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You cannot contain what you are.
"Everything we will see and do will have a basis in science. But it will have limits. This is the real world, not a cartoon. And yet some of us don't die from bullets. Some of us can still bend steel. That is not a fantasy."
— Elijah Price / Mr. Glass
Glass is a psychological superhero thriller film. It is the crossover sequel to both 2000's Unbreakable and 2017's Split, directed and written like them by M. Night Shyamalan, and stars Bruce Willis as David Dunn/The Overseer, Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price/Mr. Glass, James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde, Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn, Charlayne Woodard as Ms. Price and Sarah Paulson as Dr. Ellie Staple. It was released on January 18, 2019.
David Dunn tries to stay one step ahead of the law while delivering vigilante justice on the streets of Philadelphia. His special abilities soon put him on a collision course with the Beast – a psychotic madman who has superhuman strength and 23 distinct personalities. Their encounter leads them to Mr. Glass, a criminal mastermind who holds critical secrets for both men.
Also notable for the fact that Universal Pictures and Disney have produced and distributed the movie together, with Disney using the Buena Vista International brand for the release of the film.
Previews: Trailer 1 (preview 1 , preview 2 , preview 3 ), Trailer 2 .
Has nothing to do with the Interactive Fiction retelling of Cinderella by Emily Short, or the Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic.
Glass contains examples of:
Above Good and Evil: The Ancient Conspiracy considers itself this. Ironically, the things it does firmly establish it's the greatest evil of all in the setting.
Dr. Staple: They got it wrong in the comics. They talk about secret evil groups trying to stop the heroes. I don't think we are particularly evil, and we don't choose sides. We try to stop both of you. If there is one of you, the opposite of you appears. It escalates. We step in. There just can't be gods amongst us.
Actionized Sequel: Both prior films were mostly slow burns with only one or two actual "action" scenes. While this film retains the psychological thriller elements, the action quotient is heightened.
Actor Allusion: This is yet another M. Night film with Bruce Willis, so of course, he threw in a subtle reference to Bruce Willis in Sixth Sense (trying to talk to a vision of his dead wife), but he also added a major reference to Bruce Willis in his most famous role, John McClane in Die Hard (the villain's scheme is to suggest a fake terrorist plot against a large corporation tower).
Ancient Conspiracy: There is a group of people that has spent millennia enforcing the Masquerade, and killing or imprisoning superhumans whenever they start attracting attention. Dr. Staple claims they have been doing this for 10,000 years. Deconstructed in that The Reveal explains that they're Well Intentioned Extremists that view the existence of superpowered people as fundamentally unfair to ordinary people and want to prevent a Beware the Superman scenario from happening.
All for Nothing: The ancient conspiracy has spent ten thousand years trying to uphold the masquerade, and everything they have done to preserve it has been destroyed by a single video.
Anticlimax: Seemingly an Invoked Trope. Rather than any kind of standard heroic death scene, the Overseer is unceremoniously drowned in a puddle, as superhuman ability aside, he's still just an old man being faced with his greatest weakness.
Archetypal Character: Both The Overseer, The Horde, and Mr. Glass end up played as archetypal figures for larger-than-life figures in comic books. The end implies they'll end up as the "founding myths/archetypes" for a new era of superheroes and supervillains.
Arc Welding: The ending of Split revealed that it was a Shared Universe with Unbreakable, but it wasn't until then that the Overseer was aware of the Horde's existence. Now, the Overseer is actively hunting him down. It also turns out that Kevin's father was killed in the same train crash that Mr. Glass engineered to reveal the Overseer's powers.
Armor-Piercing Question: Dr. Staple, in an attempt to convince the Overseer, the Horder, and Mr. Glass that they couldn't possibly have superpowers, asks them why there's only three of them in the whole world. This is devastating enough that even the Overseer and the Horde start to doubt their powers. The answer: because the Ancient Conspiracy kills them all.
The Bad Guy Wins: Played With. While Mr. Glass posthumously succeeds in his Broken Masquerade, his villainy had already been eclipsed by the Cape Busters Ancient Conspiracy by that point, making it feel like a more heroic aim. The same can be said for the Ancient Conspiracy; as while they basically get away with successfully killing the Overseer, the Horde, and Mr. Glass, their main goal to hide the existence of superhumans is foiled by Mr. Glass outwitting them.
Being Good Sucks: Dr. Staple is able to get the Overseer to surrender to the police at the beginning by pointing out to him that, while he might be able to get away, he'd have to hurt innocent police officers to do so.
Beware the Superman:
Carried over from Split, the Beast is depicted as this in contrast to the Overseer. A direct contrast is made between the Overseer pushing a group of riot police into a a cargo container and nonlethally trapping them for their own safety...with the Beast being likewise confronted with a group of riot police and slaughtering them with his bare hands.
This trope is also deconstructed; the Ancient Conspiracy is so paranoid about this trope coming to pass that they kill anyone, hero or villain, who develops super powers
Big Bad Duumvirate: Mr. Glass and the Horde/Beast, who have began a Villain Team-Up.
Bittersweet Ending: On one hand, Mr. Glass, the Overseer, and the Horde are dead at the hands of an Ancient Conspiracy that's dedicated to keeping superheroes and supervillains from the public eye. Elijah's mom has lost her son, Casey lost her love, and Joseph is now an orphan due to losing his mom and now his father. On the other hand, the Ancient Conspiracy failed, as Mr. Glass was able to leak a video of the fight between all three of them to the public with the help of Joseph, Casey, and his mother, thereby ruining the Conspiracy's 10,000-year plan in a single bound and ushering in an era of true blue heroes and villains.
Bookends:
Not counting flashbacks, the entire trilogy began when David Dunn was taking a train back to Philadelphia, with the resulting crash secretly awakening a superhero and a supervillain. This film ends with Casey, Joseph, and Ms. Price sitting in the Philadelphia train station and being responsible for superheroes being known to the general public. As this happens, the sound of a train stopping can be heard, symbolising a chapter closing on the Overseer, the Horde, and Mr. Glass, and a new one opening for those who are inspired by their actions.
The endings of Unbreakable and this film involved the Overseer shaking hands with a hidden villain and learning about their past crimes. Before, it was with Mr. Glass, and the shock caused him to call the authorities and arrest that man. Now, he finds out that Dr. Staple is part of a group that kills off super-powered beings, but he fatally ends up at the mercy of his water weakness to do anything that can stop her misdeeds.
Joseph's arc in Unbreakable ended with David subtly telling Joseph that he has embraced being a superhero, and shushes Joseph to prevent him from telling anybody else about his first superhero foray. His arc in this movie concludes with him broadcasting sent videos depicting the battle between the Overseer and the Horde to the general public. To hammer the point home, there is a flashback of the aforementioned Unbreakable moment, just seconds before Joseph does the deed.
Break Them by Talking: Dr. Staple's specialty. She gives rational, logical explanations for various superpowers that cause the super-people to doubt themselves. She doles them out to Joseph, too, when he tries to convince her that his dad is wrongly imprisoned.
Broken Masquerade: At the end of the movie, Joseph, Casey, and Ms. Price complete Mr. Glass's plan and blow the Masquerade wide open by broadcasting multiple recordings of the battle at the mental hospital.
Brutal Brawl: The fights between the Overseer and the Beast, rather than being slick and highly choreographed like in a modern superhero film, consist of the two of them using heavy punches, slams, and attempts to choke one another out. They are, after all, two completely untrained people who both get by on the fact they have super strength.
Bullying a Dragon: Pierce knows that Mr. Glass is an insane criminal mastermind responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, and yet thinks being condescending to him at best and abusive at worst is a good idea. Mr. Glass makes sure Pierce has a very messy, very final, meeting with the Beast.
The Overseer freeing the four cheerleaders chained to pipes is very similar to when he freed two children, who were similarly chained by the Orange Suit man.
When Joseph is processing the possibility that the Overseer's powers are a self-inflicted delusion, he ruefully looks at a weightlifter in his school, referencing the Overseer's increasingly heavy bench pressing in Unbreakable.
As his last words, Mr. Glass declares "I wasn't a mistake, mama", which is a call back to one of his final lines in Unbreakable ("I'm not a mistake!").
Cape Busters: The Ancient Conspiracy, which includes Dr. Staple, focuses on eliminating superhumans at large, be they supervillains or superheroes.
Cold Open: Manages to do both a Villain Opening Scene and a Batman Cold Open. The film starts with Patricia approaching kidnapped cheerleaders in her disarming manner, and jumps into a series of credits. Then it shows some violent guys videotaping themselves beating up random people, where the Overseer confronts them at home. Cue opening title.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Like in Unbreakable, all three main characters have a distinctive color they're associated with, to continue the superhero and supervillain theme. As seen on the poster above, the Overseer is green, Mr. Glass is purple, and the Beast is mustard yellow. This also extends to those associated with the characters; Joseph wears a green jacket, Ms. Price wears a purple sweater, and Casey wears a red, white, and yellow note The three colors the Horde wears in the opening blazer. Noteworthy that Dr. Staple is almost always wearing a muted grey in contrast to the more vivid colors associated with the three main characters, hinting at her more significant role opposing them.
Comic-Book Time: Hinted at in a conversation between Hedwig and Dr. Staple. Hedwig is supposed to be nine years old, and presumably has been ever since he first manifested in the Horde's body however long ago. Dr. Staple pressures on him the absurdity that he is really nine years old, saying his life experiences has to compound.
Continuity Nod: Shyamalan's Creator Cameo brings up that he was the drug dealer at the stadium in Unbreakable, who the Overseer approaches for a pat-down, and Jai, Dr. Fletcher's building manager from Split, and mentioning that he was looking for added security because "one of the tenants was killed off site."
Casey wears a Philadelphia Zoo workers jacket, the same one given to her when found at the climax of Split.
One of the documents that Dr. Staple has is Dr. Fletcher's note detailing how to stop the Beast.
Say his name - Kevin Wendell Crumb
Contrived Coincidence: The train crash that revealed the Overseer to Mr. Glass in the first place also, seemingly by accident, created the Horde, by killing Kevin's father and leaving him in the care of his abusive mother. Him developing superpowers and becoming the Horde and the Beast as a result was never supposed to be part of the original plan for Mr. Glass.
Cool Old Guy: The Overseer is nearing 60 by the time of this film. However, this doesn't seem to have slowed him down in the slightest. Having super strength and super health probably helps too.
Cooldown Hug: Emulating the comic book use of this trope, Casey making physical contact with The Horde manages to instigate Kevin to return to the light, despite the fact the other personalities typically overpower him.
The Cowl: The Overseer's style of superheroics, being a dark, shadowy figure who finds people that have already commited violent crimes and punishes them for it, quite unlike what Mr. Glass was hoping for. Incidentally, also the style of the Overlord's costume, which is a poncho.
Creator Cameo: M. Night Shyamalan appears as a customer at the Overseer's shop. This is also a Call-Back to Unbreakable, as the Overseer recognizes him and Night states he's gone legit and cleaned up. The end credits reveal he was Jai, from Split, making he and the Overseer the only characters who have appeared in all films of the trilogy.
Creepy Child: The Horde's Hedwig personality, shown roller skating around the captured cheerleaders happily talking about the Beast coming to eat them.
Crossover: The Stinger of Split featured a cameo of the Overseer, establishing a shared continuity with Unbreakable. The main characters of both films all appear in Glass.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Riot police confront the Beast. The end result is a lot of dead police and the Beast without any visible injury.
Deadly Hug: The Beast's preferred Finishing Move.
Decoy Protagonist: The marketing and opening of the movie heavily imply the Overseer is the protagonist, fighting the antagonist, the Beast. The actual protagonist is the titular Mr. Glass, and his goal is to defeat the Ancient Conspiracy and reveal heroes to the world.
Doing In the Wizard: Dr. Staple offers plausible explanations for the characters' more outlandish abilities, and it's convincing enough that the Overseer and the Horde begin doubting themselves. Mr. Glass counters that yes, everything they are capable of is based in science and reality, but that doesn't make them any less extraordinary.
Don't Create a Martyr: The less altruistic aspect of Dr. Staple's work. Gaslighting superhumans into believing they don't have powers avoids the possibility of creating martyrs. Unfortunately for her, Mr. Glass creates a triple whammy of himself, the Overseer, and the Horde at the ending.
Double-Meaning Title: The name Glass is both the supervillainous identity of Elijah Price ("First name: Mister. Last name: Glass.") and thematically similar to the names of the previous films, Unbreakable and Split, which are related to the theme of "broken" people.
The Dreaded: David Dunn has made a name for himself as the Overseer; in the Batman Cold Open, he breaks into the home of some violent thugs and one mentions in terror "It's you!"
The Horde is also terrified of the Overseer. Since the whole point of the Beast is to be stronger than anyone, the alters finding out there's someone even stronger than that causes the normally unflappable Patricia to visibly worry in the asylum.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Overseer is killed in an entirely anticlimactic way via simple drowning, as he is still Unskilled, but Strong, is still recovering from nearly drowning in the tank, and is faced with people prepared for his abilities.
Dying as Yourself: At the end, Casey helps the Beast revert back to Kevin through gentleness and compassion. A sniper uses that opportunity to shoot him in the chest while he is no longer Nigh-Invulnerable. The other personalities take over and try to say their Last Words, but Kevin manages to regain control and is determined to hold on to the light.
Evasive Fight-Thread Episode: Put up against each other, neither the Overseer or the Beast are quite able to get the advantage over the other. The Overseer seems to have a more practiced and precise form of fighting, while the Beast is a berserker who stays ahead primarily through dexterity and speed. The Beast throws the Overseer into the water tank and tries to drown him, but the Overseer holds him off long enough to punch his way out and they spill out into the lawn. Both are winded, but any attempt to continue is interrupted.
Even Evil Has Standards:
The Beast doesn't kill the homeless and the disabled. Why would he, they are broken and thus pure. He even likens himself to them.
The Beast also objects to Mr. Glass causing the abuse of Kevin by engineering the train crash that killed his father and left Kevin in the 'care' of his abusive mother. Mr. Glass feels the full extent of that ire.
And Dr. Staple objects to the killing of superhumans and would rather they were made to think they were normal, rather than made dead.
Dennis draws the line at destroying a skyscraper, not wanting to butcher that many people. He gets shut out of the light for his trouble.
Evil Cripple: Mr. Glass, as already established. While Unbreakable shows him getting hurt and put into a wheelchair for the rest of the film, this movie shows he has taken to using a wheelchair permanently.
Evil Gloating: On a rewatch, it becomes clear that that's what Dr. Staple is doing whenever she takes the time to list the ways that each prisoner's cell is designed to contain them.
Evil Is Hammy: It's as if the Beast was doing a General Zod impression when pronouncing "KNEEL!"
Face–Heel Turn: In Split, the Horde consisted of Dennis, Hedwig, and Patricia, who had evil intentions and helped bring out the Beast, but the other personalities were benign and would try to fight against them whenever possible. In this film, none of the personalities like being locked up and are confrontational with Dr. Staple and the orderlies. Notably, Jade is shown trying to make a clever escape (flirting with Daryl and positioning him directly in front of the lights to give her a fighting chance). After meeting with Mr. Glass, Patricia says that ten of the personalities are now in agreement, which only makes the Horde more dangerous.
Five-Second Foreshadowing: After Kevin is shot by a sniper, the camera pans to focus on a clover tattoo on the wrist of the latter. Moments later, it is revealed that this tattoo is the mark of the Ancient Conspiracy that suppresses the existence of superhumans.
At several points in the story, people question the fact that if superhumans really exist, then why there are only just three of them. The answer is because there is a powerful Ancient Conspiracy that makes it its work to kill or neutralize any super that draws the attention of the world.
Observant viewers will note that for all of Dr. Staple's talk about how she doesn't believe they're superheroes, she puts multiple safeguards in place, like a steel door and waterpump for the Overseer, to keep them from escaping, despite the fact there'd be no reason to if they were normal. She also refuses to shake hands with the Overseer... until it's too late.
Similar to the above, Dr. Staple never takes the easy way out and simply asks them to demonstrate their powers.
In a Deleted Scene taken from Unbreakable and used for this movie during Mr. Glass' self-sabotaged laser surgery, Elijah tried a carnival ride as a child. Because of his brittle bone disease, he decides to put a big stuffed teddy and lion on each side of his seat, to cushion him. However, as the ride gets faster, the stuffed animals fall off and he is flung onto his left shoulder, breaking that first. More collisions occur afterwards, breaking more of his bones. They actually tell us how Mr. Glass dies. Firstly, Joseph informs the Beast that Kevin's father died in the same Eastrail 177 train disaster that Mr. Glass orchestrated to find super-powered beings. Like the stuffed lion lost in that carnival ride, Mr. Glass loses the Beast's trust in him in one fell swoop. As retaliation, the Beast crushes Mr. Glass' left shoulder with his hand, referencing the first aforementioned carnival ride injury. And then, to continue his fight with the Overseer, the Beast shoves Mr. Glass back hard, rupturing Mr. Glass' organs. Finally, Mr. Glass tries to get off his wheelchair, but falls and breaks more bones in the process, sealing his fate.
When Casey goes to a comic shop to get some comics, the owner of the shop (who's played by the same actor who yelled at Mr. Glass to get out of the comics store in ''Unbreakable''), he mentions how superheroes in comics pretty much all started when Superman picked up a car with his bare hands. During the climax of the movie, the Beast does the same when dealing with the riot police and with that footage, it leads to the age of supers coming into the public.
A subtle blink and you'll miss it foreshadow. The shot of the water tank outside of the hospital is framed in a strange way where you see part of the parking lot earlier in the film, including a pot hole with a construction guard marking it. During the final climax, that pot hole, full of water from the tank being popped open, is used to drown the Overseer.
Gaslighting: Dr. Staple's life work revolves around convincing people with superhuman powers that their abilities aren't real and it is all in their heads. She considers this a more humane alternative to simply killing them. The method is so effective that in a matter of days, the Overseer and the Horde were beginning to doubt their own powers.
Genre Savvy: Almost every named character is or becomes conversant in the tropes of superhero comics, using them to guide their actions or to explain their reality.
Good Is Not Soft: The Overseer tracks down people who have done bad things and finds some way to enact justice. Sometimes it's just beating them up.
Gory Discretion Shot: We don't get to see the details when the Beast pummels Pierce to death.
Grand Finale: The film is intended to be the closing chapter of M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy of movies based on superheroes and supervillains.
Guttural Growler: It appears the years have not been kind to Mr. Glass's voice. May be a result of not speaking for a very long time before the film begins, pretending to be a broken man.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: In one of the most brutal examples, just as Casey manages to reach out to Kevin and he finally has the Beast and his other personalities under control, a sniper shoots him, and without the invulnerability of the Beast, he seems to take the shot like a normal human.
The Hero Dies: Played With. While the Overseer dies (followed by Mr. Glass and then the Horde), the ending seems to set up Casey, Joseph, and Ms. Price as new protagonists for The Unmasqued World.
Hollywood Law:
Dr. Staple leads the police to the Overseer and the Horde, has them stunned unconscious and dragged off to an insane asylum under her care with absolutely no trial or lawyers or any due process, and not even the Overseer's son (who, granted, might be worried about being labeled an accomplice) seeks any legal recourse other than going to the doctor and pleading her to let his dad go. Granted, the existence of the Shamrock conspiracy might help explain this, as any judges or lawyers might be in on it, but given that "David Dunn" is a local hero even outside his secret identity and nobody seems to even think about the plainly criminal lengths Dr. Staple went to capture and detain him, it still fits this trope.
Her decision to give Mr. Glass a lobotomy is completely unethical and illegal as well, but again the Shamrock conspiracy would mean that legality wasn't high on her list of priorities; the bigger issue is that nobody else, including the seemingly ignorant staff at the hospital, call her out on this.
Hyper-Awareness: Dr. Staple tries convincing the Overseer that his Touch Telepathy is actually more a subconscious analysis of the situation, comparing it to mentalist magicians. The Overseer questions that reasoning, as it assumes a completely different thought process than what actually goes through his head.
Idiot Ball: With 24 personalities to do the thinking for the Horde, you would have thought that at least one would have come up with the idea of negating the light flash apparatus by shutting his eyes really tight, wrapping some clothing around his eyes, and clamping both hands tightly over his eyes — any light bright enough to penetrate two hands, clothing, and eyelids would be bright enough to burn, and he clearly wasn't burned by the light. This would have got him past the line and allowed him to destroy the lights, allowing the Beast to break out of the cell proper.
I Have Many Names: News and social media nicknames for the Overseer's superheroic identity are mentioned. For a time they called him the Green Guardian, before landing on the Overseer. One that was proposed but didn't get traction, to his relief, was "the Tip Toe Man" (presumably due to how quietly he walks).
Kansas City Shuffle: The crux of Mr. Glass' plan to outwit the Ancient Conspiracy. He spends most of the film acting like his ultimate endgame is to have the Overseer and the Beast fight in public at the Osaka Tower, allowing Dr. Staple to intercept and kill them all before they even make it off the sanitarium grounds. By the time Dr. Staple realizes she's been had and the real plan was to upload a video of the final fight to the internet using the sanitarium's own security cameras, it's far too late.
Karma Houdini: Subverted Trope. While Dr. Staple and her partners seem to get away with full-blown murder (especially in the Overseer's case), Mr. Glass managed to outsmart Dr. Staple and her organization, leaking the battle between the Beast and the Overseer, both toppling their whole conspiracy and presumably leading to a thorough investigation into their cover-ups and the murders that they have been committing.
Kick the Son of a Bitch: A complicated example when the Beast finds out that Kevin's father was killed on the train that Mr. Glass blew up. The Beast is understandably furious and brutalizes Mr. Glass for doing this, but on the other hand, Mr. Glass is the lesser of two evils when you factor in the Ancient Conspiracy.
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: The Overseer, the Beast, and Mr. Glass are all killed by the Ancient Conspiracy in order to cover up the fact that superhumans exist. Mr. Glass makes sure that it fails.
Kneel Before Zod: It's mentioned twice that the "unbroken" are expected to kneel before the Beast.
Kryptonite Factor: As established in Unbreakable, the Overseer still needs air to breathe and sinks like a rock in water. With the Horde, bright flashes of light can trigger a random alter to take control, preventing the Beast from keeping the light for long or otherwise allowing the alters to coordinate an escape (which only works at night or in indoor conditions, as existing outdoor light nullifies the effect).
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Split is a sequel to Unbreakable, and this is the third film of the trilogy. At the time it was released, Split was a Stealth Sequel.
Legacy Launch: During the climax, Ms. Price observes how the story is deviating from the formula established by "limited editions", and Mr. Glass can only smile and respond "Oh, Mama... this is not a limited edition. This was an origin story the whole time." We are later shown that what he means is effectively a in-universe Legacy Launch: The Overseer, The Horde, and Mr. Glass all die, but their deaths act as a cataclysm/origin story for the (implicit) rise of several other supers carrying their legacy.
Let's You and Him Fight: Mr. Glass's goal is to force the Overseer to fight the Beast in front of the world, showing people the truth about superheroes. He succeeds.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Mr. Glass vs the Ancient Conspiracy. Both of them are Well Intentioned Extremists and mass murderers, but whereas Glass has killed people in major incidents to expose the existence of people with super abilities, hoping to create superheroes for the greater good of humankind, the Conspiracy has been doing this to suppress the superheroes for 10,000 years. Ultimately, Mr. Glass succeeds in tearing down their entire operation in a single swoop thanks to a video of the Overseer vs the Beast.
The Lost Lenore: Audrey Dunn died five years prior due to cancer. The Overseer imagines still seeing her sometimes; we see a glimpse of him seeming about to tell her about his superheroics, but don't know if this is a Flashback or an Imagine Spot.
Magnetic Plot Device: Mr. Glass is implied to be this, as he has somehow masterminded things, resulting in the whole world seeing, for the first time, a superhero fighting a similarly super-powered supervillain.
Mass Super-Empowering Event: Blink it and you'll miss it, but a news report right near the end discussing the leaked video of The Overseer observes there has been a mass break-out of inmates from Raven Hill, raising the implication some of them were supers awakened by witnessing the battle between the Overseer and the Horde.
Mission Control: In the time since we last saw him, David Dunn started up a business selling and advising on security systems with his son Joseph. Joseph has a computer station in the back where he looks up and tracks potential targets for the Overseer to look into, and the Overseer's poncho has a microphone letting him communicate with Joseph in real time.
Mook Horror Show: In his Batman Cold Open, the Overseer tracks down some violent guys and they are alerted to someone entering from the back door. One goes to investigate and all we hear is a scuffle and see them thrown into the wall. As he emerges from around the corner the other guy is terrified and the Overseer slams off the light switch.
My Death Is Just the Beginning: Mr. Glass pulls one of hell of a Xanatos/Thanatos Gambit at the end of the film wherein regardless of whether or not his plan to blow up the Osaka Tower comes to fruition, he still exposes the world to supermen and women at the end, thanks to all of the security cameras he has set up, and completely tanks the Ancient Conspiracy that has been trying to hide them all these years.
New Era Speech: In Mr. Glass' emails sent to Joseph, Casey, and Ms. Price, not only are there recordings of the Beast and the Overseer, there is a message from Mr. Glass.
"There are unknown forces that don't want us to realise what we are truly capable of. They don't want us to know the things we suspect are extraordinary about ourselves are real. I believe that if everyone sees what just a few people become when they wholly embrace their gifts, others will awaken. Belief in oneself is contagious. We give each other permission to be superheroes. We will never awaken otherwise. Whoever these people are who don't want us to know the truth, today, they lose."
Nightmare of Normality: The crux of the trio's stay in the psychiatric hospital, being compelled into believing that they are ordinary human beings with mental illnesses.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The poor Overseer gets smacked with this throughout the movie. In going after the Horde and saving the girls he had abducted, he ends up getting taken to a psychiatric hospital. Then, when he breaks out to stop Mr. Glass and the Horde from destroying Osaka Tower, he ends up being cold-bloodedly murdered by fake SWAT members.
No-Sell: In their first encounter, the Beast tries to crush the Overseer the same way he did Dr. Fletcher, to no effect. In fact, almost none of his attacks hurt the Overseer at all, who can catch a table without even flinching and throw it back (causing the Beast to need to take a step back to catch it in turn) and seemingly casually walk the Beast over to a window to throw them both out of it into the street below, all demonstrating how the Overseer is significantly stronger than the Beast in raw power.
Not Allowed to Grow Up: Dr. Staple brings this to Hedwig's attention, almost something of a Hannibal Lecture. He is supposed to be nine years old but has been as long as he has existed. She affirms that his stated age doesn't align with his life experiences. Played with later when Mr. Glass calls always being able to see the world through the eyes of a child a power in its own right.
Obfuscating Insanity: Mr. Glass pretends to be drugged out and catatonic. In reality, he's anything but, and has been playing the asylum staff for years.
Oh, Crap!:
Joseph and Mr. Glass both have this expression when they find out that Kevin's dad died in the same train accident that David Dunn was in, at separate occasions. For the latter, he even drops the documents that he was reading.
Mr. Glass has another one when the Beast turns towards him in utter rage, angry that the former unintentionally killed the latter's father and caused Kevin to suffer his mother's abuse.
Dr. Staple also has one when she overheard some comic book nerds saying that the mastermind always has a secondary plan. She realizes that Mr. Glass has been playing her by having her install more cameras to keep an eye on him, allowing him to send the recording of the Overseer and the Beast's battle to the internet for the world to see.
Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The Overseer is much older than the Horde. (On the other hand, Bruce Willis is also six years younger than Samuel L. Jackson.)
The Overseer has a good 20 years on Dr. Staple, the true villain of the story.
Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The Shamrock conspiracy has meetings by taking over a restaurant, waiting till the non-affiliated patrons leave, and then beginning proceedings. One wonders about the restaurant staff, but we're shown them doing this twice (once in flashback), so it seems to be S.O.P.
Once More, with Clarity!: Twice.
After Dr. Staple finds out about Mr. Glass' visit to the Horde and immediately orders laser surgery on the former's brain, it appears that the surgical laser was malfunctioning. When his surgery is therefore delayed, a still-sane Mr. Glass slices a mental health worker in the neck with a shard of glass, and it is revealed that he wanted to be seen in the surveillance cameras, and had already removed a major component in the laser machine beforehand to avoid losing his mind.
In the denouement, Dr. Staple visits a comic book shop and overhears some geeks talking about how the master criminal always has a secondary plan. This makes her revisit the hospital, only to learn that setting up cameras all over the campus to keep an eye on Mr. Glass was exactly what he was hoping she would do. He rigged the system to stream all CCTV footage into a private server, and eventually send it to Joseph, Casey, and his mother so they can leak the entire superhero battle to the public (which they do).
The Overseer is shown shoving an entire line of riot-gear police into a cargo container by himself, demonstrating the level of Super Strength he possesses.
The Beast is shown ripping a SWAT team apart with his bare hands with ease.
Only I Can Kill Him: The Overseer states he's the only one that can stop the Beast and Mr. Glass. And it's quite evident he's right, as the riot police who try to stop the Beast are effortlessly slaughtered by him.
Out-Gambitted: Glass uses Dr. Staple's own security and precautions to not only beat her, but completely destroy the so-called balance she was working to maintain.
Plausible Deniability: One key facet of the setting is that the actual superpowers of the Overseer, Mr. Glass, and the Horde, can be explained away as Charles Atlas Superpower, Hyper-Awareness, or otherwise some form of mundane answer. Dr. Staple is able to make both the Horde briefly doubt themselves, while Mr. Glass later asserts that you can always just "explain away" their gifts, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Dr. Staple turns out to belong to an Ancient Conspiracy whose goal is to eliminate the truth of superhumans from the public, as them having super-powers is "not fair on the rest of us."
Playing Gertrude: Once again, Charlayne Woodard as Mr. Glass' mother. Woodard is five years younger than Samuel L. Jackson. This is because most of her scenes in Unbreakable were flashbacks to Mr. Glass' youth, and only had one scene in the present day.
Plot Twist: An Ancient Conspiracy that kills supers exists and Dr. Staple is part of it, who kill the Overseer and the Horde.
Police Brutality: Cops in the employ of the Ancient Conspiracy murder David and Kevin under a guise of taking down dangerous threats (when both were actually no longer threats when this happened).
Precursor Hero / Predecessor Villain: The ending of the film shows that the Overseer and the Horde (and possibly Mr. Glass) will end up as the precursor hero and predecessor villain to a new generation of supers that will rise in their wake.
Reconstruction: Unbreakable was a deconstruction of the comic book genre, holding it to a real world setting and with real world consequences. As "David Dunn", the Overseer was strong but didn't know how strong because he never pushed beyond what regular humans do, and his Touch Telepathy was dismissed for just good intuition. Split approached the premise from a different angle (that of a Supervillain), but this film revisits the comic book trappings and embraces them while still holding it to real world consequences. The first fight between the Overseer and the Beast shows them performing superhuman feats, but plays out more like an intense MMA fight than a destructive battle. Mr. Glass more fully embraces being a Diabolical Mastermind, deceiving and misdirecting the people around him while using his immense intellect to cause havoc.
Red Herring Twist: The opening of the Osaka Tower that features prominently in the background of many scenes and which Mr. Glass claims will be the target of his master plan. The Tower is never visited and it turns out to be a red herring in-universe as well.
Remember the New Guy?: The Ancient Conspiracy has existed for 10,000 years and is introduced at the end of this film. Despite this, nothing in the previous two films suggested their existence at all.
Revenge: It's hinted that part of Joseph's motive for sending out the footage he had received from Mr. Glass was to make the Ancient Conspiracy pay for murdering his father.
Revised Ending: According to Samuel L. Jackson, the film originally had a very different ending that needed to be changed due to Real Life Writes the Plot. Whether or not this ending will ever be made available is unknown.
Rule of Three: Noticeably in the dynamic of the three hero/villain characters — the Overseer, Mr. Glass, the Horde - and in the three supporting loved ones/allies — Joseph, Ms. Price, Casey. It is also symbolized by the three-leaf clover mark of the Ancient Conspiracy, reflecting the common clover representing people trying to stop superhumans from ever going public.
Serial Escalation: Split had the Horde display 7 personalities, despite being said to have 24. This film increases the number of personalities McAvoy has to portray (said to be upwards of 12, although may change in the editing), even though the original 7 are more prevalent.
Serial Killer: The Horde targets "unbroken" girls as literal sacrifices to the Beast, with the same pattern established in Split. It's implied they've done it a couple of times since those events.
Shout-Out: "Active Comics" is an obvious nod to "Action Comics".
Shown Their Work: Mr. Glass has numerous surgical scars on his legs and arms; having your bones break so easily and often requires intensive repair work.
Sickening "Crunch!": Very. Happens to Mr. Glass since his bones easily break. The Beast crushed his shoulder and hit him in the guts before attacking the Overseer. He then tries to get up from the wheelchair, but fails, and every part of his body that touches the ground breaks. One could imagine how's that going to sound.
Signature Move: The Overseer is fond of throwing people into walls and cars. The Beast uses a Finishing Move with a Deadly Hug from behind.
Split Personality: The Horde has 24 different personalities, as established in Split.
Stealth Sequel: Averted. This movie makes it clear that it's a sequel to both Unbreakable and Split, which is amusing considering that the second Twist Ending to Split is The Reveal that it takes place in the same universe as Unbreakable. (After the reveal of the super-powered alter-ego "the Beast".)
Superhero Prevalence Stages: Over the course of the two previous films, we saw the very early stage of a superhero universe, with the rise of a superhero and two supervillains and the whole thing still being very recent and covered in shadows, where we're still dealing with very much our world but with a handful of minor breakaways. This film deals with the development of that world as the superheroes and supervillains collide. More specifically, Glass shows that there is an enforced masquerade going on, and the final battle between the Overseer and the Horde (the world's first true public bonafide supervillain vs superhero showdown) act as a cataclysm that leads to the changing of the world, to that masquerade being broken, and to a Mass Superempowering Event, leading to the implication that the world is now heading into the Middle Stage of an abundance of superheroes and villains that are public knowledge.
Super Strength: Both the Overseer and the Beast possess this.
Super Toughness: Both the Overseer and the Beast have this, with the Overseer having previously survived a train wreck unharmed while the Beast can shrug off point-blank shotgun blasts with only minor wounds.
Supervillain: Continuing from Split, this is once more deconstructed. In this case, how utterly outmatched normal people are against a superpowered killing machine.
Talking the Monster to Death: Casey does this to the Beast, using her sympathy and compassion to give him a Cooldown Hug which causes Kevin to resurface. Dr. Staple takes advantage of this by having a sniper shoot Kevin while he is no longer Immune to Bullets.
Tailor-Made Prison: The Overseer and the Horde are placed in rooms designed to counter their abilities. The Overseer's room is outfitted with high-pressure water hoses designed to subdue him. The Horde's room is outfitted with bright lights that can trigger a different personality, preventing them from using the Beast's strength to escape.
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: "First name: Mister. Last name: Glass."
This Is Reality: Twisted around. Mr. Glass points out that real life isn't a cartoon, "...and yet some of us still don't die with bullets. Some of us can still bend steel."
Time Skip: Takes places three weeks after the events of Split.
Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers feature a line from Dr. Staple saying "We are not meant to have this much power". Observant viewers will notice that this line gives away the fact that Dr. Staple does know that her patients' powers are real, spoiling the Twist Ending.
Truth in Television: Some violent kids are shown recording themselves attacking random pedestrians. There was a trend several years prior of teenagers playing a game called "Knock out" where they hit an unsuspecting passerby and try to knock them out.
Two-Part Trilogy: Downplayed example, but consider that only two years will have passed since the release of Split, the Sequel Gap between Unbreakable and Split was seventeen years.
The Unmasqued World: Mr. Glass's ultimate goal is to bring super people into the light for the world to see.
Mr. Glass: This is not a cartoon, this is the real world. And yet, some of us still. Don't die. With bullets. Some of us can still bend steel. I have been waiting for the world to see that we exist.
Vigilante Man: The Overseer has become this in the 19 years since Unbreakable, sticking mostly to low-level criminals.
Villain Team-Up: Mr. Glass and the Horde have ultimately joined forces, and as per usual, the former heavily lampshades it.
Mr. Glass: May I meet the Beast?
Patricia: I hope, for your sake, that he likes you.
Mr. Glass: That sounds like the bad guys teaming up.
Villainous Breakdown: Ellie gets a short but satisfying one when she realizes that Mr. Glass had played her that would ensure that the world knows of the superhumans and the conspiracy that she is a part of. She walks into an empty hallway, pauses, then starts screaming.
Walking Shirtless Scene: The different alters of the Horde try to change clothing appropriate to their personality; the Beast typically removes his shirt.
Wham Line:
Joseph tells the Beast one very crucial fact about Kevin's father, who was mentioned in Split as having left on a train when Kevin was young.
"He took the train my dad was on. The one that everyone died, except my dad."
Dr. Staple decides to check on the Raven Hill Memorial security cameras, after having wiped the footage of the Ancient Conspiracy killing the Beast and the Overseer. This is followed by her piecing together Mr. Glass' real plan:
Raven Hill Memorial computerman: Someone was streaming the live security feed to a private site.
Dr. Staple: Mr. Glass went through the basement tunnels to be seen by as many cameras as possible. That's why he didn't go out the side entrance. He was never planning on going to that building. This was a suicide mission.
Wham Shot:
In conjunction with the Wham Line example above, after we see Kevin's father sitting on the left of a train, a oner shifts the focus to one particular passenger sitting rows ahead on the right: David Dunn, 19 years ago. This reveals that both David Dunn and Kevin's father were on Eastrail 177, which derailed and killed everyone but David Dunn.
Two of them. Casey is able to get Kevin back to the light, and the two are sharing a Cooldown Hug... and then a dot of red light appears to the right of Casey's hair. She and Kevin notice this, the dot moves down, and the shooter, a police sniper, fires. Kevin can only look at the wound in his stomach, now leaking blood.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Both Mr. Glass and the Beast have done horrible things, but the movie underlines a sincere tragedy to the trauma they've endured. At one point, even the Beast looks about ready to cry after fighting the Overseer and realizing they aren't the strongest and toughest, as their entire purpose was to protect Kevin and all the alters.
Worf Had the Flu: After being thrown in the water tank, the Overseer manages to punch his way out while fighting the Beast, but is winded and gasping for air. One of Dr. Staple's henchmen then grabs him and proceeds to drown him in one of the shallow pits that were created. If he were at full strength it would have been easy to resist.
Worthy Opponent: After their first encounter, both the Overseer and the Beast recognize each other as particularly strong opponents. One of the reason Mr. Glass sends the Beast after the Overseer is to give the Overseer a fight worthy of a superhero of his caliber so that he can release the video evidence of their existence to the world, proving his life-long convictions to humanity.
Mr. Glass: I have found someone who will require your full potential.
Wrestler in All of Us: Both the Overseer and the Beast primarily use grapple moves, taking advantage of their invulnerability and strength. The Overseer leans more towards arm locks and throwing people into walls, while the Beast prefers latching on and trying to crush his opponent.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Late in the movie, Mr. Glass corrects his mother that what we are witnessing is not an epic limited edition story, but is still just a Super Hero Origin. The full context implies a degree of Leaning on the Fourth Wall as well, aimed at the audience, as M. Night Shyamalan has always claimed that Unbreakable was not a true origin, but just the first third.
Xanatos Gambit: Mr. Glass's stated plan was to cause an explosion at the opening ceremony of a high rise tower to attract attention and let the Overseer and the Horde fight in public. He seemingly didn't account for the extra cameras around the hospital to catch the breakout. He, the Horde, and the Overseer aren't able to make it past the front lawn and are killed by Dr. Staple's henchmen to make sure no one learns the truth of what they are able to do, with her erasing all camera footage of the event. She then realizes that Mr. Glass set her up to think that she foiled his plans, and realizes he never intended to reach the tower, and instead the footage from her own extra security cameras was secretly streamed to a private server, which is then leaked to the press by Joseph, Casey, and Ms. Price.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mr. Glass to the Overseer, when he was doubting his powers and his sanity, convinces him of this in his own twisted way to get him moving and his self-confidence back. At the end, he also gives humanity at large this by showing them their potential for superpowers.
You Monster!: While his dialogue is silenced during the scene, it's clear that Joseph is yelling this at the conspirators who murdered his father.
Your Mind Makes It Real: A bit of a unique example. The primary reason Supers aren't known all over the world is because people believe it's impossible. It's that mindset that the Ancient Conspiracy has been keeping intact over the years. Of course, that's not enough to keep everyone in line. For that, they have Dr. Staple to convince them.
"Are you ready?"
Alternative Title(s): Glass
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African-American Media
Films of the 2010s – Franchises
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1. To make rasmalai balls, boil one liter milk in a deep saucepan.
2. When milk become boil completely, switch off the flame then add lemon juice and stir constantly.
3. After few minutes lumps of milk would form and milk will be separated into water and lumps.
4. Take a muslin cloth, and put it onto the surface of a bowl. Pour the spoiled milk onto the muslin cloth and drain out all the water from the lumps.
5. Now make a bag of this muslin cloth so that lumps would remain in this bag and hang out the bag on a suitable place for at least 30 mins so that rest of water would drain out completely and the lump become dry.
6. Open the muslin bag, now the dry lumps would become dry and its similar to cottage cheese block.
7. Knead the dough of lumps for 10-15 minutes so that the dough become smooth and soft. This process is very important to make soft rasmalai.
8. Now take small pieces of dough and make them into ball shape of small lemon size.
9. Make sugar syrup using the mentioned quantity of sugar and water.
10. Put the balls into the hot sugar syrup for 2-3 minutes and then take out one by one from the syrup in a plate.
11. Take a bowl of cold water and put all the balls in that.
12. In another sauce pan, boil rest of milk and reduce it to almost half.
13. Add sugar according to your taste and cook for 5-10 mins more and then switch off the flame.
14. Take out each ball one by one from the cold water by slightly press each of them so that excess water drain out but make sure the ball would not break.
15. Put these balls in the hot sugar milk syrup.
16. Sprinkle some cardamom powder and crushed almonds onto the rasmalai and place the bowl in fridge for an hour to chill.


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If you thought the Second Amendment sanctuary movement was about protecting gun rights, well, no.
Because, see, we're on the verge of having ourselves a civil war.
This, we learned, from Mike Shull, who, the times being what they are, was able to get himself elected, and re-elected, to the Augusta County Board of Supervisors.
Shull, in a pro-wrestling-style promo at last night's special BOS meeting at Stuarts Draft High School, clumsily conflated the American Revolution and Civil War as he made the case for declaring the county a Second Amendment sanctuary.
"Just as here tonight, think back 250 years ago when they were sitting there wanting freedom. They were fighting the Red Coats. The Democrats are the Red Coats that we've got to fight now," Shull said, from excellent reporting in the News Leader, which I encourage you to read (and support, in the form of purchasing a subscription).
More from Shull: "I'm not advocating we go to the streets. We've had one Civil War in this country. And if we keep on, we gonna have another civil war."
Yeah, wow.
Ahem. Now, for some context.
The Second Amendment was enacted by the framers to account for the lack of desire on their part to create a standing army, which largely stemmed from the lack of desire on their part to come up with the money to pay for a standing army.
Which itself was the result of there being a lack of desire on their part to really pay any outstanding bills.
Seriously, look it up.
That thing about wanting everything and not wanting to pay for it is deep-rooted in the American psyche.
Anyway, so, the Second Amendment. We're too cheap to have a standing army, so, we need to let people, read: white males, keep their guns, in the event that the British invade us again, or maybe the French, or Spain, whoever.
That part about a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state?
That wording is in there for a reason.
The Second Amendment absolutists find this truth to be inconvenient, naturally.
In any case, the reasoning for letting people, read: white males, keep their guns wasn't so that people, read: white males, could up and decide to shoot legislators who passed laws they didn't like.
Yeah, there are some who will tell you that, you know, Thomas Jefferson said something about how "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," and we're talking Thomas Jefferson there, so, come on, he was Thomas Jefferson.
Consider, though, that Jefferson wrote that in 1787, two years before he was an eyewitness to the French Revolution, which so refreshed the tree of liberty with a wash of blood of patriots and tyrants that France went from being a monarchy to a dictatorship; and that Jefferson, later in life, made it a point to try to edit his letters in which he shared his prognostications about how well things were going to turn out for the French, so ashamed was he of his stunning naivete.
But here we are, in 2019, revisiting and repeating that stunning naivete, and if not codifying it into law, making it public policy.
And doing so based on a fundamental misread of the Second Amendment, per the framers.
Who, and this probably bears repeating, weren't at all thinking, let's arm the populace so that they can shoot us.
But, hey, at least we know what's really going on in Augusta County.
All the fluff about people needing guns to hunt and protect themselves, yeah, right.
What it's really about is being able to overthrow a duly elected government if the mood strikes.
Glad to have that cleared up.
Column by Chris Graham
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Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, Nancy Erickson has studied music her entire life. "When I was growing up, all types of music were ever-present in my home. We listened to everything from Frank Sinatra, Don Ellis, Peggy Lee, & Louis Armstrong to The Beatles, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Frank Zappa, The Band, and soundtracks from musicals". The music that filled her home became the foundation that would yield one of the more versatile musicians in the Seattle area. With influences like Nancy Wilson, Frank Sinatra, Dianne Reeves, and Peggy Lee, Nancy's wide-ranging alto voice has been compared to Karen Carpenter and Ella Fitzgerald.
Nancy relocated to Seattle in 1982, studying music theory & directing at Edmonds Community College under the tutelage of Frank DeMiero, Al Galante, and Rick Asher. She toured Europe in a jazz group and is accredited with performing in both the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands & the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and had the opportunity of sharing the stage with such greats as Ernestine Anderson, Mark Murphy, the Hi-Lo's, The Four Freshmen, Ward Swingle, and Mimi Perrin. Other notable appearances have been with Matt Catingub, Tom Kubis, Bill Ramsey, Roger Treece, Michael Powers, and Lenny Williams.
Nancy began her career after college by singing in a NW jazz band called After Hours, which performed around Seattle for several years during the late 80's and early 90's. Nancy later recorded and co-produced a Christmas CD entitled "Urban Christmas" in 1993 under the group name, 'Xebec'. Shortly after, she took a break from jazz while raising her children and arranged and performed music locally that contained facets of pop, rock, country, and R&B. She returned to performing in larger venues by singing backup with the Northwest R&B band Freddy Pink. Nancy also did some backup work with the band Nearly Dan (a Steely Dan tribute band) and sang in Praise! with Bernadette Bascom.
In 2009 Nancy returned to her jazz roots; "I'd been singing other styles in various bands but when I started sitting in at jazz jams I remembered where my heart lies musically and truly where my niche is." Her 2011 debut CD, "Prelude" received positive reviews and she has become a staple in the Pacific Northwest Jazz scene. She then received accolades by winning the 2012 Seattle-Kobe Jazz Vocalist competition at Jazz Alley, resulting in a thrilling performance in Kobe, Japan at Asahi Hall which was broadcast live online to over 5,000 viewers. Nancy recorded her sophomore album "While Strolling Through the Park" in 2016 which was well-received and propelled her career.
Nancy released her third solo CD "Nancy Erickson – Here and Now" in August, 2018. This album was recorded live by Jim Wilke (Jazz Northwest – KNKX) and includes unique arrangements of jazz standards (Honeysuckle Rose, Hot House, Night in Tunisia), some non-jazz tunes (Sting's 'Fragile'), and an original piece (Let Love Begin) written by Nancy Erickson & Darin Clendenin. "Here and Now" features the musical skills of the 200 Trio (Greg Feingold, Cole Schuster, Max Holmberg) and Alex Dugdale. Michael Steinman of Jazz Lives writes of this album: "Nancy has a splendid vocal range, although it never seems she is doing tricks to impress us; her voice pleases in all registers without strain; her diction is flawless; her swing likewise, and her scat-singing is quite delightful. And when she's tender, or sharp-edged, or playful, she always swings. I assure you, the experience of this CD is rather like the most subtle compelling one-woman show you could imagine."
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Following the success of yesterday's Farming Forum in Beaufort, senators John Madigan and Nick Xenophon are looking forward to holding similar events across regional Victoria and South Australia in the future.
The day provided local farmers the opportunity to raise any issues they saw as important to the future viability of their industry, with a common theme being that both state and federal governments aren't doing enough to assist food producers.
Key issues that need to be addressed immediately are: clearer labeling laws; a reduction of bureaucratic red tape; the supermarket duopoly of Coles and Woolworths; fair trade, not free trade; and a greater understanding of life on the land by city-centric government departments.
"Many people spoke about how their children had left the farm, never to return, because of the difficulty in making a decent dollar in a sector where successive governments have favoured multinational companies and supermarket lobbyists, rather than local food producers," Senator Madigan said.
"I empathise with these people and can only imagine how frustrated they must be with politicians.
Senator Xenophon told attendees that he would continue to fight for a fairer go for Australian farmers.
"Australian farmers have been thrown to the wolves of free trade – our farmers have been abandoned by successive governments and left to fend for themselves in an uneven playing field," Senator Xenophon said.
"Unless there is urgent action, there won't be a new generation of farmers to replace this one as they retire or walk off the land.
Speakers on the day were BeyondBlue ambassador Tony McManus, VFF vice-president David Jochinke, DEPI regional director (Grampians) Brendan Roughead, Pyreenees Shire councillor and farmer Robert Vance, and legal specialist Tom Moloney.


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Cavallo, das Pferd, auch Callo oder Cavalluccio das Pferdchen, war eine kupferne neapolitanische Scheidemünze.
 10 Cavalli = 1 Grano
 100 Cavalli = 1 Carlino
 1000 Cavalli = 1 Ducato di Regno

Literatur
 Jurende's vaterländischer Pilger: Geschäfts- und Unterhaltungsbuch. Band 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, S. 358.
 Johann Friedrich Krüger: Vollständiges Handbuch der Münzen, Maße und Gewichte aller Länder der Erde. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg/Leipzig 1830, S. 41.

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LB v BMH [2017] MHLO 10 (UT)
"The First-tier Tribunal decided that the patient should not be discharged from liability to be detained and to make no recommendation pursuant to section 72(3) and (3A) of the 1983 Act. Paragraph 19 of its written decision recorded the following: 'The solicitor representing the patient sought an adjournment as she had concerns about the quality of the evidence regarding the patient's clinical treatment in the past. We have some sympathy with the view that the patient's treatment history is incomplete. A summary of the previous treatments should be available to the panel wherever possible. However, the recent treatment history during the in-patient admission at [this hospital] was available to the panel. There was ample evidence before the panel that the patient is floridly psychotic and in our view the evidence satisfied the criteria for detention. We refused the request for an adjournment.' ... The grounds of appeal argue that the reports before the First-tier Tribunal gave very little information about the patient' s previous placement, nor about the reasons for the transfer, nor about any previous trials with clozapine. The application for an adjournment was made with a view to persuading the First-tier Tribunal to recommend a transfer under section 72(3), which was not possible without further information. This was especially important because the First-tier Tribunal proceedings were by way of reference and the patient was unlikely to appeal himself 'and may remain inappropriately placed for a further three years'. I agree with these grounds and also note that the application to adjourn was not made by or on the instructions of the patient but by an experienced specialist solicitor who had herself been appointed by the tribunal and felt that there was inadequate evidence before the tribunal (which, to an extent, the tribunal itself acknowledged). ... [T]he refusal to adjourn amounted to a breach of the rules of natural justice and fair procedure and for these reasons this appeal is allowed."
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India Project Update & Appointment of New Company Secretary
Environmental Clean Technologies Limited (ASX: ESI) (ECT or Company) is pleased to provide the following update on the status of the 'Independent External Financial Review' (the Review) into its proposed Coldry-Matmor plant in India with project partners NLC India Ltd and NMDC Ltd.
Review sequence amended to bring forward recommended changes to the draft Master Project Agreement (MPA)
Overall timeframe to submit the Final Report to NITI Aayog is not expected to materially change
Date for delivery of the Final Report moved from 19 Dec 2017 to a date to be advised
Final Report – Change in sequence
Further to the Company's previous update (1 December 2017), ECT is pleased to confirm that the progress of activities under the original scope for the Review has proceeded according to schedule.
However, following a decision among ECT's project partners, there has been a change in the sequence of activities resulting in the following updated guidance.
The scope of work has now changed, such that the previous activity sequence of:
Draft Report (delivered to NLC and NMDC on 22 November)
Review & Revise, deeper review and further information sharing as needed
Final Report (due 19 December)
MPA revisions to address any recommended changes identified during the Review
Submission to NLC & NMDC Boards for approval
Submission to NITI Aayog
Has changed to:
Final Report based on revised MPA
Originally, any revisions to the draft MPA were to occur outside the scope of the Review, following the Final Report. This amendment activity has now been brought forward into the scope with the intention to deliver a Final Report based on the updated MPA, creating a more robust outcome and maximising the prospect for a smooth passage through NITI Aayog.
While the change in sequence has changed the date for the delivery of the Final Report, bringing forward the MPA revisions is not expected to extend the overall time to deliver the report to NITI Aayog.
ECT India Chairman and Managing Director, Ashley Moore commented, "The parties continue to engage closely with the external consultant through this detailed and thorough process. A range of matters have been highlighted requiring amendment in the draft MPA to meet business objectives, including optimised structuring and refined clarity of intent to support the articulation of the R&D stage into future commercial development of the project. Our project partners NLC and NMDC remain motivated and are working hard to support the positive conclusion of the Final Report for submission to NITI Aayog."
"We are currently seeking further guidance on anticipated timing to incorporate the changes to the MPA and will update shareholders accordingly."
Director Projects & Planning, NLC India, Mr. P. Selvakumar added, "We continue to move ahead with this important project, and look forward to meeting again soon with our ECT colleagues."
Mr Rajan Kumar, Head of Research and Development at NMDC stated, "The review process is necessarily detailed and thorough, and a positive outcome would support smooth passage in subsequent stages."
The Company will provide further updates as activities progress, subject to confidentiality requirements which preclude comment on the content of the report ahead of finalisation and subsequent approval by the project partners.
Shareholders will recall that as stated in the tender document prepared by NLC, the scope of the financial review includes the following broad areas:
Examination of the Master Project Agreement (MPA) legal structure
Review of the proposed funding mechanism
Review of the structure and function of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) entity
Analysis of the proposed R&D taxation structure
Analysis of ECT's cumulative cost base for development of the Coldry and Matmor technologies
Analysis of additional elements of the proposed project structure
The review forms an essential part of the broader project assessment process being undertaken by the Indian Prime Minister's national planning committee, NITI Aayog, prior to execution of the proposed Master Project Agreement (MPA).
The MPA frames the corporate structure, project roles, project activities, future royalty, technology licensing, financial and governance aspects for the joint development of the integrated Coldry-Matmor facility in India with NLC and NMDC. More detailed agreements would follow in relation to various aspects of the project once the MPA is executed.
The project initially focuses on the execution of a research and development (R&D) phase consisting of a Coldry demonstration plant integrated with a Matmor pilot plant. The estimated cost of the R&D stage is ~AUD30 million, to be funded equally by the three parties under the proposed MPA.
Following successful completion of the R&D phase, the MPA sets the framework for the articulation of the project into a commercial phase, entailing a proposed 500,000 tonne per annum Matmor steel plant and commercial scale Coldry plant. The estimated budget for the commercial phase is AUD$300M+.
Given the project entails the largest R&D investment ever made on a single project by either NLC or NMDC, and features a strong strategic alignment to India's policy objectives on a broad range of areas including energy and resource security, steel industry development and reduction of emissions intensity, the Secretary of the Ministry of Coal, Mr Shusheel Kumar believes it may potentially be a project of national significance. Mr Kumar's referral of the project to NITI Aayog for consideration as a project of national significance has entailed the inclusion of the external, independent financial review.
Appointment of Company Secretary
The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Hill as Company Secretary of the Company and its subsidiaries effective immediately.
This appointment follows the resignation of Adam Giles as Company Secretary of the ECT group of companies.
Martin was recently appointed to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and brings to his new role extensive experience in the areas of general management and accounting in a variety of industries including manufacturing, finance and service providers.
As a founding shareholder, Adam has been with the Company since its inception and was appointed ECT group Company Secretary in December 2012.
Consistent with, and building upon previous announcements regarding changes to the business (17 Oct 2017) aimed at preparing for anticipated increased activity in India, Adam will assume the new role of Marketing and Communications Manager.
The Directors thank Adam for his service as Company Secretary and look forward to his continued contribution toward the success of the business in his new role.
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In 2015, the City and the Waldo Community Improvement District conducted an assessment of the intersection of 75th Street and Wornall Road in order to evaluate traffic capacity, safety, and walkability of the intersection. The study resulted in recommendations that are aimed to improve traffic flow, while at the same time improve the intersection so that it incorporates features to improve pedestrian friendliness. The study also identified ways to extend the Trolley Track Trail between 74th Street and 75th Street, thereby eliminating a major barrier for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Since that time, the City, working with the Waldo CID, has received a $2 million grant to implement the results of the study. The City has appropriated funds for the reconstruction of curbs and sidewalks along Wornall Road from 74th and 75th Street. Given the extensive work proposed, the City is now aiming to completely reconstruct Wornall Road from 74th Street to 79th Street, a stretch of roadway that is well worn and beyond ordinary maintenance. This is significant work that, when completed, will improve this key commercial corridor within Waldo.
Following water main replacement and sewer separation work by KC Water, the goal is to start this project in the first quarter of 2019 and complete it in the fourth quarter of 2020.


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Mondercange (in lussemburghese: Monnerech; in tedesco: Monnerich) è un comune del Lussemburgo meridionale. Fa parte del cantone di Esch-sur-Alzette, nel distretto di Lussemburgo.

Nel 2001, la città di Modercange, capoluogo del comune che si trova nella parte occidentale del suo territorio, aveva una popolazione di 3.179 abitanti. Le altre località che fanno capo al comune sono Bergem, Foetz e Pontpierre

Sport
A Mondercange ha sede la Fédération Luxerbourgeoise de Football (FLF), l'organizzazione che governa il mondo del calcio nel Paese. La squadra di calcio del paese, F.C. Mondercange, ha partecipato per otto stagioni alla Division Nationale, massimo livello del campionato lussemburghese di calcio, e ha partecipato anche a un'edizione della Coppa UEFA. A ospitare le partite della squadra è lo stadio comunale.

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#pragma once
#include <aws/lightsail/Lightsail_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
  class JsonView;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace Lightsail
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
Describes the health check configuration of an Amazon Lightsail container
   * service.

See Also:
   AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_LIGHTSAIL_API ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig
  {
  public:
    ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig();
    ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& operator=(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue Jsonize() const;

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health checks successes required before moving the
     * container to the Healthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline int GetHealthyThreshold() const{ return m_healthyThreshold; }

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health checks successes required before moving the
     * container to the Healthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline bool HealthyThresholdHasBeenSet() const { return m_healthyThresholdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health checks successes required before moving the
     * container to the Healthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline void SetHealthyThreshold(int value) { m_healthyThresholdHasBeenSet = true; m_healthyThreshold = value; }

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health checks successes required before moving the
     * container to the Healthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithHealthyThreshold(int value) { SetHealthyThreshold(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health check failures required before moving the
     * container to the Unhealthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline int GetUnhealthyThreshold() const{ return m_unhealthyThreshold; }

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health check failures required before moving the
     * container to the Unhealthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline bool UnhealthyThresholdHasBeenSet() const { return m_unhealthyThresholdHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health check failures required before moving the
     * container to the Unhealthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline void SetUnhealthyThreshold(int value) { m_unhealthyThresholdHasBeenSet = true; m_unhealthyThreshold = value; }

    /**
     *
The number of consecutive health check failures required before moving the
     * container to the Unhealthy state. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithUnhealthyThreshold(int value) { SetUnhealthyThreshold(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response means a failed
     * health check. You can specify between 2 and 60 seconds. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline int GetTimeoutSeconds() const{ return m_timeoutSeconds; }

    /**
     *
The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response means a failed
     * health check. You can specify between 2 and 60 seconds. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline bool TimeoutSecondsHasBeenSet() const { return m_timeoutSecondsHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response means a failed
     * health check. You can specify between 2 and 60 seconds. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline void SetTimeoutSeconds(int value) { m_timeoutSecondsHasBeenSet = true; m_timeoutSeconds = value; }

    /**
     *
The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response means a failed
     * health check. You can specify between 2 and 60 seconds. The default value is
     * 2.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithTimeoutSeconds(int value) { SetTimeoutSeconds(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The approximate interval, in seconds, between health checks of an individual
     * container. You can specify between 5 and 300 seconds. The default value is
     * 5.

     */
    inline int GetIntervalSeconds() const{ return m_intervalSeconds; }

    /**
     *
The approximate interval, in seconds, between health checks of an individual
     * container. You can specify between 5 and 300 seconds. The default value is
     * 5.

     */
    inline bool IntervalSecondsHasBeenSet() const { return m_intervalSecondsHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The approximate interval, in seconds, between health checks of an individual
     * container. You can specify between 5 and 300 seconds. The default value is
     * 5.

     */
    inline void SetIntervalSeconds(int value) { m_intervalSecondsHasBeenSet = true; m_intervalSeconds = value; }

    /**
     *
The approximate interval, in seconds, between health checks of an individual
     * container. You can specify between 5 and 300 seconds. The default value is
     * 5.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithIntervalSeconds(int value) { SetIntervalSeconds(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetPath() const{ return m_path; }

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline bool PathHasBeenSet() const { return m_pathHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline void SetPath(const Aws::String& value) { m_pathHasBeenSet = true; m_path = value; }

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline void SetPath(Aws::String&& value) { m_pathHasBeenSet = true; m_path = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline void SetPath(const char* value) { m_pathHasBeenSet = true; m_path.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithPath(const Aws::String& value) { SetPath(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithPath(Aws::String&& value) { SetPath(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The path on the container on which to perform the health check. The default
     * value is /.

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithPath(const char* value) { SetPath(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetSuccessCodes() const{ return m_successCodes; }

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline bool SuccessCodesHasBeenSet() const { return m_successCodesHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline void SetSuccessCodes(const Aws::String& value) { m_successCodesHasBeenSet = true; m_successCodes = value; }

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline void SetSuccessCodes(Aws::String&& value) { m_successCodesHasBeenSet = true; m_successCodes = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline void SetSuccessCodes(const char* value) { m_successCodesHasBeenSet = true; m_successCodes.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithSuccessCodes(const Aws::String& value) { SetSuccessCodes(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithSuccessCodes(Aws::String&& value) { SetSuccessCodes(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The HTTP codes to use when checking for a successful response from a
     * container. You can specify values between 200 and 499.
     * You can specify multiple values (for example, 200,202) or a range
     * of values (for example, 200-299).

     */
    inline ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig& WithSuccessCodes(const char* value) { SetSuccessCodes(value); return *this;}

  private:

    int m_healthyThreshold;
    bool m_healthyThresholdHasBeenSet = false;

    int m_unhealthyThreshold;
    bool m_unhealthyThresholdHasBeenSet = false;

    int m_timeoutSeconds;
    bool m_timeoutSecondsHasBeenSet = false;

    int m_intervalSeconds;
    bool m_intervalSecondsHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_path;
    bool m_pathHasBeenSet = false;

    Aws::String m_successCodes;
    bool m_successCodesHasBeenSet = false;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace Lightsail
} // namespace Aws


This Angora stands more or less under the feeder area and the fiber is completely integrated with alfalfa leaves and rendered useless.
The Angora goats have been here a year now. Over countless generations, the Angora, which produces mohair, not angora, fiber, has been bred for more and more production. The fiber was the most important aspect of the breeding and some other qualities have been forgiven as a result. The goats are not hardy. They require shelters that are draft proof and warm. Despite all that fiber, it parts down the back of the goats, snow or rain gets in, and the goats get chilled.
The goats are the lowest on the herd hierarchy, so are best on their own. On the farm, there are also Nigerian Dwarf, Pygmy and French Alpine goats. The Angoras are among the largest, however; they are pushed aside by even the smallest Pygmy goat.
Because they are horned and large, they cannot eat through feeders as easily. As a matter of fact, feeding them is a problem. They require a high protein food to keep their body condition up because they are producing so much fiber and the fiber is all protein. Most Angora breeders have resorted to feeding pellets to keep the alfalfa hay out of the fibers and to provide the high protein requirements, plus the copper and other minerals required. The angoras on this farm are fed with the other goats, but have to be fed in a different place and even then they are pushed aside. They receive 50% alfalfa hay, green and fresh, as do the rest of the ruminants on the farm and are doing well with it, but their fiber is ruined because of it. One goat in particular stands under the others as they feed, and the fine leaves of the alfalfa go onto the back and catch in the fiber. This is extremely difficult to clean and results in a ruined fiber crop.
The goats produce such copious amounts of mohair, they need to be sheared twice annually and their hooves grow at that same rate and need constant maintenance. But here, in northeastern Alberta, it is very cold in the winter and timing must be precise. We have cold springs too so shearing early in March and early in September is ideal. The goats shiver and are cold and require extra care for the first few weeks after shearing.
The goats do not produce twins as often as they do have single births. The babies are weak when born, not robust and running as the Pygmy babies, for example, and the mothers often need assistance and care to ensure they tend the babies properly. It is crucial that the baby drinks within a short period after birthing. The last first time mother booted her baby away and did not understand she was supposed to feed him. Many times daily, I had to coral her and hold her so he could nurse, until she got the idea.
So, with the intensive management that Angora goats require, they will be leaving the farm. I may keep #72, who seems to be hardier than her sisters, just for her fiber, which also is exceptional. She would be bred to either an Angora or Pygmy, depending on how this crop of babies turns out. The Angora was turned out to breed all the goats, hoping to produce some Pygoras and Nygoras, crosses that produce coloured different fiber quite sought after by handspinners.
There is one buckling from last March, not related to the two females that will be for sale this year. They are purebred and from registered stock, but not registered. Their tags are still in place and if the buyer wishes to register them, it would be quite simple and not expensive. But, that is it for the Angora trial on the Fat Ewe Farm! Learning is by trial and now I know. They are simply much too much effort for the farm to keep and since there is no demand for fiber with vegetative matter and they will not be switched to pellets, because they contain GMO grains, they simply do not fit in. So, long. It was nice to know ya'!
Angora goats produce mohair. Their fiber easily is contaminated by hay and especially by alfalfa leaves.


Tom Rogerson's new solo album Finding Shore features 13 elegant and evocative tracks assembled in collaboration with Brian Eno. Finding Shore is the sound of Rogerson distilling the essence of what he does after a protracted musical journey from childhood up until now. He took the traditional route of music lessons and learning notation before starting composing "properly." Eno's influence on Finding Shore was to enable Rogerson to overcome his fear of committing to any one piece and turning it into an album, an issue he says he shares with many improvisers. Eno suggested that they try experimenting with the Piano Bar, an obscure piece of musical equipment. This works by using infrared beams focused on each piano key. These are then broken as the keys are played, transforming the piano's note into a midi signal that can then be used to trigger or generate new, digital sound. "It immediately puts a frame around what I do, which is what all improvisers need," Rogerson says. The first day in the studio was instructional in terms of what was to come. Eno had already mic'd up a piano and asked Rogerson to do what he'd normally do at a gig. Rogerson describes what he played as "very emotional, very cathartic, me wailing and screaming, getting quite out there. I thought 'wow that was just such a perfect 45 minute thing we could just release that'." But Eno had other ideas, eventually zooming in on just 30 seconds of music, cutting it up and looping it to a form inspired by Eric Satie. The result is the three-minute-long "An Iken Loop," which is now Rogerson's favorite on the record. Other Eno-devised systems included playing along to an arpeggiator, cut-ups of chord sequences written down and pulled out of a hat, or placing Midi and physical sounds in juxtaposition. "It was never anything other than pleasurable," says Rogerson of the experience. "We had plenty of experiments that didn't work, but it never feels like you're failing. He's quite egoless as well about his own ideas.".


Hawai'i Electric Light crews have completed the replacement of a transmission pole on Kuakini Highway near Ka'alele Street in Honalo.
The pole was damaged in a motor vehicle accident earlier this morning and required a partial lane closure while the pole was being replaced.
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For a few years now, Niche Snowboards have been working on a project with Connora Technologies to pioneer a new way to make snowboards. Their goal was to make it so that all of our manufacturing waste, and even end of life products themselves, are 100% recyclable.
Niche is proud to introduce their first set of products using the Recyclamine® resin system: a true zero-waste manufacturing solution.
U.S. landfills released an estimated 163 million tons of CO2 equivalent to the atmosphere in 2014 alone. Every time we throw something away, we contribute to climate change. But making small steps to protect our environment does have a massive impact. This doesn't mean you need to radically uproot your lifestyle, or expect massive changes overnight. Your decision to be part of the solution starts with your point of purchase, and for Niche, the way they create those products in the first place.
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