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Friday 26th of February 2021
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Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West, "Once upon a time (there was) the West") is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone Misc. |
The film features long, slow scenes with very little dialogue and little happening, broken by brief and sudden violence.
Leone was far more interested in the rituals preceding violence than in the violence itself.
The tone of the film is consistent with the arid semidesert in which the story unfolds, and imbues it with a feeling of realism that contrasts with the elaborately choreographed gunplay.
Leone liked to tell the story of a cinema in Paris where the film ran uninterrupted for two years.
When he visited this theater, he was surrounded by fans who wanted his autograph, as well as the projectionist, who was less than enthusiastic.
Leone claimed the projectionist told him, "I kill you! The same movie over and over again for two years! And it's so SLOW!"[13]
Fonda did not accept Leone's first offer to play Frank, so Leone flew to New York to convince him, telling him:
"Picture this: the camera shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running child. The camera tilts up to the gunman's face and… it's Henry Fonda."
After meeting with Leone, Fonda called his friend Eli Wallach, who had co-starred in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Wallach advised Fonda to do the film, telling him "You will have the time of your life."
When he accepted the role, Fonda came to the set with brown contact lenses and facial hair.
Fonda felt having dark eyes and facial hair would blend well with his character's evil, and also help the audience to accept this "new" Fonda as the bad guy, but Leone immediately told him to remove the contacts and facial hair.
Leone felt that Fonda's blue eyes best reflected the cold, icy nature of the killer. It was one of the first times in a Western film where the villain was played by the lead actor.
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08-FEB-2021 If you have a "normal" pandemic that is fading, but a "British variant" that is surging, the combined total can look like a flat, manageable situation. @spignal Misc. |
We are at peak vaccine euphoria
Global covid19 cases [are] falling at just under 2%/day @video4me
No one wants to think that
If you have a "normal" pandemic that is fading, but a "British variant" that is surging, the combined total can look like a flat, manageable situation. @spignal
They fancied themselves free, wrote Camus, ―and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.
We've updated our preprint on the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01, aka B.1.1.7, with new statistical and modelling methods.
Headline: we estimate VOC is 43–82% more transmissible than preexisting variants.
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Data from #Covid19 worldwide on February 24: + 443,429 cases in 24 hours, i.e. 112,553,978 in total @CovidTracker_fr Misc. |
Data from #Covid19 worldwide on February 24: + 443,429 cases in 24 hours, i.e. 112,553,978 in total + 11,973 deaths in 24 hours, i.e. 2,498,203 in total
Conclusions
See the Turn higher
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Ethiopia: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity @amnesty Africa |
Amnesty International interviewed 41 survivors and witnesses to mass killings in November
Troops carried out extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and widespread looting
Satellite imagery analysis shows evidence consistent with new burial sites
Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern city of Axum on 28-29 November 2020, opening fire in the streets and conducting house-to-house raids in a massacre that may amount to a crime against humanity, Amnesty International said
Witnesses could easily identify the Eritrean forces. They drove vehicles with Eritrean license plates, wore distinctive camouflage and footwear used by the Eritrean army and spoke Arabic or a dialect of Tigrinya not spoken in Ethiopia.
Some bore the ritual facial scars of the Ben Amir, an ethnic group absent from Ethiopia.
Finally, some of the soldiers made no secret of their identity; they openly told residents they were Eritrean.
On 29 November, Eritrean soldiers shot at anyone who tried to move the bodies of those killed.
The soldiers also continued to carry out house-to-house raids, hunting down and killing adult men, as well as some teenage boys and a smaller number of women.
One man said he watched through his window and saw six men killed in the street outside his house on 29 November.
He said the soldiers lined them up and shot from behind, using a light-machine gun to kill several at a time with a single bullet.
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@PMEthiopia has launched an unwinnable War on Tigray Province. Africa |
Ethiopia which was once the Poster child of the African Renaissance now has a Nobel Prize Winner whom I am reliably informed
PM Abiy His inner war cabinet includes Evangelicals who are counseling him he is "doing Christ's work"; that his faith is being "tested". @RAbdiAnalyst
@PMEthiopia has launched an unwinnable War on Tigray Province.
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KenGen Kenya reports HY Earnings EPS 0.77 versus 1.24 N.S.E Equities - Industrial & Allied |
Par Value: 2.50/-
Closing Price: 4.70
Total Shares Issued: 6243873667.00
Market Capitalization: 29,346,206,235
EPS: 2.79
PE: 1.685
KenGen HY Earnings through 31st December 2020 versus through December 2019
HY Revenue 21.801b versus 22.361b
HY Revenue net of reimbursable expenses 20.567b versus 18.914b +9%
HY Depreciation and Amortisation [5.738b] [5.708b]
HY Steam Costs [1.527b] versus [1.661b]
HY Operating Expenses [5.825b] versus [5.569b]
HY Operating Profit 7.275b versus 6.700b
HY Finance Income 829m versus 723m
HY Finance Costs [1.232b] versus [1.145b]
HY Profit Before Tax 6.872b versus 6.278b
HY Income Tax Expense [1.817b] versus +1.892b
HY Profit After Tax 5.055b versus 8.170b
HY EPS 0.77 versus 1.24
Balance as at 31st December 10.793b versus 5.229b
Commentary
Energy Unit Sales increased by 5% for the half Year ended 31st Dec 2020
Peak Electricity Demand 1976 MW during the period versus 1882 MW
Energy Sales from Hydro increased to 51% versus 40% [4.807b versus 4.474b]
Thermal generation declined from 6% to 2%
Total Revenue declined by 3%
Geothermal Revenue increased by 14% [14.056b versus 12.280b]
Conclusions
Solid results however There was no repeat of the Income Tax benefit
HY Income Tax Expense [1.817b] versus +1.892b
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Kenya Power & Lighting Company Ltd reports HY 2020 EPS 0.07 versus 0.35 N.S.E Equities - Industrial & Allied |
Par Value: 20/-
Closing Price: 1.42
Total Shares Issued: 1951467045.00
Market Capitalization: 2,771,083,204
EPS: 0.13
PE: 10.923
The energy company in charge of national transmission, distribution and retail of electricity throughout Kenya.
Half Year Results through 31st December 2020 versus 31st December 2019
HY Revenue 69.014b versus 69.607b
HY Cost of Sales [45.578b] [45.516b]
HY Gross Margin 23.436b versus 24.091b
HY [Transmission and distribution costs] [18.675b] versus [22.977b]
HY Operating Profit 8.330b versis 4.914b
HY Finance Costs [8.057b] versus [3.835b]
HY Profit before Tax 332m versus 1.139b
HY Profit after Tax 138m versus 692m
HY EPS 0.07 versus 0.35
Cash and Cash Equivalents 1.723b versus [6.004b]
Commentary
Electricity sales grew marginally +0.7% from 4,167 GWh recorded in 2019 to 4,196 GWh in period under review
sharp decline in energy consumption at the onset of COVID19 pandemic
Transmission and distribution costs decreased to 18.675b from 22.977b
Finance Costs increased to 8.057b from 3.835b due to depreciation of Shilling leading to an unrealised FX Loss
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East African Portland Cement Company reports HY 2020 Earnings here N.S.E Equities - Industrial & Allied |
Par Value: 5/-
Closing Price: 9.50
Total Shares Issued: 90000000.00
Market Capitalization: 855,000,000
EPS: -30.77
PE: -0.309
A key provider of Cement and Cement products in Kenya for over 70 years.
East African Portland Cement reports HY Earnings through 31st Dec 2020 versus through 31st Dec 2019
HY Revenue 1.389511b versus 1.483572b
HY Cost of Sales [1.723828b] versus [1.797456b]
HY Gross Loss [334.317m] versus [313.884m]
Admin and Selling Expenses [540.541m] versus [1.074954b]
HY Loss from Operating Activities [836.656m] versus [1.383242b]
HY Loss Before Tax [1.105987b] versus [1.634979b]
HY Loss After Tax [1.035339b] versus [1.575403b]
HY EPS [11.36] versus [17.55]
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