Here we are 10 years later and 8 billion humans ...and building and planning mega structures and pojects around the World as if expecting 20 billion soon...uhhhh has Humanity gone INSANE...i really question the intelligence of our leaders and engineers and so called EDUCATED...Dools at Best...Idiots hell bent on Blade Runner 2049

What a terrible lecture. Reagan never said the mujahideen were the "moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." He said that of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan never invited the Taliban into the White House. Easiest way to check? THERE'S A WOMAN IN THE PICTURE. He was meeting with one of the factions of the Mujahideen. This faction later lost to the Taliban in the Afghan Civil War. Also most Tajiks are Sunni, only a minority are Twelver Shia.

Comedy = tragedy + time Hollywood as a drug to help through bad times

how i find this graphics, surveys, stadistics, but thar they are updated? Thanks

the principal problem of increasing cycling and walking transportation is the automotive industry, the power of this industri is not only economic also is cultural and symbolic, to me is the principal problem of cycling and walking promotion.

This is the problem with this type PATERNALISTIC planning. They think vibrancy = high ecnomic rents and subsidized flower stands. What a joke.

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This was a tough course I remember. But nothing in life comes easy.

My favvv professor I use to be TA

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Debbie says that the Jews bought land that Arabs have been living there since time immemorial. I am not sure what she means by time immemorial (Joan Peters comes to mind). But in 1525 the Ottomans made a census after conquering the land (of Israel) from the Mamluks and found out that there were only 123,000 people living on the land. 80K were Muslims (Kurds, Torcomen, mostly) Jews, Samaritans and a few Greek Christians. (the Mamluks persecuted the Christian majority to almost extinction.) The Ottomans tried to encourage immigration of Muslims from Europe (Bosnians) North Africa (Algerians) and Central Asia (Circassians). By 1800 there were about 275,000. In 1830s the Egyptians invaded the land and brought with them Sudanese slaves. Some of these Egyptians and Sudanese remained after the Egyptian expulsion. By 1914 there were about 650K residents. 80K Jews, 250K new Arab immigrants, and of course the Kurds, Turcomen, turks, Egyptians, Sudanese Bosniacs, North Africans (who lived separately from the others in their own communities) Circassians, Sudanese, ect. by 1918 (British occupation) there were about 700K residents. And in 1947 (British Mandate period) the country swelled into 1.9M people with 700K new Arab immigrants... what Debbie called "living there from time immemorial." This just goes to show that getting a college degree does not make you knowledgeable but smug in your ignorance. BTW during the (Jewish) Hashmonean kingdom there were 4 million people in the land. In the Byzantine era there are 2.5-3 million, After the Arab Muslims invasion the population plummeted to 500K but the land was majority Christians. The Arab Muslims did not settle the land, but rather taxed it. Then the land became controlled by the Fatmids (Shia Muslims) then Crusaders, who were defeated by the Kurds ("Salahdin") who were defeated by the Mamluks (new Muslims who persecuted the Christian majority and "Arabized" the land from Aramaic to Arabic) and the population dwindled to 123,000 by the time of the Ottomans. No, the Arabs were not there from time immemorial. They were new immigrants by the twentieth century according to census data by the late Ottoman Empire and British Mandate.

Y should the people have what others envy or covet. Security Human Rights information systems

I wanted to like this ‘lecture’ - but it was riddled with factual errors, lacked connection because it was a reading of text, not a talk & didn’t offer any insights that admirers of the movie (like myself) did not already possess. Having read copiously about Sunset Blvd & its creators, I constantly recognised phrases & analyses pulled from the work of other authors. I hate to say this, but this is obviously a presentation which only exists because the speaker/reader has a very tenuous family connection with the movie’s Producer.

Debbie, aside from your mispronunciation of names of places and other omissions (or distortions). Please learn history. 1. Post WWI the winners asked the people of the former Ottoman Empire to make a case for a state. The Arabs and Jews made their pleadings on Feb 6 and Feb 27 1919. Arabs stated they deserve a state because they were a homogenous people. Jews then made their pleading for a Jewish state based on their historical connection to the land. Yet they were not ready to take control, so asked for a trustee/guardian to facilitate the foundation for a state that will be "Jewish" as France was French or Britian was British. In 1920 the world leaders met at San Remo Italy for a conference and created two Arab states (Syria and Iraq) and one Jewish state (in what is today Israel and Jordan.) A Mandate Trusteeship was created to transfer control to Arabs and Jews respectively. 2. A treaty of Sevres transferred title to the Arab and Jews. 3. Arabs were upset that Fisal was not made king of Syria threatened violence and the British in breach of article 5 ethnically cleansed the "east" bank of Palestine/Holy Land/Jewish state to a Fisal's brother Abdullah. And Fisal was made king of Iraq. to do this the British added article 25 of the British Mandate which ethnically cleansed Jewish presence from the Trans-Jordan (east bank) and breached the rights and liberties of the Jews in the Trans-Jordan. (you forgot to mention Jews rights were to be guaranteed in other states just as civil and religious liberties were to be protected in the British Mandate for Palestine to create a Jewish state.) 4. The Arabs of Palestine or rather a group calling itself the Palestine Arab Congress wrote the Paris Peace Conference that they were Syrian nationally, economically, religiously, and morally. They were ignored. The Arab delegation at the Paris Peace conference said that the Arabs were a homogenous people and based on this deserved a state. (aka no such thing as Arab Palestinians). In the 1920s and 1930s Arab violence created terrible conditions in the Mandate for Palestine. Arab violence ethnically cleansed Jews from Hebron and Gaza. A Peel Commission was established where an Arab delicate said, the Arabs were Syrians, and Palestine was an invention of the Jews. The Peel Commission began moving away from the Mandate to establish a Jewish state and suggested partitioning Palestine again further into another Arab state, a mini Jewish state, and a British protectorate. 5. BY this time everything the British were doing could be seen in light of a potential war in Europe with Nazi Germany. The British feared that the Arabs would join the Nazis. Italians at the time were arming the so called Arab revolt which saw gangs of mostly foreign gangs attack British, Jews, and other Arabs in Palestine, and later in Iraq as well. The British issued a white paper limiting and eventually ending Jewish immigration to the land of Israel just as the holocaust was beginning. 6.By 1944 it was apparent that the allies would win the war, so a breakaway faction of the Hagana called the IZL (I am jumping a few steps) began a revolt against the British eventually blowing up the British headquarters in Palestine (the King David Hotel) leading the British to hand over the issue to the newly established UN who took over for the League of Nations. 7. UN's charter article 22 called for the Mandate for Palestine to establish a Jewish state, ignored its own charter and voted in a non-binding and largely meaningless resolution to partition western Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state with a UN canton in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Nothing was done about this, the British even bared UN people from entering Palestine. The British then said they were going to leave and a civil war broke out. 8. April 1948, the Arabs suffered a number of losses in Jaffa, Haifa, Castel and a small town called Dir Yassin. The IZL fought in Dir Yassin and Jaffe. It became popular with the Jewish community for "chasing out the British" and the Socialist Jewish parties worried these non-socialist revisionist party affiliated would win the election after the war. They began telling lies that the IZL committed a massacre in Dir Yassin. The IZL claimed it had a bigger battle at Dir Yassin than happened. The British who were still around and hated the IZL for their revolt, claimed the IZL committed a massacre. The Arab leadership claimed that not only did the "jews" commit a massacre but also raped the women. This last claim caused a panic among the Palestine Arab community. And while 100,000 left before the April 1948, now a mass exodus took place. By May 1948, Arab armies poised to invade told local Arabs to leave, and any rab who did not leave would be considered a traitor caused another wave of refugees to leave. All in all 160,000 Arabs decided to stay and became Isaeli citizens. 9. By 1949 the Arab armies took the Gaza Strip, the Trans-Jordanians occupied the Judean hills and called it the "West" bank of the east bank. And the Arabs that fled (they were not expelled) became refugees. In 1964 the Egyptians created a PLO group that claimed it represented a Palestinian Arabs. And wished to retake (not Gaza Strip or "West" bank but) Israel. In 1967 Israel was able to reclaim its lost territories of the Gaza Strip and "West" bank, actually Judea and Samaria were the names of the areas. 10. In 1994 Israel gave the Arabs in the former occupied territories autonomy under the PLO. However they continued to attack Israel through terrorism. By 2001 they began shooting rockets at Israeli civilians. In 2005 Israel left the Gaza Strip and an Islamist group called Hamas took over. 11. On October 7 2023, under a barrage of rocket fire, Hamas and other Arab terrorists launched an attack against Israel where they raped, murdered, burned, beheaded, and kidnapped 240 Israelis (and or their bodies or body parts such as a head of an Israeli solider) to Gaza which broke out a war against Hamas. In an twist of irony (had there not been enough of those) the Jews were accused of genocide against the Arabs, as if 1929 massacre and ethic cleansing did not happen, as if the partial in 1922 of the east bank did not ethnically cleans the Jews living there, and as if Jews whose rights were guaranteed under the League of Nations Covenant were not ethnically cleansed from Arab states such as Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, ...ect. 12 this is just the cliff notes and I skipped over a lot of details. But you are missing the Paris peace conference, the San Remo Conference where Arabs and Jews go their states. Iraq became independent in 1932, Syria in 1946, Israel in 1948. The war is not about Arab need but Arab greed.

Is it true that all liberals/NDP meetings start with slogan"Gas Jews"?

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Fiddling as Vancouver is consumed by the Housing Affordability Crisis, developer Michael Geller is really not the one to speak on how to 'guarantee affordable houses for all Canadians-forever.' Michael's real expertise is making money for private interests by building towers in neighborhoods.Like the Langara Towers in Vancouver dating to the 1970s. The discussion in this video studiously avoids any mention of the elephant in the middle of the room: Luxury Condo Towers purpose built to stand empty and sell on the global markets... Where for example, the Olympic Village condos were marketed when they first went for sale. As of today, according to Empty Homes tax data, 46% of all condos in Vancouver are empty. That doesn't mean that 46% of the units in any one tower are empty. It means-on average-every other tower in Vancouver was built and sold in the global market to stand 100% empty. Investors use the same logic as buying automobiles: as soon as we drive the car off the lot, we lower the value by 50%. Rent or occupy the condo, and its value also goes down. We can canvass the opinions of the questioners in the video to gauge their level of understanding about how to End the Housing Affordability Crisis: • Cameron Gray's, former City of Vancouver Housing Planner, prescribes-...Densification of family neighborhoods with [a more diverse mix of buildings]. We have to accept more density; most of what [Michael presented] is right. There is no solution. That's just the way things are. We have to accept more density. • Brian Bidwell, former Directo of Planning, North Vancouver - Inclusionary Zoning: accept that prices are reaching a maximum, on 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom. Additional requirements [Concept unclear] will effectively push down the value of the land. • Patrick Condon, Director UBC Planning & Urbanism -you are wrong on one thing (lower than your usual average)... I'm curious after your presentation of housing types of 0.9 to 1.5 FSR, you then prescribed single house lots at 5.0 FSR to pencil out. So, why present building types that cannot work anyway because as you say "The land is too expensive?". Therefore... we need a city-wide zoning. Pre-zoning to eliminate process and permits. • Stuart Hogan - Maplewood Neighborhood activist, District of North Vancouver. We are rezoning Maplewood completely, tearing it down and rezoning from scratch. • Richard Stewart, Mayor of Coquitlam-What is causing the [Housing Affordability Crisis]? A shortage of Skytrain Stations and a shortage of good planners. COMMENTARY Skytrain and Towers are responsible for lifting land values in Greater Vancouver, thus triggering the Housing Affordability Crisis. Richard Stewart-we attended high school together-reveals that he really does not understand 'good' urbanism. His comments about 'shortages of Skytrain Stations' [so Coquitlam can build ever more towers], and 'shortages of good planners' [i.e. planners who can foist even more Skytrain-and-Towers on suburban sites] amount to Skytrain-and-Towers orthodoxy. Coquitlam's Mayor-and he is not the only one in the room-does not understand that Skytrain is a people mover system designed to operate in a Loop: (a) within a restricted area-100 square miles or 80% the size of the City of Surrey; and (b) carry a limited number of passengers-500 people per train maximum. Consider that after more than 40 years of planning and construction, the total system is just 80 km long. The new Mark V trains will increase maximum passenger capacity to 665 people per train-triggering a prohibitively expensive program of extending Skytrain Stations just to add 25% more capacity to the system. What is really needed is to double the passenger capacity and increase transit reach by 5-times. We can build 400 m of hybrid Streetcar|LRT and open sufficient land to guarantee affordable houses in perpetuity (GAHP) to all Canadians. Only an expanded area of service will be able to change paradigm, building human scale urbanism instead of Hong Kong towers. The reality is that we need to change urban paradigm. Three new transit lines, operating hybrid Streetcar|LRT technology, will infill with affordable houses in the core neighborhoods, and building affordable houses in new tramtowns. Three new lines will serve the Lower Mainland, the Whistler Corridor and the Fraser Valley. Affordable, human scale houses, delivered as GAHP can then build along the new transit corridors: • South of Fraser, Vancouver-Chilliwak on the extant Interurban Line (126 km/1 million new GAHP doors). • YVR to Whistler, on the Arbutus RoW, and the Canada Line, then in a tunnel to North Van & Whistler (122 km/1 million new GAHP doors) • North of Fraser, from Horse Shoe Bay, across (the poorly named) Indian Arm, to Hope (170 km/1 million new GAHP doors). The 3 Lines will build a total of 420 km of serviced vs. 88 km of Skytrain service when the Broadway Tunnel is completed. So... 5x more commuting distance x 2-times more passengers for a total 10-times transit improvement as a fraction of the cost. A magnitude order of difference got at 5-times less cost than estimates for the Langley extension, and 10-times less cost than estimates for the Broadway Tunnel. However, the 3 new transit lines are simple a means to an end: building guaranteeing affordable houses in perpetuity-GAHP-for all Canadians. Not as Towers, but as human-scale houses with doors on the street. We did not hear about this on the video. Yet, it is the only recognized methodology to guarantee affordable houses in perpetuity- forever, for all Canadians. We live after all in the largest Democracy by land mass. How is it possible we are running out of land? What we have run out of is 'imagination'... Over to you, Michael Geller...

I worked with Bill Wilder

Wearisome. Never gets to the making of the movie.

Previous discussion of international purchase of high end real estate as safe harbour of wealth. Was this event the progenitor of investigation of use of real estate purchases as a method for money laundering, and Provincial legislation to intended to reduce this activity?

I gave up after 30 mins. Got bored as rehash of know facts (some mistakes) n got tired of 'my cousin' etc Though if u know little of background of film n times its fine.

This was wonderful and thank you so much for posting. I know that my next viewing of Sunset Boulevard will be enhanced by Mr. Brackett’s insightful comments. I could not agree more with his statements about modern comedies being crude in comparison to the sophistication of classic screwball films, the idea that nothing can be simply suggested anymore, and that constraints can lead to more creative filmmaking. Sitting @ home, many times I yelled out, “Amen!”

Good stuff, but I don't think this qualifies as a "day in the life of..." video

1:00:00 Norma Desmonds car definitely was NOT a Duesenberg; according to IMCDB it's a Isotta Fraschini !

My best wishes to you, thank you.

Thank you so much, Jeff. I was studying at ELC in your group in 2019. My best wishes to you and future students.

Great video!

fairly mind numbing could read one simple paper not much here or to hear

He doesn’t even mention the parallel romance between Joe and Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olson) that precipitates Joe’s break with Norma and his murder. Those scenes are beautifully acted and show Joe as charming and fully human, lending more depth to his ultimate demise.

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Great video!!

Too bad is so expensive

... as a German Biologist - and those who love this way of presentation - know it already. Those who do not - love the joy ride into oblivion... Yes! We can...

Do you hv an online course

This clearly appears to have more in common with someone cashing in on his name and distant relation to Brackett than it does with having some life-long connection to and background knowledge of the movie. Too many innacuracies and elongated babble to lend this man any legitimate credibility.

Land grab? Bill Gates is now the largest owner of farmland in the USA. "May lucidity be with you"

This was the best lesson I fount about about the history of human desire so far. Thank you!

This man' ideas should be presented on every news program in the world.

He doesn't really start talking about Sunset Boulevard until about 20mins in. Prior to that, endless self-indulgent waffle.

these toilets have been around since about 2 decades

The criticism on here is insane. What have each of you, keyboard gangsters, done for the good of Afghanistan and her people? Back to your cupboard under the stairs.

Loved this

Half truths! Sadly, not thorough research!