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Fleetwood Town will host Premier League Leicester City in the FA Cup third round after beating seventh-tier Hereford in a replay at Edgar Street.
Captain Cian Bolger headed in from a corner to give Fleetwood the lead inside 10 minutes, after the sides had drawn 1-1 at Highbury 12 days ago.
Bolger then doubled the Cod Army's lead with a free header from another corner.
John Mills went close for Hereford from a free-kick, but the hosts rarely troubled their League One visitors.
Southern League Premier Division phoenix club Hereford are in only their third season back in existence, and were backed by a vociferous home crowd.
Pete Beadle's side piled forward late on, but the Bulls were unable to break down a well-organised Fleetwood defence.
The visitors went close to extending their lead when Leeds United loanee Lewie Coyle clipped the bar with a curling effort.
Uwe Rosler's side will now welcome the Foxes on Saturday, 6 January in a 12:45 GMT kick-off.
Match ends, Hereford FC 0, Fleetwood Town 2.
Second Half ends, Hereford FC 0, Fleetwood Town 2.
Attempt missed. Jimmy Oates (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Keyon Reffell with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Hereford FC. Conceded by Ashley Hunter.
Attempt saved. Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Amari'i Bell.
Attempt saved. Mike Symons (Hereford FC) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Billy Murphy with a cross.
Mike Symons (Hereford FC) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Baily Cargill (Fleetwood Town).
Foul by Mike Symons (Hereford FC).
Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lance Smith (Hereford FC).
Markus Schwabl (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Markus Schwabl replaces George Glendon.
Attempt missed. Keyon Reffell (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Calvin Dinsley.
Attempt saved. Mike Symons (Hereford FC) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Calvin Dinsley with a cross.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Neill (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ashley Hunter with a cross.
Attempt missed. Calvin Dinsley (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Aiden O'Neill (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lewie Coyle (Fleetwood Town) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the right side of the box.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Ashley Hunter replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila.
Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keyon Reffell (Hereford FC).
Attempt blocked. Billy Murphy (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Jimmy Oates (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mike Symons.
Substitution, Hereford FC. Lance Smith replaces Garyn Preen.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Lewie Coyle replaces Wes Burns.
Attempt missed. John Mills (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner from a direct free kick.
Attempt missed. Calvin Dinsley (Hereford FC) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jimmy Oates.
Goal! Hereford FC 0, Fleetwood Town 2. Cian Bolger (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by George Glendon with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Ryan Green.
Corner, Hereford FC. Conceded by Wes Burns.
Foul by Aiden O'Neill (Fleetwood Town).
John Mills (Hereford FC) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dara O'Shea (Hereford FC).


This was one of my favorite pieces of acting advice, given to me by a wonderful mentor of mine when I was struggling to fight the "editor" voice that haunts almost every actor, theater artist, and quite frankly, most human beings I've encountered. This advice is constantly at the back of my mind as I dive into the process of creating a theater company. All I can do is start with where I am today, right now, and allow myself to change, improve, make mistakes, learn from them and keep moving forward.
While everyone was counting down to midnight, I was captivated by the elegance and grace of Joe Wright's beautiful film. So began my love affair with one of the greatest female novelists of all time. After years of devouring her novels again and again, watching every movie version of her work that I could get my hands on, and at the suggestion of my father, I started writing my adaptation of her most famous work, "Pride and Prejudice."
This decision promoted the forward momentum of a dream of mine that had been waiting for the opportunity to bloom: the creation of my own theater company. And so it is that I'm sitting here at my desk, on a foggy day in January, preparing to launch a Kickstarter Campaign, a theater company, and a brand-new show, all at the same time.
It's hard to believe that so much has happened in so short a period of time. And because things are happening so quickly, I wanted to journal this experience so that you can follow it with me. Because what is a crazy, transformative experience like starting a theater company if you can't share it?
1. I promise that I will share with you our successes and our opportunities-for-learning, our moments of hilarity and clarity and everything in between.
2. I promise to make it not just interesting but engaging, because in my humble opinion, this world could use a little more interaction and less distraction.
So come with me....and welcome to the Ensemble.


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My friend Susan had a dream, after a long career as a nurse, she decided to venture into something different for herself. She wanted to start a goat sanctuary for women and children who need emotional healing. After three years, she was finally ready to bring it to life.
Over the weekend, I joined friends and family as they celebrated the Blessing of the Farm marking the official opening of the sanctuary. Some of us were more willing than others to come meet the goats up close, but everyone was equally inspired by Susan's excitement. Her love for the goats and the smile on her face as she described each of the goats was truly contagious.
A prayer followed by a toast with Mimosas, strawberries and sugar cookies for guests, and animal-shaped cookies for the goats couldn't be missed. Susan talked to us about the energy of goats; for some, goats mean the ability to climb new heights or to accomplish new endeavors.
The name of the farm was revealed, it is called "Heart, Hoof & Soul," and it could not be more appropriate. I see how women and children who visit this sanctuary will fall in love with the spirit of love, the kindness around the farm, and the playfulness of my new friends, the goats who have been named after famous superstars: Patrick Swayze, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, among others.
I think we all should dream, and because I'm big on dreaming I'm glad that Susan didn't give up on hers. She followed her heart and she followed her joy.
Here's to a long list of visitors who may find peace, joy and healing among the friendly hoofs of my new furry friends.


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There are a number of things I do when traveling by myself for my own safety.
Through my tours, I managed to do so much. Here are my suggestions on how to spend 4.5 days in Iceland.
I spent almost five days in Iceland, and I loved it.
I can't wait for the day I return to Rancho Xotolar in Guanajuato, Mexico.
I went from having NO expectations to being OBSESSED with this city.
I thought I'd share some thoughts on how to plan for that 2019 vacation.
During my recent work trip to San Diego, I came across a few places that I immediately loved.
It's safe to say I love visiting LA, and here are a few reasons why.
The more I looked into Zion, the more I knew I had to get there one day.
I'm back with another update (let's just call it my quarterly update) on my travel plans for this year.
I had an incredible time at the Grand Canyon and am so glad I was able to fit it in during my work trip to Arizona.
For anyone visiting Edinburgh (pronounced Eh-Din-Burr-Uh), here are a few things to do, see and eat.
I'm using some of what I did during my trip to share my suggestions on how to spend 48 hours in Barcelona.
I knew when going to Austin that I had to see some live music while I was there.
"What is there to do in Kingston, Jamaica?" Well, I can help answer that.
Dîner en Blanc celebrated its 30th anniversary by opening up its flagship event to the world.
There are multiple ways to experience Machu Picchu. Here's how I did it.
My jam-packed time in Buenos Aires also gave me a good sense of what to do as a first-time visitor.
Earlier this year, I shared my 2018 travel plans for the first time. Here's where I've been so far.
I've discovered ways to both quickly adapt to time zones when traveling and recover upon my return.


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Synonyms: KimiSui, Let Me Eat Your Pancreas
Japanese: 君の膵臓をたべたい
English: I want to eat your pancreas
German: I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
Spanish: Quiero comerme tu Páncreas
French: Je Veux Manger Ton Pancréas
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Aired: Sep 1, 2018
Producers: Aniplex
Licensors: Aniplex of America
Studios: Studio VOLN
Source: Novel
Genres: DramaDrama, RomanceRomance, Slice of LifeSlice of Life
Duration: 1 hr. 48 min.
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The aloof protagonist: a bookworm who is deeply detached from the world he resides in. He has no interest in others and is firmly convinced that nobody has any interest in him either. His story begins when he stumbles across a handwritten book, titled "Living with Dying." He soon identifies it as a secret diary belonging to his popular, bubbly classmate Sakura Yamauchi. She then confides in him about the pancreatic disease she is suffering from and that her time left is finite. Only her family knows about her terminal illness; not even her best friends are aware. Despite this revelation, he shows zero sympathy for her plight, but caught in the waves of Sakura's persistent buoyancy, he eventually concedes to accompanying her for her remaining days.
As the pair of polar opposites interact, their connection strengthens, interweaving through their choices made with each passing day. Her apparent nonchalance and unpredictability disrupts the protagonist's impassive flow of life, gradually opening his heart as he discovers and embraces the true meaning of living.
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Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai is an anime adaption of Yoru Sumino's novel of the same title. Originally a web novel published on the user-generated content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2014, it was subsequently re-published in 2015 by Futabasha. The English licensor, Seven Seas Entertainment released the novel in English on November 20, 2018.
A Japanese live-action film based on the novel, which also shares the same title, premiered in Japan on July 28, 2017.
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Yamauchi, Sakura
Shiga, Haruki
Takasugi, Mahiro
Takimoto, Kyouko
Fujii, Yukiyo
Miyata, Issei
Fukushima, Jun
Uchida, Yuuma
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Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai (I Want to Eat Your Pancreas) is predictable, heavy-handed, unoriginal, and, yet, I still love this film. I do not love the movie in any sort of guilty-pleasure way either; I unironically think Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai is one of the best anime films I have ever seen. Why, though? Well, the film uses its predictability, heavy-handedness, and unoriginality to craft a message that is so unbelievably powerful, and it struck a chord with me and left my emotions in absolute, complete shambles. I honestly doubt most people could misinterpret the themes of Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, so I also want to try and dig into why this movie hits so hard, for so many.
Spoiler Warning: I am going to spoil the entire movie (but so does the movie itself). If you choose to opt out here, know that I highly recommend this film.
There are two main themes of Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai. The first is spelled out on for us on the heroine's, Sakura's, dairy, "Living with Dying." Sakura has a pancreatic illness that will eventually cut her life short. As anyone would be in this predicament, Sakura is terrified. She tries to come to terms with her situation and live her remaining days as the same carefree girl she was before. Everyone's time will eventually end, and, unfortunately for Sakura, her time will end a bit earlier than most. No one knows when they will die though—not even Sakura. Before her illness can even take her life, Sakura is stabbed in the streets and dies at the age of seven-teen. The film clearly sets up Sakura's death to be an abrupt one, but this was the one event that even caught me slightly off-guard. The first scene of the movie is Sakura's funeral, so, just like Sakura, the viewer is supposed to enter the story with the acceptance of her death, but, just like Sakura, we struggle to. No matter what, death will always be sudden, frightening, and sad. The way the film handles Sakura's death should have be obvious to the viewer, but even if you see it coming, it still somehow catches you off guard, just like Sakura. Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai weaves Sakura's feelings into the viewing experience itself and forces the viewer to empathize with her situation. If the movie did its job, the viewer will be sobbing by the end of the film, just like Haruki.
Without Haruki, Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai would be a hollow experience. Sakura's story might be powerful, but it is Haruki's that is truly moving. Prior to meeting Sakura, Haruki is a shell of person. He has no personality, no emotions, and he shuts himself off from the rest of the world. Sakura is the first person to really open up to him, and throughout the time Haruki spends with Sakura, although reluctant, he slowly starts to open up to her. For the first time in his life, Haruki makes a connection with someone else. Haruki knows that Sakura will not be around for much longer, but just like everyone else, he cannot handle losing her. After her death, Haruki starts to close himself off again, but he is not the same person as before he met Sakura. Haruki starts to realize how difficult being alone really is and starts pursuing other relationships. Although Sakura is gone, her impact on the people around her, especially Haruki, will remain. Haruki is meant to be a surrogate character for the viewer, and, because he so basic at the start of the movie, he is extremely easy to project yourself onto. At the emotional climax of the film, Haruki breaks down into tears alongside the viewer, strengthening the bond the two share and makes the following message of "the importance of connections" hit even harder.
No doubt, the story of Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai is constructed with the main purpose of eliciting specific emotions and sending home simple, but still important, messages, and the production does more of the same. The film has strong animation and direction, but the real standout is the music. Although the OST has a few solid tracks itself, the most memorable part is definitely the handful of songs done by Sumika. They do the OP, ED, and an insert song during a pivotal scene, and all of them hammer home the emotions being felt by the viewer and adds even more to an already great experience.
I recognize that Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai is not the film some people want it to be. The movie is certainly a shallow one: predictable, heavy-handed, and unoriginal. Although the movie might be simple, it is still effective. Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai is not the type of movie that is supposed to spark discussion (even though I am still doing it lul), it evokes a feeling and leaves impact. In my opinion, two movies that tackle similar themes better are Colorful and Koe no Katachi, but both of them are certainly more flawed than Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai. Actually, I consider both those other two to be in my top-ten anime of all time, so hopefully by me considering Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai to be their equal, you can understand how much I truly do love and recommend this film.
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Enjoyment 10
Say what you want about this movie being generic or being acclaimed only because it is a "tearjerker", but I don't care. I loved this movie, and I cried my eyes out. The reason people love tearjerkers is because people want to be moved. We want to experience something that will truly take us away from our lives and make us feel something so strong that we are moved to tears. This movie did just that. In an effort to avoid spoiling anything for anyone, I won't write about the climax and ending, but it was unexpected. That said, I couldn't imagine it ending any other way. This was a beautiful portrayal of a genuinely unique and special relationship between two people. I highly recommend it!
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'I Want to Eat Your Pancreas' is a common drama production to this industry. It offers generic school settings with rather superficial teenage characters. The only thing it tries to accomplish is toy with its viewers' emotions to the point of some cheap tearjerking. Those who are okay with this will most definitely see how the movie accomplishes exactly all the thing it wants to. Those who want something more from anime, should look elsewhere.
This movie is a story about death. It starts when the most perfect mary sue on the planet starts randomly talking with a no-life loser dude who happens to be her classmate. Our characters start frequently interacting with each others and supposedly grow close. They hang out and talk about dying all the time. That's pretty much the entirety of their relationship. It feels random and forced and unnatural.
Our dude is dense and has never had any friends during his pathetic life.. that's pretty much him. Our girl is really perfect and chill and that's also pretty much her. The catch being that she will die soon which further makes these two character - who are the opposites of each others (according to the narration at least) - even more the opposite because the dude is actually alive. Great.
The drama is a separate entity in the work, mainly because it is there constantly whispering to the characters --and especially to its viewers ears-- that shit will go down, just wait and see. Since the great twist is obvious from the start, the whole thing relies on the journey... where nothing spectacular ever happens and the characters feel more like meridians that try to connect the viewers to the emotions.
One could defend most of the events by looking it more from the characters perspective. I found this to be quite hard as they don't feel like real, genuine people at all. If they did, it would be understandable for our heroine to open up to a stranger, as to most people, it's often easier to talk with 3rd parties than to people close to you. Especially the whole fear of death is amazing as a concept, but I don't really see it as anything more than waste of potential in this case.
The whole main dude realizing that people actually die in real life is definitely quite an interesting idea as well.. at least to those who have never experienced this type of thing or considered that all of this could happen to literally anyone. I doubt any person who is aware of how fragile thing person's existence is, can find this specific work do them any further waking up enlightenment, other sudden realization of such things or offer much feels at all. If this movie ever serves someone, it's those viewers who are unaware of how life works, and instead of following our characters for what they are, fall into self-insert. This is one of the rare things with what the author seems self-aware of, as they say "to live is to empathize with someone." And moreover, named the male lead simply "boku" which means "I/me".
There are also several other things I'd want to complain about. Like the claim in narration that our characters are "pure and innocent." Which is really just a try hard attempt on making the viewer accept these thoughts, but the content (teenagers and alcohol) and our characters behavior (random snapping incidents) among several other scenes is the polar opposite of what I'd considered to be either of these things.. which further makes me question the author's ability to even recognize their own work for what it is. I can't say I feel very respected as a viewer when such contradictions exist in the narration.. or perhaps my comprehension of "pure" just differs with the writer.
Our writing is practically a collection of romance cliches. The only remotely original things are the concepts which it deals rather poorly with. Every event, every side character archetype and every moment that drives the story and the relationship development onward, is loaned content. There is not a single thing any romance fan hasn't seen at least 50 times before, and not only that, but the execution is so lame that I would call it offensively bad if the work managed to be less bland, but unfortunately it's not even worth of getting mad over.
If this had been 50 episodes long tv series that offered a real character portray to both of our main characters and their life, connected them, dealt with the same heavy themes. all the copy-pasted events and cliches had been abandon and the story was written by Adachi Mitsuru: this could have been the best drama the anime industry has to offer. Now it mainly looks like a random, shallow past story from any fighting tournament shonen from Nanatsu no Tanzai to Naruto except there is no character depth present in this movie and therefore it is significantly worse than let's say zero arc from Fairy Tail which dealt with rather similar concept.
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.
A lot of anime fans seem to be under the impression that as long as some sort of tragedy is featured and said tragedy happens to a cute girl, an anime automatically qualifies as "good" with its flaws being dismissed due to its label as a 'tearjerker' or 'feels' anime. Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, or 'I Want to Eat Your Pancreas', is a recent addition to this label and, while falling into the same traps as many of its predecessors, the movie manages to accumulate even more flaws on its own, resulting in something that is ultimately underwhelming.
[Note: This review was written following the movie's premiere in Australian cinemas. I have not read the source material. Once again, the review is NOT spoiler-free]
STORY: 4/10
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai's story, having been done dozens of times before, is very basic: it revolves around an unnamed protagonist (let's call him Character A) as he spends time with Yamauchi Sakura, a popular classmate whose days are numbered due her terminal pancreatic disease. As Character A helps Sakura ticks off her bucket list, he develops a close relationship and eventually falls for her. Following her death, Character A breaks free of his shell and learns to befriend those around him. On the surface, the plot structure is sound and has the potential to pull the audience's heartstrings, if done right.
Except it wasn't.
By treading ground on what has been done to death before in the plot department, Pancreas exposes itself to the risk of being extremely predictable. While this is not inherently a flaw, the movie's presentation seems to be fully set on sapping the enjoyment of the audience, being narrated in the most uninteresting way possible by Character A. While one could argue for his lack of energy in the delivery of lines to be tied to his characterisation, it doesn't change that Character A's monotony worked against the intended emotional impact of many scenes.
And yet, this wasn't the biggest issue with the plot. In fact, for something so cliché, Pancreas's greatest vice, ironically, is its attempt to subvert audience's expectations.
Given the synopsis, most people in the audience would expect the movie to eventually lead to Sakura and Character A's tearful farewells as she lets go of her last breath on a hospital bed, succumbing to her illness with a satisfied smile on her face. Although this is very conventional, it would have worked. However, in the actual movie, Sakura died from being stabbed off-screen. Yes, stabbed. By a serial killer on the loose.
There is no excuse for this "twist". Even if the killer did not appear out of nowhere (thanks to an extremely poor attempt at "foreshadowing" or Chekhov's gun or whatever earlier in the movie), to remove Sakura from the story in this way is, at best, questionable, and, at worst, utterly nonsensical. One could greatly reach in linking this stupid development to the philosophical message that "death may come from every corner" but the sheer silliness of the situation completely nullifies the intended emotional effect. When you look past the shock value, all that remains is, quite frankly, comical.
After this shocking twist, the plot quickly resumes its original course until the conclusion, leaving much to be desired due to the lack of originality and monotonous presentation.
ART: 7/10
Pancreas's art is conventional but pleasing to look at. Except for Character A (who looks completely unremarkable), the character design is serviceable. Background art for the movie is quite good and up to the expected standard of a theatrical anime production. Animation is nothing exceptional for the most part aside from a couple sequences that are animated in much more detail. A minor complaint is the movie's use of still-shots montages, which cheapens the audience's impression of the movie's production.
SOUND: 7/10
The best part of the movie. sumika did a great job with the opening and ending songs, and the OST, while nothing exceptional, did its job when required.
CHARACTER: 3/10
Character A is a blatant self-insert for the audience. From the generic 'anime male high school student' design to demeanour, he is utterly unremarkable as a character for most of the movie's running time. He has little personality on the outside, exuding no energy in his narration and interaction with other characters. While the behaviour is not completely unrealistic considering that he is a loner, it makes for a jarring watching experience as the audience is forced to follow the perspective of someone who almost never expresses his opinion. The lack of more extensive inner monologue makes the unnamed protagonist hard to relate to or like. On the rare occasions that Character A vocalises something other than some form of "Yes", a large amount of his dialogue revolves around the gag that he has no friends. While it was somewhat funny (in a sad way) at first, the excessive repetition of this character trait got old very quickly and only highlights how little Character A has going for him outside of his status as the outsider in the class. As a result, the development that Character A later received after Sakura's death felt unnatural and forced due to plot reasons.
As for Sakura, the movie desperately tries to sell her as an emotionally fragile girl hiding behind a carefree mask. In reality, her character is never effectively explored past the 'cutesy anime girl' act. How the movie examines the more sensitive side of Sakura's psyche is anything but subtle, with her telling Character A (and the audience by extension) outright that she was fragile underneath her cheerful demeanour. With that being the case, Sakura is more like a caricature of a person close to death rather than a relatable character to be invested in. Pancreas's failure to bring out and develop Sakura's character in a poignant way is a major reason why the movie lacks any meaningful emotional impact and fails as a 'tearjerker'.
The relationship between the two characters is questionable, to say the least. By conventional (anime) logic, the combination of a quiet character (Character A) and a lively character (Sakura) provides an ideal environment for them to play off each other's personality traits. Yet, there is little dynamic between the them, to the point that one must wonder how the relationship is able to sustain itself without the plot requiring it to. Character A appears perpetually uninterested in pretty much everything he does, as if he was sick of her shenanigans. Interestingly, this is probably the most realistic and interesting part of his character considering Sakura's characterisation. She acts selfishly and becomes increasingly more obnoxious as the movie goes on, forcing Character A to tag along with her to anything she feels like. Despite his reluctance, Character A always plays along with Sakura's whims anyway, the cause of which can be traced to Sakura's regular mentions of her dying soon in a cheerful demeanour. All this shows is that Sakura is manipulative and is constantly guilting Character A into feeling bad for her. The impact of Sakura's unnecessarily cruel antics comes to a boiling point during the bedroom scene. While the protagonist's behaviour is undoubtedly wrong, Sakura is not at all faultless in bringing about the situation. What is more disappointing is that this MAJOR conflict, despite its serious implications on the nature of the relationship, is not explored in a meaningful way at all. Instead, it is trivialised and resolved lazily with the intervention of a third party: Sakura's ex who serves no other purpose other than uniting the main couple through his douchebaggery (and waltzing out of existence as soon as he accomplishes his mission). Sakura's selfish behaviour is, once again, played off lightly as part of her being a cute anime girl and Character A never stops to think for himself or reconsiders participating in the toxic relationship.
The side characters of Pancreas are unnecessary and insignificant in the grand scheme of the plot. Kyoko, Sakura's best friend, incessantly harasses the unnamed protagonist for hanging out with Sakura. Worse yet, she never attempts to sort out their differences, perceiving the protagonist in an overly negative light that is never justified due to her lack of characterisation. Takahiro, Sakura's ex, serves no purpose but to resolve the climactic conflict between the two main characters, appearing in a total of two scenes in the movie. Without exaggeration, he disappears and is never heard from again after he fulfils his role. The most mindboggling side character is, without a doubt, Miyata, not for any of his personal intrigue but for the sheer pointlessness of his inclusion in the movie. For anime with a school setting, the dumb sidekick character has traditionally been a staple. With that said, Miyata does not even satisfactorily fulfil that role. He has nothing resembling a relationship with Character A, only occasionally offering him gum and getting refused. While his character's action can be interpreted to mirror Character A's growth as a character, what is presented to the audience falls short, resulting in a pointless, random and unnecessary husk of a character. None of the side characters has any business being included in the movie considering their (lack of) characterisation and nothing would have changed in the grand scheme of things if Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai only revolved around the unnamed protagonist and Sakura.
ENJOYMENT: 4/10
Despite my low initial expectations, I left the cinema feeling wholly disappointed. From feeling bored at how cliché everything was since minute one, I was aggravated by how in-your-face the movie got as it went on, treating the audience like complete idiots who could not think for themselves. The philosophical statements on life and death from the main characters are shallow, bringing nothing new to a topic that has been done to death already. From an emotional perspective, Pancreas falls flat, its supposedly climatic or shocking moments eliciting little due to how unrelatable the main characters are. Overall, Pancreas was unenjoyable and had me wondering when the movie was going to finish as it trudges through a tired, uninspired narrative.
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai – Final Score: 5/10.
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Imagine a computer that can process text, video and audio in an instant, solve problems on the fly, and do it all while consuming just 10 watts of power.
It would be the ultimate computing machine if it were built with silicon instead of human nerve cells.
Compare that to current computers, which require extensive, custom programming for each application, consume hundreds of watts in power, and are still not fast enough. So it's no surprise that some computer scientists want to go back to the drawing board and try building computers that more closely emulate nature.
"The plan is to engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain," says Dharmendra Modha, manager of the cognitive computing project at IBM Almaden Research Center.
In what could be one of the most ambitious computing projects ever, neuroscientists, computer engineers and psychologists are coming together in a bid to create an entirely new computing architecture that can simulate the brain's abilities for perception, interaction and cognition. All that, while being small enough to fit into a lunch box and consuming extremely small amounts of power.
The 39-year old Modha, a Mumbai, India-born computer science engineer, has helped assemble a coalition of the country's best researchers in a collaborative project that includes five universities, including Stanford, Cornell and Columbia, in addition to IBM.
The researchers' goal is first to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer. Then they plan to use new nano-materials to create logic gates and transistor-based equivalents of neurons and synapses, in order to build a hardware-based, brain-like system. It's the first attempt of its kind.
In October, the group bagged a $5 million grant from Darpa -- just enough to get the first phase of the project going. If successful, they say, we could have the basics of a new computing system within the next decade.
"The idea is to do software simulations and build hardware chips that would be based on what we know about how the brain and how neural circuits work," says Christopher Kello, an associate professor at the University of California-Merced who's involved in the project.
Computing today is based on the von Neumann architecture, a design whose building blocks -- the control unit, the arithmetic logic unit and the memory -- is the stuff of Computing 101. But that architecture presents two fundamental problems: The connection between the memory and the processor can get overloaded, limiting the speed of the computer to the pace at which it can transfer data between the two. And it requires specific programs written to perform specific tasks.
In contrast, the brain distributes memory and processing functions throughout the system, learning through situations and solving problems it has never encountered before, using a complex combination of reasoning, synthesis and creativity.
"The brain works in a massively multi-threaded way," says Charles King, an analyst with Pund-IT, a research and consulting firm. "Information is coming through all the five senses in a very nonlinear fashion and it creates logical sense out of it."
The brain is composed of billions of interlinked neurons, or nerve cells that transmit signals. Each neuron receives input from 8,000 other neurons and sends an output to another 8,000. If the input is enough to agitate the neuron, it fires, transmitting a signal through its axon in the direction of another neuron. The junction between two neurons is called a synapse, and that's where signals move from one neuron to another.
"The brain is the hardware," says Modha, "and from it arises processes such as sensation, perception, action, cognition, emotion and interaction." Of this, the most important is cognition, the seat of which is believed to reside in the cerebral cortex.
The structure of the cerebral cortex is the same in all mammals. So researchers started with a real-time simulation of a small brain, about the size of a rat's, in which they put together simulated neurons connected through a digital network. It took 8 terabytes of memory on a 32,768-processor BlueGene/L supercomputer to make it happen.
The simulation doesn't replicate the rat brain itself, but rather imitates just the cortex. Despite being incomplete, the simulation is enough to offer insights into the brain's high-level computational principles, says Modha.
The human cortex has about 22 billion neurons and 220 trillion synapses, making it roughly 400 times larger than the rat scale model. A supercomputer capable of running a software simulation of the human brain doesn't exist yet. Researchers would require at least a machine with a computational capacity of 36.8 petaflops and a memory capacity of 3.2 petabytes -- a scale that supercomputer technology isn't expected to hit for at least three years.
While waiting for the hardware to catch up, Modha is hoping some of the coalition's partners inch forward towards their targets.
Software simulation of the human brain is just one half the solution. The other is to create a new chip design that will mimic the neuron and synaptic structure of the brain.
That's where Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, hopes to help. Boahen, along with other Stanford professors, has been working on implementing neural architectures in silicon.
One of the main challenges to building this system in hardware, explains Boahen, is that each neuron connects to others through 8,000 synapses. It takes about 20 transistors to implement a synapse, so building the silicon equivalent of 220 trillion synapses is a tall order, indeed.
"You end up with a technology where the cost is very unfavorable," says Boahen. "That's why we have to use nanotech to implement synapses in a way that will make them much smaller and more cost-effective."
Boahen and his team are trying to create a device smaller than a single transistor that can do the job of 20 transistors. "We are essentially inventing a new device," he says.
Meanwhile, at the University of California-Merced, Kello and his team are creating a virtual environment that could train the simulated brain to experience and learn. They are using the Unreal Tournament videogame engine to help train the system. When it's ready, it will be used to teach the neural networks how to make decisions and learn along the way.
Modha and his team say they want to create a fundamentally different approach. "What we have today is a way where you start with the objective and then figure out an algorithm to achieve it," says Modha.
Cognitive computing is hoping to change that perspective. The researchers say they want to an algorithm that will be capable of handling most problems thrown at it.
The virtual environment should help the system learn. "Here there are no instructions," says Kello. "What we have are basic learning principles so we need to give neural circuits a world where they can have experiences and learn from them."
Getting there will be a long, tough road. "The materials are a big challenge," says Kello. "The nanoscale engineering of a circuit that is programmable, extremely small and that requires extremely low power requires an enormous engineering feat."
There are also concerns that the $5 million Darpa grant and IBM's largess -- researchers and resources--while enough to get the project started may not be sufficient to see it till end.
Then there's the difficulty of explaining that mimicking the cerebral cortex isn't exactly the same as recreating the brain. The cerebral cortex is associated with functions such as thought, computation and action, while other parts of the brain handle emotions, co-ordination and vital functions. These researchers haven't even begun to address simulating those parts yet.
By Priya Ganapati / Source: Wired Blog
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Movies Under the Finger Lakes Stars
Taking the family to the movies? Why not go in the comfort of the family car? If that sounds like an advertisement from the 1950s, it's not. While drive-in movie theaters are less common than they once were, several survive and even thrive in the Finger Lakes area from mid-April to Labor Day each year. Today the big outdoor screens are attracting new generations of people eager for the opportunity to see what they've only heard their parents or grandparents reminisce about. For those who grew up in the '50s and '60s when drive-ins were at the peak of their popularity, they offer a nostalgic experience.
For Joe Murphy in Avoca (Steuben County) it was the gift of a movie camera one Christmas from his wife which fueled his love of movies, prompting him to build the Bath Drive-In in 1949. "He got so involved with the movies," recalls daughter Joyce Wagner of Cohocton, "anything that had to do with filming. He even flew out to Chicago to see the first Cinemascope movie. He just got into it."
A family vacation to Florida put them all on the silver screen. "Dad took us to Sarasota to see the filming of Cecil B. DeMille's Greatest Show on Earth (released 1952) with Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, and Betty Hutton," recounts Wagner, who easily ticks off all the big-name stars of the cast. "But when we got there we couldn't get in because you had to be an extra to get on the lot," she remembers.
Joe Murphy wasn't deterred. He found a lady with a pass to get in whose husband was sick that day. "Our dad went in as her husband, and came back with a pass from Cornel Wilde to admit us onto the lot," laughs Wagner. The family became extras all day, as part of the audience watching the circus perform under a hot Florida sun. But they weren't prepared for what happened next.
"We are sitting in the stands and all of a sudden, we hear someone yelling, 'Get that man out of the way; tell that man…CUT! CUT!' and then this terrible scene. It was dad," sighs Wagner with a smile. "He was down there with his movie camera, making his own movie, I guess. They had to shut down the filming to get dad off the set, and back up in the stands where he was supposed to be."
Joe Murphy ran the Bath Drive-In until the 1960s when he leased it out after he opened a bowling alley. He took it back in 1988 and his daughters, Joyce Wagner and Janice Owens of Wheeler, continue to run it along with the bowling alley, both as seasonal operations. While Joe Murphy died not long ago, his great-grandchildren are the newest generation involved in the business and it's likely there will be movies shown under the stars in Bath by his descendants for some time.
No Babysitter Needed
From Avon to Auburn, Bath to Elmira, a drive-in movie theater is still within an hour's drive for residents of the Finger Lakes region. In this area of New York State there were once over 100 drive-ins or "ozoners" as they are called. While the first drive-in originated in the 1930s in New Jersey, it was not until after World War II that the theaters experienced the biggest growth period. Nationwide there were less than 1,000 in 1948, but by 1958 nearly 5,000, due in part to America's love of both cars and movies. They were usually built on undeveloped land on highways at the edge of towns and smaller cities. Three of the four drive-in theaters still operating today in the 14-county Finger Lakes region were built during this boom construction period.
The drive-in clientele and movies have changed over the years. Through the 1950s, drive-ins catered to families. It was cheaper to go to the drive-in than to hire a babysitter, and kids didn't disrupt others as they might at an indoor theater. Playgrounds, located between the row of cars and the screen, became common attractions to entertain kids before the movie. "The drive-in playground soon became an integral part of the successful theater," according to Don and Susan Sanders who wrote The American Drive-in Movie Theater, a well-illustrated and detailed history.
Drive-ins attracted teenagers beginning in the 1950s, when they started going to the drive-in on their own. They had money and cars, and drive-ins were a great place to hang out away from their parents. They packed cars (and trucks) to get as many friends into the movies as possible. During the 1960s, drive-ins showed teenage beach and surfing movies, such as those starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, as well as science fiction and horror genres. Many were produced by the motion picture company, American International Pictures (AIP) and today are considered drive-in classics.
Drive-ins were an easy place for couples to date and earned the reputation as "passion pits." Joyce Wagner of the Bath Drive-In recalls how they dealt with overly amorous couples. "Dad had his 'Passion Patrol.' He hired a guy that went around to make sure all heads were showing." A tap on the car window would alert the couple. Wagner says they still keep a sharp eye to this day at the Bath Drive-In.
The popularity of drive-ins has been challenged over the years. They've faced new competition from television, then VCRs, cable and the transformation of indoor theaters into multiplexes. Some say daylight savings time, adopted in the 1960s hurt the drive-ins because it meant movies began at a later hour. The outdoor theater business, located on the older routes, also suffered when new Interstate highways were built.
Eventually the property drive-ins were built on increased in value with the growth of cities and shopping malls. A drive-in owner could make more by selling his prime real estate to a developer than by running a seasonal operation. By the 1980s, the drive-ins were disappearing from the landscape at an alarming rate.
By the 1990s, the attrition rate slowed. Some theaters were still closing, but others added screens and some were reopened. A few new drive-ins were built, including one right here in the Finger Lakes, perhaps signaling a revival, and a renewed dedication to the American icon.
From Ushers to Owners
In Cayuga County, Auburn resident Paul Field, now 89, spent over 50 years in the movie business, beginning during the Depression. "I started in 1931 carrying a flashlight as an usher, earning 25 cents per hour," Field recalls. Field needed a job and says he fell into the business, rising from usher to manager and ultimately to owner. He also spent many years in Rochester and Syracuse theaters. At one time in Auburn he owned the Finger Lakes Drive-In and the East Drive-In (since gone), as well as the Palace, an indoor theater.
The Finger Lakes Drive-In's current owner, Kevin Mullin, met his wife Cindy at an indoor theater over 30 years ago in Rutland, Vermont. She was selling tickets and he was ushering at age 17 for $2.00 an hour. This year will be Mullin's seventh season as owner of the Finger Lakes Drive-In, having bought Auburn's only remaining drive-in from the widow of the previous owner in 1997.
Mullin became familiar with the Finger Lakes area when he was employed by Cinema North Corporation, a regional chain which operates multiplex cinemas. He built theaters in Painted Post, Canandaigua, Massena, and Oneida. When he bought Auburn's drive-in, he already owned an indoor theater in the city. "I bought the drive-in to preserve a piece of Americana and to capitalize on a nostalgic source of family fun," explains Mullin.
"We got people every night from as far away as Syracuse and Ithaca," he explains. "We received calls, especially from grandparents, who wanted to share the experience with their grandchildren. There's amazing 'chit chat' at the (ticket) booth," says Mullin, who personally staffs the booth when he is in town. Mullin is a Vermont state legislator and also the owner of Vermont Roots, a company which distributes Vermont-made products.
Mullin remembers drive-in playgrounds, merry-go-rounds, and swings, but admits that insurance makes having rides prohibitively expensive today. Paul Field operated a circus train to entertain the kids in the 1970s when he owned "The East" in Auburn. Field's train appears to be the "Miracle Circus Train" pictured in Don and Susan Sanders' book.
The Finger Lakes Drive-In once had high volume speakers, but the sound reportedly bothered cows in the area. This problem was common to drive-ins generally and solved by the invention of small speakers attached to posts between the parked cars which could be hung on the car window. Today the Finger Lakes Drive-In still has speakers on poles which are kept in good working order by 16-year old Brett Mullin, Kevin and Cindy's oldest son who admits he loves spending summers at the drive-in.
At the Elmira and Bath Drive-Ins the speakers are gone now, but the poles remain and are helpful in showing people where to park. "I am sure they would be parked sideways if they could because they bring in couches and mattresses in the back of their trucks," laughs Janice Owens of Bath. "They bring their lawn chairs, the loungers, you name it. It's like an outdoor picnic."
"Quite some ritzy place"
Among the Finger Lakes ozoners that have disappeared is the Dryden Drive-In Theater on Route 13, the Ithaca-Cortland Road. At its grand opening on June 8, 1949, the double feature was Bad Men from Missouri (1941) starring Jane Wyman and That Hagan Girl (1947) featuring a teenage Shirley Temple. Largely forgotten today and judging by their pre-1949 dates, neither movie was "first-run" when shown at the Dryden. A local paper, Rural News, documented the construction of the Dryden:
"…that place is a real bee hive of activity. Gravel is being taken from the Prince farm to serve as a top dressing for the terraces. Then a hard surface will be added. The neon sign has been erected, a new metal screen has been erected to replace the wooden one that was blown down last winter. A long metal fence is being erected across the back, but it will take a high one to hide the huge screen. With the installation of the posts and individual microphones it will be quite some ritzy place. Will they have a windshield wiping service as you enter or should you visit Dewey Whitford ['s Garage] next door first?"
From the East Avon Downs to the Vintage Drive-In
In the 1960s, a harness racing track off Route 15 in Livingston County, the East Avon Downs, was located just north of Route 5 and 20. In the 1970s it was converted into a successful flea market. Beginning in late April, vendors eager to sell wares and shoppers just as eager for a bargain meet every Sunday. Rochester-native Paul Dean, 45, who has owned the 23-acre property with flea market for 12 years, saw an opportunity. With the outdoor market only operating six months a year, and located about 15 miles from Rochester where all the drive-ins were gone, adding a drive-in to the undeveloped portion of the East Avon property had merit. So in 1997, Dean opened the Vintage Drive-In, attracting national media attention in the process.
According to Avon town historian Maureen Kingston, the Vintage Drive-In is Avon's first. Closest was the Conesus Drive-In in Lakeville, where she remembers they made "the best popcorn in the world." There was also the Starlite Drive-In on Route 15, closer to Rochester, a theater Dean remembers frequenting.
Dean, who also owns the Elmwood Inn in Rochester, says when it came to building the Vintage, he did get help from the owner of the Transit Drive-In which still operates in Lockport. "It wasn't that difficult a job," says Dean of the three-screen drive-in with adjacent concession stand and 18-hole miniature golf course. "We acted as our own general contractors. We did have an architect that provided a drawing and site plan. Everything else we contracted out ourselves," recalls Dean.
At the Vintage Drive-In there are none of the ramps for cars familiar to the older drive-ins because to install them would have increased the building cost substantially. "Generally the line of sight is pretty good because our screens aren't that high," explains Dean. "The older drive-ins have screens that are 60-65 feet high. In those cases, ramps would have been more necessary. Because the size of our screens are smaller, we didn't need to do it."
Over the years the older Finger Lakes drive-ins have needed to repair and upgrade their screens and sound systems to keep their operations profitable. In 2000, a second screen was added to the 50-year old Elmira Drive-In on Route 352 in Big Flats, southeast of Corning (Chemung County). They also did an overall remodeling of the concession stand and restrooms, and improved the sound system. The owner of the theater for the past 15 years has been Conrad Zurich of Fayetteville. Zurich admits, "Even though people enjoy going to drive-ins, the amount of acreage required makes it cost prohibitive in most areas. Many locations are better suited for commercial development."
New generations of young movie fans
There are numerous Web sites devoted to drive-ins on the Internet keeping alive the interest in ozoners. They offer databases with state-by-state listings of currently operating and former drive-ins (complete with photos), links to other drive-in Web sites, and even a fan club. There is also a Web site for anyone who wants to build their own drive-in.
What's unique about today's drive-in? Paul Dean says he thinks it's the presentation. "It is better than it used to be way back then. It's been helped by newer technology and better bulbs,"explains Dean. "When I used to go the drive-in I remember the sound wasn't very good and the picture wasn't very good. That's one thing I pride myself in is making sure it's a quality presentation. We have a nice bright picture and nice clear sound."
The drive-in experience is still alive in the Finger Lakes. In New Jersey where drive-ins began, sadly none are left. "Last year a man called us from New Jersey and said he was going to bring his daughter up for vacation to Upstate New York. He had gotten a place on Keuka Lake and wanted her to see a drive-in theater," relates Bath's Janice Owens.
"It's in the small towns across the country that the drive-ins really seem to feel at home," write the Sanders. Drive-in theaters offer a bargain for families, showing two first-run features for the price of one with most admitting younger children free of charge. All the drive-ins in the Finger Lakes have concession stands with the usual wide variety of fast foods. At Avon and Auburn they even show classic short films from the 1950s at intermission.
"Most parents and grandparents remember the fun they had as kids at the drive-in and want to pass the experience on to new generations of young movie fans," says Kevin Mullin.
Maybe the Finger Lakes area is the ideal setting to wait for the sun to set to sample a piece of Americana.
To learn more about Drive-Ins:
The American Drive-in Movie Theater
Don & Susan Sanders (Motorbooks, 1997)
Drive-In Movie Memories
Don & Susan Sanders
(Carriage House, 2000)
Drive-In Theaters. A History from Their Inception in 1933
Kerry Seagrave
(McFarland & Co., Inc., 1992)
Society for Commercial Archaeology
(SCA) at www.sca-roadside.org
Those interested in drive-ins can join the oldest national organization devoted to the 20th century commercially built environment and cultural landscapes of North America. Established in 1977, the Society emphasizes the impact of the automobile and the commercial process. It offers publications, conferences and tours to help preserve and document architecture of the 20th century, such as diners, highways, gas stations, drive-in theaters, bus stations, tourist courts, and neon signs.
www.drive-ins.com
www.driveintheater.com
www.driveinworkshop.com
Where to go for a Finger Lakes drive-in experience:
Bath Drive-In
Rt. 415 S. (old Rt. 15)
Bath (Steuben County)
Elmira Drive-In
Rt. 352 (south of Corning)
Big Flats (Chemung County)
Finger Lakes Drive-In
Routes 5 & 20 (Clark St. Rd.)
Aurellius (Cayuga County, 5 miles west of Auburn)
Vintage Drive-In
1520 W. Henrietta Rd. (Rt. 15 north of 5 & 20)
Avon (Livingston County)
Tel: 585-226-9290
by Laurel C. Wemett
Laurel Wemett is a correspondent for the Messenger-Post newspapers in Canandaigua. She owns a gift shop named Cat's in the Kitchen and lives in Canandaigua.
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640i models are powered by a 3.0L turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine, making 315 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque, while 650i models get a turbocharged 4.4L V8 that produces 445 horsepower. Both offer either a 6-speed manual gearbox or 8-speed Sport Automatic transmission. With either transmission, the 650i can get to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds and to an electronically limited top speed of 155 mph.
The Alpina B6 Gran Coupe is only available in one body style and is also powered by a V8, this time with two turbos and producing 540 horsepower and 540 pound-feet of torque. Power is sent to all four wheels through BMW's X-drive system and an 8-speed automatic.
M6 models are powered by a similar M Twin Power engine -- a twin-turbo V8 that's the same size as that in the 650i and B6 but developing 560 horsepower and 500 pound-feet of torque. It's also paired with a 7-speed M Double Clutch automated gearbox, as well as an Active M Differential and special wheels, brakes and suspension to suit the stronger performance. A 6-speed manual transmission is also available throughout the M6 lineup as a no-cost option; it offers seamless automatic rev-matching for downshifts in Efficient or Sport modes, while Sport+ mode requires the driver to mind his or her own revs.
The 6-Series models offer a number of innovative chassis technologies that make them handle like smaller vehicles-- responding crisply yet riding smoothly. The standard Dynamic Damper Control works with the double-wishbone front suspension and multi-link rear axle to adapt to different driving surfaces and control body motion, while Active Roll Stabilization further helps keep cornering flat. Integral Active Steering is also on offer, with a steerable rear axle helping make the 6-Series models feel shorter in tight, quick maneuvers.
Convertible versions offer a smooth power-operated fabric soft top. Gran Coupe models feature four doors and about 4.4 inches of additional length overall -- with most of it going to additional rear legroom. BMW calls the Gran Coupe's seating layout "4+1," referring to the four roomy outboard seats with one much smaller middle position in back.
All models feature a driver-oriented cockpit layout, with a swept-across style to the instrument panel and a clean look afforded by BMW's iDrive controller system, which wraps in several ancillary controls that might otherwise have their own separate buttons. A black-panel instrument cluster combines the traditional sports-car look with modern display technology. BMW's iDrive has its own high-definition 10.2-inch wide screen at the center of the dash. Outside, adaptive LED headlamps are standard as are LED accent rings for the parking lights, running lamps and directional indicators.
Even base 640i models have rain-sensing wipers, heated side mirrors, Dakota leather upholstery, three-stage heated seats, power front seats with driver memory settings, dynamic cruise control, automatic climate control, Comfort Access keyless entry, a rearview camera system and Park Distance Control. The standard sound system in 640i and 650i models has nine speakers, with HD Radio and auxiliary inputs, while the premium system upgrades the stereo to a Harman/Kardon unit. With the Luxury Seating Package, front ventilated seats are added as well as a so-called "active fatigue reduction system."
Other noteworthy options include a BMW Night Vision system with pedestrian recognition, a Heads-Up Display that projects information onto the windshield, and a Top View camera system with Side View, to help see the area around the vehicle when parking or maneuvering in very tight spaces at low speed. A Driver Assistance Package brings a host of active-safety features, including Automatic High Beams, Lane Departure Warning, Active Blind Spot Detection, the camera system, a Parking Assistant and the HUD feature.
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The San Antonio Conservation Society commits to protecting the privacy of its members,volunteers, donors, and other users of its Websites. Through the Websites, the San Antonio Conservation Society intends to provide information regarding its programs including education, advocacy, preservation, grants, events, and outreach. When users engage with the Conservation Society on its Websites, they may provide personal information including name, mailing address, email, phone number, etc. It is the user's decision to provide this information, which will only used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
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Q: vue.js keditor5 добавить возможность выбирать шрифт Здраствуйте. Инициализирую editor в файле app.js:
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import VueCkeditor from 'vue-ckeditor5'

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В результате формируется дефолтный editor  для работы с текстом. Вопрос, как при даной настройке добавить возможность выбирать шрифт для текста? Спасибо.

A: Вам нужно сформировать СВОЙ build https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/online-builder/

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Four Seasons makes debut in Greece with hotel on Athenian Riviera
Slated as representing "an exciting new chapter for a global brand", the Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens has opened as the first hotel in Greece for the luxury hotelier.
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Could this be the year's summer hotspot? Four Seasons launches its new resort on the Athenian Riviera
An update on the original Astir Palace Hotel, the property sits in 74 acres of seaside landscape on "the Athenian Riviera", 30 minutes from the city centre, and comes with a helipad and three private beaches, which are connected via a 300-metre boardwalk.
With 300 rooms, the hotel has 700 "handpicked and highly trained" staff, said general manager Sam Ioannidis.
"So many of our people are locals or native-born Greeks returning to their homeland from around the world, or people who have deep roots in this culture and finally have the opportunity to live and work here," Ioannidis said. "This heritage makes us even more excited to share it all with our guests."
Also on site are three pools, five tennis courts, watersports options and a basketball court, as well as a complimentary Kids for All Seasons programme.
The hotel also boasts an in-house collection of close to 2,000 works by mainly contemporary Greek artists, and is collaborating with the Benaki Museum to host an on-site museum shop.
Guests will eventually be able to choose from eight dining concepts, such as trattoria-style Italian specialty option Mercato and the sophisticated seafood dining experience of Pelagos; while Greek beachside restaurant Taverna 37 and Latin American grill Helios will open at a later date.
There's also easy access to other marquee restaurants on the Astir Peninsula, such as Nobu's Matsuhisa Athens.
It's great to see this huge project come to life, and to see a flagship international luxury brand such as Four Seasons show confidence in Greece, a destination that is shaping up to have a great summer ahead.
Accommodation is in two buildings including Arion, which features more modernist architecture and "retro-chic design".
It's also home to four of the resort's restaurants and lounges, along with the indoor pool and The Spa at Four Seasons, which includes a hydrotherapy zone inspired by ancient Greek wellness traditions.
The other building is Nafsika, where some of the suites include private pools, along with two other restaurants, a fitness centre and high-end boutiques, as well as the social hub of Avra Lounge and Terrace.
Another accommodation option is that of The Bungalows, which were originally built in the early 1960s, but have been brought up-to-date as part of the project.
The hotel's "grand opening offer" features a 20% saving on the room rate with daily breakfast and is valid for the whole year, while the Stay Longer – Sixth Night Free package includes a complimentary night when a five-night stay is booked.
Four Seasons currently operates 112 hotels and resorts in 48 countries and has more than 50 projects in the pipeline.
Other current European projects include a hotel in Madrid, which will be the first for the brand in Spain and is part of Galeria Canalejas, a new large-scale luxury dining and shopping development.
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