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Red Wing Manufacturing Association will hear about Project Lead the Way when the group meets 7:30-9 a.m. Thursday, March 9, at Red Wing High School. Members will learn how students are preparing for careers and how manufacturers can engage the process. There will be tours of Adult...
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Sesquicentennial Farm applications due April 3
Minnesota Farm Bureau's Sesquicentennial Farm program will honor families who have owned their farms for at least 150 years. Eligible farms must be at least 150 years old and in the same family according to the abstract of title, land patent, original deed, county land records, court...
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County offers assistance for building healthy workplaces
Area businesses looking to foster a healthy workplace culture can receive help through a new initiative by Live Well Goodhue County. The Workplace...
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Red Wing Credit Union investing in community
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Merchants Financial sets record as Nelson steps down
Preliminary net income numbers show that for the second consecutive year Merchants Financial Group had record earnings with $14,154,891 in 2016, according to President and CEO Rodney R. Nelson. The numbers are subject to final audit. This year's earnings surpassed last year's record...
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Downtown Red Wing open for business
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Physician assistant certified in emergency care: Business notebook
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Wal-Mart plans to cut hundreds of headquarters jobs this month
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WILMINGTON, MA — A bill named in honor of Wilmington fallen hero Sean Collier is making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives.If passed, the Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act would allow the families of police officers — employed at PRIVATE colleges and universities — that are killed in the line of duty to receive death benefits from the federal government.Currently, only the families of sworn law enforcement officers at PUBLIC colleges and universities are eligible for these benefits.“Officer Sean Collier was shot and killed while on duty on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in April 2013 by the Boston Marathon Bombers,” reads a statement from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. “Because MIT is a private, non-profit institution of higher education, his family is not eligible for [Public Safety Officer Benefits] assistance. Had Officer Collier been employed by a public college or university, his family would have been eligible for assistance. In fact, had an officer with the city police department been killed alongside Officer Collier, the city officer’s family would have received [Public Safety Officer Benefits] assistance.”According to the Association, since 1923, 46 university police officers have been killed in the line of duty — 34 at public institutions eligible to receive the death benefit and 12 private institutions not eligible to receive the death benefit.“Congress passed the Public Safety Officers Benefit Act to provide peace of mind to aspiring police officers by assuring them that their families would be cared for in the event they gave their life in service to others,” according to the statement. “As a matter of basic fairness, this peace of mind should be given to all sworn law enforcement officers regardless of which agency employs them.”The Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act of 2019 (H.R. 816) has bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Peter King (R-New York), already has 15 co-sponsors, including Massachusetts representatives Seth Moulton, Richard Neal, Stephen Lynch, Bill Keating, Joe Kennedy, Katherine Clark, James McGovern, and Lori Trahan.The bill was introduced in the House on January 28, 2019. It was immediately referred to the Judiciary Committee. On March 25, 2019, the bill was referred to Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.Like Wilmington Apple on Facebook. Follow Wilmington Apple on Twitter. Follow Wilmington Apple on Instagram. Subscribe to Wilmington Apple’s daily email newsletter HERE. Got a comment, question, photo, press release, or news tip? Email firstname.lastname@example.org. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading… RelatedSenator Markey Honors Sean Collier with Introduction of Bipartisan Equity in Law Enforcement ActIn “Government”Sean Collier Bill Re-Introduced In CongressIn “Government”5th Annual Sean Collier Cornhole Tournament Set For September 17In “5 Things To Do Today”
A Kushtia court on Wednesday sentenced two people to death and eight others to life term imprisonment for killing a student of North South University (NSU) after abduction in 2014, reports UNB.Those awarded death penalty are Rakibul Islam Bappy and Md Sumon.The lifers are Zuhaim Khandakar alias Shuvo, Hridoy, Sumon, Alif, Sajedul, Nayan, Sajib, Minhaz and Milon.According to the case statement, the convicts kidnapped Towhidul Islam Lipu, 21, on 31 August 2014 and demanded Tk 30 million from his family as ransom.Lipu’s father filed a case with Kushtia Model police station on 4 September.Failing to realise the ransom money the kidnappers killed Lipu and dumped his body in the Padma River.Kushtia additional district and sessions judge AMB Mahmudul Haque handed down the verdict.
signalThe maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal No 3 as the low over the northwest bay and adjoining area intensified into a well-marked low over the same area, reports UNB.It is likely to intensify further and move in a north/northwesterly direction, said a Met office warning message.Under its influence, steep pressure gradient persists over the north bay and adjoining areas.Squally weather is likely to affect the maritime ports, north bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh.All fishing boats and trawlers over the north bay have been advised to remain close to the coast and proceed with caution till further notice.They have also been advised not to venture into the deep sea.
At least 30 people, including several children, were killed when a fire ripped through a private home that operated as a matchstick factory in Indonesia on Friday, authorities said.Pictures from the scene showed blackened corpses lying on top of each other in the burnt-out house after the blaze, which authorities said broke out early Friday afternoon.TV footage showed plumes of black smoke billowing from the home in the town of Binjai in North Sumatra, about 70 kilometres (44 miles) west of provincial capital Medan.”We don’t know what caused the fire but it has been extinguished,” the head of North Sumatra’s disaster agency Riadil Lubis told AFP, adding that at least three children were among the dead.”We’ve sent teams there,” he added.Resident Budi Zulkifli was headed to the local mosque in the Muslim-majority nation when the fire started.”I was about to go out to Friday prayers when there was a loud explosion,” he told AFP.”But I don’t know what blew up.”Binjai police chief Nugroho Tri Nuryanto said a gas canister explosion may have sparked the blaze, but added the cause still needed to be confirmed.At least three people escaped he said, while local media said four women managed to flee.”They were trapped in a room — there was no way,” Nuryanto told media outlet Tribun News, referring to the dead.”We’re still identifying the victims and scouring the scene.”It was not clear why there were children at the scene. But one survivor, identified only as Pipit, said that they were visiting their parents who worked at the site.”The children went there at lunchtime,” she told Tribun News.Relatives of the workers have flocked to a local hospital in Medan to identify their loved ones, according to local media.Deadly fires are not uncommon in Indonesia due to poor safety standards that are routinely flouted, while illegal businesses are also widespread.This year, dozens were believed to have been killed when an unlicensed gold mine collapsed while.In 2017, at least 46 people died and dozens more were injured in a blaze that tore through a fireworks factory outside Jakarta.


CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS.; Sharp Contest Leads to Victory by State Organization.
HARTFORD, Conn., May 8. -- The opening session of the Republican State Convention, held to-night, was notable for a sharp contest over the roll of delegates. It was a continuation of the bitter fight which has characterized the campaign, incident upon the choice of delegates from 168 towns in the State to this convention of the Republicans of the Commonwealth, called to elect delegates to the National Convention.
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Mr. Stuart Thomson Gulliver has been the Chairman of Group Management Board and Group Chief Executive at HSBC Holdings PLC since January 1, 2011. He serves as the Group Chief Executive Officer of The HSBC Group at HSBC North America Holdings Inc. Mr. Gulliver also served as the Chief Executive for Global Banking and Markets and Group Chief Executive Officer at HSBC USA Inc. He served as the Chief Executive of Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (CIBM) of HSBC Holdings ...
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AbstractCoxsackievirus A10 (CV-A10) is responsible for an escalating number of severe infections in children, but no prophylactics or therapeutics are currently available. KREMEN1 (KRM1) is the entry receptor for the largest receptor-group of hand-foot-and-mouth disease causing viruses, which includes CV-A10. We report here structures of CV-A10 mature virus alone and in complex with KRM1 as well as of the CV-A10 A-particle. The receptor spans the viral canyon with a large footprint on the virus surface. The footprint has some overlap with that seen for the neonatal Fc receptor complexed with enterovirus E6 but is larger and distinct from that of another enterovirus receptor SCARB2. Reduced occupancy of a particle-stabilising pocket factor in the complexed virus and the presence of both unbound and expanded virus particles suggests receptor binding initiates a cascade of conformational changes that produces expanded particles primed for viral uncoating.
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Scout Finch’s Journey and Destination to Maturity Innocence is the state of everyone’s lives where everything new is a mystery and must be discovered as soon as possible. Children maintain their spectacular and innocent knowledge in spite of things such as their anxious observations of their parents and other adults that begins to The plot of the novel sums up Scout Finch’s transition from innocence them with unfairness, injustice and the typical hypocrisies fashioned by adults; and is taught to the children during their growth. The plot of the novel sums up Scout Finch’s transition from innocence them with unfairness, injustice and from Scout’s fascination with Boo Radley, her encounters with racial prejudice and various images of courage, one would believe that at the end of the novel Scout’s mindsets on life have definitely developed very much like a grown up. At the start of the novel, Scout is not exposed to any sort of evil, but as the plot progresses she learns many things. Scout, her brother Jem and the other kids in the neighbourhood are terrified of Boo (Arthur) Radley and picture him simply as a monster who never leaves his home, “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom” (p.8). Because the kids and the townsfolk have never really seen Boo, they make wild assumptions of him such as Jem’s description, “he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch...teeth he had were yellow and rotten” (p.13). Although Scout believes these rumours, she starts becoming aware that Boo Radley is an actual person after all, but one step at a time. He leaves a spelling bee medal and other gifts in the tree for the Scout and Jem but Scout overlooks this and still somewhat thinks Boo as a mentally deranged monster. It is not until Boo shows kindness towards Scout when he covers her with a blanket on the night Miss Maudie's house is burnt, which changes her opinions on him. Boo disappears for a couple of months and over time, Scout’s curiosity of him turns her facets of Boo as a monster into a neighbour who is pure of heart. Later on, he unexpectedly returns when he saves her life at the end of the book. “I was beginning to learn his body English. His hand tightened on mine and he indicated that he wanted to leave” (p.278). This is where Scout comes to accept who people are and not for who she wants them to be. She fully attains to her father’s significant advice in the beginning when he says to understand a person, you had to walk around in his skin. When Heck Tate comes to the Finch’s for assistance he decides to cover up the fact that Boo stabbed Mr. Ewell for attacking the kids. Heck decides to keep it this way in a conveying matter for Boo; he knows Boo would prefer to not draw attention to himself and it would be unfortunate if Boo were to be convicted of murder since he has enough problems to begin with. Scout understands Heck’s decision, “Mr. Tate was right... Well it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (p.276). This shows that she sympathizes to Atticus’ nurturing advice; it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. She comes to realize that it is wrong to act cruelly to those who are innocent. At this point, Scout accompanies Boo Radley to his front porch, just like he asked her. Furthermore, Scout has learned a number of morals from the black community of Maycomb. For instance, the Finch’s black maid Calpurnia who has been with them for years. “She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember” (p.6). Calpurnia plays an important role in the family because she has played the mother role for Scout and Jem since their mother died. She is a great example for Scout’s growth and development because her values of life and respect stay constant. When Walter Cunningham comes over for dinner, Scout makes a rude comment on the fact that he pours molasses all over his food so this calls for Calpurnia to step in, “She was furious ...Atticus said…
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no idea the danger he was in for. Two innocent children were killed, including all of the innocent Jews. And this is when Bruno's father probably realized the principle of his actions for putting his family through such pain, and lies. When the two boys grabbed hands at the end, it was like they knew they were in trouble but only had eachother to hold onto. I was waterworks during this whole film, but it's a part of our history and watching films reflecting on true stories is something we need to…
given the proper burial they deserved. This example then relates back to the relationship between men and war.
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There are multiple types of relationships shown in the boy in the striped pyjamas but I have chosen to explain the relationship between a brother and sister, which is Bruno and Gretel and the relationship between two friends, Bruno and Schmuel. Bruno and Gretel do not have a strong relationship. They fought a lot…
Identify and define a contemporary law reform issue: Alcohol and violence has been a large issue in Australia, the government has only just decided to put a stop to the violence due to alcohol in Australia. Contemporary law reform issues being put in place include: 1:30am lockouts in pubs, clubs and bars, last drinks to be served at 3 am, precinct banning orders to remove troublemakers, risk based licensing scheme, freeze on granting new license, eight year sentencing for alcohol related king hit…
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The film is an emotional experience highlighting the tragedy of innocence, using the point of view of an eight-year-old German boy to expose the raw psychological devastation of the era. It's an unnerving film with a knockout punch for an ending, but it feels more acceptable as an educational piece than a profoundly rewarding work of drama.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and the film Life is Beautiful.”
The Holocaust was a distressing time in history and is not a story everyone can absorb. Both the book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas written by John Boyne and the film, Life is Beautiful, directed by Robert Benigni, are based upon the real life events of the Holocaust but with a difference. They made clever use of different techniques to dim and censor the reality of the events and interpret it in a more tolerable way. The Boy in the…
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a novel by John Boyne. This novel is set during World War 2 and explores themes such as prejudice, racism, war, innocence and friendship. What sets it apart from other novels is that it uses a third person limited point of view, and mostly depicts events as they are seen by a young and naïve boy. This was one of the main narrative conventions that engaged me in this novel.
The point of view is the most…
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In a sort of short story style, Marie Howe illustrates a depleting family relationship between a father and his children in the poem, “The Boy,” through its many symbols. With no discernible rhyme scheme, the plot develops, climaxes, and concludes alluding to a short story but in poetic form. The speaker, discovered through clues within the poem, is the younger sister of the boy and she is listening and learning from the examples set by her brothers. There is…
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UK sees first successful prosecution for falsifying information on company register
A businessman from Ullenhall in Warwickshire has been prosecuted and fined for filing false information on the company register.
This is thought to be the UK’s first ever successful prosecution of a company director for falsifying company information under laws which came into force in 2009.
In 2013, Kevin Brewer appointed former Business Secretary Vince Cable MP as a director and made him a shareholder of John Vincent Cable Services Ltd without his knowledge. The company was later dissolved and taken off the company register by Companies House.
In 2016, Mr Brewer incorporated another company, Cleverly Clogs Ltd. On incorporation, he appointed Baroness Neville-Rolfe (the Minister with responsibility for Companies House), James Cleverly MP and Ibrahim Aman, an Israeli national Brewer had invented, as directors and made them shareholders without their knowledge. This company was dissolved by Companies House and removed from the company register.
Kevin Brewer pleaded guilty to breaking section 1112 of the Companies Act 2006, which sets out the criminal offence of providing false information on the company register. He was ordered to pay costs of £10,462.50, a victim surcharge of £160 and a fine of £1,602.
A Companies House spokesperson said: “Deliberately filing false information on the register is a serious offence and people who have been found to have knowingly done this can face prosecution.”
Andrew Griffiths, the Business minister, said: ‘This prosecution, the first of its kind in the UK, shows the government will come down hard on people who knowingly break the law and file false information on the company register’.

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Casey teaches improv & sketch at The UCB Theatre and performs there regularly with his improv teams JV, Casey & Jo Jo Present Fran Gillespie and Typhoon. Casey also performs improv and sketch with Hip Hop Penguin & Midbest, whose written shows Hip Hop Penguin: Dropping Truth Bombs in Yo Earholes, Hip Hop Penguin Goes to Camp & Midbest Presents: Casey & Dave are Different were loved by many and considered “a little weird” by his parents.
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T.V. shows aimed at teenagers probably aren’t the first place you turn for astute analysis about how the digital age is affecting our lives. But as writer Megan Farokhmanesh explores in this article on The Verge, teen-centric dramas are leading the conversation about how technology shapes today’s adolescent experience, exposing the dark side of digital communication.
Farokhmanesh looks specifically at the CW’s Archie adaptation Riverdale, the high school-based role-playing game Persona 5 and Netflix’s hit show 13 Reasons Why as examples of how teen dramas are portraying technology. Notably, even older people who “grew up without a smartphone glued to their hand” as Farokhmanesh puts it, are tuning in: 13 Reasons Why surpassed other Netflix shows in Twitter-buzz and Riverdale attracts viewers up to 49 years old.
Television shows have featured technology as a character in its own right before (Sherlock and House of Cards both prominently explore and visualize texting), but there’s something about high school stories, “free of pretension,” Farokhmanesh writes, that “trace the pitfalls of our most-reached for items in a way that feels authentic.” (And they do it without having to go full Twilight Zone or Black Mirror to express the dangers of technology).
For example, 13 Reasons Why, which is getting a lot of attention, both positive and negative, for how it handled suicide (Netflix recently added a trigger warning to the start of the show), explores how “a single text to the wrong person can be dangerous enough,” Farokhmanesh writes.
The show focuses on a teen named Hannah who commits suicide after a peer mass-texts rumors and photos about her sex life. The show, Farokhmanesh argues, looks at how “the internet and technology can weaponize gossip,” something that’s as true off-screen as it is on.
The fact that teen-centric dramas are dealing with the darker side of technology more prominently than “adult drama contemporaries” is telling. It shows how this generation, growing up with smartphones in hand, is subject to an entirely different experience of adolescence, one that often exacerbates the problems that can make high-school miserable for many, like bullying and gossip.
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My question is for those who are taking Actemra...I don't think there are many of us here. I started this a couple of months ago and have found I get bad stomach pains after injecting. Also over the Christmas period I didn't have much appetite. I get full very quickly and if I do eat a large meal I feel really bloated and uncomfortable.
I mentioned this when I got my call today from the nurse at my delivery company as I was unsure whether to wait for my rheumatologist appointment on 19th January. He told me they've had a lot of reports complaining of stomach problems recently and asked permission to pass my details to the drug manufacturer. He said they may contact me and my rheumatology team.
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has been bothered by these symptoms. I'm actually becoming scared of eating a full meal and am picking at toast etc instead. I'd like to say I'm losing weight but unfortunately I think I'm getting fatter. I came off oral steroids in December following treatment for a very debilitating flare.

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19th August 2019 – (Ottawa) China’s embassy in Ottawa warned the Canadian government yesterday to stop interfering with Hong Kong affairs a day after the country issued a joint statement with the European Union in defence of the “fundamental right of peaceful assembly” for Hong Kong citizens.
The excepts of the statement is as follows:
On August 17, in disregard of China’s solemn position, the Canadian Foreign Minister once again issued the so-called statement on the situation in Hong Kong and meddled in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs. We deplore and strongly oppose such move.
Since Hong Kong’s return to the mainland, the principles of “One Country, Two Systems”, “Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong” and a high degree of autonomy in the Hong Kong SAR have been fully implemented. The people of Hong Kong enjoy unprecedented democratic rights and a broad range of freedoms rarely seen across the world. The recent radical violence has impinged on Hong Kong’s rule of law, social order, economy and livelihood, and international image. The relevant protests and demonstrations in Hong Kong have already deteriorated and evolved into extreme violence. In face of such severe violence and offences, no government with a sense of responsibility would sit idly by. The most pressing and overriding task for Hong Kong at present is to stop violence, end the chaos and restore order, which is also the mainstream opinion of the public and strong voice of Hong Kong society. Under the current situation, the Canadian side should be cautious on its words and deeds regarding the Hong Kong related issue. If the Canadian side wants to express its position, it should clearly condemn the violent criminal activities, support the Hong Kong SAR government in governing Hong Kong in accordance with the law, and support the Hong Kong police in punishing violent offences in accordance with the law, instead of making irresponsible and erroneous remarks.
We want to reiterate that Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs, which brook no interference by any other country, organization or individual. The “One Country, Two Systems” is enshrined in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, not international law. The Central Government of China has the determination, confidence and capability to safeguard the “One Country, Two Systems” and maintain the stability and prosperity in Hong Kong.
We once again urge the Canadian side to observe international law and the basic norms governing international relations, respect China’s sovereignty in good faith, and immediately stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs.


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Lord Xue Ying - Chapter 1063: Thistle Flower Nation
The majority of the tenth level graded Mirage and Illusory Realm secret treasures were consigned in shops owned by the apex organizations in the world like the Fan Clan.
Because if they sold to the shops directly, the purchase price would be meager! Secret treasures were much desired by experts, yet to those who did not require it, they would be useless! The Dao of ‘Mirage and Illusory Realm’ was one of the rarer few Dao paths cultivated by cultivators. There were very few who actually reached the ninth level without relying on external materials!
Hence, it was hard to find ‘interested customers’ in treasures of this Dao.
When these secret treasures were sold to the shops, the shops would naturally lower the price.
Those who owned the treasures were not too willing to suffer from the loss. They rather consign it and wait for a ‘buyer’ to appear.
“Thistle Flower Nation.”
A white-robed young man nimbly appeared in midair. He looked at the distant beautiful city. That was the capital of the Thistle Flower Nation.
‘The Thistle Flower Nation is also a tier three little nation. They have just a single Cosmos God and two tenth level experts protecting it.’ Xue Ying thought. In the Realm Heart Great Land, there were quite a lot of tier three nations. Many great organizations disdained from developing in those desolate and dangerous places. Like the Thistle Flower Nation which was located by the dangerous Black Prison Yin Sea, and was a country formed from several hundred thousand islands.
Do not ever belittle a tier three nation!
Even though they might be small, those who dared to start a nation were Cosmos Gods with a solid foundation. Furthermore, these nations would usually help each other, forming a union.
Like the Thistle Flower Nation, it was part of a union located south of the Black Prison Yin Sea formed by many nations, the ‘United Star Union’!
The Mirage and Illusory Realm secret treasures were all waiting for buyers who required them. Hence, it was not that important where they were consigned to.
Those who truly seek them would rapidly rush over to another place in the Realm Heart Great Land.
“The food here in the Thistle Flower Nation is quite good.”
Xue Ying enjoyed himself by a pub along the street.
“Sir Xue Ying, the owner of the secret treasure has stated his price. The lowest is 11.5 billion cosmos crystals.” There was a sudden transmission.
“11.5 billion cosmos crystals? That is still too expensive. I’ll have a look at it first. There are eight Mirage and Illusory Realm secret treasures in total after all. I shall find the most appropriate and cheapest one out of them.” Xue Ying transmitted back.
“Alright. I’ll continue to negotiate with the owner of the secret treasure.”
Xue Ying smiled.
The reason why he was enjoying the delicacies and strolled around looking at the secret treasures exasperatingly was all because he wanted to delay and lower the price!
If one said that shops owned by those apex organizations like Fan Clan would always have a bottom line in the price and could not lower it any further, it was different for those who ‘consigned’ the items since it was all an elaborate and refined bargain with the owner of the secret treasure! The appearance of a ‘buyer’ was not often. Xue Ying naturally wanted to lower the price as much as he could. By slightly delaying for a little more time, he might reduce it by a billion cosmos crystals!
‘They are really risking their lives. Most of these are fishes from the Black Prison Yin Sea.’ As Xue Ying enjoyed the delicacies, he was able to make a conjecture that quite a few cultivators actually sacrificed their lives to fish up these fishes.
But for the sake of earning resources and cultivating, they had to risk their lives. Nothing would ever drop down freely from the sky.
‘Of the first two secret treasures, the lowest for one was at 15.6 billion and the other at 11.5 billion cosmos crystals.’ Xue Ying was calculating it. Even if it was appropriate, he wanted to get it at a lower price.
The pub was very crowded.
There were many guests here too. Xue Ying sat by the corner in his white robe. With his void-ification capabilities in hiding his aura, other Primal Chaos experts would have a hard time discerning his real strength.
“Mn?” Xue Ying looked up. His gaze was filled with a strand of astonishment, ‘They said that the United Star Union is very chaotic, and killing is normal. But who would have thought that I would actually meet a huge scene of slaughter here at the Thistle Flower Nation capital.’
United Star Union was formed by many tier three nations, and some of them were utterly controlled by devils behind the scenes!
Those were too frequent in the United Star Union.
Simply speaking, the stronger the country, the more stable it would be. For instance, Summer Wind Ancient Nation and other five great ancient nations, they were much more stable overall! As for the United Star Union? It would depend on the strength of the king. Some were more stable, and some were so messy that it was similar to the Black Devil Great Lake.
“Sou sou sou.”
Even though Xue Ying perceived it, other guests in the pub did not.
Many soldiers stealthily appeared around the pub, forming a vast array as they came. This array had entrapped the entire place.
An enchanting green-gowned woman brought two subordinates with her and flew over from amidst the army. At this moment, she did not hide her aura at all. That enchanting and cold aura of hers spread over.
“My beloved husband, I have searched for you for a long time.” The enchanting green-gowned woman’s voice reverberated in the world. Her eyes stared at an attendant within the pub.
The moment she finished speaking.
The surrounding combat array of the army was activated. “Hong~” A huge piece of the region had been covered by it. The army even produced a two-headed mutated beast figure, frightening many other cultivators to feel on the street and in the pub.
“We are doomed! It’s that ‘Demoness Xia Yin’ from the Sky Pillar Clan!”
“Teacher, are we going to be implicated?”
“See our fate!”
“Don’t let out any sound.”
Many cultivators in the surrounding including the attendants of some shops, the managers and even the guests were all scared witless. Living in the Thistle Flower Nation, they were accustomed to the occasional killings within, albeit they never have thought they would actually experience one happening. They only hoped they would not be implicated.
“Xia’er, both of us had bonded together as companions. How about living me a path to live, alright?” The attendant looked up.
“Hahaha, husband, you are really innocent. Have you never heard of the term cutting the weeds and eliminating the roots? How can I spare you? You are the final core disciple the Ba Tuo Clan has.” The enchanting green-gowned woman laughed, “Naturally if you are willing to hand over the aura-concealing cultivation technique you have over, I might be able to promise you that I’ll spare the lives of all those lowest ranking disciples the Ba Tuo Clan has, and allow them to live.”
Ba Tuo Clan was once a Conferred King Clan in the Thistle Flower Nation. They had many disciples and only after reaching the Void God level would the disciple be considered a core disciple. The majority of the others were lower leveled civilians, and most were simply released into the wild. Their number could not be counted.
Even though they wanted to massacre the entire clan, it was impossible to slaughter clean all descendants from the Ba Tuo Clan that had reproduced across the many generations.
“You are ruthless.” The eyes of the emissary ‘Ba Tuo Chen’ were filled with great hatred.
He hated his fate.
He was originally from a Conferred King clan, yet it was exterminated overnight. His father, his mother, his brothers and good friends, and many other clanmates of his… the entire Ba Tuo Residence was wiped clean.
“Hahaha, ruthless? Did you think I was infatuated with you in the past? Alright, just obediently hand that aura-concealing technique you have over, and I might just leave some of the descendants from your Ba Tuo Clan alive considering that we were once Dao companions. Otherwise, I’ll scour through the entire United Star Union and completely wipe out your bloodline!” The enchanting green-gowned woman coldly uttered.
“You think I would believe you? Go on, kill me! Kill all of us! It is impossible for you to wipe us clean. There will be a day when an expert emerges from my Ba Tuo Clan before coming back to the Thistle Flower Nation again.” Emissary Ba Tuo Chen growled.
The eyes of the enchanting green-gowned woman were filled with a savage aura, “You aren’t willing to hand it over? Seeing that you decided to conceal your identity as an attendant, the people of this pub must be helping you. Leave none alive. Also, the surrounding people will accompany in the burial too.”
The managers and guests within the pub revealed looks of horror. The cultivators nearby also felt their hearts trembling.
“You—” The emissary Ba Tuo Chen roared, “Xia Yin, why the need to implicate the innocent? Let me tell you honestly, I have gotten this cultivation technique due to my fortune, but this cultivation technique is forbidden from being spread outwards.”
“You did not obtain the original copy?” The green-gowned girl sighed after hearing that.
Most amazing cultivation techniques were forbidden from being spread outwards.
“Ai, truly a regret.”
The green-gowned woman waved her hands, “Kill all of them. Leave none alive.”
“General Xia Yin!”
“Mercy! Spare us!”
“You are the from the Sky Pillar ‘Yang Clan’ which is also one of Sky Pillar Clans of our Thistle Flower Nation! You can’t do this!”
“General Xia Yin!”
Many sounds of mercy sounded. There were even cultivators kneeling down when they saw how things progressed.
“Wipe them out!” The green-gowned woman did not acquire the cultivation technique. She was feeling really unpleasant and murderous now as that savage eyes of hers wiped around the place.
“Yes.” The army hesitated momentarily, yet could only acknowledge the orders.
Seated at a corner within the pub, the white-robed young man who had been watching everything calmly gave out a light sigh. The strange thing was that his sigh sounded by the ears of everyone around the place. It reverberated by the ears of every single soldier, causing everyone to feel terror! The soldiers who were originally about to carry out the orders realized shortly that they could no longer move.
Not even an inch!
The green-gowned woman turned to that white-robed young man with terror. She also discovered that she could no longer move. The surrounding void had completely suppressed her, restricting her motion.
That white-robed young man sat there ordering: “Manager, bring more wine over.”
“Ai, ai!” That manager of the pub who was initially filled with despair, felt his heart trembling and hurriedly bring the wine over. He did not seem to be affected and could still move.
“This great sir, this is a matter between our Sky Pillar’ Yang Clan’ and the Ba Tuo Clan. I do sincerely request for great sir not to intervene.” The green-gowned woman shouted out in a loud voice despite not being able to move. She exceptionally pronounced the two words ‘Sky Pillar’.
These were words that held a unique meaning within the United Star Union. It represented a Sky Pillar ranked clan within a single nation, and most usually had tenth level experts within. This was an existence that could fight against Cosmos Gods, and it was logical for this green-gowned woman to be arrogant.
“Sky Pillar Yang Clan?” Xue Ying softly nodded, “Originally, I am too lazy to intervene in this hatred and revenge of yours. It’s just that killing them all and leaving none alive… doesn’t seem right. These ordinary cultivators aren’t enemies of your Yang Clan isn’t it?”
The expression of that green-gowned woman turned ugly.
So what if she killed these ants?
“Why? In your eyes, they are merely ants?” Xue Ying shook his head, “What a pity. In my eyes, you are an ant too.”
The moment he finished speaking, the green-gowned woman revealed a look of terror. Her body had exploded entirely and dissipated from the world.
The surrounding place was quiet.
All the soldiers and cultivators remained quiet out of fear. The daughter of Sky Pillar Yang Clan’s patriarch died just like that?
Xue Ying’s eyes were filled with coldness. His heart temperament had determined that he would never tolerate acts of the strong bullying the weak! Maybe when he was weak, he could not influence the Realm Heart Great Land at all. But whenever he met such a situation, he would definitely intervene if he could!
“Things are getting troublesome.”
“He killed the patriarch’s daughter, General Xia Yin.”
Many other cultivators were panicking. Yet Xue Ying remained seated there continuing drinking.
In the distant, a horrifying and dazzling aura descended. He was akin to a lump of eye-striking light. Endless light surged out and condensed into a human. At the same time, his furious roar sounded across the world: “Who dares to kill my daughter Xia Yin?”
“Me.” Xue Ying remained seated there pouring wine for himself.

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Candis has chosen Luan Goldie‘s Nightingale Point as its favourite debut this week:
“A riveting read, drawing from the devastation of real life events in London and Amsterdam…the story is told from the points of view of people of all backgrounds and ages.”
Nightingale Point is out in paperback on 23rd January. Buy your copy here, or at your local bookshop.
Find Luan on Twitter at @LuanGoldie.


The German marque opted to run a slim sidepod solution from the start of 2022 but abandoned the scheme after two iterations failed to deliver the anticipated calculations.
Marko concedes that Red Bull has discovered the same promising figures Mercedes relied upon in the wind tunnel, but time will tell whether it can work on the track.
Asked about Red Bull attempting to right the wrongs Mercedes encountered, Marko told Servus TV: “They were also convinced by the data of their sidepod-less concept, but in practice, it didn’t work at all.
“We will now see in the tests whether we can successfully implement this solution, or let’s say a similar solution.”
He added: “Adrian Newey [Red Bull’s Chief Technical Officer] always favoured cars without radiators. But of course, the engine people can’t do that. That is logical.
“We don’t have it as extreme [as Mercedes], but we have it in a similar direction in terms of the idea.”
Reigning champion Max Verstappen described the RB20 as a product of “controlled aggression”, with Sergio Perez also hailing it a “brave move” by Red Bull.
Marko has confirmed that Red Bull has developed upon the title-winning RB19 more than had been predicted and says the launch-spec car will be a starting platform.
“It’s more than an evolution. It’s a small revolution,” the Austrian outlined.
“It is the basis of what will be used in 2024. In terms of simulation and the wind tunnel, it all worked very well.”
Verstappen will be at the wheel of Red Bull’s revised F1 car throughout the opening day of pre-season testing in Bahrain, with Perez sampling the RB20 tomorrow morning.


Propelled by a powerful 62-second closing lap, Sifan Hassan broke the world record* in the women’s mile tonight, clocking 4:12.33 at the Herculis EBS IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco.
The 26-year-old Dutchwoman knocked 0.23 from the previous mark of 4:12.56 set by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia in 1996, when Hassan was just three years old.
After an opening 800 metres of 2:08.5 – Masterkova clocked 2:06.9 during her world record run – it appeared that the record would be out of reach for Hassan. But, running alone, she accelerated on the third lap, reaching 1200m in 3:10.2, exactly two seconds up on Masterkova and powered on to claim the first outdoor world record on the track in 2019.
Laura Weightman of Great Britain was second in 4:17.60 with Gabriella Debues-Stafford of Canada third in 4:17.87, a national record.
Full report to follow
* pending the usual ratification procedures
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New York bombings suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami has been charged with attempted murder over a shootout with police, prosecutors say.
Mr Rahami is in custody after being injured in what was described as a shootout with police in New Jersey, which began when he was found asleep in a doorway.
He was being sought in connection with the series of bombings that wounded 29 people in the New York City area over the weekend.
Video from WABC television showed a conscious man described as the suspect on a gurney and being loaded into an ambulance.
Prosecutors said he had been charged with five counts of attempted murder of police officers over the shootout, and they were still determining charges over the bombings.
The FBI said no other suspect was being sought over the weekend's blasts.
The 28-year-old had been named by the FBI as a suspect in Saturday's bombing in Manhattan.
The Afghan-born US citizen was captured after firing at police officers in Linden, New Jersey, Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said on Monday. Two officers were shot, one in the hand and the other in a bullet-proof vest, he said.
"Mr Rahami also sustained shots and an ambulance has taken him away," Mr Bollwage said.
He was undergoing surgery for the gunshot wound.
Officers have refused to discuss what led them to him but senior law enforcement officials have told US media that a fingerprint collected from an unexploded device in New Jersey was key.
The FBI said they had evidence linking Mr Rahami to devices in both New Jersey and New York, but there was no indication a terror cell was active in the area.
Earlier on Monday, New York Police had released a photo of the New Jersey man and said they wanted to question him about a Saturday night explosion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood and for a blast earlier that day in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
In addition to the two incidents, officials were probing a backpack containing bombs found in a New Jersey train station on Sunday and an unexploded pressure-cooker bomb located blocks away from the Chelsea blast site.
No one was injured in the other blasts.
As reports of Mr Rahami being taken in custody were being released, US President Barack Obama said he saw no connection between the explosions and a separate weekend incident where a man stabbed nine people at a mall in central Minnesota before being shot dead.
He said authorities were investigating the stabbing as a potential act of terrorism.
That attack was apparently carried out by a 22-year-old man of Somalian descent. The man in the Minnesota incident was described a "soldier of the Islamic State," the militant group's news agency said on Sunday.
Local residents in Elizabeth, who had encountered Mr Rahami in his work at the family's fried chicken bar, said the family were ordinary and "Americanised".
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The UK is set to lead the charge in bringing commercial drone deliveries on a mass scale, according to a new European aerospace study by Protolabs.
The study also suggests that over half of people expect drone deliveries to be commonplace by 2023.
It is widely accepted that COVID-19 has given a boost to the drone delivery sector, with testing of the technology accelerated to deliver food and medicine in rural areas.
Protolabs’ ‘Horizon Shift’ report involved 325 aerospace business leaders from across Europe, and notes an increased interest in ‘low space’ innovation as well as more investment into the fast-track testing of robots and drones.
“Covid-19 has brought huge disruption to the global economy, with the aerospace sector being among the hardest hit,” explained Bjoern Klaas, vice president and managing director of Protolabs Europe.
“However, a crisis can act as a catalyst for further innovation, forcing organisations to seek alternative ways to survive in rapidly changing times. Our report shows that right now within aerospace, the ‘low space’ sector is demonstrating agility in its approach to innovation and there is a real appetite to see it work in the UK.
“In fact the UKSA, the government agency responsible for the UK’s civil space programme, just announced a new drive to fund space-enabled technology to strengthen the NHS response to coronavirus. Drone technology can help meet challenges, such as delivering test kits, masks, gowns and goggles, in the management of infectious disease outbreaks.”
He continued: “Commercial drone deliveries are the most likely disruptor and this was reinforced across the duration of our study, which was carried out as the COVID-19 pandemic started to take grip. In just a few weeks, the appetite for this technology increased by 11% to 53%.
“Depending on legislation and advances in technology, it’s feasible that last mile delivery of products, through drones, could reach up to 30% of citizens across Europe. Furthermore, nearly a third of people feel that urban mobility will be a viable mode of transport in the next three years.”


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Ecstatic scenes have marked the electoral successes of Burma National League for Democracy party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi. But the reconciliation she is calling for with the other political parties will not bring true democracy.
The NLD has claimed 43 out of the 45 parliamentary seats which it contested in Sunday’s by-elections. The army and its allies still dominate the 664-seat parliament.
It was the first time that the party’s leader has been allowed to campaign in an election. Daughter of assassinated revolutionary Aung San, modern Burma’s founding father, she founded the NLD in 1988. But she was placed under house arrest in 1989 and remained there for a total of 22 years.
The Nobel prize winner was banned from standing in 1990, but the NLD still won 59% of the vote, which guaranteed it 80% of parliamentary seats. The ruling military junta promptly nullified the election results.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now 66, survived an attack by 200 thugs acting on behalf of the regime whilst travelling in a motorcade in 1996. She defied illness to campaign in the poorest areas of Burma.
NLD party officials complained about poster defacing and the use of waxed ballot papers. Among other irregularities, the Democratic Voice of Burma, said that some 6,000 names were missing from the voters’ lists in Ward 1 of Myaung Mya constituency in Irrawaddy Division. But the presence of foreign journalists and teams of monitors was a first under a regime which has sought to hide its crimes.
Of course there is plenty of caution and realism mixed in with the joy. Many realise that the vote will not shatter the brutal control exercised by the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, which is a proxy for the military junta.
The release of political prisoners over the past year and increased political freedom is construed by many as the regime’s cynical attempt to get Western sanctions lifted.
Those in refugee camps are watching developments anxiously to see if it is safe to return home. The brutality of the regime towards Burma’s ethnic minorities created desperate conditions for many, forcing them to become refugees. The UN estimates that there are some 163,700 Burmese refugees in Thailand, and 229,000 in Bangladesh who have been in border camps for more than 20 years. Another 150,000 people are internally displaced.
Burma’s rich natural resources have allowed its ruling elite to negotiate deals with the Chinese government and profit-hungry investors. Villagers in Kachin state fear the resumption of work on the Myitsone Dam project on the Irrawaddy river. The dam, which is being financed by China Power Investment Corporation, will dislocate thousands of people. Ninety percent of its power is destined for China.
According to Zoya Phan of Burma Campaign UK, human rights abuses have increased over the past year. She points out that hundreds of political prisoners have been released, but many more remain in jail, while there is a continued failure to recognise the rights of ethnic minorities who make up 40% of the population.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s protracted and fearless campaign has provided the people of Burma with a powerful symbol of their aspirations. The have spoken through to reject their old rulers. She is right to say that “it is the rising political awareness of our people that we regard as our greatest triumph.”
Whatever the final results, the turn-out for the NLD shows that Burmese people were desperate to speak out. The results so far shed a big chink of light in a country blighted so long by military dictatorship and extreme poverty for the many. Now is the time, inside and outside Burma, to take up the torch and move from a little democracy to real economic and political democracy.
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An editorial at investors.com is years too late:
Activists accused of blocking a rail line were acquitted last week of obstruction.
Jurors apparently felt their actions were justifiable because they were trying to save the climate.
How far will this be allowed to go?
Here is a news flash for the editor:
“Court documents filed in India earlier this month claim that many victims have been left in pain, with little or no aftercare.
Across the country, there have been numerous reports of deaths and of pregnant women suffering miscarriages after being selected for sterilisation without being warned that they would lose their unborn babies.
Yet a working paper published by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes.
The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases …”
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Open-Ended Resourceship: Bring on 2012!
By Robert Bradley Jr. — December 29, 2011
“The total supply of any mineral is unknown and unknowable because the future knowledge that would create mineral resources cannot be known before its time.”
“Human ingenuity and capital investment under a regime of economic calculation can lead society to new combinations of minerals—or minerals and non-minerals—to perform the same (or better) economic services over time.”
If resources are not fixed but created, then the nature of the scarcity problem changes dramatically.
For the technological means involved in the use of resources determines their creation and therefore the extent of their scarcity.
The nature of the scarcity is not outside the process (that is natural), but a condition of it.”
– Tom DeGregori (1987). “Resources Are Not; They Become: An Institutional Theory.” Journal of Economic Issues, p. 1258.
Thanks to technology, we’re not going to run out of oil
“If you read Stephen Moore’s *column
, he noted how the consensus over oil is wrong. We’re not running out of oil. In fact, many have been saying we’re going to run out since the 1930s.
Moore added that technological advancements are increasing oil production.
In fact, Kerry Jackson at Investors Business Daily wrote in November
that these advances are going to almost triple the amount of fossil fuel resources if research and development continue.”
These stupid predictions of the end of oil have been going on for most of the last century.
Just over 100 years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Mines estimated total future production at 6 billion barrels, yet we’ve produced more than 20times that amount.
In 1939 the Department of the Interior predicted U.S. oil supplies would last 13 years. I could go on.
1. 2007: Make a scientific statement like, “northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.”.
Quote this whilst receiving your award, “Former US Vice President Al Gore cited Professor Maslowski’s analysis on Monday in his acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.”
2. In 2011: Admit you are wrong & “move the goal post“–
“Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade.
The original prediction, made in 2007, gained Wieslaw Maslowski’s team a deal of criticism from some of their peers.
And one of the projections it comes out with is that the summer melt could lead to ice-free Arctic seas by 2016 – “plus or minus three years”.
3. October 4 2013: Deny it ever happened –
“The clamor is being raised over Al Gore’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech quote supposedly saying that Arctic sea ice would be gone by 2013.- 1 What Gore did or didn’t say is beside the point …
Maslowski also did not say “by 2013″ in his original research in 2007 or when it was republished in 2009.
This grandstanding about sea ice and Gore, for whatever reason, is a huge and egregious deception.
The actual prediction from Maslowski’s 2009 publication is, “Autumn could become near ice free between 2011 and 2016.”
Al Gore. Climate fraud.


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I thought their plan sounded promising. Although some of the films were lost in the US, they were able to attain them from foreign sources. It sounds like the Russians have the largest cache. I hope everyone gets on board. What good is a copyright for things no one will ever see?
Isn’t this one of the things the Library of Congress is for? Keeping a copy of everything so it isn’t lost even if the original publisher loses their copy? Is the copyright situation with movies so bad that not even the Library of Congress can get a copy?
Abysmal! …and not just limited to film.
The behaviour seems endemic to the generation after the generation that made the thing you would like to have been preserved.
A good place to mention that Netflix has just released some Charlie Chaplin shorts.
Potential upside: if the ratio of good films to bad films has remained consistent through today, 75% of the films made before 1930 were forgettable trash.
If someone actually wants these films and they’ve been lost then that really sucks, but I’ve never been convinced that preserving every mote of humanity’s effort is a worthwhile endeavor.
This would seem to be one of the things that copyright is actually good for. Film restoration is quite expensive, and there is very little incentive for corporations to restore public-domain films. For a long time it was surprisingly difficult to get a decent transfer of Charade, or His Girl Friday, especially in comparison to films of a similar vintage that were/are still under copyright. Does a good version of His Girl Friday even exist yet? Some early Hitchcock films are only now being restored due to the combined efforts of several institutions; one can imagine the situation for films by lesser directors.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
If only a tiny fraction of the NSA’s budget and storage room was diverted … we could store digital copies of everything.
The problem crops up if the copyright holder doesn’t see an ROI in doing anything with it: they still maintain a veto over anybody else who wishes to do so.
I agree that, for the limited set of old films that seem likely to sell well, once cleaned up and stamped onto disks, being copyrighted is what would make that happen.
However, if the commercial appeal isn’t there, the copyright remains as veto power over anyone else who wants to try (whether they are merely charitable, more optimistic, or whatever). Perhaps worse, somebody else wanting to try is probably taken as a signal that the work is worth something, which creates an incentive to try to get some money out of them for the right to make their transfer.
I wouldn’t doubt that the available transfers are better-done for having been copyrighted; but the number of films that are shoved from meriting a mediocre transfer to getting nothing at all until they decay is likely increased, since only those blessed by the rightsholder can move to do one.
“As we close in on 2018, the date at which materials from 1928 onward will begin entering the public domain again, …”
Ah, the exuberance of optimism. I feel it’s quite likely that the Mouse will roar again and push that date yet again further into the future.
Plus, some movies age better, like cognac, where the later audience appreciates it more than the original audience.
That’s why I always tell people Back up your hard drive! They have no excuse. They had it coming. Tough shit.
Good point. I was going to say something mean about how 75% probably deserve to be forgotten, but then I remembered that the music of JS Bach was forgotten in obscurity until it was “rediscovered” more than 100 years after his death.
Films from before 1950 are particularly fragile because the standard film base was made from nitrocellulose. If the film isn’t stored properly it will chemically degrade and destroy itself. Even worse, it can spontaneously combust. Once lit nitrocellulose will burn vigorously and even underwater. Around 1950 nitrate film was replaced with cellulose acetate. This had the advantage of not being a low explosive, but it still can chemically degrade in what’s called the vinegar syndrome due to the resulting smell. Nice and stable polyester film didn’t become standard until the 1990s.
One major contributing factor to the loss of early film and television is the fact that the people who owned and made it didn’t care at all about preserving it longterm. Countless studios literally just threw away their old film reels over the years.
Andy Marx, grandson of Groucho Marx, tells the story of how his childhood whims saved pretty much the entire archives of “You Bet Your Life”. The studio was getting rid of them, going to trash or destroy them, and the worker drone put in charge of doing so decided of his own volition to call up Groucho out of the blue to ask him if he wanted the originals. Groucho said no, why the heck would he want 'em? But his young grandson who had answered the phone said “Send them over to the house anyway” despite Groucho’s wishes.
He figured it’d be no big deal, that his grandfather wouldn’t really mind a box or two of old reels taking up space - and then multiple truckloads of film reels started showing up, and the house literally started filling up, and Groucho was not exactly amused at his grandson’s shenanigans. But nevertheless, the archive was saved from going to the landfill, and the rest is history.
Today we think of early television and film as being cultural artifacts worth careful preservation and future appreciation, but the simple fact of the matter is that the entertainer culture of Hollywood back in the day saw itself as chiefly concerned with creating and selling a commercial product, not with creating art or anything of lasting cultural value.
Consequently, when a show went off the air it was viewed by everybody as perfectly natural for the recordings to be held onto only as long there was a signficiant financial gain to be had from them. Given how many film and television archives were destroyed simply to spare their owners the cost of taking up storage space, you can begin to understand just how little value they placed in these recordings.
Maybe I’m mistaken but I thought copyright was for 95 years. Currently works after 1922 hold valid copyrights. In 2018 they will start entering the public domain.
The Fort Lee Film Commission of Fort Lee, NJ, America’s first film town, has the only existing print of Eclair Studio’s Robin Hood, produced in Fort Lee in 1912. We restored the film in 2004 and have screened it in Los Angeles, New Jersey and many other venues and our hope is to release it in a DVD set of Fort Lee produced silent films. Visit our web site www.fortleefilm.org and go to our upcoming events page to view the unrestored 1912 Mack Sennett Keystone film “A Grocery Clerk’s Romance” which was shot outside the historic Rambo’s Saloon which has just been saved from the wrecker’s ball and will be preserved with a historic marker placed on the outside of the building.
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