JERRY WOLKOFF BLOG-IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF, MY FATHER SAMUEL WOLKOFF, AND ALL THE OTHER VICTIMS OF INJUSTICE, EVIL IN THIS WORLD.THEY DIMINISH YOUR RIGHTS,THEN THEY DIMINISH YOUR EXISTENCE, THEN THEY LIE ABOUT IT, SAY YOU NEVER EXISTED, AND THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE FORGET THE SUFFERING THAT LASTS FOREVER, NEVER KNOWING THE TRUTH BY WHOSE HANDS, OR HOW YOU WERE KILLED.
The huge amount of undiscovered talent that exists in our world and is never discovered is truly sad. There are so many systemic barriers in the way of talented people who possess amazing skills in many different crafts.
The "System" is designed especially in the area of cinema to keep out new talent. What we are left with is often at best mediocre films, non existent scripts, and bad acting.
This "System" victimizes those who have talent, but do not have the "connections", lack financial backing, or simply are blocked out by the whims of the small incestuous, corrupt, egomaniac circle of those who control whether a movie or show is ever made.
I found myself truly impressed by this Corporate Whiskey Company's public relations and it's innovative initiative to help those who would never have a chance to get into the public mainstream.
Below I have placed the 3 winning short films for the 2012 year and the 3 that won in the current 2013 year.
I am not exaggerating when I tell you that these 6 films are beyond excellent!
Take a few minutes and watch these 10 minute short films and see the true artistic cinema, writing, acting skills in their originality.
It will make you feel as I do, how very important it is too recognize that within our midst, we have so much wasted talent, who if only given a chance, can contribute much positive energy to our world.
"LOVE'S ROUTINE"- WRITTEN BY SHIRLYN WONG & STARRING WILLIAM DAFOE
"SAVING NORMAN"- WRITTEN BY HANNEKE SCHUTTE & STARRING WILLIAM DAFOE
"THE SMILE MAN"- WRITTEN BY ANTON LANSHAKOV & STARRING WILLIAM DAFOE
"THE VENTRILOQUIST"- WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN LEAVITT & STARRING KEVIN SPACEY
"SPIRIT OF A DENTURE"- WRITTEN BY ALAN SHELLEY & STARRING KEVIN SPACEY
ENVELOPE-WRITTEN BY ALEKSEY NUZHNY & STARRING KEVIN SPACEY "ENVELOPE"- WRITTEN BY ALEKSEY NUZHNY &STARRING KEVIN SPACEY
Mr. Mujica come here and be the President of the United States.
You are the "richest" politician in the world. Save U.S. before we implode.
We will pay your airfare to fly here, salary is negotiable but will be more than your current wages, and we will even provide you with an excellent benefits package.
We need you. Save us!!!
Position open immediately.
OK- Something extra to seal the deal. We will even buy you a new, larger car for yourself and a personal bodyguard.
It's no secret to those who know me that I don't like flying in airplanes. While I do fly on a fairly regular basis, each trip requires on my part a process of letting go, of reaching the point on my flight departure date that I have made peace with the fact that my plane will crash, and when it doesn't, I am happily suprised. I do understand that in its simplest terms that airplanes are able to fly due to two primary principles that contribute to the creation of lift, which is what
makes flight possible. Those two principles are Bernoulli's Principle
and Newton's Third Law. Let's break it down and look at each principle
individually.
By definition, Bernoulli's Principle states: For an inviscid flow, an increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure. From a practical standpoint, this basically means that as a fluid (air,
water, etc) moves faster, it's internal pressure decreases. But how does this help an airplane create lift? Basically, the shaping of the wing
"fools" the air around it into thinking it is a long rotation cylinder,
and forces the air to travel faster over the top of the wing than that
of the bottom.
And according to Bernoulli's Principle, faster moving air
= lower pressure. If we have lower pressure on top of the wing than we
do on the bottom of the wing, we now have an inequality of pressures
acting on the wing. There is more pressure pushing up on the bottom of
the wing than there is on the top pushing down, which means we now have a
total net force pushing up and we have lift. Newton's 3rd Law
Newton's 3rd Law is defined as: To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
Airplane wings are fixed onto the airframe of the plane at a slight
angle. It may not be easy to see for the untrained eye, but upon a close
examination of an wing's attachment point to the body of a plane, one
will see a slight angle.
This angle creates a deflection of air
downward. As air hits the underside of the wing, even in
straight-and-level cruise flight, it is forced downward. And according
to Newton's 3rd Law, the forcing of the air downward causes an equal and
opposite upward force on the wing, thus contributing to the creation of
lift.
Makes sense. So what's the big deal about flying? Statistics show (Click Here) that flying is one of the safest things that you can do. If you are going to worry about dying, there are many more probable
ways to die than on a commercial jet.
Take a look at the chart below,
which shows the chance of fatalities on a commercial flight compared to
other causes of death in the United States. Notice that you are more likely to die from a bee sting
than from a commercial flight. The number one killer in the United
States is cardiovascular disease, with about eight hundred and
eighty-five thousand deaths per year. Each of us has about a fifty
percent (50%) chance of dying of cardiovascular disease.
Whenever we fly, we have a one one-hundred-thousandth of one percent (.000014%) chance of dying!
Odds of Death
DEATH BY: YOUR ODDS
Cardiovascular disease: 1 in 2
Smoking (by/before age 35): 1 in 600
Car trip, coast-to-coast: 1 in 14,000
Bicycle accident: 1 in 88,000
Tornado: 1 in 450,000
Train, coast-to-coast: 1 in 1,000,000
Lightning: 1 in 1.9 million
Bee sting: 1 in 5.5 million
U.S. commercial jet airline: 1 in 7 million
Sources: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley
Let me say, that all of the above sounds great, reads wonderful, and seems like a no brainer, but it does not help make better my dislike of flying. I hate flying and these statistics do nothing to change my feelings, Sure, you can walk out the door of your house and a piano can fall on your head, or lightning can strike you on a clear, sunny day. Life is one big crap shoot, but there is just something about airplanes that gives me the creeps. Let's start with the obvious point.
Nobody can be unaware that airplanes at 30,000 feet plus high do not always come gracefully and
gently into land when something goes wrong. I know, cars are much more dangerous at 55 mph, but they seem a lot more natural than airplanes. In real life this doesn't make any sense, I know the ugly true facts about the dangers of cars, those who drive them, Driving Under The Influence of Drugs (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). I really know what can and does horrifically happen much more frequently with cars and people than with airplanes. Today's Blog post is not about what what I should know, but one of those things we all have within ourselves that seems to make no sense, and why I can't seem to get rid of it. If something goes wrong
with an airplane, your options are severely limited. All the time before the
flight you have to think about the prospect of actually getting on the
airplane. I am not good with heights. I also expect to be in control somewhat of my ability to travel, while I am moving in space. I enjoy checking the oil, tire pressures, kicking the tires, filling the gas tank, doing the pre-trip maintenance check up, things that I am able to do with a car. It gives me a sense of feeling comfortable, a false sense for sure, but it works. In an airplane everything is done to
you in an airplane. You have to deal with the idiots at security and all of their self importance as they literally strip you bare.
Once on the airplane, you're imprisoned with all your fears. You are told
where to sit, when you must strap yourself in, which receptacle you
may be sick, and what to eat and drink. You can't get out,
or wind down the window, and half the time you don't even know what
time zone you're in. If you decide to sing to yourself, the person in
the next seat will probably elbow you in the ribs; and if your waking
hours clash with what is supposedly a night time flight, you may feel
obliged not to speak for ages. And then, when you've finally landed
safely, and may have to deal with the fact that your luggage has gone
to another continent, you have a miserable time at your destination,
thinking about how you've got to do it all again just to come home. LEAVING ON A JET PLANE-JOHN DENVER
Why this great, innocent song, you ask? Because the lyrics say that the guy is leaving on a jet
plane and he doesn’t know when he’ll be back again. Probably because
he’s dead. In the case of John Denver, he was ultimately killed flying an airplane he owned, not exactly reassuring. So, yes I hate to fly, but I do fly often, and am a reasonably "good flyer" because as I previously stated I have already come to terms with everything that can go wrong on the flight. In essence, I have relinquished control to whatever, whomever controls that which we have absolutely no input as to its outcome. Then there are the things that "they" don't want you to know.
Pilots falling asleep on the job (click here) is far more common than you might
expect. In one British Airline Pilots Association’s survey of 500
commercial pilots, 56 percent admitted to having fallen asleep on the
flight deck. Twenty-nine percent had woken up to find the other pilot
asleep.
Eighty-four percent said they believed their abilities had been
compromised by tirednessin the past six months. While this might seem like unacceptable behavior, it is also very
common.
The jet flew into Wisconsin, about 150 miles past Minneapolis, before turning back to land.
Air traffic controllers tried
frantically to reach them, pilot Richard Cole would not say just what it
was that led to them to forget to land Flight 188."We were not asleep; we were not having an argument; we were not having a fight," Cole told the AP. Air traffic controllers and pilots tried for more than an hour to contact Cole and the flight's captain, Timothy B.
Cheney, of Gig Harbor, Washington state, using radio, cell phone and
data messages.
On the ground, concerned officials alerted National Guard jets to
prepare to chase the airliner from two locations, though none of the
military planes left the runway.
As the plane flew at an altitude of 37,000 feet, a
flight attendant finally realizing that the trip was taking too long, called the cockpit on the jet's intercom system to ask when it
would arrive, the NTSB said.
Capt. Timothy Cheney, 53, told
investigators that only then did he look at his cockpit display and
realize he had flown past Minneapolis (surely it was at that moment he woke up from his deep sleep when the flight attendant used the intercom). Aviation safety experts and other pilots were deeply skeptical
they could have become so distracted that they forgot to
land an airplane carrying 144 passengers. The most likely possibility,
they said, is that both pilots simply fell asleep somewhere along their
route from San Diego. The many safety checks built
into the aviation system to prevent incidents like this one or to
correct them quickly, apparently were ineffective until the very end.
Not only couldn't air traffic controllers and other pilots raise the
Northwest pilots for an hour, but the airline's dispatcher should have
been trying to reach them as well. The three flight attendants on board
should have questioned why there were no preparations for landing being
made. Brightly lit cockpit displays/alarms should have warned the pilots it was
time to land.
Here in the U.S., the FAA does not legally allow pilots to nap
in the cockpit, but they have acknowledged they understand the value of
catching a cat nap. In fact, a NASA/FAA study demonstrated the
effectiveness of a brief in-flight nap in improving subsequent alertness
and performance. According to the study, “a planned brief in-flight nap
would be an operational strategy that directly reduces the
physiological sleepiness engendered by flight operations.”
One pilot even acknowledged that cat naps are quite common.
"It’s not legal, but as long as you don’t do something
wrong—like overshoot your landing—it’s actually safer. You can look at
the other guy and say if you need 10 minutes….it really brings you back
to life."
Oh, in case, you think that the airplanes gas tanks are fully filled so it could fly safely beyond it's destination, there is something else happening now instead to wake you up:
Guess what-Airlines don't want you to know- That they Are Skimping on Fuel
Airline cost-cutting measures are getting extreme. Gasoline for cars is expensive, but jet fuel is extremely costly. Some airlines are
reportedly flying with less than recommended fuel levels in an effort to
save money, according to a scary report (Click Here) by Spanish safety investigators. The report focuses on budget airline Ryanair, which is no stranger to cutting corners. Take this case (Click Here), in which the airline instructed its pilots to fly slower in order to save fuel. Your Plane Is Filthy
With planes flying on tighter schedules than ever before, there's
often no time for cleaning before a flight is turned around for the next
group of passengers. Since cold and influenza viruses can live for days
on surfaces, planes can become germ hotbeds.
Watch out for seat pockets
(where sick passengers may stash dirty tissues), tray tables (a study found that
60 percent of tray tables tested harbored the "superbug" MRSA), and
airplane blankets (which are only washed every five to 30 days, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal). Pack antibacterial wipes and hope for the best. I won't even get into the pilots who fly stoned on drugs and or alcohol. I know there are all types of random, sophisticated drug testing done today that would prevent this. I am sure it works efficiently and is nothing to be concerned about, sure, just like all the backup systems that were in place, but didn't work, which were designed to wake up the two Northwest Airline pilots.
Here's to safe traveling!
IS IT THIS- UP UP AND AWAY?
OR IS IT GONNA BE - THIS UP UP AND AWAY-SOMEONE WAKE UP!
Members of Congress will be paid during the government shutdown as required by the Constitution.
More than 800,000 federal workers were sent home without pay on
Tuesday as the government shut down for the first time in nearly two
decades.
For the 535 members of Congress, however, the paychecks
will keep coming no matter how long the shutdown lasts.
The
Constitution's 27th Amendment stipulates that the salaries of the House
and Senate cannot change until a congressional election has come and
gone.
The fact that the people who have forced the shutdown are
still being paid has rankled plenty of Americans. Some members of
Congress, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, the Tea Party darling from
Texas, has pledged to donate his salary to charity during the shutdown.
Rep. Peter King, R-Seaford, NY, said that's just "a stunt" by "millionaire Senators."
King, one of just five House Republicans to vote against the final spending measure Monday night that pushed the government to shut down, said he deserves to be paid.
"If
I was the one running around saying the government should shut down,
that's one thing," he said. "I'm the one that is trying to keep it open.
So if anyone should get his paycheck, it's me."
How convenient. Politicians state that it's the law which requires them to get paid during the current Government shutdown.
In particular this is vomitatious coming from the Republicans since they forced the shutdown of our Government.
Just as hypocritical are the GOP politicians citing the law and the Constitution as reasons that they have to be paid their already excessive salaries for not doing any work.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the Affordable Health Care Act (AKA "Obamacare"), this Act is the law, and has been upheld as legal by the Supreme Court of the United States.
The LAWS mean nothing to Republicans if they disagree with it. This is totally obscene and not part of the core beliefs that comprise land of the free America they supposedly profess to love.
The Daily News of New York said it be best:
Whether you agree with a law or not, no matter your political persuasion, when a law is legally passed, it must be respected in a Democracy.
Elections decide issues by putting those in Congress to represent the people of the United States. If you don't agree with the laws, elect different politicians.
Apparently the GOP thinks they are special and can ignore the majority of voters. The Republicans are losers, unable and incapable of understanding that you can't always get what you want in the process of living in a Democracy. In the end they have now crossed over the line of no return, and will be held accountable by the American people for their traitorous, Un-American actions.
What's next in our Banana Republic? Does the GOP want to try recounting the popular and electoral votes of the Presidential election where a majority vote of more than 4 million American people elected President Obama who clearly whipped Romney's ass.
This is what I think about all of Congress continuing to get their salary:
If they weren't going to get paid, this would not happen. They work for us and they have forgotten that.
Their pay should be first to go. What a difference the outcome would be.
If we don't do our jobs we get fired--enough said!
I didn't elect any of them. If their salaries were in jeopardy they would of got the job done.
They
should be fired...the same way anyone else would be for not showing up
to work! It's unacceptable behavior...yet we accept it!
Congressmen
should be treated like everybody else. Take away their pay!!!
I feel
so sad for this country.
Well, of course the Congressmen still get paid. Why should they suffer? Disgusting!!!
We the American people are the victims & will suffer.
Politicians only care about their own selfish ambitions, careers, and themselves. None of them gives a rats ass about the citizens of the United States.
Affordable Health Care for All Americans is not even the real issue. The GOP hates President Obama and will do anything to screw him, by screwing all of us. This is not even politics at it worst, it is pure evil, and getting even worse.
Congress gets paid their salary for life with health benefits when they retire. They are taken care of and set for life with their own Affordable Health Care Plan. Why would any rational American believe anything that comes out of a politicians mouth, in particular a Republican's?
Congress has an approval rating of 10 per cent. Who are these mysterious 10 percent, their relatives?
What a circus of clowns, seriously, these morons are our "leaders".
Truly a huge shit load of buffoons inhabit Congress!!!
Republicans need to take the advice of the sagely Philosophers "The Rolling Stones" and accept their holy, wise words in the song below: YOU CAN"T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
The United States Congress is back in session on Capitol Hill, which should be renamed to "Capitol Hole", such as in a toilet cesspool hole. America needs to rally. Jobs are scarce, incomes are falling, and Congress could help, but there are no bold new bipartisan ideas, the nation's legislators have done nothing except argue.
Instead the Civil War continues in Washington, no one there really wants a solution, and no one there will shut up about threatening the shut down of the government. The circus of clowns known as Congress are back at it once again, doing nothing but moving their dumb mouths for media photo ops, all the while making fools of themselves.
C'mon "distinguished" members of Congress, we have had enough of your nursery school games. Could you all please shut up or shut down, just do whatever it is that you do.
But alas, they will keep jousting with each other for political points gained or lost in the polls. The GOP-controlled House voted this past week to cripple President Barack
Obama's health care law as part of a risky ploy that threatens a
government shutdown on October 1st, 2013.
In order for the debt ceiling of the government to be set, the budget to be passed, they added on the defunding of the health care act as an amendment. The Speaker of the House
says there's nothing to worry about here. "There should be no conversation about shutting the government down. Our
goal here is to cut spending and to protect the American people from
Obamacare. There is no interest in our part of shutting the government
down," said Speaker of the House John Boehner. So says Mr. Boehner and you can trust him because well, he's a politician who is here to "protect the American People". Gee thanks, gosh , that means us, apparently we the American people need Congress to protect us, especially from Capitol Hole. But you see Mr. Boehner you're attaching, to the bill that must be passed to keep
the government running, an amendment that torpedoes the president's
Affordable Care Act. And you're sending it to a Senate run by Democrats.
"I'm not going to predict what the Senate is going to do or not do," said Boehner.
No, you can never tell with those Senate Democrats. They're such inscrutable tight-lipped people when it comes to Republicans. The rhetoric is designed for the dumbed down American Public that keeps electing these idiots because they believe in the bull shit being shoveled at them by the even dumber mindless media. House Republicans are like Custer, they will fight no matter that their bill will be defeated by the Senate Democrats. You can never figure out what any of these "distinguished Congress persons" are actually thinking, but Democrats strongly denounced the Republican move.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of
New York said the GOP was pursuing an "insane plan." Sen. Amy Klobuchar
of Minnesota said, "A group of extremists is threatening to hold our
government hostage."
What a surprise reaction?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the real future of America is all a silly game to these politicians. It's all about them, not us. So I suggest, if Congress is really going to run the same plot every two years, at least mix it up. Maybe instead of the Republicans attaching the repeal of Obamacare to
the budget, the Democrats could attach the repeal of the Second
Amendment to the budget.
Then we could go back and forth, linking the budget to the Keystone
Pipeline, school prayer, abortion rights, global warming, legalized marijuana, selling
flowers to couples getting gay married, the theory of Evolution, or daylight saving time. The possibilities are endless for the games to continue. No doubt they will, and of course the losers will always be the American people, because the real issues facing us are never discussed.
In loving memory of you, we have placed a legacy
memorial stone about your life in the front plaza at the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
This legacy stone is an eternal testimony to Steven
Nathaniel Wolkoff, his genius as a person, a uniquely gifted musician, and an artist
of many crafts.
Your stone is located in South Section, Disc Track 2.
I wish you everlasting peace my beloved son Steven. I deeply miss you every moment of each day and night.
Keep a fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must have thought you'd always be around Always keeping things real by playing the clown Now you're nowhere to be found
I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round Crying as they ease you down 'cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing Dancing our sorrow away No matter what fate chooses to play there's nothing you can do about it anyway
Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
Memories sneak up on me way too often these days.
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know
