#article 23

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

AFP, via HKFP: Hong Kong Christian newspaper runs blank front page ahead of Tiananmen crackdown anniversary, June 3, 2024

HKFP: Hong Kong’s Catholic Diocese axes third consecutive Tiananmen mass as cardinal urges ‘forgiveness’ over crackdown, June 4, 2024

HKFP: Ex-local councillor asked by police about Tiananmen crackdown anniversary plans; lawmakers say marking date in private is lawful, June 4, 2024

[l-in-c-future]

The future of HK: 1984 world

The omened future of HK had been long foretold in the year 1984 when the Join Declaration was signed between PRC and UK. WHY that year? CCP knew the BEST about the 1984 Orwellian world described in the famous novel within a communist dictatorship context. Did UK and the rest of the world read the omen?

The forgotten lesson is that no communist regime ever lives up to their promises. CCP never honour any autonmy promises to the Tibetans and the Uyghurs. The 'autonomy' promises were mirrages in the desert. Article 23 in HK os a mirror proudct of the Articles 17 for Tibet.

The recent case that involved a German Tibetan activitist could enter PRC and travelled freely but he was intercepted and interrogated by HK's Immigration before being deported revealed that CCP adopts a more stringent approach to HK than Tibet. The hawks and hardliners within CCP are eager to isolate HK. It is how they want to show the REAL intention about Taiwan if they use military forces on Taiwan AS WELL AS other countries. PRC is proactively behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine because both Putin and Xi are hawkish hardlining nationalistic communists who proactively seeks to seize back their 'lost glory' from the fall of the Berlin wall.

The rapid passing of Articles 23 in HK were the official last nail that sealed the coffin of HK as signal of ending of Deng's era. In Xi's eyes, the Western world is once again the 'evil foreign powers' that 'obstruct' the rise of PRC in the heated political and economic competitions in the global geo-monopoly games.

[drtunglammrq]

I voice out on article 23 public consultation.

[blutonews]

htps://www.blutonews.org/article/23

Bluto Ignored The Tiny Famous Man

Bluto was upset at streamer. Streaer say "Bluto what'd I do wrong to offend you?" streamer cry waa waa. Big oaf Bluto harrumphed his head to the sky "I don't talk to the likes o' yous no more and ya ain't to be my best man [either]", as streamer was meant to be at his wedding, "ever since you became addicted to amputations you been nothing but a head on the floor and your brain is metabolizing your ears". People at the scene reported seeing tears stream down his face. "Oh, but I can change"! Streamer pleaded, "Please let me be a flower boy and I can roll down the isle like a tumbleweed! First thing after the wedding, I'll buy a body made from tin cans and wear a barrel with suspenders"! There was a pause as Bluto thought, "Little man, I'll see that you do". He extended his hand for a handshake, forgetting that everything below the head of streamer was only an open wound.

The reporter at the scene cried at such a heartwarming moment of comradery.

[throwbackgaylor]

august 23, 2019 | five years ago

cosmopolitan released an article titled “Wait a Second: Is Taylor Swift’s “Cornelia Street” About Her Rumored Friendship Breakup With Karlie Kloss?”

[djkerr]

A Major ‘NCIS’ Character Change Is Just What Season 23 Needs To Get Its Grittiness Back

Collider.com

📷 cbs

[papayafiles]

taking deep deep breaths. i'm so proud of him i can't breathe.

[non-tyrannical-usa]

hopefully the LA protests rn don't end the same way the Hong Kong 2019-2020 protests did

[carebearcody]

also can we talk about how Jamaica, South Africa and Nigeria have all qualified for the ro16 of the World Cup despite receiving support from their FA’s ranging from 'nominal' to 'none' (x) (x) (x)

[georgeharrisonsmiling]

It's funny to me when people try to use 'Taxman' against George because he wrote that song when he was 23 😂. Being disappointed that the government takes a portion of your first serious paychecks is an universal experience and George so happened to make a song about it.

Random biographer: George Harrison preached about the material world in his fifties but he also wrote Taxman 🧐. So contradictory.

[panicinthestudio]

Hong Kong: Chinese control and the future of protest, October 18, 2024

In Hong Kong, protests have fallen silent. The Chinese state is more restrictive than ever. Back in 2019, artists were among those who took to the streets to demonstrate against the curtailing of basic rights. How are they doing, five years on? Unlike many of his contemporaries, multimedia artist Samson Young chose to remain in Hong Kong rather than going into exile. Young plays with codes and hidden references in his complex art installations. Filmmaker Kiwi Chow also stayed. He sold the rights to an internationally acclaimed documentary about the 2019 protest movement to a friend outside the country. Others felt they could no longer stay in Hong Kong, like Kacey Wong, who now lives and works in Taiwan. Despite their different paths, these artists all ask themselves the same question: Will Hong Kong ever be as free as it was before the protests, or will Beijing’s grip get even tighter? Deutsche Welle

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Interview: Lewis Hamilton: Is this man motor racing's answer to Tiger Woods?

The Guardian, 23 May 2006 (by Donald McRae)

Here he comes, with an easy charisma and a crunching handshake which could only belong to the surest bet in British sport. This is Lewis Hamilton, a 21-year-old from Stevenage with a face and a name that, a few years from now, are expected to be burned into your brain as formula one's first black world champion. It could be a terrible burden for him, especially as he is already being hailed as motor racing's answer to Tiger Woods. Even more than that lazy analogy, it may be daunting for him to hear that some of formula one's most venerable observers say his talent should be compared to a young Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna.

Yet Hamilton does not look startled by such claims. Whether discussing his searing self-belief, his obsession with Senna, being bullied as a boy or his younger brother's cerebral palsy, he talks quietly and thoughtfully. "I really don't know what it is that makes me so good," he says. "I just believe if there's one thing I'm meant to do really well, it's racing."

This month, in winning two GP2 races at the European grand prix meeting at the Nurburgring, his driving was described as "truly astounding" by Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren's chief executive officer. Coming from a taciturn F1 outfit in a tough business which relies on hard facts rather than outrageous hype, the comments were surprising. Despite claiming that "we want to keep pressure and sense of anticipation off Lewis", Whitmarsh praised him for producing "the most phenomenal performance ever seen in a GP2 race". Those words only increased speculation that this young driver, contracted to McLaren for the past nine years, could replace Kimi Raikkonen there next season and race alongside the current world champion Fernando Alonso, who is committed to leaving Renault for McLaren in 2007.

Amid the rumours that Raikkonen will move to Ferrari if Schumacher retires, Hamilton shrugs. "If Kimi's smart he'll stay at McLaren." But then he laughs helplessly at my suggestion that Raikkonen, when deciding on his future, could prove as dumb as he sounds in his more banal interviews. "Yeah!" he exclaims. "Ideally! It gives me a much better chance if he does go. But look at Alonso. He started at Minardi, so I expect to do something like that [and be loaned to a team at the back of the grid]. But if I end up alongside Alonso it definitely would not intimidate me. I've never had a team-mate who's beaten me over the course of a season. So I would love that challenge."

In a gleaming boardroom at McLaren's Surrey headquarters, in Norman Foster's floating white masterpiece of architectural design, Hamilton leans forward in anticipation and conviction. And in this completely guileless moment it is possible to imagine him as the nine-year-old boy that Ron Dennis, McLaren's supremo, first met in 1994. Hamilton was already a junior karting champion but, as a black kid from Stevenage, it took courage for him to approach Dennis at an awards dinner.

"We couldn't afford a suit and so I'd borrowed a dark green silky suit off this guy who had won the same karting championship the year before. I even got his shoes. I went up to Ron and told him I wanted to drive for McLaren and become world champion. He wrote in my autograph book: 'Try me in nine years.' But two or three years later he called me."

McLaren financed Hamilton's brilliant karting career - with each triumphant season being followed by another in a faster and older class. But, even before the start of that fruitful relationship, the course of his life had been decided. "I was nine when Ayrton Senna died, and he was my hero. I remember racing that weekend in Hoddesdon. My dad had a small Vauxhall Cavalier and a trailer at the back. We'd sit in the Cavalier and wait for my turn to race. And that day my step-mum came over to tell us Senna had just died. It hit me hard - but I never liked to show emotion in front of my dad. So I went behind the trailer and cried. That was the turning point of my life - because when you're so young, you believe people like Senna are invincible. And then you realise that they're also mortal. It made me understand I need to make the most of my talent."

Hamilton had already displayed, in another vulnerable period, the strength to overcome adversity. "I was about five and being bullied at school. It was a horrible time but I told my dad I wanted to start karate so I could learn to protect myself. The bullying stopped and, more importantly, I got real self-confidence."

In later years he tried to keep his racing life a secret in Stevenage. "Kids at school would say, 'What you doing this weekend?' and I'd say, 'Oh, I'm going karting.' They'd say, 'I might see you up the road then' - at the local karting track. I would just nod because I wanted to keep the real extent of my racing quiet. It helped make school feel like an escape if no one knew what I was achieving in racing. School was my time to mess about and have a kid's life - to be normal. But at weekends I never had a chance to go to any of those under-18 clubs or parties. And that affects you because your friendships are not so strong. When you say 'I can't go out because I'm racing this weekend' your friends think you're just blowing them off. Even when, near the end, I'd tell people at school I was going to Japan for a week to race, they'd look at me blankly. It just didn't click."

His closest friend, inevitably, was another racing prodigy, Nico Rosberg, who has shown such promise for Williams this season. "We were karting team-mates in Italy for two seasons and were racing to see who would become the youngest ever driver in F1. Nico got there first because he had a season in GP2 last year [winning the championship] while I was in formula three. GP2 is vital because the set-up of the car is very similar to F1 and on some tracks we hit the same speed at the end of a straight."

Hamilton grins when asked who was the better racer in karting. "Nico's the most competitive person I've ever met and he was really tough - but I won the European championship and he came second. But we shared the same hotel room and always spoke of how fantastic it would be to compete against each other for the formula one world championship."

His friend's father, Keke Rosberg, was a world champion, but Hamilton's own dad came from a humbler past. Anthony Hamilton, the son of immigrants from Trinidad, had to struggle for years to fund Lewis's outrageously expensive karting career. "I don't think he ever went into debt but he had quite a few jobs on the go. His main job was with the railways but I also remember him putting up 'For Sale' signs - he'd get pounds 15 a sign."

Apart from his father, who now acts as his manager, Hamilton is accompanied to every race by his brother. "Nicholas is seven years younger and he's a great character. He might have cerebral palsy but he definitely wants to do something special with his life - maybe in the wheelchair Olympics or even something around F1. I wouldn't put it past him trying to be a commentator. We hang around together a lot and he gives me real perspective. He's the one member of my family who'll keep my feet on the ground - especially when I get to F1."

When Hamilton becomes the first black driver in formula one the Tiger Woods references will intensify. "It's going to be a pain, the whole fame thing, but I'm strong enough to handle it. When I'm at a race now I don't think, 'Oh man, I'm the only black guy here!' I noticed it more in karting. On the day Senna died there was another black family at the track. But they weren't doing anything big because they didn't have the money. In karting, because some of the kids were immature, the odd racist thing would pop up. But I channelled my aggression - that's one of my great strengths. I was also taught that the best way to beat them is out on the track."

This weekend Hamilton and his GP2 rivals follow the grand prix circus to Monaco, where last year, before winning a formula three race, he drew further inspiration from Senna's genius. "With my engineers I watched an old Senna lap at Monaco. It was far harder to be an F1 driver then, and he basically drove the lap one-handed and had to correct the car four or five times. But he was still a second quicker than anyone. That's how he drove - on the very limit or just over it. That's what makes me want to be like Senna. Like him, I'm trying to be the perfect driver."

Hamilton's assurance and belief are worn lightly, but in a sporting world of infinite uncertainty it's hard to resist a sure-fire hit. When I ask if my money would be safe if, straight after this interview, I hustled down to the bookies and placed a big bet on him becoming formula one world champion in the next five years, he pauses dramatically. And then he grins broadly. "I would have to say, yes . . ."

[drtunglammrq]

For the future economy of Hong Kong SAR, Article 23 is opposed by pro-Beijing camp member as I mentioned before.

[those-who-stay]

For Mackie Samoskevich, playing hockey was not so much a choice as a birthright.  The Sandy Hook, Connecticut native doesn’t remember exactly when his parents set into motion the family’s backyard rink, but he suspects it predates him.

“I don’t think I was born yet.  They put down pavement; it was a whole job.  I remember seeing a picture of all the machines out in the backyard,” Samoskevich says with a smile. 

The backyard setup precluded the Samoskevichs from installing the pool they’d also fancied, but it invited a childhood with sticks and pucks ready to hand at all times for their three children.  “[My parents, Fred and Patty] definitely wanted the pool for sure, but I think [the rink] helped us out in the long run,” assesses the sophomore with his customary self-effacement.

Mackie, his elder sister Melissa, and twin sister Maddy (whose attempts at pronouncing her brother’s given name Matthew led to the nickname Mackie taking hold) laid the groundwork for their hockey careers on that backyard rink, whether on its wintertime ice or in its alternate summer concrete incarnation.

As Samoskevich explains it, “My dad hadn’t played to a high level, but he grew up loving the game.  I think his dad had gotten him into it at a pretty young age, so he was always a fan of hockey and always wanted his kids to play hockey.  It definitely worked out.”

In keeping with his soft-spoken disposition, the winger again undersold his siblings’ and his success.  Melissa now works as the director of player development and operations at her alma mater Quinnipiac, while also continuing her playing career in her third season for the Premier Hockey Federation’s Connecticut Whale.  Maddy, the lone blue liner amongst the three siblings, is a junior for the Bobcats with six assists already in just eleven games.  With a 10-1 record, Quinnipiac sits at fifth in the latest USCHO poll.

For the siblings, a shared bond of playing hockey helped brighten the day-to-day grind of sharpening their skills. “We’d always be in the backyard, shooting together and playing games,” Mackie says.  “Just having that was super special. It’s really nice to have days where I’m feeling tired and they get me out of the house [to play together] or vice versa.”

Ten games into his sophomore season at Michigan, Mackie has stepped outside of the shadow of last year’s Olympian teammates like Brendan Brisson, Kent Johnson, or Matty Beniers and into the running for the Hobey Baker.  He has eight goals and seven assists for a neat point-and-a-half per game.

A year ago, Samoskevich was no afterthought for the Wolverines, even as a freshman on one of the most talented rosters in the history of NCAA hockey.  He scored twenty-nine points in forty games and received the Big Ten’s All-Freshman honors.  Still, he did so without the burden or opportunity, depending on one’s perspective, of putting in the longest shift in the team’s offensive engine room.  Despite his impressive point total, Samoskevich played only third-line minutes with some power play time mixed in as a freshman, before flourishing with a greater role as a sophomore.

According to his head coach Brandon Naurato (an assistant a year ago for his first season in Ann Arbor), it makes more sense to frame Samoskevich’s sophomore ascendance as the byproduct of his limited freshman role rather than a natural development once roster turnover made more room for him.

“He wasn’t great right away,” Naurato says.  “Did he deserve more time?  Sure, he deserved more time, but [playing on the third line] might have been the best thing for him because he’s like ‘I don’t like playing twelve minutes, I think I should be playing seventeen, I’m going to do something.’  He’s always been an elite player, and he’s taken another step.  He went through some pain that made him stronger. Not even pain, but he wanted more out of himself, and he’s looking in the mirror, and he just took steps.”

One of Samoskevich’s new responsibilities is taking shifts on the penalty kill, a decision Naurato explains was at its most basic an effort to “take care of the boys.”  He added “your best players should play in all situations.  It’s better development for him long term.  He may not start in the NHL and play in the same spot [on the flank] that he can on the power play, but what if he can come in and he can kill?  What if he learns how to check?”

Naurato points to former Wolverine Carl Hagelin as an example of an offensive star in college who ended up with two Stanley Cups and $30 million in the bank by becoming one of the NHL’s top penalty killers and checkers.

Samoskevich adds that earning minutes on the PK has been a tool to stay engaged in any game state: “It definitely helps because when you’re not killing, you’re sitting on the bench for two minutes, three minutes, and maybe extends a little bit more.  It’s nice to just get out there.”

For Samoskevich, that the beginning of his freshman season provided a challenge came as no surprise: “I think that your first year anywhere when you go up a level, it’s gonna be harder, and it’s gonna be an adjustment period.”

From his head coach’s point of view, Samoskevich’s progress is well deserved: “He’s a really hard worker and a very cerebral player, and I’m happy for him.  He’s way harder, way harder.  [In the early going of his freshman season] it was all skill.  When he first came here he wasn’t soft.  He just didn’t know how hard it is to have success.”

Both coach and player also point out the importance of observing the habits of future NHLers in the form of then-sophomores Owen Power, Johnson, and Beniers.  Naurato points out that it was impossible to ignore the work that trio put in as sophomores despite their shared status as top-five NHL picks.  

“I’m not saying I [knew how hard it was to become a pro] at that age,” Naurato says. “And I wasn’t even as close to as good as [my players today], but just being around those guys all the time you see that any successful person in life—they’re not successful because of their job title. They’re successful because of the path and failure.”

Meanwhile, Samoskevich admired the way the teammates one year his elder embraced leadership, even though it was only their second year on campus: “It was nice to have the guys in the sophomore class that we had and just see how they handled that role.  Just how they [went] around their everyday, their little habits.  Owen was such a creature of the small little things that build up everyday.”

Adjusting to new environments is nothing new for Samoskevich.  Though Connecticutian by birth, Michigan’s burgeoning star forward has been on a roundabout tour of the Midwest pursuing his hockey career since his early teens.  First, it was Shattuck-St. Mary’s, the famed Minnesota prep school whose alums include Nathan MacKinnon, Jocelyn and Monique Lamoureux, and Brisson.  Then it was Chicago and the USHL, where Samoskevich won a Clark Cup for the Steel, before moving on to Ann Arbor.

When asked about his travels through a region that is not his home, Samoskevich smiles. “I’ve loved it.  Minnesota was definitely different.  Definitely colder.  I wasn’t used to that when I was fourteen, but I think it was a good thing to get out at a young age, just learn how to take care of myself away from my parents.”

Though the move to Shattuck carried with it a step toward independence, it did not take him beyond family bonds. “The reason why I went out there is because my sister [Melissa] went out there.  It was a good program, and she loved all four years, so I thought I’d go out there with my sister [Maddy].”

Six years after leaving Fairfield County for Faribault, Minnesota, Mackie Samoskevich is a vital cog in college hockey’s most formidable line.  Alongside Adam Fantilli and Dylan Duke, the quiet confidence with which Samoskevich carries himself off the ice manifests as a creative flair.

When you watch Samoskevich play (regardless of teammates), you first notice his release and his skating.  If the puck is on his tape with an unfettered look at the net, there’s a good chance you won’t see it again until the goaltender is fishing it out from behind him.

If has open ice to skate into, you aren’t catching him.

Yet even as his shot and top speed command attention, there is something more mesmeric about the way he can jaunt through the neutral zone without having to slam the accelerator to the floorboards.

There is almost a playful quality to the way he sidles past one defender and traipses around another, before laying the puck on for his teammates.  

There was something defiant in the backhand he roofed in an October home victory over Western Michigan.  Having received an expert keep-in from Luke Hughes, Samoskevich—using nothing more than his patience—reduced Bronco defenseman Jacob Bauer to sprawling across the ice in desperation.  From there, Samoskevich had no real options other than a backhand but still seemed to deceive WMU goaltender Cameron Rowe by preceding his instantaneous release with still more patience.

During a period of the season in which Naurato has made experimenting with line combinations an expressed focus, Michigan’s top line of Fantilli between Samoskevich and Duke remains untouched.  It is not hard to understand why.  Through ten games, the trio accounts for twenty-one of the Wolverines’ forty-six goals (45.6%).

Though they had never operated as a triumvirate before, neither Duke nor Fantilli was a new linemate for Samoskevich.

As freshmen, he and Duke settled into a role abreast of Johnny Beecher on the Wolverines’ third line.  Duke’s ruggedness along the boards, along with his craftiness at the netfront, paired neatly with Samoskevich’s speed and skill.

“There’s definitely a lot of chemistry that we carried over from last year,” Duke explains.  “We had a really good understanding of how we play and how our different skill sets can work together and create a lot of sustained o-zone time, and you know, score a lot of goals.”

Meanwhile, Fantilli and Samoskevich played alongside one another with the Chicago Steel.  As Duke said of him, Samoskevich emphasizes a shared understanding of approach as central to the strong chemistry he’s demonstrated with Fantilli.  “We got coached together [in Chicago], so we think the game alike.”  Ever one to downplay his own success, he adds “I think it’s coming along, and I think it’s just gonna keep getting better and better.”  2.1 goals per game between them, and Samoskevich believes the line remains a work in progress.

That Samoskevich has a near perfect split of his fifteen points (eight goals, seven assists) bespeaks an intentional commitment to being a dual threat player.  Though he grew up a Ranger fan, Samoskevich’s favorite NHLer is the Islanders Mathew Barzal.  The young winger attributes some of his knack for graceful rushes up the ice to studying Barzal’s game.

Samoskevich says that he loved Barzal’s playmaking, “how he creates space for his teammates.  I think that was the biggest thing that made me fall in love with him, and there’s so many videos of him just skating around the zone and then all of a sudden the play just appears from him.”

While the forward his teammates affectionately refer to as “Samo” sharpened his playmaking craft by studying the Islanders star, he credits his fearsome shot to the hours logged out on the backyard rink.  “I think I developed [my shot] by myself.  Like I said, in the backyard, it was something I did day in and day out.  It’s better to be more a passer AND a shooter, dual threat.  It’s harder to defend and makes me more dangerous as a player.” It is the closest Samoskevich ever comes to boastfulness, and, given his production, it is more than deserved.

When he’s not on the ice, Samoskevich garners attention from his teammates for his commitment to a housebound lifestyle.  In a mid-October edition of @umichhockey’s weekly Monday Question, several teammates expressed that they would love to experience the winger’s “insane routine” featuring naps, movies, and DoorDash.

Duke, who lives with Samoskevich in addition to sharing top-line duties with him, pauses when asked for something he’s learned about his fellow sophomore. The Ohioan winger jokes that he doesn’t want to “throw [Mackie] under the bus” before revealing that his room- and line-mate is an expert at making egg sandwiches.  According to Duke, Samoskevich will use whatever bread is on hand at their house, “but he loves his ketchup with his eggs.”

When the pair aren’t enjoying Samoskevich-prepared egg sandwiches, they are liable to be found on the virtual battlefields of Fortnite.  As Duke tells it, the duo, along with Luke Hughes and Ethan Edwards, have “a little squad going.”  

Based on Duke’s scouting report, “Edwards is definitely the best.  Mackie is mediocre, in the middle.  Luke’s just under Mackie, and then I’m the worst by far.”  Evidently, Duke’s workmanlike streak on the ice extends to video games—“I’m more there just to carry shields.”

As Sara Civian’s semiweekly style rankings for Bleacher Report attest, interest in pregame fashion has—like an attacking penalty kill or the fluid interchange of a center and his wingers—come into vogue in NHL circles in recent years. Perhaps this image from prior to his team’s October 16th contest with BU is the best distillation of Samoskevich.

The photo depicts the forward walking into Yost: a Michigan toque perched atop his head with a crisp blue-checked suit paired with Adidas slides.  The hint of a bandage peeking out from beneath the strap of his right sandal suggests that the footwear may be the byproduct of injury.

Even if that were the case, it’s hard not to read more into his pregame stylings. The sharp tailoring of his suit suggests focus, self-seriousness, and performance, yet the sandals show that even at his imperious best, Samoskevich projects a certain ease.  If nothing else, the pregame flip-flops appear appropriate for a player selected in the first round of the 2021 NHL Draft by the Panthers and thus for whom a professional future in South Florida awaits.

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[nicnacsnonsense]

I’m wondering how many people have seen the original context in which DJenks first identified Izzy as a father-figure to Ed. Because I feel like it’s not great.

To kill a character is such a big thing, even in a world that is this violent. We had to do justice to Izzy, and to that relationship between he and Ed. There is a nice parallel to have Ed treat him so badly at the beginning of the season and then come all the way around to where Izzy is this sort of father figure he doesn’t want to lose — because Ed usually kills his father figures.

[throwbackgaylor]

july 23, 2020 | four years ago today

vulture released an article about the hints karlie kloss had made about folklore titled, “Did Karlie Kloss Instagram about Taylor Swift’s Folklore?”