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The event represents the paradox of being singled out by randomness, and so precipitates questions about chance, fate and meaning in life. The film explores seven stories from around the world that raise and respond to these questions, while keeping the sky and what comes out of it as a central visual metaphor and thread. Paul Auster, who was struck as a teenager, philosophically anchors the film, along with Fred Frith, the improviser, who both imaginatively underpins it and personally demonstrates the ubiquity of electricity in our bodies and the universe. James O' Reilly goes back for the first time to the farm in northern Ontario where he was struck and his friend was killed 28 years ago, and relives the event he was only partially able to exorcise by writing a play about it, also called Act of God. France's best known stormchaser, Alex Hermant, takes us on a tour of his museum in Marcenat, describing what drew him to lightning and also how he lost his soul by photographing it.
Dannion Brinkley, self-described bully and CIA assassin, had a near death experience after being struck which took him to celestial cites and changed him radically: from someone who blew up farmers in Nicaragua to someone who heads the largest association of hospice volunteers in the U.S. During the festival of Santa Cruz, in a small, deeply Catholic town in central Mexico, five children praying around a cross on top of a mountain were struck by lightning and killed. A year after this unspeakable tragedy, a vigil is held for the children in a newly built chapel at the site of the strike. Josue's mother, Salome, believes God took him to be an angel. Deysey's mother, Maria, is not so sure. Yet resolute certainty is demonstrated by the Yoruba community in Palmira, Cuba, who conduct complex rituals and make offerings to the god of lightning, Shango [a.k.a. Santa Barbara], to ensure that he will not get angry and send lightning bolts to earth, "because lightning can kill us, as simple as that".


Like many, I've been preparing for the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie by revisiting all of the old ones. As a passionate security geek, I can't help but consume my pop-culture through the filter of Information Security. I'm always surprised by the correlations you can find between the two subjects (if you look hard enough).
Last month, I explored some of the security tips that can be gleaned from Star Wars Episodes 4-6, so now lets dive into what the prequel series can teach us about InfoSec.
This is a common military tactic. If you want your attack to remain hidden, you knock out your adversary's communications to cause confusion and keep them from sharing information. Unfortunately, this has also become a relatively common digital attack tactic. Some advanced cyber attackers launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against their victims as a smoke screen. While you're figuring out that overwhelming flood of traffic, the hacker launches his real attack, designed to infiltrate your network and steal your confidential information. You don't notice the real attack because the DDoS attack caused confusion by disrupting your communications.
A great example of this was a 2013 cyber heist against a Californian financial institute. The hackers launched a DDoS attack to mask their real $900K cyber heist. In fact, examples of DDoS smoke screens go back even further, and some even mimic the physical, military attacks we see in Star Wars. Specifically, in 2008 Russian launched a military invasion against Georgia. Before that attack, Georgia reportedly suffered DDoS attacks. Finally, this tactic has become so popular that we even see fictional hackers use it (realistically) in shows like the Mr. Robot series.
In short, while DDoS attacks are a problem on their own, they can also signify that a more nefarious assault is underway. Learn from Naboo, and be sure to pay attention to your other systems if you ever become faced with a DDoS. It may just be hiding the attacker's real motive.
If you're the average geek, you can't talk about the Star Wars prequels without moaning about Jar Jar Binks. While I have to admit that my 11-year-old found him amusing, most Star Wars fans I know are disgusted by his slapstick, comedic relief. Jar Jar often seemed to cause more trouble than he was worth; crashing into the heroes, clumsily stumbling around battlefields and acting seemingly brainless. Yet, somehow, Jar Jar's bumbling always seemed to magically work out for the better.
Truthfully, ignorant Jar Jar-like users can introduce risks to their organizations, making basic mistakes that let hackers in. And in the real world, things don't always magically work out for the better. Jar Jar is a good example of an "accidental insider threat," or a person that makes an unintentional mistake that threatens your business.
There's no getting around the fact that users need security awareness training. One deadly mistake you can make with Jar Jar-like employees is to assume that they are hopeless. Of the IT jokes mentioned above, the one I hate is, "no patch for stupidity." There is a patch: Education. You can't expect everyone to intuitively have IT or security expertise. However, you can expect them to learn the basics, and improve their Jar Jar-like ways. Train your users so that they act more like the Jar Jar diplomat vs. Jar Jar the exile.
That was my reaction to a recent rumor a friend shared with me. If you aren't aware, a thread on Reddit, and related video, have recently gone viral, describing a potential alternate story arc for Jar Jar. I won't spoil the details (watch the video), but in the end the author makes a somewhat compelling argument that Jar Jar may be an evil Sith Master manipulating Princess Amidala and the Jedi. In the end, it's probably just a fun conspiracy theory, but for the sake of argument, let's imagine this possibility.
Although I just compared Jar Jar to an accidental insider based on his moronic nature, if this alternative theory was true, Jar Jar knowingly manipulated our heroes from the inside; making him a malicious insider.
Implement the least privilege principle to prevent employees from touching data they shouldn't have access too.
Consider data monitoring or data loss prevention solutions that can keep track of how employees use data.
This title might sound a bit risqué, but hear me out. Padmé was an adept security expert! A big reveal from the first movie was that "Queen Amidala" was a decoy, and that one of her "handmaidens" was actually the true Queen of Naboo. Padmé realized that she was at risk, so her security team assigned a bodyguard to impersonate her. During an assassination attempt, the attacker would go after the wrong person, giving Padmé the opportunity to identify the attack, and react or escape.
This is a great example of what the security industry calls a honeypot. Originally designed as a security research tool, honeypots are systems that pretend to be legitimate, but are actually designed to lure in hackers. They offer a safe way to attract malware and attacks for analysis that informs the creation of new defenses. Lately, however, organizations are starting to use honeypots to both deflect attacks from their real targets, and as a "canary in a coal mine" that informs you if you've been breached.
Companies hoping to protect their vital assets should consider some of the new forms of deception defenses like honeypots.
While not everyone loves the prequel movies, one thing these films did well was bringing back the bounty hunters. It's probably safe to say that Boba Fett is a fan favorite among Star Wars geeks, so including Jango Fett and his minions was a smart move.
In Attack of the Clones, there's a scene where a seemingly female bounty hunter attempts to assassinate Amidala with poisonous worm-like creatures. Obi-Wan and Anakin sense the attempt, prevent it, and pursue the assassin through the skies of Coruscant. In the end, they corner the human assassin in a bar, only to learn that she is a changeling—an alien that can morph into other forms. Obviously, this is a great skill for an assassin or bounty hunter as they attempt to avoid capture or detection.
Changelings' abilities are also a great metaphor for advanced malware. In order to evade signature-based defenses, which are looking for specific patterns, sophisticated malware is designed to constantly morph. Cyber criminals use technical tricks that continuously repack their malware so that it looks different on a binary level. In the end, it might be the same exact ransomware that you've seen before, but it's repeatedly packaged in new ways to escape legacy defenses. The only way to catch this type of threat is to ignore the external packaging, and focus on the behavior of the threat.
If you want the Jedi skills required to catch advanced malware, consider more advanced threat protection solutions that use behavioral analysis and machine learning to catch new threats.
So, if you haven't watched all three prequel films… spoiler alert! By the end of the series, we find that Senator Palpatine was the author of a series of deceptive machinations that led to his rise in power. He was behind the Trade Federation's attacks, and leveraged the fear from those circumstances to remove the current Chancellor, ultimately gaining the position for himself. He exploited the risk posed by the Droid Army to grant himself "emergency powers," and control of the Clone Army. And in the end, we learned he was Darth Sidious – a Sith Lord – all along. In summary, Palpatine exploited fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) to get otherwise smart people to give up their freedom, by incrementally granting a single authority more and more power.
There have been many historical examples where nations have come under some real or perceived threat, and have reacted by looking for solutions to protect their citizens. Unfortunately, these situations are often fueled by fear; especially if they follow some real attack. When this happens, it's natural to look for new and extreme ways to defend ourselves, including granting authorities new powers or capabilities.
However, we need to be careful how much power we give one entity. As they say, "absolute power corrupts absolutely." Who knows if a "Darth Sidious" might one day rise through the ranks, and use those powers in ways that were never intended.
How does this relate to information security? The current encryption backdoor debate.
Recently, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have argued that they can't continue to protect us from terrorist threats unless they have means to intercept and potentially read encrypted digital communications. They've suggested that commercial vendors need to design solutions that allow some way for authorities to recover certain communications. Sometimes, they also leverage our fear of recent threats to continue to push this agenda.
The problem is, we also use encryption to legitimately protect private and business communications from real criminals. Creating encryption backdoors—no matter how well intentioned—also creates a new weakness that bad actors might eventually leverage.
As you consider what cyber security powers the government should have in the future (including the ability to decrypt commercial data), remember the Darth Sidious story. Great powers, when left unchecked, may come back to overturn your Republic and launch a Dark Empire.
Whether or not you loved or hated the Star Wars prequels, they make good allegories for many important information security lessons. If you're interested in what other security tips the Star Wars universe might reveal, join me in the next few weeks to explore Star Wars: The Force Awakens.


September underwhelmed, maybe, but October is here to even the score. The charge is led on one front by two unremitting awards contenders, and on the other by two films that are more to my tastes, the ones with "Halloween" in the title (could it be that time of year again? Donald Pleasence is comin' to town?) The last two Octobers were among the few recent months of any persuasion not to feature a single, sole $100m earner. But this one ain't joining the club.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga star in the simple old fable about a pair of entertainers, the male a mega-star who eventually falters, the female an up-and-comer who meanwhile beams into the stratosphere - at his expense, or so he thinks. The situation escalates quickly, and the ending of La La Land is probably reprised. A Star is Born has already been made for film theatres three times under that name alone, and a handful more for television, not to mention all the other versions that basically tell the same story without confessing their inspiration.
So it's not the plot, it's how they do it.
Gaga emerged on the scene in 2008 and tore through several ubiquitous pop albums before a short break from the limelight, a break which ends here: her performance in the lead is said to be even better than her work as La Chameleón in Machete Kills (no, really, she's getting raves). For his part, Cooper graduated from playing athletic and unpleasant he-men in 2005 (the fiancé in Wedding Crashers is an early iconic role) to A-list status, and three (!) Academy Award nominations for acting, two of them in the lead, by 2015. This film should net him his fourth, and perhaps the one that goes all the way to the podium (I'd give him 50-50 odds of winning right now, and I've correctly predicted every Best Actor winner since 1927).
This time, Bradley Cooper is also behind the camera (his first time), and the man seems to fit neatly into the legendary pantheon of first-time A-list actors turned directors, a track record that has wielded a surprisingly unshakeable and often-repeated list - Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980), Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990), Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995) - and presumably many, many more others not relevant to the discussion since their directing projects were pathetic failures.
The film seems like a relatively rare breed, a motion picture elevated to monster status at the box office sheerly through uniformly positive reviews, built upon the foundation of a familiar story and big names attached. But stars alone would not have been enough: had the Tomatoe score been 29% instead of 90%+ and going, I could have seen A Star is Born opening in single digits and dropping out of the charts and into the eternal memory hole within one week. Quality makes a difference. This time, it counts.
A sixty year-old mental patient breaks out of an institution to stalk an unrelated woman he briefly met once forty years ago.
Well, that is, indeed, the plot summary of what is technically the eleventh Halloween film, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by David Gordon Green, in what is his first horror film and her thirteenth (depending on how you count, but that's the number I got, although I did run out of fingers).
As always, first, a little back story: Halloween was released in 1978, an independent title that inspired the first slasher film boom and forever changed the face of its frightful genre (those are good things). Before Halloween, horror films leaned to a period piece setting, and their lead characters were often middle-aged-ish men, adorned in discomfiting Victorian hairstyles and speaking with cheerfully artificial mid-Atlantic accents. After Halloween had its say, horror moved to the present-day American suburbs, and the only ones who could save the day from the slashers and the ghouls were teenagers, usually girls, who made it to the end while their boyfriends were slain. So, the movies finally got it right.
The film enshrined Curtis as the original Scream Queen (or at least the first actress really known by that moniker), and by the time of his death in February 1995, Donald Pleasence (as Myers' pursuer Dr. Loomis) had become as the Santa Claus of the Halloween holiday. He arrived in Haddonfield, Illinois on every Halloween night like a Paul Revere on an endless loop, his approach signaling that preternatural serial killer Michael Myers was not far behind, or already ahead. Poor Loomis. How the town's residents must have hated him.
All well and good. But now, having read up on Halloween 2018, my only question is: Donald Trump is one thing, but who do I talk to about impeaching David Gordon Green?
Halloween (2018) may be the first major film in history to completely reboot and retcon its franchise while keeping its star in playing the same character. The new film reunites Curtis with her decades-long pursuer, but chooses to wipe away all of the franchise's continuity but the first, and is indeed simply the story of Michael Myers, escaped psychotic, who happened to kill a few people on Halloween night 1978, was re-captured (off-screen, considering the first film's ending), and has been locked up ever since, apparently waiting to come out of retirement some undated cloudy day in the extremely distant future, if we'll have him. Sure, he stalked Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) for a few minutes, and killed three of her closest friends, but does that really explain why - forty years later - the story now shows her as so intensely traumatized that she's booby-trapped her house and still awaits this specific, random homicidal stranger's return to her life, on the off-chance he'll escape in near senior-age?
Yes, I can believe it. But I don't want to.
As I implied, the most uncharitabe retconning committed by the film is that Laurie Strode is no longer Michael Myers' sister. That makes it scary because Myers stalks at "random," said the film's co-writer. Maybe, but 1) a considerable chunk of unlucky non-relatives got right in Myers' way over the years in these films (lord, probably near one hundred of them - the man is a menace!), and 2) if the film's horror is random - what is Jamie Lee Curtis doing in it? (as legendary as she is).
I can't imagine any die-hard fans of Halloween (1978) don't like at least some of the sequels, or at least acknowledge them as having been made. But I can guess at another reason for the memory wipe: film number seven, Halloween H20 (1998), released among the self-referential horror boom, with a story by Scream's Kevin Williamson, and slotted just in time for the original's 20th anniversary, did, indeed, already tell the story of a grown-up Laurie Strode, sister of Michael Myers, now a headmistress at a private academy, with a teenage son (Josh Hartnett) she understandably fears for. She's traumatized, she sees Myers on every corner (and as the film begins he's on the loose), and eventually, he comes for her. "She's smashing more than pumpkins!," the newspaper ad read.
And so she did. She was a pro.
So Halloween H20 (1998) and Halloween (2018) aren't so different, after all, except the set-up in 1998 made a lot more sense. If Michael Myers is your brother, and you survived his night of horror and changed your name and have a new family, 20 years later you'd still be waiting for the worst, and he could still be out there looking. One of the police officers in the 1998 film mockingly stated that Myers would by then be "a guy with a cane and Alzheimer's," but he'd only have been 40 years old. So the joke wasn't funny then. It is now.
But the plot of H20 is close enough to H40, so that film had to go, even though I have a distinct memory of seeing it in theatres at the ripe old age of twelve (and look how I turned out!). A few others may back me up here: H20 grossed $55m, a very good total for 1998, and one I assume this film will easily best over in one weekend, relegating it to the history books forever. H20 was a good film, too - well-written, with a sharp ending, as Laurie took the ax and chopped her nemesis' head clean off a mere seconds before the clock timed out and the credits rolled. [the next film, Halloween: Resurrection, awkwardly brought Myers back by saying the unlucky decapitated fellow was set up by Myers. But at least it tried.] To rub it in, some reviewers of the new film are adding in illogical boilerplate to buttress their praise: Variety's critic, who admitted (under oath) he hasn't seen any Halloween film but the first, claimed that the 2018 sequel reunites Michael Myers and Laurie Strode "for a final confrontation... [one] audiences had no reason to think they'd ever witness." Michael and Laurie can certainly meet again on the big screen, but I think we've witnessed this confrontation, Pete.
So make of Halloween what you will. I can certainly say nice things about the fact that it's here: slasher films by their very nature earn my highest approval, as the greatest genre cinema ever has produced, or will. And while mature motion pictures for adults serve some purpose, I suppose, I will nevertheless also enjoy seeing a Halloween movie easily outgross "important," artistic releases that should be busily sweeping the awards ceremonies early next year just as this film's predominantly teenage viewers are moving on to the next frightful delight (Happy Death Day 2 is scheduled for Valentine's Day, for one, and that is a must).
As for the (very nominal, long-ago dropped) topic of this article, Halloween's box office future, curiously, this is the first in this very seasonally-oriented franchise to actually open in October since Halloween 5 in 1989 (and if you're thinking September, only one film in the series has made that month home). Halloween 2018's October 19th gives the film two solid weekends before its namesake holiday arrives to invalidate its timeliness until next year. There'll be a mega-opening on the 19th and a second go-around on the 26th, presumably heightened by proximity to the big day. We are now living in the age of blockbuster horror opening weekends, and this is more evidence.
Very well. I just hope that, in 2038, while Jamie Lee Curtis is still screaming away on screen, she is not doing so in a new and improved Halloween reboot that proudly announces that, at last, 60 years after that fateful 1978 night, Michael Myers has finally escaped to haunt Laurie Strode - and this time she's really ready!
If that happens, I'm sure there's a 12 year-old out there right now who'll be very angry then. He has a point.
Cocooned in black liquid with white stripes, and bearing a lizard-like tongue and unwholesome demeanor, is Venom, a villain turned anti-hero and resident of the Marvel Universe, if not, thankfully, of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane's Venom holds an interesting distinction: unlike most Spider-Man villains you might know of, he was created in the 1980s, not the '60s (indeed, every single other major Spider-foe to have hit the big screen was born in the 1960s, right along with Spidey. The man has trouble meeting new people.).
Venom's origin story is more personal than other bad guys: Venom-to-be Eddie Brock is an ill-tempered photographer who in the comic books bonds with an outer space symbiote that had previously attached itself to Peter Parker. This makes him happy: becoming a muscular, mean, violent, and, indeed, ill-tempered, version of the web-slinger; for whatever angsty reason, he tried to kill Spider-Man, failed, tried again, failed, and then repeated the cycle in temporary perpetuity, before realizing the futility of his goal and embarking on a career of generally benevolent superheroism (well, if The Punisher qualifies as one...).
Venom's popularity was such that he had made his way into cinemadom relatively early in Spider-Man's film career, having found himself played by Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3 (2007), a film I'm perhaps not supposed to mention because it has in fact been retconned and therefore redacted out of existence (twice over now, actually). What big blockbuster sequel did open in theatres on May 4, 2007? Sir, I do not recall.
A lot of fans were not pleased, it seems, with the 2007 Venom (the one who never existed in the first place), and so here he is given a solo outing with an actor who bears much more resemblance to the character's traditional muscle-bound exterior: Tom Hardy, AKA Bane, AKA Mad Max, and AKA whatever that guy's name was in the movie where he was in the car on the phone the whole time. This is not the man's first-comic book character. I predict it will not be his last.
The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer, whose Zombieland (2009) was memorable and droll and whose other work often involves bullets and bombs, sometimes in the arena of hit-and-miss (Gangster Squad, 30 Minutes or Less). Michelle Williams is the love interest, around to scream disapprovingly at the proceedings and express how generally aghast she is at Venom's ungentlemanly conduct. Riz Ahmed, who was in the amazing Nightcrawler and then in Rogue One, which was also a film,* is the nominal villain (*OK, Rogue One was pretty good, too).
As stated, in the comic books, after his failed assaults on Spider-Man's personal space, Venom more or less became a force for a good, or for his own very specific warped moral code, anyway, although his methods were still decidedly more like Jason Statham's than, say, Mother Theresa's. The film's PG-13 hints that while Venom may extra-judicially execute bad guys, his exploits will not be depicted in absolutely clinical detail.
The Venom film kind of looks to me like last month's The Predator, a big-studio, fan-service fall special effects thriller with a beloved character (The Predator's charisma is legendary) and uncharitable critical accreditation. Now, while I did write all these rambling paragraphs at the absolute last minute, my forecast number itself had been set in mind for a long time: I intended to predict some such as $44m for the film's opening, before heavily negative reviews mentally amended the number for me, down to about $30m.
So I was pretty shocked to (accidentally) read Wednesday-era reports that the film is in fact tracking for something like $60m-$70m! Que? R... really?
Having seen these judicious and meticulously-researched forecasts, most sane and logic-based individuals would quickly change their prediction number, so I will not. With this ramble, I hedge my bets, while giving readers the opportunity to mock me when I'm inevitably wrong.


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Mike Huckabee Half-Heartedly Defends His Cinnamon Pill Cure For Diabetes
Matt Novak
May 12, 2015, 8:00pm
If you're looking for garbage health advice, there are quite a few people to turn to: Dr Oz, The Food Babe and... Mike Huckabee? Yes, US Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has been peddling garbage supplements that are supposed to help cure diabetes. And he was on Face the Nation yesterday where he defended against critics of his online ads.
"Let me tell you, diabetes can be reversed," Mr Huckabee says in the ads, which were filmed in 2014. "I should know because I did it. Today you can, too."
As the New York Times pointed out back in March, the diabetes cure that Huckabee was hawking included something called the Diabetes Solution Kit — a $US20 booklet promoting diet and exercise changes, along with dietary supplements made up of cinnamon and chromium picolinate.
The big problem? The American Diabetes Association says that supplements like that are bullshit for reversing diabetes. The other problem? Huckabee didn't reverse his diabetes with supplements.
You'll notice in the video that Huckabee says, "Techniques just like you're going to find in this kit worked for me." Given his slippery wording, some people might easily be led to believe that he used the Diabetes Solution Kit that he's peddling. His real techniques for reversing his diabetes, as he would admit at an event in Iowa back in March, included losing 100 pounds (45kg) by taking better care of his health.
"I'm not doing those infomercials obviously now as a candidate for president," Huckabee said yesterday on Face the Nation. "But if that's the worst thing someone can say to me, that I advocated for people who have diabetes to do something to reverse it and stop the incredible pain of that, then I'm going to make a heck of a good president."
When Bob Schieffer, the host of Face the Nation, pushed Huckabee to explain why he was promoting a diabetes cure that included sketchy supplements, Huckabee contradicted himself.
"You were also selling pills of some sort, were you not?" Schieffer asks.
"No, no, there was not... that's a misnomer," Huckabee said. "One of the elements of the plan was dietary supplements. But it's not the fundamental thing."
So Huckabee wasn't promoting pills, but he actually was promoting pills, but they just weren't the "fundamental thing"? Well, I guess that settles that then. [Mediaite]

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Fan book – a "thank you" present for Marie
April 25, 2014 April 25, 2014 by Patrícia Peres
Astrid Lenhard, one of the die hard Roxers had the idea of making a book for Marie. A bit more than a month ago she asked fans to send her one page designed by themselves if they want to join in. The idea sounded awesome! Many fans decided to create their own page, saying thank you to Marie, writing some lines, including pictures of themselves or even with Marie. Astrid created the design of the book itself and besides summarizing the idea, also saying thanks to Ms Effe and including the list of fans who joined, she designed a beautiful cover. "Vad vore vi utan dig" (= "What would we be without you"). Exactly. What would we be without our beloved Marie?
Astrid had the plan to hand it over to Marie in Luleå or Umeå. And she succeeded in it. In Umeå she met Marie before the last concert during the tour and had the chance to give her the book. Marie was very happy about it and liked it a lot.
Cover of the book © Astrid Lenhard Astrid handing over the book to Marie © Astrid Lenhard
Astrid also put together a wonderful video where you can see how the book looks like, page by page. Thank you very much again for the fab idea, Astrid!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWWD4c1y-78
Categories Fans, Marie Fredriksson Tags Astrid Lenhard, Book, fan book, Fans, Marie Fredriksson, present, Umeå
Marie's tour: Umeå audio bootleg
July 23, 2014 April 21, 2014 by Patrícia Peres
As Kirsten promised on our Facebook site yesterday, here is the audio bootleg of Marie Fredriksson's last concert of her fabulous solo tour. Please note, the first appr. 30 seconds in the beginning are missing, but the rest is there and the sound is really good.
CLICK HERE for listening to it! Enjoy!
Categories Marie Fredriksson, Tour Tags audio, bootleg, Marie Fredriksson, Nu!, Tour, Umeå
Marie's tour: Umeå, April 19th #19
May 5, 2014 April 20, 2014 by Judith
This fabulous tour came to an end yesteday April 19th in Umeå after two months of travelling and enjoying to the maximum.
Yesterday everything felt like more intense. Marie interacted with the fans more than ever and gave everything for the audience. The band played as if there was no tomorrow and we gave all our best to jump, dance, sing, clap and have fun. It was a very special ending to a very special tour.
The setlist remained the same, so the show started with a Så stilla så långsamt that felt slower and more beautiful than ever… and the fun then started with Kom villa hos mig. The few fans attending the show were spread here and there but we all stood up to the start of the song as if it had become already a nice interaction routine. The band loved that and rocked exceptionally. I couldn't help crying to that, as this would be the last time we would do that.
Marie welcomed everybody and explained that it was the last concert of the tour and it was special to finish it in the North since they have been there very few times.
One could hear and feel in her voice that it would be an emotional last show.
The three acoustic songs were very beautiful, specially Så skimrande (yes, I just love this one, a very special song for me) brought me to tears again. B E A U T Y.
The audience started to melt a bit more into the show and joined the standing up fans with Efter stormen, which was a major big awesome pop party.
Chris and Jokke had much fun playing the guitars for Den sjunde vågen and went totally bananas together with Pelle at the end. Surjo had a great time during the whole show and moved here and there many times.
Everybody was standing when Marie came back to the stage to rock the house. Jokke and Chris killed us all with the smashing guitars!
And then suddenly the moment everybody had been somehow trying to avoid or speak about arrived. The first notes of Tro started to sound, all fans in the various rows held eachother and sang along. Marie had mentioned before the song started that the tour was now coming to an end and thanked the band and the crew for a fantastic tour and then the audience and fans who came to her concerts. She looked very touched and emotional. Astrid had organised flowers to give to Marie so we all got one or two and held them during the song and gave them to her afterwards. Micke and Chris took many of the flowers and gave them to Marie but Marie came to the edge of the stage to get the flowers of 3 of us as well. It felt like nobody wanted to leave!
After the concert we could say bye to Marie and the band at the hotel. Some people just were there to get something signed or take a picture but some of us just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful tour.
This time most of us stood in a line and first said hi to Pelle, Surjo, Chris and Jokke and then Marie and Micke walked by and thanked all of us (and we thanked them).
A perfect closing to a perfect last concert and tour!
PS: And today we had the chance to interview Pelle so stay tuned! Three interviews are on the way.
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El Comité Paralímpico de Nueva Zelanda es el comité paralímpico nacional que representa a Nueva Zelanda. Esta organización es la responsable de las actividades deportivas paralímpicas en el país. Es miembro del Comité Paralímpico Internacional y del Comité Paralímpico de Oceanía.

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Nueva Zelanda

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Islamiya College HSS, Santhapuram, Puttikad School Code and Contact Number are 11197 and 04933270460. Address is Islamiya College HSS, Santhapuram, Puttikad, Malappuram District, Kerala State, Pin-679325. 1,11,38 is the course code and ichsspm@gmail.com is the email-id of the school.


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Syria: five years of crisis
By Euronews with AP, AFP • Updated: 17/03/2016
After the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the unrest of what we now call the Arab Spring trickles over to Syria. Security forces open fire on protesters in the city of Dara. Demonstrations spread, as does the crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
No Comment (Avril 2011)
Defecters from the Syrian security forces team up with rebel civilians and found the Free Syrian Army, with the goal of bringing down the Assad regime.
U.S. President Barack Obama calls on Assad to resign and orders Syrian government assets frozen.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait recall their ambassadors to Syria. Relations between Syria and Turkey also deteriorate.
China and Russia veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the violence in Syria and threatening sanctions.
Kofi Annan is appointed Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and Arab League to the crisis.
Kofi Annan quits after his attempts to broker a cease-fire fail.
Obama says the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a "red line" that would change his thinking about military action.
After advancing in the north of Syria, rebel forces capture Raqqah, a city of 500,000 people on the Euphrates River and the first major population center controlled by the opposition.
A growing number of foreign jihadists join the fighting in Syria, and Islamist rebels create the militant group calling itself Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, says his group's Shi'ite fighters are backing Assad's forces.
According to the United Nations, 4.25 million Syrians have been displaced by the conflict, which is now spreading beyond the country's borders.
No Comment (June 2013:
A chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs kills hundreds. Obama, blaming Assad's government, says the U.S. has a responsibility to respond and puts it to a vote in Congress.
Russia proposes instead that Syria give up its chemical weapons, averting military strikes.
Bashar al-Assad secures another seven-year mandate as Syrian President. ISIL militants proclaim an Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
No Comment: al-Assad pledging allegiance
A U.S.-led coalition including five Arab countries – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain -begins airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Some 76,000 people died from the Syrian conflict in 2014, its deadliest year, according to the United Nations.
With the help of U.S.-led airstrikes, Kurdish fighters take control of the northern Syrian city of Kobani, which had been under siege by ISIL fighters since September 2014.
Tens of thousands of displaced Syrians head towards Europe to seek asylum. The continent faces its biggest influx of refugees since World War Two.
No Comment: (Juin 2015)
Russia begins launching airstrikes in Syria in support of Assad's forces.
The group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL) claims responsibility for attacks in Paris that kill 130 people and wound hundreds. France ramps up its air strikes against ISIL targets in Syria in retaliation.
The U.S. and Russia announce that a partial cease-fire in Syria will start Feb. 27. The truce quickly proves fragile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that his armed forces will begin withdrawing from Syria.
Watch: winter brings thick fog to a camp in Syria's Idlib
Two dead as police and protesters clash in southern Syria
Turkey attacks Kurdish targets in Syria and Iraq after Istanbul street bombing
SYRIA CIVIL WAR CONFLICT IN SYRIA


Tim Ferguson and the Screenability NSW interns.
The first eight participants in the Screenability NSW internship program, each receiving a paid placement across film and television, have been unveiled.
Screenability NSW, launched by Screen NSW in September, is a program to create opportunities in the screen industries for people with disabilities. Screen NSW has partnered with Ai-Media, AFTRS, Carriageworks, Bus Stop Films and Toozly on the initiative.
On top of the internships, the program promises to deliver an annual film festival at Carriageworks, a short film-making initiative and a long-term job placement scheme.
Yesterday at AFTRS each of the interns met representatives from the companies who will be employing them; they include Matchbox Pictures, Screentime and Animal Logic.
Each intern will be provided with bespoke training through AFTRS, developed in consultation with Bus Stop Films. An online network will be created for all the interns to share their production experiences, and participants will be supported by Toozly during the internship. Toozly provide employment support services for people with disabilities.
Writer, director and performer Tim Ferguson, who is taking a lead role in Screenability NSW, said it was exciting to see the program come to fruition and to introduce the interns to their senior industry colleagues.
"Screenability NSW is about encouraging and enabling new thinking and the announcement of the internships is an important first step," he said.
Matchbox Pictures' head of production Helen Pankhurst said: "It's wonderful to be a part of this initiative that will allow us to bring another layer of authenticity to the stories we tell."
• Daniel Monks, who will join a writing room at Goalpost Pictures. Monks is an actor, filmmaker and dancer. In 2015, he received the Arts and Fashion Award at the NSW/ACT Young Achiever Awards, and was awarded the Young Filmmaker of the Year at the WA Screen Awards in 2014.
• Audrey O'Connor joins production company Giant Dwarf as a camera assistant. O'Connor is an actor and filmmaker who has previously studied with Bus Stop Films. She has made short films and documentaries, including a film about her experience with a performing arts group in Cambodia.
• Dieter Knierim will work as an assistant editor and camera assistant on ABC Entertainment's You Can't Ask That, and will then join the SBS Eurovision telecast. Knierim is a photographic and video artist who has worked with various peak bodies and government departments. His work has been broadcast on NITV and SBS.
* Emily Dash will be a writer and researcher in a writers room at Matchbox Pictures. Dash is a writer, actor and motivational speaker with several film and theatre credits. Her debut short film I Am Not A Work of Art was part of Metro Screen's 2015 Screenability program.
* Maria Erica Tamayo will join Animal Logic as an editor's assistant. Tamayo, who is experienced in post-production, is a graduate of AFTRS and has completed a Bachelor of Communications and Media, majoring in Film and Screen Production at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
* Ashley Meeraiya will join Nine's The Footy Show as a production assistant. A writer for various outlets, his ambition is to become a director.
* Megan Rowe, an experienced writer across a variety of mediums, will join a writing room at Screentime on a new drama series.
* Joni Campbell will be a production assistant on Play School. Campbell discovered filmmaking through a course with Bus Stop Films.
Screen NSW CEO Courtney Gibson said the agency appreciated the enthusiasm with which the industry is embracing the opportunity to work with the interns.
"The Screenability NSW Internship Program is the first step in a program of initiatives that will deliver on an open-ended policy commitment by Screen NSW to work with industry to grow participation in the screen sector by Australians with disabilities," she said.
Toozly CEO Jeff Baron Levi said Australia was sitting on a goldmine of untapped resources in people with disability.
"A disability does not necessarily become a handicap in the work force if the jobseeker is able to receive appropriate support and adjustments to build on their strengths and compensate for any deficits they may have".
Following the internship program, Screen NSW will convene a forum at Carriageworks, hosted by Ferguson. Along with the interns, participating companies, partners, government, the wider industry and media will come together to discuss the project and its outcomes.


Our founder, Venerable Master Hsing Yun is recognized world-wide for his dedication in promoting Humanistic Buddhism which embraces all traditions and schools and stresses the salient teachings of the Buddha, which are relevant to and essential for the well being and progress of humanity in modern times. We at Hsi Lai are committed to serving as a bridge between East and West so that the Buddha's teachings of kindness, compassion, joyfulness, and equanimity might be integrated into our lives and of those around us to the benefit of all and that we might learn the ways to cultivate the wisdom to clearly understand the true nature of all things.
Hsi Lai Temple encompasses 15 acres and a floor area of 102,432 square feet. The temple's Ming (1268-1644 C. E.) and Ching (1644-1911 C.E.) dynasty architecture is faithful to the traditional style of buildings, gardens and statuary of traditional ancient Chinese monasteries. The ten-year planning and construction was completed in 1988. Hsi Lai means "coming to the West" and signifies the dedication of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order to spread the teachings of the Buddha to those in the West. The International Buddhist Progress Society, a nonprofit organization, is the chartered name for the temple. The organization's headquarters is in Taiwan.
In 1967, Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founder, established the Fo Guang Shan (Buddha's Light Mountain) Buddhist Order, which is the largest monastery in Taiwan, encompassing over 600 acres. Fo Guang Shan is a Mahayana Chinese Buddhism monastic order. Mahayana in China has separated to 8 different schools: Tian-tai, Pure Land, Ch'an, Hua-yen (Avatamsaka), Fa-Shiang (Yogacaran), Sanlun (Madhyamikan), Dhyana, and Esoteric (Tantra). Fo Guang Shan belongs to Lin-Chi Ch'an School. For the past 30 years, the Master has been instrumental in expanding religious freedom throughout Asia. The Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, through a Humanistic Buddhist orientation, works to unite all Buddhist schools and sects; it also fosters and promotes inter-religious dialogue among all spiritual traditions through symposia, conferences and services. The objectives of the Order are to provide confidence, joy hope and convenience to people. The Order has also established more than 100 temples worldwide. More than 1,300 monks and nuns serve in the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order.
Hsi Lai Temple was built to serve as a spiritual and cultural center for those interested in learning more about Buddhism and the Chinese culture. It is the idea of Venerable Master Hsing Yun to propagate "Humanistic Buddhism" and to create a Pure Land here on earth. Hsi Lai Temple is built to fulfill these goals in the United States. The temple's objectives are to nurture Buddhist missionaries through education, to propagate Buddhism through cultural activities, to benefit society through charitable programs, and to edify the populace through Buddhist practices.


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Q: Which one is the correct series expansion? Is
$$p^{n+1} = p^0+p^1+ \dots + p^n$$
or
$$p^{n+1} = p^0\times p^1\times \dots \times p^n\text{ ?}$$
I am confused.
please explain the correct one.

A: Hints:
$$\begin{align*}\bullet&\;\;\;\;1+q+q^2+\ldots+q^n=\frac{q^{n+1}-1}{q-1}\\\bullet\bullet&\;\;\;\;1+2+\ldots+n=\frac{n(n+1)}2\\\bullet\bullet\bullet&\;\;\;a\cdot a^2\cdot\ldots\cdot a^n=a^{1+2+\ldots+n}\end{align*}$$

A: None of them. $p^{n+1} = p \times p^n = p × \dots \times p$ (n times).

A: HINT:
$$a^m\cdot a^n=a^{m+n}$$
and $$\sum_{0\le m\le n}ar^m=\frac{a(r^{m+1}-1)}{r-1}$$
Now, judge yourself

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This self-review tool will give you guidance as to the position of your school in relation to the teaching of Computing. It is intended to be used as a guide to inform further development to (a) support teaching staff in their transition from ICT to Computing, and (b) enable Computing to be embedded in the school as part of a broad and balanced curriculum.
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At work we have samples of injection molded parts from Quickparts, that demonstrate some of their capabilities. My favorite feature is inside the red sample, which says, "Tie bosses to walls." They mean mechanical bosses, not your boss watching over you as you giggle. But sometimes when the boss acts up, we all want to take this part and whack him with it, since we can't actually tie him to the wall.
The second part demonstrates a "bad boss" and "well designed bosses." I would like to order one well designed boss please. One who gives me accolades and great raises.
That is really funny. I could have used that when I was working in an office.
Ha! Wouldn't THAT be nice?
P.S. We like to call my son's PJ's his "Beetlejuice" outfit!!
That is too funny! Great pictures too, I love the lighting.
I have no clue what that is for!
Those are really cool gadgets which I wouldn't mine to have myself.
Hehehe, I like those pieces and parts!
Oh I'd say there's a market for boss tieing. Perhaps look into dual purpose items...hehe.
LMAO! I am going to have to find that for my husband to take to work with him! His bosses would love that.
Oh my goodness!! I am giggling up a storm over here. That is TOO funny!
That is funny! It would make me smile every time too.
Sorry I'm commenting late but this is a great Wordless Wednesday!
LOL - this is too hilarious! I love it..


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Disney casting for lead roles in true-story feature film 'McFarland' starring Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner has signed on to play Coach Jim White in Disney's "McFarland".
Walt Disney Pictures in association with Mayhem Pictures are set to begin shooting the feature film "McFarland" in the San Joaquin Valley, California area beginning in September, 2013. The casting director will be auditioning athletic Hispanic men ages 17 to 23 with running experience to recreate an authentic realism of McFarland High Cougars's 1990's cross-country team, who became unlikely 9-time California champions. This film was originally scheduled to begin shooting in June, however production was pushed to September.
Disney Casting "McFarland" Actors and Extras
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Disney casting call for 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'
Steve Carrell and Jennifer Garner will play the Parents.
21 Laps Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company are now in the pre-production stage on the upcoming live-action Disney feature film "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" which is based on the children's book by Judith Viorst. Disney casting executives are conducting a widespread talent search for a boy age 10-12 to play the lead role of Alexander Conners. Both SAG-AFTRA talent and non-union talent can submit via uploading an audition video to the official Disney casting authorized website for this film. Shooting will take place from August through October, 2013 in Los Angeles.
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Lifetime Television casting calls for new series pilot 'The Witches of East End'
Actress and dancer Jenna Dewan-Tatum plays the witch Freya Beauchamp.
Fox 21 and 3 Arts Entertainment are getting ready to begin shooting the new one-hour series pilot episode of "The Witches of East End" for Lifetime Television, and auditions are underway in Los Angeles, New York, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The extras casting director is also accepting submissions from all types and ages of people interested in working as fully paid background performers. The movie is based on the best-selling novel series "The Beauchamp Family" by Melissa de la Cruz. Filming begins on October 17, 2012 in Wilmington and Western North Carolina.
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Explore where learning comes naturally! Photo by Herbert Beyers Jr.
*The Discovery Center will be closed on August 8, 2017. All trails will remain open.
Admission is free and the Center is open year-round.
Closed on the following holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Day.
The Discovery Center is a universally accessible building. Assistive listening devices are available at the reception desk.
Marvel at this Spectacular Attraction!
This fascinating ecosystem is one of just 20 inland pine barren environments in the world. The Discovery Center transforms this globally unique destination into an exciting adventure where learning comes naturally through hands-on activities.
As the gateway to the Pine Bush, the Discovery Center introduces you to everything that makes the Preserve rare and adventurous. You can touch a snake skin, make a sand dune, plan a prescribed fire, learn how to help the environment and much more!
Stop by our Exploration Station to explore "The World of Herps!" Our Summer Exploration Station will feature interactive stations on the unique biology and natural history of reptiles and amphibians native to the Pine Bush. Please call the Center before visiting for Exploration Station hours.
Take part in fascinating programs designed to inform and delight year-round. Join a First Friday Hike, take a walk to observe the flight displays of the American woodcock or solve mysteries along the trail in an all-natural C.S.I. (Critter Scene Investigation). These and other educational and recreational activities cost $3/person or $5/family.
Stop by the exploration station to meet our resident box turtle.
From I-87 take exit 2W (Rt 5 West, Central Avenue). Follow Rt 5 for about 2 miles then turn left onto Rt155 (New Karner Rd). Continue on Rt155 for about 1.2 miles. The Discovery Center is located on the left at 195 New Karner Road.
Find our contact information here. Visit our recreation center for more fun ways to enjoy the Albany Pine Bush region!
Visit us for a variety of nature lectures, interactive exhibits & outdoor events in Albany, NY!


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Chris Achuff becomes the third coach from last year's staff to be retained by the Cardinals and new head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
The Cardinals have already announced they are retaining at least two coaches from last year's staff, but apparently a third has also been re-hired to work under new head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
Chris Achuff, the team's assistant defensive line coach this past season, is staying on and has been elevated to defensive line coach, an NFL source told The Arizona Republic.
Achuff, 43, takes over for Don Johnson as the main defensive line coach. Achuff joined the Cardinals in 2018 after spending nine seasons coaching the defensive line at Baylor from 2008-2016.
The other two coaches retained by Kingsbury and the Cardinals are special teams coordinator Jeff Rodgers and Steve Heiden, an assistant offensive line coach who now will be in charge of tight ends.
Other assistants known to have been hired by the Cardinals, but who have yet to be formally announced, include James Saxon (running backs), Marcus Robertson (defensive backs) and Greg Williams (assistant/defensive backs).
The Cardinals are expected to formally announce their entire 2019 coaching staff at some point next week.


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Amazone zu Pferde ist eine Bronzeplastik des deutschen Bildhauers Louis Tuaillon, die sich in Berlin auf der Museumsinsel befindet. Eine junge Amazone reitet auf einem Pferd und hält eine Streitaxt in der rechten Hand.

Seit der Wiedereröffnung des Neuen Museums steht das Standbild im Kolonnadenhof, den das Neue Museum, das Pergamonmuseum und die Alte Nationalgalerie bilden. Vorher stand die Plastik im östlichen Vorgarten der Alten Nationalgalerie. Sie gehört damit zu den drei ursprünglichen Skulpturen des Kolonnadenhofes, welche dort heute noch zu sehen sind.

Geschichte
Louis Tuaillon (1862–1919) schuf die lebensgroße Bronzeplastik in den Jahren 1890 bis 1895 in Rom. Das Werk war eine Überraschung auf der Großen Berliner Kunstausstellung 1895 und machte Tuaillon schlagartig bekannt. Die Nationalgalerie kaufte es an und stellte es 1898 auf. 1903 wurden von der Plastik Abformungen und davon Verkleinerungen sowie später auch Güsse durch die Berliner Gießerei Hermann Noack gefertigt. Der Mäzen Eduard Arnhold stiftete je eine dieser etwa 85 cm hohen Figuren der Kunsthalle Bremen und dem Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 1905 ließ der Deutsche Kaiser Wilhelm II. einen überlebensgroßen Abguss anfertigen (3 m lang, 1,50 m breit und 5,50 m hoch) und im Berliner Tiergarten-Park aufstellen. Später schenkten Frauen aus Ostpreußen dem exilierten Kaiserpaar einen verkleinerten Abguss des Standbildes für ihren Garten im Haus Doorn, wo es heute noch steht.

Galerie

Siehe auch
  Bronzestandbild Amazone zu Pferde vor dem Alten Museum in Berlin

Literatur
 Eva Börsch-Supan, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Günther Kühne: Kunstführer Berlin. 4., neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Reclam, Ditzingen 1991, ISBN 3-15-010366-5.

Weblinks

 Die Skulpturen des Kolonnadenhofes auf der Website der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin

Einzelnachweise

Denkmal in Berlin
Berlin-Tiergarten
Berlin-Mitte
Kolonnadenhof


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Forums > Life > Speaker's Corner >
Should NHS doctors and nurses be paid more?
Discussion in 'Speaker's Corner' started by ver01@, Mar 7, 2019.
Teh_Next
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Location: The other side of The Gap
Dolph said: ↑
And that is part of the problem...
Well that's just stellar.
Man of Honour
Location: Plymouth
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Yep but the average population don't actually understand what high performing graduate salaries are. I earn less than the guys I went to school and uni who went into finance and software development. They bang on about python and bonuses.
Also the average public do not do a volume of night and weekend work.
The majority also make the hardest life and death decisions on the commute by car, the rest of the time they get little opportunity to royally screw up and bump someone off. If I mistakenly give a whole 10mg vial of metaraminol and I and the patient more importantly is ******.
As I said, I'm not saying you're unjustified in expecting more, just that the argument with figures won't elicit as much sympathy as you may wish for if you base it on the idea that it isn't much money as you did in your earlier post. Your wage not being as much as you would like or think it should be is not the same thing as you being low waged. Even the lowest figure is more than some households take home when both work full time.
D.P.
jjgreenwood said: ↑
Unfortunately punitive tax on the rich doesn't work - they just move elsewhere.
This is just a myth spread by the ultra rich, duping the middle class to believe it.
The reality is, and this is based by empirical evidence across the globe, is that taxing the rich more doesn't actually lead to a mass exodus. The rich either already have thought they pay too much tax and selfishly disappeared to some tax haven, or there are other issues that create a gravity making them stick around such as the desire still to live in the country. They also face the threat that if they move then they wont have access to the high income and the other locations with the same earning potential has the same tax rates. A CEO earning 1m in London wont suddenly find a similar paid job in the Caymans, they may be able to move to other European or US major cities with big corps and earn similar money and pay similar or higher taxes.
There is also a very easy way to ensure that selfish rich elite pay their share by using a global taxation system. Therefore, moving elsewhere makes absolutely no difference to the tax they would have to pay in the UK. The US does this for example. If they want to benefit form a tax heaven then they would have to renounce their British Citizenship and say goodbye to the passport. Re-application of British citizenship would require paying back the taxes missed in the intervening years.
Maybe the UK gov would artificially extend the passport application waiting list like they supposedly do with NHS waiting lists.
Tony Edwards
For all the NHS workers you can stop worrying because the answer is just around the corner and so simple I cant believe it hasnt been instigated already.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...thousand-pounds-a-year-on-breakfasts-nhs-told
The government is calling on the NHS to reduce the amount of money it spends on food and drink, saying it could save £420,000 a year on breakfast products alone.
The government claims that, if hospital trusts got better deals on breakfast items, they could cut their bills by a third without compromising on the quality of food or drink being served. It says that some hospitals are paying inflated prices to suppliers for breakfast items such as tea, coffee, baked beans and juice.
Some trusts buy their food and drink individually and could be paying 40% more for tea or coffee than a neighbouring trust, with new data showing that the NHS buys enough tea to fill 60 million cups a year.
Stephen Hammond, minister for health, said: "The NHS serves up thousands of delicious breakfasts every day – but pays wildly different amounts for simple things like beans, tea and jam.
"By signing up to this deal [The Breakfast Savings Initiative], hospitals could save thousands of pounds every year that can help us improve services through our NHS long-term plan."
The Breakfast Savings Initiative, which 19 trusts participate in, is part of a drive to save £2.4bn. The scheme aims to end variation in the prices that different hospitals pay and to facilitate the swapping of items with like-for-like products.
We can all stop worrying now. Phew!
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https://www.theguardian.com/society...thousand-pounds-a-year-on-breakfasts-nhs-told We can all stop worrying now. Phew!
NHS procurement in shocking overspend shocker...
But presumably the only possible solution to the NHS problems is just to throw more money at it regardless of spending efficency?
The solution certainly isnt to lower funding thats for sure.
Which is why it hasn't been, in cash or real terms.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget
Reality trumps your opinion I'm afraid...
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Spending per capita is down though:
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2015/10/nhs-spending-squeezed-never
More is done for more people for the same money. It doesn't work long term.
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I think you've either got your terms wrong or linked to the wrong article, as that article does t talk about per capita spend, which has risen, albeit very slowly.
https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/
What your article talks about is how spending compares to the rest of the economy as a percentage of gdp, which is something else.
Sorry you're right, spending as a proportion of GDP is what I was going for. As best I'm aware this is the most common measure of national healthcare spending.
We are restricting growth in healthcare spending. I'm not sure you can expect excellence in healthcare when we devote less of our GDP to healthcare spending than Slovenia.
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I just watched last week's Question Time and after the segment at the end about GPs I thought Id pop on here and see if there was a thread about it. Of course there is!
Personally I think its a disgrace. GPs are paid very very well, have a role in life that is important and responsible, and yet they are moaning like a factory worker on an assembly line wanting a raise and more breaks.
In that kind of job you have to take personal responsibility and you have to accept your job is more than just the money or the hours it is a life choice. That is why you are paid at the level you are paid rather than a £20k a year job where there is no personal responsibiity and you can behave like a chav all day if you want.
I think GPs and the NHS is now a dinosaur. Its inefficient, uncompetitive and for sure does not serve me or my personal healthcare needs very well at all. We need an affordable private system now, technology has moved on sufficiently to enable that to happen.
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It's far more efficient and cost effective than the American model though. And having experienced the American model I'd very concerned about the potential for both profiteering, duping the consumer with unnessary procedures and corruption. All of which I saw to be abundant.
What technology would have benefited the NHS in the past that is feasible now?
ANDREW GREEN said: ↑
The NHS healthcare outcomes, trying to treat everyone, are barely better than the USAs, who don't. Our healthcare is accessible but ineffective, the USA is effective but inaccessible. Comparing the two systems is like demanding you choose between dog and cat excrement for dinner, and pretending there isn't a street full of restaurants serving proper food elsewhere.
Both the uk and the US need massive healthcare reform, based on looking at the multitude of countries across the first world that have better healthcare outcomes than either of us.
What do you mean the outcomes are barely better at treating everyone? I'd dispute that. It's changed now but I used to have an American girlfriend who's job was to deny health insurance to people who were die without it. If you live in poverty in the US you're still ******.
If you're middle class health insurance takes a massive cut out of your salary compared to the amount of tax we pay in the UK. The US spends 17.2% of it's GDP on healthcare compared to 7.2% in the UK.
It's become an out of control quack industry where instead of system built around patient needs, it's treatment based around drug company and other commercial needs. For instance in the UK nurses are trained to encourage breast feeding because it's best for baby. Where as in the US milk companies pay hospitals to encourage mums to introduce baby formula at birth. They overmedicate everything because there's money to be made from selling the drugs and services. Is middle aged setting in? Let us prescribe you some steroids.
tamzzy
Personally I think its a disgrace. GPs are paid very very well
so how much do you think GPs earn, and therefore, in your opinion, should be paid then?
I mean that, statistically, the uk and the us systems both have poor healthcare outcomes.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org...d-by-healthcare-access-and-quality-index-2016
The poor outcomes arrive in different ways, the US system has access problems, which drive the score down as people who need treatment don't get it. The uk doesn't have access problems, the uk system is just not very effective with the treatment it provides compared to most other comparable countries.


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Valve Amplifiers: The Sweet Lie
Jun 06, 2003 por José Victor Henriques comentários
Reason tries to stand in one's way: it is out of date, it uses too much power, it is fragile, it has a delicate bill of health, it starts glowing red hot for the slightest reason, it distorts reality…
But your heart only sees the emotional involvement, the musicality, the sweetness of voice and the luminous halo which glows in the dark like the embers of a fire. The happy days you spent together come back to you, the music fills every part of your soul like the all-pervading warmth from the fireplace in a house where the best performers live, the discs following one after the other while you wish no more than wishing well.
Reason tells me that valve amplifiers are untrustworthy. What sounds like sweetness is, after all, no more than bitter harmonic distortion: the truth never shows itself in its original nakedness, but rather through a diaphanous veil of euphonic colouring. There are those who, having analysed them close to and from a distance, concluded that valves paint musical reality with the crazed gaze of Van Gogh, the shapeless extravagance of Dali, the formal disintegration of Picasso, the chromatic subtlety of Matisse, the crepuscular luminosity of Turner.
However, to the methodical and clearly defined, but cold, outlines of the transistor, I infinitely prefer the trembling hand, guided by burning passion, of the vacuum painter; to the mathematical precision of angles and perspectives, I prefer the chaotic interaction of lines and the ambiguity of the shadows. With one condition: out of the apparent chaos of forms and colours the artistic object must be born. Art does not have to be nature itself or even a faithful copy. Exact reproduction is limited by reality. Art is not.
Listening to a valve amplifier has the cathartic effect of a Greek tragedy; the therapeutic effect of the moderate laughter of classical comedy.
A joke, Kant says, is a powerful anticipation, which disappears in the act of laughing itself.
Comedy is different: it teaches, makes one think, stays in one's memory. In this context, there are many amplifiers around which are no more than a bad joke. Valve amplifiers are not perfect. But listening to one dissipates the anxiety of having to live with original sin, and helps one to accept them as just another idiosyncrasy which derives from the fact of our being merely human - and like them, imperfect.
Listening to valve amplifiers produces in one an indefinable feeling of well-being, which is both emotional and physical: the illusion of presence, of space and especially depth of the sound stage is so real, so palpable, that it cannot just be an illusion. Harmonic richness gives the sound a body, which to use a wine critic's jargon one can almost 'chew'. On testing, valves 'taste' of fresh fruit: plums, with an exotic touch of cinnamon, rounded tannins…
More rationalist minds will say: yes, but this is no more than a trick produced by the clever manipulation of harmonic distortion, which laboratory tests can prove. I do not deny the power of science to debunk the superstitions, which surround the myth of superiority of valves over transistors. But I would like to see the laboratorial proof of the beneficial effects of the maturing of wine in casks of French oak. And yet they exist: just taste…
When hearing 'When I look in your eyes', the valve amplifier undressed Diana Krall with kid gloves, revealing details which I had never heard the previous thousand times: the 'on top' recording, in an obscene close up which makes Diana sound larger than life itself; the orchestra which was recorded in a different acoustic seems to have been added as an afterthought, like adding cream to an already made cake; the saxophone bursts into the mix only for the engineer to lower the volume in the middle of a phrase.
All this is obvious even on the car radio. It is not necessary to have a great amplifier to reveal what one already knew: there is no rose without a thorn. But only valves convey the extreme sensuality of the bubbles of saliva caressing the sweet lips of Diana Krall, or allow one to identify the amplifier (valves, too!) of Russell Malone's guitar, whose RF interference (from a nearby radio station?) can be heard distinctly on the right channel at the beginning of 'When I look in your eyes'.
José Victor Henriques in Air Luxor magazine, June 2003


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Сюмейе Йозджан (; род. 15 януари 1992 г. в Малатия) е турска параолимпийска лекоатлетка и голболистка (клас В1), шампионка от Параолимпийските игри през 2016 г. по голбол с националния отбор на Турция.

Ранни години
Сюмейе е родена на 15 януари 1992 г. в Малатия. Тя е сляпа по рождение, като по-голямата си сестра. Във връзка с това, че слепите деца няма къде да учат в Малатия, Сюмейе със семейството си се премества през 2001 г., в Кахраманмараш, където завършва училището за слепи "Ертугрул Гази".

Спортна кариера
Йозджан се занимава с голбол от 2004 г. и с лека атлетика от 2009 г. Излиза на дистанциите от 800 и 1500 m, както и в тласкане на гюле. Член е на женския отбор на Турция по голбол и параолимпийския националния отбор по лека атлетика. Участва в европейските първенства през 2009 и 2010 г., дебютирайки през 2007 г., както и на световните първенства през 2011 и 2013 г.

Лека атлетика
На световното първенство през 2011 г. в Крайстчърч, Нова Зеландия, Сюмейе влиза във финала на състезанието по тласкане на гюле (клас F12), но се класира на последно място, изпълнявайки само два опита. През 2012 г. на Параолимпийските игри в Лондон тя се състезава на разстояние 1500 m (клас T11) и поставя личен рекорд от 5:10.68, завършвайки седма. През 2013 г. на световното първенство в Лион тя участва на разстояние 1500 m (клас T12).

Голбол
Йозджан играе в отбора "Кахраманмараш" в турското първенство. Представлява националния отбор на Турция на турнирите InterCup в шведския град Малмьо през 2014 г. (3-то място) и 2015 г. (2-ро място), като през 2015 г. е голмайстор на турнира с 23 гола.

През 2015 г. Йозджан печели европейската титла в дивизия A в Каунас и се класира с националния отбор на Турция на Параолимпиадата в Рио де Жанейро. Там тя играе за отбора във финала и става параолимпийска шампионка.

Постижения

Лични
 Голмайстор на турнира InterCup през 2015 г. (23 гола)

Отборни
  Параолимпийска шампионка с Турция (Рио де Жанейро 2016 г.)
  Шампионка на Европа с Турция (Каунас 2015 г.)
  Носителка на сребърен медал от турнира InterCup през 2015 г.
  Носител на бронзов медал от турнира InterCup през 2014 г.

Източници

Родени през 1992 година
Родени на 15 януари
Родени в Малатия
Турски спортистки
Турски олимпийски шампиони
Лекоатлетки с увреждания
Слепи хора


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