Airline partner, Hainan Airlines invites the airport community to celebrate Chinese New Year at YYC on February 5 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at International Arrivals.
Hainan will host activities such as a red carpet photo booth, a chopstick challenge and a high-end experience booth, where you can sample some of their business class amenities. The event will also feature performances of Chinese Kong Fu and the traditional Lion Dance. The Lion Dance is performed on big occasions for good luck, as it is thought to be an animal of fortune.
"Hainan is a valuable partner as they provide access to the largest and fastest growing air travel market in the world from YYC," said Eddie Su, Air Service Development Specialist with the Calgary Airport Authority.
Next Tuesday, be sure to pop down and ring in the Year of the Pig — a symbol of generosity and wealth.
We wish all of Team YYC a year of happiness and good fortune!


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Homeward Bound - Sacred Song (High Voice), Keith Rowley Jan 2012
Homeward Bound - Sacred Song (High Voice), Keith Rowley
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Sacred song for high voice and piano. Words by David L. Crowley.
Une Allee Du Luxembourg - Vocal Solo (Tenor), Keith Rowley Jan 2012
Une Allee Du Luxembourg - Vocal Solo (Tenor), Keith Rowley
A French art song for tenor and piano. Words by Gerard de Nerval.
The Christmas Carols Of Keith D Rowley - Part 1, Keith Rowley Jan 2011
The Christmas Carols Of Keith D Rowley - Part 1, Keith Rowley
Ten Christmas carols "Especially for Children" composed in 1964.
Every Day Is Christmas! - Men's Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2010
Every Day Is Christmas! - Men's Choir, Keith Rowley
An original Christmas carol arranged for men's choir (TTBB) and piano
Every Day Is Christmas! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2010
Every Day Is Christmas! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
An original Christmas carol arranged for mixed choir (SATB) and piano
Every Day Is Christmas! - Women's Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2010
Every Day Is Christmas! - Women's Choir, Keith Rowley
An original Christmas carol arranged for women's choir (SSAA) and piano with words from an anonymous author.
In The Bleak Midwinter - Women's Choir, Keith D. Rowley Jan 2010
In The Bleak Midwinter - Women's Choir, Keith D. Rowley
An original Christmas carol arranged for women's choir (SSAA) and piano with words by Christina Rossetti.
I Will Bless The Lord (With Piano Reduction), Keith Rowley Jan 2009
I Will Bless The Lord (With Piano Reduction), Keith Rowley
Anthem for SSAATTBB A Cappella Choir with piano reduction for rehearsals.
I Will Bless The Lord - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2009
I Will Bless The Lord - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
Anthem for SSAATTBB A Cappella choir with words from Psalm 34:1-2.
In The Service Of God - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2007
In The Service Of God - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
Anthem for SATB choir, congregation and organ with words from D&C 4:2-3. Incorporates the hymn "God of Power, God of Right;" tune by Tracy Y. Cannon and words by Wallace F. Bennett.
Endure To The End - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2004
Endure To The End - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
Anthem for SATB choir, tenor solo, congregation and piano with words from 2 Nephi 31:15,16&20. Also incorporates the hymn "Press Forward Saints" with words by Marvin K. Gardner, and music by Vanja Y. Watkins.
Awake, Ye Saints Of God, Awake! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2003
Awake, Ye Saints Of God, Awake! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
An SATB choir and piano arrangement of the hymn by Evan Stephens, with words by Eliza R. Snow.
There Is A Green Hill Far Away - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2003
There Is A Green Hill Far Away - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
An Easter anthem for SATB choir and piano arranged from a song by Charles Gounod with words by Cecil Frances Alexander.
Come, Sing To The Lord - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2002
Come, Sing To The Lord - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
Anthem for SATB choir and piano from the hymn by Gerrit de Jong, Jr. Also includes the chorus of "The Spirit of God."
There's A Song In The Air! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2000
There's A Song In The Air! - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
An original Christmas carol for SATB choir and piano. Words by Josiah Gilbert Holland.
In The Bleak Midwinter - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 2000
In The Bleak Midwinter - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
An original Christmas carol arranged for SSATB choir and piano. Words by Christina Rossetti.
Sarabande - Full Orchestra, Keith D. Rowley Jan 2000
Sarabande - Full Orchestra, Keith D. Rowley
This is a full orchestra version of a piece by Claude Debussy. Note: 8 1/2 X 14 paper is needed to print out the full score. Individual parts are available upon request at rowleyke@hotmail.com.
Here Lies The Precious Babe (Paradox) - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 1990
Here Lies The Precious Babe (Paradox) - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
An original Christmas carol for mixed (SATB) choir and piano with words by Angelus Silesius.
Stand In The Office - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley Jan 1990
Stand In The Office - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley
An anthem for mixed choir (SATB) and piano with words from Doctrine & Covenants 81:3,5,6.
Easter Trilogy - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley Jan 1989
Easter Trilogy - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley
Three anthems for SATB choir and piano with words by Christine D. Hamilton. 1. Gethsemane, 2. In Agony of Calvary, 3. The Risen Redeemer.
Come, Come Ye Saints - Full Orchestra, Keith D. Rowley Jan 1985
Come, Come Ye Saints - Full Orchestra, Keith D. Rowley
This is the orchestral version of my Rhapsody on Come, Come Ye Saints. Individual parts available upon request at rowleyke@hotmail.com.
Piece For Flute And Bassoon, Keith Rowley Jan 1982
Piece For Flute And Bassoon, Keith Rowley
This chamber music piece is a twelve-tone row composition.
Larghetto And Moderato - Chamber Ensemble, Keith Rowley Jan 1979
Larghetto And Moderato - Chamber Ensemble, Keith Rowley
These two pieces are from "Seven Pieces on Five Notes" by Igor Stravinsky, orchestrated for a chamber ensemble of a flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and 3 violins.

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Bengal's 80s Retrospective part XII
July 17, 2022 / bengalcritiques
I should delve into the latest stuff happening this year like the fourth Thor, the third season of The Boys, maybe even some games I've come around to completing. Part of me even wants to talk about the astonishingly great reimagining of all things, She-Ra. A show that manages to be appealing to a straight white dude while also nailing the pursuit of "girl power" without becoming heavy-handed. Again, I'm referring to She-Ra. It also just happens to have one of the most emotionally satisfying endings I've experienced in a long time, while somehow leaving itself open-ended.
It's also quite a treasure trove of joy for those who can appreciate LGBT storytelling and relationships like I do. It might be a bit harder to enjoy it as an American, knowing that LGBT rights may well be on the way out in a depressingly regressive political period through an authoritarian, anti-majority opinion Supreme Court. With that in mind, I will continue to likely torture myself, cursed with that knowledge, as I started watching another acclaimed cartoon show right after with a gay love story included, The Owl House, courtesy of Disney. As far as I know, the one place where on gay representation, the House of Mouse walks the walk and talks the talk.
So, after (maybe) depressing you with all that, let's talk about four more films from a time where if nothing else, we had a lot more time apart from the present day hellscape of the 2020s', even if a lot of the setup for said hellscape was being established at the time. Let's get another Bollywood classic out of the way, 1985's Babu.
Babu (1985, India) (Featuring a ramble about international media's handling of progressive or not so progressive subject matter)
Image from cinemaazi (Have a poster, in lieu of a screenshot not available on Google Images.)
Films of other nations have been called or are indeed morality plays. America has made some, certainly. Nigeria from what I know is all about their motion pictures explicitly being tales with a moral learned at the end. India's Bollywood industry, hardly the only major film industry for the nation, with entirely different languages boasting their own, such as the Tamil and Telugu tongues, just can't seem to get enough of them, at least as far as the 80s's period would inform me.
In spite of poverty or the lack of many first world utilities that are essentially a given in most parts of the States, India especially in presentation has always struck a balance between appearing behind the times and yet also of the times. I get that I'm watching Indian cinema that is around 40 years old give or take and plenty has happened since but I make the point that Bollywood takes India's fears and insecurities and finds a way to address them, often with several dance numbers.
While involving stories about morality that may or may not be connected with Hindu beliefs and teachings, these 80s' Bollywood flicks address then and maybe even contemporary societal and political ills. While I couldn't call the political/cultural prescriptions of these movies on quite the same level as American progress, they do seem more progressive and even outright challenging of societal assumptions everyone has to some degree about India.
It appears to me that often the media of a country can be more progressive or more willing to challenge the status quo than not. Japan is a fantastic example. While there is plenty in Japanese popular culture that serves to remind one of not just cultural difference but a distinct "not quite based enough" attitude compared to something in America or Europe, there are just as many examples of their popular culture flying in the face to varying degrees to Japan being a "socially conservative" nation.
A lot of Japanese media features material that I would not call socially conservative. Female characters in positions of power, outright criticism of Japan's modern political situation among other things. The layout however is complicated, as issues of female representation continue to be a thorny aspect of Japan's cultural expression and in some ways they're still catching up. Depictions of gay or trans people in Japanese media I've consumed can leave much to be desired. Transphobia is a particularly frustrating strain I've witnessed.
On that note, India is a country which has it's continuous hang-ups, often religiously inspired, when it comes to its treatment of gay or trans people. Whole-ass pieces of media, like games featuring gay characters, are banned over there. And yet, as Babu here proves, Indian entertainment has a long-standing tradition of challenging tradition. Take for instance, the caste system.
While not explicitly mentioned, the titular character is part of a lower class in the caste system. I do not know or remember the levels of the caste system or what power or lack thereof one has over the other but it is made clear that the rickshaw driver that is our hero is not on the same level as other characters. I could be entirely missing the point over what Babu is saying but if nothing else the applicability resonates.
In what I imagine is Mumbai, Babu pulls people along the many crowded streets with a rickshaw cart. I was surprised at rickshaws being something in India as I assumed they were a uniquely Chinese form of transportation. Then again, this is just a grown man pulling someone in a cart, not very complicated. The story occurs over several decades as we see the once young Babu grow into an old man, with terminal sickness following suit. A little girl and her family also change with the times.
At first, Babu simply helps the rich family with their commute but after the patriarch of the family dies, it leaves the little girl and her mother poor and forced to live in a run-down home. This alone acts, I almost guarantee it, as critique of how for many Indian citizens the financial security of a whole family is dependent on just the man and if the man goes….
Out of the Samaritan kindness of his heart, Babu starts supporting the wife and her daughter, as she grows into a teenager and then a young woman. The girl is called "Pinky". No, really. Eventually, as Pinky grows into maturity, the matter of her education and eventually marrying a guy takes precedent.
Babu essentially works himself to death over the course of the movie. Any of the money he earns through his hard work to help support himself or maybe ascend the ladder of Indian life he puts towards Pinky and her mother. In spite of having no blood relation to Pinky or her family, he basically becomes a new surrogate father for the girl.
This apparently acts as commentary on the nature of surrogate parenthood in India. Family, on a biological level, is a deeply important aspect of Indian life and this film is nowhere near the only to showcase that, as if there was any doubt. Based on the implication of this movie, surrogate parenthood appears to be if not taboo close enough to it. I don't know why that has to be the case over in India. Whether the Caste system is tied into what is and is not appropriate to be a parent, I don't know, but Babu's blunt expression of somber regret over India's position on the issue seems to suggest it is a tradition in some way.
Eventually, as age causes Babu's beard to turn white, his illness grows worse. He soon becomes incapable of being the rickshaw driver he once was. He could get treatment for it but again Pinky comes first. Always.
In his last days, near the end of the surprisingly short (for Bollywood) run of the movie, Babu starts wearing a robe all black with a red stripe white on both ends. I could not help but think of the color layout for Mass Effect's main character, Commander Shepard, whose outfit consists of blackish grey with a red and white sigil that runs down his/her armor's left arm, representing them being part of N7, which is humanity's space military's version basically of the Navy Seals.
I would end my observation on how these two completely unrelated pieces of media have an arbitrary connection my autistic ass noticed, but I thought about how, by Mass Effect 3, the end of Shepard's story in the Mass Effect series, in most cases, the story ends with their heroic sacrifice. They must make a decision that in 3 of 4 base scenarios, will involve them not reuniting with their friends and potential love interest. Whether they did it for their own ego or because it was just what they had to do, tailored of course in how you build Shepard to reflect what you want them to be, most players will have Shepard make the mortal choice at the end out of love for those that followed him/her through thick and thin.
Like Shepard for the most part, Babu does what he does entirely for the benefit of someone else. His last moments are at Pinky's wedding, for which due to not being blood related to her, he was not allowed to attend. He comes anyway and the whole wedding crowd regrets that he was not officially invited, as he had done more than most to earn the right. Make no mistake, the whole thing is very melodramatic almost to a comical level with Babu's near endless incurable cough of impending death.
Maybe that's a consequence of my considerable exposure to many dramas or the conventions therein. Or maybe for the Indian audiences of the 1980s, what for me is somewhat overblown melodrama is just drama. I mean, again, Babu passes away at the wedding, all dramatically like, but still the point, let alone the political point is made. Of course, I played the music on my iPhone that occurs during Shepard's almost certainly fatal, final action from Mass Effect 3. About half of it really lines up well with the emotions of Babu's ending, even with no sitar involved. Here it is for context to listen to, if you want to.
Again, I wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't for the serendipitous choice of Babu's robes to wear in his climatic final moments.
So, yeah, would I recommend Babu? I haven't not recommended any of the Bollywood films so far but it might have been the melodrama but I was the least enthusiastic for this film compared to the earlier ones I've brought up in the retrospective series. It's shorter length for the time-conscious readers is a bonus so keep that in mind. If you have any Indian friends, be sure to let them know about these particular entries I bring up and see how closely it reflects their own stories involving India and Indian life.
Ragtime (1981)
Image from MUBI (James "Jimmy" Cagney's final role as turn of the century New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo.)
Shortly after I was convinced to watch by my family 70s' classic The Sting, the Robert Redford/Paul Newman blockbuster that acted as nostalgic throwback to the 1930s (Plenty of fond memories indeed from the Great Depression), I decided to put on my 80s watchlist a film I had initially turned my nose up at: Milos Forman's Ragtime. What compelled me was the Sting's use of two "ragtime" classics by Scott Joplin, "The Entertainer" and "Solace". It threw me for a loop due to me being quite familiar with that music.
"The Entertainer" is often played in today's internet meme culture as music that stands in for something really old, often with a silent film aesthetic. "Solace" however was more surprising due to it being the loading screen music for Bioshock Infinite, a game set in the ragtime period of both the public domain music it uses and Ragtime the movie itself.
Have a listen.
In case you didn't know, Scott Joplin was an African-American composer who managed to create this widely used, widely loved music during what is called in no uncertain terms "The Nadir of American race-relations." Wanna know what's worse, I assumed that Joplin was a white guy who wrote all of this. I had no way to know unless I did a google search, but the reason I was surprised was that I thought it wasn't until the 1920s' when African-American musical voices recieved recognition, from the likes of Duke Ellington and of course Louis Armstrong. Before those two Jazz legends came to attention, Scott Joplin made enduring musical history when society supposedly would've shut the whole venture down back then.
Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, features a prominent character called Coalhouse Walker Jr, who basically in some respects is not unlike Scott Joplin. Coalhouse is played by Howard Rollins, who died at only 46 from lymphoma. Coalhouse starts off as a piano player using music similar to Joplin though those works of Joplin I mentioned do not feature here, perhaps due to association with The Sting. Funnily enough, it would more appropriate here than in The Sting, due to ragtime not having been in vogue in the 30s'.
Like Rollins, Joplin died early at 48. I can imagine that simply being a black man in that time and place made it not an easy life. I don't know how closely Coalhouse Walker Jr. is meant to reflect Joplin as a very different fate awaits him, one even more tragic if sadly not surprising.
Ragtime, the book and movie, is historical fiction. In that, actual historical events are intermeshed with entirely fictional ones. The most important real life event is one I had no idea actually happened until I was told it had, a moment which made me scream "HOLY SHIT" when it happened early in the film. For one, Ragtime is a "PG" film before the PG-13 rating was created. A lot of PG films I've watched recently for this retrospective contain material that would either warrant PG-13 or an R.
The real life incident that Ragtime features is the murder of the architect Stanford White, best known for creating the Arch at NYC's Washington Square, by the Millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw. This was a big deal at the time and I believe was the first murder trial to be called the "Trial of the Century". Heh, just you wait, 20th Century….
The killing as depicted in the movie is graphic, something that would warrant an R today. The wife of Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), soon becomes a scandalous figure over her behavior following her husband's actions, making publicity out of the trial and helping pump herself up. Gotta say, this seems eerily prescient to nowadays if the portrayal of Nesbit here is remotely accurate.
A fictional, upper class white family from New Rochelle, New York soon becomes the maypole of sorts for the events that occur going forward in Ragtime. The family never gets first or last names and are called by the familial titles: father, mother, older brother, younger brother, etc. Older brother is the stand out member played by the unmistakable Brad Dourif in not only an early role but a non-villainous role if that can be fathomed.
He becomes involved first in Evelyn Nesbit's life due to an infatuation he has with her, which almost leads to sex but does lead to PG-approved full-frontal female nudity. It was a simpler time. Eventually, the selfish, dare I say it sociopathic behavior of Evelyn pushes Older Brother away and he then becomes focused on an issue concerning the whole family.
A black baby is found in the family's garden and soon after the mother is brought to the home. One of the police men who brings the mother to the family is played by Andreas Katsulas, the Hungarian-American actor who will one day portray G'Kar, one of the best characters on Babylon 5. The mother and child are Coalhouse Walker Jr's girlfriend and daughter, who he is then given an emotional reunion with.
The problem with describing Ragtime is that these interconnected characters are all part of a story that spans a good amount of time. I must mention a major development involving racist behavior directed at Coalhouse that begins tying most of the cast together including Dourif's Older Brother. He volunteers to help Coalhouse and his black acquaintances in an all-but-suicidal attack on the system, which gets James Cagney's Commissioner Waldo involved in an anarchist bomb attempt of a historic Manhattan library. One of Coalhouse's militant friends features an early and I do mean early appearence by Samuel L. motherf***ing Jackson.
Mother and Father, played by James Olson and Mary Steenburgen, attempt a go at a peaceful resolution that gets Booker T. Washington (Moses Gunn) involved. While the plot seems to coalesce around the library situation, side events involving Mandy Patinkin as an early filmmaker and Nesbit as film actress among others seems to be sideshows that don't necessarily appear to matter.
Much like the novel, it appears to be a book chronicling through both fiction and non-fiction, a time and place. The film begins with actual silent news reels of figures like Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Houdini interspersed with fictionalized moments. Having Coalhouse's vendetta following tragedy borne out of racism become a focal point was I suppose a way to make a point about early 20th century America clear. Say what you will about all the cool stuff, all the things the gilded age/ ragtime period of the United States you might find appealing and worth remembering for curiosity's sake if nothing else.
This 1981 movie was about reminding us of how distinctly bleak a period it could be for many of its players. About how complicated it is to be both nostalgic and yet honest towards a bygone era. To maybe learn from the past so we improve the future. About how the events of the early 20th century bore out the world that existed in 1981 and today even. Or maybe Doctorow and by extension Forman just wanted to make/ adapt a story about an era that intrigued them and in turn hopes to intrigue you.
There are so many other faces that Ragtime gives us a grand preview of on top of the ones already mentioned: Jeff Daniels, Debbie Allen, Star Trek: Voyager's Ethan Phillips, Jeffrey DeMunn and Fran Drescher. There's already by then familiar faces like Kenneth McMillan (The first guy to play Baron Harkonnen for Dune), Pat O'Brien, Norman Mailer, Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon), Michael Jeter and Jack Nicholson in a cameo role I wholesale missed.
Give it a watch and I wonder if your takeaway will be anything close to mine. Speaking of Jack Nicholson….
Image from IMDB (Making their "Marx" on the world.)
Here's a fun fact to set the mood: Warren Beatty and Ronald Reagan were friends, due to them both being Hollywood guys and in spite of what I can gather is quite a gulf of political opinion. Reagan might be the President best known for being anti-communist and yet, within his first year in office, Beatty convinced him to watch a three hour movie all about American communists/ communist sympathizers where the sympathies of the movie are unambiguously on those Yankee Reds. They may be flawed, but it is never a question of conviction on their parts.
Not only did Reagan sit through a movie I imagine he was politically revulsed by, it was even a movie, PG or otherwise, which depicts sex in a manner he would straight up call "pornographic" if my perusal of "The Reagan Diaries" is any indication. If I could, I would perform black magic to go back in time, transmogrify into a fly and be on a wall in the White House so I could hear Ronnie Reagan's thoughts on the movie to director/star Warren Beatty. Oh man.
My pro-Reagan parents have also seen the movie. In fact, it was the movie they first saw on their Honeymoon. In a time when America voted in Reagan, Reds actually did pretty well at the box office, earning $40 million in 1981 money and receiving mass acclaim which made it nominated heavily at the Oscars, albeit losing to Chariots of Fire, another early 20th century historical drama, best known for the oft repeated Vangelis slow-motion-running-on-the-beach music. In terms of sheer engagement, Reds is better than Chariots of Fire. I was honestly bored through most of it with the latter.
So, what made many proud American patriots, including my just married conservative parents spend three hours with Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, those godless commies? Could it be the somber manner in which it ends, not with communism triumphant but instead with communism perverted, twisted into the authoritarian fashion that became sadly fashionable to countries that proclaimed themselves communist? Neither Reed nor Bryant end the movie feeling as if their ideology has won out.
As for my own political identity, that is something I haven't quite pinned down though part of me thinks it's a waste of time to try to identify as a certain single thing when some other parts of my political beliefs wouldn't gel with that "thing" in question. Am I leftist or left-leaning? Yes. Socialist or at least favorable to many socialist ideas or prescriptions? Yes. Anarchist, at least when it comes to governmental hierarchy? Dunno, but I wouldn't necessarilly say "nay" if it was enacted and/or attempted. Communist? Well, maybe I would be OK with actual communism happening and working if it ever did so.
Since it hasn't, I would take the alternatives or something like the alternatives over it. Beatty's Reed makes a point towards a Soviet official late in the movie that what the new Soviet Union is doing or becoming is not communism or what communism should be. That same official would later be purged when our boy Stalin came into power.
It might've been an extended cut I was watching but intercut with the movie are these talking head interviews with elderly witnesses who were around in Reed and Bryant's time. They give their Rashomon-like perspective and memory on who the two of them were like and the time and place it was to be a left-leaning person a century from today. I almost wondered if those interviews weren't done in the early 80s as it looked a bit more modern, almost like it was done more recently like the early 2000s'.
Jack Reed is the man who wrote the controversial Ten Days that shook the World, his novel that acted as his perspective on the October Revolution as it happened. An American bearing witness to the death of the Tsar system and the birth of the Soviet Union. Warren Beatty, who honestly looks like Pierce Brosnan here due to his giant cheekbones, does a great job encompassing a man who if nothing else is passionate, endlessly passionate.
He dreams that a post-capitalist world is not only close but possible in the United States. Of course, the foregone conclusion that he is quite wrong from the audience's perspective is played to maximum effect. Diane Keaton's Louise Bryant acts as the comparatively less zealous but no less committed Feminist author who believes that Marxist thinking goes hand in hand with increasing women independence. Keep in mind that this film is set in the decade that would actually give women the right to vote and by extension is a time where such strides were successfully occurring for Bryant's cause.
The two meet in Portland and it should be remembered that Oregon's largest city was not considered a left-leaning hub in America whatsoever back then. Jack Reed being the kinda guy he was is denoted by him coming from, of all places, Portland. If a guy like Reed came from Portland today, it would be read as "whatever." While not exactly matching ideologically, the two certainly are close enough and their connection, heartfelt as it is, should make even the not politically sided viewer feel no small part of sympathy.
This is in of itself might be the most controversial aspect of Reds (assuming it was), but the good nature and good intentions of our duo of leads in conjunction with their communist beliefs is the heart of the movie, beating ever so red. The third character, as you can see from the header is Eugene O'Neill, played by Jack Nicholson.
I've come to recognize, having been exposed to much more of Jack, that his style of acting rarely changes, no matter the role. And yet somehow his relative one-notedness has not been a detriment, not really. I saw not too long ago a film that will make it onto this retrospective later, Terms of Endearment. Jack's almost constant snarky/smarmy voice is ever present, even if the intention behind the performance is different. It does play up the idea that in Burton's 89′ Batman, we weren't seeing Nicholson play the Joker, we were seeing Nicholson play Nicholson, just a lot more misanthropic/psychopathic. Almost a spiritual successor to Jack Torrance from The Shining.
I had heard of Eugene O'Neill before Reds. He's best known for created the plays The Iceman Cometh, Ah, Wilderness! and Long Day's Journey into Night. All of those works that defined him were made after the period in which Reds is set and it's safe to say that O'Neill probably had the least sad outcome to their life of the leading three.
I understand that artists, big thinkers and philosophers hob-knobbed with all sorts of people back in the day and maybe even now, but I had no idea that O'Neill was ever associated with two of the best known American Communists. O'Neill is sympathetic to what Reed and Bryant are fighting for, but befitting his body of work, he's much more of a realist about the chances of their dream coming to life in the kind of world like the United States.
He certainly wouldn't mind if their dream came to reality, but he tries his best, especially with Louise Bryant, to rein in their expectations. Something about Eugene works on her, as they have an affair while Reed is out covering Woodrow Wilson's re-election campaign.
If there is a fourth lead, it would be Maureen Stapleton's Emma Goldman. She is a fascinating figure to me as she went possibly further than Louise in marrying her feminist ideals with left-leaning belief. She is considered an important anarchist figure and you should probably know that political anarchism doesn't necessarilly mean "Destroy everything cause freedom", more an elimination of hierarchal structures in society that perpetuate an unequal and by extension, oppressive society. Considering America's history alone with slavery, segregation and the place of women or anyone who wasn't a white male, it's easy to see where she came from.
I was first made aware of Goldman due to, what else, a Bioshock game, Infinite again in this case. The revolutionary figure of Daisy Fitzroy, who wants to tear down the white supremacist, American exceptionalist beautiful nightmare of the flying city of Columbia, is based off of her, but not entirely. She's also like Harriet Tubman, if Tubman more distinctively followed Marx and had a hankering to do more than abolish slavery in America.
How many people my age became aware of life and the politics of the early 20th solely from video games like Bioshock or Red Dead Redemption? How many found out from perusing a book or watching a documentary? Possibly fewer than not, but then again, the internet gives anyone easy access to verifiable information.
As the years pass and Reed and Bryant grow closer, eventually resulting in marriage, which comes as a surprise to most, as people thought Louise's ideology would have her resistant towards the practice, they eventually start hearing about rumblings of revolution over in the Russian Empire. The catalyst that might've well led to the Tsar's collapse? Them getting involved in the First World War. As history tells us, in spite of the considerable numbers of the Russian army (almost always a constant throughout time), the Germans are better equipped and with more state of the art weaponry.
Unlike the notorious Western Front, it was mostly a lopsided affair on the East, ironically enough considering what the Eastern Front would end up being for the sequel. The Russians got curb stomped, again and again and again. The people of Russia, who weren't in a great place to begin with before the Great War, got in an even worse predicament. Food and water became distinctly scarce, even by the standards of the era. What did Russia have to show for all the effort? Embarrassing defeats writ large.
Under those conditions, it seemed highly unlikely that the Tsar wouldn't be taken out of power by some force eventually. The country essentially collapsed and Lenin, sent back home by the Germans themselves, took advantage. Reed and Bryant found themselves in the right place and the right time, in St. Petersburg (then the capitol) to witness what they thought was the culmination of their dream. If it was happening in Russia, why not America? The film cuts to intermission right as it seems a happy ending for our couple is at hand.
Then, the other half happens. The West, having seen what happened over in Eastern Europe, starts to crack down on anyone Red or Red-sympathetic. The first Red Scare begins. Reed attempts to organize himself in the American Communist party but infighting, some helped along by government moles on the inside, causes things to fall apart.
Even worse, as Reed heads back to the newly formed Soviet Union, having to wade across the vast Finnish-Russian tundra because normal means of transportation have been blocked, he gradually develops typhus, that will by the end, claim his life. Before you say this is too spoilerific, well this here is a historical fact. You're just as likely to know Jack Reed's fate via an internet search or maybe in school.
What perhaps made Reds palatable to the American public of the early 80s' was that it was about the rise of the authoritarian communist system coming into power, not the communism that Reed, Bryant or Goldman wanted or intended. In one very noteworthy moment, as a weary from typhus Reed is addressing a communist gathering in Baku, he learns afterward on the train back to Russia that the translator for his English was saying something entirely different from what he was speaking. Seeing how the officials of the first "communist" nation betray him so deeply through that act kinda tears into what Beatty has been trying to say himself as the director.
They're many leftists, communist or not, who view the Soviet Union not only as not communist, but a betrayal of its ideals. The Soviet Union carried with it many of the hierarchical even monarchist foundations that had plagued the Tsarist era. Internal corruption was soon a factor that would one day become terminal in the 1980s'. Chernobyl itself is the defining example of that rot, a rot that Reed saw for himself growing in his final days. In other words, you come up to a leftie, you will likely hear them detesting the Soviet Union and Mao's China for that matter.
Based on what I know, a Leftist who will uncritically defend nations like the Soviet Union and Mao's China are called "Tankies". They will play defense for Marxist-Leninism, Stalinism and Maoism, the philosophies that doomed those countries to be what they were. Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, based on what Beatty's Reds says, would not stand for them, and neither would I.
It is rather crazy that a film like Reds was successfully made and even sold to the public to help show two distinctive sides of what a communist is or is not. It would be hard pressed I imagine, to be made and released today. But then again, the opening of this entry might've already disproved that. It would certainly be more attacked, fear mongered over today, in the internet age. If nothing else, Reds is all about perspective and what happens when good or useful ideas are twisted and essentially hollowed out by the same people who're supposed to uphold them.
The question is then this: what hope of a better future do we really have if humanity perpetually undercuts it's own progress, it's own attempts at something different, possibly preferable? That's a disquieting message more in tune to the 2020s than the 1980s.
Eye of the Needle (1981) (UK)
Image from Haphazard Stuff (I might just have to add Donald Sutherland to the handful of mustached men that I, a straight guy, think look attractive, along with Selleck and Reynolds.)
Return of the Jedi is to many the last good Star Wars film, especially if you are of a certain age. To others, it's the first bad one. To some, one of the few good threequels, to others just another one on the long list. It ended the legendary Star Wars film series for 16 whole years. While George Lucas is notorious for how more involved in the production than he officially was or meant to be, it was yet directed by Richard Marquand, a Welsh director whose life was tragically cut short merely four years after Episode VI's release.
One thing that Return of the Jedi maintains notoriety for, whether you fall in the camp of loving or hating it, was that it was more intentionally kid-friendly than the first two movies. The dominant reason?
Image from Warped Factor (The Care Bears go to Nam'.)
These guys make many like myself wonder so wistfully about the original idea for ROTJ involving the Wookies taking the place of the indigenous resistance who assist the Rebels against the Empire. Having Chewie's race take center stage in what could've still been the grand finale for Star Wars would've been more fitting and epic. It would connect an established character more closely with the narrative and hell, could've actually addressed one of Jedi's biggest criticisms: giving Han Solo more to do or have more stake. Sure, fighting the Empire for his friends on top of his love Leia is something, but it still can't help but feel like less than he had in the first two episodes.
With the Wookies over the Ewoks, Han would've also been fighting on his best friend's home turf and could've given a better lee-way for the original idea to have Solo commit a heroic sacrifice. But instead, wo got this internet meme as compensation. It's a good one, no lie.
Image from Giphy (Apologies if this doesn't play, but you've seen this film 40 times so you know the moment.)
So the guy who directed the most kid-pandering Star Wars film (before the Prequels) first directed an R-rated WW2 spy thriller. It was Eye of the Needle in fact that convinced Lucas to hire Marquand. Here, there's murderous violence, a sordid love affair between a lonely married woman and a seemingly quintessential British gentlemen who is in fact a master German spy with an expected ruthless streak. Let's just say the love scenes between Sutherland's Henry Faber and Kate Nelligan's Lucy Rose are not something you would expect from the guy who would direct Ewoks gallivanting in a forest. Well, I guess that means the guy has range? Sort of like how Alfonso Cuaron, the guy behind the sexually explicit Y tu Mama Tambien not only made a Harry Potter movie, but the best one all told.
Farber has been spying for years in Great Britain ever since the Second World War broke out. He is among the best in his class of German field intelligence, essentially a genius in espionage. He learns about a feint the Allies are using for their eventual invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe and that Normandy will be the landing zone.
In his attempt to get to a U-boat off the British coast, an incident along the way following escaping British forces on a train has him wash up on the Scottish coast. A radioman lives with his wife and son near the coast and recovers him. Because this is Donald Sutherland we're talking about, no one remotely expects him to be a Nazi spy, in spite of the state of the world. I would be fooled.
While the guy does have a time table, to get in contact with the U-boat so they can get him out of dodge and inform the Third Reich command of where the Allies will land, he becomes infatuated with Nelligan's Lucy. Of course, it is quite mutual. What makes her temptation more evident is that her husband David (Christopher Cazenove) was handicapped in a car accident, the very day they were married. The guy's frustration with being unable to fulfill his duty as a soldier for King and Country has soured the marital relationship.
Along comes a guy with the deepest British eyes fathomable and well, barring that she has a young boy who might learn about the two of them, it comes as no surprise that an affair occurs. Now, of course comes the expected tension of when she learns the terrible truth about Henry and what he is trying to do. It's predictable but is carried because it is Sutherland's stone cold portrayal of Faber that makes it so frightening.
There is then the extra drama that comes from whether Faber himself can go as far as he normally goes to keep his cover and complete his mission. There is the telling ambiguity to how much Faber comes to care for Lucy, how much of it is love and how much of it is lustful possessiveness? Considering what he does to the husband, well…
You basically know what you're getting with Eye of the Needle and here it is more than acceptable, strangely enjoyable in spite of the beats in play. Like with Reds, there is the foregone conclusion that Faber won't complete his mission. But how will he fail? Will Lucy and her son survive and will they be unscathed in the process? It ends on a note that despite being triumphant in the sense that, surprise, the Nazis lose, it still feels sad due to the circumstances of what Lucy put herself through with an unwitting affair with a Nazi agent. But had she refused Henry's advances and stayed faithful, would that instead have doomed her to being quietly "taken care of" when no one was looking?
In the spy games, nothing is certain. A video game I'm fond of once asked if "Love can bloom on the battlefield." Of course, this is not a conventional battlefield, and up until the end, only one player is aware that it is. But, in spite of it all, did love still bloom? I can't say that it was a love that redeemed.
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We have given the wet exhaust Vs. keel cooled lots of thought, and go into this in detail elsewhere on t he website. The bottom line is that there are maintenance trade offs with both systems. Wet is quieter, gets rid of condensation issues, eliminates hot stack fire risks, and is much cleaner. Part of the answer is having an easily accessible gear driven raw water pump, dual large capacity strainers, and a system for easily clearing debris from the raw water intakes. If you replace the raw water pump every 1000 hours (and then rebuild it) you are ahead of the maintenance cycle. The Steyr engine with genset built in is interesting, but we much prefer the Deere engines for their known qualities and world wide service.
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Too small for FPB's. Maybe it would fit on or they will come out with gen sets for a large enough engine. But 54hp is a good sized sailboat engine.
FPB 64 John Deere 6068TFM w/ZF 280 trans, Yanmar lists ZF trans, as does Steyr. Wonder if you could put the Yanmar or Steyr gen set between the JD and it's ZF trans?
The Yanmar and Steyr in line genset is a fascinating concept for sailboat systems as you have noted. For the FPB 64, given the need for 100% reliability, and the higher AC power requirements than most sailboats on wash day, the output is a little low and the hardware too new. Our approach with the big Electrodynes, traction batteries, and inverter stack costs a small fortune, but has proven totally reliable. The 64s have the 11kW genset as well for high load periods at anchor.


Use Java in Web Technology : Java is actually a foundation for all kinds of networked applications, not only that this is the global standard for developing embedded and mobile applications, web application, online games, Web-based content, and organizational software. With over 9 million developers in all over the world, Java enables the users to efficiently as well as perfectly develop a new application, and also it helps to deploy and use the exciting applications and services.
Java, which is one of the effective application today has been tested, refined, extended, and proven through a dedicated community of Java developers. This application is specially designed to facilitate the development of a website, high-performance applications for the broad range of digital platforms.
By making applications accessible across heterogeneous atmosphere, organizations can give more administrations and support end-users profitability, communication, and coordinated—and drastically lessen the expense of ownership for big business and customer applications. Java has ended up precious to engineers by enabling them to integrate the technology in everyday lives.
Create a server-side applications for any online forums, polls, stores, processing HTML forms, and many more.
Java is one of the most powerful ways and strong support for any web development. If Java on your desktop, with the important exception of Eclipse RCP based application was never a colossal achievement, Java is often utilized at the server side.
A Java web application is one of the assortment of dynamic assets, (for example, Servlets, JavaServer Pages, Java classes and containers) and static assets (HTML pages and pictures). A Java web application can be sent as a WAR (Web Archive) document.
Standard Java technologies are perfectly defined through a standard procedure known as the Java Community Process or JCP. Here are some java technologies listed below which are defined via the JCP.
A servlet is actually a Java class which develops "HttpServlet" and answers a HTTP. The newest official version of java is Servlets 3.0 which is also a important portion of Java EE 6. Java Server Pages (JSP) are documents which contain HTML and Java code. The web container arranges the JSP into a servlet at the first time the JSP is accessed to. The most recent version is 2.1.
The JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) embodies the main usefulness basic to numerous Web applications as basic labels. The present variant is 1.2 is a piece of the JavaServer Pages Specification adaptation 2.1.
Beginning with Java Web development is generally simple and need not invest huge amount of effort. Being as a web developer, if you have some basic knowledge about java technologies and its coding you can easily develop web site or portal based on java script.


Through my practice of meditation I have grown in ways I never did forsee. My practice of quieting the mind helps me see things more clearly and know what is inside my heart. Decisions are easily made.
I have learned to be less impulsive. There have been several incidences in my life where I have said things and done things without taking the time to settle down, taking time to let the intensity of the emotion fade away. And bam! it turns out I should have waited. In my practice I have learned to just watch sensations (emotions) come and go on there own without having to change them.
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Strawberry Hampton
Strawberry's Historic Fight for Transgender Rights
Vanessa del Valle
Earlier this week, Strawberry Hampton finally won her release from prison, after years of targeted harassment, abuse, and discrimination because of her gender identity.
Strawberry is a transgender woman who for the majority of her incarceration was housed in men's prisons. While in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), she was subjected to extreme, unrelenting sexual violence and abuse by other prisoners, by guards, and by the administration charged with keeping her safe.
When she reported the guards who abused her, prison officials retaliated by giving her unfounded disciplinary tickets and putting her in solitary confinement for weeks and months at a time. For years, her life was a nightmare.
But Strawberry stood up and fought back.
It took two years of litigation with the IDOC – and transfers to four different men's prisons in the Illinois penitentiary system – before she finally was sent to a women's prison last December. Strawberry is the second person in the country to win a federal court ruling recognizing that a prison's decision to house transgender women in a men's prison could be a form of unlawful discrimination.
Despite her historic victory, the fight was not over. The unfounded disciplinary tickets Strawberry received in retaliation for reporting the abuse she endured caused her sentence to be extended by nine months. So even though she completed her sentence in February, she still had to fight for her freedom.
And today, Strawberry is free.
At 28 years old, Strawberry Hampton has already endured more abuse and more hardship than most of us could imagine. Yet she is one of the most fearless, confident people I've ever met, and her spirit cannot be broken.
I am proud to fight alongside her as she continues to battle for the rights of transgender people who are trapped in the criminal justice system.
Correctional systems across the country continue to ignore the national regulations set forth in the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Under PREA, transgender inmates should receive individualized placement and housing assessments, based on a number of factors, including personal safety. Yet many prisons, including IDOC, still automatically default to housing prisoners based on their sex assigned at birth. As a result, before Strawberry's transfer in 2018, there were around 50 transgender woman in the custody of IDOC who all were housed in men's prisons. Those trans women who are still incarcerated remain 10 times more vulnerable to abuse and sexual violence than other prisoners.
Thanks to Strawberry's determination, we are hopeful that we are going to start seeing some improvements in IDOC. As a result of her lawsuit, a federal court judge has ordered IDOC to require comprehensive training around transgender issues for all corrections staff. That's a good start, but there's much more to be done.
Everyone needs to understand that you don't give up your constitutional rights when you go to prison, and that the prison has an obligation to keep safe all people in custody, especially its most vulnerable populations. It shouldn't take a lengthy legal battle to secure a prisoner's basic safety. But as long as it does, we will continue to fight in court to protect the most vulnerable behind bars.
For anyone out there who is facing this type of abuse themselves, or anyone who loves someone who is in prison and being subjected to this kind of torment, I hope you'll find some strength and hope from Strawberry's example.
Even after everything Strawberry has gone through, she's still so incredibly positive and forward-looking. She has spent her first few days of freedom with a beaming smile on her face. She keeps talking about her plans for the future and her commitment to continuing to be a champion for the transgender community. She's an inspiration.
But don't take my word for it. Listen to her yourself.


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Sunshine and organ music bathe the bleachers in baseball bliss. But in one seat near home plate, the vibe is all business. From that perch, Alec Zumwalt splits his gaze between the diamond before him and the tablet in his lap.
He studies both the bursts of action and the game's silent nuances, from defensive alignments to body language. For nine innings, he writes and records every data point he spies into a Surface Pro – his go-to tool as a Kansas City Royals executive and, previously, as a scout hunting for hidden intel on players and teams.
Alec Zumwalt jots game notes with his Surface Pen.
When Zumwalt, 37, talks baseball, his tech evangelism flows like a four-seam fastball. But bringing a computer to the ballpark was initially a tough sell inside the grand old game. The subculture of baseball scouts – a century-old profession – carries a reputation, fair or not, as anti-data and slow to modernize, reinforced by movies like Moneyball and Trouble with the Curve.
An ex-minor leaguer hired as a Royals scout in 2011, Zumwalt has now spent six seasons – spanning one World Series title, two American League pennants and four Surface Pro devices – convincing doubters and building converts.
Traditional tools of the scouting trade included hand-written notes and hand-typed scouting reports along with stopwatches to clock runners and, eventually, radar guns to measure pitch speed. Zumwalt saw one scout lug an accordion file jammed with every paper scouting report he'd ever written.
Of course, pen and paper do convey familiarity, wherever you work. At the ballpark, Zumwalt says the Surface Pen and Surface Type Cover – along with battery life that lasts nine innings and beyond – allow him to jot quick notes, write full reports and collaborate with Royals colleagues without leaving his stadium seat. His observations fill special templates he created in Microsoft Word.
"Honestly, it's a little overwhelming to some people when they see how much I write over the course of the game," he says.
Zumwalt's massive library of scouting reports – detailing hundreds of players he evaluated in person – are available via his Surface Pro, allowing him to compare talents and weaknesses across seasons.
His keen eye for the game is born, in part, from early baseball struggles. Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 1999, he spent three seasons as a rocket-armed right fielder who struck out far too often. In 2002, the organization made Zumwalt a pitcher, giving him an ultra-unique view from both sides of the plate.
Between pitching outings, he watched games from the bullpen, dissecting every pitch and each at-bat, logging his hand-written observations into dozens of spiral notebooks before sharing that knowledge with teammates. He still keeps those notebooks tucked into baseball bags at his home.
A Kansas City Royals pitcher faces a Seattle Mariners hitter during spring training.
He retired as a player in 2008 and enrolled in college, never having reached the Major Leagues. But he rekindled his baseball dream three years later when the Royals hired him as a scout. His assignment was to travel five games ahead of the ball club to analyze the next team on the schedule, particularly the opposing pitchers.
The job was enormous. Beyond the tortuous logistics of traversing dozens of cities across a 162-game season, Zumwalt's tasks included: watching video of players before games; sitting behind home plate during games to track the velocity, location and situation of every pitch; and organizing all of that information into a single scouting report for the Royals players and coaches.
Zumwalt writes on his Surface.
Slowly, he began swaying fellow scouts about the benefits of going digital – including a 91-year-old scouting legend who began his career in 1952, appraising prospects for the New York Yankees.
Art Stewart, a Royals' front office executive and the club's former director of scouting, acknowledges that he didn't initially buy into the value of scouts using laptops during ballgames.
As the man who steered the Royals to draft Bo Jackson in 1986, and as a baseball lifer who knew Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, Stewart maintains that a scout's most vital tool always will be the vision to grade curveballs, bat speed and a player's mental toughness. Nothing, he adds, can replace that trained eye.
But after seeing Zumwalt churn data into his Surface and pull out insights, Stewart says "my views have changed" on the promise of tech in baseball.
When Zumwalt joined the Royals as a scout in 2011, the team was mired in an eight-season losing streak. In 2014, Kansas City won the American League pennant. In 2015, the club won the World Series.
Royals fans celebrate at the team's championship parade in Kansas City.
"The players won those," Zumwalt says. "But on our side of the game, we were all able to work better and be more efficient.
During the playoffs, I would be joined by other (Royals) scouts to help with game preparation. It was a great opportunity for me to show our guys what I do with the device.
In November, Kansas City promoted Zumwalt to director of baseball operations, also overseeing player development and scouting. This season, new Royals advance scouts Tony Tijerina and Cody Clark are using Surface Pros – as is Gene Watson, 49, the Royals' senior director of professional scouting.
As a younger scout working for other teams in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Watson jotted his player evaluations onto sheets of paper, then, from the road, faxed those reports back to the ball club. Now he does it all on Surface, from assessing amateur talent to pro stars.
Zumwalt has spent years taking note of all that he witnesses on the field. As more scouts turn to technology, he also likes what he sees in the stands.


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It's been a while since the cafe has hosted Bill O'Reilly, the emperor-shaman of his own private and skanky universe, and he's brought along a charming companionfor his first visit in a while.
O'REILLY: All right. Now let me challenge the stats here. Number one, you have a black attorney general, who is basically running the investigation. So I don't know why African Americans wouldn't have confidence in that. Eric Holder has, in the past, made it quite clear --
KELLY: He's not running it yet. He's running a satellite investigation. But right now --
O'REILLY: But you and I both know that Holder will call the shots here. And he has the bully pulpit. Number two --
KELLY: And Holder, the viewers should know, his DOJ was actually cited for misconduct in an investigation against cops down in New Orleans. So there you have the opposite problem. You know, I mean there's a question about whether Holder can be fair to law enforcement.
(Ed. Note: All misconduct is not the same. Kelly is likely referencing the incredible social media dumbassery of federal prosecutors during the trial of five New Orleans police officers for the grotesque shooting of people at the Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This got the officers' convictions overturned. But it was the result of intemperate acts of people in the local U.S. Attorney's office, and the fact that the Internet can make people stupid. The basic facts of the case -- that NOPD officers opened up on civilians and then covered it up -- remain on the record. A retrial of the officers is pending.)
O'REILLY: But I'm dealing with the African American perception that justice won't happen here which I think is a myth. Secondly, the Asian American community is not a troubled situation, as everybody knows, their academics are better than whites, okay. They have language to overcome. While black Americans don't. It all comes down to families, culture, personal responsibility, all of these things, which we don't hear anything or much about. And this is what drives the poverty --
Somebody get Bill some motherfking iced tea. His brain is frying.


ActiveCampaign, the marketing automation and CRM platform provider for small and medium-sized businesses, today officially opened its new company headquarters in Chicago's Loop, relocating to the One North Dearborn building in a deal brokered by property consulting firm Cushman & Wakefield.
The new, larger office will directly support ActiveCampaign's plan to hire an additional 150 employees in the Chicagoland area within the next year.
The new office boasts over 50,000 square feet of working space and features a modern open-concept floor plan designed by Chicago-based Eastlake Studio. ActiveCampaign employees were involved in all stages of the design process, helping to create a mixed-use space complete with 25,000 square feet of dedicated shared meeting and gathering space. Additionally, the office's 57 conference rooms are employee-named and reflect a shared love of sci-fi and fantasy entertainment.
In 2017 alone, ActiveCampaign has surged from 80 to 150 employees after ending 2015 with just 26 employees. Its new office space can accommodate 350 employees, and the company is currently looking to fill that space with new employees in various roles, including developers, designers, project managers, customer success managers, support specialists and marketing and sales executives. The company predicts it will close out 2017 with an employee count of 200 to 250.
The refurbished space, located in the building that formerly housed Sears' flagship State Street store, combines industrial, rustic and classic design elements, including the building's original ornate crown moldings, raised concrete floor tiles, a perforated steel wall, old-growth timber beams and sliding barn doors. An open, collaborative café space in the center of the new space includes terraced seating and will serve as the primary gathering and entertainment space.
A number of quirky design features reflect ActiveCampaign's open and horizontal corporate culture, including a 3,000-square foot lounge area and game room named "Knowhere" and a bookshelf that doubles as a revolving door, concealing a meeting room "speakeasy" designed in dark tones, with evocative punched tin and copper elements. A swirling, energetic painting by Chicago-based abstract and contemporary artist Ruben Aguirre, who painted the mural for ActiveCampaign's former office, will span the length of the largest conference room.
For more information about ActiveCampaign, please visit http://www.activecampaign.com.


This is the place for fresh fish, meat, vegetables, salads, etc.
Fish is fresh from Chrysochous Bay daily. Meat is slaughtered locally. Vegetables and salads are mostly home-produced and are generally not seasonal.
Keo and Carlsberg beer are produced on the island.
Cypriot wines have improved dramatically in recent years, and are very reasonably priced.
Local and imported spirits are very reasonably priced due to low taxation.
Most restaurants and bars in Latchi and Polis operate to international standards. More traditional Cypriot coffee shops and tavernas tend to be found in villages away from the coast and in the mountains.
General provision stores are numerous in Latchi and Polis. They are open seven days during the tourist season and closed Sundays in winter. There is a large national supermarket in Polis.
As Polis is a working village, almost all other non-food essentials can be found in the numerous local and national shops.
Polis and Latchi have several banks open Monday to Friday mornings.


Employment of survey researchers is projected to show little or no change from 2016 to 2026.
Organizations in all industries rely on data and information acquired through research, and survey researchers play an important role in the research process. Governments, the media, nonprofits, and other organizations will continue to use public opinion research to learn about citizens' thoughts and perspectives. They use this information to understand groups of people; measure a program's effectiveness; or gauge support for people, policies, and actions. For example, public opinion research may help governments make decisions on transit systems, social programs, and numerous other issues.
Survey researchers are also expected to be needed to design surveys for businesses. In an increasingly competitive economy, firms will continue to use market and consumer research surveys to help make business decisions, improve their products or services, and compete in the market. Many of these researcher jobs will be in consulting firms.
Research is an evolving field. Companies regularly adopt new research methods and new data sources that are expected to increase productivity. For example, data mining—finding trends in large sets of existing data—and collecting information from social media sites are expected to reduce the need for some traditional survey methods, such as telephone and in-person interviews. These changing research methods are expected to temper employment growth of survey researchers.
Job opportunities should be best for those with an advanced degree in market or survey research, statistics, or the social sciences. Because of the relatively small number of survey researcher positions, bachelor's degree holders will likely face strong competition from more qualified candidates.
The median annual wage for survey researchers was $54,470 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $25,680, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $100,250.
Survey researchers design and conduct surveys for different research purposes. Surveys for scientific research cover various topics, including government, health, social sciences, and education. For example, a survey researcher may try to capture information about the prevalence of drug use or disease.
Survey researchers may conduct surveys in many different formats, such as interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups (in-person, small group sessions led by a facilitator). They use different methods to collect data, including the Internet, mail, and telephone and in-person interviews.
Some researchers use surveys to solicit the opinions of an entire population. The decennial census is an example of such a survey. Others use surveys to target a smaller group, such as a specific demographic group, residents of a particular state, or members of a political party.
Researchers survey a sample of the population and use statistics to make sure that the sample accurately represents the target population group. Researchers use a variety of statistical techniques and analytical software to plan surveys, adjust for errors in the data, and analyze the results.
Survey researchers sometimes supervise interviewers who collect survey data through in-person interviews or by telephone.
Survey researchers work in research firms, polling organizations, nonprofits, and corporations.
Survey researchers who conduct interviews have frequent contact with the public. Some may work outside the office, traveling to meet with clients or conducting in-person interviews and focus group sessions. When designing surveys and analyzing data, they usually work alone in an office setting, although some work on teams with other researchers.
Many research positions require a master's degree or Ph.D., although a bachelor's degree may be sufficient for some entry-level positions.
Many research positions require a master's degree or Ph.D. Survey researchers can have a master's degree in a variety of fields, including marketing or survey research, statistics, and the social sciences. A bachelor's degree is sufficient for some entry-level positions.
To prepare to enter this occupation, students should take courses in research methods, survey methodology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. Many also may benefit from taking business courses, such as marketing and consumer behavior, and social science courses, such as psychology, sociology, and economics.
Prospective survey researchers can gain experience through internships or fellowships. Many businesses, research and polling firms, and marketing companies offer internships for college students or recent graduates who want to work in market and survey research. These opportunities, which provide valuable experience, can be very helpful toward getting a job.
Although survey researchers are not required by law to be licensed or certified, certification can show a level of professional competence.
The Insights Association offers the Professional Researcher Certification for survey researchers. To qualify, candidates must have at least 3 years of experience working in opinion and marketing research, pass an exam, and be a member of a professional organization. Researchers must complete continuing education courses and apply for renewal every 2 years to maintain their certification.
Analytical skills. Survey researchers must be able to apply statistical techniques to large amounts of data and interpret the results correctly. They also should be proficient in the statistical software used to analyze data.
Communication skills. Survey researchers need strong communication skills when conducting surveys and interpreting and presenting results to clients.
Critical-thinking skills. Survey researchers must design or choose a survey and a survey method that together best capture the information needed. They must also be able to look at the data and draw reasonable conclusions from the results of the survey.
Detail oriented. Survey researchers must pay attention to details, because survey results depend on collecting, analyzing, and reporting the data accurately.
Problem-solving skills. Survey researchers need problem-solving skills when identifying survey design issues, adjusting survey questions, and interpreting survey results.


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Interested in Lawyering in the Tropics? Staff Attorney Position in Micronesia!
The responsibilities of a staff attorney include drafting legislation, legal research, providing advice to members of Congress, and working with the Executive Branch of the government on legislative matters. The work is diverse, ranging from tax and budget legislation to fundamental issues of national social policy.
For a complete job description and application instructions, click here. Photo courtesy of Kevin Davidson.
Under the supervision of experienced staff attorneys, the student will serve as part of a statewide team of legal services advocates who work cooperatively, with other providers, in bringing high quality representation to indigent individuals and communities. The law student will aid attorneys with legal research, interview and advise clients, and assist in case planning. Students may also help develop self-help materials for pro se litigants, develop training materials for staff and clients, work on outreach to minority communities, and work on other special projects, depending on the needs of the team.
The Foreclosure Consequences Advocacy Team addresses the impacts of foreclosures on individuals and communities. The team deals with a variety of issues, including, among others, (1) situations in which lenders or foreclosure sale purchasers fail to honor the rights of homeowners and tenants in homes that are being foreclosed; (2) vulnerable homeowners and tenants who need assistance with the transition to new housing; (3) scams involving mortgage rescue and credit repair; (4) predatory purchase and sale agreements; (5) neighborhood blight; and (6) promoting occupation of foreclosed homes.
The intern will research international criminal law, human rights law, and international humanitarian law to assist with the legal representation of clients at the International Criminal Court. Intern duties will also include compiling personal data, completing individual Standard Application Forms of Darfurian victims for participatory rights in ICC Proceedings, and monitoring and analyzing current legal and political developments pertaining to our cases.
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1. Knowledge of international law, human rights law, international criminal law, or a related field.
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The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation ("ACLU") and Human Rights Watch ("HRW") invite applications for the Aryeh Neier Fellowship. The fellow will work with both organizations on joint initiatives to strengthen respect for human rights in the United States.
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Aloha Festival Floral Parade © Hawaii Tourism Authority
The Aloha Festivals, celebrated on six islands in Hawaii - Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Big Island - taken together, comprise the only statewide cultural festival in the United States. Established in 1946 (then known as Aloha Week), the purpose of the Aloha Festivals is to celebrate the music, dance, history and traditions that make Hawaii unique.
Every year, up to 30,000 volunteers are involved in organising the various events; and over the festival's six-week running period, a million visitors, from all over the US and the rest of the world, are drawn to Hawaii to attend this fascinating cultural celebration. All events are free, and the highlight is the Floral Parade through Waikiki, Honolulu - a colourful equestrian procession of pau riders and extravagant floats, festooned with cascades of Hawaiian flowers, and accompanied by hula dancers and marching bands.
Venue: Various venues in Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Big Island
Date: 1 - 29 September 2019
Website: www.alohafestivals.com


We welcome the Queen of the Sunshine Coast, Melony Brests, and her right hand gal Sall Monalla, as they bring Melony's Drag Queen Bingo to Maleny Showgrounds.
With some not so normal bingo games full of cheeky innuendo and hysterical call out's, plus fabulous spot drag shows and crazy prizes It's a ball dropping good time. Aaand... It's for a great cause too... All proceeds from bingo book and raffle sales go direct to the CHASM Fundraiser. If you haven't yet seen a Melonys Drag Queen Bingo show, you shouldn't miss this.
CHASM Housing develops and implements solutions to increase the supply of small and affordable housing in Maleny and the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. All funds raised will go toward the first build of affordable housing in Maleny.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a CASH ONLY bar available, sorry no BYO. There are no eftpos facilities available on the night.
Event Notes:WARNING: 18+ event, Contains Coarse Language, Sexual References, Drag Queens Behaving Badly and May Contain Traces of Nuts!


맛있습니다/멋습니다. Korean is dangerous, one letter away and you're calling someone delicious instead of cool.
I'm getting these confused too. The best thing that I've come up with to remember is ㅓsounds a little like ("aww" yeah, that's cool!), and ㅏ is like I'm at the doctor's saying "aaaah" to open my mouth wide like I'm eating.
omg HAHSHAH i love this.
사과 also translates as apology. So this is a good example of context is key.
I think I got cool and delicious mixed up? Or are they the same word?
맛있다 is the adjective "(to be) delicious"
멋있다 is the adjective "(to be) wonderful, nice, cool"
They are different. You would see 맛있습니다 for delicious vs 멋있습니다 for cool. The difference is between the ㅓ and ㅏ.
Wait, if 들 indicates plurality and the subject 사과는 is just like that, isn't it just singular? Or I am missing something here?
Korean, like many languages, doesn't require nouns to be marked for number. This article http://nojeokhill.koreanconsulting.com/2013/01/korean-translation-tip-korea-has-a-plural-form-it-just-doesnt-get-used-much.html suggests that you only need 들 if you want to emphasize that there are more than one of something. Personally, I think that makes more sense.
Why did I get this error message: 'You need the article "An" here. -An- apple is delicious.' I realise that 'Apples are delicious' would be better English, so why wasn't that suggested instead?
How do you know if it's plural or not?
When I type "A Bread" in other sentence with same structure, duolingo acuses error bcs a put the "a". I didn't write in this sentence: "사과는 맛있습니다. " But duolingo alert me that I forgot "a".
Why "사과는 맛있습니다" is translated with "a" and "빵은 맛있습니다" isn't?
apple, on the other hand, is countable. you need an article (an, the, this, my, your, etc.) to be grammatically correct, unless it is in its plural form. you then might need or not an article depending on how specific you want to express.
What is the different between '는/은' and '이/가' and when do we use them?
i believe 는/은 are topic markers and 이/가 are subject markers.
Can I also add two particals? 사과는들 for example?
yes, but 들 would come before 는, 사과들는.
another way you can say delicious is 맛있어요. I got a little confused when saying "cool" and "delicious", I was on Talk To Me In Korean and I remembered one of the lessons was focusing on "delicious/ not delicious".


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I think I've got a fantastic show on tap for you this evening with "Great Soul Performances." You're gonna hear on G.S.P.: Lou Rawls, the Temprees, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Charles, the Staple Singers, Peaches & Herb, Little Stevie Wonder, Barry White, the Manhattans, the Temptations, my vocal group; the Laddins, Little Anthony & the Imperials, the final installment of my interview with Brook Benton, Freddie Scott; "live in concert," and many others. It kicks off at 7PM ET, 6PM CT, 5PM MT & 4PM PT. You'll want to hear this again, and to do so, all you need is the link, and here it is: http://radiomaxmusic.com/gsplisten.html. A reminder to tune into "Great Soul Performances 2: The 80s" on Wednesday at 7PM eastern time, for our tribute to one of the greatest artists and performers of the past 38 years, Prince. You won't want to miss this expression of our love and grief over the loss of Prince Rogers Nelson. In the mean-time, and the in-between-time, I'll see you later this evening for "Great Soul Performances" on RadioMaxMusic.Com.
The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (1934–2013), Pervis (b. 1935), and Mavis (b. 1939). Yvonne (b.1936) replaced her brother when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. They are best known for their 1970s hits "Respect Yourself", "I'll Take You There", "If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)", and "Let's Do It Again", all of which (except "I'll Take You There") peaked on the Hot 100 within a week from Christmas Day.


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Mathurin Régnier (Chartres, 21 de desembre de 1575 - Rouen, 22 d'octubre de 1613) va ser un escriptor francès.

Vida
Mathurin Régnier, és un dels escriptors més originals del . Naix a Chartres el 21 de desembre de 1575, any de la Massacre de Sant Bartomeu. Son pare, Jacques Régnier, era un burgés que havia creat en la plaça de les Halles un joc de pilota que va ser molt popular durant la seua època amb el nom de trinquet Régnier. Sa mare, Simone Desportes, era la germana del també poeta Philippe Desportes, que era abat i bastant conegut en la seua època com a poeta, a més de ser un dels intel·lectuals que va aconseguir guanyar diners amb l'ofici d'escriptor. Son pare desitjava que Mathurin Régnier heretara el lloc eclesiàstic del seu oncle, per la qual cosa el va tonsurar amb set anys.

Mathurin escoltava el seu oncle llegir poesia i per això va començar a imitar-lo, component poemes satírics dirigits als burgesos que acudien al trinquet de son pare. Viatja a París i amb 20 anys passa al servei del Cardenal de Joyeuse. Viatja per primera vegada a Roma l'any 1593 i comença a escriure les seues sàtires. Aquest gènere va estar molt de moda a principis del , rebia el nom de sàtira bernesca, en honor de l'italià Berni. També els clàssics Horaci i Juvenal van influir bastant en l'obra de Régnier a l'hora de triar els temes, així com Montaigne.

L'any 1601 viatja a Roma per segona vegada, acompanyant a Philippe de Béthune, ambaixador del rei Enric IV, i hi va romandre fins a 1605. D'aquest viatge va tornar bastant decebut.

Va morir a Rouen, el 22 d'octubre de 1613, als quaranta anys.

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En l'època de Mathurin Régnier, era viva la polèmica entre els seguidors de La Plèiade i els de Malherbe. El seu oncle Desportes era el blanc principal dels atacs de Malherbe, i Régnier va estar sempre alineat entre els seguidors de La Plèiade, criticant l'estreta cotilla que Malherbe volia imposar a la poesia francesa.

Régnier va ser molt criticat pels seus contemporanis a causa de la seua vida depravada i bohèmia, la qual cosa va afectar a la consideració de què va gaudir en aquella època la seua obra.

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