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"Five Features of Three Kingdoms Period Architecture"
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 United States
Early Korea Project Lecture
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Professor of East Asian Art, University of Pennsylvania
NANCY S. STEINHARDT is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1982. She received her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1981 where she was a Junior Fellow from 1978-81. Steinhardt taught at Bryn Mawr from 1981-1982. She has broad research interests in the art and architecture of China and China's border regions, particularly problems that result from the interaction between Chinese art and that of peoples to the North, Northeast, and Northwest.
Steinhardt is author or co-author of Chinese Traditional Architecture (1984), Chinese Imperial City Planning (1990), Liao Architecture (1997), Chinese Architecture (2003), Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (2005), Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts (2011), Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 300-600 (in press), and more than 70 scholarly articles. Steinhardt is currently writing a book on mosques in China. She is a recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Getty Foundation, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Philosophical Society, Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, and Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art. She has given more than 250 public lectures or conference talks. Steinhardt is currently involved in international collaborations in China, Korea, and Japan. Steinhardt has been an advisor, guest curator, or author for exhibitions at China Institute, Asia Society, the Metropolitan Museum, Japan Society, Chicago Art Institute, Smart Museum, and of course the Penn Museum.
Chaired by Mark Byington, Project Director, Early Korea Project, Harvard University
This talk explores four structures or structural types that dominate Korean architecture in the fifth and sixth centuries: the octagonal building in Koguryŏ and Silla, octagonal ceilings in Koguryo tombs, twin structures in Koguryŏ and Silla, and the arrangement of brick layers in tombs. Relying on the most recent archaeological evidence, the talk investigates the geographic extent of each form in one of the Korean kingdoms, across kingdoms, and in China and Japan. The conclusion will address the legacy of Three Kingdoms period architecture in Northeast Asia in the eleventh century.
Sponsored by the Early Korea Project at the Korea Institute. The Early Korea Project receives operational funding from the Korea Foundation.
Funding for this lecture series is provided by the Northeast Asian History Foundation, Seoul
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Police arrested a suspect they say threatened another man with a machete in downtown Youngstown.
Police went to the 100 block of W. Commerce Street behind Suzie's Dogs and Drafts just before 4:30 p.m. Monday.
A witness reported that a man pulled out a machete, swung it around and yelled threats toward another man. She said the suspect yelled, "I have a machete, so come at me bro."
The victim identified the suspect as Daniel Harnevious. He said he had a history with Harnevious and accused Harnevious of stalking him.
The victim told police he was getting something out of his car when Harnevious came up to him.
Police found Harnevious inside Suzie's and asked him about what happened.
According to a police report, Harnevious admitted to confronting the victim, saying, "Yeah, I squared up on him and he wasn't man enough to fight me."
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - The YSU Army ROTC will be training on a Mill Creek MetroParks wildlife preserve through the spring.
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(FARM AND DAIRY) - The coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted demand on some products like oil and natural gas and positively impacted demand on others like recreational vehicles, boats, camping equipment, kayaks, gardening supplies and even garden seeds. Stuck at home, everyone is looking for new hobbies and can't seem to get enough of the great outdoors — at least for now.
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Carlos Gómez (nacido el 1 de enero de 1962) es un actor estadounidense.

Biografía

Carlos nació en Nueva York, hijo de Cora Gómez. Es un actor versátil que ha protagonizado en el cine y televisión desde finales de 1980. Su primer papel en una película vino en forma de bailarín en Dance to Win (1989). Una de sus actuaciones más notables fue como el paramédico gay, Raúl Melendez en ER (1995-1996).

Ha actuado como un villano en la serie Charmed, el inspector Rodríguez. Apareció en el episodio diecinueve de la primera temporada, "Out of Sight", y su aparición final fue en el vigésimo segundo episodio de la temporada (su final) "Deja Vu All Over Again".

También ha actuado junto a Salma Hayek en dos películas, la primera siendo Desesperado, donde interpreta a la mano derecha de Bucho, el hombre que Antonio Banderas busca, y también, en Fools Rush In, donde interpreta al exnovio de Salma, Chuy. Carlos puede también visto en el drama de CBS Shark, donde interpreta al Alcalde Manny Delgado, junto a James Woods y Jeri Ryan.

Gómez apareció en el musical de 2008 de Broadway In The Heights como Kevin. Actualmente es un miembro de la serie de A&E The Glades. También interpretó al ofician Navirro en Criminal Minds.

También apareció en la temporada 3 en la sitcom Friends, como Julio, en el episodio "The One with All the Jealousy".

Además apareció en el film "In Hell" junto al también actor de cine de acción JCVD, interpretando el papel del comandante de la prisión Kravavi.

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Review of Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
1994, Vintage Books
236 pgs
Rating: (Good +)
First Sentence: A flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother's Day.
Reason for Reading: This seemed like the right book to end my July reading travels with (althoug hit didn't turn out to be the last book I read for the month).
From the Publisher : At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
Comments: Breath, Eyes, Memory is a moving story about a daughter and mother tied together by a terrible secret. Raised in Haiti by her aunt, Sophie is suddenly shipped off to the United States at the age of 12 when her mother, whom she barely knows, asks for her. Sophie's new life is not an easy one as she learns a family secret that has haunted her mother for many years. She struggles with her own issues caused by her upbringing and her mother's personal demons as she comes of age. Edwidge Danticat weaves an intricate story about life, tradition, and family. The novel touches upon subject matter that speaks out to women who have been in similar situations.
I do wish the author had delved more deeply into the characters and their back-story. I felt that I only got a glimpse at the characters and was not really allowed to more fully understand them. Edwidge Danticat shows a lot of promise in this novel. I read one of her later novels, The Farming of Bones, a couple of years ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. I am looking forward to reading more by this author.
Favorite Part: I enjoyed most the time I spent in the beginning of the book with aunt Atie and Sophie.
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Mom confessions: I ate a cheese danish off the ground.
I have so many Mom confessions. These are the things that would embarrass my teenager if she wasn't so used to me being a hot mess. Now she just sighs and shakes her head about most things. Raising a mom is difficult, ya know?
I started spending time alone for the first time in my life this past summer. This was after I left a relationship I'd been in my entire adult life. My daughter wasn't with me most of the summer – she was at her dad's, hanging with friends or off at sleep away camps. My therapist urged me to take myself on dates.
One of my goals was to get out and go to some new places. So I was excited when I found a cute little used bookstore and coffee shop near the river.
I ordered a breve latte and a cheese danish.
The latte was beautiful. I take it unsweetened (though a different coffee shop I visit offers one with honey steamed into the milk, so I always indulge in that). The barista heated my cheese danish in the toaster oven. Then I took my little breakfast to a table outside. It was summer in Florida, but there was a breeze from the river.
So I sat down with my perfect latte and amazing danish. It was a croissant pastry with a cream cheese filling.
I dropped my delicious danish. It hit the ground under the table.
I almost cried. Really. I was in the midst of big changes and heartache after months of crisis and chaos. That latte and cheese danish by the river was one of the few times I'd felt kind of okay in a long while.
And then I dropped my freaking pastry.
I looked around. No one else was outside.
So I picked up my treat and took a big bite anyway.
It was still warm and creamy.
Then I realized I was sitting by a window and everyone inside could see me.
And people were totally watching me eat food off the ground.
I dropped a cheese danish on the ground and ate it anyway.
And that kind of became my philosophy to keep going on the hard days. Some days you're doing pretty okay. But then you drop your pastry on the ground. You can get mad and throw it in the trash. You can cry about it. Or you can pick it up, take a bite even though it's no longer perfect and keep moving forward with your life.
Sometimes gross mom confessions take on a whole new meaning.


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Britney Spears Has a Message for Diane Sawyer
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong, a blogger at the Cut who covers news and culture
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Britney Spears might be ready to move on with her life, but she's not forgetting or forgiving just yet. In a lengthy Instagram post shared Monday, which touched on everything from her career to how funny she finds Kevin Hart, the recently freed pop star weighed in on one of her most controversial moments: her 2003 Diane Sawyer interview.
The interview from the early aughts has been a hot topic of debate and reexamination among fans. It was heavily featured in the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, and to say it hasn't aged well is almost too kind. The hourlong sit-down includes multiple invasive questions about Spears's sex life (she was 21 at the time, or as the singer wrote, "a baby"), specifically as it relates to her (then) recent breakup with Justin Timberlake. "You did something that caused him so much pain, so much suffering," Sawyer said at one point. "What did you do?" At the time, Spears was apologetic, but looking back, she wishes things had been different.
"Do we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago," Spears wrote in what looks like a Notes app post shared to Instagram. "What was with the 'you're in the wrong' approach?? Geeze … and making me cry???" Spears revealed that, in the wake of her public breakup with Timberlake, she spent a lot of time alone in her apartment and "couldn't talk" and that she felt forced into doing the interview by her father, Jamie Spears, and a manager. (Spears doesn't name him, but fans know that Larry Rudolph, her longtime manager, was working for her at the time.) "My manager put that woman in my home and made me talk to her on national television," Spears alleged in her post.
"She said 'a woman or a girl,'" Spears continued. "I would like to say now, 'Ma'am I'm a catholic slut!!!!'" Spears also took offense with Sawyer's line of questioning regarding a supposed "shopping addiction" that was written about in the tabloids, adding that she would tell Sawyer, "'You wanna join me at a mass and I can serve your husband my certificate on shopping for anonymous players???' I should spend a thousand dollars if I want every day of my life and she can kiss my white ass." Sawyer has not responded to Spears's post or how her interview was used in the Times documentary.
Given what we know now about how her money was controlled under her conservatorship, I think we can all agree Spears has earned a few shopping sprees. Spears herself is proud to have retaken control of her finances. In her post, she shared the joy she received from simply taking $300 out of the ATM and getting "chocolate … Christmas socks … and a bottle of white wine." It's the least she deserves, but it's a start.
Elsewhere in the post, Spears commented on her career, hinting that her performing days may be over. "My first three years in the biz and on the road were great, but I'll be completely honest and say that after those three tours and the pace I was going … I don't think I ever want to do it again!!!!" Whether or not she ever performs again, one thing is clear: It will be her choice. As it should be.


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My hero, the Killing Machine...?
GOSH, there's a lot of killing in the new Wonder Woman animated film!
Okay, to get it out of the way, yes, it was good, and yes, I liked it. Naturally; it's a Gail Simone story.
But GOSH, there's a lot of killing in it.
I guess I thought I had adapted to the Xenafication of Wonder Woman. During the period when my concept of Wonder Woman was being formed, Wonder Woman followed the same "code" as Batman and Superman: no killing. Lesser people have to kill. Cops, soldiers, et al.; regular people have to kill to defend themselves. But for superheroes, not killing was always part of the challenge. Killing makes heroing rather easy, particularly when you are a superhero. You just kill anyone who throws a punch at you, and let the Spectre sort out the rest.
It's not a question of "mere" morality. It's a storytelling issue. Heroes who kill are, well, they're cheating. When Superman killed the Phantom Zone villains (before the last few multiversal reboots), I wasn't so much shocked by the deed itself. He gave a kind of plausible excuse for his right to "execute" them according to Kryptonian law. I wasn't disappointed that Superman failed morally, but that he seemed to have given up intellectually. He failed to solve the problem at hand without killing.
You can say I'm showing my time period; that my perception comes from the Innocent Silver/Bronze Ages, that my brain is soaked in the Superfriends for too long.
Maybe. Yet...
I also remember that in the 1940s, Wonder Woman kicked all sorts of Axis patootie during WWII. Without killing anyone. It was wartime; she was, in fact, a soldier, and, based on that, had a "right" to kill the enemy. But she didn't. And comics weren't exactly delicate then. Bad guys died like flies in the Golden Age.
But, ever since Xena, it's been (apparently) paramount to show that Wonder Woman is a "warrior" (which, I guess, means really really ready to kill at the slightest opportunity).
William Moulton Marston was definitely a wacko. But he wasn't an idiot. He was trying to use Wonder Woman to show us a better way, to show that love can conquer war (as long as it's strong enough!). Wonder Woman is still good; she's still cool. But somehow Wonder Woman the Killing Machine has lost a certain superiority that I long for in my heroes...
P.S. Don't get me started on the fact that Etta Candy -- the ULTIMATE symbol of female self-reliance and empowerment in comic books -- was portrayed as the symbol of what is worst in the women of "Man's World". Just don't get me started.
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Etta Candy...you should let us vote on a list of your favorite Etta Candy quotes.
Obviously, I need to break down and actually pick this up.
ticknart said...
At WonderCon, Michael Jelenic said that the one BIG regret he had was naming that character Etta Candy. He said he didn't know the lore behind her and was ashamed after he found out.
Oh? His shame is nice, but not useful.
What the hell are doing making a Wonder Woman movie if you don't know anything about Etta Candy?
A cursory internet search on her name alone would have told him how wrong a choice it was.
Or just asking A SINGLE WONDER WOMAN FAN.
My vote goes to "My constitution has room for lots of amendments!"
Diamondrock said...
For some reason people outside of the comics industry seem only dimly aware of the fact that these characters have histories stretching back to an era when television didn't even exist.
Also, they don't think comic writers know how to write, despite evidence to the contrary...
I understand your perspective on heroes abiding by a code of honor and not killing opponents. Having said that, there are some heroes (The Punisher, Wolverine, Lobo, The Authority) were killing seems to define part of their core essence.
I mean, clearly I'm against killing. But every time Joker breaks out of Arkham to cripple a Barbara Gordon or to brain a Jason Todd with a crowbar, I entertain the possibility that Batman does the world a disservice by not killing the man.
there are some heroes (The Punisher, Wolverine, Lobo, The Authority) were killing seems to define part of their core essence.
Personnaly, I don't consider any of those characters to be "heroes". I'd explain why but I'm certain Scipio can do it far more coherently than I can.
Just watched this, and, while there was a lot of killing, there was also a lot of Diana not killing when everyone around her did. She was clearly willing to, but she did take the approach of disabling when feasible.
But, yeah. The Etta Candy moment made me flinch.
Tony Z™ said...
"Michael Jelenic said that the one BIG regret he had was naming that character Etta Candy. He said he didn't know the lore behind her and was ashamed after he found out."
How on earth did he come up with the name without knowing anything about her!!? Did he just make it up and then suddenly find out "Wow, there's actually a character associated with Wonder Woman that has that name!"? That's ridiculous!
That was the worst part of the movie. I just kept staring at the screen thinking "What? What?"
My favorite part of the movie, though, was the epilogue (Coda? Whatever, I don't know). That's what I wanted from this: a superhero movie. Wasn't looking for a Wonder Woman battles the gods (again) just like Xena (again)...
But I still enjoyed it. And am immensely thankful that they avoided using "the spin." Urg.
Ooh, you beat me to the punch. I was going to say basically the exact same thing, but figured I should let Scipio take care of that. It's his blog, after all...
Debates about whether or not killing is okay for superheroes usually get hung up on the individual's personal beliefs, which is why I absolutely adore "killing = cheating if you're a superhero," because it focuses on narrative issues instead of ethics or morals.
I know that Batman and Superman are going to survive every issue and are generally going to achieve at least some measure of victory over the villain. The interest in superhero comics is about how they do it, and a protagonist refusing to kill can only add suspense and force creativity because it denies the easiest out.
" I don't consider any of those characters to be "heroes". I'd explain why but I'm certain Scipio can do it far more coherently than I can."
Because they kill people.
ASK said...
Really, I think the culprit here might not be Xena, but Waid's Kingdom Come. I think this was the first appearance of WW as a warrior willing to kill. I don't know if it appeared after Xena, but Kingdom Come seems to have had a big influence over the DCU.
To be honest I was expecting something more introspective and sub-contextual, but that sums it up pretty well.
Sea-of-Green said...
I FINALLY got to see this movie the other night, and while I did do a double-take when Etta Candy appeared, that wasn't my biggest complaint about the movie. Still, all and all, I did enjoy it, too, despite the things I had issues with.
How on earth did he come up with the name without knowing anything about her!!?
His "research" for the movie probably consisted of watching Season One episodes on YouTube. Blame Beatrice Colen.
Verification word: "mother". My hand to God. The first time it's ever been an actual word for me, and oddly appropos for this thread.
I enjoyed the video to but the one thing that bothered me more than the killing...was the way Etta Candy was depicted...that for some reaon really ticked me off.
They could have easily had any bimbo unnamed character for that role in the movie...but I guess they felt they needed a cameo for her and instead of giving her a good cameo they turned her into a bimbo...
Doctor Polaris said...
Hmph. For a villain such as myself the question of "to kill or not to kill" never enters into the equation. Rather, it is a matter of how do you kill the hero in the most elaborate and humiliating fashon possible. Extra points for style and color coordination.
Wasn't it during Kingdom Come that Wonder Woman started being portrayed (in modern comics) as willing to kill? At least that is when I first noticed it. As I recall, she had quite the moral dilemma about changing her code. How long then did it take to bring that that over to the regular DCU persona?
Actually, while it's cheating to kill your villains in a vigilante fashion, it's well within the rules of the game to capture said villain in a state that has capital punishment, then testify or even serve as the prosecutor for the villain's trial, resulting in the villain being electrocuted. Sadly, it seldom takes... but this is yet another tip that Batman should take from Captain Marvel.
After all, if Bruce Wayne is able to become past expert in all sorts of fields of endeavor, why not a law degree (in some disguise such as Matchsticks Malone, if not as Bruce himself) so he could overcome the Joker's insanity defense and see him die by lethal injection.
Or maybe he could just buy up Arkham Asylum and get the place some real security instead of the revolving door situation it is now.
Well, alright. I guess my definition of hero is a little more flexible than everyone else's. That's fine.
Yes, Wolverine kills people. But he also selflessly risks his life and sacrifices himself to fight the nazis in WWII and megalomaniacs like Magneto from taking over the planet, despite the fact that the human race treats him with fear and prejudice.
And you might not consider the Authority heroes but, again, there's that whole "risking their lives to save the planet multiple times over" thing going in their favor.
Heck, apparently Wonder Woman is killing all sorts of people in her new movie? And Batman killed Darkseid with a gun? And Superman killed the phantom zone villains?
I am not going to charge headlong into a debate where it seems like I am in favor of killing. Ah, no thanks. Pass. But I will say that disqualifying someone from hero status because they kill -- despite, you know, saving the planet and humanity many times over -- might be cutting off the nose to spite the face a little bit.
In my book 99% hero with 1% killing still comes out "hero". But I can respect people who have a 100% to 0% ratio. That's also a reasonable standard. A higher one. I guess I'm just a little more forgiving on my grading curve.
You want the definition of a hero and the moral code he must live by? Read Aquaman Vol. 1 #57 and the issues of Adventure Comics leading up to it. Black Manta murdered Aquaman's toddler son, forced him to fight his best friend to the death, and pretty much destroyed everything Aquaman held dear. But when given the chance to kill Manta, even though he wanted to with every part of his soul, Aquaman didn't. Because heroes don't do that.
"Yes, Wolverine kills people. But he also selflessly risks his life"
Hi TotalToyz,
I'm not arguing with you. I'm just disagreeing with you.
I guess I think it's important to judge people/characters by the sum totality of their cumulative actions, instead of focusing on their lowest moments. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was an adulterer and a plagiarist. But he is still a hero of mine. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. But he is still a hero of mine. Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star and flat-out KILLED thousands. Luke Skywalker is a hero in my book.
I'm against adultery, and plagiarism, and slavery, and killing. But to me, there's a huge difference between "heroic" and "perfect." If a person kills, well it's clearly a black mark against them. But as Scipio said -- it's an INTELLECTUAL failing. Not a MORAL one. I'm okay with the idea that my heroes are not all intellectual giants.
If we start blacklisting characters like Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Luke Skywalker, Captain America, etc. for killing -- I just think that we've created an impossibly high standard for heroism. I guess I would like my list of heroes to be longer than "Aquaman."
(PS -- If Aquaman had killed Black Manta in the example you cited, I would have been totally okay with it. He would still be a hero in my book. It wouldn't have been the most idealistic solution. But I can forgive moral failings under those circumstances.)
Roel
"I guess I would like my list of heroes to be longer than "Aquaman.""
You know... I think he's more than enough, LOL!
If we start blacklisting characters like Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Luke Skywalker, Captain America, etc. for killing -- I just think that we've created an impossibly high standard for heroism.
While I'm not an advocate of situational ethics, when someone like Superman or Batman kills, its a last resort and a moral dilemma that causes them much soul-searching and anguish. When someone like Wolverine or Lobo kills, it's just Tuesday. That, to me, is the difference.
Personally, I sensed no anguish when Batman shot Darkseid, or when Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Start. They seemed very comfortable with the decision.
But it's cool. I understand that we're going to disagree, and I have no problem with that.
I think the best argument against superheroes killing is Scipio's, but for those who think it's not an incredible moral breach like Roel, I rather like Superman's remark in JLA Classified #3 tot he effect that, in a superhero universe, killing the villain is rarely either final or even effective.
Swamp Thing killed Anton Arcane on the order of four or five times, and all that accomplished was eventually sending Arcane to Hell...where he became a fearsome and probably UNkillable demon with even greater powers.
In a universe with Darkseid's resurrecto-vision, mad scientists who can effectively resurrect the dead (ask Major Force, Gizmo, and scores of others), plus guys like Neron and Satanus running a Hell that especially wicked souls can actually return from or where they simply achieve literal demonhood, killing isn't just morally problematic...it's practically useless and even more dangerous than devising clever imprisonments.
I think it may be a question of scale. If Wild Dog is up against twenty terrorists with guns, I don't really mind if he kills anyone, because that's all he can do. But if Superman kills even one of them, it just strikes me as monstrous because he has so many other options. Many non-powered heroes like Batman and The Blue Beetle (Ted) are so highly trained or have such incredible gadgets that it makes killing unnecessary. The Authority totally kill and torture people when they don't need to- it's very unnerving. I guess I figure that a real hero doesn't abuse their power over life and death and a real hero appreciates the concept of mercy.
-Citizen Scribbler
a real hero doesn't abuse their power over life and death and a real hero appreciates the concept of mercy.
The really sums up what I've been trying to say about heroes and killing. Thank you.
Speaking of something else entirely....
Was it just me or could you actually tell which lines of dialogue came from Ms. Simone? It was actually kinda spooky.
@Roel: "Personally, I sensed no anguish when Batman shot Darkseid"
It was the end of the world. The only thing that could stop Darkseid (especially since Batman was already worn out) was the Radion. Batman said something to the effect of "I made a promise never to use a gun" (guns obviously symbolize murder to him) "but for you I'll make a once in a lifetime" (meaning Batman figures that he's probably going to die anyway) "exception." Morrison is constant in writing certain things, one of which is the moral conviction of heroes like Superman and Batman.
@allan: Me too, haha. Short, cheeky banter.
Speaking of shame being nice but not useful (and forgive me if someone already commented on this and I missed it) John Byrne recently said that if he had it to do over, he probably would have had the Kryptonian villains get themselves killed and left open the question of whether Superman would have killed or not in that infamous story.
Which to me is like someone who humiliated you horribly in school coming up years later and saying, "You know, that was my bad."
Yeah, great. It doesn't do a thing to change the way one's life was blighted.
Byrne sort of implied (and here we touch on Scipio's point) that he did it because he couldn't think of a better alternative. Now, I don't really think that was the case -- Jesus, I hope not -- but I'd almost rather he was defiant to the end, Jimmy Cagney on top of the gas tank with his gat.
After all, it wasn't just a bad choice, making Superman kill, it was a fiercely aggressive bad choice, like giving Batman permanent super powers, making Wonder Woman a man, or rehabilitating the Joker (other than in alternate world-type stories, obviously.)
When Byrne did that, he failed his job as custodian of a cultural touchstone. There are certain kinds of character virginity, for lack of a more elegant term, that once ended can never be regained.
For me, when he did that Byrne became Uncle Bad Touch and I really don't want to hear that he's sorry now.
Of course, the bottom line is that the comic companies aren't creating "heroes" who kill, and weakening the moral fibre of their longtime heroes by having them kill, in any kind of effort to portray realism in an increasingly violent world. No, they're doing it to appeal to the lowest common denominator, to win the devotion and the dollars of the kids who were brought up on Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto, who think it's wicked cool that Batman shot Darkseid and that Bucky slit Nazis' throats.
Timothy Burke said...
The killing wasn't the worst thing about the movie. I thought "Steve Trevor, Major Asshole" was considerably more annoying. Plus the editing of the movie was just terrible: incredibly rough cuts in the action, almost incomprehensible at times.
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Edina wins third consecutive 2A championship
By Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 11/16/18, 9:44PM CST
The Hornets won six events: two relays, two victories from Claudia Chang, one from Lily Gremmels and a third consecutive diving title from Megan Phillip.
Edina's Claudia Chang swam to first place in the 200 yard freestyle. She later won the 500 free as well. Photo: David Joles * david.joles@startribune.com
Edina put together a nearly flawless effort to earn its third consecutive Class 2A swimming and diving title on Friday at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the University of Minnesota campus.
The Hornets won six events, getting two victories from Claudia Chang, a victory from Lily Gremmels, a third consecutive diving title from Megan Phillip and two relay victories en route to 365 points. Edina's Lake Conference rivals Minnetonka (231), Wayzata (186) and Eden Prairie (178.5) finished second through fourth.
Chang, a sophomore, won the 200 and 500 freestyles and swam a leg on the Hornets' winning 200 and 400 freestyle relays. Gremmels, a sophomore, won the 50 freestyle.
Phillip, a junior, won her third consecutive Class 2A diving title with an all-time state meet record of 517.00 points. Her mark broke the longest-standing state swim meet record of 507.00 by Wayzata's Jamie Sanger in 1997.
Photo gallery: Class 2A championship
"It's awesome," said Phillip, who won the Class 2A, Section 6 meet last week with a score of 520.00. "It feels great to be able to help out the team."
Phillip won her first title with a score of 480.85. She had a 476.05 last year.
"The kids rose to the level of our competition," Edina coach Jeff Macy said. "There is a fantastic talent level in this state, in the pool and in diving. This meet is really a showcase. Megan had three fantastic dives tonight."
Edina and Wayzata have combined to win the past nine Class 2A state titles.
Lezer defends title
St. Michael-Albertville senior Emma Lezer won her third consecutive 100 breaststroke title. Lezer also finished third in the 100 butterfly. Minneapolis Southwest junior Peyton D'Emanuele won the 100 butterfly, edging defending state champion Molly Meland of Hopkins.
Visitation captures 1A title
For the second consecutive year, Visitation used its depth to outlast Hutchinson for the girls' Class 1A title.
And for the second consecutive year, the Blazers didn't have an individual champion or win a relay as they earned their sixth consecutive (10th overall) state title. The Blazers finished with 319.5 points. Hutchinson, which had two individual champions and won two relays, was second with 272 points.
Visitation got runner-up finishes by its 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays and from Kali Fischer (200 individual medley) and Maria Mattaini (500 freestyle). The Blazers scored points in all 12 events.
"We got great swims today," Visitation coach Nate Linscheid said. "I think that's a testament to the quality of swimming in Class A.
"Our numbers obviously help, but the times in the [preliminaries] yesterday and today really pushed us."
Underclassmen stand out
Benilde-St. Margaret's sophomore Taylor Williams, Breck freshman Yvonne Jia and Hutchinson freshmen Grace Hanson and Hailey Farrell won state titles.
Williams defended her state title in the 200 freestyle, edging Hutchinson's Lexi Kucera and Farrell. She also won the 100 freestyle, finishing ahead of Hanson and Kucera.
"Going into the meet, I just wanted to do my best time," Williams said, "if that meant winning or finishing 10th. Winning a state title is great, but I was just trying to do my best."
Jia, in her first state meet, won the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfly. She also swam a leg on Breck's winning 200 medley relay to help the Mustangs to a strong third-place showing with 234 points.
"I have the best teammates," Jia said. "I joined the team two weeks late, and my teammates have really helped me and encouraged me. It was so fun to have the opportunity to swim at the state meet."
Hanson defended her state title in the 50 freestyle, finished second in the 100 freestyle and swam a leg on the Tigers' winning 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle relays.
"I have to give all the credit to my teammates and my competitors," Hanson said. "They really push me. I'm glad I could help my teammates."
Farrell, the 500 freestyle runner-up as a seventh- and eighth-grader, won the 500 freestyle, finished second in the 200 freestyle and swam a leg on the Tigers' 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays.
Hanson, Farrell, Kucera and Mikayla Witte combined to win the 400 freestyle relay in a Class 1A record time of 3:27.64.
New champ in diving
Fridley senior Ellie Gunderson won the Class 1A diving title with a score of 381.65. Gunderson was fifth last year. Two-time defending champion Saylor Hawkins of Breck was fourth with a 364.10.
Abby Kapeller, Star Tribune metro girls' swimmer of the year
By RON HAGGSTROM, Star Tribune 12/16/2019, 2:33pm CST
The Minnetonka junior won two individual events at the state meet in November and swam on two winning relay teams.
Boys' swimming and diving story lines: 2A holds room for surprise
By Star Tribune 12/11/2019, 1:10pm CST
Top athletesd to watch and three story lines for the 2019-20 season.
Edina wins fourth straight state title in girls' swimming and diving
By HEATHER RULE, Special to the Star Tribune 11/16/2019, 11:48pm CST
The Hornets broke a school mark by winning their fourth consecutive team championship.
Visitation wins seventh consecutive 1A swimming title, with a twist
By HEATHER RULE, Special to the Star Tribune 11/16/2019, 4:32pm CST
The Blazers relied on their traditional depth to win the meet, and also won an event for the first time since 2016.
Defending champion Visitation, Hutchinson brace for another showdown, Lake Conference schools shine in 2A
By Joel Rippel, Star Tribune 11/15/2019, 10:38pm CST
Visitation has outdueled Hutchinson to win the Class 1A girls' swimming and diving title the past two years. In Class 2A, Edina showed its depth in prelims Friday while Minnetonka and Wayzata also fared well.
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A Bahraini Tale () is a 2006 Bahraini Arabic-language drama film directed by Bassam Al-Thawadi, screenplay by Fareed Ramadan and starring Saad Abdulla, Fatima Abdulrahim and Abdulla Al Sa'adawi.  This is the third feature film to be directed by Bassam al-Thawadi and one of the only three films ever made in Bahrain.

Synopsis
Set during the Six-Day War of 1967, the film revolves around the personal story of a middle-class Bahraini family and an account of the hopes and faith the Arab world had in Gamal Abdul Nasser as its leader.

Cast
 Saad Abdulla as Salim
 Fatima Abdulrahim as Fatima
 Abdulla Al Sa'adawi as Juma Khamis
 Ebrahim Al-Ghanim as Tickets Man
 Hassan Al-Majed as Mahmood
 Mahmood Al-Mulla as Bu Jassim
 Juma'an Al-Rowayai as Hamad
 Ahmed Aqlan as Sultan
 Abdulla Bahar as Mad Man
 Yousif Bu Hallol as Yaqoob
 Ahmed Fardan as Salman
 Shayma Janahi as Munira
 Mubarak Khamis as Abdulla Khamis
 Abdulrahman Mahmood as Man
 Wafa Maki as Mahmood Sister
 Abdulla Malik as Ali
 Fahad Mandi as Yahya
 Latifa Mujren as Hamad's Mother
 Shatha Sabt as Nayla
 Majeda Sultan as Sharoof Al-Zarqa
 Abdulla Wlaad as Rashed
 Mariam Ziman as Latifa
 Nadeem Ziman as Khalifa

Reception
The film was screened nationwide across Bahrain and across the Arab world. The film was critically acclaimed by critics locally and internationally. It was given a 90% rating by Rotten Tomatoes - NB: not available on Rotten Tomatoes so not verifiable.

References

External links

 A Bahraini Tale at Rotten Tomatoes
 Review by local critic

2006 drama films
2006 films
Bahraini drama films
2000s Arabic-language films
Films set in 1967
Films set in 1970
Films set in Bahrain
Films shot in Bahrain
Works about the Six-Day War
Coming-of-age films based on actual events
2000s coming-of-age drama films


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Talent show and family night: an evening of fun, tears, memories
The Special Needs Talent Show and Family Night is a social night filled with prizes, student performances, and special memories.
Junhee Lee|April 22, 2016
The West Wing Performers and Best Buddies sing "Best Day of My Life" for the opening act of the talent show.
Although the name may contain the words 'special needs,' West High's Special Needs Talent Show and Family Night is all about coming together for a fun, emotional night.
The event is the culmination of a school year's worth of effort. The special needs students and teachers spend the year collecting donations from local places, preparing acts to perform and getting everything laid out. They spend the whole day setting up the tables and the donated objects to be ready on display.
But when the event starts, all the hard work melts into celebration.
"Everyone gets really into it and sings with everyone. Last year, all the chairs were filled up and there was a conga line around the whole room," said Kailin Lust, the president of Best Buddies.
This year was just like the last. Hundreds of people shuffled along the walls of the room, checking out the items on the silent auction and buying raffle tickets near the entrance. The empty seats filled as one of the special needs students took the stage with a guitar. During and after each performance that followed, the audience clapped along, cheered, or even cried. The night had the air of a lively party.
"We try not to make it a fact that it's special needs. It's just a fun night, it's a family night," said Sherry Miller, one of the fundraising directors for the event. "I don't go around saying, 'Oh you're going to come watch the special needs kids tonight?' It's just the talent show."
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Even so, the talent show is not just the talent show but rather an event to remember. For the performances this year, the special needs students sang pop songs, played the guitar, and even blew a tune on the ocarina. After singing and rapping If I Ruled the World for his senior talent show, Willey Gale '16 was ecstatic to have ended his fourth and final performance with a positive crowd. He felt happy to have worked so hard and to participate in the event every year. "I can graduate, majoring too."
In addition to the musical performances, the crowd gathered around the students' artwork and even a lego construction, stopping at the displays to take pictures or to simply take a look. Angel Alvarado '18, whose artwork was displayed at the talent show, enjoyed the uplifting attitude shared by the people who came to see his art.
Alvarado's depiction of The Punisher from Marvel. This is Alvarado's favorite piece of artwork on display at the event.
"[I came] to see some people, to see some friends. It's just really positive, I would say," Alvarado said.
Miller and Kim Cranston, one of the special education teachers at West High, recalled from years ago a performance of American Woman where the audience cheered, stood, and sang with the performer. As Cranston sums up, "I'll never forget it."
The night does even more than showcasing diverse talents and creating memories; all of the money raised from the silent auction and the raffle goes into paying for the special needs students to go to Camp Courageous. The camp is a YMCA or Wapsie-like camp that is tailored for all ability levels that Lust says is "super fun." The talent show helps tackle the two hundred dollar fee that gets in the way of the fun.
Fortunately, the event gathers more and more people and money every year. After outgrowing its original location at the Old Brick Church and moving to West High, the number of donations has grown as well, from thirty to over four hundred donations coming in this year.
We try not to make it a fact that it's special needs. It's just a fun night, it's a family night"
— Sherry Miller
"Spending five, six hundred dollars is nothing because it's going to the kids who are going to Camp Courageous. I can spend five hundred, a thousand dollars for a soccer weekend to watch a kid play a game that doesn't have the problems that these kids have … That's one weekend of a soccer game going to these kids. So I don't think parents who purchase this stuff care so much about winning the bid. It's about the money going to the kids," said Lori Lust, Kailin Lust's mother.
For the coming years, the organizers of the talent show hope to raise more money and send more students to Camp Courageous. Going even further, the event hopes to continue spreading the love, the joy, and the family fun that the event is all about. As Lust explains, "You will not see one person leave here not in a better mood and not smiling and happy. As long as that continues and everyone who is a part of [the talent show] leaves happy, I think we've all succeeded."
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Puerto Rico Goals for 100% Renewables – if Gasoline Doesn't Get within the Means | World Report
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Seven months after Puerto Rico introduced an finish to the longest blackout in U.S. historical past, brought on by a devastating hurricane that left almost three,000 people lifeless, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló final month signed a invoice committing the island to go 100% renewable by 2050.
The governor, a Democrat, in addition to environmental teams and local people advocates, cheered the transfer, one they mentioned would finally get rid of Puerto Rico's dependence on costly imported oil, fuel and coal, and make the island extra resilient to hurricanes which can be solely anticipated to change into extra highly effective with local weather change.
"We have designed a regulatory framework to transform our energy system to a resilient, reliable and robust one with fair and reasonable rates for all consumers," Rosselló mentioned in an announcement upon signing the invoice in April.
Federal overseers within the nation's capital, nonetheless, apparently produce other concepts.
Weeks after Puerto Rico's legislature permitted the 100% renewables invoice in April, and earlier than it gained Rosselló's signature, Republican members of Congress and the Trump administration got here out in opposition to the plan.
"It's just unrealistic," Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, mentioned in an April 9 listening to on Puerto Rico's vitality infrastructure. "This might be a nice concept of social engineering, but it is still political interference with your primary goal, which is to provide affordable and abundant energy."
The identical day, the Trump administration known as for build up pure fuel infrastructure round San Juan, together with a single sprawling multibillion-dollar venture that might generate twice the output of an common fuel plant within the U.S.
Photographs: Puerto Rico in Ruins
Talking later on the Home listening to, Vitality Department Assistant Secretary Bruce Walker acknowledged that such an "investment may be at odds with" Puerto Rico's renewable vitality mandate targets however contended that it could be probably the most cost-effective method to producing electrical energy.
"DOE believes an increase in the natural gas generation in San Juan would be one of the single most valuable investments for PREPA's long-term recovery," Walker mentioned in written testimony.
As Puerto Rico repairs its electrical grid, consultants say that increasing some fuel infrastructure, reminiscent of by changing closely polluting current coal crops to cheaper, cleaner-burning fuel crops, is smart. The utility has proposed a sequence of smaller-scale tasks it says will higher assist the eventual roll-out of renewables.
The Vitality Department's plant proposal, in the meantime, is off the desk, Puerto Rico Electrical Energy Authority CEO Jose Ortiz says.
"It's not technically wrong, but it's against the public policy," Ortiz says.
That wasn't initially the case. PREPA in February launched a five-year plan that known as for lower than 1 / 4 of the island's electrical energy to return from renewable sources reminiscent of photo voltaic and wind, plus battery storage, with the remaining to be made up largely from new pure fuel infrastructure, in addition to oil and coal. Puerto Rico's vitality regulator rejected the proposal, sending PREPA again to the drafting board, and the utility is now contemplating a plan that extra carefully mirrors the regulation signed by the island's governor final month.
This revised plan is nominally in line with the mandate of shifting to renewables in that Ortiz says it is going to function within the quick time period whereas infrastructure is put into place. He says the shorter-term plan will contain a sequence of five-year contracts with plant house owners and operators that may possible contain changing some coal crops to fuel and constructing a number of different services, together with three import terminals for liquefied pure fuel.
"We still have 31 years to go to the full renewable target as the law enacted, and in the meantime we need a cheaper fuel," Ortiz says. "We are basically trying not to hold long-term contracts and also not to invest in big infrastructure."
Some consultants stay skeptical that the short-term method will not detract from the final word objective. Cathy Kunkel, of the Institute for Vitality Economics and Monetary Evaluation, a nonprofit analysis group, identified that even comparatively smaller pure fuel tasks require sizable investments – ones giant sufficient to lock Puerto Rico into continued reliance on imported fuels that would effectively upend its effort to go 100% renewable.
"It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to build a new natural gas plant and say, 'We're only going to run this for five years.' You'll just never recover your investment on that, not to mention needing to build port infrastructure to get the natural gas to Puerto Rico," Kunkel says.
It stays removed from sure – maybe even uncertain – that Puerto Rico will attain 100% renewables by 2050. In 2010, for instance, the legislature handed Legislation 82, requiring PREPA to generate 12 % of its electrical energy from renewables by 2015. As of this 12 months, or earlier than even Hurricane Maria, that tally stood at four %.
"We already had a beautiful law, and we didn't comply," says Elivan Martinez Mercado, a fellow on the Vitality Institute on the College of Texas-Austin and vitality journalist in Puerto Rico. "We may have another beautiful law, and it would not solve anything if we will not comply with it."
The problem has much less to do with expertise than political machinations, monetary mismanagement, in addition to on a regular basis corruption and incompetence that for many years has plagued PREPA, which filed for chapter within the wake of Hurricane Maria and is predicted to be privatized.
"There's been a long history of corruption in the energy sector," Kunkel says. A lot-needed repairs languished for years, and contracts remained hidden from public view. Most manifestly, and most not too long ago, a Montana-based firm named Whitefish Vitality Holdings, with solely two staff, gained a $300 million contract to make repairs to the grid – a pricetag later discovered to incorporate twice the conventional wages for utility employees and abnormally excessive meal charges.
Ortiz acknowledges that PREPA's previous efficiency does little to encourage confidence within the utility's present plans, saying the credibility questions are "correct."
Customers should not ready to see what occurs. Particular person residents and neighborhoods are investing in rooftop photo voltaic and batteries, many with assist from environmental nonprofits and group organizers. By one measure, supplying rooftop photo voltaic and batteries to Puerto Rico's poorest residents would price $1.four billion – $600 million lower than one of many deliberate new pure fuel crops.
"Most of the deaths during Hurricane Maria were related to lack of power. So solving Puerto Rico's energy situation is a matter of life and death, and it's a matter of economic development," Mercado says. "These are the priorities: saving lives and having a good quality of life and not losing too much money when a blackout comes for too many days. This affects small businesses, this affects households, this changes everything. So this is the priority for the population."
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Salt Lake City, Utah - A U.S. citizen and military dependent pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of her infant child while stationed with her husband in Spain.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney John W. Huber of the District of Utah, Special Agent in Charge Paul Haertel of the FBI's Salt Lake City, Utah Field Office and Col. Shan B. Nuckols, Commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), 5th Field Investigations Region, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, made the announcement.
Shawna Chapman, 32, formerly of Cottage Grove, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted second-degree murder, under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, before U.S. District Judge David Sam of the District of Utah. Judge Sam scheduled Chapman's sentencing hearing for June 5, 2019.
According to admissions made in connection with her plea, on Feb. 10, 2016, Chapman was living in Utrera, Spain as the military dependent of her husband, who was stationed at the Moron Air Force Base in Moron, Spain. At approximately 11:00 a.m. that day, Chapman used a knife to stab her 11-month-old daughter in the abdomen, intending to kill her. The child suffered a life-threatening injury, requiring immediate life-saving surgery and extended hospitalization.
FBI and AFOSI investigated the case in close cooperation with Spanish authorities. Trial Attorney Jamie Perry of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Andrea Martinez and Drew Yeates of the District of Utah are prosecuting the case.
The Department of Justice gratefully acknowledges the government of Spain, to include the Ministry of Defense, the Judicial Police of Utrera and the Civil Guard for their extraordinary efforts, support, and professionalism in responding to this incident.


Disney and Marvel Studios' new superhero flick Black Panther is estimated to bring in $165 million or more for the four-day Presidents Day weekend. If this is true, it will be the top February launch of all time. With an all-black cast, the Black Panther film is diversifying an otherwise very white genre in Hollywood. However, screenwriters admit to erasing an important queer narrative from the film, leaving many to wonder if Black Panther filmmakers missed an important opportunity to introduce even more diversity to the MCU. So why was the Black Panther gay romance erased from the script?
This resulted in a #LetAyoHaveAGirlfriend Twitter campaign, but it's unclear whether Marvel will have Ayo and Aneka come out in a subsequent installment or whether they'll "straight-wash" them, similar to how the recent Ghost in the Shell film dropped its lead hero's bisexuality.
Screencrush recently chatted with Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole, and they asked him about the queer love story not being included in the upcoming film. He said, 'yes,' and then his explanation for the change got a bit muddled from there.
The scene you're talking about, I don't remember. I can't remember the exact exchange you're talking about, but I think it was really brief. I'm not sure. I know that it was not — there wasn't some major theme through that we were looking to explore with that in terms of the story. We didn't like, pull out a full thread of some theme. But your friend quite possibly could be right, or I'm maybe having a brain fart here and just can't remember.
Let us know when the brian fart clears, because we are expecting a much better answer than that one.


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