‘Google walkout: global protests after sexual misconduct allegations’…
Thousands of employees stage demonstrations about workplace culture.
^ IIRC he was like that about a great many films (and the sci-fi & fantasy genre in general did have issues with it being looked down upon by quite an upper-class / snobbish BBC at times back then).
‘Has Star Wars “lost its magic”?’ - by HelloGreedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhsitrNzaM
‘LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars’ info (a new short animated tv series):-
https://www.starwars.com/news/lego-star-wars-all-stars & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vNXYyxUFhQ
‘Chile to become first South American country to ban plastic bags’…
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chile-plastic-bag-ban-illegal-south-america-a8377816.html
‘Ocean cleanup system sets sail for “Great Pacific garbage patch”’… (with video)
www.theengineer.co.uk/ocean-cleanup-system-pacific
&
‘Scientists get ready to begin Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup’…
More info can be found at www.theoceancleanup.com
‘Drainage Nets Cleaning up Henley Reserve’…
www.kwinana.wa.gov.au/city-life/protecting-our-environment/drainage-nets
‘NASA Releases Stunning Snapshot Of The World On Fire’…
www.nasa.gov/image-feature/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth
‘Border Collies In Special Backpacks Are Restoring Forests That Were Devastated By Fire’…
‘Fighting marine debris: the dustcarts of the sea’…
www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/fighting-marine-debris-the-dustcarts-of-the-sea.html
‘Climate change: How 1.5C of global warming could affect the world’:-
Research by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C - twice the recommended rate of warming.
‘Five countries hold 70% of world’s last wildernesses, map reveals’:-
First map of Earth’s intact ecosystems shows just five nations are responsible for most of them – but it will require global action to protect them.
‘This is the ‘last generation’ that can save nature, WWF says’:-
Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60% in just over four decades, as accelerating pollution, deforestation, climate change and other manmade factors have created a “mindblowing” crisis, the World Wildlife Fund has warned in a damning new report.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/29/health/wwf-wildlife-population-report-intl/
• Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level? (2004)
• Global Warming (2007)
• Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact? (2007)
• Celebrate Global Warming (2007)
IPCC website links page - full of informative links to many Govts & Depts within.
World Health Organisation
UN Environment website
BBC Science & Environment section
Guardian’s Environment section
NPR Environment section
PBS / Frontline’s Environment section
National Geographic’s Environment website
NASA’s Climate Change portal
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Causes of Climate Change (EU)
Greenpeace
Friends Of The Earth
The Encyclopedia of Earth
Treehugger
Common Dreams - thanks flametitan
Freecycle
US National Parks Service
The National Trust (UK)
Please let me know if I’ve overlooked any other threads for inclusion here, or if anyone had any useful links to add as well - thank you.
‘On yer way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow’…
When Scots refused to service Chile’s jet fighters after the 1973 military coup, their protest all but grounded the air force – and may have saved prisoners’ lives. ‘Nae Pasaran’, a powerful documentary, tells their story
‘Disney bought Lucasfilm six years ago today and has already recouped its $4 billion investment’…
‘Naomi Watts To Star In ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel For HBO’…
&
‘Josh Whitehouse Set As ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel Lead’…
A few mild spoilers in this article re the forthcoming final season of Game Of Thrones - so some may wish to avoid reading it…
‘The end of Game of Thrones: An exclusive report on the epic final season’:-
https://ew.com/tv/2018/11/01/game-of-thrones-final-season-ew-cover-story/ (and scroll down)
Confirmed: the final season of Game Of Thrones will be shown in April:-
https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/1062359268203077633 (with 30 second video - no new scenes)
Thought this was just superb…
video of it all - https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9szbx4/what_about_this_one/
😃
Some kind soul has uploaded BBC’s Arena Cinema program on Star Wars - from 1979 - up on youtube:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALjEf-tQNWc
'This episode of ‘Arena Cinema’ was broadcast on BBC2 on 29th January 1979 to co-incide with the British release of ‘Star Wars’. What we have here is an interviews and analysis. Behind-the-scenes clips are included, some of which I haven’t seem elsewhere.
The format of this series was that each episode had a lengthy feature item with unrelated film news and reviews at the end.
Short clips of this programme have been seen elsewhere over the years. To my knowledge it has not been repeated since.
I’ve had to make edits to comply with YouTube’s filter. The missing footage is clips from the film.’
Nice van Gogh-ing, DeviantWillUK 😃
I’m not a fan of RED Cameras
Hal 9000 alerted! (he was already likely watching, but still…)
That’s a long list paja mate - good luck with it 😃
For me getting all the Gold Medals on Battle For Naboo for the N64 (just got all Golds on Rogue Squadron again) - a lot more frustrating this time around, though it has been a few years…
Will give Super Metroid another go too (SNES) - completed it years ago, be good intriguing to see how much I’ve forgotten and how bad I’ve become…
Also thinking of upgrading my pc setup to one of these bad boys…
May be worth trying to contact this guy from here - http://stayornay.com/tech/?p=286 - to see if ever did upload his scans, or still has them somewhere?
Forums such as https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=69 (towards the end of the page) may be of interest too?
Good luck with it mate 😃
^ very well done mate. Love the rearrangement of images for the back covers and the long vertical image on each of the left sides too - they look great.
Really liked that - nicely done 😃
^ eeek! I feel for you man.
Obviously not my collection, thought it may be of interest in here:-
‘Rancho Obi-Wan: This man spent years building the largest ‘Star Wars’ collection in the world’…
^ with video of collection & interview too
Kathleen Kennedy just confirmed to me Boba Fett movie is 100% dead, 100% focusing on THE MANDALORIAN #StarWars
— (@ErickWeber) October 26, 2018
So, no Boba Fett movie, but a Boba Fett TV show instead?
Well, more of a Mandalorian tv show than it actually being Boba 😉
I’m still hopeful a few years down the line they’ll start doing ‘straight to blu ray’ type Star Wars releases - or one off 90 mins SW specials (especially if Disney are pushing forward their own streaming service).
Something with a vibe like this below - a 90 min spaghetti western type Boba-centred film would do for me…
Though comics and books will likely have to suffice for now…
Z Nation…
Trashy & tongue-in-cheek zombie goodness - not afraid to poke fun at itself and other similar series too - give heartfelt homages where due - and even four seasons of low-budget silliness on… still fun 😃
Very nicely done 😃
I’ve added a few of your fan edit videos to the ‘Misc’ section of the SW Fan Edit Index thread - let me know if I’ve overlooked / forgot any and I’ll add them too.
Warbler, i didn’t read most of that, but i do see some of your comments at the end, and i agree and echo them.
There has been no twisted re-interpretations on my part at all. Honest mistakes? Yes. Willful deceit? no.
With you assuming I am this terrible person and believing that I am trying to deceive everyone and making false claims and what not, I guess there is not much more to discuss.
It is very sad that this has occurred, oojason. Very sad. I wish I knew how to fix this, but I don’t. You are going to believe what you want about me no matter what I say and do. It is clear to me that our biases against each other are affecting our views and memories of what happen. If you weren’t so intent on believing that I am sort sort of terrible lying deceiving scumbag, maybe we could fix this. But we can’t. Very sad.
There has been a lot of broad stroke painting of various user’s intentions going on as part of the sh!t-fest lately, and it saddens me as well.
users are doing it against Jay / oojason, and oojason and Jay are doing it against users. It is a sad state.
time to remember that everyone on this site (well, other than the bots) are humans, and for the most part we want to be here and want to be part of the community.
All of this painting people as terrible and saying we are better off without them is not good.
Unfortunately when you are basically being lied about whilst being misled, then are asked for help from the same person and give them that help - only to be criticised and further misled… it eventually has an effect. There are many lengthy from PMs to me from Warbler starting off along the lines of ‘I am only asking for info’ before descending into an attack or dig because he didn’t like or agree with the info provided - or just wasn’t being upfront and truthful about his intentions? As well as snarky / snide posts afterwards.
Yet, after all this I was still answering Warb’s queries - even after my time a mod here finished… though after this latest incident, along with those comments about collipso’s open letter, I’m done with him; yet am quite sure Warb will carry on painting me in a negative light, along with him being misunderstood or forgetful, which he has done for quite some time until challenged and the fuller picture is presented. I don’t think Warb is a terrible or bad person - though do think he deceives people and has an agenda to not be found at fault when people call him out on incidents.
Meh. Life’s too short for continually indulging people like that (referring to my 1st paragraph here) - even online on a quality Star Wars website such as this. It’s better to challenge those one-eyed revisionist points made about you to give people a wider more accurate picture - wish your ‘accuser’ (for want of a better word) well, and then ignore him.
I agree with dahmage above. I had thought we had just about moved on and learned from our mistakes, but my posts here have been left unaddressed as the situation here remains the same. It’s really unfortunate and makes me sad.
Sorry mate, this is the ‘Warbler takes yet another pop at Jay, oojason and mods thread’. It didn’t start off like that - yet somehow descended into having digs at the above after a few posts. Huh - a bit of deja vu there. I’m sorry if your posts have got lost in amongst that - maybe a new thread for what you have to say would be better suited?
Though to be honest… I’d rather just move on and forwards - yet feel free to send me a PM if you have any queries or would like to discuss any issues.
Edit 14/12…
Firstly, thanks to Warbler for removing the name-calling content and also editing his initial post content to a more cordial tone - I hadn’t noticed his edits as they were made after his last post in here below.
You have corrected a few inaccuracies and brought up relevant info to the subject at hand that I had forgotten. But I give my word I never set out to intentionally deceive anyone. Your treatment of this shows what I mean when I say that you assume the worst about intentions. I admit that I have forgotten some important details which you have brought up? It is possible that it have forgotten things due to memory bias I don’t know. What I do know that I never intentionally tried to deceive or paint a false picture of what occurred. I don’t do that, despite what you might want to believe. For forgetting and failing to include important details, I apologize. Again it was not intentional.
With you assuming I am this terrible person and believing that I am trying to deceive everyone and making false claims and what not, I guess there is not much more to discuss.
It is very sad that this has occurred, oojason. Very sad. I wish I knew how to fix this, but I don’t. You are going to believe what you want about me no matter what I say and do. It is clear to me that our biases against each other are affecting our views and memories of what happen. If you weren’t so intent on believing that I am sort sort of terrible lying deceiving scumbag, maybe we could fix this. But we can’t. Very sad.
There is no fixing required as such - and no bias on my part. I’ve merely highlighted the ‘fuller picture’ (Warb himself admitting he’d somehow ‘forgotten’ and ‘failed to include important details’ to those parts which would have gave balance, accuracy and truth to many of his previous one-eyed statements and misleading re-interpretations). It probably just required Warb stop making these (and more) persistently revisionist claims - as well as the continued snide and snarky comments about me (or mod’s decisions) openly on the forums. Followed by repeated PMs asking for info or assistance - before making pops and digs when I didn’t agree with what he wanted to happen, or with what he was saying / requesting etc… followed by more barbs, and seemingly PMs too. Then rinse and repeat.
Re the quote from Warbler above - Warb makes reference in both lines that he believes I think him some sort of ‘terrible person’ and ‘If you weren’t so intent on believing that I am sort sort of terrible lying deceiving scumbag’… As stated before, even before his later edits to his post, I already posted I don’t believe that - let alone the intent to think such a thing - yet for some reason my saying so is ignored. Again, it seems a narrative is being built that doesn’t exist (other than seemingly in Warb’s own mind).
In the absense of any other info or reasons offered other than he had ‘forgotten’ - and also admitted ‘failing to include important details’ in many of his repeated reinterpretations - which near-on all appear to attempt to portray himself as unfairly treated - or me (and the mods) in a negative light… I came to the conclusion Warb was seemingly attempting to deceive people by doing this. Given Warb’s persistent issues and attitudes to / about me stated above… there seems to be no other logical determination to reach.
Now that I’ve ‘corrected’ and ‘brought up relevant info’ to some of Warb’s continued one-eyed revisionist statements… my work here is done - and there seems little point in going around and around with someone who doesn’t know how to fix a problem of his own creation (maybe it’s the ‘memory bias’?) - not that there was ever much fixing required.
Warb is 100% right when he says this is all ‘very sad’.
As stated previously - I wish him well for the future.
Ps - As someone else has questioned in a PM (and I have no answer for it either)… it seems there was no issue when Zion announced that Moth3r had been made a mod - yet for whatever reason it is a problem when Silverwook did so for me last year. Again, I don’t think it’s really been an issue - other than for anyone who wants to try and continue to make it one.
‘Teaser! | LEGO Star Wars: All Stars | Disney XD’
Specials coming Saturday November 10th!
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ review – Peter Jackson’s electrifying journey into the first world war trenches…
^ with 1 minute video.
Really hope the BBC or other free national tv channel snaps this up and shows it soon.
Not me, though love the humour of it…
^ you make them rather than buy them - a bit like the old airfix models etc? Very nice work - and they look great 😃
‘Star Wars TIE silencer wheelchair costume conquers Halloween’:-
‘A young boy has turned to the Dark Side as his wheelchair is transformed into Kylo Ren’s deadly spaceship’
https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-tie-silencer-wheelchair-costume-conquers-halloween/
(^ with video and more pics)
some sweet detailed art 😃
‘A Star Wars Fan in Columbus, Ohio Builds a 17 Foot AT-AT Imperial Walker in His Front Yard For Halloween’…
https://laughingsquid.com/at-at-imperial-walker-front-yard-halloween-decoration/
