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[justforbooks]

Jeannette Charles

The Queen’s most famous lookalike, who enjoyed a long career in film and television thanks to their uncanny resemblance

In 1972, Jeannette Charles was in her mid-40s and settling down to life in an Essex village, having returned, with her husband, Ken, from Libya. They had been living there for some years, but left following the army coup led by Muammar Gaddafi.

On reading about the artist Jane Thornhill in a local newspaper, Charles decided to commission a painting of herself for her husband’s birthday. Thornhill asked whether she could submit it for the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition in London, but when she did, the venerable institution returned the picture, believing it to be a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and having been told by Buckingham Palace that the monarch had not sat for it.

The resulting publicity began a new chapter in the life of Charles, who would spend the next 40 years as the Queen’s most famous lookalike, and who has died aged 96. She appeared on British television and in Hollywood films, alongside stars such as Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and Mike Myers, and also modelled for Spitting Image when the satirical TV show was making the Queen’s puppet.

Charles said of her uncanny resemblance to the monarch, whom she never met: “We both have the same bone structure, so the same style of makeup and hairdressing suits us best. But I’m 2 inches shorter than her, so my clothes wouldn’t always look well on her and vice versa.”

She also made personal appearances – opening shops, handing out gifts with the flamboyant piano virtuoso Liberace and presenting a silver disc to the rock group Queen – and Muhammad Ali put in a special request to have a photograph taken with her. Commercials kept her busy, too, but Charles insisted: “I am not an actress. I only do the one role.”

Her first job as the Queen was posing for a London Weekly Advertiser poster that featured her reading a paper, with a stuffed corgi at her feet. However, London Transport, which was due to display it on buses and Tube trains, objected and never used it. Charles said it was a lesson: “too real … a little vulgar”. She insisted she was a staunch royalist, and told the Guardian in 2022: “I would never do anything that reflected badly on the monarch or myself. Over the years, I’ve turned down large sums to pose for Page 3-type pictures and insisted I should never be introduced as the Queen when making appearances.”

Jeannette was born in London, 18 months after Princess Elizabeth, to Yetta (nee Wonsoff), who was Dutch, of Polish descent, and Alfred Clark, a chef, later restaurateur, and was brought up in Perivale, Middlesex. Her resemblance to the future monarch was spotted when she was still a child. She recalled: “On a trip to Greenwich when I was 11 or 12, a photographer asked if he could use me in some shots, saying, ‘She looks like Princess Elizabeth.’ Later, I’d draw crowds, especially abroad, and sometimes had to run away.”

After leaving Wembley high school, she took a job as a secretary and spent evenings acting with an amateur group in Acton. She dreamed of acting professionally, and passed an audition to train at Rada, but could not afford the fees. Instead, she emigrated to the US at the age of 24 and settled in Midland, Texas.

While working there as an au pair, she met Ken Charles, a British oil drilling engineer with BP. His work took him to Canada – where they married in Alberta in 1957 – and then to South America and Libya.

They returned to Britain in 1969 and, when regal fame came to Charles, she found herself travelling the world again. At home, her early screen appearances were in the sketch shows Rutland Weekend Television (1975), with Eric Idle and Neil Innes, Spike Milligan’s Q series (from 1976 to 1980), and Not the Nine O’Clock News (1980). She was also in sitcoms such as Mind Your Language (1978) and Never the Twain (1990), and jetted to the US for a 1977 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

When Hollywood came calling, she put on the royal tiara to appear in National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985). In The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), she was seen flat on her back with Nielsen on top of her as they slide down a royal banqueting table – when his inept detective believes the Queen is about to be assassinated and jumps to her rescue. For Charles, another highlight of filming that wacky movie was being invited to Presley’s trailer for lunch. “We became good friends,” she said.

She was back in Hollywood for The Parent Trap (1998), with Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), when she mistook its star, Myers, for a crew electrician on first meeting him.

Alongside chat shows, corporate events, fete openings and other appearances, she appeared in Motörhead’s music video promoting their version of the Sex Pistols song God Save the Queen in 2000.

Charles’s autobiography, The Queen & I, was published in 1986.

Her husband died in 1997. She is survived by their three children, David, Peter and Carol, and her sister, Delinda.

🔔 Jeannette Dorothea Louise Charles, lookalike, born 15 October 1927; died 2 June 2024

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[militantinremission]

Vivek Ramaswami: The Perils of 'Race Neutrality'

Vivek Ramaswami's interview w/ Ann Coulter killed many birds w/ One Stone. Her blatant Racism & his acceptance of it spoke Volumes. Vivek has been pushing an Anti- Black Narrative for several years; I have personally said that he WILL become a victim of the Institutionalized Racism that he marginalized & dismissed. Ann Coulter is NO DUMMY! She tested his 'Race Neutral' stance from the start of the Interview. When she told him Point Blank that she agrees w/ him on many issues, but won't vote for him because he's 'Indian', Vivek didn't blink. He later commented that he 'respected her Courage to speak honestly'(???). THIS is what separates Black Americans from 'Brownfolk', & why ANY Black & Brown Coalition is just a pipe dream.

I have said a few times that Black Immigrants & Brownfolk don't have the same experience as Black Americans. We have an American Experience of Institutionalized Systemic Racism that has endured for Centuries. From the American Constitution, to Local Law, legislation has been put in place w/ the intent of marginalizing Black America as a Collective. For example: Property Taxes are lower & Insurance Rates are higher in Black Communities, compared to similar situations (same Property Lot size, same Vehicle) in Non Black Communities. This is by legislative design. 'People Of Color' don't share that experience. Like Irish, Italian, & Eastern European Immigrants, these Folks experienced a Period of 'Social Hazing' by the Mainstream, but are eventually included into American Society. They know Discrimination & Prejudicial Bias, but few experience the level of Systemic Racism that Black America faces daily.

Vivek Ramaswami's Case is worth noting. He's a 2nd generation American- a child of Brahmin Parents; both w/ Post Graduate Degrees (like Nimrata 'Nikki' Haley & Kamala Harris). He was born & raised in Ohio, attended Private School, & was able to amass Hundreds of Millions of Dollars at QVT Financial (managing their Biotech Division). By all accounts, Vivek is living The American Dream. His brief Public School Experience in Cincinnati has obviously affected his view of Black Americans. He has gone out of his way to slander the Black American Experience; marginalizing Our History & Our Struggle, but his Family arrived in the 1980s. He positioned himself in Conservative Politics & rose to prominence spewing Anti- Black rhetoric. Conservative News Media Outlets gave him a wave to ride, but he Wiped Out in the Iowa Primary.

Despite visiting all 99 Counties, Ramaswami received a meager Return on his Investment. Iowans liked his talking points, but weren't comfortable w/ his Religion (Hinduism) or his 'Brown Skin'. The conversations that his Wife had w/ Iowan Voters were cringe worthy! Many looked her in the eye & stated their mistrust of his 'dark complexion' & questionable Christian Values; this despite Vivek touting his Jesuit Education non-stop on the Campaign Trail. Black Americans (other than Sen. Tim Scott) would've been insulted, but Vivek & his Wife apparently took it on the chin. He dropped out of the Race after Iowa, & predictably kissed the ring of Donald Trump. Throughout his Presidential Bid, Vivek Ramaswami sounded like he was auditioning for the Office of Vice President more than President.

Donald Trump recently had an Event at Mar A Lago that Media is calling a 'Vice Presidential Sweepstakes'. Ramaswami was among those being considered. It appears that his interview w/ Ann Coulter was an effort to beef up his Social Capital among MAGA Republicans, but Coulter deflated his Trial Balloon before he could reach a proper threshold. I personally find it comical. Vivek got so wrapped up in his perceived White Privilege, that he didn't realize what he REALLY had was Anti- Black Privilege. He thought that his wealth put him in the Ballpark, but didn't realize that most Americans don't know much about Hedge Funds or Biotech. Vivek literally flew beneath the radar, but his glaringly Non- White features overshadowed his rhetoric.

Like most 'People Of Color', Vivek Ramaswami failed to understand that AmeriKKKa sees him & his demographic as nothing more than a 'Buffer Group'. Their arrogance & smugness towards Us, blinds them to the fact that they are tools of Benign Neglect Policies; set up solely for the purpose of marginalizing Black American efforts to exercise a Right of Expression... Middle Class & Poor Whitefolk are becoming aware of just how much money this demographic earns; i'm anticipating a pushback at some point. AmeriKKKa IS NOT a Democracy, it's a White Supremacist Capitalist Republic. In This Land, The Wealthy Rule & Wealthy Whitefolk (i e. WASPS) are at the top of the Totem Pole... To date, the average Asian American Family earns more than the average White American Family. Black America knows FULL WELL what happens when Whitefolk begin to think that a Non- White Population may B outperforming them. For their own sake, Latinx & Black Immigrants should pay close attention.

When We factor in the Sabre Rattling between The U.S. & China over Commerce & Taiwan, plus rising tension between The U.S. & Hindustan/ Bharat over alleged Election Tampering, there may B some blow back on Asian Americans; especially during a Time of Economical Uncertainty- think Japanese Americans during WW2... Chattel Slavery has provided Black Americans w/ a unique perspective that Immigrants don't have. Whitefolk regarded Us as Sub Human (3/5ths of Humanity), so they weren't discrete about their actions around Us. This gives Us an intimate understanding of HOW AmeriKKKa moves. We warned these 'People of Color' about the folly of Race Neutrality, as We warned Poor Whitefolk about the folly of choosing White Privilege over Progressive Politics 135Yrs ago (i.e. The Populist Movement). NO ONE took heed to Our Prophecy- that American Capitalism WILL come for them, once We're neutralized. As always, it's Profit over People.

-The pendulum swings both ways.

[dulcewrites]

which universities would hotd characters (+myrah and fmo reader) go to in your opinion?

I based this on mainly based on English/European schools but I can do a part 2 with American schools if that’s something y’all care about

Alicent - an Oxford girlie. Probably went to expensive all girls boarding schools most of her life till university. I see her going to school for economics. Idk I think Alicent would like numbers. They are to the point and analytical in a way she would appreciate. I think otto probably went there too.

Viserys, Aemond, Daemon, Daeron - Cambridge. Most of the men in the Targs have gone to Cambridge. They all go under some sort of business/entrepreneurial or law track

Rhaenyra - goes to one of the best out of the country. Maybe Edinburgh or ETH Zurich. English degree with a minor in business.

Aegon - he’s a bit of wild card. I think his parents would make him go regardless. But where…. Hmmm. On one hand, I could see him going the nyra route and going out of the country. Maybe like university of Amsterdam. If he has to go, might as well do it on his terms. But I could also see him craving Alicent’s approval and going to Cambridge instead. I think she’d be happy if one of her kids when to alma mater. Idk what he would like to study 💀. He’s a lot of smart than people give him credit for tho

Helaena - she’s another person I could see doing a lot of things. I could see her going a more traditional school route (like a st andrews) and going into writing. Idk Helaena gives me journalist or creative writer vibes. She likes shifting the focus from herself to her subjects. I could also see her going to a more artistic minded school (in my og modern fcc headcanon her and myrah go to the same school). Royal college of art or University of the Arts London. She likes photography and nature. So she combines the two

Myrah - this depends on the which universe we are talking about. Og modern fcc universe myrah probably gets a scholarship to one of the arts schools i mentioned in Helaena’s section. Oxford also has a good art program and do kind of like the idea of Aemond bringing home a girl that went to school his mom went to. Very momma’s boy of him. Broadway (or west end) myrah could be RADA or LAMDA girl. If she didn’t get a scholarship, I could see her parents advising her to get a more traditional degree in something she could fall back while she auditions and stuff. I still see myrah being an arist in the fools rush in au so same applies to before.

Fmo reader - hmmm she’s a ~material gworl~ and maybe by this point Aemond hasn’t ruined her life 💀 so the world is her oyster. I could see her going to america. She gives off American mom, British dad vibes idk how to explain it. This also depends on the universe. The first modern fmo thing I did, I had her going down a medical/research path. So maybe Stanford or UCSF. I could see her thrive in Cali. In England, *sigh* I could see her meeting Aemond at Cambridge. Now djats fmo reader probably stays in Europe. Maybe London College of Fashion or Royal College of Art

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Ashes & Ink

November 1, 2024 | Off-Broadway | AMT Theatre | Evening | Play | Original | 1H 30M

Within the first five minutes, I began to wonder who Kathryn Erbe owed a favor to. She's not even getting Equity rates. A sloppy and lumbering play packed with too many traumas and social issues, this piece reads very much like an emerging playwright's college assignment. And look, the playwright is new to the game. This is her first dip into stageplays, and it shows.

Molly (Erbe) is a struggling single mother whose husband is dead, sister is going blind, and son is a relapsing addict. And her boyfriend is a widower with a young son who's proving to be his own handful. It's a lot to heap on to a weakly-crafted character. The writing is repetitive, and the dialogue awkward and unnatural. Each character seems to have the same inexplicable verbosity, and they're all painted with such underdeveloped strokes that it's difficult to form any emotional attachment. There are over a dozen short scenes, most of which do little to advance characterization or plot, and each transition requires tedious set shifts back and forth, back and forth, that hamper any dramatic tension. They're also entirely too repetitive, showcasing the same basic premise in slightly different but equally ineffective ways. The two women try their best to imbue the text with some semblance of anything, but even they struggle, and the sister role should have been cut entirely. The other three actors are non-equity and inexperienced, to say the least. The little boy has the excuse of being a child, and was charming enough. But the young man playing Molly's son is far from the gifted actor he's meant to portray. The character delivers two monologues as auditions to RADA (a prestigious London theatre program) that are supposed to be good enough for him to get in, but they're...not. At all.

Kathryn Erbe delivers one decent monologue, but it's placed so far back in the story that it doesn't serve any purpose. It might've made a decent opener, but even then... The play just isn't up to snuff just yet. It needs significant editing, and guidance from more experienced professionals. As it stands, it remains ineffective in portraying the multitude of issues it presents, attempting to tackle too many and failing at each turn.

Verdict: A Long Slog to Curtains

A Note on Ratings

[kelayya]

Crowded Week

Minggu kemarin bener-bener minggu tersibuk sih, sekaligus seru :D Dimulai dari malem jumat, akutuh iseng ajak dia tryout (biar dia pusingnya ples ples :p) wkwkwk tapi dia bilang, "mending kamu yg ngerjain tar aku next aja" aku nyeletuklah "mending nobar :p" eh dia seriusin dong wkwkk dia langsung ajarin aku download anydesk dan minta login akun netflix ibunyaa wkwk walau akhirnya pake website ilegal :p dia pastiin aku nontonnya nyaman, suaranya clear :)) pas filmnya kurang seru, dia inisiatif buat ganti film dan itu approved by aku ternyataaa means seleranya nyambung xD jadilaah kami nonton dari jam setengah 8 sampe jam setengah 10 huehehe so much fun :)) besok paginyaaa dia izin ga masuk kerja biar bisa main sama aku seharian huhu aku dijemput di dalem stasiun, ditungguu. keknya baru kali ini aku ditungguin kedatangannya selain sama keluarga :')) terus kami ke kampus B, nungguin dia jumatan, dan cuss ke GM. di GM tuh kami mam sushi tei, pertama kali mam itu dan cukup amaze sih ternyata aku doyan hahahaha kemaren tuh pesen : spicy beef nabe & chicken teriyaki salad sesame dressing terus kami mulai main Kartu Tentang Kita lagii. Kali ini edisi pdkt :p ada beberapa point yg aku dapet sih : 1. 5 tahun kedepan, dia udah membayangkan nikah 2. Dia rasa, 2-3 tahun itu adalah waktu yang pendek (terutama untuk berkarir yah). Dan surprisingly kaget pas tau aku ada rencana nikah di usia 30 or 31 tahun maksimal. 3. Dia berharap : kami berdua bisa sama2 naik pendapatannya wkwkwk 4. Anw tentang improvement, dia kemarin ditawari atasan untuk pindah ke Accounting Service. Karena bagian Audit yang sekarang tuh kliennya sedikit. Dan dia rencana untuk mendalami posisi itu sekitar 2 tahun. Kemarin tuh banyak bahas soal my past, aku rada belum siap sebetulnya karna setiap membahas itu aku tidak bisa menjelaskan dengan baik. entah karena aku cuman inget sakitnya, atau emang udah lupa. Cukup lama kami di GM kemaren, dari jam 1 sampai jam 8 malam. dari yg full tenaganya sampe bener-bener cape hahaha Pulangnya, aku dianter ke Petra. Tbh i have no expectation on him already cz aku tau dia gapernah pacaran dan gapunya sodara. Jadi kurasa acts of service nya kurang. Tapi engga dong huhu Pas kami nungguin gojek di indomaret, dia tau kan aku kewalahan bayar. Dia inisiatif untuk bantu bawa hpku, minumku :') Dia juga pastiin gojekku bener terus diliatnya akuu peergi :'D small things matter yah:') hari itu akan jadi hal yg memorable untuk dikenang. makasih yaahhhh <3 aku tau perjalanan kita masih panjangg banget. tapi semoga selama perjalanan itu, kita berdua dikelilingi kebahagiaan satu sama lain ya. yg ini, tolong jadikan happy ending ya allah <3 Pss : Kemarin pas dia mau berangkat cuti, dia bilang kalau Ibunya tuh ngajak aku untuk makan bareng di luar. Tapi dia gajawab karna takut ketawan xD wkwkwkwk

[mirandamosley]

Miranda Mosley CV

Professional Resume 

2018 - PRESENT Piano teaching/accompanying. Demo CD Handel & Bach. Local concerts; folk music research.

2018 – COMMUNITY ACTION, London. Campaign to removal two Telegraph Masts from Local Community. One successful. [collecting signatures, letters to power – and meetings aiding Constituents in lawsuit against telecoms company].

2015-16 SHADOW CABINET GOVERNMENT - Assistant to Welsh Labour MP; incl. Organised music concerts, events & meetings.

2014 - ART FOR SCHOOLS - Designed all posters and leaflets for two years; Created two theatre sets for drama productions.

2010-15 MUSICAL ACCOMPANIST; Accompanist, privately for instrumentalists and singers, mostly classical and musical theatre, and also for a time at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music, London. Accompanist, for female student a’capella group, choirs incl. at Dance Works; incl. musical theatre auditions and working with actors. Organist & choir rehearsal organiser/director - St Edmunds Church, Loughton, Essex;

Rehearsal pianist/recording for theatre piece - Frieda and Diego the musical (Ivo Mosley) Recording of Yiddish folk songs at RADA for Jacob Gordin Project with singer, and working with players for Mozart operas, chorus singing and choir rehearsals for the Dorset Opera and The University of Bristol (*Bristol Music Club, Victoria Rooms*; soprano and piano concerts at Selwyn College Cambridge and Southwark Cathedral. Piano concerts in Loughton, raising money for Children in Need. Accompanist for comedy group at comedy club in North London, Little Venice. At St Paul’s Covent Garden – Keyboard for singer for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Piano meeting – Italy - San Danielle Del Fruili – Solo piano lessons and concert; solo concerts in Orkney, on Orkey radio and St Andrews; Repetiteur/accompanist - Italian Opera Summer School in Puglia.

MUSIC TEACHING Piano teaching to children – privately and at Cameron House School in London. Basic singing & music theory teaching.

ADMINISTRATIVE; Apprentice; The House of Commons Library, and administrative assistant for Art Curator’s Office. Accompanist for Library Choir including fundraisers and at Speaker’s House.

Student pub worker; Bristol. 

2007 University of Cardiff MA in Keyboard Studies (incl. develop’t of keyboard instruments)

2006 University of Bristol BA Music (2.1) [organised, publicity and performed in concerts]. Russian literature (Dostoevsky) and French language open unit.

Awards and bursaries

Winner of Concerto Competition 2003 – piano soloist with orchestra in Krakow Polish Academy of Music.

Recipient of Ladyman Bequest 2006

Recipient of Draper’s Company bursary 2006

[head-post]

Ukrainian fortification scandal erupts amid Russian pressure

Fighting in Kharkiv region continues, as Russian troops advance along front lines, erasing the gains of the 2023 Ukrainian counter-offensive. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian media publish another video fuelling the scandal related to the construction of fortifications.

A video surfaced online featuring a man angered by the so-called “dragon’s teeth” fortifications piled in Ukraine. Previously, such fortifications were supposed to deter the Russian offensive in Kharkiv and other regions.

I have only one question. Why … they are here?

Russian forces succeeded in advancing in Kharkiv region, as Ukrainian authorities failed to prepare minefields and serious engineering fortifications, The Economist reported in May.

Residents of Kharkiv also showed a construction site where a huge pile of “dragon’s teeth” had been brought in for their later deployment, probably not for military purposes.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities launched about 30 criminal cases on embezzlement of funds allocated for the building of fortifications, a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), Mykhailo Bondar, stated.

About 30 criminal proceedings on misappropriation of funds during the construction of fortifications have been opened by now. Members of the commission from the Servant of the People [party], after hearing such figures, immediately tried to defend the disposers of the funds.

Law-enforcement officials reported that the total amount involved in the cases stood at 20bn hryvnias ($490m), according to him. The next meeting of the parliamentary investigation commission formed to probe the misappropriation of funds allocated for the fortifications would take place in a week, he added.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and the regional military administration will have to report on the allocation of budget funds for the construction of fortifications, their schedule and location. Afterwards, deputies of a special commission will launch an audit of the fortifications.

Reconstruction agency scandal

The head of Ukraine’s reconstruction agency, Mustafa Nayyem, resigned a day before an international conference on the country’s long-term reconstruction, The Guardian reported.

Nayyem claimed that the Ukrainian government had systematically prevented him from doing his job. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal then rejected his request to attend the event in Germany, according to Ukrainian media.

This probably influenced Nayyem’s decision to resign. He announced it in a Facebook post on Monday after having sent a sharp message to a number of foreign partners. In his statements, he criticised the Ukrainian administration for a “wide range of mistakes.”

A two-day Ukraine’s Recovery Conference will start in Berlin on Tuesday, 11 June. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will reportedly deliver a speech there. The German government called the event an important signal to Ukrainians about the long-term future of their country.

Read more HERE

[abhrodeepnag-posts]

A friend of Volodymyr Zelensky’s family has become the head of Ukraine’s top anti-corruption body

The Ukrainian parliament has appointed Olga Pishchanskaya, who was Zelensky’s neighbor in Krivoy Rog, as chairwoman of the Accounting Chamber, the country’s supreme auditing institution. Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Gerashchenko called it “a disgrace and nepotism.”

Peschanskaya’s sister Svetlana is a friend of the president’s wife Elena Zelenskaya. Journalistic investigations have shown that the Zelensky family’s villa in Italy is registered in Svetlana’s name. She was also among the donors to the president's election campaign.

The Accounting Chamber is a state body that, on behalf of the Rada, exercises control over the flow of funds into the state budget of Ukraine and their use.

[remenar]

[Sažetak] Investments Unlimited - Helen Beal

Čitali ste The Phoenix Project? Fantastična knjiga o DevOps i Agile kulturi i metodologiji. Stručna literatura pisana u obliku romana. Čita se pitko a opet dovoljno stručna. Nastavlja se romanom The Unicorn Project koja je orijentirana više prema razvojnim timovima. I zadnja u nizu je ova knjiga - Investments Unlimited. Tematika knjige je financijska organizacija, Investments Unlimited - IUI, koja se nakon uspješne digitalne transformacije i agilizacije našla u nezavidnoj situaciji - u izvanrednoj reviziji nakon što nisu uspjeli dokazati regulatoru da vladaju rizikom agilnog načina rada. U okruženju koje omogućava rapidan razvoj i česte isporuke u produkcijska okruženja teško je udovoljiti svim regulatornim zahtjevima a ujedno održati velocity isporuka. I dok dio organizacija već je usvojio DevSecOps model, rijetke organizacije razmišljaju o Governance, Risk, Audit i Compliance problematici u startu novog produkta ili u prvim koracima build pipelinea. Shift-Left on Governance, Risk and Compliance. Kroz knjigu, autori pokušavaju prikazati kako postići taj kulturološki pomak u funkcioniranju organizacije promjenom procesa i primjenom automatizacija. Napraviti sažetak za roman je vrlo teško. Nadam se da ću vas motivirati da pročitate cijelu knjigu. Isplati se i ne zahtijeva duboku koncentraciju. Ipak je roman :)

"IT Governance is hard" "This book tells the story of Investments Unlimited, Inc., a fictional company in the financial sector" "The goal of this book is to help enterprises radically rethink governance and how software is build inside the enterprise" "Controls are very sterile, but promises - well, no one wants to break a promise" "Everyone agreed unequivocally that segregation of duties is a joke. It doesn't work" "We assume that just because the code deployer belongs to another role, there will be no risk, or less risk" "Now, if we take away elevated production access from every developer and ensure that every code change is peer reviewed before production deployment, we will have the best way to mitigate that risk that you mention Jada. The key is enforcing the peer review process" "Diffusion of responsibility reefers to a situation where as number of bystanders increases, the personal responsibility that an individual bystander feels decreases" "That's why our software engineering process failed us: we only considered Development and Operations, Dev and Ops, not Security, Compliance, or Risk. This was our big failing" "First guiding policy: if the rest of these policies are abided by, than you can bypass the IUI manual change approval process and go straight to production" "Second guiding policy: complete automation must be implemented for capturing evidence of quality, risk mitigation, and compliance for software and it's delivery process. The only manual process is peer review, which is a must when software is being designed and developed" "Third guiding policy: security and compliance requirements are as important as functional requirements, and hence all software product teams must involve Security, Risk, Compliance and Audit teams to identify those requirements from day one" "Fourth guiding policy: the software budget. A budgeting system, similar to a financial budget, will be established to track our deficit in quality, risk, compliance and audit. When a budget has been exhausted, the team cannot work any new features and must pay down the debt completely. This budget will be available for anyone in the company to see at any time"

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[phoebeboard]

Finally received an email from RADA and, as expected, it was a rejection. It's really nicely worded, I think. Wishing luck in my acting career, being positive, apologetic, offering no place 'this year' but not suggesting it won't happen in future... etc. So so so happy that they put me out of my misery, at last. I really needed this, so I could move on and make a note of where I went wrong, ready for next time. The next challenge awaits!

[dramaschoolblogs-blog]

Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) audition @ Vermont Hotel (Newcastle), March 2018

If I’m being completely honest, I thought I’d love Guildhall; I really did. I admire so many of their alumni and even have friends there. That said, this school; from the get-go, just wasn’t for me.

We started with a warm-up, but, I mean, they said we weren’t being assessed but it totally felt like we were. As opposed to quelling our nerves, for me, it just heightened them — I felt as if they were judging how far we could stretch; and, to be real, the panel straight up humiliated this little 17-year old that was noticeably very anxious. We were made to line-up, come to the centre, and then tell them about something we love, something we hate, and then speak a line of our Shakespeare. But this poor girl couldn’t find the centre of the room without glancing at her feet and they totally just ripped her for it… it just wasn’t cool.

We stretched, spoke our speeches in a circle; basically just the usual jazz you do in acting class (but with the intense pressure of a drama school panel hawking over your every move).

After the thirty minute warm-up, we went off and waited to be called up for our speeches. I was fifth, which was fine, I guess.

So, I went in said hello and they let me do my first speech, uninterrupted. Then 1/3 or so through my second speech I got some redirection, then some more, and then some more. Actually, I didn’t get halfway through before they cut me off and asked for my song. I went for it and totally bombed the thing, I mean, the panel were cringing whilst I was singing (yes, it was that bad). I was stopped halfway through, told to run around the room and do it again (it was still dead as fuck). They sat me down for my interview where they asked me all these really specific questions: “what’s the difference between stand-up and acting?”, I replied, they then asked me to elaborate and I just choked — another one was something like “tell us your favourite syllogism...” and my mind just blanked, I sat there just sinking into the chair (lol); trying to push out something intellectual and I really couldn’t, oh God! It was so fucking awful. Then came the normal questions “what have you been doing? etc. etc.” As I was in the middle of telling them they asked for my third speech, I gave it; there was some redirection, then they asked for my song again and my second speech after that. We then resumed the interview and that was that.

The moment I left the room I knew I’d fucked that audition. I mean, yeah, it was kinda fun; really intense, but ultimately I knew the school was not for me.

After about an hour they came in and told us that nobody had been recalled and that was it. It’s a really weird school, I’m also probably salty as it’s my first rejection this season (crazy, I know!) but hey, at least I know not to audition next year. That school totally ain’t for me haha.

Oh well, onwards and upwards!

[scotianostra]

Happy 75th Birthday Denis Lawson born September 27, 1947 in Glasgow. and Kinross Star Wars connections here, Lawson’s nephew is, of course, Ewan McGregor, who portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy.and he was also an early drama school classmate of Ian McDiarmid, aka Emperor Palpatine in movie franchise.

Lawson t grew up in Crieff, Perthshire, after his family moved there when he was three years old. He is the son of Phyllis Neno, a merchant, and Laurence Lawson, a watchmaker Denis was educated at Crieff Primary School (then called Crieff Public School). After the 11-plus examination, he attended Morrison's Academy as a day pupil before attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, having first unsuccessfully auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He then sold carpets and did amateur theatre work for a year in Dundee before auditioning again at RADA in London and successfully at RSAMD in Glasgow.

Lawson began his acting career with a small role in a 1969 stage production of The Metamorphosis in London's West End. and has since starred in television dramas such as The Merchant of Venice  opposite Laurence Olivier as Shylock, Rock Follies and Dead Head.

Denis has been in too many other TV shows to mention, from the original Dr. Finlay’s Casebook and of course with almost every other Scottish actor he has starred in a Bill Forsyth film, his being Local Hero, but unusually he has never been in Taggart, his last film role of note was in the Glasgow Gangster film, The Wee Man, Denis was in 61 episodes of the long running hospital drama, Holby City as consultant cardiothoracic surgeon Tom Campbell-Gore and 37 episodes of the crime drama New Tricks. In 2017 he played The Duke of Atholl in the series Victoria.

In Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope his voice was dubbed by David Ankrum. He reprised the role, in voice-over form, in the Nintendo GameCube game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Lawson’s voice also provided the narration for the audio book of Heir to the Empire and Dark Force Rising in both novels, he reprised his role as Wedge Antilles as well as playing all characters.

Lawson turned down Lucas’s proposal to make a cameo as Raymus Antilles in Revenge of the Sith.

Lawson was approached to return for Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, but declined, stating that it “just would have bored [him].”he did however resurface in The Rise of Skywalker and voiced  Wedge Antilles  in the Video game Star Wars: Squadrons

Denis has been quiet for onscreen roles lately, but he has been treading the boards, his last show was  Anything Goes at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh last spring. 

​No stranger to Edinburgh, it was here that Lawson spent some of the formative years of his career working at both the Royal Lyceum and old Traverse in the Grassmarket, where he trained with the legendary dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer, Lindsay Kemp.

His childhood heroes were silver screen stars like Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.“American Vaudeville kind of people,” he clarifies, “That's what made me want to perform. I wanted to be like them and Anything Goes is that 'front-cloth' vaudevillian-style show and I just love it. It's fantastic - musical theatre has always been a strong part of my career."

So strong, if fact, he won an Olivier Award for his performance as Jim Lancaster in the musical, Mr Cinders.

On his nephew, Ewan, Denis has clarified the line that he tried to talk MacGregor out of the Star Wars role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, saying;

“Ewan likes to say that, but it wasn't like that at all. He was young at the time and it's easy in this profession to get pigeon-holed, so all I said to him was to just be careful. To make sure he really wanted to do it. It was great that he did it and ignored ‘my advice’ and he was fantastic in it. He is an amazing talent.”

It's Lawson we have to thank for encouraging that talent and he remembers, "My sister Carol came to me and said that Ewan, who was eight at the time, had something to tell me. He stood in front of me very seriously and said, 'I want to be an actor.' And I said, ‘Fine, well come back to me in a few years and we will discuss it’. As with me, it never went away and I am immensely proud of what he has done.”

[zozybee]

RADA Audition - First Round

Speeches:

Juliet - Romeo and Juliet “Shall I speak ill of him...”

Anna - The Angry Brigade by James Graham

Luciana - Comedy of Errors “And may it be that you have quite forgot...”

My second attempt at the big four letters and my first audition of my 5th year! It was back in 2015 that I first applied to RADA, and I have no good reason as to why I didn’t re-apply in the following years other than AUDITIONS ARE EXPENSIVE.

Today I was in school until 2pm rehearsing for A Doll’s House (which I am performing tomorrow morning!), so it was a bit hectic to get to my audition relaxed and composed, for 3pm. Nevertheless I made it with my hair still in tact and my cheeks not too pink.

We were shown to a room upstairs when everyone had arrived, and Dee (admissions) returned our application forms for us to add our speeches to the back for the panelists. Half of the group were taken to the other building which left four of us in the studio. Sometimes I find it’s nice to have your own space and focus in without company, but the guys I sat with were in similar boats to me- one girl had done a Foundation Diploma at East 15 and was 25, another was 21 and knew girls in my year at LAMDA from NYT and she had auditioned previously. Ewan was 29 and Scottish, with a degree in Philosophy, who applied when he was 17/18 but didn’t get in, so he changed his path and became a teacher, but is now wanting to act again. It’s not that it bothers me at all when first-time-auditionees talk to me, but it was rather refreshing to sit with people who could empathise with coming back and continuing to fight the struggle.

We waited for quite some time, so I was glad to be first in. Perth (I think was his name), the graduate who was stewarding, said I could use him for a body to talk to, however because in recent weeks I’ve really been working on personalising my monologues and seeing the other person, I decided my imaginary Nurse would be sufficient today. It was nice to have the offer of someone to play the character you’re speaking to though.

Anyway, I’ll stop rambling... maybe. I had a guy (in his 30s called Rob?) and a slightly older woman called Louise (I think?) whom was rather glamorous, on my panel. They were both very welcoming and shook my hand as I sat down. They asked me what I’d been up to since I first applied to RADA in 2015 - I spoke about Project A (the one year course I did in Newcastle) and then working as an actor for a year before coming to London and studying at LAMDA. It was great to have a lot to talk about. THEN (finally) I did my speeches!

They asked me to stand quite far back in the room, as expected, and I started with Juliet. I took plenty of time to see the Nurse and hear Juliet’s cue before speaking and started strongly. My voice was in quite good shape from a good warm up earlier on in the day, and I also had chance to run my speeches in a studio at school before I ventured to my audition. I took my time and let each thought land, which I was sort of proud of myself for; I didn’t let my nerves get the better of me in my speeches and all the work I had put in came to fruition naturally. There were occasional moments where I felt myself becoming aware of the panel, but for the most part I was completely focused and not distracted, which was a great improvement for me. Jimmy (the head of my course at LAMDA) told me yesterday, bring what you have on the day, do the work and that is enough. If they like you, they like you, if they don’t, no worries.

Before I began my contemporary speech, Louise (let’s go with Louise), said take your time, which came across as a real supportive comment- you would never have guessed that they actually WANT you to be good! I didn’t apologise for myself and I gave it my all. I was on voice, connected to my body and not stuck in a rhythm- how fab!

They asked me to take a seat once again (they didn’t want to see Luciana) and asked me a little bit more about LAMDA and if I’d been to see much theatre since living in London. They seemed genuinely interested in me which was lovely. I spoke about playing Nora and how great the course is, along with the many, many theatre trips I’ve had and learning so much from just watching and observing. Louise asked me if I knew John Baxter (he teaches movement on the BA at LAMDA) and I mentioned that I’ve seen him around but unfortunately we don’t get him for classes. She then asked me what status Anna has in my contemporary speech. I spoke about the characters not believing in conventional relationships and that earlier in the play, Anna is quite high status - confident and sure of herself. But in this scene, Anna’s just laid the table for a sit down meal with candles and music, then Jim walks in and asks ‘what on earth is going on, you’re enough on your own without me, you don’t need this crutch’, and her speech is her last reach out to get him to run away from all they know, because she loves him and wants to be with him. So I believe she is trying to be high status, but feeling quite low status, as the stakes are big and she is risking a lot by confessing what she wants deep down.

And after I passionately rambled, that was that. They thanked me, I said it was nice to meet them and I was on my way!

I am feeling positively jolly (to quote Torvald in Doll’s House) and content with how it went. I did the work, I showed them what I do best and I was myself which is the main thing. Whatever happens now, I have done all that I can.

So here is a little thought of the day for anyone budding actors: no matter what, always believe you are enough- you deserve to be in that audition room and never feel like it’s a burden for them to watch you; take your time, breathe- at the end of the day you’ve paid a lot of money to be there and they want to want to recall you, they’re looking for people they would enjoy working with.

Oh and also, apparently biting your tongue stops your mouth getting dry when you’re nervous, tip of the day!

Keep smiling, more updates to follow...

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[the-empress-7]

Hollywood stick with their own - Trevor and Tom are both connected, Trevor in production and Tom with lighting, the latter being Emmy award winning. Not to mention that Meghan herself said that she was basically blacklisted after lying about being part of SAG at auditions that they would never cast her, and then how she’s apparently feuding with the likes of Katy Perry and the neighbours at Montecito but also trashing Anna Wintour and the Met Gala… Meghan has frozen herself out not to mention that plenty of actors, actresses etc. have connections to the royal family via whatever reason, and then with BAFTA having William as their president/patron, then other royals being patrons of dance schools, orchestras, operas, theatres, musicians, fashion councils, choirs, ballets, ovalhouse, festivals, LAMDA, LCOF, RAOD, RADA, RAOM, conservatoires and more not just in the UK and Commonwealth but elsewhere too. By doing what they did to their own family, that has also blacklisted them even more.

Yep.

[sewerfight]

It's dirtbag audition summer. me and all the male skanks are going to our casting things or else our agencies are gonna finally drop us. If you want a seat on the bus you gotta kiss the driver on his stubbly cocaine scented cheek. No this is not the RADA bus. That's the light blue one we've just thrown a Molotov cocktail at

[the-real-zhora-salome]

I mean even Jeremy Irons, who likes Tom, said he's had an easy life. - I don't have the quote handy so I may be misremembering it, but Ken said something like "Tom has had difficult things happen, he just doesn't talk about it". And I respect that and am glad Ken said that. Some people don't feel a need to air their dirty laundry to gain other people's respect. Yes, Tom has had it relatively easy. I am not here to deny that. But to anons point-why are other celebs like BC and ER and a whole bunch of others ever held to the same criticism? Maybe it's the whole posh guy the media pushed on him as at the beginning of his career? That is their only image of him?

Seriously, if anyone knows the quote of which I speak, help a gal out. I have seen it pop up multiple times and of course, now I can't find it. Maybe it isn't a real quote (never trust the internet) but the sentiment is what I was going for. People make a personality out of feeling bad for the "terror's" TS has gone through and you can't say she hasn't had an easy life. Why is it so hard for people to see Tom as a person and not a stereotype of things they hate the most that have nothing to do with who he really is?

I don't have the quote handy so I may be misremembering it, but Ken said something like "Tom has had difficult things happen, he just doesn't talk about it". And I respect that and am glad Ken said that.

You most probably mean this quote:

"Branagh is a longtime friend of Hiddleston’s: he hired him on his detective series Wallander, then for the Chekhov play Ivanov staged at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, and ultimately on Thor, directed by Branagh. Along the way, he has witnessed some cracks in the armour. During Thor, Branagh recalls the young actor as “a bit scared and vulnerable, and at times pretty lonely. I think he withstood isolation pangs that might have thrown some people. But what I admire about Tom is he’s not trying to present the idea that a tortured individual lives alongside this gilded youth. He has a lot of the personal challenges that most people have, but he doesn’t look for sympathy by trying to convince people that there’s trouble in the kingdom.”"

It's from this article in Esquire Magazine:

thanks @insanityclause for helping me find it.

I also found another KB interview post-Hamlet where he said that in his class at RADA, Tom was the only student with a "posh" family background.

Tom undoubtedly has had it easier than many early in his career, because he had a family that he could have fallen back on if need be.

We know that he payed the fees for RADA himself with money that he earned from acting jobs while at Cambridge, but frankly we don't know if he received financial help for his costs of living while at RADA. It can be assumed, because he had his own flat (not rented), and since he couldn't take professional acting jobs during this time, we have to assume that he received help for his cost of living.

But that also means that he never had to make use of all the various opportunies for grants and stipends and whatnot that lesser affluent students at RADA have access to.

So yeah, he may not have had to worry so much about how to pay rent, but we still have next to no insight into what his life was like, especially his state of mind, during those years at RADA and afterwards, until his career started to get off the ground. He has talked about how he struggled to book jobs after RADA, how he failed at a lot of auditions. That cannot have been easy, either.

I think people also feel that he has had it "easy" because it feels like he had his break through with Loki immediately after RADA. But that's not true. There were four to five years where he was just a jobbing actor, like most. I imagine that these years were just as fraught with insecurities and worries as they would be for actors with no "posh" background.