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WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES – Michael Giacchino
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Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
War for the Planet of the Apes is the third and – at the time of writing – final installment of the rebooted Planet of the Apes film series, inspired by the novels of Pierre Boulle and the 1960s film series originally starring Charlton Heston. It continues the story of Caesar, the leader of a community of increasingly intelligent apes. In the first film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar was given increased intelligence and the ability to speak after being infected by a genetically modified virus intended to cure Alzheimer's disease, but which accidentally killed a large portion of the world's human population instead. In the second film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar is struggling to create a stable ape society while trying to broker an uneasy truce with the humans remaining in what is left of San Francisco. Now, in this new film, Caesar and his ape colony are embroiled in an all-out war with a platoon of human soldiers under the command of a brutal colonel, a situation so dire that Caesar resolves to find a new home for his people, far away from the conflict.
The film is directed by Matt Reeves, and again stars the incredible Andy Serkis as Caesar, who is now surely enshrined as the most convincing mo-cap special effects character actor in the history of cinema. The range of expression and the depth of emotion that Serkis brings to his role is astonishingly accomplished, and the special effects that bring Caesar to life are, genuinely, some of the best I have ever seen. Woody Harrelson brings solid support to his role as Caesar's foe, the Colonel, while the other mo-cap ape performers (Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary) are similarly excellent. The plot has been described as a homage to both classic war movies and classic westerns, with influences from both genres; there is also quite a lot of religious iconography in the film which paints Caesar as a sort of simian combination of both Jesus and Moses. The screenplay also addresses numerous weighty philosophical issues that add a great deal of depth and thoughtfulness to what, in other circumstances, could have been a very silly set of films.
The score for War for the Planet of the Apes is by Michael Giacchino, who returns to the franchise after scoring the second film in 2014. Back then I described Giacchino's score in very broad-brush terms as "the emotional parts of his scores for Super 8 and the Lost TV series, combined with the vaguely jungley action music he wrote for things like Land of the Lost, and the Lost World: Jurassic Park video game series back in the 1990s," which sounds a little flippant but is essentially correct. Thankfully, War for the Planet of the Apes is a significant improvement over Dawn, mostly for the fact that Giacchino takes those building blocks and adds to them in intelligent, creative ways, applying a number of new thematic ideas that relate to overarching concepts rather than specific characters.
The centerpiece of the score, as was the case in the previous installment, is the 'big emotional theme' that appears to represent Caesar's destiny, and his hopes and dreams for a better life for his colony of apes, away from the dangerous influence of humans. The first performance of it in this score is in the animated and aggressive "The Ecstasy of the Bold," where the theme is given a more heroic makeover with bright horns, a faster tempo, and accompanying chanted vocals. The theme is actually absent for a great deal of the score's middle section, only returning during the film's finale. It builds gradually through the stirring "Migration" and reaches its zenith in the warm and welcoming "Paradise Found," the culmination of an epic journey to a promised land. This climactic performance begins with tender intimacy through several statements on a solo piano, but grows to fully embrace pseudo-religious glory with the full orchestra and choir – appropriately so, considering the symbolism of the moment.
The most prominent new thematic idea is, essentially, a 'quest theme,' accompanying Caesar, Rocket, Maurice, and the rest of the small group of apes who head off to deal with The Colonel and his men while the remainder of the colony heads for the promised land. It has a forthright, aggressive quality, and feels like it should be the main theme for a dark, gritty western, especially when it is performed on low, bold horns accompanied by Morricone-esque gruff chanting voices, sleigh bells, and guitars. It first appears towards the end of "Exodus Wounds" (around the 3:30 mark), and is featured strongly in several subsequent cues, notably "The Posse Polonaise," the frantic "The Bad Ape Bagatelle," "Don't Luca Now," and with a circus-like waltz-time variation in the "End Credits".
The very observant amongst you will note that the Quest theme shares a number of similarities with Ennio Morricone's score La Moglie Più Bella, an obscure euro-thriller from 1970; it's clear that this piece was either in director Reeves's temp track, or is being intentionally referenced by Giacchino, but either way it's a superb piece, and no-one but the most ardent Morricone fans will even notice the resemblance.
The second of the new thematic ideas is a recurring twelve-note piano theme that appears to represent Caesar's concept of family. On the album we first hear it in the third cue, "Exodus Wounds," which builds from a solo piano rendition to encompass softer strings, and eventually the full orchestra and choir, growing to lovely, almost operatic proportions as it develops. The way it combines with the Caesar's Destiny theme towards the end of that cue is superb, while later statements at the end of the emotional "Don't Luca Now," on solo cello in the middle of "Planet of the Escapes," and in the devastating "More Red Than Alive" are all quite excellent.
A variation on this theme, reduced to seven notes, appears at the opening of "The Posse Polonaise," and seems to relate directly to Nova, the mute human girl who Maurice the Orangutan finds and adopts during their journey – again, the notion of family. Subsequent statements of Nova's theme appear at the beginning of the emotional "Don't Luca Now" to underscore a quiet moment of friendship between a human and a chimpanzee, during the music box-like first half of "Apes Together Strong" where it slowly shifts from quiet glockenspiels and harps to warm oboes, and during the poignant conclusion of "A Tide in the Affairs of Apes".
Beyond these central thematic ideas the score is generally concerned with tension and action, and this is where the score loses some of its steam. While Giacchino has always been good at rousing thematic statements and bold, flashy action sequences, for me he hasn't quite developed an interesting style when it comes to suspense and understated dissonance. He uses string sustains, little drum patterns, and various electronic tones, but to me they always seem too much like they are treading water between the highlights and don't have much to say on their own terms. It's a shame that the opening cue, "Apes' Past is Prologue," is basically 10 minutes of this sort of thing. You can tell that Giacchino is trying to emulate Jerry Goldsmith a little with his use of clattering percussion and slightly out-of-tune sounding woodwind textures, and he tries to enliven it with some moments of choral power, but it never quite works and overall it causes the score's opening sequence to drag.
(One note of curiosity is that, in the film's end credits crawl, "Apes' Past is Prologue" is listed as being written by the now 12-year old Griffin Giacchino, Michael's youngest son, whereas the official copyright information sheet credits it solely to Michael. How much of that 10-minute cue young Griffin actually wrote is unclear but this fact, combined with the fact that Michael's eldest son Mick Giacchino is formally credited as an orchestrator on Spider-Man: Homecoming, and had a cue credited to him on Jurassic World, indicates that a little composing dynasty may be developing).
Subsequent cues such as "Assault of the Earth," "Koba Dependent," the second half of "Apes Together Strong," and "A Man Named Suicide" follow this same pattern, although one or two of these cues do feature some interesting touches in the orchestration and some moments of rhythmic tempestuousness that are quite exciting – the shrill flutes at the beginning of "Assault of the Earth," for example. "A Tide in the Affairs of Apes" appears to be a cleverly deconstructed version of the Caesar's Destiny theme, distorted and warped, with tribal orchestrations including metallic percussion items and an array of plucked string instruments. Perhaps the most interesting action cue is "Planet of the Escapes," in which Giacchino takes a unique repeated rhythmic motif and throws it around the orchestra in almost comedic fashion, replete with hooting woodwinds, little plucked pizzicato ideas, and metallic percussion, before blending it with a more clear and recognizable statement of the Caesar's Destiny theme.
I was a little dismissive of this score when I first heard it but, having now experienced it in the context of the film, I have to admit that most of my initial misgivings were incorrect. Although I still have a few reservations about the quality of the action and suspense music, the quartet of themes – the Caesar's Destiny theme, the Quest theme, the Family theme, Nova's theme – and the interplay between them is quite superb. The emotional high points are pitched perfectly, rendered to bring out the appropriate response in the audience without sounding mawkish or manipulative, and the travelling sequences where the Quest theme is most prominent give the project an adventurous sound which meshes well with the director's intent to make it feel like a classic war movie/western.
It's been interesting to watch Michael Giacchino's career over the years, and how he has gone from a video-game scoring nobody to being arguably the most important composer in Hollywood right now (a title he shares with Hans Zimmer). As I mentioned in my review of Spider-Man: Homecoming, in just ten years he's managed to put one Star Wars movie, three Star Trek movies, one Jurassic Park movie, two Mission Impossible movies, a handful of smash-hit Pixar animations, two Marvel super-hero movies, and now two Planet of the Apes movies onto his resume – a staggering achievement by anyone's standard. Best of all, he's done it by writing the theme-filled, richly orchestrated, emotionally strong film scores that are too often considered passé by highbrow art critics and apprehensive studio producers. Although, based purely on my personal taste, I still think that Doyle's Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the best score of the new rebooted series, there is still much to admire in Giacchino's efforts, and this one is by far the best of his two.
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Apes' Past is Prologue (10:53)
Assault of the Earth (5:29)
Exodus Wounds (4:23)
The Posse Polonaise (1:39)
The Bad Ape Bagatelle (1:13)
Don't Luca Now (3:53)
Koba Dependent (2:54)
The Ecstasy of the Bold (1:57)
Apes Together Strong (7:12)
A Tide in the Affairs of Apes (5:31)
Planet of the Escapes (2:42)
The Hating Game (2:04)
A Man Named Suicide (5:32)
More Red Than Alive (2:41)
Migration (2:03)
Paradise Found (5:35)
End Credits (9:30)
Running Time: 75 minutes 11 seconds
Sony Masterworks (2017)
Music composed by Michael Giacchino. Conducted by Tim Simonec. Orchestrations by Tim Simonec and Jeff Kryka. Recorded and mixed by Joel Iwataki. Edited by Jim Schultz. Album produced by Michael Giacchino.
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LP Hugo
Thank you thank you thank you for identifying Morricone's The Most Beautiful Wife as the inspiration behind that theme. I couldn't get my finger on it and it has been bugging me for days.
Too! Haha! After he mentioned, was clear as water the influence of Morricone on this piece.
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That LA MOGLIE PIU BELLA temp track scenario for the most essential part of the score of WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES left me flabbergasted! ok i admit that the structure is similar but it needs a man who adores Morricone and has seen the very rare Damiano Damiani 1971 movie to take such a peculiar decision to use music from this movie as a temp track for a 2017 Hollywood blockbuster…if this is what happened then i'm in awe of the Giacchino genius and the director's depth of knowledge…
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The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. The Elephants Foot of the Chernobyl disaster in the immediate aftermath of the meltdown. The nuclear meltdown was the cause of multiple issues, mostly man made mistakes and flaws in the Soviet RBMK-1000 design. View our online Press Pack. Even after 30 years, the foot … Chernobyl elephant's foot: photo the most dangerous radioactive object on Earth; Chernobyl disaster – pictures of the disaster and its consequences; Deaths of Chernobyl – pictures of the terrible consequences of the 1986; Chernobyl fish: pictures of the fauna and the city of Chernobyl … The sufferer might die within a few days. An alarm bellowed out at the nuclear plant on April 26, 1986, as workers looked on in horror at the control panels signalling a major meltdown in the number four reactor. 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Elephant foot – solidified radioactive substances mass of exploded in 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl … Visit it several times per year without protection - not good :D Elephants foot is warmer than surroundings because it is still radioactive and all the molecules are moving fast (giving away heat) but its not hot (not like 100 degrees C) And foot is definitely solid on outside, since they took samples of foot … Soviet authorities waited 24 hours before evacuating the nearby town of Pripyat - giving the 50,000 residents just three hours to leave their homes. Where is the Black Pyramid depicted in an ancient manuscript from the Giza plateau? The Elephant's Foot of Chernobyl and the world's deadliest selfie. The bizarre sounding Elephant's Foot is a mass of highly-radioactive material formed in the wake of the 1986 nuclear disaster, which is the focus of the Sky Atlantic hit 'Chernobyl'. While it is not possible to determine the lowest harmful level of radioactivity, the safe level of human radiation is considered to be 1 millisievert (mSv). US Department of Energy. When excessive amounts of radioactive material get into the body or touch, we can be exposed to various kinds of physical and mental problems. Pyramids of Ancient Greece: The mysterious Hellinikon Pyramid is older than Giza? But Gamma radiation can break up the chain, destroying or altering the bonds that hold DNA together. If you know one thing about Chernobyl, you probably know that it was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. Level 3 – 6 Sv (3000 – 6000 mSv): There will be frequent vomiting and loss of appetite. The Elephant's Foot, an ugly 10-foot wide mass of radioactive material with a glossy, wrinkled surface resembling tree bark and glass, was formed during the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986.It was discovered in December of that year in a basement underneath Reactor No. The popular name "Elephant's Foot" comes from its wrinkled appearance and shape, resembling the foot of an elephant. Only two pictures of the foot were ever released to the public but due to it's deadly radiation, even the camera's film was affected. Snow creates a barrier with the contaminated soil. Two minutes near it and your cells will begin to hemorrhage. The Elephant's Foot is a mass of corium – a once-molten concoction of uranium, graphite, concrete, and sand – that formed during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. But, this discovery happened eight months later, in December! By clicking "Accept", you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. It also happens to be the home of the most toxic mass in the world. Your email address will not be published. If this was not noticed by anybody, although it is a large spill of metal compound (the so-called "Elephant… Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl), a formation of corium at the Chernobyl reactor site A half length sleeping bag; See bivvy bag A type of step stool with concealed spring-loaded castors allowing the step to be … Nuclear radiation is deemed to be a terrible curse to bio-lives. These structures contain the exact data of what, when, where or how to do a particular thing in our body. By the time you hit the five-minute mark, you're a goner. Inside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's shelter. It was the night of April 26th, 1986, when the fourth reactor exploded in a nuclear power plant in the town of Chernobyl. Jeeees, Jacob. Chernobyl's Hot Mess, "the Elephant's Foot," Is Still Lethal. At that time, being present … A massive 4,000-year-old Monolith split with laser-like precision. There was concern that the product would continue to penetrate deeper into the soil and come into contact with groundwater, thus contaminating the area's drinking water and leading to disease and deaths. You may have heard about the Elephant's Foot, or Medusa, and it's basically the nickname given to a large mass of corium and other materials formed during the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986. I was encouraged to write an answer rather than a comment on one. Well, visit and see elephants foot once a year without health problems? Chernobyl elephant's foot: photo the most dangerous radioactive object on Earth. Within seconds, it turned into a nuclear disaster site that caused deadly radioactivity to Russia, Ukraine and even Belarus. To know more about the Chernobyl Disaster and its present condition, read this article. 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Given the uncertainty facing fishermen in N0rthern Ireland, DEFRA has issued a technical notice to help clarify as much as possible the scenario in a post-Brexit NO DEAL situation.
As the final deal and details are hammered out in Brussels for the March deadline, fish businesses, exporters, fishermen and boat owners are all wondering what the future lies in store.
The situation is quite fluid with much political action across the board and uncertainties about how much if any of UK fishing rights the UK government will horse trade off if any to EU member states for concessions in other areas such as agriculture.
Find below a full explanation as per the the DEFRA website.
October 2018: A scenario in which the UK leaves the EU without agreement (a 'no deal' scenario) remains unlikely given the mutual interests of the UK and the EU in securing a negotiated outcome.
Fishermen are looking closely at how the Brexit no deal scenario will impact on their industry.
This notice sets out how the commercial fishing industry (the commercial catching of fish, as well as the marketing of fish and seafood) would be affected if the UK leaves the EU without a deal in March 2019.
The commercial catching of fish and marketing of fish and seafood, including the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants and algae (aquaculture), is regulated by the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) provides money, including industry grants, to member states for certain fisheries activities.
When we leave the EU, the UK will formally leave the CFP and introduce our own fisheries policies. The government's White Paper, Sustainable Fisheries for Future Generations, published on 4 July 2018, sets out a clear direction for a sustainable and profitable fishing industry. The White Paper also states the government's intention to move away from the "relative stability" towards a fairer and more scientific method for quota allocation, regardless of exit scenario.
The EU Withdrawal Act 2018 will ensure EU law is transferred into UK law and continues to have effect so that we have a functioning statute book from the day we leave. Defra, together with the Devolved Administrations, is currently preparing secondary legislation (under the Withdrawal Act) to ensure the law works in the UK after we leave.
The UK will assume the rights and obligations of an independent coastal state under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) relating to our territorial waters (out to 12 nautical miles) and Exclusive Economic Zone (out to 200 nautical miles or the median line with other states). We will be responsible for managing natural marine resources in these areas, and be able to control and manage access to fish in UK waters. We will meet our international obligations under UNCLOS to cooperate with other coastal states over the management of shared stocks. We will ensure that appropriate fisheries control and enforcement measures continue.
Access to fish in UK waters: While non-UK-registered vessels will no longer enjoy automatic access to UK waters (subject to any existing agreements relating to territorial waters), there will be no change to the rights and responsibilities of UK-registered vessels fishing in UK waters. They must continue to abide by the relevant legislation and licence conditions, including the economic link criteria.
Access to fish in EU and third country waters: There will be no automatic access for UK-registered vessels to fish in EU or third country waters (subject to any existing agreements relating to territorial waters).
Fishing opportunities for UK vessels in UK waters: UK Fisheries Administrations will tell UK quota holders what their quota allocation will be. The government will also confirm arrangements for those who fish for non-quota shellfish (scallops and edible/spider crabs) and demersal species under the Western Waters effort regime. UK Fisheries Administrations inform quota holders of their allocations in March each year and will seek to do so in 2019 to minimise disruption to fishing and allow fishermen to plan for the year. There will be no automatic access to exchanging fishing opportunities with EU member states, and no automatic access for EU member states to exchange fishing opportunities with the UK.
UK-registered vessels will no longer have an automatic right to land fish in any EU port. Access will be permitted to EU designated ports for port services, landings, transhipment and the use of market facilities where vessels meet EU requirements governing illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. UK-registered vessels will have to notify their intention to visit an EU designated port and present information relating to the vessel and catch on board. UK vessels may be subject to inspection: this could include a full document check, inspection of the catch and, where information has been provided electronically, database checks.
Access to EU and third country ports by UK-registered vessels will be permitted without prior notice in cases of distress or force majeure.
In anticipation of our joining the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC), UK-registered vessels wishing to continue fishing in the NEAFC Convention Area and landing into the EU will have to complete Port State Control 1 forms, available on the NEAFC website.
Access to UK ports for non-UK vessels, including EU vessels, will be subject to equivalent requirements to those outlined above. They will be required to provide notice of the intention to land into a designated port in the UK, except in cases of distress and force majeure.
EU vessels fishing in the NEAFC Convention Area and landing into the UK would need to complete a Port State Control 1 form.
The UK will no longer be a member of RFMOs through EU membership. As an independent coastal state, we will join all relevant RFMOs as quickly as possible.
The process of joining RFMOs and ratifying their conventions may take up to 6 months: there may, therefore, be a short gap in our membership. During this time, UK vessels may not be able to fish in international waters covered by RFMOs.
The UK government has guaranteed that in a 'no deal' scenario all structural and investment fund projects, including EMFF projects, approved before 31 December 2020 will be fully funded.
All common marketing standards for fish sold for human consumption – whether in the UK or the EU – will remain the same, including those governing quality, size, weight, packing, presentation or labelling and minimum marketing sizes. All labelling requirements for fish and aquaculture products for onward sale in the UK or EU will also remain the same (whether they were whole, filleted, or processed). This will include the requirement to show on labels the name of the fish, the date and method of its capture (fishing gear or farming method), whether it was wild or farmed, defrosted or fresh.
The responsibilities of Producer Organisations to promote sustainable fishing activities, market members' products, build relationships with the supply chain, and where appropriate, manage quota, will remain unchanged.
Exports of UK-caught fish and fishery products to the EU: The EU will require exporters to issue a catch certificate with each consignment of fish or fishery products exported to the EU. It will be the responsibility of the exporter to complete a catch certificate. If the consignment were sourced from more than one UK vessel, a Multiple Vessel Schedule would need to be completed and submitted alongside the catch certificate. Vessel owners or skippers making direct landings of UK vessels into EU ports will also need to issue a catch certificate. The content of a catch certificate will need to be verified by the UK fisheries authority where the vessel is licensed before being submitted to the competent authority in the EU country of import. The UK fisheries authorities are the Marine Management Organisation in England, Marine Scotland, the Department of Agriculture, the Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland and the Welsh Government. The UK fisheries authorities are developing an IT system to facilitate the increase in export catch certificates.
Imports of EU-caught fish and fishery products to the UK: Each consignment or direct landing of fish or fishery products imported into the UK from the EU will require a catch certificate. The exporters will have to submit the certificate to the Port Health Authorities or relevant fisheries authority to be checked at least three working days before the estimated arrival time into the UK. This deadline could be adapted to take into account the type of fishery or distance from fishing ground to port, for example.
Eels and eel products: Trade in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), within and outside the EU, will remain subject to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and allowed only where it is shown not to be detrimental to the wild population. As there is currently no non-detriment finding for the population, the UK will not be able to import or export European eel. Most of the eel (Anguilla japonica) consumed in the UK is imported from China and so the impact on consumers should be limited.
Anyone importing or exporting fish or fishery products should also reference the relevant technical notices relating to the import and export of animal products.
The European Commission maintains a list of designated ports for third country landings on its website. Further information on access to EU ports and the laws on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing can be found in Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, Chapter II, Section I.
You should also refer to guidance on catch certificates and advice on food labelling. Importers and exporters of fish and fishery products should also refer to other relevant technical notices.


Jade Carey competes on the balance beam at U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Aug. 17, 2018 in Boston.
Jade Carey, a two-time world silver medalist, and Kanji Oyama, a bronze medalist in the men's floor exercise at the 2018 national championships, are among 10 U.S. gymnasts competing this weekend at the Senior Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru.
At stake are quota spots in the Lima 2019 Pan American Games for the United States.
The men's all-around and event finals are Friday, followed by the women's all-around and event finals Saturday. Both team finals are Sunday.
Joining Carey in the women's competition are Kara Eaker, Shilese Jones, Grace McCallum and Trinity Thomas.
In addition to Oyama, U.S. men's gymnasts are Cameron Bock, Spencer Goodell, Riley Loos and Genki Suzuki.
A top-eight finish in the qualification rounds would secure a berth in the Pan Am Games for the U.S. In all, 57 men's and 57 women's quota spots will be awarded. Teams finishing lower than eighth in qualifying still can qualify two gymnasts through the team competition or a single gymnast through the all-around competition. National federations will name athletes to fill those spots closer to the Games.
Four gymnasts will compete in each event in qualifying; the best three scores count. In the team finals, three gymnasts compete in each event with all scores counting.
Also this weekend, group competition in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships is Saturday and Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Members of the U.S. group team are Dasha Baltovick, Isabelle Connor, Ugne Dragunas, Connie Du, Elizaveta Pletneva and Nicole Sladkov. Competition in five hoops and three balls/two ropes is Saturday, followed by the final round on Sunday.
Laura Zeng, a 2016 Olympian, placed 11th in the individual all-around qualification. She and Evita Griskenas advanced to the all-around final Friday.


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Belittling the brouhaha about China's nuclear alliance with Pakistan, India's unfriendly neighbor, Shiv Shankar Menon on Tuesday said India and China have "a relationship which is not externally driven". India's National Security Advisor and Special Envoy to China was talking to mediapersons after meeting China's premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing.
The statement short yet significant reveals the immense depth and breadth of China and India's relationship. With the axis of the world-changing towards the emerging economies of Asia, it is vital to realise that the understanding that China and India have of each other is exclusive and does not include the opinions of so-called experts around the world. Seeped in history, ravaged by the present, China and India share a bond that only the Chinese and Indian's seem to understand. Our moments blow between being friends and foes, yet we realise that internationally we need to support each other for together we are stronger.
The relationship China and India share is not mired by the US, Pakistan, Russia or Japan. While we might forge global alliances with nations the other doesn't trust, it doesn't mean we are undermining the bond between us. Nuclear weapons, trade disputes and the border issue might be contentious issues now, but as India and China's diplomatic elite look at it, it's just a small hiccup. There are broader issues of where China and India collectively are steering the world that have Premier Wen and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh more excited.
To demonstrate how trivial the nuclear issue was for India, Menon who has spoken to China about selling nuclear arms to Pakistan on several occassions, said The attention on the deal, was misplaced. "This was not the whole point of the visit," he stressed, adding: "This took less than two and a half sentences in the whole visit."
The Hindu reported – "We're no longer in an either-or, zero-sum game kind of situation," Mr. Menon said. "Our relationship with China is not dependent on the state of our relations with Pakistan, or vice versa. And judging by what we have seen in practice over the last few years, I think that is also true of China. Nowhere in my talks was there any such linkage [made] by them, or by us."
He said an increasing convergence of interests on the global stage, on issues such as climate change, energy security and trade, was in some sense bringing the countries closer. They had moved into "a new stage of the relationship," where they were engaging on a broader set of issues of global relevance.
Echoing broadening their scope of work Premier Wen Jiabao said "A healthy, stable and dynamic China-India relationship is of far-reaching significance to the two nations, Asia and the whole world at large."


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Olivet School:
The Our Kids Report > Admissions
Grades JK TO 5 — Etobicoke, ON (Map)
279 Burnhamthorpe Road, Etobicoke, Ontario, M9B 1Z6
Olivet School ADMISSIONS
Private schools in Canada have admissions policies, and they require application materials. These may include letters of application, application fees, essays, and tests (such as the SSAT). Many schools also require interviews with prospective students. Schools also use different criteria for evaluating student applications, have different acceptance rates, and target different kinds of students. To improve your child's chances of acceptance, find out everything you can about a school's admissions policies and how they assess applicants.
Interview K - 5
SSAT (out of province)
Entrance Exam(s)
Entrance Essay
Olivet School admissions deadlines and fees
Day students: Rolling
Offer mid-year entry: Yes
Application fee: $200
Registration fee: N/A
Deposit: $500
What Olivet School says about their admissions requirements:
1. Tour: Complete a school tour and classroom visit.
2. Interview: Parents/Guardians meet with the principal.
3. Records: Provide the school with copies of student's two most recent report cards and assessment materials (if applicable).
4. Teacher assessment: Student meets with classroom teacher individually or joins the classroom for the morning. (Not required for kindergarten).
5. Register: Upon receipt of an acceptance letter, complete registration form and pay $500 non-refundable deposit.
Learn about the percentage of students typically accepted into Olivet School. This can help you gauge your chances of getting into this school. For instance, a 95% acceptance rate means a school is relatively easy to get into, while a 10% acceptance rate means it will be difficult to get into.
Olivet School acceptance rate: 95%
Olivet School student entry points
Schools accept different numbers of students at different grade levels. Learn how many students are accepted into Olivet School at each grade level.
Day Acceptance
(Acceptance rate) 5 - 7 (95%) 5 - 7 (95%) 3 - 5 (95%) 3 - 5 (95%) 3 - 5 (95%) 3 - 5 (95%) 3 - 5 (95%)
What type of student Olivet School is looking for:
Olivet School looks for families who appreciate what Olivet School has to offer them and their child. Parents, students and Olivet School teachers love the Olivet School community for its caring, home-like quality, very small class sizes and its rich academic program taught with a foundation in Christian values. If you've been looking for elementary education which combines the strength of top quality teaching with the individual attention and opportunities of a personalized learning community, then you too will love Olivet School!
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A little bit of… what's on the charts.
She's an actress, a dancer, a reality TV judge, and most importantly when it comes to this post, a singer. Coming off of debut single "If You Had My Love", Lopez struck again with "Waiting", taken from her 1999 album On The 6. Dancing her way to another success, the song landed at #8 on the Hot 100 later that year and also charted well internationally. Lopez is back judging on American Idol this season.
The duo of Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones based out of Brisbane, Australia, racked up some major hits beginning in 1997 with "I Want You". This big ballad was their last #1, spending four weeks atop the Hot 100 and five weeks leading the CHR airplay chart. It would also rank as the top song on my chart in December. The duo broke up in 2001, but Hayes has been charting solo on my top 40 since 2002.
Mark McGrath and the boys from Newport Beach, CA, dominated the charts earlier that year with an Alternative and CHR radio smash, "Every Morning", and this third single from 14:59 also provided a bit of airtime for them. Paired with a black-and-white video set on the beach, it had that perfect summer and early fall vibe. The group last made my chart in the summer of 2005 with "Shot Of Laughter".
Don't you love those compositions from the confectionery? Moore was always one of the lessers in the Pop Princess Class of '99 (with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson) but I liked her music, both as a pop act and singer-songwriter. She's since publicly come out and trashed her first few albums. Still, we treasure that precious message of I'll be forever yours, love always, Mandy.
From The Mickey Mouse Club to the Dance/Club Play charts, Aguilera is a superstar. She charted on the Adult Contemporary chart a year prior with "Reflection", from the Disney movie Mulan, but "Genie" really put her on the map. Released in early summer, it was all over the radio by the fall and helped her self-titled debut album to sell over 9 million copies in the U.S. alone. It was my first official #1 in September.
STOP! The needle spun out of the groove for a hot second, but then it was back to a poppin' party hit for Spears, the third in a row from her …Baby One More Time album. It was also featured in the movie Drive Me Crazy, starring Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier. "Crazy" would spend one week at #1 on my chart in November. Spears is currently promoting a new album, Britney Jean, due December 3.
From their album You Can't Stop the Bum Rush (what a title) comes this lone hit of the band's career, led by siblings Marc and Sharon Costanzo. It's a great summer song and became a top ten hit in many countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and in the band's native Canada, where "Steal" went to #1. They reunited in 2012 and released an album together; however, it did not chart.
Someone might have been glued to the TV when this music video came on Total Request Live, though I'm afraid I never quite learned the dance sequence. It was one of the most expensive clips in history, but it served its purpose. "Larger" was another big top ten radio single for the Boys, and would replace the song at #1 on this chart in two weeks. Parent album Millenium went 13x Platinum. Robot suit not included.
Everyone and their mother wanted a copy of Supernatural in 1999, leading to one of the greatest comebacks in pop music history for Santana. "Smooth" was one of the reasons for that, a huge #1 airplay and sales hit that you could not escape for some time. On my chart, it only went to #2. Shock, horror! Three years later, "The Game Of Love", featuring Michelle Branch, went to #1 on my survey for three weeks.
German-born David Lubega was just 24-years-old when he conquered the global music surveys with his infectious anthem, a remake of an old Pérez Prado instrumental from 50 years prior. "Mambo" would end up with a total of eight weeks at #1, this being his fifth, and would stay on through the spring of 2000. Followup single "Tricky Tricky" would also go top ten, and that would mark the end of his career on my top 40. He's still active in his native country, releasing A Little Bit Of 80's, a covers album, this past June.


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| Penn cancels class of prof. who used Nazi gesture — but students still want him fired
Penn cancels class of prof. who used Nazi gesture — but students still want him fired
By Elizabeth Meisenzahl 01/11/21 10:25pm
Anthropology professor Robert Schuyler is also a co-curator for the Penn Museum.
Credit: Kylie Cooper
Penn canceled Anthropology professor and Penn Museum co-curator Robert Schuyler's classes for the spring semester as he faces widespread backlash and continued calls for his firing for his use of a Nazi phrase and gesture at a conference last week.
Anthropology Department Chair Kathleen Morrison confirmed in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday that ANTH 220: "Historical Archaeology Laboratory," the course Schuyler was scheduled to teach, will no longer be offered in the spring. Students praised the move, but many are urging the University to take further action and fire him. A petition calling for Schuyler's termination has garnered more than 300 signatures as of Monday evening.
"Given that the situation at the [Society for Historical Archaeology] plenary session involved the bullying and attempted silencing of a graduate student, I felt that professor Schuyler should be kept away from students," Morrison wrote.
The Anthropology Department and the School of Arts and Sciences have also released statements condemning his actions, but the University has remained silent about whether Schuyler will be fired.
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University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy declined to comment on the petition or whether the University is considering firing Schuyler. MacCarthy wrote in a statement to the DP on Sunday that Penn is "initiating a review to determine the appropriate course [of] action."
At a Society for Historical Archaeology conference on Wednesday, Schuyler was granted permission to briefly interrupt invited speaker Liz Quinlan, a University of York Ph.D. candidate, who was speaking about improving accessibility for virtual conferences. When Schuyler began asking about how the pandemic affected membership renewals for 2021, Quinlan attempted to redirect the conversation to the original topic. Schuyler then performed the Nazi salute and used the Nazi victory phrase "Sieg heil."
Schuyler previously told the DP that he believed his speech was being suppressed, and his decision to use the phrase and gesture was meant to reference the limitations on free speech in Nazi Germany. He added that he does not endorse Nazism.
Schuyler did not respond to a request for comment on the petition and calls for his firing.
School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty released a statement Monday condemning Schuyler's use of the Nazi phrase and salute. The statement did not say whether Schuyler will be fired, or if the school is considering other disciplinary action.
"Such behavior has no place in our academic discourse, which aims to celebrate the open exchange of ideas in an environment that promotes civility, respect, and inclusion," Fluharty wrote. "Nazi symbols are antithetical to our values as an institution."
Penn Hillel also released a statement to members Monday evening condemning Schuyler's actions and offering support to students.
"The use of Nazi symbols and imagery trivializes one of the darkest periods in both Jewish and world history, and has no place in our campus discourse," Hillel's co-presidents wrote. "We have been in contact with our colleagues at the University to express our concern, and they are conducting a review to determine the appropriate course of action."
Quinlan filed a complaint to the SHA after the conference, writing that being "spoken to with such vitriol and anger by a senior researcher in my field is demoralizing, embarrassing, and deeply upsetting."
To some students, the decision to cancel Schuyler's class does not go far enough.
College junior Dana Raphael launched the petition calling for Schuyler's termination on Monday morning after she saw the video of Schuyler using the Nazi salute. Addressed to the University, President Amy Gutmann, and Provost Wendell Pritchett, the petition states that "Penn must take disciplinary action to demonstrate that intolerable behavior has consequences, and to ensure that this does not happen again."
Raphael said that as a Jewish woman and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, she was outraged that Schuyler would use a Nazi phrase and salute in any context. She said that the Anthropology Department was right to cancel Schuyler's class for next semester and praised Fluharty's statement, as well as the Penn Museum's statement denouncing Schuyler's actions. She added, however, that Penn still must fire Schuyler.
"It's the University's responsibility as a well-renowned scholarly institution to take action in the right direction and to make sure that Robert Schuyler is no longer a professor at this institution," Raphael said. "Condemnation is not enough."
College junior Jonah Lourie was registered for ANTH 220 until he received an email Monday alerting him that the course was canceled. Lourie, who is Jewish, said he thought the department made the right decision to cancel Schuyler's class.
"It's pretty clear at this point in history that making any Nazi gestures or anything of the sort is considered hateful, and I think it should have been dealt with with consequences, so I was happy to see that the school took action against him," Lourie said.
Lourie said he is not sure whether he wants Schuyler to be fired, but hopes the administration is at least considering it. He added that he would be unlikely to take a class with Schuyler in the future if he remains a faculty member.
A College junior who requested anonymity out of fear of academic retaliation said that they were also pleased with the decision as a first step from Penn. The student had been registered for ANTH 220 this spring, and, like Lourie, does not plan on taking a class with Schuyler again if he returns to teaching.
The College junior added that while they believe this is a promising action by the department, they hope that Penn will fire Schuyler.
College senior Jacob Reis, who was also registered for ANTH 220, said he supports the decision to cancel Schuyler's class. Reis said that canceling the class gives the University time to conduct an investigation and determine the appropriate consequences for Schuyler, including termination.
"Yes, we're disappointed that [the class] is not available, but under the circumstances, I think we're willing to sacrifice not learning ANTH 220 as Penn investigates this further," Reis said.


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Q: Uninstall node-gyp node-gyp was installed as a dependency of one of the modules I have used. Since then, every time I run a npm install command I am greeted with around a minute of my console being spammed with errors which are seemingly caused by node-gyp.
I don't want anything to do with node-gyp, but it seems to resist any attempt to uninstall it. I have tried using npm remove node-gyp, but with no results.

A: If you have installed it globally (which I suppose given your description), you need to specify -g to the uninstall command:
npm -g uninstall node-gyp


Global warming is a real problem. As the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, of which I was a lead author, makes clear, Earth is warming, caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) and other "greenhouse gases" emitted by humans burning coal, oil, and natural gas and chopping down and burning forests. Climate scientists agree on this. And it will be bad in general for humanity, with threats to our food and water supplies, stronger storms, flooding from sea level rise, droughts, and spread of diseases and violence.
So what should we do about it? As the IPCC also makes clear, mitigation (stopping the emission of greenhouse gases) is the solution, and we can do it by switching to energy sources that do not pollute the atmosphere with these gases: solar and wind power. Current nuclear technology is not the answer, as I will discuss in a companion post. But what if the world cannot stop emitting carbon dioxide quickly enough? And what about all the CO2 we have already put into the atmosphere that will last for centuries? We will certainly have to adapt to some of the coming climate change. But can we somehow stop the climate change?
Two separate techniques, sucking the CO2 out of the atmosphere and burying it (carbon dioxide reduction, or CDR) and blocking sunlight to cool the planet (solar radiation management, or SRM), have both been called "geoengineering" or "climate engineering" but are quite different in terms of risk and effectiveness. CDR would basically be a good idea, but it is currently very expensive and would only slowly cool the climate. On the other hand, SRM, by creating a cloud of sulfuric acid droplets in the stratosphere like volcanic eruptions occasionally do, could potentially be quick and cheap. But this is a big question, since it has never been done and the equipment to implement either cloud brightening or creation of stratospheric clouds does not exist.
I have calculated that it would only cost a few billion dollars per year to lift enough sulfur into the stratosphere with airplanes to create a cloud to reflect enough sunlight to counteract the global warming we will experience in the next several decades, but with a big "if." The "if" is the question of whether we could create a cloud of small sulfuric acid droplets like volcanic eruptions occasionally do. But research shows that if we continued to inject sulfur into an existing cloud, as we would have to do to maintain it, the existing particles would grow rather than having new particles form. This means that for the same amount of sulfur, they would scatter less sunlight and would fall out of the atmosphere faster. We may have to inject 10 times as much sulfur, or even more, and this would be very expensive and impractical. Prof. David Keith later verified our estimates of the cost of airplane injection of sulfur into the stratosphere.
Prof. Keith has recently made a case for SRM climate engineering, but I beg to differ. His book is entitled A Case for Climate Engineering, so I title this essay "A Case Against Climate Engineering," but I need to emphasize that it is only one of many potential cases. We need much more research before we can decide on whether to ever implement human control of Earth's climate on purpose, to make sure that the risks are much less than the risks of not doing it, and we are very far from that point now. My argument is against implementing climate engineering now, and particularly in the way suggested by Prof. Keith.
A reduction in surface air temperatures, which could reduce or reverse some of the negative impacts of global warming, including floods, droughts, stronger storms, sea ice melting, land-based ice sheet melting, and sea level rise.
An increase in plant productivity.
An increase in terrestrial CO2 sink.
Beautiful red and yellow sunsets.
Drought in Africa and Asia.
Perturbation of natural ecology and farmed vegetation with more diffuse radiation.
Degradation of passive solar heating.
An inability to stop effects quickly.
Military use of the technology.
Societal disruption, with conflicts between countries.
Conflicts with current treaties, such as the UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
Effects on airplanes flying in the stratosphere.
Effects on the electrical properties of the atmosphere.
The environmental impacts of implementation.
Degradation of terrestrial optical astronomy.
Impacts on stargazing (no more Milky Way).
Impacts on satellite remote sensing.
Moral hazard: The prospect of it working could reduce drive for mitigation.
Moral authority: Do we have the right to do this?
We need more research to understand the risks of SRM compared with the risks of not doing SRM so that society can make informed decisions in the future about implementation. But how should we do this research? I support indoor research, using computer models of the climate system and studying the impacts of past volcanic eruptions and of ships on clouds. But outdoor research needs strict governance to prevent dangerous pollution in the name of science. And such a governance system does not now exist.
In A Case for Climate Engineering, Prof. Keith suggests we gradually ramp up a stratospheric cloud, checking as we go along for negative impacts. But this would not work, given the natural variability of the climate system. One of the potential problems with SRM, as seen in climate model simulations and responses to previous large volcanic eruptions, is increase in drought. But the climate system is quite noisy, chaotic, and variable, and there are always droughts somewhere. Because of this, we would need many decades to see whether drought frequency has been changed by SRM implementation. We could not adjust it as we go along without excellent climate models to tell us what the climate would have been without the stratospheric cloud. And if we have those models, we can use them for the experiment and have no need to do it outdoors.
Furthermore, it's not hard to imagine a country suffering droughts or floods blaming it on the geoengineers and demanding that it stop now. That they could not prove it would be beside the point. If it were halted at once, we would have faster and more dangerous climate change than we have now without geoengineering. For these reasons, such a large-scale deployment of climate engineering, whether labeled an experiment or actual implementation, will produce unmanageable governance challenges.
Some experiments are much too risky to do outdoors on the only planet in the universe known to sustain life, with nuclear weapons testing being a prime example. Climate engineering research needs to remain indoors (in data studies and computer simulations) for a long time before it ever makes sense to do on a large scale outdoors.
The world has the resources to solve the climate change problem. But we need to start now. If we divert resources that are currently going into military budgets and continued fossil fuel infrastructure, we clearly can do this. There are tipping points in human behavior, and we need one now to stop global warming so we don't end up having to consider much worse problems with an engineered climate system.