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Deserters in History: Guy Debord
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His enemies were work, money and duty. His pastimes were booze and conversation. He invented a revolutionary philosophical concept that bore a striking resemblance to a pub crawl. Is it any wonder that the avant-garde theorist, writer and filmmaker, Guy Debord, is the first subject in our occasional series: Deserters in History?
Guy Debord (1931-1994) would have hated Deserter claiming him, given the depths of our hidden shallows, but something draws us to his anti-work, boozing ethos and the radical group of artists and thinkers that he founded in 1957, the Situationist International (SI).
Early doors
Guy's manor: South of the river
Born in Paris and raised in Cannes, Debord decided very early on to reject all authority other than his own will. Extremely bright, he only studied subjects that interested him, like history and literature. Imagine having the confidence and presence of mind as a young teen to say 'Mais, non,' to double Maths.
As a schoolboy he enjoyed toying with people's minds; altering street signs to disrupt traffic and disorientate people, the little shit. On leaving school there was a clear Civil Service path available to him; a lifetime of stability, an eternity of mediocrity. Instead he chose to live as a student on the Left Bank, reading, drinking and smoking with other bohemians, students and slackers, while sending his washing back to his mum.
Drunk one night, lying in a gutter in the rain, a girl stopped and warned him he might drown. He asked her to join him so they could die together. That's how you meet girls in Paris.
Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens, was an important text for Debord. To put it very simply, it is a book on the importance of play. And Guy liked to play.
Rimbaud: First Blood
Debord was drawn to the Surrealist movement along with the poets Comte de Lautréamont and Arthur Rimbaud. The former liked to plagiarise and subvert the work of others, a later feature of Situationism, while Rimbaud, fond of absinthe and hashish as he was, wrote, 'Work no, never, never, I am on strike. I will never work.' The resonance is deafening.
'Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink.' Guy Debord, Panegyric.
Debord's boozing wasn't simply focussed on intoxication and knob gags, like yours or mine. He and his friends were formulating theories about what was wrong with society and how they might subvert it. He was described by an English friend, Ralph Rumney as 'a pioneer in drinking, in art, in thought.' Debord and his group of hedonist intellectuals turned their backs on society's values, smoking kif and hashish, drinking constantly, having feuds, living as outsiders, on general strike from modern life.
Debord would daub the Situationist slogan 'Never Work' on Parisian walls. In response to government posters warning 'Alcohol kills slowly' he wrote: 'We don't give a fuck. We've got the time.'
He never went a day without drinking, but was rarely seen drunk, despite often being the last man standing.
'He liked drunks, even admired them,' said his first wife, Michèle Bernstein. 'But he was not one of them.'
Debord wrote of his momnumental drinking: 'All this left me very little time for writing, and that is exactly as it should be: writing should remain a rare thing, since one must have drunk for a long time before finding excellence.'
Dérive et détournement
Debord gave birth to the psychogeographic movement when he found himself stoned in a park one day and couldn't find his way out. He saw the place anew, which led to his invention of the dérive (drift), a conceptual reimagining of a city, developed by wandering through it without a plan or purpose, soaking up its essence, enjoying its curiosities, navigating by unconscious forces. His dérives avoided tourist areas, and sought the alleyways and backstreets of the labyrinthine city. They often involved bars and lengthy drinking, and therefore brought to mind the random pub crawl, though they were obviously much cleverer, due to their more poetic title.
Debord considered the dérive a revolutionary strategy and the central activity of psychogeography. Art was dead, but life was art. Psychogeography was 'the first new art of the future'. Cheers!
No future back then
Détournement, another pillar of the SI, was a technique in which something, an image for instance, is altered to create a new meaning, like Jamie Reid's sleeve art for the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen, or Deserter's mottos for living, such as: 'Shirk, rest and play', 'Work hardly, play hard' and 'Seize the day after tomorrow'.
The Situationist International
It's 50 years since Debord founded the SI, a group of avant-garde, anti-capitalist, but anti-Stalinist, social revolutionaries that wanted to bring down a consumerist society duped by television and advertising into perpetuating mediocrity and nullifying the individual. They were just a bit short of gags.
They published pamphlets and journals, but not all their energy went into dense theoretical essays. In the real world they vehemently opposed the Algerian War. Debord felt that the working class, the Communist Party and the Unions were not doing enough to end this colonial disgrace. He called for a general strike to end the war. No leader before or since has come up with such an elegantly passive stance to end conflict. Chapeau!
Friends like the Danish artist Asger Jorn, along with Michèle Bernstein, helped fund the SI. It was Jorn who invented three-sided football, a game you know well, transformed by possibilites you had never considered, and currently played regularly in South London.
Although Debord wouldn't work, Bernstein often did something to keep them going. At one point she wrote horoscopes of horses for a racing magazine in an act of beautiful adsurdity.
'I do not have Guy's power to do nothing for a long period,' she said.
Essential dérive equipment
As the Situationists' influence grew, they were invited to speak at a debate on Surrealism. Debord delivered his talk on screen in which he derided Surrealism and, interrupted by taped applause, announced it dead, prompting a walk out from the audience.
It was a natural progression for the SI to open their own bar in Paris. They toyed with the name 'The Firm and Resolute No' (Au non ferme et résolu) before settling on La Méthode. It was a great, brief, success, with Debord holding court at the bar daily, until the realities of running a business saw it close within a few weeks.
While in London in 1960 for the fourth SI Conference – a visit that would include 'drifting' around Wapping and Limehouse drinking pints of mild and bitter – the SI were invited to speak at the ICA. They were due to talk at 8pm, but were still in the bar at 9. The talk was eventually given by a drunk Situationist, and was deliberately opaque. Once the pished speaker had staggered off, a member of the audience asked: 'Can you explain exactly what Situationism is all about?'
Debord replied, softly: 'We're not here to answer questions from stupid cunts,' and the Situationist delegation stood up and left. They thought the evening a great success.
Between – and even during – momentous benders, Debord produced essays, films and books, including his best known tome, Society of the Spectacle. Situationists grew in number throughout France and the rest of Europe. A group of Situationists contested an election to lead the student union at the University of Nanterre with the stated policy of spunking all the money and bankrupting the organisation. To general disbelief, they won. Under Debord's direction they produced a lavish Situationist publication, emptying the budget and scandalising the French academic community. But that was just the start.
Guy society
The SI were part of the inspiration behind France's 1968 student riots that led to the occupation of the Sorbonne and a general strike that brought the country to a standstill. It was a turning point for France that brought a fierce backlash from the country's ruling conservative tosspots.
Nearly a decade later they inspired Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols to enrage the British Establishment, as well as rouse anarchist organisations all over Europe. Debord was usually unimpressed or furious that his turbid theories had not been fully understood by those who had appropriated them. He gave up on a English chapter when he visited to find it had one committed member, Chris Gray, and two blokes drinking McEwan's lager, watching Match of the Day.
The gloom
Depressed by illness, by the hijacking of his work by the unworthy, and by his friend and publisher's assassination, he drank heavily, although, in fairness, he was doing that anyway.
Drink was part of his problem, but also his solution, the stimulant that delivered excitement, that brought him into intense conversations with friends and strangers alike, as he toured his favourite bars with his second wife, Alice. He asked a healthy looking older friend about his ever youthful looks and was told his friend never drank and ate a lot of yogurt. 'That's very good,' said Debord, pouring himself another large Scotch.
In his last booze-filled years, he continued to create, with his reputation as a writer more exalted than ever. He hated the thought of becoming a national treasure. He found the world endlessly falsified; one where nothing made sense anymore, where dissident voices went unheard. He appreciated that our lives, our moments, our exchanges, are our greatest art. That booze was the transformative agent that revealed life's magic, whatever they say about yoga.
Reality no longer held a fascination, because it no longer existed. He anticipated the current assault on truth. He had said his piece. In the ultimate act of desertion, he put a bullet in his heart, unwilling to watch himself becoming the object he loathed, a celebrity.
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Q: Is it possible to use Java enum in ISML expressions I would like to compare an enum in <isif> condition, something like:
    <isif condition="#benefit:type == BenefitTypeEnum:Discount#">
        <!-- Do discount specific code here -->
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Is something like that possible?

A: I found out that the following is possible to use enums in ISML:
    <isif condition="Benefit:Type EQ 'DISCOUNT'">
        <!-- Discount specific code here -->
    </isif>

In this example 'DISCOUNT' is the name of the enum value in Java

A: Another possibility is to write a custom ISML function that is capable in handling the enums ordinal values. I haven't done this personally but there is a cookbook recipe that explains how to write such functions that are not part of the ISML grammar.

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Q: What data type to be used for storing dates like '01-05'? I want to store the list of all public holidays in a year.
Then the employees can avail the leaves for these days. The leave details will be stored in another table.
My issue is that I need to have a table for listing all the public holidays and the corresponding leaves.
Ex- 1st May must be listed for May Day.
However, I can't give date here (01-05-2014) because the same dates (01-05) will occur in each year.
So, how can I store these dates in a mysql table.
My current table structure is:
mysql> desc table;
+-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field     | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id        | int(10)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| name      | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| leaveCode | text         | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| date      | date         | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Here, I use date as the data type for the date.
But, It's not working.
When I tried inserting the values, the dates field is not getting populated.
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INSERT INTO table VALUES ('', 'May Day', 'MD', '01-05');
</pre>

I need a method to store these dates in the format - DD-MM in the table (Ex: 01-05).
Can someone please help me.

A: I'd rather prefer to store the day and the month in separate numeric fields, just because if you store a date, you must have to choose an arbitrary year with 366 days...
The concept of Date is a moment in time. You're not storing a date, although you could use the Date representation to store your infomation.
BUT, if you really want to use the Date column, you can choose some arbitrary leap year and set your "date" as YYYY-MM-DD

A: You can't store a holiday list as just month and day, because holidays vary from year-to-year on the calendars most commonly used for business.  Religious holidays are notorious for wandering around the calendar.  Consider:

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*Easter

*Passover

*Ramadan

Add to that holidays such as the Chinese New Year, American Thanksgiving, and American President's Day and you might start to think that calendar days have nothing to do with holidays.  Okay, there are a few -- New Year's Day, May Day, Fourth of July, and Bastille Day.  In the United States, there is a tendency to move national holidays onto a Monday, when the holiday would occur on the weekend.
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Tom Hanks A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Cast: Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Matthew Rhys, Tammy Blanchard, Wendy Makkena, Enrico Colantoni
Director: Marielle Heller
Synopsis: Two-time Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his scepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America's most beloved neighbour.
Release Date: January 23rd, 2020
About The Production
The door swings open to a familiar cozy living room. The jacket comes off, a warm cardigan goes on and heavy shoes are swapped out for comfy sneakers. We've returned to the neighborhood and it's time to have a heart-to-heart with Mister Rogers.
From 1968 to 2001, Fred Rogers imparted words of kindness and wisdom to millions of children on PBS' long-running program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In a fast-evolving world where young children grappled with a growing array of difficult issues and often may have felt misunderstood, Mister Rogers took the time to listen, understand and connect to them, earning his status as cherished source of comfort for millions of Americans.
Hollywood's own beloved entertainer Tom Hanks dons the famous red cardigan and steps into the canvas tennis shoes to play Fred Rogers in TriStar Pictures' A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller and written by Micah FitzermanBlue & Noah Harpster .
TriStar Pictures presents, in association with Tencent Pictures, a Big Beach / Mr. Youree production, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood. Starring Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Cooper. Directed by Marielle Heller. Produced by Youree Henley, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, and Leah Holzer. Written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster. Inspired by the article "Can You Say...Hero?" by Tom Junod. Executive Producers are Bergen Swanson, Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Edward Cheng, and Howard Chen. Director of Photography is Jody Lee Lipes. Production Designer is Jade Healy. Edited by Anne McCabe, ACE. Costume Designer is Arjun Bhasin. Music by Nate Heller. Music Supervision by Howard Paar.
"Fred Rogers was beloved in the eyes of the children who watched him right at that core time when they needed somebody to explain the world to them in a calm and almost quiet kind of way, because their parents are always too busy to explain such things," Tom Hanks says.
When investigative New York journalist Lloyd (Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile on Mister Rogers, he approaches the children's icon with cynicism, not believing that anyone can really be that good of a person. But he is immediately thrown off guard by Fred, disarmed by his honesty, and the way he seems to somehow look into his soul. Suddenly Lloyd's gaze turns inward. A new parent, with a troubled childhood, Lloyd is forced to reconcile with his jadedness and pain. Famously, Fred Rogers had an uncanny ability to turn interviews around on his interviewer, and that cat and mouse game is the catalyst for the movie. Bit by bit, as Lloyd's cynicism is chipped away, we as an audience find ourselves looking inward as well, letting our guard down and reconnecting to a part of ourselves long buried.
Inspired by award-winning journalist Tom Junod's 1998 Esquire profile on Fred Rogers ("Can You Say...Hero?"), and the real-life friendship that developed between the two men, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood gently reminds us of Mister Rogers' dedication to empathy, kindness and decency, qualities that may be even more pertinent today than they were five decades ago.
"I rediscovered Mister Rogers when I became a parent, and we started watching Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which incorporates all the teachings of Mister Rogers," Marielle Heller said. "It's just been the most incredible experience for me with my kid. We use episodes from that show to help us deal with difficult parenting moments, and it's brought me back to Mister Rogers and all of his teachings."
In A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Lloyd is our entry point to Fred, and for many people his cynicism is relatable and it is hard for us to truly believe that someone can be as pure as Mister Rogers was. And Heller subtly pulls back the curtains on Fred's more private, quieter moments when the camera isn't watching, profiling a kind, calm and pensive man. At one point in the film, Fred breaks the fourth wall just momentarily, as Heller silently reminds the audience of the power of his words, actions and philosophy.
"I think it's clear by the way that everybody is reacting to anything about Mister Rogers right now, that we are thirsty and starving for guidance in this world," Heller said.
"We are at a point where it feels like the divide, politically, is bigger than ever, it feels that way. I don't know if that's true, but there's so much violence and there's so much to be confused by, and to feel lost in. And I think finding and hearing Fred's voice is really reassuring in these times. There's something about his message that feels more important now than ever."
Producer Peter Saraf says the film provided an opportunity for audiences to reunite with Mister Rogers and recognize the true impact of his words and actions. "What I loved about the script, first and foremost, was that we were going into a rediscovery of this iconic children's television host through a grown-up's eyes," Saraf says.
"He doesn't fit in our cynical jaded world. He had something really sophisticated to say, and he had something really important to say, and he had something really moving to say. And that, to me, was just absolutely genius about the screenplay."
Hanks was just in his pre-teen years when 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' first aired, and in revisiting the show and exploring who Fred Rogers was for this film, the actor says he realized "the origami of the brilliance of Mister Rogers."
"If I'd been smart, I would've watched 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' with all of my kids when they were of a certain age and I wouldn't have just sat them down in front of it," Hanks says. "I would've watched it with them to hear what they had to say when it was done because I would've been more patient, I would've understood the language in order to use with them, and I think I would have also just been able to communicate to them just the basic principles of happiness and serenity in the world."
"I think there's a resurgence of Fred because the world sort of needs it," adds Rhys. "It needs someone like that as a balm for the divide and the wound that is opening in not just in this country but everywhere else … You need people like that to come along every now and again and just go, 'You know what? Just be nice to one another.'" For journalist Tom Junod, whose 1998 Esquire profile on Fred Rogers became the inspiration of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the film reminded him of what he knew Fred Rogers stood for every day.
"When I think of Fred, I often think of him in terms of what he did every morning, which was pray and think of the people he needed to pray for and write to those people and read and write," Junod says. "He had from five to seven every morning, those two hours of contemplating not just the mysteries, but the mysteries of people." Looking to craft a story that would re-introduce audiences to Fred Rogers' philosophy of love and respect for all humanity, the screenwriters discovered countless stories of Rogers' relationships inspiring people to live more fulfilling lives.
Inspired by Tom Junod's Esquire article "Can You Say… Hero?", the writers went on a research mecca to Pittsburgh, confirming background information from numerous sources, including the personal papers and correspondence of Fred Rogers as well as Tim Madigan's memoir, I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers. They formed relationships with the Fred Rogers Company and the archives who house Fred's legacy.
Finding Fred
From the very beginnings of making A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the producers and writers wanted only one person to play Fred Rogers – actor Tom Hanks.
Their only problem was that Hanks had read the script a number of times, but had passed on the project. "I think he just felt, 'I don't need to play another historical character,'" director Marielle Heller said. "This is a lot of pressure to play another beloved person in this way."
But everything changed when Heller came on board to direct. "Tom and I developed a bit of a relationship over the years. He had seen my first movie, we had had a meeting, we had been trading scripts back and forth and keeping in touch with each other, so when I came onboard as a director for this movie, the producers told me, 'Listen, he doesn't wanna do it, but Tom Hanks was always our dream for playing Mister Rogers.' And I said, 'Well, I have a relationship with him. I mean, I could just call him and send him the script, and see what happens.' And I sent it to him, and I think a week later he was like, 'Okay, I'll do it.' And everyone was like, "How did you do that?'"
Hanks says he has been a fan of Heller's since her first film, 2015's Diary of a Teenage Girl, and had been looking for an opportunity to work with her. Although he had been sent over the script for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood before, when Heller sent it to him, Hanks says he finally understood what the role would entail.
"She very specifically came back to me with a perspective of the power of the force of Mister Rogers as opposed to the plot that goes on," Hanks explains. "I just knew that she was coming at this with this is the red dot of what this movie is, and that is the chosen power of empathy."
Saraf said that in addition to Hanks being "one of the best actors working," to the audience, he embodied similar qualities to that of Fred.
"Tom, over the course of his career, has built up an empathy with the audience, a trust with the audience and an adoration from the audience that is built upon the same kind of sincerity and authenticity that Fred had," he explains.
The stars may have been aligning for Hanks to play Fred Rogers long before A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood came into existence. Heller revealed that Fred and his wife Joanne were married on Hanks' birthday (July 9), and Joanne said that Hanks held a special place in Fred's heart.
"Fred has admired Tom since his early days in movies, he loved his work," Joanne said. "He loved Forrest Gump so much that literally, he saw it at least 15 times. And, I think maybe, maybe he related to Forrest Gump a bit. He certainly related to the characterization that Tom gave it."
Getting Hanks to look enough like Fred was a fine balancing act. Heller said she didn't want Hanks to wear any prosthetics – "it's a barrier between the audience and the performance," she says – but rather, make subtle changes to Hanks' appearance. Heller recruited her Can You Ever Forgive Me? makeup artist Kalaadevi Ananda to add a simple wig and recreate Rogers' distinct eyebrows to transform Hanks. "Those two things turn him into Fred. The rest is Tom's performance: we capture the truth behind his eyes, everything that feels real," Heller said.
The most important thing for both Heller and Hanks was to make sure they captured an authentic portrayal of Fred Rogers, especially his stillness. "Tom and I talked a lot in the months leading up to shooting about Fred's voice and about his mannerisms. The trickiest thing for Tom was to slow himself down. We never wanted it to feel like he's doing an impersonation; we never wanted it to feel like a skit," she said.
For the usually quippy and energetic Hanks, slowing himself down and tapping into Fred Rogers' cadence and tempo proved to be perhaps the biggest challenge. "For me, it was being able to find the quiet spaces inside spaces that had to be filled."
"It was a quietness and not a stillness, but a slowness," Hanks adds. "Fred Rogers was not a glib man and I've made a living out of being glib, you know? He was not a smartass and I have turned being a smartass into a lucrative career," he quips.
Rhys says that having Hanks play Fred was like "America's dad playing America's dad." "I don't think there was a choice in Tom being Fred. He was kind of born to play Fred," Rhys continues. "There are so many qualities that Tom Hanks and Mister Rogers share, so many common feelings that they both elicit."
Heller says that Hanks' performance not only anchors the film – it forms a friendship with Lloyd, all through the prism of his teachings of kindness, patience, forgiveness and empathy, it's a technically stunning master class in how to make it all look effortless. "It's easy to kinda look at Tom and think, 'Oh, what he's doing is not so difficult.' But what he's doing is really difficult. It's really nuanced and subtle, and he's actually shifting his emotional body into a stiller person," Heller says.
When Tom Junod Met Fred Rogers
In 1998, journalist Tom Junod was coming off a series of high-profile articles at Esquire, where he interviewed controversial subjects including convicted criminals. In his own words, Junod said he "was really risking going to the dark side on stories."
And then he landed an assignment for the magazine's annual issue dedicated to heroes that would change his perspective, although he didn't know it at the time. "Somebody at the magazine thought it would be really funny having me - this kind of hotshot, sort of badass guy - doing a story on Fred Rogers," Junod recollects.
"It was intended as this juxtaposition of good, Fred, and bad, me, a role that I was definitely willing to step into and wiling to play at the time … I thought that this is my chance to sort of not just explore goodness, but to see all of that which lurks behind it."
While Matthew Rhys' Lloyd Vogel is a fictionalized version of the journalist, Junod says that the character does bear many similarities to his real self. Just like Vogel, Junod went into his interview with Fred Rogers with skepticism, looking for a darker side to the beloved children's icon.
"The amazing thing about it, of course, was Fred wasn't having any of that," Junod says. "Fred saw me, sized me up and went to work, which is where the movie and script is very, very true to life. Fred had that amazing gift of looking at a person and seeing what that person needed, and that he was going to minister to that person. And that person, in this particular case, was me. And I look back on it now and realize how purposeful Fred was and how relentless he was in doing that."
Fred allowed Junod to witness him both in his professional and personal environments, including private moments. In his observations, Junod realized he was allowed to see something that few people had been able to see in Fred.
"The side of him that people don't know is his strength," Junod says. "Behind the softspokenness, behind the extroverted kindness, he was made of iron. He would not do what he did not want to do and he was going do what he did want to do. And that was the person I saw from the beginning to the end. And when I say to the end, I do mean to the end. I remained friends with Fred for the next five years, until he died."
The time Junod spent with Fred for the piece – which became the Esquire cover story in November 1998 entitled "Can You Say… Hero?" – resulted in a life-changing and lifeaffirming friendship between the two men.
Junod remembers his final conversation with Fred, over the phone on Christmas Day 2002, when he called Fred to tell him about something that had happened with his family that Fred's influence had impacted directly.
"Fred's answer was the answer that he often gave me, which was 'how much like you, Tom, to tell me this.' It's a classic Fred answer," Junod says. "I think that he had different things that he said to different people, and that's often what he said to me. I would call him with some sort of story, and he was like, 'how like you to tell me that story.'"
Just like the people who knew and worked closely with Fred and were moved by the authenticity of the sets and casting of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Junod found himself reminiscing about his old friend when he came to Pittsburgh to see the filming of the movie.
"Watching Tom as Fred, that was the first thing that really, really hit me, 'oh my god, Fred's gone.' But this is as close to I'm going to get to ever being with him again, and it was a powerful moment. It reminded me of this man who, at the time, took a chance on me. And at the same time, it reminded me that I have unfinished business with him."
About The Characters
Forgiveness – "a decision we make to release a person from the feelings of anger we hold against them. Sometimes, it's the hardest of all to forgive the ones we love."– Fred Rogers.
Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) has carved a formidable reputation as a no-nonsense investigative reporter and profiler at Esquire magazine, but his penchant for takedown pieces of public figures hasn't left him with many friends or willing interview subjects. When his editor assigns him a short profile on beloved children's entertainer Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks), Lloyd reluctantly accepts the assignment, with the intention of revealing a hidden truth behind the kind, gentle television icon.
But right away, Lloyd realizes Fred Rogers is not like his usual interview subjects. For one, Fred calls him and asks to get to know him as a person. Their interviews, spaced out between tapings of Fred's television show, play out like therapy sessions.
"We find Lloyd at a crossroads in his life in that he's trying to figure out a number of things, trying to deal with a number of past and present familial issues that keep just shackling his progress as a human being," Rhys said of his character.
Lloyd, a father to a newborn, grapples with his relationship with his own estranged father Jerry (Chris Cooper), which is put under more duress when the two get into an altercation at Lloyd's sister Lorraine's (Tammy Blanchard) wedding.
It's the estranged father-son relationship that Fred immediately picks up on and questions Lloyd about, often entangling the journalist in an "interview jiujitsu" as he gently guides Lloyd to examine the root causes of his pain. But, as Hanks explains, Lloyd's impact on Fred is also not to be underestimated.
"Lloyd is not instantaneously buoyed by Fred. Lloyd remains cynical; Lloyd remains unconvinced; Lloyd remains almost an example of being an obstacle to Fred's natural sensibility about things, and the odd thing is that Fred just accepts it like that," Hanks says. "Lloyd gets Fred to verbalize difficulties that he has faced about his family, about growing up, about why he came up with things like Daniel Striped Tiger … Lloyd, in our movie, expanded Fred's world and he was grateful for just how special a gift that is."
For Cooper, Fred's lessons have a powerful effect on Jerry, a man that he describes as strongly influenced by the Rat Pack era and having to contend with the mistakes he made in his past, especially leaving his sick wife and adult children to find love with another woman. "As a young man, I think he made some very bad choices as a father, a very irresponsible man – maybe overwhelmed with not being able to take care of his family," Cooper explained.
In his later years, Jerry wants to make amends with his children, to introduce them to his long-term partner and try to repair the fractured relationship with Lloyd after decades of hurt. "Jerry leaves the impression that life is tough and nobody is going to give you anything," Cooper said. "I think he, through Fred Rogers and dealing with his son, sees another way in the end – a way toward a much better, happier life."
Lloyd also has to contend with strains in his relationship with his wife Andrea (Susan Kelechi Watson) as the two navigate the challenges of being new parents. Unwilling to give up the demands of his work and struggling with balancing his new responsibilities, Lloyd throws himself into profiling Mister Rogers.
"I think they are both looking for each other's support and understanding in this new chapter (the new baby) of their lives together," said Kelechi Watson. "Mister Rogers comes in and shines a light on each other's needs and shows them how to be sensitive toward one another."
Heller said she wanted to make Lloyd and Andrea's relationship feet like a couple who had been together for years. "You want to feel like they're talking to each other, like they really know each other, that their arguments feel real and that it's something that we can see are a true reflection of our own relationships, in a way that's really rare on screen," the director said. Through their interactions, Fred's gentle nature and kind spirit puts Lloyd in a mind to examine the roots of his own anger and pain – and to heal. "Fred, in a very calm way, sets Lloyd on a path of kind of reckoning and a way of growing in a way that's very much to do with his own doing," Rhys said.
"I think he very gently guides him along this path of allowing him to see a number of things, and to grow as a result of it."
As Hanks explains using the words of Mister Rogers, "Fred was literally one of the people who loved Lloyd into existence."
"Lloyd is a better son, he's a better father, he's a better husband, he's a better journalist, he's a better friend, all because a guy who had no reason to do so but told him, 'you're very special. I think you're great just exactly as you are. You don't have to change at all'," Hanks says.
And therein lies the magic of Fred Rogers, whose on-screen persona transitions seemlessly to his off-screen self. His lessons that he calmly, carefully and comprehensively imparts on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" are wise words for both children and adults. It's what motivated director Marielle Heller, straight off the success of her Oscar®-nominated film Can You Ever Forgive Me?, to examine the story of Mister Rogers.
"This is a movie about men really finding voice for their feelings, but it's also so much more than that," Heller says. "It's really about all the things we deal with as adults that are really complex emotional issues that we don't talk about - we don't talk about how hard it is to become a parent, or lose a parent, or transition through parts of our life where things feel hard, or scary, or painful. To have this relationship that Lloyd the journalist has with Mister Rogers where he sort of becomes this guiding light through one of his hardest transitions in his life; I just felt like this is what we need right now."
Returning To Pittsburgh
When figuring out where to film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, it was natural for the filmmakers to return to Fred Rogers' very own Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he had lived for most of his life and where he filmed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Pittsburgh was not only where Fred lived and worked and raised his family, it is a city on which he had an enormous impact and a community that fully embraces Fred and his philosophy to this day. The people of Pittsburgh welcomed the production fully and infused it with authenticity and warmth. So many of the people who worked on the TV show still live and work in Pittsburgh and were an invaluable resource in research and production.
And it turns out, Pittsburgh was a great stand-in for New York City as well, according to production designer Jade Healy, who recreated a New York subway station and streets to look like 1990s New York. "We found this one loft that had this amazing view out of the back of an alleyway and it just looked like New York," she says.
That loft became the setting for Lloyd and Andrea's 1990s one-bedroom New York City rented apartment, which Healy says was meant to have exposed pipes and look "just not kid-ready, and no space for yourself, no privacy."
Finding a loft like that would have been near impossible in present day New York City. "We were very happy to be in Pittsburgh, not just because of the connection to Fred Rogers and all the people here, but also because we could find locations you just cannot find in New York anymore," Healy said. "You could not find a loft like that in New York City anymore. They've all just been taken – what you could buy in the '90s, you can't buy now."
The biggest challenge for Healy was not only replicating Pittsburgh and New York City in the late 1990s, but to replicate Fred Rogers' set from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. "It was so incredible to recreate that set. Just bringing Fred's world to life was magical," Healy said.
And luckily for Healy, the Latrobe Center in Pittsburgh held a wealth of information catalogued on the show. Healy said she and her team started from scratch, using photographs to rebuild everything from the exact curtains and couch in the living room, to the Castle in the Land of Make-Believe, which they rebuilt with the exact measurements of the original set castle.
"We built it the same way they did. That was really important to us, so the seams would be the same," Healy said. "The backside of the set is as much of a set piece as the front side so they are all appropriately aged.
Saraf added that they even tracked down original Ikegami HK-323 cameras, which were used to film the show, finding working versions of the retro cameras in England that were brought to the set in Pittsburgh to bring even more authenticity to the production.
"Fred had a very distinct approach to television – he thought it was a very useful tool for communicating with children, but that it had to be done in the right way," Saraf says. "One of those things was the long takes and very few cuts. So we decided to do it the same way."
To prepare, director of photography Jody Lee Lipes dived into watching the 1998 season of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" in order to find ways to recreate it as authentically as possible. The Ikegami cameras "really did a lot to make the show [in the film] feel like the show because it looked exactly like the show," he explains.
"It was just really the way they actually did it with the same lights and the same space, the same person who lit the same stage and the same set on the same camera - it all really helped to create that feeling," Lipes says. "The one variable is Tom and the actors, and I think it really helps sell that conceit that everything else is so accurate."
Bringing full authenticity to the re-creation of the television show, the production used the same studios at local public TV station WQED to film the episodes of the program and everything behind the scenes.
The effect, Saraf says, impressed even the people who worked on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; "We recreated the sets and the props so meticulously with so much research that the people who actually worked on the show have come to visit and every single one of them has really either wept, or at least misted up a little bit," he says. For Joanne Rogers, seeing her late husband's work and world come alive once again was a special experience. "I think having the film shot in Pittsburgh would have made it so real for Fred. I think he would like this very much," she said.
Part of the magic of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood lies in what Heller calls the screenplay's "clever device" of making the whole story feel like an extended episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." "There's something really emotional about having that happen," she says. "We've done everything we can to recreate the set so perfectly; we filmed it on the same stage with the same cameras that they filmed the original program on. It feels totally real – and then Tom Hanks walks through the door to sing 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'"
One of the most iconic features of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was the detailed miniature model of the 'neighborhood,' made up of rows of houses and streets through which the Neighborhood Trolley travels, weaving through the program to transport audiences between Mister Rogers' living room and the fantastical realm of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
In A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Heller and her team didn't just recreate the exact set of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the Pittsburgh studios that the show was taped in; they used the imaginative world of Fred Rogers to weave the film's narrative around.
"Our concept was these miniatures and taking the miniatures from the program, which was always his transition to the real world, and expanding on it," Heller said. "We never wanted to make it look super high-tech or something out of the world, so we did everything practically."
Heller and Healy spent months figuring out the logistics of moving between Fred Rogers' set and home life in Pittsburgh, and the gritty, New York environment of Lloyd Vogel. Once they figured out that the key was in Mister Rogers' miniatures, a team of people spent 12 weeks building detailed model sets that included the Pittsburgh and Manhattan skylines, New Jersey suburbs, and of course, Mister Rogers' miniature model neighborhood.
"Our rule of thumb was, that we couldn't do anything that Mister Rogers and his team couldn't do on the 'neighborhood," says Heller. "We've expanded beyond Mister Rogers' miniatures, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility."
The real challenge, Healy said, was to get the "feeling right" with the miniature models, making them as authentic as the models Rogers used for his show. The trick, she adds, was in the simplicity of the details, approaching a city from a child's point of view and drawing on the "special buildings" that define a place. In mini New York, we see the Chrysler Building, the Twin Towers and the George Washington Bridge. In mini Pittsburgh, the city's yellow bridges and red trolleys add a whimsical feel that ties into Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
"We didn't want to create these miniatures that were so detailed in a way. They were too fussy. We wanted to create these miniature worlds that respected the original so it trying to take a city like New York, which has so much going on, and make it sort of in the world of Mister Rogers miniatures," Healy said.
The Costumes
One of the key rituals in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" took place right at the beginning of the show, where Fred Rogers would enter the living room set while singing, and swap his coat for a wooly cardigan and his loafers for canvas sneakers.
Recreating Fred's wardrobe was an interesting challenge for costume designer Arjun Bhasin, who delved into the roots of why he dressed the way he did.
"With Mister Rogers, I felt like I understood something about his psychology just from looking at the colors that he chose. I feel like they were very specific and he did them for a very specific reason," Bhasin says. "The primary colors are enhancing his appeal to young people. I think the colors were very deliberate and I don't think it was a mistake that it's a bright primary world. So it was very special to look at it and try to understand why he was making the decisions he was making."
As Heller opted to keep Hanks' physical transformation into Fred quite simple, with just a wig and eyebrows added to his features, it came down to Bhasin's costumes to give Hanks the extra essence of Fred Rogers.
"It's a suit of armor that is self-defining," Hanks says. "They just seem odd until somehow they connect to your body and then next thing you know, you have a different posture, and you have a different way of sitting."
Fred's cardigans were hand-knitted for him by his mother, and so for the movie, Bhasin wanted to recreate the same feel by having cardigans hand-knitted for Tom Hanks to wear. "I found somebody in New York who works in the theater and who was a handknitter," he says. "We had those cardigans recreated the way she would've knit them, so they're all very rudimentary and hand-done."
Bhasin said he had three color palettes to work with in order to create the respective worlds of the film's characters. For Lloyd Vogel, Bhasin interpreted the environment as the "harsh, bristling, angry New York world," and the character has a city slicker vibe. "His clothing is very much a reaction to his life he's left behind in New Jersey," Bhasin explains. "He's moved to New York, he's a player, he's in the game. He's a journalist, he's part of this downtown New York scene, and we wanted that very much to reflect in his clothing."
Lloyd's look is a stark contrast to the "softer, more home-spun Pittsburgh world, which belongs to Mister Rogers." And then there's the more throwback 1980s New Jersey world of Lloyd's father Jerry, whom Bhasin describes as being trapped in the 1970s, living in polyester fabrics and white loafers.
"We had to segregate those three worlds visually and we did that with colors, textures, patterns. The three worlds are really unique and in contrast to each other," Bhasin says.
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Several of the veins on my original water pick up scoop are missing or damaged. (1959 Continental 18') I purchased what I thought was an identical scoop; Groco STH-1000-W 1" NPS inside diameter. The scoop looks identical to the original scoop however when I try to attach the fitting that goes to the water pump (2 hoses) it will not thread properly. It only goes on about 1/2". I could try to force it but I'm thinking the threads on the new scoop (NPS) are a bit different than the original Chris Craft scoop. Any comments or suggestions????
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SO CLOSE...
RED WINGS 3
PENGUINS 2
Watching this season play out, the way the Penguins' 2007-08 campaign finally ended pretty much summed it all up: a talented team facing adversity gave an incredible, gutsy effort.
Down 3-1 while getting only one shot on goal through the first 16 minutes of the third period? No problem. Summon Sergei Gonchar and Marian Hossa for a little power-play magic and give us renewed hope with a minute-and-a-half remaining.
With the lid of Mellon Arena ready to be blown off, Marian Hossa's final effort trickled past Detroit goalie Chris Osgood, just inches away from tying the score as the clock ran out on the Boys of Winter.
It was an excruciating tease of what could have been.
But hockey, like football and golf, is a game of inches. A bounce here, a bounce there, and the Penguins could have won more than two games in this series. But there is no doubt that the better team won. The Penguins were the NHL's #2 team this year, and considering the age and inexperience of many of these players, there's no shame in that. But the day after, that's a message that no one wants to hear, especially the players.
As the title implies, the Penguins were both close and far in this series. Things couldn't have started much worse than back-to-back shutouts in Detroit, coming home with a 7-0 goal defecit.
There were times when this series had the feel of the 1960 World Series between the Yankees and Pirates. Yes, it was played about 20 years before I was born, but I've heard and read about it enough to know what happened.
Going into Game Seven, the Yankees won three games over the Pirates by scores of 16-3, 10-0, and 12-0. The Pirates also won three games: 6-2, 3-2, and 5-2. And as we all know, it took every bit of the seventh game, right down to the final at-bat, for the Pirates to eek out a 10-9 victory on home turf, cementing Bill Mazeroski's legacy in this town for the rest of time.
From 1947-1959, the Yankees won eight World Series and appeared in two others. Of the three years in that span that they didn't make it, their records were 94-60 (1948), 103-51 (1954), and 79-75 (1959). Their team was stocked with names like Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, and Whitey Ford...and that was just in 1960, to say nothing of the DiMaggios, Rizzutos, and Billy Martins that played in the years preceding.
To tie my comparison together, the Penguins were outshot by the following margins in this series: 36-19, 34-22, 34-24, 30-23, 58-32, and 30-22. True, shots alone don't win games, but they certainly give you an indication of who is in possession of the puck, and that was not the Penguins. They scored a grand total of 10 goals in six games, with seven of those 10 coming in just two games. They were facing a Red Wings team absolutely stocked with experienced, Stanley Cup-winning talent.
And much like the 1960 Pirates, these Penguins bridged the apparent gap between the two championship contestants with an amazing effort and a never-say-die attitude. After the series' start, few would have been surprised to see a sweep. But a funny thing happened on the way to that four-game series: the Penguins made it a series. This is not a team that packs it in.
The obstacles in the Penguins' path were many. First and foremost was the ridiculous Detroit defense, which was somehow able to totally neutralize the red-hot Pens, who had just had their way with the entire Eastern Conference. At times it was felt like trying to penetrate the Steel Curtain defense.
The Red Wings were able to hold Evgeni Malkin to a mere one goal for the entire series. The Penguins' goal scoring was very top-heavy, with three of their 10 from Hossa, two from Sidney Crosby, and two from the surprisingly efficient Adam Hall. Ryan Malone, Pascal Dupuis, and Gary Roberts were held to just one assist each. Jordan Staal failed to crack the scoring ledger.
With the lack of scoring production came the increased importance of other factors. Marc-Andre Fleury certainly silenced any remaining doubters who failed to notice his 19-10-2, 2.33 regular season or his 12-2 record coming into the Finals. Brooks Orpik and Hal Gill did their part to make the Red Wings sore on a regular basis. For inspirational purposes, you could look at a number of guys playing hurt, most notably Gonchar and Malone. There was the added lift from veterans Roberts and Daryl Sydor. And of course, no one will forget the efforts of Max Talbot or Petr Sykora in the near future.
Even on the losing end, it was as heroic an effort as anyone could have asked for. The Penguins gave, gave, and gave up until the final buzzer. Sadly, it was not to be this year. And I realize we can't take any future Finals appearances for granted, but the future is certainly bright.
So today, the offseason officially begins. GM Ray Shero is in a tough situation, as some combination of Hossa, Roberts, Dupuis, Hall, Malone, Orpik, Ty Conklin, Georges Laraque, and Jarkko Ruutu will surely sign for greater dollars elsewhere. But as he's proven time and time again, he's more than competent at his job. And while I'd love to see a guy like Hossa back in the black and gold next season, the Penguins will be a challenger for the crown regardless of who stays or goes.
To the Penguins, we thank you for an incredible, memorable season. From the October 5th opener against Carolina to the Winter Classic to the climactic finale last night, it will be regarded as a year for the ages.
The great thing for fans about playing this late into the season? Training camp's only a few short months away. I'm sure this nucleus will be more than ready to finish what they started.
Posted by mondesishouse at 9:43 AM
Labels: 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, Detroit Red Wings, Evgeni Malkin, Gary Roberts, Jordan Staal, Marian Hossa, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby
Well, put, Mondesi. A fine season, indeed.
But it had to be tough for anyone in attendance to see the Cup paraded around on the Arena ice for the first time.
I know it was odd to watch it on TV.
Hats off to the fans who stayed. For the first 5 minutes at least, it looked as though almost the entire crowd had stayed for the ceremony. I've never seen so many visiting teams stay to see the Cup awarded in my years of watching hockey.
HotDog_Zanzabar said...
These last two months flew by. It's hard to imagine that they're only three short months away from training camp. No wonder it is so hard to repeat. These guys are physically battered and two months behind the rest of the leagues conditioning programs.
Marian Hossa needs resigned. If he is the only guy that they retain then so be it, but world class players aren't replaceable. Guys like Malone and Orpik can be replaced. I hate that I just typed that, but their visibility in the Stanley Cup probably netted them a couple more million than the market should bear. Comparable players can be lured here with the promise of playing along Sid, Geno and Co., and they might take less money to play for a winner.
World of Isaac said...
It was weird...it was a strange 6 game series...the Wings probably dominated all but 3/4 periods the entire series but yet couldn't put the Pens away the last couple of games
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I've carried around a little black book for the last 15 years or so thats only had one name written in it.....Sid Bream. Late last night I penned in "Chris Osgood."
Seriously, just look back to a few months ago when it was generally accepted that the west was dominant, and we were just hoping to make a deep run in the east. I never really heard an honest prediction that had the Pens going beyond the finals. Nothing to be ashamed about. Detroit played the best hockey I've ever seen. They would've destroyed anyone else. That was probably the most enjoyable season of sports I've seen in the 26 years I've been on this earth. MY BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT IS THAT IT'S OVER, NOT HOW IT ENDED.
I've been following the Pens religiously for the past few years and the more I watch them, the less I like the Steelers. Everything from the player attitudes to the way the organization is run is better in almost every way. Every time I see Hines Ward drop a pass next season, I'm just gonna tell myself, "Fleury could've caught that." And the way the crowd reacted was unreal. Heinz Field would've quieted down after every opponent score and emptied out within 5 seconds after the clock hit zero. That fact that the fans stayed for the Cup and actually cheered on the team and Fleury, who would've been the goat of Heinz Field, was amazing. THAT WAS A VERY, VERY PROUD MOMENT FOR PITTSBURGH SPORTS.
Robert Ullman said...
I feel you on the Steelers, Nipsy...I'll probably feel different come August, but the Stanley Cup playoffs just make the NFL seem so boring, overexposed and corporate.
weezy f. baby said...
not to change subjects Mondesi, but isnt tonight the thirsty thursday minor league baseball appearance by Skippy?
Koz said...
@ Nipsy
::standing ovation::
Well put, my friend. I agree with you 100%
Congrats to the Pens for making this an entertaining finals and never giving up. My dad's a Pittsburgh native so it was great staying up with him to watch Game 5 just like he did with me for Game 6 back in '99 when the Sabres lost to Dallas.
It's always a little creepy watching the visiting team parade around your rink with the cup. I thought the fans were classy enough from what I saw on TV but:
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Thoughts / Anyone there?
I thought that puck was going in at the end -- heartbreak.
C'mon, guys. Comparing the NHL to the NFL is ridiculous. You're in the vast minority if you seriously think the NHL is superior.
Much as I love the Pens and think the playoffs were outstanding, the last two games in particular, the national TV ratings were the equivalent of an NFL pre-season game in the middle of August.


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Gene Block has served as UCLA chancellor since Aug. 1, 2007. He previously was vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, where he was also the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professor of Biology. Chancellor Block is a distinguished professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and holds a joint faculty appointment in integrative biology and …
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Will Squid Soon Rule the Oceans?
By Danna Staaf | December 13, 2017
The future is full of tentacles.
Even now, both giant and colossal squid writhe throughout the deep, while hooked and flying squid migrate from sea to sea in swirling swarms. Otherworldly glass squid and jewel squid proliferate in the open ocean. And market and common squid blanket shorelines with their egg capsules and their own dying bodies.
Then, of course, there are the octopuses: giant and pygmy, …
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Why Americans Insist on Putting a Price Tag on Life
By Eli Cook | December 12, 2017
Everything, as they say in America, has its price. It has been found that a lack of sleep costs the American economy $411 billion a year and stress another $300 billion. Countless other studies have calculated the annual cost of pain ($560 million), heart disease ($309 billion), cancer ($243 billion), and diabetes ($188 billion). Surf the web at work sometimes? That costs the American people …
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Depression Isn't Just a Global Epidemic. It's a Silent One.
By Reed Johnson | December 12, 2017
Depression is still the illness that dares not speak its name. Taboos persist. Social stigmas endure. Many confounding mysteries remain about exactly what causes depression and how best to treat it—even though it affects tens of millions of people worldwide, and even as the number of suicides globally has soared to 1 million.
Those painful realities formed the backdrop to a Zócalo/UCLA event titled "How Can …
Connecting California, Featured »
To Be Blunt, California's Marijuana Industry Is Stoking High Anxiety
By Joe Mathews | December 11, 2017
California's 2018 transition to legal marijuana contains a mind-bending paradox: Ending prohibitions on marijuana is going to require an awful lot of aggressive law enforcement.
When January 1 rolls around, California will not merely be permitting adults 21 and older to buy marijuana for recreational purposes. The state and its cities also will be scrambling to create a new and wickedly complicated regime to regulate and …
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Christmas letters written,/ then destroyed #poem
By Genevieve Leone | December 8, 2017
Underneath this day, another
The way morning – shang –
sits on top of afternoon
What is past is
what we see –
Speculation as to how long this war will last.
Con Cater says 3 months. Ethel Taylor says 12 months.
I say three years.
The pages fill. Each day a blank.
Then, my stomach –
moldy flour,
wanting news from home, and
a body is what we bring,
what we …
When Alaskan and Russian Native People Thawed the Cold War's 'Ice Curtain'
By David Ramseur | December 8, 2017
As the Russian city of Provideniya's deteriorating concrete buildings came into view below, Darlene Pungowiyi Orr felt uneasy. So did the other 81 passengers landing in that isolated far-eastern Soviet outpost in 1988.
They were aboard the first American commercial jet to land there since the United States and USSR had imposed a Cold War "Ice Curtain" across the Bering Sea some 40 years earlier. Orr, …
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Barack Obama Had an 'Iron Will' to Succeed—but What Was at His Core?
By Reed Johnson | December 7, 2017
Historian David J. Garrow acknowledges that he's "cynical" about Barack Obama, a conclusion that he reached while conducting 1,000 interviews and spending nine years researching the formation and political rise of America's 44th president.
Garrow shared some of his reasons for what he called his "huge disappointment" with the Obama presidency at a Zócalo/KCRW "Critical Thinking with Warren Olney" event, "How Did Barack Obama Create Himself?".
Hosted …
Why We French Canadians Are Neither French nor Canadian
By Robert B. Perreault | December 7, 2017
Whenever my family visits Québec, people other than our relatives are surprised to hear Americans—even our grandchildren, ages five and six—speak fluent French. They're amazed to learn that French is our mother tongue and that we also speak English without a French accent. Likewise, if we leave our native New Hampshire to travel elsewhere in the United States, we get blank stares upon mentioning that …
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JERUSALEM — Bulgarian investigators said Tuesday that the Lebanese group Hezbollah was responsible for a July bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver in the Black Sea resort of Burgas, as Israel had asserted.
The announcement was certain to heighten pressure on the European Union to join Israel and the United States in labeling Hezbollah a terrorist group, allowing law enforcement agents in Europe to seize assets, restrict travel and arrest members.
Bulgarian officials said two of the three suspects in the attack entered the country with Canadian and Australian passports.
"We have well-grounded reasons to suggest that the two were members of the militant wing of Hezbollah," Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told reporters. "We expect the government of Lebanon to assist in the further investigation."
Tsvetanov said evidence showed that the men received funding and instructions from Hezbollah. One of the attackers died in the bombing.
Hezbollah, which is part of the ruling coalition government in Lebanon, has denied any role in the attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the findings bolstered his country's long-standing call to ostracize Hezbollah and its financial backer, Iran.
"This is yet a further corroboration of what we have already known, that Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons are orchestrating a worldwide campaign of terror that is spanning countries and continents," Netanyahu said in a statement. "We hope the Europeans draw the necessary conclusions regarding the true nature of the Hezbollah."
The Bulgaria attack was widely seen as part of the shadow war between Israel and Iran. Israel has accused Iran of planning and orchestrating attacks against its citizens in numerous countries, including Thailand, Kenya, India and Georgia. Iran accuses Israel of covertly assassinating several of its nuclear researchers and sabotaging its nuclear facilities.
Bulgarian officials did not link Iran to the bombing.
White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan, who is the Obama administration's nominee to head the CIA, called on Europe to take "action to uncover Hezbollah's infrastructure and disrupt the group's financing schemes and operational networks in order to prevent future attacks."
Hezbollah was already under pressure for its support of Syrian President Bashar Assad in that country's civil war.
Assad has long served as a major benefactor of Hezbollah and Syria as a conduit for Iranian-made weapons, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.
An Israeli airstrike last week against a Syrian arms convoy near Damascus was intended to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining a cache of antiaircraft missiles.
At home, the group, which was founded in 1982 in response to Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon, has been criticized by some for fueling sectarian strife and drawing Israel into military conflict with Lebanon, such as the 2006 war.
"If in 2006 Hezbollah played the role of hero in the Arab world, today they are seen very differently because of their support for Assad," said an Israeli government official who was not authorized to speak publicly. "They are having a difficult year or two. We hope that what happened in Bulgaria, on European soil, will expedite a decision by the EU in the right direction."
Until now, Europe has been unable to reach a consensus. Countries such as Britain and the Netherlands are believed to support labeling Hezbollah a terrorist group, but France has resisted, fearing that it would destabilize the Lebanese government.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague called on the Lebanese government to cooperate with the investigation.
"It is important that the EU respond robustly to an attack on European soil," he said. "Every act of terror is an attack on our shared values."
The office of Catherine Ashton, the European Union's top diplomat, issued a statement calling for the attackers to be brought to justice but sidestepping the question of whether the EU would designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
"The implications of the investigation need to be assessed seriously as they relate to a terrorist attack on EU soil, which resulted in the killing and injury of innocent civilians," the statement said.


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bm08 replied
Wed June 16, 2021, 09:18
I love a single braid! She looks great!
KEY9481 replied
June Ambrose's birthday party.
I feel like some of the big names will avoid the show this year because things aren't all clear with C-19 just year. Most of them dont have projects out anyways.
So I dont see Beyonce going tbh.
aang replied
^Right, I forgot the first MIA was apart of Mrs. Carter Show. I want her to do BET Awards this year!
Tue June 15, 2021, 20:16
She did MIA twice (2013, 2015).
Omiros replied
She already did MIA, I don't think she'll go back. Maybe for a The Gift show since she didn't get to tour it as she supposeddly wanted to.
It's been way too quiet
No Beyonce so far in the Made in America lineup even though it falls right on her birthday.
Aaronsmithjune1 replied
Sun June 13, 2021, 21:42
It still amazes me how she sold nearly 210M pure records while sticking mostly to her R&B roots and then to have a whole other career that was massive and sold over 70M pure records. This is why she doesn't care. Been there done that. It's also crazy how she sells out stadiums in Europe. Like actual European stadium tours. Tina did it but she was more rock. Michael did it. But he's the king of pop. No other urban act has reached her level of impact imo.
Hugo replied
Sat June 12, 2021, 21:57
Thu June 10, 2021, 07:16
Directed by either Dave Meyers or Jake Nava please. Melina Matsoukas would be fine too.
Beyoncé is coming.
Wed June 9, 2021, 16:35
Well damn the first tweet got deleted already.
Bey was spotted in a filming studio yesterday in LA.
Originally posted by abi View Post
I'm disappointed "Lose My Breath" didn't turn into a "Crazy in Love"-level classic though. I really wonder why cause that song felt massive back in the day, like legit "Crazy In Love"/"Yeah!"/"SexyBack"-level massive, at least in where I live. It was an anthem!
Oh definitely! Same point for Solider!!
But we cant trust people to have taste.
ThaInfo1 replied
Tue June 8, 2021, 23:17
Originally posted by KEY9481 View Post
Mama Tina is a guest judge on RPDR All Stars 6.
Oh I know the queens are gonna flip tf out on that episode.
Mama been up in the house rested and is looking BOMB!!! yes ma'am.
We're almost halfway into June. Where is the ivy park drop? Watch her drop the summer collection mid August
I think it's due to the fact of lack of performances and playlisting.
Is anyone else disappointed that we didn't get a version of lemonade with the poems on Spotify?
Mon June 7, 2021, 22:47
That's not really what happened.
The label wanted Bey to record her sophomore, to strike the iron while it was hot.
Then it became a DC project.
What you mean turned into a DC album?
Originally posted by Aaronsmithjune1 View Post
I always get mad thinking about Dil era. It could've been pushed a lot further had they not been trying to rush out a destiny's child album.
I mean, DIL did what it's supposed to do. Back in the early 2000s, the norm was to release around 4 singles from 1 album with one or a few non-commercial/promo singles here and there so there's always some hit potential that got away. Applied to any major R&B/Pop acts back then too like Usher, Alicia, JT, etc. but these albums were already successful after all so I'm not mad at it.
I always get mad thinking about Dil era. It could've been pushed a lot further had they not been trying to rush out a destiny's child album. Dangerously in love the song could've been a top 10. Same with that's how you like it. They really lost out on another 1 million sales if you ask me


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Netflix Hidden Gem #73: He Never Died
Posted by Sean K. Cureton | Apr 7, 2016 | Netflix Hidden Gems | 0 |
He Never Died (2015)
Director: Jason Krawczyk
Synopsis: The biblical character Cain is made manifest in surly metropolitan loner Jack (Henry Rollins), an immortal protagonist at constant odds with his baser nature that drives him to feed on human flesh. As a result, he must force himself into self-imposed isolation from others, and bribe a local medical student to supply him with human blood. But all of the sobriety that Jack has been able to establish for himself over the course of recent years is put to the test when a former employer and local crime lord kidnaps his daughter, forcing Jack back to committing the Devil's work.
Overall: In writer-director Jason Krawczyk's hands, the fairly convoluted and potentially over eager thematic potential of He Never Died is held at arm's length, as the director allows for a fairly fine tuned philosophic dialogue to unfold surrounding the nature of addiction, sobriety, and all of the moral guilt that comes wrapped up in any Alcoholics Anonymous program. Rollins turns in what might be one of the more thrilling performances within the horror-comedy genre, as the man-eating cannibal Cain, forced to live out purgatory as an immortal damned to feast upon the living, despite his better judgment and remorse for having killed his only brother Able so many ages ago.
At surface level, He Never Died is a skuzzy, ultra-violent revenge thriller, with buckets of blood and hyper-realistic violence to indulge in. Beyond that, Krawczyk has perhaps done the unthinkable, and crafted a contemporary fable out of Biblical themes that wouldn't feel entirely out of place within the larger echelon of modern superhero narratives proliferating big screens the world over. What's more, Jack is a highly fascinating and ethically burdened hero to match the likes of Marvel Studios' Daredevil or Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, as Rollins never relents in his earnest attempt at grounding his character within the realm of the real world, no mater however fantastic the surrounding film's premise remains.
As a superhero, Jack, or the Bible's Cain as viewers find out in the movie's near-revelatory final scene, Rollins is something of a reluctant savior, having spent most of his life in hiding, or else indulging in sin and depravity to such depths that he has become a husk of his former self. Like Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Jack is something of a black sheep, far from his herd, and striving to remain apart from it for the betterment of society at large. In his heart of hearts, Jack knows that he is damned creature, doomed to walk the earth for all eternity as an abomination of his former self, a monster made in the Devil's image. But in his own heartbroken defeat and acceptance of his own soul-less inhumanity, his character is granted the saving grace of having learned from his original sin, and becoming a man no different from any other walking the streets in mournful desperation.
Krawczyk has captured something seemingly impossible in his He Never Died, as the film by turns revels in the gore of the most excessive horror genre film, while maintaining the core drama felt inherently by its chief protagonist. Despite having initially been pitched as being a movie wherein, "Henry Rollins eats people," Krawczyk has leant the former Black Flag lead singer a real film role to sink his teeth into, and by proxy explore yet another facet of his highly original artistic voice and presence. It's easy to mock the film for its overt gimmick-based theatricality, and much of the film borrows heavily in aesthetic schlock value from past B-movie horror successes such as Army of Darkness and The Devil's Rejects. But in Rollins' ability to emote far beyond the confines of the film's demonic possession-based narrative premise, his Cain is leant all of the moral credence and parabolic finality of the original Biblical story, thus lending coherence to all of the bluster of the brusque and forceful title that is He Never Died.
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English Major, Film Buff, and Citizen of the World, Sean K. Cureton is a born and raised Jersey Boy. Having received a B.A. in English from Rutgers University, Sean is proud to call the Garden State his home, equidistant from both the steps that made Sylvester Stallone a household name, and the park where Harry was cordially introduced to Sally, even if he'd prefer to a stay in state due to a certain fondness for a convenience store located in Leonardo, NJ. When he's not in the multiplex, you can follow him on Twitter, @seankcureton.
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Q: Run Quarkus tests with TestContainers using WSL2 + Podman With the license change for Docker Desktop on Windows, I'm looking for an alternative. Podman + WSL2 seems to do the trick for me. Except for Testcontainers in my Quarkus tests.
I'm able to run my tests within WSL2 by starting podman system service in WSL2 (podman system service -t 0 tcp:localhost:8880) and setting the DOCKER_HOST env var (DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:8880).
Now this works, but isn't really what I need, since at my company we develop in VSCode, IntelliJ and Eclipse. I'd like to be able to run the tests from within those IDE's. Is there any way to pass the podman uri (from WSL) to my IDE in Windows while running Quarkus tests?
If anyone would know any other docker desktop alternatives that work with TestContainers, that would be awesome as well. I have tried Rancher Desktop, but it gets stuck and the tests eventually time out.

A: You have to install podman-remote packages on your windows host machine, then configure it to use tcp://WSL2_IP:8880 (podman documentation) and finally make an alias for the program docker -> podman.exe.
Now you are able to run docker commands as usual... docker ps docker run etc. But it does not mean that all tools will work out of the box. You have to tune it.
For example for testcontainers you have to set env variables on host machine:
PowerShell
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("DOCKER_HOST", "tcp://WSL2_IP:8880", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("TESTCONTAINERS_CHECKS_DISABLE", "True", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("TESTCONTAINERS_RYUK_DISABLED", "True", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

P.S. All that kind of variables were set for you by docker, but from now you have to do it by yourself.

A: We ran the testcontainers-java tests using various solutions for Docker.
I don't know if running in WSL changes a lot compared to the Windows only setup.
In general, Testcontainers doesn't rely only on the CLI commands only and works best with compatible Docker environments. Based on the findings in that experiment, you can try minikube.

A: enter image description hereTake IntelliJ for example, you can set DOCKER_HOST env var by "Run/Debug Configurations" and it works perfectly.


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ISRAEL: The Jewish National and University Library.
MALASIA: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia. National Library of Malaysia.
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Q. I'm looking to buy an apartment, and my broker just asked me to sign an agreement promising to work with her exclusively for three months. Is that normal? What are the pros and cons? What if I refuse to sign?
A. Exclusive buyer's contracts are not the norm in New York City, though they occasionally pop up, our experts say.
If there's a benefit to the buyer, it's that your broker will have more reason to work hard (and quickly) for you, since she has it in writing that you'll be loyal.
A written contract may also make sense if your broker is both helping you sell your current place and find a new one. In exchange, she may shave off part of her fee, says Deanna Kory, a real estate broker at the Corcoran Group, who does not sign exclusives with buyers.
However, if you sign with a single broker, you'll more or less be stuck with her for the duration of the agreement, so you'll want to make doubly sure she's qualified, committed and skillful enough to find an apartment and hash out a deal.
Also, it's conceivable that some sellers will be less willing to work with you: since the seller typically pays the commission for both brokers, if an owner is selling her apartment herself or if the listing broker doesn't want to work with a buyer's broker, known as co-broking, then you'd be out of luck.
That's rare, though, especially at the high end where for-sale-by-owner properties are uncommon, Brennan says. Also, members of the state's biggest real estate trade group, the Real Estate Board of New York, are required to co-broke.
"We will not stand in the way of a client going [for a for-sale-by-owner] or helping them go after a non co-broker deal," Brennan says. "We make arrangements for these unlikely scenarios."
For example, Brennan would change the payment method to a sliding scale, which the buyer would be required to pay: "The longer and more time we spend with a buyer, the more we expect in compensation. We start at a minimum 0.5 percent and go up to a full commission on what might have been our co-brokered split of 3 percent."
Whether you can get out of a contract depends on the specific language of your agreement, as well as whether you've already submitted an offer, says Elika.
"Usually most buyer brokerage agreements allow for either termination with written notice or the ability to request to work with another buyer's agent within the company without actually breaking the contract," he says.
That said, you don't need to use one of these agreements. Brokers are already required by state law to have buyers sign a disclosure form, which sets out the broker's duty to represent the buyer's interest, negotiate fairly, disclose important facts and maintain confidentiality, among other things, notes Hackel.
"If your agent is devoted, hardworking, and seems to be on the same wavelength as you, I'd highly recommend loyalty and exclusivity to that one agent, but a handshake should be sufficient," says real estate broker Gordon Roberts of Warburg Realty.
Regardless, before you sign, spend some time with your broker to know that you're comfortable working together, suggests Roberta Axelrod, a real estate broker and asset manager at Time Equities. For his part, Brennan does a "test drive" with potential buyer clients. "I spend a Sunday or two with them so they can see the value I can add and if either of us feels the fit isn't right then we don't sign the agreement and go our separate ways," Brennan says.
It's also worth asking whether she's a member of a trade group like REBNY or Manhattan MLS (or both) so she has access to the majority of the city's listings, Axelrod says.
Lastly, before you sign anything, our experts say, get a real estate attorney to look over the contract. "When a situation like this arises, and you are asked to sign an agreement that looks like a contract and may have liability or financial implications, have your attorney review it first. Simple as that," Roberts says.
My broker wrecked my flatscreen. Can I deduct the cost from his commission?


One call for junk removal in Anaheim is all you need to declutter your home, yard, and garage. When you've finally had enough of the years of old clutter getting in your way Aptera pros are ready to help. We understand if you don't want to spend your weekend lifting heavy things so we'll send two professional junk haulers in Anaheim to throw it all in a truck and and get it done fast.
Get a head start - throw away everything that you can on your own. Not only will this reduce your cost for junk removal in Anaheim by simply reducing the amount of waste, it will give you a better idea of just how much you have to throw out. Go room by room to itemize all the things that you can't throw away on your own.
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Do I need to be there when the junk haulers arrive? Most junk removal companies in Anaheim require that at least one person is on site for a number of reasons. Someone will need to sign off if there is more junk than anticipated and it fills up more of the truck. Also, haulers need to be extremely careful so that they are not sued because they throw away something valuable that isn't trash. That said, if you clearly label junk and place all of it together in an accessible area away from non-junk, many haulers will pick it up while you are at work.
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