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Hurtado v. California
June 17, 2017 by: Content Team
Following is the case brief for Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884)
Case Summary of Hurtado v. California:
The law of California allows for accusation by information to begin a criminal case, in addition to indictment by grand jury.
Hurtado was accused by information of murder. He was subsequently tried and found guilty of murder.
Hurtado claimed that his due process rights were violated under the Fourteenth Amendment because he was not indicted by a grand jury. The trial court and California Supreme Court rejected that argument.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the lower courts. It held that an indictment by grand jury is not necessarily required to satisfy the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in a state felony prosecution.
Hurtado v. California Case Brief
Statement of the Facts:
Joseph Hurtado was charged with killing Jose Antonio Stuardo. He was ultimately tried by a jury and convicted of first-degree murder. The court sentenced Hurtado to the death penalty.
The law in California allowed for an accusation by information, rather than an indictment by a grand jury. An information is a document filed by the district attorney that lists the charges against a defendant and is reviewed and approved by a magistrate before it becomes effective. In Hurtado's case, the district attorney charged him by filing an information. Following his conviction, Hurtado contended that not presenting his case to a grand jury for indictment violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Procedural History:
The trial court denied Hurtado's motion to set aside the verdict based upon a due process violation.
The California Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court took the case upon a writ of error from the California Supreme Court.
Issue and Holding:
Is an indictment by grand jury necessary to satisfy the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in state felony prosecutions? No.
The judgment of the California Supreme Court is affirmed.
Rule of Law or Legal Principle Applied:
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require that a state felony prosecution begin with indictment by a grand jury.
Reasoning:
The Constitution is a document written for an expanding and undefined future. The broad concept of "due process of law" should not be held static by requiring a certain legal process over another. Accordingly, indictment by grand jury is not mandated by the term "due process."
Indeed, the Fifth Amendment mentions both indictment by a grand jury and due process. Because there is no surplus language in the Constitution, the Fifth Amendment must be read to mean that due process does not necessarily include the right to indictment by grand jury. That is supported by the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment mentions due process, but not the grand jury. Moreover, the accusation by information in this case was reviewed by a magistrate. Thus, liberty and justice are still protected in that procedure such that Hurtado received due process.
Dissenting Opinion (Harlan):
The history of the concept of "due process" should necessarily include the requirement that a person be indicted by a grand jury, made up of people not beholden to the government.
Hurtado v. California, although over one-hundred years old, is still the source of the notion that state criminal legal systems do not have to allow for indictment by grand jury under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Harry Skelton claims first Champion Jump Jockey title
News | 23rd April 2021
Harry Skelton has been named Champion Jump Jockey for the first time in his career and will be presented with his trophy tomorrow at the Bet365 Jump Finale at Sandown (live on ITV1 from 1.25pm).
The 31-year-old claims the title after securing an unassailable tally of 151 winners so far this campaign, ten clear of last year's winner Brian Hughes (141 wins) – see the full 2020/21 Jump Jockeys' Championship standings.
Skelton, who is the son of Nick Skelton, two-time Olympic gold medal winner in showjumping, said: "Winning is all I've ever known, I've been brought up around that competitiveness and the winning mentality with my Dad and sport is all about winning."
"It's been a 24/7 battle with Brian who is a fierce competitor, a winner and a champion, but I am delighted that it will be my name on that Champion Jockey trophy come Saturday."
Harry's title win means he joins elite group of jockeys, the likes of John Francome, Richard Dunwoody, AP McCoy and Richard Johnson as those who have lifted the prestigious trophy.
Skelton predominately rides for his brother, Dan Skelton, with 136 of his 151 winners so far this season coming with Dan.
They are both based at Lodge Hill in Alcester and Harry paid tribute to the team at the yard: "I've been very lucky to have the support of all the people around me, my Dad and of course Dan, without his planning I wouldn't be in this position."
"Similarly, with my agent Ian Popham, my wife Bridget (Andrews), Tom Messenger who is our assistant and drives me up and down the country and is a very good friend, plus all the staff at Lodge Hill."
"Without all of them none of this would be possible and even though it will be my name on the trophy on Saturday, I want people to know it is more than just my name, it would be all of ours."
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Inauguration of Agriculture Irrigation and Water Supply Systems in Kampong Cham Commune, Kratie
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In Food Security, Kratie, News, Partners & Donors, Water & Sanitation, Weekly update from the field
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On February 25, 2014 CRDT cooperated with Kampong Cham commune council of Sambo district Kratie province to organize an inauguration ceremony of Agriculture Irrigation System in Samphin village and Water Supply System in Koh Phdao village as results of CRDT project called "Water for sustainable agriculture and alternative livelihood development" in KUSANONE project funded by the people of Japan the amount of USD$91,121.00 implemented from December 2012 to December 2013.
The ceremony was presided over by the deputy governor of Kratie province, Mr. Heour Si Yem; and the donor representative, Mr. UZAWA KAZUHIRO, Second Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia. CRDT's Executive Director, Mr. Or Channy and such other distinguished guests as the local authorities and the officials from line-departments in Kratie province. All these achievements have really been contributing to the improved welfare of 460 households with 2070 people living on the island to have access to clean water for daily consumption and rice cultivation as well.
The systems built today is another remarkable achievement of CRDT livelihood program on water and sanitation which is very important for subsistence communities in the remote areas along the Mekong River in Kratie province. Clean water is playing crucial role to improve people's health, nutrition, and hygiene for their quality of life. The communities and the local authorities as well as CRDT would like to deeply thank the people of Japan for this generous support for our community to have better living condition.
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Orzechów Nowy – dawna gromada, czyli najmniejsza jednostka podziału terytorialnego Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej w latach 1954–1972.

Gromady, z gromadzkimi radami narodowymi (GRN) jako organami władzy najniższego stopnia na wsi, funkcjonowały od reformy reorganizującej administrację wiejską przeprowadzonej jesienią 1954 do momentu ich zniesienia z dniem 1 stycznia 1973, tym samym wypierając organizację gminną w latach 1954–1972.

Gromadę Orzechów Nowy z siedzibą GRN w Orzechowie Nowym (w obecnym brzmieniu Nowy Orzechów) utworzono – jako jedną z 8759 gromad na obszarze Polski – w powiecie włodawskim w woj. lubelskim na mocy uchwały nr 17 WRN w Lublinie z dnia 5 października 1954. W skład jednostki weszły obszary dotychczasowych gromad Orzechów, Orzechów Stary i Orzechów Nowy ze zniesionej gminy Uścimów oraz obszar dotychczasowej gromady Lejno wraz z miejscowością Komarówka wieś z dotychczasowej gromady Komarówka ze zniesionej gminy Wola Wereszczyńska w tymże powiecie. Dla gromady ustalono 12 członków gromadzkiej rady narodowej.

29 lutego 1956 z gromady Orzechów Nowy wyłączono kolonię Bobryk, włączając ją do gromady Uścimów w tymże powiecie.

1 stycznia 1957 gromadę włączono do powiatu parczewskiego w tymże województwie.

1 stycznia 1960 gromadę zniesiono, włączając jej obszar do gromad Sosnowica (wsie Komarówka, Lejno, Orzechów Nowy, Zamłynice i Orzechów Stary oraz kolonię Dalczekąt) i Uścimów (kolonię Orzechów) w tymże powiecie.

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Q: How to parameterize the surface of a sphere such that the parameters are symmetric? The sphere is a perfectly symmetrical object, in that all orientations (unitary transformations of the Cartesian coordinates) look the same.
However, when one tries to parametrize the surface of a sphere, the parameters are non-symmetric. For example, using the standard spherical coordinates, the radial angle $\theta$ acts one way (going from 0 to $2\pi$), and the azimuth angle $\varphi$ acts a different way (going from 0 to $\pi$). You can't interchange these parameters, or apply unitary transforms to them without breaking your parameterization of the sphere's surface.
Is there any other way to parameterize the surface of a sphere (a hyper-sphere in general) such that there's complete symmetry between the parameters?
One way I can think of is to pick any $x$, $y$, and $z$ coordinates and then project them onto the sphere (by dividing by their radius). However, this is a cheat, because 1 of those 3 parameters is essentially no longer free.
P.S.: Another question I have (which could just be a different formulation of the same question) is: is there any parameterization $(u, v)$ of the surface of the sphere such that, for any choice of $(u, v)$, the area $A$ of the rectangle with opposing corners at $(u, v)$ and $(u + du, v + dv)$ will always be the same. For example, this isn't the case with standard spherical coordinates, because rectangles where $\varphi$ is close to $0$ are much smaller than rectangles where $\varphi$ is close to $\frac{\pi}{2}$.

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FAIL: Justin Trudeau Tries Putting Positive Spin On Evaporation Of Canada's NAFTA Leverage
MoneySpencerFernando August 27, 2018 9
Our auto industry is now facing a serious threat.
Justin Trudeau has commented publicly following Donald Trump's announcement of the "U.S. – Mexico Trade Agreement."
Here's what Trudeau said:
"We are encouraged by the optimism expressed by the U.S. and Mexico" and are ready to "continue the hard work of modernizing and negotiating a better deal for all of us," Trudeau said in Nanaimo. "But we also recognize that we will only sign a good deal for Canadians."
"We know that there have been moments of positive enthusiasm and momentum over the past months as this progresses, we seem to be in a more positive moment now, but we're just going to keep focused on doing the work we need to do to get to the right place for Canadians," Trudeau said. "We're working to achieve a good deal, not just any deal."
This is deceptive spin attempting to mask failure.
The truth is that Canada's negotiating leverage has evaporated, and our auto sector is now at risk. Mexico has negotiated a deal in which they are protected from auto tariffs from the U.S., while that tariff threat is now being applied to Canada.
The Trump Administration has repeatedly brought up supply management, which Trump sees as an unacceptable barrier to U.S. dairy products entering Canada. The Trudeau government has said they won't budge on it, meaning the government could end up being forced into a choice between supply management or the Canadian auto industry.
It didn't have to be this way, as there was a window for a quick Canada-U.S. bilateral deal last year – when the U.S. was for more upset with Mexico. But instead of taking that opportunity, the Trudeau government went on a virtue-signalling tour, and talked about "solidarity" with Mexico – something that Mexico wasn't foolish enough to reciprocate when they got their own bilateral deal done.
Trudeau and Freeland's failure has put Canada in an incredibly weak situation, and Trudeau's "everything is fine" rhetoric makes him look even more incompetent and out of touch.
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Trudeau's commitment to "continue the hard work of modernizing and negotiating a better deal for all of us" where "modernizing" presumably is code word for incorporating climate change and his ridiculous social justice issues.
Whacko-O-Doodle-DO….! Another case of a loony liberal, Left's, Laughable, Legitimately, Lackluster, Hypocrisy… Today's letter of the day is "L". Do you know any other "L" words to describe the Liberal party of Canada?
Trudeau's NAFTA and trade negotiating skills have plotted a course that has lead the good ship Canada straight into the mammoth iceberg called America. And just like the captain of the Titanic, who was more concerned about the wealthy and well connected paying passengers on the upper decks, he was prepared to go down with the ship, as he ordered the band to play on as the crew re- arranged the deck chairs, as the ship was sinking. So to Justin Trudeau has been blinded, not by speed but by personal glory, at the expense of the passengers/citizens on the… Read more »
trudeau the feminist puppet & his leftist rats are a cancer. I personally, highly doubt they are even trying to make a deal. The anti – Canadian liberals will try & get political mileage by blaming everything on Trump for upcoming Canadian election. And the leftist media will set the narrative almost guaranteed. My $0.02.
Unfortunately, both Trudeau and Scheer are both beholden to the dairy farmers lobby group, in fact they are both scared witless of these people, therefore, my bet is that the auto workers get sacrificed. Any potential trade agreement with the US simply won't happen, with all the blame falling directly on our supply management proponents, Trudeau and Scheer.
Ha, Trudeau will not want to hurt Quebec's big expensive quota system to supply dairy to the whole country,(but 87 seats) I bet, but Ontario is now Conservative so he may feel it is OK to drop it, maybe that is why Wynne and Trudeau gave the big donation to the Toyota?/Honda? Plants and Magna car parts plant here in Ontario (but 121 seats). So what will the drama queen do? Is there time before the next election to collapse the country? as they have been working on, or is it all planned out again the foreign fixed election corruption,… Read more »
The Mexican politicians are hard nosed tough people who had to fight like hell to get where they are, unlike the soft self entitled selfie pussy hat bigots who run Canada at the moment. Mexicans look after themselves first rather than virtue – signal, pretending to look after and preach to the whole world. I don't blame them one bit.
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"… the Trudeau government went on a virtue-signalling tour, and talked about "solidarity" with Mexico – something that Mexico wasn't foolish enough to reciprocate when they got their own bilateral deal done." Yes, it seems that few to no world leaders have had any interest in interacting with this Liberal government. It's just like which conference was that when Justin was walking around, shuffling stuff in his bag, all alone with the other world leaders talking amongst themselves and ignoring him. It's like trying to converse with a child about the subtleties and nuances of your work when you know… Read more »
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Steve Austin Recalls Brian Pillman Givng Him One Of His Worst Beatings In The Ring
By William Windsor |June 23, 2018
Recently on The Steve Austin Show, WWE Hall Of Famer Steve Austin talked about the late great Brian Pillman. Specifically, Austin talked about "the receipt" he received for giving Pillman a stiff beatdown on RAW being one of the worst beatings he ever received during his legendary pro wrestling career. Also, Austin talked about his friendship with his former Hollywood Blonds tag team partner and Pillman's last day.
On the October 27, 1996 episode of WWE Monday Night RAW, Austin memorably broke a cane over Pillman's surgically repaired ankle. During that segment, Austin gave Pillman such a stiff beating that 'The Loose Cannon' was brought to an ambulance after the match and Austin went to check on him, not knowing how severely hurt Pillman was.
"When I shanghaied Brian Pillman with that big right hand, kind of like a clothesline, I stomped a mudhole in his ass and walked it dry. I was working, but it was a damn near shoot because it had to be. I was wearing those heavy ass, Hi-Tech Magnum boots, and I still wear them to this day, and those things have a damn sole on them. They're very, very comfortable, but I stomped the s–t out of him. I was stomping him. I was kicking him. I was beating him to death." Austin continued, "if you watch that footage back, Brian was walking around with that cane and there was a brass duck head on top of that cane that you put your hand on. So when I took that baseball swing and hit him in his shin. And he had his leg bandaged up. There was some plastic wrapped around his shin, so I didn't break his shin, but the stick broke. The walking stick broke. And if you watch that footage back, watch that brass duck head, as I hit him in the leg, fly off right into the crowd. And I believe it hit the top of that metal barricade. And it damn near could have easily hurt somebody, but we got lucky that it didn't. And believe me, when I swung that damn walking stick, I was swinging for the fence. It broke off."
According to Austin, Pillman's "receipt" for the beating in the video above was one of the worst beatings Austin ever received in pro wrestling.
"If you will remember, a couple of weeks or a couple of months later, he turned the tides on me. And let me tell you something, mister, as bad and as hard as I was kicking the s–t out of him, he gave it to me and then some. He beat the flying s–t out of me. And I wasn't selling it and I knew I had it coming. And I knew there was going to be a receipt on that ass-whooping. And I didn't know how Brian was going to respond because it was weeks or months later. But when he beat the dog s–t out of me, I mean, that was one of the worst beatings I've ever had in my time in the business and that's a straight up shoot. Brian was kicking the s–t out of me. And on a note, when I was finished kicking the s–t out of Brian, they pulled him out of there. I think they put him on a damn gurney or something and carried him off and they took him to the opposite side of the arena. I went back to the dressing room. They took him and put him in an ambulance. I actually asked all of the agents, I said, 'hey man,' I said, 'is he okay?' because that's how bad I was beating him and that's how stiff I was on that beating." Austin added, "anytime I got a chance to do business with Brian, it was a good time, but it was very competitive. And, by the same token, be beat the flying s–t out of me when he wore my ass out and that's the bottom line."
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Austin went on to remember Pillman as one of his best friends in the pro wrestling business. Austin praised Pillman for being ahead of his time and 'The Broken Skull Rancher' recalled seeing Pillman "wobbling" the night of his untimely passing and assuming everything was fine.
"The late great Brian Pillman, man, one of my best friends in the history of the business, one of my tag team partners as Hollywood Blonds, and then, the cutting edge character that was 'The Loose Cannon' Brian Pillman that he created and really launched. He did that and kayfabed everybody and worked everybody. What a phenomenal mind and a guy who overcame every obstacle that life through at him. And it's just sad. I'll never forget that night in Minnesota when we got done working that house show and we had that pay-per-view the next day. And Brian was kind of wobbling through the dressing room and I didn't think anything of it. I just figured, 'that's Brian – he'll be fine.' And he wasn't fine. He ended up dying that night. We found out the next day at that pay-per-view." Austin reflected, "I'll never forget that Porsche that he had when he was in Cincinnati [Ohio] and he scared the living s–t out of me. I thought the guy… one of the smartest guys I've ever known and one of the craziest guys I've ever known."
"When you're beating the f–k out of somebody, s–t happens." If you use any of the quotes from this article, please credit The Steve Austin Show with an H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
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With feed prices rising, pig meat producers in the UK coming off contracts could be facing, on average, an extra £12 a metric ton to renew.
This equates to as much as 4p per kg deadweight according to a feed cost report just published by the British Pig Executive (BPEX).
BPEX said there is a whole range of factors driving the price increases for cereals, including the drought affecting EU production, low cereal stock levels, fears about new importers and the rise in interest in biofuels.
In the UK, for example, a biofuel plant is under construction which will take 750,000 metric tons of wheat a year. Report author Tony Fowler, BPEX Senior Economic Analyst, said: "Biofuels are being promoted by governments around the world as a sustainable energy source. The downside of this is that as they compete with animals and humans for feed, prices will be driven up."
Prices are set to show some further rises through the remainder of the current season, which will push up pig production costs. "But more plentiful EU supplies combined with adequate sources in the Ukraine and North America and lower soya prices should mean that prices are unlikely to approach the high levels of 2003/04," said BPEX KT Manager Richard Bull. "However continuing uncertainty over the southern hemisphere harvests is likely to lead to some volatility in cereal prices over the next few months," according to Bull.


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The saying, "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar" is true then and still rings true today. Whether you are going on a Tinder date tonight, buying groceries, waiting in line, or that cute guy you've had your eye on finally said hello, let's work together to be kinder toward each other. It's easy to be kind to those we like, but let's try to be kind to everyone. They may need it more than you realize.
Jessica Simpson shoes bought from Nordstrom.
These would look great with any outfit, great for Spring and Summer too!
She may not be involved in any branch of government, but Sofia Vergara's presence on a prime time TV show that is on a major network [Modern Family on ABC] and being Latina is a big deal. I hope other shows and networks take note and write more positive female characters. I'm sure they realize it works and is accepted across the board. Let's keep it moving (and reboot Living Singles while they are at it)!
We hope you are having a delicious week so far! This week is dedicated to the stir-fry. It's a quick, easy way to get dinner on the table with almost everything cooked in one dish. This week is stir-fry Teriyaki chicken with veggies over white rice. You can use the sauce over beef, tofu, seafood or pork if you prefer. It's a versatile flavor that most will enjoy.
The raw seasoned chicken with the green and red peppers on the side.
This week Money Monday is dedicated to a short (well, a little over 4 minutes long) video from Suze Orman. If you are not familiar with her, I suggest you check her out. She gives fantastic financial advice that covers a very wide range of topics that apply to your life at some point in your journey.
Who do you know would benefit from hearing this video? It's definitely worth a share or two!


Qualcomm has unveiled its next generation SoC for high end smartphones, the Snapdragon 835. Built in collaboration with Samsung using its new 10-nanometer FinFET process, the chip promises to improve performance and energy over the Snapdragon 820 and 821's 14nm FinFE, and is set to land in devices at some point during the first half of next year.
The new design promises a 27% increase in performance while using 40% less power than its predecessor, which should translate into better battery life. The Snapdragon 835 will also allow smartphones to charge faster thanks to the introduction of Quick Charge 4, which supposedly can offer 20% faster charge times and deliver up to 5 hours of battery life in only 5 minutes of charging.
That's certainly an impressive claim that we'll have to put to the test ourselves. Qualcomm is making this claim based on internal testing on a 2750mAh battery.
Quick Charge 4 comes with advanced safety features for both the adapter and mobile device. Protection is implemented at multiple levels and throughout the entire charging process to more accurately measure voltage, current, and temperature while protecting the battery, system, cables and connectors. An additional layer of protection is also being added to help prevent battery over-charging and regulate current throughout every charge cycle.
Qualcomm didn't mention any device partners but likely candidates include include Samsung's upcoming flagship handsets like the Galaxy S8. The Snapdragon 820 and 821 are used in devices like the Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5, and HTC 10, and Lenovo Phab 2 Pro.


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Equifax, others must secure apps as part of New York settlement
The New York AG's office says five company's apps were prone to man-in-the-middle attacks.
The New York attorney general's office said five apps made by well-known companies could have leaked user data. The firms – Western Union, Priceline, Equifax, Spark Networks and Credit Sesame – have agreed to revamp the security of their apps as part of a settlement announced Friday.
The state office said the companies failed to use the proper protocols to secure user information that is transmitted over the internet, despite assuring users about the security of the apps in question.
"Businesses that make security promises to their users – especially as it relates to personal information – have a duty to keep those promises," said Barbara Underwood, the New York attorney general, in a statement.
The AG's office said that the apps at had a "well-known security vulnerability" that could enable man-in-the-middle attacks, whereby a hacker can intercept data when it's sent via a wireless connection. The office explained that apps that fail to properly implement the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to protect data in transit are particularly susceptible to such an attack. This settlement only is the latest in which state attorneys or the Federal Trade Commission have faulted organizations for exaggerating their security practices.
"Although each company represented to users that it used reasonable security measures to protect their information, the companies failed to sufficiently test whether their mobile apps had this vulnerability," the office said. "Certain versions of the companies' apps all failed to properly authenticate the SSL/TLS certificates they received. As a result, an attacker could have impersonated the companies' servers and intercepted information entered into the app by the user."
The companies implicated in the settlement are a diverse set that handle data that includes basic contact information, login credentials, banking or payment information and Social Security numbers. Such information could be used for fraud.
The settlement requires the companies to "implement comprehensive security programs to protect user information." It was not immediately clear what those programs must entail. The office of the attorney general did not respond to a request for comment.
The settlement is part of a broader effort to find security flaws in consumer products before they are exploited.
"As part of this initiative, the office tested dozens of mobile apps that handle sensitive user information, such as credit card and bank account numbers," the office said.
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Live Nation blames bots and an 'attack' for Taylor Swift fiasco
Facebook warns 1 million users about apps trying to compromise accounts
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FTC holds alcohol delivery app Drizly and its CEO liable for lax data security before 2020 hack
The order makes the unusual move in specifically naming the company's CEO and could signal a more aggressive FTC on privacy matters.
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Regulators slam Twitter with $150M fine over using consumer security data for advertising
Travel-booking company Sabre Corp. settles with 27 states over breach of credit card data
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Zoom pushes new tools meant to counter 'Zoombombing'
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Facebook, Twitter aim to slow spread of New York Post article amid disinformation concerns
Former Uber CSO criminally charged with covering up 2016 data breach
Apple's Attest API tool aims to tighten app security
NSA director urges Congress to renew controversial intelligence authority


Located on a cul de sac in James Island's Lawton Harbor neighborhood, this spacious home at 1047 Jamsie Cove is a perfect fit for many home buyers. The location is ideal. Tucked off of Harbor View Road, the neighborhood is extremely residential yet you are still close to major services. A grocery store and popular local restaurants such as La Tabella are found right around the corner on Harbor View Road. Downtown Charleston is just a short ten minute drive and Folly Beach is the same distance in the other direction.
Set back from the street, 1047 Jamsie Cove has a large front yard which is accented by mature shrubbery and trees. An attached two car garage provides ample room for storage or parking. Inside, the floor plan downstairs is open with tall two-story ceilings in the foyer and great room. Hardwood floors run throughout the space and there is a formal dining room located to the left of the entryway. The main gathering space of the home is the great room and kitchen which are open to one another. A wood-burning fireplace anchors the great room while the adjacent kitchen has been completely renovated with granite counters, stainless appliances, under cabinet lighting and a tile backsplash. A breakfast nook extends from the kitchen and has built-in bench seating.
The master bedroom is located on the first floor of the home. The spacious suite is accented by hardwood floors, a walk-in California Closet and an en suite bathroom with a tub and separate shower. A large guest room is located upstairs along with an additional, smaller bedroom. An open hallway overlooks the foyer and great room–flooding the upstairs with natural light. An additional loft space is located at the opposite end of the bedrooms. This versatile space could be used as an office, playroom, media center or additional bedroom.
Outside, the large backyard is fenced in for privacy and has an irrigation system for easy maintenance. A spacious screen porch opens from the living area and provides an excellent spot to relax while enjoying Charleston's warm weather.
For more information or to set up a showing, contact either Charlie Inglefield or Melissa Martin.


In Cascade 8, many actions involve use of the Chooser Panel. The Chooser Panel has slightly different options depending on what you're doing (placing an image, moving a page, linking to a PDF, etc), but the basic operation is the same.
The Recent tab is a simple list of assets which you have recently interacted with, either you viewed them, edited them, or uploaded them. Simply select the asset you wish from the list by selecting the circle next to its name.
If you haven't yet uploaded your asset to the system, good news: Cascade 8 allows you to do this right here. Choose Upload to add a new file from your computer. Either drag and drop a file into the chooser panel or click the choose link to select a file from your computer. The File Name is automatically generated in all lowercase characters and hyphens in place of spaces. Select a Placement Folder and click the Choose button at the top to complete the process.


The heelflip heard 'round the world. It is safe to say that this dude is not afraid of death. Just about every trick in this introductory part has an extremely high risk factor involved. That 540 over the hip at Burnside was pretty amazing too. Congrats Squints! You definitely deserve a spot on the team.
Matt Miller is known for his superior tech skills and MASSIVE pop. This part is a perfect blend of all of Mr. Miller's greatest qualities. Mind-numbing lines and crazy popped tricks. The two tricks that stand out the most are his nollie straight over the back of the rail to 5050 down, and the frontside shuv-it 5050 on that super tall bank to rail. Matt's new shoe looks dope too.
The Bird Man and Andrew Reynolds sit down and have a chat with everyone's favorite skateboard talk show hosts, Rob Brink and Lee Dupont. Tony Hawk and Andrew Reynolds go way back, and it's really cool listening to Tony talk about how he chose Andrew Reynolds to be added to the Birdhouse squad back in the day. Although one is the king of vert skating and the other is the king of street skating, they have a ton of similarities. This is by far one of the most epic Weekend Buzz episodes to come out in a long time. They switched up the location for the episode and everything. Can't wait for part 2 next week.


In 1947 James Crawford Sr. started Ace Welding Supply in Detroit, Michigan. In 1968, shortly after the Detroit Riots, he relocated his business to Redford, Michigan.
When Mr. Crawford retired in the mid 70's his son Jim Crawford Jr. and son-in-law Danny Faur took over the business for the next 30 years. In 1999 Jim Crawford Jr. became sole owner.
Now, 17 years later, Jim's daughter Debbie will be the 3rd generation to operate the family business.
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We are able to repair all makes and models of welding regulators and torches. In addition to repairing equipment we can provide a full line of welding equipment.
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(1906-1995) Playwright. Sidney Kingsley was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Oakland, New Jersey.
Sidney Kingsley was born Sidney Kirshner in Manhattan, New York, on October 18, 1906.
Sidney Kingsley died in Oakland, New Jersey, on March 20, 1995.
Play. Mr. Kingsley received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play in 1934.
Mr. Kingsley received a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.


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Mission to the Amazon rainforest on August 2021
Thank you very much for keep supporting the foundation Solidaridad sin Limites from Colombia!
As a return to your valuable support, we would like to share with you this month's Newsletter from the program, that we hope you'd enjoy!
Resume of the mission to the Amazonas in August 2021
On the 12th of August, the first members of Solidaridad Sin Límites arrived in Leticia, the capital of the Amazon in Colombia, and found out the first obstacles.
Members were coming from different cities of Colombia between the 12th and the 13th and the Internet was unavailable in the Amazon rainforest, which made it hard for the members to communicate with each other. But finally, they were able to meet at a point before traveling all together to the mission.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of funds, they were unable to arrive at Mirití Paraná and to pay for the second flight, so they decided to change the mission to Mocagua. Mocagua is a community located only 2h by boat from Leticia, which made it cheaper.
Mocagua is a more modern community than Mirití Paraná because it is nearer to the civilization but, according to Paula, they didn't receive a healthcare mission for their community for more than 4 years. Even though the community was relatively more modern, they still received them with a ritual made of smoke to eliminate the bad energies.
They visited different tribes inside of the community such as Tikuna, Cocama, Yagua, Okainas, and Huitotos.
More than 550 people received support in health care (general medicine, pediatrics, speech therapy, psychology…etc.)
Besides the medical support, they also received legal support and received some biodegradable towels and clothes made by some volunteers and hygiene kits.
The compromise of the team of Solidaridad Sin Limites is always to sleep and eat the same way the community does. That is why they had to try typical dishes like the mojojoys, a kind of worms that are eaten alive in the community. The main diet of the community is based on fish and bananas, which they cook in very different ways. But sometimes they eat other dishes such as pasta.
For sleeping, the community offered them biodegradable cabins because they are trying to start a business offering accommodation to tourists and travelers interested in sustainable and ecofriendly alternatives and interested in the life of the indigenous people.
Overall, they are very proud of their achievements, but they are still owing money to the airplane company that allowed them to have a credit and pay later. They are planning to visit Mirití Paraná in the month of February of 2022, once the resources will be enough for the cost of the transportation to this community.
From Airfunding we wish them luck and hope they can go to visit another community and to keep offering free healthcare and other services to everyone in need.
Spanish- one of the most spoken languages in the world.
More than 585 million people speak Spanish in the world. This means that it is the 2nd most spoken language in the world. More than 20 countries have Spanish as an official language and it is spoken in Spain, South America, and some parts of the USA.
There are many different languages depending on the communities in Colombia. However, Spanish is spoken by the majority of them.
Today, we would like to teach you some basic Spanish so you could practice in the next streaming or if you ever want to visit some of the countries where Spanish is spoken.as a main language.
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We have made it through Easter, encountered the risen Christ and are moving from there. The next two events are Ascension Thursday (or Ascension Sunday if the church doesn't have Thursday services) and the ten days later is Pentecost which then leads to the beginning of Ordinary Times, which lasts to the beginning of Advent on the last Sunday of November.
So what is the significance of these holidays, and what can we learn from them, both as individuals and as the family of God united together?
Pentecost, originally the outpouring of the Holy Spirit with life-changing power that resulted in the birth of the church, changed lives, which then enabled those who have experienced it to go out and change their world.
In these days of declining, in many cases, of church attendance and membership in many of the Christian churches, how can we stop this trend? How can we be a vibrant, living church, with a message that can change lives and our world, and make us into the real deal, the true arms and legs of Jesus to a lost and dying world? How can we experience Pentecost in our lives today?
There are a few things we need to look at. There is a work of preparation that needs to be done before we can be ready to receive our Pentecost. First we need to examine our view of Jesus.
The first thing the disciples had to do was let go of the Jesus they knew. The Jesus they knew had gone about preaching, teaching, healing the sick, delivering people under demonic attack and influence, feeding the hungry, raising the dead, and who had just spent 40 days with them, sharing with them, and partaking of meals with them. I am sure they would have liked Jesus to hang around indefinitely and never leave them again. After all, the resurrection, in their eyes, could only mean one thing - the kingdom being restored to Israel. The hated Romans would be driven out and Israel made the new masters.
However Jesus says that it was expedient for Him to leave so that the Holy Spirit could come. I am not sure if the disciples understood who the Holy Spirit was, let alone had any idea of what was going to happen in the future. All they would have known was that Jesus was leaving them and going back to the Father.
Also He said it was a good thing for them that He went, so they gathered together one last time and watched as He ascended out of their sight into heaven, leaving them one last instruction - to go and wait for the promise of the father.
For us, the leaving of any preconceived notions of Jesus is a must. Yes, Jesus is the Son of God, as well as God, and divine. However it can't stop there. If our view of Jesus is based on what we were taught in Sunday School or what some pastor/priest told us, a college professor somewhere taught us, or Jesus is just a historical character who lived long ago, we will never experience Pentecost any more than the disciples would have, if they had held on to their ideas of Jesus and making Him conform to them, instead of letting Him ascend into heaven so a new thing could happen.
As long as we worship false Christ's and follow false teachings, see Jesus as blonde, blue-eyed, pro-American, and in favor of everyone being rich in material things, we will miss Pentecost.
Jesus was a Middle Easterner, with brown skin, black hair, a Jewish religious leader. Theologically he would have been a Pharisee agreeing with them doctrinally, but denouncing their religious practices as hypocritical. He was opposed to oppressing the poor and taught that the poor were blessed and the rich were the ones, who in many cases missed God.
In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man it is Lazarus the beggar who is in heaven, and the rich man who is in Hades suffering. The rich man's riches didn't earn him any favors from God, nor will they today earn anyone favors from God. God can use rich people. John and James were the sons of a businessman. Matthew was a tax collector, and if the Mary who is the sister of Lazarus was the one who anointed the feet of Jesus, she was very rich woman, bringing a box of perfume worth a years wages to anoint the feet of Jesus. It is our view of Jesus and how we see Him that makes the difference.
The last words spoken by Jesus to his disciples prior to His ascent into heaven were to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the father. In the Hebrew the word Jerusalem means city of peace. As we shall see, for the disciples that was the Upper Room where they waited for 10 days, praying before the Holy Spirit fell on them.
It was a haven for them, that in spite of all the turmoil, hustle, bustle and persecution they faced in the city, especially in the Temple, they could earnestly seek God without any disturbance, until God spoke in the mighty wind of Pentecost. In the same way we too need to find a peaceful place where it is just God and us, and God can then speak to us. No distractions, phone ringing, TV blaring or radio, kids, people, pets or anything else, just for this moment, a time for just you and Jesus/God to be alone, and ready ourselves for whatever happens next.
In Acts the 2nd chapter we read that they were gathered in one accord. In Greek the word accord means "to be of one mind unanimously".
Tradition says there were 120 gathered in the Upper Room that morning when the Holy Spirit fell. They were all praying in one accord, however it is my belief that is not what brought Pentecost.
Had they been praying for anything they themselves wanted, Pentecost would never have happened even if they tarried there for the next century. Pentecost came because people were praying and seeking God for His promise spoken of by Jesus just seconds before His ascension. It wasn't about what they wanted, but what God wanted and the new thing He was about to do among them. Because that was their focus and they were open to whatever was about to happen Pentecost could happen, and did.
Today it seems the church is totally divided and in agreement on nothing. One part wants to curse another part of the body of Christ because they don't believe like they do, act like they do, engage in practices which they approve of, and so on. Fortunately that's okay as it is according to Jesus, whatever two or more agree on, will be done by the father in heaven. The apostle John tells us if we ask according to the will of the father it will be done for us.
One thing we know is that God is love and Jesus commands us to love. So how is that manifested, and how can it help us to receive our own Pentecost? As a former Pentecostal preacher I might have answered, it's about speaking in tongues, performing miracles, getting slain in the spirit, receiving fresh revelations and visions from God, dancing, shaking and getting myself worked up into a state of mind of euphoria, or as we called it getting "Drunk in the Spirit". However is that what Pentecost is all about, or is there something else Pentecost is supposed to do for us? If so, what is the fruit of it, how will it manifest itself, and how will we recognize it and its operation in us, our churches and in our world?
As I look further in Acts 2 I can see that the people were changed. No longer were they cowering behind locked doors in fear for their lives. Instead they had a new-found love for people, and a desire that they hear the truth about Jesus, what He came to do, and His death and resurrection. They no longer cared what might happen to them as long as the Gospel got proclaimed, and people had their chance to respond to the message, either positively, as 3,000 did, or negatively, as the rest did.
In the same way, if we have encountered the Holy Spirit we too will have a love for people and want them to know Jesus. We can also not ignore the needs of people, pretend their problems are of no concern to us, or they don't exist or are unworthy of our attention due to a lifestyle we don't approve of, the color of their skin, their past, not behaving or believing like we think they should; none of those are options anymore. There can be no hate or bigotry, as love conquers them. That leaves only room for love for all peoples, just as Jesus displayed when here, and through His death on the cross for all of human kind.
As I continue on I see that those who responded to the message concerning Jesus were baptized and continued on in the church. The word for baptize in the Greek means "to overwhelm something, making it fully wet, to absolve and to wash". Essentially, the people had their sins washed away and were cleansed symbolically through the waters of baptism. After that they were taught the apostle's doctrine, continued in fellowship, breaking of bread and in prayers.
For us today we need to realize, whether laity or clergy or monastics, we are not perfect but are forgiven people. We blow it from time to time and have to confess, go to confession, and seek forgiveness. That is a normal part of living. Most churches are good on offering fellowship, breaking of bread with one another, and in praying to some extent. But what about continuing in the apostle's doctrine. What does that mean?
Most would say they are beliefs and practices handed down to us from the early Church Fathers. They are summarized in the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed, and are used to define who is Orthodox, and therefore Christian, and who is not.
Many will follow their interpretations of the creeds legalistically allowing for no changes whatsoever. As it was done in 1,000 AD (for example), it will still be done that way today, with no deviation. However I have major problems with that.
As I have said before, I am a Catholic monk, and a firm believer in apostolic succession and apostolic tradition. However, we need to be open to God and new ways of presenting our beliefs and traditions to people in the 21st century if we are to remain relevant and a live church to our generation. Because it worked in the first century, or in the Middle Ages, or even a hundred years ago does not mean it will work for us today. There is much we can learn from our forefathers in the faith. However we are not them, times have changed, new issues have arisen that require new understanding, new solutions and ideas to solve them, and to meet people where they are now.
Most people, I suspect, could care less about our apostolic succession, our doctrines (at least when they first come through our door), or anything else except for one thing - can we help them? Do we have something to offer that will change their lives? Can they find love and the real deal manifested among us? Are we more concerned with keeping the carpets clean as well as the pews, making sure only the right people enter our churches so we don't sully our reputation in the neighborhood or drive some of our parishioners off? Are we the church of the frozen chosen or the real deal, on fire with something to offer? How can we tell? Follow me as I look as the last thing I see as a manifestation of a true Pentecost.
The last thing I see here is they were people of compassion. They went and sold their lands and possessions in order to make sure everyone's needs were met. No holding back for a rainy day, new house, new chariot or anything else. This was a voluntary act on their part as Peter makes plain in the case of Ananias and Sapphira when they lied and claimed they sold their land like everyone else and had given all the proceeds to the church and kept nothing for themselves. It was all a lie, which the Holy Spirit revealed to Peter and he then confronted them over. He told them that the land was theirs to do with whatever they wanted. They could have kept it, sold it, and given a part of what they made from the sale to the church while keeping back a part for themselves. However they chose to lie and were struck dead. So then the apostles and the early Christians were so concerned about others, they willingly gave up what they had so no one had to suffer.
Do we see things as things we are stewards over, and will be judged for on how we handled them? Do we see them as belonging to God and for His use, and to do with as He sees fit?
Again, there is nothing wrong with being wealthy and having nice things, but where do our priorities lie? Do we offer God leftovers, old clothes that don't fit us anymore or have gone out of fashion, a clunky old car that can barely make it around the block and is costing us an arm and a leg to maintain, so give it away and let someone else have the headaches, or maybe the leftovers from a meal you prepared that you don't want to waste so you take it over to your neighbor, or whatever the case may be where you are giving less than your best?
Does God get the leftovers after everything has been spent? In the Bible times both in the Old Testament as well as the New people tithed the first 10% of their income before anything else got done bills paid, food brought etc. If you showed up with an offering to God that was deemed second best or not the perfect sacrifice or offering required by God you'd be turned away and your offering would be rejected as unacceptable. For us today it is for us to consider whether God is getting our best or something less. If we are giving our best from a platform of compassion and love then we can receive, and have our own Pentecost both in ourselves, our churches and together as the united people of God wanting only what he wants and looking for the new thing he has for us or is looking to do, that we can bless others and show them the real deal - Jesus in the flesh.
Some may ask, so what is all this leading to? Why do we need Pentecost or the Holy Spirit? Why can't we just live life" normally" and do what it takes to get through each day?
We need Pentecost and the Holy Spirit to help us live our lives successfully as witnesses for Jesus in ordinary times. Miracles are nice and they happen occasionally. However for most of us they are not a daily occurrence, nor were they in biblical times. The miracles of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, cover a period of 3 and ½ years, and the miracles in the book of Acts, a period of approximately 40 years from the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus in about 30 AD to just before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
It is my belief that the reasons why the miracles we have were recorded is because they were extraordinary, just as they are now. I suspect there were many days especially in the early days of the church when nothing special was happening, and it was getting up and doing the routine things of life. Getting up in the morning, showering and taking care of the morning ablutions, dressing, having something eat, going to work, coming home, having dinner, feed the pets, watch TV or get on the computer, try to spend a bit of time with the kids or wife/husband/partner before going to bed, only to get up the next morning and do it all over again.
On top of that whatever free time we have has to be spent on paying the bills, rent, cable, doing the laundry, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn or raking up leaves etc. Maybe if we get lucky we can watch our favorite sports team play on Saturday, and maybe even find the strength to go with the family to church on Sunday morning. In my opinion a major recipe for burnout and derailment, as well as giving up on the race and deciding it's just too hard to be a Christian, especially if the church wants to add a whole lot of rules and regulations to what we are already going through.
That is why we need the Holy Spirit and Pentecost. Left to ourselves we tend to be all over the place like a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. We tend to get bored and depressed easily and to lose hope. However with the Holy Spirit and Pentecost we have power through the Holy Spirit that changes us, can change our world, can make our churches alive and worth the drive for people to come to receive help and find Jesus.
It also keeps life interesting as we focus on God and what He is doing, and looking for the new things he has for us or wants to do, either for us, or in our midst, for His glory. This is God's plan for living in Ordinary Times as faithful witnesses of Jesus, and as his hands and feet to the rest of the world.
When we can be the real deal and others can see it, they will respond. As their needs are met in new and exciting ways they will come to Jesus, and our churches will once again be filled and growing.
When that happens our world will change and the visible kingdom of God come to reign over all the earth. Meanwhile, there is work to be done as I have already outlined, and many Pentecost's to happen to change and empower us. Let us, like the early disciples, believe and receive as they did at the original Pentecost.
Once having done that ,then in the power of the Holy Spirit, and as directed and led by Him, let us go forth and take our world for the cause of Christ. The early church took the message to all of the then-known world, and people said of them " See how they love one another". Let us go forth and do likewise, and give the world something to look at and see Christ in us whether they like it or not or believe in Him or not. Let us be known for the love we have for all of creation flowing out from the Christ within us. Then a new Pentecost will dawn just like in the Upper Room.
As always the thoughts expressed here are my own and are presented here for everyone's prayers, meditations on, considerations and then do with as God directs you. Any thoughts of comments welcomed.


Thousands of leathermen congregated in multiple micro scenes across London, while thousands more revelled at club nights and events further afield. Then came a crisis. Social history Social trends features. Networks of wealthy and closeted gay leather fans hosted invitation-only private parties to avoid the glare of the authorities. A string of closures has caused concern for those interested in a variety of fetishes, but the leather scene seems to have been hardest hit, particularly in London. People in other cities in the UK, where venues were sparse due to the difficulty of maintaining premises catering to a much smaller scene, now rely on one-off nights or travelling to fetish events abroad. Whitfield is concerned that the unique atmosphere of a leather bar will be lost to history.
Whitfield is concerned that the unique atmosphere of a leather bar will be lost to history. Social history Social trends features. A string of closures has caused concern for those interested in a variety of fetishes, but the leather scene seems to have been hardest hit, particularly in London. For how long, though, nobody quite knows. Inside, past three sets of doors and a changing room cordoned off with an old tarpaulin, is a shadowy warren of alcoves, cages and dark corners. Order by newest oldest recommendations.


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Jackson: Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Posted on October 27, 2021 by Billy Stevenson in cinema // 0 Comments
Heavenly Creatures is Peter Jackson's most ambitious film, stylistically speaking, poised between the gonzo experiments of his earlier splatter features and the more streamlined visions of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit franchises. It's also his only film based on historical events – the Parker-Hulme murder case. This took place in 1954, in Christchurch, and revolved around two schoolgirls, Pauline Parker, played here by Melanie Lynskey, and Juliet Hulme, played by Kate Winslet. Pauline and Juliet developed an intense friendship and created a complex imaginary universe that Juliet recorded in her diary, which forms the basis for Jackson and Fran Walsh's screenplay. Faced with the unthinkable possibility of being separated from each other, the two girls murdered Pauline's mother Honora, played by Sarah Peirse, in Victoria Park. The subsequent trial and conviction became a sensational media event and, in Jackson's vision, is the point when Christchurch came of age as a modern city.
To that end, Jackson opens with tourist footage of Christchurch from the 1950s – images that evoke a mid-century "city on the move." No sooner have we settled into this comfortable rhythm, however, than Jackson cuts to the immediate aftermath of the crime – Pauline and Juliet running maniacally from Sarah's body back to the café at the entrance to Victoria Park. The imagery here is visceral and confronting, but the camera work is positively nauseating – a vortical tracking-shot that suggests a version of the city that is utterly incommensurate with the more staid mobility of the tourist footage. This paves the way for a film that grows increasingly hyperactive to keep up with the sheer pace of Juliet and Pauline's relationship.
From the outset, Juliet and Pauline conform to two neurotic "types" of private school girls. Pauline is what we might now call "alt," a Goth before her time, perpetually leering at the camera with a Robert Smith-like scowl. By contrast, Juliet is precocious, arriving at Christchurch Girls' High School from England and immediately correcting her French teacher about the correct use of the subjunctive. Both girls also exist in a kind of subjunctive state with respect to the school culture too, which is thoroughly middle-class. While Pauline is also middle-class, she's lower middle-class – her father manages a fish supply chain, and humiliates her in an early scene by singing Mario Lanza to a mackerel. Similarly, Juliet is resolutely upper-class, and not just because of her English accent. Her father is the Rector of Canterbury, and her mother is a marriage counsellor to couples wealthy enough to afford her.
Both Juliet and Pauline thus find themselves caught in the intense cultural cringe and cultural anxiety that animates the relationship between New Zealand and the British Empire. Pauline is unable to live up to the lifestyle that Juliet embodies, while Juliet is also cultured enough to find Christchurch thoroughly parochial. In another kind of story, this might have made the two girls mortal enemies, but here it bonds them into a shared disgust for the middle-class mores that their school represents. This is partly because they are both alienated, in different but equal ways, from their own families and from their own bodies, meaning that they're even more incapable of conforming to the demands of middle-class feminine respectability.
Whereas Juliet doesn't really have parents, Pauline doesn't really want them. We gradually learn that Juliet has been more or less abandoned by her parents, who have also abandoned each other in the marriage. She's had periods of sickness when they dump her in hospital and travel the globe, and they're just as disinterested in her when she's well. Pauline's parents are more present, but you sense they care for her out of a generic middle-class obligation rather than with any real feeling. Since the nuclear family has effectively failed in both households, both couples have to bring in a fantastic supplement. Pauline's parents fill their house with lodgers (another testament to their lower middle-class status) and Juliet's mother takes a lover, who her husband gradually accepts as a necessary third term in their marriage.
These fractured families propel Pauline and Juliet away from the bourgeois hearth even as they testify to the importance of fantasy in surviving the middle-class experiment – a fantasy that the two girls will embody soon enough. In the meantime, they both share a particular hatred for their mothers – or, more accurately, for what their mothers have done, and have to do, to survive within the system. The more that their mothers retreat to these fantastic supplements (a house full of lodgers, an affair), the more that Pauline and Juliet bristle at the sheer paucity of these fantasies, which induce them to construct a fantastic world of their own, one where they can do away with any residual need for husbands, fathers or any men.
At the same time, Pauline and Juliet also bond over their own unruly bodies. In an early scene they are both forced to sit on the sidelines while the other students at Christchurch Girl's Grammar perform a series of punishing calisthentic exercises. We learn that Pauline and Juliet both have scars, on their legs and lungs, after having spent long periods in hospital with osteomyelitis and respiratory illness respectively. They've passed long periods of their life having their bodies drained, and upon discovering each other, reimagine this as the basis for fantasy: "All of the best people have bad lungs and bone diseases – it's frightfully romantic."
No surprise, then, that this friendship is highly embodied from the outset, as the two girls commune over their shared bodily traumas, and treat each other as lines of flight from family structures that can't accommodate them. This is friendship as shared mania, friendship as physical risk – the girls are always running from one spot to another, a dangerous prospect given their weak lungs and legs. They move too fast for middle-class decorum, in a flight from middle-class decorum, accelerating insatiably until it's almost nauseating to watch, especially since Jackson follows with a series of looping trajectories to evoke this vertiginous space between them. The camera only ever settles to register the seething defiance of Pauline's gaze, before it's off again, moving faster than before, carving out an operatic scale of space.
Since these trajectories are retreats into fantasy, they typically propel the girls into uncanny adjuncts between wild and cultivated space. The first time Pauline visits Juliet, she enters her vast property, and catches a glimpse of her dressed as a princess, standing on a bridge above what appears to be a medieval stream. She then chases her through a wild forest, as Jackson reprises the long tracking-shot that started the film, only to break out into the sunlight, and reveal that we are simply in an overgrown part of her garden, rather than a real wilderness.
This cusp between wild and cultivated spaces contours most of the pivotal moments in Pauline and Juliet's friendship – most notably the first time it segues into an overtly lesbian tableau. This scene starts with a manic bicycle ride, inducing Jackson to track his camera even faster to keep up with the action, and to come in even closer, until we're presented with a nauseating close-up of wheel spokes, turning round and round like one of the girls' manic dances. In the same hyperactive trajectory, they dump the bikes, and run into the woods, careening deeper and deeper into what feels like wilderness, until they come up against a farmer erecting a fence, before bouncing off him into a glade where they take off their clothes and caress. In another context, this farmer might register as a threat, but here he's mainly a spatial boundary – a fleeting indication that this supposed wilderness is indeed cultivated.
Over time, the girls formalise these cusps between wild and cultivated space into a fantasy zone that they describe as "the fourth world – an absolute paradise of music, art and pure enjoyment." They start to talk about the fourth world around the same time that they caress, suggesting that it's their way of coming to terms with the burgeoning lesbian desire between them. Since we're two decades before gay liberation, there's no vocabulary here for Pauline and Juliet to articulate (or even recognise) their desire for each other. Instead, they register it as an askew relationship to heterosexuality – a lurid over-identification with the kinds of icons that teenage girls were supposed to use to mediate their femininity at this point in time.
In that sense, they engage in a form of fandom that's quite similar to contemporary fan fiction, which is typically written by heterosexual-identifying women, and reframes heterosexual texts in terms of more emergent queer connections. Pauline and Juliet's version of fan fiction involves building a cultic mythology around three celebrities – Mario Lanza, James Mason and Orson Welles, who they refer to as "he," "he" and "it." They imagine these three men as the harbingers of a post-heterosexual paradise in which everything exists for aesthetic pleasure alone, divorced from the constrictions of conventional sex appeal. This is the "fourth world" – a zone where heterosexual object choices can be reframed as high camp.
However, there is a sharp distinction between Lanza and Mason, who the girls refer to as "he," and Welles, who they refer to as "it," since Welles seems to be both an incentive and a limit case to their project. No director at this time was as obsessively auteurist as Welles, which makes him an apt cipher for the patriarchal surveillance that the two girls are trying to escape. However, no director was quite so flamboyant in reshaping perception either, meaning Welles is also a precedent to the girls' own lines of flight. This also poses a challenge to Jackson, who has to adopt an even more hyperactive and insatiable camera than Welles in order to keep up with the evolution of the fourth world as the girls augment its dimensions.
This all culminates with the last critical cusp between wild and cultivated space, although this takes place against the least promising canvas for fantasy so far – and in doing so propels the girls into full-blown fantasy for the first time. Up to this point, Jackson has used vegetation to mark the passage between wild and cultivated space (in Victoria Park, in Juliet's garden, during the bike ride) but now he takes us to a place that is almost entirely without vegetation – Port Levy, a remote bay on the Banks Peninsula, where Pauline joins Juliet for her family's Easter vacation. On the face of it, Port Levy simply consists of three stark surfaces – the sea, the sand and the hills – that are so denuded that they don't seem capable of gradually revealing the kinds of cusps between wild and cultivated space that we've witnessed thus far.
Yet that also makes this the critical moment in Pauline and Juliet's own fantasy creation, which takes place progressively across each of these three stark surfaces. First, Jackson shoots them running along the jetty and jumping into the blank expanse of the water, as if willing themselves to project their fantasies onto its surface. Then, he tracks his camera long and low across the sand, with the kind of intensity that, in earlier scenes, betokened a sudden shift between wild and cultivated space. The sand is too granular and monotonous for that to happen here – if anything, it exhausts the possibility of a naturalistic shift in space, and yet that very exhaustion also opens up a new fantastic potential, as the camera now takes us into a sandcastle populated with claymation denizens, our first true glimpse of the fourth world.
This sequence in Port Levy culminates with a helicopter shot of the top of a local hill – completely devoid of vegetation, and commanding vantage points that stretch as far as the eye can see. This is the setting that most seems to defy the sudden spatial shifts that have contoured the girls' relationship, and also represents the peak of their middle-class crisis, since Juliet retreats there (and Pauline follows) after learning her parents are likely to separate. Since there are no thresholds here to a more cultivated space, the girls create one, seizing upon this most desolate of landscapes to discover "the key to the fourth world." Juliet glimpses the gateway through the clouds, the only part of this vista that recalls the reticulated topographies of their earlier forest runs, and the two become heavenly creatures, over the Easter weekend, remaking the entire paradigm of patriarchal surveillance in their own image.
This is also when the audience enters the fourth world for the first time, with the exception of that brief sandcastle sequence, which Jackson visualises as a lurid colonial fantasy. The landscape is now transformed into an English garden, and decked out with the kinds of campily English flourishes that were often used to assuage the anxieties of first and second generation colonial estates. Juliet and Pauline's accents seem to merge too, suspending us between English and New Zealand inflections, while they inhabit the fourth world as an alternative royal family – giving birth to a pillow in one scene, and crafting children out of clay in another. Whereas they overidentified with celebrities in the build up to the fourth world, now they overidentify with the royal family as celebrities – and, in doing so, reinstate themselves as a royal family who can can command their domain with absolute dominance.
These fantasy sequences often feel like an effort to envisage the idea of lesbian parenthood, or queer parenthood. This is encapsulated in the way that Pauline and Juliet relate to the claymation figures that make up the fourth world. Sometimes these figures feel like avatars – there is a clay version of both Juliet and Pauline, along with the other major characters in the film. However, these clay figures also feel like discrete objects that Juliet and Pauline are handling in the "real" world. This space between model and avatar makes the fourth world feel like an early version of object-based role-playing games like Warhammer, which encourage queer and alternative ideas of progeny and productivity. These games allow users to build family, empire and lineage through the act of collection, and collaboration-based communities, rather than by way of the reproductive futurity that is so punitive to the girls.
In other words, the fourth world unfolds in a notional space between wild and cultivated land, and between empire and periphery, that corresponds to the expansive campaigns of a certain kind of embodied role-playing game. These queer possibilities only intensify when Juliet has to return to hospital, meaning that she and Pauline can fully retreat into their roles as Charles and Deborah, the royal couple of the fourth world. By this stage, they're effectively inhabiting an epistolary novel that Pauline records in her diary, meaning Jackson's camera work shifts from visceral tracking-shots to dissociative cuts that affirm fantasy as both a source of intimacy and gradual distantiation between the two girls. When Juliet's parents reveal they're planning to return to Great Britain, it feels like a logical extension of this process – an indication that the fourth world has become so fantastic it has delvoved into mere fantasy.
Pauline and Juliet try to resolve this crisis in three key ways, each of which involves trying to restore the fourth world from the realm of fantasy – either by spilling it out into the real world, or by making it so real that the "real" world disappears. First, they resituate themselves even more emphatically at the cusps between wild and cultivated space that drove the first act of the film. In one particularly pivotal scene, they hover around the fringes of a garden party at Juliet's house – peeking at the tennis court through a cluster of ferns, throwing a stone into an artificial lake to surprise a couple who are making love, and exploring the temporal threshold of the party too, by lingering around until the last few guests allow the nearby woods to quietly reclaim their hold over the scene. Mapping this threshold becomes even more urgent when they learn that Juliet's father is returning to Britain for exactly this activity – to take on a role in the forestry service and police the boundaries of cultivated land.
Second, Pauline and Juliet try to incorporate Orson Welles, the "it" of their cultic mythos, into the fourth world. Since Welles' auteurism is both an incentive and a limit to their own world-building, they attend a screening of The Third Man, the most iconic film to feature Welles that he didn't direct himself. Watching Welles work his way through Carol Reed's constricted compositions dramatizes the girls' inability to embody an auteurist line of flight that was inexorably coded masculine at the time. Earlier in the film, Jackson depicts the girls throwing a photograph of Welles into Juliet's stream, and that same image of Welles occurs now, but on screen, as Harry Lime flees into the sewers of Vienna. Between these two flowing bodies of water, diegetic and non-diegetic space collapse, as Pauline mirrors Welles' shilhouette on screen, while also morphing in and out of her claymation self, before eventually kissing Juliet.
The film's most emphatic lesbian gesture thus occurs at the convergence of the "real" world, the claymated fourth world, and the limit-case in auteurism that Welles embodies. Yet these two preliminary gestures – returning to the cusp of cultivated space, and incorporating Welles into their lesbian mythology – are not ultimately commensurate to Pauline and Juliet's drive to direct their own fates, which starts to exceed even Jackson's capacities in the final scenes. Once again, we return to the hyperactive camera movement, as Jackson stretches all his auteurist abilities simply to keep up with the last stages in the girls' world-building. This is all the more urgent and vivid in that Pauline's diary is almost occurring in real time by this point: "Next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd and yet how pleasing." With these cryptic utterances, Pauline, in particular, seems to have discovered a thaumaturgic key to world-building, collapsing speech and actions until words become actions in themselves.
This, then, is the final note of Heavenly Creatures – a kind of sublime awe in the face of the kinds of world-building that queer people have to enact simply to remain in the world, even or especially when that world-building ends up destroying the world for them in the process. While Jackson would go on to bigger and flashier films, he would never quite build a world as primal, as original, or as flamboyant as the fourth world, even as he drew deeply on the kinds of queer fandom communities that Pauline and Juliet represent. That's not to say that he excuses or glorifies the murder either – the film ends where it begins, with the two girls fleeing the crime scene with the same horror that they fled their parents to begin with. It's a flight without a destination at this point in time, such a profound flight from the world as they knew it that they had to create an even more self-destructive world just to escape it – and it is the traumatic rigour of that world-building that fascinates and propels Jackson's singular vision.


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CAN'T HAVE GUNS AND BUTTER ANYMORE - TIME TO SPEAK OUT
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Former state senator Michael Brennan from Portland was instrumental
in helping to organize the news conference
School teacher and CodePink activist Lisa Savage from Solon outlined the purpose of the campaign and called on everyone to acknowledge the "elephant" in the middle of the room
Rev. Gary Vencill, United Methodist Church minister from Prospect, spoke about the moral implications of on-going wars and cutbacks in human needs programs
Social worker Mary Beth Sullivan from Bath connected homeless issues to massive military spending and made an emotional appeal for an end to the madness
We had about 70 people join us at the Maine state capital in Augusta for our Bring our War $$ Home campaign kick-off news conference this morning. Some key media turned out so our message will make its way across the state.
Just as I began typing this post my radio was tuned to Maine Public Radio and I heard a news spot about our protest. They quoted Lisa Savage saying that Mainers have paid $2.5 billion toward the wars in Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan since 2001.
Each of our speakers did a fine job of talking about the serious cuts facing education, health care, social programs and infrastructure across the state. Sadly up to this point those opposing the $438 million in education and social spending cuts in Maine's budget have called for tax increases to make up the difference. But the Democrat Governor John Baldacci has vowed to veto any tax increases and the state legislature has virtually discounted any "revenue enhancements". Thus no one across Maine has been talking about the real "elephant" in the middle of the room which is Pentagon spending and endless war. Today we broke that silence in our state.
Following our news conference a large group of us went to a legislative hearing room for a combined meeting of the state House and Senate Appropriations and Education Committees which are overseeing a massive slashing of programs. After a series of agency directors stood up and spelled out the cutbacks in their programs the floor was opened for public comments. At that point five of us from across Maine got up one after the other and talked about the creation of our Bring Our War $$ Home campaign before the overflowing committee hearing room.
In my brief statement I said that constituencies are now in competition with one another to save their particular program and this was no way to run a state or a country. I asked them if they could find a way to spend the $2.5 billion that Mainers have contributed to our wasteful wars. I ended with an appeal to all Maine politicians - local, state, and federal - to stand up and really represent their local constituencies by speaking out against war spending.
We can't have guns and butter anymore..... the public must demand that all elected officials find the courage to give voice to our growing opposition to endless war.
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We spend Christmas and New Year's Eve on Terschelling. Are the shops, museums, attractions and restaurants on Terschelling open on Christmas Eve (24 Dec.), Christmas Day (25 Dec.), New Year's Eve (31 Dec.) and New Year's Day (1 Jan.)?
Most restaurants on Terschelling are open on Christmas Eve (24 Dec.) and Christmas Day (25 Dec.) but a reservation is often necessary. Several restaurants are also open on New Year's Eve (31 Dec.) and New Year's Day (1 Jan.), but some of them are closed. Unfortunately, we do not have a list of restaurants on Terschelling that are open during the Christmas holiday.
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Step 1) Pre-heat the oven to 200°C, Gas Mark 6 and lightly oil a medium-large, heatproof baking dish. Toss the squash with 2 tbsp olive oil and the mustard seeds, if using. Spread the mixture in a roasting tin and cook for 25-30 minutes until browned. Set aside to cool slightly.
Step 2) Meanwhile, whisk the mustard, chives, eggs, egg yolk, vegetable stock, double cream and 50g of the Gruyère together, seasoning it to taste. Put the bread in the baking dish and pour two-thirds of the stock mixture over.
until browned. Season and set aside. Gently spoon the roast squash and garlic mushrooms in and around the bread. Pour in the rest of the stock mixture, scatter with the remaining Gruyère and cover with foil. At this point the panade can be left in the fridge for a few hours. Bake for about 40 minutes, remove the foil and cook for 10 minutes more, until golden.