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Samsung to Produce Prototype of Foldable Smartphone Starting from Third Quarter

Mar 14, 2017

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display are currently working on the final step of development of foldable Smartphone in order to produce prototype in third quarter of this year. While Samsung is working on this development, Chinese panel manufacturers are also accelerating their process of development of prototype of foldable displays. South Korean and Chinese companies are competing for their sense of pride with a title of ‘world’s first foldable Smartphone’ on the line.
According to industries on the 13th, Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display have set a goal of releasing prototype of foldable Smartphone in this third quarter in order to verify quality of foldable Smartphone by producing thousands of prototypes. They are going to test quality and performance of these prototypes internally and check responses from markets in advance by supplying them to their major customers such as mobile network providers.
When prototypes pass standards of quality and performance and seem to be able to induce certain amount of demands from markets, Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display are going to decide to mass-produce them officially. When prototypes are produced during third quarter, it is likely that official mass-production will take place in 2018.
Samsung Electronics introduced its foldable Smartphone to only small amount of customers at MWC 2017. Buzz is that it really focused on protecting security of information so that information regarding its next new product not getting leaked as it even did not introduce its foldable Smartphone to its partners that had participated in development of this product. It is predicted that only major mobile network providers were able to see Samsung Electronics’ foldable Smartphone.
It is heard that Samsung Electronics is working on making appearance of its foldable Smartphone more luxurious and elegant as it is an ultra premium Smartphone. Although its goal was to produce prototypes of this Smartphone in first quarter, it has delayed timing as it has invested more time into raising quality of entire product. Its strategy is to introduce a high-tech product that is one-step higher than regular flagship Smartphones.
Samsung Electronics is devoting itself into manufacturing foldable Smartphone with luxurious design and high-quality that fit image of current Samsung brand. As foldable Smartphone is an innovative product that did not exist before, it believes that it will be able to expand related markets in the future after drawing positive experiences from foldable Smartphone users.

Concept of foldable Smartphone that was introduced by Samsung Electronics (Picture = Screenshot of Samsung Electronics’ YouTube screen) <Concept of foldable Smartphone that was introduced by Samsung Electronics (Picture = Screenshot of Samsung Electronics’ YouTube screen)>

Chinese companies are pursuing after development of foldable Smartphones very rapidly. Chinese panel manufacturers and Smartphone manufacturers are also going after ‘world’s first foldable Smartphone’ title. BOE, Visionox, and AUO introduced prototypes of foldable panels and they are working on mass-producing world’s first foldable Smartphones by working with Chinese Smartphone manufacturers such as LENOVO, OPPO, and VIVO.
Each panel manufacturer is planning to supply prototypes of panels for foldable Smartphones from its flexible OLED mass-production line. In case of Samsung Display, it can supply prototypes from its A3 Line. Although there might be needs for investments on additional production lines when official mass-production and amount of supply are decided in the future, it is heard that currently there are not any problems regarding supply of foldable panels for prototypes.
Chinese panel manufacturers are planning to manufacture prototypes from flexible OLED mass-production lines that they recently invested in. Although their experiences in mass-production of flexible OLEDs are absurdly low compared to South Korean panel manufacturers, it seems that they have approached level of being able to mass-produce these panels by quickly securing technologies after years of R&D.
While Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display were working on increasing level of perfection of prototype of foldable Smartphone as much as they can, Chinese companies have rapidly pursued after South Korean companies. Since China is a late starter in both display and Smartphone industries, it can become a leading country in displays and Smartphones by securing ‘world’s first foldable Smartphone’ title.
“Although Samsung needs to implement qualities that correspond to its brand image, it is paying careful attention to Chinese companies as it looks not to lose ‘world’s first foldable Smartphone’ title to Chinese companies.” said a representative in this industry. “However because it seems that South Korean companies and Chinese companies are looking to start producing prototypes around third quarter, competitions between South Korean companies and Chinese companies are going to become even more fierce.”
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HANOI – Around 2.6 million employees may lose health and retirement insurance benefits as their employers have not paid social insurance premiums for them.

The labor unions that represent their rights and interests have found it tough to take legal action against their employers.

National Assembly (NA) deputies grilled the chief judge of the Supreme People’s Court, Nguyen Hoa Binh, at a session last Saturday.

The long-unpaid social insurance has affected the legitimate rights and interests of workers. But almost no measures have been taken to deal with the problem, said deputy Phan Thi Binh Thuan of Binh Duong Province.

Four laws allow labor unions to file lawsuits on behalf of employees whose legitimate rights and interests are violated. Therefore, many local unions have taken companies failing to pay social insurance premiums to court but their petitions have been returned for a variety of unclear reasons.

Thuan proposed the chief judge explain this and present solutions for labor unions to file legal action against those companies.

A staggering 103,000 companies owe around 2.6 million employees social insurance payments totaling about VND14.7 trillion (US$647.4 million), according to the chief judge.

He said labor unions have filed 138 lawsuits but have run into stumbling blocks. A case in point is representatives of labor unions are not authorized by employees.

He added these lawsuits are civil in nature and that plaintiffs and defendants have the right to settle.

However, labor unions do not have this right, so their lawsuits do not meet the current legal procedures.
Regarding solutions, the chief judge said the National Assembly had passed the amended Penal Code which goes into force early next year. Owing social insurance debt is treated as a criminal offence.

Therefore, courts at all levels will handle such cases in the coming time.

Deputy Truong Thi Bich Hanh of Binh Duong Province was not satisfied with the response of the chief judge. “If there are such laws, but they cannot be applied in reality, outrage among workers could not be avoided,” she said.

According to the Constitution, deputy Luu Binh Nhuong of Ben Tre Province said labor unions represent employees, but “we force unions to seek mandates from employees in order to file a lawsuit. This is contrary to the Constitution.”

Therefore, the chief judge asked the NA Standing Committee for approval to review relevant regulations and work towards allowing labor unions to take legal action.

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

It Follows (veeerrrrrrrrry sloooooooooowly)

     David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows was released to very positive reviews earlier in 2015.  It sounded like an update of a 1980s teen slasher flick with arty overtones.  Neil’s not a fan of horror (cheap ass or art house) so I hoped it would still be on Movies On Demand for when my Mother visited.  Fortunately, it was still available so we watched it on a drizzly afternoon.

Sex Is the Culprit
     If you have sex with someone, then someone you may or may not know, who’s generally only half-dressed, but is still showing too much skin, will follow and kill you unless you can pass this situation on to someone else by having sex.  It’s a great set-up, but it took almost half an hour to get to that being explained.  Instead, we dragged around with Jay, her sister, and her friends.  After she was ‘infected,’ we dragged around some more with her just waiting with dreadful anticipation – the primary emotional response to a horror movie – for someone/something to get her.

Maika Monroe
     The acting was pretty good.  Maika Monroe, who played Jay, looks and has a manner reminiscent of Chloë Sevigny, but without the sullenness.  The details of the situation didn’t add up.  Though only the infected person could see the force slowly pursuing her, it could still break windows and climb on things, but it couldn’t pass through doors without busting them down first.

     The music was great at setting mood, but then the story didn’t really pay off.  I liked the Detroit setting because we’d just visited there.  Mike Gioulakis’ cinematography had a depth of color, especially in its emerald greens and blues, and clarity of line that was elegant.  It reminded me a little of the color in Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1967); this felt a little like what a teen slasher flick would have been like if he’d directed one.  And it would have had the same funereal pace.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings

     Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was one of the most popular and well-paid writers in the world from the 1920s through the 1940s.  He experienced an unhappy childhood, became a doctor, and wrote on the side until it could pay him more than medicine.  This happened quite quickly and by thirty, he was already a novelist to watch whose plays were being produced in London and New York.  The real money at the turn of the 20th century was in playwriting and especially in adapting one’s novels to the stage.

The Novelist at Work
     From there, he went on to success after success, though he was never taken as seriously by critics and by the guardians of the canon as ‘the mandarins,’ which was his term for Joyce, Woolf, etc.  His personal life was fascinating and it’s that aspect which is the engine for Hastings’ work.  Not only was he gay at a time when it was illegal in England and the U.S., which was part of the reason he resided in the south of France for much of his life, but he worked for the British intelligence service during both world wars.  He was probably one of the most well traveled authors of any era and it was those experiences that played into his work.

     Maugham’s highly disciplined writing method depended upon him working four hours each morning on fiction culled from stories told to him by various friends, acquaintances, and strangers during his travels.  He was incredibly prolific, writing hundreds of stories (he felt this was his métier), and dozens of novels and plays over a sixty-five year period.  He had something acerbic to say about many things, including drunks, which makes sense since his most significant partner was an alcoholic.  However, he was also very supportive of younger writers.  He started an award – still given annually – for future generations of authors to travel and thereby enrich their work.

     Selina Hastings’ research was extensive and Maugham lived a very, very long time.  I felt I was dragging along month by month with him.  It doesn’t help that although the binding on this Canadian edition is smooth and durable, the font seemed archaic and the point size miniscule.  Yeah, I know I sound middle-aged with that comment.  My biggest compliment to Hastings is that her 2009 biography has encouraged me to check out some of Maugham’s writing.  Both The Casaurina Tree:  Six Stories (1926) and Cakes and Ale (1930) sound enticing, especially after I disliked the script of The Constant Wife (1926) in The Shaw Festival’s smart 2005 production.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

When Will We Get Mad About The Big Short?

     Peter Finch’s Howard Beale proclaimed in the prophetic Network (1976), “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”  The Big Short, which was adapted from Michael Lewis’s 2010 book, should make audiences furious – at least the 99% of the population that was screwed over by the top 1% and their investment bankers.  The media’s obsession with celebrities and sports overrides the two major stories of the past decade: our wars with Iraq and Afghanistan and the rising tide of international terrorism; and the continuing financial crisis in this country which exists because of greed, ignorance, and an over-preening sense of entitlement.

     Director Adam McKay co-wrote the script with Charles Randolph and, though he usually makes comedies, the issues of how working and middle class families have been cheated by the financial industry’s greed, a continued lack of federal oversight, and the minimal punishment of those who ruined millions of lives worldwide were first addressed in his The Other Guys (2010).  The Big Short, however, is anything but a comedy.  It’s fueled by outrage and it never backs off.  McKay and Randolph have laid out the complex elements and history that created the CDO (collateralized debt obligation) bubble in a way that makes it understandable.  Tellingly, they don’t underline that the federal government led by Presidents from both parties were trying to give opportunities for more people to own their homes.

Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling
     The movie’s tone feels like it’s possessed by attention deficit disorder, which reflects the situation where many took their eye off the ball of new investment products and the bizarre ways in which they made then lost money, such as derivatives, and didn’t give it much of a thought thereby initiating the financial crisis.  McKay explains the products through self-serving narration by the most cynical character and celebrities and some experts breaking the fourth wall to instruct the viewer quickly.  It’s clever and funny, but it feels like a leftover idea from one of his Will Ferrell vehicles, though those are much sharper and intelligent than their enormous box office receipts might lead a non-viewer to assume.  That, along with Barry Ackroyd’s surprisingly tacky cinematography – there’s no visual point of view in the Vegas sequence; it looks like the Chamber of Commerce sprang for a second-rate photographer – gives it the sense of a prestigious cable movie as Neil said presenting a serious subject, but also trying to be adventurously satirical, while ending up like a series of smirking sketches (1992’s Barbarians at the Gate and 2008’s Recount immediately come to mind).

Christian Bale
     It has a Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) structure with a load of excellent actors in various groupings all after the same thing. Instead of a race to the finish, it’s hold on to the hedge fund investors until the housing market collapses.  Some reviewers have said that spectators will root for the main performers until it understands that the worldwide economy collapses.  How naïve do these reviewers think audiences are?  I felt like everyone got it at the screening we attended and were stunned when they realized from the beginning how this catastrophe – and potential future ones – occurred.  By cutting the real-life Meredith Whitney, who was in the book, the movie feels like a bunch of over-grown white frat boys and former academics jostling for money and validation.  There’s tons of shouting, cursing, and worrying, but none of these characters does anything that seems remotely useful or necessary to society.  However, I bet Ayn Rand would have loved them and she’s probably the only
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novelist most of them read.  I was relieved whenever co-producer Brad Pitt showed up because he was the only character that saw how toxic the culture was and realized he could only change it by leaving; he also didn’t yell or preen the way the others do.  Christian Bale’s performance is interesting because the character is on the autism scale, but it’s nothing I haven’t seen Bale do before.  Overall, the subject is fascinating, but the race made me sick, and the results were infuriating because they made me feel powerless.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Two Great Singers: Adele and Darlene Love

Yin and Yang –
One’s an unlikely superstar,
the other a legendary heroine

     Doesn’t everyone love Adele?  Would she have taken off in the U.S. if not for an appearance on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 and a profile on CBS News Sunday Morning in 2009?  That combination is one of the best arbiters of the next big thing and it’s aimed squarely at the middlebrow that will take a chance on something new.  19 quietly built a major audience and 21 (2011) became a phenomenon.  Not only did she possess an instantly identifiable contralto voice with the phrasing of a mature jazz singer, she also wrote her own
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songs.  After people realized she could be simultaneously bawdy and shy, she became a superstar.  If only Sam Smith had a sense of humor, the hype about him would make a little more sense.

Adele's 2015 NBC Special
     Adele’s pre-eminence was evidenced in her Holiday special from Radio City Music Hall this past December, which backed up 25, the biggest selling album of the year and the fastest selling since electronic tracking began in 1991.  That special lived up to its name; she held an audience in her palm by remaining almost completely still.  It was also the perfect length – one hour – for presenting her strengths.  It’s obvious from that show and from her liner notes that Adele loves her fans.  25 provides just what her many fans want:  mid-tempo ballads about break-ups, getting over break-ups, hoping for another guy that are delivered by a big voice with scrupulous production, whether it’s in a symphonic pop setting or in a grittier R&B one.  She’s sort of our contemporary Dusty Springfield.  It’s a shame that the famously insecure and generous Springfield couldn’t have had a major popular success like one of Adele’s.

     When I first saw the video “Hello,” I thought it was amazing there were still the traditional scarlet phone boxes in England.  If there aren’t, then perhaps Adele is so big a star they found her one.  She sounded great, though the song is a little mopey.  Even though SNL did a funny “Thanks, Adele” skit, I had to agree with the woman working at the BMV who said, when the song came on the radio, “this is the song you hear as you’re jumping off a bridge,” then immediately apologized because she hadn’t meant to say it aloud.

Adele 25
     Perusing the album’s song titles made me wonder if Adele needs to talk with someone because things don’t sound good for her (“I Miss You,” “When We Were Young,” “Water Under The Bridge,” “Can’t Let Go,” “Why Do You Love Me”).  The gorgeous “Million Years Ago,” reminded me of Charles Aznavour’s “Yesterday When I Was Young,” in terms of its theme and lyrics and the time signature.  She sings it with ferocious regret, however, which is nothing like Aznavour, but does recall Shirley Bassey’s cover.  Okay, I realize for Americans Aznavour and Bassey are – at best – footnotes, but they’re enormous in Britain.  In some ways, Bassey is to the British what Aretha is to Americans as a representative cultural icon, though their repertoire and styles of singing have little in common.  I’m certain either Adele or her intriguing mother are acquainted with Bassey’s work, though she doesn’t list her as an influence.

     Adele will continue with a great career, there’s no doubt about it.  That voice is still maturing and she has developed an even richer tone since recuperating from surgery.  Her songwriting has also grown over the past eight years.  However, I wish she’d try different types of songs in terms of tempo and lightness; there’s never a throwaway track on her albums, which means there’s never a moment for a listener to catch a breath.  Fourteen tracks on the Target version of 25 is generous, but three could have been cut.  There were a number of producers and it amazes me that they were able to maintain such a consistent tone.  Did they have to subsume their individual artistic personalities to the juggernaut that is That Voice?   Perhaps, but the album would have been stronger if someone had said, “No, let’s keep this for the next album or let’s not use it.”

     The most exhilarating album I heard this year was Introducing Darlene Love, which covers a range of genres in American pop since the late ‘50s by one of the great voices of the last sixty years in an electrifying collaboration with producer Steven Van Zandt (yes, the guitarist of the E Street Band and Silvio Dante from The Sopranos).  To anyone that
Christmas on Letterman
loved the girl groups produced by Phil Spector in the early ‘60s or Letterman’s Christmas shows from 1986 on, Love needs no introduction.  But radio, streaming, iTunes, and media publicists aren’t too interested in a 74 year old with a clear mezzo chest voice, which is a shameful indictment of American popular culture.  “Still Too Soon To Know,” a duet with The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley should be a new standard if those running the music business had any memory or sense of excellence.

     Love’s career has been about resilience and an optimistic attitude.  She could have settled many scores (especially with Spector), but has refrained from doing so and has always taken the higher road.  Most tellingly, she first thanks her backup singers in the liner notes.  On disc and on screen, she emanates warmth and genuine humanity. There’s a smoky tone to Love’s singing that’s reminiscent of Etta James, but without the baroque phrasing that James employed in her later career.  Rather than calling her a soul singer, I’d say she’s of the Spirit – her roots in the church as a minister’s daughter played into the call and response that Spector was the first white guy to turn into top 40 pop in the late ‘50s in New York while Berry Gordy was doing the same thing at the same time in Detroit.

     Van Zandt’s three decade long friendship with Love has resulted in a work that moves from gospel tinged pop to an evocation of Spector’s Wall of Sound, R&B, ‘80s rock, contemporary rock, contemporary covers of some Brill era songs (where most famously Otis Blackwell, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Jerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill, composed) and closes with traditional Gospel.  I’m not certain how Van Zandt did it, but he’s somehow reproduced the Wall of Sound, which involved recording all the musicians and singers on mono because recording technology did not involve multiple tracks until the mid-60s.  However, the clarity on that Mount Everest of Brill Building songs “River Deep, Mountain High” indicates that he must have employed multiple tracks; I’m just not certain how many.

Darlene Love
     The list of great songwriters on this collection beside some of the Brill geniuses includes Springsteen, Joan Jett & Desmond Child, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Webb, and Van Zandt himself.  Love does justice to all of them especially the generation that came of age after Glam Rock.  She has the power and emotional range to actually find what Costello writes, but cannot quite sing himself and on Springsteen’s songs she sounds like the older sister who taught that scrawny white boy teenager from the Jersey shore what he needed to know about women.

     I felt the natural ending point for the album was “Last Time,” a passionate and elegiac maybe farewell to a friend or lover or even life itself.  However, as Neil said, “they’ll pull this full circle.” They do and it’s by emphasizing the importance to Gospel both to Love and, more broadly, to American music.  I realize that the electronic chatterers are obsessed with the semi-talented, the pre-pubescent, the badly behaved, and some performers that combine all these qualities.  Therefore, whatever else happens with Introducing Darlene Love, I’m grateful that it was released at all.  And I hope that this review influences someone to try out something new that’s simply GREAT.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

David Bowie – Au Revoir to Whoever You Were

     As most anyone who cares about rock music knows by now, David Bowie died on January 10.  It was a head scratching moment because there were no public reports that he was ill.  However, Bowie’s career longevity was based on surprise and this was yet another and one that cannot be topped.  He instinctively understood that popular music in concordance with the exploding media venues of the 1960s meant that physical image was as important as the song.  He took Concept to its metaphysical end by turning his performing persona into a concept depending on what his next album required.  He displayed discretion and maturity by rarely revealing much about his own personality or background – that was usually done by those around him looking to shine in his reflected glory.

    Bowie was labeled as a chameleon so many times that it stuck even though I could always tell when he was singing.  He had a voice that always sounded like it was on the edge of strain.  His vocal tone was flat, though his gift for melody and joy in trying different production settings for his songs made up for it.  Unlike Dylan whose voice declined over time, but who tried to make up for it with phrasing that veers from the obscure to the bizarre or Neil Diamond who successfully smothered his intriguing lyrics with a third generation commercial saloon veneer that verges on glop, Bowie kept his singing very real even with – or maybe despite – the wildness of his physical appearance.  It was this incongruity that lent him power and longevity.

     As a child in England, I thought he was weird, but secretly delighted that he was so public.  I lumped him in my ten-year-old consciousness with Elton John, but I knew about half a dozen of Elton’s songs as compared with only “The Man Who Sold The World” and “Ziggy Stardust” by Bowie.  My uncle who’d recently been a DJ sent me Lodger as well as Pure Prairie League’s latest as a birthday gift in 1979.  PPR was okay, but the new Bowie was an adventure in itself.  I didn’t know quite what to make of it.  Only when I started college did I find others who felt connected to Bowie, but were already looking on to The Talking Heads, The Replacements, and R.E.M.

      By the mid-‘80s, Bowie was enormous and everyone liked him.  I think this was most evident in his “Dancing in the Streets” cover with Mick Jagger.  He surprised again by backing off and re-thinking what else he wanted to do with his music and himself.  I sort of lost touch with his music since my attention was taken by the American Alternative rock groups of the ‘90s and various other performers of the past fifteen years.  However, I’m thankful that he was fearless in visually presenting whatever he might have been feeling or thinking about.  It wasn’t until I heard he died that I realized how much he meant to me.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Youth: Surprisingly Wondrous

     Since Youth is written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, I expected it to be visually gorgeous and it is; since it stars Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda, I assumed it would be well acted and it is; what I didn’t bargain for was how funny it is.  Taking place at an exclusive spa in Switzerland and presenting both those that work there and the wealthy, influential patrons visiting, it gives every character her or his due.

At the Spa
     Taking Fellini’s concentration on the ‘interesting face’ to the next level, Sorrentino shows all types of partly or completely nude bodies.  It’s never done in a prurient way, which already tips the viewer off to the fact that this is not an American director.  The spa setting feels like a tip of a new generation to the master’s fedora in 8 ½ (1963).  Luca Bigazzi’s cinematography is exquisite, but never for the sake of mere beauty; he regards Fonda’s wig and the young masseuse’s videogame dancing with a deadpan wit even as they’re lit perfectly.  David Lang’s music provides the required sense of significance since the main character is a famous composer.  The final scenes when that character, played by Michael Caine, conducts coloratura Sumi Jo are simply magical (and, guess what kids – some of them in the midst of mid-life crises – no special effects)!  As with a number of other contemporary directors, the collaboration between Sorrentino, Bigazzi, and Lang creates a symbiosis that enriches each individual project.

Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel
     Caine and Keitel, as a movie director working on a script with a group of young up-and-coming writers, make a great comic duo as friends, who’ve known each other for decades and who also happen to be in-laws.  The composer has retired, but can hear music everywhere; like it or not, he cannot escape composing.  The director is blocked, but willing to consider every possibility.  The relationship is the linchpin for the movie’s themes and the plot.  There are a couple of very significant lines:  Caine’s “we have a good relationship; we only tell each other the good things” and Keitel’s “all we have are emotions.”  Caine deliberately slows his movements to seem older than his actual age, while Keitel is both physically frisky and as off beat sexy as he was in The Piano (1993).

Rachel Weisz
     Weisz delivers a blistering monologue about her growing up with aplomb, torn between her parents and simultaneously loyal to and betrayed by her husband and father.  It’s great to see her spirited since the last time we viewed her was as the depressing wife in The Deep Blue Sea (2011).  Paul Dano performs as a young actor researching a role he might play and when we see the test make-up, it’s both shocking because of its accuracy, but also hilarious because of the other spa guests’ reactions.  Fonda’s make-up is
Jane Fonda
also funny and chilling; she nails her scene with Keitel in which she’s imperious, self-serving, and ruthlessly honest.

Orchestra with Sumi Jo
     It’s one of those movies where at the end, when the theatre remained in darkness, as Lang’s music continued, I was so glad.  Well, until I heard the aged suburban couple behind me.  He:  It was good, but I preferred Spotlight.  She:  This was arty, but that was more real.  I hope they don't choke on an apple and an orange.

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Trumbo: How Fragile was the First Amendment?

     Trumbo received pretty good reviews, but little business.  Currently playing in the shoebox screen at The Esquire, it may not even be here when this review gets uploaded.  It’s a solid biographical drama about leading Hollywood golden age screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.  Written by John McNamara and directed by Jay Roach in a realistic, straightforward style, it cogently explores how the Hollywood Blacklist of the ‘40s and ‘50s was the highest profile manifestation of HUAC (the House Un-American Activities Committee).

The Hollywood 10 Protest
     It was fueled by fear of the Russian Soviets, the potential for communist infiltration of American institutions, and the self-interest of a number of ambitious people to keep or increase their power at the expense of others’ careers and lives.  Hollywood moguls were intimidated by their fear of declining box office receipts and their desperation to keep their humble backgrounds discreet.  I felt a wide streak of anti-Semitism on the part of the U.S. Congressmen and those Americans including John Wayne and Hedda Hopper who defended American values by denying some Americans their right to free speech and the opportunity to work.  This was an era where bad publicity could kill literally a performer and her/his career.  Nowadays, most performers including politicians seem to have been crossbred with cockroaches: the only bad publicity is no publicity.

The Real Trumbos vs. Trumbo's Trumbos
     Although the subject raises my ire, Dalton Trumbo himself maintained an almost Zen-like equanimity in the face of brutal chicanery and cowardice.  He received incredible support from his family, but could be tyrannical in running them as hard as the moguls ran their studio personnel.  The movie answers a question I’ve had for years about what people do to survive when they’ve been labeled as political dissidents and aren’t allowed to pursue their livelihoods.  Trumbo got around it in an extremely creative way by using other writers as fronts for A-list work and writing hack screenplays for the Poverty Row exploitation producers the King brothers.  The Kings displayed real guts in keeping blacklisted writers working.  It was tougher on actors, who couldn’t hide.  Many gave up when they couldn’t find work in the New York theatre.
Bryan Cranston
     Bryan Cranston gives a powerful land technically accomplished performance as Trumbo.  However, when actual footage of Trumbo is shown during the end credits, it provides a contrast that subtly diminishes Cranston’s work.  Trumbo comes across as feisty and tough, whereas Cranston embodies a patrician, avuncular man.  I can see why the actual Trumbo was such a threat, but with Cranston it’s a little mystifying because he has such good manners.  Diane Lane
Mirren as Hedda Hopper
and Helen Mirren do their usual exemplary work as, respectively, Trumbo’s quiet wife, who finally comes into her own defending their children and Hedda Hopper, who really was vicious, though the final image of her face cracks through the evil.  John Goodman and Stephen Root are like a middle-aged Katzenjammer Kids as the Kings and Louis C.K. provides heart as a composite of a number of communist screenwriters.  I wish they hadn’t had to depart from the real details when there was so much drama in that era and this subject.  Elle Fanning as Trumbo’s loyal but searching older daughter nails her two big scenes; her performance foretells wonders.
Elle Fanning

Monday, January 4, 2016

Female Friendship: Stage Door, The World of Henry Orient, Swing Shift, La Cérémonie

Tiffany Vazquez Hosting Turner Classic Movies
      Turner Classic Movies (yes, they show more excellent movies than any other channel) recently asked super fan Tiffany Vazquez to guest program works centering on female friendship.  If TCM gets really smart, Vazquez will remain in a long-term capacity with the network.  She’s young, smart, and offers some intriguing insights into the specific movies.  We checked out some of the selections:

     Stage Door (1937), one of those wise-cracking, heartfelt comedy-dramas that Hollywood produced like sliced bread during the zenith of the studio era – in this case, RKO – gave an opportunity for an extraordinary ensemble of young actresses to strut their stuff.  Not revived as much as The Women (1939), it’s far more positive about the support and genuine camaraderie that female friendship entails.  Competing in the alienating world of the Broadway theatre, the women share joy, hardships, personal hopes and dreams, and are there for each other in the best and toughest of times.

The Women of Stage Door
     Although RKO isn’t lauded now to the degree shown to other major studios, executives could assemble the following cast:  Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Andrea Leeds, Ann Miller, Eve Arden, Lucille Ball, Constance Collier, Gail Patrick, Adolphe Menjou, Jack Carson, and many others.  Leeds married and retired soon after its release to breed racehorses, but she’s lovely as the young actress, who’s experienced success, but is already being overlooked for the next model.  If this doesn’t presage the current TV singing shows and the eagerness to find the next thirteen year old with a thirty year
Ann Miller and Ginger Rogers
old’s voice, then I don’t know what does.  Ann Miller, incidentally, was fourteen during filming, but she looks at least five years older and more than holds her own in a nifty tap number with Rogers, set in a swanky nightclub where Patrick sneers at them while trying to capture producer Menjou’s long-term romantic attention.

     There’s nothing dated about the movie, except for how fast, funny, and sarcastic the characters are.  Oh yes, and they seem like grown-ups dealing with unemployment, sexual exploitation, aging, balancing work and love lives, depression, and suicide.  They get all of this across in ninety minutes without cursing or showing much skin, though everything is suggested.  If only Judd Apatow and Tina Fey could edit their genius to move at such a pace.

     The World of Henry Orient (1964), directed by George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting), felt a little like a live action Disney movie from that period to Neil.
Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker
That’s probably because it’s most focused on the two fourteen year old private school girls Val and Gil, played by Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, and because New York City feels like a big playground, rather than the dangerous and alienated metropolis it had become – this was the same year as the murder of Kitty Genovese.  Hill was known as a ‘buddy’ director and that already shone forth in the uninhibited friendship of the two girls, who play make believe games and display a naturalness that seems unscripted.  Fortunately, this friendship doesn’t turn sinister as the similar one in Heavenly Creatures (1994) between the girls played by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey.  Walker and Spaeth are the leads and they carry the production with their high spirits and honesty.

Spying on Peter Sellers (Henry Orient)
     Where Henry Orient went a little wrong initially on its release was in making a big deal of Peter Sellers playing Orient.  He’s a second-rate concert pianist trying to hide his Brooklyn background with what would later be termed a Eurotrash accent.  Sellers is very funny playing a two-faced jerk; where he’s not as successful is in tying his character’s paranoia about the affair he’s having with a young, wealthy married woman, played winningly by Paula Prentiss.  He believes the girls are stalking him.  At first, they’re not, but coincidence turns into a new game and they look at him as a new fad.  Sellers’ performance is not big enough or maybe the story of the girls is more compelling.

Angela Lansbury
     Angela Lansbury, however, in a small role about halfway into the story, may be a revelation for those who only know her from Murder, She Wrote (1984 – 1996), her cozy amateur sleuth detective series on which she employed either has-beens from Hollywood’s Golden Age that older viewers may have thought were already dead and intriguing newcomers who got a solid TV start.  In 1963, she was sick of the harpy roles she’d played incredibly well from her teens and was disappointed that her great performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was nominated for but didn’t win the Oscar.  Yeah, I know Patty Duke was convincing as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, but I’ve seen others also play the role as well.  However, Meryl Streep didn’t do as well in the Manchurian remake (2004).  It’s because Lansbury could play yakky and daffy before turning it around to show Mrs. Iselin’s evil genius, while in the vulnerable spot of having to answer to the Soviet Politburo.  Lansbury’s frustration comes across as the ice queen mother, who’s emotionally withholding, but quick to pursue a meaningless fling out of boredom and spite.

     Within two years, Lansbury became a major star while in Mame on Broadway.  Side note:  The Wiz!  Live on NBC a couple of weeks ago is the first of that annual series to work because they hired a cast that knew exactly how to perform.  We think Mame should be revived live and we nominate Anna Faris and Alison Janney as Mame and Vera Charles (Mayim Bialik would be a good Agnes Gooch too).  I don’t know if they can sing, but they can act, which is the most important element of performing in musicals, believe it or not.  Anyway, Mame features female friendships in a complex manner.

     Swing Shift (1984), directed by Jonathan Demme, but produced by and starring Goldie Hawn, came out a couple of years after Connie Field’s Oscar-winning documentary The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980).  When you see the non-fiction, you can tell what Demme was going after and when you remember Private Benjamin (1980) and The Sugarland Express (1974), you can see what he hoped for and almost got from her.  Hawn has a sharp-eyed, cutting edge that can be a tonic for her commercial daffiness.  However, she wanted the movie to be a cute comedy set during World War II when women built the machinery that basically saved democracy.

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
     Hawn does a funny bit with a tablecloth in one scene, which was probably where she wanted things to go tonally.  She looks great and could pass for late twenties, though she was ten years older.  The problem is that both she and Ed Harris as her husband, who goes off to war, look and seem more mature than the high school sweethearts that haven’t been married very long.  In trying to seem young in the early scenes, their acting ends up one note and shallow.  When things become more complicated in a friendship with a tough neighbor trying to make it as a singer, played with conviction and heart by Christine Lahti, Hawn is up for the challenge.  She also has real chemistry with Kurt Russell as her supervisor and also trying to make it as a musician; Russell looks like he could be the right age.

Christine Lahti
     The relationship between Lahti’s character and Fred Ward as a music impresario, who uses her, has more levels than the other romances.  The other problem is that most viewers will hope that Hawn and Russell’s characters will end up together because they bring out so much in each other.  The ending is more about bringing together Hawn and Lahti’s characters instead.  Because the movie doesn’t work, it’s sort of fascinating.  Lahti projects depth, but there are scenes where she looks like she’s in the mid-80s, rather than the ‘40s so no element works consistently.

     Claude Chabrol adapted Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone (1977) with Caroline Eliacheff for his La Cérémonie (1995).  Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert, both contemporary French cinema legends, give deeply unsettling performances, respectively, as a newly hired maid for a wealthy family and a small town’s bubbly and surly postmistress.  Huppert, especially, can do things with her eyes and mouth that work against the rest of her body language.  I’ve seen her in three or four films and she never moves, looks, or repeats her performances.  Only the tone of her voice – more patrician and elegant than expected – remains a common element.

Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert
     The major difference between the book and the movie is that Rendell tells what will happen in the first sentence and the suspense builds because the reader keeps putting the clues together towards what will be a tragic and shocking conclusion.  The key element is illiteracy.  Chabrol doesn’t do that.  He drops hints in the plot and Bonnaire masterfully shows that her character has no imagination and, more importantly, very little empathy.  Since Chabrol directs, the viewer probably expects that this will be a thriller of some kind and there seems to be an element of class struggle.

     What Chabrol does instead and it’s chilling is to show the banality of evil and the curt, casual nature of murderous violence.  I wish he had used a flash-forward of the final image, which involves a tape recording that inadvertently picks up the killings, at the very beginning of the movie.  I think it would have intensified the viewer’s identification with the characters and the nature of the class conflict.

    Anyway, cheers to TCM and Tammy Vazquez for going off the main line to check out some lesser-known or overlooked works that aren’t perfect, but deserve attention.

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Carol: The Dead Cinema

     I loved director Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven (2002) and I’m Not There (2007), Cate Blanchett is one of the supreme actresses of world cinema, I’ve enjoyed many of Patricia Highsmith’s novels, and Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky is an unheralded, but pretty wonderful place to live; and despite all of that, Carol is a beautiful cinematic corpse.  It reminded me of Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962), which as a series of stills or short scenes without dialogue was gorgeous, but had no thematic meaning for me because it didn’t seem to be linked to a plot.  Writers had lauded it for over a quarter century so I thought I was just missing something.  Some have already handed Haynes a backhanded compliment by writing that Carol has the heart his earlier work lacked; I couldn’t disagree more.

Rooney Mara
     For some reason, Rooney Mara is a big deal right now. She resembles Audrey Hepburn in the early Greenwich Village scenes of Funny Face (1957), but she has none of that incandescent star’s expressiveness.  In Highsmith’s The Price of Salt (1952), upon which this is based, the main character Therese is in her early twenties and trying to figure out her
identity.  She does so through a romantic relationship with Carol, a wealthy suburban housewife and mother.  Mara comes across as tentative; by the time she may have decided which emotion(s) to project, the movie has cut to the next
Blanchett's Demeanor
scene.  Blanchett works in a style that seems to merge her own technique with something out of ‘50s MGM, almost as if she’s resurrecting Eleanor Parker with a mellifluous voice, a glamorous, professional demeanor, and discretion about honest feelings.  While an intriguing choice, it doesn’t provide any connection with Mara, which is fatal.  If the lovers don’t spark, then the love story doesn’t work and that’s what happens here.

Cate Blanchett
     Blanchett’s scene with Sarah Paulson as Carol’s long-time friend when their hands meet as they walk downstairs made me wish they’d ended up together.  Kyle Chandler as Carol’s husband Harge also displays a passion that briefly breaks the movie’s placid, elegant demeanor.  He looks a little like John Hodiak, but he’s more powerful and expressive.  Jake Lacy, charming with Jenny Slate in last year’s Obvious Child, has a wide-eyed innocence as Richard, Therese’s boyfriend who cannot emotionally grasp the situation.  Local pros Amy Warner and Michael Haney nail their scene as Harge’s conventional, wealthier parents.  Neil recognized Deb Girdler’s voice as the motel clerk in one significant scene.

Leachman's Cinematography
     Edward Lachman’s cinematography displays the beauty of Cincinnati as well as the automobiles, clothes, and interiors of the post-World War II era, but at times its embarrassment of riches goes against the storytelling.  There’s an extraordinary reflection shot in a motel office’s window that shows an important piece of information, but I found my attention arrested by the shot and how it was done, rather than what was happening.  There are a number of instances where the camera lingers over various objects to a degree that is fetishistic.  Haynes seems more obsessed and aroused by the signifiers of that era, rather than the characters –especially those of Carol and Therese – in the plot.


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Amber Rose displayed her famous curves on a recent trip through LAX airport when she donned a pair of skintight leggings and a cleavage baring top.

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She accessorized with a pair of dark sunnies and a classic tote bag by Saint Laurent. The signature monogram shopper featured chain straps, a gold logo and a matelassé design.

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

Raised from darkness
Polished and poised
Every be-ringed gesture
becomes an attraction to Fortune

"I will guide you to adventure!
Open the way
to new opportunities
I'll bring business to your door.

In layers of translucent green
I cleanse and activate your heart
shield you from energy theft or pollution
Re-balance your emotional core.
I vibrate to the tune of inner harmony
helping you to embrace each new start.

In shades of azure dumortierite
I strengthen throat chakras
deepening intuition
stimulating third eye's sight
aiding the release
of all addictive blights

Sparkling shades of snow
are rare, but all inclusive.

Dressed in red
I'll strengthen your blood
solar plexus, and sacral base
to help you manifest abundance

Orange or yellow resonate
to the tunes of leadership
and creative grace.

Feeling lucky?
Take a gamble
seize the chance
Opportunity knocks once
but with my help
she'll give you
a second glance."

For those new to the game, each poem is inspired by a Teacher found in Nature; stars, stones, animals, plants etc that hold lessons of Wisdom for us. Can you guess who is singing today? Congrats to Cathy Parisi, and Alan who named this Teacher!

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  ~Thomas J. Watson

"The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work." Henry Dodd

"Focus, child! Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor. Do you know what you wish? Are you certain what you wish is what you want? If you know what you want, then make a wish." ~ Cinderella's mother, Into the Woods

Aventurine can be translucent or opaque in shades of green, white, blue, red, orange or yellow. Primarily micro-crystalline quartz (some argue rock), which means it does not grow in points and clusters but rather in chunks and slabs. Inclusions of other minerals give it color and shine; mica gives a silver, and pyrite, a gold sparkle. Hematite or Goethite will create red, gray, pink, orange or brown Aventurine. Fuchsite, sometimes known as chrome mica, is a chromium rich variety of Muscovite which creates the most common shade of Aventurine, green. Muscovite or Ilmenite also creates shades of blue, gray or white. Dumortierite inclusions create shades of blue. For our purposes today, I will focus on the one I am most familiar with, green Aventurine.

The shimmering effect found in this Nature Teacher is known as aventurescence. Sometime in the 18th century in Venice, some member of the Miotti family (according to most sources) managed to spill copper shavings into a batch of molten glass creating a glittering "stone" which came to be called Goldstone. This shiny effect closely resembles the natural shimmer found in Aventurine. Most sources seem to assume that the name Aventurine is an allusion to this creative event that resulted in a manufactured "stone" with similar appearance. This random event led to the localized protection of the manufacturing of Goldstone, a rather detailed utility patent, which influenced perhaps even helped shape our modern day patent laws. In Italian, "a ventura" translates as "by chance, luck or risk".

Indian Jade, Gambler's Stone, Stone of Opportunity, Stone of the Amazons, Stone of Heaven and Luck Stone are all titles that have been given to this Teacher at some point. Thought to be the luckiest of stones, Aventurine's presence actually attracts and calls our attention to opportunities around us. This Teacher also likes to help by encouraging us to let go of bad habits, patterns or past disappointments. Aventurine encourages leadership qualities like focus, perception, insight, perseverance, motivation and creativity in the face of obstacles. This bright Teacher opens us up to new ideas, and lends us a brightly polished sense of optimism and good humor as well which strengthens us against feelings of depression and defeat. For me,  its most important qualities have been its protective ones.

Green Aventurine helps connect us to the Earth, and Devic entities which helps us to stay balanced, grounded and centered as well as encouraging us to actively connect our selves with Nature. It strengthens communication with our spirit guides/guardian angels. It eases anger, nervousness, fear and irritation which in turn allows us to make decisions with a clear and focused mind. It cleanses, balances, supports and activates our Heart Chakra. It shields us from energy theft, electromagnetic and emotional pollution. It helps to clear energy blocks. as well as helping us to let go of the day's accumulated negativity.

I work with the public in a fairly large volume. This friend helps me keep my mental/emotional footing steady, my sanity relatively intact, and my energy positive without getting dragged down by the stress, negative emotions and attitudes one encounters all day long in such a position. Green is a color for growth and prosperity. Aventurine encourages us in those directions.

An extremely soothing and gentle companion, Aventurine is very much a Teacher that promotes personal growth at every level as well as healing in general. It was thought to be especially good at  supporting the health and healing of the heart, lungs and circulatory system. It was once believed that it helped to correct nearsightedness as well as enhancing visionary powers. I have found Aventurine especially good at helping us to resolve past traumas, particular emotional trauma, and releasing emotional baggage in general; inner work and healing seem to be this Teacher's specialty.

Inner Harmony is key to all Aventurine lessons, and this Teacher does all it can to help us attain that state, making a wonderfully positive focus during meditation. It works well with other stones too, like Blue Lace Agate, Amethyst or Hematite. In ancient times it was used to fashion tools with sharp edges, as well as charms, jewelry or other art objects.  Keeping a piece in your left pocket (our "receptive" side) is thought to bring luck and prosperity. Some will even put it in their cashbox/register to attract new business, take/wear it on a date, or job interview.

This Teacher asks us to remember our connection to the Natural world around us while letting go of outmoded thoughts/beliefs/patterns that distance us from our place in the Tree of Life. Aventurine gently reminds us that our perception/attitude can greatly influence how we think or react. Why see trouble when you could be seizing an opportunity? Going through the motions when we aren't really "feeling" it can help us turn gears in the right direction, bringing about our desired goals. Defeat happens more often between our ears than in physical reality. How does this humble Teacher appear in your life?

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of their difficulties"  ~Harry Truman

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal — and soon they'll forget my number." ~Edith Armstrong

"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination." ~Marian Zimmer Bradley

Key Words: Inner Harmony, Personal Growth, Leadership, Prosperity, Luck, Opportunity, Fertility, Healing, Renewal, Optimism/Hope

Associated with: Deities like Cupra, Flidais, Kuan Yin, Tara, Ganesha, Raphael, Arael, Metatron... deities of of luck like Bast, Hermes, Fortuna or Tyche. Deities of healing like Asclepias, Bridgit, Dian Cecht or Nodens. "Green" Nature deities like Artemis, Gaeia, Cybele, Aja, Herne the Hunter or other Green Man/Woman figures, Gnomes, Brownies and other Earthy creatures.

Potential Balancing Energies: other stones like Amethyst, Hematite, Jade or Rose Quartz. Birds like Hummingbird, Turkey, Robin or Raven. Insects like Preying Mantis, Fireflies/Lightning bugs, Crickets, Grasshoppers or Butterflies. Animals like Cats, Rabbits, Foxes, Coyote, or Frog. Plants like Clover, Greater/Lesser Plantain, Jade plant, bamboo, Patchouli or Dragon's Blood tree. Elements like Earth and Water

  1. Afraid not Jan. I did do a song for the Rainbow, but this isn't it. You can see one example of this Teacher in the picture I included though, a green one

  2. Aha...Adventurine....lovely.....I'll look for it.


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"All of our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." --- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966); animator, film producer

Art News:

It's been a busy week for homework. I'll try to get some art together to share before the weekend's over.

In the mean time... More artists featured!

Shadowscapes, the Art of Stephanie Pui-Mun -- This artist does a lot of asian-themed work, and a lot of fairies. If you like fantasy oriented winged things, fairies, angels and the like... you'll probably like her stuff. It's mostly watercolor, and all very lovely.

Featherlady Studio, the Art of Julie Thompson -- Perhaps you've heard of her, perhaps you've seen some of her work. Julie does amazingly detailed paintings on feathers, and is probably my favorite wildlife artist. Once I get out of school and have money again, I really want to commission her for something special.

Current Projects:

I finished all of last week's homework on time (yay!) but I still have some reading to catch up with, and I need to assemble and write up everyone's responses from the anthropology assignment. I want to thank EVERYONE that participated!! I know some wanted to remain anonymous, so I will not thank everyone by name here.

Nifty things:

Great Big Sea will be in Milwaukee on Oct 1st, and Glen Ellyn on Oct 3rd. I REALLY REALLY want to go! (to one show, not both) I'm not sure if we can swing it, but just in case anyone else is a fan!

Illinois Storytelling Festival is going on at Dominican University in River Forest on September 25-26. I've never heard of any of the storytellers coming, but their bios sound fascinating! I'm not sure if we're going to be in town that weekend (or up for doing much if we are), but if someone's looking for something unique and interesting to do.... there we go!

Enjoy your Sunday, folks!

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Flexible maintenance for connected fleet vehicles

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An innovative maintenance plan is available for Scania fleet users where remote vehicle monitoring is used to determine maintenance requirements.

Scania is now introducing the option for customers to have vehicles serviced based on flexible maintenance plans. Instead of service based on set mileage, vehicles are called in for service when the operating data indicate that maintenance is needed. This means the vehicle receives exactly the maintenance it needs and, in most cases, spends less time idle at the workshop. Scania has approximately 170,000 connected vehicles in Europe that can potentially begin using the service.

“Flexible plans means we can take Scania Maintenance to an entirely new level,” says Claes Åkerlund,  Head of Service Concepts at Scania. “This is new technology, and the fact that all of our vehicles sold in Europe today are connected has made the service possible. Maintenance plans that are based on how the vehicle is actually used increase both reliability and availability.”

Scania continuously monitors the vehicle’s operating data, which makes it possible to determine with a great deal of precision when various maintenance operations need to be carried out. It is also possible to efficiently combine various service operations and perform preventive maintenance in order to reduce the time that the vehicle is idle rather than being operative and  producing revenue. Unplanned visits to the workshop between service appointments can be minimised, which also facilitates the work of transport planners.

“A service contract including flexible maintenance plans means that the operator does not have to keep track of when the vehicle needs to be serviced; instead he or she is contacted by Scania when it is time,” says Claes Åkerlund. “Because the workshop has all of the essential information before the appointment and can prepare for it in detail, the ‘pit stop’ is very efficient.”

Scania is now in the process of rolling out all of the necessary technology at its 900 workshops in Europe. Norway is one of the pilot markets, and so far customer feedback has been extremely positive; the haulage companies appreciate Scania’s willingness to shoulder the responsibility for planning, and they also recognise that the number of workshop visits has decreased in general.

Isn’t there a risk, for example, that heavily used vehicles will not receive the maintenance they need? And the opposite scenario: have some vehicles been serviced too frequently in the past?

“There is a very high degree of reliability, and we can determine the actual need for service with a great deal of precision,” says Claes Åkerlund. “The set maintenance plans resulted in vehicles being serviced both too frequently and too infrequently. I believe we can all agree that the best scenario is when every vehicle receives the exact amount of maintenance it needs.”

Is it then possible to assert that a Scania Maintenance contract with flexible plans will always lead to longer distances between, say, oil changes? According to Claes Åkerlund, this is approaching the issue in the wrong way. It all depends on how the vehicle is used in practice – long-haulage with 35 metric tons GTW between Rotterdam and Bremen is probably not the same thing as driving the same distance with the same vehicle between Zagreb and Munich.

“In general terms, however, a vehicle travelling between Rotterdam and Bremen should absolutely be able to count on over 120,000 kilometres between engine oil changes, provided it runs on Scania’s LDF-3 oil, which was specially developed for our Euro 6 engines. But if the vehicle is frequently used for other types of assignments and under tough conditions, we will quickly discover this and make sure that the customer’s vehicle is serviced appropriately.”

Scania’s aim is to offer maintenance contracts with flexible plans in all European markets over the course of 2016. The best type of maintenance plan for each vehicle and operating type is determined in consultation with Scania. Periodic maintenance at set intervals is still available to customers or for driving patterns for which this option is most suitable.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

DRBC lifts drought watch, urges efficient water use

Delaware River winter view - DRBC photo taken in 2000

The following is taken from a DRBC news release:

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) today announced the termination of its drought management special permit in effect since Nov. 23, 2016, when the basin was placed in a drought watch.

"Due to recent precipitation and snow melt, combined storage in three large upper basin reservoirs has achieved and sustained a sufficient level for five consecutive days to result in automatic termination of the basinwide drought watch," said DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini.

"Although upper basin reservoir storage has rebounded in recent weeks automatically ending the drought watch operations, other indicators such as groundwater levels, stream flows, precipitation, soil moisture, and local reservoir storage have not all recovered," said Tambini. "As a result, various state-issued drought watches and warnings based on those indicators remain in effect across most of the basin."

"DRBC continues to urge all water users to maximize water efficiency wherever possible and to fully cooperate with requests by the basin states to curb water use where drought watches and warnings have been issued based on local conditions," added Tambini. "The importance of a coordinated response by all water users cannot be overstated."

The DRBC’s primary drought management objective, which complements the basin states’ drought response efforts, is to provide for conservation of regional reservoir storage for purposes of water supply and flow augmentation in the Delaware River and salinity control in the Delaware Estuary (i.e., the tidal river and bay).

The upper basin reservoirs which determine DRBC drought stages are located in the Catskill Mountains at the headwaters of the Delaware River in New York State. These three New York City reservoirs provide about half of the city’s water supply and support a minimum flow target in the Delaware River at Montague, N.J. established by the U.S. Supreme Court Decree of 1954. Storage, releases, diversions, and flow targets in the DRBC drought management plan are determined in advance and must have the unanimous concurrence of the parties to the decree, which include the four basin states and New York City.

Combined storage in the three upper basin reservoirs had been as low as 39.3% of capacity in late November 2016. The reservoirs are currently at about 58% of capacity, which is approximately 70 billion gallons below normal for this time of the year.

By transitioning out of the drought watch stage, out-of-basin diversions to New York City and portions of New Jersey established by the decree will return to normal levels. In addition, the Delaware River flow objective at Montague and a second flow objective at Trenton, N.J. will also return to the normal targets of 1,750 cubic feet per second (cfs) and 3,000 cfs, respectively.

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40th Anniversary Flight of John Glenn

February 20, 2002

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On this date 40 years ago, February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth. The photo above shows the Atlas rocket carrying Glenn lifting off from Cape Canaveral during the Mercury-6 Project. His space capsule (atop the rocket) was known as Friendship-7. In 1998, former astronaut and former US Senator John Glenn was awarded a flight on the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-95 Mission, and at age 77, he became the oldest person to orbit the Earth.

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Diamond Willow

November 04, 2002

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The photo above shows several diamond willows that have been fashioned into decorative walking sticks. Diamond willow is not a species of willow, but apparently results from a fungus (Valsa sordida - possibly other types of fungi as well). The species of willows that are attacked by this fungus are prevalent in northern climates and can be found along riverbanks and lakes, beside sloughs, and in bogs and swamps. The fungus preferentialy attacks the forks of branches and twigs and causes the "diamond" pattern. Eventually, the branch will die, but because the roots aren't injured, new shoots may be produced.

Mr. Laninga, who lives in a cabin in the north woods of Alberta, Canada has taken advantage of the fungus by collecting diseased branches and turning them into walking sticks. The first step is to let them dry for about 1 year. Then the "diamonds" are thoroughly cleaned, and the willow is sanded several times before varnishing.

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Sunday, August 06, 2006

WWDC is Tomorrow

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That picture has nothing to do with anything except that I took it yesterday at our pool party this week and I just loved the way it came out. I'll let you guess with pair of legs is mine. Tomorrow is Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference (affectionately dubbed the WWDC), and DVD Newsroom actually spoke to a confirmed Apple employee about what she's heard through the grapevine. From reading it, it sounds very reliable and extremely plausible across the board. The biggest thing they were capitalizing on is that Apple has vested itself in Blu-ray, though I'm not sure why. In any case, it'll be several months before a Mac with a BD-ROM. He also revealed that there's no chance of an iPhone, and the real purpose of the movie store is an Apple media center, not a movie-enabled iPod! He didn't seem to know much about a new iPod or MacBook Pro (which makes sense since that's really confidential stuff), but anything could happen tomorrow. I'm sure that the satellite radio companies would be glad to not see a new iPod since Apple's alliances with car companies is really putting a damper on XM/Sirius sales. I still have faith in the satellite radio companies as I've never heard anyone who uses it complain about its quality. If you don't have an important lunch to go to tomorrow like I do, you'll probably want to try and catch a live feed of tomorrow's WWDC proceedings and be the first to know some potentially exciting stuff. You can, of course, expect a full report right here tomorrow night.

The Senate has ratified a treaty that can be quite misleading. It's a cybercrime treaty where we will co-operate with other nations in trading information to help capture cybercriminals, but what they don't tell you is that some of these nations censor their people's freedom of speech online! I wonder if they realize what they're doing? I predict that we may see a contravened come out of this sooner than later. Following up on Friday's Kevin Rose cover story from Business Week, I just thought it was funny that he's wearing $20 headphones from Best Buy because I use $15 Best Buy behind-the-ear headphones myself because they work so great at the gym and they're easy to carry to the office. Technophilia has a pretty neat table comparing the three biggest free e-mail services, and it actually taught me that Hotmail and Yahoo Mail have more than I thought, but I'm too fond of Gmail to switch. Lastly, have you ever wondered where some of these tech companies got their names from? One blog actually compiled the stories behind some of these big names, and they're really fun to read. I can't believe I never realized that Intel stands for Integrated Electronics.

I'm not really all that surprised that Talladega Nights was number 1 this weekend, but to make nearly $50 million in its opening weekend is quite impressive and means that it'll probably end up with about $100 million before it comes out on DVD. What was also amazing is that Pirates of the Caribbean is at #3, which is higher than Miami Vice or The Night Listener (which also opened this weekend, but I didn't see enough publicity for it). The only other thing I have for you today are pictures from Saw III, which aren't as disturbing as I expected, but they're still pretty weird.

Now for some Unconscious Mutterings:

I say ... and you think ... ?

  1. Affair :: Cheating

  2. Package :: Penis (hey, I'm just being honest)

  3. Warner :: Brothers

  4. Drop :: Box

  5. Balance :: Sheet

  6. Shore :: Line

  7. Confirmation :: Number

  8. Nose :: Dive

  9. Talking :: Heads

  10. Bend :: River

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So, did you bite those legs?

Unless they're your sister's....


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Understanding and shaping all aspects of communication is the primary component to a successful negotiation.

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May 6, 2014

Transformation Tuesday: Week 5

This week was better, but there is still some improvement to be made.

Like most trying to lose weight, I did well all week and then came the weekend. My cleaning marathon didn't help and neither did the birthday cake I ate on Saturday. And let's not forget date night. That margarita was worth every calorie. I still don't want to know how many calories were in it, but it was still worth it. This week will be better though. I'm headed to the grocery during my lunch hour and a half and that'll be a restart on my healthy eating. I think I'm just going to have to face the music that I need to go every week in order to eat the way I need too. I try to stretch it out to 2 weeks and it just doesn't work. But it's better than me relying on fast food and take out. True story: I went to McDonald's last night because I didn't have enough brain power or energy to think of something to make with minimal food in our house. I ordered 2 salads. For me. It had been nearly 8 hours since I had eaten and I was starving! I figured 2 salads was better than a salad and a sandwich or fries. That shit was expensive though! Almost $11. No thanks!

Workouts. Those were pretty good. I got 3 C25K's in and I did pretty well on them I think. I didn't hate them at all, but my monitor said I burnt less calories than I normally do. Whatever. I didn't do any of it this weekend though since I was cleaning. I ate biscuits and gravy instead.

I'm not sure where I stand as far as the number on the damn scale though. I do know that yesterday I felt like a busted can of biscuits as a result of my poor weekend eating. Clothes fit about the same. And milk has stayed the same. I'm afraid I'm one of those people that don't lose weight while breastfeeding and actually hold onto weight until they are done. Yayyyyy me!

I think I've figured out my next move though: T25. Christi @ A Full Time Keller has been raving about it for a few weeks and has told me she is seeing awesome results. I need awesome results. I also need quick, effective workouts. T25 is made up of different 25 minute workouts. Sign me up! That's usually about all I have in me before I get bored, or tired, or worried about the 73 other things I have to do. I just need to figure out when I want to start.

That's it on the weight loss front for this week.

  1. ek- Yay! You won't be disappointed. Just stick with it and you will do awesome.

  2. Love the new look of your page! :) Sounds like your doing great! Keep up the good work! Sometimes it's nice to do a workout video that is quick and step by step! I've never done the T25 but I did the AdvoCare Can You 24 video leading up to our wedding and I really liked following something rather than keeping track of my own exercises/runs.


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Sunday, March 07, 2010

One Million

Well, there you go. I reached the 1,000,000 hit level late last night. I'm pretty proud of that. I've been blogging for almost five years now (my anniversary is in a couple of weeks actually) and it's nice to know that some folks care about what I have to say, or at least the music and pictures I have to share. Thanks for your support! See ya in the funny papers!

(I seem to be accelerating slightly. I reached half a million hits in just under three years, so I'm getting faster!)


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“The strength of a vision”: 023′s biggest production for Gas Natural Fenosa

“The strength of a vision”: 023′s biggest production for Gas Natural Fenosa

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3 months, 6 countries, 3 continents, more than 30 participants, 023 Content & Media’s best technical and creative talent, and the invaluable support of the Gas Natural Fenosa communications team. These were the ingredients that made possible GNF’s most ambitious production in recent years for its annual General Meeting of Shareholders video.

On this occasion the aim of the video production was to show GNF’s international scope and how this success is the result of having known how to take the right decisions at the right time.

In 023 we were given the brief to produce a documentary video that would allow us to narrate GNF’s internationalisation from a 100% human perspective in which the participants are all associated with GNF: employees, directors, shareholders, customers, citizens, social programme beneficiaries…

All of them tell us about the transformation from a small local company into a multinational present in 25 countries that continues to expand its business globally.

And they tell us about this from the places where these changes have occurred, from major cities such as Mexico City or from a small village in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle; from the Algerian coast to the growing metropolis of Panama; from the poorest neighbourhoods on Columbia’s east coast to Europe’s main cities where GNF has been steadily establishing itself over the past 20 years.

This approach saw us embark on a huge project with countless logistical and technical hurdles and the continuous challenge of maintaining the creative concept and keeping the emotion alive at all times, in each shot and on the face of every participant.

It was a challenge in which many people worked hand-in-hand and closely together, committed to achieving the results from the very first minute to the last. True teamwork of which we are especially proud and grateful.

Here you can see the result of all these months of hard work. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it!


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Friday, 4 September 2015

Essex Society for Archaeology and History. Notice of the reconvening of the 2015 Annual General Meeting

Following the need to fulfil the required period of notice caused by the late delivery of papers, the AGM held at the University of Essex on 13 June 2015 was adjourned. It will be reconvened at the Hollytrees, Colchester at 10.15am on Saturday 26 September 2015. The agenda is to confirm the decisions taken at that meeting, and in particular the decision to amend the Constitution. The draft minutes of that meeting are available on the website.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Metropolitan Museum

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As researchers in the U.S. consider alternative biofuel sources beyond grain feedstocks such as corn and soybeans, everything from alligator fat to herbivore excrement is being subjected to study.

Currently these initiatives are largely local in scope and are targeting waste generated by meat processing. Amtrak, is now running a daily train service from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas which uses 20 percent biodiesel rendered from local beef fat debris from slaughterhouses. The beef fat-derived biodiesel, given the availability of raw material, is proving a cheaper option than ordinary diesel, both in cost and carbon emissions, worldcrops.com website reported.

More exotic animal fat feedstocks are also being researched. University of Louisiana scientists recently published research indicating that the state’s 7,500 tons of alligator fat, thrown annually into landfill as a byproduct of alligator meat processing, could be converted into approximately 1.25 million gallons of biofuel with an energy content of 91 percent, as great as petroleum-based diesel.

Farther afield, Royal DSM researchers, examining the digestive processes and excrement of elephants determined that their stomachs’ enzymes could break down sugars that normally remain in the cellulose structure of plant cells. Research determined that combining elephant enzymes with another, compost derived enzyme allowed 90 percent of biomass, such as maize stalks or wheat straw, which is currently largely discarded, to be converted into ethanol at a rate nearly double those currently achieved.


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We create themed boards that are a pracical place to keep all of your mail, letters, reminders even favourite photos. Just slide them under the ribbon.

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Eternity Complex is the story about a girl called Fae, the people she meets, and the adventure she has as she tries to figure out why she's been whisked away to a mystifying and often frightening new world.

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WHO: Africa’s healthcare suffering from lack of funding | News

A lack of funding is hampering the fight to improve healthcare in Africa, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional director for the continent has warned, calling for additional resources... Read more »

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In Ethiopia, thousands of pilgrims flock to holy water sites for spiritual cleansing and physical healing. People often drink the holy water and perform ceremonial cleansing for their bodies... Read more »

Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom, New Director-General, Begins Work at WHO

VOA – The World Health Organization’s new director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, began his five-year term Saturday. The former Ethiopian health and foreign minister is the first... Read more »

Ethiopia’s Tedros takes office: Tasks ahead for the non-physician who leads WHO

Global healthcare chalked a piece of history on May 23, 2017, with the election of Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as new head of the World Health Organization (WHO). The... Read more »

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GENEVA: The new director general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom, took over managing the UN health agency on Saturday, the WHO said. A specialist in malaria, Tedros... Read more »

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By Alemayehu G. Mariam I knew from the get go that the whole WHO “election” for “director-general” was a sham, a set up. Just like the 2015 Ethiopia “election”... Read more »

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Former Ethiopian health minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected Tuesday to become the next director-general of the World Health Organization. (Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The governing body... Read more »

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Hello! It's been so long, but here I am. I have been intrigued by all the "grown-up coloring" going around. I thought maybe it would be fun to print some fall and thanksgiving themed pages to have around on Thanksgiving. It's supposed to be snowy and in the 20's here so we will need an alternative to the football and after dinner walk that we usually do. It turns out my kids really like these intricate coloring pages and a big cup of sharpened pencils. Here's a link to a few great fall coloring pages.

We spent a half hour coloring together yesterday. Even Thing Two, did a really careful job, and usually he just scribbles. I love spending time together like this. Whether you need a little quite time during a week off of school, or something for the whole fam-damly on Thanksgiving, a quick Pinterst search, a printer, and some colored pencils could bring you a lot of relaxed family time. Here's wishing you a peaceful day of giving thanks. We have so much to be thankful for.

"The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything."
                                                       --Albert Schweitzer

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 Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything...

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Everyday Drinkers Episode 01: RUM

Our debut episode is ready for download! Episode one is entitled Ho Ho Ho And A Bottle of Rum and Coke and we discuss all the magic of Rum in all its shapes and size.

What are we drinking? Captain Morgan Private Stock, Goslings Black Seal, Appletons Reserve and Ray and Nephew Overproof rum.

We start by first describing to you the differences between a light rum, gold (amber) rum, spiced rum, flavored rum, overproof and the almighty premium rums. Once you’ve got a handle on that we cover our mixed drink recipes for the week. Podshow PDN {podshow-0dc3bc26c98ef851a8a7e53dc6eee027}


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OCC Day 1- Word Dies

Word dies are my favorite! I was so inspired that I decided to do 2 different cards with 2 different techniques shown in class.

Here is the first card- I shrunk down the sentiment with my heat tool! It was so cool to watch!

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