The problem with returning the "ANONYMOUS_AUTH_SUCCESS" action here is that the firebase call itself will come back and trigger the initial onAuthStateChanged event to be fired again in our component once the user is successfully authenticated. Thus, if we return the "ANONYMOUS_AUTH_SUCCESS" in our effect then it will lead to the action being dispatched twice (which is not the end of the world, but it could make the code more confusing and harder to maintain. It's like an unnoticable bug, and it's hard to spot unnoticable bugs!). It would be much cleaner if we could just call to firebase and then chop off the effect right there in the succes handler. Let's see some ways of doing that.
In the @Effect decorator function we can also pass in an argument to tell the effect, "Hey! Don't actually dispatch the action observable that I'm returning here!". Remember, you still have to return some observable. It could be any Observable, an Observable of an empty object, or even just null.


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Simaranjit Singh: Rejected by PCA to getting ready for Ireland debut. The EPIC journey!
Simranjit Singh, the 30-year old Indian-origin cricketer, who was shunned by Punjab Cricket Association, is all set to make his debut for Ireland. Gurinder Sandhu, Deepak Patel, Jeevan Patel and Ish Sodhi all have been Indian-origin cricketers but have represented different countries. Singh is ready to follow their footsteps (perhaps too late for International cricket) but he certainly will look to make the most of his opportunity. Simaranjit Singh, whose family still stays in Mohali, has broken into the Irish national team on the back of consistent all-round performances in Ireland's first-class competitions, making the most of what was on offer.
It seems he is all set to make his debut against New Zealand. The 30-year-old, called 'Simi', is also in the Irish squad that is slated to play their one-off One-dayer against West Indies to be held on September 13.
Ireland was granted Test status by the ICC on June 22, this year. For Simranjit Singh, this happens to be his long-awaited dream of playing Test cricket.
"Although, I didn't play international cricket for India, hopefully, I'll play my first Test for Ireland soon," Simi told TOI, from Dublin.
"He (Simaranjit) was named the best player at the 46th National School Games held in Vijayawada in 2001," father Amarjit Singh shared. Despite being a consistent performer, Simi failed to make the cut at the U-19 level.
"It was a frustrating time for me and my family. My dream to play for India was nipped in the bud," Simi recollected.
"He was hardworking, he was treated badly here (in Punjab). Simi didn't get the chance to prove his mettle at the U-19 level," said Bharti Vij, Simaranjit's coach. "He was an opening batsman with a sound technique," he added.
"I would play cricket on the weekend by paying five euros per game. I worked at a grocery store so that I could afford to pay to play cricket," reminisced Simi.
It will be great to see another Indian-origin player take the game to a country and hopefully help in increasing its popularity.


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Now, when I communicate with veterans of military actions of the Ukrainian army, I burn with anger once again for the way we were treated during the war in Chechnya. I tell Ukrainian colleagues about their experience, they are shocked and say, "we think we have problems!" Sometimes some things are hard to believe in them.
I got to the second war in Chechnya. After I've seen the army service, I was in ranks of the riot police. In our contract an item was included on fulfillment of tasks in the areas of extremal situations. As part of a mobile group of forces in the North Caucasus, we officially executed "public security tasks" in the counter-terrorist operation (CTO).
No one called this as war. Although during the special operations, for every single day of participation in them, combat bonuses have been accrued. Now it is about $ 500 for 3 months temporary duty.
The group has formed before the temporary duty, we have been sent out a month before the rotation - there was a playwar, both combat training, and psychological preparation. During the " citizenship training " they showed us films with cut off heads and told that after the armistice in 1996 Chechnya has become a breading-ground of international terrorism and peaceful Chechens are asked to protect them. Our heads were filled up by powerful propaganda, after which many of my former comrades-in-arms can not restore until now.
In Chechnya we had to survive not only in the war, but also because of the conditions in which we lived. There were hunger and cold, and friendly firings.
It got to the point that we went through the village and sold everything we could sell - poles, barbed wire (sent to us as "humanitarian aid" to equip roadblocks), etc. to have money for food.
In times of famine we sometimes borrowed from conscripts a sack of potatoes and cooked for a detachment of 50 people a "miracle soup" - a tank of water with some potatoes and remnants of cereals from bags. So, we got a hot gray water with a few pieces of something solid.
When during one temporary duty a mad detachment commander assigned to us for the period of the duty has arranged moping up operations on his own initiative, exposing all of us, after a while we began to refuse to go to a special operation until he shows us the order from the commandant's office to which we had come under command and which he should have.
The commander of our platoon was appointed as the instigator of "rebellion", then a group of officers came urgently to us for investigation and for taking away of our platoon commander changing him to another. The entire platoon said that if he will be taken up we would write reports and leave the service, handing over a weapon to the mad commander and let him fight.
The riot lasted for about a week. We did not come from the territory of our base (a former school). Once we'll be able to agree, and we no longer went to the invented special raids.
Returning from the war we have faced in the way that we are necessary to nobody. Sometimes we drove home during three days instead of one day. Buses broke, we have waited for some chiefs. We have no money, food, the buses froze through. In the Rostov region, I with my partner swingig our machin guns to our backs, pushed a car out of the snow for a fee of 30 rubles, in order to buy then a half portion of buckwheat in a roadside cafe.
In the Voronezh region we have been unloaded to spend the night in some frozen building of a community police office in the settlement. The guys in uniform and with guns went to the nearest village to ask for food. Although it more reminded a moping up.
They brought cans of lard and cucumbers with ice. We ate outside in the snow using knives, handing out food pieces circle wise.
Combat money that had already been written down for us, and transferred somewhere according to the battle book, have disappeared. We sued for one temporary duty during 3 months, for another duty I personally sued for 8 years winning three court cases.


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After leaving Cuba for Caracas, Venezuela where she lived and worked mainly on drawing and intaglio printmaking, artist Liliam Cuenca moves to the United States in 1986.
Soon after arriving in the US, she is invited to show in Recent Development of Latin American Drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and enter the Art Center of South Florida, a regional cultural institution where she receives a grant as a residential artist and where she starts to work as a full time painter.
In 1990 she is awarded the Cintas Foundation Fellowship. Today she is an artist exhibiting nationally and internationally, her work is recognized by museums, collectors and galleries.
Liliam Cuenca studied at the Academia de San Alejandro and the Taller Experimental de Grafica in Havana, Cuba. She has had solo and group exhibitions in Latin America, Europe, Japan and the United States. Her work is in private and public collections such as the Contemporary Art and Culture Center of Osaka, Japan, The Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, FL and the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, FL among other institutions.


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Vishal Dadlani and Neha Kakkar on Indian Idol 10
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Indian Idol Season 10 which will soon air on Sony Entertainment Television is ready to bring to the nation some of the best singing talents. Various aspiring singers came in for the auditions across cities and there sure was no disappointment. Neha Kakkar, Anu Malik and Vishal Dadlani are enjoying the audition process but at the same time ensuring the right talent gets a chance to showcase their skills and become the next Indian Idol.
Recently, during the Delhi auditions one contestant really caught the attention of the judges so much so, Vishal and Neha got on to the stage and started dancing while he continued singing. It was a hilarious moment and a chance to see the judges at their jovial best. The contestant was elated by their gesture and appreciation.
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In the current club Burnley played 1 seasons, during this time he played 35 matches and scored 2 goals.
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Syrian, Iraqi War Report – Jan. 28, 2019: Kurdish Leadership At Crossroads Between Turkey And Assad 4.4285714285714 out of 5 based on 7 ratings. 7 user reviews.
On January 25, hundreds of Kurdish protesters stormed a Turkish military base near the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk in response to Turkish airstrikes that killed two Kurdish civilians on January 23. According to the pro-Kurdish NRT TV, Turkish soldiers opened fire at the protestors killing at least one and injuring many others. Despite resistance, protesters managed to breach the base and set it on fire. Protestors captured most of the Turkish soldiers who were inside the base and several units of military equipment. Two agents of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization, known as MIT, were injured. Later, the captured Turks were reportedly handed over to Peshmerga, a force of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
Over the past year, the Turkish Air Force has carried out multiple airstrikes on positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). These strikes are a part of the campaign to undermine the group's capabilities and to prevent further PKK attacks on Turkish territory. Despite this, the Kurdish group keeps a large presence in northern Iraq having multiple bases in this area.
Ankara pursues similar goals in northern Syria claiming that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), are just a local offshoot of the PKK.
On January 26th, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that a Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria would allow millions of refugees to return to the country. The Turkish President went on to claim that the Turkish invasion in northwestern Syria has allowed 300,000 Syrians to return to their homeland. He also said that the Adana agreement justified an attack on northeastern Syria.
In response, the Syrian Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of violating the agreement since 2011 by supporting terrorism and directly occupying parts of the country.
In the Turkish-occupied areas, the YPG-linked Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) continued attacks on Turkey-led forces. On January 25, a Turkish-backed militant was killed in Azaz. On January 22, Kurdish rebels killed three more Turkish-backed militants in Azaz with an ATGM. On January 20, 3 Turkish-backed militants were killed in an ATGM strike in Abla and another one died from sniper fire in Sherawa.
Ilham Ahmed, a co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) told Bloomberg that Kurdish forces are negotiating with the Damascus government in order to protect northeastern Syria from any attack that Turkey may launch after the nearing withdrawal of U.S. forces.
"If we were cornered into choosing between a Turkish militia attacking our areas," and reaching an accord with President Bashar al-Assad, she said in an interview in Washington, "we would go with the regime," she claimed.
The official confirmed that the SDC has provided President Bashar al-Assad and Russia with an 11-point road map reintegrating the region under the Damascus government. According to her, Syria should be "decentralized" but united.
150 ISIS fighters surrendered themselves to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during the clashes in the middle Euphrates Valley, pro-Kurdish media outlets reported on January 25. On January 25, the SDF press center claimed that more than 82 terrorists were killed in clashes and US-led coalition airstrikes.
On January 24th, the Syrian Army and the Russian Military Police for the first time deployed in the area north of the SDF-held town of Manbij. This development could be seen as an indication of some progress in talks between the SDC/SDF and Damascus.
So Erdogan is again going to locate Syrian refugees into Syrian border areas with Turkey , as de facto 'Human Shields' that will have Turkish proxy terrorists behind them.
This Turkish War Crime will be an ideal location for a White Helmets chemical attack movie as well.
That might be so but let's see how it unfolds. We know that Erdogan can't be trusted but we can hope that he can see what is actually best for him and siding with US is not such case if history teaches anthing at all.
Erdogan, like FUKUS, never thought the SAA would survive and as a consequence , Erdogan has tens of thousands of armed criminals that he is still having to pay. He thought they would have been a Turkish proxy occupation force in Syria.
Erdogan is in a quandary, he likely does not want these criminals inside Turkey, but cannot risk betraying them either.
He is between a rock and a hard place.
I hope that he will slowly come to simple understanding that this rats will be used by US to topple himself. In the end (I hope) he will have to accept those rats being eliminated by SAA with a little help of RuAF.
It'sssssssss retard boy Turk. You are getting absolutely battered in Syria everyday ….. you lot could not organise a halal meal in a halal slaughter house.
… mmm it's the Times news…. means absolutely nothing.
Yes and Erdo should see sense and seal his borders to prevent supplies reaching his gangs. This would cause Erdo financial harm ,but his survival now depends on abandoning his paid thugs , who are to dangerous to allow into Turkey.
The Turks will not go to the UK (and will you please shut up about the UK on more bloody inbred, low IQ immigrants), their family and friends are mostly situated in Germany and The NL.
He's already dumped all the unloyal thugs he didn't want, they had to join HTS, which since November last year Turkey has listed as a terrorist organization, now Erdogan Putin and Assad have them all trapped like fish in a barrel in southern idlib, along with HTS, they won't be anyone's problem after their times up, not Putin's, Assad's or Erdogan's. But the local undertakers will be very busy, they'll know exactly what to do with all those paid thugs, rifle through their pockets for the Euro dollars and Turkish Lira, and then dig a hole and throw them all in it. easy as.
For the United States/Israel, mission complete: the destruction of Syria. Now, to the next mission, the destruction of oil-rich Venezuela.
What I think the real situation is, YPG goes with SAA to embarrass Brother Erdogan and HTS falls into line with Damascus to enable Russia and Saudi Arabia to corner the oil market creating a boom instead of a glut during the global economic downturn but all is not well because Saudi Arabia and UAE are backing US continual interventions; British and French as well.
KSA and UAE can never again be anything other than patrons of mercenary forces in the Middle East because they support the demolition of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by apostate-Christian swine posing as agnostic-jews.
This is what Allah has been getting at all along, exposing evil posing as forever people.
gifts from the war gods you know….
Why doesn't SF elaborate more on which Peshmerga forces the captured Turks were handed over to.
In the North of Iraq there is the KDP Peshmerga forces, they number about 30,000 fighters, the most of them are pro Turkish influence, and anti Kurdish independence for their fellow Syrian Kurds, and not at all like the PUK Peshmerga forces who live in the eastern areas of Iraq.
The PUK are pro independence for their Syrian brothers and totally anti Turkish, they wouldn't have handed those Turkish soldiers back to Erdogan I don't think, I think they would have left them for the mob to punish. Even though both PUK and KDP Peshmerga units patrol the northern areas of Iraq, I think it was the KDP that the Turks would have been handed over to, if it was the PUK that had them they might not have made it back to Turkey.
There are several groups of Kurds in Syria and a lot more in Turkey that actually take a pro Turkish stance on quite a few matters, just like the KDP in Iraq do, not all Kurds are the same.
Of course SF wants the world to assume the talks are only between Syria and the Kurds but there is an alternative that is much better for both Kurds and Turkey and that is a federal model for Turkey in which a Kurdish state is part of a greater Turkey: a Kurdish state that incorporates not only south eastern Turkey but eastern Syria and Kurdish Iraq. A state with substantial oil reserves, and no reason to agitate against Ankara.
Because of Kurdish arrogance both Turkey and "the Regime" are now both cornered. They are therefore forced to work together to de-arm and subdue all Kurds into 8-18 carpet jobs.


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'Collateral' Review: Carey Mulligan Leads a Netflix Mystery with Serious Smarts
One of the frequent complaints about the Second Golden Age of Television is that there's so much good TV being churned out at such a high rate that it's impossible to watch all of it. But maybe the key is that you just don't need to watch all of it immediately. Sometimes you can stumble upon a show you hadn't even heard of, and it ends up becoming essential. Such is the case with Collateral, a four-hour BBC-produced limited mystery series that dropped on Netflix last week with little lead-time, despite major talent both in front of and behind the camera. Not only was this a pleasant surprise, but the series as a whole is a rich, compelling, and refreshingly joyous murder mystery that delivers on the promise of a good yarn and throws in tactfully navigated topical subject matter as an added bonus. Something of a mix between Homeland and Broadchurch, with a tiny dash of Fargo thrown in for good measure, Collateral is essential viewing.
Collateral was written in full by acclaimed British playwright David Hare, who's also penned the screenplays for films like The Hours and The Reader. The story takes place in contemporary London and begins when a pizza deliveryman is shot dead on the job. It's quickly discovered that the murder of this man—a suspected immigrant or refugee—was no accident, and was instead carefully planned. Its impact reaches far and wide, as Hare introduces a tapestry of characters that offer various points of view.
Carey Mulligan takes on the protagonist role as Kip Glaspie, a detective inspector and former pole vaulter who takes the case and recognizes something's off from the get-go. She tracks down the murdered man's two sisters, living illegally in a storage container, which further complicates the matter. Meanwhile MP and Shadow Minister for Transport David Mars (John Simm) is also wrapped up in the incident as his ex-wife Karen (Billie Piper) was the last person to see the pizza delivery man alive.
The first episode of the series introduces these characters and many more—including a female reverend with a secret; the suspicious manager of the pizzeria; and Kip's pushy boss—as Hare spins a Robert Altman-like web with his ensemble. At first it's a bit confusing as to how these disparate plotlines could ever come together, but Hare deserves a standing ovation for the way he cleverly connects the dots. And unlike many similarly-themed series, this one concludes in a supremely satisfying manner where threads aren't left dangling, nor does it feel like the story has taken unnecessary detours.
Indeed, while on the surface Collateral has something in common with other compelling British mystery shows like Broadchurch or Happy Valley, Hare ensures his tale stands apart by focusing on a very political story that's relevant to current events. The crux of the series is immigration, as the show takes place in a post-Brexit U.K., where tensions run high regarding questions of how to deal with the influx of both refugees from war-torn Syria, and immigrants from other continental European countries.
Though Kip's partner wears his prejudices on his sleeve, Kip isn't portrayed as some kind of bleeding-heart-liberal-here-to-save-the-day to counter him. The show covers a broad spectrum of politics, all with a deft hand as Hare miraculously avoids coming off as preachy or inorganic. The murdered man at the center of the investigation is not a British citizen, and so his detained sisters are treated differently depending on who they encounter. This offers a natural place for the politics of U.K. immigration to be discussed by police officers, politicians, and members of the clergy, which in turn provides a broad spectrum of opinions.
This political backdrop serves as the foundation for Collateral, and it's one that elevates the show above a simple mystery waiting to be solved. The mystery itself is compelling to be sure, but the characters feel immensely more real because they're given socio-politically relevant points of view, colored by their own experiences. You know, like real life.
Carey Mulligan delivers a tremendous lead performance here as Kip, a character who is rich and complex instead of one-dimensional or clichéd. To its credit, Collateral is chock-full of great characters, and refreshingly, Kip isn't portrayed as the sole woman on the force standing up to The Man or a "strong female character" with a troubling trait (like alcoholism) that's supposed to make her interesting. Instead, Kip is just incredibly well-written, and played with assuredness and compassion by Mulligan.
Mulligan is the heart and soul of Collateral, but the show's MVP is its director, SJ Clarkson, who helmed all four episodes. The British filmmaker honed her craft on shows like Life on Mars and EastEnders but rose to prominence as the director of the first two episodes of the Marvel Netflix series Jessica Jones, and it was on the strength of her work there she was enlisted to helm the first two episodes of the Marvel team-up series The Defenders.
With Collateral, Clarkson takes a beautifully cinematic approach to telling this story, filling the frame with color, warmth, and dynamic lighting choices. Her framing tells the audience even more about the characters than is on the page, and each episode opens with a popular song blaring, setting the stage for the hour to come while the credits roll.
Indeed, British crime dramas can have a tendency to get bogged down in glum moodiness (I love me some Broadchurch, but there are only so many episodes you can watch in a row before falling into a pit of grief yourself), which is why the joyousness that persists throughout Collateral is such a treat. The show takes its subject matter seriously to be sure, but there's still time for Kip to have a rat-a-tat conversation with her partner about her pole vaulting days, or for characters to chat about something other than the exposition at hand. A little of this goes a long way, and it makes the story all the more enjoyable and, most importantly, more human.
In an era where must-see TV shows pop up every week, Collateral is an easy recommend. At a mere four hours, it's not a huge time commitment, and you'll feel completely and totally satisfied by the end. It's a rich, thoughtful story about immigration, as well as a compelling murder mystery and an ensemble character drama all in one. Excelling at only one of these things would be reason enough to check it out, but the fact that Hare, Clarkson, and Mulligan deliver on all three make this a genuine must-watch in a sea of TV shows vying for your attention.
All four episodes of Collateral are now available to stream on Netflix.
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Japan to consider easing M&A rules as regional banks struggle
Stanley White
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government has kicked off debate on changing antitrust rules to make it easier for regional banks to merge, as they struggle to generate profits due a declining population and a limited number of corporate borrowers.
Japan's Minister of Economic Revitalization Toshimitsu Motegi speaks during the signing agreement ceremony for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, in Santiago, Chile March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
In a meeting of a government advisory panel discussing Japan's growth strategy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed his ministers to come up with ways to smoothen regional bank consolidation that could include a revision of legislation or exemptions to existing regulations.
"Regional banks are facing a difficult business environment, which could affect borrowers and companies supported by the banks," Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told a news conference after the meeting on Tuesday.
The panel is scheduled to finalize a plan in coming months.
The plight of regional banks has become a headache for the BOJ, which is drawing criticism for hurting financial institutions' profits by keeping interest rates virtually at zero for years.
BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday raising rates alone won't solve structural problems regional banks face, such as a dwindling population and a lack of funding demand, and that mergers and consolidation could be options for them to survive.
"Many banks are losing money on their deposit and lending business," said Ryoji Yoshizawa, financial sector analyst at Standard & Poor's Ratings Japan.
"Consolidation is not simply necessary. It is unavoidable for regional banks to become more efficient."
One problem advisers will consider is what they say is a lengthy process to approve bank mergers, according to documents published by the advisory panel.
It took two years and two months for regulators to approve a merger between Shinwa Bank and Eighteenth Bank 8396.T.
The Fair Trade Commission initially blocked the deal over concerns the newly-created bank would control about 70 percent of the lending market in the southern prefecture of Nagasaki.
However, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the country's banking regulator, pushed for consolidation to help banks survive a shrinking population.
One option is to revise antitrust laws so they could be applied more flexibly to regional banks, a government bureaucrat told reporters, which could allow mergers like the one between Shinwa Bank and Eighteenth Bank to proceed more quickly.
As of March, 52 out of 106 regional banks have reported losses in the past two years or more on their lending business, according to the FSA, highlighting the struggle to turn a profit outside Japan's major cities.
Around 50 percent of Japanese companies rely on regional banks as their main source of borrowing, documents published by the panel showed, which shows the risk companies face if a regional bank failed.
The BOJ has taken steps to ease the strain on banks, such as its decision in July to reduce the amount of commercial bank reserves subject to its negative 0.1 percent interest rate.
Reporting by Stanley White and Taiga Uranaka; Editing by Kim Coghill


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Contains part or all of Fantastic Four #s 36, 38, 41-48, 50,52,54-65, Annual #5, Thor #146-152, Not Brand Ecch #6
Karen: The Inhumans have a long and complicated history in the Marvel universe. They've mostly served as supporting players and guest stars, occasionally getting a shot at their own book. Currently they've become more prominent as real world business concerns have pushed them to the forefront, as they essentially have usurped the role that mutants once held as the super-powered outcasts hiding among normal human beings. They've also become key figures on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD TV show, although none of the established comics characters have appeared. But they started out very differently, as members of a mysterious hidden race of people with ancient origins. Marvel has put together a nice TPB called The Origin of the Inhumans that takes issues and partial issues from different sources to tell the story of the Inhumans. If you don't like books where you only get part of an issue, then this isn't the TPB for you. However, in my case, I had the FF issues already. I was most interested in the Thor back-ups found here. And, I just wanted everything in one place. This is less a review of the book than a discussion of the piecemeal origin story of the Inhumans.
Karen: Their first appearances came in the pages of Fantastic Four, where readers were as puzzled by the strange group as the FF themselves. "Are they mutants?" Sue Richards asked her husband Reed Richards upon their first encounter in FF #46 (January 1966). "No, Sue! They seem to think of themselves as Inhumans - and they may be right!" Later, Reed states that, "I realize now that they are a slightly different type of life which evolved without mankind knowing it...and they've combined all their inhuman powers for their mutual safety!" Sue surmises, "Then Medusa wasn't some sort of freak, but rather part of some strange unsuspected race!"
Karen: Shortly after this, the FF encounter The Seeker, an Inhuman who has been charged with bringing renegade Inhumans back to their home, the Great Refuge,whether they like it or not. He provides the FF, and the reader, with a very short explanation of the Inhumans' origins. The Seeker says that their civilization dates back to prehistoric times. His people developed a highly advanced society, capable of genetic manipulation. Using this knowledge, they created people with super-powers. However, regular Homo sapiens were still far more numerous, and still a threat (how??), and so the Inhumans retreated to their Great Refuge -a hidden city.
Karen: This was basically all we knew about the beginnings of the Inhumans until almost a year and a half later, when the details of how they developed so far past the rest of humanity were revealed in an unlikely place: the back pages of Thor. Previously, the Thunder God's mag had featured Tales of Asgard as a back-up feature, and this seemed fitting; but out of nowhere, starting with issue #146, cover dated November 1967, the Inhumans took over the back up spot for seven issues. The first two stories dealt directly with how the Inhumans came to be; the next two tales revealed Blackbolt's origin; and the final three stories were simply a Triton solo adventure. (For the curious, after those seven stories, the decision was made to devote the entire book to the Thunder God, and not long after, the Inhumans popped up in Amazing Adventures, splitting that book with the Black Widow). The initial tale "The Origin of ...The Incomparable Inhumans!" reiterates what The Seeker had said previously: that his people had advanced beyond humanity far back in time, when mankind was just beginning to develop tools and language. But expanding on this, we are shown the homeland of the Inhumans, the island of Attilan, a technological marvel. The people here are dedicated to knowledge -both the story and visuals here cannot help but conjure up thoughts of the legends of Atlantis. The leading scientists have made a new discovery -Terrogen Mist. At this point, the Inhumans are not Inhuman -they are advanced, yes, but have no special powers. Randac, their leader, muses that the Terrogen Mist "...might unleash a deadly plague upon the Earth! But its mysterious power might also erase the natural, basic weaknesses in man -- allowing us to become more than human--allowing us to advance a step beyond Homo sapiens..." Randac decides he will test the Mist on himself, and in doing so, becomes the first ancestor of the Inhumans.
Karen: In the second tale, "The Reason Why!", Lee and Kirby draw together threads from disparate Fantastic Four stories over the previous two years, as they tie the Inhumans' beginnings together with an unsuspected source: the alien race known as the Kree. A giant humanoid Sentry, placed by the Kree on Earth thousands of years prior, comes out of hibernation when it senses the activity at Attilan. The Sentry -Sentry 459, who has already made a 20th century appearance, battling the FF in Fantastic Four #64 (July 1967) - travels to the city and explains to Randac and others that the Kree stopped at Earth long ago and used their scientific capabilities to artificially give an evolutionary 'boost' to one tribe of Homo sapiens. Randac and his people are relieved -at last they know why they are so much more advanced than the rest of humanity. The Sentry is also aware that Randac has exposed himself to the Terrigen (note change in spelling) Mists, and asks if he was changed. Randac fires off an energy blast and says he will allow all his subjects enter the Terrigen chamber, to gain powers as he has. The Sentry proclaims that the people of Attilan will be known as the Inhumans -and he warns them that the Kree may return some day, and may not be benevolent.
Karen: If this origin story sounds familiar to you, it may be because you've read Chariots of the Gods or just watched a lot of the History Channel. It's essentially the 'Ancient Astronauts' theory, and it's been around a very long time. It's been a staple of science fiction stories in print and TV and film. The Inhumans' origin mashes together the ancient astronaut legend with Hidden Race stories, like Hollow Earth tales, the Shaver mysteries, and so on. Blackbolt and company were provided with a solid science fiction lineage that gave them strong roots in the Marvel universe - part of the FF's supporting cast, born of both Earth and the cosmos, they could fit into any sort of story that Lee/Kirby could contrive.
Karen: Blackbolt himself received the spotlight in the next two Thor back-up issues (Thor #s 148 and 149, Jan-Feb 1968), as the silent king's birth and youth were explored. Born to Agon and Rynda, the chief geneticists of Attilan, Blackbolt is shown exhibiting powers as an infant -no Terrigen Mist is mentioned here. In this sense, he seems more like a mutant than an inhuman. He has control over electrons -which seems to allow him to manipulate both matter and energy. The babe creates toys for himself from thin air, although we are told this power will fade as he grows older. Other powers, such as levitation, will, however, grow stronger. Unanticipated, though, is the newborn's sonic scream, which decimates the building he is in and several others, although he is unharmed, due to a force shield he constructed subconsciously.
Karen: When we catch up with Blackbolt in the next issue, he is now a young man of 19. He has spent his youth separated from his people inside soundproof quarters. His father Agon, now introduced as ruler of the Inhumans, appears on a viewscreen and tells his son that he is trusted to remain silent among his people, and can leave the chamber. His cousins Karnak, Gorgon, Medusa, and 8 year old Crystal come to greet him. Unfortunately, so does his brother Maximus, who tries to cause Blackbolt to scream by zapping him with a weapon. Maximus thinks this will show Blackbolt is unworthy of being Agon's heir. Blackbolt resists, although he is in great pain, and his cousins restrain Maximus. But a dismayed Blackbolt realizes he will have to control himself and remain silent for every moment of his life.
Karen: I'll be the first to admit I haven't read every appearance of the Inhumans that came after, although I was always pleased to see them wherever they did appear. I think the way they were inserted into the Fantastic Four and the Marvel universe itself was brilliant. If you go back and look at each appearance as it happened in the FF or Thor, there's some amazing world-building going on. Lee/Kirby bring in Medusa as a member of the Frightful Four in FF#36 (March 1965) and she remains a villainess of unknown origin for several issues up until the other Inhumans start to appear with Gorgon in issue #44. I haven't researched it, but I would guess that when Medusa was first brought in, the idea for her to be part of some hidden race probably hadn't been hatched yet. But it all worked out flawlessly. Similarly, when the Kree, the Sentry, and Ronan the Accuser were introduced in Fantastic Four #s 64-65, were the plans already afoot to have the Kree be the creators of the Inhumans? Only months after these issues came out, the story of the Kree's experiments appeared in the back pages of Thor. Serendipity or careful planning? Either way, it all meshed together beautifully and created a foundation that has served later writers and artists well.
Karen: Kirby obviously had a fascination with the ancient astronaut theory. He used it again when he returned to Marvel in the 1970s and created The Eternals, who resemble the Inhumans in that they are the super-powered products of alien 'seeding' of Earth, and live apart from mankind. But they are different too, in that they were initially meant to be outside of regular Marvel continuity and were supposed to be the source of mankind's many mythologies. But the Eternals got scooped up into the mainstream Marvel universe and then the two groups with their similar backgrounds had to be reconciled, which of course they were, despite all the convolutions this involved.
Karen: Of course, Kirby was also the creative force on Marvel's adaptation/extension of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which also explored similar themes of alien visitation in prehistoric times.
Karen: Re-reading the Inhumans' initial introduction into the Marvel universe in the 1960s pages of the Fantastic Four was a distinct pleasure. Of course, the FF at this time was truly "the world's greatest comic magazine" - a perfect example of two creators at the pinnacle of their abilities. Each issue provided another tantalizing detail, another glimpse into an amazing unseen world of possibilities. I can only imagine how exciting it must have been to have read these issues as they first appeared! But even today, the story of the Inhumans is well worth the effort of discovery.
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Is the Sentry explaining his mission on Earth to that mammoth?
Because that what it looks like, just sayin'.
Well, M.P., maybe it's the talking mammoth from Ice Age who sounds just like Ray Romano... :P
Karen, thanks for the review and the tip on this book. I recall reading a bunch of these Inhumans origin stories in the early 1980s - they were reprinted in Marvel Tales, I think. There was also a new (i.e., non-reprint) Inhumans back-up story in an issue of What If - of all places - which tells how they moved Attilan to the Himalayas with the help of the Eternals.
I found all of these stories quite interesting. You're right about the great world-building that was going on there, and I think it's a bit unfortunate that all of the attempts to have the Inhumans run as a solo feature never really gained traction and led to a long-term ongoing series. The concept and characters are quite good.
Dougie said...
Weren't the Thor back ups repurposed material from a Lee/Kirby Inhumans comic? I loved seeing them in the FF but they could never sustain a title; they only work when contrasted with humans. Also, reformed Medusa was a shadow of herself. She was far more effective as a villain.
Nice writeup on the Inhumans. Like the others, I always enjoyed seeing them as guest stars when interacted with the FF and Avengers. But every "Inhumans" story seemed to lead to Maximus going insane and doing something evil again.
Martinez1 said...
I always wondered how much ahead Kirby had his worlds thought out. I agree that Medusa was probably not developed with the Inhumans in mind, but I wonder when his creativity linked the two. Were there many early Marvel villains that the origin was skipped over and left for further explanation? Green Goblin was left mysterious in Spider Man. But I find it interesting Medusa was as well. I must just be forgetting others. Although with less than a year separating Medusa's and Inhumans' intros, it makes me curious.
I like the Inhumans, always have. They were supposed to be strange and genuinely came across that way. I also like that historically they weren't over used, so it was nice to see them very occasionally. I have fond memories of Blackbolt showing up in an MTIO annual, and later Byrne moving Attilan to the moon. Although I never thought that Maximus was a good ongoing super villain; too one note as J A Morris indicated.
Thor had some nice backups.(I liked the adventures of young Thor and Loki), but I find the Inhumans an odd mix for that title. Although Thor also had a cosmic side with Ego and Galactus so maybe it did fit.
Nice Inhumans review Karen! Yeah, the Inhumans were one of those outsider-type people like the mutants who were feared by others in the Marvel universe. Personally, I would have liked to see more of them, but I'll take what I can get!
- Mike 'lobbying for an Inhumans movie' from Trinidad & Tobago.
Glad you guys enjoyed this. Honestly, I searched around on the internet and through my books to see if I could find any information on the Medusa backstory, but never found anything. Maybe it is covered in that old "Superwomen" book that came out after the "Origins of Marvel Comics." I never got that one. Or maybe the Jack Kirby Collector would have something on it. I have to say I am curious about how she went from typical super-villainess to an Inhuman.
I have The Superhero Women. If I think of it I can check it out. But it's that remembering to do it thing...
dangermash said...
What confuses me is how the seeker casually lights a fag in one of those panels. Seems completely at odds with how Inhumans locked themselves away from the human race.
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First, you make a variable called favoriteColor. You intend to use this variable to get the value from the Picker, aren't you?
Then, you pass that variable to the Picker. Not just as a variable, but as a Binding, with the $ sign in front of it. This will make sure that your variable always stays in sync with the Picker. Briefly said, what Binding does, is that there's actually only one variable, which is shared by your View and the Picker. If you want to know more about this, I believe that there are hundreds of tutorials on this on the internet, so it would not really make sense if I would explain it here yet another time!
So what will happen, is that the Picker updates your variable when a selection is made. But what value will it give your variable for which option?
Well, that's the value you specified in those .tag(...)s. So when the user selects "Red", favoriteColor gets a value of 0, for "Green" it gets 1, for "Blue" it gets 2.
What about updating the UI when the selection changes? Well, SwiftUI manages this automatically -- this is one of the best things of SwiftUI!
But one more thing. When you use the value in a Text like you are doing, you will see something like "Value: 1" at runtime. It would be nice if we could display the name of the color, isn't it?
There's a lot of ways to do this, but one would be to replace Text("Value: \(favoriteColor)") with:
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Erosion of NZ rural services must stop – RHAANZ says
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Waipukurau – The endless gnawing away at services for rural communities has gone too far, a national rural leader says.
Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) chief executive Michelle Thompson today pleaded for equitable access to services for rural people.
"We are losing our hospitals, our schools, we have under-funded health services, emergency services, midwives and airports. This must stop. There are well over 600,000 people living in rural New Zealand, equivalent of easily being the country's second largest city. Agriculture and tourism are the powerhouses of the Kiwi economy.
"Last year 3.7 million tourists visited NZ, nearly all of whom will have visited or passed through rural NZ. In 2011-2012, $53 billion, or 25 percent of GDP, was generated directly or indirectly by the agri-food sector.
"In addition, rural New Zealand feeds our people three times a day with good protein, fresh fruit and vegetables. The link between good nutrition, good health – both physical and mental – and productivity is undisputed.
"So why is it, rural people constantly struggle to access the same level of services that city people enjoy?
"We recently undertook a health workforce stocktake of members and it is clear that our rural health services are under significant pressure. The services and systems in place are described as very fragile and in some cases one resignation away from collapse.
"Rural mums and midwives, for example, are fighting for maternity centres to stay open and this will soon reach crisis point if nothing is done to stop the contraction of midwifery access in rural communities."
"We are pleased Shane Jones, the Minister for Economic and Regional Development, took Air NZ to task this week about a moral obligation to ensure their flights service rural and provincial NZ. Air New Zealand boasts significant annual profits and prides itself on being our national carrier. Furthermore, Air NZ is 51 percent owned by taxpayers, and as such they have an obligation to not just focus on the most profitable links.
"We are also pleased that the new government has committed to reinstating rural proofing across government departments. This was a key election ask from RHAANZ members last year and it will safeguard policy being written and implemented that further disadvantages rural communities. We'd expect that organisations which have the public as majority shareholders will also be required to apply the principles of rural proofing across their business decisions.
"Hard-working rural Kiwis are punching well above their weight helping boost our economy but the erosion of services, such as hospitals, airports and midwifery centres, is appalling and has to stop so we can start solving the serious rural health crisis.
"Big government spending is urgently needed to ensure equitable access to health services for rural New Zealanders, so rural people's health is considered just as important as those who live in cities," she says.
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The end of a movie and all the girls spring into dance and I take a very dodgy video of it on my mobile phone and they are so happy and full of life and full of joy and If not for the filming I might even have joined in. Sometimes, letting go of all the cares, stresses and more in dance is just plain great and the kids love when I join in too.
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TIE-DYE HAS waxed and waned in Western popular culture since hippies made it a psychedelic staple of the 1960s, but it's been surging in popularity since roughly 2019. From hoodies and bucket hats to t-shirts and swim trunks, tie-dye seeped into nearly every facet of the menswear market at nearly every price, from Louis Vuitton to Zara and everywhere in between. Even today, you can buy an Elder Statesman tie-dye sweater that will set you back as much as the monthly rent on a West Village apartment, or you can buy a fast fashion t-shirt for the cost of a large latté.
According to Bruce Pask, men's fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, tie-dye's versatility gives it a certain "permissiveness" and explains the trend's unusually long life. You can go full-on '60s psychedelic, or you can take a far more subdued route. But for those who are happy to let go of deeply pigmented swirls, we asked the experts what other men's trends could—and perhaps should—next become as ubiquitous as tie-dye. Their top picks:
Baroque-Print Pairs
"We're seeing a return of the 'resort set,'" especially of the highly printed, "jubilant" Versace-esque variety, said Bergdorf's Mr. Pask, referring to a matching lightweight shirt-and-shorts combo associated with tropical getaways. What gives this trend legs is that it can be as conservative or as fashion-forward as the wearer wants. Sport the set together to make an impact, or wear the shorts and the shirt separately to tone it down. The silky material (sometimes silk, often lyocell or viscose) might feel apropos to men who miss the pre-Covid days of getting dressed up but perhaps don't want to forgo the comfort of their WFH sweatpants. With these camp shirts and shorts, there's an "implied, inherent dressiness," said Mr. Pask, but they also have a "lightweight fluidity" that is unmistakably sexy. Silk Shirt, $1,295, Shorts, $1,025, Versace.com
Grunge Flannel
"It's undeniable that grunge fashion is back," said Emily Gimpel, an executive with Lyst, a global company that tracks online-shopping behavior. Maybe it's Pete Davidson's messy look, maybe it's Robert Pattinson's emo take on Batman inspired by Kurt Cobain, or maybe it's Courtney Love releasing her first solo album in 18 years, but web searches for "plaid flannel shirts" are up 46% compared to 2021 according to data from Lyst. If you're trying to channel a '90s grunge look, turn to Outerknown's plush Blanket Shirts. If you're as rich as Bruce Wayne, turn to upscale labels like
and Saint Laurent, who offer scrubbed-up plaids. Shirt, $148, OuterKnown.com
Pink! Just Pink
Though hold-outs still balk at the thought of a man in rosy hues, pink doesn't care. Marni, Maximilian and
are among the brands zealously incorporating pink into men's collections. Los Angeles stylist Corey Stokes noted that pink was front and center at the recent Jacquemus collection shown this March in Hawaii. "Fashion has grown, and the way men look at fashion has evolved," said Mr. Stokes. The key is to treat pink almost like a neutral that can be paired with anything. Novices should approach pink by "pairing it with colors that tone it down," said Mr. Stokes. Try marrying a pink cardigan with a white T-shirt and jeans to zhush up a ho-hum uniform or, for the especially timid, slip a pink sock in with a navy suit and black oxford shoes. Shoes, $160, Asics.com
Matchy Monochrome
Diving into a color head-to-toe projects the same swagger that tie-dye does but skews more elegant. Done well, monochromatic dressing looks expensive and refined but still irreverent. "Guys these days are daring a little more with color," said Salvador Cosio, a Mexico City-based stylist. He suggested starting with deeper colors that can still be office-appropriate, such as emerald green or burgundy. From there, turn up the volume with, perhaps, a burnt, earthy orange (like the look here). Sweater, $320, AcneStudios.com; Erdem Pants, $670, MatchesFashion.com
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jared jordan
Youth minister / Worship Minister
Jared serves in Ministry Roles as Youth and Worship Minister at Bunker Hill. He and his wife recently took a four year long detour in Oregon serving in full time ministry, working at coffee shops, and exploring the incredible beauty of the Pacific Northwest. But now coming back to his roots in East TN, with his wife and two kids, he's excited to build relationships with the students at Bunker Hill, and to lead the community in a time of worship to God.
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jill roberts
Children's Minister
Jill is the Director of our Children's Ministry, Roots. She was born and raised in Bunker Hill. She graduated from East Tennessee State University and is the music and art teacher at Sullins Academy in Bristol, Virginia. She loves working with children, playing the piano and her family. She and her husband AJ, have four children.
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sarah biggerstaff
Sarah grew up in the Boston area, and recently relocated to East Tennessee with her husband, Greg, who grew up in Bluff City. She has been warmly welcomed and fully embraced by the Bunker Hill community, and is honored to share her gifts of administration and creative design to share the message of the Gospel and connect people with the church. She has a passion for people, natural health, and cooking from scratch.
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I've taught tens of thousands about wine culture in the last 15 years; however, Lars Leicht is my teacher when it comes to Italian wine, food and their ways. His eloquence, humor, and amazing stories will captivate you.
"This is such a great restaurant - a hidden jewel! Try to attend - you will NOT be disappointed!"
You are cordially invited to join us on Nov 02 at 1:00 for our usual Portuguese lunch.
It will be buffet style $16.95 per person.
( a selection of meats, chicken, pork, beef, Portuguese sausages, various flavors, carrots, potatoes and cabbage all cooked together and served with rice.
Rice, potatoes, salad and caldo verde .
Thirteen Pies - All the Name Implies and More!
Flavors got an in-depth view of the menu at Thirteen Pies in the new Buckhead Atlanta location and let's start by saying: "Go Hungry!" More than simple pizza, Thirteen Pies provides a balanced menu of appetizers, farm fresh salads, pastas and as promised: thirteen fine-crafted pies made with options including locally produced meats and cheeses and a seasonally inspired thirteenth "who knows what" pie.
What truly stood out throughout the menu was the thought and detail presented in each dish: the extra crispy crust that is thin in the middle, crusty and fluffy at the same time on the outside that leaves you feeling sated but not in food-coma state even after 4 slices; the sharply salty, crispy anchovy on the baby kale salad; the shaved Manchego cheese on the fancy house salad that plays well with the Marcona almonds and sweet beets; the super intense flavors of the cheeses on the Garlic & Sage White pizza; the cloud-like little Zeppole with tart, plum jam. These all stand out as that "extra touch" that comes from experience and attention to detail that you expect from high-quality restaurants. Fair warning: one bite from the The Iberian and you may have your new favorite pizza restaurant in town.
Moncler Buckhead Atlanta - Grand Opening October 22nd!
Join Cirque du Soleil and Dress for Success Atlanta for a FREE event under the iconic Blue and Yellow Big Top at Atlantic Station at noon on Wednesday October 22. Just bring an item of gently used or new professional clothing to benefit Dress for Success Atlanta.
You'll be treated to a special preview performance by the cast of Amaluna, followed by a Q&A forum featuring members of Amaluna in collaboration with some of Atlanta's most well-respected businesswomen and personalities – Mara Davis, Melissa Long and our own Mary Moore. Learn more here.
The perfect gift for your favorite chef! Good for use toward merchandise or cooking classes!


Computer Simulation Technology AG (CST) and MAGUS (Pty) Ltd. (MAGUS) are developing new tools for linear antenna arrays including feed networks, to launch with the newest version of Magus' flagship product Antenna Magus. These features will be previewed at European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2013, booth #103.
Engineers involved with planar arrays often estimate the performance of the array from single elements, using array synthesis methods to determine the number of elements required, their spacing and the relative excitations. Although this approach provides a good starting point, it does not include a number of practical effects, such as mutual coupling, or the influence of the feed network - and indeed, the actual layout of the feed network.
Antenna Magus, the antenna design tool from MAGUS, already includes tools for selecting suitable topologies from a design database, adjusting these topologies to fit the design requirement, and for constructing arrays of elements with the correct excitation. The upcoming update introduces a new feature: parametric models which include physical feed-network layouts.
The tool allows a feed network to be synthesized either as part of a patch array design (the N-by-1 microstrip patch array with corporate feed), or in isolation to be used with arbitrary antenna elements. The feed network uses practical microstrip lines, and the network topology is automatically adjusted according to the number of elements. The feed network models can be exported into the 3D EM simulation tool CST MICROWAVE STUDIO(r) (CST MWS) and their behavior simulated and optimized as necessary using the full-wave solvers available in CST MWS. With this new feature, CST and MAGUS hope to allow feed effects to be considered earlier in the design flow, and streamline the antenna simulation workflow. It is envisaged that further planar array models will be included in later Antenna Magus releases.
These new features will be among those presented at EuMW, at booth #103. Each day of the exhibition will include a live demonstration of the antenna design workflow in Antenna Magus, and the two-way link between Antenna Magus and CST MWS for optimizing and combining antenna topologies. For the full schedule of booth presentations, please see <http://www.cst.com/EuMW>.
Antenna Magus presentations will be held at 14:30 on October 8 (Tuesday), at 15:30 on October 9 (Wednesday), and 12:00 on October 10 (Thursday) on the CST booth #103.


This definition of the word Byun is from the Wiktionary, where you can also find the etimology, other senses, synonyms, antonyms and examples.
The word Byun has 1 anagram.
An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl.
The word Byun spelled backward is nuyb which is not a word.


The Config Block is a special section of the Flash Layout. It basically holds the information used by the Bootloader.
The config block entries are grouped into sections. These sections contain relevant information to control the boot process and basic system properties.
!!WARNING!!: It is possible to modify the Configblock in a way that the module doesn't start any more, be care full if you modify it.
Use the Command Prompt of the Bootloader to access the Config Block data or the Config Block Editor.
The Config Block Editor is a WinCE application developed by Toradex. It can be used to edit settings stored in the Config Block.
You can find the Config Block Editor in the Colibri Software section.
Beginning with revision 1.1, the config block editor has a feature to change config block settings from within Windows CE.
You can use Copy Flash Region to save/copy/restore the Config Block.
This feature is only supported on the Colibri PXA modules.


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Living in the Limelight
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I believe it was Shakespeare who said "All the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage."
He was half-right.
-Except from The Coolest War: Memories of a Critic, by Anonymous
The symphony hall was packed to capacity for what promised to be the event of the season. Ushers lead men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns down dimly lit walkways to their seats, the twinkling of hundreds of tiny lights on the chandeliers overhead illuminating the elaborate architecture. The city's finest conversed in their box seats, the elite and the middle class sat out front to see and be seen, and in the galleries even the less fortunate of the city had put on their Sunday finest and turned out. A hush fell over the assembled multitudes as the Conductor stepped onto the stage, empty save but for his podium. The audience rose in respect as the thirty-ish impresario in impeccable white tie took his position upstage, bowing once to the crowd to signal that they could sit. The Conductor turned to the podium, where his sheet music and baton lay at the ready. He opened the book to the first movement of tonight's performance, looked straight ahead at the empty space before him, lifted his baton, and the performance began.
A sense of shock and wonder rippled through the crowd as the first bars of the overture rung out - aggressive, powerful, demanding attention. A brief pause allowed the crowd to compose themselves - there was no band on stage, there were no speakers anywhere to carry the sound, and yet, as sure as they could hear their own breathing, they heard music. Before they had too long to ponder it, the second bar hit them, at first just the horns, then came the violins, the bass section, oboes, flutes, timpani, and the sound of an entire orchestra filled the hall and echoed from front to back. The Conductor kept time and signaled the invisible, imaginary band with his baton, sweat dripping down his brow as he struggled to ensure that the cellists were in tune and the xylophonist wasn't coming in too early. He gave them a five-minute preview, in music, of what he hoped would be his magnum opus - the history of creation itself - and as the final strings of the overture gave way to the lone drum representing the heartbeat of the last man alive (or perhaps the first), he prepared himself for the part he had not yet performed before an audience. The Moog synthesizer kicked in as the Conductor grabbed the podium with his free hand, twisted it around 90 degrees counterclockwise, turned himself sideways to face the crowd on the left and the fictional orchestra on his right, and picked up the second baton.
With a quivering hand, the Conductor raised his second baton towards the audience, and flicked it like a magic wand, the Moog providing a sting to punctuate the flick. Nothing. The violins quivered along with his hand as he tried the flick again - still nothing. The Theremins kicked in on the third try, and with a third flick - and the sound of the gong - the chandelier hanging above the floor seats vanished, leaving only a hundred flickering bits of light in midair. The crowd gasped and applauded politely, but the Conductor only raised a finger to his lips, a "Shhhhhhh!" provided by the electric guitarist's Vocoder, as he carried on. Continuing to direct the orchestra with the baton in his right hand, he now stared upward at the flickering lights, pointing at one with his baton and nudging it slightly to the left. He pointed at another and moved it up somewhat, then another which he directed to fly around in a circle. Before long, the points of light were flying every which way around the hall, up and down, front to back, swinging in grand arcs over the balcony or zig-zagging or orbiting the head of a particularly confused old woman in the front row. The orchestra carried on in a regimented cacophony, dozens of leitmotifs representing the different lights as they swirled around, joyful, playful, ever in flux, one minute a minuet as two lights seemed to dance around each another, another anticipatory as one slowly wiggled its way up from the floor to the top of the hall, triumphant as it swirled about above all the other lights - and then a crashing sense of betrayal as it swung down, collided straight into another light, and the light broke apart and was snuffed out, accentuated with the sound of the cannon.
Silence fell, and the hundred lights stopped their play and gathered in a circle around the attacker. The string soloists called out in confusion and mourning. Why? How? What has happened? The time for wonderment was short lived, as from the back another light swooped down and smashed into another extinguishing it, then a third, then a fourth. The gathered lights panicked and grew a bright blue, huddling together at first in fear, and then some of their own launching outward to defend themselves against the yellow-red aggressors. The machine gunners kept time, the bassoons sounded the march, and the accordionist wailed - it was war.
Few in the crowd took the time to look at the Conductor as the war raged on above them. Had they, they would have seen the sweat dripping from his brow, his hair soaking wet from it, his hands wildly flailing in both directions at once as his mind focused on keeping both his imaginary productions in sync. The orchestra rose to a crescendo as the room grew dimmer, more and more of the once-so-innocent lights vanishing into the darkness, and the last handful of blue lights gathered together in a ball, their attackers orbiting around them like a giant molecule of some unimaginable element, diving in and out in an attempt to penetrate the defense. A single chord that the Conductor had hoped would sound like the one from A Day In the Life sounded out from the entire band in unison as all the attackers swooped in at once and the entire concert hall erupted in a blinding flash of white light. The lone drumbeat returned as the light faded, and the crowd could see that the ceiling of the concert hall had been dematerialized entirely - and beyond it, there stood nothing but a sky full of millions of stars.
The Conductor set his batons down as the drumming stopped, turned to face the audience, and gave a short bow. The crowd applauded thunderously, some of them rapt with joy, others with tears running down their faces, all of them looking forward to the second movement. The Conductor cleared his throat and snapped his fingers, and in an instant the performance was over. The roar of the crowd ceased as the men and women disappeared back into the ether from which they came, and the walls fell in until the concert hall was once again the rehearsal space of the West Soho Performing Arts Center.
"Well, there you have it," the Conductor said to the two actual humans remaining of his audience of thousands. "Concerto No. 3 for Reality Warper, 1st Movement. 'The Fall of Heaven'. What do you think?" The bespectacled middle-aged man in a Grateful Dead t-shirt, his long graying hair tied back in a ponytail, gave a tentative nod of agreement.
"Well, you put half your audience to sleep," the Critic said as he gestured to the ten-year-old boy who'd nodded off next to him, "but I was a Phillistine at his age too. The lighting effects are a little amateurish, and the score could use more Steinman and less ELP, but your work with the audience has improved by leaps and bounds. I swear I recognized my old drill sergeant sitting two rows behind us."
"Thank you," the Conductor said. "I'm planning on elaborating more on the visual effects in the second movement. We haven't even gotten to the creation of man yet, after all. It ought to be ready by the next time you're in town if you'll have time to see it."
"I look forward to it, Mr. Chesapeake," the Critic responded as he stood up and headed for the door. "Keep working on this and by '84 you'll be ready to make a big splash. Leave the sheet music on my desk and I'll have some more detailed notes for you by the weekend. Oh, and see if we can do the next session earlier in the day so your son can stay awake through the whole thing. I'm sure he's got an artist's soul buried in there somewhere."
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Click on the poster above to go to the Feature Film Project page!
We are the motion picture and television production company exclusively providing an authentic voice and representation of paraplegics to mainstream entertainment, while bringing together those of all Abilities United to work together in breaking the Hollywood stereotypes & ending the industry exclusion of those with a disAbility.
"The un-Working Class". This drama is based on experiences of paraplegics and others with a disAbility working or trying to work in Hollywood. It shows what it is like and what it can be!


The world of business is a complex network of connections, partnerships and affiliations, strengthened d by time, but still ever so delicate. Like all relationships involving trust, business relations are difficult to instigate, time-consuming to develop, and phenomenally easy to destroy. To some it may seem petty, but many corporations will refuse to do business with those they perceive to have slighted them, or indeed those who ignore the finer details of corporate courtesy. This article will review some of the easiest mistakes to make, so that, hopefully, you will be able to avoid them in future, and retain all of your valuable custom!
It would amaze you how many companies send out correspondences without first having them professionally checked for spelling, grammar and formatting. It seems to be an unfortunate trope of modern society that the finer details of language are becoming irrelevant, but in industry communications these minutiae are extremely important. Anything sent from your company must be a positive and affirming representation of your business, and nothing destroys this image quicker than typos, missing apostrophes and incorrect formalities of address. Most importantly though, it is vital that you spell the names of your correspondents correctly—few mistakes appear ruder and lazier than the misspelling of a company's name, and this will certainly lose you some business.
It is a general rule of life that nobody likes to have their time wasted. When exacting business with another company, it is essential that the projects you are responsible for are done in a timely manner—failure to complete tasks (or to communicate delays) in this instance will make you seem inefficient, irresponsible and untrustworthy. Such labels will not only affect your future dealings with the company in question, but with all other companies in contact with them. A reputation for tardiness is a hard thing to shake, so don't get one in the first place!
Especially now that we live in an age of international trade, the issue of opening hours is one at the forefront of every corporation's thoughts. Obviously the industry in which you operate will dictate your business hours to some extent, but it is a good idea to be wary of companies who may wish to have dealings with you. Inflexible business hours can give off the impression that you are uninterested, blinkered or even ignorant of others, and could prevent you from gaining valuable business.
Business etiquette training is an ever increasing aspect of corporate development, because as industries begin to trade with foreign nations, the importance of correct manners and appropriate formalities is becoming clearer and clearer. There are rules to be followed in relation to communications, dining, meetings and negotiations, and ignorance of this will prove you to be discourteous. Don't lose money because you weren't aware of the correct procedures!


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Norse Mythology in New Poptropica Lands
Yesterday I told you about the signs pointing to Legendary Sword's upgrade, and the day before about PoptropiCon. Today I've got even better news: the Poptropica Land Prototype is also going to be upgraded to the big screen, but with a Norse mythology-style twist. It's no longer in beta, so it's called simply "Lands".
The Creators posted this image today, with the subtitle "To create, you must first destroy." That sounds an awful lot like the constant building and breaking down you did in Labs. The other tip-off is the old wizard guy holding a glowing hammer (more on that later).
Why is that a tip-off, you may be asking? Because there's a suspicious new file on Poptropica's servers now, called "lands". Here's the only thing I found inside (link to it on Poptropica):
Notice the resemblance to the Mjolnir from Poptropi-con? And the symbol on it is the triple horn of Odin. Poptropica's obsessed with Norse mythology these days! It looks like you're going to use this hammer (called Svadilfari) to transform the land in Poptropica as a god, like Populous.
Interestingly, that's not the name of a hammer, but of a stallion who helped a builder construct a wall around the gods. Kind of appropriate, as this lets a huge number of players design islands for Poptropica -- crowdsourcing, anyone?
Sadly, Lands is not free (either that, or it is free but Members-only). I can't wait until we get the upgrade, since the Creators have confirmed it -- until then, you can still play the old Land Prototype!


We consider the programs provided at Barrington Living History Farm to be a unique educational experience. The park and museum's education departments offer several programs for schoolchildren. The hands-on programs provide a unique educational experience for students. The 19th century comes alive through hands-on activities, age-appropriate programs, and instruction by costumed interpreters.
Background knowledge enhances any field trip and helps provide students with a more meaningful experience. The Barrington Farm Educator's Packet contains classroom activities which may be used independently or to enrich a visit to the farm. The activities have been coded with objectives found in the fourth- and seventh-grade TEKS. We welcome your feedback as to its usefulness and your suggestions for improvement.
The Texas Independence website highlights an important part of Texas history, the convention held at Washington-on-the Brazos in 1836 when 59 elected delegates met to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico and create a new nation, the Republic of Texas.
Students can learn more about this story of Texas independence through fun and educational activities on the website, which was created by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Blinn College to complement the fourth- and seventh-grade TEKS criteria. Students can watch an animated overview of the independence story, look through a timeline of notable events and take a closer look at the Texas Declaration of Independence. They can also create their own story with "Convention Comicmaker," search through a collection of primary historical sources, and play "In Washington Town," a 3-D online video game that allows students to interact with citizens in 1836.
For teachers, the site features lesson plans, TEKS correlation, activities and resources to help students learn in the classroom.
Each year an Independence Day festival celebrating the March 2, 1836 adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence brings thousands of revelers to Washington-on-the Brazos for a giant party celebrating Texas' birth. The festivities include historical re-enactments and craft demonstrations. This event normally occurs on the weekend that falls closest to March 2. Call the park for dates and times. Join the Texas-sized birthday celebration!
Come to the park and visit historic Washington for a 19th century Christmas celebration. Gather around the fire and make toys, while listening to stories of Christmas cultural customs and traditions celebrated in Texas' past. For more information, please contact the park staff at (936) 878-2214.
Washington-on-the-Brazos and Star of the Republic Museum offer tour programs for adults. Reservations should be arranged two weeks in advance.
Check the Calendar of Events for more upcoming events at Washington-on-the-Brazos.


(Formerly named Pain Eze), Herbal Eze is a blend of herbal ingredients that act as joint support and a natural pain reliever. It contains 5-LOXIN which reduces pro-inflammatory modulators and enzymatic degradation of cartilage, thereby reducing inflammation and improving joint health. We like this supplement as a natural alternative to pain medications. A general recommendation is one tablet twice daily with food, or up to six tablets per day.
Herbal Eze is a unique blend of herbal ingredients to improve joint health. Recent studies indicate that 5-LOXIN® may do this by reducing pro-inflammatory modulators and enzymatic degradation of cartilage. Traditional medicine considers curcumin to be the most healing herb on earth and studies have shown that Bioperine® increases the bioavailability of curcumin by 2000%. Many of my clients find pain relief when taking this for neck, shoulder or back pain. It helps pain all over the body, and in the joints as well. Dosing: Start with 1 tablet per meal, and take up to 6 per day.
General Recommendation: Adults take one or two tablets daily or as directed by your health care practitioner.
Calcium carbonate, cellulose, maltodextrin, cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, silicon dioxide, stearic acid, and magnesium stearate.


Effluent management is an important issue for New Zealand's rural sector. It can be a source of unpleasant odours and also a substantial contributor to farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly methane, which is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The collection and combustion of methane has been identified as a sensible means for reducing agricultural GHG emissions. Where factors like scale and location allow for it, additional benefit can also be derived - for example, the combustion of recovered methane in a generator for producing on-site heat and electricity.
NIWA research has helped to make CAP systems simpler and cheaper to construct and operate than alternative anaerobic (biogas) digestion systems. To demonstrate these advantages in the field, NIWA has collaborated with industry partners the New Zealand Pork Industry Board (Pork NZ) and Australian Pork Ltd. (APL) to design and build a CAP-based biogas collection and use system at Steve Lepper's piggery in Taranaki.
In the absence of oxygen, anaerobic microorganisms break down wastewater solids (such as those contained in manure) to biogas – a mixture mainly consisting of methane and carbon dioxide. While most biogas projects rely on engineered, heated digesters, NIWA research has shown that ambient temperature CAPs can be equally efficient and effective for converting manure solids into biogas.
For this project, a purpose designed deep pond of 7000 m3 volume was built and covered with a heavy duty plastic cover. The cover collects biogas produced in the pond, and also acts as buffer storage for biogas.
A network of pipes is used to draw the biogas out from underneath the cover. From there, it is pumped to a filter to remove traces of corrosive hydrogen sulphide gas, and through a gas cooler for moisture reduction.
Once cleaned the biogas is used to fuel a spark ignition gas engine, which powers a 48 kilowatt electrical generator.
The cover traps around 300 m3 of biogas, containing about 200 m3 of methane, every day. This is the equivalent of more than three 45kg gas cylinders each day. After 8,000 run hours and ¼ million kWh electricity generated, the biogas use system and the 7000 m3 CAP at the piggery have proven reliable.
Generated electricity is used on-site, and provides over half of the piggery's electricity needs. Waste heat from the generator cooling system and the exhaust gases is simultaneously recovered in the form of hot water. This hot water is then used within the piggery's breeding unit for heating via an under-floor heating system, which has enabled the piggery to replace costly electrical radiant heat lamps, and increase energy self-sufficiency further.
Incremental refinements are still being made to increase efficiency and broaden the scope for more use of generator waste heat. However, with on-going electricity savings of more than NZ$35,000 a year the system has already proven its financial viability.
The Covered Anaerobic Pond based biogas system at Steve Lepper's piggery also won the Small-Medium Business category in the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) awards in 2010.