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- A Chicago charter school has admitted its racist past.
- Active government is the most popular it’s been in almost 30 years.
- Maryland thought deregulating utilities would lower rates. It’s cost the state’s residents hundreds of millions of dollars.
1) National: Who does the American Rescue Plan help? CAP Action has a chart. “States & cities have never seen a revenue bonanza like this in American history,” muni analyst Cate Long says about federal aid in the past year, including the American Rescue Plan. The current package includes $325 billion in direct aid to states and cities. Transit officials across the country say the $30 billion included in the ARP, combined with past cash infusions, should be enough to get them through the pandemic. But the longer term outlook for transportation is difficult (see below).
2) National: Active government is the most popular it’s been in almost 30 years. Gallup’s September Governance poll each year includes a general question asking about the optimal role of government. “The latest update shows that 54% of Americans say the government should do more to solve our country’s problems, while 41% say the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. This is the highest percentage choosing the ‘government should do more’ option since Gallup began asking the question in 1992.”
3) National/Texas: In the Public Interest’s Jeremy Mohler interviewed Johanna Bozuwa, the co-manager of the Climate and Energy Program at the Democracy Collaborative. Bozuwa co-authored “Texas’s Energy Crisis Shows Why We Need to Reform Our Privatized Energy System” with Jean Su, the director of the Energy Justice Program and attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “New campaigns are popping up nationwide to take control of the energy system, which gives me hope,” Bozuwa told Mohler. “In Washington, DC, a campaign called We Power DC is hard at work fighting for energy justice and building the road towards public power. There is also a mounting effort in Maine to kick out all the private electric distribution utilities in the state. Reclaim Our Power has made it their mission to fight against PG&E’s gross negligence in its service territory. San Diego has a burgeoning movement to take back their grid.”
4) National: More states are partnering with community organizations to expand vaccination programs for immigrants. “Arizona, Delaware, Michigan and Oregon are among the states joining California and Maryland in enlisting partners trusted by communities to boost vaccination rates among immigrants, many of whom have high-risk jobs in food and maintenance. Those living here illegally often live with no paper trail. Many of them lack the formal identification or utility bills many states require to provide vaccines. Some states, such as North Carolina and West Virginia, have denied vaccines to people without proof of state residence.”
5) National/California: Despite the challenges, local governments are still out there battling to improve America’s public infrastructure and services. “The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Committee, in its 2045 Regional Transportation Plan outlines 644 planned projects, 111 of which are entirely new. Approximately $5 billion will be available for transportation projects through 2045. There is an announced plan to allocate $9 billion to the region’s transportation system over the next 25 years. And, in Pittsburg, members of the City Council have approved an $8.5 million renovation project in the city’s 28-acre downtown park. Plans include upgrading a concession stand, irrigation, lighting, security cameras, picnic and barbecue areas, basketball courts, trails, and accessibility. New construction will include new spectator areas and additional parking facilities.”
6) National: The coronavirus has killed the gospel of small government, writes Zachary D. Carter. “Maintaining state-of-the-art information, transportation and medical infrastructure through sustained public investment could prevent a problem from becoming a calamity. So, too, is understanding that the economy is something that serves society rather than the other way around. Over the past year, the American government spent big to stave off immediate economic ruin. This year, it must show the same financial commitment to the future.”
7) National: The GAO has issued a report and recommendations on improving contract compliance with local hiring rules. “The Army Corps of Engineers spends billions of dollars on construction projects nationwide. The Corps’ guidance describes how its district staff should monitor contractors’ compliance with the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires federal construction contractors to pay workers at least the local prevailing wage. However, some guidance sections are unclear, which could lead to inconsistent monitoring. For example, one district reported reviewing 20% of workers’ payroll records while another reported reviewing 100%. We made 3 recommendations, including that the Corps clarify guidance on selecting payroll records to review.”
8) National: The new federal COVID rescue law contains more paid leave for federal employees. “Full-time federal employees will be able to receive up to 600 hours, or 15 weeks, of paid leave to recover from COVID-19, quarantine or care for a sick family member or a child who is attending virtual school due to the pandemic. Employees could also use the leave for the purposes of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine or recovering from any symptoms or conditions related to immunization. There are, however, a few exceptions. Employees can’t use this new emergency paid leave at the same time as any other kind of paid time off, and the leave benefits will be capped at $1,400 a week.”
9) National/New York: Success Academy, the Charter school network, has been ordered by a federal judge “to pay over $2.4 million on a Judgment in a case brought by families of five young Black students with learning and other disabilities who sued after the children were pushed out of a Success Academy school in Brooklyn. Success Academy’s efforts to oust the children even included the creation of a ‘Got to Go’ list, as reported by the New York Times in October 2015, which singled out the students they wanted to push out, including the five child plaintiffs.”
10) National: The charter school lobby is taking aim at San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten, who has been nominated by President Biden to be Deputy Education Secretary. “Groups like the Center for Education Reform and the Powerful Parent Movement have singled out Marten’s criticism of charter school policy in California and her work on a task force that supported changes to the state’s authorizing laws.”
But “Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of large urban public school systems, offered the organization’s ‘enthusiastic support’ for Marten after the choice was announced in January. ‘Cindy Marten will be the perfect complement’ to Cardona, he said in a statement. ‘Both have been school-level leaders and thoroughly understand the complexities of public education at the state and local levels like few other leadership teams in the department’s history.’”
11) National: The New York Times reports that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and AFT head Randi Weingarten secured an earmark in the American Rescue Plan for nearly $3 billion for private schools. “The deal, which came after Mr. Schumer was lobbied by the powerful Orthodox Jewish community in New York City, riled other Democratic leaders and public school advocates who have spent years beating back efforts by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to funnel federal money to private schools, including in the last two coronavirus relief bills. Democrats had railed against the push by President Donald J. Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to use pandemic relief bills to aid private schools, only to do it themselves.”
12) National: “Not enough people are noticing the war on democratically elected school boards across the country,” says Noliwe Rooks. “This is an example of how the wealthy and ideologically driven use democracy to kill democracy!” Teens Take Charge report “Disturbing news from Kentucky, where the legislature is trying to remove student and teacher members of the Board of Ed. A medical board would never not have doctors. A bar association would never not have lawyers. Come on y’all!”
13) District of Columbia: DCist reports that “the District is not adequately collecting and recording key education data, despite receiving federal money to build out a system to store and share the information, according to D.C. Auditor Kathleen Patterson. (…) For example, the report said OSSE relies on D.C. Public Schools and charter schools to submit their own data on suspensions, which is federally-mandated. OSSE directs schools to record the type of suspension, in or out-of-school, and the number of days a student is suspended. But the report found the D.C. Public Charter School Board, which oversees charters, provides guidance that says schools should only record incidents if they result in out-of-school suspensions.”
14) Florida/National: A major court case is pending on appeal that could disrupt the bond financing of public school systems throughout the state. “On Feb. 24, the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that the Palm Beach County School District was in violation of state law by excluding the charter schools in its district from getting any share of the money raised by a voter-approved tax. Florida state law says charter school students will be funded ‘the same as students enrolled in other public schools in the school district.’”
The credit rating agencies are watching the case closely, since it could affect the ability of school districts to fund their operations. “Moody’s said in a report last week that while its ratings for Palm Beach County schools remain unchanged, the court’s ruling was a credit negative for the district. Moody’s said that because of the decision the Palm Beach County district will now have to share with all charter schools in Palm Beach County about $22 million a year through fiscal 2023. ‘The lost funds are equal to only about 1% of the Palm Beach district’s fiscal 2020 operating revenue, but the gap will still have to be closed, possibly through cuts,’ Moody’s said in its report. Some of the cities in Palm Beach County include Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Jupiter, Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, North Palm Beach and West Palm Beach.” [Sub required]
15) Florida: The new Florida voucher bills are a ‘death knell’ for public education, writes Kathleen Oropeza in The Progressive. “Florida has over a thousand pages of state statutes that hold school districts to strict accountability in using high-stakes tests to rank, sort, and shame teachers, students, and schools. Yet the state is largely silent on the lack of accountability imposed on private, mostly religious, schools who are the greatest recipients of vouchers. (…) It is no exaggeration to say Florida’s SB 48 and the conversion to education savings accounts is likely the greatest threat to the state’s public education system that most of us will ever see in our lifetimes.”
16) Florida: Less than seven months into its first year of operation, the governing board of Cornerstone Classical Academy in Jacksonville has voted to fire its principal. “The unanimous vote to terminate Williams came four days after the board convened an emergency meeting to vote on suspending Williams without pay, which was also approved. ‘There was no transparency,’ a Cornerstone parent who declined to be identified told News4Jax Tuesday. ‘Nobody knows what was going on. They said there are reasons why they couldn’t tell us.’ The parent, who attended Tuesday morning’s meeting, described little discussion and even less explanation. ‘They had a couple of comments, they held the vote, they all said they voted to vote her out and to terminate her, and then they said, “meeting adjourned,” and they immediately hung up. That was it.” According to a Monday Facebook post from the school’s Parent-Teacher Organization, no information has yet been shared with that group.”
17) Illinois: WBEZ’s Sarah Karp reports that Chicago’s largest charter school network, the Noble Charter Network, “sent a letter to alumni this week admitting that its past discipline and promotion policies were racist and apologizing for them. The apology is notable not just as an acknowledgment of misguided policies, but as a repudiation of the ‘no-excuses’ philosophy adopted by many charter schools during the 2000s.”
18) Louisiana/National: Eva Kemp, who “spent several years helping elect pro-charter school candidates in Louisiana at Democrats for Election Reform,” has moved up to Washington to “oversee letters sent out by President Joe Biden.”
19) Missourian: A term-limited Republican state lawmaking has been hurling abuse at the Columbia Missouri National Education Association. State Representative Chuck Basye (R-Columbia) supported Ted Cruz in the election before backing Trump. “Public schools in the state’s largest cities have been targets of complaints from conservative lawmakers who are pushing charter school expansion, education savings accounts and other measures that many school district leaders say will hurt their schools financially.”
20) New Jersey: Chalkbeat reports that “New Jersey has rejected the expansion plans of Newark’s largest charter school networks, a policy shift that could help reverse the city’s pattern of growing charters and shrinking traditional schools.” Deborah Smith-Gregory, president of the Newark NAACP which has called for a moratorium on charter growth, said “it’s about time. For the past 11 years, they have let the charter schools have carte blanche.”
David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, which filed a 2016 lawsuit seeking to stop Newark charter schools’ expansion. said in an email to Chalkbeat “why would these charters even be asking for expansion if they have empty seats? It’s time for Newark charter operators to give up their relentless drive for more and more ‘market share’ and end their competition with the district for students and funding.”
21) New York: A KIPP charter school that is due to open this fall in New York’s Upper West Side faced opposition. “The school faced stiff opposition from the Community Education Council District 3 (CEC 3), a parent group that’s similar to a school board. The board of CEC3 said at the time that the new school would undermine its own efforts to desegregate middle schools. As students are pulled out of the traditional public school system to charter schools, education funding goes with them. CEC3 launched a petition against the school that got over 700 signatures. Among other issues, several District 3 schools are under enrolled and could face more problems if students head to charters. There are 17 traditional public middle schools in the district; KIPP will be the sixth charter.”
22) Rhode Island: Are we about to see a repeat of the war waged by big money interests against public education waged in Massachusetts a few years ago? “A well-funded group of parents and charter school supporters is making plans to aggressively lobby Rhode Island lawmakers against legislation that would place a three-year moratorium on the expansion of charter schools, including the ones that already received initial approval from the state last year. Stop the Wait RI was formed by Janie Seguí Rodríguez, a Pawtucket resident who lost a Democratic primary for City Council by two votes last year. She said the group has already recruited 440 parents and it plans to focus on the House of Representatives, which has not yet taken up the moratorium bill (the Senate has already approved it).”
23) West Virginia: In a letter to the editor of the Herald-Dispatch, Nicholas Amis of Huntington is concerned about the possible impact of a law under consideration in the state legislature that could see charter schools move into many communities. “I feel it is very risky to endorse or support a charter school in our area under these conditions,” Amis says, “especially because many studies show that charter schools typically do not perform any better than schools in their local public school districts, and a lot of the students in Cabell County qualify for free or reduced lunch based on their socio-economic status. If a charter school suddenly closes (half of which fail by year 15 or sooner), its students will more than likely return to the local public school district that will already have less funds to operate. That’s right. Charter schools take funds from the local school district in which they are located to function. From my understanding, and from many others, House Bill 2012’s aim isn’t just about “school choice” but a way to dismantle public education in our state.”
24) West Virginia: The West Virginia Supreme Court is requiring the Monongalia County Board of Education and the state Department of Education, to defend their rejection of a charter school application. “Monongalia’s board unanimously voted against the application by the West Virginia Academy during an hour-long meeting on Nov. 30. The neighboring Preston County school board separately voted down the same proposal during its own 5 p.m. meeting the same day. Monongalia board members said the application fell short on a variety of issues.”
25) National: The American Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE) has released its long-awaited new Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. “Prepared by the Society every four years as a means of assessing the overall condition of civil infrastructure nationwide, the 2021 report card accords America’s infrastructure an overall cumulative grade of C–. While room for improvement obviously remains, the achievement marks the best overall score since ASCE issued its first report card in 1998.” But more investment is urgently needed, especially in transportation.
The report finds that “of the 16 existing individual infrastructure categories assessed as part of the 2021 report card, five sectors—aviation, drinking water, energy, inland waterways, and ports—improved. However, 10 categories remained unchanged, while one—bridges—went down slightly. Stormwater, included in the 2021 report card for the first time as a stand-alone category, debuted with a grade of D.”
Among the noteworthy items:
- There is a water main break every two minutes and an estimated 6 billion gallons of treated water lost each day in the U.S., enough to fill over 9,000 swimming pools.
- Growing wear and tear on our nation’s roads have left 43% of our public roadways in poor or mediocre condition, a number that has remained stagnant over the past several years.
- There are 30,000 miles of inventoried levees across the U.S., and an additional 10,000 miles of levees whose location and condition are unknown.
This raises the questions of funding and financing. Optimists are hanging their hopes on the possibility of a large infrastructure bill passing Congress through the reconciliation process. But The Bond Buyer mentions some sticky issues here. “Municipal bond provisions would still stand a chance if they do go that route, though a ten-year horizon would be challenging. A reconciliation bill would mean all costs would have to be incurred within 10 years, which contrasts with bonds with a decades-long life, said Emily Brock, director of the Government Finance Officer Association’s federal liaison center. ‘Our motivation is to make sure that we have ten Republican senators on all of our initiatives so that there is the possibility of movement outside of reconciliation,’ Brock said. “Should reconciliation be the tool by which infrastructure can move? We can work with that.’ If reconciliation is used, lawmakers would not be able to include surface transportation reauthorization.” All that private dry powder supposedly sitting on the sidelines waiting for government leverage is looking a bit moist.
In any event, infrastructure is only one of several “must do” concerns of Democrats, but seems to have a powerful ally.
26) Maryland/National: U.K.-based Infrastructure Investor ran a puff piece on the so-called public-private partnership deal to build six schools in Prince George’s County, saying the controversial project “takes a page from the UK playbook.” Still, they concede that “the accuracy of the $174 million in projected savings on the PGCPS project is one aspect of the PPP that opponents have called into question. According to the PGC council document, construction costs will amount to $485.8 million, a figure that reaches $930.8 million when milestone payments and financing costs are factored in. But, that is still less than the $1.1 billion the projects would cost under a traditional procurement model, a figure that includes deferred maintenance costs, according to PGC. Fengate declined to provide further financial details. There are also questions around whether the model actually saves development time.” [Sub required]
It should be noted that the anticipated cost of the PPP project is actually $1.24 billion, $140 million more than the traditional model figure given by Infrastructure Investor. That would be $4.66 million a year that could come from the cash-strapped school district for 30 years.
27) National/Texas: Unless the US prioritizes energy infrastructure, Texas winter storm blackouts could happen again. “If it can happen in Texas, it can happen anywhere. ‘I don’t think anyone should be getting smug about this,’ said Severin Borenstein, faculty director of the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. ‘This is going to be a challenge everywhere.’ (…) That means part of the drive for greater reliability and resilience in the power grid has to come from power users, who must pressure lawmakers and regulators to act. Consumers must also be willing to shoulder some of the burden.”
28) District of Columbia/Maryland/Virginia: Washington, DC has seen the largest drop in traffic congestion among large cities, the Washington Post reports. “Traffic delays in Washington decreased 77 percent—the most of any major metro area in the United States, according to the 2020 Global Traffic Scorecard released Tuesday by traffic analytics firm Inrix. The capital region ranked 12th in traffic congestion, a shift from fifth place in 2019, according to the report, which analyzes millions of miles of driving data obtained through smartphone apps and other GPS data sources.” So here’s a question. Are the revenue projections, if any, for Gov. Larry Hogan’s I-270/Beltway multibillion dollar P3 boondoggle—which is supposed to be financed via Lexus Lane commuters escaping congestion—real? Perhaps Maryland residents should be told ahead of time, this time.
Criminal Justice and Immigration
29) National: ICE has no clear plan to vaccinate thousands of detainees, The New York Times reports. “ICE runs a network of more than 200 public and privately run facilities and county jails, which at one point during the Trump administration held an average of more than 50,000 people a day, a record high. The agency is now detaining fewer than 14,000 people a day, its lowest average in decades, in keeping with CDC recommendations and court orders. (…) Records show that the virus has spread through ICE facilities over the last year, with hundreds infected in states such as Texas, Georgia, Arizona and Virginia. Eloy Detention Center, in the Arizona desert, is monitoring 47 active coronavirus infections, according to ICE.”
30) National: CRS has just released an explainer on The Biden Administration’s Immigration Enforcement Priorities. “The ICE guidance provides that the priorities are to be applied to a wide range of enforcement decisions, including whether to initiate or pursue removal proceedings; whether to stop, question, or arrest a [noncitizen]; whether to detain or release an [noncitizen]; whether to issue a detainer; whether to grant deferred action; and when to execute a final removal order. The ICE guidance permits enforcement actions against [noncitizens] who do not meet the criteria for priority cases (taking into account certain aggravating and mitigating factors), but only with advance supervisory approval. If there are exigent circumstances (e.g., the [noncitizen] poses an imminent threat to life or an imminent substantial threat to property), and securing preapproval is impracticable, the enforcement action is permitted so long as the officer conducting the action requests approval within 24 hours.”
31) National: Ella Fassler writes “Keith Malik Washington, a Black journalist and detainee at a GEO Group halfway house, was charged with ‘Unauthorized Contact with the Public’ for contacting press about a COVID-19 outbreak. Now, BOP may send him back to prison.” Read her article on the saga.
32) Arizona: The state is going to ask Corizon for reimbursement of a $1.1 million contempt of court fine that the state just paid for failing to comply with a legal settlement requiring improvements to inmate care. “Such a request would mark the second time the state has tried to pass along the financial burden for a contempt fine for noncompliance with the 6-year-old settlement to Corizon Health Inc., the state’s prison health care contractor for five years until another company took over in mid-2019.”
33) Colorado/National: The Aurora City Council will ask President Joe Biden to end private immigrant detention, Westword reports. “Aurora is home to the Aurora Contract Detention Facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center run by private prison company GEO Group. ‘This company is engaged in egregious human-rights violations in abuses that have been confirmed in reports by ICE and the government,’ Councilmember Allison Hiltz, who proposed the letter, said just before the vote at the March 1 council meeting. (…) But Aurora City Council is not alone in asking the Biden administration to cut ties between Homeland Security and private prison companies; in late January, Crow and 74 other members of Congress, including all of the Democratic representatives in Colorado’s delegation, sent a letter to President Biden requesting just that.”
34) New Jersey: Kean University students have taken aim at their school’s ties to ICE and CoreCivic. ““I started the petition once I heard of Kean’s affiliation and the connections to ICE and the Elizabeth Detention Center,” said Callahan, a Kean University alumnus, on Tuesday, March 2. “We have a petition with more than 1,500 signatures, and we wanted to bring it to President Repollet’s attention. … The overall mission is to get Kean University to sever all ties with Anne Estabrook and Dave Gibbons and, ultimately, free all the people who are detained in the Elizabeth Detention Center.”
35) Revolving Door News: Derrick Schofield, who previously served as Commissioner of Corrections for the State of Tennessee, has cashed in as Executive Vice President of Continuum of Care and Reentry for The GEO Group and is now penning op-eds promoting his new employer.
36) National: President Biden is expected to issue an executive order within his first hundred days in office “mandating that federal contractors grant emergency medical leave and pay their workers at least $15 an hour, a change affecting about 700,000 people, many of them in custodial and food service. (…) Other actions within Biden’s authority include restoring and expanding Obama-era rules extending overtime eligibility to about 4.2 million workers; increasing Labor Department staff tasked to investigate wage theft, worker safety violations, and the misclassification of workers; directing federal agencies to bargain with unions on non-mandatory issues. Biden also wants to expand programs through the National Apprenticeship Act to train Americans for good paying jobs in disparate fields, including construction, manufacturing, technology, energy, and caregiving.”
37) National: Advocates are sounding the alarm over a quiet Trump-Era move that could further privatize Medicare. “On December 3, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)—then under the leadership of Seema Verma—unveiled an innocuous-sounding proposal titled the Geographic Direct Contracting Model (Geo) with the purported goal of delivering ‘Medicare beneficiaries value through better care and improved quality.’ But a look beyond the plan’s technocratic exterior reveals what Center for Health Journalism reporter and editor Trudy Lieberman described earlier this week as a privatization model that could ‘take root and potentially turn every senior into a customer of a privately-run managed care organization.’”
38) Maryland: Maryland thought deregulating utilities would lower rates. It’s cost the state’s residents hundreds of millions of dollars, reports Agya K. Aning, a Roy W. Howard fellow at Inside Climate News focusing on environmental justice. “When some documents arrived in the mail a couple of weeks later, they showed he was being switched from his fixed utility rate to a variable rate plan that would have been twice as costly, since BG&E was set to lower its prices in a few days. Among those documents, there was no contract to be found. Fields wasn’t surprised. As it turns out, he’s the deputy counsel for Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel—the agency responsible for prosecuting this exact kind of fraud. His telephone solicitation and the documents he received were all described in a complaint filed by the office last June before the Maryland Public Service Commission against SunSea Energy, a New Jersey-based energy retailer.”
39) International: Latin America is in danger of being overrun by privatized cities cooked up by a libertarian zealot. Brasil Wire tell the story of how “an international libertarian organisation is behind proposals to privatize Brazilian cities, creating vast luxury condominiums for the most wealthy, and removing democratic rights from their citizens.”
They report that “Free Private Cities is the brainchild of its director, Titus Gebel, who according to the organization’s website is “a German entrepreneur with a PhD in international law and an extensive worldwide network. He founded amongst others Frankfurt-listed mining company Deutsche Rohstoff AG, retired as their CEO in 2014 and emigrated with his family to Monaco. With Free Private Cities, he wants to create an entirely new product in the “market of living together”. If successful, it will fast-track knowledge and progress for humanity. Titus has dedicated the rest of his life to making Free Private Cities a reality.”
For decades Brazil’s urban development model “has been moving back to its colonial past, towards enclosed private condominiums, walled citadels rising out of the countryside and from the sprawl of cities such as São Paulo. The Alphaville concept took this a stage further, with entire neighborhoods constructed in the form of gated communities, and Rio’s Porto Maravilha project became effectively a city within a city. But with libertarian ideology now running amok within the Bolsonaro government, the proposed charter cities have become an apparent logical conclusion for this type of development.”
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HLA News spring 2017. Contents: Reviews in focus: report from HLA Professional Development Day in Perth – Suzanne Lewis & Cecily Gilbert; Convenor’s focus – Ann Ritchie; HLA PD days: reflections by a new graduate – Taryn Hunt; ALIA Professional Development specialisation achieved by Geraldine Stevens; Ann Ritchie awarded ALIA Fellowship; HLA/Medical Director Health Informatics Innovation Award presented to Barwon Health Library; Discovering the evolution of health librarianship in Australia through an interactive open access digital repository & ALIAHLA Wiki – Veronica Delafosse; Health Librarians and Research Services: Journal policies for data sharing – Kate LeMay; 2017 HLA Professional Development Day program and abstracts plus link to presentations.
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If math and physics don't lie MH 370 is here
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 4819 km east from Diego Garcia island, just under the Inmar satelite. And 1000 km east from the last MH370 contact place. But wait, what about Maleysian radar seeings? They lied. What about Reunion MH370 flaperon ? Fake evidence. “If this had been the case with the MH370, one would expect much smaller debris than a flaperon,” said the expert. According to a Toulouse aeronautics expert who requested anonymity, the element of the wing would not have floated for several months at the water’s surface but would have drifted underwater a few meters deep.
Who responded to Vietnam flight control call ? Another plane that later landed on maleysian airport at pic above. But remember, both can't be right: Maleysian authorities and Inmarsat. Then chose your version yourself. Or check this airplane parking at South Kalimantan at distance 4819 km from Inmarsat projection. To get there you have distinct Doppler shift only south flying airplane get. Malayasian radar findings was nice distraction in just opposite direction.

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According to an exclusive in The Hollywood Reporter, Harry Potter is coming to the small screen, with talks of a live-action series in development (no writers or actors are attached to the project yet).
The eight Harry Potter feature films, based on J.K. Rowling's bestselling seven-book series and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, made over $7 billion (£5 billion) worldwide.
In the 20 years since the first film's release, Rowling, who controls rights to the property along with HBO Max and Warner Bros., has seen her star falter. The author incensed fans with her reactionary and exclusionary trans views - so much so that giving her series this new platform already has critics and even HP fans protesting against it, commenting that this is something better left on the shelf.
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The appetite for resurrections of pop culture hits is rife: Sex and the City is coming back - without the inimitable Samantha Jones - Gossip Girl is getting a reboot, and 90s series like The Prince of Bel-Air and Saved by the Bell are all being reworked for a new audience in 2021.
Rowling is also finding a new generation of children to entertain: she published her latest book, The Ickabog, as free chapters during lockdown 1.0. The final hardback version of the book features illustrations submitted by children around the world who were homeschooling in 2020.
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Typical uses for a tripod revolve around achieving a crisp image when your camera’s settings require a longer exposure. For example, let’s say you want to use a low ISO setting when photographing a static object, and additionally a tight aperture for a fuller depth of field. In that case, unless you have studio lighting with strobes or continuous lamps, you have to employ a tripod. Simply put you can’t hold a camera still enough for a sharp image and a long exposure. The blurring may be apparent, or only show up after reviewing images on a computer, but it’s going to be there.


Mmm... IDK. I have the previous generation of Apple TV and I like its interface the best, and with Beamer it is straight forward to stream files on disk. But, no Amazon Prime, which is lame, also its remote control is too thin and too small, very easy to get lost in the covers with and it is uncomfortable to hold.
I have a few Amazon Fire Sticks and they are pretty okay. The interface is... byzantine, but you get get used to it. On one of them the remote control buttons were really sensitive and sticky and would queue then dump all at once as though the engineers had not debounced the signal.  I can't remember if I fixed that, if it fixed itself, or if I just picked up another remote. In any case it isn't an issue now. But the Amazon Fire Sticks don't have HBO Now available as of yet. So both have not insignificant cons to them.
Oh, a very minor detail, is that the Fire Stick remote control battery compartment is a severe pain in the dick to remove the face plate from. I cannot recall if that was the case on all of them, but on at least one of them a butter knife was involved the first go around.
I am not interested in anything with voice control on any device. That is a severe anti-feature for me, and you can take my dumb devices out of my cold, dead hands you bastards.


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Excessive taxation and taxpayers’ increased use of plastic money in their payments to the state led to the creation of a primary budget surplus of almost 4.4 billion euros in 2016, according to provisional end-of-year figures released on Tuesday by the Finance Ministry.
The taxes imposed in 2016, amounting to some 5 billion euros, sent budget revenues soaring last year as they exceeded the target set by 1.8 billion euros.
Increased value-added tax rates, the abolition of the VAT discount of 30 percent for a number of Aegean islands, new income tax rates, the solidarity levy hike, and the increase in the special consumption tax on cigarettes and heating oil are just a few of the taxes that burdened Greeks last year and raised state takings.
On the negative side of the 2016 budget was the Public Investment Program’s 500-million-euro drop in spending, as well as the 204-million-euro reduction in its inflows from the European Union.
The phenomenon of overtaxation continues even stronger in 2017, with new taxes amounting to 2.5 billion euros. Finance Ministry officials note that the current momentum in revenues may suffer over the course of the year, as the increased taxes and social security contributions taxpayers have to cover may well create problems such as an increase in tax and contribution evasion.
The same sources add that the volume of expired debts to the state will grow by about 15 billion euros this year. The latest available data show that more than half of all taxpayers have debts to the state that add up to about 94 billion euros.
The provisional data for 2016 show the primary surplus amounting to 4.39 billion euros, against 2.27 percent in 2015 and a 2016 target of 1.98 billion. In December revenues reached 6.026 billion euros, beating their target by 114 million.
For the whole of 2016, budget revenues amounted to 49.8 billion euros, up 1.8 billion from their target, with tax returns reaching 3.26 billion, while state expenditure came to 55.15 billion, missing the annual target by 817 million euros.

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Kylie Jenner Gave Her Sisters and Mom $5,495 Judith Leiber Crystal Clutches for Mother's Day
The Kardashian-Jenner family exchanged extravagant gifts for Mother's Day since they couldn't be together while social distancing
Kylie Jenner spared no expense on her sisters and mom to celebrate them this Mother's Day.
Since the Kardashian-Jenner family couldn't be together for the holiday since they've been social distancing due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Kylie, 22, went all-out with special gifts for sisters Kourtney Kardashian, 40, Kim Kardashian West, 39, Khloé Kardashian, 35, and mom Kris Jenner, 64.
To add to the ladies' ever-growing Judith Leiber handbag collection, the Kylie Cosmetics mogul gave each family member a different colored wildcat crystal clutch, that retails for $5,495. "I mean, seriously Kylie? For Mother's Day? How beautiful," Kim said on her Instagram Story as she shared a video of the cobalt panther clutch she received.
Khloé also thanked her younger sister for the extravagant Mother's Day present on her social media saying, "Awww, I love you my sissy @kyliejenner," she wrote along with a photo of her champagne colored exotic clutch, which is available now at Saks for a whopping $5,495.
Kourtney and Kim showed off a pile of additional gifts from Khloé, which included a blue Christian Dior makeup bag and a “Mommy's Little Quarantine Kit.”
Kris also got in on the gift exchange, sending each of her children boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts to mark the occasion. “Omg @krisjenner is sabotaging my summer body,” said the momager's oldest daughter shared Kourtney on her Instagram Story as she showed off the box of treats.
“Why does my mom do this to me?” Khloè said of the box of glazed Krispy Kreme donuts from her mom, “Stop sending me perfect things!”
After all the gift-giving, Kylie posted two adorable photos of her 2-year-old daughter Stormi Webster in honor of Mother's Day.
"this little love of mine 🤍 .. what a special gift it is to be a mother," the star wrote. "happy mother’s day to all the mamas ..."

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Personally, I enjoy watching the moderators, well, moderate (on their own). They have such a style and panache, that mere mortals like myself clumsily if not, wantonly practice. I am unlikely to develop this “super-power” without reaching the Gladwell-10,000-Hour Rule, which I am certain some regulars here may be approaching.
In our current primary, I have attempted to highlight “let the best campaign win” since Rick Perry dropped out. I have firmly been a “Not-Romney”, however I had my own reasons for not jumping into the Newt camp or the Santorum camp, and have always resisted both. That being said, the intent of the diary is not to make arguments of “pro-Romney”, or “get out”, or “inevitability”, or any other such non-sense that the candi-bots will most inherently take it for.
What it *IS* is a diary that points out a VERY specific temptation. A most EGREGIOUS temptation. A temptation that will have even the most elect and wise in our conservative quarters falling on the sword and swearing allegiance to Atlas’ Political Shrug.
DIVISION. Division in the Republican party at this time is a future where (D) and (I’s leaning D) will claim victory over conservatism, victory over limited government, and victory over the crucial distinction between Independence and Government Dependence.
I believe we are about to see the descending of Moby’s, Trolls, and open Democrats claiming to be here on good terms seeking to DIVIDE conservatives, libertarians, and moderate Republicans into a 3rd Party blood bath… need anecdotal evidence?
I came across this little gem of a thought… to which on the outset, seems a harmless suggestion from a Drum-beating candi-bot… but in reality… it was exposed for a desire to drive division in OUR HOUSE from what I gather to be a young libertarian that believes 3rd party is the answer.
I don’t intend to persuade you that we can get back to a peaceful turkey dinner after crazy uncle zed’s outburst, or suggest that the kids in the room won’t be mad at Dad for the rest of their lives putting his foot down regarding that trip to the old pond in lieu of the pile of work he’s offered as an alternative. Families need time to heal and forgive as much or MORE than enemies do.
You know what I am talking about. We don’t have to tip-toe around it. We have at this present time a “most likely, but not entirely inevitable Nominee” in Mitt Romney. Even so much so that Erick Erickson has all but stopped short of calling the game for conservatives fighting the “Anti-Romney” campaign. (and I do mean Anti-Romney as opposed to the “Not Romney” which would imply this is just a preference issue, but it isn’t, those that resist continue to resist because of their absolute mistrust in Romney). I suppose there will be the usual “Let the healing begin” business from our “conservative leaders” asking the “base” of the party to “ACC-CENT-TUATE the Positive, ELIIIIMINATE the Negative” for a candidate that has caused an unusual volume of guttural noise and acid reflux for a conservative base.
I simply haven’t got the patience to persuade people that won’t ever see clothes on a naked emperor… However I’m asking you that if the naked emperor is all we have standing between us and Genghis Kahn… let’s get behind the naked emperor and try our best to look down at our feet, and ignore the wart-ed buttocks that leads us… while we defend our liberty and our land from change that will rid the world of hope.

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Happy Soul Food Friday for the New Year!
This missive sent out to my inner circle was well received so I am sending it out more broadly to kick off the New Year with full intention to actualize your joy, wisdom and well-being in the new year…
Captured in a Spell of Gratitude
“Silence is the Language of God.
All Else is Poor Translation.”- Rumi
Creating a Masterpiece:
As artists we seem to share the same canvas and similar aspirations about the masterpiece. It is threaded by respect for life, helping others find freedom, living in harmony and being of service. In weaving this fabric we simultaneously make our dreams, and those of the planet come true. Alignment with nature both outer nature and our inner nature is a powerful multiplex, moving energy in both directions.
Polishing the Mirror of Our Mind:
By taming the mind without domesticating it, turning our internal enemies and doubts into allies and resources, owning our own distortions made up of cognitive, unconscious and implicit biases, as well as waking up from the nightmare (as contrasted with the dream) of unconsciousness through active practice and self-forgiveness into the manifest reality of present moment awareness we become the dream-masters our world needs. May we transform our deepest wounds into our greatest gifts…
On Matters of Worthiness:
Part of our purpose journey is about vigilantly stalking our mind and ambushing the parasites within. Both the fallacy that we are not enough or its inverse that we are “all that and a bag of chips” are equally destructive. Dispelling the darkness & shadow shape shifting so others are seen in the clear mirror of our self-reflection brings to light our deepest selves and mobilizes our greatest good.
Leveraging our Strengths, Interests and Values:
Our competencies are not brute strength and cunning but inspiration, imagination and creative spirit. These fuel and foster courage, love and wisdom as we release unhealthy beliefs and behaviors and wake up to the promise and potentiality right in front of us.
We don’t have to be well-rounded, our team does!
We are judged by the company we keep, so choose wisely.
Through mindful practice, in a syntactical inversion of consciousness, we realize the mind isn’t in here and the world out there but just the opposite! By applying the distinction with a difference between judgement and discernment we move ourselves and others to the light.
Thanks for sharing yourself and the journey with us and helping cast a new and powerfully positive spell on our community.
Wishing you peace, prosperity & purpose as we propel ourselves on another journey around the sun and start a new year.
10 Heartwarming CA Stories About Acts Of Kindness In 2018:
With every tragedy there is an act of kindness to accompany it. Here are California stories that will melt your heart.
4 Conscious Choices to Energize You to Live Your Best Life in the New Year:
The start of a New Year is wonderful time to connect to your heart’s deepest yearnings — and do so in a way that energizes your capacity to create more of what you yearn to bring into your life.
Thanks this week go to Marlaine C, and all of you that energize my purpose practice in extended family, in meaningful work & in conscious community!
Here’s wishing you a passionate, purposeful and positive New Year…
“Even after all this time
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“You owe me.”
Look what happens with a love like that
It lights the whole world.”–Hafiz

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“The worst part about having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t…”
T.W: Mention of abuse, blood, and murder
Author: Madhumila Killamsetty
Artist: Zach Ng
Editor: Kavya Subramanian
The Joker is a popular DC supervillain who, according to some canonical versions, fell into a vat of chemical solutions that left him disfigured and ‘crazy’. However, in the 2019 film, Joker, we see a different origin story of this iconic character. The movie provides insight into what made Arthur Fleck, the Joker. It uses the context of his background — his mental illness, personality disorders, lack of resources, and the lack of empathy from the people around him — to show how Arthur Fleck transitioned into the Joker.
Our first glimpse of one of Arthur’s disorders is when he sits in his therapist’s office. He breaks into a burst of laughter that visibly pains him and almost chokes him. These outbursts of laughter are observed throughout the film creating an uncomfortable atmosphere as nobody around him seems to understand his struggle. He carries around a laminated card to let people know about his condition but is always met with scorn and disdain. His mannerisms gain unwanted attention from three drunk men in the subway who beat him to a pulp. This uncontrollable laughter is symptomatic of a real disorder called Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA).
In PBA, there is a disconnect between the frontal lobe of the brain (controls emotions) and the cerebellum (mediates reflexes) which causes sudden, uncontrollable, and intense episodes of laughter or crying due to the inability to control facial muscles. In Arthur’s case, this delicate connection was probably disrupted when his abusive foster father caused severe trauma to his head during his childhood. This disorder makes people feel alienated from society, often leading to anxiety and depression. This is exactly what we see with Arthur: His loneliness, negative thoughts, and constant need for love and acceptance explain his delusions about Murray, the talk show host, being his fatherly figure, or his neighbor being romantically interested in him.
Throughout the film, Arthur yearns for acceptance, for people to be proud of him and give him attention. He imagines being on the Murray Franklin show, receiving the audience’s appreciation for taking care of his mother, and receiving fatherly warmth and affection from Murray. This is a case of Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), in which people have an inflated sense of self and a deep need for attention and admiration. This stems from Arthur’s need to bury his feelings of low self-esteem and self-worth. NPD likely arose in Arthur as a psychological defense against his traumatic childhood where he was repeatedly abused and starved. It could have also been inherited since NPD is known to have a genetic component.
Things go downhill when Arthur kills two men on the subway in self-defense and the third one deliberately. This is the turning point in his life. He enjoys the sudden surge in attention from the masses for these actions. He finally feels seen, as if his existence has meaning. We see him imagining fake scenarios to validate his actions, like his “girlfriend” glorifying the person who killed the three men. During the climax, we witness Arthur’s extremely fragile ego when he reveals a “joke” to the talk show audience that he was the murderer of the three men on the train. When nobody finds this funny and he is met with hate and disapproval, he snaps and murders Murray, the host. People with NPD, genuinely struggle to make intimate connections with people and have a deep sense of loneliness and insecurity. Arthur coped with these issues by eliminating people who demeaned him. With compassion, we need to encourage people with NPD to seek help to address feelings of low self-esteem, and shame, so that they do not yield to the harmful compensatory strategies that emerge from the disorder as Arthur did.
Finally, Arthur is an extreme case of psychopathy. Psychopathy is not a mental illness; it is a collection of traits, including not feeling remorse and being callous and uncaring. Following the murder on the subway, Arthur locks himself in the bathroom and performs a slow dance which is the first sign of the ‘Joker’ in him emerging. He confides in his therapist that he never felt better. We never see him questioning his actions or feeling remorse, which further points to his underactive neocortex. He believed that they deserved it. He doesn’t think about what is morally or lawfully correct and demonstrates irritable and aggressive behavior. Even when his friends visit him, he brutally murders one of them for getting him fired from his job. With blood splattered all over him, he casually diverts the topic to his appearance on the Murray show. His iconic dance at the staircase is symbolic of him completely embracing his new identity, fully transitioning into the Joker. He mentions stopping his medications, implying that he has given up, intending to no longer fit in. With an eerie smile on his face, he whispers, “Isn’t it beautiful?”, as he watches his city burn.
Contrary to popular notions, most psychopaths are not criminals. They might use their psychopathic traits to get what they want at the expense of others in everyday life such as in the workplace. Some inherited genetic and environmental factors such as bad parenting and birth complications increase the risk of developing psychopathy. These factors influence the brain, in particular the amygdala which affects empathy, social responsiveness, and outcomes related to fear. Although we don’t know the Joker’s birth family history, environmental factors such as the torture in his childhood could make a case for Arthur’s psychopathy.
Despite Arthur most likely developing his disorders because of childhood abuse and traumatic brain injury, his mental illnesses do not justify his violent tendencies. In the real world, people with disorders and mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence rather than perpetrators. In the film, the Joker’s heinous crimes are depicted as consequences of a failed society. It provides us with potential results of pulling out funding from mental health institutes and mistreating people with mental disorders. Pop culture’s representation of mental illness is almost always associated with violence and the film Joker does not try to fix that. It was neither made to vindicate mentally ill people nor to educate society about mental illness. Rather, it was made to tell us a story about one man, Arthur Fleck, who became the Joker because of his choices, situations, and society.

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The Predator returns to Earth with so-so $24 million opening The Predator is eliminating its box office competition, though not without taking some blows. The latest installment in Fox’s action-packed film series about extraterrestrial big-game hunters is on track to […]
Crazy Rich Asians holds strong to win second weekend at the box office Crazy Rich Asians is scarcely slowing down. After a strong debut last week, Warner Bros’. glitzy rom-com is on track to earn an estimated $25 million in […]
Mission: Impossible — Fallout holds off Christopher Robin at the box office Oh, bother. Winnie the Pooh is back on the big screen this weekend — in live action, no less — but he and his pals won’t be on […]
Mission: Impossible — Fallout sets franchise high with $61.5 million opening Tom Cruise is in control once again. The actor’s new spy flick Mission: Impossible — Fallout is on track to earn an estimated $61.5 million in ticket sales at […]
Equalizer 2 edges out Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again at the box office Denzel Washington has no equal at the box office this weekend. The actor’s gritty action sequel The Equalizer 2 is on track to open with an […]
“…there are no plans for Zack Snyder to direct another DC movie.” is one of the greatest sentences I’ve read all year!!
Zack Snyder’s Justice League Cut Reportedly Will Not Be Released Ever since Justice League critically and commercially underperformed in theaters last fall, there’s been a rallying cry from many fans of the DC Extended Universe for Warner Bros to release […]
Whether it’s bad or even awful, I still want to see SKYSCRAPER as I love disaster/action films…and anything co-starring Neve Campbell!!
Hotel Transylvania 3 towers over Skyscraper at the box office Adam Sandler’s animated Dracula has upset action hero Dwayne Johnson at the box office this weekend. The Sony release Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is on track to debut with […]
Peyton Reed Wanted Rick Moranis For Ant-Man, Still Wants Him For Ant-Man 3 Ant-Man and the Wasp is off to a great start at the box office and the debut of the sequel has many people looking back at the […]
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg Will Work Together Again Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have a long working history together, from the TV series Spaced to the Cornetto Trilogy. The duo haven’t teamed up since 2013’s The World’s End, but […]
It’s a smaller Marvel movie and so Ant-Man and the Wasp has a smaller Opening Weekend. I enjoyed it. Good fun!!
Ant-Man and the Wasp scales up to $76 million opening weekend Two tiny heroes are making a sizable impression on the box office this weekend. Disney and Marvel’s stature-shifting superhero sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp is on track to debut […]


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Friday, February 20, 2015
The Sun Like You've Never Seen It
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which keeps a 24/7 vigil on the sun, just released this spectacular video composite to mark five years since the spacecraft was launched.

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By Thomas H. West, CPLP
2017 ATDChi President & former Co-Director, WLPI
My initiation in the full science and art of good training came as a result of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident of 1979. I began working as a trainer with Westinghouse Nuclear Services when the “learnings” from that accident were being implemented throughout the industry, including change to the training of power plant operators.
The operators on duty at Three Mile Island when the accident happened understood the operation of the nuclear reactor, but they did not understand basic thermodynamics and fluid flow. It was their misinterpretation of these the lead them to take actions leading to the accident. The training department had not included these topics in the training program, and government regulators had not included these topics in licensing tests.
The nuclear industry recognized that to have effective training, it was necessary to look more analytically at the job of reactor operator, to create clear linkages from the tasks a reactor operator does, to the knowledge and skill taught in the classroom and on the job, and finally to evaluations conducted during and after training. The methods selected to do this were found in Instructional System Design (ISD), the forerunner of the ADDIE model, and it was from this that I learned the full scope of what it means to be a training professional.
Luckily, it is no longer necessary to have a nuclear accident to learn the importance of a systematic approach to training. WLPI was created by “old hands” in the industry to show new and experienced trainers alike the full scope of the employee training process and how to ensure that each individual training event is connected to actual job needs and supports documentable performance improvement—for the business, as well as for the employee.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron- Trailer 3 Analysis/Breakdown
The other day, the latest trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron was released (you can see it here). It was a very good trailer, with some interesting shots and parts of it that hinted to what may come in the film. In this article, we're going to break down the trailer shot-for-shot and analyse it, coming up with some theories based on what we see. Just so you know, if there were any repeat shots from other trailers in this one, I didn't include the frames in this article. I have already said what I wanted to say about them and I didn't feel the need to touch upon them again. You can read our analysis of the last trailer here. So, let's get started.
What's interesting about this is that Ultron is sitting on what seems to be a throne. It's fitting for his character that he would physically show his dominance in this fashion, considering his ultimate goal is to rule over humanity.
So it seems that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver will stay with Ultron pretty late in the game. From the looks of Ultron in this scene, he is already in his final form (called Ultron Prime). So at what point do they actually join the Avengers? I have a feeling that they may not even join them in this film, and if they do, it'll be only for part of the third act.
From this scene, with the next shot of all the faces, it's hard to tell whether these people are excited to see the Avengers or not. Ultron may see their attempts to police the world as tyrannical and overstepping their boundaries, which would give him good incentive to try to take them down, as a hero of the people. Or maybe everybody loves them and Ultron feels like an outcast- a failed experiment and he wants revenge for being brought to life. I think either way it adds really cool dimension to the Ultron character and adds more layers to the film.
My best guess at what he's doing is that he's charging himself like a phone. What if the Avengers finally beat him by stalling him until he gets to 0%. I can't tell if that's genius or the stupidest idea ever. Probably the latter.
These next few pictures give an idea of the scale of the destruction in this movie. A lot of sh*t is getting blown up.
People running from the sh*t.
And there goes the sh*t! KABOOM!
This shot proves that the former Stark tower in The Avengers has now become the headquarters for the Avengers, which we had heard a while back.
So Tony Stark says that he tried to build a suit of armor around the world, which I think makes most sense for his character. In Iron Man 3, we saw that he gives up being Iron Man because he doesn't need it anymore. But the world still does. So what does he do? He develops Ultron to the job for him. For this cinematic universe, I think this storyline makes most sense over the Hank Pym one. It just fits what has already been established really well.
Tony Stark is explaining what he has done. I think there will be a very interesting dynamic between Ultron and Tony, a very hard father/son relationship. Because Tony never really had a father, so we can see that with Ultron essentially "growing up" and becoming this anathema... it will be very hard on Tony. I am excited to see where they go with that.
What I think is interesting about this is that we've all assumed that Tony and Bruce Banner worked on Ultron together. They are the two scientists in the group and we've just assumed that it was a joint project. But from this trailer, we learn that Bruce wasn't in on it. Tony made Ultron all by himself. This will add even more guilt on his conscience, as he is the sole responsibility for the villain.
With this shot and the shot of the Ultron drones rising from the water, I've never really understood where they are coming from. The last analysis, I theorized that maybe Tony was keeping these in an underground bunker and that's why they're bursting through the ground. I still don't know and I don't think we will know until we see the film, but I do have to admit these shots look awesome.
Here's another shot of Tony explaining Ultron to Bruce.
More explosions, one taking down the mighty Thor himself.
This shot was really cool and well done, with Captain America grabbing the bumper of the cars, trying to keep them from falling off the bridge.
At the Marvel Event that happened several months ago, this full scene was revealed. It was never released online officially, but I saw a recording of it, which you can see here. This exchange between Cap and Tony is really setting up Captain America: Civil War, showing their disputes, which I think is key. This movie really needs to help develop that story so that next year, when they do go to war against each other, we believe it.
We have heard rumors for the longest time that Black Widow and Bruce would be in a relationship in this movie. While Mark Ruffalo has denied it, everything points to it actually happening. I've already stated that I think what will make the Hulk go on a rampage that requires the Hulkbuster is that Black Widow is killed by Ultron. That's my theory, but I've been wrong about things before. Hell, I'm mostly wrong about things.
So what is this place? Where are they? My guess is that the world has been overtaken by Ultron and his drones and the Avengers have just suffered a heavy defeat. They are hiding out in this remote house in the middle of nowhere to figure out a game plan before going back and taking down Ultron in act three. At least, that's my thought.
I have to be honest. The first time I saw this trailer and this shot happened, I thought for a split second that it was Wolverine's claws. I had to stop the trailer and watch it again before I realized it was Hawkeye extended his bow.
I think this shot is awesome, but the CGI to make Hawkeye in this shot is really bothering me. He looks really fake in this shot. Other than that, this is a great shot showing all of the Avengers fighting together.
It seems like Captain America will be everywhere in this movies besides, you know... America.
This is interesting. Tony is holding Loki's scepter. We know Tom Hiddleston
will be making an appearance in this film, but I don't know if he will be connected to this scene. I still have a very unlikely theory that Ultron will be going to Asgard to upgrade using the metal that Thor's hammer is made of and that's where we will see Idris Elba's Heimdall and Loki, but like I said, that is very unlikely. So I don't know how the scepter is related. Maybe it's just a trophy they have from the New York battle.
This shot is cool, but what's interesting is that there's no Hawkeye. A lot of people think that he is going to die in this film. While I personally think it will be Black Widow, his absence from this scene could point towards that theory. Or maybe Hawkeye was quick taking a dump during the team pep talk.
And of course, what would be a Marvel movie without Samuel L. Jackson?
A cool shot of the three main heroes of the Avengers: Iron Man, Captain America and Thor.
It's hard to tell where they are. It looks like some sort of industrial warehouse/factor. It's hard to tell but I think there's a very awesome fight about to break out.
This shot foreshadows that maybe one of the Avengers will die. Tony says some along the lines of that not all of them will make it out alive. While I don't think it will be Cap or Iron Man or any of them, Hawkeye and Black Widow are the most viable options, with my money on Black Widow.
I don't think Ultron is in his final form in this scene. At the end of it, we know Ultron will be made of vibranium, which is what Cap's shield is made of. So if the shield can pierce Ultron's armor, then he is not made of vibranium yet.
This is a very cool looking shot.
We've been getting many glimpses of the Hulk versus the Hulkbuster fight and here's a new shot of it. I don't know how much of the film will be that fight (probably only like ten minutes), but from everything we've seen, I think it's going to be one of the highlights of the film.
I really hope that Scarlet Witch isn't brainwashing Black Widow and making her an enemy of the Avengers. We've already seen that happen with Hawkeye in The Avengers. Maybe Scarlet Witch is accessing her memories, which would lead into the shots we've seen in previous trailers of Black Widow being operated on.
This shot gives an idea of how Quicksilver's powers work and how they look on screen, especially how they differentiate from Evan Peters' Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
So I tried to zoom in on that poster and Google it to see if it was some sort of Easter Egg about the film but I couldn't find anything. It looks foreign, so this scene must happen in a different country. That's all I can really surmise about it.
Cap has taken on the entire Nazi army. I think he can handle a car being thrown at him. Hopefully.
This shot has been shown in previous trailers, but I always thought it was part of the scene in the very beginning of the film where they raid a facility run by Hydra operative Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. But it looks like this is actually part of the third act in a fight against Ultron.
How badass is Ultron? Thor yells "Is that the best you can do?" and Ultron simply laughs and summons his army.
Okay, this is going to be one hell of a fight.
And here's the little bit of a humor we know and love the Avengers for. We know this film is going to be darker and grittier, but Marvel is known for being more lighthearted, which this line from Cap shows is still eminent.
A couple things here. First off, I think this is from the third act. Hawkeye and Black Widow are still here, which means they're not dead yet. Second, Scarlet Witch is fighting alongside them, so they must have left Ultron's side and joined the Avengers by now. Quicksilver isn't present but he may be running around fighting the drones and we just can't see him in this shot. And third, that piece in the center is moving up. My first thought is that it is a capsule containing the Vision, who joins in on the fight. But who knows.
This looks awesome. I mean, all we really want to see is the Hulk smash stuff, am I right?
Title. But wait...
It wouldn't be Marvel if it didn't have a post credits teaser. This is our first real look at the Vision, but something I wanted to point out was the gem on his forehead. Many people have been speculating that it might be an infinity stone, which I think is a plausible idea. We'll have to wait and see though.
Am I the only one who actually sees a bit of Paul Bettany in his face?
And there you have it. That's our analysis/breakdown of the third trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
What do you think? Did you like the trailer? Do you agree with some of my theories? Did you see something I didn't? Are you looking forward to Avengers: Age of Ultron? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Negahban, best known for his critically acclaimed and SAG nominated performance as Osama Bin Ladin archetype Abu Nazir on opposite Damian Lewis on "Homeland." He also has been seen in a multitude of recent projects including the hit film AMERICAN ASSASSIN opposite Michael Keaton, the Netflix film SAND CASTLE alongside Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult and the Jerry Bruckheimer produced 12 STRONG opposite Chris Hemsworth. Navid also starred in the independent film BABA JOON, which went on to win five Ophir Awards, the equivalent of the Israeli Oscar
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UK Mega Monday data reveals 81% rise in sales via mobile
Before the surge of U.S. data from Black Friday and Cyber Monday hits your screen, IBM have given an insight into U.K. sales figures and mobile shopping habits resulting from this week's 'Mega Monday' ecommerce activity.
IBM's latest findings come from Monday, 25 November, 2013, when millions of e-commerce transactions were tracked from more than 200 UK retail websites. The results reveal that online sales increased by 33.5% compared to the same day last year.
The stats surrounding mobile use speak for themselves - mobile traffic accounted for a whopping 42.4% of all online traffic, up 68% on the same day last year. Furthermore, mobile users weren't just using their device to research purchases. Almost a third (31%) of online sales were completed on a mobile device, an 81.5% rise on last year.
While smartphones accounted for almost a quarter (22.3%) of all online traffic, and tablets just 20%, tablets were the device of choice for making a purchase - 19.4% of online sales were made via tablet compared with just 12.4% via a smartphone.
According to IBM, Mega Mondays are specific to the UK and are similar to the U.S.'s Cyber Monday. IBM are reporting on two Mega Mondays this year - 25 November and 2 December.
Visa Europe believes Monday, 2 December, 2013 will be the UK's busiest Mega Monday. Visa predicts that that day will see their customers alone spend £450 million (US$735 million), the equivalent of £312,500 (US$510,000) every minute, or £5,208 (US$8,525) every second.
"UK consumers' love affair with online shopping will reach its peak on Mega Monday when we predict that we will process 7.7 million Visa transactions - a 16% rise on last year," said Jeremy Nicholds, director of commercial development at Visa Europe.
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History 1302 Exam #4Victoria Toudouze Tue May 12 00:51:58 CDT 2015Cold Warconflict between theSoviet Union and the United States after World War II. Dominated European and world politics for more thanforty years.GI Bill of Rights (GI Bill)1944-Congress passed Servicemen's Readjustment Act (aka GI Bill) to help ease transition of returning servicemen to civilian life-gave veterans an education and training paid for by gov.-provided loans to buy homes, farms, businesses, etc.Employment Act of 1946established national economic objectives in the areas of:1. Employment2. Economic growth3. Price StabilityUN Atomic Energy CommissionUS and allies had monopoly of nuclear weapons; UN commission broker deal that every nation undergo inspection to ensure nonation would make nukes; US surrender arsenal to UN; Soviets rejectTaft-Hartley Act of 1947-known as LMRA, Amended the Wagner Act-created after a great number of large scale strikes had nearly disabled the automobile,steel,& packing industries. Lead to public panic-balance of power b/t labor and management-Right to refrain from union activities & had pro-management law to level the unfair playing field in favor of unionsWhat are "Right To Work" laws?Laws that state no employer may require employees to join the unionNational Security Act of 1947The National Security Act of 1947 was signed by President Truman, and it reorganized the US Armed Forces and foreign policy afterWorld War II, including the consolidation of military branches into the DoD.C.I.A (Central Intelligence Agency)Agency established in 1947 that coordinates the gathering and evaluation of military and economic information on other nationsUnited Nations Security Councila 15 member council that carries the primary UN responsibilities for peace, security, and collective security operationsOrthodox View of Cold War~holds that Soviet Union was responsible for the Cold War.~led to U.S.A. to act defensivelyRevisionist View of Cold War~held that USA was responsible for the cold war~see the motives behind U.S. foreign policyIron Curtainsymbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europeinto two separate areas from the end of World War II in1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989.ContainmentA political strategy adopted by the US to restrict Soviet expansion to other countries.
Truman Doctrine - 19471) a policy set forth in President Henry Truman's speech about U.S. supporting Greece and Turkey in military/economic aid to preventthem from Soviet Union takeoverMarshall Plan 1948Truman. US loans to rebuild Western European Industry. Also meant to unify Western Europe against communism.The West Berlin Blockade in 1948The issue that led to the most dramatic confrontation was when Stalin attempted to get the Allies to leave West Berlin by denyingground access to the city. American and British planes moved supplies into west Berlin. ( The Americans had to carry out a long-running sirlift of supplies.)Berlin Airlift

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Much of southwest and central Missouri is being soaked with rain as the remnants of hurricane Isaac move through the state.
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The National Weather Service predicted the system could dump up to 6 inches of rain in central parts of the state. The system extended from Kansas City to Kirksville by mid-day Friday. Forecasters said some areas, particularly from Warrensburg to Macon, could get up to an inch of rain per hour but most areas will get less than a quarter of an inch per hour.
Heavy rain was expected to begin in eastern Missouri later Friday and continue through Saturday.
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PPT Building, Paradeep, Odisha 754142, India
Paradip Port is a natural, deep-water port on the East coast of India in Jagatsinghpur. It is situated at confluence of the Mahanadi river ad the Bay of Bengal. It is situated 210 nautical miles south of Kolkata and 260 nautical miles north of Visakhapatnam.
Location of Paradip Port

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