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United Announces Shorter Expirations On Miles
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In case you haven't observed, last week United Airlines announced that the expiration time for miles in their accounts has been reduced to 1 . 5 years (from the prior time of 3 years). This is actually the 3rd time that United has changed their policies with regards to expiration of kilometers. Primarily the kilometers permanently were good.
Later they changed it in order that they expired after 3 years, of activity regardless. The last change made ago a number of years, was to increase the expiration to three years from last account activity (this provides you with you the miles forever as long as you keep doing some type of business with them). Why has United done this?
Cyber attacks commonly target gold coin wallets and try to compromise private secrets to give unlimited access to funds. Another issue has to do with making sure the financial information is stored securely. If there are security issues that boost the likelihood that accounts can be compromised, lost funds tend to be unrecoverable as Cryptocurrency transactions can't be reversed.
Plus, since these transactions are digital they could be made to show up anonymous. Which means that a thief is more likely to get with the crime away. So cryptocurrency accounts are tremendous targets for hackers intent on stealing balances including insiders. When the criminal offense is part operation, there is often no recourse. This is a substantial concern. This is not a hypothetical risk, either.
It is clear that hackers and cyber criminals have previously adapted their methods to be able to attack these kinds of investments. The need to rely on financial institutions to do something as gatekeepers has been directed to as a downside of traditional financial accounts. Yet it is these central regulators that will be the ones who are able to stay before possible criminal techniques in an increasingly virtual world. In January of 2018 Facebook put into place a new advertising plan related to cryptocurrency, binary options and preliminary gold coin offerings. The plan does not allow ads to be run that promote those types of products and services which includes Bitcoin.
Facebook's policy isn't only being put on the Facebook platform but also to Facebook's ad network. The policy has led to ICO and cryptocurrency marketers shedding usage of the interpersonal network's 2.2 billion users, along with Instagram's 800 million users. When you include WhatsApp and the Facebook Messenger app, that's four of the very best seven social media platforms that aren't advertising cryptocurrencies or ICOs in virtually any format. Not wanting to seem as if it is a closed issue, Facebook said it could continue steadily to watch the indications to see whether and when these businesses have changed their advertising procedures and the way they perform their business.
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They stated that they plan to revisit their new policy and also to reconsider their enforcement solutions to see whether the industry altered it's procedures to ensure ethical advertising. While the ban proceeds, Facebook has encouraged it's users to record any content that goes against this policy. By the time of this writing, Facebook's new policy for cryptocurrency hadn't changed and there have been no signs that it would.
In March 2018, Google announced that it's banning all advertisements related to cryptocurrencies. The new policy has resulted from the increased interest in cryptocurrencies, which has resulted in criminals using advertisements to promote cryptocurrency related online scams. June 2018 Google stated that this action which will take effect, is a part of an update just, which is regularly completed, to it's financial services policy. This sort of criminal offense has been growing quickly across the world. It had been recently reported that supercomputers at Russian nuclear facilities were hacked by their own nuclear scientists to be able to mine Bitcoins.
In Iceland over 600 computer that were used to mine Bitcoin were taken to be utilized for the same purpose. Some anonymous hackers have used India's leading open public services commission rate UPSC website to commit in-browser crypto-jacking to mine Monero, a leading cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin. Prior to the Google ban, security firm TrendMicro found that Google's DoubleClick advertisement services were being used to distribute cryptocurrency mining malware to users in Europe and Asia.
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Drama, New on Netflix Canada
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
Halley lives with her six year old daughter Moonee in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Walt Disney World tourist clientele outside Orlando, Florida. Halley, who survives largely on welfare, has little respect for people, especially those who cross her, it an attitude that she has passed down to Moonee, who curses and gives the finger like her mother. Although the motel's policy is not to allow long term rentals, Bobby, the motel manager, has made arrangements for people like Halley to live there while not undermining the policy as he realizes that many such tenants have no place to go otherwise. Halley, Moonee and Moonee's friends, who live in the motel or others like it along the strip and who she often drags into her disruptive pranks, are often the bane of Bobby's existence, but while dealing with whatever problem arises, Bobby has a soft spot especially for the children and thus, by association, their parents, as he knows that Moonee and others like her are just children acting like a children under whatever guidance they have, Moonee who has less guidance than most. Although there are some lines which he will not tolerate to be crossed, Bobby lets most of the disruptive things that they do go, largely as long as it does not affect the bread and butter of the motel, namely the tourist trade. The summer in this collective is presented, when Moonee and her friends, such as Scooty, are out of school and are left largely to their own devices while self-absorbed Halley does whatever she wants, often just staying in the room watching TV.
Halley is supposed to look after Scooty, the son of Halley's friend Ashley, they who live in the unit immediately underneath Halley and Moonee's, while Ashley is at work at a local diner. In turn, Ashley pilfers cooked meals from the diner to feed Halley, Moonee and Scooty. Over the course of the summer, Halley systematically begins to alienate one by one the people who are her unofficial support by responding with that disrespect to anything she feels is against her. As such, Halley begins to take more and more extreme measures to maintain the life she leads with Moonee.
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Director: Sean Baker
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Q: How to do numpy matmul broadcasting between two numpy tensors? I have the Pauli matrices which are (2x2) and complex
II = np.identity(2, dtype=complex)
X = np.array([[0, 1], [1, 0]], dtype=complex)
Y = np.array([[0, -1j], [1j, 0]], dtype=complex)
Z = np.array([[1, 0], [0, -1]], dtype=complex)

and a depolarizing_error function which takes in a normally distributed random number param, generated by np.random.normal(noise_mean, noise_sd)
def depolarizing_error(param):
    XYZ = np.sqrt(param/3)*np.array([X, Y, Z])
    return np.array([np.sqrt(1-param)*II, XYZ[0], XYZ[1], XYZ[2]])

Now if I feed in a single number for param of let's say a, my function should return an output of np.array([np.sqrt(1-a)*II, a*X, a*Y, a*Z]) where a is a float and * denotes the element-wise multiplication between a and the entries of the (2x2) matrices II, X, Y, Z.
Now for vectorization purposes, I wish to feed in an array of param i.e.
param = np.array([a, b, c, ..., n])   Eqn(1)

again with all a, b, c, ..., n generated independently by np.random.normal(noise_mean, noise_sd) (I think it's doable with np.random.normal(noise_mean, noise_sd, n) or something)
such that my function now returns:
np.array([[np.sqrt(1-a)*II, a*X, a*Y, a*Z],
          [np.sqrt(1-b)*II, b*X, b*Y, b*Z],
          ................................,
          [np.sqrt(1-n)*II, n*X, n*Y, n*Z]])

I thought feeding in something like np.random.normal(noise_mean, noise_sd, n) as param, giving output as np.array([a, b, c,...,n]) would sort itself out and return what I want above. but my XYZ = np.sqrt(param/3)*np.array([X, Y, Z]) ended up doing element-wise dot product instead of element-wise multiplication. I tried using param as np.array([a, b])
and ended up with
np.array([np.dot(np.sqrt(1-[a, b]), II),
          np.dot(np.sqrt([a, b]/3),  X),
          np.dot(np.sqrt([a, b]/3),  Y),
          np.dot(np.sqrt([a, b]/3),  Z)])

instead. So far I've tried something like
def depolarizing_error(param):
    XYZ = np.sqrt(param/3)@np.array([X, Y, Z])
    return np.array([np.sqrt(1-param)*II, XYZ[0], XYZ[1], XYZ[2]])

thinking that the matmul @ will just broadcast it conveniently for me but then I got really bogged down by the dimensions.
Now my motivation for wanting to do all this is because I have another matrix that's given by:
def random_angles(sd, seq_length):
    return np.random.normal(0, sd, (seq_length,3))

def unitary_error(params):
    e_1 = np.exp(-1j*(params[:,0]+params[:,2])/2)*np.cos(params[:,1]/2)
    e_2 = np.exp(-1j*(params[:,0]-params[:,2])/2)*np.sin(params[:,1]/2)
    return np.array([[e_1, e_2], [-e_2.conj(), e_1.conj()]],
                     dtype=complex).transpose(2,0,1)

where here the size of seq_length is equivalent to the number of entries in Eqn(1) param, denoting N = seq_length = |param| say. Here my unitary_error function should give me an output of
np.array([V_1, V_2, ..., V_N])

such that I'll be able to use np.matmul as an attempt to implement vectorization like this
np.array([V_1, V_2, ..., V_N])@np.array([[np.sqrt(1-a)*II, a*X, a*Y, a*Z],
                                         [np.sqrt(1-b)*II, b*X, b*Y, b*Z],
                                         ................................,
                                         [np.sqrt(1-n)*II, n*X, n*Y, n*Z]])@np.array([V_1, V_2, ..., V_N])

to finally give
np.array([[V_1@np.sqrt(1-a)*II@V_1, V_1@a*X@V_1, V_1@a*Y@V_1, V_1@a*Z@V_1],
          [V_2@np.sqrt(1-b)*II@V_2, V_2@b*X@V_2, V_2@b*Y@V_2, V_2@b*Z@V_2],
          ................................,
          [V_N@np.sqrt(1-n)*II@V_N, V_N@n*X@V_N, V_N@n*Y@V_N, V_N@n*Z@V_N]])

where here @ denotes the element-wise dot-product

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Paul Hertzog - Breathing Fire (1991) Ending / Staff Roll
Paul Hertzog is an American film composer. In his brief career in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hertzog composed the soundtracks for two Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, Kickboxer and Bloodsport. Currently, Hertzog works as a teacher at Hart High School in Santa Clarita, California, where he teaches English and Music Theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hertzog
"I think fans of film music seem to think that it's easy for composers to get work or that composers even get to choose which films they want to do. Well, maybe John Williams gets to choose. My career stopped because no one would hire me. I did a demo for a film not long after Breathing Fire, a film that the director wanted to choose a composer for before filming. He got demos from all sorts of composers around town, and he chose me. Then the financing for the film fell through, and the film never got made. Then the phone stopped ringing altogether. At one point I was about a month away from seriously having to consider bankruptcy. Fortunately some large royalty payments from Bloodsport and Kickboxer came through in the nick of time, but I had had enough.
I went back to school, qualified as a high school teacher, and got a job. Teaching is not easy, but the pay is steady, and I've been good at it. I'm in my 18th year now, and I teach English and Music Theory.
And no, the phone didn't start ringing again. It rang once, about two years into teaching. One of the producers from Street Justice called me and asked if I wanted to score a low budget film he was working on. Well, I couldn't. I was now married with a daughter. I needed the health insurance and the steady paycheck. One low budget film was simply not enough to make me consider stepping out onto the wild blue edge again."
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Posted by Tim Crakanthorp on 12 March, 2020
GAS TERMINAL PROJECT PRESENTS OPPORTUNITY FOR STOCKTON
The impending approval of a gas import terminal at Kooragang Island and its associated sand dredging presents an important opportunity to get sand back on to Stockton Beach, says Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp.
Newcastle GasDock Company's $589 million project has been deemed a State Significant Development, with approval expected to be received by the end of the year. Dredging of the south channel of the Hunter River would be needed.
Preliminary investigations suggest that over 1 million cubic metres of high-quality sand could be available.
An approval already exists for dredged river sand to be dumped at sea, but Mr Crakanthorp said that the opportunity to place a significant amount of sand on Stockton Beach should not be missed and requires further and urgent consideration.
Last week, Mr Crakanthorp wrote to Planning Minister Rob Stokes about the possibility of amending the dredging approval to allow the sand to be placed on the beach. He has also requested a meeting with the Minister, and asked the Minister to appoint the Hunter Central Coast Development Corporation as the lead body to work with key stakeholders to seek the appropriate approvals.
"It is critical that all options are considered to address erosion at Stockton, so we can't let this possibility pass us by," Mr Crakanthorp said.
"This river sand would only be a one-off, but it's a good initial amount while the offshore sand solution is progressed simultaneously.
"While offshore sand is what we ultimately need, any opportunity to get sand back on to Stockton Beach needs to be embraced and investigated."


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Marvel's Avengers' Future Characters Possibly Revealed in Datamine Leak
Paul David Nuñez August 17th, 2020 - 11:43 AM
This past weekend marked the second wave of the beta for Marvel's Avengers allowing those who pre-ordered the game on Xbox One and PC the first chance of playing the game on their respective platforms. It also opened up for all PS4 players. The game is set to launch on September 4 and we already know some of the post-launch content coming for the game such as Hawkeye and Spider-Man who were announced as new characters that you choose from the roster. Now, we may know who all the characters will be coming to the game after data miners looking into the game's files may have revealed what other characters will be added to the game.
Data miner RoboMatters found that characters looking to be added to the game will include: Ant-Man, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Falcon, HulkBuster, Kate Bishop, Mar-Vell, Mockingbird, Quake, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Vision, War Machine, Wasp, and Winter Soldier. While nothing has been confirmed or announced as of yet, each of the characters listed above had the "UnlockPlayableCharacter_" prefix attached to them in the game's files.
Another Data miner 6plus4equals52 also found more code listing the same names but also found the names of the alter egos of the characters such as Peter Parker. This could indicate that some characters may be coming to the game not as playable characters but as new characters that you can interact with or will be part of a faction.
The Marvel's Avengers beta concludes this weekend as the game will be open to everyone on all platforms. Players can play through some of the single-player campaign, co-op War Zone missions and experience some of the hero and world progression as players can reach up to level 15 and power level of 45 in the beta.
Marvel's Avengers launches on September 4 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and will be available to play on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
Dataminers
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What disappointed me? I wished it could have lasted longer.
What will I remember? A hole in the sky!
How will I remember? Not with photos - I'd need a better camera, though the video wasn't bad.
What will I do with my eclipse glasses? I know there are lots of really good things to do, but I'm keeping mine as a perfect souvenir.
Anyway, here are those book reviews of dark days past, present and future. Pour yourself an appropriately dark coffee and see what you think.
The Fuhrer's Daughter (episode 1 of 5) by Joshua Graham is first in a set of 5 books set in a parallel world where a teenage girl is about to come of age as daughter to the American Fuhrer. Hitler won in this world, but what does that mean to the girl who has it all? The story's complete in the same sense as a good TV episode, but there's far more to come. For teen readers, it's action-filled, intriguing, and maybe even thought-provoking too. Enjoy with some dark five-star coffee.
Just before the time of Germany's Fuhrer, Spain was at war with itself and disillusioned Americans gave their lives looking for meaning in Depression. Hermanos by William Herrick reads like a cross between For Whom the Bell Tolls and Band of Brothers. These brothers give their lives and loves to a cause that morphs around them, enticing with promise and breaking faith with morality. It's a long thought-provoking book, and a fascinating read for our times where other disillusioned young men are enticed by false promises. You'll need a seriously dark five-star coffee with this one.
Going further into the past, Paula Rose Michelson's Rosa and Miguel from the Love's Legacy series gives an intriguing glimpse into the world Columbus left behind, with Jews forcibly converting to Christianity, and natives of very different beliefs safely hidden from the conflict. It's a short novel, a slow read with lots of internal and external dialog, but a well-researched and fascinating tale. Enjoy with some more dark intense five-star coffee... though I'm not sure where you'll find it.
And going in the opposite direction, Humans and Other Aliens by Alexander Winzer invites readers into a terrifying near-future where aliens/demons have invaded the earth with indiscriminate and horrific killings. But is this crime, punishment, or a kindness intended to teach us who we really are? Blending rather strange science with intriguing philosophy and plenty of gory killing, this is another one to read with some five-star coffee.
Eleven: 1 (Oxygen) by Victoria Vass offers another intriguing look into a dark future. The science is considerably more convincing, with well-balanced mysticism and faith and a truly terrifying vision of the future. Communication is key and dangerous in another tale to enjoy with dark five-star coffee.
Loved your eclipse comments and the memories you kept from that amazing event. And thanks for sharing your video with me.


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Somebody love you and he want to see you in good health and blessed for your soul, spirit and your body. What does you used your body for? This man want to use you to reach people of higher ranks like ministers, famous leaders etc. Place you have never thought to be there,your new LOVER want to take you there,many will see you,respect you and ask you how you meet this LOVER? but your body is busy doing different things in life,He want to put you to where you lost hope, sight as a dream carrier.There is hope for your,Some body love you and is thinking about you,just accept this PERSON as your only friend.
This man who is your new LOVER is called by most people JESUS,He want me to tell you He needs you,don`t think about your current work,Don`t think you don`t qualify,just respond to him, Jesus said he came because of YOU, He came for the poor, the sick, the sinner,the lost sheep etc.He loves you. Just accept this new lover JESUS.
Can you hear JESUS CALLING YOUR NAME?.
Just be quit a moment and listen to Him call your name :...................(put yur name here) !.
You are precious for this man friend.


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An Interview with Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad
Thursday Jul. 19th, 2012
Grand Funk Railroad will play at 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 21st at Moondance Jam 21 in Walker, Minnesota. I had a chance to speak with Don Brewer, the writer and singer of the song that led Grand Funk to become an "American Band."
One of the biggest stories in rocklore is about how Grand Funk Railroad was fired by Led Zeppelin for overshadowing them as their opener in the early 1970s. I asked Don to tell me the story of that fateful tour.
"They kicked us off the tour," Brewer explained of Led Zeppelin's reaction to GFR. "They actually pulled the plug, or their manager Peter Grant pulled the plug on us, so that we couldn't play. They didn't like the fact that we overshadowed them. The whole story is that we were being represented by Premier Talent and Led Zeppelin was also represented by Premier Talent. Led Zeppelin had already had a couple of big albums released. They (Premier) were gonna put Grand Funk, the new band, on Led Zeppelin's tour as the opening act. So we did Detroit and of course there was another band, too, Frosty, Lee Michaels, and then we went on afterward. The audience was just totally going nuts toward the end of our show, and Peter Grant and Led Zeppelin didn't like that. So they said they wanted the band off the stage, they pulled the plug, and they kicked us off the tour. We did one more show with them and then they kicked us off the tour. They just didn't want to be overshadowed by Grand Funk—that's all it was."
In the late 1960s, Brewer, Mel Schacher, and Mark Farner formed Grand Funk Railroad in the three-piece style of Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I asked Brewer how his band from Flint, Michigan, compared to other bands of the time that came out of the same state, like Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, or MC5.
"They were all following different kinds of paths, but we chose to do the power trio," Brewer said. "We could take our R&B influence, as we were heavily influenced by Motown, branch out from that, and keep that power trio thing. The MC5 were a very political band. Iggy Pop was more of a visual band. Truly, I mean spreading hamburger all over himself, but we were really an R&B band that wanted to crank up the volume and be a rock band. So that's what we did."
When you listen to the music of the 1960s, there is a definite change to the sound when moving from psychedelic love-filled 1967 into the later '60s and early 1970s. In 1968 alone there was the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, and the Charles Manson murders. I asked Don if there was more of a hard edge that entered popular music in the late 1960s that reflected what was happening in American culture.
"I think so, for sure," Brewer said. "It was hard to be involved in music at that time and not be involved in that movement. There was the anti-war movement and all that kind of stuff going on at the time. So, that's what it was all about. It was all kind of like one thing, a melding together of the young people with their music, all united against the establishment. FM underground radio was launched and so you could get somebody to play your record. All you had to do was to walk into a jock and say, 'Here's our album, would you play it,' and they would play it. It was a very unique time period."
Grand Funk Railroad's music feels like the everyman's rock. You can slam a beer to it, have a good time to it, but then their sound has a deeper side and involves the listener in a different way. I asked Don if that was done consciously or something that just came about.
"I think it's just us," Brewer said. "I think it was just the way we saw the world or the way we related to the world. Being from Flint, Michigan, you have a certain perspective on life and a certain perspective on the way you view things. I think that's what came about. When I listen to those recordings now, I think they sound very sincere. They're not overly produced, not overly recorded, and not overly thought-out. They were really just what we were feeling and what we were capable of playing at the time and getting recorded. It was very difficult to get things recorded and it was not an easy process to get good rock recordings back then. So it was a combination of all those things. What I get when I listen to them now, as opposed to even when we went into 1973 or 1974 and our recordings became much more sophisticated, is that those early recordings were very sincere, very real."
I noticed while listening to the first few albums that there is kind of a deep feeling to them. You can also feel a real connection and sincerity from the three members of Grand Funk Railroad. There was an intimacy to the band and their sound before exploding onto the national stage with "Closer to Home."
"It was truly a rock and roll fantasy thing," Brewer said. "We were just caught. We were kind of overwhelmed by it. It was a good thing that we stayed in Flint, you know, because if we would have moved off to New York or Los Angeles we really would have gotten caught up in it. I think we kind of were kept grounded by staying in our hometown. We built our own studio and continued to record at our place in Parshallville, Michigan, rather than going around to different places in New York or Los Angeles and getting involved in that scene. I think it kept us real."
Everyone is obsessed with Liverpool, the town made famous for the Beatles. I asked Don if Grand Funk's fans have that same connection with Flint, Michigan.
"When I think of Liverpool and playing in the clubs there, it sounds a little more exotic than growing up in Flint. Really there were very few places to play around Flint. We did the teen-hops and there was the Rivera Terrace, Mount Holly, and a couple of other places like that, but nothing quite as mystical or as intriguing as the clubs in Liverpool," Brewer said.
Grand Funk Railroad is not only the American Band, but they also have a theme song to prove it. I asked Don if the times and groupies were as wild as the legends or if they've been embellished over time.
"I think they are embellished quite a bit, but yeah, it was certainly part of the time period," he said. "It was a thing that there were girls who aspired to be groupies, and that's what they wanted to be known as. It was a definite time period, but I think it burned itself out pretty quick."
After releasing their fifth album, GFR's manager Terry Knight sued the band for breaking their contract, and eventually kept most of the royalties from the band. I asked Brewer what it was like to start over on their sixth album, titled "Phoenix."
"It was extremely scary and it was very difficult," Brewer said. "We were certainly searching for a new avenue. Not only was that going on, but we were trying to make the transition from being an FM underground band, which was what we were with the three-piece, where everything was album-oriented and everything was seven minutes long. Then, all of a sudden, FM radio changed right at the same time that we were going through this mess with our manager. We had to start making hit singles. If we were going to stay relevant, we had to make three– or four-minute songs that were pop friendly to stay on the radio. So it was the 'Phoenix' album that was truly an experiment in how we were gonna do this. Then we decided we couldn't do it by ourselves, so for the next record we enlisted Todd Lundgren to be the producer. He definitely had more of an understanding of what it took to get a rock song on the radio. So we brought him in and he helped us with 'American Band,' 'Shinin' On,' 'Locomotion,' and all that stuff that came after."
Between 1969 and 1976, GFR released nearly two albums a year. When disco came out in the mid-1970s, it took over pop music. If you look at rock in the 1970s, it is filled with huge stadium shows and long guitar solos. It grew extravagant and just got bigger and bigger. I asked Don if he felt like there was no place left to go at a certain point in 1976 and if disco kind of took over, with punk following closely behind.
"That's exactly what happened for us and we decided to hang it up for a while," he said of GFR's split in 1976. "We just weren't gonna go there and we weren't gonna be relevant anymore. So we disbanded. We had done two records and two tours a year since 1969, which was unheard of, but that was what was in our contract back then. That's what we had to produce and it took its toll. I mean, by the time we got to 1976, we were pretty burned out, we were pretty sick of each other, and we needed a break. The disco thing was coming in and there was no way we could fight that. So we just said let's stop right there, and we did."
Mark Farner, the former lead singer of Grand Funk, has left the band several times. The most recent breakup came after they reunited from 1996 to 1999, and he hasn't returned since. I asked Don if he foresaw a reunion in the future.
"I don't know, I'm a guy—I never say never, but there's nothing being planned right now," Brewer said.
So what does Don like about playing summer festivals such as Moondance Jam 21 in Walker, after all these years?
"It's kind of a throwback to the pop festival day where everybody's out there doing whatever they want to," Brewer said. "Showing the love of music and being entertained is what I really like. I enjoy the fact that you have all the different age groups of people, too. I mean, it's just all over the place. There are people like you, who weren't alive back when Grand Funk happened, and then all of sudden here you are 30 years later, and you're being turned on by Grand Funk. I think that's terrific."
Visit www.moondancejam.com for more information on the festival.
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BRITE-Constellation: Nano-Satellites for Stellar Astrophysics Research: Why Centimeter-Class Telescopes in Space need Meter-Class Telescopes on Ground?
BRITE-Constellation (BRight Target Explorer) consists of six nano-satellites aiming to study of variability of the brightest stars in the sky. Austria, Poland, and Canada contribute two spacecraft each all launched into low earth orbits. The satellites have the same structure: they are 20 cm cubes, 7kg mass, with a CCD photometer fed by 3 cm aperture telescopes. The main difference between pairs of satellites is the instrument passband which set to blue (400-450nm) or red (550-700nm). The core scientific objective is to obtain high precision two color photometry, with a time base of up to 180 days, of stars brighter than 4.5 mag in order to study stellar pulsations, spots, and granulation, eclipsing binaries, search for planets and more.
Since the launch of the first two BRITE satellites in February 2013 more than 5 and a half years of experiences in space have been gathered to run the mission and a summary of lessons learned will be presented. By now more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles have been published based on data collected by BRITE-Constellation satellites in space and most results presented therein benefitted greatly from supplementary spectroscopy by meter size telescopes obtained on ground.


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The Impetibili Rex
Thomas Capobianco ✭
The second and final animal to hatch from the original twenty, it closely resembled the female at birth. Shortly after the two were placed in the paddock they proceeded to fight constantly for dominance, causing the destruction and damage of multiple monitoring cameras and motion censors. Shortly after the breaking of the lens on camera labelled I_R_RB_012 the second hatchling vanished causing park workers to assume its death and consumption by the female. For little over a year the animal remained undetected. It was later discovered that it used the river as a territory. Being present in a single sex environment, the frog D.N.A. caused it to change gender. As it developed it formed the sail, bright color patterns, and a high thresh hold for aggression. The animal was discovered during an attempt to examine the female. The male, seeing the workers as a threat, emerged from the water and attacked the men that sedated the first animal. In the news that both were healthy but different gender, concerns of breeding were voiced and silenced by the notion that the animals had been sterilized at birth using radiation. Again a year passed and close observation of the animals was kept. Around the month of August, the male climbed out of the water and challenged the female to a fight for dominance. The battle lasted close to three hours but the male emerged victorious and was not slow to mark the paddock as his territory. Later the same night, much to the dismay of the night shift workers, the two animals participated in a mating ritual and concealed themselves in the thick tree cover. Knowing that the gestation period only lasted a few months at the most, park workers were quick to try and find any form of nest and destroy it. Close to a month passed and the nest was not found, but all workers that attempted to get to the shore line where steam vents were located were savagely attacked. This brought about a plan to destroy that area of the paddock and the animals if they got in the way. Desperate to stop this, Megan Shull, went into the paddock to prove the nest was either not there or that the animals were of to no harm to humans. This resulted in her being bitten by the hatchling causing a lethal dose of venom to be injected into her body. The venom caused vomiting, hallucinations, and finally paralysis. The venom did not kill her for before it could, the male returned from hunting. Emerging from the water with it's kill in its mouth. Discovering the recently paralyzed doctor and its kids eating her alive, it dismembered her and defecated on the remains as a warning to any trespassers. Later that night tropical storm Brien struck the island the fences were shorted out. causing the escape event. The fences were repaired after much loss of life due to the animals roaming free. In response the animals were placed in a holding pen with reinforced walls, the hatchlings were hunted and killed or captured and the animals were taken off of the tour. The fate of the animals has yet to be decided but many people are pushing for the extermination of the animals. First half of story here http://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/1540/the-impetibili-regina#latest
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DOUGLAS, AZ - The names of those who died trying to cross the desert rang out against the hum of rush hour traffic as a procession of 60 bishops of the Episcopal Church, their spouses and others moved along the Pan American Highway here toward the Mexican border.
"No Identificado eight," called out Bishop Suffragan Mary D. Glasspool of Los Angeles, and the procession responded: "Presente," as a witness, answering for those who can no longer speak for themselves.
Glasspool placed the 12x18-inch white wooden cross, dedicated to the unknown person on the curbside. By the procession's end, 300 crosses lined the curb along a quarter-mile stretch leading to the border.
"Holding it was a different kind of feeling than holding the cross of a person who was named," Glasspool said after the vigil, which typically happens each Tuesday, sponsored by Frontera de Cristo, a bi-national Presbyterian Church border ministry.
Glasspool was among a group of about 40 bishops and spouses who participated in a three-day border immersion experience hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona.
The gathering was planned prior to the regular Sept. 16-21 House of Bishops meeting in Phoenix, which is expected to issue a statement about immigration.
"I began asking the question who this person was and if there's a comforting thing in it at all, it is we were saying about each of these people that they are known to God and beloved by God and created in the image of God and brought home to God," she said.
The 300 crosses represented the number of bodies discovered in the desert in Cochise County since 1994; bodies of people who died while trying to cross in search of a better life, said the Rev. Seth Polley, Arizona diocesan border missioner, who helped to coordinate the vigil, and the border trip.
Polley, who also serves as vicar of two border congregations, St. John's in Bisbee and St. Stephen's in Douglas, said he hoped participants could have "an eye-opening experience and a deeper sense of appreciation for the complexity of the issues" involving immigration reform.
He, along with the Rev. Mark Adams, the U.S. coordinator for Frontera de Cristo, and others are expected to address the bishops Sept. 17.
Adams participated in a Sept. 14 panel discussion along with representatives from the Douglas police department, the border patrol, the Border Action Network, as well as a local rancher, and an emergency room physician who treats migrants.
On the second day of the gathering, participants visited churches, shelters, migrant resource centers, medical clinics and other agencies that offer support to the impoverished and migrants in the Mexican state of Sonora.
In Agua Prieta, a mid-sized industrial city of about 150,000, the group visited a migrant shelter operated by La Sagrada Familia Catholic Church, which provides a safe place for migrants and houses men in need.
Near Naco, a small town with a permanent population of about 6,000 and at peak times, a migrant population of up to 2,000, participants visited a water station in the desert, maintained by volunteers form Humanitarian Border Solutions, a bi-national human rights group that fills the water tanks twice weekly so that migrants – who face severe dehydration – have access to water. HBS also distributes survival food packs, which are donated by southern Arizona churches.
Also in Naco, Manuel, whose last name was withheld to protect his identity, described his experience of being abandoned in the desert while trying to return to the United States after attending a family funeral in Mexico.
"My wife fell and hurt her ankle," he told the group through an interpreter. "We were trying to cross into the country because this is where our children are. We want a better life for them because our country is so poor. We want them to have an education, to have better than what we had. But the coyote was just taking our money; he did nothing for us. We tried to reason with him but all he wanted was more money."
Manuel was ultimately detained and deported, separated from his children who are 11, 19 and 21. "That's our life as migrants," he said. "We suffer though we were not doing anything bad."
Meeting Manuel and taking a trip to the wall erected by the U.S. government put a human face on the immigration issue for Carol Garrison of Western New York. "I can't even put into words how I feel," she said. "His pain breaks my heart."
For her spouse, Bishop Michael Garrison of Western New York, the trip was an eye-opening experience, and he said he appreciated knowing "our church is involved in this work."
The Rev. Hector Rodriguez, Latino missioner for the Diocese of Maryland and rector of the Church of the Resurrection in southeast Baltimore, said he came to be supportive of the ministry.
"I'm the other border missioner, except my border reaches all the way to the Mason-Dixon line. The people we see here are the ones we will see in my parish if they make it through the desert."
Most bishops said the immersion experience accomplished what organizers had hoped for: to put a human face on the issue.
Bishop Clifton Daniel of East Carolina added "that it has shown the complexity of what it means to live on the border. The church is called to speak with clarity to the human condition of that. To justice, to human dignity, to minister to human need -- that we can do with clarity."
Others, like Bishop Prince Singh of Rochester, say they want the House of Bishops to do more than talk.
"We as a church have an opportunity to recommit or even commit ourselves to being a part of humanizing our world," he said. "We cannot do it as bishops, but we can do it as saints of the Episcopal Church. "We need to empower our disciples to be disciples so one of the takeaways for me is how am I going to serve as a bishop to enable each and every person who worships in an Episcopal Church to take this charge, to be vigilant, to be a moral agent and to do something."
Bishop Suffragan Gayle Harris of Massachusetts said the story of the migrant is not new, but is the story of virtually every group who "sought a better life for themselves" yet has failed to honor others who have attempted to make the same journey. "It's the story of too many people around the world … these people are my people because they're God's people," she said.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said the experience gave her a sense of the complexity of the situation, and that she thinks "it will help us to reduce both our own caricatures and prejudices and maybe do the same for others." She added that she hoped the experience would inform the bishops' conversation and "help to shape the final teaching, the pastoral letter we hope to produce out of this meeting."
Bishop Assistant Carol Gallagher of North Dakota said: "I'm aware that this was Mexican territory. The people haven't changed, the border changed. The politics changed. They deserve to have their families thrive. I was touched in many ways by the generosity and hospitality of the men and women who fed us, and cried and shared their hearts with us. This isn't about politics, it's about people."
Eastern Oregon provisional bishop Edna Bavi "Nedi" Rivera said there's no excuse, "no reason for anyone to die. I want to say that to our country."
-- The Rev. Pat McCaughan is a national correspondent for the Episcopal News Service. She is based in Los Angeles.


For a student seeking a larger university experience in one of Europe's most historic and beautiful destinations, Marlboro's partnership with Charles University in Prague is a great program to consider. With close to 50,000 students, a stay at Charles University presents a unique opportunity for Marlboro students. Charles University is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic.
Academics: Charles is made up of 17 different colleges, including schools devoted to Theology, Law, Arts, Science, Education, and Humanities. While the exchange agreement goes through the School of Social Sciences, students can enroll in any course offered by the university. Courses are taught in English and other languages, granting a wide variety of choices for international students. Charles also offers Czech language classes at various levels, from Beginners to Intermediate.
Location: Unlike most American campuses, Charles University sprawls over Prague, with departments in the city center, on both sides of the Vltava River, and around the suburbs. Students get to experience the city to its fullest, with chances to enjoy Prague's art galleries, historic architecture and hidden courtyards. Members of the International Student Club meet incoming students during the Orientation Week and not only guide you around through the necessary academic arrangements, but also run a buddy program, excursions, and other social events.
Application: if you're interested in studying abroad at Charles University, contact the Marlboro international services office to get the process started! Get all the answers and the help you need to manage the application.
Further information about the application procedure can be found on Charles' website. You can find and download the exchange application form here.
Charles University's international office also guides Marlboro students through their application process, obtaining a Czech visa, and all other pre-arrival preparations. For any questions, you can contact the Exchange Programs Coordinator Aneta Höschlová (aneta.hoschlova@fsv.cuni.cz).


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Related won't submit Base Village plans by year's end
Jill Beathard
Related Colorado won't be submitting plans for the completion of the Base Village project by the end of the year as promised, according to a letter it submitted to the Snowmass Village Town Council and staff Tuesday.
Representatives of Related said in August that they would present an application for a major amendment to the Base Village planned-unit development, which would have included an extension of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center campus, by Dec. 31. Part of Related's decision to delay the application's submittal was because Anderson Ranch Arts Center backed out.
However, Related has submitted a minor application requesting a five-year extension of vesting rights set to expire in 2014 in exchange for completing the roundabout at Wood and Brush Creek roads by 2015. Also, Aspen Skiing Co. is presenting to the council on Monday a preliminary plan for turning Building 5 in Base Village into a Limelight Hotel, similar to the one it owns in Aspen.
Related Colorado developed a relationship with Anderson Ranch over the past 10 months that started with the launch of a children's art center in Base Village last winter that is "poised to really take off this winter," the letter said. Discussions with Anderson Ranch led to meetings about expanding its presence in Base Village, and the arts center signed a letter of intent to purchase a small part of the property in the Building 6 and 7 area.
"One aspect of that plan envisioned a multi use performance arts building to be constructed in one of the Anderson Ranch buildings," the letter said. "After an extensive review of those plans this fall, Anderson Ranch has made a decision to more closely focus on creating any new expansion of programming or buildings on their current Snowmass Village campus."
While that decision was "obviously disappointing," Dwayne Romero, president of Related Colorado, said the company "respect(s) their decision." And it's not canning the idea of a multi-use performance-arts venue for Base Village. Many people in the community agree that would be a beneficial facility to have in the Base Village core, he said.
Related plans to engage the community in the planning process with several public meetings and events in the next two months. By having multiple small meetings, hopefully Related will be able to have more in-depth conversations with the public and start to establish trends toward a consensus, Romero said. Some professional designers will be present to help facilitate the meetings.
"The goal (is to) come away with some ideas but (perhaps) gain some consensus," Romero said.
Mayor Bill Boineau said he was disappointed that a major planned-unit-development application wouldn't be submitted in 2013.
"I was really hoping that we would see before the end of the year some info about that," he said.
Boineau said he told Related when he was elected to his third term as mayor that he would have "two years to hopefully lead us through the next phase of development."
"All the council is anxious to see what the next phase is," Boineau said.
Applications on the table
On Monday, the Town Council and Planning Commission will consider Skico's preliminary plan for Lot 2 in Base Village. The elected officials will identify areas of concern that they want the Planning Commission to focus on during the review process.
The council doesn't need to know everything, but it would be helpful to know how Related wants to phase construction as the officials consider Skico's application for Lot 2. However, keeping the Limelight on track to begin construction in the spring is important to the officials, Boineau said.
"Showing some construction happening helps us all," he said.
The Planning Commission will consider the minor planned-unit-development amendment submitted by Related at its meeting Wednesday, Romero said. In the initial Base Village approvals, the owner of the property was supposed to have a certain phase of development completed by November 2014 in order to continue to hold its vesting rights through 2024.
Because of the stall in progress, Related won't complete that phase by the deadline and is requesting through this application to extend the vesting rights in two steps within five years. The application asks that the next milestone be November 2016, contingent upon the completion of the roundabout by October 2015, and that the second step be the completion of Buildings 6, 7 and 8 by November 2019.
Related is not asking to extend the overall deadline of 2024.
Many respondents to the community survey conducted by the town this fall listed finishing Base Village as a priority.
"We understand that," Romero said.


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The employee of the museum acquainted with the House of European History in Brussels
On the 10th of August, 2017 the board of the Platform of European memory and Conscience together with the representatives of different countries, who are the members of the Platform, took an educational trip to the House of European History in Brussels.
An exposition of the House of European History was opened for visitors in May 2017. The idea of creating a museum was presented 10 years ago by Hans-Gert Pöttering, who was the President of European Parliament by then.
The exposition of the museum is located near the European Parliament in Park Leopold in the building that in past belonged to a dental clinic for disadvantaged children. It is situated on 6 floors and encompasses the history of the content from the germination of European civilisation until the period of European integration. The collection includes approximately 1000 objects from 300 world museums. A big emphasis is put on the development of European culture. The history of Europe in XX century and totalitarian regimes, Nazi and Soviet ones, are presented quite widely and comprehensively. One of the missions of the museum is to remind about all wars, catastrophes, which Europe endured, and to showcase a way to the peaceful life. The exposition ends with a hall named "A sight into future" and appeals to everyone with a quiestion: what is your opinion to the history of Europe and which history and memory are actual nowadays?
The trip of the Platform of European memory and Conscience was aimed to get acquainted with a new museum and exposition, devoted to the history of XX century, as the basis of the Platform is a research of action and crime of totalitarian regimes in Europe of XX century in order to prevent the totalitarianism revival. The results of a trip will be published in September 2017 in form of a report. The part of a report from Ukraine will be prepared by the Chief of Scientific-Exposition Department Yana Hrynko, who already during discussion in Brussels pointed to the improper presentation of Holodomor history in the museum, where the term "Holodomor" is absent and an explanation to mass mortality of Ukrainians 1932-1933 is "collectivisation which lead to starvation in USSR, particularly on the territories of Ukraine and Caucasus". In the museum, opened in 2017, when thousands of researches have been conducted and the genocidal nature of the events in Ukraine in 1932-1933 has been proved, such formulations are not permissible as they distort history and are a mockery at the memory of millions of Ukrainians killed at times of Holodomor.


The Pega 7 Platform features maintenance improvements to the Hadoop host configuration, HBase data set, and HDFS data set. System architects can more easily make the Apache Hadoop File System (HDFS) and HBase storages available to business scientists for exploratory analysis and predictive model building.
Do the mapping bewteen the HBase storge and the HBase data set without any connector reference.
Map a column family to a Page Group or a Page List.
Use a validation mechanism for the mapped property and the column family.
Use more complex property types in the HBase data set to support flexible data structure of the Apache HBase storage.
Use the Data Preview option to see data inside the Apache HBase storage.
Use the HDFS data set to consume outputs of the Map-Reduce job.
Use the File system configuration option to look for files with a given pattern.
Do an optional NameNode host configuration for the HDFS connection on the Hadoop host configuration.
Do an optional Zookeeper host configuration for the HBase connection on the Hadoop host configuration.


Looking for most modern semi to full modular power supply(2017 or newer).
That's what title says. I also looking reliable and can running 24/7 stay on, and fits this $750 to $775 PC build budget.
The most sensible option in my opinion would be this Corsair RMx.
If you want a longer warranty, the Seasonic Prime Gold units are at the upper end of your budget.
The be quiet! Straight Power 11 may be worth looking at due to its internal design and components used, but performance testing puts current performance under the other two options and long term it has a shorter warranty than the Seasonic Prime Gold.
People put too much importance on PSU performance. If it's within ATX specification, it's good. Sure, the lower the better, but one should look at internal design and build quality first and foremost.
Straight Power 11 I would put over the RMx due to its quad 12v rail design, which is safer, when implemented properly, than a 12v design.
RMx uses a single rail design which I don't personally like but I have no complaints of the unit otherwise.
The Primes are really good but are notably more expensive.
I find Corsair RMx 550x (2018 version) for $85 an Amazon... I watched Corsair RMx review on YouTube, and I just noticed that modular cables too stiff. Any way to lossy it up?
Nope. That's just the result of high grade cables and thick insulation. The RMx's quality is excellent, and I would definitively recommend it.
Okay, good to know. That RMx is almost perfect for me. I have another modular cables question. Can I buy different colors than original like Corsair's Premium Individually Sleeved PSU Cables Pro Kit or CABLEMOD.com?


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Q: Return all values contains a specific text from a dictionary in python How to return all values contains a specific text/string from a list as a comma separate value?
i have a list of emails like this:
emails = ['email@example.com',
'email1@example.com',
'email2@example.com',
'emaila@emailexample.com',
'emailb@emailexample.com',
'email33@examplex.com',
'emailas44@exampley.com',
'emailoi45@exampley.com',
'emailgh@exampley.com']

what i want to do is get all emails from the same domain like this:
Website = 'example.com'
Email = 'email@example.com','email1@example.com','email2@example.com'

and so on....
i tried this so far but can not figure out how can i achieve this, would be great if anyone help me, thanks in advance.
def Email(values, search):
    for i in values:
        if search in i:
            return i
    return None

data = Email(emails, 'example.com')
print(data)

A: You never needed a regex. Use a list-comprehension taking advantage of str.endswith() to look for strings with matching characters towards the end:
emails = ['email@example.com',
          'email1@example.com',
          'email2@example.com',
          'emaila@emailexample.com',
          'emailb@emailexample.com',
          'email33@examplex.com',
          'emailas44@exampley.com',
          'emailoi45@exampley.com',
          'emailgh@exampley.com']
Website = 'example.com'

print([email for email in emails if email.endswith(f'@{Website}')])
# ['email@example.com', 'email1@example.com', 'email2@example.com']

A: You are returning value at the first iteration itself that's why you are not able to achieve the result. You can store the emails in a list and then return the comma separated values.
Modifying your approach:
def Email(values, search):
    x = list()
    for i in values:
        if i.endswith("@" + search):
             x.append(i)
    return ", ".join(x) # Returning list as a comma separated value

emails = ["email@example.com","email1@example.com","email2@example.com","emaila@emailexample.com","emailb@emailexample.com","email33@examplex.com","emailas44@exampley.com","emailoi45@exampley.com","emailgh@exampley.com"]
website = 'example.com'

data = Email(emails, website)
print("Website = " + website)
print("Email = " + data)

Hope this answers your question!!!


PENCILLERS: Hendry Prasetya, Corin Howell. Cover by Jamal Campbell.
Can we talk about the Power Rangers movie for a second?
They've started showing the trailer in theaters, and a few days ago we got our first look at the movie's Alpha 5 (yuck). For better or worse, it looks very much in the same vein as the darkened, CGI overhauls that franchises like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got. As such, it looks big, epic, mostly serious, and only slightly like the show I watched as a kid. As a longtime Power Rangers fan, that's disappointing.
I bring this up because, like the movie, this Mighty Morphin Power Rangers book from BOOM! Studios is also big, epic, and serious. At one point in this new issue, the Tommy character finds himself in a life-threatening scenario. Thinking these are his final moments, he starts to ask the other Rangers to tell his mother that he loves her. That'd be a pretty intense moment for a Saturday morning kids show. But it works here. In fact, most of what we've seen in this series works. So why does MMPR work, but the Power Rangers movie looks so contrived?
I think a lot of it has to do with what seems to be an affection for the source material. Kyle Higgins, Hendry Prasetya, and this team are looking at this world through a different lens. But it still feels like the world and characters that we know. Everyone is in the same role, everyone looks and talks (mostly) the same, and the suits and zords are the same. But it feels like we're breaking new ground. This series almost feels like magically finding a new room in a house you've lived in for years. Whereas the Power Rangers movie feels like a different house, built to vaguely look like the old one.
Even when we're introduced to an element exclusive to the book, it feels like it's cut from the same cloth as the show. Case in point, Black Dragon, and the mysterious new Ranger we meet at the end of issue #9.
By splitting Tommy's powers, Jason, Kimberly, Zack, and Trini have regained access to the Morphin Grid. They once again have their powers and words, albeit with a green tint. Now they must rescue Billy from Dark Dimension and defeat Black Dragon. But during the battle, they learn this new enemy is not all that he seems. This new revelation will lead two Rangers to discover a new world of peril. Literally, a new world.
The big news from this issue is the introduction of our comfy friend on the right. He's obviously a mix of the Green and White Ranger (designed by Jamal Campbell), with some nice little additions thrown in. The Black Dragon we've seen previously is apparently an empty vessel. We find this mysterious Ranger in another plane of reality, which is dark and decimated, and features big statues of Rita and the Green Ranger. My guess is this is alternate-Earth Tommy, who was somehow victorious with Rita as the evil Green Ranger, and then turned on her to rule the world on his own.
This has been treated as a big reveal, with BOOM! advertising it as the first new Ranger introduced to the MMPR world in over two decades. Indeed, it's pretty damn cool. With this new Ranger comes a new sandbox for writers and artists to play in, and a boat-load of new story possibilities. I'm guessing (and hoping) this is what Higgins was referring to when he talked publicly about not sticking to the show's continuity.
Turning the other Ranger costumes green is a neat gimmick. Power Rangers fans like little tweaks like that. Colorist Matt Herms pulls it off very well, and Campbell even gives it a certain grandeur on the cover.
The superhero action stuff is where Prasetya really excels, as opposed to the quieter moments with the teens. So this is a big issue for him. There's a fantastic splash page (shown below) where the Red-turned-Green Ranger teleports in, with the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and the Eiffel Tower in the background. There's a great shot where Black Dragon has his back to the camera as the zords advance. There are also a lot of great little things, like a rubble effect around the Dragonzord's face when it takes a punch.
Higgins also has a nice handle on Goldar. Via some convincing, he actually releases Billy from the Dark Dimension so he can help the Rangers destroy Black Dragon. When it's revealed Black Dragon is a robot, the idea is to let Billy dismantle him so that Goldar can take his spot back at Rita's side. It's shades of the dynamic he had with Tommy during "Green With Evil." What made Goldar so intriguing was that while he worked for Rita, and was ultimately loyal to Lord Zedd, he had his own agenda. In this series, and the Pink miniseries, we're seeing him act on that agenda. The only hole I can poke in the Dark Dimension stuff is why Goldar is so transparent with Billy. Agenda or no agenda, Billy is still his enemy.
Steve Orlando and Corin Howell are also back with more Bulk and Skull. While these back-ups haven't done much at all for me, But the inclusion of Rita in this one offers a little more intrigue. And this story about Rita wanting the boys to control a monster does seem like something that might have happened on the show.
I admit, I've been nervous about this book since Higgins said that continuity stuff to Newsarama. We've got such a good thing going. So when the writer says something like that about the continuity that everybody knows and loves, I get antsy. With this alternate reality stuff, he's found a nice way to have some fun and sell a lot of comics. I'm just hoping the fun continues.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Billy Cranston, BOOM! Studios, Bulk & Skull, comic book reviews, comic books, Corin Howell, Goldar, Hendry Prasetya, Jamal Campbell, Kyle Higgins, Matt Herms, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (BOOM! Studios), Power Rangers, Power Rangers (2017 film), Power Rangers costumes, reviews, Rita Repulsa, Rob Siebert, single issue reviews, Steve Orlando, Tommy Oliver on 12/02/2016 by primaryignition.
If you dare to think of the Power Rangers from a semi-realistic standpoint, you come to the conclusion that in some ways, they'd operate like a military operation. What you basically have here are soldiers fighting in an interplanetary war with space-age weapons and giant robots. So logic dictates that you'd have your leader, in the case the Red Ranger, dictate your battle plans while the other Rangers fall in line. Makes sense, right?
Of course, logic and realism weren't the strong points of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. (I think the my first clue was seeing that blue sky on the moon.) On the show, the Rangers didn't really operate like that, at least not in the era this book takes place in. Jason was indeed the leader, but it seemed like more of an honorary title. He took on the role, but the Rangers were a team. We never heard lines like: "Jason gave you an order." That's not the case in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #4, and it's a turn-off.
The team's trust in Tommy has been shaken, as he's revealed he's having visions of his former master Rita Repulsa. The Green Ranger is benched for the Rangers' battle against Scorpina and the Dragonzord, which is once again under Rita's control. But Tommy isn't one to sit idly by when he knows he can help. The resulting argument will lead to disaster for the Rangers.
Early in the issue, Jason tells Tommy not to come into the field. As the battle progresses, he tells Zordon he wants to go in, as he's seemingly rid himself of the visions and can help. Zordon advises him not to, as "Jason has given you an order." That line by itself is weird. Especially because Zordon says it. He's the boss, isn't he?
I don't have a problem with what Jason is saying. It's how he's saying it. He almost comes off like a parent disciplining a child. Jason and Tommy, even when they were at each other's throats, never talked to one another like that on the show. As such, Jason looks like a condescending jerk. I'm wondering if this is being done to establish Jason feeling threatened by Tommy. One might gather that from things he's said in previous issues. I'm trying to give Higgins the benefit of the doubt on this one. Either way, I don't like this side of Jason.
As we've seen in previous issues, Higgins, Prasetya, and the team show us things we never could have see on the show. In the zord fight, we see Green Ranger crash through the eye of the Dragonzord, which is spectacular. We also learn that the Triceratops zord has an underwater mode. We also see Scorpina in the Command Center. The Rangers restrain her by tying her to a chair, which is downright comical. We've seen characters trapped in force fields numerous times on the show, but for some reason Scorpina gets tied down like a damsel in distress.
Hendry Prasetya's performances have been consistent in the five issues he's done. His take on the Power Rangers and their world hasn't gotten old. Even simple things, like a shot of Dragonzord walking away from camera and rising out of the sea, manage to be extremely cool. Ditto for a handful of panels where we see the words powering up. My favorite panel in the issue is pretty basic shot of the Blue Ranger in the cockpit of the Triceratops Dinozord (shown right.) We'd never seen it from that angle before, and it's panels like this that make this book so fun for longtime fans like yours truly.
We have yet another edition of our back-up feature, "The Ongoing Adventures of Bulk & Skull." I hate to say it, but I'm officially turned off by this. Not because the writing or the art are bad, but because we've been on this story since issue #1. Bulk & Skull manage to capture a putty, and use it to try and make themselves look like superheroes. They could have done this in one, maybe two installments. This issue gives us our fourth. If they're going to keep doing this we need a new story, and we need to quicken the pace.
This Jason thing is the biggest hiccup the series has seen so far, but by no means is it a reason to drop the book. Higgins, Prasetya, and the team have got something special, and it's been consistently good. PR fans have been given a great gift with this series. And by and large, it keeps on giving.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged BOOM! Studios, Bulk & Skull, comic book reviews, Corin Howell, Dragonzord, Green Ranger, Hendry Prasetya, Jamal Campbell, Jason Lee Scott, Kimberly Hart, Kyle Higgins, Megazord, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (BOOM! Studios), Pink Ranger, Power Rangers, Red Ranger, Rita Repulsa, Rob Siebert, Scorpina, single issue reviews, Steve Orlando, Tommy Oliver, Zordon on 06/29/2016 by primaryignition.
PENCILLER: Hendry Prasetya, Corin Howell. Cover by Jamal Campbell.
It's quite obvious that Kyle Higgins was an MMPR fan growing up, and as such is a perfect fit to write this series. How can you tell? Because he's showing us things we always wanted to see on the show, and taking us places we've always wondered about. Case in point, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 shows is the inner workings of the Dragonzord, and then gives us a confrontation inside Tommy's home.
It's not easy being the Green Ranger. Tommy continues to be plagued by visions of his former master, Rita Repulsa. What's more, he's having trouble getting the Dragonzord to respond to his commands, tensions are rising between he and his teammates, and now Rita's minion Scorpina has invaded his home. Something's got to give. Unfortunately, it may be Tommy himself.
Last issue ended with Scorpina appearing in Tommy's room. In this issue she ups the ante, threatening his oblivious mother. This was one of those logic holes in the TV series. "Why doesn't Rita just go after them at home and attack their families?" While it's unclear why Rita hasn't tried this before, it's clear she's crossed a line. Tommy neutralizes the threat to his family quickly by simply hitting his communicator and grabbing Scorpina, teleporting them somewhere isolated, presumably in Angel Grove Park. I'd enjoy knowing how he did that. Did he just have to think of the park?
Our opening scene also expands on the events of the show, as we see Billy and Trini working inside the Dragonzord. We also get an exchange in which Billy self consciously refers to Tommy as "another fighter," clearly feeling left out and inadequate by comparison. This leads to Trini giving him a pep talk, in which she calls him "the most amazing person I've ever met." If you watch the old shows, there always seems to be a touch of romantic tension between Billy and Trini, even through I suspect it's not intentional. Are we finally going to see that addressed here? If Higgins and Prasetya are game, I'm game.
Prasetya continues to excel at drawing Power Ranger style action sequences, and Power Rangers stuff fin general. His rendering of a sleeping Dragonzord (shown right) is absolutely gorgeous. The quieter dialogue scenes also come off better in this issue. The character acting hasn't been Prasetya's strong point thus far. He seems more comfortable when he's allowed to be more cartoony, i.e. Bulk & Skull scenes. But with characters that have to play it straight, like the teens, Prasetya struggles. But the exchange between Trini and Billy is strong. There's also a two-page scene that simply consists of Kimberly meeting up with Jason after a karate class, which is well done. Naturally, I suspect as Prasetya spends more time with these characters, the better he'll get at this sort of thing. Higgins understands their personalities (or at least what the show established of them) to a T. So the pressure is on him to keep up.
As expected, we also get more of "The Ongoing Adventures of Bulk & Skull" from Steve Orlando and Corin Howell. I can't say I'm in love with this stuff, but it's harmless fun.
Higgins' writing style for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers definitely evokes memories of Chris Claremont's work on Uncanny X-Men, and Marv Wolfman's work on The New Teen Titans, both monumentally successful teenage superhero books. The presence of a "danger room" last issue not withstanding, Higgins has established a surrogate family dynamic among the Rangers, which has been an integral ingredient to the story he's telling. Given the tone of the TV show, that's a great way to play things. As history indicates, it opens some great storytelling doors.
Hopefully, this is only the beginning.
Image 1 from snappow.com. Image 2 from tokunation.com.
This entry was posted in Comic Books/Graphic Novels and tagged BOOM! Studios, Chris Claremont, comic book reviews, comic books, Corin Howell, Dragonzord, Green Ranger, Hendry Prasetya, Jamal Campbell, Kyle Higgins, Marv Wolfman, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2 (2016), Power Rangers, Rita Repulsa, Rob Siebert, Scorpina, single issue reviews, Steve Orlando, superhero comics, superheroes on 04/08/2016 by primaryignition.


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They're No. 1: How the best beaches are chosen
By By Ellen Creager
Detroit Free Press |
In Florida, we caught up with Dr. Beach, better known in real life as Stephen Leatherman, director of the Laboratory of Coastal Research at Florida International University in Miami.
He has been ranking America's ocean beaches since 1991, taking into account 50 criteria, some of which the average beachgoer understands (like whether a beach has bathrooms) and some we don't, such as the state of a beach's sand stability, water quality and wave action.
Q: Do you think by naming a beach No. 1, you change the experience for visitors?
A: I have people who tell me they plan their vacation around the list. Can you believe that? I know that visitation does go up when we name a beach No. 1. But I tell the beaches that if they do a lot of development after that or change the character of their beach, they can fall off the list.
Q: What is so special about Caladesi Island, your current No. 1 beach in the United States?
A: It is a real getaway. You don't go there to play golf or stay at the Hilton; unless you are on a boat, you can't stay there at all. It's in an urban area, but you get out to the island and it's remote. It has clean, clear water and bright, soft sand, native mangroves, great kayaking. You've got a snack bar and good access to ferries.
Q: Do you take into account things like rattlesnakes? Caladesi Island has signs warning of rattlers.
A: I don't give demerits for rattlesnakes. Snakes don't like coming on beaches.
Q: Over the years you have named far more gulf-side Florida beaches on your list than Atlantic side. Why?
A: The gulf side has better sand and is much safer because of smaller waves. They are very safe beaches.
Q: What is the difference between Florida's Gulf Coast sand and Hawaii sand?
A: The Gulf Coast beaches are quartz crystal, ground down to what we call terminal size, the smallest possible. That sand has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. It's bright and white and fine. The sand in Hawaii _ except for the black beaches _ is all coral sand. It's ground up coral from the reefs. It varies in color. None of it is super white like Florida, but it's beautiful.
Q: The way your list works is, once a beach is No. 1, it can't be on the list again. Doesn't that mean that after 17 years, the best 17 beaches in the United States aren't on your list anymore?
A: Yes. Some of the earlier ones might be better overall. And I do keep a national winners list, although most papers don't publish it. Fortunately, the U.S. has hundreds of great beaches. A perfect beach score in my criteria is 250 points. I've yet to find a perfect beach. But I don't fear a shortage of great beaches.
Q: And what about the Great Lakes? There are great beaches there, too. Why not review them?
A: I'd like to. I've been thinking about it. It's difficult to do because I would have to change my 50 criteria, because the Great Lakes don't have some of the things they look at. Like sharks. Or jellyfish. Those are good things not to have, of course. One of the issues is, I rate swimming beaches, and warm water is one thing I measure _ so Florida and Hawaii have an advantage. But I've seen a lot of nice beaches in Michigan.
Q: You've probably been asked this a million times, but what's your all-time favorite Florida beach?
A: I guess it would be Cape Florida beach at the tip of Key Biscayne. That's because it's near my house in Miami. I can be there in half an hour.
DR. BEACH'S RANKINGS
AMERICA'S BEST BEACHES
1. Caladesi Island State Park, Dunedin, Fla.
2. Hanalei Beach, Kauai, Hawaii
3. Siesta Beach, Sarasota, Fla.
4. Coopers Beach, Southampton, N.Y.
5. Coronado Beach, San Diego
6. Main Beach, East Hampton, N.Y.
7. Hamoa Beach, Maui, Hawaii
8. Cape Hatteras, Outer Banks, N.C.
9. Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, Fla.
10. Beachwalker Park, Kiawah Island, S.C.
(Source: drbeach.org 2008)
FLORIDA BEACHES EVER RANKED NO. 1
Caladesi Island State Park, Dunedin, 2008
Ft. DeSoto Park, Tierra Verde, 2005
St. Joseph Peninsula, Port St. Joe, 2002
St. Andrews State Park, Panama City, 1995
Grayton Beach State Park, Santa Rosa Beach, 1994
Bahia Honda State Park, Big Pine Key, 1992
(Sources: drbeach.org and Detroit Free Press research. Some of these were called state recreation areas when named by Dr. Beach but are now state parks.)
FLORIDA BEACHES OFTEN ON THE LIST BUT NEVER NO. 1
Lighthouse Point Park, Daytona Beach
Siesta Beach, Sarasota
Barefoot Beach Park, Bonita Springs
Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne
Crescent Beach, Siesta Key
(Sources: drbeach.org and Detroit Free Press research)


Boston – June 8, 2009 – OutStart, Inc., the leader in social business software and learning systems, has extended the reach of its solutions by merging with mobile leader Hot Lava Software, a company with applications for reaching the world's estimated 4.1 billion mobile cellular subscribers. The newly combined companies will conduct business as OutStart. Massood Zarrabian continues as CEO and president of OutStart, while Bob Sanregret, CEO of Hot Lava Software, becomes vice president of the OutStart Hot Lava Mobile business unit.
Three things make Hot Lava Mobile unique. First, developers can rapidly create content once that will then run on virtually any type of mobile device. Hot Lava Mobile will automatically adjust the content to best display on the vast array of mobile devices in use today. Second, Hot Lava applications can be deployed via WAP or downloaded directly to the mobile device. And third, Hot Lava Mobile tracks usage of mobile content and automatically fires off immediate feedback to managers, system administrators and applications, such as learning management systems.
"From executives to yak herders, mobile devices are in the hands of billions of people around the globe," said Bob Sanregret, CEO of Hot Lava Software. "If forced to choose, people would rather leave their house without their car keys than without their mobile device. Mobile applications have tremendous reach and a vast array of uses; we developed Hot Lava Mobile to serve this incredible market.
"Merging with OutStart provides Hot Lava with additional resources and a link to OutStart customers who will enable us to better take advantage of the incredible potential that mobile offers," added Sanregret.
-An easy-to-use desktop authoring tool for building content once for deployment across 98 percent of all mobile phones.
-Delivers content via WAP or directly to mobile devices.
-Automatically tracks: who accesses mobile content; how often they access the content; a learner's ID; and, the scores from surveys and quizzes thus providing feedback to an instructor, learner or even a learning management system.
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On September 25, 2008, International Telecommunication Union Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré announced in New York that worldwide mobile cellular subscribers are likely to reach the 4 billion mark before the end of 2008.
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The weak field for the Trophee Hassan presents an excellent opportunity for a young player to make his mark and Eddie Pepperell fits the profile.
The 25-year-old is still looking for his maiden tour title but he's gone close on several occasions and the experience should stand him in good stead.
What I particularly like about Pepperell is his ability to play tough sea-side courses well. He was runner-up at the Irish Open last year and has a terrific record in the Open de Espana, which is often played on a courses similar to Royal Golf Dar Es Salam.
Pepperell won't be fazed by the wind and although he's had a quiet start to the year he has only missed one cut in six starts.
Last year he finished T17 at the Trophee Hassan at the Golf du Palais Royal but the change in venue might suit him even more. At 66/1 (Stan James) he is a cracking each-way bet.


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