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Critical agencies that oversee Europe's banks and pharmaceutical sector will move from London to cities on the Continent, political leaders in Brussels decided Monday, potentially ominous harbingers of how Britain's impending exit from the European Union could diminish the country's economic clout.
The European Medicines Agency will move to Amsterdam, while the European Banking Authority is set to relocate to Paris. Representatives of European Union member states voted by secret ballot. In the case of the medicines agency, Amsterdam and Milan ended up tied, with the winner chosen by drawing lots, a spokeswoman for the European Union said. Paris, meanwhile, beat out Dublin for the banking authority.
Amsterdam will be the new location of the European Medicines Agency— Estonia in the EU (@EEinEU) November 20, 2017
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The departure of the European Medicines Agency, Europe's equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, is a blow to the prestige of Britain's pharmaceutical industry, an important pillar of the economy and an example of the country's bona fides in scientific research and development.
The European Banking Authority has strong symbolic value among cities jostling to become Continental Europe's financial capital. Its departure serves as a warning of the consequences of Brexit for London, currently the banking capital of Europe, and illustrates the fierce competition from other capitals for the spoils.
"There is no upside for the City of London" from Brexit, said Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a research organization in Brussels. "It will lose business, not gain."
From Britain's point of view, the European Medicines Agency is the larger of the two losses in tangible terms, as it has around 890 staff members. It oversees the approval of drugs for use across Europe, has an annual budget of more than $300 million and generates significant additional revenue for London. For example, on most weekdays its visiting experts fill 350 hotel rooms in the city.
Its departure also underscores continuing questions about how British pharmaceutical companies will be regulated after the country's withdrawal from the bloc, known as Brexit, a shift scheduled for March 2019.
The sector is an important one, and enjoys substantially more public support among Britons than finance, the image of which has been tarnished in recent years.
Charles Tannock, a Conservative Party lawmaker in the European Parliament, described the relocation of the medicines agency on Twitter as a "huge loss to UK pharma," adding that he was "heart broken" to lose the organization.
"The relocation of the E.M.A. away from London will be a bitter pill to swallow," added Rory Palmer, the health policy spokesman for the opposition Labour Party's lawmakers in the European Parliament. "Our economy will suffer. Our health sector will suffer. Our successful pharmaceutical industry will suffer.
"But most of all, patients will suffer, from delays and the potential loss of access to medicines and research, if we are to crash out of the E.U.," Mr. Palmer said in a statement, referring to the possibility that Britain might quit the bloc without an agreement to stay within European regulatory structures.
Before the discussion on relocation, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, wished all the candidates to host the agencies luck but added on Twitter: "Whatever the outcome, the real winner of today's vote is EU27. Organized and getting ready for #Brexit."
Compared with the European Medicines Agency, the banking authority is a minnow in size, with only about 150 employees.
The decision to move the European Banking Authority, though, underlines the risks facing London's lucrative financial industry from Brexit. The European Central Bank has suggested it might impose extra regulations on eurozone banks operating in London, in effect pressuring them to move to the Continent.
After Britain's exit from the European Union, for example, large numbers of transactions in euros would be taking place outside the reach of European regulators. London dominates currency and derivatives trading in Europe.
In a measure of the prestige attached to the competition to be the new home of the banking authority, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, lent his name to Paris's campaign. In a glossy brochure Mr. Macron argued that because of its quality of life, "Paris is a safe bet for attracting the very best talent."
The decision was a blow to Frankfurt, which is probably a more important financial center and is the home to the European Central Bank, but lacks Paris's charm or breadth of cultural and entertainment opportunities.
Numerous big banks are already expanding on the Continent. Goldman Sachs will add employees in both Frankfurt and Paris, Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of the investment bank, said in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro published Sunday.
Mr. Blankfein said on Twitter last week that he was "struck by the positive energy here in Paris." He added, "And the food's good too!"
The Goldman Sachs executive also had kind words for Frankfurt after a visit in October. "Great meetings, great weather," he said on Twitter, apparently unaware that Frankfurt is rainier than London. "Really enjoyed it. Good, because I'll be spending a lot more time there."


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I do not understand why i have only 25-60 FPS. can you check it pls ?
msinfo and dxdiag. GPU may used her Video engine not heavily and my cpu is chilled also to with 65% usage with streáming. RAM is filled up with all programms in backround to round about 65& to. It is more that my pc is dreaming and the performance from the game goes down. sometimes there are heavy lags instand when my ping are exploding. but i think that is a server problem. but what i dont understand is that when iam fighting in the endzone i stuck at 25 frames and guess what my gpu und cpu is chilling. the only thing that get my cpu is working is OBS xD
Can you check this ? i have in a rar file my pc specs ( msinfo and dxdiag ) need only a place where i can upload it

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Galileo's Telescope3 min read
About 2,500 years ago the Old Testament prophet, Daniel, prophesied that the end times would see an unprecedented increase in travel and education. You might not think that news is constantly about crises in other countries, or things that have happened to other people, but more likely the news reflects a policy or government decision that will be utilising your tax money and that will affect your economy. This article that I read by Popular science by Rose Pastrose, is able to explain the use and application of XSTAT very clearly. Native speakers of English have a best-kept secret, their love for literature of all genres from poetry to romance to science fiction and more. At the same time you might lose respect from the other people who value the news and current affairs more.
Professors Sofia Olhede and Patrick Wolfe are organising a meeting on the impacts of the usage of algorithms in society, October 30-31 2017 at the Royal Society at Carlton House in London. I've learned a lot from reading the periodical each month, the advantage being that it covers such a variety of issues and topics. Harvard and MIT study reveals that cognitive science field experiments are critical to understanding human learning and education. Students will need to research and find an article of an occurrence of Science in the News.
Simply donate any amount and not only will you experience our site ad-free, but you will be part of the Science X community mission to promote science and technology knowledge. I personally beam with pride when my students perform well during exams or on the top rank during contest related to Earth Science. I believe science and God are compatible, completely and absolutely because science discovery reveals more of God's creation. As a kid, Zumberge first learned about science from his dad, who was a geology professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Harvard researchers have linked moderate consumption of chocolate with a lower risk of atrial fibrillation.
Thus far, technology had reached a long way, and at this rate, I think, science will be able to reach immortality, and make a whole industry of cars that run only on air to make our air less pollutant, which will reduce the amounts of acid rains, which is caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide released by cars and factories, and with this we are not only helping us, but also helping living organisms around us.
It is probable that this is a result of my faith and science viewed through those beliefs, so I do not plan on arguing that point or supporting it since it isn't much of an important point to make in regards to what I want to say in this article. Scientists may never know how Phobos came to be a Martian satellite, but the new study may help eliminate some possibilities, Tom Andert told Science News. Sometimes John's father took the boy and his three siblings on field trips with the college students.


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These are the hottest tech products you'll want next year
Tech junkies, it's time to get excited about 2017 hottest tech products. Analysts are expecting a bunch of cool new products to launch next year. In 2016 there were some hits and some misses. Most notably the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was recalled after the battery began bursting into flames. There are sure to be more hits and misses in the year to come, but lets hope for less explosive failures.
Here are seven 2017 hottest tech products to get excited about.
Samsung Galaxy S8
Some of the hottest tech products of recent years have come from Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy S8 will be the company's first opportunity to recover from the Galaxy Note 7 recall. The Galaxy S8 is Samsung's flagship phone. There isn't too much information available about the upcoming phone, but Samsung has announced that it will include a new digital assistant. The new system will be powered by Viv, the artificial intelligence startup purchased by Samsung earlier this year. Viv was founded by the same people who built Siri. Next year may be the year Samsung launches its first bendable phone. Samsung filed a patent for a bendable device recently, which is fueling speculation.
New iPads & an iMac
Bloomberg analyst Mark Gurman believes Apple will launch a new iPad in the spring of 2017. The new models will focus on the Pro line, including improvements to the Apple Pencil stylus and new screen sizes. It's been a long time since Apple significantly updated the iMac. Bloomberg's Gurman reported that Apple has considered adding a USB-C port to the iMac lineup.
iPhone 8
Next year marks the tenth birthday of the iPhone 8, so expect major changes for the phone. Rumor has it the phone will feature an all-glass design, an organic LED display for better images, new screen sizes and no home button. The new iPhone is set to be a drastic change from previous models in terms of design.
A Google Smartwatch
The Android Wear watches update was delayed until 2017, and rumor has it they will be launching their own watch as well. The circular smartwatches will be the company's opportunity to increase demand for wearable computers.
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo will release Nintendo Switch in March 2017. The new gaming console works on televisions and doubles as a portable system. No final details like pricing or launch titles will be released until January 12th.
Xbox Project Scorpio
Microsoft is planning to supercharge the Xbox for next year's model. The company is working on Project Scorpio, set to be a more powerful version of the Xbox One designed for 4k TVs. There is also the potential for virtual reality headsets. The new Xbox is targeting gamers who value performance over all else. The new console is expected to launch in the fall of next year.
Which of the hottest tech products are a must-have for you?
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I know I haven't blogged in...well, seven months. ((Hangs head)) I have good reasons for it, which I look forward to telling you all about soon enough. But in the meantime I wanted to share this benediction with you. It blessed me today, and I thought it may meet some of you where you are, too.
Franciscan Benediction
May God bless us with discomfort
at uneasy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships
so that we may live from deep within our hearts.
May God bless us with anger
at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of God's creations
so that we may work for justice, freedom, and peace.
May God bless us with tears
to shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger, and war
so that we may reach out our hands to comfort them and
to turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless us with just enough foolishness
to believe that we can make a difference in the world,
so that we can do what others claim cannot be done:
to bring justice and kindness to all our children and all our neighbors who are poor.


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Library. At both undergraduate and postgraduate level the College has a network of partnerships that are both regional (academic and faith-based organisations in the North West of England) and global (institutions in the Wesleyan tradition worldwide), which helps the College recruit and support students from a wide range of contexts.
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If you're having trouble with, or want to enhance your PS Vita, I'm slowly putting together some tips and troubleshooting guides.
Covered in this piece
Lots of people ask how to get videos from YouTube or other online sources for offline viewing. All you need is the URL of the video, then go to savefrom.net on your Vita and enter the URL there. The site will download the file to the right app and it can manage Soundcloud, Vimeo, Yandex, Dailymotion and quite a few others.
To play a YouTube video that's longer than an hour, you need to options, by tapping the three vertical dots next to the search spyglass. Scroll down the pop-up menu and tap Desktop. Now audio mixes, longer videos and those random old movies that folk put up on YouTube will play.
What the YouTube site on Vita doesn't play, and likely never will is live event streams. For now, all you can do is see if there's a stream on Twitch and use that app.
The most common tip is for a locked, crashed Vita or one with a constantly flashing blue PS light. Simply hold down the power button for a few seconds (sometimes with the right trigger pressed) - until you see the restart menu. Choose the first "Restart the PS Vita System" option and that should do the trick.
Memory Card Content Vanishing?
PS Vita Error Code c1-11834-7
Missing PS Vita AR cards
Cleaning out your memory card
Choose your Vita's lock screen
If you're after some cool backgrounds and lock screens for your Vita then these are a few good places to visit. Remember you can take screenshots of your own games in action (Press PS Button and Start) and use those!:
NeoGAF forum
Reddit forum thread
Free Vita themes
If you're looking for something extra to protect, enhance, or otherwise cuddle your Vita, check out these links.
Turtle Beach M5 Headphones
Sony Pulse Wireless Elite Edition Headset
PS Vita Case Roundup
Sony PS Vita Cases and Accessories
Nyko PS Vita Dock
Snakebite PS Vita Cases and Accessories
DX Combined grip and battery pack
Games like Borderlands 2 mean you could need a grip more than ever, I haven't tried one, but these seem popular on Amazon:
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I'll agree with Ira, that bond fund dividends are ordinary dividends, not qualified dividends. TT is probably coming up with the right number here. Those ordinary dividends from the bond fund are taxable, but apparently less than the $950 standard deduction. As a recap, the first $950 of your child's income is not taxed. The next $950 is taxed at her tax rates. The ordinary tax rate on that part of her income is 10%. So if any of that income is long term capital gains or qualified dividends, it gets a special tax rate of 0%.Income over that first $1900 will be taxed at your rate.--Peter
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Daddy reported it back to me last night that when Baby Boy was downstairs with me yesterday morning and he was helping Top Ender to get dressed they were discussing breakfast.
"Daddy will you make me breakfast instead of Mummy?"
"Sure, whys that though?"
"Mummy said she would give me weed for breakfast."
"Yes. She has given it to me before when you weren't here"
At this point Daddy was a little confused and was trying to work out what on earth she meant as he was pretty sure that I am against drugs and wouldn't be supplying our daughter! He must of looked confused as Top Ender started to elaborate.
"She said it was shredded weed"
"Shredded weed?"
"Yes and she said that cousin likes it too"
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Aberration Inc.
Howard County, MD
Aberration Inc. was incorporated by Michael Suber in June 2012. Aberration is a promotional company for artists and beginning businesses. Aberration offers services to college student who are pursuing an art career to men and women who already have a business and want to have it promoted to help grow their audience and sales. Aberration offers advertisement, magazine publications, photo shoots, events, entertainment, and branding services. The price range is from $150.00 to $10,000.00 for all services.
These services will be in Columbia, MD where the company was founded. This will be Howard Counties' first promotional company. Howard County is known for their musicians and artists who take up the career but not able to find a job because they don't know how to advertise themselves the correct way and that's what we are here for.
Aberration will be managed by its' owner, Michael Suber, who has started this company from scratch and advertised it in a way that many customers now appreciates his work and what we do as a promotional company. As the years go by, Aberration will be expected to expand out of the boundaries from which it was founded. Our services will be needed for all artists and businesses.


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Jordan & Scott Engagement Session in Beaufort NC
Beaufort, NC is in and of itself already incredibly beautiful, but when you add in a stunning couple both inside and out, you start to think it can't get much better! Immediately we knew how family oriented and loving this couple was when we were greeted with both warm hearts and many "Hello's" from Jordan and Scott, as well as family members who joined in on the engagement festivities. We were beyond excited when Jordan & Scott picked the well known Beaufort, NC live oak trees! Not only do they make an absolutely perfect backdrop, but they have also become quite the landmark for Beaufort itself! We can't get enough of their sweetness and hope you enjoy a few photos from their engagement session.


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Toledo, Ohio- The Danberry Co., Realtors has been ranked #187 in closed transaction sides for 2012 in a national survey conducted by REAL Trends, the leading consulting and communications company in residential real estate. Keeping the tradition alive as the regional market leader. Danberry was the only broker to rank in the top 200 locally.
CEO Lynn Fruth reflected, "We have always focused on serving the needs of the consumer. When you become proficient at doing that, it is natural that we would grow to be the largest company in the region." Danberry President Dick Baker added, "The fact that our national ranking remains so high despite local economic conditions more challenging than most regions is a real testimony to the dedication and skills of our agents."
The Danberry Company is one of the oldest and most respected real estate brokerage firms in the region. It has been owned and operated in the Toledo area since 1962. With over 200 licensed real estate agents and 7 offices, Danberry is also the largest brokerage serving the area. While Danberry is best known as a residential real estate brokerage, it is a full service company including commercial sales, and leasing nationwide relocation and auction services.


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"Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them." VBS is July 18-22, 9:00-11:45. Ages 3-12.
Vacation Bible School
Kids discover what is means to receive Jesus' gracious salvation daily as they participate in memorable Bible-learning activities, sing songs, and play games.
This year's VBS theme is "Barnyard Roundup" by Concordia Publishing House where children will come to learn anew that the Lord Jesus is their Shepherd, now and forever (Psalm 23).
VBS is the week of July 18, from 9:00-11:45. Ages 3-12 are welcome. We are also looking for helpers ages 12 and up. Registration is completely free and we will be introducing registration forms some time in May.


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Numerology Meaning of Number 5
Characteristics: Independent, freedom loving and adventurous. They are the jack of all trade and pick up new skills very easily.
They are like a cat if you give them attention, they run away, but if you ignore them, they come running to you. They are curious and worldly. They are natural detectives and they know if you lie to them.
Number 5 people care about Freedom! They are very energetic and adventurous people. One thing you can count on with a life path 5 person is it will never be boring. In fact, it might be very dramatic. Drama seems to follow a 5 life path person. They have many natural abilities, but unless they become disciplined they become Jack of all trades and master of none.
In relationship Life Path number 5 people are:
Natural matched with: 1, 5 and 7.
Compatible with 3 and 9.
Challenging to : 2, 4 and 8. (Can cause a breakdown in communication).
Life path number 5 people are like cats. If you give them attention, they walk away, but if you ignore them they come to you. They don't like to be overly committed, and they often can not decide if they want to be in a relationship or not. They need to be very compatible with the person they are in a relationship with or else they feel suffocated. They are often very generous and fun people to be around. On a negative note, they often have addictive personality traits and can overindulge in drugs and alcohol.
The number 5 and it's connection to the tarot
In the Tarot, Number 5, is associated with the Tarot cards the Magician, the Lovers and the Hermit. Astrologically the number 5 is ruled by Mercury.


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September 3, 2002, Section B, Page 1Buy Reprints
Now the project is a life-consuming obsession. But it began quietly enough, with a single photograph, before the New York City firefighter became the human symbol of a nation's grief. Before the words ''ground zero,'' ''Al Qaeda'' and ''war on terror'' became part of the public vernacular.
Laura Yanes, an amateur photographer, walked by a firehouse near Union Square in July 2001 and simply snapped a picture of a firefighter.
''There was something about the light, and the grille of the truck, the way he was sitting there,'' Ms. Yanes said. It was nothing more than shutterbug instinct. The firefighter asked her to bring back a copy, and she promised she would, as soon as she could get into the darkroom at the High School of Fashion Industries in Chelsea, where she was volunteering as a teacher's aide. It did not occur to her to ask his name.
Then came that day in September. Not knowing whether the firefighter had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, she took the photograph to his firehouse, Engine Company 14, two weeks later.
''I figured someone wanted this picture, whether he was dead or alive,'' Ms. Yanes said. ''But I was afraid.''
Hands trembling, she gave the envelope to two firefighters at Engine Company 14. Their hands trembled, too, she said. One of the firefighters tore open the envelope. After a moment of silent suspense, both men cried in unison: ''It's Eddie! He's O.K.! He's O.K.!''
His name was Eddie Mecner, they told her, and he had been at ground zero when the twin towers collapsed, but had survived.
''I have never felt such relief,'' Ms. Yanes said. ''Then the two guys asked, 'Will you take our picture?' And what could I say but yes?''
The resulting black-and-white photograph -- two somber-faced men sitting on the front bumper of their fire engine, arms draped over each other's shoulders, one holding the envelope that contained Mr. Mecner's photograph -- was the beginning of a huge project.
When she returned to deliver the photograph, 10 more firefighters asked for pictures.
''One of them asked, 'Do you mind if I put my gear on? I don't have any pictures of myself in my gear.' And I said, 'Of course.' ''
And from there it grew. One firehouse led to another. Now Ms. Yanes plans to photograph every single New York City firefighter. There are about 11,000 of them. She has a long way to go. To do it in a year, she would have to photograph about 30 firefighters each day, and not take a single day off, even on weekends. So far, less than a year into the project, she has photographed 2,000.
She started out using film, but quickly switched to digital when she realized the enormity of the task. She has picked up some support: Fuji has donated a fancy digital camera and is printing the photographs, and Epson donated photo printers at the beginning. She asked former President Bill Clinton for help when she saw him at a restaurant in June, and he wrote some letters on her behalf requesting support.
But she does almost all the work herself, from shooting the photographs to downloading them from the digital camera to cropping and toning them to delivering them. ''This has become my life,'' she said.
Ms. Yanes, 51, is a trim woman with short dark hair. She is originally from California and worked in public relations for 20 years before moving to New York a few years ago. She tends toward the sentimental and often speaks in phrases well suited to embroidery on decorative pillows.
''I wanted to find a way to say thank you to these men and women,'' she said. ''They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I hope that a picture is also worth a thousand thank yous.''
Ms. Yanes does not plan to publish the photographs and gives them away to the firefighters. She is keeping an archive of the pictures in a booklet of CD-ROM's.
Along the way she discovered a yearning among firefighters and their families for portraits of these men and women with risky jobs. On a recent tour of firehouses in the 40th Battalion in Brooklyn, virtually every firefighter at every house she visited requested a picture.
There was a lot teasing. ''I see you did the guys in the Bronx first,'' said Lt. James Brennan at Engine Company 201 in Sunset Park, as he looked through an album of portraits Ms. Yanes carries to show the firefighters what their portraits will look like. ''I guess you wanted to make sure the lens would hold up.''
It was a joke that would be repeated over and over, at almost every firehouse that day. Another was: ''I hope you've got a wide angle lens to get that guy's head.''
But for all the ribbing, most firefighters took their portraits quite seriously. Andy Johnson, a first-year firefighter, or probie, at Engine Company 278 in Sunset Park, initially shrugged off the suggestion that he have his picture taken. But once he agreed, he quickly became engrossed in composing the photograph.
''I can't see the tool in this shot,'' he said, looking at the small digital screen on the back of Ms. Yanes's camera. In the shot he is sitting on the fender of the engine with an ax slung over one shoulder. ''Can we reshoot it?''
''Of course'' is her reply. ''Let's do it again.''
The photos of firefighters who died on Sept. 11 that were released to the news media were official portraits in dress uniform or were ''probie shots,'' taken of young firefighters when they first join the department. Few firefighters have pictures of themselves in their working gear, the way they would like to be depicted.
''We have this picture they take of us in probie school,'' said Lt. Bob Hartie, a firefighter in Brooklyn. ''And they told us, 'You never want to see this picture in the paper, because if you do, it means you are dead.' So guys are kind of superstitious about that picture. It's nice to have something else.''
The photos assembled for firehouse tributes to the dead were also unsatisfactory, he said.
''All we had were snapshots, guys with beers in their hands, or in T-shirts,'' Lieutenant Hartie said. ''That's no way to remember these men.''
If Ms. Yanes is successful, every firefighter who wants one will have an 8-by-10 black-and-white portrait. Most say they plan to give the pictures to their families.
''After Sept. 11, my wife made me put on my dress uniform and pose for a picture with each of my kids,'' said Bobby Rivera, a firefighter in Brooklyn. ''So I'll give this to her. I think she'll like it.''
The portraits themselves, taken together, form a remarkable document. They are a snapshot, or rather a series of snapshots, of a department struggling to recover from the devastating terror attack that killed 343 of its members. The earliest shots show grim-faced firefighters, straining against the loss of so many colleagues and grappling with the sometimes-overwhelming fact that they survived when so many died.
In one portrait, a white-haired man sitting on the bumper of a firetruck holds in his thick fingers a photograph of a firefighter in dress uniform. The blunt expression on Mike Moran's face reveals all but the details -- the man in the photograph is his brother, Battalion Chief John Moran, a highly decorated and much-admired firefighter who died on Sept. 11.
Later portraits show a range of emotions. Some show faces full of resolve, like the portrait of Captain Rochelle Jones, known as Rocky, the highest-ranking woman in the department. Some are playful. Ms. Yanes recently photographed Augie Simoncini, a firefighter in Sunset Park. He posed for a few shots in his turnout gear, then decided to strip down to his bare chest.
''How do I look?'' Firefighter Simoncini asked, hooking his thumbs through the wide suspenders that hold up the heavy trousers of turnout gear, and flexing his biceps. ''Not bad for a guy in his 40's, huh?''
The firefighters usually try to look tough.
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It's hard to get through the day without a good bout of consciousness-raising or thirty. You'd have to be an anarcho-primitivist hermit to miss any newspaper, television news program or social network mention of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, or Eric Garner. We've heard their names and know their stories.These men of color have changed the way some see police, their own neighbors, and the criminal justice system as a whole. Protests continue to be held around the country; sometimes violent, but generally peaceful. Now, well-meaning whites have armed themselves not with guns, but with hashtags, flooding the #CrimingWhileWhite Twitter feed with righteous confessionals intended to illustrate the disparity between the way whites and blacks are treated by police.
Will these protests, rallies, boycotts or Twitter confessions effect real change at every level of our criminal justice system to the satisfaction of activists? I don't think anyone can claim to know for sure.
But one thing is certain: Nothing is perfect. These well-crafted and well-intentioned tweets are being hailed as privilege-checking by some and denounced as flaunting white privilege by others. (What a legitimate role for white bodies in civil rights activism, if it exists, would look like is beyond the scope of this essay.) Still, some popular symbols of solidarity expressed range from donning a hoodie and skittles in honor of Trayvon Martin to the (apocryphal) "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" stance in honor of Michael Brown.
Others have taken this opportunity to reflect on other areas of life supposedly affected by current social unrest. The most interesting, to me, is religion. Not surprisingly, Christianity is a major target. Secular piety compels me to throw in a line here like "and I don't blame them for blaming Christianity one bit, it's totally reasonable to doubt your faith in light of things like this." But I will not, because it simply is not true. This is not insensitive or closed-minded, as many would like you to believe.
Fellow Christians, do not allow others to convince you that you should reject your beliefs because they may differ from the worldview of those calling your beliefs into question. We could just as well respond that it is time for those people to reconsider their conception of our beliefs. These agitators' prejudices are likewise in need of reflection.
Barbra Sostaita, a Masters Student at Yale Divinity School, Young Voices Advocate and Former Students For Liberty Campus Coordinator offers this lamentation on the failure of a grand jury to indict Officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Michael Brown in self-defense: "As I look around me, I directed my grief to the paintings and statues of Jesus displayed prominently in the room. Where is your justice, My God? You call yourself the Prince of Peace but the blood of my brother cries out to me from the ground and you are astoundingly silent."
What I find so bothersome about this is not the outright sacrilege of one of the 7 sentences uttered by our Savior in his final hour on earth, it is rather that Barbara has equated her own conception of justice with that of the will of God.
Surely in error (and drowning in an ironic lack of self-awareness), Barbara thought that because she felt that a man was guilty, the cosmic forces of justice must immediately treat him so to her (material) liking. However, her cry for help rests on shaky assumptions. Here, Barbara has decided that the courts of this nation rule in accordance with the will of God.
But we, as Christians, know better. We know that the laws under which we function are not the laws given to us by God. They are the laws of man. Created by him and for him. In looking at the verdict as a failure of God to deliver justice to Michael Brown's family, Barbara put God, Creator of heaven and earth, all things seen and unseen, on trial and asked Him to answer to her will.
Beyond the theology of the matter, there is the blatant reality of secular dominance. Surely Barbara does not believe that more among our cohort received their moral leadership from dwindling church congregations than MTV or Jon Stewart. Indeed, this decidedly materialist rant against her own mass consumed iconography is just another manifestation of the trending for-profit morality. To rail against an imaginary dystopia drowning in holy water and dominated by Jerry Falwell as if we inhabited anything close to this world is transparent, silly, boring, and dishonest.
I've learned to expect this kind of race oriented self-righteous high-horse heresy coming from progressives. But, libertarians? The party of live-and-let-live? And an SFL-er to boot! Say it ain't so. I've always thought of libertarians as those people who don't want the government to butt into your personal life. "To each his own" they say. But, it's starting to feel like they're taking a page out of the "statist" playbook they hate so much and finding ways to butt in themselves. Telling others what they should think and how they should feel about race and religion — two fairly personal issues — is far from what I ever envisioned coming from any person who describes themselves as a libertarian.
In his letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul writes:
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Last time I checked it is not about the color of your skin when God judges you. Unfortunately, this seems to be the focus for people like Barbara. Not just on the color of it either, but, also on the actions of others who have inherited a sinful (but thankfully temporary) body just as they have. Instead of denying this flesh the value our largely secular society places on it, Barbara has embraced it and the brokenness that comes along with it. In focusing on skin color and denying their faith prophetesses of progressivism, such as Barbara, perpetuate the idea that physical characteristics matter in this life — securing a place for their view within the current narrative — and mistakenly, beyond.
Proselytizing from on-high with melanin on the mind, race obsessed progressives fail to notice that Christ never assigned a likelihood of salvation to the color of a persons skin. That might be an easy thing to overlook when they've preoccupied themselves with making sure everyone else knows that there are certain biological differences among people which do matter and that there are those that don't. Race is no exception, progressives spend a lot of time telling other people how to feel about race. But, trade-offs are a real thing. The time these progressives spend ranting about race is time they aren't spending (trying) to understand the faith they blindly dismiss. And that is truly, a shame.
Ignoring the sacrifice of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in favor of the inherently incomplete form of justice offered on earth is disconcerting to say the least. The very idea that people are willing to abandon their faith because (their conception of) it doesn't dovetail with their political views is troubling. I can't help but wonder in light of the reality of this imperial secularism: Why don't ostensibly Christian people people look up instead of around when they believe the world is in turmoil? It is a sad sight that politics has led people of God to abandon Him because they've chosen to believe that it is their own will that should be done when they don't understand His.
This impulse to look around (or in this case, in one's living room) instead of up is exemplified in the next paragraph of Barbara's piece:
As I looked harder, it hit me. All of these images of Christ were of a white man. A blue-eyed, blonde haired man whose sacred heart beat for a chosen group of people. If Jesus is white, then whiteness is hailed as divine and all-powerful. White is associated with God and blackness becomes darkness, evil, distinct from the goodness of God. The more I thought about it, the clearer it became. We live in a society where Black bodies are not seen as holy or worthy of protection.
Is Christ's physical image all Christians should derive from Him? Is Christ's physical image the barometer for salvation? I sure hope not. Unfortunately, that's exactly what it sounds like here. (Perhaps it is a linguistic issue since we speak in English and not Greek though I saw no disclaimer).
This is an attempt to describe our Savior, who is of one nature that is human and divine, strictly by His humanity — as represented in the posters that you chose to purchase and place on your bedroom wall. (Depictions of black Jesus are widely available for purchase.) The early church has already discussed this false materializing prioritization and deemed such a description heresy.
Do you even hypostatic union?
Not to mention, it completely ignores everything Christ did for us. While this isn't the first time people have questioned Christ for his appearance (hey, the Pharisees were some real haters) one certainly shouldn't take that as license to view Christ with the same skepticism as those who lobbied Pilate to crucify Him.
While I'm at it, I suppose I should also point out that mankind is not holy. Mankind is broken, weak, fallible and full of sin. The only Being capable of determining holiness is the only Holy One Himself. I believe this point requires further elaboration. It is this sort of hubris that allows man to not only to question God's authority, but in doing so, to find herself disappointed when this world falls short of her own expectations. It is this sort of hubris that allows one to approach the world around them as if they have complete information. That's just not true. There is no single human on earth who knows all things.
This propensity to cast judgement on the world as if we are the final arbiters of good and evil, with the the grave deficit of knowledge inherent in mankind, belittles God, His authority and leaves us all subject to the whim of man. This completely ignores what Christ did for us and leaves us seeking the favor of man rather than a salvation and restoration with our heavenly Father.
I was also surprised to find out that whites don't worship Who they think they do. According to Professor Anthea Butler, whites in this country — Christian or not — believe that white supremacy is their god. Again, someone has taken this time as an opportunity to project their displeasure in their own perception of the God of Christianity onto everyone else.
Not only does this way of thinking allow blacks to only view themselves as a people subject to the will of a god who has forsaken them, rather than true heirs to a heavenly inheritance. It also leaves them in bondage to the things of this world; whether it's the will of whites, interpretations of their faith by those who see their beliefs as oppressive, or pressure to appease sinful humans who roam this earth right alongside them in search of earthly justice while leaving heavenly justice by the wayside.
Dr. Butler continues: "While I still believe that the nation is obsessed with a punitive Christianity, I would add that white supremacy linked to an American theology of atonement means that brown and black bodies will always be sacrificed, whiteness is the standard, and that the thirst for power and blood is never slaked, never ending. White supremacy always demands the shedding of blood to assert its divinity."
This sort of view implies that Christ, the only Begotten Son of God, was not a sufficient sacrifice for our sins. What then, does this mean for black Christians? This view leaves them abandoned and worshiping a false god. It also implies that whites — other humans (no matter how you see them) — are responsible for your salvation.
Community with our fellow man is not inherently evil. After all, how can I ever expect God to forgive me my trespasses if I do not first forgive those who trespass against me? Here however, Dr. Butler's view puts other humans in the judgement seat. And as Christians, regardless of skin color, we know that no human is divine and no human is fit to sit on the throne of God.
Bell hooks (cited by Barbara) and Alice Walker, mentioned in both of the articles excerpted above, are not authoritative figures on Christian theology or Christian social teaching. Bell hooks — an author, feminist and social activist hailed for her views on the oppressive capitalist system (by which her ideas earn her a living) — is cited for her undoubtedly optimistic perspective on race relations in the U.S. both past and present. Homage is also paid to Alice Walker — a writer, poet, and activist — for her book The Color Purple, as Barbara and Dr. Butler provide edgy metaphors and nuanced interpretations of Celie's trailblazing "spiritual but not religious" outlook, in an attempt to justify a perceived prevalence of racism in a faith abandoned by the main character. But with foolish haste, it is to the ones who look back at them in the mirror whom my fellow fallen daughters of Eve have consulted on the doctrine they are so quick to criticize.
I urge my fellow Christians to stand firm against those who, especially in times of crisis, tell us what we should believe or inform us of "new" theological concerns held by elites about our faith. It is not the ivory tower to which we answer for our salvation. And it is not those who sit on the self-appointed thrones in their new-found cathedrals who will sit on the seat of judgement at the end of days. Remember: We all will be brought before God on judgement day and in that time we must answer to His concerns about our faith.
Rod Dreher put it beautifully in his piece on 12-year-old Devonte Hart, a teary-eyed protester whose tender embrace of Portland Police Sgt. Bret Barnum was immortalized in an AP photograph: "Now, I have no idea if either Devonte Hart or Sgt. Bret Barnum is a Christian. But I do know that millions of us Americans, black and white, are Christians, and because of that, and despite of our many sins and failings, ought to be finding ways to live up to the love shining through that iconic image above…"
Rod is trying to communicate the true Christian vision, Barbie and Anthea, the perversions. Trying times are when it's most important to live your faith–and the easiest to castigate others for doing so while posturing yourself as the *true* arbiter of holiness. In styling themselves as above other Christians (a god-like arbiter of true holiness) does injustice to Christianity *and* to the "victims" they exploit to posit their own godliness. May God have mercy on us all.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." – Matthew 24:36
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This instructable is a few recipes for clay crucibles, getting them ready to melt metals and lots of pictures of things that didn't quite work out for me. But hey, it was fun.
I have successfully melted Aluminum, Copper, Silver and various bits of mixed metals with these recipes.
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Step 1: Recipe Number 1
Straight to it.
You're going to need fire clay and silica sand.
300 grams silica sand.
200 grams fire clay.
Fire clay can be found at most places that sell concrete and cinder blocks. I got my fire clay and silica sand at BASALITE. They were really nice and the stuff is cheap.
A 50 pound bag of fire clay was $12.80 and a 100 pound bag of 70 mesh silica sand was $8.52 not bad huh!!!
You can make a lot of crucibles with that much material.
Mix the sand and clay together (dry).
Slowly mix in water until it holds its shape when squished in your hand. This took me some practice to get it just right.
Form the crucible using your favorite technique.
I used a mold.
Let your crucible dry.
Step 2: Cooking Recipe Number 1 Crucible
After your crucible has dried you will need to cook it before you use it.
This will help to burn off all the stuff in the clay that can contaminate the metal you may be melting and it will set the clay to make the crucible stronger.
I used a simple charcoal setup for this.
Get some charcoal, a chimney starter, a bit of dryer duct and a hair dryer to cook your crucible.
Place the charcoal in the bottom of the chimney starter.
Place the crucible in the middle of the chimney starter. Fill the rest of the chimney starter with charcoal. Place it on something so you can fit the dryer duct under it.
Start the coals.
Once they are glowing red hot you can put the dryer duct in place and start the hair dryer on low. Let it run until the coals have burned down about half way and add a few more on top.
Run the hair dryer for about an hour longer then let the whole thing cool in place over night.
If everything went well you should have a crucible that sounds kind of like a coffee cup when you flick it with your finger.
If it has any cracks it will fail if you use it. So don't use it.
Step 3: Recipe Number 2
You should be able to get all of these items at most pottery stores.
I picked mine up at Potters Center.
10 grams Alumina Oxide.
40 grams Feldspar.
75 grams Kyanite.
75 grams Kaolin clay.
75 grams Calcined Kaolin Clay.
300 grams Silica Sand.
Mix everything together dry.
Mix in water slowly until it just holds its shape when you squish it in your hand.
Form the crucible using your favorite technique.
Let your crucible dry.
Step 4: Recipe Number 3
10 grams Aluma Oxide
40 grams Feldspar
75 grams Kyanite
75 grams Kaolin
300 grams Silica Sand
Mix everything together (dry).
Mix in water slowly until it just holds its shape when you squish it in your hand.
Form the crucible using your favorite technique.
Let your crucible dry.
Step 5: Recipe Number 5
10 grams Aluma Oxide
55 grams Feldspar
75 grams Kyanite
60 grams Kaolin
300 grams Silica Sand
Mix everything together (dry).
Mix in water slowly until it just holds its shape when you squish it in your hand.
Form the crucible using your favorite technique.
Let your crucible dry.
Step 6: Recipe Number 6
100 grams Kaolin
300 grams Kyanite
Mix everything together (dry).
Mix in water slowly until it just holds its shape when you squish it in your hand.
Form the crucible using your favorite technique.
Let your crucible dry.
Step 7: Cooking Crucibles
I tried cooking recipe 2 and 3 with the charcoal method but found they didn't get hot enough to develop much strength. The first time I tried using them they broke from the force of the Borax expanding inside of them.
This can be a bit annoying especially since it takes some time to get them ready.
So I changed the cooking of recipe 2 through 6 with extremely improved results. If you have access to a kiln you're all set if not you can make one real quick with some fire bricks.
They need to be cooked in a kiln or some form of kiln to around 2300 degrees Ferenhight and held near that temperature for around 45 minutes to an hour. This may sound like a bit of a tough thing to do if you don't have a kiln however it's really not that bad.
Once they have cooled they will sound like a coffee cup when you flick it with your finger?
Now fire up your refractory.
Get your crucible a little warmed up before you put it into the refractory by placing it on some hot coals.
Melt the heck out of some metal !
So far my favorite recipe is number 6.
Clay crucibles can handle the heat but you do have to treat them a little different then a metal crucible.
Temperature shock is a problem for clay.
It seems to be pretty easy to address by simply setting the crucible on or in some hot coals after use so it can cool slowly.
If a crucible cracks you will want to stop using it.
You don't want a crucible full of lava spilling all over you, do you?!?
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I was wondering is it possible for me to make a crucible from mud and sand
Maybe I missed this, but how did recipe #1 turn out? I know simpler is often better, and couldn't help but wonder how the fire clay and silica worked for you?
I have question, would i be able to just mix a bunch of things to make a crucible because my grandparents own a piece of land by a river which has a huge flag bank and I brought some home and I don't really have any of the materials in the recipes is there a simpler more affordable recipe?, I'm only thirteen and my dad is letting me do this, so this but I have to pay for the materials and I don't have a lot of money right now
hey ray. thanks for sharing. the srticle really is amazing.
i was wondering how high those crucibles can be fired in a normal ceramics oven and how high they can be fired? Do you now the thermal conductivity (W/m.K) of the different crucibles?
Hi quick question I am trying to make a mix since we have limited supplies here in my country so I would like to ask how 50% plaster of paris with 12.5% grounded flower pot, 12.5% ash, 12.5% sand and 12.5% grounded brick any input is appreciated thank you
The crucible in the pictures look to be 1/4" thick and the size of coffee cup . If I needed to do a much larger crucible 8 to 10 inches tall and 6 inches wide , should I make the crucible a 1/2" thick ? I'm wanting to make bar stock to make swords and other custom items . I've gotten a hold of about 200 lbs of stainless . How do you feel these crucibles will hold up ?
Oh and thanks a lot .... people like you help idiots like me have fun .
stainless steel is also hazordus to heat up it produces chromium hexavalent so ware ppe if you plan to heat up stainless
Just so you know stainless steel is horrible to make swords
I'm not sure how heavily you plan to load the crucibal but you might even go the 3/4" thich. You gain strength but trade off how fast the crucibal can heat up. You'll also want to cool the crucibal slowly so it's not as likely to crack.
poodydad0101, they are about 1/4" thick 2 1/2" tall and 2 1/4" across. I would go to 1/2" thick for a bigger one like you describe. I have not tried to melt stainless steel yet but most of what I have found says it melts around 2550 F. The fire clay should hold up to that without much trouble but there is a bunch of gunk in it that may contaminate your stainless a bit. If you find the fire clay crucibles adding some gunk try one with the kaolin, it is more clean. I'm going to look around for some stainless now just to give it a try. Keep me posted on your results. Fire = Fun :) Be safe.
Have you compared the effectiveness of these crucibles to commercial grade crucibles?
How long do you let them dry before firing them?
I mould the sand / clay mix around the outside of a polystyrene (Styrofoam) cup, then allow to dry for a few days. When set, just run your propane torch around the inside to burn off the polystyrene. You get a nice smooth inner surface.
hi, i was just wondering if i can use them in a microwave...
Hey I was wondering if u needed a 70 mesh silica for a specific reason or can I use 50 mesh??
thanks for the advice, i was also wondering how you went about making the mold to get your nice shape.
I have another instructable for how I made my mold. Search for how to make a crucible mold. If you use it post some pics of your results.
what types of molten metal can number 1 withstand, I'm starting out but need something that I can remake when my crucible breaks
I have melted aluminum, copper and silver in recipe number 1. be sure to put some Borax on top of the copper and silver to cut down on oxidation. The crucibal that get cooked in the kiln has a higher physical strength so if you cook it with briquettes, handle them carefully. They get stronger with use. Also be sure to cool them slowly in your refractory or in some hot briquettes. That should help them to last longer.
What mesh Kyanite did you use?


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Vanilla Buttermilk Cake with Lilikoi Curd
While reading A Homemade Life, one of the recipes that I immediately bookmarked was the Vanilla Bean Buttermilk Cake. I had been asked to do a cake and a cupcake tower for a wedding, and the requested flavor: liliko'i! (that's passionfruit for those of you not familiar with the Hawaiian name). By the time I was reading A Homemade Life, I'd already read through several recipes for liliko'i cakes, all of which called for starting with a box mix and juice concentrate and I was hoping to find a way to bring in more liliko'i flavor.
The primary request: make them delicious. Make the cupcakes pack a big flavor punch - something to get people to stop for a moment and be wowed. With that in mind, I started thinking about using a liliko'i filling, and chose to modify the Vanilla Bake Shop's Meyer Lemon Curd recipe. There is a version of the Vanilla Bean Buttermilk Cake recipe on Orangette, Molly Wizenberg's blog. It's not exactly the same as the book version, with one difference being that the online version uses a combination of baking soda and baking powder, and the book version calls for 1 Tablespoon of baking powder. That seemed like a LOT of baking powder to me, but I went ahead and used it, and the cake turned out just fine. Because I'm currently living in a house with an old and cranky oven, I am doing all my cake recipe testing over at Mom & Dads, and they have been happy to be my tasters. When I pulled the cake out of the oven, I already knew that this was not going to be the cake recipe for the wedding, and slicing and tasting confirmed it. While I tried to get specific about why (the best I could come up with initially was "it's good cake, just not wedding cake") I kept eating it, and then I speared a chunk with my fork, swept it through the puddle of lilikoi curd on my plate, popped it into my mouth, and found that with the lilikoi curd on it, I don't care. WOW. This is good curd. Back to the specifics of why it won't be wedding cake - in the book, Molly does say it is best on the day it is made, and I agree, having sampled the cake the day after and then the day after that. I'm planning to make the layers ahead of time and freeze them, so I need something that will hold up better in storage. Mine wound up with several big air bubbles in it (and based on photos I've seen online, this is pretty common). Those can be dealt with either by taking the pan of batter and giving it a couple of good firm whacks on the kitchen counter (risking splattering cake batter all over the place) or by sweeping a thin-bladed knife or a skewer back and forth through the batter in the pan, before putting it in the oven.
Modifications: because I didn't have a vanilla bean, I used only vanilla extract and I suspect that it just didn't pack the same punch. If I make this again, I'll be sure to use the vanilla bean. I still don't have parchment paper, and I think I've got a springform pan but I couldn't find it, so I buttered and floured a regular cake pan generously. The cake didn't stick and turned out of the pan easily; however, I suspect it wound up being a little denser as a result, because the cake couldn't climb up the sides of the pan as easily as it might have with just butter. I didn't do the Glazed Oranges that are paired with this cake recipe since I was making the lilikoi curd.
The lilikoi butter has a wonderful flavor, fruity and floral at the beginning with a nice tangy finish. It's sweet without being cloying. The texture is surprisingly light and the mouthfeel is actually a bit fluffy, which some people like a lot (I'm not as big a fan of this, but that didn't stop me from eating several spoonfuls). This is also not the recipe that will wind up in the wedding - it is too runny for what I have in mind, although it does firm up some after refrigeration. I will be making it again, though. If you try it, do keep in mind that this makes a big batch, and the recipe says it will keep for 3 - 4 days in the fridge.
Vanilla Bake Shop's Meyer Lemon Curd (via Martha Stewart)
Modifications: replaced the lemon juice with fresh liliko'i juice (cut open several lilikoi and press the pulp in a fine mesh sieve, discarding the seeds. Alternately, if you have access to a Vitamix, blend the pulp until the seeds are ground into fine specks - they are edible and contribute to the flavor nicely). I did use lemon zest but I think this could be left out. The recipe calls for putting it through a fine mesh sieve; I didn't and the texture didn't seem to suffer at all.


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In Robert Rodriguez's new grindhouse feature "Machete," the vengeful title character uses vicious cutlery to butcher his enemies. Could something similar happen to the movie when it's released next week?
"Machete's" convoluted story explicitly takes place amid the current powder keg of an immigration debate and on the heels of Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration legislation. Crooked politicians, powerful drug kingpins, malicious border vigilantes, antsy day laborers, conflicted customs agents and angry revolutionaries seethe along the U.S.-Mexico border in Rodriguez's film. In real life, confusion and violence have peppered both sides of the line.
"It feels like this movie couldn't have come at a more perfect time," Rodriguez said, "even though we came up with it a long time ago."
This first stab at Mexploitation, about a former federale who gets mixed up in a messy conspiracy on the U.S. side of the border, could become a political pinata. This could be a good thing or a bad thing for the movie, but the film's star, Mexican-American Danny Trejo, thinks people will be surprised.
"I think Arizona is going to like this movie," said the man who is Machete. "It doesn't just deal with the guy who comes over the border to support his family; it deals with the corruption on both sides — the drug dealers, the guys who are getting paid to bring people here and the politicians who, any time they need a good platform, choose immigration. So the feds may now really do something."
The first thing they might do is complain about the movie, which already has kicked up some dust. After Arizona's SB 1070 was signed into law in April, Rodriguez fired the first salvo when he pushed out a recut trailer on Cinco de Mayo that took aim at the state. A tacked-on introduction showed Trejo in character saying, "This is Machete with a special Cinco de Mayo message … to Arizona." Mayhem, including shots of angry illegal immigrants rising up in rebellion, followed.
FoxNews.com wasted no time in posting an article, "Violent Movie Declares War on Arizona for Immigration Law," that linked the trailer to an incident the day before in which an unidentified white powder was sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who had signed SB 1070 into law. The article, which was quickly removed from the FoxNews website, declared the trailer "just the latest development in a debate that is growing more rancorous by the minute."
"When the first trailer came out, there was a stir," said Shannon McGauley, president of the Texas Minutemen, self-appointed immigration-law enforcers. "People were saying, 'They're making fun of us.' It had its desired effect — it had some shock appeal."
Writers on other sites, some of whom had seen the trailer and read the screenplay, took up criticizing the film as "racially inflammatory" and as "glorifying a race war." The seeds of this interpretation are not hard to see.
Among "Machete's" more provocative elements are border vigilantes led by Don Johnson as a kind of avatar for Maricopa County's Sheriff Joe Arpaio and fake political ads for an incumbent senator whose platform is built on his "hard line against wetbacks" and a description of them as "parasites." That the two characters murder a pregnant Mexican woman to prevent her baby from being born in America and then shoot her distraught husband while uttering the line, "Welcome to America," underlines the point.
As over-the-top as the movie is, Rodriguez and his co-writer cousin, Alvaro Rodriguez, load the script with such call-to-arms lines as "We didn't cross the border — the border crossed us!" and "The system is broken. So we built our own." The senator played by Robert De Niro barks at a campaign stop, "Make no mistake, we are at war."
At the same time, the movie has fun with cultural cliches attached to Chicano culture. Characters make verbal references to pinatas, cucarachas, papers, deportation and burritos. A fight played for laughs includes Machete wielding a weedwhacker, hedge clippers and other gardening tools. An underground network for illegal immigrants is headquartered in a taco truck.
But it also is suffused with Mexican pride. When Machete is offered a cigar with the simple, "Cuban?" he responds: "No. Mexican." Viewers at L.A.'s rowdy Orpheum Theater screening Wednesday night roared with approval. (And it's no coincidence that all of the villains in the film are white.)
As a sign of things to come, that downtown Los Angeles premiere was attended by a large quotient of brown-skinned fans, some of whom showed up in low riders and wearing "Legalize Arizona" T-shirts. In addition to Johnson, Latino cast members Jessica Alba (half-Mexican), Michelle Rodriguez (Dominican/Puerto Rican), Cheech Marin (Mexican) and the 66-year-old star, Trejo (Mexican) — not to mention a five-piece mariachi band — greeted the audience from the Orpheum stage.
That this same area has been the site of numerous immigration reform-related rallies and skirmishes the past four years was not lost on the filmmakers.
Fox certainly knew what it was taking on and actually bid for the right to distribute the film. Its difficulty in trying to figure out how to market the pic likely has less to do with its immigration content than with the fact that it's a low-budget B-movie without superheroes. (It also has enough nudity, profanity and gore per minute of screen time to make a primetime TV commercial impossible.)
Although this type of controversy might have hurt a movie like "Avatar" — a movie made for hundreds of millions of dollars that News Corp. properties pointedly refrained from criticizing — a dust-up could help bring "Machete" to a much wider audience. Referring to the earlier Fox News-related attack, Rodriguez smiled and (half-)jokingly said: "I think they do that on purpose. When you see the movie, you'll see there's a lot of that sort of double dealing going on throughout."
Rodriguez is referring to the duplicitous subtext that "Machete" highlights, that all of the surface conflict is just a cynical smokescreen for a goal both sides of the border can agree on: higher profits from drug imports. But in the movie business, it's not too far-fetched to suggest that a company could generate controversy to make money.
One elegantly simple statistic shows the potential here: Nearly 13 million young Latinos (ages 12-34) are considered frequent moviegoers. Awareness remains low on "Machete" a week out from release, but that's an enormous pool to draw from if awareness shoots up in the wake of public outcry — especially if it's to defend a movie where Latinos are the heroes.
Whether Fox would fan the flames, Rodriguez noted that the potential political minefield has been a hallmark of the exploitation genre from its inception.
"That's what they would exist for," he said. "As soon as there was an event or an issue, they'd run and make a movie about it and then say, 'Ripped from today's headlines!'"
"Machete" could soon become part of those headlines as dozens of other states consider hard-line measures similar to Arizona's. So the potential for impact on the national stage is not insignificant, even for a jokey, low-budget flick like "Machete." ("Syriana," this is not.)
Dozens of movies and TV series have been caught up in the madness of the moment — from "Cruising" and "The Passion of the Christ" to "Dogma," "The Sopranos" and "Thelma & Louise" — but the controversy did little if anything to boost revenue. "Machete," which Fox releases nationally September 3 after a special screening Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is slicing into theaters amid midterm election campaigns and an ever-radicalized national debate.
Whether it irks good ol' 'Merican patriots, Latino-American groups, the right-wing talking-head brigade or just plain everyone, the upshot could support the movie in theaters.
"I think the movie is someone's personal agenda," McGauley said. "But it seems interesting. If you don't have a sense of humor, no matter what side you're on, it probably makes you a boring person. I imagine that a lot of people who complained will be the first ones to buy a ticket."


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The board members of Wolvercote Young People's Club are appointed annually and include a Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and five committee members.
Being a board member is extremely valuable to the Club and each one has a particular responsibility, freeing up the youth workers to focus on youth work.
Judith Secker - Chair
I've been on the WYPC Committee for four years, initially with responsibility for policies and staffing then taking over as Chair from July 2016.
Joining WYPC felt collegiate – it's a thriving group of committed and forward looking people each bringing great experience to the table. At the time I described it as the opposite of a rat leaving a sinking ship! Since then the Club has gone from strength to strength. We have built a close relationship with Ruskin College's Community Development and Youth Work degree in Oxford and with Oxfordshire Youth, the organisation which supports youth work and young people across the county. So now the Board has a wider cross section of experience, our young people get more varied programmes and activities and, best of all, our staff and volunteers, especially Senior Youth Leader, Kristie Waller, bring expertise we couldn't have dreamt of when we started. I'm proud of that!
My most recent work experience is in personnel management and equalities at Oxford University. Prior to that I spent 20 years as a trade union organiser in engineering, construction, electricity supply and the health service. My voluntary experience includes setting up and chairing a cooperative day nursery in South London and working with various women's equality groups. Until recently I've been a member of the committee organising the Wolvercote Festival and intend to continue to help with the festival as a non-committee member.
Jean Fooks - Member
As the County Councillor for Wolvercote, I have been very keen that the Club should continue despite Oxfordshire County Council's funding cuts back in 2010. I have been an observer at board meetings ever since and provide the link between the two organisations, setting up meetings with officers from the Council and presenting the case for as much financial help as possible. It has been a great joy to see how the Club has developed to work with not only young people from Wolvercote and Cutteslowe but also further afield in the city where there was no youth provision.
Will Richards - Pledge secretary
As a previous member of WYPC I was keen to ensure the Club survived and I've been on the committee now for over 10 years, having previously filled the roles of Chair and Treasurer. I enjoy being part of the local community through the Club, ensuring that young people have a safe and inspiring place to come to. I was particularly involved in the transition from it being council-funded to self-funded and I'm keen to continue with fundraising to keep the club alive and thriving. I work full time for a homeless charity but you don't need any relevant experience to become a board member, all you really need is a passion for the Club and what it provides to the local area.
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