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International Animation Day celebrated today in Edmore
International Animation Day (IAD) began in 2002, honoring the birth of animation with the first public performance of the “projected moving image” by Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique in Paris, back in October of 1892. The Association of International Animators (ASIFA) has celebrated the art of animation each October since 2002, in more than 50 countries, on every continent. Locally, one of many celebrations will take place today (Saturday) at the Burgers and Boba “Meadery” at 526 E.
Buster Keaton documentary showing in Muskegon on Sunday
Film features animation created by Edmore man Clear Vision Films and The Lakeshore Museum Center are proud to present a free showing of the documentary film “Buster Keaton: Home” at the Frauenthal Theater at 3 p.m. on June 9.
Edmore animator contributes to project ‘Buster Keaton: Home’
Edmore animator contributes to project ‘Buster Keaton: Home’ By The Daily News Staff | on September 16, 2023 Submitted by Jim Middleton The Clear Vision Film production of “Buster Keaton: Home,” exploring the early life of famed comedian Buster Keaton in the Bluffton neighborhood of Muskegon, completed production in July and is making the national film festival circuits before entering broader distribution next year.
Animation day celebration Oct. 23 to highlight historic animator
Animation day celebration Oct. 23 to highlight historic animator Winsor McCay had connections to Edmore and Montcalm County By The Daily News Staff | on October 04, 2022 Submitted by Jim Middleton Each year in October, the international association of animators known as ASIFA celebrates the anniversary of the first theatrical exhibition of projected animation. This year, Edmore will host an International Animation Day event.
Australia’s manosphere: a prehistory • Simon Copland
Early last month, in what was Britain’s worst mass shooting in years, a man named Jake Davison shot dead five people, including a three-year-old girl, in Plymouth. Davison had posted a series of videos online in which he described feeling socially isolated and struggling to meet women, and made reference to “incels” — an online group of men who complain that women are put off by their looks or their low socioeconomic status.
9/12 • Jim Middleton
The question was simple; the answer anodyne; the implications to this day profound, especially with the Taliban back in control in Afghanistan. This is a story of 9/12, not 9/11, but sometimes the response to an act of murder and aggression can be just as telling as the act itself, and every bit as pertinent to the present. Howard was in Washington on 11 September 2001.
London attacks: As Britain reels, political leaders wobble towards an election
Legitimate questions certainly arise from the weekend outrage in London, but they are not those immediately provoked by Pauline Hanson or Donald Trump. The US President's impetuous reaction was to tweet that the attack on London Bridge and the Borough Market proved that American courts should "give us back our rights". Note the exemplary use of the exclamation mark. However, Mr Trump did have the grace eight minutes later to offer a form of condolence to the British people.
UK terror attacks may not have anything to do with June 8 polls; here's why
Legitimate questions certainly arise from the weekend outrage in London, but they are not those immediately provoked by Pauline Hanson or Donald Trump. The US president’s impetuous reaction was to tweet that the attack on London Bridge and the Borough Market proved that American courts should “give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!” Note the exemplary use of the exclamation mark.
As Britain reels from another terror attack, political leaders wobble towards an election
Legitimate questions certainly arise from the weekend outrage in London, but they are not those immediately provoked by Pauline Hanson or Donald Trump. The US president’s impetuous reaction was to tweet that the attack on London Bridge and the Borough Market proved that American courts should “give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!” Note the exemplary use of the exclamation mark.
Vale Mark Colvin: eternal optimist and journalistic force of nature
Mark Colvin, who passed away today aged 65, was a journalistic force of nature, perhaps the most precociously talented of his generation. He joined the ABC in 1974, a leather-jacketed, motorbike-riding, Gauloises-smoking devotee of the best of modern music, popular culture and the avant garde. He entered the lower depths of the ABC’s News Division like a youthful escapee from an Evelyn Waugh novel.
Blame game | The Monthly
“Look at what they do, not at what they say” is always useful advice when observing politicians at work. If anything epitomises the awkward corner in which Malcolm Turnbull finds himself over energy policy, it is today’s showdown between South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and federal energy and environment minister Josh Frydenberg.
Corruption allegations may damage China health care industry
Corruption allegations may damage China health care industry Updated December 05, 2013 16:11:37 China's growing middle class is demanding better access to hospitals and modern drugs, turning health care into a boom industry. Jim Middleton speaks with Benjamin Shobert, managing director of Rubicon Strategy Group and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. Jim Middleton Source: The World | Duration: 8min 41sec Topics: business-economics-and-finance, china
On asylum seekers, our history keeps repeating itself
Immediately after Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court unexpectedly ruled in April that the Australian detention centre on Manus Island was in breach of human rights and ordered it closed, Bill Shorten met his leadership group. Inside the room, the shadow immigration minister, Richard Marles, mused briefly about revisiting Labor’s policy on asylum seekers. He was was forcefully shut down.
Seats on the line as Labor and the Greens do a difficult preference dance
Before the 2007 election, Kevin Rudd vowed to “mess” with John Howard’s mind. He did and it worked. Now, the government is trying to repeat the trick with Bill Shorten, and the Greens are their handmaidens. Talk of preference deals is the Coalition’s chief weapon, but so is Labor division over border protection, propaganda about a Labor-Green coalition, and Green opportunism on penalty rates. At immediate risk for Labor are a number of inner-city seats, especially in Melbourne.
In Neville Wran, Turnbull has a leadership model to win the tax debate
That was how Neville Wran invariably dealt with an awkward question before reframing the argument to his satisfaction and delivering the television grab that would advance his case on the network news that night. Wran, New South Wales premier from 1976 to 1986, was Australia’s first modern leader. He built as well as used “political capital”.
If Abbott's finger is on election trigger, risk of misfire remains high
There may be argument about whether or not this epigram originated with Otto von Bismarck. But what is not in doubt is that it has never been bettered as a description of the political process. Its application to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s appearance before the trade union royal commission is especially apt.
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