect has such a great sense of humor that he has picked former Texas governor Rick Perry to head the Energy Department, the same federal agency Perry has said he wants to do away with.
It may sound strange to name someone who wants to scrap it as head of a government agency in charge of some pretty serious stuff like monitoring the Iran nuclear deal, building nuclear weapons and maintaining them, and regulating fracking and offshore drilling.
But for the Donald (he will always be "the Donald") it is all fun and games so he decided to play a joke on the American people by choosing Perry, a former Dancing with the Stars contestant (he was eliminated, by the way) to oversee the country's nuclear arsenal. He will replace a nuclear physicist.
Perry, who during a presidential primary debate in 2011 (he has tried twice to be President) famously forgot --oops! --the name of the Department of Energy he would later say he would abolish if elected, is, like Trump, a climate change denier.
He never was the brightest bulb in the room, and his future boss thrashed him really bad during a debate this year: "I see Rick Perry the other day. ... He's doing very poorly in the polls. He put on glasses so people will think he's smart. And it just doesn't work! You know people can see through the glasses!" Yet, once he won the election, he named his former rival Energy secretary. What a funny guy this Trump is!
But that was then, and this is now. After all, Perry wasn't exactly fond of the future President-elect during the 2016 campaign.
"He is without substance when one scratches below the surface. He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: A toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued," said Perry in what could've been his most intelligent remark ever. "Let no one be mistaken — Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded."
Well, no, the cancer was not excised, it was elected President and Perry is now a great fan of his "barking carnival act."
"It is a tremendous honor to be selected to serve as Secretary of Energy by President-elect Trump. I am deeply humbled by his trust in me," said Perry, who may be a bad dancer but is way up there with the best of them when it comes to hypocrisy and servility.
Science doesn't seem to have been either man's best subject in school, and they share a deep skepticism about climate change. Perry, though, has not gone as far as the incoming President who once said that "global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." No, you cannot make this stuff up.
Perry and Trump also would like to see the despicable Dakota Access Pipeline built. The Texan is board director of two petroleum companies, Energy Transfer Partners LP and Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, which are doing everything in their power to get government approval for the proposed 1,200-mile crude oil pipeline that has mobilized thousands of people in protest in North Dakota.
This is going to be your new Energy secretary, one more piece in an archaic cabinet of old retired generals, oil plutocrats and prehistoric Trump's sycophants.
Talk about a basket of deplorables.


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I was more excited about this film than I was for Infinity War. It's a shark, but it's really big. It's so stupid it couldn't possibly be anything less than hilarious.
The Meg is the latest film that will try to convince you that you're watching Jaws. Sidenote: Does anyone else think it's weird that sharks have their own film genre? We have shark movies, but it'd be weird if I was recommending the new giraffe movie. We don't have crocodile or lion genres so why the special treatment for oceanic predators?
If you're wondering why I'm spending so much time pondering this, it's because there's not really much to say about The Meg. It's not as entertainingly stupid as I was hoping. It's not overly incompetent. And it's certainly not legitimately good so I felt a bit let down.
Don't get me wrong, the plot is ludicrous, the science is titteringly nonsensical and the characters are all idiots but these things aren't as dialled up as they could have been. This film about a giant shark makes more logical sense than Skyscraper. I wish they'd leaned a bit more into the whole B-movie cheesy shlock than they ended up doing.
It's very noticeable that they scientifically designed The Meg to make money. Pandering to Chinese movie audiences isn't an inherently bad thing (the US isn't the centre of the universe) but when it's so transparent it steals a bit of the fun. I also suspect that this film was designed with the hateful 4D in mind. There were multiple 4D showings and it is odd how much time the enormous monster with a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth spends ramming things. If I didn't know any better I'd say it's a way of catering the film to a moving-seat 4D experience.
In the end, The Meg ended up being a bit of a generic killjoy. There was only one moment where I laughed out loud and, compared to the potential this film had, that disappointed me. If you're looking for a hilarious Jason Statham joint this week, I'd recommend just buying a DVD of Crank.


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