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And the first review of Retrospect is in, and it's a stonkingly amazing 9/10 from Simon Smith at Higher Plain Music @Sitorimon
higherplainmusic.com/2020/11…
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In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
Rest in Peace Sir Patrick Stewart. One of the few true great actors of all time!
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Really looking forward to reading @jeanmicheljarre book “Machines”. Hopefully giving more insight in to the production of Oxygene and Equinoxe and the collaboration with Michel Geiss for my next personal project ❤️ #electronicmusic
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I really hope more game companies and composers will choose to protect their rights, as "musicians" are running amok with suno/udio/etc. to create ai video game cover slop.
This has no place in the fan and creator ecosystem.
What the heck, this keeps happening!
These nonces are dangerous, and always will be dangerous.
Yet in the UK I’m more likely to get locked up for using the word nonce!
🚨 LABOUR COUNCILLOR WALKS FREE FROM COURT AFTER POSSESSING THE WORST INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN
A Labour Councillor has been given a 12-month suspended sentence for possessing indecent images of children deemed category A considered the worst.
Tom Dewey a Labour Councillor for Hackney has avoided jail after admitting possessing indecent images of children.
Recorder Jonathan Ashley-Norman handed down a 12-month suspended sentence, he said: Your actions have had a devastating impact on your life and your closest family.”
He gave him credit for an early guilty plea
He also ordered devices to be forfeited, told Dewey to pay £500 costs and put him on a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which will restrict his contact with children.
Thomas Dewey, who was elected as a Labour councillor for De Beauvoir ward, was arrested by detectives from the National Crime Agency who seized laptops and tablets at his home in Hertford Road in Hackney, just days before May’s local elections last year.
He had a “huge problem” with looking at indecent images of children from the internet for his own use, Wood Green Crown Court heard.
Described by party activists as “ambitious”, he had worked at Hackney Council for nearly two years as a support officer for the Mayor and Cabinet office and for a consultancy advising on planning.
He was the branch secretary for the De Beauvoir ward for Labour and had spent years campaigning for the party in Hackney.
Last month, the 36-year-old admitted a charge of making five category A indecent images of children, a further charge of making 41 category B indecent images, as well as making 203 category C indecent images of children.
Images are graded with category A considered the worst.
Dewey, now of Hampshire, also admitted a charge of possessing 78 extreme pornographic images of children – an act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person and having 1,523 prohibited images of children in his possession.
The maximum sentence for the most serious charge is five years, depending on the number of images.
Details of the images were not read out in court, but prosecutor Margia Mostafa said the content of the Category A images “are highly serious.”
The starting point for the first charge is two years in prison but the steps Dewey has taken, along with his early guilty plea and remorse saw that cut to 12 months, suspended for two years.
He received an additional six months for charge two, three months for charge three, six months for charge four, and six months for charge five, all suspended for two years and to run concurrently.
Dewey also has to do 150 hours’ community service and 40 days of a “rehabilitation activity”.
,two days before his arrest at home in Hackney where he was “the sole occupant.”
The NCA seized two laptops, two tablets and a hard drive and Dewey was arrested and cautioned at 7.03am.
They had identified four “CyberTipline” reports which has user ID to a google drive and Dewey had uploaded indecent images of children to his personal account.
Dewey was elected as a Labour councillor for the first time in the May 2022 council elections and resigned days later, triggering a by-election last July.
Labour, which has a majority on the council, narrowly defeated the Green candidate in the by-election.
The charges have caused upset amongst Labour campaigners who were unaware of the arrest until this summer.
BeamNG.drive is out on PS5, with an update for the PC version.
Here's the Theme tune as it currently stands - it's work in progress.
youtu.be/qryi1ighadI
An absolute game changer. Split screen fun with BeamNG soft body physics. The sound is so very much compromised to allow as much CPU to the physics engine, but working with restrictions is also very cool. Most people won't get that these days. #gamedev #gameaudio #gamesound
This is your final reminder: ARE YOU READY? 👀
BeamNG.drive launches on #PS5 at $24.99 USD.
Disclaimer: Final prices in your region will be shown at launch on 19 October.
#teaser #PlayStation #WIP
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Join @beamng on stage on 17 October at 4 pm for a livestreamed session.
Visitors can also try the BeamNG.drive PS5 demo exclusively at the Fanatec booth, the only opportunity to play it live before the PS5 launch.
Tune in on the livestream: f.mtr.cool/3tah4evxwv
The WHO Pandemic Treaty is BAD news for us all. Petition and info here: cgo.ac/scAekYU1W
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🚨 Listen up! First-time stage guest alert: @beamng joins our show lineup!
Famous for insane crash physics 🤕, endless mods & customizations, a Steam must-have for every sim racer.
📅 Sat 17.10. 16:30 live on Expo Stage + Livestream with CEO Thomas Fischer & Jared Samuelson!
❤️
Today marks the eighth anniversary of Ben Daglish's death, he would have turned 60 this year. We've written a short article, and you can listen to his music in a Westpoint special. The link is in the article.
trsi.org/news/remembering-be…
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📣 Start your engines and hold on tight. BeamNG is coming to #PS5 on October 19th!
Wishlist now 👀 go.beamng.com/playstation
#Teaser #PlayStation #WIP
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The uncomfortable truth is that marches are ignored, protests are laughed at and patriots are attacked for simply showing their concern and waving their nations flag.
The only thing that I still believe would force a fundamental change of direction, immediately - is a NATIONAL STRIKE.
Not violence.
Not rioting.
Ordinary people simply staying at home and refusing to participate for a couple of days.
Think about what would happen if millions of people did it.
Last year, I pushed for a National Strike. I advertised it for months and during that period, my social-media analytics showed that I reached over 200 million people.
180 million of those views were in the UK
People saw it. People saw me. I often get recognised when I’m out in public so I know that whilst millions watched, only a handful took part.
And sadly, that’s the problem.
Everyone assumes that no one else would do it, so they don’t do it.
But look around the world.
Bulgaria. France. Bangladesh. Romania. Spain…
In recent years, they have all done exactly what I am suggesting. They all took part in peaceful, mass non-compliance and they all caused their governments to change course, or even step down and call an election.
That’s the level of collective pressure I’m talking about.
The British people aren’t powerless. We’ve just become too accepting of the abuse.
We did it in the 70’s.
Britain was brought to a standstill when just 1.2 million public-sector workers joined a single DAY of action, where widespread strikes disrupted transport, rubbish collection and public services. It ended up with Labour being removed and the Conservatives being put in. It DOES work, history proves it.
The question is whether enough people would ever be prepared to act together if I tried to advertise it again.
One day. Just like in the 1970’s.
If we’re feeling brave, maybe even two.
THAT would send a real message.
Please consider signing the petition on this. Synthetic folic acid being added to all wheat flours by the end of the year (unless the mill produces less that 500 tons per year). This is not a good thing.
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19 years ago today the world lost a legend, a friend, and an inspiration 🙏 RIP Colin, we miss you
Colin had a massive influence on my life and my career (including my driving style as you can see!). Almost everybody in rallying was once inspired by Colin, and together we always try and keep his spirit alive 🙌
