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Suisei no Gargantia – 13 (Fin)
Ledo and Chamber learn that Striker is operating autonomously, and has decided that she is a god to be worshiped and served by the human race to keep them peaceful and prosperous. Chamber disagrees, saying depriving people of the ability to think or make decisions is robbing them of their humanity. They engage in battle. Gargantia fires the Heaven's Ladder at Kugel's fleet as Pinion and Lukkage evacuate the relic island.
Ledo merges with Chamber using the "Neuroplus" system, but cannot defeat Striker without killing himself. Kugel's fleet is defeated, and the island is destroyed. When Ledo tells Chamber he wants to be with Amy, Chamber relieves him of duty, ejects him, and destroys Striker in a suicide attack. Ledo rejoins Amy and commences his new life as an underwater researcher on Gargantia.
Striker may have learned how to operate on her own, but it's ultimately Chamber who becomes the most human-like of the two. In the time spent with Ensign Ledo and the people of Gargantia, he morphed from the same cold, analytical stick-in-the-mud Striker was to a robot that was willing to stick with his pilot's will until the end and give up his existence so that his pilot can continue to live, even if he'll no longer be a soldier. In fact, he feels his entire reason for existence – to support Ledo – is fulfilled by his actions.
This episode carried on the excellence of the previous episode when the huge multi-vectored battle began, and came to an awesome and very fulfilling conclusion. Ledo realized there was more to life than completing one's overarching mission, or rather, came to a new understanding of that mission, as Chamber did. The mission isn't to fight and defeat the Hideauze, forevermore. The mission is to survive and live. And he does, with Amy and Gargantia. Hell, he even starts wearing sandals!
Rating: 9 (Superior)
Chamber's whole "Bitch is you crazy?" dialogue to the Mad Striker is fantastic, culminating in "Go to Hell, Tin Can!"
Relieving Ledo of duty for being "psychological unfit" was also an awesome pretense for Chamber to be a badass and save Ledo – and frankly, all other humans – from Striker's wrath.
The Heaven's Ladder, with its water shock suppression system, was pretty cool.
Bevel's closing history lecture is a little bit shoehorned in, but we can see why they wanted that in the "so, here's what's up now" montage.
Pinion and Lukkage seem to end up becoming friends
Ledo now has a squirrel friend just like Amy. How sickeningly cute.
Haunting parting shot: a huge gathering of Hideauze swimming around the ocean floor.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 30 Jun 2013 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, chamber, commander kugel, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, gods, hideauze, ledo, lukkage, neuroplus, Pinion, striker, suicide mission2 Comments on Suisei no Gargantia – 13 (Fin)
Suisei no Gargantia – 11
Commander Kugel orders Ensign Ledo to report to him immediately, and he obeys. At the same time, the fleet Kugel came with demands Pinion meet with them for negotiations. Kugel, confined to his cockpit, was able to take command of the fleet and has reordered society to maximize efficiency. Rukkage picks Pinion up, and after solving a aptitude puzzle, Kugel's Machine Caliber, Striker, convinces him to combine his fleet with Kugel's. Kugel's acolytes immediately begin splitting up the Flange fleet boat by boat. Kugel unveils his next "awareness strategy" to Ledo: the target will be Gargantia.
"Maybe I never should have left my cockpit," Ledo says, once Chamber and Striker calmly, cooly tell him how things will be going down now that Commander Kugel is in the picture. While Ledo left the cockpit, made friends, and developed a sympathy for the natives, Kugel has remained in his cockpit the whole time, whether because of his "endemic disease", his desire to inspire awe in his followers with a shroud of mystery, or to maintain emotional distance from this world and its inhabitants. He believes mankind's survival depends on him and Ledo teaching these humans how to defend themselves. That's meant adopting a pseudo-religious cult of personality (since, with his technology, it's not exactly hard), and fundamentally re-ordering the society of the fleet he's taken command of to function like a military entity rather than a city or family.
There is no money, but intricate social gradation based upon individual skills. "Happiness" is rather laughably defined as "the realization of a circumstance in which the individual renders service to the entire group and the cost-benefit performance of that is at the greatest efficiency." As a result, there are some in Kugel's fleet who live well, and some who don't get enough food, but it's all deemed "fair." The weak serve the strong and everyone's eyes are on the same prize. Faced with Kugel, Pinion and Flange have no choice but to surrender, and things are starting to look very bad very quickly. When Ridget mentioned to Amy that Gargantia's fleet will soon be passing close to Pinion's, who could have guessed that'll mean sailing straight into hell?
Rating: 8 (Great)
Rukkage has taken a pragmatic approach, joining Kugel and escorting Pinion around. But she definitely has some kind of plan up her sleeves.
Just to twist the knife, the footage of Gargantia Kugel shows Ledo just happens to include an extended close-up of a happy Amy.
We know that Ledo already has second thoughts about returning to Kugel's command…but we just don't know how in the hell he's going to stop Kugel from destroying Gargantia, especially with just two episodes left!
That awesome map up top lets count every ship in the Gargantia (>150), Pinion (~50), and Kugel (>150) fleets.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, chamber, commander kugel, flange, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, happiness, ledo, melty, Pinion, religious cult, ridget, rukkage, striker
Ledo returns to base, and Pinion's crew starts bringing up ancient treasure. Pininon sends a wide-range communique to other fleets announcing the annihilation of the whalesquid nest and their discovery, and warning them to stay away. The word reaches Gargantia, where Ridgett, Bellows, Saya and Amy express their disappointment and distress. Pirates attack Pinion's fleet but surrender when they fire the ancient weapon, and Pinion gets the idea to expand the fleet. Ledo can't celebrate with the others, as he struggles with guilt over slaughtering the Hideauze. He doubts the cause he always fought for, but Chamber assures him from independent analysis that mankind and the Hideauze have fundamentally opposing survival strategies, and their conflict will always be zero-sum. While discussing this, Chamber detects an allied mech which Ledo identifies as Commander Kugel's.
While last week was all about putting a human face on the Hideauze, this week balances the issue, by showing that there are no easy answers in the conflict between humans and Hideauze. Both groups are extremes locked in an existential fight. Humans embrace civilization and build tools and machines to exceed the limits of their individual bodies; Chamber considers himself the "crystallization of human intellect", something essential to fight the Hideauze in their current state. Part of humanity broke off into Hideauze, the group began to abandon civilization, and one could argue they returned to being animals, concerned only with survival and reproduction. If humanity threaten either, they must be fought and destroyed.
In this regard, Chamber dispenses with Alliance propaganda and simply looks at the facts and the history laid out in front of him, and his conclusions make a lot of sense. Except when you realize that the Hideauze were the result of civilization advancing so far, they could escape their human bodies altogether. Humanity is in just as "extreme" a situation in that they developed a subset of themselves that threatens their own existence. One would not exist without the advancement of the other, so to fight to preserve the level of civilization Chamber and Ledo came from, is to preserve that self-destructive endgame. Compare this to the world of Gargantia before Ledo and Chamber arrived. Because humans lack the technology to obliterate the whalesquid, they simply keep their distance.
It's a steady truce that must have worked for centuries; a truce Ledo breaks with his reckless pursuit of duty, perhaps to the doom of all. One could argue that the primitive level of civilization mankind endure is a waste of the human potential, but when we know that potential led to the creation of their existential enemy, a maritime steampunk world with a few pirates doesn't sound too bad. This is the world Amy loves, the world where somehow, humanity and its self-made nemesis co-exist. It's not perfect, but it's not constantly the apocalypse. It's the ultimate expression of "be happy with what you have," and Pinion apparently never will be. Will Ledo ignore Chamber's insistence that war is inevitable and come round to Amy's thinking?
Want to really drive home the point that a character is incredibly lonely and depressed? Have her say and do virtually nothing for two whole episodes, which is what this series has done with Amy, and effectively. She even snaps at Saya! Who snaps at Saya?
We were waiting to see Ledo throw up, as throwing up in situations like that always makes you feel better. If he does it, it isn't shown on-camera. But throwing up is a decision, and his failure to overtly do so mirrors the ethical/philosophical crossroads he finds himself on.
Pinion's rise has been nothing short of meteoric, but not unrealistic. After all, he's gotten results and found success in every venture he's undertaken, and he's made the fleet into a formidable power.
The episode made good use of Melty in showing us that Flange decries Pinion's ruthless methods. He'd rather share their bounty with others, but Pinion prefers to make enemies, and soon he'll have enough that they'll unite against him and then he'll be sorry!
We particularly liked how Chamber made it clear he wasn't just a mindless Alliance mouthpiece, but lacking emotion, he still isn't capable of understanding that fighting the Hideauze is pointless. Ledo has, he just doesn't know what to do with that realization.
The power output of Pinion's new EM weapons is ~76 times greater than the whole fleet, but only 1/50th the output of Chamber. That means, boys and girls, that Chamber's power output is a cool 3800 times greater than the fleet. That's some serious…civilization.
Lightbugs are humanity's primary source of electricity. Hideauze skin is made from lightbugs. That's what you call a symbiotic relationship. You don't destroy your own symbiont…ask any Trill.
Kugel? Holy shit, that guy's back? He was badass. Ledo may not have the luxury of making his own choice anymore, unless he resigns his commission. Chamber will certainly follow Kugel's orders over Ledo's.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 9 Jun 2013 Sun, 9 Jun 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags alliance, amy, bellows, chamber, civilization, commander kugel, flange, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, hideauze, ledo, melty, Pinion, propaganda, ridgett, symbiotic, whalesquid
Pinion prepares a salvage operation at an ancient facility, as Ledo leads the attack to drive the Hideauze away. He enters a massive underwater facility that is a Hideauze nest, and commences destroying every enemy he sees, until he finds ancient data storage discs, which reveal that the Hideauze were created from and by humans back when Earth in the midst of an ice age and plans for humans to abandon earth were accelerated. Chamber tells Ledo not to believe the data, and then proceeds to destroy a human-like Hideauze that swims by.
This week Ledo dives deep into the realm of Earth Hideauze, and further into his ingrained vendetta towards them. Even when Chamber warns him they're running low on energy, Ledo presses the attack. And he ends up in so deep, he discovers something that turns his whole situation on its head. The conveniently-edited, informative video paints the Hidauze as derived from humans who underwent biotechnological experiments, and what's more, Earth was split into two factions: those who were for this "evolving", and powers like the Continental Union who weren't. It could be that Ledo was fighting an extension of that war, however many years in the future.
The video of a world steadily being buried in snow is chilling (no pun intended) and shows that desperate humans will take desperate measures to ensure their safety, including the ability to live and breath in the ocean and in the vacuum of space. It's also pretty chilling that this info was classified and kept from grunts like Ledo (though his successful effort to order Chamber to de-classify it was a nice bit of work.) Citing protocol isn't the only card Chamber plays: unlike Ledo, he's devoid of emotion, and the enemy is the enemy even if they're not the mindless low-level lifeforms Ledo believed them to be until now. Prior to the revelation the episode was not shy showing Ledo and Chamber annihilating them with extreme prejudice. Now he must feel like a mass murderer.
Pinion is motivated by the guilt of not being able to save his older brother in a similar mission years ago.
We're interested to see how Ledo handles this. If he stops killing Hideauze, that will throw a wrench in Pinion's – and by extention Flange fleet's big plans.
Amy only appears in the last minute, walking into her house and hearing Bevel play the flute Ledo made, which brings her to tears.
Bevel got some good reverb going on that thing.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 2 Jun 2013 Sun, 2 Jun 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, chamber, classified, flange, galactic alliance, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, hideauze, ledo, Pinion, salvage operation2 Comments on Suisei no Gargantia – 09
Before Fleet Commander Fairlock passes away, he gives command of the fleet to Ridgett. It's a surprise even to her, and not popular with other ship owners, who are eyeing Flange's imminent departure. As Fairlock's funeral procession makes its way from one end of the fleet to the other, Amy and Saya say goodbye to Melty, and Amy learns Ledo is also leaving. When Bevel confronts him, Ledo tells him his mind is made up. Ridgett manages to say goodbye to Fairlock before his sand-filled boat slides into the sea, and she asks the assembled citizens of the fleet to lend her their strength. Ledo says goodbye to Amy, and Flange's fleet pulls away.
As that summary made clear, this is an episode of many goodbyes. Gargantia is about to say goodbye to Flange's fleet, a huge loss that affects everyone aboard, but then Fairlock's death means they must also say goodbye to him, while Ridgett says goodbye to her training wheels and assumes command. Amy and Ledo also say goodbye, but because as Amy said, they hadn't made much progress as a couple anyway, and she can't leave Bevel, the Doctor, and Saya behind. Heck, even Melty is leaving. All these goodbyes, and the deftness with which the episode juggles and presents them, made this the saddest episode of Gargantia yet, but also one of the best.
After Fairlock dies, the rest of the episode's events wrap around the central event of his wonderfully conceived funeral rites. He is placed in a boat at the bow of the fleet and sent aft, as people fill the boat with sand one by one. He's then sent down a slide at the fleet's stern, and sinks to the bottom of the sea he plied his entire life. It's a gorgeous centerpiece without a speck of melodrama. In fact, the episode does a great job showing the pain everyone with cause to feel pain feels (Pinion and Ledo, notably, don't shed any tears). Even Amy tries to keep it together, but can't. Her new friend is going away and may never return, after all.
This was an episode full of solemn grief, and every emotional moment is earned. But Ledo has Amy's welfare at heart, and doesn't believe he can adequately protect her or anyone else if he stays on Gargantia. In a way, he has the same problem as Ridgett has earlier in the episode – he can't see beyond himself, his own abilities or weaknesses or obligations. But Ridget is going to seek help from her colleagues and friends to become a better leader for Gargantia. Ledo is going to go kill things underwater to line Pinion's pockets.
Stray Obervations:
Just wanted to note again how badass that funeral ceremony was. We're also glad Ridgett didn't miss it.
The schematic on the wall in Ridgett's office, with the lights going out on the connections to the Flange ships, is another subtle way of showing the loss going on in this episode. And when a couple lights come back on, it's a relief.
The pic of 'Lil Ridgett is adorable.
We're wondering if he and Melty will meet up on the new Flange fleet; though she hasn't shown more than a superficial attraction to him.
Amy and Ledo don't have a long goodbye, or even spend their final moments alone. It's almost a non-goodbye. Though we can't imagine they'll never see each other again.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 26 May 2013 Sun, 26 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, bellows, bevel, chamber, fairlock, funeral, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, goodbyes, ledo, melty, Pinion, red, ridgett, saya
Word spreads around Gargantua that Ledo has killed a "whalesquid", a grave taboo, as they are sacred, fierce creatures who only attack if provoked. Ledo is unapologetic, and bioanalysis confirms the whalesquid are genetically identical to his sworn enemy, the Hideauze. Before Fearlock can make a decision, an enormous sea galaxy appears with a huge pod of whalesquid. Amy and Ridgett stop Ledo before he can attack, and the squid pass harmlessly under the fleet. Pinion and Flange, a major ship owner, propose breaking off from Gargantia and using Ledo and Chamber to get to treasure protected by whalesquid. Fearlock is about to refuse, but suffers an apparent heart attack.
It's trouble in sexy belly-dancing, creepy octopus paradise, as Ledo's brainwashing (for lack of a better word) supersedes everything he has learned about society on Earth. As long as Hideauze exist, he will fight them until one of them (or both of them) are dead. It's the only reason he exists, as far as he's concerned. Chamber doesn't help matters, as his programming is just as ingrained as Ledo's: no matter what he may have learned about earth's philosophy of co-existence, there are procedures to follow when a Hideauze is spotted that renders such educational dalliances null and void.
Chamber is Ledo's servant and tool, but Ledo is the Alliance's servant and tool. But is that all he is? Is that conditioning as impermeable as it seems to be here, as Ledo decides that he must abandon Amy, Bevel, and all of Gargantia in order to complete his mission? We will see, but before this new conflict is resolved, it seems inevitable that Ledo will have to leave Gargantia for a time…and Pinion is ready and willing to help make that happen in exchange for Ledo's cooperation in relieving promising treasure sites of their whalesquid sentries.
That plan-view map of Gargantia is pretty slick…we wouldn't mind something like that on our living room wall!
Pinion isn't just on Ledo's side for greed and pride…but to avenge a brother.
Fearlock is full of great lines. We wish we could watch more of him and Dr. Oldham shooting the breeze, but first he has to live another day!
We're thinking more and more that Ledo is in the distant future, long after the war between Hideauze and Human has ceased, and the two essentially share Earth together. We believe this because a lot of that underwater treasure is likely tech from Ledo's time, which the whalesquid would naturally not want humanity to get its hands on, lest the cycle repeat.
On that note, perhaps the Hideazue/whalesquid are "aliens" at all, but a naturally-evolved check against human development, in order to save it from itself? Think the toxic jungle of Nausicaa.
The show is doing a good job showing that brainwashing aside, both sides have reasonable arguments for why they're acting as they are. The only thing tripping up Ledo is the fact that he's trying to start a war where one shouldn't exist, and obeying orders of what could well be a long-extinct Alliance.
No matter what the reality of the situation is, accepting it is a privilege for those of us who are alive.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 19 May 2013 Sun, 19 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, bellows, brainwashing, chamber, coexistence, fearlock, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, hideauze, ledo, Pinion, red, ridget, toxic jungle, whalesquid
Ledo ponders the value of the money he was given in exchange for his services, and Amy promises to show him how to spend it on things other than food at the upcoming festival. He volunteers to pilot a Yunboro in order to catch fish, but he cannot swim, and fails. Amy, Melty, and Saya perform a belly dance while Pinion and Bellows try to recruit Ledo. When an octopus is brought out as a main course, he thinks it's a Hideauze. Amy later performs her dance just for him during Veils of Light. He goes with Bellows to the sea floor, where they encounter a giant iridescent squid that he and Chamber are convinced is another Hideauze.
Between the calm day and the festival day, Ledo is steadily learning that Gargantia is a far more easygoing society than the one he came from, if you can even call what he came from a society at all. On two occasions this week, he reacts reflexively in the presence of creatures he believes to be Hideauze. Such is his conditioning, the annihilation of that enemy overrides all other considerations: even a steamy belly dance by his three female admirers. He's also learned that the money he receives for his work isn't just a means to an end or a means for buying food. That's only part of it; it's also a symbol of the support he contributed to others.
The girls belly dance may have been a bit fanservicey, but it was also another symbol of the difference in priorities between Gargantia's culture and Ledo's. Eliminating the enemy doesn't come first, because there's rarely an enemy to eliminate. Survival isn't a constant struggle, because there's plentiful manpower, fresh water, fish, energy and oxygen. Therefore Amy and her friends aren't just surviving. They're enjoying life, something Ledo was never taught to do. He may not even be aware of the concept of sex either, but he's at least open to experiences that would have been irrelevant or wasteful in his universe…like watching a cute girl dance for you with a gorgeous natural phenomenon as the backdrop.
Rating:7 (Very Good)
Chamber and Ledo don't do to well on their own this week, but once they're working together as pilot and robot, they do just fine.
Chamber fails by whipping up a huge batch of 'Lil Lisa's Patented Animal Slurry. We should just be thankful he didn't accidentally hurt any humans…
The men seemed to like the girls' dance very much, but we'd feel a lot better if there were a couple bouncers to keep some of the drunker and therefore friskier gents away from the talent…
We like tako sashimi, but that enormous octopus didn't look very appetizing. Maybe it's because we prefer small portions
Gargantia now shares its Spring lead with the surging Aku no Hana, and interesting (though not intentional), Gargantia's ratings are now the exact mirror image of Aku no Hana's.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 12 May 2013 Mon, 13 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, bellows, belly dance, chamber, currency, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, hideauze, ledo, lightbugs, melty, octopus, Pinion, red, saya, yunboro3 Comments on Suisei no Gargantia – 06
Red, tired of being on standby, seeks out work, but there are no jobs available. An alarm sounds and Gargantia's engines stop, signaling a "calm day", when everyone but the repair teams relaxes. Red, Amy, and Bevel join Pinion, Melty and Saya for a grill party. Pinion sends Red on a mission to a seedy section of town, while Amy, Melty and Saya have a race to the top of the tower, where Red is chased and has to be rescued by Amy. Red completes his mission, and when he returns the party has grown much larger, and Pinion using a sun-baked Chamber as a grill.
As the last two episodes has shown, Suisei no Gargantia is not always going to be about a big battle, or even have any significant conflict that must be resolved. It's executed its battles well, but its just as adept at slice-of-life, as this week is akin to a lazy sunday; at time to kick back and enjoy the beautiful day. Bevel asked Red what humanity where he's from would do if the Hideauze were defeated, and Red isn't sure, but this week his eyes are opened to any number of possibilities. That would be a time for celebration, joy and relaxation, and this episode has all three in spades. Everyone is having a lot of fun, enjoying good food and good company.
There's a little bit of everything: girls stripping down to skimpy bikinis (even Ridgett partakes); said girls stripping Red down (and admiring with his physique); Red being chased up the tallest tower in the fleet by more admirers; a surf-kite race; a sketchy transaction that turns out to be a purchase of sauce. And perhaps most amusing is Pinion subtly tricking Chamber into serving as a grill, making Chamber the hero of the party, since without him there would be no food. And what was originally supposed to be a small, secret get-together became a huge shindig. It wouldn't be the most exciting series in the world if every episode was this leisurely, but every once in a while is fine.
Rating: 7 (Very Good)
Teaching Red how to swim was cute.
Chamber doesn't get girls.
We like the idea that Pinion is relaxing even though he has work to do and has simply delegated it to his team.
We want a surf kite. It would shorten our commute considerably.
The series doesn't show Red getting sexually assaulted, only the aftermath, with his borrowed hawaiian shirt torn and covered in red lip marks. Kinda corny!
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 5 May 2013 Wed, 8 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, bellows, bevel, calm day, chamber, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, grill party, ledo, melty, Pinion, red, ridgett
As Gargantia welcomes a new ship to their fleet, Red and Chamber are put to work moving and storing cargo, partially in payment for the collateral damage they caused as itemized in Ridgett's invoice. The organizational nature of the people on Gargantia as inefficient and undisciplined, but when he meets the fleet "sage" Dr. Oldham and Amy's brother Bevel, he learns that they're not a strictly military organization. Bevel realizes Red has fashioned a flute, and when he plays it Red gets a flash from his childhood that brings tears to his eyes.
With no battles to fight for the interim, Red gets restless, and the longer he observes the people of Gargantai around him, the more frustrated he gets with their lack of organization. He's come from a society (if you can even call it that) in which even children are put through drills and conditioning immediately to become useful fighters in the war with the Hideauze. The purpose of humans where he's from is to fight the Hideauze, and the war stimulates their development. The frail and weak are "culled", as Chamber coldly puts it. Red can't help but initially view someone like Bevel as useless, it's just the way his worldview developed.
What Red still needs to fathom is that the Gargantia doesn't exist solely to fight their enemies, in this case pirates. Their mission is to simply survive and do everything they can to live in peace. Again, Red's from a place where it's understood that the only way to survive is to be of use to the Alliance and to fight the Hideauze, but that isn't the case on earth. Red starts to understand this when he watches Gargantia mobilize to to fight, but to catch precious rainwater, crucial to survival. And in the absense of orders, he's on standby, just like Gargantia when there's no emergency. Bevel also teaches him there are other ways to be needed beyond military service.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 28 Apr 2013 Thu, 9 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, bellows, bevel, fleet, flute, gargantia on the verdurous planet, hideauze, ledo, melty, red, ridgett, saya
After eliminating the pirates, Red is reprimanded by Amy and later Bellows, who explain to him human lifes should not be taken so needlessly. When the famous pirate "Empress Lukkage" and her fleet are spotted heading towards Gargantia, Fleet Commander Fairlock and Ridgett decide to ask for Red's help once more. He engages the Lukkage fleet, first as a diversion, and then disabling their weapons without causing casualties. When Lukkage herself attacks Gargantia with her eyes on Fairlock, Red plucks her and her two consorts out of the sea and flings them out into the night. The other pirates retreat. Amy meets Red with a basket of fish as thanks; he thanks her back in her own language.
Unsurprisingly, Amy and all of Gargantia aren't so much upset that Red saved Bellows' salvage fleet from pirates as they are upset about the means by which he did so. Basically, he went too far. In space, against the Hidauze (or whatever his foe is called), there is no quarter, and no room for error, so Red's been trained to ruthlessly slaughter all enemies. Utterly. Here on Earth, he can afford to eliminate a threat without killing everyone involved in it. It's a quickly-learned lesson, and one in which he's tested shortly thereafter in a fantastic night battle that makes use of fleets of ships, gliders, submarines and yunboroids. There's a great sense of chaos, and that even with his superior technology, he has his work cut out for him.
Red may be from a completely different culture, but after hearing Amy and Bellows make their case to him about never killing unless it's necessary, he subscribes to their philosophy, something that to be fair, he hadn't heard before, which is why he executed such a vicious scorched earth assault on the pirates that led to more pirates taking revenge. But he'll find there's also a price for not killing the right people: he didn't finish Lukkage off when he could have, but instead embarrassed her and her fleet. He protected Gargantia and won the day, but the pirates won't stop coming until a way can be found to appease them – if there even is one.
We assume Lukkage's two "consorts" serve many roles for the Empress: they have her back in battle, but also sit around looking pretty, providing her with companionship. We wonder if they were once her prisoners.
Ridgett's dad Chevron was the former commander of Gargantia, but he died, so now it's Fairlock, whom we imagine was his XO. Ridgett, in turn, is his XO, so Gargantia's command is not hereditary.
Bellows gives Red another animal carcass, but eating all this meat doesn't seem to be bothering him so far.
Thanking Amy in her language is a nice way to end the episode. If it wasn't for Amy and Bellows, thinks might have turned out very differently.
The ED is a lovely sequence starting with Amy windsurfing at sunset. Chamber swoop down over her and the camera follows them as the scene changes to a starlit night. It's a scene full of joy and contentment, and looks damned fun. The music's just okay, though.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 21 Apr 2013 Thu, 9 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, bellows, chamber, earth, empress lukkage, fairlock, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, gratitude, ledo, Pinion, pirates, red, ridgett, yunboro
Red gives up Amy but hides behind Chamber, and remains in a stalemate as the fleet leaders decide how to proceed. Amy volunteers to commence dialogue, and shares a roasted fish with Red in a ritual of welcome to Gargantia, a floating city. Red shows her there's no one inside Chamber, and Amy tells him about her world's history and how they harness energy from the ocean. When pirates attack Bellows' salvage fleet, Amy begs Red to help them. Red and Chamber proceed to destroy all pirate ships and vaporize all pirates, leaving Bellows' ship and crew unscathed.
You know how first episodes can mislead you by being extremely pretty and well-animated, only for the episodes that follow to reveal the budget limitations of that series? Well, didn't happen here. While about half of last week was space battle porn, this week was all verderous steampunk porn. If anything, it was more beautiful, and we found ourselves pausing the action often to gaze at the staggering stills. This has the look of a Ghibli film, and it keeps up this quality – and we have no reason to think it won't – this could end up being one of the best-looking series we've ever watched. But like a Ghibli film, it's not just about the eye candy. It has heart, too.
We loved watching brave, peace-loving Amy make steady progress with Red and Chamber (voiced by the voice of Kyon and Switch!), and we learn with Red about this gorgeous world. Red's ancestors left earth when an irregularity in the sun caused the entire planet to freeze over. Presumably, they never went back, because if they had, they would have discovered the ice melted, making it a waterworld, and the humans who remained survived by lashing together anything that floated, and harnessing electricity from "lightbugs" that absorb lightning in the sea in "galaxy currents."
Therefore despite its comparably primitive level of technology, Amy's world is most likely Red's future, not his past. The Galactic Alliance he swore allegiance to may still be out there somewhere, or it may have crumbled centuries ago. We just don't know, and the mystery is most intriguing. But as we said, look past all these huge fleets and huge ships and huge ideas, and there's the message that as long as people keep talking, peace can be achieved, good things can happen, and unlikely friendships and new alliances can be formed. Of course, in the end when asked to assist against pirates, Red may have frightened his new friends by not holding back.
The fish sharing scene was perhaps the highlight of highlights. Aside from the warmth and comedy of the exchange, that fish looked delicious, and the sunset backdrop was achingly gorgeous.
First ep not Ghibli enough for you? This week Amy shows us how they use gliders to fly from ship to ship, and even the pirates use power-assisted kites. Pure awesomesauce.
In Ika Musume, Kanemoto Hisako voices the weird alien. Now she's the normal human. But both like fish!
The upside to Red eliminating all the pirates is that rumors of "Gargantia's new superweapon" won't spread so quickly. But it will still spread, and the fleet's leadership will see Red as a double-edged sword.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 14 Apr 2013 Thu, 9 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags chamber, galactic alliance, galaxy currents, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, lightbugs, mecha, pirates, red, steampunk, studio ghibli, waterworld, yunboro2 Comments on Suisei no Gargantia – 02
While retreating from a failed all-out attack on an alien enemy's base Galactic Alliance pilot Lt. Red (Ledo) and his mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a space-time distortion. He wakes up after six months of hibernation to witness several humans trying to open his hatch. Hungry for answers, when they leave Chamber alone for the night he gets out to explore, but he is discovered by locals Amy and Pinion. He grabs Amy as a hostage and runs, but he ends up outside, where Chamber ascertains that they're on a giant seagoing ship on Earth, a world mentioned only in legend.
Not that it was hard, but this series kicks Majestic Prince out of the water for pure space battle porn, starting with a battle to end all battles that not surprisingly goes pear-shaped for the humans. We went into this episode with high expectations. The director helmed and drew several episodes of the original Eureka Seven. It's produced by Prod I.G., which usually does top-notch work. And the series comp and script were penned by Urobuchi Gen, who we know is capable of excellent stuff, having also written Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Requiem for the Phantom.
Throw in some great female seiyus (including the voices of Kotoura, Sasami, Koko, Mei, and Erza), and what looks like a huge budget, and you have all the ingredients for success. And succeed it does. The opening battle is a tour de force of sci-fi mayhem, with a lot of different weapons and formations and tactics flying around the screen. After that thrilling and auspicious start, the episode slows down and takes its time; we go from a fantastic hi-tech world to somewhere that wouldn't be out of place in a Miyazaki film, only with battleships that float rather than fly. We can be lucky to see one of these worlds in a series; this one has both.
The rolling-out of characters is also kept to a minimum, allowing us to get a feel for what we're in for. Red is a fish-of-out-water, but he's not alone; his trusty mecha Chamber is there to help him, and it won't be long before he can communicate with the natives, the vast majority of whom are quite attractive. Swift, fire-haired Amy in particular is a great contrast to silver-haired, cool, calculating Red. They're ideal stand-ins for their respective worlds, and it should be fun to learn more about this new world Red finds himself in, and what he does with the adventure fate has handed him.
Nothing says "implacable foe" like when an attack that massive and well-coordinated still fails.
We liked what Colonel Kugel said before heading to his death. He's not about to let Red die for him before his time.
This episode flowed very well throughout, and we loved the shift from the breakneck space battle to the slower and more casual pace of the second half on Earth.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 7 Apr 2013 Thu, 9 May 2013 Categories Anime Reviews, Spring 2013, Suisei no GargantiaTags amy, chamber, colonel kugel, galactic alliance, gargantia, gargantia on the verdurous planet, ledo, mecha, Miyazaki, production i.g., red, urobuchi gen, wormhole1 Comment on Suisei no Gargantia – 01


Our world requires us to constantly know and to feel. It pushes us to question and to process. We must remember, analyze, and accept. Or resist, and act. Each moment we must take a stand, armed with thoughts, feelings, and information. But there are short parentheses where we simply Are, in that space beyond knowing and remembering, between feeling happy and feeling sad. These are the moments when we forget that we have a body in this world, and where things are much simpler.
Thanks for the tip! I feel sorry for the judges though. How can they choose between hundreds of cute and funny photos?
I certainly wouldn't want to swap with them xD.
I once hosted a photo competition on my blog and Facebook page. It was sooooo difficult!


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FG To Enforce ₦50,000 Fine For Public Smoking
Following the launch of campaign to ban smoking in public places including motor parks,shopping malls and health care centres, the Nigerian government in a communiqué has said it is going to enforce Section 9 of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Act 2015, which says that once convicted, offenders are liable to a fine of at least N50, 000 and/or six months' imprisonment.
The Ministry of Health in its 'Clean Air Campaign', said the law would henceforth be taken seriously in a bid to protect and promote the citizens' right to health, life, physical integrity and safety.
According to Punch, to carry out the campaign successfully, the ministry also said it was being supported by the Cancer Society of Nigeria, World Health Organisation, ONE Campaign, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, Civil Society Organisations and the Tobacco Free Kids based in Washington DC, United States.
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Supplements that are used before training sessions have become extremely popular lately, especially because they are supposed to have the properties to increase strength and endurance, to help burn fats faster and to achieve optimal muscular mass. But is that the truth about pre-workout supplements? That we'll find out in this article.
When to apply for pre-workout supplements?
A study conducted in 2008 proven that those who consumed pre-workout supplements were able to increase the number of repetitions for the performed exercises, showing increases in anabolic hormones (growing hormones).
Another study, conducted on a group of 12 people, revealed that those who used pre-workout supplements, 20 minutes before training, had greater resistance and shown fatigue later.
What do pre-workout supplements usually contain?
Latest formulas are based on the stimulation of the synthesis of the nitric oxide by the nitric acid. It seems that the reasons behind this theory are that the nitric acid stimulates muscles growth by delivering oxygen and nutrients to the muscles during workouts. This is because the nitric acid causes dilation of blood vessels.
Arginine is one of the substances that transforms into nitric acid. Most pre-workout supplements contain besides arginine, other substances to increase energy and the proteins needed to increase strength, power, and efficiency in training.
Other pre-workout supplements contain creatine, caffeine, whey protein, glutamine.
Pre-workout supplements based on caffeine.
Caffeine stimulates the release of norepinephrine, which in turn leads to the oxidation of fats and eliminates the sensation of fatigue. Caffeine is designed to increase alertness and concentration, and energy during workouts sessions.
Pre-workout supplements based on creatine.
Creatine has the capacity to provide a boost of energy in order to sustain an intense effort and is helping to restore muscle and cellular hydration. It can be taken by 30 minutes before workout, or immediately after.
Pre-workout supplements based on whey protein.
These supplements are easier to digest and helps to increase muscular mass and postpones fatigue.
Protein Supplements based on nitric oxide.
They help, as said above, to speed up the circulation of the blood in the veins and to facilitate the performance of the workouts sessions.
Pre-workout supplements based on branched-chain amino acids (BCAA).
These pre-workout supplements remove muscular fatigue and help to increase muscular mass. These supplements can be taken immediately after you woke up, 30 minutes before workouts sessions or immediately after workouts.
Pre-workout supplements based on thermogenic substances.
These help increasing body temperature and accelerating the metabolic rate leading to faster fats burning.
Pre-workout supplements based on glutamine.
Restores the energy into the muscles and so it improves muscular mass.
You can always go for pre-workout supplements that contain more than one substance all even all the substances that are proven to help bodybuilding passionates to enhance energy before workouts sessions, to improve muscular fat and to postpone fatigue.
What you need to remember is that pre-workout supplements do not work the same wonders for everyone.
Some will say that for them have done miracles helping them losing fat or gaining bigger muscular mass, while others will say it had no effect.
The only thing you can do is to give them a chance and try every one of them and see whether or not pre-workout supplements are working for you.
Going to the gym is a good decision, though you might need the help of these pre-workout supplements in order to reach your goal, no matter if you want to lose weight or to grow muscles.
All the substances discussed in this article (arginine, caffeine, creatine, glutamine, whey protein, or thermogenesis substances) has proven to work for many people and could help you, too.
Those supplements improve energy, transform fats in muscles and postpone fatigue and that's the truth about pre-workout supplements.


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Hella Chluy
Hella Chluy is a Cambodian American entertainer that specialize in musical parodies and comedic skits. Born as Phanit Duong, the second generation refugee began writing and recording music at the age of 15 in the Pacific Northwest. Duong's stardom began in 2012 when he released the now legendary, "Shit Cambodian Folks Say" on YouTube that broke 100,000 views in 24 hours. "Chluy," which loosely means "disrespectful" in the Khmer language, uses popular American music to depict stories of the Cambodian American experience. Today, Duong's fan base has grown internationally and he performs regularly across America in the nation's largest Khmer populated communities like Long Beach, Lowell, Seattle, and Philadelphia.
Music By Hella Chluy
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Barclays Wealth Opens New Trust Company
By Marlene Y. Satter | November 05, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Wealth manager and advisor Barclays Wealth announced Friday that it had opened Barclays Wealth Trustees (U.S.), NA, a new national U.S. trust company headquartered in Delaware.
Barclays Wealth Trustees, according to the company, will provide high-net-worth clients with "the ability to create U.S. trust and estate planning structures and choose jurisdiction in any of the 50 U.S. states." It will also offer clients access to fiduciary services in multiple jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Jersey, Guernsey, Singapore, the U.K. and Geneva, through the offices of Barclays Wealth's international trust services worldwide.
Rob Withecombe, managing director and head of wealth advisory globally for Barclays Wealth, said in a statement, "At Barclays Wealth, we seek to meet the growing complexity of our clients' situations, which frequently include family, businesses and assets spread across several countries. Offering them a global, truly integrated advisory platform across wealth jurisdictions is critical to thoughtful succession planning and wealth structuring."
Barclays Wealth Trustees can serve as an agent in trust administration, a trustee, or a co-trustee, with its fiduciary services following "a disciplined asset allocation process that leverages the firm's research team and investment strategy," according to the company.
Claire Rosati, a director at Barclays Wealth and president of Barclays Wealth Trustees, said in a statement, "Our U.S. trust platform offers the flexibility our clients need to meet the challenges common to high-net-worth individuals and families."
Withecombe added, "This is an exciting time in our development and we are proud to be investing in the U.S. and expanding our global trust services proposition with the recent opening of a Delaware U.S. trust company. Trust and fiduciary services are a vital wealth management service for both our U.S. and non-U.S. clients, and this investment follows the addition of two further trust businesses in Asia over the past year."
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Kanye West decided to surprise the American Idol judges with an audition as a fake contestant Saturday, just hours after he performed for President Obama at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco.
Later, Seacrest revealed a photo of Kanye with his Golden Ticket to Hollywood, which would advance him in the competition. It's unclear whether Kanye will pull another prank and show up in Hollywood, but he it's likely that his full audition will air on the final upcoming season of Idol, which premieres in January.
The 38-year-old rapper announced that he was interested in running for president during an acceptance speech at the VMA's this year. And the buzz over it all hasn't stopped. Everyone has something to say, even President Obama!


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Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated) Order 2013
Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated) Order 2013: revoked, on the close of 18 October 2016, pursuant to section 7(2) of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011 (2011 No 98).
Reprint as at 19 October 2016
Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Administrator of the Government
Order in Council
At Wellington this 2nd day of April 2013
The Right Hon John Key presiding in Council
This order is administered by the Ministry of Social Development.
Pursuant to section 24 of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011, Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, and on the recommendation of the Minister for Social Development (made after consultation with the Minister of Labour), makes the following order.
Preliminary provisions
3 Effect
Modifications and extensions of Part 2 of Act
Subpart 1—Extinguishing claims for sleepover wages
5 Extension of subpart 1 of Part 2 of Act to employees of specified employer (certain claims for sleepover wages extinguished)
6 Extension of section 9 to extinguish certain claims for sleepover wages by employees of specified employer
Subpart 2—Settlement relating to specified employer
7 Extension of subpart 2 of Part 2 of Act to specified employer
8 Modification of section 14 (entitlement of current employees)
9 Modification of section 15 (entitlement of recent employees)
10 Modification of section 16 (entitlement of historic employees)
11 Modification of section 19 (calculation of back wages)
12 Modification of section 20 (when back wages must be paid)
13 Modification of sections 21 and 22 (entitlements for sleepovers performed after 31 October 2011)
This order is the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated) Order 2013.
This order comes into force on 5 April 2013.
Part 1 Preliminary provisions
The modifications and extensions of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011 made by this order do not affect the text of the Act but require it to be read as if it had been amended in the manner indicated in this order.
In this order,—
Act means the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011
back wages means wages payable by the specified employer to its employees for sleepovers performed during the period beginning on 1 July 2004 and ending with the close of 31 October 2011 in accordance with sections 14, 15, and 16 of the Act (as modified by this order)
current employee, in relation to the specified employer, means an employee who is employed by the specified employer on the commencement of this order
qualifying employee means each employee of the specified employer who made a claim for sleepover wages prior to 17 February 2012 in respect of a sleepover performed on or before 31 October 2011
recent employee, in relation to the specified employer, means an employee who ceased employment with the specified employer at any time during the period beginning on 1 July 2005 and ending with the close of the day before the date of commencement of this order
specified employer means The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated.
Terms defined in subclause (1) that are used in the Act and defined differently in this order have the meanings given by this order.
Part 2 Modifications and extensions of Part 2 of Act
Section 8 of the Act must be read as if the following subparagraph were inserted after subsection (1)(a)(ii):
(iia)
The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated:
Section 9 of the Act must be read as if "or The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated" were inserted after "Timata Hou" .
Subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act, as modified and extended by this subpart, applies to—
the specified employer (as employer); and
each employee of the specified employer who performs or performed a sleepover.
Section 14 of the Act must be read as if subsection (1) were replaced by the following:
A current employee of the specified employer is entitled to be paid back wages for a sleepover if the employee—
performed the sleepover during the period beginning on 1 July 2005 and ending with the close of 31 October 2011; and
made a claim for sleepover wages prior to 17 February 2012.
A recent employee of the specified employer is entitled to be paid back wages for a sleepover if the employee—
For the purposes of the settlement with historic employees of the specified employer, section 16(1) of the Act must be read as if paragraph (b) were replaced by the following:
For the purposes of calculating the back wages payable to each qualifying employee, the formula in section 19(1) of the Act is modified by replacing "9" with "13.5" as the multiplier for variable a.
This clause applies instead of section 20 of the Act in relation to the entitlements of qualifying employees for back wages.
The specified employer must pay any back wages for a sleepover that are payable to a qualifying employee no later than 2 months after the date of commencement of this order.
This clause applies instead of sections 21 and 22 of the Act in relation to the entitlements of employees of the specified employer for sleepovers performed after 31 October 2011.
In relation to a sleepover performed by an employee after 31 October 2011, the specified employer must pay the employee the greater of—
an amount calculated by multiplying the number of hours in the sleepover by the relevant minimum hourly rate specified in subclause (3):
the amount the employee would have received for that sleepover immediately before the date of commencement of this order.
The amount payable for each hour of a sleepover that the employee performs during a period specified in the first column of the following table is the minimum hourly rate opposite that period specified in the second column of the following table:
Specified period
Minimum hourly rate
Period beginning on 1 November 2011 and ending with the close of 30 June 2012 50% of the applicable minimum hourly rate
Period beginning on 1 July 2012 and ending with the close of 31 December 2012 75% of the applicable minimum hourly rate
On and after 1 January 2013, the specified employer must pay an employee for each hour of a sleepover performed by the employee at not less than the rate of minimum hourly wage that applies under the Minimum Wage Act 1983.
To avoid doubt, this clause does not limit or affect any deductions that may lawfully be made to an amount payable under subclause (2) or (4).
Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order, which comes into force on 5 April 2013, modifies and extends the operation of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011 (the Act) to give effect to a settlement agreement between The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated (the specified employer) and certain of its employees relating to the payment of wages to employees who were permitted to sleep overnight at their workplace while on duty (sleepover wages). The Act implements a settlement of litigation between Idea Services Limited and Timata Hou Limited and their employees (theIdea settlement). Subpart 1 of Part 2 of the Act extinguishes certain claims for sleepover wages in the health and disability sector, and subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act implements the terms of the Idea settlement.
Subpart 1 of Part 2 of Act: Extinguishing claims for sleepover wages
The specified employer employs staff to provide certain services, including sleepovers, that are funded by Vote Social Development. Clause 5 modifies section 8 of the Act to extend the application of subpart 1 of Part 2 of the Act to the specified employer. The extension will prevent new civil proceedings being commenced relating to sleepover wages that could have been the subject of a claim extinguished under section 9 of the Act. Section 9 of the Act extinguishes claims by employees of Idea Services Limited and Timata Hou Limited for sleepover wages. Clause 6 extends the effect of section 9 of the Act to also extinguish claims by employees of the specified employer.
Subpart 2 of Part 2 of Act: Settlement relating to specified employer
Clause 7 extends the application of subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Act (which implements the Idea settlement) to the specified employer and its employees, but with certain modifications that are set out in the following clauses.
Clauses 8, 9, and 10 (which modify sections 14, 15, and 16 of the Act respectively) apply to current, recent, and historic employees of the specified employer. Sections 14, 15, and 16 of the Act relate to the payment of back wages. The modifications ensure that—
the period of time in relation to which back wages are payable to employees of the specified employer is extended to the close of 31 October 2011; and
employees will be entitled to back wages for sleepovers if they made a claim prior to 17 February 2012.
Clause 11 modifies section 19 of the Act, which sets out how back wages for sleepovers must be calculated. The formula in section 19 involves multiplying the applicable minimum hourly rate by 9, which represents the number of hours of a sleepover performed by employees of Idea Services Limited and Timata Hou Limited. The formula in section 19 is amended so that the applicable minimum hourly rate will instead be multiplied by 13.5 to represent the number of hours of a sleepover performed by employees of the specified employer.
Clause 12 modifies section 20 of the Act, which sets out when back wages must be paid. It provides that back wages due to employees of the specified employer must be paid no later than 2 months after the date of commencement of this order.
Sections 21 and 22 of the Act provide for a staged progression towards the minimum hourly wage payable under the Minimum Wage Act 1983. Clause 13 modifies those sections to implement the settlement agreed between the parties. The clause provides that,—
for the period 1 November 2011 to 30 June 2012, an employee of the specified employer is entitled to be paid 50% of the applicable minimum hourly rate for each hour of a sleepover:
for the period 1 July 2012 to 31 December 2012, an employee of the specified employer is entitled to be paid 75% of the applicable minimum hourly rate for each hour of a sleepover:
if an employee would have received a greater amount for a sleepover performed in the period 1 November 2011 to 31 December 2012 immediately before the date of commencement of this order, he or she will be entitled to that greater amount.
Clause 13 also provides that after 1 January 2013, an employee of the specified employer will be entitled to be paid 100% of the minimum hourly wage.
Date of notification in Gazette: 4 April 2013.
This is a reprint of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) (The Home and Family Society Christchurch Incorporated) Order 2013 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.
Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act 2011 (2011 No 98): section 7(2)


According to a recent Forbes article, 64% of households in America have Amazon Prime. With free two day shipping and a whole slew of other benefits, Prime is quickly becoming a household staple. As Amazon's subscriber rate continues to increase, they continue to add more great features to the service. One of their recent additions, Amazon Channels, gives users the ability to purchase individual TV channels and watch their content live. With Prime Video only supporting on-demand content, Amazon Channels comes as a welcome change.
Is Amazon Channels included with Prime?
Unlike Amazon Prime Videos, having a Prime membership does not grant you access to Amazon Channels. Each channel on the service is priced individually, allowing you to pay for just the content you'll actually watch. The prices range from a few bucks a month to about $15 a month for premium channels like HBO. When we talk about pricing for the channels, keep in mind that they are only available to Prime members. Amazon Prime itself costs $12.99 a month, or $99 a year. $15 a month for HBO is perfectly reasonable, but if you have no interest in Amazon Prime other than for HBO, then the channel becomes much more expensive than getting it through other options.
If you're unsure about Prime, or a specific channel that Amazon offers, feel free to test them out. Both Amazon Prime as well as most of the channels offered Amazon Channels have free trials. The Amazon Prime free trial is 30 days and gives you access to free shipping, Prime Video, and more. The free trials for the channels are typically for 7 days, but they vary by service.
Does Alex work with Amazon Channels?
How do I cancel Amazon Channels?
Amazon Channels has over 140 cable television and digital networks to choose from. Due to the sheer quantity of channels and the likelihood of the lineup updating and making our list inaccurate, we're only going to list the more popular channels that Amazon offers.
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On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on Baghdad, I found myself enthralled by the spectacle of a young man seated at a piano in the elegant paneled library of the Lotos Club. The occasion was a fund-raising gala for the Music Festival of the Hamptons, and the listeners-well-heeled men and women in evening dresswere not the sort to get sappy over one of Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words," no matter how exquisitely delivered. But as the pianist, a young Israeli named Daniel Gortler, played the Song in D major, a Romantic miniature that rippled with straight-from-the-heart tunefulness, I felt a current of common feeling run through the room-a sense of profound gratitude that we were here together in a safe place.
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I heard Mr. Gortler again, in a midday recital at Rockefeller University, next-door to New York Hospital. This time, many of the listeners were dressed in clinical white coats or surgical scrubs, but for the moment, they had left behind their labs and their operating rooms for the alternative realities of Beethoven (the Op.110 Sonata), Mendelssohn (eight "Songs Without Words") and Brahms (the Variations on a Theme by Handel).
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My Log 363: Still going strong: the Wally Byam caravan, huge gatherings of aluminum RVs, is still at it, year after year, roaming the continent, as I saw them 40 years ago.
An item of news widely reported yesterday, that the British government has agreed to pay compensation to Kenyans who suffered abuse, torture, and other barbarities at the hands of the British forces opposing the Mau Mau uprising among the Kikuyus in the 1950s, comes as a welcome light in the generally dark aspect of global events.
For me, it brings a retrospective, too-late justification to my friend Henry Munene, who was hounded to his death by the British Colonial Office for absolutely no reason when he was my fellow-student at an adult education college in Scotland. I've never been able to think of Henry's fate without saying to myself, bitterly, "the bastards, the absolute bastards."
Although I have aways known that both sides commtted atrocities in the uprising in Kenya, my sympathies have always been rather with the men who conducted their campaign of rebellion from the bush, without benefit of any modern technology (not even the wheel, according to some accounts), than with the overlords who used Lancaster bombers to decimate their technologically-backward opponents.
In the 1960s I remember reading, and reviewing for The Montreal Star (many of whose readers took great exception to my review), a remarkable account of the rebellion from within, written by a Kikuyu who, being able to read and write, acted as secretary to Dedan Kimathi, the leader of the rebellion (to whose memory as a great warrior a statue was recently erected in Kenya). One figure that stuck in my mind was that the British executed (many of these were public executions, I believe) more than 1,000 people. Many thousands died, many tens of thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps, and I discover, in looking for the title of the book I mentioned, that dozens of books have appeared analysing the cause, nature and suppression of the rebellion, and that in these books are revealed, in the words of survivors from both sides, examples of the most horrendous cruelties visited on the people in these concentration camps.
For me, the British behaviour in its suppression of the rebellion put paid to all suggestions of the benefits brought to subject peoples by the British colonial regime, or, to be more specific, to the often-repeated claims that British "civilized" savage people around the world. More likely were they to have murdered, tortured, killed and violated them than to have civilized them.
Well, back to Henry and his fate. I was one of 16 adult education students who enrolled at a college called Newbattle Abbey in 1953 to take a non-diploma course of study designed to increase our knowledge in four subjects: history, literature, economics and philisophy. I was 25 at the time, had gone directly from four years of high school into the work force, and it was my great good fortune to find myself enrolled under the leadership of the great Scottish poet and writer Edwin Muir, who, for almost a year, acted as my personal tutor in the writing of English.
The beautiful house which lies in the countryside a few miles outside Dalkeith in the Scottish Lowlands, had been given to the nation for use in adult education by Lord Lothian, a former British ambassador in the United States, but it had never attained much success, as proof of which in the year of my attendance we 16 students had four teachers.
Still, the student body was worth knowing: two Kenyan Africans, one a Luo, one a Kikuyu; a Norwegian girl, daughter of the owner of the country's biggest newspaper; two middle-aged working class Scotsmen, one a Communist, one an anarchist; a similarly fiery working-class scottish socialist, direct from school, without benefit of higher education; a brace of Englishmen of what might be called lower-middle-class origin; two Yugoslav English teachers, sent from their country to improve their skills; one French trades unionist from Lyon. And me (with my schoolteacher wife along, permitted to live in the college as she was teaching in a nearby mining village.) The year I spent with these people was one of the most rewarding of my entire life.
To make up the lack of numbers, the College had a contract with the National Coal Board to send in every week a group of Scottish miners for what was described as "refresher" courses. These people left every Friday, and every Thursday night throughout the school year they presented a farewell concert at which they were never shy to get up and sing sentimental ballads like "My Ain Wee Hoose", and recite endless verses of the great Robbie Burns.
On our side we never had much to offer in the way of entertainment, but we were able to take pride in the folk tales told every Thursday night by Henry. He kept all of us, miners included, in gales of laughter with his stories about hyenas, of which he had an endless supply.
Henry was one of the most amiable, charming people I have ever met in my life, full of laughter, jokes, and eagerness to learn everything the teachers could tell him, and I know he was loved by everyone of his fellow students.
I think it was in February that Jomo Kenyatta went on trial as the supposed leader of Mau Mau, and evidence given at the trial said that a Henry Munene, a student leaving for Britain, was taken into a room and administered the Mau Mau oath before he was allowed to leave the airport. As soon as this was reported in Britain the Colonial Office arrived at Newbattle Abbey with a demand that Henry disavow this supposed oath.
Henry, though ebullient and spiritual by nature, was no softie, and he refused to collaborate with the Colonial Office, who were providing him with all the funds he needed to continue his education. We were getting towards the end of the school year, and after I left I had a letter from James D. Young, the fiery young socialist working class boy mentioned above (who, I discovered many years later became the author of no fewer than 14 published books about the working class and its struggles in Scotland), telling me that he had taken Henry home to his home in Grangemouth, halfway between Edinburgh and Glosgow, "and they will need a ruddy army to get him out of here." He told me Hnry was not in great spirits, that he was wilting under the strain of the Colonial Office's attack.
From London I wrote to Fenner Brockway, the renowned socialist Member of Parliament, asking if he could look into Henry's case, and he replied that he would do so, and I later heard from a woman who had been alerted by Fenner, who had made contact with James and Henry.
Although I knew that Henry had been cut off all support by the Colonial Office, I thereafter lost touch with him and his fate, as well as with other students from Newbattle of my time. On a visit to Kenya many years later I looked up the other Kenyan student, Timothy Ramtu, a different type from Henry, a strong Christian with very conventional views, who had become after his return to Kenya a senior civi servant and had done a veritable circuit of many government departments, always in senior positions. He was heading an Aga Khan company when I met him, and when I asked about Henry, he said that, like e, he had heard he had a breakdown of some kind, but he had lost touch with him after his return, and had no idea what happened to him.
More years later I ran across on the Internet an account of James Young's activity as a writer and tracked him down through his publisher. He was, apparently, in terminal illness, but I did have the pleasure of talking to him by phone, and discovered his thick Scottish accent was undiminished, as were his fiery socialist beliefs. He told me, when I inquired, that Henry had had a mental breakdown and had eventually committed suicide.
Another great triumph for Colonialism, and for British standards of fair play.
The bastards, the absolute bastards.
My Log 357: I catch up on Hobsbawm's earlier volumes: The Age of Revolution fills me in on much that I didn't know
Cover of The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
One of the books that has had the greatest influence on me was the last of Eric Hobsbawm's four epic histories of the modern world, the one that deals with what he called the short twentieth-century, to which he gave the title The Age of Extremes 1914-1991. As he took me through the decades of my life since 1928 I had the feeling he was writing about me, and what has happened to me during the seven decades that I lived through in that century.
I never had a chance since then to read his three earlier works until this week, when I came upon the first of them, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 in the library of my friend in Dubrovnik. I kind of doubted my capacity to get through it, to tell the truth, but I soon discovered it is composed of 16 concise chapters, each of about 20 pages, which, if attacked one by one, presented a less formidable objective. To my surprise, I finished the book in a week, and although I was not totally blown away by it as by the earlier book, I did learn a great deal, once again had cause to sit at the feet of this master synthesizer, who, in this book took the two revolutions, the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution that happened almost simultaneously, and explained therewith the bases of our modern world.
Although I have a kind of nagging resentment against intellectuals, some of them exhibit such staggering knowledge over huge areas of history as to leave me bereft of criticism, and Hobswawm is certainly one of those. (Another, as readers may remember me remarking before, was the McGill university anthropologist and archaeologist, Bruce Trigger, whose untimely death in 2006, at the age of 69, robbed me of a sure guide through perceptions about native Canadians, as about Canadian politics in general).
Hobsbawm reveals in this one volume an amazing range of knowledge of European thought, science and art, not to mention his mastery of the facts and events that have marked Europe's recent history. And unlike many intellectuals, he is not overcome by caution in making his judgments about what has happened. Although I read Carlyle on the French revolution, and a few other books, I had not realized, myself, the dramatic effect this event had on the structures of government throughout Europe, which are still being felt today. Also, I don't think I had ever really understood that the basis for the British Empire lay so entirely on Britain's industrial transformation, that its dominance of the seas was necessary to sell the goods, particularly the cotton goods in whose manufacture it was ahead of all other countries in the world. "Never in the entire history of the world," writes Hobabawm, "has a single power exercised a world hegemony like that of the British in the middle of the nineteeth century, for even the greatest empires or hegemonies of the past had been merely regional --- the Chinese, the Mohammedan, the Roman. Never since then has any single power succeeded in re-establishing a comparable hegemony, nor indeed is any one likely to in the foreseeable future; for no power has since been able to claim the exclusive status of 'workshop of the world.' "
One may surely enter an interrogatory here, given the huge dominance of the United States over the world as it has developed since the fall of the Soviet Union (Hobsbawm was writing in 1961). But then again, the title of workshop of the world has so rapidly become attached to China in the last 20 years, that perhaps the case is not yet proven, either way.
Of course, Hobsbawm is not a great admirer of the results of the industrial revolution that lay at the heart of the British achievement. "No doubt these triumphs (of production) had their dark side, though these were not so readily to be summarised in statistical tables," he writes in his final chapter. "How was one to find quantitative expression for the fact, which few would today deny, that the Industrial Revolution created the ugliest world in which man has ever lived, as the grim and stinking, fog-bound back streets of Manchester already testified? Or, by uprooting men and women in unprecedented numbers and depriving them of the certainties of the ages, probably the unhappiest world?"
Although this was undoubtedly true, and there was poverty "of the most shocking kind" that many held was even increasing and deepening, yet, by the criteria which measured the triumphs of industry and science, "could even the gloomiest of rational observers maintain that in material terms it was worse than at any time in the past, or even than in unindustrialized countries in the present?" (He was referring to anyone who in the middle of the nineteenth century, was trying to make a balance account of achievements and failures.)
"It was a sufficiently bitter accusation," he writes, "that the material prosperity of the labouring poor was often no better than in the dark past and sometimes worse than in periods within living memory, but the champions of progress had tried to fend off these facts with the argument that 'this was due not to the operations of the new bourgeois society,' so much as to the obstacles that the old feudalism, monarchy and aristocracy were still placing in the way of 'perfect free enterprise.' "
For this brings us to the point that the Industrial Revolution was a triumph for capitalism, a demonstration of the by now well-known fact that capitalism is the most efficient system of governance in the production of goods, and that it demonstrated that the profit motive has always been willing to ruthlessly pursue its own maximization, no matter the effects on the lives on those whom it had virtually enslaved by its wage-system.
Among other things this remarkable book chronicles not only the rise of mechanized production, but also describes its attendant change in the modes of living from rural to urban, the rise of giant cities, which became the centres of education, science and culture. (His chapter on the arts, which did not, suprisingly, particularly grip me, nevertheless revealed some fascinating information, such as that "socially displaced young men and professional artists were the shock troops" of the Romantic rebellion against the bourgeois world: "Byron became famous overnight at 24, an age at which Shelley was famous and Keats was almost in his grave." Hugo's poetic career began when he was 20, Musset's at 23, Schubert wrote Erlkoenig at the age of 18 and was dead at 31, Delacroix painted the Massacre of Chios at 25, Petofi published his Poems at 21. "An unmade reputation or an unproduced masterpiece by 30 is a rarity among the romantics," writes Hobsbawm.)
Yet Hobsbawm's book does emphasize the achievements stimulated by the industrialists and monied classes, the immense changes they brought about. By 1848 "the population of the world was greater than ever before, its communications unbelievably speedier…Cities of vast size multiplied faster than ever before. Industrial production reached astronomic figures: in the 1840s something like 640 million tons of coal were hacked from the interior of the earth." These achievements were exceeded only by the even more extraordinary figures for international commerce, which had multiplied fourfold since 1780 to reach something like 800 millions of pounds sterling worth…
"Science had never been more triumphant; knowledge had never been more widespread. Over four thousand newspapers informed the citizens of the world and the number of books published annually in Britain, France, Germany and the USA alone ran well into five figures…"
And so it goes, this catalogue of the hard-won triumphs of the industrialists and their underpaid wage slaves; set against the horrors of the living conditions into which people removed from their traditional lands were cast when they reached the cities.
And yet, in spite of its advances, the world of the 1840s was, he writes, "out of balance." The future decline of Britain was already visible, and it was already evident it woud be overtaken eventually by the much larger economies of USA and Russia, and that even within Europe it would soon be challenged by Germany.
But was already clear, he writes, that sooner or later serfdom and slavery would have to go, that Britain could not for ever remain the only industrialized country, that landed aristocracies and absolute monarchies must retreat against the developed and developing bourgeoisie, and that the great legacy of the French revolution, the injection of political consciousness and political activity among the masses of people, must sooner or later mean that the masses would eventually play a formal part in politics.
For me, perhaps the most interesting part of this book is that it traces the development of the idea of socialism and communism, from their beginnings in the 1820s, through to the Communist manifesto of 1848, in which Marx and Engels suggested socialism (or some form of it) was not just rational, but as Marx posited, inevitable, an argument that, as Hobsbawm notes, defences are still being erected against today.
The intervening two volumes of this epic intellectual enterprise are The Age of Capital 1848-1875, and The Age of Empire 1875-1914. I am going to have to read these when I can find copies of them, after I return home at the end of July.
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Kino's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 50th, plus U2: Joshua Tree & reviews of Cinema Paradiso & Hellions
March 9, 2017 - 6:45 pm	| by	Bill Hunt
All right, just a quick one today, but we do bring you another pair of new Blu-ray reviews this afternoon…
Tim has checked out Scream Factory's new IFC Midnight release, the B-horror title Hellions.
Also, our old friend Matt Rowe has revisited a classic in Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, finally available in the U.S. in the form of Arrow Academy's terrific 2-disc Special Edition Blu-ray (formerly available only in the U.K.) that includes both the restored Theatrical Version and The Director's Cut plus extras. It's not to be missed. [Read on here…]
In announcement news today, the big news is that Kino Lorber has just announced that they're working on a new 50th Anniversary Blu-ray and DVD release of Sergio Leone's iconic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967). The disc, expected to be street this summer (specific street date TBA) will include both the original U.S. Theatrical Cut in HD for the first time ever, as well as the Extended Cut, both mastered from 4K transfers. The 2-disc set will also include a huge slate of extras. Here's the breakdown from Kino:
4K transfer of the Original U.S. Theatrical Cut
New audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas
"Trailers from Hell" with Ernest Dickerson
Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
M.O.S. Deleted Scene of Blondie in the desert finding skeletons
Trailers for Sergio Leone Westerns
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
AND MORE – to be announced
4K transfer of the Extended Cut
Audio commentary by acclaimed film historian Richard Schickel
Audio commentary by noted cultural historian Christopher Frayling
Leone's West making of documentary
The Leone Style: On Sergio Leone featurette
The Man Who Lost The Civil War: Civil War documentary
Reconstruction The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
II Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly featurette
Original U.S. Theatrical Trailer
Original French Theatrical Trailer
We'll post additional details as they become available.
Also today, Universal has announced the 4/11 Blu-ray and DVD release of the supernatural thriller The Bye Bye Man, with the Digital HD release set for 3/28.
Well Go USA has set Legend of Bruce Lee: Volume Two for release as a 3-disc DVD collection on 4/4. The set will include 10 episodes for SRP $24.98. The company has also announced that their previously announced The Phantasm Collection Blu-ray box set will now street on 4/11. Also... "In addition to the previously released archival material included in the box set, Phantasm creator Don Coscarelli has produced hours of never-before-seen material, featuring new interviews with cast and filmmakers, as well as rare archival materials." So adjust your plans accordingly.
We've learned that Lionsgate's Orange Is the New Black: Season Four, which streets on 5/9, will include a gag reel, the Visitation: Set Tour featurette, and audio commentaries with the cast and crew on 3 episodes (including It Sounded Nicer in My Head, The Animals, and Toast Can't Never Be Bread Again).
And for music fans, Universal Music has just announced that they're releasing new deluxe box set editions of U2's The Joshua Tree album in honor of its 30th Anniversary. You can learn more here at the band's official website.
Back tomorrow with more. Stay tuned…
- Bill Hunt
Cinema Paradiso: Special Edition
Hellions BD review
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Kino Lorber Studio Classics
The Good the Bad and the Ugly: 50th Anniversary Edition
U2: Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary
Orange Is the New Black: Season Four
Legend of Bruce Lee: Volume Two
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