Silvaze Week has come to a close! We had a very successful event and managed to get a total of over 100 submissions to celebrate (wow!!!)!
I'd like to give a big thanks to everyone who contributed, and in particular to the wonderfully talented people who helped promote the event beforehand. It was thanks to everyone's efforts that we had such a wonderful week! I'm so grateful to you all.
We've had so many submissions across multiple platforms including sites like deviantart and twitter from many people all over the world - we even caught the attention of Shirou Maekawa (writer of Sonic games such as SA2, SATBK and many more) who retweeted some of our participant's entires! Such an amazing feat!
All in all Silvaze Week 2018 was a very successful one, and I'm very excited to see what will happen for Silvaze Week 2019.
Late entires are still going to be accepted here, so if you feel like you've missed it then don't worry! There's no rush!
In the meantime our Discord server will stay open as a hub for general discussion (and it will be used to organise 2019 too), so please feel free to join if you feel like it! We'd love to have you!
For upcoming events, don't forget about the Double Date event with Sonamy Week sonamyweek.tumblr.com coming up on the 29th!
Silvaze Week and Sonamy Week will join together on a special date to share our favorite ships on Jul 29th! You can share your contribution with the tags #Silvaze #Sonamy and #Doubledate !
And please don't forget that Sonamy Week sonamyweek.tumblr.com starts on the 31st! Please be sure to check them out too!
That's all, once again thank you so much to everyone for a fantastic celebration of Silvaze!
thank u 4 inviting me!
I'm so happy this place exists. <3 Most of the other SilverXBlaze groups are all but defunct it seems. Thank You for this.
Thank you very much for requesting my story!


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Godzilla (Gareth Edwards 2014)
Disclaimer: I do not have a history of watching Japanese "Godzilla vs. King Kong", or "Godzilla versus The Flying Beast from Outer Space", or "Godzilla's Babies" or "Some Japanese Scientists Throw Nukes at Some Godzilla Clone" films. Never was a fan, I am a man of good taste, you know. Hence the only film that I ever liked that I considered to be a Godzilla movie was "The Beast from 20 000 fathoms", which technically is not a Godzilla film, but a film about a beast from 20 000 fathoms. It also has Lee van Cleef in it and a monster made by Ray Harryhausen, consequently it is way above the actual Godzilla paygrade.
Still, for some reason the Godzilla myth is part of my cultural DNA. To what degree that is the case I only realised when I saw Roland Emmerich's weird 1998 film, where the monster tends to grow smaller and larger depending on whether it is about to squash a skyscraper or squeeze through a subway tunnel, and looks like a leftover from Jurassic Park anyway. Not a good film, I was disappointed and still hold a grudge against Jean Reno for this. I don't know why, really, because I do not remember what part he played, but he was the only actor I knew in that film, so here we go.
And now, I slightly panicked when I realised that after a couple of days, Gareth Edwards' Godzilla film was already on its way out of the theatres. Having heard about the supposedly quite splendid sound design, this was worse news than it had any right to be. I needed to see this film, and on the big screen with the Dolby system amped to 11. It seemed that this Godzilla person was something to be reckoned with. Because it is has been part of my early wasted years somehow, and because Gareth Edwards made an interesting film about Monsters before. Not as good a film as many hold it to be, I think, but still an indication of technical and narrative skills.
Edwards' Godzilla is not a film I will hold in eternal esteem as part of my "Camp Pantheon", such as, say "Terminator", "Independence Day" or "Escape from New York". It is too normal for that, in a way, too straightforward. But I thoroughly enjoyed most of it nonetheless. Gareth Edwards has seen too many monster films, I think, and he knows exactly what can go wrong about them. So there is an early divertion with a monster that is awoken by accident, etc. etc., only to turn out NOT to be Godzilla. Nice move, I think, even though that particular monster's design I did not find very inspiring. When we do get some Godzilla proper later on, what I did enjoy in particular is the casual way in which the perspective moves about, looking away from Godzilla and its little winged frenemy Motu (is that the name?) just when they engage in battle. As long as possible, actually throughout the film, Edwards tries to avoid full attention to the fight scenes. He learned a lot of lessons from a lot of terrible movies (most of them "Transformers" variations, I would reckon): as soon as you focus on something very ridiculous, such as a fist-and-teeth-fight between a giant lizard and a giant Spider-ish-thingy, there is imminent danger of that set piece getting very boring very quickly. How many ways are there a lizard can bite a wing, or a spider can stab a lizard (or a robot can hit another robot, or a hobbit can kill an orc)? Exactly! Edwards knows that (Bay does not, and will never learn), and consequently, most of the time, those fights are in the background, on tv, or only the aftermath is shown in the form of seriously redesigned city landscapes (I have some friends in Honolulu, need to check with them whether they got out ok…). That is clever design within the limits of what you can do in a monster movie, and it reflects Edwards' philosophy of directing "Monsters" some years ago. That film was very economic with monsters, maybe because of budget limits, but maybe because of the recognition that even the most perilous things lose their peril once they are on camera for too long.
The frantic and desperate American scientist, the cool and composed Japanese scientist, the separated and reunited family, the military apparatus in motion, the ambiguity about a morality to the monsters… I think there are not many ways in which such a Godzilla revamping could be done better. It's not the execution of the film that left me a bit emotionally reserved, it was rather the genre as such, which comes down to tanks shooting at monsters, while they are biting and hitting each other on the snot. There are some artistic limits to that…, But what about coming back to the original idea of "Monsters" and showing what life would look like once Motu has more babies (say a couple of billion) and the monsters take over? "World War Z" meets "Monsters" meets "The Road"? I would pay for that!
(Side note on the actors: Juliette Binoche is in that film for about three minutes screen time, and she looks spectacular! Bryan Cranston is in the film a bit longer, and does not look so good. But at least he's got hair again… The hero person is unbeknownst to me and looks like a regular action hero in B movies. Godzilla plays him- / herself and is doing a good job and recommends him-/herself for a return in a sequel.)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godzilla_2014/
Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson 1997)
Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne in one film, directed by a Mr Anderson. That could be a good thing. Unfortunately it is the very worst conceivable Mr Anderson out of the available ones – the one with the unique ability to throw a lot of money at the audience, only to bore them senseless (see the recent Pompeii) … and it is not the best phase in the careers of Mr's Neill and Fishburne where they get to meet him.
I am the first person to enjoy a bit of rubbish SciFi horror nonsense, my affection for the oeuvre of John Carpenter bears witness to this. "Event Horizon", however, is like you remove the fun parts out of "Ghosts of Mars" (yes, there are some!) and add the bad parts from "The Abyss" (of which there are many) as well as any part from "Stargate" (which consists exclusively of not very good bits, IMHO).
You end up with a completely generic bit of "Our spaceship is on a rescue mission and it is going oh so wrong, damn you, genius but crazy scientist!". It is a boring mess, and not in a good way. Even the best part, the cgi design of the space ship and neighbouring planets, is annoying, as its quality stands in such stark design to the characters and the plot. As if the aim had been to make a nice IMAX space documentary, and then some 47 Dollars were left over to throw in some recognisable but cheap actors.
Not a classic…
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon/
Page Eight (2011) / Turks & Caicos (2014) / Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Posted in TV Review
Wow, reading the cast list alone makes it hard to believe this is a made-for-tv drama: Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Judy Davis, Michael Gambon, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham-Carter, Christopher Walken, Rupert Graves, Ralph Fiennes… and they are all doing their best!
The story of this made-for-BBC trilogy is about spying, old style. MI5 agent Johnny Worricker gets his hands on a file he should not get his hands on, he decides there must be a reason for the file being out there, and when his administration turns against him, he disappears and pursues the case on his own. Now this could sound like the latest "24" season, but mind you, it is the British Secret Service we are talking about here. The films are much more "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" than "24", and most people maintain a very cultivated tone when accusing each other of espionage, torture or cheating governments out of tax payers' money.
Which is not to say it is not a thrilling show to watch. Worricker is on the move across Europe for a large part, he needs to be alert and able to move on as soon as there is a threat of being discovered, he needs to face the very real threat of crooked businessmen who somehow have allied with the Prime Minister. Not as many people die as would in a regular "24" episode, but some do, and their deaths actually do have an impact.
I am not sure whether all three films are of the same quality, or whether a trilogy had been planned from the outset. I did feel a bit less enthusiastic about part 2 "Turks & Caicos", as it enjoyed a little bit too much the possibility of nice sunsets and swanky hotel bars, and maybe allowed itself to got distracted from the characters. Still, all in all a very very rewarding piece of entertainment, with not just famous, but throughout excellent actors.
Page Eight (2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Eight
Turks & Cacos (2014)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_%26_Caicos_(film)
Salting the battlefield (2014)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_Battlefield
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise 1971)
"The Andromeda Strain" terrified me as a kid, again and again. Seems the tv schedulers loved it almost as much as I did, because it feels as if I have seen this 20 times during my fragile young years… But seeing it again in our hi-tech age will certainly cut off some of the edges, and it will appear as a somehow amusing effort at tech thriller in a pre-tech age, right? Fascinating to see that the film is perfectly effective in what it is doing, and in particular in depicting the laboratory environment in which some form of possibly alien possibly lethal possibly life form is analysed. This is not just a lab, it is a system sucking in scientists, who need to descend through one circle of hellish sterility a fter another until they end being locked up hundreds of metres below the desert together with their object of fascination. The design of that scenery is terribly disconcerting, I remember when seeing this years ago, the most memorable thing was the cruel choice of colour coding for the respective levels, and I was all sympathetic when one of the researchers got epileptic fits from the occasional red lights flashing on some control panel or the ceiling. If you never had claustrophobia, watching this film might be a very good first step towards it.
The film mostly refuses to engage in apocalyptic drama, despite the threat being substantial. It follows the professionals in a sober manner not unlike what Steven Soderbergh did in his recent "Contagion". People of a certain skill set are brought together not to reassure each other that "Oh My God, we're all going to die!", but to make sure we are not. So each one of them has their little area of work, alone in the system, and there is only one area of humanity, a patient ward where two survivors of the outbreak, an old drunk and a baby, are held behind contagion-proof glass walls.
At some point there is a turn to the more dramatic, with a scene in need of resolving through some heroic action. This is when the film does not quite hold up, the special effects required for this and the direction of an action scene have evolved a bit since 1971, and the slow-moving laser beams look like something you would find in a Lego box.
Despite this flaw, Andromeda Strain is terrifying still, the atmosphere of peril, down in the lab and up in the desert village, is oppressive. The film manages to provide this peril without drama, while being procedural about what needs to be done to contain the threat. I guess the word is "subliminal peril", and that may be the best kind…
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/andromeda_strain/
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve 2014)
I thought that Denis Villeneuve's last year's "Prisoners" was actually two thirds of a great movie. Brooding atmosphere, good acting, spoiled towards the end by some convoluted thrill-seekery.
In "Enemy", again featuring brooding champion Jake Gyllenhaal, the author apparently decided to learn from that lesson, and did away with everything but the atmosphere. Which is brooding. Jake G. plays a professor of history, with an established and somehow boring routine of looking sloppy, teaching platitudes about dictatorships to a class of students that look much better than they have any right to, and having somehow not very exciting sex with his girlfriend. That may not be the worst life anybody has, but we are shown a sequence of images that indicate there is something missing from his life. Are the opening images of some "Eyes Wide Shut"-like erotic performance any indication of what that missing element of excitement may be? If that is the case, the film does not pursue this. Instead, it creates a very disconcerting encounter of Professor-Jake with a "third rate actor" who looks exactly like him.
Up until then, I felt pleasantly disoriented with the film, from then onwards I was leaning towards boredom, borderline annoyed. Of the many things that can come out of this discovery, those chosen were either incomprehensible (the complete lack of interest on how this can be, or the inability to accept the fact that it actually can be) or rushed. When we get to the (not entirely unexpected…) point that the possibility of swapping lives is discussed, hope springs for some interesting developments, experiences and drama. We get all that, but within something like seven minutes, after which the author decides to give us spiders instead… No need to get into that bit of spoiler territory, but there is an abundance of spiders. Those spiders serve as an allegory, even though the audience does not really have a chance to unlock the riddle. Hence they are maybe not an allegory, but an unsolicited artistic element without contextual purpose, i.e. nonsense. Maybe I am wrong, and I just did not get it ("it" being whether this is all a dream or a near-death vision or an experiment or a drug vision, or a stroke-induced anaphylactic shock, or the dream of the soon-to-be-born child waiting in its womb for the water to break, or the beginning of a franchise building on the old "Tarantula" monster spider movie). After reading through some reviews, I do not think, however, that it is something I did not get, but rather something that is not there. Cryptic visual and narrative elements make sense when they can be decrypted somehow. If they stand alone, the are mere decorative, and hence pretentious.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enemy_2013/
The Monuments Men (George Clooney 2013)
There is a certain beauty to this film. A bunch of not really military style gentlemen (historians and artists) getting prepped to enter the German-French-Belgian war zone in order to identify and catalogue the most precious bits of European art under imminent peril by the war activities and the Nazi's collecting frenzy… that provides for all the necessary ingredients for a good-looking WWII film. Uniforms and explosions, beautiful French resistance ladies and plenty of European churches. It is a bit like Inglorious Basterds all over again. However… it suffocates a little bit in its production design and tries very hard to not engage in too much of a war drama, keeping its focus on the art and the beauty and the meaning as a backbone of society. Until somebody (George Clooney, I guess, him serving as director here again) realises that this is a bit dull, and does not satisfy the expectations of an audience that was lured into a war drama. Hence drama is introduced in the form of battles and stand-offs, shells flying and people dying. A motif is introduced in the form of one specific Madonna, which appears to be more worthwhile to recoup than all the rest of this immortal (or sometimes not quite immortal) art. And that Madonna then serves as the Private Ryan in that "We Will Not Stop Until…" etc. etc.
May that be rooted in the reality of the story, it makes for odd cinema. I felt the film would really love to stick with a non-dramatic approach but had to cave in to the requirements of the medium. As a result, there is too much "Basterds" and "Private Ryan" and not enough "Monuments" or "Lore" (a pleasantly non-dramatic war refugee film of recent years).
That is not to say it is a bad film, far from it. I enjoyed the whole setting, enjoyed the splendid array of quality actors (Clooney, Damon, Murray, Dujardin, Blanchett), I forgave John Goodman for being again the slightly out of place comic relief guy ("did you know they were using life bullets??"), and of course nothing can be fundamentally wrong with a film that has Clooney full-bearded (the mustache period, on the other hand… maybe this is where the film lost my undivided attention, I certainly had to look away a couple of times).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_monuments_men/
Escape Plan (Mikael Håfstrom 2013)
May 3, 2014 – 8:41 pm
I have to admit that this is a better film that I expected, better than the previous efforts of both starring senior citizens to collect some pocket money for their pension fund. Of course you only need the title of the film to know exactly (exactly!) how this will pan out from beginning to end, it does so with a straight face and little embarrassment. Stallone and Schwarzenegger (in particular Schwarzenegger) both try to avoid too much physical stress, going for the slower movements and more remote ways of offing their opponents. Those opponents stand in the way of bringing back justice, and justice is restored at some point. The prison is well designed with a futuristic look to it, Schwarzenegger does not need to talk so much, and not a single surprise or twist stands in the way of figuring out and executing a, yes, escape plan from the super-maximum security prison. Jesus plays along (Jim Caviezel), as does Vincent D'Onofrio, so there are even some former actors involved in the cast.
Perfectly ok Friday night DVD fodder…
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/escape_plan/
Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys) ( Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2008)
One of the best films I have seen this decade was "Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da" (Once Upon A Time in Anatolia) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Strange that it took me so long to check out the other, also quite successful (and Oscar-nominated, if I remember correctly) "Üç Maymun" (Three Monkeys), but that's how it goes… it requires several weeks of desperately checking out the cinema schedule and finally giving up hope that anything new and interesting will come out new to go back to the repertoire.
Three Monkeys starts with an accident, and takes the audience along a quiet but nonetheless dramatic downward spiral of the fallout from that accident. As it happens early on, it should not spoil things to say that the driver causing the accident uses his position and money trying to free himself of the consequences. The film is about there always being consequences: not just the affected families, but also the wrong-doer who got away with it experiences changes he has not foreseen.
As usual with this particular director, the plot is less important than the acting and the atmosphere. And the small family in the centre of the film is splendidly cast: Yavuz Bingol as Eyup, Hatice Aslan as his wife Hacer, and their son Ismail played by Ahmet Rifat Sungar all are exactly the way they have to be. They do not build up their arguments and discussions to become great elaborate dramas, there is no artificial escalation of emotions. There are emotions and arguments, but most of the time they are subdued. There are outbursts and threats, but most of the time they end of half as dramatic as when they are voiced. People argue and fight, but they usually also stop fighting and start talking a bit later.
While this is a family drama and a little bit of a critique of social injustice and the behaviour of the powerful, it is at the same time beautiful to watch. Roger Ebert mentioned in his review this gallery with stills from the film, and I can only say: when did a small family drama ever look so astonishing?
Ceylan's new film "Winter Sleep" out this year… that's something I really look forward to!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_monkeys/
The Challenger Disaster (James Hawes 2013)
Posted in Reviews, TV Review
Woah what a cast… William Hurt as Richard Feynman, being dragged into the bureaucracy and politics of the Commission investigating the failure of the Challenger space shuttle launch, that commission being run by ambiguous-as-ever Brian Dennehy (note to self: have not seen "First Blood" in ages!), and Bruce Greenwood (what?? He also played in First Blood?? Is that to be taken as an in-joke, with the nerdy Professor as Rambo?) balancing between the dangerous edges of corporate and institutional self-interest.
I have an interest in that story since I read Feynman's Annex to the Commission Report, it is a fabulous story of institutional failure – not quite a crime story, and because it maintains its soberness and does not easily identify villains and heroes, it makes a great example for the complexity of reality and the thrills of a scientific approach. The film tidies up the complexity a bit, and jumps on the now infamous O-ring bandwagon as soon as it is identified. I guess that can be justified in the context of a made-for-tv movie of 90 minutes running time. I still wished they had taken a bit more time allowed to hint at the sheer magnitude of mismanagement, corporate failure and backroom shuffling.
Still: a solid bit of infotainment, with an infallible William Hurt at its heart, the lonesome warrior against all efforts of cover up and make problems go away, the Don Quichote on his horse of science. As it is, his books deserve a second reading too, I remember that decades ago when I read some of his writings, I immediately felt like a brighter and better person…
Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson 2014)
Jon Snow has a thing for leather pants and swords, and he has the body and hair to go with it. That is all the good there is to say about "Pompeii". It is uninspired to the greatest conceivable degree. Every single element you have seen dozens of times: the rebellious slave / gladiator, the fragile girl attracted by such masculinity, the evil Roman Senator / Consule who messes with local matters and wants to grope the girl, the gladiator fights, the unavoidable natural disaster wiping out what needs wiping out etc. etc. You can remix and amalgamate those ingredients, of course, as people do all the time. If you do, however, you may want to give it a new twist, a new perspective, a new realism, … something, anything new that justifies the effort. As it is, nothing new happens here at all, it feels like a an ill-written, averagely acted 1960s Italian Gladiator film that got colourised. If the idea was to revisit and celebrate the the campness of those originals, that idea has failed as far as I am concerned.
Having said that, there's no reason not to watch it. There are muscular leather-clad dudes in all sizes and colours, girl slaves with deep cleavages, and there is Kiefer Sutherland with an English accent, just in time before he can breathe "we're running out of time!" into an anti-terror mobile phone again. On that very basic level of entertainment needs, you will get some satisfaction. I was still wondering why it is possible to spend a lot of money on expensive volcano cgi and not a couple of bucks more on a slightly better team of authors… but maybe they already cut too many corners on their "horse running through burning city" effects team, so there was not too much to work with anymore?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pompeii_2013/
Wolf Creek II (Greg McLean 2014)
While the original "Wolf Creek" was a very enjoyable addition to the genre of slashers slashing kids, with some new perspectives and some new additions to the range of things people can do to each other, the second one is doing exactly what you would expect from a sequel: it does the same, but a bit worse in most respects. I would not call it a big disappointment, but a slight letdown. They try to bring something new to the table, by opening the location, making more use of the Australian outback. But then again, the way it is done feels like perennial references to other films, which made me think that would be something you do at sequel seven rather at sequel one of such a franchise. There is the Spielberg-Duel reference, quite prominently, there is the "Who wants to become a millionaire (while keeping most of fingers) reference, there is a bit of hostel and a bit of Saw. Bad Guy Mick is a caricature by now, already in this second part elevated to be as immortal as Jigsaw or Freddy Krueger. That takes out a bit of the possible tension, as you can be rather sure that the only way of escaping his grasp is in a way that would allow him to come back to you later.
There are some holy shit moments, one involving a German boyfriend, another – oddly enough – a herd of frightened kangaroos. I cannot quite remember whether the first part already looked into Mick's motives, but the second one is loaded with Australian features, painting him to be some form of degenerate patriot (a perverted outcome of what happens when you dump a bunch of convicts in a very remote place and leave them to rot maybe?).
I read that Wolf Creek has become some form of pride of the Australian film industry. The second part will not contribute much to that, but it will do not much damage either, as it has a very clear-cut target group. They should be pleased with it, all things considered. And they will be happy to see a third part in which Mick will do away with some aliens and French people who stepped on his holy desert patch, supposedly…
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wolf_creek_2/

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


They are neither plants nor animals. They differ from other forms of life such as micro-organisms and fungi. Instead they resemble the primeval body of life and are generally known as "Mushi". Their existence and appearance are unknown to many and only a limited number of humans are aware of them. Ginko is a "Mushi-shi", who travels around to investigate and find out more about the "Mushi". In the process, he also lends a helping hand to people who face problems with supernatural occurrences which may be related to the "Mushi". Due to their ethereal nature most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi and are oblivious to their existence, but there are a few who possess the ability to see and interact with Mushi.


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Albrecht Odważny, niem. Albrecht der Beherzte (ur. 31 lipca 1443 w Grimma, zm. 12 września 1500 w Emden) – od 1464 r. książę saski (wspólnie ze starszym bratem Ernestem do podziału kraju w 1485 r.), namiestnik Niderlandów w latach 1488–1493, namiestnik Fryzji od 1498 r., z dynastii Wettynów (protoplasta linii albertyńskiej tego rodu).

Życiorys
Albrecht był trzecim i najmłodszym synem elektora saskiego Fryderyka II Łagodnego oraz Małgorzaty, córki Ernesta Żelaznego z dynastii Habsburgów. W 1455 r. stał się (wraz z bratem Ernestem) obiektem porwania przez mającego do jego ojca pretensje finansowe rycerza Kunza von Kauffungen. Porywacz, zdążający w kierunku granicy czeskiej został jednak schwytany, a dzieci Fryderyka Łagodnego uwolnione.

Po śmierci ojca w 1464 r. odziedziczył władzę w Saksonii wraz ze swoim bratem Ernestem, przy czym Ernestowi, jako starszemu przypadła godność elektora Rzeszy. Kilka miesięcy później doszło do potwierdzenia formalnie zawartego w 1459 r. małżeństwa Albrechta z córką króla czeskiego Jerzego z Podiebradów, Sidonią. Dzięki niemu uzyskał on w lenno czeskie posiadłości na terenie Saksonii, stanowiło też ono podstawę jego roszczeń (po śmierci teścia w 1471 r.) do tronu czeskiego, jednak bezskutecznych.

W 1485 r. doszło (mimo obiekcji Albrechta, który uważał to za krok skutkujący osłabieniem Saksonii i stanowiący przeszkodę dla dalszej ekspansji) do podziału kraju między współrządzących dotąd braci: na mocy traktatu w Lipsku Albrecht został samodzielnym księciem części Saksonii obejmującej m.in. dawną Marchię Miśnieńską. Zaowocowało to trwałym podziałem Saksonii, a także dynastii (od obu braci pochodziły dwie linie dynastii wettyńskiej, ernestyńska i albertyńska).

Albrecht sporą część swojego życia poświęcił wojnie. Już w młodym wieku wysłany na dwór swojego wuja, cesarza Fryderyka III Habsburga, pozostawał w służbie cesarzy z rodu Habsburgów: najpierw Fryderyka, a po śmierci tego ostatniego w 1493 r., jego syna Maksymiliana I. Uczestniczył w licznych cesarskich kampaniach wojennych, m.in. przeciwko księciu burgundzkiemu Karolowi Zuchwałemu (1475 r.) oraz królowi węgierskiemu Maciejowi Korwinowi (1483 r.). Znalazł jednak też czas na wyjazd do Ziemi Świętej w 1476 r. W 1488 r. wyruszył na odsiecz oblężonemu w Brugii synowi cesarskiemu Maksymilianowi. Został wówczas mianowany namiestnikiem Niderlandów; pozostając na tym stanowisku Albrecht przy dużym własnym wysiłku finansowym (co umożliwiła m.in. reforma finansowa księstwa saskiego) tłumił powstanie miejscowej ludności i umacniał władzę Habsburgów. W 1493 r. stracił tę funkcję w związku z przybyciem do Niderlandów syna Maksymiliana, Filipa, pozostał jednak tam nadal. W tym okresie zaczął narastać konflikt między Albrechtem a Maksymilianem i jego synem, w głównej mierze dotyczących niespłaconych wydatków Albrechta na kampanie wojenne. W 1498 r. doszło do porozumienia stron, Albrecht otrzymał od Maksymiliana tytuł gubernatora Fryzji. Wkrótce potem wyjechał do swojego księstwa, skąd jednak został odwołany na wieść o kolejnym powstaniu we Fryzji. Podczas oblężenia ostatniego bastionu rebeliantów w Groningen zachorował, zmarł wkrótce potem. Przed śmiercią, w 1499 r. dokonał podziału swego dziedzictwa między synów: Jerzy miał objąć rządy w Saksonii (był tu regentem już od 1488 r.) a młodszy Henryk we Fryzji.

Potomkowie
Ze związku z Sidonią czeską (który po wyjeździe Albrechta do Niderlandów praktycznie się rozpadł, gdy żona odmówiła przyłączenia się do Albrechta) pochodziło dziewięcioro dzieci m.in.:
 Katarzyna (ur. 24 lipca 1468, zm. 10 lutego 1524), druga żona Zygmunta Hausburga, arcyksięcia Austrii,
 Jerzy, książę saski (następca Ernesta),
 Henryk, książę saski (następca swego starszego brata Jerzego),
 Fryderyk, wielki mistrz zakonu krzyżackiego w Prusach Książęcych,
 Anna (ur. 3 sierpnia 1478, zm. 1479),
 martwe dziecko (ur. 1479, zm. 1479),
 Ludwik (ur. 28 września 1481, zm. 1498),
 Jan (ur. 24 czerwca 1484, zm. 1484)
 Jan (ur. 2 grudnia 1498, zm. 1498).

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Wettynowie
Elektorzy Saksonii
Urodzeni w 1443
Zmarli w 1500
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The Bookstore is owned and operated by Northeastern A&M College to provide textbooks and related instructional supplies. Its diverse selection of books, collegiate clothing and supplies reflects the wide variety of backgrounds and interests that make the College a world-class institution. The bookstore is located in the Bruce G. Carter Student Union and is open 7:45 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
The NEO A&M Bookstore is where you will also find all of your NEO Gear. We carry several different clothing brands such as The Game and Champion to name a few. We carry infant to adult, you are sure to find something for everyone. We also have supplies for game day, house flags and drinkware. So stop in and check it out.


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Con esseri senzienti nel buddhismo si indicano la totalità degli esseri viventi dotati di almeno un organo di senso che vivono nel saṃsāra. Ne consegue che l'accezione generalmente non include le piante.

Nella letteratura canonica in sanscrito si indicano come सत्त्व sattva "esseri" (ma sono utilizzati anche i termini: जन्तु jantu, "esseri animali"; बहुजन bahujana, prāṇasameta, "che ha respiro"; e जगत  jagat "quanto esiste"); in pāli come: सत्त satta; in cinese come: 有情 yǒuqíng ("dotati di sentimenti"), 眾生 zhòngshēng ("moltitudine dei viventi") e 含識 hánshí ("in grado di capire"); in coreano: 중생 jungsaeng; in giapponese: 衆生 shūjō; in tibetano: སྐྱེ་དགུ skye dgu (pr: jyeku) "totalità dei viventi" e སེམས་ཅན sems can "possessore di mente".

Nel buddhismo gli "esseri senzienti" vivono nei tre reami: nel Kāmaloka, il "reame del desiderio"; nel Rūpaloka, il "reame della forma" e nellArūpaloka, il "reame del senza-forma".
Un'altra suddivisione degli "esseri senzienti" li distingue in sei "classi", o "mondi": quello degli "esseri nel Naraka", i preta, gli animali, gli esseri umani, gli asura e i deva.

Gli "esseri senzienti", nel buddhismo Mahāyāna sono inoltre l'oggetto dell'attività salvifica espressa dal voto dei bodhisattva .

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Home Geek List 10 Emerging Programming Languages That Every Programmer Should Know About
10 Emerging Programming Languages That Every Programmer Should Know About
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Currently a huge number of different programming languages are out there and most of the software companies job requirements seeks programmers with advance skills in programming languages like C,C++,C#,Java,Php,JavaScript etc..
But as the software demands evolves and grow, new and less widely accepted programming languages are gaining in prominence, offering developers the right tool for certain jobs.
According to some reports these emerging programming languages are going to compete with big fishes in near future. So check out such 10 emerging programming languages that every programmers/developers should know about.
Emerging Programming Languages
#1. Swift
Swift — a general purpose programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS apps and Linux. Swift was introduced at Apple's 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is intended as a replacement for the Objective-C language for OSX and iOS development. Apple made the language open source in December 2015 under the Apache license.
Swift is friendly to new programmers. It is the first industrial-quality systems programming language that is as expressive and enjoyable as a scripting language. It supports playgrounds, an innovative feature that allows programmers to experiment with Swift code and see the results immediately, without the overhead of building and running an app.
#2. Google Go
Go is an open source emerging programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is recognizably in the tradition of C, but makes many changes to improve brevity, simplicity, and safety. It is a compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of Algol and C, with garbage collection, limited structural typing, memory safety features and CSP-style concurrent programming features added.
It is used by a number of organisations, from the BBC to SoundCloud, and Facebook to the UK government.
#3. Elixir
Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also provides a productive tooling and an extensible design.
Elixir is successfully used in the industry by companies such as Pinterest and Moz. Elixir is also used for web development, by companies such as Bleacher Report and Inverse, and for building embedded-systems.
#4. Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.
Work on creating Julia was started in 2009 by Viral B. Shah in Bengaluru, India, and Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Alan Edelman in the United States. By 2012, the language was ready to be revealed, and on Valentine's Day the team celebrated its public launch with a blog post explaining its mission and inviting contributors to pitch in and improve the original code.
#5. Scala
Scala is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming and a strong static type system. Scala is an acronym for "Scalable Language". Scala is a pure-bred object-oriented language.
Scala has been using by many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Intel.
#6. Rust
Rust is a general purpose programming language sponsored by Mozilla Research.
It is designed to be a "safe, concurrent, practical language", supporting functional and imperative-procedural paradigms. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but is designed for better memory safety while maintaining performance.
#7. Lua
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
Lua is cross-platform, since it is written in ANSI C, and has a relatively simple C API. Lua was originally designed in 1993 as a language for extending software applications to meet the increasing demand for customization at the time.
#8. Erlang
Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, as well as a garbage-collected runtime system. The term Erlang is used interchangeably with Erlang/OTP, or OTP, which consists of the Erlang runtime system, a number of ready-to-use components mainly written in Erlang, and a set of design principles for Erlang programs.
Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging.
#9. Haskell
Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing. It is named after logician Haskell Curry. The latest standard of Haskell is Haskell 2010. As of May 2016, a group is working on the next version, Haskell 2020.
Haskell features a type system with type inference and lazy evaluation.Type classes first appeared in the Haskell programming language. Its main implementation is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
#10. Clojure
Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
It is a dialect of the Lisp programming language created by Rich Hickey. Like other Lisps, Clojure treats code as data and has a macro system. Clojure is used in industry by firms such as Funding Circle, Walmart, Puppet Labs, and other large software firms.
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Gus Avalos, left, and Paul Melitsanopoulos, in Soccer & Rugby Imports, a Ridgefield business, on Monday, Jan.25,2010.
In March 2000, Gus Avalos, an immigrant from Argentina who settled in Fairfield County in 1983, seized an opportunity and bought a business.
It was a small, 900-square-foot store in Westport called Soccer & Rugby Imports.
"There isn't an Argentinian who has not played soccer," he said. "I was passionate for the game and the sport and had done some volunteer coaching. I did it just to be around people who loved soccer as much as I did."
With the help of his wife, Fran, and his children, Gus, Jessica and Michelle, Avalos' hobby became a growing family business that eventually moved to bigger quarters in the Southport section of Fairfield. Two additional stores have since opened: one in Ridgefield in 2005 and the newest location in Greenwich in 2009.
Soccer & Rugby Imports, at www.soccerandrugby.com, has also developed an online store and uses Facebook and Twitter to reach customers.
The Avalos family is looking forward to March 7 when they'll celebrate 10 years in business. Soccer & Rugby Imports also will be exhibiting at the upcoming Soccer Champions Coaches Clinic being held Feb. 25 to 27 at Mohegan Sun casino.
The business supplies uniforms to high school and college teams including Yale, Quinnipiac and Fairfield universities, and to traveling teams.
"It's usually a one- to two-week turnaround for custom team uniform orders," Avalos said.
Paul Winstanley is the head coach of the Joel Barlow High School varsity boys' soccer team and heavily involved with the Connecticut Junior Soccer Association. He's been a customer for nearly 13 years.
"I was a customer of the previous owner and have been working with the Avalos family since they bought the business," Winstanley said. "The price, selection and service are exceptional. Since they are the largest soccer specialty retailer in Connecticut, they have access to uniforms, equipment, you name it -- things that other sellers don't."
Big brands in stock include Adidas, Nike and Puma.
"We also carry Kwikgoal equipment, Diadora, Under Armour, Lotto and Umbro," the younger Gus Avalos said.
Ridgefield store manager Paul Melitsanopoulos is a 23-year-old former soccer goalkeeper for Western Connecticut State University and current assistant coach at Norwalk High School.
Rugby is a small percentage of the overall business, he said.
"In this area, our biggest competition comes from online outlets," he said. "But we supply high school and college students, the men's rugby team of Danbury and several others from New York state."
Said the elder Avalos, "We are not a sporting goods store. We are a soccer specialty store and one of the biggest suppliers in the Northeast. We have products that people don't even know about."


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If you've ever wanted to learn a new language, here is your chance. BBC Languages provides courses and support to help you learn a wide range of different languages. You can listen to causes online, downloaded as an mp3. and also print it out to take with you, useful for a long commute or spare 5 minutes.


Kenneth Stuart Stringfellow (born October 30 1968) is an American singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist arranger and producer. Best known for his work with The Posies R.E.M. and the re-formed Big Star Stringfellow's discography includes more than 200 albums.
When is Ken Stringfellow's birthday?
Ken Stringfellow was born on the 30th of October 1968 , which was a Wednesday. Ken Stringfellow will be turning 51 in only 187 days from today.
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Anniversary of Las Vegas Shooting Marked with Memorials
October 5, 2018 News, Personal Injury Lawsuits, Wrongful Death Claims
Monday, October 1, 2018, marked the one-year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting that took the lives of 58 attendees
Monday, October 1, 2018, marked the one-year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting that took the lives of 58 attendees of the Route 91 Harvest music festival. Hundreds more were injured in the attack. People in and around Las Vegas marked the event with memorials. Meanwhile, investigations have still not revealed a clear motive for the massacre.
Shooting anniversary marked by memorials and homecoming
Officials throughout Nevada recognized the enormity of the anniversary. Governor Brian Sandoval ordered that all state and federal flags fly at half staff from sunrise to sunset. The Las Vegas Portraits Project, a display of artwork of the victims, is on display at the Clark County Government Center through October 19. A shooting survivor from Los Angeles, Dennis Guerrero, started a nonprofit called LoveWins and it is raising money to help the families left behind by the 58 who died.
Remarkably, just a few days before the anniversary, Rosemarie Melanson was released from the hospital. There were over 800 people injured in the shooting and Melanson was the last of the victims to remain hospitalized. She suffered bullet wounds to several organs and was placed on life support immediately after the shooting. Miraculously, she survived, and after nearly a year in the hospital, she finally returned home.
Federal court denies request of venue owner MGM
More than 20,000 people were attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival when Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more. Since then, more than 2,000 people have either sued or threatened to sue those connected with the venue or the shooter.
Hundreds of victims have joined in five lawsuits in state courts in California and Nevada, naming as defendants MGM Resorts International for allegedly not having proper security procedures and trained staff; concert organizer Live Nation for allegedly not having adequate exits and trained employees; and the estate of shooter Stephen Paddock.
MGM, the owner of Mandalay Bay, took a highly unusual step and filed a federal lawsuit naming about 2,000 people who were have sued or threatened to sue the company, requesting that the court issue a declaratory judgment stating that MGM is not liable, and requesting that all of the lawsuits against it be pooled together in multi-district litigation (MDL). Earlier this month, MGM's requests were denied, allowing existing and future lawsuits against it to proceed in state courts without being transferred to an MDL docket.
Fighting for rights of injury victims in California
Los Angeles personal injury attorney Sean Salamati understands the legal battle that the shooting victims and their families face. The Salamati Law Firm has dedicated the past two decades to fighting for the rights of personal injury victims in LA and around Southern California. If you have been injured and believe someone else bears legal responsibility, call today to schedule a free confidential consultation.
Additional resources on Las Vegas shooting updates:
Bloomberg, MGM Resorts Can't Centralize Mass Shooting Lawsuits Panel Rules, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/mgm-resorts-can-t-centralize-mass-shooting-lawsuits-panel-rules
Fox News, Las Vegas shooting: Memorial events mark 1-year anniversary as massacre motive still shrouded in mystery, https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-shooting-memorial-events-mark-1-year-anniversary-as-massacre-motive-still-shrouded-in-mystery
Fox News, Las Vegas massacre survivor leaves hospital year after shooting, https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-massacre-survivor-leaves-hospital-year-after-shooting
Death Toll Rises in the Wake of Las Vegas Mass Shooting
Police reports say death toll in Sunday's night's outdoor concert massacre at the Mandalay Resort Hotel in Las Vegas has
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Police reports say death toll in Sunday's night's outdoor concert massacre at the Mandalay Resort Hotel in Las Vegas has risen to 58. At least 515 people have been reported injured. The alleged gunman, Stephen Paddock, was found dead in his hotel room after the shooting spree. The suspect is believed to have checked into the hotel with more than 10 rifles although there have been no reports indicating what types of weapons were found.
At approximately 10 pm, police say that Mr. Paddock opened fire from his 32nd floor hotel room onto the crowd below, spraying a hail of bullets across the 22,000 concertgoers. Audio recordings that were made at the scene indicate that the gunman had used at least one automatic weapon. This mass shooting incident is now considered the deadliest in US history.
The Las Vegas Police department has notified the public that blood donations for the injured victims can be given at United Blood Services. An additional blood drive will be held at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada on Monday. Citizens are also encouraged to contact their local American Red Cross offices. For those who are not local to the area, financial donations can be made on the American Red Cross website.
Sean F. Salamati and the entire staff of The Salamati Law Firm are devastated by the tremendous loss of life and the harm inflicted on the families of all those who were killed or injured in this unprecedented event.
Though incidents on this scale shake the entire the world, people are victims of gun violence every day in this country. Whether inflicted intentionally or negligently, victims and the families of victims deserve the best and most experienced legal counsel to uncover what events led to the shooting and how it has since impacted their lives. The emotional impact of surviving gun violence adds another level of sensitivity that also deserves to be explored. It is possible to suffer serious injuries by merely witnessing such an event.
Sean F. Salamati has decades of experience to help families and victims who've been shot, uncover who is ultimately liable for the shooting and get compensation for those who deserve it. For more information, please call us at 213-817-8888.
Pharmaceuticals Litigation Draws Plaintiffs to California
They have been dubbed "litigation tourists" and according to a 6-year study, they make up about 90 percent of the
They have been dubbed "litigation tourists" and according to a 6-year study, they make up about 90 percent of the plaintiffs in pharmaceuticals litigation in California. These plaintiffs with no California connection are flooding the courts and critics argue that they impede the chances of residents who are looking to have their day in court.
Justice group study identifies flux of "litigation tourists"
According to a study recently published by the Civil Justice Association of California, most plaintiffs in California cases against pharmaceutical companies are these so-called "litigation tourists", who do not reside in California – and have no connection to the state – but choose to file here because of a perceived advantage.
The study looked at product liability lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical companies in Los Angeles and San Diego between January 2010 and May 2016. It included more than 2,900 cases which included more than 25,500 plaintiffs.
Not only are individual plaintiffs likely to be non-California residents but more than two-thirds of the pharmaceuticals cases do not have any California residents in the entire group of plaintiffs. In nine out of every ten lawsuits included in the study, the plaintiffs were represented by one of 25 law firms and none of those firms had California residents make up more than one third of their plaintiffs.
Incentives for non-California tort plaintiffs
There are a number of likely contributing factors to the rise in non-resident lawsuits:
California has garnered a nationwide reputation as being plaintiff-friendly
California courts apply a different standard from most other states for admissions of expert witness testimony
The state recognizes what has become known as the "innovator liability theory" which allows a manufacturer of a brand-name drug to be held liable when patients are injured by generic alternatives that were manufactured and sold by third parties
Unlike most other states, California has no cap on punitive damages
Last year's state supreme court case, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, decided in August 2016, appears to apply a stamp of approval to the practice. In that case, 86 Californians were joined by nearly 600 non-residents to sue the defendant drug manufacturer over alleged injuries related to a prescription blood thinner. The out-of-state defendant argued that the California court did not have jurisdiction because none of its operations took place in California. But the California Supreme Court permitted the lawsuit because the company had marketed and distributed the product in the state.
Critics point out that using California's judicial resources for forum-shopping plaintiffs with no ties to the Golden State does not help residents who already face an uphill battle gaining access to the courts due to the state court budget crisis that has been ongoing since 2008.
California personal injury lawyer
A personal injury, including those caused by pharmaceuticals, can leave victims and their families with physical, financial, and emotional damage. Los Angeles attorney personal injury lawyer Sean Salamati understands the impact of these events and can help you determine your best next legal step. Contact the Salamati Law Firm at 888-259-4060 for a free consultation.
Additional Personal Injury Resources
Civil Justice Association of California, Out-of-State Plaintiffs: Are Out-Of-State Plaintiffs clogging California Courts?, http://cjac.org/what/research/CJAC_Out_of_State_Plaintiffs_Exec_Summary.pdf
California Courts, Jurisdiction and Venue: Where to file a case, http://www.courts.ca.gov/9617.htm
Consumer Attorneys of California, Court Funding: California's court system is bearing a disproportionate share of state's budget hardship – denying vital services and preventing many Californians from ever having their day in court, https://www.caoc.org/index.cfm?pg=CourtFunding
California Rains Cause Surge in LA County Car Crashes
Unprecedented rains in a historically dry area have triggered flash floods and a massive surge in freeway crashes, reports the
Firefighter and paramedics taking victim out of crashed car
Unprecedented rains in a historically dry area have triggered flash floods and a massive surge in freeway crashes, reports the Los Angeles Times. At the beginning of the rainy period last November, the California Highway Patrol noted a whopping 570 percent increase in traffic accidents throughout Los Angeles County, as motorists struggled with slick roads, poor visibility and hazardous conditions. According to reports, heavy storms inundated San Luis Obispo County with more than two inches of rain, and Brentwood's Getty Center didn't fare much better with more than an inch of water. The sudden uptick in motor vehicle crashes created havoc and gridlock along several highly-trafficked freeways in Southern California.
The spike in freeway crashes, some of which involved multiple vehicles and large trucks, left many motorists with serious injuries requiring hospitalization and medical treatment. Unfortunately, weather-related traffic accidents in California are not uncommon, says personal injury attorney Sean Salamati, who represents victims in the greater Los Angeles area. Salamati has vast experience handling personal injury car accident claims involving commercial vehicles and passenger cars.
Liability issues in bad weather accidents
Treacherous road conditions, whether caused by rain, ice or fallen debris, can lead to dangerous situations for anyone behind the wheel. In car accidents caused by bad weather, who, if anyone, is legally responsible for damages?
In California, liability for any type of auto accident comes down to negligence. Was the driver exercising reasonable care given the current weather conditions at the time of the crash? A light shower might only call for a slight reduction in speed, whereas a heavy downpour would require a reasonable driver to turn on their headlights, slow down considerably and accommodate for longer stopping distances, in case of sudden breaking.
Snow, rain, fog, ice and sleet can reduce tire traction, visibility and brake performance. When motorists are driving in bad weather conditions, they should take extra care and adjust their speed accordingly. Those who fail to do so and are involved in a collision may have a difficult time seeking appropriate compensation for property damage, medical bills and other related losses.
If you are injured because another motorist failed to drive safely in bad weather, or was driving too fast for conditions, the Salamati Law Firm is here to help.
Protect your rights to compensation
As a veteran California injury attorney who specializes in car accident claims, Sean Salamati leverages the resources and experience to build a strong case that documents all injuries, pain and suffering, and economic losses. His legal team can uncover whether hazardous road debris, careless driving, alcohol impairment, or other factors contributed to the crash.
Working with a trusted auto accident lawyer in Los Angeles with proven case results can make a major difference in your ability to successfully file a claim and recover fair monetary compensation for your losses.
To set up a free, no-obligation case evaluation at our Los Angeles office, we invite you to call 888-259-4060.
More "car accidents caused by rain" resources:
LA Times, Rain triggers 570% surge in Los Angeles County freeway crashes http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rain-weather-socal-20161121-story.html
LA Times, Drenched: How L.A. went from bone-dry to 216% of normal rainfall in four months, http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rain-record-la-20170123-story.html
Los Angeles Man Killed Following Altercation in Bar
In the early morning hours of December 16, a Los Angeles man was struck and killed by a car following
In the early morning hours of December 16, a Los Angeles man was struck and killed by a car following an altercation in a North Hollywood bar. The victim, whose name was not immediately released by police, evidently had been drinking in the bar and fought with the bouncer shortly before closing.
He and the bouncer, Ernest Reyes, struggled until he fell in the street. At that point, the victim was struck by a car which accelerated and left the scene without stopping.
The car was described in the Los Angeles Times as a "dark-colored vehicle with dark-tinted windows."
Police arrested Reyes, who is 34, on suspicion of murder. His bail was set at $2 million. The Times noted that the sequence of events was unclear, including whether Reyes shoved the man into the street. Police are currently investigating. They are also exploring whether security cameras can yield a picture of the car and driver who struck the victim.
Multiple legal claims possible
While law enforcement is still investigating and fault cannot yet be assigned, the incident illustrates several points of California law regarding vehicle accidents, pedestrian responsibility, and personal injury.
Negligence laws in California apply to both vehicles and pedestrians. A car that strikes a pedestrian is not always at fault. Hypothetically, if a pedestrian darts into a street directly before a car, a jury could find the pedestrian 100% at fault. If, however, a pedestrian is jay-walking and a car is going too fast to stop, a jury might find that the driver bears the preponderance of blame. Under state law, a jury could find the driver 75% negligent and the pedestrian 25%. Any damages awarded would be split accordingly.
Second, there is the issue of driver behavior. News reports indicate that the victim was killed by a hit-and-run accident. A hit-and-run is an accident in which the driver of a vehicle that has struck someone does not stop. Under California law, drivers who strike someone, whether they are injured, killed, or unharmed, must stop. It is illegal to leave the scene of an accident. If someone was killed in the accident, leaving it is a felony offense.
If the driver is found, the victim's family in this case could bring civil charges under California hit-and-run law.
Third, the incident raises the issue of personal injury law. Under California personal injury statutes, someone can be responsible for personal injury if they carelessly caused personal injury or death. Careless means that a person knew or should have known a situation was dangerous but did not take proper care to prevent it.
While we do not know the circumstances until the police investigations are complete, a party who pushes another party into the path of an oncoming vehicle could be found to have caused personal injury. However, if the victim stumbled rather than was propelled into the roadway, or did not notice an oncoming vehicle due to inebriation, a jury might find that the victim was partly or even entirely responsible. Because the victim was hit by a car, the driver of the car may also bear a large responsibility.
In this particular case, the accident resulted in death. The families and loved ones of the deceased can bring suits in cases of car accidents, pedestrian accidents, and personal injury.
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Nominees for "10 Worst Toys in 2016" Released
Toy stores are beefing up inventories with the latest products and gadgets as holiday shopping is in full swing. Once
Toy stores are beefing up inventories with the latest products and gadgets as holiday shopping is in full swing. Once again, the consumer advocacy group World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc. (W.A.T.C.H.) has published its nominees for the "10 Worst Toys" of 2016 in the hopes of keeping dangerous toys out of the hands of small children. The organization releases such a list every year in an effort to prevent needless toy-related injuries, which cause more than 250,000 emergency room visits annually.
W.A.T.C.H. is urging both parents and caregivers to take caution when buying toys for their children this holiday season, as many are sold without adequate warnings about choking, suffocation and injury hazards. Dozens of the recalled toys in recent years were found to have design or manufacturing defects, or were put on the marketplace without sufficient testing.
Safety advocates say that between 2010 and 2014, an estimated 61 American children died because of toy-related injuries. Their 2016 "10 Worst Toys" nominees spotlight some of the many hazards posed to children.
10 Most Hazardous Toys for 2016
According to the W.A.T.C.H. report, the following ten products have inadequate warnings and may be extremely dangerous for children.
Banzai Bump and Bounce Body Bumpers – Manufactured by ToyQuest, these inflatable suits worn by children allow kids to bounce off one another. However, there is no protective equipment included and this toy has a potential for impact injuries
Kids Time Baby Children's Elephant Pillow – Sold on Amazon, this plush stuffed animal comes with no warnings about the suffocation risks for infants.
Peppa Pig's Muddy Puddles Family – These cute figurines are marketed for children ages 2 and 3 or older, but without warnings about small plastic parts that pose choking hazards for this age group
Slimeball Slinger – Much like a slingshot, the Slimeball Slinger lets kids launch projectiles more than 30 feet, but the toy has the potential to cause severe eye injuries
Nerf Rival Apollo XV-700 Blaster – Nerf ammunition may be soft, but it can still result in serious eye injuries. The package includes photos of children wearing safety masks, though no protective gear is included.
Flying Heroes Superman Launcher – A winged superhero figurine sold at major retail outlets, this product has the potential for face and eye injuries when used by small children
Peppy Pups – This playpen toy, sold at ToysR US, is sold with a 31-inch long cord, posing strangulation risks to children aged 3 and younger.
The Good Dinosaur Galloping Butch – Marketed to children 3 or older, this T-Rex toy has a sharp plastic tail that can cause significant puncture wound injuries.
Warcraft Doomhammer – Blunt impact injuries are a potential danger when children play with this heavy weight plastic hammer
Baby Magic Feed and Play Baby – Two-year olds are encouraged to spoon feed this interactive baby doll, but the spoon is small enough that it could block a child's airway if used improperly
Los Angeles toy defect lawyers
The W.A.T.C.H. report, though helpful, is far from an exhaustive list of all toys that pose dangers for choking, strangulation, puncture wounds or impact injuries. If your child is hurt by a toy that is unsafe for its intended purpose, came without adequate warnings, or was defective in some manner, you may have grounds for legal action.
To learn more about filing a product liability lawsuit in Los Angeles, we encourage you to call The Salamati Law Firm for a free, no-obligation case review. Our veteran LA personal injury attorneys stand prepared to fight for maximum compensation. Call our offices today at 888-259-4060.
ToySafety.org, 2016 "10 Worst Toy" List http://toysafety.org/toy-safety/2016-10-worst-toy-list/
ToySafety.org, 2016, Nominee List http://toysafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WATCH-2016-Press-Release-With-Nominees.pdf
Traffic Deaths on Rise in 2016, New Report Finds
Traffic deaths saw a sharp uptick during the first half of 2016, according to data collected by federal traffic authorities.
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Traffic deaths saw a sharp uptick during the first half of 2016, according to data collected by federal traffic authorities. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has discovered a 10-percent increase in traffic deaths between 2015 and 2016, marking the largest jump in traffic fatalities in the past 50 years. The increase in fatalities has been seen among pedestrians and bicyclists as well as motorists, according to the latest numbers.
The new data, which was released in the October issue of Traffic Safety Facts, estimated that nearly 18,000 people, or 1.12 for every million people in the U.S., died in motor vehicle accidents from January to June this year. That compares to the same time frame in 2015, when almost 16,000 people, or 1.05 for every million people, lost their lives. The years both show increases in deaths over previous years, including the first six months of 2011 when an estimated 15,000 people died.
The researchers noted that the last seven calendar quarters have seen increases in traffic fatalities when compared with the corresponding quarter for the previous year. There appears to be a number of factors that might be contributing to this alarming trend, although researchers warn that those factors may become more apparent when final numbers are available in late fall of 2017. In the meantime, highway officials are examining some early clues into what might be driving this unfortunate trend.
Factors at play
The National Safety Commission has noted that the improving economy, which has led to higher employment rates and cheaper gasoline, may be one of the factors contributing to the higher mortality rates on the nation's roadways. When the economy is slow, fewer people tend to be out and about going to work and other obligations. When the economy picks up, so do the miles logged on the nation's highways.
The Federal Highway Administration has linked the increase in fatalities to an increase in miles traveled. During the first six months of 2016, the number of vehicles traveling on U.S. roadways increased by 50.5 billion miles, which is a 3.3 percent increase in miles traveled since the previous year.
Other factors that routinely contribute to increases in traffic fatalities include driving under the influence, distracted driving and speeding. At this time, it is too early to know exactly how much of a role these common factors may have played in the latest numbers. However, that information should be available later next year, which will help officials determine whether further steps might need to be taken to reduce these risks.
Bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities
Researchers also noted that a rise in fatalities among pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists could have contributed to the increase in traffic-related fatalities – at least during 2015. During this year alone, there was a 12.2 percent increase in bicycle accident fatalities and a 9.5 percent increase in pedestrian fatalities. Walking and biking to work have become increasingly popular modes of transportation as one million more people have been walking to work since 2005.
While people may opt to walk or bike to work for health reasons, the danger of such activity also needs to be noted. Many cities do not have designated lanes for walkers or bikers, which can bring them much closer to the street action than what is considered safe. These additional lanes can be expensive for cities, which is why many do not offer them. However, studies have shown that designated lanes can lower the incidence of pedestrian death and serious injury.
If you have been injured in an motor vehicle accident in Los Angeles, The Salamati Law Firm is here to help. Our Southern California car accident lawyers help navigate the complex legal system to ensure your rights are protected and just compensation is obtained. Schedule a free case evaluation by calling 888-259-4060.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First Half (Jan-June) of 2016, https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812332
KQED, With Rising Number of Highway Deaths, California Bucks National Trend, https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/24/with-rising-number-of-highway-deaths-california-bucks-national-trend/
Lawsuits Filed After Deadly Tour Bus Crash
Lawsuits have been filed by the families of two of the victims who died in a tour bus crash outside of
Lawsuits have been filed by the families of two of the victims who died in a tour bus crash outside of Palm Springs, California on October 23. The lawsuits were filed against the bus company and its owner and driver the night of the accident. The driver was also killed in the crash, so the lawsuits are seeking damages from the deceased driver's estate.
Family members of Gustavo Garcia, 63, and Tony Mia, 50, said the driver of the bus, 59-year-old Teodulo Elias Vides, was negligent and reckless, making him legally responsible for the accident. Specifically, the lawsuits cite failure to travel at a safe speed, failure to reduce speed at a construction zone and failure to keep a proper lookout and apply the brakes when necessary. The lawyers of the plaintiffs also list Vides' failure to properly maintain the bus and operating a bus that was not equipped with seatbelts or other restraint systems.
Crash occurred in early morning hours
The bus was traveling back to the Los Angeles area from the Red Earth Casino at Salton City at around 5:15 a.m. when it slammed into the back of a tractor trailer on Interstate 10. Traffic in the area had slowed significantly at the time of the accident, due to roadwork. The big rig was traveling at about five miles per hour when the bus crashed into its back end. Investigators have told local media the bus must have been traveling much faster than the truck at the time of impact, due to the considerable damage the front of the bus suffered.
In addition, investigators noted there were no skid marks to indicate the brakes were ever applied on the bus prior to the collision. The only skid marks in the road after the accident were those of the truck as it was pushed forward from the accident. The investigation has also revealed that four of the eight tires on the bus were worn to the point the vehicle should have been put out of commission.
Investigation by NTSB ongoing
The investigation is continuing as the National Transportation Safety Board continues to collect clues as to what might have caused the deadly accident. Some of the factors they will consider include the driving records of both drivers involved in the crash, including their accident history and level of training for operating the vehicles they were driving.
Most of the passengers were asleep on the bus when the collision occurred. The 13 that were killed were all sitting close to the front of the bus, where the most significant damage occurred. Another 31 passengers were injured during the accidents, some of them severely.
The wrongful death lawsuits filed this week are the first involving this particular crash. A report from KPCC found that Vides was only carrying $5 million in insurance for his bus, which will not offer much compensation for the families of the 13 killed as well as the other 31 that suffered injuries. The $5 million is the legal limit for buses of this size – a limit that has not changed since the 1980s.
As the investigation into the cause of the crash continues, it remains to be seen whether other accident victims will seek legal reparations. Los Angeles car accident attorney Sean F. Salamati offers legal guidance to those who were injured in motor vehicle accidents. To make an appointment for a free consultation, please call 888-259-4060
CNN, Police: "No Appearance of Braking" in Deadly Bus Crash, http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/23/us/california-bus-accident/
SCPR, Bus Crash Victims to get Little Compensation, http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/31/65827/bus-crash-victims-likely-to-get-little-compensatio/
Las Vegas Review Journal, Casino Bus Crashes in U.S. Attracting More Safety Scrutiny, http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/casino-bus-crashes-us-attracting-more-safety-scrutiny
Tour Bus Crash Leaves 13 Dead and 31 Injured on 10 Freeway
Thirteen people were killed and 31 injured on October 23 when a tour bus hit the back of a large
Thirteen people were killed and 31 injured on October 23 when a tour bus hit the back of a large truck near Palm Springs. The bus originated in Los Angeles, and it is believed that most of the passengers were from the Los Angeles area.
The crash is one of the deadliest in California since a 1963 accident near Chualar. That collision, involving a flatbed truck transporting Mexican farm workers and a freight train, killed 32 people.
The accident occurred on the 10 Freeway in Desert Hot Springs during the predawn hours. Most of the passengers were asleep. They had been at a casino near Thermal, close to the Salton Sea.
The bus in which the victims were riding hit the rear end of the truck's trailer, nearly destroying the front of the bus and severely impacting the first third of it. The Los Angeles Times noted that most of the fatalities were sitting near the front of the bus.
Given the damage to the bus, authorities noted that it might have been going much faster than the truck. However, officials noted that an investigation is pending and it is not known whether the bus driver was going over the speed limit.
Early indications were that the driver died in the crash. Although California Highway Patrol (CHP) authorities have not identified the driver, neighbors in Alhambra gave his name as Elias Vides.
The damaged vehicle was a USA Holiday tour bus. It did not have seat belts. USA Holiday is based in Alhambra and owns a single bus and has one driver.
CHP Border Division Chief Jim Abele said, "In almost 35 years, I've never been to a crash where there's been 13 confirmed fatals. It's tough … you never get used to this."
Injured taken to nearby hospitals
Five of the injured were in critical condition.
Because of the lack of seat belts, some of the injured received facial injuries with soft tissue and bone injury involvement. Some may need plastic surgery as a result of their injuries, according to Dr. Ricard Townsend at Desert Regional Medical Center, where some of the injured were taken.
Other passengers were brought to area hospitals with noncritical injuries, including cuts, abrasions, and neck pain.
Many of the victims were Spanish-speaking. Local hospitals brought in healthcare personnel who spoke Spanish to help in the patients' care.
Federal investigation begins
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were slated to arrive in the area on Monday to help with the ongoing investigation. They will look at causal factors, including whether the early morning hours meant the driver feel asleep, whether he was under the influence of substances, or had a medical emergency such as a heart attack. They also explore the possibility of mechanical problems with the bus.
Officials indicated they hope to find a data recorder to determine the bus's speed and driver actions before the crash, such as braking. However, since the bus is 20 years old, they cautioned that it may not have had a data recorder on board.
Personal injury law firm serving Los Angeles
The Salamati Law Firm continues to follow investigations into the cause of this fatal accident, and our Southern California car accident attorneys extend their sincere condolences to those who were harmed or lost a loved one. To learn more about our legal services or to request a free consultation with a member of our firm, please call our Los Angeles office at 888-259-4060.
LA Times, 13 dead, 31 others injured in tour bus crash near Palm Springs http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tour-bus-20161023-snap-story.html


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Başbağlar massacre
Başbağlar, Kemaliye, Erzincan Province, Turkey
5 July 1993 (5 July 1993)
Part of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict (1978-present)
Attack type
Massacre, shooting, arson
Kurdistan Workers' Party
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"Başbağlar da 15 yıldır adalet bekliyor" Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, Haber10, July 6, 2008. URL access date: July 7, 2008.
"Başbağlar, one of PKK's bloodiest massacres, remembered". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
"Turkish minister remembers victims of Başbağlar massacre". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
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"Öcalan Davası". Archived from the original on 20 July 2012.
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
First insurgency
N Iraq (1986)
Pınarcık
Taşdelen
Başbağlar
Winter campaign
Varto
Sazak
Blue Market
Second insurgency
Hakkâri (2007)
Aktütün
2011 border raid
Roboski
Beytüşşebap
Third insurgency
Martyr Yalçın
Police raids
Arslan Kulaksız
Cizre (2015)
Dürümlü
2015 airport bombing
Ankara (Feb 2016)
Ankara (Mar 2016)
Istanbul (Jun 2016)
Istanbul (Oct 2016)
Istanbul (Dec 2016)
Euphrates Shield
Airstrikes in Syria & Iraq
Sinjar (2018)
Gercüş
Peace Spring
Claw-Eagle & Claw-Tiger
Claw-Eagle 2
Claw-Lightning & Thunderbolt
Serhildan
Peace process and peace efforts
1991–2004 Kurdish–Turkish peace initiatives
2013–2015 Solution process
1993 Kurdistan Workers' Party ceasefire
Assassinations
The Başbağlar massacre (Turkish: Başbağlar Katliamı) is the name given to the 5 July 1993 massacre of 33 civilians by PKK in the village of Başbağlar (which was then burnt down), in Erzincan Province during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. The attack was originally attributed to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that also claimed it, while the former Turkish special forces soldier Ayhan Çarkın claimed that the deep state was behind the massacre at first. But he later retracted that all of his claims were "just predictions".
The leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan while in prison admitted that the massacre was committed by a PKK member codenamed "Dr. Baran".
The small village of Başbağlar is located 220 kilometers from the city of Erzincan in the eastern Anatolian province of Erzincan's Kemaliye district.
Turkish authorities claimed that approximately 100 heavily armed militants rampaged through the village, dragged all the civilians to the village square and burned their homes and property. After an hour of propaganda session dozens of men from the village were killed in front of their families. The militants then moved on to setting the whole village on fire. 214 homes, a school, a mosque, a clinic and a community center were burnt down.
The Başbağlar massacre is considered one of the bloodiest mass killings in the history of the PKK.
Nearly twenty people were allegedly arrested as part of the investigation, in which two people were jailed and sentenced to life imprisonment for being members of the PKK. Turkish authorities claimed that although the PKK apparently claimed responsibility for the attack, during interrogations, jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan said that he had been unaware of the incident and stated that a PKK member codenamed Dr. Baran was responsible for the incident. In 1998 the case was closed.
On 5 July 2010, the Turkish minister Faruk Çelik visited Başbağlar to commemorate the day, he said: "No matter how many years pass after this incident, we will never forget this sorrow and those who caused it."


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