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Japan's government extends its first loan to Burma in 26 years and cancels the remainder of the Southeast Asian country's debt.
By Aye Aye Win 27 May 2013
RANGOON — Japan's government on Sunday extended its first loan to Burma in 26 years and canceled the remainder of the Southeast Asian country's debt, as Tokyo looks to re-establish strong economic ties with the former pariah nation.
The 51 billion yen ($504 million) loan agreement was signed in Burma's capital, Naypyidaw, after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Burma President Thein Sein.
Abe arrived in Burma on Friday on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, a major part of Tokyo's effort to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military regime.
Abe had met with Burma democracy icon and lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi in the main city of Rangoon on Saturday.
The low-interest loan was signed between Japan's ambassador to Burma, Mikio Numata, and Burma's deputy minister for finance and revenue, Dr. Lin Aung, Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Japan also canceled the remaining 176.1 billion yen ($1.74 billion) owed by Burma, after forgiving 326.3 billion yen ($3.58 billion) in debt in January.
The loan is Japan's first to Burma since 1987.
"The government of Japan considers it important to continue to back up the progress of Myanmar's reforms and will continue its support to Myanmar," the Foreign Ministry's statement said.
According to the notes exchanged Sunday, 17 billion yen ($168 million) is to be used for infrastructure improvement in Burma, 14 billion yen ($138 million) for electricity generation, and 20 billion yen ($198 million) for power generation and transmission and distribution of energy at a special economic zone.
The development of the 2,400-hectare Thilawa Special Economic Zone, located near Rangoon, is Japan's biggest investment project in Burma, led by trading companies Mitsubishi Corp., Marubeni Corp. and Sumitomo Corp.
Japan, Burma's largest aid donor, helped clear part of its unpaid debt in an effort to boost Burma's democratic reforms and open ways to resume fresh loans for infrastructure building and major development assistance that will support Japanese business interests in the Southeast Asian nation.
Japan had close ties with Burma before the junta took power in 1988, prompting Tokyo to suspend grants for major projects. Although it scaled back most business activity and cut government aid when the United States and other Western nations imposed sanctions in 2003 after the military regime put Suu Kyi under house arrest, Japan did not impose sanctions on Burma.
But with no major development grants or Japanese loans, major Japanese corporations maintained branch offices in Burma with minimal business operations during the previous regime, while neighboring China gradually became Burma's major trade partner and investor after Thailand and Singapore.
Japan's investments and involvement lag far behind those of China and India, but that is fast changing. A high-powered delegation of business leaders, including top executives from Toyota Motor Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Sumitomo Chemical, toured Burma in February and pledged to cooperate in encouraging more investment.
As of late February, Japan was the 11th-largest investor in Burma, with $270 million in overall investments, way behind the $14.2 billion committed by China and $9.6 billion by Thailand, the top two sources, with 33 percent and 23 percent, respectively, of total foreign direct investment.
Aye Aye Win The Associated Press


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Released: 2007/08/07 by Paramount Home Video
In his 15th film, the King takes on two roles, playing dark-haired Air Force Lt. Josh Morgan and Morgan's adversary, blonde good ol' boy Jodie Tatum. Lt. Josh's assignment: try to convince his look-alike cousin Jodie to allow a missile site to be built on his land. A fistful of tunes "Barefoot Ballad", "It's a Long Lonely Highway,""Tender Feeling,"the title song and 6 others), some whoop-it-up-dancing and 13 mountain cuties called Kittyhawks add to the down-home delights.
New digital transfer of complete original theatrical version with Smokey Mountain Boy song sequence now back in the film.
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The King saw Cynthia Pepper on TV, suggested her for 'Kissin' Cousins' role
Elvis Presley had seen her in a TV sitcom and suggested her for a role in a 1964 movie in which he would tell her she was "as purty as a little ol' speckled pup."
The movie was "Kissin' Cousins," in which Elvis played a dual role as an Army officer and as the officer's hillbilly cousin. It was the hillbilly character, Jodie Tatum, who used the puppy pickup line on actress Cynthia Pepper.
Cynthia Pepper and Elvis Presley were on the cover of the July 22, 1964, edition of Everybody's, an Australian teen magazine, for a story about "Kissin' Cousins."
"I played hard to get, but I succumbed," says Pepper, 67, of her character in the film that still earns her residuals 43 years after its release.
Now living in Henderson, Nev., Pepper will be in Memphis Sunday to take part in an Elvis Insiders Reception and Graceland tour, part of a four-day celebration of Elvis' birthday. He would have been 73 on Jan. 8.
For Pepper, "Kissin' Cousins" was a brief chance to know -- and kiss -- a sometimes self-doubting Elvis. The movie was shot in only 17 days as part of the money-making formula that protected Elvis' wholesome image, but wore on his patience.
"It was entertaining and innocent. The movies obviously were lighthearted. We all know he could have done a lot better. He was a better actor than the movies allowed him to be," says the actress.
Pepper was a veteran actress by the time "Kissin' Cousins" came along. Daughter of a vaudeville actor, she was on stage at age 4 with actress Julie Harris on Broadway. She had her own sitcom, "Margie" set in the Roaring '20s; had a recurring role on "My Three Sons" and played Sandra Dee's roommate in the movie "Take Her, She's Mine." After "Kissin' Cousins," she made guest appearances in several TV episodes, including "The Flying Nun" and "The Jimmy Stewart Show," and last appeared in a cameo role in the 2005 film "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous."
Pepper says she was given the part in "Kissin' Cousins" on short notice. She got a telephone call and was given two days to report to the set.
"My agent said Elvis had seen me on TV and suggested me for the part," says Pepper. Some of the cast members would become better known in other realms. Maureen Reagan, daughter of eventual President Ronald Reagan, had one line in the movie. Teri Garr, who would become a well-known actress, was a dancer in the film.
Pepper played an Army stenographer assigned to accompany a lieutenant (Elvis) to the hills of East Tennessee to negotiate the sale of land to build a missile base. There, they encountered angry property owners, including the lieutenant's cousin (a hillbilly Elvis in a blond wig).
The hillbilly Elvis fell for Pepper in the movie, leading to a romantic scene in which Pepper says she kept "flubbing" lines in order to repeat a kiss with Elvis. "I got to do it six or seven times. I could have done it in one or two takes, but why would I?"
Pepper says she came to know Elvis as a "regular guy. He was a little unsophisticated at the time. He would sit around and talk about trucks and would say 'Miss' or 'Ma'am.' There weren't any airs about him."
As filming went on, Pepper says she realized Elvis wasn't sure of himself at that stage in his career.
"I felt that he was quite insecure at the time," she says. "He said to me one time, 'I don't know what I'm doing here.' I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I should be back home driving a truck.'
"I think he had all the insecurities that we all had. I think that's one reason he had all those guys (his entourage known as the Memphis Mafia) around him -- to buffer himself from the outside."
During her Memphis visit, Pepper will be a guest with former Elvis hairstylist Larry Geller and members of the TCB Band at a reception in Graceland Plaza, followed by a special evening tour of Graceland.
OtisBlue22 (profile/ contact) wrote on Dec 12, 2007report abuse
Very uninspiring, on par with Girls! Girls! Girls! The songs, while half-decent, fail to stick in the viewer's mind. Elvis is on charming autopilot and never really looks too interested. The most entertaining aspect of this film is the amateurish editing (even for scenes where we only see Josh or Jodie alone, and not together, they still use a stand-in). Then again, it's pretty impressive considering they filmed it over the course of 2 weeks. Is that Red West playing Elvis' cousin? Whoever it is, they have an abnormally large forehead which sticks out, betraying the fact that the head of casting (if one existed) couldn't be bothered to get someone who looks remotely like Elvis. Viva Las Vegas was so much better, but that was filmed before. Kissin' Cousins has to be one of Elvis' most embarrassing outings (Kittyhawks?!); it has no soul whatsoever. Also, Ma Tatum's solo spot is plain depressing. Jack Albertson -- from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory!!! -- is the best thing going for this film.
Jumpin Jehosaphat (profile/ contact) wrote on Dec 10, 2007report abuse
At this point Elvis should have taken 3 years off and not made any more of these Bad movies
Iron Man (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 22, 2007report abuse
Not the best Presley movie, but much better than the Hawaiian films and some of the late 60-s movies.
Jumpin Jehosaphat (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 2, 2007report abuse
if you really give it a thought this movie could have had Jerry Lee Lewis playing the part after his was really a Kissing Cousin, which knocked him out of the box in the summer of 58.
Elvis Fan 1976 (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 9, 2007report abuse
I have the edited version of KC and cant wait to see the FULL film!
Tony D. (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 8, 2007report abuse
To nit pick the artwork is churlish. This sort of movie might not be Elvis at his best, but there are many Elvis completists who want to own Elvis' entire cinematic collection. And although we may even only watch this film just once or twice in our life time, it is an Elvis film so we must own it for the sake of completeness.
Mystery Rider (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 6, 2007report abuse
i must state what i feel. A poorly market product. Every is trying to make a Buck of the name Elvis. Produce a decent product. in the beginning on 45 rmp too much and all shook up didnt even have his name on the cover just the face and good music. here they splash the name over 50 percent of the cover, plus give you a re-cycled movie that really was something just to fill the movie contracts signed by colonel (50%)parker
Narek (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 1, 2007report abuse
MysteryRider, Your similar post in all items is very annoying. Please, we all are now aware that you don't like those covers.
thefunkyangel (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 1, 2007report abuse
Yeah I love the blooper at the end of Smokey Mountain Boy where the army soldiers jump out of their jeeps, twice! Man, I am looking forward to all these dvd's being released! Cheers!
Mystery Rider (profile/ contact) wrote on Jun 29, 2007report abuse
once again why is his name half of the cover somebody finished last in marketing and design
JerryNodak (profile/ contact) wrote on Jun 26, 2007report abuse
Folks who buy these movies already have a pretty good idea about what they're buying. The cover isn't going to make a bit of difference. They either want it or they don't. Besides a cover with two Elvises and two pretty girls would certainly catch my eye.
Another failure for cover, might sell better if it had a nude of Colonel Parker on it. The art people here have no idea on how to sell a package. Just because its Elvis dosent make it an I gotta have it.
That's NOT the point. The song advances the action.
Sean Ryan (profile/ contact) wrote on Jun 21, 2007report abuse
id actually have that song edited out of this version.Not quite a classic!!!
When KC was first issued in VHS all the songs were included. Some years later when KC was re-released, the "Smokey" sequence had been edited out due to copyright/music royalty issues. I have a VHS copy of each. Glad that the parties involved have finally settled these issues.
Dan (profile/ contact) wrote on Jun 18, 2007report abuse
what happened with the "smokey mountain sequence" to begin with.Never heard about that....
It'll be great to have this on DVD with the Smokey Mountain Boy sequence restored.
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Few Americans identify with more than one religion
By Michael Lipka
While the number of Americans who were raised in homes where parents had different religions appears to be growing, relatively few think of themselves as having been brought up in more than one religion, and even fewer say they currently belong to multiple religions.
Roughly one-in-five American adults say they were raised by two people with different religious identities – such as a mother who was a Catholic and a father who was a Protestant, or a mother who was Jewish and a stepfather who was religiously unaffiliated – according to the newest report on our Religious Landscape Study. But only about half as many (11%) say they think of themselves as having been raised in more than one religion. And just 6% say they now identify with multiple religions.
Young U.S. adults are considerably more likely than older Americans to report having been raised by two people with different religions. But this trend so far has not produced a discernible increase in the number of Americans who hold multiple religious identities. Adults ages 18 to 29 are no more likely than older adults to say they think of themselves as having been brought up in more than one religion. And there is no difference across age groups in the share who say they think of themselves as currently belonging to multiple religions.
People who say they think of themselves as having been raised in more than one religion are more likely than others to identify with multiple religions as an adult. But still, only 15% of those who say they were raised in multiple religions now say they belong to more than one religion.
The standard religious affiliation question on Pew Research Center surveys does not explicitly ask respondents whether they belong to multiple faiths. In the latest study, however, we deliberately set out to explore how much religious mixing takes place in American families and whether it is on the rise. So we asked respondents a series of questions about the religion of the main people who raised them (including, in some cases, not just parents but also step-parents, grandparents, foster parents, etc.). We also asked all respondents, explicitly, whether they think of themselves as having been raised in more than one religion, or if they now belong to more than one religion. If they said yes to either question, we posed an open-ended follow-up question, asking them to explain further.
Among the survey respondents who say they think of themselves as having been raised in multiple faiths, nearly half (49% of this group, about 6% of all U.S. adults) say this means they were exposed to more than one religion, often through family members of different backgrounds. An additional three-in-ten (28%) say it means they practiced multiple faiths at one time, including by attending multiple houses of worship or observing holidays or other elements of more than one religion, such as celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. A smaller share (18%) say their family switched religions or churches, practicing first one faith, then another.
A large share of the 6% of U.S. adults who say they currently think of themselves as belonging to more than one faith (57% of this group, or about 3% of all U.S. adults) explain that they actually practice or believe in multiple faiths at the same time. Specific explanations people in this category give include taking the view that all religions are essentially the same and attending different kinds of houses of worship. Fewer say their blended religious identity is due to changing religions or churches or to having family members of different religions.
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Michael Lipka is an editorial manager of religion research at Pew Research Center.
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Netanyahu, his wife and son appeared in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's court for the opening of their case against Olmert, Netanyahu's predecessor as Israel's prime minister.
Netanyahu had threatened to sue Olmert for remarks he made last year, during the aftermath of the 2021 Israeli parliamentary elections and while Netanyahu refused to step down while on trial for fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes.
In an interview with an Israeli news site last April, Olmert leveled criticism at Netanyahu and said that "what is irreparable is the mental illness of the prime minister, his wife and his son."
The Netanyahus have sued Olmert, seeking nearly $270,000 in damages, according to Hebrew press reports.
Neither Netanyahu nor Olmert spoke at the courthouse.
Olmert preceded Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister, but resigned in 2008 before he was formally indicted on corruption charges. Olmert was convicted of fraud in 2014 and served most of a 27-month prison sentence.
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The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat – Ryszard Kapuscinski
On July 30, 2020 By Genyc79In Africa
On August 27, 1975, news reports began to emerge that Tafari Makonnen, known to the world as Haile Selassie I (1892-1975), had died at the Jubliee Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The man who ruled Ethiopia for forty-four years and who had served as the icon of the Rastafarian movement was eighty-three years old. Selaisse had lived his final years in exile after being deposed in a coup that took place in September, 1974. The world-renown leader was a larger than life figure although he only stood 5'2″. He was recognized on the world stage and helped Ethiopia modernize itself as the wave of independence swept over the African continent in the 1960s. However, his reign was not free of controversy and Selassie was viewed by some as a greedy tyrant who used his position of power to enrich himself and those closest to him. Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was a Polish journalist who traveled to Ethiopia and interviewed former members of Selassie's administration. This book is a collection of what they remember from their time in office with regards to the emperor's daily routine, his achievements and also his downfall.
The book is quite short but it does pack a powerful punch. Observations by those who were closest to him paint an interesting picture of the diminutive giant. But his size provided no indication of his shrewdness and ability to orchestrate an entire government. Selassie controlled the entire country and this quote by a former subordinate drives home the point:
"not only did the Emperor decide on all promotions, but he also communicated each one personally. He alone. He filled the posts at the summit of the hierarchy, and also its lower and middle levels. He appointed the postmasters, headmasters of schools, police constables, all the most ordinary office employees, estate managers, brewery directors, managers of hospitals and hotels—and, let me say it again, he chose them personally."
Quite frankly, at this time in history, Haile Selassie was Ethiopia. And like the man behind the curtain the Wizard of Oz, there is much to his personal side that reveals how unconventional and unpredictable he truly was. I caution readers that the book is not an autobiography. The author does provide background information when needed but overall, the story focuses on the interviews he conducted with Selassie's former confederates.
By far, nearly all who are interviewed hold Selassie in high regard and none really have a harsh word to say about him. I found myself wondering if Selassie was a messiah that truly did perform wonders without fail or if it was a case of blind allegiance. They are quick to point the positive changes in Ethiopian society but the narrative changes with the premier of Jonathan Dimbleby's Ethiopia: The Unknown Famine on British television. I decided to take a look at it myself and was aghast at what I saw. The footage is raw and shocking, and I warn potential viewers that it will also be upsetting. What is seen in the video stands in stark contrast to the image of Selassie that we have come to know over time. But voices within Ethiopia at the time were also sounding the alarm about the famine and they came from an ironic source.
One speakers whose name remains unknown like the others, discusses his son who has studied abroad like many other Ethiopian students who traveled abroad as representatives of their country. These same students who had been sent to foreign countries to become better educated would later play a decisive role in the future of Ethiopia and in Selassie's reign as ruler. His son has returned to Ethiopia and what he sees, has led him down the path of no return. He tells his father:
"Father," says Hailu, "this is the beginning of the end for all of you. We cannot live like this any longer. This death up north and the lies of the court have covered us with shame. The country is drowning in corruption, people are dying of hunger, ignorance, and barbarity everywhere. We feel ashamed of this country. And yet we have no other country, we have to dig it out of the mud ourselves. Your Palace has compromised us before the world, and such a Palace can no longer exist. We know that there is unrest in the army and unrest in the city, and now we cannot back down."
Selassie did not yet know it, but this was the beginning of the end. He had survived one coup previously, but this non-violent coup would seal his fate. Its development and execution are discussed by speaker, one of whom in particular is quite frank about how the contrasting images of two separate Ethiopias was allowed ot exist for so long. No stone is left unturned and in the end, Selassie's image and legacy would receive staggering blows as the world learn of Ethiopia's horrible secrets. However, in spite of what was seen and revealed, Selassie has retained his place in world history as the champion of Ethiopia who stood up to Italy and inspired hope within the people. However, his administration also neglected basic facets of a health and progressive society, leading to widespread poverty, famine and senseless deaths. In the end, they would contribute to the downfall of an autocrat.
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Best Manchester City XI of the Guardiola era
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Pep Guardiola's new contract with Manchester City will see him remain at the Etihad Stadium until 2025, when he will mark nine years at the club.
The Catalan coach has already remained in the Premier League for longer than he has at his previous roles with Barcelona and Bayern Munich, finding a home within English football and establishing a dominant force with his City side.
Throughout his six and a half years in charge so far, Guardiola has been in charge of numerous superstars and club legends, with an all-time squad that would be of envy for any manager in world football.
But how exactly do you break that down into a full XI? We have taken on the task and done exactly that.
Guardiola made a bold choice upon his arrival in Manchester, swiftly making it clear England international Joe Hart, a two-time Premier League winner, would not fit into his plans moving forward. After a disappointing season with Claudio Bravo, Ederson arrived in 2017 and has been number one ever since.
All of Ederson's 260 appearances across all competitions have come as a starter, higher than any other player under Guardiola, while he sits fifth in the list for total appearances under the Catalan boss.
Signed from Tottenham Hotspur in 2017, Kyle Walker has been a mainstay in the City side that has dominated domestic football over the course of the past five years, ranking fifth for the most starts under Guardiola in all competitions (207).
Walker's versatility has been a key benefit for Guardiola and England, with his attacking play also fitting into City's style of play well. Since arriving at City, Walker has contributed 17 assists across all competitions, behind only Joao Cancelo (20) among defenders.
Among defenders during Guardiola's spell in charge, only John Stones and Walker have started more games than Laporte (155), with both players having joined the club in the seasons before Laporte's arrival from Athletic Bilbao in January 2018.
A total of 163 appearances across all competitions puts him narrowly ahead of Nicolas Otamendi (161) for most games under Guardiola.
Snapped up in 2016 as one of Guardiola's first signings, Stones has had to contend with incredible competition for his spot at the heart of the defence, with the likes of Laporte, Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake all drafted in.
Despite that, Stones continues to be an important player for City and has made 175 starts under Guardiola and 206 appearances overall, ranking second in both among defenders behind only Walker.
The versatile Portuguese full-back moved to City in 2019 from Juventus and has excelled for City, tallying 149 total appearances and 135 starts in all competitions since joining the club, and provides a huge boost in the attacking third.
A total of 20 assists puts him above any defender during Guardiola's spell in charge, even those who have been at the club far longer.
Few players fit the Guardiola philosophy more than De Bruyne, who has hit new heights under the former Barcelona boss to stand among the finest players in world football – with a record in front of goal that many would envy.
De Bruyne has registered 117 assists under Guardiola, way ahead of second-place Raheem Sterling (66), while he has scored 73 goals – only behind Gabriel Jesus, Sterling and Sergio Aguero.
With 205 starts under Guardiola, the midfielder has been an integral part of the City side since following the Catalan from Germany to Manchester, ranking only behind Walker, David Silva, Sterling, De Bruyne and Ederson in that regard.
Only six players have scored more goals under Guardiola than Gundogan (51), who ranks ninth for the most assists (33).
The rock of City's midfield for years, Fernandinho started 200 games under Guardiola and made a total of 244 appearances, the latter seeing him rank behind only Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Gundogan, De Bruyne and Sterling.
A total of 12 goals and 16 assists in those matches represents a decent return for a player renowned more for his defensive strength.
Slotting into the attack ahead of Phil Foden and David Silva, both of whom have a stellar record under Guardiola, Bernardo Silva narrowly gets the nod due to his own impressive numbers in the final third.
Silva has 104 direct goal contributions (50 goals, 54 assists) in 273 appearances, starting in 208 of those matches. Only Sterling and De Bruyne have more assists under Guardiola, while Silva is one of eight players to hit the half-century mark for goals.
In the future, Aguero's spot in the team is likely to be under significant threat from Erling Haaland following his blistering start to life at City, but the Argentine superstar retains the edge for the time being.
Aguero scored 124 goals under Guardiola, more than any other player, with Sterling the only other to have broken the century mark. Those goals came in just 183 appearances with Guardiola in charge, displaying his deadly ability in front of the net.
An unsung hero of the Guardiola era, Sterling played 292 times under the Catalan boss, more than anyone else, while only Aguero scored more goals than Sterling (120).
Sterling also contributed 66 assists under Guardiola, sitting behind only De Bruyne, and is the only player to have scored over 100 goals and added over 50 assists under the Catalan boss.
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Pearl Studio Gathers Top Talent for 4th Annual Brain Trust Summit
Distinguished thought leaders Daniel Dae Kim, Margaret Cho, Richard LaGravenese, Jenny Han and Jessica Gao to participate in three-day creative think tank summit.
By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 4:45pm
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SHANGHAI -- Actor, Director and 3AD Producer Daniel Dae Kim (ABC's The Good Doctor, Hawaii Five-0, LOST), five-time Grammy & Emmy nominated comedian and actress Margaret Cho, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, Behind the Candelabra, A Little Princess), renowned best-selling YA author Jenny Han ("To All The Boys I've Loved Before") and Emmy award-winning writer Jessica Gao (Silicon Valley, Rick and Morty) will travel to Shanghai, China December 12-14 to participate in the fourth annual Pearl Studio Brain Trust Summit.
Originally launched in 2015, the summit is an extraordinary and innovative annual program that is designed as a think tank to advance the company and its core creative objectives. Pearl invites thought leaders, content creators, influencers, storytellers and innovators from around the globe to come to Pearl Studio headquarters for three days of brainstorming, goal exploration, and project ideation. The studio's upcoming Glen Keane directed animated musical Over the Moon was first conceived at this summit in 2015.
The Pearl Brain Trust Summit has previously drawn such luminaries as Crazy Rich Asians screenwriter Adele Lim, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz, Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, Master of None creator Alan Yang, legendary screen actress Joan Chen, and many more.
One of the highlights of this year's event will be a panel discussion on December 13, "Creating for Awakening Audiences," which reinforces the Pearl mission, but also opens a dialogue about how audiences (particularly audiences in China) are evolving and awakening. The panel, open to the media, will feature all five distinguished guests and will be moderated by Pearl Studio chief creative officer Peilin Chou.
"The Brain Trust Summit has become highly anticipated within the creative community in China, not only because of our history of curating such exciting and renowned guests, but even more so because there is a palpable change that is occurring with respect to representation of unheard voices in global entertainment," Chou commented. "This summit has always been a wellspring of new ideas and bold vision, and a highlight of our year at Pearl Studio. We are enormously thrilled and honored to have such incredible participants joining us again this year. Their talent and thought leadership is helping to shape the entertainment landscape in magnificent ways, and we can't wait to share this experience with them and the community."
Pearl Studio, formerly known as Oriental DreamWorks, is the studio behind the critically-acclaimed Kung Fu Panda 3, one of the most successful China/U.S. co-productions of all time generating more than $500 million in worldwide box office revenues. The company's mission is to be a premier family entertainment brand creating original world-class films that enchant, inspire, and awaken audiences around the globe.
Source: Pearl Studio
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
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Falmouth man injured when truck hits tree
Man partially ejected, sheriff says
David Charns
York County Sheriff's Office SOURCE: York County Sheriff's Office
York County sheriff's deputies and Arundel firefighters said a man was seriously injured when his truck hit a tree on Route 111.Sheriff Bill King said the crash happened around noon Wednesday.Anthony Mastroluca, 46, of Falmouth, was driving west on Alfred Road when his truck left the road and hit a tree, King said.Mastroluca was partially ejected from the truck, King said. He was taken to Southern Maine Medical Center and then transferred to Maine Medical Center.Deputies had not determined the crash's cause as of Wednesday afternoon.Get the WMTW App9234908
ARUNDEL, Maine —
York County sheriff's deputies and Arundel firefighters said a man was seriously injured when his truck hit a tree on Route 111.
Sheriff Bill King said the crash happened around noon Wednesday.
Anthony Mastroluca, 46, of Falmouth, was driving west on Alfred Road when his truck left the road and hit a tree, King said.
Mastroluca was partially ejected from the truck, King said. He was taken to Southern Maine Medical Center and then transferred to Maine Medical Center.
Deputies had not determined the crash's cause as of Wednesday afternoon.


Oh, Hi Felicia! Felicia Day Tribute NPC in Maldraxxas
Live Publié 24/12/2020 à 16:39 par Paryah
Some celebrities are geeks, nerds, fannish, whatever you like to call us. That seems like an obvious statement, of course some are going to be. But few have been more open about their nerdyness than Felicia Day. Known for the ultra geeky The Guild web series about a guild of MMOGPG players (oh hey, that's us!), that was inspired by her experiences playing World of Warcraft, as well as a semi-regular role as Charlie on Supernatural, and roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Con Man, and more, and as the creator of the You Tube channel Geek and Sundry, more web series, ... I could go on...
Felicia Day is also an avowed gamer and World of Warcraft player:
"Every morning before I left the house (IF I left, which I frequently didn't), I would log online and fly around the game world, harvesting herbs across the virtual globe to make potions. This hunter/gatherer trip would take about an hour or two each day, minimum. (Yes, I spent a large portion of my time inside World of Warcraft commuting.)"
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
Yep, she's one of us!
When Jimmy Fallon produced a World of Warcraft tribute on his show, it should come as no surprise that Day was a participant along with other Blizzard employees and fans.
Day has even shared a machinima sitcom set in Azeroth that she wrote but that never made it to completion. She recently reacquired the rights to Southshore Inn which she shares was pitched as, "Cheers set in Warcraft," and since she no longer has the files needed to complete it, was wonderful enough to share all five episodes as-is.
And now Felicia Day has a tribute character in Shadowlands. Further, she's a Necrolord. Of course she is. Maldraxxus is for the unwavering, for those who go to bat for what they believe in, for those who will defend the Shadowlands (and nerdiness) to their last unapologetic breath.
"the world opened up for me once I decided to embrace who I am—unapologetically"
Félicia Nocte carries a lantern as she roams the Seat of the Primus, lighting the dark corridors, bringing a little day to the dark.
I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.
~Felicia Day
What's that you say? You knew that? Yeah, me too! But y'know what? FELICIA DAY IS IN THE SHADOWLANDS! What's not to be excited about.
"My guild decided to advance to a more complicated part of the game, which moved me from gaming hobbyist to full-time addicted employee of World of Warcraft."
For more information about Maldraxxus, the Necrolords, and the Seat of the Primus, check out our guides.
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Dr. Drew Interviews A Bronie
Desc: I actually went to high school with this guy.
Category: Educational, Classic TV Clips
Tags: friendship is magic, bronies, Dr. Drew, Respectful Panel Discussion, Nice Outfit
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EvilHomer - 2014-02-26
Dr Drew is such a dork. Who mistakes Spike for Rainbow Dash?!?
This brony friend of yours seems like a very pleasant guy, and I'm glad he stayed graceful under pressure. It's a pity he choked on that last question: the obvious answer was, "Well, Dr Drew, Bronies watch it for the plot!"
Cena_mark - 2014-02-26
The guest was kind of ganged up on, but what Dr. Drew and the other dorks don't get beyond the pony fandom is how today its far less taboo to be an adult who enjoys cartoons. This as a whole has led to cartoons being taken a lot more seriously and created with adults in mind. With that the brony thing isn't really that odd.
Xenocide - 2014-02-26
Are there seriously people who still make a big stink about adults watching cartoons? Not specifically ponies, but any cartoons at all?
It's been a quarter century since The Simpsons preimered. I wasn't aware there were still non-senile people who held this view.
I was meaning the adult audience for "children's" cartoons. I know plenty of folks who like Family Guy but will give you crap for watching something like Gravity Falls or Adventure Time.
Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2014-02-26
Imo you need to be more intelligent and discerning to appreciate adventure time vs. family guy. The writing on family guy is aimed at simpletons.
Seven Arts/H8 Red - 2014-02-26
Dr. Drew's done voiceovers for Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Family Guy, and Minoriteam. Hell, he was interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
If Hasbro Studios offered Dr. Drew and a Klondike bar to do a voiceover for MLP:FiM, I don't think Dr. Drew would turn the offer down.
Nominal - 2014-02-26
But the thing is, My Little Pony is written specifically for little kids with little kid themes and little kid levels of social lessons. It isn't anything like Adventure Time, let alone Simpsons or Metalocalypse.
There isn't a single adult or even universal aspect of the show. I could see parents liking it as a not-painful show to watch with their kids, but kid-less adults obsessing over it is just sad, like a 30 year old bachelor whose fridge is full of jars of Gerber's mashed banana because he "likes the taste".
Doesn't matter how tasty the mush is. It's still mush for kiddies.
Gmork - 2014-02-27
5 for that succinct explanation as to why MLP isn't good.
Granted it does follow the formula where there's a lesson at the end of the episode, but I don't really care about that part. Its the characters and the humor that are the main draw. Just because it isn't a banal bunch of random like Adventure Time doesn't make it any less appealing for adults.
Yeah, Cena's right. Adventure Time is a show about a tweenage little boy who stays up way past his bedtime having whacky adventures with a talking dog. My Little Pony is a show about independent twenty-somethings who deal with careers, college, and juggling their own needs and responsibilities with the sometimes tricky business of being a good friend. I'm sorry, Nominal, but WHICH show has "little kid themes"?
Hell, I'd probably go so far as to say MLP is *more* grownup than even Metalocalypse (a good show, so please don't misconstrue the following as an attack on Metalocalypse or it's fans - EH). Now, Metalocalypse is certainly not a "kid's show", I'll give you that and unlike MLP (which prides itself on having timeless themes that can be enjoyed by an entire family), I cannot see any way in which a person under the age of ten would get much out of Metalocalypse (unless said kid was especially badass, like me when I was little). But I put it to you that this does not mean the show is "grown up" - it's simply geared towards a different age range of kid, that is, a hormonal twelve-to-sixteen year old. Violence and drug jokes and zombies are all very well and good, but it's all very sophomoric, all very teenage-rebel. I submit that it takes a lot of grown-up emotional sophistication to watch a show that DOESN'T rely on R-rated themes to drive the plot, but instead chooses to focus on uplifting messages about community, loyalty, and decency. People can't stay fourteen all their lives. Part of growing up is growing young again.
But then, you are a G1 fan, are you not Nominal? G1 was indeed very childish, both in terms of writing and in terms of theme, so I guess I can understand where your misconceptions come from. BUT! If you really want to stick by your guns, I challenge you to watch a few episodes of FiM and point out for us _exactly what parts_ are "little kids mush" that are forbidden to TRUE OFFICIAL ADULTS� who watch Adventure Time and cartoons aimed at teenage stoners.
From the expressions Bruce Campbell is making I'm thinking he really does have a ponytail butt plug.
What really sucks about this show is how you have a host and 4 other contributors picking on a single guest. What kind of interview format is that?
infinite zest - 2014-02-26
I've been on POE long enough to accept anything as a choice, as long as that choice is not PUA culture or some other culture that promotes hate, violence, etc. Remember Derek the Dragon Ball Z Cosplay guy? poe-red straight-up pissed me off with their relentless trolling of that poor kid, even though I too laughed at the pictures when I first saw it.
People like to do stuff and dress in certain ways. I, myself, may be considered "hipster," and hear a lot of shit about my kind out there too. I didn't really know what a brony was until I asked a kid at a show I was working what his shirt meant.. it said "keep calm and brony on" because my parents have all that King's Speech stuff around their house, and he explained it to me. I carried on.
A friend of mind made fun of Derek's girl friend on Live Journal so Derek challenged him to a fight. I ended up having some crazy discussions with him over Instant Messenger. The guy is kind of nuts. The fight never went down because he kept insisting we head on over to Augusta and we couldn't convince him to come to Atlanta. It wasn't worth coming to Augusta for that.
Anaxagoras - 2014-02-26
Your friend needed to learn how to brony on.
I've never actually seen the new show, but I remember specific rules when I was a kid: My little pony = girls. GI Joe = boys. And so I don't completely "get" it, kind of like my dad kind of doesn't completely "get" homosexuality or our grandparents probably kind of didn't "get" civil rights.
The part where I wanted to punch my monitor was when she was like "oh you're gay, so you get a bit of a pass.." it's like interviewing a white rapper and being like "oh you're part black, so you get a pass." Jesus fucking christ.
My friend did chill out. That feud with Derek was over 10 years ago.
I was POETV's harshest critic of the show, and one thing I could't over come was the "girl cartoon" thing. Granted it is made for a female demographic, but I do find it sad that a show can't have a mostly female cast without it being a "girly" show. Granted my argument that this should be overcome isn't helped by the fact that the show not only features a mostly female cast but a cast of pastel ponies, however, at the core of anti-brony concerns is the fear of the loss of traditional gender roles. The same type of folks who hate bronies also can't stand stay-at-home dads or female firefighters.
Yeah, I remember the original My Little Pony; how it was "for girls" and I wasn't supposed to watch it. I actually saw an episode when I was in preschool, and I felt immensely guilty for having done so; I've got vivid memories of going to school the next day, and not knowing whether or not I should admit to my friends the horrible thing I'd done. And when the new show came out, and all these Internet People started talking about it, that was again the first thing I thought: My Little Pony, Jesus, that show's for girls!
In retrospect, I made the right call with TOS; the first generation really is a lame show that can only be appreciated by feminine children (girl or girly-boy). But FiM is nothing like that, and while it lacks the crudeness and cruelty of most traditional "male" entertainment, it's certainly not girly. In fact, I'd argue that it's got the most intelligent, nuanced, and dare I say grown-up approach to gender of any show to date, cartoon or otherwise! It's a show that neither forces females into traditional gender roles, nor condemns them if traditional roles are what they chose. Applejack is a total breadwinner, Rarity is a hopeless lipstick drama queen; Rainbow Dash is a rough'n'tumble tomboy, Fluttershy is a sweet, nurturing Madonna; yet all of these ponies are friends, and they are friends in a natural way, that does not preach or call attention to their differences like it's somehow strange to see people with different outlooks managing to get along.
In fact, the biggest irony of all this "Bronies must be femmes" stuff is that the only gender issue the show DOESN'T address is that of effeminate men! All of the major male characters are pretty solid masculine types, except maybe for Spike, who is quite cis and hetero, but hopelessly beta and constantly being emasculated by Rarity and Twilight. He might turn jailhouse gay or possibly even into a TFL serial killer, but not even he fits the mold of "girly man".
I think it's ironic that the same people who would ridicule a Bronie (is it 'Brony' or 'Bronie?') are the same people who praise the Powerpuff Girls.
But whatever I was always a Rowdyruff Boys fan myself.
I think a big problem with the bullying panel here is that they didn't do their research. I still haven't seen an episode, but it's definitely not the same MLP any more than 90s Barbie was to 50s Barbie. If I recall correctly, 90s Barbie was the one who went to work and Ken was the one who was the stay-at-home-dad with the baby.
If I suddenly became a "Kennie," let's say.. a lot of people, especially an older generation who grew up with the old paradigm would raise eyebrows, and that's fair. It's something different, new, and maybe slightly odd. You know what fuck it so was punk rock. Find any homophobic self-proclaimed "punk" with a Dead Kennedy's t-shirt on and explain to them the word's etymology and see what happens.
If you are a professional talk-show host or guest and want to criticize anyone's lifestyle, make sure you know what you're criticizing before pigeon-holing it.
Sorry to be so ranty but these "professionals" do not deserve the jobs that they have, especially that blonde bitch.
When I was a kid I'd get these singing gigs at those American Girl fashion shows, where little girls dress up like the dolls and go up and down the runway. I was a child model too and sometimes they had me dress up as one of the boys featured in the stories, so I looked different from my normal jeans and hoodie. I was walking to the store to get a Mountain Dew, and all of a sudden boom. I'm on the ground, mostly blacked out, and apparently some dipshits pelted rocks at me, one of which hit me directly in the eye, and ran away,. I suffered a mild concussion in the process.
The moral is, one of them was described as wearing a hoodie that said "NIN" on the back, and at the time I was doing the gig so I'd have some extra money so I could buy "Downward Spiral." If Dr. Drew can sympathize with people who like to wear diapers while having sex or get pegged, then he should not turn a bronie into a laughing stock via his guests any more than Hitler should have blamed the Jews on his failed career as an artist.
Centennial Ostrich - 2014-02-26
That about covers it, I suppose.
That was meant as a reply to Mr. Homer.
TeenerTot - 2014-02-27
I'm not terribly interested in Bronies one way or the other. I will take this space to admit that I like Pocoyo and Peep and the Big Wide World. I find some good, gently funny kid's shows are a nice antacid to the world I live in.
Rodents of Unusual Size - 2014-02-27
As soon as the blond bitch started speaking, I knew she was hated in high school. She was That Bitch Who Talks Shit.


IGOSat
UnivEarthS Student NanoSatellite Project
The IGOSAT project
Because of their low costs and high scientific return, many universities are starting CubeSat projects. Paris Diderot University has created a Student Space Center in 2012 to support its nano-satellite educational activities.
IGOSat (Ionospheric & Gamma-ray Observations SATellite) is the first CubeSat project of the Paris Diderot University, and has 2 payloads in a quasi-polar orbit at 650km altitude:
A dual-frequency GPS receiver to study the Total Electronic Content (TEC) of the Ionosphere by GPS occultation, measuring the phase shift of L1 and L2 signals.
A scintillator and SiPM (silicon photomultiplier) for detecting gamma rays and electrons above the poles and the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), using the example of XGRE / TARANIS (currently developed at the APC) .
With the support of CNES in the JANUS program (French educational satellite project), the APC (AstroParticle & Cosmology Laboratory) and the IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris), IGOSat has already trained more than 200 students from Ile de France and elsewhere.
GPS Payload
Scintillator Payload
A CubeSat is a nano satellite standard, mainly constraining the size of the system (1 Unit = 10x10x10 cm) and its mass (1.33kg per Unit). Created in 1999 by CalPoly University and Stanford in California, it enables to design, manufacture and operate low-cost satellites.
Thus, more than 300 CubeSats have been in orbit since 2003 (figure 2015).
A CubeSat can consist of one or more units (up to 6U currently, with IGOSat being the most common 3U CubeSat). Many start-ups now offer
Subsystems called "on-shelf", which drastically reduce development costs.
The Cubesat Explosion, Jonathan McDowell (Center for Astrophysics)
The First One Hundred CubeSats: A Statistical Look Michael Swartwout Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Déploiement de CubeSat depuis la Station spatiale internationale.
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The Radio-occultation payload is using the same measurement technique used already by various space missions, such as GPS/MET, CHAMP and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (Schreiner et al., 2007) mission (http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu). The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC has been the first mission providing atmospheric profiling using a constellation of 6 microsatellites of 60 kg each. The Radio-occultation payload carried onboard IGOSat aim to prove that this science case can be investigated at a nano-satellite scale.
Measuring the TEC from space is in complementarity to ground-based observations, producing data over the oceans and different observational geometry. Among the science objectives of this payload, there is also the possibility to measure ionospheric scintillation indices for observing small-scale irregularities in the ionosphere. The response of the ionosphere to changes in solar activity and to magnetic storms will be studied and gravity waves propagation in the ionosphere will be investigated through the induced small variations of TEC. Those waves are generated in the ionosphere by various physical processes, including tropospheric convection and tsunamis (fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Vertical profile of a gravity wave detected using radio-occultation data from FORMOSAT/COSMIC3.
The final scientific products of this payload will be Vertical profiles of ionospheric electron density. They will be obtained using an inversion algorithm ("onion peeling") based on the hypothesis of spherical symmetry of the ionosphere
GPS Payload Principal Investigator : Pierdavide Coïsson
The Scintillator payload principles are based upon the XGRE instrument onboard the TARANIS CNES microsatellite (https://taranis.cnes.fr/en/TARANIS/index.htm). The XGRE detection unit is made of a sandwich composed of a crystal superposed by two plastic scintillators, read with a photo-multiplier; it is designed to detect electrons and gamma rays coming from Transient Luminous Events. The Scintillator payload carried in IGOSat is using a Silicon Photomultiplier (requiring a voltage between 15 to 75 times lower than typical photo-multipliers) with CeBr3 crystal scintillator, that has never been flown in space before.
Flux map of 1 MeV electrons at 650 km simulation with OMERE from the DEMETER mission.
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Some observations of the electrons spectra around the Earth have already been performed in the past, mostly in the 60's and 70's, leading to the electrons space distribution model AE8 from NASA. The DEMETER mission from CNES (Sauvaud et al., 2006) updated the observational data between 2004 and 2006 in the energy range from 70 to 2500 keV, at an altitude around 710km. The DEMETER results demonstrated an evolution of the spectrum at low energy when local magnetic conditions (such as storms) where met, that will be interesting to follow at higher energy with IGOSat. On the other hand, the AMS-02 experiment (Battiston, 2008) carried onboard the ISS measured high energetic electrons (above 200 MeV). IGOSat will complete these data by observing spectra between 1 and 20 MeV.
There are few measurements of gamma rays in the magnetic belts for now, mostly because of the difficulty to do measurements above 1 MeV, as the flux to observe is commonly lower than the radioactivity induced by the interaction between the cosmic rays and the satellite itself. This noise is globally proportional to the mass of the satellite, and a nano-satellite should be therefore able to tackle this challenge, and the data may enable to separate the components between the internal radioactive noise, the Earth albedo and the belts emission. The CORONAS-1 (Bucik et al, 1999) mission measured spectrums between 0.12 – 0.32 MeV and 3.0 – 8.3 MeV, and a lot of instruments observed the gamma rays from the atmosphere below 1 MeV (such as Beppo-SAX, SWIFT, INTEGRAL) (Ajello et al., 2008). IGOSat will complete the data by observing the spectra between 20 keV and 2 MeV.
Scintillator Payload Principal Investigator : Philippe Laurent
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Oldest statue (figurine) in the world?
Thread: Oldest statue (figurine) in the world?
Wise Young
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
A previous post had suggested that ability to make fire may be uniquely human. That stimulated me to think about what other behaviors are uniquely human. One of them may be the making of statues of themselves and others. Are there are "animals" who have made statues of themselves? I can't think of any.
So, I started to keep an eye out for the "oldest" statues ever discovered. After all, statues are often made of stones and they should be preserved amongst the artifacts of ancient people. For that reason, the following article attracted my interest:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index....subID=1127&p=2
Is this the world's oldest statue?
It should be famous but it stands alone and unloved, says sean thomas
I can't quite work out what I'm seeing. It looks like a fossilised snowman. Or maybe a mock-up of a Doctor Who monster. Yet, if scholars are right, this is the oldest statue in the world. The cream-coloured effigy was found in the ancient Kurdish city of Sanliurfa, in the hot plains of central southern Turkey, not far from the extraordinary archaeological dig of Gobekli Tepe.
The statue was discovered a few years ago when foundations were being laid for a new bank. The excavations took place right next to an historic city attraction - the Balikli Gol, a beautiful fishpond surrounded by mosques and gardens.
The statue is apparently 10,000 years old.
But there is apparently an even earlier "statue", the Venus of Willendorf that is supposedly 20,000 years old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
But, apparently, the oldest porn statue in the world is from about 7200 years ago:
Archaeologist finds 'oldest porn statue'
Krysia Diver in Stuttgart
Monday April 4, 2005
Stone-age figurines depicting what could be the oldest pornographic scene in the world have been unearthed in Germany.
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be the 7,200-year-old remnants of a man having intercourse with a woman.
The extraordinary find, at an archaeological dig in Saxony, shatters the belief that sex was a taboo subject in that era.
Until now, the oldest representations of sexual scenes were frescos from about 2,000 years ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/ar...451509,00.html
But apparently, the oldest statue in the world is the "lion man" from 30,000 years ago.
http://www.vnn.org/world/WD0401/WD01-8500.html
January 1, 2004 VNN8500
Lion Man Oldest Statue
FROM NATURE NEWS SERVICE
USA, Jan 1 (VNN) — Lion man takes pride of place as oldest statue
30,000-year-old carving might be work of Neanderthals or modern humans.
Rex Dalton
Intricate ivory carvings said to be the oldest known examples of figurative art have been uncovered in a cave in southwestern Germany. Researchers say that the finding could change our understanding of early man's imaginative endeavours.
The artefacts - including a figurine depicting a Lowenmensch ('lion man') - have been carbon-dated to around 30,000 years ago, when some of the earliest known relatives of modern humans populated Europe.
Last edited by Wise Young; 12-03-2006 at 09:53 PM.
Juke_spin
Originally Posted by Wise Young
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...&ct=image&cd=3
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=106...2-K&size=LARGE
Since modern man or Homo sapiens sapiens seems to have first appeared about 130,000 ago,
All people today are classified as Homo sapiens sapiens--i.e., the sapiens variety of the species Homo sapiens. They first began to appear 130,000 years ago or somewhat earlier in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals.
It is now clear that they did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries.
http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/mod_homo_4.htm
it is reasonable to anticipate that there will be future finds of even older statues.
P.S. Dayyum, Homos have been around forever.
"The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder."
J.B.S.Haldane
Archaeologist Sheila Coulson from the UiO just discovered carvings on a snake shaped rock in a cave in Botswana which could be 70,000 years, this also indicates that religion could have existed then and also that cultural activity started before humans came to Europe some 40,000 years ago. Some say those finding will change much of how we have viewed such things. Source. I'll post this separately in the science forums as well but will this be considered a "statue" too? I think so.
VIRTUAL SLITHERING: In flickering light the carved rock gives the appearance of an undulating snake. Image: SHEILA COULSON
Last edited by Leif; 12-02-2006 at 08:25 AM.
I edited my post to get the image of the Venus of Willendorf to show. I guess that it is the equivalent of a touch and feel Playboy centerfold from 20,000 years ago. To my knowledge, more than fire, this is the most unique aspect of humans. The power of statues and images is great. But, evidence that images or statues of people before 40,000 are still rare. For example, the oldest European cave paintings mostly featured animals and tracings of human hands (Source).
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Hu...oldest_art.htm
The world's oldest cave paintings of human figures are believed to be in northern Italy, dated between 32,000-36,500 years old, but they look quite crude to me: (Source).
By contrast, the oldest central Europe cave paintings are thought to be no more than 13,000 years ago (Source) and the oldest examples of African Rock Art are at the Wonderwerk Cave where charcoal-marked slabs of stone have been dated from 25,000-27,000 years ago. http://www.lonker.net/art_african_1.htm
So, the snake statue dated at about 70,000 years old is by far the oldest animal representation. I have to admit that it is not particularly artistic and certainly not as evocative as the Venus of Willendorf.
I wonder what archeologists will think several thousand years from now when they unearth a statue of Bruce Lee in a Bosnian city, as a symbol of world peace?
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/28...n_unveils.html
Wise.
Last edited by Wise Young; 12-04-2006 at 03:14 AM.
IanTPoulter
Some australian aboriginal rock art is believed to be 40,000 years old.
http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/rock.php
yilmazve
about balikligol statue
I would like to correct something about Sanlıurfa which is mentioned as an ancient kurdish city. It is a Turkish city.
not the oldest, but this one always comes to mind as significant in history. just seconding an earlier post on this thread.
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Get Ready For CIVIL WAR!!!
by JohnMcTernan · June 25, 2017
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
All of the signs are out there that the Hard Left is moving to try and overthrow the election of Donald Trump as President. It is a real coup attempt. They've tried everything nonstop since the election to destroy him but have failed. They are out of their minds with rage because he is destroying their agenda at every turn. He is making America strong and putting the brakes on globalism.
Hebrews 11:9-10 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Anarchy – Civil War
Get Ready For CIVIL WAR! 06/23/17 (This is a short video and please make sure that you watch it.) What I am watching for is the unifying of all the Hard Left elements in America. This would include anarchists, Communists, Muslims, the open-borders crowd, hardcore homosexuals, leftist college professors and students, one-worlders and whoever else hates America and the Lord. It seems their hatred of God and America go together. This conglomerate of rebellion will be the "American brown shirts." This is like the rabble that brought Hitler into power. They are full of rage and hatred and are being fueled by Hollywood, the mainstream media (MSM) and the Hard Left Democratic politicians.
This is not a conspiracy theory on my part, because it is playing our before our eyes. If the Lord does not intervene, there will be bloodshed in the streets of America. They will bring the fight to us. Again, this all depends upon them uniting into one unified force in an attempt to overthrow the government.
If we pray and cry out to the Lord, he might bring confusion upon them and keep them separated.
Because of slavery, in 1861 eleven Democratic governors seceded from the United States and started the Civil War. This resulted in 650,000 deaths and untold misery for the South. Right now, once again, a horrible evil deep within the Democratic Party is stirring. This time it is the spirit of the French Revolution that they are trying to loose on America. In the first Civil War, it was armies that fought, but this this one could degenerate into vicious civilian warfare.
The Hard Left in America is living in a gigantic delusion. Now they have been forced into reality and they are full of hatred and wrath because of it. In their delusion, we are the modern Fascists, racists and whatever else they can think of, yet they are exactly what they call us. There is no reasoning with them because God has given them over to reprobate minds.
In 1861, it was impossible for America to stay together with the hardened pro-slavery mentality, and now the time might have arrived when it is impossible for America to stay together. This is because the Hard Left minds hate God and America, since this nation was formed by Christians. Just as the anarchists of the French Revolution hated anyone who had anything to do with God, so their spiritual descendants now are rising in America. At their core, they hate the Bible and the God of the Bible, along with anyone who stands on the Bible. There is no doubt in my mind that the Antichrist, the man of sin, is going to ride the spirit of the French Revolution into power.
2 Thessalonians 2:4-12 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (6) And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
(7) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth (holds back) will let (holds back), until he be taken out of the way.
(8-10) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
(11-12) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
"Globalist forces are preparing to overthrow President Donald Trump and start a new Civil War in America. Meanwhile, the Hollywood elite continue their twisted crusade to destroy Trump and radicalize their gullible followers. Anarchists & Antifa activists are engaging in sporadic street battles across the country as the alt-left propaganda machine lies to the American people about the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory. MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski suggested President Trump's administration is leading to the development of a dictatorship and alluded to the thought of someone going "back in history" to stop him.
This after Hollyweird actor Johnny Depp asked a crowd at the Glastonbury festival in England "When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? Maybe it's time." Depp was obviously referring to the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, also an actor. "This is an all-out effort to override the will of the American people and change the results of a presidential election. This is now creating a national security crisis" said Sean Hannity in his opening monologue on Tuesday."
Germany RAIDS HOMES of People Accused of "RIGHT-WING INCITEMENT" 06/23/17 Do you ever hear about Mosques being raided for promoting Islamic Sharia law and terror? You never do. It is now so obvious that the Hard Left loves the Muslims. There is a real "love affair" between the two. Germany is ahead of America in its love affair with the Muslims.
The Hard Left in America are just like their European brothers, but Americans are resisting while the Europeans have rolled over and died. They really want to shut us down and silence us, but God has blessed and we are still protected.
"Not the homes of Islamic jihadis, but the homes, most likely, of people who have spoken out against Germany's suicidal immigration policies. If the German police moved with this kind of dispatch against jihadis, Germany wouldn't be facing the threat it is facing. But that would be islamofauxbic, and these raids show that the clear priority of the German government is fighting islamofauxbia, not jihad. They are determined to silence all dissenting voices of freedom.
Meanwhile, note the pressure they're putting on Facebook and Twitter, which have both severely curtailed access to this website. They're hell-bent on making sure that people not discover the truth."
Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children arrested 238 people during Operation Broken Heart III
238 arrested in sweep of suspected child sex predators 06/23/17 The massive pedophile arrests continue. I hope that law enforcement is able to reach into the Washington swamp and drain it of all the pedophiles, every last one of them.
Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
"A monk from Riverside and an Australian man looking to buy a 6-year-old boy were among 238 people arrested during a two-month operation targeting child predators in Southern California, officials said Monday.
Conducted by the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crimes against Children task force, "Operation Broken Heart III" targeted offenders wanted for the sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution, sex tourism and possessing and distributing child pornography, said Deputy Chief Matt Blake of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Among those arrested during sweeps in April and May were entertainers, community leaders, white-collar professionals and clergy members, said John Reynolds, acting special agent in charge for U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.
"The incidence of child sexual exploitation has reached staggering proportions," he said at a news conference."
Jerusalem/ Islam/ Prophecy
Rioters pelt police with stones on Temple Mount
Report: Turkey stirring up tensions on Temple Mount 06/22/17 It appears that Turkey is now trying to be the major Muslim influence in Jerusalem. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that he wants to recreate the Ottoman Empire and believes that Jerusalem should be under his control. One day Turkey will try and take Jerusalem, but God is going to use this attempt to break the back of Islam.
Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
"Turkey is spending tens of millions of dollars to gain a foothold inside Israel's capital city and to stir up tensions between Arab residents and Israelis, a new investigative report claims.
According to the report, set to be published in full by journalist Nadav Shragi this coming Friday in Yisrael Hashavua, since 2004 some $63 million from Turkish NGOs and the Turkish government have gone to organizations in eastern Jerusalem dedicated to "defending and strengthening the Muslim heritage and character of Jerusalem."
Hard Left/ Homosexuality
All Five Seattle Pro Sports Teams Cooperate to Celebrate 'Pride Month' 06/24/17 This city might be surpassing San Francisco as the Sodom of America. I've posted many articles about the massive mega earthquake fault that is just off the coast of Washington. The articles all say that the Seattle area is long overdue for the massive mega quake.
This city is doomed as the fault could cause a 9.5 magnitude quake that would unleash a massive tsunami and destroy Seattle. I see the city as doomed, and the Lord might time its destruction with a sinful event like that which is being celebrated right now. Remember, this city is the closest to North Korean nuclear missiles.
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
"All five of the Seattle, Washington, professional sports teams announced a cooperative effort to recognize gay pride month, reports say.
Gay activists are celebrating the combined effort, noting that this is the first time that all the teams have organized to recognize LGBTQ equality, according to USA Today.
"Today the Seattle sports community is telling the world that athletes, coaches, fans, and officials, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, should have equal access, opportunity and experience in sports," Hudson Taylor, founder of gay advocacy group Athlete Ally, told the paper. Taylor added that the cooperative is "unprecedented."
The teams involved in the cooperative celebration of gay pride month include the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, Major League Baseball's Mariners, the WNBA Storm, Seattle's male soccer team the Sounders, and the women's pro soccer team the Reign."
Homosexuality/ Christianity
Court protects Christian bakers from demands they promote homosexuality 06/23/17 It really is a surprise when we win in the federal courts because this system is almost entirely given over to satan.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. (7,8) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
"A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Mississippi law that protects the religious freedom of those who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, and that gender is determined at birth.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court not only reversed an injunction imposed by a lower court – preventing the implementation of the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act – it went further and simply dismissed the case.
The ruling found that the individuals and homosexual advocacy organizations who challenged the law didn't have standing to bring their claims.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are part of the legal team representing Gov. Phil Bryant in the lawsuits, Barber v. Bryant and Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant.
ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot reacted to the ruling. "Good laws like Mississippi's protect freedom and harm no one. The court did the right thing in finding that those who have challenged this law haven't been harmed and, therefore, can't try to take the law down," he said.
Theriot explained that the sole purpose of the law is "to ensure that Mississippians don't live in fear of losing their careers or their businesses simply for affirming marriage as a husband-wife union."
Canadian District Bans Christian School from Teaching 'Offensive' Parts of Bible 06/24/17 It was only a matter of time until this happened. If the Hard Left is doing this in Canada, you know that they want to do this in America. This is all about identifying homosexuality as sin, and the reprobate can't stand this. It is like a direct attack on their core beliefs!
The following is the section of the Bible that the fight is about:
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
"Cornerstone Christian Academy in Alberta, Canada, is being told to stop teaching scriptures that may be considered "offensive." Battle River School Division (BRSD) chair, Lauri Skori, told Cornerstone's chair, Deanna Margel, that "any scripture that could be considered offensive to particular individuals should not be read or studied in school."
Skori said it would be inappropriate for the school to share "any teachings that denigrate or vilify someone's sexual orientation."
They're under an agreement with the BRSD that protects their right to teach their basic tenets. But Skori has been putting pressure on Cornerstone to hide their Christian values for quite some time. Earlier this year, she made Cornerstone remove a passage from 1 Corinthians from their website.
The passage read "Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
She even told Cornerstone remove a scripture about immortality written on a wall in the school. "
Science: 666 Surveillance System
ID 2020 Digital identity Pushed as a Basic Human Right
ID 2020 Digital identity Pushed as a Basic Human Right 06/22/17 This move by the United Nations is to identify everyone on the planet and then have one clearing house of information for the world! Notice how this is pushed as a human right, which is brilliant, because who can argue against a human right! The one-world system is on the way.
Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (18) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
"Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents.
The companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York during the second summit of ID2020, a public-private consortium promoting the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing legal identity for everyone on the planet.
The project aims to help individuals such as refugees prove who they are in order to gain access to basic services such as education and healthcare.
Blockchain, first developed as a public ledger of all transactions in the digital currency bitcoin, is increasingly being used to securely track data in other fields.
"Without an identity you can't access education, financial services, healthcare, you name it. You are disenfranchised and marginalized from society," David Treat, a managing director inAccenture's financial services practice, said in an interview."
Neural Implant Tech Raises the Specter of Brainjacking 06/24/17 Lately I have not posted much on this topic because it has been quiet. I think that all of the high tech has been developed to fulfill end time prophecy. This high tech needs to be improved and developed for the masses. One area is mind control, and this is what the article is about.
Revelation 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
"The human mind is already pretty open to manipulation—just ask anyone who works in advertising. But neural implant technology could potentially open up a direct digital link to our innermost thoughts that could be exploited by hackers.
In recent months, companies like Elon Musk's Neuralink, Kernel, and Facebook have unveiled plans to create devices that will provide a two-way interface between human brains and machines.
While these devices could undoubtedly bring many benefits, they would be networked to computers and therefore essentially part of the Internet of Things. That should immediately set off alarm bells for anyone paying attention to cybersecurity news.
There have been repeated warnings in recent years about the huge number of vulnerabilities in "smart" devices designed by consumer goods companies with little experience of or consideration for cybersecurity.
One would expect that the added sensitivity of a device set to be integrated into people's bodies would warrant more caution. But it has already been demonstrated that it is possible to hack medical implants to harm patients, and there seems to be no reason the same wouldn't be true of neural implants.
In a paper in World Neurosurgery last year, Oxford PhD student Laurie Pycroft warned about the possibility of 'brainjacking'—hackers exerting unauthorized control of brain implants."
Media/ Miscellaneous
I thought this was so funny that I wanted to share it with you. At first when I looked at it, I couldn't figure out what it was saying. When I realized the implications, I recognized that it is pure truth and is worth sharing.
2 Chronicles 11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
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danw says:
Father God,times and season's are in your hand's.You turn the heart's of king's and people as you will.As with the tower of babbel,send the enemy mixed signal's so they cannot implement their evil plan's against those who stand with you.Make Donald Trump the right man in your hand's..untouchable by evil.Give him a heart for Jesus and your written word.Give America a reprieve,Amen.
Kim W says:
John & Georgann, may GOD richly bless you as I have been through your research and articles.
Danw, I have a good website for you to read about your use of "father god". http://www.rmsbibleenginerring.com
Georgann Ryan says:
Thank you and God bless you as well – I've checked out the site you linked and his teaching on Father God and on the Blessed Hope seems solid – thanks for the link!
I've tried to get the site you mentioned,it will not come up for some reason..could you please give me a thumbnail idea of what it say's about 'Father God'?,thank's Dan.w
Dan, I couldn't get the site to come up from the link either so I googled the individual words rms bible engineering and used the link from there – hope this helps!
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42 minutes away and worth it. Make a reservation in one of the three restaurants; American, French, and Italian food. Hyde Park, NY
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Media companies and ISPs have established the Center for Copyright Information to combat online piracy, and have named an executive director, along with several advisory board members as the organization's program activities get under way. The new director, Jill Lesser says her focus in the upcoming anti-piracy efforts will be on "education and deterrence, not punishment." Lesser previously served as the deputy director of public policy and director of the Civic Media Project at People for the American Way, and as SVP for domestic public policy for AOL Time Warner. Article
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