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Oscar Season Diary #11: Will 'Maleficent' Shatter Angelina's 'Unbroken' Year?
The Academy is all about patting itself on the back.
Its membership advocates for the individual, whittling down category after category until one soul is left standing in the carnage with a gold weapon and a bloody PR trail behind them. The Academy has its favorites, it has its darlings, and it most certainly values its opinion as the sole Gospel of popular cinema. Time and time again, we see repeat winners in the "lesser" categories (just ask Edith Head, Colleen Atwood, or Leon Shamroy), and even some in the more prominent ones (refer to Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and Ang Lee). Singularity is recognized. Stars and icons shine through the soupy sameness of everyone else at the Oscars.
The film industry, however, is gradually shifting away from the individual and toward the collective. Franchises and young adult adaptations have replaced movie stars as genuine box-office draws. The business has always been to make money. The masses are the target. There's nothing wrong with that, but in an over-sharing, over-entitled society, the quality of what it means to truly be a star with massive pull rides on your shareability.
Shareability is an old creature that's evolved into a full-fledged monster in the contemporary era. Trade publications have always attempted to bring the stars to the people, but it's only today that the people can take control of stars by more than just speaking through dollars spent at the box-office. It's undeniable that we're living in the age of the "darling." We don't have movie stars. We have Jennifer Lawrence, whose ability to generate fodder for BuzzFeed articles and user-made, crowd-shared .gifs becomes a more valuable commodity than a powerhouse skill set. The woman is talented, but it's our consumption of the superficial aspects of her persona that make her a consistent, comfortable, warm personality, not a movie star. The dynamism simply isn't there.
Angelina Jolie, perhaps the last remaining titan of the box-office, is in a unique position as a star who's pulled back from her earlier days as a tabloid spectacle yet maintains a high profile. Her latest film, Maleficent, is her first live-action role in nearly four years, and is set for release this Friday. Six months later, her sophomore directorial feature, Unbroken, will hit theaters. She has the rare pleasure of starring in a summer tentpole and directing a historical biopic that's destined for awards season gold. She is the star and she's in control of two separate films that have the potential to shape the rest of her career in monumental ways.
She's proof that the public wants to consume stories by, about, and starring individual women (or maybe just starring her), though she's built a career for herself based on her physical appeal to men. She's never been in a Best Picture winner or nominee, though she has one Oscar under her belt (as well as one other nomination), but still her popularity within the industry is difficult to gauge. Despite her titanic star power and popularity with the masses, Angelina Jolie faces a different struggle for legitimacy in the eyes of the Academy when it comes time to recognize her work behind the lens; despite her accomplishments, she'll be held to the standards of a fading movie star whether that's what she is or not.
On one hand, Maleficent represents everything that's driving the film industry into the ground. It's a huge summer blockbuster with a bloated budget riding on the bankability of a star who was unbreakable six or seven years ago, but who's ability to solely headline a $180 million picture on the contemporary front has yet to be proven.
We've watched the likes of Johnny Depp (multiple times), Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Ryan Reynolds, and Channing Tatum crash expensive films into the flop-laden abyss over the course of the past year. It's nearly impossible for a sole individual to carry a picture these days, yet studios keep pushing the men and their guns to the forefront in the hopes that something sticks.
It seems glaringly obvious that it's women (like Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock) who can drive a film to box-office gold on name alone. McCarthy and Bullock did it twice in one year (together with The Heat and individually with Identity Thief and Gravity, respectively). The difference with those films is that no one expected them to make as much money as they did; everyone is expecting—even banking the future of female-driven films—on whether or not Angelina Jolie can have her cake and eat it too.
The pressure is certainly on for Jolie, but her bankability isn't the only thing at stake; her status as dynamic representative of a well-rounded industry force is as well. If Maleficent fails (let's say by studio standards that means earning less than $40 million in the US in its first weekend), it'll be attributed solely to her. The recent failures of big-budget films are almost unanimously attributed to their stars, even though these films exist and are pushed as star vehicles when the industry around them simply doesn't foster a climate where the star is an entity any longer.
It's easier to sell a franchise based on a young adult novel or a sequel to the latest Spider-Man on familiarity alone. American films capitalize on the pop culture relevance of broader entities (Marvel, DC, Godzilla, family animation, etc.) versus stars. Star personas benefit the individual, not the films as a whole.
Where does that put Angelina Jolie in terms of Oscar season? Let us not forget, box-office matters for women at the Oscars. Bridesmaids would never have found its way into the race without a gross of nearly $200 million domestic. Women have to prove themselves to Oscar voters with a set of gorgeous legs (ripe for the sexualizing) that carry them to box-office gold as well. Disney mounted a healthy campaign behind Maleficent, which crescendoed into a dull roar over the course of a year or so. It's a film that has a firm, pre-established base of fantasy fans and Disney aficionados alike, and one that can easily rope in families (it's rated PG) and Jolie fans (she's the clear focus of the studio's marketing campaign) together.
If you're calculating Unrboken's potential appeal to Oscar voters, it's a checkmark in every category. Beautiful, previously-decorated member of The Academy in the director's chair? Yep. Written by past Oscar winners (and Academy darlings of popular adult cinema) Joel & Ethan Coen? Uh-huh. War drama with a male-driven narrative that's based on historically-rooted, wartime events? You bet. Much like The Hurt Locker, the film is the kind of picture the Academy wants to see a woman direct; one about men overcoming obstacles in a macho-man setting. Unlike The Hurt Locker, however, its appeal is broad and (presumably) free of controversial material that would implicate any aspect of American culture (God forbid).
You simply can't get any more Oscar-friendly than Unbroken. After the Academy pulled their version of a "radical shift" in tone for Best Picture, they'll actively seek out something that falls in line with tradition to offset the divisiveness of 12 Years a Slave. The entire industry objectified Steve McQueen's film as "the one about slavery," and fixated upon its racial implications versus seeing what was underneath versus acting based on a casual glance. Unbroken is Academy meat and potatoes. It'll be fantastic, plug-and-play, make truckloads of cash, and establish Jolie as the sole woman in a race dominated by men.
There are whispers here and there about the performances Jolie was able to get out of her cast as well. Miyavi, in particular, who plays the film's antagonist, is receiving a great deal of pre-release buzz. Films like Unbroken, as of late, have an almost surefire chance of being recognized in the acting categories, especially when there's a nice, meaty, showy role for an evil male character. Christoph Waltz won for his role as a Nazi officer in Inglourious Basterds, as did Forest Whitaker for playing notoriously vile Ugandan President Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. Heath Ledger collected a posthumous Oscar for playing the diabolical Joker in The Dark Knight, and Javier Bardem saw gold on Oscar night for his role as a sinister hitman in No Country for Old Men. Miyavi plays Matsuhiro Watanabe, war criminal and abuser of POWs, which gives him ample opportunity to milk Oscar voters with theatrics and lots and lots of yelling.
If the performances in Unbroken are Oscar-worthy, it will only help Jolie's case in the Best Director category. It'll be no surprise if buzz picks up for other members of the film's cast once the film opens, as Jolie will likely be able to connect with them as an actor herself. The film also has cinematographer Roger Deakins on board, who has an astounding 11 Oscar nominations without a single win. He's at the point where he's getting into the race on name alone (hence his nomination for the critically divisive, un Academy-friendly Prisoners just last year), and this could be his year to collect his career Oscar for his work on Unbroken.
Any way you look at it, Unbroken is a glimmering piece of Oscar bait—and perhaps the smartest thing Angelina Jolie has done in her career—waiting to drop right into the Academy's lap. The Academy will see an opportunity to help carry Jolie's career beyond the front of the camera and into a successful one behind it into her later years. They couldn't give themselves a more self-congratulatory pat on the back than by decorating her for Best Director or her film for Best Picture. What better way to complete their self-made circle than to turn their sexy, objectified, Oscar-winning action star into a sexy, Oscar-winning filmmaker?
It's poised for success, but if Maleficent bursts, Unbroken will endure the barrage of shrapnel. Jolie's second directorial effort (the first is the little-seen, poorly-received In the Land of Blood and Honey) comes plated with hater-proof armor. Unbroken is ready for the Oscar battle, but it's not ready to withstand the stigma around the "Jolie falls short of expectations with Maleficent" type of headlines. The internet machine is waiting to pick at the carcasses of anything that unravels for any reason. Again, box-office and perceived "success" is extremely integral for women in the film industry. They're taken seriously when they make films about men that make money, or films with broad appeal that make money. Maleficent will carve Jolie's path to (and through) the Oscars.
It's unfair that Jolie's appeal to the white male Oscar voter will be predicated largely by her sex appeal, which she has distinctly tried to de-commodify as she's deliberately pulled herself out of the spectacle of the tabloid circus; it will either help her or hurt her—especially with the Director's branch of the Academy and the Directors Guild of America, both of whom are never kind to actors turned directors (just ask Robert Redford).
Jolie will also have to deal with the Kathryn Bigelow effect. The majority of white male Oscar voters will view Jolie's gender as the defining characteristic of her awards season run. The "been there, done that" mentality will kick in, they'll remember that Kathryn Bigelow was their posterchild for gender acceptance, and not feel obligated to vote for Angelina because the conquest has already been had.
As usual, Jolie has everything working in her favor at the moment, and she's heading into the Oscar race with a powerful army of elements working in her favor. Unbroken seems painfully obvious as an early-season frontrunner for an Academy that likes to stroke its own ego. How easily, though, the perfect exterior could tumble down with one fell swoop of the American public and where they choose to place their dollars this weekend.
Whether Maleficent lives or dies and whether Unbroken sustains its potential through to Oscar night is still up in the air, but if her career has shown us anything at all it's that she's the star, and the conversation will be—and always been—about Angelina Jolie.
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2022 BMW new cars
BMW recorded a strong performance in 2021 despite semiconductor challenges, delivering more than two million cars to customers around the world.
Vani Naidoo
BMW will be easing into the new year after a busy end to 2021, which saw the release of at least eight new or updated models, including the all-electric iX3 and iX SUVs.
The first arrival should be the mid-size i4 electric sedan, which will be offered in two variants: the rear-wheel-drive i4 eDrive40, priced from $99,990 before on-road costs, and the performance-focused i4 M50, priced from $124,900 before on-road costs.
The i4 eDrive40 is powered by a single 250kW/430Nm electric motor on the rear axle – paired with an 80.7kWh lithium-ion battery for 590km of WLTP driving range – with the M50 stepping up to dual electric motors and up to 400kW.
The BMW M135i xDrive is expected to join the i4 M50 early in the new year with revised suspension and chassis components. Pricing for the hot hatch will be confirmed prior to launch.
The car maker will also celebrates fifty years of its BMW M performance division in 2022, and will mark the occasion with a slew of performance models. Australian buyers will be able to option their M cars with classic BMW Motorsport branding first used on a BMW race car in 1973.
New BMW M reveals are set to include the M3 Competition Touring wagon, the new-generation M2 coupe, and the production XM SUV with a high-performance plug-in hybrid system – though these models aren't expected in Australia until early 2023.
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Penstemon fruticosus (Pursh) Greene
Common names: Bush Penstemon
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Iroquois Drug, Emetic detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 434)
Iroquois Drug, Gynecological Aid detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 434)
Iroquois Drug, Love Medicine detail... (Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, pages 434)
Okanagan-Colville Drug, Dermatological Aid detail... (Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, pages 139)
Okanagan-Colville Drug, Misc. Disease Remedy detail... (Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, pages 139)
Okanagan-Colville Drug, Toothache Remedy detail... (Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, pages 139)
Okanagan-Colville Drug, Veterinary Aid detail... (Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, pages 139)
Okanagan-Colville Fiber, Clothing detail... (Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, pages 139)
Salish Drug, Unspecified detail... (Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, pages 294)
Shuswap Drug, Urinary Aid detail... (Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, pages 69)
Thompson Drug, Antirheumatic (External) detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
Thompson Drug, Eye Medicine detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
Thompson Drug, Eye Medicine detail... (Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, pages 468)
Thompson Drug, Kidney Aid detail... (Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, pages 468)
Thompson Drug, Orthopedic Aid detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
Thompson Drug, Orthopedic Aid detail... (Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, pages 468)
Thompson Drug, Veterinary Aid detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
Thompson Dye, Unspecified detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
Thompson Food, Forage detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
Thompson Food, Spice detail... (Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, pages 286)
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Erev Rosh Hashanah 5777 Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
Rabbi Steve Leder - Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Simone Zimmerman, the former J Street campus activist hired as national Jewish outreach coordinator by the Bernie Sanders campaign, wrote on her Facebook page for all the world to read: "Bibi Netanyahu is an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole."
Knesset Member Moshe Gafni called Reform Jews "a bunch of clowns who stick a knife in the holy Torah." Women holding liberal prayer services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem were pelted with rocks and debris, and the police who tried to protect them were called "Nazis" by the Orthodox rock throwers.
The Iran nuclear deal brought out the worst in us—Jews on the left and the right hurling insults back and forth. Most of the public arrow-slinging was done by rabbis and community leaders who never read the agreement, and hold no degrees in nuclear science or foreign relations.
And what of our campuses? When a Jewish group invited the Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat to speak at San Francisco State, the police were instructed not to remove the disruptors, but to stand by and watch the event be completely shut down.
"Get the F*** off our campus, get the F*** off our campus," the mob yelled with bullhorns, indoors, over and over. "We waited and waited for the disruptors to be removed so the event could proceed," noted one attendee, "but it never happened."
Let that sink in. Officers were instructed to stand, watch, and do nothing, as freedom of speech was replaced with whoever-shouts-the-loudest-wins.
The recent 47,000-word Black Lives Matter manifesto accuses Israel of committing genocide. Genocide!
Of course, this outrageous hatred and this terrible lack of civility is far from just a Jewish problem. What of this presidential race to the bottom we witness day after day?
Our country has such serious problems and instead of thoughtful solutions, we get finger pointing. The far left points to Wall Street, to the 1%, most of whom work hard, pay their taxes and keep our economy going, while the right points to Muslims, gays, gun control advocates and immigrants, most of whom also work hard, pay their taxes and keep our economy going.
Each side sticks to its version of the truth, neither listens to the other, each shouts louder while the country continues to suffer, to bleed.
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away," wrote William
Golding, in Lord of the Flies. It's easy to feel that way these days.
In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Yehuda Nesia argues that the character of a generation reflects that of its leader. Other rabbis say just the opposite, that the character of the leader reflects that of his or her generation. However you look at it, the Talmud is telling us that there is a correlation between a generation and its leaders, or to put it another way, we get the leaders we deserve.
If we get the leaders we deserve—let us think deeply about why we have two people running for president with the highest unfavorable ratings, and considered the least trustworthy since polling began in 1936. Forget what this election says about Trump or Clinton. Ask instead, what does it say about us?
What would the ancient prophets have to say to us today about our Jewish infighting and our national bickering? They would remind us that the Second Temple in Jerusalem fell not because of Roman occupation but because of sinat chinam—Jewish infighting.
They would remind us that the plague of darkness in the Passover tale was "A darkness so dark that people could not recognize the humanity in each other."
The prophet Zecharia would shout to us across a thousand generations "'Not by might and not by power, but by God's spirit shall people live in peace." Might and power alone mean little if uninformed by the spirit of God, by the spirit of a genuine peace that comes from a genuine respect for the other.
What is this genuine peace the rabbis encouraged us all to pursue? The great Slonimer Rebbe explained it this way: "The shalom that our Rabbis placed on such a high spiritual level cannot simply mean the absence of disagreement and conflict." The rabbi's point is that real peace is so much more than the lack of differences. Real peace is a wholeness, an ethic, a marriage, a family, a workplace, a city, a country, a world that values and respects and honors different points of view and different human journeys.
Do we pursue that kind of peace; the peace that comes from respecting and caring about the other?
What does it say about us when I get a call from a long-time Temple member who says: "You have lost your way Rabbi and I am leaving the Temple? I don't give a damn about the Blacks and the Koreans. I care only about Israel."
Here is what I told him. There are two things needed for Israel and the Jewish people to thrive. Yes, strength is one of them. We ought never to forget Prime Minister Begin's answer when asked about the lessons of the Holocaust.
He said, "If an enemy of our people says he seeks to destroy us, believe him. Don't doubt him for a moment. Never pause to wonder what the world will think or say. The world will never pity slaughtered Jews. A Jew must learn to defend himself. He must forever be prepared for whenever threat looms."
Yes, military might and an unvarnished view of our enemies is crucial. But from whence does real strength come—does it come from might alone? If it does, I told this now former Temple member, we are in real trouble because we are a tiny people. Yes we have enemies, but we also have friends and we would have a lot more of them if we made it a priority to reach out, to know and to love our neighbors.
Do we? Do we know our next door neighbors let alone our neighbors from other parts of the city? How many of us go out of our way to create real relationships , real friendships with people who are of a different religion, or color, or life-style, or socio economic station? Have you signed up for our interfaith Bible study with our sister African American church? Have you signed up for our Jewish Muslim dialogue? Have you volunteered at the Karsh Center? Some people believe saying "some of my best friends are black, or Hispanic, or Asian, or Muslim, or Christian to be patronizing. I consider it a mitzvah of the highest order.
There are 436 congressional districts in America. Half of all American Jews live in just 37 of them. There are not enough of us to go it alone. We need the people in those 399 districts where few if any Jews live to care about Israel and to care about us. But why should they if we do not care about them?
What does it say about us as a nation when we have to point out that black lives matter and that blue lives matter? Really? We need to be specific about whose lives matter when the Torah teaches we are all born of the same two parents and the biologists remind us that we are all 99.9% genetically identical? Have we forgotten that no one's blood is redder and that when you prick us we all bleed?
[Hold up Talmud] This is the Talmud; the collection of laws that have defined the essence of Judaism for 2,000 years. Do you see all these columns and sections? Each is the opinion of a different school of scholars and individuals. Every argument is recorded, considered, respected. This was the ancient rabbis' model for us to prosper as a people for the next 20 centuries--—by appreciating and respecting each other's views—not by demonizing and disregarding them.
Do we work at appreciating and respecting each other's views? Is our on-line news and Facebook feed so carefully curated to our liking that we never read or hear the contrary opinion? Are our TV news habits so ingrained that we never switch from Fox to MSNBC, or MSNBC to Fox? Have we nothing to learn from each other?
The greatest, the most mature, the most powerful people know that theirs is not the only truth. Without affirming there are many paths to many truths, without seeing and listening and respecting our neighbors near and far, without accepting that sometimes we are the one who is wrong…we are lost.
Consider the man telling his doctor he thinks that his wife needs a hearing aid. "I'll give you a simple test," the doctor offers, "that will help you diagnose the severity of your wife's hearing problem. When you get home tonight walk into the kitchen when your wife's back is turned and ask her what's for dinner. If she doesn't hear you, walk a little closer and ask again. If she still doesn't hear you, get right behind her and shout 'What's for dinner?' Then you'll know how bad the problem is."
So the man walks into the kitchen while his wife is facing the sink and asks, "What's for dinner?" No answer. He walks a little closer and asks again, "What's for dinner?" Still no answer. Finally, he walks up right behind his wife and shouts, "What's for dinner?"
His wife shouts back in desperation, "I told you three damn times already—chicken!"
Why is it we always think that someone else is the one with the problem--that someone else is the one who is not listening, not hearing, and not understanding us?
Two famous study partners in the Talmud named Resh Lakish and Yochanan challenged each other on virtually every point of Jewish law. When Resh Lakish died Yochanan sank into deep grief. In order to help him, Yochanan's friends found him another study partner who was a brilliant young scholar. When they studied together, each time Yochanan made a point, the young scholar gave 24 reasons why Yochanan was correct. This only worsened Yochanan's grief as he wailed, "Oh where is my dear friend Resh Lakish to tell me when I am wrong?" Not long after, Yochanan also dies.
It's simple really—with friends to tell us when we are wrong we arrive together at the truth. Without them, truth dies.
Each year, Rosh Hashanah comes as a friend to challenge us. It is meant to cast doubt on our behavior and assumptions; to help us see the world through the eyes of those we have hurt. The commandment of Rosh Hashanah is not to blow the shofar, if i t was we would have to have two-thousand of them here for tomorrow morning's service. No, the command is to listen to the shofar. The supreme mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is to listen with an open mind and an open heart.
Despite their radical differences on the bench, Justices Antonin Scalia (one of the Supreme Court's most conservative members) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (a liberal judge, and one of the Court's three Jewish Justices) were fast friends. The two brought their families on vacations together, regularly went out together, and met up each New Year's Eve. "Call us the odd couple," Scalia said. "She likes opera, and she's a very nice person. What's not to like?"
Then there's this too-often forgotten letter from George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton, found sitting on the desk when Clinton first entered the Oval office as President:
When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that too. I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described. There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I'm not a very good one to give advice but just don't let the critics discourage you or push you off course. You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. Your success now is our country's success. I am rooting hard for you. Good luck. George."
Those of you who were here last January for the incredible Martin Luther King Jr.
Weekend Shabbat service heard me mention that in 1942 Rabbi Minda in my hometown of Minneapolis gave the commencement address at West High School--an all-white school full of boys who within months would be marching off to war to fight the Nazis. Seventy-four years ago Rabbi Minda asked the graduates, "What makes America beautiful?"
He pointed out that there are more beautiful and more spacious skies elsewhere in the world, and that if you have ever seen the Alps or the Himalayas, you would have to agree that other lands have superior mountain ranges of purple majesty.
What about amber waves of grain? Having just returned from the Ukraine in 1942, Minda noted that there were grander amber waves of grain in the Soviet Union than the plains of our own country.
"America may be beautiful," Minda admits, "for her spacious skies, her fields of grain, her fruited plains and her purple mountains' majesties, but all these do not constitute the uniqueness and distinctiveness of America's beauty. America becomes the beautiful when she crowns her good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea." Brotherhood is America's unique beauty.
Look up at the dome and see the words our ancestors chose to tower above us at all times in this sacred space. It is the Shema. The Shema is not a prayer. It is not addressed to God and it does not ask for anything. "Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad—Listen O' Israel, Adonai our God, Adonai is One."
What is the Shema and what is Rosh Hashanah if not powerful reminders to listen to each other, to respect each other, to know that true oneness, true peace is not the absence of dissent but the wholeness that comes from treating each other's views with dignity and respect—in our families, our congregation, our offices, our classrooms, our city our nation and the world.
Let us not give in to the coarseness and carelessness of our time, lest we reap what we sow. Let us heed instead those words above us, to listen and to embrace more deeply and truly than ever before the brotherhood and sisterhood that are surely our greatest hope.
(Congregation rises and sings America the Beautiful)
O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above thy fruited plain
And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea
O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness
God mend thine every flaw Confirm thy soul in self control Thy liberty in law
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine
O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears
*(I am indebted to Barry Shrage and Jerry Silverman both of whom provided some of the source material and phrasing reflected in this sermon)
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Q: Centos 7.2 php 7.3 - Unable to load dynamic library 'gd' I installed php-gd and then check if is installed like this
[root@LP01-Dev ~]# php -v              // checking before installing gd
PHP 7.3.33 (cli) (built: Nov 16 2021 11:18:28) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.33, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
[root@LP01-Dev ~]# php -m | grep gd    // checking before installing gd

[root@LP01-Dev ~]# yum install php-gd  // installing gd
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-php73: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-safe: ftp.riken.jp
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-gd.x86_64 0:7.3.33-1.el7.remi will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: gd-last(x86-64) >= 2.1.1 for package: php-gd-7.3.33-1.el7.remi.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgd.so.3()(64bit) for package: php-gd-7.3.33-1.el7.remi.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gd-last.x86_64 0:2.3.3-2.el7.remi will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libraqm.so.0()(64bit) for package: gd-last-2.3.3-2.el7.remi.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libraqm.x86_64 0:0.7.0-4.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libfribidi.so.0()(64bit) for package: libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fribidi.x86_64 0:1.0.2-0.el7.remi will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

======================================================================================================================
 Package                 Arch                   Version                              Repository                  Size
======================================================================================================================
Installing:
 php-gd                  x86_64                 7.3.33-1.el7.remi                    remi-php73                  85 k
Installing for dependencies:
 fribidi                 x86_64                 1.0.2-0.el7.remi                     remi-safe                   79 k
 gd-last                 x86_64                 2.3.3-2.el7.remi                     remi-safe                  138 k
 libraqm                 x86_64                 0.7.0-4.el7                          epel                        15 k

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package (+3 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 317 k
Installed size: 948 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
(1/4): php-gd-7.3.33-1.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm                                                     |  85 kB  00:00:00
(2/4): fribidi-1.0.2-0.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm                                                     |  79 kB  00:00:00
(3/4): libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                          |  15 kB  00:00:00
(4/4): gd-last-2.3.3-2.el7.remi.x86_64.rpm                                                     | 138 kB  00:00:00
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Total                                                                                956 kB/s | 317 kB  00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : fribidi-1.0.2-0.el7.remi.x86_64                                                                    1/4
  Installing : libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64                                                                         2/4
  Installing : gd-last-2.3.3-2.el7.remi.x86_64                                                                    3/4
  Installing : php-gd-7.3.33-1.el7.remi.x86_64                                                                    4/4
  Verifying  : gd-last-2.3.3-2.el7.remi.x86_64                                                                    1/4
  Verifying  : php-gd-7.3.33-1.el7.remi.x86_64                                                                    2/4
  Verifying  : libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64                                                                         3/4
  Verifying  : fribidi-1.0.2-0.el7.remi.x86_64                                                                    4/4

Installed:
  php-gd.x86_64 0:7.3.33-1.el7.remi

Dependency Installed:
  fribidi.x86_64 0:1.0.2-0.el7.remi       gd-last.x86_64 0:2.3.3-2.el7.remi       libraqm.x86_64 0:0.7.0-4.el7

Complete!

After I installed gd, I get this error.
[root@LP01-Dev ~]# php -v          // can't load gd with this warning
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd' (tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/gd (/usr/lib64/php/modules/gd: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib64/php/modules/gd.so (/lib64/libraqm.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ft_font_set_load_flags)) in Unknown on line 0
PHP 7.3.33 (cli) (built: Nov 16 2021 11:18:28) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.33, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies

First, I check if there is no gd file.
[root@LP01-Dev ~]# cd /usr/lib64/php/modules/
[root@LP01-Dev modules]# ll
total 6212
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   24360 Nov 17 00:19 bz2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   32408 Nov 17 00:19 calendar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15536 Nov 17 00:19 ctype.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   86968 Nov 17 00:19 curl.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   86064 Nov 17 00:19 exif.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5428968 Nov 17 00:19 fileinfo.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   62048 Nov 17 00:19 ftp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  108344 Nov 17 00:19 gd.so    # Here is!
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15656 Nov 17 00:19 gettext.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   45072 Nov 17 00:19 iconv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   44776 Nov 17 00:19 json.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  273688 Nov 17 00:19 phar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   91576 Nov 17 00:19 sockets.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   19856 Nov 17 00:19 tokenizer.so

I wondered if I should place the file as the exact name 'gd'. so I copied 'gd.so' file to 'gd' at the same place.
[root@LP01-Dev modules]# cp gd.so gd
[root@LP01-Dev modules]# ll
total 6320
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   24360 Nov 17 00:19 bz2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   32408 Nov 17 00:19 calendar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15536 Nov 17 00:19 ctype.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   86968 Nov 17 00:19 curl.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   86064 Nov 17 00:19 exif.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5428968 Nov 17 00:19 fileinfo.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   62048 Nov 17 00:19 ftp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  108344 Feb 26 18:27 gd          # Also here!
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  108344 Nov 17 00:19 gd.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15656 Nov 17 00:19 gettext.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   45072 Nov 17 00:19 iconv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   44776 Nov 17 00:19 json.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  273688 Nov 17 00:19 phar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   91576 Nov 17 00:19 sockets.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   19856 Nov 17 00:19 tokenizer.so

but different error showed up.
[root@LP01-Dev modules]# php -v
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd' (tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/gd (/lib64/libraqm.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ft_font_set_load_flags), /usr/lib64/php/modules/gd.so (/lib64/libraqm.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ft_font_set_load_flags)) in Unknown on line 0
PHP 7.3.33 (cli) (built: Nov 16 2021 11:18:28) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.33, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies

I searched about this error
/lib64/libraqm.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ft_font_set_load_flags
and then I found someone had similar (almost same) problem like me.
Link --> php-gd installed but fails to function in centos 7 (php 7.3 version)
So I tried two answers from the link.
First one. https://stackoverflow.com/a/63196532/10651708
The answer says hb_ft_font_set_load_flags comes from HarfBuzz so I tried to install it.
[root@LP01-Dev modules]# yum install harfbuzz
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-php73: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-safe: ftp.riken.jp
Package harfbuzz-0.9.36-1.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Seems I already have harfbuzz..
I tried second answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/62998791/10651708
[root@LP01-Dev lib64]# yum provides '*/libraqm.so*'    // checking..
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-php73: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-safe: ftp.riken.jp
libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64 : Complex Textlayout Library
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libraqm.so.0.700.0
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libraqm.so.0

libraqm-devel-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64 : Complex Textlayout Library
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libraqm.so

libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64 : Complex Textlayout Library
Repo        : @epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libraqm.so.0.700.0
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libraqm.so.0

[root@LP01-Dev lib64]# cd ~
[root@LP01-Dev ~]# ll /usr/lib64/libraqm.so*           // checking..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 Feb 26 18:16 /usr/lib64/libraqm.so.0 -> libraqm.so.0.700.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19792 Jan 11  2020 /usr/lib64/libraqm.so.0.700.0

I also checked if there is libraqm.so.0 file in /lib64 directory
[root@LP01-Dev ~]# cd /lib64
[root@LP01-Dev lib64]# ll
total 100984
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     4096 Dec 26  2016 alsa-lib
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Jun 10  2014 apr-util-1
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Apr  7  2017 audit
.
.
.
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       18 Feb 26 18:16 libraqm.so.0 -> libraqm.so.0.700.0     # Here!
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    19792 Jan 11  2020 libraqm.so.0.700.0
.
.
.
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Aug 12  2015 tls
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Aug 12  2015 X11
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Dec 26  2016 xtables

Seems I don't have libraqm.so file in both of /usr/lib64 and /lib64 directory..
So I should install libraqm-devel ? I wasn't sure but I tried.
[root@LP01-Dev lib64]# yum install libraqm-devel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-php73: ftp.riken.jp
 * remi-safe: ftp.riken.jp
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libraqm-devel.x86_64 0:0.7.0-4.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: pkgconfig(fribidi) for package: libraqm-devel-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fribidi-devel.x86_64 0:0.19.4-6.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: fribidi(x86-64) = 0.19.4-6.el7 for package: fribidi-devel-0.19.4-6.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: fribidi-devel-0.19.4-6.el7.x86_64 (base)
           Requires: fribidi(x86-64) = 0.19.4-6.el7
           Installed: fribidi-1.0.2-0.el7.remi.x86_64 (@remi-safe)
               fribidi(x86-64) = 1.0.2-0.el7.remi
           Available: fribidi-0.19.4-6.el7.x86_64 (base)
               fribidi(x86-64) = 0.19.4-6.el7
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I can't install it..
Should I downgrade fribidi?
I really have no idea.. I rebooted and also tried reset OS few times too..
I will find more way tomorrow but I felt so frustrated so I wrote this question.. hoping anyone can help me. Thank you~!

A:
Centos 7.2 php 7.3

The main issue here is that you are using an outdated CentOS version:

*

*7.2 was released in 2015... and is no more maintained

*7.9 is current, released in 2020

So you need to update to current first (especially as you are missing 7 years of security updates)
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

# rpm -q php-gd gd-last fribidi libraqm harfbuzz
php-gd-7.3.33-1.el7.remi.x86_64
gd-last-2.3.3-2.el7.remi.x86_64
fribidi-1.0.2-1.el7_7.1.x86_64
libraqm-0.7.0-4.el7.x86_64
harfbuzz-1.7.5-2.el7.x86_64

# php --ri gd

gd

GD Support => enabled
GD headers Version => 2.3.3
GD library Version => 2.3.3
FreeType Support => enabled
FreeType Linkage => with freetype
FreeType Version => 2.8.0
GIF Read Support => enabled
GIF Create Support => enabled
JPEG Support => enabled
libJPEG Version => 6b
PNG Support => enabled
libPNG Version => 1.5.13
WBMP Support => enabled
XPM Support => enabled
libXpm Version => 30411
XBM Support => enabled
WebP Support => enabled

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
gd.jpeg_ignore_warning => 1 => 1

Package harfbuzz-0.9.36-1.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version

So here is the problem, harfbuzz was updated to 1.3.2 in CentOS 7.4 (2017) and to 1.7.5 in CentOS 7.6 (2018)
Notice: PHP 7.3 is also EOL.

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16 November 2016 — Unreal Estate
Council Chief Blames Slow Social-Housing Progress on Council
by Lois Kapila
Photo by Caroline McNally
It's not them, it's us, said Dublin City Council Chief Executive Owen Keegan on Monday.
Councillors were debating the council's programme of capital projects – the big projects that are planned for the city over the next three years.
The talk in the chamber focused on how much social housing the council plans to build during that period. The programme sets a target of 1,780 new social housing units, made up of 1,300 to be built or refurbished, and 480 acquisitions.
A motion put forward by Sinn Fein, Labour, the Green Party, and some independents said that the money available to spend on housing is not enough.
They asked for an urgent delegation meeting with the Minister for Housing Simon Coveney "at which the Minister will set out how he intends to provide the required capital allocation for housing for Dublin City Council" in the coming three years.
But Keegan said there isn't any delay on schemes at the moment from the side of the Department of Housing. "I'm not aware of any social housing scheme that is being delayed in the department at the moment," he said.
"There has been a record turnaround in terms of getting approvals and sanctions for social housing," he said.
The main constraining factor at the moment is the inability of the council to get schemes up to a stage where they can send them to the department, said Keegan. "His department is not delaying schemes."
In the council's budget, the manager notes plans to recruit more architects and planners.
"Dublin City Council is committed to increasing housing supply in the [c]ity and especially social housing supply," the budget notes. "To this end, I have provided for a significant recruitment programme of architects and planners, primarily to support the housing construction programme."
On Tuesday, Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey suggested that it was taking Dublin City Council a while to move from building just 19 social-housing units in 2015, to considerably more in the future.
"I suspect we don't have the planners and the architects and the in-house teams capable of pushing stuff along," he said. "That's my guess."
Keegan's comments seemed to support that. Part of the issue is that it is taking the council time to gear up and do preliminary designs, he told councillors.
Every single request for additional staffing was sanctioned by the department, said Keegan. "I think you need to be careful if you are going down to the department."
"I have every confidence that as we require more funding, that funding will be forthcoming," said Keegan. "Our problem is that we cannot get the schemes down to the department."
A Dig
Keegan also pointed to some projects that the council executive had been pushing, but which had faced opposition from some local councillors.
"If you go down to the minister, the minister may want to know why this council […] stopped the construction of local housing in St Teresa's Gardens, at Bridgefoot Street, at Marrowbone Lane," he said.
There are all kinds of reasons why different schemes being developed in the city have taken a while.
Keegan does have a point in some respects, but not the sites he mentioned, said Labour's Rebecca Moynihan. "His comments with relation to those sites are without foundation."
After all, Bridgefoot Street was a zoning issue, not a design-stage issue. St Teresa's Gardens was delayed, in part, because of contamination at the site. And Marrowbone Lane is a working depot – so she isn't sure how that really comes into it, she said.
There were some delays in moving forward when the Housing Land Initiative was first suggested, and some indecision over modular housing, said Labour's Andrew Montague.
There are some legitimate objections, says Ciaran Cuffe of the Green Party. But "I would echo the manager's concerns that some councillors have opposed some schemes and that has been difficult," he said. He thinks there is often room for compromise.
But not every delay has been at the council's end, said Cuffe. Plans for Dominick Street have been tied up in red tape for two years going between the council and the Department of Housing, he says. "I just feel like we're not allowed too much flexibility as a council by the Department of Housing."
Pushing Ahead
Sinn Fein's Daithi Doolan, who is head of the council's housing committee, said that – despite Keegan's assertion that there is no problem with funding – they needed more funding released.
"We simply haven't received enough funding to build housing in Dublin," he said. (As of May 2016, there were 22,600 applicants on the social housing list in Dublin.)
Independent Councillor Ruairi McGinley, who is head of the council's finance committee, pointed out how the budget for housing tapers.
There is around €390 million earmarked for housing and building in 2017, and €291 million in 2018, and €157 million in 2019. "It's a declining trend there," he said.
The budget is front-loaded because that's where the council has the most certainty in funding and he understands that, but there needs to be long-term planning, said McGinley.
"I think it's becoming increasingly clear that relying on the private model on its own, with the best will in the world, is not going to do the best job," he said.
Doolan says he also wants to meet with the minister to discuss how land in NAMA could play more of a role in tackling the housing crisis. (Whether NAMA is the right vehicle to deal with the housing shortage has been debated frequently in the past.)
He also wants to look at whether the council can borrow from the Housing Finance Agency themselves to build new homes, or to regenerate old flat complexes, he said.
Lois Kapila: Lois Kapila is Dublin Inquirer's editor and general assignment reporter. She covers housing and land, too. Want to share a comment or a tip? You can reach her at [email protected]
at 16 November 2016 at 14:49
is lack of council planning staff not something that came from state policy
Lois Kapila
@steve white: Yes, good point. I would think so.
It looks to me like management are so ideologically opposed to public building that they'd rather take a hit for the Department than budge an inch on the principle.
16 November 2016 issue
In Kilmainham, One Woman Takes on the Traffic
Rating Dublin City Council's Performance
Is It Time for a Fresh Start for the Artane Band?
Arts Briefs: A New Bull Island Centre, Buskers, and St Valentine


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Faraday Future's former head of human resources Crystal Peterson is the latest executive to leave the troubled electric-car startup. Her departure was first reported by The Verge, which cited reports from multiple current and former Faraday employees.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Peterson was Faraday's 12th employee. She served as HR director for just under three years before taking the department's top spot after previous HR head Alan Cherry resigned last August. Faraday would not comment on Peterson's departure.
On the day of Peterson's departure, a company-wide email proclaimed a "'zero tolerance' policy on the behaviors that are against the interest and mission of the company." Those behaviors include leaking internal communications and, apparently, having a negative attitude about the company's prospects.
"One thing we will not tolerate, however, is to harbor those who have lost their passion and loyalty to FF and our mission for 2018 and beyond," the email said. That may seem harsh, but The Verge claimed this message was less severe than previous emails sent out in the wake of high-profile executive departures. Citing conversations with Faraday employees and internal documents, it said employee morale is deteriorating due to a rift between American employees and the Chinese cadre brought in by Chinese tech entrepreneur—and current Faraday CEO—Jia Yueting.
While Faraday is an American company, it has relied heavily on Jia and his LeEco tech company for funding. Jia recently appointed himself CEO of Faraday, but even before that, he reportedly exerted a strong influence on decision making, and attempted to populate Faraday with employees from LeEco. Cultural differences between the American and Chinese factions reportedly created significant internal tension.
To make matters worse, the collapse of LeEco's finances last year left Faraday without a ready source of funding. Shortly after taking over as CEO in December, Jia claimed he had secured $1 billion to keep Faraday afloat. But Jia is in trouble himself, having racked up significant personal debts. Now living in California, he has refused calls from regulators in his home country of China to return and settle the debt issue. But even if Faraday's financial situation improves, one wonders if the company will have enough employees left to continue.
The automaker's strategy involves proprietary battery technology and mass production, mostly in China, reports Reuters.


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Behind The Print
A charming combination of unassuming British gentleness and understated American glamour, John Hall and Jean Ensell embody a human reflection of the print designs that they create in their Birmingham-based studio.
The Ensell & Hall print house is close to the city university where they met in the '90s and work to this day curating the on-site gallery and lecturing. As a mature student, Indiana-born Jean studied Textile Design, followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art, while John undertook Fine Art and an MA in Visual Communications, later going on to study upholstery.
Beyond their immediately captivating fabrics, it's the collaborative spirit of the duo and their extended network of creative partners, that really sets their work apart. Indeed their print house boasts an archive of hand drawn prints from artists of all disciplines. "We have a friend who is a jewellery designer, whose design sketches we recently created a print from," explains Jean.
It is this collaborative approach that strikes such a chord with us here at Finery. Head of Design, Emma Farrow, muses: "Everything's a collective decision. We all have different tastes. It's a democracy, and if we don't all love it, we won't do it". Needless to say, sign-off on the Ensell & Hall prints was 100%.
From friends such as the master jeweller mentioned above, to a "delight to work with" ex-student of Jean's, who hand-drew a best-selling print and an architect uncle of John's, there is no shortage of loved and trusted talent to showcase.
In the Finery collection, that same talent has made its way onto botanical dresses, (our Patmos dress featuring the duo's Triangle Fleur print was first into Emma's Glastonbury rucksack), pencil-sketched separates – including the Allington mesh top that Jean has her eye on, and the colour-soaked, Psychedelic Pebbles print featured on our debut swimwear collection and inspired by John's collection of glass vases.
The Ensell & Hall approach to design which "challenges convention with the unexpected" is a perfect kinship to Finery's "rethinking and reworking to break the norm". Their beautiful prints, where humour often counters intellect, wonderfully expresses our point of view. And once again it's that collaborative attitude that is at the pinnacle. As perfectly summed up by Jean: "We can disagree nicely. When you're picking a partner, that's one of the most important things."
"Design approach? "We choose prints because we love them as pieces of art"
Emma Farrow, Head of Design
"It's about generosity of design in multiples. Not one flower. Give us a bouquet!"
Jean Ensell, Co-Founder Ensell & Hall
"I love simplicity and silence – at home, just a big table for dinners and lots of books, or a basic hotel with no visual stimulation."
"My partner and I have a place in Berlin, which is such an inspirational city, with its street art and design."
John Hall, Co-Founder Ensell & Hall
"I'm always surrounded by objects, like bits from car boot sales bought for their interesting design, and lovely music – my partner's a baroque flautist."


Last Sunday, we all went back to our former church to support adopted daughter in her desire to address the congregation on the importance of maintaining loving relationships above disagreement. We brought her in a wheel chair with portable oxygen and still the effort was physically considerable for her. I don't completely know where this desire has its genesis in her own 48 years. I don't completely know because AD is a very private person. She does not talk extensively about her feelings in connection with her life growing up in an extended family of wealthy immigrants. I have heard stories, and I know the recent past, but there is not a lot of connection along the emotional road from there to here. And curiously enough…I am a confidante.
So I don't know all that went in to this effort to speak to the congregation and I don't understand her request for forgiveness, but it seemed to resonate with some of the people there. The pastor responded by asking forgiveness in behalf of the congregation. I have no way of knowing how the congregation felt about that, but it was an important step for the pastor to take. It was a very dramatic and meaningful time. Ad is now quite exhausted by the effort and I am wandering along the path, not quite with it and not quite without. While 99% were glad to see and receive AD, not everyone was glad to see Big Dawg and me—probably most, but certainly not everyone.
We knew that would be the case going in, and were especially aware when sitting directly across from us was person X, whose dark and grim demeanor was much the same as it had been a year ago, on Pentecost Sunday, 2009. That was the day the congregation exploded, giving us a clear and painful message that we were not to be included into membership. Not only was X's demeanor the same, but X was sitting in just about the same proximity to us as last year! It was eerie and unsettling, but we persevered. Just before AD was wheeled up to the front of the church to speak, person X got up and left the sanctuary. I found this action abruptly rude, careless, egoistic at best and a slap in the face of the Body of Christ at worst.
Historically, we moved from human sacrifice, to animal sacrifice, to various modes of seeming self-sacrifice. But even in self-sacrifice, it was not usually the ego self that we sacrificed, but most often the material self as its vicarious substitute. The physical body became our usual scapegoat instead of the real problem which was the ego—a rather clever game of smoke and mirrors. Meanwhile the ego has remained "scot free" and off the hook for most of Christian history, even at the highest levels of church.
Whether you agree with Rohr's analysis wholly, in part, or not at all is not my concern. What is important to me today is that …the rivers did not overwhelm me and I was not burned.


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Amma has requested that Homas (special fire ceremonies) for the Departed Souls of her devotees be performed periodically. In keeping with Amma's wish, a Tila Homa for the deceased will be performed by Bri. Rema Devi on Saturday, May 4, on the porch of Amrita Hall at MA Center San Ramon, beginning at 8:00am. Registration is not required to attend.
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Since the Forever Blessed memorial is for deceased North American devotees and their immediate family members, you may include a deceased family member for Sankalpa - special intentions, for this sacred ceremony.
During the ceremony, Ganapati and Maha Ganapati homas will also be performed. Devotees may register for special intentions for these homas for themselves or others – one individual per registration. Tila Homa for deceased non-devotees is also available for registration.
Registration donation is required for Sankalpa for Ganapati and Maha Ganapati homas, as well as for Tila Homa for non-devotees. All donations support Amma's charities.
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Fear not, teens are still watching…
The greatest fear among those in the TV industry – that teens are turning away from television – is not happening. On the contrary, teen TV viewing is increasing at the rate of 2.5% a year, according to a recent Los Angeles Times article.
In the March 9, 2012 article that references a new report titled "Why the Internet won't Kill TV", we learn that while teens embrace new platforms like Hulu and YouTube, their consumption of TV continues to grow.
Teens currently watch almost four hours of TV a day, up from roughly three hours spent in front of TV in 2004. In comparison, teens on average watch only three minutes of video a day via computer or smartphone.
4 hours vs. 3 minutes. No reason, in my opinion, for TV executives or advertisers to be pacing the floors at night.
Will TV eventually fall from grace? I'm sure it will. "Everything" does. But the key word here is "eventually."
The LA Times article goes on to say that even if there were indications of teens watching less TV, it would take at least two decades "before it significantly impacts the size of valuable TV audiences for advertisers."
Not two days or two months or two years, but TWO DECADES.
At the risk of sounding overly simplistic, I would argue that worrying about TV's eventual demise, at this point in time, makes as much sense as riding your bike to work because you're worried about the eventual depletion of fossil fuel.
Neither is imminent.
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TV Production Breakthrough: The Canon 5D
Just a few years ago, only the big guys could afford to shoot their commercials on 35mm film, while smaller companies had to settle for the harsh, cheap look of video tape.
The Canon 5D Mark II Digital Camera evens the playing field by delivering stunning, film-like images for 85% less. This Hi-Definition camera does it all from producing shallow depth of field to delivering rich, realistic scenes under low lighting conditions. The camera is so amazing, so film-like, that the Director of Photography for the award winning TV show "House" shot the entire 7th season on it!
And with the Canon 5D, you can do a lot more with less. Gone are the days of 15 person crews… lugging lights and equipment from scene-to -scene. A shot that took almost two hours to light for a film shoot, can now be lit to the same exact standards with a two-person crew in less than 45 minutes!
There's little doubt that the Canon 5D has brought affordable, high-end TV production to the local advertiser.
Here's hoping it won't be wasted on the same low-end concepts?
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Think Differently!
That's what Steve Jobs did. Even though he revolutionized the digital era, he did not think much of the internet as a branding medium. While everyone was jumping on the digital bandwagon, Jobs effectively remained "old school."
In 2010, Apple spent an estimated $420 million on advertising. Over 90% of that budget was allocated to network television, newspapers, magazines and billboards. Less than 10% went toward digital initiatives.
And when Apple did spend online, it was usually an extension of a TV campaign like the iconic Mac vs. PC ads.
Jobs also believed in controlling the message which files in the face of the current wisdom that consumers should tell the brand story via Facebook and Twitter. Upon his death, Apple barely had a presence on either platform.
Throughout his brilliant career, Jobs created products for the masses. And he wisely chose mediums that targeted the masses. In advertising, as in product development, he relied heavily on his convictions and intuition. He did not rely on "likes" or "tweets." He took a much more pragmatic approach: tell the story of how an amazing product can change a consumer's life in the best environment possible. And then he was smart enough to understand that the best environment – then and now – is still traditional media.
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All that glitters isn't gold!
A new survey of marketers conducted by the Association of National Advertisers has discovered something interesting, but not terribly surprising about the new media rage. According to the survey, more national companies are dedicating larger portions of their ad budgets to new media. But it also finds more companies questioning the effectiveness of their new media investments.
78% of companies surveyed said that they planned to spend more on new media like online ads, social networks, search engine marketing, mobile and viral video in 2012 than they did this year. On average, this represents 14% of their total media spending – up from 10% in 2011.
So, with more spending come better results, right? Not necessarily. Compared to a similar study in 2009, marketers in general, are complaining that bigger investments in new media are not always producing the desired results.
"While marketers have substantially increased their use of new media platforms over the past few years, they are beginning to question the effectiveness of some of these vehicles," Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the ANA said. "The ANA survey indicates a strong willingness by marketers to integrate innovative new approaches into their marketing mix; however, this enthusiasm is tempered by concerns regarding the ROI of these emerging options."
Or in other words, anyone who thought that new media was going to quickly transcend old media (i.e. television) was perhaps blinded by all the glitter.
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Local TV Still Tops for News, Weather, Traffic
A new survey from Pew Research Center entitled "How people learn about their local community," finds that local TV continues to be the top source for breaking news, weather and traffic, and ties with newspapers as the main source of local political news. And when the respondents said "Local TV," it was clear from the answers that they were talking about local broadcast stations, not regional or local cable news nets, says one of the study's authors. For breaking news, local TV was the main source of information for 55% of respondents to the survey, compared to the internet (16%) and local newspapers (14%). Fifty-eight percent of survey participants went to local TV for information about weather, compared to the internet (32%) and local newspapers (10%). And the reliance on local news cut across demos. Even the web-savvy under 40 generation still looks to TV for news (47%) much more than the internet (22%).
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Q: how to create invoice detail with linq in crm I faced this error while creating an invoicedetail in visual studio using linq to crm.
The exception triggers with xrm.savechanges();
SaveChangesException was unhandled
An error occured while processing this request

This Is the code
 var units =
(from unit in xrm.UoMSet where unit.Name == "one dollar" select unit).Single();
                  InvoiceDetail newinvprod = new InvoiceDetail();
                  var invoices = (from inv in xrm.InvoiceSet where inv.Name == Name1 select inv).Single();
                  newinvprod.invoice_details = invoices;
                  newinvprod.product_invoice_details = payments.new_product_new_payment;
                  newinvprod.unit_of_measurement_invoice_details = units;
                  newinvprod.Quantity = payments.new_product_new_payment.StandardCost;
                  xrm.AddObject(newinvprod);
                  xrm.SaveChanges();

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Q: Where are my local remote branches? I have just cloned a git repo that already have a bunch of remote branches. I have poked around in the .git folder but I cannot find them, when I do a git show-ref I get:
cf8e5e98c27ee83a1ff2122f2c2a214e8e06383d refs/heads/master
cf8e5e98c27ee83a1ff2122f2c2a214e8e06383d refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
76541f13b20bb25056788f092f58547d4657bed8 refs/remotes/origin/example
cf8e5e98c27ee83a1ff2122f2c2a214e8e06383d refs/remotes/origin/master
cf8e5e98c27ee83a1ff2122f2c2a214e8e06383d refs/remotes/origin/smpl-remote
e34b3b7e54174c5b862ae16d29a3079c060c160e refs/remotes/origin/test

But the folder: .git\refs\remotes\origin only contains the HEAD file
If open the repo in eclipse I can see them:

What am I missing here?
I just tried to remove the internet connection (wifi and wired) but I can still list the remote branches, where in the .git folder is that information??

A: Andrew C answered in a comment, but I'll add a bit more.
The "missing" branches are "packed".  This saves space (and sometimes saves time although mostly that's a wash).
In fact, all branches get packed at various times (when git pack-refs runs, usually on behalf of git gc).  That's one of several reasons you are supposed to use various front-end and back-end commands (git branch, git for-each-ref, git update-ref, git symbolic-ref) to work with branches, rather than just peeking into .git/refs/ directly.
It's sometimes convenient to add .git/packed-refs to your peeking, but remember that this part is an implementation detail and may change.


Government's approach to outsourcing services has risen up the policy agenda in recent years.
The Coalition Government saw high-quality competition between external suppliers as a key lever to deliver value for money for taxpayers and service users alike. In theory, dynamic public-service markets are well-placed to achieve this: at least half the productivity gains of private markets over 10 years can be attributed to the replacement of less-productive firms with more-productive ones.1 For these gains to materialise, government must ensure a level playing field for bidders. The removal of barriers to market entry was a key aim of the Coalition Government's flagship welfare-to-work programmes, the Work Programme and Work Choice. As then Minister for Employment Chris Grayling explained, the Government was agnostic about what type of organisation delivered the contracts, so long as the tendering process gave all types of providers an equal shot at delivering government aims.
With the Conservative Government beginning the procurement of the successor to these programmes, now is an opportune time to assess whether past competitions achieved government aims. To do so, this paper draws on the insights of government officials, industry representatives and third-party experts.
The paper identifies a range of barriers to market entry in previous competitions. Poor contract design – including onerous financial-health requirements – erected barriers for smaller organisations hoping to bid for 'prime' contracts in the Work Programme. The same programme's heavy emphasis on payments by results also created cash-flow issues for smaller providers, which – if replicated in the Work and Health Programme – threatens to discourage bidders entering the market. A heavy focus on the price, rather than quality, of bids may have favoured large organisations capable of leveraging economies of scale to undercut competitors. Such a focus is indicative of a short-term approach to market creation by government, which encourages immediate gains over creating a healthy market, with a wide base of providers, to ensure value for money in subsequent programmes.
Solutions to these barriers to competition were also identified. A dynamic approach to risk management is needed to ensure that providers are not barred from entering the market through unnecessarily austere financial-health requirements. Commissioners should focusmore on quality when assessing bids,including assessing past experience and local strategies. This does not mean that price should be ignored – it is an important factor in the value-for-money equation – but commissioners should take this into account by setting a range within which organisations can bid.
A critical facilitator of high-quality, open competition is a continuous dialogue between commissioners and bidders throughout the procurement. Commissioners should provide data and information in a timely fashion to enable bidders to prepare for market entry. Only then can government hope to create a long-term supplier base to maximise competition for this and future procurements of welfare-to-work services.
Local commissioners will also have a much greater role in the commissioning of the Work and Health Programme. Local authorities, and even health commissioning bodies, could help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) design services by providing forecasts on local labour market conditions, alongside advising central commissioners on outcomes assumptions. Co-commissioning regions, such as Manchester and London, could be involved in assessing the quality of bids in their areas. All in all, these changes represent a strong evolution in government policy, with best practice from past approaches refined and built on. The design and procurement of services are key determinants of their later success. If DWP gets these right, it can provide a model for the rest of central and local government on how to improve competition in complex-service markets. More importantly, it will provide a big step towards helping some of the most vulnerable members of society into work.