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California Fisheries Fund
Project Summary
The California Fisheries Fund (CFF) was established in 2008 to provide a stable, accessible source of capital to support California's evolving harbor communities. Administration of the fund recently transitioned from the Environmental Defense Fund to the Northern California Community Loan Fund.
CFF is a revolving loan fund that supports sustainable commercial fisheries in California. It's mission is to help borrowers succeed in fisheries that achieve environmental conservation, improved profitability for the industry, and stability for port communities. CFF loans enable improved scientific information, enhanced stewardship of fish stocks and habitats, better fishery jobs, improved profitability, and revitalized, sustainable coastal communities.
CFF provides loans to California fishermen, seafood businesses, ports and communities to support sustainable commercial fishing. The Fund was developed in response to the lack of traditional capital available for financing improvements in fishery management, processing, and marketing that, in turn, could enhance conservation, profitability, and viability of fishing communities. Historically, banks and credit unions have been mostly unwilling to provide loans to commercial fishermen due to the potential for marginal profits and the general unpredictability of the fishing industry representing a higher risk of supporting fishing communities through loans. The CFF model is unique in that is allows fishermen to use fishing boats, permits and Pacific groundfish quota as collateral. This allows for the use of a powerful new asset that can be securitized in order to access capital supporting both environmental and economic benefits.
The following are example uses of loan funds:
- Vessel purchase
- Vessel/gear upgrades
- Purchase of fishing permits
- Working capital
- Non-vessel equipment
- Dockside infrastructure
- Purchase or lease of Pacific groundfish quota
Since its initiation a decade ago, the Fund has revolved 1.4 times and provided 38 loans to 27 borrowers. Loan amounts have ranged from $10,000 to $300,000, with an average approved loan amount of $128,000. In total, CFF has loaned $4.8 million to California fishing communities. Please visit the California Fisheries Fund website for more information and contact the Northern California Community Loan Fund if you are interested in applying for a loan.
Project Timeline: May 2018 – May 2031 (Northern California Community Loan Fund)
October 2007 – May 2018 (Environmental Defense Fund)
Grant Amount: $1,356,198 (January 2018 reauthorization)
$2,000,000 (March 2007 authorization)
Funding Source: Proposition 84
California Ocean Protection Act (COPA) states that monies deposited in the Ocean Protection Trust Fund may be expended to foster sustainable fisheries through "the creation of revolving loan programs for the purpose of implementing sustainable fishery projects" (COPA Section 35650 (b)(C)(v)). The California Fisheries Fund directly fulfills this purpose.
Kelp Rockfish (Michael Job)
About the CFF Administrator: the Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF):
NCCLF is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) whose mission is to promote economic justice and alleviate poverty by increasing the financial resilience and sustainability of community-based nonprofits and enterprises. NCCLF is advancing a food lending program to bring grocery stores, markets and other innovative forms of healthy food retail and distribution, and to establish and support sustainable local food systems, to communities that do not have them.
Relevant Links
- NCCLF website
- CFF Website
- CFF Overview Document
- CFF Videos
- January 31, 2018 Staff Recommendation
- January 31, 2018 Staff Powerpoint Presentation
The California Coastal Mapping Program
The California Coastal Mapping Program is a comprehensive effort to combine seafloor mapping data with shoreline data to create seamless onshore-offshore maps of California's coastline.
The coastal area of California is diverse, ranging from towering coastal bluffs to dense urban development and rolling pastoral lands. Immediately offshore, the underwater topography is equally varied with deep canyons, seamounts, and small shelves extending from the shoreline.
Accurate maps and recorded data on are essential to ensuring the California's marine and coastal areas are understood and effectively managed. California's coastal region is home to numerous existing and proposed activities and sea level rise and climate change impacts will change the coast as we know it. With such a myriad of interests, uses, and potential impacts, the OPC is taking a leading role to record the coastal area and ensure important geospatial data are available to resource agencies.
The California Coastal Mapping Program has three major initiatives under way to achieve this objective:
- The California Seafloor Mapping Project
- The California Shoreline Mapping Project
- The Collaborative Geospatial Data Management Project:
The CGDME was started in 2009 to identify and promote sharing of datasets needed by the numerous state agencies with coastal and ocean interests, such as the Department of Fish and Game, the California Coastal Commission, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the State Lands Commission, and California State Parks. Datasets from federal agencies may also be incorporated into an interactive and accessible tool or framework designed to provide relevant data to resource managers, scientists, and the public for improved decision-making.
Integrating these three initiatives is a long-term goal. The topographic mapping data can be merged with the seafloor mapping data to produce a seamless onshore-offshore map that would greatly enhance the understanding and management of the coastal area. This modern high-resolution map can form the baseline map of any coastal geospatial decision-support tool. Following this integration, the OPC and California will be better prepared to:
- Better understand and mitigate the impacts from sea level rise
- Evaluate sites for renewable ocean energy and aquaculture projects
- Better understand sediment transport and sand delivery
- Ensure vessel safety
- Help identify tectonic faults and fault dynamics
- Forecast storm inundation and coastal erosion
- Better understand coastal earthquakes and tsunami potential
- More effectively regulate offshore coastal development
- Contribute to the federal process of Marine Spatial Planning
- Quantify cumulative impacts for different activities in the same location
- Identify key habitats that should be prioritize for protection
For example, the OPC funded a study to project inundation and erosion impacts from future sea level rise; however, the mapping data available for this project was less than optimal. In the future, such data will be readily available to anyone and will set the stage for a better understanding of our coastal and marine environment and how humans interact with this landscape.
Promoting Applied Ocean Research
Promoting Applied Ocean Research
Solving complex ocean resource problems requires scientific understanding of how ocean and coastal ecosystems function. The OPC strives to bridge the gaps between scientists, the public, and resource managers by supporting applied scientific research and the translation of data into usable information.
The OPC integrates and utilizes existing scientific information in many ways. Working with the Science Advisory Team (OPC-SAT), the OPC ensures that the best available science is applied to OPC policy decisions. The OPC-SAT is coordinated by the California Ocean Science Trust (OST) and co-chaired by the OST Executive Director. One of the OPC-SAT's fundamental functions is evaluating the technical merit of scientific projects by suggesting experts to serve as peer reviewers for OPC proposals and products. In coordination with OPC staff, the OPC-SAT also develops yearly research priorities. Finally, to keep the OPC at the cutting edge of ocean and coastal research, the OPC-SAT identifies critical emerging science issues for OPC consideration, which are used by the council to inform future meeting themes, projects, and workshops.
To support new science, the OPC funds applied ocean research projects that correspond to the priorities proposed by the OPC-SAT. These research projects are solicited and chosen in partnership with the UC Sea Grant program and USC Sea Grant Program in California. Recent years have seen the development of an innovative funding approach: the Focused Research and Outreach Initiative. The goal is to promote well-coordinated, interdisciplinary programs of applied research and training focusing on a priority research topic. The research funded through the Sea Grant programs includes projects on international ecosystem-based management of fishery resources in the Southern California Bight, groundfish assemblages on offshore petroleum platforms on the San Pedro Shelf, and the impacts of ocean acidification on economically important shellfish species.
Related Projects
- California Ocean Science Trust Science Integration
- Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprise


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TW: The article addresses suicide and self-harm.
By Gulraj Bedi:
I woke up at 5.30 a.m. in the morning. No, I didn't need an alarm to help me wake up. While I was getting ready the memories of my past kept flying through my mind. Today, I have a good enough job, a family and a few good friends. But there were times when I used to feel terribly lonely.
There was a time when I even tried committing suicide. It was in late 2011, while I was studying for my class 12 board exams. I tried to slash my left wrist in a fit of anxiety as I felt I wouldn't be able to clear a couple of papers. I was barely 17 years old and I used to grab a blade in a fit of anxiety, whenever I felt something was not going the way I wanted it to go.
This is something my family didn't know about. I didn't want them to think I was crazy and losing my mind. Now, that's a pretty common response one gets whenever one talks about mental illness. The society has this habit of frowning upon depression or any such illness associated with the mind.
The only reason I was saved from the road to suicide was because of the fact that I refused to give up. I didn't talk to anyone. I used to be lost in a strange line of thought. I made a habit of venting out my anger by writing about things I didn't like. In this way, I was able to speak about my problems in a way which didn't make my problems leave the room.
Over all these years, I've realised that we hesitate to lend a helping hand to those suffering from depression. It is not because we lack expertise, but because it is easier for us to turn a blind eye towards issues such as depression, instead of making an effort to fix them.
I'm assuming that many people must have gone through a similar sort of an emotional or mental turmoil, but it's really uncommon for someone to come out and openly speak about it. I made the same mistake.
Even when I knew that something was wrong, I refrained myself from seeking help. I resisted seeking help from anyone and ended up venting out my anger at anyone who used to lend a helping hand, as I felt that they were getting involved in my private space.
Now, the whole idea that someone who has everything in life cannot be suffering from depression is wrong. Depression is something that attacks people irrespective of their materialistic possessions or achievements. I've come across many people who are earning hefty sums of money and still lead a stressful life. A lot of them have this habit of taking more than one tablet a day with the hope that it will make them completely forget their ordeal.
Furthermore, men are more likely to commit suicide than women because they fail to speak up about it, thinking they would come across as weak.
Over all these years, I've read news stories and interviews in newspapers where celebrities have made shocking revelations about being depressed. Recently, Deepika Padukone spoke openly about being depressed as well.
All of us are told that it's all in the mind, and we'll all get over it. Well, that's quite true but there's a big difference between being sad and being depressed. Sadness is a state of emotion whereas being depressed refers to a state of long-term dissatisfaction.
Depression is a disease which can be treated. So, instead of shying away from it, we should talk about it.

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Hello people of the internet!!! Do you love amazing bands with fun, energetic songs such as: Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, 5 Seconds of Summer, and The Vamps, then you'll love today's 'YouTube Wednesday' featured band. This band has spent the past few years steadily playing gigs, adding AMAZING songs to their repertoire, and building a fanbase that has given them 118,000 Twitter followers, 15,422 YouTube subscribers, and 21,158 Facebook likes. So if you aren't already a fan of An Honest Year, then you're behind on what's soon to be your next big musical obsession. So please read on, and learn why YOU will soon become COMPLETELY obsessed with An Honest Year (you're welcome in advance!).
An Honest Year is a Pop/Alternative band from Philadelphia, PA. The band consists of: Matt McKay (lead vocals), Stephen Morrell (lead guitarist), Jon Pfingsten (rhythm guitarist), Jordan Mitchell (bass/vocals), and Greg Pinney (drums). The band made a powerful debut on to the music scene, with their September 2012 self-titled EP. The EP helped the band begin to earn a loyal fanbase, and thus allowed them to sell out numerous local shows. An Honest Year has also had the privilege of sharing the stage with numerous popular bands such as: twenty one pilots, Switchfoot, New Politics, MS MR, Rookie of the Year, Sandlot Heroes, Dinner and a Suit, Phone Calls From Home, and more. The band further solidified their place in the hearts of their fans with the release of their latest EP 'Moments' in September of 2013.
An Honest Year uploaded its' first YouTube cover video on February 5th, 2013. In the video, they covered Coldplay's track 'Sparks' (Coldplay – Sparks Cover (An Honest Year)). The members of the band (that participated in the cover, the whole band was not in the video) do an amazing job of delivering the emotional intensity that this song requires, and in doing so, prove that An Honest Year are not just phenomenal musicians, but true artists. Coldplay can often be a hard band to cover, because their songs are not only beautifully performed, but also have a haunting affect that gives the band a unique sound. An Honest Year is able to take this song and put a new spin on it that makes their rendition equally haunting and alluring, in its' own way. I personally love it when a band/artist is able to make a song their own, while also keeping the original version's charm intact, luckily for us, An Honest Year is able to pull off this task like true pros. The next cover that we are going to discuss is An Honest Year's take on the Boys Like Girls hit song 'Thunder', which was uploaded on September 16th, 2013 (Boys Like Girls – Thunder Cover (An Honest Year) – YouTube). I really loved this version of the song, because it was even more stripped down and raw than the original version was, which made the track even more amazing. Once again, the band members in the video were able to properly deliver the emotional content of the song, but do so in a way that felt totally unique to An Honest Year's sound. I really felt that the members of the band connected with the song, and because of this were able to make me feel as if they meant every word and note that they were performing. Honestly if I didn't know any better I would have thought that this cover was one of the band's original songs. I definitely hope that they cover more Boys Like Girls songs in the future (hint hint!). The last cover song that we are going to discuss in this blog post is An Honest Year's rendition of the hit single 'She Looks So Perfect' by 5 Seconds of Summer (which you know has become one of the BIGGEST songs of the summer of 2014). This cover was uploaded on February 10th, 2014 (5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect Cover (An Honest Year) 5SOS – YouTube). When I saw that they covered this song, I was a little worried because the original version of this song is so awesome. Luckily my fears were unfounded, because An Honest Year did an INCREDIBLE job of keeping the upbeat, energetic vibe of this song alive, but also breathing a fresh feel into the track. This is honestly one of my favorite covers that An Honest Year has posted, because I feel that it really shows that this band is the total package. I definitely suggest that you all check out this cover, because you will fall in love with it.
Next, let's move on to An Honest Year's original material, because we all know that the mark of a truly great band is whether or not they can produce their own amazing original material. I really loved the band's debut self-titled EP, because the sound was really different than a lot of the Pop/Alternative rock that you hear on the radio today. The whole EP felt like a trip back to the mid 2000's, and definitely showed the influence that popular bands during that time had on An Honest Year. The EP contains themes of love, loss, and basic confusion about the world. I really loved how honest the songs felt, which resulted in a very relatable EP that I would certainly find myself listening to on repeat (trust me you will too). The band released an acoustic version of their next track 'Your Forgiveness', which was released on YouTube and SoundCloud on December 2nd, 2012. This track stayed with the sound that An Honest Year has cultivated, and proves that this amazing band has the passion and talent to handle an acoustic performance without losing a step. On May 12th, 2013, the band released the official music video for their song 'Liars & a Thief' (An Honest Year – Liar & a Thief (Official Music Video) – YouTube) off of their Moments EP. The video follows the lead singer (Matt), as he falls for a really pretty girl, who continuously uses and abuses him, and he is "powerless" to stop. At the end of the video, the band members begin to approach the girl in the video and her group of pretty friends, and the girls attack the guys. It is a really funny video, which adds to the high energy of the track, and makes it even more amazing. The Moments EP also contains a non acoustic version of 'Your Forgiveness', which is fun, upbeat, and honestly makes me conflicted about which version I like the best (it's a serious problem you guys). Although I honestly love the entire EP, some tracks that I feel deserve a special shout out, include: 'Don't Leave Me', (which has moments where the vibe of the song ventures into a harder alternative rock sound. A bit into the realm of the band Breaking Benjamin, definitely a change of pace for An Honest Year, but they pull it off nicely), the inspirational 'Live Your Life' (which I can't stop playing on repeat), and of course the title track 'Moments' (which is about not letting those precious moments/important pass you by. Although I picked these particular tracks out, I would honestly suggest that you listen to the whole record, because you WILL love it). I also really loved this EP, because An Honest Year experimented with their sound a little bit, but did not lose the essence of who they are (which is really easy for an artist/band to do). Also, you can certainly see how much hard, meticulous work went into making this EP (which I appreciate because hard work equals passion, and I love to listen to artists/bands that are passionate about what they do). . These two projects, along with the band's cover videos certainly make me excited for the next project that the An Honest Year will release.
With infectious hooks, and powerhouse instrumental and vocal skills on their side, it is easy to see that An Honest Year will very soon become a staple on all of your music playlists. I have no doubt that this band is on its' way to having a long career in the music industry, and will certainly make a lasting legacy for themselves. It's not very often that a band is able to make such an immediate and powerful impact on fans, so the fact that An Honest Year is on such a steady rise definitely speaks volumes about the band's advanced level of artistry, and their future in the industry. They are truly on a roller coaster that only goes up (sorry I had to throw a little 'The Fault In Our Stars' reference). I am so excited to see what is next for this limitless band! So if you haven't listened to their music yet, what are you waiting for!?! I highly suggest that you check out An Honest Year's music, I promise that you will become completely addicted to every one of their tracks. Have I ever lied to you before people of the internet? Then go on and meet the band that you will become obsessed with for the rest of the year (and many more years to come after that).
Keep up to date with An Honest Year!!!:
YouTube: http://youtube.com/anhonestyear
Band Twitter: http://twitter.com/anhonestyear
Band Instagram: http://instagram.com/anhonestyear
Matt Twitter & Instagram: http://twitter.com/matt_mckayahy | http://instagram.com/mattcmckay
Stephen Twitter & Instagram: http://twitter.com/stephen_morrell | http://instagram.com/stephenmorrell
Jon Twitter & Instagram: http://twitter.com/jonanhonestyear | http://instagram.com/jonanhonestyear
Jordan Twitter & Instagram: http://twitter.com/jordanbmitchell | http://instagram.com/jordanbmusic
Greg Twitter & Instagram: http://twitter.com/gregpinney_ahy | http://instagram.com/greg_pinney_ahy
Website: http://anhonestyear.com/
Merch Store: http://merch.anhonestyear.com/


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In the abstract, no, not all character flaws need to be overcome. If a flaw doesn't seriously impede the character, then it's just part of their personality, and it might seem a little odd if the character suddenly decided they needed to change. On the other hand, if a flaw causes the character serious problems, then the audience will expect that flaw to at least be addressed, if not necessarily overcome. Consider Lt. Commander Worf from the Deep Space Nine episode Rules of Engagement. Worf is on trial (an extradition hearing, technically) because he fired on a Klingon ship without identifying it and that ship turned out to be a civilian transport. This episode highlights Worf's flaw of being too quick to use violence, and we know that it hindered him, since he blew up the wrong ship and is now on trial. Worf is eventually cleared of the crime through plot shenanigans, but at the end of the episode, he and Sisko still have a moment when they acknowledge that Worf made the wrong choice and needs to learn to be less trigger happy. His flaw isn't totally overcome in that episode, but he takes a step toward mitigating it. Of course, it also works to have a character completely deal with their flaw. This is just an option if you want to be more subtle. In your story, it'll come down to which aspects of the protagonist's personality end up hindering her. If, for example, she takes vengeance on someone she shouldn't have and it makes her situation worse, readers will expect some kind of acknowledgement to provide satisfaction. That doesn't necessarily mean the protag has to stop being vengeful, but she should probably modify her ways a little or else the audience will feel like they were left hanging. Something else that can cause audiences to expect a character to overcome their flaw is when that flaw causes them to do something obviously immoral. For instance, if your protag decided to get vengeance on her enemy's entire family, that would seem like something that needs to be addressed even if it doesn't directly hinder her. Of course, it's also likely to make a lot of the audience just hate the protag and want her to fail, so we generally recommend avoiding that sort of situation unless it's critical to your story. Hope that answers your question! Keep the answer engine fueled by becoming a patron today. Want to ask something? Submit your question here. Read more about Character Archetypes Comments SunlessNick March 4, 2019 at 8:40 am Danny, that was a great question. Reply to SunlessNick Matt March 6, 2019 at 5:57 am Can you do an article on strong female characters and how some modern movies/shows/books fail at this, as well as how to do one correctly? Reply to Matt Oren Ashkenazi March 6, 2019 at 8:28 am I'm glad you asked this, Matt, because it gets at something we feel very strongly about. The reason Mythcreants has never done a post on how to write strong female characters, or any other type of female character, is that we think it's the wrong way to approach the problem. For the vast majority of stories, female characters don't need to be written any differently than male characters. Talking specifically about how to write women gives writers the idea that they're some kind of strange alien species, and leads to advise that's useless at best and harmful at worse. This is how you get female characters who either seem like weird space aliens. The main difficulty (male) authors have when writing women isn't actually knowing what to do, it's avoiding sexist tropes and stereotypes. We've got plenty of articles for dealing with that, and I can recommend a few if you're interested, but otherwise our standard character advice articles apply equally well. The only reason we think we need so much advice for writing female characters is because we're used to viewing male as the default. In fact, the best thing for most authors having trouble with a female character is to write the character as a man, then change the pronouns afterwards. This way you can be sure you're writing the character as a person and not a "female person." Reply to Oren Ashkenazi Cay Reet March 6, 2019 at 8:47 am I'm agreeing with you 99% there, Oren. The last percent is down to the idea that changing the pronouns will be enough. There are a few very specific things men do when writing women which are, perhaps, not solved by changing the pronouns only. One big problem is that men don't look up stuff which biologically only happens to women (like periods) or that they don't put much thought into some womanly bits (such as what breasts actually mean for your body's balance and movement). They end up with a big-breasted woman who still doesn't wear a bra and runs around with no repercussions, when every big-breasted woman out there knows you only do that once, because afterwards your back is killing you and you might have accidentally head-bumped some kids or given your face bruises (slight exaggeration). Some womanly things, like makeup, heeled shoes, behaviour of breasts, and more have to be found out first, because they're not part of a man's regular life. On the other hand, because we get to see the male perspective so often, women have it a lot easier to write men. All we need to know in most cases is already laid out for us. Reply to Cay Reet Oren Ashkenazi March 6, 2019 at 8:54 am So you're absolutely right that male authors have written some truly terrible depictions of periods and breasts, no argument there. However, I believe that writing the character as a man and then changing the pronouns would still address this problem nicely. If the character is written as a man, the author likely isn't going to be focused on the character's periods or breasts. If they aren't mentioned, the reader will simply assume the character handles that along with all the other little parts of life that don't usually make it onto the page like eating and sleeping. The exception would be if the author wants to write a story where large breasts or periods are important to the plot, but most male authors aren't trying to do that. If they are, then they just need to do some research. Reply to Oren Ashkenazi Cay Reet March 6, 2019 at 9:25 am Well, it depends. If the author portrays a time far from our own or in a fantasy world (so in Mythcreants' regular spec-fic settings), some things might really not prove to be a problem, because things are different there. But take clothes as a simple example. Women's clothes have had the tendency for a long time to become tighter and thinner – forcing women to wear several shirts or sweaters above each other in cold weather now (they're also much easier to damage). Women's clothes have less pockets than men's clothes, so unless your character always dresses in men's clothes (and she still needs women's shoes, because men's feet are shaped differently), there will have to be a handbag or something similar at some point (because of the lack of pockets). If your woman is supposed to be a spy going into a casino or to a party, things are a lot more difficult for her than for Mr. Bond and his male colleagues. She will have to wear evening attire, which for women is inescapably a dress and heeled shoes. Yes, you can learn to run in heels (well-worn ones will suit you better there), but fight in them? Not going to happen, going down a steep slope in heels is already a challenge. A dress will restrict your character's movement much more than a man's evening suit. Not to mention dresses aren't cut in a way that allows for hiding weapons and tools and, while body-searching visitors is frowned upon, the aforementioned handbag or, more likely, clutch purse, will be checked (no, evening dresses, like almost all dresses, are designed without pockets on principles, so you don't get to put stuff in your dress' pockets). Clutch purses aren't known for their spaciousness and guns and tools need a bit of space which can't be seen. In my first Knight Agency novel, I solved the space problem with having Jane's male colleague keep the guns under his suit jacket and the heels problem with having her chuck off her shoes before the fight started. You need to keep in mind that there is a difference there and plan action accordingly. Women's clothing is also much less standardized than men's clothes. If you are a man and you know your clothing sizes for trousers and shirts, you can blindly pick something and buy it right away (at least with more casual wear). For a woman, the sizes are different in every store and every clothing line. We don't spend hours trying on clothes because we love it so much, but because half of the pants which are nominally our size are either to big, to small, to narrow, or too wide. And, no, you don't have to put in a long part about her buying clothes, but a woman saying 'just hand me a size X pair of pants and a size X shirt' after a fight left her clothing in tatterns and wearing them right away isn't going to work – it would for a man. And, as I'm reminded every time I play Hitman (I love their soft reboot), 47's quick clothing changes would be even less believable for a woman in his job (although I dare say a woman of average height and with unclear ethnicity would fare better in his job than a 1,90 bald guy with a barcode tattoo). Oren Ashkenazi March 6, 2019 at 9:42 am Again, you're absolutely right that in real life women face a lot of extra challenges when it comes to clothes, right down to a lack of pockets. But in fiction, none of that has to be important unless the author wants it to be. In a Bond-Casino type story, you could absolutely write a great story about how female spies deal with the extra problems of restrictive dress codes. I would read/watch that story in a heart beat. Or, you could simply create a story where the Casino doesn't have a gendered dress code, implicitly or explicitly. This is what would happen if you wrote a Bond story but then changed Bond's pronouns. This female spy also wears suits, and its no big deal in this setting, either because the Evil Casino is forward thinking, or because this story simply takes place in an idealized version of reality. Stories do that all the time and no one notices. Cay Reet March 6, 2019 at 9:57 am Yes and no. There is no difference in traits between male and female characters. Every character can, as far as I see it, can have every character trait. There also are no differences between general behaviour or moods, unless society enforces the behavioural differences. Those are the 99% where I agree with 'just write a guy and exchange pronouns.' There is, however, and in most societies is going to be, a difference in the way the lives of men and women play out. There are differences between what men and women face daily. And those are the 1% where I don't agree. And as far as the evil casino is concerned – the female spy will still need three hours to get their evening suit together, because the different parts will never fit on first go (women's bodies, due to the breast- waist-hip ratio come in a lot more variations, so a standard suit is almost guaranteed not to fit in some area). A tailor or seamstress can help here, of course. They will have more trouble with a shoulder holster than the male spies (which is why Jane wears her gun in her waistband), too. What I think would be a good idea when it comes to an article about 'strong female characters' would be to make it clear that physical strength alone doesn't make a strong character and that a traditionally feminine character can still be a strong character. Perhaps a general article on what 'strong character' really means? Dvärghundspossen March 7, 2019 at 8:04 am LoL As a slim, flat-chested woman who always wear men's clothes, I could really have made ALL the mistakes Cay talks about… But I agree with Oren that in lots of stories these things don't really affect the plot anyway. Cay Reet March 6, 2019 at 10:37 am About the actual topic of the character flaws (sorry for going so off-topic on the difference between male and female characters): In the world you describe, I'm not even sure if those things count as character flaws or are more of coping mechanisms. They're survival traits in the surrounding you describe your setting as. Your lead is unemphatic, because empathy is a risk where she lives. She has learned that vengeance helps her avoid problems long-term (not only by killing, but also by making others more weary of attacking her). If she's going overboard with that, it can turn into a flaw and it should be addressed (but doesn't necessarily have to be overcome, unless that's a main topic of the story). If her missing empathy has a huge impact on her personal life (because she longs for friends and can't make them or something similar), this also needs to be addressed, but if it just keeps her from regretting deeds she has to do to survive, it's more of a survival trait and doesn't have to be overcome. Reply to Cay Reet C March 6, 2019 at 6:51 pm And for the love of all things sacred, don't use a disability or mental illness as a character flaw. You can have a disabled character with flaws like anyone else. A deaf person who is selfish, an autistic person who hates accepting advice, a wheelchair user who is a know it all, somebody with epilepsy whose self esteem issues cause them to bully others, somebody with PTSD who doesn't respect authority, etc.. 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I WAS DIAGNOSED with type one diabetes in May 1997. Maths geniuses out there may now have surmised that my diagnosis is celebrating its 20th birthday and I felt I should probably mark it in some way, given that on its tenth birthday I was probably too busy drinking Tesco vodka in a UCD bathroom.
Because, yes, diabetics like to get drunk too. We like to gorge on doughnuts, get high on yokes, and eat a Dominoes meal for three in a single sitting.
The difference is that if I'm not careful I could legitimately die.
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I fully accept that a perfectly healthy human being could also die from any or all of these activities. The main difference for a diabetic is that it would be like playing a football match when you don't have a foot, or feet for that matter. Hence, you'd probably just fall over, cry a little and then, be forcefully removed from the playing field.
I like to use analogies a lot when I talk about diabetes. This is mainly because nobody seems to really know what it's about, except that it means you're fat.
I am slightly overweight at best; I am not fat. This did not, however, save me from the complexities that come with being a teenager who has diabetes.
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All of this, for the most part, was projection on my part. I am sure most of the people who I told I had diabetes had no clue what it was, just some funny word that Scott Malkinson said on South Park. But the judging was there for some people and they were trying to see if I fitted into the cookie cutter mould of what a diabetic looked like.
Now don't get me wrong, this common image of what a diabetic looks like is not incorrect. If you are overweight and/or treat your body abysmally, you can develop diabetes. But there is an enormity of a difference in what type one diabetes and type two diabetes are.
I think that it may be time for another analogy. If you have type two diabetes you have a severely broken arm. It's going to cause complications in your life, but you still have an arm and luckily there are certain things you can do to make it as functional as it can be.
If you have type one diabetes, you don't have an arm at all, not even a shoulder and worse than that, you had an arm for a little while and that arm was grand. Then one day you were rehearsing for Big Chief Red Feather in your school hall and your mam came in and took you to hospital. She said your arm had disappeared and sure enough, you look down and your arm is gone.
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Is it coming across like I have an obsession with limbs? I probably do but this is largely due to the fact that external parts of our bodies tend to garner most attention when it comes to injuries and illnesses. They are understood more clearly and vindicated much easier than my poor dead pancreas.
If the public's only calling card for me as a diabetic is an expanding waistband, I'd rather not talk about my illness and I don't think that's right. And I'm not millennial bashing anything because jokes are grand, I love a good joke.
At the same time I'd like to think the bloke who tells me "My Momma's so fat when Dracula drank her blood he got diabetes…" also understood that he is purely poking fun at a stereotype because really he gets that diabetes both one and two are complex conditions, unique of themselves.
I inject myself roughly eight times a day and yes sometimes I have to do it in public and sometimes people do wince. I don't always behave myself when it comes to doughnuts or wine or deep-fried cheese. But I am doing my best. Just because your pancreas is dead doesn't mean your mouth is.
Twenty years later and I feel if I'm forever to be associated with my long-term illness, I need to broaden its public perception, even if that's with terrible limb fuelled analogies. Because at the end of the day it really is just like Scott Malkinson said: "I'm Scott Malkinson I have diabetes."
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HIGHLIGHTS: DC United vs. Columbus Crew SC | May 4, 2019
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TV: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 1x20 Promo "Nothing Personal" (HD)
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 1x20 "Nothing Personal" - Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) -- from "Marvel's The Avengers" and "Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Solider" -- returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Tuesday, April 29th on ABC.
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Movie Review: "Polar"
There are many movies that are worth seeing, but there are a lot of stinkers as well. My goal here is to weed out the good from the bad.
Duncan (Mads Mikkelsen) has had a long, successful career as an assassin and is one of the best in the business. He is nearing his fiftieth birthday, which is when the organization he works for forces their agents into retirement. He has built up a significant retirement fund of over eight million dollars (to be paid to him by his employer on his fiftieth birthday). Duncan decides to stay off the radar in the weeks leading up to his fiftieth birthday, so he moves into a small shack in the middle of nowhere, hoping that his employer would be unable to find him and ask him to go on a final mission.
He tries to live a quiet life and takes a liking towards his new neighbor, Camille (Vanessa Hudgens). Camille lives alone, but Duncan decides to help her with various things and gets to know her in the process. Camille has her own past that she is hiding from but, unfortunately, Duncan will not be able to live the quiet life he hoped for. His employer is struggling financially and notices that, if Duncan were to be killed before his birthday, his retirement fund would go back to the company. Thus various active assassins are tasked with trying to locate and eliminate Duncan before he turns fifty. Duncan is still a capable killer, but he is outnumbered and his enemies have the element of surprise. He will have to survive until his birthday, but his new friend (Camille) may be in grave danger by being around him.
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The Pros & Cons
|The Pros
|The Cons
Mads Mikkelsen (+6pts)
The Antagonists (-4pts)
Vanessa Hudgens (+5pts)
Kill vs. Capture (-3pts)
The Plot & The Action (+8pts)
The Reveal (-2pts)
Pro: Mads Mikkelsen (+6pts)
I have seen Mads Mikkelsen in titles like Hannibal and Doctor Strange, and have always liked him in his respective roles, but this character gave him a lot more to do. Duncan is a badass, there is no doubt about it. That part of the character, alone, was enough to keep me watching and Mads Mikkelsen does a great job of playing the mysterious action badass. That being said, the character is conflicted. He his haunted by his past, the tragic things he has seen, and the tragic things he has done.
There is one specific event that haunts him more than the rest. We do not find out what it is until the end of the movie, but the character has clearly been struggling with it for a very long time. Duncan is such a cool character, and Mads Mikkelsen plays that part well, which made the movie really fun to watch. However there is a lot more to this character than what is on the surface, and Mads Mikkelsen did a great job of playing into the character's complexity and pain.
Con: The Antagonists (-4pts)
There is not a whole lot to say here other than the fact that the antahonists felt like they were in a very different movie than the protagonists. The protagonists (Duncan and Camille) were dark characters. Duncan was a great assassin, and Camille was an innocent bystander, but both characters had a dark past that has haunted them for a long time. This made these characters feel very real, but the antahonists were very different. They were over-the-top, silly, bizarre, and illogical. This made them feel very fake. This would have worked if the protagonists were similarly over-the-top, but the mismatch made the antagonists feel like a weak point of the movie.
Pro: Vanessa Hudgens (+5pts)
Vanessa Hudgens did not have a huge role, but it was still significant and she was impressive in the role. This was very much Duncan's story, but (as mentioned before) Camille is a character with a tragic past. The details of that tragic past are not revealed until a good way through story, but Vanessa Hudgens gave the character the necessary layers to convey the character's emotion to the audience. Her pain really reveals itself when she is holding the gun (you will know what I mean if you have seen the movie), but I always felt the sense that Camille was seeking inner peace. She was battling her demons throughout this story, and I enjoyed watching that. I have also never seen Vanessa Hudgens in such a dramatic role, so I was pleasantly surprised to see her do such a great job with the character, and I hope Netflix makes a sequel to this movie so that I can see more of Camille's story.
Con: Kill vs. Capture (-3pts)
Have you ever seen a movie where the antagonist has no problem quickly killing random people but, when they have the opportunity to kill the main character, they choose not to because they are a main character (and the movie would be over)? Of course you have, because filmmakers do that sort of thing all the time. This can only work if the protagonist has something that the antagonist needs (and killing the protagonist would prevent them from getting it). Unfortunately, that is not want the filmmakers did in this movie. Instead the had the antagonist made the "mistake" of wanting to make Duncan suffer, so did not want to kill him right away (how convenient for the writers). Given the antagonist's motives, this did not make any sense for the character and just came across as lazy writing.
Con: The Plot & The Action (+8pts)
I saw the trailer for this movie and did not know what to make of the premise. Why would an assassin choose to work for an agency that tries to kill off its own assassins right before they retire? Fortunately, the filmmakers had an answer for this that made sense, so I was able to buy into the premise. What I liked about this premise so much was that it was simple and made for a lot of very naturally occurring action.
The main character was an absolute master of stealth, hand-to-hand combat, and was skilled with a variety of weapons. The action was cool, brutal, and exciting. I liked a lot about the movie (such as the characters and the lead actors) but, at its core, this was an action movie with awesome action. There was also the plus of having a main character that did not feel invincible. Too often, action heros get hit (hard) but seem to be able to walk off injuries that should be incredibly painful, or even almost fatal. Duncan is very skilled, but when he gets hit, he feels it. This was an aspect of the action that I appreciated.
Con: The Reveal (-2pts)
There is a reveal at the end of the movie, that was impactful, but it lost some of that impact due to a fake out, as well as some confusion regarding which characters knew what. The fake out is a moment that tries to make you believe one thing by cutting away at the last second. Then the movie shows what actually happened, almost immediately, which took a lot of the momentum out of the scene. It would have been more impactful without the pointless fake out, if we could have just seen the scene play out entirely (with all of its drama).
The reveal also made the main character seem dumb. I do not want to say why that is, exactly, but the guy is supposed to be an expert assassin (a profession where gathering intel is very important). It did not make sense that the character did not know the truth behind this reveal beforehand. It could have been an impactful reveal, but it was executed poorly and, once you think about the logistics of it, it does not make sense that the main character would not have been aware of it.
Grading Scale
Grade: B+ (85pts)
Polar was, in my opinion, a strong movie release from Netflix. It had a strong lead cast, with Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens, and great action. Both Duncan and Camille were emotionally damaged characters that were interesting to see their respective actors explore. Duncan was also an absolute badass who was really fun to watch doing his thing.
The movie's greatest weakness was its antagonists. They were too over-the-top for my taste, with bizarre costumes and comical personalities, and felt like they were in a very different movie than the protagonists. There was also a reveal at the end of the story that lost impact due to the poor execution by the filmmakers. I certainly had a few issues with the movie, but I really enjoyed it. The action was brutally awesome, the main characters were compelling, and the lead actors did a really good job in their respective roles. I will say it again, this was a strong movie release from Netflix.