Sunday, December 30, 2018

As the year winds down and we look toward 2019,

As the year winds down and we look toward 2019, 


I’m asking you to make a commitment: find something you want to change in your community and take the first step toward changing it. If you need some inspiration, take a look at some of the young leaders who inspired me this year.



Friday, December 28, 2018

The List: The Post predicts what's in and out for 2019

Give praise! 2018 is over, and it took only about 27 years.


Wildfires raged; kids marched for their lives; families were separated at the border. Mueller investigated; Omarosa told all; Tillerson got dumped on Twitter. Kavanaugh and Ford spoke; the Queen of Soul and the maverick of the Senate passed; dragon energy permeated the Oval Office.



Throughout it all, the Bad Men list grew longer, engagements got shorter and regularly scheduled events — the Olympics! The World Cup! Combative presidential news conferences! — plodded along.




The List: The Post predicts what's in and out for 2019

Captain America and Captain Marvel aren't the only two battling for relevancy. Here's what else is out and in for 2019.

Sure, we got distracted. We humans always do. Arie proposed. Ari accepted. Stormy sued. Stormi debuted. But even that stuff made time’s march slow and painful. “Black Panther,” Yanni or Laurel, the royal wedding? All of that happened in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Eighteen. Trust us, we checked the dates. We have rapidly aged.

And just when we’ve figured out how to stomach all this news, here comes 2020, hurtling toward us like a tornado of Iowa double-bacon corn dogs. So grab the antacid and enjoy 2019 while you can, babies. It’ll last only a year.

THE TERM 'BANDERSNATCH' HAS QUITE THE HISTORY, INCLUDING EARLY MENTION IN 'BLACK MIRROR' SERIES

THE TERM 'BANDERSNATCH' HAS QUITE THE HISTORY, INCLUDING EARLY MENTION IN 'BLACK MIRROR' SERIES



The highly anticipated Bandersnatch trailer left Black Mirror fans with unanswered questions and speculations.



While the public will have to wait until Friday to find out what the Black Mirror creators have in store, somehow already figured out that the concept of a 1984 video game is nothing new. The term "Bandersnatch" was first mentioned in the series way back in season 3.


Bandersnatch also has quite a role in pop culture — outside of the Black Mirror world.

Most likely the first mentioning of this word was in Lewis Carroll’s novels Through the Looking Glass (1872) and The Hunting of the Shark (1874). 

The canine-like beast is described as ferocious and ominous – could we expect the same out of the Black Mirror-version?  

It’s not certain how much of an inspiration Carroll was for this feature-length special, however, it can be concluded that it is largely inspired by the real 1984 video game.

Image Software developers began created Bandersnatch in 1984, but it never saw the light of day.

The Liverpool-based company went broke just 18 months later, according to a Bustlereport. 

A Reddit user made the connection of Black Mirror's season 3 "Playtest" were a review of the video game "Bandersnatch" was seen on the front cover of Edge Magazine.

In the scene, Sonja uses the magazine to encourage Cooper to take the mysterious job with video game company SaitoGemu.


Despite the distinct ties in literary culture, there's no way to conclude how Black Mirror will transform the Bandersnatch until its premiere Friday. 

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There’s no better time than the holidays to give back to your community. Yesterday I got to do just that at @ChildrensHealth. As we celebrate the season and look forward to 2019, let’s recommit to doing our part to build a world that is a little more generous, tolerant, and kind.


Yesterday, Santa Obama stopped by @ChildrensHealth to spread a little Christmas cheer and remind us what the holiday season is all about—giving back to the communities that we call home: 

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CNN & others within the Fake News Universe were going wild about my signing MAGA hats for our military in Iraq and Germany. If these brave young people ask me to sign their hat, I will sign. Can you imagine my saying NO? We brought or gave NO hats as the Fake News first reported!