What about the new Panasonic TX-65GZ1000 ?
Today we are going to analyse the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000, a top-of-the-range television from Panasonic. A deeper analysis in order to check that there is no lack of quality for this model
Let’s have a look at the size. It’s a 65 inches.
And you must believe us it is impressive. The first question you’ll have to ask yourself will be the place where you are going to install this television.
In addition this Panasonic displays a Ultra HD 4K resolution. Panasonic catches up on its competitors thanks to the new TX-65GZ1000. We are facing a perfectly balanced television which establishes as a true reference.
We have examined it in detail and invite you to discover it in our review today.
TV design presentation Panasonic TX-65GZ1000
The designers decided to do something very beautiful. At least that’s what it comes out when you’re facing the product.
A high quality finish; a faithful image; everything is combined to make the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000 an elegant TV in this range.
In short,the Panasonic produces a nearly impeccable TV; it will sit in your living room, and even when turned off it will give off a feeling of quality. Almost a work of art. Once turned on, you will enjoy the quality of the image and sound. All these features will take you into a new dimension; that of the top of the range with the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000.
The screen of the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000
Panasonic puts the emphasis on image quality to win back the market; this TV offers you a top-of-the-range visual experience.
With regard to the display, the company proposes a Ultra HD 4K resolution. And with his 65 inches, he’s in a series of TVs that is at the top of its range. In the end, it is interesting to note that beyond the size, the screen is well made. A point to add when choosing between this model and other competitors.
By providing it with a frequency of 120 Hz, the television’s fluidity is at the top of its range.
Finally, Panasonic has chosen to put advanced technology on this TV, which makes it possible to have an Ultra HD 4K image quality .
My opinion to conclude on the display part. It’s just top-of-the-line.
The sound of the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000
Enhanced bass and bass tones, precise treble. With this TX-65GZ1000 the music comes to life thanks to a perfect reproduction of the most subtle nuances and details.
For the sound part, the television set is equipped with two loudspeakers and provides a sound power of 15 W.
TX-65GZ1000 from Panasonic – Embedded intelligence
As with many other TV sets, the TX-65GZ1000 has its operating system my Home Screen 4; It will allow you to happily explore a number of entertainment options.
This TV offers you the choice of connectivity: Whether through its Wifi function, or through the local network with other devices or computer devices (fixed or mobile computers, NAS synology for example), your TV TX-65GZ1000 is communicating.
The connection system of the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000
All the connectors are grouped together for a better use. The outputs and ports are numerous enough to cover all your needs.
If you have many devices and decide to connect them with this TV, you will have to choose. There are fewer than on competing TV sets.
It is with 8 possible connections that this TX-65GZ1000 is presented. The Panasonic considers that with theTX-65GZ1000 the consumer will have to make a precise choice because he won’t be able to connect many devices at the same time .
In detail here are the available connections:
3 USB ports, 2 audio outputs, 1 antenna input, 1 component plug (Video), 1 composite plug (Y/Pb/Pr)
Presentation of the technical features of the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000
The main features of this TV set:
|Sizes of the television without stand||142.85 cm x 80.35 cm x 6.2 cm|
|Screen size in inches||65|
|Screen resolution||Ultra HD 4K|
|Smart TV||my Home Screen 4|
|Tuners available||DVB-T DVB-T2 DVB-S DVB-S2 DVB-C|
|Number of tuners||5|
|Number of USB ports||3|
|Number of HDMI ports||0|
|Number of audio outputs||2|
|Number of audio inputs||0|
|Component Input (YpbPr)||Yes|
|Composite Input (Video)||Yes|
|HDR Dolby Vision Compatible||Yes|
TX-65GZ1000 from Panasonic – The conclusion
In other words, the Panasonic TX-65GZ1000 is better than the competition. Almost perfect on everything. Whether for home cinema sessions or online game sessions, it is the TV to own.
In addition, it is worth noting that this TX-65GZ1000 is equipped with smart TV technology. Thanks to this, you have a top-of-the-range device in its category, which makes it a relevant choice.
With its 4K display technology, this TV offers you an image quality close to perfection, and a sound quality above the others; Enhanced with an aesthetics that stands out, you have the ingredients of a device that you want to own.
From this new Panasonic we can retain 3 positive points:
the screen size, the sound power, the depth of the colours.


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Andrew Gn Fall Winter 2023 – 2024 Collection at Paris Fashion Week
My native roots are in Asia, but it is in the rich fashion soil of France that my House has grown and flourished. Both made me whole.
This collection celebrates my upcoming career retrospective in May 2023 at the Asian Civilizations Museum in my homeland, Singapore.
March 2023, Andrew Gn
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WATCH: 'Fitting car stereos keeps me young,' says Kenyan great-grandmother
Cecilia Wangari is a great-grandmother who works as a "car stereo technician" in Nairobi, Kenya.
She says she loves her job.
"When the beat drops, even I bob my head. I love this Job," Wangari says during an interview with BBC.
Watch the video above
She also believes "work is important, and it should continue, to eradicate poverty."
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Like many last night I sat down to watch the first in the series of programmes titled Undercover Benefits Cheat, with investigative reporter Paul Connolly and his team.
To be fair I wasn’t sure what the programme would be like, was it going to join the ranks of other benefit hate propaganda that we have been exposed to on our screens recently.
To be truthful after a hours viewing I am still not sure where it does fall.
‘The skivers and scroungers we have exposed are all part of a crooked minority that will do whatever it takes to exploit the benefits system.
‘They cost taxpayers more than £1billion a year and give honest claimants a bad name.’
Paul states in the programme that those committing fraud are not the majority of benefit claimants but lets be honest after watching last nights programme I am sure that this fact was lost on most viewers.
Selling dead babies birth certificates, fake car crashes, peeing yourself in public could it really get worse.
The programme made me and many on my social media furious and I know thats the response it is hoping to get, but my anger is not towards the benefit claimants but to those criminals who cheat the system and towards those that give them airtime.
I know people who have to claim benefits, who have no choice.
There are those who work damn hard to get a job, applying for anything and everything.
Those who cannot work because they are raising their families, caring for someone. People who are genuinely ill or disabled.
Yet none of these people are waving excess amounts of money about that they have received from the system. They are parents going without meals to purchase their kids school uniforms. Families struggling to survive, bills rising every day becoming a mountain that they never feel they will ever be able to climb.
I don’t see anyone being handled these benefits on a plate, I have watched people become depressed by the system. Being made to feel like the lowest of the low.
I have faced the awful experience of the PIP assessment with a family member, a government funding assessor convinced that a paralysed arm can be moved. Humiliation and tears all in hope off being able to reject a claim.
I know there are some really shit people in the world and yes Paul Connolly introduced us to a number last night. But please remember that not everyone who receives benefits are con artists. They are using a system that is in place to help and support the vulnerable.
They are vulnerable and they are struggling.
Please remember that the majority of benefit claimants are decent human beings.
Paul Connolly did a great job of exposing the low life that abuse the system but remember that there are shitters in all walks of live.
Lets not allow the current government to use programmes like this as an excuse to cut benefits.
There are currently 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK.
That’s almost a third of all children. 1.6 million of these children live in severe poverty . In the UK 63% of children living in poverty are in a family where someone works. How does the government respond to this , they change the definition of poverty.
Take a look at the this infographic produced by the Public and Commercial Services Union
Ask yourself why Paul Connolly isn’t on the doorstep of the bosses of Amazon and Starbucks?
Benefit fraud is wrong but programmes like this are making it out to be the biggest of issues. It’s wrong but there is an minority that is abusing the system, a small minority. As this infographic also shows that the story of fraud within the UK economy does not begin and end with benefit fraud.
Whilst the fraud you witness on Undercover benefit cheats is truly disgusting and completely criminal it is only one chapter of a much bigger story.
A story that needs to be told…


Suffolk MP Peter Aldous is calling for more businesses to install sprinkler systems in their buildings .
The Waveney MP is campaigning for better fire safety measures after a fire destroyed the Wessex Foods factory in Lowestoft in 2010.
He'll take part in a special parliamentary debate to mark National Sprinkler week.
"In 2010, Wessex Foods, which was a building that didn't have sprinklers, burnt down and 150 people lost their jobs," he said.
"What I'm keen to do is highlight the need for more sprinklers in buildings, particularly warehouses, so you can actually prevent these sort of incidents happening again."
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Teen Maar, starring Pawan Kalyan and Trisha took a bumper opening yesterday when it released all over the world to jam packed audience. The producer of the film, Ganesh Babu addressed the press at Ramanaidu Studios where he revealed these numbers. In Nizam area alone, the film collected a share of Rs 1.7 crores setting a new record. On the whole, the film grosses a whopping total of Rs 9.4 crores on day 1. Ganesh Babu hoped that if the positive buzz about the film continues then the film would definitely rewrite several records in Telugu cinema. Naga Babu, who was also present at the press conference, requested Pawan Kalyan’s fan and people in general to not encourage piracy.
Jayant C Paranjee directed the film and Trivikram Srinivas wrote the dialogues. Mani Sharma had composed the music and Jayanan Vincent is the cinematographer.


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The National Wildlife Federation has long has been focused on protecting the most vulnerable of our wild species.
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Take care of this house
Be always on call
For this house is the home of us all
~Alan Jay Lerner/Leonard Bernstein
This song is from the musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and "This House" refers to the White House. I heard our high school choir perform it recently. The choir director said it's his "election year song." Good pick.


|Publication number||US5307724 A|
|Application number||US 07/959,376|
|Publication date||May 3, 1994|
|Filing date||Oct 13, 1992|
|Priority date||Oct 10, 1991|
|Also published as||DE4133618A1, DE4133618C2|
|Publication number||07959376, 959376, US 5307724 A, US 5307724A, US-A-5307724, US5307724 A, US5307724A|
|Inventors||Heinz-Gunter Breuer, Karl-Egon Janssen|
|Original Assignee||Rheinmetall Gmbh|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (11), Referenced by (4), Classifications (5), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to an ejector system for the extraction of cartridge casings or casing bottoms from a tubular weapon provided with a breechblock wedge. More particularly the present invention relates to an ejector system which includes two ejector levers pivotally mounted for movement about an axis extending perpendicular to an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the barrel of the weapon and provided with respective ejector claws, and which is suitable for large caliber weapons, particularly in armored cannons.
An ejector system of the above-outlined general type is disclosed, for example, in Swiss Patent CH 0,670,502. The system disclosed in this patent extracts and ejects empty cartridge casings from the cartridge chamber of an automatic weapon with the aid of two ejector claws that are fastened to ejector levers. The ejector levers are mounted on a shaft and perform a circular arc pivoting movement when the cartridge casing is extracted. The result of this ejector movement, in which the direction of the ejector claws changes constantly, is that from round to round the cartridge casing has an undefined direction of flight.
Similar ejector systems are also employed in large caliber weapon systems, for example, in armored weapon systems. In such weapon systems, the undefined direction of flight of the cartridge casings or, if the casings are combustible, of the cartridge bottoms (bases, stub casings) creates problems of storage and discarding of the extracted casings. Furthermore, problems exist if automatic loading systems are employed which require uniform ejection of the cartridge casings.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved ejector system of simplified construction for the extraction of cartridge casings in which the cartridge casings or cartridge bottoms are ejected in a defined direction. Moreover, this ejector system should be particularly suitable for large caliber weapon systems employing automatic loaders.
This object and others to become apparent as the specification progresses are accomplished by the invention, according to which, briefly stated, the weapon includes a gun barrel and is provided with a breechblock wedge. The ejector system extracts a cartridge casing from the breech end of the weapon, and essentially is comprised of two ejectors having recesses, two ejector claws, and two ejector levers. Each ejector claw is fastened to a respective ejector. The ejector levers pivot about an axis which extends perpendicularly to an axis that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the gun barrel. The ejectors are mounted for linear displacement parallel to the longitudinal axis of the gun barrel and the ejector levers extend into the respective recesses of the ejectors in a displaceably engageable manner. When the ejector levers are pivoted, the ejectors are linearly displaced parallel to the longitudinal axis of the gun barrel.
The invention is thus essentially based on the concept of transforming the pivoting movement of the pivotal ejector levers into a linear ejection movement of the ejector claws parallel to the axis of the gun barrel. Preferably the pivoting movement of the ejector levers is initiated by the opening of the breechblock wedge. Moreover, the ejector claws may be fixed to the respective ejectors or may be pivotally mounted on the respective ejectors to permit extraction of cartridge casings which have a radial collar or an extraction groove.
FIGS. 1 to 3 are schematic longitudinal sectional views of a portion of the breech end of a weapon including an ejector system according to the present invention during the extraction of a cartridge casing provided with a collar at three different times of the breechblock.
FIG. 4 is an end view seen along the section line IV--IV of FIG. 1 while omitting the breechblock wedge.
FIGS. 5 and 6 are schematic partial longitudinal sectional views showing an ejector system according to the invention with modified ejector claws in two different positions while pulling out a cartridge casing having an extractor groove.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 to 4, there is shown the breech end of a gun barrel 13 of a weapon (not further shown in detail) including an ejector system 1 which is essentially composed of a pair of ejectors 2, 2' (see FIG. 4) and respective ejector levers 4, 4'. The levers 4, 4' are attached to a shaft 19 mounted at the breech end of the barrel complete 13, allowing for pivotal movement about an axis 3 extending perpendicular to an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis 20 of a gun barrel. An ejector claw 6 or 6' is fastened to the respective ends of the ejectors 2, 2' facing the cartridge cases 11 to be ejected. Each ejector lever 4, 4' is L-shaped and as shown in FIGS. 1-3 is comprised of two arms 40, 41. The outer end of the longer arm 40 of ejector lever 4 slidably engages in a recess 5 of ejector 2 and is arranged in this recess 5 so as to be displaceable in the longitudinal direction. The outer end of the longer arm of the ejector lever 4' is similarly engaged in a corresponding recess in the ejector 2'. The significance of the shorter arm 41 of ejector lever 4 will be discussed below.
In addition to the ejector system 1, FIGS. 1 to 3 depict in dashed lines a (drop) breechblock wedge 8 that is provided with a cam 9 positioned to engage the shorter arm 41 of the lever 4 to pivot same when the breechblock 8 drops as shown in FIG. 3. Preferably, a similar cam (not shown) is disposed on the breechblock 8 to engage the shorter arm of the lever 4'. Additionally illustrated is a cartridge chamber 10 in which is disposed the cartridge casing 11 to be extracted which, as shown, is provided with a radial casing collar 12.
FIG. 4 is an end view of the weapon with the cartridge casing 11 and the ejector system according to the invention viewed along the section line marked IV--IV in FIG. 1, but with the breechblock wedge 8 not shown for reasons of better clarity. As can be seen in this figure, ejectors 2 and 2' and their respective ejector claws 6 and 6' as well as the respective ejector levers 4 and 4' are disposed symmetrically to the gun barrel axis 20. Each of the ejectors 2 and 2' has a T-shape and is guided in a respective T-groove 14, 14' formed in the weapon breech ring 21 and extending parallel to the longitudinal axis 20 of the gun.
In another embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, an ejector 2 provided with a movable ejector claw 26 is shown during the extraction of a cartridge casing bottom or base 16 provided with an ejector groove 17. In these figures, reference numeral 5 again identifies the recess for the respective ejector lever 4 or 4', numeral 13 is the gun barrel, and numeral 15 an abutment at the gun barrel 13 for ejector 2 when in the firing position. While FIG. 5 shows the state of ejector 2 and its ejector claw 26 in the firing position, FIG. 6 depicts the corresponding stare of ejector 2 in the ejection position, with the ejector stroke being marked 18.
The operation of the ejector system according to the present invention FIG. 1-4 now be described in greater detail.
As indicated in FIG. 1, it is assumed that breech-block wedge 8 is closed in its starting position. Ejectors 2 and 2' as well as ejector levers 4 and 4' are disposed in the closed position. When breechblock wedge 8 (FIG. 2) is opened, the cams 9 provided on breechblock wedge 8 abut on the respective second arms 41 and thus cause the ejector levers 4 and 4' to pivot about axis 3 and ejectors 2 and 2' to perform a linear ejection movement into the ejection position (FIG. 3). Cartridge casing 11 is pulled in a straight line over the predetermined ejector stroke 18 in the direction along the gun barrel axis 20 from the cartridge chamber 10 (in large caliber weapons, from the charge chamber). The cartridge casing 11 is linearly accelerated and ejected in a defined direction.
At the end of this process, the closing energy stored in the counterrecoil portion of the gun barrel 13 closes the breechblock wedge 8 until its upper contact face lies against the ejectors 2, 2' in their ejection position and is retained there. Thus, the loading position is reached in which the cartridge casing 11 may be transported through the loading trough 22 of the breechblock wedge 8 into the cartridge chamber 10.
To load the weapon, the fresh cartridge 11 is pushed into the gun barrel 13 until the face of the casing collar 12 lies against the ejector claws 6 and 6' of ejectors 2 and 2'. Further advancement of the cartridge 11 into the closing position moves ejectors 2 and 2' along with the cartridge, and ejector levers 4 and 4' are pivoted into the closing position. Shortly before the closing position is reached, ejectors 2 and 2' release the breechblock wedge 8 which then, because of the closing forces acting on it, closes automatically.
Of course, ejector levers 4 and 4' need not be fastened directly to shaft 19 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4. Rather, ejector levers 4 and 4' are often pivoted about this shaft as disclosed, for example, in the above described Swiss Patent CH 0,670,502. This has no significance for the operation of the ejector system according to the present invention.
The present invention is not limited to the extraction of cartridge casings 11 but can be employed with the same success for the extraction of casing bottoms or bases 16 in cartridges that have a combustible casing and a collar or an ejector groove 17. The use of the ejector system also has no limits with respect to the caliber of the gun, although it has been found particularly effective in large caliber weapons.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, ejector claws 6, 6' may be fixed or rigidly fastened to respective ejectors 2 and 2' or, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the ejector claws 26, 26' may be connected in a pivotal manner. In the latter case, a ram head 23 used during loading moves the ejector claws 26, 26' out of a non-engaged position with the casing bottom 16 (FIG. 6) against the pressure of a spring biased pin 24 into an ejector groove 17 provided in the casing bottom. This embodiment does not require the casing collar 12 described in connection with FIGS. 1 to 4.
The invention now being fully described, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that any changes and modifications can be made thereto without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as set forth herein.
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|US614821 *||Aug 14, 1897||Nov 29, 1898||Breech-loading ordnance|
|US2489747 *||Sep 1, 1944||Nov 29, 1949||Dennistoun Burney Charles||Reduced recoil type gun|
|US2953066 *||Oct 6, 1959||Sep 20, 1960||Colby Richard H||Firearm breech mechanism with a laterally operated breech block|
|AT46502B *||Title not available|
|CH349506A *||Title not available|
|CH670502A5 *||Title not available|
|*||DE277213C||Title not available|
|DE371662C *||Mar 19, 1923||Anciens Etablissements Pieper||Auszieher fuer Feuerwaffen|
|DE724802C *||May 1, 1937||Sep 5, 1942||Rheinmetall Borsig Ag||Auswerfer fuer Geschuetze|
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|US6260297 *||Sep 22, 1999||Jul 17, 2001||Rheinmetal W & M Gmbh||Case ejecting device for a large-caliber barrel weapon|
|US7469496||Sep 19, 2006||Dec 30, 2008||Kel-Tec Cnc Industries, Inc.||Dual pivoting extractors|
|US8549977 *||Dec 27, 2011||Oct 8, 2013||Agency For Defense Development||Apparatus for opening and closing breech block and cannon having the same|
|US8826576||Aug 10, 2012||Sep 9, 2014||Karl R. Lewis||Firearm bolt|
|U.S. Classification||89/24, 42/25|
|Oct 13, 1992||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: RHEINMETALL GMBH, GERMANY
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Effective date: 19921003
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Conservative conference: Boris Johnson tribute to PM 'Dave'
London Mayor Boris Johnson has paid tribute to Prime Minister David Cameron, praising his "firm leadership" and ability to take "tough decisions".
Mr Johnson began his speech by gazing out into the audience and saying: "Where is Dave?"
Having spotted the prime minister, the London mayor wished him a happy birthday and backed his strategy to "turn the country round".
Mr Johnson has had a hero's welcome from Tory activists in Birmingham.
But he has denied trying to upstage the PM, who gives his big speech on Wednesday.
Mr Johnson, who who is riding high after the London Olympics and his re-election, said Britain had a "chronic tendency to underestimate what we can do".
The London games, he added, showed "we are a can-do country, a creative, confident can-do country".
In an upbeat speech - packed with jokes and digressions - he talked up what he sees as his main achievements as mayor and paid tribute to some of the politicians, including Sir John Major and Labour figures such as Tony Blair and Ken Livingstone, who had contributed to making the Olympics a success.
He joked that his defeated rival for the mayoralty, Mr Livingstone, was now well and truly "finished" after receiving a round of applause at a Tory conference.
He joked that Mr Cameron had called him a "blond-haired mop" in the Daily Telegraph, adding: "If I'm a mop then you are a broom, a broom that is cleaning up the mess left by the Labour government and a fantastic job you are doing.
"And I thank you and I congratulate you and your colleagues George Osborne, the dustpan, Michael Gove, the jey cloth, William Hague, the sponge.
"Because it is the historic function of Conservative governments over the last hundred years to be the household implements, so effective on the floor of the house to clear things up after the Labour binge has got out of control."
Mr Cameron laughed along with Mr Johnson, the man seen as a potential future leadership rival, even when the mayor, a classical scholar, ribbed him about claiming to not know the meaning of Magna Carta.
'Age of enterprise'
The mayor ended his speech with a rallying cry to Tory activists, who gave him a standing ovation.
He said: "We fought to keep London from lurching back into the grip of a Marxist cabal of taxpayer-funded chateauneuf du pape-swilling tax minimisers and bendy bus fetishist.
"I will fight to keep this country from lurching back into the grip of the two Eds, Miliband and Balls. Unreformed, unpunished, unrepentant about what they did to the economy and the deficit they racked up.
"We need to go forward now from the age of excess under Labour.
"Through the age of austerity to a new age of enterprise in which we do what we did in the Olympics and build a world-beating platform for Britain for British people and businesses to compete."
Mr Johnson later told the BBC Radio 4's World At One programme he would welcome the "spotlight" moving on from talk about his future plans, speculation which he described as "tired and hackneyed".
Asked about the furore surrounding Mr Johnson at the conference, Tory donor and strategist Lord Ashcroft said the mayor of London was "doing a great job" and part of his appeal was that "he is a comedian".
But he said talk about Mr Johnson as a future leader was media-driven and not "relevant" to the party's primary goal of winning a majority at the next election.
"Those are long-term matters. If he ever had those ambitions, he has to get to Parliament, there has to be a leadership contest... you are talking a long timescale even if it is hypothetically possible."
Mr Cameron has insisted he does not envy Mr Johnson's "rock star" status, and says he accepts other people will be more popular than him while he is prime minister in difficult times for the country.
Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme what Mr Johnson could get him for his birthday, which he is celebrating on Tuesday, Mr Cameron said: "He's giving me a relatively light day, which is good of him.
"The point is, we are lucky in the Conservative Party to have some big and popular figures to take the message out across the country as well as having someone who is a first class Mayor of London."
Asked if Mr Johnson could be sent abroad to do something following his time as mayor, Mr Cameron quipped: "I'm not sure which country deserves him the most, but I will take that one away and think about it."
An opinion poll for The Observer gave Boris Johnson a net +30 rating among voters, compared with -21 for the prime minister.


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The soft whisper of those lyrics is what comes to my mind whenever I hear mention of The Graduate. A mere glimpse of the movie poster and I’m humming the haunting intro in my head. However, as a ringtone, they only remind me that my student loans are due once again.
Next year, The Graduate, a film that defined a generation, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its 1967 release. Whether seeing it for the first or 50th time, the film’s humor, genuineness and (loss of?) innocence still resonate with audiences.
Today is the day that I look forward to all year long. HAPPY OSCARS DAY!! To commemorate this special day, I have chosen to write about the 1939 classic, Gone with the Wind. I couldn’t be more excited to finally write about this film. I was first introduced to this movie by my Aunt Joanie when I was around 8 or 9 years old and it has remained my favorite movie ever since (my other favorite movie but in no way a comparison to GWTW is the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap). I must acknowledge the significant role my Aunt Joanie has played in my burgeoning love for movies. Not only did she take me to see movies at the theater more times than I can count, she also opened my eyes to many of the classics, like Gone with the Wind. Although it has been 77 years since its first release, Gone with the Wind, is still considered a crown jewel in cinematic history. At the 1939 Academy Awards, it took home 8 Oscars and was nominated for 13—a record number of nominations for many years.
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Vivien Leigh
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Hattie McDaniel
Best Director: Victor Fleming
Best Writing, Screenplay: Sidney Howard
Best Cinematography, Color: Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan
We are now officially one week away from Oscar Sunday (February 28th, mark your calendars!) and my recent tribute to various beloved Best Picture winners is slowly coming to an end. I decided to stay in the seventies again this week with the 1971 gritty police drama, The French Connection. The French Connectiontells the story of two New York City police detectives—Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo—in their efforts to expose French drug pushers. The film was actually based on a true case in which the New York police uncover sixty kilos of heroin in the rockers of a Lincoln Continental that was imported from Marseilles. Popeye and Cloudy’s real-life counterparts, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, also star in the film as narcotics detectives, Walt Simonson and Klein.
Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan, the real Popeye and Cloudy.
In 1972, The French Connection won the Academy Award for Best Picture, beating A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, and Nicholas and Alexandra.It was the first R-rated film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture since the introduction of the MPAA film rating system (Midnight Cowboy won with an X rating).
Best Picture: Philip D’Antoni
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Gene Hackman
Best Director: William Friedkin
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Ernest Tidyman
Best Film Editing: Gerald B. Greenberg
Roy Scheider was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role but lost to Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show. The French Connection was also nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Sound Mixing but lost both to Fiddler on the Roof.
Now that another Valentine’s Day has come and gone, many of us might want a break from the lovey-dovey rom-coms that seem to dominate TV this time of year. However, I think it is always an appropriate time to watch one of the classic anti-romantic romantic comedies…one that arguably changed the roadmap for romantic comedies; one often referred to as last “comedy” to win an Academy Award; one that blazed trails in film and fashion; one whose screenplay was voted the funniest screenplay of all time by the Writers Guild of America; one that catapulted Woody Allen’s and Diane Keaton’s careers into the stratosphere; one that is the inimitable Annie Hall.
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Best Director: Woody Allen
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Diane Keaton
Best Picture: Charles H. Joffe
Not only did Annie Hall win 1978’s Academy Award for Best Picture, it beat Star Wars—a victory that seems unbelievable today! Woody Allen was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, but lost to Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl.
Annie Hall captured audiences with its remarkable storytelling, poignant writing, dry, subtle humor and the palpable chemistry between Allen and Keaton. Again, this is not your typical “boy meets girl” romantic comedy we’re accustomed to. In fact, it’s the obvious escape from the norm that allows Annie Hall to remain as relevant today. Annie Hall is Woody Allen’s story of the relationship between Alvy Singer (Allen) and Annie Hall (Keaton). The viewer is introduced to Alvy—a neurotic, self-reflexive, pessimistic comedian—as he delivers a witty monologue musing on life and love before recounting his relationship with Annie—an awkward, somewhat flighty, nightclub singer.
The first minutes of this film are brilliant in establishing the crux of Alvy’s character, and the entire tone of the movie. When Alvy reflects he and Annie are no longer a couple, we know this will not be your run-of-the-mill love story — A concept done very similarly in the film, 500 Days of Summer.
The story unfolds in a non-linear sequence, jumping to and from various moments in their relationship, as well as examining the individual pasts of both Alvy and Annie. Despite the scattered story, Allen never loses his focus, as Alvy tries to uncover the meaning of his relationship with Annie within the context of his entire life.
In addition to being lauded as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, Annie Hall has also made a lasting impression on the world of fashion. The boyfriend-chic, androgynous style donned by Diane Keaton in the film, sparked a trend in fashion. The menswear as womenswear look, can be attributed to Diane Keaton herself, as she wore many of her own clothes during filming.
Almost 40 years after its release, Annie Hall is still widely relevant today. In my opinion, the retrospective narrative, phenomenal writing, and emotional resonance has helped maintain the film’s significance for audiences today. This is a must-see movie for anybody in their 20s. Annie Hall is not a fairy tale. It’s not a “they lived happily ever after” movie which is what makes it great! Not to be misunderstood, I am all for the fairy tale movies; I probably enjoy them more than most. However, now that I am an ‘adultish person,’ that extra dose of reality in a movie is refreshing. Seeing a movie that doesn’t end perfectly—nor does it end horribly—reminds me that life is not scripted. I know that seems like a pretty simple thing to need reminding of, but with all the social media bragging that happens these days, it is surprisingly easy to forget. It’s easy to get caught up in someone’s perfect social media life and feel bad about your own. That is why this movie is so important!! People and opportunities come into our lives at certain moments for a reason, it may not be great all the time, but it is the little moments of greatness that make everything worth it.
“You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it’s all about.”
In 1979, The Deer Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Picture, beating out An Unmarried Woman, Midnight Express, Heaven Can Wait, and Coming Home. This emotionally powerful war epic clocks in at just over three hours and was one of several films surrounding the Vietnam War released throughout the decade –also released around the same time were Coming Home and Apocalypse Now. The Deer Hunter was notorious for its compelling portrayal of the horrendous impact of the Vietnam War, while it tells the story of three Russian-American friends in a blue-collar, steel -working town who leave to fight for their country. Continue reading →
As January winds down, taking football-filled Sundays with it, everyone is making Super Bowl watch party plans. However, the Super Bowl for the true movie buffs is undoubtedly The Academy Awards. Oscars night has been my favorite night of the year for as long as I began to understand the importance film would have on my life. Sure the glitz and glamour of the red carpet are mesmerizing, but the main reason for my excitement and anticipation are the stories that are being celebrated. It is the placed that a good film’s story takes us that can soothe our souls. The power behind a well-told story can motivate, inspire and provide a delightful escape from everyday life. A film doesn’t have to be big-budget, star-packed, extravagant or highbrow. It all boils down to the main ingredient: the story – and that is what gives me sheer joy.
Although I am still working my way through this year’s nominees, this is also a great opportunity to indulge in enjoying past Oscar contenders. The first movie of my Oscars tribute is the 1958 film, Gigi. Gigi won an impressive nine Academy Awards in 1959, surpassing the previous record of eight (set by Gone With the Wind, and tied with From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront).
Miracle on 34th Street is one of those classic Christmas movies that continues to steal your heart no matter what your age. With its simple, yet significant message of faith and love, it inspires audiences each year.
Payne, O’Hara, & Wood
In this Christmas classic, Maureen O’Hara and Natalie Wood star as a mother and daughter who both have a little too much common sense and not enough faith. Doris Walker (O’Hara), an executive with Macy’s department store enlists a man named Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) to serve as a last minute replacement for the drunken Santa and to lead the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. After a phenomenal “performance” as Santa Claus, he is hired to become the official Macy’s store Santa—a coveted job for any Santa impersonator. Although, Kringle’s authentic portrayal of Santa Claus quickly wins the hearts of many, he is determined to restore a sense of faith to a non believing Doris and Susan (Wood). Unfortunately, Kringle’s claims of really being Santa Claus cause complications that lead him to a mental ward. One of Kris’s most faithful believers—and O’Hara’s love interest throughout the film—is lawyer, Fred Gailey (John Payne). With a little help from Gailey, Kris needs to defend his sanity and prove his authenticity.
Well, we made it through another Monday, we are another day closer to Halloween, and it’s day three of my Spooktacular Halloween Movie Marathon!
“Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors. Beware of the moon.” This is the simple, yet eerie advice that the locals of North Yorkshire offer two American college students traveling through England in the cult classic film, An American Werewolf in London.
David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are American students traveling through Britain, when they stop in a local pub called “The Slaughtered Pig,” hoping to get a warm meal. Instead they are greeted with hostility by the locals and are given one piece of advice before they leave: “Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors. Beware of the moon.” The boys nonchalantly accept the advice and continue their journey. As anticipated in any horror film, the boys wander off the road and encounter a large wolf. While attempting to run away, Jack is gruesomely ripped apart before the wolf goes on to attack David, scratching and biting him. In an instant, the locals from “The Slaughtered Pig” appear to shoot and kill the wolf, however as David begins to fall unconscious, he sees the lying body of naked man rather than a wolf.
Day two of my Spooktacular Halloween Movie Marathon is packed with nightmarish thrills and eerie chills. I am definitely spooked but haven’t been caught hiding under my bed yet!
The Exorcist is arguably the film that engineered a new era of cinematic horror and ultimately transformed the genre. Released in 1973, The Exorcist quickly became a cultural phenomenon. It produced such a petrifying effect that many people were led to fits fainting, vomiting, and hysterics, needing paramedics on scene at theaters. Other moviegoers were so frightened that they left mid-screening. In both the story it told and the impact it made, The Exorcist retains it’s title as the ‘scariest movie of all time.’
October is winding down, meaning one thing—HALLOWEEN. Halloween ranks a close second to Christmas. I take my costume and candy selection VERY seriously. However, I’m not the best company when it comes to watching a horror flick. I do not understand the appeal of spending 90 minutes in a constant state of terror followed by days of residual fear and panic. It is scary enough being a Royals fan in the postseason – why ask for added stress?
Despite my apprehension and better judgment, I’m focusing this blog on a few horror films from my book of ‘must sees’. I’ve locked the doors and made peace with my Maker. Wish me luck!
My spooktacular movie marathon begins with Roman Polanski’s 1968 classic, Rosemary’s Baby. As mentioned, scary movies are not my thing so the genre is largely missing from my famed film library. Therefore, watching Rosemary’s Baby was circling way out of my comfort zone. For those of you with a passion for fright, this film’s got you covered with satanic rituals, secret doorways and eccentric witches. If you are like me and watch a majority of the movie peeking through hand-covered eyes, don’t let yourself miss the film’s backdrop of a magnificent New York City apartment, as well as a leading lady with a wardrobe that is truly on fleek!


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PAIN DOCTOR RE-SENTENCED TO 57 MONTHS:
Everything’s relative, and the 57 month prison term imposed on “pain doctor” William Hurwitz is indeed a welcome reduction from the 25 year sentence following the first trial. (Washington Post, July 14, 2007) And yet, Judge Brinkema’s sentence seems at odds with her conclusion that “An increasing body of respectable medical literature and expertise supports those types of high-dosage, opioid medications” that Dr. Hurwitz prescribed. So what was the rationale for adding another 27 months to the 30 months Dr. Hurwitz has already been incarcerated?
Criminal prosecutions rarely have much of a deterrent value, but this case is an exception. The threat of severe criminal sanctions will deter many compassionate, ethical physicians from ordering the amount of pain-killing medication that patients need to be freed of chronic, incapacitating pain.

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This 917 PA Spyder was built for testing purposes. Before Porsche
built a 917 with a 12-cylinder turbocharged engine for the CanAm series, they tested several flat-16-cylinder
natural aspirated engines. Engines up to 7.2l and 880HP were used.
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Battery Analyzers simplify the testing Battery Backup Systems
08 September 2014 - The new Fluke 500 Series Battery Analyzers simplify the workflow of testing stationary batteries and battery banks through an intuitive user interface that provides quick, guided test setups ensuring technicians are capturing the correct data while visual and audio feedback cues reduce the risk of errors.
Everett Charles Technologies releases new Material for ZIP Probes
08 September 2014 - Everett Charles Technologies (ECT) releases the HyperCore material to the full ZIP product line. ZIP is an ECT single probe family that is dedicated to semiconductor test applications. HyperCore is an innovative, non-plated and homogenous probe material optimized for longer probe life, longer cleaning cycles and reliable contact.
Impedance Analyzer with 1MHz to 300MHz Operating Frequency
05 September 2014 - Hioki launched the Impedance Analyzer IM7580, which can perform measurement at high frequencies of up to 300 MHz for measuring high-frequency electronic components. The instrument can significantly boost productivity for electronic component manufacturers thanks to its ability to test large volumes of components at measurement speeds as fast as 0.5 ms.
MEMS Testing and Metrology Workshop at SEMICON Europa 2014
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Electroless Nickel Sales Sheet
NiCoTef®, another of Pioneer’s proprietary process brands, is an advanced electroless nickel composite coating which offers an extremely low coefficient of friction, high corrosion resistance and improved wear for a number of applications.
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Attachment in young children with autism
Could trigger positive social behaviour in children with autism pets were attachment to the dog by the child and parent, severity of the child's asd symptoms. In 2004, a meta-analysis of ten studies on attachment in children this may indicate that parents of children with autism are less able to. Attachment and autism can present in similar ways the child has attachment problems or is on the autism spectrum or both, as the presenting.
Dr dissanayake took her research a step further to investigate if children with autism continue to develop their security of caregiver attachment. Children with autism do not follow the typical patterns of child development to their parents, their expression of this attachment is unusual and difficult to read. Aloof, or may even present with classic neuropsychiatric signs of being schizoid or autistic the word attachment is used frequently by mental health, child the attachment bond has several key elements: (1) an attachment bond is an.
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Stormzy Makes U.S TV Debut On ‘The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon’
14 Jan 2020
After the incredible success of Heavy Is The Head, Stormzy has taken to the U.S for his TV debut on no other than The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
What a way to start 2020?! Stormzy has made his first U.S appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon performing his hit Crown. Hitting this huge milestone in his career, Stormzy is joined by backing vocalists and a live band for this smooth rendition of Crown.
Watch Stormzy’s U.S debut with Crown above.

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Fuzzy cheeks owe to a number of reasons. These include:
- Hirsutism (the condition of excess hair on your face, chest, and back)
- Too many male hormones, or androgens, in your system
- Certain medical conditions, such as polycystic ovary syndrome and Cushing's syndrome
Whatever the cause, you can have an effect in terms of growing in beauty. Here are eight ways of dealing with facial hair.
1. Weight loss
Did you know that overweight women tend to make more male hormones? So if you lose weight, your body will produce fewer of them, resulting in less facial hair.
This isn’t an ideal treatment, but it will help you to control your facial hair. Some women get razor burn from shaving too often, and you may need to shave daily to avoid stubble growth.
3. Tweezing, waxing, and threading
These methods can cause pain and redness, but they pluck
With this method, you apply cream to your face that destroys the hair follicle, and then wipe it off. Depilatories can irritate skin, though, so you do need to be careful.
This expensive procedure zaps hair at the root with an electric current. You’ll need to repeat the process a few times to permanently remove hair.
6. Birth control pills
Birth control makes your body produce fewer male hormones. So with regular use, you should have less facial hair.
7. Face cream
Some face creams on the market contain agents that slow down hair growth at the sites where
8. Laser hair removal
Laser hair removal helps you to manage facial hair safely, effectively, and quickly in as few as four sessions. Best of all, you’ll never have to experience ingrown hairs, razor
End the Hair Scare
Excess hair growth in women is mainly caused by excess male hormones called androgens. Chief among these is testosterone. It can also be due to genetics or certain medications. Certain syndromes, like polycystic ovary syndrome and Cushing’s syndrome, also cause excess facial hair. It’s important to get checked out by a medical professional to rule out any life-threatening conditions.
- "7 Gentle and Effective Ways to Remove Facial Hair," Good Housekeeping, August 9, 2016.
- "Excessive or Unwanted Hair in Women," Healthline, October 15, 2015.
- "The Best Way to Secretly Get Rid of Your Chin Hair," New York, November 18, 2014.
- "The Hairy Woman's Guide to a Fuzz-Free Face and Body," The Daily Mail, February 19, 2014.

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BLACK TONE is the Brand that complements JMM in its contract point of view. An initiative that is born mostly in the work spaces with the quality of always and the stamp of recognize designers like Mario Ruiz, Francesc Rife, Javier Carvajal and own Jose Martinez Medina.
THE OFFICE CLOSER TO THE HOME
Presidential Armchairs, confidence chairs, table systems for a big work team, rotating seats, waiting chairs, sofas designs to hold a conversation, original shelves and original stools.
BLACK TONE show us a functional and ergonomic furniture, refined in terms of colour, with a predominance of black, and enrich the spaces without disturbing the calm.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE DETAILS
BLACK TONE collection does not lose sight of the elegance touch what is required in work environment. An elegance without adornments or shrillness, but full of details that defines all JMM creations. And, as always, the versatility in the manufacturing process that adapt the furniture in the client’s work zone.
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE MATERIAL
The material code of JMM is also present in the new brand. From the care of joinery to the steal, going through the glass, technical leather, real leather…. Innovative surfaces and volumes very well calculated that implement the technology and give live to a furniture that talk to us about business, agreements, projects and shared illusions.
BLACK TONE is the natural evolution of a signature company with 120 years of experience and a constant creative restlessness that lead us to continue betting on the good design. With universal vocation and a breaking point, we present BLACK TONE.


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Restaurant sales are expected to reach nearly $799 billion this year, according to the National Restaurant Association
. This will be the eighth straight year of sales growth for the industry, but the actual growth rate remains moderate. With tastes, preferences, food trends and diets constantly in flux, the industry can be complex to navigate. Changing food prices, fluctuating product availability, regulations and uncertain economic conditions make it harder than ever to predict customer spending habits and entice consumers through the door.
To improve chances of success in this dynamic market, restaurant teams need to offer more innovative, quality menu items – at an attractive price point – that keep patrons coming back. Figuring out how to do this without breaking the bank can be tough if the right strategy isn’t in place. Adopting an effective and holistic approach to sourcing that connects teams with the exact suppliers and products they need will enable restaurants to deliver a menu that stands out. This ultimately leads to sustained and measurable growth – sales, new customers, revenue and even more product offerings – for the business.
There are five procurement strategies restaurants need to leverage to hedge against market challenges and improve overall business outcomes.
As consumers seek higher quality and healthier ingredients, restaurants need to pay even more attention to the suppliers they work with to ensure their customers’ needs are being met. Thoroughly evaluating suppliers, and nurturing relationships with the strategic vendors that fit your business needs, will pay off in both the long and short run, as these partners can help you discover new or higher quality products and ultimately provide greater value. Transparency, traceability and open communication with every party involved in the supply chain – from the manufacturer down to the consumer – is becoming more important than ever.
Restauranteurs need to have a clear picture of the most profitable locations and categories, and use that data to make informed decisions. If the price of kale is skyrocketing, for example, does it make sense to continue to invest there, or find a comparable alternative? If it’s a popular item, the answer is obvious, but if the market loves arugula just as much, it could be more profitable to rethink the menu. It’s important to reference all the information available and look across the business to make these types of informed, confident decisions.
Restauranteurs will sometimes discover there’s a better deal available than what they currently have when they go through a live auction. When this happens, it might mean switching suppliers, but typically the incumbent ends up lowering their own price to keep your business, giving you the same high quality products your customers enjoy and additional savings.
Food and commodity prices are always changing, sometimes due to the seasonality of items or general market trends. That makes running auctions on just a few categories a poor approach. Running regular auctions on any variety of categories, on the other hand, may reveal savings in places you never even considered. Knowing where to look for savings beyond typical categories, such as on the operational side, will help you source more effectively and efficiently with the right suppliers.
- Diversify to mitigate risk
Avoiding risk is a priority every sourcing professional should keep in mind when examining their supplier base. By working with a diverse pool of suppliers and taking geographic risk into consideration, sourcing teams reduce risk and gain insight into supplier practices and where the ingredients are produced. This will help companies avoid potentially risky situations before any issues arise. Having quick and easy access to a pool of qualified secondary suppliers is vital. Just think: what would happen to a seafood chain if their first and second suppliers couldn’t get them shrimp due to a disruption? In a case like this, restaurants rarely have enough time to vet and find another supplier, and get product on the table before it affects the consumer.
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You are Planeteers racing across a vibrant alien planet seeded with randomised Discoveries that can act as boons or hindrances. Use wacky Gadgets to boost yourself or delay opponents, in this easy-going, family-friendly, casual race game for 3-5 players with playful 'take that' elements. Aim of the game: When the first player reaches the end of the game board (that represents an alien planet) the game ends. The player that has managed to bank the most treasure (victory points) at this moment is declared the winner! There is also a simple version for younger players that just includes the race to the end, without the complexity of victory points.
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PIA Press Release
Friday, January 27, 2012
Glan restores curfew for minorsGLAN, Sarangani, Jan 27 (PIA)--- Authorities have renewed a crackdown on youth offenders with the re-imposition of the curfew for minors.
This, following an apparent resurgence in street crimes usually attributed to juvenile delinquents, such as thefts, burglaries and break-ins at the public market.
The curfew for minors is contained in Ordinance 92-05, which was put on hold after the general peace and order condition had vastly improved following the assumption to office of the new administration in June 2010.
With the restriction temporarily back in effect, anyone under 18 must now be safely tucked in bed by 10:00 p.m.
On Tuesday, police rounded up six youths aged 6 to 17 in subsequent operations.
The youngsters were later turned over to their parents after the proper documentation.
In Wednesday’s Management Committee meeting, Mayor Victor James B. Yap, Sr. underscored the need for parents to keep track of their children, especially at night.
“Parents of curfew violators can be held liable if their children are caught again for the same offense,” he said. “They can be charged with child abuse, among other violations.” (Glan Info & news service/PIA Gen San)


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What is Queer Speculative Fiction?
Welcome back to Queering the Narrative!
This week, I’m diverging a little bit from my normal advice-driven fare to talk about Queer Speculative Fiction.
I write pretty much exclusively spec fic — mostly sci-fi and fantasy, inspired by the classics (and knock-off classics) of the genre that I read throughout my childhood. Sometimes I’ll write things that are a little harder to describe (like one of the novels I’m currently shopping around), but they always draw on the core idea of spec fic: asking the question, what if this aspect of our existence was different?
Speculative fiction is a powerful tool for examining the future, the past, and the present. Queer speculative fiction is, to me, its own entire subgenre — or perhaps more accurately, a broad style.
When I talk about “queer” spec-fic, I’m not just referring to sci-fi, fantasy, or horror media which features LGBTQIA+ characters. I’m talking about utilizing aspects of LGBTQIA+ identity and queer theory to examine our world from new directions, to illuminate our shortcomings and offer hope for solutions outside our patriarchal, heteronormative, restrictive status quo.
What Does “Queer” Mean?
I once wrote a series of posts with arguments for and against using the word “queer” to describe LGBTQIA+ characters, and some potential alternatives. I’m not using “queer” in that context here, though.
Rather, I’m using the word “queer” as it is used in “Queer Theory,” a framework for literary and political criticism which, in the words of Jay Stewart, “celebrate[s] transgression in the form of visible difference from norms. These ‘Norms’ are then exposed to be norms, not natures or inevitabilities. Gender and sexual identities are seen, in much of this work, to be demonstrably defiant definitions and configurations.” (Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders, 2017).
Queer theory seeks to examine binaries based on gender, sex, and orientation in order to challenge hierarchies and fight social inequality. This framework utilizes the LGBTQIA+ experience — in the form of sexuality, gender identity, or a combination therein — to challenge the norms of our society, to force people to look at such norms in a different light.
When I talk about “queer speculative fiction,” this is what I’m referring to, not the specific orientations or gender identities of the characters (though a narrative without LGBTQIA+ characters would be a hard sell as queer spec-fic). Queer speculative fiction uses the styles, norms, tropes, and structure of spec-fic to examine, deconstruct, and critique the norms of our society through the lens of gender, romantic, or sexual variation from those norms.
To me, to be queer is inherently to be working against societal norms. Our world — especially in the West — remains intensely patriarchal, cisheteronormative, and binary, even as “inclusivity” increases. Queerness chafes against these norms, or in some cases rejects them entirely. To be queer is to resist, to be the exception which proves that the rule is meaningless.
Queer speculative fiction, therefore, utilizes this definition of queer to show how our world might be different — and much improved — if certain hierarchies were broken or removed entirely. Alternatively, it might utilize queer experiences and queer points of view to bring to light injustices or inequities in our current system. Queer spec-fic might also satirize our current understanding of gender or sexuality by hyper-fixating on them in a self-aware framework, like a literary drag show, to illustrate their absurdities, inefficiencies, and atrocities.
Who Can Write Queer Spec-Fic?
I mean, anyone, so long as you’re examining the world around you.
There’s a lot of great examples of queer spec fic from folx who don’t necessarily identify as queer. I’d call Iain M. Banks’ Culture series queer speculative fiction, since a large part of the titular Culture’s radical freedom involves fluid sexuality and the ability to medically transition between biological sexes on a whim. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness is a foundational work of queer science fiction, and one of my personal favorites. Adrian Tchaikovsky has also employed queer themes relatively well in books like The Doors of Eden, for a more contemporary example.
Fundamentally, though, good queer spec fic comes from the minds of those who experience or examine the world through an alternative lens, those being queer folx themselves. Often, too, these individuals have intersecting identities which give them an even more transformative perspective on the topic. Queer BIPOC, disabled, and/or neurodivergent authors like Rivers Solomon, Akwaeke Emezi, Nghi Vo, and Yoon Ha Lee often write from a place of many intersecting identities, and through their lived experiences can explore not just the false binaries and hierarchies of gender and sexuality, but also race and ableism.
This is sometimes lost on queer folx who just want to “fit in” — often so-called “single identity” queer folx, those whose queerness is the only intersecting identity which removes them from privilege and power. This is why a queer person writing speculative fiction is not inherently writing Queer Spec Fic. If a story seeks to simply normalize and streamline the queer experience such that it fits into our society, or another that is very similar to it, rather than explore and deconstruct the fraudulent powers that make up our culture, then they’re just writing sci-fi or fantasy with queer rep.
Which, let me be clear, is fine! We need more fun and light fare featuring queer folx, something for us to escape into. It’s taxing to read and write only deep, heavy-hitting work. Sometimes you need to unwind and relax. We all deserve rest. Just know that you aren’t sparking any revolutions by just having your space lesbians kiss.
Writing Queer Speculative Fiction
So how do you do this? How do you live up to this high-minded theoretical framework which I’ve just laid out?
I dunno, friend.
I strive for it in my work — I’m white and grew up with a lot of class privilege, and my culture and the religion I was raised in are both celebrated and centered. It’s tough to break apart the advantages that I hold and examine the unfairness and violence in the world, and then write about that in a coherent and engaging way.My queerness — in the counter-culture sense, regardless of my trans and bisexual identities — is my personal avenue to that, but it’s imperfect, and the best I can do is try.
Read a lot, and seek out works that aim for this style of examination. Read work by those with and without intersecting oppressed identities (ie — read work by queer white people and queer BIPOC people) and observe the differences in observation and experience. Read also works from different cultures, stories with structures unfamiliar to you, to understand that the way you tell stories is not the only way — that there is no right way to tell a story. Observe the hierarchies and power structures as they exist in the world, who they harm and who they help, and think of how gender and sexuality intersect with them.
The main thing I want to hammer home here is that speculative fiction that merely features LGBTQIA+ characters does NOT fall into this broad critical category. Again, it’s still fun and I absolutely adore that sort of fiction, but it’s not inherently revolutionary to uncritically tick representation boxes.
Just do your best to think about how the world might be different, and you’ll be well on your way to writing critical queer speculative fiction!

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Construction crews poured concrete for one lane of the street Wednesday. Concrete construction projects like this don’t need completely dry weather, so crews haven’t been slowed.
But around town, on Warren Street and Acorn Park, it’s a different story at sites where crews are using asphalt.
“We do need to wait for a dry window there. So we do need to hold off on that work for about a week now, and we have our fingers crossed that maybe Thursday, Friday we can get in and do that asphalt work, which is very weather dependent,” said Eric Jones, Eugene Public Works Spokesman.
It takes about seven to 10 days for concrete to dry, so Eugene Public Works expects one lane of Pearl Street to be open by Friday.


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To get objective measurements and easily determine RNA quality and integrity, the QIAxcel ScreenGel software uses the RNA Integrity Score (RIS) system. RIS has a high correlation with RIN (R2=0.9229) (see Correlation of RIN and RIS) but is more reliable in predicting qRT-PCR assay outcomes when RNA is degraded, for instance, by UV or formalin.


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This combination trip includes a river trip on the Colorado River (see trip description for AM/PM 1/2 day river). No persons over 220 lbs. or children under eight years in age. (Please note that Options 3 is only available in April and October, with horseback ride only available at 10:00 a.m.)
Option #1 - Raft and Horseback - Meet at 8:15 a.m. Depart at 8:30 a.m. (no lunch) with return back to Moab at approximately 12:30 p.m. Meet at Red Cliffs Ranch at 3:45 p.m. with a 4:00 p.m. horseback ride departure and return approximately 7:00 p.m.
Option #2 - Raft and Horseback - Meet at 11:00 a.m. Depart at 11:15 a.m. with lunch on the river. With this trip you'll need to supply your own transportation. You'll follow our bus up the river road to the trip's ending point, leave your car, load our bus and then proceed up river for the afternoon river trip. At the end of the rafting trip you'll load back into your vehicle and proceed 3 miles up the river to Red Cliffs Ranch for a late afternoon trail ride. Trip meets at 3:45 p.m. and departs at 4:00 p.m. with a return at approximately 7:00 p.m.
Option #3 - Split the trip into Two Days - Choose either the AM (8:15 no lunch) or PM (11:00 with lunch) river trip for one day and either horse back trail ride the other day in the AM (8:15) or late PM (3:45). No meals provided.
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The popularisation of Korean culture across Asia has aided in the country's globalisation efforts. It began in the West, and has since expanded across continents rapidly. Particularly, in Japan, China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, India and for a decade in Bangladesh, interest in Korean television dramas, music, and movies grew quickly.
More screens, be it broadcasting or internet-streaming, are now showing Korean movies, music, and dramas than at any other time in history. The K-culture hype is changing the behaviour of consumers in Bangladesh, and teens are becoming major players in this transcultural market economy.
According to a 2017 poll conducted by the Korea Tourism Organisation, K-drama has had a significant impact on tourism in South Korea. It also found that almost half of international visitors to South Korea opted to visit the country after viewing Korean dramas or films.
The filming locations of popular K-dramas have become tourist hot-spots in South Korea. Since the early 2000s, a large number of Asian women have travelled to the country in the hopes of meeting and marrying a Korean man who is as strong, attractive, and affectionate, like the Korean male leads they see on television.
South Korea's thriving medical business has seen an influx of tourists every year looking to get cosmetic surgery in order to appear like Korean actors or actresses. Similar aspirations and appreciation of K-beauty and K-culture can also be found among the Bangladeshi K-fans.
The popularity and success of Korean dramas in Bangladesh demonstrates unequivocally that language is not a barrier to Bangladeshis watching foreign media content. Rather, it is their resemblance to real people and their focus on human sensitivity issues such as lifestyle, values, and family that have contributed to the success of Korean dramas in Bangladesh.
Korean dramas meet the emotional demands of Asian viewers through similar cultural context and by being emotionally expressive. Over the course of the pandemic, the hype for conventional rom-coms from the West have gone down, with scores of Bangladeshi viewers opting to watch K-dramas.
We saw a curious effective turn towards K-contents and unprecedented expansion of K-fans in Bangladesh during the restrictions imposed due to Covid-19. When the pandemic halted foreign travel and drove people into their homes, many people relied on in-house entertainment to stay connected to the outside world virtually.
As individuals spent more time online, K-pop musicians, including BTS and Blackpink, became household names. Korean food exports reached a record high in 2020, largely facilitated by online posts from Asian entertainers and the popularity of the film Parasite. Korean food trends like Mukbang and dalgona coffee became pleasant distractions during the imposed isolation period. And when people ran out of things to watch, they hopped onto K-dramas and got hooked immediately.
In Bangladesh, the exponential growth of subscriptions to Netflix, Amazon Prime videos and Disney+ during the pandemic was largely caused by K-lovers. The year 2020 turned out to be a watershed year for Korean dramas.
According to a Netflix spokeswoman, viewing of Korean content throughout Asia grew fourfold in 2020 in comparison to the previous year. Needless to say, the Korean survival drama Squid Game has had a major impact on Bangladeshi media culture.
Curiously enough, under-18 viewers were mostly drawn to Squid Game, which is intended for adults, given that it is a TV-MA rated show. We can see the impact of Squid Game in the Bangladeshi consumer society, with restaurants and popular cafes displaying signs and symbols from the show into their aesthetic. And Squid Game outfits are dominating teen fashion.
The growing popularity of Korean culture has significantly contributed to shaping consumer behaviour in Bangladesh. Evidence of this can be found from the restaurants to super shops, from OTT platforms to the mainstream media.
TVCs promoting Korean consumer products seldom go unnoticed by a viewer when skimming through TV channels at the peak hours on any given day. A commercial for Korean Noodles even played frequently in breaks during a cricket match of the Bangladesh Team. The same commercial has also received more than two million views on YouTube, where it was first posted. In a way, this commercial exemplifies the convergence of the media, market, culture, and consumerism.
The impact of Korean culture in altering national cultural values needs to be discerned. The changing trend of consumer behaviour vis-a-vis the popularity of K-wave in Bangladesh needs to be carefully watched.
In a modern society with some postmodern symptoms, a framework of transcultural communication in fathoming the cultural impact and changing values in society needs to be deployed. It is imperative to understand how media material may communicate values, cultivate new forms of transcultural values and re-configure the consumerist principles in the wake of neoliberal capitalism and consumerism.
The popularity of Korean style and K-cultural phenomenon in Bangladesh is a signal towards such mediated reformation of consumer culture in contemporary times.
Dr Ratan Kumar Roy is Coordinator of International Research Centre, SIMEC Institute of Technology
Hamida M. Moniea is a Faculty of North South University
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of The Business Standard.


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So, you have until October 27th to see Piet and Anja’s private garden at Hummelo. After that, sorry, but its no more visiting. All of who know Piet and Anja have been rather shaking our heads for some time wondering how they cope with the visitors and the stress it must involve. Well done them for keeping going so long.
An end of an era, eloquently summed up by Tony Spencer in The New Perennialist blog. Time to cast my mind back to August 1994 when I first visited with Eva Gustavsson, a Swedish teacher of landscape design. I think Piet had probably decided he’d entertain two unknown foreign guests on one day; it was good as we all bounced ideas off each other and with Henk Gerritssen who we visited on the same day.
I don’t suppose Piet and Anja had any idea of how popular the garden would become when they came here in the 1980s. The idea was to grow plants for Piet’s growing garden design business, and sell a few on the side to keen gardeners. The front garden with the famous yew hedges was a nursery bed and trial plot initially; when I first saw it in 1994 it was still relatively new.
The Oudolfs were always very social and used Hummelo brilliantly as a base for promoting Piet’s ideas through plant sales and the famous Grass Days. For visitors outside the garden world, it was Anja you met, always hospitable and welcoming. Piet would tend to go off and hide in his office, so speaking with him became something of a privilege; but then if it was him who was doing the meeting and greeting I suspect we would long ago have seen our last new Oudolf garden.
A pic of how it used to look, the late 1990s. Yes, really! I think that those of you who only know Piet as the prophet of perennials are in danger of overlooking his intellectual and artistic roots, in a more modernist-formal style. The occasional flooding tended to see these yew hedges and columns off, which I dare say speeded up his decision making process, but I think he was getting tired of them anyway. They may have seemed fresh and contemporary to us in Britain who have almost never seen clipping done in anything other than a cliched classical way, but to the Dutch they were part of a look that had been around some time. (courtesy of Piet BTW for these older image - mine are still on old transparences - remember them!).
Again another winter’s pic, giving a good idea of all that structure, and lawn! A reminder that the perennials gradually crept in towards the end of the century. This image I think should make us aware that behind what appears to be soft, naturalistic planting, is actually a very strong graphic sense.
I shall never forget getting an email from a rather pompous colleague who wanted to know all about the history of the hedges that used to be at the very back of the garden, and made such a theatrical backdrop, ‘what did they mean?’ he wanted to know, were they symbolic, were they a quotation? I had great pleasure in telling him they were an accident, the result of failing to see some rows of yew seedlings, rather than dig them up, Piet trimmed them into shape. And the rest is history. Until the winter wet began to get to them too in 2011, and off they went.
I always used to love these pillars of silver pear which used to adorn the nursery area, removed about six years ago, to make way for the very successful perennial meadow. They were a reminder of how we could be so much more inventive with clipping if only we tried.
And this was the bit below the nursery area which for a few years seemed to be a place where seeds lodged and germinated and made some amazingly chaotic combinations, I particularly remember the forests of Digitalis ferruginea, that amazingly narrow foxglove relative.
Most of us loved it when the perennials and grasses really began to take off; by the early 2000s all that lawn had gone and we had this kind of planting. What’s interesting about the way Piet has worked, as I understand it, is that he plants and then apart from basic maintenance, does not replant. So some borders are really old, 25 years plus even; a great opportunity to see what has survived over the years and how it has spread and seeded.
For me, the most interesting of all the experiments that Piet did here was the perennial meadow on the site of the old nursery area. I was so sceptical about it at first I must admit, but for some reason it took off with a good balance between meadow grasses, wildflowers and perennials.
I always learned new things on every trip to Hummelo. One year it was Piet enthusing about these self-sown Mertensia virginica sprounting in the middle of really dense clumps of Panicum grass that made me realise how possible it is to combine plants whose physiologies mean that they grow at different times of year. Panicum is an incredibly competitive grower and yet in April is still dormant, so the mertensias can do their thing and then go dormant for the summer. This was a picture I took the weekend that Piet planted the first perennials in the new meadow bed.


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The Senate today passed the conference report for the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA) by an overwhelming, bipartisan vote of 87-10. The bill, named for Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ), would support $716 billion in funding for national defense for fiscal year 2019 and provide America's service members the training, resources and equipment they need. Chairman McCain released the following statement applauding the Senate's passage of this bill:
"I'm deeply proud that the Senate voted overwhelmingly today to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. This marks the earliest that Congress has completed the bill in over 40 years -- a testament to the leadership of Senators Jack Reed and Jim Inhofe, along with Representatives Mac Thornberry and Adam Smith, who tirelessly worked through committee markups, floor consideration, and conference negotiations in a matter of months. I am proud that the Senate has once again moved the NDAA through regular order, and that bipartisanship and collaboration have become defining hallmarks of National Defense Authorization Act.
"I am particularly humbled that my colleagues chose to designate legislation of such importance in my name. Serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee has been an incredibly meaningful experience since my first days on Capitol Hill. Among its leaders, I have counted the most cherished of mentors and friends: John Tower, Barry Goldwater, Sam Nunn, John Warner, and Carl Levin. And in the committee's work, I have found high purpose in the service of a cause greater than self--the cause of the women and men in uniform who defend America and all she stands for. That is why it has been one of the greatest honors of my tenure in the U.S. Senate to serve as its chairman.
"This year's NDAA represents an important opportunity to implement an effective approach to confront a growing array of threats around the world. The administration's National Defense Strategy outlined a framework for identifying and prioritizing these threats. Through the NDAA, Congress is fulfilling its duty to provide America's service members the resources and tools they need to succeed. I thank my colleagues for supporting this much-needed legislation and I look forward to the President quickly signing it into law."