My utmost ambition in life used to be to understand my brother. I could never have explained this to my mother—I think she gave up on trying to understand anyone or anything years ago, when she followed our father from a Korean village with dirt roads to a thin-walled apartment in New Jersey, and put away her carefully worn teachers' dresses to join him at the corner grocery store. Once, while fastening the heavy apron around her, she told me that the roads in Korea would mumble with mud in the rain, and spit dust against every footstep in the summer, but it was still easier to keep a dress clean there than here.
She never understood how it was that my brother and I learned English so quickly. To the end it was a struggle for her to extract words, much less meaning, from the rounded, slurred shapes of the language that bombarded her daily. My father never managed to shake off his accent completely, but he learned to join sentence fragments with nods and smiles. My mother silently took over the non-verbal jobs around the store, preferring to mop the floor and strip the skin from her hands in prying crates open to stammering through customer interaction.
Since then, I've studied how and why children pick up languages more quickly, and I remember my mother's polite smile as she silently asked me to talk to customers she could not understand. I try to think of how I learned English—the smiling, brightly dressed teachers at school? The curious children, told to be kind and speak slowly to the new girl? The cracked black-and-white television that had come with the store? The customers? I could explain how English came to dye my mind, soon overpowering the Korean entirely, but my brother, who never spoke Korean at all, is a different story. One day, he responded dutifully to the coaxing overtures of customers with little more than vague smiles. The next day, he informed a lady, in perfectly precise diction, that the package of crackers she was scrutinizing was "on sale, two for the price of one." His first words in any language—and as a matter of fact, they were not true. He was only trying to persuade her to put them in her shopping basket.
At the age of five, he announced that he would never go to the dentist again. "The electric chair was invented by a dentist, you know," he explained to me, as if that were all-conclusive. I was twelve then, old enough to be taken aback and to ask where he had learned that and since when did he know what an electric chair was, and he was young enough to blink sweetly at me and run back for another turn on the slide.
And I thought, He's going to be a writer. To this day, I could not say how I came to that conclusion. But his teacher that year later wrote as much in his progress report, praising his "exponentially growing vocabulary" and "precise grasp of the art of language." I could not say if my mother made any attempt at decoding this. By then, it was our father's job to praise good work, to scold poor work, to say that we could or could not visit that friend's house, to pull out dollar bills after laudatory parent-teacher conferences. My mother never cared much for our teachers. By this point, she was mechanically signing notices, politely refusing invitations to talk to the class during multicultural week, and smiling silently, even disdainfully, throughout conferences.
My brother spent his years in the public schools as a puzzle. He easily collected the high grades popularly associated with Asian students, and for him to look at something once through his thick glasses was to know it by heart. And yet, it was so obvious that he never quite—cared. Teachers first looked approvingly upon him as he scribbled intensely throughout class in thick blank books, and handed back flawless test papers. They soon found out, however, that he was not taking notes, and that he completed their assignments as favors.
His writing was intense and fragmented, filled with dashes and italics. He hated ellipses and semicolons with a passion. We had long since graduated into a blue-shuttered house, my father had dutifully arranged for men to re-sod the lawn, and I was a year into college and commuting from home. Memories of term papers, lipstick hurriedly applied in the bus, and hours sipping sour coffee at the university coffee-house intermingled with the editing the drafts of his self-declared masterpiece. It was the four-hundred page narrative of a girl who mocked her college roommate's Internet romance as being poorly founded and inherently impossible, and then fell in love with the boy herself when he came to visit.
He said that he was possessed by the power of irony, and devoted the better part of the year to it. If I felt that the characters—notably the hazel-eyed protagonist—fell a little flat, I never said so, and my praise for the descriptive passages, most of the dialogue, and plot structure were sincere, if clumsily expressed. What I could not find words for was the story's naivety. He blithely wallowed in archaic phrases, devoted maudlin paragraphs to waxing aimlessly about complex emotional turmoil, and in short, produced a story that would have earned snickers from his peers. He wrote without so much as a thought for his audience. He was never restrained, as I was, by worries of what the reader would think and criticize.
I wondered if this nonchalance were rehearsed, remembered who he was, and dismissed the possibility. Then it was final examination time at the university, and for a while I existed only in snatched moments between highlighting textbooks and another cup of coffee. In that time, he began work on what he described as a tragedy about an elderly couple in despair because they knew they would not survive to see their state's commemorative quarter issued. He had forgotten about an English assignment and handed in a first draft of this tragedy in its stead.
. I understand that his teacher had praised its strong grammar and originality, but had felt that it could align better with the prompt she had assigned. "This was a journalism assignment, you know. Now, these aren't real people you interviewed, are they? And it doesn't really follow an article format." She offered him a chance to re-do the assignment for a lesser grade, and he apologized.
She later praised him lavishly to my parents, archly describing his "politeness—how did you raise him to be such a lovely boy? He could give my biggest some lessons in respecting elders!" My mother stretched her mouth in some semblance of a grateful smile, my father thanked her (and I think he, at least, was sincere), and my brother got an A on his new article, and an Excellent work. I admire how you saw the human-interest component in a story that many people might not consider newsworthy.
I ventured that it seemed a rather uncharacteristic choice of genres.
As she usually did when our father was away, my mother misted into the room and quietly told us to order a pizza for dinner. Without waiting for an answer, she slipped back upstairs.
Our house overlooked a fairly busy road. "It's terrible for driving," I commented, gesturing vaguely towards the window even while I reached for the telephone.
It only occurs to me now to wonder what my mother did on those days. She was always quiet, even with my father, but I know the difference between quiet and silence.
Despite the lack of consistency in life, my brother soon abandoned his quest for the transcending romance. Sadly, he took up one for science fiction. The results were surprisingly unremarkable, and I found myself oddly disappointed when I glanced through his work between long stares at textbooks and case studies and—in those days, how-to books for writing resumes.
He described his latest effort while I was proof-reading a cover letter.
"Sure." I wondered idly if this plot would be more reminiscent of H. G. Wells or Isaac Asimov.
Never mind. Orson Scott Card.
He was looking at me with only a half-disguised plea in his eyes—and ultimately, I decided to keep my opinion to myself. I said something encouraging.
"Lynn?" The one other Korean girl at his school. I tried to think of someone whose opinion he had less respect for, and failed.
I can't remember if he ever put that idea on paper or not—he had stopped asking me to read his drafts a long time ago. The science fiction phase ran its course, and I found a job teaching at a nearby elementary school. It was one of the two schools that accepted the application of a waif-like twenty-two-year-old with lackluster reviews for her student-teaching performance, and who could only sound half-enthusiastic during interviews. I chose this school because it was large enough for me to be anonymous at staff meetings, and close enough for me to stay at home.
To my surprise, the children did excellently on the ESPA exams, and the principal called me in to congratulate me. I got a nomination for some district award for first-year teachers—didn't win it, of course, as I must have lost points on the relationship-with-colleagues section. Still, I photocopied the letter of nomination and sent it to my mentor teacher, adding a syrupy note about how my success was all due to her encouragement and wonderful example. I almost meant it.
For a while, the other teachers tried to make casual conversation on the rare occasions I had to retrieve something from the teacher's lounge and couldn't send a student. I hated them for it.
It hurt. I almost wished he'd return to science fiction.
Her progress is slow, but unbroken. I watch her as she bends protectively over her paper. The other students have, in typical second-grade fashion, rushed through at least a page or two--there has been an outbreak of unofficial speed and length competitions in journal-writing lately. I know I should stop it, and I would—if I cared enough.
My lesson plans would read beautifully in a professional teacher's manual. Everything I say and how I say it could be cited as an example of the ideal classroom in one of those horribly sweet videos inflicted upon student-teachers all across the country—I know I watched my share. My classroom is blinding with violent splashes of primary color--nearly every square foot of wall-space is covered with some form of student work, and I take care that the colors are undiluted, that the strokes are broad--that the room assaults the viewer and forces him to gasp something about the vitality of the environment.
The twenty-seven children grouped around the room in cooperative clusters will do what I say, because to do otherwise is unthinkable. So much have I taught them. They have learned to accept my elaborate explanations, straight from teaching manuals, littered with terms like "reading explorers" and "math detectives." They obediently squint at rocks under chipped magnifying glasses and mess up the rug with counting chips and read bland little booklets with flat illustrations and repeated use of consonant blends and take part in dizzying projects that I make sure to conclude near dismissal time, so they can race out into their parents' humming cars, insisting that they can't wait to come back again and finish their paper-mâche mammals for the forest unit. . . .
I am afraid. I let the classroom volume rise—higher and higher. Now and then a student from another class will duck in and tell me Mrs. Vaughn's class is asking their fellow second-graders to do them a favor and keep it down just a little—but I fulfill these requests reluctantly and sometimes not at all.
They trust me. They believe me when I say that they are scientists, that they have done a wonderful job cleaning up after snack, that their self-portraits are beautiful, that I love them. Their parents believe me when I tell them that I cherish their child's imagination and personality, that I look at him or her and see the product of meaningful lives. My mother believes me when I tell her that I love teaching. There was a time when she might have questioned me further, but she has been fading into the air for years now, and she cannot summon up the substance to voice any real concern. I even doubt that she will do more than mouth the scripted words of disbelief when my brother tells her that he is going. My father will have more to say, perhaps, but it will not mean enough.
My brother has begun to talk about writing my mother's memoirs for her—but I know him well enough to be sure that he would never dare to suggest it.


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The Tracker, also known as Dead or Alive in some countries, is a 1988 Western television film directed by John Guillermin, written by Kevin Jarre, and starring Kris Kristofferson, Scott Wilson, Mark Moses, David Huddleston, John Quade and Don Swayze. It premiered on HBO on March 26, 1988.

It was the 36th and final film directed by Guillermin, before his death in 2015.

Plot
Noble Adams served as a scout in the US Army during the Indian Wars. He resigns and takes his wife and two-year-old son to a farm he has bought. On the way, his wife dies in an accident. His son receives a good education on the east coast and studies law. After his exam Tom returns to his father for a short time. One day Noble is asked by his old friend Marshall Crawford for help in the pursuit of the gang led by John Stillwell, who escaped from the Yuma penitentiary. The bandits murder some people and kidnap two women, a twelve-year-old girl and an Indian. Tom wants to join the persecution. His father is against it, because he is convinced that his son is not up to the strains of the persecution. However, Tom prevails. Noble, his son and the marshal pursue the gang, on which a reward of 500 $ is exposed. They meet a group of bounty hunters who are deserted soldiers. During a sandstorm, the three seek cover behind rocks as best they can. Stillwell and his gang find shelter in a Pueblo (Indian village built into a rock). Because Noble knows that the bandits want to cross the river with the only ferry, they take a tiring shortcut. At the ferry, the bounty hunters get in their way. In the shooting, Stillwell kills the marshal.

Again and again there are conflicts between father and son. The father still lives in an atavistic world, in which life kills by the rule, so that you are not killed dominated. The son has a human behavior shaped by the civilized East Coast. Noble and Tom set another trap for the gang. Noble kills all gang members. Tom has been waiting for Stillwell. He has put his rifle on him and hesitates for a moment. Stillwell takes the girl to his horse. Tom can't shoot anymore. Noble and Tom meet as arranged with Indians, who bring them fresh horses and supplies. The older sister and the father of the girl are also at this meeting point. Noble wants to free the girl alone and follows the trail. Tom suddenly knows where Stillwell will hide. It can only be the Pueblo. He rides straight there. His father frees the girl and captures Stillwell. Stillwell distracts him with a trick and shoots him in the stomach with a hidden Derringer. Stillwell takes the girl on his horse and rides towards Utah. Tom arrives a short time later. His father tells him that he is mortally wounded. Tom promises to free the girl. He poses Stillwell, who surrenders. When Stillwell tries to outsmart him with the same trick, Tom shoots him. When Tom returns to his father, he dies shortly afterwards.

The final picture shows Tom inviting his father's coffin into a train. The two sisters are also on the platform. He promises his older sister, with whom he grew up in his youth, to visit her in a few months.

Cast

Production
The film had been in development for five years. The film was shot on location in Colorado and New Mexico in October 1987 under the title Dead or Alive.

Reception
The Wall Street Journal called it a " handsome, no-nonsense, no-spaghetti western."

The Chicago Tribune said " it's not bad at all."

The Globe and Mail said "The Kristofferson character is straight out of the Eastwood mold but even dirtier than Harry. But what makes him (and the movie) intriguing is his obvious tenderness for his grown son, wonderfully and endearingly played by Mark Moses. Their relationship gives the otherwise formula oater a much needed extra dimension."

An article on Guillermin's career in Film Comment said the film "marks a surprising return to something resembling form." Another in Filmink called it "a polite late '80s western... with some baddies kidnapping women and Kristofferson leading a posse, and his son learning the importance of killing people. The dust feels clean. Look, it's fine."

References

External links

 The Tracker at BFI
 The Tracker at Letterbox DVD

1988 television films
1988 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) television films
Films directed by John Guillermin
Films scored by Sylvester Levay
HBO Films films
1980s English-language films

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I am very pleased and honored to have been able to contribute a chapter to this new textbook!
This is a text that helps counselors, spiritual directors, and anyone else trying to provide religion-appropriate assistance to members of different faiths and spiritual backgrounds.
Editor John Mabry, PhD has done an unusually inclusive job. He has found experts on a HUGE number of world religions and gotten them to write very specific guidance on how to counsel followers. The usual religions are present (with several varieties of Christianity), as well as Neo-Paganism, African Diaspora Spirituality, Native American Religion, and "Spiritual Eclecticism" rarely found in any professional book. This should prove required reading for all types of counselors hoping to appropriately approach culturally and spiritually diverse clients. I hope several colleges adopt this text for courses on spiritual counseling and cultural competency.
My chapter starts on page 50 and is entitled "Spiritual Guidance in the Neo-Pagan Traditions".
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Jonathan Toews out again for Blackhawks
By Adam GretzNov 26, 2016, 3:38 PM EST
The Chicago Blackhawks will once again be without center Jonathan Toews on Saturday night when the team visits the Los Angeles Kings.
Toews was injured earlier this week in a game against the San Jose Sharks and did not play on Friday against Anaheim, a 3-2 Blackhawks win, due to what the team is calling an "upper body injury."
His scoring has dropped quite a bit this season with only 12 points (four goals, eight assists) in 21 games. That puts him on a pace for around just 46 points this season. That would be by far the lowest point total of his career. But even though his point production is down he remains an outstanding defensive player and two-way forward that can impact the game in a lot of ways.
The Blackhawks attempted to fill his spot on Friday by sticking Vince Hinostraza on a line between Ryan Hartman and Marian Hossa. That trio was on the ice for one Anaheim's goals.
Along with Toews, the Blackhawks will also be without forward Jordin Tootoo on Saturday night due to a lower body injury.

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India recognizes three national holidays that are mandatory in all offices, public and private. These are Republic Day (January 26), Independence Day (August 15), and Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday (October 2). It is then up to the state to recognize religious and secular holidays that are used as the basis for private companies and public sector employers.
Holi – Known as the festival of colors, Holi marks the victory of good over evil, the end of the winter season, and the return of Kama to Rati. The most popular part of Holi, Rangapanchami, is when people throw colored powder at each other. Holi falls near spring equinox and is celebrated between three and sixteen days, though no employers offer the latter in vacation days.
Rama Navami – Celebrates the birth of Shri Lord Rama in Ayodhya. The festivities last between one and nine days and are popular in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. His birth occurs on the ninth day of Chaitra month, or very close to the spring equinox.
Krishna Janmashtami – Celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna and is worshipped in all South Indian states.
Ganesh Chaturthi – Celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha.
Dussehra – Known as Navrathri, the nine nights of celebration of Shakti/Devi during the fall. All states except Punjab celebrate the Dussehra holidays.
Diwali – The largest and most well know Hindu holiday but also celebrated by Jains and Sikhs. Diwali celebrates the victory of good over evil as well as Lakshmi devi, the goddess of light and wealth. Diwali is observed over five days and companies tend to give one to five days of vacation as it is India's largest holiday.
Day of Ashura – Marks the martydom of Husayn ibn Ali, on the tenth day of Muharram. This holiday is observed in India by the Shia Muslim population and many states give the day off as a public holiday.
Eid ul-Fitr – The most famous Islamic holiday, Eid ul-Fitr, marks the end of the Ramadan fasting period and is celebrated for three days.
Eid al-Adha – Known as the Greater Eid, Eid al-Adha marks the sacrifice Abraham's son to God and God's gift of a ram in lieu of the son's sacrifice. The three-day celebrates occurs in November during the last month of the Islamic calendar.
Mahavir Jayanti – Celebrates the birth of Lord Mahavir in Jain religion. His birthday is celebrated during the springtime (late March – April) depending on the calendar.
Nowruz – The Parsi New Year celebrated in the summertime in Indian. In Iran, Nouraz is celebrated during the spring equinox.
Guru Nanak Jayanti – The celebration of the birth of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak. Most popular in Punjab, where the largest contingent of Sihks live, and fourteen states in India. The holiday is celebrated on November 21st.
Non-religious holidays includes New Year's Eve and New Year's Day and many state days. State days include Maharastra Day, Gujarat Day, Kerala Foundation day among others and are celebrated exclusively by the state in which the holiday represents.


Adaxes enables users to reset their own passwords and unlock their accounts without any assistance from the Help Desk or IT staff. The user's identity can be verified by answering security questions and/or receiving an SMS or e-mail verification code.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to configure and assign policies for Password Self-Service, customize options for resetting passwords from the Windows Logon Screen and Adaxes Web Interface.
All aspects of the self-password reset process are determined by Password Self-Service policies. A policy defines the methods used to prove the user's identity (security questions and/or verification codes), the number of questions to be answered, which questions are mandatory and which are optional, whether user-defined questions are allowed, account blocking and unlocking options, e-mail notification settings, etc.
The policy-based approach allows you to apply different levels of security to different users and groups. For example, you can enforce strict policies to privileged users, such as administrators and Help Desk operators, and less severe policies to other users. A policy can be assigned to all users within an Active Directory domain, users located in an Organizational Unit, members of groups and Business Units, individual users, etc. If necessary, you can exclude specific users, groups, OUs, and Business Units from the scope of a policy.
If users have no assigned policies, the Self-Service Password Reset feature is not available for them. By default, there are no Password Self-Service Policies defined in Adaxes, so, to allow users to reset their forgotten passwords, you need to create and assign Password Self-Service policies.
Expand Adaxes service \ Configuration \ Password Self-Service and select Policies.
In the Password Self-Service Policies section located to the right, click New.
Follow the instructions in the Create Policy for Password Self-Service wizard.
On the Activity Scope page of the wizard, click Add to assign the new policy to users.
All Objects - select to apply the policy to all users in all AD domains managed by Adaxes.
Specific Domain - select to apply the policy to all users within an Active Directory domain.
OU or Container - select to apply the policy to the users located under an Organizational Unit or container.
Group - select to apply the policy to members of a group.
Business Unit - select to apply the policy to members of a Business Unit. To select a Business Unit, open the Look in drop-down list and select the Business Units item.
You can exclude specific users, groups, Organizational Units and Business Units from the policy scope. For example, if you've applied the policy to all users in a domain, but do not want to apply it to members of a certain group, you can exclude the group from the scope. To exclude an object, select the Exclude option in the Assignment Options dialog box.
If a user falls within the scope of two or more policies, the policy with a higher precedence is applied to the user. To change the precedence of a policy, select it and use the buttons.
To view all users a policy applies to, select the policy and click the Show all affected users. To view the policy applied to a user, click Lookup policy for user.
By default, the Password Self-Service component is enabled in the Web Interface for Self-Service only. It means that by default, only the Web Interface for Self-Service can be used to reset forgotten passwords, unlock accounts and enroll for password self-service.
Follow the steps below to enable or disable the Password Self-Service component for a Web Interface and configure the options related to enrolling for Password Self-Service.
In the left navigation menu, click Components.
Use the Password Self-Service checkbox to enable or disable the Password Self-Service component.
To periodically prompt users to enroll for password reset, check the Prompt users to enroll for password self-service checkbox and select how often the prompt should appear.
To configure which Password Self-Service options are available in the My Menu drop-down, use corresponding checkboxes under the My Menu checkbox.
My Menu is located in the top-right corner of the Web Interface.
To allow users to enroll, re-enroll and cancel enrollment for Password Self-Service right from the Home page of the Web Interface, you can enable the Password Self-Service card. The card is not visible when there are no policies for Password Self-Service assigned to the user.
For details on how to configure the Home page, see Customize the Home Page.
For information on how to configure Adaxes to automatically enroll users for Password Self-Service, see Autoenroll Users for Self-Password Reset.
To enable users to reset their passwords right from the Windows Logon and Unlock screens, you need to install Adaxes Self-Service Client on each computer where you want the feature to be available.
Expand Adaxes service \ Configuration \ Password Self-Service and select Windows Integration.
In the Client Setup section located to the right, click Self-Service Client to download Adaxes Self-Service Client. To download Installation Guide for Adaxes Self-Service Client, click Installation Guide.
Follow the Installation Guide to install and configure Adaxes Self-Service Client.
You can integrate the Self Password Reset feature with your web sites and applications by adding a link to the Reset Password page of Adaxes Web Interface.
Use the ReturnUrl parameter to specify the URL to open when the user completes or cancels resetting the password.


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Ел Браво има више значења:

 Ел Браво (Чампотон), насеље у савезној држави Кампече у Мексику
 Ел Браво (Артеага), насеље у савезној држави Мичоакан у Мексику
 Ел Браво (Мескитик де Кармона), насеље у савезној држави Сан Луис Потоси у Мексику
 Ел Браво (Пинос), насеље у савезној држави Закатекас у Мексику


On Monday, Yvonne Nelson's daughter, Ryn Roberts' turned one.
This innocent looking baby is so gorgeous and beautiful,,, happy birthday to the alluring and adorable angel..
You know who is trying to shine pass her baby on the lil girl s day?
Let the little girl enjoy her day dammit!!!
No be dis same woman wey Inyaya take sing be dat??
Even he did, has he fared any better?


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Hennessy Cognac VSOP Bottle 75cL
Hennessy V.S.O.P
Hennessy V.S.O.P reimagines the classic cognac blend. A harmonious cognac, its complex combination of eaux-de-vie merge to create a smooth, well-structured and sophisticated spirit. The ideal expression of a perfectly balanced cognac, Hennessy V.S.O.P originated from an order placed in 1817 by the future King George IV of the United Kingdom for a "Very Superior Old Pale" cognac.
The perfect serve - Serve neat, on the rocks or with a dash of water, in a highball or in a cocktail
Service temperature - Room temperature
When to drink - Ready to drink
Storage advice - Store upright in a cool, dark, dry place
Closure - Cap With Cork
The first V.S.O.P – and still a favourite throughout the world – Hennessy V.S.O.P is a reflection of the enduring expertise of the Hennessy Tasting Committee and the Master Blender. Made using a blend of eaux-de-vie that are between four and 15 years old, and mostly matured in seasoned French oak barrels, it finds the perfect balance between character and smoothness.
X.O
1.285,71 € per litre
Signature cocktail:
35 mL Hennessy VSOP cognac
25 mL simple syrup
40 mL lemon juice
Combine cognac, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and pour into a champagne flute.
Top with champagne and garnish with a small piece of lemon peel.
Strength meets smoothness
A bright and shimmering mahogany.
Initial impressions of vanilla, clove and cinnamon give way to delicate toasted notes, courtesy of the oak barrels in which the eaux-de-vie are aged.
A signature combination of strength and smoothness is what makes V.S.O.P so iconic. The long-lasting finish is testament to the quality of the cognac itself.
By Renaud Fillioux de Gironde, Master Blender, Hennessy
Lowball Glasses by Michael Young
Highball Glasses by Michael Young
Rosé Impérial


"Akka (old lady)" Finland	 Female spirit, feminine counterpart of "Ukko".
"Ilmatar" Finland	 Female spirit of air; the daughter of primeval substance of creative spirit. Mother of Väinämöinen in Kalevala.
"Kalevanpoika (son/ man of Kaleva)" Finland	 A giant hero who can cut down Forests and mow down huge meadows, identical with Estonian national epic hero Kalevipoeg.
"Kave" Finland	 Ancient god of sky, later the deity of the lunar cycle. Father of Väinämöinen. Also Kaleva.
"Kotitonttu" Finland	 Tutelary of the home.


In 2015, Jack Humbert made a non-staggered keyboard a thing in mechanical keyboard community by founding OLKB—a company that produce only ortholinear keyboard—with Planck as its first product. Being ortholinear, fully programmable, and only as big as your Note, Planck was made anybody's head turn.
Attempting to cover the almost-infinite layout of Planck with high quality keycaps, I came up with some stupid idea: How about we make a blank GMK keycaps? So nobody will ask why their R2 Alt key isn't supported. But a total blank key will look rather bland sometimes, so fused with my fondness of Piet Mondrian (and his natural, grid-y form of his artwork) I put some colored accent keys to spice things up and let people decide what their keyboard will looks like.
No less than 150 kits were succesfully ordered and now sitting in various ortholinear (and even staggered) keyboard. And of course, no keyboard looks really the same each other.
After a year of the concluded Group Buy, I still randomly asked wether I have more of Mondrian in my stash for them to buy. And of course the answer is no.
So is it time for Round 2?
I'm quite happy with the kits on Round 1, so nothing will be changed in the Base Kit. That's right, I said Base Kit because now I want to add another kit: Stagger Mod and Dox Mod!
But before we start it, let's make a poll should I really run the Round 2? And also, are you interested in the additional kit?


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COVID-19 Update from Metro Atlanta Chamber
COVID-19 Emerging Trends Report As of 03.17.20 at 4:00 p.m.
The Metro Atlanta Chamber is tracking emerging trends around COVID-19 with a focus on those that may impact businesses, employees, the community and the economy. These trends are designed to curate helpful information for the business community. We will update you as new trends emerge.
Overview – March 17, 2020:
Today saw major metro Atlanta nonprofits announce significant efforts to support those impacted by COVID-19, including the United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. Global retail and metro Atlanta restaurant closures continue to increase in an effort to reduce the impact of COVID-19 and flatten the curve (full list of closures below). The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the state of Georgia has increased to 146 as of noon today, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health (full breakdown below).
Below is a list of trends in Atlanta and nationally, and a more comprehensive list of closings. Today, we have added resources for small businesses to our website.
More than 60 major US retailers are temporarily closing stores in an unprecedented move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, as reported by Business Insider.
Gov. Kemp submitted U.S. Small Business Administration disaster declaration paperwork to help small businesses. Read more here.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the state of Georgia has increased to 146, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. The latest data from the DHP shows the spike, which rose from 121 cases since Monday.
The United Way of Greater Atlanta has partnered with the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta to launch the Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund to support those most impacted by the pandemic.
Companies are offering webinars for best practices on working from home, keeping teams engaged, collaborating through technology and more. More info below.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has temporarily closed two domestic terminals due to declining demand.
Major metro areas are doing their part to help neighbors during COVID-19. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durken announced the city will provide more than 6,000 families $800 in vouchers for grocery stores.
Ride-sharing company Uber has suspended its Uber Pool option, which allows up to four people to share a ride.
Ongoing Trends:
Global retail and metro Atlanta restaurant closures are increasing due to COVID-19, with more than 60 major US retailers temporarily closing stores in an unprecedented move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. View the full list of metro Atlanta restaurant closures here.
Countries around the world continue to revise their entry policies. See the full list of countries with travel restrictions here.
Nonprofit organizations are announcing ways to help food insecure, elderly and other residents in need during the COVID-19 outbreak
Social gatherings and events continue to cancel/postpone, with the CDC's recommendation to postpone or cancel events with 50 people or more. The most recent event postponed is the Kentucky Derby.
Corporate social responsibility efforts are continuing in response to COVID-19, along with local neighbors helping neighbors. See examples captured today below.
Coworking spaces including The Gathering Spot and Switchyards are starting to close across the metro area.
Following are examples of current events that informed today's trends report.
Cases are confirmed in Barrow (1), Bartow (10), Charlton (1), Cherokee (7), Clarke (3), Clayton (4), Cobb (25), Columbia (1), Coweta (3), DeKalb (15), Dougherty (6) Fayette (5), Floyd (6), Forsyth (1), Fulton (33), Gordon (2), Gwinnett (7), Hall (1), Henry (2), Lee (2), Lowndes (4), Newton (1), Paulding (1), Polk (1), Richmond (1), Rockdale (1) and Troup (2)
Company/Business Trends:
Atlanta-based UPS will assist the White House's Rapid-Response Taskforce for Coronavirus Testing Sites with the logistics planning and operations to support the opening and regular operation of drive-up coronavirus community-based testing sites in several cities. UPS will assist with transportation support as needed.
Ponce City Market announced they will be closing as of 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17. They will follow recommendations from local health authorities on a timeline for reopening.
Dollar General announced plans to dedicate the first hour of every business day to senior shoppers, as well as change store operating hours beginning March 17, 2020.
AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas announced they are closing all theatres until further notice.
Companies are offering webinars for best practices on working from home, keeping teams engaged, collaborating through technology and more.
Ariel Group is offering a complimentary webinar on March 19 on "Leading Remote Teams Through the Coronavirus," where they will share their top tips for how to navigate the new virtual environment while keeping your team engaged.
Georgia Commute Options is hosting a Telework Webinar Series to share information about managing objectives and deliverables while teleworking, collaborating through technology, supporting good working habits and more.
Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Service and Neighbors Helping Neighbors
The American Red Cross now faces a severe blood shortage due to an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations during this coronavirus outbreak. Healthy individuals are needed to donate now to help patients counting on lifesaving blood. Sign up here.
Atlanta-based marketing firm Trevelino/Keller created the Toilet Paper Exchange to hand out free toilet paper that is left over from their company as employees work from home and urges other organizations to do the same.
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan donated $100,000 to Atlanta-based organizations to help with relief during the coronavirus outbreak, including the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Giving Kitchen.
*If your company has launched an effort that MAC should be aware, please email press@macoc.com.
Civic Updates:
Gwinnett County has declared a local emergency in response to the coronavirus epidemic. Charlotte Nash, the chairman of the board of commissioners, signed the declaration to activate emergency powers in the county.
National and Local Event Cancellations Tracked Today:
• The SOAHR Conference has been postponed to August 3-4, 2020.
• The Kentucky Derby has been postponed until September 5, 2020.
Travel Updates:
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has temporarily closed two domestic terminals due to "declining demand." All passengers still flying will travel through the airport's main terminal instead.
Delta has implemented a new policy that if customers don't take their flights, the airline will issue an eCredit within 24 hours, which can be used for travel until Dec. 31, 2020.
AirBnB will allow cancellations and refunds for reservations made by March 14 for check-ins March 14-April 14.
School News:
Gov. Kemp ordered the closure of all public elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools in Georgia starting Wednesday, March 18, through the end of the month.
Clayton and Fayette communities distributed food today to families in their area for a second day, while Henry County will begin handing out meals Wednesday. Click here for times and locations.
APS has received approval to open more sites for distribution of emergency student meals and to run some food routes using our buses. Beginning Wednesday, March 18, the District will open five additional food distribution sites that will provide service from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Cobb County School District will open 29 sites to the public to distribute food to families in need. MUST Ministries will operate the sites, which are housed at its existing Neighborhood Pantry locations in the school district. The sites will begin operating Wednesday.
Tracking Other Major Metros:
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durken announced today that the city will provide more than 6,000 families with $800 in vouchers for grocery stores.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced today that the April 28 Democratic presidential primary would be postponed to June 2.
The City of Miami has issued an order today mandating all entertainment and non-essential business establishments to close until further notice due to increased cases of community transmission in Florida. The order, which goes into effect at 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 17, applies to all alcohol service establishments that do not serve food, including bars, nightclubs and lounges.
o Dine-in restaurants may sell food for takeout, delivery and drive-thru on a two-hour basis.
o Entertainment venues including movie theaters, gyms and fitness centers are also impacted by the new order.
Dallas opened a temporary, overnight shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on Sunday after social distancing at other shelters caused them to not have enough beds. The shelter will stay open through the morning of Saturday, March 21.
If your organization has COVID-19 news that you would like for MAC to be aware of, please email press@macoc.com.
The Metro Atlanta Chamber is here to support you as other business needs arise. Please do not hesitate to contact our Investor Relations team by emailing MAC's Senior Director of Investor Relations Joel Perkins at JPerkins@macoc.com.


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is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the oldest temples in Kamakura and, together with Hōkai-ji, the only one of the Tendai denomination. The temple is Number one of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit. Two of the three statues of goddess Kannon it enshrines are Important Cultural Properties.  Sugimotodera is nicknamed Geba Kannon ("Dismount Kannon"), because horsemen never failed to dismount from their steeds when they passed by. (According to a different version of the legend, non-believers always fell from their horse when passing in front of the temple.) The temple is a  of Hōkai-ji.

History
According to the temple's own records, Sugimoto-dera was founded in 734 by the minister of the Imperial Court Fujiwara no Fusasaki (681 – 737) and priest Gyōki on orders by Emperor Shōmu.

The temple's legend holds that Empress Komyo (701–760) in the Nara Period (710–794) instructed Fujiwara and Gyoki (668–749) to build the temple enshrining a statue of Eleven-Headed Kannon as the main object of worship. It is therefore considered to be the oldest of Kamakura's temples, predating the Kamakura shogunate by half a millennium.

The records say that in the 8th century priest Gyōki was crossing the Kantō region on foot when he saw Kamakura from Mount Taizō (the Taizōzan in the temple's name) and decided to leave there a statue of goddess Kannon. He then carved and enshrined it himself. Later in 734, Emperor Shōmu was told by the goddess herself to build here a temple (the Hon-dō). In 851, the temple was visited by Ennin (794–864), who made a new Eleven-Headed Kannon statue and gave it to the Temple. Again in 985, retired Emperor Kazan (968-1008) told the priest Eshin Sōzu Genshin (942-1017) to carve an additional statue of Eleven-Headed Kannon and enshrine it in the temple. This event made the temple surge to the number one temple in the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit, a series of 33 Buddhist temples in Eastern Japan sacred to Goddess Kannon.

Historical accounts of the temple are rare, remaining most of its past largely unknown. Sugimoto-dera certainly predates the Kamakura period (1185–1333) and is therefore, if not the oldest, among the oldest temples in Kamakura. The Azuma Kagami calls it "Ōkura Kannondō", or "Ōkura Kannon Hall", from the old name of the area where it stands.

The temple was visited in 1191 by Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo, who ordered extensive repairs.

In 1337, well after the fall of the shogunate in 1333, there was a battle in the temple's premises between Hōjō supporters and Ashikaga forces, and more than 300 samurai lost their lives. The many small gorintō (stone stupas) to the right of the main hall were laid there in memory of those who fell on that occasion.

The history of the temple during the Muromachi period is not known.

Points of interest
The three sitting statues of Kannon that the Main Hall enshrines are the temple's main object of worship. The statue on the left is supposedly the one Gyōki built, but it appears to belong rather to the late Heian period (from 794 to 1185). In spite of its dubious attribution, the statue is a city Important Cultural Asset. The one in the middle is the statue said to have been made by Ennin, which also seems to go back only to the late Heian period and is a national Important Cultural Asset. The one on the right is the statue traditionally attributed to Genshin, which has been dated to the middle of the Kamakura period and is far too young to really be by him. This work too is a national Important Cultural Asset. Religious tradition notwithstanding, none of the statues seems therefore to be attributable to its supposed author.

One evening in 1189 a fire destroyed the entire Ōkura Kannondō, but the temple's bettō, a man called Jōdai-bō, jumped into the fire and rescued the three statues, laying them under a cedar tree. From this episode stems the present name of the temple, which literally means "Under the cedar tree". The rescue was deemed miraculous, and greatly increased the temple's reputation and the number of its pilgrims. The story was later further embellished claiming that the statues repaired under the tree unaided, and simply were found under the tree.

Finally, the two warriors at the Niō gate (the Niōmon, see photo), are attributed by the temple to famous sculptor Unkei, but the claim is not supported by any evidence.

See also
 The Glossary of Japanese Buddhism for an explanation of terms concerning Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhist art, and Japanese Buddhist temple architecture.

Notes

References

Buddhist temples in Kamakura, Kanagawa
Tendai temples


Now their site is down but I did pull this from the Internet Archive.
Chinese Chess, or xiangqi, is an ancient game of intelligence. People often know some philosophy of life to raise their awareness of ability,thinking and have fun through a chess board.You can play against computer or a friend.All your family members can join in.
The variations in the pieces, their movements, and the board layout make Chinese Chess Soul an exciting and challenging game.Now download Chinese Chess Soul and lead your army filled with Mandarins, Elephants, Horses, Chariots, Cannons, and Soldiers, fight, attack, and checkmate.
Anvir Task Manager isn't your normal task manager. I use Anvir Task Manager to place programs on top when I'm researching. I also use it to make windows invisible and scare my friends when they suddenly see the half transparent screen. Aside from the fun stuff, you can monitor and view heat, CPU, RAM and DISK (and battery if you are running a laptop). You can also quickly open past folders by right clicking the tray icon. Its startup options include delaying the startup so your programs boot faster. You can also delete nagging processes.
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We try to fix things, make sense out of our surroundings, schedule our days around things we deem important—perhaps because of our innate need for order. Even the extroverts of all extroverts or spontaneous of all spontaneous need black and white in their lives too.
But sometimes, despite our efforts to put pieces together, nothing seems to make sense. Why am I not getting promoted? Why am I still single? Why do I keep distancing from people important to me? Why do I keep chasing one wrong person after the other? What's wrong with me?
The moment we think we can understand, let alone control everything, we will start to self-destruct because we can't control everything. Even the greatest head of state cannot turn a country's destiny around all by himself. He needs his best generals, staff, and economists, along with other factors such as international relations, name it. How can one person control all of that? We just can't control everything at once, and we don't have to beat ourselves up about it. We have limits as human beings. There are things we just can't grasp. Even doctors are astounded by things that happen but cannot be found in books.
Here's a plot twist: when you are at your wits end because nothing makes sense, it's actually not your problem. It's comforting to know that a difficult task isn't even ours to begin with. All our 'what's wrong with me's', 'what am I doing wrong's', and 'I'm so tired I just want to move on from this-es'… it's not our burden to fulfill, apparently. The moment we approach God with our tired minds, life's mystery will fall into place.
Human hands cannot heal a spirit and He's the one who only can… and He will. Lift it up to Him.


With the release of the Async Community Technology Preview (CTP), many developers are starting to learn about Microsoft's improvements to the Microsoft .NET Framework for asynchronous programming. In this article, I'll look at how to deal with exceptions that can occur in asynchronous methods. I'll be using the Visual Studio Async CTP version 3 (available for download here).
For sample code such as what I'll be showing in this article, a simple Console application with a few Console.WriteLine commands will suffice. However, if I were to punch out a quick sample of some async code that throws an exception I would be in for a surprise.
If I run this code, nothing prints in the console window. If I set a breakpoint inside the catch block, I never hit it. Confused? It's all because of the context.
When the Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) is used in Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Web applications, there's already a "context" that the code is running in (such as the message loop UI thread for Windows Forms and WPF applications). When async calls are made in those applications, the awaited code goes off to do its work asynchronously and the async method exits back to its caller. In cases where there's already another operating context, program execution returns to the other context.
Console applications don't have the concept of a context. When the code hits the "await task1" call inside the try block, it will exit back to its caller, which in this case is Main. There's no more code after the call DoSomething, so the application ends without the async method ever finishing.
To alleviate this issue (which you'll see in unit tests as well), Microsoft included an async-compatible context with the Async CTP sample code that can be used for console apps or unit-test apps. In fact, the company created three, but I'm using the general-purpose GeneralThreadAffineContext in all the code samples included in this article.
The GeneralThreadAffineContext and its related supporting classes can be found in the My Documents\Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP\Samples\(C# Testing) Unit Testing\AsyncTestUtilities folder.
Now that I've got the context issue out of the way, my simple example is throwing and capturing exceptions just like it would in regular, synchronous code. When the "task1" being awaited throws the exception in the other context, it's caught by the .NET Framework and thrown back in the calling context (inside the try/catch block). Now I'm going to look at more complex examples when multiple exceptions may be thrown from different contexts.
If this code is run, the only exception caught is the one generated when counting kids. The exception thrown when counting the staff is eaten and never propagated. Why?
When the await on getKidsTask detects the exception, it will propagate it back up to the caller and the getStaffTask is basically abandoned and forgotten about. Microsoft realizes this scenario of throwing away exceptions is bad, so the company has created a new exception that will wrap multiple exceptions from async methods.
Which exception will be first in the InnerExceptions list? Which will be second? There's no way to tell. In testing, I've noticed that the exceptions in the InnerExceptions property tend to appear in the same order they were thrown, based on the task list passed to WaitAll. However, a specific order is not something I plan on relying on, and you shouldn't, either.
You might be wondering why the WaitAll doesn't simply re-throw the exceptions it caught. The problem with re-throwing a specific exception (such as "throw e") is that you lose your stack trace. This isn't something specific to the Task class; it's basic to the .NET Framework. It's one of the reasons that the Exception class has an InnerException property.
The InnerException property contains details (along with a stack trace) that result in a new exception being thrown. By wrapping all of these exceptions thrown from the waited tasks into an AggregateException, the detailed stack trace information is preserved in each exception.
Yuck. It's a horrible title for this section, but it bears mentioning. In the sample code, there were two async calls and each one threw an exception. The WaitAll collected the two exceptions and bundled them into an AggregateException.
What if one of the async calls executes more async calls itself, and those nested async calls throw multiple exceptions? In that case, the nested calls would be combined into an AggregateException, and that AggregateException would be thrown as usual and caught by the original WaitAll and bundled into an AggregateException.
So you see, it's possible for an exception in the InnerExceptions of an AggregateException to be another AggregateException! I've reworked my original example so that the staff counting task makes two more (exception-throwing) tasks and uses a WaitAll on them.
Something [AggregateException] went wrong counting One or more errors occurred.
The TAP is a huge improvement for making asynchronous programming approachable to everyone. Download the Async CTP and check out all the sample code included. Microsoft is putting even more async power directly into the C# 5 language, so things will only get better!


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Q: How to load category products in batches? Enable "Allow All Products per Page" without compromising performance TLTR: How to load category products in batches?
I want to show ALL products for a category and remove the pagination. However, that poses a huge performance concern that I need to address.
Let's assume that a category has 96 products. I would like to load first 24 products (at this point the site would become usable and customer can start interacting with the store), then load another batch of 24 products in the background (customer won't even realise that the page is still loading products in the background), then load another batch and so on until all the products in the category are loaded. The next batch of products should start loading as soon as the previous one has completed loading.
This is something similar to a LazyLoad approach, however, the pagination is completely removed, customer doesn't have to scroll down to the bottom to load more products (or trigger anything on scroll) and there would be no pages added to the URLs (as "Allow All Products per Page" would be enabled in the admin and enforced on all category pages).
To conclude:

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*Load 24 products -- Customer is able to interact with the store at this stage

*Load next batch of 24 products -- Happens automatically as soon as the first batch is loaded

*Load the next batch of 24 products -- Again, start loading as soon as the previous batch is loaded

*Load the last batch

If there is an extension available to facilitate this functionality, please do not hesitate to share.

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I'm back! Briefly, anyway. I couldn't let a new Alien film arrive in cinemas and not review it, so I've dusted off the pencil and notebook and taken a crack at it. In short: entertaining but forgettable sci-fi, and something of a disappointment from Ridley Scott.
Sam Mendes' SPECTRE felt like it was trying to be both a sequel to every Daniel Craig-era 007 entry as well as a big fat homage to the entire Bond franchise, but failed to do justice to any of them?
That sense of grasping overreach pervades much of director Ridley Scott's newest slice of sci-fi horror, ALIEN: COVENANT. Intent on serving as both a sequel to previous entry PROMETHEUS (the sort-of-but-not-quite prequel to Scott's original ALIEN) and a more traditional standalone entry in the canon, COVENANT tries to have its cake and eat it; the end result feels like a film with a personality crisis, with neither the scale and ambition of the former or the gut-wrenching chills of the latter. What's left is a modestly entertaining excursion into familiar genre territory, which comes up short next to Scott's classic, as well as James Cameron's ALIENS and arguably David Fincher's unfairly maligned ALIEN 3.
Full review: Alien: Covenant | TAKE ONE
Posted on 26 May 2017 Categories Take OneTags Alien, Alien: Covenant, Aliens, PROMETHEUS, Ridley ScottLeave a comment on Alien: Covenant (2017)
Prometheus: the second viewing
Ridley Scott's sci-fi blockbuster (which it now most certainly is) seems to have really divided audiences. There are those who are willing to look past its faults and enjoy it, and those who aren't and don't (as far as I'm aware, it has yet to be hailed as flawless). I've already reviewed Prometheus at length (over at The Digital Fix), but I've now seen it a second time, so for what they're worth here's a few additional thoughts which occur to me.
Firstly, I stand by my original view that this is a beautifully crafted and entirely gripping slice of science-fiction. There's no need to restate the obvious by praising its visuals – Scott is an artist above all else, and even the film's detractors concede it looks the business. Its willingness to think big and not pander to the lowest common denominator makes Prometheus the most cinematically rewarding sci-fi vision this century has produced thus far.
The two-hour running time for me simply flew by. Indeed, if anything the film is too short. There were several moments where I wished Scott had lingered a little longer, especially in the run-up to the landing on the planet/moon. Remember how unwelcoming that original planet was in Alien? How that ominous mood was gradually built up? This is a film that needs to breathe a little more slowly and a little more deeply, to let the atmosphere really envelop you. I suspect it would be all the more satisfying for it.
Equally some of the characters could have benefited from being fleshed out more. It's the one area the film genuinely falls down on, which is a shame because Alien is a text-book example of how to sketch memorable characters in a genre film. I liked Idris Elba's Captain Janek, for example, but without adequate screen time he remained little more than 'the guy with the accordion'. A script polish could have made all the difference – where's Dan O'Bannon when you need him?
As for those alleged plot-holes, I didn't have any significant problems with the narrative. On a second viewing I think the film flows more smoothly, and nagging details about character motivations became less bothersome (although they don't recede entirely). As for things like 'Why didn't Vickers run away to the side of the crashing ship?' (SPOILER), it seemed to me that she WAS running away to the side, albeit at an angle; the sheer size of the Engineers' ship doesn't make it clear how futile her actions were.
This is all just idle fan nit-picking, of course. I suspect Scott is an astute businessman and recognised the need for a tight theatrical cut that came in as close as possible to two hours. But I also suspect a longer version of the film is done and dusted and waiting to be shipped on dvd and blu-ray. I can't wait to see it, and I'm willing to bet that it will come to be seen as the definitive version of the film, just as the special edition of James Cameron's Aliens is now viewed as the superior cut of that movie.
Incidentally, you'd be forgiven for thinking early on that Prometheus is actually a remake of Paul W.S. Anderson's unloved 2004 spin-off Alien vs Predator, which similarly posited the notion that the Xenomorphs had connections with Earth's long distant past, and that a man called Weyland had known of their existence long before his eponymous company sent Ripley and her crew to investigate planet LV-426. In fact, the AvP films are not only ignored by Prometheus but are cut loose from the franchise altogether (which one suspects won't be the cause of too many shed tears).
Oh, and if/when the sequel is eventually announced, what are the odds it's going to be called Prometheus Unbound? You can have that one for free, Sir Ridders.
Posted on 19 Jun 2012 Categories CommentTags Alien, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Ridley ScottLeave a comment on Prometheus: the second viewing
Review: Prometheus (2012)
Ridley Scott's return to the massively popular Alien franchise he helped launch in 1979 shoulders an enormous burden in audience expectations – this is his first science fiction film since Blade Runner, after all – and it's little short of a miracle that he succeeds in delivering a worthy follow-up. It may not be the equal of its classic progenitor or his landmark 1982 future noir, but Scott proves he still has it in him to deliver a beautifully crafted, mature slice of sci-fi while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats. Raising as many questions as it does answers, the director and Twentieth Century Fox have successfully resuscitated one of the studio's key properties by delving in to its origins (much as they did with last year's X-Men and Planet of the Apes reboots) instead of churning out a redundant remake, managing the difficult act of keeping long time fans onboard without (ahem) alienating newcomers.
Full review: Prometheus | Cinema Review | Film @ The Digital Fix
Posted on 5 Jun 2012 Categories The Digital FixTags Alien, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Ridley ScottLeave a comment on Review: Prometheus (2012)
Waiting for Prometheus
TOO. MUCH. INFORMATION.
So, Prometheus then. I know I'm not the only person eagerly anticipating Sir Ridley Scott's latest project. As we all know by now, it's set within the Alien universe before the events of his classic sci-fi horror, though to what extent it serves as a direct prequel remains to be seen. It's in 3D (which saddens me a little). It stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce. Fassbender's character is an android. And it has something to do with the origins of the mysterious 'Space Jockey' corpse briefly seen in the first film.
That's about as much as I know, and I'm desperately trying to keep it that way. Occasionally a film comes along that you really, REALLY don't want spoiled for you. That you want to unfold afresh before your eyes, letting the story take you to its conclusion with no knowledge of the journey to come. To allow the surprises to catch you unawares. In short: to really, truly, honestly experience it.
It's a tricky thing in the age of the internet though. Scripts are reviewed online before they are even greenlit. Spoilers abound everywhere. Images are sneaked and spread through social media. Trailers are available across hundreds, if not thousands of websites. Even the trailers themselves now have trailers.
To ignore all of this about a film you are desperate to see requires a significant amount of willpower. In fact, it requires you to embark on some sort of hermit mission by inhabiting a kind of digital cave, only occasionally venturing out to see what's new in the weird and wonderful land of civilization. Needless to say, I haven't been completely successful. New images from the film crop up on sites like Facebook unbidden and I am forced to click hastily away, mentally renewing my sworn oath of spoiler chastity.
Mercifully, the release date for Prometheus is slowly ticking round and within a matter of weeks I will be privy at last to its mythical contents. Until then, please don't tell me anything about the film, otherwise I might be forced to kill you, and then eat you. Just in case, you understand.
Posted on 26 Apr 2012 Categories CommentTags Alien, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Ridley ScottLeave a comment on Waiting for Prometheus
The Day That Time Stood Still
If you're still lucky enough to have a job, especially one of the office variety, then no doubt you will have had to endure those sorts of training courses which have been deemed as "essential" for all staff. You know the sort I mean: data protection, financial regulations, health and safety; generic courses full of worthy-but-dull legal speak which merely serve to wash the employer's hands clean of any liability should an employee do something wrong, stupid or naughty and get caught in the process.
I had the misfortune to sit through another one of these courses on a recent Tuesday afternoon. You can instantly tell when you are in the midst of one, because they share the same characteristics:
Einstein's theory of relativity is confirmed, by the manner in which time grinds to a halt. The clock in the training room, which is always large and prominently featured, takes great pride in displaying how long a single second can be drawn out.
Other employees, the vast majority of whom you have never seen before and almost certainly never will again, turn up expressly for the purpose of engaging the trainer in long-winded, drawn out conversations about minute aspects of the subject which are only relevant to their area of work, thereby prolonging the agonising dullness of the course for everybody else.
You take far greater interest in your fingernails than is normal.
You start to envy the freedom of nature through the window, which will invariably show smug-looking birds flying around in the air in a deliberate attempt to taunt you.
You begin to daydream…
This last one is a serious weakness of mine, something I am particularly susceptible to when the course in question is becoming bogged down in legalese jargon or has succumbed to 'death by Powerpoint'. The upside to this is that I can amuse myself with fantasies of some never-to-be world where I have become impossibly successful or dashing. I shan't bore you with the details, but these moments do help stimulate other thoughts. For instance:
Who would I cast as a new Ghostbuster in the upcoming sequel…?
Who should direct a new Alien film…?
What might make a good title for a new Indiana Jones movie…?
Which essential, must-have dvds are missing from my collection…?
How much would a new surround sound system cost…?
Alas, the problem with modern training courses is that one is not allowed to fall ever deeper in to these private thoughts, because all courses must now include some element of interactivity and, God help us, "role-play". Role-play: one of my most dreaded words. Suddenly you're thrust in to the centre of the room and forced to make an idiot of yourself, desperately trying to marshal whatever thoughts you can recall from the course so far, hoping that someone else will be just as bad or possibly even worse than you at whatever exercise you've been asked to do. It's quite a shock to those of us who are more of the "sit-quietly-in-the-corner" ilk.
Eventually, after what seems like an eternity, freedom is granted and you make your way merrily back to the office, grateful to do something as uninteresting as checking emails. The problem is that the private thoughts tend to stay longer with me than the contents of the course, the latter usually managing to quietly sneak out of my brain that very same evening. Still, even if the course failed to linger for very long, at least I have a better idea of who should play the new Ghostbusters.
Posted on 15 Jul 2009 Categories UncategorizedTags Alien, Indiana Jones3 Comments on The Day That Time Stood Still
Alien: Rebooted
News that I had been dreading for quite some time (ever since Aliens vs Predator: Requiem tanked) finally broke a couple of weeks ago – 20th Century Fox are drawing up plans to remake/reboot Alien. Only chit-chat so far, but there seems little doubt that a new project is in the works, and is unlikely to be a direct continuation of the original series.
It seemed inevitable somehow, given the current fad for rebooting/remaking anything that ever made a reasonable amount of money in the past. The recent box-office success of Star Trek has only intensified studio efforts to look at which proven money-maker could be dusted off next. But that does nothing to quell the anger and despair at seeing something you love being butchered, broken up and sold off to make a fast buck. News that should be some form of consolation, namely that Ridley Scott would be co-producing this new take with his brother Tony, does little to asuage my fears.
My problem is that any sort of prequel or reimagining would destroy the elemental mystery of the original. Of course it would be interesting to know the origins of the Alien, and also that of the doomed Space Jockey. But do we really want to know? Would it not cancel out the original film's unique atmosphere of ancient and otherwordly terror? Is it not better the leave the creature's true origins obscured, impossible to determine, thereby enhancing its unnatural horror?
I trust Sir Ridley enough to assume that he has thought this through already and found a story angle that won't ruin his first masterpiece. But I can't help but fear that I will follow each new announcement of the project with a sinking feeling inside – especially if the director turns out to be a "hot new talent" from the world of music videos or visual effects. Spare us that at least.
The new Predator project (possibly to be directed by Neil Marshall it seems) appears to be a sequel of sorts to the originals. Let's hope the new Alien will similarly respect the qualities and intentions that marked out its original so vividly.
Posted on 13 Jun 2009 Categories UncategorizedTags Alien, Neil Marshall, Sir Ridley, Space Jockey2 Comments on Alien: Rebooted
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
And so we come to the fourth and (thus far) final film in the original Alien cycle, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection. It is in some ways ironic that this is (thus far) the last of the series (not including the Alien vs Predator spin-offs), as it was heralded on its arrival as the saviour of the franchise – a return to form after the negative response to Alien 3; to get it "back on track", as Kim Newman described it in his Radio 4 review. My sense is that, on the contrary, time has proven A:R to be the weakest of the line.
This was the first Alien film to be exposed to internet fan speculation during its development, where fact and fiction often walked in hand. Rumors abounded of the direction that a new film might take (one story suggested that the events of Alien 3 would be written off as a hypersleep dream, paving the way for the return of Hicks, Bishop and Newt). How big a part the still-young world wide web played in the actual decision-making process is of course questionable, but it was clear there was still a great hunger for more sequels. This was despite the apparently final conclusion of Alien 3 that saw Ripley's own story come to a memorable close, even if the film itself was not as beloved by audiences as its predecessors. It was this lingering dissatisfaction that seemed to drive demand for a new entry; questions still needed to be answered and more Xenomorph-style terror was desired, in the belief that Alien 3 was merely a blip.
At least, that's what it felt like from a fan's perspective. From the studio's point of view, this was a series that was still solvent and capable of making more money, just as the Planet of the Apes series had done for the same studio two decades earlier. That might sound cynical, and it probably is, but there's no doubt that if it wasn't capable of making money, a new chapter would never have got made.
The studio does deserve some credit though. All three of the earlier films had been directed by up-and-coming directors of talent and vision, who all went on to equal or greater successes (Ridley Scott made Blade Runner and Gladiator; James Cameron made Terminator 2 and Titanic (yes, yes, I know); and David Fincher made Seven and Fight Club). Commendably undeterred after the mixed reception to Alien 3, Fox and the producers stuck to their guns and went after another visionary for the new episode. One early frontrunner included Danny Boyle, who had just come off Trainspotting. In the end they signed up Jeunet, despite his speaking little English and not having directed a feature-length film by himself before; his earlier films, Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost Children (1995), were co-directed with Marc Caro. Jeunet of course went on afterwards to direct the wonderful Amelie (2001).
A:R bears all the hallmarks of having been conceived as the start of a new series of films, perhaps a new trilogy. Writer Joss Whedon certainly tries to give audiences what they wanted from a new film. Firstly Ripley herself is resurrected, using the then-trendy plot device of cloning. Sigourney Weaver was tempted back with a whopping paycheck. Clearly the producers felt that her involvement was crucial to get the series going again; earlier attempts to get an Aliens vs Predator film off the ground came unstuck, so it's not surprising that Weaver was drafted in. It does smack a little of desperation though, almost like the producers felt it would be too risky trying to create a new character to carry the franchise.
To be fair, the idea is interesting and has potential: two centuries after the events of Alien 3, Ripley is cloned from stored blood samples by military scientists (will they never learn?) aboard a spaceship attempting to recreate the Alien (something to do with "urban pacification"); this results in her DNA becoming mixed with that of her nemesis, making her a rather different Ripley from the one we remember. The idea that her ultimate sacrifice was in vain, and worse, she is now bonded with the evil she has battled to eradicate, does pose some intriguing questions. Of course, the Aliens manage to escape their shackles and start to do what they do best: kill, kill and kill again.
Whedon's script ticks other crowd-pleasing boxes too. Back come the colonial marines from Aliens; back too comes the spaceship setting from the original, complete with ship's computer called Father (as opposed to Mother in the first film). The basic story is also familiar, as a dwindling group of survivors try to make their way out of the infested ship alive.
For the first time in the series, Weaver's name was not alone headlining the poster: joining her was Winona Ryder. Ryder's addition to the franchise is convincing evidence that the studio were looking for a new name to carry the series on if and when Weaver bailed out (though the revelation about her character that comes towards the end of the film is slightly bizarre if she was indeed to pick up the torch as the new star of the series). Unfortunately Ryder doesn't fare well in the film, being altogether too weedy and annoying, and Weaver easily keeps the limelight to herself.
Ryder is not the film's only fault however. The most serious flaw is a very uneven tone, one that lurches from thriller to farce and back again. It's often a frustrating film to watch, as one feels that in the hands of a different director, A:R could have been a much stronger addition to the series. Instead, Jeunet adds moments of pure silliness when what we really want from an Alien film is horror and suspense. Scenes like Dan Hedaya's death-from-behind, looking at his own brains; or the frankly bizarre 'conception' scene as Ripley is 'smothered' by the Alien Queen, resulting in the entirely risible Newborn. The style of humour here is totally out of place; it might work in Whedon's Buffy tv series, but an Alien film needs to be grounded, believable, scary. Hedaya's whole character seems to have walked in from a sitcom shooting next door.
These supposed innovations only serve to distract from a story that seems fine on paper, but actually turns out to be more like a greatest hits compilation of its predecessors. Whedon's script included some colonial marines, but only one actually plays anything like a significant role. And for all the guns on display, desperately trying to evoke memories of Aliens, there's precious little shooting.
Which would be fine, if there was horror and suspense to replace it. But sadly the film is deficient here too. Certainly there's nothing to match the terror of the first or second films, or even Alien 3. There's the odd moment of excitement, such as the underwater swim and the egg 'farm' where the survivors emerge, or the scene where the abducted passengers awake to find themselves each suspended above an Alien egg just about to hatch. But the trouble is it's all been done before, and better. Jeunet may have an imaginative eye with the camera, but he doesn't seem to know how to build a tangible atmosphere of tension or dread.
This does all rather sound like I hate the film, but actually I don't. Even if Jeunet proved to be the wrong man for the job, he didn't necessarily deliver a bad film – just an unsatisfactory Alien film. Certainly there are enough ideas of interest to make it worth a look. The tone may not be right, but the setting is good; in fact Whedon reworked this space smugglers scenario to much better effect with his short-lived but much-missed TV series, Firefly. The smuggler crew are an interesting bunch of characters, including the likes of Ron Perlman and Michael Wincott, and they help keep the film afloat. The build up to the escape of the Aliens is quite involving. The action may be a disappointment, but the sets and cinematography continue the series tradition of looking superb, both claustrophobic and moody – it certainly looks like an Alien film, and some pleasure is derived from that fact alone. Sadly the Aliens themselves are not as scary as they once were, the film over-relying on CGI and therefore automatically losing some of the horror the first two films had. There are some neat touches though, such as the way the Aliens escape from their cells by killing one of their own. The other standout moment is the scene where Ripley encounters the earlier attempts to clone her; failed experiments horrificly gone wrong, yet unaccountably kept alive.
But much of the good work is lost when the ending with the Newborn arrives. The best that can be said here is that if the studio wanted their director to inject something unique in to the film, then they certainly got it. Unfortunately, the creature is more often laughable than the tragic beast he seems intended to have been. And the whole idea of a human-Alien crossbreed as the product of what seems to be a sexual liaison is just too silly for words. I'm amazed the studio let it get by.
So in the end it's a mixed bag really. Some good bits, some bad, some imaginative, some absurd. It was a noble attempt to do something different with the franchise, to make it feel familiar yet new, whilst getting the series back on the road to success. Unfortunately audiences didn't get onboard with it and the moderate box-office returns it generated meant the series was put on hold indefinitely. Still, if this was the weakest of the series to date, then that shows the strength of the franchise's quality overall.
An Alien 5 has been mooted now and again, with Cameron and Scott apparently interested in making a fifth and final chapter that visited the Alien homeworld. Sadly it was overruled by the studio in favour of the long-gestating Alien vs Predator… but that's a review for another day.
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Posted on 13 Oct 2008 Categories Film reviewsTags Alien, Danny Boyle, Joss Whedon, Kim Newman, Marc Caro6 Comments on Alien: Resurrection (1997)


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I'm beginning to think that I have a serous problem -- I can barely look at anything, be it textures, colours or any combination thereof without wondering how these elements woulds come together in a mitten. No shape, colour or texture is exempt from undergoing this process within my brain; it just happens.
Moreover, I find myself stopping and considering the most unlikely of things, on the off-chance that they might prove to be the next somethings that I'll need to deal with. Take the simple act of doing the laundry. Dirty shirts go in the wash, clean ones come out. Those clean shirts end up on the chair in the front room waiting to be folded. It's time for me to pull myself away from whatever else I'm doing for some quality folding-time... ...and I freeze. I'm too busy staring at the colours on the chair, the random way in which the laundry was taken out of the basket and laid there, waiting to be put away. Clearly this needs to be properly documented before this fortuitous spectacle (or clean t-shirts, to the rest of the world,) is broken up and put into its dresser drawers!
So, yes, I stood there and took pictures of my laundry. Allow me to warn you that if you do this the people you live with may look at you strangely (in some cases, more strangely. Anyway.) If this colour combination turns up in a mitten, please do not be terribly surprised -- my brain's already working away at this one.
And speaking of mittens, because how can I not have a new mitten on the needles or freshly released these days, there's another one coming this weekend: This is Phèdre (Ravelry link.) She'll be out this weekend. You might recognize her from Jacqueline Carey's Legacy of Kushiel series. Please note -- I have not yet finished reading this series, so PLEASE, no spoilers from those of you who have, thanks! I'll let you all know the second the pattern's out, as usual. Now I'm off to go tackle another mitten...it truly never ends.
Another lovely design & I love the red & black combination!
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2 p.m.: Parks update from Jim Dunwiddie until 2:30 p.m.; grant request for safe route to schools until 2:40 p.m.; Water as a Resource meeting agenda prep until 3:10 p.m.; Title 16 & 17 post-hearing review will happen until 4:30 p.m. Adjournment follows.
7 p.m.: This special meeting is being held to have a public hearing for commissioners to consider public testimony on the "range and selection of land use alternatives to be analyzed in a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement." The hearing is part of a recent Growth Management Hearings Board decision regarding the size and composition of the county's Urban Growth Areas.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 9 a.m.: The board will receive the agenda for its Feb. 13 meeting until 9:45 a.m. Next they'll share information until 10 a.m.; there will be a human rights council discussion from 10 to 10:30 a.m.; then talk about a sewer utility newcomer connection inspection fee increase will happen until 11 a.m.; the Kitsap Peninsula Visitor & Convention Bureau will give a presentation until 11:30 a.m. The board will end the meeting at noon after an executive session regarding real estate.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 5 p.m.: Work study items include discussion over an extension of an inter-local agreement with Kitsap County Administrative Services for court security services; and a proposal to amend the inter-local agreement for Emergency Management Services to eliminate the city of Bremerton Council President and one at-large council member from the composition of the Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management Policy Board; discussion and instruction of use of tokens for council e-mail.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.: Agenda items include: an interlocal agreement with Kitsap County for stormwater education; a resolution indicating the city plans to enter into a lease agreement with Coffee Oasis for a teen shelter; and a workshop on the Shoreline Master Plan, continued from the council's discussion last month.
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