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US president-elect Joe Biden is on track to become the first presidential candidate to raise $1 billion (Rs7,460 crore) from donors in a single election cycle and a bunch of Indian-Americans may have played an important role in helping him get here.
At least two dozen people from the Indian-American community raised over $100,000 each for Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, according to a list released on Biden's website on Nov. 1.
This list includes Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ajay Bhutoria, who has been a top "bundler" (a political fundraiser who collect contributions from donors on behalf of a campaign) for the Democratic Party.
Bhutoria was elected as a Biden delegate earlier this year and serves on the National Finance Committee for Biden. In 2016, Bhutoria was part of the National Finance Committee for Hillary Clinton's election, raising between $500 to $1 million. This election cycle, he also produced a campaign's video titled "Chale Chalo, Biden, Harris ko vote do" (Keep moving forward, vote for Biden and Harris) to the tune of popular Hindi film Laagan to reach out to Indian-Americans.
Also featured on Biden's list is Swadesh Chatterjee, a North Carolina-based leader and activist who was awarded the Padma Bhushan—India's third-highest civilian honour—in 2001 in the public affairs category for building US-India relations. He played an instrumental role in convincing former president Bill Clinton to lift sanctions on India and led the US-India Friendship Council in 2008 to lobby for the passage of the India-United States Civil Nuclear Agreement under George W. Bush.
Shekhar Narasimhan, founder of super PAC (political action committee) AAPI Victory Fund, which focused on mobilising Asian American and Pacific Islander voters is also on the list, along with Frank Islam, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who migrated to the US as a teenager and went on to become a multi-millionaire.
A top fundraiser for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, Shefali Razdan Duggal, also contributed upwards of $100,000 to Biden's campaign.
Other notable names in the list include Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Netflix's vice-president of content Bela Bajaria, who had also co-hosted the virtual Hollywood fundraiser headlined by Harris in September.
News reports have pointed that traditional Indian-American Democratic donors like hotel magnate Sant Chatwal are missing from the list. Before pleading guilty to making illegal contributions via straw donors during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, Chatwal was a major fundraiser for Democratic candidates.
The total list of Biden's deep-pocketed donors has over 800 names and Indian Americans are still just a sliver. "On average, Indian-Americans give more in campaign donations than most Asian Americans," Islam said. "But we don't contribute as much as White and Black Americans do. We still have a long way to go—but the good news is, we are heading in the right direction."
At 4 million, Indian Americans are one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in the US and the second largest immigrant group after Mexicans. They are also among the most educated and affluent lot. Over two-thirds of the group said they'd vote for Biden. And this election, they have poured in more money into politics than ever before, putting their money where their mouth is.


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Monday, December 6, 2021 Pre-Workshop Training
There will be two tracks: one for DTIC training and one specific for Librarian Technicians. Please only attend the Librarian Technician training if you are a Librarian Technician. The evening event is open to all. Attendance to all events this day is included with the $50.00 MLTW 2021 registration fee. I. DTICDTIC Discovery: Publicly Available Information - 10:00 - 11:00 amCarolyn Fota, Senior Trainer
DTIC STINFO Training - 11:15 am - 12:15 pmLaDona Kirkland, STINFO TrainerII. Pre-Training for Librarian Technicians
Troubleshooting an Online Library - 10:00 am - 10:45 amBrandan Carroll, Library Technician, Darnall Medical Library
The Other Side of the Story: Technical Services During the Pandemic (SLA New York) - 11:00 am - 12:00 pmEva B. Harris, Moderator, Senior Global Electronic Resources Manager, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPGreg Ferguson, Head of Resource Management, New York University LibrariesMichael Santangelo, Deputy Director for Collection Management, The New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public LibraryMarijah Sroczynski, Research Operations Manager, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Library Technician Networking Event - 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
The speaker for this event is ... you. Bring your questions, thoughts and concerns and get ready to chat with other library technicians. This is an informal sharing session to talk about anything the group wishes. Tongue-tied? Here are some questions that may get the conversation started:
Evening Event: 6:00 pm - Stacie Husmann - "Here We Go A-Wassailing"
Demonstrations of holiday snacks and spirits by Stacie Husmann, Air Force wife, via "Cooking Thyme with Stacie." This informal get-together is hosted by the Darnall Library Staff of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, who are the MLTW 2021 organizers, and led by Ann Holman. Join in the fun! This event is open to everyone, including 2021 MLTW non-attendees."Here We Go A-Wassailing" Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95472264480?pwd=L2F2TEJaQnZsOXYrRVptejhxbzJXUT09

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Syrmo's backend stack: Why we choose Parse as our BaaS solution?
This is the first post of the series about the technology behind Syrmo. The choices we made, the good, the bad and the ugly.
tl; dr
Parse is a really good solution for prototyping and getting an MVP quickly into the market. It has an active community behind it and it is well documented. It serves well as a CRUD application with authentication and authorization out of the box. It has nice SDKs for iOS, Android and Javascript. It is really easy to deploy and the mayor IaaS and PaaS providers have support for it.
If you have a small team, tight deadlines and an application that does not require backend business logic. Parse is a really good option.If you do have some backend business logic you can use AWS Lambda.
Parse + AWS Lambda = 💙 💚 💛
A little bit of background
When we started working on Syrmo, a performance tracker for skateboarders, we didn't start working on the end user iOS app first. There were a lot of unknowns and technical problems that we needed to solve before we can design how the end user experience will be like using Syrmo's mobile app. Things like:
How the Bluetooth LE protocol works and if it was well suited for our particular use case.
Validate that the sensors we were planning to use were accurate enough to gather the date we needed in order to be a able infer different metrics about a skateboard trick.
Learn about 3D rending technology and choose a cross-platform stack that will let us generate 3D animated replay of each skateboard trick based on the data recorded using our tracking device.
Develop a set of high-performant algorithms that will run on the tracking device and could detect when a user performed a skateboard trick discarding "noise" data.
Of course, as any other bootstrapping startup out there, we needed to figure out all this with an under staffed team, in the least amount of time and spending as few money as possible. Working on the backend was (and still is) really down in the list of priorities.
Once we tackled down most of our critical unknowns and started to show progress we began working on the end user mobile app. After a couple of discussions on what Syrmo's main value proposition was, we realized that its core feature needed to work without an internet connection. Skateboarders should be able to record a new skating session without needing to be connected to the internet. Obviously they need to be connected if they want to share their latest cool trick with their friends, check what their favorites skaters are doing or look for the hottest skateboarding spots near their location.
Did I say that we were understaffed? Well, for a long period of time I was the only software engineer in the team. I didn't want to spend time with the hassles of developing and maintaining a backend application. All I needed was CRUD application and an easy way to access the models over HTTP. There was almost no business logic that needed to run in the backed.
After doing some research I found Parse. It had everything I needed. It was a backend as a service. No need to provision machines, setup databases, design REST API or develop a networking layer. Parse had a
Mobile SDK for Android and iOS.
Blob storage.
A database model similar to MongoDB (which I had experience with).
Authentication and authorization out of the box.
Ability to execute custom business logic using CloudCode.
I did a quick prototype to test that all the features advertised by Parse worked as expected. After a couple of days I was really happy with the developer experience and what I could a accomplish in such a short time. Nevertheless I was still hesitant about Parse. I had a lot of experience with Ruby on Rails. I knew I could solve any problem with it.
Using a new technology is always fun and challenging but it comes with the associated cost of learning it. No matter how promising the new technology is, you will move slower first. Also when you look at the docs and the tutorials they always show you the happy paths. But what happens when you need to do something that nobody did before and when you cannot find a similar example? Ruby on Rails has 10 plus years of development and a huge community. Chances are that somebody already found the solution to your problem.
By the time we needed to start integrating a backend to our app the team got bigger. Two developers started to work with me on the iOS app. The catch was that they didn't have any experience on iOS nor Ruby on Rails. Which made my decision between Parse or Ruby on Rails quite easy. I decided to go with Parse.
Basically I didn't have the time to teach them both iOS and Rails. Also, as any other startup, we want to minimize our costs and engineers are one of the biggest source of cost. Not only because you have to pay them a salary, but also because they need to learn about the product, how the business works and in this case learn a new technology. Not to mention that when you add more people to a team you gain new problems. People's personal issues, coordination, communication, egos, etc. All this can slow you down.
About our experience with Parse
After a couple of months working with Parse, we were pretty happy with it. Most of the issues we encountered were related with how the data model works. If you come with traditional SQL database background there are some things that may look weird to you. For example how you model relations between object and the performance cost you may face. Sometimes is better to denormalize data to avoid joins. In Parse, joins are performed at the application level, meaning that they are not supported by the database, which means that in order to fetch relations you need several round trips to the database. This translates into higher latency and memory consumption.
Another problem that we have to solve was related with the offline feature. As I mentioned before Syrmo's core feature needs to work without an internet connection. We need to be able to store each trick's movement data and all the session's metadata (like location and duration) in the user's local database and then sync it back with the server when a connection is available. Parse offers a way to save objects into the client's local datastore (they call it object pinning). But there is a limitation with objects that have relations. If those relations were not persisted in the backend, saving the parent object won't save the child objects. There is another feature that lets you "save objects eventually". This feature saves object asynchronously and if the operation fails it stores the object inside an on-disk cache. The problem with this feature is that the cache has a fixed size (10MB according to the docs) that when reached it deletes old unsaved objects. Also once the objects are saved they are removed from the cache.
We ended up rolling out our solution to store objects on disk first and then using the save eventually feature to sync the local data with the backend. This solution is still far from ideal and it was the main source of bugs and complexity. A lot of bugs started to appear once we decided to add the possibility to edit and delete this objects. I could write a separate blog post about this (and probably will), but I can tell you now that maintaining consistency between the application's local store and the backend while being fault tolerant and making sure that you won't loose any data, is not a task to take lightly. There are companies which have dedicated products to solve this problems. You need to design your application with this constrains in mind from the start. Otherwise, adding offline support after the fact is going to be hard.
Bottom line, if you only need to store some non-critical objects the features provided by Parse are good enough but I wouldn't recommend it for any advanced offline-first application.
If your application requires real time collaboration and offline support you may find Firebase or Realm's mobile platform a better option. I don't have production experience with them. I only made some toy applications with Firebase but their collaboration and offline feature seems to be better designed than Parse's.
Parse shutdown
Everything was going smoothly until Parse announced they were shutting down the service. This was a big surprise and something that I couldn't anticipate. One of the reason I picked Parse in favor of other BaaS was that it had Facebook behind it.
The timing couldn't be worse. We had already invested significant amount of time on Parse. Making a transition to another service or writing our custom backend would incur in significant delays. I immediately started to evaluate different alternatives. After some research my options were:
Keep using Parse and eventually transition to the open source version.
Move to Firebase.
Move to AWS Mobile platform (a combination of Labmda, Dynamo, Cognito, S3).
Move to a custom Ruby on Rails application.
I decided not to go with AWS Mobile, due to the complexity of managing AWS services and that some glue code was required in order to make everything work. Also with AWS there is no simple way of having a local development environment. (Parse didn't have a local development enviroment but it was super easy and free to a get one instance per developer).
Then I spent two weeks reading Firebase's documentation and making a super simple Twitter-like app. I really liked what I could do with Firebase. Even more their realtime features are awesome. I knew that Firebase had everything I needed to implement all required features for Syrmo. But again, migrating to Firebase would require time that we didn't have.
Before jumping to a new boat I decided to give Parse a new chance. A couple of months after the shutdown announcement, the community appeared to be really responsive about the open source version of Parse. A lot of issues were being solved, new features got added and the documentation and migration plans were really good. I was still reluctant to having to maintain my own server, at least at this stage but I said to myself: "If the migration to the open source version of Parse works as smooth as the docs say and after a month there aren't any mayor issues, we'll keep using Parse". And so it was.
We now have our open source version of Parse server deployed to AWS Beanstalk. Let me tell you that the actual setup took me less than half an hour.
What about Parse CloudCode?
So far everything was working fine but there was an issue that needed to be solved. One of the feature that I liked about Parse was the possibility to execute custom code. This is a pretty important feature if you need to run some business logic in the backend. Although most of our logic is driven by the client, there are some features that are way simpler and more efficient to implement in the backend. Such as the user's feed. Similar to Twitter's feed, users can have a list of skate tricks shared by their friends in real time. Details on how we implemented this will be shared in a future blog post.
We needed a simple way to execute logic in the server. Something simple that will make a couple of queries to Parse, create some files in S3 and then create some models and save them back to Parse. I wanted something simple and didn't want to deal with provisioning, designing REST endpoints, and choosing web frameworks. I just wanted to run a simple function, like I could do with CloudCode.
Thankfully there is a service that does exactly that (and even more), AWS Lambda. Using Parse's Javascript SDK the integration between AWS Lambda and our server was a piece of cake.
I could say that I am pretty happy with the choice I've made. Parse helped us focus on our client application and by using AWS Lambda we have the flexibility of writing custom code without having to worry about all the hassles of setting up a web service.
Would I choose Parse again? Maybe. Depending on what needs to be done. If a need to make a product as fast as I can where most of the logic is driven by the client, then yes. I already know how Parse works and I can be productive from day one. But there are other BaaS and open source backends out there that may be as good. If you want real time features and don't want to deal with provisioning, Firebase might be a good choice. Similar to Firebase but open source is Horizon, which like Parse decided to shutdown their paid service and release it as an open source project. Finally, Realm has recently announced a service that helps you build real time apps.
Not all products and teams are the same. There is no rule of thumb but I am sure that if I am working on a new product with a small team and time-to-market is a concern, not having to worry about a backend it's a pretty good idea.
Something that I learned over the last two years of working on Syrmo is that at an early stage startup you don't have to worry to much about scalability, vendor lock-in, programming language, architecture design and all those things we software engineers love to deal with. All it matters is getting a product that works and proves that it has a valid value proposition and that there is a market willing to pay for that product.
Focus on discovering what the right product is and what your business model is. Choose the technology that enables you to accomplish that in the fastest way possible. If that means using technology that you are productive with but is not "cool enough", go for it. Making shortcuts at this stage is OK. If you do a good job, then you will have the opportunity to sit down a make more informed decisions on which is the best technology and architecture for your product.
I our case Parse gave us the chance to avoid having to think too much about our backend and focus our resources to develop a good app experience.
If you have experience using Parse in production, feel free to share your experience in the comments or reach out to me on Twitter @guidomb


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Environmental protection and energy saving sandblasting machine
The basic technical parameters of the conveyor automatic sandblasting machine:
Specification model: BH-1350-8A
Equipment dimensions: length 3400MM* width 1350MM* height 2900MM
Conveying surface: 600mm wide
Conveyor belt: 8 with triangular belt
Dust removal fan: 7.5KW 380V 50HZ
Lighting: 2 3W LED lights
Number of guns: 8 (aluminum alloy with boron carbide nozzle)
Blow gun: 1
Gun frame: with automatic swing gun frame (speed regulation can be realized) motor 370W 220V 50HZ
Conveyor motor: 750W 220V 50HZ
Shell: 2.5mm-6mm cold rolled steel plate welded
Perspective window: 1 frame
Sand bucket: 3
Suitable for 30-150 mesh abrasive
600 type 10 spray gun plane automatic sandblasting machine
Supporting requirements for flat automatic sandblasting machine:
1. Power requirements of this machine: three-phase, 380V, 10KW, 50HZ power socket;
2. The air source requirements of this machine: dry, the pressure is selected in the range of 5-8bar, and the air compressor flow rate must be 0.8 cubic meters per gun;
3. Abrasive requirements: In order to achieve better results, 30-280 mesh glass beads or emery can be used.
4. Air source pipeline requirements: pressure-resistant hose, 1.5 inches or more.
5. Power line requirements: three-phase four-wire, over 8㎡.
6. Workshop requirements: strong and super flat ground, 30~50㎡ space, height above 3.8M.
Application scope of Baiyao automatic sandblasting machine:
Suitable for sandblasting of flat plates, plates, squares, profiles and other special-shaped workpieces, such as: flat stainless steel plates, energy-saving steel plates, glass steel plates, stone, non-stick pans, bakeware, toasters, computer cases, functions DVD panels, notebook computer motherboards, electric iron soleplates, decorative parts, sign badges, communication equipment, aluminum plates, profiles and other special-shaped parts, etc.


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How To Send a PDF File To a Kindle. Amazon Kindle makes it very easy to buy and download books from the Kindle store. If you are using Kindle Unlimited, you can even skip the purchase process. In just a couple of seconds, you can start reading the book. But did you know there is much more you can do with the Kindle?
Read:How to Send Articles to Kindle From Android
For example, you can use email to wirelessly deliver various types of documents (including PDF format) that can be opened on your Amazon Kindle. This can be done in two ways: wired or wireless. Here's how to send a PDF file to your Kindle.
How to find your Amazon Kindle email
The first step to sending a PDF to your Kindle is to find a unique email address associated with your Amazon Kindle. Each Amazon Kindle has its own unique email address that you can customize.
- Go to the Amazon Manage Your Content and Devices page and go to the Preferences tab.
- Scroll down and select the Personal Document Settings option.
- This section will now be expanded. Here, find the "Email Options for Send to Kindle" option.
- This will show you a list of all devices that are currently associated with your Amazon Kindle account. This can be your Amazon Kindle device or smartphones with the Amazon Kindle app. Each device has a unique email address.
- Find your Amazon Kindle device and write down your email address. If you wish, you can click the "Change" button to change the address.
- Here, use the text box to change the address to something recognizable and then click the Save button.
You now know your Amazon Kindle email address.
How to add email to the Authorized Senders List
For privacy and security reasons, Amazon Kindle will only receive documents from pre-approved email addresses. So, in order to send a PDF to Kindle, you need to first add your email address to the pre-approved list.
- On the same Personal Document Settings page, scroll down until you find the Personal Documents Approved Email List section.
- Here, click the Add New Approved Email button. email address link.
- Enter your email address in the text box and click the Add Address button.
You can repeat the process to add multiple email addresses to your approved senders list.
How to Send a PDF to Kindle Using Email
Now that the installation process is complete, it's time to finally email the PDF to your Kindle.
- To do this, open the mail client of your choice. If you are a Gmail user, just go to the Gmail website or open the Gmail app on your smartphone.
- Then create a new email and enter a unique Amazon Kindle address in the To field.
- Then use the Attachment section to attach the PDF you want to send (you can also just drag the PDF to the compose window).
- You don't need to do anything else. No need to add subject or text.
- After adding the attachment, just click the "Submit" button.
- If your Kindle is connected to the Internet, it will sync in a couple of minutes and automatically download the PDF.
- If you are impatient, you can speed up this process. From the Kindle home screen, tap the Settings button.
- Click the "Sync my Kindle" button here. This will force your Kindle to sync and download pending items.
- After a couple of seconds, you will see the PDF has been downloaded to your Kindle.
- Once downloaded, you can open it and start reading the PDF.
How to Send PDF to Kindle Using Caliber
While Email to Kindle is the most convenient option, it's not the only one. If your Kindle does not have an active Wi-Fi connection, you can use the universal e-book manager Caliber to transfer PDFs to your Kindle.
- Download and install the Caliber app. Follow the application setup instructions to create a local library.
- Then drag and drop the PDF into Caliber to import it.
- Now connect your Kindle to your computer with the Micro USB data cable. After a couple of seconds, Caliber will add your Kindle to the app.
- Now right-click the PDF you just added (you can also select multiple PDFs here) and select Send to Device> Send to Main Memory option.
- In a couple of seconds, your PDF will be transferred to your Kindle along with the cover art and metadata.
- Click the arrow next to the Device button (which is your Kindle) and select the Eject This Device option.
- After safely removing your Kindle, disconnect it from your computer. When you get to the home screen, you'll find the PDF you just migrated at the top of the Library section.
How to Send a PDF to Kindle Using Send To Kindle
If you're going to be sending PDFs to your Kindle regularly enough, you can explore the separate Send to Kindle app for Windows and macOS (which is different from the Kindle Desktop reading app). The app lets you instantly send PDFs (or other documents) to your Kindle using drag and drop.
- Download the Send to Kindle app from the Amazon website.
- Once the installation is complete, sign in to your Amazon account
- You can now either directly drag the PDF onto the application icon, or open the application and drag the PDF into the application window.
- After adding the PDF, select the Kindle device you want to send it to. Then click the "Submit" button.
- After a couple of seconds, the app will send the PDF to your Kindle. After completing the process, the application will automatically close the window.
When you pick up your Kindle, you'll find the PDF at the top of the home screen.
Did you find this Send to Kindle feature helpful? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below. Got a recording error? This is how you can publish your own Kindle book on a budget
Read:What Is The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader And How To Use It


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In Singapore, the real estate market is broad, and you'll find many different areas worthy of investing depending on the requirements of your investment or home.
The area of interests for investment can include the serenity of a neighbourhood, the number of amenities within the vicinity, the availability of public transport and travel routes, alongside many other factors that contribute to property appreciation.
However, since there are many different locations within Singapore itself – we will be zooming into five areas with excellent investment potential for an interested property buyer. Read on to find out where these areas are located.
River Valley
There are tons of houses and homes to purchase in River Valley, including condominiums. Condos are one of the most popular buildings here, with everything from standard condos to luxury condos.
For instance, you can view Starlight Suites as one of your options and consider looking into the River Valley penthouse condo. Besides the closeby Robertson Quay river where you can visit many recreational facilities like Fort Canning Park, go to a variety of shopping malls and supermarkets, you can also find luxurious facilities to make the living experience much more fulfilling.
Orchard Road
Out of the many locations you can consider making property investment in, one of the most iconic places would have to be Orchard Road. There are different types of properties in Orchard, including freehold property and luxurious condos. So, discuss with your real estate agent to understand what exactly you're interested in and looking for.
It is by far the most prime area in the country, especially for properties found along with the MRT station; seeing that Somerset MRT and Orchard MRT can be found within the area.
Ardmore Park
Only a stone throw away from Orchard Road, Ardmore is equally full of potential when it comes down to real estate.
It is situated in a strategic place, which is suitable for residential properties. The pieces of property found here are high-end, and are meant for those more buying ability or who are willing to invest more.
Found in the heart of Singapore, yet away from the hustle and bustle of daily life; if you are looking for a luxurious residential area that is not too remote, then this is an excellent choice investment-wise.
While unlike your usual neighbourhood areas, with the many attractions and interesting amenities – that's exactly the charm behind Sentosa's location.
You will be able to get access to all kinds of novel activities that most usually don't get to experience when you're in the mainland. What's more, they're all easily accessibly in the backyard. From sailing, surfing at Wave House Sentosa to the nation-famous amusement park – it's always an exciting day when living in Sentosa.
For these reasons, investors may consider a property in Sentosa as potential tenants or residents who are more on the adventurous side will be looking into these properties for an exhilarating lifestyle.
Keppel Bay
Last but not least, on our list of ideal locations for property investment is the Keppel bay. The Keppel bay can be seen right before you enter Sentosa.
Their central location makes them an ideal place to live, which adds to the property value here. The area is equally connected to the Harbourfront MRT and Telok Blangah MRT station, which makes it very accessible. There are equally many offices found in Harbourfront, which increases the convenience of getting property here.
Over time, prices may potentially increase, and the ROI (Return on Investment) may differ. For instance, if you plan to buy a condo in River Valley, you can expect to pay more for better ROI; as the upcoming Great World MRT station will bring up the cost of the unit but bring in more profits in the near future. Hence, doing the necessary amount of research is important for securing a property with great investment potential.
Evia Real Estate
350 Orchard Road #14-07/08 Shaw House
Singapore (238868)
Tel: (65) 6351 6969 / 8686 2233
Fax: (65) 6351 6951


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Sour Power Belts Strawberry Wrapped – 150 Count
- Sour power belts unwrap strawberry comes in a pack of 150 candies
- This delicious treat will tempt the taste buds
- Great chewy texture
- Sour Power belts are the gummy that packs a punch of flavor
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Sour Power Belts Unwrap Strawberry comes in a convenient and portable packing 150 counts per pack. Sour Power Belts Unwrap Strawberry has the taste that kids (and kids of all ages) love! Since 1985, Sour Power has been offering a variety of shapes, packages, and mouth-watering flavor varieties that people can't seem to get enough of. Sour Power Unwrap Sour Belts – Cotton Candy. Super sour Cotton Candy belts have pink and blue stripes, sure to make your mouth pucker! Each sour belt is approximately 9 inches long. The rainbow-striped sugar sanded belt looks like it was picked right off the sky after a rainy day. Use these on your candy buffet table or just as a go-to treat.
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Taste and See the Lord is Good
Experiencing God's Peace Through Meditation/Encounters
As a part of Wholistic Hearts community, we are reading through Amy Brady's devotional, A Way in a Manger. Today's devotional was based off of one of my favorite verses- Psalm 34:8 "Taste and See that the Lord is good!"
I was telling my boys on the way to school that God is meant to be experienced, enjoyed, delighted in…a tangible experience. I told them, knowing a lot about Jesus or the Bible is like spending all day preparing for a meal and sitting down at the table and then saying- but you can't smell it, taste it, touch it or experience it. That's what a lot of Christians take their faith as. It breaks my heart! We are MEANT to taste and see He is good. Even in the hardest moments, it is HIS joy to let us EXPERIENCE God.
One way we can experience Him is through using our imagination to encounter Him in the Spirit. I encourage you to take a moment to "taste and see" the goodness of God in this quick meditation.
Share your experience below. For more, head to Wholistic Hearts Podcast on most podcast platforms or find it right on YouTube.


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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Flourish and Flowers
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Love your design of this card Sandy. Very elegant.ReplyDelete
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Beautiful card Sandy! I love the flowers made in different ways! I can't wait to try the flower cupped up!ReplyDelete
Oh my! I love this card Sandy! The Boutique Stackers look awesome with the solid colored backers. Love your flower and bow and the beautiful papers you chose! All so elegant!ReplyDelete
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Potential for using pheromone trapping and molecular screening in phosphine resistance research
Daglish, G. J., Rajeswaran, J., Singarayan, V., Nath, N. S., Schlipalius, D. I., Ebert, P. R. and Nayak, M. K. (2018) Potential for using pheromone trapping and molecular screening in phosphine resistance research. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP), 7-11 October, 2018, Berlin, Germany..
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Phosphine resistance monitoring typically involves bioassays of beetles from population samples collected from grain storage facilities. Insects are classified into susceptible or resistant phenotypes based on mortality or survival at one or more discriminating doses. Although valuable, phenotype testing has several drawbacks. First, phenotype testing needs live insects, and considerable effort is required to collect and maintain them before testing. Second, population samples may contain multiple genotypes expressing different levels of resistance that may not be distinguishable using discriminating dose bioassays. Third, collections are likely to be focussed around grain storages to maximise sampling success. Recent research shows that several key pests are actively dispersing through flight. The availability of commercial pheromone lures and recent advances in molecular screening provide an opportunity to provide information on resistance gene frequencies more broadly across the landscape. This approach is proving to be a valuable adjunct to traditional resistance testing in Australia.
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EcoEquity director Tom Athanasiou says a real split has emerged in the elite on whether to maintain an economy driven by fossil fuels or transition towards low or zero carbon through large-scale infrastructural development
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ANTON WORONCZUK, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Anton Woronczuk in Baltimore. 2014 is on track to be the hottest year on record, according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. This news comes as the 20th session of the conference of parties, also known as the COMP 20, is scheduled to begin on December 1 in Lima, Peru. The 12-day summit is expected to produce a draft of an internationally binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions that will succeed the Kyoto protocol, which will expire in 2020. The final agreement is expected to come out of the COMP 21 summit in Paris in 2015. Joining us from Albany, California, to discuss this is Tom. He directs the Eco-Equity and Activist Think Tank and codirects the Climate Equity Reference Project. Thanks for joining us.
TOM ATHANASIOU, DIRECTOR, ECOEQUITY: Thank you for having me.
So, Tom, what are the major issues that are expected to be resolved at COMP 20, and what can we expect?
Well, the major issues in the negotiations are now on the table, and the question is really whether or not we're going to be able to architect a new global treaty that includes all countries, rich and poor, and puts together in the finance and technology mechanisms that are necessary in order to use that treaty to help phase out fossil fuels over the next 30 to 50 years. I mean, it's an incredibly difficult problem. We can't do it without an international treaty. That's what's on the table.
So a couple of weeks said before the conference is due to start, the United States and China announced a voluntary emissions reductions. You think that this will play any role in the debate said for Lima?
Well, no. The U.S.-China joint announcement is huge. We don't really know how it's going to play out, particularly at the level of North-South politics. And we won't know until comp 20 is finished. But it was a huge deal. It's been in the works for a really long time. And it is a game-changer. And the first thing to know about it is that it's a game changer. And the second thing to know about it is that the Chinese pledge is really very impressive, much more impressive than the American pledge. But still they constantly they both constitute major moves.
Well, from what I understand, though, but the pledges are still but voluntary, and it basically an out allows China to max out as much in emissions until about 2030. Is that correct?
Well, let's take that as two different questions. On the voluntary issue, you have to understand that that ship has sailed. When we were going into the big Copenhagen meeting in 2009, people still imagined that there would be some sort of international treaty that would function as a kind of global government that would allocate the atmospheric space, that it would be legally binding at some kind of global level. And if that's what you mean by nonviolent Terry, that's not happening. What has basically emerged as Plan B the last five years is an approach which was very strongly promoted by the Obama administration in which countries table what they feel that they can do just like the United States did and just like China did and just like all countries will be asked to do. And then pass domestic legislation that obligates them to do what they domestically agreed to do. So that sense it would be binding legally, but it would be a kind of nationally legally binding. I mean, what we've learned is international legally-binding treaties don't have any meat. The Canadians were able to completely blow off their Kyoto target and nothing happened. So that's a bit of a complicated issue. And it goes to the heart of what the challenges in Lima and then in Paris, which is how do you take this sort of bottom-up architecture and make it fear and make it strong, because it has to be both of those things. On the other question about whether the Chinese pledge is really as good as it looks because they haven't specified what level there are missa going to be In 2030, well, that's true, but we know through other channels that China is doing all sorts of things to make sure it peaks as at as low level as possible. And in particular, about three days ago they announced that their called power sector emissions are going to peak in 2020. That's only five or six years from now. And so the Chinese announcement is a very big deal. And it's particularly a big deal when you consider that China is in many ways a country that still is pretty underdeveloped. Its per capita income is so low compared to the United States is per capita income. For example. So this was a very ambitious move. I mean, there were Republicans of course are trying to minimize it and pretend it's not a big deal, but anything anybody who knows anything about the power sector economics particularly in China realizes it's a very ambitious move. So those are two examples. It's a complicated situation. But yeah, that was a really big deal.
Okay, Tom. Well, let's get back to the issue of COP 20. So income COMP 19, you had a lot of civil society movement groups that walked out in protest of the coal industry presence and their influence on the talks. What influence do you think that the fossil fuel industry will have this year at cop 20?
You've got to remember that was Poland, right, and Poland in particular has a very aggressive government that is very close to the coal sector. You also have to remember that the president of the COP, Christina Figueira race, when she went to speak to those cold foods, she read them the riot act. You also have to remember which you probably won't have to remember it because you probably know there were only 90 people in the room. There were, 10,000 people at people look polished COP commented that coal conference there was 90 people. So Poland was kind of a special case. Now, coal, you want to talk about coal, coal is huge. We have to shut down the global coal industry. We don't have to just stopped building new coal plants, we have to shut down existing coal plants, and we have to do it not only in the rich parts of the world; we have to do it in the developing parts of the world. We have to do it as fast as we can. And in that context, the coal industry is a real problem, because they don't want to go quietly into that dark night. But that's a little bit different then saying that coal, the coal industry was really influential at the COP or in the United Nations negotiations in general.
Okay. And then the IB cc fifth assessment report, which just concluded this year, said that emissions targets need to be somewhere on the order of 40 to 70 percent through 2015 in order to slow warming by two degrees Celsius. What kind of climate change policies you think needs to be decided it COP 20 and COP 21 that can achieve that goal?
Yeah, well, COP 21 has to give us confidence that are going to phase out fossil fuels by the second half of the century globally, and it has to send a signal to the markets that that's going to happen. We can argue a lot about the 40 percent to 70 percent numbers. There's a lot of problems with those numbers. They're too small. The reason they're too small is that they include only what countries have to do inside their own borders. But the rich countries in particular have to act aggressively outside their own borders as well as inside their own borders. They have to provide international financial and technical technology support for poor countries and developing countries to accelerate their transition from fossil energy to renewable energy. And what we looking for from Paris is architecture that is simultaneously bottom-up, because for better or for worse we don't have a functioning global government. We barely have functioning national governments. And it's got to be a bottom-up architecture. But it's got to have what we call review and ratcheting processes that allow us to turn up the ambition. And as the climate crisis get some more manifest. I mean, what way to think about this that is I don't think an exaggeration is that here it is 2014 increased talking about climate change 10 years from now in 2024, we're not going to be talking about anything except climate change. And as things get worse, we need those ratcheting mechanisms. We don't want to be in a situation after Paris where we have to renegotiate the treaty again. We want a treaty that can be made much stronger as the years go on. The only way–this is my personal specialty and what I'm going to be working on in Lima and in Paris–we need a treaty that's fair, because the only way that this is going to happen is if the treaty is fair and seen as fair in both the rich northern regions of the planet and the developing or so-called southern regions of the planet.
Okay. Well, in terms of fairness, for example you have the United States I think is the highest per capita emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. So how do kind of negotiate that in terms of what they think is fair and what other countries think is fair?
Exactly. That's exactly the right question. And, even better than per capita emissions is thinking about per capita income. I mean, think about it this way. If the science is as bad as we think it is and we have to draw down fossil energy emissions to near zero in 50 years, that means basically that emissions have to peak everywhere right now, as soon as possible, to right now. They have to peak yesterday. And in some countries that means that emissions have to peak while per capita income is $52,000 per person per year. And in other countries it means that emissions have to peak when per capita income is still one or two or $5000 per person or year. And that's the real core of the negotiations deadlocked. That's what the problem is. That's why this is so hard. The problem is that we have to phase out fossil energy, which is the hardest thing we've ever done, and we have to do it on a planet that is very, very starkly divided between rich countries and poor countries and rich people and poor people. That's the situation. And how we handle that sort of diplomatic level given the limits of United Nations, and that's the real challenge.
Well, Tom, you're going to have to have members of international global financial is to douches that say that in order to produce these kinds of fair or just cuts that you proposing, you're going to limit growth, the only way to really get out of the ongoing financial crisis to solve problems of unemployment is if you have growth.
Well, growth is one of those words like you probably could have six people in a room and asked them each to define growth. And I'm not sure they have the same definition. What I can tell you for sure is that rebuilding half the infrastructure on the planet so that low carbon or zero carbon infrastructure would create a tremendous amount of jobs in a tremendous amount of opportunity in economic activity comment that if that economic activity an opportunity was distributed in a fair manner among different people in different planets, everybody would be a lot better if people didn't parts of the planet everybody would be a lot better off. I mean, there is a real split in the ruling elites on this question. I mean, some people who are closer to the fossil energy cartel can't imagine the a functioning global economy that's not based on coal and oil and gas. But others of us think that we can actually transition to a zero-carbon economy that will all be a lot better off in 1000 ways. And that transition would itself open all kinds of other doors that we desperately need open beyond the climate issue. So I don't think it's a gloom and doom situation. I think that if we really started rebuilding in a massive way, we would find that we were in pretty good shape and we were enjoying what we were doing.
Okay. Tom, coming to us from Albany, California, he's the director of eco-equity.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Okay. Thank you so much.
Thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
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Motor show in Istanbul's historic site causes controversy
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The Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour is a freestyle motocross tour. DHA photoTurkish authorities have cancelled the permission to organize Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour, which was planned to be held in Istanbul's historical Yedikule Dungeon on June 16.
Istanbul's Culture and Tourism Directorate announced the cancellation of the show in order to protect the historical venue. The motor show's organizer Red Bull confirmed the cancellation yesterday.
"[The] event has been so far organized carefully and professionally at historic places such as the Pyramids, Moscow's Red Square and Plaza De Les Terros," read a written statement by Red Bull. "There are efforts to carry the event to another location to be held on the same day."
The information on the new venue for the motor show will be made available today, added the written statement.
Culture and Tourism Provincial Manager Ahmet Emre Bilgili said the Protection Committee for Cultural Artifacts's resolution had forbidden the use of the Yedikule Dungeon and that the company behind the show had failed to obtain the necessary permit for the event.
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MPI_Type_create_extent(3) LAM/MPI MPI_Type_create_extent(3)
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SYNOPSIS#include <mpi.h> int MPI_Type_create_resized(MPI_Datatype type, MPI_Aint lb, MPI_Aint extent, MPI_Datatype *newtype)
INPUT PARAMETERStype - Inpute datatype lb - New lower bound of the datatype extent - New extent of the datatype
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NOTES FOR FORTRANAll MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK ) have an additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list. ierr is an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the call statement. All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype , MPI_Comm ) are of type INTEGER in Fortran.
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SEE ALSOMPI_Type_get_true_extent(3), MPI_Type_create_resized(3)
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I have tons planned – tons – I fear I may not have enough time for it all, but I will do my darnedest. And if I fail I can always go back later. *lol* I am totally glad the thing fell through in August tho, cuz imagine, otherwise it'd be all over by now! *hehe*
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Scots with long Covid face being 'left behind in personal lockdown' as restrictions ease
Edinburgh-based charity Thistle, which has supported people with ME and post-viral fatigue for 15 years, said Long Covid now accounts for 15 per cent of its referrals.
Ahead of mainland Scotland entering Level 0 on Monday, health and wellbeing manager Ross Grieve said the charity has seen a recent increase in demand, including from young people.
It comes after a new study involving Edinburgh University researchers found over half of those hospitalised with Covid develop at least one complication, including over a quarter of adults under 30.
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show 81,000 Scots living with Covid symptoms for 12 weeks or more, and 34,000 reporting symptoms for more than a year.
Mr Grieve said: "Even people who experienced mild symptoms of Covid, and those who expected to bounce back quickly due to their age and fitness, are finding themselves stuck with ongoing symptoms of fatigue, weakness, disturbed sleep and pain."
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He became ill in March 2020, in his final year studying Economics at St Andrews University, and has still not recovered.
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He added: "It was made harder by not being able to see my friends through lockdown – and when I did speak to them, I didn't want to dump how bad I was feeling on them. It was hard to access help, as no-one seemed to know what to do with me."
Mr Kennedy was forced to delay his plans to begin a Masters in Economics at Cambridge University after graduating, and moved back to live with his parents in Edinburgh. He now hopes he can take up his place this year.
Callum O'Dwyer, 29, an engineer from Aberdeen, also fell ill in March 2020.
He too moved back in with his parents, after struggling to cope with the condition on his own.
He experienced severe Covid symptoms in March 2020, which improved after a few weeks, but then suddenly returned.
A month later, he was still experiencing breathlessness, fatigue, brain fog and tremors.
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He was contacted by Thistle who offered him support, which he is still receiving.
"Like a lot of people with Long Covid, I felt alone and terrified of being left high and dry without any treatment," he said.
Elspeth McKenzie, 61, works for Sight Scotland and is a gold medal-winning rower from Leith, Edinburgh.
She contacted Thistle after struggling with Long Covid since May 2020.
A keen cyclist, swimmer and rower, she found the symptoms severely limited her physical ability.
She experienced brain fog, stomach pain, headaches and insomnia, which she found "very frightening", as there was little awareness of Long Covid at that point.
"It was very frightening - I thought I was going mad," she said.
"I'd had Covid and it was gone! Why had all these weird things started happening? Was it all in my imagination? I kept looking at social media and the news, trying to see if anyone else was experiencing this.
"No-one was talking about Long Covid back then… it was very isolating."
Ms McKenzie went to A&E in June as she was concerned about feeling breathless. She was told to contact her GP, and also tried NHS Lothian's post Covid rehab advice line.
Eventually a friend recommended Thistle, which has helped Ms McKenzie manage her recovery.
"If there are three things I want to do in a day, I schedule rest time in between them," she said.
"My breathlessness has disappeared, and that made a big difference. I know I can keep building myself up if I carefully pace."
She has returned to yoga and rowing, and has completed a phased return to work.
Mr O'Dwyer hopes to be able to live independently in the next year, and has been able to do some walking and take a trip to the Highlands.
Mr Kennedy has been able to return to some physical activity, and is now confident he will make a full recovery at some point.
Mr Grieve said: "No one has to struggle with this alone. With early support and advice and by making some short-term adjustments, most people are able to recover well and avoid this health crisis becoming a life crisis."
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The four bidders looking to buy Chelsea Football Club have been given until next week to present their final bids to buy the club, according to Sky News.
The initial deadline to make improved offers was set for Monday, but it has now been pushed back by "a small number of days".
The prospective buyers were informed after the Blues lost 3-1 to Real Madrid on Wednesday, that they would need to submit binding takeover proposals before next week ends.
The bidding process is being overseen by American bank, Raine Group, who were appointed by Roman Abramovich.
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When THE STELLA opened for business, we earmarked three Central European countries surrounding the Adriatic Sea. This trifecta of countries could provide our guests something we couldn't quite find anywhere else. What stood out? The ability to find a hidden slice of paradise in a world that is increasingly oversaturated with crowds and hashtagged landmarks. Not here. In Slovenia's postcard-worthy Bohinj and at the high ankle of Italy's boot, you can find the oft-missed. Today, we focus on Croatia in all its aquatic, but hidden (shh!), glory.
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Review: Bad TV, The Very Best of the Very Worst, by Craig Nelson
[Currently there's a really horrible quality jpg used for this book cover but I've been too busy to get around to taking a photo of my copy. Which is silly because it's bad quality is continuing to bother me every time I see it.]
Once upon a time when you wanted to remember a really weird and/or terrible television show or movie there was no wikipedia to turn to. No IMDB, no Google, nothing. At best the internet could offer up a few places on Usenet or whatever you could find in the Simtel archives. Yes, those were the desolate 1980s, pity us, the pop cultural junkies of the time, for we had to look to paper books.
Having a book like this - where you could look up shows you'd seen and also read about even worse ones you hadn't - was really fun. If you hadn't seen the program you could at least marvel at the synopsis and wonder how anyone would green light it. It's only now that I reread the book that I see some really...let's say culturally insensitive (or ignorant, or tone deaf - that last one probably the best choice) moments here and there, which make the jokes drop like lead balloons. Or for me anyway. Joking about another culture or race isn't ever easy to pull off in comedy, and when it doesn't work - well, I don't think the examples here are in deeply offensive territory, but they also aren't funny. (Multiple examples follow in quotes, but feel free to differ with me on this call, I'm ok with that.)
It's also hard to find the book as funny now that I'm able to compare the writing with the vast amount of online snarky and humorous reviews, on such sites like Television Without Pity or the AV Club. Now it's much easier to dig up more bad tv facts online than are related in the book. At this point I'm hanging on to Bad TV more as memorabilia than a resource.
Here's a quote with examples of times the humor doesn't always hit the funny mark, for a movie I particularly love. Note how in 1996 there's not really a worry about spoilers, because the assumption was that it wasn't easy to hunt down the old tv shows, and many of the films mentioned (though I know you could catch some of the Toho films on tv at least), p 228:
Mothra, 1962. Even against such overwhelming competition this is by far the nuttiest Japanese monster movie of all time. Filmed in eye-popping Tohoscope, Mothra begins when a scary typhoon runs a Japanese battleship aground in the "Atomic Testing Area," and what do the survivors find but evidence of a long-lost civilization and the Alilenas - six-inch-high twins, dressed in sarongs, who always sing, talk, and read mortal minds in synch. Kidnapped by a bug-eyed Janpano-American half-breed, Alilenas tour Japan as the stars of The Secret Fairies Show, becoming a national sensation beloved by all (as if the Japanese had never seen tiny, doll-like women before.)
Back on the island, oddly swarthy natives perform ceremonial dances until a giant egg breaks open, revealing an immense horned caterpillar (who looks like a yam with LED eyes), which immediately races through Tokyo in search of the petite songstresses. After destroying a Mobil gas station, many kamikazelike planes, and a radio tower, the caterpillar enrobes itself in a cocoon, finally emerging as the aluminium-foil-eyed Mothra (who looks like something one of your friends could make with golf balls, Styrofoam, and a pillowcase). Once again Mothra races through Japan in search of the diminutive chanteuses.
In the surprise ending the good guys (a card-carrying journalist comedian and his plucky female shutterbug consort) return the Alilenas to Mothra, who flies them back to their happy island, where everyone dances till dawn. Topping off this heaven-sent plot are the special effects (which look like they were done by precocious ten-year-olds): the Alilenas' standins are obviously kimono souvenir dolls, and Mothra's wings send Matchbox cars and trucks flying through downtown Tokyo.
This was all such a hit that Toho made a sequel, Ghidrah (1965), wherein Mothra, Rodan, and Godzilla team up to fight the fire-breathing, three-headed Ghidrah lizard, with a return engagement from the Alilenas.
Those curious about the "Alilenas" should read this wikipedia page for The Peanuts. I'll admit to having an mp3 of one of their songs from the film somewhere in my iTunes. (And there're two plastic Ghidrahs in my apartment, and something like four Godzillas.) For an example of how quickly you have more pop cultural info in one click, you can read the wikipedia on the film's themes and depiction of the US that Bad TV misses.
(As a comparison, when I reread a movie review book like Roger Ebert's I Hated Hated Hated This Movie - a compilation of 40 yrs of review columns - the humor holds up well, even from columns that are of the same era as Bad TV. Though it's probably not a great comparison because Ebert's humor is different than that in Bad TV, which tends toward the snarky.)
At this point I should fill you on on the book that Bad TV is riffing on: the Medved brothers' Golden Turkey Awards, a book that came out in 1980. (Other Medved books: The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, The Hollywood Hall of Shame: The Most Expensive Flops in Movie History, and Son of Golden Turkey Awards.) But this isn't hidden, in fact the author gives props to the Golden Turkeys, and uses his own award system: The Tammi Awards, where Tammi is named after Three Mile Island as "the ultimate symbol of waste" because "these flops represent such an incredible waste of talent, time, and money" (p. 8).
The author Craig Nelson isn't the Craig T. Nelson who was on the TV series Coach - in case you were wondering. I'm not entirely sure if it's the same author as this Craig Nelson on Amazon since it doesn't list Bad TV, though on Goodreads it does seem to be the same Nelson that's written Bad TV and other history books.
Random, slightly off tangent remark - rereading this book reminded me of the film/documentary/humorous thing that aired frequently on cable television in the 80s: It Came From Hollywood. It was one long mash up of oodles of clips of weird scifi B movies with skits and narration by SNL alums here and there. It kills me that they've not released it on DVD but apparently it's still hung up in copyright issues.
Now some random quotes to give you an idea of some of the programs mentioned, and some that are especially WTF, how did this get made?! Some of these excerpts will give you an idea of why I still like parts of this book. I've also linked to wikipedia all over the place, in case you want more info (and there are some incorrect facts in the book). You will probably want to go search YouTube for clips once you read about some of these:
p 102, 104:
Pink Lady & Jeff, 1980. The Legend, Pink Lady - two very young and very beautiful women, Mitsuyo (Mie) Nemoto and Keko (Kei) Masuda - was Japan's #1 music act. Pink Lady wore beautiful gowns, lots of makeup, and giggled simperingly all the time. Pink Lady could dance a little, and could pose in gracious tableaux with wonderful sets. Pink Lady could only speak about five words in English: hello, good-bye, pink, lady, and Jeff. Pink Lady sang frothy American pop music in tiny, annoying little-girl voices, with heavy accents that made the songs totally incomprehensible to those who could speak English.
Immediately, America did not like the squeaking Pink Lady (even though the show was developed by Brandon "Golden Gut" Tartikoff and produced by puppeteers Sid and Marty Krofft, who also did The Brady Bunch Variety Hour), and we got rid of it after a mere six episodes. Jeff was American Jeff Altman, whose comedy was as good as Pink Lady's English, with such gut-busting lines as "You just get turned on by my sexy round eyes." He went on to become a regular on The Starland Vocal Band Show and Solid Gold...and he's still trying to have a career in television.
p 146-7:
Cop Rock, 1990. ...At the end of the 1980s many TV producers and executives got very excited thinking about radical new shows that mixed standard television genres. This technique, however, frequently ended up creating mongrels, something like a cross between a dachshund and a St. Bernard. The producers especially liked mixing drama with comedy to make dramedies - The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, for instance - but none of these mongrel programs did well enough to stay on the air.
This trend of failure and humiliation might have stopped lesser men, but not the mighty Bochco, who flew in the face of reason to imagine the winning combination for a new show as being a drusical (dramatic musical): the notorious Cop Rock. The show attempted to merge gritty New York realism (Bochco's signature more-ironic-than-thou aesthetic) with the best artifice Hollywood has to offer - music from popsters like Randy Newman (whose biggest hits were the novelties "I Love LA" and "Short People").
...The drama (which was tough, urban, and edgy, as good as anything on Hill Street) would suddenly stop dead in its tracks to have its characters burst into song, usually for no apparent reason. ...During the premiere's big trial scene the verdict is read, the court reporter's desk turns into a synthesizer, the jury becomes a gospel choir, and the judge and accused do a call-and-response. Finally a pathetic crack addict sings a lullaby to her baby before selling it off to infertile yuppy scum. The whole show is so goofy and inane, you can't even give Bochco credit for trying.
p 176:
The Amy Fisher Extravaganza: If MOW [Movies-of-the-Week] in the nineties became all about women with guns and who they kill, no one aroused the networks like Amy Fisher, the "Long Island Lolita" whose story was a "real life Fatal Attraction."
...All three networks rushed out made-fors within days of the sentencing (two of which, for the first time on TV, aired simultaneously), and all got fantastic ratings - over a third of the American population watched at least one.
In case you were wondering, those movies were: Amy Fisher: Her Story (or Treachery in the Suburbs: The Amy Fisher Story, according to EW, NBC), Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (CBS), and Beyond Control: The Amy Fisher Story (ABC). Here's a longer LA Times story on the three, if you really want more tv history. The book devotes five pages to these three movies, three of which contain a chart comparing whose version of the story the producers used, how the actors compare with the real life people involved, sample dialog, etc.
p. 219:
Can't Stop The Music, 1980. A neutron bomb that's every inch as bad as you've heard, Can't Stop The Music is so sodden and stillborn that it completely destroyed the movie careers of everyone involved: director Nancy Walker, producer Allan Carr, and costars Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner, and the Village People. The only one to emerge unscathed was first-timer Steve Guttenberg...who had to star in all those Police Academys as penance before rehabilitating his career with Cocoon.
Even on television, with commercial breaks and some of the nudity edited away, Can't Stop the Music is so immensely terrible, you'll be overwhelmed with shock and speechless with wonder. Why make a musical about disco when disco was obviously on its last legs? Why hire Jenner, Perrine, and Guttenberg as the stars of a musical when they can't sing or dance? Why hire Nancy Walker as director (musicals are notoriously hard to make) when she's never directed a thing in her life? ....How could the script escape rewrite with the lines like "Anybody who could swallow two Sno Balls and a Ding Dong shouldn't have any trouble with pride!"
Can't Stop is the story of a disco king composer Jacques Morali, who cowrote the script and all of the music, but obviously didn't bother much with the latter since this stiff couldn't even produce a hit soundtrack album. Steve Guttenberg is Jack Morell, the roller-skating would-be DJ and teen composer. His roommate, the retired supermodel Perrine, takes his songs to her ex-boyfriends in the music business and, when Guttenberg (who's so naive, he hallucinates after smoking a joint) needs singers for his demo, she forms the Village People (it's never explained why they look they way they do, though when a music producer first sees them, he comments "I hate Halloween.")...
p 227:
Lisztomania, 1975. Writer/director Ken Russell going completely over the top with Women in Love, The Devils, and Altered States is exactly what's made him one of today's most beloved show-business figures. But if you've ever wondered what was beyond over the top - what it'd be like if an auteur went insane (and took his costume designer and art director with him) - you need look no farther than Lisztomania. Staring Who crooner Roger Daltrey (acting as well as he did in Tommy) and featuring topless groupies, daughter Cosima practicing voodoo, and sailor Richard Wagner (his cap embroidered with NIETZSCHE) who becomes both Dracula and Frankenstein, Lisztomania's opening scene is a woman hungrily eating a banana while her saber-wielding husband slices her lover's big, white, dripping candle to bits - and gets more excessive from there. With naked females worshiping an obelisk with a glowing tip, porcelain buttock sconces issuing knockout gas, a giant panties funhouse slide, a fifteen-foot alabaster penis (which gets guillotined), Rick Wakeman as an Aryan monster and Ringo Starr as the Pope, this astounding cross between Hair and a Liberace extravaganza wants to be all things to all people - and kills itself trying to get there. But what a fun suicide it is.
Here's a short article from the Guardian (Feb 2013): Lisztomania: The Most Embarrassing Historical Film Ever Made?
p 290:
Mr. Smith, 1983. A remake of the Frank Capra movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but taking the Jimmy Stewart role is CJ (star of Tarzan the Ape Man and Every Which Way But Loose), a talking orangutan with a huge IQ - the product of scientific experiments (see? animal testing isn't all bad). When his special talents are discovered, Mr. Smith is of course immediately hired as a government consultant.
p 292:
My Living Doll, 1964. Psychiatrist Bob Cummings has such trouble with patient Julie Newmar (later to enthrall us as Batman's Catwoman) that she moves in with him. Her main problem? She's a robot who can't seem to get the hang of being the perfect woman, even though she's 37-26-36 and can type 240 words a minute. Julie especially has difficulty being perfectly servile to men; if she turns uppity, though, a guy can just reset her by pressing her birthmark buttons. Though Newmar is fantastic doing replicate slapstick with a German accent, the show's whole attitude is remarkably hideous - the opening credits, for example, show her in a teddy and announce "also starring Julie Newmar as The Doll." Even Cummings (the photographer sex fiend from Love That Bob) thought this show was so bad that he bailed out halfway through its run; on the air it was explained he'd gone to Pakistan.
p. 296:
Quark, 1978: A transsexual, a chatty but boring houseplant (who tries to seduce a human by explaining the secrets of pollination), Ergo the plasmapet, Betty and Betty (a navigator and her clone), a perpetually frightened robot, and Richard Benjamin pilot a garbage barge in outer space.
Introduction: The Bad vs. The BAD
Television...The Mysteries of the Universe...and the Secret of Life
The Nominating Committee
Part 1: It's a BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD World
The BAD Classics (That's Why We Loved Them) Hall of Fame
How Could You? (When BAD Things Happen to Good People)
Part 2: The Tammi Awards
The Variety Show Nominees
The Music Video Nominees
The Game Show Nominees - The Chernobyl Lifetime Achievement Award
The Drama Nominees
The Kids' Show Nominees
The Made-for-TV Movie Nominees
The Bastards! (My Parents Were Movies) Nominees
Special Bonus Section: The Remarkably BAD Movie Nominees
The News, Sports, Newslike, and Pseudosports Nominees
The Worst Overall Network Programming Nominees
The Infomercial Nominees
The Sitcom Nominees
The Golden Tammi Award
Available on Video
Network Addresses
Hey there! Have you really made it all the way to the end? Are you too a fan of really bad tv/film?! Then I have some podcast links to share with you, because I too am a bad movie addict. Or at least of listening/reading other people tell me about bad movies - because I can not make myself watch all of the badness. Anyway, here are two movie podcasts - and each with a very different style of humor and hosts' background.
How Did This Get Made - three comedians/actors (Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas) that work in LA discuss a movie, attempting to understand/explain/laugh at the plot, often using their production background to pick out particular bits of industry weirdness. Podcast frequently has great choices of special guests. Best sample, one of their live shows: Birdemic, with guest Weird Al Yankovic.
The Flop House - three writers/comedians/friends (Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, and Stuart Wellington; two of them write for the Daily Show) in the NYC area discuss a movie right after watching it and try and make sense of it. After the movie discussion they recommend better movies (than the one they just saw) and then read letters (there is always an annoying song pre-letter-reading - you have now been warned). I've not listened to this long enough to have an idea of which episode is a good sample show, but I am still in shock that the movie Food Fight even exists, so you can listen to that one and get back to me if you have a similar WTF reaction.


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