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As the Church year draws to a close this week, it's a good time for all of us to do what we tend to do on December 31st - to take a look back at the year, to think of the good times, the bad times, the things we wish we would have done differently - and then to look to the future, to what we hope this coming year will be for us.
If we were to do that in our spiritual lives, I think it would do wonders to prepare us to begin Advent next Sunday - that great Season that reminds us to make room for Jesus in our lives. The Solemnity of Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe that we celebrate today should make us ask ourselves the question, is Jesus the King of my life?
The whole reason Jesus got himself into trouble, and ended up before Pilate in the Gospel today, was because he was perceived to be a King - THE King. Which meant that if Jesus was King, then Caesar was not - and that didn't sit well with the Romans; if Jesus was King then the Pharisees weren't really in charge, and that didn't sit well with them.
How about us? If Jesus is King, then it means that you and I are not - and that doesn't sit well with us either, cause we tend to like to wear the crown - we like to be the ones in charge of our lives, who make the decisions we want to make, the ones who rule anything and everything that happens to us - we love trying to be the masters of our own destiny.
That's all well and good, but if we do that, then we aren't really Christians - because Jesus isn't really our King.
So this New Year's week - I think we would all do well to consider 3 things if we want Jesus to really be our king. #1) We need to pray more, everyday. We need to avail ourselves of the Sacraments more, especially the Eucharist and Reconciliation - without the lame excuses that keep us from surrendering our screwedupedness to our King. #2) We need to look at our lives, and order them properly - with Jesus as the First thing in everything - Jesus taking precedence over everything else, over sports, over work, over politics, over all our relationships and obligations - Jesus First, period. And lastly #3) We need to act like He is our King - and we have to love beyond measure - we have to feed the poor, welcome the immigrant, we have to be merciful and forgiving, we have to be obey His Commandments, all of them, and we have to listen to and follow His Holy Spirit.
In short, we have to give the crown back to Jesus - We have to let Him be what governs every aspect of our lives, every thought, every word, every action - that he may be our motivation and the end to which everything we do returns. And man is that all tough to do!!!
I always love the line that says if we think being a Christian is easy then we aren't doing it right. No matter what our past has been my brothers and sisters, let's use this sacred time - today, right here, right now, to begin anew and to commit ourselves to getting it right this coming year. God help us all. +


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Why We Can't Get Enough of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher
The following are passages from Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, edited by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson. Copyright 2009 by New York University. Reproduced by permission of New York University Press, New York, NY.
With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil' Bush
by Jeffrey P. Jones
Embodying his on-screen persona as a conservative talk show host, faux television pundit Stephen Colbert offered a mouth-dropping satirical performance as the featured speaker at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006. As is typical in his television parodies on Comedy Central, Colbert proceeded to lambaste both the press and the president, neither of whom seemed to appreciate the effort. Not to make the same mistake twice, the organizers of the 2007 event took a safer route by hiring the crowd-pleasing presidential impersonator Rich Little for the evening's entertainment. But in reviving the long-since flagged career of the former late-night talk show staple, the event organizers reminded us of just how far television has come in its caricatures of presidents. For also appearing that same week on Comedy Central was the animated series, Lil' Bush, a portrayal of George W. Bush as a dim-witted and dangerous fifth-grader running amok in the White House and wreaking havoc across the world with his diabolical pals Lil' Cheney, Lil' Condi, and Lil' Rummy. The airing of these two different sets of caricatures demonstrated that the acceptable norms of television's treatment of the president have certainly changed.
Yet this was not the first time that Comedy Central had produced an entire series dedicated to satirizing President Bush. Beginning in April 2001, the network aired a short-lived series called That's My Bush!, a show with the announced intention of spoofing the sitcom genre, but also satirizing the current president and his family and staff in the process. In the series, George W. Bush and Laura Bush are portrayed as the typical suburban sitcom couple, yet George is also painted as a simple-minded, lazy, privileged, and easily distracted man. The show's writers and producers, Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame, had planned to produce the program irrespective of which presidential candidate won the 2000 election (Bush or Al Gore). But with Bush emerging victorious in the contested election, he became the focus of the show. In turn, the series became the first bold move by the network in satirizing a sitting president in a not-so-flattering manner.
Taken together, That's My Bush! and Lil' Bush bookend the two-term presidency of George W. Bush. These portrayals are instructive because they represent how one cable network altered the course of how presidents are treated on television. Both programs are also series, representing the first time that entire shows were dedicated to satirizing the president. And, as discussed later in this chapter, both display an approach to political satire that is decidedly not the product of the safe, mass market thinking that is endemic to network television programming. To understand the force of these portrayals as political statements, it is helpful to contrast them with what came before. In this chapter, I chart the history of presidential caricatures on television, beginning with stand-up impersonators such as Rich Little and continuing through to the groundbreaking sketch comedy approach developed on Saturday Night Live. Since the mid-1970s, Saturday Night Live (SNL) has regularly processed presidential politics for viewers, offering interpretations that structured how images of the president were filtered through popular culture. But such caricatures are typically missing any form of meaningful political critique, instead depending largely on impersonation humor that is focused more on personal mannerisms and political style than on politics.
The shows that bookend the Bush presidency, however, offer a broader and more critical narrative frame for making meaning of the president as politician and office holder. As sitcom-styled series, they provide a specific satirical framework for scrutinizing the features that characterize the presidency in its historical context. They have also contributed to an era, in conjunction with other non-network television programming, where satire as a brutal art form has been revived. Hence, these shows lead us to rethink the necessary place, role, and function of satire in contemporary political culture and how such an important role has generally been absent from television for much of the medium's existence.
Bookending Bush
by Jeffrey P. Jones
That's My Bush! and Lil' Bush bookend the Bush presidency. Both proved popular with audiences, but more important, both served as vehicles for processing the "meaning" of the president in real time (as does the news). If the president himself spends great effort in manufacturing and shaping his own imagery (again, as does the press), then it is rather significant that satirical television programming does the same, for the president is nothing if not symbolic.
As bookend means of making sense of George W. Bush, the changed and different portrayals over the span of six years are instructive. Bush moves from being a father figure to a small child. His stupidity is no longer harmless but instead quite dangerous. He is no longer simply daft yet affable and loveable but now stupid, arrogant, and mean-spirited. The caricature changes from Bush as President of the United States ("He's the president in residence, he's kind of in charge," as the theme song puts it) to Bush as "Resident of the United States" (as the presidential seal that comprises the Lil' Bush logo states). The image thus moves from Bush being "kind of in charge" to simply being an occupant of the residence/office (as are the other "unelected" children of presidents). The portrayal of Bush's consorts has changed as well—from neighborly and sexy to vicious and wicked. And the political issues highlighted no longer transcend the Bush presidency (gun control, the death penalty, abortion). Instead, they are political issues and events that are specific to Bush's time in office—Al-Qaeda, the Iraq war, relations with North Korea, global warming—and, in particular, issues that his administration has handled poorly.
The different portrayals are the result, of course, of the specific historical context in which they were written and appeared. Yet it is too simplistic to argue that one represents a naive pre-9/11 America and the other a wiser but disillusioned post-9/11, post–Iraq war nation. The writing in That's My Bush! certainly reflects the political mood and culture of pre-9/11. There are seemingly no pressing political issues, only intractable ones that politics either exacerbates or can't resolve. The comedic interest in the president is not his conduct as a politician but his characteristics as a man. As noted earlier, Trey Parker and Matt Stone argued that they weren't out to make Bush "look like an idiot" because "he's going to do that fine on his own." Instead, they argued, by placing him in a situation comedy (even as a parody), they were going "to do something very, very subversive and actually make you really love this guy." But perhaps Parker and Stone can be forgiven for their immature conception of politics and even political satire. The country had just spent eight years in a seemingly constant battle between Republicans and President Bill Clinton, waged largely at the personal level (what Clinton labeled the "politics of personal destruction"). Clinton proved so politically similar that Republican Party officials in the 1996 election complained that he had stolen their political ideas. But that didn't stop them or right-wing media commentators from waging war daily on Clinton and his wife for their supposed personal failings as human beings.
In that context, the South Park approach to placing characters in stupid situations, offering up double entendres, and relying on puerile sexual humor fits well with both the popular culture and political culture of the Clinton years. Besides living in a thoroughly sexualized culture, Clinton himself sexualized the office of the presidency by engaging in actions that led to accusations against him for sexual indiscretion from numerous women. Therefore, the play on Bush's name as female anatomy in the show's title and in the episode "The First Lady's Persqueeter" is not only what passed for political humor and commentary by 2000–2001, but also the language offered up by politicians themselves (see, for instance, The Starr Report). With that said, perhaps That's My Bush! was exactly the type of political humor needed at that time. If these two candidates (Bush and Gore) were the best the two major political parties had to offer, then parodying the president as the central figure of a dysfunctional family in a parodic sitcom not only summarizes the moment but also created a scenario in which either candidate or president could be ridiculed on those terms. With Bush as the eventual lead character, those terms became (as one critic put it) "President Dumbass." Those terms, then, were the "language" of the moment.
By the time Lil' Bush aired in 2007, American political culture had changed drastically, largely related to events such as the shock of 9/11, two disastrous wars, the flouting of the Geneva Conventions abroad, threats to civil liberties at home, a lapdog Congress, Republican Party corruption and scandals, and an endless barrage of PR, smear campaigns, fake news, spin, and outright lies—and nary an admittance by the administration that mistakes had been made. The ignorance and arrogance of Bush and his team of advisors no longer seemed benign, but childish. The public mood had soured from its somewhat disinterested stance toward politics to one of extreme displeasure (as seen by Bush's historically low approval ratings). But the changes in political culture did not lead citizens to be more mindful and watchful by intensifying their newspaper reading or network television news watching. Rather, citizens seemingly sought some form of solace by either watching the patriotic cheerleading supplied by Fox News (resulting in Fox becoming the cable news ratings leader) or watching new satirical forms of political television that supplied quite meaningful critiques of politics for those disgusted with the state of affairs and journalism's seeming disinterest in helping to rectify it. From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, cable television now regularly supplied programming that was entertaining, yet highly critical of politicians and the news media that support them.
Lil' Bush reflects the frustration of the times. Its caricature is not nuanced, and it is more amusing than belly-laugh funny. It is an exercise in contempt. It is satire largely because of its gross exaggerations of political figures and their policies. But satire is not necessarily funny. Dictionary definitions of satire often include the notion of holding something or someone in contempt. And British satirist Rory Bremner contends that satire includes a "comic resolution of anger." Jonathan Gray has written of the need for audience researchers to recognize the viewing practices associated with anti-fandom, or the visceral enjoyment that comes from loathing certain programs or personalities. The observation can be extended to include the representation of politics and political figures on television. Some forms of political satire may be enjoyable to watch for no other reason than they offer a venue through which citizens can revel in their disgust, loathing, and outright anger at certain aspects of political life.
Lil' Bush is not necessarily funny or profound but is dripping with contempt for the Bush administration. Lil' Bush reminds us that while television as an entertainment medium usually demands that all satire be funny, simply being able to participate in the public display and celebration of contempt, anger, and outrage is why Lil' Bush matters. It also matters because it becomes one of the several television programs that have helped write the "meaning" of the Bush presidency while he is still in office. If journalism is the first draft of history, as the saying goes, then the elevation of television satire as a popular and legitimate avenue for processing the meaning of politics in contemporary society means that programs like That's My Bush! and Lil' Bush, as bookends to the Bush presidency, provide a poignantly sour counterpoint to those early drafts. And the second draft that emerges from the caricatures in these shows is not the "fallible yet funny" human being qua SNL. This draft, instead, is about the person who inhabits the most powerful political office in the world—the President of the United States— whether it be written as "President Dumbass" or "Resident Evil."
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Two UK universities just announced plans to close down their history courses – Aston University in Birmingham and the London South Bank University, LSBU. Aston is planning on shutting down its entire department of history, while LSBU is gutting its history degrees.
The growing trends of closing history courses and shutting down history departments have ushered in an era where the teaching of history and many other courses in the humanities are being shut down because it's increasingly difficult to find enough students to take those courses.
According to LSBU, "Decisions around the courses we offer to prospective students are taken very carefully. We consider how they provide students with the skills they need to enter high-quality jobs or further study, previous enrolment levels and how they support social mobility and student success."
In that decision by LSBU lies the kernel of why history and many other humanities are being gutted by institutions, big and small – the need to provide students with the "skills" they need to take up "high-quality jobs" and the need to support "social mobility" and "student success".
All across the world faculties of humanities are shutting down and it's even worse with elementary schools and secondary schools. In Nigeria, there is more talk about teaching history on the pages of newspapers than its happening in classrooms. More talk, less teaching.
The problem with Teaching History
The problem with teaching history stems from how the world has evolved over the last 30 years with the advent of the Internet and social media. History and many of the humanities have been upended. Take history, for instance, which we all know as a record of events of the past. Today, all of history can be found in search engines and everyone has access to surplus information and data about virtually every topic. On social media, issues draw the attention of our friends through comments and retweets. It's easier today to share a story no matter how fake than it is to deal with facts.
With people drowning in a deluge of information, of what relevance is history or historical facts? With a subject like Geography for instance, Climate Change challenges what we know daily. Our knowledge of the world is in a flux and our smartphones are the best places to catch up with those changes. Students are less motivated today to know about historical facts because they have everything on their phones and so are the scarcity of good teachers trained enough to provide the kind of context and critical analysis required to teach history in a world inundated with surplus information.
Why the Teaching of History is Dying?
– The problem of the distinction between "low-value" and "high-value" courses.
The key drivers of Education today are 21st Century skills and STEM and soft skills and vocational courses, the high-value courses without which many will be redundant in future.
Maybe out of ignorance, many people don't consider History a high value course. Most schools and parents are focused on courses that would get their children to become computer experts because according to those who are interpreting the times, we are in the 4th Industrial Revolution and to function well in this age, being equipped with digital skills and knowledge is the only way to not become obsolete in the face of robots and intelligent machines.
The race to be successful tomorrow has to start with being a digital citizen and functioning as coders equipped with Computational Thinking. Not much can be said of history again when it's almost certain that the human neural networks will one day work directly with the artificial networks of computers and robots and man and digital devices will become one and speak one language.
– History isn't considered a core subject.
The core subjects today aren't to be found in the humanities and it's not accidental. The challenges facing the world today are so enormous that we need to seek help with machines that can analyze enormous data so as to be able to make sense of all the issues threatening to destroy humanity. These aren't the times to study history and the humanities, or the Classics. Mankind is facing an existential threat of extinction on a scale never before experienced and we must grapple with those problem relying on machines and robots. The core subjects today are mostly found in the Computing, Engineering, Mathematics and the so-called soft skills, skills not likely to be found in machines and robots.
– The monetization of degrees.
People don't acquire degrees for gaining knowledge any more than they need those degrees to get the best paying job. The same way we are encouraged to monetize our presence on social media is the same way we are being encouraged today to monetize our degrees. Most often, jobs that command the highest salaries are the most talked about jobs and they are the most prioritized by schools and universities and governments. To go to school today is to be ready the next day for a job in Big Tech. Nothing else is as important as being employed by Google, or Facebook. When such employments are made, it's guaranteed that the future isn't bleak for the employed.
What Are We To Do?
Many haven't come to appreciate how important it is to study history and it isn't going to change any time soon. As the world grapples with a myriad of problems hurtling it towards Apocalypse, we would continue to embrace degrees that promises us a way out of our doomed future.
Many would never understand what history means – that we can't understand the world without history and all that is threatening to reduce us to savages can be better understood when we understand where we are coming from and what we have missed on our way to where we are and to perdition.
Lessons from the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster
The modern-day Engineers in Japan who built the Fukushima nuclear power plant ignored the ancient, but prescient, warning of their forebears written down on tablets known as the Tsunami stones, "Don't Build Anything Here". The stones were placed centuries ago by villagers who had experienced first-hand the region's devastating earthquakes and floods. Failure of the so-called modern Japanese Engineers, who trusted in their sophisticated designs and techniques and being superior to anything their ancestors could ever have imagined, ended in the catastrophic destruction of the Fukushima nuclear power plant when the Tsunami finally came. We ignore history to our own destruction.
As the world tethers on events of mass extinction arising from a misuse of the fragile resources of the Earth, we need to go back and understand how and where we missed it. History can help us connect the dots of retracing our steps back to our common humanity and save ourselves.
With so much misinformation and many conspiratorialists out there, studying history can equip us with the skills we need to look critically at evidence and equip ourselves to distinguish facts from fiction. Facts don't matter because everyone can invent her own illusory bubble and get others to inhabit it through hypnosis.
It's important to use modern technology to bring the study of history back to the curriculum. This time it should be taught not like a series of historical facts, but as a subject requiring deeper inquiry. Students are encouraged to query the sources of their information and come to conclusions that can be backed by new evidence and expand the frontiers of understanding events not just for their relevance, but for the implications they hold for the actors then and for us who are seeking a better understanding of those events.
Lessons from America and the history of slavery
There is a battle for America's soul right now as concerning the role Slavery played in the founding of America. The battle is at best a defining moment for both the Republican Party and the Democrats after Donald Trump lost the White House and handily gave the Democrats the Senate and the House of Representatives.
To celebrate the 400th year anniversary of slavery, The New York Times in 2019 commissioned a study of Slavery curated by Nikole Hannah-Jones and is today known as the 1619 Project. The 1619 Project and a more steeped leftist theory known and formulated as the Critical Race Theory has pitted Republicans and Democrats for the soul of America. At the core of this battle is how the history of America's past should be taught in schools. Republicans are pushing laws to mandate "patriotic" education and to prohibit the teaching of 1619 Project and about America's racist past. Attempts at forbidding the teaching of 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory is perceived by Democrats as efforts to maintain white supremacy.
Teaching Critical Race Theory allows for an understanding of the Black struggles of bus rides that started 60 years ago to the fight for racial justice, voting rights and even for democracy today. Teaching 1619 Project can help expand learning and understanding in schools about America's past with race relations and help people better appreciate police killings and brutality against Blacks and other issues affecting Blacks in America that has limited opportunities available to them. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, contends that 1619 Project isn't an important year worth recognition. For him, the more important dates are 1776, 1787, 1861-1865. All these dates are connected in one way or the other to 1619, the year the first slaves arrived in America.
Without clear guidance to discussing all the issues that divided us in the past, enacting laws to prevent students from learning these issues won't save anyone – those who enact those restrictive laws and those who think in their hearts that history can be muscled.
If in over 400 years History lessons about the origins of Slavery are still being debated, how do we think we can understand, or let alone fix the problems we would confront in the next 400 years without clear guidance in understanding how we have fared with all the difficult issues of the past that are still tearing us apart today?


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Spread 2 tablespoons coconut oil evenly in the pie pan.
Pulse the crust ingredients (on and off) until it is a crumby and place evenly inside springform pie pan and set aside.
Blend the filling ingredients extremely well until it's really creamy then pour in onto crust evenly.
Add topping onto the top of cheesecake and create designs if so desired, then place it in the freezer for 4-5 hours to set. When sharing, I highly suggest adding the topping sauce to every piece that gets served.


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BLAH Magazine: The Summer Issue
by Katherine Carlson
Beach Blanket Blah
How will you spend the summer? A reader poll:
• Standing in front of an open grocery freezer, staring at a box of two-stick popsicles and wondering aloud about who will be my Popsicle twin — 16 %
• The seasons changed? I didn't realize — 23 %
• Sitting in front of the air conditioner with a blanket and hot tea — 18 %
• Thinking about getting highlights and then not getting them because we're all going to die anyway — 29 %
• In denial — 14 %
Getting in Shape for Summer
With the days getting hotter, you might be forced to confront the fact that you are a corporeal being, not some misty apparition that floats from one encounter to the next. Or perhaps you already prefer to float high above your body, a one-woman Greek chorus shouting admonishments as the body bungles its way through the day ("People of Office Max, look on this Blah girl. See what black sea of terror surrounds her as she approaches the flatbed scanner").
Potential solutions: dissociate completely OR buy an ab roller off Craigslist.
So You've Got Hair
Loath though we are to admit it, the "beach hair" trend is actually a boon for Blah manes. Amp up your naturally vagrant texture by going to bed at 8:30pm. This will give your strands plenty of time to knot together while you toss and turn, replaying all of the day's regrets in your mind. If you can, sleep with your head under the pillow to enhance the cowlicks and the feeling of absolution.
When you wake up, just pick out any tortilla chips that may still be tied up in there and off you go, to the couch!
A Day at the Beach: The Stuff of Nightmares
We could go on forever about the beach and its atrocities: sunlight, heat, exposure of various body parts that are meant to stay swathed, wind, birds, children.
But wasn't there a time when you liked the beach? Like when you were young and didn't care if your bathing suit bottom sagged, and you would spend the whole day bobbing on the waves on your inflatable orca? Or when you were a bit older, but not so old as you are now, and you had, like — abs? Or even a couple years after that, when you and your ex found that secluded cove and you wished you could stay there forever, just the two of you?
Nope. You don't remember and the beach can eat a dick.
Wedding Season
That eternal love thing's going to work out great.
Oh Right You Don't Have a Country House
Here are some fun weekend diversions when everyone you know is away doing something better:
Neighbor Schadenfreude: If you stand next to the oven you can almost hear every word your neighbors are saying. Are they breaking up? She never listens, he has rage issues — ooh, did someone just storm out? Stay awake a few more hours and you can hear them have make-up sex. He likes to be called "Captain."
Don't Talk to Me: Run all weekend errands without speaking to anyone. With the Internet and a credit card this is surprisingly easy. Ultimately, no one likes talking.
Mind-Body Wellness Staycation: Wake early for a brisk jog followed by a bowl of quinoa and almond milk at the local organic café. Take a stroll in the park, pausing by the playground to make faces at a few babies, then it's on to the community garden to work on your raised vegetable bed for the afternoon. End the day by jotting down your reflections in the form of a quick villanelle and stabbing yourself through the temple because that day was terrible.
A Half-Hearted Attempt at Substance
There's this smart woman who did stuff. For other women, or maybe for kids and women. She's good-looking but not intimidatingly so. She probably went to a way better college than you did. Which is not your fault; you could've handled AP Calculus, but your parents always underestimated you.
Just Say it Already
We can tell you're thinking it, so stop being so passive-aggressive and spit it out. It actually offends us more when you hold back, like we're too fragile for the truth or something. Our sister is always doing that and we hate it (we'll discuss it at Thanksgiving, Meredith). Write or tweet to us and let it out: what makes you feel your most Blah?
See, Meredith? We do think about people other than ourselves.
Katherine Carlson is a writer and teacher in New York.
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The IRL Coconut Head Shares 14 'Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide' Secrets
No character was more memorable on "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" than the one and only Coconut Head. He was goofy, eccentric, cute and tossable.
After learning actor Rob Pinkston actually has really flawless hair, we hopped on the phone with him to talk all things Coconut Head.
Pinkston literally screamed during his audition, which honestly sounds like a very Coconut Head thing to do.
"[Coconut Head] was a very small role when I auditioned for it, in fact it didn't even have any lines. I went in and I was really nervous, so my acting coach told me that to let out my nerves I should just scream to get all of the jitters out.
...I took that literally, and so when I walked into the audition room, I actually screamed at the top of my lungs and scared the hell out of the casting director. [laughs] She didn't know what to do with it. But I went ahead and did the audition jitter-free and I guess I aced it."
The iconic hair was initially going to be spiky, NOT a bowl cut.
"Originally, the haircut was going to be short and soft and spiky, like a coconut on the outside, and they were actually going to shave my head. And they asked me when I auditioned... 'Are you comfortable with shaving your head for this part?' And I had a bowl cut at the time and I said, 'Yeah, of course,' [because] I'd do anything to get rid of the bowl cut."
Coconut Head doesn't actually have a real name.
After seeing the name "Peter Scholl" on the "Ned's Declassified" Wiki page, I asked Pinkston if that name was true. According to him, it definitely wasn't. (Shocker, Wikipedia was wrong.)
"No, as far as I know, he never had a name... I always kind of thought his real name should be Cornelius... He felt like a Cornelius."
There was supposed to be a surprise ending to Coconut Head's story, but it never happened.
"There was talk that they were going to have an episode at the very, very end or for the movie that my character was going to come back and have a brand new haircut and be the coolest kid in school, but I'm kind of glad they didn't go that way."
There was a stunt wig, because of course there was.
"There were two [wigs]. There was the one that I wore all the time, and then there was the stunt wig, just in case."
And the wig fell off a lot during filming.
"I'd never worn a hair wig thing before so I didn't know what to expect, but they actually put this stocking on your head before they put the wig on and then they pin it to the stocking so once it was on it was pretty much on all day, but it was pretty hot... And with how much I spazzed out, I kind of knocked [it] off my head a lot."
One of the wigs ended up where it belonged — in Pinkston's possession.
"I actually kept a bunch of props from set. We weren't supposed to, but I totally stole the wig. I also stole some of the signs that were around school."
The cast pretended a tiny man lived in Pinkston's wig — no, seriously.
"I used to pretend that there was a tiny man living in my wig and I would talk to him in-between takes. We had this running gag where everybody would have conversations with my wig [in-between takes on set]."
The episode with Fabio was one of Pinkston's favorite moments, because duh.
"That was probably the greatest moment of my life, getting a picture with Fabio carrying me. [laughs] He is exactly like he looks... in the pictures. You don't realize that he is a giant strong man with this long hair and giant pecs, and it was just hilarious watching him walk around on set."
Pinkston loves the Coconut Head fandom, even though it's weird AF.
"I'm a total geek and so I'm pretty keen on all the stuff that's going on in the weird corners of the internet. I have a lot of friends who always send me things that they find of me. [In the anime show 'Attack on Titan'] there's this wimpy little kid character who's always screaming other people's names and he wears a coconut head and so somebody drew that character on top of me... Basically there's this whole anime movement of having Coconut Head play this character. So I'm pretty proud of that one."
Not even Coconut Head is safe from the "Dad" comments.
"I don't understand what's going on with that, and I have gotten a lot of dad comments... And I was thinking, I don't know how old these people are, but it could be very bad if they're not over a certain age."
Pinkston's real dad played Coconut Head's dad.
"[My real dad] played my [stage] dad for a brief moment in the car wash episode... There's a moment when all the cars are backed up in the line because we're not doing our job well, and one of the guys in line is wearing this awful, awful larger version of a coconut head wig... that's actually my dad."
Pinkston knows exactly what Coconut Head grew up to be in life.
"Oh, [he's] obviously a hairstylist... [but] I can see him definitely being on 'The Voice' or 'American Idol,' and having a big moment of stardom... Either that, or he'd go viral on the internet for some dumb thing."
Coconut Head and Pinkston actually weren't that different growing up.
"I was the short weirdo in middle school and high school. So, I was basically like Coconut Head. I was bullied all the time and had the weird haircut and people would always comment on my looks. And I would be embarrassing myself in ridiculous ways. So, I actually learned a lot of those lessons [from 'Ned's Declassified'] just from my own experience, before the show started. And then when I started seeing [the tips] in the show, I was like, 'Man, if I had only known earlier.'"
Coconut Head is internationally famous (as he should be).
"I was traveling with my family in Germany, and I saw the show in German and everybody called my character 'Kokosnusskopf.' And I was really, really impressed. I have a huge following in the Latin countries. I have a ton of Spanish-speaking followers. I believe it's from South America, but I'm not too sure. But it's insane. More than half of my fans come from there.
...I got a bunch of fan mail from people in Germany and including one person who said that since the show had come out, the Coconut Head bob haircut had become a huge thing at their school and everybody at the school started getting a haircut."
If you're wondering what Pinkston is up to now — besides having fantastic hair — he has a new project in the works.
"I took a break from acting for a little bit to go to film school... I graduated and then I started making TV shows. So now I'm actually writing and directing a show very similar to 'Ned's [Declassified'] that I'm not allowed to talk much more about it.
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When my eldest daughter was eight months old, we took the train into the nearest city for little daytime getaway. I nestled into the only available two-person seat, which was adjacent to a young couple. About 15 minutes into our journey, the baby needed to nurse. Breastfeeding in public as a plus-size woman had proven difficult for me since Luna was born, but I always tried to push through any anxiety. On this day, I did just that — but I also received concrete proof that my anxiety had been justified all along.
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Existing in a fat body can sometimes feel like a paradox. You are all at once hyper-visible and invisible. When you take up a certain amount of physical space, you are typically dehumanized on the regular, examined as an "epidemic," and (all too often) wholly disrespected by strangers, relatives, peers, health professionals, and mainstream media alike. At the same time, however, you are ignored. You aren't listened to. You aren't looked at, treated with kindness, or asked to join in. You are either over-sexualized or entirely desexualized. You aren't thought of as worthy of basic human decency.
I don't believe I have ever once seen a fat woman breastfeeding her child out in the open.
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If my father has left specific amounts to 3 grandchildren in his Will, what happens if there isn't enough money left to cover this?
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If your father's estate is not sufficient to pay the beneficiaries named in his Will, then the amount that each grandchild receives is reduced proportionately. By reducing the amounts proportionately, each grandchild will be able to receive part of the bequest.
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It used to be that "dinner and a movie" happened in two different places. But over the last few years, the explosion in popularity of dine-in movie theaters has changed the nature of that classic date structure. Now, you can watch your movie and have dinner during it, too.
While the standard fare like popcorn, nachos and candy are still very much available, indie and legacy theaters alike are investing heavily in more robust dine-in options to lure moviegoers to the big screen in the era of endless at-home streaming.
On this episode of Eater's Digest, hosts Daniel Geneen and Amanda Kludt take a look back at the history of food at the movies with Professor Jonathan Kuntz from UCLA's School of Theater Film and Television, then head to Nitehawk Theater in Williamsburg to experience it themselves. How did we get here — and what food actually makes sense in theaters?
The Birth of the Concession Stand
When the Great Depression hit, movie theaters were some of the first businesses to go into bankruptcy. So in the early 1930s, theaters tried everything they could to lure movie goers back in front of the screen, including half price showings and double features, but food sales especially provided lucrative profit margins. In those early days, movie goers would hit the drugstores and food carts in the entertainment districts where theaters were often located before heading inside to watch a flick. By bringing the concession stand into the theater, they managed to stay afloat.
Why Popcorn?
Popcorn and popcorn poppers were already around in America at the turn of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the resurgence of movies in the thirties that popcorn enjoyed worldwide fame. Theater managers could produce and package popcorn for pennies a bag, mark it up, and sell it for a dime. An added bonus, says Professor Kuntz, was the aroma. The smell of fresh popcorn billowing out of theater doors proved to be a powerful magnet for movie goers. Popcorn at the movies became so popular, Professor Kuntz says, that the farm acreage dedicated to corn in the United States exploded as movie attendance resurged.
What About Booze?
It used to be that alcohol was prohibited from theaters for fear of rowdiness, Professor Kuntz explains. In an effort to attract middle class families, early theaters were dry zones. The owner of Nitehawk Theaters in Brooklyn, a small chain of theaters showing first-run movies as well as retro classics, ran into an old holdover from this era when opening his first location in 2011, according to Jessica Giesenkirchen, Nitehawk's operations manager. He lobbied against a law in New York that banned alcohol in motion picture theaters and successfully got it overturned. Now, Nitehawk and other dine-in theaters like are investing in dedicated cocktail programs to lure customers to the movies.
Soup Is a No-Go
Designing a menu for a movie theater carries its own unique challenges. One of those is showtimes. "Everybody is ordering at the same time, within 15 to 20 minutes of the movie starting," Giesenkirchen explains. The bigger challenge? Light, or lack thereof. "Are they going to be able to eat it in the dark? Is it something they can identify in a dark theater so they know what they're eating?" Giesenkirchen said. "Soup's not a good idea because of the clanking the spoon makes, and the slurping. It just doesn't work."
Subject Matters
What's on the screen has a big impact on food and drink sales, according to Giesenkirchen. Movies with subtitles and heavy subject matter tank those numbers, while fun romps lend themselves to shared plates and lots of booze (think Hustlers versus 12 Years a Slave).
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Below, a lightly edited transcript of our interviews with Professor Jonathan Kuntz, Jessica Giesenkirchen of Nitehawk Cinema, and Jennifer Douglass, the food and beverage director at AMC Theatres.
Amanda Kludt: I love these movie theaters where they have restaurants. Love it. Love the ordering at your seats.
Daniel Geneen: You mean the movie theaters that we're going to spend a decent portion of today's segment talking about?
Amanda: Yeah. I just want to say that up front. Love eating popcorn out of those metal bowls, love having a cocktail in a real glass. So on board.
Daniel: So we're going to look at how we got there and-
Amanda: How did we get here?
Daniel: Well, we're not going to talk about today without going into the past a little bit.
Amanda: You got to go back to the past.
Daniel: And to do that, we are going to talk to professor Jonathan Kuntz of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Do you want to just give us the history of food at the movie theaters?
Professor Kuntz: In the early days of movie houses, there was not a lot of food sales. People who wanted to eat from the nickelodeon days of the early 20th century into the classic silent era of the 1920s, generally, if they wanted to eat something, they would go next door to the theater, to a drug store and pick up candy bars or something to eat. In the downtown areas of most towns where entertainment districts were, there would be people with pushcarts in the streets selling food. But then the Great Depression comes along. And the first things to go into bankruptcy are going to be the theaters and the theater chains in the early 1930s. They saw it drop off at the box office. And by 1931 and 1932, you start to see movie companies slipping into bankruptcy. And that includes producers, distributors, and exhibitors. When the box office started to drop off, they found themselves in terrible trouble. And so, exhibitors came up with all kinds of strategies in the early 1930s to try and bring people back into the theater.
Amanda: Oh, I see. So do you think food was one of those items to lure people back to watch movies again?
Professor Kuntz: Yes. Well, it's not just to lure people to watch a movie, it's to increase the profits.They tried a lot of strategies like half-price nights and two-for-one movies, the double bill. That ended up being pretty successful. But the food sales proved to be the way they could really boost the money they were bringing in. So, in the early 1930s, we see them starting to bring food sales into the movie houses. What the theaters discovered right away with food sales, where there were certain things that were really, really successful. One thing was soda pop. They had been reluctant to vend drinks in glasses. But by the 1930s, they were able to mass-produce paper cups at a very cheap rate. And so they could vend sodas such as Coca-Cola. If they dropped a paper cup on the auditorium floor, it was a mess but it wasn't broken glass. And there's a tremendous markup in soda also. Then there's popcorn, of course. Popcorn, I guess, was kind of a food that was around from the 19th century. There were already popcorn poppers being produced in the late 19th century. But of course, it's the motion pictures and the movie theater that brings popcorn to world fame. Popcorn becomes the magical movie food in the 1930s. Popcorn is in so many ways the perfect movie food. And the popcorn could be put into a paper bag. They could probably pay just a few pennies for the bag and the ingredients. And they could sell that for a dime and make a huge markup. A researcher, I believe it was Douglas Gomery, a film history researcher, did some research into Department of Agriculture's statistics on acreage of corn planted for popcorn. In the 1930s, it skyrockets in the United States because that's when popcorn really becomes the favorite movie food. And it spreads all over the U.S. and eventually to large parts of the world.
Amanda: What do you think when you go to a theater these days and you see all of the food options?
Professor Kuntz: Okay. Well first off, we have to point out that the food sales in the theater, they're dealing with a captive audience, much as at the ballpark. So you can have a tremendous markup. And I'm sure everybody has noticed that for that soda or for that tub of popcorn at the movie house, you pay a huge amount more than you would pay if you've made it yourself at home or bought it outside the movie theater. So the profit margins there are fabulous. It's sad that since the 1930s, many movie houses make their profits off their candy counter. They're happy to break even on their ticket sales if they can get access to those patrons and sell them the marked-up food products. You may think of a movie theater as a place where you go to see movies. But to the theaters themselves in many ways, they have, you might say, become kind of diversified of food sales sites, that the food sales are their primary goal here because that's where they make their money.
Daniel: So I think the biggest change in movie theater dining that we've all experienced in the last few years is the growing kitchen.
Amanda: Oh, yeah. The dine-in.
Daniel: The dine-in theater.
Amanda: We're not just talking snacks.
Daniel: With a real server, with cutlery. And the first place in New York that I really saw it start to happen is that Nitehawk theater. So we went to Nitehawk to talk to their director of operations, Jessica Giesenkirchen, about how they get food from a professional kitchen into a movie theater.
Jessica Giesenkirchen: Sort of every time we develop a menu, we're talking about a lot of different factors. One of the guard rails would be the showtimes. Everybody pretty much sits down at the same time, or within 15, 20 minutes of the movie starting. So, is it going to come out hot? Is it going to stay hot before it reaches the guest? Are they going to be able to eat it in the dark? Is it something they can identify well enough in a dark theater that they know what they're eating? So they're like jabbing into something that they might not have ordered. It's getting a little busy in here, so we can have a seat at the bar.
Daniel: Could you run us down a little bit of the history of where we are?
Jessica: So, we opened in 2011. The owner was looking for a manager and I had restaurant experience. And he had a vision of what this place would be and that we would show good movies. And have a mix of first-run and also retro programming but also the introduction of food and beverage, which in New York was not a thing. What happened is he came to New York and he discovered that it was against the law to serve alcohol at a motion picture theater. So he lobbied against that rule, got it overturned. And we were the first people to have a liquor license to serve alcohol in a motion picture theater in New York State, which was a big deal.
Daniel: Do people expect your food to be good?
Jessica: I hope so. What we try to do when we develop a menu is to really impress people. We don't have a microwave. There is no nachos that have been sitting anywhere. Nothing's reheated. So, what we're trying to do is to elevate that whole food experience. Because I want people to be like, "Oh, that was better than I ever thought it could be."
Daniel: What are the main things you think about when developing an item for the menu here? Is it sound? Is it ease of eating?
Jessica: It's a lot of those things. I mean, our menu development's pretty extensive. The kitchen and the bar will develop some ideas and we'll do tastings. And in those tastings, we're talking about hot food. How's it going to be eaten in the theater and not take away from the movie experience? Soup's not a good idea because of the clanking that the spoon makes. And the slurping, it just doesn't work. It does not work.
Daniel: Do you notice food sales change depending on the tone of the movie?
Jessica: Yes. 100%. Subtitles, no food, very little drinking. You got to pay attention. You got to watch the screen so people aren't going to reorder food. You got to concentrate a little bit more.
Daniel: Interesting.
Jessica: Hustlers right now. Fun movie, nothing but fun. Drink, eat, have fun. The bigger the group is they're going to share more food. They're going to start drinking more. They're in for fun.
Daniel: So have there been any movies that are notorious clunkers for food sales?
Jessica: Anything that's very violent. Or what was it, 12 years a Slave?
Daniel: I had a feeling that that movie might not have been...
Jessica: Heavy emotionally or historically is, again, it's like the subtitles. People are paying attention more and not indulging.
Daniel: Are there movies where people are just like weeping with joy and shoveling their face with tater tots?
Jessica: I mean, that's our ideal customer. I thought you were going to say sobbing their eyes out, which is another thing.
Daniel: Yeah.
Jessica: But that's just movie theater, like when to pull the lights up because everybody's crying.
Daniel: Oh, do you sometimes let the lights stay down for a little bit?
Jessica: Well, we'll consider it or think about it or be aware of it. Because the servers are in the theater and their mission is to go in, clear the theater and get ready for the next round. But if they have people that are sitting and still sort of digesting what they've seen...
Daniel: And eaten.
Jessica: And eaten, then sometimes you have to give them a minute.
Daniel: What are your bestsellers? Is popcorn still the number one thing that people are buying here?
Jessica: Yes. By like thousands. Those people that might not order food though, they might get a soda or a popcorn.
Daniel: And they expect you guys to do something interesting with it?
Jessica: Yeah.
Amanda: Daniel, so you can't get soup at Nitehawk. You also can't get soup at legacy theaters like AMC, which are also investing in a lot of dining options.
Daniel: If you know of a movie theater that sells soup, please email us at email@example.com because we want to talk to them.
Amanda: Yeah, we really want to talk to them.
Jennifer Douglass: Obviously, I think you don't want to serve soup. I think that's probably going to end up being on my headstone when I die.
Amanda: That's Jennifer Douglass, the food and beverage director at AMC.
Jennifer: I will tell you, I've been with AMC for 32 years. I started when I was 16 so you can do that math. And when I started out scooping popcorn and I now consider myself to be the head popcorn scooper. But no, when I started when I was 16, I just think about, we basically served popcorn and candy and drinks. And those are all fine to be serving in the theaters. But I think about... And nachos got introduced, which believe it or not, back in like 1987, that was a really big deal. We got Icees in there. Then I kind of fast-forward 32 years and it's like, wow, we've come such a far way in terms of what we're able to offer, not just in our dining theaters. And we have a good presence there with 49 of those. But it's just a very exciting time.
Amanda: Can you talk a little bit about those technology changes and how that's allowed you to alter what you're able to bring into theaters?
Jennifer: Things like the different types of ovens that we can put in theaters and safely operate. We invested in a technology or a piece of equipment called an auto fry. So, I mean it's completely enclosed. It has its own Ansul system inside of it but it allows you in a traditional theater to have that really high-quality fried food.
Daniel: So what can someone expect going into an average AMC, in terms of food options these days?
Jennifer: There is flatbreads. We have also expanded selections of pretzel bites. We have two different types of sliders, chicken and also beef sliders. We have those fabulous mini tacos and the mini mac and cheese bites. And then my favorite thing that just launched, again, about two or three weeks ago is we actually added mac and cheese bowls to our traditional theaters in that feed fair program, and let me tell you, those are quite tasty.
Amanda: When you think about who you're competing with in terms of adding food options, do you think these days you're competing with other movie brands? Or is it the home theater and people who might just watch some Netflix and eat some popcorn on their couch?
Jennifer: I think people that like to stay home and have a Netflix night and have dinner at home are also the same people that enjoy a movie night out and want the flexibility to have either enhanced food there in the theater or to have a true dining experience where you're really getting food that's being made from scratch. Again, I think in the last few years, you've really seen those types of places really step up their game in terms of what type of food is being prepared in that environment. And I think that's good for us. Because I don't know that people automatically associate great food and at a reasonable price in a movie theater environment. So I think the more that we build the culinary credibility and kind of those out-of-home entertainment spaces that that kind of rising tide makes it better for all the ships that are floating in that space.
Amanda: Awesome. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. So Daniel, what'd you learn about food at the movies?
Daniel: When I don't like someone, I'm going to call them theater soup.
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PC gamers wanting to see a little Star Wars retro-action might be able to find the demo floating around somewhere on the internet. Here's one link although you'll need to download at your own risk.


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Pro-government forces enter key Syrian rebel town of Maaret al-Numan
Pro-Syrian government forces have entered the strategic Idlib town of Maaret al-Numan, dealing a severe blow to the rebel forces defending it.
Some sources have reported that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have captured the town in its entirety, however, others suggest that fighting is ongoing in its western outskirts and a rebel counterattack is pushing back.
Either way, the advance is a significant victory for Assad's troops, who have been staging a months-long assault with Russian backing on Idlib province, the opposition's last redoubt.
One rebel fighter, speaking to Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity, said a "miracle" was needed to push back the offensive.
'We are in a very desperate position and we need a miracle'
- Rebel fighter
"We need new heavy arms to deter Russia's advanced weaponry," he said. "We possess anti-armour missiles but they are old and undeveloped. They cannot counter modern Russian tanks."
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Maaret al-Numan, a town long-held by rebel groups, was described as a "big loss for the Syrian revolution" by the fighter.
"We are in a very desperate position and we need a miracle," he said.
He added that Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the militant group who largely controls Idlib province, was not putting all its forces into the battle, putting opposition forces at a greater disadvantage.
The town has reportedly been largely destroyed and deserted, as bombings and shelling in recent days obliterated homes and vital infrastructure.
"Maarat al-Numan and surrounding towns have been deserted by civilians. People are afraid to get killed in the offensive, or get detained," said displaced activist Akram al-Masri from the nearby town of Hish.
Thousands flee
Assad's assault has in recent weeks sent hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing towards the Turkish border.
On Monday, thousands of people were seen heading north out of the towns of Ariha and Saraqeb. Roads were jam-packed with cars, trucks and bikes.
Anas al-Swadi, from Hish, told MEE that he could not afford the costs of displacement.
"During my first days of displacement, the northern areas were very expensive and water wasn't available, so my father and I came back to our town," he said.
But Swadi's home was later destroyed and his father was killed. Eventually, he was forced to flee Hish again as pro-government forces advanced in the area.
Most of the towns captured by Damascus in the last year are still empty, with civilians afraid to return to their hometowns.
'Maarat al-Numan and surrounding towns have been deserted by civilians. People are afraid to get killed in the offensive, or get detained'
- Akram al-Masri, activist
"Most of the people from my town have been displaced. Each of them is now displaced in a different location to everyone else," said Swadi.
In the past 12 days alone, some 120,000 people have fled from areas of the Idlib and Aleppo countryside under attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group.
Rebel-backer Turkey, which already hosts some 3.5 million Syrian refugees, is concerned that millions more could now attempt to cross the border.
Ankara has a military presence in Idlib and its environs, with several observation points. However, as pro-Syrian forces have moved north, Turkey has been compelled to reassess its deployment.
Early on Tuesday, a large Turkish military convoy arrived in the area and installed a new observation post south of Saraqeb, a strategic area that overlooks both the M4 and M5 highways.
Damascus is seeking to control the two major arteries that run between government-held cities.
As pro-Assad forces made gains, Turkey's defence ministry warned his country would retaliate "in the strongest way, without hesitation" against any attack on its observation posts in Idlib.
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Learn how to observe correctly to pass your driver's test and be a safer, smarter driver.
How to Observe to Pass YOUR Road Test First Time
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- Hi there, smart drivers.
Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about observation.
How you need to move your head for the purposes of passing a road test.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
[INTRO & UPBEAT MUSIC] Hi there smart drivers, welcome back.
Talking to you today about observation.
Now just before we started here, Smart Drive Test helps new drivers get a license, veteran drivers remain crash free, and CDL drivers to start a career as truck or bus driver.
So if you're new here, consider subscribing just about there.
If you're on a mobile device, it's going to be a little bit off screen there.
And as well, hit that bell.
That way you'll get instant notification when I get the videos up for you.
Now a couple weeks ago on a livestream, I had one of the smart drivers say that he had another examiner in the car that was training during his road test, and the other examiner was watching his eyes.
Driving Instructor Mirrors to look at Students' Eyes are STUPID
Well I kinda had a passionate opinion about that, about some driving instructors who have other, have extra mirrors in the car to look at the student's eyes.
And said that unless you're moving you're head, you're not observing correctly.
And actually I had another smart driver comment furthermore that he was unsuccessful in his road test because he wasn't moving his head.
So I'm gonna show you the clip from the livestream here, and then after that I'll come back.
And I'm in the car, and I'm gonna show you how to move your head for the different observations that you need to do for the purposes of passing a road test.
So here's the livestream.
Live Stream - You Gotta Move Your Head
Gordon: when I went for my road test, I had two testers with me, one was in training.
I did not notice the tester looking at my eyes to make sure I was checking my mirrors.
Ah, yeah.
(chuckles) I love that one, Gordon, that they have all these mirrors in the car and they say all the driving examiners looking to see where you're looking.
If you're just moving your eyes in the vehicle and they're looking at them, as far as I'm concerned you're not observing properly because you cannot just move your eyes like this and look to where you need to look.
When you're looking in a wing mirror, you're gonna go like this.
You're gonna move your head.
It's the same thing when you're looking at a center mirror.
You're not just gonna go like this.
You can't just look in the center mirror, you gotta move your head up to look.
So when driving, and I've had driving instructors tell me this and I completely disagree, and I have the same thing with driving examiners.
They've said the same thing: "oh, we're looking to see where you're looking."
And it's like you're moving your head.
Your eyes don't move enough to be able to do all the observation that you need to do correctly in a vehicle.
So you're gonna be moving your head.
You're gonna be looking in the center mirror, you're gonna be looking in the wing mirror, you're gonna be looking down the road, looking in the wing mirror over there.
So your head has to move (laughs) 'cause your eyes don't move enough in your skull for you to do that.
So when people tell me that, I always chuckle, I just chuckle.
So in the car, had a comment this morning when I was finishing up this video from Faith Wisdom, and she wanted to know if you had to move your eyes after you moved your head to shoulder check, and the answer in no, you simply don't have enough time.
You're just gonna turn your head.
How Does Human Vision Work?
Your peripheral vision, which is 180° degrees in a healthy adult, is going to take care of the rest of it after you turn your head 90° degrees, because our peripheral vision is attracted to light and movement and if there are other road users, then there's movement and we sense that.
Or there's light or something in the area where we're looking, our peripheral vision's gonna hole in our central vision to further investigate.
So it's important that if you shoulder check and you see something, look forward, make sure your vehicle's going in the right direction, and look again to get a good sense of what's there and what you need to prepare for in terms of a potential hazard in your blind areas and the areas around your vehicle.
I'm gonna show you how to do the scanning while you're driving.
Scanning Pattern While Driving Forward
So you're sitting in the seat square.
You're gonna change these intervals every 8 to 10 seconds.
So you're looking down the road into the instrument panel, so you're gonna move your head down slightly.
Windshield down the road, eight to 10 seconds, and check the wing mirror on the left.
Down the road again.
Intersections, you're obviously scanning intersections as well while you're driving.
And then in and check that mirror.
So every eight to 10 seconds, you're gonna be rotating through that scanning pattern while you're driving in a forward motion.
So down the road, instrument panel, down the road, center mirror, down the road, shoulders, left wing mirror, down the road, right wing mirror, and then continually repeat that as you're driving.
And of course you're gonna be scanning intersections when you're driving through intersections, controlled and uncontrolled intersections.
So that's in a forward motion.
Changing Lanes & Turning
Anytime that you move the vehicle laterally, you're changing lanes, or you're moving sideways, or you're making turns, you're gonna do shoulder checks two times.
One approximately half a block before the turn and the other one immediately before the turn.
And you're gonna make the shoulder check 90° degrees in the direction that you're turning.
So if you're turning left, okay approximately half a block before the turn, 90° degrees to the left.
Forward, immediately before the turn, 90° degrees again.
If you're stopped at the intersection for a period of time, you may have to do two or three.
And then if you're turning to the right, 90° degrees to the right, shoulder checking half a block before the turn and then immediately before the turn.
So that's for any time that you're turning or doing sideways movements, when you're changing lanes and those types of things.
Slow-Speed Manoeuvres
Then if you're gonna reverse and you're gonna do reverse stall park, three point turn, parallel parking, or two point reverse turn, and I'll leave all the videos down in the description for you for those different maneuvers that you have to do for the purposes of a road test.
Now before you back up, you're gonna do a 360° degree scan.
And again, I'll leave this video down in the description for you.
360° degree scan, and then backing up.
You put your hand on the back of the passenger seat, one hand on the steering wheel, and turn, and look out the back window.
Backup Cameras
You can't use a, the only place that I'm aware of that you can use a backup camera is New Jersey, but know, for the purposes of a road test, all of these other skills are applicable.
360° degree scan, looking out the back window, checking your backup camera, 360° degree scan, and every vehicle length stop the vehicle to do a 360° degree scan and make sure there aren't other road users around.
So that's how you observe for the purposes of your road test.
It is instrumental that you move your head because your eyes do not move enough in your skull to be able to observe properly for the purposes of a road test.
Bigger Vehicles & Observation
Another point.
The bigger the vehicle, the more you're gonna have to move your head to do those scans and observations.
So as you move up in bigger and bigger vehicles, for those of you in SUVs, you're gonna move your head more.
Buses, trucks, those types of things, you're gonna move your head even more.
The other cornerstones of the road test:
• observation;
• communication;
• speed management;
• and space management.
You have to have all of those components in place to be successful on a road test.
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For another great video, click here.
All the best on your road test and remember, pick the best answer, not necessarily the right answer.
Have a great day, bye now!


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Marine Corps Jet Crashes In Imperial Valley
The pilot of a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier was able to safely eject from the jet before it crashed in the Imperial Valley Wednesday afternoon. A Marine Corps Air Station Yuma spokeswoman told the Associated Press the jet crashed roughly 15 miles northwest of the base at about 3:30 yesterday afternoon.
According to the A.P.:
The A.P. reports Marine Corps Air Station Yuma is the busiest air station in the Corps.
The pilot was taken to Yuma Regional Medical Center for observation. His name wasn't released...
[H]e was a Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 pilot and the Harrier squadron was based out of MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., and was doing training operations in Yuma.


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The Carolina Hurricanes announced Saturday afternoon that they have traded defenseman Joel Edmundson to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick (#139 overall) in the 2020 NHL entry draft. Edmundson is set to become a free agent on Friday, October 9.
Don Waddell, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has acquired Montreal's fifth-round selection in the 2020 NHL Draft in exchange for the rights to defenseman Joel Edmundson.
#Canes send rights to Joel Edmundson to Canadiens for fifth-round draft pick
More Info » https://t.co/UcUCRASKEH pic.twitter.com/SDbzChW0ZA
— Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) September 12, 2020
Edmundson, 27, recorded 20 points (7g, 13a) in 68 games with the Hurricanes this season. The 6'4″, 215-pound defenseman has earned 72 points (20g, 52a) in 337 career NHL games with St. Louis and Carolina.
The 2020 NHL Draft with be held virtually over two days. Round 1 will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 6 and Rounds 2-7 will begin on Wednesday, Oct. 7.
The trade means that the Canadiens have acquired the rights to negotiate with Edmundson prior to the first day of free agency. Edmundson could very well test the market when free agency opens on October 9, and sign with another team. However, the trade seems to indicate that the Canadiens feel fairly confident that they will be able to reach an agreement with Edmundson.
Joel Edmundson (UFA rights acquired by MTL) was one of the worst defencemen in the league this season. He would likely be the worst LD on the Canadiens by a sizeable margin. #GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/RWcamU3lL6
— JFresh (@JFreshHockey) September 12, 2020
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The newest Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) mission initiative in "joint information warfare" is making progress, according to Nand Mulchandani, who took over as acting director of the Defense Department AI development center last month.
"The JAIC has six mission initiatives underway that are all making exciting progress," said Mulchandani during a July 8 press briefing. He said those mission areas are: joint warfighting operations; warfighter health; business process transformation; threat reduction and protection; joint logistics, which covers predictive maintenance efforts; "and our newest one, which is called joint information warfare, which also covers cyber operations."
Mulchandani called information security "parallel but similar" to traditional cybersecurity, adding that both have "offensive and defensive modes." When discussing defensive information security, Mulchandani called Natural Language Processing (NLP) and speech-to-text "a fairly mature AI technology."


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Swrve Increases Annual Revenue by 250 Percent; Supports Three Billion Transactions per Day
Copyright 2014 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/:
Swrve, the leader in mobile marketing automation, today announced it has increased annual revenues in the first half of 2014 by more than 250 percent over the first half of 2013 and that Jim Mongillo has been appointed SVP of Global Sales. The company also announced that everyday more than three billion transactions take place and over 750 million users interact with the Swrve platform.
2014 milestones that drove the company's growth include:
- Transactional growth – Swrve now monitors more than 3 billion transactions per day across more than 750 million users. The company also delivers 300 million in-app messages per month. Likewise, in recent months Swrve has seen a 70% increase in push messages sent; an 86% increase in A/B tests created; and a 213% increase of in-app campaigns developed.
- Development of partner ecosystem via open platform – Through Swrve's open platform, over a dozen partners pre-integrated with Swrve to help marketers see real ROI and create better customer experiences across mobile and web. Key partners include Marketo, Eloqua, Tableau, TUNE, AppsFlyer, Lytics, Converser, Nexmo, AdX and Apsalar.
- Expansion of leadership team – Swrve hired on two leading industry veterans in 2014, former Urban Airship and Skype exec Christopher S. Dean as CEO, and Steve Gershik as CMO, previously with Eloqua, Nuance and StackMob. With today's news, the company also announced the hire of Jim Mongillo, who previously held key roles at Oracle, Jive and BEA, as SVP of Global Sales.
- Office expansion – A New York City-based office opened to complement the existing operations in Dublin, Ireland and San Francisco, California.
- Continued product innovation – In addition to the open platform rollout, Swrve has delivered various product innovations, including support for iBeacons, among others.
"This past year was all about innovation and scale," said Christopher S. Dean, CEO of Swrve. "As we prepare for 2015, our goal is to help our customers become the most successful mobile marketers on earth."
About Swrve
Swrve is the worldwide leader in mobile marketing optimization. The Swrve platform delivers everything app marketers need to ensure their mobile apps succeed where it counts, by modeling the consumer lifecycle and building long-lasting, profitable relationships with their users and driving top line revenue as a result.
Swrve supports the creation of multi-touch, automated campaigns that incorporate native content editing, push notifications and 'live' in-app messages: all supported by an A/B testing suite and the world's leading mobile analytics package. Swrve is trusted by some of the world's largest and most successful mobile app businesses and handles billions of events a day, processing data in real-time for multi-million DAU titles.
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/swrve-increases-annual-revenue-by-250-percent-supports-three-billion-transactions-per-day-300001489.html
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Change of Career Plans
MONMOUTH, Ill. – A biology major with a minor in chemistry, May graduate Ben Nelson had a decision to make as his post-Monmouth College future came into sharper focus.
That decision, fueled in some ways by the COVID-19 pandemic, will keep Nelson in the scientific realm but steer him in a different direction than the "hard sciences" he's studied for the past four years.
Nelson has been accepted into Tufts University's graduate program in public health, where he'll focus on biostatistics and epidemiology, the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
"My grandfather worked in public health with the state of Illinois, so it's always been in the back of my mind," said Nelson, who spent part of his childhood in Illinois but came to Monmouth from Bedford, N.H.
Public health got pushed to the front of Nelson's mind during the current pandemic.
"Due to the pandemic, I was at home and not lost in the magic of being on campus," he said of the last two months of his final semester at Monmouth. "Being at home and having a lot of time to think, I really got to buckling down and deciding for sure what I wanted to do."
Part of the magic of campus was Nelson's involvement with the men's fraternity Zeta Beta Tau. He held several offices in the chapter, including president, and was named the College's 2019 Greek Man of the Year.
Completing his master's degree will take two years, and the first semester has been moved online because of the pandemic.
"I've always been interested in statistics – it was my favorite part of math," said Nelson. "The opportunity to understand and apply statistics is a good marriage for me between hard science and social science."
At the end of two years, Nelson envisions pursuing "pharmaceutical settings, looking into how different markers affect different populations. That's a track that I'd be interested in."
He was asked if COVID-19 will still dominate the public health discussion in 2022.
"I would really hope not," he replied. "It's hard to say for sure, but I feel a strong vaccine is on the way in the next year. It's important to stay vigilant in the meantime."
Tufts, which is in Medford, Mass., just north of Boston, has the same small-school feel that Nelson grew accustomed to at Monmouth.
"Monmouth College prepared me very well," he said. "I especially appreciated the small class sizes and the way professors were always available, whether it was guidance on my senior research project or just any time I needed help. I came to realize that's the kind of situation that works best for me. I was also accepted into Boston University's program, but it's a bigger program, and the smaller classes at Tufts really appealed to me."
Looking ahead, Nelson hopes to be part of the solution for issues relating to public health.
"There's a lot of misinformation out there," he said. "I want to become part of the next generation of leaders in public health."
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 We're no stranger to winning. Last year the Fighting Scots won Midwest Conference championships in Football, Women's Soccer, Women's Basketball and Men's Track and Field.

Fighting Scots

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 Monmouth College has an active Pipe & Drum Band. Each year on Scholar's Day in April the bagpipers wake students up at 6:00 a.m. by playing in the residence halls!

Pipe Band

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 99% of Monmouth students received some type of scholarship or financial assistance.

Scholarships

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 Monmouth College offers unique academic minors in Global Public Health and Global Food Security for students who want to use their education to address global challenges.

Global Public Health

Global Food Security

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 We offer a certified Peace Corps Preparation program that gives Peace Corps bound graduates a leg up in the application process.

Peace Corps Prep

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 98% of Monmouth graduates were employed or enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation.

Career Preparation

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 Monmouth College has an educational garden and 6.7 acre farm. Students grow and harvest fruits and vegetables to sell at the local farmer's market.

Garden & Farm

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 Monmouth College is proudly test optional. Applicants may choose whether or to submit SAT or ACT scores for admission and scholarship consideration.

Test Optional

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 Monmouth College covers the cost for all current students to get a U.S. passport. Unlock access to over 198 different countries! We'll even help with the paperwork :)

Study Abroad

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 Monmouth College offers several international trips each year during 2-week Scots Terms in January and May. Recently students have traveled to Botswana, Greece, Scotland, Japan, and more.

Scots Term

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Monmouth College is the birthplace of the women's fraternity movement. Pi Beta Phi, the first such collegiate women's organization, was founded at Monmouth in 1867. It was followed three years later by Kappa Kappa Gamma. The two pioneering organizations today boast a total of 275 active chapters nationwide.

Sororities & Fraternities


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