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National star Michael Tubbs lost his last race; now he's facing a tougher foe: poverty in California
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Joe Garofoli
Michael Tubbs is sworn in as mayor of Stockton on Jan. 8, 2017.
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Michael Tubbs, then mayor of Stockton, works at his desk in March 2018.
It was shocking when rising national Democratic star Michael Tubbs lost the mayorship of Stockton last year to a little-known Republican. Especially to Tubbs.
Tubbs had cut a national profile as the youngest-ever mayor of a big city, in part because of his compelling backstory of growing up poor in an often-violent city. Tubbs is the son of a teenage mom and an incarcerated dad who earned a scholarship to Stanford, followed by internships at Google and the White House en route to becoming mayor at 26. Oprah has been in his corner for years and dropped $10,000 on his first City Council campaign. Now 31, he's been the subject of two documentaries.
Part of the interest is rooted in how Tubbs inspired a national anti-poverty conversation when Stockton ran a privately funded pilot program that seemed fringey when he first proposed it: Give people $500 a month to spend, no strings attached.
The results were strong, as independent studies of the effort showed that people found work and improved their lives. Now, a couple dozen cities across the country — including Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles — and the state of California are investing in pilot programs that offer some form of guaranteed income.
And then, last year ... poof. Tubbs was voted out of office in his hometown.
He bristled at suggestions he was tending more to his national profile than his hometown one — "That's a lazy take," he said on my "It's All Political" podcast — and instead pointed to a local disinformation campaign mounted against him that he didn't counter forcefully enough.
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Don't feel sorry for him, though. Tubbs is loving life, living in Los Angeles with his wife and two young children, and he is about to start his next climb, which will be even more daunting than his re-election effort.
"I enjoyed my eight years in local politics," Tubbs told me this week. "But I'm enjoying even more not being an officeholder."
He's got a new memoir, "The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home," and instead of using it to launch a new campaign, he's leveraging it to talk about his new mission. He wants to end poverty in California.
Tubbs' timeline?
"So by 2030, if poverty has not ended in California, we should have made a significant dent," Tubbs told me. "We should no longer be leading the nation in poverty. We should have a clear path for how we're significantly reducing the number of people in poverty in California so that we'll get to zero."
The optimistic take is that the goal sounds, as Tubbs' friend Gov. Gavin Newsom might put it, "audacious."
The more dubious take is that it sounds crazy. But Tubbs knows crazy. He courts crazy.
Five years ago, shortly after Tubbs became mayor, he asked his staff to "give me something crazy because poverty is crazy. Give me something crazy to fix it," as he told me in 2019.
They dusted off the idea of giving people a basic income floor, which has been around for centuries — American revolutionary Thomas Paine mused about it — but has rarely been implemented.
So in 2019, the city of Stockton — backed by private funding — began giving 125 residents $500 a month. Then Andrew Yang started promoting universal basic income during his 2020 presidential campaign and the idea found a whole new national audience. And it's big audience: 40 percent of families don't have enough money to cover a $400 emergency expense, according to a Federal Reserve study.
Then the pandemic hit, and it hurt low-income and communities of color especially hard. Wealthy Americans got their eyes opened to what life is like for people who live on the margins. Thirst for the idea grew, especially in California, where there are more poor people than anywhere in the country.
Next year, there will be $35 million in the California budget to fund existing and new pilot universal basic income programs. The money will largely be directed at programs that serve young people who recently left the foster care system and pregnant mothers. It is modeled after a similar program run in Santa Clara County.
"We have to start somewhere," said Tubbs, who supports the program. "So if we start in California with a guaranteed income for foster youth or a guaranteed income for pregnant people, that's a huge win.
"And then I hope to see our state really advocate the federal government and say, 'Look, what we're doing in California. It's working. People are more productive. People are healthier.' I just want to see a policy. And I think piloting and experimenting and getting the data gets us closer to that," said Tubbs, who co-founded Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, which advocates for the policy.
The expansion of UBI dovetails with Tubbs' new anti-poverty project. In January, Tubbs will officially launch End Poverty in California (Tubbs said he didn't realize until later that it was also the slogan of "The Jungle" author Upton Sinclair's 1934 campaign for governor of California).
Backed initially by $4 million from the Irvine Foundation, California Community Foundation, the Rosenberg Foundation and other private funders, it will take a multipronged approach. The think tank will create a list of policy solutions early next year. But Tubbs knows that to end poverty, he has to do more than crank out another wonky white paper that few will read.
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So the other part of Tubbs' vision is what he described as "a cultural play."
"Where are the images we're using? What are we seeing on TV? How do we really educate the public that poverty is not because of bad choices people make. That poverty is structural, and requires a structural response," he said.
The details on this part of his plan are still coming together, he said, but will involve funding and promoting stories, social media and art "that explains what poverty is, why it exists, what it looks like."
Tubbs expects viewers to "be surprised by what poverty looks like. Poverty looks like teachers in California. Poverty probably looks like cops who can't afford housing in the areas they serve. Poverty looks like domestics and people taking care of our older parents.
"Poverty has a face in California that is not the face of another, but the face of our community," he said. "I think once we realize that — that the poverty is the enemy, and not our neighbor — then I think we'll begin to make the hard political choices."
Some may roll their eyes at Tubbs' unbridled optimism and faith that California voters will be as progressive as their reputation.
Last year, voters in California — which has one of the nation's widest wealth gaps — didn't make the hard political choices when they had a chance. They voted against Proposition 15, which would have reassessed commercial and industrial properties in California at least every three years, instead of whenever they are sold. It would have been the most sweeping change to the state's property tax code in over four decades.
Instead, they kept the current wealth structure in place. Unless voters are willing to change that system, the gap between rich and poor Californians won't narrow.
Tubbs, however, may be the right messenger to break through that cynicism. He's young, smart, understands how government and the private sector interact and knows firsthand what it takes to rise out of poverty. He has also seen — most pointedly through his father — why many don't make it out.
He told me he was offered a job in the Biden White House (even though he initially endorsed former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the primary) as a special assistant for intergovernmental affairs. But he chose to stay in California and pursue this goal because of the state's assets. Namely, that the governor, a supermajority of the Legislature, all the statewide officeholders and most big-city mayors are Democrats, and poverty "flies in face of our values," Tubbs said.
"If we can't solve poverty in California," he said, "I don't know how we're going to solve it in our nation, to be frank."
Joe Garofoli is The San Francisco Chronicle's senior political writer. Email: jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @joegarofoli
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Joe Garofoli is the San Francisco Chronicle's senior political writer, covering national and state politics. He has worked at The Chronicle since 2000 and in Bay Area journalism since 1992, when he left the Milwaukee Journal. He is the host of "It's All Political," The Chronicle's political podcast. Catch it here: bit.ly/2LSAUjA
He has won numerous awards and covered everything from fashion to the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings to two Olympic Games to his own vasectomy - which he discussed on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" after being told he couldn't say the word "balls" on the air. He regularly appears on Bay Area radio and TV talking politics and is available to entertain at bar mitzvahs and First Communions. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud native of Pittsburgh. Go Steelers!


Check out this post by View from the Wing who wrote about an amazing deal going on. Business and First Class flights, from Europe to US for $80 or less. You may need to experiment with a few booking sites to find one that will allow you to use a US credit card, and get this offer which is priced in Danish Kroner.
Check out that article for detailed info. Dans Deals first broke out the news and then Business Insider published it as well. Deal of the year without a doubt.
The deal seems dead. United caught on and now they are pricing their tickets is USD and not in Kroner, and also at the regular price and not at the insanely low prices advertised above. Denmark is also off the list of countries when you enter an address at United.com. Hopefully they will honor the tickets that were already bought by those lucky few.
Sad news today from United. They announced that they will not honor short lived deal that we wrote about yesterday, where some were able to get a first or business class ticket for less than $80.
In their statement, United says that it is voiding the bookings of several thousand individuals who were attempting to take advantage of an error a third-party software provider made when it applied an incorrect currency exchange rate, despite United having properly filed its fares. Most of these bookings were for travel originating in the United Kingdom, and the level of bookings made with Danish Kroner as the local currency was significantly higher than normal during the limited period that customers made these bookings.


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Eiji Ogawa
Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management (International Finance), Hitotsubashi University; faculty fellow, RIETI
Eiji Ogawa is a Professor at the Graduate School of Commerce and Management (International Finance), Hitotsubashi University and a Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. His research expertise covers international currency and international finance. Prior to his current position, he was formerly a Visiting Scholar at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (2000); an Associate Professor (1991-1999), a Lecturer (1988-1991), and an Assistant (1986-1988), all at the Department of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University (1991-1999); a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley (1992-1993); and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics, Harvard University (1986-1988). He earned his Ph.D. in Commerce from Hitotsubashi University in 1999. He is currently involved in two programs at RIETI: Research on Currency Baskets and Research on a Currency Basket, and is a sub-leader of the Monetary Cooperation and an Optimal Exchange Rate Basket in East Asia policy research domain.
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The Hydra-Head'd Self and State Power
Grump'd off into the weekend world of leaf-debris'd streets and persnickety, recalcitrant, yea, cuss'd Toro mowers, and sun sledging down molt'd-yellow into the steely mold of oneself, its hot animosity-replicant reciprocal touch—see "Sun, A Somewhat Imperious Account of Talking Down to. . ."—and just as surliness calls us to the things of this world, I grump'd off thinking I'd go back into Faulkner's mossy belabor'd tourbillons and meanderings, back under the consoling song of something simple, like fratricide, or miscegenated offspring, or warfare in the trenches . . . And found myself, oddly enough, trucking with Andrew Epstein's Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006). It's cleanly writ and musters together a fine compendium of material to bounce against in considering, oh, how people in self-proclaim'd hoity-toit groupuscules (and they tender adversaries) behave today. (That's not exactly the book's intent—it is doing a historical job, considering the ties and rifts in a number of writing relationships, O'Hara's with Ashbery's, O'Hara's with Baraka's, Baraka's with the New York School, and, largely, how the individual talent does commerce with the social realms as they manifest themselves in writing communities, self-conscious or not.) That's not, though, the lens I determined, willy-nilly, to examine the book through.
Which is to say: all the reading I did (not even too terribly much) and writing (here) is under the cloud of a historical moment almost completely bouleversé in the intervening fifty or sixty years. And it's the difference that swept me up and toss'd me down exhaust'd on the black sands of my reckoning. One's ("our") historical consciousness is such now—percipient, perspicacious, prepossessing—that one proceeds (thinks one ought proceed) by aping the old models. The upshot is, the scene requires (accepts) nothing beyond apery, fine-tuned irrelevant apery, the scenes of "our" former aperies.
Into the Epstein. There's Ralph Ellison's sentient remark that "true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group. Each true jazz moment . . . springs from a contest in which each artist challenges all the rest; each solo flight, or improvisation, represents . . . a definition of his identity." Which "cruel contradiction" (as Ellison call' d it), Epstein smartly applies to "the dynamics of avant-garde poetic communities." What Epstein points out—"one of the central paradoxes built into the avant-garde itself"—proceeds thus:
Instead of merely opposing individuality and thriving on cohesion and collaboration, as we are so often told is the raison d'être of vanguard movements, the avant-garde actually features an ongoing tug-of-war-between its demand for group solidarity against a hostile larger society and its simultaneous commandment that its participants must be anarchic rebels who resist conformity and convention. These two impulses cannot easily coexist, a fact especially glaring to American avant-garde artists, steeped by birthright in a powerfully individualistic mind-set, which leaves them particularly torn between the compulsion to be an idiosyncratic nonconformist and the desire to be an avant-garde team player.
Hence, according to Epstein, the marked ambivalence of the New York School "players" about working jointly—and he reads and reveals superbly some of the competitive tension-undertows that roil some of the collaborations.
What I think, though, reading those lines, is elsewhere. I mock Ron Silliman's "post-avant" tag as meaningless, as just another burning arrow of gratuitous nomenclature shot out over the poesy'd plains by Chief Silliman, demonstrant mostly of a desire to control the terms of the debate—but: is the scenario of the "vanguard" Epstein mounts imaginable in the clubby 'thousands? Isn't it more to the point that today there's nothing but "group solidarity"? Everywhere the clamor of the social, particularly in the semi-noxious and irréel environs of cyberspace—network joining network joining network, any veritable self inevitably wholly crosshatch'd out by the lines of social force "under" which the self "operates." That "powerfully individualistic mind-set" of the "American"—where's that? Nowhere except in the mythical damps of a perceived "self-reliant" history, and, notably, in a damnably selfish sense of "self-preservation." (That impulse to run off, to rub out, to disappear when threaten'd.) (See, for example, John Ashbery noting thirty or so years back—"We feel in America that we have to join something, that our lives are directionless unless we are a part of a group, a clan . . ." Bewailing exactly the kind of willful squandering of one's autonomy one sees to a hugely exacerbated degree today, not only in social clumping, but in a narrowing of writing tendencies, of aesthetic approach.) Today, in lieu of groupuscules band'd together against the siren songs of conformity, one sees bands forming for something akin to product placement power, marketing heft. So maybe Silliman's correct, maybe there is no avant-garde anymore, though it looks, too, as if now it's all avant-garde. We've enter'd the era wherein we all be "anarchic rebels who resist conformity and convention"—the "tout-avant." Though, certes, no consensus'd fly up there—except silently: one by one in our camouflage clothes we're saying—"yeah, I'm an angelic upstart, even though none of the rest of those fucks be."
The other thing that struck me in reading Beuatiful Enemies: how pervasive the "splatter'd self" 's become. It's getting found everywhere, its lineage traced back and back. Epstein writes a terrific summary of how the Cold War culture of containment and conformity led to oppositional strategies: "To counter the tremendous emphasis placed on stabilizing and containing unruly energies, participants in the avant-garde devoted themselves to values diametrically opposed to containment: motion, disorder, flux, speed, change, and action." And, too, how, under the repressive post-war political and cultural forces—what Baraka, in The System of Dante's Hell calls "the torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject"—the concept of identity shifts to become a malleable, protean, camp thing, a no-identity, temporal, performative, slippery. It's a persuasive reading. What concerns me, though, is how that notion of identity's become doxology now; a half-century along, we all lack a reify'd sense of identity, any essence, we all move to survive. Which makes us both hard to hit, empty targets, indestructible, and perfectly ineffectual, hydra-head'd, of no concern to the State, representing nothing, without danger, ciphers and codes, not worth the cracking. Nuts. A nation of nuts, acceptable (no need in the 'thousands for containment, even the outlawry is in containable lock-step with the aping masses aspiring behind), non-threatening.
Arnold Schoenberg, Fundamentals of Musical Composition: "Methodical variation is no substitute for invention, but it may be stimulating, like the athlete's 'warm-up.'"
Speaking of "That impulse to run off, to rub out, to disappear when threaten'd," I see by a Monday morning look into my box, that the Buffalo Poetics flunkies and cutthroats refused to post another of my e-mails, one chiding the use of innuendo to continue a long-orchestrated campaign of character assassination against Kent Johnson. Therein I did say, "By the way, it's high time that Kent Johnson be allow'd to return to full participation in the Poetics List discussions. Nearly nine years of exile." Maybe therein lies the problem. Query the "bosses." Demand an open forum.
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My Yatter
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High Wankery
Bernstein with a Monicker
A Petulant Child
"Feckin' merchants"
The Last Novel
En ré mineur
"Feet, At Least"
Ange Mlinko's The Children's Museum
"Like to Burst"


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Claire Singleton steps down from L&G
Enra completes second securitisation from Elstree programme
CSS appoints regional director
Claire Singleton (pictured) has stepped down from her position as chief executive of Legal & General after 10 years with the group.
Craig Brown, currently the director of intermediary for Legal & General Insurance, will take over as chief executive of Legal & General Home Finance on 28 February.
Singleton will also step down from her role on the board of the Equity Release Council (ERC).
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Singleton has decided to return to a group general counsel position.
Brown joined Legal & General in 2012 and has held several senior commercial and operational roles during that time, most recently leading the distribution of protection products via intermediaries.
Bernie Hickman, chief executive of Legal & General Retail, said: "Having co-founded Legal & General Home Finance in 2015, I remain passionate about the potential value of property to achieving better retirement outcomes for people in later life.
"Lifetime and RIO mortgages can help meet a diverse range of challenges across customer demographics, from interest-only mortgage capital repayments to wealth planning.
"Craig brings both an essential understanding of the intermediary landscape and broad commercial experience, making him ideally placed to grow our market share."
Brown added: "I'm absolutely delighted to be continuing my career at Legal & General with this new position, and I'm looking forward to working with a talented team of individuals to develop and grow what is already an excellent business.
"I think there is a huge opportunity with the growing relevance of property to people's long-term planning, to move later life lending into the mainstream – and I believe Legal & General can play a key role in leading this transition."


On July 27, 2004, the Collier County Board of County Commissioners adopted Ordinance 2004-50 establishing a recycling program for non-residential property in the unincorporated areas of Collier County. The " Collier County Non-Residential Recycling Ordinance " will become effective for all businesses, including Collier County Government, in August 2005. To lead by example the Division of Facilities Management, in conjunction with the Solid Waste Management Division, has developed a program to save natural resources by increasing recycling efforts, encouraging participation in recycling programs, and raising awareness regarding the importance of recycling.
Currently, Collier County Government recycles office paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, glass containers, plastic containers (#1 through #7), phone books, newspaper and toner/ink jet cartridges. In addition, the Department of Facilities Management recycles used light bulbs, ballasts and batteries.
INTERIOR : Building B, Buildings C1 and C2, Building F (2nd, 3rd and 5th floors), Building G, Building H (1st, 2nd and 3rd floors), and Building L (1st and 5th floors).
The Division of Facilities Management is in the process of ordering additional interior and exterior recycling stations. These will be placed at all library locations, Transportation, several Parks and Recreation sites as well as all Collier County Government sites in Immokalee. There are already several containers placed at the Community Development and Environmental Services Building with additional containers placed as the need arises.
Facilities Management has contracted with Waste Management for the removal of cardboard, paper, glass, aluminum and plastic recyclable materials. An office paper container, a cardboard recycling container and twelve 64-gallon co-mingled totes for glass, aluminum and plastic have been placed outside of Building W for a "one stop" collection location. The 64-gallon totes are emptied weekly by Waste Management with the larger cardboard and paper container emptied by Waste Management as needed. Phone books are picked up by our contracted janitorial service, One Source, and taken to one of the County's local transfer sites. Newspaper is collected and taken to an off-site recycling container.
A goal of the Division of Facilities Management, with the help of the Solid Waste Management Division, is full compliance with the Collier County Non-Residential Recycling Ordinance. By developing partnerships with all Collier County divisions and agencies, the In-House Recycling Program will increase the County's recycling efforts and raise employee awareness regarding the importance of recycling. Through these efforts, Collier County Government will become a recycling leader not only in the business community, but also among local governments.


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Dardania – prowincja starożytnego Rzymu, istniejąca w późnym okresie Cesarstwa.

Nazwą Dardania określano początkowo południową część Mezji i Mezji Górnej (Moesia Superior). Współcześnie terytorium to odpowiada przygranicznym ziemiom Kosowa i Serbii oraz Macedoniii i Bułgarii.

Główne ośrodki
Dawne ośrodki rzymskie (a współczesne miejscowości) na tym terenie to:

 Naissus (obecnie Nisz, Serbia)
 Remesiana (Romatiana) (obecnie Bela Palanka)
 Scupi (Colonia Flavia Scupinorum) (obecnie Skopje, Macedonia)
 Ulpiana (obecnie Lipljan, Kosowo)
 Iustiniana Prima (rejon współczesnego Lebane, Serbia)

Historia

Czasy przedrzymskie
Prowincja powstała na terytorium zlokalizowanym w miejscu przedrzymskiego osadnictwa plemienia Dardanów. Mitycznym wodzem tego plemienia i królem Dardanii miał być Dardanos, protoplasta Trojan. Odnotowanym założycielem dynastii władającej Dardanami był Bardylis I (król w okresie 395-358 p.n.e.).
Kolejnymi odnotowanymi władcami Dardanów byli:

Dardanowie wielokrotnie, ze zmiennym powodzeniem wchodzili w konflikty z władcami Macedonii, także w okresie, gdy ta znalazła się już pod panowaniem rzymskim. Pierwsze starcia miały miejsce w latach 75–73 p.n.e. (Rzymianie dowodzeni przez Gajusza Skryboniusza Kuriona zwyciężyli), kolejne - aż do ostatecznego podporządkowania Rzymowi ok. 28 p.n.e..

Czasy rzymskie
Jako prowincja Dardania zaistniała około roku 293 jako wynik wydzielenia z istniejącej wcześniej prowincji Mezja Górna. W rezultacie podziału powstały prowincje Dardania oraz Moesia Prima (Mezja I).

O powstaniu prowincji zdecydował cesarz Dioklecjan w ramach zrealizowanej przez siebie reformy administracyjnej, w ramach której utworzono Diecezję Mezja, złożoną z Dardanii i innych prowincji (były to: Achaja, Dacia Ripensis, Epirus nova, Epirus vetus, Kreta, Macedonia,  Moesia Superior, Praevalitana, Tesalia).

W kolejnych dziesięcioleciach wschodnią część terytorium Dardanii włączono do prowincji Dacia Mediterranea, w której głównym ośrodkiem była Serdica (współcześnie Sofia). Nadrzędna diecezja została z kolei podzielona na dwie: Diecezję Macedonia i Diecezję Dacja (w której znalazła się Dardania).

Po podziale Cesarstwa Rzymskiego (395) Dardania znalazła się pod zwierzchnictwem Cesarstwa wschodniorzymskiego (Bizantyńskiego).

Nawiązania współczesne
Nazwa "flaga Dardanii" używana jest w stosunku do jednej z wersji nieoficjalnej flagi Kosowa.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Prowincje rzymskie
Mezja (prowincja rzymska)

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Uch Conventional Gas Field, Pakistan
Uch is a producing conventional gas field located onshore Pakistan and is operated by Oil & Gas Development. The field is located in block Uch.
An expansion project is associated with the Uch, namely Uch Compression Project. This project is currently in the feed stage, expected to start in 2023.
The field is owned by Oil & Gas Development.
Production from Uch
The Uch conventional gas field recovered 53.88% of its total recoverable reserves, with peak production expected in 2023. The peak production will approximately 0.04 thousand bpd of crude oil and condensate and 460 Mmcfd of natural gas. Based on economic assumptions, production will continue until the field reaches its economic limit in 2043. The field currently accounts for approximately 9% of the country's daily output.
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Angela Rubin Nickens
Angela "Baby Girl" Rubin Nickens, 54, departed this life on February 6, 2020 at Lexington Medical Center, West Columbia. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to the late Benjamin J. Rubin, Sr. and Dorothy Johnson Rubin on November 9, 1965. She attended New York City Public Schools and later graduated from Crown Business Institute. Angela relocated to Timmonsville in which she became a member of Jehovah Pentecostal Holiness Church under the leadership of Pastor Claudia H. Askins. She was a choir member until she moved to Sumter and joined Jesus Precious Church under the leadership of Pastor Joseph Hendricks. She was a devoted praise team member and an usher. Angela was united in holy matrimony to William Nickens on May 19, 2018. She enjoyed meeting new people which led her and her son, Issacel to create the So Cocky Bike Club. She lived life to the fullest. Angela leaves to cherish her memory: her husband, William Nickens; three children, Issacel Rubin, Tunisha Rubin and Terrell (Melanie) Cobbs; two step-children, Indya Nickens and Josyha Nickens; three god children, Derelle Dubose, Bradley Gee and Ashley McElveen; two sisters, Diana (Julian) Rogers and Shante Rubin; three brothers, Calvin Johnson, David Johnson and Benjamin Rubin, Jr. and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 2615 Stern Drive, Sumter. Funeral Services will be held 2:00 p. m,. Saturday, February 15, 2020 from the Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church, 2400 Queen Chapel Road, Sumter, with the Reverend Jerome McCray, Pastor, and Pastor Joseph Hendricks, officiating, eulogist. The Remains will be placed in the church at 1:00 p. m. The funeral procession will leave the home at 1:20 p. m. Burial will follow in the Sandsbury Cemetery, Main Street, Timmonsville.


that I would be strong enough. I thought this season was over and never to be revisited. But here we are, here I am.
anymore. I was conquered, worn out, completely done.
straight to my heart and mind I believed it.
arrives so as not to burden my family with this monstrous illness any longer.
doctor but was dismissed as a stupid teenager just wanting pills.
still afraid of the stigma.
love your husband." Then the morning came but along with it the intense anxiety.
The fear of being alone with the kids and having to care for them overcame me.
sleep a little more, I'll be fine. And the process would repeat itself.
still with hesitation, swallowed it.
thing for me right now and so I continue.
bedroom. I will not be ashamed.
whom you trust to help you walk through this. You are NOT alone. You do matter!
You are so damn strong mama. You've chosen to fight for your family and for yourself.
Thanks for being brave enough to share what's real. Praying for you.


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James Tynion IV on His Upcoming Master Seminar
Image copyright DC Comics
Last week, we announced that the Master Seminar on writing ensemble and team comics with Justice League and Detective Comics writer James Tynion IV was now accepting enrollees. Now, read our brief interview with him about some of the points covered in the class.
Comics Experience: What are some challenges to writing team/ensemble books that writers might not know about? What are some of the ways you overcame those challenges?
James Tynion IV: I think a lot of times, particularly when you're on a work-for-hire book that's part of a shared universe, there's an impulse to just throw in all your favorite characters and see what happens. The trouble is, in a lot of cases, your favorites have a lot of traits in common (those being the traits that MAKE them your favorites), and you can end up with a team where figures have duplicative personalities and functions. You can overcome that if you lean in, for instance if you take two characters that SHOULD be similar and put them on ideological divide that sends them down different paths…
But if you don't make an active choice it can make it difficult to write, because multiple characters are capable of performing the same actions and are likely to have the same response to that action. The key to working around that is just putting thought into the line-up from the beginning. Make sure you have the team you want and need, where everyone's abilities and personalities are distinct.
CE: What makes writing a team book fun? Why should comic book writers tackle ensemble casts?
JTIV: Honestly, the biggest and best reason to write team or ensemble books is pacing. It's easier to keep dramatic tension up when you're intercutting between multiple plot threads. It also allows you to skip some of the more boring connective tissue like people en route to places. You can just cut away, and when you cut back, they're already there! Like magic! Also: In more general terms, I think that characters reveal more of who they are through how they interact with people around them than they do in their own minds. We all know that the internal monologue can be misleading. Actions and relationships define people, and a superhero team book, is by nature, all action and relationships.
CE: What is the "Sad Monster?"
JTIV: I mean, the best example in all of comics is The ever-lovin' Thing from the Fantastic Four. But honestly, I think every team book or ensemble needs a good sad monster. Sad monsters want to embody everything the team stands for, but there is something innate in them that holds that back. Normally, they think it's the fact that they're these hideous monsters, but usually it's something much deeper. Sad monsters help define the thesis of a series by showing their struggle to fight for that core ideal. Even in the most mundane ensemble book, in a world without literal monsters, you want a sad monster character to help you and the readers define the conflict that defines the book.
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Home»News»Maxi Priest Shares Music Video For "I'm Alright (feat. Shaggy)"
Maxi Priest Shares Music Video For "I'm Alright (feat. Shaggy)"
By Dom Vigil July 15, 2019
Maxi Priest has shared the music video for his latest single "I'm Alright (feat. Shaggy)", the first single off of his forthcoming album It All Comes Back To Love. Watch the video now below.
Produced entirely by Shaggy, It All Comes Back To Love is set to release on August 30th via S-Curve Records. Fans can stream and purchase the single here, as well as the new remix, I'm Alright (feat. Shaggy) [Dancehall Mix], here.
It All Comes Back To Love will be available for pre-order on August 2nd, with an instant-grat download available with purchase. It All Comes Back To Love is the follow-up to 2014's Easy To Love.
Only a handful of singers succeed in transcending their genre without losing the essence of who they are. Maxi is one of those artists whose own unique vision has led him to tremendous international success, being the first reggae artist to have a No. 1 hit worldwide, including the U.S. Billboard charts.
Maxi is the first British-born singer to graduate from the London reggae sound-system Saxon Studio International, introducing the sound of lovers' rock to a global audience. Before joining Saxon, Maxi embraced Rastafari and served an apprenticeship with South London soundsystem Negus Negast and the legendary Jah Shaka. Throughout his entire career, Maxi has adhered to the principles of his faith by making conscious music of all kinds.
Maxi Priest's upcoming album It All Comes Back To Love is set to release on August 23rd via S-Curve Records. For more information, please visit: http://www.maxipriest.com/
It All Comes Back To Love tracklisting:
1. I'm Alright (Feat. Shaggy)
2. Free Falling
3. Cool Nuh (Feat. Shaggy)
4. If I Was Your Man
5. It All Comes Back To Love
6. If I Could Change It
7. It's A Summer Vibe (Feat. Bounty Killer, & Che Sav)
8. Anything You Want (Feat. Shaggy, Anthony Hamilton, & Estelle)
9. Out In The Rain (Feat. Inner Circle)
10. My Pillow
Upcoming tour dates:
July 20th – Wilmington, DE @ The Queen
July 27th – Danbury, CT @ Ives Concerts Park
August 4th – Brooklyn, NY @ Ford Amphitheatre
August 10th – Newark, NJ @ New Jersey Performing Arts Center
August 16th – Clarendon, Jamaica @ Apple Estate Rum Day Celebration
September 14th – San Juan, Puerto Rico @ Vivo Beach Club
November 30 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun


Rome is full of some of the most famous architecture, artwork and history in this world. From the Trevi fountain to the Vatican museum you'll find famous names and their pieces all throughout the city. But what, perhaps is even more amazing is all of the pieces you've never even heard of. The city is overflowing with pieces to show off that so many of them don't even get uttered as forgotten seconds. Turn a corner and you'll stumble upon another Michelangelo piece, a stunning fountain or some archaeological ruins. These things are just part of life in Rome.
The best time to visit Rome is from October through April. This is the time when you'll be able to breathe and perhaps even get close to the Trevi Fountain. The crowds are less than in the high season of summer. It won't be hot in the city but it also almost never goes below freezing. So you'll want some layers, but often cities like this are more enjoyable when the pavement isn't akin to a frying pan.
The famous gladiator theater which was built circa A.D. 80 and could seat as many as 50,000 people. It's in partial ruins but not any less impressive. Do not miss the interiors of the Colosseum and the many tours of the Colosseum. Book well in advance to see the Underground Colosseum, the Third Ring Tour, or the Colosseum tour at Night.
One of the best preserved ruins throughout the city, the Pantheon is a temple which dates as far back as 2,000 years. Many Roman kings have been buried here. The most striking feature of the building is the huge done with the round skylight. Entry is free and the attraction is open every day of the week.
There are several kilometers worth of museum here, one the largest collections of art in the world, made possible by popes throughout the years. Keep aside a day to visit the Vatican museums. And take special note to spend quality time at the Sistine Chapel, when you are there.
What was once the center of city life is now an impressive display of ruins, from temples to theatres it's all here to be explored. The Roman Forum and Palatine Hill visit is included in the ticket for the Colosseum. You should decide the visit plan in a way that you can efficiently see all the sites on the same day.
The largest and richest church in the country. It is nothing short of astonishing. Containing impressive artworks as well as architecturally wonderful. Depending on the time you have, decide if you want to visit the dome, the treasury, and the underground grottoes...or just the main building.
To get a vibe for the real Rome you must try and visit the local markets of Rome, Campo di Fiori on Sundays, and Porta Portese on other days.
There are hundred of fountains and squares in Rome, some more famous than the others but each equally important. Ancient Aqueducts used to bring in water from the countryside into Rome and the fountains were the places where they water was supplied. Today you can visit the best of these fountains of Rome.
There are many quirky parts of Rome with interesting attractions that have remained undiscovered. Take some time to see these fun things to do in Rome, in plain sight. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the number of tourists you will see at the major attractions of Rome.
Make sure to sample the traditional Roman dishes when you are visiting even for a couple of days. Italy is a wonderful country where every region is unique in its food and drink.
There are many exciting day trip destinations to easily visit from Rome, thanks to Italy's excellent rail and road connections. Italy is a long country and so trains run very efficiently, connecting many places, very quickly.
Rome encompasses 22 different neighborhoods, called rioni so it can be slightly daunting to choose where to stay but no matter your preference there will surely be something for you. Whether you choose to be centrally located and close to the city's most famous and popular attractions or if you'd prefer to stay where you can experience 'local' life you'll find an option that suits you in Rome.
Getting around the city center of Rome can be done either by bus or by metro. The metro offers just two lines while the buses are many and also run 24 hours a day. This is often the best way to navigate the city, plus you can do some sightseeing whilst on board.
Rome provides a wonderful location for day trips to the surrounding region. Its proximity to the sea means you could head off to sunbathe for the day. Or, if you'd prefer you can head into Tuscany and spend the day wine tasting. Whether it's a smaller city, countryside or sea you prefer the options surrounding Rome are many. Train links throughout Italy are wonderful and the best way to go on a day trip without the hassle of parking a car once you're there. There are also some great tour options, especially for an experience like vineyards which you may want to see a few of in a day.
Supplì (eat): A fried rice ball with ragu and mozzarella. One of the most popular street foods of Rome.
Pizza: An Italian classic. Made in a different manner throughout the country, Romans tend to be very simple with their toppings, and thin with their base.
Pasta: Another Italian favorite. Carbonara is a delicious classic in Rome.
Prosecco (drink): The Italian answer to sparkling wine. This is a classic drink all throughout the country.
Aperol Spritz (drink): A wine based cocktail served before dinner. Very refreshing on hot days.


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星霊王
Seirei-ō
Celestial Spirit King is the 32nd episode of Fairy Tail anime.
Loke tells Lucy about his past with Karen Lilica and why he was banished from the Celestial Spirit World. But as Loke starts disappearing, Lucy argues for his innocence which makes the Celestial Spirit King appear before them.
Inscription in Karen's grave
Back at the water fall, Lucy asks again, now shocked "You killed Karen?" Loke doesn't deny it, but continues to say that a spirit who has killed his master is forbidden from returning to the Celestial Spirit World. Loke's story unfolds.
Three years ago, in the Blue Pegasus Guild, Karen was being asked out by a group of men. She told them she couldn't go, so she summoned Aries the Ram, a Celestial Spirit for them. Aries told her that she is not meant to entertain men, but Karen ordered her to do it and she quickly apologized.
Bob's anger at Karen
When they are about leave, Karen and Bob started talking, and Karen said that spirits shouldn't talk back to their masters. Bob told her not to treat spirits badly, but she brushed it off, saying that spirits don't have feelings, they're just tools. Bob's face thundered, and he told her that spirits are living things, and if she makes them suffer, she will be the one suffering next.
Karen ready to punish Aries
Back at her room, Karen started beating Aries for making her look bad in front of Bob. She said that her punishment would be staying in the human's world for one week, and when Aries said she didn't have that kind of Magic Power, she brought out a chain, telling her how would she stay in Earthland for one week. But Leo, however, switched places with her, forcibly summoning himself. He threatened Karen that while he can handle mistreatment, Aries cannot. So if she mistreats her, Leo will not forgive Karen. Karen, shaking, asks for what options she had, and Leo tells her to release them from their contracts.
Karen tries to force him back, but since she doesn't have enough Magic Power, this fails. Leo then decided to stay in Earth Land for as long as she didn't release them. Since Karen did not have enough Magic Power, she wouldn't be able to summon other spirits, and therefore would not be able to go on missions. Also, when Leo came to the Human world by himself, he used his own power, not Karen's, so Karen is unable to close his gate. He retreated to the ruins and asks for Karen to look for him when she decides to let them go free.
Leo cries after Karen's death
In the ruins, Leo was getting exhausted by the minute. Karen came to the ruins a couple times and tried to negotiate her way out of the situation. When she failed to negotiate with Leo, she tried to beat her way out by beating up Leo, who didn't back down. Sometime later, he noticed that while he couldn't stop his life-force from eroding, he isn't suffering and exhausted like before. He decides to return to the city and forgive Karen, but Bob showed up and informed him of Karen's passing. Apparently, she took a job without Bob's permission, and since she couldn't summon any other spirits, she was killed. She grew impatient, and gambled on the fact a Celestial Mage can actually summon two spirits at once, if enough Magic Power would be released, but in the end, her body couldn't take it. Hearing this, Leo started to cry as he just wanted Karen to understand that spirits are not tools. Grief-stricken, he cried her name.
Lucy tries to open Loke's gate
Back to the present, Loke begins to fade away. Lucy becomes frightened, and Loke tells her that he hasn't been in the Spirit World in three years, so his Magic is almost gone. He tried various things to forget about Karen, but he never could. He had simply been enduring it, as he knew his time would come, the time when he dies in front of Karen's grave. He thanks Lucy for being able to meet a wonderful Celestial Spirit Mage, and asks her to give his regards to everyone at Fairy Tail.
Lucy doesn't let him go, and tries to forcibly open his gate. She says she can't stand the loss of a friend, and uses all of her Magic Power to open the gate. Loke tries to stop her, but she persists. Loke keeps trying to make her give up, but to no avail. Her power starts surging out like never before. She says she doesn't see the point of Magic if it can't be used to save her friends. He begs her not to let him live with the guilt of killing and losing her as well. Lucy says that she is hell-bent on changing the rules, and after she shouts this, time stops, and the Celestial Spirit King arrives.
Lucy opens the gates of all her spirits
The King refers to Loke as old friend, and voices his crime. He says it doesn't matter if the fault is direct or indirect, he cannot return to their kingdom. Lucy then interferes and says that the punishment is going too far. She says that Loke has been suffering for three years, for his friend's sake. The King says that he is pained by his old friend's fate, and Lucy says that he isn't "old" he is right there, before his very eyes. She tells the "Mustache Man" that Loke did nothing wrong and that she won't accept anything but his innocence. At this point, Loke shouts that he wants to repent, but Lucy yells that he can't since his death would bring more sadness, not Karen back. Using all of her strength, she summons all her spirits at once, an action which should have killed a Celestial Spirit Mage.
Loke before Lucy and her spirits
However, she is not able to hold them for long, and then says that her friends (i.e. the spirits who stood by him and the members of Fairy Tail) want him there. Loke tells her not to do this, as he doesn't want her to follow in Karen's footsteps. At this moment, the Spirit King considers the possibility that maybe the law is in error. After all, Loke did what he did to protect Aries, and Lucy did the same thing to protect Loke. The King doesn't want this bond to be broken, so he makes an exception for this time. He grants Loke permission to return to the Celestial Spirit World, telling him if he wants to repent, he should live on and protect Lucy, as he believes her to be a friend of such worth. Time then restarts and vision of a forgiving and apologetic Karen appears to Loke.
Karen says goodbye to Loke
He then picks himself up, and gives Lucy his key, and then, at long last, returns to his home. Back at the guild, Natsu learns of Loke's true nature. He learns that he is the Lion, a spirit, a "grown up cat" which makes Happy drool all over him. Before going home, Loke gives them tickets to a resort, and he promises Lucy that he will show up every time she needs him. He leaves, and Lucy tells her friends that when in trouble, they must have each other. They then leave, and Lucy foreshadows an evil event, one which would remove Erza's smile from her face.
Karen Lilica (flashback)
Bob (flashback)
Aries (flashback)
Death of Karen Lilica (flashback)
Leo's Return (started and concluded)
Summoned the Water Bearer, Aquarius
Summoned the Golden Bull, Taurus
Summoned the Giant Crab, Cancer
Summoned the Archer, Sagittarius
Summoned the Canis Minor, Nikora
Summoned the Lyre, Lyra
Summoned the Southern Cross, Crux
Mud Shot (土の弾 Maddo Shūto)
Time Manipulation
Multiple Summon
Gate of the Water Bearer Key
Gate of the Golden Bull Key
Gate of the Giant Crab Key
Gate of the Archer Key
Gate of the Canis Minor Key
Gate of the Lyre Key
Gate of the Southern Cross Key
Manga and Anime Differences
In the anime, Leo was told of Karen's demise by Bob but in the manga, he discovered it by himself when he went to the city.
In the manga, Lucy only summoned her gold key spirits and Plue, but in the anime she summoned all of her Celestial Spirits.
In the anime, Lucy summoning all of her spirits was slightly extended but in the manga, it only happened for a few seconds.
The manga did not show the spirit of Karen forgiving Leo before vanishing.
In the anime, Natsu mentioned that he felt weird while in Loke's body in Changeling! after Loke revealed to his guildmates of his true status as a Celestial Spirit.


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Halifax-based security service provider Northeastern Protection recently recognized Patricia Conrad, administrative manager, with its annual Mark D. Joseph Award.
The purpose of the Annual Mark D. Joseph Award for Leadership and Excellence, is to recognize a Northeastern team member who has shown their commitment to the company, our clients and our employees in an exemplary manner.
Patti, as we all know her, came to work with Northeastern at a time when we needed an experienced administrative person to bring new skills to the company. She brought a high level of skill, commitment and positive attitude to the position that we don't always see. Patti pushes those of us around her to be better at what we do, because it is the right thing to do. She volunteers for tasks that others may be reluctant to do, in order to get the job done. Growing up with a family-owned business she clearly understands what commitment means. She has delivered the highest level of commitment to all of us daily since the day she started.


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Tunguska E.M.S. (Tunguska Electronic Music Society) — существующее в России и Германии сообщество свободной музыки (независимый нет-лейбл), распространяющейся под лицензией Creative Commons. Музыкальная составляющая — мелодичная инструментальная и электронная музыка.

Победитель в двух номинациях Jamendo Awards 2011 — музыкальной премии крупнейшего в мире веб-сервиса свободной музыки. В 2010—2012 годах у сообщества вышло 21 DVD-приложение к журналам «Мир фантастики» и «CHIP (Россия)». Музыка неоднократно использовалась в передачах немецкого телеканала ZDF. По состоянию на январь 2013 года более 21 тыс. слушателей на Last.fm.

Принципы
Главный принцип деятельности — «Творчество ради Творчества». Финансирование деятельности Тунгуски осуществляется за счёт членских взносов участников проекта и пожертвований слушателей.

Манифест сообщества:

Сообщество «Tunguska Electronic Music Society» — это свободное творческое объединение людей, пишущих музыку для свободных людей. Творческая лаборатория проекта основана на Взаимном Уважении, Любви и Понимании. Участником «Tunguska Electronic Music Society» может стать любой желающий, разделяющий моральные принципы сообщества, а также его идеи и цели. Цель сообщества — создание пласта альтернативной музыкальной, видео- и кинокультуры, где доминирующей мотивацией творчества является само творчество.

История
Сообщество было создано в апреле 2007 года в результате обсуждений на форуме RMMedia. Несколько поклонников научной фантастики и музыки чил-аут создали сообщество для совместной работы над популяризацией жанра в России. Помимо этого, авторы имеют собственный взгляд на случившееся в 1908 году необычное событие, известное как Тунгусский метеорит (изложен в романе Георгия Литвинова «Звёздный Стражник, бегущий по лунной дорожке»), и создание сообщества было приурочено к его 100-летию с целью привлечения внимания к феномену.

Изначальный вариант легенды:

7 часов 14 минут. 30 июня 1908 года. Планета Земля. Подкаменная Тунгуска.
При заходе на посадку для смены очередной наблюдательной смены на Луне, Аргонский патрульный крейсер «Альтион» терпит бедствие и, захваченный магнитным полем Земли, стремительно входит в атмосферу планеты. На высоте нескольких десятков километров над поверхностью, с целью избежания экологической катастрофы, экипаж ценой жизни подрывает двигательные установки.

Впоследствии легенда была уточнена:

30 июня 1908 года аргонский патрульный крейсер «Альтион» ( Беркут по-русски, см. Казанцева, Манго-Манго) выполняя рутинный патрульный полёт недалеко от нашего спутника,  обнаружил опасный, и замаскированный под комету, боевой зонд  бывшей мятежной провинции Галактики.  Целью зонда было уничтожение нашей планеты, как ценного объекта,  находящегося в своём развитии недалеко от  грани вступления в федерацию народов Галактики и играющего большую роль в этом секторе Вселенной.
После жестокого боя, исчерпав последние ресурсы, крейсер Альтион пошёл на таран и уничтожил опасный зонд. Обломки крейсера рухнули в районе Подкаменной Тунгуски образовав озеро Чеко, где спустя 3 года вторая аргонская исследовательская  служба провела не имеющую аналогов в истории спасательную операцию, эвакуировав и деактивировав  все артефакты на месте катастрофы.

В течение первого года работы был выпущен первый диск серии под названием Tunguska Chillout Grooves. Затем появился ещё ряд сборников музыки.

Начиная с октября 2009 года, музыка «Тунгуски» неоднократно используется в выпусках передачи «Elektrischer Reporter» немецкого телеканала ZDF. Со слов Г. Литвинова, к концу 2010 года музыка лейбла была включена также в звуковые архивы телеканала ARD и компании .

С октября 2010 года музыка, написанная сообществом, регулярно публикуется на DVD-приложении к журналу «Мир Фантастики». Оговорено долгосрочное сотрудничество с изданием по выпуску всех релизов Тунгуски. 4 ноября 2014 года Tunguska E.M.S. выпустила первый совместный альбом с фондом Викимедиа РУ в формате 3plet.

Логотип
Оранжевое солнце — это звезда Сальвейра в системе Большого Аргона, системы, корабль которой, по легенде, потерпел катастрофу над Тунгуской в 1908 году.

Настоящее и будущее
Музыка сообщества «Tunguska Electronic Music Society» на сегодня представлена на всех ведущих медиа-порталах планеты релизами серии «Tunguska Chillout Grooves» и звучит для людей по всему миру.

В процессе — монтаж первого документально-экологического фильма сообщества «Сердце Тайги», работа по написанию музыки к фильмам и проектам телеканалов Animal Planet и Discovery History, для сетевых презентаций журналов GEO и National Geographic и для двух производителей компьютерных игр и консолей.

Музыкальные проекты сообщества
 Tunguska Chillout Grooves (vol. 1 — vol. 8) — сборники мелодичного чил-аута;
 Tundra Ambient Dreams (vol. 1 — vol. 3) — сборники релаксационной музыки и музыки для медитаций или раздумья;
 Transsiberian Express — музыкальный фильм о проекте «Тунгуска»;
 Taiga Feeling — музыкальный фильм о природе и красоте Севера и сборники мелодичного чил-аута с элементами фолк-музыки и этники;
 Tunguska Project (vol. 1 — vol. 3) — сборник драматичного, жёсткого, машинного чил-аута, машинимы и агрегат-блюза;
 Nikola Tesla Tribute — сборник, посвящённый памяти великого экспериментатора и учёного Николы Теслы;
 Salveira — литературный сборник лирики, научной фантастики и произведений участников проекта;
 Altion. Out of Memory — сборник космического чил-аута;
 Tunguska Phenomenon — сборник тунгусского чил-аута;
 Siberian Jungle (vol. 1 — vol. 3) — сборник интеллиджент драм-н-бейса, джангла и смежных жанров;
 Tunguska principle — сборник «тунгусского чил-аута»;
 Perver Underground — сборник быстрых клубных треков;
 The best of Argon — сборник ремиксов на лучшие треки «тунгусских» проектов;
 The best of Tunguska — сборники лучших композиций сообщества;
 Seat and Relax — сборник «тунгусского чил-аута»;
 Sounds of Silver Clouds — сборник «тунгусского чил-аута»;
 Tunguska Expedition — сборник «тунгусского чил-аута».

Дискография
{|class="wikitable sortable wide"
|-
! ID !! Альбом !! Релиз !! Дл-ть !! Жанр
|-
| width="100" | TUN 001DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 1 || 2008.06.20 || 01:14:48 || newage, instrumental, ambient, chillout
|-
| TUN 002DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 2 || 2009.03.04 || 01:12:39 || newage, instrumental, ambient, chillout
|-
| TUN 003DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 3 (Lilith & Selena) || 2009.04.20 || 02:27:15 || lounge, ambient, synthpop, chillout
|-
| TUN 004DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 4 || 2009.11.12 || 02:35:56 || electronic, experimental, ambient, easylistening, chillout, tunguska, adventure
|-
| TUN 005DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 5 || 2010.04.20 || 01:16:48 || lounge, downtempo, ambient, chillou
|-
| TUN 006DD || Ellipsis: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana. || 2010.06.30 || — || instrumental, ambient, ethno, technoambient
|-
| TUN 007DD || Ellipsis: Tunguska.Across.Sphere. || 2010.06.30 || — || lounge, instrumental, downtempo, ambient
|-
| TUN 008DD || Ellipsis: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams. || 2010.06.30 || — || instrumental, downtempo, ambient, relaxing
|-
| TUN 009DD || Favorite || 2010.09.01 || — ||
|-
| TUN 010DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 6 || 2010.11.20 || — || lounge, new age, instrumental, chillout
|-
| TUN 011DD || Chernobyl Retrospective || 2010.12.15 || — || experimental, instrumental, industrial, modernclassical
|-
| TUN 012DD || Ellipsis II: Tunguska.Across.Sphere. / vol. 2 || 2010.12.27 || — || lounge, jazz, chillout, relaxing
|-
| TUN 013DD || tUNGUSKA dEADLOCK || 2012.10.27 || — ||
|-
| TUN 014DD || Ellipsis II: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams. / vol. 2 || 2010.12.27 || — || experimental, ambient, electronical
|-
| TUN 015DD || Ellipsis II: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana. / vol. 2 || 2010.12.27 || — || space, synthpop, voices, electronical
|-
| TUN 016DD || Siberian Jungle / vol. 1 || 2010.12.30 || — || instrumental, atmospheric, drumnbass, intelligent
|-
| TUN 017DD || Tunguska Artefacts: Orange Tram || 2011.03.02 || — || instrumental, progressiverock, artrock, guitars
|-
| TUN 018DD || Tunguska Artefacts: Spring Bloom || 2011.03.08 || — || piano, instrumental, soundtrack, chillout
|-
|  || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 7 (promo) || 2011.03.21 || — || lounge, space, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 019DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 7 || 2011.04.12 || — || instrumental, ambient, space, chillout
|-
| TUN 020DD || Siberian Jungle / vol. 2 || 2011.02.22 || — || instrumental, atmospheric, drumnbass, intelligent
|-
|  || Ellipsis III (Pre-Release Sampler) || 2011.06.16 || — || lounge, newage, ambient, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 021DD || Tunguska Summer Solstice / vol. 1 || 2011.06.21 || — || ambient, chillout, downtempo, instrumental, lounge, new age
|-
| TUN 022DD || Ellipsis III: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams. / vol. 3 || 2011.07.07 || — || experimental, ambient, electronical
|-
| TUN 023DD || Ellipsis III: Tunguska.Across.Sphere. / vol. 3 || 2011.07.05 || — || lounge, jazz, chillout, relaxing
|-
| TUN 024DD || Ellipsis III: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana. / vol. 3 || 2011.07.06 || — || space, synthpop, voices, electronical
|-
| TUN 025DD || Phaeton Chronicles || 2011.10.08 || — || techno, experimental, electronical, deep, tunguska
|-
| TUN 026DD || Christmas Eve || 2011.12.24 || — || electronic, ambient
|-
| TUN 027DD || Point: Chunja Rapids || 2012.03.10 || — || instrumental, ambient, tunguska
|-
| TUN 028DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 8 || 2012.04.12 || — || lounge, instrumental, electronic, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 029DD || Craters: Romeiko || 2012.03.31 || — || new age, instrumental, ethno, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 030DD || Siberian Jungle / vol. 3 || 2012.04.22 || — || electronic, drum'n'bass, jungle
|-
| TUN 031DD || Point: Vanavara || 2012.06.30 || — || instrumental, ambient, tunguska
|-
| TUN 032DD || Tunguska Expedition (2012) || 2012.10.27 || — || electronic
|-
| TUN 033DD || Modern Classic (2012) || 2012.10.27 || — || electronic, modern, classical
|-
| TUN 034DD || Siberian Jungle / vol. 4 || 2012.12.29 || — || electronic, drumnbass, liquidfunk, tunguska
|-
| TUNC 001 || Tunguska Constellation: Electro-Nick - The Dark Side Of The Thir || 2013.02.11 || 00:33:33 || instrumental, downtempo, ambient, krautrock, tunguska
|-
| TUN 035DD || Point: UNKNOWN || 2013.03.02 || 01:05:18 || instrumental, electronic, ambient, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 036DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 9 || 2013.04.11 || 01:21:48 || instrumental, downtempo, electronic, ambient, tunguska
|-
| TUN 037DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves X / vol. 10 || 2013.06.30 || 00:58:00 || lounge, instrumental, electronic, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 038DD || Craters: Logancha || 2013.09.17 || 01:22:35 || instrumental, downtempo, soundtrack, ambient, tunguska
|-
| TUNC 002 || Tunguska Constellation: EXIT project - Son Cherished Most || 2013.10.15 || 00:42:27 || instrumental, downtempo, ambient, experimental, tunguska
|-
| TUN 039DD || Tunguska Expedition 2 || 2013.11.17 || 01:16:11 || instrumental, downtempo, electronic, space, tunguska
|-
| TUN 041DD || Tunguska Artefacts: Terra Tunguska || 2013.12.21 || 01:05:17 || instrumental, electronic, relaxing, christmas, tunguska
|-
| TUNC 005 || Tunguska Constellation: A.e.r.o. - World Language || 2013.12.25 || — ||
|-
| TUNC 003 || Tunguska Constellation: Empiric - Anno Domini || 2014.01.16 || 01:07:14 ||instrumental, electronic, ambient, experimental, tunguska
|-
| TUNC 004 || Tunguska Constellation: All Objects Lost - All Objects Los || 2014.01.26 || 00:48:07 || downtempo, chillout, femalevocal, enigmatic, tunguska
|-
| TUNC 042DD || T || 2014.02.30 || 01:10:28 || instrumental, ambient, chillout, tunguska, tesla
|-
| TUN 043DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 11 || 2014.04.11 || — || lounge, instrumental, ambient, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 044DD || Siberian Jungle / vol. 5 || 2014.04.22 || — || instrumental, drumnbass, jungle, liquidfunk, tunguska
|-
| TUN 040DD || Tunguska Artefacts: Autumn Tram || 2014.05.01 || — || instrumental, melodic, chillout, artrock, tunguska
|-
| TUN 045DD || Point: Altai || 2014.06.10 || 01:16:22 || instrumental, electronic, ambient, chillout, tunguska
|-
| TUN 046DD || Craters: Cheko || 2014.06.30 || 01:02:32 || instrumental, ethno, chillout, relaxing, tunguska
|-
| TUN 047DD || Craters: El'gygytgyn || 2014.11.30 || 01:13:15 || —
|-
| TUNC 006 || Tunguska Constellation: Oleg Sirenko - Atmospheric's. No Gravity || 2014.12.09 || — || —
|-
| TUNC 007 || Tunguska Constellation: EXIT project - The Past is the Future || 2014.12.23 || — || —
|-
| TUN 048DD || Phaeton Chronicles 2 || 2015.02.21 || — || —
|-
|TUN 049DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 12 (Tunguska Dozen) || 2015.04.12 ||01:26:53 || electronic ambient chillout downtempo dub instrumental lounge
|-
| TUNC 008 || Tunguska Constellation: Импрум - один оборот вокруг Солнца || 2014.06.05 || 01:50:27 || electronic, ambient, atmospheric, soundtrack, experimental, synth, cinematique
|-
| TUN 050DD || Tunguska Expedition 3 || 2015.06.30 || 01:05:40 || atmospheric, groove, funk, electronic, ambient, synth, tunguska
|-
|TUN 051DD || Point: ELBRUS ||2015.12.25 ||01:12:02 ||chillout, ambient, electronic, downtempo, lounge
|-
|TUN 052DD || Phaeton Chronicles 3 ||2016.03.07 ||01:6:34 ||experimental, ambient, beat, chillout, electronic, psychedelic, cinematique, space, synth, grooves, scifi, piano, dream, pads, guitar
|-
|TUN 053DD || Point: Cape Fligely. Part 1. Day ||2016.04.12 ||02:06:11 || electronic, ambient, chillout, downtempo, instrumental, lounge
|-
| TUN 054DD || Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 13 || 2016.06.30 || 01:16:02 || electronic, ambient, chillout, downtempo, instrumental, lounge
|-
| TUN 055DD || Point: BTA || 2016.07.20 || 01:30:16 || electronic, ambient, chillout, downtempo, instrumental, lounge
|-
| TUN 056DD || Point: Cape Fligely. Part 2. Night || 2016.10.12 || 01:11:11 || electronic, ambient, chillout, downtempo, instrumental, lounge
|-
| TUN 057DD || Decade for Decide (Best of 2007-2017) || 2017.04.12 || 01:16:15 || electronic, ambient, chillout, downtempo, instrumental, lounge
|-
| TUN 058DD || Point: Beshtau || 2017.06.30 || 01:25:04 || ambient, electronic, downtempo
|-
| TUNC 010 || Tunguska Constellation: luchiki - metanoya || 2017.11.27 || 00:29:04 || electronic, chillout, downtempo, ambient, experimental
|-
| TUNC 011 || Tunguska Constellation: imprum - donbass live || 2017.12.02 || 00:52:28 || downtempo, electronic, ambient, chillout, experimental
|-
| TUN 059DD  || Craters: Suavjarvi || 2018.01.01 || 01:59:23 || electronic, ambient, chillout, downtempo, folk, instrumental, lounge, world music
|}

 TUNC — сольные альбомы участников сообщества.
 Альбом T издан 30 февраля, в силу того, что авторы считают, что при составлении календаря февраль обокрали на 1 день.

Авторы и исполнители, участники сообщества
 Максим Вербицкий (Max Verbitski) — белорусский композитор (г. Вилейка, проживает в г. Минск). Закончил музыкальную школу по классу саксофона. Разработчик и создатель своего собственного стиля Diffcult. Любимые инструменты — саксофон, рояль. Выпустил альбом Curriculum Vitae.
 Виктор Градов (Viktor Gradov) — российский (Санкт-Петербург) композитор, аранжировщик. Учился в Ленинградском хоровом училище им. Глинки при академической капелле. Занимается электронно-инструментальной музыкой в стилях: Chillout, New Age, World Music, Electronic, Nu jazz, Pop. В 2012 году выпустил сольный инструментальный альбом «The Symphony Age».
 Олег Сиренко (Oleg Sirenko).
 Алексей Чистилин (Alexey Chistilin) — российский (Ростове-на-Дону) композитор, аранжировщик. Работает с мелодической и гармонической инструментальной музыкой. Дискография.
 Ольга Шотландия (Olga Scotland) — выпустила несколько сольных электронных альбомов в жанрах New Age, Instrumental. Сотрудничает с мульт-студией Анимуба и проектами Яндекс.Открытки, Яндекс.Игрушки, её музыка используется в интернет-играх и игровых приложениях Вконтакте. Флейтистка и один из создателей инструментального проекта Мыс Луны. Дискография Olga Scotland на Jamendo.
 Bigfoot — Георгий Литвинов (George Litvinov), основатель сообщества Tunguska. Инженер связи, продюсер, блогер (известен как Артём Драгунов ), музыкант, писатель. Проживает в Германии, работает на телевидении.
 Darg Sodrag — администратор, куратор сборников ambient, world, drum'n'bass.

Коллективы
 Art project "?!" — белорусский коллектив работающий с электронной музыкой. Состоит из трёх участников. Коллектив принимал участие в международных фестивалях: «Systo palty» (Санкт-Петербург, Россия), «Misterika» (Крым, на момент участия — Украина), «DAX XII» (Берлин, Германия), Amebio (Прага, Чехия).
 EXIT project — российская музыкальная группа, исполняющая инструментальную музыку в стиле «Арт-фьюжн» (Nu jazz, World music, Electronic, Fusion).

Распространение

Интернет
Для распространения в Интернете задействованы файлообменники и торренты:
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| Jamendo
| на 2013 январь
| Все композиции (прослушивание)
Все альбомы (скачивание)
| > 2 523 000
> 508 000
|-
| Last.fm
| на 2013 январь
| Слушателей
Прослушиваний
| > 21 000
> 165 000
|-
| width="100" | RuTracker.org
| width="100" | на 2013 январь
| width="250" | Все альбомы (скачивание)
| width="100" | > 60 000
|-
|}

DVD-приложения к журналам
 DVD-приложение к журналу Мир фантастики (ежемесячный тираж журнала ~ 45 000 экз., диском комплектуется не весь тираж);
{|class="standard"
|-
| width="100" | 2010 октябрь
| width="400" | Tunguska Favorite
| width="100" | ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 февраль
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 1 и 2
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 апрель
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 3 (Lilith & Selena)
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 июнь
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 4
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 июль
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 5
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 август
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 6
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 сентябрь
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 7
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2011 декабрь
| Ellipsis: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana.
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 январь
| Ellipsis: Tunguska.Across.Sphere.
Ellipsis: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams.
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 февраль
| Ellipsis II: Tunguska.Across.Sphere. vol.2
Ellipsis II: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams. vol.2Ellipsis II: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana. vol.2
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 апрель
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 8
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 май
| Ellipsis III: Tunguska.Across.Sphere. vol.3
Ellipsis III: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams. vol.3Ellipsis III: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana. vol.3
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 июль
| Tunguska Artefacts: Orange Tram
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 август
| Craters: Romeiko
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 сентябрь
| Phaeton Chronicles
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 октябрь
| Point: Chunja Rapids
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2012 декабрь
| Free Music For Free People
| ~ 40 000
|-
| 2014 январь
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 9
|
|-
|2015 январь
|Craters: Cheko
|
|-
|}

 DVD-приложение к журналу CHIP (Россия), (ежемесячный тираж 70 000 экз.);
{|class="standard"
|-
| width="100" | 2010 май
| width="400" | Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 1
| width="100" | 70 000
|-
| 2011 апрель
| Siberian Jungle / vol. 1
| 70 000
|-
| 2011 май
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 5
| 70 000
|-
| 2011 август
| Siberian Jungle / vol. 2
| 70 000
|-
| 2013 март
| Siberian Jungle / vol. 3
| 70 000
|-
| 2013 апрель
| Siberian Jungle / vol. 4
| 70 000
|-
| 2013 май
| Ellipsis: Tunguska.Across.Sphere. / vol. 1-3
| 70 000
|-
| 2013 июнь
| Modern Classic (2012)
| 70 000
|-
|}

Собственные издания (Tunguska EMS)
{|class="standard"
|-
| width="100" | 2008 август
| width="400" | Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 1
| width="100" | 500
|-
| 2009 август
| Tunguska Chillout Grooves / vol. 2
| 500
|-
| 2012 июнь
| Tunguska Artefacts: Orange Tram
| 500
|-
|}

Выступления и концерты
 29 апреля 2010 года — второй научно-фантастический фестиваль SyFy Poehali Party, организованный телеканалом Syfy Universal при участии компании Акадо и Политехнического музея.
 4 июля 2012 года — фестиваль инструментальной музыки «Артефакт-фест».
 25 августа 2012 года — фестиваль «Вкусный блог» в Белоруссии.
 21 февраля 2015 года — музыкальный фестиваль «Тунгуски. День Т». Арт-кафе «Море Внутри».

Награды
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! width="100" | Дата !! width="150" | Организатор !! width="150" | Премия !! width="150" | Номинация !! Место
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| 2011.07.15
| Jamendo
| Jamendo Awards 2011
| Electro
| Лауреат
|-
| 2011.07.15
| Jamendo
| Jamendo Awards 2011
| Instrumental
| Лауреат
|-
|}

См. также
Проекты аффилированные лейблу:
 Проект «Альтион»
 Журнал «Терра Тунгуска»

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Сторонняя медиапродукция с использованием музыки сообщества

Видеохостинги

Лейблы звукозаписи, основанные в 2007 году
Лейблы звукозаписи России
Лейблы электронной музыки
Инструментальная музыка
Произведения, лицензированные по Creative Commons
Сетевые сообщества
Творческие объединения композиторов


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Beware the berated film studio! It is no secret that DC has been battered pillar to post over the past few years. It seems that movie goers and critics alike have loved to take DC to task over the fact that their films have been lesser than Marvel's. In a way though it has been a crazy comment. DC's animated films over the past few years have been amazing, Wonder Woman was a ground breaker when it came to the comic book movie genre and despite it not being everyone's cup of tea even Aquaman was a film to be savoured. You just new though with those constant beratings though that DC were going to pull something very, very special out of their hats… what I'm sure of though is that not many people would have guessed that something special would be Shazam!
From the trailers released Shazam! looked anything but the film I am about to rave about. The trailer suggested it would look like an awkward fit into the current DC universe – a film that in a way looked like a sad attempt at trying to cash in on the Deadpool market. The result is something very, very different though – the result is a film in which director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation) captures that 1980s childhood vibe of a film like Gremlins or Goonies and infuses it with just enough comedy and superhero storyline to make it work beautifully.
The film starts off with a wizard named Shazam (Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond, Guardians Of The Galaxy) desperately trying to give his power to a new world saviour before he passes away. That task proves nearly impossible though as each of the people he tests end up giving up into the temptation provided by the seven deadly sins.
As time goes on one of the young boys that he has tested grows up obsessed to prove that his brother and father were wrong about him making up the whole story about the Wizard and his realm. That boy has grown up to become the power-hungry and obsessive Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong – The Imitation Game, Kingsman: The Golden Circle) who is now determined to take all the power that he can find.
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Desperate to pass his power on and find someone to counteract the power of Sivana the Wizard eventually finds a young foster child named Billy Baston (Asher Angel – Driven To Dance, Andi Mack) who is so obsessed on finding his birth mother that he often turns his back on the families trying to help him. Now trying to settle in with his new foster parents, the kind Victor (Cooper Andrews – Den Of Thieves, The Walking Dead) and Rosa Vasquez (Marta Milans – No Tomorrow, Shame), Billy finds himself having to try and learn about the powers that happen when he turns into Shazam (Zachary Levi – Tangled, Thor: The Dark World) while trying to keep his new found identity secret from all but his super-hero obsessed co-foster 'brother' Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer – It, Beautiful Boy).
The thing that makes Shazam! such a great film is that Sandberg has not tried to re-invent the wheel too much but at the same time as made the film so unique that it stands out from any of the other super-hero movies out there. At times you feel like you are watching a film like Monster Squad being directed by Kevin Smith. Together with his talented screenwriters Sandberg finds the right mix throughout the film – there are moments that are as dark as something like Harry Potter but then he will counteract that with some truly funny moments between Freddy and Shazam. Add those moments to the heartfelt storyline of Billy trying to find his family and you soon realise that this film has true heart as well as entertainment value.
Shazam! also introduces the world to some young actors with big futures ahead of them. Asher Angel has the whole world on his shoulders as he basically has to try and carry this film. He puts in an amazing performance that is very reminiscent of the young Tobey Maguire playing Peter Parker and never seems daunted even when he has to do intimidating scenes alongside Mark Strong – who is in character actor heaven with his role. Alongside Angel both Jack Dylan Grazer and Faithe Herman (This Is Us, Doe) manage to steal some great screen-time… mark my words Grazer will be a star in his own right one day. Zachary Levi also does well to bring in a mix of comedy and action into the film and it will be very interesting if he one day has to act alongside the rest of the Justice League.
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Shazam! is one of the big surprises of 2019. You'd be lying if you said that after the watching the trailer you were expecting something great – but to be honest this is right up there with some of the best superhero movies. Funny when it needs to be, a film with true heart while not forgetting that a super-hero movie needs good action sequences Shazam! delivers all it needs to in bundles.
Shazam! (2019) Action, Adventure, Comedy | 2h 12min | 4 April 2019 (Singapore)
Director: David F. SandbergWriters: Henry GaydenStars: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher AngelSummary: In Philadelphia, Billy Batson is an abandoned child who is proving a nuisance to Child Services and the authorities with his stubborn search for his lost mother. However, in his latest foster home, Billy makes a new friend, Freddy, and finds himself selected by the Wizard Shazam to be his new champion. Now endowed with the ability to instantly become an adult superhero by speaking the wizard's name, Billy gleefully explores his new powers with Freddy. However, Billy soon learns that he has a deadly enemy, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, who was previously rejected by the wizard and has accepted the power of the Seven Deadly Sins instead. Now pursued by this mad scientist for his own power as well, Billy must face up to the responsibilities of his calling while learning the power of a special magic with his true family that Sivana can never understand. Written by Kenneth Chisholm ([email protected])
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Freddy Freeman
Super Hero Freddy
Faithe Herman
Darla Dudley
Super Hero Darla
Grace Fulton
Mary Bromfield
Michelle Borth
Super Hero Mary
Ian Chen
Eugene Choi
Super Hero Eugene
Jovan Armand
Pedro Peña
D.J. Cotrona
Super Hero Pedro
Marta Milans
Rosa Vasquez
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Countries: USALanguages: EnglishBudget: $100,000,000 (estimated)
Source: imdb.com
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