Learn more about the heart of Cloverhill Church and get involved in what God is doing at our church. At CONNECT you will hear more about our mission. You will also learn about the variety of ways that you can get involved. This event happens on the second sunday of every month. Childcare + Lunch is provided.
Come learn about the ways you can be involved in Cloverhill's foster network.
At Camp KidJam, we will hear about Paul and how he took a leap of faith to follow Jesus and share the gospel with others! Camp KidJam is an incredible week of jam sessions, small groups, games and memories to last a lifetime! This camp is for rising 3rd - 6th graders. Don't forget to claim your spot by April 26th for Camp KidJam today!
Serve Day is our annual outreach event that closes our Summer Small Group Season. It is an exciting opportunity for us, the local church, to go into our communities and love our neighbors. This summer, whether through a Small Group or by joining a Serve Day project, come be a part of serving our communities and sharing the love of Jesus through simple, practical acts of kindness.
For three days, our dynamic kids experience will help your child discover God's Word in an exciting and unforgettable way! Each day, they will learn a key Bible point that is reinforced with a Bible verse and an adventurous video parable made just for them. Summer Blast is open for all children entering kindergarten through rising 6th graders.


Measles mop-up vaccinations were given to close work contacts of the three patients to prevent the possible spread of infection, he said.
[HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Department of Health is investigating an outbreak of measles that has infected three workers at the city's airport.
The trio, employees at the Hong Kong International Airport, each developed a rash last week, according to a government statement late on Friday.
A health talk was conducted at the airport to deliver measles-related health advice to workers, a government spokesman said in the statement.
At the beginning of the month, a man developed full-blown symptoms of measles after boarding on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo. He was a flight attendant at the airline, the South China Morning Post reported.


Australian actress and wife of American talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, has revealed that actor Steven Seagal had sexually harassed her during one of her auditions for his film.
Last week, The Good Wife actor Julianna Margulies revealed that she was harassed by Seagal and Harvey Weinstein in separate encounters during the 1990s. Recalling the ordeal with Seagal, in an interview on Sirius XM's Just Jenny, Marguiles said that she was asked by a female casting agent to visit the Under Siege star on the pretext of discussing some scenes from the audition. After reaching the venue, the agent was nowhere to be found.
Margulies says, "I got to the hotel at 10.40 (pm), and she wasn't there. And he was. Alone. And he made sure that I saw his gun, which I had never seen a gun in real life. And I got out of there unscathed … I don't know how I got out of that hotel room. I sorta screamed my way out," reports Vulture.
Not only Marguiles, actress Lisa Guerrero also recently told the Los Angeles Times about her unpleasant encounter with Seagal when he greeted her and her female casting agent at his door "wearing nothing but a silky robe", adds the Vulture report. Back in 1998, Seagal was accused by Jenny McCarthy of repeatedly asking her to remove her clothes during an Under Siege 2's casting session.


Hi and welcome to the April InspireINK Blog Hop. We are a group of Stampin' Up!® demonstrators who try to insure you with our themed projects. This month the theme is Wedding. I don't think a year goes by without me making at least one wedding card either for a wedding I am attending or someone commissions me to do one. For this project a friend had asked for a wedding card so that was fabulous, I love it when I have a purpose other than a challenge, Blog Hop or tutorial.
I remembered that the Sweet Soiree papers had one with a wedding theme so decided to check and found the piece with wedding cakes on so decided to use one.
Extra Thick Whisper White, cut in half, scored in half 5 7/8" x 8 1/4" score @ 4 1/8"
Mat of silver foiled card stock 5 7/8 x 4 1/8"
There will be a video tutorial tomorrow so for now hop around the rest of the team and then pop back tomorrow and I will have posted the tutorial in another post.
lovely card Gez, love that you used a Christmas die as well, i have forgotten about that one.
Very pretty card. Love that DSP!


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9,135 dengue cases so far this year
National Environment Agency officers checking drains for signs of mosquito breeding. TNP FILE PHOTO
Figure is about five times more than the total number reported in the same period last year
Timothy Goh
Singapore is in peak dengue season, with 9,135 cases reported as of Aug 2 - about five times more than the total number of dengue cases reported in the same period last year.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) said yesterday that peak dengue season usually stretches from June to October, and the surrounding region is also seeing a surge of dengue cases this year.
The agency added that in just one week ending on July 27, a total of 610 cases were reported here.
Between January and June this year, about 60 per cent of the Aedes mosquito breeding habitats detected across the island were found in homes.
This figure rises to 70 per cent in dengue cluster areas.
As of Aug 2, there were still 190 active dengue clusters around the island.
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The largest such cluster is in Chai Chee, with 145 cases, while the second largest cluster is currently in Pasir Ris, which the NEA has labelled a high-risk area.
A total of 124 dengue cases have been reported in Pasir Ris Drives 3, 4 and 6, as well as Pasir Ris Street 41, since the area became a dengue cluster on June 11 this year. But those in the area are fighting back.
One estate doing so is Eastvale Condominium in Pasir Ris Drive 3. Nine of its residents have fallen ill with dengue since June 11. The management decided to step up its anti-mosquito measures after finding out the condominium was in a cluster area in June.
Actions taken included alerting cleaners to check for signs of water ponding, teaching residents the importance of good housekeeping and increasing the rate of misting to twice a week.
Residents were given sand granular insecticide and taught how to use it.
Ms Sally Tan, the condominium's treasurer, said the measures were worth the additional cost of around $750 a month, which was borne by the management.
A resident, housewife Joewe Koh, 37, said she was initially worried for the safety of her children after discovering the neighbourhood was a dengue cluster.
However, she felt the management's efforts had paid off.
"In the past, whenever we went downstairs, we'd get bitten. Nowadays, we don't get bitten... We can go to the pool, to the playground, and feel safe."
Last month, the NEA announced that Project Wolbachia, which involves the release of sterile male mosquitoes leading to mosquito eggs that cannot hatch, had achieved up to 90 per cent suppression of the urban Aedes aegypti mosquito population at study sites in Yishun and Tampines.
But the project is still under research and has not been deployed in dengue clusters yet.
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) on Jan. 28 said that freight traffic is showing slight improvement over 2009 levels but remains down sharply when compared to 2008. For the week ending Jan. 23, 2010, U.S. railroads originated 277,420 carloads, up 3.9 percent compared with the same week in 2009 and down 11.1 percent from the same week in 2008.
In the Western United States, carloads were down 0.2 percent compared with the same week last year, and 9.4 percent compared with 2008. In the East, carloads were up 10.7 percent compared with 2009, and down 13.6 percent compared with the same week in 2008.
Intermodal traffic totaled 200,807 trailers and containers, up 2.9 percent from a year ago, but down 4.4 percent from 2008. Container volume showed stronger growth, increasing 6 percent over 2009 and 3.5 percent over 2008. Trailer volume, however, fell 11.1 percent from the 2009 level and dropped 32.3 percent compared with the same week in 2008.
Thirteen of the 19 carload freight commodity groups were up in comparison with the same week last year, and 10 of those posted double digit increases. Increases in commodity groups ranged from 5.5 percent for grain to 103.8 percent for nonmetallic minerals. Declines in commodity groups ranged from 25.7 percent for the catch-all category labeled "all other carloads" to 3.1 percent for coal.
Canadian railroads reported volume of 73,354 cars for the week, up 13.5 percent from last year, and 44,295 trailers or containers, up 7.4 percent from 2009. For the first 3 weeks of 2010, Canadian railroads reported cumulative volume of 214,081 carloads, up 19.1 percent from last year, and 131,596 trailers or containers, up 4.4 percent from last year.
Mexican railroads reported originated volume of 14,867 cars, up 29.8 percent from the same week last year, and 6,960 trailers or containers, up 41.6 percent. Cumulative volume on Mexican railroads for the first 3 weeks of 2010 was reported as 40,200 carloads, up 27.4 percent from last year; and 19,620 trailers or containers, up 42.5 percent.
Combined North American rail volume for the first 3 weeks of 2010 on 13 reporting U.S., Canadian and Mexican railroads totaled 1,032,527 carloads, up 1.7 percent from last year, and 750,539 trailers and containers, up 2.3 percent from last year.


Six Chinese movies raked in about 6.38 billion yuan (1 billion U.S. dollars) in total just a week after their release on Feb. 16, the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year, according to Maoyan, a popular film database in China.
Maoyan's data show that as of 5 p.m. Thursday, Detective Chinatown 2's box-office sales was 2.06 billion yuan, Monster Hunt 2's was 1.77 billion yuan, Operation Red Sea's was 1.37 billion yuan, The Monkey King 3's was 629 million yuan, Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink's was 448 million yuan and The Faces of My Gene's was 96.8 million yuan.
On the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, total box office receipts of Chinese movies reached 1.26 billion yuan, an increase of about 56 percent over the same day in 2017.
"Chinese movies during this year's Spring Festival had a better online reputation than those of previous years. Good quality brings a good reputation and generates better box office receipts," Zhao Xiaonan, co-founder of Filmath, a Chinese site that offers movie data analysis, was quoted as saying by Friday's China Daily.


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70th Anniversary of Billy Graham's Central Valley Crusade
September 19, 2018 / Steve Newvine
An impressive anniversary is coming up in November in the Central Valley.
Photo-ad – This is what one of the advertisements for the Billy Graham Modesto Crusade looked like in the Modesto Bee. Photo from the Modesto Bee.
October 24 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the Billy Graham Modesto Crusade.
More importantly, that anniversary will note the creation of the guiding principles the Graham organization wrote during their daytime breaks from that two-week Crusade.
The principles were called the Modesto Manifesto.
An advertisement that ran in the October 23 1948 issue of the Modesto Bee called the event the Canvas Cathedral. There was a reference to the huge tent that was put up in a field near the corner of Burney and La Loma Streets.
Today, Burney is still called a street and La Loma is now referred to as an avenue.
At the time, local Christian ministers were asked by the Graham organization to help fill that tent for the first night.
They were assured that if the first night was successful, the rest of the crusade attendance would take care of itself.
For two weeks, an estimated nightly crowd of two-thousand came to the Canvas Cathedral. The Modesto Crusade was deemed a success, and it would help propel Billy Graham to other venues including the Los Angeles event held one year later.
Billy Graham, who died at the age of 99 on February 21, 2018, wrote dozens of books including Personal Thoughts of a Public Man. Photo from the book cover.
The rest of the story is now in the history books. Billy Graham traveled all over the world for the next six decades.
He embraced television, wrote dozens of books, and was considered the "nation's pastor" by the next eleven presidents.
But it's the Modesto Manifesto that makes this incredible story of the life of Billy Graham so meaningful to many in the Central Valley.
I've written about the Manifesto on a few occasions since 2008 when I came across an article commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Modesto Crusade.
Modesto was a crucial stop in the fledgling period of the Graham ministry. The evangelist had his eyes on Los Angeles, but wanted every event leading up to the planned 1949 L.A. crusade to continue building momentum.
His close friend and associate Cliff Barrows came from Ceres, Stanislaus County. Barrows suggested the Modesto stop hoping that his connections with the local faith communities would come through to help make it a success.
While hundreds upon hundreds of people attended the nightly crusade, Billy and his team took advantage of the daytime hours to critically analyze the ministry and the potential problems that could sidetrack an evangelist.
Graham's close associate was Ceres native Cliff Barrows.
Barrows, who met Billy while on his honeymoon in Wisconsin, spoke to me in 2010 for a book I wrote about the Central Valley. We discussed the Modesto Manifesto.
Barrows told me the group was directed by Billy to identify potential pitfalls for the organization, and later decide together on a strategy to avoid these pitfalls.
While the crowds came to experience the Crusade at night, during the day Graham and his top three associates George Beverly Shea, Grady Wilson, and Barrows worked and prayed on the issue.
"The book Elmer Gantry (by Sinclair Lewis) was popular at the time," he said in 2010. "It did not put evangelists in a positive light. Billy asked the three of us to think about the pitfalls that other evangelists had encountered. We each went back to our motel rooms and reconvened the next day to learn that our lists were very similar."
In the 1966 book, Crusades, published by the Billy Graham organization, the official account of the meetings indicate the men had come up with about fifteen potential pitfalls ranging from finances to infidelity.
What emerged from those daily meetings with the Graham team was a list of four guiding principles. They are:
Accountability-transparency in reporting finances and Crusade attendance
Purity-specifically addressing sexual immorality. This led to a directive that no one working for the Graham organization be allowed to have a closed door meeting with someone from the opposite sex.
Integrity-no criticism of local churches or local pastors
Humility-no seeking out "exaggerated publicity" for the crusade events
It's believed Cliff Barrows gave the principles the name Modesto Manifesto.
Short of the Ten Commandments, the Manifesto was likely the first time a religious organization publicly stated their operating guidelines.
Billy Graham died in February 2018 at the age of 99. His son Franklin, who is also a minister, visited Turlock later in the year for a prayer convocation event.
Cliff Barrows died in 2016. At the time of his death, I wrote an appreciation piece that was published in the Modesto Bee.
In that essay, I recalled how interested Barrows seemed to be in what was going on in his native region. As we prepared for the taped telephone interview for my book 9 from 99, he wanted me to know that he still thought fondly of the Central Valley.
The Modesto Gospel Mission was founded with $5,000 of the proceeds from the 1948 Billy Graham Modesto Crusade. Photo: Modesto Gospel Mission
The only memento of the 1948 Graham Modesto Crusade is an anti-poverty organization.
The Modesto Gospel Mission was founded using five-thousand dollars from local share of the 1948 Central Valley event. The Mission continues to feed hundreds of homeless every week and provides over fifty-thousand bed nights to those in need.
The Mission recently celebrated its seventieth anniversary with a gala fundraising event at the Doubletree Hotel in Modesto. It continues to serve the community.
So it appears that the Modesto Manifesto tenet dealing with accountability was put into action immediately following the 1948 Crusade.
That gift of $5,000 has come back many times in the form of meals for the hungry, bed nights for those needing a place to stay in the community, and hope for those who may have lost hope.
Billy Graham and his team of associates would be very proud.
Steve Newvine lives in Merced.
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Grief And Outrage After 9-Year-Old Janari Ricks Was Shot And Killed Outside Cabrini Rowhouses
By Marissa Parra August 1, 2020 at 7:23 pm
Filed Under:9-Year-Old Boy, Cabrini Rowhouses, Cabrini-Green, Cambridge Avenue, Child Killed, child shot, Janari Ricks, Marissa Parra
CHICAGO (CBS) — A family is crestfallen and outraged after a 9-year-old boy was shot dead Friday night while playing outside in the Cabrini rowhouses.
Police said the gunman opened fire on a group of people behind the townhomes on Cambridge Avenue – the last occupied section of the Cabrini-Green public housing development – when 9-year-old Janari Ricks was struck.
(Credit: Jalisa Ford)
As CBS 2's Marissa Parra reported Saturday, this now makes at least 16 children under the age of 10 in Chicago since mid-June.
Cabrini-Green once stretched from Evergreen Avenue on the north to Chicago Avenue on the south, and from the Chicago Transit Authority Brown-Purple Line tracks on the east to Halsted Street on the west.
It was also one of the most infamous housing projects in the country, drawing decades of headlines from the 1970 sniper shooting that killed two police officers to then-Mayor Jane Byrne's controversial temporary move into the development to draw attention to the violence there in 1981. In 1992, Cabrini-Green drew national headlines for the murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis by a sniper perched atop a high-rise on Cleveland Avenue – an incident that also sparked a gang truce.
Since the late 1990s, Cabrini-Green has gone through massive transformation to shed that reputation – while also spurring complaints about gentrification. All the high-rises and mid-rises came down between 1995 and 2011, with new developments such as a Target store and luxury apartment buildings standing in the stead of some, and empty fields where others once stood.
All that is left now is the oldest part of the development, the Cabrini Rowhouses that date from the 1940s. Even among the rowhouses, only 137 units remain occupied while 450 units are fenced off and boarded up.
Two worlds in Chicago:
On one side of the street, people walking their dogs and drinking Starbucks
On the other side of the street, mothers wailing over another child shot dead, wondering why their kids can't stay alive while playing outside pic.twitter.com/nrBs1BxpjH
— Marissa Parra (@MarParNews) August 2, 2020
In 2020, the juxtaposition is stark. A fancy Starbucks stands steps away from a site where on Saturday, mothers were wailing over the loss of 9-year-old Janari – yet another child shot dead in the street while playing outside.
"He says, 'Mom, can I come outside and play?' and I said, 'Sure,'" said Janari's mother, Jalisa Ford. "And when he went out, he never came back home."
Basketballs and footballs in the form of balloons linger over where Ford kissed her son goodbye.
The 9-year-old lay bleeding after he was shot while playing outside the rowhouses in the 900 block of North Cambridge Avenue.
"I'm so devastated," Ford said.
Good at sports, good at math, and loved by everyone, Janari was on his way to the gifted program. But Ford's only child will now forever stay a memory in Cabrini-Green – yet another child in Chicago robbed of his future.
A basketball signed for Janari Ricks. (Credit: Jalisa Ford)
"I'm not mad at nobody. I just need answers on why," Ford said. "When is it going to stop?"
For weeks, the cry to put down the guns has been echoed around the city. Since mid-June, at least 16 children under the age of 10 have been shot in Chicago, and five have died – including Janari.
"God bless their soul and their family," said Darrell Dacres of Communities Partnering 4 Peace. "They didn't have a chance to speak, so we're trying to give our kids in our community to be a voice."
On Saturday, there was outrage over violence and young Black lives lost. A group took to the streets to ask for more resources and justice for the kids.
A Kids Lives Matter march yesterday, a "Daddy Please: Put Down the Gun" March today
It's inspiring to see these kids marching against violence
But it's also heartbreaking that they have to fight for their lives instead of feeling safe on their streets@cbschicago pic.twitter.com/3pQ9cs91Rn
The Daddy Please anti-violence march was held in another Chicago neighborhood that has seen troubles with gang violence lately – Rogers Park.
"We're trying to get people to stop the violence and bring peace to our neighborhoods," said Deion Geiger of Communities Partnering 4 Peace. "The kids want to grow."
A Kids' Lives Matter march had also just wrapped up on 63rd Street when Janari was shot in broad daylight across town on Friday.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot addressed the shooting on Twitter Saturday morning saying "prayers alone will not sooth a broken heart."
When a 9 year old's life is ended by a bullet, we must all be outraged. These deaths are not mere statistics. And prayers alone will not sooth a broken heart.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) August 1, 2020
While our City has made progress in reducing violence in recent weeks, all of that is lost when we lose another child to gun violence.
The mayor said we and the nation need support like "street outreach interventions," as well as "federal gun control to keep firearms from falling into the wrong hands."
Mayor Lightfoot is encouraging the public to come forward to tips leading to an arrest.
Anyone with information is asked to contact cpdtip.com to submit any details they may have on the crime. The information will remain confidential.
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What a season for the 32 year old veteran. His improbable season included finishing in the Top 10 in passing yards (4,282) and TDs (30), and leading the Seahawks to a Wild Card playoff appearance. Even though they got crushed in the second half by the 49ers, the future looks bright for Smith and the Seahawks, as they have a top five pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, thanks to the Russell Wilson trade.
There's no guarantee that Smith will be Seattle's QB of the future, but there's a solid chance, which means there's definite upside for his cards heading into 2023.
He's approaching his mid-30s on a team that faces stiff competition from within their own division, and barely made the playoffs. For his card value to truly spike, he will have to follow up on his unlikely 2022 performance and lead Seattle to the promised land in 2023. How likely is that?
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"When people think that I am Jamaican, they treat me with a different respect at times. They make jokes about "stupid" Black Americans while consuming literally everything that Black Americans create. They make insults about Black American people or erase the impact of that peculiar institution on Black American life today. And though I experienced some bullying from Black American children growing up (which was admittedly very rough and painful) because they didn't like how my parents spoke or the food I ate at times, I also had long-term friendships with Black American girls. In fact, none of my closest friends now in adulthood are Jamaican women (though of course I love them too). They're Black American women. We still share so much because we are all Black women though, wiling to learn and celebrate our differences and navigate the spaces of our multiple similarities.
"At the same time, when people think that I am American, other Black immigrants (and most certainly Whites) have insulted me. Called me "stupid" or "lazy." Some have even suggested that Black Americans do not work hard. They completely ignore the intricacies and unique experiences of Black Americans here, especially the impact of the legacy of slavery on Black women here and how some colleges will gladly open their arms to foreign-born Black students while allowing their White students to publish "research" on the inferiority of Black Americans. Worse, some really think to be Black in America is to be Mitt Romney. In a past essay, Black In The 99%, I laid out why these myths of the "great" socioeconomic experience of Black people in America are myths."
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Slayers 30th Anniversary Continues with New Album by Lead Voice Actress
by Joseph Luster January 14, 2020
Writer Hajime Kanzaka and illustrator Rui Araizumi's Slayers light novel series marked its 30th anniversary last year, but the celebration is far from over. The latest comes from Megumi Hayashibara, who voiced lead character Lina Inverse ever since the first TV anime hit the airwaves in 1995. Hayashibara is joining the party with a special three-disc album for the 30th anniversary, including an updated version of 2008's Slayers MEGUMIX album and more.
In addition to songs that weren't included at the time of the previous album's release, the new anniversary edition will feature a fresh illustration from novel illustrator Rui Araizumi.
Here's a look at the 2008 album cover:
Beyond that, Slayers has a 30th anniversary live event, Atsumatte kunnaito Abarechauzo! (If you don't gather, we will run wild!), scheduled for March 29 at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL. Megumi Hayashibara will be in attendance along with fellow voice cast members Yasunori Matsumoto (Gourry Gabriev) and Maria Kawamura (Naga the Serpent).
Tickets went on sale on December 25 and sold out immediately.
Source: Megumi Hayashibara's website via Crunchyroll
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Home Depot Breach Linked to Target's?
Whether Home Depot is one of those six targets is not something experts want to speculate about. But Adam Kujawa, head of malware intelligence at Malwarebytes Labs, says a connection to at least Target is likely.


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T'was a dark and dreary night when I arrived at the cinema to purchase my ticket for Argentinian made Wild Tales; having purposefully avoided any information about the film except that it was to be shown in six parts and it contained elements of black comedy, my mind was ready to expect the unexpected, brace for the bizarre… and that's exactly what I got.
Without wanting to ruin the fun (maybe wrong word, maybe the perfect one) of anyone wishing to see Damnián Szifrón's tales, I'll be as brief and ambiguous about the stories as possible (although seeing it completely in the dark would be my advice (and by dark I mean both without knowledge and the lights turned down)).
From when the lights went down and the amusing Pearl and Dean Honda advert flickered onto the screen, until the credits rolled, I found myself slowly shifting towards the edge of my seat, tensing my muscles, even quietening my breath. In what begins as a Tarantino-esque set of bizarre and funny-because-of-it events, Szifrón very subtly and very beautifully changes gear into events that could and are happening in the real world and because of which, are not so funny anymore.
That said, the opening short story regarding a airplane does very unfortunately and coincidentally share some themes with the recent and tragic airline accident, one that the filmmakers have apologised for but to which everyone was still enjoying themselves on the night.
As an interesting experiment of human phycology and behaviour, the opening credit sequence sets the scene by showing a montage of predators (the animal kind, not the Arnold Schwarzenegger hunting kind), specifically mammals – the type of animal that we ourselves are. Despite thinking that we have evolved beyond our primal ancestors, Sziffrón clearly shows us that we haven't at all and all we do is hide behind a world of material possessions and the illusion of our evolution – and just like our animal counterparts it was very believable to see even the smallest of events lead to the most brutal violence.
I'd also like to mention that even though I was having to look through past the language/subtitle barrier, the performances from the cast (most especially the bride in the final act) were most excellent.
A final point would be that even though Wild Tales a selection of short films, they don't seem disjointed and flow from one to the next in a way that would make it a very different event if you simply watched the shorts on their own – one at a time.
So my verdict… As I try to rate things on how successful they are in terms of their aims this is a hard one to place. I think deep down I want to give this 5 stars, for it ability to manipulate me, look at the world we live in and even provide a good laugh – but something doesn't feel right. Whether it's because I was hoping the short stories would somehow link to one another (even as a background reference) or the lack of screen-time each character got, or simply because we're not supposed to like it per-se. It's like watching a news story covering something tragic. Your drawn in to watch it because it's so horrific but at the same time it's not something you enjoy.
The fact that I'm having to argue with myself is most likely proof that this tale of morality has indeed stirred some s*** up inside me so yes go on then – its a 5 from me!


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State offering up to $80,000 in grants to…
State offering up to $80,000 in grants to COVID-impacted homeowners
The one-time payments are part of a new $1 billion federally funded program to aid homeowners facing the threat of foreclosure because they lost income during the pandemic.
A foreclosed home is a property that has undergone the foreclosure process, which was initiated because the borrower defaulted, or failed to make payments, on the mortgage, and did not take alternative steps such as a deed in lieu of foreclosure or loan modification. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)
By Jeff Collins |
PUBLISHED: January 5, 2022 at 3:22 p.m. | UPDATED: January 5, 2022 at 5:40 p.m.
California leaders unveiled plans to keep pandemic-impacted homeowners from losing their homes, offering up to $80,000 in grants to owners behind on their mortgage payments.
The one-time grants are part of a new $1 billion federally-funded program to aid homeowners facing the threat of foreclosure because they lost income during the pandemic.
This is on top of forbearance programs that allowed homeowners to defer mortgage payments for up to 15 months.
And it's also on top of $1.7 billion already doled out to more than 145,000 California renters since last spring.
State housing officials said during a Wednesday, Jan. 5, Zoom conference they expect an estimated 20,000-40,000 homeowners to receive an average of $40,000 in one-time grants to bring their mortgage payments current. The money is a gift that won't have to be repaid, they said.
By comparison, rental assistance grants to California tenants have averaged just under $12,000 a piece.
"Struggling homeowners can now apply and get mortgage relief and get caught up on the housing payments they have missed," said Tiena Johnson Hall, executive director of the California Housing Finance Agency. "We are committed to doing all we can to help Californians keep a roof over their heads."
Applications must be filed online at CAMortgageRelief.org. Residents can get assistance from a housing counselor by calling 800-569-4287.
The grants are available only to homeowners earning the median income or less in their area, who are two months or more behind on their mortgage and who can attest to suffering a COVID-19-related financial impact. Assistance will be provided only for an owner's primary residence, and the home must be either a house, townhome, condo or permanently affixed manufactured home.
Applicants also must be either a public assistance recipient, must pay more than 40% of their income in housing costs or must have been denied an alternate mortgage workout plan by their servicer.
The funding is part of a $10 billion federal homeowner relief package included in the American Rescue Plan approved last March.
"Forbearance, while helpful during the pandemic, was not going to be sufficient," said U.S. House Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, who helped get the funding package added to President Biden's American Rescue Plan.
Despite economic gains in the past year, people still are suffering from the pandemic, said Lourdes Castro Ramirez, secretary of California's Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.
"We must do everything in our power to ensure Californians don't lose their home," Castro Ramirez said.
State officials cited recent U.S. Census data showing more than 528,000 California homeowners – or about 6% of homeowners with a mortgage — have missed their most recent mortgage payments. Castro Ramirez added that about 12% of the state's homeowners remain financially impacted by the pandemic and face the potential of foreclosure
Actual foreclosures have been scant, however. Irvine-based RealtyTrac reported the state had 12,931 borrowers in some stage of the foreclosure process at the end of November.
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While most homeowners facing foreclosure could sell their homes for more than they owe on the mortgage, the new program is designed to save them from having to sell to avoid foreclosure, said Rebecca Franklin, head of a newly formed non-profit corporation that's administering the homeowner grants.
"This program is focusing on helping Californians catch up on missed payments to prevent displacement and foreclosure," Frankling said.
Franklin said the state reserved 40% of its allocation for "socially disadvantaged communities."
That's consistent with the state-run rental assistance program, with 85% of rent relief recipients coming from households earning less than half the median income for their area.
Officials conceded during the Zoom conference there was some "stumbling with the rental assistance program" during its early stages, but said they've learned a lot and don't expect similar delays to occur with the homeowner program.
"No homeowner should go homeless due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Cloey Hewlett, Commissioner of the state Financial Protection and Innovation Department.
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O Parque Kshisha é um parque recreativo no subúrbio de Al Rahmaniyah, Sharjah, nos Emirados Árabes Unidos . Foi inaugurado em março de 2021.

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O Parque Kshisha abriga campos de futebol e vólei, biblioteca, anfiteatro, centro de fitness, pistas de corrida e ciclismo, parques de diversões, pista de skate e salões para a realização de workshops. O complexo tem também um lago artificial com uma estação de alimentação de patos.

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Parques nacionais dos Emirados Árabes Unidos

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Matthew Thrift
Tomatometer-approved critic
Matthew Thrift is a freelance film writer and actor. He contributes to Little White Lies, The Guardian, bfi.org.uk and So Film.
Publications: Sight and Sound, Little White Lies
5/5 95% Marriage Story (2019) It's a film of devastating cumulative power, even-handed and empathetic in its approach to two characters whose relationship has broken down, but who still want the best for their child and each other. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 70% Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) A film that, while returning to the founding, chase-picture premise of the franchise, appears to have been algorithmically conceived and directed by an AI filmmaking-chip that somehow made it out of the Skynet lab back in 1991. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 93% The Flower (La flor) (2019) An endlessly playful and playfully endless riot. Wildly, staggeringly entertaining. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 60% A Rainy Day in New York (2019) A funny, amiable riff on 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Catcher in the Rye'. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 77% Never Look Away (2019) "Never look away," we're told for the umpteenth time. But with von Donnersmarck serving as a dubious Virgil through the circles of 20th century history, you're better off just looking elsewhere. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 90% John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) An astonishing spectacle of action and staging. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 50% Tolkien (2019) Tolkien follows the well-worn path of the literary biopic, steadfast in its refusal to even consider the separation of art from artist. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 66% The White Crow (2019) An explicatory exercise in dot-joining, the ultimate goal being to plot a psychological course from point A to point B. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 96% An Elephant Sitting Still (Da xiang xi di er zuo) (2019) An uncompromising masterpiece. One of the films of the year. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 100% Dead Souls (2018) An essential document of survivor testimony that stands as China's answer to Shoah. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 94% The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat agaci) (2019) Verbose. Riveting. Extraordinary. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 80% Unsane (2018) Soderbergh phones it in. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 20% Mute (2018) Mute possesses so little sense of style, of directorial muscularity, that it fizzles out long before its 125 minutes are up. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 92% The Shape of Water (2017) Del Toro's greatest work. Simply magnificent. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 85% Loving Vincent (2017) A sensationalist approach to the artist's final days which ultimately illuminates little. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 78% Atomic Blonde (2017) Leitch's across-the-board approach is purely cosmetic, ever-ready to eschew shades of detail when crass shorthand will suffice. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 76% Miss Sloane (2016) The film's unwillingness to engage in any meaningful sense with the issues it purports to raise feels like an opportunity squandered. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 86% The Lost City of Z (2017) The notion of 'home' is central to Gray's back catalogue, and affords Z its primary thematic conflict, albeit one painted in overtly literal terms. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 89% John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) Bigger isn't always better, but Chad Stahelski proves himself an action force to be reckoned with. - Little White Lies EDIT
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4/5 96% Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo De La Serpiente) (2016) An exquisitely rendered study of colonialism, memory and cultural erasure. - Little White Lies EDIT
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1/5 11% Dirty Grandpa (2016) The ugliest film in recent memory - in every sense of the word - we can only hope it meets the fate it deserves. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 43% In the Heart of the Sea (2015) What remains is an opportunity for an intense, Jaws-like thalassophobic nightmare, squandered. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 95% Hard to be a God (2015) A monumental work from a monumental talent. Unmissable. - Little White Lies EDIT
4/5 98% Iris (2015) A love letter to individualism, and the love that fuels it. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 35% Cub (Welp) (2014) Not much adventure. Not much horror. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 95% Housebound (2014) Housebound winningly sticks two fingers up to tired genre persuasions, effecting a barnstorming crowdpleaser populated by people you want to root for and tension you can chew. It's the stuff Friday nights at the movies were made for. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 77% Danny Collins (2015) Return to sender. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 100% Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Pure cinematic catnip. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 28% Insurgent (2015) Maybe you had to read the book? - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 73% What If (2014) A pleasant surprise. Radcliffe shines. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 54% Maleficent (2014) Jolie nails it, but she deserves better than this CGI sinkhole. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 55% Fading Gigolo (2014) The great John Turturro comes a-cropper in this tin-eared comedy of male sexual mores. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 100% Open City (1946) Roberto Rossellini's benchmark 1945 work of abrasive political realism presents a crumbling Rome that's been ravaged by war. - Little White Lies EDIT
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3/5 86% We Are What We Are (2013) This social-realist take on the cannibal sub-genre makes for a surprising lyrical and quietly profound piece of filmmaking. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 47% The Book Thief (2013) A frank and adventurous portrayal of love in the margins. - Little White Lies EDIT
98% Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Of all miracles readily apparent on screen, perhaps the greatest is that the film even got made in the first place. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 54% Out of the Furnace (2013) A strong first half gives way to genre predictability. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 66% August: Osage County (2013) This star-studded shout-off generates none of the heat and intensity of Tracy Letts' stage play. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 96% Muscle Shoals (2013) Exceptional music, unexceptional documentary on the swampy sounds of the famous Tennessee backing band. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 13% R.I.P.D. (2013) So generic a cut-and-paste job is the film's every aesthetic cue, it's surprising to even find a director's name surface in the closing credits. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 No Score Yet Second tier Hitch perhaps, but no less enjoyable for it, and still a marvel of cinematic technique. - Little White Lies EDIT
3/5 61% Cleopatra (1963) Melodramatic, and camp as Christmas, but nothing like the disaster its reputation suggests. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 21% The Seasoning House (2013) If only the dialogue and camera work were as good as the make-up effects. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 71% The Croods (2013) Oh crud... - Little White Lies EDIT
4/5 86% Babeldom (2012) Invigorating, challenging and extremely provocative. And extremely articulate to boot! - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 96% Gangs of Wasseypur (2014) A star is born in Anurag Kashyap. Blistering, audacious and if anything... just too darn short. - Little White Lies EDIT
2/5 65% Unfinished Song (2013) Too emotionally manipulative, but not without its moments of real tenderness and warmth. - Little White Lies EDIT
1/5 41% Midnight's Children (2013) Lacks soul, imagination and even basic logic. - Little White Lies EDIT
5/5 No Score Yet Still astonishes. - Little White Lies EDIT
4/5 67% Husbands (1970) Husbands may not be structurally perfect, but it's an unsentimental dissection of ego, fear and masculinity nonetheless. - Little White Lies EDIT