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Can Rock Defeat Terrorism?
One month ago, Eagles of Death Metal were in mid-performance at the Bataclan Theater in Paris when their show was interrupted by a terrorist attack that left 89 dead there (and 130 total in coordinated attacks elsewhere in the region). All the members of the rock band survived and were understandably traumatized, but they swiftly determined to return to Paris to perform as an act of defiance against the jihadists who targeted cultural expression as well as a hall full of innocent concertgoers. The band instinctively understood the power of rock music as a force for rebellion and liberation.
With its power to inspire hope and a yearning for personal freedom, rock's barely restrained energy has always been a raucous threat to repressive governments and cultural totalitarians around the world. Islamists in Pakistan and Afghanistan have been known to blow up CD shops to silence the music. Che Guevara and the Castro regime in Cuba despised rock and persecuted musicians. A documentary called Rockin' the Wall, narrated by my friend the actor Adam Baldwin, charts the role of rock in bringing down the Berlin Wall.
As recently as 2010, Iran's Ayatollah Khameinei declared that music is incompatible with Islamic values, particularly music from what the fundamentalists deem to be a decadent Western culture. Khameinei banned Western music in his country, forcing many musicians into exile or underground. A thriving heavy metal scene, for example, now serves as a voice of resistance against the theocratic regime.
Western musicians and audiences aren't accustomed to this kind of oppression. Living in the land of freedom and prosperity as we do, it's easy for us to take that for granted until something like the Bataclan atrocity opens our eyes – and prompts us to rally in defense of freedom. "So much that was taken from Paris on the tragic night of November 13th is irreplaceable," U2's Bono said about the attack. "For one night, the killers took lives, took music, took peace of mind – but they couldn't steal the spirit of that city." In an open letter to his friends, Eagles of Death Metal drummer Josh Homme wrote, "We dare not give another second of precious time to those who have tried to steal our freedoms and take away our power."
Other musicians responded with a similar determination not to be cowed. Singer Josh Groban told the hosts of The View that he and his crew agreed music would help restore some healing normalcy, so they decided not to cancel his performance in Paris shortly after the attacks. "Music heals. It brings people together and we're real proud of that," said Groban. "With music, with art, we're in a privileged position that we have a chance to bring people together for all the right reasons."
Boston-based musician Will Dailey and his band were on tour through the northwest of France when the attacks happened. Their next show was cancelled for safety concerns, so Daily and crew set up shop in a community center to play before a small audience and stream the show online. "They attacked music," Dailey says of the jihadists. "Music is unity, universal communication, therapy, safe expression. [Our show] was a counter-attack in a way. It is freedom. Folk music, Rock and Roll, hip hop – they have always been about freedom."
Less than a month after the attacks, U2 invited Eagles of Death Metal back onstage in Paris for the Irish band's final show of their Innocence + Experience 2015 world tour. "They were robbed of their stage three weeks ago, so we'd like to offer them ours tonight," Bono told the crowd. The bands played a cover of Patti Smith's "People Have the Power" together before U2 left the stage so Eagles of Death Metal could play their own "I Love You All the Time."
In a Facebook post about their emotional return to Paris, Eagles of Death Metal addressed "the healing, defiant power of rock 'n roll": "The bad guys never take a day off, and therefore we rock 'n rollers cannot either... and we never will." The note concluded by thanking U2, the people of France, and "everyone in the world who continues to prove that love, joy, and music will always overcome terror and evil."
It may take more military firepower than love, joy, and music to overcome terrorists like ISIS, but our freedom of expression and rock's subversive power are indispensable defenses against totalitarian aggression. As Paul McCartney put it in his song "Freedom," written in response to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001:
This is my right, a right given by God
To live a free life, to live in freedom
Anyone who wants to take it away
Will have to answer, 'cause this is my right.
From Acculturated, 12/14/15
Picks of the Week from Around the Web
Welcome to what may become my first weekly collation of a handful of online articles that caught my attention this past week, and which deserve to be shared. Check back for more next week.
The Art of Manliness: "Why Every Man Should Study Classical Culture"
The Federalist: "10 Resources For Hack-Proofing Your Mind"
Commentary: "The Smug Radicalization of the Left"
Intellectual Takeout: "Being Emotional Isn't a Form of Debate"
The Hollywood Reporter: "Camille Paglia Takes on Taylor Swift, Hollywood's #GirlSquad Culture"
Tim Tebow Wins Without Scoring
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, news broke that quarterback Tim Tebow and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, who had been dating since October, have gone their separate ways. Ordinarily, this would register as only a minor blip on the celebrity gossip Richter scale, except for one unusual detail that set the internet afire: apparently Culpo left Tebow because she was fed up with his unwavering vow to save himself sexually for marriage.
Tebow, as everyone who follows sports and/or pop culture knows, is one of the most outspoken, committed Christians in either arena. In fact, the 28-year-old is arguably more well-known for his steadfast faith than his accomplishments on the football field, at least since winning the Heisman Trophy as a college sophomore.
Olivia Culpo, apart from her pageant success, is known more recently as the former girlfriend of Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, all of whom were outspoken, committed Christians themselves at the height of their fame. The boy band's sexual restraint not only ran against the grain of pop star promiscuity, but they and their "purity rings" even made abstinence temporarily cool and inspired a trend.
But Nick Jonas was apparently unable to hold out against Culpo's charms (in fairness, not many young men could). About losing his virginity, he told Wendy Williams, "As I grew up, I sort of figured out what was important to me and my own belief system." Abstinence apparently didn't make the cut.
But Tim Tebow continues to hold out, despite it reportedly costing him a relationship with someone whom many people would consider a hot catch.
Or perhaps it's the other way around. Because despite news of the breakup inspiring a raft of crude jokes at Tebow's expense – "For once, it's not Tebow who's having trouble scoring - it's his girlfriend," the New York Daily News quipped in an article titled "Tim Tebow still can't find the end zone as girlfriend Olivia Culpo breaks it off over lack of sex" – it is Culpo, not Tebow, who likely missed out on a great catch.
"He was really into her," a source told the New York Daily News, but "she just can't deal with the sex thing. He's pretty adamant about it, I guess." Indeed, and that makes him a rarity in today's sex-saturated pop culture – such a rarity that it polarizes people into one of two teams: those who deride Tebow as a loser for not taking full advantage of the opportunity to, um, find the end zone with Miss Universe, and those who are impressed with his almost superhuman adherence to religious principle.
At Jezebel, for example, where Tebow is a favorite target of the angry bloggers because he's a white Christian male and because his mother famously refused her doctor's advice to abort him, they titled their article, with their usual boring profanity, "Miss Universe Allegedly Dumped Tim Tebow Because He Refused to Fuck." It painted Culpo as a "woman who knows what she wants" and "doesn't have to wait for anything."
No doubt she is. But if indeed Tebow's abstinence is indeed the reason for their breakup (E! Online claims to have been told by "an insider" that the split had nothing to do with it), it makes her look like a woman who didn't recognize what a young man of exceptional character and personal strength Tebow is, and what a partner she could have had.
Peer and cultural expectations – not to mention hormones – place incredible pressure on young people to lose their virginity. A good-looking guy in the public eye and in the hyper-masculine world of pro sports, like Tebow, is under special scrutiny and presented with extraordinary temptation to cheat on his religious commitment. "Once you start seeing these girls around the NBA," basketball star Magic Johnson once reportedly told a rookie, "you won't be thinking any of that Christian and God stuff." As ESPN's Jemele Hill put it back in 2009, Tebow "must spend a good bit of his day stiff-arming willing women as if they were SEC linebackers." By contrast, former NBA titan Wilt Chamberlain boasted of sleeping with 20,000 women, and Magic Johnson reportedly had sex with 300-500 partners a year and threw orgies at his house. Johnson ended up contracting AIDS.
If Tim Tebow can stay strong and committed to his Christian principles in the face of this onslaught of temptation and the public derision that he often receives, then he's a man who can be trusted to be faithful to his partner. That's no small thing in today's world, particularly for a handsome young man in the sexually charged world of celebrity. Not only that, but it points to his strength of character and his trustworthiness to act according to principle in every other aspect of his life.
And isn't that worth waiting for?
From Acculturated, 12/4/15


Ganglion Cells receive visual information from Photoreceptors (Rods & Cones) via various intermediate cells such as Bipolar Cells, Amacrine Cells, and Horizontal Cells. Their axons form the Optic Nerve and connect approximately for 80% to the LGN (Lateral Geniculate Nucleus) and for 20% to the SC (Superior Colliculus).
"Midget" based on the small sizes of their dendritic trees and cell bodies.
80% of retinal ganglion cells.
Mostly in the Fovea and receiving mainly Cones input.
Process Colour (Red & Green), Form and Fine details.
"Parasol" based on the large sizes of their dendritic trees and cell bodies.
10% of retinal ganglion cells.
Mostly in the Periheral-retina and receiving mainly Rods input.
"Konio" means �as small as dust�, verry small sized.
Very large receptive fields that only have centers (no surrounds) and receive input from intermediate numbers of Rods and Cones.
They contain their own photopigment, melanopsin, which makes them respond directly to light even in the absence of Rods and Cones.
Contribute to the regulation of pupil size and other behavioral responses to ambient lighting conditions.
This EWN supplies fibers to the eye, constricting the pupil and accommodating the lens.
Some Bipolar Cells are depolarised by light (on-bipolar cells) and others are hyperpolarised by light (off-bipolar cells). Bipolar cells synapse with Ganglion cells, in which action potentials can be generated, so that each Ganglion cell has a circular receptive field comprised of many Photoreceptors.
On-centre cell: A central excitatory area surrounded by an inhibitory area, forming an on-centre, off-surround receptive field.
Off-centre cell: A central inhibitory area surrounded by an excitatory area, forming an off-centre, on-surround receptive field.
Combined type of cell has a receptive field that is both stimulated and inhibited by light.


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The school community can expect the ethos and values of the school to be upheld and pupils and parents can expect the school to fulfil its stated obligations towards the education of the pupils.
Pupils are also expected to take an increasing responsibility for the above though ultimate responsibility rests with the parents.
Parents are also expected to foster a good attitude towards the discipline of the school and its expectations and sanctions. Any problems can be addressed through the Senior Leadership team as a first step and then through the Trustees and Head Teacher in half-termly Trustees' meetings.


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Jeremiah 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Ver. 1. In the fourth year of Jehoiakim.] See on Jeremiah 1:2. Above twenty years had Jeremiah spent his worthy pains upon them, illi vero ne teruntio quidem meliores facti sunt, but they were nothing the better; here, therefore, is their doom most deservedly denounced.
That was the first year.] This first year of Nebuchadnezzar, reigning alone after his father's death, fell out part of Jehoiakim's third, and part of the fourth. [Daniel 1:1]
Jeremiah 25:2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Ver. 2. Unto all the people of Judah.] The circumstances both of time when, and of persons to whom, is thus set down, for the reason given on Jeremiah 25:1.
Jeremiah 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Ver. 3. Rising early and speaking.] A dilucula indesinenter: as good husbands use to do, taking the best times.
Jeremiah 25:4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them]; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Ver. 4. But ye have not hearkened.] See Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 7:26.
Jeremiah 25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
Ver. 5. They said, Turn ye again.] This was the sum of all the prophet's sermons, as of the apostles', "Repent ye and believe the gospel.," [Mark 1:15]
Jeremiah 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Ver. 6. And I will do you no hurt.] Heb., I will not do evil to you; as else I must. The Romans honoured their Vejoves, that they might not harm them.
Jeremiah 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Ver. 7. That ye might provoke me.] See Jeremiah 7:17-18.
Jeremiah 25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
Ver. 8. Because ye have not heard,] i.e., Not heeded them. {as Jeremiah 7:19}
Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Ver. 9. Behold, I will send and take.] By a secret instinct. {as Jeremiah 1:15}
And Nebuchadnezzar my servant,] i.e., Mine executioner, the rod of my wrath, [Isaiah 10:5] and the scourge of the world, as Attila styled himself.
And against all these nations round about.] Who were so infatuated that they did not combine against Nebuchadnezzar, whom the Septuagint called a dove, Jeremiah 25:38, but he was a vulture rather, and these nations were as so many silly doves, which save themselves by flight, not fight; and sitting in their dove cots, see their nests destroyed, and their young ones killed before their eyes, never offering to rescue or revenge, as other fowls do. So dealt the old Britons when invaded by the Romans; they joined not their forces against the common enemy, sed dum singuli pugnabant, universi vincebantur. but while the fought separately, they were conquered together. (a)
Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Ver. 10. Moreover, I will take from them.] See Jeremiah 7:34, Revelation 18:22.
Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Ver. 11. And this land shall be a desolation - seventy years.] Which commenced at the deportation of Jeconiah. [2 Kings 24:8 Jeremiah 29:1-3 Ezekiel 4:1; Ezekiel 33:21] Avignon in France, was the residence of the Pope for seventy years, which time the Romans yet remember, till this day, by the name of the Babylonian captivity. (a) Luther, when he first began to stir against the Pope, wrote a book bearing title De captivitate Babylonica, which when Bugenhagius, a Pomeranian divine, first read, he pronounced it to be the most heretical piece that ever was written, but afterwards, having better considered the contents of it, he retracted his former censure; he told his colleagues that all the world besides was in deep darkness, and that Luther alone was in the light and in the right, and him he would follow. So he did, and drew many more with him. (b)
Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Ver. 12. I will punish the King of Babylon.] As had been previoulsy threatened, [Isaiah 13:19-22; Isaiah 14:21-23; Isaiah 21:2-10; Isaiah 47:5; Isaiah 47:8-9] and was accomplished. [Daniel 5:25-28; Daniel 5:30]
Jeremiah 25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
Ver. 13. And I will bring upon that land,] scil., By Cyrus and his successors, who out of the ruins of Babylon built two cities, Ctesiphon and Seleucia.
Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
Ver. 14. For many nations.] The Medes and Persians, together with the rest that served under them.
And great kings.] Cyrus and Darius especially.
Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Ver. 15. Take the wine cup of this fury.] (a) Or, Take this smoking wine cup. A "cup" is oft put for "affliction," and wine for extreme confusion and wrath. Poison in wine works more furiously than in water. [Psalms 75:8]
And cause all the nations.] According to that power which I have put into thine hands. [Jeremiah 1:10] Vengeance is still in readiness for the disobedient, [2 Corinthians 10:6] as ready every whit in God's hand, as in the minister's mouth, who threateneth it.
Jeremiah 25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Ver. 16. And be moved and be mad.] As men that are overcome by some hot and heady liquor, are mad drunk.
Because of the sword that I shall send.] For it is God who puts the sword in commission, [Jeremiah 47:6-7] and there it many times rideth circuit, as a judge, in scarlet. There are certain seasons, wherein, as the angel troubled the pool, so doth God the nations: and commonly when he doth it to one, he doth it to more, as here, and 2 Chronicles 15:5-6, and as at this day in Europe.
Jeremiah 25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Ver. 17. And made all drink,] viz., In vision, and by denunciation.
Jeremiah 25:18 [To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;
Ver. 18. To wit, in Jerusalem.] Judgment beginneth at God's house [1 Peter 4:17] {See Trapp on "1 Peter 4:17"} {See Trapp on "Matthew 25:41"} Sed si in Hierosolymis maneat scrutinium, quid fiet in Babylone? saith an ancient.
Jeremiah 25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
Ver. 19. Pharaoh king of Egypt.] Pharaohhophra, [Jeremiah 44:30] of whom Herodotus (a) writeth that he persuaded himself and boasted, that his kingdom was so strong that no god or man could take it from him. He was afterwards hanged by his own subjects.
Jeremiah 25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Ver. 20. The mixed people.] That lay scattered in the deserts, and had no certain abode; Scenitae and Hamaxobii.
And all the kings of the land of Uz.] Job's country, called by the Greeks, Ausitis.
Jeremiah 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Ver. 21. Edom and Moab, &c.] By the destruction of all these nations we may make a conjecture at the destructiou of all the wicked, when Christ shall come to judgment. All that befalleth them in this world, is but as drops of wrath forerunning the great storm: or as a crack foretokening the fall of the whole house. Here the leaves only fall upon them as it were, but then the body of the tree in its full weight to crush them for ever.
Jeremiah 25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which [are] beyond the sea,
Ver. 22. And all the kings of the isles.] As Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclades, subdued also by the Babylonian, saith Jerome, Rabanus, and Vatablus.
Jeremiah 25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost corners,
Ver. 23. Dedan, and Tema, and Buz.] The Hagarens or Saracens [Jeremiah 49:8]
And all that are in the utmost corners.] Qui attonsi sunt in comam; Roundheads. See Jeremiah 9:26.
Jeremiah 25:24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
Ver. 24. And all the kings of Arabia.] Petraea.
That dwell in the desert.] In Arabia Deserta.
Jeremiah 25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
Ver. 25. And all the kings of Zimri,] i.e., Of Arabia Felix. Zamarens, Pliny (a) calleth them.
Jeremiah 25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Ver. 26. And all the kingdoms.] See on Jeremiah 25:16.
And the king of Sheshak,] i.e., Belshazzar, that bezzling king of Babylon, while he is quaffing in the vessels of God's house to the honour of Shat, (a) the Babylonian goddess; whence those feast days were called σακεαι ημεραι, being like the Roman Saturnalia. Antichrist also, who hath troubled all the kingdoms of the earth, shall himself perish, together with his Babylon the great, which hath made the nations drunk with the wine of her fornications.
Jeremiah 25:27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Ver. 27. Drink ye, and be drunk, and spue, and fall.] Eckius, or Eccius, otherwise by some called Jeccius, from his casting or spuing, being nonplussed by Melanchthon, and well nigh madded, started drinking, for his own solace, and drank himself to death. (a) So should these do of the cup of God's wrath, not only till they were mad drunk, {as Jeremiah 25:16} but dead drunk.
Jeremiah 25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
Ver. 28. Ye shall certainly drink.] See on Jeremiah 25:15.
Jeremiah 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Ver. 29. The city that is called by my name.] Periphrasis Hierosolymae argumentosa.
And should ye be utterly unpunished?] See on Jeremiah 25:18.
Ye shall not be unpunished.] But suffer as surely and as sorely.
Jeremiah 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Ver. 30. The Lord shall roar from on high.] As a lusty lion, having discovered his prey, runneth upon it, roaring so horribly that he astonisheth the creatures and sets them at a stand.
He will mightily roar upon his habitation.] Pliny reporteth of the lioness, that she bringeth forth her whelps dead, and so they remain for the space of three days, until the lion, coming near to the den where they lie, lifteth up his voice, and roareth so fiercely, that presently they revive and rise. The "Lion of the tribe of Judah" will roar to like purpose at the last day; and doth afore, when he pleaseth, roar terribly upon his enemies, to their utter amazement. [Joel 3:16 Amos 1:2; Amos 3:8]
He shall give a shout, as those that tread the grapes.] When they have their feet in the winepress, and the new liquor in their heads, as one phraseth it.
Jeremiah 25:31 A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
Ver. 31. For the Lord hath a controversy with the nations.] (a) A disceptation, which showeth that his revenge to be taken upon them shall be just and lawful. It shall well appear to be so, at that day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. [Romans 2:5]
Jeremiah 25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Ver. 32. Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation.] See on Jeremiah 25:16.
Jeremiah 25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Ver. 33. And the slain of the Lord shall be, &c.] Such an utter destruction of the wicked is expected by the Jews at the coming of their Messiah, as of all people under heaven they are the most apt to work themselves into the fool's paradise of a sublime dotage, being light, aerial, fanatical.
Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Ver. 34. Howl, ye shepherds.] Ululate, volulate. Shriek and roll. This is spoken to the governors and grandees; for in public calamities such usually suffer more than meaner men. The corks swim, saith one, when the plummets sink. If a tree have thick and large boughs, it lieth more open to lopping.
And ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel,] i.e., Irremediably. Like as a crystal glass or China dish once broken cannot be pieced again.
Jeremiah 25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
Ver. 35. And the shepherds shall have no way to flee.] Who had formerly divers strongholds. See Amos 2:14.
Jeremiah 25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
Ver. 36. For the Lord hath spoiled their pastures,] i.e., Their kingdoms and states, or their flocks.
Jeremiah 25:37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Ver. 37. And the peaceable habitations.] Heb., The habitations or folds of peace. The fierce anger of the Lord hath unrooted them, their dwellings are demolished.
Jeremiah 25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Ver. 38. He hath forsaken his covert, as a lion.] God hath, or, as some will, Nebuchadnezzar hath. He is come out of Babylon his den, to range about for prey. Ut in praeda involet.
Because of the fierceness of the oppressor.] Of the dove, say some, who also tell us that the Chaldees had in their standard this picture of a dove. But of that there is no such certainty.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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Monitoring and Securing Remote and Work-From-Home Environments
Attacks/Breaches
Privacy Groups Release 'Detekt' Tool to Spot Spyware
Privacy advocates have joined together to release a tool for identifying cyber espionage malware.
Brian Prince
Contributing Writer, Dark Reading
Privacy advocates jointly announced the release of a free malware detection tool meant to help human rights activists, journalists, and others thwart surveillance malware.
The tool, known as Detekt, was developed by Claudio Guarnieri. It was released Thursday in partnership with Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, Privacy International, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Detekt works by scanning computers for predefined patterns that have been linked to remote access Trojans such as DarkComet, FinFisher (FinSpy), njRAT, and Gh0st RAT.
Though some of those tools have been used by cybercriminals, others, such as FinFisher and Hacking Team's Remote Control System (RCS) tool, have been linked to various cyber espionage campaigns by governments.
"Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including spyware that provides its purchasers the unchecked ability to target remote Internet users' computers, to read their personal emails, listen in on private audio calls, record keystrokes and passwords, and remotely activate their computer's camera or microphone," blogs Eva Galperin, global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). "EFF, together with Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, and Privacy International have all had experience assisting journalists and activists who have faced the illegitimate use of such software in defiance of accepted international human rights law."
That, she writes, is why the EFF got behind Detekt.
"Some of the software used by states against innocent citizens is widely available on the Internet, while more sophisticated alternatives are made and sold by private companies and sold to governments everywhere from the United States and Europe to Ethiopia and Vietnam," she writes. "Detekt makes it easy for at-risk users to check their PCs for possible infection by this spyware, which often goes undetected by existing commercial anti-virus products."
Detekt is a Python tool that relies on Yara, Volatility, and Winpmem to scan the memory of a running Windows system. It currently supports Windows XP to Windows 8, both 32- and 64-bit, and Windows 8.1 32-bit.
"Because Detekt is a best-effort tool and spyware companies make frequent changes to their software to avoid detection, users should keep in mind that Detekt cannot conclusively guarantee that your computer is not compromised by the spyware it aims to detect," writes Galperin. "However, we hope that the availability of this tool will help us to detect some ongoing infections, provide advice to infected users, and contribute to the debate around curbing the use of government spyware in countries where it is linked to human rights abuses."
Before launching the tool, users should close all applications and make sure the computer is disconnected from the Internet. If spyware is detected, users are advised not to reconnect the computer to the Internet until the machine has been cleaned.
Michael Sutton, vice president of security research for Zscaler, says that in today's world, spyware is not only used by cyber criminals.
"For those concerned that they may be the target of such surveillance, it offers another tool to assist in determining if their PC has been infected," says Sutton. "It will, however, suffer from the same limitations as antivirus products in that it is signature-based and must therefore try and identify known patterns in previously observed binaries. Given that the goal of those leveraging the spyware in the first place is to remain undetected, there's little doubt that they will adapt and start to develop spyware variants specifically not identified by Detekt. For those seeking absolute assurance that they are not under surveillance, Detekt will fall short, but it does offer a free option for those seeking at least basic assurances that they aren't being targeted."
Beyond Spam and Phishing: Emerging Email-based Threats
Security Orchestration, Automation and Response: Rise of the Independents


I have played the piano since I was 6 and over the years I have found a few pieces that I really really love and would love to play. Gershwin's Prelude no. 1 B flat major is one of them. I have even gone so far as to actually have the sheet music for it, but oh my, it's tricky and my fingers are out of shape these days. One day, my friends, one day.
What I love so much about the play is the springy, playfulness of it. It is just all over the place and all around, it takes unexpected turns and twists and thrills you more and more. It has fantastic chords as well and as a piano player it is one of those pieces who almost allows you to dance in front of the piano, and also be a bit of a rocker; you can really hit hard on those chords and also the enjoyment of being able to master passages who requires a lot of training to get just right.


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Contract signed for Moscow subway
18 Apr China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) has signed the contract for a 6.4km stretch of subway in southwest Moscow.
The contract was signed with the Bureau of Construction Technology Development, a subsidiary of the Moscow Engineering Projects company owned by the Moscow government.
The project will cost RUB27bn (£325m). It is designed to connect downtown Moscow with a suburb and ins aimed at easing traffic congestion.
CRCC is already involved in other rail projects in Russia. It began work in August 2017 building a 4.6km section and three stations on Moscow's 'Large Circle Line', which is due for completion by the end of 2020.
In February this year, CRCC won another metro construction contract and will start tunnelling in December.


T62236: Use SVG for site logo, Notification icons, Watchlist star, Search and other icons.
bzimport set Reference to bz32101.
Adding bugs relating to things that should be higher-res or vector in PDF and printing output as well.
Mobile devices, in particular Android hdpi & xhdpi and the (new) iPhone/iPad Retina display.
Regarding https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#change,3687 - would that be a good solution to have a server side fallback instead of client side?
So we could provide a link to "http://static.conte.nt/image" and decide on the server side if a client has "Accept: image/svg+xml" there?
one of the things we do with small icons is embed them into the stylesheetd as dsta URIs to reduce the number of files that have to be fetched; not sure if thst combines well with a server-side detection solution. not sure how consistent accept headers are though that's testable.
Accept: unfortunately won't work. I had a feeling already. I did a test awhile ago when wanting to test for jpeg2000 or apng support and had disappointing results.
I did a quick test of the latest Firefox.
There is no direct svg support indicated. So image/png will dominate svg.
This technique can be used for single-color scalable icons (e.g., fold/unfold menu icons, custom bullets in unordered lists, etc.).
It represents an alternative to SVG which is less powerful but more compatible since Webfonts can work in most browsers (desktop and mobile).
menu icons, custom bullets in unordered lists, etc.).
since Webfonts can work in most browsers (desktop and mobile).
Looks like something we should open up a new bug on integration into ResourceLoader for. We could probably do something really nice making it easy for skins to enable those and switch icon fonts.
Though there are plenty of spots we're still going to need svg for. Images that aren't one colour silhouettes. And of course actual uploaded svg images.
Icon fonts are 1-color silhouettes, so they can't be used anywhere your design calls for an actual non-simple icon. At that point you have to use .svg.
A .svg can be used as a background image, icon fonts can't. So for all the author prances about how this works in IE6... it doesn't. Because IE doesn't support :before till IE8. You 'can' use it in a way that works in IE6, but that only works if you use the gibberish inside the page content. Which of course if you do that negates his argument that this can be done in a way that's friendly to screen readers. So your stuck with either missing browser support or killing accessibility. Not a very nice tradeoff to have to decide on when a .png + .svg bgimage setup would work for both cases.
In fact, I'm very wary of his argument that this works for screen readers. He seems to be under the common misinterpretation that screen readers work like text browser and don't support css. Real screen readers nowadays work using real browsers (ie: They use IE, Firefox, etc...). This means that despite his argument that the gibberish is hidden in css it's possible that screen readers may still end up reading them. The argument that "Some fonts even map the characters to the best ones possible" is also flawed because a screen reader will not necessarily treat <unicode flag icon> the same as "Flag".
Linking relevant Firefox bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662169) from 2004. Excellent read on assumptions made in 2005.
"We should look at what other browsers, especially IE, do, and try to follow the RFCs where we can do so without undermining whatever asymmetric advantages have helped Firefox actually gain market share.".
Well, if it affects more than just mobile then how about changing the title of the bug?
Also, would a printer also be considered such a high resolution view?
Adding 'HiDPI' keyword to summary on this tracking bug, dropping 'mobile' from title.
Printing is indeed a potential high-res target too, yes!
We could output srcset hoping iOS, Android, and the like go ahead and implement it. And in the meantime ignore the fact that hidpi devices might download two images because of the js.
Recently I tried a technique for SVG with a regular image as a fallback that may be relevant for this issue.
The technique consists in specifying the SVG image using a multi-background CSS3 property. this property is ignored by browsers not supporting multi-background properties (which normally lack also SVG support).
I polished a bit the technique using linear-gradient instead of an empty layer on a multi-layer background to better discriminate SVG-capable browsers.
The problem also exists for LaTeX renderings of mathematical expressions in Wikipedia. Not sure if this is the right place to leave that note.
Removing dep on bug 17505 (high dynamic-range image format support), this is unrelated.
Review the first comment to check whether it still described the issue to be solved. Otherwise post a comment summarizing the current situation, ina way that a newcomer can just land and fix it.
Add "gci2013" to the Whiteboard field of the bug. This way it comes under our radar.
CC Pau Giner, Brandon Harris and myself. We are GCI mentors and we will create a GCI task pointing to the bug.
Then wait. Eventually a student will claim the task and start working on it. Students might come here with questions. You can avoid questions by documenting better the bug report e.g. linking to the repository where the current logos are located and should be replaced. I guess you want Gerrit changes for these contributions?
Pau, Jorm, it would be great if you could coordinate this meta-task.
Removing dupes from dependencies, and 'easy' keyword since it is a tracking bug.
Something relevant I ran into.
Instead it seems there is more interest in implementing an alternative src-n proposal.
Will adding assorted [X]DPI assets make a difference in cases where a user starts from a 100% view and then increases the zoom manually?
Why don't we aim for serving SVG logos and icons by default, and using the PNGs as a fallback?
starts from a 100% view and then increases the zoom manually?
That is precisely what we are doing.
With the benefit of the three years or so since the above suggestion was made -- why not just add Font Awesome to the current ULS [web-]font scheme and use the glyphs in that font-family for stuff like this spinner "replacement".
Fwiw... I've added Font-Awesome support as an optional Compatibility gadget on en.wikisource; seems to work with just .css definitions (though it also could do without the auto striping of empty <i></i> tags by the wiki markup, parser or Parsoid admittedly).
Danny_B renamed this task from High-density display issues (HiDPI) to High-density display issues (HiDPI) (tracking).
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Biography Yoshinori Horie
Yoshinori Horie
by Jorge 24 Jul,2019
Date of Birth 1995, May 10
Country Japan JP
Birth Name Yoshinori Horie
Famous Name Yoshinori Horie
Net Worth $100,000
Salary $34,000 (approx)
Nationality Japanese
Ethnicity South Asian
Profession Fighter
Yoshinori Horie is a Japanese professional MMA fighter who currently performs in the UFC Featherweight division. In his pro MMA career, he has registered eight wins and one loss out of 9 bouts. He made his first pro-MMA appearance on October 2, 2016, fighting against his fellow Japanese fighter, Takashi Umehara.
Reportedly, Yoshinori has an estimated net worth over $100,000, which he earned as an MMA fighter. As the reference of UFC average salary, Yoshinori is expected to earn around $34,000 annually. To know more about his personal life, relationship status, and professional career, make sure you don't miss the single part of this article.
Is Yoshinori Horie in a Relationship? Know about his Personal Life
Till date, the news regarding Yoshinori relationship and affairs are not in the media yet. However, his fame indeed suggests that he might be in a secret relationship with his probable girlfriend or wife. Also, he seems to be secretive and doesn't speak much about his personal life and more importantly, about his relationship status.
Yoshinori Horie with his mother SOURCE: Instagram
Apart from love affairs, he holds a good bond with his friends and family. Besides, out of his busy schedule, he often manages time for his mother as he never misses a chance to greet her via his Instagram account. Moreover, he is actively involved in social media, regularly updating his profile with his daily life activities.
The rising fighter seems to be focused on his career rather than love affairs, which are certainly reflected by his Instagram profile. Moreover, he also regularly spends his tie along with his friends, involving in recreational activities like watching movies, shopping, and eating.
Yoshinori Horie Body Measurement (Height and Weight)
Yoshinori has a well-built body, standing in the height of 5'8" (172cm) and weighing around 145.5 lbs.
Yoshinori Horie Earnings; How much is his Net Worth?
As of 2019, Yoshinori Horie has accumulated an estimated net worth over $100,000. Although we don't have accurate information about his salary, he is expected to earn around $34,000 from his fighting career.
Well, the rising star is yet to feature in the main event similar to fellow Japanese fighter Tenshin Nasukawa, who has an estimated net worth over $1 million. Additionally, he has an endorsement deal with Adidas and frequently promotes the brand in his social account.
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A post shared by Yoshinori Horie ???? (@yosinoriyosinori) on Jul 17, 2019 at 9:10pm PDT
The details about his assets, like cars and house, are not in the media yet. However, it is sure that he has an expensive car and a luxurious house.
Yoshinori Horie Early Life, Bio, Family, and Childhood
Yoshinori was born on May 10, 1995, in Japan but the details about his parents and siblings are not in the media yet. Additionally, he is a Japanese native and belongs to the south-Asian ethnic group. Also, he was born under the star sign Taurus.
Yoshinori Horie Professional Career
As of 2019, Yoshinori currently performs in the UFC Featherweight division. Additionally, he has an outstanding record of 8 wins in his nine pro-MMA bouts.
Also, his first fight was against Takashi Umehara, and since then he has fought with many other MMA players like Hiroshige Tanaka, Masaya Takita, Issei Tamura, and many more. Furthermore, he is scheduled to fight with Hakeem Dawodu on July 27, 2019.
UFC MMA Featherweight Division Yoshinori Horie


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Q: How to compare two Pandas DataFrames on values? I have two Pandas DataFrames (A & B) with latitude and longitude.
I need to compare them, and if latitude and longitude from DF A is present in DF B then append a 1 else 0.
DF A

 LatLong
-37.3794288,175.6697856
-37.0334148,174.8680204
-41.173852,174.981931

DF B
KBATMLongLat
-37.0334148,174.8680204
-37.5575605,175.1584622
-37.0334148,174.8680204

How can I achieve the expected output (see below)?
 Long lat               | Result
--------------------------------
-37.3794288,175.6697856 | False
-37.0334148,174.8680204 | True
-41.173852,174.981931   | False

A: This is one way:
import pandas as pd

df1 = pd.DataFrame([[-37.3794288,175.6697856],
                    [-37.0334148,174.8680204],
                    [-41.173852,174.981931]],
                   columns=['Long', 'Lat'])

df2 = pd.DataFrame([[-37.0334148,174.8680204],
                    [-37.5575605,175.1584622],
                    [-37.0334148,174.8680204]],
                   columns=['Long', 'Lat'])

df1['Result'] = [tuple(i) in set(map(tuple, df2.values)) for i in df1.values]

#         Long         Lat  Result
# 0 -37.379429  175.669786   False
# 1 -37.033415  174.868020    True
# 2 -41.173852  174.981931   False

Alternatively, more pandonic:
df = pd.merge(df1, df2, indicator=True, how='left').\
              drop_duplicates().rename(columns={'_merge': 'Result'})

df['Result'] = df['Result'].map({'left_only': False, 'both': True})

A: I'm not sure how efficient this is, but you could use a multi-index
df1 = df1.set_index(["Long","Lat"])
df2 = df2.set_index(["Long","Lat"])
df1["Result"] = df1.index.isin(df2.index)
df1 = df1.reset_index()
df1

    Long        Lat         Result
0   -37.379429  175.669786  False
1   -37.033415  174.868020  True
2   -41.173852  174.981931  False

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Eighteen of the 20 largest banks in the world and more than 50 foreign banks have offices in Cook County.
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from the office of Commissioner Larry Suffredin:
Cook County Set to Launch Military and Veterans Discount Program
Commissioner Larry Suffredin's Statement on the Passage of the 2015 Cook County Budget
Mission Hills' Residents Try to Protect 40 Year Old Planned Unit Development at Two Public Meetings This Week
Preckwinkle Appoints New Leadership for Bureau of Administration, Justice Advisory Council
TRAILSIDE MUSEUM TO REOPEN FRIDAY
Stay healthy this flu season by getting a flu shot.
FALL FOLIAGE APPROACHES PEAK COLOR
Preckwinkle Unveils FY 2015 Executive Budget Recommendation to County Board
Preckwinkle Unveils Forest Preserves 2015 Budget Recommendation
Chief Judge Evans names blue ribbon committee to help him select new director for juvenile detention center
Third annual FPCC photo contest
Forest Preserves of Cook County Offers Wilderness Camping Opportunities for Families
Forest Preserves of Cook County to get expertise, guidance from new Policy Council
Summer in the Forest Preserves of Cook County
Earth Day Approaching, President Preckwinkle Highlights Cook County's Sustainability Accomplishments and Programs
County announces 2013 No Cash Bid Program results
Orr: TIF reform worth $44M annually at no cost to taxpayers
Tricia Edwards of Evanston Receives 2014 Unsung Heroine Award
SPRING ADVENTURES IN THE FOREST PRERVES OF COOK COUNTY
President Preckwinkle Announces National Accreditation for Cook County Medical Examiner's Office
PANEL TO EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF NATURE
The Next Century Conservation Plan for the Forest Preserves of Cook County
2013 Cook County Annual Report
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Can live with funding levels, taxes: Devine
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Cop suing for $3 mil. may get $4,500
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Cook County OB/GYN program in jeopardy
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More 'quality hiring' by county
Stroger's no-show doesn't go over well
Jogger's body likely discovered
Woman's throat was slashed, authorities say
County Board members get 27% hike for offices
It's not a future mall, but a wetland
Politicians protest tax-hike proposals
Body found inside car in Busse Woods pond
Ill.'s health funds ailing
Mismanagement is the real problem.
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August 2012 Movies
By Brian D. Renner Jan. 16, 2023
All Nationwide Limited - New York / Los Angeles - New York - Los Angeles - Oscar Run - Expansion - 1 Day Only - Drive-In VOD / Digital - Netflix - Hulu - Disney+ - PrimeVideo - HBO Max - Apple TV+ - PremiumVOD - Paramount+ - discovery+ - Peacock - Starz - Shudder - Roku - AMC+ - Tubi - MGM+
All (56) 2D 3D (1) Action (11) Adaptation (2) Adventure (10) Animation (1) Baseball Based on Book Based on Game Based on Play Based on Toy Based on TV Basketball (1) Biography Bollywood-Tamil CG College Comedy (13) Comic Book Coming-of-Age Concert Cop Crime (2) Dance Dark Comedy Detective Direct-to-Video Disaster Documentary (9) Drama (18) Dramedy Ensemble Epic Event Fairy Tale (1) Faith Family (4) Fantasy (1) Fighting Football Foreign Found-Footage Gangster Gross-Out Comedy Heist Hijinks Historical Hockey Holiday Horror (4) Hostage IMAX (1) Invasion Kids (1) LGBTQIA+ Live-Action/CGI Martial Arts Mockumentary Motion Capture Music Musical (3) Mystery Nature Noir Opera Paranormal Period Political (1) Post-3D Prequel Provocative Psychological Re-Release Reboot Remake (2) Road Trip Romance (4) Romantic Comedy Satire Sci-Fi (2) Sequel (5) Short Shot-In-3D Spin-off Spoof Sports (1) Spy Stop-Motion (1) Superhero Supernatural (2) Suspense (2) Teen (1) Thriller (10) Time Travel True Story Unknown Vampires War Western (1) Zombies
Title/Plot or Person
Best Movies Released August 2012
Premium Rush
The Apparition
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Released Thursday, August 2, 2012
Craigslist Joe
It was in this climate that 29-year-old Joseph Garner cut himself off from everyone he knew and everything he owned, to embark on a bold adventure. Armed with only a laptop, cell phone, toothbrush, and the clothes on his back – alongside the hope that community was not gone but just had shifted – Joseph began his journey. For 31 December days and nights, everything in his life would come from the Craigslist website. From transportation to food, from shelter to companionship, Joe would depend on the generosity of people who had never seen him and whose sole connection to him was a giant virtual swap meet.
Joseph Garner
Adventure Documentary
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Released Friday, August 3, 2012
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days PG
Based on the third and fourth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Last Straw and Dog Days. School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?
David Bowers, Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron, Peyton List, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Maya Forbes
Adventure Sequel Adaptation Family
Total Recall PG-13
A man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
Colin Farrell, Ethan Hawke, Len Wiseman, Neal H. Moritz, Kurt Wimmer, Mark Bomback, James Vanderbilt, Jessica Biel
Action Adventure Remake Sci-Fi
Assassin's Bullet R
When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin.
Timothy Spall, Isaac Florentine, Elika Portnoy, Christian Slater, Donald Sutherland
Drama Action Thriller
Based on the play Reigen that was about pairs of characters and their sexual encounters.
Anthony Hopkins, Queen Latifah, Ben Foster, Rachel Weisz, Fernando Meirelles, Jude Law, Andrew Eaton, Chris Hanley
Drama Adaptation
Dreams of a Life NR
Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent died in her apartment above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. When her skeleton was discovered three years later, her television was still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce's life- not even a photograph. Who was Joyce Vincent? And how could this happen to someone in our day and age--the so-called age of communication? Dreams of a Life is Carol Morley's quest to discover who Joyce was and how she came to be so forgotten.
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Falling Overnight
Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson (Parker Croft) on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot's path intersects with Chloe Webb (Emilia Zoryan), a young photographer who invites him to her art show. Elliot welcomes the distraction and as the night descends, Chloe takes him on an intimate and exhilarating journey through the city. But as morning approaches, and Chloe learns of Elliot's condition, the magic of the evening unravels, and they must together face the uncertainty of Elliot's future.
Conrad Jackson, Parker Croft, Emilia Zoryan
Soldiers of Fortune R
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay to join military adventures, but things don't go exactly to plan.
James Cromwell, Freddy Rodriguez, Ving Rhames, Christian Slater, Maksim Korostyshevsky, Alexandre Coscas, Robert Crombie, Joe Kelbley
Celeste and Jesse Forever R
A young divorcing couple who try to maintain their longstanding friendship while pursuing other relationships.
Emma Roberts, Elijah Wood, Lee Toland Krieger, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, Ari Graynor, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd
The Babymakers
A story about a man who fails in his attempts to conceive a baby with his wife so he and his friends embark on a heist to take a sample he made years before at a sperm bank.
Gerry Swallow, Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Schneider, Olivia Munn, Peter Gaulke, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter
You've Been Trumped
After the Scottish Government overturns its own environmental laws to give Donald Trump the green light to build a golf resort on an untouched Scottish coastline, the stage is set for an extraordinary summer of discontent, as the bulldozers spring into action. Water and power is cut off, land disputes erupt, and some residents have thousands of tonnes of earth piled up next to their homes.
Anthony Baxter
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Hope Springs PG-13
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense counseling weekend to decide the fate of their marriage.
Meryl Streep, Marin Ireland, Jason Blumenthal, Jean Smart, David Frankel, Todd Black, Steve Tisch, Guymon Casady
Drama Comedy
Nitro Circus PG-13
In Nitro Circus, Travis Pastrana and his tight-knit, highly-skilled, adrenaline-addicted friends bring their impossibly insane and hysterical adventures to the big screen for the first time! Dreaming up the most dangerous stunts in the world of action sports--whether they are back-flipping a bike between two 60-story buildings or going air-born to destroy their friends in a life size, high speed game of Freedom Flyers--Pastrana and his gang are always at it. High Risk. High Octane. And No Safety Nets Allowed.
Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle
Action Comedy
Released Friday, August 10, 2012
The Campaign R
Story centers on two bumbling candidates in a heated rivalry for the 2012 Presidential election.
Brian Cox, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Zach Galifianakis, Katherine LaNasa, Jay Roach
Comedy Political
The Bourne Legacy PG-13
Fourth installment of the Bourne franchise based on an original story. As writer/director Tony Gilroy explains, "This is not a reboot or a recast or a prequel. No one's replacing Matt Damon. There will be a whole new hero, a whole new chapter…this is a stand-alone project." Jason Bourne will not be featured in the film; Jeremy Renner will play another assassin trained in the same program as Bourne.
Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz, Oscar Isaac, Pat Crowley, Tony Gilroy, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn
Action Adventure Sequel Thriller
Freelancers R
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops.
Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, Curtis Jackson, Beau Garrett, Mark Canton, Daniel Wagner, Jessy Terrero, Randall Emmett
Drama Crime
The Awakening R
Story centers on a paranormal investigator in England after the First World War, whose job is debunk spiritualism, something she has complete control over until she finds a boarding school full or horrifying supernatural events.
Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Rebecca Hall, Nick Murphy, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel, Diana Kent
Thriller Horror Supernatural
Supercapitalist
A maverick New York hedge fund trader moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control. Caught between competing forces in America and Asia in a ruthless culture of profits at all costs, he desperately negotiates and maneuvers inside China's closed, complex society. With his life and Hong Kong's future staked on a corrupt billion dollar deal, the trader takes the ultimate risk.
Linus Roache, Simon Yin, Kenneth Tsang, Derek Ting
Goats R
Fourteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave the Southwest for a boarding school in the East. This means leaving behind his mother (Robin Wright) and the only real father he has ever known, Goat Man (Duchovny).
Keri Russell, David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Richard Arlook, Minnie Driver, Christopher Neil, Eric Kopeloff, Daniela Taplin
Red Hook Summer R
An Atlanta resident spends the summer in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
2 Days in New York R
Marion (Julie Delpy), now happily living with Mingus (Chris Rock) at their New York loft apartment, finds her relationship, her home, her career and her very "soul" in jeopardy when her contentious father, sister and ex-boyfriend come to visit from France.
Chris Rock, Julie Delpy, Aleksia Landeau, Albert Delpy, Alexandre Nahon
Drama Sequel Romance
Released Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green PG
A modern-day fable.
Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Garner, Scott Sanders, Ahmet Zappa, Mara Jacobs, Peter Hedges, Rosemarie DeWitt, Oren Aviv
Adventure Fantasy Family Fairy Tale
ParaNorman PG
About a 13-year-old protecting his small town from a zombie attack.
John Goodman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sam Fell, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Tempestt Bledsoe, Leslie Mann, Elaine Stritch
Adventure Comedy Animation Stop-Motion
Sparkle PG-13
The youngest sister in a sibling singing trio becomes a sensation but suffers conflict and tragedy in the process.
Mike Epps, Omari Hardwick, Tika Sumpter, Derek Luke, Michael Beach, Salim Akil, Debra Martin Chase, Mara Brock Akil
Drama Remake Musical
The Expendables 2 R
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Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Simon West, Bruce Willis
Action Sequel
Cosmopolis R
A 28-year-old multimillionaire is chauffeured across Manhattan for a haircut but the journey takes 24 hours due to a presidential visit, anti-globalization demonstrations, and a celebrity funeral. Stuck in traffic, the reclusive financial wizard anxiously monitors the value of the yen on the limo's computer. Using the car as his office, he summons advisers from nearby shops and restaurants, as he discusses imminent financial ruin with his broker.
David Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, Paulo Branco, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric
A romantic musical drama spanning three decades as it follows a mother and daughter's misadventures in love. In the freewheeling Paris of the '60s, young Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier)--who has gone from selling shoes to sleeping with men for money--falls for a handsome Czech doctor, Jaromil (Rasha Bukvic), whom she soon marries and joins in Prague. A baby daughter is born, but Jaromil's infidelities and the arrival of Russian tanks in Prague lead Madeleine back to France--though the love between them still burns. Thirty years later in London, we follow Madeleine's daughter, Vera (Chiara Mastroianni), who has fallen in love with a musician (American actor Paul Schneider) who is incapable of devoting himself to her, while her ex (Honore regular Louis Garrel) still pines for her. Meanwhile in Paris, a re-married Madeleine (Catherine Deneuve) has rekindled her love affair with Jaromil (Milos Forman).
Christophe Honoré, Paul Schneider, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman
Drama Romance Musical
Chicken with Plums
Tehran 1958 – Nasser Ali Khan, the most celebrated violin player, has his beloved instrument broken. Unable to find another to replace it, life without music seems intolerable. He stays in bed and slips further and further into his reveries from his youth to his own children's futures. Over the course of the week that follows, and as the pieces of this captivating story fall into place, we understand his poignant secret and the profundity of his decision to give up life for music and love.
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani, Eric Caravaca, Chiara Mastroianni
Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side by Side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron, Keanu Reeves, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Christopher Kenneally, Walter Murch
The Day R
A group of five survivors armed with shotguns, axes and machetes wander the back roads of a ravaged landscape looking for refuge in The Day, a look into a post-apocalyptic future. As war ravages humanity, destroying civilization and most of life on earth, the survivors realize they must do whatever it takes to stay alive. Lost, starving, and exhausted, they seek shelter in a seemingly safe abandoned farmhouse. However, while searching for food and resources, they unwittingly set off a trap signaling to their ruthless predators laying in wait to begin their deadly attack. With food and ammunition dwindling, the group must make a desperate final stand--over a 24 hour period--battling for their ultimate survival.
Doug Aarniokoski, Luke Passmore, Michael Eklund, Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Monaghan, Shannyn Sossamon
Action Thriller Sci-Fi
Death by China NR
A documentary feature that pointedly confronts the most urgent problem facing America today – its increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China. Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can't find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world's largest totalitarian nation. Through compelling interviews with voices across the political spectrum, Death by China exposes that the U.S.-China relationship is broken and must be fixed if the world is going to be a place of peace and prosperity.
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Why Stop Now? R
The unhealthy relationship between a drug-addicted mother and her college-bound son set on the day of his interview at Julliard and her planned arrival in rehab.
Tracy Morgan, Melissa Leo, Jesse Eisenberg, Ron Nyswaner, Phil Dorling
Hit and Run R
Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard), a former getaway driver busts out of the Witness Protection Program to drive his girlfriend (Kristen Bell) to Los Angeles so she can land her dream job. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, when they are chased by the feds (led by Tom Arnold), and increasingly dangerous, when Charlie's former gang of criminals (led by Bradley Cooper) enter the fray.
Bradley Cooper, Andrew Panay, Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Tom Arnold, David Palmer, Nate Tuck, Kristin Chenoweth
Action Comedy Romance
The Apparition PG-13
A young couple is haunted by a supernatural presence unleashed during a college experiment.
Steve Richards, Joel Silver, Todd Lincoln, Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman, Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton
Premium Rush PG-13
A twentysomething New York City bike messenger picks up an envelope at Columbia University. A dirty cop, who is desperate to get his hands on the envelope, chases the bike messenger throughout the city.
Gavin Polone, Michael Shannon, David Koepp, Jamie Chung, John Kamps, Matt Tolmach, Elizabeth Cantillon
The Victim R
Good time girls Annie (Jennifer Blanc) and Mary (Danielle Harris) find themselves in a life and death situation. Annie's life is put in jeopardy when she is witness to a violent act at the hands of two Sheriff's Deputies. Fleeing from attackers (Ryan Honey, Denny Kirkwood) she stumbles across Kyle (Michael Biehn), a recluse living in the middle of the woods. The ruggedly handsome loner stays far from civilization - that is - until a single knock on his door throws his solitary life into chaos. Two worlds collide in this psychological thriller that will make you question your trust in mankind.
Michael Biehn, Jennifer Blanc, Lorna Paul, Ryan Honey, Danielle Harris, Denny Kirkwood
Follows a soldier and his slacker best friend who become zombies and use their newfound powers to become vigilante crime fighters with mixed, not to mention bloody results.
D. Kerry Prior, Liam Finn, Jacques Thelemaque, David Anders, Chris Wylde
Comedy Horror
Samsara PG-13
Samsara takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation that will transform viewers in countries around the world, as they are swept along a journey of the soul. Through powerful images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.
Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson
Compliance R
The story of Sandra (Ann Dowd), an overworked manager at a fast food restaurant, who receives a call from a police officer accusing one of her employees, a teenage girl named Becky (Dreama Walker), of stealing from a customer. Taking the officer at his word, Sandra detains Becky, setting into motion a nightmarish scenario that quickly spirals out of control.
Pat Healy, Dreama Walker, Craig Zobel, Ann Dowd, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger
Drama Thriller
Thunderstruck PG
When Brian, a hopelessly uncoordinated young fan magically switches talents with his hero (Kevin Durant, playing himself), he becomes the star of his high school team...while Kevin Durant suddenly can't make a shot to save his life. But with the playoffs approaching, Brian learns that being a true winner involves working hard at your own game, and he tries to make things right in time to prevent a catastrophic end to his hero's season.
Mike Karz, Jim Belushi, John Whitesell, Bill Johnson, Eric Champnella, Kevin Durant, Taylor Gray, Brandon T. Jackson
Sports Family Basketball
Sleepwalk with Me PG-13
In his autobiographically inspired, fictional feature debut Sleepwalk with Me, comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. We are thrust into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up comedian struggling with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship threatening to race out of his control, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Seth Barrish, Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose
Robot and Frank PG-13
Follows a young architect working to scan all the books at the library where he works when he's suddenly forced to go up against a man who plans to steal from the institution with his robot companion.
Susan Sarandon, Jeremy Strong, Liev Schreiber, Liv Tyler, Jake Schreier, Galt Niederhoffer, Christopher D. Ford, Frank Langella
Wild Horse, Wild Ride PG
The story of the Extreme Mustang Makeover Challenge, an annual contest that dares 100 people to each tame a totally wild mustang in order to get it adopted into a better life beyond federal corrals. Stunning and poignant, Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus' debut feature documentary chronicles a handful of unforgettable characters from their first uneasy meeting with their horses and over three months as they attempt to transform from scared strangers to the closest of companions.
Greg Gricus, Alex Dawson
Western Documentary
Bringing together some of the top names from France's current generation of actors, Guillaume Canet weaves a joyous and heartfelt ensemble film out of the dilemmas of eight thirty and forty-something close friends as they vacation together in the summer beach house of uptight restaurateur Max (Cluzet). Starting out light and carefree, tensions begin to fill the air when Ludo is clinging to life following a motorcycle accident, and Max is grappling with unwanted affections from Vincent (Magimel), whose married life and sexuality are under fire. Womanizing actor Eric (Lellouche) and free-spirited ethnologist Marie (Cotillard) navigate the challenges of single life while lovelorn Antoine (Laurent Lafitte) pines for his ex-girlfriend after a sudden breakup.
Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche, Guillaume Canet, Francois Cluzet, Benoît Magimel, Laurent Lafitte
2016: Obama's America PG
2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a journey into the heart of the world's most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"
John Sullivan, Dinesh D'Souza
A Lonely Place for Dying NR
It is 1972. An abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA--information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other, they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation.
James Cromwell, Michael Wincott, Justin Eugene Evans, Michael Scovotti, Ross Marquand, Luis Robledo, Brad Culver
Action Teen
Lawless R
During Prohibition, a moonshine gang operates in the bootlegging capital of America, Franklin County, Virginia. The three brothers eventually are shot down in December 1930 after they refuse to join the illegal cartel set up by the Commonwealth's attorney Carter Lee, grandnephew of Robert E. Lee. Carter Lee is subsequently tried for conspiracy. During all of this, a writer is on the trail of the bootlegging story, reports on the moonshine trade & the trial for "Liberty" magazine and even does research for his novel.
Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce, Dane DeHaan, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Clarke, Lucy Fisher, Gary Oldman
The Ambassador NR
This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of journalism from international provocateur Mads Brugger rips the corroded lid off the global scheme of political corruption and exploitation happening in one of the most dangerous places on the planet: the Central African Republic. Armed with a phalanx of hidden cameras, black-marked diplomatic credentials and a bleeding-edge wit, Bruegger transforms himself into an outlandish caricature of a European-African Consul. As he immerses himself in the life-threatening underworld of nefarious bureaucrats, Bruegger encounters blood diamond smuggling, bribery, and even murder--while somehow managing to crack amazing razor-sharp barbs at every steps along the way.
Mads Brügger, Maja Jul Larsen
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure G
An interactive musical adventure on the big screen.
Cary Elwes, Christopher Lloyd, Guistina Chirco, Matthew Diamond, Kenn Viselman, Gayle Dickie, Angela Rivet, Scott Stabile
Adventure Sequel Musical Family Kids
The Possession PG-13
A cursed relic containing mysterious familial tokens is mistakenly purchased. The new owner must solve its mystery to save her own family.
Sam Raimi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Stephen Susco, Nicole Brown, Kelli Konop, Ole Bornedal, Rob Tapert
Thriller Suspense Horror
For A Good Time, Call... R
Women, who are short on cash, start a phone sex line.
Justin Long, Jamie Travis, Ari Graynor, Seth Rogen, Lauren Miller, Mark Webber
The Good Doctor PG-13
When Dr. Martin Ploeck, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, admitted for a kidney infection, he gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.
Taraji P. Henson, J.K. Simmons, Orlando Bloom, Leonid Lebedev, Michael Peña, Rob Morrow, Lance Daly, Sharon Miller
The Tall Man R
A mother tracks down her missing child from a mysterious tall man.
Jessica Biel, Pascal Laugier, Steven Schneider, Clement Miserez, William B. Davis, Samantha Ferris
Thriller Suspense
The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
A Ming Dynasty general at odds with an evil, power-hungry eunuch.
Jet Li, Hark Tsui, Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Marvis Fan
Action Adventure 3D IMAX
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Shamelessness at the UN
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the assembled representatives of the UN member states in New York this week, "Have you no shame? No decency?"
The answer is no. For in inviting once again holocaust-denier and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to address the General Assembly, the majority of member states confirmed how greatly anti-Semitism is now institutionalized at the UN.
Only a few representatives led by Canadian delegates walked out on Ahmadinejad's speech and, thereby, "stood up for moral clarity" in Netanyahu's words.
But finding moral clarity in the UN, as surely Netanyahu and his people know, would be as rare as stumbling upon a virgin in a brothel.
It is no secret that the UN culture is soaked in the world's oldest and most persistent bigotry against one people, the Jews. This bigotry was given official expression — "Zionism is racism" — in the notorious General Assembly resolution 3379 of November 1975, and while the resolution was eventually revoked in 1991 the bigotry remains entrenched at the UN.
Behind the cover of supporting Arab-Palestinian rights in historic Palestine anti-Semites everywhere, given new lease after the Holocaust by anti-Jewish bigotry of the Arab-Muslim world, are joined together to cause irreparable injury to Israel. They have succeeded this far in bending the UN to become complicit in their evil purpose.
Any decent human being, including Muslims, should ask the simple question what is the basis of Arab claim to historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its political and spiritual centre? The answer is transparently simple.
Arab rights to historic Palestine rest on the force of arms and military conquest. But what is garnered by sword may also be taken away by sword.
If the claim is to be justified on the basis that Arabs and Muslims (Ottoman Turks) held on to historic Palestine for more than a millennium between 637 and 1918 — save for the period 1099-1187 when the Christian Crusaders took Jerusalem from Arab rulers — then for a period far exceeding that of Arab-Muslim rule this territory was inseparable from Jewish history.
The Arab-Muslim claim to Jerusalem and historic Palestine on religious grounds is an invention with no basis in Islam's sacred text, the Qur'an. The only religious claim sanctioned by the Qur'an is for Mecca as Islam's temporal centre, while Jerusalem indisputably was and remains exclusively the holy city for Jews.
Two years after Sir Arthur Balfour signed the declaration bearing his name promising to Jews Britain's assistance in establishing their home in historic Palestine, he wrote: "The four great powers are committed to Zionism and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land."
Balfour was right in 1919, and he would be right today if the West had not gone wobbly and its leaders not lost their sense of history, morality and obligation to Jews to whom they, and much of the world where decency may still matter, owe immensely for wrongs done to them.
A shameless UN, however, cannot advance justice or lay the grounds for peace in Palestine.
salim.mansur@sunmedia.ca
Nothing from the MSM aka Fringe Media aka Liberal Media Machine here in the U. S. but an excellent article from a Canadian paper. Let the UN go to Libya and meet in "air conditioned tents" . Let A-hole Moammar Gaddafi or what ever his name is (no one seems sure how to spell it) pay for it. It is a useless body of Islamist loving Israeli hating idiots sucking up money and accomplishing nothing. President Pantywaist sucks up to these 2-bit dictatorial regimes and throws U. S. allies under the bus. Time for the UN to be gone from American soil. Time for a US house cleaning in 2010 and an end to Obama in 2012.
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Can a non family member contest a will?
If you are not family and were never named in a previous will, you have no standing to contest the will. If the testator (the deceased) discussed an inheritance with you previously, write down as much as you can remember. Using this, estimate the dollar value (whether money or possessions).
Can you write your own will in Alabama?
You can make your own will in Alabama, using Nolo's Quicken WillMaker & Trust. However, you may want to consult a lawyer in some situations. For example, if you think that your will might be contested or if you want to disinherit your spouse, you should talk with an attorney.
How much does a will cost in Alabama?
Filing fees and court costs for probating a will differ based on where the case must be filed. For example, the filing fee to probate a will is about $57.00 in Jefferson County and $47.00 in Madison County, Alabama.
How do I write my own will and make it legal?
Create the initial document. Start by titling the document Last Will and Testament" and including your full legal name and address. Designate an executor. Appoint a guardian. Name the beneficiaries. Designate the assets. Ask witnesses to sign your will. Store your will in a safe place.
Will requirements in Alabama?
A last will and testament in Alabama must be in writing and signed by the testator (the person writing the will), or at the testator's direction and in his or her presence. The will also has to be witnessed and signed by at least two people.
What happens if a will is not probated in Alabama?
If there is no Will, the Court will appoint someone to serve as the Personal Representative of the estate. Notice must be given to all heirs and beneficiaries, as required by the court. Once the Peititon for Probate is filed, a notice must be published in a newspaper where the decedent lived.
Do Wills in Alabama have to be probated?
A Last Will and Testament is a legal document that provides for the distribution of a person's assets at death. Assuming that probate is necessary and that no alternatives to probate are available, all wills must be admitted to probate before they are considered to be effective.
What makes a will valid in Alabama?
Signature: The will must be signed by the testator or by another person in the testator's name, under his direction and in his presence. Witnesses: At least two witnesses must sign an Alabama Last Will in order for it to be valid. Writing: An Alabama will must be written in order to be valid.
How do I file a will in Alabama?
It may be filed by the person named as executor in the will or anyone named in the will or who has a financial interest in the estate. The will must be filed in the county where the person lived at the time of their death. If they lived out of state, it must be filed in the county where they owned property or assets.
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Note: This summary is not intended to be an all-inclusive discussion of the law of wills in Alabama, but does provide basic and other information. This discussion does not include handwritten wills.
Who may make a will: Any person 18 or more years of age who is of sound mind may make a will. 43-8-130.
Execution and signature of will; witnesses: Every will shall be in writing, signed by the testator and shall be signed by at least two persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator's acknowledgment of the signature or of the will. 43-8-131.
Self-proved will: Any will may be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self-proved, by acknowledgment thereof by the testator and affidavits of the witnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of the state where execution occurs and evidenced by the officer'scertificate, under official seal. The will you have found contains the Alabama self-proving affidavit. 43-8-132.
Who may witness will: (a) Any person generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will. (b) A will or any provision thereof is not invalid because the will is signed by an interested witness. 43-8-134.
Choice of law as to validity of execution: A written will is valid if executed in compliance with Alabama law, or if its execution complies with the law at the time of execution of the place where the will is executed, or with the law of the place where at the time of execution or at the time of death the testator is domiciled, has a place of abode or is a national. 43-8-135.
Revocation by writing or by act; when witnesses required: (a) A will or any part thereof is revoked by a subsequent will which revokes the prior will or part expressly or by inconsistency. (b) A will is revoked by being burned, torn, canceled, obliterated, or destroyed, with the intent and for the purpose of revoking it by the testator or by another person in his presence by his consent and direction. If the physical act is by someone other than the testator, consent and direction of the testator must be proved by at least two witnesses. 43-8-136.
Revocation by divorce or annulment; revival by remarriage; no revocation by other changes or circumstances: If after executing a will the testator is divorced or his marriage annulled, the divorce or annulment revokes any disposition or appointment of property made by the will to the former spouse, any provision conferring a general or special power of appointment on the former spouse, and any nomination of the former spouse as executor, trustee, or guardian, unless the will expressly provides otherwise. Property prevented from passing to a former spouse because of revocation by divorce or annulment passes as if the former spouse failed to survive the decedent, and other provisions conferring some power or office on the former spouse are interpreted as if the spouse failed to survive the decedent. If provisions are revoked solely by this section, they are revived by testator's remarriage to the former spouse. 43-8-137.
Incorporation by reference: Any writing in existence when a will is executed may be incorporated by reference if the language of the will manifests this intent and describes the writing sufficiently to permit its identification. 43-8-139.
Who may have will probated: Upon the death of a testator, any executor, devisee, or legatee named in the will, or any person interested in the estate, or who has custody of such will may have the will proved before the proper probate court. 43-8-160.
Time limit for probate: Wills shall not be effective unless filed for probate within five years from the date of the death of the testator. 43-8-161.
Where will probated: Wills must be proved in the several probate courts as follows:
(1) When the testator, at the time of his death, was an inhabitant of the county, in the probate court of such county.
(2) When the testator, not being an inhabitant of the state, dies in the county, leaving assets therein, in the probate court of such county.
(3) When the testator, not being an inhabitant of the state, dies out of the county, leaving assets therein, in the probate of the county in which such assets, or any part thereof, are.
(4) When the testator, not being an inhabitant of the state, dies, not leaving assets therein, and assets thereafter come into any county, in the probate court of any county into which such assets are brought.
(5) In the probate court of the county designated by testator in the will if the testator owns property in such county at the time of his death. 43-8-162.
Duty of custodian of will after death of testator; liability: After the death of a testator and on request of an interested person, any person having custody of a will of the testator shall deliver it with reasonable promptness to a person able to secure its probate and if none is known, to an appropriate court. Any person who wilfully fails to deliver a will is liable to any person aggrieved for the damages which may be sustained by the failure. Any person who wilfully refuses or fails to deliver a will after being ordered by the court in a proceeding brought for the purpose of compelling delivery is subject to the penalty for contempt of court. 43-8-270.


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July 18, 2017 Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
Choosing A New Trainer Might Prove Challenging For The Air Force (From The National Interest)
Later this year, the U.S. Air Force will select a company to build a new jet trainer designated T-X to replace the aging T-38 Talon. Although not a large procurement, the Air Force plans to acquire just 350 aircraft, it is an important one. One might think that picking a winner would be easy. Yet, there are a lot of factors that need to be considered in the selection of a new advanced jet trainer. Clearly, cost will be an important consideration. The way the Air Force wrote the request for proposal gave many in the aerospace and defense community the sense that the lowest price offering, so long as it met a set of baseline performance standards, would be selected. Yet price should not be the only consideration. Evaluators must also assess a number of risk factors. One of these is technical risk or, said another way, technical maturity. Related to technical risk is production risk. Then there is schedule risk which could also create resource risks if projected budgets fail to materialize or funding is stretched out. I have written about the challenges facing Air Force evaluators of the Three T-X proposals for the National Interest here.


Did The Lord Say To Be A Greedy A**hole?
This is your Moment of Clarity #155: Are being rich and Christian mutually exclusive? I did the research so you wouldn't have to. I'm not usually in to Bible quotes, but you have to hear these!


With the season for giving fast approaching, Oaks Hotels & Resorts, a division of Minor Hotel Group, has announced a new charity partnership in a bid to raise much needed funds for the Children's Hospital Foundation and give comfort and hope to Queensland families with sick children this Christmas.
Have You Herd? Anantara's Elephant Parade Has Arrived in Bangkok!
Named as the official apartment supplier of the smash-hit musical's 2015 Australian Tour, Oaks Hotels & Resorts will welcome cast and crew members to a selection of properties in the touring cities of Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, as well as musical-goers looking to combine an evening of outstanding entertainment with deluxe overnight accommodation.
The Northern Territory is buzzing with fishing enthusiasts hunting for an iconic NT barramundi. Seventy-six barramundi have been tagged and released in NT waters worth a total of $1,750,000. Seventy-five fish are worth $10,000 each and one swimmer out there is carrying a million dollar tag. With fishing locations stretching from Katherine, to Darwin, across to Tiwi Islands and back to Arnhem Land, the fish will be hard to find but the adventure will be worth search..
Luxurious sea view residences offering the ultimate in opulent indulgence complete with on-call butler services have been unveiled at Anantara Layan Phuket Resort, the island's idyllic five-star resort hideaway.