This City

"This City" is a song by Australian recording artist Sam Fischer. The song was recorded in 2017 and was released on 18 January 2019 as the third and final single from Fischer's debut EP Not a Hobby.[1][2] Fisher said "I wrote this with James Michael Robbins and Jackson Morgan on a day when I felt pretty damn defeated by LA. Change is really hard, but so important. This is my experience, one that almost everyone goes through, hope it helps in some way."[3]

This City

Indeed, police officers testified that "The Zone is off-limits to [law] enforcement," which led to a "dramatic increase in violent crime" as well as a "biohazard," due to the discharge of sewage in the streets. The judge ordered the city to remove illegal structures in the area and gave it until July 10 to prove that it had eliminated the nuisance.

The remix was later released as Soul Punk's first single as a digital download to iTunes on July 26, 2011 was also available as the iTunes "Free Single of the Week" from August 26 for seven days.[10] With this exposure, Stump's Truant Wave EP re-entered the Top 100 albums on iTunes.[11] With airplay from Top 40 radio stations, the song has been steadily rising on the charts and became Stump's first charting single. "This City" (remix) debuted at No. 33 on Billboard's Pop Songs chart the week of September 24, over a month after its digital availability.[12][13] The following week it rose to a new peak of No. 31, then rose to No. 30 the next and entered the Heatseekers Songs at No. 17.[14] After that, it placed at No. 27 on Pop Songs (fourth week), and at No. 16 in its second Heatseekers Songs week. The subsequent week of October 22 saw a new peak at No. 25 on Pop Songs and No. 14 on Heatseekers Songs. The week of October 29 saw the remix drop to No. 29 on Pop Songs in its sixth week, with radio play declining, however it rose to its Heatseekers peak of No. 13 that week, its fourth on that chart. The week after, also Soul Punk's debut, it again fell to No. 32 on Pop and down to No. 17 on Heatseekers. In the US iTunes Store, the remix peaked inside the Top 100 songs chart when it was released and re-entered the Top 100 when the music video came out.[15] About.com ranked "This City" featuring Lupe Fiasco No. 10 on their Top 10 Hot Pop Songs chart for the week ending September 6, 2011.[16]

A music video for the remix has been released, directed by Ken Koller. On September 13, Patrick Stump announced that the music video for "This City" (remix) would premiere on September 20 on Vevo with a teaser on Idolator.[17][18] Prior to that he Tweeted about the video in the making[19] and a behind-the-scenes clip was reported by MTV on their website.[20] The video features Stump dancing and performing the song in a room with flashing lights, projections and heavy use of special effects, alternating with brief grayscale flashes of a city. Despite not being available at first, Lupe Fiasco appears for one scene by himself. Stump and Koller made the video simplistic to let the music do the talking rather than the video.[20]

"There's not really a plot, there's not really a story to it. The song's called 'This City,' and it describes a lot of these images in a city, and I feel like those images are already there; it would be kind of redundant to take a camera into a city; it's almost like the colors and the lights and the images that are going to be around this are going to be representing the life in a city. One thing that Ken and I were talking about is that a city is so complicated, so ... we wanted to do something a bit different with it, and a bit more abstract [...] the treatment was really funny to look at; it was literally one sentence, like 'Patrick stands in a room and sings and we project all these images and lights on the walls.'" -- Stump, reported by MTV.[20]

"You know, we told you so," he says. "We told you where it was headed. We told you...what was valued by this police department and what's not valued when it came to police work. So that's what The Wire showed you. Fifteen years later, along comes the story and says, yeah, it went there, and it's worse."

The series' story often jumps back in time, showing Jenkins as young officer learning that what was expected by their superiors and training officers was often very different than the lessons taught in the police academy."In the academy, they teach you constitutional policing...then as soon as they go out, [a superior says] 'Everything you just learned is b***s***, this is Baltimore,'" Pelecanos says. "We talked to police who told us that's exactly what happened to them. They were told to throw out everything they had learned that was correct...It's kind of a tragedy."Viewers see a sad progression of tactics. First, officers arrest everyone on the streets in high crime areas, hoping to bring murder and shooting rates down just by clearing everyone out. Eventually, members of Jenkins' task force wind up stopping people on trumped-up pretexts to search their vehicles, take whatever cash they find and even take their apartment keys to ransack their homes.

One telling detail from the series: Courts were shown struggling to seat juries, as large numbers of potential jurors admitted they or someone they knew had been in situations where police lied about their conduct.Simon sums up the show's lessons tartly: "We have to end the drug war. We have to change the mission, because it's not policing, it's attacking...All this mass incarceration accomplished exactly nothing. But it did destroy law enforcement and corrupted it. So we have to change that. And until we do, nothing good is going to happen."

Jenkins was a member of the Baltimore police department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a plain-clothed unit tasked with finding guns and drugs in bulk in a bid to tackle the city's high murder rate, only for them to become corrupt themselves.

"David and George are absolute heroes of mine; The Wire was [one of] my favourite shows of all time. I grew up in DC, which is in close proximity to Baltimore, so I was captivated by the authenticity of the storytelling they achieved in the show."

Bernthal also went on to praise director Reinaldo Marcus Green, who he first worked with in King Richard, as he added: "Being able to [work] with artists that I believe in so much, and even more so this man that I believe in so much, that I trust so much, that I love so much.

"He would come to set and say, 'oh, yeah, Jenkins always wanted to drive' or 'he always did this or he always did that.' It wasn't in my research, it was in his, and he just went at it, he was Jenkins."

"But I just personally can't be a part of anything that doesn't have something to say, this has a lot to say, and I only want to be a part of things that have something to say. So, ultimately that's what drives me to wanting to be a part of these kinds of stories and hopefully we did it some justice."

I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.

What is true of this city is true of Germany--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.

When Singapore became independent in 1965, we were a city filled with slums, choked with congestion, where rivers became open sewers, and we were struggling to find decent jobs for our people. We had limited land and no natural resources. In the short span of 50 years, we have built a clean, modern metropolis with a diversified economy and reliable infrastructure. Our public housing program has transformed us from a nation of squatters to a nation of homeowners: More than 90 percent of our people own their homes, one of the highest home-ownership rates in the world. 041b061a72