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The dataset generation failed
Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 94
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 94
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Tag: Robert Pattinson
Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan)
January 13, 2021 by Brandon·Comments Off on Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan)
My notes include things like “Ives leads red team splinter group to recover algorithm,” which didn’t even make sense at the time, so I’m skipping the attempted plot summary of this cinematic Sator square. Branagh is an arms dealer helping execute attacks from the future, smuggling in reverse-kinetic objects and backwards-moving people. His abused wife is Debicki, the helpless woman only concerned for her child’s safety while the real men do all the work. Those men are serious spy-dude Washington and his chill buddy Pattinson. Bits of exposition via Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Martin Donovan! I took some advice and just watched the hell out of this (with subtitles) without insisting that it make any sense – though I guessed early on that anyone half-glimpsed in the first half of the movie would turn out to be our reversed heroes in the second half – and had a good time. It never stops talking utter nonsense for 150 minutes, and none of the action scenes were as impressive as expected. Michael Sicinski on Patreon: “But then again, I’ve never seen a building un-blow-up on the top, only to re-blow-up on the bottom. That was cool.”
The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers)
December 9, 2019 by Brandon·Comments Off on The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers)
Watching The Shallows, I was delighted that Blake Lively and the movie allow their injured seagull to survive to the end, but now I realize this avian assistance was the key to Blake’s survival, because Rob Pattinson’s luck turns bad when he cruelly murders an injured gull, and after a descent into pain and horror and madness, he ends up gull food. Let these sister films be warnings to any who would wish harm to our seagull friends.
Eggers sounds like a delightful interview subject:
My understanding is that they were rescue birds that were injured and rehabilitated, and after that rehabilitation couldn’t really survive back in the wild again. So giving them things to do makes them happy. So they were very eager to learn how to fly on a windowsill, peck a windowpane three times, and jump off, and then get a little food reward. Actually the seagulls were incredibly easy to work with, unlike a certain black goat that, I mean, I have no fond memories of working with.
Set in 1890ish Maine, Rob Pattinson is on the run under another man’s name, spilling his beans to crusty old Willem Dafoe, as the two of them tend a lighthouse for a season. Unclear how much time passes, or what is real vs. hallucinated, but it’s all very beautifully shot, and if this Eggers makes another dark film about witches or lighthouses I will go see it.
Good Time (2017, Safdies)
September 28, 2017 by Brandon·Comments Off on Good Time (2017, Safdies)
I didn’t enjoy Heaven Knows What, but this Safdie follow-up is splashed across the covers of all three film magazines I subscribe to, so I went out all by myself (does nobody else in this town read the magazines?) to sit too close to the screen and watch a movie where everything is shot too close-up. Felt like maybe a bad idea, and I’m not always a fan of electro music scores, and I was already aware of certain accusations against the movie, but against all odds, it’s… extremely good. The nervous energy from the close camerawork and pulsing electro plus all the lurid colors and frantic performances add up to a… not a good time exactly, but a hell of a ride.
The only time the title is spoken in the movie is by Nick’s psychiatrist. The doctor is a white-haired nemesis to Connie, conspiring to restrict his brother’s freedom, appearing early in the movie’s trailer as Connie talks about “the program [Nick] is forced to attend and how he shouldn’t be there.” We see Nick going to prison in the trailer, getting beaten as his brother races against time to rescue him, then as images of violence flicker across the screen faster and faster the psychiatrist reappears: “This place where we are now can be a lot of fun if you let it. You’re gonna have a good time,” then the title sears across the screen. It feels like this wicked psychiatrist is taking advantage of helpless Nick, the title a bitterly ironic reference to the bad time Nick is gonna have in his evil institution. In the movie itself, it took me a couple scenes to shake this idea, since the psychiatrist seems harmless and Nick is the one getting his brother into trouble then trying to get him back out, in a rapidly escalating series of near-successes. Connie is (argh) a con-man, an expert manipulator, and we follow him as our would-be protagonist, the movie barely giving us time to contemplate the havoc he’s leaving behind him, until the deep-breath relief of the ending. In fact, the title is supposed to be a reference to getting reduced prison sentence for good behavior (Connie and Nick are both fresh out of prison) and the end of the film shows the psychiatrist actually helping Nick after his villain brother is sent away.
The first thing we see after Connie “rescues” his brother from the institute is a bank robbery, wearing dark-skin masks and getting hilariously foiled by a dye pack. In the ensuing chase, Nick smashes through a window and gets busted, and Connie fails to bail him out with Jennifer Jason Leigh’s cancelled credit card. Connie then breaks the wrong guy out of the hospital – a plot twist I saw coming but dismissed as too ludicrous-obvious – then teams up with him (Ray: Buddy Duress, Holmes’s buddy in Heaven Knows What) to make quick cash for bail money. Ray was busted at an amusement park, and stashed a sprite bottle full of pure liquid LSD and possibly some money, so they trick underage Crystal into giving them a ride there, fuck with the security guard, and everyone gets arrested except Connie and Ray, who escape with the LSD-soda to the guard’s apartment, where Ray calls his dealer and finally things go wrong.
J. Safdie on the controvery:
I don’t think Connie is a racist. I think that he just knows how society functions. He knows that society is racist.
Brian Tallerico:
Connie makes choices instantly, and one gets the impression that it’s an instinctual ability that has helped him at times but will only prove his downfall on this particular night … Pattinson perfectly conveys the nervous energy of being essentially hunted by your own bad decisions without ever feeling like he’s chewing scenery.
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2010 Poppies Awards – TC Kirkham, Subject:CINEMA
THE OFFICIAL AWARDS
TC’S BAKERS DOZEN FOR 2010
CITY ISLAND
IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY
MY DOG TULIP
WELCOME TO THE RILEYS
Tom Hooper, The Kings’ Speech
BEST ACTOR (tie)
(tie) Ben Mendelsohn, Animal Kingdom
(tie) Keir Gilchrist, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Geoffrey Rush, The Kings’ Speech
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST (tie)
City Island – Andy Garcia, Julianna Margules, Steven Strait, Ezra Miller, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Emily Mortimer
The Kids Are All Right – Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson, Mark Ruffalo
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCES, MALE
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
Aaron Johnson, Kick-Ass and Nowhere Boy
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCES, FEMALE
Britt Robertson, Cherry
Rooney Mara, The Social Network
BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE
Chloe Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass & Let Me In
BEST ON-SCREEN TEAM
Aaron Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicholas Cage, Kick-Ass
BEST CAMEO
Wallace Langham and Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
BEST SEMI-CAMEO
Alan Arkin, City Island
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (tie)
Lixin Fan, Last Train Home
Danny Cohen, The King’s Speech
BEST ANIMATED FILM
BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE
Christopher Plummer, My Dog Tulip
BEST ANIMATED SEQUENCE IN A NON-ANIMATED FILM
“Craig’s Map” from “It’s Kind Of A Funny Story”
A Film Unfinished, Yael Hersonski, Director/Writer
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Kick-Ass (We Are Young) by Mika
Hans Zimmer, Inception
BEST USE OF AN INDIVIDUAL SONG
“Where Is My Mind” by Maxence Cyrin, “It’s Kind Of A Funny Story”
BEST POP SOUNDTRACK
BEST MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
“Under Pressure” from It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
BEST FIGHT SCENE
The Anti-Gravity Hotel Fight, Inception
BEST BATTLE SCENE
The Horse Siege, The Warlords
BEST SCENE-STEALERS
(tie) Ezra Miller, City Island
(tie) The Minions, Despicable Me
(tie) John Malkovich, Secretariat & Red
BEST POPCORN MOVIE
MOST FUN AT A MOVIE
Birdemic: Shock And Terror
BEST ONE LINER
The Wit and Wisdom of Vince Rizzo Jr – THE REMIX – City Island
MOST PLEASANT SURPRISE
The A-Team – right on the money!
BIGGEST DISAPPOINMENT
BEST FILM YOU HAVEN’T SEEN
MOST INFECTIOUS AUDIENCE LAUGH
Jack Rebney’s Outtakes reel, Winnebago Man
MOST ANNOYING TREND
The continued bashing of internet critics and their growing influence by the so-called critical thinking press, i.e. Armond White of NYFCC and his brethren
MOO HAHA BEST VILLIAN – MALE OR FEMALE
Jeremy Renner, The Town
AUDIOVISIONARY AWARD
Mike Schneider and Neo Flux Productions, Night Of The Living Dead Reanimated
for their contribution to animation as surrealism
Animal Logic, for their continuing work in the field of unbelievable nature-realistic animal animation in Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole
2010 HAT TRICK AWARD –
Dame Helen Mirren for her string of movies between September & December: Red, Legends Of The Guardians, The Tempest
THE UNOFFICIAL AWARDS
The Most Refreshing Supercouple on screen
Jules and Nic (Julianne Moore & Annette Bening), The Kids Are All Right
The “Outrageous Behaviour Will Always Boomarang On You, Young Man” award
Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin), Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
The “Little Engine That Could” award for pure tenacity
Penny Chenery (Diane Lane), Secretariat
The MPAA “Who’s A Naughty Boy Then?” Award for excessive on-screen smoking
John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) and friends, Nowhere Boy
The “Silver Dick” Karma Award
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer), The Social Network
The Alfred E. Newman “What, Me Worry?” award
Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Let Me In
The J.R. Ewing “Superiority Complex” award
Mark Zuckerburg (Jesse Eisenberg), The Social Network
The “Are You For Real?” Award
Therry Guette, Exit Through The Gift Shop
The “What did you expect, it’s a DOG” award
J.R. Ackerly (voice of Christopher Plummer), My Dog Tulip
The Jack The Ripper memorial Serial Killer award
Lou Ford (Casey Affleck), The Killer Inside Me
The “Scary Dark Alley” Award (as in I would NEVER want to be caught in a dark alley with this guy…)
Jim Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), The Town
The Most well adjusted potential delinquent of the year
Laser (Josh Hutcherson), The Kids Are All Right
The most maladjusted juvenile delinquent of the year
Beth (Britt Robertson), Cherry
The “I’m Happy Just The Way I Am, You Blankey Blank Mother Blank” award
Jack Rebney, Winnebago Man
The “This Blood bond was tainted from the very beginning” award
Qingyun, Wuyang, and Erhu (Jet Li, Takashi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau), The Warlords
The “So close to real it’s scary” Award for best resemblance to a real person
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie (Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning), The Runaways
The Ultimate Control Freak award
Mrs. Milton (Stephanie Vinditto), Cherry
The “I’m still not sure I believe this whole thing, but don’t you just LOVE HER?” award
Mallory (Kristen Stewart), Welcome To The Rileys
The “Awww, how can you hate this guy?” Award for the most likeable on-screen bad guy in history
Gru, Despicable Me
The “Excuse me Doctor” award for the most sarcastic pseudo-hypocondriac of the year
Vince Rizzo Jr (Ezra Miller), City Island
The “Whattayameanigottawait” award
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part One
The “Yeah, Right” Award for the most unrealistic portrayal of a hooker in 2010
Megan Fox, Jonah Hex
The “Talk about taking the law into your own hands” Award
Detective LT Leckie (Guy Pearce), Animal Kingdom
The “Who Says Getting Older Slows You Down” award
Frank Moses, Marvin Boggs, Joe Matheson, and Victoria Winslow (Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, and Dame Helen Mirren), Red
2010 Rosies Awards – PopcornNRoses/Subject Cinema
Presented by Kim Brown
Kim’s Top 10 Movies of 2010
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
Official Awards
Best Picture: “City Island”
Best Animated Film: “Despicable Me:
Best Documentary: “Last Train Home”
Most Overlooked Movie: “Cherry”
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, “Inception”
Best Actor: Ben Affleck, “The Town” (as Doug MacRay)
Best Actress: Julianne Moore, “The Kids Are All Right” (as Jules)
Best Supporting Actor: Joseph Gordon-Levit, “Inception” (as Arthur)
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, “Welcome to the Rileys” (as Lois Riley)
Best Ensemble Cast: “Animal Kingdom”
Breakthrough Performance (Male): Kyle Galner, Ben Barnes
Breakthrough Performance (Female): Mia Wasikowska, Chole Grace Mortiz
Best On-Screen Team: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
Best Cameo(s): Dirk Benedict & Dwight Schultz, “The A-Team”
Best Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski, “Alice in Wonderland”
Best Voice Performance: Christopher Plummer in “My Dog Tulip” (as J.R. Ackerly)
Best Original Song: “Alice”, performed by Avril Lavinge, “Alice in Wonderland”
Best Original Score: Hans Zimmer, “Inception”
Best Pop/Rock Soundtrack: “The Runaways”
Best Musical Performance: “Black Swan”, original score by Pyotir Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Best Popcorn Movie: “The Losers”
Most Fun At A Movie: “The A-Team”
Most Pleasant Surprise: “Secretariat”
Biggest Disappointment: “The Tempest”
Best Scene-Stealer (Live Action): Kieren Culkin as Wallace Wells, “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”
Best Scene-Stealer (Animated): The Minions, all of them, “Despicable Me”
Best One on One Fight Scene: Frank Moses vs. William Cooper, “Red”
Best Battle Scene: The heroes vs. Medusa, “Clash of the Titans”
Best Line: “I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” – Alice, “Alice in Wonderland”
Most Infectious Laugh: “I said DART Gun!”, “Despicable Me”
Most Annoying Trend: The warning box is getting longer than some movies
Best Villain: Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Graves, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
Best Villainess: Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”
Audiovisionary Award: “Night of the Living Dead Reanimated”
Best Trailer: “Green Lantern”
“My Ears! MY EARS!”: “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”
The Darth Maul Award: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, “The Expendables”
“Ew! Ew! Eeeewwww!!!!”: (tie) The party massacre, “Piranha 3-D”/Nina’s finger, “Black Swan”
Best Juvenile Performance: Kodi-Smit McPhee
Unofficial Awards
Sexiest Superhero: Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, “Iron Man 2”
She is “Woman”, Hear Her Roar: Diane Lane as Penny Chenery, “Secretariat”
Poison “Talk Dirty to Me” Award: “The King’s Speech”
More Testosterone Than an NFK Locker Room: “The Expendables”
Most Unlikely Action Hero: Adrian Brody as Royce, “Predators”
And You Did This Why…?: Releasing “My Soul to Take” in 3D
“Thank You, Movie” Award: Steven Strait’s butt-shot, “City Island”
And They Say Wrestling Fans Act Goofy: The “Troll 2” fans, “Best Worst Movie”
Most Jaw-Dropping Moment: Hit-Girl’s use of the c-word, “Kick-Ass”
Most Visceral Reaction: Growling at Dolores Umbridge, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
“I’m good… no, really, I’m fine – Please STOP!”: Dog’s mating procedures, “My Dog Tulip”
Scariest Performance in a Non-Horror Film: Ryan Gosling as David Marks, “All Good Things”
Best Straight to dvd Release: “Batman: Under The Red Hood”
Sexiest Team: “The Losers”
With Great Power – Comes the Ability to Kick a Whole Lot of Ass: Yang, “The Warrior’s Way”
He’s a Marvel, Now He’s a DC… Now He’s a Marvel Again: Chris Evans
Most Stomach-Churning Opening: “Devil”
Realest Family: “The Kids Are All Right”
Most “Glee”-ful Musical Number: The patients perform “Under Pressure”, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
The Adam West: Nicolas Cage as Damon Mecready (Big Daddy), “Kick-Ass”
Biggest Tear-jerking Moment: Dobby’s death, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
Most Disturbing Scene You Didn’t See: The pool attack/rescue scene, “Let Me In”
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The multidimensional fight against Al Qaeda
The importance of Euro-Maghreb antiterrorist cooperation
Posted by , 28th December 2007
Morán demonstrated how the spectacular growth of Al Qaeda in northern Africa is tied to the social-political weakness of its host countries, and to the non-existence of intergovernmental police cooperation. In Morán‘s opinion, although a common anti-terrorism strategy throughout the Mediterranean would be impossible, progress must be made in bilateral, regional, and bi-regional cooperation.
Al Qaeda's shade in Lebanon
Al Qaeda in Maghreb
How to avoid home-grown Islamic extremism
What is the Jihadist Terror Threat in Spain?
Give your opinion
The United States, Russia, and the “new” missile crisis
Tension mounts between the two powers, each time becoming more confrontational
The refusal of the United States to halt the installation of the anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and the mounting aggression between Washington and Moscow, gave the impression that a new Cold War atmosphere has come over International Relations.
Kosovo´s final status: another chapter of turmoil in the Balkans?
Poland Wagers for Change
Spain, before and after funding from the European Union
Anemia in the European Union
Changes in the Russian Security Agenda
Post-Tiananmen China: A Case of Selective Amnesia
No political changes in Peking until 2020
Xulio Rios believes that the majority of the problems that caused the manifestations in Tiananmen Square eighteen years ago are not only still present in China today, but that many of those problems have gotten worse: corruption and power abuses are on the day’s agenda.
Southeast Asia reduces poverty, but increases inequality
China-Taiwan: Playing with...the Torch
The Responsability to Protect and the UN-African Union mission in Darfur
Could Darfur add up to the list of shameful names for the international communitiy?
The author discusses the international community’s responsibility to protect those experiencing genocide, specifically in Darfur. He describes the United Nations´s call for humanitarian intervention, now newly and more specifically defined as the responsibility to protect.
The dispute for African Oil
The Impact of Climate change in Africa
From Philanthrophy to Corporate Social Responsibility
Benefits for consumers, investors and the civil society
Why Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is much more than just a fad. An in depth study of the structural forces that are bringing businesses in developed countries towards more social responsibly. What is demanded of today’s corporations regarding familial responsibility and the paradox of Latin America.
More Corporate Responsibility
Climate Change Hits the Poorest, Hardest
Obscene Disparities
The Globalization of Brazil
Growth, monetary policy and investment in the “star” economy at the regional level
No one doubts the overwhelmingly strong force that is the current Brazilian economy. Brazil’s production represents a third of the total of Latin America. Large local conglomerates in the sectors of iron and steel, mining, oil, and manufacturing are paving the way toward globalization. However, optimism decreases upon reviewing some empirical data. Why economic growth less than expected, including a 5 percent average growth rate, one inferior to its neighbors. Is it the responsibility of the Central Bank of Brazil and its monetary policy? Divisions among analysts.
Venezuela does not want another Putin
Hope for Guatemala?
The Challenges of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Foreign Policy
Rafael Correa and the "mother of all battles"
Nicaragua, Second Sandinista Government
There are many more than “two models” in Latin America
What does Brazil need in order to become a true power?
Is Latin America divided into two models, as Europe maintains it is? For the author, it is actually diversity and heterogeneity that prevail. Paradoxically, in the forest of the distinct situations that exist today in Latin America, the success stories (Chile, Brazil, Peru and Colombia) are those that make less noise and receive less attention.
The bitter taste and the lessons from Santiago de Chile
How to Overcome the Mercosur Crisis
How to Strengthen the Integration between Brazil and Argentina
Mexico Searches for a Global Strategy Against Drug-Trafficking
Middle East: A Year of Serious Negotiations
Hope that 2008 will see great progress in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
The author argues that the recent summit in Annapolis marks the beginning of a period of serious negotiations in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Still, there are many obstacles to be overcome in the future: while Hamas’ influence is diminishing and the Palestinian government is having success in its efforts to provide the region with stability and security, the crisis in Gaza still remains, and Israel has not been as successful in holding up its end of the deal as set forth in the first stage of the Road Map. The author presents nine points that should be implemented to make the environment more conducive to negotiations in the upcoming year.
How might we learn to live together?
The Summit in Annapolis, different from Camp David?
The Importace of Dialogue between Jerusalem and Damascus
Gaza Coup D'état (Part I)
Forty Years Without a Lasting Peace
Why the US is losing in Iraq
Lessons not learned from the last four years
Understand why the United States and his allies are unable to win in Iraq in spite of their overwhelming military force. Understand which is the role that plays the merger of the Wahhabi neo-fundamentalism, the Arab ultra-nationalism and the Shia revolutionism.
Turkey´s diplomatic coercion with Iraq
Protecting Americans by Spying at Home
The Cold War with Iran
Uprising Against the 'War on Terror'
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Tagged: hollywoodhorrorfest
OPENING NIGHT PREMIERE WINS MULTIPLE AWARDS
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Friday 9th August’s Opening Night W.Coast Premiere of EXORCISM AT 60,000 FEET was not only SOLD-OUT but also brought the film 4 major festival awards. In attendance were writer/actor and producer ROBERT RHINE, director CHAD FERRIN, composer RICHARD BAND and stars ROBERT MIANO, LANCE HENRIKSEN, BAI LING, BILL MOSELEY, KELLI MARONEY, SILVIA SPROSS, MATTHEW MOY, GINO SALVANO, DAN BENTON, JEFF BLUMBERG, LUCA PENNAZZATO, CRAIG NG, BRAD SERVER, JIN N TONIC and SAMMY THE DWARF. Pretty much the entire cast.
After an audience pleasing screening BAI LING was presented the HHF Best Comedy Actress Award, RICHARD BAND the Best Original Score Award, ROBERT MIANO the Best Actor Award and Producer ROBERT RHINE the Best Horror Comedy Feature Award.
A lively Q&A followed with journalist & author PAT JANKIEWICZ. We’ve never seen so many stars on-stage at the same time.
To add to the fun, star LANCE HENRIKSEN was clearly moved when presented with the festival’s IMPACT AWARD, an award he very clearly was not expecting. The evening raised funds and awareness for the VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM.
Hollywood Legend LANCE HENRIKSEN wins IMPACT AWARD
Hollywood legend LANCE HENRIKSEN received the coveted IMPACT AWARD last Friday August 9th at HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST 2019. The star of film classics ALIENS, THE TERMINATOR and NEAR DARK was happily surprised on-stage with the award presentation by festival founder MILES FLANAGAN and journalist & author PAT JANKIEWICZ. Mr. HENRIKSEN was at the festival as part of Friday’s EXORCISM AT 60,00 FEET Q&A panel and had no idea he was about to be given the award. The IMPACT AWARD is presented to an artist whose work has positively impacted genre filmmaking. And with a body of work that not only features the aforementioned classics but also includes THE RIGHT STUFF, JAGGED EDGE, THE PIT & THE PENDULUM, TALES FROM THE CRYPT, ALIEN 3, HARD TARGET, THE QUICK & THE DEAD, THE X FILES and MILLENNIUM to name but a few, Mr. HENRIKSEN truly deserves this accolade.
As several cast members of EXORCISM AT 60,000 FEET received festival awards on-stage Mr. HENRIKSEN joked, “Well I hope I don’t receive an award” only to be clearly moved when the IMPACT AWARD was presented to him “This Is Your Life” style. Previous recipients include HALLOWEEN co-composer ALAN HOWARTH and the late, great character actor DICK MILLER.
SID HAIG Honored with the 3rd Annual PRICE AWARD
On Saturday, August 10th, at the HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST, actor SID HAIG became the 3rd annual recipient of the event’s prestigious Price Award – created to honor the iconic legacy of Vincent Price by celebrating an equally iconic genre icon.
The jet black Raven was bestowed onto Haig by VICTORIA PRICE herself, Price’s daughter. She delivered a touching speech explaining how Haig, like her famous father, embodied “the onscreen bad guy you secretly root for!”
The crowd at this invitation-only fundraising evening for the VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM, featured many of Haig’s costars from other projects, including Bill Mosely and Robert Mukes, Dee Wallace and Ken Foree, as well as HATCHET’S Adam Green, previous PRICE AWARD recipient Joe Dante, plus Belinda Balaski, Robert Rhine, the directors of THE AFTERMATH and HANUKKAH and many more.
A visibly moved Haig surprised everyone, as he held his Price Award and recounted a previously untold of meeting with Vincent Price.
“I was casually dating a girl (who went unnamed) who invited me to the set of her movie, TALES OF TERROR. Once there, I met Vincent Price and spent the day with him and forgot all about her! I just loved him!
“We talked about everything. He was a gourmet cook and I wasn’t, but at least nobody died from my cookin’,” Haig joked.
Phaedra and Tate, the actor’s children, were in attendance.
“Growing up, whenever Dad was on TV, my brother would always say, ‘what does Dad die in tonight?’, because he ALWAYS got killed!
“This Price award is so sweet, because it shows how much people love Dad.It’s still weird to see Dad on a t shirt, toy or tattoo, because to us, he’s Dad!”
The HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST was held August 9th and 10th at the Mayflower Club in N. Hollywood.
Another Famous Guest Joins Our Opening Night
Another famous guest, or more specifically famous vehicle, joins the all-star cast for the Opening Night screening of EXORCISM AT 60,000 FEET. The Girls and Corpses famous 1959 Cadillac hearse (Miller Meteor) which stars in Avril Lavigne’s new music video “I Fell In Love With The Devil” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIw_e2B0AbE will be parked at Hollywood Horrorfest Friday August 9th for the Horror Comedy’s West Coast Premiere.
The restored vintage black ’59 Cadillac hearse has been featured in numerous music videos and movies, such as SUBURBICON, directed by George Clooney (starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore) and in EXORCISM AT 60,000 FEET.
Tickets for the West Coast Premiere & Opening Night of HOLLYWOOD HORRORFEST can be purchased for only $10 in advance.
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Iranian New Year Tradition (Haft-sin)
Name: Haft-sin (هفتسین)
Main Piece
Me: So, I know people in Iran celebrate their New Year next month.
Informant: Yeah, Nowruz. It’s in March, but I’m not sure what day it’s on because it’s always different I think.
Me: Is there anything you guys do on that day? Or any particular dish that is traditional for New Years?
Informant: Well, yeah there are foods that are usually on the table but that’s not… I guess it’s not as important as Haft-sin (written: هفتسین). I don’t… have you heard of that?
Me: No, never.
Informant: Ok ok. So, there’s a small table, maybe off to the corner, and we put seven foods that start with the letter “s” on it. It doesn’t need to be cooked food or prepared in anyway because we don’t have to eat it. This is supposed to keep evil spirits away and bring good luck for the rest of the year.
Me: Oh, so you don’t have to eat these things, you just have to have them there.
Informant: Yeah, yeah. It’s stuff like vinegar and spices that you can’t really just eat like that, so…
Me: Can you tell me what your family puts on the table?
Informant: Yeah, we put garlic (سیر – pronounced “seer”). We put sabzeh (سبزی), which is some type of green herb. I’m not sure how you say it in English, sorry!
Me: Oh that’s ok!
Informant: Yeah, then we put vinegar, like I said. It’s called serkeh (سرکه). We also put this pudding called samanu (سمنو). I can’t translate that either, and I’m not even sure what went in it, but it was kind of sweet. And then my mom sprinkled sumac on the table, too. You know sumac.
Me: Yeah.
Informant: Yeah, we pronounce it somakh (سماق). And then we put apples, which is seeb (سیب). And olives, which is senjed (سنجد). And then… that’s it I think. And my mom liked to decorate the table with flowers and candles.
Me: That’s interesting. So, was this the standard? You had to have all seven of these things on that table and decorate it with flowers to have good luck?
Informant: Well, my mom always did it this way because she… she said it was the right way to do it. But pretty much, everyone just decorated it how they wanted to. I don’t think flowers were the standard.
Me: So you just put these on a table in the corner and it brings good luck?
Informant: Yeah, that was the point. I mean, it doesn’t have to be in a corner, I was just saying that. But yeah, it was supposed to keep evil spirits and evil people out of your house that year. I don’t know if it ever worked, but we always did it anyways, so…
Me: Did you personally like this tradition? Do you feel like you would do it in the future if it were left up to you?
Informant: Yeah. Yeah I think I would. Mainly because I want my kids to know the tradition. But I wouldn’t expect it to actually work. I would do it, but not to keep the evil spirits away.
Me: Right, right. So just to keep the tradition alive.
Informant: Mhmm.
My informant was born and raised in Iran, and she remembers this tradition being performed every year. She explains that her mother is the one that kept the tradition alive in the household.
Haft-sin is performed every Iranian New Year on March 22. According to my informant, this tradition is more widely performed in Iran than it is in the United States, where my informant currently resides.
I had never heard of this before. We don’t have anything like this in my culture, and I have never been exposed to this in America. This is an interesting tradition, and I wondered what the significance was of putting each of these foods on the table. For more information on this, visit the first citation at the bottom of the page. In summation of the information on the website, “Sabzeh is a symbol of rebirth and renewal of nature. Samanu represents fertility and the sweetness of life. Senjed is for love and affection. Serkeh… symbolizes patience and age. Seeb…is a symbol of health and beauty. Seer…is for good health and Somaq…symbolizes the sunrise and the spice of life.”
I found it interesting that seven is the lucky number in Iran, much like it is here in America. Upon further research, I found that the number seven held enormous significance in Iranian culture. For more information on the lucky number seven, visit the second citation at the bottom of the page, which is an article from the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies.
Bakhtiari, Parisa. “All About Haft-Sin: The 7 ‘S’ of Iranian New Year.” SURFIRAN, 28 Mar. 2021, surfiran.com/all-about-haft-sin-the-7-s-of-iranian-new-year/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2021.
Shahbazi, A. Shapur. “HAFT (seven), the “heptad” & Its Cultural Significance in Iranian History – (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies – CAIS)©.” The of the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)©, www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Culture/haft.htm. Accessed 18 Feb. 2021.
This entry was posted in Customs, Foodways, Rituals, festivals, holidays and tagged Food Traditions, Iranian cuisine, lucky numbers, New year's rituals, new years, new years tradition, seven on May 16, 2021 by Sirarpi Muradian.
Nowruz Celebrations in Lebanon
RA: “Nowruz is the Iranian New Year, and it’s a different time every spring. I was young when we left Iran, so I don’t really remember celebrating Nowruz there. We also never went back there during the spring, so the timing never worked out after we moved. When we lived in the UK, we couldn’t really celebrate Nowruz there either because we were so separated from our extended family, and there weren’t many Iranians living in London at the time. Most of my memories of Nowruz come from Lebanon. There were a lot of Iranians living in Lebanon then, and there still are, so it was a big holiday that lots of people there celebrated, even people who weren’t Iranians. There were lots of Nowruz parties and celebrations in the parks so you would sometimes see bonfires and lots of music just while walking around. What made Lebanon interesting is that there were lots of Arabs who celebrated with us, in addition to a lot of British and American ex-pats who worked with my dad at the oil company. So our Nowruz celebrations always had lots of people who had no clue what was going on but who were having lots of fun. My favorite part of Nowruz—because there were, you know, lots of parts like in most Iranian holidays—Anyways, my favorite part was Chahar Shanbeh Soori, where you’re jump over fireworks or a bonfire. You make wishes for the new year, and you leave behind the bad things you don’t want to take into the new year. I think its celebrated it on the last Wednesday before the new year because shanbeh means first in Farsi, but it might be the first Wednesday of the new year, I don’t really remember. There’s lots of partying and food, because there always is at Iranian holidays, and afterward we would build bonfires to jump over. This feels super dangerous in hindsight… there were bonfires all over this park we went to, and there was also a big bonfire in the center of the park that we would all sing and dance around. My brothers and I would race each other and jump over as many bonfires in the park as we could…which I can’t believe they let us do, but I think parents just liked to let their kids loose then. I just remember it being really beautiful at night, because you could see bonfires glowing everywhere across the park, and also in people’s backyards and front yards—wherever you could build a bonfire. That must have been so dangerous, but I don’t remember anyone ever burning themselves, just having lots of fun. “
Informant’s interpretation:
AB: “Why was this your favorite part of Nowruz? What did Chahar Shanbeh Soori (did I say that right?) mean to you?”
RA: “I only ever celebrated Nowruz when I was young, because I left Lebanon in Middle School, so I don’t remember much now. I just remember how beautiful the fires were and how much fun I had with my family running around the park. It’s a beautiful part of beginning the new year, and I think it really helps energize and excite you for the new year.”
Personal interpretation:
Fire is important in many Iranian practices due to its spiritual significance in Zoroastrianism. Fire is often associated with cleansing and with divinity, so the role of fire in Chahar Shanbeh Soori may be seen as a way of cleansing yourself of impurities before the year to come, as well as entreating the divine to bless the coming year.
This entry was posted in Customs, Festival, Holidays, Rituals, festivals, holidays and tagged Chaharshanbe Suri, iranian, Iranian Tradition, lebanese, New year's rituals, new years, new years tradition, Nowruz, persian new year on May 16, 2021 by Alexander Burch.
Apples & Honey on Rosh Hashanah
Main Piece:
Informant: You have supposed to dip a slice of apple in some honey and eat it. It’s supposed to guarantee that you have a sweet year.
Interviewer: Do you remember when you learned about this?
Informant: It’s always been in my life. It’s not specific to our family, It’s a Jewish thing. Remember we’re Jewish? You know, it’s your grandmother’s thing though. She always made me and D— (The informant’s sister) eat the apple.
Interviewer: When is this performed?
Informant: Every Rosh Hashanah, before the meal starts.
The informant is my father, and he is describing a traditional Jewish ritual associated with Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is a holiday symbolizing the start of the Jewish New Year. The informant learned this tradition through their mother. At our family Rosh Hashanah dinners, dipping the apple in the honey is a formality. However, it wasn’t until I went to my first traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner that I realized this was a common Jewish practice. This conversation was transcribed from a recording of a phone call. He learned this tradition as a kid growing up in Los Angeles.
I think it’s interesting that this religious custom was passed down through familial relationships. Even more so, I didn’t associate this tradition with being distinctly Jewish until I was told so. For me, this was a tradition exclusive to my own family. For my Dad, this tradition tied him to Judaism. My father is not overly religious, so claiming a piece of religious folklore from someone like him. Even though he doesn’t place much value in religious symbols, he has never failed to perform this tradition on Rosh Hashanah. Possibly, it is the value he places in his mother that had shifted this Jewish tradition into a familial superstition.
This entry was posted in Customs, Foodways, Holidays, Rituals, festivals, holidays and tagged food, jewish, new year, New year's rituals, rosh hashanah on May 12, 2019 by Dean Markus.
Colombian New Year’s Rituals
Collected from mother and daughter Marlly Hernandez and Patty Moso during a Virgin Saturday brunch with an easter egg hunt for the kids.
There is a whole subset of rituals that are supposed to occur on New Years in Colombia if you want some particular outcomes. I gathered these from my Aunt Marlly and my cousin Patty:
At the stroke of midnight 12 green grapes that have been dropped in a flute of Champaign and are eaten at each stroke/dong to bring a on a lucky new year. The person who is most successful without choking on the grapes or have Champaign snort out of the nose will have the better lucky year. This ritual is the most common and followed in Colombia and the US. I always found it fun to watch because my grandfather and my mom were never successful but my grandmother always seem to be able to do it unless she starts talking, then grapes will go flying.
For those who want the coming year to be full of travel will place luggage outside of the front door. My mom was in Colombia for New Years and she said that it was not a matter of just leaving your bags outside the door but that you had take a walk around the block after midnight. Both my abuelos and my Aunt Nora also confirmed this although Patty and Marlly said it was not necessary. My mom said that taking the walk around the block was fun to see all the different colors and variety of luggage people were carrying around and a very social event as people talked about where they wished they could travel to in the coming year. This sounds like a ritual I wouldn’t mind trying, since I love to travel.
Crack open a raw egg in glass/bowl of water, place it under you bed New years eve and leave over night. This is done to absorb any bad things/luck that may happen in the coming year. In the morning you throw away the egg and water, which has now supposedly absorbed all potential negative energy ensuring a better year. I found this ritual kind of creepy for some reason I cannot personally identify.
Women are supposed to put on puts on yellow (good luck color) underwear inside out new years eve and at midnight they are supposed to turn their underwater they correct way for good luck. This is challenging because Champaign soaked grapes are supposed to be swallowed with each ring of midnight and a women would need to find a private place to change their underwear without flashing a group of party goers while allegedly chugging grapes. I found this the most bizarre of the rituals.
In Colombia paper maché handmade life size dolls dressed with old clothes and shoes and is burned to show the end of the old year to insure nothing especially negative events remains from the previous year. When cars go buy they will throw coins at the dolls to bring wealth. Smoke makes me asthmatic so I would not be very interested in participating in this ritual.
At New Years Parties after chugging grapes go around kissing everyone on both cheeks at the party and to verbally wish them a Happy New Year, this action is supposed to bring good blessings to everyone involved. Having being part of Colombian New Years parties here in the states, I can attest that this is not a voluntary ritual, you will be kissed and covered with gross amounts of lipstick all over you face by people you do not even know, not my favorite ritual.
Analysis: Rituals are common in Colombia because of its rich history of catholic, Afro-Caribbean and indigenous roots. With cultural appropriation and annexation sometimes rituals are the only things you can keep with you. Most of these rituals seem nonsensical and why there were done or where they originated seem to be a mystery, they are just rituals that are followed because they are mainly benign and you have nothing to lose but your dignity and hopefully a wonderful year ahead to gain, if you followed the rituals.
This entry was posted in Customs, Holidays, Rituals, festivals, holidays and tagged Colombian, New year's rituals, spanish on April 30, 2017 by Antonio Okun.
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Tabell’s Market Letter – February 02, 1949
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TABELL'S MARKET LEnER Olgby 44141 Railroad stocks have few, if any, friends left. The various services have recently issued some rather pessimistic reports on the outlook for rail traffic and increased costs in 1949. There have been various compilations predicting possible 1949 earnings based on various contingencies such as a 10, 20 or 25 reduction in traffic. The final conclusion in most cases appears to be that only the soundest rail equities should be held under present conditions. I do not profess to know just what railroad earnings will be in 1949. However, at present prices and yields, it would appear that most railroad stocks have already discounted a substantial decline in earnings. The technical patterns of the rail average and of individual issues suggests that the 52-49 range in the DOl'/-Jones rail average is a strong support area. This same trpe of formation is present in the graphs of individual rail issues. Here again I would think that the rail average will reach its 10Vi in the first three months of 194-9 — if it has not already done so. The improvement in the financial condition of the railroads Since 1937 has been tremendous. Earnings and diVidends were considerably higher in 1948 thar, in 1937 and yet in many cases, at the 1937 highs, r2.ilroad stocks were selling higher in 1937 than they are now. For example, in 1937 Southern Ral1..way sold at a high of 43 3/8, in comparison with its present level of around 4-0. Yet in 1937 the common stock showed a Cleficit of 1.69 and paid no dividend. 194-8 earnings are estimated at 12.4-5 and the stock is paying at the indicated ate of 4.00 annually to yield 10. It might be also interest- ing to note the improvement in tIl' flnarcial condition of the road. For the year ending December 31, 1937, Southern Railway had cash items amount mg to 9.4- millions as aga.lnst 57.7 millions at the end of 1947. This same comparison applies to many other roads. For example, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe sold at a high of 94 3/4 in 1937, as against the present price of around 100. In 1937, the stock earned 60 cents and paid a 2.00 dividend. In 1948, the company earned an estimated 23.00 and paid 8.00 in divi00nds to yield approximately 8. Financial position also showed a wide improvement with cash items at the end of 197 at 145.4 millions against 21.6 millions in 1937. The total fixed charges and preferred dividends were cut from 19.4 millions to 14.9 miLlions. Illinois Central is another example. The 1937 high Vias 38, as against the present pr,ce of 28. In 1937 the common stock earned 70 cents as against an estimated 14.00 for 1948. No dividends were paid in either year. Cash items at the end of 1937 were 10.9 millions as against 73.0 millions at the end of 1947. Fixed charges and preferred dividends have been cut from 17.8 millions in 1J7 to 11.9 millions at the end of 1947. Still another example is Northern PacifiC. At the 194-7 high Northern Pacific sold at 36 5/8 as compared to its estimated price of arolnd 16. 1937 earnings were 5 cents a sta.re and the stock paid no divicend. 1948 earnings are estimated at 4.50 and the stock paid a year-end dividend of 1.50 to yield approximately 9. Cash items improved from 16.4 millions in 1947 to 44. millions at the end of 1947. Fixed charges dropped from 14.4 millions to 10.5 millions .,r' In comparison with thp heights reached in 1937 on much lower earnings and dividends, rail stocks seem modestly priced at the moment even when a Possible decline in earnii1gs is taken into consideration. Probably one of the nore important reasons for the' present low price level of railroad stocks is the generally peSSimistic attitude toward the equities in this grcup. Given a change in public psychology, rail stocks could sell considerably higher even in the face of reduced earnings. February 2, 1949 EDMUND W. TABELL WALSTON, HOFFMAN & GOODWIN This m.mcrandum 11 not to b. construed lIS an onu or I have an Interest In some or aU of the HCuritlel upon Information bel1eftd rellabl. but not I I&curltles. From lime to time Wabton Hoffman Ie Goodwin mlly prepllred by UI as a matter of Intormation only. It b based or fInal, and II not intended to foreclose Independent Inqlry. ….. \
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Blogging Anecdotes of Oyasama 169
March 18, 2011 Blogging Anecdotes of OyasamaYamazawa Hisaroykoogee
169. This Suits Me Very Well, Doesn’t It? (yō niau yaro na)
In Her later years, Oyasama used to say to Hisa Kajimoto, who was attending to Her:
“Tell me if there is something you want.”
“If you want to buy something, do so and say that you have bought it for Grandmother.”
Oyasama once bought a gaily colored cloth from a textile peddler and, throwing it over Her shoulders, said with a smile:
“This suits Me very well, doesn’t it?”
And She gave it to Hisa, saying:
“Keep this for yourself.”
On another occasion, Oyasama bought a coral beaded hairpin from a tortoise shell worker who came from Nagasaki, and putting it in Her hair, said:
“This is beautiful, isn’t it?”
She then gave it to Hisa, saying:
“Now you shall have this.”
Thus, occasionally, Oyasama bought something for Herself first and then later gave it to someone else. It is surmised that Her intention was to let others be able to accept these gifts without reserve. And, truly, people who received a gift from Oyasama were stirred with deep emotion.
Anecdotes of Oyasama, p. 136
There may not be anything in Anecdotes 169 that comes across as markedly profound. Yet I presume its significance stems from how it is considered an example of Oyasama’s parental love and forethought.
The text above itself provides an explanation for Oyasama’s seemingly mundane actions—”It is surmised that Her intention was to let others be able to accept these gifts without reserve.”
Anecdotes 150, earlier described a seemingly inconsequential exchange between Oyasama and Tosa Unosuke in which she ate some persimmons with him. This selection we find a similar sentence: “Tosa was moved with emotion because he felt that Oyasama was eating the persimmons so that he would not hesitate in deference to Her.”
Such examples of forethought may not be so obviously meaningful by their lonesome. They more likely will take on greater significance once one takes into consideration that the Japanese traditionally tend to be reserved when they are on the receiving end of spontaneous gift-giving. Further, these seemingly commonplace gestures on Oyasama’s part arguably loomed large in the minds of her family and followers precisely because she inspired an unparalleled reverence among them.
Admittedly, even though the Fukushima reactors are more than 300 miles from Tenri, it is a bit hard to focus on this blogging project with the ongoing nuclear alert. It helps that I had relatively little to discuss regarding this particular installment.
In the meantime, please go to Tenrikyo Resource for info on Tenrikyo’s response to the current humanitarian crisis in northeastern Japan.
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The PRO Act -We need to fight union busting
By admin-Resist in Elizabeth Resist 04/14/2022
Add your name if you agree: We need to fight union busting by passing the PRO Act
Elizabeth Warren has been making progress for working Americans. However, union busting efforts against the public service sector and manufacturing workers could roll back our gained ground. With an eye to the Mid Terms, or more accurately, the 2022 Congressional Elections, Elizabeth and Warren Democrats is asking for your support in 2 ways here.
Sign the petition to support the PRO Act
Take the Congressional Elections ’22 Issues Survey
And donate if you can
Something incredible is happening across the country.
Working people are recognizing how much power they have. When they come together, they’re using that power to unionize workplaces across the country.
Just look at Amazon, where a dedicated group of local organizers overcame union busting and beat Goliath by winning a union election in Staten Island. Which is the first ever at any Amazon warehouse.
Or school districts and hospitals across the country, where educators, nurses, and staff have been fighting for good pay, good benefits, and safe conditions for everybody.
Or Starbucks, where workers are organizing all over the place, including two stores in the Boston area that just voted unanimously to become the first unionized Starbucks locations in the Commonwealth (woo-hoo!).
I’m inspired by brave union organizers putting their livelihoods on the line to fight for each other and to fight for families across the country. I’d love to take a moment to share a few quotes from those Starbucks union organizers right after they won their elections in Boston last week.
To help emphasize what this moment means:
“McDonald’s workers, if you’re out there, you can do this. Wendy’s, I’m looking at you, you can unionize. It’s possible. And it seems impossible, but it’s not.” – Maria
“It’s been this huge domino effect. Seeing more stores file [for union elections] is so empowering for us. And it kind of makes us want to win more, because we want to show up for our partners to say, ‘Hey, we’re doing this, and we won, so you can too.” – Ash
Responding to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who recently asked a Starbucks union organizer, “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you go somewhere else?”: “Our partners, our coworkers, we’re not just like friends. We are family.
I don’t want to leave that. That’s not what this is about. I just found it so insulting. I love our regulars…So no, I don’t hate Starbucks. Don’t ever say that. We don’t hate it. This is pretty much all a lot of us have at this point.” – Maria
When workers fight, workers win! Every union victory builds momentum for more wins and puts power in the hands of working people, where it belongs.
But giant corporations are fighting back with some ugly union busting. They’re firing union organizers, spreading disinformation at mandatory meetings, threatening workers, basically saying the sky will fall if anyone so much as whispers the word “union,” and more. But even if corporations get caught breaking the law, they often just get slaps on the wrist. If that.
So, we need to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would hit union busters with tough new fines, clear the way for more workers to organize more unions, and be the strongest pro-worker law in decades. It’s already gotten through the U.S. House, and President Biden is ready to sign it.
Unions built America’s middle class, and unions will rebuild America’s middle class. But we’ve got to keep raising our voices and get the PRO Act through the Senate to make it easier to form a union. Add your name if you agree: We need to fight union busting by passing the PRO Act.
We can’t count on billionaire CEOs to support workers out of the goodness of their hearts. We need to demand real change — from picket lines to ballot boxes to the halls of Congress.
I’m staying in this fight all the way. And, when we fight side by side, we make each other stronger.
ADD YOUR NAME
We must pass the PRO Act to fight back against union busting, make it easier for workers to form unions, and put more power in the hands of working people.
Thanks for being a part of this,
P.S. Remember: Don’t cross a picket line! Instead, join one. And maybe bring some snacks.
I want to take a moment to celebrate, and talk about why Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is so powerfully important.
Judge Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is historic. She’ll be not only the first Black woman to sit on the Court, but also the first former federal public defender, bringing long-overdue representation and experience to the bench. We need more judges with experience representing those without means or power.
I’m asking for your input
It’s been a busy week in Washington.
President Biden has extended the pause on student loan payments, we’re getting ready to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and you’ve helped make it all happen as a member of this team. Thank you for being in this fight.
But I’ve also got one eye on this year’s midterms elections. Things are heating up: Texas already had their first round of voting, and four candidates we endorsed either won their primaries outright or made it to the runoff. Greg Casar, Jessica Cisneros, Jasmine Crockett, and Michelle Vallejo! And more elections are coming right up.
I’m getting ready to endorse more Democrats who are in this fight to put power in the hands of working people. But first, I want to hear from you.
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By protecting and expanding our razor-thin Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, we can accomplish a whole lot more in Congress. Including bypassing the Senate filibuster to defend the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted.
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IceHogs fall to Ads, still safe in standings
By Jim Hagerty On Jan 11, 2020
MILWAUKEE – With 6:51 remaining in regulation and the IceHogs down 1-0, Milwaukee broke in on a 2-on-0 rush. Delia followed a back-door pass across the crease and sprawled to blocker away the Admirals’ scoring chance.
However, Tommy Novak beat Delia three minutes later to extend the Milwaukee lead to two and put the game out of reach.
The IceHogs applied pressure late, but Admirals netminder, Troy Grosenick, shut the door to secure a 24-save shutout and the win for Milwaukee.
The two clubs will face off again tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena before heading to the BMO Harris Bank Center at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
Wednesday’s loss at Milwaukee extended Rockford’s road losing streak to four games…It’s the longest road losing streak of the season and marks the first time the IceHogs have lost four consecutive games on the road since the club lost five straight from Jan. 20 – Feb. 23 of 2018.
Brandon Hagel was held pointless in Friday’s loss at Milwaukee, but in 29 games since Oct. 30, there have only been two instances in which Hagel has not rebounded from a pointless performance to find the scoresheet the very next game…He’s been held pointless 12 times in that span but has tallied a combined 12 points (7g, 5a) in subsequent efforts.
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Published by SAFTU at January 15, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions backs its affiliate, the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers [NUPSAW], which is preparing for a strike at DisChem Pharmacies starting on 17 January 2018 at their places of work across the country.
NUPSAW is facing a problem shared by many unions of being denied recognition and organisational rights in terms of section 21 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA).
SAFTU agrees fully with NUPSAW that “the employer’s stubborn and extreme behaviour regarding the union’s organisational rights has now set the stage for conflict and has left us with no other option but take this very unfortunate and painful decision, considering that it might also affect the sick and the frail who buy from DisChem pharmacies”.
Not only DisChem but many other employers are trying to avoid having to recognize and grant organisational rights to unions which stand up for their members’ interests, unlike many sweetheart unions with whom they have established a cozy relationship and whom they now want to protect from SAFTU’s more militant affiliates.
NUPSAW, like all other SAFTU-affiliated unions, is determined to fight for higher wages, better working conditions and to defend the unions’ rights under the Labour Relations Act to organize and represent workers.
SAFTU calls on all its members to join NUPSAW members in any action they take in support of their strike, which is not just a fight for DisChem workers and NUPSAW members, but for all workers struggling against exploitation, poverty pay, racial and gender discrimination and abuse.
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Devoe scores 37, Usher 21; Georgia Tech beats Georgia 88-78
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Michael Devoe exploded for 37 points, Jordan Usher scored 21, both career highs, and Georgia Tech beat Georgia 88-78 Friday night to snap a five-game skid against its in-state rival.
Devoe made 14 of 18 from the field, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range and finished with seven rebounds, five assists and two steals. Usher was 9-of-14 shooting and blocked two shots.
Jaylin Ingram made a layup to cap an 11-4 run that gave Georgia (2-2) a 73-71 lead with 4:34 left, but Devoe made back-to-back layups to give Georgia Tech the lead for good and spark a 14-3 spurt that for an 11-point lead with 34 seconds remaining. Devoe scored eight points and Usher six during that stretch.
Aaron Cook made 4 of 6 from 3-point range and finished with 18 points and six assists for the Bulldogs. Ingram scored 17 points and Jabri Abdur-Rahim added 10.
Georgia Tech (3-1) made 34 of 56 (61%) from the field and outrebounded the Bulldogs 35-26.
Georgia shot 51% (29 of 57) from the field and made 8 of 17 (47%) from 3-point range but was missed half their 24 foul shots.
Deivon Smith and Devoe made back-to-back 3s to give the Yellow Jackets a 57-47 lead - the biggest by either team - with 13:30 remaining. Ingram answered with consecutive layups, Cook another and Abdur-Rahim made a 3 in a 9-2 run that brought Bulldogs within three in under two minutes.
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Monday, June 27th, 2005 at 10:41 am by Ken
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“You’re not doing another one of those friggin’ shark trips, are you?” Thus spoke my docile wife when I informed her I’d decided on short notice to join a group on a liveaboard boat for the second half of April. “Oh no,” I quickly responded. “This is in French Polynesia. You know–majestic islands, beautiful reefs, pretty fish, topless French women–nothing to get excited about.” And this was all true (except for the topless women)–but there were also sharks, and plenty of them. Above is a shot of Moorea, one of the islands we stopped at toward the end of our trip. Most of our time was spent diving in the Tuamotu group, the largest of the five archipelagos that make up French Polynesia.
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This is our boat, which we boarded in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, located on the island of Tahiti. We then proceeded 180 miles northeast to the Tuamotus, which are seventy-six islets and atolls spread out over more than 7,500 square miles. This was not a “usual” dive boat. It’s a 214 foot Russian icebreaker, making a stopover on its way back to Mother Russia after the ecotourism trips they run to Antarctica during the “good weather” summer (our winter) months. The guy who chartered the boat was there with his family from Australia, the expedition/dive coordinators on board were from New Zealand, the dive masters were from French Polynesia, most of the guests were American (with the notable exception of Australian dive gurus Ron & Valerie Taylor–they filmed “Blue Water, White Death” released back in 1971), and the entire crew (about 40 people, who spoke no English) was Russian. The boat was extremely comfortable, the food and service excellent, and the air conditioning kept at a perfect temp (often too hot or too cold on liveaboard boats).
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Now we come to the problem. Just about any dive boat I’ve signed up for usually has 6-12 passengers. Obviously, a boat and crew of this size needs more guests to be economically feasible. We had 31 guest divers. On a given dive there would also be 2-3 divemasters and 3-5 crew diving, ferried to the dive site in five inflatables. The usual way to keep from overcrowding any one dive site would be to spread the inflatables around to different locations, switching around during the day. However, the nature of many of our dives made it necessary for ALL of us to be diving at the same site at one time. A big attraction here is doing “pass dives.” A typical atoll is a ring of coral rising some 3,000 feet from the ocean depths and circling a sheltered lagoon some 40-60 feet deep. Passes are gaps in the atolls through which large volumes of water flow into the lagoon on the incoming tide, creating strong currents. Large numbers of sharks are attracted to the passes at this time due to the extensive marine life which is there feeding on the nutrient-rich racing current. There was usually one desirable pass at whatever atoll we were at, and time was limited in order to catch the incoming tide at its peak, thus creating the dive cluster as shown above.
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As advertised, there were numerous spots with pretty coral reefs & colorful tropical fish.
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There was also the occasional manta or hawksbill turtle, even a large anchor off Apataki Atoll at a site called, appropriately enough, Anchor Corner.
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Here was the big attraction–schools of up to 100 gray reef sharks getting up close and personal during our “pass dives” on the incoming tide. Getting a decent photo of these sharks was challenging, however. First, the passes tended to be narrow, maybe 100 feet, so almost 40 divers were crowded together. Second, we sometimes faced 4-6 knot currents due to the incoming tide, so you needed a spot where you could hunker down or the “drift” portion of your dive into the lagoon would start earlier than you had planned. Third, herding sharks into a pleasing composition for a photo is a lot like herding cats, except the teeth are bigger. Finally, the sharks would come to us swimming against the current, following the scent of the bait the divemasters would bring down with them. Naturally, in addition to the scent of the bait, the bubbles from all the divers were flowing down current due to the strong tide. So you can see that photos without arms, legs, fins or bubbles in them were hard to come by.
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We saw other species of sharks as well, although I had no close passes from silvertips, and the young blacktips we saw tend to stay in water about one foot deep, limiting your mobility. I got much better silvertip stuff during my previous visit to French Polynesia at Rangiroa in September, 2001 (yes, that’s where I was during 9/11). You can view them by going to http://www.seaimages.org and clicking on “Photo Examples” then “Sharks” then “Silvertip Sharks”. I recently had Bill Prentiss, my computer consultant, add quite a few shark images to my site and arrange them into 19 species.
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I’m not much for people photography, but I had to include this one of fellow dive guest Ed Callen. Ed did all the dives, including the high-voltage, high-current pass dives. Ed is 84 years old, and my new hero.
That’s it for this trip folks! Best to all,
Second Annual Bahamas Shark Fest
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005 at 3:50 pm by Ken
To: friends, family and other possibly interested persons. From February 13-21, I went back to the Bahamas for my “2nd annual” shark trip with Jim Abernethy’s Scuba Adventures. We missed out on the great hammerheads this year (fortunately, I got some decent hammie photos on last year’s trip, which are on the web site), but we were successful with bull, lemon, Caribbean reef and tiger sharks. I was watching a “West Wing” rerun recently where one of the characters said, “If you go west, be sure and stop at the Grand Canyon. It’s one of the few things in life that doesn’t disappoint when you actually experience it.” This is how I feel about Jim Abernethy’s shark trips-if you want to photograph sharks, they do NOT disappoint! So here are some photos & commentary:
The Shear Water
This is the boat we take out of West Palm Beach, FL to the Bahamas. It sleeps 12 guests, but we limited the number to 8, to increase photo opportunities without stray fins, strobe arms, etc. in the photos. We still got plenty of that, but it woulda been a lot worse with 10-12 guests. We’re anchored here at a Bahamas Island called Great Isaac, which has an abandoned lighthouse. Personally, we felt it should have been named So-so Isaac, or perhaps even Not-So-Great Isaac, but what do we know? We were fortunate re: the weather-better than any of the three trips this year prior to ours, and better than the one that followed ours and is still going on right now. We were always able to find a decent anchorage to dive with some kind of shark, except the great hammerheads, which kept their distance.
We saw several waterspouts one am late in our trip-up to three at one time. Fortunately, they stayed some distance away and did not affect our trip. We experienced no rain for the entire seven days of diving.
Shark Bite #’s 1, 2 & 3
What I’m sure some of you were thinking was bound to happen actually did occur on this trip-I became the victim of a shark bite. The crew was doing some “shark wrangling” which consists of throwing a fish on a line into the water at the stern (back) of the boat, and then pulling it back quickly as the shark follows it in. If the shark stays around for about 15 minutes of this, we know we have a “player” and then it’s time to get in the water—wouldn’t you agree? While the wrangling is going on, it’s a good time to try for above-water photographs of the shark with its mouth open (see Shark Bite #1). What I didn’t know was that the line was secured by being tied off onto a Scuba tank, like the tank in Shark Bite #2. I was standing on the bench in the back of the boat, as modeled by Capt. Jake, a member of our crew. (see Shark Bite #3), except I was leaning forward a lot more, attempting to take photos of a large tiger shark that was going for the bait. The shark hit the line, first jerking it out of the hands of the crewperson holding it, then jerking the Scuba tank out of its hold and upward, snapping the bungee cord holding the tank in place, and pulling the tank completely into the water. Oh, and the tank snapped out and up BETWEEN MY LEGS, so that one edge of the tank bottom smashed into my shin, opening about a one-inch gash. Fortunately, kindly Dr. Howard Pelovitz (an ER Doc) was one of my fellow guests, and with his quick treatment all was soon well. Once ice & elevation of the leg had reduced the swelling, Howard put the medical equivalent of Super Glue (honest!) on the wound and covered it with a piece of plastic tape to make it watertight. I was diving the next day (this happened on Day Two of the trip) and never really suffered any ‘discomfort’ (actually, that’s called PAIN to us non-medical types). Everything has continued to heal nicely, but I’ll have a scar, which I can truthfully say is due to a shark bite. As Dr. Pelovitz kept repeating over and over (remembering the path the tank took vis-à-vis my body) “This coulda been soooo much worse!”
Bull Shark #1 & #2
These bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) photographs were hard to get, as the bulls were not living up to their aggressive reputation. We had bait baskets on the sand floor and it was around dusk (shark dining time), but they were wary about approaching the divers. I kept adjusting my f stops (from f8 eventually to f2.8) until we ran out of light.
Lemon Shark #1 & #2 &
‘Bad News’
It’s odd, but in the shallow, sandy areas where we went for tiger sharks last year, we saw no lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris). When we were doing dives on reefs at 50′ or 60′, we could usually see them down below on the sand at 90′ or so. This year, we had lemon sharks on every shallow-water sand dive, up to eight at one time. Lemon shark #1 is a nice behavior photograph, as it shows 13 remoras accompanying the shark-and that’s just on its left side! Of course, when the tiger sharks showed up, you had multiple sharks to deal with-in “Bad News Comes In Threes” there are two lemon sharks on the left and a tiger shark on the right. It takes some getting used to…
Caribbean Reef Shark #1,
These caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) photographs
were taken at a reef Jim Abernethy calls the Mother Lode, for the profusion
of reef sharks (and others) you can find there. I got a lot of photos of
these sharks last year, but two things were different this time:
(1) the reefs now had a layer of sand on them, due to the hurricanes last
fall, and the sand was easy to stir up and made photography more
challenging; and (2) I happened to go in when it was just Jim and me, and
his dutiful shaking of the bait baskets they had put down on the reef drew
the sharks in much CLOSER than last year. I mean, in-your-face close.
Caribbean reef sharks are not considered dangerous, but the scent Jim kept
stirring up got them excited and aggressive. I had my strobes bumped by
sharks three times on this one dive. Reef shark #1 is my favorite shot of
the trip-one of the few advantages we poor outmoded film shooters still have
over the digital guys is that when they shoot underwater digital photos with
the sun in the picture, the sun comes out looking strange. I’m sure
technology will correct this in time, but for now…
Tiger Shark #’s 1-5
We had some very nice tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) photo opportunities, particularly with a 13 foot female Jim calls Emma
(see my prior post). We all dressed full in black (hoods, gloves, etc.) because white parts on a diver resemble bait. Unfortunately, I forgot to take off my bright yellow snorkel, which Emma seemed particularly attracted to, and thus to me. At one point, we did two consecutive 360-degree circles together (less than a yard apart), with me turning desperately to keep my housing between us. We later named this “Dances With Emma.” You’ll note in Tiger Shark #3 that my dive buddy Phil Colla is holding the “shark stick” we were required to carry on the tiger shark dives. We really felt an additional degree of security holding this thing, while trying to take pictures. Not only was it flimsy, but the white color (hello?-see dressing precautions against the color white above) did indeed attract the sharks to it-they seemed to enjoy using it as a toothpick (see Tiger Shark #4).
Jim And Friend
No doubt many of you feel that I’m nuts to be doing trips like this, but I look stone sane compared to our Fearless Leader, Jim Abernethy. Here he is petting one of the tiger sharks, as it busily tries to devour the bait basket. Maybe Jim never had a dog when he was growing up… I was peering through the viewfinder to take this photograph when the shark whacked my housing with its tail fin (another shark first for me).
That’s it, folks! As always, feedback is appreciated (how did the images look? blog suggestions? questions?). For security reasons, the ability to comment back on this blog has been turned off (it helps spammers to find you). However, you can reply to the e-mail I sent you that had this URL in it, or just send me an e-mail: khoward@seaimages.org
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Playing with Emma . . . 13 foot tiger shark
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 at 1:35 pm by Ken
Here are few photographs by Phil Colla (http://www.oceanlight.com) of me entertaining our Tiger Shark friend Emma… When I have some time I will post the complete collection of shark photos to my Stock List pages
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ES Producing music for an audience that’s listening
Producing music for an audience that’s listening is what’s todays artists can do to make an impact. Building a strong music brand can be done by focusing on the album and all the merchandise released to support the work.
GETTING TO KNOW ES
Person Interviewing: Eseme Elango
Staying true to yourself is really important in todays music business. In anything you do actually. Once you find your niche, stay on track and keep pushing until you get there.
Today’s music listeners seem to be leaning towards nostalgic branding. It’s much easier to find your audience if you focus down on a niche. I even see an audience building for Vinyl.
What defines “Success” to you…
Success for me is having my music connect with a larger audience of like minded individuals who respect and appreciate what I am trying to do and how I do it. Acknowledgement from said group of like minded individuals is the cherry on the top.
The piece of advise that changed my way of thinking was…
to be true to myself regardless of whether it was popular or not. Second piece advise was to do the music for the love of the music first. If money comes in later, then great! Make timeless, heart felt music that people can relate to. I got this piece of advise about 10 years ago. I have not turned back.
Song name: We Are Only Getting Older (feat. Mathematik) [prod by IV The Polymath]
a reflective one that explores the mindset of two 40 something year old emcees speaking on how we feel about the current hiphop climate and reflecting on where we fit in.
Link to play:: https://esmuzik.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-only-getting-older-feat-mathematik-prod-by-iv-the-polymath
a breath of fresh air. It is positive hiphop music dedicated to fans of mature substance based content.
Website & social media links: :
http://esmuzik.bandcamp.com
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New Jack Nino Changing the Negative
Jon Hannz Creating Something and Seeing it Flourish
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"Would you like roast potatoes, russet potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato salad, baked potato, or rice pilaf with that?"
When people in the UK ask me what I miss about the US, one word immediately springs to mind: choice.
Admittedly, most of this has to do with food. For instance, the choice to have a Dairy Queen Blizzard at 10:00 p.m. at night, the choices of five different types of tortilla chips in the grocery store and the choices of smoothie combinations at Jamba Juice (or my personal favorite, Emerald City Smoothie) still blows my mind. The other day, Alice came up to my desk at work and said, "I just had the most amazing ice-cream flavor - you'll never guess. Although you might, since you're American. It's called ... rocky road?" I pitied her. I did. What I also did, however, was laugh at her (which was mean). I can't imagine what the ice cream freezer at Tesco was like before the introduction of Ben and Jerry's. Chocolate or vanilla? Even now, B&J flavors are extremely limited in British grocery stores - even the big ones.
Americans are, as the saying goes here, "spoilt for choice" (cue obesity jokes).
Having lived abroad for quite a few years now, I'm no longer used to all this variety. I've simply adapted to the pared down options offered to the rest of the general British public. I can tell I'm used to it because my parents pity me when I go back to visit them, just as I pitied Alice, standing before me at my desk describing her first interaction with rocky road ice-cream.
My mom's favorite phrase to use when I become indecisive over which flavor of chocolate covered pretzels to buy (they come in white, swirls, dark, milk) is, "Buy them all! They're 10 for $10! Buy them all!" At the conclusion of dinner, my dad pushes away from the table, looks at me with a laugh in his eye and bellows, "BLIZZARD!!!" It means that he'll drive to Dairy Queen and pick up the Blizzard of my choice (usually Heath Bar or Banana Cream Pie). When I politely decline after my fifth consecutive night of Blizzards, he looks crestfallen. "Ok-ayy," he says, throwing his hands up. "Up to yo-uu."
This is a long, roundabout way of telling you about the choices that delight me the most when I'm "back home" dining at a typical, suburban, middle-class restaurant: deciding on which salad dressing and side to have.
I love how they come out in a tumble from the server's mouth: "Wouldjoulike (deep breath) ranchcaesaritalianthousandislandfrenchbalsamicvinaigrettesundriedtomatovinaigretteorhoneymustard with your salad?" Seasoned pros like my dad will answer with a confident, "Thousand island", and a nod. I now have to ask once, twice, sometimes even three times for the poor man/woman to repeat him/herself. Then they're on to the sides: "Wouldjoulike (deep breath) roastpotatorussetmashedpotatopotatosaladbakedpotatoorricepilaf with your steak?" The fact that these salads and sides are often on the mediocre side of things doesn't matter to me. What matters is that I'm paying $18.95 for my lobster tail and it comes with a salad and potatoes, y'all!
My heart breaks when I return to the UK to dine in restaurants where "sides" cost upwards of £4.95 each. Sigh.
What's your favorite "side"?
Justin August 17, 2012 at 4:35 PM
Whoa whoa, lobster tail for 18.95? You been holding out on me sis?
Angloyankophile August 17, 2012 at 5:00 PM
I have no idea what food costs in the US anymore. Maybe £18.95 was what I was thinking and it's more like $28.95. Oops.
lizzie mcmizzie August 18, 2012 at 10:56 PM
As a waitress who frequently has to spout the half-dozen options for sides or salad dressings, i think i might prefer working at a restaurant in the UK!
Angloyankophile August 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I'm not surprised, Lizzie! What are the options you have to list?
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Former world boxing champ Austin "No Doubt" Trout signs with BKFC
Friday, Nov 18 2022 by BKFC Staff
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, the world's fastest-growing combat sports promotion, has announced the signing of former Junior Middleweight Boxing World Champion Austin "No Doubt" Trout’ to a multi-fight promotional contract.
Fighting out of Las Cruces, NM, Trout has compiled a professional boxing record of 35-5-1 with 18 knockouts over his illustrious career. The 37-year-old southpaw is best known for his WBA Junior Middleweight Championship victory over Puerto Rican legend Miguel Cotto in 2012 at Madison Square Garden. The dominant win was followed by a hotly contested, controversially scored decision loss to Mexican boxing icon Canelo Alvarez in 2013.
Additional battles highlighting Trout’s career include fights with world champions and top contenders Jermall Charlo, Jarrett Hurd, Erislandy Lara, Terrell Gausha and Delvin Rodriguez.
Said an excited Trout from his training camp in Houston, TX about signing with BKFC: “I’ve been following BKFC for a long time and the excitement level at their events is truly over the top. Dave and his team have been outstanding to deal with and I’m thrilled to challenge myself in bare knuckle fighting and start my next chapter with the hottest promotional company in combat sports.”
Stated David Feldman, President/Founder of BKFC: “Austin is one of the most talented and toughest fighters in boxing. I’ve watched countless fights of his and he truly displays the warrior spirit needed for success in BKFC. We’re thrilled to start working with him and will announce his first bare knuckle fight shortly. 2022 has been a phenomenal year of growth for BKFC, promoting huge events all over the world and signing world class fighters but 2023 is going to be even bigger and better, we’re just getting started.”
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The Mill Museum
The Verla Area
Visit Verla
1 The Stages of Verla
2 A day at the mill
4 Board production
5 Log driving
6 The pulp-grinding industry
Visit Verla Exhibits
Admission to Verla’s exhibitions is free during the summer.
The bale warehouse
The bale warehouse, where bales of cardboard were stored, currently serves as a space for temporary exhibitions.
The bowling pavilion
The mill owner Gottlieb Kreidl constructed a bowling alley in the park. At the far end stood a second octagonal pavilion, matching the pavilion that is still present today. Now, visitors can enjoy a cup of coffee in the pavilion, and a small photo exhibition hangs on its walls.
The fire equipment shed
The fire equipment shed, built around 1890, is a small, windowless, hexagonal structure. The mill had its own fire-fighting team, and its operations are described in the exhibition in the fire equipment shed.
The frame saw
Verla’s frame saw was used to cut lumber for the needs of the mill and the village. Currently the frame saw serves as an exhibition space and houses the Verla – Part of the Mäntyharju Waterway Log Drive exhibition.
The log flume machine room and rails
The log flume’s machine room was used until the beginning of the 1960s when the Verla Mill transitioned from driving individual logs to floating bundles of logs. The log bundles were pulled in carts along rails from the upper stream to Vähä-Kamponen Lake, beneath the mill. Currently, the building houses a part of the “Verla — Part of the Mäntyharju waterway log drive” exhibition.
The Lippu Cottage
The so-called Lippu Cottage is one of the oldest buildings in the area. It was named after the first settlers in Verla, the Lippu family. According to tradition, the cottage was a border guard’s hut from the mid-18th century. From 1743 to 1809 the border between Swedish Finland and Russia followed the Mäntyharju waterway branch of the Kymi River that flows through Verla. However, it is not known for certain when or from whom the building was transferred to Verla. An exhibition about workers’ housing can be found in the cottage during the summer.
THE VERLA MILL MUSEUM
Verlantie 295, 47850 VERLA, Finland
Tel. + 358 2041 52170
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Opinion / Op-Ed Contributors
By Fang Zhou (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-09-09 10:58
Parents or teachers troubled by the increasing popularity of gift-giving should find welcome relief in the intensified measures taken by educational authorities against the malpractice. A few days before this year’s Teachers’ Day, which falls on Sept 10, the Ministry of Education issued a notice banning activities funded by public money and gift-giving, as well as extravagance in educational institutions, including schools.
The move is expected to curb the practice of parents gifting gifts to teachers, restore people’s trust in the sanctity of the education system and cleanse the campus atmosphere.
It would be a shame for the education system — in fact, the nation as whole — if Teachers’ Day were to become a time for parents to wrack their brains thinking about what gifts to give teachers to ensure that their children get “special treatment” or to prevent them from being discriminated against in class.
To give or not to give gifts is a decision that puts huge pressure on parents whose children are in school. Several surveys conducted by Internet portals, forums and special survey agencies in recent years have indicated that a majority of Chinese parents had been haunted at least once by such a dilemma before Teachers’ Day.
Apart from flowers, fruits, watches as well as expensive handbags, jewelry and shopping vouchers or cards, some parents have also gifted cash to teachers. A few wealthy parents have even arranged overseas trips for teachers.
The commercialization of “gift-giving” has become such a big social problem that some parents have used the Internet to suggest the extreme: abolish Teachers’ Day altogether. An online proposal — whether or not Teachers’ Day should be abolished — floated in 2010 was supported by 94 percent of the respondents.
Surveys, however, have also shown that some teachers do not enjoy the gifts they receive from students’ parents. Quite a few teachers who responded to surveys said they usually make a painful choice between accepting and declining a gift. In 2012, some 10 well-known elementary and middle schools used the Ministry of Education’s website to appeal to teachers across the country to decline gifts from students and their parents. The appeal resonated strongly across educational institutions and was welcomed by many parents.
Traditionally, teachers have always been held in high esteem in Chinese society. Most Chinese people still believe in the maxim, “a teacher for a day is a father for a whole life”. We have also long viewed teachers as “engineers of the human soul” and “hardworking gardeners” helping “flowers” blossom for the motherland. We also know that the nation cannot fulfill its aspiration of greatness without the selfless dedication of its teachers, who nurture talents from one generation to another.
Therefore, the entire society should respect teachers. And indeed it is understandable and acceptable that students gift a token gift to teachers to show their respect to and gratitude toward them. But the sacred relationship between teachers and students is soiled when students give gifts to teachers with some ulterior motives — to get favors or special treatment, for example.
Many people desperately wanted the education authorities to take measures to check the commercialization of dealings between teachers and parents, and that is precisely what the Ministry of Education has done.
But then the creation of a series of Internet technologies and means for giving and receiving gifts, such as e-vouchers and e-cards, and WeChat red packets, have made the malpractice difficult to detect. So the education authorities, aside from passing rigorous regulations banning the malpractice, should also take stricter measures to improve the education system as a whole to ensure that there is no room for corruption.
The author is a writer with China Daily.
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COP on the Hill: Stories from the week January 25, 2013
Posted February 12th, 2013 by hiwayhowie
COP on the Hill
Stories from the week January 25, 2013
I had a 30 second ‘elevator’ chat with an R Congressman from the Southeast. I told him I represented police officers who did not want to waste time chasing a green plant and guys like Willie Nelson. His response? “And it is a horrible waste of tax dollars.”
I met with the chief legal counsel to Congressman Polis who will introduce the bill to repeal the federal prohibition of marijuana. The bill will be clean and simple, much like in the last session.
Two R offices this week who sat on the fence last session said they will now co-sponsor the repeal bill, citing the robust wins in Colorado and Washington.
One day this week I had an average day of six presentations. The good was in four of the five R offices the staffer said he agreed completely with the COP mission and ‘what can I do to help?’ Such comments are coming more and more frequently this session. Wow and what a change from 2005, when I rode into town.
The new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (Goodlatte from Virginia) has almost the same mentality as Lamar Smith the former chairman. Do not expect a hearing/vote on the new bill.
Short of a miracle, I agree with Keith Stroup of NORML. A vote by the Congress on total repeal will not take place for at least 6 years. However, if present trends continue, the vote to repeal will pass.
The Ugly: Besides urging the Members to support the repeal bill, I am asking them to starve the beast. “Stop giving law enforcement any money.” This is direct off the sheet I give each aide:
China & others will loan us 6 billion of the 15 billion spent on prohibition by Congress in FY 2014. 3B just for marijuana war. Return on that investment after a trillion dollars? Drugs are cheaper, stronger, and readily available to anyone in the USA per federal reports.
On the night of the Texas Inaugural Ball I ran into the Chief of Staff of a name you would recognize = extra big cheese. In a ten minute chat I asked him why the Republicans don’t just cut say a 100 billion from our 1 trillion dollar budget deficit…. just to show the world they are serious about cuts. He sighed and gave me a brief lesson on how the world of Congress works. = Members have obligated themselves (to special interests) to spend 3.8 trillion next year. The lobbyists/special interests would hurt (politically) the Members, if they did not spend all that money. Thus, though the Republicans talk about cutting spending and have the power to send those cuts to the Senate, they don’t and they won’t. Drug Prohibition spending will not be cut.
I was seriously impacted by this chat. I kind of knew the ‘way of the world’ before he explained. Now, ain’t no doubt. As a USA citizen, it was a painful 10 minutes.
Personal Note: Many of you have asked about Karen. Please know she is 100% in body and spirit. Lucky boy I am.
COP stats since inception: August 2009
1038 Presentations to Congressional staffers..13 this week
30 Appearances on major TV networks (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision)
21 published interviews in major (daily)newspapers
43 interviews and reports in minor media = blogs, cable TV, etc
71 published letters to the editor (value per MAPINC in free publicity: $70,000) = 1 this week
2 editorials in daily papers mentioning my efforts & in support of COP position
22 Radio Interviews
34 brief chats with Members of Congress
30 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, etc.
11 major conferences attended (CPAC, LULAC, NRA, etc)
Permanent invitation to Grover Norquist’s Wednesday brunch attended by 150 conservative leaders. Named the “Grand Central Station of the Conservative Movement.”
Consider being a member of COP at $30.00 or more per year. All contributions are tax-deductible. Law Enforcement’s voice in opposition to current policy is vital on the Hill to achieve a repeal of federal prohibition. COP provides that voice. If you agree that Modern Prohibition/War on Drugs is the most destructive, dysfunctional and immoral policy since slavery & Jim Crow and want to be a part of the solution… Go to:
www.CitizensOpposingProhibition.org and click on Donate/Join – by credit card or send a check to:
Citizens Opposing Prohibition
POB 543
Buckeystown, MD 21717
This LTE was published by the Dallas Morning News on January 6, 2013
Pot laws a danger to kids
Re: “Which way on marijuana? — Legalization movement is gambling with our children’s futures, says Richard Roper,” Wednesday Viewpoints.
I’m writing as a retired street cop. I saw the prohibition of marijuana reduce the safety of our children. Nearly 1 million teens are selling drugs like marijuana today, since prohibition creates a job option. Every week, kids are shot because of their prohibition employment. Moreover, while detectives are in helicopters looking for a green plant, pedophiles are more able to contact and rape our children.
Roper fears an increase in teen use when marijuana is legal. Maybe. Or they might use less, as the attraction of a forbidden fruit is gone. I am not an expert. Is Roper?
Last, bear in mind that law enforcement may want to keep prohibition because they fear a loss of jobs and easy overtime. They have a conflict of interest.
Howard Wooldridge, Dallas
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Publicatoin Ethics
Abbreviated title: Int. J Struct. Civ. Eng. Res.
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Eric Strauss
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Building Information Modeling Application in Engineering Design Performance Prediction
Wen-Bin Chiu
Operations, Pacific Engineers & Constructors, LtD, Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Manuscript received October 4, 2021; revised November 1, 2021; accepted December 11, 2021; issue published January 7, 2022.
Abstract—Engineering design constitutes a critical factor in a construction project, and the process has fundamentally impacted the performance. Previous research on design performance has established the relationships between project attributes and performance measures. Recently, there is growing interested in measuring the benefits of BIM on project performance, but less attention on design performance. Evaluating design performance based on the relationships between the use of BIM inputs and outputs becomes essential. This paper presents a systematic analysis correlating BIM uses with engineering performance to better predict industrial construction projects. Applying project data collected through BIM application surveys and the statistical variable reduction techniques to develop multiple linear regression models of the engineering design performance evaluation, the best prediction was achieved and validated. The study results show that the correlation between BIM uses and engineering performance measures is significant, and the engineering design performance can be predicted from BIM uses attributes.
Index Terms—Building Information Modeling (BIM), engineering design performance, BIM Uses, performance measures
Cite: Wen-Bin Chiu, "Building Information Modeling Application in Engineering Design Performance Prediction," International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 28-34, February 2022. doi: 10.18178/ijscer.11.1.28-34
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Independent Events are ecstatic to yet again receive nominations for two national Field Marketing & Branding Awards, this time in for most effective roadshow/shopping centre campaign and the highly prestigious special client relationship for their long standing work with the Road Respect campaign.
The Field Marketing & Brand Experience Awards are amongst the most recognised and highest accolades within field marketing, and IE will be joined at the awards ceremony by some of the most established experiential marketing agencies nationwide at a packed out event taking place in London later this year.
Director, Danae Abadom said of the achievement “It’s amazing to be nominated again for two prestigious awards. To get such recognition for the hard work we’ve put in over the past few years is fantastic and it always great to fly the flag for the North East national, we’re really excited for the awards ceremony which is always a standout event.”
Last time round brought success at the awards for IE, scooping Bronze for Most Successful Small Scale Campaign for the augmented reality pop up shop for Road Respect, and we hope to build on last year’s success by adding another FMBE award to the pile!
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The feasibility of targeted test-trace-isolate for the control of SARS-CoV-2 variants
William J. Bradshaw, Jonathan H. Huggins, Alun L. Lloyd, Kevin M. Esvelt
The SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 reportedly exhibits substantially higher transmission than the ancestral strain and may generate a major surge of cases before vaccines become widely available. As B.1.1.7 can be sensitively detected using the Thermo Fisher TaqPath S-gene RT-PCR test, contact tracing and isolation programs appear well-suited to slowing the spread of the new variant, which is still rare in most of the dozens of countries in which it has been identified. However, key determinants of outcomes such as data-sharing, trace success, and isolation compliance vary widely between regions, which may discourage public health agencies from explicitly redirecting existing contact tracers to contain B.1.1.7. Here we apply a branching-process model to estimate the effectiveness of implementing a B.1.1.7-focused testing, contact tracing, and isolation strategy with realistic levels of performance. Our model indicates that bidirectional contact tracing can substantially slow the spread of B.1.1.7 even in regions where a large fraction of the population refuses to cooperate with contact tracers or to abide by quarantine and isolation requests.
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Adam and Hope Smith
260 Erwin Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Adam & Hope Smith serve as the Team Leaders for the Athletes in Action ministry at UNC. They are passionate about introducing athletes to a relationship with Christ, building into them during their time in college, and sending them out into whatever mission field God has for them in life. Please pray for their daily dependence on the Spirit, and for wisdom and discernment as they lead their team and strive to partner well with FCA, that this relationship would be a display of gospel unity and humility. Please also pray for athletes to truly recognize their need for Jesus and for their hearts to be open to his life-giving Spirit.
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Dick & Nancy Baggé
Dick & Nancy worked in Kenya for two decades, returning to the US in 2015 to continue serving as a psychiatrist and counselor for global workers affiliated with Wycliffe Bible Translators and their partner organizations.
Jareb & Amy
Jareb and Amy are developing and translating Bible lessons and sending them via the internet to remote, tribal friends on the other side of the world. The McClains plan to split their time between serving from Durham, NC and onsite in Asia-Pacific.
Bill & Pam Rapier
Whunga, Zimbabwe
Bill and Pam work directly with 20 orphans in Zimbabwe as they raise and prepare these orphan children through high school and into college, technical school, and established living. They also are building a Christian school for children in Zim and the community.
Jerry offers pastoral care while Carol provides clinical member care for Global Outreach Interational. Carol & Jerry work in support of missions around the world and offer training for sending churches as they care for global workers through the Barnabas Initiative.
Gary & Vivian Michael
Yopal, Colombia
Gary and Vivian are in transition out of missions work in Colombia. They are now preparing to make roots back in the U.S. as they begin following the Lord’s lead to retire from the missions field.
Wright & Dori Doyle
Wright has preached in Chinese churches and taught in Chinese seminaries in North America, Taiwan, and England. He now focuses on writing and on mentoring younger Chinese church leaders and Americans with a burden to serve God among the Chinese. He also leads a weekly sermon discussion group in Mandarin for Chinese who attend their church and a monthly Bible study for Christians working in a local Chinese restaurant.
Andrew & Marnie Ginsberg
Andrew joined InterVarsity in 2010, and serves as Chief Development Officer. His wife Marnie is a reading education expert and performs research to teach struggling readers in the poorest, most rural school systems in America. They moved from North Carolina to Madison, Wisconsin with their three daughters.
David & Julie Stickel
111 Morgan Oaks Dr. Chapel Hill, NC 27516
David and Julie are actively involved in teaching English to Asians in and around Chapel Hill. Several undergrads studying Mandarin Chinese are involved and have brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to our effort. One will spend 6 months developing her language skills and bond to the culture overseas. David, as a painter, also has several unusual opportunities to invest in redemptive relationships.
Andrew & Jeanette White
UNC at Chapel Hill
4511 Erwin Rd Durham, NC 27705
Andrew and Jeanette are both UNC alums and met one another while serving on staff with Cru. Andrew is the Campus Director of Cru @ UNC. They have two beautiful little girls, Madelyn and Anna Lewis!
Creig & Sherry Marlowe
Oegstgeest, Netherlands
Creig offers theological and pastoral training to the international student body at The Evangelical Theological Faculty (ETF, Leuven). Sherry works on ETF library acquisitions and teaching 9-10 year olds at church. They are both on Missions/ Evangelism committee and work with outreach activities at the American Protestant Church in The Hague. They also host a small group Bible study at their home.
Chad & Ruthanne Lynch
Union Mills, NC
Chad and Ruthanne have been in Chile for several years ministering directly to the Machupe people in Romachupe, Chile. They have now transitioned to Union Mills, NC to train new missionaries from over 50 different agencies to help them be productive long-term around the world.
Steadman & Alyssa Harrison
K'ebele, Ethiopia
Steadman Harrison is the CEO at Global Outreach International. As they look to the future, their goal is to democratize mission development. They want to catalyze the modern mission movement and expand the number of short-term and long-term team members extending their reach into a larger world.
Eric & Kimberly Rodgers
512 Ridgecrest Road Cary, NC 27511
Eric and Kimberly were commissioned in March 2018 at Chapel Hill Bible Church for the mission field. They both serve local and international staff around the world with care and training.
David & Judy
223 W King St Hillsborough, NC 27278
David and Judy have served in SE Asia for decades and are now in transition back to North Carolina.
Rick & Sonya Hove
3812 Cottonwood Drive Durham, NC 27705
Rick has been the Executive Director of Faculty Commons since 2005. Rick has also directed the student ministries of Campus Crusade at Rice University and Duke University. He is a summa cum laude graduate from both Georgia Tech and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
John & Clara
260 Erwin Road, Chapel Hill 27514
John & Clara serve as church planters overseas (undisclosed location).
Dale & Beth
Dale and Beth’s ministry is specifically targeted to Central Asian Muslims to see churches established that proclaim the Good News and model true Christian living on the examples of Jesus.
Curt & Marcia Rhodes
Curt and Marcia provide shelter, water, sanitation, trauma counseling and rehabilitation, education, and legal assistance to half-a-million Syrian refugees.
Kitty Moyer
Bomet County, Kenya
Kitty serves in a mission hospital in Bomet County alongside Kenyan staff. She teaches students in the classroom and trains them clinically at the hospital’s College of Health Sciences in the School of Nursing Department.
Beacon of Hope brings hope to women living with and affect by HIV/AIDS within poor communities by empowering and equipping them to meet their spiritual, physical, emotional and economic needs.
North Carolina Study Center (Battle House @ UNC)
203 Battle Ln, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Living out the welcome, wisdom and truth of Jesus. We are across the street from Kenan Dorm. Please come see us!
Focus Points/Highlights of Ministry:
To cultivate Christian life and thought at UNC.
For UNC to know Christ’s love and truth thanks to the hospitality, thoughtfulness and joy of the extended Christian community.
There are several priorities we focus on as we undertake our mission:
Friendship: Whereas many organizations grow as their membership increases, study center staff forms regular friendships with hundreds of students, none of whom are considered “members.” Over 75 people per day visit the Study Center during the school year (350 students come once a week).
Intellectual Growth: To be at a University is to be, among other things, called to the pursuit of knowledge. Because “all truth is God’s truth,” this can be approached as a Christian calling, particularly when conducted alongside the revealed truth of God in scripture.
Community Engagement: We hope to see people faithfully present in the life of the University, fully themselves as followers of Christ and also fully invested members of the UNC community, as leaders in dorms, departments, campus organizations and beyond.
Coherent Lives: To be coherent is to be the same person with the same fundamental priorities wherever you go. Does someone’s identity as a follower of Christ stop once they step foot into a classroom or workspace? No! We celebrate faithfulness that extends to all areas of life, even those parts normally considered distinct from “ministry.”
Website: ncstudycenter.org
Chatham Community Church
480 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Chatham Community Church was founded by our Pastor Emeritus, Randy Russell over a decade ago near Pittsboro. Today, Alex Kirk pastors this growing and vibrant church in Chatham County with two locations – Woods Charter School in North Chatham County and Chatham Mills Ministry Space in Pittsboro.
Christ Central Church
807 E. Main Street Suite 2-220, Durham, NC 27701
Daniel and Timothy started dreaming and praying about a downtown church in Durham, NC in 2010. The dream became a reality when an initial group committed to meeting in June 2013 for weekly Bible study, prayer, and discussion on the church. We officially launched our first public worship service January 2014. God has been gracious to raise up many partners including Church of the Good Shepherd, Chapel Hill Bible Church, and Eastern Carolina Presbytery, and has grown our congregation in so many ways. We are excited about where we are and where the Lord is taking us!
FokusBasel
FokusBasel was planted in March 2015 by Leo and Judith Dietschy, opened an office April 1st, and conducted 6 test services in that summer. Today, they now meet every Sunday in the heart of Kleinbasel with dozens of members.
Hengchun Bible Church
Hengchun, Taiwan
This is a house church on the southern tip of Taiwan. It started as a Bible study that met in the home of Randy and Janet Adams, OMF missionaries. The church was launched in 2002 after finding that people were coming to faith in Christ, but needed a church family to become a part of.
Hugh & Julie Jones
602 Robert Hunt Drive, Carrboro, NC 27510
Hugh and Julie serve on the UNC campus as coordinators for Bridges International – a ministry that specifically focuses on international students. Bridges International seeks to help international students through service activities, social networking, and spiritual resources.
Scott & Tina Lawrence
Scott and Tina provide eye care to the poor and displaced of Ethiopia (and sometimes, Somalia) through their eye care center, Myungsung Christian Medical Center.
Mavuno Addis
Mavuno Church and Chapel Hill Bible Church have partnered together (again) to plant a new church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mavuno Berlin
Mavuno Berlin is a cross-generational, multi-cultural church in Berlin, Germany planted in 2011 by Daniel and Nancy Flechsig.
Pregnancy Support Services
Serving Chapel Hill & Durham
1777 North Fordham Blvd. Suite 203 Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Pregnancy Support Services (PSS) serves Durham and Chapel Hill women assistance when facing an unplanned pregnancy. They also offer Healthy Relationship education to local schools and organizations.
WanHua Bible Church
WanHua District, Taipei, Taiwan
This church began in the Taipei district of WanHua in Northern Taiwan. It is an English Bible study in Randy and Janet Adams’ home. The church launched in 2012 and now meets in a member’s home. Randy continues via Skype to disciple members and helps them prepare to lead the Bible study for each Sunday. Members meet for weekly Bible study and prayer.
World Relief Durham
801 Gilbert St #209, Durham, NC 27701
World Relief Durham is a dedicated staff team working together with refugees, the Church, and community partners to help refugees integrate and thrive in the Triangle.
Kyle & Koko
Kyle and Koko are based stateside after 11 years in Southeast Asia (undisclosed location) and remained focused on unreached peoples in that area.
Zach & Emily
Zach and Emily serve in East Asia (Undisclosed Location) in a major university city, multiplying disciples in the universities where they work.
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Risale-i Nur Külliyatı . prayed: “O God, illuminate him
prayed: “O God, illuminate him!”, and a light appeared between his eyes. Later it was transferred to the end of his staff, and he became famous as Dhi’l-Nur, the Possessor of Light.1 These incidents are all from well-known Hadiths that are certain.
Also, Abu Hurayra once complained to the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) that he sometimes suffered from forgetfulness. God’s Messenger (UWBP) told him to spread out a piece of cloth. He then made some movements with his blessed hand as though taking some invisible objects and putting them on the cloth. He repeated this two or three times, then told him to gather up the cloth. Abu Hurayra later swore that through the mystery of this prayer of the Prophet (UWBP), he never again forgot anything.2 This event is also among well-known Hadiths.
F o u r t h E x a m p l e : We shall describe here a few events regarding maledictions of God’s Messenger (UWBP).
The First: The Persian Shah Parviz tore up the letter sent to him by God’s Messenger (UWBP). When the Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) received news of this, he prayed: “O God, rend him as he rent my letter!”3 It was as a result of this malediction that Chosroes Parviz’s son Shirviya cut him to pieces with a dagger.4 And Sa‘d b. al-Waqqas broke his kingdom apart, so that in no part of the Sasanid empire did his sovereignty remain. However, the Emperor of Byzantium and other kings did not perish since they respected the Prophet’s (UWBP) letters.
The Second: An event almost as well-known as those reported unanimously, which some verses of the Qur’an allude to, is this: in the early days of Islam, the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was performing the prayers in the Masjid al-Haram, when the chiefs of the Quraysh gathered and maltreated him. At the time, the Messenger (UWBP) called down curses on them. Ibn Mas‘ud stated: “I swear that at the Battle of Badr I saw the corpses of all those who had ill-treated him and received his curse.”5
Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 328; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 134; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 662.
Bukhari, ‘Ilm, 42; Manaqib, 28; Buyu’, 1; Harth, 21; Muslim, Fada’il al-Sahaba, 159, no: 2492; Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 46, 47; Musnad, ii, 240, 274, 428; al-Mubarakfuri, Tuhfat al-Ahwazi, x, 334 no: 3923; Ibn al-Asir, Jami’ al-Usul (Tahqiq: Arnavud), ix, 95; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya, vi, 162; al-Sa’ati, al-Fath al-Rabbani, xxii, 405, 409-10; Abu Nu’aym, Hilyat al-Awliya, i, 381; al-‘Asqalani, al-Isaba, no: 1190.
Bukhari, ‘Ilm, 7; Jihad, 101; Maghazi, 82; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 328; al-Sa’ati, al-Fath al-Rabbani, xxii, 159.
Ibn Hisham, al-Sirat al-Nabawiyya, i, 71; Tabari, Tarikh al-Umma wa’l-Muluk, ii, 135; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya, x, 369.
Bukhari, Salat, 109; Manaqib al-Ansar, 45; Muslim, Jihad, 107 no: 1794; Musnad, i, 417.
Risale-i Nur/The Rays/The Eleventh Ray/The Tenth Topic
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Risale-i Nur/The Rays/A Brief Look at Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Life
Risale-i Nur/The Rays/The Fourth Ray/The Fourth Degree
Risale-i Nur/The Rays/The Ninth Ray/Introduction/Second Point
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Sims Discussion
Sims2 Pollination Technician on Campus
Pollination Technician on Campus
Pizzatron-9000
Pizza Fish
So I just sent Doctor Malevolence's half-alien daughter Benne to college. And while she was meandering her way to her first class, I noticed this dapper fellow standing in her dormitory's courtyard:
That would be her other father, I presume.
But his available interactions amounted to one "Hold Pollination" command. I didn't try asking him to hold his pollination (whatever that means) because quite frankly, the possibilities scare me.
Oh, great. Now he's passed out!
And that's pretty much all he does: Stand by the big fountain in the courtyard, doing idle animations, daring me to tell him to hold his pollination, passing out at night and getting up again in the morning.
Should I be concerned about this?
Pizzatron-9000, proud to be a member of LeeFish since Aug 2018.
BoilingOil
Darwin Award Juror!
In principle, he should not even show up on playable lots. That much I *do* know. It is possible, though, that some mod (unknown to me) in your game makes it possible for PT and other normally unplayable sims to make an appearance. I have no idea how to test for these things, nor what to do about it, though. It looks like a form of game corruption, but if this is all that happens, I wouldn't worry too much quite yet.
If you have the BatBox installed, I would advise to not procrastinate, but use it to remove mister Greenskin from the premises without hesitation. That's the best advice I can give at this time.
By the way, I think Benne is cute!
(11-08-2018 12:12 PM)BoilingOil Wrote: In principle, he should not even show up on playable lots. That much I *do* know. It is possible, though, that some mod (unknown to me) in your game makes it possible for PT and other normally unplayable sims to make an appearance. I have no idea how to test for these things, nor what to do about it, though. It looks like a form of game corruption, but if this is all that happens, I wouldn't worry too much quite yet.
There have been a few other bits and pieces of corruption here and there, like moving two Sims out of a household, only they stay in the household and move into the Family Bin, so all of a sudden they're existing in two places at the same time. It's probably not a good thing.
(11-08-2018 12:12 PM)BoilingOil Wrote: If you have the BatBox installed, I would advise to not procrastinate, but use it to remove mister Greenskin from the premises without hesitation. That's the best advice I can give at this time.
Well, I just searched my C: Drive for "Batbox", and apparently that's one program which I've never installed yet, even though I've heard good things about it.
If it'll solve my problem(s), though, then that goes right to my To Do list. Is Batbox available here on Leefish, by chance?
(Here's hoping that I don't have to go back to the Sims Site That Shall Not Be Named to find Batbox, fingers crossed.)
(11-08-2018 12:12 PM)BoilingOil Wrote: By the way, I think Benne is cute!
Apparently, the student who moved onto campus right before Benne did thinks so too. She won't stop calling Benne! So I switched over to her and said, "Hey, Sanguine! Call Benne again!"
They've never met face to face, yet there it is! Relationship: 100. That's a lot of phone calls!
Hey, @Pizzatron-9000
"Batbox" is the nickname of an object that -- in-game -- looks like an ordinary black box with a golden BATMAN symbol on the lid. You will not find its file by looking for a "batbox" in your downloads folder.
The real names is "Lot Debugger", and it was made by the incomparable J.M. Pescado. Knowing that, I think you understand where you must go to find it, right?
I'm a little worried about your game, though. What you're saying seems to indicate that things may turn out ugly in time...
Also, Sanguine Succubosa doesn't look half bad, either.
Oh, CJ-debugger.package! I do have it installed! Okay, excellent! Thank you. I'll dig it out and give it a go.
I assume that it's under Miscellaneous items with the rest of my special Buy Mode goodies, like the picture that can turn a Sim into any Life State and such (which is how I made my quasi-infamous Zombies household).
But I digress. I've been worrying about my game eventually imploding completely, and that some glitches that I didn't install the fixes for until after they reared their ugly heads (like a High Vampire running amok and biting everyone in arm's reach, The Crump included) have already dealt enough underlying damage to eventually snowball into Very Bad Things, necessitating a complete uninstall and reinstall. And since I can't get my download of The Complete Collection to work, that means installing from all of my original disks, which is time-consuming. Not to mention losing all these Sims whom I've grown to love. I might make another thread about that in a little while.
But speaking of Castle Von Carstein and Sanguine, it has been a while since I built that dorm as a vampire-friendly place for college-going vampires to live, all starting with Carmilla von Carstein, who has become something of Pleasantview's "Blood Countess" of sorts.
Yes, it says "Witch," but she's a vampire too. Trust me on this.
(Also seen: Some random townie named Clarence Trimble (who got bitten by the same High Vampire running amock back before I very quickly downloaded a fix for crazed, neck-biting High Vampires, so Carmilla befriended him, cured him with her witchery and invited him into her household, so now he helps run the manor during the daylight hours as her "Renfield" of sorts) and a dolled-up Jessica Ebadi (who infuriated Carmilla by breaking into her manor — enough so that Carmilla rolled up a "See Jessica's Ghost" Want — so Carmilla used a combination of Appello Simae, the Voodoo Doll's Friendship spell and neck-biting to turn Jessica into a vampire so that Carmilla could lock her in the greenhouse and let the sunrise handle the rest, only I was too much of a soft-hearted, benevolent SimGod to go through with it, so I let Jessica out of the greenhouse and ran her to an available coffin right as the sun came up, and they've been roommates/friends/lovers ever since).)
The free TV helped cement Jessica's place in the Von Carstein household, of course.
But I digress once again. Ever since Carmilla graduated from college many SimYears ago, it has been quite a while since I had a vampire living in the Castle Von Carstein dorm. I've had those five zombies slouching around the castle (before they raked in enough money to build the Romero House, move into it and charter the Zee-Zed-Zulu Greek house), I've had a couple of werewolves tearing up the place, I've had seven witches (of varying moralities) cluttering up the castle's keep with their cauldrons and spellbooks, and I've had quite a few regular, normal Simmy college students live there from time to time, but I figured that it was time to put all those random coffins to good use and make another vampire college student. And, taking a cue from Salma Hayek in From Dusk Till Dawn, I decided to go with more of a Latina look. Enter, Sanguine Succubosa. Unfortunately, I neglected to follow through with the Salma Hayek-esque inspiration by making her a natural Music and Dance hobbyist, so Sanguine has Games as her One True Hobby instead. And it so happens that Castle Von Carstein has a game room! How much of Sanguine's money is from making the Dean's List, and how much is from hustling Billiards and playing Poker with other students? Not even I can be sure!
Sanguine does have a saucy bikini for her underwear, at least...probably too saucy for these forums. So y'all get the peasant dress. And she'll get around to befriending a High Vampire very soon, I promise.
(Seriously, Sanguine. Give Benne a break already!)
Anyway, I'm veering into off-topic stuff that should be saved for another topic, so I'm off to make another topic before I go in-game and Batbox the Pollination Technician into oblivion. Cheers!
(This post was last modified: 13-08-2018 10:34 PM by Pizzatron-9000.)
NO, NOT CJ-debugger.package, because THAT was made by Cyjon, who is NOT Pescado, and does NOT post his material on the place where I was trying to send you (this time please click the colored text, because that is a LINK!)
Actually, I've looked it up, and the file in downloads is named "ffsdebugger.package".
No wonder I couldn't find the Batbox in-game. Mistaken identity, that's all. Oops.
Knowing Pescado's style, I can guess what the "FFS" in "ffsdebugger.package" stands for. Pescado didn't toss any of his trademark "embellishments" into this package, did he? Like, I install it to delete corrupt characters and suddenly every Sim starts wearing a garish Hawaiian shirt while speaking in perfect Dutch or whatever?
FFS stand for Flying Fish Systems (Pescado is Spanish for fish, I believe). As far as I know, none of Pescado's mods are entirely free of his personal touch of preferences. But in general, the batbox is reasonably safe to use. Much of the work that my signature mods (No Sim Loaded and No Trash Memories) do, is based on the power of the batbox with some minor improvements and added automation.
But, ehm... Why did you single out Dutch?
Subconscious association, probably. Batbox-and-Pescado discussion on Leefish, Leefish has the .nl domain, .nl means that the site originates in the Netherlands, Netherlands = Dutch things. That's all. It's kind of like a rolling "Six Degrees of Separation" game (or its more contemporary Hollywood equivalent) playing out in the back of my mind.
And "pescado" is indeed Spanish for "fish;" add one letter ("pescador") and you have the Spanish word for "fisherman". And we're on Leefish, a Sims site with its own theme and associations related to fishes. I sense a fishy conspiracy afoot in the Sims communities!
(And one of these days, I'd like to ask Pescado, "Dude, why do you have to attach your own personal quirks, preferences and biases to every mod you make? Not every Simmer out there shares your quirks, your preferences, your ideology or your point of view! I don't want to install some random Pescado mod that turns the skies a Martian shade of red only for my Sims to suddenly start becoming instant Enemies with every vampire they meet just because you don't like Simmy vampires! Or whatever; those are just hypothetical examples. So relax already, amigo!")
#10 15-08-2018
It took a bit of searching (because MoreAwesomeThanYou is pretty big and twice as crazy, and good luck getting the Search feature to narrow things down....), but this should be a more direct link to the Lot Debugger:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/in...,72.0.html
Okay, now to plug this thing in. I wonder what the heck Pescado means by "NUCLEAR WAR EDITION". Who knows?
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Do you remember we had an actual White Christmas in 2012? The forecast issued the night before (above) actually came true. I should have posted this on Monday.
Southwest's troubles continue this morning.
But a local radio talk show host was able to make it out to Phoenix for this weekend's TCU/Michigan game. (Cue the orchestra music.)
If people want to get all up in arms over the lying Congressman, I'm right there with them But I think it's a bad look for a D.A.'s office to go looking for crime in reaction to sensational headlines.
I'll say it: He was unnecessarily mean and a bully.
A sentencing hearing before a Tarrant County judge in an Intoxication Manslaughter case was held yesterday after the defendant pled guilty and waived a jury. It sounds like a heart-breaking case with the victim being an assistant dean at TCU. The sentence was seven years.
DFW radio ratings were just released, including the results of the new sports station "The Freak" (I still hate that name.)
This is going in at Alliance Center at I-35 and North Tarrant Parkway. It seems like only yesterday where that whole area was just pastures.
Very random thing I noticed that no one cares about but me: A brief split second of a local commercial for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra showed a guy who reminded me of Will Bailey from The West Wing.
Come again? (Here's the Petition.) The replies to the tweet remind me of what a bloodthirsty country we are.
Bowl quick hits:
Good win for Tech over Ole Miss, 42-25. Ole Miss went 2-for-7 on fourth-down attempts, and had five turnovers. They entered the game as a 4.5 point favorite.
A touchdown reception in overtime in the wild Kansas/Arkansas game was obscured last night by a pig and/or demon.
Based upon amount of advertising I'm seeing for Cotton Bowl tickets, I don't think they've sold many to the USC/Tulane game. And that makes sense. SeatGeek has a mountain of tickets for sale for . . . $5.
The Evil Empire plays in the Alamo Bowl tonight (ESPN at 8:00) at the same time as the Cowboys play (Fox/Amazon at 7:15). I bet they've never been on TV simultaneously before.
It's Friday - Let's Get Out of Here
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Family and Faith: The Heart of Lost and Once Upon A Time
by Jennifer Brouillard (@Jennykate75)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Fans of the hit TV show Lost certainly agree. This groundbreaking ABC drama stretched the minds of its creators, writers, and viewers with ambitious, character-driven storylines told through flashbacks, flash-forwards, and even forays into side worlds. Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz relied on their experience writing Lost when they created Once Upon A Time (OUAT), with tributes to their former show in almost every episode. But these Easter eggs are more than just Apollo bars and recurrences of 815. Both shows fundamentally share the same beating heart — the same core. For OUAT, that analogy is rather literal.
Both Lost and OUAT’s antagonists were flawed individuals tortured by their pasts and parents. Regina’s transformation stemmed from her mother Cora’s manipulations while Sawyer witnessed the murder/suicide of his parents. Rumple’s father abandoned and then later had Rumple forcibly removed from Neverland. Ben, Rumple and Regina killed their fathers. The Man in Black stabbed his overbearing adopted mother after she murdered the villagers of his camp and destroyed his only way off the island. But villains weren’t the only victims of poor parenting. Jiminy’s parents forced him to cheat and steal as a child; Kate killed her abusive alcoholic father; and John Locke became paralyzed when his father pushed him out an eight-story window. Although Rumple’s father, Malcolm, showed his heartlessness in becoming Peter Pan, John Locke’s father Anthony Cooper still reigns supreme as Worst Father Ever.
Considering Lost’s cast of horrible parents, the island issued an edict to its residents: things are bad enough without you producing a mini-version of yourselves to make things worse. Perhaps the island shared Jacob and the Man in Black’s adopted mother’s view that humanity is inherently corrupt. Whatever its beliefs, the island survived by merging light leaders with dark to keep each other in check: Jacob with the Man in Black, and, by the show’s end, Hurley with Ben. It allowed characters redemption, but often at an exorbitant price: their lives.
Magic has its price, as the characters on Once Upon A Time can attest. The message isn’t that humanity is corrupt, but that it is corruptible (especially through magic and power) and redeemable as hope pervades even the darkest fairy tales. Eddy and Adam continued Lost’s theme of poor parenting in OUAT’s first season, this time through dire decisions made with the best intentions, as Gepetto sent Pinocchio and Snow and Charming sent Emma to break the curse that was about to befall them. Even with a second chance at parenting, Snow and Charming blindly trusted Zelena to help deliver Baby #2, failing to sense her true motives. Charming’s fears were justified and he was able to quell them, but at the cost of losing to Zelena his sword, a totem of his courage. Could this be his swan song?
Finding Faith
Swans are a force of a nature in both shows. The Swan Station on Lost, a steely exterior that periodically released electromagnetic energy as needed to save the world and its inhabitants, could also describe OUAT’s Emma as she releases her magic only at critical moments. Like OUAT’s Emma, Lost featured a blonde haired, blue eyed young girl of the same name who is separated from her parents. OUAT’s Emma laments her exhausting and never-ending position as savior that prohibits her from leading a normal life, as if she herself has to punch in the numbers every 108 minutes. Just as the Swan Station connected John and Desmond at their most desperate hour, Emma connected Rumple with Neal, Neal with Henry, Henry with Regina and his newfound grandparents, and even Ashley with her prince Sean when they needed faith the most.
The balance between faith and science is a recurring theme, as Jack and Locke are described respectively in the Lost episode entitled “Man of Science, Man of Faith,” while OUAT created the magical Enchanted Forest and Dr. Frankenstein’s black-and-white world of science as differing realms. Lost and OUAT emphasize the importance of belief, as Jack and Emma experience a similar path to it. Faith is a force that pushes the Swan Station’s buttons and gives fairies magic, but too much faith without proof is detrimental. Peter Pan swindled Henry into giving up his heart. Greg and Tamara believed wholeheartedly in the anti-magic cause; following orders without question led to their downfall, much like the people on Lost’s freighter. Even the venerable Jacob was blindly faithful to a fault. His backstory revealed extreme naiveté and an inability to lie, reminding one of Dark Helmet’s quote from Spaceballs: “Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”
Evil’s cunning relies on good’s gullibility, as characters such as Cora, the Shadow and the Smoke Monster changed form to deceive others (including viewers) for their own nefarious means. To rephrase Drive Shaft’s only hit song, “You are everybody!” these characters often told the ones they were trying to trick what they wanted to hear to increase camaraderie and believability. But this cunning provides little advantage, as several suffered the same gut-wrenching fate regardless of affiliation: Cora, Snow, Emma, Rumple, Neal, Claire, Danielle and Michael were all separated from their first-borns in one way or another. Both shows share the same message: Misery doesn’t discriminate.
Lost’s Island vs. Neverland
Michael’s search for first-born Walt is much like Emma’s search for first-born Henry as they scoured a mysterious island featuring strange powers. While the Others kidnapped Walt for being special, Pan and his Lost Boys kidnapped Henry for the same reason. And like the Others, Pan moved his camp so it would be harder to find.
Both islands shared topological traits: a mountain, cave, beach, jungle — and a heart holding the source of transformation. In OUAT, this heart was Skull Rock, where Pan’s magic was restored, while Lost’s island magic resided in a cave that turned the Man in Black into the Smoke Monster. Lost’s island also contained a well that could access electromagnetic energy, much like Storybrooke’s well can access magic.
Character Similarities
Lost and OUAT access magic through superb acting, and the actors who appeared on both shows play characters that share similarities. Whether as Claire or Belle, Emilie de Ravin lost her mind after relationships with flawed bad boys — one addicted to drugs, the other to power. Both men died sacrificing themselves, although Rumple returned to life. Pivotal moments in these relationships revolved around food, whether it was eating imaginary peanut butter or sipping a chipped cup of tea. Continuing the food theme, Jorge Garcia’s Anton the friendly giant oversaw the beans much as Hurley did with the island’s food supply. Whether as Charles Widmore or King George, Alan Dale wreaked havoc to achieve wealth and power. Whether as Zelena or Charlotte Lewis, Rebecca Mader coped with separation from a parent, which ultimately affected her decision-making.
Similarities between Lost and OUAT characters exist as well. Hook’s brother Liam shared the same name as Charlie’s. Pan is comparable to the Smoke Monster. Both originated as other people who cheated at games — Pan as Malcolm playing three-card monty, the Smoke Monster as the Man in Black playing Senet. Their transformation into Pan and the Smoke Monster ultimately tied them to their islands forever. The big difference between the two, however, is that Malcolm’s transformation into Pan was desired, while the Man in Black’s into the Smoke Monster was not. Both initiated a slow, elaborate plan manipulating others so they could either stay on or leave their islands. Eventually their enemies robbed them of their immortality and killed them.
Even vintage Volkswagens are characters in their own right, as VW's Type 2 minibuses/vans transported DHARMA workers and castaways where they were needed, while VW's Type 1 (aka "the Beetle") brought Emma to her destiny in Storybrooke.
Rumple is a lot like Ben. The power-hungry men with questionable morals and small physiques committed patricide, made a name for themselves in their own worlds and were highly protective of their children, who ultimately died in front of them as their enemies planned. Although the whereabouts of Rumple’s mother are unknown, she is possibly dead like Ben’s.
Hook shares similarities with Desmond. The men with Celtic accents drank to drown their sorrows and were in the military before captaining boats they later lost and fought to retrieve. Before becoming main character allies, both debuted in Season 2 as main character enemies, as Desmond held Kate and Locke at gunpoint while Hook sought revenge against Rumple. Both long to be with the blonde haired, blue-eyed women they love. Hook left Storybrooke to retrieve Emma and retained his memory during this last curse when main characters could not. Desmond traveled off the island to be with Penny and recalled his life in the flash sideways world, eventually helping others remember their own lives. Like Desmond, perhaps Hook will help his show’s characters in regaining their memories.
Hypothesizing The End
While searching Neverland for her son in OUAT’s “Nasty Habits”, Emma says, “If there's one thing I've learned it's that you never break in somewhere unless you know the way out.”
The writers could be talking about their shows as well. Lost's finale mirrored its premiere, with Jack closing his eye at the series’ end just as he had opened it at the series’ beginning. If OUAT follows the same path, perhaps we’ll see the Evil Queen in Snow’s position, finally having the happy ending that always eluded her. Regina’s happy ending is not as a violent ruler and Henry’s sole mother, but as a respected mayor, Roland’s stepmother (finally getting the stepmother role right!), and Robin’s soulmate. The script could repeat the following final words of Lost’s, with Regina’s name replacing Jack’s:
Regina has done what she came to this place to do. She has found her purpose.
She has found love, and been loved. She has finally found a way to love herself.
The same scenario could work for other OUAT characters, including Rumple and Emma. They must fight their fears of vulnerability to experience true happiness and love. Despite past events that have jaded them, their definition of family can become whatever they make of it; their power to stop destructive cycles doesn’t come from magic, but from within.
Both Lost and OUAT shocked audiences by revealing characters as blood relatives, such as Jack with Claire, Rumple and Neal with Henry, Regina with Zelena. But family is where the heart is, and in OUAT’s case, that is literal.
A happy ending in Lost and OUAT is about being accepted and embraced whether in Eloise’s church or in Regina’s Storybrooke.
To paraphrase Jack, when everyone can live together, no one will ever die alone.
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Autel Robotics to Announce EVO Max 4T Drone and New Accessories at CES 2023
Washington, United States – January 5, 2023 – Autel Robotics will showcase the EVO Max 4T drone and a range of new accessories at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. The EVO Max 4T is an intelligent, innovative flight platform perfect for enterprise and prosumer applications. Its advanced autonomous flight technology and AI features give it powerful self-reliance and navigation capabilities. The EVO Max 4T also has omnidirectional obstacle avoidance and tri-anti interference capability (RFI/EMI/GPS) to ensure flight safety and stability in high-interference environments like urban areas. The EVO Max 4T has a versatile payload bay that allows for a variety of sensors to be used for a wide range of applications. Its Enterprise App is specifically designed to revolutionize the cooperation between drones and pilots. This drone can perform multiple semi-autonomous flight missions, autonomous pathfinding, live streaming, and target acquisition, and also includes various smart accessibility features. Potential applications for the EVO Max 4T include search and rescue, firefighting support, mapping, and inspection.
High-quality imaging, intelligent functions
The EVO Max 4T is equipped with three high-quality cameras: a 48MP telephoto camera with 10x Optical Zoom, 160x digital zoom, and a 1/2″ CMOS sensor; a 50MP wide-angle camera with a 1/1.28″ CMOS sensor and 3840×2160 video resolution; and an infrared camera with a 640×512 resolution and 1.2km ranging distance. The EVO Max 4T also has a range of intelligent navigation and data acquisition functions, including 3D flight routes, PinPoint Mode, Team Work, Polygon Mission, Waypoint Mission, and Oblique Photography.
Dragonfish and EVO NEST infrastructure
In addition to the EVO Max 4T, Autel is also releasing the Dragonfish NEST and the EVO NEST. The Dragonfish Nest is the world’s first automated eVTOL support system. With a range of up to 75 miles between units, the Dragonfish Nest combines the high performance of the Dragonfish aircraft with autonomous takeoff, landing, charging, and flight missions. The Dragonfish Nest is perfect for long-range corridor inspections and large area coverage. The EVO NEST is a base for automatic take-off, landing, charging, and mission planning for EVO series drones. It is designed for all-weather operation and can be easily transported in a standard pickup truck. The EVO NEST and the Dragonfish NEST are powered by the SkyCommand Center software. Autel is also releasing a range of accessories, including the Dragonfish Repeater and Autel Smart Antenna Transmission (ASAT) System.
Meet the EVO Max 4T at CES 2023
Autel Robotics invites friends and customers to see the EVO Max 4T and all of these new products at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. The show runs from January 5-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Venue: LVCC Central Hall Booth: 18315 Date: January 5-8, 2023
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Flight of the ONYX at Terra Blanca
Posted by Clive on Friday, March 5, 2010
On our recent trip to the Yakima Valley, Gwynne and I decided to venture out to Red Mountain and the Terra Blanca facilities, which had come highly recommended. Josh emailed ahead and let owner and winemaker Keith Pilgrim know we were coming.
At Terra Blanca, we introduced ourselves and owner and winemaker Keith and marketing genius Heather gave us a rundown of the history of Terra Blanca and a sneak preview into some of their upcoming changes. They're good ones, for sure. We also met Casey the Weimaraner, Heather's arch nemesis at Terra Blanca.
Keith and Heather gave us a tour of the facility. It's magnificent - from caves (caves!) to enormous doors to beautiful views from the terrace. The caves are naturally climate controlled and are hidden behind some serious doors.
As we were wrapping up the tour and our visit, ReNae Pilgrim asked if had a schedule and if we were at all interested in sticking around. The staff was having a lunch meeting in preparation for the 2006 Onyx release that was coming up that weekend. Gwynne and I said that we'd be thrilled to be their guests. (We had no idea just how thrilled we'd be.)
We walked around the corner and before us sat two pizzas and the entire vertical flight of ONYX; nine years worth of their signature Bordeaux blend. Keith, who got his start as geologist, named this wine for the deep dark gem. The ONYX is built to last, and Heather cited a Wine Spectator article that recently named three or four places in the world that turned out wines that were grown for the long haul. Red Mountain Cabernet and Merlot were on that list.
Terra Blanca describes ONYX as a "family portrait" of the Terra Blanca vineyards, and that portrait includes Cabernet, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec. The blend varies from year to year because the fruit is different every year, and the variation allows the character of the vineyards for that year be expressed in the wine.
We started with the 1999, still a big bold wine. A wine that Keith described as "wearing boxing gloves." The grapes had a long hang time in 1999, with a very long growing season, making the vintage of the wine a unique one.
From there we moved to the 2000, which Keith feels is nearly at its peak. The 1998, which we drank immediately afterward, was the first wine to really come into it's own. Both wines are the product of hot seasons and are therefore maturing more quickly. The '98 blend saw 50% Merlot which resulted in soft tannins and a lot of chocolate.
We went next to 1997 which Keith thinks will peak in 8-10 years. It's 90% Cabernet, and is still bright. This was the first year of ONYX, with the estates planted in 1993. The vines were relatively young, in their fifth leaf, and Keith expects this wine will really come into it's own.
2001 was the next wine we tasted; it was very similar to the 97. The label looked like a Francis Bacon painting. This particular vintage used a higher percentage of new oak and the wine has a smoothness and elegance that stood out from its peers.
2002 was another warm growing season, similar to the '98 and 2000. It will likely mature faster than some of the older wines. Keith though prefers the more even temperature years. The fruit is more predictable and you have a good sense of what you can do with it. The 2003, which we tasted next, was likened to the 1997 wines because of the similar structure in the wines. This vintage, however, will take a few years to reveal itself. 2004 was a freeze year, and so only about one third of the crop was available.
The 2005 wine was my favorite, and brought out what is perhaps a first (in my hearing, at any rate): Heather called it crunked. Keith cited an change in oak that broadened the wine and gave it an elegance. The 2005 also introduced a new clone of Petit Verdot that fares a bit better in the Washington climate. He was pleased that I liked it the most as his goal was "to get better at what I'm doing."
The new release, the 2006 was also very good, and Keith turned up the Cab Franc and Petit Verdot ratios on this wine. His goal is to make a wine that's more approachable early. While ONYX is a reflection of the vintage, of that family portrait, it's also a reflection of Keith's maturation as a winemaker. He compared the wines to lego sets; the more sets you have, and the more experience, the more intricate things you can create. Keith talked about his process, of "thinking about this and trying to do something with a goal in mind. We're trying to get better with the choices we're making." When I asked Keith what he thought about the entire flight, and how they were maturing he revealed that he's so caught up in what he has going on in the current vintages that he doesn't give it so much thought.
My favorite thought Keith shared was "Wine is supposed to be fun. If you can figure out how to get the cork out of the bottle, you should be able to enjoy it." Well, we certainly had fun on this day. Being able to taste through the entire history of Terra Blanca, and spend some time with Keith, ReNae, Heather, and the staff was a fantastic experience and showed me a lot about how a wine and a winemaker can change and evolve. We certainly enjoyed it, and we'll be back to visit soon.
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well, it is a birth of blades thread and we're always intr in talking about the episode, provided it's new things being said. we just drifted onto the other topic because for the rest of us, we finished talking about the episode. without any outside stimulation, there won't be any new discussion on the episode as it is.
Plus it's an internet forum. You seriously don't need to ask.
FreakinZoid
The only things I've seen similar to the WS comics are circumstantial similarities. Everyone quotes Tygra and Cheetara being a couple and Dobo as being refrences to the comics, but is there anything else? I mean the couple thing could've came from just their heads. And as for Dobo there's only so many ways you can draw a guy with a doberman head as most dobermans have the exact same fur patterns. Having a dog that's the same species as another dog character isn't enough to say "oh he's a copy of that guy!" Their personalties were different, their clothing was different, and their circumstances were different. When the only thing you have to go on is that their species is the same it's not a copy.
While the T/C pairing could have come from their heads, it is also an equal possibility it came from the comics as well.
Dobo and DoberLord...just because the characters look somewhat different doesn't mean they weren't based off the same overall design. Let's be real; there are more than one way to draw a guy with a dobermans head. Even subtle differences like uncroped ears could have been used to provide a bit more distinction betwen the two. I wouldn't say their personalities were all that different either. Certain circumstances are also similar such as the warrior backgrounds. I'd hardly say different clothing merits different characters. That's kind of like saying a character in a video game ceases to be the same character when an alterante skin is applied.
Not all Dobermans have the same fur pattern. My brother-in-law raises dogs - many of which are dobermans and very few have the exact same fur patterns. Mostly only those of the exact same litter and even then, there are many subtle differences.
I've also read where Pumyra's reaction to Lion-O in "The Pit" was very similar to Cheetara's reaction to Lion-O in the comics. When I went and flipped through the pages and re-watched "The Pit," I've got to say, they were very similar.
In many ways, the way Tygra and Cheetara meet as youths is very similar to how WilyKit and her beau meet in the comics.
It could all be coincidence or perhaps not. Guess it all goes back to perception.
Remember, what you might percieve as circumstantial, others might not.
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If there was abridged version of TC similar to TeamFourStar does to DBZ, Lion-O would have offered Dobo a box of Scooby Snacks for Pumyra's release.
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Originally Posted by FreakinZoid
Balgus tends to overlook facts like things don't have to be a 100% scene by scene, frame by frame, or panel by panel exact match between the show and comic for the crew to have referenced/drawn heavily from the comic.
Heck, look at Alex Haley and Harold Courlander. Haley "referenced" (plagiarized) 81 passages of Courlanders book "The African" to write "Roots" even though Haley swore he'd never read "The Aftrican" before. It was later proven that Haley had in fact read it and did in fact own a copy prior to writing "Roots" which is why "Roots" always will be classified as fiction.
Just because certain Crew members claim the comic isn't being used doesn't mean it isn't being used. The TC Crew seem to love "misdirection" so one must take everything they say with a grain of salt.
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Originally Posted by AnonymousIncognito
A lot of people tend to make the same mistake Balgus did. It's quite common.
You make a good point about Alex Haley and "Roots."
One could also cite shows like "Revenge" which heavily references "The Count de Monte Cristo."
You can see all the characters from the Dumas classic are there but they aren't dressed the same nor are the genders the same.
Having one couple together and one character that's the same species as another is not "drawing heavily." From that rationale the Drifter was obviously a rip-off of Bugs Bunny and the Petelars copy Swamp Thing.
Frankly there's no reason for them to lie about it. Your example was someone who plagiarized another book. This is a reboot. Warner Brothers owns the rights to all the Thundercats characters including the ones from the comics as WB owns DC. They don't have to lie to protect themselves against plagiarizing because it's the same franchise and their company already owns the characters. If they wanted to use the characters from those comics they could without having to change the name, design, and personalities to do it.
Last edited by Balgus82; 05-23-2012 at 06:17 PM..
While it might not seem that way to you, it can seem that way to others. Again, I must point out perception.
I'd say the Drifter is more like Usagi Yojimbo and the Petlars more like a Bellossom.
But in all honesty, you really do need to put some more work into your comparrisons. Not trying to start any kind of complaintfest but I've noticed more often than not, you seem to resort to the most extreme and outlandish of choices.
Well, given the poor reception of the comics and the resulting fan fall-out, I can see where the crew and WB would want/need to disavow using it as reference/inspiration/whatever.
I have also seen it posted that many of the TC crew are former DC employees and if that is true, it does lend weight to the thory that the comics are being used. DC employees would at least know of the comic and some of what it contains.
The fact that WB owns ThunderCats as well as DC comics doesn't help dispell the theory either. If anything, it also adds support to the theory.
I think you might have miscomprehended the example used by AI. I could be wrong but what I got from it was that Haley claimed to have never read "The African" and denied using any of it to pen his own story when in actuality, he had and that members of the TC crew have claimed they never read the ThunderCats comics yet what they produce is so similar to the comics, it is difficult to believe they never picked up an issue.
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I still hold my issue with that flower scene was it showed Lion-O never even stood a chance with Cheetara. Cheetara never knew him, never knew of his qualities, never knew of his struggles and doubts. If Cheetara had known of Lion-O and witnessed how he was treated by the kingdom, his own family, and most of all Tygra, I am inclined to believe that it would have taken more than a flower for Tygra to win her heart.
That is why I - like many others - have such an issue with Cheetara's line to Lion-o that Tygra was in his shadow. Based on how Lion-O's life was and how he was treated, he was the one in Tygra's shadow.
I'm hoping the crew doesn't screw things up like they've done before.
If Cheetara was present at the bell games, if only she knew how Tygra taunts Lion-o being "second best other than the crown", I think she will have to rethink her decision over. After all, kids change as they grow up. And what if she has to bodyguard Lion-o all the time since she is the head cleric after Jaga? I am not going to lie that there won't be jealousy issues in the future.
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