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Most Filipinos, young and old treat National Heroes' Day as any typical non-working holiday in the country. However, it seems that kids and adult alike need to be reminded of the roles our Philippine heroes played in the past – and continue to play today. In this time and age when historical revisionism seems apparent, it's time to get a closer look at the lives of our real life superheroes.
If you were to be asked: Who is your favorite Philippine National Hero?
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Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar
It really helps that he's got a movie (Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral) playing in cinemas today, General Gregorio del Pilar is known as one of the youngest general of the Philippine Revolution (both Spanish and American era). Apart from his successful military assaults, he was most known for his sacrifice in the Battle of Tirad Pass. Being President Aguinaldo's rear guard, he successfully delayed the capture of the former by American troops as his 60-man battalion fought off the 500-man army of the Americans. Del Pilar and his men were stationed at the tricky terrain of Tirad Pass that gave them the advantage to shoot at the enemies on the climb. President Aguinaldo and his men were then able to escape to avoid capture. However, del Pilar's men were clearly outnumbered and succumbed to defeat. Gregorio del Pilar, died on December 2, 1899. The Philippine Military Academy was named Fort del Pilar in honor of the valiant young general.
Andres Bonifacio
Founder and Supremo (Supreme Leader) of the Katipunan, a Philippine revolution society, Andres Bonifacio is known as the "Father of Philippine Revolution". Despite his controversial death, Andres is considered the one who spearheaded Philippine independence through armed revolt. He had a knack in organizing people and bringing them together for a cause.
Bonifacio called thousands of Katipunan members to a mass gathering in Caloocan, where they decided to start their uprising. The event, marked by the tearing of cedulas (community tax certificates) was later called the "Cry of Balintawak" or "Cry of Pugad Lawin"; the exact location and date of the Cry are disputed.The Supreme Council of the Katipunan declared a nationwide armed revolution against Spain and called for a simultaneous coordinated attack on the capital Manila on August 29. – Wikipedia.
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Gabriela Silang
The pro-Filipina activist group in the country, Gabriela, takes it from this first female revolutionary leader of the country who fought against the Spanish regime. When her husband, Diego Silang, was assassinated, she took over the role and lead the Ilocano movement for four months. Unfortunately, she was captured in Abra and martyred by hanging in Vigan's central plaza by the Spaniards.
Sultan Muhammad Kudarat
In honor of the Sultan, the Soccsksargen province of Sultan Kudarat was named after him. He was the 7th Sultan of Maguindanao who mightily fought the Spaniards in the island of Mindanao (1619-1671). Just like the rest of the sultans in Mindanao, he contributed in keeping Islam as the core religion of the region by preventing the spread of Catholicism. His descendants of Datus are still active as political heads in Maguindanao. President Ferdinand Marcos declared Sultan Kudarat a national hero.
Sultan Kudarat overshadowed his father, Buisan, and ruled with a strong hand. He was probably the strongest and greatest Mindanao sultan that ever lived. He fought the Spaniards well and held their sovereignty in check for many years. His sea warriors constantly attack Luzon and Visayas for allowing themselves to become foot soldiers of the newly arrived Iberians, and providing them provisions and passage. His Sultanate controlled the southern seas for a long time.
In 1636, General Corcuera led an expedition against him and after considerable difficulty reduced his fort and defeated his forces. Kudarat had a large quantity of gunpowder and firearms, and his fort was very strongly fortified. The Spaniards captured 8 bronze cannons, 27 Lantaka or culverins, and 100 muskets. – Wikipedia
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Antonio Luna
After the massively successful movie, Heneral Luna, a lot of Filipinos took notice of this fiercely passionate general of the Phil-American era. During President Aguinaldo's term, he was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. General Luna was highly educated not only in military studies, but also in the sciences and arts. He completed his studies (with flying colors) in Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Literature. He was educated both in the Philippines and in Spain. General Luna was regarded as a sharpshooter, training his own professional guerilla soldiers known as the "Luna Sharpshooters". The Americans respected him as a real military professional who gave them the hardest time beating the "Luna Defense Line", a three-tier defense that he instituted in the northern provinces of Manila. This has resulted to the creation of a military base in Cordillera.
Jose Rizal
Of course the list isn't complete without our national hero: Dr. Jose Protacio-Rizal. With the intellectual caliber, and visionary talent of Jose Rizal, he is no doubt the epitome of the greatness of the Filipino. His life is a solid proof that Filipinos can be at par with the world in all facets. He was an ophthalmologist by profession, a literary genius, and a political reformist. His writings of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo were too powerful to actually ignite a revolution that spread throughout the country. Jose Rizal was martyred in Bagumbayan (Luneta/Rizal Park) on a case of rebellion/sedition.
If we fully learn about the lives of our national heroes, their background, passions, and sacrifices for the country – we'll surely realize that we may have come short of becoming like them, or pursuing what they fought for, or at the very least honoring them. This month of August, lets choose to be heroes in our own capacities with the strong perseverance and resolve like that of our own Philippine heroes.
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Cultural Revolution
Mao began his Cultural Revolution after the failure of the Great Leap Forward. The Democrats are now enforcing their version of Cultural Revolution now that their economic policies have failed to yield their Utopian Vision.
Now, with Kavanaugh, you can keep your job if you commit slander, but try to provide some semblance of balance and you're going to have to go.
For now, the Cultural Revolution will seek to take away reputations and livelihoods. I worry that it's on the verge of getting violent and taking lives. As the anger and outrage of the Left continues to grow - and if the much-ballyhooed "Blue Wave" does not appear in November (I, for one, do not think it will) - you can be sure it will get increasingly more violent. Reputations and jobs won't be enough.
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You might be a bit too alarmist. Having the luxury of self-employment, I can't be certain. However, fear seems to be the enemy. Trump is a good role model.
I would not do well in a corporate setting.
Mind you, unlike Kavanaugh, I have never been a drunken gang rapist....thus far anyway.
I can't speak about politics at work at all. Other jobs, it was never as much of an issue. In the last 8 years, it's gotten to be impossible.
But people who are Democrats certainly have no issue speaking or putting others down.
I'm not even Republican - but anything that is not Democrat in nature is frowned upon. A friend of mine is Republican, during the Kavanaugh hearings we shut the door to my office to speak.
Any support makes you a rapist. An uncaring, boorish, misogynist.
The most I can say is when, today, a person mentioned they'd gone to DC to protest Kavanaugh. All I said was, "I'm not a protestor. I'm happy to have my views and let others have theirs. If they want to protest, great. But no protest will change my views." They looked at me funny, as if I was opposed to them (I am), but because I was vague, they couldn't say anything.
It's useful when the people care about it. From what I've seen, many don't these days.
I have no doubt that there are things I cannot say about Kavanaugh if I would like to keep my job. I certainly could not show or vocalize support for him.
It goes beyond Kavanaugh. If I said the wrong thing out loud about any number of subjects... climate, recycling, and the physical strength of women come immediately to mind... I would be looking for work. This is well beyond the normal social traps of the corporate environment.
I'm with you on the election Bulldog. Too many sotto voce comments about the ridiculousness of l'affaire Kavanaugh lead me to believe we won't see the Blue Wave.
The comments to Max Boot's recent article in the WaPo, The Dark Side of American Conservatism Has Taken Over, are rather interesting. They show that, though I may disagree with it, there is definitely a market for the WaPo. Here is one of the more highly rated comments:
Where does the Republican base go, if the Republican party is burned to the ground? Or, in other words, how do you excise the racism and extremism from the GOP if its voters continue to vote for racist and extremist politicians? They say the fish rots from the head, but the Republican party is rotten from the base on up.Yes, this is a cultural war.
One more comment from the WaPo:
As A moderate Democrat I'm also not happy about the left fringe but at least they are still in check for now.The left fringe is held in check? Perhaps by removal of the screaming harpies from the Senate Gallery.
As for the Republicans rebuilding: it reminds me of why God sent Moses wandering for 40 years- generations of people need to be cleansed.
In the meantime, the Republicans in control will lay waste to what was an exceptional experiment in democratic government, perhaps with a little help of their Russian collaborators.
Russian collaborators?
This is from a "moderate Democrat."
Gringo: Perhaps by removal of the screaming harpies from the Senate Gallery.
No. Nothing sexist about that. In any case, there is nothing fringe about assembling to protest Congress. It even has its own protection in the Bill of Rights.
There are always people who hold extreme views on the political left and on the political right. Once upon a time, the Democratic Party grappled with the radical left, and were tasked with separating the good ideas from the wacky. Today, the problem is most prevalent in the Republican Party, but they have thus far embraced the crazy.
Gringo: Yes, this is a cultural war.
Actually, the point is well-taken. Republicans with racist and extremist views don't go away because the Republican Party does. They are part of the political landscape.
the Democratic Party grappled with the radical left, and were tasked with separating the good ideas from the wacky. Today, the problem is most prevalent in the Republican Party, but they have thus far embraced the crazy.
Does Antifa ring a bell? Shouting Republicans out of restaurants? Democrat member of Congress calling for harassment of Republicans? Shooting of Republican members of Congress- done by a Bernie fan. Doxxing carried out by someone who had worked for several years for Democrat members of Congress?
Today, the problem is most prevalent in the Republican Party, but they have thus far embraced the crazy..... Republicans with racist and extremist views..
Before I got out of high school, I concluded that all of us have in-groups and out-groups. None of us is free of prejudice.
It would appear to me it is rather common that a Democrat is of the opinion that prejudice is not something to be found inside us, but outside of us. Thus a Democrat will view Republicans as prejudiced , whereas that particular Democrat views himself or herself as being pure as the driven snow- not a hint of prejudice.
As you belong to the self-righteous crowd, there is nothign more to be said.
Gringo: Does Antifa ring a bell?
Antifa has virtually no influence in the Democratic Party. Most Antifa are anarchists.
Gringo: Democrat member of Congress calling for harassment of Republicans?
Pelosi, the Democratic House leader, called her comments "unacceptable". That defines the outer bound. By contrast, it is the leader of the Republican Party that has vilified the press, suggested violence against protestors, and made ethnically and racially charged statements.
Gringo: Thus a Democrat will view Republicans as prejudiced , whereas that particular Democrat views himself or herself as being pure as the driven snow- not a hint of prejudice.
There's plenty of prejudice among Democrats. The difference is that the Democratic Party has directly confronted the issue, most recently, misogyny.
Much of the political flatulence we've seen in the past four months was lab-tested on those of us in the public sector as long as a quarter century ago. They've refined the technique, particularly with respect to workplace mobbing, and they've rebranded a few things since then. It can get a lot more ugly than what we've recently seen, which may have a lot to do with why most of my [former] colleagues rolled over for it. You do well to be concerned.
Yet I find myself increasingly of a similar mind to Scott Adam's and others who note that, one-to-one, we as a culture are getting along better than we have in generations, if not in the history of our country. I saw this worked out repeatedly, a few days ago, returning from the first vacation I've been able to take in three years. Perhaps the this recent madness has served as a perspective check for a lot of folks, as indeed it did for me a quarter century back. Perhaps it's some other cause entirely. I find myself hopeful, perhaps only cautiously so, but hopeful nonetheless; and for the first time in a very long time, I don't think such hope is unreasonable.
I remain cautiously optimistic.
Where Z seems to think the problem is racists amongst the Republicans, and indeed they are a problem though a very minor one, I see the problem as young people who are "activists" or perceive themselves to be such.
They don't know what activism is, and we see that playing out in the increasingly violent mob scenes of Antifa and everyday Democrats in places like Portland or at marches in DC. They believe in the "active" part of activism - getting unruly.
Z, like the many idiot leftists amongst his mindset, focus on the one thing that WAS a problem, but no longer really is. Democrats love to solve yesterday's issues after they've been addressed (witness the 'fair pay for women' BS - not only is there a law on the books already, but the 'wage gap' is nearly non-existent at the equivalent job level).
But parrots like his ilk keep stirring a pot to drive emotions - and they have plenty of young people whose emotions have been played for most of their lives. Rather than promoting intellectual pursuits, we've allowed our schools to massage their feelings. So that is all they really have. No deep thought, just action/reaction feelings.
That's why I believe this cultural revolution may turn increasingly violent.
Deep down I do believe cooler heads will prevail, the proper focus will be restored, and we'll see people like Z and the leftists in Portland and other areas melt away.
But I watch the people in my office, shake my head, and keep it down doing the work that needs to be done. Sooner or later the corporate managers will realize the loose reins they've provided these kids will need a sharp yank.
Bulldog: Where Z seems to think the problem is racists amongst the Republicans, and indeed they are a problem though a very minor one
President Trump, the leader of the Republican Party:
"Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks."
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best — they're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Judge can't be fair because "he's a Mexican". (The judge was from Indiana.)
Haitian immigrants "all have AIDS".
Nigerian immigrants, once they had seen the United States, they would never "go back to their huts" in Africa.
One could cite controversial anecdotal evidence from Hillary, Obama, Biden, Bernie...
Doesn't prove anything.
Yet black and Hispanic unemployment are at an all time low.
And don't give us that Obama trend shit.
Bulldog: Democrats love to solve yesterday's issues after they've been addressed
There's certainly some of that. But consider the recent law concerning health insurance and preexisting conditions. Now, virtually every politicians expresses support for coverage of those with preexisting conditions. Victory? A partial one, perhaps. But most Republicans are clearly just giving lip service, and have supported bills which would weaken such protections.
The Damore situation is a classic case of heresy. The church could not prove the heretic wrong, so it became necessary to de-person him. It would not do to simply declare disapproval, the heretic had to be banished to frighten others who might be inclined to listen.
Exactly: the behavior of people who fear nothing so bitterly as others' ideas. It shows their profound doubt about the validity of their own ideas to stand up in an open fight.
The Cultural Revolution started in the schools too - then the crazy indoctrinated students literally ran through other institutions shaming people and beating resisters to death. Millions of normal people got herded out to rural areas to farm or destroy the forests.
It can't play out the same way here because people are armed.
James Damore - the Martin Luther of our time. His 95 theses pretty readable too...


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It was a lovely spring day.
The birds were chirping, the flowers blooming, and somewhere in the far distance, a man was peeing on the faces of a Mother and Father who were taking a break from their daily tasks of parenthood for an erotic and romantic weekend at their local Super 8 Motel.
Miles away from that mess, Perriwinkle Funkhouser was walking along the sidewalk. He had just experienced the worst Ulpher driver he ever encountered and barely escaped with his life.
But at least he was still alive.
As he was making his way to The Funeral Home, he withdrew from his pocket the vial that he found in the demolished Ulpher ride.
The vial looked like a Smurf-sized travel shampoo bottle and contained a dark-green liquid inside its clear casing. Perriwinkle twisted off the teensy cap and gave the mysterious concoction a quick whiff.
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Perriwinkle quickly stowed away the vial and continued walking to his destination. He almost forgot the entire reason for being outside after just one sniff of the robust elixir in his pocket.
Earlier that day, he received a phone call from an older woman telling him that his Mother had passed and that he needed to go to The Funeral Home as soon as possible.
"When did that happen, though? Also, why can I hear a description of my day?" he thought to himself.
Just then, an ominous man wearing a green jacket bumped into him and walked away briskly. Perriwinkle instantly checked his pockets and noticed the vial was gone.
Still in his eyesight, Perriwinkle rushed to the man who pickpocketed him and began screaming.
He stopped himself short of announcing to everyone in his general vicinity that someone just stole his drugs right as the thief skrrrr'd away.
Perriwinkle sprinted towards the man in the green jacket to retrieve his precious vial.
"Why is it precious to me?"
The green jacket man ran through a couple holding hands and rounded a corner into an alleyway. Perriwinkle dodged the flustered couple with yellow sweat on their faces and darted into the alleyway in close pursuit.
The green jacket man hopped on a nearby dumpster and attempted to climb a fire escape.
Yet he wasn't quick enough to get away from good ol' Perriwinkle, who jumped up to clasp the shoe of the thief with one hand while yanking his jacket down with the other.
Both men rudely fell on top of the dumpster and rolled off it, with Perriwinkle still holding on to the green jacket.
When he gathered enough strength to raise himself up, he noticed the empty green jacket in his hand. He looked both ways down the alley to ensure it was not some sort of magic trick.
"Did he just disappear out of thin air?"
Perriwinkle gazed at the crumpled jacket folded over in his hand as he questioned every thought he ever had.
Once he returned from the realm of thought, he scoured the jacket for his vial.
After finding it in the left breast pocket, he chucked the jacket in the dumpster and centered his entire universe around the small glass bottle in his hand.
With just one sniff he was able to hear things he never could before, but what would happen if he drank any of it?
Throwing caution to the wind, he twisted it open, dabbed a few drops on his tongue, and submitted himself to the will of the vial's bizarre nature.
It only took a matter of seconds before he could feel himself soaking into the pavement.
He looked around the alley and could see twisting gyroscopes of light emerging from the brick walls in a beautiful spectacle of color and grime.
"There it is again. Where is that voice coming from?"
Perriwinkle sloshed his way through the viscous concrete over to one of the balls of light. As he made his way, he looked down at the mysterious pair of hands in front of his stomach.
"I control these things, but have they always been just mine?"
A whirlwind of critical thoughts followed in this question's wake but Perriwinkle didn't have enough time to ponder on them since he was too enchanted by the moving wad of light hovering over his head.
Upon closer inspection, he could see tinier versions of multicolored gyroscopes rotating within the center of the larger one floating above him.
Perriwinkle felt like he was gazing into the code that structured all of existence. The longer he peered into the rotating patterns of light, the more he felt like everything in his entire life had been a lie.
He closed his eyes in an attempt to retain what he was seeing, but when he opened them again he could only see the same shadow of a creature with floppy ears and a deformed face.
It appeared to be the same lifeform that Perriwinkle had seen in his dreams from earlier that morning.
Then it finally hit him.
He dropped to his knees and looked up at the purple sky filled with green clouds as the explanation to his existence unraveled itself to him.
Everyone he had ever known or loved, including himself, were all part of a fictional universe created by this strange dog-like being that he kept seeing in his dreams.
When he saw the strange beast in his dream scribbling away at a desk, Perriwinkle was actually watching the formation of the world he currently lived in.
This revelation hit him like a sack of bricks, causing him to double over and plop his head on the sidewalk in front of him.
"This is all a lie. I'm not truly real and never was."
He knew that in order to reclaim any sense of agency in his life he would need to find and confront the dog-like humanoid from his dreams.
"But how am I going to do that if it apparently controls my every move?"
When he lifted his head from the cold concrete, Perriwinkle was amazed at the sight before him.
He was kneeling in front of the entrance to The Funeral Home.
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Safety rules are good, but we were in Tikehau and HAD to go 175 nautical miles to Moorea to meet up with our daughter, Heather, who was arriving on Friday. The forecasted winds were a bit high, but it would just take 24 to 36 hours..... The sail to Moorea was awful. We had strong winds, plus gusts and big swells. We reefed the main and put up the solent (the smaller headsail). After a while, we put in a second reef in the main. We were still over powered and doing 10+ knots. With the large swells the boat was surfing at 13 knots.
We were wet due to a couple of rain squalls, plus the swells crashing against the boat were splashing us. Due to the motion and the noise, neither of us could sleep when off watch so we were exhausted. We also realised we were not going to arrive in Moorea until after sunset (another safety rule we have is about not arriving somewhere unknown in the dark). We were going to be stuck in these conditions for an extra 10 hours.
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Published in Norwegian in 1998. Published in English: February 11, 2014
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case.
But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador's death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to—not even Harry himself.
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Harry has been traumatized by events of the previous book, The Bat, and finds the best way to cope is to stay drunk. But his boss has other plans for Harry.
A Norwegian Ambassador has been killed in a brothel in Bangkok and Harry is sent to help solve it. He doesn't want to go and the Bangkok police don't want him.
Needless to say, it's not a simple murder of a diplomatic figure. There are drug lords involved,along with gangsters and loan sharks.
Another great mystery in the Harry Hole Series.


text: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle [2004] ComedyI have to admit that I am quite a bit biased when it comes to stoner movies. Ever since I saw Dazed and Confused, I was hooked on those real time flow stoner comedies, where a people would get into all kinds of situations, often hilarious. As a young man I didn't even know that such things existed and let alone that they could happen to me. But I digress. Directed by Danny Leiner, who already knew how to make stoner comedies because of Dude, Where's my Car?, Harold & Kumar is one of the best movies in this genre. With a very easygoing and continuous flow, it just sucks you into this world where the usual quests are turned upside down. Instead of chasing money, girls or notoriety, these two cats are just looking for some White Castle burgers. And weed, of course. Kal Penn, who you might know from Van Wilder and John Cho, the MILF guy from American Pie, were the perfect choices for this movie. It's also interesting that you have two protagonists who are not white and you know that the target audience is white, so the conclusion you are left with is: stoner movies don't care about the color of your skin, there's only one color and it's green 🙂Meet Harold and Kumar, two guys living together and navigating through the treacherous waters of adult life. While Harold is working as an investment banker, Kumar is resisting medicine as his calling because of stereotypes. Both of them use weed to relax after a long day. One faithful night they get stoned and have a craving for White Castle burgers. Deciding to go for it, they soon pack up and are on their way to a nearest White Castle. However, upon arrival, they realize that the place has moved and this leads them on adventure of their lifetime.Interesting things start to happen when you start analyzing the story of this movie more closely. It tells the story of our society that people just don't want to hear. Our society and capitalism as its main vessel. A story of people so overworked and fucked up by social norms that they have to have some release, a certain period of day where most of the things would seem okay. A period where you would not obsess over your own perceived failures, debts or problems with girls. I could go on and on, but you get the picture. If you're in a mood for some more Harold & Kumar adventures, you should check two sequels, they were pretty decent.Director: Danny LeinerCast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Ethan Embry, Robert TinklerFun Stuff: Neil Patrick Harris plays a character named "Neil Patrick Harris" and is billed as such rather than being billed "as himself." According to an interview on NPR, this was done to make clear that he plays a parody of himself.Rating: IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366551/ Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.


text: Culture 8 January 2007 To have and have not From Bogart and Bacall to Brad and Angelina, Hollywood relationships have always reflected the roman Sign-up You must remember this. Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is looking tattered and torn, but pleased with himself all the same. He has solved the mystery, sent the bad guys packing and told the cops all they need to know in order to look like they've been on the case. "You've forgotten one thing," says Vivian Sternwood (played by Lauren Bacall) - "me." "What's wrong with you?" asks Marlowe. Vivian moves toward him: "Nothing you can't fix." And the credits roll - over a close-up of two cigarettes in an ashtray, their coils of smoke entwining. What kind of picture is The Big Sleep (1946)? The Raymond Chandler novel on which it is based is a winding and weighty detective thriller. But Howard Hawks's film, which follows Chandler's story pretty closely, is an altogether sunnier number, a lighter-than-air romantic comedy ballasted by the odd thud of a sap, the occasional crackle of gunfire. So it's rather like To Have and Have Not (1944), which took what Hawks called a "piece of junk" by Hemingway and twisted its sententious disquisition on the nature of masculinity into a war-torn bedroom farce: Noël Coward meets the Nazis. The meeting that really counted in that picture, however, was the one between its two leads, Bogart and Bacall making their debut together. It was fascinating enough that these two really did fall for one another while making the film. Better still that, in doing so, they created a new kind of cinema couple - one that refused to grant Hollywood's conception of romance its customary restrictions. When Bogart's Harry Morgan makes Bacall's "Slim" walk right round him to prove he has no strings attached, he does so to woo her with a vision of love that acknowledges no ties. The French film theorist Raymond Bellour once characterised Hollywood as a machine that produced couples, and the old post-structuralist was clearly on to something. Rare is the film that does not bring together a man and a woman. But what Bellour left out of his equation was history. Hollywood might produce couples, but couples also produce Hollywood. On-screen love affairs either reflect the changes in off-screen love affairs or they perish at the box office. If the punters don't feel that what they see on the screen is related, however remotely, to what they see off it, they won't go back for more. Romance, no matter how high-flown, must always be earthed in the humdrum. When Rock Hudson and Doris Day got together for some Pillow Talk (1959), they did so only after several reels of the internecine joshing all the best relationships are founded on. Leave such byplay out, and you leave everything out. Nora Ephron said of Sleepless in Seattle (1993) that she "dreamed of making a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love". Alas, Ephron was so in love with the idea of engineering a get-together between Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks that she succeeded only in screwing up her own film. Meg and Tom are so squashy and accommodating that they could never convince us they need one another. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were quite the opposite. Their nine pictures together centre on relationships as much remonstrative as romantic, but you could no more think either of them self-sufficient than swim in treacle. Films such as George Cukor's Adam's Rib (1949) and Frank Capra's punningly titled State of the Union (1948) speak to us still because of Tracy and Hepburn's instinctive understanding that marriage is, by definition, political - a clash between what ought to be two equals. Though there is a lot of talk in their films about the need for "south-end spankings", the talk is distributed evenly, Hepburn threatening Tracy as often as he threatens her. Hepburn's on-screen dealings with Cary Grant were spikier still. With the exception of the opening scene of The Philadelphia Story (1940), in which Grant puts his hand over Hepburn's mush and pushes her to the floor, it was she who called the shots in their four films together. Cukor's Holiday (1938) might seem to be about Johnny Case (Grant) and his desire to live a less materialistic life, but the picture's heart really beats inside the Hepburn character, Linda Seton, a society girl so full of beans, that society wants nothing to do with her. In Bringing Up Baby (1938), meanwhile, Hepburn's Susan Vance sexualises Grant's bottle-eyed boffin David Huxley, a chaste and charmless dinosaur buff who has - get this - mislaid his bone. In this way, Hepburn's films with Tracy and Grant, like those of Bogart and Bacall, offer us a vision of male/female relations as democracies of dependence. The sad thing is that there would be nothing else like them for the best part of 20 years - and even when something similar did return, towards the back end of the Sixties, the two-way street had become a one-way cul-de-sac. Eisenhower's childish vision of American innocence put paid to the idea of marriage as an arena of reciprocal liberation, and the America of Johnson and Nixon killed the idea of the mutually sustaining heterosexual couple. No convincingly redemptive romance has come out of Hollywood since the dog days of the Vietnam war. Instead, we have been offered over and over again a vision of an atavistic America, a Melville-esque America, Hemingway's America of men without women. Yes, there have been pictures about marriage, but none of them has seen it, without irony, as a forum for beneficence. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Mr and Mrs Smith (2005) was bad for any number of reasons, but chief among them was its inability to paint that (real-life) couple as anything like any couple you could have come across in what we ought perhaps to call real real life. The movie was named after an uncharacteristically cosy Alfred Hitchcock comedy, but it had far more in common with the post-'Nam buddy movies of the late Sixties and early Seventies. The progenitor of this genre was George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, who remain Hollywood's definitive buddies. Nearly four decades on, there is no denying the enduring lustre of this defiantly non-sexual couple. (The film tosses in a handful of scenes featuring Katharine Ross, a bed and a Burt Bacharach number - a ragbag that can't be dignified with the epithet "sub-plot" - to vouchsafe our heroes' straight credentials.) Nor the lustre between Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Robert de Niro and Charles Grodin in Midnight Run (1989), or Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma and Louise (1991). But, for all their pleasures, these pictures short-change us with a vision of a world where half the inhabitants barely exist. The only thing more dreamy than a movie about love is a movie that pretends to have done away with love. Howard Hawks said that the Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart fell for was a dream: Bogart was in love not with the real Bacall, but the character she played in To Have and Have Not. Hawks had rather wanted Bacall for himself, so there is envy in that insight. Yet insight it remains. Half a century after his death, Bacall is still singing Bogart's praises, but there is enough other evidence to suggest that his early demise may have been all that prevented their marriage ending the way most Hollywood marriages end. On screen, however, they are united for ever, the most inspirational lovers in the world of movies, devoutly non-possessive, resolutely self-possessed. To have and have not, that is the answer to cinema's - to life's - eternal question. Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, a month-long season, is at the National Film Theatre, London SE1, until 31 January. www.bfi.org.uk Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! SUBSCRIBE More


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Thankful to have the Darkstrider Patrol of Joy Webcam to use *and* I can't wait to photograph how cute this little cottage looks with something that can capture even better light and detail.
Stole a few minutes to craft the little hausey. I tinted the sanded walkway and the face of the house with my favorite thing, diluted arcrylic paint and watercolor. I had my first successful Dremel© experience and carved little wooden corbels to support the porch cover, seen far right, got the webcam up real close, under the roof overhanging slats. I carved groovy grooves and notched the mini shutters, which are about the size of a quarter when put together. The house measures 5" (12.7cm) exactly from floor to peak. Painted the chimney white with rusted iron chimney pots on top.
Next time, the door, hardware; hinge and latch for the shutters, and a little garden.
On the slats seen above right, I may be painting a detail like the one seen here on the lovely historic Culver Hotel in Culver City. I pass by this beautiful building often when I'm out and always love the way the roof overhang is decorated. The only other example of such an ornamented overhead detail I know of are the wonderful painted animals decorating the beams featured in Citizen Kane. (image grabbed off a travel site).


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Trinidad is a tiny little seaside town that is located about 10 miles north of my apartment. I love it in Trinidad and have spent a few days up there hiking over the past few weeks.
On New Years Eve I hiked the Trinidad Head Trail, which is a little over a mile loop with fantastic views. It was a beautiful day and I was happy to be able to finally check this trail off my to do list.
As you start up the trail, you have a beautiful view of the beach.
A couple of shots from different point around the trail…
As I completed my loop I came back around to this stunning view of the town. I think this was my favorite shot of the day.
My next trip to Trinidad was a few days later with my roommate and the weather was quite different. It was grey and dreary and threatened to rain on us at any moment. We were still able to see quite a bit of the town and hike down to several of the beaches.
I'm going to pause for a moment here and throw in my Theme Thursday post for this week since the photos I am using were taken on this particular adventure.
The next two photos are my contribution to today's Theme Thursday over at California to Korea. The Theme today is "find your focal point." I'm actually not too fond of the second picture, but I liked that the background was white and blurred. I just wish the bird wasn't so dark.
Back to the adventure…
We had started our adventure looking for the casino while failing to pay attention to roadside signs. We had all day so we just took a Sunday drive up Patrick's Point Drive where we spotted some sea lions (Okay, Andy spotted the sea lions. I would have totally missed them). The first picture is the normal view of the rock. Take a look at the bottom right hand almost corner of it and you will see come brown specks.
Zoomed in, you can see that they are sea lions!
A scenic view from along Patrick's Point Drive:
We then headed back south and along Scenic Drive, where the casino is actually located. We quickly found the casino and decided to take advantage of what little daylight we had left and see what else there was to see along Scenic Drive. We stopped at Luffenholtz Beach County Park and explored the beach and the views there.
The picture below is the beach the birds were on, this is also a view from the trail pictured above.
And below is the view to the left of the trail…
This past Sunday we went up to Trinidad State Beach and did some hiking. Here are a few shots from along the trails.
The picture below is of Megwill Point. This is my most favorite place I have been to so far. Unfortunately, WordPress decided you did not need to see any other pictures of this particular spot. For some reason it did not load all the photos I had selected. The picture below is where the trail pretty much ends. You come down the trail, down some slightly scary steps, and onto a large dirt surface with stellar views of the ocean all around you.
Okay, I had to hop over to Facebook and download another picture of this spot to give you some perspective (I'm at work and do not have access to all my photos). Below is the view from the end of the trail, before you head down the stairs.
After our time at Megwill Point we headed back toward the car. We decided to walk the main road and had a fun adventure crossing a washed out section of it about halfway back. Once we got back we went into the town of Trinidad for lunch at wonderful little cafe that has excellent vegetarian and vegan options. After lunch we walked through town and went down to Old Home Beach to explore. There we got to see more Sea Lions, but I didn't have my zoom lens to capture any pictures of them. I did get a beautiful picture on the way down to the beach and a couple of fun shots of the water though.
I've really enjoyed exploring Trinidad the past few weeks and look forward to more adventure days in this tiny little seaside town!


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FLASH: They will all succeed current models or occupy entirely new slots in Ferrari's Supercar lineup.
Ferrari's (NYSE:RACE) Vice President of Marketing Enrico Galliera said in an interview at the weekend that the Maranello Outfit has 5 new cars due for launch in Y 2019.
"Five new models will come in 2019, which is probably the biggest effort," Galliera revealed in the interview. "It's the start of the new generation of product."
"Some of them are replacing existing product, some of them are not so. Already in 2019 you will see some products that are existing in the product range, and another thing that I can say is that we will nurture both the GT segment and the sports segment."
The 1st of the 5 is the F8 Tributo, a Supercar revealed last Thursday. It features a 3.9-liter, twin-turbo V-8 that makes 710 horsepower.
Mr. Galliera revealed that Ferrari has a new mid-engined sports car platform that will be revealed this year, but did not specify whether this will underpin the approximately 488 GTB-sized F8 Tributo or the other of the two mid-engined sports cars planned for reveal in Y 2019.
Galliera implies that the three non-sports car models will occupy either the grand touring or ultra-luxury segments of the market.
"We are developing some products that are designed to give the same emotion as a Ferrari," Mr. Galliera continued. "So it is a sports car but with this design that it is more elegant that is more for everyday driving in order to attract those people that maybe are not considering to buy a Ferrari, because they are not willing to have a highly sporty car. So in a way, we are trying to have an offer that is capturing both opportunities."
Ferrari's tradition of using V-12 engines will continue, though the iconic Italian automaker will begin add smaller, entry-level engines for some of its products now.
"The V-12 is part of the heritage of the company," Mr. Galliera stated. "It will remain one of the potential elements that we can use in our model of the future together with the V-8 and future with the V-6. So the technology we are going to have V-12, V-8, V-6 turbo. Hybrid will give us the possibility to have a platform that we can mix to achieve emissions targets."
Mr. Galliera also denied that the company's crossover, currently developed under the name Purosangue, or "purebred," will be among the models revealed this year.
"This is something that we are working to, but is not going to come in the coming two to 3 years. It is something more long-term."
Ferrari's Brand: Ferrari became the world's strongest brand, with a score of 94.8 out of 100 and an AAA+ rating just last month.
The Italian supercar manufacturer claimed the title according to the latest Brand Finance Global 500 2019 report launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Ferrari is the Aristocrat of the automotive sector.
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FAU researcher appointed to Foresight Panel
Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm advises the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Which developments in technology and society are possible, probable, and desirable? Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm has been appointed by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, to the newly-founded Foresight Panel to help answer this question. In this committee, experts from science, business and culture develop scenarios for the future that reach into the 2030s.
'Foresight' is a strategic process that seeks to look into the future in the longer term. Possible, probable and desirable developments with a timescale of up to 15 years are analysed. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been carrying out the Foresight initiative with varying areas of focus since the 1990s. A new Foresight process has now been launched. The purpose of the process is to investigate the technological and societal changes that society will face in the near future.
The Ministry takes a two-pronged approach: Firstly, a Foresight Office uses scientific methods to systematically search for trends and issues that could be important in the future. Secondly, the Foresight Panel advises the Ministry which of these issues are especially important for education and research and should be examined in more detail in further studies. In addition, both collaborate to establish probable future scenarios: Experts are surveyed and trends are extrapolated in order to describe possible, probable and desirable futures. During the initial step, a study about future changes in the values of people in Germany is planned. Which values will be important to people in the future? Who or what will teach values?
Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm is one of 17 experts on the Foresight Panel. She focuses on energy markets, energy market modelling, behavioural economics, social networks and auctions. At FAU, she holds the Chair of Economic Theory. In addition, she is Head of the Scientific Board at Energie Campus Nürnberg (EnCN) as well as a Member of the Board of the newly-founded Bavarian Hydrogen Centre (H2.B). Furthermore, Prof. Grimm is a member of various high-profile national advisory committees such as the Board of Academic Advisors of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy or the Expert Commission for the Monitoring Process 'Energy of the Future'.
Project website for the newly launched Foresight process (in German): www.vorausschau.de
Website of the Foresight Initiative (in German): www.bmbf.de/de/mit-foresight-in-die-zukunft-schauen-930.html
Press release from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (in German): www.bmbf.de/de/karliczek-wir-schauen-in-die-zukunft-9549.html
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The heart of the new part of Marrakech, the Gueliz district offers an alternative vibe to the traditional medina atmosphere. A home to some of Morocco's best and cutting edge galleries, Gueliz is a buzzing and vibrant neighborhood for art enthusiasts. Tucked away in a leafy street in Gueliz, David Bloch Gallery is one of the best examples of Marrakesh's rising contemporary art scene. A new exciting collective exhibition entitled Summer Group Show will be a perfect occasion to discover and re-discover gallery's wide range of resident artists. Exploring the richness of contemporary art scene through the central and recurring topic of 'life', the gallery will highlight the main themes it addresses - letters and calligraphy, optical and kinetic art and abstraction and fantasy. Along with some of the old works by their resident artists, David Bloch Gallery will feature new and unseen works by Lek, Mist, Morran Ben Lahcen, Remed and Sébastien Preschoux.
Coming from different backgrounds and style, artists such as Sowat, Mohamed Boustane or Vincent Abadie Hafez find their inspiration in the letter – a theme present at the heart of both Eastern and graffiti cultures. Exploring possibilities for new graphical compositions, each of these artists re-interprets the very essence and shapes of the letter. Treating the letter as an abstract and universal language, it becomes separated from its linguistic meaning through their creative and aesthetic approach. Artists experimenting within the field of Optical and Kinetic Art are Morran Ben Lahcen, the new talent Sébastien Preschoux, Arthur Dorval and Arnaud Liard and the collective he forms with Sowat and Lek. While Morran Ben Lahcen explores different plays on movement, light and balance through abstract artworks, Arnaud Liard, Sowat and Lek incorporate multidimensional movement into their compositions to extend the viewer's perspective.
Evolving from graffiti background towards new different approaches and techniques to express their notion of the imaginary, the artist Augustine Kofie creates works within the constructive abstraction, while Alexone Dizac creates an animal fantasia with lively characters and figures. From the figurative poetry of Ramed, the conceptual expressionism of Arne Quinze and surrealism of Jaybo Monk, to sculptures of Steph Cop, color and movement of Yaze, Tanc and Mist, each of these artists portrays a certain reflection on life through their practice.
Founded in 2010 at the core of the Gueliz district in Marrakesh, the David Bloch Gallery is dedicated to contemporary fine arts. Representing several dozen local and international artists, the gallery is pioneering at discovering new artistic expressions and new emerging talents. Presenting a wide range of contemporary artists who are considered to be seminal figures of their generation, the gallery always features an impressive and cutting-edge program. The exhibition Summer Group Show will be on view from June 8th till the middle of September 2016.
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Rising Care Costs Through 2024 Drives Projected Job Growth
Industry Perspective Annual health spending is expected to grow an average of 5.8 percent from 2014 through 2024 a new study reports.
By 2024, $1 in every $5 spent in the United States will be on health care costs, according to a government report released in the journal Health Affairs. The Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said this reflects an increase in the number of people with health insurance under Obamacare, stronger economic growth and an aging population.
The Affordable Care Act extended health insurance to about 8.4 million previously uninsured.
Health inflation is forecast to outpace inflation of the gross domestic product; by 2024, health spending is projected to account for 19.6 percent of the gross domestic product.
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The projected forecast expects spending will grow by an average of 5.3 percent from 2016 to 2018, and increase in following years to 6.2 percent annually through 2024 because of strong economic growth, which leads to increased use of health care goods and services.
"The projected forecast expects spending will grow by an average of 5.3 percent from 2016 to 2018, and increase in following years to 6.2 percent annually through 2024"
As more people enter the health care system, demand for qualified health care employees is rising. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the health care and social assistance sector is one of the largest industries in the country, with almost 22 million jobs projected for 2022, an increase of almost five million jobs from 2012 to 2022, a 29 percent increase. This industry is projected to be one of the fastest growing because of the demand for health care workers to care for the needs of an aging population.
Health care support occupations and health care practitioner and technical occupations top the list of the fastest-growing occupational groups from 2012 to 2022. Health care support occupations are projected to grow by 28 percent, while health care practitioner and technical support occupations – a group that includes doctors and nursing personnel -- are projected to grow by 22 percent.
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The demand for personal care aides is projected to grow 53 percent from 2012 to 2022, followed by home health aides and diagnostic medical sonographers. Projected job growth for personal care aides and registered nurses in terms of thousands of jobs is 581 and 527 respectively.
The big unknown, however, remains the extent the Affordable Care Act will impact health care spending over the next decade.


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Walking in the Footsteps of Tech Giants: Eight Lessons Energy Companies Can Learn From the Tech Sector's MistakesPosted on 17th December 2018
The energy sector is a relative latecomer to digitalisation, giving it the chance to learn from mistakes of others. However, as the sector moves to modernise its infrastructure and take advantage of the huge quantity of customer data it has access to, it risks moving from a legacy of politicised regulation and high stakes interventions around oil and energy into a tech sector where the same characteristics are increasingly appearing around data.
Considering the history of the energy sector and the lessons learned by tech companies, Access Partnership and Delta EE tackle the eight questions these companies should be asking themselves.Back to document archive


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As Iran polls loom, Kurds sharpen ethnic divisions
London - In Iran's 2005 presidential election, reformist candidate Mostafa Moin used a series of posters featuring Iranians in an array of traditional clothing to project himself as a man sympathetic to the half of Iran's population that hails from its ethnic minorities.
In the 2013 election, the centrist Hassan Rohani polled well among both the Baluchis in eastern Iran and the Kurds in the west.
Treatment of non-Persian groups remains divided between reformists and pragmatists on one side such as Rohani, and fundamentalists on the other, who often look to security solutions. The Kurds and Baluchis are particularly suspect not just because both have spawned armed groups hostile to the Islamic Republic but also because they — unlike the Azeris, Iran's largest ethnic minority, or Turkic-speaking nomads — are Sunni Muslims.
Rohani visited Kurdistan in June and made a speech in Mahabad, capital of the short-lived Soviet-backed Kurdish Republic of 1946. He promised to open Kurdish-language centres since the "mother tongue of ethnic groups, especially of Kurds, should be respected and recognised". The president also inaugurated a petrochemical works, a rare large jobs provider in one of Iran's poorer regions.
But this was also a summer with armed clashes between Iranian security forces and the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), which has been largely based in neighbouring Iraq since it was driven there in the early years of the Islamic Republic.
Tehran claimed this summer to have killed dozens of KDPI fighters in clashes, while Iranian security officials and commanders condemned the KDPI as "terrorists". Brigadier-General Mohammad Pakpour alleged they were supported by "reactionary states", meaning the Arab monarchies of the Gulf. During a parliamentary session, local deputy Rohulla Hazratposh explicitly named Saudi Arabia.
The KDPI denies it follows anyone else's agenda, although its leader, Mustafa Hijri, told the Jerusalem Post in July that "Israel should be providing help to opposition groups standing against Iran".
Apart from deciding how to build support internationally, the party has for many years faced a challenge in demonstrating a continued relevance to Iran's Kurds, who number perhaps 8 million, about 10% of Iran's population.
The KDPI has to avoid being outflanked by the more militant Party for Free Life (PJAK), an offshoot of the Turkish Kurd Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is gaining strength through the success of its Syrian ally in controlling territory pried from either President Bashar Assad or the Islamic State (ISIS).
Unlike the PKK, the KDPI has enjoyed friendly relations with the Kurdish parties ruling northern Iraq, which have often been put under Iranian pressure — witness this summer's intermittent Iranian shelling of areas inside Iraq — to prevent the KDPI expanding its activities within Iran.
The KDPI has therefore since the early 1990s spoken of an "armed presence" rather than an "armed struggle". As its deputy leader, Hassan Sharafi, recently put it: "We don't call it armed struggle — we call it the presence of peshmerga alongside the people of Kurdistan who are under the pressure of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They are detained, jailed and being monitored. Our peshmerga have a presence… to protect those people."
With Kurdish nationalist sentiment enhanced regionally by developments in Syria, the KDPI also argues there has been a toughening of Tehran's approach. Hijri has insisted the KDPI cannot give blanket assurances to the Iraqi Kurdish authorities over its activities.
Both Sharafi and Hijri have said they believe Tehran has cracked down on Kurdish dissidents as a consequence of its 2015 agreement with world powers over Iran's nuclear programme.
Facing a presidential election in May 2017, Rohani will seek Kurdish support and recently dispatched a delegation to Sanandaj, Iran's largest Kurdish city but Ahsan Alawi, a parliamentary deputy for Sanandaj, told the Kurdish news website Rudaw he thought the president would lose votes.
For many Kurds, differences between Rohani and his fundamentalist critics appear small. While the Kurds are closer to Persians in language and culture than to Arabs or Turks, the overtly Shia nature of the Islamic Republic often makes them feel like second-class citizens.
The KDPI's official policy is federalism and the party draws on the political legacy of Abdulrahman Ghassemlou, a leader assassinated by Iranian agents in Vienna in 1989 after being lured into talks by Tehran. PJAK wants something far closer to independence.
Few doubt the atmosphere is volatile. In May 2015, riots broke out in Mahabad and spread to other Kurdish cities, including Sardasht and Marivan, just days after a 25-year-old Kurdish chambermaid, Farinaz Khosravani, plunged to her death from a hotel room. Social media posts suggested she was fleeing sexual pursuit by a member of the security forces.
As winter draws in on the mountains along the Iraq-Iran border, snow will reduce the forays of both peshmerga and smugglers. Come spring, a new political season will open.


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As the 2019 NewFronts kicks off in New York today, the brand safety issue will once again be the apex talking point between programmers and brand and agency partners, who are considering whether to shift more of their advertising budgets into OTT and non-linear television. The annual Adweek NewFronts roundtable convened at Adweek's HQ a few weeks ahead of the marketplace also revealed that following consumer patterns and listening to their view wants and needs will be central, as will the debate over free and subscription viewing models. Weighing in on what's ahead were Alana Calderone Polcsa, svp, Warner Brothers Entertainment, the Ellen Show and the Ellen Digital Network; John Halley, COO, ad sales, Viacom; Anna Bager, evp, industry initiatives, IAB; Sarah Personette, global vp, Twitter client solutions; Peter Naylor, svp, ad sales, Hulu; and Tara Walpert Levy, vp, agency and brand solutions, Google and YouTube. One interesting trend that surfaced during the discussion: the courtship of DTC and challenger brands in the OTT space, with programmers seeing them as almost kindred spirits and particularly ripe for their nontraditional platforms. —James Cooper
Adweek: What are some of the major trends and themes driving the streaming and OTT economy as we head into the NewFronts this year? Tara, we'll start with you and work around the table.
Tara Walpert Levy: Well, I think candidly there's a fundamental change in what and how people are watching. It's less through traditional television and more through alternative devices, whether that's connected TV or mobile. And I think the primary reason for that is also they're watching a widely different range of content that's driven by their personal passions. The whole idea, I think, of prime-time television has become personal, which is the headline, really, as we head into the NewFronts.
Peter Naylor: The first big trend we see is consumers want and expect everything to be personal in media. And then the other big consumer trend is the rise of on-demand everything. And so, when you combine that with the rise of personalization, that means television and video is increasingly on demand and personalized, and that's what OTT is all about. It's the right everything, the right time, the right place, the right context, the right show because they chose it, it's personal and that's what's fueling this because it's just a better way.
John Halley: A theme we talk about is what's old is new again. What I mean by that is that video product, digital video offerings that eight years ago consisted of full-episode consumption on a desktop computer and then morphed to mobile and app is now increasingly happening via TV screens. If you talk to any big long-form player, 80% plus of that video duration is happening in the living room on a TV screen, often with other people in the room. So OTT is not an 18-year-old on the subway watching Netflix on his phone; it's much more what we think of as television. And it's TV in its ability to drive brand awareness.
Alana Calderone Polcsa: From a publisher standpoint, business diversification is going to be a trend. So publishers increasingly want to own their own destiny and yet want to be where audiences are en masse, which, frankly, they don't fully monetize and they don't own, so as a result you're going to start to see a mix from an advertiser perspective in terms of offering. So while the NewFronts is really rooted in video content, you'll start to see offerings like experiential events, podcasts and other products that really offer the advertisers more and let audiences experience their brand in different ways.


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The official new video by Ada – Only You Jesus finally drops after days of anticipation!
"Only You Jesus", (the Audio) released with "I Testify" in a double release on the 11th of August, 2015 as a bonus track is fast becoming one of the most sang worship song by worship leaders, choirs and body of Christ today; spreading from Nigeria to the rest of Africa and other parts of the world with a supernatural momentum
Currently in the studio working on her new project to be released this year, Ada would love to bless you with the official video of "Only You Jesus".
Ada will love to thank you for your immense support and celebrating Jesus.
"God bless you and continue to do what only him can do for you in Jesus name – Amen" – Ada Ehi
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When 90 percent people used to lose the Computer Hard Disk, they consider it as Useless.
Similarly, many people use 500GB or 1TB hard disk in the computer by upgrading their old Computer 80GB, 320GB Hard Disk, so do not Utilize the old Hard Disk Drive. But you will be surprised to know that one thing, 90% of the Damage Internal Hard Disk can be used for data storage by creating External Hard Disk.
There is not much difference between these two, just understand that you can use the Internal Hard Disk as a Mobile Internal Memory in the computer and use External Hard Drive as a USB Pen Drive. Many External Drives cannot be installed in OS but can install OS in all Internal Hard Drives.
What will be the benefit of creating the internal hard drive with External Hard Drive?
Suppose if you have a 320GB Useless Internal Hard Drive and you want to buy a Pen Drive for file sharing. Today, the speed of 16GB 100MB / Writing Speed with USB 3.0 Interface Pen Drive will have cost between 700 and 900 rupees. But if you create your 320GB Useless Internal Hard Disk with External Hard Disk with 100MB / s Reading Speed & 50MB / s Writing Speed with USB 3.0 Interface, then its maximum price will be 600 rupees.
Step to convert to internal hard disk?
Some online hardware tools come in, which convert Direct Internal to External Hard Drive, they are called Hard Drive Casing. Simply you have to insert Simple Internal Hard Drive inside the Case and it will be converted to External Hard Drive.
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First of all, let's Fit Internal Hard Disk inside Adapter, if you do not understand how to Fit.
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After the internal hard drive is fit, it will be converted to External Hard Drive. After that, you can store your data Permanently by connecting it to the computer with the help of a USB cable.
I hope this information helps you to do.
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2018 Goals
2017 has genuinely been the best year of my life so far. I've spent time with the most amazing people, and smiled/laughed until my jaw aches too many times to count. I turned 21, figured out I look like PS1 Ron Weasley (seriously I have the photos to prove it), I've seen my favourite bands, I've been to Disneyland Paris and Cape Verde. I also passed my driving test, started an access course and got offers for university. I can't believe so much has happened this year! I am very excited for 2018.
Improve my photography and video skills
If you read my what I got for Christmas post, Rhys very kindly bought me a GoPro, which I am so excited to use. I definitely want to get to know the settings so I can use it to the best of it's ability, and so I'm ready to make a great video montage of our holiday in June. I also want to learn how to use my Canon 600D properly (yes I've had it for years) – so I can improve my blog photography and general photography.
Get Fit
I know this is such a generic new year goal and I've put it before, but this time I actually do mean to get fit. I joined the gym in 2017 and was getting really good with going, but I ended up being ill for the majority of the year so couldn't go a lot of the time. This year I'm hoping that I'm ill a lot less and can go to the gym at least three times a week.
I'm so bad at winding down and relaxing, I need to get better at this and this means some binging on TV series and watching films I've never seen. I have a huge list of recommendations from people in my life, so I'll be working my way through that list in 2018 as well as adding new films to the list that are coming out in the future.
After years of wanting to go to university to study Midwifery, I finally began my access course in April 2017 and have been offered places from universities to start in September 2018, on the condition that I achieve all merits and distinctions in my assignments. I am unbelievably excited for this time in my life and I can't wait to start getting prepared throughout this year.
I'm not even over exaggerating when I say that 2017 was the best and happiest year of my life. I think being happy is such a simple goal to some, but until late 2016 I couldn't remember the last time I was truly happy. I am aiming to carry on being happy throughout 2018!


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Bartartine's Executive Chef Joseph Boutros talks to HN about the strategies being employed to keep the brand innovative, relevant and healthy, at a time when the F&B industry is grappling with an increasingly demanding audience
What prompted you to enter the F&B profession and what are your future plans?
My passion for creating innovative recipes, hence encouraging an emotional connection with the 'dish', is what drove me to choose this profession. Today, I feel I'm achieving this vision by continuously innovating with different offerings at Bartartine, be it at the bakery, the pastry or in our dine-in menu selection, offering revisited dishes inspired by recipes from around the world. My future plans include keeping up with the latest trends by continuously offering something new to our consumers.
What are the main challenges you face when it comes to sourcing and creating dishes?
My biggest challenge is finding the right ingredients – mostly sourced locally – to create the items I envision serving at Bartartine, which should be the most suitable fit for the market and customers.
What are the advantages of creating distinct flavor combinations that celebrate a revisited local cuisine?
While the reality of customer preference is always a top consideration, I still need to find a niche that defines Bartartine as unique. In other words, the brand has to be different enough for people to go out of their way to choose it over another. The benefits of coming up with innovative recipes are seeing positive reactions from our customers, while witnessing diners coming back is the biggest reward.
Where do you find your inspiration and how do you ensure you continue innovating?
It starts with my personal taste for food to which I add ingredients that are good for our body and mind. In addition, I work closely with the marketing team, who assist me in identifying on-trend practices, the latest power-food discoveries and suggest recipes made famous in other countries that would fit the brand. The 14 new menu items we launched early this year were based on the latest trends related to vegan products, healthy-cooking practices (no deep frying), using power-food ingredients and innovative, uncommon dishes, such as our hummus truffle dip and Asian kale salad, served with a delicious peanut butter sauce. In terms of what's next, I never stop working on new recipes and dish ideas that could fit the brand. However, we make it a point to ensure that these are launched in a timely fashion, so that they receive the recognition and credit they deserve.
What feedback have the new menu items generated?
Launching these 14 new items was quite an achievement for the brand. We were delighted to receive amazing feedback, where we saw a large number of first-time customers returning for our new items many times over! To date, the most requested items are those involving the highest level of innovation. The hummus truffle dip stood out because of its fusion of local and European flavors, while the mango avocado rolls also emerged as another favorite, because they are not only vegan, but freshly-prepared with large fresh mango and avocado slices.The salmon sashimi salad was a great hit, due to the twist of combining Asian and French cuisines. The wild salmon teriyaki is one of our bestsellers, probably because we retained the delicious flavor of this renowned dish, while adding healthier side sauces and using wild brown rice.


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Jordan and Bradly D'Souza set a new record earlier this month, piloting a Tesla Model S 85D from Los Angeles to New York in 51 Hours and 47 Minutes, besting the previous record of 55 hours by a considerable 3 hours and 13 minutes.
The drivers weren't just looking for bragging rights. They made the journey to raise awareness and donations to fight human trafficking. You can go to their site freedom5000.org to learn more. A video of their cross-country trek is above.


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