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Haiti is undergoing a deep political and institutional crisis, sparked by the refusal of US-backed president Jovenel Moïse to step down despite an official ruling that his mandate ended on February 7, 2021. Protests which have been going on since early January have intensified and have been met by brutal repression by security forces as well as the militarization of the capital Port-au-Prince and other cities.
On February 8, Haitian opposition political parties and social organizations declared that the term of president Jovenel Moïse had ended on February 7, and appointed Supreme Court Judge Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis as the interim president of the Caribbean country. 72-year-old Jean-Louis has been a member of the Court of Cassation since 2011. His transitional government will administer the country for the next two years and organize elections for the next government.
In a brief address to the nation, broadcasted on his social media accounts, Jean-Louis accepted the presidency. “I accept the choice of the opposition and the civil society to be able to serve my country as provisional president of the transitional government,” said Jean-Louis.
With official acceptance by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis to serve as transitional president to oversee next elections, we now have a parallel govt in #Haiti. Biden administration has not responded after early support 4 @moisejovenel's move to stay in office. pic.twitter.com/dgDLP5fpI5
— HaitiInfoProj (@HaitiInfoProj) February 8, 2021
However, Jovenel Moïse, who has the support of the country’s Armed Forces, the United States, the European Union (EU) and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), on February 7, refused to step down and insisted on staying in power until February 7, 2022. “I have 364 days left in power. There will be no transition,” said Moïse during an address.
Additionally, Moïse has sought to paint opposition protests as a “coup attempt” and claimed there was a plot to assassinate him. In this regard, his administration arrested 23 people, including Supreme Court judge, Yviquel Dabrésil, and senior police official, Marie Louise Gauthier.
After Jean-Louis’s appointment, on February 8, Haitian Justice Minister Rockefeller Vincent, accused him of violating the laws and warned that he could suffer the same fate as his colleague Dabrésil. Soon after Vincent’s threats, Moïse issued a decree dismissing three Supreme Court judges: Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis, Yviquel Dabrésil and Wendelle Coq Thélot.
Various social and political organizations condemned Moïse’s actions and deemed them as acts of political persecution. Lawyer André Michel, leader of the opposition Democratic and Popular Sector party, denounced the illegal arrests as “a true systematic repression,” and said that “democracy is threatened and the rule of law is in danger” in the country. Michel called on the citizens to continue demonstrating against Moïse until he and his far-right Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK) leave office.
On Sunday February 7, 2021 at approximately 2:30 AM, my mother, Marie Antoinette Gautier (a surgeon), my dad, Louis Buteau (an agronomist), my aunt, Marie Louise Gautier, (a high ranking member of the Haitian National police) were amongst a string of citizens
— Béré Buteau (@berenice_buteau) February 8, 2021
In response to the wave of repression, on February 8, hundreds of pro-democracy protesters hit the streets in the capital, defying the government’s ban on political meetings and demonstrations. The police used huge amounts of tear gas to disperse the protesters and even fired live bullets against them. According to reports, police officials attacked journalists who were documenting the anti-government protests and two journalists were shot by the members of Haitian armed forces (FAd’H). One of them is in critical condition.
— HaitiInfoProj (@HaitiInfoProj) February 9, 2021
What is behind this institutional crisis?
According to broad sectors of the Haitian opposition, Jovenel Moïse’s term in office ended on February 7, 2021 while he maintains that he has another year of his mandate. Moïse has claimed that he assumed power on February 7, 2017 to serve a five-year term, so he must remain in power for another year. On February 7, he reiterated that the Constitution establishes a 60-month term for heads of state, and that an interim government had ruled for a year after he was elected in the October 2015 elections, which were annulled due to allegations of fraud and were repeated in November 2016.
Meanwhile, opposition parties have argued that Moïse’s term ended on February 7, 2021 according to the article 134-2 of the Constitution, which provides for an early start of a new presidential term if there were irregularities in the election process, as there were in October 2015 and November 2016. They have rejected Moïse’s decision to hold presidential and legislative elections on September 19 as part of an attempt to extend his term of office until 2022. They have also condemned the regime’s decision to hold a referendum, on April 25, to replace the current constitution, which is the main achievement of the democratic movement of 1986, with a new one that provides for the return to a presidential regime. This has brought thousands of citizens, students, workers, members of various social movements and opposition political parties onto the streets across the country since January 10.
The position of the opposition has received institutional recognition and support. On February 7, Haiti’s Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSPJ) also announced the official end of Moïse’s presidential term, expressing concerns about “the serious threats resulting from the lack of a political agreement” in the face of the presidential mandate’s expiration. Last week, on February 1, the Federation of Haitian Lawyers issued a resolution, which was signed by around 20 lawyers, informing that Moïse’s mandate ends on February 7 and not in 2022, as alleged by the president.
Furthermore, the existence of democracy itself under the rule of Moïse is in question. Since January 2020, Moïse has been ruling by a presidential decree, as the country’s parliament, the National Assembly, has not been functioning. The mandates of all the deputies and two thirds of the senators expired without the occurrence of legislative elections, which were scheduled for October 2019, but were postponed because of a wave of protests sparked by a fuel shortage crisis. The country, with 11 million people, has only 11 elected officials in office.
Since July 2018, the people of Haiti have been mobilizing against Moïse’s regime and calling for his resignation. His neoliberal policies have plunged the country into an unprecedented social, political and economic crisis. Now, after his refusal to comply with the Constitution, and with the dismissal of three of the six supreme court judges, the country is also facing constitutional and judicial crisis.


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Some guys take brand loyalty very seriously. Jim Beatty has 10 Fords in his garage. He used to own a '64 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, and although he thoroughly enjoyed the car, he sold it anyway to make room for a '64 Continental. "It was the last non-Ford car that I had in my garage," Jim reasons. His staunch Blue Oval allegiance doesn't stop there. "Chevys and other non-Fords are not allowed in my garage. I don't even let my wife park her '69 RS/SS Camaro convertible in it." Sheesh. Call it extreme, call it silly, but sticking with the same brand for decades certainly has its benefits. Jim knows Fords inside and out, and carrying over the lessons learned from one project into the next sharpens his ability to focus on building the ultimate Blue Oval muscle car for his needs, trends be damned. That's why you won't find a stereo, GPS, power anything, or even EFI on his '65 Mustang fastback. It's a back-to-the-basics, Trans-Am–inspired machine built for road racing, and in a sea of million-dollar Pro Touring rides, it stands out in a very good way.
Ever since he was 5 years old, Jim's been gaga for Fords. "When my mom's friend came over in a '69 Mustang, I fell in love with it and I decided that it was the car I wanted to own someday. When I turned 16, I went out and bought a '69 Mustang just like it," he recalls. Solid project cars were hard to come by in Canada, so Jim and his buddies made a habit out of taking trips down south to the States, hunting down rust-free muscle cars and hauling then back up north. Through these excursions, Jim developed a knack for assessing the condition of a car on the spot, but he admits that none of his finds were particularly memorable. "I had a couple of nice Mustangs in college, but had to sell them once I realized that I couldn't afford to build them like I wanted to. After finishing school, I had to focus on more important things like work. During this time, I came up with a list in my head of all the cars I wanted to build someday."
Interestingly, a '65 Mustang fastback wasn't very high on the list. Once Jim had the means to start living out his hot rodding fantasies in 2000, he fulfilled his goal of building an FIA Cobra replica. Between then and now, he's amassed a diverse lineup of Fords including a '70 Boss 302 Mustang Trans-Am race car, a '74 Bronco, a '64½ Mustang coupe, a '65 Econoline pickup, a '63 Falcon Futura, and three F100 SWB pickups. Then in 2007, during a moment of weakness, he made the impromptu decision to build another Mustang. "I was in the process of building a GT40 continuation car, and it was taking so long that I started getting restless. After being surrounded by so many awesome cars during the Scottsdale auction week, I decided to buy the next rust-free '65 Mustang fastback that I saw for sale," Jim recollects. "Within two weeks, I somehow ran across this car sitting as a stalled project at a local shop, and I bought it on the spot. It was a super straight, rust-free car with all original body panels that spent its entire life in the desert. I put the Mustang in queue at a warehouse until 2012 when the GT40 was finished, then pulled it out to plan the build of the BT350 [the BT in lieu of GT is for Jim's last name]. I wanted a purpose-built car designed to run vintage races on the road course that didn't have a bunch of custom parts. I just wanted to retain the simple and functional look and feel of a classic Trans-Am muscle car that performs well at the track."
To accomplish this, Jim took an interesting two-pronged approach by compartmentalizing the chassis build and the body restoration at separate facilities. For the chassis and suspension work, Jim enlisted the services of Tim Smart of Smarty's Garage (www.SmartysGarage.com). "Tim's a serious rally and road race car builder, and he routinely builds cars for and supports teams at events like the Targa Newfoundland, the Carrera Panamericana, and the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Smarty's Garage has helped me extensively in setting up my Boss 302 Mustang for vintage road racing, so I felt it was the perfect place for the job," Jim explains. The Smarty's crew tackled the chassis mods by welding all of the seams for stiffness and then laying out and engineering the subframe connectors and rollbar. Next, they dry fit the complete drivetrain and suspension to set the drivetrain and ride height at the optimum levels. With the body fortifications complete, Smarty's revamped the front suspension with Total Control Products control arms, sway bar, and steering rack. Out back, a 1-inch-shortened Ford 9-inch rearend swings on a Total Control Products four-link system, welded in for optimal stiffness. VariShock coilovers at each corner allow dialing in the perfect amount of damping, and big Wilwood disc brakes—13 inches up front and 12 inches in the rear—provide the stopping power.

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Hope you all had a fantastic weekend! It seems we’ve skipped over spring and dived right into summer. Last week it was still cold and dreary, and then came this weekend, Mother Nature gave us sunny days in the 80s. I’ll take it!
Warmer weather means that bikini season is fast approaching. Gasp. There is nothing like vacation guilt to help whip you back into shape. Well, sort of. Except for a cheeseburger I had last week, I made every attempt to eat as much vegetables as possible and even started some exercise routines. I cooked up some roasted parsnips and carrots, steamed string beans, and herbed mashed potatoes with turnip, and I’m letting the meatless trend continue into this week with this Eggs en Cocotte with Mushrooms and Goat Cheese.
Eggs en cocotte sounds fancy but it is just eggs baked in ramekins — super simple to make. Put some cooked mushrooms and goat cheese in ramekins, crack two eggs, and top with salt, pepper, and cream (I used half and half), and then bake it off in the oven. That’s it.The presentation always looks great and they’re cooked all at once; you don’t have to worry about keeping eggs warm as you are frying up or poaching the rest. It’s a lifesaver when you’re having guests over for brunch or just have a lot of family members to feed.
After photographing the dishes, I would usually serve myself a portion and put the rest away for another meal or pack away for lunch the next day. Not this time though. I ate both egg dishes by myself (with an added pinch of truffle salt — so delicious!) and didn’t feel bad about it one bit!
- 1 tbsps butter
- 1 small shallots, finely chopped
- 12 oz. cremini or white button mushrooms, cleaned, sliced
- ¼ tsp dried thyme
- 2 oz. goat cheese
- 8 eggs
- 4 tbsps heavy cream
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- In a large skillet, melt butter over medium high heat. Add shallots and cook for one minute. Add mushrooms and thyme and cook until all the excess liquid has evaporated and the mushrooms are browned, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Allow to cool to room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spoon the mushroom mixture into four lightly buttered ramekin dishes. In each ramekin, sprinkle ½ oz goat cheese and break in 2 eggs. Season with salt and pepper, and spoon 1 tablespoon of heavy cream over eggs.
- Place the ramekins in a roasting pan and pour hot water to pan so that it comes about half way up the sides of the dishes. Bake for 15 minutes or until the eggs are set but the yolks are still runny.
- Serve with toasted bread.

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Bluebell, 3, Redbank Plains.
Three-year-old Bluebell from Redbank Plains is one of more than 140 patients who have benefited from life-saving ECMO equipment at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.
In February this year, Bluebell’s mum Marrian first noticed she was unwell when she picked her daughter up from day-care one Friday afternoon. Within three days she was on life support in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.
“I first noticed Bluebell wasn’t herself on the Friday afternoon when I picked her up from day care and they told me she had a fever. At the time I also noticed a boil on her arm which had formed from a sore she had been picking but I didn’t think too much of it.
“I gave her Panadol over the weekend for her fever but it didn’t seem to help. She wasn’t eating very much and all she really wanted to do was cuddle me. On Sunday we went to church and she was complaining about a pain in her groin but it seemed to go away when on Monday morning she was back to her normal self – smiling, eating and drinking again.
“It wasn’t until that afternoon when she started to complain about stomach pain that I knew something was seriously wrong. Her stomach was really bloated and I could hear her heart beating out of her chest as she was struggling to breathe. She was trying her hardest to breathe but the infection at this stage was travelling through her blood making her really weak.
“My partner came home from work and I remember him saying to Bluebell ‘we’re going to take you to hospital’ and she replied ‘it’s ok daddy, I’m just going to sleep here’ as she patted the bed beside her. The doctors later told me that was her ‘leaving us’ as her body was shutting down due to the infection.
“We rushed her to hospital where she was taken into intensive care, placed into an induced coma and intubated to help her breathe. Bluebell’s dad and I couldn’t see her while this was happening. It was a nightmare - we couldn’t believe what was happening to our baby girl,” Marrian said.
Bluebell was diagnosed with Sepsis – a severe infection which effects blood flow to vital organs, including the brain, heart and kidneys – as a result of the boil on her arm. She was placed on ECMO to support her heart and lungs while her little body fought the infection. At the time, doctors also detected osteomyelitis (a bone infection) in her elbow.
Much to her parent’s relief, they were able to successfully treat the osteomyelitis and sepsis and Bluebell was discharged in March after spending ten long days in PICU.
“This equipment is life-saving and without it our little Keine (meaning ‘baby’ or ‘little girl’ wouldn’t be here with us today,” mum Marrian said.
Bluebell, who turns four later this month, is now back at home with parents and two sisters. She loves singing and dancing and is looking forward to going to school next year.

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Hello again, it's that time of the week to gather some of those sweet little happy things from my week.
First up was the fabulous news that I had won, not 1 but 2 giveaways! My goodness how did that happen? I love both the blogs that I won them on and just comment anyway because of their beautiful content. My first win can be seen here on Jen's lovely blog Hand Knitted Things. I am so excited to knit up these sweet houses. Thank you so much Jen.
My second winning was from lovely Gillian's blog Tales from a Happy Home which can be seen here. Oh golly gosh, its a stunner and is on it's way to me as we speak. I'll show you next week. Thank you so much Gillian. What a lucky girl am I to win 2 special gifts, Christmas has come early this year :o)
We have been pumpkin and squash shopping in the rain to make some soup and I just got a thrill from seeing these beauties. Their colours, shapes and textures. Gorgeous!
I came home to a home made Tiramisu made from this recipe. Alice had the day off school on Thursday due to Teacher strikes and so she decided it would be good fun for her and Daddy to bake. It was a delicious and very indulgent way to end my day!
We have also been crunching through the fallen leaves and nature table collecting. I wanted to collect some rosehips to make some rosehip oil from this recipe. It sounds like it could be great for those mid-winter dry skin spells.
Last, but not least I have been crocheting a blanket for one of Alice's friends for her 13th birthday. Colours chosen by Alice.
Such a pleasure to go round and round a large granny square, easy rhythmic crocheting to soothes the days stresses away.
Thanks for all those who visited and commented on my last postcards post. I really appreciated it. Have a great (looks like wet where we live)weekend everyone and see you all soon xox Penny


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One of my favorite blogs is $5 Dinners, Erin has such great ideas, and even though my family is larger than hers, I can still keep my meals under $5 by using her recipes. One of the most frugal dinners you can serve is breakfast. I love having breakfast for dinner, but was getting tired of the same old, pancakes, eggs etc. Then I came across, Breakfast Tacos. These were quick, easy and the whole family loved them, which is a feat in itself.
I started with 4 medium sized potatoes and cut them in pretty small chunks so they would cook faster. I sprinkled the potatoes with salt, pepper and Greek Seasoning.
Then I added 10 eggs, I (well actually I had my husband) scrambled them and add some salt, pepper and Greek Seasoning to them, then into the pan on top of the potatoes.
I served them on a soft tortilla with a little cheese. My husband and middle son added salsa to theirs.
We also had fresh cantelope and watermelon. And homemade strawberry/banana smoothies.
It was a fun, vitamin packed meal.
4 potatoes $.32
10 Eggs $.70
Fruit $1.50 (on sale at Kroger, .97 for cantelope and $2.00 for watermelon, used half)
Strawberries $.99 (on sale at Aldi’s, used 1 container)
4 bananas $.72
1 container yogurt $.43
Total $6.16 (I didn’t quite hit the $5 mark, but 6 of us ate, so it still was pretty good)
I think I will make up a batch of these to keep in the frig, the boys can heat up the egg mixture, put it on a tortilla and have a quick breakfast this summer.
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If you can no longer care for your pet, you can relinquish it to the Idaho Humane Society at any time – we are an open-admission facility, which means we will never turn an animal away. Although we can never make any guarantees, we certainly do our best to find new, loving homes for animals turned over to the shelter.
You will need to come to our main shelter at 4775 Dorman St. in Boise. The facility is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week, and you do not need to make an appointment. You will be asked to fill out paperwork about your pet’s history. There is a $20 fee to surrender a cat and a $30 fee to surrender a dog.
Please note that we offer resources to help pet owners struggling to pay for medical care or pet food so that they don’t have to relinquish their animals. We can also offer advice about addressing problem behaviors if that is a reason you are considering giving up a pet. If you have any questions about those programs, please email firstname.lastname@example.org.

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It’s all about the Jolie-Pitt kids
Not that it’s any of our business anyway, but we might never know what really went on in Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s marriage. Both sides might leak various tidbits to the media, but all we can do from that is speculate. The latest? That Brad has responded to Angie’s divorce petition — in which she requested sole physical custody — and he’s asking for joint physical and joint legal custody of their six kids, so says People.
“They are still working on issues that they can’t agree on. It seems their issues still involve the kids,” a source told the magazine. “Brad and Angie haven’t had any contact, and it’s all being worked out via their teams. It’s just a sad situation.”
It is a sad situation, one that isn’t looking good — at least in the foreseeable future. They’re both looking to play hard ball, so with all the “allegedlys” being thrown around about Pitt, only time will tell how the investigation into Brad plays out. But Angelina and Brad’s initial plan to settle their split quietly probably isn’t going to happen now. Which sucks, because with the children being the main point of contention, it should all be done behind closed doors. The goal should be for the kids to come out of all this as unscathed as possible, knowing they’re loved and wanted and being fought for. Until the next leak …
Joe Jonas may have landed himself a Game of Thrones gal
Gigi who? The middle Jonas brother was spotted getting cozy with none other than Sansa Stark on the weekend. Joe and Sophie Turner were photographed at a pre-MTV Europe Music Awards event in Rotterdam, Netherlands on Saturday looking super-couply.
While this is news to many, the two spent Halloween together, and if she can get past his dalmatian costume, it must be love.
Shannen Doherty has this message for Michael Bublé
The devastating news of Michael’s son, Noah, being recently diagnosed with cancer has hit home for a lot of people. Shannen, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2015 and has been inspiring throughout her battle, said the one thing the Bublé family can do is “stay positive.”
She added to ET Online: “That positivity, that outlook on life that you can get through something, it actually does get you through.”
Bublé revealed on Friday that he and wife Luisana Lopilato would be taking time off to care for their son. Sending all kinds of positive vibes and prayers the family’s way.
Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky are definitely a thing
Well, it’s official. J-Law and Nicholas Hoult aren’t getting back together anytime soon, if at all. That’s because Jen’s got a new man — none other than Darren Aronofsky, the director of just one of several upcoming projects she has in the works for 2017. And The Sun has the pics to prove it.
Do we care that she’s 26 and he’s 47? Meh. Do we care that he’s not Hoult? A little bit. But whatever floats their boat, and if the two are happy we’ll take Lawrence in any relationship. Hmm, wonder how long before she asks him to pull her finger.
Calvin Harris mentioned Taylor in a tweet and it was amazing
Hold on, Tay. Before you put pen to paper and let the words flow out of you like verbal diarrhea, Calvin has something to say.
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) November 4, 2016
The message was in response to a tweet from the “Rihanna Facts” account that noted “This Is What You Came For,” the song by Harris and Rihanna that Swifty helped write kind of performed well this year.
— Rihanna Facts (@Nevernyny) November 4, 2016
Hmm, either a) they’re on slightly better terms, b) he’s trying to put out the fire that is his latest video homage to her, OR c) he doesn’t want to be the subject of her next chart-topper. Maybe all of the above? Whatever the case is, more please.


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an early breath of my giantly ambitious short animation project,
still primitive, basically a storyboard for lunacy yet to come.
there will be one 'noid per house/square,
each morphing into the next/previous as they move from square to square,
haywire modelling, lots of goofy dance action, houses morphing too even.
at the end, they just kind of rock in place, emitting lots of weird graphic fields.
clearly biting off more than i can chew (I have like eight pages of wish list, yeah sure)
but so what.
(original audio too)
this 'noid is a standard Generi rig (I didn't model it)

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Turkey giving Tunisia $100M to stave off crisis
By Rizwan Khatik - Fri Jun 08, 12:11 pm
Turkey will give Tunisia $100 million in aid to help it overcome its social and economic difficulties, a Tunisian official announced Thursday, even as an international analysis group warned about a brewing crisis in the North African country.
Tunisia’s Economy Minister Ridha Saidi said an accord was signed between the two countries during the World Economic Forum being held in Turkey. The deal also includes a $400 million low interest loan.
Saidi said that a total of $600 million in aid has been pledged by a number of countries, which would help Tunisia meet its financial obligations. Another $100 million aid grant is also expected from the U.S., he added.
The International Crisis Group warned in a report Wednesday that Tunisia’s government has been unable to address the desperate economic situation that helped spark the popular uprising that overthrew its ruler last year and there is a risk of a new social explosion.
In its report, the Brussels-based organization said the government needs to do more to deal with the problems of rising unemployment, regional economic discrepancies and corruption.
“It so far has been unable to address them rapidly enough and is failing to quell the impatience of workers and unemployed youth who expect to reap the fruits of their involvement in past struggles,” said the report. “Economic grievances are churning right below the surface. They could once again reach full boil.”

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Visitors have the choice to be guided through the museum with an audio device and can choose between Icelandic, English, French, German and Swedish. The audio guide can also be bought in the form of a booklet at the front desk.
You are welcome to bring your camera and take picture.
We are open every day from 10am - 18pm.
We offer group discount and please ask us about group visits outside regular opening hours.

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"I never felt any loyalty towards the British," writes Stanley S.K. Kwan in his memoir. It's a surprising statement from a man who was born and raised in the British crown colony of Hong Kong and whose services to the colonial government resulted in the award of an MBE -- Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire -- after his retirement. In his memoir "The Dragon and the Crown," it is clear the Chinese dragon always won out over the British crown.
Born into a family "steeped in Chinese culture and tradition," Mr. Kwan had always seen himself as a Chinese patriot. As a 13-year-old attending King's College -- "the most modern and well-equipped school in Hong Kong" -- he helped raise funds for disaster relief in China by singing patriotic songs. Already, at that young age, he felt conflicted: "China was my country, but I had to live under British rule; I loved China, but I was distressed by its weakness."
The British acquired Hong Kong in the mid-19th century because they wanted a base from which to trade with China where they would not be subject to the unpredictable whims of Chinese officialdom. Soon many Chinese from Guangdong, including the author's forebears, arrived to seek their fortunes. Each time China was wracked by political upheavals, waves of refugees would descend on Hong Kong. Even though there was no democracy, the colony offered basic freedoms. Over the years, Hong Kong thrived as an island of calm in a sea of political turmoil.
During World War II, although exempt from compulsory military service because he was from Hong Kong, Mr. Kwan joined the Chinese military. As an interpreter, he was entitled to all the facilities and benefits that American soldiers had. While he was happy about the improvement in living conditions he was again torn internally because "I felt somewhat uneasy about the change, as if we had traded national dignity for material well-being."
Mr. Kwan's life is a compelling story, and he tells it well in this new biography with the assistance of his niece, Nicole Kwan. On one level, Mr. Kwan had a wonderful career. He was a successful banker, spending 22 years with the Hang Seng Bank, where he devised the Hang Seng Index, the Hong Kong equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Before that, he was a China-watcher with the U.S. Air Force Liaison Office in the American consulate-general, gathering and translating materials concerning the strength and movements of the Chinese Air Force and had also worked at one time for a British company, Dodwell Motors Ltd.
However, he was torn between two loves: for China and for freedom. After World War II ended, Mr. Kwan "looked forward to Hong Kong's return to the motherland," and had mixed emotions when the British resumed their administration of the colony.
The communists successfully infiltrated postwar Hong Kong -- and Mr. Kwan's own family. Mr. Kwan's younger brother Tse Kwong joined the Chung Wah Music Academy, a fringe organization of the underground Communist Party. The youngest brother, Yuan Kwong, joined the Rainbow Chorus, also under Party control. Mr. Kwan himself did not belong to any formal organization.
"What struck me as strange," he recalls, "was that the pro-communist camp which called itself 'democratic' never saw the need to uphold individual freedom, while the Nationalist camp which prided itself on representing 'freedom' never thought to advocate democracy." With China divided into opposing political and military camps, Mr. Kwan decided to sit it out in Hong Kong, as did his older brother Man Kwong.
But his younger brother Tse Kwong joined the underground Party and in September 1949, at the age of 23, left for the mainland to "join the revolution." The People's Republic of China was founded a few weeks later. Yuan Kwong soon followed. Politics was splitting the Kwan family.
The next three decades saw China torn by one political campaign after another as the Communist revolution devoured its own children. Mr. Kwan, from the relative tranquility of Hong Kong, could only watch as Tse Kwong and Yuan Kwong were repeatedly buffeted by political storms. Both were sent down to the countryside and accused of subversive activities.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong prospered. The Hang Seng Index devised by Mr. Kwan rose from 158 on Nov. 24, 1969 to 15,196 on June 30, 1997, the day Britain returned Hong Kong to China.
As the time drew near for the realization of his dream of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, however, Mr. Kwan decided that he himself did not want to live under Communist rule. "I was not ready to give my loyalty to an authoritarian regime," he writes. Instead he emigrated to Canada -- and it is from his home in Toronto that he wrote this book.
It is a sad commentary on China that someone like Mr. Kwan, the ultimate Chinese patriot, should weigh the Communist Party and find it wanting. Mr. Kwan discovered that the China of his dreams did not exist, while in Canada he has found freedom and democracy.
Mr. Ching is the author of "Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family," reissued this summer in paperback by Ebury Publishing.

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NBC to air interview with Jerry Sandusky on Monday
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — NBC plans to air excerpts of jailhouse interviews with former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky next week, which his lawyer said were given to a documentary filmmaker working on a defense of Joe Paterno.
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A 24-year-old man is currently being hunted by police over a serious stabbing earlier this month.
Anthony Warren John Waring, from Halewood , is wanted in connection with a serious assault.
While the circumstances of the incident are not clear, the public are warned not to approach Waring and to contact police if they see him.
A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: "We are appealing for information to help find 24-year-old Anthony Warren John Waring from Halewood.
"Police are keen to speak to Waring in connection with a serious assault which occurred earlier this month.
"Waring is described as white, of proportionate build, with brown hair and blue eyes.
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The following is a message from the Director of the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence, Dr. Richard Pazdur:
On November 8, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration approved fruquintinib (Fruzaqla, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) for adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who received prior fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy, an anti-VEGF therapy, and, if RAS wild-type and medically appropriate, an anti-EGFR therapy.
Efficacy was evaluated in FRESCO-2 (NCT04322539) and FRESCO (NCT02314819). FRESCO-2 (NCT04322539), an international, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, evaluated 691 patients with mCRC who had disease progression during or after prior fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, irinotecan-based chemotherapy, an anti-VEGF biological therapy an anti-EGFR biological therapy if RAS wild type, and at least one of trifluridine/tipiracil or regorafenib. FRESCO, a multicenter, placebo-controlled trial conducted in China, evaluated 416 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who had disease progression during or after prior fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy.
In both trials patients were randomly allocated (2:1) to either fruquintinib 5 mg orally once daily or placebo for the first 21 days of each 28-day cycle plus best supportive care. Patients received therapy until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Overall survival (OS) was the major efficacy outcome in both trials. In FRESCO-2, median OS was 7.4 months (95% CI: 6.7, 8.2) for those treated with fruquintinib and 4.8 months (95% CI: 4.0, 5.8) in the placebo group (HR 0.66 [95% CI: 0.55, 0.80] p-value < 0.001). In FRESCO, median OS was 9.3 months (95% CI: 8.2, 10.5) and 6.6 months (95% CI: 5.9, 8.1) in the respective treatment arms (HR 0.65 [95% CI: 0.51, 0.83] p-value < 0.001).
The most common adverse reactions (reported in ≥20% of patients) were hypertension, palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia, proteinuria, dysphonia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and asthenia.
The recommended fruquintinib dose is 5 mg orally once daily, with or without food, for the first 21 days of each 28-day cycle until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
This review was conducted under Project Orbis, an initiative of the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence. Project Orbis provides a framework for concurrent submission and review of oncology drugs among international partners. For this review, FDA collaborated with the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Health Canada, Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Switzerland’s Swissmedic, and United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The application reviews are ongoing at the other regulatory agencies.
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Because they limit an ex-employee`s ability to earn a living, non-competitive agreements must be carefully developed to be legally valid. They cannot be excessively restrictive in terms of duration or geographic scope, or are not applicable. Non-compete clauses attempt to prevent workers from working for a competitor or starting their own business, capable of directly competing with the employer. These clauses may apply to the worker both during their employment and for a certain period after the end of the employment relationship. HMC Lawyers also advises employees who have been asked to sign a competition agreement. We can help you determine the extent of an existing agreement on the inability of competition, determine whether a proposed agreement is too restrictive and, if so, negotiate a level playing field. If you have signed a foreign-to-competition agreement, we can help you determine its scope and determine whether a job offer or business opportunity may violate the terms and conditions. In many cases, maintaining employment is an incentive to motivate workers to sign a competition inability agreement. While you may feel like it`s a valuable incentive to find a job, the dishes may not agree with you. There is case law that the Alberta courts have decided not to apply a non-compete agreement in which the incentive (or value given to the worker) to sign the non-compete agreement was the maintenance of employment. These were cases where it was not clear that the worker would not have had a job if he had not signed the agreement.
Non-compete clauses and non-invitation clauses are very similar, but have very different effects. On the one hand, a non-compete clause prevents a worker from gaining a job with a competitor during and after the job or from setting up his own competing business. In the absence of a non-competition clause, there is no prohibition for a worker to compete with his former employer. On the other hand, a non-formal notice agreement will allow a former employee to work for a competitor, but will prevent him from recruiting clients or employees of his former employer for a specified period of time. A non-formal notice clause is intended to protect employers from the reception of customers by former workers upon their departure. When a former employee has a close relationship with clients, it can give them an unfair advantage over their former employer to recruit those clients. In general, non-competition clauses are much more restrictive than non-invitation clauses. Non-competition clauses are therefore much more difficult to enforce.
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ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday said how a person in jail uniform could run the government and the court sentence given was directly linked to disqualification.
A three-member bench, led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, heard the identical petitions against the National Assembly speaker’s ruling in the premier’s contempt of court case.Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry remarked that PM Gilani was only a member of the National Assembly who had not yet filed an appeal against the conviction and no sentence could be quashed without an appeal.
The Supreme Court rejected the request of Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, the counsel for PM Gilani, to constitute a larger bench to hear the identical petitions. Aitzaz Ahsan argued: “If question arises regarding the disqualification of a member, the speaker has to determine it under Article 63(1) (h) that a parliamentarian has been, on conviction for any offence involving moral turpitude, sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than two years, unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release.”
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain questioned: “If a member of parliament is convicted for propagating against the ideology of Pakistan and he had accepted his crime, then would the speaker apply her mind?”
Aitzaz said still the speaker would apply her mind. The chief justice said if a member of parliament was convicted for less than one year and was sent to jail, adding “whether that parliamentarian would say he has not been disqualified as the punishment is less than two years”.
However, Aitzaz contended that Prime Minister Gilani could not be disqualified for facing a sentence for 30 seconds in the court. He said his client did not need to appeal against the verdict and was not asking to change it.
He said the show cause notice and the charge sheet against the premier did not mention the contempt of court. The court directed Aitzaz Ahsan to conclude his arguments by Monday and adjourned the hearing.


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French Wines: Le Sacré du Printemps
Parisian society in 1913 got an unexpected taste of pagan ritual during the premiere of Stravinsky’s adventurous musical accompaniment to Les Ballets Russes. Historical accounts of The Rite of Spring credited highly original rhythmic structures and previously unheard tonal dissonance for what appeared to drive the audience into a form of collective chaos, as the performance allegedly ended with fistfights in the aisles. The fusing of primitive and modern rendered the piece an instant...


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freshly ground coffee = coffee that has been recently ground (this is close to "na hora")
fresh ground coffee = ground coffee that is fresh
Both expressions are common and get the idea across, but there is a slight difference in meaning. "Freshly" refers to when it was ground, and "fresh" is an adjective that describes its current state.
instantly ground coffee = coffee that has been ground immediately
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It has not been a good couple of days for Eurovision related artists. Bruno Andries sent ESC Covers a link to a Belgium newspaper that reported on the death of a well-known Dutch singer, composer and producer. Norbert from ESC Dublin to Amsterdam wrote for us on the news.
Pierre Kartner (April 11, 1935 – November 8, 2022), mainly known as Vader Abraham, was a Dutch singer, composer and producer of songs. He was also the man behind the success of countless artists in the Schlager genre.
He scored his biggest hits with ‘Het Kleine Café Aan de Haven’ (1975) and ‘Het smurfenlied’ (1977). ‘Het Kleine Café’ was covered more than 200 times by other artists, with ‘Het Smurfenlied’ he topped the charts worldwide.
In 1973 Pierre Kartner wrote the Dutch Eurovision entry De Oude Muzikant for Ben Cramer. In 2010 he wrote I’m Love (Sha-la-lie) which was sung by Sieneke at the Eurovision Songcontest.
On November 11, 2022, his family announced that Kartner had passed away on the morning of November 8. On the day of the announcement, Kartner was buried in silence.


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“All of us are descended from migrants…None of us is a native of the place we call home. And none of us is a native to this moment in time.” —Mohsin Hamid
“I felt my position as a migrant being challenged. I can’t stay silent as a writer.” —Suketu Mehta
My sister Sonal, who has lived in the United States since the late 1980s, sent me Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta in 2005, probably a year after it was published in the US. For a person who had lived his entire life in Bombay and had covered it fairly extensively as a journalist for nearly two decades, the idea that a New Yorker could have anything new to say about one’s hometown was entirely preposterous, if not totally insulting.
But Suketu Mehta, even while talking about everything that was familiar, was saying it differently.
As a journalist one had witnessed and reported the deathly carnage of the 1992-93 rioting up close, but Mehta brought alive the horror of the bloodbath with passages such as this:
“What does a man look like when he’s on fire?” I asked Sunil.
It was December 1996, and I was sitting in a high-rise apartment in Andheri with a group of men from the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party. They were telling me about the riots of 1992-93, that followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
The two other Shiv Sena men with Sunil looked at each other. Either they didn’t trust me yet or they were not drunk enough on my cognac. “I wasn’t there. The Sena didn’t have anything to do with the rioting,” one man said.
Sunil would have none of this. He put down his glass and said, “I’ll tell you. I was there. A man on fire gets up, falls, runs for his life, falls, gets up, runs.”
He addressed me.
“You would bear to see it. It is horror. Oil drips from his body, his eyes become huge, huge, the white shows, white, white, you touch his arm like this” – he flicked his arm – “the white shows. It shows especially on the nose” – he rubbed his nose with two fingers as if scrapping off the skin – “oil drips from him, water drips from him, white, white all over.”
“Those were not days for thought,” he continued. “We five people burnt one Mussulman. At four a.m. after we heard of Radhabai Chawl, a mob assembled, the likes of which I have never seen. Ladies, gents. They picked up any weapon they could. Then we marched to the Muslim side. We met a pavwallah on the highway, on a bicycle. I knew him; he used to sell me bread every day.” Sunil held up a piece of bread from the pav bhaji he was eating. “I set him on fire. We poured petrol on him and set him on fire. All I thought was, This is a Muslim. He was shaking. He was crying. ‘I have children, I have children!’ I said, ‘When your Muslims were killing the Radhabai Chawl people, did you think of your children?’ That day we showed them what Hindu dharma is.” (Maximum City, 42)
‘Maximum City’ not only defined Bombay but also went on to become a genre for writing creatively about complexities that cities – especially cities in the developing world – evolve and how they transform their inhabitants.
Fifteen years later, Suketu Mehta has published another path breaking book. ‘This is Our Land – An immigrant’s manifesto’. He has obviously written it in anger, desperation and frustration at the rapid transformation of the manner in which immigrants and immigration are being treated globally.
The developed economies have, in unison, decided that they have had enough of the unwashed masses that obstinately keep on showing up at their borders, and that these immigrants are really not their problem, and that they might as well drown in the ocean for all they care. The world has suddenly become inhospitable for immigrants.
I’m a Canadian citizen, an immigrant in a country that is unique in its tolerance of immigrants. Fortunately, my experience as an immigrant has been without the horrors of racism and discrimination.
Let me hasten to clarify that while Canada by and large accepts the inevitability of immigrants to in its society; it still has not been able to evolve a mechanism that ensures the economic integration of the immigrant.
Yes, there is a crazy, right-wing fringe in Canada, too, that turns abusive and occasionally even violent towards newcomers or people who look different, but their numbers are few. It wouldn’t be erroneous to claim that most immigrants in Canada don’t experience the terror and horror their counterparts feel in some parts of Europe and the United States.
Mehta’s book while authentically portraying the conditions immigrants face in the developed world, especially in the United States and western Europe, also analyses the causes of immigration. He says it is the fear of the immigrant that is more dangerous than the immigrants themselves. He cautions that if anything perennial economic subjugation (economic colonialism) and climate change will ensure more immigration than the world is prepared to accept or even understand.
Mehta was in Toronto on two occasions recently promoting his book. In September, he participated in the maiden Toronto edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival and in October he was here to participate in the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
Meenakshi Alimchandani, litterateur and literary curator, had organised Mehta’s session at the Toronto International Festival of Literature, and agreed to my suggestion to interview Mehta after the session.
My friend Gavin Barrett, a poet and founder of the immensely successful Tartan Turban Secret Reading Series (for which he also unjustifiably credits me) agreed to my suggestion that we chat with Mehta together, giving our Bombay connection.
Mehta wanted to have “something Indian” so we went to the Indian Roti House across the Harbourfront Centre. It turned out to be a rather modest desi restaurant that served roti wraps in extra spicy chickpeas gravy.
Mayank Bhatt is a thought leader with experience in diverse spheres such as bilateral trade promotion, administration and management of not-for-profit organisations, public relations and marketing, editorial and content management.
Gavin Barrett is co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Toronto ad agency Barrett and Welsh which focuses on creating inclusion through communications. His poetry has been published in Reasons For Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets, Penguin India (ed. Ranjit Hoskote), and in many other reputable literary periodicals. He co-curates The Tartan Turban Secret Readings, which promote visible minority and indigenous voices in Canadian literature.

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First published in 1973, this work demonstrates how the English churchmen of the nineteenth century moved from a firmly entrenched position in the old social hierarchy to a less definable and insecure position under the rule of the collectivist State run by a professional workforce.
Dr Kitson Clark explores the many questions posed by this gradual change, such as how far should the state dictate the people? Was it not the Church’s responsibility to guide the conscience of the people? And how far should clerics interest themselves in secular affairs? After beginning with a description the ‘old’ order of society before 1832, the book considers the various roles played by parsons in the mid nineteenth century, showing that on the whole the clerics performed their duties conscientiously and were increasingly aware of the injustices in society. The final part of the book demonstrates the gradual establishment of State control affected and influenced churchmen.
This book will be of interest to those studying the history of the welfare state, religion, and social policy.
Preface; Introduction; Phase I: The Old Regime to 1832; 1. The Old Order of Society 2. Church and State before 1832; Phase II: Mid-Century 1832-65; 3. Church, State and Society after 1832 4. The Mid Nineteenth-Century Parson: The Education of the People 5. The Mid Nineteenth-Century Parson: The Governmental Order 6. The Mid Nineteenth-Century Parson: The Social Order (1) 7. The Mid Nineteenth-Century Parson: The Social Order (2); Phase III: Democracy and Collectivism 1865-85; 8. Parliamentary Reform, Social Change and Collectivism 9. The Problems of the Countryside 10. The Problems of the Town 11. The Dismal Society and its Enemies 12. The New Leviathan; Index
This set of 25 volumes, originally published between 1805 and 1992, amalgamates original nineteenth-century material and more recent research and analysis on the development of social welfare in Britain and Europe. From Elizabethan poor relief, through the Poor Laws of the nineteenth-century, to the establishment of the British National Health Service in the mid twentieth-century, this set provides a comprehensive overview of the germination and establishment of modern social welfare. Although the set mainly focuses on social welfare in Britain, it also contains some work on welfare in Europe.
This set will be of keen interest to those studying the history of social welfare, social policy, poverty and class.

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A mammoth milestone episode for The CW's Supergirl will welcome the return of several characters.
Unseen since the third season finale, Odette Annable's Samantha Arias (Reign) will be there for the 100th episode - set to air on February 23 - while Sam Witwer's Ben Lockwood (Agent Liberty) is also onboard after going off-map in season 4 (via TV Line).
However, it's Chris Wood's bearded Mon-El who will probably make the biggest splash here, who's been pictured in the midst of some sort of tense conversation between Kelly, Winn, Kara, Alex and J'onn.
Meanwhile, this special hour-long episode will finally unleash Thomas Lennon's Mr Mxyzptlk, after previous incumbent Peter Gadiot dropped out of the villainous role back in December.
By the sounds of the official synopsis, this episode will place 'Mxy' right in the mix as he causes Kara some head-scratching issues.
It reads: "Mxyzptlk returns with a proposition for Kara: What if she could go back in time and tell Lena her secret before Lex did? Would things turn out different? Looking back over key moments throughout the series, Kara must decide if she wants to change history to become friends with Lena again."
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Hardware 42 solar panels.
Benefits savings from solar panels have helped the Cathedral cut yet more carbon, through low energy lighting and efficient boilers.
Location Bradford, West Yorkshire.
“Sing on with hymns uproarious,
Ye humble and aloof,
Look up! And, oh, how glorious,
He has restored the roof!”
Back in 2012, Bradford Cathedral entered the history books by becoming the first cathedral in the UK to install solar panels.
To ensure the original look of the building was retained, the panels aren't visible from the ground, but a display screen inside the cathedral shows worshippers and visitors how much power the panels are producing.
The panels, which bring in approximately £3000 of much needed additional funding, are just one part of the picture at Bradford Cathedral. They're keen to cut their carbon further - LEDs are next on the list, and to encourage their members and local organisations to do the same.
“Having a visual display makes a difference. People can come and see what we are about - they can see the display straight away as they come in.”
- Reverend Mandy Coutts, residentiary canon at the Cathedral.
Bradford Cathedral had been hosting visitors from neighbouring Diocese, including York Minster, keen to see how they could learn from their efforts.
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This was supposed to be a model for a continent. With a thriving economy and two free, fair elections under its belt, Kenya was praised for largely avoiding the ethnic wars that plagued many of its neighbors. But in less than two weeks, much of that progress appears to have unraveled, and many are expressing concern about the long-term effects -- not only for Kenya, but for the region.
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Fantastic Illustrated ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Poster Highlighting Smaug, Thorin, Bard & Thranduil
Lorna-ka has put together this great illustrated piece for ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.’ The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece ‘The Hobbit,’ by J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins Martin Freeman( as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ arrives in cinemas on December 13th while ’The Hobbit: There and Back Again’ concludes the trilogy on December 17th, 2014.
CBS Films has premiered this new poster for the Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro and Kevin Kline-starring comedy, ‘Last Vegas.’ Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) from Dan Fogelman’s (Crazy Stupid Love) script, the four acting legends are joined in ‘Last Vegas’ by Romany Malco, Mary Steenburgen, Jerry Ferrara and Ric Reitz. The film arrives in cinemas on November 1st.
Billy (Academy Award®-winner Michael Douglas), Paddy (Academy Award®-winner Robert De Niro), Archie (Academy Award®-winner Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Academy Award®-winner Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group’s sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it’s these four who are taking over Vegas.
‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘A Beautiful Mind’ star Paul Bettany is set to make his directing debut with an upcoming project from Voltage Pictures and BiFrost Pictures titled ‘Shelter.’ It was revealed today that both Jennifer Connelly (who is married to Bettany in real life) and Anthony Mackie will star. Bettany is also supplying the screenplay for ‘Shelter,’ although no plot details are currently available outside of it being set in New York.
“It’s my intention to surround myself with hugely talented people and then claim all the credit,” said Paul Bettany. “I have great actors, great producers and a great city to shoot in – plus I’m hoping to keep alive the time-honored tradition sacred to directors and seduce my leading actress.”
Joss Whedon Talks About His Lead Villain In ‘The Avengers: Age Of Ultron’: “I Love Ultron, Because He’s So Pissed Off”
In a recent chat with EW, Joss Whedon shed some light on Ultron, the formidable villain that the Avengers team will battle in the sequel to last year’s mega-grossing blockbuster. The sentient super-bot presents a challenge for the film’s screenwriter: How to make a machine that can do just about anything into an interesting on-screen character? Created by a scientist in the Marvel comics, Ultron is a self-aware robot who develops a lust for power. He has a laundry list of abilities – super-human strength, speed, stamina, durability, flight, mind control, a coma ray and a genius intellect. For ‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ Whedon reveals that he’s stripping back some of Ultron’s abilities and will find a way to humanize – to some degree – the angry bot.
“I knew right away what I wanted to do with him,” Joss Whedon says. “He’s always trying to destroy the Avengers, goddamn it, he’s got a bee in his bonnet. He’s not a happy guy, which means he’s an interesting guy. He’s got pain. And the way that manifests is not going to be standard robot stuff. So we’ll take away some of those powers because at some point everybody becomes magic, and I already have someone [a new character, Scarlet Witch] who’s a witch.”
Having worked on James Gunn’s two previous feature films, ‘Super’ and ‘Slither,’ Gunn has revealed that Tyler Bates will be providing the score for his upcoming Marvel flick, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’ “Grateful to be working with my favorite composer, Tyler Bates, on Guardians of the Galaxy. Unlike most films, Tyler writes huge chunks of the score first so that I can actually film to the music. During action scenes and huge dramatic moments we blare the score on set so that the cast, crew, and camera can move in harmony with the music. Music is often an afterthought in film, but never for us. And everything Tyler’s done so far has been amazing!”
The all-star cast includes Chris Pratt as Peter Quill aka Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, Michael Rooker as Yondu, Karen Gillan as Nebula, two-time Academy Award nominee Djimon Hounsou as Korath, Academy Award winner Benicio del Toro as The Collector, Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly as Rhomann Dey, and six-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close as Nova Prime. Ophelia Lovibond, Gregg Henry and Enzo Cilenti also star.
In her three-part diary for Harper’s Bazaar - to mark the opening of her new play ‘The Pride,’ Hayley Atwell has revealed that she’s joined the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming ‘Cinderella’ adaptation. “I am about to start filming Kenneth Branagh’s new movie, Cinderella,” Atwell writes, “playing Cinderella’s biological mother at the beginning of the story, the embodiment of goodness and maternal love.”
Set for a March 13th, 2015, ‘Cinderlla’ is filming now at Pinewood Studios in England. Lily James (Downton Abbey) stars as the orphaned eponymous character, while Richard Madden (Game of Thrones) plays her handsome prince. Oscar winner Cate Blanchett co-stars as her wicked stepmother and Sophie McShera (Downton Abbey) and Holliday Granger (The Borgias) are playing the step-sisters. Helen Bonham Carter plays the Fairy Godfather, while Stellan Skarsgård plays the Grand Duke. Expect more news shortly.


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Out of Mother’s Earth a nurtured sapling
As of Mother’s womb fetus comes alive
Light of life glowing out of darkness, spring
Spiraling new beginnings to survive.
Like an innocent stream flowing constant
This life buds into shape, discovery
Of sun and rain, and wind, much of Rembrandt
Colour without a bias, or envy.
As Time heals wounds of tainted obstacles
This Life takes independence, intellect
Maturity sans much differences
Growing devotion with ‘me too’ respect.
Into a song, jai Ganesh, jai Ganesh
Jai Ganesh deva, Om jai jai Ganesh.


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A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl from Denbighshire has been struck by the deadly stomach bug E.coli 0157.
The youngster got ill at a dance camp where another 11-year-old girl was also hit with the infection.
The 11-year-old from the West Midlands was last night being treated in hospital and the North Wales girl was recovering at home.
Both stayed at Dance Camp Wales, held annually on a farm in Cresselly, Pembrokeshire.
Organisers of the event, which attracts hundreds from across Europe, are investigating with Pembrokeshire Council and the National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHSW).
Symptoms of E.coli infection range from diarrhoea, stomach cramps and fever to kidney failure and even death in the most severe of cases.
It is the second outbreak of the potentially-deadly bug in Wales this month. A chip shop in Llay, Wrexham is still at the centre of an investigation after four people got ill. They included new mum Karen Morrisroe-Clutton, 31, who last week came out of a coma when kidney failure left her life in the balance.
Three-year-old Abigail Hennessey was in hospital for three weeks but is now back home recovering in Llay.
Freddy Edmonds, spokesman for Dance Camp Wales, which has 650 members, said the event had been running for 22 years with no such problem before.
He said participants often camp and cook outdoors at the 10-day event, and are warned to encourage good hygiene.
He said: “We are very concerned for the children affected and our hearts go out to their families.”
A spokesman for Pembrokeshire council said the infected girls are not related, but the one thing they have in common is that they both attended the dance camp.
“Investigations are ongoing to try to trace the origin of this outbreak,” he said.
“At the moment we are keeping our options open as to whether it’s from food or soil.”
He said he believed there was an outlet selling vegetarian food on site, but most people made their own provision.
Public protection officials are also looking into what toilet facilities had been put in place at the site.
Dr Jörg Hoffmann, consultant in communicable disease control for the NPHSW, said: “People can become infected with E.coli by direct or indirect contact with animal faeces, particularly on farms and sites used for camping, and swimming in or drinking unchlorinated water.
“The illness can also be associated with contact with an infected person or eating contaminated food.
“We urge anyone who attended the event who is now having, or has recovered from, symptoms associated with E.coli infection to observe strict personal hygiene to prevent further spread of the illness.
“People should wash and dry their hands thoroughly after going to the toilet and before preparing or eating food.”
Anyone experiencing symptoms that may be associated with E.coli should contact their GP or out of hours service for medical advice urgently. Pembrokeshire County Council’s public protection department is on 01437 764551.


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The Hangover Part III – 2013 Director Todd Phillips Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, Jamie Chung, John Goodman Screenplay Todd Phillips, Craig Mazin Kick-Ass 2 – 2013 Writer and Director Jeff Wadlow Starring Aaron […]
The Hangover Part III – 2013
Director Todd Phillips Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, Jamie Chung, John Goodman Screenplay Todd Phillips, Craig Mazin
Kick-Ass 2 – 2013
Writer and Director Jeff Wadlow Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey, Clark Duke, Olga Kurkulina, Lindy Booth, John Leguizamo, Morris Chestnut, Donald Faison
Two notable comedies had sequels in the summer of 2013, and both were considered disappointments to many in the press. One who actually viewed the previous entries had every reason to be excited.
Kick-Ass (***1/2 out of ****) was one of the pleasant surprises of 2010. Its lack of pretense was as surprising as it was enthralling. The best things about it, Moretz’ effortless lethality, Johnson’s clueless and unbounded enthusiasm and Nicolas Cage is his normal lunatic self. And Cage dies in the end! How could it be any better? Mintz-Plasse is how. His brash coming out party lights up the last act.
In the time since, he’s fussed and fumed. Complaining to his mom, he inadvertently kills her and rechristens himself a name I will not use, but you can see in the poster above. Dave has time to retire, then come out of retirement and begin training with Hit Girl. The young orphan Mindy has moved in with her dad’s friend Marcus (Chestnutt) who wants her to start her freshman year of high school with a clean slate and, you know, stop maiming and killing elements of the underworld.
All of these moving parts create a chaos in which new characters emerge, some recede and some manage to do both. Jim Carrey gives a brave, unsung performance as Colonel Stars and Stripes. He does not come across as heroic as one would expect someone of his past star power. It was as unexpected a turn as Cage’s from the first film. Whatever it was that allowed him to condemn that performance and the movie itself (come on now, he had to know there was gun violence before he made it), he shows an inability to understand the irony of the film. It’s a sad point when the comedian is the one who laughs last…because he doesn’t get it.
To Carrey’s point, the violence is numbing, as it makes it hard to invest much into the characters. It’s hard to like Dr. Gravity (Faison), when one thinks he’s going to end up on the wrong side of that bat. At the same time, how is it that Duke’s Battle Guy could even joke about apprehending anyone as Battle Guy? On the one hand, we have such incredible brutality, and on the other we have dunces with no physical prowess in the slightest. We get that this is the filmmaker’s way of making the film one big “don’t try this at home,” but the message is lost in the fantastic luck the protagonists have when it comes to battle.
The energy of the film is driven mostly from the childish energy put forth by Mintz-Plasse. It’s mindless, dark and ruthless. Meaningless too. It would seem a strong commentary on the aimless youth, but it doesn’t resonate as any sort of truth. Seeing the bad guys being truly bad makes their demise that much more fun to watch, though.
What is true is the development of the two leads. Moretz’ is a genuine star. She’s growing into a strong young woman by now, and her command of the screen is that of an actor twice her age. Watching the ever so gradual development of her relationship with Johnson is moving gradually from cute into something truly interesting. It’s the one thing that makes me hope the film becomes a trilogy.
The Hangover III (***1/2 out of *****) starts promisingly for no other reason than no one is drugged and wakes up disoriented. The 2nd time was enough for the formula, but the characters deserved a 3rd try. The try is a success for reasons beyond The Wolf Pack, but let’s not kid ourselves. Todd Phillips has struggled to come up with a truly successful storyline since the original blew the doors off conventional comedy in 2009.
This story’s engine is turned, like the second story, with the manic and intentionally stereotypical energy of Jeong. We still get a steady dose of Galifianakis’ obtuse Alan. Their relationship is unconventionally affectionate and really kind of adorable. Cooper’s Phil and Helm’s Stu still fill in the gaps, making the recurring journey to recover Bartha’s Doug feel like a genuine even, no matter how many times we have to head back the same road.
Part of the appeal to the series is the lens through which it is filmed. The sepia tint is sharply drawn and looks beautiful. This beauty shows the desperation of their circumstance even more sharply. 3 movies in, it’s still fun to watch the desperation creep over the face of Cooper while Helms submits to his worst fears. It’s just not all that funny any more.
There are some laugh out loud moments, like the crude freeway “mess”acre on the freeway and Chow’s flight through the night-time Vegas skies. The rest of it, though, is mainly just smirk worthy. By the time we get to the end, one comes to the realization that this is the third movie in a row where we get hugging and learning for Alan. This would have been a disappointment, were it not for the post credits scene.
It’s over for The Wolf Pack. I suppose it’s just about time. They could do this forever and, given the over all financial success of the franchise, they have every reason to do so. They called it quits while still slightly ahead. On the power of the first film and two decent following films, it’s one of the best comedy trilogies in history. I would have to say it ranks behind Back to the Future, The Cornetto Trilogy and just in front of The Naked Gun(thanks for ruining it, O.J.). It’s not a crowded field, though. I am not sure I could name more trilogies than those. American Pie and The Jersey films don’t count. The first went to 8 films (4 direct to video). The second featured Ben Affleck. Hopefully The Hangover won’t ruin what they’ve accomplished by doing either.
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How does the GM oil life monitor work?
The oil life monitor doesn’t use a sensor to determine oil condition
People think that the oil life monitor system relies on some type of sensor that detects oil condition. There is no such sensor. Instead, the system tracks your actual driving habits and uses an antilogarithm to determine how your driving affects oil life.
GM Oil Life Monitor was introduced in 2007
The monitoring system was first introduced in 2007. It tracked engine usage and told you change oil in as little as 4,000 miles if you drive under “severe” conditions, or as long as 12,000 miles in optimal conditions. However, the system didn’t tell you how much oil life remained; it only told you when it was time to change your oil.
GM Oil Life Monitoring changes in 2013
Starting with the 2013 model year, the oil life monitoring system bases the remaining oil life on the factors shown below. The system assumes you’ve used the correct DEXOS oil and that you check the level and top if off when needed. If you don’t check the level and top it off or you fill with a non-DEXOS oil, all bets are off.
What the oil life monitor tracks
After each oil change reset, the GM oil life monitor tracks
• Engine revolutions —The GM oil life monitor starts with a factory preset number of engine revolutions stored in memory. Every time the engine is started and run, the oil life monitor tracks the number of revolutions run and subtracts those from the factory programmed target.
• Engine temperature— The algorithm incorporates multipliers that reduce the number of engine revolutions and thus remaining oil life, based on how far engine oil temperature varies from normal oil temperature. If the PCM records an engine temperature above 260°F, the remaining oil life will immediately show 0% remaining life. Cold starts reduce oil life and the algorithm takes that into account by reducing the number of revolutions accordingly.
• Miles since last reset—The monitor records miles traveled since the last oil reset and maintains a MAXIMUM value of 7,500 miles for ALL 2013 and later GM vehicles (except the Volt) before it show 0% remaining oil life.
Time—The oil life monitor records the amount of time the engine runs since the last oil change reset. The time tracking is a liner measurement and decreases remaining oil life on a straight life basis in conjunction with the other tracked variables. The monitor will show 0% after one year regardless of miles driven, engine revolutions or time run.
When to change oil on a GM vehicle
Regardless of what self-proclaimed experts, oil distributors or oil companies may claim, the maximum oil life on GM vehicles (except for the Volt model) is 7,500 miles or less. Oil life depends on time, miles, temperature and engine revolutions. Do not be fooled into thinking you can go beyond this limit.
Factors that degrade oil and reduce oil life
Oil Oxidation reduces oil life
Oil contains anti-oxidant additives to combat oil breakdown due to oxidation. But as oil meets heat, foam and water, those additives get used up and the oil oxidizes, turning into sludge.
• Idling in slow traffic causes oil oxidation
• Cold starts with a rich fuel mixture causes raw fuel and water to enter the crankcase and mix with the oil, causing oxidation and breakdown.
• Turbochargers operate at very high heat. Driving at highway speeds and then shutting down the engine can oxidize the oil left in the turbo.
• Not checking oil level causes the remaining oil to work harder and use up its antioxidation additives much faster.
Engine overheating will deplete remaining oil life
If the engine coolant temperature exceeds 260°F, the oil life monitor will immediately to to 0% remaining oil life.
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Husky - Meteorite Tour
METEORITE was recorded in lead-singer Husky Gawenda’s apartment, with band members set up in the kitchen (Jules Pascoe on Bass), the lounge room (Gideon Preiss on Piano and Gawenda on on Vox and Guitar) and the bedroom (Holly Thomas on Drums). “It’s a song about the internal battle between longing for someone and letting them go”, says Gawenda.
HUSKY will also be playing songs from the critically acclaimed 2020 album STARDUST BLUES and have enlisted maestro Hollie Joyce on electric guitar and vocal duties for these shows.
HUSKY have released four critically-acclaimed albums, scored worldwide play-listing and radio, plus toured locally and internationally with artists such as Neil Young and Sharon Van Etten. They are more than excited to finally announce these special, intimate shows.
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- All audience members will be required to sanitise & check-in upon entry to Waywards.
- Show will be limited to 110 to allow for social distancing.
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- Hand sanitiser dispensers on entry and throughout venue
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- Regular sanitising of the venue and full clean after each day.