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CP Company in Silver mag Issue 21

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C.P. Company, BA-TIC. 2023, 8 pages comic published in Arcipelago Magazine. Story to present C.P. Company's Ba-Tic jacket and its waxed fabric.

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Another month, another info dump of things you already know, or the search for "The Great All-American Pizza Show!"

Last time, we talked about the Citrus Heights commercial produced by Bob Wilkins Advertising Inc and it's potential showing at the Orinda Theatre. The bad news is that I don't know anyone from CA and I don't have anywhere near a big enough platform to spread the word. Was it there? Was it not? We'll never know! Good thing is that the Psychotronix Film Festival is putting on another show in May at Foothill College, also in CA.

But on to other news! I finally got a response from PBS about Ben Wattenberg's segment on PTT. They said they didn't have it so yeah...

I've been looking around for Ben Wattenberg's 1980 and PM Magazine listings on Ebay, hoping for maybe a DVD copy or something but nothing comes up. These aren't really my top priority since they aren't part of TGAAPS but it helps me from burning out looking at a million commercials

Let's move onto the real meat and potatoes, the ads themselves. Starting with the Citrus Heights commercial, I've been doing research on Bob Wilkins' ad company and you'd be surprised how scarce info is on it. His obituary states that he made ads not only for PTT, but Lay-Z-Boy as well. This newspaper from 1981 says that his agency makes over $1M annually and was doing "amazingly well" which makes it all the more stranger that there's so little documentation of it. I also found a house in Oakland, that was used by the company at some point. I won't link the house, the company is so far removed from it and I don't want the people living there to be bothered. Something funny I found while looking on other search engines for traces of BW's agency is that Bing's AI assistant literally uses my post as a source. It's surreal seeing the info I wrote be regurgitated back at me by an AI. Weird...

Now the animated ad! I'll admit, I've been slacking a bit when it comes to looking for this ad, however I found 3 people on Linkedin that worked for Colossal Pictures during the late 70s. Also found out that Adam Savage from Myth Busters worked for (C)P at some point. Hmm, having your company initials be CP wasn't the smartest move in hindsight. Maybe that's why they added the parenthesis.

Something that wasn't found by me :( was a storyboard for one of the live action commercials. From what I've heard, it was posted in the showbizpizza.com discord server and spread from there. In the bottom left it says UBC which I can't really link to anything. I thought maybe it could be a production company, or an acronym, but I've got nothing. Maybe it just says Inc. Bottom right isn't much better, it's completely illegible and the first page of the storyboard is in even worse quality. An exciting find for sure, but not one that really helps me.

Or so I thought! In the end card it says (location tag), not just "Kooser and Blossom Hill". Unlike the radio ad, nothing in here denotes any sort of specific location like having a certain guest star or cabaret act. Sure it uses the Winchester bots, Kooser bots, and Mopsey sisters but people aren't really going to pay attention to whether the backup singers are mops or crows and they probably wouldn't even notice the small diffences between the portrait bots and a cyberamic in a 60 second ad.

Here's my big theory though. Oh yeah, we're getting conspiratorial! Someone asked me about that forum post I discovered that mention a PTT jingle from 1978 - 1980. Way back in my first post, I found that this person was most likely from the Detroit area, and probably didn't see the ads that I thought at the time were only in the Bay Area and aired during early 1980. I thought that because the ads ended around spring and the first store to open in MI was around November, this person was simply misremembering the "Smile America" ads from 1982. It's been a few months, and in that time I've learned probably more than any sane person should know about this campaign, and while looking at the store lists on the Cheese-e-pedia after that person mention the post, I realized something that made me feel like a complete idiot. The first PTT to open in MI was in Westland. I looked up where that was, and low and behold, Westland is A SUBURB OF DETROIT. I felt so stupid but also really happy that this tiny detail actually meant something. My theory is that maybe, just maybe, one of, if not a few of these ads were aired outside CA with the location tags edited for each store. PTT has done that before, so I feel it's not totally out of the picture for them to have done it few years earlier. If this is true, then it expands this search from just CA to Nevada, Utah, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina, and of course, Michigan.

I still want to keep most my searching in the Bay area, but I think this could lead to exciting things. Or I could be delusional, who knows? Until next time!

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After Harry’s phone hacking victory, is it last orders for tabloid top brass?

Some commentators now believe that the duke’s crusade against the popular press will finally bring about a reckoning

Inside the ballroom of the Hilton Bankside on Thursday evening, the mood among journalists was high. Prizes were being handed out, celebratory toasts were made and backs were slapped. Officiating at the annual press awards jamboree was a bow-tie-wearing Dominic Ponsford, the editor-in-chief of the industry journal behind the event, who even took a moment to joke about past clashes with Prince Harry, the fabled “ginger whinger”.

Seated at the tables around him were many of those newspaper editors and columnists who have been publicly warring with the King’s errant second child, including Piers Morgan, the former gossip journalist, talent show judge, ex-editor of the Daily Mirror and television presenter. At one point towards the end of the night the group of singers hired to jolly up the lengthy proceedings, burst into the chorus from the song The Final Countdown. Great fun.

But a day later and some in the room are facing their own ominous countdown, or at least a potential final reckoning. Could the landlord at that famous “last chance saloon”, the watering hole at which Home Office minister David Mellor once warned the “gentlemen” of the popular press they were drinking in, really be shouting out “Time, please” once again, twenty years on?

The ruling from Mr Justice Fancourt in the High Court on Friday, one which found the Duke had been subjected to damaging, illegal press activity between 2003 and 2009, has had some immediate effects. The Mirror Group of newspapers, in the frame during the legal proceedings, “apologised unreservedly” for “historical wrong-doing” later that day. But the impact of Fancourt’s 386-page judgement on the reputations of other British newspaper businesses may take a little longer to show.

“Thank goodness for Prince Harry. The police now need to look at this and promptly,” said Brian Cathcart, the media campaigner and Hacked Off founder. “There are many people involved who are still in prominent, opinion-forming positions on newspapers.”

Dr Evan Harris, a former director of Hacked Off who has spent the last few years carrying out legal analysis for the claimants in the hacking litigation, also believes the torch of justice has just been relit by the duke. “Since the contentious decision by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2015 that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute any Mirror journalist or executive for phone hacking, tens of thousands of documents have been disclosed in this litigation, and as they were deployed in open court, many key documents are available to the police to see.”

There are also dozens of new witnesses and extensive judicial findings, Harris added. “The claimants stand ready to assist the police and CPS with identifying such material relevant to the original criminal conduct and to the new questions of perjury and perverting the course of justice,” he said.

Writing in Prospect magazine, its editor, Alan Rusbridger, who edited the Guardian when it broke the hacking story in 2009, argues that Fancourt’s words have cut through years of deceit. “We know that newspaper managements at two of our biggest media companies have consistently concealed and denied the truth about what went on,” he wrote. “They have issued dishonest statements and have lied to parliament, the stock exchange, to other journalists, to regulators and even the Leveson inquiry, set up to establish the truth. And now some have been caught telling porkies in court.”

Nick Davies, who first broke the hacking scandal while at the Guardian, was quick to express his more limited hopes for change on social media. “If the UK were just and democratic, Murdoch’s Talk TV would now have to consider suspending Piers Morgan and Richard Wallace, and the Met police would have to scope an investigation into Mirror Group crime. If,” he wrote.

More than a billion pounds has already been paid out in costs and damages, Rusbridger emphasised, without any admissions of guilt implicating senior editors or owners. And key emails have been deleted and documents lost. Speaking to the Observer this weekend, he added: “The press managed to sidestep the second part of the Leveson inquiry, which was supposed to deal with past wrongdoing. So it’s now been left to individual litigants to drag the truth out into daylight. It’s not very satisfactory, and probably can’t be fully achieved until everyone involved in past misdeeds has moved on – or been moved on.”

One of the stories produced in evidence during the recent MGN phone hacking trial. Photograph: PA

The focus is now likely to switch to the Daily Mail, against which the Duke of Sussex still has many outstanding allegations. It could even be the beginning of what critics of British “tabloid culture” are heralding as an era of serious redress that, for them, would make up for the dropping of the planned second part of the Leveson inquiry, a decision taken against the judge’s wishes by former Tory culture secretary, Matt Hancock. Murdoch’s newspaper group, owner of the Sun, does look vulnerable. Many of those implicated in the judge’s ruling are working there. Former editor of the rightwing popular titles the Sun and the defunct News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, who once avoided disgrace, is now CEO of News UK. This weekend her rehabilitation looks wobbly.

Morgan, now a presenter on Murdoch’s Talk TV, gave an angry doorstep statement on Friday and still appears to be banking on dodging bullets. His carefully worded defence did not deny knowledge of the practice of phone hacking and so did not contradict the judgement, as the performer and campaigner Steve Coogan, who settled a claim in 2017 for a six-figure sum, wryly noted on Saturday morning. More optimistically, Coogan added that there now seems a chance that the protective “omertà” guarding the guilty editors has begun to weaken.

He told the Observer yesterday: “We now have a high court judge making clear that a judge-led public inquiry was misled by multiple witnesses , namely Sly Bailey, Paul Vickers, Lloyd Embley, Piers Morgan, Tina Weaver, Neil Wallis and Richard Wallace, and of course that public inquiry was cancelled halfway through, against the wishes of Sir Brian Leveson, by Matt Hancock at the behest of the newspapers – including Mirror Group – who were being investigated.”

Prince Harry has described his chief virtue as patience, but Coogan now calls him “brave” for breaking the “Faustian pact” he claims some royals have had with the press, drawn up for reasons of self-preservation.

Prince Harry’s attitude diverged from the family path well before the birth of his sonArchie in 2019, but he became much bolder after that. Later that year his wife, Meghan Markle, announced that she was suing the Mail on Sunday for printing parts of her letter to her estranged father and the duke also revealed he was taking action over alleged phone hacking.

Two years ago, the Prince won an apology from the Mail on Sunday over an article claiming he had turned his back on the military and the high court in London ruled that the same paper had breached Meghan’s privacy by publishing extracts from her letter. A year ago Harry started a libel claim against the Mail on Sunday over an article claiming he had tried to keep official protection for his family and then, in October last year, he joined the singer Elton John and others in suing the publisher of the Daily Mail, alleging phone tapping and other breaches of privacy.

The Duke’s unexpected, even historic, appearance at the high court at the beginning of his lawsuit against the Daily Mail’s publisher took place in March, and then, in early June, he arrived to give evidence at the Mirror Group phone hacking trial, arguing that about 140 articles published from 1996 to 2010 contained information obtained via unlawful methods.

There are accusations of vendettas on both sides, of course. It is a term the duke used on Friday when speaking of the vitriol he had detected, ever since he was first exposed by the tabloids as a teenager for smoking cannabis and then for rowing with his brother about whether or not to meet up with Paul Burrell.

Both of these gobbets of information reached the public through illicit means, according to the Fancourt verdict. Yet a former executive at Reach, the national news group that owns the Mirror, suspects the duke and his fellow campaigners are being disingenuous. He may not have gone as far as Morgan, who called the “California-tanned” Duke “greedy” yesterday, but he does believe the celebrity campaigners are out for revenge. “They are settling scores. We all know that, whatever they say in public about their motivation,” the former editor said.

Other more measured defenders of the press, such as Sir Alan Moses, a former chairman of the Independent Press Standards Association, are concerned about attempts to set up a phoney “licensed press” that would operate only within government restrictions. Speaking on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this weekend, he said the press should ideally be “unruly”, although subject to the law. There was, Moses argued, an exceptional case to be made for the industry to protect freedom of expression.

For the experienced Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee, the prize of a reformed press can now at least be glimpsed, although a fatal wound inflicted to an ailing newspaper title would not be a good thing: “I am delighted to see press standards called to account and I hope that the people behind this do now get called to account,” she said. “IPSO and press regulation are a disgrace for not investigating this themselves years ago. But it would be a tragedy if we lost the Mirror as a result, an all too rare non-Tory newspaper.”

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Coworking space place in Bangalore

People are getting smarter and wiser by way of the day. Especially those working their minds off in a new begin-up. They recognize what is the need of the hour and they may be innovating their ideas, therefore. One such modern concept is sustainable development in terms of workspace. Youngsters are privy to the need of their surroundings nowadays and are arising with thoughts that assist to shop. One such innovative mission is the coworking area.

Coworking space place in Bangalore area is new in recent times. Earlier it was once a dream for young people just coming into the market to comfy an office space in a posh location like Connaught Place. But now, way to the co-working spaces, these begin-united states of America can relax in workplace areas at expenses as low as INR 5000. Co-working spaces are yet any other enterprise programmed in which a massive enterprise rents a large place to hire it out to smaller companies, freelancers, and start-ups.

As the name suggests itself, in a Meeting Room In Bangalore you may be sharing a huge office space with different people in extraordinary organizations in agencies. The whole area might not be yours solely, but you may be renting out a part of the same. This option is so appealing to the younger crowd because of its price range-friendly nature. At fees as low as INR 5000, you are becoming absolutely practical workplace services like Wi-Fi, HR help, convention room, personal running desk, cafeteria, vital workplace machines, and so forth. These offices are 24X7 so you can stroll in and out at your personal convenience. Their first-rate club plans allow you to keep quite a few cash as they may be tailored to your desires. Some workplace spaces also have a global presence, you could also use your membership in a foreign city. These price range-friendly areas are not just right in your pocket, however they play a completely crucial role in sustainable construction. By providing one operating place to a variety of small entities you could shop the space and energy that each one of these corporations might have consumed independently. This is one clever pass for the betterment of mother nature.

Apart from that it additionally plays an essential position in bringing out the first-rate in the business. Coworking space place in Bangalore You might be near corners with your rival agencies. This ends in a healthy competition in which you can learn from the mistakes of one another. Another crucial factor is that you could get easily get the right of entry to investors and VPs of large organizations, who are constantly on the lookout for investing in start-ups. The idea of co-working spaces is certainly a celebrity in itself. Hence, it is truthful sufficient to see its special look in a prestigious magazine like Vogue. You also can fulfil your dream of having a flowery office space in a swank area like CP, by means of deciding on a pleasing co-working space. If you are seeking out the first-rate Training centres for rent in Bangalore in CP, you ought to strive for One CoWork. They are one of the nice regions in Bangalore with fantastic membership plans.

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Coworking space place in Bangalore

People are getting smarter and wiser by way of the day. Especially those working their minds off in a new begin-up. They recognize what is the need of the hour and they may be innovating their ideas, therefore. One such modern concept is sustainable development in terms of workspace. Youngsters are privy to the need of their surroundings nowadays and are arising with thoughts that assist to shop. One such innovative mission is the coworking area.

Coworking space place in Bangalore area is new in recent times. Earlier it was once a dream for young people just coming into the market to comfy an office space in a posh location like Connaught Place. But now, way to the co-working spaces, these begin-united states of America can relax in workplace areas at expenses as low as INR 5000. Co-working spaces are yet any other enterprise programmed in which a massive enterprise rents a large place to hire it out to smaller companies, freelancers, and start-ups.

As the name suggests itself, in a Meeting Room In Bangalore you may be sharing a huge office space with different people in extraordinary organizations in agencies. The whole area might not be yours solely, but you may be renting out a part of the same. This option is so appealing to the younger crowd because of its price range-friendly nature. At fees as low as INR 5000, you are becoming absolutely practical workplace services like Wi-Fi, HR help, convention room, personal running desk, cafeteria, vital workplace machines, and so forth. These offices are 24X7 so you can stroll in and out at your personal convenience. Their first-rate club plans allow you to keep quite a few cash as they may be tailored to your desires. Some workplace spaces also have a global presence, you could also use your membership in a foreign city. These price range-friendly areas are not just right in your pocket, however they play a completely crucial role in sustainable construction. By providing one operating place to a variety of small entities you could shop the space and energy that each one of these corporations might have consumed independently. This is one clever pass for the betterment of mother nature.

Apart from that it additionally plays an essential position in bringing out the first-rate in the business. Coworking space place in Bangalore You might be near corners with your rival agencies. This ends in a healthy competition in which you can learn from the mistakes of one another. Another crucial factor is that you could get easily get the right of entry to investors and VPs of large organizations, who are constantly on the lookout for investing in start-ups. The idea of co-working spaces is certainly a celebrity in itself. Hence, it is truthful sufficient to see its special look in a prestigious magazine like Vogue. You also can fulfil your dream of having a flowery office space in a swank area like CP, by means of deciding on a pleasing co-working space. If you are seeking out the first-rate Training centres for rent in Bangalore in CP, you ought to strive for One CoWork. They are one of the nice regions in Bangalore with fantastic membership plans.

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One of my latest art of my original character from my original story: ROBOTWARs.

<Licinianus II>   Licinianus II is the final G1 FLUFU before the UNRC started making G2 FLUFUs of Tetrarchia-Company (71999901~72000600). He is the medic of the team and as a result of his role, he carries the minimum amount of ammunition and mainly carries all kinds of medical equipment such as stretcher bars he attaches to the sides of his D2 armored back pack.   He was the team-medic for Team-Tzirallum, a workaholic spending most of his time studying medicine and bioengineering to help people in need, in fact he was one of the first robots to be nominated a Nobel Prize for his work on reversing irreversible protein in the optic nerve, he is a quiet bot whose daily conversational vocabulary is limited to "Uh-huh" "Yes" "No" "Affirmative" and "Don't do anything stupid." the final words usually directed to FLUFU-72000177 Julia Constantia, she would often time help him with whatever he needed, she would talk to him constantly and he would listen, not sounded like he was, but listened intently and the two were two pees in a pod.  <Weapons>   Licinianus II carries two weapons.  ・his main weapon was the Vektor CR-21 bullpup assault rifle with the Issue-Vierzig sight and a laser sight on top of said sight. the rifle fires the 5.56x45mm NATO round from a 30 round magazine which he carries five. (150 rounds total)  ・his secondary weapon Vektor CP-1 that fires the 9x19mm Parabellum from a 15 round magazine which he carries ten. (150 rounds total) 

I hope you enjoy ^w^

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2021 . CP COMPANY MAGAZINE FALL WINTER 021. TIMELESS DESIGN ARTICLE. Article about ten timeless design items, selected by CP Company designers Paul Harvey and Alessandro Pungetti. The most difficult thing was to bring the immense and mouthwatering product stories back to just a few words. The final versions accompany photo's of the ceramic versions of the specific products. As always it is an honor to contribute to a brand that has been part of my life since the 1980's. Sculptures by CERAMICHE_1. Photography by SARA SCANDEREBECH.

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Ruben Pol For Esquire Magazine

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CP COMPANY MAGAZINE 

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More ask answer about Word of Honour (山河令, WoH) and the so-called “Dangai 101 phenomenon” under the cut ~ with all the M/M relationships shown on screen, does it mean improved acceptance / safety for the c-queer community?

Due to its length (sorry!), I’ve divided the answer into 3 parts: 1) Background 2) Excerpts from the op-eds 3) Thoughts This post is PART 3 💚. As usual, please consider the opinions expressed as your local friendly fandomer sharing what they’ve learned, and should, in no ways, be viewed as necessarily true. :)

(TW: homophobic, hateful speech quoted)

Here are the key points I’ve picked up from these op-eds:

* The state believes Danmei can turn young people queer. * The state also believes Dangai dramas can turn young men “feminine” to suit the taste of Dangai’s young, largely female audience. * The state views queerness in both sexes, and androgynous beauty in men as negative traits. * The state is wary of Danmei and Dangai’s popularity and wishes to contain them as subcultures. * The state is particularly annoyed by how the Dangai dramas have achieved their popularity with CP-focused promotions and marketing tactics, in which the actors are involved and blur the line between fictional and real-life suggestions of queerness.

What do I think of, concerning the acceptance and/or safety of … everything, with the above opinions given by the state media about Dangai?

* For c-queers, I don’t think things are different from before—these op-eds didn’t change the big picture for me. The op-eds taking traditional BL characterisation for Dangai / Danmei means the state’s intended focus of the genres is not its queerness; this is not unexpected, as the established review system is supposed to have removed the show’s queer elements, and to characterise those elements as queer would be a critique against the NRTA.

 While unpleasant, the veiled, antagonistic view towards non-traditional gender expressions and homosexuality isn’t new: the state has long believed popular culture can turn its young male audience “feminine”; the NRTA directive that bans homosexual content from visual media already makes clear its stance that homosexuality is, while not criminal, something that is Not Good in its eyes.

A (very) good thing that can be said, I think, is that none of the op-eds explicitly disapprove of the queer elements, the things that got away from being censored—of which there were, arguably, many in WoH. While Article O2a noted such “playing edge ball” (note the articles use this term to avoid mentioning “queer”), the comment right after was neutral / positive (“provide their audience with room for imagination”). Article O3, meanwhile, acknowledged that Dangai can be imitated by introducing suggestive atmosphere between male characters in their plot layout, thereby admitting that suggestive atmosphere between male characters in their plot layout is a defining trait of Dangai—and it didn’t say anything bad about it; the criticism was only for non-Dangai playacting Dangai.

This signals, to me at least, that Dangai can continue to be the cover for queer relationships to reach its audience for now — which is, perhaps, the best case scenario for continued queer representation on TV, given the current sociopolitical climate.

* For Danmei / Dangai, I’d also venture to say the genres are safe. Upcoming Dangais may need to undergo stricter / further reviews (if the rumours surrounding Immortality 皓衣行 are to be believed), and whether they can still achieve explosive popularity after such reviews remains a question; the genres themselves, however, will likely survive. 

Article O1 was a very positive, very enthusiastic review of WoH; its determined focus on the show’s aesthetics (as TU’s review) signals to me that the state approved of the genre’s take on aesthetics—which, again, also includes the aesthetics of a world cleansed of its real problems, which also aligns with the NRTA’s directive on TV / web dramas to focus on the positives of life in the country (Previously translated in this post: D12: … They [Pie note: the dramas] cannot place too strong an emphasis on social conflicts, must showcase the beautiful lives of the commoners.). Article O2b was very critical at places, but actually tried to sever Danmei  / Dangai from its major complaint, argued that the attention-grabbing gimmicks path was taken * instead of * aspiring to positively, proactively guide and display Danmei culture, therefore positioning Danmei on the “good side”.  While Danmei was named a (bad) influence for potentially turning youths queer (and predator, by the cartoon) in Article O2a, no mention was made of eliminating the genre both in the same Article or its editorial (Article O2b). The focus was placed, instead, on the subculture’s “containment”, and how it has been broken for “Rot Culture” to reach mainstream. The implied solution to Danmei’s “bad influence”, therefore, was to re-contain rather than eliminate.

[Logically, of course, this makes little sense. Blaming Danmei on turning youths queer is already confusing correlation and causation—youths may be drawn to Danmei because they are queer, rather than Danmei turning them queer. Re-containment, meanwhile, suggests that the state, which isn’t a fan of gays, is okay with Danmei turning kids gay… as long as there aren’t a lot of kids.

However, I’m hoping to tease out what the state may do, not whether the state is logically sound.]

Article O3 had the harshest wording on Danmei—“the canon and the Rot Culture behind it still hides large amounts of pornographic, violent content…”; “this vulgar custom of “playing edge ball” as a means to tempt, to lead the audience into indulging in fantasies [Pie note: sexual fantasies implied by the idiom 想入非非] have spread from visual media production…” . Still, no word on axing the genre, only containment.

* For CP culture, specifically, actor-character based CPs that are promoted with the dramas: while I don’t see it on the chopping board yet, these op-eds are, I believe, warnings for those in charge of the promotion and marketing of the upcoming Dangai dramas to tread carefully. I find the reach of these warnings difficult to predict still, because these warnings can be genuine—as in, the government truly believes the CP-focused promotion and marketing tactics are morally objectionable—or they can be more for show, in that the true reason behind the warnings is that CP-focused promotions, which also put a heavy focus on in-drama candies, make the NRTA / censorship board look like a joke and the government had to put up some objections to save face. 

In all cases, companies will likely need to talk to the government to nail down its stance. Whether to heed the warnings afterwards, tone down or eliminate the CP-focused promotions will require a thorough risk-benefit analysis. After all, CP culture appears to sits at the heart of the money-making machinery of Dangai dramas. The expenditure of fans is mainly to support their favourite actors and see their interactions, and money is, ultimately, what Dangai 101 is about.

Finally, for the sake of completion ~ how likely did these op-eds reflect the actual opinions of the state? Here are the sources of the articles:

Article O1: 上觀新聞, which is under Liberation Daily 解放日報,  the official daily newspaper of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Article O2: 半月談 Banyue Tan, a state-controlled biweekly magazine published by the Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency of China.

Article O3: 光明日報 Enlightenment Daily, a newspaper associated with Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央機關報).

None of them are of the calibre of People’s Daily (official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party). However, they’re all very well-respected state-sponsored sources. Banyue Tan does require an asterisk  ~ while affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency, the massive influence of which has earned it its nickname “the world's biggest propaganda agency”, Banyue Tan‘s authority on this particular issue of Danmei/Dangai has been somewhat undermined by a … strange (?) trivia to end this super long piece: the magazine has also been caught in the controversy surrounding 227. Due to its pro-TU, pro-Gg stance, antis have insisted there are Gg fans within its writer’s ranks, who have used the state-sponsored publication for their private, support-Gg purposes. To this day, the argument is ongoing—with the criticism of Danmei in Article O2 sparking another round of “discussion” due to its previous approval of TU—and the lead anti is a well-known international politics professor and CCP (Chinese Communist Party) mouthpiece named Shen Yi (沈逸), whose claim to fame was the US government cancelling his visa and denying him entry due to suspected espionage …

[Banyue Tan was not the only state-sponsored publication caught in 227′s cross-fire. This is one of the reasons why some political watchers have suspected 227 to have a political component, that some form of political power struggle was happening in the post-227 chaos and disguised as the fan war.

While the truth may never be revealed, one thing is for certain ~ fan wars are about the worst things fans can do for their favourite idols, by lending space for such veiled conflicts to happen, by lending the names of their idols / their idols’ fans to the actually warring parties who may not wish to reveal who they are.]

[Okay okay, I will shut up now :) ].

PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 <-- YOU ARE HERE

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Boeing will offer its P-8A Poseidon for Canada's multimission aircraft project

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 02/10/22 - 18:49 in Military

Boeing's Poseidon MPA proposal for the Canadian multimission aircraft project. (Photo: Boeing)

Boeing's Poseidon MPA proposal for the Canadian multimission aircraft project. (Photo: Boeing)

American aerospace giant Boeing plans to offer the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft in response to Canada's information request (RFI) for long-range maritime patrol aircraft.

The Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft (CMMA) project will replace the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) fleet of CP-140 Aurora aircraft and improve its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.

Canada's project to acquire a long-range manned platform is currently in the options analysis phase, with the delivery of the first of the new aircraft provisionally scheduled for 2032.

"The P-8A Poseidon has demonstrated that it is the most capable multimission aircraft in the world currently in production and offers a complete solution to Canada's CMMA project requirements," said Tim Flood, Boeing's director of International Business Development for Europe and the Americas. "The range, speed and endurance of the P-8 make it the perfect platform to monitor Canada's maritime and northern approaches, and the P-8 will ensure allied interoperability to meet Canada's security commitments."

Boeing noted that the international community of P-8 operators operates more than 140 aircraft, with more than 400,000 hours of accident-free flight worldwide. Armed forces operating or selecting the P-8 include the U.S. Navy, Royal UK Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Indian Navy, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Republic of Korea Navy and German Navy.

The company also said that, since the P-8 shares extensive resemblance to Boeing's 737NG, which has support infrastructure around the world, communion in parts and training for crews and maintainers would reduce costs and allow military operators to take advantage of support worldwide.

The Royal Canadian Air Force has been using the Aurora aircraft since the 1980s for various types of missions on land and water. Thanks to repeated updates, the 14 aircraft support a wide variety of functions, including operations management, maritime and land intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, attack coordination and search and rescue.

The latest update project, in which the Canadian government is investing about 2 billion Canadian dollars, will allow aircraft to remain in service beyond 2030.

Tags: Military AviationboeingP-8A PoseidonRCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force/Canada Air Force

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several air events and operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work around the world of aviation.

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Une sous-culture est une épopée avec un commencement, une apogée et une fin. Elle débute dans l'amitié et la camaraderie locale, lorsque l'on est ensemble contre le reste du monde, elle s'épanouit inspirée par une musique voire inspire une musique, et à la fin lorsque tout est fini il ne reste plus que des films à revoir et des vêtements à acheter. Le marché absorbe tout et reste le dernier debout. 

Est-il honteux de porter un survêtement si c'est un beau survêtement? Oxymore? A voir. Il y a une haute et une basse époque, même en matière de survêtement. Pour friser tout à fait la provocation, disons que les racailles de jadis, avaient plus de goût pour s'habiller. Ils n'avaient pas ce goût par eux-mêmes mais par une influence jamais évoquée dans aucun magazine de mode ou d'enquêtes "socio-style", c'est l'influence anglaise. Le "Zyva" est afro-américain de valeurs mais il est perfide-albin de vêtement et Balzac savait que "nous recevons la loi de la mode des Anglais". Ce que nous appelions le "style racaille" en France dans les années 90 a correspondu chaque année avec un léger retard au "style casual" en Angleterre, à ceci près qu'en France les porteurs de croco étaient, pour simplifier, des skinheads exogènes anti-nationaux, alors que le même uniforme outre-Manche habillait, pour simplifier, des skinheads autochtones régionalistes. En France des bandes hors-sol anti-nationales, anti-régionales, en Angleterre des "firms" organiques, régionalistes, dont le ralliement autour du club de foot local exprime un enracinement local qui remonte à peu près à Guillaume de Normandie. Ce principe invisible de vase communiquant entre ces deux nations remonte à longtemps, et si au 18ème siècle la franc-maçonnerie a servi et enrichi les Hanovre, elle a ruiné et tué dans la révolution et les guerres des centaines de milliers de français. Un réfrigérateur, pour produire le froid à l’intérieur, produit un rejet de chaleur vers l’extérieur.

Quoi que l’on pense de la sous-culture issue des stades de football, elle fut la dernière à agréger des européens selon leur origine régionale et à transposer leur vouloir-vivre par des cortèges, des chants en chœur, des mots de passe, des scies et des codes hermétiques. Qui n’a pas vécu de l’intérieur ces silences brefs mais parfaits dans le Parc des Princes d’il y a 20 ans entre le slogan chanté par Boulogne et le même renvoyé comme un écho par le virage Auteuil en face à 150 mètres, lorsque quinze mille gars debout accordent leur voix et leurs deux bras tendus avec les quinze mille autres gars du kop opposé, qui n’a pas vécu ça ne peut pas comprendre l’énergie que recelait cette sous-culture, la vibration qu’elle produisait, le potentiel subversif qu’elle aurait déployé en se répandant massivement dans chaque ville de France. Nous connaissons la suite, la racaille en France a gagné, élue par l’anti-France pour exercer le monopole de la violence de rue, et les jeunes français toutes classes confondues sont désormais voués corps et âme à la racaille, au rap, au shit, au red bull, au nutella alors que si les casuals avaient gagné, les mêmes jeunes seraient aujourd’hui plutôt dans l’électro post New Order, dans le sport, l’apprentissage de métiers manuels indépendants à bon rendement (plombier, boucher...), et probablement dans le néo-fascisme.

Ces jeunes des années 80-90 issus des classes moyennes et prolétaires s'étaient mis à acheter ou à voler des vêtements destiné aux loisirs prestigieux des classes aisées, avec une prédilection pour les vêtements de tennis (Lacoste, Tacchini, Ellesse, Fila), de golf, (Hugo Boss, Lyle & Scott), de voile (Helly Hansen, Henri lloyd, Paul & Shark, K-Way), et de weekend à la campagne (Aquascutum, Burberry). La percée Stone Island et CP Company date de la toute fin 90'. On peut faire remarquer qu'il s'agit exclusivement de marques européennes, et pour une raison qui reste à expliquer les marques américaines positionnées sur les mêmes segments de marché du style North Face, Brooks Brothers, Polo Sport, et même Ralph Lauren restaient réduites à la portion congrue. Les casuals par exemple n'ont jamais chaussé de Nike, ils plébiscitaient Adidas. Autre remarque, la culture rock ne prenait pas sur les racailles, et ces derniers n'ont jamais porté de Fred Perry.

Le survêtement de tennis notamment, était la pièce la plus portée et la plus voyante. Pour des bandes qui traînent et cherchent la baston le survêtement répond aux critères de fonctionnalité (ample), de prestige (cher), et de distinctivité (couleurs variées), qui n'est pas distinction! Chaque âge a les armures qu'il peut? Pourtant à bien y regarder on trouvera dans les collections de certaines saisons reculées quelques indices hiératiques, une certaine sobriété, un certain arrangement heureux de blocs de couleurs qui rappellent vaguement l’art-déco et le mouvement futuriste, une certaine manière originale et systématique de traiter, de décliner des motifs sur l'ensemble de la vêture formant un style cohérent et accompli auquel on ne pouvait plus ni retrancher ni ajouter. Oui, pendant une vingtaine d'années, le survêtement atteignait parfois au classique.

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