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The GOP is between a rock and a Tea Party
The Republican Party is in a tough spot…
so they're trying to reach out.
The Teapublicans keep them drifting…
farther and farther off the deep end.
And they're looking pretty silly at this point.
But GOP strategists are doing all they can…
to keep things in order…
and keep their base happy.
Fox News commentator Juan Williams argues that the Tea Party movement emerged from the "ashes" of Ron Paul's 2008 presidential primary campaign. Others have argued that the Koch brothers were essential in fostering the movement. In 2013, a study published in the journal Tobacco Control concluded that organizations within the movement were connected with non-profit organizations that the tobacco industry and other corporate interests worked with and provided funding for, including groups Citizens for a Sound Economy (founded by the Koch brothers).Al Gore cited the study and said that the connections between "market fundamentalists", the tobacco industry and the Tea Party could be traced to a 1971 memo from tobacco lawyer Lewis F. Powell, Jr. who advocated more political power for corporations. Gore said that the Tea Party is an extension of this political strategy "to promote corporate profit at the expense of the public good."
Tea Party activities have declined since 2010. According to Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, the number of Tea Party chapters across the country has slipped from about 1,000 to 600, but that this is still "a very good survival rate." Mostly, Tea Party organizations are said to have shifted away from national demonstrations to local issues. A shift in the operational approach used by the Tea Party has also affected the movement's visibility, with chapters placing more emphasis on the mechanics of policy and getting candidates elected rather than staging public events.
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Rumors about a new iPhone SE have reached fever pitch. Let's break down why this iPhone may be a big deal.Today's phones seem big and bulky compared to the compact iPhone SE that first made its debut back in 2016. Looking just like the iPhone 4 and 5 that came before it, the iPhone SE packed many key iPhone features like Apple Pay (and a headphone jack) in a smaller handset. Plus, it was cheap.
Check out the cheapest and most expensive countries to hire a car in our latest post! Most car rental services only need potential clients to present a driver's license and sign a couple of documents. Some renters require another valid form of identification, but this is still not that much of a hassle.
16 country global study shows that Turkey is the cheapest place to hire a car and Italy the most expensive . Travellers will be paying on average £302 to rent a compact family car (e.g. a VW Golf) for a week this summer (28 July - 4 August 2018), across all destinations.
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The new year means new holiday plans, as Brits look forward to jetting off to sunnier climes in the summer months. One thing many will be investigating is the cost of the rental car.
As you might imagine, costs vary dramatically. Seven days car hire for a mid-size car can range from the low end of two figures in some countries, to very nearly four figures in others. For a reference point, on average, a week's car hire in the UK costs £233.69. The prices relate to a driver aged 30 or over, from airports or related capital cities. Primarily, the data is from Avis, though Sixt and Hertz were used when Avis wasn't available.
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We'll cover the good news first. According to Choose My Car, the company behind the research, Montenegro is the cheapest for car hire, at £31 to rent a mid-size vehicle for a week. This Eastern European area in general is competitive for the cost of car hire. Serbia and Croatia follow in second and third costing £43 and £56 for a week's driving. A rental car in Bosnia and Herzegovina will cost £59.14 for seven days.
Fifth place is a leap across the Atlantic to Guatemala, and a jump in price to £81 for a week to rent a car. It's followed by Greece and Brazil in sixth and seventh, costing £90 and £94 respectively. Lithuania (£98), Bulgaria (£104) and Denmark (£105) complete the top ten cheapest.
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Boy, I thought renting a car in Atlanta was expensive when I paid more than a day for a Ford Claustrophobe. But Atlanta, Georgia, has nothing A new survey from travelsupermarket.com ranks the 20 most expensive countries for car rentals , as well as the 20 cheapest . Once you read the
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Brace yourself and brace your bank account – these are the most expensive places to hire a car. Cambodia and Ghana cost a respective £905 and £903 to rent a car for a week. We wonder if you could just buy a car over there for a quarter of that…
In third place is Benin (£852), while a car in fourth-placed Burkina Faso will cost £837 – not much cheaper. Angola brings it down to £673. Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya go between fifth-placed Angola's £673, and tenth-placed New Zealand's £542. Crikey.
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So what about some of the hottest holiday destinations? Portugal, Italy, France, Ireland and Spain are in respective 11th, 15th, 22nd, 23rd and 31st. They range from between £105 for a week's car rental in Portugal, to £186 for a week's driving in Spain.
In America, you'll pay a fair bit more. Placed in 57th for cheapness, a week's car rental will cost you £279. That said, America is more a continent than a country. The price, based on Washington DC, may not represent what you'll pay elsewhere in the land of the free.
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This summer at the Camas farmer's market we were grateful to have met soo many wonderful Camas residents and business owners, including some of the chefs from Oliver's Restaurant. Every week we would see Gwyn and Morrris gather large bags of fresh produce from all of the farm vendors. They also came by our farm stand weekly to include some of our produce in their bags. They especially liked the hakurei turnips, heirloom tomatoes, our spicy mustard mix among others. Needless to say they have been great supporters of the Camas farmer's market and are continuing their support by organizing a special event at their restaurant for each of the local farmers who sold at the market this year. We are invited to be their guests on Sunday, October 23rd starting at 4pm.


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Q: Qt creator - .ui form displaying in new window I'm in the process of creating a GUI in Qt creator. Right now I have different .ui forms that correspond with different parts of my GUI. My login.ui window appears when you first run the program. When you click the loginButton, a new window displays with my MainMenuScreen.ui form. My problem is I don't want the MainMenuScreen to open in a new window...I want the application to only have one window and the contents change...any way I can do this by keeping separate .ui forms and without using StackedWidgets? My LoginScreen.ui and MainMenuScreen.ui both extend QWidget and in my Login.cpp I have an onclick event function which calls show() and creates the new window of my MainMenuScreen.
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A: I think you can just call the setCentralWidget() method of your QMainWindow to reset the widget that is displayed in the Window.

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Planning a family road trip this summer? Check out these tips on how to have an amazing family road trip with your kids. Road trips are worth the effort!
This summer, Mike and I sold our house in Massachusetts, packed up our minivan, and drove from our old home in Massachusetts to Silicon Valley, California! Mike's new employer gave us a pretty tight moving budget. We could ship our minivan, buy plane tickets, and come out over budget. Or we could drive, stay in nice hotel suites the entire way, and break even – or at least come close. Driving was a no-brainer! Here are some of the benefits we experienced by driving, as well as tips for a successful road trip with kids.
We packed our kids' clothes in their school backpacks – a trick I learned from my own parents. You can fit five days' worth of warm weather clothing in a child's backpack if you are careful, and this way they can carry their own stuff into the hotels. Plus, backpacks take up way less space than even small suitcases!
Stop when you need to, but drive if you can.
We planned more driving breaks than we actually took, because when the kids were asleep it was much easier to keep driving! We did stick to the hotels we had reserved at the beginning of the trip, just so that we wouldn't end up looking for a place to stay with tired-out kids.
Spread the trip out as much as you can.
Driving from coast to coast in six days was pretty tight, and we had some LONG days – because, with small children, even a basic bathroom break takes close to an hour. It would have been fun to take more time for the trip and see more fun sights, but Mike had to get back to work.
This made a HUGE difference for my kids! They were able to sleep in the car, and it helped them feel secure during what was a very unsettled time for our family.
We brought more than we actually needed, I think, but the kids really enjoyed having them.
Bring one comfort item per child.
This is something I have always done when we traveled – whether we drove or flew – and it has always made a big difference.
I LOVE these Contigo Autoseal Kids Trekker Cups (Amazon affiliate link) – they never leak! The kids take them to bed at night, and use them in their school lunches.
I have yet to successfully get my kids listening to audio books (I keep trying!), but they love listening to music – especially the younger ones.
Pay attention to holidays and events.
This may feel obvious, but Mike and I didn't even think about the fact that we were leaving Massachusetts and driving straight to Niagara Falls Memorial Day weekend. We hit a TON of traffic at the border crossing! We also hit some traffic when we stayed in a town near Notre Dame college – right when they were hosting a home football game with one of their big rivals! I'm pretty sure we were the only ones in the entire (packed) hotel who were not there for the game!
Seeing Niagara Falls was the highlight of the trip for me, but for my kids staying in a particularly large suite in a middle-of-nowhere town was a HUGE highlight – especially after several nights in small rooms! Remember my trip to Mexico? I loved the pyramids, and the beaches, but I also remember ADORING a round green (!) bathtub in a hotel that we stayed in. I still appreciated the cultural and typical tourist destinations, but children see the world through a different lens, and that's not a bad thing. They loved their hotel room, but they will also remember Niagara Falls – as a beautiful sight their mother adored.
Do you go on family road trips? What benefits do you see, and what tips do you have to share? What road trips should we take, now that we live in Northern California?
We are thinking of doing a cross country trip with the kids but wanted to wait until they are little older (and less whiney) but sounds like we should just do it! Great tips … I'll bookmark for later!
I think your kids are a great age for a cross country trip! I hope you'll drop by to say hi if you make it out here!
We've been blessed with a great traveler! We road trip to Portland at least once a year (12 hrs each way), and he's been great. In terms of things to see in CA: Redwood trees, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Lake Tahoe, Lake/Mount Shasta. If you feel like venturing up to Southern Oregon, the Oregon Caves and Crater Lake are fun.
I have been anxiously awaiting this post! We are doing a three day drive to Botswana in early November and I knew you would have some great suggestions for us. You didn't disappoint – thank you!
I'm glad you found this helpful! Good luck with your drive to Botswana! Are you moving there?
I don't think so but we are following up some opportunities! We are going there to hang out with family while we get our next step in order. We are hoping that will still be in Zambia.
I hope you have a wonderful living situation for your next home!
We are a Northern California Company and would suggest that you take a road trip to Tahoe. Also Yosemite is a classic outing for the family. Welcome to California!!!!!!!
What a terrific adventure! We do a lot of the things you suggested – and I think the hardest is knowing what the local festival/traffic conditions might be.
I'm intrigued by that backpack-clothes-packing tip. On our trips we've put each kid's clothes in their own zipper mesh travel pack, plus one other pack containing all the kids' sleep necessities, and then put all those mesh packs inside a large duffle bag. (We do a similar thing with adult clothes in mesh bags in our own duffle bag.) I can see where backpacks could be helpful.
We actually changed things up for the last two nights and I packed a change of clothes for the entire family in a bag on its own (one bag for each day). Then we ONLY brought that bag into the hotel. Only works if you can predict the weather and your day's activity, but it sure was nice to only bring one bag in, instead of six!
My kids remember some random hotels really well also. I can quite understand the appeal of a particularly big hotel room.
You know I'm a big fan of car trips also, we rarely use our DVD player, I think on the last few trips we didn't even bother bringing it, but we do listen to lots of books on CD.
I LOVE that you made an adventure out of your move and drove across country. Our kids love traveling and love road trips. I will say, though, that my kids love watching movies in the car. We also do the traditional ABC and license plate games. So many memories are made during traveling and I love the learning that takes place!
How long did you drive each day on average? What sort of schedule did you have for stops? We're planning a relatively short 14 hour drive over two days. We're trying to figure out how to spread it out since we'd like to have a limited amount of driving the second day so we can enjoy our destination.


The placenta is an organ within the uterus which holds the fetus while it is develops during pregnancy. It is responsible for ensuring nutrients and oxygen from the mother reach the developing baby. During a normal and uncomplicated pregnancy, the placenta remains attached to the uterine wall until the baby is delivered, and it separates naturally and exits the birth canal. On occasion, the placenta separates from the uterine wall before the baby is ready for delivery; this is called placental abruption and can occur at any time after 20 weeks gestation.
During a total placental abruption, there will be no oxygen delivered to the baby from the mother. If this occurs, it is essential for the baby to be delivered immediately; quite often through an emergency C-section. Even a partial placental abruption can become serious very fast, so it is important for the baby to be delivered immediately if the pregnancy is at or close to term. If it is too early for delivery to safely occur, the doctor will more than likely closely monitor both mother and baby and prepare the mother for the possibility of an emergency C-section if the baby becomes distressed or the abruption becomes worse.
If your doctor fails in his or her duty to identify or treat your placental abruption quickly, it can lead to a number of serious conditions for the child (including cerebral palsy).
In many cases, abdominal and back pain commence suddenly. There is no consistency in the amount of vaginal bleeding, and it has no bearing on the amount of abruption that has occurred. In some cases there may even be a severe placental abruption with minimal bleeding.
Placental abruption does not always occur quickly; sometimes it develops slowly. In addition, the baby may develop at a slower rate than normal and there may be low amniotic fluid or various other complications.
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Daigo (), also known in English translation as Great Realization, is a book of the Shōbōgenzō by the 13th century Sōtō Zen monk Eihei Dōgen. The book appears tenth in the 75 fascicle version of the Shōbōgenzō, and it is ordered 26th in the later chronological 95 fascicle "Honzan edition". It was presented to his students in the first month of 1242 at Kōshōhōrin-ji, the first monastery established by Dōgen, located in Kyoto. According to Gudō Nishijima, a modern Zen priest, the "great realization" to which Dōgen refers is not an intellectual idea, but rather a "concrete realization of facts in reality"  or "realization in real life". Shohaku Okumura, another modern-day Zen teacher, writes that Dōgen equates the term daigo with the network of interdependence in which all beings in the universe exist rather than something that we lack and need to obtain. Given this, Okumura writes that Dōgen is encouraging us to, "to realize great realization within this great realization, moment by moment; or perhaps it is better to say that great realization realizes great realization through our practice."

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Many people have low level of self-esteem and lack of self-confidence and social skills. Self-esteem can be described as the inner voice of a person that tells him whether he is good enough to do something or not. It is about the way a person values himself and about the perceptions and the beliefs of a person that what he things about himself and what thinks he is capable of doing.
Low esteem of a person is manifested by the behavior and the body language of a person itself. Along with the various factors that contribute to the career success of the employees, self-esteem is one of the most crucial. For career change-self-esteem is the important aspect that need to be considered which means one has to understand the competencies and skills possessed for performing all the tasks that are relevant to a job. If the person has the full conviction and confidence that he can perform all the tasks efficiently that are required to make him competent for a new job, he will build self-confidence which is essential for overcoming low self-esteem.
The other step that can be taken to overcome the low self-esteem is to expect the best out of you. Put the best efforts without any fear of being loosing. One has to overcome the fear of losing as no one on this earth ever wins without failing .It must be remembered that failing at one point of time improves the chances of success at the next level.


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JPMorgan analyst Stephen Tusa downgraded General Electric to Underweight from Neutral and lowered his price target for the shares to $5 from $6. The stock closed Friday at $10.01.
JPMorgan analyst Stephen Tusa downgraded General Electric to Underweight from Neutral and lowered his price target for the shares to $5 from $6. The stock in premarket trading is down 6.5%, or 65c, to $9.36. With the stock up 38% year-to-date, many investors are underestimating the severity of the challenges and underlying risks at GE, while overestimating the value of "small positives," Tusa tells investors in a research note partially titled "Risk/Reward Reset." The analyst believes the Street is "significantly over projecting" the bounce in free cash flow at GE in the coming years, off levels that he calculates at zero currently. Power/Renewables "remains weak," General Electric Capital Services "will likely consume material cash for the foreseeable future," Aviation fundamentals, as per underlying free cash flow, are "weaker than meet the eye," contends Tusa. Further he believes GE's "lingering sector high leverage" leaves it "vulnerable to liquidity issues in the event of a recession."
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Naturalist specialized in Ichthyology (study of fish and aquatic ecosystems) and a great lover of animals since his childhood. A life dedicated to nature, Jordi began his expeditions to the Amazon in 2002, and since then, he has traveled and guided expeditions through this huge paradise of rivers and forests, along with biologists, photographers, adventurers and television crews, among others. In 2005 he released Lo Peix and, from there to here, has been many trips and stories to tell. More recently, in 2017, the new boat named Acqua Amazon was added to the team. Jordi Miguel is a real proof that doing what you love is the way to success, growth and evolution.


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Get ready for 23andMe change
by Judy G. Russell | May 29, 2016 | DNA | 8 comments
Action needed in advance
So those of us who tested on 23andMe before the whole kerfluffle with the FDA and access to health reports are finally seeing some action in transitioning our accounts over to the new 23andMe reporting system.
The Legal Genealogist finally got the email yesterday saying my own account will be one of the ones shifted over to the new system "by the end of August."
Gee… and it only took three years…
This all began, you may recall, back in 2013 when 23andMe somehow managed not to fully cooperate with the FDA in getting approval for its health reports, after itself initiating the process to seek FDA approval.1 By the time the dust settled, 23andMe had had no choice but to suspend its health testing,2 leaving the genealogy part intact… but going nowhere.
It took 23andMe another two years — until late 2015 — to clear up its disagreements with the FDA and relaunch a very-much-modified version of its health testing system,3 all the while leaving the genealogical testers pretty much floundering on their own. And that sense of floundering wasn't eased when, in November 2015, 23andMe put a big purple notice on all the old test kits results that said some key features (like the ability to send messages to those who'd chosen to test anonymously) were being disabled.4
In the months since that big warning sign went up on older accounts, those of us who tested on the old system have been wondering just what was going to happen — and just how useful 23andMe would be for genealogical research once the transition was complete. Now, it seems, we're about to find out.
First, as far as the health-related information is concerned, we're told that what 23andMe is going to do is archive our old health-related information in a PDF report. It'll send us that report (or at least a link to that report) and that's the only place that information is going to be available. And it's only going to be available if we take some action in advance.
And, the email says, there are a couple of things we all need to do before that change-over occurs:
1. We need to answer some questions on our ethnicity — whether our ancestry is European or African, for example. That information is going to be permanently archived in a report and we won't be able to change it after the archive is created.
2. We need to look at the existing health reports and see whether any of them are locked reports. Those who tested under the old system were analyzed for risks of things like Parkinson's Disease or Alzheimer's and the results are considered sensitive — meaning they're things we may not really want to know. So we're given the option: to look at that specific report, or to leave it locked. These locked reports are not available under the new system (since they don't have FDA approval) so this is a now-or-never choice. If we don't unlock it before our accounts are transitioned, we'll never see the results.
3. We need to decide whether we want the health results at all. As 23andMe puts it: "Your opt in or out status for health results. If your profile settings are set to 'waive access to health results' when the Reports Archive is generated, you will not receive an archive."5
The emails have an action date — mine was 9 June 2016 — and a clickable link to the kit profile to make the needed changes, and of course anybody who tested under the old system who's changed email addresses needs to log in to 23andMe and bring things up to date.
Second, once these older accounts finally are transitioned, we'll be able to see firsthand how much genealogical utility remains in the 23andMe system. It's clear that some features useful to genealogists are going to be lost completely — Countries of Ancestry, for example, and the ability to see fully-identical regions (areas inherited identically from both parents, so the individuals are full siblings) versus half-identical regions (segments inherited from only one parent, which could reveal a half-sibling relationship). And, of course, the price tag — ouch. It's a lot more expensive now at $199 so getting new matches may not be so easy.
But there are also aspects of the new system that look promising: there's a new in-common-with reporting system that looks like it could be very useful, for example.6
So if you, like me, tested before November 2013 on 23andMe, go ahead and take action on the ethnicity and health reports part — and then we can all mark our calendars to see just what happens "by the end of August."
See Judy G. Russell, "Fooling with FDA," The Legal Genealogist, posted 26 Nov 2013 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 28 May 2016). ↩
Ibid., "23andMe suspends health tests," The Legal Genealogist, posted 6 Dec 2013. ↩
Ibid., "The changes at 23andMe," The Legal Genealogist, posted 25 Oct 2015. ↩
Ibid., "Now… and not now," The Legal Genealogist, posted 6 Dec 2015. ↩
"I was genotyped on the v3 chip, what do I need to know about transitioning to the new 23andMe?," 23andMe Customer Care (https://customercare.23andme.com/ : accessed 28 May 2016). ↩
See Kitty Cooper, "A Triangulation Feature on the New 23andme," Kitty Cooper's Blog, posted 6 May 2016 (http://blog.kittycooper.com/ : accessed 28 May 2016). ↩
Debbie Kennett on May 29, 2016 at 11:59 am
This only seems to apply to 23andMe customers in the US. The rest of the world is still in limbo. At least in the UK we had the health reports restored much earlier (December 2014) than you did, and we also get many more health reports than other countries which makes the test more worthwhile.
Judy G. Russell on May 29, 2016 at 12:13 pm
The health reports in the US appear to be basically carrier status and traits tests, and many fewer than under the old testing system. I haven't seen any of the international kits so am not sure what the differences are.
Richard Martin on May 29, 2016 at 6:24 pm
I administer 2 accounts, but the instructions aren't specific about multiple accounts.
Judy G. Russell on May 29, 2016 at 6:57 pm
It's most likely these choices have to be made for each account you administer.
Mark on May 30, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Judy, I wanted to let you know that fully-identical segment information had been announced in the new experience 23andMe forums as coming in the future:
"Currently, fully-identical segments are not visible in the table view of DNA Relatives (what was shown in Family Inheritance: Genome View on the old website), but should be soon." (http://www.23andmeforums.com/discussion/1120/improvements-coming-to-the-new-experience/p1, 11 March 2016)
Although Countries of Ancestry has disappeared, key elements have been retained in the new experience:
– Birth countries of a match's four grandparents are shown in DNA Relatives and in the aggregate DNA Relatives download, but for all matches vs. just those opting in to Countries of Ancestry. Combined with the doubling of the number of matches default threshold shown in DNA Relatives, that information for more and closer matches will be given than under Countries of Ancestry.
– The overlapping segment information is given for a DNA Relatives match if you're sharing with that person or if the both of you have opted in to open sharing. Consequently, you can now tie together if that segment is relevant to a match with all four grandparents from the same country.
– The new In-Common-With tool now also allows further information that had been included in Countries of Ancestry to be provided without betraying the privacy issues involved in Countries of Ancestry being removed. As I understood it, being able to see the segment information of the Country of Ancestry matches of a Countries of Ancestry match had been at issue.
Privacy opt-in for the various tools across the site has been much better consolidated and simplified in the new experience, which will hopefully lead to a better understanding by customers.
Good to know… provided that it actually does happen and provided that it's available to those whose accounts are converted. Thanks.
Kelly on May 31, 2016 at 9:02 am
Hi Judy
What if you tested after the date you mentioned. I was not able to load my 23andme results to FTdna as they said my platform was to new to be uploaded. Does that mean I'm eligible for what's going on?
We're still waiting for word from 23andMe as to what (if anything) will be done with tests on the older chip platforms.


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Manspeak, Volume 1: Humor
It was April 2002 when I first learned/realized that humor is an expected male trait. My sister and I went to this $5 concert some new young musician guy was doing in Birmingham, AL. Supposedly he was about to make it huge and this show was to thank the local radio station for being the first to play his songs. It was none other than the pre-Jessica Simpson, pre-Jennifer Anniston, pre-tattoo sleeved John Mayer.
For months following the concert, I was unable and unwilling to remove his No Room for Squares album from my CD player. I picked up on the fact this 24 year-old kid swam in something I could relate to, and it wasn't just our shared love of the year 1983. He spoke my language. The third track, "My Stupid Mouth", had a line that said, "I just want to be liked, just want to be funny, looks like the joke's on me". That's when I realized that I was not alone in that I felt responsible for having to be funny, because I am a guy.
While no doubt there are countless social expectations from the female gender, one that is not important and vital is humor. That's a guy thing. Compared to the overwhelming number of male comedians, it's more difficult to find successful female comedians. The ones I can think of right off, are not the norm for what is considered feminine: Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Wanda Sykes, and Roseanne Barr.
I'm a personal fan of Ellen. I watched her talk show every day my senior year of college. She's like one of the guys. And I think that's why I relate to her so much.
The big exception to this "guys have to be the funny one" rule of comedy is Friends. Three men, three women, and they're all funny. The show was co-written by a man and a woman. That 50/50 designation of both the actors and writers was part of the massive success of the show. Both men and women could relate to the humor and the characters. Even Seinfeld had a 3 to 1 ratio of male to female actors. Friends broke the mold.
Yes, attractive and feminine women can definitely be funny: Anna Faris, Tina Fey, Cameron Diaz, and Chelsea Handler. But I still see a tom-boyish quality about them. Where it at least seems like they grew up with all brothers. And for every one exception, there are five Seth Rogen's, three Jon Stewart's, and four Adam Sandler's.
Men are expected to be funny, at least in some degree. Even Ben Stein, as dry and drab as he is, is still hilarious. ("Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?") And the Terminator in his violent mission of destruction, right before he returns to the police station by running a squad car through the glass doors and blows away all those in his path, declares, "I'll be back". That, is funny.
While this may put extra pressure on a guy, there is a trade-off. Guys don't have to find the perfect pair of shoes to match every "cute outfit" they own. Or give birth.
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything." –Marilyn Monroe
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Bellona's Frederic Hauge is this years recipient of the Russian Vernadsky Environmental Award for the organization's continued work to deal with nuclear and radiological threats in Northwest Russia.
Hauge received the prize at this week's joint conference between Bellona and Russian nuclear corporation, Rosatom, which focused on progress made in remediating Andreyeva Bay, the Russian nuclear navy's notorious submarine maintenance yard just 50 kilometers from the Norwegian border.
Bellona first brought western focus to the Cold War hazard, where some 22,000 nuclear fuel elements we stored in three dilapidated concrete tanks a few hundred meters from shore on Russia's Barents Sea coast 23 years ago.
This week, Rosatom and Bellona joined to discuss what has been done, and what remains before the base is entirely rid of its dangerous waste and spent nuclear fuel within this decade or early in the next.
Pushing through that local environmental agenda in Murmansk hasn't always been easy.
In October, 2015, Russia's Justice Ministry torpedoed Bellona Murmansk with it's "foreign agent" NGO law and forced the organization to dissolve as an environmental nonprofit after two decades of drawing attention to post-Cold War nuclear hazards and industrial pollution. It was one of more than 100 nonprofits hit by the Kremlin's sweep against supposed foreign influence.
That hasn't distracted Hauge or Bellona's Murmansk advisers from pursuing final cleanup of Andreyeva Bay.
"[Andreyeva Bay] is one of the world's worst dump sites,'" said Hauge. "We've been doing this for 23 years, and now plans are being made for how this should be cleaned up. It is a very difficult operation.
Hauge said that the necessary infrastructure in place to begin hauling out spent nuclear fuel in 2017, including containers to deal with Andreyeva Bay's damaged uranium fuel assemblies.
Hauge nodded to how difficult it is to conduct environmental activities in Russia, but pointed out that Bellona has wide support for its work among other Russian environmental organizations and the public.


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CIA Director Petraeus resigns due to extramarital affair
USA TODAY WASHINGTON—CIA Director David Petraeus announced Friday afternoon that he has resigned from his post, acknowledging that he had shown "extremely poor judgement by engaging in an extramarital affair."
A federal law enforcement official said the relationship was discovered by the FBI during the course of an unrelated security investigation. Subsequently, a number of e-mails concerning the relationship were discovered, said the official who is not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
The bulk of the e-mails were believed to be from Petraeus to Paula Broadwell, a writer and military analyst who wrote a glowing biography of the CIA director, the official said. Aspects of the FBI investigation were continuing, but the official declined to comment on possible targets of the inquiry.
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA," Petraeus wrote. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation."
In a letter to CIA personnel, Petraeus, 60, said he met with President Obama on Thursday and asked to resign because of personal reasons. Obama accepted his resignation Friday, Petraeus said.
Petraeus' wife, Holly, is an assistant director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, charged with advocating on behalf of military service members and their families.
Obama praised Petraeus in a statement Friday and said Michael Morell, Petraeus' deputy, will step in as acting director.
"David Petraeus has provided extraordinary service to the United States for decades. By any measure, he was one of the outstanding General officers of his generation, helping our military adapt to new challenges, and leading our men and women in uniform through a remarkable period of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he helped our nation put those wars on a path to a responsible end," Obama said. "As Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he has continued to serve with characteristic intellectual rigor, dedication, and patriotism. By any measure, through his lifetime of service David Petraeus has made our country safer and stronger.
"Today, I accepted his resignation as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. I am completely confident that the CIA will continue to thrive and carry out its essential mission, and I have the utmost confidence in Acting Director Michael Morell and the men and women of the CIA who work every day to keep our nation safe. Going forward, my thoughts and prayers are with Dave and Holly Petraeus, who has done so much to help military families through her own work. I wish them the very best at this difficult time."
Morell is a career CIA officer and began his career at the agency as an analyst tracking international energy issues, then worked for 14 years as an analyst and manager on East Asia. He has held several leadership positions at the agency. Two administration officials said it was too early to say who might be in line to replace Petraeus, and that Morrell could serve as acting director for several months.
Petraeus, a retired four-star general who previously served as top commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, was arguably the most vaunted military officer of a generation.
"From his long, illustrious Army career to his leadership at the helm of CIA, Dave has redefined what it means to serve and sacrifice for one's country," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a statement.
The resignation comes at a difficult time for the agency and Obama administration, which has been under intense scrutiny from Republican lawmakers for the September attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans -- including the Ambassador Christopher Stevens and two CIA contractors -- dead. Petraeus and other top U.S. intelligence officials were scheduled to speak next week at a closed-door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee about the Benghazi incident.
Petraeus took over as head of the CIA in September of 2011 following his tour as head of allied forces in Afghanistan.
The CIA director's bombshell took former military colleagues by surprise.
Peter Mansoor, a retired Army colonel who served as Petraeus' executive officer in 2007 and 2008 during the surge strategy, said, "It just goes to show were all human."
Gen. Jack Keane, a retired Army general and longtime mentor to Petraeus, said he learned about Petraeus' resignation from news reports this afternoon. Keane helped formulate the surge strategy in Iraq, which Petraeus carried out.
Keane said he was saddened by the news and considers Petraeus "the most accomplished general of ourgeneration" and compared his legacy to that of the legendary battle leaders of World War II. Petraeus is responsible for "turning around two wars," Keane said, referring to Iraq and Afghanistan. "Only Gen.MacArthur had that opportunity and he only succeeded at one," he said. MacArthur was relieved during the Korean War.
Keane said Petraeus would have wanted Obama to accept his resignation. "Knowing Gen. Petraeus he would not want the president to do anything but accept the resignation," Keane said. "He would not want to put the president in an awkward situation."
Keane predicted that Petraeus may emerge later in a prominent role, though he is not interested in elected office. "He's absolutely adamant about never desiring to seek political office."
"The world has not seen the last of Dave Petraeus," Keane said. "He has far too much to offer."
Steve Boylan, a retired Army colonel who served as Petraeus' chief spokesman for three years, said he "never would have expected" him to resign under these circumstances.
"A lot of people have put him on a very high pedestal," Boylan said. "People tend to forget that he is human and people do make mistakes….I can only suspect that in his own mind he felt he was doing the honorable thing by resigning."
Several lawmakers praised Petraeus following the announcement he was stepping down.
"General David Petraeus will stand in the ranks of America's greatest military heroes," said Sen. John McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "His inspirational leadership and his genius were directly responsible – after years of failure – for the success of the surge in Iraq. General Petraeus has devoted his life to serving the country he loves, and America is so much the better for it."
In addition to Petraeus, two other top-level administration officials, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are also expected to soon leave the Obama administration.
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday he's also weighing whether he will remain for Obama's second term.
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Astro-park and Observatory
Squares and Monuments
Kotišina Botanical Garden
The Shrine of Vepric
Indoor and outdoor
Taverns
Wine and beer bars
Fresh and fish market
Discover Makarska Natural wonders Makarska Riviera
The simplest and best way to take in the entire Makarska riviera is from the west, from Dubci, a mountain pass overlooking the Vrulja Bay. You need only stop at the right widening of the so-called Adriatic Tourist Road (D8 state road), right before sunrise or sunset, when the sun floods the mountains and the sea with sunshine, revealing the pebble beaches in all their glory and cliffs gently caressed by the sea. Magical and unique, protected by a high mountain range in the north, enclosed by the blue sea and surrounded by islands in the south and in the west, the Makarska riviera is one of the best-known Croatian tourist destinations. Located between Vruja and Brela in the north-west and Gradac in the far south, the Makarska riviera is known for its long pebble beaches, beautiful scenery, cultural and historical heritage, numerous cultural monuments, comfortable hotels, a rich gastronomic offer in restaurants and taverns that includes traditional Dalmatian food and wine.
The Brela Municipality, with its two towns - Brela and Gornja Brela, contains both the mountains and the sea. The name Brela comes from the old Croatian world "brelo", meaning a "well" or "spring", and is shared among roughly twenty small villages along the coast and a few others in the Biokovo hinterland. The most important small villages in Brela include: Novaci, Donje Selo, Kričak, Ribičići, Medići, Soline and Jakiruša. Kričak is home to the municipal offices and the school, while Soline is a well-known nautical centre. Gornja Brela comprises the smaller villages of Škrabići, Subotište, Carevići, Tomaši, Zaveterje and Bartulovići. The town of Brela was first mentioned in AD 950 in Greek (as Beroylloa). Its Latin name, Brolanenses, was first recorded in 1315 in a charter issued by Juraj Šubić from the town of Klis, recognising the rights of the people of Brela as inhabitants of the Omiška krajina region. Its Croatian name, Brela, was first recorded in 1601 in a letter written by Dizdar Alaga from the village of Zadvarje to the Governor of Omiš.
Archaeology has traced signs of human activity in Brela from prehistory to modern times. The archaeological finds uncovered in recent years in the Jakiruša Bay are of particular interest. The old parish church of St. Nicholas (14th cent.) is located in Gornja Brela. Near the small village of Carevići, under Poletnica you can find the single-nave church of St. Elijah. The Church of Our Lady of Good Health in Gornja Brela was built at the beginning of the 18th century, and its namesake church was built in the village of Stubište in 1939. Brela is also the location of a mediaeval cemetery found under the Church of St. Stephen from the 14th century. The church itself was first mentioned in 1626, but it was destroyed at the beginning of the 18th century. In its place, a Baroque church was built, which was demolished when construction started on the present Church of St. Stephen in 1887. In Soline, there is the Church of Our Lady of Victory (1715). Brela is the site of the Church of St. George (20. cent.), the Chapel of St. Roch from 1858 and a number of other smaller chapels. Other monuments include the intriguing Duke's Fort and the residential and commercial complexes in Soline and Kričak. The final touch in the natural and cultural heritage of the Brela area is the Biokovo Nature Park with plentiful belvederes and horticultural peculiarities, while Nevistina stina ("The Bride's Cliff") and the old oak tree in Soline are most often featured in the photos of numerous tourists.
Protected by the Biokovo mountain in the north and the sea in the south, the Baška Voda Municipality is located between Brela and the town of Makarska. It comprises the coastal resort complexes Baško Polje and Dječje selo and the coastal villages of Promajna, Bratuš and Krvavica, as well as the villages of Topići and Bast found on the steep slopes of the Biokovo mountain at the very end of a spacious field interspersed with pine trees and olives. Baška Voda has been inhabited since antiquity, as attested by archaeological finds at Gradina hill and the wall remains of an ancient port recently uncovered under the sea. In recent history, the name Baška Voda, once a village of farmers, fishermen and sailors, was mentioned for the first time in 1724 at the very end of the Italian-Croatian list of inheritance of the Staničić brothers from Bast.
According to friar Karlo Jurišić, a historian, the people of Baška started settling this area probably after 1684, following the final expulsion of the Ottomans from the Makarska coast. The new coastal village of the people of Baška Voda (literally "the water of Baška" in Croatian) took its name from the spring found near the small town. The old residential and commercial complex dating back to that time has been preserved in the centre of the town. The small Baroque church of St. Lawrence was built in 1750 on the foundations of an ancient building. The end of the 19th century saw the construction of the Church of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of fishermen and sailors. The finishing touch to Baška Voda was the construction of the pier and the marina suitable for docking boats and yachts. East of Baška Voda sits Promajna, once a small village of fishermen and farmers, today a tourist destination offering private boarding houses, villas and small hotels. Bratuš is a colourful small fishing village with preserved traditional architecture and a picturesque beach. A natural stone monument of extraordinary beauty is preserved above the old town of Krvavica. Bast, a small town on the steep slopes of Biokovo, boasts a well-preserved coastal architectural complex.
The Tučepi Municipality includes a town of the same name, situated between the eastern tip of the Osejava cape in the west and the eastern tip of the 4-kilometer long Dračević Bay, and a number of smaller villages on the slopes of Biokovo (Gornje Tučepi). Gornje Tučepi is a collection of the following small villages: Grubišići, Pašalići, Čovići, Podtup, Podpilište, Novaci and Šimići. The village of Tučepi is mentioned for the first time in 1434 in the well-known Charter of Kreševo issued by Juraj Vojsalić. It is presumed that its name derives from the Illyrian language and means "spring", or the village near a spring. Numerous forts and ruins are scattered all over the area, from Staza (a pass connecting the coast to the Biokovo hinterland) to Srida sela and Podpeć. In his book "Travels into Dalmatia" (Venice, 1774), based on the various discovered walls, coins and graves, Alberto Fortis, a Venetian travel writer, claimed that the ancient city of Laurentum was situated in Gornje Tučepi between the villages of Čovići and Podpeć. Over the centuries, several sacral buildings were built in Tučepi, many of them demolished, but subsequent archaeological excavations uncovered that new churches were built on their foundations.
This is the case with the Church of the Birth of Our Lady that was built in 1703 and destroyed in 1962 by an earthquake, after which it was demolished and reconstructed in its original form. The reconstruction uncovered the fact that its foundations came from an Early Christian church. The Church of St. George was built at the end of the 12th century on the foundations of a 2nd-century Roman villa rustica. The Church of St. Catherine (1541) is situated above the house of Šarić, while the small church of St. Roch (1730) is situated above the old rectory. In 1891, the Church of St. Anthony of Padua was built in Srida sela. (The Day of the Tučepi Municipality is celebrated on the feast of St. Anthony.) The Church of Saint Nicholas Tavelić was built in 1989 immediately above the Adriatic Tourist Road. During medieval times Tučepi was ruled by Bosnian rulers, the Ottoman Empire and the Venetian Republic. From the Ottoman period. Several towers (16th-18th cent.) from Ottoman period have been preserved, the best known being the Tower of Šarić, the Tower of Bušelić and the Tower of Lalić. The remains of an 18th century summer villa, built by the noble families of Grubišić, Ivanišević and Kačić, can be found closer to the coast.
The Podgora Municipality is the penultimate pearl of the Makarska riviera. The administrative territory of the municipality covers the smaller towns of Podgora, Drašnice, Gornje Igrane, Igrane and Živogošće. Its coastal region spreads from the Dračevac Bay at the end of Tučepi to the Vira Bay in the east. Its northern region encompasses a significant portion of Biokovo, from Staza and Donja Gora to the hilltops of Susvid. Available data suggests that Podgora was first mentioned in 1571 in a charter issued by the Venetian doge Alvizo Mocenigo. The village developed underneath the very cliffs of Biokovo, on a wide area under the Staza and Stupica passes. However, an archaeological find - a stele dating back to the 2nd century BC, of which only the description remains, suggests that there was some kind of settlement in the area during antiquity. The name has a Croatian origin and means "the village below the hills or the woods". Up until the earthquakes of 1962, most of the people lived in Gornja Podgora, while a small portion lived in Porat on the coast. Historical records show that one of the sacral monuments built in the area was the Church of All Saints (1603), which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1667 and in its stead the Church of St. Liborius was built.
Among the many small churches and chapels in Gornja Podgora, the best known are St. Roch in Marinovići, St. Cross in Križanići and Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Vrulja-Miličići. The Church of St. Thecla (1720) was erected on the Sutikla hill overlooking the sea on the remains of a Baroque church of the same name that was mentioned in historical records in 1630. A memorial cemetery was built around the church, containing several tombstones with an incised image of a sword from the 14th and 15th century. After the 1962 earthquakes, a tent-like Church of the Assumption (author: A. Rožić) was built near the coast in Podgora. The ruins of two Ottoman towers have been preserved in Podgora, while the best-preserved monument in the wider municipal area is the Zalina Tower in Igrane (dating back to the 12th cent., recently restored). In the Kraj district of Podgora, we can find the summer villa of the noble Mrkušić family which houses a small chapel of the Sacred Heart, built in the style of Late Baroque architecture. Modern times have seen the construction of a monument to Reverend Mihovil Pavlinović, a leader of the people, one of the leading political figures during the Croatian National Revival, on the coast in Podgora. He was born in 1831 in Podgora, and after his death (1887) a tombstone made by I. Rendić was placed at the cemetery of St. Thecla in 1908. The stunning monument to the Partisan Navy, a work by R. Radović, overlooks Podgora. It was inaugurated in 1962 by Josip Broz Tito. The monument is the symbol of thousands of years of struggle for a free Croatian Adriatic.
Biokovo is closest to the sea in Drašnice, a village first mentioned in 1523 and completely relocated to the coast after the earthquakes of 1962. Overlooking the old village stands the small Church of St. Nicholas, east of the village is the Church of St. Catherine, and near the Izbitac spring the small Church of St. Roch can be found. Situated next to the cemetery under the highway, the Church of St. George was reconstructed from a previously built church that was destroyed by the aforementioned earthquakes. Two small churches sit between Drašnice and Igrane, right above the Adriatic Highway. The more famous of these is the Church of St. Michael, built at the turn of the 12th century. The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, built in 1752 and containing a bell tower, is located in the vicinity of the Zalina Tower in Igrane. A Baroque summer villa with a chapel, built by the Ivanišević-Šimić family, adorns the Igrane coast. A beautifully maintained walkway connecting Igrane to Gornje Igrane leads to the Chapel of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In World War II, Gornje Igrane was the site of a Partisan army factory. The town of Živogošće is a collection of the villages of Porat, Mala Duba and Blato. It is the site of a 17th century Franciscan monastery and one of the most beautiful Roman epigrams dedicated to the nymph protecting the source of water and located on the coast near the "Nimfa" Hotel.
In the Middle Ages, the old town of Lapčan (Labinac) existed in the Gradac area, which was also mentioned by the Byzantine emperor Constantin (Labineca). Gradac was mentioned under its current name for the first time in 1649. It was named after the fortress that was located on the hill above the Church of St. Michael, which was built during the Cretan War (1645 -1669). There is a preserved drawing that depicts naval and land battles between the Turks and the Venetians near Gradac in 1666, on which the church tower is in flames.Gradac is the tourist center of the Gradac Riviera. An old settlement has been here since prehistoric times, which can be recognized in stone slabs from the Bronze Age and the Later Iron Age. In the time of Antiquity, the Roman Civitas Biston was in the area of Gradac. The former coastal center of the Narona colony was an important Roman stronghold in this part of the Adriatic. Samples of Roman coins and a part of a cornice of a monumental building from the 2nd-3rd century were found at the Gradina site.


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My Search for a Screenwriting Truth
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In Screenwriting, the truth matters…
Today we're going to talk about The Truth. Not this sort of truth. Or this. Or even this.
We're going to talk about the kind of screenwriting truth that connected six out of the nine Best Picture nominees in the 2014 Oscars. The kind that will in all likelihood connect a similar percentage next year – I'm looking at you Mr. Turner, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Foxcatcher, Unbroken, American Sniper, Selma and Wild. And, in a both self-aggrandising and self-promoting link, the kind of truth that also informs my new film Kajaki.
It can be based on, inspired by, or from a. It can even be A or The. Audiences go crazy for them, critics take them disproportionally seriously and, probably for both those reasons, producers and commissioners and broadcasters seem to push them into production more readily than they might.
We're talking about the True Story kind of truth.
It's a sub-genre of films that Venn diagrams together everything from thriller to horror to comedy to (most commonly) drama. One which has always been popular but seems to be enjoying a resurgence (take a look at this long list here from just the last five years) as the aforementioned producers, commissioners and broadcasters maybe realise that Extraordinary True Stories are a better – and often cheaper – bet than expensive-to-option books and plays, let alone, God forbid, original ideas.
But it's a curious beast, the True Story movie. It's not a documentary. It's not a drama-doc with low-fi reconstructions and objective analysis. It is a full-on, scripted, performed, edited, lusciously soundtracked and emotionally manipulative drama. The same as any other kind of crafted drama. So where's the truth in that?
Jonathan Dean wrote an interesting article in last weekend's Sunday Times (paywall) where he made the point that real lives are not neat and structured, in the way that films demand them to be. So any attempts to impose 'resolution' or 'lessons' on biopics or stories based on true events are doomed to end in contrivance, he argued. You may as well just make it up.
There is something in this, but it isn't the whole story. If you twist the biography to suit the conventions of genre / demands of an audience / rules of dramatic structure to the point where it becomes unrecognisable, or disrespectful, or indeed absurd, then yes, you probably should have just made it up. Or you were just going about it the wrong way. David Ayer was recently spending a lot of time justifying his "based-on-a-true-story" script of U-571 while promoting his not-based-on-a-true-story new movie Fury, and has apparently now learned to tell the difference between the two.
But I think we do learn lessons in our own lives. And we do have resolution. After the occasional exceptional incident or set of circumstances we might step back and reflect upon how they may have changed us, and we take stock, and we move on. And we'll probably then relate both the incident and the lesson to those around us in the form of 'you'll never believe what happened to me last week…' And of course that is what storytelling is, and does. So true can be dramatic.
And the 'you'll never believe' bit is probably the key to why true stories can and do and should be allowed to work as drama. Because they are true, and not made up, audiences load them with more significance. They are truly stranger than fiction, more compelling than fiction. BETTER than fiction.
Which brings us back to my movie. I mentioned in my last post that, having set out looking for events to inform a fictional British war movie, we hit up on the events at the Kajaki Dam on September 6, 2006. And we soon realised that the true events of this horrific day made for much better drama than anything we could make up.
The reasons for this are manifold. For one thing, it actually happened (see above for why that is a good thing). For another, there were enough separate incidents during the day itself (no spoilers here) that the drama kept developing, and kept changing shape, in the way that film structure demands. So there was little or no need for invention.
But it went beyond that. The more we looked, the more interesting, odd details and moments and lines we found, which we really could not have made up and which added to the warts-and-all realism we found so captivating. We broke various screenwriting rules to accommodate this. There is no classic hero's journey here. The first act does not function as first acts classically do. There are probably too many characters. But all of these rules were worth breaking for the incremental truth quotient they delivered. Real is not neat, as Dean observed. But drama doesn't need to be, either. That's the line you have to tread.
And most importantly, we put in the hours to talk to everyone involved. I mean everyone, and I mean hours. Two, three or four hours spent with each person who was in that minefield. In the pub, or in their front rooms. Surrounded by photos of their wives and children (occasionally by their actual wives and actual children). Hearing them talk. Hearing the way they talked. Learning what was important to them, during and after the incident. Getting to know them. Seeing them.
To character biog, or not?
One of the screenwriting 'tools' I have never embraced is the old character biog thing. A few hundred words of back story and motivation for each character. It always felt forced to me.
Well this was the real thing. This was hours and hours of first-person character biogs, and let me tell you it was worth it. From every meeting the director and I came back with our pockets stuffed with gems of dialogue, of incident and insight, and it all went in. Every pass of the script made it better and tighter and richer and deeper, much like Armando Iannucci's chicken stock theory of screenwriting (see here, from one of my own vlogs from Cheltenham '09, ah, great days…).
And this will change how I write all my scripts from now on, true and 'false'. Every character sees the events of the story through their own perspective. It is your job to both fully understand and fully represent that.
But if all you are doing is telling the truth, where does the craft, the art even, occur? In my opinion, in the three choices that you always make as an artist. The first is content. What story are you telling, what are the facts and who are the characters? The second is perspective. Where do you come in and out of this story, what do you choose to show and not show, what choices of selection and editing do you make during this process? And the third is context. What point are you making through these choices, what theme are you using to inform your selection process, how would you like your work to be interpreted?
These principles apply to telling a true story as much as they do to adapting a book or making up a story from scratch. But if you apply it judiciously and effectively to something based on a core truth, if you can point to the screen and say That Is True, and if audiences believe you, then they will love you forever…
Tom Williams was a development executive for Fine Line Features and is now a full-time professional screenwriter (Chalet Girl, BASE, Kajaki). He is represented by United Agents. He can't read your script, Industrial Scripts already do that and do it well. You can follow Tom on Twitter, check out his website and IMDb profile, read old posts on his blog and tell him where to go in the comments box below…
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HENRY MURRAY HOHNS H. Murray Hohns, born on April 26, 1931 in New York City, passed away at St. Francis Hospice in Honolulu, Hawaii on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Memorial Services will be held on Monday, December 10th at 5:30 pm at the New Hope Christian Fellowship Ministry Center at 290 Sand Island Access Road. Pastor Wayne Cordeiro will be officiating. Murray graduated from Tufts University in Boston in 1951 and received an MS degree from New York Polytechnic. His second MS degree was from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He had an amazing career as a world-wide consultant Civil Engineer, and founded his Firm with seven offices nationally. After semi-retiring and moving to Hawaii, he fulfilled a life-long dream by serving in ministry at New Hope and teaching at New Hope Christian College in Honolulu. He is survived by his loving wife, Jean, his brother William, eight children - William, Christopher, George, Elizabeth, Pamela, Deborah, Robert, and Kari, fifteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. He loved his family, Hawaii, his life, and most of all, he loved Jesus. The family asks that Memorial gifts be given to New Hope Christian College in Murray's memory.


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Stamford Downtown Opportunities to Donate Blood - Red Cross Warns of Severe Shortage
Published on Wednesday, 27 February 2019 10:46
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Severe shortage of type O blood
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The American Red Cross has a severe shortage of type O blood and urges type O donors – as well as eligible blood and platelet donors of all blood types – to give now to ensure lifesaving patient care isn't impacted this winter.
Having a readily available blood supply is critical for patients like Luna Giles, who at the age of 1 1/2 has already underwent two heart surgeries and required over a dozen transfusions.
"Each time, the nurse would bring in a bag of blood for her transfusion, I noticed a small label on each one that said 'Donation Type: Volunteer,'" said Luna's mom, Jessie Giles. "It made me think about each individual who donated blood for my daughter. I would never know who those individuals were, and they would never see the effect their donation had. But each of those individuals, strangers to us, absolutely saved my daughter's life. They may never know it, but to me, they are heroes."
Locations in and around Stamford Downtown for blood donation opportunities between February 25-March 31 are:
2/27/2019: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Darien Nature Center, 120 Brookside Road
3/22/2019: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Noroton Presbyterian Church, 2011 Post Road
3/12/2019: 1 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Saint Mark's Church, 111 Oenoke Ridge Road
2/26/2019: 7:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. High Ridge Park Building 5, 5 High Ridge Park
3/9/2019: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tully Health Center, 32 Strawberry Hill Court
3/22/2019: 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Trinity Catholic High School, 926 Newfield Avenue
3/23/2019: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tully Health Center, 32 Strawberry Hill Court
Type O blood is the most in-demand blood type, helping patients facing life-threatening conditions and emergencies every day. Type O negative blood can be transfused to patients with any blood type and is what emergency room personnel reach for when there's no time to determine a patient's blood type. Type O positive blood is also especially needed because it is the most transfused blood type and can be given to Rh-positive patients of any blood type.
Right now, the Red Cross has less than a three-day supply of most blood types, and blood products are being distributed to hospitals faster than donations are coming in. Recent snowstorms and severe weather in many parts of the country have forced hundreds of blood drive cancellations, causing more than 20,000 blood and platelet donations to go uncollected.
Individuals of all blood types – especially type O – are asked to make an appointment to donate blood or platelets by downloading the free American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
HBO and Red Cross invite Game of Thrones fans to Bleed #ForTheThrone
To celebrate the final season of Game of Thrones, HBO and the Red Cross have partnered to ask fans and blood donors to Bleed #ForTheThrone this March. This is the largest blood donation promotional effort by an entertainment company in Red Cross history – with six days of coordinated giving March 7-12 from fans and blood donors at blood drives in 43 states across the U.S., including an immersive blood drive experience at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
As part of the partnership, fans who come to donate blood or platelets with the Red Cross now through March 17 will automatically be entered for a chance to win one of five trips to the season 8 world premiere of Game of Thrones. The trip includes travel for two, up to two nights hotel accommodations and a $250 gift card for expenses. Terms and conditions apply and are available at RedCrossBlood.org/HBOGameofThrones.*
Additionally, those who come to donate March 7-12 will also receive exclusive Game of Thrones swag including a T-shirt, stickers to unlock a unique Snapchat filter and other items, while supplies last.
How to donate blood
Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver's license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
Blood and platelet donors can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass® to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive. To get started, follow the instructions at RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass or use the Blood Donor App.
About the American Red Cross
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the nation's blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org or cruzrojaamericana.org, or visit us on Twitter at @RedCross.
*Terms and conditions apply. Sweepstakes is open only to individuals who are legal residents of the United States, physically located in one (1) of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, and at least the age of majority or older (which is 18 in most states but is 19 in Alabama and Nebraska and 21 in Mississippi) at the time of entry. Valid email address is required. There is a limit of four (4) total Entries permitted per entrant, regardless of method of entry, during the Sweepstakes Period. Winners will be selected and notified by email on or around March 20, 2019. Each potential Prize winner will have 24 hours from the time of the email to respond to notification of winning and accept the Prize; failure to respond within 24
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