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In the Lobby, Kick ass trailer, Visionary or Hack
Does It Take a Visionary to Make Sacha Baron Cohen Funny?
Posted on April 2, 2012 by Late Night
Larry Charles knows funny
Sacha Baron Cohen may not be everyone's favorite satirical comic (I think he's hilarious), but he has undeniably carved out his own unique space in the pop culture landscape. One of the keys to Cohen's success is his steady collaboration with Larry Charles, who directed Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Bruno. This team's latest project, The Dictator (opening May 11), is supposedly based on a novel written by the late Saddam Hussein. Heh. Sounds like something you might see joked about on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hmmm.
The music alone in this clip qualifies it for the kick ass trailer folder:
Larry Charles is best known as the executive producer of Curb Your Enthusiasm and other popular, well-written series (Entourage, Mad About You, The Tick), and before those programs, he was a supervising producer of Seinfeld. It seems he knows a little something about comedy and working with funny people.
But that's television, an entirely different medium (one arguable more heavily populated with hacks than our beloved motion pictures). While Charles is less well-known as a movie director, his ability to work with established, yet quirky independent talent, such as Cohen and Bill Maher (Charles directed the pundit's documentary Religulous in 2008), favors him. Some may argue that working with comics like these is child's play, and all the director has to do is turn on the camera and let the funny man riff. There may be some truth to that.
Still, just by watching the perfect timing of the jokes and funny bits in these films it is clear that Charles uses his considerable comedic knowledge to make the most of the material. The resulting films are not Tarsem-like visual feasts to be sure, but they are laugh-out-loud funny, which is really all a comedy needs to be.
Larry Charles may have a vision, and he is certainly good at what he does, but I'm not ready to say he's a visionary director – nor is he a hack. For now, I think he should be in the VOH Lobby.
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Roman Polanski's Chinatown, a Perfect Film
HakSnider33 · April 2, 2012
Interesting look at another type of filmmaking that generally doesn't receive critical acclaim. Charles definitely has talent and there is artistry in the way Charles shot the scene that you've embedded above. However, I believe that even if some random guy such as myself had directed the scene, a comedic genius like Sacha Baron Cohen would still have been outrageously funny.
Late Night · April 3, 2012
You might think you could do this, but think again. This type of comedy is deceptively difficult to capture. Cohen's genius is his ability to sell a character to an unsuspecting target. All of the humor relies 100% on the reaction of that target to Cohen's outrageousness, and they only have one chance to get it. If the director misses the reaction, the joke is dead; there's no going back for a second take. So a big part of Charles' success is his ability to place his cameras appropriately to best capture the reaction of the "marks."
The other part happens in post: the way he edits the cutaways, the perfect timing used to get the most out of the funny reactions, is based on his extensive background in comedy. That Charles makes it seem effortless is indicative of the skill it actually takes to pull it off successfully.
Mr Ridley · April 4, 2012
Would that be like Simon "Hack" West's ability to set-up multiple cameras to capture a variety of angles of a plane exploding in Con-Air, editing for impact (along with Cage's slow walk away from the fireball) and calling it action "choreography?"
I thnk the answer is somewhere in the middle between shaping and prepping beforehand for maximum impact vs simply letting it roll and hoping for the best that you have complete coverage for post.
That's the thing: it might look like a matter of simply letting the cameras roll, but when you look closely, you see a location that is not conducive to more than 2 or three cameras. A full-on Hollywood style production crew would have given the game away to the unsuspecting target's of Cohen's humor. Further, it is apparent that even though Borat makes it seem like he's talking spontaneously, it must have been scripted or planned to go after those people in the audience that he focused on.
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HoloDesk is an interactive Virtual Reality system enabling users to interact with 3D objects without requiring user instrumentation. Users can directly reach into a 3D scene and manipulate objects with their hands or by using physical objects. The system combines an optical see through display with Kinect camera tracking.
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Hyndburn woman adapts unique cheese wedding cake business into delicatessen during pandemic
"Brie Mine is an example of a fantastic Hyndburn business that has adapted and expanded during the pandemic."
Catherine Mackinlay
Brie Mine on Queen Street
A woman from Hyndburn who used to make cheese wedding cakes for people has now opened her own delicatessen, Brie Mine, in Great Harwood.
Lauren Maguire, started her own business back in 2017 doing unique cheese tower cakes for people's weddings - a trend that has taken off in recent years. In the following two years, Lauren developed her new ideas around the fun cheese concepts including as my homemade Cheese and Chutney jars, graze boxes and cheese platters.
Lauren said: "Cheese wedding cakes have really taken off over the last few years. People choose them because they want something a bit different, or because they just love cheese!
The business was going great however in March 2020 the Coronavirus pandemic took hold and many non-essential businesses had to close. All Lauren's wedding booking got cancelled until further notice. Lauren decided to use her expertise however to try and adapt her business.
She decided deliveries were the best way to go so she started to deliver her own niche graze boxes alongside homeschooling her little girl.
She began saving up the money from her deliveries up my own Cheese Delicatessen on Queen Street.
Lauren said: "It's a a goal and a dream that had been in my 5-10 year plan and I have managed to achieve this in less than three years! I grew up in Great Harwood and it's so lovely to see friends who I went to school with open their own businesses on Queen Street and the support we all give each other is amazing."
Lauren with her new 'Brie Mine' delicatessen
The delicatessen has a variety of over 40 cheeses to choose from, a wide range of delicious chutneys, local honey jars, luxury crackers and Lauren is adding more treat in the next weeks to come. The shop has been praised by Hyndburn Council for adapting and expanding during such difficult times.
Miles Parkinson OBE, Leader of Hyndburn Borough Council said: "Brie Mine is an example of a fantastic Hyndburn business that has adapted and expanded during the pandemic. It was a pleasure to hear their story and we hope it encourages other businesses to do the same.
"As part of our #ThinkHyndburn initiative we are encouraging people to support their high streets as much as possible and are also inviting local businesses to get involved. Business owners can get in touch with us by emailing marketing@hyndburnbc.gov.uk so we can share their offerings and stories on our own platforms. Huge well done to Lauren at Brie Mine Cheese Delicatessen, the shop is wonderful and a great addition to Great Harwood. "
The shop is open from 10am - 4pm however this could be subject to change depending on school hours.

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My mission to live and craft without spending a dime carried over into my yard this week as me and my kids geared up for the holiday weekend. Because who wouldn't love to enjoy the 4th in an amazing outdoor space?
But as it turns out, I'm fresh out of amazing outdoor spaces.
average 1970's split-level, average landscaping, average trees, average grass.
I thought so, too, until I started rummaging around the kitchen and junk drawer.
Here's a look at my boring suburban driveway.
a driveway bistro get-away perfect for a stay-at-home date night dinner.
And as soon as dinner's done, the drive-in theatre comes to you with movie night on the fence. All it takes is a queen size white sheet, a borrowed projector and a $0.99 movie rental.
And you can bet that my driveway is going to look just like this again tonight as Mr. Thrive and I remember when we met 15 years ago at a 4th of July display … and how we went and saw Independence Day the next day for our first date … and shared popcorn and Hot Tamales … and how 1 house, 2 layoffs and 6 kids later we wouldn't change a thing.
Again, nothing to write home about.
… I figured some make-shift floating lanterns could help that boring tree and spotty grass become something magic.
Lanterns can be made from anything: canning jars, empty peanut butter jars, whatever.
Lantern handles come together by wrapping wire around the lip of each jar a few times and then back over the top.
Tea lights (battery or open-flame) work best if they're set in a little bit of sand.
No sand on hand? Me neither. Salt works just fine and can even be tinted with a few drops of food coloring for the looked of colored sand.
You can leave the lanterns plain or dress them up with some beads, ribbon or garland.
Hanging is a snap using whatever you have on hand—yarn, twine, ribbon, shoe laces, whatever. Rock what ya got.
… telling ghost stories way, way past their bedtime.
So go take another look at those outdoor spaces around your house or apartment and see what kind of magic you can make yourself.
I love it that you got to enjoy your outdoor space in style. Going to have to do some of those cute lanterns for mine. Wish I had someone to borrow a projector from, a "drive in" movie night would be such fun! I got inspired by Donna at Funky Junk Interiors to go shopping in my house and I am amazed at what I found for my outdoor room. I hope you will stop by Rainbow Creek and check it out too.
this is beautiful! what a lovely idea! and, I'm inspired by the outdoor movie. We live in a small townhouse complex w/ a decent shared courtyard that would be lovely to use in the fall! Perhaps we can have a monthly movie outside!…now, where to get a projector…..
I am impressed with your transformations. Great ideas worth passing on. Thanks for sharing.
I love it! Simple and beautiful!
Hi, I came from pinterest. (Saw your title of liberty vinyl) I love your site, so inspiring. You can do anything!
I appreciate the down-to-earth nature of your ideas and reality. Ugly yards can so easily be transformed–and what fun memories you and your children had underneath the twinkle lights in the tree! AND you have inspired me to not give up on crafting. As a mother of young children, some days I think I should throw out all my supplies (many items bought for a few nickels at garage sales). I will eventually get to use them–and get them involved in generating creative ideas together to make memories and beauty! Keep Rockin'!


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The Countdown: Weekend Edition
There are a few things here:
The Defense of Marriage Act decision overshadowed another 2013 case―Hollingsworth v. Perry―that could have determined whether states could ban same-sex marriage.
The case concerned a challenge to California's Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that barred same-sex couples from marriage. But Roberts, writing for the majority, dismissed the case, holding that the challengers did not have the legal standing to bring it to the court.
The ruling left in place a lower court decision that had invalidated Proposition 8 and thus paved the way for same-sex marriage in California. Roberts' lesbian cousin, who lives in California, sat in the courtroom during arguments in the Prop 8 case.
Few people predicted that the issue would return so quickly to the Supreme Court, but waves of lower court judges―sometimes citing Windsor―struck down the state bans.
Ariane de Vogue is not wrong. It seemed strange at the time; the Hollingsworth outcome was one of my anti-prophet moments. When the case was selected, I actually told a friend it wouldn't make sense for the Court to take the case and then punt. And, yet, here we are.
The consideration arises because one of the more superficially demonstrative questions of Monday's oral arguments will be the Chief Justice:
"If the Windsor majority votes in favor of marriage equality, the ruling will be one of the most momentous decisions of the Roberts court," said Judith E. Schaeffer of the Constitutional Accountability Center, which is advocating for same-sex marriage. "Will John Roberts want to be remembered as having dissented from such a historic decision?"
The drama might seem superficial; conservative-appointed justices do not always live up to conservative political expectation. It is easy to recall Justice Souter, and on the present Court there is Justice Kennedy, who is generally sympathetic to gay rights. Nor is the Chief Justice so reliably political as conservatives might have hoped.
The question is not lost on conservatives:
The hope in conservative circles is that Roberts will see his legacy as ensuring that the issue of same-sex marriage gets decided by the people, not the courts.
"The chief surely knows that his job is to be on the right side of the Constitution," said Edward Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a group that is opposed to same-sex marriage. "Blatherings about the 'wrong side of history' are an appeal to intellectual cowardice."
This is an important point. An example from history:
• One hundred nineteen years ago, the Supreme Court voted seven to one in favor of a curious standard called "separate but equal". The idea, in Plessy v. Ferguson, was that segregation was acceptable, as long as equal accommodations were provided for nonwhites. Sixty-one years ago, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision, called Brown v. Board of Education; all nine justices decided "separate but equal" was a really, really bad idea. There is no moral to the story other than the obvious, and something about civil unions goes here. Still, it is worth looking back to Plessy, and to that one dissenting vote from Justice John Harlan, and find what significance we might in the fact that the one person who had a say and knew it would not work was also a former slave owner. It only took the United States of America fifty-eight years to catch up to the slave owner.
There would seem to be a difference about how some people regard the "right" and "wrong" sides of history. As a matter of human dignity, the marriage equality argument is pretty damn sound. As a matter of constitutional law, we are past any threshold of doubt.
Remember, even Justice Thomas knows how this is going to go; the only real question is whether he decides to make any certain point. Six-three, eight one, unanimous. We might doubt there will be a five-four decision; the question of how Chief Justice Roberts will vote is legitimately in play. And while it is doubtful Justice Scalia (eight-one) will join for a unanimous decision, what will Thomas and Alito (six-three) do? Seven-two is unlikely; Thomas and Alito won't split.
Heh. So says me.
But still, it seems there are some who would separate the right decision from the right side of history; it is a fundamental necessity of Whalen's argument. And one thing worth noting about de Vogue's recent examination of the Sixth Circuit decision is that the CNN report omits one of the most obvious follies, that a state can effectively recriminalize homosexuality for the purposes of defining marriageα.
So there is a reason Thomas sees the problem. And who knows, perhaps it is such a red flag that even Scalia might even have to admit there is no moralistic lever. And something goes here about monkeys and orfices, but we can probably leave that be.
Consider this report, from all of last September, by Brian Bakst of Associated Press:
People seeking clues about how soon the Supreme Court might weigh in on states' gay marriage bans should pay close attention to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Minnesota audience Tuesday.
Ginsburg said cases pending before the circuit covering Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee would probably play a role in the high court's timing. She said "there will be some urgency" if that appeals court allows same-sex marriage bans to stand. Such a decision would run contrary to a legal trend favoring gay marriage and force the Supreme Court to step in sooner, she predicted.
She said if the appeals panel falls in line with other rulings there is "no need for us to rush."
This is about to happen. This is real. This is the Big Show.
α Sutton, 40: "… the plaintiffs misapprehend Ohio law, wrongly assuming that Ohio would recognize as valid any heterosexual marriage that was valid in the State that sanctioned it. That is not the case. Ohio law recognizes some out-of-state marriages that could not be performed in Ohio, but not all such marriages. See, e.g., Mazzolini, 155 N.E.2d at 208 (marriage of first cousins); Hardin v. Davis, 16 Ohio Supp. 19, 20 (Ohio Ct. Com. Pl. 1945) (marriage by proxy). In Mazzolini, the most relevant precedent, the Ohip Supreme Court stated that a number of heterosexual marriages―ones that were 'incestuous, polygamous, shocking to good morals, unalterably opposed to a well defined public policy, or prohibited'―would not be recognized in the State, even if they were valid in the jurisdiction that performed them. 155 N.E. 2d at 208-09 (noting that first-cousin marriages fell outside this rule because they were 'not made void by explicit provision' and 'not incestuous'). Ohio law declares same-sex marriage contrary to the State's public policy, placing those marriages within the longstanding exception to Ohio's recognition rule. See Ohio Rev. Code § 3101.01(C)."
De Vogue, Ariane. "John Roberts' big moment: Will he anger conservatives again?" CNN. 24 April 2015.
—————. "How a Cincinnati judge could shape the gay marriage case". CNN. 24 April 2015.
Associated Press. "Gay Mentor, Belief in Dignity at Roots of Kennedy's Views". The New York Times. 15 April 2015.
Supreme Court of the United States. Plessy v. Ferguson. 18 May 1896.
—————. Brown v. Board of Education. 17 May 1954.
Bakst, Brian. "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Watch 6th Circuit For SCOTUS' Next Move On Gay Marriage". The Huffington Post. 16 September 2015.
Sutton, J. "Opinion". DeBoer et al. v. Snyder et al. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. 6 November 2014.
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Q: Akka actors fails to initialize I have simple application with Spring Boot + Akka. Rarely application fails to start with error message pointing to actor creation:
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akka.actor.ActorInitializationException: akka://AkkaSystem/user/MyActor: exception during creation

I have following configuration of Spring and Akka:
Actor class
@Scope(SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
@Component("MyActor")
public class MyActor extends UntypedActor {
....
}

SpringActorProducer class
public class SpringActorProducer implements IndirectActorProducer {
    final ApplicationContext applicationContext;
    final String actorBeanName;
    public SpringActorProducer(ApplicationContext applicationContext,
                           String actorBeanName) {
        this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
        this.actorBeanName = actorBeanName;
    }
    @Override
    public Actor produce() {
        return (Actor) applicationContext.getBean(actorBeanName);
    }
    @Override
    public Class<? extends Actor> actorClass() {
        return (Class<? extends Actor>) applicationContext.getType(actorBeanName);
    }
}

AkkaSpringExtension class
@Component
public class AkkaSpringExtension implements Extension {
    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    public void initialize(ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
        this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
    }

    public Props props(String actorBeanName) {
        return Props.create(SpringActorProducer.class, applicationContext, actorBeanName);
    }
}

and configuration class
@Configuration
public class AkkaConfiguration {
    @Autowired
    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @Autowired
    private AkkaSpringExtension springExtension;

    @Bean
    public ActorSystem actorSystem() {
        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
        DelegatingSecurityContextExecutorService executorService = new DelegatingSecurityContextExecutorService(executor);
        ExecutionContext ec = ExecutionContexts.fromExecutorService(executorService);
        ActorSystem system = ActorSystem.create("AkkaSystem", customAkkaConfiguration(), this.getClass().getClassLoader(), ec);

        springExtension.initialize(applicationContext);
        return system;
    }

    @Bean
    public Config customAkkaConfiguration() {
        return ConfigFactory.load();
    }
}

After that I'm creating an actor in body of my service:
private ActorRef myActor;
@Autowired
private ActorSystem actorSystem;
@Autowired
private AkkaSpringExtension springExtension;

public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
    myActor = actorSystem.actorOf(springExtension.props("MyActor"), "MyActor");
}

Usually all works as expected but sometimes an exception occurs (maybe 1 from 20 server startups):
MyActor[ERROR] [09/19/2016 10:14:07.705] [pool-3-thread-1] [akka://AkkaSystem/user/MyActor] Error creating bean with name 'MyActor': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: About-to-be-created singleton instance implicitly appeared through the creation of the factory bean that its bean definition points to
akka.actor.ActorInitializationException: akka://AkkaSystem/user/MyActor: exception during creation
    at akka.actor.ActorInitializationException$.apply(Actor.scala:174)
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.create(ActorCell.scala:607)
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.invokeAll$1(ActorCell.scala:461)
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.systemInvoke(ActorCell.scala:483)
    at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processAllSystemMessages(Mailbox.scala:282)
    at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:223)
    at org.springframework.security.concurrent.DelegatingSecurityContextRunnable.run(DelegatingSecurityContextRunnable.java:83)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1153)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:785)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'MyActor': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: About-to-be-created singleton instance implicitly appeared through the creation of the factory bean that its bean definition points to
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:355)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1214)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:543)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:325)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1076)
    at com.swissre.cih.configuration.akka.SpringActorProducer.produce(SpringActorProducer.java:17)
    at akka.actor.Props.newActor(Props.scala:213)
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.newActor(ActorCell.scala:562)
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.create(ActorCell.scala:588)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: About-to-be-created singleton instance implicitly appeared through the creation of the factory bean that its bean definition points to
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:378)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1123)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1018)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.getSingletonFactoryBeanForTypeCheck(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:865)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.getTypeForFactoryBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:796)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isTypeMatch(AbstractBeanFactory.java:544)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doGetBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:449)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:425)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactoryUtils.beanNamesForTypeIncludingAncestors(BeanFactoryUtils.java:220)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1199)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1054)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1019)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:566)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:349)
    ... 18 more

Any ideas what can be wrong?

A: I moved actor initialization from afterPropertiesSet to a regular method, so actors will be initialized at first method call and initialization failure gone.

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"As a Native American, a member of the Navajo tribe, I have been especially intrigued by the Indian mascot controversies. Sports teams like the National Football Leagues' Washington Redskins and the Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, along with other colleges and universities, have been at the center of controversy for their use of Native American mascots.
Supporters of the mascots say they are meant to pay homage to the culture by focusing on the bravery and courage of Native Americans rather than anything derogatory.
Opposition to the use of the mascots argues that they further stereotypes and are disrespectful to the culture.
Well, I can see the points of both sides because I support the education of others about Native American culture, but I prefer it be done correctly. There is more to Native American culture than feathers and moccasins.
It wouldn't be an issue if these mascots actually did interpret Native Americans correctly, but they don't.
It's unsettling to watch someone who is not Native American present their interpretation of a culture they are not a part of for entertainment value. The majority if these mascots throw on some buckskin, beads, war paint and prance around the field and consider that authentic.
I have seen firsthand sacred ceremonies performed by people who dedicate their lives to the traditional Native American lifestyle. These individuals are revered throughout the community. The Native American lifestyle is not something to be taken lightly."


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Le rugby à XV est un sport mineur en Belgique. Les Belges vouent une véritable passion pour le football, discipline dans laquelle ils ont évolué au plus haut niveau mondial pendant de nombreuses années. Internationalement, la Belgique performe particulièrement aux sports cyclistes (cyclisme sur route, cyclo-cross), en tennis, en athlétisme.

En 2009, la Belgique compte  licenciés et 57 clubs. L'équipe de Belgique n'a jamais participé à la phase finale de Coupe du monde de rugby. Elle est considérée comme une équipe de troisième ordre, selon le classement actuel établi par l'IRB.

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Le rugby à XV en Belgique n'est pas historiquement un sport populaire, cependant, en raison des résultats récents, c'est un sport qui connaît un intérêt croissant.  En , la moitié des sept mille pratiquants affiliés sont des jeunes et des adolescents. De plus le championnat s'est structuré, près de 50 clubs domestiques participent à différents niveaux à une compétition bien organisée. Cependant, la faible notoriété entraîne une absence de couverture médiatique et un manque de moyens financiers. L'évolution est donc difficile et il est plus facile pour un bon joueur de rugby belge de s'expatrier en France.

Institution dirigeante

La fédération belge de rugby à XV (FBRB) a la charge d'organiser et de développer le rugby à XV en Belgique. Elle regroupe les fédérations provinciales, les clubs, les associations, les sportifs, les entraîneurs, les arbitres, pour contribuer à la pratique et au développement du rugby dans tous les communautés belges. C'est une organisation qui réunit la VRB (Vlaamse Rugby Bond) et la LBFR (Ligue Belge Francophone de Rugby). La fédération est membre de l'International Rugby Board. La fédération gère l'Équipe de Belgique de rugby à XV.

Compétitions

La FBRB gère le championnat de Belgique de rugby et les matches de coupe, l'organisation des matches internationaux où sont engagées les équipes seniors, espoirs (moins de 20 ans), juniors (moins de 18 ans), cadets (moins de 17 ans), féminines. La compétition nationale comprend des équipes de seniors, de juniors, de cadets, de dames et un circuit de rugby à sept.

La compétition des Seniors est répartie en 3 divisions nationales et 3 divisions régionales. Toutes les équipes évoluant au sein de l'"Elite" ont une équipe réserve et une école de rugby, ce qui est également le cas dans de plus en plus de clubs. Le système de compétition en vigueur est modifié à partir de la saison 2004-2005 ; seules 8 équipes évolueront au sein de la première division, de telle sorte qu'elles ont une compétition relevée et qu'il reste suffisamment de place dans leur calendrier pour leurs obligations internationales. Les séries suivantes de 8 équipes évoluent au sein des deuxième et troisième division. Le reste des équipes évolue en 3 séries réparties selon des critères régionaux. Le club le plus titré est le RSC Anderlecht. Les meilleures équipes belges participent à la Benecup, remportée en 1997 et 2006 par le club belge de Boitsfort Rugby Club.

La Belgique paraît sur la scène internationale via sa participation au championnat FIRA-AER et aux phases qualificatives pour la Coupe du Monde dont la dernière édition a eu lieu en France en 2007. L'équipe nationale à VII participe au Circuit Européen et à des tournois internationaux.

Popularité

Équipe nationale

L'équipe de Belgique de rugby à XV réunit une sélection des meilleurs joueurs belges de rugby à XV et participe aux compétitions internationales. Elle est  (sur 96) du classement IRB des équipes nationales au .

Notes et références

Liens externes

 fbrb.be : le site officiel de la fédération
 lbfr.be : le site de la ligue francophone
 vrb.be : le site de la ligue flamande
 SportKipik.be : le site de l'info rugbystique en Belgique

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Incredible High-Tech Robot Fights Cause 'Havoc' With NHRL In Norwalk
Rob Olson
Rob Olson Published: August 31, 2022
YouTube/NHRL - Robot Combat League
We have all seen them on TV, the fighting robots with huge hammers or buzzsaws attached to them literally trying to destroy each other. Looks like some good, clean fun to this guy.
Remote control cars and I have always had a contentious relationship, I could never get them to work properly and it sapped the fun out of an activity I really wanted to be a part of. Alas, it was not meant to be, I drifted away from that sort of thing, but still held some interest in it, and would find myself mesmerized by the late-night and overnight "BattleBots" TV show in the early 2000s. BattleBots emerged from the original version called "Robot Wars." If you like that sort of thing, you can see it for yourself, live and in color in Norwalk.
You can experience the world of rampaging battle robots up close and personal not too far away in Norwalk. It's called the Norwalk Havoc Robot League (NHRL) and they hold events all year with another one coming up in September. Here's some information on who they are directly from their website:
About Havoc Robotics & Norwalk Havoc Robot League
Havoc Robotics is a content and entertainment company dedicated to creating fun, exciting and educational opportunities for people of all ages and experience levels to engage with robotics through high-quality content and real competitions.
Norwalk Havoc, or NHRL, is a series of seven combat robotics tournaments hosted in Norwalk, CT, and streamed digitally to thousands of fans worldwide. Tournaments are open to competitors of all ages and skill levels. Learn more on our website!
I checked out the YouTube videos and I can definitely see the appeal of this particular activity. The Norwalk Havoc Robot League is located at 165 Water Street in Norwalk and the next event is Saturday, September 17. Each event has over 100 robots and you are really close to the action, I mean right up next to the glass "cage" where the battles take place. If the glass wasn't there you would be pelted with small robot debris and sparks.
It's an entire Saturday with several rounds all day long and food and beverages will be available, yes, wine and beer too. It would damn near be un-American if you DIDN'T have adult beverages at a "sporting event." Bring the kids, they will dig it and they have some special stuff for them to do as well. Here's where you can get your tickets to the September 17th event. Thanks for hanging out and if you are a "BattleBots" or already an NHRL fan, hit me up in the comments below, and I will see you again very soon
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home Entertainment Jeremy Kyle Issues First Official Statement Following The Cancellation Of The Show
Jeremy Kyle Issues First Official Statement Following The Cancellation Of The Show
Published Fri May 17 2019 By Andrew
Following the cancellation of the show, Jeremy Kyle issues first official statement.
Unless you have no access to the internet, there is a high chance that you are familiar with the current happenings when it comes to The Jeremy Kyle show.
The decision to permanently cancel the show was made as a result of the death of Steve Dymond, a guest who had recently finished filming an episode.
Jeremy Kyle show got axed permanently.
SOURCE: Newshub
Now, Jeremy Kyle has broken his silence for the first time since ITV decided to axe the show inalterably.
Speaking to The Sun, Kyle expressed,
"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events. Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time."
Previously, in a statement made by ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall, the show's permanent cancellation was confirmed.
The statement went like,
"Given the gravity of recent events we have decided to end production of The Jeremy Kyle Show. The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end."
The chief executive went on to maintain that everyone at ITV's had their best thoughts and sympathies with the family and friends of Steve Dymond. However, the broadcaster expressed keen interest in working with Jeremy Kyle on other projects.
Also read: Chris Evans' New Virgin Radio Breakfast Show Hits A Million Listeners
With the tragic news breaking its way through to the public, viewers are compelled to raise questions over the legitimacy of Love Island and if it should have a future with the channel. The dilemma might have surfaced due to the fact that after two former contestants, Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis died in the last year.
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Steve Martin has been an international star for over thirty years. Here, for the first time, he looks back to the beginning of his career and charmingly evokes the young man he once was. Born in Texas but raised in California, Steve was seduced early by the comedy shows that played on the radio when the family travelled back and forth to visit relatives. When Disneyland opened just a couple of miles away from home, an enchanted Steve was given his first chance to learn magic and entertain an audience. He describes how he noted the reaction to each joke in a ledger - 'big laugh' or 'quiet' - and assiduously studied the acts of colleagues, stealing jokes when needed. With superb detail, Steve recreates the world of small, dark clubs and the fear and exhilaration of standing in the spotlight. While a philosophy student at UCLA, he worked hard at local clubs honing his comedy and slowly attracting a following until he was picked up to write for TV. From here on, Steve Martin became an acclaimed comedian, packing out venues nationwide. One night, however, he noticed empty seats and realised he had 'reached the top of the rollercoaster'. BORN STANDING UP is a funny and riveting chronicle of how Steve Martin became the comedy genius we now know and is also a fascinating portrait of an era.
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The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award–winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott's Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times—the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies. Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.
The Pleasure Of My Company
From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place. Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he exists. He passes the time idly filling out contest applications, counting ceiling tiles, and estimating the wattage of light bulbs. It is through Daniel's growing attachment to Clarissa, and to Teddy, that he finally gains the courage to begin to engage the world outside, and in doing so, he discovers love, and life, in the most surprising places. Filled with his trademark humor, tenderness, and out and out hilarious wordplay, The Pleasure of My Company is a tour de force sure to delight all of Steve Martin's fans.
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Over 21 million copies sold worldwide
One of our country's most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin has written a novella that is unexpectedly perceptive about relationships and life. Martin is profoundly wise when it comes to the inner workings of the human heart. Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore . . ." Slightly lost, slightly off-kilter, very shy, Mirabelle charms because of all that she is not: not glamorous, not aggressive, not self-aggrandizing. Still there is something about her that is irresistible. Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they both struggle to decipher the language of love--with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin critical success, Shopgirl is a work of disarming tenderness.
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In the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah's passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and father, haunted as he is by the mysterious death of his mother and vivid recollections of his megalomaniacal father. The couple is orbited by an intricate constellation of individuals, connected by blood, by proximity, by deeply rooted social edifices. Those in their immediate families include Mayya's sisters — Asma, who aspires to a different kind of life and marriage, and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. The three women, their families, their loves, and their losses unspool delicately against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. The first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, Celestial Bodies is an exquisite literary creation that marks the arrival of a major international talent.
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Author : Janelle Gabay
-As should be expected, death comes to immortals in a form of sleep. The body does not die, it hibernates and once awakened, it transforms. This transformation produces a stronger, less human immortal. Proceed with great caution!- - Joe Prescott Waking an immortal that has been injected with Death Serum is tricky business. The bloodthirsty Wakers hunting the villager's children are proof of that. Tarian Prescott has been tasked with the duty to destroy each Waker roaming the village streets. He is the Awakened Hunter. Audrey, his girlfriend and Chancellor of the immortals, is secretly hiding a Waker, Joe Prescott, Tarian's father. Audrey and Joe try in vain to awaken the remaining Death Serum victims without turning them into vicious beasts. Audrey's secrets soon catch up to her. Tarian's furious with her, his father's life is still in danger, and the fate of the immortal Guardians of Dare once again rests on Audrey and Tarian's shoulders. Their journey to save the immortals takes them outside of the Entente of Nations border wall and into the mysterious underworld of South America. They learn the city of Manaus thrives, decades after the Entente War, and the Grand Sorcerer, Latauro, rules over all Southern creatures. The last thing Audrey and Tarian want to do is reveal their weakness to Latauro and his disciple of malditos. With the help of some very interesting Xia Preta, one of which lusts after Audrey, they manage to find a way to awaken the remaining sleeping immortals but find there's an entire world waiting to be reborn and who rules it will determine the future of all mankind. First Awakened is a fantastical adventure traveling from the Entente of Nations into South America. The tale twists and turns through a hidden world of creatures affecting the lives of the humans living around them.


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The 1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the eighth season of rugby league football.

Season summary

League Champions: Halifax

Challenge Cup Winners: Halifax (7-0 v Salford)

2nd Division Champions: Keighley

There was no county league competition this season.

Notable events
 Four of the top five clubs from the 1901–02 Lancashire Senior Competition; Hull Kingston Rovers (although based in Yorkshire, and having played in the Yorkshire Senior Competition for the 1899–1900 and 1900–01 seasons, they had played the 1901–02 season in the Lancashire Senior Competition), St. Helens, Widnes, and Wigan joined the 14-clubs from the previous season's 1901–02 Northern Rugby League to make an 18-club Division 1, the exception was Barrow who despite finishing fourth in the 1901–02 Lancashire Senior Competition joined Division 2.
 At the end of the season Manningham Rugby Club decided to switch to Association Football and became Bradford City A.F.C., whilst staying at Valley Parade.

Division 1

Division 2

Challenge Cup

Halifax beat Salford 7-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 32,507

Sources
1902-03 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

References

1902 in English rugby league
1903 in English rugby league
Northern Rugby Football Union seasons


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Q: How do create a list of markers using data from a database I am using radzen to generate code in blazor to create a web front-end.
Radzen has the option to add a googlemap component, which has markers to pinpoint a specific location  on the map. The API for this is at the bottom.
One of the parameters of the markers are "googlemappositions", this takes 2 doubles as parameters(latitude and longitude).
I would like to add all of these latitude and longitude values from the database to the map.
Using LINQ I created some queries to retrieve the longitude and latitude values.
I attempted to loop over the data from the database to then add them to an array of "googlemappositions"  but it doesn't seem to work. I am not sure where the problem is.
What I want psuedocode:
Googlemappositions =
[
Googlemapposition1() { latitude1 , longitude1 }
,
Googlemapposition2() { latitude2 , longitude2 }
,
Googlemapposition3() { latitude3 , longitude3 }
,
Googlemapposition4() { latitude4 , longitude4 }
]

 for each (item in googlemappositions)
{ markername = bridgename  position = item}

I assume I made mistakes at the queries or the loop.
I tried to debug the code but I am not receiving any relevant information regarding the map.
//Database
Table:Bridge
Columns:
ID[1,2,3,4,5]
Name[east, bigbridge,small,westbridge,north]
Latitudes[54.2333 , 53.2929, 56.39449, 53.20933,52.1]
Longitudes[4.3224,3.9953,4.232323,3.23503,5.6789]
//Code
//Create getDbdata
    [Table("bridges", Schema = "public")]
    public partial class Bridge
    {
        public double latitude
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
        public double longitude
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

//Retrieve Latitude Query
      public List<double> GetLatitude(Bridges bridge)
        {

            List<double> latitudes = Context.Bridges
                               .Where(i => i.id == bridge.id)
                               .Select(i => i.latitude)
                               .ToList();
            return latitudes;
        }

//Retrieve Longitude Query
        public List<double> GetLongitude(Bridges bridge)
        {

            List<double> longitudes = Context.Bridges
                                .Where(i => i.id == bridge.id)
                               .Select(i => i.longitude)
                               .ToList();
            return longitudes;
        }

//Create positions
public List<GoogleMapPosition> GetPosition()
        {
            List<GoogleMapPosition> positions = new List<GoogleMapPosition>();
            GoogleMapPosition[] posArray = new GoogleMapPosition[] { };

            for (int i = 0; i < posArray.Length; i++)
            {
                GoogleMapPosition item = posArray[i];
                foreach (var b in getBridgeResults)
                {
                    foreach (var (latitude, longitude) in GetLatitude(b).SelectMany(latitude => GetLongitude(b).Select(longitude => (latitude, longitude))))
                    {
                        positions.Add(new GoogleMapPosition() { Lat = latitude, Lng = longitude });
                    }
                }
            }
            return positions;
        }

//Add Positions to Map
<Markers>
        @foreach (var item in GetPosition())
        {
                    <RadzenGoogleMapMarker Label="bridge.name" Position=@item Title="bridge.name">
                    </RadzenGoogleMapMarker>
        }
      </Markers>

"RadzenGoogleMap" ApI:
https://www.radzen.com/documentation/blazor/googlemap/

A: I think, it will be right, if you set "<RadzenGoogleMapMarker Label="bridge.name" Position="@item"    " with double quotes, instead of "
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A new era for cannabis clubs in Spain
Small clubs that are horizontal and participative in nature – those closest to the original cannabis club idea – are going to be able to continue
Martin Barriuso
Following the Supreme Court's judgements against cannabis clubs in 2015, ordinary courts have started interpreting them. Spain's major clubs, above all in Barcelona, appear to have their days numbered. However, increasingly more judges understand that small clubs fit in with the Law. A new era is dawning.
In Spain, two rulings to the same effect by the Supreme Court establish jurisprudence and this doctrine must be applied by all of the lower courts. In the case of cannabis clubs, 2015 came to an end not with two, but three Supreme Court convictions. 2016 has been the year when these rulings have been interpreted and clarified, and despite the clubs with hundreds or thousands of partners having no place within the new legal framework, everything points to this associative phenomenon remaining in place for the time being.
The first major strike against cannabis clubs in Spain was made by the Supreme Court on 7 September 2015. Members of the management board of Bilbao's Ebers association were sentenced to eight months in prison – which they do not need to serve since it is their first offence – together with fines of €5,000 each. Two more collaborating partners were sentenced to three months in prison each. The court took into account the ambiguity of Spanish law on cannabis and understood the defendants may have had doubts regarding the legality of what they were doing, which prevented the sentence being greater and spared them from prison. The first pronouncement was that "cultivation and organised, institutionalised distribution of cannabis, on a long-term basis, among a collective consisting of 290 persons constituting an Association open to new members" is a drug-trafficking crime.
The second strike, which established case law, arrived in December, when the board of Barcelona's Three Monkeys association was handed the same sentence of eight months in prison, although without fines, after not having clearly established the quantity of cannabis. And before the year came to an end, the heftiest strike fell: the Pannagh judgement, in which members of the board, including myself, were sentenced to one year and eight months in prison – which we also do not have to serve – and each to a fine of €250,000. At present, the three judgements are being appealed before the Constitutional Court, with the first two – those of Ebers and Three Monkeys – having been declared admissible. Consequently, the Constitutional Court has already decided to pass judgement on the question of clubs, although we will most likely have to wait several more years before its decision is announced.
With these rulings, the Supreme Court made its desire to end Spain's Cannabis Social Clubs phenomenon clear. Although in the Ebers case five of the 15 members of the Chamber cast private votes, supporting acquittal instead of conviction, they made it clear while doing so that, in any event, clubs such as Ebers should not be legal. The message, in particular following the Pannagh case, was clear: after the three rulings, it is no longer possible to allege a legal vacuum, meaning the next people who dare to organise a cannabis club of this size and scope will go to prison and pay astronomical fines.
Adapting to hard times
The outcome of these rulings was cataclysmic. Certain associations – frightened by the new situation – closed their doors, in some cases for good, while others were investigated by the police, which resulted in arrests, warnings and the closure of venues.
However, not all associations opted to close or were investigated. Many clubs have started to discuss how to adapt to the new reality. They consulted with their lawyers and held members' meetings to explore how to move forward. At the end of the day, the Supreme Court's rulings rejected the possibility of clubs with hundreds of members, although at the same time, they accepted that so-called "shared cultivation" might not be a criminal matter; something which had not been explicitly recognised before.
Certain associations opted to split up into smaller groups and operate even more horizontally, meaning that the club's cultivation is truly shared. Others updated their member lists, keeping only the real ones. Up until then, the trend was to have many members to justify cultivation; now, it's about having few members and keeping them well informed of what's happening, in order to avoid a criminal conviction insofar as is possible. Another regular measure has been to close the membership quota and not allow new members unless somebody drops out. Shifts involving all of the members have also been established so that the cultivation process is taken care of and to prevent certain members from being deemed drug dealers supplying to the others.
Nevertheless, not all of the associations have chosen this route. There are quite a few people, such as the most of the members of the CATFAC federation (Catalan section of the Cannabis Association Federation), who are resisting the shift towards adaptation and openly calling for some rulings they consider unjust to be disobeyed. For these associations, their Codes of Good Practice, accepted by institutions in certain cases, continue to be a valid reference. The debate is still open and the FAC is to hold a general assembly in January to decide on the strategy to follow.
The Supreme Court no longer wants to convict
At the same time as associations were attempting to adapt to the new reality, the Supreme Court continued to pass sentences concerning cannabis clubs. The most striking thing is that following the harsh verdict sentence against Pannagh, no one else has again been convicted for being in charge of a club. It is as if the warning shot had already been fired and that no more blood needed to be shed. The 'mistake of law' argument – in other words, the possibility that the defendants were unaware they were committing a crime due to the legal ambiguity – was used to achieve an acquittal, as in the case of the La María de Gracia club, or to return the case to the Provincial Court and have a new judgement passed, as happened with the La Línea Verde.
The judgement on the La María de Gracia club was passed by the Chamber of the Supreme Court, which mostly consisted of magistrates who voted against the Ebers conviction. The division among the judges thus appears to be clear. In fact, attention has been drawn to the fact that in certain phrases of the last few judgements, there are statements that appear to be directed at supporting a possible appeal before the Constitutional Court. It is as if certain Supreme Court judges were unclear about things and wanted someone higher up to clarify them.
Small is beautiful (and legal)
While the Supreme Court continued to pass new judgements on cannabis clubs, the first three rulings (i.e. on Ebers, Three Monkeys and Pannagh) were already being applied by the different lower-ranking courts. The result of their application clearly shows two distinct tendencies: harsh punishments for major clubs used as a front and a withdrawal of the accusation in the case of smaller associations.
Among the major clubs, the highest-profile case has been that of La Mesa Barcelona. The police seized around 2,400 cannabis plants and investigated the association. The founders, two Dutch citizens, were accused of drug trafficking and unlawful association. No members testified to exonerate the managers and that fact, together with other circumstances, led the Court of Barcelona to sentence them to five years in prison each (in this case, they will have to serve that time because the sentence is more than two years) for using the association, which lacked "regular associative activity," as a "mere smokescreen" for whitewashing trafficking activities. In other words, having a registered association is not enough; you also have to demonstrate that it operates as such.
On the extreme opposite side, we have associations that, after having been investigated, are able to continue their activities. In the Basque Country, the historic Atxurra succeeded in having a case against it dropped upon demonstrating they were a true association, the small number of members and the proportion between the number of members and the plants cultivated for them. There was another similar case in Galicia, when a case brought against a 36-member association was closed upon the understanding that it fits within the Supreme Court's case law. There have also been similar cases in Valencia and the Balearics.
Another interesting case is that of La Cannameña, in Extremadura, which was investigated when it presented its articles of association for registration. La Cannameña showed that its articles of association openly mention cultivating cannabis for it members. Following the investigation by the police and the public prosecutor, they were allowed to register and operate in accordance with those same articles of association, including where they discuss cultivation. In other words, the public prosecutor deems cultivating cannabis within the framework of an association of a few dozen members legal and authorises them to continue their activities, thus setting a historic precedent.
It could be said that while the Supreme Court has closed a major door, intentionally or not it has, in turn, opened a smaller one. The large clubs with thousands of members and a commercial structure seem condemned to disappear, and while there are still quite a few open, it appears to be only a matter of time before they close their doors as the police investigate.
On the other hand, we have the small clubs that are horizontal and participative in nature – i.e. those closest to the original cannabis club idea. These clubs are going to be able to continue, although in the short term it is most likely some will still be harassed and pressurised by the police. Meanwhile, if the line of interpretation opened with Atxurra or La Cannameña becomes common practice, small cultivation collectives have a promising future. If they succeed in having their right to grow recognised, they will be safeguarded against possible future convictions and it will be possible to continue opening cannabis clubs in Spain. While they won't be as large or as chic as the commercial clubs that burgeoned between 2010 and 2015, they will allow thousands of people to supply themselves with cannabis outside of the black market. It may just indeed be true that when one door closes, another opens. Other clubs will have to slim down substantially to be able to pass through that newly opened door, but this is good news in a country where the CSC model is hopelessly bloated.
This blog was originally published by SensiSeeds
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'The Black Dahlia' 2006 Review: Brian De Palma Misguided Film Noir Homage
'The Black Dahlia' 2006 with Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett.
'The Black Dahlia' 2006 movie review: Film noir homage is The Big Snooze (image: )
Stylized without being stylish, intricate without being intriguing, heavy without being dramatic. That pretty much sums up director Brian De Palma and screenwriter Josh Friedman's adaptation of James Ellroy's crime novel The Black Dahlia – though other adjectives such as "overlong," "incomprehensible," "phony," and "inane" would also apply.
Loosely inspired by the gruesome, real-life 1940s murder of film starlet Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia is a twisted morality tale about characters driven by ambition, greed, lust, madness, revenge, and bad dinner conversations. It is also proof that what is often referred to as "neo-film noir" is neither new nor noir, but merely the age-old debasing of a much-revered film genre. After all, Hollywood filmmakers and their myriad imitators around the world have been committing that sort of crime for decades.
From the film's first sequence – a Los Angeles street fight involving cops, zoot suiters, and sailors – to the final credits more than two long hours later, De Palma and Friedman seem to have set their minds on mimicking "film noir" without actually recreating it.
'The Black Dahlia' pays homage to classic film noirs and to Brian De Palma movies
Like most of the best-known American film noirs, The Black Dahlia is appropriately set in 1940s Los Angeles (though some of it was shot in Bulgaria). Men and women dress according to fashions of the period; they fall in lust and have unbridled sex; and they murder, lie, and cheat on one another. The superficial conventions of the genre are all there, along with scenes supposed to remind audiences of noir classics such as John Huston's The Maltese Falcon and Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd., as well as previous Brian De Palma movies, among them Obsession, itself an "homage" to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Missing, however, is the crucial film noir atmosphere – the chiaroscuro compositions, the suspenseful climax, the sense of foreboding. The play of light-and-shadow is all but absent from The Black Dahlia, which offers plenty of killings like any TV cop show but little suspense and no feeling of doom. It's as if the filmmakers were amateur painters intent on recreating a master's work of art, while putting all their efforts into arranging the prettiest frame for their work.
'The Black Dahlia' movie woes: Plot contrivances, poor dialogue, weak performances
Since I haven't read James Ellroy's novel, I can't say how many of the plot contrivances and bad lines (the few that can be understood, since much of the dialogue is as muddled as the plot) should be blamed on Ellroy, and how many should be blamed on Josh Friedman, Brian De Palma, and the assorted powers-that-be behind the making of The Black Dahlia. But surely the ostentatious camera setups, the off-key music (by Mark Isham, who did a much better job scoring Crash), the sterile cinematography (by Vilmos Zsigmond, who also shot Robert Altman's dreary 1973 neo-noir The Last Goodbye), and the desultory acting are the filmmakers' fault and no one else's.
As so often happens in Brian De Palma's films, the performances in The Black Dahlia are below par. One major exception is a cameo by an overly powdered Fiona Shaw, who steals the few scenes in which she appears by playing her foaming-at-the-mouth matriarch less like Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond and more like a cross between Maggie Smith in Travels with My Aunt and Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. (Admittedly, Shaw's over-the-top performance is definitely not for everybody.) Also, Mia Kirshner looks stunning in black and white, and does a credible job as the doomed Dahlia in the film-within-a-film sequences.
'The Black Dahlia' murders Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank acting styles
Now, if Brian De Palma had set out to destroy Josh Hartnett's career as a Hollywood leading man, he couldn't have done a better job. As The Black Dahlia's boxing-cop hero, the handsome and likable Hartnett is both badly lit and badly handled. Not surprisingly, the Pearl Harbor actor displays none of the intensity required for the role – certainly nothing compared to what Robert Ryan, or even Steve Brodie or Alan Ladd, brought to their conflicted characters in decades past. (Image: Hilary Swank and Josh Hartnett in The Black Dahlia.)
In fact, The Black Dahlia would have been considerably more effective had Hilary Swank, the film's woefully miscast femme fatale, switched roles with Hartnett. In both Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, for which she learned boxing moves, Hilary Swank proved she can convincingly play masculine roles. Josh Hartnett, for his part, would never have been confused with one of The Black Dahlia's props had he sported a shoulderless gown and a Veronica Lake-inspired peek-a-boo hairdo, while sultrily delivering lines such as "You'd rather fuck me than kill me."
'The Black Dahlia': Sexually handicapped film noir
Such gender-bending daring-do would have fully suited The Black Dahlia, for Brian De Palma's movie feels less like a film noir homage than a film noir send-up. Besides the aforementioned plot contrivances, poor dialogue, bad acting, flat lighting, and inadequate music, De Palma comes up with several absurd sex scenes, including a lesbian encounter featuring Mia Kirshner. Kirshner does the best she can under the circumstances, but even that capable actress can't save a "blue movie" made by someone who apparently can't even spell the word s-e-x.
It may come as a shock to those who believe the apex of 1940s sensuality to have been Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble, but as so many film noirs – and blue movies – of that era have shown, sex was actually quite arousing in those days. In The Black Dahlia, however, sex runs the gamut from the hilariously awful (the aforementioned lesbian bits) to the appallingly prudish, as when a naked Josh Hartnett gets dressed as the camera clumsily swerves this way and that in order to avoid showing the actor's penis.
'The Black Dahlia' is the latest neo-noir failure
With the exception of Roman Polanski's Chinatown and – on a different level – Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects and David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., I can't think of any other American motion picture in the last forty-odd years that has captured the feel of the film noirs of the '40s and '50s. Many have tried, but despite their efforts they have succeeded in creating mere carbon copies of the originals. (And that includes Curtis Hanson's generally well-regarded film version of another James Ellroy novel, L.A. Confidential.)
Ultimately, what The Black Dahlia and its cinematic cousins do best is to serve as a reminder to current filmmakers that setting a muddled crime story in the 1940s, adding a voice-over narration, and displaying "The End" in the final credits do not a film noir make.
Note: A version of this The Black Dahlia movie review was initially posted in September 2006.
The Black Dahlia (2006). Dir.: Brian De Palma. Scr.: Josh Friedman; from James Ellroy's novel. Cast: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, Rose McGowan.
'The Black Dahlia' story and movie synopsis (image: Scarlett Johansson in 'The Black Dahlia')
Brian De Palma's 2006 movie The Black Dahlia is based on James Ellroy's novel, itself inspired by the Jan. 15, 1947, Hollywood murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short. The nickname "The Black Dahlia" was apparently a combination of Short's hair color and clothing, and George Marshall's 1946 Alan Ladd / Veronica Lake film noir The Blue Dahlia.
'The Black Dahlia' movie synopsis
1940s Los Angeles: Two police officers, both former boxers, get ready to knock each other's brains out so the Los Angeles Police Department can get a little positive publicity.
Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), known as Mr. Ice for his supposedly cool demeanor, has made a deal with gamblers to throw the fight so he can earn enough cash to send his demented, pigeon-shooting father to a good mental institution. Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart), known as Mr. Fire, is ready to use Bucky as his own private punching bag.
Following lots of slow-motion punches, Bucky has his teeth ejected out of his mouth. He ends up lying flat on the ring. Consequently, Bucky gets nice dentures – thus fully earning his nickname – while the elderly Mr. Bleichert gets a nice sanatorium.
If losing his teeth while fighting Blanchard wasn't bad enough, Bucky must face the fact that he ardently desires his partner's girl, the full-lipped blonde Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). The trio eat dinner together, drink together, and sometimes they even catch a silent movie together.
Though they live in the 1940s, instead of going to see Betty Grable or Abbott and Costello, Bucky, Lee, and Kay opt for a 1928 silent film, Paul Leni's Gothic love story The Man Who Laughs. Perhaps because Conrad Veidt's creepy grin (his mouth has been sliced open for good) gives Kay the shivers – and thus the chance for her to hold the hands of both her companions.
Love triangle, guilt, murder
Making matters a tad more complicated, Bucky must also deal with his immense guilt, especially after Blanchard saves his life during a stakeout. Bucky had conked out in the car, and seemingly would have been killed had Blanchard not taken quick action.
In the vicinity where the shooting had taken place, a dark-haired woman screams for help. No one seems to notice or care.
Shortly thereafter, the severed, bloodless corpse of Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner), a struggling Hollywood starlet, is discovered by police. Mr. Ice and Mr. Fire are supposed to melt into one to find Short's killer.
Dubbed "The Black Dahlia," Short becomes an obsession for both Bucky and Blanchard. The latter, however, has other things on his mind as well: a mean criminal he had helped put behind bars, Bobby DeWitt (Richard Brake), is about to be released. The meanie had been abusive to Kay, who years earlier had found freedom and love with Blanchard's assistance. With so much going on – there are also family-related personal demons at work – Mr. Fire starts taking drugs, and is about to go off the deep end.
Lesbian 'blue movies'
Bucky, for his part, becomes involved with a bisexual socialite, Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), who once had had a fling with Elizabeth Short because she wanted to know what it was like to have sex with someone who looked just like herself – even though only a mole might think that Madeleine and Elizabeth looked even remotely alike.
Little by little, Bucky becomes increasingly entwined with Madeleine and the lively Linscott family – mom (Fiona Shaw) is a nutcase worse than the elderly Mr. Bleichert; dad (John Kavanagh) is a ruthless real-estate tycoon; sis (Rachel Miner) is a nympho.
Bucky also discovers that Elizabeth Short had made lesbian blue movies, but is unable to find any revealing clues until disaster strikes and Blanchard is murdered.
'The Black Dahlia' mystery miraculously solved
Besides grabbing the chance to make out with Blanchard's "widow," Bucky begins to unravel the Black Dahlia mystery. Mind-boggling – and utterly senseless – clues lead him to Madeleine, to Mr. Linscott, to Mrs. Linscott, to a deranged killer, to corruption within the L.A.P.D., to bad modern art, even to Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs.
But Bucky proves himself both a mind-reader and a genius by piecing everything together.
Justice – of the Clint Eastwood kind – will be made, but Dirty Bucky will have to keep his mouth shut about the matter.
Scarlett Johansson The Black Dahlia photo: Universal Pictures.
Josh Hartnett and Hilary Swank The Black Dahlia photo: Universal Pictures
Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia photo: Universal Pictures.
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I didn't see this film but i will see this film surely….
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I think Neo-Noir is a really stupid term just like the whole Neo-Soul thing in music, neither genre ever completely vanished, but rather people were looking to the mainstream rather than independent cinema for good examples. There is this one film called GOODBYE LOVER directed by Roland Joffe that is very nuanced in its approach to the genre, especially the detective in the film played brilliantly by Ellen DeGeneres (she is wicked, funny and delightfully corrupt). But it's a film that I think not everyone would like because the ending isn't at all moralistic. The most evil and conniving people in the film get away with murder (literally).
Back to THE BLACK DAHLIA (which I haven't seen yet) I never understood what all the hoopla about Josh Hartnett was about. He's basically Humphrey Bogart with a awful haircut and not real depth. Hilary Swank is really the most different actress of her generation, the most atypical of them all. But I think she struggles with the quest for mainstream box-office appeal and roles that are good for her career.


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#187: Getting Started with Facebook Marketing Bots with Stacy Tuschl 0
Do you know what Messenger Bots are? Or do you know what it they are, but find them too confusing to use? If so, you will really learn a lot from Stacy this week, because she will be diving deeply into the subject. There is so much that she needs to share with you about Facebook Messenger Bots, that she has to cover it in three videos because she really wants to make sure that she doesn't confuse you, as it can be very confusing. Listen in today, as Stacy breaks this down, to make it as simple as possible, step by step so that it's understandable for everybody.
Today's show is going to be about what Messenger Bots are and also, why should you care? On Wednesday, Stacy will talk about the different ways that you can use them, either paid or free. On Friday, she will cover five things you should not do when you're using Messenger Bots, as there are some things that you really need to be very careful about, lest you turn people off. If you think that this is a topic that your client needs to hear, then you should definitely share this out, because it's really going to be a good one. Stacy loves them because they're so new and so cutting edge! Listen in now, because Stacy promises that they are actually so easy that many of you could be doing this week already!
Some highlights include:
"So, first, what is a Messenger Bot?" At minute 2:21, Stacy explains what a messenger bot actually is.
"Just be respectful and make sure that you're letting people unsubscribe." At minute 4:05, Stacy cautions you about inadvertently imposing on people.
"Let's talk about statistics..." From minute 4:40, Stacy discusses some surprising statistics about Messenger Bots.
"I can't private message every single person that is in my community..." From minute 6:24, Stacy explains the benefits of being able to auto-broadcast to people, to start a conversation.
"What I like about it being so new is too..." From minute 7:22, Stacy explains what she likes about this being so new.
"It's not about fooling people..." From minute 7:57, Stacy explains some things that people do to show people that they're not communicating with a real person when using Bots.
"Here's a couple of things that I really think is going to be great for the future." From minute 9:36, Stacy talks about some of the really positive things that she sees coming in the future, with Bots.
"I don't think email marketing is going away, I just think that this is another thing that's coming in." From minute 11:16, Stacy shares what she thinks about where Bots are going in the next few months, with marketing.
"Don't ever put all of your eggs in one basket." At minute 12:35, Stacy cautions you about what could happen if you put all your eggs into one basket.
"I've really now put a lot of time and energy and even bought a course to really educate myself on how to do this." From minute 14:31, Stacy explains how much effort and energy she's put into getting to really understand Messenger Bots because it's really expensive to outsource.
"I want you to sign up for this program called Many Chat." From minute 16:44, Stacy talks about Many Chat (manychat.com ), the program she uses to do all of her Messenger Bots, for only $10 per month.
"The reason that I want you to do it today and not tomorrow..." From minute 17:52, Stacy explains why she wants you to sign up with Many Chat immediately.
"Next week, I'm actually doing a paid training." From minute 27:52, Stacy talks about her Paid Training for $97 that she's doing next week, on Tuesday.
For your Bot basics, (Only if you're not one of Stacy's clients) go to:
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